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Catriona and Adam Grant, abducted at gunpoint in 1984.

Get in the car! Bonnie!

SCREAMING

Two ransom notes were received in the following days.

The second ransom note promised a third, but it was never delivered.

We'd like to talk to the child's father.

'I don't know anything.' I have never met him.

Body found up at Donlessie quarry. Kevin Bryce Campbell.

He was working for the Lennox crime family.

If I don't do what they say, then... you know, I still can't breathe.

KNOCK ON DOOR DI Pirie? DC Isla Stark.

I'd like you to check in with me. You're asking me to spy?

I've found the person that owns the cottage.

Angela Boyce, she inherited it from her brother, Andy Kerr.

So there's someone else? Someone that we've been missing?

You don't even really know who I am. Let me find out.

She was in love. Fell right for it.

What was his name? Mick Prentice.

I'm not sure it's the right thing. And I'm doing it for you.

It's for the case. You just want Lees to like you.

Yeah, and you wanna break every rule he's set,

even if they make sense.

My laptop... and the hard drive. They're gone.

They haven't taken anything else.

River's laptop's still there.

So...

..they were targeting you.

What are you doing? Calling it in.

No, no, no, you can't.

What do you mean? We have to. I took evidence home, Phil.

Everyone's done it, Lees'll overlook it.

If he finds out I'm being threatened,

he'll take me off the case.

W-We can argue the point that you're doing too well.

Someone'll see us... on CCTV...

..going home together.

Ah.

SOFTLY: That's what it is.

If he knows that I put you on the case...

without reporting the relationship, he'll say it's unethical.

It's serious, we could both lose our jobs.

Karen.

Someone has got to find out what happened.

I will! I'll look at the footage. I am not having you stay here.

I'll get more security! Move in with me.

Not now... Not like this.

I can't leave River.

Is that it, or do you just not want to?

Do you know what I don't want?

It's to have this conversation right now.

I want to find out what this means.

Someone out there is rattled, and we're onto something.

Karen, all I can see is you... under threat, and...

..and I cannae get past that.

Then...

..maybe we need to take a pause... for a moment.

W-What? KAREN SIGHS

There's too many feelings at play. That's what I was afraid of.

We're arguing. We're not working well.

FROM ANOTHER ROOM: Karen?

Karen?

You... You want a pause?

SOFTLY: Just till the case is over.

What...? Is everything...?

# Dig us up and hold us high

# Raise our carcass to the sky

# Wrap us up in sequin skin

# And we can dance again in sin

# Just take my hand and be brave

# We'll say goodbye to this grave

# Tonight we salsa, we rave

# We are upcycled and saved

# We've got the hay, so let's roll

# Surrender all self-control

# Quick now before the bell tolls

# Let's sing the sighs From our souls. #

MUSIC PLAYS

So you like bad wine and disco?

I've never been inside.

Did you know who I was when you first met me?

No.

I swear.

I knew we were from different worlds, but I didn't know...

how different.

You know someone threatened to kidnap me once?

They sent this horrible letter, cut out pictures of me,

said they were gonna punish me.

What did I do to deserve that?

That... That is awful.

What did your dad do?

Never seen him so scared.

What did they want? Money?

Ah, it never got that far. The police got the guy.

I think it's dealt with now, so...

SOFTLY: Right.

So he won't actually come and....

Ah! THEY CHUCKLE

No. He can't.

But if he did, I've got you to protect me now.

Mm-hm. Don't I?

Yeah. Course you do.

SHE CHUCKLES LIGHTLY

CLAPPING Team briefing, please! Thank you!

These are our three suspects.

As far as we can tell,

Mick Prentice worked at the Lady Charlotte pit with Andy Kerr.

So, two miners and a small-time criminal.

One was murdered. One allegedly killed themself,

but his body was never found - he could still be alive.

And this one... was the honey-trapper.

This was the one that initiated a relationship with Catriona Grant,

before holding her and her son hostage.

This... is who we need to find.

Is there any place we can start? I've been searching the records.

No properties registered to that name currently.

It's kind of weird, actually -

there's barely anything on the record.

I thought he might be dead, but there's no death certificate.

There's a marriage certificate from '81.

His wife lives up in, er, Newton-of-Wemyss.

Hm? Still married? Yeah. Yeah, looks like it.

Phil, er, can you do a deeper dive into Mick Prentice?

And, Isla, can you start combing through the sightings?

Seeing if there's anything that might match description

of these three men.

I was just hoping, actually, if I could shadow you, you know...?

Right... Er, I think... this one's Murray's, if you don't mind.

He found Mick Prentice's wife. WHISPERING: Come on.

Now, let's see if we can find him.

He's gonna lead us right to her.

All right?

All right?

You seen Andy? Not yet.

Wasn't here yesterday either.

I'll be back.

I can't do it any more, Mick. I just can't.

I've got no money to pay them back.

Gonna hurt me.

Gonna come and beat the life out of me.

We'll go to the police. I'm not going to the police!

Well, come and stay at mine, then, till we can figure it out.

I can't, Mick.

I'm not in control of myself.

VOICE SHAKING: Don't think I wanna be here any more.

I'm gonna write a letter and leave everything to Angie.

No.

I've thought about the overpass at Kinglassie,

or the cliffs at Rotheswell.

No, no, just stop and listen to me. I can't, Mick.

There's no way out for me. There is a way out, there is.

I've... got one...

..for the both of us.

What is it, Mick? What you talking about?

MICK EXHALES SHALLOWLY

Do you trust me, Andy?

With my life.

Every family in this town

would've had a man that worked up at the pit.

In '84, they were on strike, so this place was struggling.

They had soup kitchens

where they'd boil up scraps to feed the community.

Sometimes, they'd go out and dig coal out on the hillside,

which was dangerous and sometimes deadly.

It was to sell, or heat their own homes.

Yeah, you don't need to tell me what the miners' strike was like.

I've seen Billy Elliot.

Hi, there. I'm DI Pirie, this is DS Murray.

Are you Jenny Prentice? Yes.

Is your husband home?

Tom? No, he's out. Why? What's happened?

No, not Tom. No, Mick Prentice.

Oh... No, you're at the wrong place, you'll have to look elsewhere.

You are married to him, though, aren't you?

I don't know anything about him -

where he is, or what he's doing now.

Jenny... Look, whatever you need, I hope you find it.

But I can't help you. I haven't seen that man in 40 years.

Tom. Have you seen Mick? Is he here?

No.

Look. It was in the kitchen.

He thinks there's been something going on between us, and he's left.

SOFTLY: I know.

What? How?

Five of them went down.

Last night.

They've gone to Nottingham.

No... No, they can't have.

He told Derek he was going yesterday.

They've been planning it.

What, and everyone knows? Nothing about us.

Just that they've crossed a picket down there.

And he didn't think to warn me? I know.

SHE EXHALES I know.

Do you want to go?

Do you want to follow him? Follow him?

No... No.

I wouldn't follow that selfish sack of shite anywhere.

'Nottingham?'

'You're too young to understand.'

He was a scab. Sorry... "Scab"?

He broke the strike. Went to work at Ollerton Colliery.

And Tom... You and he...?

The marriage had been over for a while.

We were so young.

I didn't realise that Mick knew.

DOOR OPENS

We were just talking about you.

DI Karen Pirie.

DC Jason Murray.

What's going on? They're looking for Mick.

Did he contact you at all once he got there?

No. Never.

And you never tried to find him?

I was so angry, and so ashamed.

It was "good riddance", from our side.

Later, I did want to divorce him.

But I'd have to prove to the court that I'd looked for him. Mm.

But if he didn't have the decency to check in,

why should I go hunting him down?

Did you know Andy Kerr? That was Mick's best friend.

And what about Kevin Campbell? No, Mick didn't like Kevin at all.

That's the fella that's in the news now?

We have reason to believe that Kevin, Andy and Mick

were all involved in the abduction of Catriona Grant and her son.

SOFTLY: No! No, I...

Where is he now? Mick?

Well, that's what we're trying to find out.

If you could give us the names

of the other men that he went to Nottingham with,

it's the first place we'll search.

Of course.

Do you want a hand?

You sure? Feel like Sisyphus with this stuff.

Who? Ancient Greek guy. Had to push a boulder up a hill.

Every time he got to the top, it rolled back down.

Oh, yeah, I know that boulder. That used to be my boulder.

Go on. OK.

NEWS ANCHOR: 'Sir Broderick Grant

'has been in the headlines a lot this year.'

'Yes, his company's had its fair share of controversy recently.'

'Record profits, significant dividend payments,

'all in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.'

'I don't want to sit here and defend Broderick Grant.

'But there's a time and place for these discussions.

'I think, right now,

'we should be focussing on his daughter and grandson.'

RINGING TONE FROM PHONE: 'About time.'

You were expecting me?

Of course.

I bet you're rattling round in that big old house -

no-one to talk to, so much to say.

Susan's here.

The press team are inundated.

She's running around putting out fires.

'You hear what they're saying about me now?'

What?

They are bemoaning the public spend.

How much the police have spent since...

..well, all these years...

How much?

Six million, apparently.

Well, they might have a point, Brodie.

HE CHUCKLES LIGHTLY SOFTLY: Don't you start.

Well, if they're thinking about all those bonuses you just paid out...

'Mary, stop reading the Guardian.'

SHE CHUCKLES

FAINTLY: Oh, look.

SHE BREATHES HEAVILY 'Oh, God...'

VOICE SHAKING: I miss her s... so much.

SOBBING: I miss them both so much.

We had to release Toby Inglis from custody.

We didn't have enough to charge.

What, so that's it?

The third ransom letter will bring details of a possible handover.

That will bring us an opportunity. It hasn't arrived yet.

Not yet, but they have...

They said three days. How long has it been?

We will give it until tomorrow. How long has it been?

It's been three days. What use are you?

I said, what use are you?!

They have surveillance on the anarchist.

He hasn't been anywhere.

He hasn't communicated with anyone suspicious.

He's not behind it. And he doesn't know who is.

SHE SIGHS

SHE SOBS

Hey. Hey, listen.

We'll give them one more day, and if we haven't heard anything...

..we'll make it public.

We appeal for witnesses, we'll take it to the press.

But the letter, they said they'd raise the price.

I don't care about the money, Mary. I know.

But what if the price isn't money?

What if the price is their lives?

Boop! Thought I'd find you here.

Oh, er...

Thank you, but, er...

You can't really do that.

It's just a flat white between friends.

THEY CHUCKLE LIGHTLY

I-I-I really shouldn't be talking to you.

Karen hasn't been answering my calls.

And I know you two are... close.

Thank you.

DI Pirie will get back to you when she can.

I hope you like oat milk.

It's a coffee, Phil, not a bribe.

SHE CHUCKLES LIGHTLY

D-Do you want this, by any chance? We've ordered one too many.

C-Can I just have a minute?

Not really. Bel... A second, a second...

Please, please, please, please. Sit down, sit down.

I'm trying to get an interview with Sir Broderick.

Well, doorstep him, then.

Look, he's refused all press requests so far,

but I've managed to speak with his PA.

She seems to think a well-placed interview

might play well with the public.

I don't know the guy, Bel.

And even if I did, you know... Karen...

Karen could put in a good word, though.

You know that's not gonna happen, Bel.

But nice try.

'Look, they've never been closer to getting answers.

'Now, I... I don't wanna sit here and defend Broderick Grant,

'but there's a time and place for these discussions.

'I think, right now, we should be focussing

'on his daughter and grandson.' KNOCK ON DOOR

Stark. A moment? Yes, sir.

The higher-ups have my head in a vice right now.

We slip up, make the SPS look any worse,

and it's my brain splatter all over these walls.

That's a really horrible image, sir.

HE CHUCKLES Good.

Because I want it to stay with you.

Any news on where the leak came from?

No idea, sir.

You see, you're on this team to give me the inside line.

And if I don't get it, then you're straight back down to e-crime,

where you can monitor the trolls.

Understood?

Excellent.

'Doors closing. Lift going up.'

Have you started looking into the break-in?

I have ordered security cameras, and I've requested CCTV.

Also, IT have remotely wiped the laptop for me.

All right, cool. Because you know we're both kind of at risk.

I know, I get it, I'm just busy.

I feel like my jacket is stuck in the door of a high-speed train,

and I'm running along the side of the track,

and if I don't. I'll just fall and die.

OK, we're in that place.

They have finished the report on Kevin's body.

Various wounds suggest quite a serious altercation -

a break to the knuckle, a cheekbone fracture,

skin and blood under his fingernails.

Did you get a DNA match on that?

Didn't fit with anything known to the system.

We also examined his clothing,

and this might be nothing, but it's worth bearing in mind -

there was clay found in the grooves of his boots.

It's specific - they can trace it to the east coast beaches

where the sand has washed away.

It didn't match the soil that he was found in, which is peaty.

Then there's this.

There was some material found in Kevin's pockets.

We weren't sure exactly what it was because it's partially decomposed.

We thought it might be some documents,

so we sent it to a specialist in this kind of thing...

and, er, looks like...

A passport. Mm-hm.

But the name inside, it's not Kevin Campbell.

Yeah, but the picture.

Aye. That's him. Mm-hm.

So it's a counterfeit?

He was going to start a new life, under a different name.

But he was killed before he could.

Maybe the others are doing the same.

Mick and Andy could be going under new identities now.

So that means... they could be anyone.

They could be anywhere.

HEAVY METAL BLARING INSIDE CAR

MOBILE RINGS

MUSIC STOPS Hello?

Hi.

You called me, Phil. Speak.

Sorry, yeah, erm...

'I... Look, I-I followed up the miners' names

'that you got from Jenny Prentice.'

Logan Laidlaw and Fred McDonagh, the other two are dead.

They said that Mick had been a part of the plan to go to Nottingham

right from the off.

They all thought he was going with them,

but the night they left, he never showed up.

Did they speak to him?

No. They all assumed that he'd changed his mind.

Mick was known to be a union man,

so the fact that he'd wanted to go originally had surprised them.

Did you check up on their stories?

'Aye, looked up employment records from the mine.'

Get this - Mick never put in a shift.

'But they all showed up day after day,

'right through the timeline of the kidnap.'

It all lines up. So it was Mick's cover story.

He knew if he betrayed Jenny like that,

she'd never go looking for him.

Look, Karen, there... No-one's around, erm...

Could we find a moment to talk, or...?

Thanks for calling.

SHE EXHALES

It's quite beautiful out here.

People think they're an eyesore, but, you know...

..prettier than a power station.

You're not here for the view, though.

No, I'm not.

We've been in touch with the other strike-breakers.

Logan Laidlaw and Fred McDonagh?

They said that... Mick didn't go to Nottingham with them.

He was supposed to, but he never showed.

Did you know that? No.

HE SIGHS Well, not initially.

Go on.

A few months after he left, he sent Jenny money.

Money? Yeah.

Well, he sent it to me, actually.

Big envelope... full of cash.

And there was a note.

Said he knew if he sent it to her, she'd never accept it,

but that he wanted someone to take care of her.

And that he's sorry.

How much was it? Five thousand.

Wow, that'd be... What, how much now...?

Oh, don't know.

Ten, fifteen grand, or something now.

I'm not proud of it, taking it.

I mean, you couldn't exactly send it back.

She never knew.

She'd have hated it.

You thought it was money earned from the Nottingham pit.

It was generous.

Made me think better of him, in a way.

HE SIGHS There was something else about it.

I ignored it...

..because... what would I have done?

I couldn't talk to Jenny about it.

Well, what was it?

The postmark.

He'd sent the money from abroad.

Where?

France.

France?

Hang on, just rewind.

Mick sent an envelope of cash

with the equivalent of fifteen grand in it

to his ex-wife, via Tom Robertson.

Fifteen?

And get this - there was a foreign postmark on the envelope.

He sent the money from France, couple of months after he left.

France?

So they're definitely not in Hartlepool or Hull.

There's that boulder rolling down again.

OK. I want you to refocus. Look at the French sightings.

There'll be less of them, which is a blessing.

Murray, I want you to contact a forensic artist.

They can put together a composite sketch

using age progression so that we've got new,

older images of both Mick and Andy

that we can then circulate.

And, Phil, I think you need to talk to Kevin's brother again,

find out where he got that passport.

Can try and check some of the other cases from the time -

counterfeiting, identity theft, forger associates.

Big question is... where did they get that much money from?

Well, Mick was sleeping with Cat, right?

He was the honey-trap.

So, could he have stolen it from her?

Do we have her financial records?

Think there are some bank statements and receipts.

Pull them, if you can.

Maybe we should go back to the idea

that they were paid to do the kidnap.

What if they were already funded?

By someone who wants to punish Brodie.

Or Cat. Someone who wanted Cat and Adam out of the picture.

Someone with motive...

..and the money to do it.

PROTESTERS CHANT: Their profit, our loss!

Their profit, our loss! Their profit, our loss!

Their profit, our loss!

FROM OUTSIDE: Their profit, our loss! Their profit, our loss...

SOFTLY: Hi. DI Pirie.

I'm sorry I haven't returned your calls.

I, er, did wonder if you'd even let me up here today.

Fergus Sinclair, but you know that.

Hm. Take a seat.

I have done this interview many times over the years.

You have the tapes, you have the transcripts.

Are you wondering if this meeting could've been an email?

Or maybe a text?

This isn't an interview, Fergus. You're the victim's father.

You have a right to information about the case, new developments.

I don't think about it in that way.

How do you mean?

Well, I don't... I don't think of myself...

I've never met him. Adam.

I don't think about myself as the, erm....

I've put it aside. Mentally. If that makes sense.

If I may ask...

what do you think happened to Cat and Adam?

Well, you, er... You probably saw the protesters outside.

I mean, Brodie and the company have always had conflicts

with, er, activists, with competitors.

So I believe it was someone like that,

someone trying to hurt the company and the family.

Either that or a complete lunatic.

Er... wasn't quite my question.

What do YOU think happened to Cat and Adam?

Oh, they're dead.

Both of them. They're gone.

Everyone knows that's the most likely outcome.

Next question?

Erm...

Did you know Kevin Campbell? No.

How about a man called Mick Prentice?

No.

He was in a relationship with Catriona when she was kidnapped.

Right. CLEARING HIS THROAT: Well...

she didn't tell me about that.

What about Andy Kerr?

No.

What was your relationship like with Catriona

before she went missing?

Cordial.

Distant.

Did she ever... threaten to disclose your relationship to your wife?

It was an affair. It was messy.

So she did. Not seriously.

Did Cat ever want you to meet Adam?

Look, I don't... I don't see how this is relevant.

KAREN CHUCKLES I don't see how it's not.

Well, at first, yes, but then she... You know, she changed her tune.

And why was that?

Because what use is a reluctant father?

HE CLEARS THROAT I hate how that sounds,

I-I HATE how I handled things.

But I... I can't change anything now.

Well, how would you change things if you could?

What do you mean?

I would've been there.

I-I-I would've told Elizabeth everything.

I would've stepped up, I would've kept him...

I would've kept him safe.

I can't keep going over this stuff.

I-I just have one further question.

I know you feel differently now...

..and...

it was convenient for you at the time...

..for Cat and Adam to disappear.

Thank you, DI Pirie. You need to leave now.

HE SIGHS

You don't have to do this. We can take more time.

Time?

And to do what?

For you to magic up another useless suspect?

We want to talk to the press.

We need people to help, it's all we have left.

If I may, er, I think DI Anderson just wants to make clear

that once we make this information public, there is no going back.

And are you sure you're ready for that?

I think the question is, are you?

So if you've seen anything suspicious,

or you know anything about what happened

on that Friday night in East Rotheswell,

please do not hesitate to get in touch with police.

Right, we'll now take some questions.

Thank you, DI Anderson. Thank you.

MICROPHONE FEEDBACK Ahem...

Mary and I, we'd like to say something.

The past week has been hell for both of us.

The pain we are experiencing is endless and indescribable.

And we would do anything to bring Catriona and Adam home.

Which is why we have decided to offer a reward of £50,000

for any information about... Mr Grant.

..Catriona and Adam's whereabouts. This was not discussed.

If you know who took them, or why... I would not advise...

..please come forward without delay.

REPORTERS: Mr Grant! Mr Grant! CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK

That's all we have time for.

The phones are ringing off the hook,

we don't have the personnel to manage them.

There's constant sightings, theories and conspiracies.

And whose fault is that?

He's a desperate father, what could I have done?

You could have shown some authority! Well, I tried... to stop him.

Not hard enough.

The Grant family want you removed from the investigation immediately.

I've run it past your uncle. He agrees.

BANGING ON DOOR

SOFTLY: Oh...

Hey.

I can see you got some extra security.

Yeah. It'll do the trick.

Right. Yeah, no, I just wondered, erm, how it went with Fergus.

It was OK. He obviously denied his involvement.

Said he'd never met Mick or Andy or Kevin.

Do you believe him?

I don't know. He's charming. He's alarmingly honest.

It's hard not to get taken in by him.

Is that... what you came to ask?

Could've waited till tomorrow. You didn't ring me back.

It's out of hours.

Out of hours?

I'm just trying to have some boundaries, you know?

Right, so we're just purely professional.

You don't have to answer that.

Oh, I, erm...

I think I know where Kevin got the passport.

Bridget Early, Craig Lennox's ex-wife.

She was convicted for faking documents in the early '90s.

Moved onto money-laundering.

Erm, she has connections with Ryan Campbell,

others in Kevin's circle.

She's halfway through a ten-year stint now.

Can we get in to see her? Tomorrow. HMP Kinross.

Great. Do you think she'll talk?

I'm looking into what we can offer.

Thank you, Phil.

Mint.

What's the deal with Phil and Karen?

What do you mean?

They're always bickering. They're having these private chats.

You can feel the tension between them.

Oh, yeah... Er...

Yeah, they just don't get on... really... at all.

Really?

Hate each other, actually.

OK. Did something happen, or...?

Erm, no, just different...

very different political, er, outlooks.

Very sort of extreme, both sides.

So... maybe we shouldn't get into it.

OK... So, why did she bring him on the case with her, then?

You know, Isla, it's a beautiful thing

when two people can put aside their differences

to work together side by side.

Maybe you should be celebrating that.

Shall we have a... look at this?

Composite sketches back? Uh-huh.

Do you want me to circulate? To the police, yeah, not the press.

How are the sightings looking?

Starting to see a pattern -

the most convincing ones are to the south of France.

OK, well, let's get the sketches to the police over there, too.

I've looked through Cat's bank files and receipts -

small withdrawals only.

It's all groceries and baby clothes, from the looks of it.

Right, so...

Mick didn't get the money from Cat. I don't think so.

And even if he wanted to,

the weird thing is she didn't have much money at all.

When you say "not much"...? 500 at most, at any one time.

Looks like her mother wrote her a cheque occasionally.

Nothing from her dad. Nothing from her dad?

Not that I can see.

Meet you later at Kidnap Cottage?

Results of the forensic search. You ready?

Yeah. I'm driving.

Right. Shall I sit in the back (?)

So, she's Lennox family royalty.

Until the boss divorced her

three years into a ten-year stretch for money laundering.

Assuming it was his dirty money?

Ah, not easy being married to the mob.

LOCK BEEPS

You don't look like police. I'll take that as a compliment.

You look like a toddler.

Well, there's no secret to it, Bridget, just soap and water.

Whatever's in there... I'm a dead end, darling.

Maybe so. I still think it's worth the chat.

The wee boy from the TV.

From the rolling news. Kevin Campbell.

If you say so. You don't remember him?

It's pretty nice surroundings.

Heard it cost 85 million to build.

Single cells, decent showers...

Can't complain.

You're halfway through your sentence,

you've applied for parole, your behaviour's been good.

Oh, I'm an angel, me. So I'm sure you'll get it, then.

What I want to know... is what you think we can offer you?

What makes you think I want something?

CHUCKLING: Ah, you wouldn't be sat here with us if you didn't.

Put your cards on the table, and we'll see.

We want to know if this was one of your passports.

If you remember producing it.

And if you made any others for the same group.

Those are our cards. Now play yours.

My son.

He's in Barlinnie on remand.

He's having a rough ride. You want him transferred?

Somewhere safe.

You said you were a dead end.

For family business, aye.

But Kevin's not blood.

We've organised your son's transfer to HMP Addiewell.

If - and only if - you give us something we can use.

We will also be making a recommendation

that you aren't prosecuted for counterfeiting

in connection with the Grant case,

should you admit that you were involved.

You're very organised.

Oh, nothing comes for free, Bridget. I've learned that much.

Always wondered if you'd find me, you know.

How do you mean?

Well, when it happened, it was all over the news.

And I remembered her.

The Grant girl. Did you meet her?

But I remembered her picture.

You forged documents for her?

Kevin wanted three passports - one for himself and two others.

Men.

Gave me information, pictures, cash...

But I didn't see Kevin again.

One of the others came to pick them up.

One of these men?

This one.

Andy Kerr?

He says to me, this boy...

..that he didn't want Kevin to be told...

..but he needed another passport.

This time, for a woman and a child.

That wasn't something I was used to doing.

I charged extra. Did the work.

Then her face, a few weeks later, was all over the news.

For Cat and Adam.

I'd just feel safer doing it if there was a degree of separation.

You and I have never done this before.

You know what he's involved in - he's capable.

I don't trust him.

He'd do whatever we want him to for the right price.

Kevin could be the face of it.

He'd do the grab, he'd guard her...

Have you...? Have you told him already?

He wants to leave.

He wants away from his brother,

for the people that he's been working with.

He wants out the same as us.

Christ, Andy!

What the f...?

How much did you promise him?

A third. A third?

I really think we need him, Mick.

Well, we don't have much choice now, do we?

I think he'd take a quarter. A quarter? A fifth.

He's doing all the dirty work, though. This is...

Look, I'm going all in on this, Mick.

We use my place.

If something goes wrong... it's all coming back onto me.

I just want some protection, you know?

MICK SIGHS All right.

All right, but we bring him in on one condition.

What condition? We don't tell him everything.

He only knows what I want him to know, and nothing else.

Andy.

Don't let me down again.

There are clear fingerprints in every room of the cottage

that are a match for Catriona.

So we can confirm that she was held here.

Was there any blood found?

A large quantity of blood was found in this area,

in the grouting and under the skirting board.

It matches Kevin Campbell's DNA profile.

But none of Cat's blood or Adam's were found anywhere?

No.

So one could speculate that they weren't hurt or killed here?

They could have made it out alive. That's possible.

But the same can't be said for Kevin Campbell.

That... That was the big discovery of our search.

The bullet that killed him, embedded in the wall.

DOOR OPENS

All right?

Go home and get some rest. Make a few calls if you can.

Make sure nobody's missing you. It's fine.

I don't mind staying. No.

I said go home, Kevin.

Just you remember we are equal partners in this, Mick.

I am not just your dogsbody. Mate...

I am trying to help you out here.

Be visible, get yourself an alibi.

Leave the gun with me.

'The bullet perfectly matches to...'

"Gun 49."

It was linked to a bunch of gangland killings in the early '80s,

passed around on the black market,

then was found washed up on a beach years later...

So, Kevin got his firearm from the Lennoxes...

and then was killed with it.

ENGINE IDLING

But if... You know, if Kevin's in on the plan, why did they kill him?

I don't know.

Leave the gun with me.

Where was he shot from? About a metre from this doorway.

A violent altercation took place.

The cheekbone fracture,

the blood and skin cells under Kevin's fingernails...

At what height was the gun held? 140 centimetres.

At an upward angle of 28 degrees.

Which should make the shooter how tall?

Five-foot-eight.

Cat was five foot eight.

Both Andy Kerr and Mick Prentice were taller.

She fired the gun.

In self-defence.

She gets it off him, takes him down so she can escape.

Yeah, I don't think so.

Firstly, the fingerprints.

She wasn't imprisoned in one room, she had free reign.

And then there's the passports.

They had an extra one made for a woman and child

because she was gonna leave with them.

And there's all the sightings of her and Adam.

If... If she really was out there, why hasn't she come home?

Because it wasn't self-defence.

Cat shot Kevin...

..and it was murder.

And the kidnapping...

..she was in on it.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, calm down... What do you think you're doing?!

You bastard, you lying sack of shite!

Shh, you're gonna wake up Adam. Adam?!

Since when do you care about Adam? Just listen to me.

I will never believe a word you said again,

do you know how scared I've been?

How terrifying it's been? What you've put us both through?

Cat, just stop and listen.

He brought a gun. You let him bring a gun.

With Adam in the car. That wasn't part of the plan.

I didn't know he was gonna bring it. Andy told me.

Look, I've got it now. Huh?

He wouldn't have done anything, I promise.

You're both safe. Do you know how terrifying it was?

Him waving that at us?! I'm so, so sorry.

I don't understand, I don't know why we can't just...

..tell him the truth, tell him that I know,

and then I can stop pretending all the time.

Because I don't trust him...

..and I wanna protect you if this all goes wrong.

It won't go wrong.

But if it does, then me and Andy, we go down...

..but not you.

Hey... never you.

I think Andy knew that Cat was in on it, and Kevin didn't.

Right. So, why do you think that?

Because Andy didn't want Kevin to know

that they were making an extra passport for Cat and Adam.

Yeah, but why hide it?

Because they didn't trust him. And rightly so.

'Kevin told his brother Ryan about the plan.'

Maybe he found out that they were lying to him.

DOOR CREAKS

Why are you still here?

You don't trust me?

How about I don't trust you?

Hm? Sounds like I was right!

You've been keeping things from me.

Wh-Why don't we just talk about it? Where's my gun?

It's fine, I've got it safe. Where's the gun? Where is it?

Where's my gun? Look, mate. Mate, it's fine...

No, don't dick me about, Mick.

So she's in on it, is she?

She knows everything?

But you weren't gonna tell me that. Look at me.

You weren't gonna tell me?

He fought with someone before he was shot.

There must've been some kind of disagreement.

I'm the one that's done everything for this.

I've put in all the graft. I've risked my life to get her here.

And I could go down for this...

..and yet you're lying to me?

You're taking the piss out of me?

Give me my... MICK GRUNTS

BACK OFF!

KEVIN BREATHES HEAVILY

You don't wanna mess with me, mate.

THEY GRUNT

MICK CRIES OUT

MICK COUGHS

I'm gonna kill you.

CAT: STOP IT!

Get off him now.

There she is. The "victim".

MICK SPLUTTERS, COUGHS

You don't know what you've done by pissing me off, do you?

Cos you see...

the payday I'm getting for this

is nothing compared to what I will get

when I go and see your daddy.

Huh? I could tell him what you've done, where you are...

and exactly how to find you.

Poor wee Catriona Grant.

You're nothing more than a manipulative little...

GUNSHOT

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Jesus Christ.

What the hell? He, er...

He attacked me, Andy. He went crazy.

What? Why? He, er...

He overheard some stuff that I was saying to Cat,

it sent him wild, and he said he was gonna go and tell everyone,

tell Cat's dad what we'd done.

So you shot him?!

Mick, you shot Kevin dead?

CAT: No.

I did.

This is...

Do you know how bad this is? Yeah.

You know who his brother is?

You know what he'll do to you?! Stop.

We argue now, this all falls apart.

Andy, you can say whatever you like to me about this, but not now.

We're in way too deep, but we're in it together.

So help me clean this up.

Detective Inspector...

..you must be a very busy woman.

You were meant to keep me in the loop.

Sorry, Sir. I wanted to come to you when I had something convincing.

And have you?

May I? Course.

I'd like to start with a question. Uh-huh.

What was your relationship like with Catriona

just before she was taken?

My relationship? Er, yes, it was...

good.

There was a degree of tension

after I decided to let Fergus stay with the company, but...

Why did you do that?

Well, Fergus always had a brilliant business brain.

And I thought his entanglements with, er...

Catriona shouldn't hinder his career.

Entanglement? He rejected her when she was pregnant.

Yes, I know how it sounds.

How did Catriona feel about that? About you protecting him?

I think there was a sense of betrayal.

But... given time...

..we would have worked it out.

Erm, yeah, we would've worked it out...

..had we had it.

Mm-hm.

We've been looking into her financial records.

She had next to nothing when she was taken.

Why is that?

After the thing with Fergus...

..she didn't want a penny from me.

Just... refused.

Wanted to go on her own... and make money from her artwork.

Sir...

do you think she was trying to punish you?

What do you mean?

There is significant evidence that we have

that may point towards...

Catriona being complicit in her own kidnap.

She was seeing someone.

A man from a very different background,

a striking miner called Mick Prentice.

You represent everything that Mick stood against.

Catriona knew people, radicals, anarchists, from art school.

She knew how they felt about you, how angry they were.

She chose them to divert us from the truth.

I think she wanted to run away

and start a new life with Mick, a married man,

something she was ashamed about after everything with Fergus.

I think she bought new identities for her and Adam

so they could leave the country,

presumably once they'd collected the ransom.

But something happened.

Something went wrong.

We have extensive forensic evidence...

..that Cat murdered Kevin Campbell.

GUNSHOT

She shot him.

Possibly because he threatened to expose their plan.

Now, my question to you, Sir Broderick, is...

..have you ever wondered,

could Catriona have done this all to herself?

I-I can't lie to you, Inspector...

It... has crossed my mind.

It's not an idea I want to entertain,

or a theory I want to believe now.

As you can imagine, this changes how we move forward.

Well, if what you say is...

..is true, it... it's...

not an abduction case any more.

If... If Catriona was complicit in the kidnap, there's no...

..there's no reason for further investigation.

This is going to be very harrowing...

for Mary.

Catriona's desire to punish us...

No, to punish me.

The time, the money, the effort searching for her...

..it is humiliating...

and it needs to stop now.

Sir, I can understand this is a lot to take in...

I want this investigation shut down.

From now on, it is a family matter.

And any money spent searching for Catriona or Adam

comes out of my pocket.

No, Sir, you don't understand.

I can't close the case.

The charges may have changed, but the urgency is still the same.

Your grandson is still a victim.

And your daughter...

well, she's now the suspect.

Anything I can help... with?

No... CLEARS THROAT

No, er, no.

Just emails.

So many emails.

Isla, come and have a look at this.

I've been looking at the records of the French sightings,

and found this one.

Cavalaire-sur-la-Mer, South of France, November '84.

"British tourists spot a boy that looks like Adam Grant on the beach."

He's with a man with a Scots accent.

Did police follow it up?

Yeah, they couldn't find them, but they came across one CCTV image.

That could be Mick Prentice, right?

What do we do? What's the next step, what now?

I've sent over the age progression photos.

What's the closest airport? Check flight logs.

Ah, they won't have been under their own names.

Hotels, maybe hotels?

They'd have had millions of people pass through them.

Right. You focus on other sightings in the area, there could be more.

And you?

I need to think.

Is the ball... involved in that?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. The ball always helps.

So, this is where Gun 49 was found. Yeah.

Just beyond those rocks.

They probably threw it from the cliff.

And you know the clay I found on Kevin's boots?

It matches samples taken from the ground here.

But... Kevin was obviously dead by the time they dumped the gun.

Exactly. You're not making any sense.

All I know is this place is significant.

Something happened here.

Right. OK, go on.

See this cave? I did some research...

and it used to have another entrance around the back.

What do you mean, "used to be"? Well, part of it collapsed.

When? That's the thing.

Late autumn... 1984.

Too much matches up.

Kevin must have come down here before he died.

Maybe it was a part of an escape plan...

he was preparing for?

Could they have got away by boat?

Who knows.

But you say the word, and I will search the area.

Well, I need everything I can get.

Casinos.

Casinos keep records of people who win big,

people who cheat, people who cause trouble.

Andy Kerr had a serious gambling problem.

The South of France is famous for its casinos.

If they'd had money, which they seemed to, somehow...

how could he have stayed away?

Isla, this is huge.

It wasn't the ball.

Er, it was the ball. It wasn't the ball.

The ball is powerful, Isla, it's OK to admit that.

All right, let's have a look at the casinos

and the bookmakers in the area that are still operating.

Murray, I... I need to tell you something.

It's about Phil.

So, I took a ground scanner, TLS, bunch of sonar stuff down there,

and managed to make a 3D map of the cave.

Right, so, what am I looking at?

This is the front entrance, this is the rear,

there was a major rock fall inside the cave,

this is all mud and stone here.

Right. What it looks like

is there's something else here amongst the rock.

"Something else", like... What is it?

Well, I don't know yet. KNOCKING

Well, can you guess? It could be nothing.

Well, how do we find out? Oh, we have to dig.

If you authorise it,

I can have a bunch of students down there by tomorrow morning.

Mm-hm. Oh!

Hiya, is Karen in?

Yeah. It's, er...?

Mint. Mint.

I-I'm sorry to come, but something potentially really bad's happening.

Well, what is it, Mint?

So, Isla thinks that Phil is behind the press leak.

Lees has been onto her, asking her to find out who caused it.

She saw Phil and Bel in a coffee shop,

she's heard you guys arguing...

What? Yeah. She's under pressure.

Lees says he's gonna take her off the team if she isn't honest.

But it isn't true! I know, I told her that, but...

PHONE BUZZES

Hi.

PHIL: 'You need to turn the TV on right now.'

TV? What...? Where's the remote? What is it?

BEL: Sir Broderick, Lady Grant.

You've invited me to Rotheswell Castle today

to talk about your daughter, Catriona, and grandson, Adam.

But I... I understand that before I get into my questions for you...

you both have something you'd like to share with the public.

Yes. Er... There's been, er...

Always been conspiracy theories

about what might have happened to Catriona and Adam

and where they might be now.

I think we've heard them all over the years.

None of them ever contained a grain of truth,

none of them ever helped find our loved ones,

none of them ever came close to finding out what happened...

..except one.

Our daughter, er, Catriona...

..the police now suggest...

..knew her abductors...

..because she was working with them.

She was complicit, we now believe,

in her own kidnap.

What are they doing? What are they doing?!

No, this... this can't be happening. 'The police have proof...'

This can't get out.

..collaborated with her kidnappers?

To extort and... punish our family, yeah.

We are deeply shocked...

..and embarrassed...

..by this news.

And we understand that people may have strong reactions.

'We ourselves are still struggling to process what this means.'

We are, erm...

deeply ashamed...

..of what our daughter Catriona's done...

..and we would like to make amends

to the police and to the public

for all the money that has been wasted on this case.

What do you mean, "make amends"...?

I will...

reimburse the Scottish Police Service

for all the funds put to this case over the last 40 years.

I can't pay back the...

time and effort that numerable officers have spent on this,

but I hope there will be no more wasted in the future.

So you want the investigation to be shut down?

We would like to...

..deal with this matter privately from now on, yeah.

But where are Catriona and Adam?

The idea that they're out there somewhere

suddenly feels more convincing than ever.

Yes... it does.

We would, er...

..like to continue to tr... To locate her and my grandson...

..but independently, without the service of the police.

He thinks he can just shut us down? Just like that?

And can he?

I think we're about to find out.

RADIO: 'Last night, Sir Broderick Grant made

'the astounding claim that his daughter, Catriona Grant,

'was complicit in her own kidnap back in 1984.

'The businessman made a plea

'to the Scottish Police Service to close the case,

'and even promised to reimburse them for the funds spent...'

RADIO OFF

Yes.

OK. Right.

Yes, OK. Thank you.

Cameron Murdoch, that's who broke into your flat.

Erm, your neighbour's Ring doorbell caught him.

I... I couldn't make out his face, but I, erm...

I cross-checked it with other CCTV,

and I managed to get his number plate

off the dashcam footage from a bus.

Phil, I had no idea you were... I had to.

It's all I've been thinking about.

I-I don't know how we can arrest him without reporting the crime...

..but...

Phil... will you come with me a second?

Yeah... Yeah.

Pirie...

You can bollock me all you like, Sir, but after this.

I just need you to let me get this out first. Erm...

So, I mean, I've never been good with authority.

I don't think that's a surprise to anyone, especially not you.

But, erm...

problem is, now I have some authority,

I don't really know how to act... at all.

You've asked us not to pursue a witness in police protection,

we did, it broke the case, but it also broke the rules.

I took my work laptop home, and a hard drive full of evidence.

My flat was burgled, and they were taken.

We think it was a targeted attack connected to the case.

What?

I had it wiped immediately, but I lied.

I said it was taken from my car

because I wanted to keep it from you.

I was worried you would take me off the case, Sir,

once you found out about all of this.

And also when you found out that...

..DS Parhatka was with me when I got home that night...

..cos, yeah...

..I'm in love with him.

I have been for a long while.

He wanted to report the relationship.

I should have listened to him, but I didn't.

Yeah, there is a pattern here.

Just one other thing. Erm, it was me that spoke...

STOP. Shh, shh. NO. No more words.

I thought...

I wanted to know what you were up to, Pirie,

but it just turns out that I was so much better off in the dark.

There will be a full investigation of your methods...

a FULL investigation of your methods...

..after this case is solved.

You're not shutting it down? After what Brodie said...

I don't care how rich that man is.

I don't care how much money he throws at us.

He will not tell us how to do our jobs.

God, you are maddening, Pirie...

to manage. You know that, right?

You're... You're blinkered, you're obsessive,

and sometimes you are extraordinarily rude.

But you - and I will only ever say this once -

you are brilliant.

So, yes, go. Solve the case, please.

And now you can just...

..please, get out.

Yes, Sir.

I didn't expect that.

SOFTLY: Hey.

What did you say to Lees?

Oh, erm, just that they're radically different politically,

and they fell out really badly over the low-emission zones,

like you said.

So you didn't dob Phil in? No. No.

I'd rather go back to cyber-crime than be a grass.

Anything from the casinos? Er, yeah.

Got requests in with three in Cannes and two in "Anti-byes".

Antibes. On the what?

Don't worry. OK.

Cameron Murdoch?

You're under arrest for the unlawful entry

to a building with the intent to steal.

You're not obliged to say anything, but anything you do say

will be noted, and may be used in evidence.

Move! Out of the way!

Wha...? What?! Jesus.

CAMERON CRIES OUT

Cameron, I'm DI Karen Pirie.

But I bet you feel like you already know me.

Cos you've been in my flat,

looked through my things, violated my personal space.

Don't know what you're talking about.

Five nights ago, you forced entry

into a flat on Cliff Road, Kirkcaldy.

A search of your property has found the garments

you were wearing in these images,

but not the items you took whilst you were there.

Where is the stolen laptop, Cameron?

No comment.

Was it a straightforward theft, Cameron?

Did you sell the computer on for cash?

Or did you know what you were stealing, and from whom?

We know you were there, Cameron.

We just want to know why.

Were you working for Craig Lennox? No.

No, Craig's got nothing to do with this.

OK. So, who does, then?

No comment.

Doesn't feel like we're getting anywhere, does it?

Maybe we should go straight to Craig Lennox.

Oh, yeah? Pop up on him, see what he has to say.

No.

No, don't go to Craig. He doesn't know anything about this.

What can you tell us, then, Cameron?

It was all done anonymously...

..at first. Just a message from a random number.

Suggested we meet, offered me money.

What did he want you to do?

He wanted your phone, laptop, hard drive, but...

to make it look like a burglary.

Who's "he"? Never told me his name.

Well, not initially. But he did later?

Well... they let it slip.

Who did?

Cameron.

When I went to drop it off, the computer...

..he sent an assistant.

Young guy. Paid cash.

Who did he work for?

I heard him on the phone as he walked away.

What was the name?

Mr Sinclair.

Are you sure you heard right?

Positive.

Mr Sinclair.

Fergus?

FERGUS: Don't waste your time on me.

I-I don't know anything.

PHONE RINGS Blair.

The Grant family want you removed from the investigation...

Uh-huh.

Thank you. Mm-hm.

Uh-huh.

And your number?

OK, thank you. Thank you. Goodbye.

Sir?

It's over, Laurel, they've taken me off the case.

No, no, no, they can't.

You need to try and stick with it, OK? Try and do what I couldn't.

I don't have that kind of power, Sir.

Ha. We wasted time...

..on anarchists and old threats.

I should have followed my instincts.

No, YOUR instincts.

You asked on that first day about the child's father.

You're right. Mr Grant, he's protecting that boy.

Fergus Sinclair.

And I've no idea why.

Yeah, that's great. Do you have a photograph?

OK, thank you.

And thanks for speaking English, you don't wanna hear my French.

HE CHUCKLES

No, I said, you don't wanna hear my...

Do you know what, don't worry. Thank you very much.

All right. Merci, bye-bye. Bye.

So, Casino La Belle Vue.

Nothing from '84 or '85,

but they had a look at the progression photos,

and they think that one of them's known to them.

Only, not from the '80s, from more recently.

More recently? Yeah. They've sent it over.

Matthias Johnson?

They say that he had a fight with a croupier

after a big loss last year.

So you're thinking Matthias Johnson could be...

Andy Kerr.

He does look like him, doesn't he?

Yep, that's it, Matthias Johnson, born 1956.

Right. When was that?

1985. What was it for?

Was he charged?

Could you look at his record for me, Daniel's?

No address for Matthias Johnson.

But he was arrested for fighting and public inebriation in Nice in '85.

Someone called Daniel Porteous paid his bail.

Daniel Porteous. It sounds British. It does.

But the address he gave the police was in Italy.

Nothing else in the French records for him.

You think we should expand the search?

Share the images with the Italian police?

I'll get onto casinos.

Sanremo, I think, is renowned for them.

River?

What is it? What have you found?

The Italians don't have a current address for Daniel Porteous.

Any pictures? No.

But... What? What is it?

He had a son, Gabriel.

Born in '82. Would make him 42 now.

There's a warrant out for his arrest.

Been apprehended several times for assisting migrants

in small boats off the coast of Sicily.

So he's an activist? Acquitted, last time.

But he's wanted again? So, what, they can't find him?

I'm gonna put a call in to the Sicilian police.

Hi. Hey.

Look.

And look at this.

It's Cat's body.

Catriona's dead.

CAT: I will die before anything happens to my son.

DO YOU HEAR ME?!

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