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I loved her, you know.

We were really fantastically happy.

I'm Assistant Chief Constable David Ashdown. I'm assuming overall command of

this investigation.

Who's playing bloody silly games?

Robert Jackson, we'll say. I was with him.

My God.

It is him.

He was at my theatre. My God. We have two witnesses and written evidence that

prove that Robert Jackson was in Cardiff at the time Anne Colfax was murdered.

Margaret.

Went to visit a witness that would have given Robert Jackson his alibi.

But she's dead!

She's dead and not in love!

Jackson will probably be out at the weekend.

And then the proverbial is really going to hit the air conditioning.

Thank you.

That's okay.

Okay, I might leave just a few of our cast, Mr. and Mrs.

Walkinshaw. Now, if you'd like to follow me, we'll go through and sit down and

talk about the options.

Here comes.

It's the Jackson!

It's the Jackson!

It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the

Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson!

It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson!

It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the

Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the

It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the Jackson! It's the

Jackson!

In case you don't know me, I'm Assistant Chief Constable David Ashdown.

Chief Superintendent Henderson, you do know. I shall keep this very short.

Can you tell us about any developments on the murder of Constable Walkinshaw?

No. So there are no developments?

I didn't say that.

Have you no doubt it was the M4 killer, Mr Ashdown?

I refer you to my first answer.

That wasn't an answer. Correct.

People have a right to know what's going on.

I'm here to ensure that my officers catch this man.

At the moment, I consider publication of any details about the investigation to

be unhelpful, at the very least.

And in the light of what's happened, it could put my officers at risk.

What do you say to public demands that Chief Superintendent Henderson should be

replaced?

Derek Henderson is one of the finest detectives in this country.

If the job was easy, we'd all go home and leave it to you.

An innocent man went to prison. That's not much of a record.

A jury sent Mr Jackson to prison on evidence argued in court.

It was a mistake.

No one regrets that more than the police.

It was appalling for him.

It had tragic consequences for two women.

Is Jackson going to sue?

I'm sure some of you know a great deal more about that than I do.

What I do know is that if Mr Jackson had been more honest with us in the first

place, we might not be sitting here right now. Oh, come on, that's

They'll want to see her.

Isn't that a good idea?

She will look her best. We can do a lot cosmetically.

But we have dealt with some of these cases. I mean, there are problems, as

you'll understand.

One of the mortuary assistants did a very neat job throwing up the actual

bodies. I hope the same man is available.

I mean, it does make such a difference.

If it is a body count, it's one more than we know about.

Somewhere to the ninth body.

That's it. The killer, thank God.

Well defended.

Made sure there was no forensics of any kind.

I reckon it's him.

Unfortunately, we'll never know any more about the first card.

I've no reason to think it meant anything.

Wind up.

Jackson was inside.

Thought it was all over.

Hided down at Keith Chapman's. That's what I can expect from my senior

detective, is it?

Games? I was mistaken.

You clearly were.

In a search for another body, where would we start?

It's a very expensive diversion.

The moment we hit on it.

I read the book on a bloated lawnmower and straightened together a load of

newspaper articles.

You know how they churn these things out.

It's mainly bollocks.

I wouldn't disagree with that.

Still, I hope you got your backhand out. Sales are probably falling off now.

The last thing you need is new information.

What you're going to do is look very hard at every bit of evidence and every

statement that's ever come into this investigation.

It is going to be tedious.

You feel as if you've done it all before.

You have.

Difference is, this time you're going to do it right.

Got a blue car, probably a Peugeot. Man with sandy hair.

Early to mid -thirties. Size seven shoes.

Height, five -five to seven, ten to eleven stone.

Possible history of credit card theft, maybe sexual offences.

Travels between Bristol, Swindon and South Wales.

Could be a job now or in the past.

Or something personal.

Family, girlfriend.

I don't know how many hundred thousand men there are in this system.

You're here to get that number down to a manageable level.

Nothing else.

If and when the Walkinshaw investigation delivers anything, we'll put the two

teams together.

Sorry, I don't think I'm with you, sir.

The murder of Margaret Walkinshaw will be treated as a separate inquiry by

detectives who have not worked on the M4 killings.

With all due respect, sir, we're the ones that should be out there.

I'm sorry, I don't know names yet.

DC Mowbray.

You're not the ones that should be out there, Mowbray.

I don't want any cross -contamination of evidence.

You don't speak to the other team about the job.

You don't talk to them about what they've got or who they're talking to.

If you want to get pissed, you use a different pun.

Chief Superintendent Henderson and I will decide when the pieces go together.

Only then do you pull suspects in.

However long it takes.

He is in the system.

Thank you.

We'll have a roster round in half an hour telling you exactly where you

It's going to be a long job, so let's get on with it. No.

Thank you.

I want to be on the walking suit.

I can't just sit here going over our statement of the car registration.

You were at the ACC.

Surely that's not Carlton Stoke. Yes, it is. And he's right. We're too close.

I was talking to her sister.

There was a ring Margaret wore.

Signet ring.

Yes, you wore it all the time. There's no sign of it. Could you chase it up?

What, you want me to run around looking for Margaret's signet ring?

It's important to her family. Yeah, and so is finding the murderer. We're more

likely to find him staying here than we are by knocking on doors. Where'd that

get us before, Jack?

No one gives any less because they don't like the way the show's being run.

You don't need to say that to me.

Not to any of us.

I told you they wouldn't like

it. You told me you didn't like it.

I'm not here to make friends. It's probably just as well. It's the morale

worries me.

Coming back to this, starting all over again, you're taking away the thing

that's driving them on. They work 24 hours a day for Margaret.

They are working for her.

I spent yesterday afternoon with the police, of course. You know what they

wanted? Panel of lay advisers. The work.

Social worker, solicitor, some academic from Bristol University.

That was the other option.

A load of politics.

Politics probably isn't your strong point, Derek.

The Chief Constable thinks it's an interesting idea.

You have me to thank for the fact that they're not sitting in your office right

now. None of that goes any further.

I'm telling you where you stand.

You have a cold fish, eh?

Mr. Ashdown?

You heard much about him at the Met.

You've got good mates now.

Well, not anymore, guv.

Pajama called tugger, do you think?

Well, no.

Well, you get to the point in life where you can toss them out a mile off. Over

the phone, even.

Well, my contact's still pretty low -ranking stuff, really, guv. The closer

get your ear to the ground, the louder the drums.

See what you can find out.

Blue cars.

Every blue saloon again.

If they haven't gone to the crusher, they'll change hands between you.

We're drowning in this. There's too much of it. We sort through this, we cross

-reference it, and we'll find it. However you drep it up, Ashdown doesn't

us with Mark.

What was it?

No contamination.

He's in here somewhere, and that's all that matters.

I'd leave it for now. I don't intend to leave it, Jack. I don't want Lynn

resigning. I don't believe it's what she wants. She's a good officer.

18 -hour days can get counterproductive after a while.

Once you start, you keep thinking, the next page I turn, the next registration

come up with, I'll find something that I missed.

What we're doing is narrowing the focus.

We're closing in on it, slowly and methodically. It won't be about some

mistake. And what was Jackson in?

It was a simple mistake.

My simple mistake.

Our mistake.

I was just thinking that if I do manage to find him amongst all this stuff, then

it might make facing the funeral easier.

But it's the other way around, isn't it?

Because if he is in here and we missed him,

then how the hell did we let that happen?

Lord, thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or even the earth and the world were

made, thou art God from everlasting and world without end.

Thou turnest man to destruction, and again thou sayest, Come again, ye

of men.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as

watch in the night.

As soon as thou catchest them, they are even as asleep, and fade away suddenly

like the grass.

Thank you for coming.

I came for her.

I didn't mean it like that.

I know you didn't.

I thought Ronnie would have put in an appearance.

Would you?

He always was afraid of the press.

Now he's got good reason.

You don't have to leave your stuff at the section house, Jack.

You can bring it over.

I know.

I mean, you hate it there.

Where are the photographs, Lynn?

The ones with Margaret on the board.

Where are they?

Oh, I put them in a drawer.

Well, I don't think I'd have done that.

Well, maybe I don't find it so easy looking at her every time I walk in the

kitchen.

Reminds me of too much.

Can't help that.

Ah.

If you wish the clock to display time in the 24 -hour system, press 24

at step 2.

Press minus for step 3.

It doesn't matter about the 24 -hour clock, Dad.

It does.

Look, if you want that, you have to ignore the other.

Ignore AM.

PM, steps four through six.

We're on seven.

Oh, you daft bat. I've turned back.

Well, it's not working, is it?

That's the car, the telecompany.

You'll just have to be here all the time, watching, and press record when my

interview comes on.

It'll have to be recorded, Dad.

I mean, as people will want to see me.

Hey! Hey!

Roll cameras, eh?

Oh, yes.

This hair was taken from the carpet at Margaret Walkinshaws.

Single hair.

Nothing unusual.

The second hair is from the victim.

The differences are clear enough.

This first hair is from an unknown source.

We have samples from everyone we know may have visited the victim recently.

Can we tell if it's male or female?

Not from the hair.

There's nothing in the way of dye or bleach.

It's head hair, probably Caucasian, age wide open.

Was it pulled out in a struggle?

Pulled out, yes, but probably not in a struggle.

It tends to produce a clump, not a single hair.

We'd also expect a lot more follicular tissue at the base.

There's some.

It's probably come out brushing or combing, laid on the head or on the

and dropped off later.

What about DNA?

No, the DNA content is tiny. That fragment of follicular tissue is it.

But we'll try mitochondrial DNA analysis.

If it works, we'll be able to amplify the amount of DNA, and there's no

How big's this if?

Big enough.

Get me the DNA.

It means we can identify him.

The moment we put him in, one test, no doubt, no appeal.

He's finally made a mistake.

A bidding war has broken out in the race for the story of wrongly convicted

murderer Robert Jackson.

Jackson, unmarried, who lives with his father in Bristol, has been offered £600

,000 for the publishing rights to his story.

Yesterday, Jackson said... Yeah?

The phone's been going for you all evening, Jack.

Well, I've just got in.

Linda Harris.

She wants you to call her back.

Keen or what?

Lynn? Yeah, well, I had it switched off.

Look, I told you I'd be working late.

I just need some sleep.

Don't give me a hard time. I'll hear you tomorrow.

Look, I said I'll be there.

I came.

Night.

So what's he want, then, Garth?

He thought I might fancy a pint of ale.

He knows a pub, but I grew that on.

I'll try some of that. I don't run for a week.

Oh, have a look.

He's never up the box, is he?

One thing you could always say for hanging, you didn't have to watch your

mistakes turn into bloody celebrities.

See you tomorrow, guys. See you.

You going to call it a day?

No, not just yet.

I promised my kids this Sunday afternoon, so it's a picnic at Weston,

they like it or not.

I don't know about Laura and the girls, but I need to get out.

One more neighbour asked me how it's going.

They all think we're a bunch of arseholes out there.

Well, if you only just work that one out.

The walkie -talkie stuff hasn't given us anything yet.

Same old story.

In and out, just like before.

Are we going to get this DNA?

Still waiting.

You really don't want me on this job, do you?

We just need to bring a bit of order to the information we've already got.

You've a gift for understatement.

What you've been doing is coming up with theories and suspects and then making

the evidence fit.

That's not deductive reasoning, and it's what happened with Jackson. You still

want me in sackcloth and ashes. I don't have a lot of time for penance. I'm

certainly not imposing that on my squad.

What I want is transparency.

You lost me.

They couldn't have sent me on that course.

I know everything about this case.

And that includes what Stocks did to you and what you did to him. What's that

supposed to mean? Oh, come on, Derek.

Stocks had you clearing your desk the day before you nicked Jackson.

The fact remains that a judge and jury found... Yeah, and you provided the

ammunition.

I might have done the same if I'd spent a year getting nowhere.

How's Hugh Owen?

Enjoying his retirement?

I wouldn't know.

When we do get the DNA from the hair at Walkinshaws, check for a match with the

semen from the Anka Morgan murder.

It's the only other DNA sample we've got.

We ruled her out a long time ago.

Hugh Owen didn't.

He had a lot less evidence then.

Just do it.

Is there anything else that relates to this investigation?

I want to result just as much as you do.

You don't have to worry about watching your back.

I'll do that.

But if anything gets in the way, anything to do with you.

Afternoon, sir. Anyway, thanks, Derek.

Thank you.

I'm good.

You're joking. After that, I need a real drink.

Thought I'd surprise you.

Well, don't look so grumpy, Jack. I've been on my own all day.

Look, I'm tired. I just need to crash.

Come on, you know what it's like.

Do I?

Of course you do.

Do you think so?

Well, I'm sure you're in the minority.

Everyone knows graduate entry don't make real detectives.

We haven't got it where it counts.

We're all brains and no bollocks, right?

Don't give me that shit, please. Why not? I'm no good at the job.

No good as a friend, no good as a lover. There must be more I'm no good at.

May as well give you a reason to head for the hills.

Or is it back to Sally and the kids?

Don't do this, please.

What's wrong with everything wrong with sex?

That's not really what we're about, is it?

Look, you're not the only one that's hurting.

I am too, remember?

Oh.

I see, so this is just grief, is it?

What else is it?

What do you think it is?

I want to help you, but you've got to talk to me.

You think it's all so simple, don't you?

Believe me, Jack, the truth is a lot more complicated than you will ever

The profiler will want a breakdown of everything you've got on the scenes of

crime, especially videos, photographs.

I'll get someone on to it. There are two schools of thought on profiling.

One thinks it's a magic bullet, the other says you learn enough about

psychology, you realise it's all nonsense.

But it's like any tour.

Who does the investigator use?

Oh, and one other thing, Derek.

Do you need a full -time driver?

You can pick up a driver from the pool any time.

And Balter could do with getting back to the job.

From the way he tackled his mates at the yard to see if I was the Bramshill

brown -noser he thought, he needs to be reminded how to detect.

Thank you very much, Scott. You clown.

They've sent me the tapes of that interview.

I've got all three.

That's the old set now.

I didn't have to pay.

Oh.

I haven't shown you these.

I got these in prison from women. You can still smell the perfume on that one.

I didn't know them. They just wrote to me.

Why?

They fancied me. They saw me photo.

This one. Have a look at this one.

I'm sending her a tape in case they didn't see me on the telly.

What was she thinking of, eh?

I thought she was bloody bad.

She's a mucky one, she is.

Are you in charge?

I ain't got a clue.

Hashtag talks like he knows what he's doing. Well, he would.

Talking bollocks is what gets him there.

That's why we expect great things of you, Jim. Thank you very much.

Now, bottom line, though, Trev, it's insulting.

Not just to me, to the governor.

Oh, you're taking it very well.

It is insulting, isn't it, Jeff?

Oh, deeply.

Yeah. I mean, how are they going to impress a man like you?

A man who can sit behind the wheel of a car for hours, just waiting. Yeah.

That's a skill. Yeah. Ha -ha. Up yours.

No, you just look and learn, old son. You just look and learn.

Because the bolter is back.

Jack.

Mr Ashdown's brought in a new profiler.

Having another crack at our killer. I want you to put together all the stuff

from every scene of crime.

Photos, tapes, pathology, forensics, whatever.

That's the breakdown she wants.

Right, Gov.

Jim, give an hand.

So much for all change, eh, Gav?

Back the old crystal ball.

Jack, you got a minute?

Good luck.

Hugh Owen.

You got on well with him, didn't you?

Well, I suppose so, Gav. I didn't have that much to do with him.

It's a delicate matter, but I'm trying to take another look at everything.

That includes anything that we threw out, however good the reason. I'm

about Anka Morgan.

Right. Her killing was strikingly different from all the others.

It was the only senior crime that gave us DNA until Margaret.

I want you to call in on Owen in Wales.

Find out if there's anything he remembers, not in the files, anything

shed new light. It's just the same process as we're following here.

And do I mention this new DNA?

No.

No.

That doesn't even go as far as the incident room.

Ashdown's orders.

Do you remember Anka Morgan, sir?

That's why we're here, sir.

Is there anything particular that sticks out in your memory?

A gut feeling that you had at the time?

Something you didn't think was important then?

Didn't write down at the time?

The shock.

All that blood.

It's just the sheer violence of it all.

No, that's the wrong word.

Chaos. But Anka Morgan didn't fit.

Well, at least our lot didn't think it fitted.

I was the one who didn't fit.

It was me that was the problem, not Anka Morgan.

I couldn't write that in my policy file, could I?

Her murder was discounted because it was the only one that had a sexual motive.

Look at the stabbings.

They were all attacked in the same way.

And then there was still the blue car.

Yeah, but she was seen getting into a white car with an Asian man who didn't

match any description.

Oh, come on, man. A prostitute. Red light area.

You know how much some of these punters drive round, up and down?

Bloody hours.

They love being there, man. They just love it.

But you think he came back?

Why not, Uncle Morgan?

Good -looking woman.

Maybe he wanted to have sex with her.

Why shouldn't he?

He would do this.

He wouldn't do that. We got no idea about that, mind.

Anka Morka didn't fit the pattern.

Well, maybe the pattern was.

There wasn't a pattern.

I'm saying that didn't make me very popular.

The night before.

Derek Henderson got rid of me.

Wasn't a prostitute any longer.

He killed a student.

Laura Wadey.

Where was the pattern in that?

Cancer?

Diagnosed three months after he was kicked up in the choir.

Right, is there any evidence of restraints?

Ropes, cords, handcuffs, anything you think that could have been used for

purposes?

There was nothing in the room.

Nothing in the post -mortem or in the forensics to suggest that you've been

up.

And I put out for all of them, yeah?

Yeah.

Next one, is there any evidence of masturbation?

No, nothing from forensics.

Again, the same for all the murders?

Yeah.

After all this time, do we all have to watch... Do we have to watch all of

That's the job, mate.

We're looking for something different.

Something out of the ordinary from the scene of the crime.

Something we could have missed.

And are we including the Anka Morgan murder in that?

May as well put it down.

It's the only one with any kind of sexual activity in it.

Penetration.

It's Margaret next.

Shall we call it a day?

Yeah.

Drink.

Several.

Look, I've got to go over to the mortuary and pick up that ring that

Margaret.

You finish off this, and I'll see you in there.

Yeah.

I wasn't sure where it came from.

These things just turn up, get taken off, shoved to one side.

Well, I'll know the ring if I see it.

Yes, that's us.

If we knew where it came from... Do I need to sign anything?

No problem.

It's for her family?

That's it.

Keep the box.

Thanks for your help.

Most of the time she just sits there pretending she's not even thinking about

Margaret. I know that she is.

Just can't get her to talk about it.

Jack, Jack.

Jack, we're all going to be depressed about this. I mean, it stands to reason,

doesn't it?

Jane,

give us a chase of this, will you?

Yeah,

I wouldn't have thought Lynn was the type... This is a very together woman,

isn't it?

Have you seen this?

Mate, mate, mate, are they with you?

Yeah. Don't think they ought to admit.

No, no, you're not supposed to let them out at night on their own, all right?

It's not safe.

You're supposed to make sure they get home all right.

That's what you're supposed to do.

I mean, you know what's going on out here, don't you?

What are you, the law?

Yeah, that's right, we're the law.

And you should see your friends, though. I know that isn't much advice, but

that's the best we can offer until we put this bloke away.

We've got someone else to fit up.

Oi, hey, just make sure they're safe.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's another one in there, Jack.

Jane. Is it a match?

The semen in Morgan's body, the hair on Walkinshaw's carpet have the same

DNA.

Odds against it being someone else, 100 million to one.

You're looking at the man who killed Margaret Walkinshaw and Anka Morgan.

who killed them all.

Sorry it doesn't come with a name and address, Derek.

Now all you have to do is find out who he is.

I got your message. The DNA, Ankle Morgan.

The numbers on the birthday card fit now.

They fit? Not much else does. The list are longer than expected at this stage.

Still got over 5 ,000 men.

Still, we've come a long way.

The lifts are nowhere near as long as they were.

Car, description, profile.

A bit of forensic we've got.

Starting to filter down into something that's got a real shape.

It all sounds good.

You're the one who has to convince the troops.

I need you to be convinced.

My nightmare is that we haven't pulled him in at all. Never talked to him. No

one's even given him a parking ticket. We've got... A warehouse full of files

and he's not in there.

He's in there.

You can depend on him.

Is that logical faith?

If it's faith, it's faith in the job you did in the first place.

Morning, sir.

Morning, Jack.

Gov? Not for publication yet. We've got a DNA match.

Anker Morgan is one of his.

He was right.

Sorry? Owen.

He was right all along, wasn't he?

Don't you worry about Owen. Leave that to me.

Concentrate on what we're doing. We should all be feeling more confident.

Should we?

I've just proved you got away with another murder.

You're very weak.

Hello, sir.

I heard the... I

don't know if this matters to you anymore, but I just

thought you should know you didn't get it wrong.

More than that, it's going to help us to get there.

Margaret and Anka Morgan.

It was the same man.

They should have listened to you.

I just thought you should know.

I was putting out the rubbish.

I found these.

You can't just throw them away, then. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

She's dead and buried.

Yeah, but you don't stop thinking about someone just because they're dead.

Every time I mention a name, you clam up.

It's almost like you hated her.

It's just not you, then.

You don't want to stop about being crap at your job and being a crap human

being.

I know it all relates to Margaret, but I can't get a handle on it unless you

help me.

It wasn't Margaret who went to see Betty Andrews.

It was me.

But it was Margaret's action, it's her duty's thing. Yes, he took the call.

Then she put the phone down, saying, oh shit, that's my evening bucket.

She was going to see a film.

With you.

So, I did you both a favour.

I went instead.

And yeah, there was a lot of crap to get through before you'd find anything

worth thinking about, but there was something there, I knew there was.

Jackson was as good as in the bag and suddenly here was this stupid old woman

saying that she'd been with Jackson at the time of one of the murders.

She would have ruined everything.

We'd all have had to start again, the whole inquiry.

What did you do, Lynn?

I wrote, no further action in the log.

Problem solved.

Get rid of this for us, Maitre.

Mowbray? Sir?

You've been working with the profile, haven't you?

I did a scene of crime analysis with Jim Bolter for him. Could you join me in

the Chief Superintendent's office?

Sir.

The scenes of crime evidence suggest that we're looking for a killer who

exhibits classic disorganised behaviour patterns.

It's mixed behaviour but psychotic rather than psychopathic. With all due

respect, I don't know what I'm looking for. I'm assuming the bloke hasn't got

mixed but mostly psychotic tattooed across his forehead.

Not in his forehead, no.

What have you got there, Jack?

He's a white male, middle -aged.

Minimal education, dropped out as soon as he could.

Mental health problems, obviously.

He's single.

He either lives on his own or with his parents.

He has no close friends.

If he has a job, it doesn't involve much contact with other people.

If he does have a criminal record, well...

It's nothing impressive, just nuisance offences.

Is that it?

Headlines, Derek.

This is about applying the evidence to the killer's established pattern.

But what if he changes the pattern, sir? He's done that before.

What, did we just ignore anything that didn't fit with the theory?

Coming up with our pattern rather than his?

This doesn't tell us how he operates.

I mean, did he murder someone, then hole up while he plans the next murder?

or does he just take his opportunities as they arise?

The early killings certainly have been spontaneous.

Not any more?

No, he definitely planned the murders of Margaret and Alison, would he not?

Cards aren't your talk, Dad. This is about contact.

Cards, sir?

We've received two anonymous cards. We think they're from the killer.

So in his head, there's a relationship between him and the officers on the M4

inquiry.

First the juror, then Margaret.

He knows who we are.

Targeting women he knows is truer to psychotic behavior than the earlier

killings.

It's more comfortable with it. It's more satisfying.

He will do it again.

All you're saying is going after any women officers in my squad.

Any woman officer?

Any civilian staff?

Any woman associated with the investigation?

Our wives, daughters, girlfriends?

I intend to make sure my family are safe myself.

He knows us, we know him.

Now, we can do this here, or we can take you in. How do you want to be? You are

a good police officer, but you've got to stop hiding.

If I'm lucky, I won't be sent down.

Women like a suit.

It shows respect.

He wasn't looking after the ring.

He was keeping it. He's got the names and addresses of every member of the

here.

They really got him.