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Steve... I know.

This is it. I know.

I'm sorry.

I'm getting married in a month.

What the hell am I doing?

Well, I am married,

so I'm probably not the best person to ask.

You know, I never saw myself as the playing away kind.

Me neither. But here we are.

SCRAPING

What's that?

It's the beams.

CREAKING

Alice, it's the beams. It's fine.

CREAKING

It's fine. OK? Yeah.

THUDDING

Wait here.

THUDDING

CLATTERING

GRAVEL CRUNCHES OUTSIDE

FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRS

Oi! Oi!

Who are you?!

Who are you, you sick bastard?!

Where are you?!

PANTS

TWIG SNAPS

Did you see him?!

Did you see his face?!

Now do you believe me?!

I'm OK, Dad. Really.

You didn't sound OK on the phone.

I didn't mean to worry you

and disturb your night. You didn't.

They gave me something. I feel much better.

Look, I always want you to call when you need me.

So it's all, um...

It's going in the right direction?

Yeah. Staff are lovely. I've made some good friends.

No junkies, I hope.

We're all junkies, Dad. That's kind of the point.

Look, I'm worried how much this is costing you.

I know it's not cheap and...

Forget it.

I've got a long way. Forget it.

It's the best money I ever spent.

PHONE BUZZES

Got to go.

I'll come and see you properly again tomorrow.

LOUD MUSIC BLARES

Ooh. TYRES SCREECH

INDICATOR CLICKS

TYRES SCREECH

Whoo! LAUGHS

INDICATOR CLICKING

Oh, shit!

ALARMS BLARE

Call an ambulance.

Make it two!

Let's get you sat down, mate.

Mate, come on.

Wait for the ambulance in here. Come on.

You all right? Mate?

Let's go inside. Come inside the shop.

I've called an ambulance.

Mate...

GUNSHOT

GUNSHOTS

SIRENS APPROACH

Armed response are on the scene.

Let's assume the gunman's still in the area and proceed

with extreme caution...

Nikki Alexander, pathologist.

Jack Hodgson, forensics.

DCI Jilly Bashir.

DI Claire Ferris.

Hi. I'm not sure I've had the pleasure.

You haven't. We're newcomers. Bowman Centre?

Correct. From London?

Right again. Welcome.

What have we got?

Well, what haven't we got?

A girl in the BMW hit the Insignia side-on

and ploughed into a parked car.

Van driver's OK. Just a bit of whiplash.

Joyrider died instantly.

You think it's a joyrider because...?

BMW was reported stolen earlier tonight.

But all that is of secondary concern.

Co-workers have IDed him as 24-year-old Khalid Svet.

He was trying to lead the Insignia driver to safety,

but he had other ideas.

Pulled a gun, shot Khalid dead,

took two shots at the van driver, then fled the scene.

So we have a trigger-happy

unidentified killer on our hands?

IDing and apprehending him is our urgent priority.

Good news is he's likely concussed,

and half of Birmingham plod are being drafted as we speak.

Ma'am!

We have some idea of the shooter's appearance?

White, 40s,

fit-looking, greyish hair.

The Insignia can't help with an ID?

Cloned plates. We're not going to get him on a DVLA check.

PHONE BUZZES

Excuse me.

Yeah, we're at the scene now, but...

CAMERA CLICKS

Looks like a through-and-through.

Close but not contact.

And he was trying to help the guy.

There's no significant angle disparity

between entry and exit.

He would have been immediately incapacitated,

so would have dropped to the ground

more or less flat out.

He nicked it...

..giving us a trajectory to the right.

Factor in some deflection...

There it is. In the mortar.

Soft landing? Soft enough.

Merci. De rien.

Bingo, baby.

Single gunshot wound to the forehead.

No other obvious external injuries at this point.

Some kind of clip-on pass under the body.

Damaged and bloodstained.

It's clean.

No drinks, litter, parking permits, loose change. Nothing.

I don't believe this.

I can't find a single solitary print or ridge detail.

You're right. I don't believe it.

Just the stitching marks.

He was wearing leather gloves or the like.

So, what, it was wiped down top to bottom?

That and the cloned plates suggest we're dealing with a pro.

There must be some way to ID this bastard.

Oh... Maybe.

CLANKS

Shit.

CAMERA CLICKS

Hands are cut off. Stumps are bagged.

We said he was a pro.

Looks like an exit wound to the anterior neck.

Teeth appear to have been smashed out or removed.

So if he's not on the DNA database,

we're screwed, basically.

A challenge, certainly. But if we ID him,

we might ID our killer.

I'll carry out the postmortem as soon as we're finished here.

I'll be interested to know how the limbs were removed.

Analysis on the bone ends.

Who knows, micro-CT might even yield an implement.

But we're checking the victim's DNA first, right?

As a priority? Great minds.

Thanks for coming in, Kit.

No, no, no. It's cool.

I was at this electroclash place on New Street.

And you know what? I just wasn't feeling it.

Yeah? No, I was at home in bed.

I need you to do a bit of a reconstruction job on this.

Challenge accepted.

Grazie. Later, potater.

Should be illegal to be dragged from a warm bed.

Now, then, before we start...

Longest ever shift?

Where and when? Not playing.

Price of admission, Jack.

Yours will be longer and more exotic.

Uh-huh.

OK.

36 hours in Surbiton. Cinema fire.

What?!

You win.

Mine's a meagre 30.

Where? Earthquake. Tierra del Fuego.

Yeah. HARRIET LAUGHS

Brilliant. Of course it is.

Is that our airbag?

No matter how careful he was...

His face must have come into contact with it when it deployed.

I'll minitape first to maximise recovery,

and then I'll run a Phadebas test.

It sounds like something... PHONE RINGS

..out of Doctor Who, that.

Hello.

We're ready for the PM on the John Doe from the boot.

There is a stellate entry wound...

..two by four centimetres

superior to the occiput,

which corresponds with the exit wound

on the anterior neck.

INTERCOM: Obvious soot deposition is consistent

with a hard contact entry wound.

Through-and-through?

Definitely.

Scan confirms internal bevelling

deep to the entry wound,

with the bullet passing forwards and down

through the basal ganglia. It's clear that

the wound track passes through vital centres,

which will almost certainly have been the cause of death.

More evidence we're dealing with a professional.

Possibly.

There are what look like two stab wounds

to the right buttock.

Scars are pale and healed.

And based on the discolouration,

I would say they were sustained a year or so ago -

two, tops.

There are permanent suture marks

where he has been stitched up.

Is that a classic punishment injury?

Yes. Intended to be nonfatal,

but the person is left humiliated

with a scar in an unusual place.

Could be a gang.

Or in bother with one. Mmm.

Both arms have been severed at the wrists.

Clean incisions to the skin and tissue,

then clean severing of the bone.

Likely cut with a knife and then with a saw.

No hesitation marks

speaks to a high degree of competence

and possibly expertise.

You said micro-CT can help.

Yes, but I can tell you now that the clean bone cuts

and absence of mangling suggest a powerful rotary saw was used.

There are coloured fragments

embedded in the bone.

Blue. Green.

Silver.

Testing will confirm, but it could be car paint.

So who dices cars with a rotary saw?

Scrapyards.

Or the shadier body shops that chop up stolen cars.

No loose fragments of teeth in the mouth.

Could be lurking in the oesophagus.

Or the stomach. Hmm.

Nasal cavities?

JILLY: Is that what I think it is?

We'll run tox for cocaine and other substances too.

SHE HUMS

Linear scar to the left infraclavicular region,

eight centimetres long.

Box is palpable in the subcutaneous tissue.

- What?

- They fitted him with a pacemaker or an implantable defib.

Hopefully, the serial number will give us

an ID on our victim.

I'm going to retrieve the device now

so that we can collect any data.

It can even tell you when someone's heart stopped.

JILLY: Or, in this instance, was murdered.

Only snag - if it is a defib,

it can give you a hell of an electric shock.

No sudden moves.

Got it! Got it.

I pulled the killer's DNA from the airbag.

And? No hits, but a close match

to Kerry Booth, recently found guilty

of assaulting a police officer.

Brother-sister close? Dad close, I'd say.

Her sentence was mitigated by substance issues

and testimony from her father, Gary Booth.

Court notes say she's currently in rehab,

but don't specify where.

A visitor's pass retrieved from the scene

links to a Swiss multinational, WellCircle.

They have various outlets across the UK,

but only one rehab facility -

in the Midlands. The Nightingale.

Gary Booth.

He's got a record?

Arrested three times for receiving stolen goods.

No charges?

So his DNA wasn't kept on the database.

The wipe-down was intended to keep it that way. He's a pro.

You've got my DNA already.

We need our own sample, Kerry.

Why?

To compare it to your father's.

Oh, right. Yeah.

Make it official.

If you like.

But as I say, it's a voluntary sample.

Forget it. Why should I help you?

What about helping your dad?

Like I'm falling for that!

Sorry, you say he shot this bloke,

but how do I know that's even true?

Your father's DNA was recovered at the scene.

Along with this.

That's not your father's blood. It's the victim's.

His name was Khalid Svet.

We believe he was trying to help your father,

who'd suffered a concussion.

His girlfriend's seven months pregnant.

I've just had to break the news to her. Leave me alone.

Nice place. Who pays the bills?

Dad?

What exactly do you think he does for a living? Hmm?

How does he make his money, Kerry?

I want a lawyer.

Your dad is going to go down in a hail of police bullets

unless we work out where he is and negotiate a peaceful surrender.

Do you understand?

His phone's offline.

We have units at his house. But he isn't stupid...

I don't know where he is.

But you know something?

My dad got a call. Um, someone called Mel.

He didn't take it, but then his mood changed

and he left straight away.

Does Mel have a last name?

We've ordered up all the files

prioritising Mels, Melvins, Melanies...

Too many, Boss. Too many to wade through.

Need more intel to narrow the list.

Yeah, like the surname.

PHONE RINGS Hmm.

Hello.

The pacemaker's serial number and DNA match on the database

have given us an ID.

Advertising executive John Clemence.

He has convictions for cocaine possession,

and last year was the victim of an unsolved GBH,

thought to be related to a drug debt.

Thank you.

MUSIC PLAYING

KNOCK AT DOOR

Suzie Clemence?

It's about John? Yeah.

DCI Jilly Bashir. DI Claire Ferris.

We've got some really bad news, I'm afraid.

Come in.

TV OFF

I threw him out 18 months ago.

Cocaine destroyed everything I loved about John.

Everything.

Your baby isn't...?

No. No, no. He's not John's.

Was booting him out anything to do with him getting stabbed?

A direct result.

He came home at 4pm covered in blood,

insisting, ridiculously, that he'd fallen on a bottle.

I'd had enough.

The lies, the debts,

his total indifference for the danger he was putting us in.

You have other children? Two daughters.

You know, if I'm honest, I don't care that he's dead.

But they're going to be devastated.

Did John ever talk about someone called Gary Booth?

How about someone called Mel or Melvin?

Sorry.

What about just someone

involved in the murkier end of the car market?

You know, chop shops, scrapyards.

Suzie?

John knew a guy who owns a vintage car outfit

by the airport.

Refurbishment and stuff.

I tracked him down there once

when he forgot our youngest's birthday.

You tracked his phone?

Yeah. I was so furious.

Drove out there and confronted him with my daughters in the back seat.

And...?

He was there to score. I mean, he didn't admit it,

but it was pretty bloody obvious

when he said that it wasn't safe for us to be there.

I didn't know then, but...

..that was the beginning of the end.

How are we doing, Kit?

You mean, have you got something? I mean, have you got something?

Only one vintage car outfit near the airport.

Ownership is murky. Murky?

Multiple directors, classic obfuscation.

I ran each company director through the PNC.

One stood out.

Mel Adams.

Serious record for dealing.

Got you.

MACHINERY WHIRRING

Two coffees. Perhaps he's tired.

Looks like a bag of sarnies.

Go, go, go!

Armed police! Get down on your knees!

Get down!

Down!

Guv, we're up!

Stay back!

SHOUTS OUT Stay back!

Stay back!

Drop it, Gary.

Think of Kerry.

She needs you alive, not dead.

I'm sure the staff at the Nightingale would agree with me.

All right, remove your finger from the trigger!

Place the weapon on the ground!

Slowly!

Look at me!

Drop it!

Get on your knees!

We wouldn't have got to him so quick without you.

Thank you. Team effort.

What's his condition?

Oh, a few bruises from the arrest.

No sign of any lingering concussion.

But he's been checked over by medical staff? Mmm.

I want to be belt and braces.

Get forensic documentation of his injuries.

If you'd like to sign in there for me, please.

Now, call me old-fashioned,

but given my prisoner's propensity for violence,

I'll accompany you into the cell.

He's not your prisoner, Sergeant...?

Andrews, ma'am. Robert.

With respect, he's in custody

and I'm the custody sergeant.

Fine. Whatever, Sergeant Andrews.

Thank you.

To the right.

Hey.

I'm just urging caution, Jason.

OK, yeah. I hear you. Managing expectations.

Look, given that I've been knocked back twice,

I would say getting leave to appeal is pretty huge.

It's a step forward, certainly.

Richard, the police didn't just fail to investigate

Alice's stalker. OK?

They... They wilfully ignored it.

Which only came to light when Alice's sister

finally broke ranks with her parents and spoke up.

That's fucking bullshit! That's bullshit!

I told them about the stalker

on the day of her disappearance. OK?

But you're not seen as credible, is my point.

Saskia is.

So?

So we focus on what worked.

Fresh testimony from people they can't ignore.

You worked your magic with Saskia.

No. I wrote her a letter, OK?

Pricked her conscience, maybe.

So? More of that.

Leave to appeal gives us a forum, but no more.

As far as the outside world is concerned,

you still killed your wife and they should throw away the key.

What are you saying?

CHEERING

To make this stalker theory stand up,

we've got a way to go.

You mean we need to ID them?

Or at least find friends or colleagues of Alice

that remember her having a stalker.

How many times have we been over this? There is no-one!

There is no-one.

You're in so much trouble, it's hard to know where to start.

But let's go with the murders of Khalid Svet...

..and John Clemence.

And the attempted murder of the van driver, Andy Soames.

Who are you?

Jack Hodgson, forensic scientist.

I've asked to sit in.

So the Walther P99 used to murder Khalid Svet

has a flaw in the barrelling.

That flaw manifests itself differently

according to the bullets used -

something you may or may not be aware of.

So we test-fired the gun with a range of ammunition,

and were able to link it to three fatal shootings

in Greater Birmingham over the last five years.

We've got Simon Carpenter...

..Wesley Hurst

and Grant Johnson.

You're in for life regardless, Gary.

But off the record, it's not all bad news.

If you start cooperating now before you're charged,

it could count greatly in your favour.

I'm talking category of prison,

location, visitation rights.

You want to be somewhere you want Kerry to come and visit,

don't you?

'Course you do.

The judge has a lot of power there.

Word to the prison board could go a long way.

WHISPERS

We appreciate the approach, DCI Bashir, but...

I did my first kill when I was 19.

Connor Burgess,

a driving instructor moonlighting as a courier.

Shot him in his car while he was eating pizza.

I've worked for different people, different organisations,

but I've always been a lone wolf.

No allegiances.

Except to the highest bidder.

How many people have you killed, Gary?

15, 16? Not sure.

Some I buried, some I left where they dropped. But...

..I always killed people from my world.

People who had it coming.

Well...

..almost always.

Alice Hill was the exception that proves the rule.

Just to be clear, you're saying that you killed Alice Hill?

Yes.

I bludgeoned her to death and buried her on Woodruff Common.

For money?

SCOFFS

No. Self-preservation.

She saw me test-firing a silencer in the woods.

TRAIN RATTLES PAST

MUFFLED GUNSHOT

Would you be prepared to show us where you buried her?

Gary?

On top of the agony of losing her...

..Alice's parents were denied a funeral, her body...

I'll show you.

But like he was about to say, we'll need it in writing.

OK. Anyone got any questions?

No. Right, you've got the notes.

You know what to do. ALL AGREE

Thank you. Just get going with it.

Thanks for coming.

There's been a development. Mm-hm?

So Booth's offer to tell us

where he buried Alice now comes with a string attached.

Taking us to the location in person.

JACK WHISTLES And we're agreeing to that?

The up-aboves are running risk assessment now.

Let me save them some time. It's risky.

The disappearance of Alice Hill was a very big deal up here.

Pretty big deal across the country. Sure, but we lived it.

The search, the trial, the conviction of her husband.

If there is a chance that we can recover her body...

I remember the case, but I didn't follow it closely.

Any context would be helpful.

I was Deputy SIO, so I'm well-placed there.

Alice and Jason were childhood sweethearts...

Whoo! Yes!

..who struck gold with an online personal training business.

ALICE: 14.

15.

Now at home, you just have to do three sets of 15.

Jason's going to be doing four sets of 20

because he was on the beers last night.

Two! I had two beers!

And that is why we don't let him anywhere near the accounts.

Two days after cutting short her honeymoon,

Alice left her house to go jogging on Woodruff Common.

According to Jason,

she never returned.

Why did she cut short the honeymoon?

Because she discovered that he'd been siphoning funds

from their company for a pet project.

People were gripped

by the simple riddle of Alice going out for a run

and never coming back.

That and their relationship falling apart.

The happy couple weren't so happy.

No shortage of schadenfreude.

And no body.

I know how hard it is to secure a conviction without a body.

So how did you do it?

We built the best circumstantial case we could

based on the available evidence.

Which was? Apart from the money thing?

Jason's lack of alibi.

Neighbours hearing them argue earlier in the day,

Jason taking out a new life assurance policy.

And the state he was in when we turned up...

Let's go round the back.

Jason Webb? You do not have to say anything,

but anything you do say... How'd you get in here?

..may harm your defence if you do not mention...

He had a cut on his cheek.

He said he tripped when he was drunk.

We were disinclined to believe him.

If Booth did kill Alice, then Jason spent four years

in prison for a crime he didn't commit.

Yeah. Let's not get carried away, though.

Even if it turns out that Booth did the deed

doesn't mean that Jason's innocent.

Sure.

Equally, we need to reassure ourselves

that Booth is the killer

and hasn't just been told where the body is located.

You have reason to doubt it?

According to the British typology of hit men...

..Booth isn't a novice or a dilettante.

Most likely fits the profile

of a journeyman or possibly a master.

Your profile is determined by what factors?

Knows how to shoot to kill.

Bullet straight to the head.

Negligible physical evidence left behind,

and the target was associated with organised crime.

However, choosing a public space

to test-fire a weapon does not fit

with the profile of journeyman or master.

Nor does bludgeoning when he had a gun.

OK.

So if Booth comes to the common, we need to remain in full control.

And not just from a security angle. Agreed.

If he does lead us to find Alice,

he needs to be kept back while the body is exhumed.

That way, we can quiz him

on specific forensic and pathology details.

Booth needs to know that he's not in charge.

We are.

May I ask you a question, Mr Booth?

The body aside,

are there any other corroborating details

you can provide us with?

When she saw me with a gun, she ran - understandably.

I chased her and she...

..stumbled.

Stumbled?

On a tree root or something.

Her trainer came off.

It was red.

The left one.

I only spotted it after I buried her.

I threw it in the lake.

After she stumbled, what happened?

She carried on running,

but I closed the gap.

Grabbed a tree branch and...

..hit her on the back of the head.

How many times?

Five or six.

Enough to get the job done.

You had a silencer.

Why didn't you shoot her?

I was out.

I'd fired all the ammunition I came with.

DRONE WHIRRING

How are we doing, Gary?

Bit further.

Hang on, hang on. Stop!

What? Drone.

It's ours. The big one's ours.

Whose is that?

Might have a rogue drone over the lake.

OFFICER ON RADIO: Yeah, we've seen it too.

So much for the common being locked down.

Boss!

Looks like it's being operated by two people on the western shore.

What is going on?

INDISTINCT POLICE COMMS

SHOUTING

DOG BARKS

OFFICER: False alarm. False alarm. It's a dog lead.

They're not piloting the drone?

No, they're not.

Then who the bloody hell is?

We're on it, boss. Over.

Let's just keep going.

Come on, move it, please.

There.

By that oak tree.

Where exactly?

Right at the base.

You're going to wait here, Gary.

Why? Because I say so.

Make sure he's facing the other direction, please.

Sounds like you've found her.

CAMERA CLICKS

There's blunt-force trauma to the back of the head,

and what looks like wood embedded in the skull.

The red trainer and navy tracksuit

also match what Alice was believed to be wearing.

Just like he said.

DNA will confirm, but I think we can proceed

on the basis that this is Alice Hill.

We've found her.

What is it?

Richard, what's happened?

I wanted you to hear it before it gets out.

They've found her.

They've found Alice.

SIGHS

Where?

On Woodruff Common.

Are they sure?

Yeah. They've matched her DNA.

REPORTERS FIRE QUESTIONS

Mr Hill, is there anything you can comment

on Jason's innocence, please? Mr Hill?

Mr Hill, can you please comment?

Ron. Lois.

Hi, Adam.

Hello, Jilly. Nice to see you. Even under the circumstances.

You too.

Where's Saskia?

No idea. We're not in touch.

Sure.

Jilly...

Mum...

It's OK, it's OK.

No way.

Dad.

Can we have a minute, please?

Pay your respects in your own time, Saskia.

You're not hijacking this.

What would she have wanted, Dad?

What would Alice have wanted?

I'm not having this conversation.

She'd want us to forgive, to come together.

Always about you, isn't it? Even today.

She'd want us to be a family again.

"Look at me. Look at me."

That's why you went behind our back.

You mean, told the truth?

Cosied up to him.

I just wanted to do the right thing.

You wanted attention. No.

And you were jealous. Always. Especially of Alice.

Alice did have a stalker. She told me.

And you should have let me tell the police.

What would that have done? Except muddy the waters.

That wasn't your call. Dad...

She's not worth it.

The body is that of Alice Hill,

identified by DNA.

The deceased disappeared five years ago,

was killed, and was subsequently placed

in a shallow grave on Woodruff Common.

There are...

..six lacerations to the posterior scalp.

Largely linear and up to five centimetres long.

Bark embedded in them

is consistent with blows from a branch.

Skull is visibly fractured at the base of the lacerations.

Lots of force?

The occiput is the thickest part of the skull,

so severely forceful blows, yes.

I'd normally examine the brain in detail,

but after five years

its condition makes that impossible.

But given the extent of these blows,

traumatic diffuse axonal injury

is the likely mechanism of death.

Diffuse what?

HARRIET: Axonal injury is a widespread tearing

of the nerve cells in the brain.

Usually attributable to repeated heavy blows,

as in this case.

No defensive wounds?

Not that I've seen so far.

So, injuries more or less fit with Booth's account?

Yes. With one possible exception.

There's an unhealed spiral fracture of the tibia,

suggesting that she fell badly

right before she died.

Booth said she fell. That's when she lost her trainer.

He said she stumbled and carried on running.

This suggests a twisting injury

and a serious, almost certainly incapacitating fall.

Strange he didn't mention it.

Yeah, it is a bit.

Is it? Five years on?

People forget things they did five minutes ago.

Sure...

But don't we have to consider the possibility

that Booth had nothing to do with it?

That someone got him to add Alice's murder

to his charge sheet? You mean Jason Webb?

What price freedom? I have considered it.

There's only one reason he'd fess up to Alice

if he didn't do it.

Money? Mm.

A lot of money. And Jason's broke.

What about the life assurance policy?

Never paid out. His conviction made it null and void.

Um, the spiral fracture could have come

from her tripping and losing her shoe, right?

As I said, a more serious fall seems likely.

But it's possible?

Yes. It's possible.

Fracture aside,

do your findings support Booth's account

of killing Alice on the common?

Broadly speaking. Yes.

They don't undermine it?

No. Thank you.

KNOCKS AT WINDOW

Bashir...

"Let's not jump to conclusions."

That's what she said when Ferris suggested

Jason might be innocent.

I think she actually said, "Let's not get carried away."

But suddenly, she's only too ready to believe Booth killed Alice

and Jason had nothing to do with it.

Key word there being "suddenly".

So DCI Bashir has had a change of heart.

It's a free country. She's not the type.

She's not the type to throw in the towel either.

What are you saying? Someone's got to her?

Don't know. Skeletons in cupboards.

Don't know that I want to know.

Must have something to do with Bashir working on the original case.

For the last five years, she's believed

that Jason killed his wife with every fibre of her being,

and acted accordingly. What's changed?

Booth leading us to Alice's body.

Knowing all the details, like the missing trainer.

Details that he could have got from Jason.

Oh, come on.

I'm not saying that's what I believe.

I'm saying, why isn't Bashir at least considering it?

To stand that up, we'd have to prove contact

between Jason and Booth.

Yes. Recent contact, post-Booth's arrest.

I'm not sure it's our place to try, Nikki. Are you?

TAP RUNS

Gary Booth, you are charged that on the 19th of June, 2021,

at Woodruff Common, you did murder Alice Hill

contrary to common law.

You do not have to say anything,

but it may harm your defence...

If you want to fire me and invest in a spin doctor,

no hard feelings. What you on about?

Home Secretary's been taking your name in vain.

TV: In light of the confession and charging of this individual

with the murder of Alice Hill,

and taken in conjunction with what I understand

to be overwhelming forensic and pathology evidence,

I have personally intervened

to expedite the immediate release of Jason Webb.

SOLICITOR: Jason would like to make a short statement.

JASON: Today is as bittersweet as it is surprising,

and it's gratifying, if gratifying is the word,

to finally be exonerated.

I am deeply grateful to all of the people -

not a lot of people, it must be said -

who believed from day one that I am innocent.

But nothing can fill the hole of losing my dear wife Alice.

I am free, but I am bereft.

All right. Thank you, everyone.

REPORTERS FIRE QUESTIONS

Hey, just to say, I will not stop until I know exactly

what happened to my wife and why,

and the malign role of Birmingham police

is exposed for all to see!

SOLICITOR: All right. Thank you, everyone.

Just to say, I will not stop until I know exactly

what happened to my wife and why,

and the malign role of Birmingham police

is exposed for all to see!

SOLICITOR: All right. Thank you, everyone.

Better hurry up. She hates you being late.

OK.

See you in a bit.

Has he had any visitors or calls, Sergeant?

No, ma'am.

Made any special requests?

No. No.

Actually, he... he did get a call.

Yeah. Er...

Kerry. His daughter.

Yeah. She was, um...

She was keen to see him, but he didn't want to see her.

It's in the log. Yeah.

Good lad. Thank you, Constable...?

Nesbit, ma'am. David Nesbit.

We're going to make a move, Jason.

What? Already? I mean, we haven't even caught up yet.

Sorry, mate. Got an early one.

What, all of you?

ALL AGREE

Hope you enjoyed the free food.

I just need to be sure about this Booth guy.

I need to be certain, Rich.

What? That he's guilty?

He's been charged, Jason.

I don't know how much more certain we can be.

What, so you think he could be Alice's stalker?

Doesn't sound like it. I mean, he didn't know her.

OK, then who was it? Who?

SOBS

Tenacity PT was very public-facing, yeah?

And Alice and I were the face of it.

Yeah, I had concerns about that at the time.

So what if it was one of the subscribers?

You know, one of the really overexcited ones

who thought they knew us?

Like, yeah, I had my share, but Alice, she had way more.

Look. As far as we know, he was a professional hit man

and she was just in the wrong place.

Jason?

Saskia...

MAN: Oi, oi, oi!

So, this is Richard, my solicitor.

Hi. Saskia, Richard.

I'm sorry I'm late. No, don't be daft.

Well, how is everyone?

Without you, there might not be anything to celebrate.

What do you mean? It was your testimony.

It got me my leave to appeal.

It really softened the ground for my release.

Really? Yeah, yeah.

Even before Booth confessed, so...

Oh... Jason, I'm honoured.

How have your parents taken the news of my release?

Er... That bad?

They're just, you know, computing everything.

Right.

Well, I mean, er, give them my best.

No, look,

really, I mean it.

My sister always spoke very fondly of you, Richard.

She did?

Mm. Your cool head in a crisis.

Especially when the business was taking off

and it was all going crazy.

I certainly didn't feel very cool-headed

when I was thrashing out contracts

and begging Jason and Alice to hire a corporate lawyer.

MAN: Killer.

Killer.

Should have binned the key.

Ignore him. Ignore him.

Have one on me, killer.

Killer.

Oh, yeah? Jason...

Don't. Jason!

Leave it. Leave it!

LAUGHS Jason!

Fuck you! Sit down!

Christ, Jason. This was supposed to be a celebration!

Will you just fuck off, Richard, yeah?

Get the fuck out of my face!

LAUGHTER

Just...make sure he gets home safe, please, Saskia.

There you go. Off you go. Cheerio.

TV: Alice Hill was described by her family

as a bright, dynamic young woman

with an infectious zest for life.

She built a successful online fitness business

alongside her husband Jason.

This seemingly happy couple,

seen here hosting one of their many social gatherings,

were attractive and vivacious,

both naturals in front of the camera,

with the ability to capture and hold an audience.

ALICE: The big one, that's his first.

That looks amazing. LAUGHTER

It's clear to see how they acquired a mass following

and became online sensations,

with many dubbing Tenacity PT as being on the cusp

of becoming a global fitness empire.

These images of happier times at the peak of their success

are now a stark and striking contrast

to the reality Alice's murder has left behind

for all those who loved her.

Is it on us that he's out?

For the last five years, the grieving family...

Unless you called the Home Secretary and didn't tell me...

..exhumed from an area of woodland...

..no, it's not!

..now been formally identified.

I thought you were going to kill him.

I just completely decked it instead.

Oh! I feel bad about Richard, though.

Oh, don't. He's used to me, the old windbag.

Oh, my...

SHOUTS OUT: Taxi! Taxi!

Oi!

Completely blanked me!

Life is no fairer on the outside!

BOTH LAUGH

Sorry.

Sorry.

You remind me of her.

Sask, I miss her.

SOBS: I just miss her so much, Sask.

SOBS

Sarge?

Rob?

Sarge?