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BELLS CHIME

LOW CHATTER

BELLS PEAL

NIKKI: White.

Purity.

Innocence.

Brightness.

And death.

During Chinese Imperial rule,

a length of white silk was occasionally offered

to those who had committed a serious offence,

as a gift, to allow them the possibility

of taking their own life by hanging

rather than being executed,

preserving the physical integrity of the body

in accordance with Confucian principles of filial piety.

When was all this?

The Tang Dynasty, 10th century.

But the Chinese have practised forensic science

to investigate crime since the Western Han Dynasty

in the first century.

Do you know what their most famous forensic book is?

Yes, I do know this. It's, er, The Washing...Line And...

- The Washing Away Of Wrongs. - That's it.

It was translated into Latin,

and came to Britain during the Conquest.

It remained as a standard text on forensic pathology

until the 1920s.

Do they still do all that Imperial China

white silk stuff today?

No, the New Culture Movement of 1915

thought that respect for your elders

was an obstruction to progress.

Mao's socialism in the '50s shifted responsibility

from the family to the state.

Nikkipedia strikes again.

So, not many white silk gifts, then, these days?

- Not so much, no. - No, I didn't think so.

Detective Inspector Fred Casey. Can I help you?

I think we're here to help you, Fred.

Who are you?

- Sorry. Dr Nikki Alexander. - Jack Hodgson.

Am I supposed to know who you are and why you're here?

Bowman Centre.

Should that mean something to me?

Pathology. Forensics.

Birmingham.

Hodgson. No relation to Roy?

- None. - I've read about you.

Well, I didn't call you, so there must be some mix-up.

We've got our own people in Oxfordshire.

So could you stand behind the police tape, please?

- It is a crime scene. - Excuse me. I requested them.

Did you?

Who's your friend?

It's always hard to know.

MAN: Go!

Right, watch your step.

- Yeah. - There you are.

OK. Steady.

- Put her down. - I got it.

BURNS: Home Office felt it would be better

if we moved her body to the Bowman.

I'm the SIO. This is my crime scene.

I don't know anything about this,

and I don't know who you think you are.

I already told you. I'm Alex Burns.

I'm a senior investigator with the security services.

I've got a pretty clear idea who I am.

Oh, you think you're a comedian?

No, I don't think I've ever thought that.

Let me walk you through what you need to do

before you turn up here and act like you're in charge.

You need to ring the coroner,

then the coroner needs to agree,

then the coroner needs to speak to my superintendent,

then my superintendent needs to call me. All right?

How old do you think she is? 20s?

I'd say so.

I'll lift?

- Preserve the knot? - Please.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

Young woman.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

Beautiful place.

Makes no sense.

SIREN WAILS

Hypostatic staining, but no ligature marks or bruising.

Abrasion and laceration to the zygomatic bone.

No petechiae in the facial skin...

..eyelids...

..or buccal mucosa.

Nikki, what do you reckon?

Torn from the force of her body falling?

Perhaps.

- Not silk. - No.

I don't think silk would have torn

from the dead weight like this.

No.

I'll look for the missing piece.

- It's what you do. - Of fabric.

I got that.

No ligature marks, no bruising.

So...

..she fell,

hit her head on something,

knocked herself out, drowns?

NIKKI: Possible.

How long was she in the water?

Hard to say.

There's no sign of maceration.

Some skin wrinkling on the finger pads.

Did you take the water temperature?

Not yet.

I'll get a sample for diatom testing.

OK. Let's see what the postmortem tells us.

Could you bring the body bag, please?

- Yeah. - We're taking her

to the John Radcliffe.

LINE RINGS

Coroner's Office, please. Thanks.

Do we know the name

- of the deceased? - No.

It's Nikki Alexander from the Bowman Centre.

Is Daniel available?

Hi, Daniel, it's Nikki.

I'm well, thanks for asking. You?

Well, you can't let them get you down.

I'm in Oxford

recovering an unknown female from the Cherwell.

There seems to be some dispute...

OK. Thanks.

The coroner's instructed

that their body be moved to the Bowman Centre

- for the postmortem. - Well, nobody told me that.

PHONE VIBRATES

DI Fred Casey.

Yes, sir.

Understood, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

I'll see you in Birmingham.

We believe her name was Mei Li.

23. From Hong Kong.

How do you know?

We'll speak at the Bowman.

BELLS CHIME

PHONES RING SIRENS WAIL

PHONE RINGS

Casey.

I'm really busy.

Well, has he not filled in a missing persons report online?

Risk levels?

Does he understand that's why he's not had a call back yet?

OK, OK. OK.

Well, I'm just finishing off

something I've got to get done right away, and I'll come over.

Yeah.

Shit.

- There you go. - Ta.

CASEY CLEARS HIS THROAT

- Mr George? - Yes. Pike.

My fiancee is-is missing.

Are you sure she's missing? Didn't have an argument?

Maybe she had a change of heart about the marriage?

You know, it's happened to me.

Yes.

I'm certain. I've called three times.

I've sent an email.

I need the police to help me to do something.

Ah. Morning, Dawn.

So, uh, how long do you think she's been missing?

Two days.

Two days? OK.

Better get some details, then.

Name?

Pike George.

Oh, yes.

- Age? - 31.

Occupation?

CTO. Research scientist,

physics - for Hendelseshorisont.

Oh.

PEN SCRATCHES

CTO.

Missing fiancee's name?

Mei Li.

May, like the month?

- Lee. L-E-E? - No, no.

Um...

Mei Li.

M-E-I...

L-I.

Is she Asian?

Chinese.

From Hong Kong.

Clothing, fresh from the drying chamber.

We want to untie the knot

and see if we can extract the DNA from the fabric inside.

Mm-hm. Got it.

- Kit, you're young. - Yes,

but less and less every day.

- Ever have dark thoughts? - What counts as dark?

Self-destruction.

Why would I have those?

- I'm a goddamn miracle. - Ha.

- Yes, you are. - So are you.

So is she.

You know when a dark cloud descends

and blocks out the sun?

The sun is still there. We just can't see it.

We can forget that.

The sun is always there.

We just have to wait for it to come back.

We're still there, even when it's dark.

You can't forget that.

So, yeah,

there is a little darkness,

but without the darkness, you can't appreciate the light.

Shall I call you the Philosopher Queen?

No.

Fucking Miracle.

LAUGHS

Why here? And why us?

The deceased woman's family live in Birmingham.

It's true.

Why here? Why us?

The Home Office trusts you.

Why you?

To be honest, we rather stumbled across this one.

We just wanted to make sure that it's not...

What?

Well, that it all makes sense.

Does the death of a young person ever fully make sense?

PHONE PINGS AND VIBRATES

Dr Alexander is ready for me.

Why would a young woman with her whole life ahead of her

suddenly take her own life?

HARRIET: Shame.

A quality which alerts us to the gap between

who we are today and the best version of ourselves.

- NIKKI: - The deceased is a young woman in her 20s

of East Asian extraction.

It's not a disparagement

of the essence of our being,

but a reminder of who we could be.

It's a faint line, but no bruising.

Inspiring,

helping us to rise...

Laceration to the zygomatic bone.

..not driving us to despair.

The laryngohyoid complex is intact.

No sign of a fracture.

Shame is an overlooked quality

in a society which rewards celebrity over accomplishments,

and mistakes the realisation of one's imperfections

for a mental health affliction.

Shall we turn her over?

Yes. Of course.

We're just going to turn you over, Mei.

Cupping. Chinese medicine?

Yeah.

A society in which we medicalise disappointment

and normalise complacency...

Acupuncture needle marks?

Not usually so conspicuous.

No, but there seems to be some sort of localised reaction

- to these. - Mmm. Mmm.

..whose preoccupation with "I"

cannot see "us".

We tolerate a technological world

of falsehood, deception and aggression.

A celebration of mendacity.

A world without shame.

There's no excess fluid in the pleural cavities.

The lungs are not hyperinflated, crepitant

or even doughy.

There's no froth in the primary bronchi.

There's no evidence that she drowned.

But if we are led by virtue...

..we will develop a sense of shame,

which, in turn, will guide us to be good.

She was dead before she entered the water.

Shame only shows us how far we are from perfection.

It should never, ever kill us.

- NIKKI: - Her death is concerning.

- Wrongdoing? - Concerning.

I'm not going to rule out third-party involvement

at this stage.

When will you pin it down?

Well, we don't know the mechanism of death.

I'm waiting on toxicology.

Why did you bring her here?

We've done this. Trust.

Oh, we're sticking to that old chestnut, are we?

You knew her name before her body was recovered

from the water. You knew her age, where she was from.

And you knew the death was suspicious

before we had even done the postmortem.

- Were you expecting it? - No.

HARRIET: Were you responsible for it?

Absolutely not!

If you were following her,

you didn't do a particularly good job.

We weren't following her, no.

Who were you following?

We have an interest in British cyber research,

which we monitor to protect against state-sponsored theft.

And it was while monitoring...

- Phone tapping? - ..while monitoring,

we discovered that Mei Li was missing.

She matched the name of someone known to us,

and the body found matched her description.

Why was this woman known to you?

Oh, what happened to trust, Alex?

There was a bounty on the young woman's head.

Allegedly.

Do you know who put it there?

Oh, yeah.

Well, let the police arrest them.

It's not a person.

It's a country.

Or more precisely,

a Special Administrative Region.

- Hong Kong? - Yeah.

That does not leave this office.

The Hong Kong Government put a bounty on her head?

Allegedly.

For her capture, not her murder.

Why?

Pro-democracy campaigner.

What happened to "one country, two systems"?

National security law.

This is a Chinese issue.

No, no, no. She's British. BNO passport.

That's British National Overseas...

I know what that means!

It would be very handy

if you ended up proving that...

- ..this... - "This"? "This"?

The death of a young woman?

..had nothing to do with that.

What? Democracy?

PHONE RINGS

Hello. Harriet Maven.

Yes. Yes, she's here with me.

- Dr Alexander. - Detective Inspector.

I think we know who the deceased woman is.

- WHISPERS: - And I've brought him to identify the body.

Why would she do this? Can't be.

It's just not rational.

- Can we...? - Yeah.

It makes absolutely no sense.

Are you certain it's her?

I need certainty.

Certainty brings closure.

Just a minute.

His name's Pike George.

He reported his fiancee missing,

and she matches the description of the dead Chinese woman...

- WHISPERS: - ..we fished out of the Cherwell.

She's British.

It's her.

It's Mei Li.

Hey.

- Hello. - Pike?

I'm Jack. I, um...work here.

I just wanted to, uh...well...

It's a lonely thing.

Thanks.

She was your fiancee?

That's rough.

Yeah.

I'm sorry.

You knew her a long time?

Ten days.

- When you know, you know. - Yeah.

Lost my virginity to her.

- Right. OK. - Now she's dead.

She's taking my virginity with her to the grave.

Do people from Hong Kong have graves?

What would she want?

Who do I ask?

Her parents?

Her dad died.

I don't know her mum.

Never met her.

I was going to, but never did.

I've never talked to her about death.

I guess it was cos she made me feel so alive.

I'm really grateful to you for coming to talk to me.

No-one ever comes to talk to me.

And you did.

Ten days.

He'd only known her ten days.

They were getting married.

Doesn't that seem odd?

I don't know.

There are some guys I'm ready to marry after one night.

Too much information.

He never met her mum.

Well, we need to meet her... and collect her DNA.

Fred?

Hi. I need a favour.

He said he wanted someone with, you know,

high emotional intelligence

to speak to the deceased's mother.

Couldn't say no, really, could I?

How's the weather down there, then?

Yeah. That's funny, Fred. You're a funny guy.

- Bet you've heard that before. - Not me personally,

but I'm sure someone has, you know,

30, 40 years ago.

- Eggshells. - Sorry?

Down here.

Well, a situation like this, you know,

us working together,

pretending there's nothing unusual about you,

can be...awkward.

So you crack a bad joke, break those eggshells.

So that's what we're doing, is it? Killing poultry?

See, it's doing exactly what I hoped it would do.

Now we don't have to tiptoe around so much.

- I feel so much better. - Good.

This is the place.

LIVELY CHATTER

CHATTER STOPS

Huh?

What is it?

Nothing.

A lot of thinking about nothing.

There's nothing in the toxicology report.

I swabbed the 22 pinpricks on her back.

Pinpricks?

I suspect made by acupuncture needles.

There's a small red mark next to each one.

Localised reaction.

Each one of the sites has returned

a high level of the amino acid tryptophan.

LINE RINGS

Hi, it's Dr Alexander.

I'd like to run analytical tests

outside of the normal tox profile on Mei Li.

Yes. You just returned results on her.

This time, look at serotonin

and all analogues and derivatives of it.

OK. Thanks.

So what does it mean?

I don't know.

Serotonin is synthesised from tryptophan,

but...why would it return at a high level?

- Hello. - Hello.

Detective Inspector Fred Casey...

..looking for a Jackie Hiu Wai Li.

Er...

I am Jackie.

How can I help you?

Um...

Maybe we could speak somewhere private?

Thank you.

CHATTER RESUMES

FRED CLEARS HIS THROAT

Jackie...

This is difficult news to tell you.

FRED CLEARS HIS THROAT

Your daughter Mei is dead.

I see.

OK.

We don't know what happened to her yet.

We're still investigating.

OK.

When did you last see Mei?

I don't know exactly.

- Not long ago. - OK. Um...

I understand this is bad news, but...

- ..um... - We'd be grateful

if you'd volunteer a sample of your DNA

to help with the investigation.

- I... I will do it. - Thank you.

We won't be able to return her body to you

until we complete the investigation.

OK.

If you could open your mouth, please.

OK. All set.

Thank you.

That's my number if you need it.

Thank you.

We'll be in touch.

I have a daughter.

I'm not Chinese, so maybe I don't know anything,

but...if I'd just been told my daughter was dead,

I wouldn't have reacted like that.

KEYBOARD CLICKS

TABLET CHIMES

PIANO CHORDS

KNOCK ON DOOR

Well, I'm making progress.

And progress in anything is very satisfactory, isn't it?

Don't you think?

You look troubled.

Not troubled. Puzzled.

The swabs from Mei Li's back...

What, from the acupuncture needle marks?

As yet unconfirmed that

they were made by acupuncture needles, but yes.

They showed a high level of the amino acid tryptophan.

- Did you look for serotonin? - Yes. And analogues

and derivatives. The lab's just come back

with a lethal amount of dimethyl serotonin.

Also known as 5-hydroxy-N, N-dimethyltryptamine,

- alkaloid tryptamine. - Yes.

Also known as bufotenine,

a serotonergic psychedelic and potent hallucinogenic.

Bufotenine is an exotic, isn't it?

Yes. A potent and nonselective serotonin receptor agonist.

Made from plants or mushrooms or...

And toad venom.

Used in Chinese medicine.

How is it used in Chinese medicine?

- Apparently to treat cancer. - Did she have cancer?

- HARRIET: - Not that we could see.

- So it's not medicinal. - Because of its

structural similarities

with dimethyltryptamine and serotonin,

it's considered a psychedelic.

- She uses it to get high? - And overdoses.

Does she mean to overdose?

Hard to know intention,

but irrespective of her intentions,

the needle marks were on her back,

so she couldn't have put them there herself.

Acupuncture is an unusual method of delivery.

We found nothing in the literature.

And as she was lying face down,

she probably didn't know it was happening.

The mechanism of death in an overdose of bufotenine

is asphyxiation leading to cardiac arrest.

Constricts the airways.

Hanging or drowning might be a misdirect.

Yeah, confusing the investigation.

I don't believe Mei Li took her own life.

I think we need to proceed

as though it's likely to be a homicide.

Alex?

ALEX GROANS

Where do you find toad venom?

Well, we know that she had cupping treatment

and she had acupuncture.

Kit, how many practitioners of Chinese medicine

- are there in Oxford? - On it.

NIKKI: Pike might know who to speak to.

Yeah.

LINE RINGS

Hello. DI Casey.

Hi, Fred.

Oh, hello, Alex. How's it hanging?

How do you still have a job?

Maybe because I do people like you favours.

BELLS CHIME

Hello.

Do people call you the "hot doc"?

None that are still alive.

I'm up to 62 traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.

Who knew they were so popular?

Yeah. Who knew?

What is it?

DNA result from the knot.

Not great quality.

But it's a mixed sample.

Hers and an unknown DNA, a second female.

Someone else tied the knot.

Let's check against the profiles we have

and do a spec search, see if it's on the database.

Yeah. Will do.

Have you found any more on Hendels...?

Hendelseshorisont.

Yeah.

ENTRY SYSTEM RINGS

- INTERCOM: - Can I help you?

Police, here to see a Pike George,

Hendelseshorisont...?

Can I see your identification, please?

The woman is with you?

Yes. The woman is with me.

Not a sentence I say very often.

Unsurprisingly.

She will need to provide identification.

Understood.

GATE CLANKS OPEN

After you.

Hendelseshorisont is trying to design a quantum chip

that is a trillion times faster than today's supercomputer.

Only a trillion?

ID?

Is this regarding Mei Li?

- Police business. - Of course.

Is Pike expecting you?

I tried to call here several times, but no-one answered.

We don't take messages.

- NIKKI: Why is that? - Security.

Can I have your mobile phones, please?

Pop them into a locker.

I'll take you to Pike.

SECURITY GATE CHIMES

SECURITY GATE CHIMES

Thank you.

Apparently, they're trying to make a qubit chip

for a quantum computer out of water.

Water?

Water and pulses of light.

They make the water salty

by dissolving iodide ions into it.

A laser's fired into the water,

bumping electrons out of the salt.

The laser is so fast

the water is able to switch states in picoseconds.

That's a trillionth of a second.

What happens in there?

They do coding.

Developing artificial intelligence.

Company's called Komnata.

I think it's a kind of a training place.

Everyone just calls it "The Room".

DOOR BEEPS

It is not part of Hendelseshorisont.

They are through here

in the secure research area of the building.

KIT: A faster, more efficient chip

is key to the future.

It would save massive amounts of energy

compared to today's silicon chips.

The energy required to drive the computers

to run an AI platform,

you could power a whole city.

Hello.

I'm Bendik Voss, co-founder, Hendelseshorisont.

- Can I help? - Police...for Pike.

A water-based qubit chip in a quantum computer

would use a tiny fraction of that,

and operate up to 100 million times faster for AI...

- 100 million? - Mm-hm.

..depending on the algorithm.

There's a quote from Pike in the article.

"It will be faster than God can blink."

That's world changing.

We're building it here?

We're creating it.

We're a nation of creators, inventors, thinkers.

- Pike does this? - Mm-hm. He's the founder,

along with

a chap called Bendik Voss.

Pike's Chief Technology Officer.

He's the brains behind it.

DOOR OPENS

FRED CLEARS HIS THROAT

Hi.

Hi.

Wu Li.

Physics. Or organised energy.

Th-That's what we are.

Energy organised in the form we're in -

the organism we inhabit.

Hi, Fred.

Pike.

We live in a zero-energy universe.

You know what that means, Fred?

Not a fucking clue.

The energy is the same today

as it was at the beginning of time.

That's right. Yeah.

When an organism dies,

the energy still exists.

I try and feel her energy.

I know it sounds crazy. It's not crazy.

If you think of a person's being as energy,

it accounts for spirits,

ghosts,

God...

Thanks, Rodrigo.

..all sorts of human experiences.

The moment of energy

is the point of singularity, isn't it,

where physics and metaphysics meet?

Why are you here?

We're having a bit of trouble finding Mei Li's address

in Oxford. You wouldn't have it, would you?

Of course.

She lived in Jericho. I'll get it.

COMPUTER BEEPS

Morning, Pike. I miss you.

Big kiss.

Thanks, Mei Li.

The guys in The Room are building me

- a virtual interactive waifu. - Morning, Pike.

I miss you. Big kiss.

To get me through the dark hours.

It's eternal life.

Just different.

Don't have it.

I know it by sight. I can take you there.

- Great. - Yeah. - You wouldn't

- would you? - No. Sorry.

We'd be grateful if you'd volunteer a DNA sample

to help us with our investigation.

Of course.

Did Mei Li ever talk to you about Chinese medicine?

Oh, God. Yes.

She was always banging on about it.

Some woman she said I had to go see. It would change my life.

Open.

Do you remember her name?

Don't think she ever mentioned it. Why?

A few unanswered questions.

A few?

Only a few?

I have thousands.

Millions.

This is a temple to unanswered questions.

CHIME

Rodrigo.

Oh, Rodrigo needs to walk us out.

Bendik is obsessed with security.

Thank you.

I'm getting nowhere on the phone.

I asked for toad venom or bufo.

Apparently it's called bufo

among a particular groovy set of folk who use it.

Never was really part of that crowd.

- No? - No.

Never really wanted to be.

No.

So I ask, they say no and hang up.

Sometimes they just hang up.

Usually they just hang up.

"Zhongyi"?

It literally means "Chinese medicine".

An in-person consultation?

It's worth a try.

How did you meet Mei Li?

She worked for one of the companies in the building

just along here. This one. The Room.

- Mei worked here? - Yes.

How long had she worked for them?

I don't know, exactly.

They moved in a couple of months after we did.

- Who owns it? - Huh?

Do you know who owns it?

Oh, uh, some evil genius

with no strong attachment to reality.

I make the violin.

They play it so well that even the devil will dance.

The things they can do with AI!

I used to see her through this glass every morning

when I'd come in,

and every night when I'd leave.

She would look at me.

I would look at her.

First sight.

Do you believe in love at first sight, Fred?

Why do I always get the hard questions?

- JACK: - Do you think they can fix me?

- KIT: Are you broken? JACK: - Yeah. We're all broken.

KIT: Oh. Who's the Philosopher Queen now?

After you, Fucking Miracle.

Oh, such a gentleman.

I feel healthier already.

Hi.

Um, would you happen to have HuaChanSu

that I could buy?

So sorry. My pronunciation is terrible, I know.

Uh, HuaChanSu?

- Am I saying it right? - Why are you asking me?

Chansu?

Toad venom?

Mm?

Right. Well, this is going well.

TRANSLATION:

- How can I help? - Oh, we'd like to buy Chansu.

Mm-hm.

Bufotoxin?

Yes.

You know that is a class A drug, right?

- For cancer treatment? - It is used for that. Yes.

The kids you are going to sell it to,

they want it for cancer treatment?

Sure, I believe that.

That's a go-to-prison drug. Six years.

You can't buy it from a legitimate

traditional Chinese medicine practitioner in this country.

You can't import it.

Sorry.

Can't help.

- No... - Yeah...

Can't help!

OK. Kit...

Cool.

KIT MUTTERS DOOR CLOSES

This is it.

- No key? - Sorry, no.

- She live alone? - Yeah.

Are you sure this is her house?

Absolutely...

..certain.

You hear that?

- What? - That.

- No. - Oh, I hear it.

Someone's calling for help from inside.

Oi! Hey!

Stop him!

Hey! Stop...

- Are you OK? - Unbelievable!

Would you like me to call the police?

No. I'm OK.

- Oh... - Are you hurt?

- I'm OK. - Come and sit down.

SIGHS

What's your name?

Helen.

I'm Nikki.

Did he hurt you?

He took my bag!

You need to go to the police.

They're not going to do anything.

If not for you, then to protect the next person.

I will.

Would you like me to give you a lift to the police station?

No. It's OK. I've got my bike.

Thank you.

Would you mind if I get your number?

Just in case I need a witness.

- Of course. - He's got my phone. Bastard!

I'm so sorry.

Here.

Oh! Old-school business card! Very classy.

- You're a doctor? - Yes.

Nice to meet you, Dr Alexander.

- Nikki. - Nikki.

I am Dr Helen Garnett.

The academic kind, not the life-saving kind.

Thank you. You've been really kind.

I really appreciate it.

- Hey. - Hey.

How are you holding up?

I've been meaning to tell you,

but... because of Mei Li, I, uh...

We've had an offer to buy Hendelseshorisont.

Another one?

Not Musk or Altman?

- Please tell me not them. - No, not them.

But it is an AI company.

Did you tell them to piss off?

We're close.

You know we're close, right?

We're running out of money, Pike.

We're running out of time.

Look, we're small.

We were always going to get bought by someone else.

And right now, we've got something to sell.

Don't do it, Bendik.

Please don't do it.

What is the point of all of this work

if you just sell it to the highest bidder?

We can create the future.

We can control how it's used and who uses it.

We can stop it being used for weapons,

stop it from destroying jobs,

stop it from destroying each other!

No, we can't, Pike.

We can.

Pike...

..human beings aren't built like that.

We can.

We can.

Who was it?!

Who made the offer that's turned your fucking head?!

Who was it?!

- JACK: - Class A. It won't be coming

from any legit Chinese medicine clinic.

You learn anything?

- Wu Li. - New word?

The idea that we are organised energy.

- Nice idea. - Mmm.

Mei Li worked for a company in the same building

called Komnata.

I'll get Kit to look into them.

Do you believe in love at first sight?

Of course. Ask me a hard one.

- KIT: - I must have screwed up the DNA sample.

Along with this romantic moment!

Oh, it's so inappropriate in the workplace.

- Which sample? - Mei Li's mum.

Either I screwed up the DNA test

or Mei Li was adopted.

Let me see.

POWERS DOWN

NIKKI: The result shows

that Mei Li's mother wasn't a biological parent

of the deceased.

Did that DI, Fred Casey,

go anywhere near the samples after you took it?

He could have buggered them up.

No.

No, of course not.

- HARRIET: - Perhaps she adopted her.

We can ask. It'd be useful to find out

as much as we can about the mother.

We can test her again,

but I don't think the result will change.

Both the positive and negative controls

in the extraction process confirm validity.

And the amplification blanks show no contamination.

It wasn't you, Kit. The test wasn't spoiled or contaminated.

- ALEX: - Have either of you met her?

JACK: It would give us an excuse.

Meet her!

WOMAN LAUGHS

MAN LAUGHS

MOANS

LAUGHTER AND MOANING DISTORTS

Jackie, this is my boss, Jack Hodgson,

and Dr Nikki Alexander, who I work with.

I'm so sorry to trouble you, but, um...

Did you by any chance adopt Mei?

No, I did not.

We might need to do the samples again.

Why? Why do you need this? We have done nothing wrong.

- WOMAN: - Stop!

I am Mei Li.

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