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ALARM BEEPS

ALANA: Where's Mum?

My messages have only got one tick, and she's not at Nan's, I tried.

MICHAEL: I'll, er, see you at assembly.

We need to tell someone. Dad!

ANNIE: I can't put myself through that again.

I know I messed it up, Annie. I know this is my last chance.

We've got a bloke in room one wanting to report a mis-per.

Again! He's the headmaster at St Barts.

This is totally out of character -

unprecedented and therefore of immediate concern.

If you knew in minutes something was wrong,

why did you take so long to tell us?

It's not a question of trust.

I don't know the code because I don't know the code.

I'll make a move.

What is it, Gareth? Something you want to say to me?

It's been eight years, Annie.

Who's supposed to be helping who here?

Annie?

DOG BARKS

Is it Sarah?

Michael?

KNOCKS ON DOOR

Michael, it's Annie!

Michael, I'm coming in!

Pick-up is in 12 minutes.

Michael... That needs to go ahead.

You need to listen to me. No, you listen.

Before we talk about any of this,

the parents and the pupils, they can't know anything about that.

Any of what? Whatever it is you've found.

And you've trodden mud into the carpet!

BELLS CHIME

Prep for tonight are those key dates from the 1930s, please.

The more we keep refreshing ourselves on...

DISTANT CHATTER

LIVELY CHATTER

Everyone, quiet! Sit down.

Sit. Sedgwick, sit down.

Where's Miss Polly?

The yellow flame with the valve open,

allowing oxygen to...

ALANA: 'Why do they wanna speak to me at home?'

SIMONE: Well, that's all they said,

that I was to find you as fast as I could.

Hi, Tara. Hi, Jen. Hi.

Hi. Hi.

As fast as I could and, er, get you back to the house.

OK. Thank you. OK.

OFFICER: Guv? We've secured the scene.

Just waiting on Forensics.

MICHAEL: No!

You're gonna have to walk back now.

But make sure you step in the same places you've already trodden.

I've cleaned it once already.

Carbon dioxide, or CO2,

is made up of which two elements?

Come on, Sir. No looking out the window during class!

LAUGHTER

MICHAEL: So, pick-up's in five minutes.

The parents will be arriving.

ALANA: Who cares, Dad? Well, they mustn't see any of this.

Who cares about any of that? What...?

Why have you got that cloth?

It's her. We don't know that.

That's who they've found.

No, we know that they have found a body.

We do not know that it's your mum. Who else is it gonna be?

PHILLIPA: She's still missing, apparently.

MANDY: God, it's been days. It's all over the news.

Come on, Theo, in you get. See you later, Mandy.

See you later. Bye.

STEPHEN: Ah, there he is. Bye, Sir.

Dylan. Hey.

See you. See you.

The postmortem won't take place till tomorrow,

but it's a murder we're looking at. That's what I'm hearing.

I've been thinking about this. Hmm?

If she was found outside the grounds,

it might not be connected to the school.

Why don't I check the database,

look at other unsolved murders... No.

...see if I can't find any cross-over? Annie.

You don't think we should be doing it?

I do think we should, but you shouldn't do it.

I want you here.

I want you in that house round the clock,

find out everything you can.

The only time you leave, please, is tomorrow,

when you take them to the mortuary to get a formal ID.

Just coming now, Bri. You want me to come with you?

I was the first at the scene, remember?

I've told you what I want, and that's to stay put.

That's what a Family Liaison Officer does. Mm.

What?

BECKY: 'I think I've got it. It was something Alana said.'

"It's Nan's 75th next week." Remember? That's an important date.

Yes. So I tried it.

I went through the dates for next week.

Monday 30th, the 30th of the third, 1951.

Tuesday. 31-03-51.

Then when I tried the Wednesday...

That's the code.

And the weird thing is, just looking through it,

she barely calls Michael at all.

Is that so weird?

They're married. That's what I mean.

Here, though, look.

She's always calling this woman. "Claire S".

Long chats. Some of them an hour.

So I'm thinking, we show this to Ivan.

He can call Claire S.

He can find out what they were talking about

in the days before Sarah died.

Should probably just call her ourselves, shouldn't we?

Ivan's reviewing the scene. I'll do it from mine now. Look.

And then we can hand Sarah's phone back in.

RINGING TONE

AUTOMATED VOICEMAIL MESSAGE

Hello. This is Detective Sergeant Annie Cassidy.

Can you ring me back as soon as you get this, please? Thank you.

Done.

CLOCK TICKS

The woman who, erm... who walks her dog past the house,

her name's Melodie.

Someone said...

Someone said Melodie was the one who found Mum.

DOOR CLOSES, ASCENDING FOOTSTEPS

INHALES, EXHALES SLOWLY

What do you expect me to be doing?

What do I expect you to be doing? I expect you to be doing nothing.

Nothing, or crying.

About Mum.

Well, we don't know it's her, do we? Of course it's her. They've said.

We have to go and identify her.

Tomorrow.

Well, if they need us to identify her,

they can't be 100% certain that...

It's a formality, Dad. They just need it confirmed.

PHONE RINGS

RINGING CONTINUES

Abbots Lodge.

Oh, yes, hello, Malcolm. Thanks for calling.

Well, your granddaughter and I are safe in the house.

We're not sure yet, so let's wait and see.

Even so, I don't think we should jump t...

No, don't come over.

Well, for one thing, it's a bit late to drive, isn't it?

No, no, I'm not... I'm sure you're fine to drive, I was just...

Well, it's half past ten, and I'm asking you.

I will, yes.

And of course I'll... keep you and Verity informed, don't worry.

Yes, well, good night now.

PHONE BUZZES

CRAIG: 'The flowers were over the top.'

Maybe a tiny bit. 'Shall I come and take them back?'

No, I may as well look after them now, Craig, save you the journey.

'Look, I got your message.

'I get it.'

I just don't wanna start something when I'm not sure. That's all it is.

'I get that. And I saw the press conference.

'Things are busy. But I just wanted you to be aware.

'Craig Stanhope is available for emergency coffees

'and overpriced slices of cake at Bristol cafes of your choosing.'

Is he now?

'Should the need ever arise.

'Do with that information what you will.

'Have a good day now.' And you.

DOORBELL RINGS

Morning.

The mortuary's in a place called Flax-Bourton.

It's about a 15-minute drive from here.

Once the postmortem is finished,

that's when they're gonna want you to make the formal ID.

You and Michael.

Alana, the sooner we do it, the sooner it's done.

Where's your dad?

Where do you think?

SCHOOL SINGS: ? Lord of all gentleness

? Lord of all calm

? Be there at our sleeping

? And give us, we pray

? Your peace in our hearts, Lord

? At the end of the day. ?

Just a quick reminder

that those of you not in sixth form revision classes

will be either in cross-country, rugby practice for the senior sides

or working on your Cultural projects.

Er, stay still, please. I'm not finished.

This morning...

...I was put in mind of the story of Job.

Job, a successful man, was suddenly given great hardship by God...

but he had no explanation as to why.

What he'd done to deserve it.

But he persevered.

And through perseverance, he prevailed.

He proved that he was good enough.

As we enter this difficult last fortnight of term,

with exams and rugby matches and university interviews,

I want you to remember that.

Have faith in what you've been doing.

You show us who you really are.

Now... as we do every morning, we will leave in a what?

Lilly Sullivan? Neat and orderly fashion, Sir.

A neat and orderly fashion. Off you go.

ANNIE: Has anything occurred to you overnight about your mum?

Anything you haven't told us up to this point...

...maybe because you didn't think it was relevant, or...

...maybe it doesn't show her in the best of lights?

What does that mean?

Well, there are certain things, aren't there?

In all families, in all relationships.

We are who we are when we're outside,

when we present to the world.

But at home, you know...

...sometimes, things are different.

Maybe something wasn't right.

Really? Like what? I don't know. That's why I'm asking.

Maybe you could help us work out what's happened.

She wasn't upset about anything?

Was anybody upset with her?

What about your dad? What about him?

How were they getting on?

No idea. Like you said, no-one knows, not really.

I said I've no idea, so there's nothing to write down. Is there?

You said you were here for us.

To help us. Yeah.

Not to pry into our lives.

We are. Well, what's my dad got to do with it anyway?

Because all he does is work.

And when he's not working, he sits in that chair. That is his life.

And it's not your job to interrogate us.

That's not what he told us. Who?

The main detective. The proper one.

Alana, please... No!

Nan and Grandad are coming to stay, and I'm not even dressed.

The "proper one"? Please don't.

Annie?

Hmm...

We'll need a proper search. PoLSA, Forensics.

And we should interview anyone who visits the house.

Just cos we're doing this FLO stuff doesn't mean we switch off, OK?

Yeah, OK. Where are you going?

To find Michael. Get this bloody ID over with.

I can't give you an exact time of death,

but skin colouration and marks on the neck

suggest cause of death is strangulation.

Oh, so definitely foul play.

Only I want to issue a statement the moment it's confirmed.

She's the wife of a headmaster at a big private school,

so it's got the potential to kick off a bit.

Speak to the coroner first.

She'll want the family ID doing before any announcements are made.

BELL RINGS

Excuse me, love. I'm looking for the staff room.

Er, just up there and down the corridor. Thank you.

We need another meeting with the governors,

another update for the parents.

Where's Alana? Er, home.

Says she can't face it. Course she can't, poor thing.

I'm going to suggest she takes two weeks' compassionate leave.

And Michael? Where's Michael? Helping the police, I'd imagine.

You don't think...?

No, Rebecca. We don't think that.

Hi. I'm DS Annie Cassidy. I'm looking for Michael Polly.

I thought he'd be with one of your colleagues.

Have you tried his office?

CAR BEEPS

ENGINE STARTS

PHONE BUZZES

Yep? It's murder.

'Murder by strangulation.'

So I need them here to do this ID.

'I need them here, otherwise, we can't announce it.'

It's a lot more than the ID, though, isn't it?

'The staff have got no idea where he is, so...'

If she's been murdered, and he's decided to go walkies...

REPORTERS CLAMOUR

He's not in there.

Then we've got ourselves a problem.

We appreciate you've got a school to run, a duty of care.

We get all that. But you need to find him.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. And that makes total sense.

Yeah, absolutely. And even though -

if I can jump in, Trudy, as deputy head -

even though I'm sure there's a logical explanation,

I'd be thinking the same, I would.

You're trying him again, yes?

I'm wondering if this isn't some sort of...

...delayed shock.

How long since she said he left? Er, she thinks about ten minutes.

AUTOMATED VOICEMAIL MESSAGE

Voicemail again?

OK, unless you need them to stay...

Nope. I think the best thing

is to let the staff go back to their classrooms.

Paul, you've volunteered to take

Michael's rugby session this afternoon

and take the team to the away match tomorrow. Yeah.

I want you to know, Detective, we're taking this seriously.

The governors are meeting.

Yeah, I'm taking care of that personally as staff rep.

It will be my recommendation that we suspend Mr Polly.

Suspend him? Alana too.

Suspend him for what? TRUDY SCOFFS

Well, for their sake as well as the school's.

I mean, if what you've found in those woods...

if that really is... well...

if that turns out to be true,

then the school comes first.

It has to.

That's what you always say.

Oh, don't start changing your tune now, Rory,

just because he's a friend of yours.

No, I'm not.

He's my friend too, you know. I'm not saying anything.

Well, erm, is there anything I haven't asked you?

Anything you think I should know?

About? About your friend Mr Polly?

PHONE RINGS

Think that's your phone, mate.

RINGING CONTINUES

Simone?

'It's not Simone. It's Annie.'

We've been trying to call you.

Sorry, my, er, phone must have been on silent.

'I want you back at the house straight away.'

Yes, of course.

Nan?

Nan, this is Annie. Hello.

I can do that for you if you like.

That's Grandad.

Granddad's finding it rather difficult to come into the house.

The next step, like I've explained to Alana,

is to make a formal identification.

But you know it's her.

You told me that outside. Yes.

Yes, it's just protocol.

I'm sorry, just to be clear,

is it our daughter, or isn't it?

It is your daughter, I'm sorry.

A-And... Now...

Because this was my next question,

I-I was thinking about this on the way over here...

could it have been some sort of accident?

She could easily... It was not an accident.

So...

Was she killed?

Or did she take her own life? Malcolm!

Simple enough question.

If it wasn't an accident, it has to be one of the two.

Well, when Michael gets back,

the next step is we will go through all...

The next step is for you to answer the question.

Was she killed? Or did she take her own life?

That's not for me to say. Isn't it?

No. Do you know the answer?

I do know, yes. So you're refusing to tell us?

No. I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in this... Do you have children?

Can you imagine anything worse for you and your husband

than not knowing what happened to your child?

I don't have children. Then try...

And I don't have a husband.

Try and imagine. Malcolm, stop!

Then imagine that being taken.

Now imagine how it feels

if the one person who knows what happened to that child

is refusing to tell you how they died.

Grandad... In what way?

Under what circumstances?

One last try.

Was she killed?

Or did she take her own life?

She did not take her own life.

SHE SOBS

BELLS CHIME

Annie, the detective. Yes, thank you.

She wants you back at the house. Yes, I am aware, thank you.

I thought that was very inspiring. Your words this morning, about Job.

He couldn't come to terms

with what was happening to him at first, could he?

I think you need to go back now. People are starting to talk.

SOFTLY: Yeah.

CAR BEEPS

WHISTLE BLOWS

WHISTLE BLOWS

PAUL: OK, boys. Two laps of the pitch, let's go.

Come on! Go, go, go!

I'll take it from here, Paul.

No reason for you to stay.

I've been asked to step in.

You're not taking my team. And take them to next week's match.

You're not taking them anywhere.

Michael, I'm just trying to help.

Well, that's the thing, Paul, I haven't asked for your help.

In fact, I'm not even sure that you're qualified.

One of the main reasons why you hired me was to teach sport.

What qualifies you?

I've been coaching this side since 2008.

Yeah, other than the fact that you appointed yourself coach,

what qualifies you?

Go home. Please.

Alana's upset. Don't bring my daughter into this.

She's not interested in you.

PAUL CHUCKLES

Is that what she told you?

Here you go.

STUDENT: Whoo! Whoa! Nice one, Sir.

University fullback. Can you go and get that, please?

That is what qualifies me.

That's a brand new match ball,

so you go and get it from those woods.

What qualifies you?

STUDENT: Sir?

Keep going!

We need to go to the mortuary, Dad.

If you won't do it, Grandad will.

'Where have you been?'

Just going off and just taking assembly like nothing's happened.

Driving off places.

Dad?

Yeah, won't be long. On our way now.

Annie says it wasn't an accident.

She said someone did this to Mum.

CAR DOOR OPENS

REPORTERS CLAMOUR

Take a seat.

I'll go in with them. No.

I think they'd prefer that. No.

You wait outside so you can be there

for them when they come out. That's the job.

I know the job, Ivan. And the end of the discussion.

Now, come on.

Don't turn me into that guy always going on at you the whole time. OK.

We're a team. Yeah, OK, we're a team.

I get it, Ivan. But do me a favour.

When he looks at her, make sure you're watching him.

It's his reaction we're after.

Is that grief he's feeling or guilt? Yes?

I'll do it. Dad, we'll do it together.

No, no, if it's not your mum, I don't want you seeing it. Dad.

You know, just some poor woman lying there... Dad, Dad, it is her.

Then I certainly don't want you to.

If it's her, I don't want this to be the last memory you have of her.

So just, erm, wait here for me.

OK. You ready?

He walks in, the door closes. He gives a positive ID.

And within ten seconds, not even that, he's back out again.

As if he didn't care. Just got a bad feeling about him.

His wife's dead.

You can't exactly blame him for not sticking round.

Hmm...

But we've not come here to talk shop.

This is cake break. Come on. LAUGHING: Yeah!

Come on, that's yours. Eat it.

What?

Maybe a drink later?

There's, er, that new place on Gloucester Road. Annie...

...you're looking at a man who's doing everything in his powers

not to stuff this up all over again, so if it's all the same...

One step at a time. Yeah.

One step at a time. Mm-hm.

SIREN WAILS

IVAN: Morning, everyone.

In just under an hour's time, we will be issuing a statement

confirming the discovery of a body of a woman in her 50s,

found in woodland in Westbury.

That body is now confirmed to be that of Sarah Jane Polly.

As such, this is now a full-scale murder inquiry.

FLOs? Back to the school, please. Let's bring Michael Polly in.

Don't wanna make a big song and dance

but I want him here, and I want that alibi tested.

And to know where he disappeared to yesterday. Exactly.

And the truth about their marriage. OK. Great. Thank you, everyone.

REPORTER: 'The site, thought to be in woodland

'just a quarter of a mile away from the school,

'has been cordoned off by police for the last 48 hours.

'Tragically, perhaps ending several days of speculation,

'the statement makes it clear

'that police are treating this as a murder inquiry.

'Now, detectives are yet to name the woman,

'she's said to be in her 50s,

'but such is the proximity to St Bartholomew's School

'that many are speculating

'this is the body of the missing teacher Sarah Polly.

'Robert Murphy, ITV News.'

GARETH: That's Annie's case, innit? See, off she goes.

Onto the next lot and make them suffer.

What's that supposed to mean?

Another murder she ain't never gonna solve.

TRUDY: We are trying to get information.

LIVELY CHATTER Please!

Can everybody please just calm down? It's just been on the bloody news!

Look, given how much this means to the boys,

I want you all... PARENT: Back in the car.

Please! If we could all just listen! Our children are at risk!

This is a total disgrace.

Come on. Let's go. No, I can't, I've-I've...

I've gotta fill the water bottles up for the team, or I'll...

he'll lose his shit again.

Mike? Mike?

I've just spoke to King's.

They're asking if we want to postpone. Nobody's postponing.

They've offered the same time next week.

Nobody's postponing.

You get back on the phone,

and you tell them the game goes ahead,

but Mr Whitchurch will be looking after the team,

as I am unavailable.

Now, before you go,

let me tell you the thing that has made me most proud

to be your coach this year.

And that's the fact that you are all there for each other.

You play as one team.

Whenever any of you makes a mistake,

the rest of you, to a man, is there to help.

When things go wrong, when your backs are against the wall,

you do on the field what you must do in life.

You rally.

And that is why you are currently invictus,

and it's why you'll remain invictus at the final whistle this afternoon.

Invictus, Bauri?

Unbeaten, Sir. Unbeaten, Sir.

Good man.

So you get on that coach, you listen to Mr Whitchurch,

and you unleash on King's all your passion, all your talent

and everything we've been practising this year.

And you do it not for me... or the school...

...but you do it for each other.

ENGINE STARTS

Go up to the house.

GENTLE CHATTER

BELL TOLLS

HE WEEPS

SOBBING: Oh, God!

SOBBING CONTINUES

Michael?

HE MUTTERS, WEEPS

HE BREATHES SHALLOWLY

Where's Annie? BECKY: She's just gonna take

your dad back to the station

so he can help answer some more questions.

That doesn't mean you need to worry.

We just have to find out everything we can about your mum,

every detail, so we can find the person who did this to her.

Does that make sense?

I'm so sorry. Would you mind taking your shoes off?

Oh, yeah, of course. Thank you.

It's also gonna mean a search of the house.

We have to make sure we do a proper job.

Is it me, or is the carpet wet?

Wet? Mm.

I... don't know.

He must have cleaned it. He? As in...?

Dad. Dad would've cleaned it. Erm...

After everyone came in... the other day, and it got all muddy.

He a stickler for that, is he? No, Dad doesn't mind, erm...

It's Mum... who hates shoes on inside.

That's why he would've done it. He would've cleaned it... for Mum.

IVAN: Michael, this is an opportunity for you

to tell us anything you think might be relevant

or anything you think you might've previously omitted...

or just any... Sorry, I don't understand.

What don't you understand?

You've asked me questions before, more than once.

This is in your interests, Michael. How?

By placing you under caution, we have your words on record.

You have them on record already.

The situation has changed. But your questions haven't.

Therefore my answer's yes, this is out of character,

no, there's nothing I'm not telling you,

and, no, I don't know anyone who would want to do her harm.

They remain the same. Here's a different question, then.

A question we've not asked you yet.

Did you kill your wife, Michael?

Come on, Michael, come on.

PHONE BUZZES

Claire S.

Better late than never.

BUZZING CONTINUES

Annie Cassidy.

MAN: 'Oh, hi.

'You asked me to call you back.'

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