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CHATTER

Sir? Oh, no.

No, thank you, dear.

Sir? Thank you.

Ah, here she is. Eden?

The next block is going up right now.

We're pouring in the concrete for the foundations this week.

How are you doing?

Well, it's a big night, isn't it?

Where's Neel?

He's here somewhere. We... WOMAN LAUGHS

Do you want a beer? Er, no.

Are you sure? Yeah, do you want one?

Cheeky. SHE LAUGHS

Just, er...

Just give me one second, darling.

I'll be back. OK.

Not here.

Do you know who that guy is?

Well, I don't remember sending you an invitation.

Oh, I hear things.

Look, this is just extortion now. No. You owe me.

NEEL SIGHS

Look, we've just put them up for sale, OK? There is no money.

Maybe I should think of a way to make you try harder.

You're a lucky man, Neel.

Yeah, I was speaking to her, actually.

Basically, erm...

And he wasn't sure...

You shouldn't be here. Sorry.

That's not your call, though, is it?

I told you I wanted her gone.

Hey! Hey! Behave yourself.

You're an embarrassment.

Don't be stupid, now. Stop behaving like that.

DOOR OPENS, CLOSES

SOBBING GENTLY

DOOR OPENS, CLOSES

You can't be in here!

What are you doing, eh?

I saw you try to hit him.

This has nothing to do with you, Jayden.

Yes, it does.

He's my dad, and you can't treat him that way,

not if you know what is good for you!

Move out of my way.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

Who were those guys?

I'm on it, OK? Your big bro CAN handle himself.

Hmm.

I'm going home. Hey.

You're not going anywhere.

I'm sure you'll manage without me.

Hm!

Go.

You should know by now, you should know,

you never show me up like that in public!

I said I'm sorry, didn't I?

Are you listening to me? Huh? Neel, I said I'm sorry!

Not ever!

Who puts the food on the table, huh?

Who bought you this beautiful house? Get down!

Please, leave me alone.

Never a word of gratitude out of your stupid mouth.

You're just trouble.

You should just learn to shut up and smile.

No, no, no, no, you're right, you're right.

No, you wanna teach me how to run my life.

NEEL CONTINUES ARGUING

EDEN: 'Hi, it's Eden. Please leave a message.'

SHE SIGHS

TYRES SCREECH

For years, you made me sick. EXHALES SHARPLY

Oh, you look so smart. I don't like it.

It itches, and... I don't see why I can't just stay home.

Well, you'll be fine.

First day's always hard.

Before you know it, you'll have loads of friends.

Is that the wedding outfit?

Oh, yeah. Erm, did you get that message about the flowers?

BRUNO SIGHS

Look, it's... it's OK to feel nervous.

You've just got to find your clan.

Cool kid, geek, rebel...

Which one were you? Geek?

Harsh, but fair. SHE CHUCKLES

I have to go, but...

..you're gonna be great today, OK?

See you later.

Oh. No peeping. OK.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

I'm afraid it's not good news.

Lauren Packham has refused to testify

in the case against Roel Albazi.

SCOFFS

Albazi kidnapped her. He beat her. He threatened her family.

This is her only chance to put him away.

And it's our best shot at the case.

Look, are we sure someone didn't get to Lauren?

We can't rule it out.

The Benchdale OCG have intimidated witnesses before.

And it is possible, given her partner's murder,

that Lauren fears similar repercussions.

OK. So... So what are our options?

At this stage,

to force her to testify is considered too much of a risk.

She is vulnerable, and if she becomes hostile,

she could blow the rest of the case.

OK. So, what about the rest of the evidence?

The surveillance shots, the phone records?

We can use these to tie Albazi to Benchdale.

But they're not enough to convince a judge

he played a major role in the OCG.

Right, so, without Lauren Packham,

we have no kidnap charge, and without that...

Roel Albazi is unlikely to serve significant time.

KNOCKING ON DOOR BECCA: 'Neel?'

Neel?

HE WHISPERS: Oh, Jesus Christ.

Why are you in the car?

Yeah, I don't really...

What do you want?

EDEN ON VOICEMAIL: 'Becca, it's me.

'I'm in trouble. Please, you've got to help me.

'I'm so scared. I need to get out of here.'

VOICEMAIL: 'Message received 11:16pm.'

Where is she?

Eden?

Eden?

What happened?

I, erm...

Eden?

Eden? She was with you.

Neel!

We... We... We came home.

We came home, and...

Look, God's honest truth, I actually... I can't remember.

I must've had one too many. I...

'Hi, it's Eden. Please leave a message.'

BEEP, HE SIGHS

Oh. Er...

RINGING TONE

OPERATOR: 'Emergency. Which service do you require?'

Hi, I need the police.

Erm... My... My wife's missing.

I think she might be in danger.

DS Moy, we're ready for you now.

How'd it go? What, the anti-corruption review?

Yeah. Not ideal. I'd just rather not talk about it.

Hey. Morning.

Well...?

Well, we got the tribunal findings late last night.

Ari was cleared of all charges. Yes! Congratulations.

Cheers, mate. That's great news. Yeah.

I'll tell you something for nothing,

that hospital has got a lot to answer for.

And how did it go with Albazi's prosecution lawyer?

Yeah. We... We got the report back.

It's not great.

They said that they can tie Albazi to the Benchdale gang,

but he was careful.

It's tough for them to link him to anything specific.

They're, er...

They're also concerned

about the length of sentence that they're likely to achieve.

How concerned?

Well, we spoke to their lead counsel,

and she says he's unlikely to serve significant time

now that Lauren Packham is refusing to testify.

GRACE SIGHS, PHONE RINGS

PHONE UNHOOKED DC Nicholl.

Listen, Roy.

If what Cassian said was true...

Listen, we do not believe a word

that comes out of Cassian Pewe's mouth.

I know, I get that. But...

..if Albazi killing Sandy was revenge for his own family's murder,

then that's seriously personal.

What if he did it himself?

I mean, if he did,

then there's an evidence trail that we've overlooked.

Maybe.

Or maybe it's all just a pack of lies,

Cassian trying to get into my head.

I just think that...

this is our only hope of putting Albazi away for good.

Maybe we have to take a risk here. Glenn.

Most of the Benchdale gang have been rounded up,

and they are not talking.

And with Anti-Corruption hanging over us,

all of our informants have gone to ground,

and we don't have a single lead.

That was Uniform, mispers case.

Signs of a break-in and potential threat to life.

They want us to have a look.

EDEN: 'Becca, it's me. I'm in trouble.

'Please, you've got to help me. I'm so scared.

'I need to get out of here.'

VOICEMAIL: 'Message received 11:16pm.'

I didn't hear the message until this morning.

Now her phone keeps going to voicemail.

I don't know where she is.

I swear to you, I never thought they...

You never thought what?

You should probably see this.

This is your wife?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's Eden.

Who sent these?

Look, I didn't think he'd actually do anything.

Who took those photos?

Erm...

OK, a couple of years back, we did some new-builds.

One of them gets smashed up.

Now, windows broken, graffiti everywhere.

We thought kids had done it.

Then this guy shows up.

Scottish. He's got muscle with him.

So this man was running protection. Did you report it?

Oh, come on. Report what?

You know how it goes down.

He said, "Shame it happened. Could happen again."

Go on.

Well, so then he's got his hooks into me.

You know, I have to pay him off each month. And I do it.

I do it for two years. What am I supposed to do?

Until in the end, I said, "Sod this."

You know, I'll hire security if I have to.

It'd be cheaper than ponying up for the rest of my life.

What happened then? Nothing. Nothing. Not for a while.

No, I thought maybe he'd seen sense, and, well... then I got these.

When did you last have contact with this man?

Last night.

Yeah, yeah. We had a party to, er...

to showcase these offices we just developed.

Yeah. He gate crashed it. He came up to me, he said...

I should pay what I owed or...

..or he'd make me.

Jesus. What has he done to her?

What's this man's name?

Listen, this is a very dangerous man.

Well, then, let us deal with him. What's his name?

Fergus.

Fergus Doyle.

When did you leave the party?

Erm, must have been...

They left around ten.

To be honest, Eden was driving. I'd had a few.

Do you remember what time you got home?

No. I mean, if we left at ten, must've been around half past.

And then what happened?

We got into an argument.

OK, it... it was over nothing, it was silly, really.

And I... I think I went for a drive.

It's all been a bit of a blur. And, look, before you say anything,

I know I shouldn't have been driving, all right?

So is it possible

that when your wife made the phone call to Ms Rowan,

you'd already left...

and someone else could have entered the property?

Yeah. Yeah, it's possible.

I'm gonna need a list

of who's got regular access to the property.

And it would be useful to have your phone as well.

We'll hook it up to live monitoring to check these threats

and in case Fergus gets back in touch.

Right, OK. Well, I need to call my site manager first,

let him know to call the work phone.

Once I'm done with that, it's all yours.

Thank you.

Fergus Doyle, he was on my radar a few years back.

He's a nasty piece of work.

Always manages just to stay the right side of deniability.

If he's taken her, that's not good news.

Well, no sign of forced entry.

Maybe Neel left it open when he drove off.

The gates, too.

Then Fergus comes in, he grabs Eden, there's a struggle.

Things get broken.

Let's get prints from the house

and ask Nick and Bella to talk to everyone that was at the party,

see if we can get an idea of Fergus's movements.

You're here about the warehouse?

Sorry, you are...?

Devan Siddiqui. I'm Neel's brother.

No, we're not here about a warehouse.

We're here because Eden Siddiqui's missing.

Eden? What do you mean she's missing?

This is your brother's warehouse? Well, yeah.

Someone broke in last night, smashed the place up.

It's... It's a mess.

Right, OK, well, we'll get someone over there straight away.

All right? All yours. Thank you.

Where's Eden?

I don't... I think I must've gone for a drive or something.

Well, yeah, you went for a drive.

You came round to my place.

What, you don't remember? You weren't making sense.

You kept saying...

..something awful had happened.

Did you see this man at the party last night?

Yeah. Yeah, he was talking to Neel.

And what about Mrs Siddiqui? Did he talk to her?

I don't think so.

I think she had other stuff going on.

What kind of other stuff? MAN: Boss?

Sorry.

Erm... Well, she fell out with Neel.

She tried to slap him right in front of everyone.

And then she had a row with Jayden. That's Neel's kid.

And they were screaming at each other in the toilets.

What were they arguing about? I don't know.

I think she was maybe just having a bad night, you know?

What about you?

I was talking to a couple of lads outside.

They said maybe there was some kind of issue between you and Eden,

that you'd been fired.

Yeah, that's... that's all sorted.

Neel sorted it. I mean, he's... he's the boss, it's not her.

OK. Well, thank you for your time.

We'll get someone to take a full statement.

You weren't fit to drive! SHUTTER CLICKS

I called you later, I called Eden, too,

but your phones were off.

Well, I made it home.

And I slept in the car.

I just, if... If I'd been there, she'd...

Well, look, the police will find her.

What I said about something awful, you...

..you don't mention that.

What do you mean?

Come on, man, it... it sounds bad, doesn't it?

What I think I must've said is we had an awful row.

Look, I wanna find her, safe and sound.

And this... this could just muddy the water.

Yeah. Of course.

Yeah.

Fergus Doyle, originally from Glasgow,

but now unfortunately based in Brighton.

He specialises in extortion and intimidation.

Right now, we have to work on the assumption that he's taken Eden

to coerce Neel into paying up.

Now, if that's the case, we need to find her fast.

Fergus is not known for his patience.

Now, since the phone call at 11:16pm,

there's been no further comms from Eden Siddiqui.

No credit card activity,

absolutely nothing on her social media.

Now, their house is outside of central Brighton.

And there aren't any cameras on the roads,

so we can't tell who's coming or going.

I think we need to start at the party.

Yeah. And let's pull all CCTV from the party area,

see if we can find out what Fergus is driving these days.

Maybe we can trace it back to a base of operations,

a lock-up maybe, or anywhere that he could hide her.

We need to get Fergus in for questioning as soon as possible.

What news on the disturbance at the warehouse?

Yeah, we're still waiting on forensics.

But whoever did it was either very professional,

or they already knew the location.

They smashed the security cameras, broke in through a side door,

and they trashed the place.

But they didn't take anything. No money, no valuables.

Look, maybe this warehouse thing was, you know, just...

extra intimidation. Yeah.

Any leads from the party?

Oh, well, uniform found this in the bathroom.

Seems like there was more than just booze going round.

Well, it could explain Neel Siddiqui's amnesia.

Also, Eden had some kind of row with Neel,

tried to slap him and had a run-in with Holly,

the girl who works the desk at the builder's yard.

No love lost there.

And apparently, a full-on row with Neel's son Jayden as well.

What do we have on him?

Previous marriage. Eden's the stepmum. He's 18.

PHONE RINGS

Probably just playing hard to get.

'Hey, it's Jayden, I'm not here right now. Leave a message.'

Jayden, listen, it's me. We need to talk, OK?

I haven't got my phone on me, so just call me back

on the work number.

Treat me like shit for years.

'Shut your mouth!'

MAN: It's handled.

After the party, Eden's phone returns to the Siddiqui household

and remains there until 12:10am.

But then it moves again.

It travels to the rail station, gets there at 12:22am.

That's the point the signal goes dead.

If Fergus Doyle wants to move a kidnapped woman

to Glasgow in a hurry, she's going in the back of a panel van, right?

He's not buying her a train ticket and helping her change at Euston.

So what if we've just got this wrong,

and she's just left her husband?

There was violence at that house.

Her car was still in the garage, she's not online,

she's not used any of her credit cards,

and she sounded bloody terrified in that voicemail.

You know, Fergus could've dumped her phone at the station

to make us think exactly what you're thinking.

I agree. Unless we have proof otherwise,

we should look at worst-case scenarios.

Bella, you go see Jayden.

Vee, pull the CCTV from the ticket office,

the station platforms.

Let's see if Eden was even there, and if she was, who was with her.

KNOCK ON DOOR

Jayden Siddiqui? Yeah. Come in.

We've got the licence plates back

for two SUVs that were parked last night

outside the new offices that Neel's been developing.

That's Fergus. Yeah. And that one there,

we got a match on some blood from a shard of broken glass

at the warehouse break-in.

Now, he's on the system from way back.

And he's also a known associate of Fergus Doyle.

So, Fergus sends Ronnie round to smash up Neel's warehouse.

Meanwhile, he could've grabbed Eden himself.

Boss.

This was handed in this morning at the station ticket desk.

It's the same model Eden was using.

Also, the station master

went through all the CCTV footage in the ticket hall.

Eden's not on it, she was never there.

That's all done. Thank you.

I hear you were at this party.

You had a bit of a run-in with your stepmum.

No. No. I was, erm...

She was getting in my dad's face about something,

so I just told her to back off a bit, that was all.

What happened here? Oh, I fell off my bike.

So, when the party broke up, where did you go?

Erm, I went back to my dad's to pick up some books.

When I... When I got there,

I could hear, like, shouting and screaming from up the drive.

And... like, I just...

I can live without that, you know?

You heard them arguing. What time was this?

I think quarter to eleven. Did you go in?

No. I mean, it was the same thing with my mum and my dad...

my birth mum and my dad.

I don't wanna have to put myself through that again.

So I came back here.

You didn't think to call anyone if the row was that bad?

My phone was dead, sorry.

Besides, they're always at it, yeah?

It's just who they are.

Eden received this message a week ago.

It's from an unlisted number, likely a burner phone.

However, it's not the same burner phone

that sent the surveillance photos of Eden to Neel.

Could be one of Fergus's lackies.

Except Neel's phone company records show tons of calls and texts

to and from this number in the last six months.

But when you go on his phone, the number's not in the call log,

and there's no texts.

He's deleted them.

Whoever this is threatening Eden, Neel definitely knew them.

He didn't wanna hand over his phone straight away. Do you remember?

Hold on. What, you think he was stalling us

so that he can delete all this stuff?

The question is, why?

Let's get Digital Forensics to dig up the originals.

I wanna know who we're dealing with here,

and why Neel is so keen to keep it secret.

Well, there's more.

"He hates me."

"All he does is make me feel small."

"He hurt me again."

"I'm trapped and no-one knows except you."

Now, these are messages Eden sent to her friend Rebecca.

They're all about Neel. They go back months.

So much for the concerned husband.

Yeah, we've read through them all,

and it seems like an ongoing situation of domestic abuse.

He controlled everything.

So, all of the stuff you've just seen

was archived in her messages thread.

But we recovered this from her deleted files.

So, these are between Eden and Jayden, her stepson.

"Please, you can't say anything, you just can't.

"It has to be a secret. He'll kill me if he finds out."

Jayden replies, "You know you can't keep it secret forever.

"That's impossible."

When we spoke to Jayden,

he claimed that he went round to the house, heard shouting,

and went back to his digs.

Also, he's broken his hand.

He said he came off his bike.

Let's trace his movements after the party.

See if he's keeping any more secrets.

Then let's get Rebecca in. I wanna talk to her about those messages.

Nick, see if you can contact Neel's first wife.

Let's find out if he has a history of coercive behaviour.

And Uniform have just located Fergus Doyle.

So, now taking photos is a crime, is it?

If it involves intimidation and extortion, then yes.

Look, we have your car in the vicinity

of Neel Siddiqui's warehouse on multiple occasions.

SCOFFS: So? Brighton's not that big, you know.

My car gets in all kinds of vicinities.

One of those occasions was last night

when the warehouse was vandalised.

Last night, I was at home in bed, sleeping like a baby.

Oh, I didn't think you went down there in person.

But we found your colleague's blood at the scene.

We also have witnesses saying that you threatened Neel Siddiqui

just hours before his wife went missing.

Look, Detective Superintendent,

if one of my boys was high-spirited,

if some tins of paint got knocked over, let's say...

..I'll have a word.

By the time I've finished with you,

your little "empire" will be over.

All those victims whose money you extorted,

whose lives you ruined, when they see you're on the ropes,

they will be queueing up to give evidence.

They were just photographs.

Where is she? I didn't touch her.

And the photos...

I just figured they were a language Neel would understand.

'He didn't ask for any money.'

If he had Eden in a lockup somewhere,

he'd be leveraging now,

he wouldn't be sitting around in snooker halls in broad daylight.

So if it wasn't Fergus,

then someone wanted us to believe that Eden did a runner.

Then that's the kind of trail you leave

if you're trying to cover up something worse.

Now, given what the text messages tell us

about Eden and Neel's relationship, that puts Neel in the frame.

PHONE BUZZES OK, well, if that's the case,

then maybe this home invasion was invented.

Just a story to throw us off the scent.

I've got phone traces for Jayden Siddiqui.

So, he leaves the party, like he said,

and goes to his dad's place around 10:40, also like he said.

But the data suggests he stays for at least 40 minutes.

So he's lying about how long he was there.

When Neel drove away from the house, there was a window of opportunity.

Eden was alone, the place was unsecured.

But we were thinking it was Fergus.

It could have been Jayden.

PHONE RINGS

KNOCK ON DOOR

Police! Open the door. KNOCKING CONTINUES

Is Jayden Siddiqui here? No, he's gone out.

We have a warrant to search these premises.

Can you step aside, please?

I recognised the signs before Eden told me.

I see it a lot at the hospital.

Women come in and they've...

"walked into a door" or "fallen down the stairs".

That must've been hard for you to watch.

I think...

I think she didn't quite believe it was true.

Neel could be so charming.

He would twist everything, make her think it was her fault,

tell her that she was lucky to have him put up with her.

He treated her like shit.

I wanted her to go to the police.

Or a refuge. Anything to get out of there, but...

..she was too scared.

Look, do you think Neel would be capable

of seriously harming his wife?

Yeah. I do.

I should've said something before.

How's Eden's relationship with her stepson?

Jayden?

OK. Yeah, they get on.

We heard they had some kind of argument at the party.

He's a kid, he's gonna have rows with his parents.

Or stepparent.

Did Eden ever mention something she wanted Jayden to keep secret?

No, I'm sorry. I don't know anything about that.

I knew this would happen.

I knew, one day, Neel would do something.

I knew it, and I didn't...

Please....

Please find my friend.

Boss?

We've been digging into the family history.

Neel's first wife died 13 years ago in a hiking accident.

So, Jayden would've been, what, six at the time?

That's tough, losing your mum at that age,

and then another woman steps in, takes her place.

Yeah, it's a bit of a coincidence

that something bad happens to both Neel's spouses.

Yeah.

Let's look into the circumstances of that hiking accident. Yeah.

We've also been looking into the relationship with Fergus Doyle.

One of Neel's developments did get vandalised 18 months ago.

But there was a near-identical incident two years back.

A pensioner, who was one of the last holdouts

in a group of houses scheduled for demolition and redevelopment

by Neel's company.

He didn't wanna sell up. So they strongarmed him?

Yeah. I'm thinking Neel basically hired Fergus.

"Scare the old man out of his home, and I'll make it worth your while."

So he gets the development. But then he can't get rid of Fergus.

He's made a deal with the devil. There's a pattern here.

If something or someone gets in Neel's way,

he uses violence to get rid of them.

Boss? A couple of things.

We've been tracking Neel's phone.

And it got turned off last night at 11:55pm.

Only came back on this morning. Just like Jayden.

So they're both untraceable right at the time Eden vanishes.

What's the second thing?

I spoke to the station master about Eden's phone

and, apparently, it didn't even make its way into the station.

It was found outside on the forecourt.

Let's pull all CCTV from that area.

I think we need to start considering the possibility

that Eden may no longer be alive.

I hate you!

HE EXHALES

PHONE RINGS

No, no, no, you make sure the mixer's on site, OK?

No, this needs to be done today.

Look, this is extremely important.

A woman is missing and Jayden lied to us about where he was.

If there was anything, anything that you can tell me?

This morning, he took all his clothes to the launderette.

He was in a real hurry. It was... weird.

Take his clothes. Yes, sir.

Roy? Fingerprints are back from Neel's house.

There's nothing that doesn't match the family,

and there's certainly no sign of Fergus Doyle being on site.

Also, Eden Siddiqui's passport is still missing.

It could be another stab at misleading us, but...

If Neel is behind this, why bother with the passport and the phone?

He's already got the perfect cover story with Fergus abducting her.

Why does he have to make it look like she's done a runner as well?

Guys, he wasn't there.

Jayden's flatmate said he took off.

I've got Uniform out there looking for him now.

And the number that was texting Eden, calling her a bitch?

Digital Forensics have uncovered the texts

from Neel's phone to that number, and...

yeah, they're quite intimate.

He's deleted all of these texts off his phone

before he's handed it over to us,

and he's got the contact listed as "H".

H...

The girl at the warehouse on the desk - Holly.

The one that had no love lost for Eden.

Let's go and talk to her.

Well, he said I was special.

All we've done for six months is just hook up,

so I started thinking maybe I'm not so special after all, you know?

Do you wanna tell us about the threats you sent to Eden?

I didn't mean anything by that.

Look, I wanted to rattle her cage, that's all.

I mean, she's got everything.

She's got a great big house, she's got money, she's got Neel.

I never thought this would happen.

You never thought what would happen?

Holly...

We were together.

Last weekend. At this place on the seafront.

And I kept thinking about how it's been six months.

So then I s...

SHE SIGHS

I said, "She's always in our way."

But I only meant that if he actually left her,

then maybe we could be together properly.

Do you think he's done something to her?

Holly could be our motive.

Neel wants to be with her, so he gets rid of Eden.

Ah, no, why not just get a divorce?

I think it's about control.

Neel saw Eden as his property.

He wasn't about to just give her up, let her walk away,

maybe take half his money in a settlement.

But last night at the party, Eden challenged his control.

And it was in public.

Look, if you're Neel, how do you react to that?

Anything back on the CCTV from the station?

No. I'm chasing it.

We've got something on Neel's first wife, Roshni.

Oh, the hiking accident?

Still looking into the details,

but it looks like Neel inherited quite a lot of money.

He used it to buy out his brother's building company, take it over.

OK. Any news on Jayden?

Uniform are on it, but no sign yet.

Seems like he's really gone to ground.

Ah, that's not a clear conscience, is it?

No. We got something from Glenn's search of his flat.

READS: "A Detective's Guide To Murder."

"Committing The Undetectable Crime."

He's got dozens and dozens of these things bookmarked.

Proper true crime obsession.

Anything else? Yeah, the clothes.

He's an art student, so most of the staining is just paint,

but we've ordered a full GC-MS just to make sure.

This is different, though.

We think it's bleach, most likely recent.

Also, the positioning is weird.

You see the hems and the knees here?

It's not like he was cleaning paintbrushes.

It's more like he was down on his knees in it.

KNOCK ON DOOR

KNOCKING CONTINUES

Are you OK?

VEE: This is Neel's car at Hove Rail Station

at 12:22am last night.

Well, he could've got rid of her passport too,

anywhere along the route.

He's been leading us on a wild goose chase.

I want a full forensic examination. Forensic and chemical.

Whatever happened to Eden in that house,

Neel and Jayden are both lying about it.

How do you explain this, Mr Siddiqui?

Mr Siddiqui?

I'm telling you, I don't remember.

Detective Superintendent? Upstairs.

It's down there.

Arrest him.

This whole place is an invisible crime scene.

The evidence trail leads from the kitchen

through the hallway, the garage.

Can I get the lights, please?

The blood trail starts in the kitchen,

this corner of the countertop.

Then she fell here.

We have blood spatter across this area

and a pool of blood on the floor consistent with a head wound.

So she was dragged towards the door.

And out of the house.

We've got blood all along here.

And we've recovered hair strands and clothing fibres that were torn free.

The hair samples match those on Eden's hairbrush in the bedroom.

SHE EXHALES And there's more.

We found blood and hair traces in the boot of the car as well.

Her body was likely in there before he disposed of it.

Hiking boots. Washed clean, very recently.

And that shovel, also washed clean,

but with abrasions consistent with recent use.

He washed them off there.

And forensics have retrieved mud from the drain trap.

It's red clay.

There was red mud on the car when we were first here.

Well, it looks like it's been through

a full valet service since then.

Let's get geosciences on the mud, find out a location.

He's buried her somewhere. We need to find out where.

I'm on it.

Hey. Are you all right? Yeah.

I watched my mum go through it.

But I guess she was lucky that it didn't end like this.

Sorry.

No. Sorry.

Must've been a hell of a mess.

Yeah. How was it cleaned?

Er... with bleach.

A lot of it.

But we've taken samples, so we can compare them

to what we found on Jayden's clothing.

I'm fine.

You may as well end this interview right now.

As my client has already explained,

he has no memory of the night in question.

And since you have evidence of a credible threat against his wife

from a known criminal,

it seems to me tenuous in the extreme

to attempt to pin this on a husband

who is clearly devastated by his wife's disappearance.

It amounts to psychological torture.

Psychological torture

is precisely what your client inflicted upon his wife for years,

before murdering her in their home.

He then tried to implicate Fergus Doyle as a smokescreen

for the damning evidence we now have,

and he's invented amnesia

as a convenient stalling tactic to run down the clock.

That all seems to me to be a "you problem",

Detective Superintendent.

Burden of proof.

We'll need a tox screen.

And I would like your client

to agree to be examined by a forensic psychologist

so we can establish the validity of this "memory loss".

Be our guest.

ANPR shows that Neel made two stops last night.

First off, he goes here. That's Devan Siddiqui's place.

But Devan never mentioned that.

It didn't come up on his phone records either.

He must have left his phone at home when he drove there.

Yeah. Well, then he comes back towards his own house.

He enters the camera's blackspot, so we lose him,

then we pick him back up at 12:17am, heading into town.

At 12:22am, he chucks Eden's phone at the station,

before heading out of Brighton.

We lose the trail here.

He goes off radar for two hours, before returning to town.

Different direction.

Let's look at the area.

Woodland, quarries, lakes.

Anywhere that you might be able to conceal a body.

I'll chase the soil analysis on the car.

See if we can match that red mud to a particular spot.

The car, it's a lease, right?

Yeah. He gets to upgrade to a different model every year.

Yeah. A lot of those car companies,

they have the ability to track their cars.

It's for insurance purposes.

We might be able to download a record of where he went.

Get Digital Forensics on it.

Meanwhile, we should talk to the brother.

Find out about this late-night visit.

Jayden came round.

Look...

..he's freaked out, OK?

He lost his mum when he was a kid,

and now his stepmum's missing and he's being investigated.

I think he...

..he panicked a bit.

You should know that Jayden may be implicated in what's happened.

You should also know that we're no longer treating this

as a missing persons investigation.

We now have evidence that points to murder.

What did your brother say when he came round?

I promised not to tell anyone. He...

He said it would make him look bad.

The bloodstained dress hidden under his sink makes him look bad.

He drove up...

just gone half 11.

He was drunk, he was hammering on the door.

He said something awful had happened.

I said to him he could crash here.

He wasn't having it. He left. I couldn't stop him.

Why didn't you tell us this before? Because he told me not to.

And when Neel tells you not to do something...

you don't do it.

We know it's the same bleach.

But the full tests found traces of blood too, in the hems and knees.

Right, so Jayden could've killed her?

He acts like some traumatised kid to get his uncle on-side,

and then he pretends to cooperate with us

and spins the story however he wants.

Neel's tox screen came back inconclusive.

So if there were any controlled substances in his bloodstream,

they'll be long gone now.

Right, so all this amnesia

could be Neel's way of pulling our focus off of Jayden.

He's protecting him.

Well, one of them is covering for the other.

Question is, which one?

Let's get uniform to bring Jayden in.

Boss?

Glenn was right about the car.

The lease company kept a record of the journey.

Neel left his house at 11:27pm.

Right, and Eden's phone call to Rebecca

was at 11:16pm, remember?

So he leaves 11 minutes after making the call?

Yeah. Drives to Devan's house, turns around, comes back home,

and stays there for about 15 minutes.

That's not enough time to clean up a crime scene.

Unless you've got somebody helping you.

After he dumps Eden's phone at 12:22am,

he goes all the way across town.

There.

There. South-east corner of those woods.

That's red clay.

OK, we're looking for a grave. We need search teams, dog units.

Glenn. Roy?

Let me do this.

OK. Go.

We traced your phone.

You were at the property for 40 minutes

when you told us you were biking back to your flat.

We also found your stepmother's blood on your jeans,

as well as the bleach that was used to clean up the crime scene.

I'm...

INCOHERENTLY: I didn't...

Who dragged her to the car, Jayden?

Was it you, or was it your dad?

I swear I didn't. There's blood all over the kitchen.

Please... All down the hallway.

Please stop! In the boot.

Please stop!

Tell us what happened.

DOGS BARK

'I went to get my books.

'And I heard them smashing up the place, worse than usual.'

I was gonna go home, I really was.

But you didn't.

It went silent, all of a sudden.

And that was worse.

I didn't wanna go in.

But you did go in.

And what did you find?

Where was Eden?

She wasn't there. I didn't see her. What did you see?

Blood.

'On my dad.

'On his hands.

'Everywhere.'

'What next?'

He said, "Get a scrubbing brush...

"..and some bleach...

"..and clean this shit up."

And then he left. SNIFFS

And you just did what you were told?

What, you didn't think to call anyone or...?

You don't know what he can do.

I thought you fell off your bike.

He slammed it in a car door for answering back.

So you was afraid he'd hurt you again.

Hurt me?

I was afraid he'd kill me, like he killed Eden.

'If you didn't see a body, how do you know that Eden's dead?'

Because he's done it before.

'Everyone thinks it was a hiking accident.

'But what do they know?'

Find!

Him and my mum, my birth mum...

..went out, and only he came back.

And everyone believed him about what happened, except me.

DOG BARKS

'I started doing some reading online

'and watching videos about how people murder and get away with it.'

Chris?

'How you lot profile killers.'

And there is a killer that is just like my dad.

He's charming, convincing.

He'll lie to you.

He'll sit here, yeah, and he'll lie to your face.

And you'll believe it.

And if you're someone that's in his way, you don't matter no more.

So, yeah, I did what I was told.

Cos if I didn't, I wouldn't be here today.

We know Eden sent you a text, asking you to keep something secret,

and you said it won't be secret for long.

Tell us about that.

A few weeks back, they had friends round for drinks.

Everyone was drinking except Eden.

Nobody noticed, but I did.

Turns out she was pregnant.

My dad never wanted me.

In my dad's world, there's only room for my dad.

He's a narcissist.

I think the thought of having another kid just...

..pushed him over the edge.

PHONE BUZZES

Bella? Roy, we've got what looks like a deposition site.

I think you need to be here.

Well, it's definitely a grave, and the soil is soaked with blood.

We've found one shoe and scraps of clothing too.

We're down to undisturbed earth now.

So, where's the body, then?

Is it possible wild animals could've disturbed the corpse?

Disturbed, yeah.

Took it away completely? No.

Is it possible she was still alive, she managed to escape?

No. There's too much blood for that.

The soil here was soaked

to nearly 30cm beyond the depth of the grave itself.

We're estimating at least four litres.

Nobody can survive losing that much.

So where is she?

DS Branson? Sir? Thank you.

Yeah, hello? Yeah, give me one second, Nick.

'Neel's first wife, Roshni.'

It looks like Jayden is right to be suspicious.

There were scratches on the body

that could've been consistent with a struggle,

or they could have been incurred in the fall.

'The coroner wouldn't certify an accidental death

'so went with an open verdict instead.'

We need to find Eden's body.

Time's running out.

He runs a building company.

By now, Eden could be under six tons of concrete.

And Neel was just wasting our time.

There was new construction work going on

right beside the party venue.

Let's look in to that, talk to the workers,

see if there's any concrete been poured in a hurry.

What do we do with Jayden? Well, we can't keep hold of him.

We're gonna have to bail him for now.

OK. Anything else?

I've been going through Neel's company finances.

They're not adding up.

These payments are for over £10,000 each.

They're listed in the company books as payments for corporation tax,

but they're getting sent to an offshore account.

How much? All in all, just under 60 grand.

So if Eden knew

that he was siphoning money off from the company...

..she could have blown the whistle at any time.

PHONE BUZZES

DOOR OPENS

I'm sorry you had to pick him up.

What's all this about an incident in school?

One of his classmates ended up with three butterfly stitches.

Bruno has been suspended until Friday.

It's not great timing with my final exams coming up.

Nadiuska's backing me, but I feel like I'm dropping the ball.

I have tried to speak to him, but he wants you.

I'll talk to him.

Listen, you go and do whatever you need to do, OK?

KNOCK ON DOOR

Hey.

Look, I know...

..you're not the kind of person to get into a fight for no reason.

So something must've happened.

Did he hurt you or...

..push you?

He took my pencil case.

OK.

And then what happened?

I said, "Give that back."

And what did he say?

He said...

"What are you gonna do?

"Run to Mummy?"

SOBS QUIETLY

We have testimony that directly contradicts

your client's account of the evening in question.

Whose testimony?

Your son's.

Jayden wasn't even there.

How could you know that...

..if you don't remember anything?

We have extensive forensic evidence.

Blood, hair, all through the house, in your car.

At the gravesite in the woods.

Also, your site manager has told us that he wanted to hold off

pouring the foundations for your new office block,

but you overruled him, you insisted that it had to be done yesterday.

A business decision.

There was no body in those woods, was there?

And you'll find nothing in the office foundations either.

No body means no proof of murder.

I could drive a bus through the holes in this case,

and you both know it.

Mr Siddiqui is the victim here and you need to let him go.

What about your first wife?

Oh, come on... Roshni?

Was you the victim then, too?

That is completely irrelevant.

R-Roshni was a horrible accident.

A very convenient accident. You made a lot of money out of it.

Enough to buy your brother out of his building business.

That was the best thing I could have ever done for him.

Devan's not a businessman. I turned it around.

Why have you got £60,000 in an offshore account?

What? What's the money for and why are you hiding it?

What you on about? What offshore account? We don't know have...

NEEL SIGHS

NEEL SIGHS

Eden does all the money, I don't...

OK, so clearly, clearly, this has nothing to do with Mr Siddiqui.

I mean, God alone knows what his wife does with the accounts.

Look, this is ridiculous. Why would I even want Eden dead?

I don't know.

Maybe she got in your face about your affair with Holly Smith.

HE SCOFFS

Or maybe you got angry when she told you she was pregnant

because you don't even want the kid you already have.

What did you just say?

She told you she was pregnant.

And you... She was pregnant?

And you killed her for it.

Either show us some evidence that Eden Siddiqui is really dead

or release my client.

Jayden seemed to think the pregnancy might have been a motive,

but it looked to me like it was the first Neel had heard of it.

Yeah. And the missing money too.

KNOCK ON DOOR Yeah?

Please tell me you've got something.

SHE SIGHS Afraid not.

There's 24-hour security at Neel's construction site.

There's no way anyone could've buried her there undetected.

GRACE SIGHS

There's no way we're gonna get a jury to convict.

And with Fergus Doyle in the mix,

it muddies the motive, evidence, everything.

Well, we can apply for an extension.

We can keep the pressure on him, you know, until he cracks.

He's not gonna crack.

We've got no choice. We're gonna have to let him go.

Roy, are you sure? We are so close.

I'm not saying we're giving up.

We follow him, watch him. If he slips up, we'll be there.

They couldn't land a single punch.

Bloody fishing expedition is what it was.

I'm staying at yours, yeah? Let's get out of here.

Control from unit two, visual. GRACE: 'All right.'

Give him plenty of room, but don't lose him, Nick.

Let's see where he takes us.

PHONE BUZZES

It's definitely Eden's blood.

The DNA matches what was found at the house.

But the lab reported a number of ruptured platelets

in the sample recovered from the grave.

This only really happens in one situation -

when blood is frozen and then thawed too quickly.

The blood was frozen? For how long?

It looks like it was stored for weeks,

maybe months before it's defrosted.

Let's get the lab to run the samples from the house again,

see if it's the same case for those.

So... someone froze Eden's blood ahead of time

and then thawed it out and splashed it around in the woods

to make it look like a convincing crime scene?

No wonder we couldn't find a body. She was never there.

Wow. Someone's really trying to frame Neel for killing his wife.

Yeah. And you know what that means?

'It mean we have no evidence that Eden Siddiqui is actually dead.'

We've got a problem. They're not buying it.

They've let Neel go.

Put out a border alert for Eden Siddiqui, all ports.

The gravesite was faked.

That blood was frozen maybe months ago.

She was trapped in a relationship

with someone that controlled every aspect of her life.

So I think the only way she could see to escape

was to fake her own death and blame him for it.

So, Neel's in prison, she's presumed dead,

means she can start again, safe, somewhere new.

Yeah, right now, she could be in hiding,

but she's gonna want to make a break for it as soon as she can.

Eden was the one who put the money in the offshore account.

My bet is that she's planning to get out of the country.

Neel knew about the missing money.

He's not stupid, and he's gonna put this together too,

and we've let him go.

Continue surveillance.

I wanna know where he is at all times.

The lab says some of the blood samples

from the house weren't frozen.

They were fresh.

What, part of the evidence trail wasn't faked?

Boss? I've just ran Eden's passport number,

and it looks like she renewed her passport three months ago.

The one you found under the sink in the bathroom, that was the old copy.

We need to get back to that house.

What are you looking for?

I think we've been looking at two different sets of evidence.

The first set was pre-planned -

the blood-stained clothing, the grave,

the public row, so we have a clear motive.

But the moment Eden found out she was pregnant,

she must've realised the clock was ticking.

So she started drawing her own blood and freezing it

so she'd have plenty to stage a crime scene.

Her friend, Rebecca, the nurse, perhaps she helped with that.

And then Eden gets herself a brand-new passport.

So, she partly burns the old one to disguise the cut-out corner

and then puts it with the bloodstained clothes under the sink.

She's making Neel look clever,

trying to suggest that she's done a runner.

And then when she's ready, she thaws the blood.

But too quickly. Now, we could so easily have overlooked that.

I think Neel's amnesia is real.

Eden must have needed him out of the way

while she was trying to construct this crime scene.

She must've drugged him.

OK, so, she's drugged him. She's drugged him.

She's drugged him. She's drugged him.

But things don't quite go to plan.

If some of the blood here in this house is still fresh,

then she must have got hurt.

It's the row, the row that they had, it must have escalated.

So he hits her, she cracks her head here, maybe?

Now, we know that scalp wounds bleed heavily,

but she must've been still for a very long time

for it to pool like that.

I think she was unconscious.

So, Neel's drunk,

the... the drugs are kicking in, Eden's not moving, he panics,

and that's when he drives to his brother's house

and tells him that something awful's happened.

And while he's gone, Eden comes to,

finds Jayden has turned up out of nowhere,

so now her carefully constructed plan is beginning to fall apart.

She needs to get things back on track.

I don't think Neel told Jayden to clear up the crime scene.

I think it was Eden.

No, no, no. Neel's the suspect.

We did everything right. How come he's still out there?

He's gonna find me. Hey.

No, he's not. OK? He thinks you're dead.

He's right.

And, look, the police are following him. I saw them, OK?

We still have time.

OK. Today, then.

It has to be today.

Did you know she was pregnant?

What?

Did you know she was pregnant? No.

You know, I haven't had Eden for six months now.

Six months. Not since Holly.

So it's not mine, is it?

Now, she's pregnant, she's stolen my money,

now she's trying to pin everything on me.

We need to find her. We need to find her now!

Wait, you think she's alive?

Where are you? Where are you hiding?

What...? What is it?

Erm... Listen to me.

You... You hold on to this for a while, OK?

You, erm, go home. Take the car, take one of the boys with you.

And you make sure there are two people in the car.

OK? Two. Yeah?

Wait, bro, what are you...? Devan.

Go.

Unit two to Control. We're on the move.

BRANSON: 'She's laying low.'

She's waiting for the right moment to get out of the country.

But somewhere safe.

But not somewhere where Neel would think to look.

Yeah, somewhere he doesn't know about.

Airbnb, maybe? Or a rental.

Wait. The photos.

The surveillance photos that Fergus took.

Do you have them? Yeah.

Shit. Vee, do you still have Neel's phone?

Yeah, it's stationary, 30 metres from your location.

He stitched us up. He's not in the car. We've lost him.

What's she doing there? She's with Rebecca, her accomplice.

So, what if on one of the days Fergus was taking these photos,

they were scouting their hideout?

PHONE BUZZES

Go ahead. 'We've lost Neel.'

It looks deliberate.

We've been following the wrong car for at least ten minutes.

Understood.

Wait a minute, he's got the same photos.

He could've worked this out as well.

Vee, Glenn's gonna send you a picture of a house.

I need a street location.

The moment you have it, tell all units to converge there.

HAMMERING ON DOOR

THUD ON DOOR

DOOR CLOSES

Where is she?

SHE GRUNTS

Now, this is the last time I'm gonna ask you.

Where is she?

Roy, in here. We need an ambulance.

Rebecca.

We know Eden's alive.

We need to find her before Neel does.

Did you tell Neel where she is?

Yeah. I tried... I tried not to.

She's at the docks.

There's, erm... There's a... There's a boat.

Genadee.

He's... He's gonna kill her.

Stay with her. Sir.

Put the word out, get everyone down to the harbour.

I need a police boat fuelled and ready.

BREATHES SHAKILY

BOAT ENGINE RUMBLES

Hey... Hey, hey, hey. Are you OK?

OK. Neel's almost figured everything out.

I can't risk waiting. I'm coming with you now.

Good.

We need you.

We've gotta get going. Yeah? All right.

EDEN SCREAMS

Stay still!

Here he is.

My little brother.

Have her! SHE PANTS

The ba... The baby's yours?

You back-stabbing little piece of shit. No, no.

My own wife! You knew I loved her.

Neel!

GRUNTING

Devan, stop it, you'll kill him!

You stay back!

Stop!

Neel, stop it!

Neel! DEVAN GASPS

I'll kill her. I'll kill her too.

Get in front of them! Cut them off!

NEEL YELLS

SHE SCREAMS

DEVAN GASPS AND COUGHS

HE SCREAMS

SHE GASPS

Devan, can you hear me?

WEAKLY: Yeah. Good.

An ambulance is on its way, OK?

Eden?

We're not... It's all right, you're OK.

You're OK.

Eden, it's over.

He can't hurt you any more.

It's all right. OK? You're all right.

Yeah. OK?

Come on. Let's get you up. Come on.

Come on.

CHILD: Give that back! Keep it down, you two.

What a way to start school. SHE SIGHS

It'll be OK. Mm.

A few butterfly stitches is nothing.

You should see what Remi and Sammi come home with.

Yeah, but a suspension on day one...

Bruno moving in was supposed to give him some stability.

But he's clearly struggling. I missed it.

That's not on you. It'll take time.

You'll work it out. Thanks.

So, you're going for Home Office Pathologist?

Yeah. If the board approves me.

Sorry. Tonight was supposed to be about you!

Well, I'm in the clear.

New beginnings? New beginnings.

I don't think anybody should take justice

into their own hands, ever.

Yeah, I know.

But you've got to respect Eden, though, right?

She was scared.

That girl was terrified, and she still managed to find a way.

You know, I keep thinking...

..she was just looking out for her loved ones.

I've spent so many years resenting Sandy,

for leaving, for lying, for making me believe she was dead.

But... maybe she had no choice.

Maybe that was the only way she could escape Albazi.

She was looking after Bruno.

Yeah.

Except... if killing Sandy was personal,

Bruno's still in danger, isn't he?

Do you think it's time you told Cleo about what Cassian said?

No. Not until I know it's true.

She's been through enough already,

without me scaring her unnecessarily.

But you were right.

I do need to find out what really happened.

Regardless of where it leads.

Not on your own, though. OK?

We do this together.

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