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The next block is going up right now. We're pouring in the concrete with

foundation.

How you doing?

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

Where's Neil?

He's here somewhere.

Do you want a beer?

No. Sure?

Yeah, do you want one?

Okay.

Just give me one second, darling, I'll be back.

OK.

Not here.

You know who that guy is?

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

Oh, I hear things.

Look, this is just extortion now. No.

You owe me.

Look,

we've just put them on for sale, okay? There is no money.

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

You're a lucky man, Neil.

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.

I can't be in here.

What are you doing?

Eh?

I thought you were trying to hit him.

This has nothing to do with you, Jaden. 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.

Who are those guys?

I'm on it, okay?

Your big bro can handle himself.

I'm going home.

Hey.

You're not going anywhere.

I'm sure you'll manage without me.

You should know you've never told me I played out in public.

You said I was sorry.

You're listening to me! You just said I was sorry!

Not ever!

Get the food! Come on and take the food.

Huh? Who bought you this food bar? Get down! Please, leave me alone!

Never a word of gratitude out of your stupid heart!

But no, no, no, no, no, you don't want to do that.

No, you want to do things at the wrong time.

Oh, you look so smart.

I don't like it.

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

Oh, you'll be fine.

A first date's always hard.

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

Is that the wedding outfit?

Oh, yeah.

Um, did you get that message about the flowers?

It's okay to feel nervous.

You've just got to find your clan.

Cool kid.

Geek.

Rebel.

Which one were you?

Geek.

Harsh but fair.

I have to go, but you're going to be great today, okay?

I'm afraid it's not good news.

Lauren Peckham has refused to testify in the case against Raoul Albasi.

Albasi 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.

Are we sure someone didn't get to Lauren?

We can't rule it out.

The Bensdale OCG have intimidated witnesses before.

And it is possible, given her partner's murder, that Lauren fears similar

repercussions. Okay, 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.

Okay, so what about the rest of the evidence? The surveillance shots, the

records? We can use these to tie Al -Bazi to Bensdale, but they're not

convince a judge he played a major role in the OCG.

Right, so without Lauren Peckham...

We have no kidnap charge, and without that... Well, our buzzy is unlikely to

serve significant time.

Why are you in the car?

Yeah, I don't really... What do you want?

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.

Message received. 11 .16pm.

Where is he?

Eden? She was with you.

Neil!

We came home.

We came home and...

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

Well, I must have had one too many.

I need the police.

My wife's missing.

I think she might be in danger.

DS Moi, we're ready for you now.

How'd it go?

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, man. That's great news. Yeah.

I'll tell you something for nothing. That hospital has got a lot to answer

And how did he go with Al -Bazi's prosecution lawyer?

We got the report back.

It's not great.

They said that they can tie Albati to the Benchdale gang, but he was careful.

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

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 he says he's unlikely to serve

significant time.

Now that Lauren Packham is refusing to testify.

Listen,

Roy.

If what Cassian said is true... Listen, we do not believe a word that comes out

of Cassian Pugh's mouth. I know, I get that.

But... If Al -Basi...

killing Sandy was revenge for his own family's murder, then that's seriously

personal.

What if he did it himself?

If he did, then there's an evidence trail that we've overlooked.

Maybe.

Or maybe it's all just a pack of lies, Kathy and Tranagan into my head. I just

think that this is our only hope of putting Al -Bazi away for good.

And maybe we have to take a risk here.

Then.

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.

Vesper's case.

Sounds of a breaking and potential threat to life.

They want us to have a look.

11, 16, yes.

I didn't hear the message until this morning.

Our 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?

Um... OK, a couple of years back, we did have new builds.

One of them gets smashed up. Yeah. Windows broken, graffiti everywhere. We

thought kids had done it. Then that guy shows up.

He's got muscle with him.

So this man was running protection.

Did you report it?

Report what?

You know how it goes, don't you? He said, shame it happened, could happen

Go on.

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

You know, I have to pay him off each once, and I do it. I do it for two

What am I supposed to do?

And so in the end, I said, sod this.

You know, I'll hide 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. I thought maybe he'd seen sense, and,

then I got these.

When did you last have contact with this man?

Last night.

Yeah, yeah, we had a party to, uh, locate these, uh, offices we just

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He gave Christ a day. 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.

It's a very dangerous man.

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

Fergus.

Fergus Doyle.

When did you leave the party?

Um, it 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, it must have been around half past.

And then what happened?

We got into an argument.

Okay, 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

I shouldn't have been driving, all right?

So is it possible that when your wife made the phone call to Miss 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'll be useful to have your phone as well.

We'll hook it up to live monitoring to check these threads, and in case Fergus

gets back in touch.

All right, okay, well, I need to call my flight 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

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 Neil 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 Prince from the house and ask Nick and Bella, too.

Talk to everyone that was at the party.

See if we can get an idea of Ferguson's movements.

You're here about the warehouse?

Sorry, you are?

Devin Siddiqui.

I'm Neil's brother.

No, we're not here about a warehouse. We're here because Eden Siddiqui's

missing. Eden?

What do you mean, he's missing?

This is your brother's warehouse?

Well, yeah.

Someone broke in last night, smashed the place up. It's a mess.

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

All right.

All yours.

Thank you.

Where's Eden?

I don't know.

I think I must have gone for a drive or something. Oh, yeah, you went for a

drive.

You came on 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 Neil.

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

I don't think so.

But I think she had other stuff going on.

What kind of other stuff?

What?

Sorry.

Um... Well, she fell out with Neil.

She... tried to slap him right in front of everyone.

And then she had a row with Jaden. That's Neil's kid.

And they were screaming at each other in the toilet.

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

of issue between you and Eden.

That you'd been fired.

Yeah, that's all sorted.

Neil sorted it. I mean...

He's the boss, it's not her.

Okay. I'll thank you for your time.

We'll get someone to take a full statement.

I'm fit to drive.

I called you later. I called Eden too, but your phones were off.

Well, I made it home.

I slept in the car.

I just... If I'd been there, she'd... Well, look,

the police will find her.

Have I said about something awful? You don't mention that.

What do you mean?

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

You know, what I think I must have said is we had an awful row.

Look, look, I want to find out.

Safe and sound in this.

This could just muddy the water. Yeah, of course.

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 Neil into paying up. Now,

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

Fergus is not known for his patience.

Now, since the phone call at 11 .16pm, there's been no further comments from

Eden Siddiqui.

No credit card activity, absolutely nothing on their 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, 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

back to a base of operations, a lock -up maybe, or anywhere that he could hide

her. We need to get Ferguson 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 into the side door, and they trashed

the place.

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

Maybe the warehouse thing was, you know, just extra intimidation.

Yeah. Any leads from the party?

Well, Uniform found this in the bathroom.

Seems like there was more than just booze going round.

That could explain Neil Siddiqui's amnesia.

Also, Eden had some kind of row with Neil.

Tried to slap him.

And had a run -in with Holly, the girl who works the desk at the builder's

No love lost there.

And apparently a full -on row with Neil's son, Jaden, as well.

What do we have on him?

Previous marriage.

even if the step -mum is 18.

Boy's 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.

The condo.

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

there until 12 .10 a .m. But then it moves again. It travels to the rail

station, gets there at 12 .22 a .m. That's the point the signal goes to.

As far as Daryl wants to move a kidnapped woman to Glasgow in a hurry,

going in the back of a panel van, right? He's not buying her a train ticket and

helping her change at Houston.

So what if we've just got this wrong and she's just left her husband?

There was violence at that house.

A 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. Now, Fergus could have dumped her phone at the station to make her

think exactly what you're thinking.

I agree.

Unless we have proof. Otherwise, we should look at worst -case scenarios.

Bella, you go see Jaden. V, 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?

Jaden Siddiqui?

Yeah.

Come in.

We've got the license plates back for two SUVs that were parked last night

outside the new offices that Neil's been developing.

That's Fergus.

And that one there, we've 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' soil.

So Fergus sends Ronnie round to smash up Neil's warehouse. Meanwhile, he could

have 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 step -mom.

No, no, I was, um... 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?

I fell off my bike.

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

Um, I went back to my dad to pick up some books.

Like, when I got there, I could hear, like, shouting and screaming from, like,

the drive.

And, like, I can't live without that, you know?

You heard them arguing. What time was it?

Like, quarter to 11.

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 want to have to put myself through that again.

So I came back here.

You didn't think to call anyone?

The ride was that bad?

Well, my phone was dead.

I'm sorry.

Besides, they're always at it, yeah?

Did you, Neil?

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 Neil. Could be one of

Fergus's lackeys.

Except Neil's phone company records show tons of...

calls and texts to and from this number in the last six months.

When you go on his phone, the number's not in the call log and there's no

He's deleted them. Whoever this is threatening Egan, Neil definitely knew

He didn't want to hand over his phone straight away, do you remember?

Well, and what, do you think he was stalling us so that he can delete all

stuff? I'm questioning his why.

Let's get digital forensics to dig up the originals. I want to know who we're

dealing with here and why Neil 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 Neil. 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 file.

So these are between Eden and Jaden, 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. Jaden 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 dig.

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

And let's get Rebecca in. I want to talk to her about these messages.

Nick, see if you can contact Neil'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 of a crime, is it?

Well, if it involves intimidation and extortion, then yes.

Look, we have your car in the vicinity of Neil Siddiqui's warehouse on multiple

occasions. 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 Neil 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 see.

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

see you're on the ropes, they will be queuing up to give evidence. They were

just for a crime.

Where is she? I didn't touch her.

And the photos?

I just figured they were a language Neil would understand.

He didn't ask for any money.

If he hadn't eaten in a lock -up somewhere, he'd be leveraging that. He

be sitting around in snooker halls in broad daylight.

So if it wasn't Fergus, someone wanted us to believe that Eden did a run -off.

That's the kind of trail you leave if you're trying to cover up something

Given what the text messages tell us about Eden and Neil's relationship, that

puts Neil in the frame.

If that's the case, then maybe this home invasion was invented.

Just a story to throw us off the fence.

I've got phone traces for Jaden Siddiqui.

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 stayed for at least 40 minutes.

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

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

Eden was alone, the place was unsecured. Yeah, well, we were thinking it was

Fergus. It could have been Jaden.

Is Jaden Siddiqui here?

No, he's gone out.

We have a warrant to search these premises.

Can you step aside, please?

I recognized the signs before he even 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 have been hard for you to watch.

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

Neil 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 Neil would be capable of seriously harming his wife?

Yeah.

I do.

I should have said something before.

How's Eden's relationship with her stepson?

Do you know?

Okay. Yeah, they get on.

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

I mean, he's a kid.

He's gonna have rows with his parents.

Step -parent.

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

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

I knew this would happen.

I knew one day Neil would do something. I knew it, and I didn't.

Please.

Please find my friend.

Boss, we've been digging into the family history.

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

So Jaden would have been, what, six at the time?

That's tough, losing your mum at that age. And then another woman steps in,

takes her place.

It's a bit of a coincidence that something bad happens to both Neil's

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 Neil's developments did get vandalized 18 months ago, but there was

near identical incident two years back.

Pensioner. It was one of the last holdouts in a group of houses scheduled

demolition and redevelopment by Neil's company.

He didn't want to sell up.

So they strong -armed him? Yeah, I'm thinking Neil 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 Neil's way, he uses violence to get rid of

Well, a couple of things.

We've been tracking Neil's phone.

It got turned off last night at 11 .55pm. Only came back on this morning.

Just like Jaden.

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

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.

No, no, no, you make sure the mix is on site, okay?

No, this needs to be done today.

Look,

this is extremely important.

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

If there is anything, anything that you can tell me...

This morning, we took all his clothes to the laundrette.

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

Take his clothes.

Yes, sir.

Roy, fingerprints are back from Neil's house.

There's nothing that doesn't match the family, and there's certainly no sign of

Fergus Doyle being on site.

Also, even Siddiqui's passport is still missing.

It could be another stab at misleading us, but... If Neil 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?

Right. He wasn't there.

Jaden's flatmate said he took off.

I've got a uniform out there looking for him now.

And the number that was texting Eden calling her a bitch.

Digital forensics have uncovered the text from Neil's phone to that number

and... Yeah, they're quite intimate.

He's deleted all of these texts of the 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.

We 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 want to tell us about the threats you sent to Eden?

I didn't mean anything by that.

I wanted to rattle a cage, that's all.

I mean, she's got everything.

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

I never thought this would happen.

You never thought what would happen?

Holly. We were together.

Last weekend.

At this place in the seafront.

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

And then I... I said she's always in our way.

But I only meant that if he actually left her, then maybe we could be

properly.

Do you think he's done something to her?

Holly, it could be our motive.

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

Why not just get a divorce?

I think it's about control.

Neil saw Eden as his property. He wasn't about to just give her up, let her walk

away, maybe take half his money in the settlement.

Last night at the party, Eden challenged his control, and it was in public.

If you're Neil, how do you react to that?

Anything back on CCTV from the station? No. I'm chasing it.

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

Oh, the hiking accident.

Still looking into the details, but it looks like Neil inherited quite a lot of

money. He used it to buy out his brother's building company. Take it

Okay.

Any news on Jaden?

No uniform on it, but no sign yet. Seems like he's really gone to ground.

That's not a clear conscience, is it?

Yeah. We've got something from Glenn's search to be slapped.

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

full GCMS just to make sure.

This is different, though. I 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

knees in it.

Are you OK?

This is Neil Carr at Hove Rail Station at 12 .22am last night.

He could have 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?

Neil and Jaden 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.

Arrest him.

This whole place is an invisible crime

scene. The evidence trail leads from the kitchen, to 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 splatter 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.

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 we disposed of it.

Her hiking boot was 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 clear.

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 the location.

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

I'm on it.

Hey, 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.

It must have been a hell of a mess.

Yeah. How was it cleaned?

With bleach.

A lot of it. But we've taken samples so we can compare them to what we found on

Jaden's clothing.

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

criminal, it seems to me tenuous in the extreme to attempt to pin us on a

husband who is clearly devastated by his wife's disappearance.

It amounts to psychological torture.

Psychological torture?

It's 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.

need a talk 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.

NPR shows Neil made two stops last night. First off, he goes here. That's

Siddiqui's place.

Devin never mentioned that.

He 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

black spot, 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

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 he 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.

But the car, it's a lease, right?

Yeah. You have to agree to a different moral every year. Yeah, well, a lot of

these car companies, they have the ability to track their cars for

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

Jaden came around.

Look, he freaked out, okay?

He lost his mum when he was a kid.

And now his stepmom's missing and he's being investigated. I think he... He

panicked a bit.

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

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

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 said it would make him look bad.

But the blood -stained dress hidden under his sink makes him look bad.

He drove up, just gone, half eleven.

He was drunk, hammering on the door. He said something awful had happened.

I said to him he could crash here.

It wasn't happening. He left. I couldn't stop him. Why didn't you tell us this

before? Because he told me not to.

And when Neil tells you not to do something, you don't do it.

We know it's the same bleach.

But the full test found traces of blood, too, in the hands and knees.

Right, so Jayden could have killed her.

But he acts like some traumatised kid to get his uncle inside.

And then he pretends to cooperate with us and spins the story however he wants.

Neil's toxin came back inconclusive.

So if there were any controlled substances in his bloodstream, they'd be

gone now.

Right, so all this amnesia could be Neil's way of pulling our focus off of

Jaden. He's protecting him.

Well, one of them is covering for the other.

The question is, which one?

Let's get uniformed to bring Jaden in.

Boss, Glenn was right about the car.

The lease company kept a record of the journey.

Neil 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 Devon's house, turns around, comes back home and stays there

about 15 minutes.

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.

Okay, we're looking for a grave. We need search teams, dog units, Glenn. Roy.

Let me do this.

Okay, 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.

Who dragged her to the car, Jaden?

Was it you?

Or was it your dad?

I swear, there was blood all over the kitchen.

Please. Down the hallway. Please stop. In the booth. Please stop!

Tell us what happened.

I went to get my book.

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

I was going to go, I really was.

But you didn't.

Because it went silent all of a sudden.

I thought it was worse.

I didn't want to 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.

Blood? Of my dad.

Blood?

All his hands.

Everywhere.

What next?

He said get a scrubbing brush and some bleach and

clean this shit up.

And then he left.

And you just did what you were told?

What, you didn't think to call anyone or...? You don't know what you 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.

What do they know?

Him and my mum, my birth mum, went out and only he came back and everyone

believed him about what happened, except me.

I started doing some reading online and watching videos about how people murder

and get away with it.

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

And you'll believe him.

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

did what I was told.

Because 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 around 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 denies it.

I think the thought of having another kid just... pushed him over the edge.

Bella. Roy.

We've got what looks like a deposition site.

I think we need to be here.

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

We found one shoe and scraps of clothing, too.

We're way down to understood earth now.

So is the body, then.

Is it possible wild animals could have disturbed the corpse?

Disturbed? Yeah.

Took it away completely?

No. Or is it possible she was still alive?

She managed to escape?

No. There's too much blood for that.

The soil here was soaked nearly 30 centimetres beyond the depth of the

itself. We're estimating at least four litres. Nobody can survive losing that

much. So where is she?

Thank you.

Yeah, hello?

Yeah, yeah, one second, Nick.

Neil's first wife, Roshni.

It looks like Jaden is right to be suspicious.

There were scratches on the body that could have been consistent with a

or they could have been incurred in the fall.

The coroner wouldn't certify an accidental death, so went with an open

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 Neil is just wasting our time.

There was new construction work going on right beside the party venue.

Let's look into that. Talk to the workers. See if there's any concrete

poured in a hurry.

What do we do with Jaden?

Well, we can't keep hold of him. We're going to have to bail him for now.

Okay.

Anything else?

I've been going through Neil'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

getting sent to an offshore account.

How much? All in all, just under £60 ,000.

So if Eden knew that he was siphoning money off from the company, she could

blown the whistle at any time.

I'm sorry you had to pick him up. What's all this about? An incident at 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.

The juice is batting 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.

So you go and do whatever you need to do, okay?

Hey.

Look, I know...

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

So something must have happened.

Did he hurt you or push you?

He took my pencil case.

OK.

And then what happened?

I said, give that back.

What did he say?

What are you going to do?

Run to mummy?

We have testimony that directly contradicts your client's account of the

in question.

Whose testimony?

Your son's.

I'd shade him with anyone 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 grave site, in the

woods.

Also, your site manager 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.

Roshni was a horrible accident.

Very convenient accident.

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.

Devon's not a businessman. I turned her around.

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

What? Or what's the money for?

And why are you hiding it?

What do you want about what offshore account? We don't have...

Eden

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

Okay, so clearly, clearly this has nothing to do with Mr. Siddiqui. I mean,

alone knows what his wife does with the accounts.

This is ridiculous.

Why would Aiden want Aiden dead?

I don't know.

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

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.

Jaden seemed to think the pregnancy might have been a motive.

But it looked to me like it was the first Neil had heard of it.

And they're missing money, too.

Yeah.

Please, tell me you've got something.

Afraid not.

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

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

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

And with Fergus Doyle in the mix, this muddies the motive.

Everything's everything.

But we can apply for an extension.

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

He's not going to crack.

We've got no choice.

We're going to have to let him go.

Right, 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.

single punt.

Bloody fishing expedition is what it was.

Staying at yours, yeah?

Get out of there.

Control from unit two, visual.

All right, give him plenty of room.

But don't lose him, Nick.

Let's see where he takes us.

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

from the grave.

This only really happens in one situation, when blood is frozen and then

too quickly.

The blood was frozen?

For how long?

It looks like it was stored for weeks, maybe months, before it was defrosted.

Let's get the lab to run the samples from the house again and see if it's the

same case for those.

Stop.

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 her body.

She was never there.

Wow.

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

Yeah. And you know what that means?

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

We've got problems.

They're not violent.

I've let Neil go.

Without a border alert for Eden, Siddiqui, all ports.

The grave site 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 Neil's in prison.

She's presumed dead.

It means she can start again, safe, somewhere new.

Yeah, right now she could be in hiding, but she's going to 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.

Neil knew about the missing money.

He's not stupid and he's going to put this together too and we've let him go.

Continue surveillance.

I want to know where he is at all times.

The lab says some of the blood samples from the house weren't frozen.

They were fresh.

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 bloodstained clothing, the grave, the public row, so we have a clear

At the moment Eden found out she was pregnant, she must have realized the

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

with the bloodstained clothes under the sink.

She's making Neil 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 Neil's amnesia is real.

Eden must have needed him out of the way while she was trying to construct this

crime scene.

She must have drugged him.

Okay, 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 the 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 have been still

very long time for it to pool like that. I think she was unconscious.

So, Neil's drunk.

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 happened.

And while he's gone, Eden comes to.

finds Jaden 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 Neil told Jaden to clear up the crime scene.

I think it was Eden.

No. No, no.

Neil's the suspect.

We did everything right.

How come he's still out there?

He's gonna find me. Hey, no he's not, okay? He thinks you're dead.

He's right.

And look, the police are following him. I saw them, okay? We still have time.

Okay.

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?

No, she's pregnant. She's stolen my money. Now she's trying to pin

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?

Where?

You go home, take the car, take one of the boys with you, and you make sure

there are two people in the car. Okay, two.

Yeah?

But what...

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

She's laying low.

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

But somewhere safe.

But not somewhere where Neil 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

Yeah.

Do you still have Neil's phone?

Yeah, it's stationary.

30 metres from your location.

He's fixed it 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 one of the days Fergus was taking these photos, they were scouting

their hideout?

Go ahead.

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 have worked this out as well.

V, Glenn's going to send you a picture of a house.

I need a street location.

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

Where is she?

This is the last thing I'm going to ask you.

Roy and here.

We need an ambulance.

Rebecca.

We know Eden's alive.

We need to find her before Neil does.

Did you tell Neil where she is?

Yeah.

I tried. I tried not to.

She's at the dock.

There's, um... There's a boat.

Jenna Dee.

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

Stay with her.

Put the word out.

Get everyone down to the harbour. I need a police boat fuelled and ready.

Neil's almost figured everything out.

I can't risk waiting.

I'm coming with you now.

Good.

We need you.

We've got to get going.

Yeah.

Stay still.

Here he is.

My little brother.

Have him.

The

baby

is yours.

You backstabbing little piece of shit.

My wife!

You knew I loved her.

Stay back!

You stupid!

I'll kill him.

I'll kill Arthur.

Get in front of them! Cut them off!

Ah!

David, can you hear me?

Yeah. An ambulance is on its way, okay?

Eden?

Oh, no, it's all right. You're okay.

You're okay.

Eden, it's over.

I can't hurt you anymore.

It's all right.

Okay? You're all right.

Yeah. Okay.

Come on, let's get you up. Come on.

You pit down, you two.

What a way to start school.

It'll be okay.

A few butterfly stitches is nothing. You should see what Remy and Sammy 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.

So you're going for home office pathologist?

Yeah.

The board approves me.

Hurry.

Tonight was supposed to be about you.

Well,

I'm in the clear.

New beginnings?

Anybody should take justice into their own hands, ever. Yeah, I know.

But you got respect to 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 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

I 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.

And not on your own, though. Okay?

We do this together.

And episode two of Grace is next Sunday at 8 o 'clock. And on Thursday, Brenda

Blessin considers a life -changing decision in Vera at 8 .30.

And there's always two sides to every story. The Affair is on STD Player.