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a non -smoker, you have left cigarettes behind because smoking is a false

threat. Paul,

you're digging. You are breathing more easily because you did not smoke.

Thank you.

Mr. Torrell, do you think someone like me can greet?

Point our guests in the right direction.

Best impressions.

Thank you so much.

Come.

Oh, thank you, darling.

Pop it over there, would you?

Is there anything else you need?

Their stinking fingers.

Their reeking clothes.

You despise their weakness.

Because you are strong.

Because you are an ex -smoker.

Poppy. It's Freya, Diana. Freya Carlyle. Hi.

Freya.

So, how are you? I'm very well, thanks, Poppy. How are you? I'm very well.

Didn't I say somewhere about you being in line for editor for trivia?

Oh, no, that's... Oh, sorry.

As you know, this has been a momentous year for the college.

The vote to admit our first male undergraduate next year was won, after a

contest, by a convincing two -thirds majority.

I would also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute and bid the

adieus to Professor Ellaby, who after...

30 years that Lady Matilda is for thinking of.

Oh, my God,

as I live and breathe the

female Enoch. Me?

Me? What a bloody time to call it.

And Diana. Oh, look at you.

You must have a picture in an attic somewhere.

Congratulations.

Or whatever it is one's meant to say on such occasions.

Poppy, hey!

How weird is this?

Lovely do. Well done.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Hello, who's there?

Is somebody there?

Something tells me you're not here after the two -for -one Dandelion and

Burdock.

Suspicious death, Lady Matilda's college.

Lady Matilda's? Lato Female College in Oxford just let it go mixed.

I know what it is.

So? Holding a Gordie. The information's a bit sketchy, but one of the guests has

been found dead.

Sir?

Do you know who she was?

Poppy Toynton, 32, alumna.

Worked here as a development officer. Her parents from Whitby.

Oh, she shared a house with one of the dons from here, Diana Ellaby in Biffa.

Accommodation's been given over to the guests for the weekend.

Boys?

Doctor, what have you got?

I can't speak to you, obviously. What I've got is an indigestion after an old

boy at supper.

What she's got at first glance, anyway, appears to be a broken neck.

It's from the fall.

I was going to say, if it was a fall, according to the uniform, there's signs

a break -in upstairs.

Senior crime are taking a look now.

What time was she found?

Senior porter called it in about an hour and a half ago.

Had a degree with time of death between nine and ten.

Well, it was the porter that found her, was it? No, one of the first -year

students doubling up as a waitress tonight for a bit of pin money.

Samantha Coyle.

My room is on the stair.

I was on a break and I wanted to make a call.

I'd left my mobile in my room, so... You knew her from around college,

presumably.

What was she like?

A bit bossy.

Didn't want to get on the wrong side of her.

You all done?

For now.

PM's 8 o 'clock sharp.

Is there anything I should know?

Such as?

With himself. First mention of this place, he got very, um, beady.

Oh. Well, there was a young woman attacked here. Nine, ten years ago.

Sister of one of the undergrads. Uh, Chloe something.

Robert's case.

What happened?

A couple of days into the investigation, his wife got killed.

Oh.

Um, keep an eye, eh?

I'll be right back.

Principal Ferber.

D .I. Lewis.

You wanted the word.

Yes, I was wondering how long you'd be.

I'm sorry to ask, but it's an accommodation issue.

We're decade five out of arms. I'm afraid that'll be the case until we

exactly what's happened.

When did you last see her this evening?

Um, I suppose that would have been about...

A quarter of an hour before the balloon went up.

Diana Ellaby wondered if someone might fetch her rap.

I found Poppy in the bar a wee while later and passed the message on.

She went and... I didn't see her again.

What do you think we're looking at? Burglary gone wrong?

A heck of a coincidence, if not.

But if it was an accident, then where's Professor Ellaby's rap?

That's what Poppy Toynton went off to fetch.

So where is it?

And if you're going up stairs, your whole momentum is forward, not back.

On the other hand, if she fell on the way down... Why didn't she have a rat

her?

What would Poppy Toynton like?

One doesn't want to be killed, but a bit of a head girl.

Deputy head girl.

Passive -aggressive, terrific quality.

He's a development officer.

Not always appreciated, I swear.

Anyone with him if you'd had a particular falling out?

Well, there's always going to be personality clashes in any large

I just hope that you lot do better this time around and actually catch

the swine.

How do you mean?

Chloe Brooks, I'd have thought you know all about it.

No, before my time.

Early bird.

Morning, Mark.

Yeah, no, I've got a post -mortem with Dr Hobson at 8. Thought I might get some

reading in first.

The suspicious at Lady Matilda's College.

Gordy, wasn't it?

Last night.

Former student of Diana Ellerby. Have you seen her yet?

Seen, yes.

Spoken to, no.

Not this time round, anyway.

I did actually meet her on a previous cake, briefly.

Into the homework.

Crikey. Better get a wriggle on.

Laura doesn't mind her patients being late, but woe betide.

What was she like?

Allaby? All the years ago.

A bit prickly, as I remember.

What? She would be.

Something of a termagant in her day, leading light in the struggle for female

empowerment. How was that going, by the way?

You can mock. The glass ceiling was required reading when I was at college.

She's got form, you know.

Trespass, breach of the peace.

Protesting against American missiles back in the 80s. Greenham. Oh, Hayford.

Handier for tutorials, I suppose.

Quick bit of saving the world and then back into college in time for hot

-buttered muffins.

Missed the main event, I'm afraid, but it is, as I thought, broken neck.

I don't look so disappointed.

It wasn't an accident.

She was helped on her way.

A single blow to the skull, temporal fracture about here.

With what?

Our old friend, the blunt instrument.

Circular trauma about yea big.

Um, possibly a hammer.

She goes A over T down the stairs and neck breaks in the ensuing fall.

What?

I know that look.

Just thinking.

You all right?

Of course. Why wouldn't I be?

Lady Matilda's College, hardly the happiest of associations.

Is this a play, Laura?

No, so long as you're... I'm fine.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

What happened to the girl?

D .I. Lewis, Oxford Police.

Doctor, um... Oh, no, I'm not a doctor. I work in the dispensary.

Ruth Brooks.

Is it about my sister?

Not like that, no.

Somebody was killed last night at Lady Matilda's.

You knew her, I believe.

Poppy Toynton.

What do you remember of her?

Beyond she was a first year and I was a second, not mad.

Lewis, did you say, have we? I interviewed you at the time.

Last night brought Chloe to mind. I just wanted to check how she was doing, I

suppose.

I know she's in there.

Somewhere.

Trying to get home.

So I come and talk to her first thing each morning.

And before I clock out.

And just hope.

What have we got?

Definite break -in rooms on the second and third floors.

The amount of coils already given us from inventory.

MP3 player and missing cash.

Right, so my phone, my watch and my purse.

Is that what it was about, with Poppy?

She disturbed him?

Him?

Wouldn't you think?

At an exclusively female college, any bloke here would have stood out. Like I

saw someone at a wedding?

How well did you know Poppy Tyneton?

Well, we were up around the same time, but Pops was definitely...

Lower stream.

She was very keen to hang out with us.

I think she was a bit starstruck by Diana and the whole golden set thing.

What golden set thing?

Those of us Diana took under her a special wing and groomed for greatness.

A man's reach and all that.

Simon Hathaway tells me you're a journalist, Miss Carlyle. On the post.

Columnist.

Is there a difference? About 40k per annum on my picture above the copy.

Sex and the single girl is mine.

Can the modern myth have it all?

What's the verdict?

The jury's still out.

It's quite true. Poppy lived with us for a while at House Beautiful.

Diana provided lodgings to a handful of second and third year students, her

brightest and best.

I was there two years and Poppy came in my second year.

After Ruth Brooks left.

Yeah, that's right.

Outside of her caddy letters and the perennial round robin, I really didn't

or hear anything of Poppy after uni.

We were very different people.

In what way?

I made a success of my life.

What was the nature of her relationship with Professor Allaby?

They were friends?

Poppy was devoted to Diana.

Nothing more?

More?

Have you ever read any of Diana's work?

That's probably a silly question, isn't it?

Man delights not Diana, nor women neither.

Professor Ellaby is famously celibate, renouncing a life of the flesh for a

of the mind.

Look, do you know how long we're going to have to hang on here?

I have work to get back to. On a weekend.

I'm CEO of Guilty Secrets.

What's Guilty Secrets? It's a luxury chain.

Sergeant Hathaway doesn't get out much.

Regular customer, are you, sir, at Guilty Secrets? Loyalty card holder?

high street you've got one. It's a major chain.

Online and what have you.

Online. Well.

It's good to have heard of something you've not.

My mind is on a higher plane.

Speaking of which, we should be getting over to that house. What is it again?

Beautiful. What kind of name's that for a place?

It's from the Pilgrim's Progress. John Bunyan, he who would valiant be. Didn't

you go to Sunday school?

We had a couple of missionaries came up to Nick Castle once.

They went in the pot, I think.

Christian stays at House Beautiful on his way to the Celestial City. It's

he meets the maidens. Prudence, charity, piety and discrepancy.

Oh, and a quarter watchful, of course.

Of course.

When you get to my age, do you think that... I've got nothing left to throw

you.

But you have no heart left to break.

Damn.

Damn.

Can you think of anyone you would want to harm, Miss Tonkin?

Harm her?

No.

No.

I thought... A robbery, Marion said.

Principal Ferber.

I can spell that for you, slowly, if you need to write it in your book.

It won't be necessary, Professor.

But we will need to see Miss Twyne's room.

Must you?

Oh, she'd have so hated that.

Some lumbering Greek brute.

Pouring overhead things.

I'm sure Sergeant Hathaway will do his best not to lumber and pour more than

usual, right?

I could have gone myself.

That was Poppy.

Was there anyone special in her life?

Boyfriend? Girlfriend?

She had friends.

But not in a way...

Only

a couple of the people I've been talking to, they... Well, they say she wasn't

the most academicly minded of all.

Yes, is that right?

They thought you were an unlikely candidate for you to have taken under

wing alongside the other girls here.

Young women?

Well, Poppy had other qualities.

What's that?

She was very nurturing.

I'm not sure everybody saw that side of her, but we suited each other.

He was like a daughter to him, really. I mean, they're all my daughters, of

course, but Poppy was special.

Ruth Brooke was one of yours, wasn't she?

Ruth?

Yes, yes, she was.

What makes you ask that?

I was in charge of an inquiry looking into what happened to her sister.

Oh, that American boy.

Judd Havelock.

Judd.

Judd.

Yes, of course.

It came from money, didn't it?

Such a wicked thing to do.

Should I remember you?

I came off the investigation quite early on.

Did you find anything of interest?

It's purely procedural, but I'll need you to come back to the college with me,

make an inventory of your things, check that nothing's missing.

Now.

I don't know.

According to the bank statements, there's been a lot of money withdrawn in

last year from the hole in the wall.

How much is a lot?

More than you could possibly spend unless you'd suddenly developed a crack

habit.

Hey.

Not her.

You're meant to tell me if you're thinking of going out. Oh, what are you

to do, Pauline? Get me gated?

I graduated, remember?

Oh, yes.

I remember you, Miss Carlisle.

Don't I hear? Are they all right with that, the criminal record?

America has a proud tradition of direct action when confronted by the forces of

tyranny. Some might call it sleeping with the enemy.

The enemy is already at the gates.

Next year, they'll be inside the Citadel.

And where did Poppy Twainton fit into these plans of yours?

Well, Poppy would have stayed on at Howard's Beautiful, of course.

It's still my home.

The plan was to split my time between here and the States.

You would have... Is this it? Of course.

Oh, it's all right. We were wondering,

Diana, the drinks tonight.

Well, there's no possibility of those going ahead, surely.

It's going to be very difficult getting the word out to Council at such short

notice.

I'm sure it's what Poppy would have wanted.

Make it low -key.

And my necklace.

I have a jet necklace.

Oh, Diane, I'm so sorry.

Forgive me for asking you to tell me it's none of my business, but what's

the interest in the Chloe Brooks case?

Laura Hobson told you.

Well, I had to get the thumbscrews out.

So?

Just covering all angles.

Well, this is the one, beyond coincidence. I mean, I know it has some

you personally, but it wasn't murder.

Might as well have been.

Fifteen -year -old kid left in a coma.

What was she doing there?

She'd come up to Oxford to see her sister for the weekend.

There was a party, a mothball.

It's all in the file.

Yeah.

Where?

Okay.

Okay, run away.

We've got to trade some fair collars, mobile.

I felt at the time there was something... I don't know, something

I should have done something, said something.

Oughtn't we to be concentrating on the case at hand, sir, the one in the

present, in the here and now? I don't like leaving a job half done. You

It was done. Yeah, not by me.

Wish me luck.

Sweet dreams, Claire.

Hello, Carl.

My name's Detective Sergeant Hathaway.

So you found the mobile out fishing. Where was that?

On a scale of one to ten, ten being lots, one being not very, how grisly is

this? Such a shame for Diana.

Oh, my God.

I don't believe it.

It's me, Freya.

What are you doing here? I didn't think... Diana invited me.

Oh, my God. How are you? Oh, you know.

Sorry, listen to me babbling away at you without a drink in your hand.

Good old Shmi.

I read your column sometimes.

Do you?

It's good.

You always had a way with words.

Except when it matters.

What was there to say?

We were all afraid, I suppose.

We didn't want to dwell on what happened, almost as if we didn't say it.

It hadn't happened. It's all right. No, no, it was cowardly, but that's the way

it was.

Since, though, I don't think there's a day that's gone by without it.

Not tonight.

Last night, Paul dumped off a bridge outside Abingdon.

That's all of it?

Yeah, I've got the jewelry.

Might have gone in the river.

Maybe he panicked, realized what he'd done, and decided to offload the spoils.

It's a scenario.

All right, here's another.

Ten years ago, a girl's attacked.

And a decade later, certain people who were there the night of the attack are

reunited in the very place where it happened, and hours later, one of them's

dead.

You don't believe that this is a robbery gone wrong any more than I do.

See you in the morning.

Hello, Edie.

It's Ruth.

I couldn't find you.

It's all right.

I'm here now.

I don't think he's been home.

What?

Sorry, sir. I just wanted to get the last ones in order.

In order of what?

Would have been easier if I had the lid of the box, obviously.

What box?

Jigsaw box.

I think I'll leave you to it.

And for those of us whose mental applications came back late, we'll

Sunday. 40 or 50 people taking photos of the same event over one evening.

Right. If you look at one set of photos, you're going to have stonking great

guts. But what one person misses?

Someone else might have covered.

So a few of the sets have gone missing in the interim, but at least a third are

time -coded.

This gives us way points. The rest, you just have to extrapolate. Based on what?

Light levels, number of drinking people's glasses, who's next to who.

Who's doing what? It would be easy if I knew who was wearing what, but that's

doable. We just get that, shove it in the computer and we're in.

What? No, no, no, it's good.

Just... All there.

Why?

Well, you thought something wasn't right.

Come on, get your coat.

Where are we going?

See an old mate.

Sir. Hello, Ollie.

Oh, sir.

No, I, uh, I took an early bath, uh, four or five years ago.

Grabbed the lumped gum and sunk it into the lid.

Been all right?

Oh, you know, muck and grumble.

It's without, right?

Well, remember.

I made you enough tea.

You have that.

You look more like a, uh, long, tall, skinny, double -shot frapper espresso.

Am I right?

Something like that.

What's that set you back? Best part of a fiver?

More for the two of you. I don't expect he sticks his hand in his pocket, does

he? The bagman's lot. We've all been there.

Keep your head down and your nose clean.

You won't find a better governor.

That's what he keeps telling me.

There we go.

Thank you.

So,

Pod.

You didn't used to be so bashful.

As much as I'd like to think you've come all this way out for goodness.

Lady Matilda's College.

Oh, what, this thing from the local?

I've not named her yet, but the victim's name is Poppy Twinton.

Why are you looking at me like that's supposed to mean something?

Yeah. We interviewed her on the Chloe Brooks case.

Oh, Chloe Brooks.

Best will in the world. That's a lot of chardonnay under the bridge.

Ten years. The old grey matter.

Sure. But Kerrison was certain that he had the right man with Judd Havelock.

Absolutely.

D .I. Kerrison.

Yeah, absolutely. We both were.

Never been found.

Yeah, well, the kid was connected.

Yeah, his parents offered five million dollars for information as to his

whereabouts. Twelfth night come early. Of course they offered a reward.

How would it have looked if they hadn't?

I mean, if you can afford...

Five million dollars you can afford to make someone disappear, right?

Plastic surgery, new life. Right. They know where he is.

He's probably in some bar somewhere in downtown Bogota right now, seeing

sundowners with Lucky Luffy.

What?

It's all right.

We're among friends.

I was at the hospital. Chloe Brooks had just rejoined the land of the living.

Are you sure there's nothing? No loose threads or... Outside we never pinched

him. Look, whatever the story with this poison woman, it's got nothing to do

with Judge Havelock.

I'm telling you, Rob, God's honest.

Old Kerrison had his fault, rest his soul. But in this instance, he didn't

foot.

Thanks for your time.

Don't be a stranger.

She's undergone manipulation each week to stop her muscles from being refined,

but physically, she's very weak.

Five minutes, that's your lot.

And certainly not both of you.

I'll see you back in the station.

If she shows signs of distress or not being able to cope, you'll have to stop,

understood? Yeah, I've got it.

Chloe?

Can you remember anything about what happened to you?

The nurse tells us that when you woke up, you said something.

A particular word?

Can you remember what that was?

You said murder.

Do you remember?

Can you think why you said it?

You're not in trouble.

I couldn't find Ruth.

I went to look for her.

And there was... Go on.

I couldn't find you.

Where were you?

Where were you?

What did you find, Chloe?

I don't remember.

I don't. I don't.

I don't.

It's all right.

It's all right, Chloe.

No one is going to hurt you. It's okay.

Yes, I know he should be with the Abram Velsons, dear, but he's not.

Ah, sorry, sir.

A bit of a crisis.

Napoleon's gone missing. He's looked everywhere, nowhere to be seen.

You've tried St Helena?

Very droll, sir.

So, what are you after today, sir?

Tarts and vicars?

Something for a stag?

Because I'll tell you right now, I don't know what I've got left in your size.

What about a policeman?

Always very popular.

Comedy whistle, floppy truncheon.

Do you have a policeman? No trouble.

Small world.

If I hadn't got involved with Judd.

But it's that bad boy thing.

Eddie warned me.

Tried to.

Eddie?

Edward Florey.

Judd's roommate at Longdale.

He woke me up once when I turned him down.

When I started seeing Judd, he told me I was making a mistake, that I'd get

hurt. But at that age, I was just... But you had broken it up with Judd, hadn't

you? If I remember right.

I don't know if it happened.

There was some pressure.

Judd was all over her.

Not even trying to be subtle.

I asked him what he thought he was up to, and he stormed off.

I went inside after him.

We argued and he hit me.

I told him we were finished and went off to get drunk.

The next thing I know, Chloe's... I'll never forgive myself.

You've been a good sister.

No one could have done more.

We found this when we were clearing up Poppy's locker.

It may have a bearing on your investigation.

I knew she was a nasty piece of work.

What did she put me through?

As you can see, there are letters towards the back.

I've received several, almost identical this past year, concerning Mrs.

Tarrell's suitability as senior porter at Lady Matilda's. They said I'd had an

inappropriate relationship with one of the freshers.

Yes, well, I really don't know what's going through the details, Mrs. Tarrell.

What's this?

Poppy Johnson's yearbook, ma 'am, found in her locker.

Not Rodine, plainly.

She seemed to have been following her contemporary careers with some

Not to say of indicative jealousy bordering on clinical psychopathy.

This is the lunatic scrapbook from hell.

Those of her peers it failed to shine, she largely ignores.

But those who'd have made something of themselves, she went out of her way to

try and ruin them. How? Letters? In the mail.

Anonymous, obviously.

Either to employers or family.

What did any of them do to her that deserved this?

Belittled her.

Ignored her. Acceded where she'd failed. She reserved a special venom for two in

particular. Freya Carlyle. Don't tell me. The other one was Lakshmi Air?

It had consequences for both of them.

In Lakshmi's case, divorce.

The husband took the family out of the country.

Freya was sacked and lost her chance to be editor of Tribune. Now, if they knew

that Poppy was behind this...

You're right, sweetheart.

Yeah, thank you. See you tomorrow.

Yeah. Night.

What time did you call this?

No gallows humour this morning, please, Laura.

Take the wise and wear force.

Get up midnight, one o 'clock, multiple blows.

I suppose nobody saw or heard anything.

Damn it!

Damn it to hell!

Should have been quicker off the mark, but I let the grass grow. You tried to

tell me, I didn't bloody listen.

Sir? She was busy looking backwards instead of concentrating on the here and

now. She's my girlfriend!

No!

Let me through! Calm down.

What do you mean, calm down? I want to see her! Leave him, will you?

You had no way of knowing the killer was going to strike again, sir.

Right. Are we finished?

He's right, Robbie. There's no way you could have known.

She couldn't be sure, but she thought there was someone upstairs at the top of

the landing.

Why didn't she say anything?

She didn't want you to think that she was just being silly, you know?

I thought you could probably use a cuppa.

Look, I'd really rather like to go home to London.

Yeah, I'm afraid that won't be possible right now.

What, you want to just sit here while some nutter kicks us off at random?

Well, it might not be random.

I spoke to the chair of Tribune's board late last night.

You were hotly tipped to get the editor's job last year.

Sorry, what's that got to do with anything? Are you aware why you were

unsuccessful?

Why you were dismissed by the sister paper?

You see, apparently the board received a letter outlining your student

activities in the cause of animal liberation.

Illegal break -ins.

Incendiary devices mailed to prominent research scientists. Oh, that's not

But I... I was involved in a bit of Andy Hunt.

But nothing like that.

Where's this come from?

We believe it was written and sent by Poppy Tong.

No, I mean... You weren't aware.

No, I wasn't aware.

Of course I wasn't aware.

If I'd have known, do you think I would have been making small talk with her all

evening? Look, if I'd have known, I'd have... You know what, Miss Carlyle?

No. No, I'll deal.

Thanks.

I thought they'd be safer here.

If you're still insisting that everyone must remain in Oxford, I take it you've

no objection?

No.

What is it you want?

Chloe Brooks' bag.

According to the case files, we went missing the night she was attacked.

Where did you get that?

House Beautiful, Poppy Toynton's room.

Actually, me and Freya are there for their own safety, Elodie's saying.

How do you know it's Chloe's?

That's why she's carrying all the photos.

There's more.

These are books of what was inside.

Fuck her, I have the original.

Could be anywhere but there.

On the back.

5K, then 2K on the first of each month.

What is that about?

Well, it's stuck in Chloe's bag.

Work it through over a pint?

Ah.

It will.

They're open, you know. Valuable drinking time you're wasting.

Try another chance?

Yeah, absolutely.

More the merrier.

No, you're right. I've got one or two leads to follow up. It's the, um,

case. Hmm. There's been another, they're saying, on the radio.

What leads are these?

It's just one or two things. I'll talk to you about them tomorrow.

I still can't believe this. I think that these might be mistaken.

No, they're not.

My husband, when we broke up, he said things, he knew things.

He couldn't...

possibly have known about me private things that happened while i was at uni

that only a few people knew about which people you poppy ruth

at the time i was so chewed up over the divorce i never stopped to ask myself

how he could have found out i just assumed people aren't very good at

secrets

My kids.

She calls me my kids.

I'm so sorry, darling.

I haven't put up with Judd in ten years.

You roomed with him at uni, though. You shared a house afterwards.

My parents found a paper shop in Daventry.

Judd had a lovely charm when he turned it on.

It took me a long time to keep up with that. Did you warn?

Ruth Brooks against getting involved with him.

Ruth?

Yes. Yes, I did.

Were you in love with her?

Probably.

I suppose I saw some kind of damsel in distress.

I wanted to save her.

Out of everyone, I thought you'd have gone the distance.

I've taken your inspector.

Well, I woke up one morning and my face didn't fit anymore.

And it was made clear I wasn't going to go any further.

There'd been a complaint.

Some girl in a canteen, all places, civilian.

And she said I'd said something.

Racial, which I hadn't.

But I mean, even if I had, it wouldn't have been anything.

Just a bit of banter between colleagues.

And then suddenly they're going to bus me down to D .C.

Sounds a bit hard.

I thought, sod you. I've always played a straight bat, you know. And for what?

But enough about me. How are you getting on with this Lady Matilda thing?

Look,

I'll get another round and you can fill me in.

How's that?

What now?

Black hole time.

Judd had several women on the go from various colleges, and only hit the

load, Sadie Matildas.

Was that where he met Ruth? Yeah.

Actually, no, I think he met her first with her digs in Bicester.

What, Professor Ellaby's house is beautiful.

Cold comfort far more like it.

God, what a harpy.

You know, she wouldn't even let us in the house to use the loo.

I can't imagine Judd was made very welcome there. You think, but needs

He put himself out as a bit of a gardener at weekends for beer money.

Ella B had broken her foot, so... Do you remember who was wearing what the night

that Chloe was attacked?

Judd went for Arlequina, I remember that.

I think I had a zany mask.

Otherwise... Did you take any photo?

I did do.

Video 2, I handed in at the time.

Have you, um... Have you seen her, Ruth?

I always went to look her up. Cool.

Why didn't you?

Time passes and you think... I don't know, I suppose I thought I'd run into

somehow, if it was meant to be.

Jeez.

Your new boy seems decent enough, Hathaway, is it?

James, yeah, he's a good lad.

Yeah, no, er...

No Ali McLennan, no?

Who is?

You know, one thing I've always wanted to ask, all those late nights and long

observations, how come you never tried it on?

I was married.

There were so many that did.

I don't know about them.

I love me wife.

Simple as that.

Now, got anyone?

Come on.

Who'd have me? Plenty.

Too set in me ways, man, to... I don't know.

Start over.

I don't know.

It'd be nice, but... You shouldn't be alone.

You're one of the good guys, Rob.

we should do this again.

Nice drink.

Yeah, just two old coppers out for a pint, man.

I'd like that.

Well, you got my number.

Would you mind, um, blowing out the candles when you're done?

Good night, my darling.

Good night.

Strange being back here again.

Seeing Ruth.

Does she ever know? What?

You and Judd.

Oh, well, that was before they hooked up, though, wasn't it?

Maybe a bit of a crossover. Besides, glass houses.

Ouch.

It was just the once, for the record.

Right.

Do you think... Judd and Poppy...

You had a pulse then.

I'm so wasted.

Hit the hay, I think.

Coming?

I'm going to stay and finish this.

I'll see you in the morning though.

Miss McLennan!

Oh, I see.

You shouldn't have.

I just wanted to say thank you.

For having us here.

Did I, um... Did I hear someone go out last night?

I don't think so.

Unless Freya went for smokes.

I can't think she'd have driven anywhere in her state.

No, you're probably right.

Probably. I wouldn't. It's not pretty.

Show me.

When?

Early hours. Between two and four.

She wouldn't have known much about it.

After the birth, without any comfort.

I only saw her last night.

Would you like a drink?

You will.

Could have been.

I mean, who knows?

I'm sorry if I was there. Good. I was thinking rude.

No, Paddy.

No. Not you.

Sir.

Something you should see.

Chloe Ali McClellan was running her own inquiry into the Chloe Brooks case.

The back office over there was tricked out like an incident room.

Once a copper?

But why?

That case was put to bed ten years ago.

I reckon she found something out.

Something that had been missed at the original inquiry.

What in God's name was she playing at?

backward, more relaxed and comfortable you become.

Three, I want you to remember a very special time.

Two, a time of celebration.

Going to a party.

Party with your sister Ruth at her college and university.

You remember that?

That's good.

That's right.

Now, what do you see?

Everybody's wearing funny clothes.

Like people in a play.

Do you recognize them?

They're wearing masks.

They're Ruth's friends.

I don't know who's who.

But I see Ruth.

She's with a boy.

Oh.

They're having an argument.

Yes.

What does he look like?

He's got clown clothes on.

Diamond. Or diamonds in different colours.

It's got a triangle hat.

I can't find Ruth.

She's not outside.

There's a door.

Open the door.

Please. Open the door, Chloe.

There's been an accident.

The boy in the clown clothes.

He's not wearing his mask.

I know who he is. The one who kissed me with his hand up my top.

Blood.

My head.

There's a... Wake her up. There's a bird. A golden bird with blood on its

It bit me.

Please.

Wake her up.

Bring her back.

Bring her back now.

Some fresher, you said.

That Judd was all over some fresher. Oh, it wasn't a fresher, was it? It was

your little sister.

This was taken where?

At Hayford?

The bay?

when the forces of law and order attacked the peace camp.

And you were arrested.

Could I, um... Could I borrow a finger for a moment, do you think?

I'm anxious to establish who's wearing what when Chloe Brooks is attacked.

Oh, good heavens.

Well, I'm afraid...

I'm unable to help you, in that regard.

Unable or unwilling?

Unable.

By dint of the simple fact that I wasn't there.

And why was that?

An undergraduate bash.

One does have a division to maintain.

Judd Havelock was a regular visitor to House Beautiful around then?

Well, I wouldn't say I was.

Er, he did some work for me. And was dating Ruth Brooks, of course.

Yes, but I had certain rules.

Not under my roof.

I don't expect you to understand that.

Being a regular paid -up member of the patriarchal hegemony, you mean?

I'm just trying to find out who killed your friend, Professor.

Now you're any closer to doing that, do you think?

I believe so.

But I could use some help.

I'm not the enemy.

Of course you are.

But don't realize that.

How'd it go?

I'll fill you in when I've made sense of it.

How about you?

Well, according to her books, McLennan was in serious financial trouble.

boat yard was barely breaking even, and then about a year ago, she starts making

cash deposits.

Four and a half thousand pounds initially, then the best part of a grand

month, going in around the first of the month.

And this would be around the same time that Poppy Toynton started making huge

withdrawals from her account.

Well, he was blackmailing her.

Over what, though?

Well, Then they're there.

What am I looking at?

Class A, Nicola.

Five grams.

That's not dispossession, that's intent to supply.

Is there any way you can help me out here?

Why would I do that?

What kind of you scratch my back sort of thing?

Look, it's big.

It's really big.

How big's really big?

What can you do for me?

Oh, pretty much anything.

I say the word and you'll be back on the street in five minutes.

I say the other word and you're going away for a very long time.

Tough on the kids, huh?

The erectee of the Nicola Thillman -known prostitute died in a house fire

year.

The tape is dated 17th May 2005, but she was never charged.

And then this.

Trennan stopped the tape and wrote the arrest off with no further action.

Missing digits three.

Bravo Alpha Zulu 834, three white escort van registered to Stuart Twenton.

Twenton. Poppy's father, I spoke to him earlier, he gave the vehicle to Poppy as

a runaround.

So it looks like Poppy Toynton brought Judd Havelock's body out here and

concealed it somewhere.

Poppy, are you sure? It could have been someone using her car.

Well, if that was the case, why has she been paying off McLennan for the past

year?

So what, Poppy refuses to play and McLennan killed her?

Not the Ally McLennan I knew.

Yeah, but she wasn't, sir, was she?

This is the latest composite of the timeline.

Being able to include Edward Florey's photos and a few bits of video recovered

from Ali MacLennan's plate.

People we can identify for sure.

Judd Havelock and Ruth Brooks. He's in the Harlequin costume.

Judd ducks out here, and that's the last we've got of him on either video or any

of the photos.

Judd just disappears.

Never seen again.

Hold up.

Who's that?

Dottore della Peste, the plague doctor.

Whoever it is, never seems to be too far away from Judd over the whole evening.

Can we go in closer?

Yeah.

Golden bird, that.

With blood on its beak.

Significance? Chloe Brooks said she was attacked by a golden bird.

I thought it was Judd Havelock.

If what Chloe remembers is true, then Judd Havelock's already dead.

So whoever's wearing the bird mask... Probably killed Judd Havelock.

Except no -one remembers who was wearing which costume.

So they say.

We have, yeah.

Hey, Ruthie.

What's up?

Festing's fancy dress.

Mr. Festing, dear pathway, we spoke the other day. I was just wondering...

Actually, I think you might be in luck.

There's one outfit in particular that we need to account for.

The dottore della peste.

We want to know who was wearing it.

Well, it wasn't me.

What were you wearing?

I can't remember.

But not that.

It's not Poppy.

I know that. I think she had a veiny costume.

A sculler?

I don't know.

Could have been Principal Ferber, actually.

Yes?

Maybe.

When did you say you were looking for him?

Welcome to Perna, plus in November.

Adrian's father used to run a shop just off the broad.

We closed down about five years ago when Dad died.

Fortunately, he was a meticulous bookkeeper. Yes, we did have a big hire

Renaissance costumes that weekend, including the masks, of course.

Bless him, he's written a note here in the margin.

Two costumes, unreturned, deposit forfeit.

Arlecchino and Vittore della Peste.

Doesn't say who hired them.

That should do, yeah.

Oh. Actually, they were both signed for and hired on the same credit card.

Last night? No, we were all here. Well, I can't vouch for Ruth, obviously.

Actually, they were asked if someone had gone out last night.

She thought she had the door. I went straight to sleep. I didn't hear a

Why? What's so special about last night?

Another murder was committed by the same person responsible for Miss Toynton's

death.

Samantha Coyle's Anne of Judd Havelock.

Judd?

What are you talking about?

Who?

He's dead.

Chloe phoned him the night she was attacked.

Look, it wasn't an accident that Poppy Toynton was killed at the Gordie.

The murderer chose that moment.

So suspicion would fall on the widest list of suspects possible.

Including us?

Yeah, including you.

So whatever loyalty you think you owe to each other or to your old alma mater,

the killer doesn't share your view.

If there's anything you haven't told me, anything you've held back for whatever

reason, now might be the time.

Frey, you remember that about the costumes at Judd's? That was nothing. He

was probably lying.

What wasn't Ferber?

Tell him.

It wasn't Principal Ferber in the bird mask. It was Diana.

How do you know that?

Judd told me.

It was hanging on the back of his bedroom door along with the Harlequin

Diana paid for it, for both of them.

I thought it was a weird thing for her to do at the time. Why didn't you say so

at the time? Because he didn't want me to ask what she was doing in Judd's

bedroom.

But why would Diana have paid for Judd's costume? It doesn't make sense.

No.

And that there was more to their relationship than any of you knew. Diana

Judd? No, I can't believe it. I won't.

It's Alibi. I know, it's what I came to tell you. Yeah, great minds. I thought

you were her turning up.

Better get across to the college. No, no, too late. She left half an hour ago.

Trapper camera's got her headed north out of Oxford.

My car!

I still can't square it, sir. Everything Alibi's ever stood for.

Lust doesn't run to a timetable.

I'll give you more of Judd's part.

Well, the opportunity for mischief was too good to miss.

Once he got his boots under the table, Ruth, Lakshmi, Freya... You can

bet he wasn't very discreet.

If it had come out that Diana and Judd had been lovers, he'd have been locked

out of Oxford.

Yeah, yeah, got it. We'll take it from here.

Iron this guy's just picked her up from the infrared. She's gone to ground among

the plant buildings. They're sending through a grid reference.

Professor O 'Leary.

Stay back!

Can we talk about this, Professor?

I never meant to kill him.

I meant... I meant depravity.

You have no idea.

We have.

I begged him.

I begged him to stop. I believed... Don't come any nearer!

Careful, Chuck.

Don't!

What might have happened?

It was Ruth's little sister.

Poor child.

And he was mocking me.

He was mocking me, and I followed him indoors.

He just had the most wicked, wicked thing.

And there was just blood everywhere.

So much blood. Poppy Torrington helped you to cover it up.

Well, well, Juliette, yes.

But you see... To be doth is nothing, but to be faithfully doth.

Things are never that easy, are they?

If only he'd been kind.

But he should have been kind.

Yes, he should.

Take the petrol down, Professor. I've betrayed everything!

I betrayed everything.

There has to be a reckoning, you see. There has to be.

Because the worst of it is, after all this time, I still love him.

What were they?

Fancy a drink?

Make a dinner, and I'm paying.

I owe you one.

No, you don't.

Eight o 'clock, the two.

All these years, I thought everything somehow was my fault.

You were all just bits of kids caught up in something beyond your control.

I hope you don't mind the liberty, Miss Brooks, but there's someone here who'd

very much like to see you.

web and floated wise.

Lady of Shalott.

What? What?

What's brought that to mind?

A pure and virtuous maiden cursed to fall in love and die half -mad for the

for it.

Can't imagine.

Judd, have a look with Noel Lancelot.

Are you matchmaking?

You old softy. Keep it under your hat.

Oh, believe me.

Just don't get any ideas on my behalf.

I wouldn't dream of it, sir.

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