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♪ I am happy

♪ I can't just turn around

♪ Leave the world upside down

♪ I'll never forget my truth

♪ It's crazy how

♪ I am happy

♪ Lately

♪ I am happy

♪ Lately... ♪

HE GRUNTS

BREATHES HEAVILY

MAN SCREAMS

♪ Believe me

♪ My thoughts are creepy

♪ But I let them all

♪ Come through

♪ Yeah, it shakes me

♪ Believe me

♪ My thoughts are creepy

♪ I let them all

♪ Come through

♪ For you

♪ For you. ♪ KEYS CLINK

Surprise.

What are you doing here?

Still leaving gruesome photos of dead bodies laying around.

It's my job.

Are you not pleased to see me?

I mean, you turn up out of the blue

and expect me to roll out the red carpet.

No need to be touchy.

I'm back, aren't I?

I can't live like this, Simone. It's exhausting.

DISTANT SIREN WAILS

Of course I'm pleased to see you.

But are you staying?

Come here.

HE EXHALES

ALARM RINGS

Hi.

MAN ON PHONE: 'All right? It's Daldry. We've found a body.

'Quite unusual, this one. We could do with your help.'

Yep, I'm on my way.

Julie Knight, 23, from Reading.

Works at a women's refuge.

Sister said she was travelling to Bristol three days ago

and she never arrived. Who found her?

A truck driver when he was unloading a delivery.

No idea how long she's been in here,

but he picked up the load four days ago.

Still haven't met your new inspector.

You said she was a bit frosty.

I... I never said that, boss. I misunderstood.

He was obviously talking about the victim.

Dr Ethan Winter.

Detective Inspector Bell. Shall we?

So, the body is completely frozen.

No sign of trauma or asphyxiation.

No foaming at the nose and mouth.

No unusual colouring.

Any sign of sexual assault or...?

I can't examine her... cos she's frozen.

Can you not at least determine time of death?

Not yet, but come to the lab later.

I'm afraid we'll have to wait until she's thawed out a bit.

Sorry. Well, thanks for your help.

Any time, Inspector. He's annoying.

What are we looking at?

Victim was murdered and then dumped in the nearest lorry afterwards?

Yeah, quite possibly. The driver a suspect?

What kind of killer would phone the police

with the victim in the back of his truck at the warehouse?

Yeah, OK. Let's get a team together

and start a detailed search of the area.

HE SIGHS

Hey. They found a girl's body frozen in a lorry.

Dr Winter's in there now... Oi!

...doing his chat to the dead.

Oh, no cause of death? No.

Total mystery. Could be anything.

LIGHTS THUD ♪ You can blame me

♪ Try to shame me

♪ And still, I'll care for you... ♪

Hello, Julie. ♪ You can run around... ♪

I'm Dr Winter. ♪ Even put me down... ♪

Case number B279, primary assessment.

Julie Knight, female, 23.

5'9". Weight 11 stone.

Body frozen solid. ♪ The world

♪ May think I'm foolish... ♪

Kidney transplant. ♪ They can't see you... ♪

You're quite young to have had one of those.

♪ Like I can... ♪

WOMAN GASPS

♪ Oh, but anyone. ♪

Bilateral linear pressure marks over the shoulders

consistent with a rucksack.

Makes sense if you were travelling to visit your sister.

Blisters on left heel and right fifth toe.

Your shoes didn't fit properly, did they?

Finger marks.

That must have hurt.

WOMAN SCREAMS: Let go of me!

Did you scratch your attacker?

MAN SCREAMS

Let's see if we can ID them.

Fly eggs.

So you must have been dead before they put you in the freezer lorry.

Hair length, 9.57 inches.

Wood anemone.

So you were in woodland.

WOMAN ON RECORDING: 'Hey, Cynth.

'I've got a couple of rides from that app,

'so I'll be in Bristol by four-ish.

'I'll call you when I get there. Bye!'

But she never arrived.

The app your sister mentioned... Car sharing.

She didn't own a car.

Very environmentally minded.

I worried about her. Her health wasn't great.

But she was so...

...free-spirited.

She told me I was too cynical, that she would be fine.

SOBBING: But she was wrong.

The world is an awful place.

My little sister.

Chilly. 12 degrees.

We have to defrost her slowly.

Police are on their way.

Which one of you two is doing the postmortem?

I am.

DI BELL: I've heard this is quite the place.

We call it The Pool.

Well, it used to be a swimming pool.

Shame it's now full of dead people.

Oh, that reminds me... eucalyptus?

For the smell.

Does it not bother you? Not really.

Oh! Oh, damn it. Oh, damn it. Sorry.

HE BLOWS NOSE

Sorry it's so cold in here.

We had to defrost at a constant temperature to avoid decomposition.

The smell can be quite bad.

You're not squeamish with blood or anything,

are you, like our friend Ellis here? What? I'm fine with it.

I've been to a postmortem before.

Good.

So, postmortem report on Julie Knight, 23.

Body has been defrosted at a constant 12 degrees.

The water's been retained for further examination.

Er, what about cause of death?

We will get to the cause of death when we've done the postmortem.

So, now that she's defrosted, Jamila, over to you.

JAMILA: Organs appear normal. No trauma or damage.

Heart? Normal anatomic configuration.

Pulmonary oedema with haemorrhagic spots.

Eddie, can you prepare a vial for the gastric fluids, please?

Opening the stomach now.

What's that smell?

Has that always been there? No, it was after defrosting.

What do you think? Describe it to me.

SHAKILY: Erm...

It's, er, like...

bitter almond.

Cyanide.

SHOUTS: Everybody, out. Out now!

EDDIE: Out now, please.

Inspector, out now, please.

JAMILA PANTS

JAMILA GASPING

You're all right. Just breathe. It's OK.

Yeah. Look at me.

You're gonna be OK. There you go.

So, I'm going to need to keep you under observation for a few hours.

And then come back to work?

No, Jamila.

Then you go home and you watch TV for two days.

Two days?! What...? Minimum.

Do you understand what your body's just been through?

Don't worry. Eddie'll take care of you.

You both OK?

Was it cyanide that killed Julie? Yep.

She had a fatal dose of potassium cyanide inside her.

Mixed with gastric acid, it was like a chemical weapon.

That's what Jamila just inhaled.

How was it administered? I'd say orally.

That quantity would kill you in ten to 15 minutes.

Can't even begin to imagine the suffering she would've gone through.

When? There were no signs of digestion,

and from the larvae present,

I'd say she was dead for between 12 and 24 hours before she was frozen.

But she disappeared three days ago. Wait.

So, let me get this straight.

A woman is attacked but not sexually assaulted,

missing for three days, poisoned with cyanide

and dumped in a freezer lorry for no apparent reason?

I better get back upstairs.

MACHINE BEEPS

HE EXHALES

I think that's as far as we can go for now, Julie.

Unless there's anything else you want to tell me?

Oh.

Well, that's not yours, is it?

This is Dr Winter.

I need a DNA extraction from a hair with a bulb.

WOMAN ON SPEAKER: 'Yes, no problem.' Thank you.

KNOCKING

We've got a match for the blood from under her nails.

He's got quite the record.

Thanks, Eddie, I'll inform the police.

♪ My saviour, the one

♪ That I've always wanted. ♪

Sorry, took ages.

He was insisting I pay on my bloody phone.

How old is that, Ellis? Are you even able to pay with it?

Oh, God, no. Wouldn't have a clue how to do that.

Luckily, I still carry cash.

Cheers. Yeah, cheers.

Anyway, it's only taken me about a month

to get you out for a drink, but here we are.

Better late than never.

You, er, came down from the Met, is that right?

What prompted the move from London? Long story.

Er, didn't get on with the super. This job came up.

And the shadow of my dad is long at the Met.

He was... Chief Inspector Gordon Bell.

Scourge of organised crime. A proper legend.

I guess I can't hide from him wherever I am.

You know, I really wanted to keep my surname when I got married,

but it has its downsides.

Well, I think it's pretty clear you're doing your own thing.

Oh, really? And what do our team make of me?

Well, they... they think you're fair-minded, diligent. Bit frosty.

SIGHS I swear I never said that.

I... I actually said you were pretty cool.

All right, he was just winding you up.

Have you known him long?

Define "known".

'I mean, I only met him when he became head of the unit.

'We've worked together a few years,

'and he's by far the best pathologist I've ever worked with.

'He can read a body like... other people read a book.'

But I can't say I know anything about his private life, though.

Never even seen him outside of work.

'But he can be very charming.' Is that right?

It'd be good for him to work with someone who's immune to his charms.

HE CHUCKLES

Sorry, am I late?

No, you're good. Haven't served up yet.

You would have been proud of me.

I went to the pub with a colleague. Oh.

Got invited to a poker game. Should have gone.

You'd fleece them blind. SHE SCOFFS

Don't be silly.

You've been in Bristol over a month, and you've done zero socialising.

You need to make some friends.

These yours?

No. Where are they from?

That hotel you stayed at last week in Cheltenham.

There's a note here saying they found them in the room.

Must be a mistake.

SHE SIGHS

Hi. Hi.

Cheers. Cheers.

GLASSES CLINK

INDISTINCT SHOUTING, SHE SIGHS

OVERLAPPING SHOUTING

What is going on? Stop it!

She took my charger again.

I was borrowing it, you baby. Ruby.

RUBY SIGHS

Hey, how was school?

DOOR SLAMS I hate it. As if you care.

'Connor will find friends in time.'

They didn't wanna move here - neither did you.

I'm fine. I like it.

It's your workload I worry about.

What am I supposed to do, not do my job properly?

You always say it was the job that killed your dad in the end.

PHONE CHIMES What is this, guilt-trip Tuesday?

Hey.

I need to have a night in London on Thursday.

Don't mind holding the fort? No.

Working away a lot.

Half wondering if I've married a spy.

It's a conference on intergovernmental AI.

I'm just a boring old civil servant.

That's just what a spy would say. HE SCOFFS

You all right?

Yeah. I'm just tired.

Night. Night.

DISTANT SIRENS WAIL

So, Mr Talbot, that's quite the chequered history you have -

aggravated assault, sexual assault, attempted rape.

Classic escalation of a violent misogynist.

Did you go a bit further this time?

I don't know what you're on about.

How did you do that?

I tripped on a step. Mm.

For the record, the suspect is being shown a picture of Julie Knight.

You knew this young woman?

No. Why should I?

Because you arranged to give her a lift on this ride-sharing app.

It's so easy online, isn't it?

An app allows a convicted sex offender

to carshare with total strangers.

So, where did you do it?

Do what? Assault her, keep her prisoner,

poison her with cyanide and dump her body in a freezer lorry.

What are you talking about?

We found your blood under her nails.

You can't show me that stuff.

Oh, what, cos you're too sensitive? Give me a break.

You're sick.

She fought back.

She fought back, didn't she? PHONE BUZZES

And you didn't like it, and I guess that made you mad,

and you killed her. No.

You're making this up.

Then how do you explain your DNA under her fingernails?

OK.

I did pick her up.

Mm. We got on well.

And we stopped for a piss in a quiet spot, and I...

You what?

She wanted to as much as I did.

And yet, her body was covered in bruises from fighting back.

That wasn't me. CHUCKLING: Oh.

She suddenly freaked out, and, yes, she scratched me.

And then she ran away.

I swear, the last time I saw her, she was alive.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

DOOR OPENS

We will look into your version of events.

So I can go?

You are in custody as a potential murder suspect

until we say otherwise.

I am in the middle of interviewing a potential suspect.

You have no right...

I found a hair on Julie Knight's body.

It's not Julie's, but it is not your suspect either.

It's Poppy Carter, five years old, presumed murdered two months ago.

Except now we know she was alive 48 hours ago,

and she was with Julie just before she died.

'So, Poppy Carter.'

Two months ago, her father, Victor Carter,

mother, Donna, a nurse, and their two kids go missing,

Poppy and her sister, Sam.

Their home was covered in Donna Carter's blood.

No bodies have been found, but the working theory

is he killed them all and has been on the run ever since.

Three weeks before,

Donna had reported Victor to the police for this.

'Bastard.'

'Also, lots of rumours in the neighbourhood

'about his abusive behaviour, but no action was taken, apparently.

'Disgraceful.'

But we now know at least Poppy's alive,

which means he's been on the run with the kids for two months.

Wait a minute.

"Large quantities of potassium cyanide

"were reported missing from his workplace at a metalwork factory."

Could Victor have killed Julie too and dumped her in the lorry?

Well, we could triangulate the truck's movements.

We have to pin this down. They have to be in the area.

We need to go and see Victor's parents.

This is no longer just a murder case.

We have two vulnerable children to save.

You're saying that Victor and the kids might be alive?

We can't be certain, but it is a possibility.

How would you describe your relationship with your son?

He's not our son. Not after what he did.

We asked ourselves so many times, "How did we create such a monster?"

We now think he may have killed again -

a young woman, to stop her from talking.

So I need to know,

have you had any contact with your son or your grandchildren

in the last three weeks? No, of course not.

We thought they were dead.

I've, erm... I've tracked the lorry

and picked up this CCTV from a truck park on the M5.

So, black car arrives in the lorry park.

Parks up next to the truck, but the driver said he stopped there

for a coffee, so he wasn't in the lorry.

Can we zoom in?

I mean, could that be Victor Carter?

It's impossible to say from that.

Rohan, wind the tape back.

ROHAN SNIGGERS "Tape"?

Or whatever it is you call it these days.

Stop. The registration might just be visible there. Mm-hm.

Bingo.

There we go.

Philip Carter.

The grandfather? What's he doing there?

Mr Carter, we know that you didn't kill Julie,

because you were at home when she was poisoned.

But have you been covering for your son?

Don't be ridiculous. HE COUGHS

So you didn't help him escape after he killed his wife?

No. And he didn't call you up again

after he'd poisoned Julie Knight to help him get rid of the body?

How did he contact you, Mr Carter? Was it a burner phone?

Cos we have no calls logged on your mobile.

You know that if you turn your mobile off,

we can still find out exactly where you were at that time?

Is this near to where you picked up the body?

You've got this all wrong.

Is that your car, Mr Carter?

And is that you unloading the body...

HE COUGHS

...where we logged your last movement?

Poor old Julie Knight had already fled one attacker.

Then she encountered your son, and her luck really ran out.

Where did he kill her, Mr Carter?

Your son is dangerous.

He beats your grandchildren.

Poppy and Sam, isn't it?

You have to tell us where they are before it's too late.

HE COUGHS

I'm sorry, but I can't.

You'll understand one day.

Philip Carter, I'm arresting you on suspicion of aiding

and abetting the murders of Donna Carter and Julie Knight.

You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned

something which you later rely on in court.

FADING: Anything you do say may be given...

PHILIP COUGHING

Histoplasma capsulatum.

That's very unusual.

DOORBELL SHRILLS

Hi, Dr Winter. Is Inspector Bell in?

It's four o'clock in the morning. Yeah.

So, is she in?

SHE GROANS SOFTLY Well, your husband seems nice.

Do you know what time it is? Yeah, 4am. He said.

Actually, I don't suppose you've got a snack, have you? I forgot to eat.

What the hell are you doing here?

Inspector, you are surely familiar with Locard's exchange principle?

Remind me. Edmond Locard.

He was a pioneering forensic scientist.

What is that? Overnight oats.

Anyway, Locard determined that when two bodies come in close contact,

an exchange takes place.

Thanks to that principle, I have cracked the case.

I know where they're hiding. Where?

I examined the suspect, Philip Carter... What?

...took some samples. I... Why?

The test results show symptoms of a flu-like lung infection,

but... but Carter's vaccinated against flu and tuberculosis.

So I did some more tests.

Good thing that I did...

...because that showed the presence of Histoplasma capsulatum.

Any more Latin and I'm going back to bed.

"Oh, what is that, Dr Winter?" I hear you ask.

Well, DI Bell, that is a very infectious pulmonary disease

caused by a fungus found in the faeces

of pigeons, chickens and bats.

But get this - it only occurs in North America and Africa.

Where could he have caught it?

Well, according to the internet, a few years ago,

some African bats escaped from Bristol Zoo,

ended up in the Mendip Hills just off the A39,

where Julie Knight's body was found.

There are caves there, where, of course, bats live.

In fact, histoplasmosis is also known as cave disease.

Oh, my God, is that your impressed face? Gah.

When did you make this?

I hope you're adding live cultures for gut health. It tastes a bit off.

Shall we go? To look for the caves?

SHE SCOFFS I will go with my team.

You're not qualified. Come on. I'll drive.

Got a much better car than what's-his-name.

Daldry.

Much better company too.

SHE SIGHS

What are you doing? Missing kids.

Dr Winter thinks he might know where they are.

We need to move quickly.

He's a handsome guy, your doctor friend.

SHE SIGHS Should I be jealous?

I'm more likely to kill him than screw him,

so you can go back to sleep.

Local police say that there are five possible caves

within walking distance

from where Julie Knight got out of the car share.

So, which cave are we starting with? The third one.

Why? No reason.

Yeah, but... Most difficult to get to.

Far from any houses, water nearby, overhanging.

It's the cave I would choose if I wanted to hide.

You're not the only competent one around here, you know.

WHISPERS: Damn it.

WINGS FLUTTER

When did they leave?

Their last meal was before yesterday, I'd say.

Christ.

They must have left after Julie's body was dumped.

They're on foot.

It'll take them at least a day to get out of the forest,

especially with the kids.

Speak to the search commander.

I want heat signature aerial support and search team dogs.

SHOUTS: Let's ramp this search up.

RADIO CHATTER, HELICOPTER WHIRRS

DOG BARKS

You coming? Do you smell that?

SHE SNIFFS No. What is it?

Compost.

Rotting meat.

Faeces.

Inspector, there's a dead body around here.

WATER DRIPS

Oh, God.

Let me call for a specialist search team.

No, I'll do it. I've got all the kit in the car.

For what? Climbing.

CHUCKLING: A man has hobbies.

You're not entering a crime scene without my officers present first.

Winter! If you call a team, they'll take hours to get here.

I won't touch anything, I promise.

SHE EXHALES

FAINTLY: Well?

Well, there's definitely a body here.

It's adult.

It's been here for a few months at least.

Could it be Donna Carter?

SOFTLY: Narrow angle between the pubis, rami and the pelvic bone.

This is male. Well?

Inspector, we've got this all wrong.

This is the husband.

This is Victor Carter.

ANTONY ON PHONE: 'Sorry I'm away tonight. Miss you.'

Yeah, I miss you too.

'See you tomorrow?' Yeah.

PHONE BEEPS

Hello?

Inspector, postmortem report on Victor Carter.

Cyanide poisoning.

The cyanide that went missing was to kill him?

So he obviously didn't steal it. Apparently not.

Someone who had access to his workplace, maybe even a set of keys,

who really wanted him dead.

Statistically, who's that most likely to be?

Statistically, the partner. Who we know he abused.

Impossible. The forensics team were clear.

They found over three pints of Donna's blood at the crime scene.

There's no way she could have survived.

She could have staged it. What?

That's implausible. How? She's a nurse.

She knows what she's doing. She could have taken a pint of blood

three times over the course of three or four days, spread it everywhere.

That is a crazy plan.

You'd have to be... ...desperate.

What if he was abusive?

What if he starts on you one day, then starts on the kids?

What wouldn't you do to protect them?

You'd get rid of him, start a new life somewhere else.

No-one would know that he died.

Sorry, it's just a daft theory. No. I know who we can test it on.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR CLOSES

So, we now know that Donna killed her husband

to save herself and the kids.

I presume you also helped her move the body and dump it down the well.

He was going to kill her.

Her and the children.

She found the cyanide that he'd stolen from work

in the bathroom, so she had to...

HE SIGHS ...to do it to him first.

If the police had listened to her, none of this would have happened.

I apologise unreservedly if we let her down,

but there is still the unfortunate fact

that she killed an innocent woman.

That was nothing to do with her. You know nothing.

Well, then who was it? Because we know it wasn't you.

WHIMPERS

It was one of the children. PHILIP GROANS

What happened?

'Julie must have run well off the beaten track.

'She stumbled across the caves by accident.'

PHILIP SIGHS

'She recognised Donna from the TV news.

'She got chatting to them,

'and they ended up having something to eat together,

'and she just wanted to help,

'but Poppy was worried that her mum was going to prison.'

DALDRY: 'Well, what did she do?'

'Donna had kept some of the cyanide in her purse to get rid of the rats,

'and she told the children not to touch it

'because it would make them sleepy.

'So Poppy got it into her head

'to secretly put some in Julie's food to put her to sleep,

'and they could run away.

'I mean, she had no idea what she was doing.'

When Donna called me, she was devastated,

but it's not her fault.

It was my son's fault.

Now you need to tell us where they are.

They're vulnerable. They'll be tired and hungry.

No.

SHE SIGHS

Come on, Mr Carter, you've got a chance to do the right thing here.

You'll never find her. She's smart. She'll find a way out.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Do you know what these are?

They're the cyanide capsules we found at the caves.

You see, what's interesting is that four of them are missing.

One of them was for Julie.

The other three...

What do you mean?

One for Donna...

...two for...

SPLUTTERS No.

She'd never do that. Are you certain?

She was desperate enough to kill her husband, Mr Carter.

Desperate people do desperate things.

Maybe she'd rather die with her children than lose them.

Oh!

HE GASPS

They're about to get on a coach to Pembroke.

She's planning on getting the ferry to Ireland.

DOOR CLOSES

SIRENS WAIL

Excuse me.

Excuse me. I'm sorry.

PHONE CHIMES

EDDIE ON PHONE: 'Doctor, a new case came in, a suicide.

'I emailed you the initial report, but can you take a look?

'I found something really odd you should see.'

SIMONE: What are you looking at?

I didn't even know you were here.

What are you making?

This? Mm-hm.

Is it some kind of fermented weirdness?

THEY LAUGH

No, this is just, er, a little thank-you for someone.

Mm. I have to go.

You promise me you'll be here when I get back?

I'll do my best.

DALDRY: Right. Come on, then, girls.

Let's go and see if we can find Granny.

Oh, my darling. There she is.

There we go. Oh.

Oh, darling, how lovely to see you.

What's gonna happen to their mother?

Well, I would hope that Donna

won't be separated for too long from her kids.

Most courts will be lenient after the abuse she suffered.

But she did kill her husband,

so she will be looking at a prison sentence.

As for Poppy...

...she had no idea what she was doing.

What's that? Oh, yeah, I forgot.

A little present I made for you.

It's a healthier overnight oats recipe.

Lots of Lactobacillus bulgaricus.

Thanks, I guess. Just a little dash of cyanide.

SHE LAUGHS

Do you mind me asking why you chose forensic medicine?

Why did you choose to become a cop?

I've noticed when you don't want to answer a question,

you just throw one back at me. OK.

Supposing something terrible happened to you, God forbid,

wouldn't you want your loved ones to know what happened?

Not from a criminal standpoint but from a human one.

Of course I would. Well, there you go.

I'd like to bring the dead some peace.

Probably sounds a bit trite, but I became a forensic doctor...

...to mend souls.

Not trite at all.

We make a good team, I think.

You think?

You trespassed a crime scene,

walked into a suspect's interview with falsified evidence,

and you quite clearly have an authority problem.

HE SIGHS SOFTLY

I've got to go, so can you, erm...?

Yeah, sorry.

My husband's away, and I wanna see my kids.

Don't forget your... Yeah, thanks.

MUSIC: 'Always On My Mind' by Pet Shop Boys

SHE CHUCKLES

HE LAUGHS

Hi, I'm back.

♪ Maybe I didn't treat you

♪ Quite as good as I should

♪ Maybe I didn't love you

♪ Quite as often as I could

♪ Little things I should have said and done

♪ I never took the time

♪ You were always on my mind

♪ You were always on my mind

♪ Maybe I didn't hold you

♪ All those lonely, lonely times

♪ And I guess I never told you

♪ I'm so happy that you're mine

♪ If I made you feel second best

♪ I'm so sorry I was blind

♪ You were always on my mind

DISTORTED: # Tell me. ♪

MUSIC STOPS

INAUDIBLE

No, no.

HE SCREAMS

HE PANTS

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