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(ALARM BUZZES)

(ALARM STOPS)

(ELECTRONIC CLICKING)

WOMAN: I've been waking up at 5am now for a year,

and, honestly, it's a game-changer.

Here's my busy morning routine as a productive mum of six.

So I kick things off with some light stretching.

Nothing too strenuous...

Oh, Hugo!

Hugo! Yes, darling?

Oh! Coming.

What's wrong?

Look, Meredith forgot to change the clock on the wall.

10:35. You can see it. Ah.

Not exactly in her job description. She was the nanny.

She was here to help us.

We're certainly paying her enough.

That is terrifying.

I'm increasing my collagen production.

Right, Paige, go and get the blackout blind.

We'll have to do the whole morning bit again.

Well, just don't lie about the time.

I'm not lying. I'm inspiring, thank you.

(SIGHS)

Discretion.

We talk a lot about it at Aspern, but what does it really mean?

When you are working for a family,

whether that's as a nanny, a housekeeper or a chauffeur,

you are in a position of trust.

You are uniquely placed to witness their most private moments.

None of it can ever leave the household.

Absolute discretion.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)

MAN: (OVER SPEAKER) Welcome to the Wyton Flavour Collective.

Come for the views, stay for the food.

OK. Just like a little bit more to your left.

Otherwise, we can't see the hashtag.

How's that? Yeah. Great. OK.

Good? Please share photos and content.

MAN: Oi!

Oh, great.

Here we go.

Hi! (FLIES BUZZ)

Are you going to do something about all this?

It's disgusting!

Leave it, Dad. Not today, alright?

See ya. Bye!

OK, I got to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright.

OK. Mwah! Alright, see ya.

Bye, bye, bye.

Don't forget the hashtag, Wyton Flavour Collective.

Danger.

Now, it can be paparazzi or even a kidnap attempt.

But you keep yourself...

...between them and the child.

Kareena.

No, no! That's right.

Keep blocking.

Good. Who's next?

WOMAN: Like this? MAN: Yeah. Oh, that's beautiful!

Big smile, big smile.

What a lovely dress. Yeah. What?

Excuse me! Sorry. Did I spoil your photo?

What are you doing? Pack it up. Let's go.

You too. Goodbye!

Yes. Goodbye.

Come on, it's our wedding! That's right.

Alright! Goodbye.

Midsummer Wyton is not a theme park.

You said it would be alright.

Oi! Agh!

(CHUCKLES)

WOMAN: Meredith.

Ms Bellrose.

Well, how did you get on?

Oh, um...

Yeah, I actually decided not to go.

I'm sorry, I just, um...

...I don't think we can come back from it.

Well, no, not if you won't talk to them about it.

I have an hour or two. We'll have a debrief.

Well, spit-spot! Oh, sorry. Thanks.

(SIGHS)

(ELECTRONIC CLICK)

Hello and welcome. My name is Meredith and I'm a...

Hello and wel...

Hello and welcome.

My name is Meredith, and I'm a...

(EXHALES SHARPLY) Hello and welcome.

My name's Meredith and I'm a nanny.

Hello and welcome.

My name's Meredith and I'm a nanny for high-status families.

(CLICKING)

Oh, no!

On this channel, I show you how to prepare healthy food

that kids will love.

Remember to like and subscribe and comment down below

to see everything I've cooked for my VIP kiddos today.

Gotcha.

Without further ado, here are some of the menus I use for my kiddos.

(CLICKING CONTINUES)

OK, here we go.

Lighting.

(BUZZING)

(LOUD EXPLOSION)

(MUSIC PLAYS)

MAN: (ON RADIO) Primary charge has been identified.

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

MAN 2: They're saying it was a homemade explosive device

hidden inside a ring light,

which is a sort of...

MAN 3: Doughnut-shaped light designed to cast a flattering glow.

Good for applying make-up on camera.

Do you have a secret YouTube channel we should know about?

No, but what I do have is a 14-year-old daughter

and a nightly argument about why she's too young for social media.

Good luck with that.

WOMAN: OK. Team!

Do we know the identity of the victim?

Meredith Nillson, 23.

She's a trainee nanny from California.

She came over two years ago to get her childcare diploma.

We're trying to track down next of kin in the US.

Seems a long way to come.

Well, Aspern College is THE place

if you want to work for the super rich.

They train butlers, nannies, housekeepers.

Things weren't going well for Meredith, though.

She was nine months into her first live-in nanny job,

and the family fired her just two days ago.

That's why she was back at the college,

sleeping on her friend's floor.

That wasn't her room, then?

No. The room belongs to Kareena Gupta,

who's a trainee nanny in the year below Meredith.

And whose was the ring light -

Kareena's or Meredith's?

Meredith's.

(WHISTLES)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

It's a pretty extreme way to murder someone.

And reckless.

It's a miracle nobody else was killed.

She has obvious penetrating injuries from shrapnel,

thermal trauma, plus blunt trauma from the desk.

Do you think this could be someone with military training?

Potentially.

You can find out how to do anything these days.

If you know where to look.

Who had access to this room apart from Meredith and Kareena?

Well, the college have keys,

and then any previous occupants could have kept copies.

But we don't know for certain

that the light was tampered with in here, do we?

True. It could have happened

while she was living with her nanny family.

Do we know why they sacked her?

No, not yet.

But the kids that she was looking after are the grandchildren

of the woman who runs this place.

Mrs Theresa Bellrose, founder and CEO.

And this is Miss Gupta. She was the first to find Meredith.

Before we start, I want to make it crystal clear

we have never had a health and safety issue

in 25 years of operation on college grounds.

Health and safety? We're treating this as murder.

Goodness me!

No, no, no, we don't do that here.

But we vet our students thoroughly.

We don't let that sort of person in.

Sorry, the sort of person who might commit murder?

Indeed. Or get themselves murdered.

Yeah. Meredith was nanny to your grandchildren, is that right?

Yes. Yes, they adored her.

As soon as my son Hugo told me that he and his wife, Ellie,

were moving back to Midsomer, I knew she'd be perfect.

But then they fired her.

Yes, well, that was a shame.

What happened?

Meredith was posting things online.

Photos of meals she cooked for the children.

It wasn't appropriate.

But listen, they've had a dozen nannies over the past ten years.

They know how to handle things.

A dozen? Is there a reason they don't stay?

Well, it's a challenging role. They have six children.

But you're welcome to talk to any of their previous nannies,

all of whom are still alive, I can assure you.

Was Meredith in a relationship?

She had a boyfriend - Jake.

He's on his way.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

Oh, I'll, um, I'll come back.

Allow me to introduce Rowan Fairbarns,

our visiting tutor, for self-defence.

They're saying this wasn't an accident.

Really?

Self-Defence?

Yes. Well, uh, hopefully they'll never need it.

Oh, kidnap attempts do happen.

You must have seen Meredith this morning for her session with you.

Yes. She, uh, she had extra training sessions with me on Fridays.

I run a martial arts gym down the road.

Why extra training? (PHONE BUZZES)

Did she feel threatened by someone?

Just enjoyed the fitness element, I think.

Jake says he's outside.

We were planning this whole life together.

How did you meet?

She was a customer.

I have a food truck at the Flavour Collective

over at Midsomer Wyton.

I think I went to one of your, um, outdoor cinema events last summer.

Yeah, those events were all Meredith's idea.

She was the one who knew how to get the influencers in,

the one standing up for us.

Standing up for you? against whom?

This family called the Fairbarns. Dawn and her father, Stanley.

Any relation to Rowan Fairbarns?

Yeah. Yeah. Want to shut us down.

Think we've wrecked the village.

Yeah. There was this council meeting last month,

and Stanley almost got violent.

Jake, are you alright?

Look, I need to talk to you again.

That wasn't the whole story about Meredith getting fired.

Ellie and Hugo have this family vlogging channel -

The Bellrose Bunch, right?

Almost a million subscribers.

They put their whole lives online.

So when Ellie kicked off about Meredith sharing recipe photos

on her own socials, Meredith snapped,

told them their whole channel was exploiting their children

and that's why they fired her.

Meredith threw her stuff into a taxi and just moved out.

How had things been before that? Not great.

The house and the kids had to look perfect for filming the whole time.

And then she had to set up these craft projects.

Ellie posts all these amazing kids activities on their channel,

but in reality, it's the nanny doing everything behind the scenes.

Had to sign an NDA saying she wouldn't reveal who she worked for.

And then when she left, they freaked out.

They knew she had dirt on them, that she could wreck their brand.

I think that's why they killed her.

Can you just calm down a bit?

You can't know that they killed her.

I'm just trying to help.

Do they know about Aaron? What about him?

Well, the eldest son tried to kiss her once.

She rejected him, obviously.

But, you know, he's pretty messed up.

What do you mean, messed up?

Well, his parents put him online since he was five or something.

Videos of his potty training, tantrums, teenage acne.

He's estranged from them now.

Yeah, he moved in with the Fairbarns family I told you about.

He helps them run the guest house.

I need to go.

You won't tell Theresa any of this came from me, will you?

Darling, listen.

Don't panic, but we might have a problem.

This survived the blast.

It looks like a case for a ring light.

But when you open it...

"Like and subscribe." A message from the killer?

Well, it's what they say in videos, isn't it?

Like and subscribe for more dating tips...

...or whatever.

A disturbing insight into your algorithm.

So this is about Meredith's social media.

Or at least someone wants us to believe that it is.

On the subject of disturbing insights,

have you done another guest lecture for the police training centre?

Not recently. Why?

One of my trainees is convinced she knows you from somewhere.

Hi!

I must have one of those faces.

How did you get this?

I found it on the floor after the explosion.

I just thought if... Have you told the police?

No, of course not. Good.

Make sure you keep it that way, OK?

OK?

(CAWING)

ELLIE: Just calm down.

(CHILDREN PLAY NOISILY) Stop it! Stop it!

Sorry about the chaos.

As you know, we are between nannies,

and we're in full-on prep for the party tomorrow.

Happy birthday.

Oh, it's not till next month,

but tomorrow works better for the brand tie-in.

HUGO: Anyway...

...we couldn't believe it when my mother told us about Meredith.

So awful. Yeah, it was really terrible.

I understand you had a disagreement with Meredith on Wednesday.

You terminated her employment.

Yes.

Our values are no longer aligned.

There must be a worry, when a nanny leaves,

that they might share private details about the family.

I imagine it would be a worry if we had something to hide.

I had a look at your channel.

The fact that you had a nanny at all would be news to your viewers.

With respect,

there are entire internet forums dedicated

to spreading hate about us.

If Meredith wanted to chime in, fine.

We'd simply add it to the list.

(CHUCKLES)

Why did you keep her employment a secret?

Well, our viewers want aspirational family content.

They don't want to see the nuts and bolts.

Your eldest, Aaron, is he here?

Uh, no. Aaron doesn't live with us anymore.

But he knows he's always welcome.

And we are hoping he will join us for the party tomorrow.

We did hear, actually, that, um,

apparently, Aaron had a bit of a crush on Meredith.

OK, I'm gonna stop you there.

My son had nothing to do with this.

Do you know? Would it be helpful

if I showed you Meredith's room, perhaps.

(SIGHS)

Surely you should be speaking to her boyfriend, Jake.

Jake? Oh.

They had a break-up last week.

This is my daughter, Paige. Ah.

What makes you think they broke up?

My bed's on the other side of that wall.

I could always hear her on the phone.

She told her friend Kareena that Jake proposed,

but she thought he was only doing it for visa stuff, so she said no.

They broke up.

Then, they got back together last weekend.

Hmm.

And this is where Meredith kept her video equipment?

Yeah.

Yeah. I don't think we've ever had a key to that door.

Have you had any break-ins?

No. Although we did have an intruder a couple of weeks ago.

I got this new friend request, and this...

...is the profile picture.

That's our ensuite.

So we changed the locks, filed a police report,

but nothing was ever done about it.

Could you forward that to me, please?

But that's just some weirdo stalker trying to intimidate us.

That's nothing to do with Meredith.

I'd like the photo either way.

It's all I wanted in the world!

Sorry.

I thought you were someone else for a second.

Paige, what are you on about? Nothing.

Sorry. Tell you later.

(CHUCKLES)

OK. (MUSIC PLAYS THROUGH HEADPHONES)

Well, that was weird. Yeah.

And not just that thing with Paige.

The entire interaction.

Someone they lived with until 48 hours ago has been blown up.

They didn't have a single question for us about it.

And interesting that Jake didn't mention the proposal and break up.

Yeah, neither did Kareena.

Yeah, prioritise background on Jake.

And let's see what Dawn and Stanley Fairbarns have to say.

(HORN HONKS)

VAN DRIVER: Oi, what's going on here?

CHILD: Catch me, catch me!

Catch me, catch me! Going to catch you!

Oh, hello again. Everyone's out back.

I'll... I'll take you through. We'd like to speak to Dawn

and Stanley first if they're home.

Oh, right.

Sure. Go and get Grandad. He's in the garden.

GIRL: OK, Dad. Tell him the police are here. OK?

Come on in.

Ahem.

Ah, police?

Right then.

Hi. I'm Dawn.

I'm the one having the public feud with Meredith.

It's not a secret.

I mean, it's horrible what happened.

She was how old? 21?

23. Right. It's awful.

But that doesn't change the facts.

She was destroying this village with that Flavour Collective.

Free food in exchange for social media posts.

You saw the coach out there?

We get ten of those every week, full of tourists.

'English country village' is a fashionable aesthetic,

apparently. Mmm.

Midsomer Wyton has gone viral, thanks to her.

People on our front steps taking photos!

Flying drones over us.

Stanley Fairbarns?

That's right. We wouldn't mind

if they were paying guests, would we?

They come to the village, get their photos, and then leave.

Traffic's a nightmare. They're losing us bookings.

I can do it!

It's this damn thing. (CHUCKLES)

It looks painful. How long have you had it?

Oh... a few weeks.

Came off a ladder, harvesting the cherries.

(CHUCKLES) Up trees in his 80s.

We heard about a council meeting

where you were aggressive towards Meredith.

Who told you that?

Dad was angry, but...

You know, I can understand why people

are pointing the finger, but I can prove that it wasn't us.

We had a meeting all set up with our MP

to discuss the Favour Collective, but I cancelled it.

I can send you the emails.

Sorry, to be clear, what does that prove?

That we'd given up fighting it.

Why? What changed?

I just di... just didn't have it in me anymore,

what with my brother and the girls being here and everything.

We moved in 18 months ago after my wife passed away.

It's been a bit of pressure on things.

I love having them here,

but it's a lot.

That sounds difficult. Yeah.

Do you, uh, still want to speak to Aaron?

I'm glad she was around, to be honest.

Only sane person there.

How do you mean?

Well, my parents see everything as content.

It's actually mad.

Like, after we moved, my little sister, Paige,

she found out one of her friends had died.

And what would you do if your kid got that news?

I'd comfort them. Congratulations.

You passed the basic humanity test.

My parents filmed her crying for the vlog.

Yeah,

that's the face Meredith made, too.

After I moved out, she just sent me updates,

let me know what was going on.

A friend of hers said that you tried to kiss her, and she rejected you.

That's weird,

because that definitely didn't happen.

You didn't misinterpret her support for something else, perhaps?

No.

I mean, I thought she was pretty and everything, but...

No.

Well, Aaron definitely had a crush on Meredith.

Oh, absolutely.

That argument that Dawn made about them stopping

their campaign against the Collective.

I mean, it doesn't... doesn't prove her innocence, does it?

I mean, there are plenty of reasons...

Are you alright, sir?

Those cherries are barely ripe enough to harvest now.

There's no way Stanley was up there picking them several weeks ago.

He lied about his injury? Why?

Why indeed?

THERESA: It must be devastating to lose your entire wardrobe.

I can't imagine it.

I've got some tops here

from lost property that should fit you.

Should tide you over until you get to the... shops.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

You're welcome.

Hi, guys. Welcome to the channel.

This is our kitchen.

This is our chocolate. We've got all the chocolate.

Let's head to the hallway.

Well, thanks for feeding me.

You're always welcome.

(ON LAPTOP) This is our living room, where...

How come he's allowed to watch that, and I'm not?

It's for work. You know them, do you?

Yeah. That's Louis, and that's Henry.

They're really funny.

Loads of people in my class watch them.

Right, that's it for today, guys.

And remember...

BOTH: Like and subscribe.

I wouldn't say they've been hilarious yet,

but they have shown me the layout of their house.

And if I zoomed in on that blazer,

I could probably tell you what school they go to.

Mum, can we make some more Paddy videos,

now that we've got some extra help?

Some of Betty's friends

have social media accounts, but Betty isn't allowed yet

because we're, like, literally the worst parents.

So, as a compromise, Sarah runs an account for Paddy.

Mmm. It sounds great. I'm happy to help.

Go on, then, Paddy. What have you got for me?

Ha! He's a natural, sir. (PADDY BARKS)

Natural prima donna.

Uh, Betty, there won't be time tonight.

You need to do your maths before dinner.

BETTY: Fine.

Oh.

How many? Kidding!

(LAUGHS)

Oh, um... sorry.

Sorry, sir. Sarah was showing me one of those stupid viral videos.

I've had quite enough of those for one day.

Yeah, I know, right?

It's crazy what, um... what seems to take off online?

Hmm.

(CHUCKLES)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER AND BUSTLE)

(COUGHS)

Good morning, sir.

Is this your attempt to take a selfie?

I'm just checking there's nothing on my face.

I was getting some odd looks from the neighbours

while I was putting the bins out.

Really? Really? I can't think why.

Have you seen the email with the phone logs?

Ellie Bellrose called Meredith 36 times in the two days

before she was murdered.

Only three of the calls were answered.

Oh, well, they're clearly

playing down their conflict with her.

The Bellroses have built a whole brand

on this image of the perfect family.

Meredith had the power to destroy that.

Would Hugo or Ellie murdering Meredith make sense

with the "like and subscribe" message, though.

Would they want to draw attention to themselves like that?

Unless the message was designed to throw us off?

And last night, I kept coming back to how reckless this was.

Whoever did this didn't care what other damage they caused.

We can assume they're fairly damaged themselves.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

(CHILDREN PLAY AND SHOUT)

(TOY LASER GUN BLASTS)

Ellie!

What are you doing here?

Oh, you got the nice ones! Thank you.

Of course.

We've got more details back on the explosives.

The ring light was one of these. OPTIGLOW 2000?

The power switch acted as the trigger.

Her blast injuries are extensive -

pulmonary contusion, perforated intestines.

I need to be on a call now,

but I'll chase the lab for any DNA on the device

because... you never know.

Hey, you've got one of your own! Yours looks better.

My pastry! My beautiful pastry!

It's all I wanted in the world!

(CHUCKLES)

Is she OK?

I've never been sure.

There you go, sir. You have that one.

So, the messages between Aaron and Meredith are quite interesting.

He keeps pushing to meet up.

She keeps mentioning her boyfriend, but he doesn't take a hint.

Not the first. Mmm.

Did Ellie forward that photo from inside the shower?

Yes. I've applied for the metadata,

but it's taking a while.

However, you look at the picture,

if you enlarge it, there's a reflection there.

A blue surfer bracelet. OK.

Anything on background checks?

Stanley Fairbarns - a few pub brawls in his 20s,

but nothing on the radar since.

He's ex-army. Explosives training?

It's unclear.

Hmm.

Rowan Fairbarns is in a strange position, isn't he?

His sister and father were at war

with Meredith, yet he was her personal trainer.

Ah, except he wasn't.

According to Meredith's bank statement,

she cancelled her gym membership ten days ago.

And then, she emailed, asking to switch to a female PT

during her notice period.

So, did she have a training session on the morning she died?

Yes, but not with Rowan Fairbarns.

So, um,

why did he lie about that?

That's precisely what I'm going to ask him.

You try the boyfriend again.

Push him on this break-up that he forgot to mention.

JAKE: I messed up.

She deserved a beautiful proposal.

And there was all this talk about her visa ending.

So I asked her... (SCOFFS) ...while we were watching TV.

And she turned you down?

Well, she didn't want to get married just for the paperwork.

I don't even know why I mentioned the visa stuff.

I wanted to marry her more than anything.

And you broke up because of it? Well,

for a few days, but we got back together.

Look, I know I should have said all this before.

Was there anything going on

between Meredith and Rowan Fairbarns?

What?

No.

Why are you even asking that?

Was there a reason Meredith didn't want to train with him anymore?

She was just bored of it.

And she found it weird that Ellie started sessions with him, too.

It was like her boss was trying to compete with her or something.

No!

There was nothing going on with Rowan.

Yep, there you go.

Looking good.

Oh, hello.

You got more questions for me?

I came to speak to Rowan, but, uh, actually, yes.

Um, if we could have a minute?

No, stay.

Sure it's nothing bad. Oh.

Oh, OK.

Yeah. In the two days between you firing Meredith

and her murder, you called her 36 times.

Why was that?

Oh.

36 - that's embarrassing.

Wanted to smooth things over.

And did you?

Well, no, because she wouldn't come back.

But I was going to call you, actually.

Meredith's friend Kareena turned up at ours with her CV,

asking for Meredith's job.

Right.

Well, she's not even in the ground yet,

and they're supposed to be best friends.

It's a bit suspicious, no?

Oh. Well, I thought so.

Oh, well,

if that's all, I need to get ready for the party.

Camera.

You should come. I've got people from my management there.

They can help you, you know, monetise things.

Sorry?

For your five minutes of fame.

May as well ride the wave.

(PHONE RINGS)

Oh, sorry.

Hello?

No, no, we said white linen for the tablecloths.

Honestly!

Why did you lie

about training Meredith on the morning she was killed?

I didn't. She was here.

But her PT session wasn't with you.

She'd specifically asked to stop training with you.

She wanted to change things up.

Some clients need that. You know, a different approach.

Look, I didn't realise it was important

who took the session.

Her new trainer will be back at 2:00 if you want to talk to her.

I will, yes.

Another thing I'm curious about.

How did your father really hurt his arm?

His shoulder?

He dislocated it, falling from a tree.

He said that he was harvesting cherries,

but they wouldn't have been ripe.

I'm wondering why he felt the need to make something up.

Well, I wasn't there.

Just going by what he said.

You haven't actually seen the nature of the injury under the sling?

No.

Why?

What sort of military training did he have?

What, you think he's hiding a burn under there? From making a bomb?

(LAUGHS) Look,

my father is capable of many things,

but he did not kill Meredith.

(PHONE RINGS)

Winter? JAMIE: (OVER PHONE) Hi, sir.

A uniform had been interviewing the students at Aspern.

Three of them say that they saw Meredith

arguing with Kareena the day before she died.

They say Meredith was in tears.

Well, that's interesting, because Kareena was round

at the Bellroses' house last night,

trying to get Meredith's old job.

Hey, listen,

the police have been asking questions about dad's arm.

Should we be worried?

Going in now with this amazing waterproof mascara.

This one genuinely stays put.

Oh, lovely!

I'll link it below.

Do you know, I'm so excited about this party today?

Just having all of my friends and family in one place...

Mum! Mum! Mum! Mummy is filming!

How many more times?!

You need to shut up! Go away! Put a screen on.

(BOYS SIGH) Go! Just shut up.

(CLEARS THROAT)

The thing I'm most excited about

is having all of my friends and family in one place.

I'm... What?! Darling, have you done something

with the footage from last weekend? The canal boat stuff?

No. Well, I don't understand.

I backed it up. It's completely disappeared.

Well, I don't know. Oh. (GROANS)

Door!

(CLEARS THROAT) (DOOR SLAMS)

(CLEARS THROAT)

Going in now with this amazing waterproof mascara.

Oh, this one is incredible. Honestly.

THERESA: If you could be there, it would mean the world to your father.

They don't want me there, though.

They just think it looks bad if I'm not.

It's purely for the channel. Well,

you know how I feel about that.

So say something then, Gran.

In public.

You're an expert in childcare.

Imagine how powerful it would be if you back me up.

You have your methods, I have mine.

Hmm?

How about Paige? Is she going?

No, she's at her friend's house.

They all are.

Adults only.

Well, that's a shame.

They do miss you terribly, sweetheart.

Right.

Extra deep vanilla sponge cake. Gluten free.

Oh, yeah. Just leave it there.

I, uh, did a really thick layer of buttercream, as requested.

Do you want to take a look?

I'm sure it's fine.

You know, I still made it for you,

even though my girlfriend was murdered yesterday.

Even though you treated her like dirt.

Sorry for your loss.

Please feel free to add a bit extra onto the invoice.

Whatever.

Enjoy wasting a good cake.

Apologies.

Come and see the kitchen set-up inside.

We've had it remodelled since you were last here, guys, so...

I think you'll remember it.

KAREENA: We were living together in that tiny room -

of course we squabbled.

And she'd just got fired, so she was super emotional.

Plus, everything with Jake.

The proposal? The break-up?

None of which you mentioned to us. Are you protecting Jake?

Only because I know he's innocent.

That boy adored Meredith.

So, why waste your time on something irrelevant

when Ellie and Hugo have such a clear motive?

So, you openly suspect the Bellroses,

and yet you went over to their house and asked them for a job.

I can explain.

Please do.

Because either you sincerely believe they're killers,

yet you wanted to work for them,

or you don't believe they're killers,

in which case you're trying to misdirect a murder investigation.

I wanted to work for them because I suspect them.

If I were living with them,

then I might be able to find some proof.

You should leave that to us. We're the detectives.

I need you to understand how bad it got between Ellie and Meredith.

Ellie was bullying Meredith, but in this horrible, subtle way.

Like, she gave for these jeans that a brand sent her,

and then accused her of stealing them.

She told her the best ring light to buy to shoot videos,

and then got funny about her shooting them.

She told Meredith which light to buy?

Were Ellie and Meredith using identical ring lights?

All I know is that Ellie recommended her one.

Bellroses', you're driving.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

DCI Barnaby.

I'll take the bedrooms. You look downstairs.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Ha-ha! Mmm.

These are dreadful. Yeah, just keep smiling.

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

Ah! Ah!

(BOTH LAUGH)

ALL: # Happy birthday to you... ?

(SINGING CONTINUES OUTSIDE)

Sir.

So, look, OPTIGLOW 2000.

There were two identical lights in the same house,

so they could have got mixed up.

We can't be sure Meredith was the intended victim.

Were they trying to kill one of the Bellroses instead?

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

Oh, thank you so much.

I just want... (SCREAMS)

(LAUGHTER)

Gotcha!

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

(SCREAMS)

Oh, thank you so much. I just want... (SCREAMS)

Some of the guests pulled her off the spike before we got down here.

It looks like this severed the carotid artery.

It's a tent, peg, isn't it?

For something big, like a marquee.

I'd say so, but it's been sharpened.

Turned into a blade.

Well, there's at least two more in there.

Literally spiked.

See if they're a match for the pegs used on this.

I'll ask the lab if we can lift anything useful from them.

Nothing from the bomb fragments or ring-light case, I'm afraid.

Are you working on the assumption it's the same person?

We don't know.

But it's possible Meredith was never the intended victim.

It was Ellie.

The, um, "like and subscribe" message

makes much more sense, though, doesn't it?

A disturbed fan or something?

We know they had that intruder.

And the cake-smash prank is a social media thing, too.

The cake was made by Meredith's boyfriend, Jake.

Ordered weeks ago.

Would Jake do this, with everyone knowing that he made the cake?

I think it's a risky move.

But then, you did say we're looking for someone reckless.

Prioritise that photo from inside Ellie's bathroom.

We need to know where it was uploaded from

because it was clearly a threat.

Can't tell the kids.

I can't.

Perhaps it's best if I do it.

Sorry. Thank you.

I don't understand why he did this.

Does he think we killed his girlfriend or something?

Are you talking about Jake?

Who else?

When he dropped the cake off, he was a mess.

Ranting about Meredith, saying we treated her like dirt.

Did he know that you were planning to push Ellie into the cake?

He was in on it, yeah.

We asked for extra thick cream and stuff.

We? Me and Ellie.

It was all her idea.

Did anyone else know?

Anyone who watched their channel could have guessed.

He'd been dropping hints about it.

I told her I wanted to get revenge.

But joking, obviously.

Ellie did a cake smash on me for my 40th.

Video got almost a million views.

Oh, roll your eyes, but what do you think pays for this house?

For the school fees?

Ellie worked hard at this business.

After the cake was delivered,

was it left unattended?

It was on the table. There were people around.

It's not like we were guarding it.

Is there anyone else you can think of who disliked Ellie?

(CHUCKLES)

Hundreds.

Literally.

Read the comments under the videos.

I assume he meant people who knew her.

Yeah, but they think they know her, don't they?

And some of them are obsessed. You saw the photograph.

They know where we live.

I want to talk to you again about Aaron.

He's clearly angry about a loss of privacy in his childhood, and...

We never forced him to do anything.

I've been reading his blog posts.

It seems he blamed his mother in particular.

He did not murder his own mother.

How were things in your marriage?

Well, according to the internet trolls, we were getting divorced.

But they were wrong.

I loved my wife.

I'll tell you something, though.

Whoever did this, they hated Ellie,

but they hated me even more.

Why do you say that?

Because they made me do it.

It was my hands pushing her down onto that spike.

I'm not a murderer, but I killed my wife.

How am I supposed to live with that?

JAMIE: So what do you think?

I want to believe him.

For Hugo to plan that - I mean, murdering her

in front of all those people - it would be the wildest

double bluff in history.

It wouldn't harm his view account, though, would it?

Murdered for clicks?

If he was going to do it anyway,

why not do it in the most attention-grabbing way possible?

One of the catering team said that they saw Aaron Bellrose

sneaking in through the side gate,

about half an hour before the party started.

They recognised him from their channel.

But he wasn't at the event itself?

No. No-one else saw him.

And there's something else.

This whole event was a product launch, right?

For matcha muffins, whatever they are.

Yeah, I felt like I saw something in Meredith's messages about it,

so I asked the office to take a look.

Meredith and Jake had a text exchange about Ellie

stealing a muffin recipe from Jake,

and then getting a big brand deal off the back of it.

So, this is actually a product launch for something Jake created.

OK, you go and speak to him.

I'll try and find Aaron.

Sir.

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS MORE LOUDLY)

(PANTS)

Inside my cake? Yeah.

Yeah, it looked like they'd been pushed up through the bottom.

And this was the cake that you were decorating

when I was here earlier? Yeah.

I did most of it yesterday. It was left here overnight.

Is it possible that someone tampered with it?

It's not exactly secure here, is it?

I'm also interested in the muffin recipe that Ellie stole from you.

I wrote it down so Meredith could make it with the kids.

Next thing we know, Ellie posts a video of herself making it,

and she's got a partnership deal.

You must have been furious.

I was angry, yeah. I'm not going to lie.

What can you do?

And yet, you still agreed to do Ellie's birthday cake.

I gave them a stupidly high quote to put them off,

but they accepted it.

And then, you actually went ahead and made it,

the evening after your girlfriend had been murdered.

Baking's the one thing that works for me.

It levels me out.

No.

No, this wasn't about money.

And this wasn't some kind of therapy.

Do you believe that Ellie Bellrose killed your girlfriend?

I didn't kill Ellie!

I swear.

When I delivered that cake, it was just a normal cake.

It was the muffins I did something to.

The muffins?

I switched some of them for my own batch

with a laxative in them. Ah.

(SCOFFS) It's pathetic, really, isn't it?

But that family think they can take anything.

I just... It just, it seemed like the one thing I could control.

So going ahead with the birthday cake,

that was so you could get yourself onto their property?

Yeah, that's all it was.

Well, then, I still need you to answer my original question.

Do you believe that Ellie Bellrose killed your girlfriend?

You're asking if I murdered Ellie as revenge?

I'm interested in your opinion. I don't have an opinion!

None of this makes sense to me.

But I'm not stupid.

If I wanted to kill Ellie,

I wouldn't do it in a way that points straight at me.

(SIGHS)

Gran says she'll be down in a minute.

We're just helping Dad settle the kids.

No rush. Take all the time you need.

I really am sorry.

No child should have to experience this.

Thanks.

I will need to ask you all some questions.

None of the kids were here.

They're all meant to stay at a friend's house.

Does that include Paige? Yeah.

And where were you? At home.

At the guest house.

All day? Yeah.

The thing is, I have a witness

who saw you enter the garden here before the party started.

OK.

I was here before the party.

They were going to show these video clips of mum.

All nice stuff.

And I thought it would be really funny

to switch them out for footage of her swearing and shouting at us.

So I paid one of the caterers

to press play after she blew her candles out.

But it never got that far, did it? He's telling the truth.

He showed me the new version.

And if he was planning to kill his mother,

he wouldn't have taken the trouble to make a video

that would never be seen, would he?

How was everything else at home?

Was everyone getting on OK?

You mean, did Dad do this?

Paige,

they have to ask these things.

It was a happy marriage. I'm sorry.

Why are we even talking about this?

It's obvious what happened, isn't it?

Mum got herself killed by some sicko troll.

And you know what? She made it easy for them.

Aaron. No.

He's right.

Mum and Dad put it all out there -

where we live, where we go to school, our routines.

It's amazing it took this long.

How was it, sir?

Not great.

There's no good way to ask teenage children

if they killed their mum, or if they think their dad did it.

I guess not.

Well, Aaron's campaign against family vlogging

is much more professional than I thought.

He's got a full legal team.

He hires out podcast studios.

He's even gone to the US to talk to other child vloggers.

Who's paying for all that? Exactly.

So I did a bit of digging,

and it turns out that it's all being funded

by his grandmother.

That fits.

She clearly doesn't approve of their social media stuff.

It's more than that, sir.

She's trying to bring it down from the inside.

As suspected, cause of death

was penetrating trauma to the carotid artery.

There were six large tent pegs

around the perimeter of the cake.

I'd say they were sharpened using an electric grinding machine.

They don't match the ones on the party marquee.

I'm trying to find the manufacturer, but there's no logos or anything.

OK, keep working on it.

I might have found out what happened to Stanley's shoulder, though.

In Ellie's emails,

I found this video.

Dawn and Stanley. Mmm.

See, look, she's pulling at him.

He then falls...

...and then, there, he's holding his shoulder.

And Ellie filmed this?

Well, they sometimes use drone footage on their vlogs,

but we found this in her emails

because she used it to blackmail Dawn.

She said that if she didn't stop sabotaging her photoshoot,

she'd send this to social services.

Have we got Dawn's response?

Yes. She agreed Ellie could film wherever she wanted.

But look at the last line of this email.

"I've already had this conversation with Meredith.

"It was an accident."

So, Meredith saw this footage, too.

Both women saw it, and both are now dead.

Which is interesting, in light of the fact

that Ellie cancelled her payment to Rowan's gym yesterday.

So, that's both victims cancelling the same gym membership,

right before they were killed.

Sounds like we'd better speak to Dawn and Rowan

if there's nothing else.

Oh.

I'm still waiting for the analysis on the spikes,

assuming the lab haven't got back yet.

Hold on.

What was that?

Nothing.

I was just showing something to a colleague.

Well, that was me.

Why are you showing someone a video of me?

He has to see it at some point.

BETTY: (ON VIDEO) And... action.

Last year, the much coveted title

of the UK's best Christmas trifle went to Mrs Sarah Barnaby.

Can she hold on to the title for another year?

Our taste test will decide.

Paddy, no!

No!

(LAUGHS)

No!

Oh, my trifle! My beautiful trifle!

It's all I wanted in the world!

Can we just scrape the top off?

There's no saving it.

I've seen that dog eat poo.

That was two Christmases ago. Did Sarah send you that?

Um... not quite.

Oh, it's our Paddy The Pup channel.

4.3 million views?

You've gone viral!

You're a meme.

I'm a what?

Oh, it's been remixed, like, a dozen times.

This one's my favourite.

Check this out.

(DANCE BEAT PLAYS ON VIDEO) (ON VIDEO) Best Christmas trifle.

My trifle! My trifle!

My trifle! Our taste test will decide.

It's all I wanted in the world!

(LAUGHS) Oh!

This is why I've been getting funny looks.

Oh, I'm sure they're admiring looks.

You drive. I need to call Sarah.

Get this stuff taken down. Might be a bit late for that, sir.

(ON VIDEO) My trifle! My trifle!

Our taste test will decide.

It's all I wanted in the world.

There's no saving it. There's no saving it.

I know how this looks.

But he was insisting

that he could prune trees,

up a ladder with a blooming chainsaw.

I was trying to stop him from getting hurt

because if he ends up in hospital on top of everything else...

It's just too much!

It's a lot, that's all.

With Rowan and the girls.

Has something happened?

It's just them being here.

And I'm glad they are. I love them.

But since... since their mother died,

Rowan's hiding at the gym.

Dad's finding any excuse to be in the garden.

And I'm expected to hold together two grieving girls

and look after a toddler.

You're handling everything on your own?

Yeah, feels like it.

Dad and Rowan aren't even speaking at the moment.

And I'm stuck in the middle.

And on top of that,

Meredith and Ellie were talking about social services.

We've seen the emails.

Meredith meant well, at least.

She saw the video when Hugo was editing it

and thought I'd lost it,

that I'd deliberately hurt him.

She said if I didn't get extra support...

...she'd talk to Dad's GP.

Whereas Ellie...? Ugh.

Pure leverage.

"Stop objecting to our photoshoots,

"or I'll report you for elder abuse."

You felt threatened by Meredith and Ellie.

If you did something in response to that,

something you regret,

you need to tell me.

No.

What about your brother? Did he know about this?

I showed him the emails.

He's the one who talked Meredith down.

I was being a silly sod with the chainsaw.

She did the right thing, taking it from me.

Now, listen...

...Aaron said someone messed with that cake yesterday

or the night before.

So, check the CCTV out front

and you'll see that Dawn didn't leave this house.

How about you? Well, I took the dogs out,

but I wasn't carrying metal spikes with me.

There's something online.

Local paper.

They're saying they were 14in tent pegs?

That's right.

Poor boy.

What's he meant to do now...

...knowing what someone did to his mother?

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

THERESA: Well, as it happens,

the American girl I told you about

isn't an issue anymore.

No. No, no.

As I said, it has to be delicate.

But we are safe to resume as before.

Really? OK.

Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks.

Yeah. Cheers, mate. Bye.

That camera only covers the front.

Anyone could have got out via the back lane.

That was my old room-mate, Ben.

I just remembered that he trains at Rowan's gym.

He said that he hasn't seen any drama with his PT clients,

but he did say that Rowan has a bit of a side hustle.

He's selling steroids.

Really? And this is common knowledge at the gym?

Well, enough for Ben to be aware of it.

Oh, and, uh, Digital have got something from Ellie's calendar.

They said that she had an appointment next month

with a law firm called Longcroft Dolan.

They specialise in high-net-worth divorce.

I wonder if Hugo knew about that.

I keep coming back to him.

You know, most female victims

are killed by their partner or their ex.

So, if Ellie was always the intended target...

The obvious answer is often the right one.

And maybe the "like and subscribe" message

was Hugo trying to throw us off

and make it look like a crazed stalker.

Which is the narrative he's been pushing.

But it went wrong.

The ring lights got mixed up, and Meredith ended up dead.

So, he tried again with the cake smash.

It was so public no-one would ever suspect him.

Speak to him again.

You can drop me at Rowan's gym on your way over.

Yes, sir.

Ellie didn't quit. Quite the opposite.

In fact, she said she'll promote us in her vlogs

if I trained her for free.

Do you have proof of that?

An email chain, perhaps?

Just a conversation.

You can see the problem here.

Two of your female clients

cancelled their memberships, and both are then murdered.

Did they know something? I explained about Meredith.

She got bored. It happens.

I managed to catch up with her new PT on my way over here.

She said that Meredith was cagey when your name came up.

Nervous.

That's strange.

I should probably mention that we've seen the drone footage,

and I just spoke to your father and sister.

Meredith was threatening to report Dawn to the authorities

for dislocating your father's shoulder,

something you all lied about.

It was a total accident.

We just couldn't let social services get involved again.

Again?

There was this thing last year.

I wasn't doing too good.

What happened?

There's an alarm on my phone

to pick Olivia and Katie up from school.

It went off, and I don't know, I just...

...sort of couldn't.

Their mum had gone, and they needed me to make it OK.

I can never do that.

What did you do?

Drove off.

I was out of contact for three days.

Just drove around. Slept in my car.

So after that, social services are bound to be monitoring us.

And then, Meredith was raising welfare concerns about your father.

She just wouldn't drop it.

In the end, I had to use what I had against her.

Which was?

She used to tell me stories about working for Ellie.

She must have thought it was OK

because I teach at the college, but...

...still against her NDA.

So I turned it around on her.

I said to her, if she made trouble for me...

...I'd make trouble for her.

The thing is, I think Meredith had another card she could play

if you threatened her.

Illegal steroids.

What? We know you're selling them.

Did Meredith know, too? Did Ellie?

I just needed to find another way to keep us afloat.

Some of the guys in here used them.

They had nothing to do with Meredith or Ellie.

I swear.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

Hello?

AARON: My keys don't work anymore.

They changed the locks after some stalker got in.

I just want it all gone.

I know you feel that way now, but...

I don't need it to remember my childhood, do I?

Because it's everywhere.

She put it all out there for the world to see.

Well, maybe she didn't understand when you were little.

But at some point, she had to.

Thousands of strangers picking over me online, commenting.

She saw that, and she kept going.

For what? For the money?

For the attention?

Or whatever it was that was more important to her than being my mum.

I'm sorry, Aaron.

When I was seven...

...I found them lying on the kitchen floor,

Mum and Dad, both totally still.

I thought they were unconscious, so I freaked out.

I was screaming,

trying to wake them up...

...and then Mum starts laughing.

And that's when I saw the camera.

They were playing a prank on you?

I was angry for days,

refusing to film.

For 2.6 million views.

Bought me a games console.

I hated her for it.

Literally hated her.

But she was my mum.

Hold on to this, in case.

You might want it one day.

Winter.

On her wrist.

Where's your sister?

Fine. I sent it.

Why would you do that? Your mother was terrified.

Exactly.

And you still didn't stop.

Stop what?

Putting everything online.

I thought if you were scared enough...

I'd tried everything else.

What do you mean, what else? Nothing.

Just deleting random video files and stuff.

What's wrong with you?

What's wrong with me is, the whole of my life,

I've been exploited by my own parents.

Because I never agreed to this.

I never agreed

to show everyone my acne and my first bra

and what I was using for my period

because some tampon company wanted to sponsor a video about it.

I never agreed to any of it.

No, Paige, I'm not having that.

You all knew you were allowed to say no.

Yeah.

And we also knew there was no other source of income.

Aaron's right.

We're all just a paycheque to you.

Paige! Paige.

You're worried it could be her?

She's 16.

Her own mother.

And yet...

And yet she's angry,

and she's damaged.

Paige. Paige!

Aaron.

Are you alright?

It's just all really messed up, isn't it?

I, um...

...I don't know what to say.

Is it OK if I give my notice?

I think I just need to move back home.

I...

You don't need to give us any notice.

Do what you need, lovely.

Thanks.

Come here.

Mmm.

I'll make some tea.

It's OK.

Sorry, lad.

This must be awful.

Back in a sec.

HUGO: We thought we were setting them up for life.

Most kids would do anything for the platform we'd given them.

Ellie had made an appointment with a divorce lawyer.

Were you aware of that?

Things have been a bit tense.

I honestly never thought things were that bad.

What was the tension about?

My mother.

She wanted me to take over the college.

Problem is, everything to do with Aspern has to be very discreet.

It's what clients look for, so...

...it doesn't work with the social media stuff.

I had to choose between the college and the channel.

Which effectively meant choosing between Ellie and your mother.

I chose Ellie.

No contest.

Did you know your mother

is financing Aaron's campaign against you?

I didn't.

But it makes sense.

A horrible kind of sense.

She really loves them, doesn't she?

Yeah.

I'll give her that.

And she felt that the channel was harming them.

What might she have done to protect them?

Nothing that extreme. No.

And even if there was, like, a tiny fraction of doubt about that,

the fact the bomb went off in her own college rules it out.

The only thing my mother loves more than her grandkids is this place.

You really got under Hugo's skin back there?

When you asked what he thought his mother would do

to protect the kids. I felt that, too.

He knows what she's capable of.

Unless he's very clever, and it was all an act.

I've been calling the station.

I was wrong. It wasn't Ellie who killed Meredith.

It was her.

You have evidence for this?

Last year, Meredith did work experience

with this A-list family on a super yacht.

In her debrief with Theresa,

Meredith told her about this actress throwing a bowl of chips

at her husband during a row.

Two days later, it's in the papers.

Ah, she thought Theresa leaked the story?

She knew she did because it wasn't actually a bowl of chips.

These were crisps.

Meredith was the only American on that boat,

and the only one that would call them chips,

so she knew the story came from her.

And Theresa was the only person she told.

Thing is, Meredith told Ellie

that Theresa was selling stories,

back when she and Ellie were more friendly.

And then, I suddenly realised,

what if Ellie used that information against Theresa,

and told her it came from Meredith?

That could be why they're both dead.

If it came out she was selling stories about her clients,

then she'd be ruined.

Kareena?

Who would be ruined?

Is there something we need to discuss?

The sale of tabloid stories to the press, apparently.

I'm sure the police have more pressing concerns

than the origin of celebrity gossip.

If Meredith and Ellie both knew a damaging secret about you,

that's something I've got time to discuss.

Of course.

We can talk in my study.

Thank you, Kareena.

Spit spot.

Due to a, um...

...regrettable accounting error,

the college is facing a rather large shortfall.

I've had to find alternative sources of income.

By selling stories to the newspapers?

And both Ellie and Meredith knew?

But it wasn't in their interest to do anything about it.

Dragging the college through the mud would just have reduced

Meredith's employability and Hugo's inheritance.

Your son chose his wife

and his social media career over the college,

so you tried to drive a wedge between him and Ellie.

And you were funding Aaron's campaign against them.

Excuse me.

(PHONE BUZZES) Sir.

To be absolutely frank, yes.

Ellie was vacuous, and her career even more so.

But like it or not,

she was the mother of my grandchildren.

HUGO: Two, one, go!

Their whole lives have changed now.

I'll do everything I can to help them, but...

...something in them is broken.

It will stay that way forever.

I would never have chosen that for them.

Not for anything.

Sir, we need to get to Midsomer Wyton, right now.

(SIREN BLARES) (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

(CAMERA CLICKS)

Huge decompressed skull fracture.

His daughter says he was on blood thinners,

so that increases the chance of intracranial haemorrhage.

Who found him? Aaron and Paige.

They claim that they saw him through the open door.

None of them knew what he was doing in here,

but they all assumed that he fell from the ladder,

only, um...

He's facing the wrong way.

His head ending up closer

to the ladder than his feet doesn't make sense.

We have confirmed that nobody moved the body or the ladder.

This was Stanley's phone,

or at least the one that he was using.

His broke last week, so he's been borrowing this one.

Oh, great. Check the browser history.

It would make more sense

if the ladder was over here when he fell.

Oh, look at that, up there. The top shelf.

It's dusty, but it's been disturbed.

I don't want to touch this ladder. Have you got one?

Can we have a ladder in here? OFFICER: Yes, ma'am.

Thank you.

Winter.

Yeah. Sorry, sir. I'll be there in a second.

I'm just struggling to get into this.

Something wrong with your legs?

Ah, OK. There's, uh...

There's a tent up here.

Or bigger - a marquee -

and we've got the guy ropes for it,

plus a mallet.

And the obvious thing missing, presumably, from this gap here,

is the tent pegs.

Stanley was asking about the tent pegs.

He'd read that they were 14in.

And he had a tape measure with him.

He was checking, wasn't he?

He'd realised that the tent pegs

that were used to kill Ellie...

...came from his own house.

And now they're missing.

Do you think this is someone that lives here, sir?

It would make sense.

That leaves three people,

two of them Stanley's children.

This might be relevant then, sir.

There are loads of searches on here for The Bellrose Bunch,

and especially Ellie Bellrose.

But they're all from two or three years ago,

when the Bellroses didn't even live in Midsomer.

And before it was Stanley's phone.

And then, in the same time...

...there are these searches.

"How to be a better mum."

"What to do if you're not suited to being a mother."

And self-harm content.

Whose phone was Stanley borrowing?

Did it belong to Rowan's wife?

It was Jen's, yeah.

You said she died.

Did she take her own life?

Well, yeah, but what's this got to do with Jen?

Where's Rowan now?

Don't know.

Well, he said he was going to get some water,

but that... that was quite a while ago.

And...

His van's gone.

He bought dahlias earlier.

He always takes them to Jen's grave.

Today was her birthday.

Where is Jen buried?

(BELL CHIMES)

It's OK.

It's OK.

I knew it was coming.

I just wanted to spend a bit of time here while I still could.

We've seen the internet searches that Jen made before she died.

She was clearly very distressed.

Getting pregnant again in her 40s...

...wasn't exactly the plan.

After Ivy was born...

They said it was baby blues, but it was more than that.

She herself off,

spending hours on her phone -

video after video of these influencer families.

Including Ellie and Hugo's channel?

(CHUCKLES)

That was the main one.

They made her feel rubbish, you know?

Why wasn't she making organic baby muffins?

Why couldn't she get up at 5am to do... do a workout?

She felt like she was failing,

and she didn't know how to be a good mum,

and nothing I could say would...

I just didn't say the right things.

It must have been a shock after Jen died

to suddenly see the Bellroses in Midsomer.

I recognised them straightaway...

...but it took a minute to realise what Meredith was doing with them.

And nanny who trained at the college.

Bellroses don't admit to having help.

Everything that Jen was comparing herself to...

...the perfect parenting, the homemade Halloween costumes,

it was...

...it was all fake.

They had an army of people helping them.

And you were angry.

I started binge-watching their channel, every night,

going back over the vlogs from around the time that Ivy was born,

picturing a cook and a nanny, just out of shot.

So this was about revenge on Ellie.

"Like and subscribe."

Meredith was never the target.

Meredith was a terrible mistake.

What happened?

I paid their cleaner to let me in.

I got the model number of Ellie's ring light.

I bought the same one, hid the explosives, swapped them.

Everyone had to be out of the house on Friday mornings

so Ellie had a quiet house to film in.

I honestly didn't think anyone else would get hurt.

But Meredith owned the exact same ring light.

It must have got mixed up when she moved out.

You're not expecting a reference after this?

I don't expect anything from any of you.

When nothing happened, I...

Mine. Thank you.

...I just assumed it failed to detonate.

I mean, I was just following the instructions

that I've got online.

(TICKING)

But before I could get it back...

(EXPLOSION)

When I heard about Meredith, it was...

It was horrific.

I had no choice after that.

What do you mean?

Well, I had to keep going.

Ellie told me about the cake smash at the gym.

It wasn't difficult to get into his truck.

Pushed the spikes through the sponge.

Easy.

? Happy birthday, dear Ellie... ?

Oh, thank you so much.

I just want... (SCREAMS) (LAUGHS)

Except it wasn't, because it didn't end there, did it?

Your own father ended up dead.

Dad, what are you doing?

Counting the pegs for the marquee.

There should be 30...

...but we've only got 24.

Dad... There are six pegs missing.

Dad, I can explain, but I need you to come down.

I'm alright.

Dad,

come on, come down.

Come down, Dad! Dawn!

Dad, stop it! Dawn!

Shut up, Dad! Shut up!

Aaron! Dad! Dad!

Aaargh! Dad!

I went into autopilot.

Put the tent pegs in the boot of my van.

I went inside.

I did the dishes.

And I waited for someone to find him.

All this - Meredith, Ellie, your father -

it's surely not what Jen would have wanted.

Of course not.

But she was a much better person than me.

That was always the thing.

You couldn't see it.

You were perfect.

Absolutely perfect.

To our girls, you were the best mum in the whole wide world.

I'm sorry, Jen.

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

(BELL CHIMES)

A Christmas trifle. (CHUCKLES)

A key component of every summer barbecue.

It's my attempt to make it up to him

for uploading that video.

Only this time, I'm taking no chances.

(CHUCKLES)

Betty...

...do you still want help making another Paddy video?

Because I'm thinking, "Paddy, the prison years."

(PADDY WHIMPERS) Thanks, but no thanks.

The video went all around her school.

She's incredibly embarrassed about it,

which is actually brilliant because she's seeing firsthand

how you can lose control on the internet,

and how that can be completely humiliating.

Oh, yeah. It's marvellous.

My abject humiliation has been so helpful, I might do it again.

Still being stopped in the street?

Oh, that's tailed off now. I sort of miss it.

Tell them about the doctor's receptionist.

Oh, so I went for a check-up last week.

She started playing it at me.

That's very unprofessional.

I mean, who would...? Whoops! (DANCE BEAT PLAYS)

(OVER LOUDSPEAKER) Best Christmas trifle.

My trifle! My trifle!

My trifle! Our taste test will decide.

It's all I wanted in the world!

There's no saving it.

There's no saving it. (BARKING)

I've seen that dog eat poo.

Dad!

Embarrassing Dad mode, fully activated.

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

Oh!

(LAUGHS)

(PADDY WHIMPERS)

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