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Happy birthday, son...
wherever you are.

MOBILE RINGS

I'm sorry.

I'll call you back.

I thought I said I would call YOU.

I don't see why that is a problem.

Forensics are going to deliver this
afternoon. 'That IS the problem.'

According to the log, there are
about 4,000 items.
'Come on, Spence,'

it's no problem. We can handle it.

Just don't tell old Christie, or
else he's going to climb the walls.

It's a bit late for that, boss.

We've gone through the ceiling,
Peter. Hitting the roof, actually.

Oh. I thought our brief was simple -
we cherry-pick cases other forces
can't crack, then bag the credit.

Yes, I know... But you insist
on taking on lost causes.

4,000 items of evidence, Peter! How
many man-hours is it going to take?

Well, why don't...?
Why don't...?

Hey! What the hell's going on?

Peter?

Hey! What are you doing?!

Come away!

Get back! Get away!
Get off me!

Get away from the car!

Get OFF me!

Get away from the car!
It's going to blow, you idiot.

It's not going to blow up!

What are you DOING?!

It's water, not petrol. I don't care
what it is! You can't set fire to
a car in the middle of the street!

What's it got to do with you?
You can't just leave it there!

It will get cleared away. Look... Get
OFF me! Just mind your own business.

Excuse me,
but this IS my business, OK?

Right.

PHONE RINGS

Hello.

- Is that Mr Coleman?
- Speaking.
- Father of Marina Coleman?

Marina?

Um, not exactly. I'm her uncle.

Well, your niece has been involved
in an incident.
Is her mother there, please?

'Hello?'

Oh! Good morning.

Make yourself at home.

Not short of work, are you, Grace?

You don't need to trawl through
archives, looking for job creation
schemes? Not that I'm aware of.

So why, in God's name, has Boyd
taken on this extortionist case?

What case? A couple of years back,
someone threatened to contaminate
the food in a supermarket chain

unless they paid him half a million.
They traced the call,
but missed him by minutes.

Is this the forensics? Mmm.
Nearly 4,000 items they hoovered up

from the street around the call box.
How long are you giving us on this?

I'm giving you all a deadline
of three weeks.

The only reason I can justify
this group's existence is by solving
the crimes other people can't.

We cannot allow ourselves the luxury
of wasting time on lost causes.

Tell Peter he should have been here
half an hour ago to see me. Ralph,

take it easy with Boyd.
Why's that?

It's his son's birthday today.

How old would he have been?

Twenty-five.

I'm afraid I'll need a statement
from you, sir. Just hurry it up.

Take a seat, will you, please?

Probably get away with a caution.

I didn't ask you to do me
any favours, did I?

What is it with you? So I set light
to a car in a public place -

"Ooh, you naughty girl."
Couldn't you mind your own business?

I think I should've done
exactly that.

What kind of detective are you?

I work in the cold case squad.

What's a cold case?
Unsolved murders.

It's Boyd.
I want to speak to DCE Christie.

No, don't disturb him.
No, that's OK.

Excuse me? Just one second.

Right, I'm on my way.
All right, thank you.

Are you the policeman that found
her? Detective Superintendent Boyd.

Gwen Coleman, her mother. Pleased
to meet you. Is everything OK?

Yeah, the duty sergeant
will deal with you. Oh, thank you.

Oh, hello.

Hi, there. Mike Coleman. Hi.

What's going on?
I caught her setting fire to a car.
Where? Under the arches.

That's, er...not the first time
it's happened.

What, she's done it before?

Yeah, nine years ago,

my older brother, Perry,
died in a horrible car accident.
He was burnt alive.

She idealises him still. She's never
really got over her father's death.

Do you know there are
300 cigarette butts in the inventory?

Must be a heavy smoker. It'll take
me a lifetime to get through it all.

Are you getting overtime? Yeah,
if I live long enough to spend it.
Got a cold? Ohh...

You should take it easy.
Yeah, you're very funny(!)

I should have my own show.
..She works too hard.

Spencer, if she didn't have
forensics, what else would she do?
Exactly.

Excuse me, can I help you?
I'm here to see DS Boyd.
Have you got an appointment? No.

I had to take her down to the
station to make a witness statement.

What a way to start your day,
and I've ruined my bloody coat!

All in the line of duty.
In the line of duty, my...!

Mel! Get this
to the dry-cleaners, will you?

Sorry... You can't just walk in here
without making an appointment!

You didn't make an appointment
when you dragged me to the ground.
How did you find out where I worked?

You said you worked on cold cases.
And I've got a cold case for you.

Marina, you can't hire me! Well,
take a look at it. What is this?

You just wait a minute!
..Mel, dry-cleaners!

Yeah, as if.

What's going on in there? Who knows?
Have you got my file, please?

I've started a book. Odds on
she's jail bait. Three to one
she's Boyd's long-lost love child.

Bit close to home, Spence. It would
have been his son's birthday today.
Really?

Hi.
Can I have extension 257, please?

The coroner recorded an open verdict
which means the case can be reopened.

It doesn't necessarily mean that,
Marina.

Just look. You will see
that it doesn't make sense.

My dad's car hit a wall.
Five minutes later, it explodes.

The postmortem says that he...
Will you, er...sit down?

The postmortem says
that he got smoke in his lungs,

but a dead man can't inhale smoke,
so he must still have been alive
after the initial impact.

What happened in those five minutes?

The coroner accepted that he didn't
get out because he was unconscious,
but I've done my own research.

The original accident investigation
says the front hazard warning lights
weren't on when the car hit the wall.

But they didn't check the back ones,
and I have.

And they were on
when the car exploded.

So how could he have been knocked
unconscious when he managed
to turn on the hazard warning lights?

Right.

I'm...

I'm very...sorry, Marina,
I really am...

sorry that your father
had such a tragic death,

but it's nothing to do with me.

I deal in cold cases...

serious crime.

And what do you call a serious crime?

Murder. And how do you know that
that wasn't murder?

No, no, no, no, no...

Hang on.

Right, you're going to think
I'm mental...

I already do,
so you've got nothing to lose...

I keep seeing him. Who?

My dad. I keep seeing him.

He's haunting me.

I keep dreaming about him,
or I'm walking down the street,

or I'm on a train
and I keep seeing him.

Don't get me wrong -
I don't believe in ghosts

or souls or afterlife or anything,
and I know these are hallucinations,

but I keep getting them.
They're happening all the time now.

And it means
there's something wrong.

There's something wrong
with his death - he's not at peace.

OK.

Sit down.

Spence!

Give me those...filament things.

Don't let her out of your sight.

Mel!

Can Frankie check if these filaments
were illuminated enough to go back?

I thought we had to get a result on
the supermarket extortionist case.

Is this high priority?
Why are you arguing with me?

I'm asking you a question.
Just do it. Fine, I'll do it.

So are you friends with the boss?
Can't believe anyone really gets
friendly with him.

Sounds like you know him
really well.

Maybe...

Maybe you could do a...
psychological autopsy on...on him.

Yeah? Don't you think it would be
better if I did a profile on HER?

Why? Why?! She says she keeps
seeing the ghost of her father.

Her mother's in a relationship with
her uncle - her father's brother.

Can't you see it, Boyd? It's a
mixture of wish fulfilment and guilt.

She can't bear the thought that
her father died like that, right?

She wants him alive so she comes up
with alternative explanations.

But there ARE holes in the accident
investigation, you know.

I mean, can't you just talk to her?
You know, find out...

the situation.

OK.

Thanks.

On one condition.

What? You tell me
why you feel so responsible for her.

I don't feel responsible for her!
You saved her life.

No, I did what anyone would do. I
pulled her away from a burning car.

The Chinese have a saying
that if you save somebody's life...

they don't owe you, you owe them -
for the rest of your life.

That's...that's ridiculous.

How's it going?

I've got over 200 sweet wrappers, 171
assorted till receipts and tickets,

56 pieces of tissue
and a bag of smelly old fag butts.

Didn't SCG get anything on him?
Yeah, they THINK it might be
his DNA on this coin.

There you go,
can you count those for me?

But it doesn't match anything
on the database,

and without a match it's hopeless.
We've got his voice on tape?

Yeah, but it's very distorted.
Why, what have you got?

Boyd wants you to check
to see if these filaments were
illuminated when they broke.

It IS something
to do with this case?

Nothing to do with this case.

You ARE joking, Mel?! I've three
weeks to sort this! Does he not think
I've got enough on my hands already?!

I know. I wish I could help.
I'm sorry, Frankie.

So how old were you
when your father died?
Fourteen.

The really sad thing is I'd only
really kind of just got to know him.

He was away a lot when I was a kid.

Why was that?
He was in the Army.

Then he was a war photographer,
so he was away in the field.

That must have seemed very dashing.

I know what you're thinking.
Daughter can't accept father's death,

so she starts
having hallucinations.
Oh, you read minds as well, do you?

What I was actually thinking was,

this all happened nine years ago.
Why open the case now?

Mmm, yeah, I know.

I mean, see, that's the strange
thing about it all.

I have been through years
of counselling about it and I had
finally accepted my dad's death.

But it's just been in the past
couple of months that he's started
haunting me and I don't know why.

Why has he decided now? Why has
he decided to come back now?

It's strange.

Go on.

Say it. You think I'm hysterical.
That's what my family says.

In any death, there are
only four possible explanations.

Death by natural causes,
death by accident, death by suicide,

or death by murder.
Well, it wasn't by natural causes
because he was burnt to a crisp.

Right. And as you're sure
it wasn't an accident, that
only leaves you two alternatives -

suicide or murder.

TAPE: 'The money hasn't arrived.
I warned you what would happen.

'You'll learn your lesson.
The money hasn't arrived...'

Hi. Have you got a result yet?
No, I meant on the filaments.

Oh, er...yeah.

The brake was hot.

She was right. The lights WERE on.
'The money hasn't arrived...'

Have you thought about voice
recognition? Yeah. I think he's
muffling the phone with something.

Thanks for this. Sounds a bit like
you, doesn't it? Yeah, extortion.
I've often thought about it(!)

'The money hasn't arrived...'
Oh, my nose...

'I warned you what would happen.
You'll learn your lesson.'
WINDS TAPE BACK

'The money hasn't arrived.
I warned you what would happen...'

Indra, we've got his DNA on this,
haven't we?

What the hell is Boyd playing at?
They're up against it with this case

and he's off chasing shadows because
of a girl who likes torching cars.

That may be a case,
but what he's doing is illegal.

Forget Boyd. I'm thinking about
our clear-up rate, my career.

If Christie finds out,
where does that leave us? Fired.

These arrived by bike.

Oh, thanks.

It's to do with that girl, isn't it?
Yes.

Why's Boyd on such a mission
about this? Mel, you know why.

He's lost a son, she's lost
a father and they're both haunted.

It pisses me off.
We're supposed to be professional,
not follow personal agendas.

If Boyd has a problem dealing
with his son's death, fine, but
he shouldn't drag the team into it.

He should just go and see
a therapist or hug a tree.

Not for me, thanks.

Really?

I feel I'm going to get
a lecture on responsibility.

Cheers.

What do you want?

To give you a lecture
on responsibility.

Oh, Grace, it's so easy to justify
the logic, isn't it?

The statistics, forensics,
paperwork, crime patterns.

It's the other ones, you know...

..the "I know" ones,

the "how-do-you-do".
You're on your own -

no logic, just I can do this.

It's you recognizing
the damage in someone.

You know you can find a reason.
THAT is difficult to justify.

Well, that's what I feel
about Marina Coleman. It's, er...

It's an "I know" case.

Yeah, I'm sure your instincts
are absolutely right.

But there's a team of people
out there who don't know
why they're on this case.

You've got responsibilities to them
as well. Yeah, well,
if it goes wrong, I take the rap.

That's not going to get us anywhere.
I don't want them to approve, Grace.
I just want them to do their job.

But it helps if they believe in it.
Now, they're out there surrounded
by a backlog of unsolved murders,

and yet all their efforts
are being put into THIS.

Sorry, um... It's OK.

Please just...

Just a leap of faith

and a couple of days,
that's all I need.

I know.

How did you find it?
Oh, a bit of lateral thinking.

You need a snotty nose
for these things. When he called
with his blackmail demands,

his voice was muffled.
Now, we assumed that was deliberate,
but what if his voice sounded strange

because he had a cold?

So we tested these tissues.
And we found this one.

Look, the DNA is identical to the
DNA we found on the coin. Great...

It's definitely the same person who
handled the coin. Very impressive,

but we still don't have a HIM to
match the DNA to. Yeah, well, look
at the stain on the tissue paper.

It's an unusual mixture of chemicals
which should give us a trace.

OK, I'll put the team on stand-by.

OK, listen up, everybody. Boyd!

Sometimes I'm so clever
I scare myself.

The stain on the tissue
is a kind of French polish.

Most French polishers
make up their own mix,
which narrows down the search.

Great. So you know what to do, then.
That's French polishers within
a 50-mile radius of the call box.

Yellow Pages...

bottom shelf.

So that's good, then.

What?

Christie gave us three weeks and we
cracked it in twelve hours. He can't
complain about our clear-up rate.

Now, I don't think we do all this
to satisfy Christie's
performance targets, do we?

I mean, I don't.

'It was the unmistakable smell of
death which led us to the basement.

'There we found the bodies

'of a dozen elderly patients
and their nurses

'who had been shot at close range.

'Innocent civilians had fled
until they could flee no longer.

'We spoke to the man who found them,

'war photographer Perry Coleman.

'This wasn't a battle, it was a
massacre. A dirty, one-sided affair.

'There are no civilians in this war.

'Everyone's a target.
These people just happened to be in
the wrong place at the wrong time.

'We've got to tell the world...

'then maybe someone will sit up
and stop this...this horror...

'from spreading any more.

'And if Europe stands by...
and lets this carnage happen,

'we'll all be casualties.
Violence is contagious...

'Thank you, Mr Coleman. We got...'

CLAPPING

Thank you, thank you!

Bit late to start work.
Haven't gone to bed yet.

What's going on? We got him. Who?

The extortionist. Frankie narrowed
it down to a French polisher.
We had 30 within a 20-mile radius.

Uniformed started knocking on doors.
About half way down the list, a
Joseph Lewis confessed on the spot.

Even showed the boys in blue
his collection of mercury.
Seemed he had a guilty conscience.

Pats on the back for everyone.
Well done. I knew you could do it.

Major brownie points, Peter.
It's always our aim to ease
the path of your promotion, sir.

You need a bit of luck
in this business.
That was pure hard graft!

And genius!
Oh, yeah, and that.

Nice one, Frankie. Thanks, mate.
What a team!

Grace.

Psychological autopsy.

Coleman was an adrenaline junkie.
He was mentioned in despatches

from the Falklands.
When he came out of the Army,
he replaced his rifle with a camera.

He was very good. Took some amazing
photographs, and took risks
getting the film out of the country.

So he could have been targeted by
someone? It's possible. There were
rumours he was on a death list.

He was world famous. Mm-hm.

Medical? Yep.

Mel! We're going to pay a visit.
Who to?

On return from the Falklands,
he was diagnosed post-traumatic -

he had flashbacks, short-term
memory loss, and he was paranoid -
thought someone was out to kill him.

Just because you're paranoid...
Exactly. But he WAS traumatised

and that meant he could be violent
to others as well as himself. Mel!

But... I haven't finished!

Grace, do you want to hear my joke?

There's not much to go on, is there?
If this is a proper interview,
shouldn't we be doing it here?

We're just having a friendly chat
about Marina and her concerns.

How do we know we're not wasting
our time? We don't, until we try.

Well, I know what my instincts
are telling me. Mel, if you've got
a problem, keep it to yourself.

You bump into this girl by accident,
then it turns into a case.

Isn't it all a bit coincidental?
Coincidences happen.

I thought you didn't believe
in them. What's your point?

Don't you think we work better as
a team when we separate our personal
from our professional interests?

God, you sound like a police manual.

Marina doesn't think your husband's
death was an accident, Mrs Coleman.

She says it should be investigated.
No!

How do you feel about that?
Well, how do you think she feels?

Marina's never let Perry rest in
peace. I know how she feels, though.

I've had dreams myself
that he's alive somewhere, or that
it's all been some horrible mistake.

I still half expect to see him walk
back in this room. All right, love.

Thanks. We all miss Perry...

very much, but what Marina's doing -
raking over the past -

it's just going to upset her more.

Perry was, er...
He was a hard man to get to know.
He didn't like to show his feelings,

but then he'd seen things
that most people wouldn't see,
wouldn't WANT to see in a lifetime.

Did he ever threaten you?
No, of course not. Mrs Coleman?

No. Perry was always very much
in control of his feelings...

until he went to Yugoslavia.
So in 1991, he covered the siege
of Vukovar?

He was the only one to get in there.

His photographs are published
all over the world. He won awards.

You wouldn't know it
from the way he started to behave.

He started drinking. He'd wake up
in the night, screaming. Gwen.

You don't need to talk about this
if you don't want to.

And then he really lost it. Started
thinking that he was being followed,
that they were out to get him.

He was really scaring Marina. How
long before the accident was this?
Er...couple of months.

I asked him to move out.

So you were separated
just before the accident? Yes.

I didn't know that.
I couldn't cope any more.

Living with him was like walking
on a minefield, day in, day out.
Anything could set him off.

I had to get him out.
You did your best, love.
..The marriage was over by then.

Perry was abroad...most of the time.

I think we only kept it together
for the sake of Marina.

He adored her.

After what you saw
of the massacres and killings,

do you think there's any possibility
that Perry could have been desperate
enough to take his own life?

Why are you doing this?

Hasn't she suffered enough? Sorry...
We are just trying to piece
together exactly what happened.

Well, you're trampling all over the
memory of my brother. Mike, it's OK.

So what about, um...Army pension?

You know, life insurance policy?

Well, we have his estate,
the royalties from his photographs.

Marina lives off an annual sum from
the insurance and family income...

No. You're supposed to caution us
and take us down the station,

and we're supposed to have
a lawyer present. I'm sorry, sir.

We just wanted this
to be a friendly chat about Marina
and a few of her concerns.

Well, I don't find it very friendly.

So what do you think now? Brother's
covering up. You still don't think
we should be involved?

No.

It looks like suicide.
Yep, that's a possibility.

If I push this any more,
they're going to reopen the inquest.

Yep, and Marina will lose
her insurance money.

Do you live here on your own?

What does it look like?

And, no, I haven't got a boyfriend
either. Anything else?

Sorry, I... I was just asking.
I didn't mean to be personal.

Are these the photographs
that won all the awards? Yeah?

Which side was he on? Whoever pays
him. Who is he? My dad knew him.

Rod Brogan - soldier of fortune.

Why's he crying?

Because he's just seen
those dead bodies.

Your father's lucky
to have someone so devoted to him.

I wouldn't call him lucky. Do you
want to be a photographer like him?

I'll never be
a photographer like him.

He went right to the edge...
over sometimes.

You've got a leak.

Expensive business, isn't it?
The equipment - everything.

I get an allowance from his pension,
an annuity from his insurance.

It's Mum and Mike
who live off his estate.

Why don't YOU benefit from that?

My dad's dead.

I'm not living off the royalties.

I can't....

What're you getting at?

Well...

The likely outcome of our enquiries

is that you'll find
your father took his own life.

He wouldn't do that. I know
you don't think he'd do that.

But if we find it was suicide,
then the insurance company
would stop the payments completely.

Do you think I care about that?

No, but you need money, don't you?
For your work, your career and
to look after this and everything.

You just don't understand, do you?

It's not about the camera, or the
films, or the money, it's about THIS.

Facing the truth, looking it
in the eye, even if it hurts.

That is what my dad taught me to do.

He was right.

So you want me to continue?

Yes.

Yeah, I do.

Good.

Yeah, all this is consistent
with a high-impact collision
followed by intense heat.

He's not wearing a seat belt.

Well, that doesn't mean anything.
He could've taken it off to get out.

But if he had time to escape,
why are the doors still locked?

He might have
locked them by mistake,

or the impact could have activated
the central-locking device.

I wonder how they got the ID?
DNA profiles were so much
less sensitive in those days.

No dental records, by the look
of it. That's a bit weird.

No, not really, especially with men.
Men? They're scared of the dentist.

Here it is...

He was ID'd by a watch
and his old Army identity tag.

Blimey, you wouldn't get away with
that these days. Get away with what?

What's this?

It's the accident file for Perry
Coleman. Where did you get it from?

The insurance company.
Who thought of that? Spence.

Spence, why didn't you tell ME
you were making this request?

It's routine. You've alerted
the insurance company that
there's a query over his death!

Marina is living off the annuity!

I'm sorry, I didn't realise that...
No, clearly not!

So what do you want us to do now?
You've got to follow it through.

I want you to go over all the events
leading up to the crash
blow by blow.

Has Christie signed off on this?
Never mind Christie!

What if we can only prove
it was suicide?

Nine years on, I doubt there'll
be any forensic evidence.

Has the road layout changed?
Not for the last hundred years.

The report suggests he lost control
at high speed approaching that bend.

What kind of speed do you think
you could get up to here?

50 tops.
The run-up's not long enough.

OK, so at approximately 50mph,

the driver's door
scrapes this wall.

It's amazing it's so clear after all
these years. That looks like the car
hit the wall and then bounced off.

You'd expect more of an angle
if it had been out of control.

The collision must have been enough
to rupture the petrol tank. Causing
the explosion. He didn't brake.

But if he had, the impact velocity
would be...? Less than 50.

Yeah, so enough to stove in
the front of the car.

But it almost looks like
he accelerated.

The clock in the car
marks the impact at 4.54pm.

But the victim's wristwatch puts the
explosion at 4.59 - 5 minutes later.

Why does he just sit there?
He's concussed.

No, the hazard lights were on - he
must have been conscious. 5 minutes!

The hazards came on when he crashed?
No, the hazards were off at impact
and on when the car exploded.

Right. Perhaps the crash stopped him
from getting out of the car?

You're in a collision with a wall,
what do you do? Get out - quickly.

OK. You've got to
get your seat belt off,

unlock the car, you're panicking.

Yeah, but how long does that take?
It doesn't work, Spence.

He must have been conscious, no
serious injuries - why wasn't he out?

Oh, God, that's all we need.

Get rid of her, Spence. Yeah.

Hi. I knew you'd be here.
There are other explanations
for the missing 5 minutes.

I thought you'd need help.
We are assuming that the watch
and the car clock were in sequence.

My dad was obsessive about things
like that. Leave it for the experts.

Given that I've discovered this.
Spence! OK. In this make of car,

the deadlocks can only be activated
from the outside. So?
So someone else was there.

After the impact the second person
gets out. My dad's alive, locked in
and the petrol tank's about to blow.

Marina, there is no evidence to prove
that a second person was present.

There's no evidence to prove there
wasn't. You can't prove a negative!

Even you have admitted that it was
a head-on collision, yeah?

The car was crashed deliberately.
Let's follow it through.

If the car was... The boss wants
Marina back at base - now.

What are you doing here?
We'll talk later.

What? Come round
to our place tonight.

It's not your place,
it's my mother's place, OK?

What have you been doing here?
Marina, come on.

What have you been saying?
Marina, come on, let's go.

What's going on? They found
a suicide note from her father.

What's happened? What's my uncle
told you? Do you want to sit down?

No. I don't want to sit down.
Just tell me what's happened.

Your uncle gave me this.

Apparently, your mother found it
five years ago,

when she was clearing out
your father's things.

I have to ask you
if you recognise the handwriting.

You expect me to believe this?

Well, you said you weren't afraid
to face the truth.

This isn't the truth,
this is rubbish.

It's evidence, Marina.

I don't believe it.

That...is what I think...
of your letter!

Right, you don't know the truth!
You haven't got a clue!

But I do because I knew my father
and I knew what he was like,

and he would not have left me like
that! He just would not have left me!

Why isn't it bagged?

Did SHE do this?

Boyd, why did you let her touch it?

It's her letter, Frankie. It was
her father saying goodbye to her.
It's also evidence. Nice one, Boyd.

You should be happy
you've got a result.

It's not exactly
the result I expected.

It's like you're always saying -
truth at any cost.

Yeah, but it's not me
paying the price, is it?

Well, why don't you think about it
this way...?

At least Marina knows the truth now.
She can grieve for her father,

and get on with the rest of her life.

Yeah, but she had hope in her life
this morning.

The Polish have a saying -

hope is the mother of fools.

You've got a lot of sayings,
haven't you? Yes. The Polish one,

we've had a Chinese,
a couple of Russians.

"A leader...is a dealer in hope."

Who said that?

I know this.

Don't tell me. I won't.
A Frenchman?

Short. Ha, Napoleon!

Yep, very good.
Did he have...one eye or one arm?

One eye. No, no, that's Nelson.
No, he had one eye. That's why
they invented the telescope,

because he couldn't see through
binoculars. It's Nelson!

On his grave he didn't have
any epitaphs or dates,

he had the letter N.
Just one initial.

He believed that he was so great,

that he didn't need to have...
I don't believe it, you know. What?

That he wrote it. Yeah. I don't think
Perry wrote that suicide note.

He may have committed suicide,

but the note was just too pat,
too neat, too ordered.

The state he was in at that time -
he was paranoid, having flashbacks,

he was out of control.
If he DID commit suicide,

it would have been compulsive,
aggressive, not logical.
He'd have just flipped.

Well, he did just flip, didn't he?
End of story.

You're not making me feel
any better. Oh.

Sorry, I was only trying to help.

You're meant to be cheering me up.
That's the point of coming here

and having a drink.
Have another. Cheer me up.

You knew.

What could I do, Marina?

I mean, it was bad enough
your dad dying like that,

but to do what he did?
To take his own life,

without a thought
about what that would do to you.

I could never forgive him that.
He was SO selfish.

I've just spent...the last
nine years of my life living a lie.

I wanted to tell you...

so many times.

We did it for the best reasons.
We? Me and Mike.

Oh, you and Mike(!) You just can't
forgive him, can you?

My dad's hardly buried and you start
having a fling with his brother!

Well, what did you expect me to do?
Mmm?

Live in the past, like you?

Don't you judge me, Marina!
Just because you can't move on,
you can't form a relationship...

You don't know what it was like,
living with your dad.

You were the only reason we stayed
together. I don't need to hear this.

He loved you, Marina.

He adored you.

And he would have wanted you
to move on...to be free.

I'm sorry, I should have told you
he killed himself, but his letter...

it was so unlike him.

Come here.

Hey? Come on. Come here.

What's the matter?

What's up?

That's all I get?

I've got to go.

Why are you always in such a hurry?
You're bad for me, Grace.

Good.

MOBILE RINGS
Excuse me.

It's Frankie. There's somebody else
who should get a life.

Hi. I'm off. All right. Bye.
..No, not you.

I've run tests on the suicide note.

I thought you were just going
to reconstruct it?

Well, you know me. Now, the paper
fits the date, but there's
an inconsistency with the Biro ink.

I'm not sure I want to hear this.
This particular ink didn't come out
on the market until five years ago.

You've got to be absolutely sure.

Bye, Boyd.

Did she pay?

What were you telling Marina
about the letter?

Did you really find it
in the bureau? Yeah, course I did.

What are you asking me that for?

Why would I lie to you about that?

Don't know.

I do know
when you are lying, though.

CONVERSATION CONTINUES FAINTLY

It's Marina, isn't it?

I don't need Marina
to tell me what to think.

Just cos she can't accept that
Perry's dead, she takes it out on me
by trying to destroy what we've got.

Oh, don't blame her!
Can't you see it's killing us?

What, you want me to leave?

Mmm?

Well, is that what you want?

SOBBING

Hello?

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, darling.

What's happening here?

What's happened?