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[logo swoosh]

[dramatic upbeat music]

- [birds chirping]
- I can confirm

there has been an
explosion today

at a business premises here

on O'Connell Street, a nail bar.

I'm very sorry to confirm that

two people have
lost their lives.

Foreca rightly wanting to know

if there's a connection

with the explosion in
Newport few days ago,

and I understand,

but it's far too early to say,

and it would serve no
purpose for me to speculate.

Thank you.

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The next witness for the
crime is Emma Hedges.

[door creaks]

[tense music]

[tense music]

♪ Baby, you understand me now ♪

♪ If sometimes you
see that I'm mad ♪

♪ Don't you know that no one
alive can always be an angel ♪

♪ When everything goes
wrong, you see some bad ♪

♪ Oh, I'm just a soul
whose intentions are good ♪

♪ Oh Lord, please don't
let me be misunderstood ♪

[indistinct voice]

[Neil sighs]

Those two lying
dead on the floor,

and they're stuck
all over with glasses

horrendous, they're young,

wearing worked Unix,
there's a shrine in there.

Tell me the exact words
the witnesses used.

Pink flash, purple
flush, or purple flame,

and the window blueing.

- That's great.
- Why?

Only potassium burns
with allylic flame.

Does that tell us
what kind of bomb?

It tells us which materials
may have been used,

and that's a start.

So Daniel introduced you
to his father, Phil MacAfee

when you all went for this
Indian meal together? Yes.

And you saw Mr. Phil
MacAfee the next day

when he came to Daniel's flat?
Yes.

When did you next
see Phil MacAfee?

I'm not sure.

'Cause,

you had a conversation
with Mr. Phil MacAfee

at the body of Coffee
House, Parker Street,

1:45,

25th of September.

Is that right?

I'm not sure if
that's the exact date,

but yes, I did.

Mr. Phil MacAfee reports
the date and time,

and the ladies and
gentlemen of the jury

have heard from members of staff

of the body of Coffee House,

so they will be comfortable
with the time. Okay.

So, did you arrange
to meet Mr. MacAfee?

No.

How did you find him there?

I saw him through the window.

So, you didn't follow him?

No.

You didn't know that
it was the coffee

that Mr. MacAfee
routinely goes to?

No.

No, you just happened
to be passing by?

Yes.

So 150,000 people in Dundee,

and you just spotted him?

Yes.

You didn't expect this, did you?

You didn't think I'd
be asking you about

some innocuous meeting
in a coffee shop

and you're lying
about the tangent.

So, why should the jury
believe you about anything

if you're lying about this?

- I'm not lying.
- Daniel,

No, Daniel might know

which coffee was his
father's favourite.

Did you maybe hear about
the coffee from Daniel?

- Was he in on it?
- No.

So, how did this conversation

go between you and
Mr. Phil MacAfee?

I asked him if
he'd killed my mom.

Why did you ask him that?

Because I thought he had,

and I wanted to
see his reaction.

What was his reaction?

He said I wasn't well,

he tried to make
me look unreliable

in front of the
other people there.

He did what you're
trying to do actually.

And did you tell
Daniel afterwards

that you'd spotted
his father in a coffee

and gone in to ask him
if he'd killed your mum?

Yes, I did.

What did Daniel think
of your behaviour?

He was surprised by it,
but I think he got it.

When you explained it to him?
Yes.

You seem to be a very
persuasive person

with Daniel's consent.

So you're moved away
from Dundee as a child

to be shielded from
the news coverage

of your mother's murder.

A year ago, at the age of 23,

you applied for the job
in Dundee and returned.

Why?

- It was a really good job.
- Did you come back to Dundee

determined to get the identity
of your mother's murderer?

No.

Did you want to find out
who killed your mother?

Anybody in my position would do.

- So you did really wanted to?
- Oh yes, obviously.

Thank you, message is...

[tense music]

An explosion is a
chemical reaction

producing a rapid
expansion of gas.

If the explosive's
unconfined, it can disagree,

the expanding gas pushes
out in all directions.

If it's confined,

the explosion can
become detonating,

which has a much greater
effect on the surroundings.

So, see this debris field,

the glass was projected

much further that
side than shop side

because this side

whatever exploded wasn't
impeded by the shop wall.

So I'm thinking the epicentre

was the side of
the window maybe.

Would you be able to
find whatever exploded?

If exploded completely,

that whole device
may be consumed.

It depends how efficient
the device was.

It looks pretty efficient to me.

Sarah, I've got everybody
on my back wanting to know

if this is the work of the
same bomber or bombers.

All I can tell you is,

the kind of device
we're talking about here

seems to have nothing in
common with the first device.

Bone in a living person
is wet and bendy,

bone in a dead person
is dry and brittle.

Imagine trying to
break a green twig

as opposed to a dried stick.

So you can tell whether
a bone has been broken

- perimortem more post-mortem?
- [Torrance] Yes

You told us that the break

in Marie Monroe's hyoid bone

is consistent with
strangulation? [Torrance] Yes.

Is it consistent
with a break made

to the bone of a living person?

Yes.

Thank you, Professor Torrance.

What's the definition
of perimortem again?

At and around the time of death.
Okay.

Is the bone of a person
who has just died

very different from
the bone of a person,

that same bone just
before they've died.

No.

Are they exactly the same?

For a short period of time, yes.

Could Marie Monroe's hyoid bone

have been broken by a fall?

No, to fracture one of the
horns of the hyoid bone

needs a specific
kind of pressure.

And could have been broken

by soil pressure
in the dump site.

No, that wouldn't break a bone.

Could a in the soil break it?
[Torrance] No.

Could somebody treading
on a hyoid bone

- through the soil break it.
- No.

But it could have
been done with a rope?

- Yes.
- Aha.

There's no certainty

about Maria Monroe's
cause of death, its like.

The hyoid bone looks fragile,

but it's strong
in the sense that

it's only possible to break it

- using from inward squeezing.
- [bone cracking]

Fresh break to Marie
Monroe's hyoid bone,

conforms with pressure
placed on the bone

by something such
as hands or similar,

putting inward
pressure on the bone.

[tense music]

One male victim, Tuan Van Khan,

female victim Chung T. Kim.

They are Vietnamese
both in the 20s,

staff and nail technicians.

- Got it boss.
- All right.

Thank you, Safi.

Neil,

Yeah, go on.

One formulation of
this kind of devices,

you take a glass jar or bottle

and you partly fill it

with a mixture of
acid and petrol.

You take a condom,

you fill it with
sugar and chlorine.

You fix the condom to the
underside of the screw top

so it's hanging just
above the liquid.

When you leave the
jar on its side,

the acid comes into
contact with the condom,

it breaks it down, you
get chemical reaction,

potassium, chloride, and
sugar ignites allylic flame,

which ignites the petrol
creating hot gases.

The gases expand,
the jar explodes.

The window glass is flat,

this piece, thinner and curved.

- From a jar or a bottle.
- Possibly.

How long does it
take for the acid

to break down the condom?

I dunno, it depends,
a few minutes.

I'd have to do a mock-up

for the same
performance to know.

I mean, you could lay a
device on a sideway there

as you walk past.

Good.

And you wouldn't
wanna be carrying

that device around for long

after you've fixed
in the condom,

even if it kept operating.

So you're saying,

our bomber was maybe not
just planting the bomb,

but rigging it up minutes before

somewhere close to
where we are now?

[tense music]

[indistinct chatter]

What's going on?

Our shop in town was blown up.

Oh, my God. Yeah, Sarah
is there now, how'd go?

Quite nice. - Did you feel in control?
- More or less?

Oh, there you go.

I felt in really safe hands
when you were up there.

Well, if I can get the
science across, I'm happy.

I gotta go, good luck with...

[footsteps thuds]

[car breaks screeching]

[car door creaking]

We're looking into the bomb

that went off in the church hall

in Newport three days ago,

Gaynor Rogers told us

that when the two of you
were living together,

you'd drop her off for a lot
his class at the church hall,

you knew the time and the place.

Right.

You told Gaynor Rogers you'd
kill her if she left you.

I never would've said that.

She recorded you on her phone

and we found the recording.

Okay, maybe I said it,
but I never meant it,

it's just words.

I say all sorts in the
moment to mark my point,

it's normal, it's just
words [indistinct].

Gaynor's family support
Gaynor's account

that you were physically
violent towards her.

And again, that game
is good as you go-

I've met Gaynor,

I'd describe her as petite.

Sure about that?

I'd also describe her as alive,

alive and well,
walking in a boot,

and I'll say, it's
three feet just fine,

where she'd find difficult
to do if I had killed her.

And she did leave me by the way.

Where were you last Sunday?

Ryan Fairlie was in
his house till 11:00,

he went to the news
agents to get some rules,

had his breakfast,

to the half 12:00 train to
see his mom and Stonehaven

got there at Tuesday,
stayed there til 8:00.

Well, the doors
to the church hall

don't open til 12:00

so he'd have heard
they've been going,

so he may have put a bomb
there and get the train.

If he got the train,

He showed me his ticket.

I could show you a ticket.

Safi, come on, check it all,

shop, station, CCTV
on both trains.

I don't like Ryan Fairlie boss.
And he may be in the frame

for the church hall bomb,

he has alibied for
the nail bar bomb.

He was sitting in reception.

God knows what
this is all about.

Essays, please forgive me

if I've been slow to mark,

but we're all caught up now.

Oh, something I've
been meaning to say,

all of you are looking

to work in the forensic arena,

you'll be under scrutiny.

Lawyers will be trawling
through your social media.

You need to conduct yourselves
professionally online,

and you need to start now.

Hey, if any of
you wanna find out

about the fascinating study,

me and Erica are working on,

on decomposition in
water using dead pigs

acquired according to the
university's ethical code,

we're doing a
presentation tomorrow.

Oh, welcome.

No one seems to have a clue

what these bombs are about.

Yeah, there was a tonne of
security at the court house.

How did it go?

Phil MacAfee's being represented

by Keith Farr and
he's horribly good.

Emma said she did okay,
but she looks shaky.

Well, the enormity
of it for her.

Hi Mrs. [inaudible],
sorry to interrupt.

I just wanted to say, oh my God,

you handled that so well,
the face is perfect.

[claps in excitement]

[indistinct chatter]

[door creaking]

Have you seen what
they're saying about us?

They hate us.

'Cause I don't look.

Why didn't you eat with us?

I wasn't hungry.

You're pregnant,
you need to eat.

I had a cereal bar.

You lied in court.

I had to.

You lost it there saying things
I didn't want you to say,

but I knew I had to say
'cause they were true.

How come you think one rule
applies to you not to me?

You know, if I'd have said,

I did go to his office

and I did wait around

and I did follow
him to that cafe,

I'd have sounded
like a mad woman.

It's just a distraction,
it's all a dirty game,

and I wasn't gonna play it.

Emma, you lied in court,

you're totally on the wrong.

I stand by what I did.

Well, no one
believed you anyway.

You looked like a liar

and you made me
look like a liar,

like, encourage you to
stalk him to a coffee.

But I didn't intend to.

Well you did, that
is what you did.

[indistinct]

And I don't know what you
are trying to achieve,

but the way you came
across was so hot,

you were like a robot.

Well, it was a total
headache for me,

stood there in
front of your dad.

How was it for you?

I didn't have the pleasure

of analysing your performance,

you sailed through it, did you?

I feel so let down.

- By me?
- Yeah.

You feel let down by me.

I did my bet for
you today, Emma.

I did my bet more.

It's not for me,

it's just doing the right thing.

Which you didn't do
because you lied in court.

Because the only thing
that I care about

is getting justice for my mom.

I know, that's
what's wrong here.

Getting justice for your mom

as it put my dad away
if he didn't do that.

When I walked in the court,

my dad smiled out me
and a smiled back.

I didn't even know I was
doing it until I'd done it.

You know what else I did?

I cried.

It offends though,
I was as painless,

wish I totally
under the influence

of this, hardest
news Emma Hedges.

And then you come in,

you've resolved this news
and prove them right?

But no one sailed through,

Emma, we both looked terrible,

but at least I told the truth.

You glad we look terrible.

Your dad's more likely to
get off if we're discredited

and you want him to
get off, don't you?

What made you cry?

All of it.

Four months ago, you
were fine with it.

Well, not fine but
you got to the point

where you had a bad
enough opinion of your dad

based on facts to think he
might have been involved.

And even though that was
terrible for you to think,

you were big enough

to take the information
you had to the police.

But the moment they charged him,

you slowly started
to lose your nerve.

Went down a rabbit hole,

looking for stuff about
miscarriages of justice.

And then you started
holding back from me

because you blame me.

Did you see him?

- Did you see if he's stable?
- Yeah.

That's my dad.

A terrible thing happened to you

a really long time ago,

but terrible thing's
happening to me now

and you refuse to see it,

you're just obsessed with
getting what you want.

What do you want?

I want not to be here.

I don't want any of
this to be happening.

- Well, it is.
- Oh, yes.

And I don't blame you,

I blame myself for
going to the funeral

and starting up with you again.

I should've left that
day like I planned

and we could have come
at this trial clean.

How?

'Cause we wouldn't be stuck

and my mom's for a
fact sick, pregnant.

It's ridiculous.

[tense music]

[sad classical upbeat]

[Emma sobbing]

[laundry machine door thuds]

[tense music]

[Emma sobbing]

[Emma sobbing]

[footsteps thudding]

- What's up?
- Nothing.

- Why's the wash on?
- Can't sleep.

Me neither.

The one I looked at Twitter,

people are saying
you broke down.

Emma was steely, the thing
she accosted your dad-

I don't want to hear
about it, all right?

[Emma inhales and exhales]

It's not anyone's fault.

It's not caused by anything
you do or don't do.

Note, six weeks is the
highest risk of it happening.

- I just feel so sad.
- [Emma sobbing]

Me too.

I'm so sorry.

[Emma sobs]

We were not stuck together,

we never taken a
situation anymore.

Let's just get
through it tomorrow.

Yeah, after that,

neither of us has to be here.

[Emma sobs]

No.

[birds chirping]

I'm so thrilled with this
lovely pretty condom,

perfectly preserved
because it's trapped

between the metal and the glass.

What's so good about a condom?

Different brands use
different lubricants.

So, what would you do?

We use a solvent to extract
a sample of the lubricant,

run the sample through the FTIR,

compare the data with-

Data on the condom
lubricant database.

[chuckles]

[upbeat music]

It's made by Flomax,

used in just one line
of the range, the clone.

Good work.

It's a tiny piece
of information,

but tiny pieces in aggregate

tells a lot about
the bomb maker.

We're still not sure who the
first bomb was meant for.

We don't even know if
the second is connected.

We don't know what
we're looking at,

never mind the why.

Professor key to privacy, right?

Oh, drop it.

Neil, I made a joke

trying to lighten up the mood.

Good luck today.

Good time.

[door thuds]

There's a black pill there.

Firm with the debris

directly in front of
the nail bar window.

Honey, I can't say black pill

without thinking black pill.

Huh?

Black pill, you know?

No.

Right, so, you
know in the matrix,

there's the red pill
and the blue pill

and you have to choose.

Vaguely.

- So- - [door creaking]

- Morning.
- Morning.

- Emma, you have to go.
- Shit.

All right, so, the
blue pill's like,

you live in innocence

that the matrix
exists, whatever.

And then the red pill's like,

you know what's really going on,

but you can do
something about it.

And then the black pill's
just like, pointless.

And that's not in
the film by the way,

that's just what some
people have said.

Emma, you have to go,

we're all waiting for you.

Thanks.

[door creaks]

[door thuds]

Can't believe she
came into work today.

God, that's what I would do,

throw myself into work

til my mind's off things.

She looks quite a
pro in this thing.

This black pill
isn't total black,

it's got pale marks on it.

[tense music]

Nothing so far from the
CCTV on O'Connor Street.

How, in the middle of the day?

There's a rat run,

you can sneak up
to O'Connor Street

and back off again, using
realities and side streets all the way.

It's amazed but, if he
knew what you were doing,

you could do it.

Well, chase the CCTV.

And what's the story
about Ryan Fairlie?

His mother says he was with her.

Still nothing from
the CCTV on the train.

- [indistinct chatter]
- Could you do it on a bike?

No way, it's 50 miles.

[Neil] No, the rat run,
could you do it on a bike?

Why aren't you
with Daniel today?

[indistinct]

- [Man] Emma, - [Woman] Emma,

[indistinct chatter]

please, Emma.

[Man] Can you tell us anything.

[camera shutters clicks]

[upbeat music]

[machine clicking]

See if you can find
this from the database.

Good morning, Detective
Chief Inspector McKinven.

Good morning. Now,
we've just heard you give us

a very thorough
account of your work

on the Marie Monroe
murder case, court case.

Yes.

Were you surprised to be
entrusted with the case?

You were a common garden
detective inspector at the time,

boots on the ground?

I was gratified to be
entrusted with the case,

and determined to do my best.

How many court cases
have you worked on?

Just this one.

Thank you, DCI McKinven.

[tense music]

It's an antidepressant,
poseidon,

brand name's Sarah Paxson.

In case it matches that though,

let's see if the contents do.

Phil MacAfee.

[tense music]

[footsteps thuds]

[breathes heavily]

[tense music]

I swear by almighty God,

the evidence I shall
give be the truth,

the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.

This fishing trip,

night fishing with
your brother Alec

■on Sunday, the 12th
of August, 2001,

are you a keen
fisherman, Mr. MacAfee.

Not at all.

Like Alec was saying
when he was up here,

he's the fishermen.

He has all the gear.

When did the memory of this
fishing trip come to light?

I had to think
back to that time,

who I was spending
time with at that time.

And I remember that Alec

gave me a lot of
support and good advice

when my wife was ill and
I was, not in a good way.

You're spending a lot of time

with Izzy Alessi, Drew Cubbin
and Marie Monroe at time.

No.■

Izzy I knew casually,

Drew and Marie were
part of our scene,

probably, he knew them at home.

According to Izzy
Alessi's dying deposition,

it was a scene you were
actively involved in,

and then you had her trapped

in a physically abusive
sexual relationship,

which she felt too
terrified to end.

I'm in a difficult
situation here.

Why is that?

'Cause I don't wish to
speak ill of the dead.

You just need to
speak truthfully.

Izzy was desperate.

Heroin makes you desperate,

it makes you lie.

So why did you have even
a passing acquaintance

with such a desperate character?

That's a very good question.

How was that with my
debts, ailing with cancer,

running the business by myself,

the prospect of bringing
up Daniel alone.

I didn't have the maturity

to deal with the responsibility,

so I went looking
for the opposite.

If I'm in the dark

for being a selfish
pig 19 years ago,

I'm guilty.

This has nothing to do with me.

The murder of Marie Monroe

has nothing to do with you?

No.

What about the boots?

Marie Monroe's
blood on the boots,

your DNA in the boots,

a shoe print at the dump
site matching the boots.

The boots are buried

at a building site
where you'd worked

your skin cells were
inside those boots.

How do you explain that?

If you're a builder, you
don't have one pair of boots.

You have boots in the house,

boots in the van,

boots in the office

and you get through them.

A few months and those
boots are stinking so bad,

they practically walk
themselves in the door

and into the bin.

[crowd mumbles]

Are you suggesting

someone took your
boots out of a bin

and wore them while murdering
Marie Monroe, who you knew?

I have no clue what happened

'cause this had
nothing to do with me.

[birds chirping]

[equipments rattles]

[machine beeps]

[tense music]

Whoever pointed that
bomb in the nail bar

just under seven minutes

to get cleared
before it exploded,

Sarah also established the
maker had a condom used.

[door knocks] Sorry, Ryan
Fairlie was on the trains.

He said he was,

he couldn't have
bombed the church hall.

Keep digging, find the why.

See, the target
was father in QC.

See, the bomber took the clock's
going forward into account

when he set the timer.

An African Catholic priest,

two Vietnamese Buddhists,

faith, race, outsiders.

Why would Mr. MacAfee
commit such a crime?

He doesn't fit the profile

murder and dismemberment

are carried out by misfits

outside a socially vulnerable-

The forensic science
evidence is compelling.

Professor Torrance retrieved

Marie Monroe's hyoid bone

and established, it was
broken before she died.

Who should blame a girl

for contorting everything

to suit her overwhelming desire

to solve the mystery
of her mother's murder?

Phone records and voicemails

prove Phil MacAfee's
connection with Marie Monroe.

Emma Hedges is a fantasist.

Daniel MacAfee fail
on the hospital

and then went on to try
and implicate his father-

- Mr. MacAfee- -
at pit of lions.

Asked us to consider
that some other person

took his discarded
boots from a bin

and wore them while
murdering Marie Monroe,

who Mr. MacAfee knew.

This is a historic model.

It's 19 years in the past

with no eye witnesses,
with no CCTV.

If you have doubt, then
you have to by law,

give the accused the
benefit of that boot.

There are two verdicts
of acquittal, Scotland,

not guilty,

and not proven.

I ask you to consider the far
more plausible explanation,

borne out by forensic evidence,

Mr. MacAfee wearing
his own boots,

murdered, dismembered
Marie Monroe,

and then try to get
rid of the evidence.

[tense music]

Hey, auntie.

Had to commit them, Kathy's PhD.

The Dean just invited me to run

a big new undergraduate
course in forensics.

I said, I don't wanna run
a new undergraduate course

in forensic science

because we already run
the course we want,

and there isn't enough work
out there to justify it.

What'd she say?

She said I was principled,

but she made it sound dirty.

Oh, these are cute.

Have you heard of black pill?

No.

Have you heard of incel?

Sure, loser boys who hate women.

Incel.

Involuntary celibate,

it's an American thing, why?

When you search black pill,

it's the first
thing that comes up.

Do you remember the matrix?

Keanu Reeves the
introducer, vividly.

Carrie-Anne Moss
and PVC vividly.

[Man] I'm not just his advocate,

against Phil MacAfee
to court to number one.

Could be fixing a punture,

could be rigging a condom
and a draw for an acid,

could be a man or a woman.

How far from the nail bar?

About four minutes on foot,

it fits with what professor
Gordon sent on us.

I recognise the Dundee's logo.
Me too.

A couple of witnesses mentioned

for deliberative bikes
on the pavements but.

They're always on a pavement.

Okay, well, let's
go into Dundee's,

find out which of the writers

was working in that
area on that day,

it'll all be on GPS.

Hey, good work.

[sighs] come on,
come on, come on.

[tense music]

[Judge] Have you
reached a verdict?

Yes.

[tense music]

What is that verdict?

Not proven

[Judge] Is that day
unanimous or by majority?

Majority.

Stand up. Mr. MacAfee.

The jury has found the charges
against you not proven.

You're free to go.

[tense music]

[phone notification beeps]

You gotta be joking, not proven.

Safi, you know what they
call not proven? No boss.

The bastard rabbit.

We should ditch it,
guilty people walk free.

[phone buzzes]

Oh, no.

- This is the- -
God, yes, not proven.

People are so stupid,

it's not that they
don't understand facts,

they don't want them. They
prefer to go with how they feel.

It's just,

- Do you want to hug?
- No.

- [door knocks]
- Emma?

Emma?

[door knob creaks]

[sobs softly]

[car honks]

Let's try a comparison
between this ink

- and the ink on the pill.
- Okay, cool.

- [door creaking]
- Hi.

Emma, I'm so sorry.

Louise sorry to ask,

but could I speak to
Prof. Gordon on my own?

Of course.

I'll be back in a minute.

[steps thudding]

Come on.

It's so unfair,

it's so messed up
all that evidence,

all that science and
he gets away with it.

Doesn't it make you
want to give up?

No, it makes me
even more determined

to show up the signs
and get it understood.

That's our work.

[upbeat music]

[birds chirping]

[door knocks]

[door creaking]

Where is she?

I wanna talk to her.

Well, none of us
want to talk to you.

Well, I can see Daniel,

you're drying the Kool-Aid

for the lion bitch on way,

son, she's a cancer.

She's a face like a slut ass.

It's not just me,
look at your phone.

They hate her, they hate you,

- they love me.
- [chuckles sarcastically]

[knocks the door]

I wanna speak to
Emma, where is she?

Don't worry, I'll find her.

[briefcase thuds]

- [wardrobe door creaks]
- [dramatic upbeat]

Not proven, what
does that even mean?

Not guilty,

you walk free and
that's the end of it.

Guilty, you're locked up

and everyone forgets about you.

Not proven hangs over you.

I've seen it happen,
you get dropped,

your reputation
short, you're free,

but you never shake
off the stigma,

it's with you for life.

Okay, ink from the
box, ink from the pill.

[upbeat music]

[equipment thuds]

[bright upbeat music]

[tempo upbeat music]

[phone ringing]

Sarah.

Hey, can you get to a computer?

Hi.

[tyres squealing]

[car door thuds]

[car honks]

I see yellow pill has
been coloured in black,

faint on the debris near the
epicentre of the new bubble.

The same thing as
on the hashtag?

The same kind of ink

that was used to
write hashtag one

on the box containing
the church hall bomb.

Have you analysed the
contents of the fluid?

We're doing it over night.

[sighs]

Black pill, a state of despair,

a fatalistic set of beliefs

held by members of
the incel subculture,

putting their own spin
on the red and blue pill

co-opted from the matrix.

What's incel?

Involuntary celibate,
it's an American thing.

Well, that's an American thing

using hashtag instead of number.

It is.

Black pill is suburban
area of Swansea B,

three miles south
of the city centre.

Black pill,

fortified charcoal to treat
bloating and flatulence.

Why would you call
it a pill in black?

Wanted to look black,

because you want it to be,

understood as black.

Interpreted as black.

[phone rings]

I need to get this, boss,

okay.

- Safi?
- Yes, boss.

- I need you to come with me.
- Where?

Offices of the Dundee Times.

Somebody sent them
an anonymous letter,

claiming responsibility
for these bombs.

We asked them not to
print it, they printed it.

Have you seen it? Already
on their website, worst of it.

What's the motivation?

To sell papers,
and makes it look like

they're running
an investigation,

we don't have a clue, bastards.

- I mean, in a letter.
- Racist, far right?

Do you think it's the real deal?

We'll see,

we'll go over here
and get the original.

But one good thing
is handwritten

- handwriting...
- Gives you away.

I'm not scared of your dad.

You should be, we both should.

Please come with me.

- Now?
- Yeah.

- Where?
- Anywhere.

I don't know, whatever.

But you can't do this.

You can't just turn up here

and spook me into
running off with you.

I've got a job in there
which I absolutely love.

Why do you catch yourself, and
can carry on like nothing's happened?

Emma, nobody wants
us to be together.

No one's on your side,
we need to get a way.

You don't know what I need.

This is mad.

No, what we're being
through is mad.

And if we don't
take ourselves away,

we won't make it.

Okay, it will never
be cleaner than now.

We need to get a way,

see what we've got to
give ourselves a chance

to get away from
all the bastards,

that's what we need to do.

I love you and I
wanna be with you.

And I think that you love me.

No, forget it.

It's not gonna happen.

Why?

Because I'm not gonna do it.

Okay, but why?

'Cause,

I do love you,

I do, but I think I
might hate you too.

- Okay.
- Because I hate your dad,

and I hate what happened today.

I know.

I'm so sorry.

[Daniel takes deep breath]

I love the verdict on my dad as,

he did it,

he never held a
Bible in his life

or a [inaudible].

You lied for the
sake of your mom,

my dad lied through his
teeth to save his skin.

[tense music]

If you do need me,

you can always come back.

This would be easy
if I didn't wanna be with you,

but I do.

Let's go.

[upbeat music]

[bright upbeat music]