Original subtitles

you look fantastic to you

thank you he's not uncooked about me

don't look too bad yourself

come on we'll be late

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

no i want to stay in london anyway i

don't really want to leave that one

[Music]

you need to tell her chris i know i know

just things are going well for him i

don't want to mess things up

but you'd have some life of your own and

so does she listen i just don't want to

get hurt okay

[Music]

[Music]

back and see new man

i don't know i think it's about 20 years

now

[Music]

come on

[Music]

yeah

right

i am off to bed

no um listen you got me now

just i want to talk to you about

sit down

we'll see

the thing is uh

i've met someone

[Music]

i'd really like to meet her

yeah

great

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

so

[Music]

we've gone to bed

it's your birthday next week

yeah

yeah it should be

40. i like her as a person

a little bit

take after me

you know i think i'm forgetting her face

i can't tell whether i'm remembering how

or the photographs

[Music]

carol you found a survivor

just stop worrying okay it's gonna be

all right

darling you

look fantastic

you're gonna come down

this is carol

carol

i want you to meet my daughter

she's emma

yeah i've just become a buyer for them

chris says you're in the sixth form what

a levels you're doing

sociology biology and english you must

be clever not especially i never went to

university i did secretarial training

look dad

i was never the academic type

of soil

i got in with an alternative crowd you

know

forget the education

and the job was uncool

seems to have done all right anyway

i'm never going to own a yacht

live early yachts aren't all they're

cracked up to be

[Music]

i know the situation's difficult

it's not easy for me either

i like your dad and i hope you and me i

hope we can be friends

come on thing's ready

are you going to the meeting about the

field trip the wilkshire

hello

sorry

dad brought his uh girlfriend round last

night

cool what'd you like

yeah

all right

it's a bit weird though

i don't think it will last are you going

to see her off are you

hi er

you all right mm-hmm you have a good day

yeah not bad you

yeah

i got off early for once made a change

dad

i was thinking

was there a life insurance policy for a

mum

yeah a small one doubtful man so much

that must be worth something

yeah supposedly

because

i know there's not a lot of money to

spare and i know you're not keen on me

getting a student loan so why don't we

use that money pay for uni it's not the

money i object to darling it's the

principal

i can't afford to put my only daughter

through university thank you very much

yeah but it's stupid to pay out if the

money's just sitting there

you don't want to use it

you know i don't even know if we can get

access to it

look

yeah i know she's been gone for a long

time now darling but

who's to say she's not still alive

i know

we can have her declared dead legally

it's been 10 years dad

you did something about it in school you

can do after seven

but i'm not saying

i mean don't you think it's gonna be a

little bit upsetting me i mean for both

of us we start breaking the whole thing

up again

yeah well i think we can safely assume

she's not coming back

it'll just be like drawing a line i want

to do it before i go to uni

you know whatever it was that made your

mum leave

it wasn't you

she really loved you

she

just like it said in the note yeah

she's a good person dad

you never doubt that

chris

chris cooper

it's done glass of room

dad

well man it must be 10 years

look here's my number

i'm only here for a few days but let's

meet up yeah

how's fiona he knew

mum yeah it was ages ago

he was just one of the crowd we used to

hang out with

what did he used to live in the squat

with you yeah for a bit you know a lot

longer be nice to talk to him

well maybe we'll give him a ring hey

come on

[Music]

come on

now to get a missing person declared

dead and free up the probate you've got

to satisfy the court that the

appropriate searches have been made we

use a really really hot team of

genealogists with the internet i mean

there's very few places that you can

hide

see people when they go missing they do

very odd things

you know they often use their maiden

name or they don't change their date of

birth so they come up on a computer

somewhere

it's almost as if they're leaving an

avenue open is it possible you could

find her well should we put it like this

i'll be very very surprised indeed if we

didn't obviously i don't want to give

you false hopes but in 95 of cases we're

successful however even when we find

them

they don't always want contact

and that can be disappointing very

upsetting

experience for the relatives

now we can make initial contact and

identification when we find if

if we find her or we can pass the data

onto you

and you can contact her directly

yourselves

years ago

emma

and the police said there wasn't

anything else i could do but you gave up

you could have tried harder you could

have found it you had what you said

yeah maybe you're right

maybe i should have tried harder

you did try to find her there didn't you

oh god yes of course i did you know i

rang everyone she knew i've

looked everywhere we've ever been but in

the end you know you realize if someone

wants to leave you that badly

there's just no point in trying to drag

them back

but

it's hard to explain that to a child i

think you're right to be cautious i

don't think it would do her much good to

be rejected again she has a right to

know where her mother is she can do it

herself in a few months and what if she

wants to take her to live with her

and there's no knowing what she'll want

she's the mother

she'll have all the rights

it doesn't matter that chris was put in

all the hard slog bringing her up on his

own i mean what about what chris wants

do i i don't want her to go that way you

know that way of life

when i go to university i wanted to have

a future up

i don't know

i just wanted to be happy

what was she like

we were different people you know we uh

cared about different things

and she never contacted you or emma

god

that must have been hard for emma i

think you're very forgiving chris

and i'm no sympathy with her at all

to walk out and leave your little girl

like that any woman who can do that in

my book is a heart-hearted [ __ ] she

wasn't

yeah

look at her you come in

no i mean i'm very sorry you know

she wasn't

she wasn't

you know she wasn't

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

i've got some fish and chips

get your work done yeah

we got the dates for the field trip we

go saturday fifth back the following

saturday

night

let's on the board okay

you know where we're going it's not that

far from where we used to live with mum

well i love it out there it's a nice

countryside

during that guy

it was his name then or something yeah i

tried you know but

he wasn't there they said he was going

traveling or something

he seemed to want to keep in touch

i'll be honest with you darling

it was never what you call reliable

where you going

what's wrong they won't eat chips

i'm not hungry i'm going to bed i don't

even get a kiss

that dad never

[Music]

hey

it's no good it's gone

i'm trying about to sleep for me

okay

yeah

dad

tell me the story about the squirrels

oh

yeah i've been there for a long time

i'm not even sure if i can remember it

let's see

once upon a time

there's a little squirrel

lived in these woods on the outskirts of

a

very big town

and one day this little squirrel felt

really adventurous and off he said

towards the town

when he got to the woods he met the

prettiest little girl in the hole

is it serious for carol

you okay with that

take some getting used to

yeah i know

i'm trying to sleep now all right

i love you

you love you

[Music]

[Music]

it's from the solicitors

[Applause]

[Music]

oh my god

i think they found her

[Music]

dad i know what you're trying to do but

i do not need to be protected look dad i

just want to go and see if she doesn't

want to see me then it's fine at least i

would have seen her i'm supposed to be

doing a lunch party

i don't believe this that's the nephew's

christening you know that they think

they have found my mum but you're going

to some lunch party with bloody carol

[Music]

and that's not her darling

emma

does fiona cooper live here

look come on

i'm sorry we thought you were someone

else all right

[Music]

i just wanted to be hurt

[Music]

mr cooper i'm sorry i'm very very sorry

but if we had been able to verify the

identification none of this would have

happened now if you remember your

daughter was very insistent can you make

a mistake like that

you said the people you use knew what

they were doing i can't apologize enough

the same age the same name both brought

in suffolk it happens i'm sorry i'm very

very sorry

but i do think it's advisable for us to

make the initial contact to avoid this

sort of thing happening

[Music]

[Music]

oh

again last night

[Music]

think you need to put all this behind

you now

yeah yeah concentrate on your work

you've got some important exams coming

up

i don't want to go back to school

please darling

ruin your life

[Music]

[Music]

so

[Music]

so

[Music]

so

[Music]

so

[Music]

look i couldn't explain on a phone i'm

really sorry

just bang those down there will you

poor emma

yeah she was really upset

it can't have been easy for you either

though

i think you're going to see her again

after what she did

did you love her

yeah

yeah it also did sorry it's just this

whole part of your life feel like i know

nothing about well it's a long time ago

you know

listen why don't we go out get something

do you

i can't i just think i should be here

for right now you know

listen carol

i know you're saying easy for us right

now

sorry

i hope i'm not interrupting anything

sorry to hear about what happened emma

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

james it's chris

is emma with you

no

i bet she's over at rebecca's

yeah look i'll give her a ring all right

thanks

[Music]

oh hi yeah um i'm sorry to bother you so

late um

i'm chris cooper my daughter emma

is she with you

[Music]

why didn't you

say it's no big deal

you've got to get your first time with

someone

[Music]

where's the toilet

over there

[Music]

so you've been bad

all right

how have we been fine i'm going to bed

you're going to bed

i've been at my mind with worry and

you're going to bed for the bloody hell

have you been absolutely friends

don't walk away from me his name is

nathan okay come on see

[Music]

all right

[Music]

yeah

what is it

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

come on

okay

um

i'm sorry i lost my temper time you know

i just doubt my worry

hello please

[Music]

it's from the solicitor

are you gonna open it

[Music]

grandma

we're looking for fiona

you got a letter from the solicitor do

you remember

she always heard when she'd been naughty

i feel like i know so little about her

i don't know who to ask

don't even know what to ask

do you know why she went away

did she say anything to you

where she was going or what she was

gonna do

grandma she's your daughter

please

just try and

remember i don't like the toilets here

they smell of piss

tara's got me a good brief he reckons

i'll just be bound

are you over that's all it was

i didn't know you were in

yeah i've been to see grandma

all right

listen in

how much you like look before you say

anything i decided to go back to school

okay

i want to go on a field trip

right

that is fantastic

[Music]

[Music]

there's a welcome talk at nine you've

got till then to unpack and sort

yourselves out work starts in the

morning

[Music]

[Music]

what are you doing

nothing

look i've just got to go somewhere if

any of them notice and just say say what

i vanished whatever come on seriously

emma

no look i'll be back by tonight okay

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

oh

what bloody only thing you're doing

they live in birmingham i'll keep an eye

on it for them well why is the knowledge

you want to make sure that window locks

on properly

should arrest you on suspicion of

burglary what were you doing i used to

live there when i was a kid i just

wanted to see what it was like

can i

can i talk to you about something

it was from there my mum disappeared

how do you mean disappeared

she went away

without telling you

she put me to bed one night when i woke

up in the morning she was gone

i never saw her again

she didn't leave anything um a letter

any explanation

she left a note

and what did it say

it said

it said i love you my darling

i'll miss you please forgive me

you know an awful lot of people go

missing and disappear

i'm afraid most of them go because they

want to

if as you say your mum left a note we

went to a solicitor to have her declared

dead

and he did all the searches

but he couldn't find any trace of her

[Music]

i think maybe she didn't go

away i think maybe something happens

there

something bad

[Music]

i've been having these dreams and

flashes of things in my head from the

past

don't laugh

go on

i don't know whether they're dreams or

real things i'm remembering

i hate my mum and dad arguing

i

i think it's the night before she

disappeared

i'm probably just imagining things

emma we'd like to hear what happens in

the dreams whether you're imagining them

or not have you heard nothing from your

mum since no

phone calls or birthday cards nothing at

all

says hey your mum left a note have you

still got the note the police at the

time took it

i used to live in a squat when i was

little

i think it was in glossary road

we met this guy a few weeks ago dad said

he used to live in the squat with us

he gave dad his phone number

i really wanted to ring him but

he knew mum

dad said when he tried to ring there was

no answer

i think he tore it up

i found some of the pieces

what was the guy's name dan something i

didn't get his second name

so

are you saying here

well

if your mom's disappearance was reported

then there'll be a file somewhere

she'll be gone for good soon then

once she's gone to university you can

have a life

what are you scared of

i suppose i'm scared of uh

getting close to someone again

then blowing it

you

can't blame yourself for what your wife

did

yeah but i have to take responsibility

for things you know

things not working out no you have to

move on

you're a good dad chris

you've done your [ __ ]

you're allowed to have something for

yourself now

i can send you home for this while

you're here i'm responsible for your

safety

don't leave the site again without

letting me know where you're going where

have you been

what's around your cage

hey we're all in the bar do you want to

come

no

no i don't really fancy

it's nice isn't it

i'll make some coffee shall i yeah great

i'm just going to give him a quick call

okay

hey don it's me

hi dad

how was your day

yeah okay good are you okay

yeah yeah just at home you know we don't

really want coffee do we how about the

night cat

right well i'll ring in a couple of days

then

bye

the girl's not completely out to lunch

fiona release cooper 11 hours be

terrorists reported missing april 1992

husband didn't report it straight away

she'd gone away in 1985 postnatal

depression and he thought she'd come

back in a few days like she did then

um

[Music]

i was searched family and neighbors

questioned

alternative lifestyle

and that's it

sadly a cutting edge investigation

and the note

[Music]

there's no note

i'll mention a no-no

[Music]

[Music]

one of the neighbors remembers the

family

fiona was a bit posh they were hippies

but hey nice hippies

they thought she was close to eight

margaret palmer lived at number nine

bank account hasn't been touched

national insurance number hasn't been

used she hasn't paid any tax

doctor's never been asked to pass on any

notes

and she's not using her maiden name

according to outside agency checks fiona

elise cooper disappeared off the face of

the earth

in april 1992

hello

where are you

know my memory the house in arms

butarius is really big

but well

it's not yeah memory does strange things

is your dad in another relationship

he's got a girlfriend now

it's serious

yeah

it's that recent

few months

must be hard

if you've had him to yourself all these

years

for as long as i can remember i've been

the most important thing in his life

yeah

it is

what was your room like in armsby

terrace

it was colourful

kind of ethnic

rugs and stuff on the walls

and there was this nightlight you know

one of those glowy plug things i used to

have one of them

so

is there anything in the room that you

particularly remember

there's this picture on the wall of a

buddha and a tiger beside it

face is the bed it's the first thing i

see when i wake up good

that's good

i'll stay without memory

close your eyes

who's in ours

me

my dad and my mum

what wakes you up

the voices

where are the voices coming from

downstairs

the living room then they move into the

hall

are they shouting

it's like

a low shouting

quiet but really desperate

what are they saying

it's no good i can't hear

did you go to the door

no

just let the memories go

[Music]

did you go to the door i didn't go to

the door

i didn't go the door

[Music]

i don't want to do this anymore

[Music]

now look to be honest with you we've uh

we've had some upsetting family business

recently

look uh i better come up there

no no no it's not a problem

all right well um thanks for calling

emma's gone off somewhere

i'm gonna have to go up here

are you sure

she might not appreciate her dad coming

to look for her she is nearly 18.

she's near where we live when her mum

was with us

well you know where she's been

she's pretty vulnerable she might just

need some space you don't have to go

running every time my daughter is

missing okay

now i'm going

how do you know that your mum left a

note my dad told me when did he tell you

i can't remember it wasn't straight away

do you remember seeing the note

i have a picture of it in my head i know

what it said i must have seen it but

have you ever spoke to anybody else

about it other than your dad like

grandparents friends or neighbors at the

time i can't remember

you told us that the police took the

note how do you know that

my dad he must have told me what are you

sure

no

i'm not sure about anything

look

i can't tell what i know from what i've

been told

it's

it's like things that i always thought i

remembered

things that i

i always thought i knew it

i just don't know what's real anymore

that's an ammo

we've had a look at the file

things are pretty much as you described

there was an investigation and nothing

was found but

there's no mention of a note

we're gonna look into things a bit

further

emma what kind of man is your dad he's a

good father

has he ever been violent towards you

he's kind and

i love him

[Music]

she's not come back

mobile's still switched off she was seen

in the lane getting into a car with a

man

james he saw her

well she all right she looked like she

was being forced away no

should we call the police

no

no we'll uh

we'll just give her a little bit longer

[Music]

listen emma um

it's really important that you don't

talk to your dad or anybody else about

talking to us

can you handle that

yeah well you've got my mobile number

my name's neil hallam she's sonia nice

give us a ring anytime

okay we'll be in touch

and try not to be on your own too much

yeah

[Music]

she told me her dad had a serious

girlfriend

for the first time since her mum left

a pretty good way of discovering dan's

relationship with any woman isn't it

just suggest he might have murdered his

wife

you think she's making it up

[Music]

um

[Music]

[Music]

what do you expect hey

i mean you're not where you're supposed

to be right no one knows where you are

you can't blame people for getting

worried

what are you doing

yeah looking for where we used to live

yeah i was looking back in front of the

house

and the guy

to your boyfriend

yeah

he's the man you were seeing back in

london right

i'll tell you

why i'll take you over here

you know and go and see the hands

together

got nobody got no motive but no evidence

the crimes being committed what have you

got

a young girl that's been dreaming

remembering whatever you want to call it

i'm the missing though and the outside

agency text i know they're not

conclusive has she made a statement no

not yet i don't think she's ready to no

no

it's too bloody airy fairy i can't put

manpower on this the old investigation

is piss-poor you get the feeling they

thought it wasn't worth bothering if

anyone decided to make a complaint yeah

look if you think this is a runner

you've got to prove that this woman

doesn't exist in any location or you've

got to find a body so is this an

investigation

you want to stay on board yeah sure

so have we got a team

well this is it

this is where we lived

do you remember it

no

i want to come back with you

hey what about your work huh

i mean you've only got two days left now

yeah but we've covered most of it and i

can just get the notes off james

dad i just

i just want to go home

come on

um

james said this guy you've been seeing

he's a bit older than you right

i don't know how to put this but

yeah i mean we never really talk about

this stuff do we but

but sex is

sex is important you know it's important

it's not just with anyone it's important

with someone you care about you know

sometimes somebody cares about you

especially the first time

right

we'll basically pursuing two inquiries

here we're looking for a missing person

but we're also investigating a possible

murder so keep it subtle when you talk

to people i don't want anybody blabbing

to the husband that we're on to him this

is just a national review of missing

persons

so

mrs persons bureau international checks

details to winter bowl and

every coroner's office in the country

i want to know about every unidentified

female body found in the last 10 years

if you would just make yourself at home

james

do you have to have that on every minute

no no sorry it's mine

oh

no why not

[Applause]

emma

how are you doing

no i'm fine

i just want to keep you up to date with

what we're doing can you talk

yeah

is it a boyfriend

yeah i think it is

i keep telling him not to worry about it

but you know

fathers and their daughters

we're going to be talking to you dad but

we won't mention your involvement

oh you come to the house no no we'll

arrange to see him at a station near you

in london

[Music]

you

okay look

what if i

what if i said i changed my mind i

didn't want to take this any further

well we'd have to investigate you now

anyway we wouldn't be doing our job if

we didn't

james

you know what i should take a day off

tomorrow

i could do something together i see a

movie or something

can you get that

hello

yeah

yeah

number four

all right right yeah i see yeah

tomorrow with a special notice and now

you know i've got plans for tomorrow

no no no no sorry i'll be there

yeah yeah i know where he is

all right

who was it

ah nothing important

[Music]

we're having to review all missing

persons cases yeah the file's a bit

limited on this one to be honest so if

you could just basically put us in the

picture about what happened it's a bit

in the dark

before our daughter was born we lived

with a group of people

squatted in a couple of empty houses but

as soon as emma started school we rented

a house just us as a family

i suppose when it comes down to i'm a

pretty conventional sort of guy

although i think fiona

she was disappointed in me enough to

walk out

to leave her child

believe me i've gone over this a million

times

did you have any immediate arguments

before she left

no

you moved to london very soon afterwards

why was that well everyone at emma

school knew you know i didn't want to

single it out like that

and what happened to the people that

lived in the squat with you

just lost touch

i did hear it it broke up soon

afterwards

did did your wife leave anything

indicating what her intentions were

a letter a note or anything

no

and there's been no contact of any kind

in the last 10 years

no

right well we'll need the names of the

people who lived in the squat just for

the records

basically that's it

thanks for coming mr cooper it's a big

help to us

okay

um

look are you gonna be talking to my

daughter you know as part of this review

no it's unlikely she was very young

why is this something well it's just um

i know this is not very sensible thing

to do you know but

as you can imagine i'm sure

it's very hard to explain to a little

girl while her mum has just gone away

and left her

so um i wrote her a note

i told her it was fun fiona

saying what

oh you know

i love you

forgive me

i just felt she needed a little bit more

explanation you know make the loss more

bearable for her that's very thoughtful

so where's the note now

i burnt it i told him the police took it

well it's unlikely we'll need to speak

to her but if we do then we'll bear that

i might

thanks for your time mr cooper

[Music]

[Music]

i've been to see the police

it was uh it's about your mom

and they're doing some kind of review

and missing persons files

what do they say

oh nothing new you know we were just

going over the same old stuff

if you um you attend tweet

yeah

did they say anything else

no

no it's just a routine thing

protecting his little daughter's

emotional well-being touching

story makes a lot of sense his wife

walks out and leaves him to bring her

kid up on his own and he didn't think it

was quite fair to go after her please

he didn't tell us about the solicitor or

meeting that guy on the tube it hardly

makes him a murderer did we tell him

that he wrote the note she knows you

wrote the note that's the bottom line of

what she's saying

i need a bloody body

negatively speaking

[Music]

[Music]

okay

what did he say

he told us basically what i told you

that she went away

do you believe him

emma i can't say too much you're a

potential witness do you understand that

i need to know

is everything all right there

are you going to arrest him we're a

little bit away from that yet

are you okay

yeah yeah i'm

fine everything is just fine

i'll be in touch

[Music]

is she all right with him

she's lived with him perfectly safely

for the last 10 years

[Music]

now this is called bloody stop all right

we're sneaking around having secrets

i say you've got a boyfriend you just

bring your mind let's meet you mate you

have no room to talk how long have you

seen carol before you told me huh

there's none of your business just leave

me alone okay

leave me alone what is going on around

here

[Music]

i found margaret palmer the neighbor

her husband died she's remarried and her

name's ellison and she's living in

lancashire excellent

[Music]

so

[Music]

[Music]

it

she went off to live in a commune or

something didn't she is that what you

were told

yeah

that she can't live in a commune

who told you chris

it's a husband he told you that she'd

got to live in a commune

yeah

did you tell the police this at the time

not my job to tell him besides it was on

my last lady

did he happen to mention where the

company was

what did he happen to mention where the

commune was

was that a long time ago i don't

remember

had fiona contacted him

he said somebody told him

one of the mep people i used to live

with

why did he tell his neighbours that his

wife had gone to live in a commune and

not tell us

why didn't he tell the police ten years

ago

oh you've decided you're believing i

love you

norris

thanks

[Music]

they found the guy from the tube his

name's dan rothwell

hiya

did you know you were in today yeah well

neither did i

people keep changing their mind what

they want

do you like to come to supper tomorrow

thought maybe emma might like to come

yeah great carol we'd love that

i don't know

maybe it's not the best time right now

is everything okay

yeah

we say i'm gonna have to go i've got

another load of stuff to pick up

i'll see you later

[Music]

fiona was coming to johnny yep

but she didn't arrive

no

so when exactly was this

look i kind of gave you a date and times

man you know it was 10 or 11 years ago

so she was uh she was leaving her

husband chris was never committed to

this wheelie

what about a little girl what's she

doing with her

that's one of the reasons she was gonna

come here

create a better lifestyle for the kid

once you heard there was a school here i

wasn't gonna crush the kids spirits

did you contact her when she didn't turn

up no

look there's a lot of pressure out there

you know

i guess should been persuaded to change

your mind

is there anyone else who knew she was

planning to join you maria

what is that maria raiden it's not here

she works for a charity in belfast now

look what is this what's all the sudden

interest in chris

oh it's just a nationwide review of

missing persons cases hello i bumped

into him recently

in london

well we're going to meet up you know

buddy uh

never calls

right

when

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

right bloody hell

we've got a body

it's a murder she was strangled

he has a broken clavicle and guess what

if check fiona's medical record it

surely fell off a horse when she was 14

and broke a bloody collarbone yes

they got dna

yeah but there was contamination they've

requested an exclamation

point in the bastard

[Music]

okay

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

emma

we think we've got our body

is it really her

no

we're not absolutely sure yet we need to

identify her listen emma we're gonna

have to tell you dad now can you cope if

we come down to talk to you together

we'll only be talking about the body

nothing else

i don't know um

yeah

yeah

okay i'm on my way

come here

thanks for seeing us at such short

nights

it's my daughter emma

hi

part of our review was to put out

nationally that your wife was still

missing

now we've been contacted by the daffod

paris police about a body they found

back in 1993 which was never identified

there's a possibility that it could be a

wife

it's not clear how she died but i'm

afraid foul play was suspected

oh god

you're right mr cooper

no we've got to identify her

we'll need a blood sample from your

daughter

no no no

no there's going to be another way to do

this

without involving him

well we could use fiona's mother but

it's quicker and easier to use emma

it's called mitochondrial dna it passes

down the female line

if this is your wife

emma's dna will be identical

just tell me what i've got to do

[Music]

[Applause]

how does she die excuse me

excuse me

they think she was strangled

[Music]

oh

oh

[Music]

ah

[Applause]

[Music]

hey it's me

i need to talk to you

are you in danger

no

i just got to talk to you

all right it's all right i'm here in

london i'm on my way

[Music]

hey

emma

[Music]

i opened the door

and i could hear a strange sound

come on

it's like an animal

gasping for air

desperate desperate sound

i went on to the landing

and i looked through the stairwells down

into the hall

my father had his hands around my mom's

neck

but she was the one making that horrible

sound

in his face it was just

like a monster

i went back into my room and i hid under

the bed

he was killing her and i hit under the

bed just a little kid

you know just a frightened kid if i'd

gone downstairs if i just

shouted out emma you're not responsible

for what happened to your mom

you know it's not your fault

i could have saved it but i was just too

scared

[Music]

how can you forget something like that

no it's not forgetting

it's just your mind putting things out

of reach that too painful

you know

all these years

i thought there was something

unlovable

repulsive about me that made her leave

i'd look everywhere forever

wherever we went i'd check every

stranger's face in the street

because i was sure if i just looked hard

enough i'd find her

for a while i can remember the way she

smelled

[Music]

if i closed my eyes i could feel her

there holding me

[Music]

he let me look for her

how could he do that

how could he do that

emma do you know what it means to make a

statement

what the police say

i just said they've found a body

she was killed but they didn't say how

or why

they don't know how it happened you

don't even know if it was uh

i'm just that they're doing some tests

i took some platform here as well

do they have any idea who did it

i don't know i mean i didn't say

and didn't say anything really just do

some kind of review of her case you know

didn't you tell me about all this i

thought i was going to you know as soon

as i knew that it was her

you should have called me ages ago you

should have told me what's happening in

part of your life

hey however you think you know us you

know nothing wouldn't you just leave us

alone huh hello hey what's going on

hey

look i'm gonna have to go

don't shut me out chris just let me help

you emerald's going for a lot right now

okay

[Music]

i don't know

look maybe it's not the right time for

me and you now

what do you mean

she's got a lot to deal with oh chris

you shouldn't do this you shouldn't do

this to yourself

she's my daughter

we've got her statement we've got a goal

for him i don't think she can hold it

together much longer okay you organize

an escort there

we'll push the lab for the results on

the body

so i'm worried about you that's all

you know you're going to stay out all

night i just need to know that you're

safe

so you're going to call me in future

got a deal

yeah deal

look at you you look exhausted

let me go back to bed for a bit man

listen whoever that

mr christopher cooper i'm arresting you

for the murder that fiona elise future

he's talking about to say anything but

he may harm you because you're not

mentioning

you do say questions be given in

evidence

[Music]

[Music]

mr mrs edwards emma you okay

[Music]

[Music]

i told the police

he told the police what what i saw

what did you see him

i saw him strangle her

what do you mean i know what you're

saying

it was

ten years ago you were seven years

[Music]

old mean what whatever you think you saw

there's bound to be an explanation

you you could have imagined it

you probably dreamt it

[Music]

is this about carol

he's given up his life for you

how can you go to the bloody police how

can you do that to your father

[Music]

[Music]

the

body it's not bloody earth

she's at the house

she's gotta be at the house

[Music]

he's refused to solicit her he said he

didn't kill his wife so he doesn't need

one

bastard

we don't need to disclose anything then

do we

so you went to bed the night before

there was no argument nothing at all

unusual and when you woke up in the

morning your wife was gone

what i just told you

it's what i told you last time why

didn't you report on missing straight

away

she'd gone away before

i told you this we're going around in

circles so you carried on with your

normal life for four days because i

thought she was going to come back all

right

tell me about margaret palmer

but yeah

she lived next door in ashby terrace

were you and your wife close to her

not particularly you know she uh

just a neighbor

did you talk to her about your wife's

disappearance

possibly

possibly um

i don't remember

did you go back to see people at the

squat after you left

god

once or twice you know

it wasn't a regular thing did your wife

go back and visit

no more than i did have you had any

contact with those people since you

moved to london

no

tell me about dan rothwell and maria

reading

we were friends you know

we live together

did your wife have any plans involving

those two

no more than i did

did you have sex

what

did you have sex the night before your

wife disappeared i don't remember

would have been the last time you had

sex with your wife

but you don't remember no

did you have a drink before you went to

bed

i don't know

what did you talk about before you went

to sleep that was your usual stuff i

suppose you know what exactly well

bill's uh

who's going to take emily's school the

next day that sort of thing who went to

sleep first

what

who went sleep first you or your wife

come on

she's 10 years ago we're talking about

i don't remember

did you argue no

do you have any kind of disagreement no

you're sure about that

margaret palmer has made a statement to

us

she says you told her in 1992 that your

wife had gone to join the commune

i may have said

that's what i thought fiona would have

done

why didn't you tell the police in 1992

that you thought your wife would gonna

join a commune i'm sure i did say that

yeah i can't remember what i said you've

got to understand all right it was a

very upsetting time

why didn't you tell us

the first time we spoke to you

dan rothwell has told us that your wife

was planning to join him and maria

reading at big community wales that she

was leaving you and she was taking your

daughter with her

did you know about these plans your wife

had

if my wife had plans with dan and maria

they didn't tell me about them

dan also told us that he bumped into you

in london recently

why didn't you tell us about that the

last time we talked to you

i don't know

you slit my mind

thanks

[Music]

nobody at the house

i told

i told her how the body we found was

killed when

when we went down to take the dna sample

how bloody stupid can you get

i thought we had a body whether we had a

body or not you had a vulnerable witness

you hadn't made a statement you hadn't

got the story she's made one now

yeah

after she spent the night in the back of

your car

do you know how that sounds

and it's down to you son

i just hope for your psyche put his

hands up

could you say it for the tape

no we did not have an argument that

night oh it's strange that

your daughter remembers an intense and

angry argument between you and your wife

that night

you spoke to my daughter why didn't you

tell us about that argument chris she's

a minor you can't talk to her

17. right to involve in this

you've she's

get real this is a murder investigation

sit down please

now your daughter was woken by the

argument

she crept out of bed

and onto the landing

she could hear what she described as a

desperate sound

like an animal gasping for air

she peed through the stair railings and

she saw you

with your hands around your wife's neck

strangling her

she was terrified

she was just a little kid

she went back to a room and hid under

the bed

now this is what i think happened and

you correct me if i'm wrong

your wife was leaving you

she was taking your daughter to live in

a commune you knew that you might never

see your little girl again

and you couldn't bear that

could you

you and your wife had a violent argument

and when you realized you couldn't stop

her you killed her

no

you didn't mean to but i understand that

you're not a psychopath

but you were losing everything

your wife

your daughter

everyone you loved

nobody can blame you for trying to stop

that happening

and then afterwards

when you realize what you've done

and what you've done to your daughter

you wrote the note

to try to lessen the pain for your

little girl but it didn't work chris

you know emma has gone through her life

believing that she just wasn't lovable

enough for her mother to stay with her

and now that she remembers everything

she's got another burden to carry

she thinks that she could have saved her

mother's life if only she hadn't been so

frightened no you're wrong

you've committed two appalling crimes

you murdered your wife

but what you've done to your little girl

some would say is just as terrible

[Music]

emma has bad dreams

you know she must probably know me so

she's lying

well one of his is lying if he's not you

then he must be a

you know

if ever said that mean

she believes it to be true you tell us

what happened chris

just tell us what you were doing with

your hands around your wife's neck

[Music]

did you murder your wife mr cooper no i

know you're bloody dead

now whose garden did you pour in

had she made any mention of strangling

previous to this

so your key witness remembers that she

saw her father strangle her mother when

she just been told by you that you

discovered a body you suspected was a

mother which had been strangled

this case was weak anyway

you've got no admissions

no corroboration of her story no

forensic no body

all you've really got is her statement

and with the timing of the disclosure

made it means that seriously tainted

i see no realistic prospect of a

conviction

she's telling the truth that i'd swear

to it

what so we just let him walk

you wouldn't be doing her any favors

taking this to court

they'd wipe the floor with her

you're letting him go

i'm really sorry emma

i shouldn't have told you apart from

that your father's denied the charge

and without a body it's very hard to

prove a crime's been committed

we just haven't got enough evidence

he's denied it

yeah

the case isn't closed

but until your witnesses come forward or

we find your evidence we can't take it

any further

she'll be staying with us for the moment

you know until

we'll keep in touch

goodbye emma

[Music]

i didn't think he'd deny it

i thought that when you confronted him

he

do you think i imagined it

and i can't comment

i'm so sorry

hmm

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

uh

[Music]

dad

[Music]

dead

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

emma

what i did to you was very wrong

your mother didn't walk out on you

she loved you

she was taking you away from me

i didn't mean it to happen

i couldn't bear to lose you

but i know i've lost you anyway

[Music]

forgive me for this

for everything

if you can

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Applause]

[Music]

well there's still a lot more drama to

come