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[Light orchestral music]

- Morning Brian. - Oh!

[Files crashing]

Knock it off, Jack.

Bit early to be skulking around, isn't it?

Who's in there?

Well that's the point, I don't know.

I got here 10 minutes ago,

and it was already sealed to the outside world.

Well Sandra, certainly.

Strickland?

Sounds like, there's someone else.

Yeah, who is that?

Morning!

[Brian and Jack] Oh!

[Brian moaning]

Brian are you all right, what's happened?

Does he need a doctor?

He's fine, just nosy.

What's going on in there?

Nurse!

They're out their beds again.

Oh, bloody hell.

Ahh, oh!

♪ It's all right ♪

♪ it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ I say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ doing fine ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ I say, it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪

Right lads, here's the thing.

April the 17th, 1980.

Heathrow safety deposit job, armed robbery.

He is good, isn't he.

The armed robbers got away with 10 million pounds,

in untraceable bearer bonds.

And they killed two security guards in the process.

Excuse me, can I do this.

Sorry.

Eye witnesses said it was a four man team.

This was frank's first case on the flying squad.

Sorry.

One of the dead guards was a temp, covering for this man.

George milligan, milligan had called in sick that morning.

So frank's team quickly determined

that he was the inside man.

Well it doesn't take Columbo, does it?

Milligan confessed, and named Raymond atkins

as his contact within the gang.

Now, atkins was known as a petty criminal.

Something of a thug.

But this was his first foray into armed robbery.

And a couple of weeks before the job,

he'd rented a lockup just off the holloway road.

So frank's team tracked it down, entered the premises.

And found the bodies of three men.

It was nasty.

All three had multiple gunshot wounds.

Then the killer had put a shotgun cartridge

in each one of them's mouth, glued their lips together.

Doused their bodies in petrol.

Set them on fire.

So when the fire reached the shotgun cartridge...

No teeth left.

Not much head either.

Made identification a little tricky.

Yeah, except it didn't work.

Cause atkins had a metal pin in his arm,

from an accident a few years earlier.

And the pin survived the fire,

and identified him through the serial number.

Now the other two men

were assumed to have been William Finch.

And Darren Ellis.

They were known associated of atkins,

and had already been reported missing.

Both Finch and Ellis were petty criminals.

And again, no experience in armed robbery.

So whoever the fourth man was,

must have had the experience.

He put the job together.

And decided he didn't fancy sharing it four ways.

It was Michael denby.

Possibly, Michael denby.

Michel denby had known our three dead robbers,

from when they were kids.

By all accounts, a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

He was one of those people,

even proper villains steer clear of.

Denby was a psycho.

He actively enjoyed inflicting pain.

I hate to be the one to bring this up,

but 10 million quid and a 30 year advantage.

He's long gone, mate.

Ah no, well there's the thing.

Couple of years ago, the French police arrested

one of the most successful con men they'd ever seen.

He's kept a string of safety deposit boxes,

all across Europe.

And one of them contained the lions share

of our missing bearer bonds.

Denby got conned.

It appears to have been some kind of property sting,

on the costa del sol.

And in his statement.

The con man said he'd never met the man

that he obtained the bonds from.

But he believed him to be English.

And he also seemed sure that whoever it was,

had returned to england after he'd lost the money.

Although, we haven't been able to find him

by any of the usual means.

Well surely if we know full well

it was Michael denby all along, this is a man hunt.

What's it got to do with ucos.

We don't know that it was denby.

I'm certain it was him.

I'm sure he masterminded the robbery, and killed his mates.

But I can't prove it in a court of law.

And no one is gonna spend money and manpower

looking for a suspect in a 30 year old case,

until they're sure we can make a conviction.

Frank's uncovered some new evidence,

which we're hoping will give us a fresh angle on the case.

Well, what new evidence?

I found the getaway car.

It's a Jaguar s type.

Oh, nice.

Whichever one of the gang was driving,

wasn't too handy behind the wheel.

According to an eye witness,

they lost the back end as they came into the road.

And stacked the thing into the streetlamp,

causing a fair bit of damage.

The car wasn't at the lockup, and we never found it.

Isn't it more likely it got torched?

People tend to report a burnt out jag,

so you'd expect it to turn up.

Even if all the evidence was burned away.

But we got nothing.

Which suggest somebody decided to keep hold of it.

Oh look at that, terrific!

Just a load of gas guzzling, air polluting toys.

For overgrown kids.

Here we go.

I noticed this was coming up for auction,

so I looked into the paperwork.

It was bought a couple of months after the Heathrow job,

by a stock broker.

But the man who sold it to him, never existed.

Looks in pretty good Nick to me.

Yeah well, forensics will tell us

if it's ever been in a crash.

And what grounds exactly,

does our warrant say we have to whip this off to forensics?

Don't have a warrant.

We have a wallet.

Lot 127 is a black s-type Jaguar, from 1967.

That's us.

You mean we're actually gonna buy this car?

[Auctioneer] It's in immaculate condition,

with full service history.

The original owners manual.

And fully restored.

Sir it's me, we're on.

There's more to this than meets the eye.

Too right.

I can't remember strickland

putting his hand in his pocket for anything.

Well it's not his money, is it.

It's our budget.

Either way, Michael denby's been missing for 30 years.

Why are we so keen to catch him now?

Can I see an opening bid please, of 7,000 pounds.

How much?

Brian, it's a classic!

[Auctioneer] 7,000 I'm bid.

At 7,000, 8,000 at the back.

At 8,000 pounds.

At 8,000, 9,000 is bid.

We're on nine.

[Auctioneer] At 9,000, 10,000 is back with the lady.

At 11,000 in the seats.

11,000.

[Auctioneer] At 11, 12,000 at the back.

At 12,000.

13,000 is bid.

At 13,000.

14,000 with the lady at the back.

At 14,000...

250, I'm bid.

At 14,500 back with the lady at the back.

At 14,500...

Once...

Twice...

And gone!

-15,000 pounds- -14 and a half.

You've gone mad.

That's enough, Jack.

And you think we're stupid?

I said, enough!

No, Jack's right.

I mean, you of all people

don't spend 15 grand of ucos budget.

On a car that might have been involved

in an armed robbery, 30 years ago!

And you certainly don't do it

on the say so of someone else, like frank Patterson.

No offence frank.

None taken.

This is an important case.

Michael denby is a dangerous criminal,

still at large in this country.

Governor, why don't you pull the other one.

Fine, you tell them.

Thank you.

We wanted to keep this quiet,

at least until we knew

if the car could provide us with fresh leads.

But we think that Michael denby had help.

Help with what?

He was ahead of us all the way.

He knew we were onto him.

That we knew the names of the other blokes on his crew.

That's why we think he killed them,

so there was no trail for us to follow.

How was he ahead of you?

He was being tipped off.

By who?

A copper.

You think one of your team, was whispering in denby's ear.

John felsham, my sergeant at the time.

John felsham?

As in...

Deputy assistant commissioner, John felsham?

This stays in this room.

I don't need to tell you what happens if it gets out,

that we're investigating-

no, you don't!

And you don't have to tell us what will happen to ucos,

if you're wrong!

We're not wrong.

Says you.

You've had 30 years to prove this.

Didn't have the car.

Oh, and the car's going to prove everything is it?

The car could help us to build a fresh case

against Michael denby.

And if we can do that-

and if we can find denby.

Then denby can give us felsham.

That's a lot of if's.

And an awful lot at stake,

if John felsham finds out we're investigating him.

[Upbeat jazz music]

Hi, detective super intendant Pullman.

- We're here about the jag. - The jag.

That's a nice car.

Oh thanks, you can have a ride later if you want.

How many gearboxes have you been through?

A couple.

Well, it's an old car.

It's not age, it's bad driving.

Changing down to reduce your speed.

You shouldn't be using the engine to brake.

It's what the brakes are for.

Clue's in the name.

Amanda Armstrong.

This jag of yours is quite interesting, follow me.

She likes you.

Oh, no!

Makes you wanna cry, doesn't it.

Is this the one?

It's not that simple.

Nah never is, sweetheart.

Let's start with the paint job, that was easy.

According to your eye witness reports,

the getaway car was dark blue yeah?

As you can see, this one is black.

The chemical analysis tells us,

that this black paint was manufactured in 1993.

So we stripped that layer back,

and discovered that the car had been sprayed silver

around 1980.

Around the time of the robbery.

Yes, but that silver paint job was done properly.

The layers underneath were stripped back to the metal,

before the paint job was applied.

But there's no way of telling what colour it was before?

Well, a few years ago there wouldn't have been.

But now, we can look a lot closer at the panels.

You're never really going to completely get rid

of the original paintwork.

You can see here, some microscopic specs.

- Of? - Dark blue.

Can you date that?

Well this brand of paint was discontinued, in 1968.

Yes!

What about damage.

Can you tell whether the car's been in an accident, or not?

Yes, this one's been in a few.

It was involved in quite a nasty rear-end shunt

several years ago, courtesy of a BMW.

[Gerry laughing]

Yeah, I know.

Anyway the accident you're referring to.

The panels on the front were a replacements,

so we learn nothing from those.

But, there were a few marks on the chassis itself.

And a dent in the radiator, there.

So we can extrapolate from those signs of damage,

and create a simulation

of what the original panel damage would have looked like.

And that is consistent with a car

hitting a lamp post at speed.

As your eye witnesses reported.

Can you tell when this happened?

Within a certain margin of error, yes.

The panels caved in and came into contact with the chassis,

hence the damage there.

Those marks contain microscopic traces

of the paint that was on the panels,

at the time of the crash.

- Dark blue? - Yes.

So this car hit a lamp post,

somewhere between the time it was manufactured and 1980.

When it was re-sprayed.

That's a 12 year window.

Yeah, but I can do better than that.

Pollution, it builds up in layers

on any parts of the car that are impossible to clean.

Like the tiny marks in the chassis.

In the same layer that we found the blue paint,

we also discovered usually high traces of dinnsa.

Sorry?

Dinonylnaphthylsulfonic acid.

It's an anti-static agent, most commonly found in jet fuel.

But only present in the air in these kind of concentrations-

around airports.

So the crash happened near an airport?

And we also found traces of pollen in the same layer,

which would suggest the crash happened in spring.

So this car was originally dark blue.

And it crashed into a lamp post near an airport,

in spring time.

Tell me that's enough.

It's a good start.

We also went over the paperwork, with the dvla.

Here's the report.

And some odds and sods we found in the car.

Nothing much of any use.

What's this?

That was found beneath the central console.

No long of knowing how long it was there.

But in the interests of thoroughness,

we ran the name through the computers.

There's a hell of a lot of Jose esquera's in the world,

I'm afraid.

Okay, could you send all of this over to ucos.

And thank you so much for your time, Ms. Armstrong.

Cheers.

It's the right car.

- Maybe. - Maybe.

It wouldn't stand up in court.

And it wouldn't give us denby yet, let alone John felsham.

Well, what were you expecting?

A signed confession in the glove box?

I'm just saying, we need more.

Well according to this,

the car was stolen from its original owner.

Who's now of course, dead.

Just before the job.

Then it went missing for a couple of months,

when presumably it got painted that silver.

And was sold on by a car lot in woodford,

owned by a bloke called...

Tony mills.

Do you know him?

Yeah, the car lot's long gone apparently.

Yeah, but Tony's still around.

[Car engines roaring]

[Tony] Come on, come on.

He's losing half a second, every lap.

He drives like that tonight,

he'll be overtaken by a bloody milk float.

Tony mills?

Detective superintendent Pullman.

We're with the unsolved crime and open case squad.

That's where old coppers go to die, isn't it?

We're investigating an armed robbery at Heathrow airport,

in the April of 1980.

Bully for you.

The getaway car turned up

a couple of months after the job,

on the forecourt of your used car lot, in woodford.

We sold a lot of cars.

Yeah, but I'm sure you'll remember this one.

A 1967

Jaguar s-type.

- Nope. - Dark blue.

Oh a blue one was it.

Nope.

Mr. Mills, we can continue this-

look love, I don't talk to coppers.

You wanna question me,

you get some evidence about something I've done wrong.

Arrest me, and then we can have a little chat.

[Door slamming]

Frank, frank!

Hey, get off him!

Didn't recognise me did you Tony, eh?

- Been a long time, eh? - Leave it!

Come on then frank, come on!

Gerry, get him in the car.

-I can't leave you- -get him in the car!

Come on out, you.

You two, out.

You think I won't hit a woman?

It'd be the last time you did.

Michael denby.

Never heard of him.

Really, cause you look scared.

Now we know that you sold that car.

And given your previous form,

we're pretty sure you stole it in the first place.

- Now, hold on. - Don't worry.

I'm not about to arrest you for nicking a car 30 years ago.

Then what?

Tell me about Michael denby.

He was a nasty piece of work.

I stayed well clear of him, like everyone else.

Well not everyone,

cause there were four men on that Heathrow job.

Three of the wound up dead.

Denby killed them, and disappeared with the money.

So?

So, if you stole a car to order for that job.

And then failed to get rid of it properly afterwards.

What were you meant to do by the way, torch it?

- I'm not saying a word. - Yeah.

You were meant to torch it.

But then you heard that denby's crew were all dead.

And denby had a done a runner.

So you thought, why bother.

And you resprayed the car, and sold it on.

Michael denby's back in the country.

We've found the car.

Now sooner or later, denby's going to find that out.

Wouldn't it be a good idea, don't you think.

If we got to him first, before he got to you.

You wanna know about denby?

Look up Eddie Doyle.

Who's Eddie Doyle?

That's all you get.

One more stunt like that,

and you're not coming within a mile of this case.

First and last warning.

Did you get anything out of him?

Yes, I did.

And I managed to do it without attacking anyone.

- Brilliant. - Eddie Doyle.

What about him?

He said if we wanna know about Michael denby,

look up Eddie Doyle.

Nice job, well done Sandra.

Frank, do you know where Eddie Doyle is or not?

I do, indeed.

The softly, softly approach

really paid dividends, didn't it?

Did old Tony give up anyone else?

The cray twins maybe, or lord lucan?

Ah, shut up.

Back when Michael denby was doing home invasion,

Eddie Doyle was his fence.

Doyle got pulled on some unrelated thing,

and give up denby as part of a bargain to stay outta Nick.

But before Doyle could testify,

someone cut his throat

and pulled his tongue out through the hole.

Oh, the old columbian neck tie.

Mills gave you Eddie Doyle's name,

cause he wants us to know why

he has no intention of helping us with our inquiries.

The softly, softly approach is not gonna work here, Sandra.

If we want people like mills to talk,

they need to be as afraid of us

as they are of Michael denby.

I don't need a lecture on police procedure from you,

all right?

Nah, you're playing a blinder.

Come on, Gerry.

Go on, someone needs to keep an eye on him.

I wanna talk to John felsham.

What?

No, why?

We find Michael denby.

And either he gives us felsham, or he doesn't.

If we go to felsham too soon-

what if the car's a dead end.

It's early days yet.

There's still the security guard, the inside man.

He might know something.

And I've tracked down Raymond Atkinson's widow.

Don't let the likes of frank Patterson

goad you into doing something stupid.

He's not goading me into anything.

John felsham is a suspect.

Since when did we not interview suspects.

He doesn't know he's a suspect.

And if he finds out, before we have a chance-

look, he was part of the original Heathrow investigation.

In a normal run of things, we'd be talking to him.

If anything, he'll be more suspicious if we don't.

Just...

Just be careful, Sandra.

Do we really think John felsham

was involved in all this?

You sure we're not just getting carried away?

Strickland seems to buy it.

He knows him better than anyone else.

There's been rumours about felsham for years.

There's rumours about all sorts of folk.

I wanna see how he reacts to the mention of Michael denby.

You taking frank along with you?

Don't be silly.

Talking of which, I hope Gerry's all right.

He'll be fine, Brian.

They're probably both passed out

in front of the telly, by now.

[Upbeat electronic music]

I'm surprised Robert, you're letting ucos run with this.

Resources are stretched pretty thin.

There must be more worthwhile cases,

that would better justify the cost of your squad.

We think this one has legs.

We found the getaway car, a Jaguar s-type.

Forensics are working on it now.

I doubt they're gonna pull a 30 year old finger print

off the steering wheel.

Oh, the car may provide us with some other leads.

Well...

The very best of luck.

Obviously if there's anything you can recall,

that might help us-

I'm sure all my paperwork from the time is in order.

Well, thank you for seeing us John.

Anytime.

Thank you.

You're not going to ask the question, then?

Sir?

Frank Patterson has told you I was in on it, somehow.

Don't either of you ever take up poker.

Frank doesn't like me.

There's probably 30 years worth of reasons for that.

If you're re-opening this case,

cause you think

you can finally bring Michael denby to justice.

The best of luck.

But don't go looking for me in the shadows.

Cause I'm not there.

And I never was.

Hello, George.

Mr. Patterson.

George milligan, Gerry Stanley.

- You all right? - Yeah.

This is legit, Mr. Patterson.

I work for the agents that manage these blocks.

I'm the handy man.

Blocked toilets,

and changing the batteries in the smoke alarm.

At your age you should be working through your pension

on a nice beach, George.

On no, I forgot.

You blew your whole life, didn't ya.

[Door slamming]

Mind if we tag along?

Yes, I do.

See Gerry, George here used to work security

at a safety deposit place in Heathrow.

I've got nothing to say to you.

One day he gets it into his head,

he might make a nice few quid selling out his mates

to a bunch of thugs with shotguns.

But it didn't quite work out like that, did it?

Did eight years inside,

for conspiracy to commit armed robbery.

Didn't you George?

Did he fail to mention that, when you gave him the keys?

That was out of order, and you know it.

Was it, sorry about that.

Me and my big mouth, eh.

Why don't we let you buy us a cup of coffee,

to make up or it.

I didn't know who Raymond atkins was.

Didn't know anything about him.

We got talking in a bar, one night.

Just two blokes talking.

I told him what I did, where I worked.

And that seemed to get his interest up.

And then he came back a couple of nights later,

bought me a few drinks.

And told me that he wanted me to help him

and some of his mates, knock the place off.

And you thought, why not?

Too right.

Was a rotten job with rotten hours, and rotten money.

This seemed a way out.

And ray said no one was going to get hurt.

Apart from the two mates of yours, they shot dead.

Ray said no one was gonna get hurt.

And you'd never met atkins before that night in the pub?

Never, and if I hadn't got talking to-

everything would have been different.

Oh stop it George, you're making me well up.

So as far as you're concerned,

atkins was the brains behind the operation.

Ray? [Laughs]

Nah, ray was a monkey.

He wasn't the brains of anything.

So who, then?

Michael denby.

He'd come to the pub sometimes with ray.

And denby would sit in the corner on his own,

while ray came and talked to me.

You never spoke to denby about the job.

I never spoke to denby at all.

And believe me.

One look in those eyes and you knew this was a man,

you didn't want to strike up a conversation with.

So all you can actually tell us,

is that atkins and denby knew each other.

You can't confirm that denby was in charge of the show.

See what we're getting at here, George.

We need some actual evidence,

that denby was involved in the job.

Well they were as thick as thieves!

Something more than that, ya prat.

Denby never spoke to me about the job.

Well he was careful, you gotta give him that.

Did you ever see atkins talk to anybody else?

- No. - What about denby?

Well once, but they weren't exactly talking.

A couple of streets across from my local,

there's this pub called the greenwood.

I used to walk past it on my way home.

And one night, a few days before the job.

I saw denby in a car outside,

getting his leg over some girl.

Who?

I have no idea, it was dark.

And I knew it was denby,

because I saw the tattoo on his arm.

I couldn't see the girls face.

And do you know what?

I didn't think it was quite the right time

to tap on the window, and introduce myself.

- Christine Johnson? - Yeah?

- Formally Christine atkins? - Yeah.

My name is Jack halford, this is Brian Lane.

We're with the metropolitan police.

I wonder if you could spare us a few minutes of your time?

- Yeah, come in. - Thank you.

Did you know Raymond was planning the robbery,

at Heathrow airport?

No, I knew he was up to something, he always was.

But planning is a bit strong.

Oh?

Well, I don't mean to speak ill of...

I loved Raymond for all his faults,

but he wasn't exactly goldfinger.

In your original statement,

you said that denby was the brains behind it all.

That's right.

Is that what Raymond told you?

Ray never told me anything about work.

Then how did you-

I'm not going to pretend

that ray wasn't a nasty piece of work.

In many ways he was.

He never laid a finger on me, he wasn't like that.

But ray was small time, he'd never admit it.

He had all the big chat, but he never had the ambition.

Not really, not to come up with something like that.

Not to think he could get away with all that money,

off his own bat.

It wasn't ray, ray didn't kill those two security guards.

That's as maybe,

but have you any proof that it was Michael denby

who was calling the shots?

You see, the problem we have.

Is that since neither Raymond nor denby,

or any of the other gang,

had committed that kind of robbery before-

they had done it before.

Excuse me?

Heathrow wasn't the first time.

They'd done an armed robbery, six months earlier.

Well there's no record of-

they didn't get caught.

They didn't get the money either, something went wrong.

I wasn't supposed to know about it,

but I overheard ray on the phone.

There were four of them.

Ray, William Finch, derren Ellis, and Michael denby.

And it was all denby's idea that time, as well.

A security Van, 10 pike Lane, November 1979.

A four man team tried to Rob it,

but they got their timing wrong.

They arrived just as the Van was leaving.

So they tried to run it off the road,

but the Van got away and the gang were never caught.

File is being sent over.

Why the hell didn't Christine atkins

mention this at the time.

I interviewed her myself.

Intimidation.

What?

She said you came on a bit strong.

Made some very unpleasant remarks,

about her recently murdered husband.

Hard to believe, that.

Said she wasn't inclined to tell you anything

she didn't have to.

Well, that's charming.

Just because it was a four man team,

doesn't mean it was the same people.

That's true, but there's an interesting detail.

The gang messed up the timing,

but they didn't get it that wrong.

They were at the right place.

They were just a few minutes too late.

And these vans never loaded up at the same place,

at the same time.

They varies their routines,

precisely so that no one could anticipate them.

So if the gang knew where they were gonna be,

then they had to have inside info.

Exactly.

And the firm operating the Van?

Cronux security.

The same firm that ran the Heathrow safety deposit.

So a four man team, hitting the same security firm.

Using an inside man.

But not George milligan.

Why not?

Because he didn't get his job at cronux,

until a month later.

Then who?

I don't know yet.

But is it possible,

that whoever provided the original inside info.

Also led the gang to milligan,

as the inside man for their second attempt?

Meaning that milligan's meeting with Raymond atkins,

might not have been a chance encounter.

You're saying I was set up.

That ray atkins deliberately got talking to me

that night in the pub?

Finally, the penny drops.

Well that would mean it wasn't my fault.

You still helped set up an armed robbery.

During which, two of your co-workers got killed.

Yes but I mean, it wasn't just fate.

It didn't all happen because I got into talking with ray,

because he was already looking for me.

Who could have put him onto you?

I don't know,

I mean lots of people knew it was my local.

What about the people at work?

Yeah, some of them.

So we're looking for someone from cronux security,

who knew enough about you to put Raymond atkins onto you.

And who also knew the timetables of the security vans.

Nah, there's no one.

I mean they're two completely separate sides of the company.

No one outside of head office could get access...

David Murray, he was my boss at Heathrow.

But before that, he was running the armoured vans.

And they moved him across about a month after I joined.

I didn't know him beyond a nod,

if we passed in the corridor.

But the last time I saw him, he was looking ragged.

It looked like he hadn't slept.

Trouble at home, is what I heard.

His marriage was falling apart.

David Murray.

Ah, this is great.

Can you hold on one minute please, thanks.

Looks like milligan could be right.

David Murray was promoted from overseeing security vans,

to his position at Heathrow.

Well when was this?

Five months before the job.

Before he was at cronux, he was a captain in the army.

Wounded in Belfast.

And discharged in 1978.

That's brilliant Barry, thanks a lot.

Tough guy.

What you thinking?

I'm wondering whether his involvement in all this,

stopped at just providing information.

Atkins, Ellis and Finch were all shot at point blank range.

Yeah, my Michael denby.

Probably, yeah.

But it sounds as if David Murray

might have had a stomach for it, as well.

So maybe Michael denby isn't the only one

who can give us John felsham.

Perhaps David Murray can.

I'm afraid you're about 30 years too late

to see my husband.

Can I get you some tea, coffee?

It's only instant I'm afraid.

No thanks, we're fine.

Your husband, David.

He's gone, long gone.

30 years and counting.

I came back from work one day.

And he'd packed his bags and left a note,

saying he wouldn't be back.

Put some money in the joint account.

Paid off the mortgage, in cash.

Don't ask me where he got that from.

And that was the last I heard of him.

Have you any idea where he might be?

Off with some woman.

I hope they're very happy.

Well I try to think that.

There's no point in baring grudges after all this time,

is there?

Do you know who the woman was?

I don't know her name.

Someone from work.

This'll be cronux security.

That's right, yeah.

That was the only job he had, after the army.

We met after he was discharged.

I was visiting my mum in hospital.

She was on her way out, leukaemia.

David was in having his leg looked at.

It never quite mended, after what happened in Ireland.

I don't blame David for what he was.

You go through an experience like he did over there,

and it leaves it Mark I suppose.

Leaves its Mark, how?

Nightmares, night terrors I suppose you could call it.

So he hit the bottle.

Booze was the only thing that seemed to have an effect.

He'd go out drinking, gambling.

He's liked a flutter before, but-

did he have any gambling debts?

Oh, I should think so.

I asked once, but that was another downside of the booze.

You ask the wrong question,

you felt the back of David's hand.

Ancient history.

Were there any particular friends that you can recall?

Raymond atkins, Michael denby?

No.

John felsham?

You are aware of the robbery that took place.

Heathrow airport?

Yes.

Did he ever talk to you about that?

We were barely talking at all, by then.

I know he was in some trouble at work about it.

And I know two of his boys got hurt.

Killed.

I hardly saw him at all, around that time.

I assumed he was working late.

But he was probably off with that girlfriend of his.

When exactly did he leave?

April the 30th, 1980.

About two weeks after the robbery.

Are you saying

you think David had something to do with it?

You were saying he paid off your mortgage in cash.

Did he have any savings he might have used, to do that?

What about relatives?

Were there any he might still be in touch with?

No, his dad died about eight years ago.

He was the last one.

I went to the funeral, David wasn't there.

You think he's off somewhere with her?

Sitting on a beach, with all that money?

Life of Riley.

Oh, never mind.

Thanks anyway, bye.

David Murray had access to the armoured Van timetables.

And all the info on Heathrow warehouse security.

He had a drinking problem, he had gambling debts.

And then having paid off his mortgage in cash.

It seems that he ran off with his girlfriend,

just two weeks after the Heathrow robbery.

I wanna know who that girlfriend was.

Well I've got the employment records

for cronux securities, here.

But there were a lot of women working there at the time,

so it's gonna take a while tracking them all down.

What about aliases that Murray could be living under.

Mother's maiden name.

I'm doing that.

The army are sending over lists of the people

that Murray served with in northern Ireland.

In case he kept up with any of his old army mates.

Maybe one of them has heard from him.

After the Heathrow robbery,

we interviewed all the relevant cronux security employees.

David Murray was interviewed by John felsham on his own.

Felsham's report says Murray was as clean as a whistle.

No mention of the booze, gambling debts, nothing.

Well either he was the worst detective

the flying squad ever had...

Or he's lying.

We still don't have any solid evidence on felsham.

We need to find Murray or denby, and get them to talk.

And I think at the moments, Murray's our best option.

Is that the time already, drink anyone?

Suit yourself, ladies.

Sleep tight.

What?

- He's up to something. - So?

Go and find out what.

[Mellow rock music]

You got some.

I thought you lot would have been different.

Bunch of ex-coppers, proper coppers.

We are.

Left up here.

Where are we going?

You'll see, old mother hen's got you all worked up

about proper procedure and protocol.

Are you referring to detective superintendent Pullman.

That's what felsham's relying on.

Once we get round there,

just pull up on the right hand side.

Right you are.

Here you are.

No thank you.

Right.

I'm having one drink and that is it.

I'll always sort you a ride home Gerald,

you know that.

Anyone fun later, this is work.

This was one of Michael denby's old watering holes,

back in the day.

Nothing much has changed here,

except the clientele ain't as pretty as they used to be.

George milligan said he saw denby snogging a girl,

in a car outside here.

I want to know who she was.

[Pub chattering]

Oh, you do bring me to the nicest places.

Pint?

Yes please.

Two pints of export love, and two whiskey chasers.

Er no excuse me, can you make mine bitter.

You remember Michael denby, don't ya pat.

Course you do.

Every time you look in the mirror,

must remind you of that glass he pushed in your face.

Mind you, face like yours.

You probably don't really do mirrors, do ya.

You ever see denby with a girl?

This'll be about, what...

April, 1980.

Do you think he's gone deaf?

I dunno frank, but I don't think we're very popular.

Rubbish, they love me in here.

Come on pat, you didn't miss a thing back then.

All right, let's take it easy.

You wanna think very carefully about your next move, mate.

You could land yourself in very serious trouble.

So could you, frank.

Impersonating a police officer's a serious crime.

What you doing here?

Come to make sure no one talks?

You seem to be doing that very well without my help.

I think it's time we went, mate.

Well, well.

Gerry Stanley.

Robert strickland's certainly got the creme De la creme

on his squad, doesn't he?

Must be like the dirty dozen over there.

We popped in for a quiet drink, what about you?

Well, it's a free country.

I'd join you if-

but you wouldn't be welcome.

You're tilting at windmills, frank.

You're gonna do some serious damage to Gerry here,

and to you other friends.

- Is that a threat? - Frank!

[Laughs] Hardly.

Come on, you screwed up a case 30 years ago.

The guy got away.

Happens to the best of us.

Come on, time we went.

Except that you were hardly the best of us.

You what?

Face it, you were never that good frank.

You were just arrogant.

Things didn't go your way, it was also someone else's fault.

You were always the first one to point the finger.

He's winding you up, that's all!

Why don't you take up golf or something, frank.

Come on.

You're gonna be better at that,

than you were at police work.

No frank, no!

[Men groaning]

Leave it, frank!

Leave it!

No!

Calm down, calm down.

Take it easy.

We're old bill and it's private, all right?

[Sirens wailing]

I told you I'd sort you a ride home.

What were you thinking, Gerry?

- Me? - It was my fault.

Gerry had nothing to do with it.

He was responsible for you.

I am a grown up.

Hardly.

Governor, this is all wrong.

We went to that pub in the hope that we could find someone,

who could remember who Michael denby's girlfriend was.

What was felsham doing there?

Well exactly, it's hardly a pub where the dac would drink.

I'm listening.

Well there was no time or anyone in that pub

to have got hold of felsham, and told him we were there.

And then for him to turn up.

So, he must have followed you.

Exactly.

And he was winding frank up.

Winding him up, how?

Well I was trying to get us out, right?

But felsham wouldn't let it go.

He kept having a pop.

It was like he wanted frank to lose his rag.

Why would he want that?

To discredit the investigation,

before we have a chance to get anything on him.

I'm afraid it worked.

Gerry, Jack, Brian.

I have to ask you to clear your desks.

You're not serious?

We went after a deputy assistant commissioner,

but instead of doing it quietly and by the book.

You confronted the guy, and then assaulted him.

As of now, you no longer work for ucos.

Any of you.

Just like that.

Detective superintendent Pullman and I,

are going to see dac felsham.

In the hope that we might persuade him

not to request an official inquiry,

or bring criminal charges against frank and Gerry.

But Jack and I weren't even there!

We're already retired, Brian.

We're expendable.

You have one hour.

Leave all your files where they are,

take your personal belongings only.

And hand your passes in upstairs.

- Sandra. - You can't do this.

This is exactly what felsham wants.

I don't have any choice, I'm afraid.

Sir, this is ridiculous!

It's over, detective superintendent.

John felsham wants you suspended, pending an inquiry.

If you want to keep your job,

I suggest you come upstairs with me now.

[Door banging]

Frank Patterson doesn't technically work for you, Carson.

He certainly wasn't acting under orders

from detective superintendent Pullman last night.

Detective superintendent,

I wonder how long you'll manage to hang on to that job.

What were you doing at the greenwood inn last night, sir?

Sandra.

You're on very thin ice, miss Pullman.

Sir, I'm simply trying to acertian-

I never liked your father.

And I'm beginning to like you even less.

Perhaps you should excuse us, Sandra.

No sir, I don't think that-

that wasn't a suggestion!

It's pity you didn't have that kind of control

over your subordinates, yesterday.

The investigation is over, John.

Brian Lane, Jack halford and Gerry standing

no longer work for ucos.

Well that'll do for starters, Robert.

But don't think I've finished yet.

[Melancholy instrumental music]

Well you didn't think we'd give it up, did you?

If strickland knew you were doing this...

What's he gonna do?

He can't sack us twice.

The only reason that felsham would shut us down,

is if he thought we were close to finding something.

If we let this go Sandra, then it's the end of ucos.

Felsham wins.

- Getting anywhere? - No.

Anne hargreaves, used to be Anne Forsyth

when she was working at cronux security.

She's the woman that David Murray

was having the affair with.

I was never here.

I'm afraid you seem to have got David Murray all wrong.

I know it's a long time ago, but I don't think my memory

has started playing tricks on me just yet.

But you did have an affair with him, Mrs. Hargreaves.

Anne, please.

An affair, I'd hardly call it that.

Certainly not by today's standards.

There was something, though.

Well yes, but not sex.

Might have got there eventually.

I wouldn't have minded if it had, but...

No I think David saw me more of a confident.

A shoulder to cry on.

Really what he wanted, was to make it work with Elaine.

There's not chance on earth

David had anything to do with that Heathrow business.

You do know that, don't you.

We really would like to talk to David Murray,

in connection with our investigation.

When's the last time you heard from him?

Oh well, it would be around about...

January of 1980.

I'd left cronux security at Christmas.

Had a job offer up north, more money.

And it was due to start mid-January.

And David called me up out of the blue,

while I was packing up my flat for the move.

Wanted to have a drink.

And your relation with him at that time was...

Oh, it was over.

Whatever it had been.

No, we'd been close for a few months the previous Autumn.

But we'd stopped seeing each other that winter.

Like I said, David wanted to make a go of it with Elaine.

And I suppose if I'm honest, that was one of the reasons

why I decided to take this other job.

And move away.

So hold on, you had a whatever it was with David Murray.

We became close because David's marriage was on the rocks.

That was because of the drinking and the gambling.

No, no that's what I'm saying.

I mean David liked to drink occasionally,

but he was no gambler.

He was quite careful with money, disciplined.

Probably something to do with having been in the army.

No his marriage was in trouble,

because his wife was having an affair.

Elaine was?

Well, Elaine Murray told us-

Elaine Murray was a nasty piece of work,

through and though.

I wouldn't believe a word

that came out of that woman's mouth.

So, what was really going on?

Well, David found out that Elaine was seeing someone else.

And he said...

[Sighs] What was the phrase he used...

Professionally compromised.

He said that Elaine and her fella

had professionally compromised him.

What did he mean by that?

I don't know, he wouldn't tell me.

I do know that he gave Elaine an ultimatum.

Either she stopped seeing this man,

or he'd tell everyone what they'd done.

And it seemed to work, because a couple of weeks later.

David called to call the whole thing off with me,

and said that he and Elaine were starting afresh.

So why did he want to see you, that last time?

Cause she'd start it up again, of course.

Elaine's affair.

David was so upset.

He said he was going to call in a favour

from an old army friend,

to get this friend to warn the boyfriend off for good.

No idea if it worked or not,

cause I moved north the next day.

And never heard from David again.

This boyfriend of Elaine, you remember his name?

- Dolby perhaps, derby? - Denby?

Denby, that was it.

Michael denby.

You were expressly told to clear your desks,

and go home.

That was an order.

I am at home.

With all due respect,

we don't have to take orders from you anymore.

You fired us, remember?

We're concerned citizens,

bringing evidence of a crime

to the attention of the metropolitan police.

I'm not seeing any evidence, just a lot of hearsay.

Do you believe that John felsham

is involved with this, sir?

What I believe, and what I can prove-

John felsham provoked frank into assaulting him,

just so that he could close down this investigation.

With or without your permission,

we're not going to let that happen.

Nothing Anne hargreaves said to you,

is admissible in court.

She said she'd make a statement any time we need her to.

Even then, she can't like felsham to any of this.

Not directly, no.

But Murray knew about denby and Elaine's affair.

He also knew that they'd attempted

the original armoured car robbery.

And if he didn't know about the Heathrow job beforehand,

the minute it happened he'd know that denby was behind it.

Felsham interviewed David Murray on his own,

after the robbery.

And his report said nothing about any of this.

That proves that felsham's lying.

No, it doesn't.

Perhaps Murray kept quiet, to protect his wife.

- No. - No, what?

Felsham knew, he knew before he interviewed Murray.

How?

It's the link we're looking for.

Anne hargreaves said the last time she saw David Murray,

he was gonna talk to an old army mate of his.

Have this guy frighten off denby.

And?

What regiment was Murray with in northern Ireland?

The cheshire rifles.

It's staring us in the face.

Before he was a cop, John felsham was in the same regiment.

And if he already knew David Murray...

Murray calls felsham.

Asks him to scare off Michael denby.

Instead, denby cuts felsham in.

If that's the case,

felsham knew about the Heathrow job in advance.

That's a good theory, but there's not a shred of proof.

Then we've got to find David Murray, and ask him.

He could be anywhere.

And if he's crossed denby, there's a good chance he's dead.

Either way, I bet Elaine Murray knows where he is.

So if we go back to Elaine,

with what Anne hargreaves has told us.

Maybe she'll start telling the truth.

Yeah, or she tips felsham off

that we're still on the case.

Elaine Murray is the only person who knows the truth.

I don't see that we have any choice, sir.

If we're wrong about this...

I know.

If we're wrong, we pay with our careers.

Well I'll tell you what.

I'd give you my warrant card now,

if it'd put John felsham behind bars.

Yeah.

Me too.

[Soft instrumental music]

Elaine Murray quit her job here,

and left about two hours ago.

That nurse said she had a suitcase with her.

Done a runner.

Yeah, well she can't have got far.

I'll alert all the ports, airports, eurostar.

What's he up to?

Oh, dunno.

Get him back, Gerry.

Frank, what's up?

What you doing?

Hello, Michael.

Michael?

Bloody hell, get the governor in here quick!

- What? - It's him!

Michael denby.

Are you sure?

He's had the tattoo removed.

Nice try, son.

What's wrong with him?

It's Alzheimer's.

Mr. Esquera's has been getting progressively worse,

for the last six years.

Jose esquera?

Yes.

ID bracelet in the jag.

Is it time or tea, darling?

[Nurse] Not yet, you've just had your lunch.

He doesn't even know where he is anymore,

let alone what his name is.

Nice try, you're nicked mate.

[Nurse] You can't arrest the residents.

You're going down for the rest of your life.

[Nurse] Causing him distress in his condition,

is actually-

[Gerry] Frank, frank.

He doesn't know what you're talking about, mate.

Rubbish, he's here.

- He knows what he did. - Frank.

He knows what he did.

[Brian] Frank he doesn't, look at him.

He's faking, he's not getting off that easy.

He killed five men.

He killed five men.

[Sandra] Frank, he doesn't remember.

I'm going to fetch the manager.

I got you, if you're in there somewhere.

I got you.

[Upbeat jazz music]

Find a nice little country pub, and have some lunch.

- Be nice. - Yeah.

Same story as the three men denby killed,

after the Heathrow job.

Bodies burned beyond recognition,

and there's a shotgun cartridge in his mouth.

Which has destroyed his teeth,

and taken away most of the head.

There's also preexisting damage to the right leg,

which is consistent with the injury Murray received

in northern Ireland.

It's him, he's dead.

Our last chance.

Denby's gone mad.

Elaine Murray's statement doesn't carry the weight

to nail felsham in court.

And the last remaining person that could have sunk felsham,

turns out he's been rotting here or the last 30 years.

Probably thanks to John felsham.

Just another allegation we can't prove.

So, what do we do now then?

We home.

Sorry chaps, this one's my fault.

No ones going anywhere, this isn't over yet.

Yes it is Sandra, this time.

John felsham is a suspect.

We've been so busy trying to get someone to incriminate him,

we've forgotten the basic rule of policing.

Which is?

Somewhere along the line,

he's bound to have incriminated himself.

[Door knocking]

I don't have time for you today, Robert.

We thought you'd like to know,

we have Michael denby in custody.

Really?

Yeah, we found him in a retirement home.

Suffering from advanced Alzheimer's.

It appears he doesn't know who he is,

nor does he remember anything of his criminal past.

There's some question

as the whether he can be tried for any of his crimes.

It's off the books, at least.

We arrested Elaine Murray too, John.

Elaine Murray.

No, afraid I don't...

Wife of David Murray, who worked at cronux security.

It turns out that Elaine and Michael denby were lovers.

Elaine was stealing information from her husband,

and passing it to denby.

The Heathrow robbery was the result of that.

David Murray.

Yeah...

Believe I may have interviewed him myself,

in the aftermath of Heathrow.

Yes, you did sir.

You also served with him, in northern Ireland.

Did I, really.

Well that was a long time ago,

I served with a great many people I don't remember.

He remembered you.

Yes apparently he contacted you,

when he found out that his wife and denby

had resumed their affair.

He asked you to warn denby off.

[Laughs] Told you this himself, did he?

No sir, David Murray is dead.

Elaine Murray has made a statement.

Confessing to her part of the Heathrow robbery.

In that statement,

she claims that you approached Michael denby.

But rather than warning him off,

you asked to be cut in on the Heathrow job.

In return for your silence.

This is nonsense.

She claims that you allowed the robbery to go ahead.

I'm not prepared to listen to any more of this baseless-

and that after the robbery, you approached David Murray.

-In the guise of a- -this is outrageous!

In the guise of a routine interview,

and tried to persuade him to keep his mouth shut.

Did you offer him money?

That's your badge gone, Pullman.

He wouldn't play ball, though.

So you warned denby,

that Murray was about to spill everything he knew.

Get out of my office!

Raymond atkins, William Finch, and Darren Ellis,

were already dead.

But you and denby would never be safe

if Murray was allowed to talk.

Robert, get this women out of my-

shut up, John!

You served with him in the army,

and he came to you for help.

As a friend, he trusted you.

And you told Michael denby to kill him.

You're trying to rial me, aren't you.

Your entire case is based on the statement of a woman,

who would say anything to reduce her sentence.

On a charge of conspiracy

to commit armed robbery, and murder.

You have no evidence against me, at all.

Jose esquera.

I've never heard of him.

Are you sure?

Of course I'm sure, get out of my office.

It's always the little lies that get us in the end,

isn't it.

You incriminated yourself, sir.

30 years ago.

Jose esquera.

An identity bracelet was found in the getaway car,

bearing that name.

When we finally tracked down Michael denby,

it turned out that he was living as Jose esquera.

Presumable that identity bracelet was part of his cover.

The fact that he lost it in the getaway car,

suggests that he already had his escape planned

at the time of the Heathrow job.

Jose esquera, the real Jose esquera was a Spanish tourist.

Who was mugged and killed

near piccadilly circus one night, in 1978.

You were the investigating officer, your first murder case.

Who doesn't remember their first murder case?

You admitted all his possessions into evidence.

Including the identity bracelet he was wearing.

Then in 1980, two weeks before the Heathrow job.

You checked them out of the evidence archive again.

We even have your signature on the log.

And they were never returned.

Passport, driving licence, identity card.

You provided Michael denby with everything he needed,

to get out of the country and start a new life in Spain.

But in order to make that getaway clean.

And to cover up your involvement in armed robbery.

Several people had to die first, didn't they?

Before you say anything, sir.

Deputy assistant commissioner, John felsham.

I'm arresting you for conspiracy to commit armed robbery,

for perverting the course of justice.

And for conspiracy to commit the murders

of Raymond atkins, Darren Ellis.

William Finch, and David Murray.

You do not have to say anything,

but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned,

something which you intend to rely on in court.

[Frank] I've waited a long time to see that.

Well, it paid of.

Well done, all of you.

Does that mean we've got our jobs back then?

Well technically, you never lost them.

How's that?

It takes a lot of paperwork when you fire someone, Jack.

Yeah, but what if we'd all just gone home.

Like you told us to.

What if you'd obeyed a direct order, you mean.

When does that ever happen?

I feel used.

Well don't, feel appreciated Brian.

All of you.

Thank you sir, you've just made them unbearable.

Oh, I thought they already were.

Cause for a celebration.

A proper night out.

No thanks, paperwork I'm afraid.

I better give her a hand.

Esther's doing Shepherd's pie.

Come on Gerry, just a quiet one.

A quiet one?

You buckle up, franky boy.

We're going large!

♪ It's all right ♪

♪ it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if you're old and grey ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ I say, it's okay ♪

♪ listen to what I say ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ doing fine ♪

♪ doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine ♪

♪ it's all right ♪

♪ I say, it's okay ♪

♪ we're getting to the end of the day ♪