Original subtitles

♪ 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 gettin' to the end of the day ♪

[Dreary instrumental music]

So this is where Annabel drowned.

December, 2008, this lake was covered in two inches of ice,

so she must've fallen through it.

Well how deep is it?

Oh, it's only six foot but the cold and the shock,

means she wouldn't last in there more than a minute.

Three days later on Christmas day,

there was a thaw and a jogger spotted her body in the water.

Jogging on Christmas day, who is he, Billy nomates?

Who was the last person who saw her alive?

Security guards saw her leave the foreign office,

over there at about 5:30.

And nobody around here saw or heard anything?

It was dark.

Yeah, but there was a Christmas fair, wasn't there?

Yeah, 100 metres that way.

And drowning, doesn't look like drowning.

What's that mean?

Well, 'cause you don't scream and splash about.

See the bodies concentrating solely on trying to breathe,

which is why most people drown within

metres of another adult who's completely oblivious.

[Cormorants grunting]

Didn't Walt Disney freeze to death?

No, he died and was cryogenically frozen.

And then stored under what is apparently now

the pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.

[Door opening]

Morning governor, coffee?

No, thank you.

- Morning. - Morning.

Right.

[Minnie] Annabel, say something to your baby.

- Is that her? - Yeah, Annabel Tilson, 28.

She's a diplomat in the foreign office.

Now it's November, 2008,

and Annabel is eight weeks pregnant.

She's just told her twin sister minnie,

who is doing the filming.

[Laughing]

Annabel's fiance, Eddie, he's profoundly deaf.

[Laughing]

[Minnie] He's already bought

your first pack of baby clothes.

Three weeks later, Annabel miscarried.

And one week after that, her career hit the skids.

Because she lost a government service laptop.

Correct, it was stolen from her home.

As penance, she was stripped of her prestigious diplomatic

posting to New York and demoted.

So this double whammy sent her into a deep depression.

Now the following afternoon,

Eddie got a text from her saying, "it's all pointless now,

so sorry, goodbye."

And that was the last contact she had with anyone.

Suicide?

Thanks.

Well, that's what the original investigation thought here.

So why did the coroner go with an open verdict?

Well, her mobile phone was never found.

And pathologists discovered that she'd eaten pizza

during the final 10 minutes of her life.

It's not much of a last supper.

Finally there was slight bruising on her arms

indicating a possible struggle before she hit the water.

Alright, so what's the ucos angle?

Well finding witnesses and alibis was a nightmare.

Because of the cold, it was impossible to narrow down

the etd from her body temperature.

Also, there were no sightings of her.

The past four years, minnie has been checking

all the social network and videos sites,

for any sign of her sister during the time she disappeared.

And then finally, two days ago, she came across this clip.

Posted by a family on an evening out at St. James's park.

Look at the date.

That's the day Annabel disappeared, and it's 17:58,

just half an hour since she left her office

for the last time.

Now we're about 100 metres from where her body was found,

what do you see?

[Bells chiming]

There.

Annabel with dinner for two.

- And on the menu? - [Bells chiming]

Pizza.

The camera timer is corroborated.

It matches a clock that was also filmed at the fair.

So, assuming that she ate the pizza while it was still hot,

we've got an estimated time of death.

Between 6:00 and 6:30 on the 22nd of December.

A dinner partner, probably killed her or knows who did.

No, she could still have killed herself,

jumped through the ice.

The who sent the suicide text the next day?

Well, that isn't any proof of murder.

And the afternoon she died,

she was overheard having a row at work with a boss.

So she was upset.

Could that have been what tipped her over the edge?

No, no, no, I don't think that you can-

now what you have here is certainly interesting,

but isn't it all a bit circumstantial?

We have several cases on our books,

with a far more concrete proof of murder.

What we have here sir,

makes it far less likely to be suicide

and in my view, that's enough to reopen the case.

Okay.

- [Knocking at door] - [Eerie music]

- Minnie? - [Door creaking]

Minnie.

[Footsteps pattering]

- Minnie? - [Eerie music]

Oh, hello, you can just give me a minute.

Yeah.

I can't hear the bell out here,

that's why I always leave the front door open.

You have a very beautiful house and garden.

Thank you.

"Plants are my home, my career, and my children."

Annabel said that.

She was the one who had boyfriends and travelled.

She'd bring back cuttings for me.

This plant here, is called the song of India.

Her first job in the foreign office was on the India desk.

That olive came back with her for Rome.

And that is a Chinese money tree.

China was her last job.

Yes, it was.

I hope her interpreting is better than her timekeeping.

Is this her?

- Oh, I'm so sorry I'm late. - [Heavily panting]

Oh, don't worry about it, not a problem.

You must be the lovely Vera.

- Yeah. - [Panting heavily]

Gerry standing, Brian Lane.

Hi, hello.

Shall we go in then?

Yeah, yeah.

- Lead on. - [Beep]

In 2006, I got a job at the foreign office.

That's when I met Annabel.

Her mother was deaf, so she needed sign language.

And is that why you were attracted to her?

No.

She made me laugh and she was beautiful.

That's what attracted me.

Did you think she'd killed herself?

No, Annabel wasn't that kind of person at all.

But I knew she was very unhappy.

I blamed myself for not seeing it coming.

And after that I blamed her old boss.

Peter Hammond?

He ruined her Annabel's career,

that's what she told me anyway.

Over this stolen laptop?

She left our flat only once to get some milk,

and that's when the break-in happened.

It was like someone was watching and waiting.

Hammond treated her like she was the criminal.

That made her really unhappy.

We were actually easy to tell apart.

Thank you.

We were such different people,

but we were very close, twins often are.

And you never accepted that she killed herself?

Annabel was a fighter.

She never quit anything in her life.

That is why I am so relieved to find that video.

So do you have any idea who might have killed her?

I don't know anyone who held a grudge,

but I think I know why?

Why?

Because of the laptop.

The one that was stolen from her house?

The foreign office told the press,

it held no sensitive information,

but Annabel knew this was a lie.

She told you this?

Oh, we didn't need to tell each other things.

It's a cliche, but in our case it was true.

I sensed it.

There was some great threat to national security

on that laptop and the government were afraid

Annabel might reveal that.

Because she was angry at how she'd been treated at work?

- Yes. - So you're saying

she was silenced?

That's my belief.

- [Door opening] - Say thank you to him for us.

Oh, hello?

We're just leaving.

- What was all that about? - [Door closing]

He said, "I'm content with Gina,

but Annabel was the love of my life.

Please find who did this."

That was very impressive.

Thanks, I need you to sign this invoice.

All right.

[Car door unlocking]

I used to sign as a child, you know.

- Really? - Yeah.

You're inspiring me to dust it off.

Am I?

- What's your name then? - [Car door opening]

Just call me Gerry.

No, I mean in sign language.

[Birds chirping]

Nice to meet you Brian.

Bye.

- [Car door closing] - Bye-bye.

Why do women always assume i'm trying to get them into bed?

Search me.

[Car starting]

That was true what I said about the signing.

- Oh yeah. - Yeah.

Yeah, I had a cousin called Danny, well I still have,

and he was deaf, but he had the best toys

and he had this amazing train set.

So I learned to sign so i'd be allowed to play with him.

What's happened to Danny then?

I haven't seen him for years, decades.

Just lost contact, you know how you do.

- [Car door opening] - Oh, that's a shame.

It is actually.

[Car door closing]

[Door opening]

Well, he didn't hang about, did he?

A new bird, and 1.5 children,

but what we couldn't find was a motive.

Not only that, Eddie wasn't even in London

when that video was shot.

He'd gone down to his parent's house

in Devon for Christmas.

His dad had cancer.

Three watertight alibis

that he was on the 5:22 from Waterloo which left on time.

And Annabel hadn't even left work till 5:30.

Well, I think that sister of hers

is a conspiracy theorist.

Yeah, but she probably knew Annabel better than anyone.

What's that?

Basic guide to sign language.

Oh, he fancies a bit of interpreting.

Really?

Well he fancies a bit of something.

What?

Just look into the laptop theft, will you Gerry?

Yeah, alright.

Go on then, give us a bit of this sign language

you've been dusting off.

This is a well known phrase or saying.

[Laughing]

[Lively music]

Sandra, Brian, sorry I didn't hear the alarm.

Up late studying were we?

[Car engine revving]

So, who're we gonna see at the foreign office?

Peter Hammond, and why would that be Gerry?

To find out why he gave Annabel such a bollocking

over that laptop.

Yeah and to ask him why he was heard rowing with her

hours before we think she was killed.

And I'm checking past records with door security.

In his original statement, Hammond reckoned he worked late

on December the 22nd, with Laura marsh.

And that's the bird who got the job

in New York instead of Annabel.

And she was also her best friend at university.

And that's who you're seeing Gerry.

Oh, spiffing.

In my experience, two cats in the same room

only mean one thing, a fight.

[Door opening]

[Indistinct chatter]

[Chuckles]

[Door closing]

I can't believe it.

So you were friends at uni, yeah?

Yes, good friends, and here.

Well, since you were so close,

did you know she was pregnant?

I did actually.

She confided in me earlier on.

When was this?

November, she'd only just found out herself.

I remember it was just before she heard

she'd go to New York.

Yeah, did she expect to get that?

New York?

God, not at all, she had written it off.

She had terrible morning sickness for the interview.

Getting it gave her a lot of self-belief I think.

Then you took it away from her.

Peter Hammond took it from her.

Listen, what was on that laptop that she lost?

I have no idea.

Why would that be relevant to her death?

Well I was hoping you'd tell me.

Look, I'm sorry about this, but where were you

between 5:30 and 7:00 on the evening

that Annabel disappeared?

I was in the office.

Peter Hammond needed to edit my ministerial briefing

so it could go out before Christmas.

Did you speak to Annabel that day?

No, but I did pass her in the corridor.

It was the day I got confirmation

I was going to New York in her place.

She blanked me.

I worried it was part of the reason she killed herself.

Look, I've got a meeting with a permanent under secretary.

But I'll certainly help if I can, detective superintendent.

[Paper rustling]

Why would the met risk muddying waters with this office,

again over Annabel Tilson?

We have evidence Annabel was murdered.

Oh, I see.

Nice yacht, yours?

Yes.

Whatever happened to civil service cutbacks.

My father was an astute businessman and I'm an only child.

And you took a different path.

That was the plan, yes.

But sadly, these days, there's only one show in town,

the prosperity agenda,

once you realise you're just working for gb plc,

the whole thing starts to feel rather grumpy.

You're obviously leaving.

Yes, in two days time.

Why is that?

I'm midway through a book

and my publisher is getting restless.

So I'm taking early retirement.

Hope you don't mind if we walk and talk.

Not at all.

[Footsteps pattering]

[Door opening]

Why did you row with Annabel Tilson

on the day she disappeared?

The same reasons I gave a week later

in my original statement.

Remind me.

Annabel had been moved from China to the Norway desk,

but it was after she'd lost the Washington posting

she got drunk, completely lost it.

She made a very public scene in here,

which everyone heard, blaming me.

But you demoted her and stripped her of her posting.

I made the recommendations, yes.

I derive no satisfaction from them.

I'd written the reference

that got her the New York job in the first place.

In my and many other people's view,

Annabel was destined for great things.

Then why turn against her?

Rules clearly state that a government service laptop

cannot be left unattended outside the building.

Annabel broke those rules.

And 2008 was a particularly bad year

to lose an official laptop.

You will recall there was a media witch-hunt

going on at the time over data leaks.

Yet, Annabel was still allowed

to take a government computer home?

Yes, part of a new flexible working strategy.

Each desk was given a shared secure laptop.

How much secret information was on it when it was stolen?

None, the office ran an internal security audit,

which concluded there was nothing you wouldn't' have found

a week later in the international section of the ft.

Come on.

This is an mi5, detective superintendent.

Documents in the foreign office

rarely go above confidential.

I'd like to see a copy of that security audit if I may?

I'm afraid that's confidential.

Handy.

Detective superintendent,

this insidious line of questioning

does you and the met no credit at all.

Now if you'll excuse me.

[Soft music]

Annabel's punishment didn't fit her crime.

Hammond clearly rated her,

so why was he so happy to make her a scape goat?

Maybe it was just very sexist.

I mean, forget about Washington.

No woman has ever got any of the top ambassadorships,

Beijing, Paris, Moscow, nothing.

Even I was shocked.

No woman in the met has ever made it to commissioner,

shocked by that too?

Fair comment, yeah.

Now Laura insists there was no rivalry

between her and Annabel.

What'd you find out about the laptop theft?

It was either bloody unlucky or bloody suspicious.

Annabel had only been gone 10 minutes.

Anything else taken?

Various electrical goods and a bottle of whiskey

from Eddie's collection.

Fingerprints, DNA?

Nope, clean as a whistle.

The previous mob reckoned it was a smokescreen.

What whiskey was it?

I don't know.

Well it might be relevant.

Oh, I'll tell you what is odd.

Annabel made two cash withdrawals of £400 each,

on the 1st of December and the 2nd of December.

Now that is very out of character.

[Paper rustling]

What's this?

That is an updated pnc check of anyone

who might have been in contact with Annabel before she died.

What's this then?

Yang, it's in her diary for the 2nd of December.

Well, I assumed it was work-related,

it's something to do with the China desk.

But this is her personal diary.

Hang on, 2nd of December

wasn't that when she took out the money?

Yeah.

What is Yang?

[Door opening]

Sandra, can I have a word please?

- Yes sir. - [Door closing]

[Eerie music]

[Door banging]

Heavy handedness?

"Bull in a China shop." Were his exact words.

With all due respect-

look, I have to pass it on because the fco

has such significant stakeholders.

Peter Hammond may be leaving, but our ongoing collaboration

-on drugs and serious crime- -i was exploring Hammond's

possible involvement in the death of Annabel Tilson.

Oh really?

He claimed you're accusing the fco of a coverup.

One of the theories I'm looking into, yeah.

Based on what new evidence?

I understand there was a full security audit of that laptop?

Yes, which would push any potential cover up

further up the chain wouldn't it?

- Oh come on, Sandra. - Sir, in the current climate,

can the met honestly claim that senior management

never hide dirty secrets from the staff?

Just ease off the throttle, Sandra.

This is not a relationship to threaten

with half-baked theories, okay?

[Phone ringing]

[Brian] Ucos, Brian Lane.

Gerry, you busy?

[Brian] All right.

Yeah I thought I'd go and see Eddie.

Talk to him about Yang and that bottle of whiskey.

Okay.

Governor, look I know you think that the foreign office

are involved in all this and you might well be right.

That's correct.

All I'm doing is following other avenues, just in case.

That's absolutely fine Gerry,

but Annabel was shafted by the foreign office.

She was punished unfairly

and we can't dismiss that without finding out why.

[Clicking]

Well, well, well.

[Laughing]

What's up with you someone buy you a lolly?

No, even better than that.

That was fco door security.

On the night Annabel died,

Peter Hammond didn't leave the office till midnight.

And Laura marsh worked late too,

but here's the thing,

she left the office at 5:30 pm but she came back at 7:00 pm.

The little liar!

Which also means that, Hammond could be covering for her.

Hammond's having a retirement bash

at his house tonight will speak to both of them there.

Oh no, I've got caught match tonight.

No you haven't.

Sandra, you're gonna clear this with strickland

why? I don't need his permission to do my job.

[Dramatic music]

[Brian] So how do we do this?

[Sandra] How we usually do it.

We block Brian.

[Brian] I better loose the scarf.

[Sandra] ] No, keeping it perfect.

[Brian] Yeah.

[Sandra] Hello.

[Crowd laughing]

Finally, fine let me quash rumours

I'm secretly plotting some new career in finance.

My good friend, city friend, Kingsley here

will vouch for my credentials.

I once told him there are three kinds of economists.

Those with great maths,

and those with terrible maths.

[Crowd laughing]

That's enough from me.

-Hey, you- -thank you again-

- that's Laura marsh. - So much for coming.

Can I ask you now to raise your glasses to the queen?

[Crowd] To the queen.

[Crowd clapping]

[Indistinct chatter]

I think this calls for trespass, detective superintendent.

We just like a quick word.

You've been lying to us.

I don't want to embarrass you.

Laura marsh popped out of the foreign office,

just before Annabel died which wasn't in your statement.

I hope that is not what you've come here with.

You're her alibi.

If she popped out, how would I have known?

We work in different rooms.

I really don't want this to get ugly.

Please get out of my house.

Deep breathe Brian.

- Sir. - Sir.

Brian, Sandra,

new evidence.

[Indistinct chatter]

Laura marsh was out of the building when Annabel died.

So we've come to speak to her and her alibi, Peter Hammond.

And the reason this cannot wait until the morning is?

We can't be sure where he'll be tomorrow.

Not only is the foreign secretary here,

but I'm also in conversation with the director of mi5.

I cannot afford to be even slightly embarrassed.

That won't happen, trust us sir.

You are on thin eye Sandra.

Tread bloody carefully.

[Footsteps pattering]

Look, I know this is hard,

but can we talk about the miscarriage?

It was a few days before the 12 week scan.

I was at a conference.

She texted me and said she was having stomach cramps.

She told me she was in the bathroom

and there was blood everywhere.

I came right back of course.

But I knew...

I just knew.

It must've been very traumatic.

Yeah, that was interesting.

- [Exhales] - Bye then.

All right, oh Vera.

Yeah.

I want to dig up my elephant with you.

No, I thought was saying

I want to practise my signing with you.

That took me hours.

Its not easy, is it?

No is it not.

What are you after, honestly?

I've got a cousin Danny,

and he is deaf I wanna go and see him again.

Is that all?

Yes, honestly.

Okay.

But trust me, I'm doing it for your cousin.

[Soft music]

[Indistinct chatter]

Done.

No thank you.

Hello.

Sorry, have we met?

No, but you've met our colleague Gerry standing.

On the night of Annabel, Tilson's murder,

where were you really, between 5:30 and 7?

I went to Harvey next to knightsbridge.

And then I came back to the office.

Why?

I bought salmon and champagne,

to celebrate getting New York.

So you and Peter Hammond lied to us.

Check with my bank, I paid for them by card.

Beside the point, you still could have got

to St. James park.

Is not looking good for you, not at all.

I know, that's why I lied.

Nobody drinks champagne on their own.

She shared it with her lover, Peter Hammond.

What I don't get is, if you and Herman were lovers,

why were you celebrating going 3000 miles away

for four years?

Because he'd ended it.

And I was pretending I was fine with that.

[Laughing]

I told him I wanted on Annabel's New York's job.

He told me that was out of his hands.

So I told him to sort it or I'd phone, his wife.

My heart just...

If I couldn't have him,

I was gonna make bloody sure, I had a career.

Was this before or after Annabel lost the laptop?

Before.

So the burglary was good news for you?

Yes.

What's your relationship with Herman been like ever since?

I've been his shack body?

Here's why pathetic, I am.

He gave me this in New York, Chinese geed, fake of course.

But I thought I'd wear it tonight just in case.

[Laughing]

Let me rescue Laura.

I thought you two were leaving 10 minutes ago.

Well, you know what's its like when you get chatting

at these doors, Peter?

Are we done?

For now.

[Footsteps pattering]

I just had a way with your boss.

Don't think he's very happy with you.

He'll be delighted when he hears how forthcoming

Laura marsh has been.

Lover boy.

I can't talk here.

Where?

I'll come to you tomorrow afternoon.

We'll expect you at 9:00 am.

[Footsteps pattering]

Super-duper Peter.

What's it like Pullman still crawling

through the cracks of your age.

Answer the question.

No.

Having Laura around wasn't ideal,

but she'd have got posted somewhere eventually.

That's what happens in the foreign office.

So she blackmailed you,

get her New York or your wife gets a phone call.

Drivel.

Why would she come out with that?

Hell hath no fury, detective superintendent.

Annabel's punishment was disproportionate.

You know that.

This is a police investigation or a performance review.

For Annabel to lose that posting,

you had to discredit her quickly.

So in that light,

the laptop theft suddenly looks a bit convenient.

Did you just imply what i-

she did.

What if you're not gonna take me seriously?

Annabel, it's just that your affair.

And she threatened to expose you.

So to protect your marriage and probably your career too,

you had to act.

Why don't you not do some bloody police work?

Check with door security.

We have officially, you stayed

in the building till midnight.

But you and I both now have persuasive rank can be.

Not in my office Pullman.

[Eerie music]

Watch out.

Oh, you're there.

Have you found out what Yang means?

Well yes and no.

Annabel ordered a new kitchen worktop in early December.

Eddie said that the fitter was either Chinese or Japanese

what he thought was odd at the time.

He also admitted that they quite often paid cash in hand.

Oh, the cash withdrawal, okay.

Oh, I also had to look at Eddie's whiskey collection.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, it would have made you weak mate.

Apparently the solum bottle was called Glenn Wallace.

I'd never heard a bit,

but Eddie said it was really special.

Glenn Wallace.

Oh, here we go.

No, it's a highly esoteric tipple is that.

Is it.

They went out of business, unfortunately in the '80s.

Big prices now.

So the burglar got lucky.

[Chuckles]

Certainly did, Tony symes.

Oh, Tony symes.

I nicked him back in the early '90s.

He only ever mixed up two older commissions he called it.

He though he was bloody burglary aristocracy,

but you didn't know about his whiskeys, I'll give him that.

Well, is he still at it?

Well I as I know he's been strict for years, but-

lets bring him in.

This definitely smells that.

[Car engine revving]

Where are you going?

- Brian. - [Dramatic music]

Brian!

Shit.

Tony symes, ceo, symes inc.

Bespoke commercial, counter-intelligence.

Your secrets will be safe with us.

So where's the met leak, and how big do you hole?

[Chuckles]

This is very respectable.

The last time I saw you, you're being thrown

into the back of a Van down for the scrubs.

I've been clean for years, Brian, as you know.

Have you read "the power of now"?

No

You should, changed my life.

Especially the chapter about not looking back.

Do your clients know you've done time, twice.

"It does not matter whether it is a black cat

or a white cat.

As long as the cat catches the mouse."

Xi jinping, the president of China.

Very true.

What's this about gents?

A government laptop stolen in late 2008,

from a flat in southwick belonging to a diplomat.

The commission's got your name,

edge through it like Brian bloody rock.

Well, as I've said-

it needed to be clinical.

It needed somebody with your pedigree.

Well, I hope you cut more than that.

I mean, I was bloody good, but there were other people

in my field of work.

Glenn Wallace.

Never heard of him.

Oh, come on Tony.

It was stolen with the laptop.

Someone got lucky, didn't they?

Only somebody like you would have noticed it.

A rare slip I reckon.

Strictly mineral water these days Brian.

You know it's three and out now, don't you?

I mean, we pin this on you.

You go down automatically.

And the doors to syme's inc shook

bloody tight if that happens.

So why don't you just tell us who hired you?

Well, sorry gents, business calls.

[Door opens]

Think about it, Tony.

[Door closes]

Guilty.

We just need more leverage.

Problem is even if symes did need that laptop,

we still haven't got a motive for murder.

How about this?

Symes stole the laptop,

for someone secretly representing the Chinese government.

Annabel knew there was a threat to national security on it.

The foreign office told her to keep quiet,

but because she was off,

she threatened to blow the whistles.

As someone, somewhere in government had to do the dirty.

That's what minnie said.

Exactly.

Yeah, it all sounds a bit more credible now.

Does it?

Where we didn't think were being followed before,

now I've had a double sighting.

I can hardly see mi5 sending out a banged up old Chrysler

to keep an eye on us.

Double bluff?

Anyway, without registration details,

there's not a lot we can do about that.

I'm sorry about this, but I still think

we're focusing too much on trying to find a motive

inside the foreign office.

Really?

'Cause I think we're getting somewhere.

I want one of you to go and see minnie.

She thinks she's got something for us.

I'll go.

Maybe she's getting a sisterly vibe from afterlife.

Where are you off to?

Laura marsh, she called too.

Arghh.

I'm not sleeping,

I keep thinking about Annabel,

the timing of her losing that laptop always bugged me.

Even when I thought she'd taken her own life.

But no.

It security gave me access,

but I absolutely did not show it to you.

[Bus engine revving]

Look who took the laptop home the day before Annabel.

[Bus engine revving]

Peter Hammond.

He hardly ever borrowed it.

I wondered if it could be relevant.

If Hamilton copied some files from his desktop

onto the laptop, would that show up in here?

Yes. He transferred around 40 files.

40, what was in them?

There's only lists file reference numbers.

See the files you'll need to make a formal request

through our lawyers.

[Footsteps pattering]

He asked to meet me.

Peter, the day after the party.

He wanted to know what I told you.

And he wanted this back.

He suddenly decided it could compromise our relationship.

I told him where to go.

He got quite abusive, what a romantic.

So now, I'm wearing it, all the time and praying

I bump into him.

May I?

Who told you it was fake?

He did.

And he gave it to me.

Do you mind if I have it looked at?

I've been going through Annabel's things.

It's a long time since I did that,

I found this, it's a post it.

Dry £765, stuck on east London.

I texted Eddie, he's got no idea.

I wondered if it was still with the money

that Annabel took out.

Do you know if she had any contacts in east London?

No.

No thanks.

Yeah, I would definitely look into that.

Oh, were you pleased about Annabel's pregnancy?

Oh, yes.

Any kids of your own?

No, no.

And that's never going to happen.

It's hardly too late.

Have you heard of the early menopause?

Oh yeah, yeah, vaguely.

I was 27.

Oh, oh I'm sorry.

No, so a nephew or niece would have been very special.

You know when Annabelle miscarried,

it felt a bit like, she lost my baby too.

Is that weird?

Okay, so you think that Peter Hammond put these files

on that laptop knowing that Annabel was gonna take it home.

And then he arranged for it to be stolen.

Yeah, by Tony symes.

Why on earth would Hammond want to do that?

That's the problem, I don't know.

Unless he needed to get those particular files

out of the building.

And he used a laptop, as a kind of trojan horse

to smuggle them out.

Yeah, but why?

He couldn't have carry them out, security was too tight.

Wait, so now you're saying that Hammond

could have been spying as well?

Possibly, yeah.

Possibly.

Sir, the secret to Annabel's death lies in that building

and I am convinced the files hold the keys.

So please just sign off on this request.

Let me think about it.

[Telephone ringing]

She's not happy.

It's not surprising.

Yeah, potentially career defining moment.

And strickland's playing top flop politics with her.

I can't find any of Annabel's contacts on this page.

Well, anyway, dry is a computer acronym.

Don't repeat yourself.

It's also an album by a certain pj Harvey.

No, we're not getting anywhere.

If anyone ask, I've gone to a jewellers.

[Door clanking]

I have this looked at and it's worth £80,000.

So I guess that's why he wanted it.

No, he could never have afforded this.

He's loaded.

Everyone falls for it, that house, the yacht,

everything belongs to his wife.

She's the one with the wealth.

Peter just has his okay, civil service, wage

and massive status anxiety.

And his inheritance.

Guess where Peter's father invested the family silver?

Lehman brothers.

Peter was left with nothing.

He let it slip one night

and then begged me to keep it quiet.

I knew he had no money.

Why would he spend £80,000 on me?

Maybe he cared more than you thought.

[Phone ringing]

Excuse me.

Sir. [Door opening]

[Door closing]

[Paper rustling]

Sandra.

What's going on?

Hammond's files.

And the deal was, the documents can't leave the building.

I never wanted to stop you doing your jobs, Sandra come on.

Lets see if your hunch is right.

- [Dramatic music] - [Paper rustling]

There's nothing in here that's secret,

its not even confidential.

Nothing, wouldn't find a week later in the ft.

No.

What was that all about China?

UK telecom's firm 4mobile

about to sign a billion pound deal

with the Chinese government to supply satellite kits.

Yeah, this one's about same deal.

It's from our embassy in Beijing.

"We've heard about an 11th hour pitch by French rival,

debut telecoms, I'm suspect, the UK deal

might be in trouble."

What's the date of that tell?

6th of December.

The day before Annabel borrowed their laptop.

Well they were right to be worried,

the deal collapsed two days later.

Well hang on, if you have that information

before the markets.

Yeah, and you bought a shed load of debut telecoms shares.

Insider trading.

[Door opening]

Okay, according to the fsa,

there was general speculation on debut telecoms that week,

but nothing suspicious.

But you can also make money from a falling share price,

it's called shorting.

Shorting, even sounds dodgy.

That week, a hedge fund manager named Kingsley wilton

sold a significant volume of four mobile shares

at their market high, on the 7th of December,

when the deal looks solid,

and bought them back, when they hit rock bottom

four days later.

He must've made a fortune.

Wello, there's an article about wilton.

Yeah, it says he suffered badly, in the financial crisis

since he gambled everything he had

on the 4mobile collapse.

But since then, Mr. Walton has become red hot.

Oh, and there's a photo too.

Bloody hell that's syme's mate.

How do you know?

He was at Hammond's retirement due.

What?

Kingsley wilton, he's going to prison.

And if I were you, I'd talk.

The data on that laptop made him a multimillionaire.

How much did you get Tony?

Few hundred quid.

Doesn't seem fair to me.

That's a travesty.

If he mentioned your name, first,

you're gonna end up doing three years, wiping up his slops.

I see.

[Soft music]

The fsa have arrested your charm, Kingsley wilton.

Fascinating.

They've also identified an off shore account in your name,

in believe which has received cash flow from wilton,

since December, 2008.

That account currently holds, well over £4 million,

the fsa are waiting outside,

but it's Annabel Tilson's murder we're interested in.

Laura marsh had to get that job in New York

to keep her quiet.

And for that to happen, you had to discredit Annabel.

You were also desperately in need of cash.

So the theft of the laptop

gave you two for the price of one.

But Annabel got suspicious.

She discovered what files you transferred.

And like us put two and two together

and came up with corruption.

And that's what the argument was about.

She was on to you.

She was threatening to expose you.

So you killed her.

How on earth could she have retrieved those records?

She wasn't senior enough.

Like you say she was bright.

She had a found a way.

Annabel Tilson knew nothing.

And since you can't put me

outside the building at the time she died,

I doubt a jury will.

I liked Annabel.

I didn't murder her.

I'm genuinely relieved, she didn't kill herself.

Maybe positive to come out of this is that,

I no longer feel any guilt over her death.

We started out with murder and solved a fraud.

But what about Laura marsh's bracelet?

It's how Hammond hid his money.

He used Laura as a kind of human safety box.

Kingsley wilton's alibi has worked out,

the night Annabel died,

he was in his hotel suite in Singapore.

However, on a brighter note,

the fsa are delighted with your work, so well done, really.

I don't know.

We solve a huge case for them,

and get a poxy bottle of Bulgarian carver.

We've officially moved from recession to depression.

Isn't there still fraud though.

Them buying us booze.

Oh, shut up and drink your juice.

That video clip is now the only evidence

driving a murder investigation, I'm all right?

Well, no, no.

We've got an a to z with a random post-it note in it.

Annabel did not kill herself, sir.

Sandra, for all your endeavours, I think he might be time

for ucos to commit its resources to something else.

No, it's not who she was.

[Soft music]

I've got a senior management meeting upstairs.

Have a think about it.

Yeah, cheers.

[Door opens]

Well, has anyone got any bright ideas?

'Cause at the moment we're getting absolutely nowhere.

Yeah, I think we should go back to the facts of the case,

which is why, if you don't mind,

I'm going back to the scene of the crime,

I'll see you later.

[Door opening]

Yes, hey, hey. [Shouting]

Justin transport for London records

showing Annabel's oyster card usage in the weeks

before she died.

Annabel never went near that page of the a to z.

We'd work that out, Brian, yes.

Except she did once, December the 3rd,

the day of a miscarriage.

She took the tube to chigwell

and from there she got on a w20 bus.

Now the thing is, there are no hospitals along that route,

however, there is one medical establishment,

not far from chigwell station.

Abortion clinic.

Yeah.

[Dramatic music]

So is that what abortion costs then?

£765.

I wouldn't know thankfully.

Of course we still don't know what dry means.

Don't worry, Brian, i'm prepared for another dead end.

Oh, my good god.

[Indistinct]

[Engine revving]

Awesome, just after 10:00 am.

Well I've just had a word with the clinic administrator.

She was pretty sure all the computers were destroyed.

However, she'd already backed them up off site.

It turns out Annabel did their visit here,

on the 3rd of December, 2008 at 2 P.M.

She was seen by Dr. Yang, Dr. Y, d-r-y, dry.

Oh, well, someone obviously didn't want us

to find that out, did they, they must have panicked.

Gerry.

[Cormorant granting]

Starting to come back.

Well, I think it was watching all those interviews

you did with Eddie, that must've helped.

Oh no, that's a point.

Can I ask you about that last interview?

Yeah, go ahead.

Well Eddie said he was sure that the kitchen worktop

was laid by an Asian, right?

Its true, yeah.

But then he said, he thought it was,

like, it was a stammer.

Yeah, he did.

I wonder, why?

Thank you.

That was the crime squad, a witness has come forward,

who spotted a car, driving away from the clinic at speed,

just after 10:00 am this morning.

Registration?

No, only the year, but they did get the make and colour.

A green Chrysler sunbeam.

I'll run a search on, it shouldn't take a moment.

[Keyboard cluttering]

So for a 1998, lime green Chrysler sunbeam,

we have, 17 possible hits in London.

Oh. [Exhales sharply]

[Eerie music]

Minnie.

What's happened.

Annabel had an abortion, not a miscarriage.

What?

Where were you this morning?

I had some time off.

So I went to sissinghurst castle to look around the gardens.

How did you get there?

In my Van.

Anyone go with you?

No.

Did you meet anyone there who might remember you?

No, look, I, I didn't burn down that clinic.

Of course, I didn't.

I know because you're a good person

and all life is precious to you.

Yes.

But here's why I think you did burn it down, minnie.

You got scared.

Of what?

You've always known Annabel had an abortion.

How?

Because she owned up to you

and said, "James is part of that, she'd got rid

of her child."-

no way.

To push your sister through the ice and let her die,

well, that must've been a really tough thing

for a good person like yourself to live with-

no please, stop it-

that you've confessed, that takes more than goodness.

That takes guts.

Grunted, you came halfway, you found enough evidence

for us to reopen the case, and when we got stuck,

you even dropped us up a few crumbs-

no, no please-

but when we were closing on the abortion clinic,

then you change your mind because the reality

of going to prison hit you and you panicked.

And you know what I understand?

No, no, no, enough.

[Suspenseful music]

You've got it all wrong.

I'm still trying to understand how my sister

could have murdered her child. [Crying]

Cool, what a pair, right?

Who?

Eddie and Anabel, he's earth to her fire.

Sounds like it worked pretty well.

And maybe she appreciated his calming influence.

'Cause she had a terrible temper, you know?

- Yeah. - Yeah.

She had an argument, you could hear it all over

the foreign office.

[Chuckles]

There's a point, drowning doesn't seem like drowning,

but an argument sounds like an argument,

even a hundred metres away.

I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

I've got to get back to the office right now.

Can I give you a lift somewhere?

No, no, its fine.

- You're sure? - Yeah, yeah.

All right, then.

I'm sorry, Vera,

we will meet again.

- [Chuckles] - [Cormorants granting]

[Suspense music]

Governor, we've missed something.

Now, people love ogling public arguments, right?

And we know that when Annabel at Earl,

she made a right racket, yet no one in St. James's park,

reported hearing anything.

Why?

Because it was silent.

Sign language.

[Slow music]

Minnie, sorry.

Has anyone borrowed your car recently?

Who?

Well, we don't know.

Maybe someone you lent it to before.

Eddie borrowed it to pick up his daughter

from nursery once.

When

about three weeks ago, his car was being repaired.

Thank you.

This way, please.

[Floor creaking]

[Door opening]

Eddie found out about the abortion.

He her at St. James's park.

He confronted her with this discovery.

Completely lost it and then pushed her under the ice.

Yeah, but why follow us?

To chat that we went onto the abortion.

He knew that was the only way it could be caught.

Yeah, and then when minnie handed in the a to z,

we started asking questions about fang, Yang.

He panicked and burnt down the clinic

no, no wait, there are two problems here.

First of all, it's circumstantial-

we can search Eddie's house.

Yeah, but that's not the issue, is it?

' Cause we've always known that Eddie

couldn't have killed Annabel at 6:00 pm.

'Cause he was already on the train to exeter.

Why don't we go to Devin.

Break his alibi.

[Suspense music]

[Train whistle trumpets]

[Suspense music]

Okay, thank you very much.

[Suspense music]

Anything?

Eddie's mum swear that she saw the 522 train

from Waterloo arriving at 8:55.

[Electric train chooing]

He watched his son get off it.

Yeah, well, Eddie's mates swear blind that they saw Eddie

and his mom walk into the car park just after 8:55.

So the alibi is solid.

He caught up bloody train.

[Metal clanking]

That's it then the end of the line.

Someone burned down that clinic

and someone's been following us in minnie's car.

Yeah, I don't know, coincidence, speculation.

Come on Gerry, Annabel was murdered.

You know it, I know it.

All I do know is you're seeing what you wanna see,

in this bloody case.

Sandra, Sandra.

[Dramatic music]

See, lets watch these two girls.

Totally disappeared.

Now what if Eddie was already in that shelter,

when the 522 came in?

And all his mom saw,

was him coming out of there, and walking up the stairs.

So she saw what she expected to see.

That's her boy now

[train whistle trumpet]

She confessed to the ultimate crime,

killing your baby.

When you say she died, I was on a train.

I don't think so.

Waterloo may be the nearest station to your house,

but the fastest trains to exit early from Paddington.

So after you killed Annabel,

you jumped on a tube and struck lucky.

A train left at 6:40 pm and arrived at exeter at 8:50.

Once there, you hid for five minutes

until the Waterloo train arrived.

And then your mum saw you walk over the footbridge.

Your alibi was safe.

You have no proof of this.

Found in your house an hour ago,

a duplicate key to minnie's Chrysler.

So you watched the woman, you loved drown,

and you did nothing.

[Soft music]

I wanted...

I wanted her to look at me and tell me,

she hadn't killed our baby.

[Soft music]

She looked away.

Everything went black.

[Soft music]

The next thing, she was in the water,

looking at me.

Those eyes.

I hated her.

[Telephone ringing]

I'm really sorry that we had to jump

to the wrong conclusion in order to reach the right one.

I really believed they loved each other.

[Door opening]

Well, I think they did.

No, my sister acted selfishly.

And broke his heart, and he chose to watch her die

and live with that terrible secret.

That's not love, that's got anything to do with love.

I wish I'd never found that video.

Why don't you take some time off?

You know, change the scene.

And I already will be in trouble.

[Door clanking]

Bye.

[Footsteps pattering]

That was quite impressive, Gerry.

Thank you governor.

I think you're ready to visit your cousin.

Oh thank you.

And also thank you for seeing beyond your first impression.

What first impression?

[Dramatic music]

Sir.

Your instincts were spot on about Annabel

and about the foreign office of course, well done.

I also missed, a double sighting of minnie's car,

which slowed down the investigation.

You solved not one but two cases here.

And that is an attack on the clinic could have been fatal.

Yeah, but it wasn't.

Do you know, I used to think I was unstoppable

in this job.

First female commissioner, even.

Just like Annabel, I thought it was all possible.

And with this case you wanted to show the met

that you still had it?

No, no, no, I've hit my ceiling here,

I know that and I've dealt with it.

No, I wanted to prove it to myself.

And did you?

Not really no.

Well for what it's worth.

You proved yourself to me years ago.

You could still get Washington you know.

Now, for me I'd like to buy you all drink.

No, thanks very much.

- Sandra. - Yeah, okay.

Already booked, I'm afraid.

Okay.

- See you tomorrow. - Ta-da.

Ooh, Vera.

Danny.

Oh, your cousin?

Yeah, I skyped him?

Yeah, all the...

Yeah. I mean the picture quality, wasn't very good.

But now we got on like house on fire, bought him a present.

You said he was into trains?

No, no, he it the planes now.

I bloody hope what he said.

[Door closing]

♪ 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 gettin' to the end of the day ♪