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♪ 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. ♪

[Birds tweeting]

[Calm music]

[Leaves crunching]

[Leaves crunching]

[Sport commentator on radio]

Who won the toss?

We did. We batting.

Nice one.

The aussies are going down.

Bloody hope so.

[Sports commentator on radio]

[Calm music]

Nine million people in London and one forest.

Where the hell is everybody?

Indoors.

Edible or fatal?

What'd you reckon?

Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle.

Oh be my guest.

Mmm, thank you.

I used to forage for fungi in here.

Fungi foraging, is that right?

Mmm. Well the one you've really got to watch out for

the death cap.

Mm-hmm.

[Pullman] Ah! There he is, Gerry?

Gerry.

What's he doing?

I have no idea, Gerry!

Oh, he's scared of trees.

What?

I'm not scared of trees.

I'm scared of woods.

Woods?

Forests.

Oh come on Gerry, behave yourself.

Come on, come on, that's it just through here.

There we go.

So this Simon bloke used to jog

through epping forest every day.

Yeah. Three miles from his house in woodford

to his office in loughton.

And then on July the 9th 2009,

he set off on his regular route,

but never made it into work.

Nothing has been seen or heard from him since.

Nothing missing?

Passport, cash?

No. And the bank cards that were in his wallet

were never used.

The only trace that him soca found

was his DNA on a water bottle

discovered over there somewhere.

And that could have been left anytime.

And he ran every day?

What was his job?

Marketing.

For a construction company owned by his father-in-law.

That could be bad for your health.

What running every day or working

for your father-in-law?

Perhaps he was involved in something

he shouldn't have been.

Mit tried to find trouble but he was happily married,

had a good job, first kid on the way.

No brushes with the law, no apparent problems.

In other words, they didn't get anywhere.

The father-in-law looked dodgy, but without any evidence

of a murder, he soon became a straight misper.

Well, what changed things?

A few days ago, a park ranger found his work ID pass

in the forest, near epping town, about three miles away.

He handed it in and forensics have found traces

of Simon's blood on it.

Any sign of the the rest of him?

No, they're still looking

but they don't fancy their chances.

And also forensic showed that the pass

had been moved by a fox.

So the body could be anywhere?

Hmm. I hate foxes an' all.

Yeah, that's him.

Ran past here every morning just gone nine.

Place is dead on a weekday.

You know the regulars.

Mr. Furley. You're the only person who says

that they saw Simon in the forest that morning.

I knew he was here because he stopped to talk.

First time ever.

Normally he just waved as he ran past.

What did he ask you?

Who won the toss?

First day of the ashes.

England against Australia.

Cricket.

How did he seem?

Happy.

Did anyone else come past that morning?

Hmmm. Sorry. Old brain cells.

I'm a lot older than you lot.

Maybe not you.

[Pullman snickers]

[Gerry] So apart from blind as a bat Bob foley,

the last person to see Simon that morning, was his wife.

[Pullman] Yeah.

[Gerry] Right.

[Pullman] She was eight and a half months pregnant

at the time though.

[Gerry] Oh.

[Pullman] More promisingly, her father, frank miles

has got gbh on his cv.

[Gerry] Yeah, but I assume they checked the computers

the first time round.

[Pullman] All clean.

But a handful of files was deleted from frank's computer.

The day after Simon disappeared.

[Gerry] Yeah?

And his company books stank.

Why?

They were immaculate.

Look, I'm sorry, Becky.

But did you notice anything different

about Simon that morning?

No. We were getting a new bedroom sorted out

talking about cots.

And he said that he would call me

later that morning at work.

Kissed me goodbye and ran off down the street.

[Door clicks open]

Hi chicken.

Frank miles?

Yeah.

Detective superintendent Pullman, unsolved crimes.

Gerry standing.

I hear they found Simon's work ID pass

in epping forest with his blood on it.

[Sighs heavily]

So that's that then.

Broke her heart, not knowing.

Look do either of you know,

if Simon was in any trouble at all?

That man's trouble, was not having any trouble.

Hey bex?

When she met him, didn't even have a bank account.

Mr. Miles, Simon told a close friend

that two days before he disappeared

you and he had an argument.

Oh here we go.

Look. It was nothing.

He mishandled a meeting with a client that was all.

Pressure of the baby coming, he said.

I told him to pull his socks up.

So you didn't rate him then?

I didn't say that.

Well. How would you describe your relationship

with your son-in-law?

She was happy. I was happy.

The day before he disappeared,

he tried to take £2000 out of his account.

Yeah, that's for Josie's bedroom.

One of my builders done it up.

He insisted on paying his way.

I'll give him that.

Mr. Miles, in your previous statement,

you said that you spent the morning with Becky at her house.

Oh give it a rest will you?

Just routine frank.

I was giving her a hand.

Wasn't I bex?

Out to here she was, bless her.

Well I'm sure she would have preferred her late mum

but there we are.

Sorry. Excuse me.

Well done.

Bex?

Helping her, my arse.

Wherever he was that morning, he wasn't with her.

She's 35 years old and still saying how high

when her father says jump.

It's bloody pathetic.

Can you imagine my girls being on that kind

of leash, they'd have laughed in my face.

Your brother came to see you the night

before he disappeared, yeah?

Si came over for dinner.

It was my 70th.

Did Simon give you this?

Si's dad made that.

He loved his whittling.

He was a tree trimmer.

Is this him and Simon then?

Yes, they were very close.

Bill passed away not long after

Simon's business went bust.

Simon was very down, poor boy.

Depressed?

He went to Africa to sort his head out.

Yes.

And that's where he met his Becky.

How was he when he came back?

Well, I've never seen him happier.

Simon had an argument with frank miles

that day before he came to see you.

He told us before.

Si never mentioned it but he did seem worried

about something.

Yes well we just thought he was nervous about the baby.

I teased him enough about how his life

was about to change.

Did he talk much about his relationship

with frank miles?

[Pullman] Or any other problems he was having?

After the wedding, we hardly ever saw him.

Did we Tim?

His life was one long honeymoon I think.

I still keep thinking he's going to

come back through that door.

Sorry.

Maybe this guy's landed on his feet.

He saw them again, he's straight, he's happy.

It could be a mug and it's gone wrong you know.

We assume he's happy.

I'm not sure I'm buying the package.

Yeah. Imagine being cooped up in an office

with frank miles every day.

Well his previous and wobbly alibi.

Frank's the key man.

So let's find out what he was trying to scrub

over at work and see if there's a motive in there.

Governor, this Simon bloke may not be

as straight as we think.

He was in regular contact with an unknown pay-as-you-go.

Well it hasn't been used since he disappeared

but it gets switched on every couple

of months or so.

Somebody thinks he's still alive then.

Checking for messages aren't they?

Get the techies to pinpoint exactly where

it's been turned on.

Now how come the bank's blocked this two grand

Simon's tried to take out.

Well, that's probably because he was

a non discharged bankrupt.

Poor sods get treated like criminals these days.

So what was his failed business?

It was called tree walkers.

Apparently Simon wanted people in built up areas to

use woods and forests more.

So he set up a park in epping forest where people

could climb up trees and then swing and slide off them.

I guess it's not quite as much fun as it sounds, ay Gerry?

I can't believe I missed it.

Danny and Steve, I want you to go and visit dom acres.

He's the one who told us about the argument.

See if Simon shared anything else with him about frank.

Right, yeah.

Oh Jerry.

Who's Janice mclaren?

She's a very nice girl.

And you need to meet her.

Well I reckon he was dead right away to be honest.

Why?

Well, you know, I mean, we were always like that.

And then suddenly not a word.

You were buddies at school.

Yeah, yeah. He was my best man.

I was his. You know, we were always in each other's pockets.

Well I don't mean brokeback mountain or anything.

I mean, you know, we were close.

When did you last see Simon?

When he babysat my kids about two days

before he disappeared.

I mean my wife had left.

I was trying to get this place up and running.

You ever seen Kramer vs. Kramer?

You know, Dustin Hoffman trying to make French toast.

Yeah, that was me.

All over the shop.

Have you got the hang of it now?

What?

Making French toast.

So when Simon came to see you,

that's when he told you about his argument with frank, yeah?

Yeah.

Did he say what it was about?

He said frank wanted a bigger work commitment.

He said everything was coming to a head.

Well, I mean, all I wanted to do was to get some sleep

so I didn't push it.

I mean, I regret that.

He seemed worried though?

Yeah. Well, si always joked that there were three people

in his marriage bed.

One of them would break his nose just for snoring.

Yeah. It was the first time I'd seen him really worried.

Did Simon think frank was on the make?

Oh yeah.

Did that bother him?

Look, if si found a pound on the pavement,

he'd want to hand it in.

He was straight.

[Melancholy piano music]

Alled Jones locked in a room with Vinnie Jones.

What?

Simon and frank.

Oh, look, I've got a dental appointment.

I'll see you back at the ranch, okay?

[Train rumbles]

[Melancholy piano music]

Sorry, mum. I've got enough on my plate at work

without needing to get morbid over dad for an evening.

Why should that bother me?

It's just a date.

No, actually I've just checked

and I've already got plans for Thursday.

No, it's a work thing and no, I can't cancel.

Look, somebody's just come in.

I got to go. Okay. Bye.

[Sighs heavily]

All right?

How long have you been here?

About 10 minutes.

Did you know that cuckoos emigrate to the Congo basin

from epping forest?

I was about to put the kettle on.

Do you want me to do you one too?

Yeah. Thanks.

[Ominous music]

Have you said something to her?

What about?

Well I don't know, don't take much.

Touchy is she?

Complicated.

Her dad used to be in the met, right?

Don't even go there.

[Door clicks open]

I'm off to see frank miles again.

I'll come with you if you like

fine.

You and Simon didn't see eye to eye.

Yet you drew up a contract offering him

a full partnership in your firm.

Why's that?

I wanted to give him and bex some security,

baby on the way and everything.

Well I knew she didn't want to run the company, so.

Okay now tell us what Simon had on you, frank.

The only reason you'd offer him a full partnership

is to shut him up.

So admit it, this was a sweetener.

Oh clean, sweetheart.

You lot checked remember?

Pristine. Just that two year stretch

from maiming your rival.

I was a child, I learnt my lesson.

Richard marsden?

Richard marsden? Don't ring a bell sorry.

Your old bank manager, who as you know is in the middle

of a stretch himself, for fraud.

We've just paid him a visit.

He was Simon's bank manager too wasn't he?

And a few days before he disappeared

out of the blue,

you paid him a grand to block all large withdrawals

from Simon's account.

[Pullman] Which is why Simon couldn't take out £2000

for Josie's bedroom.

[Danny] One minute you wanted to make him a partner.

The next you don't trust him with his own money.

What happened?

[Pullman] Simon turned down your offer of partnership

because he didn't like the way you run your business.

Isn't that right?

Give me strength.

[Danny] And that got you scared.

Someone with scruples.

Like having a bomb in your office.

Get some proper evidence or I'll sue you for harassment.

Could hold him for bribing a banking official.

I want to break Becky first.

It's time that girl grew up.

Simon and I both volunteered

for the same charities in the Congo.

It was meant to be.

Meant to be what?

You know, destiny.

What were you two doing out there exactly?

Protecting communities and the rain forest.

Sounds idealistic.

It was.

All I'd ever known was this corner of London.

And then meeting him in that place was the most intense,

amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Five months later, we were engaged.

Lovely story.

Where was your father

the morning Simon disappeared Becky?

Here. He wanted to give me a hand.

Then why not just give Simon the morning off?

You see, we know that you're lying.

We also know that your father controlled

Simon's bank accounts.

Dad came over to ask me if I knew why Simon

had tried to take so much money out.

The £2000 wasn't for Josie's bedroom.

Dad was paying.

So what did Simon want it for?

I didn't know. I still don't.

So what did your dad do then?

Did he go and try and find Simon in the forest?

You're protecting your father, I understand that.

But if you think he's involved you need to tell us.

Withholding evidence.

Trust me, you don't want her visiting you in prison.

Dad left in his Van. I don't know where he was going.

We think Simon had dirt on your dad.

Becky.

[Pullman] Daddy's been pulling your strings

long enough now, don't you think?

The day after Simon disappeared,

I downloaded everything on his hard drive at work.

I wanted some clue where he was.

And did you find anything?

No.

[Drawer clatters open]

But you will.

[Pullman] You deleted those files

about half an hour too late frank.

A million pounds worth of projects off the books.

You were taking cash in hand to a whole new level.

What did you do to her?

Your 35 year old daughter thinking for herself,

whatever next? The sixties?

There was a bloody famine going on in my industry,

still is.

You do what it takes to feed your family and survive.

I was keeping my tax bill down, so what?

Look at what those mps did.

Yeah. And the multinationals paying 2%.

I'm sure you lot always pay the vat on your conservatories

and click in and out with your bleeding oyster cards.

Well I do.

What with the famine and everything,

being done for tax evasion on a million quid

would have finished you off.

[Pullman] And Simon knew that.

[Danny] Was he blackmailing you frank?

Is that why you did him?

Because he threatened to call the tax man.

All right, Simon isn't signing.

That's what the arguments about.

But his problem isn't bloody tax.

He was coming up with all these excuses.

I tell him to stop treating me like a tool

and then he blurts it out.

Taking a partnership with me would be like

signing his own death sentence.

Yeah. Then it gets worse.

He says he can't live with my family anymore.

It wouldn't be fair on us.

What with a baby.

He needs to get away and he just ups and leaves the room.

Yeah, I blocked his account.

And then I went around to Becky's to ask her about it.

But only because I wanted it all sorted.

Spent the rest of that morning

driving around on my own.

Trying to work out what the hell to do about him.

I knew that story would never wash with you lot.

But if you think I ever hurt the lad, you're miles off.

He was family.

You're in luck tonight, Gerry.

Janice can squeeze you in.

Well you sure it's all right?

What she going to do?

Turn you into a werewolf?

Trust me.

I've tried it myself, satisfaction guaranteed.

Thanks mate.

No problem.

How's it going your end?

What?

The search for your son.

Oh yeah.

Tata governor.

Night gov.

[Pullman] Night.

We could put it through the system you know,

there are ways and means.

Nah its okay Gerry.

I get on pretty well with the blokes down there.

No it's all right, honestly. It's fine.

Look Steve, it's the whole reason

you came to London in the first place.

25 radford road, nw10.

What's that?

That's where he is.

What, your son.?

Yeah.

Well how'd you find him?

Looked him up in the phone book.

[Both laughing]

Got so wrapped up on in my own work,

I wasn't exactly blameless.

What you were shagging around you mean?

No no, but she, you know, she had an affair

with one of my colleagues, I punched him out.

Remember now.

Then I went home and

we had this big set in the kitchen

and I threw this radio at her.

Radio?

You trying to hit her with it?

No, I don't know. I just didn't know what I was doing.

And anyway, she showed me the door.

Only time I ever lost it with a woman.

It cost me my son.

What and this was nine years ago?

Yeah.

Well hang on, I mean she's not even ex directory.

She's not exactly hiding is she?

No, no.

So what's stopping you getting in touch?

Well, guilt.

I missed her head by this much Gerry.

Anyway. Stu, he's a good footballer.

Well he was anyway.

Yeah?

Yeah like a little Archie gemmell.

Little? Archie gemmell was only that hight.

[Both laughing]

So what's he now, seventeen?

Sixteen.

Listen mate, obviously I love my girls to bits right,

but I would have loved a son.

So don't you waste it.

[Emotive music]

[Doorbell rings]

[Traffic rumbles]

Hello? I'm Gerry.

Come in.

Thank you.

Who's it?

You're it Gerry.

I don't want to be.

Do it.

No!

Just do it!

No!

Do it!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

[Tense music]

Hello?

Hello?

Don't leave me!

Come back!

Please!

Please!

Come back!

Come back!

[Words echoing]

No!

Come back!

Oh.

[Therapist] Are you all right?

Oh.

[Heavy exhale]

The little bastards.

[Melancholy piano music]

[Car rumbles]

[Car horn beeps]

[Door slams]

[Melancholy piano music]

Rugby. What?

[Phone ringing]

[Melancholy piano music]

[Phone ringing]

[Steve] Stu's no Archie gemmell anymore, that's for sure.

[Gerry] So he's an egg chaser,

yeah.

When you going to see him?

Tonight, before I lose my bottle.

So anyway, it was all your cousin's fault, yeah?

Yeah apparently they abandoned me in the woods

when I was about eight.

Oh and get this.

They lived in chigwell right?

Yeah.

So it was probably epping bleeding forest.

So what's the cure?

Exposure therapy, spend as much time

as possible in wooded areas.

Maybe our Danny can take you fungi foraging, ay.

[Hammer thudding]

Okay so who's the owner of the pay-as-you-go then?

Here over there, Lois acres.

What as in best mate dom's wife?

Yeah.

I wonder if our Simon's been playing away from home.

[Hammer thudding]

Looks like a local darby.

Simon wasn't my lover.

He was my spy.

Your spy?

My eyes and ears in my own home.

Checking my children were all right.

Dom and I weren't exactly on speaking terms.

Why would Simon go behind dom's back like that?

Because he understood my situation.

Which was?

I had no one.

My friends were confused about why I'd left my kids.

Mum and dad thought I'd lost the plot.

Dom and I weren't even talking.

Simon didn't judge me.

He just got it.

Come on Lois, this is bullshit.

Did you leave dom and your kids for Simon?

I left my family because I'd been pleasing

everyone but myself for 10 years.

And it was making me miserable.

Did dom ever find out that Simon was

talking to you beyond his back?

If he knew, he never said anything to me about it.

When'd you last speak to him?

A week before he disappeared.

And how did he seem?

Something was bothering him.

He didn't say what it was.

What do you think happened to him?

I was worried that he'd done something very stupid.

Suicide?

Do you know what I think?

I think you thought he was alive.

That's why you kept turning your phone on.

It's called hope.

Actually, you had a 30 second conversation

with Simon the day before he disappeared.

Sorry. I don't remember that.

Well, maybe he did top himself.

So why try and take all that money out?

Well that knock back could have been just

what tipped the scales.

I know that banks make me feel suicidal

every now and again.

If he'd killed himself

I'm sure we'd have found more than a work pass by now.

Look, we all reckon that they were at it.

Yeah they must've been.

And I reckon that's why she left her husband.

Then surely that gives her a possible motive.

What is Simon promised Lois that he'd leave Becky.

And then in that phone conversation that she's

conveniently forgotten.

He told her he wasn't going to keep his side of the bargain.

Tells he can't make the break because of the baby.

She wouldn't be too thrilled about that, would she?

But she claimed she was on the market all morning.

On the day that Simon disappeared.

That call to Louis was made two minutes

after Simon had his bank withdrawal turned down.

[Phone ringing]

Well, what about dom acres?

I mean, he would have wanted to grind more than just

a few coffee beans.

Once he knew that Simon was in his old woman's knicker.

We should check out his alibi too then.

I reckon we need to find out more about

what made Simon tick.

We're getting different pictures at the moment.

Boss?

[Pullman] Yeah, fine.

What's the date today?

12th.

[Ominous music]

[Danny] Thought so.

What you've let him go?

The sfo are all over your dad for tax evasion.

We don't have enough to hold him yet.

He'll come straight back here.

Becky. Why was Simon so unhappy?

He wasn't.

That's not what your dad told us.

Or Lois acres.

Was he sleeping with her?

You suspected that didn't you?

That's the real reason you looked at his computer.

Choosing cots, discussing the baby's wallpaper.

It's all bollocks, isn't it?

We were okay.

Why are you denying the truth Becky?

Do you blame yourself?

[Car engine running]

[Door slamming shut]

Leave me alone

Becky!

I knew he was seeing someone,

the hush phone conversations,

but I never thought he'd dare go for her.

Becky. We only have the word of one old man

that Simon ever left this house that morning.

What? I could barely stand up.

I love si.

I didn't kill him, but you're right.

If he's dead, it's my fault.

We made a pact in the Congo that us being together

living in a rainforest and helping people.

That was all we wanted in life.

All we needed.

It sounds silly doesn't it.

We were in love.

And si proposed and suddenly we had a wedding

in London to organise and dad wanted to put on a show.

I can imagine.

I promised si we'd give it a year here.

And then we go back to our life in the rainforest.

And I got pregnant with Josie

and suddenly my body was screaming at me to nest

and by now si was desperate to get away.

He could tell that I was being pulled back

by my dad, my old, conventional life.

He was so upset.

One day I thought I'd miscarried because of the stress.

And that's when I decided that Josie

was the bigger priority than si.

So I stopped listening to him.

I broke my word, broke his heart.

He said that to me.

[Door clicking open]

[Dom] Go and see if mummy's in here,

there you go.

Look, we've both got kids and we both lost partners.

You both lost Simon.

It's a good thing that you knew each other

from before though, you had that foundation.

Nothing was going on then.

It's nothing to do with them dom.

Si once said to me, in case anything ever happened.

He'd rather a friend love Becky than a stranger.

And is that how you felt?

When you found out about him and Lois?

We were on the way over to see you actually

so you saved us a trip.

I had no idea.

There was a lot in Simon's life you had no idea about it

wasn't there?

Get out.

Where were you on the morning Simon disappeared?

I was at home with my kids.

What, on a Wednesday in term time?

They were off sick.

Now.

Outrageous.

Bloody suspicious.

Now the question is, did Simon get killed

because dom was shagging his wife,

or because he was shagging dom's wife?

It could be either or now couldn't it?

It's exactly why I never tried swinging.

That's what Simon cared about.

Forests?

Epping forest fed kings mum.

So it could feed us.

That's what he used to say.

Epping.

Used to be a royal hunting forest.

So did Simon spend a lot of time

in epping forest a kid?

We lived in chingford, it was the boys back yard.

Are these trophies all Simon's?

Oh no, no, no.

Tim's the real runner.

Simon was a climber, right little chimpanzee.

[Steve] He was good then Tim?

Very good.

He was talent spotted.

Some American university thought he could be

the next seb coe.

I had to tell Tim we couldn't afford it though.

Sorry, I just, I just noticed

your husband had about £50,000 pounds

in his account around that time.

Oh that was bill's rainy day fund.

We used it that to pay off the mortgage.

He was very careful with his money.

To tell you the truth.

He didn't want Tim to be a runner.

He wanted him to get a profession, something respectable.

How'd your husband feel about Simon?

Well, Simon wasn't, you know, academic.

But bill was proud of him in his own way.

Must have been a bit upset when Simon's business failed?

Well,

why did it fail Mrs. Belgrade?

I never really asked dear.

What are these?

Oh, that's when all the boys used to go

into the forest on sundays.

[Projector clicking]

[Melancholy piano music]

There you are.

Oh thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Are you the one filming this?

Oh, I wasn't allowed to go dear.

Just the men.

Bill's friend had the camera.

Who's the other boy?

That's dom.

Dom acres.

[Projector clicking]

[Melancholy piano music]

Simon used to go back there.

Just to feel close to his dad, you know.

A pair of chimpanzees.

[Melancholy piano music]

Nice to see some kids out in this weather.

The olympic effect.

They all want to be the next Jessica ennis or mo farah.

That's why I volunteered.

Relax the shoulders Paul.

Your mum said you were a talent spotted once.

Seems a long time ago now.

What do you do now?

I sell high-end computer printers.

Ask me anything you like about toner cartridges.

So what did you go wrong with your brother's business?

Mum wouldn't say ay?

Tree walkers had only been going three months

when a rope snapped and a punter broke her neck.

She won massive damages, but my brother hadn't sorted

out the right insurance.

So Simon had to foot the bill?

Which he couldn't.

Mom still finds it hard to accept.

It was his fault.

Have you ever imagined, even for a minute

your brother still being alive.

Simon would never have gone anywhere

without saying goodbye.

Deep down even mum knew that.

[Ominous piano music]

[Sighs heavily]

[Clears throat]

Cor blimey, this is worse than watching the shining.

We need to speak to Lois.

This is a copy of her bank statement

for the day before Simon disappeared.

A bit of a shopping spree.

Now why would she suddenly need so much camping equipment?

It was for Simon.

Never trust a woman who makes jewellery

out of knives and forks.

Is that a glaswegian proverb.

No but it should be.

What's happened here?

Twice.

No idea.

[Steve] Got a bit of a streak in you then?

It's the first time I've laid a finger on her.

Couldn't stop yourself ay?

Shock of the news, feelings running high.

Not buying it, sorry.

Thing is, I'd understand it if you lost it

with Simon in fact i'd probably sympathise.

Yeah in France you'd get the freedom of the city.

How could I have known about him and Lois?

What typically happens is the wrong person picks

up the wrong phone.

Have you spoken to my kids' school?

Babysitters. They're not that hard to find.

My babysitter was Simon.

He was always there for me

when he needed my help, I wasn't there for him.

And then today I find out that Lois was.

[Danny] What's this Lois?

You don't know. It's a wire core flip line.

This?

I don't know.

Then I'm confused.

Because items just like this were bought

on your visa card, he day before Simon disappeared.

Along with a hammock, a small cooker, a harness,

water purification tablets, clothes, rucksack.

Well, the list goes on as you can see.

This is a screw gate carabiner, by the way.

Lying in your witness statement

is a criminal offence, Lois.

Everyone just assumed Simon was happy.

His life was so much better now.

Now he had a wife, a job, he was in the rat race.

He was normal.

The truth is he was being crushed.

Stuck in a nine to five with that nightmare man,

choosing the right baby mobile.

He wasn't cut out for it.

It was driving him crazy.

He once told me that running in epping forest every day

was the only thing keeping him sane.

The day before he disappeared,

he told me he decided to go.

To leave Becky?

Walking away before the baby was born

was the kindest thing for everyone.

That's what he said.

He needed to buy this stuff to take with him

but he couldn't get his own money.

So I lent him my card.

Where was he going?

[Lois] He wouldn't say exactly

but somewhere he knew he'd be a lot happier.

A forest?

A rain forest.

But he didn't just want to leave.

He wanted to vanish.

Vanish?

Like lord lucan, Reggie perrin.

Why?

Because he was terrified of frank tracking him down.

And because he didn't want the world to judge him.

For walking out on a baby.

He was panicking basically.

Then why did he wait until the next day to leave?

He wanted to see his mum and brother one last time.

And he bought all this kit because he didn't want Becky

to find his own stuff missing.

You also gave him £500 in cash.

It was all I had left in my account after that.

You weren't exactly trying to stop him, were you?

I did keep asking him if he was sure

it was the right thing to do.

The thing is Lois.

You and I both know there aren't any rain forests in the UK.

Simon didn't take his passport.

He didn't need it.

But how does a bloke like him get hold of a fake passport?

He bought it that lunchtime with the £500.

Through a counterfeiter to Lois knew on the market.

He was about to be paid a visit by our colleagues

from hackney.

It's why Lois didn't say anything before,

she was worried about being an accessory.

But she's given us Simon's new name, David Tiffany.

I've ordered a full trace.

So this time tomorrow morning we should know

where he's been all this time.

What about that security pass?

Well, maybe he left it with a water bottle

to confuse us and a fox moved it.

Drink?

Too right, Steve?

No, I'll catch up later on, okay.

Boss?

No, I'm going to hang around for a bit.

I've got a few things I need to,

[Gerry] Oh come on governor.

We've done all we can here.

Yeah, I think you deserve it.

All right. Why not.

[Ref blows whistle]

[Players chattering]

Oh, oh.

Here you go.

Ta.

Great work stu.

Murder isn't it, watching your own.

Oh yeah.

Grandson is it?

Sorry?

Out there.

Oh, no, no.

I was just, just passing.

You're not a scout are you?

No.

Oh, well done stu.

[Clapping hands]

So that's that's your, your, your son?

Stepson.

Oh right. So what's, he's a good lad?

Top bloke.

No trouble at all.

Ah that's great.

So does that run in the family, the rugby?

Nah, he was a footballer before.

His dad brainwashed him.

[Steve laughing]

Right so, how does his dad feel about the,

the conversion?

No idea. He's dead hopefully. Nasty piece of work.

[Ref blows whistle]

Okay guys that's it well done.

Stu, brilliant, see you next week all right, well done

well done mate.

That's great son!

Cheers.

[Melancholy piano music]

Come on, let's have a cup of tea.

Hello mate.

Evening all.

[Gerry] Wasn't sure we'd see you.

Wouldn't have missed it.

Nah you're right though it was hilarious, wasn't it?

Yeah.

Did you ever watch it Steve?

What's that?

Reggie Perry.

Oh, Reggie Perry.

Yeah. I absolutely loved that show.

Yeah it was great.

Classic. We were just saying that actually started,

[emotive music]

[Men chattering]

[Melancholy piano music]

Tell you what, fancy popping down the feathers?

They're open up until one.

Couple of cheeky ones there,

quick kebab and the night bus home, what do you say?

No thank you.

Danny?

I'm heading home myself in a sec, so.

All right, see in the morning.

I really needed this.

Night both.

G'night.

Right,

another?

No thank you.

Okay.

But we can talk.

You uh,

you overheard me on the phone yesterday, didn't you?

So you're probably wondering what it's all about.

Well, my dad died,

38 years ago today at 9:43 pm.

I always dread today, but especially this year.

Can I ask why?

Because I'm now older than he was when it happened.

So I'm in unchartered waters.

Complicated ay?

Not really.

I just wanted to check that you were all right.

Thank you.

I'm glad I didn't spend it on my own.

Shall we?

Yeah.

[Ominous music]

So much for exposure therapy.

Now I feel like I'm being watched.

She's made it bleeding worse.

[Gerry groans]

Okay. You're Simon.

You've got to hide a load of gear overnight

but you've got a paranoid wife, stuck indoors,

a suspicious father-in-law waiting for you at work.

So where'd you put it?

Somewhere in here I suppose.

Right. This was Simon's privacy.

Now roughly here was where the Simon's

water bottle was found.

Right.

Which has intrigued me from the start

because he wasn't the sort of bloke to drop litter.

No, no.

Maybe he was distracted.

Which is why I think he stored the gear nearby.

Yeah but where?

Where?

[Branches snapping loudly]

What was that?

[Gerry yelps]

Oh for god sake, you were supposed to be calming me down.

[Birds tweeting]

This is a waste of time.

The first lot would have found something.

[Danny] They didn't know Simon had a rucksack to hide

and there's something else I doubt they took into account.

What?

Simon was a chimpanzee.

[Gerry groans]

Look I'm sorry, mate.

All I can see is branches.

There.

That's a bit of rope ain't it?

I bet you a fiver, that's a wire core flip line.

Nice work Danny.

Cost me a fiver.

So now we know why Simon spoke to Bob farley that morning.

To vanish, he needed a witness to put him in those trees.

So he made a point of speaking to someone

he knew would remember.

So he leaves Bob.

Runs to the tree, climbs up and takes his rucksack down.

But he's in a hurry.

All he's thinking is he can't be spotted.

But no one one saw a jogger fitting Simon's description

lugging a bleeding great rucksack come out of the forest.

No, but he's got new clothes now hasn't he.

Simon Belgrade disappeared.

David Tiffany emerged.

He probably walked right Bob foley.

So where's he going?

We don't know.

There's no record that that passport was ever used.

No record of him being on a plane.

No record that David Tiffany ever existed.

What Lois made it up?

Or someone got to him before he got on a plane?

Hang on, hang on.

Hasn't Simon blown all of Lois' cash on his passport?

[Phone ringing]

And how did he pay for the plane ticket?

Yeah.

He needs to borrow more money from somebody he can trust.

Yeah but someone who might have a motive to kill him.

Dom acres. He found out that Simon and Lois were lovers.

Simon phoned him and asked to meet.

Dom, arranged for a babysitter and went,

where?

Somewhere quiet.

Well away from cctv. Somewhere they both know.

The Sunday lake.

I'll go and ask Eliza

I reckon Simon traced this lake from a map, you know,

look how precise it is.

So all we've got to do is check every lake

and pond in epping forest and match it to that.

[Pullman] Good idea, Jerry.

There's over a hundred of them.

Uh Tim, it's Steve mcandrew here.

We need to know the name of the lake

in epping forest you all used to go to on sundays.

Could you give me a call back please?

Thanks. Bye.

Boys, this is pointless.

Hang on, hang on.

Bingo.

[Ominous music]

[Gerry groans]

No, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry boys.

I can't do this.

You can Gerry.

Come on.

No, I can't, I can't.

I'm sorry.

I'll see you in the car park.

[Steve] Okay.

I've lost the signal.

[Leaves crunching]

[Threatening music]

Steve!

Danny!

[Gerry whistles]

[Tense music]

[Phone beeps]

[Gerry groans]

Uh, the phone.

[Footsteps in the leaves]

Oi!

[Leaves crunching]

[Tense piano music]

[Sighs heavily]

[Phone beeps]

[Water splashing]

[Diver panting]

I'm Gerry standing, from the metropolitan police.

You met my two colleagues.

Now listen son, you've got a choice here.

You kill me too, or you bolt for it.

See, the thing is, I don't think you're really a killer.

I think what happened with Simon was just

in the heat of the moment.

And I bet you've been hating yourself ever since.

But I don't see you as a bolter either.

So you've got another choice.

[Tense music]

The thing is I was sure I could stop him from going.

We arranged to meet so I could give him money

for his flight.

But how could he leave Becky and the baby?

I was going to have it out with him.

She broke her promise.

So be a man about it you prick,

dad would be so disappointed.

He wouldn't.

You know he would.

I knew that would do it.

Dad said he would always trust my judgement.

Course he did.

He said those exact words.

Right.

Was that before or after you screwed up tree walkers?

Dad gave me all his savings to set that up.

That's how much he trusted me.

That's not true.

He wouldn't have done that.

I knew when si was lying, he wasn't lying.

Everything started spinning.

With a fraction of dad's savings.

I could have followed my passion.

My whole life would have been different.

But dad told me to abandon my dream

then gave the money to si to chase his.

Dad would have been better off burning it.

I think you're right.

The way your father treated you was unfair.

He made me live the life

he wished he'd had.

University, the sensible well paid job.

But that's fair.

That's just not fair!

[Branch stabs]

[Breathes heavily]

[Tense music]

[Leaves crunching]

[Water splashes]

Sometimes in my mind, I pretend I gave si that money

and let him go.

And when I do.

I always see him in a forest somewhere.

Alone and content.

[Gerry] -They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had

then add some extra just for you.

You said all that to Tim by the lake?

No just the first line, I looked the rest up later.

Nice one Gerry.

I'll tell you what, your Janice is a genius.

She wasn't the one in the woods though was she?

Are you cured now?

Well, I can't see me joining the friends

of epping forest anytime soon, but who knows?

Who's for a drink?

Me.

No, Holly's cooking a mushroom stroganoff.

[Gerry] Not death caps, I hope.

Governor, you ready for another big night?

I've already planned one.

I'm going to go home, microwave a curry

and watch them some rubbish telly.

Normal service is resumed.

Night gov, night Danny.

-Night -good night.

Night.

Good night.

[Door clicks open]

Danny?

Yeah.

Good to have you with us.

♪ 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, you will find ♪

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

♪ It's all right, I say it's okay. ♪

♪ We getting to the end of the day. ♪