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[Water dripping]

[Upbeat music]

[Man speaking in foreign language]

[Upbeat music]

[Footsteps clattering]

[Upbeat music]

[Men speaking in foreign language]

[Upbeat music continues]

[Man speaking in foreign language]

[Footsteps clattering]

[Man speaking in foreign language]

[Upbeat music]

[Man speaking in foreign language]

[Metals clanking]

Simeon

[bomb exploding]

[Police shouting]

[Upbeat music]

Sasha.

[Man speaking in foreign language]

[Intense techno music]

[Man speaking in foreign language]

It's okay, it's okay.

[Man speaking in foreign language]

[Woman crying]

All five of them, sir.

Yeah.

Sort of rough was a bit put out but

he seems to be seeing sense now, sir.

Well I thought that you could still had a short list.

All right, I see.

Me?

Are you sure?

No, I'm excited about the prospect sir.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, thanks, bye-bye.

Shit.

♪ It's alright, it's okay, ♪

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

♪ It's alright, I say, it's okay, ♪

♪ listen to what I say. ♪

♪ It's alright, we're doing fine, ♪

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

♪ It's alright, I say, it's okay, ♪

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

Time did you make it?

10.

No, I mean the exact time?

What?

One minute, two.

49,

48,

47.

All right, all right.

So come on, what do we think?

Is she the real deal?

Is she here on merit?

Kidnap unit, serious crime squad, she gotta be.

Yeah, but is she here for the long haul though?

I mean, we don't know her, don't we?

We've never even heard about her.

Oh, I've heard of her, yeah.

She's what?

40 ish.

Big girl.

But, I say big, heavy, 15 stone.

Lives in a commune.

Commune?

Just women, no men.

15 stone?

Oh my god.

Morning?

[All] Morning sir.

I'd like to introduce you to dci Sasha Miller.

She's celebrating her promotion today,

as well as her appointment,

as the head of the unsolved crime and open case squad.

It's lovely to meet you all.

Steve mcandrew, hello?

Ex Glasgow cid?

That's right.

Oh my son's at uni there.

He's having a great time.

To great time.

Dan gryphon.

Dan or Danny?

Oh no, I like Dan.

It's lovely to meet you.

Oh yeah.

You must be Gerry standing, heard lots about you.

Only good things, I hope.

Oh, very, very good.

Dci Miller has spent the last week.

Oh hold on, Sasha please.

Oh, okay.

Sasha has spent the last week or so

getting to grips with ucos's background

at semo its ethos.

She's tremendously impressed by the unit's track record.

So she's eager to get going.

So how'd you wanna start?

Well, this is interesting.

Only came in yesterday.

Well, yeah.

Italian immigrant killed 25 years ago on an allotment.

Allotment?

Yeah.

Oh, and then this turned up last week.

Murder weapon.

Only problem is, so did an unexploded bomb.

- I don't think she is... - No, no, no.

This is very interesting.

Bomb hasn't been diffused by the way.

And the case is 25 years, so.

Sure, but now you've got this murder weapon.

Don't you wanna see your office?

It's just through here.

Yeah, yeah looks great.

Should we go?

You okay in my car?

Well, yeah.

Yeah, sure.

15 stone.

[Footsteps clattering ]

January, 1988, Alessandro manzini 65.

He'd been drinking, he's knifed in the throat

and his body stuffed upside down in a water bath.

Which then freezes solid overnight

as the temperature drops below zero.

Has to be thawed out before the pm can take place.

Don't get one of these every day of the week.

So what'd you think?

[Bomb explodes]

Oh, shit.

Oh, it looks like a cut and burn.

A what?

Oh, they burn out the explosive from inside.

Sometimes it gets too hot, bang.

[Heavy metal music]

And, it's quite difficult.

Hi all.

Ah, you must be the guys from ucos.

Yeah, Gerry standing.

Steve mcandrew, hello?

Dan gryphon.

Dicky Smith plot holders association.

I handle the day-to-day running of the place.

Dci Sasha Miller, hi.

Interesting day.

Yeah, the leftover present from Jerry.

At least they didn't have to blow the whole place up.

This is guilietta, Mr. Manzini's daughter.

Her husband, Alberto's a fellow committee member.

I'm sorry, this must be distressing for you

even after all this time.

Not if it means finding out who killed my father.

Oh yeah.

The knife, you identified this as belonging to him.

Yeah, I bought it a few days before he died.

It was a birthday present.

But you don't know where it was found.

Well we swept a whole chunk of the place.

Trying to find anymore, of Jerry's calling carts.

Anything they found, anything metal dug up.

They just put in the heap over there.

The original investigation found

listen, listen, the plot holders who are here now.

I mean, some of them must have been

on the allotment back then.

Yeah, yeah, I mean I was.

Guilietta too use to help with that.

There's ray Barlow.

Alberto, used to work with his father.

And he still does.

I mean, massimo is Italian.

Like Alessandro, I mean, they were very good friends.

Massimo, the original investigation

found that there were problems on the allotments.

That things had been stolen, windows were smashed.

You and Alessandro, you seem to have suffered the most

but you didn't say anything, why?

We were outsiders, you understand?

Also we don't use the allotment like the English.

Our wives and children come, not just do help,

but to eat.

Drink, make fun.

Many of the people, they don't like what we plant.

Chilies, radish or rucola.

They say that stuff won't work here.

[All laughing]

Gross like man.

[Massimo laughs]

They don't like it.

Me and Alessandro, we win the competitions.

They don't like it.

If you thought it was someone at the allotments.

Why didn't you say so at the time?

My son is born here, I am not.

No, no, no, it is different now.

Now everyone loves Italians.

Then, they hate us.

Even in eight years, some still hate us from them all.

Racism, dicky Smith's not a racist.

He did call the Germans, Gerry.

Gerry?

Oh please, look, I played on bombing sites all the time

when I was a kid,

it doesn't mean I want to kill every German I'll meet.

And what about him and Alberto?

They are mates.

Yeah, but Alberto, is second generation.

All right.

So if dicky Smith did do this,

how come, he's not shitting himself,

now that the knives turned up.

He couldn't care less that the murder weapons,

is just lying around.

The knife's rusty and covered in mud.

The labs think it's been underground for long.

Look, look, look, the point is

the killer sticks a knife into the bloke's throat, right.

Then picks him up turns him upside down

and puts him into a water barrel.

Dicky Smith can hardly walk.

But.

But what?

Not a barrel, it's a bath.

The bloke who did,

or a woman.

The person who killed manzini, is gotta be bonkers.

Is a psycho right?

Now, don't you get that feeling from dicky Smith?

No.

No, this is deliberate.

I mean, I've not come across many knives in the throat,

slashed across it, maybe.

But in, like that, no.

And then his body is tipped headfirst upside down

into a bath of water.

No, that's deliberate, it's not random.

Specific, it's kinda like a.

A ritual.

Ritual?

Raymond, Peter Barlow.

Now the murder team had a word with him back in 88.

Now dicky said he still has an allotment.

Well, he was arrested 21st of June, 1997

for assaulting a police officer at stonehenge

during the summer solstice.

Fined 2000 pounds.

He's a druid.

[Upbeat music]

Fuck, truck driving druid.

I can't wait to find you.

See you later then.

Guilietta.

Hi.

Hi.

Have you got a minute?

Yeah, sure, sit down.

- Oh thanks. - Coffee?

A cappuccino would be great, thank you.

I'd be doing cappuccino.

Busy place?

Always busy.

It used to be my dad's.

Hey it took him and my mom years,

to put it once together.

They managed it,

and now it's a local institution.

What was he like?

Your father.

Decent, hardworking.

He owned it after the war because they were just no jobs.

He met my mom in a lion's corner house.

We thought the food and drink was shocking.

But she said he only opened the cafe

so he could get a decent cup of coffee.

[Steve laughs]

You know, mom never got over it.

Always stayed at home.

I just got engaged.

My father had been at the allotment,

came back for lunch, had a bit to drink,

went for a walk.

I stayed at my friend, Angela's that night.

I went to bed early.

She didn't know.

Sorry.

Guilietta, tell me about ray Barlow.

How did your dad go on with ray?

Well, moonlight ray.

Albi.

Thanks.

Seriously, he plants at night, you know, he's

he and my father got fine.

Your dad used to piss himself.

Ray Barlow plants at night.

Used to do it any all night, apparently.

But when he'd come back,

he had to be by for light of the moon.

It's quite common.

A lot of people think that

the moon affects when you should plants things.

What do you mean when he came back?

He moved away about a year after your dad died.

Only been back last five years.

Don't get me wrong.

Ray is a nice enough, blow.

But you got admit, darling,

he's is a bit odd.

[Upbeat music]

In case you hadn't noticed, I'm also a truck driver.

How does that fit in with your druidic work?

Druidism is a calling, it's not a job.

And what was it, calling you to do in June 97,

when you punched police constable dredge in the face?

Police at stonehenge were intense

from preventing us practise our religious rights.

You've been told not to turn up.

Two wrongs, don't make a right.

That's supposed to be funny?

Been a long day.

Listen in 1988 Alessandro manzini, was murdered.

Now, according to the tachograph in your cab,

you were driving your truck that day.

Correct?

Yeah, but that was before digital machines

were introduced, am I right?

Meaning what?

Meaning that the old tachographs were unreliable.

They could be recalibrating.

They could be fixed.

You're looking at me for that man's murder?

You're gonna laugh.

Not even deep down inside.

I was in Scotland, when manzini died.

My tachograph checked out, a okay.

Where's this coming from.

Oh, so I punched a copper,

I'm a villain, I'm a druid, so I'm a nasser.

You people are crap, you know nothing.

No, it's not strictly true, right?

For example, I know Julius Caesar wrote

that Celtic druids practised human sacrifice.

[Ray laughs]

Been a long day for you as well, is it?

Is he for real.

Listen, did you have any trouble with anybody

on the allotment in the past?

I'm saying anymore.

If you want to talk more, talk to my solicitor.

And of course you've got one.

We'll be in touch ray.

[Truck door bangs]

[Truck engine revs]

Julius Caesar?

History of gallic wars, book six.

Geotropism.

What?

The effect of gravity upon the growth of plants.

Some people believe that a waxing

or waning moon can have a positive effect on germination

and plant growth.

No wonder manzini pissed himself laughing.

Did anyone ever say, whether he actually

laughed in Barlow's face?

Guilietta says it was a long time ago.

So you've got this bloke

who punches a copper who's stopping him,

watch the sun come up.

A truck driving druid who plants things at night.

And who's got a criminal record for violence.

What's not to like?

Did you say that the killing was like a ritual?

No, no, he said that.

What I said, what.

Anyway, regardless of that.

We haven't pinned the knife on anyone yet.

Let alone Barlow, forensics

with all due respect governor,

forensics don't solve most of these cases we do.

Okay.

Okay., let's take a more traditional approach.

Who's the prime suspect in any murder?

Wife, close family member.

Well, I'm sorry, but I've seen better alibis.

Dead man's wife asleep,

daughter guilietta is at a friends.

Well, the murder team said they were both

totally distraught when they heard he was killed.

Guilietta is tiny and so was her mom.

To get Alessandro into a water bath,

that would have taken some muscle.

Ray Barlow is not exactly small, is he?

Yeah, and why did he leg it

so soon after the murder?

And where was he all those years, that he was away?

Yeah. Yeah.

Fair enough.

After lunch, why don't you two have another go at ray Barlow

and Steve and I would talk to dicky Smith about him.

Okay.

Lunch?

I'm sorry, I don't get it with her.

Where she's at or where she's coming from.

Einstein spent his entire life trying to work that one.

But I've got a funny feeling about her.

Her and the job.

Which is pretty gorgeous though, isn't' she?

So was Sandra and they are big shoes to fill.

I mean, how did she get this gig?

Strickland, maybe she...

[Steve coughs]

- See you later boss. - Bye, bye.

Her and strickland.

[Gerry laughs]

You're having a giraffe, ain't you?

[All laughing]

- How is going? - Oh

well, it's not smashing down doors

or going after Russian gangsters that's for sure.

No.

[Sasha laughing]

And my first case, the first one I've got is 25 years old.

I mean, it's interesting but it's just so different.

And what about the old men of the hills?

Kinda a bit old fashioned as well.

[Sasha laughing]

They have got one or too interesting theories.

Interesting?

That's the first time I've ever heard them

described as that.

[Sasha laughs]

But I did warn you that ucos

was a totally different culture.

Did you?

Yeah, anyway too late now.

How's Rob strickland?

Oh, actually I'm seeing him in a minute.

Be nice, if we could have a drink tonight.

I might need one.

I can't, I'm with the deputy mayor.

But I'll try and sneak away as soon as I can.

But if I don't go now

he'll be giving me grief all afternoon.

See you later.

See you.

[Door knocking]

Come in.

Sir, you wanted to see me?

Yes, I just want to see how things are going.

Seeing how you're settling in.

Oh, yes.

Fine.

Thank you.

And the boys, are they behaving themselves?

Yeah.

They're being very helpful.

I just want to establish something right from the off.

As you're well aware,

this unit has a phenomenal clear up rate.

But they do need managing.

It's a very fine balancing act.

Understood.

Good.

Sir, do you mind if I ask you something personal?

Yeah, yes of course.

My husband, did you speak to him

at any point during the selection process?

We speak all the time.

No, I mean about me before or after the interview period.

Yes. But I can assure you

that the job was awarded strictly on merit.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

When I was at work, i'd have a hundred things

to think about.

Five minutes down here

and you forget everything.

I tell you, it's stress is a killer.

I mean, it's.

We spoke to guilietta, she said there have been problems

with some of the allotment holders in the past.

That they were stroppy to her

and Alberto when they were kids.

Yeah, some of the members don't like kids running around.

You?

No, I had kids of my own.

Who then?

Just between me and you.

None of the blokes on the allotment

could have killed Alessandro.

I can understand, you don't want to point the finger

about that.

But let's stop messing around.

We're talking about ray Barlow, yeah?

Ray, no, no.

Who then?

I don't like to speak ill of the dead.

Have to remember back in 88,

there were some blocks here, who'd fought in the war.

And they found it very difficult.

Names dicky.

Ron stapleton and Ralph mikeer.

Both from the army.

Ralph used to go on and on about the war.

Never Ron?

Ron never liked to talk about what he'd seen ever.

[Sombre music]

Well stapletone and mikeer are in the case file.

I know the original investigation, checked them out.

Yeah, but there's nothing in there

about what dicky just said.

About them, not being able to forget about the war.

And if there were soldiers,

one of them could easily have killed manzini

and turned him upside down.

Or maybe they acted together.

If we find out where they were during the war.

Yeah, where they served.

So what you're saying is that

one or both of these men waited 43 years

until after world war two

and then suddenly snapped.

Rammed a knife in manzini's in his throat

and stuck him upside down in the water bath, yeah?

Well.

And ray Barlow is he out of the picture now then?

No, not at all.

It's still definitely something not right about him.

Not right.

Okay.

And his motive?

He's got a short fuse, very short.

If manzini did laugh at him then I think it's

if?

Okay, what's the best way to, I mean.

Where do we go with this?

Well, normally what we do.

Obviously there are still lots of ifs and maybes.

So why don't you, take the rest of the day off

and we'll have a little think about things.

Yeah, yeah, excuse me.

How about we come back here tomorrow morning

when the market's up and running

and all the plot holders are on site.

On a Saturday?

Let's see how they react,

when they know we're watching them.

Well, I'd have to clear it with my daughter, Holly.

Okay, fine, you know.

Great.

Oh stick these in the boot for me, will you?

Thanks.

[Upbeat music]

I mean, even calling her governor sticks in my throat.

Or just call her Sasha then.

I can't call her Sasha.

I keep thinking, she's gonna start singing.

Rain drops keep falling on me.

Sasha distel.

Hey butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid,

I love that.

Yeah, way to feel mate.

What about a wild bunch.

Oh fantastic.

Hedy west was one.

You know the music in that?

B.j Thomas.

What?

Sorry.

He sang the original for the film.

Bj. Thomas, not sacha distel.

Why don't you go and play the quiz machine?

No I can't.

Waiting for more people to lose on it, first.

I knew it.

What is it?

She's married.

Shit happens.

She's married to ned hancock.

Lucky old ned.

Deputy assistant commissioner, ned hancock.

I knew his job, so the boy ain't it.

Well more girls really.

That's it.

What are you gonna do?

I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna prove that we know how to do the job

and she doesn't.

Let's so just have a little think about things.

Well, I'm going back to work.

What?

Work?

Yeah, well are you coming?

Yeah, sure.

Well, Holly is revising already, we'll get back there.

See you later then.

Yeah, well see you.

[High energy rock music]

She's not here.

Of course she's not here.

We didn't get the afternoon off, she did.

Yeah.

Trying to be nice, pretending to be our mate.

Well she's not.

She's a mate of that mob upstairs.

Okay, let's do this job properly, shall we?

Page one.

Alessandro geosepi manzini was born 3rd July, 1923.

Served in the Italian army, 1941 to 44.

Captured anzio January the 29th 44.

Prisoner of war from 1944 to 45.

Leaves Italy in 46, arriving in London,

April 22nd of the same year.

Listen to this Ron stapleton.

He was with the dim light infantry in Burma,

but Ralph meeker was with the eighth army

in north Africa, green Howards.

No, he could have fought against the Italians.

Well, there you go then.

The Italy's never had a bad reputation, you know.

The japs, the Germans

but the Italians you know what I mean

pasta, cappuccino.

What's to hate?

Well, maybe he had a terrible personal experience

with them.

Where are they now?

Dead.

Stapleton in 89, meeker in 91.

Not long after the murder.

Well, maybe we are getting somewhere.

Yeah.

[Door bangs]

Hey.

Hi.

Why don't you let the cleaner do that?

She never gets it right.

It's just safer if I did it.

So day one in the ucos house.

Honestly.

Don't think I can do this.

What are you talking about?

Ucos, I just don't think I'm right.

What?

Well, it's the guys there.

They work in a totally different way.

I know it's only day one and they are technically civilians.

But, it's just with them,

everything's like hunches and speculation.

It's just like, what if a suspect did this?

What if a suspect went there?

It's like a completely different mindset.

Hang on, are you talking about walking away,

24 hours into the job?

Look, when I was promoted,

I didn't expect to be running something like ucos.

It's not the work, the cases are all absolutely worthwhile.

It's just come on, we both know.

It's not the place.

Why do you think you've been brought in.

It's because of who you are.

The way you go about things.

I know guys like this, old time cops.

Just give it to them straight.

That's what they're used to, it's what they want.

- Yeah but, nowadays. - You can't give up.

It's bound to be hard the first few days.

But hey, welcome to my world.

[Upbeat music]

[Door squeaking]

[Upbeat music]

Not in the market ray?

No, I don't sell stuff.

That a financial or ethical decision?

I'll put you down as undecided, shall I?

So ray from 1989 to 2001 you live in glastonbury

and cornwall till 2004.

2008, you end up in London.

Where were you between 2004 and 2008?

Ha, say hello to dci Miller.

Nice plot ray, soil looks good.

And it took him five years.

He was away four years before then.

Where was it again ray?

What you're putting in?

Brassicas.

No need for that ray, I know you tryna be nice?

Don't, don't touch my lawn.

[Upbeat music]

Hello Alberto.

Did you grow all these yourself?

With a little help from the man upstairs.

Right.

Look, I want to ask you.

You know Ralph stapleton and Ralph meeker.

Were they ever like aggressive, difficult with you

and guilietta when you were younger?

It's a long time.

[Both laughing]

Hey, come and try this homemade wine.

Okay, thanks massimo.

How are you doing?

Good, good, go ahead.

Oh, thanks.

Hey Gerry, try some of these homemade wine.

English red, I don't think so.

Italian red.

Yeah, what grape do use?

Two, sangiovese and nebbiolo.

In London?

You're having a laugh.

Give it a try.

So glammy, and you make this.

You really make this?

Well, I'm gonna a couple of those.

Yeah me too.

Hey Dan, try this red wine.

You know, legally you're not allowed

to sell alcohol without a licence.

I'll have three.

[All laughing]

Having light refreshment?

Yeah, it was still this old work

ain't it on a weekend.

Wow, that's gonna be some Sunday roast, ain't it?

Just for you and ned?

Guys, could I have a quick word.

Don't sell any of this, we'll be right back.

Yeah.

Look obviously you and Sandra Pullman were very close.

And she did a fabulous job.

So I understand this is a bit difficult for you.

You don't know me, I don't know you.

So, let's start again, yeah.

And why don't you come back to mine

and I'll make us some lunch.

And we can talk through where we are.

So, I'm not gonna poison you.

Well, won't your husband mind?

Well, he's not there.

He's away for three days and acpo conference in Birmingham.

Sure, okay yeah, why not.

- Yeah. - I like it.

Great, well, I live only down the road.

I'll text you the address.

Okay, see you there.

- See ya. - Bye then.

There you go, number eight.

Bloody hell.

Come through.

Thanks.

Glam, this is lovely.

Thanks, coats.

You haven't done the vegetables.

Oh, I'm waiting for the pie.

Is it all right if opened this?

Yeah, of course.

That's Alex.

He's at uni now, he's doing modern languages.

And that's maddy.

She's in her first year at York, doing English.

How's your daughter, is Holly isn't it?

Yeah, she's fine.

Right and her mother is?

Her mother was sectioned a couple of years ago.

She's in the secure unit of the mental hospital.

Just outside guilfdord.

Right?

Actually I don't like leaving Holly alone too long,

on the weekends.

So should we get on the case?

- Yeah. - Oh yeah.

I checked out ray Barlow,

after 88 he lived for most of the time in the west country.

But then for four years he vanished

before suddenly reappearing in London

and back at the allotments in 2008.

Jail?

Abroad?

That's what I think.

Yeah, Gerry and I were checking out stapleton and meeker.

You know the ex soldiers,

and meeker was in the eighth army.

Really?

Yeah.

North Africa, sicily, Italy.

Yeah, and manzini was taking prisoner at anzio.

Anzio?

Exactly.

When did you find out?

Last night at the office.

The office?

Yeah, was that a problem?

No, no I'm just surprised that.

Well, I'm not as surprised as we were to learn

that you're married to a dac.

Oh, I see.

Is that a problem?

No, not, well, it wouldn't have been

if you'd let us know.

It's hardly a secret.

Was to us.

I saw you canoodling in the corridor.

What was he doing?

Checking up on us.

We gonna be under constant surveillance.

No, I won't have that.

This was a case that you didn't even want.

So you were trying on from the start.

That was a joke.

Nobody wants these cases, that's why they're ours.

It's just their act.

Really?

Well, it's a bloody good one.

Not as good as yours.

I beg your pardon.

Well, what do you think, boys?

What should we do next?

What about this?

What about that?

Steve and I spent hours and hours trolling through stuff

looking at suspects and clues.

And what have you done.

Why do you think I've got all these?

What do you think I am?

Some sort of bizarre vegetarian.

The knife, murder weapon, remember?

Underground at the allotment.

Well, these are soil samples

from almost every plot in there.

And because every plot is different,

we should be able to ID exactly

where the knife was buried by the killer.

But so as not to spook them and have them all do a runner

I had to find all of this,

without anyone realising.

Including us.

You weren't interested,

every time I mentioned the word forensics.

No sorry, you thought we weren't sophisticated enough

to act clandestinely and so you did it on your own.

You said you wanna be open and honest,

yet you spent the last two days

keeping things away from us.

Gerry, Gerry.

No, I'm sorry.

Quite honestly, if this is what ucos is gonna become,

I am out of it.

[Orchestral music]

[Door bangs]

Dad, is that you?

Apparently.

You okay?

Fine.

What's she like, the new boss?

I don't know, really.

Different.

Well, what'd she look like?

How old?

40 ish?

Tall, slim, blonde.

Attractive, like a dark what?

Yeah, quite good looking.

Your type?

We were working Holly, not speed dating.

She's married anyway, so it's a moot point.

You know, I wonder about you sometimes.

What you doing?

Just looking someone up.

Seeing where they've been for the last 20 years.

[Lighthearted guitar music]

[Door squeaking]

[Lighthearted guitar music]

Hi Gerry.

You'll never guess where I am.

And it's a full moon later.

[Lighthearted guitar music]

Shut up, stop moaning and get over here.

[Lighthearted guitar music]

I'm telling you she's just jumped up stallion.

Shit, I know what she's doing.

See in there.

In about 10 minutes, it'll be dark.

In 20 minutes, we'd be freezing our bollocks off.

[Ray humming]

[Dogs barking]

I think it's down this way.

Watch feet.

This is not exactly how I planned

to spend my Saturday evening.

Shut up.

All right.

Oh shit.

[Sasha yelling ]

[Sasha groans]

All right sunny.

Why don't you make a bit more noise,

so he comes out and sees all of us.

Now he is in shit, so get down and shut up.

Oh changed your mind, Gerry?

Anyway, what are you doing here?

My job, what's your excuse?

Full moon.

Oh don't tell me you're werewolves.

He's planting.

Brilliant.

[Ray humming]

He is enchanting

[ray humming]

He is bonkers.

[Ray humming]

Right, let's go.

[Upbeat music]

He was in Italy, ray Barlow.

For four years, he disappeared,

he was in Rome.

[Upbeat music]

[Woman moaning]

[Gerry laughs]

How long have you been having an affair guilietta?

I have to tell you that,

Ray's alibi for the night your father died

is looking less and less comfortable.

Ray had nothing to do with my father's death.

He left London months after the murder

and it comes back 20 years later, to the same allotment

and sleeps with the dead man's daughter.

Pretty weird, even for a druid.

You don't understand?

No I don't.

Where were you the night Alessandro was murdered?

Okay.

Angela Dunn the friend, you say,

you stayed with her the night, your father died.

Why don't I call her up?

Check out your alibi.

Ray.

I was with ray.

We were together that night.

What?

You were sleeping together

when you were engaged to Alberto?

We were in love.

My father was very traditional.

He would never have allowed ray and I.

Sounds like a motive, no denial.

No.

The next day when I found out about my father,

I couldn't forgive myself.

It was as if god had punished me.

I told ray I couldn't see him again.

Governor, Sasha.

I won't be long.

[Door bangs]

[High pitch music]

Guilietta says that you were together

the night her father was killed.

That you were lovers,

but Alessandro wouldn't have let you marry.

Is this true?

Yeah.

How long have you spoken Italian?

Seven or eight years.

In Italy, Rome, you went there.

To learn Italian.

Because?

Because I never forgot her.

Even after all these years.

I never gave up on the idea that,

one day she and I might be together again.

So you came back,

even though she was married.

He doesn't love her no really.

And you restarted your affair.

Because you loved her,

and her father's death had nothing to do with you.

No.

I don't believe you.

This is a forensics report, about the pruning knife.

Well, the soil on it to be precise.

And because the soil on every plot,

in every allotment is different,

chemical residues, minerals, metals.

We've been able to identify exactly

which plot the knife's been buried in

after all these years.

Yours.

That's impossible.

It can't.

Right, I took these samples myself.

Forensics don't lie.

Now you explain to me, how can this be wrong?

Because I've only had it five years.

Back in 98, it wasn't my plot.

And whose was it?

I don't know.

I can't remember, massimo, he knows all about the allotment.

He'll know.

It is my plot.

Now so Alberto's.

This was Alessandro's and this one

at that time, dicky Smith.

Dicky Smith?

Are you sure?

Yes, you don't remember?

Dicky always want bigger allotment.

Three years after Alessandro is killed.

1991, Ralph meeker dies.

And dicky Smith, he takes Ralph's allotment,

which is much bigger and better.

The soil is very good.

[Phone ringing]

Excuse me.

Dan.

No we're just.

[Bouncy piano music]

Anzio.

You've seen this dicky?

Yeah.

We managed to find out where it's been

for the last 25 years.

On ray Barlow's allotment, the one that used to be yours.

No, I don't understand.

This knife was used to kill Alessandro manzini,

was buried in a plot that you had at the time.

What don't you understand?

Me.

You think it was me?

Yes I do.

How could it have been?

I was home sick with my wife.

Oh, would this be the same wife that confirmed your alibi?

Yeah, because it's true.

So how did this knife end up there?

I don't know.

If I'd done it, I mean,

I wouldn't have buried it in my own plot.

Would I panic?

Well I think you panicked,

just want to get rid of it.

But I'd stuck it somewhere else.

In someone else's allotment.

Would you?

Well, and run the risk of it being found.

And why would I kill Alessandro?

Do you recognise this dicky?

Well.

That's my birth certificate.

Richard Reginald Smith.

Born acton, London.

Father Richard Michael Smith, deceased.

Your father's war record, royal artillery,

killed in action January the 24th, 1944

- at anzio. - In

in Italy, at anzio.

Why kill Alessandro manzini,

because he fought him and was captured at anzio.

The same place your father was killed.

Alessandro was at anzio?

You know he was.

Must have driven you mad.

A man who fought where your father died.

But he gets captured, survives lives on after the war.

He doesn't just come to england,

he gets an allotment right next door to yours.

I mean, this guy could have killed your dad at anzio

all these years ago.

No, no, he couldn't have done.

See he surrendered in 43, Alessandro told us not 44.

That's too late.

I don't know.

Maybe he's just a really good liar.

Guilietta told the original murder team

that her father surrendered in 1943.

We checked out the Italian pow records at kew,

Alessandro manzini was taken prisoner on January the 29th,

1944 at anzio.

So why did Alessandro lie to everybody?

I don't know, but look at this.

The Italian army surrendered to the allies

in September, 1943.

Manzini had already been arrested.

And?

On September 12th, he's rescued by the Germans

who set him up as head of a puppet regime.

The republic of salo.

Fascinating.

You don't like history, Gerry.

I'm a bit busy just now.

You'll be even busier in a minute.

The Italian army wasn't at anzio.

Not that Italian army anyway.

Alberto, is your father not here?

No, why?

We need to speak to him.

Well, he went out after you left earlier on.

What about?

He's from livorno, am I right?

Does he go back there?

No, his father died June in the war.

His mum just after.

He said there was nothing to go back for.

Your father had two elder brothers.

He never tell you.

They were members of a group of partisans

executed on the farm in livorno in September 44.

Where'd you get that from?

They were killed by facetious militia men.

Their own countrymen.

Afterwards, their bodies were thrown down the well.

Your father was at home with his mother, he was 13.

Papa never had any brothers.

I know he didn't.

What you want him about?

You say that he went out just after we left.

But you don't know where?

[Upbeat music]

Hang on Alberto, hang on, hang on.

Take it easy, take it easy.

You'll see your dad later.

Just stay with us for a minute, okay?

Take it easy.

[Intense techno music]

I had some of your wine massimo,

it's really excellent.

Yes, not many people even try

to make red wine in this country.

Certainly, not 25 years ago.

But we look at this soil, at the right place.

Bright, hot in summer.

And Alessandro, he find someone

who brings the vines all the way back from Italy.

When did you first find out,

that he'd been a committed fascist?

Not until the day I killed him.

Until that day, he is my friend.

Massimo, I must warn you that

if you're admitting that you killed Alessandro manzini.

I like you, I watch you clever,

always at work like my son Alberto.

Then when you come to ask about the allotments,

I know.

I know you are near.

More than 30 years, we are friends, Alessandro and I.

Our children play together, grow up together.

In all this time, we hardly speak about the past.

The Italy of the past is a country of sadness.

Until?

And then one day, winter, I drink last years wine.

And I realised that the new wine,

Alessandro and I make will not be ready.

So I go back to the allotment,

but I find Alessandro.

And we try the wine.

And it is the best wine we ever make.

So we drink more, more

and more.

Until we are drunk.

Very drunk.

Alessandro begins to sing.

[ Alessandro speaking in foreign language]

[Massimo speaking in foreign language]

You?

You Italian fascist.

[ Alessandro speaking in foreign language]

I grab him, I ask him how can he sing this song?

He says it's a fine song.

A great song.

[ Both speaking in foreign language]

I say, it is the song of the people who killed my father

and brothers Luka and Giovanni.

Alessandro stares, cold suddenly.

And he says, in which case they deserve to die.

[Intense rock music]

He dies like a pig, after

[ Sasha speaking in foreign language]

I put him upside down

like a body in a well.

You stuck the knife in his throat

to shut him up and buried it in dicky Smith's allotment.

Dicky Smith always talks about us.

He thinks we don't hear.

Italians are cowards, worthless, hopeless.

He knows nothing about my family.

About how many Italians give their lives,

fighting fascists.

But then the ground freezes and nobody can dig.

Even the police give up.

And I think, what does it matter?

[Grieving guitar music]

Well, he's been cautioned,

but to be honest he seems pretty fatalistic

about what's gonna happen to him.

And he's how old?

82.

Is he terminally ill?

Some says he's strong as an ox.

So all this time nobody knew or said anything.

Well, you suddenly hit the ground running.

How long did it take you to crack this?

Four days?

Three.

Not me, I just tagged along.

Let them get on with it.

Yeah, it was nice work.

Forgot I didn't tell them, but I admire them.

So you decided not to stay.

For the last day sir.

What?

The acpo conference?

Oh no, no, hardly anybody did.

Two nights in Birmingham, god forbid.

Welcome aboard.

[Car engine revs]

[Orchestral music]

What did he say?

What did you say?

I said, I just let you get on with it.

And then he said, well done.

And that he admired you.

He's a bloody liar.

He a dac.

And do you speak Italian?

Well, I try to, you never said.

[ Sasha speaking in foreign language]

Pardon.

You never show all your hand at once, do you?

Come on.

[Car engine revs]

[Bouncy piano music]

Hi, dci Miller, metropolitan police,

unsolved of crime and open case squad.

I have reason to believe a crimes being committed

in one of your guests rooms.

No, it's okay.

Stay calm.

I just need to have a look at your room list.

Thank you.

Could I have a room master key please.

[Bouncy piano music]

[Man moaning]

Darling?

Sasha?

You're not wearing your uniform.

I can see you're busy.

I'll see myself out.

[Sombre piano music]

Oh, shit.

[Sombre piano music]

[Door bangs]

[Sombre piano music]

[Footsteps clattering]

[Sombre piano music]