Original subtitles

♪ It's all right, it's okay ♪

♪ doesn't really mater 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 ♪

[Light rock music]

[Sasha] And what's that one?

Come on, that's the warrior,

the warrior, Orion.

He's clearly got a sword in his right hand,

those three stars.

What are supposed to be his belt?

Well, supposed.

Yeah, and you've put two fish in pisces.

- One. - Two, look.

No, I don't want to,

I haven't got my glasses.

[They laugh]

Look.

Ah, well that one's supposed to be aquarius, anyway.

[Sasha laughs]

It is, no,

look, look.

[They laugh]

Never had you down as a closet astronomer,

or a goth girl.

Glasses look good on you.

It's research.

If you were 16, and this was your kind of music-

no, no, no, you're deflecting again,

let's talk about everything, anything, please,

but you.

I've given you my whole autobiography,

what do I know about you,

what do I know about the real Sasha Miller?

That you love being with her?

Yeah, it's all right, I suppose,

pass the time.

Oi!

Okay, right,

three questions, Mr. Beckett.

Ask me anything.

Do they make you work weekends at mucos?

Sometimes, and it's ucos,

who puts an m on the front?

What about this weekend?

No, not this weekend.

You wanna come to Barcelona?

We can get two rooms.

[Light rock music]

We're finished.

Okay, that's a bit of a disappointment.

I mean the wine, we've finished.

[Ethan] All right, well I'll get another one.

No, I've got to work in the morning.

[Ethan] What did I say?

It's been lovely.

Yeah, it's lovely.

Sasha?

Sasha?

[Amy] It's scary, knowing the end's so close,

living with it every day.

By the time you hear this,

I'll be ashes.

I wish I could tell you about Alec,

about all of this,

but you'd never believe me.

[Gerry] Bet you couldn't do that again.

[Sasha] Who's winning?

[Steve] Oh, teen wolf.

Was that the tape you were talking about?

Yep, I made a track list last night,

and a rough transcript

of 16 year-old Amy taskerland's spoken words,

or what I think she's saying.

Thought you were going at it.

Amy taskerland was killed

on the night of the 1st of July, 1983,

during the school disco.

Two weeks before,

she made a tape for a class time capsule.

Just the other day,

first year gardening club dug it up by mistake.

31 years later?

One minute she's on the dance floor,

next she's on the main steps with a broken neck.

Impact study said that she was pushed.

Any suspects from the first time round?

There were a couple of lads, but nothing came of it.

[Danny] And what about Alec?

That's the name she keeps saying on the tape,

sounds to me like she's scared of him.

Boyfriend?

[Sasha] Could be.

"Shadows, dust,"

it just looks like angst-ridden teenage poetry.

Depression?

A pretty teenage girl at a party,

what's to be depressed about?

Eyewitnesses said

that she was acting strangely that night.

Mr. Hines, the headmaster,

let's see what he's got to say for himself.

[Mr. Hines] I looked through the school register,

but I couldn't find an Alec here at that time.

[Steve] Nor on the staff.

Not that I could see.

I should thank you for getting here so quickly.

I know the governors feel that Amy taskerland

is a tragic chapter of the school's history

that needs closing.

The body was here, I believe.

Amy's body?

Of course.

Who found her?

[Mr. Hines] Miss o'brien, apparently,

left the school a long time ago.

[Gerry] You got an address for her?

We can have a look, but I doubt it'll be much use,

it's such a long time ago.

It's a fair way

from the hall all the way over to here, isn't it?

I wonder what she was doing so far away from her friends?

- Admiring the view? - Meeting a boy?

Or maybe this is the kind of place you come to

if you want to be alone.

[Amy] By the time you hear this, I'll be ashes.

I wish I could tell you about Alec, about all of this.

You'd be 16 again, eh?

Oh, I don't know.

If I could get the 1.21 gigawatts to go back,

I might be tempted.

[Danny] To correct past mistakes?

Kick Stacey craven's butt.

Ah, an old enemy.

Total bitch. [Phone buzzes] It's all right, I'm over it,

all grown up now.

That bell's not ringing itself, Danny.

[Doorbell buzzes]

[William] Yes?

Mr. Taskerland?

Dci Sasha Miller and Danny gryphon,

unsolved crime and open cases.

We're re-investigating the death of your daughter.

It'd be a lot easier face-to-face.

And inside, perhaps.

Shoes.

Yes, they're generally considered to be a good thing.

Take them off.

Do you know how many bacteria thrive on the sole of a shoe?

Approximately 60 million,

depending on variables like material used to make the sole,

location, time of year.

William?

Sorry, Mr. Taskerland,

did Amy ever mention somebody called Alec?

Water?

- No, thank you. - Yes please.

[William] I'll pour a jug,

that way you can keep your options open.

[Sasha] Sir, your daughter's tape?

No, I don't want to hear.

Then maybe you can help us with the name, Alec?

There might have been a boyfriend called Alec.

[Danny] Did you ever meet him?

I'm afraid not.

[Sasha] Did she talk to you about him?

Did you discuss boyfriends with your father?

Depended on the boy.

What about Amy's friends?

Friends?

Yes, the closest was Harriet meagher,

a kind girl, good family.

When Amy went to the disco,

several of her schoolmates mentioned

that she seemed distressed.

I went away that night,

a conference, in sheffield.

Oh, please.

[Sasha] Thank you.

She seemed happy before I left.

What do you think, dad?

Didn't even say goodbye, not properly.

Was everything between Amy and her mother okay?

This was a good home.

I meant no offence,

your wife said as much in her statement.

Ruth passed away 10 years ago.

I'm sorry, but I have to ask,

you divorced, didn't you,

a year after Amy was murdered?

Strain.

You couldn't understand.

We both have daughters of our own.

They're written in a language

that no one will ever understand.

What are their names?

- Maddie. - Holly.

Amy was our only child.

When I'm gone,

nobody will remember who I was,

or that I ever even lived.

[Melancholy music]

[Gerry] Just phone up Robin and tell him, I don't know,

tell him I broke me arm, or me leg, or me neck, anything,

just get me out of tonight

[Steve] It's a stag do.

[Gerry] It's a stag don't.

[Steve] What the hell's that?

[Harriet] That is my sketch pad.

Harriet meagher?

I'll give you an answer if you tell me your secret.

What?

Your regime?

I have a shower in the morning.

You're the bitch, then?

No, we're partners,

and we work for the police.

Martin, Steven, James, Paul,

oh Matt, of course,

and then other Matt, and then Matty Matt.

But no Alec?

No, no.

I snogged an Andy once, though,

I think we both did.

Oh, and then there was Jason, Rick, and-

how about you just let us have a list of names?

Of course.

So I thought Amy just put a normal mix-tape in the capsule,

stuff off the radio,

and DJs' voices at the beginning and the end.

What did you put in?

I couldn't really think of anything,

so the teacher made me write a letter,

day-in-the-life sort of stuff.

You and Amy were best mates, right?

Practically synchronised our periods,

spent every moment we could together.

[Gerry] But if you were so close,

don't you think it's strange

that she never mentioned what was on this tape?

[Steve] Or this Alec?

Do you see where we're coming from?

It's like nobody really knew her,

not you, not even her dad.

Well he certainly didn't know her.

How do you mean?

He was cold.

Not unkind, or cruel,

just distant.

I can't imagine how that must have made her feel.

My dad was the local vicar,

kind bloke, heart of the community,

close to everything, everybody.

Some of the witnesses said

that Amy was a bit upset that night.

All I really remember

is that one minute, Amy was there,

and then she was gone.

A few songs later,

the lights come up

and Mr. Hines is telling us there's been an accident.

Hines, the headmaster?

No, no, no, he was a teacher then,

history, I think.

[Amy] Strong, even in the face of terror.

[Tape buzzes]

Strong, even in the face of terror.

[Gerry] So, this is what was in the time capsule.

And each pupil's contribution.

[Amy] Skies may darken.

[Steve] Harriet meagher was right,

hines was there in 1983.

Slipped his mind when we saw him earlier.

Anything else?

We've got an eyewitness statement here,

says she saw him leave the disco at 7:52 P.M.,

just as "club tropicana" came on.

And Amy's body was found at 7:58.

So he could have got to where her body was found

in those six minutes.

Yeah, then she says she saw him come back in

just not long before the song ended,

but he was ruled out of inquiries.

That track lasts only 3 minutes, 42 seconds.

Even if you ran,

you couldn't get to where Amy was found and back again

in six or seven minutes, let alone under four.

3 minutes and 42 seconds?

That's a very specific number, Danny.

My sister was in the fan club.

Evening, sir.

I took the Liberty

of bringing down the results of the search you requested.

[Sasha] Ah, there was no need.

I was actually hoping to,

well, I just wanted to...

Anyhow, there are six alecs in the borough with form

at that time.

I think we should look at this first.

I've transcribed the remaining words

from the b-side of Amy's tape,

or at least the ones

the downgraded audio will allow me to hear.

I think she's reading from this.

[Rob] The queen's speech?

Written in 1982,

to be read aloud on the radio

if a nuclear attack was imminent.

In 1983,

the doomsday clock was at three minutes to midnight,

governments on both sides of the iron curtain

were preparing for armageddon,

and this speech was a key part of those preparations.

So the words that Amy is saying on the tape

match the words in the speech?

Well, some.

It could just be a coincidence, Danny.

This would have been secret at the time, yeah?

Top secret,

it was only declassified 18 months ago

under the 30-year rule.

Then how did a schoolgirl get hold of it in 1983?

Exactly.

Let's focus on something concrete

before we start upsetting security services,

we need to find this Alec.

And also,

why didn't hines mention that he was there in 1983?

Get forensics to clean up the audio,

and then we can see if any words match.

Yeah, first thing in the morning, eh,

but now, it's pub o'clock.

[Sasha] Haven't you got somewhere to be, Gerry?

We've already warned traffic division

they might be missing a few hundred cones by the morning.

Yeah, yeah, all right.

[Steve] Have a good night, Gerry.

[Gerry] Yeah, yeah.

What's up with him?

He's got a stag do, sir.

[Rob] So does that mean you're a man down tonight then?

What?

Well, you must be busy, sir.

No, I'd love to actually.

Right, let's go.

Well that's great,

very good, terrific.

I'll just get my coat.

Do you always sit in complete silence?

No, no.

Sorry.

What do you like to talk about?

I have some amusing golf anecdotes.

- Oh? - Ah.

Next round's on me.

[Rob] Yes, I'll help.

Same again, please.

So, glad you came, sir?

Rob, please.

Yeah, I've enjoyed myself.

I hope I've filled in adequately for Gerry.

Well, it's a bit disappointing

that you haven't started a fight yet.

Well, the night's young.

[He laughs]

Actually, Sasha,

I was hoping for some advice.

Something's just happened-

[Sasha] Excuse me.

You said this was your local, so.

Last night...

Yeah, you walked out

because you couldn't control your excitement

at the prospect of going to Barcelona.

Barcelona?

Stay out of this, Robert.

Yeah, Robert.

Pleased to meet you, I'll be over there.

Listen, I don't know why you left,

or why you keep ignoring the texts,

but if it's me?

No, no, it's not.

If you don't want to see me anymore,

it's a really elaborate way of saying it,

but it's fine.

Nom no, no, I want to see you, I do,

I just, i'm...

Whoa, are you buffering?

No, i'm...

Oh, I've never, ever made a woman buffer before.

Listen, I can't,

Steve?

I'm not familiar with the verb to Steve,

what is it, a secret lady thing?

I've never been called a secret lady thing before.

Steve, Ethan, Ethan.

Steve.

No, I'm Steve.

Anyway, you wanna join us?

No, he's probably got to get back.

No, no, we insist.

Yes, we'll have fun.

[Doorbell rings]

Dad!

Hey, dad's here.

[Caitlin] Give him some air, Rob.

I'll go and get my trousers on.

Yeah, please.

So you're all right, sweetheart?

You look after him tonight.

What you worried about?

His mates have something planned, I know they have.

It's a stag do,

what's the worst that can happen?

[Steve] So what do you do for a living?

He run's a record shop.

We're asking Ethan.

I trade in vintage vinyl.

Ah well, you see,

this is an excellent topic of conversation,

I love vinyl.

Oh yeah.

Infinitely preferable to digital in every way.

Really? I don't understand it.

How can you actually tell the difference?

It's a warmer sound.

Eh, you know you're stuff.

Damn straight.

Danny knows lots of stuff.

Like how I know there's more to vinyl than some,

there's something special

about holding a record, isn't there?

It's delicate, it's precious.

Yeah, like it needs taking care of.

I'm sure Mr. Beckett's very careful.

Listen, gents,

I may know how precious vinyl is,

I respect it, and I only want what's best for it.

That's true, he wants to take it to Barcelona.

- Oh? - Oh yeah?

Well, then he should understand

that every time he takes it out of the sleeve and plays it,

there's a risk of damage.

It might be better to leave it on the shelf for a while.

Hold on a sec'.

Risk of damage depends upon a lot of factors,

most of which have very little to do with the record itself,

it's the kind of the turntable you're using,

tonearm adjustment, tracking force.

The pressure of the needle in the groove.

Danny!

[Steve] Whether it's a 7-inch or a 12-inch.

Steve!

It's fine,

they like to euphemize, let's euphemize.

I can euphemize all night long, by the way.

Well now he's just showing off.

Listen, it's brilliant

that you've met my work colleagues, Ethan, but-

we're going for a kebab later on, do you like kebabs?

Is that a euphemism too?

No, we really are going for a kebab.

You like kebabs?

You don't?

I'm not judging you.

I've never had a kebab.

Well sir, this is clearly meant to be.

[Whimsical jazz music]

Cheers.

[Blade whistles]

I said you'd love it, didn't I?

[Glass tinkles]

Right guys, everyone got name tags?

Before we begin,

I just wanted to say a few words on why we're here.

As you all know,

something very special is happening to me

in a fortnight's time,

I'm officially joining the standings,

or to use the correct family name, the lestades.

Parlez-vous francais?

Now, you may not know this, but we lestades,

I can say we, can't I Gerry?

Yeah, yeah.

We were butchers,

so I thought I should learn something about my new heritage,

connect with it.

I hope you all enjoy coming on this voyage into the past.

Let's salt these loins.

- [Guests cheer] - [Smooth jazz music]

You need a bit more on the skin, mate.

Listen, when's the stripper arriving?

Sorry?

Well, you're the best man, aren't you?

Yeah.

Don't worry, you can tell me, when's the ambush?

Ambush?

Yeah, what we gonna do,

tie him to a lamppost, Chuck him in the water?

There's a cake later,

but it's a surprise.

Cake?

What sort of best man are you?

[Smooth jazz music]

The meat's cooking, won't be long.

Bad news:

They're not gonna kidnap you and throw you in a skip,

there's no stripper,

they're not even gonna chain you to a lamppost

and piss on you.

Seriously?

Yeah.

I know mate, I know.

You know, the first time I met you,

you in your little solicitor's suit,

and your curly barnet,

I thought to myself, what a knob.

But the second time,

I thought to myself-

what a-

even more so, yeah.

Nothing's changed, really.

I'm glad we're having this talk.

Tonight, you've reminded me what's important:

All this.

My old dad used to say,

"remember your roots."

He'd have liked this,

wouldn't have minded you either, I suppose.

Well rest assured, dad,

this baby will carry forward the family traditions.

What baby?

Shit.

So that's why Caitlin's having her hen night at home, eh?

She forced me.

How exactly?

She sort of straddled me.

No, no, no, don't actually tell me.

We're getting married in two weeks.

And you couldn't wait?

Don't kill me, Gerry,

or if you have to, please do it humanely.

What exactly happened last night?

Well, what's he said?

Not much,

but he kept singing this song about being king of the skip.

You don't remember, do you?

Remember what? Did he get you a stripper last night,

is that what it is?

- No. - Well, did he?

Of course not, did you?

I asked you to look after him.

Yeah, and now I know why.

He's going to be my husband.

He's gonna be more than that.

You bloody told him?

I bloody must have.

Why didn't you bloody tell me?

What did you do to Paula's boyfriend

after she told you she was pregnant?

Ah, you can hardly notice the limp now.

And Amelia's fiance?

He says that I'm the reason that his sinuses cleared up.

Yeah, after you clonked him one.

Yeah, and do you remember what he,

look, look, look, look,

I didn't come here for a row, all right,

I came here to give you, all three of you,

a little present.

See, Caitlin's great-grandma

used to work at spitalfields mill,

that was near where we were last night,

and she chose Chinese silk.

'Cause it shines in candlelight.

That's right, yeah.

The old girl thought

it would only be used for one christening,

but how many have there been?

Too bloody many.

Yeah, too bloody many.

There will be candles, won't there?

Yeah.

[Newsreader] Here is a reminder

of what the air attack warning sounds like.

Grim.

[Danny] Thankfully, it's nothing you have to worry about,

just work,

or a theory about work that no one will listen to.

You off somewhere?

[Holly] Shops.

- Well, I'll drive you. - Ian just got back from uni,

he's picking me up.

Oh right.

Would you rather I lied?

No, I'd rather you were honest with me.

I'm always honest with you.

Yeah,

and uncomfortable though the truth is sometimes,

you have no idea how privileged that makes me feel,

or how proud.

I'm gonna start gushing.

I'll spare you.

We should have Ian round for dinner,

he's a good boy.

He's a bad boy, that's kind of...

That's enough honesty, thank you.

[Holly] So what about this case then?

I've been told

to lay off a line of inquiry I quite like the look of,

and the one suspect we thought we had

was scuppered by "club tropicana".

I prefer "wake me up before you go-go".

No, they were still finding themselves with that track.

No, you've got to go back to "freedom" or "last Christmas"

before you can discover the true marriage

of George Michael's lyrical sophistication

with Andrew ridgeley's almost clinical guitar playing.

Holly, I'm teasing you.

Auntie Jo, she was a wham!-Head.

A wham! What?

Before your time.

Auntie Jo hates pop music.

[Danny] The thing is,

"club tropicana" is too short.

Unless you were playing the 12-inch remix.

Holly, you are brilliant.

I know.

Here you are, try in here.

This is all the releases from 1983.

You didn't come in here just for this, though, did you?

Well, I thought I'd take the opportunity

to inform you that you may well be a suitable candidate.

I'm saying nothing without my solicitor.

You have a solid yet unspectacular credit score,

a stable income, clean record.

Ah, you and Steve, the secret lady thing,

been checking up on me?

Apart from those three points on your licence.

I knew they'd let me down one day.

We're more concerned about you letting Sasha down.

Oh god, you sound like her dad,

or her big brother, or something.

I'm her friend.

She's lucky.

I'm the lucky one, you are too,

but the beard'll have to go.

What beard?

Ah.

Oh, you've found it,

what you're looking for?

Yes, "club tropicana" was released

on the 23rd of July, 1983,

four weeks after the school disco.

Was there a 12-inch remix?

Yeah, yeah there was,

there was a 12-inch preview disc of the remix

doing the rounds, yeah.

Record companies used to punt them out as promos for DJs,

and not many people would have known that at the time.

Holly was right.

Yeah? Who's Holly?

The most extraordinary girl in the world.

Do you have the remix?

Yeah, I'll stick it on a tape for you.

I'll need something to play it on,

something I can take outside.

You are gonna dig this.

I stopped the tape

at 5 minutes, 15 seconds into the track.

I'm surprised you lasted that long.

[Danny] At that point,

there were 7 minutes, 42 seconds left.

On the night, that would have been plenty of time

for you to leave the disco when the song started,

come all the way here.

And back again before it finished.

I'm sure you're a lot fussier

about the quality of your alibis these days, aren't you?

There's nothing wrong with the quality of wham!

You're basing this on the testimony

of a teenager who might have been drinking?

Plus the fact

that Amy had lots of unauthorised absences from school

in those last few months.

Some of which overlapped with your own.

Were you and Amy going somewhere together?

That is a very serious allegation.

I am a very serious man.

I can vouch for that.

Why didn't you tell us you were here back then, Mr. Hines?

I assumed you knew.

Look, is it my fault

that you hadn't read all the paperwork?

I was the one who gave Amy's tape to the police.

Only after a colleague had discovered it first.

And listened to it.

[Danny] And insisted that you act upon it.

And let's face it,

it would have been pretty suspicious for you not to.

Anything else?

I'm sure we can think of something.

Well until then,

I've got some new parents to show around,

I doubt any of them would be impressed to find you here.

[Sasha] He's right, it's all circumstantial,

but I don't like him.

[Danny] Can we get back to my theory

about the queen's speech?

[Sasha] Yeah, once forensics are done.

Where did you get that remix, anyway?

Vinyl heaven.

Danny, you didn't?

Danny, I did.

Why can't you just leave him alone?

Gerry wants to have a look too.

I don't need your help.

Would it surprise you to learn

that I have helped 15 relationships,

and that I've saved 7.5 marriages?

I've got a counselling diploma.

How do you save 0.5 of a marriage?

One person thought it was still a good idea.

What is wrong with me?

I finally meet someone who's kind,

who doesn't make me feel

like I've got to put a mask on every morning,

who even puts up with you,

and what do I do?

I run the four-minute mile.

You're afraid.

Of what?

That things will go wrong again,

that you'll get hurt

if you open up and include this man in your life.

And you're gonna tell me I'm wrong?

I wouldn't dream of it.

52% of all relationships end, many catastrophically.

No, your fears are very well-placed.

But just because something seems inevitable,

doesn't mean there isn't hope.

And the sagrada familia looks extraordinary

this time of year.

[Sasha] Does that look like

he's showing new parents around?

Not unless they're invisible

and taking a particularly scenic route.

[Mysterious music]

Now, where's he going at such an hour?

[Sasha] Wait here.

[Mysterious music]

[Sinister music]

[Phone rings]

[Danny] You okay?

Danny, I've lost hines.

He must have gone into one of the flats,

but I've no idea of knowing which one.

Just a moment.

[Sasha] Why, Danny, what you gonna do?

["Club tropicana" by wham!]

[Tense music]

[Mr. Hines] Carla.

[Carla] Don't touch me.

Flat four, dinsdale close.

Any new parents live there?

Well, we'll tell you who lives there, shall we?

Carla o'brien.

[Danny] The teacher who found Amy's body.

Also your former fiancee.

Although the engagement was called off

immediately after Amy's murder,

so either your timing is terrible, or-

there's a connection.

Just like your visit today.

[Sasha] Why would you go and see Carla

just after we've been asking questions about Amy?

To tell her to get in touch with you.

After you left,

I tracked down an address.

Ah, so you were helping us?

Well, thank you very much.

Not often we get a suspect

who worries about good customer service.

Of course, you could have just phoned her.

It's much easier

to intimidate someone face-to-face, though, isn't it?

What?

You were worried we'd get to her,

you wanted to make sure she'd keep quiet.

There's nothing for her to keep quiet about.

No?

We'll soon find out, anyway,

we picked her up an hour after you left the flat.

Did you have time to get your stories straight?

Because if there's anything you've told us

that she can't independently corroborate-

it could be awkward.

This is highly unethical.

Moderately, maybe,

we could push it up to highly, though, couldn't we?

If we had to.

Amy and I,

she was 16.

You were her teacher.

I want a solicitor.

[Sinister music]

Amy came looking for him,

and found us together.

He hadn't told her we were engaged.

And he hadn't told you about her?

Do you think I'd have wanted to marry him if he had?

So you and Amy found out about each other

on the very night that she was murdered?

That's right.

That would explain why she was so upset.

No, she was upset before she got to us,

that's why she wanted to talk to Nick.

She was looking for comfort,

and thought he would give it to her.

That's when I knew they'd been...

And you saw red, naturally.

With him, not with her.

So you didn't follow her out to the top of those steps

and shove her down?

No.

Look, she was vulnerable,

she was just a child,

I could see she was in love with him.

I told her to go away,

and I only went looking for her

after I'd got myself together and finished with Nick.

It was too late.

Hines didn't want her to tell anybody, did he?

He's a lot of things, he's not a killer.

Maybe we should be looking at you then?

It would be understandable, revenge.

I don't know who killed Amy, or why;

I do know you're looking in the wrong place.

She said she had a secret,

something she wanted Nick to know,

something she wanted us all to know.

Did she say what?

She never had a chance,

but whatever it was, she was terrified.

[Siren blares]

[Announcer] Fallout can kill.

Since it can be carried for great distances by the winds,

it can eventually settle anywhere,

so no place in the united kingdom is safer than any other.

The risk is as great in the countryside as in the towns.

Nobody can tell where the safest place will be.

So you are just as safe in your own home area

as anywhere else.

In fact, you are far better off at home

because it is the place you will know,

and where you are known,

so stay where you are.

[Unsettling music]

This must be Amy's secret.

Forensics have transcribed the rest of the words

on Amy's tape,

and there are too many matches:

She's reading from the queen's speech.

The same department behind that speech

also made this emergency broadcast,

it's to keep people off the streets, and in their homes.

There were 600 specially-chosen

government, military, and civilian personnel

planning for the end of the world.

All of them would have lived near Amy,

and if an attack was imminent, all of them would have gone

into the regional command centre in essex.

So they wait out the apocalypse,

and then come back out and rebuild the country?

This was far more than any state secret,

they weren't allowed to tell their families.

'Cause if the wider population

knew how seriously the government were taking it.

How come only 600 people would be saved?

There'd be civil unrest, riots.

Complete societal breakdown.

No booze in the pubs.

Can we get a list of these 600 names?

National archive at kew.

Have you called them?

They say any files that can be declassified

already have been.

It's a hush-up.

Wait a minute, wait a minute,

why don't we look at this from another angle,

like how do you get selected

to be on that list in the first place?

Your profession,

would have had to have been something useful

in any attempt to reestablish society.

Like William taskerland was a civil servant?

Nicholas hines was a teacher.

Harriet meagher's father was a priest.

Many of the parents there had professions

that would have qualified.

And they'd all want this to be kept quiet.

Hines already has a motive for killing Amy,

let's make him sweat.

Do we want to take a risk on this one?

I'm focusing on what we have,

not worrying about what we don't have.

[Tense music]

Sir?

What is it?

We think the taskerland case is linked

to the civil defence programme of the 1980s.

Oh, murky territory.

That's why we were thinking about your contacts.

Contacts? Absolutely not, no.

Oh come on, Bob.

Sir.

I thought we got closer, you know,

after the kebab, and that?

[Danny] We're practically brothers.

No I'm sorry, I'm out of favours.

If there's one thing I've learned,

it's not to go wandering in the dark

when you don't know whose toes you'll be treading on.

Does Sasha know that the two of you have come to see me?

Does she need to?

It was a lovely kebab.

That's that then.

No, that's this then.

That's what then?

[Mysterious music]

[Danny] After world war III,

what was left of the country

would have been divided into 12 police states.

[Steve] Is that a fact?

Did you wanna tell me where we're going?

[Mysterious music]

The southeast regional command bunker is right here,

under our feet,

encased in 10 metres of concrete.

[Steve] Did you bring those with you especially?

No, the experience has taught me

to always keep a pair handy.

[Steve] What exactly did you do

in the diplomatic service, Danny?

[Danny] Keep a lookout.

[Steve] Why, who's around?

Landowners, game keepers, badgers possibly,

or, if we're really unlucky, armed guards.

[Tense music]

I'm just so sorry about last night.

Don't be,

they only want what's best for you.

They're not the only ones.

I didn't actually think that i'd,

I didn't actually think that I'd meet someone,

someone I could be with,

properly be with,

not so soon after ned.

Okay, so all right,

that's the only problem?

No, I just don't think I can get serious again,

just take another risk.

I asked you to come away for the weekend,

I didn't propose.

No, I know,

but me and ned, it was a long time.

The world's changed a lot since 1990-them-old-days.

Guess what?

Now, just 'cause you kiss someone,

you don't have to marry them,

you can hold hands in public,

the law, they won't touch you for it.

Look, I am going away for the weekend,

I'd much rather it was with you than without.

The queen's speech was written there,

during a war game in 1982.

A war game in a bungalow?

Beneath the bungalow.

It was mothballed in 1990,

hundreds of cold war documents just left behind.

I'm betting we'll find something in there

that'll tell us how Amy got that speech.

[Lights buzz]

[Steve] So this is where the chosen 600 would have come

to wait it out?

[Sinister music]

What exactly did you do-

in the diplomatic protection service?

Yeah, yeah, I know,

if you told me, you'd have to kill me.

Imagine being stuck down here for two years

with that nuclear winter raging above you.

[Danny] All the books you'd have time to read.

[Steve] How can you think about bloody books

when you don't know what's happened to your family?

[Danny] Well of course you'd know,

vaporisation, incineration,

or, if they survived the initial blast,

radiation sickness.

[Steve] What about all those "protect and survive" films

that taught you to build a shelter at home?

Yes, similar in design to a coffin.

They were encouraging people to Bury themselves.

Hold this.

[Sinister music]

[Lights buzz]

[Steve] Wow.

Right.

[Tense music]

Nothing.

Keep looking.

Stew's supposed to be cooking for me tonight.

Sounds like you've had a lucky escape.

Well he makes a passable bolognese, actually,

the boy can clash a pan.

Danny? Come here.

Fallout projection.

They estimated a 210-megaton attack as a minimum,

2/3 of UK homes wiped out in an instant.

Read that.

Annihilation and losses estimation committee.

Hello Alec.

[Sasha] There wasn't a boy, was there?

[Danny] But there was the ale committee.

Which you were part of,

forecasting how many people would die.

[Danny] With your wife and daughter

included in that figure.

I've signed the official secrets act.

Amy didn't.

She found a draught of the queen's speech

in my study one night,

showed it to my wife, Ruth.

It was a disaster,

families weren't supposed to know.

When was this?

Six months before she was killed.

I tried to explain it all to them.

How do you ever explain that you'd abandon your family?

Do you know what Einstein said about it?

He didn't know how they'd fight world war III,

but he knew how they'd fight world war iv.

With sticks and stones.

Yes.

If the sirens had sounded over London,

this conversation wouldn't be taking place,

we'd be a corpse of a country,

dark skies, frozen ground.

Somebody had to survive the horror, rebuild.

Did Ruth and Amy keep the secret?

I suppose they thought the day would never come.

Besides, girls are very good at keeping secrets.

Unlike boys.

You weren't at a conference in sheffield

on the night that Amy was murdered, were you?

We found your training manuals.

They were just standard stories that you would use

in order to cover your tracks.

You see, the civil defence programme is all about cover,

the truth would terrify people,

there'd be mass panic, they'd block the roads,

riot, jam the phones.

We know that your daughter went to the disco

with the specific intention of telling Mr. Hines a secret.

[Danny] Maybe it was this secret.

Where were you that night?

I wasn't at the school.

You'll need to prove that.

A NATO training exercise had started the day before,

codename Zachariah.

You wouldn't have found any papers on this one,

it was a rehearsal for an American preemptive strike.

President Reagan moved thousands of troops across Europe.

It was just an exercise, but...

But the Russians reacted.

Yes, activated the Moscow bunker,

primed their ss-20s,

each one ready to deliver 100 hiroshimas

on targets across Europe.

Including London?

Especially London.

What do you think, dad?

[Melancholy music]

She knew,

there was no point trying to hide it.

We were the human buttons,

trained not to think or to feel.

Don't go, don't leave us,

you won't, you won't.

Mum, let go.

Dad!

[Door bangs]

Our country's future was at stake.

Your family is your only future.

Look, if I hadn't gone there voluntarily,

they'd have sent soldiers to collect me.

I'm sorry, I'm very sorry, terribly sorry.

I prayed in that bunker,

and 36 hours later, Zachariah was over,

the Russians backed down.

If only Ruth had kept Amy at home.

What home?

Amy did what every girl would do,

tried to talk to somebody that she thought might care.

[Melancholy music]

- [They laugh] - [Melancholy music]

[Harriet] Dci Miller.

Harriet, thank you for coming.

Your colleagues aren't with you?

I thought it'd be better this way, just us girls.

You've read it?

Teenage years don't have to be full of misery and pain,

do they?

You were so happy back then,

had this wonderful family around you.

I was lucky.

Lucky to have Amy too.

From the letter,

I can see that you and Amy were each other's allies,

against everything.

But do you really expect us to believe

that Amy wouldn't tell you about the tape,

the ale committee that her father was part of,

her best friend?

On the night that Amy was killed,

she had another, even more devastating secret,

one she tried to tell her lover,

but didn't get the chance,

but there was still you.

Why hold it all back?

You do want to tell us, don't you, for Amy?

For Amy.

I saw her running out, crying,

[Amy whimpers]

I just wanted to help.

Like best friends do.

Nobody noticed me when I left the dance floor,

nobody ever noticed me.

I found her alone on the steps.

I thought it had something to do with Mr. Hines,

I knew that bastard had been using her.

It'll be better in the morning, you'll see.

So I comforted her.

There isn't going to be a morning,

the missiles are coming.

And you're right,

she had told me about Alec, her dad,

she said it was here,

the end of our world.

Nowhere we can go.

Just took his clothes, left us.

"No, I'm going home."

Come with me.

So we can all die together?

So we can be together, we can hide.

You are so stupid, there's no hiding.

What about your dad's leaflets, "protect and survive"?

It's a lie.

Go home, take the doors off their hinges, make a shelter,

it'll burn like everywhere else.

"I'm still going."

Dad!

Don't leave me.

"Well, come if you want."

Your mum'll burn too, and your stupid dad.

"At least mine still love me."

[They scream]

- [Amy screams] - [Glass smashes]

Amy never got to face the end of the world,

she'd been let down by her father,

and I let mine down that night.

I came back to the disco, and the police came,

and there were people crying

when they said they'd found her body.

I just stood there,

waiting for it all to end.

[Melancholy music]

[She whimpers]

Sorry I'm late, had to go shopping.

For what?

A cot.

Yeah, Caitlin and Robin.

Oh.

Congratu-bloody-lations, Gerry.

How many grandchildren is that?

Too bloody many.

Look at his face, he's made up.

It's brilliant.

Right, so what's everybody want then?

Drinks are on me.

Beat you to it.

Eh?

Since when did he come out with us?

Since the other night.

We can't figure out what's wrong.

I'll find out.

Guvnor.

All right, Gerry.

Do you want a drink.

Yeah, yeah, I'll have a pint of Jensen's.

Guvnor, we've worked together now for,

what, 10 years?

And in all that time,

you've never been out with us once.

You're not leaving, are you?

No, no, no, no,

rest assured, I'm not leaving.

Good, good.

And you're not ill?

No.

[Gerry] Oh my god.

What's so funny?

Well look, snap,

my youngest is expecting as well.

Oh no, no, you don't understand, this isn't a grandchild.

You're gonna be a dad again?

Well that's good news, innit?

When this child's 15,

I'll be, what, nearly 70?

Oh I see, so that's what's worrying you?

What if something happens to me, to my health?

Listen guvnor, can I give you some advice?

You cannot worry about the future,

you've got to live for today,

and you've got to enjoy it.

I always knew you were the brains of the outfit.

Yeah, finally cottoned on, have you?

Listen, this is a double celebration,

so the same again, eh,

and two of your biggest cigars.

And it's on me.

Yes!

[Upbeat music]

Your child?

Well I think this deserves a toast.

To your child, and your child.

[Gerry] You haven't got a picture of her, have you?

[Steve] Oh, look at that.

- Where are you off to? - See you later.

Bye, congratulations.

I've just gotta go and see a man about a record.

[Steve] Oh I see, it's all about records, yeah, yeah.

[Upbeat music]

- See you all Monday. - Good bye, Sasha.

[Upbeat music]

[Gerry] Look at that.

[Steve] To you, Gerry.

[Upbeat music]

Hiya, how are you?

Is this you buffering?

[Upbeat music]