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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 ♪

[Upbeat music fades]

[Eerie music]

[Steve sighs]

[Door slams]

Bit jumpy, are we?

Been freebasing espressos for the last two hours.

Took ages to upload these photos.

Your home's supposed to be your castle.

Mine's turned out to be a financial bloody life raft.

You're doing the right thing.

Letting a load of grubby strangers in my flat?

Eyes on the prize.

Think about the money.

Hey, I've got all the money I need.

As long as I die by tea time.

[Dan chuckles]

I'm delighted to welcome travellers

to my little part of London.

People love that bullshit.

Retired senior public service professional.

Now turned gentleman of leisure.

[Steve chuckles]

Why don't you just say you were a copper?

Because I don't want my customers

to think the drug squad's gonna kick down the door

every time they light an incense stick.

Right.

Let's get this party started,

going live in three, two, one.

[Computer beeps]

[Steve exhales]

So, what happens now?

How long before I get my first booking?

13 minutes, 27 seconds.

Really?

I don't know, be patient.

I really need this to work, you know.

You renting your flat out?

Ah, no,

a friend of mine's been doing it

for the last couple of years,

yeah now

and then.

So where will you stay if you get a booking?

Ehh.

Well, you could always stay at my old place.

Oh Dan, that'd be terrific.

I hadn't thought of that.

Yeah.

Okay, can we please stop gassing

and meet Dave hooper?

- [Phone rings] - 38 year old

private investigator killed

by a single stab through the heart

in his office on the 21st of October, 2011.

Found some soldier.

Yes, the injustice of genetics.

Now his office was ransacked at the time of the murder.

We know from his girlfriend, Carmen creswell,

that he used a work notebook

and he used burner phones

- [phone rings] - But the original investigation

couldn't find them.

Theory was robbery gone wrong.

Who was on his client list?

Might have been one of them.

That was the brick wall.

We didn't have any records.

Didn't know who was working for.

We have virtually nothing.

Single stab wound.

Knife?

Three inch blade, standard issue in any kitchen

or folding pocket set.

Put's the chances of us tracing it somewhere between zero

and bugger all.

Which is why we were extremely happy to receive this

in the post, hooper's notebook.

[Phone rings]

Can you please just answer that?

So what, this disappeared when hooper was killed?

I've made you all copies.

Yeah.

I'll make an appointment as soon as the surgery's open.

Scout's honour.

Carry on, please.

So according to hooper's girlfriend, Carmen creswell,

he never let this notebook out of his sight.

May I?

Oh yes, Fiona uses one exactly the same.

Does hers come with an anonymous message?

Yeah, we don't know who sent it.

There's no match for prints

or DNA.

Why should somebody hand it in

four years after the event?

Too afraid to come forward at the time?

Wherever it came from, this is gold dust.

There's initials, postcodes, times, dates.

We know that he was ultra secretive.

I mean, even these notes

are written in some form of shorthand.

Maybe the entries relate to cases he was working.

You think he was killed by one of his clients?

Private investigation is a murky business.

Steve

and I will go

and speak to hooper's girlfriend.

You two mega minds,

decipher these notes

and find me his clients.

Hey, you saying I'm not a mega mind?

I'm saying you have other skills.

[Tense music]

Carmen creswell came forward straight away

but wasn't much help.

She had a solid alibi for the night of the murder.

Yeah.

But she claimed to know nothing of hooper's life

or his working practise.

Are you listening to any of this?

Look, I've got three page views already.

Three?

Wow, I'll alert the press.

Sorry, sorry.

So this, um.

- Creswell. - Creswell, yeah.

If she was his girlfriend,

how come she didn't know what he was up to?

Well, we were never a couple.

I hardly knew him.

It was just a bloke I met through a dating agency

and had a few bunk ups with.

Cost a fortune.

Was meant to be for high net worth individuals.

And it turned out Dave wasn't one of those.

He lied to you?

Everyone's at it at those places,

they're not looking for love.

They're looking for money,

or sex.

Which were you after?

Don't snear.

I grew up poor, I wanted something better.

But even when you found out Dave wasn't minted,

you stayed with him anyway?

We were never together.

We met each other, I don't know, a handful of times,

never in the light.

Did you want more?

There are happy ever after guys,

and then there are guys like Dave.

I know the difference.

Henry is the love of my life.

[Steve] When did you meet him?

A couple of years ago.

Was that through the same agency?

Yes,

actually.

We haven't been able to trace hooper's email

or phone history.

Well, I'm not surprised,

he was secretive.

It's all part of his man of mystery routine.

He called cell phones

and computers bugging devices for mi5.

We did find this, though.

Is that his black book?

Do you recognise it?

Yeah.

He never let me near it.

His crown jewels.

What's in it?

Oh, it's a sort of work diary.

It's mostly shorthand

but there are notes, abbreviations, numbers.

Does anything look familiar?

[Pages turn]

It's all gibberish to me.

What about the initials?

Clients, maybe?

No.

I didn't even know what he did until your lot told me,

you know, after he was killed.

So he never talked about work?

He never let me know him.

It was like sleeping with a ghost.

I'm investigating the 2011 murder of a man

- named David hooper. - Well your number

was in his notebook,

so I'm wondering if you remember him?

He's a private investigator.

- Very good looking. - I appreciate

you're a taxi firm

and that you get thousands of bookings,

but is there anything in your system

- under his name? - Alison downing?

- So where could I contact her? - Well perhaps you could

put me in touch with somebody who can help.

Thanks very much.

Hello?

People are getting ruder, you know.

I blame diesel fumes.

I might have a bit of a tickle.

According to an employee at the cake shop,

a guy who looked like hooper visited her boss,

an Alison downing, quite regularly back then.

Alison downing?

Ad.

So shall we go

and have a chat with her?

There's only one reference to ad, though.

The person I really want to find

is this bw.

Are you coming?

Could be some tasty fringe benefits.

Or I could visit downing on my own.

If you've got to go

and see the doctor?

You coming or not?

[Phone rings]

Hello?

Carmen's pleading strangers in the night.

And do we believe her?

She didn't recognise anything in the notes.

Couldn't give us a single name of a client

or tell us anything specific

about the nature of his business.

I don't trust her as far as I can spit.

According to her, hooper is a slippery snot on an iceberg.

Is she a candidate for having sent the notebook?

Everyone's a candidate.

Any joy making sense of it?

Well, we're still working

through all the telephone numbers.

I've spoken to a cab firm, an airline,

even a stamp auctioneers.

Now they must all be related to hooper's cases,

but no one can remember dealing with him.

Keep plugging away.

I've had a bite, though.

Woman on the phone remembered him immediately.

We're going over there now.

[Sasha] That's great.

Let us know how you get on

and we'll speak later.

It's the only appointment you're gonna make today,

obviously.

If downing's cakes are any good, I'll get Fiona some.

She's got a very sweet tooth.

Bet she's fun, fascinating,

and vivacious too.

You know, if opposites really do attract,

you two have got a chance.

This is your way of showing affection, isn't it?

It's just banter.

Be much better if you were honest about your emotions

you know?

Seems you haven't got long left.

What d'you mean?

Well, you're clearly avoiding going to the doctors.

That's what this whole doctor thing is about,

isn't it?

You're frightened of your own mortality.

You know, actually, this is none of your business.

Ted, I know denial when it walks my way.

I used to be an expert practitioner.

Had it been an olympic sport,

I'd have been a triple medal winner

and a national hero.

Look, my life insurance company

wants me to take a new test

as part of my annual medical.

It's a racket,

they're trying to bump up my premiums

and I'm not having it.

It's an mot, a 12,000 mile check,

change your oil, change your plugs

and then get you back on the road.

Yeah, well this machine's running just fine,

thank you, okay?

I do all my own maintenance.

[Door squeaks open]

There you go.

Thank you, bye.

Can I get one of that sugar mountain

and a black forest, please?

Where do I find Alison downing.

Standing right in front of you.

You better come round the back.

We do all our baking on site.

Make

and sell over 700 cupcakes a day.

Can we have a minute?

- Yeah, sure. - Thanks.

Didn't think I'd ever see you lot again.

[Ted] We're here about Dave hooper.

So you haven't caught Jason?

The fiance who ran off with my money?

We're investigating David hooper's murder.

Figures.

Jason nicking 30 grand was never a priority for your mob.

Can we start again?

How did you know David hooper?

I used to have terrible taste in men.

Jason sharp was a bit of a lad,

did time for gbh.

I thought I could fix him.

I was wrong.

And he stole from you?

Bastard cleaned me out.

And I went to the police.

They weren't interested.

Jason hadn't left a trace.

Police thought he must've planned it.

Changed his name, gone abroad, dead-end.

So you employed hooper

after they scaled down their investigation.

It was after I saw Jace again.

I was on a bus in Brixton when I saw him out the window.

Did you speak to him?

Screamed my head off.

But the bus was moving away from him,

and by the time I'd got off.

He'd gone.

Just as well,

I probably would have thumped him.

And there'd only be one winner in that sort of fight.

Hooper was a regular here.

I asked him to look for Jace,

and he'd found him, too.

When?

Turned out, it was the day before he died.

You never came forward with this.

Well you weren't exactly helpful to me.

Why put myself out for you?

That's not good enough, Alison.

And I was scared, all right?

Jason pulled me into his sewer.

The day he left, I started breathing.

Built all this.

Do you think he's capable of murder?

I know he is.

[Printer whirs]

So hooper found her heavy fisted fiance,

and got killed for his troubles?

This Jason sharp sounds like a proper nasty bastard.

Like the sound of her, though.

He did her over for 30 grand

and she got back on her feet.

And you should taste the cakes,

they're out of this world.

Alison's happy to help,

but the last thing she wants is sharp found.

We urgently need to talk to him.

Contact the team that ran the search in '09.

Was there any mention of sharp

or js in the notebook?

No, we were lucky to even find Alison,

there's only one mention of an ad in there.

Well that's weird.

Hooper worked for her for the last five months of his life.

This is a good lead.

We need to find sharp.

In the meantime, these just arrived.

Contents of hooper's flat.

Two boxes?

Not much to show for a life.

Makes our job easier though, doesn't it?

Not so much to go through.

Now the original investigation found nothing significant

but you never know.

[Keys jingle]

Oh, those were the most intriguing, these keys.

That was for his office, his home, his bike,

and that one's anyone's guess.

Oh, could be a left luggage key,

safety deposit box?

No, they tried both.

Contacted everyone within a six mile radius

of both his home

and office.

Nothing.

Nothing much of interest here, either.

Not unless you count this.

Bw?

Chalk one up for the dimwits.

[Tense music]

[Sirens wail]

I asked hooper to work for me in 2011.

After the house got burgled.

[Coughs]

Sorry about this.

[Coughs]

Just give me a sec.

Can I get you some water?

No, I'm fine, mate.

You have a beautiful family.

How old are your kids?

Jane's is the eldest, 20.

She works in a department store in the west end.

And that's Gemma, just 17,

proper smarty pants.

She doesn't want to go to college

because of the fees,

but I tell her she's got something special.

Chance to climb the ladder.

When was the burglary exactly?

We were on summer holidays, July 2011.

Toerags cleaned us out of all the usual, TV, gadgets.

I didn't care about any of that

but they took my granddad's box.

Your granddad's box?

Letters

and photos.

His diaries from the trenches.

He was three years at the front.

Nan used to call him the rubber ball.

His mates got shot

and killed

but he just kept bouncing back.

Three years, that's extraordinary.

Felt like I'd let him down, you know?

I always promised him that i'd type up his diaries one day.

Maybe take them to the war museum.

You should have read the stuff.

Turn your hair white, some of it.

There were other bits

and pieces.

His service medal,

and a rare stamp,

called a Russian cousin.

He always said that was really valuable.

How valuable?

Well the police only gave me an insurance number,

house burglaries weren't their priority.

So it was only when I made a claim that I found out.

The stamp was worth 40k.

I know, it's madness, isn't it?

But like a muppet, I never knew.

I sense this isn't gonna end well.

Hadn't declared it as a high value item on the insurance.

So, I got zip.

So hooper went looking for it.

I fixed a dish at his office.

Saw his sign

and thought I'd give it a go.

How did he get on?

I could only pay for a couple of weeks

but I thought, could be worse

at least I've got my health.

Then I got breast cancer.

Yeah, men get it too.

And the chemo diet's not all it's cracked up to be.

Didn't even lose any weight.

When people have got cancer

you have to laugh at their bad jokes.

[Group chuckle]

And how's your health now?

Well I'm still here

and hooper isn't.

So it just goes to show

that you never know when your number's up.

I mean, the stamp is valuable,

but good health

and the love of your family

is priceless.

[Tense music]

Glad he hasn't lost his sense of humour.

If we can find the stamp for the guy,

he deserves a break.

We're not a lost property agency.

We need to find Jason sharp.

Not only is he a con man,

he's our prime suspect.

Did you get in touch with the people

who looked for him in 2009?

They didn't come close to catching him

but he's a proper bad lad.

He was a mugger whose weapon of choice was a knife.

So maybe he stab happy Jason

finally became a murderer when hooper came to call.

Maybe,

but either case could have got him murdered.

You're taking the stamp seriously.

40 grand, I've known people killed for less.

We pursue both lines of inquiry,

just like hooper did.

When presented with both of these two cases,

what would he have done?

Well, if he wanted to find Jason sharp,

he'd have started in Brixton.

Then if he wanted to find the stamp,

he would have worked out who burgled warnock.

Good, well we know what to do tomorrow then.

Yes, back of the net.

Sorry, just got my first booking.

Two Italian ladies arriving tomorrow

for 40 hours in la Bella city.

[Sasha laughs]

Bella citta.

Oh, whatever.

I'll get the next round in.

Where are these guests of yours?

[Steve] They're only 10 minutes late.

You do know the Italians

and punctuality are not even on nodding terms.

Well, for 300 quid for a two night stay,

they could be as late as they like.

- 300 quid? - Yeah.

That website's magic.

Oh, they didn't go through the website.

They wanted 20%.

No, I just called the girls direct,

we did a deal between ourselves.

You don't even know who these people are

and you're giving them the key to your kingdom.

Hey, it's the modern age.

Get with the programme.

Look, look at this.

I'm checking out warnock's alibi.

Well he was at a cancer support meeting

in a church, wasn't he?

Yeah,

but I've not heard from any of these other group members,

but look, his doctors just got in touch.

Stage three, mastectomy, hormone therapy,

remission, matesticies,

stage four, spread to nodes, bones

and liver, what am I looking at?

He's dying.

He got better,

and now it's all over for him,

why didn't he tell us?

Well, it's private, you know?

People get protective about their health.

Look at Ted.

Bone

and liver, warnock's got months.

Show time.

[Engine rumbles]

Okay, you've got 10 minutes,

and then we're due at the stamp house.

- Yes. - £16.20

not much luggage.

You take more than that into the office.

- Thanks very much. - Probably gonna buy stuff

while they're here.

Just give me a minute, okay?

Ciao, bellisimas,

I'm senior Steve, hello.

Isabella.

Isabella?

Isabella, lovely.

Just, just up the stairs here.

Excuse us.

You'll be very comfortable.

Bonjourno.

Like Buckingham Palace.

[Laughs] Well not exactly,

- but it's very nice. - You're like the queen.

Alison saw sharp in Brixton.

Yeah,

and big surprise, he's not on the electoral register.

No, he'll be going under an assumed name.

That's why we're gonna have to track him

through his work.

Well, you know, he studied web design when he was inside

and then he freelanced for about a dozen web agencies

in north London before he disappeared.

Well, he'd still have to earn a living after,

so, all right.

Why don't we contact all the agencies around Brixton

and get names of all the new freelancers

they took on after may 2009?

Oh, what a slog,

I mean surely some of hooper's notes

could help us find sharp?

Well, you're welcome to another troll,

but I drew a blank.

Um, sorry to disappoint you

but these aren't the hooper's notes.

It's all about bones.

Oh.

I must have picked up Fiona's notebook this morning

by mistake.

Yep, look, here's hooper's book.

See?

Exactly the same.

[Keyboard clicks]

They're not exactly the same.

Hooper's book has fewer pages.

[Tense music]

That's a Russian cousin.

It's one of the great rarities of philately.

There are only 12 examples in the world.

If your man has one, it would be a sensation.

Are they really worth £40,000?

The last one to come to auction went for £48,300

but there are so many factors.

It's not just the stamp.

It's a story too.

You know, the cousin's history.

It's a commemorative stamp created in 1908

by Nicholas the second of Russia,

to Mark the state visit of his nephew

and our king, Edward the seventh.

As you can see, it features a map of Great Britain.

It was a special issue.

So only 100,000 were printed

and delivered to postmasters in St. Petersburg,

where just half an hour later

a beady eyed cartographer

noticed that the map was incomplete.

No Ireland in this version of the United Kingdom.

Nicholas went crazy

and the stamps were immediately withdrawn

and destroyed.

Our guy said that his grandfather swapped the stamp

with a Russian soldier,

for a packet of cigarettes,

when they demobbed in Paris in 1918.

So the story gets better again.

£48,000 is a guide price on the open market,

but a serious collector

might pay double in a private sale.

To avoid being outbid at auction?

If a genuine collector

has set his heart on a particular stamp,

the price can go anywhere.

Was your owner robbed deliberately?

Perhaps,

I'm not sure he knew what he was sitting on.

Because a cousin did surface briefly

in the late summer of 2011.

We were approached by an anonymous vendor.

I confirmed the stamp was genuine, offered to sell it,

but never heard from the vendor again.

Who was it?

I never knew.

I was telephoned

and asked to wait at a cafe in Paddington.

When I got there, an old woman showed me the cousin.

Then I got another phone call.

Can you describe the old woman?

I'm sure she wasn't part of it.

Just a proxy.

And the other phone call?

I was told I was being watched

and asked to authenticate the stamp.

Right there

and then?

On your own in the cafe?

I said that it would be difficult

but I knew straight away it was genuine.

And that it was stolen?

So you reported it to the police?

I didn't know for certain.

You didn't care,

you wanted the business.

What happened to the stamp?

I imagine the vendor put word out

and achieved a private sale.

I'm gonna need a list of any collector

that you think might've been in the market

for a stamp like that.

That's confidential.

I'm sure we can come to some understanding.

[Tense music]

Yeah.

There are 36 pages fewer in this one

than in Fiona's.

Barely visible,

but they've been very deliberately removed.

Look, hooper was meticulous about security.

You know, could be he just removed those pages

as he went along,

as they were no longer relevant.

Well, Alison downing was still relevant?

There's only one mention of ad.

And there's none at all of sharp.

No, this notebook is all about bw.

Warnock.

Well perhaps he had more than one book on the go.

You know, the one we're working from is about the stamp,

and then he had another one

that was all to do with his search for sharp.

Yeah,

but it doesn't explain the missing pages.

Think of the implication,

if this notebook has been tampered with.

Well you knock yourself out chasing hypotheticals.

I've got to go

and visit warnock's local Nick

to talk about household robberies.

[Phone rings]

Yeah, yeah.

No, I haven't done anything at all.

Is that it?

Yeah.

Okay.

Bye.

Oh god.

He's really winding me up.

This has nothing to do with the cost of insurance,

has it?

There's this heart defect thing that runs in my family.

It's not important.

No, heart defects are very trivial.

There's always been a chance that I would inherit it

but it's never shown up on a medical.

So I've just got on with my life.

But now?

But now they've developed a super sophisticated test

and I don't want to take it.

Ted, if you have this thing you must find out.

What if it kills you?

God, you are a miserable git.

Was, a miserable git, yes.

For years, frightened of life, love, loss.

Look, I don't care what you do, Ted,

but please, don't give up the chance to be happy.

What's this?

Quotes from the little book of bollocks?

It's not what I need.

At our age we should enjoy every moment.

Squeeze the last drop of juice from the lemon.

And don't waste time feeling trapped by uncertainty

and fear.

Look, bollocks or not, Ted,

this is making you unhappy.

No, what's making me unhappy

is pat being such a pain

telling me I'm like an ostrich sticking my head in the sand.

Actually that's a myth,

the ostrich couldn't breathe

but they do dig holes for their eggs.

What?

It doesn't matter.

Just book the doctor

and put pat out of your misery.

Take the test.

Simple as that.

It's not about the test.

It's about showing you care for him

as much as he does for you.

Right.

Okay.

If they find I have a heart problem

and they bump up my premiums,

I'll be hitting you up for a contribution.

[Knocks]

[Steve] Do you ever collect anything?

Parking tickets, debts, bad jokes.

I spent a whole summer once when I was a kid

collecting butterflies.

Every hour in a field, some woods,

I was obsessed.

You are full of surprises.

Orange tips, purple hair streaks,

even caught a chequered skipper once.

Had to go all the way to lochaber for that one.

Oh, I'm sure it was worth it.

Made a display case.

Thing of beauty.

Gave it to Susan Brennan.

Ohh, every girl's dream, dead insects.

No, no, she was mad for botany,

and so pretty.

She'd let you kiss her, too,

if you were nice to her.

Proper ones, mind.

French.

You traded your whole summer's work for a kiss?

Still taste her lips on mine.

Oh please, let's not go there.

God, it was worth every minute of it.

All right, enough.

Right, back on planet police.

We've got artists, financier's, politicians

and pop stars on the list.

Are we certain it was warnock's stamp

that was up for sale?

12 in the world,

and one appears months after his goes missing.

You know, all this cloak

and dagger stuff at Paddington.

It sounds like a professional job to me.

Yeah, it could be

but maybe warnock bragged about the stamp

once too often down the pub

and got targeted.

Well if it was that valuable

in the hands of career criminals,

hooper could have got killed just trying to retrieve it.

Hmm.

We need to identify who this mystery vendor is.

Our best hope of doing that is try

and find out who he tried to sell to.

Well we can't just call people up

and ask them to admit to negotiating to buy stolen goods.

Need to find another way to smoke them out.

Welcome to our sale of specialised great British stamps.

We're proud to have assembled such an exciting catalogue.

So let's start with the opening lot.

This is an 1870 halfpenny, Scarlet emperor.

Very fine, unmounted, og.

Who will open at £100?

100, thank you.

150?

150.

Just heard an amazing rumour.

See that lady standing back there?

No, don't look.

Don't have to draw attention.

[Auctioneer] 350, thank you.

She's representing somebody

who's got a Russian cousin for sale.

I know.

Too good to be true, really.

She gave me her number.

I don't know whether to take it seriously or not.

May I?

Here, be my guest.

[Auctioneer] Next up, we have a one shilling green, 1854.

Very fine

and fresh.

Our og example.

Very fine

and fresh, og example.

Letter jg slightly off centre.

I know someone who's got a Russian cousin for sale.

[Auctioneer] £400, £400?

Cool.

Bet it's a fake though.

What makes you say that?

You're too foxy to be real.

I don't like being hustled.

[Auctioneer] 800, £800 now with you, sir.

800.

1,200 anywhere?

1,200 thank you.

Your profiling's miles off, he's not our sort of customer.

Watch

and learn.

[Auctioneer] 1,400, fair warning at £1400.

[Gavel bangs]

Sold at £1,400, paddle 204.

Lot 71 looks interesting, here.

1864 two shilling moffat.

Think it'll go for 14,000?

Man just like you,

you'd probably buy it before it came to auction,

I mean private market's the way to go, isn't it?

Get some real gems that way.

What would you say

if I told you I had a beautiful Russian cousin for sale?

It's got your interest.

Got a number here...

- Sorry. - What?

You need to come with us.

What do you mean?

Hang on a second.

Just wait a minute.

I'm just talking to the guy.

[Man] This way, please.

[Auctioneer] Thank you, 80?

80, thank you, sir.

80 with you.

80

And 90 anywhere?

He probably thought you're a sex trafficker.

[Laughs]

Just trying to talk to the guy.

These billionaires are so bloody imperious.

So what happens now?

We keep following the cousin.

Who stole it.

Who sold it.

Who bought it.

Yeah, the stunt we pulled at the auction house

should help us smoke out serious buyers,

- and... - Oh Steve,

you've had a few messages from your Italians.

They want you to buy some new stuff for the flat.

[Steve] Oh, you're kidding.

Well it's not as well equipped

as it looked in the photos, apparently,

and the decor's not to their taste.

They're only staying there for two nights,

no one asked them to marry the place.

They can deal with what they've got.

Back in the real world, where a man was stabbed,

our theory about a gang

having hit warnock's house for the stamp, isn't holding.

I spoke to the local police.

They tell me there was a spate of robberies in the area

in the summer of '09,

all linked to this kid.

A one man crime wave called Darren gecks.

According to the local guys, it's more

or less certain that gecks turned over warnock's house.

Great, go

and talk to him.

Find out what he did with the stamp.

Well the bad news is that Darren died in an rta.

Sad loss to the community,

but the good news is

he fenced everything he stole through a pawn shop in Camden.

So I'm gonna have a little stroll over there right now.

Okay.

Dan, how'd you get on with Jason sharp?

Well, I put out a fresh alert for him

and I'm building a list of freelancers

in design agencies around Brixton.

There must be a quicker way.

What about the notebook?

Anything in there that might help us out?

Zilch.

And I'm beginning to think that whoever sent it in

deliberately deleted certain bits of information.

- Why would they do that? - [Phone rings]

Well, to make us focus on the stamp rather than sharp?

Well that's a bit of a leap, isn't it?

Whoever sent it to us

wants us to clear up a murder.

No, no,

it's definitely someone involved in the case.

Mm-hmm, yeah I have the stamp,

but before we waste our breath let's establish a ballpark.

It's a genuine Russian cousin, certified by spink's.

I'm looking for 100k.

Then we've got nothing to talk about.

Treat them mean, keep them keen.

Mm, no wonder you're such a hit on the dating scene.

[Phone rings]

Hello?

[Isabella] Your house is very nice Mr. Stevie,

but there are some

- important things missing. - Yeah, Isabella, look.

- There is no... - No, I'm not buying

anything else for the flat.

[Isabella] And wireless speakers,

por le musica.

[Phone slams]

No, hang on,

she just said "le musica",

it's "la musica".

Can we just get back to the notebook.

Look, Isabella.

Ah.

Oh, sorry.

Oh, you are interested?

I see.

What, right away?

Let me get your details.

John Hartwell invented a smart phone app

when he was a teenager, netted him 15 million.

So 100 grand for a stamp's chump change.

He's just turned 30,

he's now worth over 90 million.

Bet you he's not happy though.

[Tense music]

[John scoffs]

Show them out again,

I don't want to talk to these two.

You invited us.

And in the time it took you to get here,

I found out that the phone I called you on

is registered to the police.

The ip was transmitted from a station near embankment.

I'm dci Sasha Miller.

This is Steve mcandrew.

Do you have a stamp for sale?

In which case, farewell.

You refusing to help us with an inquiry?

No?

Pretty sure what you just did, was entrapment.

We got off on the wrong foot.

We're just trying to find out

if you ever heard of a stamp for sale.

A Russian cousin in 2011?

Is that why you went through this whole charade?

You were very quick to call us.

If you were that keen today,

you must have been very keen in 2011.

[Sasha] Did you need the stamp to finish the set?

Look, you can never be sure if you're being scammed

but I did speak to someone back then

who claimed to have one.

We even arranged a viewing,

but he never got back in touch.

Why not?

I was too slow, probably already sold it.

Who did you speak to?

I dunno, fraud man?

And what was his number?

He called me.

I never had a number.

The ID was hidden, I couldn't trace it.

Okay.

Take us through from the start.

Word was on the grapevine that there was a cousin.

I let him know that I was extremely interested.

He got back in touch.

And what did he say?

We talked about the stamp,

arranged to meet a few days later

but he never got in touch again.

What date was this?

October the 20th, 2011.

That's very precise.

Yeah, I took the call when I was laying flowers

on my mother's grave.

The anniversary of her death.

Everything fits around the stamp

warnock's house was burgled in July.

In August, he employs hooper to find the stamp.

Early October,

spink's authenticate it for a mystery vendor in Paddington.

The 20th of October,

the vendor contacts our app millionaire, Hartwell.

They arrange a meeting,

two days later, hooper is dead.

The vendor never contacts Hartwell again.

Either cause he sold the stamp to someone else

or he's laying low

cause he's killed a private detective who's onto him.

More important than ever

that we find out who stole this stamp.

It was Darren gecks.

He turned over warnock's house, stole the stamp,

didn't know what he had, sold it

and everything else he'd got

at the usual pawn shop in Camden.

100 quid, job lot.

You sure about this?

Yeah, straight from the pawn shop manager.

He also confirmed

that hooper bought the stamp from him the same day.

Hooper.

Yup.

Recognised him straight away from the picture.

I mean he's a handsome sod,

not their usual class of customer.

And it fits the timeline.

Hooper definitely withdrew 200 quid from the atm

right across the street from the pawn shop that day,

October the third.

To pay for the stamp.

This is brilliant.

So if hooper has the stamp on October the third,

is he our mystery vendor?

He's got to be.

And now he's trying to cheat his client, warnock.

This opens the whole case.

So if hooper was trying to sell the stamp,

could somebody have killed him rather than buy it?

Hartwell?

100k's a drop in the ocean for him.

We need to find out who else hooper talked to.

We're still forgetting about Jason sharp.

Now, I finished talking to the design firms

and I've drawn up a list of freelancers.

I'm gonna show it to downing,

see if she recognises a name.

And we should talk to warnock.

If he found out hooper was swindling him...

No, warnock has an alibi.

Maybe not.

He says that he was at a cancer support meeting

but it turns out that all the five other members

who were there on that night have subsequently died.

Well it's hardly his fault.

Means there's no one left to corroborate.

And he didn't tell us he's dying.

The guy was having chemo.

I doubt he had the strength to stab a sausage,

nevermind hooper.

It's still worth asking.

[Steve] Okay.

He found my stamp

and he was trying to flog it?

That's outrageous.

Did you ever go to his office?

Only the first time.

Then he came to work

or here.

Maybe in a cafe once in Paddington.

Can you just confirm the alibi statement you gave us?

I was in the support meeting.

Talk to Paul, he's a cracking lad.

He keeps records.

Paul, the group leader?

He died, I'm afraid.

No.

So have the other people who were there with you.

Oh god.

Is there anyone else who would have seen you there?

Hang on a minute,

don't you believe me?

Checking alibi's is a formality,

- not... - Have you ever had chemo?

Barely had the energy to get out of bed

and face the world,

- and you think that i... - Sorry pal,

- we didn't mean to offend... - If you were my pal,

you'd find my stamp.

Not come around here

and tell me that my friends are dead

as easily as chatting about the weather.

You were friends,

but you didn't know?

Sometimes you need a bit of distance.

You easily tyre of going to funerals.

You're dying, aren't you, Barry?

[Sighs] I really thought I'd beat it.

I was in remission for two years.

But it came back.

Now it's all over me.

Why didn't you tell us?

Because that's not who I am.

The bloke who's dying of cancer.

That's who I am.

[Soft music]

Sticky toffee

or chocolate chilli?

We're road testing new flavours.

Love to know which you prefer.

Well, it's a tough job,

but someone's got to do it.

Have a peak at this.

Right.

What am I looking for?

We need to talk to Jason.

If you do find him,

don't tell him I had anything to do with this.

I never want to see him again.

Don't you want your money back?

He's welcome to it.

As long as he stays out of my life.

He's changed his name.

These are the names

and addresses of all the freelance website designers

in the Brixton area.

Any of them jump out at you,

as an alias he might use?

Favourite football player?

- Film star, musician? - [Dan moans]

No, it could be a password, name of a pet,

somewhere he grew up?

Well I wish I could help.

Maybe I could hold onto the list.

[Ted] Of course.

You know, I think I prefer the chilli.

[Alison] Paradise hill?

Yes.

Number 33, Pete Smith.

Do you know him?

I know a paradise hill, I think.

We went to a party there once.

You think?

Me and Jason had row outside.

I can't remember why,

but he was right up in my face as usual.

So number 33 could be a friend's house, perhaps.

I dunno,

but it's one of those things that sticks with you, you know?

I was so upset.

I was in hell,

but we were standing in paradise.

[Knocks on door]

Yep.

Is Pete home?

Who's asking?

[Soft music]

Sharp lived there for three years.

The woman we just met is dita Khan.

Sharp turned up on dita's doorstep in '09.

Spun her a great big lie

about there being bad men after him,

and how he needed to change his name.

She took him in?

Yeah, it was all happy families

until dita mentioned marriage.

And then sharp legged it.

This is proper.

We know his alias

and where he was living.

Oh, it gets better.

Hooper visited dita

and asked exactly the same questions as us

in September 2011.

Only weeks after sharp had gone.

Well, the trail would still be fresh,

hooper must've found him.

Told Alison he had found him.

Right, we need to make another list.

Every Pete Smith in the country.

Oh god, there's gonna be thousands.

Well, if hooper caught up with him, you can too.

Sorry I'm late, I have been working.

Ahh.

[Keys jingle]

You know what this is?

This is hooper's safety deposit box key.

No, the previous team explored that ages ago.

Yeah, they didn't know about Paddington

which is where I've just been.

And they didn't know

that hooper used to use this cafe for his meetings.

That's also where he met warnock

and where he arranged

for the woman from spink's to see the stamp.

That's right, which is very valuable,

not the sort of thing you'd want to cart around.

So you'd keep it somewhere safe, nearby.

[Lock clanks]

[Keys jingle]

[Light flicker]

What do we think we'll find?

All hooper's secrets?

Tiny bit of Russia, maybe.

I'd be pleased for warnock.

[Steve sighs]

Right, we need to find records for this box.

Everyone who's accessed it.

[Tense music]

[Phone rings]

Hello.

There are over 10,000 Peter smiths in the UK,

but only 3000 of them in sharp's age range,

and of those,

only 217 have moved into properties since 2011.

Now, 32 of those are in London.

I circulated the details to other forces,

but I am gonna need an extra pair of feet

to help me knock on the doors of these 32.

Well, we've got a big, fat, nothing here.

Ted's back at the office.

Get him to join you

and we'll catch up later.

[Steve's phone rings]

Steve mcandrew's phone.

[Isabella] Hello Mr. Stevie.

Oh hi, Isabella.

[Sasha speaks Italian]

[Isabella] We are waiting for him to arrive.

No, he's not here.

Do you not understand?

You just missed Isabella.

What'd she want this time?

[Sasha] No idea,

but she didn't seem to understand what I was saying.

Probably your accent.

There's nothing wrong with my accent.

What have you got for me?

Hooper's box's last access,

on the 15th of may 2012.

Six months after he was killed?

It's a simple key holder account.

If you turn up, like we did with a key today, you're in.

Do they have details for this person in may?

No,

but there's cctv.

[Tense music]

Turn around.

It's like he doesn't want to be seen.

[Tense music]

[John laughs]

It isn't me.

Don't waste our time.

If it's may, then I'm in Ibiza,

I go there every year.

Do we really have to do this?

We can check flight manifests, your credit card statements.

Let's not bother.

I have places I need to be, okay?

It's me.

Hooper had something of mine.

He died.

I went to go fetch it.

The Russian stamp from his box.

I can see why you made detective.

But before you get overexcited,

I didn't kill him.

Well, let's see about that, shall we?

I'd already paid him 70 grand.

It was as much as I could get my hands on.

It was a deposit?

Yeah.

Like I said, he never showed up for the balance

and the exchange.

That is not what you said.

I assumed he'd done a runner.

Next thing I hear he's dead.

But you didn't go to the police.

Well I'd already paid him for the stamp.

But I knew it wasn't his.

If you're a mob get involved,

you'd just make a fuss.

What, like return it to it's rightful owner?

How'd you get the key?

I finished the deal with his missus.

[Sasha] Carmen?

That's the one.

Pretty.

Had it all going on.

I gave her the other 70,

she gave me the key,

everyone's a winner.

Where's the stamp now?

I lost it. [Laughs]

I can't find it anywhere.

I will get a warrant

and search your property.

I've got 10 of them, darling.

Hundreds of thousands of square feet.

But that little stamp is just so damn small.

I don't think anyone's ever gonna find it.

Hmm.

I'm not sure why you're smiling.

You've just admitted to buying stolen goods.

Thinks he can buy his way out of trouble

and keep his stamp.

He's wrong.

[Tense music]

I didn't kill him.

Let's do this at the station.

No, my children are upstairs.

Well then you better start telling the truth.

You've got 90 seconds.

How come you had a key to his deposit box?

I used to work for him.

[Sasha scoffs]

This gets better

and better.

He'd give me a picture of a cheating husband

and a bar to sit in.

I'd let nature take its course.

A honey trap?

It was a kiss

and a cuddle at most.

Just enough for Dave to get a photo.

Doesn't explain the key.

I had a key of my own.

Why would he trust you with that?

I thought you hardly knew him.

I loved him.

We were a proper couple.

So all that stuff

about you two just fooling around

was lies?

I adore my husband,

and he has given me so much.

But with Dave, it was the real thing.

You're breaking my heart.

I knew about the deal with Hartwell.

After Dave died, I waited for things to calm down

and then I contacted Hartwell.

Out of pure kindness.

What was I gonna do with the stamp?

What, just let it sit there?

You got paid 70 grand just for closing the deal.

It's not bad for a day's work.

Okay, I'm not proud of what I did,

but I had nothing.

No money, no future.

My man was dead.

And that makes stealing all right?

That 70 grand changed my life.

It paved the way for everything that's good

that has happened since.

And what about the other 70 grand

that Hartwell had already paid.

I don't know.

Time's up.

You've failed.

We're going down the station.

Okay.

I took it.

And?

Well I'm telling the truth.

No.

Let me tell you what happened.

You killed hooper.

You stole the key.

You sold the stamp.

You pocketed 140 grand.

You had motive, means

and opportunity.

Now I'm gonna crawl through every little detail

of your grubby life until I prove it.

It was Jason sharp.

The con man who ran off with his girlfriend's money.

Dave found him.

He wanted money for his silence.

It was the thing he did.

I always told him it was a dangerous game.

So what happened?

Sharp wanted time to find the cash.

12 hours later, Dave was dead.

It was sharp.

Please, believe me.

I am not a bad person.

[Soft music]

[Dan] Well, he was out of the country.

- Yeah. - And he was

- already serving time. - Yeah.

You got her in custody?

We're double checking her alibi.

She lied,

but she's not our murderer.

We need to find sharp, today.

Well, we've already covered

all nine Pete Smith addresses in south London

and six of the 14 in west.

Right, well me

and Steve will do north

and east.

Now this man is potentially very dangerous

and liable to run.

Don't knock direct.

Talk to neighbours.

If you get a verification, call for backup, okay?

I don't believe it.

What's going on?

It's from my neighbour,

there's a white Van turned up outside my flat.

It's blocking the alley.

I don't understand.

Travelling light,

doesn't understand Italian,

white Van.

They're robbing the place.

I'll catch up with you later.

[Sasha sighs]

[Tense music]

[Knocks]

[Tense music]

[Woman] Never heard of him.

Okay, thanks anyway.

[Shoes clang on staircase]

Stealing my stuff

and my bag.

That's classy.

Uh, que?

Sorry Mr. Stevie, non comprende.

What have you got in the bag there, Isabella?

We very late for a meeting,

we will call you later.

Let's just have a look, eh?

Oh, that's very interesting.

Get out of the way, old man,

or we will hurt you.

You know, I'm an ex police officer.

I've got a couple of friends here

who want to say hello to you.

[Isabella sighs]

Bellisimo, eh?

[Steve sighs]

Did you get there in time?

They've been pulling that stunt

all over London for months apparently.

Blimey Steve, you rented your flat out

to some proper criminals.

I should have known.

If something seems too good to be true

it means it usually is.

Thank god for the nosy bisum next door.

Curtaintwitcher24/7.com?

Yeah, I've got one of those.

Ahh, you know, I just thought,

you know, have a few laughs, go with the flow.

Was always a bit of a sucker for beauty

and fun.

I mean it's who I am.

Well, who I used to be anyway.

Don't beat yourself up,

you got away with it.

Just live

and learn.

- I nearly lost everything. - Yeah,

but you didn't

and you could always claim on insurance.

Well.

Oh, don't tell me.

You let you flat without insurance.

Well I'm not properly insured at the moment,

not for the high end stuff, anyway.

[Sasha sighs]

Christ, I'm like warnock

and his stamp.

[Steve chuckles]

Look, I don't want to pry, Steve,

but.

Well look, it's nothing melodramatic, okay?

There's been no gambling, drink, loose women, sadly.

Just been spending a bit more than I earned

for quite a long period of time.

Well, if it's money that you need.

I can always...

Let's just carry on looking for sharp, okay?

Just a second.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

We're so involved with this man hunt,

we're missing the point.

If sharp killed hooper,

and got away with it,

why send us a notebook

that kick starts the investigation again?

We don't know who sent the notebook.

We get anonymous tip offs the whole time.

This isn't anonymous.

It's really specific.

A notebook from the scene of the crime

that makes us re-examine a case.

Sharp has got nothing to gain,

nor Carmen,

or our multimillionaire Hartwell.

They all got away with their crimes.

Shit.

What?

It's warnock.

No, that would be crazy.

To reopen a case of someone that you murdered.

He's dying.

He got nothing to lose, everything to gain.

Okay, let's say you're right,

and he did this whole thing to make us find his stamp.

We still don't have any evidence at all.

We'll have to outsmart him then.

How are you getting on with sharp?

Like digging for treasure with a toothpick.

We're never gonna find him.

Stand down for a bit.

We've got a better idea.

Once upon a time

hooper's notebook must've had sharp's address in.

Hooper tracked him down, went to see him.

Yeah,

but some of the pages had been removed

before it was sent to us, yeah?

Now, if warnock removed them

I bet he knows the address.

You're gonna use warnock to lead us to sharp?

If he does, it's as good as a confession.

[Tense music]

[Knocks on door]

[Barry] How can I help you?

Oh, please don't worry Barry.

We're just here on a social call.

[Door creaks]

We just wanted to bring you up to speed.

Between you

and me,

we're not getting anywhere on the murder.

We probably never will,

it's the perfect crime.

In some cases, you just have to admit you're beat

and move on.

But we were both really struck by your story

and how awful to lose your granddad's diaries,

and that stamp.

I've long given up hope of finding those.

Well, life's been tough, eh?

What can you do?

You play with the cards you're dealt.

But you've got your family to think of,

and we really wanted to get that stamp for you.

I'll do anything I can to help.

Well, a bloke called sharp has got it.

He's a runaway.

These days, he goes by the name of Peter Smith.

Now, hooper's girlfriend admits selling him the stamp.

Now we could get it back tonight,

if we just knew where this sharp lived.

Hooper found him, we've got his notebook,

we assumed that he'd written the address in there,

but it turns out the notebook's incomplete.

Just wondered if you'd ever heard hooper mention the guy?

Why would he do that?

Oh, just something in passing,

something that might have seemed

a bit insignificant at the time.

I wish I could help.

Okay, well it was worth a shout.

Yeah.

[Sasha] Sorry to bother you.

Is that it?

I'm not gonna lie to you, Barry.

This is probably the end of the road for the stamp.

It's not relevant to the investigation

and we just don't have the resources to pursue it.

Sorry, pal.

[Soft music]

[Barry sighs]

[Car doors slam]

He played us, now we're playing him.

So what're we gonna do?

Just sit here?

Some of us used to have homes to go to.

If he wants that stamp

so badly he was prepared to kill for it,

this won't take long.

Well, I feel sorry for him.

You've got nothing.

It's a decent guy in a low paid job, with cancer

and a couple of kids.

He loves the distraction.

Can't blame him for sticking one

in the guy who stole his stamp.

It was still murder, Steve.

Yeah, I know,

but.

God, if somebody stole 40 grand off me right now, I.

Do you know, I've got to sell my flat.

I've been tinkering about with the problem for too long.

I made lifestyle changes.

Cut corners, made savings.

I'm not even touching the debts.

Well you'd make a mint.

Property prices these days?

You'd still be Steve.

Natty dresser.

Well, sort of.

[Steve scoffs]

With an eye for the ladies

and a gift for the gab.

[Laughs] Oh yeah.

And all your own hair

and teeth.

That is very important

and very handsome.

According to certain deluded members of my tribe.

Hey, less of the deluded if you don't mind.

[Steve laughs]

Damn it, you know, I've just got to sell by flat.

Here he is.

Better call for back up.

[Car engine rumbles]

[Tense music]

Look, he's slowing down.

Think he's turning off?

[Tense music]

[Car door slams]

[Footsteps echo]

Can't wait, warnock's probably carrying.

[Car doors slam]

[Knocks on door]

[Footsteps echo]

[Knocks on door]

[Footsteps echo]

[Tense music]

Pete Smith?

I believe you've got something of mine.

[Pete] You what?

Hi Barry,

do you wanna empty your pockets

before you have your little chat?

Give me that, give me.

[Pete] Hey, what you doing?

Don't do that.

- What am I meant to have done? - Shut up.

[Soft music strains]

[Barry coughs]

Sorry about this, Barry.

Nobody wanted it to be you.

I don't know why I'm here.

This is cruel.

I'm a dying man.

Let's get this over quickly then.

Has that bloke Smith got my stamp?

No,

but we know where it is

and we can get it for you,

if you cooperate

and tell us how you killed Dave hooper.

We know that you won't last long enough to stand trial

but if you help us now,

we'll ensure that your family get that stamp

as soon as possible.

It's long gone.

It's probably locked in a private collection

on the other side of the world by now.

Yeah, it could have been

for all the luck you've had tracking it down.

Which is why you sent us the notebook.

So we'd pick up the trail for you.

You knew that hooper had got hold of the stamp.

You went to his office.

You didn't mean to kill him.

You just wanted what was yours.

You were having chemo at the time, could hardly walk.

You tried to reason with him

but hooper wasn't a reasonable man.

You argued, you wound up stabbing him,

you ransacked his office,

you took his phones,

you took his notebooks.

Anything that would help your search.

That was an added bonus

because without his stuff

the police would never connect you to hooper.

How are we doing, pal?

The stamp was my rainy day money.

As soon as I needed it the most, it was nicked.

By a kid who then fenced it in Camden.

We know everything, Barry.

If you just help us just close this off right now,

I promise you,

we will get you your stamp back pronto.

We could be talking 100k on the private market.

Gemma could go to university for an entire decade.

[Barry breathes heavily]

Hooper was a louse.

Shit wrapped in skin.

He lied

and cheated.

I killed him.

[Tense music]

[Door opens]

Did you get a full confession?

Signed

- and sealed. - [Phone buzzes]

[Steve] Whoa, that's brilliant.

Good news?

Yeah, I've got another load of bookings for the flat.

What?

I thought you were selling it?

Yes, you don't want people invading your home.

Yeah,

but this is 10 weeks worth.

That's a bucket load of cold, hard cash.

You're gonna rent it out again,

after everything that happened?

Thing is Ted, i'm desperate for that money.

I mean, I just, you know.

That's why I haven't been going out for meals

or buying a round at the bar.

I mean, I've just been strolling this world for decades.

Got nothing to show for it.

Well I'm sure we can all help with that.

Hey, no, no.

There's no magic bullet.

Are those Alison's famous cupcakes?

They certainly are.

Has anyone told her that we found Jason?

Mm-hmm.

She doesn't want to press charges over the money he took.

Or let him know that she helped us find him.

Well, if she wants nothing to do with him,

she has nothing

but my respect.

I told her if he ever makes contact,

she calls us straight away.

Do look gorgeous, though.

Oh, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

[Laughs]

I've eaten one,

so that means I've got to finish the lot.

Oh don't tell me another one of your superstitions.

Ted, you can't eat all those.

You'll have a heart attack.

No, I won't.

The tests are back.

I'm in the clear.

So thank you.

Seriously?

Yeah, a big load off my mind.

Brilliant.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

You've told me to be happy,

so that's what I'm doing.

This is me, squeezing the lemon.

[Upbeat music]

Pat, what a lovely surprise.

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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 ♪

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