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Is this where he died? How did he get here?

We're making enquiries about a man called Mike greenholme.

Chris, he's got that sexy, knackered look.

You're marrying a drug dealer.

He looks after me.

What's up with Gill?

She's drinking at work.

Thing is, Janet, this is something we can't ignore.

[Car speeding away]

[Crashing]

Mr pritchard? I think he's dead.

My mother's dead.

Gill: We've just found three men locked up

in a shed at the pritchard place.

Shaved heads, overalls, same as Mike greenholme.

We'll be arresting her on suspicion of

forced labour and false imprisonment.

I am very sorry to inform you that your husband is dead.

You've killed him! [Cup shatters]

Know where des is? Who's des?

Yeah, who the hell's des?

Are we looking for another body?

I'm sitting in to find out where you're up to

so I can assess the best approach for this investigation.

I want to arrest Evie pritchard.

On suspicion of?

I think she's keeping slaves.

We can't prove it yet. We can prove false imprisonment. Arrest her.

Are you sure you want to do that today? Her husband died today.

Separate thing.

We're under investigation for it.

The pritchards had three men locked up

in a shed, in appalling conditions.

They were living like animals.

If I was Evie, I'd say none of that had anything to do with me.

I'd say my nasty brute of a husband

who's now conveniently dead kept them in there.

We've got what Sandy said to us.

Could you tell us a bit more about Mike and des?

Are they in trouble? No.

I'm not, am I?

Not at all, no.

I thought I'd been in trouble.

No.

Well, well, well...

Mike and des live in the caravan and we live in the shed.

Mike did...

Mike didn't mind the shed.

Des come in and said, "I'm not living in this."

Went on and on till they put him in the caravan.

Mike said he should be in the caravan, he was the first.

So they both went in there.

Mike was the first?

He's been at Evie's longest.

How long?

Long time.

I've been living at Evie's a long time. Mike was there before me.

Do you work at Evie's?

Work at Evie's, yeah.

Who burned the caravan?

We don't know.

I smelt it last night, burning smell.

Tell me about the work that you do at Evie's.

All sorts.

What do you get paid?

Never talk about money or politics.

[Both chuckling]

You can tell us.

Well, well, well... Thirty pound on a Friday.

Then I buy me drinks and smokes and that.

Where do you buy them?

Off of Evie.

Can he leave? Is he free to leave that farm?

He says he doesn't want to.

She's like a mum to me, is Evie.

Don't tell, but I'm her favourite.

So why aren't you in the caravan then?

Well, well, well...

Squeaky wheel gets the oil.

Des? Yeah.

You say you smelt the caravan burn.

You didn't see anything because you were

in the shed. Did you hear anything?

Bang.

You heard a bang?

Cal's got a gun, I've seen it.

When have you seen it?

If he's annoyed at us, he waves it about.

Says he'll bang it.

He's not a bad man, Cal, not bad.

How reliable do you think Sandy is?

I don't know.

Is he aware Mike's dead and Cal's dead?

Our policy with getting his first account was not to tell him.

We will, obviously.

Have you found a gun? No.

A gun didn't show up when you did a background, did it?

No gun licence, no. Mmm.

What about the other two in the shed with Sandy?

Well, they also have learning difficulties.

They're less lucid, more vulnerable.

All the men are alcohol-dependent.

Social services are looking after him. Want them to have more time.

Do we know who they are?

First names, according to Sandy.

Not confirmed.

How long they've been there?

Sandy's very hazy on dates.

It's possible Mike greenholme's been up the pritchard's

since he left his family 15 years ago.

Half an hour up the road.

Is that possible?

What about des?

So far no idea.

Mmm.

Okay, my assessment is it's two investigations.

Forced labour, which is what this is looking like,

five victims, at least, by the sound of it,

murder investigation into the death of Mike greenholme.

Nothing conclusively links the two.

I disagree. Sandy's saying that des was

unhappy with the living arrangements,

which is why he's ended up in his caravan.

The living arrangements are tied up with

the working conditions, forced labour.

Des shared the caravan with Mike.

Mike is dead, murdered. Des is missing, possibly because he's dead.

Possibly because he whacked Mike on the head

and then legged it, which still links the two.

The caravan's been destroyed.

Cal pritchard, who's in charge of these men,

owns them or whatever, did a run for it when we turned up

asking questions about Mike,

possibly in order to ditch a murder weapon.

Baseball bat's still at the lab.

It's one investigation.

Let's get results on the baseball bat before talking to Evie.

If we don't arrest her, she won't talk to us.

She'll walk out of here. She's up to her eyes.

The only person who could have cleaned the blood

off the ground at the farm is Evie.

And the other three were locked in a shed.

Why would she have done that unless

she thought it was incriminating?

[Sighs] There's so much we don't know.

We don't even know Mike sustained his fatal injury at the farm.

His body was found on the moors.

We need background on Evie pritchard,

Cal pritchard, farm finances, these men...

If this is one investigation...

It is.

It's a massive one. Sprawling. Multi-agency.

We need to be talking to serious and organised crime,

human trafficking centre, social services...

Totally agreed. Bring it on.

We need to gather ourselves.

We don't want Evie to gather herself. She's a suspect.

I want to arrest her and talk to her now while it's hot.

Okay, mrs pritchard, if you'd like to follow us.

Scrawny cow. Look at you, you're a bag of bones.

Huh. You're not getting it?

Is that what you're so miserable, huh?

Bet you haven't had a jump in years.

Who'd want it? You're like shagging a ladder.

Who ate all the pies, eh? Fat baldie slaphead. Eh?

Bet you can't see your dick. It's lost in all that flab, isn't it?

Would you do her? Yeah?

No, you're not getting it either, are you?

You want to be treated with respect? Yeah?

So do I.

When you first spoke to my colleagues you said

you didn't know Mike greenholme, and you said the same to me.

I don't.

We've been told that he not only

worked but he also lived at your farm

by another man who says he works and lives at your farm.

Would you like to tell us anything about that?

No.

And the man who told us that was one of three men

that we found locked in a shed at your farm.

Do you know anything about that? No.

Well, those three men all wore overalls and had shaved heads,

same as Mike greenholme.

Who's watching?

The senior investigating officer.

Likes to watch, does he?

Hello.

Mike greenholme's been found dead.

Would you like to tell us anything about that?

You've been talking to Sandy, haven't you?

Anything Sandy said is rubbish. He's a fantasy man.

What's your relationship with Sandy?

Shit off!

Is he employed by you, mrs pritchard?

[Imitating] "Is he employed by you, mrs pritchard?"

Cheeky bitch!

The fire services were called to the farm last night

because a caravan was on fire.

Could you tell me about last night?

Last night I had a husband.

I have nothing else to say to these people. No comment.

Evie says "no".

If you charge her, you won't be able to

ask her any of those questions again.

Let's charge her with false imprisonment,

stick her in a cell tonight,

put her before the magistrates first thing tomorrow,

give her a technical bail on the forced labour,

but get her remanded in custody for the false imprisonment.

Otherwise she's out there causing trouble...

Yeah, by "trouble" do you mean trouble to you and your team?

Because that's not a sound reason for doing it.

I mean I don't want to bail a woman who's possibly

looking at a life sentence because

I don't think we'll ever see her again.

I think she'll abscond. Forget that,

we've got enough to charge her, so we charge her.

Are you sure it's a good idea for you to be doing this?

We are doing it. We've begun.

Passing it on to another syndicate

would just delay things. You know that.

If you were me you'd do exactly the same.

I'm not drinking at work.

It was a one-off. I'm fine.

You'd better be.

Follow your nose. Pursue it as one investigation.

Keep me in the loop.

Mmm-hmm.

She was shouting her head off in her cell and singing Bonnie Tyler.

Have you got to organise your mum's funeral?

No. Our Alison's doing it.

I said I'd go and clear her things out of her flat.

I'll come with you if you like.

Ta.

I thought you'd be asleep.

Every time I shut my eyes I'm trying to resuscitate him again.

Try putting the radio on. Almost a bit too quiet.

Good one. Well, night-night.

[Siren wailing]

Night.

I've had a message from internal affairs, wanting to know

when's a convenient time to come and interview me.

Of course you have. We have to look at what we did.

Who told Janet and Chris to go to the farm?

What checks had been made?

We're the supervisors. The buck stops with us.

Me in the end, but you're in it as well.

That's what being sergeant means.

The sniffer dog handler's traced Mike greenholme

from the farm to the moors.

Looks like he wandered off, bleeding, to where he died.

That's a leap forward.

Big leap.

Gill: Janet?

We can put Mike's murder at the farm

even though he didn't die there.

Mitch said. So, Rachel's thinking...

Let's see if the sniffer dogs can trace des.

If des also left the farm that night, where did he go?

How are you going to find something with his scent on?

All his stuff was in the caravan, presumably, burnt.

Don't know. I'll talk to the csm, get the search team on to it.

Listen, both of you are being looked at.

Rachel for failing to risk-assess

the pritchard farm, you for this crash.

I don't want you anywhere near Evie pritchard,

Janet, for obvious reasons,

or anywhere near the evidence chain,

so I'm putting you to work on background.

Okay.

Slavery, forced labour.

Get clever about all of that so that

you can produce a briefing paper,

keep on at social services to get ids

for these men, timings, the lot.

Work with Chris. Fine.

I'm happy for you to continue to work with Evie.

Er, we need to go.

How long are these investigations into us going to take?

Months. This is what I wanted to say to you, both of you,

don't dwell on it. Just get on with the work.

How are you doing today?

Er, I am trying to decide to be okay. You?

Fine. Good.

Police college came up trumps, contact details

for three independent experts on slavery and forced labour

and a phone number for the national expert,

don't know how he got the prize.

Ask him. [Mobile ringing]

Rach, how'd you get on?

Magistrate's bailed her.

What?

Solicitor says she's got no previous.

She's got surety. Cousin's going to

have her to stay. He's putting up bail.

Yeah, they said that she needed time to grieve.

No justification for keeping her in custody.

She's not a threat to the community...

at 6:00 P.M. check that she's been

in and done it. If she hasn't I...

[Evie yelling] I want her arrested.

No respect! You think that you can lie...

[Both shouting indistinctly]

Calm down!

Get your hands off my officer!

What's going on? Gill: Understood?

Gill: Total pain in the neck.

Anyway, Mitch is going to be watching Evie pritchard like a hawk

to make sure she complies with these reporting restrictions

and doesn't do a bunk.

Update on the search at the farm.

It's a five-acre plot, it's a massive task.

Concentrating for now on the house,

the shed and this burnt-up caravan. Lee.

We were hoping for evidence to put Mike and des at the caravan.

Nothing. It's ash, basically.

They're saying we can rule out a body having been burnt in there

because they'd have found teeth.

There's a heap of wellies in the shed

and it looks like a pair could be des's.

There's a "d" scratched on, so we've

given that to the sniffer dogs.

Well, if they can't get a scent off a welly, sack 'em.

Yeah, if it's des's, and given that we're nowhere close

to even knowing who des is, I'm not laughing. Carry on.

In the kitchen... [Door opening]

Is that the baseball bat results?

Yeah.

The blood and tissue found on it is Mike greenholme's.

It looks like it is our murder weapon.

Brilliant.

There's two sets of prints on it in Mike's blood.

Cal pritchard's and another.

We checked the second set of prints on the system.

Desmond maclean. Des.

Gill: Well, possibly.

Desmond maclean, 29 years of age.

Oldham lad. Plenty of previous.

Gbh. He glassed someone in a club,

so he's not going to be shy about

braining someone with a baseball bat.

Anyway, the pattern's interesting.

Cal's prints are gripping the handle of the bat like that,

des's are gripping the body of the bat like that.

Either grip could do it. You could swing to someone's head

or you could ram it.

He'd have a better grip holding it Cal's way.

Can we find out where Desmond maclean's been?

When he was last released from prison?

Where was he before he turned up at the pritchard's?

Has he gone back there? Yeah.

Boss, the search team found a notebook

at the back of a kitchen drawer, a ledger.

Evie scribbled down when the men buy

things from her and what they owe her.

That's gold dust!

Yeah, it might tell us when des joined them.

We know from Sandy...

No, even without that it's gold dust.

"One of the key indicators of forced labour

"is the worker being dependent on one person for all of his needs."

Work, home, food, clothing, alcohol, whatever.

We've had Sandy say it, this proves it.

It might even prove wage manipulation.

There's the underwork scam. You recruit too many workers

and give them just enough work

to meet their debts to you, but no more.

The two other men who were in the shed

have started to open up to social services.

They are called ferkan and Zane, as Sandy said.

Er, ferkan badini and Zane dasti.

Did either of them hear a gun?

Mmm.

We need to be talking to them now.

Let's inform all three slaves that Cal is dead,

that Mike is dead. See what that does.

Chris and Janet to look over this ledger.

If it's as incriminating as it sounds,

I want to re-arrest Evie pritchard

on suspicion of forced labour today, see what she says.

Today?

Today. I want to keep pressure on her.

Is that a no? It is a no.

Why? We're colleagues.

We're colleagues who have dinner.

You're on the rebound.

Still need to eat.

You're being disingenuous.

Dinner is not just dinner, you know that as well as I do.

Anyway, your timing is off. Seriously off.

Okay.

I need to show you something.

Sure.

Of course it's mine. I wrote it.

It's got the names of five men in there,

Mike, ferkan, Zane, Sandy, des.

I can read, you know.

That's five men that you've kept at your farm

working for next to no money.

I looked after them.

Now, they weren't free to leave.

Of course they were!

Three of them were locked in a shed.

They were living on the streets before.

Mr ferkan told us that you picked him up

at a soup kitchen eight years ago.

That's right, gave him a job.

That's trafficking.

He got in the car.

It's still trafficking

because you gained his consent through deception.

You told me that he'd be earning

300 pound a week and living in a flat.

He got paid.

He told us he worked up to 50 hours a week for up to 30 pounds,

from which you deducted everything that he supposedly owed you.

He did owe me, they all owed me.

I kept them in alcohol and tobacco.

They were housed, clothed, fed...

They had to shit in a bucket.

What do you do when you see a homeless person on the street, hmm?

Walk by? I've done nothing wrong.

You've admitted, now that we've

put this notebook in front of you,

that you do know who Mike greenholme is.

Mrs pritchard, we're conducting

a murder inquiry into Mike's death

and we have proof that he received his fatal injury at your farm.

Is there anything you'd like to say?

I haven't got a clue what you're talking about.

Do you have any idea where des might be, mrs pritchard?

No.

Well, we know he was at your farm two days ago, Friday,

because you sold him six cigarettes and wrote it down there.

Do you or your husband own a gun?

No.

Okay.

We've got a problem.

What? Not here.

My name's Evie pritchard,

and the way I've been treated by

the Manchester metropolitan police

is absolutely disgusting.

I've been intimidated, I've been treated with contempt,

I've got no criminal record and I've done nothing wrong

and they locked me up, arrested me,

on the day, on the day they killed my husband in a car chase.

One of them did that, the other one locked me in a police Van.

And the woman in charge, the senior investigating officer,

stinks of booze!

[Evie continues indistinctly]

Did she stink of booze?

I didn't notice. Has she seen this?

Not yet.

The sniffer dog trail drew a blank. Des never left the farm.

He's not alive, we would have found him, so where's that body?

You'd stick it somewhere nasty people wouldn't want to look.

I don't want to let Evie pritchard go.

Keep her talking after the meal break. Let's ask her...

What's wrong?

Evie: The senior investigating officer,

stinks of booze! These...

[Mobile beeps] When's she done that?

This morning, after the magistrate. Who's seen it?

A few people. Has everyone out there seen it?

Like I said, a few people.

I want the ground to swallow me up.

Look, it's an over-the-top rant...

From a raging madwoman.

You were involved in a crash that killed her husband.

Not like she's telling it, but you were.

Rachel did send her in a Van to the hospital,

for good reason, but she did.

So why would anyone think what Evie pritchard says about me

is the only lie in the bunch?

Well, is it?

I asked the court which magistrate was on.

He said Remington.

I thought if Remington had bailed Evie...

He bails everyone. I felt...

Nervous. I took myself off to the loo.

I had a drink. Stupid!

Stupid!

What if she makes a formal complaint?

She won't.

She will. She'll want the drama.

She'll want to punish. Evie knows she won't walk free.

Mmm. She'll do maximum damage as she goes down.

Yeah.

She's grieving, but I met her before Cal died, and she was screwy.

She's a manipulator. She needs to dominate.

That's why she got such a kick out of

lording over that band of misfits.

No, they did it for the money. Cal was mean as sin.

He started with cattle then switched to chickens,

but it wouldn't pay to get his sheds improved.

Two years ago, he didn't keep battery hens

in bigger cages, he got shut down.

They got shut down, and that's when

they started sending the men out

to clear rubbish, felling trees. Just making money any old way.

Why did no one think something was wrong and report it?

Because they're tied too. You want a job

done cheap, no questions asked...

God, people are despicable, Janet.

You're not quite getting the hang of this.

No, I am.

The pritchards recruited men who'd fallen through the cracks,

who wouldn't run away because they had nowhere to go to.

They couldn't go back to where they were from,

because it had already gone wrong.

Listen, I've got a bit of a situation with Chris.

Go on.

He left a flapjack on my desk this morning.

Right?

And, erm, I haven't said anything.

Why?

I feel a bit...

I don't know. I feel a bit embarrassed.

Are you sure it was from him?

Who else in that office would know how to make a flapjack?

It was very nice, actually.

So you've said nothing? Mmm.

Neither has he.

Well, you've really thrown me off here, now, Janet.

I mean, if a man put a flapjack on my desk, I'd run a mile.

Obviously, you're meant to be the well-adjusted one.

Thing is, I was going to say something, but then he asked me out.

Out out?

Yeah, and I just thought...

[Footsteps approaching]

Is there anything in the cupboard for indigestion?

Let's have a look.

I was ever so sorry to hear about your mum, Rachel. So sad.

Oh, thanks.

Really sad.

Well, I don't feel anything, really.

Ah, perhaps it's just delayed.

No, the thing is, Dorothy, I didn't like her.

In your own way you did.

You will have deep down. You will.

Here, mum, try these...

Both good.

Janet? Is Gill in?

I don't think she is in, no.

I take it you've seen Evie pritchard's rant?

Yes. Yes. Has Gill seen it?

Mmm. She's not answering her phone.

If a drinking allegation against Gill

turns up in the shape of a formal complaint from that woman,

I'll be compelled to complain about

the concerns you expressed to me last week.

Okay? Okay.

We bloody well should have done

something about it at the time. Okay?

Is this investigation falling apart

or does it just feel like it is?

I don't think it is falling apart, no.

Hmm.

Tell Gill to ring me as soon as she can.

Will do.

Gill's phoned in sick. Food poisoning.

Have you ever known her to take a day off sick?

Rachel: No. No.

So I didn't share that fact with dodson when she came prowling around

saying that she thinks the investigation is falling apart.

She's seen Evie's rant, everyone has.

The gossip machine's gone into overdrive.

I'll try and talk to Gill. I'll be in in five minutes.

Okay. Bye.

[Sighs]

How are ya, love? How are you getting on?

Nearly done.

Found anything nice for yourself?

Wasn't expecting to.

She was my sunshine.

Right.

Would you mind if I asked you a favour, sweetheart?

I'm not giving you money.

It's only fair. I looked after her.

And she wasn't easy.

I looked after your mummy so you wouldn't have to.

No, what you did was you got her to

the lowest point she'd ever got in her life.

She shouldn't have ended up like this. She could sing.

She could have sung.

What have you ever done, hmm?

Inherited a house and drank in it.

So you can forget money,

'cause I wouldn't give you the shit off my shoe.

That's for everyone you've ever put in hospital.

[Cries out]

Scumbag!

[Sighs]

Don't you dare show your face at the funeral.

I feel different, I feel freed.

Did you break any bones?

I don't know, possibly.

Well, you can take the Rachel out of the Bailey,

but you can't take the Bailey out of the Rachel.

Who's seen Evie pritchard's little film? I'm assuming everyone.

Well, some of you are probably going,

"I had no idea the boss had a drink problem,"

and some of you are probably going,

"do you know, I did spot some tell-tale signs,

"actually, in hindsight."

Just forget that.

The reason that we all wanted to work on this syndicate

is because of Gill's reputation.

You don't get a reputation like that for nothing.

It's slogged for.

It's 30 years of being good at the job,

so it's up to us to protect it because

we're the people that know her.

So, if anybody asks you about dci Murray stinking of booze, don't play.

Just say, "no, it's rubbish," and shut it down.

Do we know who's going to replace Gill when her 30 days are up?

No.

There's a rumour that a few candidates

from cheshire have applied, but...

So has she got food poisoning, then, or what?

If that's what she says, Pete, then that's what she's got. Right.

Evie pritchard remains in custody.

We've got until 3:00 P.M. on the pace clock.

We've got very little solid evidence against her

and she's given nothing away.

Got the CSI scouring the pritchard farm for the concealed body

of Desmond maclean. I think that body

is potentially our key to Evie.

Desmond maclean, des, was released

from strangeways in November...

[Mobile buzzing]

Ds Bailey's phone, this DC Janet Scott.

Yeah?

Des started showing up at a homeless hostel

in oldham just before Christmas.

They never saw him after the 5th of January.

January the 19th is when he crops up

for the first time on Evie's ledger,

and he's in there regularly up until last Friday.

Evie manages to keep him in debt, even though,

as you can see, he buys less and less from her.

She always comes up with something

that he owes her for. He never gets paid.

Let's bring Sandy back in. Chris, you speak to him with Janet.

Okay.

They found a body at the farm.

They've now got the body out of the septic tank, just seen it.

It's a man, can't really see much else.

Boss, can you ring me?

I need you.

The last time you came in you said des

was a squeaky wheel, do you remember?

Nothing's ever good enough for him.

I don't think things were good enough.

I think that you were all treated very badly.

I think the way that you were treated is against the law.

If somebody works for you, you have

to pay them properly with a contract.

Evie looks after us!

Did you ever go to the dentist in all

the time that you lived at the pritchards? Or a doctor?

Evie sorted it.

Well, Evie had to, because if she had taken you to a doctor,

the doctor would have said, "where does Sandy live?",

and she couldn't tell anyone that because you weren't living

and working for her and Cal legally.

She keeps me out of trouble.

She was keeping herself out of trouble.

Is Evie in trouble now?

She is.

Evie didn't kill Mike, I did.

That's a very serious thing to admit to, Sandy.

Well, well, well, I admit to it.

Could you tell us a bit more?

I shot Mike with Evie's gun. Bang!

Sandy... Mike wasn't shot.

Buckshot, don't see what else that could be.

Is it possible that's just one cartridge load of pellets?

Yeah.

His patterning's pretty wide, so it can't have been at close range.

That's the one that did for poor old des.

Gill doesn't get ill.

Sandy was a bit crestfallen that we wouldn't arrest him,

but he did let slip that it's Evie who

owns and uses the shotgun, not Cal.

Csis are prioritising a search for that gun.

But we need to focus on

exactly what happened on the night

of the murder. What do we know?

Well, the fire services arrived at the farm just after 1:00 A.M.

The fire was burnt out when they got there.

The pritchards didn't call them, a motorist did.

The pritchards wouldn't have wanted anyone turning up.

No, because, presumably, it all kicked off before that.

I reckon it was a big, boozy brawl.

Fire officers said Cal was intoxicated.

The post-mortem on Mike greenholme showed high levels of alcohol,

so let's see what the pm on des shows up when that's complete.

What about the post-mortem on Cal?

As in alcohol levels? Yeah.

High. Far too high to drive safely.

A baseball bat is something you keep

in the house to defend yourself with.

I reckon Cal ran out of the house with the bat...

Why?

Des and Mike were fighting.

Cal told the fire lads he dropped a fag in the caravan,

that's what started the fire.

But I reckon that's possibly what Mike and des did.

I think it's the fire that got Cal out of the house with his bat.

There was a scuffle between Cal and des with the bat,

one of them lamps Mike, I would say Cal.

Mike stumbles off, someone, Evie or Cal, shoots des.

Mike could have shot des before he wandered off.

Did we take Evie's clothes when she first came in after the crash?

Yes.

I need a word.

Evie pritchard's making an official complaint against Gill.

Evie wants it resolving formally,

so Gill's off the case and you're going to head it up.

As sio?

Yeah. No one else can do it.

I know it's huge,

which is why I suggested treating it

as two separate investigations.

In hindsight, I possibly should

have insisted, but I didn't. Anyway.

You're the only one who knows it inside-out.

I'll be the sio in name, but you'll be running it.

I'll be coming to the briefings, looking at the homes,

I won't be doing the day-to-day stuff.

You're capable.

What's your take on Evie pritchard?

I think we should let her go.

Why?

She's extremely clever. Very strong.

Every time we slip up, she just gets stronger.

I mean, she thrives on it.

We suspect that Evie murdered des.

Evie knows that, but she doesn't know that we found his body.

And if we charge her without strong enough evidence,

cps will say it's vindictive.

That we've fitted her up because we didn't want the anti-climax

of having a dead person, Mike or Cal, responsible for des's murder.

What about the forced labour side of things?

Slow progress, but progress.

I think we should hold out.

She's about to retire.

She's being investigated,

and while she's subject to a complaint,

she needs to be given permission to retire

from the assistant chief constable,

and while the complaint looks like it may be substantiated,

they might not let her.

It shouldn't take too long to investigate me. It's not sub judice.

Evie's offences aren't tied up with her complaint against me.

Well, they are. It's because she committed offences

she's doing everything she can to divert attention.

There's no legal correlation, you know what I'm saying.

If it was sub judice, the complaint wouldn't be pursued

until after Evie's court case.

Why the hell did you send her home?

We'll get a result. We will.

[Sighs]

Anyway, I'm owed some leave so I won't be coming in for a bit.

What are you going to say, Gill, when they question you?

If I lie, that lie won't go away.

Evie will get to court and the defence

will ask me about that complaint,

had I been drinking, and I'll lie in court.

And every time that question crops up, I'll lie.

It's not just my lie.

You know I had a drink in the toilet at the magistrate's,

I told you, both of you.

Yeah, but we're not going to breathe a word about it.

That's three people lying. That's you

launching your brilliant career as a sergeant on a lie.

So you don't lie. Say you say...

"Hands up, I had a drink. I was nervous.

"I wasn't drunk by any stretch, but I had a drink."

Say you tell them you've been... off-kilter.

What's that supposed to mean, "off-kilter"?

Will you swear something to me?

Depends.

I'm asking you as friends.

Yeah. Yeah.

When you're interviewed about me

and this complaint, which you will be,

swear to me you'll tell them exactly what you know.

You lied for me. Completely different.

We want to help you.

That would be helping me.

I will not make a conspiracy, Rachel. I'm not going out on a lie.

I stopped smoking overnight, remember?

Mmm.

So don't worry about me ending up a lush. I won't.

It'll stop when the job does.

I was fine when I first came back after Helen bartlett.

I know you were. I was fine for months...

And then I couldn't get it out of my head.

Flashbacks. No.

If I'd locked my car, and I took my trolley back

like any normal person with a head screwed on,

none of it would have happened.

She wouldn't have died, I wouldn't have nearly died,

thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money wouldn't have been squandered,

and if I could make such a basic mistake,

how many other mistakes could I make?

I lost my nerve.

Is that when you decided to retire?

Yeah, but I strung it out because

I was waiting for the right time,

which is cretinous because...

There is no right time. Yeah.

There's just now.

Exactly.

[Laughing]

That really is rich, coming from you, that little Pearl of wisdom.

Sorry!

What are you waiting for, Janet?

In what way?

Every way.

We can get Evie right now with this lot.

Only partially, and I don't think

Rachel's in the mood for partially.

I do fancy you.

Oh, okay, good.

It is good, actually, because the thing is,

Chris, generally I go for tall men.

Well, I read it. There you go.

Can't have it all. No.

So is that a yes for dinner?

It is. Okay.

Why are we waiting?

I don't know.

What a shame they wouldn't let your brother come out for the day.

It is his fault, Dorothy.

He assaulted a prison officer.

Oh, dear.

Gill coming?

She's got a work thing.

I see we offered you counselling after you were abducted.

I see you stopped going, is that right?

Yes.

Can you run through where you're up to

in your welfare programme?

Erm... I'm not.

Are you going to your gp?

No.

How are you coping?

I cope.

When you stopped going to counselling,

were you offered an alternative?

No.

Well, did someone from welfare get in touch?

No.

We've questioned detective superintendent dodson

and a few of your colleagues to get some background.

Drinking on duty, as you know, is a sackable offence.

How are ya, love? Er, the one before us is still going off

because the door of the cremator got stuck.

Dorothy: You should get your money back.

They're supposed to provide a dignified ceremony.

My mother was an attention-seeking cockroach, so this is perfect.

Hi, Mitch.

[Sighs]

So pick her up. Yes, now.

I'm on my way back. So is Janet. Bye.

We can arrest Evie pritchard for murder. Forensics are back.

Alison, we've got to go.

You're joking. Will you be okay?

I'll get Dorothy home.

Thank you.

Sorry.

What I'd like to focus on today is the specific complaint

made against you by mrs pritchard. Now, the specific complaint

is that when you spoke to her at the magistrate's,

you were drunk.

Were you drunk?

No, I was not drunk.

I don't think we've supported you enough.

I'd like to offer you more welfare.

I don't want welfare. I just want to be allowed to retire.

What time did you go to bed on the Friday night?

10:00.

And what time did you wake up? 8:00.

Did you wake up during the night?

No.

The fire engine came to the farm at just after 1:00 A.M.

I slept right through it.

But your bedroom's on the side of the house nearest the caravan.

Did you hear any noises from the caravan or near the caravan?

Can you hear noises when you're asleep? Because I can't.

A witness reported hearing a gun being fired.

Did you hear a gun?

I heard nothing and I saw nothing until

I woke at 8:00 the following morning.

And what did you hear and see then?

Cal passed out on a chair.

What time did Cal wake up?

I don't remember.

Well, when he did wake up,

can you remember what you talked about?

We didn't. If I'd know he was going to be dead by lunchtime

I would've made the effort.

Why have you gotten in on me?

Because I'm sick at looking at your fucking face!

And yours!

Challenge her. Challenge her now.

We found the body of Desmond maclean

in the septic tank at your farm.

He was shot at a range of about 10 metres

with a 00-Gauge buckshot from a shotgun.

When we drained the septic tank, we recovered that gun.

Lab results come back today and your fingerprints are on it.

Oh, it's my gun. Yes.

Now she's got a gun.

Your fingerprints are on the manhole cover to the septic tank.

And we also found a wheelbarrow with des's blood on it,

presumably from when the body was pushed to the septic tank.

Your fingerprints are on that wheelbarrow.

It's my wheelbarrow.

Your prints were in his blood, and traces of his blood

were found in a spray-back pattern

on the trousers that we took off you

when we first questioned you,

presumably from when you cleaned up his blood.

You can't get fingerprints off a gun that's covered in shit.

Fingerprints are just grease.

You rinse off whatever's on top and there they are.

That gun is covered in prints and they're all yours.

[All laughing]

Rachel: Eve pritchard, you are charged as follows.

That you at rochdale, in the county of greater Manchester,

on the 19th of September 2014, did murder Desmond maclean,

contrary to common law.

That you at rochdale, in the county of greater Manchester,

between the 1st of January 2007,

and the 19th of September 2014,

did falsely imprison Zane dasti, contrary to common law.

That you at rochdale, in the county of greater Manchester,

between the 1st of January 2003

and the 19th of September 2014,

did hold Sandy thewliss in slavery or servitude,

or you did require Sandy to perform forced or compulsory labour,

and the circumstances are such that

you knew, or ought to have known

that Sandy was being required to perform such labour

contrary to section 71, coroners and justice act 2009.

Janet: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

I, er, first met Gill at bruche in 1993.

She was dressed head to toe in leather

and she had hair down to her bum.

[All exclaiming]

I was not!

It must have been someone else. Anyway.

There she was, telling someone how

they could do what they were doing

so much better if they'd only do it just like her.

And I thought, "ooh, she's a bit scary".

Twenty-two years later, and I'm still a bit scared of Gill.

But I've cottoned on to the fact that that's how she likes it.

I'm so proud of you.

We've all been murrayed.

We've all had our eyebrows singed

if we haven't managed to achieve

her stratospherically high standards.

And now she's retired, let loose on the world

with time on her hands.

God help any weeds in her garden.

God help anything young and male in a 50-mile radius.

Doesn't have to be young!

Doesn't have to be male!

All: Oh!

That is totally unacceptable!

Julie dodson, the stories I could tell about you!

[Muffled music playing]

[Sighs]

Oh, you look very deep and meaningful.

Just thinking about change.

Mmm, yeah. Well, I applied for an interview development role today.

It's what I'm best at, and I'm gonna take it as far as I can.

Yes, superb.

You should come back inside. Dodson's doing shots,

Gill's dancing, at least I think that's what it is.

Oh, and, erm, will Pemberton has just turned up

and is sort of casting about like he's looking for somebody.

You're joking.

No.

I just finished this.

[Both laughing]