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This programme contains
some violent scenes

and some scenes which some viewers
may find upsetting

Jay Selwyn, been in here nine years.

Victim's cellmate's keen
to give a DNA sample.

What's the name?
Scott Weston.

It's been ten years.

He went on a killing spree right
here at the university.

Harry and I got caught up in it.

It's not enough to put him
in the frame for murder.

And Jay died of hypothermia.

Jay had a significant amount
of DNA on his clothes.

It isn't a match for any inmates.

Jay started having a panic attack.

Lewis was sending someone
to kill him, so I hit him.

I'm Dr Lawson.

You're the one advocating
for Scott Weston's appeal.

I will fight to my last breath
to keep him behind bars.

Even though he's your son?

Scott didn't kill him.

Well, no, not necessarily.

What did you say to them?
You're a liar!

I've got something to show you.

If Scott knew that Jay had an
allergy, he could have...Just stop.

Can't you see what you're doing?

You're allowing yourself
to lead the evidence

where you want it to go?

# Testator silens

# Costestes e spiritu

# Silencium

# Testator silens. #

First impressions?

Looks like the seat of the fire
was here by the front door.

That's where the most damage is,
suggests maybe a little burning

package put through the letterbox
by local... Vigilantes.

Likely using an accelerant
such as petrol or lighter fluid,

judging by the speed of the spread.

If you look at the damage here,

these have melted toward the left,
that can indicate the direction

the fire was spreading, in this
case, away from the door.

And just looking up the stairs...

Yeah, the high V-shaped smoke
pattern on the wall suggests

the fire climbed higher
toward the upstairs landing.

We'll know more when I've looked at
the full picture, you know. OK.

Nobody called the Fire Brigade

until the fire was
quite established.

Too late by then.

Neighbours must have seen it.
I mean, a fire this size

would have created a fair
amount of smoke.

They didn't care.

Did vigilantes really do
this to Scott's mother?

Can we roll her? Mm-hm.

All right? Yeah.

Thoughts?

Well, usually in house fires,
the victims die of smoke inhalation

before the fire itself
ever reaches them.

But I'll know more when I do
the postmortem.

If you do the postmortem.

I'm sorry to be the bearer
of bad news, Scott.

I know your relationship with
your mother was a difficult one.

You do understand what I'm saying
to you, don't you, Scott?

Your mother has...

..passed away.

Yes, yes, yes, regardless
of which, you should have told me

you knew Scott Weston and that
you were a witness at his trial.

It wasn't relevant,
we were investigating the death

of Jay Selwyn.

You should have told me as soon
as Weston became implicated.

I presented the evidence
as I interpreted it.

That's my job.

You are supposed to give
impartial opinions.

The emphasis on Jay's injuries
causing his death, accusing

Scott Weston of his murder,
you jumped the gun.

It was a reasonable conclusion
that any pathologist might have made

at that time, given the evidence.

You're not any pathologist, you
were a key witness at his trial.

We should be concentrating
on Pamela's death now.

She knew that her son...

Weston was in custody
for the entire time.

You're not pinning this one on him.

It's not all about Scott Weston.

I'm really trying to give you
the benefit of the doubt.

Look, I know you've had a tough year
here and I know you're stretched,

but I've raised my concerns
with the coroner.

I won't allow anything
to compromise my investigation.

Do you understand?

That went well.

How dare you talk about me
behind my back?

Excuse me? You're the one who
didn't disclose your connection

to the suspect.

You had no right to tell him.

I told you those things
in confidence, Jack.

I won't make the same mistake again.

All right.

Well, thank you for that.

And by the way, I didn't tell him
a damn thing.

Maybe he, I don't know,
read the case file.

If you're in a mess,
it's not because of me.

There are full-thickness burns
covering the majority

of the body's surface.

The body has a pugilistic attitude

due to the flexor muscles
and tendons

contracting due to the intense heat.

Debris collected from under
the one remaining fingernail

on her right hand, little finger.

I'll bag and label it
for testing,

in case it's relevant.

Hello there.

There are definite bilateral
fractures of the thyroid horns.

It appears that an appreciable
amount of force has been applied

to the neck to cause fractures
on both sides of the larynx.

Histology should confirm
the presence of haemorrhage.

Levels of fire damage, smoke
patterning and so on allows us

to create a reconstruction
and watch how the fire spreads.

So, fire slows down significantly
at this point,

through lack of combustibles.
Doesn't go

over this side of the house at all.

But Pamela's bedroom was burned out.

Yes, this blaze had two seats

set alight in two places,
once in Pamela's bedroom,

to hide the evidence, I suspect,

and once by the front door,
to make it look like arson.

But the two fires never met.
Right.

Well, look at this.

We lifted the CCTV on the bus stop
on Pamela's street.

Look who was in the vicinity
on the night she died.

Ah, Scott Weston's girlfriend.
Yep.

She came back to the crime scene
the next day too, you know.

I have a photo of her.

Well, let's bring her in,
and search her place.

So, Paisley, why did you go
to Pamela Weston's house?

Scott wanted me to talk to his mum.

We're getting married.

He wanted her to know.

Bet she wasn't very pleased
to see you, though, was she?

It must have been upsetting.

Funny thing about arsonists,

they often return
to the scene of the crime

to admire their handiwork.

That's nothing to do with me.

I wouldn't do anything
to hurt Scott.

Enough here to set a house on fire.

The trachea is clear of
soot and a healthy colour,

suggesting that
no smoke was inhaled.

I'll need to check
the carboxyhaemoglobin saturation,

but first indications
are that she was dead

before the fire started.

Apparently, Pamela Weston was
receiving some quite nasty emails,

death threats even,
someone using the email

Bonnie1984 -
"Leave or I'll slit your throat."

That wasn't me.

Were you hoping to scare her
enough that she might just pack up

and move away?

Scott wanted her around.

Now, that's not what you wanted,
though, was it?

You wanted her out of your lives.

She had no maternal instinct
whatsoever.

She was determined to ruin
Scott's appeal.

Is that why you killed her?

You OK?

Anything you want run past me?

Well, we know from the CCTV footage
that this is what Paisley

was wearing the night Pamela died.

If she was anywhere near that fire,

there'd be a trace
of accelerant on here,

but there's nothing,
nothing.

This is the exact same material
she was wearing on the night.

There's an instantaneous flash
of heat in any

accelerant-initiated fire, right,
like ours?

And that would cause the end of
the synthetic fibres to hook over.

Uh-huh. And it would have placed her

at the fire at the point of
initiation.

I can't find anything.

I think Pamela died as a result
of manual strangulation.

This type of death in burned bodies
can be a difficult diagnosis,

given the degree of thermal damage
from the fire.

But I'm satisfied that she was dead
before the fire was started.

So, she was murdered, then.

We can be sure about that.

There was no forced entry
into the house,

windows and doors locked.

So she let her assailant
in willingly.

Anything that might indicate
who that could have been?

Can we place Paisley Robertson
inside the house?

Not yet.

Paisley had motive, she had form.

What have we got to place
someone inside the house?

Pamela had a broken nail.

So it's possible that she tried
to fight her attacker off.

I've collected material
from under her fingernails,

just to check.

Ill take a look,
see if there's any DNA present.

That one's a weakling right there.

They're all weak.

Tomorrow?

Yeah.

What are you doing?

Managed to lift some footage
from Pamela Weston's dash cam.

Well, that's Pamela, but who are
they, anything to identify them?

I think they're the parents
of Scott's victims.

With all the interest
in his potential appeal,

maybe they got together
and took things further.

Could this be another group
who didn't want Pamela around?

OK, thanks, I'll follow this up.

Anything more on Jay's case?

No, nothing since the
anaphylaxis discovery.

Are we any closer to working out
what caused the allergic reaction?

I need to do some more tests,
but it's difficult.

There's nothing in his notes.

Allergies can happen at any age.

Could be a new thing.

Something he ate, maybe?
What was in the stomach contents?

Fish, fruit,
nuts and seeds.

Didn't the inmates have
shepherd's pie that day?

So where did Jay get his food?

He was off grid for the
whole lunch hour, remember?

Yeah.

If it was a nut allergy
that killed him,

I want to know who gave him
that meal.

Paleo diet.

This is ridiculous, I wouldn't
give my lunch to an inmate.

Well, where did Jay get it, then?

I don't know, maybe he stole it
from in here.

Seems unlikely.

Why would he be in your office
without supervision?

We met twice a week at lunchtime.

Why?

I was helping him to improve
his reading and writing.

No record of that.

Well, it wasn't official work,
it was more a personal mission.

Come on, what was your interest
in Jay, really?

I liked Jay.

He was smart.

He could have turned it around.

I just want to do some good,

before they close us down.

I mean, that's why I took the
bloody job, to rehabilitate.

That's what's going to keep
the public safe in the end.

If I take a swab from you,
are you going to turn out

to be Jay's sexual partner?

Because you certainly
had the opportunity.

It was harmless.

It turns out your food
might have killed him.

Something gave him
an anaphylactic shock.

That's what Jay died of.

Are you accusing me of something?

You could clear this all up
with a simple DNA test.

I've invested so much of my life,
my health, into this place.

I just want to leave
behind a legacy.

All right, look, just take your
damn swab, I give it voluntarily.

Can you open your mouth, please?

You won't find anyone with much
sympathy for Pamela here, I'm
afraid.

Did you know her well?

Our group is made up of the parents
of Scott Weston's victims.

Her son killed my boy.

We have footage of your group
pushing Pamela around.

What did you hope to gain from that?

Her guilt overshadowed our grief.

She wanted to make it all better,
make it all go away,

but she couldn't.

Said she wanted us all
to pull together to protest

against the appeal.

Like she was one of us.

Said she could make it all stop,
said she had photos.

What photos?

I don't listen to her rubbish!

Just seeing it was like rubbing salt
in the wounds.

Well, I can see why that would upset
you.

Why you'd want to get rid of her.

She was receiving death threats
from an account named Bonnie1984.

Bonnie was your
late-wife's name, wasn't it?

Ah, Mrs Selwyn. We're ready now.

You sure you don't want to change
your mind?

Henry don't want to come.

He's finding it hard.
That's natural.

He looks tough, but he isn't.

Soft inside.

Jay was soft inside, too.

Even prison couldn't harden him.

My boy done wrong.

He did a terrible thing
and he knew it.

But other people did bad things
and they came and went.

I ain't making no excuses...
No, I know.

..but Jay wasn't the only
one there that night.

It easily could have been Jay dead

and that other boy in prison.

It should be the same
rules for everybody.

SHE SOBS

My baby...

DISTANT CRYING

You OK?

That's my big brother in there.

Yeah.

A lot to take in.

Just...give yourself some time.

Mum always made Jay take me
everywhere with him.

She was always working and
she told him I needed someone

to look after me.

"Try to big him up, give him
some responsibility," but...

..in truth, I reckon she thought
I might keep him out of trouble.

It didn't work.

Were you with him that night?

I-I was 12.

He'd just turned 18.

I-I'd never seen anyone
cut like that before.

Were you arrested with the other
boys?

I ran as fast as I could,
like a coward.

Nah.

You were just a kid.

I should have waited for him.

You should give yourself a break.

I would've done the same.

You're not your brother.

You're your own man.

Hi.

I thought I might find you here.

You weren't picking up.

You going to go?

Keep up, Hodgson.

Oh, God. Really?

I've not got the right gear on!

Too quick for me.

So I managed to lift the DNA profile
from the material you found

under Pamela's fingernails.

Ran it against the Weston victim
group.

And?Didn't find a match.

SHE EXHALES

I'm glad. They've been through
enough.

Yeah.

I can't even imagine what that
experience must have done to you.

One of those boys died in my arms.

And what did I do?

I went into work and
wrote up the report.

And that's what got those people
justice, so you did a good thing.

Do you think I'm becoming
desensitised to death?

Otherwise, how could I do the job?

How could I ever comfort Jay's
mother, knowing I've held her son's

heart in my hands?

I think...I think you're deeply
affected by every single person

you take care of.

That's what makes you a
brilliant pathologist.

I still can't answer the question
of why, though.

Why was it their loved one and not
someone else's?

Nobody can.

Sure, if it comes to that,
why am I here and not Thomas?

Thomas.

I don't know why it was him that day

and not me or you.

I don't know why you survived
the shootings at the university.

I just know that I'll always...

..always be grateful that you did.

I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have spoken
to you like that before.

That's all right.

PHONE CHIMES

I'll be honest - I was not expecting

to find pictures of naked
men on here.

There's a bit of video, too.

I think these are men
from the prison.

Could that be Jay
with the self-harm scars?

I'm pretty sure that's Scott,
from the scars on his chest.

Well, Pamela told the support group

there were photos.
Maybe she meant these.

Yeah, I'm not convinced

this is Pamela's phone.

We found another phone in her

property, registered in her name.

This one's a burner. Not registered.

No calls or texts, not traceable.

And who's behind the camera,
I wonder?

Well, if that is Scott,

then he might have told Paisley
who it is.

All right, I'll send a car to bring
him in.

I don't think any
of this is consensual.

Well, if it's sexual exploitation,

why didn't they speak out about it?

Maybe they thought they'd
get something in return.

Privileges? Freedom?

What links Jay and Scott is they're
both actively trying

to secure their release.

How did Pamela end up with this
phone?

Well, it must be Paisley.

If Scott wanted Pamela to see the
evidence, then he would

have sent her. She's his only link
to the outside world.

Tell me again, why did you go
to Pamela Weston's house?

I told you - Scott wanted her
to come to his case review.

And how were you going to persuade
her to speak up for a son

she hadn't seen for ten years?

Years she'd spent actively trying
to keep him locked up.

Appeal to her maternal instinct.

Right. So did you take anything with
you,

to help her maternal instinct kick
in?

No.

Where'd you get this phone?

It's not mine. Did you steal it?

Cos you know who this phone
belongs to, don't you?

No.

What did Pamela say when you showed
her the pictures of Scott?

When she saw the degrading things
her son had been made to do?

Did she feel sorry for him?

Or maybe she didn't care?

That would've been hard to hear.

Never seen it before.

It's nothing to do with me.

We want to help Scott.

We know he's suffering in prison.

You love him, you want to protect
him, and we can help you do that.

There's nothing I can do
unless you tell me where

you got that phone.

I'm not going to make
things worse for Scott.

You've no idea.

Charge me and lock me up if you
want.

Not telling you anything.

Jack, come and look at this.

Jay Selwyn had an anaphylactic
allergy to phospholipase A2.

Bee venom.

So he did not die as a result
of the food he ate.

No. I guess...

..I guess he was stung.

There's nothing in his records about
it, so we thought we'd ask you.

Yes, it's true.

He had a bad reaction to a bee sting
when he was eight or nine years old.

I wasn't there, they were on the
field playing games, I think.

Teacher called an ambulance.

It happened at school?

Do you remember a time when Jay was

rushed to hospital after a
PE lesson?

You'd have been about nine years
old.

Yeah, of course.

So you knew he had a medical
condition, then?

He was stung by a bee.

Almost died.

You told me that Jay
was having a panic attack

on the day he died.

That Lewis was coming after him,
so you hid him in the fridge.

Yeah. Well, he wasn't having a
panic attack, like you told me

in the hospital.

He was having an
anaphylactic reaction.

Oh...

I didn't know.

If I'd have known, I would've helped
him.

I would have helped him.

No signs of a sting.

So how did he come into contact
with bee venom if he wasn't stung?

This is everything I took from Jay's
cell.

I've already been through it once,

but wasn't looking for allergens
then.

This is fancy, isn't it?

Looks expensive.

More your style.

You can't improve on perfection.

Ah.

Guess what the active ingredient is?

Bee venom?

This is pretty niche stuff.

There's no way this found its way
into the prison by accident.

Definitely not into Jay's cell.

A cell he shared with Scott Weston.

Leon Tovey and Jay Selwyn grew up
together.

I thought there were meant
to be processes in place

to stop inmates interacting with
people they knew on the outside.

I'm not a mind-reader.

I only have the information
they give me.

Fair play.

Oh, by the way, you'll be glad
to hear your DNA was not a match,

so thank you for your cooperation.

Apology accepted.

They call this the canteen.

The men can spend their credits.

They sometimes come here to order
special items.

Toiletries, creams, that sort of
thing?

In some circumstances, yes.

Do you recognise this?

Trying to find out if an inmate
ordered it from here.

Jay Selwyn ordered it.

Ah. Thank you.

Says it's imported.

That sounds expensive.

Said he'd borrowed the money off
Lewis.

Right. Thank you.

Letter after letter from Jay's mum,

telling him everything they're
doing to get him released.

Parole turned down,
appeal turned down,

Mm-hm.

"Wrote to our MP today.
Keep the faith. Don't give up."

Wait, listen to this.

"The cream you need for your scars
is

"called Hydrogenetics anti-ageing
cream.

"Mum said it's the best one."

That's from Henry. Henry?

Why would Henry want to harm
his brother?

Is it possible...

..that Henry never intended Jay to
die...

..because if Jay hadn't become
trapped in the fridge,

then he would've needed
hospital treatment.

So you're saying he wanted to
harm him just enough to get him

into hospital...
And break him out of prison.

Where's the nearest hospital
to the prison?

Marfield Memorial Hospital.

Didn't Mason say that Henry worked
in a hospital?

Marfield Memorial Hospital. Bingo.

Henry.

And this, this is CCTV
from the hospital car park.

We know that Henry's car number
plate was logged entering

just after four o'clock, OK? Mm-hm.

That's Henry's car.

I'm telling you, I wasn't
working the day Jay died.

Then why did you run from us?

I wasn't running away.

I just wanted to get somewhere
there were witnesses.

I've been arrested
for nothing before.

Looks like guilt, though.

If he hadn't died, Jay would
have come to this hospital.

I'm telling you, I was on a
graveyard shift.

Four days on, three days off.

Check with my supervisor.

Oh, I did. We have your door fob
being used four times that day.

Nah, that's...

It can't have been mine.
That's wrong. I weren't there.

That's Dionne.

Hi, Dionne.

Detective Inspector Mason agreed to

give me a moment to return
Jay's things to you.

The police are holding Henry in
custody.

Henry had nothing to do with it.

It was all my idea.

What happened?

Jay was falling apart in there.

I felt sure he was going
to kill himself and I...

..I couldn't let that happen.

I tried everything else.

Everything.

So you decided to break him out?

I knew Leon would help Jay if he was
ill.

Leon's always looked after him.

I just thought if I could get him
to hospital...

Leon did try to help Jay.

He just didn't know exactly
what help Jay needed.

Er, Nikki.

Hi.

It took me a while to work out where
I'd heard your name before.

I went back over my old notes and,
erm...

..well, this is where the tragedy
unfolded.

Is there something I can do for you?

My publishers are after
a second book.

I mean, it's quite exciting,
but I wondered if you might let me

interview you about
what took place here.

I will pay you for your time,
of course.

No, definitely not.

I understand your reticence,
but it can be therapeutic

and it's an opportunity
to get your side across,

to put the record straight.

I think it's time to move on.

Here, erm...

Let me give you my card.

It's an old one, I'm afraid.

I had my briefcase stolen last week,
but the number is the same.

You just won't be able to reach me
at the prison any more.

Those marks on your neck,
they look sore.

Would you like me to look at them
for you?

No, but, erm...but thank you.

If you change your mind about that
interview,

please just give me a call.

He said he'd had his briefcase
stolen.

Must have reported it.

Did you request the police report?
Nothing on file.

Mm-hm.

How are you getting on
identifying the men?

Slowly.

WHIRRING AND SCREECHING

What's that?

What?

Play it again.

WHIRRING AND SCREECHING

I know that sound.

WHIRRING AND SCREECHING

Thanks.

Let me take the lead, OK?

We're here to get a DNA sample,
that's all. I know.

Well, they should be at the house by
now.

KNOCK ON DOOR

KNOCK ON DOOR

INMATES SHOUT

KNOCK ON DOOR

Hello.

Ah, so it's true.

We heard you were moving on.

Just tying up a few loose ends.

Surely you've got cleaners for that.

I like to leave everything in order.

I've been offered a clinical
psychologist role

at a young offenders institute.

I feel one can make a real
impact on the young.

PHONE VIBRATES

Look, what can I do for you?

We've come to collect a DNA sample.

Why?

We're investigating Pamela Weston's
murder

and your house is being searched
right now.

Oh, I see.

Then, I'm afraid you're compromised

on this inquiry, Dr Alexander,
having given evidence

against the Weston family
before, so...

I'm afraid you don't have a choice,
Dr Lawson.

You didn't file a police report
on your stolen briefcase, did you?

We've got the burner phone.

It's my guess that Paisley stole it

and took it to Pamela, hoping
that the photos on the phone

would shock her into
feeling sorry for Scott.

And you knew that Pamela could use

those photos to discredit you
and end Scott's appeal.

Discredit me for what? For helping
him? For being there for him?

Helping him?I care about Scott.

SHE SCOFFS
And what about Jay?

It wasn't the same with Jay.

Here we go, boys!

Come on, then! Come on!
Get in there!

Hold him back!

ALARM BLARES

I'm just going to see what's
going on. I'll be right back.

We need to get out of here.

Where to?

Come with me.

Come on!

BUZZING

No! No!

I'll l right back!

No, you can't leave me here!

Get her out of here!
We'll get you some help!

Get her out! Come with me.

What do we do?

Follow me.

Taylor! Taylor!

SHOUTING

Here.

Taylor!

Taylor!

DOOR RATTLES

Taylor!

Get out here!
BANGING ON DOOR

You promised you'd get me out.

You promised me!

Now you're leaving me behind.

You're the reason Jay killed
himself.

I tried.

You'd be on your way to a
low-security unit by now

if it wasn't for her.

Scott...

..think about this.

Your mum...

My mum what?!

SHE WHIMPERS
What?! She hated me!

No! She was just trying to
help the people you hurt!

Think about what he was doing
to you, Scott. And to Jay.

He just didn't want anyone to find
out.

That's why he strangled your mum.

And then he set fire to her body.

It's the truth, Scott.

We know she tried to fight back.

She had DNA under her nails
from the person who attacked her.

The same DNA we found on Jay.
His DNA.

It's all lies, Scott.

They don't even have my DNA on file.

Show him the scratches on your neck,
then.

The scratches your mum made
when she was fighting for her life.

Taylor!

Come on!

He's down here! He's down here!

HE GROANS

This is what it feels like...

..when you bleed to death.

You do have empathy.

I saw it.

It affected you when you
heard how your mum died.

You know what that tells me?

Whatever you've done,
you did because you wanted to.

Do you know what that tells me?

You started to feel sorry for me,
didn't you?

You won't let me die.

DISTANT SIREN

As we deal with the science
of the human body,

we're searching for evidence,
for facts...

..to understand the last minutes
of someone's life,

the cause of their death.

But we also deal with the living.

Our search for the truth doesn't
always turn out to be what we expect

or what others want it to be.

It can lead to places that loved
ones don't want to go to.

It can be painful...

..and sometimes destroy
what they know and love.

But let's not forget,
it can also provide answers...

..bring closure...

..and in some cases...

..redemption.

The last time I was here,

you, Ollie, asked me a
question, and I answered

that a good pathologist
shouldn't be affected by death.

And I've thought about that a lot
because it's not actually true.

It is hard sometimes, when you
see as much horror as we do,

and sometimes we need help
to process the things we see.

And that's OK.

So I'm sorry. I made a mistake,
but to err is human.

To forgive, divine.

It never ceases to amaze me
what human beings are capable of

doing to each other, and that's
why our work is so necessary.

It's definitely not always pleasant

and not many people would choose to
do it.

But it is vitally important...

..because someone needs to
speak for the dead.

# Testator silens

# Costestes e spiritu

# Silencium... #