All language subtitles for DCI Banks S01E01 - Playing with Fire pt1 x264 RB58-eng

DCI Banks
Playing With Fire

Part 1

- Morning.
- Hi.

Nice boots.

Yeah, I like to make a
good first impression.

Plus, I am not risking
the heels in this.

Right...

let's go.

Sir, this is Geoff Hamilton,

Senior Investigations Officer,

- Yorks Fire Service.
- DCI Alan Banks.

DS Annie Cabbot.

- How are we for access?
- Safe to board.

- Sir?
- Kevin?

There was a second boat
moored behind, but...

it seems to have caught
fire and gone under.

No more bodies, though.

Second boat's owned
by British Waterways.

According to their head
office, it's unoccupied.

Right, then, Mr. Hamilton.
What's the story?

By my estimate,
the fire started

between midnight and 1am.

The witness called emergency
services at 1:04am.

Lives in the old lock keeper's
house about a mile that way.

He said he heard an explosion.

Geoff, do you wanna
walk us through it?

Good holiday?

- You look well.
- Thanks.

- What did you do?
- Well, nothing much.

Read a few books, did
a bit of exploring.

- On your own?
- Yeah.

The victim?

There.

Odd. Rapid smoke inhalation.

People usually fall
on their backs.

This man's on his front.

He was unconscious
when the fire started.

Aye, could be.

Two weeks holiday on your own?

Meet people? Make friends?

No.

- Did you talk to anyone?
- Not really.

- Weirdo.
- We've got a glass here,

in what looks like it could
once have been a whisky bottle.

So maybe he was drunk...

..staggering around the
place, knocks the bottle over,

lit fag in his mouth, falls asleep,

- ignites the booze...
- No.

That's the seat of the fire.

Streamers...here, here and here.

An accelerant was used.

This fire was started deliberately.

We've identified the victim
as Leslie Whittaker.

36-year-old single man,
second-hand book dealer

with a shop in Cathedral Street.

Now, it's fairly isolated
down by the canal,

so we're canvassing as far as

a three-mile radius
from the locus.

Did anyone see anything suspicious?

Anyone coming or going
from Whittaker's boat

between 11pm and 1am?

Brian, the fire engine's
silent-witness camera -

go through the footage for me.

Now, the fire was
started deliberately

from inside Leslie
Whittaker's boat.

Which suggests he either
knew or trusted his killer.

Now, boys and girls, we are into

the minutiae of Leslie
Whittaker's life.

Friends, family, associates.

Positional statements from

anyone we can find,

filed and cross-checked onto
Holmes via DC Templeton here.

Everybody happy? Let's go.

Better come have a look,
boss.

Crime-scene guys found
this hidden in the bow

of Leslie Whittaker's boat.

OK, Keith, let's open the box.

How could you go two weeks
without speaking to anyone?

Easy. You should try it sometime.

If this is a human body
part, I'm back to Complaints.

If you don't shut up,
you're back to Complaints.

Hello.

I'm no expert, but that
looks like a Turner.

I reckon at least 20 grand.

Right, we've got two choices.
If it's genuine, it's nicked.

If it's fake, we could
be looking at art fraud.

Over here! We've got a
body! It's definitely a body!

Marine Support reckons
she was on the second boat,

but it's completely broken up.

A write-off, as far
as evidence goes.

Still in her sleeping bag -
she didn't try to escape the fire either.

Well...

..maybe because she was unconscious.

There's a head trauma here.

It could be a falling roof beam.

No, I don't think so.

I don't know. Maybe
something shorter,

sharper, with more
force and violence.

Geoff, are you sure the fire
started on Whittaker's boat?

100%.

Maybe that's to confuse us.

Maybe she was the intended victim.

Yeah, but what about
the money? The painting?

I know, but I don't wanna
rule anything out just yet.

Win, ID and background
on this girl.

Find out what she was doing

on that boat and who
might have wanted her dead.

I'll check out Whittaker's
shop. Annie, the painting -

is it definitely a Turner?
If so, genuine or fake?

Either way, find
out its market value.

Boss.

- All right, Ken, let's go.
- Boss.

- Sir.
- Thanks, Mark.

Right, we're looking for
accounts, receipts, cash, cheques.

Any kind of paper trail
that would explain the money

found on Whittaker's boat.

You look well, Alan.

- Have you been on holiday?
- Mexico, Acapulco.

You old rascal.

Maria, when did you last
see Leslie Whittaker?

Last week.

How's that ex-wife of
yours? What's she called?

Sandra. She's pregnant
by her new partner Sean,

who's a graphic designer
and they're living in London.

Have you seen anyone suspicious
coming or going recently?

Listen, love, the line of
business that Leslie's in -

rare and antique books
- it attracts its fair share of chancers.

Anything odd, a bit off?

Well, I didn't know he had
an interest in painting.

He'd been spending a lot
of time with Jacob McMahon.

He's an artist. A
failed artist, actually.

Bitter and twisted, and
full of self-loathing.

The way you men get in
your declining years.

Maria, do you have an address for
this Jacob McMahon?

Hello?

Anyone in?

Mr. McMahon? Jake?

- Morrison!
- All right, mate, just...

..calm down.

- What are you doing, Morrison?
- I'm not Morrison.

I'm police. DCI Alan Banks.

Jake... It is Jake, isn't it?

Why don't you just
put the gun down?

- You are Morrison.
- No.

Ey?!

I had you there, eh?

You shat a brick.

You should have seen your face.

You got a licence for that?

You got a warrant to
break into my house?

- No.
- Good.

I'm gonna make a complaint.

You smell burning, Jake?

Yeah. Why is that?

I don't know, but I
could smell it too, so

I'm within my rights to break
in. Danger to life and property.

I've got some questions.

Hi. I'm looking for Mark Keane.

- Mark Keane?
- Bastard.

- Yeah?
- DS Annie Cabbot,

Yorkshire Major Crimes Unit.

What have I done?

Are you Mark Keane -
the art guy?

What did you expect?

Some boozy toff with a
bowtie and a bad case of gout?

Senior Curator at
the Northern Gallery -

specialist in 18th and 19th
century landscape painting.

- I'm sorry love, I've got to go.
- Look,

we've got a murder victim

with what could be
a Turner painting

hidden in a safe on his premises.

So your dead man's
an artist?

That's the odd bit.
Money and painting -

possibly a Turner -
hidden away,

but he's a second-hand
book dealer.

- All that makes sense.
- How come?

Art forgery...

it's not all about
painting, you know?

It's a big operation.

Leslie Whittaker...

- you know him?
- He sells books.

I like to read.

He was murdered.

Last night.

Where were you...

last night, between
midnight and 1am?

My local.

About a mile that way.

We had a lock in.

We found a lot of money
hidden on Whittaker's boat...

and what might be a Turner.

Know anything about that?

No.

Who's Morrison?

Nobody.

I were just...

freaking you out.

Sorry, Jake.

What for?

What I'm about to do
might be considered

an infringement on
your civil liberties,

but as you pulled a gun
on me...

..all bets are off, eh?

Thanks, mate.

Yes, Win?

Dental record hit on the dead girl.

Christina Aspern,
19 years old.

Student at Leeds Uni.

Family live out in Harrogate.

Let's face it, having
kids is hereditary.

I mean, if your parents
didn't have kids,

chances are you won't
have any kids either.

And when I talk of family,

I include all of you here today.

All my dear,

dear friends.

And all this
- the house, the career,

this golden life of ours,

ultimately, it means nothing.

What's valuable is
the rich and rewarding,

life-affirming relationships
that I have with you all.

I'm not celebrating 60 years
on planet Earth here today.

I'm celebrating the love

and the warmth that I
feel as I look at you...

..my beloved family.

Bloody hell, I love you!

Hello, sweetheart.
Thanks for coming.

Would you excuse me a minute?

Hello. Thanks for coming.

Hi, I don't think we've met.

Dr. Patrick Aspern?

- Yes?
- DCI Alan Banks,

Yorkshire Constabulary,
Major Crimes Unit.

Is there somewhere we could talk?

It's about your daughter Christina.

- A fire?
- I'm very sorry, sir.

Well, I'm sorry.

- Can I get you a coffee, tea?
- No, no.

If you like, sir,
I can inform them.

My responsibility.

But thank you.

Patrick...

what's happened?

Miranda...

Christina's dead.

This is...

Miranda, my wife.

And this is Ailsa...

..our baby.

I'm afraid I have to ask...

can you confirm where
you were last night, sir,

between 10pm and 2am?

Yes, I was here.

We were all gathering
for my birthday -

a sort of...pre-party party.

The fire that killed Christina
was started deliberately.

Another person died on the next boat,

and we're not sure who
the intended victim was.

Mrs. Aspern, where
were you last night?

Here. All night.

Can somebody find Patrick?

Patrick?

Excuse me.

I really am very sorry, sir.

Thanks.

Hi.

- Jeez, you gave me a fright.
- Sorry.

Listen, cutbacks
- we've decommissioned

the Arts and Antiques
Squad, so er...

I need some expert input.

All right. One condition.

You and me, Criterion
Bar, George Street,

eight o'clock tonight.

Maybe...

if you tell me what
you make of this.

It's not on paper, it's on canvas,
so it's an oil painting.

Wow, you're good.

OK.

This is Ingleborough from
Hornby Castle terrace.

It's one of a series
of six oils Turner

did on his tour
of Yorkshire in er...

- 1816, I think.
- Real or fake?

I'd need to eyeball it.

But if it is real, you've got
yourself a lost, minor masterpiece.

This bad boy hasn't been sighted
since the late 19th century

when it was sold at auction
to an anonymous buyer.

OK, so if it's real,

or can be passed off
as real, how much?

Millions.

Kevin, I want you to run a
check on a Mrs. Miranda Aspern.

Miranda...Aspern.

OK. Soon as. Thanks.

This way, boss.

Right, then, art forgery
- it's not all about painting, you know?

You need genuinely old paper

culled from old books, so

so Whittaker might
have supplied paper.

It's an active as a line of inquiry,

but the Turner was done on canvas.

Win, Jacob McMahon
- local artist,

lives in a house out
at Jennings Field,

associate of Leslie Whittaker's.

His alibi checks out for
the night of the fire,

but get onto Intel.
Get a proper profile.

- Boss.
- Also,

Also, I've sourced
some expert assistance,

- so if Mark can
come in and - - Mark?

Mark Keane
- Senior Curator at the Northern Gallery.

He's a specialist in 19th-century
English-landscape painting.

- Win?-
Mark Keane -

I'll action a disclosure check.

Here we are.

- You see that?
- Yes, sir.

- What?
- Keep talking, tracker Joe.

Well, lucky for us, ground's muddy and
we've got protection from the trees.

Our guys reckon these tyre prints

were made within the last 36 hours,

so we should be able to get make

and manufacturer from the wheelbase...
- Now!

What?

Come on.

- Bitch!
- I know.

Thanks.

Bailey! Come on! Come on!

Clever girl!

Come on, give me the ball! Come on.
Give me the ball. (LAUGHS)

Give me the ball!

What's wrong?

Did you kill her?

No.

I'm coming, Bailey.

Come on! Come on, Bailey!

Come on, Bailey! Come on! Come on!

OK, Gerry, why were
you hiding in the woods?

Why did you run?

I don't like cops.

Where's Les?

- Is he OK?
- Leslie Whittaker?

- Yeah.
- Leslie Whittaker's dead.

In a fire on Tuesday night.

A fire that was deliberately set.

Where were you
Tuesday night, Gerry?

I were at my mate's...

playing Xbox.

His name's Declan Shannon.

Been there for the last
two days. You can check.

I didn't kill him.

Neither did Christina,
before you ask.

- Christina Aspern?
- Yeah.

I live on a boat with her.

She's my girlfriend.

According to the boat's
owner, it's unoccupied.

We were squatting.

Where is the boat?

At the bottom of the canal.

Where's Christina?

Christina died in the fire too.

No, she...

she weren't on the boat,

she were at her dad's on Tuesday.

It was his birthday.

I knew it.

I knew there was something wrong.

Something wrong?

She were gonna grass him up,

to you - the police.

She said she were
gonna grass him up,

that's why she didn't
go to his party.

Grass who up?

Her dad.

So you're saying that...

Christina was going
to report her father,

Dr. Patrick Aspern,
to the police.

- Why?
- I dunno.

They weren't talking and...

they were eating away at her, like,

really messing up
her head.

She said it made her sick.

Her dad killed her.

Unlikely.

The fire was started
on Whittaker's boat

and Mark Keane said the
Turner could be worth millions.

That's a lot of money
and a lot of motive.

Christina was on the end of
a violent blow to the head.

Whittaker made no effort
to escape the fire.

Neither did Christina. She
was still in her sleeping bag.

Are you really saying
Aspern killed Christina?

Or his wife, and he's
trying to protect her.

- What?
- I don't know,

but something's not right there.

So Aspern, or his
wife, killed Christina,

and then went to the trouble of setting
a fire to make it look like Whittaker

- was the intended victim?
- I don't know, Annie,

but here's what I do know.

You're tasked with the
art-fraud line of inquiry -

concentrate on that, please.

Patrick Aspern's due
in to identify the body.

Let's get a look at the
whites of his eyes, shall we?

DS Cabbot on DCI Banks's team.

Yeah, the tox results on...

OK. I'll be right over.

DS Cabbot?

Normally this goes directly
to the SIO.

DCI Banks has tasked me with
processing the tox reports.

If you want to er...

call him in the middle of a
double-murder investigation,

go ahead -
speed-dial five.

Thank you.

Is there something wrong?

There's a problem here, isn't there?

I'm not sure this is the
appropriate time or place, sir.

My daughter's dead, there is
no appropriate time or place.

Tuesday night, your house,
the night before the party.

Was Christina invited?

- Of course.
- But she didn't come?

- No.
- Why not?

I don't know.

When did you last
speak to Christina?

About a week before she died.

She was studying
public-health management.

I was giving her some work
experience.

Anything else?

We've been given to understand

that Christina was going
to report you to the police.

Well, I've done nothing criminal,

so Christina would have no
reason to report me to the police.

Did you and Christina have
a good relationship, sir?

I'm sorry?

Did you have a good
relationship with your daughter?

Yes.

I did.

I loved her.

DCI Banks?

Are you ready, sir?

Is this your daughter, sir?

Christina Aspern.

Yes.

What about her things?

- Her possessions?
- Still being retrieved from the canal.

Do you think that I...?

Is this head wound why you think

Christina was murdered?

She makes no attempt
to escape the fire.

This could explain why.

You're wrong.

I'm a GP.

Look, the skull splinters haven't
been driven into the brain,

as would be the case with
blunt-instrument trauma.

See? They've been forced outwards.

This is a fracture caused by
internal pressure.

These fires,

they reach temperatures
of over 1,200 degrees,

at which point, the
blood, the brain boils.

Steam needs an outlet,
so it blows a hole...

..in the skull.

My Christina was in the
wrong place at the wrong time,

but somebody set that
fire deliberately!

Now, you do your job and find them.

You need to up your game,
old son.

You didn't kill her.

No.

Right, then, Christina Aspern
wasn't the intended victim

of the boat fire,
Leslie Whittaker was.

So the head trauma wasn't the result
of an attack,

but Christina didn't
try to escape the fire.

Why not?

Because she'd taken heroin.

Toxicology reports.

There was a large
quantity of heroin

found in Christina
Aspern's bloodstream,

but more importantly,
Leslie Whittaker

had a substantial dose of
benzodiazepine in his bloodstream.

- That's a chemical name for...
- Rohypnol.

Slipped into Whittaker's
drink, knocks him unconscious,

while the killer spreads his
accelerant and sets the fire.

Unfortunately for Christina,

she's next door,
out of it on heroin.

We'll find Christina
Aspern's killer if we focus

this inquiry on Leslie Whittaker.

Boss?

Fire engine's silent-witness
camera - you need to see this.

Here we are.

Half a mile shy of
the canal-boat fire.

17 minutes past midnight -

matches the time of the murder.

The guys have enhanced
as much as they can,

but can't make a
face on the driver.

- Licence plate?
- Yes.

Patrick Aspern?

Miranda Aspern.

Right, we've got unidentified
tracks near the scene of the crime.

If they match Miranda's jeep...

Doesn't mean she had
anything to do with the fire.

It means she's a key witness.

That's if it was
Miranda in the car.

It could have been Aspern himself.

Dr. Aspern, Miranda - they're hiding
something.

Yeah, and you and your
support network here

are taking it personally.

My office.

OK, standard protocol
is the toxicology reports

are delivered directly to the SIO,

but you were busy with Patrick
Aspern,

so what's wrong with me
opening an envelope for you?

This isn't about the niceties
of procedure, Annie.

It's about you strutting your stuff
in front of my support network

with the tox report.

A) They are not
my support network.

They are hard-working,
dedicated officers

and are vital members of our team,

and as such, I expect
you to treat them with

your full professional respect.

B) The toxicology report.

Don't come into a briefing
with your colleagues

and showboat like that again.

That's all.

Patrick Aspern.

Don't let this becomes
a pissing contest.

- Sorry I'm late.
- It's all right.

- Drink?
- White wine.

- What kind?
- Large.

I didn't know all that
forgery stuff still went on.

I mean, I thought you
could do x-rays and -

It's an arms race.

Us guys come up with a test...

..the bad guys find a way to fox it.

So...

when do I get to come in
and look at your exhibits?

Once we've ran a
security check on you.

I should really go home.

I really should go home.

Is there someone else, Annie?

In your life?

No.

Hello, mate.

- Thanks, Kevin.
- Dr. Aspern,

we'd like a word with your wife,
please.

Miranda's not here, she's
gone to her mother's.

We have a warrant
to impound her car.

We'd like to interview
her as soon as possible.

- Why?-
Tuesday night -

the night Christina died -

- where was your wife?
- Didn't you already ask her that?

Was Christina the intended victim?

Or is this just some perverse
obsession with me and my family?

Tuesday night, where was your wife?

Can I remind you, sir,
that providing someone

with a false alibi
is a criminal offence.

Would you mind keeping your filthy

black face out of my business?

Kevin, tell Forensics I want

a report on the car
by the end of the day.

- Win...
- I'm fine.

- Would you like me to -
- I'll be fine, thanks, sir.

Yes, Ken?

We've got another
fire and another body.

Jake McMahon.

Thanks, Ken.