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(van engine roaring)

(power rock music)

(tense music)

(device beeps)

- [Adrian] Yeah!

- Tom, get you another one?

- Hum, get the same again.

- So your eldest still at uni then?

- Yeah and costing me a packet.

- Sorry Mitch, but it's two minutes past time.

- My customers are still drinking.

- Rules are rules.

- Sorry Tom.

(bell rings)

Time to drink up now folks!

- [Azeem] Calling all units.

Calling all units.

This is a Code Red!

Code Red at Colton's Butchers.

Calling all units.

This is a Code Red!

I repeat, a Code Red.

- [Cecily] Did you hear that?

- I did indeed, everybody follow me all right.

- Code Red at Colton's Butchers.

I repeat, Code Red.

- What's the emergency, Azeem?

- Angus's shop is unlocked.

- Hardly cause for a Code Red.

- More like a Code Yellow.

- It might be the burglar.

- It might just be Angus.

- Did you actually check inside?

(Azeem sighs)

Angus?

- Angus?

- Angus.

- What's that?

(Cecily gasps)

- [Adrian] Freezer.

(suspenseful music)

(eerie jazzy music)

Angus is dead.

- [Winter] Unit three to HQ,

unit three calling HQ.

- HQ receiving, over.

- Angus Colton, 44 years old,

found dead in his butcher shop in the village of Bleakridge.

- We're heading for bandit country.

- [Winter] Sir?

- Bleakridge, the most remote village in Midsomer,

surrounded by moorland.

- Sounds like a horror movie.

- It was a scary place for a while.

Crime rate was unusually high for a small village.

It had a reputation for being lawless until two years ago.

Problem was location.

Village was so far out it took our lot too long

to respond to calls.

By the time we turned up the damage was done.

- I'm assuming word got out?

- Oh they flocked here, burglars,

car thieves, joyriders, fly tippers.

- Gangster's Paradise, Sir?

- Hmmm.

- [Male Officer] That's it,

if you could keep back please ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you very much.

- So, what changed?

You said the village was lawless

until two years ago.

What changed?

- They formed a Watch.

What can you tell us?

- I can tell you I'm freezing.

We're looking at blunt force trauma

to the back of the skull.

One blow, with considerable force.

- His attacker came from behind?

- We found blood splatter on the floor behind you.

Looks likely that he was attacked out there

and dragged in here.

- Murder weapon?

- [Kam] We're still looking.

- Time of death?

- Time of death is usually determined

by measuring body temperature.

- So, him being in a freezer?

- Doesn't help, no.

- [Barnaby] No forced access?

- The door was closed but unlocked.

- Any other employees?

- No, this is a one man operation.

- Who found the body?

- I was on patrol checking business premises

and then I saw the door was unlocked.

- Did you go inside?

- No, I just put out the Code Red.

- The Code Red?

- It's standard Watch protocol.

All serious incidents are assigned a colour

depending on their severity.

- Code Red being the most severe.

- It means there's a serious crime in progress

and urgent assistance is required.

- Did you know Angus Colton?

- He was a stout fellow.

- And a more than adequate butcher.

- And our Deputy Coordinator.

- Wait, you're saying that Angus Colton

was a member of the Watch?

- He's a founding member no less.

- Does Mr. Colton have any family?

- A sister, Maxine, and a niece Tara.

- And where would we find them?

- At Angus's house, across the green.

They've been living with him for the past two years.

Ever since the husband Frank died.

- Who would want to kill Angus?

He never hurt anyone.

- When did you last see him?

- Yesterday morning?

- We had breakfast around nine

then Uncle Angus went over to the shop.

- And how was he before he left?

- Same old Angus.

He's like a bear with a sore head.

- Can either of you think of anyone

who might want to harm him?

- No, no he was well liked.

- Was he anxious about anything

in the past few weeks?

Worried?

- No, he was too focused on the case.

- The case?

What is all this?

- Uncle Angus's big project.

He was investigating the burglaries.

- What burglaries?

- The village has been targeted.

There's being five break-ins in the last month.

- Aunt Ingrid's very worried about it.

- Aunt Ingrid?

- My sister-in-law, Ingrid Lockston.

She's the coordinator of the Watch.

- She asked Uncle Angus to find out

who was behind the burglaries.

- He was becoming obsessed by them.

- He wasn't obsessed.

He just didn't want to let her down.

Aunt Ingrid's pretty cool.

- And did your brother find out

who was behind the burglaries?

- Well if he did, he didn't tell us.

- I want everything in that study logged for the record.

- You think Angus found his burglar?

- Or maybe the burglar found him.

(car doors opening)

(car doors slamming)

- What are we doing here?

I said, what are we doing here?

- Just curious, that's all.

- Well can we be curious somewhere else?

(bell ringing)

(door creaking open)

- Something I can help you with?

- [Barnaby] We're looking for Ingrid Lockston.

- Come in.

Police are here.

(Ingrid clears throat)

- DCI Barnaby and DS Winter, correct?

- Indeed.

- Ingrid Lockston, I'm the coordinator

of the Bleakridge Watch.

We've heard the news about Angus.

We're all simply stunned.

Are you sure he was murdered?

- I'm afraid so.

How well did you know Mr. Colton?

- Well we were related.

His sister was married to my late brother, Frank.

In fact, Angus helped me set up the Watch

in the aftermath of Frank's murder.

- Your brother was murdered?

- He was the victim of a hit and run, two years ago.

Left to die on the roadside.

The driver was never caught.

Back in the day the village was a haven for joyriders,

so, it was assumed that one of those was responsible.

- Scumbags, the lot of 'em.

- Quite.

Frank's death was the final straw.

We decided to clean up our village

and so we formed the Watch.

- When did you last speak to Angus?

- Yesterday morning.

He called to give me an update me on a special case

I'd asked him to look into.

- The burglaries?

- An unfortunate development.

- [Barnaby] And what was his update?

- Well no closer to catching the culprit

but he did believe they were local.

- You should speak to Mitch McAllister.

Had it in for Angus for months now.

- Who's Mitch McAllister?

- He's the owner of The Gallows.

He assaulted Angus, kicked him out of his pub.

- Adrian, it's time for your patrol.

You'll have to excuse him,

he can be a little hot-headed sometimes.

- Tell me about Mitch McAllister.

- Well unfortunately, there are some people in the village

who don't appreciate what the Watch does.

Some of them, including Mitch, think we interfere too much.

(tense music)

(car zooming)

- So I wouldn't normally condone drinking

this early in the morning but my darling wife

has finally been recognised for her good deeds.

So, I'm happy to make an exception.

- That's very big of you, Duncan.

- Would you like to say a few words, Barbara?

- Oh, yes.

Well a pat on the back from the council is hardly a success.

But it's nice they recognise the importance of the cafe.

Even though they have refused to fund us all these years.

(people laugh)

So we won't rest on our laurels.

There's still work to be done.

Cafe opens in an hour.

So that's your last.

(people clap)

- We're looking for Mitch McAllister.

- Yeah, that's me.

- DCI Barnaby, DS Winter.

We need to speak with you about Angus Colton.

- What's he been saying now?

- Not much, he's dead.

- Okay, I barred Colton so what?

- Sounds like things got physical.

- He was refusing to leave

so I got a hold of him and threw him out.

- It was a scuffle, nothing more.

- Why did you bar him?

- Colton and that Watch lot, they're a pain in our neck.

- Every time we try and do something to make money,

they object to it.

- Late licence, beer garden, live music,

comedy night, you name it.

- They say they wanna prevent crime but really,

what they wanna do is run this village the way they see fit.

- If you try to complain they start targeting you.

- Targeting you in what way?

- Oh well it starts with parking tickets and speeding fines,

and then they move on to reporting you to the council

for petty things like bins, hedges, noise.

- Meanwhile, them and their mates do whatever they like.

Probably that lot that killed Colton.

- What makes you say that?

- They're the only ones round here

who can get away with it.

- Every watch group should have

a police point of contact, yes?

- Community liaison usually.

(car beeps)

- Find out who deals with The Watch.

Let's get some background on them.

- Yeah we should've called ahead.

- [Maxine] Tara where are you going?

- Meeting Aunt Ingrid.

Excuse me.

- We came as soon as we heard.

Come on, we'll make you a cup of tea.

- Hi.

I just need to get away.

(doorbell rings)

- Oh, who's that coming to see us?

Oh hello you.

- Hi.

On my way back to the lab

but John asked me to drop in these.

Preliminary notes from today.

(Paddy barks)

Oh how's Paddy settling in?

- Betty adores him and so do we.

More importantly, how's Jamie settling in?

- Oh cocky, irritating, same old Winter.

- I didn't realise you two knew each other.

- We don't, but we have met before.

A training course in crime scene management

we both attended at the same time.

It was in Dorset.

But we got to talking, mostly about work.

It's pretty dull, really.

- Yeah, sounds it.

- So we know each other

but it's not like we're friends or anything.

- No, certainly not friends.

- So, I should probably...

- The lab?

- Yes, the lab.

I should be there.

Bye, see you.

(door shuts)

- Very strange, indeed.

(Sarah giggles)

(suspenseful music)

(petrol splashing)

(match lights)

(fire crackles)

- As we found him in a freezer,

I can't give you an exact time of death.

As for cause, he sustained a depressed skull fracture

resulting in an intracranial haemorrhage.

- Anything on the murder weapon?

- We're going with a meat tenderizer.

We found lattice shaped markings around the wound

that correspond to the pattern found on one of these.

And an inventory of the shop showed

that the tenderizer was missing.

- What about prints, DNA?

- I've sent some samples to the lab.

Should hear back in a day or so.

However, there is one thing you might want

to take a look at now.

I found these on his ankles.

- Restraining injuries?

- Found similar ones on his wrists.

- The killer tied him up?

- No, I don't think these are linked to his murder.

These are older wounds.

(camera clicks)

- [Winter] His socks were too tight?

- Kam thinks Angus Colton was restrained

at some point during the last month.

- Oh, I asked the community liaison

for a report on the Bleakridge Watch.

- What's the story?

- They're a pretty effective outfit.

Since Ingrid Lockston and Colton set up the Watch,

the crime rate has dropped almost 80%.

- Impressive record.

- Unfortunately, the recent break-ins

have taken the shine off.

Colton was on the case

but he wasn't really getting anywhere with it.

- He didn't make any headway?

- Sort of, the last break in was two weeks ago

at the home of Watch members Felix and Cecily Hope.

Colton found a shoe print in the back garden.

Size 10, left training shoe

with distinctive vertical markings.

- What about Colton's communications?

- We're still going through his emails

but his call history is interesting.

The last call he made was to Azeem Meer.

Meer was one of the Watch members

that discovered Colton's body.

- What was so interesting about it?

- Colton made it at 5:00 a.m.

Also we have traced the last transaction

from Colton's butcher's shop.

A debit card belonging to a Henry Marsh.

Henry Marsh once served 12 months for aggravated robbery.

- Are you sure about this, Henry?

I mean, I get it you wanna play Mr. Regular Job for a while.

Good for you.

At some point you're gonna have to face the facts

a regular job doesn't pay that well, you know?

- It will when we got clients.

- And who's gonna wanna employ us?

- Have a little faith, brother.

- It's just, it's not who we are, Henry.

(dog barking)

- That is your debit card?

- Yeah, but I wasn't in Angus' shop.

- Was your card stolen?

Not stolen then.

- Jensen, get in here!

- Everything alright?

- Use my card recently?

- What card? - Bank card.

- Yeah, come to think of it.

A few days ago for the shopping.

- You go down to Colton's butchers?

- Fancied a couple of steaks.

- Did you speak to Angus Colton?

- Not really no.

He seemed a bit distracted.

- By what?

- That woman from the pub, what's her name?

Lena, is it?

She came in just after me

and she seemed desperate to talk to him.

- Sorry Ingrid, we're not open yet.

- Tara said you'd be here.

I can't believe you came to work.

- Well it's best to keep busy.

- You can't outrun your grief forever.

- When did you speak with Tara?

- I went to the house to invite you both for dinner.

Family should pull together at a time like this.

- Oh I'm sorry, Ingrid I can't tonight I'm helping Barbara.

- Barbara, I hear congratulations are in order.

Your community award?

- Oh, it's no big thing.

- It is a big thing.

- Absolutely and so well deserved.

Spending your days in here doling out soup

to all the old dears.

I don't know how you do it.

- Well you should volunteer for a day.

- Oh I'd love to but the Watch takes up

all my time these days.

Which reminds me, sandwich board outside

bit of an eye sore.

I'll leave you to bring it in.

- I swear, one of these days.

- I'll be right behind you.

(car door slams)

(opera music)

- Mr. Meer?

Mr. Meer?

- Can I help you?

It's DS Winter isn't it?

- Yeah, that's right.

I need to ask you about the call you took

from Angus Colton the day he died.

- I don't remember a call.

- This one was at 5:00 a.m.

- Camera!

- [Winter] Camera?

- Yeah, Angus wanted to borrow mine.

- He called you at five in the morning

just to borrow a camera?

- It's a top of the range D-SLR.

- [Winter] Did he say why he needed it?

- Watch business.

- What kind of Watch business?

- I don't know, I was half asleep when he called.

I told him to come round and get it.

- And did he?

- About an hour later.

- Thanks.

- [Barnaby] We have a statement from the eyewitness.

One I'm inclined to believe.

- All right, yes.

I went to see Angus.

- You didn't tell us that yesterday.

- I didn't want Mitch to know.

Angus was our supplier and, yes,

him and Mitch fought all the time.

But he did us a good deal.

- So you were making peace, is that it?

- I was trying to help the business.

We're running a restaurant.

We're not gonna get very far without meat.

- And what did Angus have to say to that?

- He said he'd think about it.

- What time did you leave him?

- Four.

He said he had to close up he was expecting somebody.

- Did he say who?

- No.

Is it all right if I go?

- Soup and sandwiches for table nine?

Here you are young man, carrot and coriander soup,

two of your five a day!

And sandwiches for you both.

- Sure you're not being a little precious?

It's only dinner.

- I just don't like the idea of Tara

spending all that time alone with Ingrid.

She's always filling her head with stories about Frank.

- Well then go along too.

- I can't.

I said I was helping you tonight.

- How come I'm always your alibi?

Talking of alibis, you're late.

(birds squawking)

(suspenseful music)

- Boo! (Maxine screams)

- For god's sake, Henry!

Fool.

- So Colton was meeting someone?

- In his shop after hours.

- Maybe it was a business meeting.

- On a Saturday night?

- You think it was his killer?

- Maybe.

Or maybe Lena made up the whole story

to throw us of the scent.

- You think she's lying?

- I think she's holding back.

- Why would she do that?

- To protect herself or someone else.

- Someone like Mitch?

- Any luck with Azeem's camera?

- It's not on the search inventory.

- That suggests our killer took it.

- Which suggests Colton took a photograph

of something he shouldn't have.

- We need to find that camera.

(glass breaks)

(water running)

- Hello?

Hello?

Oh no!

What the hell?

I don't believe this!

No!

(Mitch yells)

- Morning, sir.

- What have we got?

- Break in.

Mitch McAllister was attacked

by a burglar around two last night.

- Is he okay?

- Took a knock to the head, nothing too serious

but I've got the paramedics checking him over

just to be sure.

- What was stolen?

- Nothing as far as we can tell.

But they did make quite a mess.

They turned on all the downstairs taps

and made sure to block the drain.

- What was the MO on the other burglaries?

- Residential properties hit during the day

while the owners are out.

- Were the properties vandalised?

- No.

Clean jobs.

Quick in and out.

Only small items of value taken.

- So this is a commercial property accessed at night

with the owners in bed.

Nothing of value taken and malicious damage caused, yes?

- Yeah.

- Entry point?

- And the alarm had been disabled.

Precision job.

- What was used to block the drains?

- Table cloths.

- Where are they kept?

- In the airing cupboard under the stairs.

- Not exactly easy to find.

- Unless you knew where they were.

- Good morning.

Was it a late night last night?

- Suppose.

- I thought it was just dinner.

- Aunt Ingrid and I got to talking.

- Yeah?

About what?

- Dad mainly.

How come no one told me he was in a band at university?

- Because they weren't up to much.

- Aunt Ingrid says they were great.

- Well you dad was her brother

and your Aunt Ingrid isn't exactly known

for her taste in music.

- She says she's gonna look out their demo for me.

Let me listen to it.

It'd be nice to hear his voice again.

I remember we used to sing along to the radio

when he took me swimming.

Remember?

He knew all the words.

- Can't say I do.

But then swimming was always yours and your dad's thing.

- Why'd you never come with us?

- I just never fancied it, that's all.

- Anyway, me and Aunt Ingrid

planning a night next week,

we're gonna spend it listening to the demo.

- Wow, that sounds like a truly a miserable night.

- Why are you always doing this?

- Doing what?

- Running dad down.

- I'm not running your dad down

it's just, when it comes to your father,

Aunt Ingrid has a very selective memory.

She chooses to remember the good points.

- Isn't that how you're supposed to remember the dead?

Sometimes I wonder why you married him

seeing as you obviously hated him.

- I didn't hate your dad.

- You didn't love him either.

- There are different kinds of love, Tara.

- No there aren't.

- So, you're saying it's an inside job?

- [Barnaby] There are inconsistencies.

- What inconsistencies?

- You can't think we did this, look at him!

He's been attacked.

I mean he can't have done that to himself.

- Whoever broke in last night knew their way

around your alarm system.

- Do you have any other employees?

- No, it's just me and Lena now.

- We had to let a few people go.

- Any of them resent you for that?

- No point continuing patrols with the police

all over the village.

- There's still plenty for the Watch

to be getting on with.

- Like finding this burglar. - Yeah.

- Surely the break-ins are small fry

given that there's been a murder.

- Easy for you to say,

it wasn't your house that was broken into.

- Hear, hear!

A damn violation.

- We're surplus to requirements.

- On the contrary.

I think we are very required right now.

Angus's murder has left the village in shock.

People are very frightened.

We must get out there and show everybody,

that the Watch is still here

and that we are still on their side.

- Exactly, we keep going for Angus.

- Yeah and to hell with the police.

- Adrian?

- Whoever broke into The Gallows

had intimate knowledge of its layout.

- Everyone knows The Gallows.

- But not everyone has an axe to grind

with their former employer.

- [Winter] Mitch sacked you last month.

- That was an unfair dismissal.

- [Barnaby] Where were you last night?

- Adrian was here.

He was helping me with the patrol rota.

We had a late finish,

so I made up the guest bedroom for him.

- You were here all night?

- Ingrid made me breakfast.

- But if you're looking

for someone to question try Duncan Walton.

- Why would he break into the pub?

- I'm not suggesting he did.

But last night's patrol does record

that Duncan was seen leaving his house at 1:00 a.m.

Strange for him to be out so late

but maybe he saw your intruder.

- So, what do you think?

- I think we need to watch Ingrid.

- Think Adrian was there all night?

- Call the station,

see if forensics found anything at the pub.

I'll talk to Duncan Walton.

- Have to hand it to you, Ingrid.

That was quick thinking.

(slaps)

- What did I tell you about the pub?

- To stay away.

- Defy me like that again

and I'll run you out of my village.

Got it?

- Yeah.

- Look at the state of it.

- We're gonna have to close till tomorrow.

- Can't afford to close.

- We can't open with a flooded kitchen.

A load of the food's all perished.

- If my dad could see this now.

- He'd understand.

- You think?

All the work he put into this pub.

The man's legacy to me.

I go and run it into the ground.

- We're not there yet.

- We'll be there soon though

if the Watch has anything to do with it.

- I've gotta go to Little Crosby.

- Why have you gotta go there?

- I've got a booking.

It's a hen party, they want the works hair, nails, make up.

- How long are you gonna be?

= I reckon it'll be a late one.

Promise you won't do anything stupid.

- Sure.

- I went for a walk.

- At one in the morning?

- Oh that's early for you Duncan.

- I have trouble sleeping sometimes.

- Restless legs, terrible affliction.

- I don't like to wake Barbara,

so instead I go out for a stroll.

- Did you pass The Gallows?

- The Gallows?

No, why?

- There was a break-in last night.

Perhaps you witnessed something.

- Sorry, no, I went the other way.

- So you saw nothing untoward?

- No it was all quiet.

- Well thank you for your time.

- I didn't hear you come back.

- What?

- Well I usually hear you come back in.

How long were you out for?

- Oh an hour or so.

- [Tara] Mum come on!

I don't see what the problem is.

- I just don't think you should be spending

so much time up there, that's all.

- Auntie Ingrid is family.

- I'm family too.

- Yeah, but you're never around.

- Tara, that's not fair!

- She wants to spend more time with Ingrid together

so they can really bond.

- Bonding with Ingrid?

Sounds awful.

- Tell me about it, what should I do?

- Maxine, I've no experience of kids.

- You have experience of Duncan.

(dishes break)

- [Duncan] Oh for crying out loud!

- Everything okay, darling?

- [Duncan] The plates are too slippy.

- Hear that?

We've got slippy plates.

(phone rings)

- Lab results came back on Colton.

Slim pickings,

nothing to help you identify your killer, I'm afraid.

- So we need to have dinner tonight.

- We need to have dinner?

- It's time we had the talk.

- What talk?

- You know what talk.

- No, I don't.

- Dorset.

- We don't need to get into that.

- I'll pick you up at eight.

(phone rings)

(tool clangs)

(door closes)

- [Sarah] What's the Bleakridge Watch?

- They're like a rural Stasi.

- 24 members?

- What's wrong with that?

- Sally at school tried to set up a Watch

and only two people turned up.

And they only came for the cake.

- Sally set up a community watch?

- Yeah, she wanted to do her civic duty.

And she fancied her neighbour.

- That makes more sense.

- So did you speak to Jamie today?

- Many times.

They met on a training course.

- Yes but what happened on the training course?

- What usually happens.

Two days trapped in a soulless hotel

listening to people telling you things you already know.

- You should call him,

ask him out for a drink

and then you can properly grill him.

- Or I could do nothing of the sort.

Anyway, there's no point calling him

him and Kam went out for dinner tonight.

- Rekindling the flame?

- Discussing the case more likely.

- Uh-hmm.

(crowd talking)

- Nothing happened.

- You sure about that?

- Absolutely.

- What about the hotel bar?

- What about it?

- I remember karaoke.

- You murdered "Like a Prayer."

- And the dancing?

- That was later, in your room.

- I guess we just had a few too many.

- I should say so.

- Oh the whole night was a blur.

- I can't remember a thing.

- So then we can't say for sure

that nothing happened now can we?

- Look.

It doesn't matter to me one way or the other.

Fact is we have to work together now

and I don't want things to be awkward between us.

- I'm not the one who's awkward about it.

- You seem pretty awkward.

- That's because you keep going on about it.

- Then I won't mention it again.

- Good.

- Good.

- [Waiter] Your ribs sir. - Thank you.

You want a rib?

(opera music)

(Azeem yells)

- [Barnaby] Morning.

- Azeem Meer and it's not pretty.

- Who found him?

- Postman around six this morning.

Saw the door was unlocked

came in to see that everything was alright

and got the shock of his life.

- Looks like another bludgeoning.

- And the weapon of choice?

- Missing a hammer from the display in the shop.

- Cause of death should be easy.

- Blunt force trauma to the skull.

- What about forensics?

- I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Stock in here is decades old.

The entire place is covered in material.

Careful.

- Wait.

What is that?

We saw those marks on Angus Colton.

- Oh yeah.

- [Winter] Sir!

- Thank you, Kam.

- Meer's phone

Lots of texts messages last night

all from the same number.

- Stay here, keep searching.

- [Kam] Okay, you can take him now.

- [Mitch] I didn't kill Azeem!

- You certainly threatened to.

- Texts.

Sent last night from your phone to Azeem Meer's

saying you were going round there to kill him.

- Yeah, okay, I sent some texts

but not just to him to all the Watch.

Check my phone, I sent messages to all of them

Adrian, Ingrid, Azeem.

- What the hell were you thinking?

- I was drunk.

I was angry.

I was sick of that lot ruling the roost.

- Where were you both last night?

- I was in Causton.

Mitch was here.

What did you do?

- Someone sabotages my pub.

Then sure as hell I'm gonna hit back.

- Mitch, what did you do?

- [Adrian] I'm gonna kill him.

- You see what happens when you go against my orders?

- He ain't getting away with this.

- Leave it, we've got bigger problems.

- No, I'm dealing with this tonight.

I suppose I could bide my time.

- Ingrid!

Ingrid!

- Take a breath, tell me slowly.

- [Adrian] What's happened?

- It's Azeem.

- He's been murdered.

- That's two members of the Watch within a week.

- Yes, thank you Felix,

I am aware of that.

- What if one of us is next?

- If someone is coming after us

we need to take some proper precautions.

- I think we should disband The Watch.

- Disband?

- Well until they find the murderer at least.

- We set up this Watch in honour of my brother.

It was our tribute to him

if we disband this now,

then Frank death has been in vain.

Is that what you all want?

- No.

- Good.

Debrief in 10 minutes.

- All right?

(objects clatter)

(suspenseful music)

- Wales?

- Yeah, Wales.

There's a mate of mine, well a bloke I knew on the inside

He's got a business, a building just outside Cardiff.

He said if I want there's a job for me.

It's all above board, Maxine.

- We can't move to Wales.

- Why not?

What is there for us here?

- This is our home.

- Some kind of home if we have

to keep our relationship secret.

At least in Wales we can meet up in public.

- What about Tara?

- She's 17, she'll be going to uni soon.

- Okay.

Jensen?

- Jensen will understand.

- So when would we move?

- Well two weeks.

- I can't move in two weeks.

- All right, two months.

It's this bloke, he needs to know soon as.

- I'm sorry, I can't.

It's too soon.

- Well just think about it Maxine.

It's a chance for a new start.

- We've been using the insurance inventories to compare

but as far as we can tell

everything that was stolen is here.

- Everything?

- We also found Azeem's kit bag.

Size 10, left sole, vertical mark.

- Did anyone even look at Azeem Meer

as a suspect in the break-ins?

- I doubt it.

No criminal record.

He was the average model citizen.

- What about his financial affairs?

- More than solvent.

- Why does a financially comfortable, middle aged man,

with no previous form, suddenly take up burglary?

- And why does he keep all his loot in his shop?

Why not sell some of it on?

- Maxine Lockston?

Even by your standard, that's a risky game, Henry.

What's going on?

- Nothing.

Just a casual thing.

- Causal, right, that's why you meet

in secret everyday is it?

This whole new leaf?

The business, it's 'cause of her then?

I hope you're not planning on saying anything. Henry.

- Course not.

- Cause that would be stupid.

- I'm not going to say a word.

- Good.

Cause you and me, we're up to our necks in it.

- Azeem and Angus.

Connections?

- Both were members of the Watch.

- And there's no doubt the Watch has enemies.

Mitch McAllister for one.

But why go for these two?

Why not go for Ingrid and cut off the head?

What else do they have in common?

- The burglaries,

Azeem was carrying them out, Angus was investigating.

- Which brings us back to Azeem's missing camera.

Why did the killer take it?

- What about these?

Both had similar restraining injuries.

(phone rings)

DS Winter?

Okay.

Yeah, send them through.

Tech boys, haven't found Meer's laptop

but they've got a personal cloud account

they want me to take a look at.

- Go and speak to them.

Meantime, I'm off to visit the Bleakridge Watch.

- Azeem?

Are you sure?

- None of you had any idea?

- Well of course we didn't.

- We'd have said something.

- We'd have strung him up.

- I had my suspicions.

- Nothing concrete, just a feeling.

- And what prompted this feeling?

- Azeem's unease around the subject of the break-ins.

His objections when I put Angus on the case.

I should have said something.

I suppose I just didn't want to admit

that one of our own could betray us.

- To think he broke into our house and stole all our things.

- Your belongings will be returned.

Azeem stored everything he stole

in a room at the back of his shop.

- Why would he do that?

- That's what we're struggling with.

- Still, this isn't gonna go down well in the village is it?

- Just as we were getting things back on side as well.

- So, we have to admit our mistake.

We have to put up our hands

and promise to rectify the situation.

- How we going to do that?

- By doing everything we can

to help DCI Barnaby solve these murders.

DCI Barnaby, The Bleakridge Watch is now at your disposal.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- Thanks for dinner last night it was fun.

Are you sure I can't pay half?

- No, it was my treat.

You can pay next time.

- What have you got there?

- Tech boys found a personal cloud account Meer

had synced with his missing digital camera.

- What was Meer doing photographing barns?

- Oh he wasn't.

This picture was taken by Colton.

Colton borrowed Meer's camera the day before he died.

Any chance you recognise it?

- Let me have a look.

Telegraph pole.

- Okay, so, there's a telegraph pole.

- Well telegraph poles are numbered

so you find the number and then you find the pole.

And that way you can find the barn.

(birds chirping)

(suspenseful music)

(car door slams)

- Fire services reckon it was arson

and they got here and stopped it

before the whole building went up.

- When was the fire?

- The day we turned up in Bleakridge.

- The day after Angus Colton died?

- Colton took a picture of this barn

12 hours later, he was dead.

Azeem Meer viewed that picture

on an online account and then he died.

- In the meantime, someone goes to a lot of trouble

to destroy the barn.

- [Winter] Which brings me onto the car.

- The car with the rather ominous damage to the front wing.

Who was the car registered to?

- Why would you want to go to Wales?

- I don't, not really.

But the thought of finally getting out

of the village is tempting.

- You can't leave.

Tell her Duncan!

- I have to go out for a few hours.

- Really, Maxine?

Are you sure you want to risk everything on this?

- On what?

- On Henry.

I mean I know you're fond of him

and I can see he makes you happy but,

well he's hardly Mr. Reliable.

- Well, he's all I've got.

- Now that's not true, you have me.

- I know, but I love Henry.

- Well then, that's that I suppose.

But what would I do without you?

You're the only friend I've got.

- Oh thanks very much.

- I thought you were going out.

- We'd like a word, Dr. Walton.

- I'm not sure I understand.

- The car is registered to you?

- Well, yes.

- It was found yesterday in a burned out barn

just outside the village.

- Well how did it get there?

- We were hoping you could tell us.

- Well surely it's in the police records.

- What is?

- Well we reported the car stolen.

- Two years ago.

- How bad is it?

- All these were due last week.

- I guess we better pay them, then.

- With what?

- With that money from the hen party job.

Plus what I make this afternoon.

- You've got another booking?

- Bridal party.

Their stylist let them down

so they called to see if I could step in at the last minute.

- You said Causton.

- What?

- When Barnaby asked you where were, you said Causton.

But yesterday you told me the hen party job

was in Little Crosby.

- The client lives over in Little Crosby

but the actual job was over in Causton.

I got the addresses mixed up.

- Minutes from a council meeting

on funding for the Bleakridge Watch.

Six weeks ago they decided to cut the Watch's funding

in half citing the drop in crime as a reason.

One week after the decision was announced,

the first burglary took place.

It may be a coincidence.

- But it may not be?

- Earlier, Cecily Hope said that the burglaries

had helped The Watch to get the village back on side.

- So, Azeem was breaking into people's houses

to make the Watch popular again?

- Might go some way to explaining

why he didn't get rid of his haul.

Question is was he working alone?

What kind of a background have we done on the Watch members?

- Usual checks but didn't find anything.

- Let's dig a little deeper.

What about Duncan Walton's car?

- Reported stolen from outside his house

on the 15th of September 2014.

- Now hold on, isn't that the day after

Frank Lockston's hit and run?

- Yeah.

- Are these the forensics on Walton's car?

- They're still processing it.

But I have something on Azeem Meer.

Restraining wounds showed traces

of hydrogen peroxide and PPD.

- That's what, hair dye?

- Well PPD is a primary component

in some hair colouring products, yeah.

(car running passed)

- ANPR just picked up Lena Ferrara's van

outside the George Hotel in Causton.

- Get a unit to meet me there.

- Dispatch, I need a unit.

- I need to see your guest list.

(whip cracks) (man yells)

(whip cracks) (man yells)

(door banging)

- What the hell do you think you're doing!

- Mr. Peck?

- You can't park there.

Permit holders only.

- Official police business.

- What kind of business?

- I have some questions for you.

- Are you alright in there, Duncan?

- [Duncan] Fine, thank you.

- Did you have to come bursting in like that?

Scared the life out of him.

Could've had a heart attack.

- What exactly is this, Miss Ferrara?

- It's exactly what it looks like.

A bit of a sideline.

I provide light bondage for a few select gentlemen.

- Does Mitch know about your sideline?

- No and I'd like to keep it that way.

I used to do this sort of work a long time ago.

Before I met Mitch.

The pub's sinking.

We need the money at the moment to stay afloat so,

I found myself a couple of clients just to

keep things ticking over.

- Like Angus Colton and Azeem Meer?

- Angus and Azeem were regulars.

- And now they're both dead.

- That was nothing to do with me.

- You were with Azeem before he died.

- So what?

- Should I call my solicitor?

- You're not under arrest, Duncan.

Consenting adults.

Now off you pop.

- Will you tell my wife, DCI Barnaby?

- Why would I murder Azeem and Angus?

I needed their money didn't I?

- Perhaps they'd plan to expose you?

- They'd never do that.

- How can you be so sure?

- Because the one thing you need in this business is trust.

They'd never betray me.

Particularly Azeem.

Thank god, poor man was paranoid about being found out.

- Why was he so paranoid?

He was a bachelor, it is the 21st century.

- He wasn't worried about himself.

He was worried about me being exposed.

Him going on all the time about protecting my virtue.

- You enjoy being in The Watch?

- More of a duty than a pleasure.

- You take it seriously?

- I have to, I'm second in command.

- I thought that was Angus Colton.

- Yeah all right.

Officially, I suppose, Angus was deputy coordinator.

- Unofficially?

- I'm Ingrid's right hand man.

- What about Azeem?

- What about him?

- He and Ingrid close?

I've been looking through his call records.

He and Ingrid were in contact a lot.

- What you trying to say?

- I'm just asking a question.

- Look, Azeem might have been

Ingrid's flavour of the month this past...

- Month?

- But it's just a phase.

There's nothing going on between 'em.

Ingrid knows who she can rely on.

- Sounds like he was jealous.

- There's no doubt it.

But it made me take another look at the calls

between Ingrid and Azeem.

I pulled these ones out here.

You recognise the dates?

- The burglaries?

- Ingrid Lockston calls Azeem the morning

of each of the break-ins.

Now most of the calls were

between two and three minutes long

but the last one, made on the morning

of the Felix and Cecily Hope break-in, was different.

- 12 seconds long?

- Not much of a conversation.

- They were arranging a meeting?

- An hour after that call,

Azeem paid for two coffees in a cafe in Causton.

Checked his transactions.

- Did you contact the cafe?

- The manager remembers Azeem well

and the reason he does is because Azeem

had a stand up row with the woman

he was meeting that morning.

- Tell me he described Ingrid.

- Even better than that.

Table by the window.

And cue Ingrid Lockston.

(hatch slams)

(suspenseful music)

- [Cecily] But what are we to do, Ingrid?

- We must carry on regardless.

- But how can we now that everybody knows

that Azeem was responsible for the break-ins?

- No one in the village is taking us seriously.

We've got no authority.

- We just have to ride this out.

Azeem Meer betrayed us.

He took advantage of us.

People will soon see that we were not to blame.

- But you were to blame.

You were working with Azeem.

- That's utterly ridiculous.

- You called him on the days

that he carried out the burglaries.

- So I made a call.

- And the meeting.

Don't forget about your argument in the cafe.

What was it that Azeem was so upset about?

Was it that he wasn't prepared

to do your dirty work anymore?

- My dirty work?

- I don't think that Azeem was a willing participant.

I think you had something on him.

Or at least on someone he cared about.

Was that the deal, Ingrid?

You keep quiet and in return Azeem

is forced to carry out the burglaries?

- I am the leader of the Watch.

Why on earth would I force anyone into crime?

- Because you were losing funding

and the support of the village.

So you decided to remind everyone

how much they still needed The Watch

by arranging a spate of burglaries.

(Ingrid laughs)

- Have you ever heard the like?

- Well, it is odd.

Azeem resorting to housebreaking.

He was so honest.

- Bit of a stick in the mud, really.

- And you were mad about the funding.

- Furious as I recall.

- And then there's the patrol rotas.

You made me change 'em.

On the days all the break-ins happened,

you told me to stand all the patrols down.

- Yes, well.

It was a mistake.

(knocking)

- Henry!

Henry!

- [Jensen] He's not here.

Some banker down at Badger's Drift looking for an extension.

Henry went down there to pitch for the job.

- Right.

- So, what's the plan, Maxine?

- What do you mean?

- You and Henry.

He seems to have got it bad for you.

You and him going to live happily ever after?

- Maybe you should ask Henry.

- Ask him what?

- We're thinking of moving.

- Moving, you're moving where?

- Henry's mentioned Wales.

- Has he now?

- Tell him to call me.

- You wanna be careful, Maxine.

- Let go of me.

- There's something you need to know

and it's best you hear it now.

From me.

- [Felix] It's been a sham from start to finish.

- [Ingrid] Was that entirely necessary?

- Right now, losing the Watch

is the least of your worries, Ingrid.

Two men have been killed.

Both had the potential to expose you.

- I hope you're not suggesting--

- Azeem Meer knew that you were behind the burglaries

and Angus Colton was investigating them.

- Angus Colton was a fool.

That's why I gave him the investigation.

I knew he didn't have the brains to solve it.

But whatever way you look at it,

Azeem carried out those break-ins alone.

So, you're going to have to think of something else

to pin on me.

- Hairdressing jobs.

How stupid am I?

- I'm sorry, I should've told you.

- Maybe.

But it would've made finding out any easier.

- The important thing

is that I have not been unfaithful to you, not once.

- You're kidding, right?

- It's not what you think.

I work with select clients.

I am good at my job.

Professional.

- Well I'd hate to think it was a hobby.

All those blokes.

Everyone we know.

I have to live in this village.

What must they think, Lena?

- I don't care.

I mean it, I don't.

All I care about is you.

And if keeping this pub is what makes you happy,

then I will do whatever I have to do.

I won't apologise for it.

Mitch, I love you.

- No pub's worth living like this.

You best pack your bags.

- Maxine?

Maxine!

- Stay away from me!

- Why?

What's the matter?

Hey wait, what's happened?

- Jensen told me.

- What's he told you?

- Just how sick and twisted are you?

You kill my husband, Tara's dad and then what?

You seduce me?

- No, no, that's not what happened!

- Get Frank out the way and then swoop in.

- Maxine, please!

- Don't you dare touch me!

I never want to see you again, Henry.

- No Maxine, wait!

- Whoever killed Azeem and Angus

didn't want us to find that car.

- But why kill for a stolen car?

- Because it was used in the hit and run

that killed Frank Lockston?

Forensics found blood traces on the car

that matched to Lockston.

And I checked his pathology.

The damage to the bodywork corresponds

with the injuries that Lockston sustained.

- Did we find anything inside the car?

- Well forensics reckon it'd been cleaned

before going into the barn.

- I'm sensing there's a but.

- But they missed one print on the gear stick.

We ran it through the database and we have a name.

- [Barnaby] Henry Marsh.

- Guess what?

That extension bloke.

The one you went to see, he just called.

We got the job.

I don't know how you talked him in to it

but you've always had a way with words, haven't ya.

- How could you do it?

- She had to know the truth.

- No, Jensen, she really didn't.

- You can't start a relationship with a secret like that.

- There is no relationship,

she can't even look at me.

All our plans.

Everything I've working for--

- Yeah and what about me, Henry?

Did I fit into those plans?

Or was I just supposed to stand back and watch you

and her go off and leave me?

You owe me.

I've stood by you!

I was there for you!

Not Maxine!

Me!

(police siren blaring)

- He's making a break for it.

Go, go!

(dogs barking)

- [Winter] Marsh, stop right now!

Marsh!

(Henry grunts)

Henry Marsh. you're under arrest

for the murder of Frank Lockston.

You do not have to say anything

but it may harm your defence

if you do not mention when questioned...

- Look I admit I stole Walton's car

but I didn't kill Frank Lockston.

- Henry, we found Frank Lockston's blood

on the bonnet of that car.

- Well then it must've been there

before I stole the car because I didn't hit him.

Look I'd been in the pub all night.

I'd had a skin-full.

Mitch chucked me out, I'm looking at a long walk home,

then I see it, just parked up on the verge

with the keys in the ignition.

So I get in and I drive myself home.

- Killing Frank on the way?

- I didn't hit anyone!

Look the next morning, I wake up,

everyone's talking about Frank getting knocked over.

I go outside, I see there's a dent in the car and I panic.

And what was I supposed to do?

I was six months out of prison.

Even if I hadn't killed Frank,

I'm looking at car theft and drink driving.

- So what did you do?

- I get Jensen to help me clean the car up.

That night, we drive it to some barn and we dump it.

- Maxine?

Maxine, what's happened?

Maxine.

- I need you to do me a favour.

- Well, of course.

- Can you drive me to Ingrid's house?

- What do you need exactly?

- Frank Lockston's time of death.

- Okay, hold on.

It's somewhere between eight and 10

on the night of the 14th.

- And that's accurate is it?

- It's more of a ball park.

- So it could've been after midnight?

- Well no, body was found at 11:37.

- Okay, thank you.

Henry Marsh may have an alibi.

- What?

- Speak to Mitch McAllister,

find out exactly when Marsh left the pub that night.

- [Barbara] And Jensen said Henry killed him?

- He said Henry made him hide the car

the morning after Frank died.

Why do that if he was innocent?

- It's hard to believe I mean, Henry?

- No wonder he was so keen to move away.

- Are you going to tell the police?

- I want to tell Ingrid first.

Frank was her brother.

- Mr. McAllister?

Was Henry Marsh here til closing

the night Frank Lockston died?

- Was a long time ago.

- Try to remember, it's important.

- Henry was here.

- You're sure about that?

- He was in a right state.

Mitch had to throw him out.

- Thanks

- Right, I'd better be off.

- Don't go.

Just don't.

- Okay, meet me at the cafe.

Henry Marsh may have stolen your car

but he has an alibi for Frank's death.

- I don't know what that means.

- Frank was hit before your car was stolen.

Bringing us back to you.

- Me?

I wasn't even in the village that night, I was in London.

With my brother, you can check.

- Barbara was driving?

- No, it wasn't Barbara.

- Then who could it of been Dr. Walton?

- It certainly wasn't my wife!

Ingrid likes to pretends her brother was a saint.

But Frank was a mean man.

He abused Maxine horribly.

I mean physically, brutally and often.

I was Maxine's GP.

I got to see Frank's handy-work up close.

Of course, Barbara worried sick about her

and she kept an eye on Frank.

Saw that he'd been drinking that day,

knew what that meant for poor Maxine

and so Barbara decided to try and help her.

- How exactly did she help her?

- All on your own, Ingrid?

- If you've come to gloat--

- No, no, no, we've come to talk.

Shall we do this inside?

- Barbara gave the car to Maxine?

- She wanted her to leave the village before Frank got home.

- So, maybe Maxine was on her way

and she saw Frank on the road?

(police sirens)

- Henry Marsh?

- I think it was an accident.

- Oh really?

Running from the scene?

That was an accident?

Covering up their crime.

Was that an accident?

Leaving your husband, my brother,

to die in the middle of the road!

You must arrest Henry Marsh!

- Where are Maxine and Barbara?

- Maxine, the night Frank died,

you were due to leave in Duncan Walton's car.

- That car killed your husband.

- Did you run him over, Maxine?

- No, of course I didn't.

- You played the grieving widow

and all the time it was you behind it?

- No!

Barbara gave me the car, I was supposed to leave

but I didn't, I couldn't.

She took the car back.

Barbara?

- Barbara?

Winter!

Barbara?

Barbara, let's just take a moment shall we?

- No, don't come any closer.

- Whatever you want.

- I want to speak to Maxine!

- What happened that night?

- I suppose I should say I didn't mean it.

That it was an accident but

I saw Frank on the way home, he was drunk,

staggering all over the road.

He was disgusting.

I could've swerved or slowed but instead,

I put my foot down

and he deserved it!

Yes he deserved it!

The way he tormented you all those years.

You should have left.

I gave you the chance, Maxine.

Why didn't you go?

- I don't know, I was scared.

- Oh you were scared, he had you terrified

and it broke my heart to see it.

Harder to watch someone else suffer.

Do you ever find that?

I just, I wanted you to be safe.

- I know you did.

I'm so sorry, it's my fault.

This is all my fault.

No, no, you were not the cause of this!

No.

- [Maxine] Barbara!

- Just don't come any closer!

After I hit him, I panicked, I drove around,

I stopped the car, I got out.

I left it on the roadside.

And in the morning I sat waiting for the police to come.

I knew they'd find Frank and the car

and I would be arrested.

I was ready for it.

- But they never found the car.

- It was gone.

It was gone and if I kept quiet I was off the hook.

- And then Angus Colton found it?

- Yeah he arrived at the cafe

excited looking for Duncan

saying he'd found Duncan's old car in some barn.

- And suddenly you were on the hook?

- Yeah.

I knew it wouldn't take long.

Not with all the forensics theses days.

- So, you killed Angus

and then you decided to take care of the barn?

- Yeah I thought that would be the end of it.

Oh Maxine, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

- [Maxine] Don't!

- And then Azeem saw the image.

- I I only went in there to buy some dusters.

And there he was, looking at the photograph on his laptop.

- He didn't know what it meant.

- No but he told me he was gonna take it to you

so that was that.

- A lot of death Barbara.

It's time for it to end.

- I'm just not sure I can face it.

You know what happens next, I mean.

The court case, prison, the villagers finding out.

And then there's Duncan.

Oh what will it do to him?

No!

- Duncan wouldn't want this.

And you have to think of Maxine.

Hasn't she been through enough?

Don't do this.

Don't make it any harder for her.

Think of Maxine.

- You.

You killed my brother.

You took him away from me.

- I stopped him hurting Maxine.

- She's a liar.

Frank was a good man.

- No, Frank was a thug and a drunk,

and a bully like his sister.

- Okay, I think that's enough now.

Put her in the car, I have already cautioned her.

- Are you happy now?

- Of course not.

- That woman killed your husband.

- She did it out of love.

Something you know nothing about.

(car engine starts)

- [Little Girl] Dada!

- I'm all for standing by your mates

but I draw the line at murder.

- Well that's good to know, Winter.

- Kam's here.

- Excellent, now we can eat.

- I didn't realise you were coming.

- Ditto.

- Can you help me with the salads?

- Yeah sure.

So, how was dinner?

- What dinner?

- You and Jamie.

The ribs?

- He told you about that?

- He tweeted about it.

- Winter tweeted about our dinner?

- Yeah he used the word glorious.

- Really?

- To describe the ribs.

- Yeah, they were great.

- This is gonna be fun.

- Are you about ready with your salads?

This is all ready, this is all perfect.

Only the kebabs to dry out, there you are.

Burgers or sausages?

(Paddy barks)

I know what you want.

(eerie jazzy music)