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- Yesterday afternoon at 4 p.m.

you were all gathered here for cocktails

to celebrate Mr. Coleman and Miss Green's engagement.

- And at 4.45 p.m., you, Mr. Baker,

you proposed a photo of the happy couple.

But Miss Green, she went into her bedroom to freshen up.

Whereas you all know, she went into anaphylactic shock

because of her nut allergy.

- And her EpiPen, which she always kept

in her handbag, wasn't there.

(coughing)

- Which means she was effectively poisoned by one of you.

- Hang on a second, she was alone in her bedroom.

How could one of us?

- Lipstick.

Miss Green's lipstick had been adulterated with nut oil.

And because none of you came or went

between 4 p.m. and 4.45, we can only conclude

that one of you--

- Him!

You did it!

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, I loved your mother.

- You loved all of this, Brad.

- No, Lola, it wasn't Brad who killed your mother.

It was you.

- No.

We have an eyewitness.

This is Miss Green's tree surgeon.

And at 4.25 p.m., he was working in the garden

with a clear line of sight through to the bedroom.

- Mr. McClintock, who did you see yesterday

in the bedroom at 4.25 p.m.

adulterate Mrs. Green's lipstick?

- That lady there.

- No, I didn't--

- She was wearing a white dress.

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- I need to see Erin.

I want my daughter.

- I'll bring her.

- This way, please, sir.

- I'll bring her.

Follow me.

- Don't worry.

- Never feels as good as you think it's gonna feel,

does it, ma'am?

- No, it doesn't.

(sirens blaring)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

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- Honestly, baby, it doesn't reflect on you as a man, okay?

Now, put your thumbs on the side clips,

just like we talked about.

Now, push and raise.

It's all in one movement.

Push and raise.

No, it's not impossible.

You're a gas fitter.

This isn't rocket science.

Just take a bloody hammer to it.

- You know, to be fair to the boyfriend,

those dishwasher tab boxes, they are a nightmare.

- Why do you always defend him?

- Good morning, everyone.

I just wanted to thank you all personally

for all your hard work on the Susie Green inquiry.

I know it took up most of the...

Sergeant, do we have an issue?

- Well, the chair's broke.

- Ma'am, Lee says a body's been found.

- Do you have a name?

- No ID so far, pending a full search.

But I did get hold of the landlord.

He said her name is Anne Hegarty.

She moved in last week on a month-long lease.

- No signs of forced entry.

- I think I can pull data

on when the front door was last buzzed open.

- Okay.

So she let someone in who she knew, expected.

Small caliber weapon, one shot.

Disfigured her face.

Fired from here.

Dead for at least 24 hours.

- Oh, three.

- A lot more than three, Sarge.

Rig is fully set in.

- No, no, no, it's...

It's three.

- Please don't even suggest that this is the third victim.

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- Lycom Core entry system data.

Anne Hegarty buzzed someone into her apartment

at 5.56 a.m. yesterday morning,

which fits with the initial pathology assessment.

So we're working on 6 a.m. Sunday as time of death.

- What is it now?

- This is not my chair.

- Anne Hegarty, what do we have?

- Search team have been through the flat.

There's no purse, no phone.

Nothing to confirm her name is Anne Hegarty.

- Have we got any news on that three?

It looks like it's from some sort of board game

or something.

- No, flat was empty,

apart from her clothes and toiletries.

- Yeah, we canvassed the neighbors.

No one even knew she moved in there.

- What about the landlord?

Did he get a previous address?

- No, it was all done electronically.

- It's like erasing her trail before she's killed.

It's like almost a victim colluding in their own murder.

- We've got an ID.

- Prints.

- Dental work, birthmark on the left shoulder,

all matches a registered mispare.

- Anne Holgate.

- She vanished on a visit to the old Holyrood Church

in Bradford-on-Avon in...

- That's 38 years ago.

- It was a huge search.

Anne Holgate was never found.

- Until now.

- 38 years missing.

- She was aged 15 with her twin brother, Mark.

He was the only witness to her disappearance.

The mother took her life a year later.

The father died shortly after, alcohol related.

So Mark Holgate is her only living relative.

(laughing)

- Come on!

- No, I don't want you.

- Who's gonna see, huh?

Oh, look.

Our babies, our girls.

We're empty nesters.

It's just you and me, babe.

That's it.

Let the music take you.

I'm good.

(gentle music)

- Are you sure it's Anne?

- I'm afraid so.

Fingerprints and dental records confirm it.

And the birthmark on her left shoulder.

When we found Anne's body this morning,

she had been dead just over 24 hours.

- How did she die?

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- She was shot through the head.

We found her in a flat less than a mile from here.

- Oh my God.

- Mr. Holgate, did your sister try and contact you recently?

- No.

- Or any time in the last 38 years?

- No.

- She was using the name Anne Hegarty.

Does that mean anything to you?

- Can you confirm where you were

at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning?

- I was here with my wife, asleep.

There was no one else in the house.

- Our daughters have just gone to India on a walk

for charity.

Do you have security cameras?

Just for elimination.

- Yeah, we do, but I don't know.

- All the camera stuff is in the downstairs hallway cupboard.

Just take whatever you need.

- All these years, wondering what happened to her.

Why didn't she contact me?

- What do you think?

- What?

That's a shark.

- So, excuse me.

- Um.

What happened to Anne, it really damaged Mark.

He lost his family and he's just always blamed himself

for not protecting her.

He needs answers, Detective.

We all do, please.

- I'll do my best, Mrs. Holgate.

- Thank you.

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- The Holgate CCTV cameras.

Lucy comes home 7 p.m. Saturday.

Mark is just after nine.

No one leaves until 11.45 a.m. Sunday,

which is nearly six hours after Anne Holgate was shot.

- Ma'am, ballistics.

- But its directions don't match with anything

on the database, but the weapon,

a Makarov nine by 18 millimeter.

It's Russian military issue.

- TCI McDonald?

DS Dodds?

Sit down, both of you.

Did Mark Holgate kill his sister?

- No.

- His alibi checks.

- Russian weapon, one shot.

Looks like a professional killing.

- Not ruling that out, ma'am.

- OCG task force intelligence file.

Over my two years with the unit,

Mark Holgate was a level one target.

People trafficking, prostitution.

Holgate launders the profits,

but keeps himself well insulated.

I didn't see Mark Holgate as someone

who started as a street level thug.

- He looks so normal.

- Few misdemeanors in his teens.

By his early 20s, he's crime group middle management.

A cut above your average thug.

Marries the daughter of a GP and a lecturer.

They meet while she's doing her teacher training.

He goes to uni, does an MBA,

assumes the life of your average wealthy fund manager,

but all the while, using his boutique investment fund,

he's moving from sterilizing dirty money

for 30% commission to some kind of impresario.

Nowadays, Mark Holgate initiates and finances

large scale cross border criminal enterprises.

He destroys lives, families, communities

at several removes.

- You think he had his sister shot

on his own doorstep, practically?

- We can't rule it out, can we?

But this is an opportunity.

You have a duty to keep the bereaved informed

about any developments in your inquiries.

One smoking gun is all we need.

One loose brick to pull his whole house down.

And a few other houses too.

Clear?

- Yes, mum.

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- We need to go see the girls.

Now.

- I still can't believe that Mr. Holgate,

some sort of crime lord.

And why is the death of his sister an opportunity?

- We can get inside his life and his family, subtly.

Put a bit of pressure on him, destabilize him.

Maybe he makes a mistake.

- Well, if he's a criminal mastermind,

won't he know that we're doing that?

- Well, he'll suspect, of course, but.

Okay, so we're just two low level coppers doing our duty.

Don't give him cause to think we've got another agenda.

Okay?

- Okay, so I'm a cop posing as a non-undercover cop.

- Whatever works for you.

He's not answering my texts.

Boyfriend.

You think I was too harsh about the washing tap bot?

- Oh, it's just your way, ma'am.

He must be used to it by now.

(phone beeping)

(footsteps tapping)

- Can we come in, sir?

- Uh, actually, it's been inconvenient at the moment.

I've got builders and following the foundations.

Hey, listen, what's with the uniformed officers

passing by every hour?

- Oh, that's just standard procedure, Mr. Holgate.

'Cause your sister's death was a firearm incident.

We like to keep an eye on the immediate family

of the deceased.

- Okay, thanks.

- I apologize if this is disturbing,

but the ballistics team have established

that the weapon used to shoot your sister

was a Makarov 18 mil, Russian military issued.

Which means that we can't rule out

that your sister's murder might have been professional.

- Okay.

- Sorry, again, to ask, but have you any idea

why someone would want to shoot your sister like that?

- Sir, what sort of a question is that?

I mean, Mark hasn't seen Anne for--

- Oh, you going on your holidays?

- Yeah, we're flying to India tomorrow

to visit our daughters.

Had a plan months ago.

- That's not helpful, sir.

- Well, look, if there are any developments,

we can be back within a day.

We miss our daughters.

Life goes on.

- I mean, we could postpone.

- No, we can't.

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- Ma'am, it is a bit odd him going away,

but I understand it.

And I understand the whole picture,

but we've got the number three from the crime scene.

I mean, where did it come from,

and how did it get there?

- CPS have just got in touch about the Susie Green case.

When you took the written statement

from Nevis McClintock,

you didn't get him to sign the declaration on the front.

So you better go and fix that.

Like now.

- Sorry, Sarge, needs to be done.

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- Mr. McClintock!

Forgive me.

It's about your witness statement.

Sorry, it's my fault.

We just need you to sign the front of the statement.

We need to read it out to you first.

- Okay.

I arrived at Mrs. Green's at 4.15 on Saturday afternoon.

I parked my van by the side of...

- Still west, then.

- Okay.

Side of the house, and just after 5 p.m.,

I looked through the window and...

(gunshots)

- Man, these are tidy.

- I'll just carry on.

I saw a woman in a long white dress in the hall.

She took something from her handbag.

I couldn't see...

What?

After that, I didn't pay much--

- Stop!

Stop!

What is that?

Is that...

What's that doing here?

(choral music)

(choral music)

- India?

So, he's going out of the country until this blows over,

and if it doesn't blow over, then we never see him again.

So, without cause to detain him, how do we keep him here?

- His wife.

We put his key relationship under strain.

Lucy's a kind-hearted housewife.

He's alpha and assertive,

but I don't think she wanted to go abroad.

I think she's worried that her family's gonna fall apart.

She really wants to know the truth about Anne,

and she thinks I can get it.

Feels like she's reaching out somehow.

- Okay.

Use that.

- Okay, right, everyone, come on, stand up.

(choral music)

(choral music)

- Is everything okay?

- Lucy, I haven't got any leads, and Mark even looks...

- Bad.

It's what he wants to do,

and I have to support him.

- I wonder if I took him back to the old church

where Anne disappeared and go through his original statement.

Maybe I could, maybe I could unlock something.

Anything that they might have missed.

- Well, you want him to relive the whole thing.

- I think Anne's murder last Sunday

is connected to her disappearance 38 years ago.

Lucy, you asked me to get you answers.

I'm trying to help.

- All right, I'll talk to him.

- Thank you.

(choral music)

- The person you have dialed is not available.

Please leave a message after the tone.

- Hi, it's me.

Can you call me back?

Yeah, call me back.

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Okay, am I doing back here?

- I noticed this white dress

when we were here yesterday morning.

And look there, there's a piece missing.

It's been torn off.

I found this in Nevis McClintock's van.

It's a perfect match.

Susie Green's EpiPen.

Anne Holgate must have taken it from her bag at the party.

- Ida Baker's innocent.

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Anne Holgate killed Susie Green.

- An interview?

At the church?

- Well, DCI MacDonald asked me to talk to you.

She wants to help, she seems nice.

- No, no way, it's not gonna happen.

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- Mr. McClintock, if I can just take you

back to Saturday afternoon.

You drove to Miss Green's house

for your weekly slot treating an oak decline problem.

- Well, see, some of the older trees are dying

because they were planted in Victorian times

and actually turned to jeers.

- If I could just show you this.

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CCTV outside Susie Green's house.

There's your van going through

and if I stop and enlarge, can you see that?

You okay?

- Just got a wee bit of double vision, that's all.

Is that a white dress in there?

- That's what it looks like.

- And you told us that you saw Lola Baker

at Miss Green's handbag wearing a white dress.

- Whoa, wait, hold your horses, no.

I said I saw someone that looked like that lady

in a white dress.

- You can see how we would conclude

that you haven't been entirely truthful with us.

- The woman outside the shop.

- Sorry, what woman?

- See, I didn't think too much of it at the time,

but when I was driving to Mrs. Green's,

I stopped at that wee mini market

across from Victoria Park

and there was a woman outside and she wanted paracetamol,

but she didn't want to go in 'cause her ex was inside

and so would I go in for her and so I did

and I got the paracetamol

and then when I came out, she wasn't there.

- What was she wearing?

- Dress, shoes.

- Colors, Nevis, what colors?

- White dress.

- What does she look like?

- Ordinary, nice.

- What age was she?

- 30s, 40s, 50s maybe.

Nice, had a lovely smile.

- Nevis McClintock, he's easily confused, easily fooled.

Now, if he is telling the truth,

which I believe he is, he's got nothing to do with this,

then that must mean that Anne Holgate used his van

to get in and out of Susie Green's house

and frame Lola Baker.

- Exactly.

- Now, this here is a photograph

of Lola Baker's wardrobe

and it was taken when we searched her house.

Now, look, she wears nothing but white.

Well, if you wanted to frame Lola Baker

for the murder of her mother,

you'd have needed to have known that

and you'd have also needed to know

that Susie Green was hosting that party on Saturday.

But Anne could never have known about the party.

However, how would Mark Holgate have known all that?

He's got a rock solid alibi.

But why would Mark Holgate wanna kill Susie Green?

- Susie Green was an investigative journalist

fearless by all accounts.

When we looked into her background,

she'd exposed sex scandals, bribery, political corruption

and organized crime, a lot of organized crime.

- So Mark Holgate's activities

would have been right up her street.

- Maybe Anne killed Susie to protect her brother.

- Okay, we rule nothing in, we rule nothing out.

I'll get Lola released.

So start at Susie's house as a first priority.

Then let's focus on the party.

What do we have?

- Okay.

So who was at the party at Susie Green's on Saturday?

Ruling out Lola, why would you frame yourself?

That leaves us with Cal Baker, her husband and Brad Coleman.

So where were they at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning?

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What exactly was Susie Green investigating?

- More to the point, who was she investigating?

All these stories, these articles.

Her handwriting was indecipherable.

Most of it's in shorthand.

It's gonna take a while.

- I'll shout out a specialist search team.

Sarge?

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- I come here to organize my mother's funeral.

- Oh, and I'm suing for wrongful arrest.

- Lola, listen.

You do what you have to do.

The force is gonna issue a formal apology, but I'm sorry.

We jumped to the wrong conclusion.

- Who killed my mother?

- It's possible her death was related to her work.

Did she mention what she was working on recently?

- If I ask my mom about her work,

she'd say it's better you don't know.

- What about you, Lola?

- Look, we had our issues,

and we could beat each other's throats about everything,

but she was an amazing woman.

The stories she ran, the people she took on.

She was fearless 'cause she had values.

And I'm trying to inherit her values, not her money.

- I'm sorry, Lola,

but were your husband's business going under?

- Sorry, what?

- You didn't know?

- No.

No, I didn't know that.

- Miss Baker, can you confirm where your husband was

on Sunday morning at 6 a.m. after we released him?

- Why?

- There's been a second killing

connected to your mother's death on Sunday morning.

- I don't know where he went.

He didn't come home till after eight.

He said he needed to go for a walk to clear his head.

- We finished interviewing you at 5.30 a.m.,

so where were you at 6 a.m.?

- I was at home trying to sleep, but I couldn't.

Why, what happened Sunday morning?

- A woman named Anne Holgate

was shot in her flat.

- Who's Anne Holgate?

- The person who murdered your mother-in-law.

- Lola didn't tell you?

- We made a mistake.

I thought you'd be happy to hear that.

- Yeah, yeah, I am.

I am happy.

- I guess doubly happy.

You get your wife back, she gets her mother's money,

and that's certainly enough

to get this place back on its feet.

- Well, uh, that's good news.

Thank you.

- So we're still after a murderer,

and that person knew that Lola was gonna be

in Miss Green's house on Saturday

and set out to frame her.

- You think I killed my mother-in-law

and then framed my wife to bail out my business

when everything I've ever done is for Lola?

Are you serious?

- Well, I was down at your station, mate, wasn't I?

Giving you a detailed statement.

- Actually, Mr. Coleman,

we released you at 5.30 a.m.,

so 6 a.m., where were you then?

- I went straight home alone.

Couldn't sleep, obviously.

- Well, at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning,

a woman called Anne Holgate was shot dead in her flat.

(footsteps tapping)

- Sorry, what's this Anne woman got to do with me?

- Because she murdered your fiance.

- What?

Hang on, I, well, I thought it was Lola.

- We made a mistake.

- That's not a mistake.

- We're now considering the possibility

that the person who shot Anne Holgate

colluded with her in the murder of your fiance,

and then shot Anne Holgate at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.

You think I'm behind two murders?

Seriously?

Let's get it out there, okay?

I'm no angel.

I've been in trouble with the law before, low-level stuff.

Then I met Susie.

I put all that crap behind me.

And you've got to believe me.

- Cal still claims he was with Lola at 6 a.m.

And he didn't seem happy she was released.

He's not being straight with us.

- I could say the same about Mr. Coleman.

And he didn't have a verifiable alibi.

- So we've all out Nevis McClintock.

- Oh.

- I wonder if Nevis is somehow involved

in the murder of Miss Green.

Why would he tell us about the woman outside the shop?

- Hmm.

London?

He's in London.

- Oh, so he texted you back, did he?

- No, I've got a tracking app on him 24/7.

- Does he know that?

- Course he does.

Who do you think I am, Sarge?

- Well, he's got one on you.

- No, I'm policed.

It's not allowed.

What is he doing at the anchor at this time of day?

Don't say it's five o'clock somewhere.

- Don't even know what that means, ma'am.

- Why isn't he answering my calls or my texts?

Woman wants a word.

- Mark Holgate's solicitor's been in touch.

He's agreed to the interview at the church.

Very good work, Lauren.

Your approach with his wife worked.

- Approach with his wife?

- I reached out to her.

I think he might be abusive.

Their relationship shows signs of coercive control.

So did Holgate commission his sister to kill Susie Green?

Is he the one pulling the strings?

Sarge, we need you to go through

the Anne Holgate disappearance file.

You don't need to write this down.

Go over Mark's interview and statements.

- Find a tooth comb.

- Oh.

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- Lucy said she wouldn't be on the plane in Mumbai

unless I agreed to this.

Though I hardly see the point.

- It was nearly 40 years ago.

- Well, thank you for your cooperation.

I appreciate it.

Sergeant Dodds?

- So, can I just take you back to the 24th of July, 1986, sir?

In your own words.

- Right, well,

Anne had always wanted to visit this place,

God knows why, and I tagged along.

When we got here, she told me to go

and see the six deadly sins.

- Six?

Don't you mean seven deadly sins, sir?

- Oh yeah, seven.

So, I had a look,

and then when I turned back, she'd gone.

(muttering)

So, yeah, no, look, it is six.

- What?

- Well, there's only six deadly sins here, sir, not seven.

So, if Anne told you to go and look at the six deadly sins--

- Look, I don't know what she, it was a long time ago.

- Well, it says seven in your written statement,

but I suppose someone could have changed that.

So, if your sister hadn't been here before,

how did she know to tell you to go

and look for the six deadly sins?

- I have no idea.

- Anne vanished when your back was turned.

She must have been here before.

Sir,

do you think it's possible that your sister

might have staged her own disappearance?

In your statement, you say that you didn't

call the police straight away.

- I thought she'd gone back to get the train,

so that's what I did.

When I got back home and she wasn't there,

that's when my old man raised the alarm.

- So, if she didn't go back to the train station,

her only other route would have been

this way.

Why would Anne do that?

- I don't know.

- Are you acquainted with a woman called Susie Green?

She was murdered in her home in Bath

last Saturday afternoon.

- Why would you ask me that?

- We have compelling evidence that your sister killed her.

- Okay, look.

I'm here on good faith, on the advice of my solicitor,

as a witness, not a suspect.

Thanks for the closure.

- What are you thinking?

- Well, look at all these old barges.

Is anyone living here?

Has anyone used them?

They're sort of invisible.

I'm thinking about this three hour delay

before the police were called.

- Which puts them behind the curve playing catch up.

They assume the worst, a 15 year old girl being abducted.

They set up roadblocks, cover train stations,

watch the airport, nothing.

- All the while, no one's living in these barges.

- July '86, so Vessel was using the Bradford-on-Avon

East Lock, well some have been decommissioned,

but there is still a few on the inland waterway system.

And I think I've got the boat Anne left on.

So at 4.13 p.m. on the 24th of July, 1986,

so three hours before the police were alerted,

a barge called the Walrus went through the East Lock

and the Walrus is still moored in Reading.

- Are you sure?

I mean, it's 30 years ago.

- Well, the registered owner of the Walrus was Joe Hegarty.

But he died in 2014.

- Anne slips away from her brother,

disappears with this guy and took his surname.

- Right, Reading.

Oh, I heard back from the boyfriend eventually,

late last night.

- What is he doing in London?

- He said he had a few days off and I don't get it.

Why would he just take off like that, out of the blue?

- Well, you can just ask him.

- Oh, he's not answering my text.

Well, he is, but not properly, like one or two word replies.

- Well, what about open questions, ma'am?

You know, like when you're interviewing your suspects,

you know, open questions, they're good, aren't they?

They get 'em talking.

- Yeah, you might be right, Sarge.

When did you get emotional intelligence?

- What?

Ah, there she is, the Walrus.

Blimey, it's lived in, doesn't it?

- Um, sorry, what are you looking for?

No one uses this boat anymore.

- Oh, please, DCI Lauren McDonald.

- Oh, um, sorry, I need to get up to football practice.

We're looking for some information on Anne Holgate,

or Anne Hegarty.

She was killed on Sunday morning.

(somber music)

(dramatic music)

- Your interview will have to wait.

He's under 16, both parents gone.

We need to put his welfare first.

- Can I just ask one question, just one?

Luke, do you recognize this woman?

- Yeah, she came to the boat last week.

The day Mum left.

- You have a nephew.

His name's Luke, he's 15.

And he's all alone now, his mum's been shot.

And someone's got to tell him

that his mother murdered Susie Green.

Do you want to meet your nephew, sir?

Perhaps you could be the one to break it to him.

We've also established that Susie Green

had been in contact with your sister.

Do you happen to know anything about that?

- You think I don't know what you're doing?

I know how it works in police intelligence.

You use my sister's murder to worm your way into my life.

You come in here with your lies, your fictions,

trying to disrupt my business, my family.

My sister murdered Susie Green.

I murdered my sister.

- What?

Why would they say something like that?

- Can you get upstairs, please?

Can you get upstairs, please?

It's Ormond.

She can't get me on her hands

if she comes at me with this other thing.

Ormond.

I mean, she takes a very personal interest in me.

She's a bit obsessed.

- Come on, Ormond, him?

- Ah, ma'am.

- Yeah, I know.

- Our mission is to find the killer

of Anne Holgate and Susie Green.

Now, if it is personal between him and Ormond,

then our mission is severely compromised.

- Okay, but I'll talk to her.

Yes, it's true.

It is personal.

But not in that way.

(door creaking)

23rd of July, 2019.

Mark Holgate and his family on a city break in Brussels.

Mark peels off a loan and meets with Alicia Ortiz,

a Panamanian entrepreneur who's based in Rotterdam.

Mark invests 200K in her property business.

But his investment is actually in ecstasy,

some of which finds its way

to a street-level dealer in Bristol.

He sells a contaminated batch of pills to a young man

who's organizing a New Year's Eve party for his friends.

31st of December, 2019, at the Hutt nightclub.

Five people are rushed to A&E.

Four survive, just.

One dies.

A 22-year-old car mechanic,

Philip Ormond.

I joined the choir a day after the inquest.

When you become part of something bigger than yourself,

like singing in a group,

you can lose yourself for a while.

I'm so sorry, Mum.

(phone beeps)

Ah.

The boy Luke is ready to be interviewed.

Mum.

Probably best that we don't mention

that his mother killed Susie Green.

He's very young.

We'll get to that in time, eh?

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Mum.

(phone beeps)

Mum and Dad were childhood friends.

They grew up together and lived on the Walrus.

They kept themselves to themselves.

It was all casual work, cash in hand.

They had me and that's just how it went.

The three of us, no friends.

Then Dad died, so it was just me and Mum.

So your mum left you on the boat last week alone

after the woman that I showed you in the photo turned up?

Yeah.

Did she say why she was leaving, Luke?

She told me it wouldn't take long.

She said she had something to do.

That was all she told me.

Okay.

Did you ever see this man in her company?

Yes.

I think that's Mum's brother.

I've never met him, but Mum was really scared of him.

Did my mum do something wrong?

We're still working on that, son.

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Alice, Isla, it's Dad.

It's Dad, can you hear me?

That's a terrible line.

No, no, no, no, no, it's nothing important.

I just wanna say I miss you.

I miss you.

And I love you.

Hello?

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(phone beeping)

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- Hi guys, all right?

- Sarge. - Morning.

- You know we didn't take your chair, right?

- Yeah, we know how much it means to you.

- I'm sorry, chaps, I just wanna know where it went.

Like, who's got it?

- We don't know.

- Maybe the cleaners moved it.

- No, no, no, I interviewed all of them.

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- Excuse me.

- Oh, sorry.

- You really think I'd nick your chair?

- No.

Do you know, we now know that Susie Green

discovered the whereabouts of Anne Holgate,

who then returns to Bath after Susie's visit.

- Yeah, which makes me think that Susie

was doing a story on Mark Holgate,

otherwise why was she looking for his long lost sister?

- Yeah, but Anne, why would she kill Susie Green?

- Maybe Mark threatened her?

I don't know.

Look, this whole chair thing,

can't you just forget about it and move on?

- No, no, no, no, afraid I can't, ma'am.

It's me and my chair, you and your boyfriend.

- That's not really the same thing.

The boyfriend's my key relationship is your chair.

Your key relationship?

- One little last lesson.

You know, your boyfriend, he's keeping something from you

and it's eating away at you, but just look around you.

We're supposed to be a team, all of us.

Someone's just taken my chair

and it just breeds mistrust, suspicion.

Makes me think that some things

have been held back from me.

And the superintendent, did you speak to her?

- Yeah.

- And is Mark Holgate right?

Is it, you know, personal?

- No.

- Ma'am, Australians have come through on Brad Coleman.

- A bit more to him than antique dealer, a lot more.

- Have a seat.

Bath lifestyle, it's all about the facades, isn't it?

I've gone full bush, as we say in Australia.

As you can see, I gain nothing from Susie's death.

Nada.

- That's not why we're here.

- The firearm used to shoot Anne Holgate

was a Makarov nine by 18 millimeter.

Are you familiar with that weapon, sir?

- You're ex-military,

five years in the Australian Special Forces.

And there were known to be thousands of Makarov

kicking around Afghanistan,

where you served between 2008 and 2010.

- Look, yes, I have killed before,

legitimately, more or less.

- Did Mark Holgate commission you to kill your fiance

and then his sister?

'Cause when we look at who had the capability

and the opportunity to carry out these murders,

we land on you, Brad.

- I didn't kill Susie, all right?

Or anyone else.

What do you guys want?

You want me to go on the witness stand

'cause I'm not doing it, eh?

- You don't get to negotiate that.

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Susie gave me this for safekeeping.

She didn't want it in her house.

She told me not to open it,

and I didn't until yesterday

when you told me that Lola wasn't the one that killed her.

- What is this?

Why didn't you show me this yesterday?

- Come on, mate.

I'm down in my office here.

Living in Bath ain't cheap.

Thought I could make a bit of money out of that.

You know, sell it to the papers maybe,

or maybe not.

Now, we recovered this from Brad Coleman.

These are the highlights.

Now, Susie Green, she was writing a piece

about Mark Holgate,

and this is a witness statement by Anne Holgate,

and it's signed and dated last Wednesday.

I think that this might be the smoking gun

that you've been looking for, ma'am.

- I've got him.

(knocking)

- We've just had a call from Lucy Holgate.

Her husband's disappeared.

- They're blocking the airports,

and we've got road cameras looking for his number plates, so.

- Oh, no, he's taken my car.

- What?

Yeah, okay, yeah.

So it turns out that Mark Holgate

has taken his wife's car.

Okay, pick me when you have something.

- Sorry, I don't understand.

What's...

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- So, Mark launders money.

Drugs money, profits from people trafficking,

prostitution, extortion.

He leverages those profits,

and then the organized crime groups that employ him

reinvest that money into more drugs, more prostitution,

more people trafficking, et cetera.

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And we have compelling evidence

that he's behind both the murders of Susie Green

and his own sister.

- Well, I think you better see this.

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(footsteps thudding)

- I mean, he must have left in quite a hurry

because he left that door open.

And I didn't even know this was down here.

Oh, God.

- Is this another way in and out of the building?

- Every morning, I take 20 minutes

opening the shutters in this house,

and then 20 minutes every evening closing them.

So that is five hours a week, 250 hours a year,

opening and closing like a puppet.

I'm sorry.

We have separate bedrooms.

- So your husband, he could have gone this way

on Sunday morning?

- Yeah.

I've wondered, but he's not the kind of man

that you question, you know?

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- If he'd have come this way,

he would have avoided all the security cameras.

- We've got a fix on your car.

(sirens blaring)

- Get out of the car!

(indistinct shouting)

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- So you wanna tell me why I'm here?

- Susie Green was investigating you and your activities.

She found Anne and persuaded her to do a tell-all.

Sarge?

- Right, now, this is a full witness statement

about Holgate, your sister,

which we found in the possession of Susie Green.

It's signed and dated there.

And she says that she ran away with her friend, Joe Hegarty,

and she wasn't sure what you were capable of,

and that Joe protected her from you.

- Your nephew told us Anne was scared of you.

You'd threatened her.

- Told her that she was not only in danger from you,

but also the people that you worked for.

That's why she vanished

and didn't say anything to the police.

- What did she witness, Mark?

Are you going to tell us, or shall we tell you?

- Keep it professional, love.

- Sergeant.

- A murdered drug dealer named as Gary Graham.

A 17-year-old street dealer was stabbed in an alleyway

next to a youth club in Bathwick in 1986.

And the killer was never found.

And the police, they reckoned that it was a gang dispute.

And they were right, weren't they?

Because you murdered.

Gary Graham.

And Anne Holgate witnessed it.

And here, you see, she's quite specific.

She says he stabbed him three times

in the torso with two different knives.

- Now, the police withheld this information,

which means she wouldn't know it.

- She wouldn't know it unless she'd seen it.

- So you're under arrest for the murder of Gary Graham?

- I told you it was personal.

- We found your escape route out of your house,

avoiding all the security cameras.

So, Sunday morning.

- Sunday morning, I was on a video call in my bedroom

to associates in Dubai between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.

I've still got the details, you can check.

- Anne and Susie, both women who threatened

to bring your house down, both dead.

- Not by me.

Hands on or hands off.

- Both deaths to your advantage.

- 'Cause someone set me up.

- Susie Green had a nut allergy

and was poisoned with nut oil.

We found her EpiPen in your sister's apartment.

- Planted.

- I'm telling you, someone set me up.

- Who?

- I don't know, enemies, I don't know,

but someone set me up.

- Who?

- I don't know, I don't know!

- Calm down, sir.

Keep it professional, Mark.

- I'm telling you, you nuggets have missed the trick here.

- Is he right?

Anne Holgate didn't kill Susie Green.

- The evidence was planted.

- If he's right, what are we left with?

- Well, well, Nevis McClintock, I'm not,

he's the only one who actually saw the killer.

- Great, the world's most unreliable eyewitness.

We need to talk to you about the woman

that you saw outside the shops on Saturday,

the one that got into your van.

- Aye, sorry, Detective, the double vision thing,

I should have told you about that.

But when you came to talk to me

about the murder of Mrs. Green,

I liked you, you seemed like decent people,

so I wanted to help you, you know.

- Okay, thanks.

So I'm gonna show you a photo.

This photo is of a dead woman.

She's been shot in the head.

- Oh.

- We've cleaned her up, but take your time.

- Is this the woman you encountered on Saturday?

- Sorry, I don't want to mess you around anymore.

I couldn't see.

- Can you remember anything?

Any detail?

- Yes, she had a lovely wee smile and lovely eyes.

- That doesn't really help us.

- What color eyes?

- Brown.

- They're blue.

Blue eyes.

Mark Colgate, you was right.

His sister couldn't have killed Susie.

- So you did.

- Nervous?

We need to ask you a few more questions about this woman.

- Well, you know, look, I've told you everything.

I was a wee bit distracted by her.

- Sorry, distracted?

- Well, yes.

You know, I've never really been able to keep a girlfriend.

You know, and I'm just, I'm running out of time.

I cannae really think straight anymore.

And she just seemed so wee and lovely.

And the way she looked at me with those brown eyes,

you know, it was like she understood.

The way she smiled at me.

- Mr. McClintock, can you just,

can we just go back two minutes?

- Are you all right, yeah?

- Ma'am?

- Shh.

- Airports, passenger manifest for every flight

leaving the UK today.

And when I say airports, I mean private airfields as well.

Oh yeah.

I know exactly who I'm looking for.

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(airplane engine roaring)

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(airplane engine roaring)

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- Nevis, do you recognise this person?

- Is that the woman that got into your van last Saturday?

- Yeah.

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- That's her, definitely.

Definitely.

So she murdered Miss Green?

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(siren blaring)

There's water in the back there if you need it, Lucy.

- You know, Mrs. Holgate,

the things that give people away

never ceases to amaze me.

In this case, it was your characteristic head tilt.

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- Is that all you've got?

- I've also got your husband.

He'll need telling, won't he?

- All my businesses, all my dealings,

I couldn't have done it without her.

Any of it.

Every decision, every play.

She was behind all of it.

Lucy can read people.

You give her a problem, a series of problems,

kings and king makers with big egos

and big reputations to manage,

she'd pull it off.

She'd play them all against each other.

When you told me about Anne's death,

we need to go see the girls now.

- I thought my sister's shooting

was a message from my enemies.

- You're being paranoid.

It looks bad if you run.

- Lucy, Lucy wanted to keep me in your crosshairs.

That interview at the church,

she persuaded me to do it.

- Listen to me.

McDonald thinks you're hiding something

about Anne's disappearance.

But you're not, are you?

- No.

- So cooperate with them.

Show them you're sincere.

So all that dominating husband, compliant wife

was just for public consumption?

- Why?

Why did she wanna keep you here?

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- From the start, I'd set a firewall up to protect Lucy

so that if I was ever legally compromised,

she'd be immune and I'd draw all the heat.

When you found Luke, I knew that it was only a matter

of time before you'd get to Gary Graham

and everything else.

So I did what she wanted,

what she'd been planning for all along.

This morning, I signed everything over to her.

Businesses, the properties, an investment.

Cleaned up the income stream, everything.

And then...

- And then she called us and got you arrested.

- I'm not gonna testify against her.

- But your wife for 20 years is making you look stupid.

- I got as close to her as anyone ever could.

Beneath that facade, there's nothing.

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Nothing.

- Why did she turn on you?

- The one thing I never told her.

In all these years, I never mentioned Gary Graham.

I'm not gonna testify against her.

- You'll be put away for a long time, Mark.

- It's not that.

It's because I still love her.

I still love her.

(phone ringing)

- He won't testify and she won't crack.

We don't have any physical evidence against her.

And our only eyewitness has episodes of double vision.

So, what else is there?

- The greater good.

- So it's my decision.

- You're the boss, Mum.

- Okay.

I'll talk to the appropriate agencies.

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- Any joy with your chair?

- No, no.

But you're right, man.

There's plenty more fish in the sea.

I've moved on.

It's an unsolved mystery.

- Well, you cracked the case

about the moody diva gas fitter in London.

We had a barney about what we're gonna do next weekend.

He wanted to have a barbecue.

I wanted to scout the flat.

- Oh, okay, you do both?

- No, when I gut, I gut.

Anyway, I blurted out something

about actually quite liking Bath and not missing London.

And he just hangs up.

You see, the plan was always to go back to London.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.

- Right, ready?

- Yeah, I think so.

Are you?

- Yeah.

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- We're questioning you under caution, Mrs. Holgate,

on the suspicion of the murders

of Susie Green and Anne Holgate.

- My client has prepared a statement.

- I'd prefer it from the horse's mouth.

- My client has prepared a statement.

- Okay, let's see where that takes us.

- My marriage to Mark Holgate

was a 20-year prison sentence.

I have been gaslighted and coerced.

- Facts, not fiction, please.

- Susan Green was a friend.

We became close through our Pilates class.

She told me she discovered Mark's missing sister,

who was prepared to testify

he'd fatally stabbed Gary Graham in 1986.

Susie told me that I should get myself

and my daughters away from Mark.

My whole life was about to come crashing down.

She gave me a week to do so.

- And did she also tell you that Anne Holgate

was lodging at Lycombe Court?

- No comment.

- And did she tell you about her engagement party

on Saturday?

- No comment.

- I was, of course, distressed by the news,

but such was my husband's hold over me.

- Oh, come on.

Cut the act.

It's not gonna wash.

Your husband has alibis for both the murders.

And we have a witness who can positively identify you.

- Nevis McClintock has already misidentified

the murder of Susan Green.

As for the shooting of Anne Holgate,

my client was at home.

- It was you who used your basement escape route.

- Do you have one shred of physical evidence

that places Mrs. Holgate in that apartment

on Sunday morning?

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- To be clear, DCR McDonald,

you're proposing a four-year sentence for my client

for financial irregularities.

- Four years?

- No murder charges.

- What?

She did it!

She bumped the murders!

- Sergeant Hodge, please.

Authorized by the CPS

and the National Police Intelligence Agency

in exchange for the ongoing supply of information

on all Mark Holgate's associates and operations.

We want everything, Lucy.

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- I'm a goldmine.

- Four years?

- It was the best we could do.

- Like two for each murder?

- She's not gonna crack, you can see that.

She's an extremely high-value intelligence asset.

The things she knows, connections, dates, names.

This stuff is invaluable.

- Why didn't you tell me what you were doing?

You were an almond.

And you didn't tell me that it is personal for almond.

- No, I didn't.

I'm your boss, okay?

- Luke Hegarty has lost his mother.

- It's for the greater good.

We are gonna save a lot of lives.

- Lola Baker lost her mother.

- Oh, shut up!

We haven't got one piece of trace evidence.

We haven't got one reliable eyewitness

that places Lucy.

- She slipped out of her house on Sunday morning.

- Where's the proof?

Where is it?

- Well, I don't know.

I mean, I can't.

- What?

- My client is--

- Shut up!

Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

You want me a moment, sir?

Give me an hour.

And take her back to her house.

Don't let her sign anything.

- Okay, Sarge, you got it.

- The three.

Do we have the three?

- Pardon?

- The number three.

- Ah, yes.

Yeah.

- Sir.

- Why have you brought me here?

- When you're ready, Lucy.

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- Mrs. Holgate, if I can just take you back

to Sunday morning.

Your husband was on a video call to Dubai.

This is between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.

Now, he never left his bedroom.

- My client didn't leave her bedroom

and won't lie for him.

- But if she had--

- Where's he going with this?

- Downstairs, I think.

- Quite a mess, isn't it?

Anyone trying to access the secret escape route

that they'd have to pick their way through all of this

and all the electrics are rerouted.

You see?

But the chaps, you know,

they followed the correct procedure.

They've relabeled the fuse box

with this temporary signage system.

So, look, there we go.

That is the fifth floor, so that's C5.

Fourth floor, C4.

Third floor, C...

Oh.

Look at that.

But where's the number three?

If you see there, Miss Holgate,

the C is still in place,

but below it, there's some adhesive.

You see?

Where is the number three?

Oh, I suppose it must have fallen off.

But it's not here.

It's gone.

Okay, okay, this needs to stop now.

- The missing three, Sergeant Dodds.

Do you happen to know where it is?

- I do, Detective Chief Inspector MacDonald.

I have it right here.

There, look at that.

Perfect fit.

And there's even a stretch.

It's running continuously across the C, onto the three.

So, this little tile came from this house

from this very spot,

and I believe it was accidentally picked up

on someone's shoe.

(gun firing)

And deposited next to Anne Holgate's corpse.

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By you.

Mrs. Holgate.

- Here we are.

- Oh, thank you very much.

It's like Christmas, isn't it?

Now, we recovered these from upstairs.

On the sole of your right shoe,

we found traces of adhesive on one side.

Our forensics team have processed it,

and they're very good.

It will match the adhesive found on this little chap.

- Deal's off.

You got your client on the murder of Anne Holgate.

- I have to close all the shutters now.

- What are you looking at?

- Someone that's going away for a very long time.

- Hey, don't beat yourself up about it,

but you couldn't have done this without my wife.

She brought me here, not you.

How does that make you feel?

- Better than it felt this morning.

Been him.

- Yes, ma'am.

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- It wouldn't have happened

if Mark had just told me everything.

But he didn't.

You know, the stabbing of the boy, Anne's disappearance.

He broke the seal of trust,

and I can't function, you see, unless I know everything.

So I decided to send him down and take all his money.

That's my nature.

And once someone like me is powered into life,

well, you have to fill the vacuum, don't you?

- How?

- I learned behaviors from friends,

wife, mother, lovely Lucy.

Seen but not noticed.

Even found myself the right man to marry.

- Mark still loves you?

- Mm.

- And your daughters?

- The only emotion I've ever been able to feel is anger.

That not being able to feel anything

can be quite the solo mission.

Now I'm crying because I don't feel anything.

- How does that work?

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- I've taken a lot of confessions in my time.

They are long and intense.

And by the end of it,

you know the person better than when you started,

but not Lucy.

She was different.

- So, um, a boyfriend, London?

- Yeah.

He is talking to me,

but I'm gonna have to play that one by ear.

- Let him have that barbecue at the weekend.

- Absolutely not.

I need to gut the...

Oh, you're right, Sarge.

(water sloshing)

- Where did you get emotional intelligence?

- I got it from you, Mum.

- It's tricky, isn't it?

It's not a gas fitter who can't open a washing tab box.

It's a broken chair.

- Woman.

- She wants a word with both of us.

- I owe you an apology, Sergeant.

- Oh, oh, well, you know,

we were all under a lot of pressure,

and you know, you snapped, but...

- Why would I apologize for that?

- Oh, well, you wouldn't.

I mean, who ever?

- There's something you need to know.

There's no easy way to share this,

but I stole your chair.

My own chair malfunctioned,

and I like to have my feet on the ground when I'm working.

- Don't we all?

- I've ordered you a new one.

The Modulator Mark IV Special Edition.

- A Mark IV?

- Hmm.

Back to work.

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