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(upbeat music)

(man laughs) Yeah, I can see them.

(train announcements)

Don't get me wrong, King's Cross could be hell on earth.

How do you mean?

It was a place of extremes.

(Malcolm) Now, I can remember one night,

a runaway gave birth right on the platform

and then an hour later

a man was stabbed to death behind the coal house.

It was a madhouse.

But there was community.

All of life was here.

Almost sounds like you miss it.

Hm.

What happened?

Oh, uh...

Despite being a model of Victorian build quality,

the structure suffers from subsidence.

Not helped by decades of construction

and track reverberation.

Plus, there's...

a deep warren of passages, tunnels...

and shafts under our feet.

(ominous music)

(heavy drilling)

(theme music)

-Uh, Nikki Alexander. -Jack Hodgson.

DI Steve Tudor.

Right, uh... layouts,

hard hats,

and if you have 'em, steel toe-capped boots.

No. Me neither.

Used to be The Railway Tavern.

Dates back to the nineteenth century.

-Survived the big refurb? -Oh yes, listed.

-Do you know the patch? -Yeah.

King's Cross was my beat for years.

First in uniform, then in plain clothes.

If memory serves, this was variously used as a storeroom,

as a shelter for rough sleepers

and somewhere the more resourceful sex workers

brought their punters.

(Nikki) Thanks.

(Jack) An old hatch. Someone sealed it over.

Cool and dry. Perfect for a cellar.

(Nikki) And for stalling decomposition.

Presents as male.

Massive injuries to the top of the skull.

Fall?

No obvious signs of blood in the surrounding area.

No ID. Some sort of fob.

-(Jack) There's blood here. -(Nikki) What is that?

(Jack hums)

Some kind of handcart I think.

Maybe he was thrown down through the hatch?

I've got more blood in here, Nikki. On a mattress.

I've got red-orange dust embedded in the skull.

Brick?

Yep. Maybe.

Hair all over the mattress.

A can of Mace.

Manufactured in Illinois.

Nikki?

-(Nikki) Looks new. Padlock. -(Jack) Newer than the door anyway.

(metal clangs)

(Nikki gasps)

How many?

(Nikki) Six, I think.

Maybe seven.

Eight.

(Nikki) We need to take control now.

We're not just smack in the middle of London,

we're in King's Cross station.

If one photo of one body gets posted online, we've failed.

(Nikki) So we start as we mean to go on.

Eight bodies, a challenging location...

I reckon we're in Mass Disaster territory,

DVI Protocol, the works.

I want to activate an emergency mortuary.

That means a call to the coroner.

I'll make a similar call to the Commissioner's office.

Somewhere there will be a plan for dealing with something like this.

Might even work.

I'll get the area secured, no one in or out without authority.

I want a moat.

Inner and outer cordons, signed in and out at both.

If the Commissioner agrees with us, he'll throw in a drawbridge.

Nikki Alexander, lead pathologist.

Jack Hodgson, Crime Scene Manager.

Gabriel Folukoya, pathologist, Director of the Lyell Centre.

Malcolm Jones, former station coordinator and curator

of the King's Cross Museum.

DI Steve Tudor. That's it.

Chief Superintendent Sheila Court,

Senior Investigating Officer.

This Gold Group meeting is officially open.

For the avoidance of doubt,

Mass Disaster status has been designated.

My priority is to secure the integrity

of the forensic and pathology investigation.

So, whatever you need.

Right. Well, to ensure that integrity,

I'd like to set up an emergency mortuary

here at the station.

(CS Court) Fine with me.

We haven't had a chance to discuss it,

but, in principle, it's okay.

My main concern is cross-contamination.

We can collect trace evidence material at the scene

before the bodies are moved.

It's a bit unorthodox,

but this is the part we can't repeat or revisit.

Agreed. All that makes sense.

We'll need secure access,

running water, power and lighting.

The temperature will ideally be adjustable

and ventilation sufficient.

Couple of options come to mind.

We'll also need adequate storage space

for the securing of the human remains,

evidence and property.

(train runs by)

Okay. With eight bodies, I imagine you'll want to spread the load?

-Bring in more pathologists? -Actually, no.

In the Shipman case,

all the PMs were done by the same pathologist

and it's my view that,

from a continuity of evidence perspective,

you'll want one set of eyes on all the bodies.

And I'll be working alongside Gabriel to speed up the process.

Okay. Whoever did this has got away with it for ten years plus.

They've had a free pass. Not anymore.

Somewhere in that basement is the clue that's going

to unmask this person and bring them to justice.

We can't miss it.

Sorry if I overstepped the mark just now.

Would've been good to discuss, but...

All fine.

-We can do eight bodies. -We can.

But if we make one mistake, drop one ball,

the wisdom of the decision will be questioned.

And rightly so.

Got a candidate for the mortuary.

(DI Tudor) Despite the facelift,

the station is still associated

with a high number of missing persons.

My focus is on the two years prior

to the building's renovation in June '09

prioritising medium and high-risk cases

in which CID got involved.

If this isn't suitable, we have options.

Power points, pipework, heat sources, all listed.

-Thank you, Malcolm. -Thanks.

(Gabriel) Divide and rule?

I kit this place out, you return to the coal face?

Agreed.

Can we clear this area, please?

Consider it done.

(Nikki) I want to get this body out now,

keep him separate and do his post-mortem first.

Makes sense. We have a hoist en route.

We treat that room as a separate crime scene.

Before we go in there or touch anything,

we map and photograph the bodies' positions.

(drone whirs)

(Nikki) From the way they're positioned and other factors,

our working theory is that the bodies at the back were left first.

So the furthest body we're calling Body One.

(DI Tudor) And the one nearest the door Body Seven?

(Nikki) Exactly.

Operating a last-in, first-out methodology,

we'll now begin removing these bodies.

Body Seven presents as male.

His throat appears to have been cut.

He's wearing what looks like a yellow metal ring

on his wedding finger.

He's wearing a tracksuit and...

Nike trainers.

-(Nikki) There we go. -(Jack) Get it.

(Nikki) Body Six also presents as male.

There's a gag in his mouth.

And rope around his neck.

(Jack) Hands are tied with rope too.

(Nikki) Which extends up his back.

Encircling his neck in a noose.

What is that about?

Body Five wears a polyester top

with some sort of emblem...

A football shirt maybe.

Body Four presents as female,

shoulder-length auburn hair.

She's wearing jewellery.

-Earrings, necklace-- -Woah, woah, woah.

Does that include a gold chain necklace

with a four-leaf clover pendant?

(Nikki) Yes, it does.

Aye. The necklace was listed as identifying property

belonging to the American tourist Judy Holmes.

Well, obviously, it's a secondary identifier but

height and hair colour, they all fit, too, so...

In all likelihood, we've identified our first victim.

What else do we know about Judy?

(DI Tudor) Uh... (sighs)

...her bag was found in bushes

by the Regent's Canal half a mile away.

CID pulled out all the stops, dragging the canal.

Their thinking was it was a mugging gone bad.

I retrieved a can of Mace manufactured in Illinois.

Take it we have her prints and DNA?

It's all logged in the misper report

and on the missing persons database.

(DI Tudor) Lift.

(man) Leave behind the equipment for later.

(Nikki) Body Three has a reddish-grey beard.

And is wearing what looks like a Military coat.

Which is caked with blood...

Hair colouring's a visual match

to the hairs I recovered on the mattress back there.

DNA'll confirm.

So... was this bloke sleeping rough down here when he was killed?

Turf war?

(Nikki) Body Two has been left on top of Body One.

Some green material is draped across both bodies.

Body Two presents as male.

Cropped, peroxided blonde hair.

Evidence of multiple stab wounds to the chest.

Body One presents as male.

As with Body Two, there's evidence of stab wounds

to the chest and torso.

But an even greater number.

A tattoo...

and multiple hoop earrings.

Could help with an ID.

What do you think we're looking at here?

A killer or killers

of exceptional brutality

who learned on the job

and evolved fast.

We need you to hold the fort here.

Start the processing.

There's going to be a lot of it and this is just the beginning.

-You up to the challenge? -Yeah.

-Of course. -Good.

(Velvy sighs)

Get anywhere with the fob from Victim Eight's jeans?

First, it defeated me, to be honest, but--

-You tried florescence? -Yes. Great minds.

Here, bottom right.

-Mandrake Systems. -I've just called them.

Very cooperative. Their chief engineer is on the way.

Thanks.

-It's really bad then? -Yeah.

(Barbara) Well, we're here.

I know. Thanks.

We're going to get names for them all.

No numbers.

Great job.

Gives the Lyell a run for its money.

Cats are out of bags.

I'm here at King's Cross Museum

that lies just behind the station itself,

where we're getting unconfirmed reports

that a mass grave has been discovered.

And there's already a crowd of curious onlookers

growing at the entrance.

It's as yet unclear how many bodies have been discovered

but police and forensics have arrived at the scene

and will be working hard to identify the bodies.

as soon as possible.

We'll do a post-mortem on Body Eight now,

then carry out the remaining seven tomorrow.

The fob recovered from Body Eight is an entry key.

It accessed Halford Court, block of flats in Dalston,

no earlier than March '09 and no later than October '10

when upgraded fobs were issued.

Great. We have the beginnings of a timeframe.

I cut out the middleman

and spoke to the lads on the maintenance crew.

By "middleman", do you mean Malcolm Jones?

I have a timeline of the whole development

from 2007 to 2010.

With a focus on the tavern, I hope?

Yeah. That was a late refurb,

August '09.

Reading between the lines, it was a rushed job.

But we now have a window when Body Eight was killed,

March 2009 to August 2009.

And it's likely he was killed

after the seven victims recovered from the basement.

So they were killed prior to mid-2009?

When the station was undergoing an intense period of rebuilding.

This is a bloody time bomb.

A serial killer was on the loose.

Not only did we fail to catch him, we didn't even know he existed.

All the police's top brass from '09 must've gone by now.

Well, that would be a shitstorm of criticism

boiling down to one question.

How did he get away with it on our watch?

How do we get ahead of that?

By getting and keeping the public onside.

To that end, I'm holding a press conference tonight.

I'd like one of you to be present.

Gabriel.

Okay, you get over

to that building block in Dalston and start knocking on doors.

I've got you six detectives from London Wall.

Body Eight is male.

Analysis of his pubic symphysis will give us an age range.

(razor whirs)

There is massive blunt force trauma

to the crown of the skull,

which is partially staved in.

These multiple injuries were the likely cause of death.

There's red dust embedded in the fractures,

possibly brick dust.

Certainly, a brick wielded with force

would inflict those kinds of injuries.

-Any sign of the brick? -(Jack) Not yet.

(Nikki) There's a single wound to the forehead,

one of the more robust areas of the skull.

Do we know what made these marks?

We think a handcart being dropped on the body.

Fibres inside the tray

are a visual match to the deceased's clothing.

We'll compare the blood to the reference sample

when we have it.

Suggests he was probably transported in the cart.

From the murder scene to the tavern?

Residue in the cart suggests it was used for shifting bricks.

What, so the killer just throws tarpaulin over the body

and he's good to go?

In the end, there were 37 construction companies on site.

Someone in overalls pulling a cart?

Wouldn't get a second glance.

So maybe the killer was a builder?

Even better camouflage?

Did a good job cementing up the hatch.

Yeah, we don't know if that was him.

We don't,

but the victim's jeans and shirt were spattered with dried cement.

Maybe they were both builders.

There's metal debris embedded in his right eye.

That sort of injury is usually associated with construction work.

He was treated significantly differently to the others.

He wasn't placed in the cupboard and there was plenty of room.

Just thrown down through the hatch.

If they were builders, maybe they were working together

and things kicked off.

It's a long shot but if we could tie the brick in question

to a specific construction,

it might help ID the victim and the killer.

Thank you. I need to relay all this to my team.

(clamour on monitor)

(woman) Just one at a time, thank you, everyone.

One at a time.

(reporter 1) Chief Superintendent Court,

is it fair to say without this issue with the floor dropping,

these bodies would never have been found?

Yes. That's a fair assessment.

(reporter 2) So someone was murdering people

in one of our busiest stations

and the police had no idea?

At least one of the victims was reported missing

and a full CID investigation was launched.

(reporter 3) "At least one"? How many bodies have been found?

Eight. We've recovered eight bodies so far.

(reporters talk over each other)

You shouldn't be here, Mr Jones.

Malcolm, please.

Sorry, I...

just came to retrieve my stuff.

You okay?

Not really.

The thought of them, mouldering away in the dark...

unnoticed, unacknowledged...

Unmourned.

I'm sure they weren't unmourned.

No. No, of course not. Uh...

I didn't mean... (sighs)

It is hard to get your head around.

When was your tenure at the station?

2004 to 2010.

That's when you think this happened, isn't it?

(phone vibrates)

Sorry.

-Hello. -It's Steve Tudor.

I followed up on the entry fob to Halford Court

and might've found an ex-partner of Body Eight.

Tentative ID is a Kacper Tadych, a Polish national.

Great.

Partner's name is Anna Górska

and she may have questions

you're better placed to answer than me.

I have some photographs of the deceased's clothes.

The remains of them.

Could I show them to you, Anna?

To see if you recognise them as Kacper's?

(tearful) That's Kacper's belt.

Thank you.

Would he have...

Did he suffer?

Judging by the pathology evidence,

I'd say it's likely that death was close to instantaneous.

But I can't be certain.

Of course. Yeah.

(sniffles)

Could you tell us a bit about your relationship with Kacper?

Well, we dated in high school in Poland.

He was two years younger.

I called him my toyboy.

Uh, we broke up when I went to university and uh...

then I got a job here in London.

Doing what, if you don't mind me asking?

Marketing manager.

Pharmaceuticals mainly.

Um...

One day, Kacper just showed up.

He worked as a builder and he heard I'd moved here.

(sighs) We picked up where we left off.

It was a very special time.

Like a miracle.

It didn't last?

No. He...

He had an eye injury at work.

It'd give him headaches and...

he'd get angry without any warning.

Um...

One day, Kacper woke up with a bigger hangover than normal.

He was late and angry and it was all my fault.

We had a proper screaming match.

And he stormed out.

Never saw him again.

Did he ever mention someone at work that he didn't like?

Who got on his nerves?

What about the building firm he worked for?

(sighs)

No, he'd just...

He'd wait on the corner of a street at 6am.

And sometimes, he'd get works, sometimes, he wouldn't.

We'd like to confirm Kacper's identity via DNA if possible.

Did you manage to find anything that...

Um, I threw out the stuff he left years ago.

But... I do have something.

Kacper loved this.

He read it over and over again.

Thank you

(DI Tudor) I appreciate that. I know you've had a long day.

Or are you a glutton for punishment like me?

(Nikki snickers) Maybe. A bit.

I feel bad for her.

She'll be thinking what if, what if...

"What if we hadn't rowed that morning?"

"What if... I'd held out an olive branch?"

I know I would.

Steve Tudor.

Thank you.

DNA confirms it.

Body Four is Judy Holmes.

(dial tone)

(on call) Ted Holmes.

Ted. My name is Detective Inspector Steve Tudor

from Greater London Police...

Have you found her? Have you found Judy?

Yes. Yes, we have.

A-At the station? King's Cross?

(keyboard clacking)

(Nikki sighs)

Penny for them?

The victimology.

You asked.

Go on. I know you're dying to tell me.

You'd expect to see something of the killer in the victims.

Or at the scene.

We've got eight and I can't see anything. Can you?

Male, female, varied ethnicity.

Nothing at all.

It's all riding on the pathologist by the sounds of it.

(Ted) My sister'd been planning that trip to Europe for years.

Saving for it,

talking about it, all the... places she was gonna visit.

How could you just not know

this guy was doing what he was doing?

I don't know the answer to that yet,

but I promise you...

I will keep in close touch as the investigation progresses.

Um...

Ted...

Did Judy ever carry a can of Mace,

as far as you know?

Yeah. Never went anywhere without it.

I warned her it was illegal to take it through UK Customs.

But... (sighs)

...it was Judy.

She was my big sister,

and she wouldn't be told...

(Russell) Dad, you know the drill.

One and then the other.

Why, it's teamwork. Just help me.

(Russell's dad) I can't do it, Russell.

I need help.

(Russell) I'm just going to sit down.

-Russell! -Then I'll do us some breakfast.

Come back and help me! (knocks)

Russell! (knocks)

Russell!

Help me!

(newscaster) ...museum,

where Greater London Police have now confirmed

that a homicide investigation is underway,

following the discovery of eight bodies

in the cellar beneath the museum.

Speaking at the press conference last night,

Chief Superintendent Sheila Court

confirmed that Greater London Police

were called to the museum earlier this week

after construction workers

repairing damage to the museum's floor

uncovered a--

(breathes shakily)

(inhales sharply)

(whimpers)

(newscaster) ...an emergency mortuary

has been established at King's Cross

and pathologists from Lyell Centre

are assisting with the post-mortem examinations.

While police have not released the identity of any victims,

they have confirmed

that at least one was the subject of a missing person investigation,

and their next of kin have been informed.

The police work to formally identify each victim--

Something tells me this's gonna be dinner, not lunch.

Yours looks nicer than mine.

(CS Court) Okay, so firstly,

I just want to acknowledge the marathon series

of post-mortems you've carried out today a truly herculean task

and we're all really appreciative.

But we need to know who we're looking for.

We need to get him in focus.

So it would be helpful, or it's vital

to get a forensic pathology narrative

charting his evolution across the eight murders.

Right. Well.

The first killing...

was a sustained attack.

Body One is male.

40 to 50 years old.

There's a shallow, unhealed cut to his throat...

(DI Tudor) Wasn't fatal?

Unlikely.

But the killer might've expected it to be.

Instead, the victim fights back.

Maybe.

There's a flurry of unhealed wounds to the chest

that would ultimately prove fatal.

And there's what looks like another stab wound to the chest,

but this one's healed.

So likely sustained some years before his death?

Months I'd say. Weeks, even.

There are permanent internal sutures

where he's been stitched up,

and evidence of a fractured rib that was in the process of healing.

(Nikki) Body Two defended himself

before finally being overpowered by the killer.

We see the same sustained stabbing attack

but the wounds are deeper, more definite and fewer in number.

Body Two was 20 to 30 years old.

He was placed on top of Body One.

A large square of dark green quilted material

was then draped over both bodies.

(Nikki) There are healed linear scars

across the fingertips of his right hand.

-(DI Tudor) Knife wound? -Possibly.

Additionally, Body Two bears some defensive wounds.

Slices across the forearms

and an unhealed broken nose.

So neither victim went quietly into the good night?

No.

Body Three is a little different.

50 to 60 years old.

He was stabbed in the back multiple times

while lying face down on a mattress

which we've recovered.

A surprise attack

certainly fits with the absence of defensive wounds.

So what, he was sleeping down there?

Possibly.

So, maybe we're looking at a territorial motive?

Victim Three's kipping in the basement,

the killer shows up, wants the space for himself.

Doesn't that screw up our timeline?

If he's killed after Victims One and Two,

why isn't he raising the alarm about their bodies?

Good question.

Maybe Victim Three was a partner in crime?

Or... he just shows up,

sees the mattress, not the bodies, beds down?

The volume of his hairs on the mattress argues against that.

Or, Victim Three was killed first

and we're setting too much store

by where their bodies were left in the cupboard?

It is an anomaly,

but inevitably at this stage, one of many.

(Gabriel) Body Four. Judy Holmes.

These wounds are consistent with the tangential movement

of a sharp implement across the skin.

The depth and angle of the wounds

suggest they were made left to right,

from behind, by a right-handed assailant.

This wound breached the jugular vein and the carotid artery,

suggesting that Judy's head was drawn back to expose the throat.

The vessels sit deeper in the neck than people think.

So if you tilt the head back,

the sternocleidomastoid muscle covers them up.

So if the killer expected "quick slice and down they go",

he got a big surprise?

Explaining the three separate cuts to her neck.

The attack on Judy was very different.

For one, it's likely she was abducted before she was killed.

Based on?

(Gabriel) An unhealed dislocated shoulder,

and green-painted splinters under her fingernails

which are visually consistent

with a board fence by the old tavern.

Yesterday, you asked a good question.

How did the killer get away with it in the middle of King's Cross?

-You have the answer? -I have an answer.

The entire west side of the station was

rebuilt and remodelled

from 2007 to 2010.

This necessitated a network of boarded passages

across the stations

so the public had access to the trains and surrounding streets

whilst being shielded from the works.

Cooks Passage was the first to be built and the longest,

running north-south and emerging on the Cooks Way.

It had a total of 16 doors marked Authorised Personnel Only

that let station staff and building crews

exit at whatever point would bring them to their

behind-the-scenes destination.

The tavern?

Yeah. One door...

opened onto the clutch of buildings north,

the western concourse that, yes, included the then derelict tavern.

(CS Court) But surely those doors were kept locked?

Eventually, after a series of thefts and trespassing incidents,

keypads were installed.

Hm. CCTV?

Limited to the entrances of the passages

and major intersections.

That footage will be long gone anyway.

(Jack) Yeah.

In light of all this,

Judy Holmes was likely abducted as she...

walked down Cooks Passage late on a Sunday night.

Yeah, she'd got off a train from Durham,

she was heading for her hotel off Euston Road.

Significantly,

none of her jewellery was taken and she was fully clothed.

So it's unlikely a financial or sexual motive drove the killer.

So, he was getting a taste for killing

for killing's sake?

Someone looks overwhelmed.

This is only half the trace evidence.

There's still so much more from the basement.

A problem shared?

Right.

Body number Six was wearing an...

Apollonia bumbag

and uh, cagoule.

Right?

(Barbara) Was that the victim

with the noose attached to his bound hands?

Yes. Him.

So, I've never heard of Apollonia.

Which, made me think, like

small, local brand

which might help us with a nationality,

which might help us with a

missing person search.

-(Barbara) No joy? -(Velvy fumbles and sighs)

Just two hours looking at the, uh...

Greek equivalent to Companies House

and... well, their...

Board of Commerce.

(Velvy sighs)

(Barbara) Apollonia?

Part of ancient Greece.

But now, I think, it's part of Albania.

Is it possible the company was Albanian?

So our killer was getting sharper all round.

He knew that Judy would be missed,

so he dumped her bag

by Regent's Canal.

He wanted to draw attention away from the station.

I reckon he was sleeping in the tavern basement

at least some of the time.

Unfortunately, the killer now had a can of Mace

that was almost certainly used on subsequent victims.

(Gabriel) Body Five. Our youngest victim yet.

Killed in a similar way to Judy, knife to the throat

but a single deeper wound.

There's some trauma around the eyes that could've been made by Mace.

Well, we know from Judy Holmes' brother

she brought a can into the country.

I'll swab the skin for it. Clothing too.

(Jack) Notice the rip in his jacket?

Sleeves were stretched.

All the buttons were loose or missing.

So a struggle?

(Jack) Also missing his right trainer.

Once again, suggests resistance to abduction.

With Body Six, we see a different mode of death.

His mouth was gagged,

hands bound with rope

that extends up his back, forming a noose around his neck.

Taken in conjunction with the gag,

the bound hands and noose

feel as much about an attempt to control him

as to kill him.

If he tries to free himself, the noose tightens?

All of which suggests the killer chose to keep him alive

for a period of time.

(Jack) Something else in there.

A denture. Partially swallowed.

But why would he do that, six victims in?

(DI Tudor scoffs)

Why do kids tear the wings off flies?

Certain kids.

You've answered your own question. Six victims in.

He's now sufficiently confident

to indulge his impulses, curiosities, whatever.

They went full circle on Body Seven.

At six foot four, his biggest opponent yet,

killing him with a single cut to the throat.

Unlike what we saw with Body Four, Judy Holmes.

The ragged nature of this cut

suggests the head was tilted forward.

Which is in line with military training.

Leaning the head forward loosens the skin,

yielding a more ragged, lethal cut.

Are we saying this guy was in the army?

Possible. Or just a...

DIY military fanboy with a library card.

The wound also suggests the use of a serrated blade,

something like a hunting knife.

In other words, the killer perfected the art of killing

and on his biggest victim yet.

Maybe that's why he chose him.

The challenge?

The sport?

H-How does the bludgeoning of his final victim fit...

his new expertise?

Another anomaly?

From the pathology evidence and forensics,

we think that Kacper's murder

could have been unplanned and heat of the moment.

Whether or not we're right about the killer being a builder,

he had to know his days in the tavern were numbered.

And that became a stressor.

Yes. What's he gonna do about the bodies in the basement?

Excuse me a second.

Come on then.

This is Velvy, he has some information about Body Six.

Body Six? The one with the noose?

-(Jack) You're good? -(Velvy) Oh, uh, yes.

Through the discontinued Albanian clothing brand Apollonia,

worn by Body Six,

we hazarded a guess

that he was also Albanian and we ran a missing person search.

I believe his name is Elseid Broja.

Um...

A 25-year-old Albanian student

who went missing in London in the summer 2009.

Based on more than a clothing brand, I hope?

Hm. Um,

one of Broja's distinguishing features was a...

a partial denture.

Three teeth.

We found just such a denture in the throat of Body Six.

What about our killer's DNA?

All these bodies, all this evidence,

he's got to have left it somewhere.

We've collected and are collecting

scores of DNA samples from the basement

and the victims' clothing.

All of which we'll run against the database.

(DI Tudor) But?

But there's a strong possibility he wore gloves.

-Based on...? -The padlock.

He must've used it regularly.

But there's not a print on it.

Good job, lads. Same time tomorrow.

(phone vibrates)

(sighs)

Keith Pryor.

Hello, Keith. Russell Drake.

Hey, Russ. How you doing mate?

(knocks)

Surviving.

I know you've done okay.

So forgive me for not asking.

(Keith) Can't complain, can't complain.

What can I do for you, Russell?

Well, I thought we might compare notes.

King's Cross.

Yeah. The bodies...

in that tavern likely killed between 2008 and 2010.

Sorry, Russ, the line's breaking up.

Why don't we, uh, talk in person?

No. No way.

(scoffs) I'm not stupid.

You come to me, then.

No, I'm going to the police.

Tell them what I should've told them years ago.

Now if that were true,

you'd have done it already, wouldn't you?

This sounds like a shakedown.

Like you want something from me.

(Russell's dad) Russell!

Russell! (knocks)

(Keith) Gotta go, Russ?

Sounds like you're needed.

(growls) Russell!

No, okay.

Yeah, let's meet.

But in a public place of my choosing.

(police sirens)

Oh, e-excuse me?

-Can I help you? -Uh...

Who should I speak to about the King's Cross investigation?

I'm a nurse at the Royal Free. I've just come off a double shift.

I caught the--

You were at the press conference.

The pathologist.

Yes. Gabriel. Um...

Uh, E-E-Esther. Esther Daniels.

My son Simon went missing in 2009.

Aged seventeen.

Are any of the victims as young as seventeen?

-Let's talk inside. -Well...

When Simon was small,

he broke his leg in two places skateboarding.

His right leg.

As a pathologist, you'd notice something like that, right?

Thank you.

Simon's DNA is on file?

He's on the missing persons database?

I gave the police his hairbrush in 2009.

In that case, we should have confirmation by tomorrow.

When he went missing,

he'd been getting in trouble.

Dropping out of college, on the fringes of a gang,

but...

nothing too serious.

Looking back, it was all an act of rebellion.

Against what?

I was pregnant and I'd just remarried.

No doubt he was feeling a lot of jealousy.

So Simon didn't get on with your new husband?

Oh...

By spring 2009, he'd moved out.

It was only when his birthday came around and he didn't call...

I knew something was wrong.

And that's when you reported him missing?

A month later...

they found Simon's bag up in Holloway Woods.

Oh, uh, it-it's a known spot for dealing.

It... was like the police just lost interest at that point.

If my son was killed in King's Cross,

half a mile from his front door,

who took his bag up to Holloway Woods?

(phone vibrates)

My husband.

Probably wondering where I am.

I'm going to run you home, Esther.

Thank you.

The lab have been busy and we now have DNA matches

on three bodies.

Body One is, or was, Adam Perry.

52, a convicted criminal

who disappeared in February 2008.

Body Five is 17-year-old Simon Daniels.

I met his mother, Esther, last night.

Uh, she recognised me from the press conference.

I submitted a brief account of that meeting for the file.

Thank you.

Body Seven is a personal trainer called Faisal Hosseini.

At the time of his disappearance,

he was about to enter into a civil partnership

with his long-term boyfriend Josh.

He'd taken a client for a workout in Regent's Park

and was supposedly heading back home on foot

to his flat in Angel,

when he vanished.

So we have provisional ID's on six of the eight,

just Bodies Two and Three remain unidentified?

Correct.

We suggest that the immediate focus is Body One, Adam Perry.

Why?

Well, Perry apparently had a long record for assault

and procuring runaways for sexual activity.

Ringing bells?

He was an animal.

Hospital records bear out our pathology findings

with respect to the healed stab wound.

Adam Perry was admitted to A&E

with a suspected knife injury

on January 2, 2008.

He was lucky to live.

These victims, there's no pattern, is there?

No type he goes for.

No conventional victimology that would...

hold a mirror up to the offender?

If there is, all I'm seeing in that mirror is a black hole.

It's more questions than answers.

(Russell) Hey--

Mrs Perry, I have some general questions

about the period leading up to Adam's disappearance.

Dr Alexander's a pathologist

who has some more specific questions.

-Pathologist? -(Nikki) Yes.

I wanted to ask you about the knife injury

that your husband sustained in the weeks prior to his murder.

I know who did this.

I know who did all of 'em.

He's...

He's a monster, but only 'cause Adam made him one.

His name's Terry Bordell.

(Russell's dad knocks)

Russell!

Russell?

Russell!

Where are you?

Russell!

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