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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!

(closing theme music)