RADIO: 'It's two weeks since schoolgirl Sarah Middleton went missing
'and police admit they are less optimistic with each passing day.'
Stuart? Well, it looks promising,
if that's the right word.
Adolescent female, dark brown hair.
Sarah's been missing, what, two weeks? Yes, tomorrow.
The call said she was weighed down?
Yeah, swaddled in rubble sacks and wrapped in chains.
Why go to that trouble then dump her where she's going to be found?
Bad luck apparently - water levels are at a record low.
Birthmark?
We can't be certain but you should prepare for the worst. Why?
Our victim is female,
long, dark brown hair and there's a birthmark on her neck.
Lots of people have a birthmark. It's not proof. It doesn't mean it's her.
Darling, please.
This came for her yesterday.
It's an unconditional offer to read music at Cambridge.
Aren't you going to say congratulations?
Congratulations.
She's in there.
She's going to Cambridge.
So how can she be that girl in the lake?
How can she be? KNOCKING
Excuse me.
Fingerprints confirm that it's Sarah Middleton, DNA tomorrow.
Thank you.
Decomposition is minimal.
I'd say she was in the water 48 hours tops and dead for not much longer.
There is some evidence of rape, but don't hold your breath for any DNA.
The lake washed it away? Yeah, I mean, I've swabbed everywhere so maybe we'll get lucky.
Leaving aside the sexual abuse, there are two significant antemortem injuries.
The pink-brown hue of these excoriations
suggests they were sustained while she was still alive.
Is that the same on this side?
My guess is they're from striking out at a door or a wall.
Trying to get out? Yeah. I mean, she's been dead three,
four days, which would mean she had been held captive at least a week.
Is that the other injury? Yeah, again,
times two, and probably the cause of death.
I recovered shards of mirror glass from these injuries.
There are easier ways of killing than slashing wrists.
My hunch is self-inflicted.
So it was suicide?
No. No, this was murder.
Two weeks ago Sarah Middleton went missing on her way home from school.
In the church hall car park on Collier Road, she was seen talking to a woman.
This woman had red hair, was 25 to 30 years old,
and Sarah was seen pointing out directions to her in an A-Z.
We urgently need to contact this individual
as she is almost certainly the last person to see Sarah alive.
Sir, this might be nothing but we've got a girl who didn't come home last night.
Kelly Stevens. Where? Roehampton.
Left her mate's house at 11.50pm, went home, never made it. Doesn't sound like nothing.
Kelly Stevens isn't violin-playing Cambridge material. What's that supposed to mean?
She's stayed out before, been cautioned for shoplifting, class B drug abuse.
Has a detective assigned? Don't think anyone's worried.
Why not? I want in until we know where she is, all right?
Isn't that a bit previous?
Here's hoping.
Sarah Middleton has exercised the only choice she had left.
To live or to die. But our killer is all about control,
so he won't be happy with her decision.
He now has some unfinished business, an itch he can only scratch one way.
Taking another girl? Well, we have to be ready for that,
what we've learned.
To keep a person captive for seven days takes space and privacy.
The planning and execution suggest an offender upwards of 25
who has graduated from non-fatal sex crimes.
So what do we do with this?
We tell the public to be careful, we give the media the positive ID on Sarah.
We hope we can use the spotlight to reach our mystery red-head.
Are we not jumping the gun here, Sir?
Given our killer's profile, two missing schoolgirls in two weeks worries me.
Let's see what Kelly's mother can tell us.
Since this shoplifting thing, Kelly's been on a curfew.
Nine o'clock or else. Last night she left her friend Macy's at 11.50.
She would've been, what, three hours over? Yeah.
Does Kelly have a computer?
Yes, it's upstairs in her bedroom.
What kind of welcome would she have expected last night?
She didn't get here, what does it matter?
I'm trying to see it from her point of view.
I'd have given her hell and... And grounded her for a month.
Perhaps that was the conversation she was trying to avoid? Enjoying her last night of freedom?
Yeah, I suppose so.
The last time that Kelly stayed out all night, where was she?
I... I don't know.
A boyfriend maybe? Yeah, maybe. You didn't press her on it?
I'm a single working mother with a bright, impulsive 15-year-old.
I choose my battles. Where is Kelly's father?
We separated last year. He ran off with his secretary.
Anything?
Maybe, I'm just un-hiding her email folder.
Does this look like a 15-year-old's bedroom to you?
Maybe somewhere she rests her head.
Where does she live her life, hey?
Don't know but someone called Josh might figure in it.
"My period came this morning so we can spend the money
"you weren't saving for nappies on cigarettes and alcohol.
"Ha ha ha ha."
Look, she's not here, man!
We'll just take a look for ourselves if that's all right.
Oi, easy, bitch. What did you call me?
I said... "easy on the speaker, man".
What is it, Josh? Can't you get a woman your own age?
Yeah, that's it. Yeah, you got me.
We have got you, Josh. By the balls.
You were having a sexual relationship with Kelly.
Kelly is 15, and now Kelly is missing.
She told me 16! That won't keep you off the sex offender's register.
But full cooperation just might.
You feeling us now, Josh?
Yeah, I feel you.
I gotta be somewhere, yeah? Early start for a DJ.
I do kid's parties as well, all right?
Bearing in mind that we have access to Kelly's phone records, when did you last hear from her?
Last night. What time?
About midnight.
She left me a message saying she was coming over cos her mum had slung her out.
Did you call her back?
No, I was DJ-ing.
I didn't get the message till this morning. Have you still got it?
'Josh, it's me. You better be in cos Mum's kicked me out, I've got nowhere else to go.
'Later.'
Please.
Mrs Stevens.
Kelly's got diabetes. You understand what that means?
Without her insulin...
I think we need a private word, Mrs Stevens. She's our daughter.
Whatever you say to me, you can say in front of Tony.
Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
Anything about last night at all?
Why would there be?
What's he on about, Anna?
'Josh, it's me. You better be in cos Mum's kicked me out and I've got nowhere else to go.
'Later.'
Three hours late. Again.
I had to take a stand!
You threw her out?
I told her it was no phone and no allowance for a month.
If she didn't like it, she could leave. At midnight?
She called my bluff. How could you do that?
Because if I don't show her who's boss, who will?
Don't try and put this on me! That's enough.
This is not your wife's fault. I beg to bloody differ.
We are trying to do everything we can to get your daughter back.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry...
God, I'm sorry! SHE SOBS
Boyfriend Josh's alibi checks out - in the pub till 11,
straight on to a club where he was DJ-ing till four.
Good. From home to Josh's, there's one bus route.
Pulled CCTV and there she was.
What you selling? So we know that Kelly Stevens got off the bus stop there at 12.47am.
There are two routes to her boyfriend's flat - Stanway Road and Horton Villas.
Canvas all residents and businesses in both streets.
Did anyone see her getting into a car, in a conversation?
Basically, did anyone see Kelly Stevens, full stop.
If there's no-one in, leave a message and make a note so that we can follow it up.
Thanks very much, good luck.
Everything about this screams runaway.
Broken home, petty crime, a taste for bad boys...
What am I missing? I want to make sure there's no connection.
PHONE RINGS Yup?
Thank you.
You've sanctioned a house to house?
I was getting to that. Pull it. Right now.
We have eight officers on loan from Traffic, they go back tomorrow. Tough. Pull it.
They're already out there. They don't have radios?
Pull it or you're back on leave. Unpaid this time. Sir! I mean it.
No-one treats me like a rubber stamp.
So this isn't because I'm wrong, this is because I didn't ask, is it? No, that did piss me off.
But I won't terrify the public there's a serial killer on no evidence whatsoever.
The AC wants us to pull the plug on the house to house.
'OK. I'll put it out on the radio.'
You don't sound disappointed.
'That's cos we got ourselves a witness.'
I was about to turn in when I remembered I hadn't put my card and paper only bags out.
That's when I saw her, the girl in the photo. It's Kelly, right?
Yes, it is Kelly. So where were they exactly?
Over there.
On this side of the road or...? Other side.
She was talking to this couple, hunched over their Range Rover.
Did you hear what they were saying? No, they were looking at something.
The street light picked out the woman's red hair.
Could it have been a map?
Could've been. I went back in and when I looked, they'd gone.
She could've got the map and the red hair from the appeal.
Or it's true and there's a good reason why
our red-head witness isn't coming forward.
As an MO, it's pretty slick, isn't it?
The woman's presence reassures, asking directions leads to the car,
and then the map distracts them.
Sir!
It could be Kelly's?
Maybe she struggled.
Or she was trying to leave us a trail.
Oh, my God.
It's Kelly's.
Winston!
All right?
How are you doing? It's George.
George! Of course! George!
So, erm? Yeah, I'm a groundsman.
No need to ask what you're doing here?
The missing girl, yeah? Right.
You think there's a connection with the girl they fished out the lake?
You keep up with the news, George. So it's possible it's the same killer?
It's possible. Or killers.
Let me guess. The mystery witness is in on it?
The red-head?
George...
I was saying to my wife and she said there's no way a woman could ever do such a thing like that.
Nkata?
Great to see you, George. Yeah, likewise.
Hope you get 'em, Winston!
So what've we got?
We think they're using a map to bait the girls?
An A-Z, yeah.
Thank you, sir.
"Asked if police believed Sarah Middleton's killer was behind Kelly Stevens' abduction,
"DC Nkata replied, 'Yes, but we're now looking for killers plural,
"'a man and a woman.'" I never said that.
"He confirmed the unidentified red-haired woman seen talking to Sarah is a suspect."
That is such bullshit. He asked me...
Did you say any of it?
Then it doesn't matter, does it?
Admit you put Nkata up to this and I'll go easy on you.
It's not Nkata's fault. So you did put him up to it?
It is regrettable how this came out but the red-haired woman and the map
link Kelly's disappearance to Sarah's murder... Don't say conclusively.
Quite conclusively, sir.
While the discovery of Kelly's shoe and the eyewitness report give us every reason to fear the worst.
What business do we have keeping this from the public?
Lecturing me is your way out of this? That's your Big Plan?
My way out of this is to use the leak to our advantage.
So I want to address the young woman we now believe was present at the
abductions of both Sarah Middleton and Kelly Stevens.
You know where Kelly is right now, how scared and lonely she feels,
how much she wants this nightmare to end.
What you may not know is that she is diabetic.
Without her medication, she is in very real danger.
There's only one person who can help her and that's you.
Now, if the man behind these crimes is your boyfriend or your husband,
you may feel you owe him loyalty.
You don't. He forfeited that when he dragged you into this mess.
Instead, I urge you to save this young girl's life...
A child's life, no less.
A child's life. Nice touch, Guv.
Well, I think that did the job. And what was that job again?
In any criminal duo, there is a junior and senior partner.
We are driving a wedge.
Turning one against the other? Works with armed robbers.
Yeah, but the junior partner's a woman.
We don't know... D'you have a better idea?
Right. Everybody, I know we primed them, but I want
follow-up calls to all the nicks in South West London, ditto A&E wards.
Any domestics reported, we want to know about,
particularly if they involve young red-headed women.
Barbara...
Do you want the guy to beat the crap out of her?
Well, if she comes forward and leads us to Kelly, then yes, I do.
What if we've lit a fire under the senior partner?
What if all we've done is just endanger Kelly?
So we wait around till she turns up in a bin bag?
Sometimes doing nothing is the hardest thing.
You sound like a fortune cookie.
You sound like someone convincing himself he's doing the right thing and not succeeding.
Will you check if Lafferty got anywhere with the fingerprints from the A-Z, please?
Right now?
Prints galore.
Same two, over and over.
Judging by the size and spacing I'd say male and female but...
Our killer couple? Well, if they are, they don't have a record.
Anything? Five suspected domestic assaults in the last hour,
three 999s, two walk-ins at St Georges.
And red-heads in their twenties? Check 'em anyway.
Guv - Kingston A&E, could be our girl.
PHONE RINGS Yep?
'Tania Thompson, 25, red hair came into Kingston A&E'
with facial bruising, cracked ribs, concussion. Fell down the stairs(!)
Great, that sounds promising.
I haven't finished. There's a black Range Rover registered to her husband, Guy.
You're kidding? Well, they're dragging out her X-rays but they can't... OK, I'll be there in 10.
Let me just have a look there...
There she is.
Hi.
My name's Barbara Havers, I'm a police officer.
I told them. I fell down the stairs.
Right.
My aunt used to fall down the stairs.
And walk into doors.
I'm not your aunt. Good.
She ended up in a wheelchair cos my uncle beat her with a car jack.
You know,
given your injuries, I could get a warrant to examine your stairs.
If there's no evidence of a fall, we can draw our own conclusions.
It's not his fault. Whose fault?
Guy.
Is Guy your husband?
You're being very understanding.
I'm his wife.
Maybe too understanding.
I love him.
Jack.
Right...
OK, thank you very much.
Doesn't have a record, but he's come to our attention twice. For?
In 2000, his girlfriend reported him for trying to throttle her during sex,
three years later a hotel maid accused him of assault. Good lawyer or what?
Girlfriend retracted, maid did a runner when the police found out she was here illegally.
Sounds like he's due some bad luck.
There he is.
Hello, Guy.
The marks on your wrists...
I saw them, Tania.
It used to be a bit of fun, you know? But not any more?
Does he do anything else that makes you uncomfortable?
Like what? Like anything?
Why do you care?
Well, don't you think you're worth caring about?
Honestly?
Not really.
Look, I can help you. I can get you somewhere.
Somewhere safe. Come with me, Tania.
He'll find me.
He always does. Tania...
Thanks.
I'm sorry.
What if he's got Kelly in there?
Something tells me he's smarter than that.
'Lafferty.' Hi.
You said I needed something to run against those prints in the A-Z?
'Yeah, what have you got?'
Two, please. That's 35 then, thank you, sir.
Let's say you want to open
a play centre for kids.
Good.
Now if there are no play centres in your area,
you might think you've got no competition.
Wrong!
Any business that vies for families' leisure time is a competitor.
That means cinemas, shopping centres, zoos.
It could mean Sunday schools, it means parks and beaches.
So what do you do?
Well, you have got to become a hunter.
You've got to get out there and scope your enemy.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Role play.
Why not pay them a visit as a consumer and identify their vulnerability?
Everybody's got a weak spot - what's theirs?
What's yours?
OK, I want to introduce this next topic with a simple demonstration, so I'll need a volunteer.
Yes, you sir, at the back?
What's your name? Thomas.
Good to know you, Thomas.
All I want you to do is stand there and not move your feet.
Can you do that for me?
I'll give it a go.
You see, I hardly touched him and I'm already causing him problems.
You moved your feet. I had to.
Exactly.
You had to.
You adapted to survive.
You broke the rules,
and now you have the upper hand.
Is that what you advocate? Breaking the rules?
I advocate independent thought.
Letting go of what seems possible and impossible.
Thank you very much, Thomas.
Give him a round. APPLAUSE
I started off as a locksmith, branched into alarm systems and made millions.
I did not confuse flexibility with weakness and neither should you.
Doesn't look like he needs to abduct women.
Maybe it spoils it if it's given freely?
OK, let's just load these up.
Bingo.
Thanks, Barbara.
Tania Thompson's prints match the prints on the A-Z.
That puts her at the scene of the abduction. And puts him there.
It's inadmissible. We can't arrest him.
We don't want to arrest him. Our best chance of getting Kelly is if he leads us to her.
Look at him, he's having a drink, loosening up.
He's paying her a visit - whatever the risk.
I think you're right. Come on.
Here he comes.
What's with the bag?
Should I check the oil so there's a reason we're here?
No, he might recognise you.
Someone's dressed for business. Is this guy forensically aware or what?
What's the camera like on your phone?
Lost him!
He must have clocked us.
Request immediate response from all units in the vicinity.
Urgent stop and search on a black Range Rover registration number...
Y. YH06 KBF.
No warm bodies on the premises.
Could she be in a cellar?
Got building plans from the council...
No cellar.
OK, you should have a warm body now.
OK, so he's got Kelly somewhere else.
A visual on the B432 southbound - please advise.
Pull him in and breathalyse him.
He's been drinking.
What's up? Would you mind stepping out of the car please, sir?
Thomas? Detective Inspector Lynley, this is DC Harvey.
Can I have a word? Can you tell me what's going on?
He was wearing a boiler suit. Did he take it off? Not since I've been with him.
Look after him for a minute, would you? Yes, sir.
How do you want to play this, Guv?
Pick him up for GBH on his wife Tania, all right?
Don't mention anything else.
Guy Thompson, I am arresting you on suspicion of grievous bodily harm against your wife Tania Thompson.
You do not have to say anything but anything you do say maybe used in evidence against you.
There's no boiler suit.
You're kidding!
I want this road searched from here back to the junction. All right.
Winston, visit to the ex-girlfriend he tried to strangle in 2000,
Kate Myers. OK, what am I after?
Anything and everything.
If this is our guy, you just slit Kelly Steven's throat.
The plan wasn't to arrest him.
So what happened? He spotted the tail.
How? I don't know, he just did.
What motive has he got to tell us where Kelly is now?
He could have been on his way to kill Kelly. We had no choice.
No, why is he going to talk to us?
I can't hold him forever. I'd best get started.
I'll be watching, and I'm not asking. Fine.
If I were you I'd let him off with a caution and pray he leads you to Kelly.
I don't think he'd fall for that, sir.
His prints are a match with the fingerprints on the A-Z cover.
Right. For now we just talk about his wife's injuries.
We don't mention Sarah or Kelly Stevens.
Why not? Because he'll just deny it.
In the same breath... What if Kelly's dying?
You heard about the insulin. He'll know how little we know.
His prints are on the A-Z! Yeah, but not Sarah's or Kelly's.
He'll just say someone stole it from his car.
We don't have time for this... Kelly doesn't have time for this.
No pressure, then. Sir.
What were you doing at my lecture?
I followed you, from your house.
What were you doing at my house?
You're part of a kind of unofficial screening process.
Really? If someone comes to our attention three times for an offence
we come down on them like a ton of bricks.
Three times.
So one of them's my ex, right?
Guilty conscience? Hardly.
That was Kate throwing a strop because I wouldn't marry her.
You're not counting that Polish girl in the hotel, are you?
We most certainly are.
The charges were dropped.
In both cases, the charges were dropped. That's why it's unofficial.
So let's talk about strike three.
Your wife.
The reason we're here.
Is that it?
That's all this is about?
Yes, that's all this is about.
You could have caused permanent damage.
Is she pressing charges?
If she is, I'll plead guilty.
I deserve whatever's coming.
I need help, anger management, psychotherapy, whatever it takes.
Remorse is a positive step, Mr Thompson,
but our most pressing concern is Tania.
Mine, too.
Excuse me.
Is there somewhere we can talk? Yeah.
At first I thought Guy was just a control freak.
He had something to say about my clothes, my hair, which friends I saw and when...
I went along with it initially.
So what happened?
I realised it wasn't about control.
No? It was darker.
He actually wanted me to resist,
overcome that resistance.
He was a sadist, basically?
He once said to me that the most erotic words in the English language
were "stop" and "no".
You mind me asking about the time he grabbed your throat?
You mean, the time he strangled me?
I blacked out and he panicked.
Why didn't you press charges, Kate?
Because I was a bloody idiot.
Tania left the hospital early and she's not at your address.
She's probably at her parents' house in Reading.
Can we have that address, please? And the phone number?
If she's not there, what about a second property?
Sorry? You do have a second property?
Yes, I do,
but she won't be there.
How do you know?
Because she doesn't have the keys.
Guy's relationship with his parents was really screwed up.
He worshipped his father even though he was a womaniser who
knocked his wife around. Guy wasn't a mummy's boy?
Especially not after she started drinking,
let herself go. Said he couldn't stand being seen with her.
And he was how old?
Anyway, during one particularly nasty row she dropped the bombshell
that the reason his dad wasn't around was because
and more importantly another son.
And let me guess... It was all Mum's fault?
I think he beat his mother up.
I know she never left the house again.
By Christmas, she was dead of liver failure.
Thanks a lot.
'Hello.' Tania, it's me. Where are you?
I'm at home. 'You're at home?'
'Yeah, what's the matter?'
How long have you been there? A couple of hours.
Why? The police are looking for you. They said that...
Guy, I haven't told them anything, believe me. 'I know, I know.'
Everything's going to be all right just as long as you remember your wedding vow. Which one?
'I stand by my man to the end.
'Say it.' I stand by my man until the end.
Good girl.
I'll get my lawyer down here. Guy, sweetheart, listen, I...
Kelly takes insulin three times a day?
Which means she has missed, what, four injections?
Her blood sugar'll be rising, if she doesn't have water.
She'll become hyperglaecemic and delirious and then she'll lose consciousness.
So how long are we talking? Maybe a day, maybe less.
Sir, surveillance from the house.
Guy used his phone call to speak to Tania.
He now knows that we knew she was at home all this time.
The gloves are off. About time.
Guy lived in Brighton between 2000 to 2003.
OK, I'll check the local nicks for unsolved sexual assaults.
Sir, spoke to Guy's ex.
Time well spent. Think you can help us get under his skin?
I think his father could.
Do you recognise this?
Do I recognise it? It's the cover of an A-Z. Your A-Z.
Says who? Your fingerprints.
I did have mine nicked from the car other day. Where did you find it?
I'm going to ask you a really stupid question now.
OK, it flies in the face of every interview technique in the book.
But you're either going to talk to me or not. Where's Kelly Stevens?
She's the missing schoolgirl, right?
Well, I have no idea where she is.
Why would I?
Is she dying?
Is she dead?
Sorry.
What about Sarah Middleton? Never heard of her.
We pulled her out of Shawcross Lake yesterday morning. Wow.
You guys must be really desperate.
Drunk driving, wife-beating, kidnapping and now murder.
What's next? High treason? Setting fire to the Royal Dock Yards?
Sorry, do I actually have to say the words, charge my client or release him?
You can't hold him on unsubstantiated GBH.
We'll resume this interview later.
Later? When later?
We've been here for hours.
Kelly's parents are here.
They want to know if we're close to finding her.
We need that boiler suit. What's the delay?
Well, it's slow-going searching in the dark.
That's why I gave you 20 extra men! They're on their hands and knees!
We need a warrant for the Thompson house. I thought Kelly wasn't there?
Wherever she is, there's got to be some paperwork somewhere, an address.
All right, I'll get a list of after-hours magistrates.
Don't bother. I want Marion Stein. Make sure there's some fresh coffee.
Don't forget the cream.
I'm afraid we have no news.
And no news is bad news, right?
It was dark.
It was really only the girl who was facing me.
Just take your time.
This means you got someone, right?
Just focus on the pictures.
If I'm wrong, will you have to let them go? That's not your concern.
It was him.
Marion, you must let us come to you.
I'm here, aren't I? Yes... Well, thank you.
So, let me get this straight.
You're after a search warrant under the 1978 Protection of Children Act, yeah? Well, ideally.
Ideally doesn't sound good.
His fingerprints on the A-Z won't get you in.
His "pinched from the car" story is as irrefutable as it is unlikely.
Plus it has bugger all to do with his residence.
Well, he has come to our attention before.
But not to a judge's.
OK, but my priority here is to get Kelly back alive.
If we jeopardise a conviction in doing that, so be it.
OK. The wife, what exactly did he do to her?
A black eye. Cracked ribs. Mmm-hm.
Hospital take pictures? Yeah.
That crescent-shaped bruise could be useful.
Doesn't look like a knuckle.
Would you grant a search warrant for a weapon? A restricted search.
Of course.
Tania Thompson, this is a warrant to search these premises.
In you come, boys.
I request that you stay in one area of the house while the search is conducted.
What are you looking for? The weapon your husband assaulted you with.
Well, is that it? "Is that it?"
That's funny, that's exactly what your husband said. "Is that it?"
Anything else you'd like to share with us, get off your chest? No.
I told you, I fell down the stairs.
Yeah, then you changed your mind.
Mrs Thompson, is there a reason why your fingerprints would be on an A-Z
recovered from the scene of Kelly Steven's abduction?
I haven't given you fingerprints. There's no reason they'd be there?
Oh, wait, we had an A-Z stolen from our car.
Did Guy tell you to say that? No.
Where is Kelly Stevens?
I don't know a Kelly Stevens. Of course not.
It's much easier to think of her not as a person, isn't it?
But as an animal. Much easier, flesh and bone.
Which is what you and Guy reduced Sarah Middleton to when you put her in a bin bag.
I don't know what he's talking about! Tell him! WHERE IS SHE?!
Sir!
A word.
She's with a psychopath. You think you'll scare her?
I'm not trying to scare her. We need to win her trust.
We need to show her we can protect her from Guy.
I had a peek at the PC, she just looked up diabetes on the internet.
If we treat her like a co-conspirator, not the victim that she is...
Oh, semantics. Not if we want to talk to her, it isn't.
How do you know she's a victim?
"Dear Guy, you are my husband and master.
"I promise I will try harder to be the wife and lover you deserve.
"I will do whatever it takes to get back in your good books.
"Your ever-loving and obedient Tania."
Come and have a look at this.
My guess is they're all places he's installed alarms and security systems.
That's where we should look! He can get in, out,
he knows who's there. They're the cream.
He must've installed alarms in hundreds of places.
When we tailed him, we tailed him down the A3.
Cross-reference that with the alarms he's installed in the last year...
I'll get a warrant for his offices.
Lafferty. 'They found a black boiler suit and a hat in a ditch by the B432.'
Good.
Come on, Winston, let's go.
Tania?
Now, if the man behind these crimes is your boyfriend or your husband,
you may feel you owe him loyalty.
You don't.
Tania? Tania?
Have a look at this, Tommy.
Blood shows up green under UV, yeah?
Oh, my God.
His DNA will be all over the lining of this.
So if these are the victim's prints...
We're home and dry.
I'm here to see my son, Guy.
Where is he? We just need you to sit tight for minute, Mr Thompson.
Can I get you a cuppa?
No, thank you.
Oh, my God!
Mr Thompson.
I'm Detective Inspector Lynley.
The boiler suit, the A-Z recovered from the abduction site,
the black Range Rover. This all points in one direction.
Asking you to absorb this is asking the impossible but I have no choice.
You really think I'm gonna help you fit my son up for something he didn't do?
I have absolutely nothing to gain from fitting your son up.
But everything to lose.
Kelly is diabetic.
Wherever she is, no-one is coming for her, which means no insulin.
Mr Thompson, if she's still alive, we're talking hours.
My son had nothing to do with this.
When Guy's mother told him about your other son,
you know he didn't just storm out.
He beat the living daylights out of her, didn't he?!
You bastard.
If you don't want to answer, don't.
Dad?
professionally unorthodox, it's outrageous!
Dad, this is a mistake.
You had no business bringing him into this.
It's OK, son. No, it's not!
We found the boiler suit, Guy.
They're lying, Dad. Why would I even own a boiler suit?
So this isn't a picture of you then?
It could be anyone.
What did you take it with, a phone?
It's you, Guy. We both know it.
You're embarrassing yourself, Dad.
They're using you. I want to help you.
Then stop looking at me like that.
Like what?
Like you actually believe what they're saying!
You look beautiful.
Where are your bridesmaids?
My cousin Alice died two months before,
and we were really close, so...
So if she couldn't be a bridesmaid, then no-one could?
Well, how did she die?
She had a seizure.
She had them since she was a kid.
All the guests were Guy's side of the family. What about your friends?
Guy never really liked them.
Well, how about your mum and dad?
We don't see them any more.
Is there any part of your life that Guy doesn't completely control?
I had a job once.
At a chemist.
The pharmacist trained me up as an assistant.
You must think I'm really pathetic.
Look, the case is building against Guy.
Blood, DNA, the works. He's going to go to prison for a long time.
And you will too. Only for you it's going to be ten times harder. Why?
Because you're a woman.
Stop it!
Look, help us and we can help you.
Tania! You don't understand!
Tania!
It's my fault.
I showed you a bad example with Mum.
Mum was a useless piss-head. So you were never home.
Like I said, some of that's my fault.
You have no idea what it was like,
her wearing the same gin-soaked dress day after day.
I know. And you were just a kid.
I thought if my friends saw me in the street with her I would die of shame.
I was AWOL all that time.
You were with your real family.
Now I want to make up for that.
Where's this girl, son?
Tell me where she is and I swear to God I'll stick by you.
And if I don't?
Then I walk out of here,
and you never see me again.
I don't want that any more than you do.
What is it, Dad?
The house I bought you not big enough?
The car I gave you for Christmas had too many miles on the clock?
What's funny?
I never actually thought I'd say this.
But Mum was right.
You ARE a waste of space.
You know,
I'm actually glad you weren't around when I was growing up.
Taught me to stand on my own two feet.
There's the door.
Where is she, Tania?
I didn't hurt anyone! Where is she?
I just...
got them over to the car and...
You mean Sarah and Kelly?
He said if I didn't help him, he'd lock me up again.
Lock you up where?
The same place he's got Kelly?
He'll kill me!
He'll kill me! But if you tell me where it is he won't get the chance.
Guy's my whole world, I... I can't. Yes, you can.
You were almost there before.
When he beat you up, you didn't run away and hide.
You went to the hospital, you talked to me.
You're ready. You've made the break. I'm not! Yes, you are!
Tell me I won't have to face him.
I swear on my life, he will never touch you again.
She's in a house near Redhill.
A Saudi family.
Guy did the alarms but they're not moving in till next year.
Mind out!
Police!
Upstairs!
It's locked, sir.
Shoulder it.
Kelly?
WPC! Yes, sir!
She's alive and, outwardly, she's OK.
Thanks to you, eh?
'If we treat Tania right, she'll tell us everything.'
We don't need to make concessions.
'What if she deserves some?'
We'll talk about this later, Havers, all right?
Kelly's all right. Well, physically, at least.
Oh!
I bring good news.
Bloody fingerprints on the boiler suit are Kelly's and the set
we lifted from the collar match for Guy Thompson.
Sarah Middleton? We're running DNA.
If he brought her here, we'll find trace evidence of some kind.
Excellent.
They're saying she's going to be OK.
We can never thank you enough.
How can a woman be party to this?
Goes against nature, doesn't it?
Detective Inspector? Excuse me.
There is evidence of rape.
How much Kelly will remember remains to be seen.
Was she drugged?
Is there any way I can get to see her?
Two minutes.
Thank you.
Kelly?
It's OK, Kelly. Get out!
I'm a police officer.
Help! Help!
Get that man out of here!
SHE CRIES AND WHIMPERS
You're OK, love. You're OK.
She says she can remember him on top of her.
But that's it, that's all.
She didn't say anything about his wife, Tania?
Thank you.
Barbara, come in.
This is Derek Tripp from the CPS.
Hello. So you're the one who saved the day?
Ah, well, actually it was a team effort.
Sorry sir, where's DI Lynley? I've already canvassed him on what we're discussing today. Have a seat.
Thank you.
Derek?
Regarding the Sarah Middleton murder, forensics are a complete waste of time.
But the Commissioner has decreed it politically unacceptable
for us to drop the Sarah Middleton murder charge.
What makes you think I can help?
Reading your report, I detected some sympathy with Tania's situation.
That you felt she was genuinely coerced by her husband into partaking in his crimes.
Er... Well, yeah. I did.
So you must be uneasy about her
being charged with identical offences?
Well, for what it's worth...
Yeah, I am uneasy.
You see her more as a victim than, say, DI Lynley does?
Look, why don't you just tell me why my opinion is suddenly so important?
If Tania testifies against Guy in return for a reduced charge,
accessory, say, we don't want it to come back to haunt us.
Your opinion counts for something.
Look, we're not going to make a decision on your say-so alone.
But, based on your limited dealings, is she deserving of an arrangement?
Erm... Well, based on our limited dealings, then...
Well, I'd say yes, she is.
That's all we wanted to know.
DS Havers, a word.
Can you give us a minute please, guys?
They're reducing Tania's charge and granting her bail.
But then I'm not telling you anything you didn't know.
Actually, you are.
How is the Assistant Commissioner?
I thought you'd be at the meeting.
You didn't think to call and check? It's politics.
The Commissioner wants Guy to face a murder charge.
They have no business negotiating with that woman.
She says she only lured them to the car but how do we know?
That she didn't kill Sarah or take part in the sexual assaults?
What about innocent until proven guilty?
Innocent? She trapped those girls knowing what Guy had planned!
he had complete control over her, physically and mentally.
You don't understand what that fear and isolation... Because I'm a man?
Maybe! Oh, and she's a poor helpless victim with no will of her own? Isn't that just a little bit sexist?
You saw what he did to her face... I'm not saying he wasn't abusive, I'm saying...
it's not black and white. I didn't say she shouldn't go unpunished.
She wants us to see it that way and you have!
OK, if you have evidence that she's lying,
you can stop the negotiations any time.
Now there's an idea.
Role play.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Get a nose for their vulnerability, find their weakness.
Not exactly how it goes,
but I'm thrilled you took something from it.
I did, Guy. I took a lot from it.
I found your weakness.
We've been talking to your wife.
Or, rather, your wife's been talking to us.
She says that in addition to the abduction of Kelly,
you raped and you murdered Sarah Middleton.
She says that you coerced her into both the abductions with threats of violence.
How do you think we knew where Kelly was?
You went to my offices.
We'd never have found her that fast. Deep down you know that, don't you?
Deep down, you know
that Tania has betrayed you.
For a woman who seemed so dependent, so subservient.
What was it she called you? Master?
She's thinking for herself now.
Well, of herself.
Meaning what?
Meaning she planning to testify against you, Guy.
She'll do two years, tops.
She wouldn't do that. She'll be sharing her bed, well, your bed, with the pool boy
while you spend the rest of your life in a steel box,
hoping to God someone would one day find you.
Maybe you should write her one of those grovelling letters
you used to make her write you?
She's lying!
The bitch is lying.
Well, you would say that.
If you hadn't found Kelly when you did, Tania would've killed her.
No question.
I wanted to let her go but Tania wouldn't because I'd had Kelly.
You see, I do actually believe you.
But no-one else will.
If another women so much as glanced at me, she went crazy.
I mean, she actually went rigid, like a wild animal.
Like she was going to claw her eyes out.
She scared ME. So you didn't coerce her, not even snatching Kelly?
Coerce her? It was her idea to use the bloody A-Z!
That proved a lot.
I thought so. What exactly were you doing in there?
Making sure Tania is the credible witness everyone wants her to be.
By asking her abusive husband for a character reference?
Do you want him to go down for murder? I want them both to go down.
What, whatever it takes?
Don't be ridiculous.
'Detective Inspector Lynley?'
Speaking. 'DS Mike Barksdale from Brighton.
'We got four unsolved rapes, could fit the bill from when Guy Thompson lived here.
'The last one happened right on the seafront.' Any DNA?
'That's what makes us think it's the same bloke.
'It's like you said - no hair, no prints, not a speck of DNA.'
Right, I'm on my way.
Thank you.
You're kidding.
I tell you, I knew Guy was trouble.
I did.
But Tania always wanted the good life.
That's called hindsight.
Why did she have to go and live in London?
London wasn't the problem.
She met Guy in Brighton, for God's sake.
I mean, why did she have to leave home? Why did she have to...
Grow up?
Hi, Barbara. Come through.
Dad's a brick, but Mum's gone to pieces.
Well, it's a lot to deal with.
She said this morning it was as if she'd lost me.
It was no different to Alice dying.
That really hurt. You're here. They haven't turned their back.
And I should be grateful for that?
Well, I wasn't saying that.
No, you're right.
Some parents would have.
Look, erm, I just want to go through a few things in your statement about Sarah Middleton.
Just so that when I question Guy, there'll be no grey areas.
You're going to see Guy? Yeah, at some point.
Alone?
Er, probably not.
But you said, "When I question Guy." What is it, Tania?
It's just I'd feel a lot more comfortable about it if there were a male officer present.
I can take care of myself.
No, that's not what I mean.
Guy can be very...
hard to resist.
I would hate for anything to come between us, Barbara.
What exactly are you suggesting?
Well, come on. He's still my husband.
I'm allowed to be possessive, aren't I?
Sure.
You think that's weird.
I think what's weird is that since I've been here
you haven't asked once how Kelly Stevens is doing.
You told me she was OK.
What? Yeah, no, that's right. I did.
Shall we go through my statement now? No, I think that can wait.
I'll get back to you.
Thanks for the tea.
Is that Tania's cousin?
Tania told me about her.
Alice. Her name was Alice.
And whose side was she on?
Mine.
My sister had Alice young, this was her home from home.
She died right there in my arms.
A seizure? It wouldn't have happened.
She wasn't used to alcohol.
We were celebrating.
Guy's birthday.
I'll see myself out.
Barbara, I need to know the exact date that Guy and Tania got together.
Why? There were four unsolved rapes in Brighton during the time that Guy lived here.
One victim claimed there were two people,
a man and a woman, and the woman videoed the whole thing.
Right here,
right under the pier.
'I'm not saying it was Tania.'
No, you don't have to persuade me.
'Good.
'Thank you.'
Sir, the other day you put me on the spot and asked me if I thought Tania was a credible witness.
Well, to answer that question,
we have to dig up the body of her cousin, Alice.
Based on? Based on the fact that she was beautiful, 16 and died
whilst under the same roof as Guy Thompson.
You said she died at Tania's parents' house?
They'd thrown a party for Guy and Alice was invited.
The parents went to bed. Guy, Tania, and Alice all stayed up.
According to? Their statements at the inquest.
Later, Alice is unconscious and Guy calls an ambulance. I've read the report.
It's sketchy to say the least.
No-one even checked for sexual assault.
Epileptic seizure was a best guess cause of death.
This lesion on her mouth was put down to an unsuccessful resuscitation attempt.
What does it look like to you?
Her skin reacting to something.
If the body's well preserved, toxicology may be able to say what.
So you want an exhumation order?
Well, if anyone can twist the coroner's arm, it's you.
Why will I need to twist his arm? We want to circumvent family approval.
Tania can't know what we're doing till we're good and ready, Sir.
First impressions are she's pretty well preserved.
If I get tox samples in, we should have results this evening.
'I'll let you know as soon as.'
Thanks, Lafferty.
Third anniversary of first meeting.
Six month wedding anniversary.
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day. Is there anything they didn't deem video-worthy?
That's it.
That's what we're missing.
PHONE RINGS
Lafferty. Hold on a minute.
OK, go ahead. Anything? 'You bet.'
Samples from the remnants of Alice's lungs and throat tested positive for antidepressants and pethidine.
What's that? A tranquilizer.
Tricky to get if you're not a doctor. She worked in a chemist.
She's lifted them from the supplies.
Her own cousin. A birthday present for Guy.
The combination of antidepressants and pethidine
plus the fact that she'd been drinking, I mean,
even if they didn't plan to kill her, they were playing with fire.
Thanks, Stuart.
You could do this over the phone, you know.
No, face to face she's more likely to believe we're friends again.
I didn't mean to be judgemental about you not asking after Kelly.
No, I should have.
No, you had a lot on your mind.
Nothing like what she's going through.
Listen, Tania,
I shouldn't really be telling you this but I want you to be prepared. For what?
Well, Guy has started to talk and I know that you still have feelings for him. And I understand.
What?
What's Guy been saying? Well, he's saying...
He's saying that you were as involved as him
and that there's tapes to prove it.
What?
Well, exactly. No-one believes him, but you might be questioned on it at some point.
OK. Well, thanks for letting me know.
No problem. Look, I've got to get back but I'll come and see you soon, yeah?
I'd like that.
You're a good person, Barbara.
You're a really good person.
See you.
There she goes.
Thank you for bringing those to our attention.
Get off me!
Sarah, Kelly, Alice.
Your cousin.
Alice was an accident.
Sarah killed herself,
and Kelly's making a full recovery.
So what exactly do you think you've got on us, huh?
Huh?
# Happy birthday to you
# Happy birthday Mr Thompson
# Happy birthday to you. #
Tania, you are depraved.
And I love you for it.
Love you too, birthday boy.
How long have I got?
This stuff knocks horses out,
Alice is going to be in Wonderland for quite a while.
I know we have to watch this stuff some time but...
Yeah, not now.
She really played me.
If you hadn't got so close to her, we'd never have found Kelly.
It was all part of her plan, though.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
You saved her life, Barbara.
Anyway, they're both going down now. For good.
All right, sir.
Just don't say, "I told you so."