[tense eerie music]
[breathing heavily]
- Johnny!
- [Child] Number six, number six, Johnny.
- [Jack] Johnny!
- Ah!
Mom!
Ah!
- Shh, it's alright.
It's just another dream.
Shh.
- Mom, I'm frightened.
- I told you.
You watch that stuff on the television,
you're bound to give yourself nightmares.
- I didn't!
- Shh.
- I want a drink.
- Alright, I'll get you some water.
- I want milk.
- Oh, Johnny.
- Please, Mum.
- Alright, lie down.
I'll get you some.
Oh, bugger.
[tense music]
[crashing]
[tense music]
[footsteps thudding]
[door squeaking]
- Go on, go on.
- [Mrs. Keegan] You took your time.
- I thought I heard something, a break-in.
- Where?
- I couldn't see.
- I'm going up.
You coming?
- In a minute.
[eerie music]
Alright, Buster.
Suppertime.
- It's a cold night.
- Aye.
- You spoil that dog.
[eerie music]
- Go on, Buster.
That's a good boy.
[bird cawing]
Oh, for you, too.
There you are, there you are, come on.
Not all night.
[eerie music]
- [Child] Number six.
[traffic zooming]
[bell dinging]
[knocking]
[mumbling]
- Shit.
[scraping]
[chattering]
- I mean, why do they pick on me?
It's not fair.
[chattering]
- Don't stare, Gordon, it's rude.
[chattering]
- [Woman] Right, off you go, then.
[chattering]
- Alright, you got your book, yeah.
You got your juice, yeah right.
I'll be back at half past three.
Wait for me inside the gate.
- Okay.
- Do you hear?
Yeah?
And if it's not me, it'll be your Aunty Mary.
Go on.
Oy, give us a kiss.
See you later, ta.
- They should shut all the schools.
- Oh come on.
What good would that do?
- Could be yours next.
- Later, go.
- [Sue] Ciao Katie, ciao.
- [mumbling] Brownslowe.
- She thinks they should shut all the schools.
- Maybe she's right.
The Lord doesn't know what to do with Katie all day.
- Any chance of either of you doing playground duties?
- No, sorry love, no.
- Listen, I've got to fly.
Are you working this afternoon?
- Yeah, at 11.
- Well if you want me to pick you up,
you can call me at the office, okay?
- Oh, thanks Mary.
- See you soon.
Why am I always late?
- You always were.
[bell ringing] [chattering]
[footsteps thudding]
- Johnny.
Johnny.
- You're going to play with us.
- I don't want to.
- Yes, you are.
We're playing the game.
- I don't want to play.
- It's your turn.
- [Child] It is.
[tense music]
- As you all know, there's a full moon tonight.
[phone ringing]
Called in to the met's office.
It should be visible in five hours and 40 minutes
before sunset.
Now, we're gonna do this exact--
- Sorry sir.
- We're gonna do this exactly like the last time.
A discreet watch on every primary school
and secondary school in the area.
As before, the teachers will make sure
there's only one exit used.
It's gonna be a general patrol at three o'clock
and we've doubled the phone lines, yeah?
Now, the idea is to maintain a presence
and not cause a general panic, okay?
Any questions?
- [Man] Franklin.
- [Men] Yeah, yeah.
- We shoulda put him away, even if it's
only for 24 hours.
- Listen.
We've been through this before.
David Franklin interfered with a child
and did his time 20 years ago.
There's nothing to connect him to this,
and if I find out who leaked his confidential
criminal record, they'll be doing time
outside the force, alright?
That's it.
[tense music]
- [Mr. Keegan] See ya later, Buster.
[water rushing]
- [Susan] Jack, what are you doing here?
- What's this all about?
- [Susan] What?
- Read it.
- [Susan] I don't want to read it.
- The child support agency--
- It's got nothing to do with me.
- Oh come on.
- [Susan] Look, I filled out the form, Jack, that's all.
- Have you seen how much they want me to pay?
- [Susan] It's what they think Johnny's entitled to.
- Susan, if I pay them, I can't live.
- [Susan] Talk to them about it, not me.
- I just, I don't understand you.
You got the house.
You got my boy.
- [Susan] I got left on my own.
- You walked out on me.
- Well, when did you notice?
It's not me, Jack.
Talk to them.
- You think they'll listen?
- Look, we're not exactly living
in luxury ourselves, you know.
- I know.
Look.
I'm sorry I missed you last weekend.
I got tied up--
- Yeah, I know some things never change.
- [Jack] I'll make it up to him.
Is he alright?
- He's alright.
- [Jack] What's he do at school?
- I don't know.
Ask your teacher friend.
You still seeing her?
- Off and on.
- You're always off and on, Jack.
That was your trouble.
- I've got to go.
You picking him up later?
- Of course I'm picking him up.
Do you think I'm gonna let him walk home on his own?
- That's not what I--
- And then they came to the place that God
had told them about and Abraham built an alter there
and laid the wood on the alter
and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on the alter
and Abraham stretched out his hand to take
the knife to kill his son, but then the Angel of the Lord
called out to him from heaven and said,
"Abraham, Abraham.
"Don't hurt the boy.
"Don't do anything to him because now I know
"that you fear God because you wouldn't
"keep your son, your only son, from me."
And so, you see, Isaac was saved,
and Abraham sacrificed a ram instead
and that's the end of the story.
- [Katie] Miss?
- [Emma] Yes, Katie?
- Why did God tell Abraham to hurt his son?
- Well, I don't think God really wanted
Abraham to hurt Isaac, Katie.
I think it was just a test to see if Abraham
was a good man.
- [Katie] But he wasn't good if he was going to kill Isaac.
- Well, he did what God told him to do, Katie.
I think that's the point of the story.
Abraham showed that he was ready to do whatever he was told.
[bell ringing]
Alright now, quietly, quietly.
Now, you've all got music now in the hall
with Miss English, shh.
Now I want you all to go quietly
and I don't want any running in the corridor, okay?
- I'm taking your class this afternoon.
- [Emma] Oh, thank you, thank you.
- [Teacher] No running, I heard your teacher tell you.
[chattering]
[tense music]
[sinister mumbling]
- Johnny, what are you doing in Simon's desk?
Simon was your friend, wasn't he?
- Yes.
- You miss him, don't you?
- Yes, Miss.
- We all do.
Go out and play now.
[engine zooming]
- Of the 21 pictures you gave me, drawn by the five victims,
15 contain recognizable figures.
Unfortunately, these figures have very little in common.
Here, he seems to be giving out different sorts of sweets.
The bars could be chocolate bars.
There are sweets and chocolates here, but
the figure is very different.
- Why no arms?
- [Meyburne] This is number four, a girl?
- Yeah.
- Fairly timid, quiet, shy?
- [Jack] How'd you know that?
- From her picture.
The absence of arms is what they call
an emotional indicator.
That's the trouble, you see.
Children's pictures generally tell you more
about the children than their subjects.
- [Jack] Yeah well, they still draw what they see.
- They draw
what they understand from what they see.
This is number one.
He understood that the head was
the most important part of the body.
So, that's what he drew.
He wasn't trying to duplicate a man with a big head.
Ah.
Man with a ball.
- It is a ball.
- And three letters, D-E-F.
- There's a guy runs a sweet shop
opposite one of the schools.
- [Meyburne] There are no sweets in this picture.
- No, his name's David E. Franklin.
- Oh.
This child could have just been practicing his ABC.
- ABC? D-E-F, right, I see what you mean.
- Sorry.
- No, don't be.
It was a long shot anyway.
- If you're sure the killer was stalking them--
- No, he was stalking them.
That's part of the pattern.
- Then, you could be right.
The victims could have drawn him.
But I have too many pictures.
I need to narrow them down.
- Well, how you gonna do that?
- You have any more information?
I mean, you say they were all killed
at the full moon...
- Yeah.
- Stabbed?
- Yeah.
- Anything else?
I mean, I know you work on a need to know principle, but
I just don't know what to look for.
- [Jack] Well, there is one other thing.
- What?
- It might be just a coincidence, but,
all the victims, all five of them,
were discovered nearby while under oak trees.
[tense music]
Miss, it's playtime.
- Hi, Jack.
[smooching]
You coulda called.
- I've been away.
- Where?
- Leeds, mainly.
CS wants to put on a new team,
take over the entire investigation.
- Well you haven't done anything wrong.
- Haven't caught him.
They're running out of money and manpower and patience.
I just don't know what else to do.
I don't know what to do.
- There's a full moon tonight.
- I know.
- I keep looking out the window, waiting for it to happen.
It's horrible.
- Shh.
[mumbling]
[chattering]
- [Boy] Go on.
- I don't want to.
- [Boy] You have to.
[tense music]
- [Children] Eenie meenie miney mo.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers, let it go.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
- Jack.
I've been thinking about the killings.
I might be completely crazy,
but there's something about this school.
- What?
- Well about two years ago, when they were
building the new wing--
- What, the time of number one, the first death?
- Yeah.
Well, I dug it all up in the back.
[mumbling]
Yeah.
- Did you see Susan?
- I don't go on Wednesdays or Fridays.
- That's Stonehenge, isn't it?
- Well, this was a Druid site, as well,
and they uncovered loads of artifacts.
There were coins, jewels and a knife
and it wasn't a domestic knife.
It was a ceremonial knife.
- A Druid knife?
- The Druids killed children.
They sacrificed them.
- Whoa, whoa, wait and you're saying
you think the Druids have come back?
- Well of course I'm not saying that.
There are a lot of weird people about.
Look, this is what [mumbling].
I'm trying to tell you.
Every time they killed a child,
every time they sacrificed a child,
they did it under the oak tree.
- [Children] Eenie meenie miney mo.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers let it go.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
- Jack.
There's something happening, here, in this school.
- Happening?
- I can't explain, but when I come to work,
when I walk down the corridors,
I've never felt so afraid.
- Oh, well that's only natural.
- No, it's not natural.
That's the whole point.
There's an atmosphere.
- [Children] Eenie meenie miney mo.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers, let it got.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
- Sometimes I see faces, children,
and I don't recognize them.
And then when I look again, they're not there.
- [Children] Eenie meenie miney mo.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers, let it go.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
- [Emma] Johnny found it this morning.
- [Jack] My Johnny?
- He just opened the desk.
I don't know why.
This was Simon's desk.
It's an oak leaf, Jack.
One of the children must've put it there this morning.
- But Emma, what do they know about Druids
and oak leaves and all the rest of it?
- I think they know everything.
Listen.
- [Children] Eenie meenie miney mo.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers, let it go.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
- That game, they play it all the time.
They never stop.
- It's just a craze.
- Oh no, they have their crazies.
Ninja Turtles and gladiators
and games they make up themselves but
they're never so fanatical, not like this.
- Well, what about it?
It's just a game.
- That's what I thought,
but listening to it every day,
the words they're singing, they're a mixture
of Cornish, Welsh and Latin but the origin's Celtic.
The Druids used it in their rituals.
It's the way they chose their victims for sacrifice.
- [Children] If it hollers, let it go.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
- O-U-T spells out go shake.
- [Child] Number six Johnny.
Number six.
[tense music]
- Sue, will you take a look at this?
- Oh, not another one?
Oh, God.
Who would do a thing like this?
- So and so's.
They only tear them out to deface them.
That's the third this month.
- Right.
I'll see who had it last.
- Oh, they'll deny it.
We're just gonna have to check every book as it comes in.
I don't know what's going on in this town.
Little devils.
- Helen.
[footsteps clomping]
- [Child] Number six Johnny.
[tense music]
[sinister mumbling]
Number six.
[engine zooming]
[tense music]
[bells tolling]
- [Mrs. Brownslowe] The water won't go down, Mr. Keegan.
I've tried caustic soldier and the plunger
but it's no good and now there's a smell.
- It's blocked.
- Of course it's blocked.
That's why I called you.
Smells rotten.
Rotten wood.
- Let me look at your drain.
- It can't be the drains.
We only had them done last June.
- [Mr. Keegan] Oh.
- [Mrs. Brownslowe] Oh, look at that.
Can you feel anything?
Maybe I could get you a knife or something?
- No, no.
There we are, Mrs. Brownslowe, that's the problem.
- [Mrs. Brownslowe] Dead leaves?
- That's what was smelling.
- [Mrs. Brownslowe] Well how did they get in there?
Those are oak leaves.
There are no oaks around here.
- Well they're getting in everywhere around here.
- [Jack] There's gonna be another one.
I can't just sit and wait for it to happen.
That's all I've been doing, isn't it?
All I've been doing for months,
waiting for the next one like I want it to happen,
and I do want it--
- [Emma] Jack--
- [Jack] No, that's the hell of it, Emma.
We all do.
Forensics, the labs, SIOs, everyone.
We need another lead and where are we gonna get it?
Victim number six.
- [Emma] You don't want another killing.
- Oh God forgive me, Emma, assuming I'm gonna find him.
What are we doing wrong, for Chrissake?
Five murders in two years.
What else can I do?
- You've done everything.
You've got police blanketing the area,
teachers, shopkeepers, everybody's
looking for the bastard.
- Yeah, and he's still gettin' in under our noses.
- He's been lucky.
- Luck of the devil.
Come on, I'll take you back to school.
- Jack, I want to come with you.
- No, that's out of the question.
- I know this area, I know the people.
If there's anything to see, I'll see it.
They're my children, Jack.
These are my children that have been taken.
- Yeah.
Yeah, alright.
- [Meyburne] Oak trees.
- What are you gonna do?
- Go to Looping Road then St. Andrews then King Edwards.
- And then?
- Go back to Looping Road, do it all again.
- Well what good's that gonna do?
Driving around in circles.
- [Jack] Do you have a better idea?
- I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry, I'm just, I just wanna put him away.
[tense music]
[horn honking]
- It's not the same, this town, is it?
Have you noticed?
- [Jack] What do you mean?
- Not any kids on the street.
- Two bedroom and a small patio terrace,
and they just knocked two and half grand off
for a quick sale.
Real bargain.
- What's wrong with it, then?
- Nothing, they've just relocated.
You ought to view it.
It's only a few minutes away.
We got the keys?
- [Janet] Yeah, they're in the drawer.
- I have an hour before I have to pick my daughter up.
Do you wanna have a look?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Okay, great.
Cheers, Janet.
Come on, then.
[tense music]
- Lollipop, lollipop, lollipop.
- Lucy!
Lucy, I told you not to stray out of my sight.
You stay in my house, do you hear?
- Okay thanks.
I'll be there as soon as I can.
Sue?
- Yeah, what is it?
- You're gonna have to hold the fort.
I'm sorry, I've just had the doctor on the phone.
- Oh, is it your mom?
- She had another fall.
- Oh no.
- I have to go to her, Sue.
- Go on, you go.
I'll be fine.
- Oh, thanks Sue.
As long as you'll be alright.
I'll get back as soon as I can.
Oh, what about school?
Haven't you got to fetch Johnny?
- [Sue] I'll ring my sister.
- Thanks, Sue.
- [Sue] Go on, it's no bother.
You go and see to your mum.
[chattering]
- [Teacher] Come on you lot.
We going to do the Mississippis, so hurry up.
- So, how's he doin' at school?
- He's a nice boy.
He's like his dad.
- Oh, I've let him down.
- Now, don't say that, it's not true.
- I see him twice a week.
I take him out, take him to football,
buy him a hamburger, take him back again.
You see him more than I do.
- Jack the split up wasn't all your fault.
- It's just not natural.
- It's normal these days.
The local vicar's thinking of taking divorce services.
- [Jack] Bit progressive for around here, isn't he?
- She.
[chuckling]
Shouldn't we be moving?
- There's supposed to be a squad car here.
- Well, is this him?
- [Jack] Yeah, and late [mumbling].
- [Emma] Where are we going?
- Back to Looping Road then do it all again.
[footsteps clacking]
- Thanks.
What, what do you think that is?
- I think it's a seed.
- I think you're right.
[phone ringing]
- Hello, Glendale Estates.
Can I help you?
- Janet, it's Susan here.
Hi, hi.
Is Mary there, please?
- Oh, no I'm sorry, Mrs. Taylor.
She's out with a client.
- Oh, right.
Do you know when she's coming back to the office?
Thank you.
- Yup, she said she'd look in.
- Listen, I've got a bit stuck here.
Can you ask her to pick up Johnny for me?
- [Janet On Phone] I'll do that, Mrs. Taylor.
- Yeah?
- [Man] Thank you.
- Thank you.
Right, you sure you'll see her?
- Oh yes, yes.
She's just around the corner, but I'll tell you what,
I'll put a note on her desk
just to be on the safe side.
- [Sue On Phone] Will you ring me if she doesn't come back?
I'm at the library.
- Yeah, but she should be back any minute.
- Right, lovely, lovely.
Thanks a lot.
Okay, bye bye.
Sorry about that.
[mumbling]
- Can you tell him I'll be there in ten minutes?
Yes, it's urgent.
See you later.
- Okay, we're on our way.
That was Meyburne, the child psychiatrist.
He thinks he's got something for us.
- Jack?
- What?
- The moon.
- I know.
[engine stalling]
- Come on.
- Come here Janet, make yourself useful.
- What?
- I'm outta fags.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah, and a box of matches while you're out, too.
I've got a call coming in.
- A likely story.
- Here.
Keep the change, darling.
- It's your funeral.
[tense mysterious music]
[bell ringing]
- [Child] Number six, number six.
[squealing] [crashing]
[zooming]
[tense music]
- Where's Janet?
- Fag run.
So, how did it go?
- They'll think about it.
They'll think about it but then they read
the papers and they think again, don't they?
Look at her.
Ooh ooh.
Tot spots.
Well, we're never gonna sell anything in this bloody town.
I was walking past the school today, your school.
I was thinking to myself,
which one of 'em will it be next?
Which one of 'em?
- Why were you at the school?
- Told you, just walking.
- What time is it?
- [Tim] Bit past three.
- Have to pick Katie up.
No messages?
- No, no messages.
- Right.
See you Monday.
- Yeah.
- You're opening up, aren't you?
- Yeah, see you Monday.
See you Monday.
- [mumbling] time, off you go.
Oh, wait one minute.
Before you go, let me just remind you.
Today, you must all go out the front way
and you only go home with your mum,
your nan or someone else you know.
If you see any strangers outside school,
anyone you don't know,
you must tell a teacher immediately, is that clear?
- [All] Yes.
- Good.
Off you go, then.
Have a nice weekend.
[tense music]
- [Child] Number six Johnny.
[chattering]
- Oh, here they come.
[tense music]
[chattering]
- The state of you.
Straighten it up when you get home.
- Have you a nice day?
- Yeah.
- Come on, let's get you home, then.
- Where's Johnny?
- He's not coming with us today.
- [Sue] Right, there you go.
Looks like a good read.
- Oh yeah.
I like a good read.
[knocking]
- Do you mind?
- Oh, sorry, Mrs. Brass, I'm sorry.
Right.
- [Meyburne] Sorry, problems with the car.
- [Jack] What have you got for me?
- What you told me, about the oak trees,
I've narrowed it down to three drawings.
- [Jack] Why these three?
- That is an imprint of an oak leaf.
That is drawn in or on an oak leaf.
- Yeah, what about this one?
- I thought this was a shuttlecock,
but now, I'm wondering if it couldn't be an acorn.
- Good.
- I think you could be right.
I think these are drawings of the killer
and the children did see him
outside their schools, like you said.
Here.
We thought these were sweets
and these bars of chocolate.
- Yeah, that's how he got them to go with him.
- No, it's like I told you.
Children this age have no sense of proportion,
no perspective, and look at what you believed was the net.
It's underneath him and it's the same shape
as the bars here and here.
- [mumbling] cross it.
- Here, what looks like a lollipop.
It's in this picture and also here and here.
- A tennis racket?
- No, it was thinking tennis that threw you.
The child drew this bigger because
it was more important to him,
or maybe because it was the easiest bit to draw,
but it's the same shape, a lollipop.
- A lollipop man outside the school?
- Yes, a splash of yellow.
You thought they might be sports clothes.
- His yellow jacket.
I want a list of every crossing warden.
Look back for criminal record,
history of mental illness, whatever.
You go with him and put out a general alert.
Tell HQ I want a task force.
It was in front of me all the time.
It was right there.
- Don't be too hard on yourself.
Nobody else thought of looking.
- This morning I almost wanted number six.
- Maybe we've solved it.
- Maybe.
- [Child] Mister.
- What do you want?
[tense music]
- There was a man asked me to go with him.
- [Cop] What man?
- The man from the sweet shop.
He offered me sweets.
- Thank you.
Do you know where he is now, this man?
- I'll show you.
- Thanks.
- [Dispatch Over Radio] All units we have a general alert.
[mumbling] identification.
[tense music]
- Come on, love.
It's time to go.
- I knew she wasn't well.
I did know.
- Why didn't you tell us?
Why didn't you come to the police?
- I was afraid.
Last time she come out of hospital, she were,
she were different.
- What do you mean?
- Strange.
- Why did we find this knife in your toolbox?
- I took it.
I'd take the knives with me to work.
You see, I thought if there were no knives...
- You know where your wife is now, Mr. Keegan?
- [Mr. Keegan] No.
- Well, what time do you expect her back?
- Oh, she should be here.
She's not at work.
She hasn't taken a thing.
Lollipop.
- Oh, Jesus.
[tense music]
It's not a balloon.
- What?
- Is he alright?
- He's alright.
- [Jack] How's he doin' at school?
- [Meyburne] What looks like a lollipop.
It's in this picture, and also here.
[engine grumbling]
[tense music]
- [Jack] Sue, where's Johnny?
- What are you doin' here?
- [Jack] I been to the house, you weren't there.
Where is he?
- He's with Mary.
- [Jack] Have you phoned her?
- No.
- [Jack] Do it now!
[phone dial clicking]
[tense mysterious music]
- [Mrs. Keegan] One, two, buckle my shoe.
Three, four, knock at the door.
Five, six, pick up sticks.
- It's dark.
- [Mrs. Keegan] Don't worry love.
The moon'll be out again soon.
- I'm tired.
- [Mrs. Keegan] Come on.
Not far now.
- Get off!
Oh Jesus!
[thudding]
Oh god.
[weeping]
[tense music]
- So, Jack.
- So.
- The moon's in.
- So?
- She won't kill when the moon's in.
That's the whole point, isn't it?
- Yeah, but where?
She could have taken him anywhere, just anywhere.
- No.
The oak trees, up in the woods.
Take the back route.
- I've been here before.
Number three.
- She's come back.
- I wanted number six, Em, and I just gave him to her.
- Wait.
Take care.
[tense music]
- [Child] Number six.
Number six.
- [All] Number six Johnny.
- See saw, Marjorie daw, Johnny shall have a new master.
He shall the learn the penny a day because he can't...
- Johnny!
Run, Johnny.
Run!
[tense music]
- [Emma] Johnny!
[grunting] [heart beating]
- Ah!
- So glad you're alright.
You're alright.
- [Child] Number six, number six, number six.
Eenie meenie miney mo.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers let it go.
Catch a monkey by its toe.
If it hollers, let it go.
[dramatic music]
[sinister mumbling]
[eerie music]
[electronic music]