P.D.J. Shroud for a Nightingale. (2021)

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First broadcast 4th/5th November 2021.  Adam Dalgliesh is sent to a nursing school to investigate the death of Heather Pearce, a student poisoned during the demonstration.  Helen Aluko - Christine Dakers Alice Nokes - Julia Pardoe Eliot Salt - Madeleine Goodale Robin Kristoffy - Shirley Burt Alex Kristoffy - Maureen Burt Beccy Henderson - Heather Pearce Fenella Woolgar - Sister Mavis Gearing Amanda Root - Sister Brumfett Siobhán Cullen - Josephine Fallon Richard Dillane - Dr. Stephen Courtney-Briggs Bertie Carvel - DCI Adam Dalgliesh Jeremy Irvine - DS Charles Masterson Avin Shah - Rohan Chopra Natasha Little - Matron Mary Taylor Syd Ralph - Miss Collins Lily Newmark - Morag Smith Laura Hughes - Librarian Brid Brennan - Mrs Louise Dettinger

Transcript

00:00:00Oh, my God.

00:00:29I've read it properly this time.

00:00:55I'll find you later.

00:00:59Training demonstration, girls.

00:01:11Details on the notice board.

00:01:12And because matrons away, Mr. Courtney Briggs will be assessing you.

00:01:16I'd like your best work, please.

00:01:21Morning.

00:01:26Don't linger, girls.

00:01:29Oh, look who's playing the patient.

00:01:44Bad luck, Piers.

00:01:45Two chairs over there and not too close.

00:02:10Have any of you been in my room?

00:02:24Of course not.

00:02:25Have any of you taken something from under my pillow?

00:02:29Stop it, will you?

00:02:32Five minutes, girls.

00:02:33So in such cases, we have to organise what?

00:02:44Introgastric feeding by the nose or mouth, sister.

00:02:53Please continue, Sister Gehring.

00:02:56Good.

00:02:57Yes.

00:02:57Nurse Dacres, please recap on our patient's history.

00:03:08Our patient is called Mrs. Stokes.

00:03:14She's a 50-year-old mother of four children.

00:03:18Yesterday, she had a laryngectomy because of a cancer of the mouth and she...

00:03:26So we have a patient who's already seriously undernourished, who is unable to take food by mouth.

00:03:32Right.

00:03:34Explain your equipment, please.

00:03:35Sodium bicarbonate mixture for cleaning the mouth or nose.

00:03:43Funnel, connector, lubricant.

00:03:47And we have a tongue spatula, four sips and a gown.

00:03:54And the esophageal tube.

00:03:57Now the feed.

00:03:58What are you giving her?

00:03:59Actually, it's just warm milk.

00:04:01If we're dealing with a real patient, we could add soluble protein, eggs, vitamin, preparations and sugar.

00:04:10Good.

00:04:12At what temperature are we giving the feed?

00:04:15Body temperature, 37 degrees centigrade.

00:04:18Now, explain carefully to your patient what you're going to do.

00:04:23Hello, Mrs. Stokes.

00:04:26We're feeding you through this tube today.

00:04:28It won't hurt.

00:04:38If you could help by guiding this to the back of your throat.

00:04:42And when it reaches the back of your throat, please swallow it.

00:04:46It won't hurt.

00:04:47I'm just going to aspirate the tube to make sure it's reached your stomach.

00:05:06So, that must be gastric juice, which means it's reached to the stomach.

00:05:30It won't hurt.

00:06:00Oh, my God.

00:06:06Out.

00:06:06No.

00:06:14Get it out.

00:06:19Get it out.

00:06:21No, leave it in.

00:06:22Christ.

00:06:23Do something.

00:06:24Do something.

00:06:25Come on.

00:06:26Come on.

00:06:26Hold it here.

00:06:29The airwaves.

00:06:30Out, everyone.

00:06:31And Mrs. Thatcher announced her leadership good last week.

00:06:54Her chances were seen as a winner, given widespread support for Mr. Heath, particularly from conservative

00:07:00peers.

00:07:01However, with growing discontent on the party's backbenchers, Mrs. Thatcher's beard is gaining

00:07:06momentum, and it's now felt unlikely that the first balance will be good.

00:07:10However, that Mr. Heath will eventually emerge as the winner, and a British political party.

00:07:31The MP for North Finch lives since 1959.

00:07:35This is now to be served as a second time of state for life.

00:07:38The MP for North Finch lives since 1959.

00:07:39This is now to be served as second time of state for life.

00:07:40The MP for North Finch lives since 1959.

00:07:42The MP for North Finch lives since 1959.

00:08:12What kept to you, sir?

00:08:14Yeah.

00:08:15Uh, DS Moss and Charles, um, we did actually meet once last year on the, uh...

00:08:20Yes, I remember.

00:08:22Yeah.

00:08:23But that was my first job on the team, so I've learned a lot since then.

00:08:27Have you got the scenes secured?

00:08:28Well, no, not yet, sir.

00:08:30I was waiting for you to get here.

00:08:32Hair and the tortoise, Sergeant.

00:08:35You what?

00:08:37You bloody tortoise.

00:08:42Don't be distracted by the blood.

00:08:55They tried to open her chest.

00:08:57Clumsy attempt to save her, I assume.

00:09:00Rohan Chopra.

00:09:02Adam Dove leaves.

00:09:03Pending the PM, cause of death was almost certainly some sort of strong corrosive substance which she ingested.

00:09:11Right.

00:09:12Her name was Heather Pierce, 19.

00:09:15Student nurse.

00:09:16Not local.

00:09:17She's from Kent.

00:09:18Some sort of training demonstration that went wrong.

00:09:21Oh, and, uh, one of the nurses has noticed a disinfectant bottle missing from the toilets, but uniform looking for it.

00:09:29Time of death.

00:09:299.41 precisely.

00:09:31No further, please.

00:09:32Chief Inspector Dalgleish.

00:09:33Stephen Courtney Briggs, lead surgeon.

00:09:36I called your boss.

00:09:37I'm Sister Gehring.

00:09:38I'm the senior nurse tutor in charge at Nightingale House.

00:09:42I need to get back to the hospital.

00:09:44I was due in surgery two hours ago.

00:09:45I won't keep you any longer than necessary.

00:09:48I want everyone who was present for the demonstration in the same room.

00:09:50Yes, sir.

00:09:51I take it that it was you who tried to open her chest.

00:09:54I wonder what you hope to achieve by that.

00:09:57I beg your pardon?

00:09:58The only possible course of action would have been an emetic, administered immediately, preferably through the tube itself.

00:10:04Sister Gehring pulled the tube out of her.

00:10:05I was trying to...

00:10:06I was trying to mouthwash her heart.

00:10:08It was an entirely appropriate response.

00:10:11Oh, well, we are all wise after the event.

00:10:15I shall avail myself of your mortuary facility, sir.

00:10:20Well, has next of kin been informed?

00:10:22We were waiting for Matron.

00:10:24She's been away at a conference in Leeds, but she's on her way back.

00:10:27I assume the commissioner filled you in about the end of the month.

00:10:31Yes.

00:10:32He assures me that you have a reputation for working quickly and quietly.

00:10:37I don't want things messed up because of a stupid prank that backfired.

00:10:40Well, don't...

00:10:41We can't admit a prank, surely.

00:10:43The third-year students, I can't believe they'd be so foolish.

00:10:45Yes, Masterson and I will be taking a witness statement from each of you.

00:10:56We'll also be requesting your fingerprints.

00:10:59Until we know more, we're treating this as an unexplained death.

00:11:02Who was it who noticed the disinfectant is missing from the toilets?

00:11:06Me.

00:11:08Dacre's needed to be sick after, so I took her to the toilets and then we wanted to clean up, but...

00:11:13It's very important that we find the missing devil.

00:11:20Please sit down.

00:11:23There are officers searching the house, including bedrooms.

00:11:27Maybe it was meant for Fallon, the disinfectant.

00:11:31She was meant to be the patient today.

00:11:33And Nurse Fallon was taken ill in the night.

00:11:37She's on Sister Brumfitt's ward, in the private wing of the hospital.

00:11:40But she was here this morning.

00:11:43I saw her walking away from the house.

00:11:45She can't have been.

00:11:46Concentrate on your own recollection of events.

00:11:48Nobody else's.

00:11:50No detail is too small.

00:11:54Well, she always split the statements then, sir?

00:11:57No, I want to speak to all of them.

00:11:59Courtney Briggs can go, but he remains on the hospital site.

00:12:02All right, then.

00:12:02Mary Taylor, matron.

00:12:09If you're interviewing the girls, I'll need to be present.

00:12:13We're taking witness statements, that's all.

00:12:15I consider myself in loco parentis.

00:12:18And you'll be the first to know if I suspect any of them of involvement in Nurse Pearce's death.

00:12:22I assume you'd prefer to inform the next of kin.

00:12:27I'd be grateful if you'd do that as soon as possible.

00:12:28I'll do it now.

00:12:30And I'd like to speak to you as soon as you're finished here.

00:12:33Second floor.

00:12:34I'll do it now.

00:13:04So Burke twins are refusing to be seen separately, sir.

00:13:30We'll make an exception, Sergeant.

00:13:43And after you got dressed?

00:13:46We went down to the kitchen to get the milk for the demonstration.

00:13:49Time?

00:13:51About ten past seven.

00:13:54Did you take it from the fridge?

00:13:55Miss Collins did.

00:13:57She's the housekeeper.

00:13:58After we took it to the demonstration room and we opened it and measured out the amount we need into a beaker.

00:14:08Half a pint.

00:14:09And we put the beaker on the trolley and then we started to get the other things we'd need.

00:14:14Were you alone in there?

00:14:16Yes.

00:14:17Then it was about quarter to eight, so we went for breakfast.

00:14:20Who else was at breakfast?

00:14:21Everyone, really.

00:14:23Not Fallon.

00:14:25Goodell, Dacres, Pearce, the sisters.

00:14:31Birdo came a bit late.

00:14:33How late?

00:14:34About 15 minutes.

00:14:36What time did you leave the dining room?

00:14:38About 20 past.

00:14:41Then we went to our rooms and brushed our teeth.

00:14:43Went to the toilet.

00:14:44They don't need to know that.

00:14:51And we went back to the demonstration room at about 8.40.

00:14:56Had anything changed?

00:14:58Anything about the equipment, the milk?

00:15:01No.

00:15:03We didn't notice anything different.

00:15:04You say you saw Nurse Fallon leaving the building.

00:15:08When was that?

00:15:09I was getting my things and I looked out of the window and I saw her walking away from the house.

00:15:16It was definitely her.

00:15:18She was wearing her red suede coat.

00:15:20We love that coat.

00:15:23What did you think of Nurse Pearce?

00:15:26Presumably this is a young woman you've known for over two years.

00:15:29And now she's dead.

00:15:31In the most horrific of circumstances.

00:15:34She was very religious.

00:15:38She didn't really talk to us much.

00:15:42What happened to the milk next?

00:15:47You know, my first porno was twins.

00:15:50I've been seeing double for weeks.

00:15:52There's a large window of opportunity for someone to have tampered with the milk between 7.45 and 8.40.

00:15:58Anyone had access to it.

00:15:59Well, if it wasn't them, they're pretty stupid.

00:16:01How could they not notice something odd about this stuff?

00:16:03All that business they had to do with it, checking the temperature.

00:16:06That whole room smells strongly of cleaning fluid, carbolic.

00:16:10And if liquid poured like milk, why would they think it wasn't?

00:16:12So what's happening at the end of the month then, sir?

00:16:16Or am I not allowed to know?

00:16:19The private wing.

00:16:21A member of the cabinet's booked in there for a routine operation.

00:16:25So it's his old boy network then?

00:16:27We do as the commissioner asks.

00:16:29Thought he was overkill.

00:16:30And sending in Met Major Incident Team for what's probably a joke that went wrong.

00:16:38Was there anyone else in the study room?

00:16:40Yes.

00:16:40Dacre's.

00:16:42She arrived about five minutes after I did.

00:16:44And then we went to breakfast at the same time.

00:16:47I was only five minutes late.

00:16:48Actually, um, I was with someone in my room.

00:16:52A junior doctor.

00:16:53And that gets the rules.

00:16:55You having a man in your room?

00:16:56Oh dear.

00:16:58Caught red-handed.

00:17:00With anyone?

00:17:02No.

00:17:04But why should anyone else have been with me?

00:17:06I was in my own room, getting ready.

00:17:09I'm sorry, but I...

00:17:10You're doing well.

00:17:11And then at around 8.25, I went to my room, did some more revision, and then I went to

00:17:19the demonstration room.

00:17:20Pierce was the last to arrive.

00:17:22There was one odd thing that happened.

00:17:24She asked if someone had taken something from under her pillow.

00:17:28She didn't say what.

00:17:29We all told her that we hadn't.

00:17:31How did she respond?

00:17:32Actually, she looked satisfied.

00:17:35As though she had a suspicion confirmed.

00:17:38I'll say this because no one else will.

00:17:40Pierce wasn't just a killjoy.

00:17:43She was malicious.

00:17:44She tried to blackmail me a few months ago.

00:17:47She caught me with a visitor in my room.

00:17:51Threatened to report me to Matron.

00:17:52She just wanted me to take her to the pub.

00:17:54Turns out she had the hots for a spotty anaesthetist called Nigel.

00:17:57What did you do?

00:17:58I told her to piss off.

00:18:00Why did you think to report the disinfectant missing, Nurse Goodell?

00:18:03Sister Gearing mentioned something about a corrosive substance.

00:18:08I need to ask you about your actions when you realized something was wrong with Nurse Pierce.

00:18:12You pulled the feeding tube out of her mouth.

00:18:15Yes, I had to stop the liquid getting in.

00:18:17I was trying to help.

00:18:18She never bothered me again, but maybe she bothered someone else.

00:18:23Would you say you disliked her?

00:18:25No, but nobody particularly liked her.

00:18:28Acres, maybe.

00:18:30They seem to have been talking quite a lot recently.

00:18:31Did you like Nurse Pierce?

00:18:36Answer the question, please.

00:18:39I understand you often talk together.

00:18:42I found a leaflet in her room about a charity for female prisoners.

00:18:46Was that an interest of hers?

00:18:49I don't know.

00:18:53Can you think of any reason anyone might have to want to harm her?

00:18:56Hello, I was looking for Miss Taylor.

00:19:18Sister Bromford, Chief Inspector Doug Leash.

00:19:21I came to see if there was anything I could do to help.

00:19:23Were you in Nightingale House at the time of the incident?

00:19:26No, I was on my ward.

00:19:28But you do live here, so you were here this morning?

00:19:31Yes.

00:19:32I'll need a statement from you.

00:19:33And I understand you have Nurse Fallon on your ward.

00:19:35I'll need to speak to her, too.

00:19:37Not at the moment.

00:19:38She's been most unwell.

00:19:39She had a temperature of 101 last night.

00:19:42I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:19:44Tomorrow, then.

00:19:46Do you need me to stay?

00:19:48No.

00:19:53Do you have time for some coffee?

00:19:58You spoke to Nurse Pearce's family?

00:20:16Yes, the grandfather.

00:20:19Her parents died when she was a child.

00:20:23When I told him, he said, God's will be done.

00:20:25Just that.

00:20:28I felt like saying it can hardly have been God who tampered with the liquid feed.

00:20:33How long have the students been in Nightingale House?

00:20:36They've only just come back.

00:20:38We rotate them.

00:20:39Three months on the wards, three months here.

00:20:43I'm going to need access to the personnel files of everyone who lives and works here.

00:20:47I'm afraid those files are confidential.

00:20:50The only person who can grant access is Sir Marcus Cohen, our chairman.

00:20:53And he's broad at the moment.

00:20:55But you're in charge.

00:20:57In his absence.

00:21:02I will do everything I can to facilitate your investigation.

00:21:07We all will.

00:21:08But I need you to understand that you have come into what is our home as well as our place of work.

00:21:13Yes.

00:21:13And we are largely a group of women and young girls.

00:21:18And I will not allow any of my students or staff to be unduly pressured or intimidated.

00:21:27Missing disinfectant.

00:21:31It's a first floor toilet, sir.

00:21:33Could have been chuffed from there pretty easily.

00:21:34Oh, that's some of the nurses' bedrooms.

00:21:42Yes, that's one of mine.

00:21:44Where did you find it?

00:21:46Oh, don't go into that.

00:21:50This is where the Burt twins got the milk for the demonstration?

00:21:52Yeah, I gave it to them myself.

00:21:54There was nothing wrong with it when it left this kitchen.

00:21:56It was only delivered this morning.

00:21:57Fifteen pints a day we get through.

00:22:02It's ridiculous.

00:22:03I've told Maitre.

00:22:04I can't be responsible for it anymore.

00:22:06Do you have help?

00:22:07Not enough.

00:22:08I've told Maitre that too.

00:22:09I have a girl, Morag Smith.

00:22:12But she's not all there.

00:22:14Was she here this morning?

00:22:16She was.

00:22:16She lives in.

00:22:18Could I see her now?

00:22:19I doubt it.

00:22:20It's her half day.

00:22:21She'll have taken herself off to the woods.

00:22:24The law unto herself.

00:22:25Carbolic acid-based disinfectant.

00:22:30Just over a third of a pint.

00:22:32Severe damage to the stomach.

00:22:34Pulmonary edema.

00:22:35Damage to brain tissue and to other internal organs.

00:22:39What you said to Courtney Briggs about his response being strange.

00:22:43Yes, highly unusual now to open up the chest.

00:22:46We opt for CPR.

00:22:48I'll wager he served as an army medic.

00:22:51Can't get out of the habit of hacking things about.

00:22:52Was the disinfectant diluted at all?

00:22:56Mixed with milk?

00:22:57Regular concentration.

00:22:59In my opinion, unless they were a complete fool, whoever did this must have meant for her to die.

00:23:10Murder then.

00:23:11Should we be closing the place down, sir?

00:23:17Everything points to this being personal.

00:23:19There's no reason to suppose anyone else is at risk.

00:23:22What about the Fallon moment?

00:23:25Anyone who had the opportunity to swap the milk must almost certainly have known that Fallon was ill.

00:23:30We keep them here together.

00:23:31It's supposed to be for me alone, but I've always let the sisters use it.

00:23:41They have keys.

00:23:42They have little enough privacy as it is.

00:23:49It comes out next to my room.

00:23:50Do you think it's possible an outsider got him?

00:24:13It's possible, but I think it's unlikely, given the very specific nature of the crime.

00:24:17There'll be a constable posted outside tonight to reassure everyone.

00:24:20And to watch us.

00:24:23You can all come and go.

00:24:25But you'll have to tell the constable where you're going and why.

00:24:31The house is supposed to be haunted.

00:24:35The ghost of a kitchen maid who was abused and hanged herself in the woods.

00:24:43People say they hear her crying in the night.

00:24:46Have you heard her?

00:24:47No.

00:24:50I think we hear each other cry.

00:24:52I think they're sexy.

00:25:06I have to confess that I, for one, will be locking my door tonight.

00:25:17Then again, if Pierce comes back as a ghost, a locked door isn't going to stop her.

00:25:22Courtney Briggs was in the war.

00:25:40Royal Medical Corps served in Egypt.

00:25:43That's interesting.

00:25:45So was Gearing.

00:25:46You know, Mavis Gearing.

00:25:49Cairo, 44 to 45.

00:25:51I think it was a pretty close scene out in Cairo.

00:25:55Yeah, well, probably got the job, didn't he?

00:25:58He's probably doing it.

00:26:01Oh, gee.

00:26:02He's got to like him younger, hasn't he?

00:26:05I mean, the money, the power, looks, sort of.

00:26:09You make a lot of assumptions, Sergeant.

00:26:11Well, that's my area of expertise, sir.

00:26:13I'll get a drink soon, Alan.

00:26:21You married then, are you, sir?

00:26:23My wife died recently, as I'm sure you're aware.

00:26:28And if not, you're the only officer in Scotland Yard who's missed it.

00:26:32I'll have a scotch, please.

00:26:35Come now.

00:26:35I'll have a scotch, please.

00:26:45Oh, this goes, please.

00:26:58Mama.

00:26:59Mama.

00:27:00Mama.

00:27:01Mama.

00:27:02Mama.

00:27:03Mama.

00:27:05I don't know.

00:27:35Controls. Suspect in sight.

00:27:41Christine, stop. Christine, it's okay.

00:27:44Christine.

00:27:45It's okay.

00:27:48Christine, can you tell us why you left?

00:28:02I want to go home.

00:28:07I want to see my mother.

00:28:08Speak up. I can't understand you.

00:28:11I've had a look in your suitcase.

00:28:13You'll have to forgive me for that.

00:28:15Yesterday, I asked you if you knew anything about Nurse Pierce's interest in this charity,

00:28:19and you told me you didn't.

00:28:21But this is exactly the same leaflet.

00:28:23Can you explain that?

00:28:27It seems a strange thing to have been evasive about.

00:28:29You just have to tell the truth.

00:28:32I can't help you unless you're honest.

00:28:34I'm not...

00:28:35I'm not...

00:28:37Not what?

00:28:38I'm a thief.

00:28:39Did you take something from Nurse Pierce's room yesterday morning?

00:28:45A few weeks ago...

00:28:48Nurse Pardo was walking in front of me.

00:28:52And she dropped something out of her pocket.

00:28:58And when I got closer, I...

00:29:00I saw it was a note for ten pounds.

00:29:06I should have given it back to her, but...

00:29:09I didn't.

00:29:12Oh, God, I didn't.

00:29:15It's so much money.

00:29:17My mother, she...

00:29:18She needed a new code.

00:29:21She was cold all the time.

00:29:25So I sent it to her.

00:29:29But then Pierce came in.

00:29:31And she said she saw me take it.

00:29:33She said I'm a thief.

00:29:36She said she told...

00:29:37She said I'd go to prison.

00:29:39She was wrong.

00:29:41What you did doesn't make you a thief.

00:29:43She was trying to save me.

00:29:45A shilling a week.

00:29:47I had to send it to the charity for thieves like me.

00:29:51And I had to learn my Bible.

00:29:53The passage every night.

00:29:54And say it to her the next day.

00:29:57I wanted to do it.

00:30:01Please don't tell my mother.

00:30:04And please don't take her car.

00:30:06Or pay the money back.

00:30:08Have a break.

00:30:10D.S. Masterson will make you a cup of tea.

00:30:12And then he can take your statement.

00:30:15It's easy to make scapegoats of people.

00:30:30I believe her.

00:30:33But it does give her a reason to want to harm Heather Pierce.

00:30:35I don't mind.

00:30:36I don't mind.

00:30:37I don't mind.

00:30:37Please tell my friends.

00:30:42Okay.

00:30:48Ew.

00:30:51Thanks, Stan.

00:30:52Let's leave.

00:30:53I don't mind.

00:30:54I don't mind.

00:30:57Hell's Eve.

00:30:58Hobi.

00:30:58Oh, my God.

00:31:00Yes.

00:31:00Oh.

00:31:01Oh, my God.

00:31:02Oh, my God.

00:31:03Oh, my God.

00:31:03Josephine Fallon.

00:31:09Yes.

00:31:09I'm Chief Inspector Dalgleish.

00:31:11About Heather Pearce?

00:31:12Yes. May I speak to you for a moment?

00:31:14Yes.

00:31:18Who told you about her death?

00:31:21Her sister spoke to me.

00:31:23It's awful.

00:31:27Dalgleish.

00:31:28That's Scottish, isn't it?

00:31:29It is.

00:31:30I'm not. My ancestors were.

00:31:33There's a very good poet called Adam Dalgleish.

00:31:36I don't suppose you're related.

00:31:40It's not you, is it?

00:31:43Yes.

00:31:45Gosh, I...

00:31:46I really like your work.

00:31:49I had no idea you were a policeman.

00:31:52A policeman and a poet.

00:31:54Odd combination.

00:31:56It has its uses.

00:31:58I understand you left Nightingale House

00:32:01in the early hours of yesterday morning

00:32:02in the care of Sister Brumford.

00:32:03and you've been here ever since.

00:32:05Yes.

00:32:06It's just a virus,

00:32:07but I reacted badly.

00:32:09Feel a bit better today.

00:32:13Will you have another book out soon?

00:32:15I haven't written a lot recently.

00:32:20And I'm told it was you

00:32:22who was scheduled to play the patient yesterday.

00:32:25I have to ask,

00:32:25is there anyone at all

00:32:26who would have any reason

00:32:27to want to harm you?

00:32:29No.

00:32:31I've thought about it, of course,

00:32:32but...

00:32:33no.

00:32:34Is that your coat,

00:32:35Nurse Fallon?

00:32:37Yes.

00:32:38Someone's saying that they saw you

00:32:39wearing that coat

00:32:41walking away from Nightingale House

00:32:43at around 8.20 yesterday morning.

00:32:45What?

00:32:46That's not true.

00:32:47I was in here all morning,

00:32:49all day,

00:32:49ask the staff.

00:32:51I will.

00:32:52It would be quite possible.

00:32:53I couldn't even have

00:32:54got out of bed yesterday.

00:32:55The witness was quite certain

00:32:56it was you.

00:32:57Then they're lying.

00:32:58What do you do?

00:32:59I feel sick.

00:33:01I'm going to be sick.

00:33:02Leave, at once.

00:33:05Leave!

00:33:15Is she all right?

00:33:16Yes.

00:33:18You should have spoken to me

00:33:19before you...

00:33:19I'd like to take a statement

00:33:20from you while I'm here, sister.

00:33:23It's very short.

00:33:27I got up at 7,

00:33:28bathed and dressed,

00:33:29went to breakfast

00:33:30just before 8.

00:33:31Ate breakfast,

00:33:32brushed my teeth

00:33:33and came here.

00:33:34Which is what I do

00:33:35every morning.

00:33:36I'm on duty.

00:33:37I caught sight of Pierce

00:33:38at breakfast.

00:33:39Other than that,

00:33:39I didn't see her.

00:33:49I've appreciated

00:33:50hearing this from you.

00:33:52Is this going to have

00:33:52an impact on my patience?

00:33:53coming in?

00:33:54That'll be the commission's call.

00:33:56Oh, come on.

00:33:56He's going to be guided by you.

00:33:57I was just saying,

00:33:58we still need a witness

00:33:59statement from him.

00:34:00Witness statement?

00:34:02What time did you arrive

00:34:03at Nightingale House

00:34:03yesterday morning?

00:34:07Early.

00:34:08Around 8.

00:34:09I'd spent the night

00:34:09at the hospital

00:34:10after some late surgery.

00:34:11Made some calls

00:34:12from Gearing's office.

00:34:13You should lie down, please.

00:34:15And then I went

00:34:15into the demonstration.

00:34:17I did everything I could

00:34:19to save the girl.

00:34:20To be frank,

00:34:21it was horrific.

00:34:21Anyone see you arrive?

00:34:24Probably.

00:34:25I have no idea.

00:34:26What did you think

00:34:27of Nurse Pierce?

00:34:29She seemed competent.

00:34:30I didn't know.

00:34:30Not your type.

00:34:31Don't judge me

00:34:32by your standards.

00:34:33Well, what about

00:34:34Sister Gearing?

00:34:34You knew her in Cairo,

00:34:36didn't you?

00:34:37What on earth is...

00:34:38Yes, I knew

00:34:40Gearing in Cairo.

00:34:41I even screwed her once.

00:34:42We all screwed each other

00:34:43at least once.

00:34:44Does that satisfy you?

00:34:46And yes,

00:34:46I recommended her

00:34:47for a job here.

00:34:48What of it?

00:34:49I have work to get on with.

00:34:50I assume you do too.

00:34:52If this is quick,

00:34:53I'd hate to see

00:34:54what slow is.

00:34:59Oh, Miss Arse.

00:34:59All right, then.

00:35:26Night fingerprints

00:35:27found on a disinfectant

00:35:28bowl.

00:35:29Deliberately wiped clean

00:35:30all the killer wore gloves.

00:35:32And forensics say

00:35:33that the contents

00:35:34are a match

00:35:34for the substance

00:35:35that Pierce ingested.

00:35:36Why throw the disinfectant

00:35:37out of the window at all

00:35:38if there were no prints?

00:35:41Why not simply

00:35:42replace it on the windowsill?

00:35:45Perhaps killer

00:35:46was disturbed,

00:35:47panicked.

00:35:50Perhaps.

00:35:50Nurse Fallon.

00:35:59I've been discharged.

00:36:00Good.

00:36:01Can I speak to you

00:36:02for a moment?

00:36:13I'm sorry.

00:36:14I'm so embarrassed.

00:36:17I panicked.

00:36:18I did come back

00:36:19to Nightingale House.

00:36:20I'd left some

00:36:21letters on my bed.

00:36:23Very

00:36:24personal

00:36:25letters.

00:36:28Some of the girls.

00:36:30Well,

00:36:30Pierce mainly

00:36:31was a snoop.

00:36:32I couldn't bear

00:36:33the thought

00:36:33of becoming

00:36:33a laughingstock.

00:36:34I'm sure you understand.

00:36:35I came straight in

00:36:36and out.

00:36:37I didn't see anyone.

00:36:39All right.

00:36:39I'll add this

00:36:40to your statement.

00:36:40You can sign it tomorrow.

00:36:43Good night.

00:36:45Mr. Dalgleish,

00:36:46I wondered

00:36:48if you had signed

00:36:48my copy of your book

00:36:49for me.

00:36:50If I bring it.

00:36:52Of course.

00:36:55Thanks.

00:36:58What book?

00:36:59Well,

00:37:09I'm talking.

00:37:10Let's go.

00:37:40Let's go.

00:38:10Let's go.

00:38:24Morag Smith.

00:38:26Close the door then.

00:38:28It makes me feel better.

00:38:36Great.

00:38:37I'm Chief Inspector Dalgleish.

00:38:39I know who you are.

00:38:40It's what I want to see you.

00:38:41She was all right.

00:38:47Holy nurse.

00:38:50She gave me money.

00:38:53Gave me stories from the Bible and gave me 20 pence for a listening.

00:38:55I won't get that now.

00:38:59I was brought up on Bible stories.

00:39:02There are some good ones.

00:39:04She didn't annoy me like the rest of them.

00:39:07I'm sorry you've lost your friend.

00:39:10Is this where you come for some peace and quiet?

00:39:12To get away from her.

00:39:14Collins.

00:39:16No, no, no, no.

00:39:17Always on at me.

00:39:19Sick of it.

00:39:21Did you touch my disinfectant?

00:39:23Shouting in my face.

00:39:25Makes you want to bloody hit her sometimes.

00:39:26Was she asking you about the, um, the disinfectant in the first floor toilets?

00:39:35Of course.

00:39:36And did you touch it?

00:39:38She's got it wrong.

00:39:39That's what I want to tell you.

00:39:40What did she have wrong?

00:39:42It wasn't in that milk.

00:39:44The disinfectant?

00:39:47Why do you think it wasn't in the milk?

00:39:51Swear you won't tell her.

00:39:53I swear I'm very good at dealing with the Miss Collins of this world.

00:39:56I had some of that milk.

00:40:05I ain't dead.

00:40:07I went into that room to look for my duster.

00:40:10And I saw the beaker of it on the trolley.

00:40:12And I was thirsty so I drank a bit and it was nice.

00:40:17What time was this, Moray?

00:40:21Are you feeling sexy?

00:40:22I'm way too old to feel sexy.

00:40:30You ain't that old.

00:40:32It wouldn't cost you.

00:40:34What time did you drink the milk?

00:40:39Eight.

00:40:39She looked at the clock on the wall and realised it was eight.

00:40:41That's the time she was supposed to help with the breakfasts.

00:40:44She topped up the milk with some milk from a bottle which she noticed on the side then she left.

00:40:48Do you believe that, kid?

00:40:49Yes, I do.

00:40:52All right.

00:40:53So that means the killer must have come into the room between two minutes past eight, say,

00:40:59and 8.40 or 8.35, most like, and swapped the milk with a disinfectant.

00:41:07Timing-wise, it would be a hard push, but not impossible for any of the women who were at breakfast between 8 and 8.20.

00:41:12Less of a push for anyone who was in the building but who didn't go into breakfast.

00:41:16Farland.

00:41:17Farland and Courtney Briggs.

00:41:26Better.

00:41:47Would you like some of this water?

00:41:57Yes, please.

00:41:59I'm glad you're okay.

00:42:01Thanks.

00:42:14Oh, goodness me.

00:42:17Oh, goodness me.

00:42:47Oh, goodness me.

00:43:17It's just a virus, but I reacted badly.

00:43:22She's been most unwell.

00:43:23I've been discharged.

00:43:25I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:43:26I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:43:56I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:44:02I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:44:04I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:44:06I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:44:15I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:44:18I'll be keeping her in for several days.

00:44:18Oh, my God.

00:44:48No evidence of strangulation or suffocation, no external marks of violence of any kind, but it's unlikely to be a natural death.

00:44:58If it was poison, I'm assuming it wasn't corrosive.

00:45:00Correct. No carbolic acid this time.

00:45:03Time of death, based on rectal temperature and the degree of rigor in the lower limbs, around eight hours ago.

00:45:10It's about midnight, then.

00:45:11Taking a common sense view, of course, she died when she drank that nightcap.

00:45:15Well, print man only found her prince in the class.

00:45:17Is there a suicide note?

00:45:19I haven't found one yet.

00:45:38Cover up, please.

00:45:39I need my cigarettes.

00:45:52Sit down.

00:45:53Did she look like she'd been murdered?

00:46:03That's part of it.

00:46:04I want to know if it looked like murder or suicide.

00:46:10She looked horrified.

00:46:13She looked terrified.

00:46:14I wish I'd never gone in there.

00:46:20And why did you?

00:46:21Because the light was on, and I got up to use the bathroom.

00:46:29I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.

00:46:31DS Masterson will be taking witness statements.

00:46:33Was she murdered?

00:46:35It's too early to say.

00:46:36Maybe someone's picking us off.

00:46:39One by one.

00:46:40Please be quiet.

00:46:41Which of you is the last to see her alive?

00:46:44It might have been me.

00:46:46She came into the kitchen when I was making a cup of tea before bed.

00:46:52I poured some boiled water into a glass for her.

00:46:55Well, how?

00:46:56It was just boiling water.

00:47:02Bag the kettle and send it for testing.

00:47:04Yes, sir.

00:47:04Well, played, Dalgleish.

00:47:07We've sent you here to investigate one murder.

00:47:08You'll let another one happen right under your nose.

00:47:11I don't know yet that it is a murder.

00:47:13Surely it's more likely to be suicide.

00:47:15I put in a call to the commissioner.

00:47:16It's hardly likely to trust me with home security now there's a serial killer on the loose.

00:47:20I don't think it's helpful to speak in that way.

00:47:22Nor do I.

00:47:23I ought to tell you, I saw her light on, the felons.

00:47:28It must have been around 2 a.m.

00:47:30I was on my way to bed after nursing a patient in the main hospital.

00:47:35DS Masterson will take statements from you all.

00:47:38Please don't leave the hospital site.

00:47:40And what are you going to bloody do?

00:47:41Do!

00:48:00Thanks, sir.

00:48:08Bye.

00:48:09Bye.

00:48:10Bye.

00:48:12Bye.

00:48:19Bye.

00:48:23Bye.

00:48:24Bye.

00:48:25I don't know.

00:48:55I was making a cup of tea, and she came in and got her cup.

00:49:06She cut some lemon, and then I poured the boiled water.

00:49:10Did you fill the kettle before boiling it?

00:49:11No, there was enough water in it, so I just turned it on.

00:49:16Did you have something against Fallon?

00:49:18Like you had something against Pierce?

00:49:20No, I didn't have anything against Pierce.

00:49:22She was trying to help me.

00:49:26Oh, is that right?

00:49:27Jo was very private. She was sophisticated.

00:49:31She was the best nurse in all year.

00:49:33Did that bother you, that she was the best?

00:49:36I suppose it did bother me sometimes,

00:49:39but I'll be leaving as soon as I'm qualified.

00:49:42I'm getting married. He's a vicar.

00:49:45There'll be plenty for me to do around the parish.

00:49:47Anyway, the hospital aren't keen on marriage women staying on.

00:49:52What was her relationship like with Heather Pierce?

00:49:55Civil. Pierce once threatened to complain to Matron about Jo keeping whiskey in the kitchen,

00:50:00but I don't think Jo held a grudge.

00:50:02And what about her relationship with Nurse Dacus?

00:50:05She was generally pretty kind to her, kinder than most of us.

00:50:09I must have turned out the light at around midnight.

00:50:13I woke up at, um, about half past five when Matron knocked on the door.

00:50:19So you didn't go and visit anyone in the middle of the night?

00:50:21Didn't go to the nurse's corridor?

00:50:22No.

00:50:24Why, I don't know what I've done.

00:50:25It was Courtney Briggs that got you this job, wasn't it?

00:50:27No.

00:50:28He was one of my references.

00:50:30Still, you're close, aren't you?

00:50:32No.

00:50:32Well, I consider Stephen a friend, but he's a married man.

00:50:40I don't understand.

00:50:42Why is this relevant?

00:50:43Did Jo have a boyfriend?

00:50:45She didn't tell me she did, but I think there was someone.

00:50:49She would often go to London whenever she had free time.

00:50:52She mentioned some personal letters to me.

00:50:54I can't find them in her room.

00:50:56You don't know what those might have been about?

00:50:58No.

00:50:59Sorry.

00:51:00I don't.

00:51:02Do you think someone murdered her?

00:51:06Is there anything else you'd like to tell me?

00:51:08Actually, there is.

00:51:10It's not about Jo.

00:51:11It's about Pierce.

00:51:12I remember you said no details too small.

00:51:14A couple of days before she died, I went into her room to ask her if she wanted some cake.

00:51:20And I noticed that she was reading.

00:51:22Apart from her Bible, she never read.

00:51:23Not even magazines.

00:51:25And it could have been a textbook, but it felt like she didn't want me to see it.

00:51:29She pushed it under the covers.

00:51:30And I was thinking, perhaps that's what was missing from under her pillow on the morning she died.

00:51:37So why don't you tell me where you were last night?

00:51:39I was in my room with the door locked, Sergeant.

00:51:42Asleep.

00:51:43So no medical students in this?

00:51:45No.

00:51:46No one else came to join you?

00:51:48No.

00:51:48I was alone.

00:51:50All night.

00:51:52All night.

00:52:22Do you mind if I join you?

00:52:40Well, please do.

00:52:41It's a funny one, doesn't it?

00:52:47I think a policeman eating.

00:52:55I don't know how any of us are managing to eat.

00:53:00Those poor girls, I can't stop thinking about them.

00:53:03Think about them, then.

00:53:04And give us all some peace.

00:53:05May I ask you something?

00:53:17A letter arrived for Nurse Pierce from her grandmother posted a few days ago.

00:53:22Oh, poor family.

00:53:23It's clear Nurse Pierce had told her she was very upset about the death of a patient, a Mr. Dettinger.

00:53:29Pierce was on my ward for the last rotation, and she was assigned to Mr. Dettinger.

00:53:35He was one of Mr. Courtney Briggs' patients, Crohn's disease.

00:53:39It's a very complications.

00:53:40So she would have spent a lot of time with this patient?

00:53:44Yes.

00:53:45I'm not surprised she was affected by his death.

00:53:48In fact, I'm relieved.

00:53:50My nurses all have to get used to death, but I like to know they also care.

00:53:54Excuse me.

00:53:54Patient of Courtney Briggs.

00:54:03Pierce nursed him until he died, age 59, at the beginning of last week.

00:54:06She'd clearly grown close to him.

00:54:08Next of kin, Louise Dettinger, his mother.

00:54:10She's in London.

00:54:11I've tried calling, but there's no reply.

00:54:13As soon as you finish with the statements, I want you to go and find her.

00:54:15I want to know if she said...

00:54:16You are joking.

00:54:18Pierce was troubled in the days following Dettinger's death.

00:54:20I want to know if she said anything to him.

00:54:22Yeah, but if I go to London...

00:54:23I'm going to be out of action for the rest of the day.

00:54:25You'll be in action doing what I've asked you to do.

00:54:27Look, she's the one we ought to be focusing on.

00:54:29She's got opportunity for both of them and a clear motive for the first.

00:54:33If we just dug a little bit deeper...

00:54:34I haven't ruled her out. I'm not ruling any of them out.

00:54:43Josephine Fallon. I'll check.

00:54:45Do you have a library card?

00:54:46No, actually, it's missing.

00:54:50Yes, she is a member.

00:54:51Would you like me to check if her card's been handed in?

00:54:54Does the record say which books were taken out on her card and when?

00:54:57Yes.

00:54:58Two books for the last few weeks.

00:55:00Simone de Beauvoir and...

00:55:02Yes.

00:55:03I remember this.

00:55:05Very unusual request.

00:55:06I spoke to her myself.

00:55:08She asked for an account of the Nazi war trials.

00:55:10We didn't have one, of course, so I had to order one from the county library.

00:55:13When was this?

00:55:14She came to collect it four days ago.

00:55:17In fact, she must have returned it yesterday, but not in the correct way.

00:55:21She left it on a pile of children's books.

00:55:25Not very responsible.

00:55:27I still have it, if you'd like to see it.

00:55:30Yes.

00:55:32Can you describe the woman you dealt with?

00:55:34She was medium height, long, fair hair, and plaits.

00:55:44Heather Pierce.

00:55:44She was medium height, long, fair hair, and plaits.

00:56:14Soon, my daughter, you will just hold me.

00:56:20Hold me, please hold me, please don't let me.

00:56:25Please don't let me.

00:56:44Please don't let me.

00:56:57I won't let you.

00:56:58We'll start a game.

00:56:59So we'll do it well.

00:57:02I won't let you.

00:57:03I don't know.

00:57:33I don't know.

00:58:03I don't know.

00:58:33I don't know.

00:58:35You didn't find anything unusual under her fingernails?

00:58:38Sand?

00:58:40No.

00:58:40No sand.

00:58:41At the time of death, I can confirm, between midnight and 2 a.m. at the latest.

00:58:47And I'm afraid there's something else.

00:58:50She was pregnant about 13 or 14 weeks.

00:58:54Caused to take her own life, perhaps?

00:58:56She didn't take her own life.

00:58:58What would your boss say if he could see you now?

00:59:24He'd fire me.

00:59:27He's not into human frailty.

00:59:29He thinks he's a saint, but he's not.

00:59:32You don't like him?

00:59:33He's an arrogant son of a bitch.

00:59:36Sexy, there.

00:59:37He's old enough to be your grandad.

00:59:39He's not.

00:59:40Anyway, it's not about age.

00:59:44It's about power.

00:59:46Oh, yeah?

00:59:48That's why you're like me, then?

00:59:52Sex isn't frailty.

00:59:55Sex is power.

00:59:57It's one of the only powers women can match men for.

01:00:00Blow for blow.

01:00:01And I'm very good at exercising it.

01:00:06Then why do you bother with medical students, then?

01:00:09I wasn't a student in my room.

01:00:12I was Stephen Courtney Briggs.

01:00:15If you're going to pick a dog, pick the dog dog.

01:00:19Christ.

01:00:20I'm not too old.

01:00:21I just don't know what I thought of him.

01:00:22I haven't been where I've just been.

01:00:23I could have any of them in that place.

01:00:31Even the females.

01:00:32They're so bloody lonely and desperate.

01:00:35You haven't, have you?

01:00:36Gearing in her smudgy mascara.

01:00:40Run for it yapping and sniffing around Matron's heels.

01:00:42I don't know how Matron stands it.

01:00:45I'm a good nurse.

01:00:48But I'm crap at exams.

01:00:51Courtney Briggs will make sure I pass.

01:00:53And now, I have power over you, Sergeant.

01:01:06Yeah, right.

01:01:08Oh, one word from me and you're sacked.

01:01:15One word from me and you're off the course.

01:01:18Sexy, isn't it?

01:01:23Do any of you recognise this?

01:01:34Yes.

01:01:35It's my rose spray.

01:01:37I bought it last year.

01:01:40She didn't.

01:01:41Oh, no.

01:01:46Oh, no.

01:01:47How did she know about it?

01:01:49I keep it in here.

01:01:52Right at the back.

01:01:53It's hidden from sight.

01:01:56Look, you can see the mark where it was.

01:01:58Where did you find it?

01:01:59Why would she even look in here?

01:02:01No, I didn't hurt her.

01:02:10No, we're saying you did.

01:02:13But it's what you're thinking.

01:02:15I hardly knew her.

01:02:16I've only spoken to her a few times.

01:02:19Would anyone else in Nightingale House know about the rose spray?

01:02:22I can't think why they would.

01:02:23Yes, Morag Smith, the cleaning girl.

01:02:27I asked her to clean that cupboard out.

01:02:30It must have been in November.

01:02:34She would certainly have seen it.

01:02:36You should talk to her.

01:02:37She's odd.

01:02:38Sister.

01:02:39I didn't go anywhere near Fallon or Pierce.

01:02:46I haven't done anything wrong.

01:02:48I need to get back to my ward.

01:02:49Actually, Sister Brumford, I need to speak to you.

01:02:51Me?

01:02:52Uh, I can speak to you after I've finished my...

01:02:55You have to be now.

01:03:10I want you to know I object to the way you speak to me.

01:03:13To all of us.

01:03:15I suppose it's because we're women.

01:03:18You're taking advantage of Matron's good nature.

01:03:20She's allowing you far too much freedom.

01:03:23Licence.

01:03:27Remind me, Sister, did you serve in the war?

01:03:29No, I was still training.

01:03:31You say you were called to the hospital last night by Mr. Courtney Briggs.

01:03:33When you arrived, was he there?

01:03:35No, he'd gone.

01:03:36Gone?

01:03:37Home, I assume.

01:03:39Or to one of the, uh, restrooms.

01:03:40And coming back at around 2am,

01:03:42you heard someone moving on the nurse's corridor

01:03:44and you went to investigate.

01:03:46Well, I thought someone at least ought to be vigilant.

01:03:51And you saw the bird twins?

01:03:52Yes.

01:03:53They couldn't sleep.

01:03:55I noticed Fallon's light was still on,

01:03:57but I didn't think anything of it.

01:03:59She discharged herself yesterday, didn't she?

01:04:03Against your advice.

01:04:04You didn't think to knock on her door

01:04:06to check if she was all right?

01:04:09If she needed anything, it was sleep.

01:04:11I certainly wasn't going to disturb her

01:04:13in the middle of the night.

01:04:15Which entrance to Nightingale House

01:04:17would you normally use

01:04:18when coming back late at night?

01:04:20Yes, I would normally use the back entrance

01:04:22to Mary's, to Matron's staircase,

01:04:26but your constable was at the front door

01:04:28and the weather was so dreadful,

01:04:29so I went in that way,

01:04:30and up the main stairs.

01:04:31I'm not sure whether you know this by now,

01:04:36and I don't normally break confidentiality,

01:04:39but Nurse Fallon was pregnant.

01:04:42Yes.

01:04:43Did she confide in you about it?

01:04:44No, but I've been nursing for too many years

01:04:47not to spot something like that.

01:04:50Perhaps she couldn't live with the shame.

01:04:53She wouldn't be the first.

01:04:54Or perhaps it's true, what everyone's saying.

01:04:56She did kill Pierce,

01:04:57and she couldn't live with that either.

01:04:58Perhaps Piers found out about the pregnancy

01:05:02and threatened to tell.

01:05:03Have you thought of that?

01:05:04From what I hear,

01:05:05Piers was adept at blackmail.

01:05:08Thank you for your thoughts, sister.

01:05:11You can go now.

01:05:12You're late.

01:05:31Mrs. Louise Dettinger?

01:05:34Who are you?

01:05:35Detective Sergeant Masterson

01:05:37with the Metropolitan Police.

01:05:39I'd like to ask some questions

01:05:40about your son, Martin,

01:05:42in his time at the John Carpenter Hospital.

01:05:44Would you?

01:05:45Yes, I would, actually.

01:05:47I've come a long way.

01:05:48Heather Infield.

01:05:50Is there something wrong with your phone?

01:05:53Oh, for fuck's sake.

01:05:54You should at least have telephoned me.

01:06:03Who?

01:06:05Tony, my partner.

01:06:08Got a competition tomorrow.

01:06:09Look, I need to ask you some questions

01:06:11about your son's stay at the hospital.

01:06:13Right?

01:06:13Particularly about a nurse called Pierce.

01:06:15She was assigned to him.

01:06:20Leave that!

01:06:21Did you ever meet Nurse Pierce?

01:06:26Did you ever visit your son?

01:06:29I visited every day.

01:06:33He died, you know.

01:06:35You don't say.

01:06:37My only one.

01:06:47Do you dance, Mr. Big?

01:06:51Policeman.

01:06:53No, thanks.

01:06:54But look, I've got to ask you.

01:06:55You can go away, then.

01:07:00And you'll never hear

01:07:02what I've got to tell you.

01:07:14Masterson and I all stay here tonight.

01:07:16Good.

01:07:17I won't pretend I'm not relieved.

01:07:19Fallon was murdered, wasn't she?

01:07:24Yes.

01:07:26Courtney Briggs, he looked, um,

01:07:30stricken when he saw her body this morning.

01:07:33Was there a connection between them?

01:07:35There were rumors about some sort of relationship.

01:07:39He has been known to stray.

01:07:41Perhaps I should have told you,

01:07:42but it really was just a rumor.

01:07:47What Sister Gearing said about Morag Smith,

01:07:49I hope you won't...

01:07:52It's like Dacus.

01:07:54She's an easy skate goat.

01:07:56Have you spoken to her yet?

01:07:58I'm going to find her.

01:07:59I think I know where she'll be.

01:08:02Does Courtney Briggs ever talk about the war?

01:08:04What I mean?

01:08:05Specific incidents or people?

01:08:07Not really.

01:08:09I know he served.

01:08:10Occasionally he speaks about it

01:08:12in terms of surgical practice.

01:08:14Why?

01:08:16Why?

01:08:25Hey, what is it you've got to tell me?

01:08:29Spin.

01:08:30Spin.

01:08:34Something odd did happen

01:08:39when Martin was in that hospital.

01:08:42What?

01:08:43What are you...

01:08:44What?

01:08:45Too rough!

01:08:48Naughty!

01:08:49He thought he was good when I told him.

01:08:52He thought he was very good.

01:08:56Who did?

01:09:00Stephen Courtney Briggs.

01:09:04Somebody help me!

01:09:27Help!

01:09:28Somebody!

01:09:29Help!

01:09:30Somebody!

01:09:32What happened?

01:09:34Someone hit him over the edge.

01:09:36Lock all the doors.

01:09:36It's a deep cut.

01:09:38Lock them. Check who's missing.

01:09:39Call Mr. Courtney Briggs. Use my office.

01:09:41Yes, Mitchell.

01:09:42He'll be with Sister Bramford on her board.

01:09:44Not Courtney Briggs. Not Courtney Briggs.

01:09:48It's all right.

01:09:49Not Courtney Briggs.

01:09:50It's all right. You're all right.

01:10:04You're all right. Stay still now.

01:10:08You were hit very hard.

01:10:11Remember anything?

01:10:12Did you see who hit you?

01:10:14He was probably hit from behind.

01:10:17The wound will need stitches.

01:10:18It will need anesthetic.

01:10:20I'll do it in our patients' theater.

01:10:21It will need anesthetic.

01:10:22It will need stitching immediately.

01:10:24You're losing a lot of blood.

01:10:29Martin served in the Army.

01:10:33Intelligence Corps.

01:10:35Clever.

01:10:37He came all the way through without a scratch.

01:10:42And then afterwards they sent him to Germany.

01:10:45Felsenheim.

01:10:47Felsenheim.

01:10:48One of the war trials.

01:10:50The Nazis in the dock.

01:10:53It went on and on and on.

01:10:58I wanted him home.

01:11:00Days and days.

01:11:01Staring at those barbarians.

01:11:07Watching them.

01:11:09Listening to them.

01:11:12And then there he is.

01:11:14Lying in a bed.

01:11:16In the John Carpenter.

01:11:19And who does he see?

01:11:23Who does he see?

01:11:25No.

01:11:33What the hell?

01:11:34What's the matter?

01:11:34I said no.

01:11:36As you wish.

01:11:37Let's see if you're still saying that after the first stitch.

01:11:40They do say that a needle pushing through damaged flesh is as painful as being run through with a sword.

01:11:45And you need 12, 13 stitches.

01:11:47If I were a sadist, it would be my lucky day.

01:11:49Tell me about your relationship with Josephine Fowler.

01:11:53You think I killed Joe.

01:11:56That's why you don't trust me.

01:11:58Did you?

01:11:59No, I did not.

01:12:00We did see each other.

01:12:02For about a year.

01:12:04Don't expect you to believe me, but I was extremely fond of her.

01:12:07It was her who called it off.

01:12:10I've never fought for a woman before, but for her I did.

01:12:13Why did she call it off?

01:12:14So did DeBrun's course.

01:12:16I'm certain there was nobody else.

01:12:17She wasn't like that one.

01:12:19When was this?

01:12:19About three months ago.

01:12:21I had no reason at all to want to hurt her.

01:12:23She was discreet.

01:12:24She wouldn't have talked.

01:12:26Yes, I was hurt when she finished it, but not that hurt.

01:12:31Ready?

01:12:37Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

01:12:49Oh, shit.

01:13:07Joe Fallon was pregnant.

01:13:19You didn't know?

01:13:21No.

01:13:22Thirteen or fourteen weeks.

01:13:24What would you have done if she told you?

01:13:26I'd have helped her.

01:13:27To get rid of it?

01:13:28No.

01:13:29You don't think she killed herself, but...

01:13:32My wife and I, it hasn't, uh...

01:13:37Happened for us.

01:13:40Her fault, not mine.

01:13:42I was trying to make peace with it.

01:13:45Never becoming a father.

01:13:48Where did you serve in the war?

01:13:49What?

01:13:50Where exactly did you serve?

01:13:51Is this the gearing thing again?

01:13:53Christ's sake, Cairo.

01:13:54No, I don't have to answer any of your questions.

01:13:57I've checked.

01:13:58Everyone who's supposed to be in Nightingale House is here.

01:14:01Thanks.

01:14:02I'm done here.

01:14:03I'll be in the hospital unless you want to arrest me.

01:14:32You all right?

01:14:43They told me you got hit.

01:14:44Someone attacked me in the woods.

01:14:45I'm fine.

01:14:46You look terrible.

01:14:48You didn't get a look at him?

01:14:49No.

01:14:49Well, I think I've got something that's going to make you feel a whole lot better.

01:14:52You're right.

01:14:54Dettinger.

01:14:56Something did happen while he was on the ward.

01:14:58You recognise someone?

01:15:00Who?

01:15:00This is going to sound insane.

01:15:02So we used it in the Nazi war trials, right?

01:15:06Germany.

01:15:06A place called Felsenheim.

01:15:08Funny sort of hospital this, ma'am.

01:15:10They've got Grobel working here.

01:15:12As a sister.

01:15:13A sister?

01:15:15He was on Brumfett's ward, wasn't he?

01:15:17And there's more.

01:15:18When his mother told Courtney Briggs what he'd said, he gave her a discount off her bill,

01:15:22halved it, and told him not to mention it to anyone.

01:15:25So, Dettinger recognises Brumfett, working in this English hospital, bold as brass.

01:15:30He says something to Pierce.

01:15:32Now, there's nothing that Pierce likes more than a bit of blackmail.

01:15:35So she confronts Brumfett.

01:15:36And Brumfett takes the first opportunity to kill her.

01:15:39Well, she had time just for seeing breakfast and going to a ward.

01:15:43Felsenheim.

01:15:43Where the hell did you get that?

01:15:45It was borrowed from the library by Heather Pierce on Fallon's library card.

01:15:49Read it to me.

01:15:51Yeah, Felsenheim.

01:15:52Here she is.

01:15:54Him guard Grobel.

01:15:56Jesus Christ.

01:15:58One of eight.

01:15:59Working at a medical facility.

01:16:01Accused of murdering 122 Polish prisoners by lethal injunction.

01:16:05Bloody hell.

01:16:07Found guilty.

01:16:09Sentenced to 12 years.

01:16:12Leniency exercise because of her age.

01:16:1419.

01:16:17Well, that's her, then.

01:16:20Brumfett's this Grobel.

01:16:22It does seem incredible that he'd recognize that mousy little bit after what.

01:16:26Is that who he is?

01:16:27I guess he did.

01:16:28But he didn't say her name, Brumfett.

01:16:30What?

01:16:30No.

01:16:32I'm not calling to his mother, but...

01:16:34It's got to be her, hasn't it?

01:16:37Why would he have seen another sister?

01:16:45It was nonsense.

01:16:47Stettinger was an extremely sick man.

01:16:49Delirious a lot of the time.

01:16:50But I didn't want her running to the press and linking my name with some insane scandal.

01:16:54All the hospitals.

01:16:55So I gave her what she wanted and reduced her bill to shut her up.

01:16:58Uh, you didn't think to tell us this.

01:17:00I wanted to close it down and I didn't think it was relevant.

01:17:03We decide what's relevant.

01:17:05Would Dettinger have seen any other sisters on the ward apart from Brumfett?

01:17:08Probably.

01:17:08Sister Gearing is often conducting practical.

01:17:10What's going on?

01:17:11You're not saying he was right.

01:17:12Fetch Brumfett from her ward.

01:17:13I'll find Gearing.

01:17:14Sister Brumfett's not on her ward.

01:17:15She finished it for this afternoon.

01:17:16But I thought, what?

01:17:20Matron, she said she was on her ward.

01:17:29What's happening?

01:17:30Do you know where Brumfett is or Sister Gearing?

01:17:31No, I've been in my office.

01:17:33Sir?

01:17:34Sir?

01:17:34They're not out there.

01:17:35Brumfett finished her shift at four o'clock.

01:17:37Did she?

01:17:38I'm sure she wasn't supposed to.

01:17:39Fire!

01:17:41Fire!

01:17:43Wait for your glass.

01:17:46I think it's the gardener's hut.

01:17:53It could spread.

01:17:59Go back, all of you.

01:18:05Call the five brigade.

01:18:10It's all right, is she ever?

01:18:11I didn't see her.

01:18:11Where is she?

01:18:13You're here.

01:18:15Of course.

01:18:15It's locked in, ain't I?

01:18:17What about Sister Brumfett?

01:18:21Keep the girls upstairs.

01:18:30There won't be anyone in there.

01:18:36You don't think?

01:18:41All right, get back.

01:18:42Get back.

01:18:43Get right back.

01:18:44We need to do something.

01:18:45Look.

01:18:45No, no, no.

01:18:45Look.

01:18:45We need to do something.

01:18:46No, no, no.

01:18:46No.

01:18:46No, no, no.

01:18:47I don't know.

01:19:17Oh, fuck.

01:19:39I'm going to kill the house next time I believe.

01:19:47I haven't told us anything.

01:20:00It's on the bed.

01:20:02I killed Heather Pierce.

01:20:27She had found out something she had no business to know.

01:20:31I killed Josephine Fallon because I knew she was bound to discover the nature of that secret and reveal it to the authorities.

01:20:38I am filled with remorse for the pain I have caused. I can no longer live.

01:20:43Please forget I ever existed, Ethel Brumford.

01:20:46You don't want to stay. We don't like this place. We don't want to stay in this place.

01:20:59Well, go then. Run back to the farm. It's not like you'll be missed much.

01:21:08It's not places which are evil. It's people.

01:21:15I feel sorry for you. I'd rather be me than you.

01:21:19I'd rather be me than have to live with a heart that's hard and corrupted and graceless.

01:21:29Well, whole sentences.

01:21:39Ethel Brumford. That wasn't who she really was.

01:21:45She was born in Germany. Her real name was...

01:21:48Ermgard Gribble. You know.

01:21:54She told me years ago.

01:21:56So long ago when we first started training.

01:21:59I think she really needed to tell someone.

01:22:02Just one person.

01:22:04She was horrified by what she'd been involved in.

01:22:07She never told me exactly what, but she did say that she was very young

01:22:11and that she was only doing what she was told to do.

01:22:13After a while I stopped thinking about it.

01:22:17Sometimes I'd even wonder if I'd imagined the whole thing.

01:22:22And she'd served her sentence.

01:22:26Every day she was atoning for what she'd done.

01:22:30She was a brilliant, brilliant nurse.

01:22:38When did you find out?

01:22:40Not long ago.

01:22:41But I did manage to get the yard to raise someone from records just now.

01:22:47They've located her file.

01:22:49A courier's on his way with it.

01:22:51You see, she didn't serve her sentence.

01:22:54Not all of it.

01:22:56She absconded after 14 months with one of the British soldiers

01:23:00who was supposed to be guarding her.

01:23:02So her case is open.

01:23:04She's wanted.

01:23:05She's wanted.

01:23:07It wasn't just her reputation and her vocation she risked losing.

01:23:11It was...

01:23:13her freedom.

01:23:15Extraordinary, really, that she should be...

01:23:18recognized.

01:23:20After all these years, she must have changed a lot.

01:23:23There was nothing remarkable about her, was there?

01:23:28Extraordinary that one of her guards would fall in love with her.

01:23:31And risk his freedom to run away with her.

01:23:35There was nothing romantic about her.

01:23:39Nothing inspiring or irresistible.

01:23:42Or perhaps there was.

01:23:44There'll be a photograph in her record, so we'll soon see.

01:23:48Stop it.

01:23:53It was you Dettinger recognized, wasn't it?

01:23:56That face across her room.

01:23:58Easy mistake to make to think you were a sister.

01:24:01That uniform, it's very like the ones sisters wore during the war.

01:24:06I didn't kill those girls.

01:24:08She did.

01:24:10I wasn't even here when she killed Pierce.

01:24:13I was horrified, incensed, when she told me what she'd done.

01:24:18And to kill Fallon.

01:24:20All I said was that...

01:24:22Fallon was bound to find out about the book.

01:24:23I didn't mean for her to...

01:24:25She was obsessed.

01:24:27She was obsessed with me.

01:24:29She couldn't bear the thought of losing me.

01:24:31It must have been very hard for you.

01:24:33All those years, knowing the power she had over you.

01:24:35She loved it.

01:24:37She never, ever left me alone.

01:24:40Everywhere I went.

01:24:41Every job I took.

01:24:42Every holiday.

01:24:43Every Christmas.

01:24:44She was there.

01:24:46I hated her.

01:24:48So you killed her?

01:24:49No.

01:24:50Or did you simply persuade her that she had to do this one...

01:24:54heroic thing for you?

01:24:56I will find out the truth.

01:24:59It would be better if you told me.

01:25:03Where were you when you were 19?

01:25:06University.

01:25:08Cozy rooms, toast by the fire.

01:25:11I was being made to work for people who terrified me.

01:25:14I didn't want to kill those men.

01:25:19Those poor, trusting men.

01:25:22They thought I was inoculating them against TB.

01:25:28They'd file in one by one.

01:25:31Smile at me.

01:25:35Thank me for being kind.

01:25:36Some of them would try to touch me, but not many.

01:25:44They'd lean close.

01:25:46Breathe in as I pushed poison into their veins.

01:25:53I can still feel it.

01:25:57Their breath against my face.

01:26:07You're like me.

01:26:09You don't just see the everyday, the banal.

01:26:13Human beings running about this little planet,

01:26:16thinking everything they do matters and has meaning.

01:26:20You.

01:26:23You see the underneath.

01:26:28Our souls.

01:26:32You know me.

01:26:37I've served my time.

01:26:39A higher justice.

01:26:44Human beings do matter.

01:26:46And...

01:26:48every human being...

01:26:50has a right to justice.

01:26:58Let me go.

01:27:00Yes, Sergeant?

01:27:01Well, we found Dragmart, sir.

01:27:03Most of them have been pretty much washed away, but...

01:27:06there's one definite track where it looks like a body could have been dragged.

01:27:10Good.

01:27:12Start a search in Sister Brumford's room.

01:27:16Then start in here.

01:27:24Don't.

01:27:25Um, guard Grobel.

01:27:26I'm arresting you on suspicion of absconding from jail...

01:27:28and on suspicion of the murder of Ethel Brumford.

01:27:30You do not have to say anything unless you wish to,

01:27:31but anything you do say will be taken down in writing...

01:27:32and may be used in evidence.

01:27:33Do you understand?

01:27:34Do you understand?

01:27:35No.

01:27:36No, no.

01:27:37No, no.

01:27:38No.

01:27:39No.

01:27:40No.

01:27:41No.

01:27:42No.

01:27:43No.

01:27:44No.

01:27:45and may be used in evidence. Do you understand?

01:28:15Do you understand?

01:28:45Do you understand?

01:29:15Do you understand?

01:29:23Do you understand?

01:29:27Do you understand?

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