- 11 hours ago
First broadcast 30th May 2010.
During a Halloween, one of Dr Hobson's college roommates is found dead with a stake through her heart and a garlic bulb in her mouth.
Kevin Whately - DI Robert Lewis
Clare Holman - Dr. Laura Hobson
Niamh Cusack - Dr. Ellen Jacoby
Lucy Griffiths - Madeleine Escher
Brodie Ross - Roddy Allen
Lauren O'Neil - Rowena Trevanion
Louise Hunt - Professor Ligeia Willard
John Sessions - Professor Rufus Strickfaden
Adam Levy - Dr. Nicolae Belisarius
Alex Price - Victor Clerval
Lynsey Baxter - Ursula Van Tessel
Laurence Fox - DS James Hathaway
Jenn Murray - Charlotte Corwin
Ron Donachie - Professor Angus Rawbone
Rebecca Front - Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
Patrick Knowles - Vince Corwin
Rupert Graves - Alec Pickman
Joanna Roth - Christine Hawkins
Mary Jo Randle - Mrs Renfield
Ken Bradshaw - Noel Scopes
During a Halloween, one of Dr Hobson's college roommates is found dead with a stake through her heart and a garlic bulb in her mouth.
Kevin Whately - DI Robert Lewis
Clare Holman - Dr. Laura Hobson
Niamh Cusack - Dr. Ellen Jacoby
Lucy Griffiths - Madeleine Escher
Brodie Ross - Roddy Allen
Lauren O'Neil - Rowena Trevanion
Louise Hunt - Professor Ligeia Willard
John Sessions - Professor Rufus Strickfaden
Adam Levy - Dr. Nicolae Belisarius
Alex Price - Victor Clerval
Lynsey Baxter - Ursula Van Tessel
Laurence Fox - DS James Hathaway
Jenn Murray - Charlotte Corwin
Ron Donachie - Professor Angus Rawbone
Rebecca Front - Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
Patrick Knowles - Vince Corwin
Rupert Graves - Alec Pickman
Joanna Roth - Christine Hawkins
Mary Jo Randle - Mrs Renfield
Ken Bradshaw - Noel Scopes
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00:00:00Piano music
00:00:30POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT
00:00:32TURN CLUB
00:00:35POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT
00:00:37POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT
00:00:38THE ROAD
00:00:41POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT
00:00:43POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT
00:00:45POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT
00:00:47HOBSON?
00:00:48When shall we three meet again?
00:00:50My diary says 8.30 at the hotel club.
00:00:52Why?
00:00:53Problems?
00:00:54Well, traffic flows too,
00:00:56and I'm not even out of turn yet.
00:00:58It's not in town yet, Hogg.
00:01:04Ellen, it's fine.
00:01:06Don't worry, you saved me a call.
00:01:07Later arrivals from this afternoon's pileup.
00:01:10Den die Totten reiten schnell.
00:01:28Look at you lot.
00:01:44Fantastic, eh?
00:01:46Go on, help yourself.
00:01:48Just a couple each, eh?
00:01:49Mm-hmm.
00:01:57Muddy.
00:01:58Ooh.
00:02:01Clarence's not back yet, is he?
00:02:03He's coming to meet us there.
00:02:05I think.
00:02:19He's coming, he's coming to meet us.
00:02:21Oh.
00:02:26The meeting ischern.
00:02:27Just a couple each.
00:02:28Shut this morning.
00:02:30I just can't touch myself.
00:02:43It looks like you're here.
00:02:45Holiday.
00:02:46What happened?
00:02:47That's all right, then so long as you're sorry
00:03:17Have you seen Clerval?
00:03:20No
00:03:47Five minutes, Miss Van Tessel
00:04:02He's coming, he's gonna be here
00:04:07Rowena
00:04:12Rowena
00:04:17Rowena
00:04:19Rowena
00:04:20Rowena
00:04:34Rowena
00:04:38I don't know.
00:05:08A treat?
00:05:14Yeah, I'm afraid not.
00:05:23You've reached the voicemail of Dr. Ellen Jacoby.
00:05:26Please leave a message.
00:05:29Hi, it's me.
00:05:31Sorry, I've just got a call out.
00:05:33You two press on, I'll be as quick as I can.
00:05:38You're looking very, uh...
00:05:47I was aiming a little higher than a sergeant.
00:05:50But it's the thought that counts.
00:05:53Shall we?
00:05:55Body was found just before half eight.
00:05:57Just a quick once over and that's your lot.
00:05:59Oh, it's something nice?
00:06:00You do have a life, you know.
00:06:02Small one, but it's my own.
00:06:03I'm running late, so...
00:06:07I think I'd be used to it.
00:06:25Oh, not like this.
00:06:28I'm a stranger, sure.
00:06:29You can find some distance.
00:06:35How did you know her?
00:06:37Flatmates.
00:06:39We were at college here together.
00:06:41Same here.
00:06:41We were due to meet tonight, leave it or not.
00:06:54Oh, God.
00:06:57Ellen would be wondering where we are.
00:06:59Ellen Jacoby.
00:07:01When she's in town, we try to get together to meet up, the three of us.
00:07:06We're going to need the twelfth man in.
00:07:10Dr. Hobson knowing the deceased.
00:07:12Dr. Rawbone's on his way.
00:07:14Aberdeen Angus?
00:07:16Beggers can't be choosers.
00:07:18So who was she?
00:07:20Professor Willard, scientist.
00:07:22Touched the Institute of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics.
00:07:26Ligea, Willard.
00:07:28You heard of it?
00:07:29Well, in a purely professional capacity, there's been threat stem cell research.
00:07:33Not overly popular with some of the more spiritually certain.
00:07:36Yeah.
00:07:36Yeah.
00:08:03You heard of it?
00:08:05So you didn't know what to do?
00:08:21You heard of it?
00:08:22Is she back?
00:08:50I've no idea.
00:08:51I've only been home ten minutes and I walked into all this.
00:08:56Where the hell have you been?
00:08:58Hmm?
00:08:59Something came up.
00:09:00Well, it wouldn't have killed you to phone Rowena and let her know, would it?
00:09:03Have you any idea how upset she's been?
00:09:05Sorry, what's it got to do with you?
00:09:07Oh, she's my friend, Victor.
00:09:09I don't want to see her get hurt.
00:09:11Ow.
00:09:12Sorry.
00:09:13Careful.
00:09:14What happened to you?
00:09:16Oh, some hearties from Beaufort thought it might be larks to start lobbing champagne flutes.
00:09:23Well, you'd better get a shot.
00:09:25Tetanus.
00:09:26Oh, yes.
00:09:27Thank you, Dr. Clover.
00:09:28So what's to drink?
00:09:29Hmm.
00:09:38Cause of death.
00:09:40Well, it's a close run thing.
00:09:42First among equals, blocked trauma to the left parietal bone with the resultant fracture.
00:09:46Massive subdural haematoma.
00:09:48Someone hit you on the back of the head.
00:09:50I do know some big words.
00:09:53What about the rest?
00:09:55A ten-inch length of wooden dowel.
00:09:58Approximately one inch in diameter.
00:10:00Sharpened at one end.
00:10:02Driven into the victim's chest.
00:10:06Friend of Dr. Hobson's, I understand.
00:10:10Taking it hard, I'd imagine.
00:10:13Is that it?
00:10:14Well, you'd think anything else would be detroit, wouldn't you?
00:10:17But no, there is, sir.
00:10:18Something more.
00:10:19I recovered a foreign object from the victim's oral cavity.
00:10:25It's a bulb of garlic.
00:10:34Full moon last night, wasn't it?
00:10:36It was.
00:10:37Some sort of lunatic, do we think?
00:10:39Steak through the heart.
00:10:40Garlic.
00:10:41I mean, that's, uh...
00:10:42Vampires, ma'am.
00:10:43Sir, anything on CCTV from the car park?
00:10:46Fog.
00:10:47Lots of it.
00:10:48Pretty useless.
00:10:49We're starting preliminary interviews at ten,
00:10:50but James says there'd been threats.
00:10:51Mostly to do with their work.
00:10:52Mixed bag from the devout to the doolally.
00:10:54There are some genuine, well-argued ethical reservations,
00:10:56but the rest is just...
00:10:57Green Ink Brigade.
00:10:58There's a whole group of them
00:10:59that keeps a daily vigil outside the Institute.
00:11:01The hell's going on?
00:11:02I had to put my car on a meter.
00:11:04Rufus?
00:11:05Rufus?
00:11:06I'm so sorry, Nicola.
00:11:07Rufus?
00:11:08I'm so sorry, Nicola.
00:11:09Rufus?
00:11:10Rufus?
00:11:11I'm so sorry, Nicola.
00:11:14I can't wait on a second.
00:11:15What's it all about?
00:11:16They have to wait on a second.
00:11:17I can't wait on a second.
00:11:18I've not been waiting on that.
00:11:19What else?
00:11:20Ooh, I can't wait on a second.
00:11:21I'm going to wait on a second.
00:11:22Thank you, Satoshi.
00:11:23Thank you, Tila.
00:11:24My name is Paul.
00:11:25I can't wait on a second.
00:11:26You can't wait on a second.
00:11:27You can't wait for it.
00:11:28I can't wait on a second,
00:11:29if you should take any of your friends.
00:11:30My name is Paul.
00:11:31Mr. Manson.
00:12:02When did you last see Professor Willard?
00:12:31Around 7.30.
00:12:33I popped my head round the door to say goodnight.
00:12:35How did she seem?
00:12:37Nothing bothering her.
00:12:38No personal problems.
00:12:40Not that I'm aware.
00:12:41I gather she was divorced.
00:12:43Is there anyone in her life at the moment, anyone we should be talking to?
00:12:46Lygia didn't invite confidences, nor share them.
00:12:50I admired that.
00:12:51And it's stem cells you're involved in here, is that right?
00:12:53With a view to the treatment of progressive degenerative illnesses, that's right.
00:12:57Hello.
00:12:58Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, motor neuron disease, MS.
00:13:02Important work.
00:13:03We like to think so.
00:13:04But not without its critics.
00:13:08Professor Strickford?
00:13:10Science is about the pursuit of truth.
00:13:12That always threatens someone.
00:13:14You know Professor Willard well?
00:13:24She was a valued colleague.
00:13:27Dedicated.
00:13:27Diligent, a brilliant scientist.
00:13:31And personally, any change in her demeanor recently?
00:13:34Nothing worrying her?
00:13:36Besides the threats, I think you were better to go and talk to the crazy people that attack
00:13:42us every day as we come and go to work.
00:13:44Mr. Shaw, Dr. Belisarius, all having used an inquiry being pursued.
00:13:48Of course.
00:13:50Now.
00:13:51Now everything is being pursued with seriousness.
00:13:58But if the police had done their job properly from there first,
00:14:01Lygia might still be alive.
00:14:02No, Rowena.
00:14:12I didn't do it.
00:14:13Well, it wasn't like that last night, buddy.
00:14:15And I know it wasn't me.
00:14:17Maddie?
00:14:18Well, don't look at me.
00:14:20It'll just be Victor messing about.
00:14:22Not guilty.
00:14:23That'll be a first.
00:14:25And what's that supposed to mean?
00:14:27We should call the police.
00:14:30Why?
00:14:30It's just gibberish.
00:14:32Murder.
00:14:32Help me.
00:14:33Maybe, like, there was a murder done here in this house.
00:14:36Maybe, like, when it was built.
00:14:38I'm not sleeping in a house with a ghost in it.
00:14:40Oh.
00:14:41We need, like, like an exorcist.
00:14:43Yeah.
00:14:43Oh, right, because I'm sure they're listed in the local small ads.
00:14:46Actually, Rowena, it's, um...
00:14:49I don't know if you say that.
00:14:57Dr. Belisarius says he last saw Willard mid-afternoon.
00:15:00I suppose an alibi would be too much to hope for.
00:15:02Of course it would.
00:15:04What about Strickfaden?
00:15:05To go straight to his father's at Kidlington.
00:15:08Will he confirm?
00:15:09Unlikely.
00:15:09Strickfaden says in his 90s housebound memories.
00:15:13Convenient.
00:15:14Not for his father.
00:15:15Shake!
00:15:16Shake!
00:15:17Shake!
00:15:18Some background checks on this lot while we're at it.
00:15:21I'll be over there to see you, sir.
00:15:32I was waiting to go on.
00:15:34Go on where?
00:15:35The Old Chapel Theatre.
00:15:37I'm there all week.
00:15:38Giving readings.
00:15:40You're an author, is it?
00:15:42I am published, yes.
00:15:43But for the most part, it's a conversation with the audience.
00:15:47I convey messages to them from the other side.
00:15:49You're a medium.
00:15:52I prefer sensitive.
00:15:54So what was it you wanted to tell us, Miss Van Tessel?
00:15:58You were waiting to go on, what?
00:16:00You had a feeling, a premonition, was it?
00:16:02Something along those lines?
00:16:03She was stabbed, wasn't she?
00:16:06I felt it.
00:16:07It was here.
00:16:10We're very grateful for your information, I'm sure.
00:16:13If you give your details to Sergeant Hathaway,
00:16:15somebody will come by, take a statement.
00:16:17I see.
00:16:18Well, bye then.
00:16:22Oh.
00:16:23She didn't suffer.
00:16:26You've lost someone, someone close.
00:16:28Miss Van Tessel.
00:16:29It was very quick.
00:16:31There was no suffering, just release.
00:16:33I don't want you to be worried, ma'am,
00:16:34but there's a very serious offense called wasting police time.
00:16:37Is that what you think I'm doing?
00:16:40I don't doubt you're very well-intentioned, miss.
00:16:44But take my advice.
00:16:46Give death to the professionals.
00:16:47All right?
00:17:03I was looking for Dr. Hobson.
00:17:05And you are?
00:17:08D.I. Lewis.
00:17:09Oh, come in.
00:17:10Dr. Jacoby, will you?
00:17:13Yeah.
00:17:15Lori said she had all the details for Ligeia's ex.
00:17:18I'm afraid they're on my machine at home.
00:17:20Oh, it's all right.
00:17:22His number was on her mobile.
00:17:26Would you know if she was seeing anyone at the moment?
00:17:31There had been someone, I think, up until quite recently.
00:17:34But Ligeia said she was off, man.
00:17:40And you were all due to meet up last night?
00:17:43That's right.
00:17:46Left work about half four.
00:17:49Home changed.
00:17:50Set off just before six.
00:17:52Anyone can confirm that?
00:17:54Work will tell you what time I left.
00:17:56Otherwise, sad and long-standing singleton, I'm afraid.
00:18:03Not through any failing on your part, I'm sure.
00:18:07Laura said you were a sweetie.
00:18:11And am I right in thinking that you were at college with Professor Willard and Laura?
00:18:16We shared a house together.
00:18:18There were five of us.
00:18:19Three girls and two smelly boys.
00:18:26You are?
00:18:30I'll fix some coffee.
00:18:36What were the results of Rawburn's post-mortem?
00:18:40They'll tell me at work.
00:18:42Are you up to it?
00:18:45What else am I going to do?
00:18:48It's not like we were sisters.
00:18:49Ligeia was just someone I used to know.
00:19:01I should have been a better friend.
00:19:11Oh, help!
00:19:12Oh, damn!
00:19:26Yeah, what?
00:19:30Willard's flat!
00:19:32What's that noise?
00:19:33Enter our birthday into the keypad.
00:19:38Yeah, I've tried that.
00:19:39Listen, get on to ARD Home Security, will you?
00:19:44Let them know I'm on the scene!
00:19:55You're going in?
00:19:56Oh.
00:19:57What are you planning to do?
00:19:59I thought...
00:20:00I mean, you're welcome to stay here.
00:20:01Would you mind?
00:20:02No, of course not.
00:20:12Do you think we should call Alec?
00:20:16I mean, they were, you know.
00:20:19Well, 20-odd years back, you're going to seek Pete out as well.
00:20:23Well, there'll be a funeral and...
00:20:24Eventually.
00:20:25I'm sure she'd want I to be there.
00:20:27Ellie.
00:20:28Then you ever read the instructions?
00:20:31Never return to a firework once lit.
00:20:33Code is 3071, if you need it again.
00:21:023071, right.
00:21:03I've got the engineer to write it down, eh, memoir.
00:21:05My memoir doesn't need any, eh, don't you, Mum?
00:21:08Of course, I just find it helps to jot things down.
00:21:11Well, jot this down.
00:21:12Golf 422.
00:21:15Partial registration of a dark-coloured saloon.
00:21:17No, it was parked out there last night.
00:21:19From just before eight, it had just gone nine.
00:21:22Woman next door had trouble last year at Halloween
00:21:24with kids throwing eggs at the door.
00:21:26So this year she decided to keep a lookout.
00:21:28I've seen her twitching at her window.
00:21:30Driver was a white male, 30s.
00:21:32Tried the bell and drove off.
00:21:34I'll get on to it.
00:21:35Yeah, run it past traffic.
00:21:37What's the will on Mr. Willard?
00:21:39Middle of the North Sea, oil rig, Lima, bravo.
00:21:42He's a risk engineer.
00:21:46A daughter, isn't there?
00:21:48Yeah, Chloe.
00:21:49She lives with his parents.
00:21:51And Lightyear was happy about that?
00:21:52Well, presumably.
00:21:53Scotland's a long way.
00:21:54Less upheaval for the kid.
00:21:56Maybe.
00:21:56Maybe.
00:21:57Me?
00:22:27No.
00:22:57No, there's nothing.
00:23:01Perhaps I might see the rest of the house?
00:23:03Of course. Follow me.
00:23:17No.
00:23:19Yes. Something happened to you.
00:23:26Oh, God. Why my room?
00:23:29Something terrible. A long time ago.
00:23:36There's a young man.
00:23:43What's his name?
00:23:44Maybe it's Cusper.
00:23:45Sh, Roddy.
00:23:47There's pain.
00:23:49And great sadness.
00:23:52That's why he can't pass over.
00:23:54His life force is bound by grief and memories of earthly attachments.
00:24:00You may let go. All is well. Go.
00:24:17Go. You may depart.
00:24:20What?
00:24:34There.
00:24:35Is that it?
00:24:47Yes.
00:24:48He's gone now.
00:24:49I don't care.
00:24:50I'm not sleeping in here tonight.
00:24:53It's all right.
00:24:54Sometimes they just need a helping hand to pass over.
00:24:57The house is at peace now.
00:25:00Can you feel it?
00:25:01Can you feel it?
00:25:16No, just going through the background checks that uniform got us under protestors.
00:25:22Willard's flat.
00:25:24Double checking, making sure we didn't miss anything.
00:25:28Hmm?
00:25:29Oh.
00:25:30Um.
00:25:33Usual odds and sods.
00:25:37Minor form.
00:25:38Drink driving.
00:25:39Stop lifting.
00:25:42Nothing else.
00:25:44Serious?
00:25:50No, I'm still here.
00:25:59I'm here.
00:26:21I didn't think it was important.
00:26:33What, that you were having a relationship with the victim?
00:26:35I'd had, which this torn photograph would seem to confirm.
00:26:43We, er, kept it quiet.
00:26:46Ligeia didn't want everyone knowing our business.
00:26:51But, er, I think Strickfeder knew.
00:26:54What makes you say that?
00:26:57He's been so kind to me since...
00:27:02...since what happened to Ligeia.
00:27:05Well, I did finish.
00:27:09I asked her to marry me.
00:27:12I thought that's what she wanted, marriage, children.
00:27:17She turned you down?
00:27:23Yeah.
00:27:24Next, she says she wants to end things.
00:27:28Says she could never make me happy,
00:27:30which, of course, means I could never make her happy.
00:27:32Was there someone else?
00:27:34She said not.
00:27:36And they believed her.
00:27:37Your time.
00:27:39Says she could never make her happy,
00:27:40but four years later...
00:27:41She said not to come.
00:27:42Well, you've come.
00:27:5224 months she wants her to be.
00:27:54Burn!
00:27:56Subbed!
00:28:01A rebel for her sacrifice!
00:28:03A rebel for her sacrifice!
00:28:04But then she took her over a crime...
00:28:06...a reality to the force.
00:28:07This is wrong.
00:28:34What?
00:28:35When the dress came through, aye?
00:28:37I thought I'd got the wrong number.
00:28:40I lived here.
00:28:42We lived here, Ligia, Ellen and me.
00:28:45This was our house.
00:28:48This was our house.
00:28:57A friend's murdered, and now this, from the house they shared.
00:29:02Devil's advocate. Any other investigation...
00:29:05Mr. Hogson we're talking about.
00:29:07I've known her for more than ten years, worked with her.
00:29:09Maybe that's the problem.
00:29:10So far, she's the only link you've got.
00:29:12Come on, you don't really think she...
00:29:14No.
00:29:15I don't think I follow procedure.
00:29:17Get a statement.
00:29:18The movements, last night and Halloween.
00:29:23Hi. I'm just...
00:29:24I could, um, take a statement.
00:29:25No.
00:29:26It's all right.
00:29:27It would be better coming from me.
00:29:31Thanks.
00:29:32There's no sign of a forced entry, but then they don't lock the front and the back.
00:29:39Too much coming and going, I expect.
00:29:40That's what that means.
00:29:41Between two and four this morning.
00:29:42Save your asking.
00:29:43Have to wait for the PM for anything else.
00:29:44First impressions?
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00:30:34What the hell is going on?
00:30:39Mr. Clairval, is it?
00:30:45The police were in again.
00:30:48Everything all right?
00:30:51Nikolai?
00:30:52Yes.
00:30:55Good.
00:31:00Up south.
00:31:09Makes the heart grow fonder.
00:31:14What do you reckon to this, sir?
00:31:16The girl who found the body was babbling to uniform about a ghost leaving a message.
00:31:21They even had your friend around, apparently.
00:31:23What friend?
00:31:24Ursula van Tassel, or Tessel.
00:31:26Well, she was here.
00:31:27Yeah, Rowena was so freaked out she spent last night on the sofa.
00:31:30Now, what do you make of that?
00:31:32That would be one of those rhetorical questions you're so fond of.
00:31:35Ah, but seriously, Ursula knew that the G had been...
00:31:37...thruh the chest.
00:31:38Couldn't be an educated guess, could it?
00:31:41A murdered woman?
00:31:42What are the odds it's going to be a knife attack?
00:31:44Better than 50%.
00:31:45It's a numbers game.
00:31:47That's for all that stuff about is there anyone here with a name beginning with J?
00:31:51Yeah, it's a cold, really.
00:31:52I'm familiar with the technique.
00:31:54Go on, then.
00:31:55Read that.
00:31:56It's peaceful.
00:31:57Lige Willard.
00:31:58Lige Willard.
00:31:59Murder.
00:32:00Murder.
00:32:01Elhod.
00:32:02Laura Hobson.
00:32:03Help me.
00:32:04What about the rest?
00:32:05Well, this is new, apparently.
00:32:06He wasn't here last night.
00:32:07Find Mary William.
00:32:08Find Mary William.
00:32:37Who's Mary William?
00:32:38I was hoping you might be able to tell me.
00:32:40Sorry.
00:32:41Doesn't mean anything.
00:32:42Might your friend know?
00:32:43Dr. Jacoby?
00:32:44Ellen?
00:32:45Well, it's not a name I've ever heard of.
00:32:46Sorry.
00:32:47This looks like here's room.
00:32:48Come on.
00:32:49I'll buy you a drink.
00:32:50Then I think you need to tell me as much as you can about your time here.
00:32:54I've got another word now, sir.
00:32:55Right.
00:32:56I've got another word now, sir.
00:32:57Right.
00:32:58Sergeant Arthuray, Oxford Police.
00:32:59I wonder if I might have a word, miss?
00:33:00I'm sorry.
00:33:01This looks like here's room.
00:33:02Come on.
00:33:03I'll buy you a drink.
00:33:04Then I think you need to tell me as much as you can about your time here.
00:33:05I've got another word now, sir.
00:33:06Right.
00:33:07Sergeant Arthuray, Oxford Police.
00:33:08I wonder if I might have a word, miss?
00:33:09I've got another word now, sir.
00:33:10Right.
00:33:11Sergeant Arthuray, Oxford Police.
00:33:12I wonder if I might have a word, miss.
00:33:13Or Mrs. Corwin?
00:33:14Charlotte.
00:33:15Are you a SAC lot then?
00:33:16Are you?
00:33:17May I?
00:33:18I was seeing anything last night.
00:33:19I'm sorry.
00:33:20Look.
00:33:21Look.
00:33:22I'm sorry.
00:33:23I know you're a part of you.
00:33:24No, sir.
00:33:25Well, I'm sorry.
00:33:26I'm sorry.
00:33:27Hello, sir.
00:33:28I'm sorry.
00:33:29I'm sorry.
00:33:30I'm sorry.
00:33:31I've got another word now, sir.
00:33:33Sergeant Arthuray, Oxford Police.
00:33:36I wonder if I might have a word, miss?
00:33:38Oh, mrs.
00:33:40Corwin?
00:33:41Hello, sir.
00:33:42I was hearing this last night.
00:33:43And about the one before?
00:33:45Yeah?
00:33:46No.
00:33:47No, I can't imagine it's anything.
00:33:50I was out feeding Harry and looking out the window and older nurseries at the front of
00:33:55the house and one of the boys from across the road was coming in.
00:33:58That's all.
00:33:59What time would that have been?
00:34:00It was a two o'clock feed, so anything between two and half past Halloween, I suppose.
00:34:09Do you know which one it was?
00:34:10I don't know.
00:34:11At first I thought it was the specky one, but...
00:34:13Are you sure?
00:34:14Oh, here!
00:34:15What's with all the old bill around, the weirdos?
00:34:17Um, this is my husband, Vince.
00:34:20This is Sergeant...
00:34:21Hathaway.
00:34:22Yeah.
00:34:23What's wrong?
00:34:24It's not Harry, is it?
00:34:25Oh, no, no.
00:34:26It's fine, it's fine.
00:34:27That's the baby.
00:34:28No, one of the students has been killed.
00:34:32I'm sorry.
00:34:33I'm gonna have to...
00:34:34Weirdos, Mr. Colwyn.
00:34:35Well, goths or emos or whatever it is they call themselves.
00:34:46How well do you know him?
00:34:48Not at all, really.
00:34:49We've only just moved in, so...
00:34:50You haven't had any trouble?
00:34:51They have some loud parties.
00:34:53I mean, we wouldn't mind but for the baby.
00:34:55They did have a word.
00:34:56They took much notice.
00:34:58Well, look, thanks for your time.
00:35:00If there's anything that strikes you...
00:35:01Sure.
00:35:02Just ask for Detective Sergeant Hathaway.
00:35:04Have you tried Mr. Jefferies next door?
00:35:06Yeah, I rang the bell.
00:35:08For your work.
00:35:09Usually gets back about six.
00:35:10You want to try again?
00:35:11Thanks very much.
00:35:12Is this your van?
00:35:14Why?
00:35:15Need some plumbing doing?
00:35:16Were you at home last night?
00:35:17No.
00:35:18I was on shift.
00:35:19Up at the new super store in Kidlington.
00:35:21I've got a docking in the van if you want to check it.
00:35:22Yeah, you're all right.
00:35:31Who else was with you?
00:35:33Alan mentioned a couple of lads.
00:35:36Oh.
00:35:37Um...
00:35:38Peter and Alec.
00:35:40Peter Hawkins and Alec Pickman.
00:35:44He's still in touch?
00:35:46I saw Alec a couple of years back on the Broad, not to talk to him.
00:35:50I was driving, but, um...
00:35:52Where is he now?
00:35:54Round.
00:35:55From all I heard, he'd given up poetry to become an artist.
00:35:59He read English, took a gap year, and then did his defil.
00:36:03To be honest, I think the only reason he stayed on was because of Lygia.
00:36:08Well, they were an item.
00:36:11The item.
00:36:12For her part, anyway.
00:36:14Alec was...
00:36:16mad, bad, and lock up your daughters.
00:36:21And Peter Hawkins?
00:36:23I wouldn't have a clue.
00:36:25When did you see him last?
00:36:27Now you're asking.
00:36:29Um...
00:36:30A couple of days before the after-finals bash.
00:36:33I came down with mumps, of all things.
00:36:35So, Cinders, you shall not go to the wall.
00:36:38Now my dad picked me up and drove me home.
00:36:42By the time I'd recovered, we'd all gone our separate ways.
00:36:45So you didn't see him again?
00:36:47I called him a couple of times.
00:36:49I never heard back.
00:36:51People slipped through the cracks.
00:36:54Are you not careful?
00:36:56Are you not careful?
00:37:16Alec Pickman?
00:37:19G.I. Lewis.
00:37:20G.S. Hathaway.
00:37:21G.I. Lewisford Police.
00:37:22Ligia?
00:37:23Where are we?
00:37:24It's in the pavement.
00:37:25I understand.
00:37:26You and Professor Willard were close when you were younger.
00:37:29Yeah, all the world is green.
00:37:30I haven't seen Ligia in...
00:37:34Oh, must be 20 years.
00:37:35Who was it put you on to me?
00:37:37I might ask her.
00:37:38Where were you on Halloween?
00:37:40Was it a weeknight?
00:37:42Er...
00:37:43Drunk and incapable.
00:37:44Unless, of course, it was the weekend,
00:37:46in which case I'd have been...
00:37:47Oh, yeah.
00:37:48Drunk and incapable.
00:37:49Last night?
00:37:50I would have referred my honorable friend...
00:37:51to the answer I gave some moments ago.
00:37:53Hmm?
00:37:54Speaking of which...
00:38:07Can I interest either of you?
00:38:09No.
00:38:11My candle burns at both ends.
00:38:12It will not last the night, but...
00:38:13I know my foes.
00:38:14I know my friends.
00:38:15It was a lovely night.
00:38:16Cheers.
00:38:17Do you know a girl called Rowena Trevanyan?
00:38:19No, not had the pleasure.
00:38:20Sorry to sing.
00:38:21Why is she pretty?
00:38:22Well, she was.
00:38:23Only she was killed last night in the house on Nethermoor.
00:38:25Nethermoor?
00:38:26When were you last there?
00:38:30Eighty-six.
00:38:32She's digging up Pete Hawkins and the rest of the Weird Sisters,
00:38:34and are you?
00:38:35Collect the set.
00:38:36Weird sisters?
00:38:37They're the two girls who used to live with us.
00:38:40That's a pet name for them.
00:38:42Ellen Jacoby and Laura Hobson.
00:38:49Excuse me, Mayor.
00:38:50Does the name Mary Gwilliam mean anything to you?
00:39:02Whatever you might have heard, there are some women in Oxford
00:39:05with whom I have not been intimately acquainted,
00:39:07although, in truth, I fear I have not always been as kind to the ladies as I should have,
00:39:12or, indeed, as they deserve.
00:39:15You do have this unreasonable need for someone to rely on.
00:39:20Have you noticed that?
00:39:23Can't say I can't get it.
00:39:25You.
00:39:28Actually, I rather suspect you do.
00:39:30You look the dependable sort.
00:39:31Petey was a bit like you.
00:39:32The type that thinks girls need to ask to be kissed.
00:39:36You know, the kind of sap whose shirt's always wet through at the shoulder with tears.
00:39:41Oh, Petey, you're such a good listener.
00:39:43You didn't like him?
00:39:47He was the best friend I ever had.
00:39:50Carried a torch for the jail all the way through our time at Oxford.
00:39:53She never gave him a second thought. Not like that, anyway.
00:39:56Any idea where we could find him?
00:39:59I was living with his sister in Banbury.
00:40:03Last I heard, Christine came to visit once or twice.
00:40:07Good-looking girl.
00:40:15So, is that it? Am I, um, am I in the clear, or am I still in the frame, as it were?
00:40:20What do you think?
00:40:21I think you're a bit of a fraud, Mr. Pickman.
00:40:23A ragbag of bits of poetry and lines from old songs.
00:40:26A wandering minstrel eye, indeed.
00:40:28A thing of shreds and patches, of ballad songs and snatches.
00:40:33A half-cut at two in the afternoon. It's sad, isn't it?
00:40:36Sad, love.
00:40:40Tragic, is what it is.
00:40:42Well, we'll leave you in your picture painting, sir.
00:40:49They're not planning on going, anyway.
00:41:10Laura?
00:41:12END
00:41:31Hey!
00:41:33What is it?
00:41:35Oh, nothing.
00:41:37Nothing, I'm just being silly.
00:41:38Oh, my God, where'd you find those?
00:41:42Amongst my souvenirs.
00:41:44My hair.
00:41:46Call the fashion, please.
00:41:50Where's P.E.T.?
00:41:52Probably taking the photograph.
00:41:54Oh, God, look at us. So young. So full of...
00:42:01How do we get from that to this?
00:42:04Life, my dear.
00:42:06You've not done too badly.
00:42:08You're happy, aren't you?
00:42:10I just keep looking at Ligia and thinking...
00:42:12Sometimes I've got the feeling...
00:42:14Yeah. Don't upset yourself.
00:42:18Oh, sorry.
00:42:20Where'd you get to?
00:42:21Didn't seem fair to be drinking you out of house and home, so...
00:42:24Fancy a nightcap?
00:42:26Better make it a night-top hat.
00:42:36I went to a gig at the Bear.
00:42:42Which hand did that pack up?
00:42:44Around half eleven, twelve.
00:42:46I, uh...
00:42:47Too much drink.
00:42:48Ended up on the bench in Botanic Gardens.
00:42:50And I?
00:42:52It was that woman coming.
00:42:54It was that woman coming.
00:42:56If we hadn't had her around...
00:42:58We should have just left it alone.
00:43:02How did you find her?
00:43:04Victor knew her.
00:43:06How was that?
00:43:07I don't know.
00:43:08A flyer in the local paper, I think.
00:43:10It was just supposed to be a bit of fun.
00:43:14What about Halloween?
00:43:15I understand you were meant to attend a party in Ambrose Quad.
00:43:19Well, I said I might go.
00:43:21In the end, I didn't fancy it.
00:43:22So what did you do?
00:43:24Went to the theatre.
00:43:26The old chapel.
00:43:27There was a séance-y type show.
00:43:29What time did you get home?
00:43:31I don't know, around midnight.
00:43:34Well, I had a couple of drinks after the show.
00:43:36Is that how you know Ursula van Tessel?
00:43:39And how was everything in the house between you all?
00:43:42No arguments?
00:43:44No.
00:43:45We all get on.
00:43:46Everyone liked her.
00:43:48What would make someone do that?
00:43:52It's what we're meant to find out.
00:43:56They seem decent enough, ma'am,
00:43:58but the alibis for all three are pretty shaky.
00:44:01Last night and Halloween.
00:44:02Particularly that Clerval one.
00:44:04What about Dr. Hobson?
00:44:07You have taken a statement?
00:44:14It might be worth taking a formal statement, sir,
00:44:16purely for elimination purposes.
00:44:17Did you want something?
00:44:19We got a match on that car parked outside Willard's tonight.
00:44:22She was killed.
00:44:23Oh, I loved her boy, was it?
00:44:26I had been refused some trifling additional expenditure,
00:44:33so I accessed the Institute's accounts.
00:44:35Accessed, doctor?
00:44:36There was no criminal intent.
00:44:38I simply hoped to prove my argument.
00:44:40By chance, I came upon an irregular procedure.
00:44:46For the last five years, each department's annual underspend
00:44:50has been set aside and drawn on to make payments
00:44:53to a clinic in Jeddah.
00:44:55For what?
00:44:56Embryonic stem cells.
00:44:58The Human Fertilization and Embryology Act
00:45:00is quite clear about the use of illegally obtained stem cells.
00:45:05So why did you take this to Professor Willard?
00:45:07She'd been the last person to access the file.
00:45:09I wanted her advice.
00:45:12And who would have the authority to OK a payment for something such as that?
00:45:17God said, let there be life!
00:45:19God said, let there be life!
00:45:21A natural choice is life!
00:45:23I have to assume that your benefactors would take a dim view
00:45:26of this Institute being involved in criminal activity.
00:45:29That is, you'll forgive me, quite a naive assessment.
00:45:33The bottom line for Morningtide is just that.
00:45:36It's about profit.
00:45:37It's about results, saving lives.
00:45:40The breakthrough here could help hundreds of thousands,
00:45:42perhaps millions of people.
00:45:44But we cannot make those advances without a ready and reliable
00:45:47supply of material.
00:45:48Look, we're close.
00:45:50We're so close.
00:45:52Every month that goes by puts the availability of treatment
00:45:55back by a year.
00:45:57All those patients, each day becoming more and more lost
00:46:01to the loved ones.
00:46:03If it were in your power to save them, what would you do?
00:46:06Is that how Ligeia Willard felt?
00:46:08I tried to talk her out of it.
00:46:10But she was resolved to go public, to bring the sky down upon all our heads.
00:46:15I believe she'd lost her faith.
00:46:17Her faith?
00:46:19In science.
00:46:20Yeah, I've got an address from Mary Gwilliam, only one on the electoral roll.
00:46:38Cowley.
00:46:39Howley.
00:46:40Howley.
00:46:41Howley.
00:46:42Howley.
00:46:43Howley.
00:46:44Howley.
00:46:47Good.
00:47:22Then about a week, 10 days, there is some evidence of, what is one supposed to call it now, enhanced interrogation technique.
00:47:36She's been tortured.
00:47:37So it would appear.
00:47:39Cause of death would appear to be asphyxia.
00:47:46You can see where the ligature has bitten into the neck.
00:47:49It's even driven the chain of a St. Christopher, or whatever it is, into the flesh.
00:47:58He seems to have been a nurse, sir.
00:48:01This one was taken as the W of Perth.
00:48:04Scotland.
00:48:06Or Australia.
00:48:06So who was Mary Gwilliam?
00:48:18I've got Hathaway looking into her background now, ma'am.
00:48:21But according to the neighbours, she was a retired nurse.
00:48:25Divorced, no kids.
00:48:27Kept herself to herself.
00:48:28Connections to the other victims?
00:48:30Beyond the message on the fridge at Nethermore Avenue, nothing.
00:48:33It's my feeling that the murderer was getting a bit jumpy that we hadn't found her yet.
00:48:38So what's he trying to say?
00:48:41And where does Dr. Hobson fit into it?
00:48:44Well, we don't know if she does for sure yet, ma'am.
00:48:46All right.
00:48:49Well, completely posted.
00:48:53Oh, Robbie.
00:48:55I've had the chief constable on.
00:49:05How did your own his post-morting go?
00:49:08Nothing new.
00:49:12The formal ID was...
00:49:15Well, it never gets any easier, does it?
00:49:17Parents?
00:49:19Very decent.
00:49:23Distraught, obviously.
00:49:25Well, they did say she'd been dating that Roddy lad for a bit before he hooked up with Madeline.
00:49:31No residual oil feeling?
00:49:34Apparently not on Rowena's part.
00:49:37She'd set a cap at Victor lately, according to the mother.
00:49:41Set her cap at?
00:49:42That's an expression.
00:49:46Perhaps they used to listen to the wireless together, sir, or step out once in a while to the picture house.
00:49:52Right.
00:49:53Just for that, Mary Williams valuables bagged and tagged for the exhibits officer.
00:50:01When you want a minute.
00:50:02Thanks.
00:50:03You're welcome.
00:50:06Any joy with this hospital, St. W's?
00:50:08Well, 50 different Williams, at least. There's literally hundreds, from St. Wacka to St. Walson, go-holding by Wendelinus, Winifred, Wilfred Tudis, and all points between, none so far with the hospital named after them in Perth, Scotland or Western Australia.
00:50:23So far.
00:50:27There is, um, there's one other thing, sir.
00:50:30Been going through Mary Williams' outgoing calls.
00:50:33And?
00:50:34Well, a couple she made recently to the same number stand out.
00:50:38One was made seven months ago, and one was the last call she ever made.
00:50:41I don't remember speaking to her.
00:51:09That's because I didn't speak to her.
00:51:10When was this meant to be?
00:51:12Last call was three weeks ago, October the 8th.
00:51:1523.10.
00:51:17Nine seconds in duration.
00:51:23No.
00:51:27I was...
00:51:29I did get this weird message, but that was eons back.
00:51:32First call, March the 17th.
00:51:3520 past four in the afternoon.
00:51:37One minute and eight seconds in duration.
00:51:40Well, I don't know if it was this woman, but it was a woman's voice.
00:51:43I don't even really remember what she said.
00:51:45Something along the lines of, she'd found my number in the phone book, and if I was the Laura Hobson she was looking for, I'd know what it was about.
00:51:52Anything else?
00:51:53Well, sounds a bit odd, but I'm pretty sure she mentioned Rochester.
00:52:01Rochester?
00:52:01I've never been to Rochester.
00:52:03You never call her back?
00:52:05No, I just assumed she got hold of the wrong Laura Hobson.
00:52:09Look.
00:52:11I know this is going to sound...
00:52:16Can anyone vouch for your movements the night Professor Willard died?
00:52:24Robbie.
00:52:26It's a procedure.
00:52:26No, there isn't.
00:52:40I left work about 6.30.
00:52:43And went home.
00:52:44I got ready, and I was just about to leave for the Turl Club when I got the call to attend Ligeo.
00:52:55Phone Ellen, left a message to say I'd be late, and I drove straight to the Institute.
00:53:02Anything else?
00:53:05You want me to count for the night that the girl got killed, too?
00:53:08Please.
00:53:11I took a valium and had an early night.
00:53:14Ellen was watching TV downstairs.
00:53:16She'll tell you I never left the house.
00:53:18She didn't.
00:53:25You had to follow it up, sir.
00:53:27That makes me feel a whole lot better.
00:53:30Where to now?
00:53:32Collect the set, Alec Pickman said.
00:53:34So far, the only one we haven't had sight of is Peter Hawkins.
00:53:36Oh, uniform sent me a last-known address.
00:53:50My brother was never the same after he came back from Oxford.
00:53:54He seemed changed.
00:53:56Haunted.
00:53:57In what way?
00:53:59Our mother died when we were ten, Inspector.
00:54:01Of what I've since come to learn was an autosomal-dominant-inherited-prion disease.
00:54:08FFI.
00:54:09Or to give it its proper name, fatal familial insomnia.
00:54:13There's no cure.
00:54:15And it is invariably fatal.
00:54:17It's caused by plaques developing on the thalamus.
00:54:21The area of the brain responsible for the regulation of sleep?
00:54:24Yes.
00:54:24Everyone has bouts of sleeplessness.
00:54:28But for someone with FFI, it may herald a downward spiral, which leads inevitably to madness and death.
00:54:35Are there no tests he could have?
00:54:37Not then.
00:54:38Peter and I simply grew up in the knowledge that our blood was in some way tainted.
00:54:43But one day we might go the same way as our mother.
00:54:47Can't it be an easy?
00:54:48No one lives with it.
00:54:51Or dies with it.
00:54:53Even if only one parent has the gene, any offspring have a 50% chance of inheriting the disease.
00:55:03So.
00:55:08About a year after he came back down,
00:55:12Peter drove out to Whiteham Wood.
00:55:14And in the early hours of the morning,
00:55:21ran a hose from the exhaust.
00:55:26I don't suppose you'd have held on to any of his personal facts still?
00:55:30My father closed and locked this room 19 years ago.
00:55:46No one has entered it since.
00:55:49You'll find Peter's diaries in the bookcase.
00:55:51He was depressed, yes, but
00:55:58there was something else.
00:56:03Sadness.
00:56:05Regret.
00:56:06For what?
00:56:08I don't know.
00:56:09We were sitting looking at the fire one afternoon
00:56:12and suddenly he turned to me and said,
00:56:15would you still love me if I'd done something terrible?
00:56:18You didn't press him on it.
00:56:19Well, we gave each other space.
00:56:22I knew he'd tell me when he was ready.
00:56:26A week later, he was dead.
00:56:32You look very alike.
00:56:34Is he older or younger?
00:56:36Younger.
00:56:38By 20 minutes.
00:56:39Old man, it won't help us.
00:56:54It won't!
00:56:59Come on.
00:57:02Turn to me.
00:57:02Oh, my God.
00:57:32James Hathaway, you are a dolt.
00:57:36I've been a bit of an idiot, sir.
00:57:39I've been looking for hospitals in Perth.
00:57:42As requested.
00:57:43But it's not in Perth, it's of Perth.
00:57:46You know the medallion that William wore?
00:57:48It's not a St. Christopher, it's St. William, sir.
00:57:50St. William of Perth.
00:57:52Should I be sitting down for this?
00:57:56William is this wild youth,
00:57:58but upon reaching manhood,
00:58:00he decides he's going to change his ways
00:58:01and devote his life to the service of God.
00:58:04Anyway, one morning, on his way to Mass,
00:58:07he comes across a child abandoned on the steps of a church
00:58:09and he decides to adopt him.
00:58:12And this is going somewhere, is it?
00:58:14In the summer of 1201,
00:58:16he sets out with his son on a pilgrimage
00:58:18to all the holy places in England
00:58:19and having spent three days in Rochester,
00:58:22on his way to Canterbury,
00:58:23his son strikes his father round the head,
00:58:26cuts his throat and robs him.
00:58:27A local madwoman comes across the courts
00:58:30and lays a garland of flowers,
00:58:31first on William's head and then on her own,
00:58:33whereupon she's miraculously cured of her insanity.
00:58:36St. William of Perth,
00:58:38a.k.a. St. William of Rochester,
00:58:39the patron saint of adoptees and orphans.
00:58:42And all this gets us where?
00:58:44Well, up until the late 80s,
00:58:45the St. William of Perth Foundation
00:58:47ran a small number of hospitals,
00:58:49including Homewood Park,
00:58:51Situate, Abingdon.
00:58:52It was built in the 1870s as an asylum
00:59:11before being acquired in the 50s
00:59:12and run as a private hospital
00:59:14by the St. William of Perth Trust.
00:59:16It's an asylum graveyard.
00:59:31Developers are in the process
00:59:32of removing the remains
00:59:33for reburial elsewhere.
00:59:40This was a private hospital?
00:59:42As far as I've been able
00:59:43to make out mixed use.
00:59:44That's a polite way of saying what?
00:59:48I think admin's this way.
00:59:55This is where Mary Quilliam worked.
00:59:58It was used as a place
00:59:59where the well-to-do
00:59:59could send those relatives
01:00:01deemed for some reason or another
01:00:02to be not quite up to snuff,
01:00:04out of mind, out of sight.
01:00:06St. William of Perth's Trust
01:00:07welcomed all with open arms.
01:00:10Open checkbooks, more like.
01:00:13Hang on.
01:00:15This way.
01:00:26We're off to Mary Quilliam's stuff records.
01:00:29We're only colleagues who are here
01:00:31at the same time.
01:00:32Yeah, if it'll point us
01:00:33towards a link with Dr. Hobson.
01:00:35Right.
01:00:36Best of luck.
01:00:37I'll leave you to it.
01:00:38Why?
01:00:39Where are you off to?
01:00:40Trip to the theatre.
01:00:41How am I meant to get back?
01:00:43Well, I'm sure a uniform
01:00:44would be happy to give you a lift.
01:00:46I wouldn't leave it too late, mind.
01:00:48This place will get quite spooky after dark.
01:00:50You, come on straight now.
01:01:00To be, why don't know I'm not how
01:01:05Even if I could tell you, I wouldn't say
01:01:12Hey there, darling
01:01:14Take my blood
01:01:19And let me fly away
01:01:22Our loved ones are not lost to us.
01:01:51They merely wait in a place
01:01:53Where there are no goodbyes.
01:01:56So what's the trick, Miss Van Tessel?
01:02:14Oh, it's you.
01:02:15I have three people murdered
01:02:17Two of who you seem to have been involved with.
01:02:20Two?
01:02:20You attended a seance at the house on Nethermore Avenue.
01:02:24There was a young girl there called Rowena Trevanyan.
01:02:27And the next morning, she was found murdered.
01:02:30What?
01:02:31No premonitions?
01:02:33No voices in your ears?
01:02:36I can't explain the gift, Inspector.
01:02:39You came to us to help publicise your little side show.
01:02:42That was my agent's idea.
01:02:44Coming to see you was mine.
01:02:46It was a genuine impulse.
01:02:58I've been trying to call you.
01:02:59What is it, man?
01:03:00There's been another attack.
01:03:01She's alive just.
01:03:02Not Laura.
01:03:03No, sir.
01:03:04Dr. Jacoby.
01:03:04And I'd heard screaming, and I just started running,
01:03:11and I found her up the towpath about 100 yards, face down.
01:03:18Thought she was a goner, but...
01:03:20Did you see anyone else?
01:03:22No, thank God.
01:03:24No.
01:03:25Shouting as I went, I suppose, tried to scare the bastard off,
01:03:27and they must have heard me coming and thought better of it.
01:03:31Alec?
01:03:32No, I'm sorry.
01:04:02When can we speak to her?
01:04:09If you hear an induced coma until the brain swelling goes down,
01:04:12could be a couple of days at least.
01:04:15It's possible that she might not remember anything of the attack, sir.
01:04:19On the upside...
01:04:21There's an upside?
01:04:22What with all the excitement, I forgot.
01:04:24Mary Gwilliam had managed to trace a colleague.
01:04:26And?
01:04:27Gwilliam leaves at Homewood Park in 1987,
01:04:30dismissed suddenly under a cloud.
01:04:33My contact wasn't specific,
01:04:34but was under the impression that her licence to nurse had been revoked.
01:04:38So I get on to the College of Mercy?
01:04:39Yeah, they'll call me back tomorrow,
01:04:41but what we do know is that she reappears on the radar in the late 90s,
01:04:44working as co-director of the Rochester House Foundation,
01:04:48agency specialising in rehoming Romanian orphans in the West.
01:04:51You mean an adoption agency?
01:04:53Of sorts, but no questions asked if the money was right.
01:05:00Don't stare, Alec.
01:05:16Don't.
01:05:17You know, I asked you before about Mary Gwilliam,
01:05:28but it seems she worked at Homewood Park Hospital.
01:05:31Homewood?
01:05:32What, you know it?
01:05:33Oxford's not for everyone, Inspector.
01:05:35Hand in hand with a first-class education
01:05:37goes a first-class nervous breakdown.
01:05:40Homewood, amongst other things,
01:05:42is where you got sent if you went off your head.
01:05:57Victor, we've been looking everywhere for you.
01:05:59Where have you been?
01:06:01Victor?
01:06:04Are you all right?
01:06:06Hello!
01:06:06Oh, come on.
01:06:07Hey, hey, hey!
01:06:08Get out!
01:06:09Come on!
01:06:09Just leave me alone, yeah?
01:06:20Did Peter Hawkins ever spend any time at Homewood?
01:06:24Not to my knowledge.
01:06:26Why?
01:06:27It's just his sister said he was a changed man
01:06:29when he came down from Oxford.
01:06:31Haunted was the word she used.
01:06:33Any idea what your mind had meant by that?
01:06:36Haunted?
01:06:37I don't know.
01:06:38Blimey, all, aren't you?
01:06:40The heart is an unquiet house.
01:06:43What did you mean exactly when you said,
01:06:45amongst other things, with regard to Homewood?
01:06:47Well, dons of a certain age muttered of it
01:06:50as a place where girls would go who, um...
01:06:54What is the phrase my tutor used?
01:06:57Um...
01:06:58found themselves in difficulty.
01:07:01But you've never had any cause to call on their services?
01:07:04Even if I had, I think, twice before mentioning it.
01:07:08There's a rather disagreeable whiff of the presbytery about you, Liz.
01:07:14I'd hate to lower your opinion of me.
01:07:16In that particular sea, you might find yourself a bit hard-pressed.
01:07:19Oh, I see.
01:07:22It's like that, is it?
01:07:23Are you, um...
01:07:25No.
01:07:25No, of course not, no.
01:07:26She likes them a bit wild-head, as our Laura.
01:07:30Sir?
01:07:30You'll find a uniformed officer posted alongside your boat
01:07:34until this is over, Mr. Pickman.
01:07:46I think everyone was a bit in love with him back then.
01:07:49Or infatuated.
01:07:52Some of us move on.
01:07:54But Ellen...
01:07:56Ellen?
01:07:57I thought it...
01:07:58No, Alec broke it off with Lygia as soon as she'd sat her finals.
01:08:02It was the one decent thing he ever did for her.
01:08:05You all knew there was someone else.
01:08:08It wasn't until years later I discovered it was Ellen.
01:08:11Did Lygia know?
01:08:12Well, it was all water long under by then.
01:08:15They were close.
01:08:17Well, I certainly wasn't going to open that particular can of worms.
01:08:21Laura...
01:08:22We've known each other a long time.
01:08:26As colleagues and, well, friends, I hope.
01:08:31You know you can rely on my discretion.
01:08:35There's nothing else you can think of that I ought to know.
01:08:37Pete Hawkins' diaries will seem to bear it out, sir.
01:08:54Only as far as he's concerned, Alec's new squeeze was Laura Hobson, not Ellen Jacoby.
01:08:59I know.
01:09:00Why would he think that?
01:09:01I don't know.
01:09:01Unless that's what Ellen Jacoby told Lygia, to spare her own blushes.
01:09:06That's assuming that Hobson is telling the truth.
01:09:09Any reason to doubt it?
01:09:11Look, sir, I can understand that this is difficult for you.
01:09:13Oh, dear, really.
01:09:15You don't seem to be having too much trouble with it.
01:09:17Just trying to keep a sense of detachment, that's all.
01:09:20Same as any other case.
01:09:23There is one other thing.
01:09:24Hawkins is a fairly diligent diarist, but come the end of his time at Oxford, he just stops dead.
01:09:29Doesn't pick up his pen again until a couple of months before he died.
01:09:32All right, listen, make note of the date when Hawkins breaks off from his journals, all right?
01:09:36And check it against when they have this finals bash.
01:09:39You think it has a bearing?
01:09:40I do, yeah.
01:09:41Let's get the clever lad in.
01:09:46See if a line-up can't shake his confidence.
01:10:04Mr. and Mrs. Corrin, sir.
01:10:06Ah, Detective Inspector Lewis.
01:10:09Thanks very much for coming.
01:10:10Much appreciated.
01:10:11Charlotte won't actually have to talk to him, will she?
01:10:13No, no, no, no, no.
01:10:14One-way glass.
01:10:15You all right with that, Mrs. Corwin?
01:10:17We've been up all night with Harry Colick.
01:10:19Ah, my sympathies.
01:10:21Me and my wife had terrible times with our relatives.
01:10:23Shall we, yeah?
01:10:26Not bringing with you, then?
01:10:28Oh, no, no.
01:10:30Mum's looking after.
01:10:31Sergeant Murray just needs a few details from you, Mrs. Corwin.
01:10:34Date of birth.
01:10:35Home address.
01:10:3718 to the 3rd, 86.
01:10:38I'm sorry about this.
01:10:41I would let you go in with her, but rules of evidence.
01:10:43No, sure.
01:10:44She'll be all right.
01:10:46I'm sorry you've got a light in here.
01:10:47You can't smoke in here, mate.
01:10:48Of course.
01:10:49Sorry.
01:10:50I'm going to leave you with Sergeant Wirted.
01:10:51That's all right.
01:10:52Duty calls.
01:10:54All right.
01:10:55I'm going to turn the line, then, gents.
01:11:15Those for glasses, please remove them.
01:11:17Take your time.
01:11:34So where'd you get to last night?
01:11:37I told you, just knocking around.
01:11:39Oh, come on, Victor.
01:11:40You'll have to do better than that.
01:11:42We've got two murders and an attempted,
01:11:44and you're not able to give a straight account
01:11:45to your whereabouts for any of them.
01:11:49All right.
01:11:53Let's try Halloween.
01:11:57You made a statement of the effect
01:11:59that you were at the theatre
01:12:00and you got home around midnight.
01:12:03Yes.
01:12:04But we've just had positive visual identification, Victor.
01:12:07You were recognized by someone
01:12:09who saw you come back to Nethermore Avenue
01:12:11at two in the morning.
01:12:12So which is it?
01:12:26It's my fault.
01:12:30All of it.
01:12:34Rowena.
01:12:35We've kind of been seeing each other
01:12:39and then I went to that show
01:12:42and I hung around the bar afterwards
01:12:46and I got talking to Ursula.
01:12:48Van Tessel?
01:12:51Go on.
01:12:53Well,
01:12:54I don't know, you know.
01:12:58Just had a couple of drinks
01:13:01and one thing led to another, didn't it?
01:13:04Yeah.
01:13:07So that's where you were
01:13:09till two in the morning.
01:13:11And the night Rowena died?
01:13:13You weren't back for seconds, did you?
01:13:15No.
01:13:15So that's where you were.
01:13:17It was an hour to go.
01:13:17It was a long time.
01:13:18It was a long time.
01:13:19It was a long time.
01:13:24It was an hour to go.
01:13:41So that's where you were,
01:13:42and that's where you were
01:13:43the people in the same place.
01:13:45what am i looking at hospital admissions look here between the 16th and the 21st of march 1986
01:14:02i don't understand
01:14:08she never mentioned there's more more phrase given the mary william connection to the rochester
01:14:15house foundation and their particular line of business i took a look at this hospital register
01:14:2017th of march bottom right hand corner of the page march 17th birth male 23 48 6 pounds 7 ounces
01:14:33mother hobson l that's a mistake it has to be check the next century
01:14:47march 18th birth female oh 35 5 pound 11 ounces mother's name hobson l she had twins sir
01:14:57i don't believe this
01:15:04she just told me i mean i asked her outright if there was anything i ought to know she lied she wouldn't
01:15:10what but me public records have the birth of two children john and susan registered in oxford in the
01:15:18first quarter of 1986 mother laura hobson father peter hawkins mary william helped to have them
01:15:25adopted through the rochester house foundation but not together she separated them
01:15:36bring her in sir
01:15:38formal interview down the station under caution on what charge obstructing a murder inquiry
01:15:47what do we think we're dealing with they're exacting some kind of bizarre revenge against
01:15:51dr hobson for what giving her up maybe who knows
01:15:59path away adoptions registry yeah go ahead
01:16:04the boy john went straight from homeward park to a family called moreau at woodstock
01:16:21and the girl susan around three months to a couple called the renfields and cowley
01:16:24you get an address for the renfield susan's adopted parents yeah but not for john
01:16:29no the morose moved from woodstocking around 89 and then just vanished off the electoral roll went abroad
01:16:34maybe
01:17:04this is runfield
01:17:05d.i. lewis d.s. hathaway oxford police may we come in
01:17:18we haven't seen susan for well we had a bit of a falling out
01:17:26sir
01:17:26what's all this about is this susan mrs renfield because we know her as charlotte
01:17:39it's susan charlotte but she didn't like susan but this is vince corwin right her husband
01:17:47no no no no that's john john moreau
01:18:04oh
01:18:05Oh, my God.
01:18:35Laura!
01:18:45Laura!
01:18:51Laura!
01:18:55What's this?
01:18:57You alright?
01:18:58You alright?
01:19:00Yeah.
01:19:02Amulet's unbackup, please.
01:19:03It's 117, Valdemar, I suppose you have a man down.
01:19:08Let's see if you can put a trace on the mobile.
01:19:27It's a mess. Why didn't she tell us what was going on?
01:19:29Because she didn't know.
01:19:32We should never have doubted her.
01:19:35If anything happens...
01:19:39Hathaway?
01:19:40Yep, got it.
01:19:42Hobson's mobile, heading west out of Abingdon.
01:19:44415.
01:19:46Homewood Park!
01:19:54How could Dr. Hobson not know what all this was about?
01:19:57Well, I liked Pickman and Lightyear Willard were an item, right?
01:20:01But straight after Files, he dumps her for somebody else.
01:20:04Now, who would like Gio Willard turned her for a shoulder to cry on?
01:20:08Pete Hawkins.
01:20:09Right.
01:20:10But I think that that closeness, her clinging to him for comfort, was more than he could stand.
01:20:15I think he lost control.
01:20:17That terrible thing he'd done which he couldn't get over, he raped her.
01:20:21More.
01:20:22I think he left her pregnant.
01:20:23With twins.
01:20:24With twins.
01:20:25With twins.
01:20:31You saw Charlotte at that ID parade.
01:20:32What was it they said?
01:20:33She'd been up all night with her baby.
01:20:34That isn't it.
01:20:35You saw Charlotte at that ID parade.
01:20:36What was it they said?
01:20:37She'd been up all night with her baby.
01:20:38That isn't why she's not sleeping.
01:20:39She's inherited Hawkins' condition.
01:20:40She's inherited Hawkins' condition.
01:20:41She's inherited Hawkins' condition.
01:20:42You saw Charlotte at that ID parade.
01:20:44What was it they said?
01:20:45She'd been up all night with her baby.
01:20:46That isn't why she's not sleeping.
01:20:47She's inherited Hawkins' condition.
01:20:48Who are you?
01:21:17Why are you? Why are you doing this?
01:21:20What have I done to you?
01:21:22What did you do?
01:21:25Gave us living death.
01:21:42How long can you hold your breath for, do you think?
01:21:45Please.
01:21:46Why didn't Igea Willard report it?
01:21:49Shame.
01:21:50Who would Igea blame for what had happened?
01:21:53I mean, in her mind, who'd betrayed her?
01:21:55So what, she just checks into Homewood Park,
01:21:57she gives up the children to Mary Gwilliam, who handles the adoption,
01:21:59but their mother is registered as...
01:22:02Don't!
01:22:16She's a kid.
01:22:17She's in the room for her.
01:22:18She's a good sister.
01:22:19I don't know why Dad's so great, but...
01:22:22Oh, this is just a matter of moments.
01:22:24That's a matter of seeing you.
01:22:25It's just a matter of being left or having to be a real mother.
01:22:27You know she's dead, but maybe she's in the room.
01:22:28It's just a matter of being left or having to be hidden,
01:22:29but there's no new mother.
01:22:30Get her out of there!
01:23:00You're fine, you're fine.
01:23:08You're fine.
01:23:10You're fine.
01:23:12You're fine.
01:23:30You're fine.
01:23:42You're fine.
01:23:46You're fine.
01:23:52You're fine.
01:24:02You're fine.
01:24:08You're fine.
01:24:30Not nice being scared, is it?
01:24:36To live in fear.
01:24:38Is that why you did it?
01:24:40We wanted her to know how it felt.
01:24:44To make her suffer.
01:24:46We gave her enough clues.
01:24:48Her friends, the place she lived, the messages on the fridge, but she wouldn't admit it.
01:24:52No, Hobson, isn't your mother!
01:24:56Nigia Willard was your mother.
01:24:58She's lying.
01:24:59She registered your birth in Laura Hobson's name.
01:25:04Nighy!
01:25:06Vince.
01:25:08Vince.
01:25:10Vince.
01:25:12Vince.
01:25:14Vince.
01:25:16We lost three kids inside of you.
01:25:30So we had tests.
01:25:32And that's how you found your brother and sister?
01:25:36That wasn't all you discovered, was it?
01:25:40No.
01:25:42She can't sleep, can't she?
01:25:46She should never have had us.
01:25:52I'll get you help.
01:25:54I'm so tired.
01:25:56Oh, no, baby.
01:25:58I'm scared.
01:26:00It's all right.
01:26:02Vince.
01:26:06You can sleep now.
01:26:18Vince.
01:26:20We belong then.
01:26:22Vince.
01:26:24MattCE.
01:26:26Phoenix.
01:26:28What do you think will happen to her?
01:26:56Too ill to stand trial, I suppose.
01:26:59Hospital, madness, death in the end.
01:27:03A want of a nail.
01:27:05Eh?
01:27:06Well, if Vince's parents hadn't split up,
01:27:08his mum would never have moved him away from Woodstock.
01:27:11He'd never have ended up in the same school as Charlotte.
01:27:14None of this might ever have happened.
01:27:16Simple twist of fate.
01:27:18Ah, fate's too easy.
01:27:20It's lies, family secrets.
01:27:23If Ellen hadn't lied about her affair with Alec...
01:27:33See you in the trap later.
01:27:38Maura.
01:27:40I can't save you, Alec.
01:27:42I never could.
01:27:44Do the right thing for once, eh?
01:27:47Robbie...
01:28:01If you hadn't...
01:28:02We did.
01:28:04And we always will.
01:28:06Go with the cobwebs.
01:28:08Do the cobwebs?
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