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00:07Michael!
00:10Michael, it's Annie!
00:14Michael, I'm coming in!
00:18Pick-up is in 12 minutes.
00:21Michael?
00:21That needs to go ahead.
00:22You need to listen to me.
00:24No, you listen.
00:24Before we talk about any of this, the parents and the pupils, they can't know anything about that.
00:28Any of what?
00:30Whatever it is you've found.
00:33And you've trodden mud into the carpet!
00:44Prep for tonight or those key dates from the 1930s, please.
00:48The more we keep refreshing ourselves...
01:03Everyone, quiet!
01:05Sit down.
01:07Sit.
01:09Cedric, sit down.
01:14Where's Miss Polly?
01:16The yellow flame with the valve open, allowing oxygen to...
01:27Why do they want to speak to me at home?
01:29Well, that's all they said, that I was to find you as fast as I could.
01:33Hi, Tara.
01:34Hi, Jen.
01:34Hi.
01:36How fast as I could.
01:37And, uh, get you back to the house.
01:39Okay.
01:40Okay.
01:50Come.
01:51You're secure to see.
01:52I'm just waiting on for anything.
01:56No!
01:58You're going to have to walk back now.
01:59But make sure you step in the same place as you've already trodden.
02:03I've cleaned it once already.
02:18Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is made up of which two elements?
02:29Come on, sir.
02:30No looking out the window during class.
02:32Us!
02:33So pick-ups in five minutes, the parents will be arriving.
02:39Who cares, Dan?
02:40Well, they mustn't see any of those.
02:42Who cares about any of that?
02:45Why have you got that cloth?
02:50It's her.
02:51We don't know that.
02:51That's who they found.
02:52No, we know that they have found a body.
02:55We do not know that it's your mum.
02:56Who else is it going to be?
03:00They're missing, apparently.
03:02God, the date.
03:04It's all over the news.
03:05Come on, Theo.
03:06Here you get.
03:07See you later, man.
03:08See you later.
03:09Bye-bye.
03:09Bye-bye.
03:19Ah, very good.
03:21Here there.
03:22Yeah.
03:24See you later.
03:27Bye-bye.
03:28Bye-bye.
03:43The post-mortem won't take place till tomorrow, but it's clearly a murder we're looking at. That's what I'm hearing.
03:50I've been thinking about this. If she was found outside the grounds, it might not be connected to the school
03:54at all.
03:55Why don't I check the database, look at other unsolved murders, see if I can't find any crossover.
03:59Annie. You don't think that we should be doing that?
04:01I do think we should be doing that, but I don't think you should be the one to do it.
04:03I want you to stay here. I want you in that house, round the clock. Find out everything you can.
04:08The only time you leave, please, is tomorrow when you take them to the mortuary to get a formal ID.
04:13Come in now, Bray. You want me to come with you? I was the first at the scene, remember?
04:17I've told you what I want, and that's to stay put. That's what a family liaison officer does.
04:27What?
04:29I think I've got it. It was something Alana said. It's Nan's 75th next week. Remember? That's an important date.
04:36Yes.
04:37So I tried it. I went through the dates for next week. Monday 30th. 30th of the 3rd, 1951.
04:45Tuesday, 310351. Then when I tried the Wednesday, that's the code.
04:50And the weird thing is, just looking through it, she barely calls Michael at all.
04:55Is that so weird?
04:56They're married.
04:57That's what I mean.
04:59Here though, look. She's always calling this woman Claire S. Long chats. Some of them an hour.
05:05So I'm thinking, we show this to Ivan. He can call Claire S. He can find out what they were
05:11talking about in the days before Sarah died.
05:14We should probably just call her ourselves, shouldn't we?
05:18Ivan's reviewing the scene. I'll do it from mine now, look.
05:20And then you can hand Sarah's phone back in.
05:26Hello? This is Detective Sergeant Annie Cassidy.
05:29Can you ring me back as soon as you get this, please?
05:33Done.
05:59Woman who walks her dog past the house.
06:04Her name's Melody.
06:08Someone said...
06:10Someone said Melody was the one who found Mom.
06:35Someone said...
06:36I'm not a bad president.
06:37What a짓 person said.
06:54He has a ballot, right?
06:57I mean,
06:58I don't want to wait.
06:59I'm going to say hold your character again.
06:59I feel very happy without you.
07:00I'm going to lie.
07:01Right now.
08:33What do you expect me to be doing?
08:36What do I expect you to be doing?
08:38I expect you to be doing nothing.
08:40Nothing.
08:41Or crying.
08:45About mum.
08:48Well, we don't know it's her, do we?
08:49Of course it's her.
08:51They've said.
08:53We have to go and identify her.
08:58Tomorrow.
08:59Well, if they need us to identify her, they can't be 100% said.
09:02It's a formality, Dad.
09:03They just need it confirmed.
09:28Abbott's Lodge?
09:30Oh, yes.
09:31Hello, Markham.
09:32Thanks for calling.
09:34Well, your granddaughter and I are safe in the house.
09:40We're not sure yet, so let's wait and see.
09:43Even so, I don't think we should jump to...
09:45No, don't come over.
09:48Well, for one thing, it's a bit late to drive, isn't it?
09:51No, no, I'm not...
09:53I'm sure you're fine to drive, Abbott.
09:56Well, it's half past ten and I'm asking you.
10:01And of course, I'll keep you and Verity informed, don't worry.
10:05Yes, well, good night now.
10:52The flowers were over the top.
10:55Maybe a tiny bit.
10:56Shall I come and take them back?
10:58No, I may as well look after them now, Craig.
10:59Saving you the journey.
11:01Look, I got your message.
11:04I get it.
11:07I just want to start something when I'm not sure that's all it is.
11:11I get that.
11:12And I saw the press conference.
11:14Things are busy.
11:15But I just wanted you to be aware.
11:18Craig Stanhope is available for emergency coffees
11:21and overpriced slices of cake
11:22at Bristol cafes of your choosing.
11:25Is he now?
11:26Should the need ever arise,
11:28do with that information what he will.
11:31Have a good day now.
11:33And you.
11:53Morning.
12:03The mortuary is in a place called Flax Boughton.
12:06It's about a 15-minute drive from here.
12:13Once the post-mortem is finished,
12:16that's when they're going to want you to make the formal ID.
12:19You and Michael.
12:25Alana, the sooner we do it, the sooner it's done.
12:36Where's your dad?
12:39Where do you think?
13:10Just a quick reminder that those of you not in sixth form revision classes
13:15will be either in cross-country, rugby practice for the senior sides,
13:20or working on your cultural projects.
13:23Stay still, please.
13:25I'm not finished.
13:36This morning, I was put in mind of the story of Job.
13:44Job, a successful man, was suddenly given great hardship by God.
13:49But he had no explanation as to why.
13:53Well, he'd done to deserve it.
13:56But he persevered.
13:59And through perseverance, he prevailed.
14:02He proved that he was good enough.
14:04Now, as we enter this difficult last fortnight of time,
14:08with exams and rugby matches and university interviews,
14:12I want you to remember that.
14:15Have faith in what you've been doing.
14:18You show us who you really are.
14:24Now, as we do every morning,
14:27we will leave in a what, Lily Sullivan?
14:29Neat and orderly fashion, sir.
14:32Neat and orderly fashion.
14:33Off we go.
15:01Has anything occurred to you overnight about your mum?
15:04Anything you haven't told us up to this point?
15:07Maybe because you didn't think it was relevant,
15:10or maybe he doesn't show her in the best of lights?
15:13What does that mean?
15:15Well, there are certain things, aren't there?
15:17In all families, in all relationships.
15:20We are who we are when we're outside,
15:23when we present to the world, but at home, you know.
15:26Sometimes things are different.
15:30Maybe something wasn't right.
15:32Really? Like what?
15:32I don't know.
15:33That's why I'm asking.
15:36Maybe you can help us work out what's happened.
15:42She wasn't upset about anything.
15:46Was anyone upset with her?
15:51What about your dad?
15:53What about him?
15:54How were they getting on?
15:55No idea.
15:56Like you said, no one knows, not really.
16:03I've said I've no idea, so there's nothing to write down.
16:06Is there?
16:11You said you were here for us.
16:13To help us.
16:14Yeah.
16:15Not to pry into our lives.
16:16We are.
16:17And what's my dad got to do with it anyway?
16:18Because all he does is work.
16:20And when he's not working, he sits in that chair.
16:22That is his life.
16:23And it's not your job to interrogate us.
16:25That's not what he told us.
16:27Who?
16:27The main detective, the proper one.
16:29Alana, please.
16:29No!
16:33Mel and Grandad are coming to stay, and I'm not even dressed.
16:42The proper one.
16:43Please don't.
16:58Annie!
17:08You're welcome.
17:36We need a proper search.
17:37Pulsar Forensics.
17:39And we should interview anyone who visits the house.
17:41Just because we're doing this FLO stuff doesn't mean we switch off, okay?
17:44Yeah.
17:44Okay.
17:45Where are you going?
17:46By Michael.
17:48Get this bloody idea over with.
17:54I can't give you an exact time of death, but skin coloration and marks on the neck suggest
17:59cause of death is strangulation.
18:02So definitely foul play.
18:04It's only I want to issue a statement the moment it's confirmed.
18:06She's the wife of a headmaster at a big private school, so it's got the potential to kick off
18:11a bit.
18:11Speak to the coroner first.
18:12So what's the family ID doing before any announcements are made?
18:28I'm sorry.
18:30I'm sorry.
18:34I'm sorry.
18:35I'm sorry.
18:37I'm sorry.
18:39I'm sorry.
18:40I'm sorry.
18:42I'm sorry.
18:49Excuse me, love. I'm looking for the staff room.
18:52Uh, just up there and down the corridor.
18:59We need another meeting with the governors.
19:01Another update for the parents.
19:03Where's Alana?
19:04Um, home.
19:05Says she can't face it.
19:07Of course she can't, poor thing.
19:09I'm going to suggest she takes two weeks' compassionate leave.
19:13And Michael?
19:14Where's Michael?
19:15Helping the police, I'd imagine.
19:21You don't think?
19:25No, Rebecca.
19:27We don't think that.
19:31Hi.
19:32I'm DS Annie Cassidy.
19:33I'm looking for Michael Polley.
19:35Uh, I thought he'd be with one of your colleagues.
19:37Have you tried his office?
20:01Yep.
20:02It's murder.
20:04Murder by strangulation.
20:06So I need them here to do this ID.
20:09I need them here, otherwise we can't announce it.
20:11It's a lot more than the ID though, isn't it?
20:13The staff have got no idea where he is, so...
20:16If she's been murdered and he's decided to go walkies...
20:23He's not in there.
20:26Then we've got ourselves a problem.
20:40We appreciate you've got a school to run.
20:42A duty of care, we get all that.
20:44But you need to find him.
20:45Yeah, exactly.
20:46And that makes total sense.
20:47Yeah, absolutely.
20:48And even though if I could just jump in here truly as deputy head...
20:51Even though I'm sure there's a logical explanation, I'd be thinking the same, I would.
20:55You're trying him again, yes?
20:57I'm wondering if this isn't some sort of delayed shock.
21:00How long since she said he left?
21:02She thinks about ten minutes.
21:07Voicemail again?
21:09Okay.
21:10Unless you need them to stay, I think the best thing is to let the staff go back to their
21:14classrooms.
21:15Paul, you've volunteered to take Michael's rugby session this afternoon and take the team to the away match tomorrow.
21:20Yeah.
21:30I want you to know, Detective, we're taking this seriously.
21:32The governors are meeting.
21:34Yeah, I'm taking care of that personally as staff rep.
21:36It will be my recommendation that we suspend Mr. Polly.
21:42Suspend him?
21:42Alana, too.
21:43Suspend him for what?
21:45Well, for their sake, as well as the school's.
21:47I mean, if what you found in those woods, if that really is, well, if that turns out to be
21:53true, then the school comes first.
21:57It has to.
21:59That's what you always say.
22:01Oh, don't start changing your tune now, Rory, just because he's a friend of yours.
22:05No, I'm not.
22:05He's my friend, too, you know.
22:06I'm not saying anything.
22:10Well, um, is there anything I haven't asked you?
22:13Anything you think I should know?
22:15About?
22:16About your friend, Mr. Polly?
22:45About your friend, Mr. Polly?
22:58Who wants to play, mate?
23:04Simone?
23:06It's not Simone.
23:07It's Annie.
23:07We've been trying to call you.
23:10Sorry, my phone must have been on silent.
23:14I want you back at the house straight away.
23:17Yes, of course.
23:27Nan?
23:28Nan, this is Annie.
23:30Hello.
23:34I can do that for you if you like.
23:37That's Grenda.
23:39Grandad's finding it rather difficult to come into the house.
23:48The next step, like I've explained to Alana, is to make a formal identification.
23:53But you know it's her.
23:54You told me that outside.
23:56Yes.
23:57Yes.
23:58But it's just protocol.
24:00I'm sorry.
24:01Just to be clear.
24:02Is it our daughter or isn't it?
24:07It is your daughter.
24:08I'm sorry.
24:16And now, because this was my next question, I was thinking about this on the way over here.
24:22Could it have been some sort of accident?
24:24She could easily have...
24:25It was not an accident.
24:33So?
24:36Was she killed?
24:38Or did she take her own life?
24:40Malcolm!
24:41Simple enough question.
24:43Because if it wasn't an accident, he has to be one of the two.
24:46Well, when Michael gets back, the next step is...
24:48The next step is for you to answer the question.
24:51Was she killed?
24:52Or did she take her own life?
24:54That's not for me to say.
24:55Isn't it?
24:56No.
24:57Do you know the answer?
24:58I do know, yes.
24:59So you're refusing to tell us?
25:00No, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do in this situation.
25:02Do you have children?
25:03Can you imagine anything worse for you and your husband than not knowing what happened to your child?
25:09I don't have any children.
25:10Then try.
25:11And I don't have a husband.
25:12Try and imagine.
25:13Malcolm, stop!
25:15Then imagine that being taken.
25:23Now, imagine how it feels if the one person who knows what happened to their child is refusing to tell
25:31you how they died.
25:33I don't know.
25:33In what way?
25:35Under what circumstances?
25:41One last try.
25:44Was she killed?
25:47Or did she take her own life?
25:52She did not take her own life.
25:54No!
25:54Oh, my God.
26:31Annie, the detective.
26:32Yes, thank you.
26:34She wants you back at the house.
26:35Yes, I am aware, thank you.
26:44I thought that was very inspiring, your words this morning about Job.
26:49He couldn't come to terms with what was happening to him at first, could he?
26:57I think you need to go back now.
27:00People are starting to talk.
27:07Yeah.
27:29Okay, boys, two laps of the pitch. Let's go.
27:31Come on, go, go, go, go.
27:37I'll take it from here, Paul.
27:39No reason for you to stay.
27:42I've been asked to step in.
27:44You're not taking my team.
27:45And take them to next week's match.
27:47You're not taking them anywhere.
27:53Michael, I'm just trying to help.
27:55Well, that's the thing, Paul.
27:56I haven't asked for your help.
27:58In fact, I'm not even sure that you'll qualify.
28:00One of the main reasons why you hired me was to teach sport.
28:08What qualifies you?
28:09I've been coaching this side since 2008.
28:11Yeah, other than the fact that you appointed yourself coach.
28:13What qualifies you?
28:15Go home, please.
28:20Alana's upset.
28:21Don't bring my daughter into this.
28:24She's not interested in you.
28:29Is that what she told you?
28:35Here you go.
28:41University fill back.
28:43Can you go and get that, please?
28:44That is what qualifies me.
28:46That's a brand new match ball.
28:47So you go and get it from those woods.
28:49What qualifies you?
28:52Sir!
29:01Keep going!
29:05We need to go to the mortuary, Dad.
29:09If you won't do it, Grandad will.
29:19Where have you been?
29:22Just going off and just taking assembly like nothing's happened.
29:26Driving off places.
29:30Dad.
29:33It was good on.
29:34On the way now.
29:36And he says it wasn't an accident.
29:39She said someone did this to him.
29:58Somebody want to die!
30:00Somebody want to die!
30:02Take it away!
30:03Take it away!
30:05Take it away!
30:06Take it away!
30:07Take it away!
30:08Keep it away!
30:09Everybody, I can!
30:28Take a seat.
30:52I'll go in with them.
30:53No.
30:56I think they'd prefer that.
30:57No, you wait outside.
30:58So you can be there for them when they come out.
31:00That's the job.
31:00I know the problem.
31:01And the end of the discussion.
31:03Come on, don't turn me into that guy who's going on at you the whole time.
31:06Okay.
31:07We're a team.
31:07Yeah, okay, we're a team.
31:08I get it, Ivan.
31:09But do me a favor.
31:10When he looks at her, make sure you're watching him.
31:13It's his reaction we're after.
31:15It's like grief he's feeling or guilt.
31:17Yes?
31:21I'll do it.
31:22Dad, we'll do it together.
31:23No, no, if it's not your mum, I don't want you seeing that.
31:26You know, there's some poor woman lying around.
31:27Dad, Dad, it is her.
31:29Then I certainly don't want you to.
31:33If it's her, I don't want this to be the last memory you have of her.
31:36So just wait here for me.
31:41Okay.
31:43You ready?
31:45I'm ready.
31:50I'm ready.
31:52I'm ready.
32:21He walks in, the door closes, he gives a positive ID and within 10 seconds, not even that, he's back
32:28out again.
32:28As if he didn't care.
32:30Just got a bad feeling about him.
32:32His wife's dead.
32:35You can't exactly blame him for not sticking around.
32:41But we have not come here to talk shop.
32:43This is cake break.
32:45Come on, that's yours, eat it.
32:52What?
32:53Maybe a drink later.
32:56This, uh, that new place on Gloucester Road.
32:58Annie, you're looking at a man who's doing everything in his powers not to stuff this up all over again.
33:06So if it's all the same...
33:07One step at a time?
33:08Yeah.
33:11One step at a time.
33:12Mm-hmm.
33:19Morning, everyone.
33:20In just under an hour's time, we will be issuing a statement confirming the discovery of a body of a
33:26woman in her 50s, found in Woodland in Westbury.
33:30That body is now confirmed to be that of Sarah Jane Polly.
33:33As such, this is now a full-scale murder inquiry.
33:37FLOs, back to the school, please.
33:39Let's bring Michael Polly in.
33:41Don't want to make a big song and dance, but I want him here and I want that alibi tested.
33:44And to know where he disappeared to yesterday.
33:46Exactly.
33:47And the truth about their marriage.
33:49Okay.
33:50Great.
33:50Thank you, everyone.
34:26The site, thought to be in Woodland, just a quarter of a mile away from the school, it's been cordoned
34:32off by police for the last 48 hours.
34:35Tragically, perhaps ending several days of speculation, the statement makes it clear that police are treating this as a murder
34:42inquiry.
34:52Now detectives are yet to name the woman she's said to be in her 50s, but such is the proximity
34:57to St. Bartholomew's school that many are speculating this is the body of the missing teacher, Sarah Polly.
35:04Roberts Murphy, ITV News.
35:07That's Annie's case, isn't it?
35:08See?
35:09Off she goes.
35:11On to the next lot to make them suffer.
35:15What's that supposed to mean?
35:17Another murder she ain't never going to solve.
35:31We are trying to get information, please.
35:33Could everybody please just calm down?
35:36It's just been on the bloody news.
35:38Given how much this means to the boys, I want you all...
35:41Back in the car.
35:42Please, if we could all just listen.
35:44Our children are at risk.
35:45This is a total disgrace.
35:47Come on, let's go.
35:48No, no, I can't.
35:50I've got to fill the water bottles up for the team or I'll lose this shit again.
35:56Mike?
35:58Mike?
35:59I've just spoke to Kings.
36:00They're asking if we want to postpone.
36:02Nobody's postponing.
36:03They've offered us the same time next week.
36:04Nobody's postponing.
36:06You get back on the phone and you tell them the game goes ahead.
36:09And Mr. Whitchurch will be looking after the team.
36:11Because I am unavailable.
36:21Now, before you go, let me tell you the thing that has made me most proud to be your coach
36:25this year.
36:27And that's the fact that you were all there for each other.
36:30You play as one team.
36:32Whenever any of you makes a mistake, the rest of you two, a man, is there to help.
36:38When things go wrong, when your backs are against the wall, you do on the field what you
36:42must do in life.
36:45You rally.
36:48And that is why you are currently Invictus.
36:50And that is why you will remain Invictus at the final whistle this afternoon.
36:55Invictus.
36:55Barry?
36:56I'm beaten, sir.
36:57I'm beaten, sir.
36:59Good man.
37:00So you get on that coach.
37:02You listen to Mr. Whitchurch.
37:04And you unleash on Kings all your passion, all your talent, and everything we've been practicing
37:08this year.
37:10And you do it not for me.
37:12Or the school.
37:15Will you do it for each other?
37:17Well, you do it for each other.
37:50Go up to the house.
38:14I'm just going to have you like that.
38:16I'm just going to have you like that.
38:19I'm just going to have you like that.
38:21I'm just going to have you like that.
38:21I'm just going to have you like that.
38:21I'm just going to have you like that.
38:39Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
39:08Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
39:21Oh, God, oh, God.
39:24Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
39:44Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
39:51Where's Annie?
39:52She's just going to take your dad back to the station so he can help answer some more questions.
39:57That doesn't mean you need to worry.
39:58We just have to find out everything we can about your mum.
40:01Every detail so we can find the person who did this to her.
40:05Does that make sense?
40:07I'm so sorry.
40:08Would you mind taking your shoes off?
40:10Oh, yeah, of course.
40:14It's also going to mean a search of the house.
40:16We have to make sure we do a proper job.
40:20Is it me or is the carpet wet?
40:23Wet?
40:24I don't know.
40:28He must have cleaned it.
40:30He?
40:31As in?
40:32Dad.
40:32Dad would have cleaned it.
40:35After everyone came in.
40:37The other day and it got all muddy.
40:40He a stickler for that, is he?
40:42No, Dad doesn't mind.
40:45It's Mum.
40:46Who hates shoes on inside?
40:48That's why he would have done it.
40:49He would have cleaned it.
40:51For Mum.
40:57Michael, this is an opportunity for you to tell us anything you think might be relevant.
41:02Or anything you think you might have previously omitted.
41:06Which is any reason...
41:07Sorry, I don't understand.
41:08What don't you understand?
41:09Well, you've asked me these questions before more than once.
41:11This is in your interests, Michael.
41:13How?
41:14By placing you under caution, we have your words on record.
41:16You have them on record already.
41:19The situation has changed.
41:20Well, your questions haven't.
41:22Therefore, my answers...
41:23Yes, this is out of character.
41:25No, there's nothing I'm not telling you.
41:26And no, I don't know anyone who would want to do her harm.
41:28They remain the same.
41:30Here's a different question, then.
41:32A question we've got asked you, yeah?
41:39Did you kill your wife, Michael?
41:42Come on, Michael. Come on.
41:53Come on.
41:54Clare, it's...
41:56better late than never...
42:04Anne Cassidy?
42:06Oh, hi.
42:09You asked me to call you back.
42:11I'll be right on it.
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