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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.
00:23You 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 trotten mud into the carpet!
00:44Prep for tonight are those key dates from the 1930s, please.
00:49The more we keep refreshing ourselves...
01:03Everyone, quiet!
01:05Sit down.
01:07Sit.
01:09Sedgwick, sit down.
01:14Where's Miss Polly?
01:16The yellow flame with the valve open, allowing oxygen to...
01:27Why did 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 get me back to the house.
01:39Okay, thank you.
01:40Okay.
01:44Come.
01:51You're secure the seat.
01:53She's waiting on for anything.
01:56No!
01:58You're going to have to walk back now.
02:00Make sure you step in the same place as you've already trodden.
02:03I've cleaned it once already.
02:19Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is made up of which two elements?
02:29Come on, sir.
02:30No looking out the window during class.
02:33So pick-ups in five minutes, the parents will be arriving.
02:39Who cares, Dad?
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?
03:00It's missing, apparently.
03:02God, it's been days.
03:04It's all over the news.
03:05Come on, Theo.
03:06Here you get.
03:07See you later, mammy.
03:08See you later.
03:09Bye-bye.
03:09Bye-bye.
03:19Bye.
03:21Bye-bye.
03:43The post-mortem won't take place till tomorrow, but it's clearly a murder we're looking at.
03:47That's what I'm hearing.
03:50I've been thinking about this.
03:52If she was found outside the grounds, it might not be connected to the school at all.
03:55Why don't I check the database, look at other unsolved murders, see if I can't find any crossover.
04:00Annie.
04:00You 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.
04:05I want you in that house, round the clock.
04:07Find 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.
04:13It's coming now, Bri.
04:15You 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.
04:19That's what a family liaison officer does.
04:27What?
04:29I think I've got it.
04:31It was something Alana said.
04:33It's Nan's 75th next week.
04:35Remember?
04:35That's an important date.
04:36Yes.
04:37So I tried it.
04:38I went through the dates for next week.
04:40Monday 30th.
04:4130th of the 3rd, 1951.
04:43Tuesday.
04:443-1-0-3-5-1.
04:46Then when I tried the Wednesday,
04:49that's the code.
04:50And the weird thing is,
04:52just looking through it,
04:53she barely calls Michael at all.
04:55Is that so weird?
04:56They're married.
04:57That's what I mean.
04:59Here, though, look.
05:00She's always calling this woman Claire S.
05:03Long chats.
05:04Some of them an hour.
05:05So I'm thinking,
05:07you show this to Ivan,
05:08he can call Claire S.
05:09He can find out what they were talking about
05:11in the days before Sarah died.
05:14We should probably just call her ourselves,
05:16shouldn't we?
05:18Ivan's reviewing the scene.
05:19I'll do it from mine now, look.
05:21And then you can hand Sarah's phone back in.
05:26Hello?
05:26This 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.
06:07Someone said...
06:10Someone said Melody was the one who found Mum.
06:33...
06:33...
06:42...
06:46...
08:33What do you expect me to be doing?
08:36What do I expect you to be doing? I expect you to be doing nothing. Nothing. Or crying.
08:45What do you expect me to be doing?
09:11What do you expect me to be doing?
09:41Let's wait and see.
09:43Even so, I don't think we should jump. No, don't come over. Well, for one thing, it's a bit
09:49late to drive, isn't it? No. No, I'm not. I'm sure you're fine to drive. I mean, to...
09:56Well, it's half past ten and I'm asking you. And of course, I'll keep you and Verity informed.
10:04Don't worry.
10:05Yes, well, good night now.
10:52The flowers are 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. Save you the journey.
11:01Look, I got your message. I get it.
11:07I just want to start something when I'm not sure that's all it is.
11:11I get that. And I saw the press conference. Things are busy. But I just wanted you to be aware.
11:17However, Craig Stanhope is available for emergency coffees and overpriced slices of cake at Bristol Cafes of your choosing.
11:25Is he now?
11:26Should the need ever arise. Do with that information what he will.
11:31Have a good day now.
11:33And you.
11:54Morning.
12:04The mortuary's in the police golf, Laxport, and it's about a 15-minute drive from here.
12:13Once the post-mortem is finished, that'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's your dad?
12:44Let's go to the altar, be there at our ceiling, and hear us, we pray, your peace in our hearts,
12:58all, at the end of the day.
13:11Just a quick reminder that those of you not in sixth form revision classes will be either in cross-country,
13:18rugby practice for the senior sides, or working on your cultural projects.
13:23Stay still, please, I'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, but he had no explanation as to why.
13:53What 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, with exams and rugby matches and university interviews, I want
14:13you 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, we will leave in a, what, Lily Sullivan?
14:29Neat and orderly fashion, sir.
14:32Neat and orderly fashion.
14:33Off you 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 he didn't think it was relevant, or 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, when we present to the world, but at home, you know.
15:26Sometimes things are different.
15:30Maybe something wasn't right.
15:32Really?
15:32Like what?
15:33I 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.
15:47Was 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.
16:14Not to pry into our lives.
16:16We are.
16:17What'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.
16:26That's not what he told us.
16:27Who?
16:27The main detective, the proper one.
16:29Alana, please don't...
16:33Mel and Granada are coming to stay, and I'm not even dressed.
16:42The proper one.
16:43Please don't.
16:44Please don't.
16:57Ami?
16:59Ami?
17:00Ami?
17:10Ami?
17:36We need a proper search, Pulsar Forensics, and we should interview anyone who visits
17:41the house.
17:41Just because we're doing this FLO stuff doesn't mean we switch off, okay?
17:44Yeah, okay.
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.
18:02That's a definitely foul play.
18:04Tony, 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.
18:12She'll want the family ID doing before any announcements are made.
18:16I can't.
18:21I can't.
18:34I can't.
18:49Excuse me, love.
18:50I'm looking for the staff room.
18:51Uh, 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?
19:04Home.
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.
19:30Hi.
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.
20:09We 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, a 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 through his depth of your head...
20:51Even though I'm sure there's a logical explanation, I'd be thinking the same.
20:54I would.
20:55You're trying him again, yes?
20:57I'm wondering if this isn't some sort of...
20:59delayed shock.
21:00How long since she said he left?
21:02She thinks about ten minutes.
21:07Voicemail again?
21:10Okay, unless you need them to stay...
21:12I think the best thing is to let the staff go back to their classrooms.
21:15Paul, you've volunteered to take Michael's rugby session this afternoon...
21:18and 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.
21:46As well as the school's.
21:47I mean, if what you found in those woods...
21:50If that really is...
21:51Well...
21:52If that turns out to be true...
21:54Then...
21:55The school comes first.
21:57It has to.
21:59That's what you always say.
22:01Oh...
22:02Don't stop changing your tune now, Rory.
22:03Just because he's a friend of yours.
22:05No, I'm not.
22:06He's my friend too, you know.
22:06I'm not saying anything.
22:10Well, um...
22:11Is there anything I haven't asked you?
22:13Anything you think I should know?
22:15About?
22:16About your friend, Mr. Polly.
22:18Like a kid.
22:21Say a kid.
22:34I'm not saying anything.
22:38I'm not saying anything.
22:42So, I'm having a...
22:42Then you're waiting.
22:45You're going to have a new shot.
22:46Again, you're waiting for you.
22:46And we're waiting for you...
22:47You're going to have a new hitter.
22:58I don't want to play, mate.
23:05Simone?
23:06It's not Simone. It's Annie. We'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.
23:28Nan? Nan, this is Annie. Hello.
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. You told me that outside.
23:56Yes. Yes. But it's just protocol.
24:00I'm sorry. Just to be clear. Is it our daughter or isn't it?
24:07It is your daughter. I'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.
24:36So, was she killed or 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 or 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.
25:33In what way?
25:35Under what circumstances?
25:41One last try.
25:45Was she killed or did she take her own life?
25:52She did not take her own life.
25:54No!
25:55No!
25:57No!
25:58No!
26:00No!
26:01No!
26:03No!
26:05No!
26:05No!
26:05No!
26:05No!
26:06No!
26:06No!
26:06No!
26:31Annie, the detective.
26:32Yes, thank you.
26:34She wants you back at the house.
26:35Yes, I am over, 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.
27:06Yeah.
27:12Yeah.
27:14Yeah.
27:14Yeah, yeah.
27:16I think I can go.
27:19Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:25Yeah.
27:25All right.
27:26Here we go.
27:27Yeah!
27:37I'll take it from here, Paul. No reason for you to stay. I'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. I haven't asked for your help.
27:57In 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.
28:14What qualifies you?
28:16Go home.
28:17Please.
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.
28:42University fullback.
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!
29:00Keep 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.
29:27driving off places.
29:30Dad.
29:33It won't be long.
29:34I'm on the way now.
29:36And he says it wasn't an accident.
29:39She said someone did this to Mum.
29:57It's like the cat
29:58There is no man.
29:59I'm on the way now.
30:03You're coming.
30:03You're coming.
30:04It won't be long.
30:05No man, you're coming.
30:07I'm on the way now.
30:08You're coming.
30:09You're coming.
30:10Anybody like this?
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 job.
31:01And the end of the discussion.
31:03Come on, don't turn me into that guy who was 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.
31:15Is that grief he's feeling or guilt?
31:17Yes?
31:21I'll do it.
31:22We'll do it together.
31:23No, no.
31:24If it's not your mum, I don't want you seeing me.
31:26There's some poor woman lying.
31:27Dad.
31:27Dad, 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?
32:21He walks in.
32:22The door closes.
32:24He gives her a positive ID.
32:26And within 10 seconds, not even that, he's back out again.
32:28As if he didn't care.
32:29Yeah, just 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. This is cake break.
32:45Come on, that's yours, Edith.
32:52What?
32:53Maybe a drink later.
32:56This, er, that new place on Gloucester Road.
32:58Annie, you're looking at a man who's doing everything in his powers
33:03not to stuff this up all over again.
33:06Sofa'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
33:24confirming the discovery of a body of a woman in her 50s,
33:28found in Woodland in Westbury.
33:30That body is now confirmed to be that of Sarah Jane Polley.
33:34As such, this is now a full-scale murder inquiry.
33:37FLOs, back to the school, please.
33:39Let's bring Michael Polley in.
33:41Don't want to make a big song and dance, but I want him here,
33:43and 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.
33:55Thank you, Michael.
34:03Thank you, Michael.
34:26The site, thought to be in Woodland, just a quarter of a mile away from the school,
34:31has been cordoned off by police for the last 48 hours.
34:35Tragically, perhaps ending several days of speculation,
34:38the statement makes it clear that police are treating this as a murder inquiry.
34:52Now detectives are yet to name the woman she's said to be in her fifties,
34:56but such is the proximity to St Bartholomew's school that many are speculating
35:01this is the body of the missing teacher, Sarah Polley.
35:04Roberts Murphy, ITV News.
35:07That's Annie's case, isn't it? See? Off 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 ever 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...
35:42Back 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.
36:09Mr. 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, to a man, is there to help.
36:39When things go wrong, when your backs are against the wall,
36:41you do on the field what you must 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?
36:56Unbeaten, sir.
36:57Unbeaten, sir.
36:59Good man.
37:00So you get on that coach, you listen to Mr. Whitchurch,
37:04and you unleash on, Kings, all your passion, all your talent,
37:07and everything we've been practicing this year.
37:10And you do it not for me, or the school.
37:15But you do it for each other.
37:50Go up to the Habs.
37:52Go up to the Habs.
37:52Go up to the Habs.
38:15Go up to the Habs.
38:16I just got a handle on that.
38:40Oh, God.
38:44Oh, God.
38:47Oh, God.
38:49Oh, God.
38:52Oh, God.
39:09Oh, God.
39:12Oh, God.
39:20Oh, God.
39:22Oh, God.
39:25Oh, God.
39:37Oh, God!
39:51Hi, Zannie.
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. Would you mind taking your shoes off?
40:10Oh, yeah, of course.
40:14It's also going to be in 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? As in?
40:32Dad. Dad would have cleaned it after everyone came in the other day and it got all muddy.
40:40He a stickler for that, is he?
40:41No, dad doesn't mind.
40:45It's mum.
40:46Who hates shoes on inside? That's why he would have done it. He would have cleaned it.
40:51For mum.
40:57Michael, this is an opportunity for you to tell us anything you think might be relevant or anything you think
41:03you might have previously omitted.
41:06Well, just 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.
41:11But this 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.
41:18The situation has changed.
41:20Well, your questions haven't.
41:22Therefore, my answers, yes, this is out of character. No, there's nothing I'm not telling you. And no, I don't
41:27know anyone who would want to do her harm. They remain the same.
41:30Here's a different question, then. A question we've not asked you yet. Did you kill your wife, Michael?
41:42Come on, Michael. Come on.
41:43Come on, Michael.
42:05Any Cassidy?
42:06Oh, hi. You asked me to call you back.
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