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Dept Q - Season 1 - Episode 05
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00:01You
00:22All Evans sorry guys, whatever you're selling I probably don't need it definitely can't afford it. We're buying not selling
00:29Sam Hague. What about you were the one that found him?
00:33Yeah, he's a person of interest in the case that we're working on
00:36Sam's dead four years now. Yeah, September 26 woman named Merit Lingard. We're missing on the 27th
00:42Okay, they were in a relationship. What sort of relationship? That's what we're trying to figure out
00:49Is it the adrenaline? I mean is that the attraction the danger? No, it's not really like that
00:54Climbing takes focus more like meditating meditating by hanging on by your fingertips
00:58Yeah, I suppose you can't understand it unless you've done it. Any of these Hague? Yeah, which one's Hague? Yeah
01:08Think we got a lucky chap. Yeah, he was pissed off. I took that picture of him. Can I have
01:12that? Sure. Thanks
01:14So
01:15Tell us how you found him. I went up there early one morning to take some photos for the website
01:20That's when I noticed that Sam's car was in the car park. How early? Oh before the gate was open
01:25I had my own key, but that meant that Sam's car had been locked in overnight
01:31Any idea how he fell off? I mean outside obviously that he let go. I couldn't say
01:36Other than he broke my cardinal rule never climb alone. And why would he do that?
01:41Don't know
01:41Maybe been watching too many Alex Honnold videos and decided to free solo the crag. Yeah, like a fucking idiot
01:48Know it yourselves. Thank you
01:52So what he liked to take risks with Sam
01:56This whole damn life was one big risk. I think he might have preferred the word adventure
02:00He shows up one afternoon saying he needed a distraction that he was bored with his routine investigating murderers or
02:06whatever
02:07If you can believe that you didn't like him now like Sam
02:10I just wasn't thrilled about his friendship with Paul. Why? Well, he was a psycho for one thing
02:16Chloe come on. He was look I wasn't remotely surprised when I heard he'd fall and I was just relieved
02:20that Paul wasn't with him
02:21You know that he knew you didn't like having him around because he was always around. He was lonely
02:27Are you read what you saw?
02:29Meaning he was responsible for his own death meaning it was inevitable
02:33Look, I don't know if Sam was having a relationship with this and marriage
02:38Yeah, I think that's merit person
02:40But if it was personal, he never mentioned it and if it was professional was no way would have told
02:45me about it
02:46Well, we don't know what it was here. Did he ever mention anyone other friends? Maybe family girlfriend?
02:51Well, like I said he was lonely when he wasn't at work. He was either here with us or up
02:55on the cracker with Paul
03:01Okay, well, I think we've taken up enough of your time. Thank you
03:08How often did Sam climb the cracker once a week on any particular day or no, but it was usually
03:15later on when it was less busy
03:18And how long does it take to get to the top but for Sam 45 minutes longer if he was
03:23free soloing
03:24Why longer because you're more careful when there isn't a rope
03:29Thank you sure
03:37So we climbed all the way up there without any ropes
03:41Doesn't exactly scream murder so much as what the fuck did you expect there is at least a dozen signs
03:47around here stating in hours of the park
03:49And how if you're still here the gate will be locked in your vehicle will be unable to leave
03:54He ignored the signs Sam Haig fell on Sunday
03:57We know this because it wasn't fun until Monday when Paul Evans saw his car still in the car park
04:02Sam Haig climbed there once a week the climb takes 45 minutes or an hour if you free climb
04:07I get your point. He knew he did not have enough time. He knew the rules. Then why did he
04:12do it?
04:13Well, either he was a raving lunatic like what's-her-name said in there or someone chucked him off
04:17Again why? I don't know but I can guarantee you the answer lies with whatever he was doing with merit
04:21as opposed to here
04:22He didn't have his car keys
04:25Somehow his car is locked with his equipment bag still inside but no keys were ever found
04:31Not in any of the lockers inside the climbing center not on his person not anywhere around here where he
04:37fell
04:38I won't argue it's all wrong. It's all obviously wrong as it was with merit where I come from when
04:44facts are being so clearly ignored
04:47It's never because of incompetence
05:34I don't know
05:47I don't know
06:05Sam Haig wasn't sure he'd come
06:07I'm not staying
06:09Oh?
06:10You need to stop bothering my PA
06:12Sabrina said I was bothering you. No, I'm saying it
06:15Okay, not remotely interested in talking to a reporter about my work
06:21Understood. Well, thank you for taking the time to come by and tell me so in person
06:33I might as well have something to eat here. The onion soup's amazing
06:43You don't do profiles
06:46Not anymore, no
06:47You cover organized crime
06:49Yeah
06:49So why would you want to write about me?
06:51I don't
06:53Like you said, you're not my thing at all
06:55The idea came up in a meeting
06:56I see
06:57It was my editor
06:59So a statement you made on TV the one about um, how
07:03Nobody gets away with anything
07:04And I thought you might be someone worth looking into
07:06But not you
07:08I mean, I did what I do
07:10Found some interesting things
07:11But?
07:12But
07:13It's maybe the stuff that I couldn't find that's more interesting
07:16Like what?
07:18Like your background
07:20More in particular
07:21What about more in particular?
07:22You don't talk about it
07:25You talk about uni
07:27You talk about work
07:31I can't find anything where you talk about you
07:34Because I'm the least interesting part of my life
07:38Wanda
07:40Well, unlike most people, I don't curate my private life
07:44Keep it private
07:45Yeah, you want to remain a mystery, I get that
07:47Hey, Sam
07:49Bullshit
07:51Let's cut the cute little boy out and get to what's happening here
07:54You think there's something rotten in my department
07:59Something having to do with, say, oh, I don't know, organized crime?
08:04Ah, so that's why you came to meet me in person
08:07You want to eyeball me
08:09Yeah, I'd do the same
08:11So is there
08:14Something rotten in Denmark
08:15I have no idea
08:16But if you're the one asking, I bet you have one
08:20Your dad's a fisherman, right?
08:22So you know that a boat with a weak spot in the hull is the same as a boat with
08:26a leak
08:27And in that awesome metaphor, am I the weak spot or the leak?
08:31Maybe you're just on a leaky boat
08:34You're the mystery
08:36Am I?
08:36More like a Phantom byline and a bunch of headlines
08:39Lots of awards
08:42But
08:44I've got no bio, no social media, no recent photos
08:48Camera makes me look fat
08:50Well, given who and what you write about, I suppose some level of caution is necessary
08:54Only if I want to continue living
09:00I can't be my own subject
09:02And in that regard, you and I are in the same boat, so to speak
09:09Enjoy your soup, Mr. Hake
09:30Hello?
09:39Oh
09:39Hello need some help. Yeah, yeah, lovely. Thank you
09:49Where's it going? Hey, just over there
10:05I'll just go the other way around
10:11Okay
10:12Just grab it
10:14Oh
10:14Yeah
10:16Oh
10:17You got it?
10:17Yeah, got it
10:21Okay, cool, thank you
10:23So I'm looking for
10:24Oh, hold on
10:44Okay
10:45I'm looking for Carl
10:47With regard to?
10:48Oh, we had an appointment, which of course he missed, so I'm here to tell him how I feel about
10:54that
10:54And you are?
10:55Rachel Irving, I'm working with HR
10:59You're the cover for Dr Sonnenberg
11:00You should be a detective
11:02Well, I heard Carl say to someone that you were very nice to look at, so
11:08Is that a urinal?
11:10Is, um, is Sally coming back?
11:13Eh, Dr Sonnenberg?
11:15I don't think so
11:19Were you seeing her?
11:21Maybe for your OCD?
11:25I've not seen her anymore
11:26I mean, I only saw her like once or twice
11:30Maybe a bit more than that, but, um
11:32No, that was a while ago
11:34She was nice
11:36I had a bit of PTSD
11:38Along with the OCD
11:41And some ADHD
11:42B.E.D.
11:44Wow
11:45Walloped by the whole alphabet
11:46Right in the bohooke, yeah
11:48Did the tennis balls help?
11:50Not really, no
11:51But, uh, she seemed very keen
11:53So
11:54Got a very firm handshake now
11:55How are you feeling now?
11:57Better
11:59I mean, not totally better
12:01I get the old flashback, but, um
12:04It's alright
12:05We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to
12:07Thank you
12:11Looks like a big case
12:13Aye
12:14Thought he was exaggerating
12:15Eh, no
12:16Carl doesn't really lie
12:18Not about the big stuff, anyway
12:19Just about himself
12:21Hmm
12:22That's the human condition, isn't it?
12:25Protecting ourselves
12:26Well, I find the human condition to be more indecision, disappointment and depression
12:32What's your name?
12:34Er, Rose
12:36Well, Rose
12:37We've only just met
12:38So, take this as you will
12:39But
12:39Maybe sitting in a dark basement isn't the best place for you
12:44I think I met her once
12:45Marriott Lingard
12:46Not on the job?
12:48No
12:48At a party
12:49With an ex
12:51Lawyers
12:52They all know each other
12:53What was she like?
12:54Guarded
12:56Well
12:57I should get going
12:59If you do see Carl
13:00I was a passenger in a pursuit when we hit a pedestrian
13:05Ferry Road
13:06Pensioner
13:10I'm so sorry
13:12I remember that
13:14Me too
13:15Which is the problem
13:19Er, what was your message for Carl?
13:22It doesn't matter
13:24I mean, why bother? He'll just ignore it
13:27I think he feels responsible
13:30For what?
13:32Everything
13:36Well, it was nice to meet you, Rose
13:40Wow
13:42You weren't kidding about that handshake?
13:58It's not that unusual
14:00Sam Hague met lots of his sources in hotels of one sort or another
14:05Yeah, I'm sure
14:05But did anything go missing after? Or in this case, the day after Sam died?
14:09I obviously couldn't say
14:11Could he have been working on a story with Merit? One that put her at risk as well?
14:15Well, if he was, it would be the first I've heard of it
14:17But that also isn't so unusual
14:20But you were his editor?
14:21Doesn't mean I knew what he was up to
14:24Sam worked under the radar for his own safety
14:27How did that work?
14:27Well, I spoke with him, but I rarely saw him
14:30He lived in the sticks, he's a burner phone
14:33I'm not even sure if Sam Hague was his real name
14:36We had what you might call an arm's length relationship
14:40Still, you must have known what he was working on
14:42Not until he was ready to tell me
14:44Until then, he did his own thing
14:46I assume he took notes
14:48I'm sure he did, but I swear he may have kept them
14:51I'm afraid that information died along with him
14:54And probably for the best
14:56You weren't curious at all?
14:58I was damn curious
15:00And great effort was made to locate any of his work product
15:04But nothing was found
15:05That itself is curious
15:07Again, not if you knew the sorts of people Sam spent his time with
15:10Do you think one of them might have shoved him off the cliff?
15:12This may sound surprising coming from someone like me, but
15:16Not everything is a conspiracy
15:19As Freud liked to say
15:21Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
15:23And sometimes it's a big throbbing
15:26Thank you very much for your time
15:28Thank you
15:31I thought I'd give you a recall so you can see our new home
15:35Yeah, that's right
15:36We're down in the fucking basement
15:40Lots of storage
15:42Helmets, need to remember them
15:48That's it
15:49The biggins desk
15:51Akram's desk
15:52And my desk
15:54Over here
15:56We have
15:57The bathroom unit
15:59Got some lovely showers
16:02A disgusting sink
16:04And some toilets
16:06So horrendous the rats avoid them
16:08I had no idea any of this stuff was even down here
16:12Before my time, I guess
16:13Do I have a tissue?
16:17Look, I'm sorry for falling all to pieces the other day
16:21Thank you for setting me right
16:22Is that the board behind you?
16:24Yeah
16:25What, do you want to see it?
16:26No, I want to see more urinals
16:28Yeah, I fucking want to see it
16:31Yeah, I fucking want to see it
16:34What's with the comorant?
16:36The what?
16:37The comorant, the bird on the hat
16:39Oh, no, that's a buberi
16:41Is it? Fuck, it's a comorant
16:43It's a real bird, it's not some fucking myth that lives in locks and eats otters and shit
16:47What, there's a bird that uses otters?
16:48Not a real one, in fact, it changes shape
16:50Sometimes it's a giant insect that sucks the blood out of horses
16:53Really?
16:54Yeah, really, but that's not a buberi, it's a comorant
16:56But how do you know?
16:58Because I'm a fucking fisherman
16:59Or I was
17:00Anyway, what's it doing on the board?
17:02Well, whatever type of bird it is, I think maybe it ate merit
17:05What?
17:07William Lingard twice saw someone wearing that hat
17:10Once on the boat and once at home
17:11At home?
17:12Apparently, someone was prowling around the house
17:16Why, apparently?
17:17William isn't exactly communicative
17:19So he drew this one
17:21After he escaped from Eggly house
17:23And this one
17:25Right before she disappeared
17:28Can you do me a favour, pal?
17:29Can you scan both sides of that and send it over to me?
17:33Okay
17:35Inspector
17:37Dennis Piper
17:38Was it your press conference?
17:40Lucky you
17:40I wondered if you'd heard the news
17:42What news?
17:43How about PC Anderson's fiancée?
17:45The officer who was killed in Leith Park?
17:47I know who the fuck he was
17:48What about his fiancée?
17:49She had her baby today
17:50A wee girl
17:52Care to comment?
17:53Yeah, fuck off
17:54No message for her
17:56How about an apology?
18:02She blames you, Mark
18:05Says it should have been you who died
18:06Well, maybe it should
18:09Come on
18:29Karl's not down here
18:31I know ma'am
18:32He took some personal time
18:34Of course he did
18:36Walk me throughout all of this
18:37I should probably let DCI Mork...
18:40Just walk me through it.
18:42Right.
18:43Well, along with determining her movements in the weeks before she disappeared,
18:47we are trying to get a sense of who Merit Lingard was.
18:51And who was she?
18:53She was...controversial.
18:56So basically you don't have much.
18:59Not yet. We don't.
19:03There was an incident at the Lingard house.
19:07An incident?
19:09Apparently.
19:10A young man who was squatting there with two females
19:13was admitted to hospital with a crushed windpipe.
19:17Well, that sounds painful.
19:19Knock it off.
19:19I didn't crush his windpipe.
19:21I didn't say you did.
19:22I meant I didn't crush it, I only bruised it.
19:26I could have, of course, have crushed it,
19:28but then he wouldn't have been able to talk.
19:34Where do you learn such techniques?
19:35I grew up in a very rough part of Syria.
19:38Isn't it all rough over there these days?
19:40Some of it is very beautiful.
19:43You understand that you're not in Syria?
19:46You're not a policeman?
19:47Yes, ma'am.
19:48You're here to assist Carol.
19:51And it's a real pleasure.
19:53Because if anything should happen
19:54while you're out there playing policemen,
19:56bruising but not crushing people's necks,
20:00there'd be hell to pay for all of us.
20:04Of course, ma'am. I understand.
20:06Good. Keep me informed.
20:19Fucking hell.
20:26I don't know who's doing your PR,
20:28but I'd be asking for a refund.
20:29Here we go.
20:30Some good surgeons here.
20:32Reckon one of them could sew your mouth shut.
20:34Tell you what, how about instead...
20:35Carl, you fucking legend.
20:38Thank you, thank you, thank you
20:39for my brand-spanking-new fucking computer.
20:43Hey, anything for you, Hardy.
20:44You're welcome.
20:45It's interesting how you got Rose to deliver it.
20:47Yeah, well, she's in a funk,
20:48and you two are thick as thieves.
20:50Well, she's only in a funk,
20:51cos you're a cunt.
20:52Well, I'm sure there's meds for that,
20:53and I'm in the right place.
20:54She just wants to impress you.
20:56Unlikely.
20:57Maybe fake it once in a while.
20:58Well, you were always better at that than me.
21:00I was always better at everything.
21:03Right, first of all...
21:07This is a comorant.
21:09OK, I'll take your word for it.
21:10So what do we make of it?
21:11We think it's a logo.
21:12Oh, no shit, Sherlock.
21:13For whom?
21:14I think it's turned up.
21:16For me neither.
21:17Oh!
21:18What a relief it is to know
21:20that you're checking on my work.
21:22More like doing it.
21:23I have a motive as to why someone might have taken her.
21:26Yeah, she and Sam Haig were poking the wrong bear.
21:28Different motive.
21:31Hit me.
21:32It's the universal motive for all crime throughout human history.
21:36Love.
21:36Money.
21:37Go back to your birds.
21:39Because that family were broke.
21:40Jamie Lingard was broke.
21:42Lila Lingard, near Lila Graham, was rich.
21:45Her family had money.
21:47Money that came from where?
21:48Centuries of dead relatives.
21:49This is Britain after all.
21:51OK, I gather that you traced the card that she paid for the hotel room with.
21:54You gather correctly.
21:56And?
21:57It's linked to our trust account in the Channel Islands bank on Jersey.
22:01Where, sadly, the trail, much like the money off the wealthy cunts that live there, vanished.
22:06OK, well, that's your brilliant motive, is that someone took merit in order to somehow steal her money.
22:11Wicked, Watson.
22:13Good morning, James.
22:14Dr Lou, is it Wednesday already?
22:16No, but your most recent MRI was so promising, I thought I'd add a session.
22:21Shite.
22:22You like lying in bed all day?
22:23Yeah, he loves it.
22:24All of his favourite things happen in there.
22:25Who are you?
22:26And what are you doing here interrupting my session?
22:28Carl, my ex-partner.
22:31Didn't know you were gay.
22:32Police.
22:33You should have said partner in the police then, yes?
22:35These days you have to help people parse these sorts of things.
22:38What's the deal with the rehab, by the way?
22:40I thought the doctor said that he was as far along as he's going to get.
22:42Well, aren't you just a ray of bloody sunshine?
22:46I too am a doctor.
22:47And as I told James last month, his other doctor doesn't know him as well as I do.
22:51And therefore doesn't know that he may, in fact, be able to walk again.
22:57May?
22:58Depends on how well James continues to heal, which so far has been encouraging.
23:01So far.
23:02And how long has this been going on?
23:04Not that long.
23:05I like to start recessing within days of surgery.
23:07Days?
23:08Oh, okay.
23:09One waits too long and the body forgets itself.
23:13These four months of rehab have been productive for James.
23:15When Dr Lou says rehab, what she really means is watching me fall over
23:19and me cursing her every fucking day.
23:21I don't laugh and you don't curse or you know what happens.
23:25Hey.
23:26Progress.
23:27You can feel that, yeah?
23:28Me back.
23:30You can leave.
23:32Yeah.
23:34Cheer the body, Will.
23:36Feel free to beat the shit out of it.
23:49Carl, Moira wants to see you.
23:51Mm-hmm.
23:53Did you hear what I just said?
23:54Yeah, and she saw me.
24:01So, it's very often the most boring, insignificant detail that leads to a solution, the mundane,
24:07or a break from the mundane.
24:09But four years gone, it's difficult to reconstruct the small details of a person's life.
24:13So, we gravitate towards the events right before the crime.
24:16But in this case,
24:19we need to look further back.
24:21Oh, for fuck's sake, Carl.
24:23Save your lecture on criminology.
24:25You're starting to make sleep here.
24:26Get to the fucking point.
24:28Merit's money.
24:28It's called being a mentor.
24:30Ah, you're doing a bang-up job.
24:32Okay.
24:34What does everyone think about Hardy's merit-had-money theory?
24:39We know she had the trust fund.
24:40Well, we know she was drawing money from the trust until she disappeared, yeah.
24:43But we don't know what happens if Merit dies.
24:46But we can guess it all goes to William.
24:48A lot of fucking guessing going on.
24:50You're not helping.
24:51And could you sit up, for Christ's sake?
24:53You look like a fucking severed head.
24:55Are you still a wee bit upset that I didn't tell you about my rehab?
24:57I wasn't upset.
24:59Looked to me like you were going to cry again.
25:00Oh, fuck off.
25:01You could have said something.
25:02Had an enema this morning, should I have told you that?
25:04Yeah, because it would have cheered me up.
25:06The troll thinks that you can walk.
25:09She thinks maybe I can move.
25:10There's a wee difference.
25:11Still, would it be nice to have known.
25:13Ahem.
25:14If William couldn't manage the trust, then who would?
25:18It would have been managed by his legal guardian.
25:24She told you she was his legal guardian?
25:26She did.
25:27Wait, who's she?
25:29In those exact words.
25:30In those exact words.
25:31Wait, where are we going?
25:32Who the fuck is she?
25:33I'll tell you in the car.
25:36Did I win?
25:38Hello?
25:42Alice, come on in.
25:45Make yourself comfortable.
25:46It won't be long.
25:53You have cobwebs?
25:54Technically, they're not mine.
25:56A spider could drop from the ceiling onto one of your patients.
26:00Potentially.
26:02I've always heard they're good luck, even when they're crawling around in your hair.
26:05Ah, no.
26:06I don't think that's true.
26:09So, I assume you've seen the paper.
26:12I tried to warn you.
26:14Aren't you supposed to be helping him?
26:15The man has to be here for me to help him.
26:17What do you mean?
26:18He was a no-show yesterday.
26:19Oh, Jesus, God.
26:21Look, I'd love to just rubber stamp him and send him on his merry way,
26:24but if something happens, I'll get blamed for cutting him loose.
26:27He's already loose.
26:28That's on you, not me.
26:30It was a good-ish idea keeping him locked in the basement,
26:33because letting him out in public with all that anger, I mean,
26:36he's already assaulted a journalist.
26:39That was more of a shove.
26:40What happens when he shoves a suspect?
26:42Or a colleague?
26:45What if he turns on himself?
26:47Carol's a lot of things, but he'd never do anything like that.
26:49You sure about that?
26:51Because you're relying on this loophole about cold cases not being active duty, but...
26:56It's sort of bitten you in the bum a bit, hasn't it?
27:02Maybe it's a personality clash.
27:06How do you mean?
27:07Him not coming.
27:09After all, not every therapist is right for every patient.
27:13That's very true.
27:14So it's possible that Carol might respond better to a different therapist?
27:21He might.
27:26I'd suggest you shop around.
27:29See who he clicks with.
27:30I mean, knowing Carl, I'm sure he'd love to go on that journey of discovery with you.
27:34I'm just trying to be pragmatic.
27:36Not my circus, not my monkeys, as they say.
27:40Tell him I said tatty-bye.
27:53DC, I'm Mawksy, Dr. Wallace.
27:54I know who you are.
27:55Excuse me, you can't go up there.
27:57Let them do their job, please.
27:58Buzz Dr. Wallace.
28:09I don't believe we have an appointment.
28:11No, we don't.
28:12I'm not going to close the door, dog.
28:14Are you going to tell me what this intrusion is about?
28:17Sit down, please.
28:22Why do you allow William Lingard to stay here gratis?
28:26I don't allow him anything.
28:28It's an arrangement whereby he gets a home and I get to observe his condition in more conducive surroundings.
28:34And by conducive, you mean comfortable?
28:36Certainly. No one flourishes in a warehouse, which is what most of our institutions are.
28:42William?
28:48You must have collated an awful lot of data over the four years since he's been here.
28:52Quite a bit, yes.
28:54I hasten to add that William's condition has improved significantly as well.
28:58Well, last time you said his condition was deteriorating.
29:00I think you may have misheard me.
29:03Sam Moritz. Nice.
29:13William.
29:13You said you had the power to prevent me talking to William on the grounds that you were his legal
29:18guardian.
29:19That's true, I am.
29:20What does that mean exactly?
29:22It means, simply put, that I make all the decisions that affect his life.
29:26Well, such as how best to, um, allocate his finances.
29:30I'm not sure I follow you.
29:33And I'm sure you do.
29:35That I'm not sure I like what you're implying.
29:37And what's that, do you think?
29:38That I'm somehow stealing money from one of my patients, which is absurd.
29:43It's a very nice piece.
29:45What's happening in here?
29:46This man is not well.
29:47You need to leave now.
29:49Please, we have to check on him.
29:50I don't care.
29:51Neither of you can be up here without permission.
29:53What is wrong with him?
29:54Fucking hell.
29:56As legal guardian, even one with power of attorney, I'm only allowed to contact the trustee.
30:01And I have no reason to be, because I provide for every aspect of William's care.
30:05Yeah, except the trustee in this case has been missing for four years.
30:08Which is why the bank appointed a lawyer to act as the trustee.
30:13Yeah, the Bank of Jersey.
30:17Wherever it may be, yes.
30:19Rose, help me.
30:19Absolutely not.
30:21I was not asking you for permission.
30:25Listen, my friend, it's best to step aside.
30:33Right.
30:34Let's turn him over.
30:35Okay.
30:36Careful.
30:37Say I search this office.
30:39I mean, what do you think the chances are?
30:42It might be a cheque book and or bank card in William Lingard's name.
30:47Zero chance.
30:48Because you're not going to search this office, not without a warrant.
30:52That's a funny old answer.
30:54Meaning?
30:56Meaning?
30:57You could have just said zero and left it at that.
30:59As someone with power of attorney, I'm entitled to holding those documents.
31:03Yeah, but you told me you pay for William's care in exchange for the vast knowledge that
31:07he's giving you.
31:08I'm merely making a point that there are rules.
31:10If I were withdrawing money from William's trust, I would need to account for every expense.
31:14Yeah, such as the annual service on a 2024 Mercedes SLC 250D.
31:21Anything like that would trigger an immediate audit.
31:24But go ahead, have your fun.
31:26With no family to complain, not much chance of anybody noticing.
31:31There's a large chance of the bank noticing.
31:33There are systems in place that alert them anytime anyone goes over the allotted distribution limit.
31:37How many of your patients are only children from old money?
31:41Okay, you can leave now.
31:43You're being worse than impertinent.
31:44You're being scurrilous.
31:45How do you think it's going to sound to a prosecutor when they hear that not long after
31:49Merit Lingard disappeared, you showed up, whisked her brother away and then started spending his money?
31:55Get out.
31:56And when the fine folk in your world find out, oh, fuck me.
32:02You're done.
32:04I'm done?
32:06Do you have any idea who I know in your world?
32:09Uh, no. And I don't give a shit. So you can save this righteous indignation for your trial.
32:18Okay?
32:22You've got him drugged.
32:23He's fine. He's just been sedated.
32:26What for? For what?
32:27Sometimes if he's agitated, we give him a small dose of Thorazine or Haldol.
32:31Sometimes. Or right before we turned out. How many of your other patients you got doped up?
32:35They all are.
32:40Where's William?
32:41Get him in the car.
32:42I don't think you have the authority.
32:44No.
32:47No. You aren't in enough trouble.
32:51I don't think you planned it.
32:53My guess is probably one of those things that just evolved as you looked after William.
32:56One of those things, once you started, once you got a taste for just how easy it was to get
33:01that money, you couldn't stop.
33:03And then like most investors, you sleep like a fucking baby at night by telling yourself you earned it.
33:20I'd like to speak to my lawyer.
33:33I cannot stress to you how much I don't want to regret this.
33:36It's okay. Now, didn't pack anything. She's going to need a toothbrush and a...
34:04Jasper!
34:12Was that Jasper I just saw?
34:14It was. Said he needed to pick up a few essentials, but the only essential I saw him take was
34:19a bong.
34:19Why didn't you ask him to wait for me?
34:22Well, because you asked me repeatedly to mind my own fucking business.
34:25Not when you can see there's a hand grenade about to go off.
34:28Well, fear not. The flat did not explode.
34:30I was talking about Jasper.
34:31I got the metaphor.
34:34Bad day at the office.
34:35Fuck off.
34:36Go on, stick your choo-choo's back on.
34:39Wait. I live here too.
34:40As if I need reminding.
34:42I'm allowed to be concerned.
34:43And I'm allowed not to care.
34:45You need to get a grip.
34:46Deal with some stuff.
34:47You can't keep putting things off.
34:48Oh, says the man is in his fucking eighth year of a PhD on Wittgenstein.
34:52It's Kierkegaard, you arse.
34:54Do you never listen?
34:54Well, maybe you should.
34:56Because one of Soren's big themes is why we get up in the morning.
34:59A specific one.
35:01Just for us.
35:01Our own truth.
35:03Do you want to know mine?
35:04Not remotely.
35:05I love my life.
35:07I've got my studies, bit of work, friends, hobbies.
35:11How about you?
35:12If you've got friends and hobbies, why the fuck are you always here?
35:16I do.
35:17Love one, thanks.
35:21Good throat, arsehole.
35:23And for your information, I've been going to a life drawing class.
35:27Even met a lovely woman there.
35:29Portuguese, or maybe Brazilian.
35:31We've been flirting.
35:33Well, I've been flirting.
35:34Her English isn't very good still.
35:36Point is, I think you need to find your own truth, Carl.
35:40For everybody's sake, but mainly mine.
35:43Finished?
35:44I think I preferred it when you were quoting Yoko.
35:48Piss off, Carl.
35:49Think about what I said.
35:51Oh, Jesus.
35:54Don't fall asleep on the couch.
35:55You'll only wake up more depressed.
36:11Where are you off to?
36:12The laundry.
36:13Need to get there before it closes.
36:15You can do your laundry in your own fucking time.
36:17There's actual police work to be done.
36:19It's not my laundry, Carl.
36:21It's merits.
36:22I'm doing what you told me to do.
36:23I'm looking at the boring and the mundane.
36:25Meaning what, exactly?
36:27You'll think it's stupid.
36:29Oh, I'm sure I will.
36:30But tell me anyway, or I'll give you the boot,
36:33and you can resume your prior role as Mary Andrew to the cunts upstairs.
36:38Jesus, Carl, you can't just say things like that.
36:40What, Mary Andrew?
36:42No, cunt.
36:43You want to use it at the pub?
36:44That's fine.
36:45But you can't just band-aid about at work.
36:46There's rules about that kind of thing.
36:48Well, if it's good enough for Chaucer.
36:49Oh, except this isn't old England, and you're not fucking Beowulf.
36:53Beowulf?
36:53Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tale...
36:56Just tell me, wife of Bath.
36:58I went again through all of Merit's receipts and credit card statements,
37:02but this time I went back for a year and I saw a pattern.
37:05Or a kind of one.
37:08All of the shops that she went to were close to the Crown offices,
37:10which makes sense when you think about it,
37:12because there's not much in the way of shops out where she and William were living.
37:14So it made sense that after work she'd do the shopping or whatever errands
37:18before she went home.
37:19But stood out to me there was one place that she went to.
37:23A laundry near the Cowgate that wasn't really near the Crown offices.
37:27And at first I thought, hmm, that's not so weird.
37:29A woman like Merit would be particular about where she took her clothes
37:31because they were so nice.
37:33You know, she'd have her trusted place where they know how to look after nice things.
37:37But this place wasn't that type of place.
37:39And she only went there once, as far as I can tell,
37:42whereas she went lots of times to a posh place near the offices in Murchison
37:45and the statements show that she'd been going there for years.
37:47So what was she doing at this other place?
37:50Oh, and I forgot to say, it was only a week before she disappeared.
38:02Take Akram with you.
38:07Cool.
38:39Um, I'm DC Dixon.
38:42This is DC Saleem.
38:44Are you the proprietor?
38:46Aye.
38:47Are you Shirley Atkins?
38:49What is this about?
38:50I have a receipt from four years ago.
38:54I was wondering if you might be able to tell me something about the customer.
38:57I'll have a look, but I doubt it could help.
38:59And I don't even keep records for that long.
39:03What is this?
39:05You know bloody well I know who this is.
39:06I'm sorry, I...
39:07Do you honestly think I would help you look for this bitch?
39:10After what she did to my Kirsty?
39:14You knew Merit?
39:15I wish I never fucking met her.
39:16She was a customer?
39:17Oh, she was never a customer.
39:18She came here to apologise to me and Keith, but lost her fucking nerve.
39:22Danny, Kirsty's brother, was working that day.
39:25She took one look at him and pretended that her coat needed dry cleaning
39:29and got the hell out.
39:30You say she left her coat with you.
39:33Have you still got it?
39:34Are you kidding?
39:35I fucking burnt it.
39:36What was she apologising for?
39:38Why don't you go ask my daughter?
39:40Kirsty, you said her name was.
39:42Erm, where can I find her?
39:44Inside Pentland's.
39:46The prison?
39:47Where they put her after Merit Lingard nearly got her killed in Sockton.
40:08The prison?
40:09PC Mark Gilbey.
40:11You remember him?
40:13Sure, I.
40:14My first partner.
40:16He was on call.
40:19A disturbance outside a pub.
40:21It looked like nothing until there was a knife.
40:26Then Mark was on the ground in a pool of blood.
40:29He survived, but he left the job.
40:35I'm not sure what would have done different, but I felt guilty all the same.
40:40Still do.
40:43But I've never wished it had been me.
40:46I didn't say that.
40:47Not exactly.
40:50He kinda did.
40:56You all right, Carol?
40:58Seems to be a matter of opinion.
41:00Yeah, well, I had no shortage of them today.
41:03There's a few people around here who worry.
41:05I'm fine.
41:06Not about you.
41:07About their reputations.
41:09It was a...
41:11Janice looking for a story.
41:12I overreacted.
41:14The one you stood down.
41:17I thought that was your shout.
41:18It is.
41:19Which puts me in the firing line for any further disasters.
41:23You're not actually letting them get to you, are you?
41:27Don't presume, Carol.
41:29We go back, but right now, that's an argument for listening to those opinions rather than ignoring them.
41:35You put me in that fucking basement for a reason.
41:39Yes.
41:39I'd like you to do your thing quietly without bothering me.
41:43Out of sight.
41:44Out of mind.
41:45While I do someone else's dirty work, yeah?
41:47What dirty work exactly is that?
41:51Why did you assign Merit Lingard's case to Fergus Dunbar, hmm?
41:55I would imagine on the account of him being up next.
41:58Why'd you ask?
42:00You said yourself it was high profile.
42:01I had all the earmarks that your bettors get all tingly about.
42:04That calls for someone good, doesn't it?
42:06Fergus ran a solid investigation.
42:09If it was so solid, why'd you pull him?
42:10Because there were no more leads.
42:12It all went cold and I needed him elsewhere.
42:14Elsewhere.
42:16Out of the building?
42:17That was his choice, not mine.
42:19I liked Fergus.
42:20Just like that.
42:21Everybody forgot about Merit Lingard.
42:24Not everyone.
42:25So what then?
42:27Phone call?
42:28Middle of the night?
42:28Someone tell you to shut it down?
42:32I'm the first woman ever to do this job.
42:35And that's important to me, yes.
42:38But it's also important for anyone who comes after me.
42:41So what, you're saying that you went along with it so you didn't jeopardise your important
42:44fucking position?
42:45That's not what I'm saying at all.
42:47I'm no fucking coward.
42:48I push when I have to push.
42:51And you fucking well know that too.
42:53Need I remind you?
42:55No, you need not.
42:55That I have saved your bacon on more than one occasion.
42:58In here, out there.
43:00You made a mistake back then.
43:01Bad call, fucking whatever.
43:03And now you want me to fix it?
43:04Now I would like you to solve the case without being bounced for being fucking psycho.
43:10Is that possible?
43:12Depends.
43:16Got my back on that?
43:18If you have to ask me that, you've not been listening.
43:23For Christ's sake, stop saying drippy rubbish like it should have been me.
43:37Hi, Kirsty.
43:39I took a seat.
43:41This is some kind of a stitch up.
43:43You're here to fuck up my parole.
43:45No.
43:46Because I'm out in six weeks.
43:47You're a model prisoner.
43:49I fucking well am.
43:50Gonna go back to the laundry?
43:51I've had enough laundry, thank you.
43:54Getting as far away as I can.
43:56Start all over.
43:58Disappear.
44:00You're afraid.
44:01Be an idiot otherwise.
44:03Who attacked you at Socton?
44:05Now seeing as the first thing they did was stab me in the eye, I couldn't say.
44:11Merit Lingard disappeared not long after you were attacked.
44:13Aye, because I had her killed.
44:16Payback for nearly getting me killed.
44:18Really?
44:18Hired myself a hit man who followed her onto a ferry and threw her over.
44:23Wow.
44:24That solves that.
44:25You're welcome.
44:31I've found that there are times when people want to scare someone to be quiet.
44:35And there are times when they skip that part and make them quiet.
44:41Okay.
44:43I look at you and your injuries and I can see that you were not meant to be warned.
44:48You were meant to be killed.
44:50This is not new information to you.
44:51You are quite sensibly afraid.
44:53You know something.
44:56You told Merit about it in hopes of getting an early release but something happened.
45:00Fucking yes, something happened.
45:03She fucking bailed on me.
45:06What was the information?
45:08There's no way I testify in court.
45:11No way I admit to have seen anything because I won't make that promise ever again.
45:16I don't blame you.
45:22Okay.
45:27I was in a woman's refuge for a while.
45:32Before I got arrested.
45:37I met this woman.
45:41She wasn't there long but I got quite pally.
45:47She said her husband had tried to kill her.
45:49He fucking gave her a beat down.
45:52Left her with black eyes and broken ribs.
45:55He fucking broke her cheekbone.
46:02She was convinced that he'd find her at the refuge so she left.
46:06And I never saw her again or even thought of her.
46:13Until her face was all over the news.
46:17What for?
46:18That case Lingard had.
46:21The husband that killed his wife, Finch.
46:25The woman that was his wife, Andrea Finch.
46:33Deal was, I'd testify about Andrea at the refuge and get early release.
46:40At the last minute that bitch changes her mind.
46:47Saying that I couldn't testify on account of someone like me wasn't credible.
46:54Only, there's word out there that I've been talking to her.
46:58So I call her.
47:01And I tell her.
47:05I'm not safe.
47:09I'm getting threats.
47:10Wait, who was it?
47:11Who came for you?
47:12These two bitches.
47:14Fucking lifers, the both of them.
47:16They walk in weaving their shank saying that I must have pissed off somebody heavy.
47:20Who paid?
47:21I don't fucking know.
47:22They get a 500 quid bounce on their commissary and a name in their laundry bag.
47:26But why go after you for information that no one even knows you have?
47:29Because there's people in here that know Finch.
47:31And they know that I've talked to you so now you have to help me.
47:35What did Mert do?
47:38Where are you calling from?
47:39My cell.
47:41On a smuggled phone.
47:42What fucking difference does it make?
47:43I just told you.
47:45And I talk to you.
47:46There's nothing I can do.
47:47You're a fucking bitch.
47:50Are you high?
47:52I'm fucking terrified.
47:55Are you high?
47:59What do you expect me to do?
48:01Oh, Jesus.
48:02She hung up.
48:32What was I supposed to do?
48:34You left me hanging.
48:35You let me use Kirstie's evidence.
48:37She was not going to help you.
48:39She would have made it worse, in fact.
48:42Kirstie Atkins has been stabbed.
48:47How bad is it?
48:49I don't know.
48:52She's alive, but she's in a coma.
48:56Look, Kirstie's life has been the result of a multitude of shitty choices.
49:02None of them having anything to do with you.
49:05Well, tell that to her family.
49:07I'm sure they'll find that very comforting.
49:10Before I stuck out her eye, the other punctured her lung along with another.
49:13I missed her heart by just a few millimetres.
49:16Three wounds only.
49:17Two out of the three hit their mark, while one of them was right close.
49:20If it hadn't happened in prison, I'd say that a professional did it.
49:24Where do you think all the professionals are?
49:47I'm sorry.
49:51I'm sorry.
49:52Hello?
49:55Okay.
49:56Is that it?
49:58I'll talk to you.
50:00Can you tell me when and when?
50:50I'll talk to you.
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