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00:15Running off like that, the itinerary was clear. Breakfast in the pub, 9.30. 10 o'clock, meet outside the
00:20pub. Final prep, 10.15. Walk from the pub to Portimao, then complete the loop back to yesterday's start point.
00:26Why would she leave early?
00:27Maybe she fancy something less strict, like an S.A.S. boot camp.
00:33These walks are a bit full on, Anne. I haven't looked up for 40 minutes. You put on some hard
00:38garage, it's like you're on a treadmill for fitness first.
00:43Well, I don't get it. Karen agreed to have breakfast with me, and I was looking forward to it because
00:47I haven't had a proper chat with Karen.
00:49I didn't like the way she behaved, flirting with Stefan, a teenager.
00:53I'm 19, Mark. Come on! Keep up the pace!
01:15Oh, that is tidy, that is.
01:22It's a shame Karen's not here.
01:29Uh, I think she is, guys.
01:31Oh, good God!
01:34We'd better call the police!
01:35Oh, I'll do it! Don't look Stefan, don't!
01:38Jamie, it's ma'am.
01:40Hey, you answered that very quickly.
01:42Why is it echoing in there?
01:44I didn't raise a girl who answers the phone in the toilet.
01:48I will get to the point, yes?
01:50We found a body!
01:58This is the fifth fall we've had here in two years.
02:01When are people going to learn exercise kills?
02:04What was she doing?
02:05No appropriate equipment.
02:07The shoes!
02:08She looks like she's going to a festival.
02:10Oh, good on her!
02:11Nothing wrong with rocking a bit of style, is there?
02:13A hard jacket and a leopard print backpack style.
02:15I have that exact same backpack.
02:18It's nice.
02:20How's your mum holding her?
02:22Bit shaken.
02:23She wouldn't have suffered, Mrs M!
02:26Totally would have suffered.
02:27Morrible way to go.
02:29My idea of hell.
02:30Basically smashed to death.
02:31Alright.
02:33Awful business.
02:35This place brings back bad memories.
02:37Did you have a case here?
02:38A jumper?
02:39Oh, no, no, no.
02:40Family holiday.
02:42Brought Kel and the kids here walking.
02:43Try to teach them about the history of these falls.
02:46The myth of school.
02:47Gladys.
02:47Learn about their heritage.
02:49Teenage girls.
02:50Should have taken them to Tenerife on reflection.
02:53Anyway, what have we got?
02:54Looks like a fall.
02:56You'd expect lower body injuries from her jumps.
02:58She'd have been upright on impact, but our woman wasn't.
03:01Cause of death, I'd say, is the head trauma from when she hit the rocks.
03:05Obviously can't rule anything else out until I've done the PM and toxicology.
03:08Alright.
03:09Keep us in the loop.
03:10Any info on who she is?
03:11Got in a mam.
03:12She was new to the walking group, too thin by half and had stubborn eyes.
03:17The only concrete information she gave us was that she's called Karen Barnes.
03:21No, she isn't.
03:22She gave a false address.
03:24She isn't on the criminal record database either.
03:26She's a mystery.
03:31Shake it up. Shake it up.
03:35How do we find a person?
03:39A good actor, proper actor.
03:41Doesn't need words or movement.
03:44They can reach into the essence of character with two things.
03:52The eyes.
03:53Sarah, will you just pop over here, please?
03:56Cool earrings.
03:59I want you to read from this sheet.
04:03We're going to go through a series of emotions.
04:06And I'm going to try and portray them just by using my eyes.
04:13And cue.
04:16Anger.
04:16Love.
04:18Betrayal.
04:20Lust.
04:22Sadness.
04:23Fear.
04:24Surprise.
04:26Again, rapidly.
04:27Anger.
04:28Love.
04:28Betrayal.
04:29Lust.
04:30Sadness.
04:31Fear.
04:31Surprise.
04:31Godfrey's.
04:34There, the eyes have it.
04:39Now, physical comedy.
04:42This is amazing.
04:46Oh, that, yes.
04:48That's my acting masterclass series.
04:51I resisted it, but my agent said in the end it would be my gift to the profession.
04:57Oh.
04:58Oh, yeah.
04:59A powerful peek behind the magic of acting.
05:02Not my words.
05:04Jeremy Irons.
05:05Yeah.
05:06So, what's going on here, anyway?
05:07Well, I'm rearranging everything.
05:09I do it every few years.
05:12I've always...
05:12I've become blocked.
05:14You tried prune juice?
05:16Mum sways by it when she's to clear out the basement.
05:18Delightful.
05:19Very evocative.
05:19I'll bear it in mind.
05:21Now, Detective Malawan.
05:23We both know why you're here.
05:25So, come on, let the dog see the rabbit.
05:26No, just pop by for a chat.
05:28Though, nothing to do with this mysterious, unidentified individual.
05:33Hmm.
05:33Read it in the paper.
05:35Identity wiped.
05:36Can we ever truly hide ourselves?
05:39Yeah, I knew you'd be up for it.
05:41I'll put a brew on.
05:42You haven't got any biscuits, have you?
05:45There's no car in the trail car park, and no bus or taxi driver remembers her.
05:50So, we think she must have arrived by foot.
05:52Interesting.
05:53Could be something, Chapel.
05:55Could be something.
05:56Could be something.
05:57Could be talking to yourself like a weirdo, Chapel.
05:59Oh, my God!
06:00Oh, a little warning would be nice before you explode.
06:03The coat.
06:04The coat.
06:04This is Caesar's coat.
06:05Why didn't you tell me you have Caesar's coat?
06:06This is huge.
06:07I think we've got two mysteries here.
06:08The missing person and you.
06:10Well, I'm not a mystery.
06:12I'm simple.
06:13I'm an open book.
06:14Everybody says so.
06:15Mum says it all the time.
06:17No.
06:18You're not like other big fans of Caesar.
06:20Why do you like it so much?
06:21You're a professional police woman, for goodness sake.
06:23You know how it all works.
06:24I just do, okay?
06:26Anyway, we're not talking about me.
06:27We're talking about Karen.
06:29Shut up about the coat, John Chapel.
06:31You're bloody obsessed with it.
06:33Why can't you tell me about Karen?
06:34Who is she?
06:35Well, she had a childhood without money.
06:38The sugar sachets found in her pocket.
06:40She didn't want them, didn't use them,
06:42but she remembers what it was like to go without.
06:46Yes, and an apple stalk and two pips,
06:50which means she eats the whole core.
06:52Now, that is very interesting.
06:54Why?
06:55Because I do that as well.
06:56Great, I'll put an APB out for anyone who nicks sugar sachets
06:59and eats apples like a weirdo.
07:00Should have this wrapped up in no time.
07:02Building up a picture of this woman's psyche is important.
07:05If you want to find her killer.
07:07What? You think she was killed?
07:09Obviously. Yes, look. The shoes.
07:11And no phone. We can't discount that.
07:14But we're working on the theory that her phone
07:16slipped out of her pocket when she fell and washed away.
07:18You're better off working on your observation skills
07:20because phones do not slip out of skin-tight jeggings.
07:24You know about jeggings?
07:25Doesn't everyone?
07:26No, Karen's killer took her phone
07:28to stop you finding out who she really was.
07:31But who?
07:32One of the walking groups?
07:34This is my mam's walking group we're talking about.
07:37You can't think that one of them would murder a stranger.
07:41She wasn't a stranger.
07:43Whoever killed Karen clearly knew her.
07:46Of course, I wouldn't be able to say who
07:48without knowing more about the suspect.
07:55This is not what I meant.
07:57Oh, come on.
07:58I hate the synthetic fibers.
08:00They make my skin it.
08:01You're lucky the charity shop had any walking gear.
08:03This could be good for you getting out the house.
08:05You know, loneliness is a killer.
08:08I'm not lonely.
08:10I just like being alone.
08:12There's a distinct difference, you know, and a chance will be a fine thing.
08:14You see, there's this detective who always disturbs my peace and quiet.
08:17Rude.
08:18Right.
08:19There they are.
08:20They all agreed to come back and do the walk again.
08:23Gourish.
08:24Right now, it's probably best if I take the lead.
08:27You haven't got my antennae for people.
08:29Oh, look.
08:30Just try not to let on that you're helping me.
08:32If I get caught involving you, then my promotion and my career down the toilet.
08:36I don't ever suspect I'm involved.
08:38Just a retired local actor.
08:40Well, of some repute, of course.
08:42Well respected.
08:43Yes, yes.
08:43Let's talk even more walking.
08:45Come on.
08:45Recently there was an article.
08:46I'll send it to you.
08:49Oh, but here they are.
08:50Hiya.
08:51Mum said it'd be alright if I brought my friend John along.
08:54You've never had a national treasure with us before.
08:56Oh, please, please.
08:57Oh, no, please.
08:58I'm just one of the group.
08:59Nothing special.
09:00What are you doing here?
09:02Not here on official business.
09:03Mum's just always telling me I need to get out more.
09:06You're so pale.
09:07You're always driving.
09:08Never walk anywhere.
09:09Yes, thank you.
09:10John.
09:11Mum.
09:11Mr. Chappell.
09:13Mum.
09:13Mum.
09:15Mum.
09:16Mum.
09:19Anne Treadway.
09:20Treasurer.
09:20Can you sign here?
09:21Of course, yes.
09:22Is that Anne with an E?
09:24Oh, I don't want your autograph.
09:25No, this is the consent form.
09:26Wait.
09:27Do you expect preferential treatment because you're famous?
09:29Oh, but I do.
09:30No, indeed.
09:31I should hope not.
09:31Now hurry up and we can get started.
09:33Right.
09:34Smack bar.
09:35Oh, no, I'm fine.
09:37No, it's not a question.
09:38No, it's three hours until the pub lunch
09:39I will not have people's blood sugar falling.
09:43Worth remembering.
09:44Right, let's go.
09:56I don't know.
09:57No.
09:57Oh, no, I don't know what the pub is.
09:59No, no, no.
10:00I'd have to take a weird thing and done with it.
10:02I'd be able to take a mess with Karen.
10:04What is an air?
10:05I don't know what the pub is.
10:05What are you doing?
10:06I'm willing to drink.
10:06I do understand quite a lot of Welsh, you know.
10:08My wife used to speak it all the time.
10:10No.
10:10You're not quite what I am.
10:10I don't have any grades.
10:11She could put up with her sex pest.
10:14Definitely not the sex pest.
10:16Man, he understands Welsh.
10:17Also, even if he didn't, sex pest is an English word,
10:20so he'd know that you were calling him one.
10:22Too much gossip and dawdling back there.
10:25This isn't a sewing circle.
10:27It's like she's got eyes in the back of her head.
10:29Go with the snakes in her hair.
10:31Still, that's not a bad place to start.
10:34Whatever got Karen killed,
10:35she's the most likely to have observed it.
10:39Come on!
10:40No stragglers, please!
10:47Fresh air in the lungs and blood in the legs.
10:50Blow winds, crack your cheeks!
10:52Rage, blow!
10:54What more could you want?
10:55A bit of silence?
10:56This is the Trebach Ramblers Portimaire Yomp,
10:59not a chat show.
10:59Sorry, forgive me, I'll shut up.
11:02But I would like to say I do admire you
11:05for doing this in Karen's memory.
11:07Something that modern youth don't understand,
11:09the notion of duty.
11:12What was she like, this Karen?
11:14Honestly?
11:15She was a troublemaker.
11:16She arrived late.
11:18She signed up online and the website didn't say
11:21walk up when ever suits you.
11:23Rules are rules for a reason.
11:24I find in the modern world that there's a distinct lack of decorum.
11:28You sound like my husband.
11:29This was Peter's favourite walk.
11:31I didn't like the idea of someone turning up and treating it like a joke.
11:34You were quite right, it's in the front.
11:35I bet she wasn't prepared in a slight...
11:36No, she wasn't.
11:37No equipment, no money, so she couldn't pay for the walk
11:40or her room at the pub.
11:41Can't say I'm surprised.
11:43People want something with nothing nowadays, don't they?
11:45It just boils my blood.
11:46Yes, that's exactly it, Mr. Chappell.
11:48Young Stefan paid for a meal, which I thought was very odd.
11:51I think it is a lot odd about Stefan.
11:53He's a bit of a mummy's boy.
11:54That's interesting.
11:55Oh, I'm sorry.
11:56Oh yes, no two.
12:01God, you really are good.
12:03No, ice cream's good.
12:04I'm a highly skilled emotional empath.
12:06Come on, don't dawdle!
12:14Oh, leave him home.
12:15Stefan, isn't it?
12:16Yeah.
12:17You're Mr. Chappell.
12:19How come you're not on the telly anymore?
12:21Mum thinks you were cancelled,
12:23but Leah thinks you're just not getting any work.
12:24Stefan, no.
12:25No, no, no, no.
12:26That's not what we said.
12:27I'm Leah Jones.
12:29Lovely to meet you, darling.
12:30And you.
12:31I didn't have Caesar down as much of a walker.
12:34It's good to get out into God's country, isn't it?
12:36Yeah.
12:37Open the gills,
12:38clear out the old blue hole, so to speak.
12:41No, it is.
12:42I need it.
12:43I'm a taxi driver,
12:44so I spend all week sitting on my arse.
12:47This is the only chance I get to show off my legs.
12:49Well, a good set up in.
12:51I'll get my old pasty legs out.
12:52Not really like a couple of stiff ones in it.
12:54Drink for it.
12:57Bronwyn Richards.
12:58Big fan of your theatre work.
13:00How wonderful.
13:01Always a pleasure to meet a disowning theatre girl.
13:04Hopefully you can bring some intellectualism into the group.
13:07Oh, no, I'm an intellectual.
13:10I went to Open University.
13:11I love you.
13:11I've got an MA.
13:12Yes, of course, Leah Bach.
13:14You've done amazingly,
13:14considering your background.
13:16I'm from Merthyr, not a war zone.
13:19Beautiful scenery, isn't it?
13:22Stunning.
13:24This is the sort of place I used to come to...
13:26What?
13:29Oh, come on.
13:31Oh, you poor love.
13:33Sorry, sorry.
13:35Look, you really know how to make a newcomer feel welcome, don't you?
13:39Just like poor Karen.
13:41So lovely.
13:42Anne just told me that Stefan even paid for her room.
13:46Yeah, against my wishes.
13:47He's a very generous boy.
13:49It comes with being what we call academically more able.
13:53Stefan did it?
13:55He's just been accepted to Oxford.
13:57Oh, wow.
13:58When to start?
13:59Seven weeks, three days.
14:00Marvellous.
14:01Karen must have been very grateful.
14:04Yeah, she was...
14:04Too grateful by far, if you ask me.
14:06Almost lascivious.
14:08Told Stefan she was his type.
14:09I mean, that's a bit harsh, but she was a wrong end.
14:12Is that why you asked Anne to throw her out the group?
14:14No, I...
14:15She was messing with the mood.
14:17Like the equilibrium of the group.
14:19Now, Ryan, he seemed to take a dislike to Karen.
14:23That night, she was making a point about dark things in people's past,
14:27and he got up and stoned off.
14:30Three-minute rest break is over.
14:31Come on.
14:3234 miles to the pub.
14:33Right.
14:38See?
14:39You're making friends.
14:40Ladies.
14:41Come on.
14:42Admit it.
14:42You're enjoying getting out and meeting new people.
14:46Careful, Stefan.
14:48Alright.
14:49Okay.
14:49Pint.
14:51Pint.
14:52They didn't have an extra hot long macchiato, so it's kinko.
14:56Sorry.
14:57Oh dear.
14:58G&T.
15:01Tap water, Ryan.
15:02Oh.
15:03Surprised to see you the best, Stefan.
15:04Assume you're still breastfed.
15:06For your information, Stefan has not been breastfed since he was six.
15:11Makes sense.
15:13Oh, and Anne, they said your real grace come in.
15:15Probably leave the bag in too long.
15:17Better go and advise.
15:19I would best take off my jacket, otherwise I won't feel the benefit.
15:22Shift your bum.
15:24Come on.
15:28Australian, isn't it?
15:29Yep.
15:29Janie.
15:30I'm Yvonne's daughter.
15:31Yep.
15:32I can tell.
15:33Wish everyone would stop saying that, we're nothing like each other.
15:35Oh, I'd best take this off or I won't feel the benefit.
15:38Can I have a crisp?
15:42Your accent, it's not from round here?
15:45Nope.
15:45Moved here from Manchester.
15:46Manchester.
15:47Mad for it.
15:48Sound.
15:51So, why'd you move here?
15:54I wanted somewhere quiet with nothing going on.
15:57Nothing going on?
15:58Have you seen the new parking ride in Abercantle?
15:59Saving it for a rainy day.
16:02Aren't you a bit young and normal?
16:04For this group?
16:07My GP thought it'd be good for me.
16:08A lot of health benefits are walking.
16:10Not for Karen, they weren't.
16:12Jeez.
16:26Just came in for a slash.
16:29Excellent place to have one, I find.
16:31Oh, it's strange the people you meet in toilets, isn't it?
16:35I remember once standing at a urinal next to the great Sir Ralph Richardson.
16:39Oh, God, I was a young actor then.
16:42I was completely in awe.
16:44I was trying to impress, very eager, so I started rabbiting on about this, that and the other.
16:48And without even looking over, he said,
16:51Less sprattle, more piddle.
16:54Oh, classic Ralphie.
16:57Yeah, it was wonderful.
16:58I think it was John Cable of Portman he was playing at the time, yeah.
17:09You sure you didn't see or hear Karen walk off later?
17:12You were in the room next to her.
17:13No, I didn't see anything.
17:15I was working early shifts all week, so I was out like...
17:18I saw her.
17:19Went for a walk and saw her heading off.
17:21Couldn't miss her in that heart jacket.
17:23I gave her a wave and she waved back.
17:25I saw her leaving too.
17:27Never.
17:28I was locked the window, it would have been about nine o'clock.
17:31Couldn't you be sure it was her?
17:33Well, you don't see many walkers on the falls trail with leopard print bags,
17:35so yeah, I think it's safe to say it was her.
17:39Anne's taking her time.
17:40Oh, her and Karen nearly came to blows here that night.
17:43No.
17:43Yes, over Karen being tight and not paying for the walk.
17:47Anne said it wasn't the money, it was the principal.
17:49Karen told her to lighten up.
17:51Anne called her a cow.
17:52Anne!
17:53Hmm?
17:53Well, I never.
17:55I am speechless.
17:57Completely speechless.
17:59That is a shock.
18:01You know, pillar of the community, doctor's wife.
18:04Well, I widow.
18:05In a slangin' match.
18:14You were about to send out a search party.
18:16I needed a think.
18:19About Karen?
18:21Hmm.
18:27You didn't like her, did you?
18:30No.
18:30No, she wasn't a nice person.
18:33I know people think I'm a fuddy-duddy, but this walking group means a lot to me and she treated
18:38it like a joke.
18:39You can't understand.
18:42This was Peter's favourite view.
18:44I think it was the reason he wanted to move here.
18:47And every weekend we were up in the Peak District, but he took early retirement so that we could be
18:51here.
18:52This was Peter's spot.
18:55When he could still make it up here.
19:00Do you mind me asking what happened?
19:02It was Parkinson's.
19:03Oh.
19:04And such a cruel disease.
19:08We had a few good years when he could still enjoy these hills before it got too bad.
19:13And then last year he...
19:17People expect you to move on, put on a brave face, be who you were before.
19:21They don't see that you can't go back.
19:23It doesn't get any easier.
19:26Oh, I'm sorry, I remember reading about your wife.
19:29How long has it been?
19:30Ten years.
19:31Ten.
19:33It might be good for you to talk about it with a group more.
19:36Problem shared?
19:38We're a walking group, not a poetry society.
19:41Come on.
19:48What'd you get from Anne?
19:49A stiff upper lip and a warm vulnerability hidden behind a cold shoulder.
19:53In English?
19:54Oh sorry, my mistake.
19:56I'll dumb it down.
19:57Anne didn't like Karen.
19:58Karen bad, make Anne sad.
20:00Sod off.
20:01I can't see her as her killer.
20:04This death has solid one of her remaining links to her husband.
20:07She's the only one who seems to have lost anything from this.
20:10There's something off about Karen's backpack.
20:13Do you want to know what I reckon?
20:14No.
20:15Um, no.
20:15I followed up my hunch on Ryan.
20:17Oh, pray tell.
20:19I went to the toilet to take these.
20:23A tire pin?
20:24No idea what that is.
20:26Mental health meds.
20:27A friend of mine used to take them.
20:29It's not a big deal.
20:30Why you make it such a big deal like this, John Chappell?
20:36And, uh, our charming landlady?
20:38What does she make of Karen?
20:40Assume you've interviewed her?
20:41She wasn't very helpful.
20:42Like, trying to get blood from a stone.
20:44Well, I didn't see her leave.
20:46But she cleared her room and she left the key behind the bar.
20:49Her room was settled in cash, which is fine by me because I don't trust these internet banking.
20:53Oh, neither do I.
20:55Makes it too easy for all these crooks and con men.
20:57This is it, doesn't it?
20:58No, I know you'll never be indiscreet about a guest.
21:02But if you noticed anything about Karen, it could be very helpful.
21:07For me.
21:09There were goings on in the night.
21:11Sexual goings on, if you know what I mean.
21:14Fairly sure it was coming from her room.
21:16Which doesn't surprise me because she seemed to be a very cheap woman.
21:24I'll never forget how helpful you've been.
21:29Blood from a stone?
21:36What's the hold up?
21:37We were supposed to set off eight minutes ago.
21:39He's had a fall.
21:40I haven't had a fall.
21:41I'm not 80.
21:42I fell over.
21:43Nearly ended up with a poker at me.
21:44Oh!
21:45Oh!
21:46Ankle!
21:47Let me do that.
21:48Silly sausage.
21:50It's really helpful that you live on, thank you.
21:52I think I need to put this up, actually.
21:55Look, I think it's for the best if you continue this walk with...
21:59Help me.
22:00Yeah, you heard him.
22:02Come on.
22:02We have to finish the walk.
22:03It's the whole reason we're here.
22:04He'll be fine.
22:07I hope it'll collapse on the wall.
22:08Can I leave me for dead?
22:10Yeah.
22:11My choice of acts.
22:13Well, we'll stay with him.
22:17Right, let's go.
22:23Well, come on then.
22:31I thought you were injured.
22:33You are really good at acting.
22:35Thank you, Yvonne.
22:36A BAFTA, an Emmy nomination and a TV choice award.
22:38Finding a man with a twisted ankle is nothing.
22:40Yes, you were great, darling.
22:42But why did you do it?
22:42Because we need to get back and find Karen's car.
22:44We've already checked every car in the car park.
22:46Something that the landlady said.
22:47That Karen was cheap.
22:48The sugar sachet, see?
22:49No, I wasn't, I feel it.
22:50I did.
22:51No, Karen was frugal.
22:53She wouldn't pay for the car park.
22:54She'd park nearby and walk.
22:55And we need to widen the surge.
23:04One of these must be hers.
23:10Look, you say you're not a sex pest.
23:13I'm not a sex pest last time I checked now.
23:14But you're not trying to take advantage of her, are you?
23:17I don't mind taking advantage.
23:19She's your daughter, Mrs. Malowan.
23:20Using my gifts to further her career.
23:23Only you mean a lot to that girl.
23:25Your show was the only thing that got her through what happened.
23:28Well, what happened?
23:29I shouldn't say anything.
23:33Okay, fine.
23:34Her best friend died.
23:36A while ago.
23:37Very sad.
23:38Suicide.
23:40Right.
23:41Well, I didn't know.
23:42Janey was so lost, bless her.
23:44Hardly left her room for months.
23:46Watched your show on repeat.
23:48It was like a comfort blanket for her.
23:49Got her through the worst.
23:51Look, what I'm saying is, you are her hero.
23:55So if you hurt her, I'll have your watsits off and feed them to the birds.
23:59Right.
23:59Well, as I say, no intention of hurting her.
24:02And every intention of holding onto my watsits.
24:05Happened to be quite attached to them.
24:06What about this one?
24:08It's got a leopard print dog bed in the back.
24:10Very Karen.
24:11If Karen had a pet, it would be a cat.
24:13Honestly, your antennae.
24:15Too well, eh?
24:16Hink, chapel.
24:18Hink, hink, hink.
24:32Who have been named?
24:33Hink, hink.
24:34And can I process her?
24:35Even could be a nothing head.
24:41What are you doing?
24:43It's Karen's car.
24:44Sticker.
24:45Personized plate.
24:46Austin tastes as very Karen.
24:50Boy's messier than your car, love.
24:52Can't go round damaging people's property.
24:54This is a police investigation.
24:55You could have just jeopardized the...
24:58That's her.
24:59That's Karen.
25:01Apparently, it's Veronica Mount, actually.
25:05Wow.
25:06You can choose any fake name and you go for Karen.
25:12So, Karen Barnes is in fact Veronica Mount, a psychiatric nurse from Cheshire.
25:17Can we go back to the bit where you completely lost your mind and smashed open the window before calling
25:23it in?
25:23Yeah, sorry sir.
25:25Moment of madness.
25:26Don't know what came over me.
25:28Oh.
25:29Yeah, right.
25:30Say no more.
25:31I got three donors.
25:32Do you need to take an afternoon off?
25:34Hot water bottle and a big galaxy usually does a trick for my lot.
25:37No.
25:38No, sir.
25:39I'm fine.
25:40Yeah.
25:40That's not it.
25:41Very considerate of you.
25:43Bit over the mark.
25:45Anyway.
25:46It all seems cleared up.
25:47This call for a Twix from the vending machine.
25:49My shout.
25:50I don't know if it is.
25:51I still think it's murder.
25:53We still haven't found her phone.
25:54She lied about her identity and she rubbed a lot of the group up the wrong way.
25:58That sounds like something your actor friend might dream up.
26:01How about sticking to the obvious instead of your guts?
26:04Not everything is a murder.
26:07Hiya.
26:09Thanks.
26:11That was Baxter at the Path Lab.
26:13PM report confirms it was murder.
26:19Karen was dead before the fall.
26:21The impact was from some sort of metal rod.
26:25Somebody hit her then pushed her over the edge.
26:28Well, what do you think?
26:30I thought it would be easier to think without distraction.
26:33I can't believe someone would do that to Karen.
26:37Speechless I am.
26:40Sorry.
26:40I've given her a lift, a funky pump.
26:43Mind you.
26:44Nobody seemed to like Karen.
26:45Even Anne, right from the off.
26:47Karen asked her what kind of operation she was running and Anne bristled.
26:51Bristled.
26:52Didn't even give her a snack bar for the walk.
26:55Anne always gives people a snack bar.
26:56So I thought even then, she's the wrong one.
26:59Yeah, a cup of tea would be lush, ma'am.
27:04I keep being drawn to the backpack.
27:06This again.
27:07Forget objects.
27:08Focus on people.
27:10Emotions.
27:10Feelings.
27:15Chowdhury.
27:16I've run a background check on our victim.
27:18Her bank got back to me.
27:20Up until 2023, Veronica Mount received regular deposits of 5,000 grand.
27:25I think you mean 5 grand.
27:27Anything else?
27:28Yeah.
27:29Tony on the front desk has just won 100 quid on a scratch card.
27:33Anything relevant to the case?
27:35I thought we were just chatting.
27:37No, nothing.
27:41Well, that explains the comment, dark things in people's past.
27:46Blackmail.
27:47You think she was blackmailing one of the group?
27:49Who?
27:49Ryan, obviously.
27:51Because he's on anti-psychotics.
27:52We can't hound people because they have mental health problems.
27:55Yes, but he's lying about seeing Karen, Veronica, that morning.
27:59What did he say?
28:00He knew it was her because he saw the heart on her jacket.
28:04So?
28:05Well, how could he?
28:06She was wearing her backpack.
28:08Bronwyn saw her wearing it that morning.
28:11And it was found with the body.
28:15I'm not lying.
28:16I saw her.
28:17She even waved at me.
28:18Why would I lie?
28:20You moved here from Manchester.
28:22Veronica Mount lived in Cheshire, but worked for a mental health trust in Manchester.
28:26It's a big city.
28:28It's not like here where everyone knows each other.
28:29I mean, you used to probably go to school together.
28:31That's just a Welsh stereotype.
28:32We did not go to school together.
28:33Only because Aunty Yvonne thought my school was too rough for you.
28:36We are cousins, yes.
28:38All right.
28:38So you and Veronica just went for a walk at the same time.
28:41Where? Why?
28:42I'd urge my client not to say anything.
28:44Don't act all smarter. You don't used to eat crayons.
28:49Look, I know you don't want to talk about the darkness in the old melon.
28:54Are you trying to say mental health?
28:56Yeah.
28:56I've been there too.
28:57I might seem like a normal person.
29:00Feel free to agree.
29:02But, a little while ago, I had a pretty big breaky day.
29:09Nervy bee.
29:10Just lost my marhabs a bit.
29:12You're really not very good at talking about this stuff.
29:15I just slept.
29:17Occasionally ate and watched a hell of a lot of crime dramas.
29:21That's why you disappeared.
29:22Mam said you'd gone on a ski holiday.
29:24Pam said I'm in ski.
29:25Have you feeling a ski out here on?
29:27Look, I know what it's like to come back from something like that.
29:29And I think you do too.
29:34Maybe, yeah.
29:35For her, you need to start opening up and talking about it.
29:39Because I don't see you as a murderer.
29:46Last year I had a bit of an episode.
29:48I was working in Manchester, burning the candle at both ends and erm...
29:53I couldn't cope.
29:55Hence the quetiapine.
29:56How do you know?
29:57It's not a peeing contest, but I was on a way higher dose.
30:01Well, the meds have really helped, but I lost them when I was on the walk.
30:04I had to get an emergency prescription sent over to the pharmacy in Abbekinlay.
30:08That's where I was.
30:09I know the one.
30:10Jean would remember you.
30:11Big city coat.
30:12Weird accent.
30:13I'll check it out.
30:14Now, who doesn't have the antennae?
30:18Oh, I still don't understand why you lied about seeing Veronica leaving.
30:22I didn't.
30:23I don't care what Bronwyn thinks she saw.
30:25Check with her son.
30:26He would have seen her as well.
30:27Stefan?
30:27He was asleep all morning.
30:29Nope.
30:29He was watching from the window.
30:30It was definitely him.
30:33Little weirdo.
30:35Okay.
30:36Will he do him spag ball, henna?
30:38Yeah.
30:39Okay.
30:43Ryan's story checks out.
30:45Couldn't shut Jean at the chemist up about his coat.
30:48But Stefan...
30:50I don't know why he lied to us.
30:52Probably because he was hiding the fact that he spent the night with Veronica.
30:55You think they were doing it?
30:57No, I don't think they were doing it.
30:59Because I'm not 12 years old.
31:02I think they were having sex.
31:04Natural, passionate, animal sex.
31:06I don't like it when you talk about that stuff.
31:08It's like when teachers do.
31:09Right.
31:10Let's go and see what he has to say.
31:11Whoa!
31:11You're not coming.
31:12We'll be laughed out of court if the arresting officers are me
31:15and the man the Radio Times called Britain's greatest detective.
31:18No, stay here.
31:19I'll leave the window open for you.
31:22I'm not a dog.
31:23And it was Britain's most formidable detective.
31:27Good boy.
31:34Hi.
31:39Can I help?
31:40We need to have a chat, Stefan.
31:42I said stay in the car.
31:44Look, I don't do everything I know.
31:45It's alright.
31:47I knew this moment would come sooner or later, so I might as well say it.
31:51I murdered her.
31:59I'm not convinced.
32:02It just doesn't feel right.
32:04Bronwyn, get off my fries.
32:05I'm only having a couple.
32:06I know what you mean, but Bronwyn's confessed.
32:08Bronwyn doesn't even want a solicitor.
32:10Even though Stefan and Leia are desperate trying to get one.
32:13Leia?
32:16Of course.
32:18Bronwyn didn't do it.
32:19She made the same mistake I did.
32:21It's got nothing to do with Bronwyn.
32:22You were right.
32:23Was I brilliant?
32:24What about?
32:24It was a backpack.
32:26It all hinges on that.
32:28It wasn't messy.
32:31Ryan wasn't lying.
32:38I hope there's a good reason for bringing us all here.
32:40I'm supposed to be at water aerobics and the instructor will go easy on the group if I'm not there.
32:44What is going on?
32:45You're still not telling me why I've been released.
32:47Because you didn't kill Veronica.
32:50You're protecting your son.
32:51I was going to say that bit.
32:53Neely gravitas.
32:55I didn't kill her.
32:56He didn't.
32:56It was me.
32:58Wow.
33:00Sorry.
33:00What are you doing?
33:02I just came in with everyone else.
33:05What's going on?
33:06Can you go?
33:10Stefan really didn't kill her, Bronwyn.
33:13You made the same mistake I did.
33:15You assumed that Stefan spent the night with Veronica.
33:19No.
33:20Nice young Stefan and Veronica.
33:22Well, I have suspected.
33:24No, you hadn't, ma'am.
33:25I came to your room to bring you a hot water bottle.
33:27You weren't there.
33:29Next morning, I saw her walk off.
33:31You came back into your room within an hour.
33:33Nobody else was up.
33:34So I assumed that you'd-
33:35And nipped out to murder a woman.
33:37No.
33:37Then where were you all night?
33:40With me.
33:43Oh, bloody hell.
33:46Oh, for-
33:47Who's ordering food at a time like this?
33:50Someone stole all my chips earlier.
33:52These are on the house.
33:54Really?
33:54That's so sweet.
33:56Oh, I can't be Stefan.
33:57I hope this is a sick joke.
33:58I actually had suspected.
34:00I don't think we need to be airing all this in public.
34:02Excuse me.
34:06God, they are good chips though.
34:07Sorry.
34:09Sorry.
34:10That's why Veronica made the comment about being exactly your type.
34:13She wasn't flirting.
34:14She'd caught me and Leia kissed her on the walk.
34:17Oh.
34:17She seemed to find her funny.
34:19But that's why I offered to pay for her room.
34:22So she wouldn't tell ma'am.
34:23Argluthmour.
34:24Tia Leia.
34:25Why do you think I come on these walks with you, ma'am?
34:28You're smothering.
34:29How could you say that about your own mother?
34:31To be fair, you have just accused him of being a murderer, love.
34:34Well, I wish she was better than this.
34:35Oh, leave her alone.
34:38Leia's the best thing that's ever happened to me.
34:40Wait.
34:41So who did kill Veronica?
35:00It was a snack bar that made me suspect, first of all.
35:04You always offer one on arrival.
35:06I thought I'd been so careful.
35:09We didn't realise you used to live in Manchester.
35:12That's how you knew Veronica.
35:14She'd worked as a trainee nurse under your husband before he took early retirement.
35:17And of course, she knew why he'd taken early retirement.
35:21The onset of Parkinson's is not great for a doctor, but far worse for a surgeon.
35:27I guess that there was some kind of botched procedure.
35:30Only one.
35:31I mean, people didn't have to be snowflakes about it.
35:34Nobody died, and the panel cleared him.
35:36Yes, but they didn't know about the Parkinson's.
35:38Veronica did, and she decided to blackmail him.
35:41I never knew.
35:42She was blackmailing him right up until he went into care and she couldn't get to him.
35:45She was torturing him.
35:47And then Veronica showed up here.
35:51Yes, and last year she threatened to expose the truth about Peter.
35:54He was a pillar of the community.
35:57I shouldn't have, but I paid her.
35:59She said it was a one-off.
36:00Yes, but blackmail is never a one-off, though.
36:03I thought that was the end of it, and then she showed up on the walk.
36:10It must have taken a lot for you to pretend that you didn't know her.
36:15She wanted more money.
36:16She said she would come back every week until I paid her.
36:19I told her to meet me along the trail so nobody from the group would see us.
36:22And in return, she would leave forever.
36:25And she did leave.
36:27Forever.
36:29The risk of gravity.
36:31You waited for her at the top of the falls with an iron bar you'd found.
36:35Found?
36:36Yeah.
36:36No, no, it was clearly the poker from the pub.
36:40Where did you get that?
36:41Occasionally you do have to think about objects and not people, you know.
36:45Oh, thank you.
36:47Then you took her phone, removing the one piece of evidence that could tell us who she really was.
36:53And then you pushed her over the edge.
36:56Everyone would assume that she didn't want to walk with the group and left early.
37:00Another fall in inappropriate gear.
37:02In a danger spot.
37:04Very well planned.
37:06Very Anne.
37:08But how did you actually know the backpack?
37:11Ryan saw Veronica walking off without one.
37:14So who did Bronwen see walking with the backpack?
37:18She left it in her room?
37:19Yeah.
37:20I mean, what sort of a person walks the falls trail without their equipment?
37:25We panicked.
37:27Then, as usual, you came up with a plan.
37:33You came back to Veronica's room, packed a bag, then left the pub pretending to be Veronica.
37:40Then you walked back.
37:41I am still talking here.
37:43Then you walked back to the falls and threw it in with the body.
37:49I still don't see...
37:50It was too neatly packed.
37:51Yeah.
37:52Ordered.
37:53Very Anne.
37:54But totally out of character for Veronica.
37:57Oh, that's very annoying.
38:01May I have a moment alone to say goodbye?
38:06Of course.
38:10Actually, no.
38:12Just the whole you being a murderer thing sort of means I have to stay here.
38:16But I can...
38:17I'll wait for you.
38:19Have a moment.
38:20A minute.
38:27It's hard to believe how much Anne would risk just to protect a dead person.
38:32It's easy to kill.
38:34When half of you is already dead.
38:37It's a shame.
38:39We all need people.
38:42Living people.
38:44Can't cut yourself off from all connections.
38:47Hey, I'm talking about you in case you...
38:49I've very much got that, yeah.
38:51Hard to miss with your sledgehammer approach.
38:55Oh, quick! Get down! Get down!
38:57Don't go!
39:00Sir, don't!
39:02What are you doing?
39:03It's a senior male officer getting into a lone female officer's car.
39:08Inappropriate.
39:09Yeah.
39:10Sorry.
39:10They're doing gender politics in the workplace.
39:12Refresher courses in Swansea.
39:14I'll sign myself up.
39:16I'm just going to have a chat with a lad.
39:17Not lads.
39:18Fellas.
39:19Fellow officers.
39:20Colleagues.
39:21People.
39:23Hello there.
39:25How's it going, lads?
39:28Well, unsurprisingly, Anne made a full confession.
39:31Wow!
39:32Look at this place!
39:34You've finally finished your great cry for help!
39:36Yep.
39:37Made a lot harder.
39:39My shoulder pushing me down like that.
39:42But still, everything is in its place.
39:45And now I can sit down.
39:48And enjoy it.
39:49Yeah, great.
39:50Look, erm, feel free to say no, but I'm going to the pub tonight.
39:54Do you fancy joining?
39:55Can't.
39:56Got plans for this evening?
39:58What?
39:58You might have had a point.
40:00Perhaps I do need to get out and meet people.
40:02So, I've signed up for the local bookshop book group.
40:05Ah, John Chappell, that's amazing! My mum goes to that one!
40:08Oh, great. I was hoping not to get a word in edgeways.
40:12Hey.
40:12I'm allowed to be rude about my mum, but you're not.
40:15Well, I'll leave you to get ready.
40:17Alright, before you go,
40:19I've, erm,
40:21got you a gift.
40:22Hm?
40:23I know, erm,
40:25I know Caesar means a lot to you, so...
40:34What? What's wrong?
40:35Nothing needs a happy tears.
40:38Oh.
40:41Oh, ooh, ooh.
40:49Can you put it on?
40:54Oh, sorry.
40:57Okay.
41:06Can you do the line?
41:12Crime waits for no man.
41:17Oh.
41:18What?
41:19No, nothing.
41:20It's just...
41:21didn't...
41:22didn't sound like Caesar.
41:24No.
41:24What are you talking about?
41:25Of course it did.
41:26Oh, really.
41:27Yes, it did.
41:28Well, don't get in a huff about it.
41:29I'm not in a huff.
41:31Crime waits for no man.
41:32You keep...