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Death Valley S01E02
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00:15RUNNING OFF LIKE THAT, THE ITINERARY WAS CLEAR, BREAKCAST IN THE PUB, 9.30, 10 O'CLOCK,
00:20MEET OUTSIDE THE PUB, FINAL PREP, 10.15, WALK FROM THE PUB TO PORT MARO, THEN COMPLETE
00:25THE LOOP BACK TO YESTERDAY'S START POINT. WHY WOULD SHE LEAVE EARLY?
00:28MAYBE SHE FANCIES SOMETHING LESS STRICT, LIKE AN S.A.S. BOOT CAMP.
00:33THESE WALKS ARE A BIT FULL ON, ANN. I HAVEN'T LOOKED UP FOR 40 MINUTES.
00:37YOU PUT ON SOME HARD GARRAGE, IT'S LIKE YOU'RE ON A TREADMIL FOR FITNESS FIRST.
00:43I DON'T GET IT. KAREN AGREED TO HAVE BREAKFAST WITH ME, AND I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO IT,
00:48BECAUSE I HAVEN'T HAD A PROPER CHATTLE, KAREN.
00:49I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY SHE BEHAVED, FLIRTING WITH STEFAN, A TEENAGER.
00:54I'M 19, MAN.
00:55COME ON, KEEP UP THE PACE.
00:57COME ON, KEEP UP THE PACE.
01:01COME ON, KEEP UP THE PACE.
01:11COME ON, KEEP UP THE PACE.
01:13OKAY.
01:15OH, THAT IS TIDY, THAT IS.
01:22It's a shame Karen's not here.
01:29Uh, I think she is, guys.
01:32Oh, good God!
01:33Hurry up!
01:34We'd better call the police!
01:35I'll do it!
01:36Don't look Stefan, don't!
01:38Janie, it's ma'am.
01:40You 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 her body!
01:58This is the fifth follow we've had here in two years.
02:01When are people going to learn exercise skills?
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.
02:24She wouldn't have suffered, Mrs M!
02:26Totally would have suffered.
02:28Horrible way to go.
02:29My idea of hell.
02:30Basically smashed to death.
02:32Alright.
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.
02:41Family holiday.
02:42Brought Kel and the kids here walking.
02:44Try to teach them about the history of these falls.
02:46The myth of school Gladys.
02:47Learn about their heritage.
02:49Teenage girls.
02:51Should have taken up the Tenerife on reflection.
02:53Anyway, what have we got?
02:54Looks like a fall.
02:56You'd expect lower body injuries from her jump.
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 mom.
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.
03:36How do we find a person?
03:40A good actor.
03:41Proper actor.
03:41Doesn't need word or movement.
03:44They can reach into the essence of character with two things.
03:52The eyes.
03:54Cheryl, would you just pop over here, please?
03:57Cool earrings.
03:59I want you to read from this sheet.
04:04We're going to go through a series of emotions.
04:06Now, I'm going to try and portray them just by using my eyes.
04:14And cue.
04:15Anger.
04:16Love.
04:18Betrayal.
04:20Lust.
04:22Sadness.
04:23Fear.
04:25Surprise.
04:26Again, rapidly.
04:27Anger.
04:28Love.
04:28Betrayal.
04:29Lust.
04:30Sadness.
04:31Fear.
04:31Surprise.
04:32Don't freeze.
04:34There.
04:35The eyes have it.
04:39Now, physical comedy.
04:42This.
04:43Is.
04:45Amazing.
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.
04:56Oh.
04:58Oh.
04:59Oh, yeah.
04:59A powerful peek behind the magic of acting.
05:03Not my words.
05:04Jeremy Irons.
05:05Yeah.
05:06So, what's going on here, anyway?
05:08Well, I'm rearranging everything.
05:09I do it every few years.
05:12I've always, I've become blocked.
05:14You tried prune juice?
05:16Ma'am sways by it when she's to clear out the basement.
05:18Delightful.
05:19Very evocative.
05:20Yeah, I'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.
05:34Read it in the paper.
05:35Identity wiped.
05:36Can we ever truly hide ourselves?
05:40Yeah, 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.
05:52It's interesting.
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.
06:04This 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.
06:15Ma'am 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 policewoman, for goodness sake.
06:23You know how it all works.
06:24I'll just do, okay?
06:26Anyway, we're not talking about me.
06:28We're talking about Karen.
06:29So, shut 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, the sugar sachets, found in her pocket.
06:41She didn't want them, didn't use them, but she remembers what it was like to go without.
06:46Yes, and an apple stalk and two pips, which means she eats the whole core.
06:52Now, that is very interesting.
06:54Why?
06:55Because I do that as well.
06:56Great.
06:57I'll put an APB out for anyone who nicks sugar sachets and 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?
07:08You think she was killed?
07:09Obviously.
07:10Yes, look.
07:11The shoes.
07:12And no phone.
07:13We can't discount that.
07:14But we're working on the theory that her phone slipped out of her pocket when she fell
07:17and washed away.
07:18You're better off working on your observation skills because phones do not slip out of skin-tight jeggings.
07:23You know about jeggings?
07:25Doesn't everyone.
07:26No, Karen's killer took her phone to stop you finding out who she really was.
07:31But who?
07:33One of the walking group.
07:34This is my mom'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 without knowing more about the suspect.
07:55This is not what I meant.
07:58I hate synthetic fibers.
08:00They make my skin hit.
08:01You're lucky the charity shop had any walking gear.
08:04This could be good for you getting out of the house.
08:06You know, loneliness is a killer.
08:08I am 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.
08:18Rude!
08:18Right, there they are.
08:20They all agreed to come back and do the walk again.
08:23Goodish.
08:25Right now, it's probably best if I take the lead.
08:28You haven't got my antennae for people.
08:29Look, just 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, out of some repute, of course.
08:42Well respected.
08:43Yes, yes.
08:44Let's walk him or walk him.
08:45Come on.
08:46Recently there was an article.
08:47I'll send it to you.
08:49Oh, here they are.
08:50Hiya!
08:51Mum said it'd be alright if I brought my friend John along.
08:54You've never had the National Treasury with us before.
08:56Please, please, no, no, please.
08:58I'm just one of the group.
08:59Nothing special.
09:01What are you doing here?
09:02Not here on official business.
09:03Mum's just always telling me I need to get out more.
09:06No, you're so pale.
09:07And you're always driving.
09:08Never walk anywhere.
09:09Yes, thank you.
09:10John, ma'am.
09:12Mr. Chappell.
09:13Ma'am.
09:14Thank you, sir.
09:15Thank you, ma'am.
09:16My name is Monk.
09:17Is he panico?
09:18Yes, ma'am.
09:19Anne Treadway, Treasurer.
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.
09:27Wait.
09:27Do you expect preferential treatment because you're famous?
09:29Oh, but I can't...
09:30No, no, indeed.
09:31I should hope not.
09:31Now, hurry up and we can get started.
09:33What?
09:33Right, snack bar.
09:35Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you.
09:37No, it's not a question.
09:38No, it's three hours until the pub lunch
09:39and I will not have people's blood sugar falling.
09:43Worth remembering.
09:45Right, let's go!
09:48We need it!
09:59We need it.
10:01We need it.
10:02We need it.
10:02We need it!
10:04We need it.
10:06We need it!
10:06We need it!
10:06It's the杯 of wine.
10:11Can you run the bottles?
10:14We need it to do?
10:15Do you have any problems?
10:15Ma'am, he understands Welsh.
10:18Also, even if he didn't, sex best is an English word,
10:21so 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.
10:34Whenever got Karen killed,
10:36she's the most likely to have observed it.
10:39Come on! No stragglers, please!
10:47Threat hair in the lungs and blood in the legs.
10:50Blow winds, crack your cheeks!
10:53Rage, blow!
10:54What more could you want?
10:55A bit of silence?
10:56This is the Travache Ramblers' Portimaire Yomp,
10:59not a chat show.
11:00Sorry, forgive me, I'll shut up.
11:02But I would like to say,
11:03I do admire you for 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.
11:17She arrived late.
11:18She signed up online
11:20and the website didn't say,
11:21walk up whenever suits you.
11:23Rules are rules for a reason.
11:25I find in the modern world
11:26that there's a distinct lack of decorum.
11:28You sound like my husband.
11:29This was Peter's favourite walk.
11:32I didn't like the idea of someone
11:32turning up and treating it like a joke.
11:34Well, quite right, it's in the front.
11:35I bet she wasn't prepared in a slight...
11:37No, she wasn't.
11:38No equipment, no money,
11:39so 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 but 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,
11:49which I thought was very odd.
11:51And it is a lot odd about Stefan.
11:53Bit of a...
11:53Bit of a mummy's boy.
11:55That's interesting.
11:56Oh, I'm sorry.
11:56Oh yes, no, do.
12:02God, you really are good.
12:03No, ice cream's good.
12:04I'm a highly skilled emotional empath.
12:07Come on, don't dawdle.
12:15Stefan, isn't it?
12:17Yeah.
12:18You're Mr. Chappell.
12:19Hey, how come you're not on the telly anymore?
12:21Mum thinks you were cancelled,
12:23but Leia thinks you're just not getting any work.
12:25Stefan, no.
12:25No, no, no.
12:26That's not what we said.
12:28I'm Leia Jones.
12:29Lovely to meet you, darling.
12:30I do.
12:31I don't have Caesar down as much of a walker.
12:34Yeah, it's good to get out into God's country, isn't it?
12:37Yeah.
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.
12:50Well, a good set of pins.
12:51I'll get my old pasty legs out.
12:53I don't know, like a couple of stiff ones in me.
12:54Drink those, we'll do it.
12:57Bronwyn Richards,
12:58big fan of your theatre work.
13:00How wonderful.
13:01Always a pleasure to meet a discerning 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, love you.
13:11I've got an MA.
13:12Yes, of course, Leia 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.
13:25This is the sort of place I used to come to when I won.
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.
14:00Marvelous.
14:01Karen must have been very grateful.
14:04Yeah, she was.
14:04Too grateful by far, if you ask me.
14:07Almost lascivious.
14:08Told Stefan she was his type.
14:10I mean, that's a bit harsh, but she was a wrong one.
14:12Is that why you asked Anne to throw her out the group?
14:14No.
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.
14:32Come on.
14:32It's only four miles to the pub.
14:34Right.
14:38See?
14:39You're making friends.
14:40Please.
14:41Come on.
14:42Admit it.
14:42You're enjoying getting out and meeting new people.
14:47Careful, Stefan.
14:48Right.
14:49Okay.
14:49A pint.
14:50A pint.
14:52They didn't have an extra hot long macchiato, so it's kinko.
14:57Sorry.
14:57Oh dear.
14:58G&T.
15:01Tap water, Ryan.
15:02Oh.
15:03Surprised to see you the best, Stefan.
15:05As soon as you're still breastfed.
15:06For your information, Stefan has not been breastfed since he was six.
15:12Makes 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.
15:20I will best take off my jacket, otherwise I won't feel the benefit.
15:23Gift your bum.
15:24Come on.
15:28It's Ryan, 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.
15:34We'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 crest?
15:42Your accent, it's not from round here?
15:45Nope.
15:45Moved here from Manchester.
15:46Manchester.
15:47Mad for it.
15:49Sound.
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 Abkincla?
15:59Saving it for a rainy day.
16:02Aren't you a bit young and normal for this group?
16:07My GP thought it'd be good for me.
16:09A lot of health benefits are walking.
16:10Not for Karen, they weren't.
16:12Jesus.
16:26I just came in for a slash.
16:29Excellent place to have one, I find.
16:32It's strange to people you meet in toilets, isn't it?
16:35I remember once standing at 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,
16:46so I started rabbiting on about this, that and the other.
16:49And without even looking over, he said,
16:51Les Prattle, Boer Piddle.
16:55Classic Rafie.
16:56Right.
16:58Yeah, it was wonderful.
16:59I think it was John Gabriel Portman who was playing at the time, yeah.
17:09You sure you didn't see or hear Karen walk off, Leia?
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 quickly.
17:19I saw her.
17:20Went for a walk and saw her heading off.
17:22Couldn'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.
17:29It would have been about nine o'clock.
17:32Couldn't you be sure it was her?
17:33Well, you don't see many walkers on the falls trail with leopard print bags,
17:36so yeah, I think it's safe to say it was her.
17:39Anne's taking her time.
17:40Oh!
17:41Her and Karen nearly came to blows here that night.
17:43No.
17:44Yes, over Karen being tight and not paying for the walk.
17:47Anne said it wasn't the money, it was the principle.
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.
18:03Doctor's wife.
18:04Well, a widow.
18:06In a slanging match.
18:14You were about to send out a search party.
18:16Hmm.
18:17I needed a think.
18:19About Karen?
18:21Hmm.
18:27You didn't like her, did you?
18:30No.
18:31No, 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.
18:40Hmm.
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.
19:04Oh.
19:05And such a cruel disease.
19:09We 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.
19:37Problem shared?
19:38We're a walking group, not a poetry society.
19:41No.
19:41Come on.
19:48What'd you get from Anne?
19:50A stiff upper lip and a warm vulnerability hidden behind a cold shoulder.
19:54In English?
19:55Oh, sorry. My mistake. I'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 saddened 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. I followed up my hunch on Ryan.
20:17Oh, pray tell.
20:19What?
20:20I went to the toilet to take these.
20:22What are they?
20:23With a tire pin?
20:25No idea what that is.
20:26Mental health meds.
20:28A friend of mine needs to take them.
20:29It's not a big deal. Why are you making such a big deal out of it, John Chappell?
20:32Mm-hmm.
20:36And, uh, our charming landlady?
20:39What does she make of Karen? Assume you've interviewed her?
20:41She wasn't very helpful.
20:42Like, trying to get blood from her stone.
20:45Well, I didn't see her leave, but 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. Makes it too easy for all these crooks and conmen.
20:57This is it, isn't it?
20:59Now, I know you'll never be indiscreet about a guest, but if you noticed anything about Karen, it could be
21:06very helpful.
21:07For me.
21:09There were goings on in the night. Sexual 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? We were supposed to set off eight minutes ago.
21:39He's had a fall.
21:40I haven't had a fall. I'm not 80. I fell over.
21:43Nearly ended up with a poker up my heart.
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 without me.
22:01Yeah, you heard him. Come on, we have to finish the walk. It's the whole reason we're here. He'll be
22:05fine.
22:06I hope you don't collapse on the walk and I'll leave me for dead.
22:10Yeah.
22:11That choice arrives.
22:13Well, we'll stay with him.
22:19Right, let's go.
22:24Well, come on then.
22:31I thought you were injured.
22:32Good.
22:33You are really good at acting.
22:35Thank you, Yvonne.
22:36A BAFTA, an Emmy nomination and a TV choice award.
22:39Feigning a man with a twisted ankle is nothing.
22:41Yes, you were great, darling, but why did you do it?
22:43Because we need to get back and find Karen's car.
22:45We've already checked every car in the car park.
22:47Something that the landlady said, that Karen was cheap.
22:48The sugar sachet, see?
22:49You were what's the villain?
22:50Indeed.
22:51Karen 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.
23:11You say you're not a sex pest.
23:13I'm not a sex pest last time I checked, no.
23:15But you're not trying to take advantage of her, are you?
23:17I don't mind taking advantage.
23:19She's your daughter, Mrs Malaw, and using 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.
23:28What happened?
23:30I 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.
24:00Well, as I say, no intention of hurting her.
24:03And every intention of holding on to my watsits.
24:05I happen 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.
24:15Do you want her?
24:16Hink.
24:17Hink.
24:18Hink.
24:19Hink.
24:23Hink.
24:24Hink.
24:32Hink.
24:33Hink.
24:33Hink.
24:34Hink.
24:35Hink.
24:35Hink.
24:36Hink.
24:41What are you doing?
24:43Hink.
24:43That's Karen's car, sticker, personalised plate, ostentatious, very Karen.
24:50Boy's messier than your colour!
24:52Can't go round damaging people's property, this is a police investigation, you could've just jeopardised the...
24:58That's it, that's Karen.
25:01Apparently it's Veronica Mount, actually.
25:06Wow, you can choose any fake name and you go for Karen.
25:12So, Karen Barnes is in fact Veronica Mount, a psychiatric nurse from Cheshire.
25:18Can 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, moment of madness, don't know what came over me.
25:28Oh, yeah right, say no more, I got three donors. Do you need to take an afternoon off?
25:34Hot water bottle and a big galaxy usually does a trick for my lot.
25:38No, no sir, I'm fine. Yeah, that's not it. Very considerate of you. Bit over the mark.
25:45Anyway, it all seems cleared up. This call for a Twix from the vending machine, my shout.
25:50I don't know if it is. I still think it's murder.
25:53We still haven't found our phone, she lied about her identity and she rubbed a lot of the group up
25:57the 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.
26:10Thanks.
26:11That was Baxter at the Path Lab. PM report confirms it was murder.
26:19Karen was dead before the fall. The impact was from some sort of metal rod. Somebody hit her then pushed
26:27her over the edge.
26:27Well, what do you think?
26:30I thought it would be easier to think without distraction.
26:34I can't believe someone would do that to Karen. Speechless I am.
26:40Sorry, I gave her a lift to Funky Pump.
26:43Mind you, nobody seemed to like Karen. Even Anne, right from the off.
26:47Karen asked her what kind of operation she was running and Anne bristled.
26:52Bristled. Didn't even give her a snack bar for the walk. Anne 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. Forget objects. Focus on people. Emotions. Feelings.
27:15Choudry?
27:16I've run a background check on our victim. Her 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. Anything else?
27:28Yeah, told me on the front desk it's just 100 quid on a scratch card.
27:33Anything relevant to the case?
27:35I thought we were just chatting. No, nothing.
27:41Well, that explains the comment, dark things in people's past. Blackmail.
27:47You think she was blackmailing one of the group? Who?
27:50Ryan, obviously.
27:51Because he's on anti-psychotics. We can't hound people because they have mental health problems.
27:55Yes, but he's lying about seeing Karen, Veronica, that morning.
28:00What did he say? He knew it was her because he saw the heart on her jacket.
28:04So?
28:05Well, how could he? She was wearing her backpack.
28:09Bronwyn saw her wearing it that morning. And it was found with the body.
28:15I'm not lying. I saw her. She even waved at me. Why 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. It's not like here where everyone knows each other.
28:30We used to probably went to school together.
28:31That's just a Welsh stereotype. We did not go to school together.
28:33Only because Aunty Yvonne thought my school was too rough for you.
28:37We are cousins, yes. All right.
28:38So, you and Veronica just went for a walk at the same time. Where? Why?
28:42I'd urge my client not to say anything.
28:44Don't act all smarter. You don't use 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. I've been there too. I might seem like a normal person. Feel free to agree.
29:02But, a little while ago I had a pretty big breaky D. Nervy B. Just lost my marms a bit.
29:12You're really not very good at talking about this stuff.
29:15I just slept. Occasionally ate and watched a hell of a lot of crime dramas.
29:21That's why you disappeared. Mam said you'd gone on a ski holiday.
29:24Pam said he meant ski-off. You feel he's ski-off here on?
29:27Look, I know what it's like to come back from something like that and I think you do too.
29:34Maybe, yeah.
29:36But 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.
29:49I was working in Manchester, burning the candle at both ends and erm...
29:54I couldn't cope.
29:55Hence the quetiapine.
29:57How do you know?
29:57It's not a paint 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.
30:05I had to get an emergency prescription sent over to the pharmacy in Aberkinley.
30:09That's where I was.
30:10I know the one.
30:11Jean would remember you.
30:12Big city coat, weird accent.
30:13I'll check it out.
30:14Now, who doesn't have the antennae?
30:17Erm, oh.
30:19I still don't understand why you lied about seeing Veronica leaving.
30:23I didn't.
30:24I don't care what Bronwyn thinks you saw.
30:25Checked with her son, he would have seen her as well.
30:27Stefan? He was asleep all morning.
30:29No.
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...
30:49I don't know why he lied to us.
30:52Probably because he was hiding the fact that he spent the night with Veronica.
30:56You 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 we're 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.
31:10Right, let's go and see what he has to say.
31:11Whoa, you're not coming.
31:12We'll be laughed out of court if the arresting officers are me and the man the Radio Times called Britain's
31:17greatest detective.
31:18No, stay here.
31:20I'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.
31:33Hi.
31:39Can I help?
31:40We need to have a chat, Stefan.
31:43I said stay in the car.
31:44Look, I told you everything I know.
31:46It's all right.
31:47I knew this moment would come sooner or later, so I might as well say it.
31:51I murdered her.
32:00I'm not convinced.
32:02It just doesn't feel right.
32:04Bronwyn, get off my front.
32:05I'm only having a couple.
32:07I know what you mean, but Bronwyn's confessed.
32:09Doesn'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.
32:29It 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.
32:52I was going to say that bit.
32:54You need a gravitas.
32:55I didn't kill her.
32:56He didn't.
32:57It was me.
32:58Wow.
33:00Sorry.
33:01What are you doing?
33:02I just came in with everyone else.
33:05What's going on?
33:07What's going on?
33:07Can 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 had suspected.
33:24No, you hadn't, ma'am.
33:25I came to your room to bring you a hot water bottom.
33:28You 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.
33:45Chips chips.
33:47Oh, for-
33:48Who's ordering food at a time like this?
33:50Someone stole all my chips earlier.
33:53These are on the house.
33:54Really?
33:54That's so sweet.
33:56What have you, 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.
34:03Excuse me.
34:06God, they are good chips though.
34:09Sorry.
34:10That's why Veronica made the comment about being exactly your type.
34:13She wasn't flirting.
34:15She'd caught me and Leia kissing on the walk.
34:17Oh.
34:18She seemed to find her funny.
34:20But that's why I offered to pay for her room.
34:22So she wouldn't tell ma'am.
34:23Argoith Mawr, tia Leia.
34:25Why do you think I'd 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, it'd be better than this.
34:36Leave her alone.
34:38Leia's the best thing that's ever happened to me.
34:41Wait.
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.
35:07I thought I'd been so careful.
35:10We didn't realise you used to live in Manchester.
35:13That's how you knew Veronica.
35:14She'd worked as a trainee nurse and dear husband before he took early retirement.
35:18And 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.
35:31Only one.
35:31I mean, people didn't have to be snowflakes about it.
35:34Nobody died and the panel cleared him.
35:36But 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, last year she threatened to expose the truth about Peter.
35:55He 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.
36:03No, I 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.
36:36Found?
36:36Yeah.
36:37No, 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.
36:46No.
36:46Then 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, in a danger spot.
37:04Very well planned.
37:06Very Anne.
37:07But 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?
37:20Yeah.
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.
37:41And you walked back.
37:42Oi, I'm 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.
37:55But totally out of character for Veronica.
37:58Oh, 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.
38:18I'll you...
38:19Have a moment.
38:20A minute.
38:28It'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.
38:48Hey, 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!
38:57Get down!
38:57Get down!
38:58Don't!
39:00Sir, don't!
39:02What are you doing?
39:03A 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.
39:13Refresher courses in Swansea.
39:14I'll sign myself up.
39:16I'm just going to have a chat with a lad.
39:18Not lads.
39:19Fellas.
39:19Fellow officers.
39:20Colleagues.
39:22People.
39:23Hello there.
39:25How's it going, lads?
39:28Well, unsurprisingly, Anne made a full confession.
39:32Wow.
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.
39:57Got plans for this evening?
39:58Oh.
39:59You 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.
40:05Oh, John Shuffle, that's amazing.
40:07My mam goes to that one.
40:08Oh, great.
40:09I was hoping not to get a word in edgeways.
40:12Hey.
40:13I'm allowed to be rude about my mam, but you're not.
40:15Well, I'll leave you to get ready.
40:17Alright, before you go.
40:19I've, erm, got you a gift.
40:22Hm?
40:23I know, erm, I know Caesar means a lot to you, so...
40:34I've got a gift.
40:35What?
40:35What's wrong?
40:36Nothing, these are happy tears.
40:39Oh, thanks.
40:42Oh!
40:43Oh, oh, oh.
40:49Can you put it on?
40:55Ah!
41:06Can you do the line?
41:12Crime waits for no man.
41:17Oh.
41:18What?
41:19No, nothing. It's just...
41:22Didn't sound like Caesar.
41:24What are you talking about? Of course it did.
41:26Oh, really.
41:27Yes, it did.
41:28Well, don't get in a huff about it.
41:30I'm not in a huff.
41:31Crime waits for no man.
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