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Death Valley S01E03
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00:16I'll get them coming in.
00:17You go around the back and get some photos of the church as per the mood board.
00:20They'll be ready by the main doors.
00:22The mood board?
00:23The real deal is that, I tell you now.
00:27Leave it alone, then.
00:28Fine.
00:31Sorry, sorry.
00:31Could you get some shots of me from the other side?
00:33It's just my nose looks a bit snaggy from the right.
00:36You feel alright, love?
00:37Yeah, I could say.
00:38Why wouldn't it be?
00:39Well, you know, last me jitters.
00:40You like Dara?
00:41Yeah, I do.
00:42It's just a bit uptight, didn't you?
00:43What?
00:43Oh, lovely lad.
00:45Pracking boy.
00:45Welcome to the family.
00:46It's been a blast now.
00:48Dad.
00:49What?
00:50Your battery's dead.
00:51For God's sake, Ashley.
00:52No body.
00:54Dad.
00:55There's a dead body.
00:59And my battery's dead.
01:02Always feels more of a waste when they're this young.
01:05And fit.
01:06Is that inappropriate?
01:07Very.
01:08No.
01:09Well, this must be where all the local teenagers come to drink.
01:12Swell posh.
01:13It's a bottle of Pinot Noir there.
01:15Whatever happens to strong cider and spewing?
01:17Ah, it's today.
01:19You can't even get hammered properly.
01:20Sorry I'm late.
01:21I've been with the chief super I have.
01:22She called me in to praise me.
01:24Praise?
01:24You?
01:25Yeah.
01:25She's impressed by our recent clearance race.
01:27She thinks I'm rubbing off on you.
01:29That's pretty much all me.
01:30Police works a team game, Malwan.
01:32You might put them in the back of the net.
01:33But I'm there in the dugout.
01:35Picking the team.
01:36Choosing the formation.
01:38Anyway, I thought I'd come and help you out.
01:39What have we got?
01:41We have got Gethin Benyon, best man.
01:44Ran a digital marketing company with the groom
01:46called Alto Ignite Digital Marketing.
01:49Apparently they're brand building disruptors.
01:52Well, I want to kill him myself.
01:55Time of death?
01:56Body temperature suggests either late last night
01:58or early hours of the morning.
01:59You were staying in the rental cottage over there
02:01with the groom's party.
02:02That's the groom, Aaron James, and his brother, Nathan.
02:06Right.
02:07Calls are there?
02:08He might have been involved in a struggle.
02:09Could have fallen or was pushed.
02:11He certainly hit his head on a gravestone.
02:13Bam.
02:14What was he doing in the church yet?
02:16I'm not sure.
02:16No CCTV from the church.
02:18But I've got Chowdhury asking around
02:19to see if anyone else caught something.
02:21But one of the glass panels
02:23on the church's side door was smashed.
02:25Ah.
02:25So, we're thinking
02:27you saw someone trying to break in from next door
02:29a have-a-go hero.
02:31I don't know.
02:32This is hardly a crime hotspot.
02:34Something's off.
02:34It's like, you know when you're watching
02:35Married at First Sight
02:37and they're like,
02:38I'm ready for commitment.
02:39And you're like,
02:40no, you're not ready for commitment.
02:42What?
02:43It just looks staged.
02:44Obvious.
02:46Is this going to take much longer?
02:47Just a few more questions.
02:48I need to speak to the church.
02:50See if they can rearrange
02:51for later in the week.
02:52Get your speech
02:53out of my face, Nathan.
02:54Rearrange?
02:55You're not going to cancel?
02:55Why do people keep asking that?
02:57It won't make a difference
02:58if we wait a week
02:59or a year.
03:00My best man's still not going to be here.
03:02At least this way
03:03it feels like getting still involved.
03:04You know,
03:04he really contributed a lot to the project.
03:06You call your wedding a project?
03:08This isn't just an ordinary wedding.
03:11It's a digital marketing super event.
03:13They had clients from everywhere coming.
03:15Cardiff, London, Lincoln.
03:16LinkedIn.
03:17Would I know someone from Lincoln?
03:19Didn't your fiancé mind her wedding
03:21being turned into a digital thingy...
03:24thing, thing, thing?
03:26No.
03:26Sean Ed's invited potential clients too.
03:28Yeah, she runs a local gallery.
03:30It's great.
03:30It means we could write off
03:31most of the cost as business expenses.
03:33Wow.
03:33What every girl dreams of.
03:36Is there anything else
03:37we should know about Gethin?
03:38How did he see me yesterday?
03:40It was a bit weird.
03:42We were meant to have a meal
03:43in the pub,
03:43but he didn't show.
03:44Spent most of the day in his room.
03:46Interesting.
03:46Oh.
03:47My notebook's full.
03:48Let me just, um...
03:50It's okay.
03:51It's okay.
03:55Um...
03:56Room.
03:57All day.
03:58Got it.
03:59Um, did you see him last night?
04:01No.
04:01I was in my room all night.
04:03I heard him, huh?
04:05Yeah, it was, uh, half twelve.
04:07Woke me up running the taps
04:08in his bathroom.
04:11Well, thank you for your time.
04:13And, do you happen to know
04:14if there's a W.H. Smith
04:16in the area?
04:17Yeah, it's just, you know,
04:17not ideal.
04:25Alan, you hardly touched your breakfast.
04:30Use a high-end marinade
04:32to sell them flakes, mate.
04:34Don't come cheap.
04:36You're not right, are you?
04:59The killer shoved him and splat brains
05:02all over the headstone.
05:04You know,
05:05my macchiato hour
05:07should be a sacred time.
05:09Don't mind me joining, do you?
05:10Mum, this is private police business.
05:12Oh, no, I'm here.
05:13Just popped in for a new bill.
05:14Can I have one of them, uh,
05:16chocolate pans, please, love?
05:17Chocolate pan?
05:18It's a pan of chocolate.
05:19I've tried.
05:20Right.
05:21This is the bride and groom,
05:22and this is the victim.
05:24Gethin Benyon, 32, male, six foot three.
05:27I don't need his measurements.
05:28I need to know about the man,
05:29how he thinks, his preoccupations,
05:31how he breathes.
05:32Well, he doesn't breathe anymore
05:32because he's dead,
05:33and the happy couple are off
05:34on their honeymoon soon,
05:35so we have to act quick.
05:37Well, we're going home with a wedding.
05:39The best man's not cold, yeah?
05:40Then he's lucky he doesn't clash at a funeral.
05:43Right, okay, so,
05:45you say the, uh,
05:46murder was face to face.
05:48Intimate, what was it?
05:49Planned.
05:50Planned.
05:51No, no, no, no, it's not planned.
05:53It's like passion.
05:54Secret perhaps come to light
05:56in the darkness of the graveyard.
05:58Yeah, that's interesting, child.
06:00I'm not going to share it, isn't it?
06:02My roo, present order on.
06:05My mental faculties
06:06are all present and correct.
06:07Thank you, Yvonne.
06:10Now, let's have a look.
06:11Yeah, ah, best man's speech.
06:13Anything interesting in this?
06:15Nothing, except for
06:16the dangerous level of Bantz,
06:17though one of the cards was missing.
06:19We think he must have lost it.
06:21Well, thank goodness
06:22the meticulously thorough arm
06:23of the law is on the case.
06:24No, no, no, no, no, no.
06:26No, look at this, look, look.
06:27You see these, look.
06:29Some actors, proper actors,
06:30do the same.
06:31Mark which words to emphasize,
06:33were to leave a dramatic pause.
06:35Isn't that?
06:36But it's fastidious.
06:36No, these are not
06:37the preparations of a man.
06:39It was just mislay
06:40an important part of his speech.
06:41His big moment.
06:42No, this card has been stolen.
06:44This speech is significant.
06:47You're right.
06:48The speech was significant.
06:50Well, it's a gift, you know.
06:52No, no, not this speech.
06:54Nathan, the brother.
06:56He had a speech printed out.
06:58Why?
06:59Unless he knew
06:59he was going to be
07:00the new best man.
07:02I'll have that chocolate
07:03I'm to take away, lad.
07:05Are you off?
07:05I'll come with you.
07:06But you're going to commercial
07:07that's where my vets are.
07:08I'll go by mine and pick him up.
07:10Alan's off his food.
07:11Alan?
07:12Stray coffee.
07:13I'll be meaningful, apparently.
07:15Shall I have a cat on, Alan?
07:16I'll get this, shall I?
07:20Pryanon.
07:21Jeannie.
07:23Pryanon.
07:24Yvonne.
07:26John Chappell.
07:27Hello.
07:30Can I get a latte, please,
07:32with oat milk?
07:34I have IBS.
07:35I can't have dairy.
07:38I'm the same as lentils.
07:39Tell me like a washing machine.
07:40Mum, come on.
07:46Bit of a peculiar vibe.
07:48Sense in history, though.
07:49Who was that?
07:50Nobody.
07:51Rhiannon Hopkins.
07:52She's got some nerves
07:53showing her face around here again
07:54after what she did to you.
07:55Mum!
07:56I made her life hell.
07:57I'd half of mine
07:58to give her a right telling off in there.
08:00Well, you didn't.
08:00You chatted about lentils.
08:02So drop it.
08:03Mum, what are you doing?
08:05Why can't I come?
08:05I love weddings.
08:06This isn't a wedding.
08:07It's a murder investigation.
08:09And a taxi service for cats, apparently.
08:11Well, we'll get a taxi license
08:13with his rollin' scrappy.
08:18Have a good murder.
08:30Sick everywhere.
08:31You told me he was a seasoned traveller.
08:33I'm sorry, but...
08:34I probably found your driving alarming
08:36and he's not alone.
08:37Anyway, sensitivity.
08:38He's not well.
08:40It's underpowered.
08:41Well, he can get the bus home.
08:42My backseat will never be the same again.
08:44And while we're here,
08:45no talking to my suspects.
08:46Keep a low profile, okay?
08:48You off the telly, is it?
08:49Oh, crap.
08:50It is you, isn't it?
08:52Caesar.
08:53I always loved you
08:54in that Vision Express advert years ago.
08:56This was murder.
08:58It's clear to see.
08:59Yes, it was my finest hour.
09:02You're not going to be finished soon.
09:04All these police come-ins and go-ins
09:06is disturbing the badgers.
09:07Badgers?
09:07I'm head of the commercial badger watches.
09:10We get very rare badgers around here.
09:12Only ever since this murder,
09:13there's been no sign of them.
09:15All gone underground.
09:16Don't they live underground?
09:18Another enthusiast, is it?
09:19Sorry, got to go.
09:20Proper police business to be doing.
09:22What, all three of them?
09:24Oh, yes.
09:25Yes, he's a very highly trained FSO.
09:28Feline special operative.
09:36Oh, sorry.
09:38Sorry.
09:39Let me jump.
09:40Not nervous, are you?
09:41No.
09:42All good.
09:43Just a busy, busy day.
09:45God, your boot is clean.
09:46What do you clean it with?
09:47I only ask because my car's covered in Cutsic.
09:51Car shampoo.
09:53Yeah, coconut.
09:54Ooh, yeah, smells like pina coladas.
09:57All ready for the best-man speech?
09:59Honestly, I'm breaking it.
10:01Yeah.
10:02Didn't you have a speech ready on the morning of the wedding?
10:04Almost like you knew Gethan wasn't going to turn up or something.
10:07No, I just, um, I wrote it weeks ago.
10:11Just wanted to be prepared, in case Aaron changed his mind.
10:14Do you know what I smell, Nathan?
10:16Apart from the properly lush coconut aromas.
10:18Honestly, you're going to have to tell me where you get that car shampoo.
10:20No, what I smell is somebody lying.
10:25All right.
10:26I thought you'd ask me to be best-man.
10:28Yeah, I mean, I'm his brother.
10:29Gethan was a tool.
10:31But Aaron never saw it.
10:32Even when Gethan got chucked out of uni, Aaron still thought he was a legend.
10:36You really didn't like him.
10:37No, it's not just me.
10:39Shonard didn't like him.
10:40She thought I should be best-man too.
10:42I mean, why would you choose him over your own brother?
10:44Because he was hot.
10:45It's good for the photos.
10:46Sorry, shouldn't have said that out loud.
10:48But, um, hey, you're the best-man now, and that's all that matters.
10:54Yeah.
10:54Yeah.
10:55Don't mess it up.
10:57Joking.
10:59Or am I?
11:00I am.
11:14Oh, yeah.
11:16Oh, that's, um...
11:23Sorry.
11:24I was in a world of my own, then.
11:26Can I help you?
11:27Yeah, no, I was just admiring this superb kioskuro here.
11:33Yes, I could feel the passion behind each brushstroke.
11:37Oh, atah, that's, um, that's one of mine, actually.
11:40Is it?
11:41Oh, well, congratulations.
11:44Nice.
11:45Hang on, are you John Chappell?
11:48Oh, I...
11:49Shonard Grant.
11:50Oh, what are you doing here?
11:53Well, I thought I'd pop in and see if I could find something that really speaks to me.
11:58Oh, I mean, most people just want something to match the curtains.
12:02I bet they do, yeah.
12:03Now, I've always been fascinated by how fine art painting and fine art performing are related.
12:10We both strive to reveal the concealed truth of human contradictions.
12:14Don't you think?
12:15Oh, God, yeah.
12:17Yeah, absolutely.
12:19Oh, um, sorry, just, uh, wordings, that.
12:22Yeah, of course, yeah.
12:25Yes?
12:27What if we half the number of roses?
12:30Okay, dahlias.
12:32Look, any colour, if it's got a stalk and it isn't dead, it'll be fine.
12:39Sorry, uh, I'm a bit of a mare.
12:41Getting married in two days.
12:43It's all about changing your florists.
12:44Oh, yeah, well, uh, the, um, the bigger issue is the best man dropping out because he's dead.
12:54Sorry, um, ignore me, it's just, uh, been a lot to take in.
12:58Well, I heard about it on the news.
13:00I'm sorry, it must have been a terrible shock for you.
13:04Yeah, I mean, if it was up to me, we'd wait, you know, and do things properly.
13:08But, um, well, I don't know, maybe that's worse.
13:10Like, we're forgetting him or something.
13:13Um, oh, sorry.
13:15Um, God, I don't even like guessing.
13:17No, no, no, I understand.
13:19No, no, you're an artist.
13:21We feel things too deeply.
13:24It's an affliction.
13:26Um, right, why don't we do a private viewing?
13:29Oh.
13:30Lose ourselves in some art.
13:32I knew I had my money from the very beginning.
13:36Cashless opportunities for you and me could look at it.
13:40If you're ready for me for...
13:42Cutsick and coconut.
13:45Better.
13:51Chowdhury?
13:52Janie, I've been looking into Gethin Benyon's financials, like you asked.
13:55Anything interesting?
13:56Two weeks ago, Gethin Benyon paid a classic car company two grand to hire the wedding car.
14:01Deird.
14:02I think he'd be the father of the bride to be paying.
14:04He was.
14:04I took a statement from Chris Grant, who paid Gethin to hire the wedding car.
14:08But he paid him four grand, not two.
14:11Did he now?
14:15Chris Grant?
14:17Yep.
14:17Dear Smalawa, trip off CID.
14:19Hey, I know you.
14:22You're the Carmarthen Carpet King.
14:25Hey, remember your outfit.
14:27Underlay, underlay.
14:27Offer ends tomorrow.
14:28You're king.
14:29Come on, Zee.
14:30Oh, my mum had one of your carpets.
14:32Really?
14:32You say names, my husband?
14:33Yeah.
14:34Yeah, I remember it well.
14:35Lupal, Pentosquay.
14:36Good carpet.
14:36Good choice.
14:37Wow.
14:37Nice one.
14:39Anyway, what can I do for you, though?
14:40Oh, just tying up a few loose ends.
14:43You paid Gethin for the wedding car?
14:45Yeah.
14:46Yeah, he said he'd get me a deal, you know.
14:48Save a bit on the tax.
14:50I shouldn't be saying that to a cop, but you see my rights.
14:52Can't believe the Carpet King thinks I'm all right.
14:54I'll buzz it.
14:57Yeah, thing is, though, you paid him four thousand and he only paid two.
15:02He was ripping you off.
15:04Really?
15:07You know, he was a slimy little get.
15:10Shawnee wasn't a fan.
15:11He had a massive fallout with Orange Brother the night of the stag.
15:14Yeah, he probably had all this coming.
15:15I shouldn't have told you that either.
15:16Yeah, well, anyway, so.
15:19Pretty careless.
15:19You've thrown your money around.
15:21The king should be more careful with the royal coin.
15:24Sorry, I'm annoying myself.
15:26Where were you the night of the murder?
15:28Oh.
15:30Well, I was staying with Shawnee until after the wedding.
15:32And Shawnee can verify your movements?
15:35Yeah, till about nine o'clock.
15:36She's been going up early since I've been here.
15:38She says I've got to tell you I'm too loud.
15:39She goes up with her earplugs in.
15:41Between you and me.
15:42I think I'm getting on her wick a bit.
15:44Oh, for you.
15:45Your majesty.
15:46Sorry, sorry.
15:47I know, I know you're not a real king.
15:48You're not.
15:50Anyway, she's a grown woman.
15:51She doesn't want me under her feet.
15:52So, sorry, temporary.
15:54Like one of these sad adults.
15:56They're living in a room with their parents, eh?
15:58Yeah, I still live with my mum.
16:05Look at that.
16:06Yep, well, I'd be late for A8.
16:08Got a faulty carburetor.
16:11I'm not alcoholic.
16:14So.
16:16There we are.
16:17Well, all the best.
16:18Good luck with you all.
16:19Thanks.
16:22It's not forever living with my mum.
16:24Just save until I've got the deposit.
16:27I'm going to start looking at her flat.
16:29Pretty, pretty, pretty.
16:30He's gone.
16:31Gone.
16:34It's very striking.
16:37Sean had felt that I really responded to it viscerally.
16:40All right, Van Gogh.
16:41I told you to stay away from me, suspect.
16:43A transparent cry for help.
16:45Couldn't have made it clearer that subconsciously you wanted me involved.
16:48Luckily for you, I found an elegant way to do so.
16:50By spending a fortune on a painting of squares.
16:52Lifting the veil on a bride's true character.
16:55An invigorating conversation on the contemporary arts has merely an added bonus.
16:58Oh, I bet.
16:59Pretty woman telling you what amazing taste you have in paint mobs.
17:02Of course you don't understand.
17:04You're barbarian.
17:04Yeah, it must have been a nice change from all the trivial chats with me about murder.
17:08Do you want to know what I found out?
17:09Well, please, furnish me with your rudimentary deductions.
17:13Wait, why are you being more rude than normal?
17:14Because somebody's keeping me from my morning double espresso.
17:18This is my cafe hour.
17:19And you know I don't like changing my schedule.
17:21But no, we have to meet here because you're avoiding some girl from the past.
17:24This has nothing to do with Rhiannon, okay?
17:26So just zip it and listen.
17:29Now, Gethin was ripping off the father of the bride for two grand.
17:34Well?
17:36Mildly interesting, yes.
17:38Yes, it tells us a little about Gethin's psychology, but a petty cash crime?
17:42Oh, no, no, it's something true as a motive.
17:47But the real enigma here is the groom charging her with the wedding.
17:51Yes, Sharon.
17:52That's interesting.
17:52Aaron did just lose his best mate.
17:54People can get a bit weird when something like that happens.
17:56But still, it's hardly fitting for what's meant to be the happiest day of your life.
17:59No, it's Aaron's behaviour that doesn't add up here.
18:03Now, I shall dive a little deeper.
18:06You've shown it later.
18:07No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
18:09You're not seeing her again.
18:11Hmm, could be tricky.
18:13Oh, thank you so much.
18:15This is going to be amazing for my portfolio.
18:17Oh, please.
18:18No, it's a pleasure to all mine.
18:22So, where would you like me to face?
18:27I don't want to interfere with your choices, but I have been told that this is my most impactful side.
18:37Yeah, lush.
18:39This already feels like a really fruitful collaboration.
18:45Right, poppy clothes on the stool.
18:51I didn't think there would be a good...
18:54I'm joking.
18:55Your face.
18:59Shake it off as a kind of him.
19:01What, can you try it?
19:03She's got 14 Grammys.
19:04I think the Lord would approve.
19:06Hello?
19:07Hello?
19:09What is a...
19:11I know you.
19:13Were you at Cardiff Digital Marketing Fest last year?
19:16Alas, no, I missed it.
19:18This is John Chappell, the actor.
19:20He's famous.
19:22Oh.
19:23Oh, of course.
19:24Yeah, from the...
19:26film.
19:27He's letting me paint him.
19:29The week of our wedding?
19:30John, how long's that going to take?
19:31Well, it takes as long as it takes.
19:32It's art.
19:33I can't put a time on these things.
19:35It's the focus all over again.
19:36Ah, here we go.
19:37Focus?
19:39Gaffin helped me buy a second-hand car last year, but I was too indecisive for someone.
19:43Ah.
19:44Demon of indecision.
19:46Interestingly, I once must have visited every showroom in Wales.
19:49You know what?
19:49I can't create with your energy in here.
19:51Why are you creating?
19:53It must be a very difficult time for you both.
19:57Losing a friend, it's grief, it's all a different...
20:00Yeah, there's no time to grief.
20:01Wedding, honeymoon, back to work.
20:03Digital marketing doesn't stop because someone died.
20:05Yeah, I imagine yours is a very tough industry.
20:09Balls to the wall, high pressure.
20:12Yeah.
20:13Yeah, that's 24-7-365.
20:15I've always thought I'd be good in marketing.
20:17You know, yeah, that ability to grasp the true desire of the human heart.
20:21To turn a mere object into a collective symbol of our deepest hopes and dreams.
20:27Yeah, funny tweets help too, but...
20:30Oh, sorry.
20:32Caterers.
20:33Hello?
20:34Oh, yes.
20:35If you're telling me you can't turn around a four-tier wedding sponge in 24 hours and hang up, Homory.
20:43Sorry about him.
20:44He's under a lot of pressure.
20:47Actually, he's always like that.
20:48I see.
20:49Okay, where were we?
20:52So, Chowdhury, how's the CCTV?
20:53I'm going?
20:54Yeah, really boring.
20:55It's like watching a telly without knowing what the programme is.
20:58Keep trying.
20:59Oh, turns out our victim was chucked out of uni.
21:01See if you can find out why.
21:02Mm-hmm.
21:04Are you checking your socials?
21:06Not mine.
21:07Apparently, Gethin and the groom's brother fell out on a stagdew.
21:11Legends on Tour 2025.
21:14Sick.
21:14Ooh.
21:16Is Nathan?
21:17Wet himself.
21:18Yeah.
21:18Looks like it.
21:19Why do men do that on stagdews?
21:22We don't all wet ourselves.
21:24Every stagdew I've come back from dry as a bone.
21:26Actually, there was one time right, but I didn't think anyone would see it.
21:29Oh, thank God.
21:31Hi.
21:32Yeah?
21:32Come in now.
21:33Never, ever tell me the end of that story, okay?
21:36Gotcha.
21:37Cause of death, brain damage.
21:39As the result of a fractured skull due to a severe blow to the head.
21:43Now, a couple of interesting things about our Gethin.
21:45What time did she save us up using the toilet?
21:47The groom and his brother heard him in his bathroom running at taps at half midnight.
21:51Yeah, well, they're talking eight their arse.
21:53I can be more precise about the time of death.
21:57His watch was smashed during the incident.
21:59It stopped at 11.30.
22:01Really?
22:03What else?
22:04His stomach contents.
22:05He had a lot of laxatives in his system.
22:07We're talking a lot.
22:09As far as we can't see, Armitage Shanks imprinted on his arse the amount of time he must have spent
22:12on the toilet.
22:14Hmm.
22:16Maybe.
22:19Yeah, I think I know who's behind this.
22:21Oh, you've gone.
22:23I just wanted him out of the way for the wedding.
22:26And so I stuck a load of laxatives in with his vitamin powder the day before.
22:29And that's why he didn't leave his room all day.
22:31Oh, and I looked for him.
22:33And then I found the body.
22:35I smashed the church door to make it look like a robbery.
22:39And then I washed a glass with the laxatives in.
22:41You know, in case of CSI stuff.
22:43And that's who Aaron heard running the taps.
22:47I thought I didn't mean to kill him.
22:50Oh, no, you didn't kill him, Nathan.
22:55I didn't?
22:55No.
22:58For real?
22:59Yeah.
23:05I feel so good enough to be a martyr.
23:07Yeah, yeah.
23:08One last thing.
23:10When you did the laxatives, did you steal a card from the best man's speech?
23:14No, I never took any card.
23:20Thanks, Chowdhury.
23:21Got you some biscuits.
23:22I ate them on the drive over.
23:24Oh, don't even have lunch yet.
23:26You're almost saint-like in your care for others.
23:28That was Chowdhury on the phone.
23:30He's been in touch with Cardiff Uni about why Gethin got chucked out.
23:34He'd been stealing exam papers and selling them to students.
23:42What are you doing?
23:43Stretching.
23:44I'm exhausted.
23:45I've been sitting all day.
23:47Oh, poor you.
23:48I've been on my feet since six.
23:49Oh, you'd understand if you've ever sat.
23:51I mean, truly sat.
23:53The focus required.
23:55It's a high wire act.
23:56Yeah, yeah.
23:57You're amazing.
23:58Oh, that's all Chowdhury, really.
24:00Even though I said it was taxing, you know, she makes it all seem effortless.
24:05Time seems to fly when I talk to her.
24:07Oh, and time doesn't fly when you're talking to me.
24:09Well, it's different, isn't it?
24:11It's more cultured.
24:13Oi, I'm cultured.
24:14I watch BBC Four.
24:15And not just because of the old top of the pops.
24:17I think you're getting a bit too close to someone who could be our killer.
24:20No, no, no, no.
24:22I'm remaining completely neutral here.
24:24But Chowdhury, killer?
24:25No.
24:26At the question, it's ridiculous.
24:28It's insulting.
24:29She's a sensitive, artistic soul.
24:31It doesn't equate.
24:32She didn't like Geffen.
24:33She liked him enough for them to be having an affair.
24:35She was having an affair with her fiancé's best friend.
24:38Clearly.
24:39Chowdhury's not a picky person.
24:41She didn't mind what flower she had at her wedding,
24:44and yet she was crippled with indecision about buying a second-hand car
24:46I don't know what she was doing with Geffen,
24:48but they weren't looking at hatchbacks.
24:50Poor Aaron.
24:51Well, he's not exactly a paragon of innocence.
24:52He turned his wedding into a networking event.
24:54Yeah, well, his best friend was sleeping with his fiancé.
24:57Sort of swings and roundabouts.
24:59He prioritised his career over his partner.
25:01Now that's unforgivable.
25:02No, it's not.
25:02You can't judge people by your standards.
25:04Not everybody has a perfect marriage.
25:08You don't know a thing about my marriage.
25:10Well, I would if you actually spoke about it.
25:13I bet you never shut up about Ellen to artsy-fartsy-chonette.
25:17I would rather my late wife remain conversationally off-limits, okay?
25:21But I want to talk about her.
25:23I want to talk about what you were like together.
25:25Who was in charge of the remote?
25:26I bet you can tell a lot from that.
25:28But you never talked to me about it,
25:29even though I could see how happy you were.
25:31Oh, yes, because my marriage was perfect.
25:36I was so busy with work,
25:38I didn't even know she was dying.
25:40Until it was almost too late.
25:42And I don't want to hear your amateur attempts at psychology.
25:48What do you know about real human relationships?
25:51The person you spent most of your time with
25:53is a television character.
25:54He's probably the only reason you're even here.
26:00Fine.
26:02But unlike the actual amateur in the room,
26:04I'm going to follow the evidence.
26:05You can save your waffling for your chats with Alan.
26:09You know he's not being well.
26:11That was a very poor take.
26:16Okay, we did have a thing.
26:18But it was over months ago.
26:19You should have mentioned the relationship with Gethin earlier.
26:22I know, but it was embarrassing more than anything.
26:25Gethin was cheesy.
26:26You know, the kind of bloke you have a really bad one-night stand with,
26:29and I went and had about 15 with him.
26:31Why?
26:32What's that saying about why men climb mountains?
26:35I don't know, because they're weird.
26:36No, because he was there.
26:39This is mid-century.
26:41He's been eating monkey nuts out of it.
26:43Dioch, Dad.
26:44Only my good one teacher at the right.
26:45Only them here to know it ishergething for the best man.
26:47I even asked him to step down.
26:50Bit weird, are there?
26:51Well, not much,
26:52because we maybe sort of slept together again.
26:55Look, I'm not perfect, okay?
26:58Did Aaron know about the affair?
27:00God, no.
27:01Of course I knew about the affair.
27:03I'm sure the Lord wouldn't mind one glitter cannon.
27:06Could ask him.
27:08Yeah, murder investigation here.
27:13You decided to keep Gethin as your best man,
27:15even though he was shaking sheets with your fiancé.
27:17I know it seems crazy, but it's just an affair.
27:20Me and Sean have to speak after the big day.
27:22I've already got a spreadsheet for couples counsellors.
27:24Right, probably a good idea.
27:25Yeah.
27:26And there's always divorce.
27:27Okay, well, if that's everything...
27:29No, no, no.
27:30You know what's been bugging me?
27:31With every fact I learn about Gethin,
27:33why you chose to keep him as your best man...
27:36He was my oldest friend.
27:37Yeah, from uni.
27:38Until he got chucked out for selling exam papers.
27:41See, now, does that sound in character for Gethin?
27:44A complex university exam fraud syndicate.
27:47He had hidden depths?
27:48No, it has somebody else's fingerprints all over it.
27:51Your fingerprints.
27:53Sorry, I should ask before I touch you.
27:54Yeah.
27:55Yeah.
27:57Okay, fine.
27:59Yes, it was me.
28:00Come on.
28:01When that all came out, I thought that was my future over.
28:04I should have been thrown out, but Gethin took the fall.
28:06So you worked it?
28:08Yeah, but he pushed it too far.
28:10He stopped trying to work.
28:11He kept upping his salary.
28:12I mean, I had to put my foot down.
28:14I told him we were square.
28:15Yeah, but Gethin said,
28:16nah, and threatened to expose you.
28:19I checked his best man's speech, and there were all these jokes about there's no cheat sheet for a married
28:23life.
28:24So you shut him up.
28:26All I did was take the card out of his speech.
28:28Can you move back a bit?
28:29Oh, yeah.
28:30Sorry, eh?
28:32Yeah, he had a laugh at all for lunch.
28:33It always repeats on me.
28:35Yeah.
28:37I just find him such majestic creatures.
28:40That's why I'm keen to join.
28:41You see, I'd really love to find out more about the local Badger population.
28:45Now then, use your card.
28:46Oh.
28:47Membership number 002.
28:49I'm a Themis member.
28:50This could really help us get local press attention.
28:53You could be our bono.
28:54I was actually wondering, um, do you have, uh, night vision cameras to, to, uh, to watch the Badgers?
29:04Yeah, yeah, go on here in my garden.
29:06Amazing the things you see.
29:08Cut a Badger.
29:09Having a play with a fox.
29:12Just here.
29:14Well, that's, you know, one moment, please.
29:21So you're suddenly into Badgers.
29:23Are you just interfering with my investigation?
29:25Probably the latter.
29:27But, um, I was actually hoping to run into you to, uh, say sorry.
29:34Bloody hell.
29:36Probably the only word I've never heard you say.
29:39Well, I shouldn't have taken it out on you.
29:42In my defense, I was worried about Alan.
29:44And I've been sitting all day.
29:46You know, you really don't understand.
29:48Okay, okay, stop now.
29:49Was the apology still an apology?
29:51And for the record, Caesar's not the only reason why I come to you.
29:55He couldn't do what you do.
29:58Character, emotional business, you know.
30:00Plus, he is way cleverer than you.
30:01Like, he's an actual genius.
30:02Yeah, I think your point has already been rather succinctly made.
30:06But I, uh, I think I have found a way to make it up to you.
30:11Oh, it's not a candle, is it?
30:12Because honestly, I just, I don't understand the hype of those sort of things.
30:14I think it's just like burning money.
30:16The commercial badger watchers have a night vision camera that points towards the churchyard.
30:25We asked everyone in the area if they had CCTV.
30:29It's not CCTV.
30:30It's an infrared badger account.
30:33Right, well, I think we've got some evening viewing.
30:36Yeah.
30:42Do you think we'll ever actually see a badger?
30:45Oh!
30:47There, another crisp packet.
30:49Wow.
30:52Artie Seanhead really can't do hands.
30:54No, an artistic soul, but not the most gifted at portraiture.
30:59Your fingers look like sausages.
31:01It's Seanhead.
31:02Yeah, I know, she can't paint for shit.
31:04Oh, it's Seanhead!
31:06In your statement, you said you were in bed from 9pm,
31:09but you went to the churchyard to meet Geffyn around the time he was murdered.
31:15For the tape, I have just shown the suspect footage of her heading to the churchyard to meet Geffyn.
31:20For the tape, I also really like the suspect's brooch.
31:23Oh, diorch.
31:24My bear with tiger and bear.
31:25For the tape, the suspect has just responded in Welsh
31:28and named a shop that is way out of my price range.
31:31This does not look good.
31:33I mean the footage, not the brooch.
31:35What were you doing there?
31:37Geffyn texted me.
31:38Said he had to see me, so I snuck out my bedroom window.
31:41Made me feel like a 15-year-old climbing out while Dad was watching telly.
31:44You went to see him even though your affair had finished.
31:47What was it you said months ago?
31:48It had.
31:49Only that night, Geffyn said...
31:52He said he was in love with me.
31:54He wanted us to run away together.
31:56Look, I told him it was over.
31:58It was a mistake.
31:58And how did he react to that?
32:00Well, not great, but he came round eventually.
32:05Okay, fine.
32:06He threatened to tell Aaron everything.
32:08So you killed him?
32:09No!
32:09I called him an idiot and I told him to go home.
32:11Look, can't we do this another time?
32:13I'm getting married in the morning.
32:14Let's go over the timeline again.
32:16And also, out of curiosity, how much was the brooch?
32:22We didn't have enough to arrest her.
32:24Chris dismissed the duty solicitor, brought in some big hot shot.
32:27Must have cost a bomb.
32:28Well, mine is no object when it comes to protecting his little girl.
32:31It's at the core of his character.
32:34I just...
32:35I just can't see it being shone in.
32:38The evidence is there.
32:39She went sneaking out the house to meet her former lover around the time he was murdered.
32:43Yes, but she wouldn't kill to protect her secret.
32:46If anything, she's the victim of a work-obsessed fiancée.
32:49Is it possible this is a little bit about you?
32:51I just think Seanette deserves someone who cares about her.
32:54Who'd do anything to make her happy.
32:59Of course.
33:01What?
33:02The television.
33:04Something was off about her story.
33:07I think we're going to have to stop a wedding.
33:08I said it first.
33:22What are you doing here?
33:25Okay, settle down.
33:27T.M. is still out.
33:29Dimbrillie.
33:30Spanx.
33:30Want a tick?
33:31We can't cancel the wedding again.
33:33No.
33:33It looks amateurish.
33:34I'm afraid your grand vision has to give way to something even more precious.
33:39The truth.
33:41That's Caesar.
33:42What's he doing here?
33:44Mr. Chappell came to me as a concerned citizen.
33:48Very quietly.
33:49And in the background.
33:51I'm not just an aficionado of the arts.
33:54But an aficionado of justice.
33:57Do you understand the word background?
34:00Yeah, can someone explain what the hell's going on?
34:02Between you all, there's been a lot of secrets.
34:04And they're going to come out now.
34:06There was one secret that led to Gethin's death.
34:10He was having an affair.
34:15With Seanette.
34:19Sorry, I drove you away.
34:20It's okay.
34:21I knew.
34:24You weren't exactly subtle.
34:27Stanker, savage.
34:28Right, okay.
34:29That's the end of the circus now.
34:30Thank you very much.
34:31I'm going to walk my daughter down the aisle.
34:33Not today.
34:35Chris Grant, I'm arresting you.
34:36What's going on?
34:37Don't listen to her, Shawnee.
34:38Doesn't know what she's saying.
34:39You killed Gethin.
34:42Over 2,000 quid.
34:44It wasn't about the money.
34:45But it was about the wedding.
34:48You put a lot of pressure on the wedding being perfect.
34:51A way to make up for the past.
34:53Sean, what the hell's he got to do with you, mate?
34:54Eh?
34:55I mean, that's not a sin, is it?
34:56It's not a crime.
34:57Yeah, very much in the foreground right now as well.
34:59No, indeed.
35:00Not a crime.
35:01But the pressure built up.
35:04Seanette went to bed.
35:05You were feeling the stress.
35:07Your guilt over your neglect of Seanette as a child.
35:10Your alcoholism.
35:11You hated yourself.
35:13You tried to resist.
35:15But you needed a drink.
35:17You found one.
35:17And you went to where the local teenagers go to drink.
35:21The churchyard.
35:23Oh, Dad.
35:24You're a considerate dad.
35:26You wouldn't have a telly on loud the night before a wedding.
35:29Unless you wanted her to put her earplugs in so you could sneak out.
35:34You went to the churchyard around the back.
35:36That's why we didn't pick you up on Badger Cam.
35:38Okay, you're going to have to explain Badger Cam.
35:41After a while, you heard somebody coming, so you heard.
35:44You were there?
35:45No.
35:46You heard the argument between Gethin and Seanette.
35:49You heard him threatening to ruin her big day.
35:52You wouldn't let that happen.
35:53I wasn't there.
35:54We found a bottle near the body.
35:56A bottle of Chateau-Pont-Balivet.
36:01Chateau-Pont-Balivet.
36:03That one.
36:04A Pinot Noir.
36:06Goes surprisingly well with fish.
36:07Does it?
36:07It does.
36:08We're running forensics on it.
36:10I think it'll prove the link between you and the crack scene.
36:15Dad?
36:26It wasn't just a threat.
36:29It was the way he spoke to you, Sean.
36:32I had to do something.
36:34You didn't have to do anything.
36:39I told him I couldn't have him rude in a wedding day.
36:43You could see I'd been drinking and he laughed.
36:47And then he said he was going to tell Seanie everything.
36:50I just pushed him.
36:57I didn't mean to kill him.
36:59Why couldn't you just leave things alone?
37:02I couldn't have him treat my little girl at my bar.
37:09Please let me walk my daughter to tell you I know.
37:17I'm sorry.
37:33I feel terrible, Sean, and I'm truly if...
37:36Well, shut up and go away.
37:38Fair enough.
37:43They've rearranged the wedding for next week, no?
37:45Well, of course, the likes of them.
37:46I doubt it'll last.
37:48And you know marriage is perfect, I suppose.
37:52You know, Sean doesn't care that Aaron loves his work.
37:58She's choosing him anyway.
38:00Don't.
38:00I'm just saying, look, I don't know what happened with you and Ellen, but I'm sure you were a brilliant
38:07husband.
38:07Oh, yeah.
38:08Yeah, so consumed in my work that Ellen couldn't tell me she was ill.
38:13Well, if I'd have known her, I could have been there more, would you?
38:19Maybe she didn't want you there more.
38:21Sorry, that sounds harsh, but maybe what she needed was to be alone.
38:27Or what she thought she needed.
38:30Either way, it was her choice.
38:34Don't take that away from her.
38:44All right, don't look now.
38:46Yeah, very much looking now.
38:50Shall we go somewhere else?
38:51No.
38:53I'm not hiding anymore.
38:55I'm going to deal with this like an adult.
39:01All right?
39:01All right?
39:02You all right?
39:03Yeah, you all right?
39:04Yeah, I'm all right.
39:09You all right?
39:10Yeah.
39:11Well, it takes the bigger person to stand up and ignore the past.
39:16That shows real growth.
39:18Yeah, no, not that.
39:19I switched our drinks.
39:20Full fat dairy.
39:21She's going to be up half the night redecorating the bathroom.
39:24Thanks.
39:26I'll take that back about growth.
39:28That was infantile and crass.
39:30Can you give me a lift, please?
39:32I need to take my portrait to the tip.
39:35Oh, can I have it?
39:36It's hilarious.
39:38Absolutely not.
39:39Oh, go on.
39:39It's great.
39:40You can tell it's good because the dodgy hands actually follow you around the room.
39:46It's good because it's good because it's good because it's good because it's good because it's good because it's bad
39:49because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's
39:49bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because
39:49it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad because it's bad
39:49because it's bad.
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