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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.
01:13OKAY.
01:16OH. OH, THAT IS TIDY, THAT IS.
01:22It's a shame Karen's not here
01:29I think she is guys
01:33We better call the police
01:35I'll do it
01:36Don't look Stefan, don't
01:38Jamie, it's ma'am
01:39You 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 bowler 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
02:09Oh good on her
02:11Nothing wrong with rocking a bit of style, is there?
02:13A hard jacket and a leopard print backpack style
02:16I 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, horrible way to go
02:28My idea of hell
02:30Basically smashed to death
02:31Alright
02:33Awful business
02:34This place brings back bad memories
02:36Did you have a case here?
02:38A jumper?
02:39Oh no, no, no
02:40Family holiday
02:41Brought 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
02:50Should 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 jump
02:58She'd have been upright on impact
02:59But 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, keep us in the loop
03:10Any info on who she is?
03:11Yeah, got in a mom
03:12She was new to the walking group
03:13Too thin by half
03:15And 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
03:23She isn't on the criminal record database either
03:26She's a mystery
03:31Shake it up
03:32Shake it up
03:33Thank you
03:36How do we find a person?
03:40A good actor, proper actor
03:41Doesn't need words or movement
03:43They can reach into the essence of character
03:47With two things
03:52The eyes
03:53Cheryl, would you just pop over here please?
03:57Cool earrings
03:59I want you to read from this sheet
04:03We're going to go through a series of emotions
04:06Now I'm going to try and portray them just by using my eyes
04:13And 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
04:32God freeze
04:34There
04:35The eyes have it
04:37Thank you
04:38Thank you
04:38Now
04:39Physical comedy
04:42This
04:43Is
04:45Amazing
04:46Oh that
04:47Yes
04:48That's my acting master class series
04:51I resisted it but
04:53My agent said in the end
04:55It would be my gift to the profession
04:56Oh
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?
05:08Well 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?
05:16Mam sways by it when she's to clear out the basement
05:18Delightful
05:19Very evocative
05:20I'll bear it in mind
05:21Now Detective Malauan
05:22We both know why you're here
05:24So 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
05:33Read 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
05:47And no bus or taxi driver remembers her
05:50So we think she must have arrived by foot
05:52Interesting
05:53Could be something chapel
05:54Could be something
05:56Could be something
05:56Could be talking to yourself like a weirdo chapel
05:59Oh my god
06:00Oh a little warning would be nice before you explode
06:02The coat
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
06:09And you
06:10I'm not a mystery
06:12I'm simple
06:13I'm an open book
06:14Everybody says so
06:15Mam says it all the time
06:16No
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'll just do, okay?
06:26Anyway
06:26We're not talking about me
06:27We're talking about Karen
06:28So
06:29Shut up about the coat, John Chappell
06:31You're bloody obsessed with it
06:33Why can't you tell me about Karen?
06:34Who is she?
06:35Well
06:36She had a childhood without money
06:38The sugar sachets
06:39Found in her pocket
06:40She didn't want them
06:42Didn't use them
06:42But
06:43She remembers what it was like
06:44To go without
06:46Yes
06:47And
06:48Apple stalk
06:49And two pips
06:50Which means she eats the whole core
06:52Now that is
06:52Very interesting
06:53Why?
06:55Because I do that as well
06:56Great
06:57I'll put an APB out
06:58For 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
07:04Is important
07:05If you want to find her killer
07:07What?
07:08You think she was killed?
07:09Obviously
07:10Yes, look
07:10The shoes
07:12And no phone
07:13We can't discount that
07:14But
07:14We're working on the theory that her phone
07:16Slipped out of her pocket when she fell
07:17And washed away
07:18You better off working on your observation skills
07:20Because phones do not slip out of skin
07:22Tight jeggings
07:23You know about jeggings?
07:25Doesn't everyone
07:25No
07:26Karen's killer took her phone
07:28To stop you
07:29Finding out who she really was
07:31But who?
07:33One of the walking group
07:34This is my mum's walking group we're talking about
07:37You can't think that one of them
07:39Would murder a stranger
07:41She wasn't a stranger
07:42Whoever killed Karen clearly knew her
07:45Of course I wouldn't be able to say who
07:48Without knowing more about the suspect
07:55This is not what I meant
07:57Come on
07:57I hate synthetic fibers
08:00They make my skin hit
08:01You're lucky the charity shop had any walking gear
08:03This could be good for you getting out of the house
08:05You know
08:07Loneliness is a killer
08:08I'm not lonely
08:10I just like being alone
08:12There's a distinct difference you know
08:13You know
08:13Chance will be a fine thing
08:14You see there's this detective
08:16Who always disturbs my pizza inquiry
08:18Rude
08:18Right
08:19There they are
08:19They all agreed to come back and do the walk again
08:23Ghoulish
08:24Right
08:25It'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
08:33Then 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
08:43Less walking, more walking
08:45Come on
08:45Recently there was an article
08:46I'll send it to you
08:49Oh here they are
08:50Hiya
08:50Ma'am said it would 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
09:01What are you doing here?
09:02Not here on official business
09:03Ma'am's just always telling me I need to get out more
09:06No, you're so pale
09:07You're always driving
09:08Never walk anywhere
09:09Yes, thank you
09:10John? Ma'am?
09:12Mr. Chappell?
09:13Ma'am?
09:14What are you doing here?
09:15Thank you
09:16Thank you
09:16My name is Monk
09:17Is he panico?
09:18Yes he 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
09:26Wait, do 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
09:33Why
09:33Right, smack 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
09:55No
09:56No, no, no, no
09:57Where do you think?
10:04Oh no, no, no, no, no
10:04It's a snake
10:05What?
10:06I've got a snake
10:07Oh no, no
10:08We're all done
10:11We're all done
10:11But she'd do good with whatever sex pest.
10:14Definitely not the sex pest.
10:16Ma'am, he understands Welsh.
10:18Also, even if he didn't, sex pest 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.
10:34Whatever got Karen killed,
10:36she's the most likely to have observed it.
10:39Come on! No stragglers, please!
10:47Threature 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 Trebach-Ramblers-Portimae-Yomp,
10:59not a chat show.
11:00Sorry, 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?
11:15Honestly?
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.
11:34You were quite right, it was in the front.
11:35I bet she wasn't prepared in a slight bit.
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.
11:42Can't say I'm surprised.
11:43People want something with nothing nowadays,
11:44don'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.
11:51I guess it was 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 two.
12:01God, you really are good.
12:03No, ice cream's good.
12:05I'm a highly skilled emotional empath.
12:07Come on, don't dawdle.
12:15Stefan, isn't it?
12:17Yeah.
12:18You're Mr. Chappell.
12:19How come you're not on the telly anymore?
12:21Mum thinks you were cancelled,
12:23but Leia thinks you're just not getting any worse.
12:25Stefan, no.
12:25No, no, no, no.
12:26That's not what we said.
12:28I'm Leia 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?
12:37Yeah.
12:37Open the gills,
12:38clear out the old blowhole, so to speak.
12:40Ha ha!
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.
12:50We'll put it up in.
12:51I'll get my old pasty legs out.
12:53I don't want to allow a couple of stiff ones in me.
12:54Drink those.
12:55Ha ha ha!
12:57Bronwyn Richards.
12:58I'm a big 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, considering your background.
13:16I'm from Merthyr, not a war zone.
13:19Beautiful scenery, isn't it?
13:22Stunning.
13:23Stunning.
13:24This is the sort of place I used to come to with my wife.
13:29Oh, come on.
13:31Oh, you poor love.
13:33Sorry, sorry.
13:36You really know how to make a newcomer feel welcome, don't you?
13:39Just like poor Karen.
13:41So lovely.
13:42And just told me that Stefan even paid for a 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.
14:04Yep, she was.
14:05Too 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, 34 miles to the pub.
14:33Right.
14:38See?
14:39You're making friends.
14:40Please.
14:41Come on, admit it.
14:42You're enjoying getting out and meeting new people.
14:47Careful, Stefan.
14:47Alright.
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.
14:58A G&T.
15:01Tap water, Ryan.
15:03No.
15:03Surprised to see you the best, Stefan.
15:05Assumes 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.
15:20Best 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.
15:34We're nothing like each other.
15:36Best take this off or I won't feel the benefit.
15:38Can I have a quiz?
15:42Your accent, it's not from round here?
15:45No, moved here from Manchester.
15:46Manchester.
15:47Mad for it.
15:48Sound.
15:51So, why'd you move here?
15:53I, er, wanted somewhere quiet with, erm, nothing going on.
15:57Nothing going on?
15:58You seen the new parking ride in Aboriginal?
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.
16:08A lot of health benefits are walking.
16:10Not for Karen, they weren't.
16:12Jesus.
16:20Er, just came in for a slash.
16:29Excellent place to have one, I find.
16:32Oh, it's strange to be 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, so I started rabbiting on about this, that and the other.
16:49And without even looking over, he said,
16:51Les Prattle, More Piddle.
16:55Oh, classic Rafie.
16:56Hi.
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 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 clicking like...
17:18I saw her.
17:20Went for a walk and saw her heading off.
17:22Couldn't miss her in that heart jacket.
17:24I 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.
17:31Could you be sure it was her?
17:33Well, you don't see many walkers on the falls trail with leopard print bags, so yeah,
17:36I think it's safe to say it was her.
17:39Anne's taking her time.
17:40Oh, her and Karen nearly came to blow's ear 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.
17:52Oh!
17:52Anne!
17:53Well, I never.
17:55I am speechless.
17:57Completely speechless.
17:59That is a shock.
18:01I know, pillar of the community.
18:03Doctor's wife.
18:04Well, I widow.
18:05In a slangin' match.
18:14You were about to send out a search party.
18:17I needed to think.
18:19About Karen?
18:21Mm.
18:27You didn't like her, did you?
18:30No.
18:31No.
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
18:37treated it 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.
18:47I mean, every weekend we were up in the Peak District, but he took early retirement so
18:51that we could be here.
18:52This was Peter's spot.
18:55Well, he could still make it up here.
19:00Do you mind me asking what happened?
19:02It was Parkinson's.
19:04Oh.
19:05It was such a cruel disease.
19:09We had a few good years when he could still enjoy these hills before it got too bad, and
19:13then 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.
19:27I 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.
19:41Come on.
19:48What'd you get from Anne?
19:49A stiff upper lip and a warm vulnerability hidden behind a cold shoulder.
19:54In English?
19:55Oh, sorry.
19:55My mistake.
19:56I'll dumb it down.
19:57Anne didn't like Karen.
19:58Karen bad.
19:59Make man 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.
20:16I followed up my hunch on Ryan.
20:17Oh, pray tell.
20:20I went to the toilet to take these.
20:23The Quattaya pin?
20:25No idea what that is.
20:26Mental health meds.
20:27A friend of mine needs to take them.
20:29It's not a big deal.
20:30Why are you making such a big deal out there, John Chappell?
20:32I don't know.
20:36And, uh, our charming landlady?
20:39What does she make of Karen?
20:40I 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.
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
20:52because 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, isn't it?
20:59Now, I know you'll never be indiscreet about a guest.
21:02But if you noticed anything about Karen,
21:05it 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, oh, oh.
21:46Ankle.
21:47Let me do that.
21:48Ankle.
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 the hell up me.
22:01Yeah, you heard him.
22:02Come on.
22:02We have to finish the walk.
22:03It's the whole reason we're here.
22:05He'll be fine.
22:07Hope he don't collapse on the walk and he'll leave me for dead.
22:10Yeah.
22:11That choice of rights.
22:13Well, we'll stay with him.
22:19Well, 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.
22:39Feigning a man with a twisting ankle is nothing.
22:41Yes, you were great, darling.
22:42But why did you do it?
22:43Because we need to get back and find Karen's car.
22:44We've already checked every car in the car park.
22:47Something that the landlady said.
22:48That Karen was cheap.
22:48The sugar sachet, see?
22:49No, I must have in it.
22:51Indeed.
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 search.
23:04One of these must be hers.
23:10Look.
23:11You say you're not a sex pest.
23:13Not 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 Mullowan.
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?
23:30I 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.
23:52What 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 on to my watsits.
24:05I happen to be quite attached to them.
24:07What about this one?
24:08It's got a leopard print dog bed in the back.
24:10Very Curran.
24:11If Curran had a pet, it would be a cat.
24:13Honestly, your antennae.
24:15T'y well enough?
24:16tells her.�
24:42Takah.
24:43It's Karen's car. Sticker, personised plate, ostentatious very Karen.
24:50Ooh, it's messier than your colour.
24:52Can't go round damaging people's property. This is a police investigation.
24:55You could have just jeopardised the...
24:58That's it. That's Karen.
25:01Apparently, it's Veronica Mount, actually.
25:05Wow. 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
25:21and smashed open the window before calling it 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.
25:33Do 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.
25:42Very 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
25:56and 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.
26:10Thanks.
26:11That was Baxter at the Path Lab. PM 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 destruction.
26:34I can't believe someone would do that to Karen. Speechless, I am.
26:40Sorry. I've given her a lift to Funky Pump.
26:43Mind you, nobody seemed to like Karen. Even Anne, right from the off.
26:48Karen 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.
26:55Anne always gives people a snack bar, so I thought even then, she's the wrong one.
26:59Yeah, a cup of tea would be lush, ma'am.
27:03I keep being drawn to the backpack.
27:06This again. Forget objects. Focus on people. Emotions. Feelings.
27:15Chowdhury?
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 five thousand grand.
27:25I think you mean five grand. Anything else?
27:28Yeah, told me on the front desk it's just won a hundred 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.
27:54Yes, 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.
28:30I mean, you two probably went to school together.
28:31That's just a Welsh stereotype. We did not go to school together.
28:34Only 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.
28:42Where? Why?
28:42I'd urge my client not to say anything.
28:44Don't act all smarter. You're not 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. I've been there too.
28:58I might seem like a normal person. Feel free to agree.
29:02But, a little while ago I had a pretty big breaky D.
29:09Nervy 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. Mum said you'd gone on a ski holiday.
29:24Pam's not even a 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.
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.
29:49I was working in Manchester, burning the candle at both ends, and I couldn't cope.
29:55Hence the quetiapine.
29:57How do you know?
29:57It's not a p-ing 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.
30:10Jean would remember you.
30:12Your big city coat, weird accent.
30:13I'll check it out.
30:14Now, who doesn't have the antennae?
30:17Oh, 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.
30:25I checked with her son.
30:26He would have seen her as well.
30:27Stefan?
30:28He 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 spagball now?
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.
31:13We'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.
31:21I'm not a dog.
31:23And it was Britain's most formidable detective.
31:27Good boy.
31:33You're not a dog.
31:38Can you help her?
31:40We need to have a chat, Stefan.
31:43I said, stay in the car.
31:44Look, I told you everything.
31:46I know.
31:46It's alright.
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, even 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?
32:25It 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.
32:49Veronica, you'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, what are you doing?
33:02I just came in with everyone else.
33:05What's going on?
33:06Can you go?
33:11Stefan 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, so I assumed that you'd...
33:35And nipped out to murder a woman.
33:37No.
33:37Then where were you all night?
33:40...with me.
33:43Oh, bloody hell.
33:45Chip chips.
33:47Oh, for...
33:48Who'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.
33:56Javi, 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.
34:07All right.
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 you funny.
34:20That's why I offered to pay for her room, so 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.
34:41So 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 he 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.
35:36Yes, 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, 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 forever.
36:29A risk of gravitas.
36:31You waited for her at the top of the falls with an iron bar you'd found.
36:36Found?
36:36Yeah.
36:37No, no, it was clearly the poker from the pub.
36:40Where did you get that?
36:42Occasionally, you do have to think about objects and not people, you know.
36:45No.
36:46Then, you took her phone, removing the one piece of evidence that could tell us who she
36:51really 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.
37:26Then, as usual, you came up with a plan.
37:33You came back to Veronica's room, packed a bag.
37:37Then, left the pub, pretending to be Veronica.
37:41And you walked back.
37:41Oh, yeah, 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.
38:17Well, you have 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.
38:44You can'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.
38:56Get down.
38:57Get down.
38:57Get down.
38:58Don't.
39:00Sir, don't.
39:02What are you doing?
39:03It's a senior male officer getting into a lone female officer's car.
39:07Oh.
39:09Inappropriate.
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 the lad.
39:18Not lads.
39:19Fellas.
39:19Fellow officers.
39:20Colleagues.
39:22People.
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.
39:36Yeah.
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, 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?
39:58You 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.
40:05Oh, John Shaffell, that's amazing.
40:07My mum goes to that one.
40:08Oh, great.
40:09I was hoping not to get a word in, edgeways.
40:12Hey, I'm allowed to be rude about my mum, but you're not.
40:15Well, I'll leave you to get ready.
40:17All right, before you go, I've got you a gift.
40:23I know season means a lot to you, so...
40:35What?
40:35What's wrong?
40:36Nothing.
40:37These are happy tears.
40:39Oh.
40:42Oh.
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?
41:20No, nothing.
41:21It's just...
41:22Didn't...
41:23Didn't sound like Caesar.
41:24What are you talking about?
41:25Of course it did.
41:26Oh, really.
41:27Yeah, yeah, yes, it did.
41:28Well, don't get in a huff about it.
41:29I'm not in a huff.
41:31Right, look.
41:31Crime waits for no man.
41:33Keep waiting.
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