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00:00:11I've been waking up at 5 a.m. now for a year and honestly it's a game-changer.
00:00:16Here's my busy morning routine as a productive mom of six. So I kick things
00:00:22off with some light stretching, nothing too strenuous. Oh! Hugo! Hugo! Yes, darling. Coming.
00:00:34What's wrong? Look, Meredith forgot to change the clock on the wall.
00:00:3810.35, you can see it. Not exactly in her job description.
00:00:42She was the nanny. She was here to help us. We're certainly paying her enough.
00:00:46That is terrifying. I'm increasing my collagen production.
00:00:51Right. Paige, go and get the blackout lined. We'll have to do the whole morning bit again.
00:00:57Well, just don't lie about the time. I'm not lying. I'm inspiring, thank you.
00:01:18Discretion. You talk a lot about it at Aspen.
00:01:21But what does it really mean? When you are working for a family, whether that's as a nanny,
00:01:27a housekeeper or a chauffeur, you are in a position of trust. You are uniquely placed
00:01:34to witness their most private moments. None of it can ever leave the household.
00:01:43Absolute. Absolute discretion.
00:01:53Welcome to the Whiten Flavor Collective.
00:02:00Come for the views. Stay for the food.
00:02:08Okay, just like a little bit more to your left so that we can't see the hashtag.
00:02:11How's that? Yeah, great. Good.
00:02:13Okay. Please share photos and content.
00:02:15Oi!
00:02:19Oh, great. Here we go.
00:02:23Hi!
00:02:25Are you going to do something about all this? It's disgusting!
00:02:29Leave it, Dad. Not today. Right?
00:02:36See ya! Bye!
00:02:43Okay, I gotta go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:45Okay, okay, okay, okay.
00:02:45Okay, all right. Bye, bye, bye, bye.
00:02:47Don't forget the hashtag, Whiten Flavor Collective.
00:02:54Don't forget the hashtag, Whiten Flavor Collective.
00:02:54Danger. Now, it can be paparazzi or even a kidnap attempt.
00:03:00Would you keep yourself between them and the child?
00:03:07Green up.
00:03:12No, no!
00:03:13That's right. Keep locking.
00:03:19Good. Who's next?
00:03:22Like this?
00:03:23Yeah, oh, that's a good one.
00:03:25Good smile.
00:03:26Oh, that lovely. Lovely dress.
00:03:30What?
00:03:30Excuse me. Sorry, I missed all your photos.
00:03:32Let's go.
00:03:34You two, goodbye.
00:03:37Come on, it's our wedding.
00:03:40That's right, that's right.
00:03:41All right. Goodbye.
00:03:42All right.
00:03:43Midsummer Whiten is not a theme park.
00:04:02Meredith?
00:04:04The sparrows.
00:04:06Well, how did you get on?
00:04:08Oh, um, yeah, I actually decided not to go.
00:04:13I'm sorry, I just, um, I don't think we can come back from it.
00:04:18Well, no.
00:04:19Not if you won't talk to them about it.
00:04:23I have an hour or two.
00:04:25We'll have a debrief.
00:04:28Well, spit spot.
00:04:29Oh, sorry.
00:04:50Hello, and welcome.
00:04:52My name's Meredith, and I'm in it.
00:04:56Hello, and welcome, my name's Meredith, and I'm a nanny.
00:05:08Hello, and welcome, my name's Meredith, and I'm a nanny.
00:05:14Hello, and welcome, my name's Meredith, and I'm a nanny for high-status families.
00:05:27Oh, no.
00:05:29On this channel, I show you how to prepare healthy food that kids will love.
00:05:36Remember to like and subscribe and comment down below to see everything I've cooked for my VIP kiddos today.
00:05:43Gotcha.
00:05:43Without further ado, here are some of the menus I use for my VIP kiddos.
00:05:52Okay.
00:05:53Here we go.
00:05:55The lighting.
00:06:13The lighting.
00:06:14The lighting.
00:06:23The lighting.
00:06:28The lighting.
00:06:32The lighting.
00:06:34The lighting.
00:06:36The lighting.
00:06:37The lighting.
00:06:39The lighting.
00:06:39The lighting.
00:06:41The lighting.
00:06:41The lighting.
00:06:42The lighting.
00:06:42The lighting.
00:06:43The lighting.
00:06:43The lighting.
00:07:16They're saying it was a homemade explosive device hidden inside a ring light, which is a sort of...
00:07:24A donut-shaped light designed to cast a flattering glow, good for applying makeup on camera.
00:07:31You have a secret YouTube channel we should know about.
00:07:34No, but what I do have is a 14-year-old daughter and a nightly argument about why she's too
00:07:38young for social media.
00:07:40Good luck with that one.
00:07:47Good luck with that.
00:07:56Seems a long way to come.
00:07:58Well, Aspern College is the place if you want to work for the super-rich.
00:08:01They train butlers, nannies, housekeepers.
00:08:04Things weren't going well for Meredith, though.
00:08:06She was nine months into her first live-in nanny job and the family fired her just two days ago.
00:08:11That's why she was back at the college, sleeping on her friend's floor.
00:08:15That wasn't her room, then?
00:08:16No, the room belongs to Karina Gupta, who's a training nanny in the year below Meredith.
00:08:21And whose was the ring light?
00:08:23Karina's or Meredith's?
00:08:25Meredith's.
00:08:41Pretty extreme way to murder someone.
00:08:43And reckless.
00:08:45It's a miracle nobody else was killed.
00:08:46She has obvious penetrating injuries from shrapnel, thermal trauma, plus blunt trauma from the desk.
00:08:56Do you think this could be someone with military training?
00:08:59Potentially.
00:09:00You can find out how to do anything these days.
00:09:03You know where to look.
00:09:06Who had access to this room, apart from Meredith and Karina?
00:09:10Well, the college had keys, and then any previous occupants could have kept copies.
00:09:14But we don't know for certain that the light was tampered with in here, didn't we?
00:09:17True, it could have happened while she was living with her nanny family.
00:09:20Do we know why they sacked her?
00:09:22Not yet.
00:09:22But the kids that she was looking after are the grandchildren of the woman who runs this place.
00:09:33Mrs. Theresa Belrose, founder and CEO.
00:09:37And this is Miss Gupta.
00:09:38She was the first to find Meredith.
00:09:41Before we start, I want to make it crystal clear.
00:09:43We have never had a health and safety issue in 25 years of operation on college grounds.
00:09:49Health and safety?
00:09:50We're treating this as murder.
00:09:51Goodness me.
00:09:54No, no, no.
00:09:54We don't do that here.
00:09:56But we vet our students thoroughly.
00:09:59We don't let that sort of person in.
00:10:06Sorry, the sort of person who might commit murder?
00:10:09Indeed.
00:10:10Or get themselves murdered.
00:10:13Yeah, Meredith was nanny to your grandchildren.
00:10:16Is that right?
00:10:17Yes.
00:10:17Yes, they adored her.
00:10:19As soon as my son Hugo told me that he and his wife Ellie were moving back to Midsommar,
00:10:24I knew she'd be perfect.
00:10:25But then they fired her.
00:10:27Yes.
00:10:28Well, that was a shame.
00:10:30What happened?
00:10:32Meredith was posting things online.
00:10:35Photos of meals she'd cooked for the children.
00:10:37It wasn't appropriate.
00:10:39But listen, they've had a dozen nannies over the past ten years.
00:10:43They know how to handle things.
00:10:45A dozen?
00:10:45Is there a reason they don't stay?
00:10:47Well, it's a challenging role.
00:10:49They have six children.
00:10:51And you're welcome to talk to any of their previous nannies, all of whom are still alive,
00:10:56I can assure you.
00:10:58Was Meredith in a relationship?
00:11:00She had a boyfriend, Jake.
00:11:03He's on his way.
00:11:06Oh, I'll, um, I'll come back.
00:11:09Allow me to introduce Rowan Fairbarnes, our visiting tutor for self-defense.
00:11:13They're saying this wasn't an accident.
00:11:15Really?
00:11:16Self-defense?
00:11:18Yes.
00:11:19Well, um, hopefully they'll never need it.
00:11:21Oh, kidnap attempts do happen.
00:11:24You must have seen Meredith this morning for her session with you.
00:11:27Yeah, she, uh, she had extra training sessions with me on Fridays.
00:11:31I run a martial arts gym down the road.
00:11:34Why extra training?
00:11:36Did you feel threatened by someone?
00:11:37Just enjoyed the fitness element, I think.
00:11:39Jake says he's outside.
00:11:49We're not planning this whole life together.
00:11:53How did you meet?
00:11:56She was a customer.
00:11:58I have a food truck at the Flavor Collective over at Midsummer Whiten.
00:12:01I think I went to one of your, um, outdoor cinema events last summer.
00:12:06Yeah, those events will merit this idea.
00:12:09She was the one who knew how to get the influencers in.
00:12:13The one standing up for us.
00:12:15Standing up for you?
00:12:16Against whom?
00:12:18This family called the Fairbarns.
00:12:20Dawn and her father Stanley.
00:12:22Any relation to Rowan Fairbarns?
00:12:24Yeah.
00:12:25Yeah, shut us down.
00:12:27I think we've wrecked the village.
00:12:30Yeah.
00:12:31There was this council meeting last month and Stanley almost got violent.
00:12:34Jake.
00:12:35Are you all right?
00:12:36Look, I need to talk to you again.
00:12:38That wasn't the whole story about Meredith getting fired.
00:12:42Ellie and Hugo have this family vlogging channel.
00:12:44The Bell Rose bunch, right?
00:12:45Almost a million subscribers.
00:12:47They put their whole lives online.
00:12:49So, when Ellie kicked off about Meredith sharing recipe photos on her own socials, Meredith snapped.
00:12:55Told them their whole channel was exploiting their children and that's why they fired her.
00:12:59Meredith threw her stuff into a taxi and just moved out.
00:13:02How had things been before that?
00:13:04Not great.
00:13:05The house and the kids had to look perfect for filming the whole time.
00:13:09And then she had to set up these craft projects.
00:13:11Ellie posts all these amazing kids' activities on their channel, but in reality, it's the nanny doing everything behind the
00:13:16scenes.
00:13:17Yeah, she had to sign an NDA saying she wouldn't reveal what she worked for.
00:13:19And then when she left, they freaked out.
00:13:21They knew she had dirt on them, that she could wreck their brand.
00:13:24I think that's why they killed her.
00:13:26Can you just calm down a bit?
00:13:29You can't know that they killed her.
00:13:31I'm just trying to help.
00:13:34Do they know about Aaron?
00:13:35What about him?
00:13:36Well, the eldest son tried to kiss her once.
00:13:39She rejected him, obviously, but, you know, he's pretty messed up.
00:13:43What do you mean, messed up?
00:13:44Well, his parents put him online since he was five or something.
00:13:48Videos of his potty training, tantrums, teenage acne.
00:13:51He's estranged from them now.
00:13:53Yeah, he moved in with a Fairbarns family I told you about.
00:13:56He helps them run the guest house.
00:13:58I need to go.
00:14:01You won't tell Teresa any of this came from me, will you?
00:14:14Darling, listen, don't panic, but we might have a problem.
00:14:31This survived the blast.
00:14:34It looks like a case for a ring light, but when you open it...
00:14:39Like and subscribe, a message from the killer?
00:14:42Well, this is what they say in videos, isn't it?
00:14:44Like and subscribe for more dating tips.
00:14:48Or whatever.
00:14:50Disturbing insight into your algorithm.
00:14:52So this is about Meredith's social media,
00:14:54or at least someone wants us to believe that it is.
00:14:57On the subject of disturbing insights,
00:15:00have you done another guest lecture for the police training centre?
00:15:04Not recently, why?
00:15:06One of my trainees is convinced she knows you from somewhere.
00:15:10Hi!
00:15:12I must have one of those faces.
00:15:20How did you get this?
00:15:21I found it on the floor after the explosion.
00:15:24I just thought if...
00:15:25Have you told the police?
00:15:26No.
00:15:27Of course not.
00:15:28Good.
00:15:28Be sure you keep it that way, okay?
00:15:32Okay?
00:15:47Yes, calm down!
00:15:49Stop it!
00:15:51Stop it!
00:15:52Sorry about the chaos.
00:15:54As you know, we are between nannies,
00:15:56and we're in full-on prep for the party tomorrow.
00:16:00Happy birthday.
00:16:01Oh, it's not till next month,
00:16:02but tomorrow work's better for the brand tie-in.
00:16:06Anyway.
00:16:07You couldn't believe it
00:16:09when my mother told us about Meredith.
00:16:10It's so awful.
00:16:11Yeah, it was really terrible.
00:16:14I understand you had a disagreement with Meredith on Wednesday.
00:16:18You, uh, terminated her employment.
00:16:21Yes, our values no longer aligned.
00:16:25There must be a worry when a nanny leaves.
00:16:27They might share private details about the family.
00:16:30I imagine it would be a worry
00:16:31if we had something to hide.
00:16:33I had a look at your channel.
00:16:35The fact that you had a nanny at all
00:16:37would be news to your viewers.
00:16:39With respect.
00:16:40There are entire internet forums
00:16:42dedicated to spreading hate about us.
00:16:45If Meredith wanted to chime in, fine.
00:16:47We simply added to the list.
00:16:49Hmm.
00:16:51And why did you keep her employment a secret?
00:16:53Well, our viewers want aspirational family content.
00:16:57They don't want to see the nuts and bolts.
00:17:00Your eldest, Aaron, is he here?
00:17:03Uh, no.
00:17:04Aaron doesn't live with us anymore,
00:17:06but he knows he's always welcome.
00:17:08And we are hoping he will join us for the party tomorrow.
00:17:11We did hear, actually,
00:17:12that apparently Aaron had a bit of a crush on Meredith.
00:17:15Okay.
00:17:16I'm going to stop you there.
00:17:17My son had nothing to do with this.
00:17:19Do you know, would it be helpful
00:17:20if I showed you Meredith's room, perhaps?
00:17:34Surely you should be speaking to her boyfriend.
00:17:37Jake!
00:17:38Jake!
00:17:41They had a break-up last week.
00:17:43This is my daughter, Paige.
00:17:45What makes you think they broke up?
00:17:47My bed's on the other side of that wall.
00:17:48I could always hear her on the phone.
00:17:50She told her friend Karina that Jake proposed,
00:17:53but she thought he was only doing it for visa stuff,
00:17:55so she said no.
00:17:56They broke up,
00:17:57then they got back together last weekend.
00:18:00And this is where Meredith kept her video equipment.
00:18:03Yeah.
00:18:04Yeah.
00:18:04I don't think we've ever had a key to that door.
00:18:07Have you had any break-ins?
00:18:08No.
00:18:08Although we did have an intruder
00:18:10a couple of weeks ago.
00:18:12I got this new friend request,
00:18:14and this
00:18:16is the profile picture.
00:18:18That's our en suite.
00:18:19So we changed the locks,
00:18:21filed a police report,
00:18:22but nothing was ever done about it.
00:18:24Could you forward that to me, please?
00:18:26But that's just some weirdo stalker
00:18:28trying to intimidate us.
00:18:29That's nothing to do with Meredith.
00:18:31I'd like the photo either way.
00:18:32It's all I wanted in the world.
00:18:37Sorry.
00:18:38I thought you were someone else for a second.
00:18:41Paige, what are you on about?
00:18:42Nothing.
00:18:43Sorry.
00:18:44Tell you later.
00:18:45Yeah.
00:18:45Yeah.
00:18:47Okay.
00:18:51Well, that was weird.
00:18:53Yeah.
00:18:53And not just that thing with Paige.
00:18:55The entire interaction.
00:18:56Someone they lived with until 48 hours ago
00:18:58has been blown up.
00:18:59They didn't have a single question for us about it.
00:19:01Interesting that Jake didn't mention
00:19:03the proposal and breakup.
00:19:04Yeah, neither did Carina.
00:19:06Yeah, prioritise background on Jake.
00:19:08And let's see what Dawn and Stanley Fairbarns
00:19:11have to say.
00:19:28Catch me, catch me.
00:19:31Catch me, catch me.
00:19:34Catch me.
00:19:34Oh, hello again.
00:19:36Everyone's out bad, Carl.
00:19:37I'll take you through.
00:19:38We'd like to speak to Dawn and Stanley first
00:19:40if they're home.
00:19:41Oh, right.
00:19:43Sure.
00:19:45Go and get Grandad.
00:19:46He's in the garden.
00:19:47Okay, Dad.
00:19:48Tell him the police are here.
00:19:49Okay?
00:19:52Come on in.
00:20:00Ahem.
00:20:03Ah.
00:20:04Police?
00:20:05Right then.
00:20:06Hi, I'm Dawn.
00:20:08I'm the one having the public feud with Meredith.
00:20:11It's not a secret.
00:20:13I mean, it's horrible what happened.
00:20:15She was how old?
00:20:16Anyone?
00:20:1723.
00:20:17Ah, it's awful.
00:20:18But that doesn't change the facts.
00:20:20She was destroying this village
00:20:21without flaying the collective.
00:20:23Free food in exchange for social media posts.
00:20:26And you saw the coach out there.
00:20:28You get 10 of those every week
00:20:29full of tourists.
00:20:30English country village
00:20:32is a fashionable aesthetic, apparently.
00:20:33A bit summer white and it's gone viral thanks to her.
00:20:36People on our front steps taking photos.
00:20:41Flying drones over us.
00:20:43Stanley Fairbairns?
00:20:45That's right.
00:20:46We wouldn't mind if they were paying guests, would we?
00:20:48They come to the village,
00:20:49get their photos and then leave.
00:20:51Traffic's a nightmare.
00:20:52They're losing us bookings.
00:20:54I can do it.
00:20:56It's this damn thing.
00:20:59It looks painful.
00:21:00How long have you had it?
00:21:01Oh, a few weeks.
00:21:04Came off a ladder,
00:21:05harvesting new cherries.
00:21:07Up trees in his 80s.
00:21:10We heard about a council meeting
00:21:12where you were aggressive towards Meredith.
00:21:18Who told you that?
00:21:20Dad was angry, but, you know,
00:21:22I can understand why people are pointing the finger,
00:21:24but I can prove it wasn't us.
00:21:26And we had a meeting all set up with our MP
00:21:29to discuss the family collective,
00:21:30but I cancelled it.
00:21:32I was sending you the emails.
00:21:33Sorry, to be clear, what does that prove?
00:21:35That we'd given out fighting it.
00:21:37Why?
00:21:38What changed?
00:21:39I just didn't have it in me anymore.
00:21:43What with my brother and the girls
00:21:45being here and everything.
00:21:48We moved here 19 months ago
00:21:50after my wife passed away.
00:21:52It's put a bit of pressure on things.
00:21:54I love having them here,
00:21:55but it's a lot.
00:21:57That sounds difficult.
00:21:59Yeah.
00:22:03Do you, uh, still want to speak to Alan?
00:22:10I'm glad she was around, to be honest.
00:22:13An insane person there.
00:22:15How do you mean?
00:22:16Well, my parents see everything as content.
00:22:22It's actually mad.
00:22:24Like, after we moved,
00:22:26my little sister Paige,
00:22:29she found out one of her friends had died.
00:22:32And what would you do
00:22:33if your kid got that news?
00:22:35I'd comfort them.
00:22:36Congratulations, you passed the basic humanity test.
00:22:39My parents filmed her crying
00:22:42for the vlog.
00:22:45Yeah.
00:22:47That's the face Meredith made, too.
00:22:50After I moved out,
00:22:52she just sent me updates
00:22:53and let me know what was going on.
00:22:57A friend of hers said that you tried to kiss her
00:23:00and she rejected you.
00:23:02That's weird.
00:23:04Because that definitely didn't happen.
00:23:07You didn't misinterpret her support
00:23:08for something else, perhaps?
00:23:10No.
00:23:12I mean, I thought she was pretty
00:23:14and everything, but...
00:23:16No.
00:23:20Well, Aaron definitely had a crush on Meredith.
00:23:23Oh, absolutely.
00:23:25That argument that Dawn made
00:23:27about them stopping their campaign
00:23:28against the Collective,
00:23:29I mean, it doesn't prove her innocence, does it?
00:23:32I mean, there are plenty of reasons.
00:23:35Are you right, sir?
00:23:36Those cherries are barely ripe enough
00:23:38to harvest now.
00:23:40There's no way Stanley was up there
00:23:42picking them several weeks ago.
00:23:44In light of ours, injury.
00:23:45Why?
00:23:46Why, indeed.
00:23:49It must be devastating
00:23:51to lose your entire wardrobe.
00:23:54I can't imagine it.
00:23:56I've got some toms here
00:23:58from Los Brompton
00:23:59that should be here.
00:24:02They should tie you over
00:24:03until you forget to them.
00:24:05Shops?
00:24:10I appreciate it.
00:24:15You're welcome.
00:24:20Hi, guys.
00:24:22Welcome to the channel.
00:24:23This is our kitchen.
00:24:24This is our chocolates.
00:24:27We've got all the chocolates.
00:24:28Let's head to the hallway.
00:24:33Thanks for feeding me.
00:24:34You're always welcome.
00:24:38How come he's allowed to watch that
00:24:40and I'm not?
00:24:41It's for work.
00:24:42You know them, do you?
00:24:44Yeah.
00:24:44That's Louis
00:24:45and that's Henry.
00:24:46They're really funny.
00:24:47Loads of people in my class watch them.
00:24:50Right.
00:24:50That's it for today, guys.
00:24:52And remember,
00:24:53like and subscribe.
00:24:55I wouldn't say they've been hilarious yet,
00:24:58but they have shown me
00:24:58the layout of their house
00:24:59and if I zoomed in on that blazer,
00:25:01I could probably tell you
00:25:02what school they go to.
00:25:05Mum, can we make some more Paddy videos
00:25:07now that we've got some extra help?
00:25:08Some of Betty's friends
00:25:10have social media accounts,
00:25:11but Betty isn't allowed yet
00:25:12because we're like
00:25:13literally the worst parents.
00:25:15So as a compromise,
00:25:16Sarah runs an account for Paddy.
00:25:18It sounds great.
00:25:20I'm happy to help.
00:25:21Go on then, Paddy.
00:25:22What have you got for me?
00:25:28It's a natural, sir.
00:25:29Natural prima donna.
00:25:31Betty, there won't be time tonight.
00:25:33You need to do your month's before dinner.
00:25:35Fine.
00:25:41How many?
00:25:42Are you kidding?
00:25:48Oh, um, sorry.
00:25:50Sorry, Sarah's showing me
00:25:51one of those stupid viral videos.
00:25:54I've had quite enough of those for one day.
00:25:56Yeah, I know, right?
00:25:57It's crazy what, um,
00:25:58what seems to take off online.
00:26:24Ooh, I know.
00:26:26Bye, guys.
00:26:28We are back here, guys.
00:26:30Bye, guys.
00:26:31How's that?
00:26:33Bye, guys.
00:26:35Bye, guys.
00:26:37Bye, guys.
00:26:38Bye, guys.
00:27:03Good morning.
00:27:17Morning, sir. Is this your attempt to take a selfie?
00:27:20I'm just checking. There's nothing on my face.
00:27:22I was getting some odd looks from the neighbours while I was putting the bins out.
00:27:25Really? Really? I can't think why.
00:27:28Have you seen the email with the phone logs?
00:27:30Ellie Bellrose called Meredith 36 times in the two days before she was murdered.
00:27:35Only three of the calls were answered.
00:27:37They're clearly playing down their conflict with her.
00:27:40The Bellroses have built a whole brand on this image of the perfect family.
00:27:46Meredith had the power to destroy that.
00:27:48Would Hugo or Ellie murdering Meredith make sense with the like and subscribe message, though?
00:27:53Would they want to draw attention to themselves like that?
00:27:54Unless the message was designed to throw us off.
00:27:57Last night, I kept coming back to how reckless this was.
00:28:01Whoever did this didn't care what other damage they caused.
00:28:04We can assume they're fairly damaged themselves.
00:28:21Ellie!
00:28:27What are you doing here?
00:28:33Oh, you've got the nice ones. Thank you.
00:28:36Of course.
00:28:39We've got more details back on the explosives.
00:28:43The ring light was one of these.
00:28:45Optiglow 2000.
00:28:48The power switch acted as the trigger.
00:28:51Her blast injuries are extensive.
00:28:53Pulmonary contusion, perforated intestines.
00:28:56I need to be on a call now.
00:29:00But I'll chase the lab for any DNA on the device.
00:29:05Because you never know.
00:29:10Hey, you've got one of your own.
00:29:12Yours looks better.
00:29:15My pastry.
00:29:17My beautiful pastry.
00:29:18It's all I wanted in the world.
00:29:26Is she okay?
00:29:28I've never been sure.
00:29:30There you go, sir.
00:29:31Yeah, Baba.
00:29:33So the messages between Aaron and Meredith are quite interesting.
00:29:37He keeps pushing to meet up.
00:29:39She keeps mentioning her boyfriend.
00:29:40But he doesn't take a hint.
00:29:42Not the first.
00:29:43Did Ellie forward that photo from inside the shower?
00:29:47Yes.
00:29:48I've applied for the metadata, but it's taking a while.
00:29:51However, if you look at the picture,
00:29:53if you enlarge it, there's a reflection.
00:29:57There.
00:29:58A blue surfer bracelet.
00:30:00Okay.
00:30:02Anything on background checks?
00:30:04Stanley Fairbarns.
00:30:05A few pub brawls in his 20s,
00:30:07but nothing on the radar since.
00:30:10His ex-army.
00:30:11Explosives training?
00:30:12It's unclear.
00:30:15Rowan Fairbarns is in a strange position, isn't he?
00:30:18His sister and father were at war with Meredith,
00:30:21yet he was her personal trainer.
00:30:23Ah, except he wasn't.
00:30:25According to Meredith's bank statement,
00:30:26she cancelled her gym membership ten days ago.
00:30:30And then she emailed asking to switch to a female PT
00:30:33during her notice period.
00:30:35So did she have a training session on the morning she died?
00:30:38Yes, but not with Rowan Fairbarns.
00:30:41So, um, why did he lie about that?
00:30:44That's precisely what I'm going to ask him.
00:30:46You try the boyfriend again.
00:30:49Push him on this breakup that he forgot to mention.
00:30:56I messed up.
00:30:58She deserved a beautiful proposal.
00:31:01And there was all this talk about her visa ending.
00:31:05So I asked her while we were watching TV.
00:31:10And she turned you down?
00:31:11Well, she didn't want to get married just for the paperwork.
00:31:14I don't even know why I mentioned the visa stuff.
00:31:17I wanted to marry her more than anything.
00:31:19And you broke up because of it?
00:31:21Well, for a few days, but we got back together.
00:31:25Look, I know I should have said all this before.
00:31:31Um, was there anything going on between Meredith and Rowan Fairbarns?
00:31:35What?
00:31:37No.
00:31:38Why are you even asking that?
00:31:40Or was there a reason that Meredith didn't want to train with him anymore?
00:31:42She was just bored of it.
00:31:44And she found it weird that Ellie started sessions with him too.
00:31:48It was like her boss was trying to compete with her or something.
00:31:50But no, there's nothing going on with Rowan.
00:32:03Yeah, there you go.
00:32:07Looking good.
00:32:16Hello.
00:32:18Hello.
00:32:18You got more questions for me?
00:32:20Well, I came to speak to Rowan, but, uh, actually, yes.
00:32:24Um, if we could have a minute?
00:32:26No, stay.
00:32:28Sure it's nothing bad.
00:32:29Oh.
00:32:30Oh.
00:32:31Okay.
00:32:33Yeah, in the two days between you firing Meredith and her murder,
00:32:37you called her 36 times.
00:32:40Why was that?
00:32:42Oh.
00:32:4336.
00:32:43That's embarrassing.
00:32:45Wanted to smooth things over.
00:32:47And did you?
00:32:48Well, no, because she wouldn't come back.
00:32:50But I was going to call you, actually.
00:32:52Meredith's friend, Carina, turned up at ours with her CV asking for Meredith's job.
00:32:58Right.
00:32:59Well, she's not even in the ground yet.
00:33:01They're supposed to be best friends.
00:33:03It's a bit suspicious, no?
00:33:05Well, I thought so.
00:33:08Oh, well.
00:33:09If that's all, I need to get ready for the party.
00:33:12Camera.
00:33:17You should come.
00:33:18I've got people from my management there.
00:33:20They can help you, you know, monetize things.
00:33:23Sorry?
00:33:25For your five minutes of fame.
00:33:27May as well ride the wave.
00:33:30I'll see you.
00:33:32Hello?
00:33:35No, no.
00:33:37We said white linen for the tablecloths.
00:33:40Honestly.
00:33:48Why did you lie about training Meredith on the morning she was killed?
00:33:55I didn't.
00:33:57She was here.
00:33:58But her PT session wasn't with you.
00:34:00She'd specifically asked to stop training with you.
00:34:04She wanted to change things up.
00:34:06Some clients need that, you know, a different approach.
00:34:11I didn't realize it was important you took the session.
00:34:14A new trainer will be back at two if you want to talk to her.
00:34:16I will, yes.
00:34:18Another thing I'm curious about.
00:34:20How did your father really hurt his arm?
00:34:23His shoulder.
00:34:25He, uh, dislocated it, pulled it from a tree.
00:34:27He said that he was harvesting cherries,
00:34:30but they wouldn't have been ripe.
00:34:31I'm wondering why he felt the need to make something up.
00:34:33Well, I wasn't there.
00:34:35Just going by what he said.
00:34:37You haven't actually seen the nature of the injury under the sling?
00:34:41No.
00:34:43Why?
00:34:44What sort of military training did he have?
00:34:49But you think he's hiding a burn under there
00:34:51from making a bomb?
00:34:55Look, my father is capable of many things,
00:34:58but he did not kill Meredith.
00:35:03Winter.
00:35:04Hi, sir.
00:35:05A uniform had been interviewing the students at Aspen.
00:35:08Three of them say that they saw Meredith arguing with Karina
00:35:11the day before she died.
00:35:13They're saying Meredith was in tears.
00:35:14Now that's interesting because Karina was round at the Bellrose's house last night
00:35:18trying to get Meredith's old job.
00:35:27Hey, listen.
00:35:29The police have been asking questions about Dad's arm.
00:35:34Should we be worried?
00:35:38Going in now with this amazing waterproof mascara.
00:35:43This one genuinely stays put.
00:35:45Oh, lovely.
00:35:46I'll link it below.
00:35:48Do you know, I'm so excited about this party today.
00:35:50Just having all of my friends and family in one place.
00:35:53Mummy, it's filming!
00:35:54How many more times?
00:35:56You need to shut up.
00:35:57Go away.
00:35:58Put a screen on.
00:35:58Go!
00:36:00Just shut up.
00:36:07The thing I'm most excited about
00:36:08is having all of my friends and family in one place.
00:36:11I'm...
00:36:11What?
00:36:12Have you done something with the footage from last weekend?
00:36:14The canal boat stuff?
00:36:15No.
00:36:16Well, I don't understand.
00:36:16I backed it up.
00:36:17It's completely disappeared.
00:36:18Well, I don't know.
00:36:19Oh.
00:36:23Door.
00:36:24Kitchen.
00:36:29Going in now with this amazing waterproof mascara.
00:36:33Oh, this one is incredible, honestly.
00:36:41If you could be there, it would mean the world to your father.
00:36:45I don't want me there, though.
00:36:47You can see it looks bad if I'm not.
00:36:49It's purely for the channel.
00:36:51Well, you know how I feel about that.
00:36:54So, say something then, Gran.
00:36:55In public.
00:36:57You're an expert in childcare.
00:37:00Imagine how powerful it would be if you backed me up.
00:37:02You have your methods.
00:37:03I have mine.
00:37:05Hmm?
00:37:07How about Paige?
00:37:08Is she going?
00:37:10No.
00:37:11She's at her friend's house.
00:37:13They all are.
00:37:14Adults only.
00:37:16Well, that's a shame.
00:37:19They do miss you terribly, sweetheart.
00:37:22Right.
00:37:23I don't know if you do.
00:37:31Extra deep vanilla sponge cake, gluten-free.
00:37:34Oh, yeah.
00:37:34Just leave it there.
00:37:38I, uh, did a really thick layer of buttercream as requested.
00:37:46Do you want to take a look?
00:37:48I'm sure it's fine.
00:37:51You know, I still made it for you.
00:37:53Even though my girlfriend was murdered yesterday.
00:37:55Even though you treated her like dirt.
00:38:05Sorry for your loss.
00:38:08Please feel free to add a bit extra onto the invoice.
00:38:12Whatever.
00:38:15Enjoy wasting a good cake.
00:38:24Apologies.
00:38:25Apologies.
00:38:26Come and see the kitchen set up inside.
00:38:28Which way.
00:38:29We've had it remodeled since you were last here, guys.
00:38:31So, uh, I think you'll remember it.
00:38:43We were living together in that tiny room.
00:38:45Of course we squabbled.
00:38:46And she just got by.
00:38:47So she was super emotional.
00:38:49Plus everything with Jake.
00:38:52The proposal.
00:38:54The breakup.
00:38:55None of which you mentioned to us.
00:38:56Are you protecting Jake?
00:38:58Only because I know he's innocent.
00:39:00That boy adored Meredith.
00:39:02So, why waste your time on something irrelevant when Ellie and Hugo have such a clear motive?
00:39:07So, you openly suspect the Bellroses and yet you went over to their house and asked them for a job?
00:39:12I can explain.
00:39:14Please do.
00:39:15Because either you sincerely believe they're killers, yet you wanted to work for them, or you don't believe they're killers.
00:39:20In which case you're trying to misdirect a murder investigation.
00:39:24I wanted to work for them because I suspect them.
00:39:27If I were living with them, then I might be able to find some proof.
00:39:30You should leave that to us.
00:39:32We're the detectives.
00:39:33I need you to understand how bad it got between Ellie and Meredith.
00:39:37Ellie was bullying Meredith, but in this horrible, subtle way.
00:39:42Like, she gave her these jeans that a brand sent her and then accused her of stealing them.
00:39:46She told her the best ring light to buy to shoot videos and then got funny about her shooting them.
00:39:51She told Meredith which light to buy.
00:39:54Were Ellie and Meredith using identical ring lights?
00:39:57All I know is that Ellie recommended her one.
00:40:01Bellroses is your drive-in.
00:40:08DCI Barnaby.
00:40:09I'll take the bedrooms you look downstairs.
00:40:25She's a dribble.
00:40:27Just keep smiling at me.
00:40:46Sir?
00:40:50Sir, look.
00:40:51Optic low 2000.
00:40:52There were two identical lights in the same house.
00:40:55so they could have got mixed up.
00:40:57You can't be sure Meredith was the intended victim.
00:41:00They're trying to kill one of the bell roses instead.
00:41:06Oh, thank you so much.
00:41:09I just want to...
00:41:14Gotcha.
00:41:35Some of the guests pulled her off the spike
00:41:37before we got down here.
00:41:38It looks like this severed the carotid artery.
00:41:42It's a tent peg, isn't it?
00:41:44For something big, like a marquee.
00:41:46I'd say so.
00:41:48But it's been sharpened, turned into a blade.
00:41:51Well, there's at least two more in there.
00:41:54Literally.
00:41:55Spiked.
00:41:55See if they're a match for the pegs used on this.
00:41:59I'll ask the lab if we can lift anything useful from them.
00:42:03Nothing from the bomb fragments or ring-like case, I'm afraid.
00:42:07Are you working on the assumption it's the same person?
00:42:10We don't know.
00:42:12But it's possible Meredith was never the intended victim.
00:42:15It was Ellie.
00:42:20The, um, like and subscribe message makes much more sense, though.
00:42:24Doesn't it?
00:42:26A disturbed fan or something?
00:42:28We know they had that intruder.
00:42:30And the cake smash prank is a social media thing, too.
00:42:35The cake was made by Meredith's boyfriend, Jake, ordered weeks ago.
00:42:39Would Jake do this with everyone knowing that he made the cake?
00:42:43That's a risky move.
00:42:45But then you did say we're looking for someone reckless.
00:42:48Prioritise that photo from inside Ellie's bathroom.
00:42:51We need to know where it was uploaded from.
00:42:53Because it was clearly a threat.
00:43:00I can't tell the kids.
00:43:03I can't.
00:43:05Perhaps it's best if I do it.
00:43:10Sorry.
00:43:15I don't understand why he did this.
00:43:17Did he think we killed his girlfriend or something?
00:43:19Are you talking about Jake?
00:43:21Who else?
00:43:24When he dropped the cake off, he was a mess.
00:43:27Ranting about Meredith.
00:43:29Saying we treated her like dirt.
00:43:31Did he know that you were planning to push Ellie into the cake?
00:43:35He was in on it, yeah.
00:43:38We asked for extra thick cream and stuff.
00:43:41We?
00:43:41Me and Ellie.
00:43:43It was all her idea.
00:43:44Did anyone else know?
00:43:46Anyone who watched their channel could have guessed.
00:43:49He'd been dropping hints about it.
00:43:50I told her I wanted to get revenge.
00:43:53But joking, obviously.
00:43:55Ellie did a cake smash on me for my 40th.
00:43:59Video got almost a million views.
00:44:01Oh, roll your eyes.
00:44:03But what do you think pays for this house?
00:44:05For the school fees.
00:44:10Ellie worked hard at this business.
00:44:12After the cake was delivered, was it left unattended?
00:44:16It was on the table.
00:44:17There were people around.
00:44:18It's not like we were guarding it.
00:44:19Is there anyone else you can think of who disliked Ellie?
00:44:24Hundreds.
00:44:26Literally.
00:44:27Read the comments under the videos.
00:44:29I assume he meant people who knew her.
00:44:32Yeah, but they think they know her, don't they?
00:44:34And some of them are obsessed.
00:44:35You saw the photograph.
00:44:36They know where we live.
00:44:38I want to talk to you again about Aaron.
00:44:41He's clearly angry about a loss of privacy in his childhood.
00:44:46We never forced him to do anything.
00:44:49I've been reading his blog posts.
00:44:51It seems he blamed his mother in particular.
00:44:53He did not murder his own mother.
00:44:57How were things in your marriage?
00:45:00Well, according to the internet trolls, we were getting divorced.
00:45:03But they were wrong.
00:45:05I loved my wife.
00:45:07I'll tell you something, though.
00:45:08Whoever did this, they hated Ellie, but they hated me even more.
00:45:12Why do you say that?
00:45:13Because they made me do it.
00:45:15It was my hands pushing her down onto that spike.
00:45:18I'm not a murderer, but I killed my wife.
00:45:23How am I supposed to live with that?
00:45:28So what do you think?
00:45:30I want to believe him.
00:45:32For Hugo to plan that, I mean, murdering her in front of all those people,
00:45:35it'd be the wildest double bluff in history.
00:45:38It wouldn't harm his view account, though, would it?
00:45:41Murdered for clicks.
00:45:43If he was going to do it anyway,
00:45:44why not do it in the most attention-grabbing way possible?
00:45:48One of the catering teams said that they saw Aaron Belrose
00:45:51sneaking in through the side gate
00:45:52about half an hour before the party started.
00:45:54They recognized him from their channel.
00:45:56But he wasn't at the event itself?
00:45:58No, no one else saw him.
00:46:00And there's something else.
00:46:01This whole event was a product launch.
00:46:04Right.
00:46:04For matcha muffins, whatever they are.
00:46:06I felt like I saw something in Meredith's messages about it,
00:46:10so I asked the office to take a look.
00:46:11Meredith and Jake had a text exchange
00:46:14about Ellie stealing a muffin recipe from Jake
00:46:17and then getting a big brand deal off the back of it.
00:46:20So this is actually a product launch
00:46:21for something Jake created.
00:46:24Okay, you go and speak to him.
00:46:25I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:28I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:29I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:30I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:31I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:32I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:33I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:33I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:34I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:34I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:36I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:37I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:39I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:41I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:42I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:46I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:47I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:49I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:46:57I'll try and find Aaron, sir.
00:47:07inside my cake yeah yeah look like they're being pushed up through the bottom then this
00:47:12was the cake that you were decorating when i was here earlier yeah i did most of it yesterday it
00:47:16was left here overnight was it possible that someone tampered with it well it's not exactly
00:47:20secure here is it i'm also interested in the muffin recipe that ellie stole from you
00:47:28i wrote it down so meredith can make it with the kids next thing we know ellie posts a video
00:47:33of
00:47:33herself making it and she's got a partnership deal you must have been furious i was angry i'm not gonna
00:47:39lie what can you do no and yet you still agreed to do ellie's birthday cake i gave them a
00:47:45stupidly
00:47:45high quote to put them off but they accepted it and then you actually went ahead and made it
00:47:49the evening after your girlfriend had been murdered baking is the one thing that works for me it
00:47:54it levels me out
00:48:01no no this wasn't about money and this wasn't some kind of therapy
00:48:07do you believe that ellie bellrose killed your girlfriend i didn't kill ellie
00:48:11i swear when i delivered that cake it was just a normal cake
00:48:19it was the muffins i did something to the muffins
00:48:25i switched some of them for my own batch with a laxative in them
00:48:32pathetic really isn't it but that family thing they can take anything
00:48:38i said i just it just it seemed like the one thing i could control
00:48:42so going ahead with the birthday cake that was so you could get yourself onto their property yeah
00:48:46that's all it was well then i still need you to answer my original question
00:48:51do you believe that ellie bellrose killed your girlfriend you're asking if i murdered ellie
00:48:55as revenge i'm interested in your opinion i don't have an opinion none of this makes sense to me
00:49:01but i'm not stupid if i wanted to kill ellie i wouldn't do it in a way that points straight
00:49:05at me
00:49:12grand says she'll be down in a minute we're just helping dad settle the kids
00:49:16no rush take all the time you need
00:49:23i really am sorry no child should have to experience this thanks
00:49:31i will need to ask you all some questions
00:49:34none of the kids were here they're all meant to stay at a friend's house
00:49:40does that include page yeah and where were you my home
00:49:47at the guest house all day yeah
00:49:55the thing is i have a witness who saw you enter the garden here before the party started
00:50:08okay
00:50:12i was here before the party they were going to show these video clips of mum all nice stuff
00:50:19and i thought it would be really funny to switch them out for footage of her swearing and shouting at
00:50:24us
00:50:26so i paid one of the caterers to press play after she blew her candles out
00:50:31but it never got that far did it he's telling the truth he showed me the new version and if
00:50:37he was planning to kill his mother he wouldn't have taken the trouble to make a video that would never
00:50:42be seen would he
00:50:46how was everything else at home was everyone getting on okay you mean did dad do this
00:50:58i'm sorry why are we even talking about this
00:51:01it's obvious what happened isn't it
00:51:03mom got herself killed by by some sicko troll and you know she made it easy for them
00:51:08aaron no he's right mom and dad put it all out there where we live where we go to school
00:51:16our routines
00:51:18it's amazing it took this long
00:51:26how was it sir
00:51:28not great there's no good way to ask teenage children if they killed their mum
00:51:32or if they think their dad did it i guess not
00:51:36well aaron's campaign against family vlogging is much more professional than i thought
00:51:41he's got a full legal team he hires out podcast studios he's even gone to the us to talk to
00:51:46other
00:51:46child vloggers who's paying for all that exactly so i did a bit of digging and it turns out that
00:51:51it's all being funded by his grandmother that fits she clearly doesn't approve of their social media
00:51:58stuff well it's more than that sir she's trying to bring it down from the inside
00:52:20as suspected cause of death was penetrating trauma to the carotid artery
00:52:30there were six large tent pegs around the perimeter of the cake i'd say they were sharpened using an
00:52:40electric grinding machine they don't match the ones on the party marquee i'm trying to find the
00:52:45manufacturer there's no logos or anything okay keep working on it
00:52:49i might have found out what happened to stanley's shoulder though in ellie's emails found this video
00:52:56dawn and stanley see look she's pulling at him he then falls
00:53:03and then there he's holding his shoulder and ellie filmed this well they sometimes use drone footage
00:53:09on their vlogs but we found this in her emails because she used it to blackmail dawn she said
00:53:15that if she didn't stop sabotaging her photo shoot she'd send this to social services but we got dawn's
00:53:20response yes she agreed ellie could film wherever she wanted but look at the last line of this email
00:53:28i've already had this conversation with meredith it was an accident so meredith saw this footage too
00:53:34both women saw it and both are now dead which is interesting in light of the fact that ellie
00:53:40cancelled her payment to roan's gym yesterday so that's both victims cancelling the same
00:53:46gym membership right before they were killed sounds like we'd better speak to dawn and rowan
00:53:51if there's nothing else i'm still waiting for the analysis on the spikes assuming the lab haven't got back
00:54:00yet hold on what was that
00:54:11nothing i was just showing something to a colleague well that was me why why are you showing someone a
00:54:18video of me he has to see it at some point
00:54:30last year the much coveted title of the uk's best christmas trifle went to mrs sarah barnaby can she
00:54:37hold on to the title for another year our taste test will decide
00:54:53oh my trifle my beautiful trifle it's all i wanted in the world can we just scrape the top off
00:55:00there's no saving it i've seen that doggy poo
00:55:05oh that was two christmases ago did sarah send you that uh not quite oh it's our paddy the pup
00:55:15channel
00:55:194.3 million views you've gone viral
00:55:25you're a meme like what oh it's been remixed like a dozen times this one's my favorite
00:55:32check this out
00:55:44this is why i've been getting funny looks oh i'm sure they're admiring looks you drive i need to call
00:55:53sarah get this stuff taken down i might be a bit late for that sir
00:56:15i know how this looks
00:56:17but he was insisting that he could prune trees up a ladder with a blimmin chainsaw i was trying to
00:56:25stop him from getting hurt because if he ends up in hospital on top of everything else it's just too
00:56:29much
00:56:33it's a lot that's all with rowan and the girls has something happened
00:56:40it's just them being here and i'm glad they are i mean i love them but since since their mother
00:56:47died
00:56:48rowan's hiding at the gym dad's finding any excuse to be in the garden
00:56:52and i'm expected to hold together two grieving girls and look after a toddler
00:56:58you're handling everything on your own yeah it feels like it
00:57:02dad and rowan aren't even speaking at the moment
00:57:06i'm stuck in the middle
00:57:08and on top of that meredith and ellie were talking about social services
00:57:15we've seen the emails
00:57:18meredith meant well at least
00:57:22she saw the video when hugo was editing it and thought i'd lost it that i deliberately hurt him
00:57:29she said if i didn't get extra support she'd talk to dad's gp
00:57:34whereas ellie
00:57:36pure leverage
00:57:38stop objecting to our photo shoots or i'll report you for elder abuse
00:57:42you felt threatened by meredith and ellie
00:57:45if you did something in response to that something you regret you need to tell me
00:57:52no
00:57:52no
00:57:53and what about your brother do you know about this
00:57:56i showed him the emails
00:57:58he's the one who talked meredith down
00:58:00i was being a silly sod with the chainsaw
00:58:04she did the right thing taking it from me
00:58:08now listen
00:58:10aaron said someone messed with that cake
00:58:13yesterday or the night before so
00:58:16check the cctv out front and you'll see that don didn't leave this house
00:58:24how about you
00:58:25i took the dogs out but i wasn't carrying metal spikes with me
00:58:32there's something online local paper they're saying they were 14-inch tent pegs
00:58:40that's right
00:58:45poor boy
00:58:48poor boy
00:58:49what's he meant to do now
00:58:57knowing what someone did to his mother
00:59:06hi
00:59:09well
00:59:11as it happens the american girl i told you about
00:59:46isn't an issue anymore
00:59:46that he trains at rowan's gym
00:59:48now he said that he hasn't seen any drama with his pt clients but
00:59:51he did say that rowan has a bit of a side hustle
00:59:54he's selling steroids
00:59:55really and this is common knowledge at the gym
00:59:58enough for ben to be aware of it
01:00:00oh and uh digital have got something from ellie's calendar
01:00:04they said that she had an appointment next month with a law firm called
01:00:08longcroft though and they specialize in high net worth divorce
01:00:12i wonder if hugo knew about that
01:00:14i keep coming back to him
01:00:16now most female victims are killed by their partner or their ex so if ellie was always the intended target
01:00:23the obvious answer is often the right one
01:00:25and maybe the like and subscribe message was hugo trying to throw us off make it look like a
01:00:30crazed stalker
01:00:31which is the narrative he's been pushing
01:00:33yeah but it went wrong the ring lights got mixed up and meredith ended up dead
01:00:38so he tried again with the cake smash it was so public no one would ever suspect him
01:00:43speak to him again you can drop me at rowan's gym on your way over
01:00:48ellie didn't quit quite the opposite in fact she said she'll promote us in her vlogs
01:00:53if i trade her for free do you have proof of that an email chain perhaps
01:00:58it's just a conversation you can see the problem here two of your female clients
01:01:03cancel their memberships and both are then murdered did they know something i explained about
01:01:09meredith i just got bored it happens i managed to catch up with her new pt on my way over
01:01:16here
01:01:16she said that meredith was cagey when your name came up nervous that's strange i should probably
01:01:23mention that we've seen the drone footage and i just spoke to your father and sister
01:01:30meredith was threatening to report dawn to the authorities for dislocating your father's shoulder
01:01:36something you all lied about it was a total accident we just couldn't let social services
01:01:42get involved again again there was this thing last year
01:01:50i wasn't doing too good what happened i sent an alarm on my phone to pick olivia and Katie up
01:02:00from
01:02:00school it went off and i don't know i just sort of couldn't their mama gone and they needed me
01:02:10to make it okay
01:02:14i can never do that what did you do
01:02:20drive off i was out of contact for three days just drove around slept in my car
01:02:29so after that social services are bound to be monitoring us
01:02:33and then meredith was raising welfare concerns about your father she just wouldn't drop it
01:02:41in the end i had to use what i had against her which was
01:02:46she used to tell me stories about working for ellie she must have thought it was okay because i
01:02:51teach at a college but still against her nda so i turned it around on her i said to her
01:02:59if she made
01:02:59trouble for me i'll make trouble for her the thing is i think meredith had another card she could play
01:03:08if you threatened her illegal steroids what we know you're selling them did meredith know too did ellie
01:03:22i just needed to find another way to keep us afloat some of the guys in here used them
01:03:29that had nothing to do with meredith or ellie i swear
01:04:03i just want to be looking for my pocket but i don't know if you know if i had anything
01:04:05to do with me
01:04:09Hello?
01:04:38Oh, my God.
01:05:08My keys don't work anymore.
01:05:11They changed the locks after some stalker got in.
01:05:16I just want it all gone.
01:05:24I know you feel that way now, but...
01:05:26I don't need it to remember my childhood.
01:05:28Do I?
01:05:31Because it's everywhere.
01:05:34She put it all out there for the world to see.
01:05:37Maybe she didn't understand when you were little.
01:05:39But at some point she had to.
01:05:41Thousands of strangers picking over me online, commenting.
01:05:45She saw that and she kept going.
01:05:46For what? For the money?
01:05:48Or the attention?
01:05:51Or whatever it was that was more important to either being my mum.
01:05:55I'm sorry, Aaron.
01:05:56When I was seven,
01:05:58I found them lying on the kitchen floor.
01:06:01Mum and Dad, both totally still.
01:06:06I thought they were unconscious, so I freaked out.
01:06:10I was screaming, trying to wake them up.
01:06:14Then Mum starts laughing.
01:06:18That's when I saw the camera.
01:06:20They were playing a prank on you.
01:06:24I was angry for days.
01:06:27Refusing to film.
01:06:31But 2.6 million views.
01:06:35Bought me a games console.
01:06:39Hated her for it.
01:06:42Literally hated her.
01:06:49Because she was my mum.
01:06:58Hold on to this.
01:07:00In case.
01:07:04You might want it one day.
01:07:14Winter.
01:07:17On her wrist.
01:07:24Where's your sister?
01:07:39Fine.
01:07:40I sent it.
01:07:43Why would you do that?
01:07:44Your mother was terrified.
01:07:45Exactly.
01:07:46And you still didn't stop.
01:07:48Stop what?
01:07:49Putting everything online.
01:07:51I thought if you were scared enough,
01:07:53I'd tried everything else.
01:07:54What do you mean?
01:07:55What else?
01:07:55Nothing.
01:07:56Just deleting random video files and stuff.
01:07:59What's wrong with you?
01:08:00What's wrong with me
01:08:02is the whole of my life
01:08:03I've been exploited by my own parents.
01:08:06Because I never agreed to this.
01:08:08I never agreed to show everyone my acne
01:08:10and my first bra
01:08:12and what I was using for my period
01:08:13because some tampon company
01:08:14wanted to sponsor a video about it.
01:08:17I never agreed to any of it.
01:08:19No, Paige, you're not having that.
01:08:21You all knew.
01:08:22You were allowed to say no.
01:08:23Yeah.
01:08:24And we also knew
01:08:25there was no other source of income.
01:08:28Aaron's right.
01:08:30We're all just a paycheck to you.
01:08:33Paige?
01:08:34Paige.
01:08:38You're worried it could be her.
01:08:41She's 16.
01:08:42Her own mother.
01:08:44And yet...
01:08:47And yet...
01:08:48she's angry
01:08:50and she's damaged.
01:08:54Paige?
01:08:54Paige!
01:09:00Paige!
01:09:19Aaron?
01:09:22Are you all right?
01:09:27It's just all really messed up, isn't it?
01:09:31I, um...
01:09:32I, I, I don't know what to say.
01:09:36Is it OK if I give my notice?
01:09:39I think I just need to move back home.
01:09:41I, um...
01:09:41You don't need to give us any notice.
01:09:44Do what you need, lovely.
01:09:47Thanks.
01:09:47Come here.
01:09:56I'll make some tea.
01:10:00It's OK.
01:10:03Sorry, lad.
01:10:05This must be awful.
01:10:09Back in a sec.
01:10:32We thought we were setting them up for life.
01:10:35Those kids would do anything for the clap,
01:10:36wouldn't we, Gilman?
01:10:38Ellie had made an appointment
01:10:39with a divorce lawyer.
01:10:41Were you aware of that?
01:10:45Things had been a bit tense.
01:10:50I honestly never thought things were that bad.
01:10:52What was the tension about?
01:10:54My mother.
01:10:56She wanted me to take over the college.
01:10:59Problem is, everything to do with Aspen
01:11:00has to be very discreet.
01:11:02It's what clients look for, so...
01:11:05It doesn't work with the social media stuff.
01:11:07I had to choose between the college and the channel.
01:11:10Which effectively meant choosing between Ellie and your mother.
01:11:14I chose Ellie.
01:11:17No contest.
01:11:18Did you know your mother is financing Aaron's campaign against you?
01:11:21I didn't.
01:11:23I didn't.
01:11:24It makes sense.
01:11:26A horrible kind of sense.
01:11:28She really loves them, doesn't she?
01:11:32Yeah.
01:11:35I'll give her that.
01:11:37And she felt that the channel was harming them.
01:11:40What might she have done to protect them?
01:11:42Nothing that extreme.
01:11:44No.
01:11:46And even if there was like a tiny fraction of doubt about that,
01:11:49the fact that the bomb went off in her own college rules it out.
01:11:51The only thing my mother loves more than her grandkids is this place.
01:11:55All right.
01:11:56Boy, boy, boy, look up, look up, look up, look up, look up, look up.
01:12:08I see you in a moment.
01:12:29It really got under Hugo's skin back there.
01:12:31And when you asked what he thought his mother would do without the kids.
01:12:35I thought that too. He knows what she's capable of.
01:12:38Unless he's very clever and it was all an act.
01:12:42I'd been calling the station. I was wrong.
01:12:45It wasn't Ellie who killed Meredith. It was her.
01:12:50You have evidence for this?
01:12:51Last year, Meredith did work experience with this A-list family on a superyacht.
01:12:56In her debrief with Teresa, Meredith told her about this actress throwing a bowl of chips at her husband during
01:13:01a row.
01:13:02Two days later, it's in the papers.
01:13:04Oh, she thought Teresa leaked the story.
01:13:06She knew she did. Because it wasn't actually a bowl of chips. These were crisps.
01:13:10Meredith was the only American on that boat.
01:13:12And the only one that would call them chips. So she knew the story came from her.
01:13:15And Teresa was the only person she told.
01:13:18Thing is, Meredith told Ellie that Teresa was selling stories back when she and Ellie were more friendly.
01:13:23And then I suddenly realized, what if Ellie used that information against Teresa and told her it came from Meredith?
01:13:29That could be why they're both dead.
01:13:31If it came out she was selling stories about her clients, then she'd be ruined.
01:13:34Karina?
01:13:37Who would be ruined?
01:13:40Is there something we need to discuss?
01:13:44The sale of tabloid stories to the press, apparently.
01:13:49I'm sure the police have more pressing concerns than the origin of celebrity gossip.
01:13:55If Meredith and Ellie both knew a damaging secret about you, that's something I've got time to discuss.
01:14:03Of course. We can talk in my study.
01:14:10Thank you, Karina.
01:14:13It's Prispod.
01:14:25Due to a, um, regrettable accounting error, the college is facing a rather large shortfall.
01:14:35I've had to find alternative sources of income.
01:14:38By selling stories to the newspapers. And both Ellie and Meredith knew.
01:14:42But it wasn't in their interest to do anything about it.
01:14:45Dragging the college through the mud would just have reduced Meredith's employability and Hugo's inheritance.
01:14:51Your son chose his wife and his social media career over the college, so you tried to drive a wedge
01:14:59between him and Ellie.
01:15:00And you were funding Aaron's campaign against them.
01:15:03Excuse me.
01:15:06Sir.
01:15:08To be absolutely frank, yes.
01:15:11Ellie was vacuous, and her career even more so.
01:15:18But, like it or not, she was the mother of my grandchildren.
01:15:23Three, two, one, go!
01:15:27Their whole lives have changed now.
01:15:32I'll do everything I can to help them, but...
01:15:36Something in them is broken.
01:15:40It will stay that way forever.
01:15:46I would never have chosen that for them.
01:15:50Not for anything.
01:15:54Sir, we need to go to Midsomer Whiten right now.
01:15:56This is my father...
01:16:03He's gone.
01:16:05To be resbyter
01:16:06Oh!
01:16:14Connor Holloway!
01:16:16No!
01:16:18Oh!
01:16:22Then it was in his father.
01:16:23You stood the room?
01:16:24No!
01:16:26It was just him.
01:16:39huge decompressed skull fracture his daughter says he was on blood sinners so that increases
01:16:44the chance of intracranial hemorrhage who found him aaron and page they claim that they saw him
01:16:51through the open door none of them knew what he was doing in here but they all assumed that
01:16:55he fell from the ladder only um he's facing the wrong way his head ending up closer to the ladder
01:17:02than his feet doesn't make sense we have confirmed that nobody moved the body or the ladder this was
01:17:07stanley's phone or at least the one that he was using his broke last week so he's been borrowing
01:17:11this one oh great check the browser history it would make more sense if the ladder was over here
01:17:18when he fell oh look at that up there the top shelf it's dusty but it's been disturbed
01:17:28I don't want to touch this ladder have you got one can we have a ladder in here
01:17:51winter yeah sorry sir I'll be there in a sec I'm just struggling to get into this
01:17:56something wrong with your legs
01:18:08okay there's a there's a tent up here or beggar a marquee and we've got the the guy ropes for
01:18:17it
01:18:17plus a mallet and the obvious thing missing presumably from this gap here
01:18:22is the tent pegs stanley was asking about the tent pegs he'd read that they were 14 inches
01:18:29and he had a tape measure with him he was checking wasn't he he'd realized that
01:18:35the tent pegs that were used to kill ellie came from his own house
01:18:44and now they're missing
01:18:48you think this is someone that lives here sir it would make sense that leaves three people
01:18:54two of them stanley's children well this might be relevant then sir there are loads of searches
01:19:00on here for the belrose bunch and especially ellie belrose but they're all from two or three years
01:19:05ago when the belroses didn't even live in midsummer and before it was stanley's phone
01:19:10and then in the same time there are these searches
01:19:17how to be a better mum what to do if you're not suited to being a mother
01:19:25and self-harm content
01:19:36whose phone was stanley borrowing did it belong to rowan's wife it was jen's yeah
01:19:41you said she died did she take her own life
01:19:45oh yeah but what's this got to do with jen
01:19:47where's rowan now don't know well he said he was gonna get some water
01:19:51but that was quite a while ago and
01:19:58his van's gone
01:20:00he bought dahlias earlier he always takes them to jen's grave
01:20:05today was her birthday
01:20:08where is jen buried
01:20:24it's okay
01:20:30it's okay
01:20:33i knew it was coming
01:20:37i just wanted to spend a bit of time here
01:20:40and i still could
01:20:44we've seen the internet searches that jen made before she died
01:20:48she was clearly very distressed
01:20:50getting pregnant again in our forties
01:20:52it wasn't exactly the plan
01:20:55after ivy was born
01:21:01they said it was baby blues but
01:21:04it was more than that
01:21:06we should cut herself off
01:21:09spending hours on our phone video after video of these
01:21:14influencer families
01:21:15including ellie and hugo's channel
01:21:22that was the main one
01:21:27you made her feel rubbish
01:21:29you know
01:21:31why wasn't she making organic baby muffins
01:21:35why couldn't she get up at 5am to do a workout
01:21:40she felt like she was failing
01:21:42she didn't know how to be a good mum
01:21:43and nothing i could say
01:21:49i just didn't say the right things
01:21:50it must have been a shock after jen died
01:21:53to suddenly see the bell roses in midsummer
01:21:57i recognised them straight away
01:22:00but it took a minute to realise what meredith was doing with them
01:22:03a nanny you trained at the college
01:22:06bell roses don't admit to having help
01:22:08everything that jen was comparing herself to
01:22:11the perfect parenting the homemade halloween costumes
01:22:14it was
01:22:15it was all fake
01:22:17there had an army of people helping them
01:22:19and you were angry
01:22:21started binge watching their channel
01:22:23every night
01:22:24going back over the vlogs from around the time that ivy was born
01:22:28picturing her cooking a nanny just out of shot
01:22:31so this was about revenge on ellie
01:22:34like and subscribe
01:22:37meredith was never the target
01:22:40meredith was a terrible mistake
01:22:44what happened
01:22:46i paid the cleaner to let me in
01:22:49i got the model number of ellie's ring light
01:22:52bought the same one
01:22:54hit the explosives
01:22:55swapped them
01:22:57everyone had to be at the house on friday morning
01:22:59so ellie had a quiet house to film in
01:23:03honestly didn't think anyone else would get hurt
01:23:05but meredith owned the exact same ring light
01:23:09it must have got mixed up when she moved out
01:23:12you're not expecting a reference after this
01:23:14i don't expect anything from any of you
01:23:16when nothing happened i
01:23:18i just assumed it failed to detonate
01:23:21i mean i was just following the instructions that i've got online
01:23:25but before i could get it back
01:23:32when i heard about meredith
01:23:35it was horrific
01:23:38i had no choice after that
01:23:40what do you mean
01:23:42well i had to keep going
01:23:44ellie told me about the cake smash at the gym
01:23:48wasn't difficult to get into his truck
01:23:50put the spikes through the sponge
01:23:53easy
01:23:57oh thank you so much
01:24:00i just
01:24:04except it wasn't
01:24:06because it didn't end there did it
01:24:08your own father ended up dead
01:24:13dad
01:24:15what are you doing
01:24:17counting the pegs for the marquee
01:24:21there should be 30
01:24:23but we've only got 24
01:24:25dad
01:24:27there are six pegs missing
01:24:29dad
01:24:30i can explain
01:24:31but i need you to come down
01:24:33i'm all right
01:24:35dad
01:24:35come on
01:24:37come down
01:24:38come down dad
01:24:39don
01:24:40dad stop it
01:24:41don
01:24:42shut up
01:24:42shut up
01:24:43aaron
01:24:44dad
01:24:56i went into autopilot
01:24:59put the tent pegs in the boot of my van
01:25:01i went inside
01:25:03i did the dishes
01:25:06and i waited for someone to find him
01:25:11all this
01:25:12meredith
01:25:13ellie
01:25:14your father
01:25:15it's surely not what jen would have wanted
01:25:18of course not
01:25:21she was a much better person than me
01:25:25it was always the thing
01:25:31i couldn't see it
01:25:35you were perfect
01:25:39absolutely perfect
01:25:43to our girls you were the best mom in the whole wide world
01:25:54i'm sorry jen
01:26:14i'm sorry jen
01:26:16i'm sorry jen
01:26:19lol
01:26:22i'm sorry
01:26:23but I felt like
01:26:25i may have had a lot of money
01:26:25even here
01:26:25and i'm sorry
01:26:25because i've had a lot of money
01:26:36A Christmas trifle, a key component of every summer barbecue.
01:26:42It's my attempt to make it up to him, for uploading that video.
01:26:47Only this time, I'm taking no chances.
01:26:51Fetty, do you still want help making another Paddy video?
01:26:55Because I'm thinking, Paddy, the prison years.
01:26:58Thanks, but no thanks.
01:27:00The video went all round her school.
01:27:02She's incredibly embarrassed about it.
01:27:05Which is actually brilliant, because she's seeing firsthand how you can lose control on the internet.
01:27:10And how that can be completely humiliating.
01:27:13Oh yeah, it's marvellous.
01:27:14My abject humiliation has been so helpful, I might do it again.
01:27:18When? Still being stopped in the street.
01:27:20Oh, that's tailed off now. I sort of miss it.
01:27:22Tell them about the doctor's receptionist.
01:27:25Oh, so I went for a check-up last week. She started playing it at me.
01:27:29That's very unprofessional. I mean, who would...
01:27:32Whoops!
01:27:34Best Christmas trifle.
01:27:35My trifle. My trifle. My trifle.
01:27:38Our test test with this.
01:27:40It's all I wanted in the world.
01:27:42There's no saving it. There's no saving it.
01:27:46I've seen that doggie.
01:27:47Dad.
01:27:50Embarrassing dad mode. Fully activated.
01:27:54Oh.
01:27:56Oh.
01:28:00Oh.
01:28:02Oh.