- Hi. Sam Wright. - DCI Braithwaite.
I had a look at your report card, Beth,
it's not the first incident like this in the last few months, is it?
Are you... suggesting that a 14-year-old...?
Look, I'm not suggesting anything,
I just wanted to give you the information.
He had been so horrible to her.
For nearly four months, she told me afterwards.
I'd love to have normal day.
It's hard when you have the amount of shit in your head that I do.
Most of it put there by you!
You need to be honest with me, Karen. Or I swear,
I am walking out that door and You'll never see me again.
What would any of us do to protect our children?
Maybe this was just a moment of madness.
I never saw him that day.
I don't know what to say any more, Sally.
I wonder if you can ever forgive me.
*CREDITS*
Sam?!
Hello?
Sam?
Sam?!
I never stopped loving you.
Even in the darkest times.
I wanted to hate you.
But when I found out I was pregnant...
..and then when I lost our baby, I just wanted you.
Some days, that was the only thing that kept me going.
The thought that maybe one day I'd get back here...
and I'd be able to convince you that I hadn't done anything wrong,
and that it was all right for you to love me again.
Sal, please.
And that's why this has to be for keeps, Sam.
I don't want you here out of guilt or pity.
I want you here for me.
Of course that's what I want, it's all I want.
I just wish it could be that simple.
I can't pretend that Karen wasn't a great support to me,
- I owe her so much. - Yeah, OK, I get that. I really do.
But this can't be about Karen, any more.
I won't be anyone's second best, Sam.
Least of all yours.
Hi, Dave, what's up?
'The results are back from the DNA test on Matty Taylor's coat,
'we've got a match.'
Great. Thanks. I'll be right there.
- Hello? - 'Hi, Beth. It's me.'
Mum, what is going on? Why haven't you called before?
I've been going out of my mind.
I'm just helping the police,
answering a few questions about Matty.
'It's nothing serious, nothing to worry about.'
OK, so when are you going to come home?
'Soon, love. Soon.'
- 'You have one message.' - 'All right, mate? It's Aaron...
'Holmes. Remember me?
'Listen, fella, give us a call some time, will ya?
'I think we need to have a little chat.'
It's a mistake, it has to be.
There's no mistake, Karen. It's a DNA match.
Your hair, on his coat. So do you want to tell me how it got there?
- I've no idea. - Were you in regular contact with Matthew,
personally or professionally, in the months leading up to his death?
- No, not at all. - And we know that Beth and Matthew weren't friends.
In fact, I think it's fair enough to say,
that she went out of her way to avoid him.
So it's unlikely your hair could have transferred to him via Beth.
Which means we're looking at direct contact
between you and Matthew Taylor.
We probably just bumped into each other at school.
Matthew's coat was brand-new, bought two days before his murder.
Were you in school on eighth or ninth of June?
I'd have to check, but it's very likely.
There was a governors' meeting pencilled in for the 11th,
- but nothing for the eight or ninth. - I might have gone in anyway
to speak to the head or to do a subject assessment.
Meaning you'd have signed in at reception?
So, if we check school records for those days,
we'll find confirmation of your visit?
Oh, come on, Karen, your fiance's already told us you confronted him,
and we now have tangible, physical evidence confirming that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK.
OK, I met him that day.
Where?
Er, on the edge of town, Valerie Close.
- What time? - Just after five.
Er, I think quarter past maybe.
In your own words, can you tell us what happened?
So, I saw him on the other side of the road,
I wanted to walk past, but he was abusing me.
Shouting stuff about Beth, so I responded.
I shouldn't have, but I did.
Responded how?
I just...
..lost it, I'm afraid.
And I grabbed his coat.
I grabbed his coat, and told him to stay away from my family, or else.
Or else what?
Well, or else nothing. It's a turn of phrase.
- And then what happened? - And then I went home.
So? So, all I'm saying is... erm, well...
Is what?
Well, it would be hard for you, wouldn't it,
if I, erm, if I went back to them, now, the cops,
and said that actually...
you weren't with me that day?
Right.
How much do you want?
I'm not talking a fortune, Mr Wright.
Maybe... 500 now?
And the same again once it's all died down?
Right, and that would be it, would it?
Absolutely, 100%, that would be it.
You're not getting a penny from me.
And if you threaten me or my family again,
I will take you down to the police station myself,
and I will have you charged with conspiracy to blackmail, extortion,
the whole nine yards.
We can go right now if you like. My car's just outside.
You ever contact me again,
you'll be back inside before you can blink.
We've made further enquiries,
trying to get a clearer sense of what happened
immediately after Beth's suicide attempt.
We contacted the HR department at your work,
and according to them, you were off sick with glandular fever
for a fortnight immediately after Matthew's murder.
- I was. - Except, there's no record of you
having visited your GP,
- here's no bank transactions at pharmacies... - Fine.
- or chemists. - Fine.
I wanted to spend time at home with Beth, OK?
She was in a bad way.
We also spoke to social services and the school.
Both would have been informed of Bethany's attempted suicide
by the hospital...
the school secretary remembers getting the call,
setting up meetings for you and the head...
a Mr Grant. Yet, weirdly, there's no record of those meetings,
or of the suicide attempt, on Beth's school file.
There's also no mention of follow-up visits from social services.
Can you explain why that might be?
As chair of governors,
you had access to the school's computer systems.
And as a social worker, it would have been very easy for you
to amend Beth's social services file.
And they were altered...
the system's log shows that.
Why would you do that? Karen?
Why would you go to all that trouble...
unless you were trying to hide something?
- You just couldn't wait, could you? - Excuse me?
You were with him last night? Fucking my stepdad.
- Stealing him away from my mum... - Excuse me,
don't talk to me like that, get out of my classroom.
Not that I'm surprised, because I know what you are.
And I know who you are.
You're a dirty... little... slut!
We need to speak to John Taylor.
We need to find out
the exact timings of his encounter with Matthew.
And what are your thoughts on Karen?
I don't know.
She's got no record, no history of violent behaviour,
but she's lied to us, consistently.
- And she has a very strong motive. - Yeah, exactly.
If someone had have done that to my daugh...
I pushed her to the brink, then...
..I think I'd be capable of anything.
So, Bethany says you started the confrontation.
Obviously, I didn't.
She claims you verbally abused her...
manhandled her.
Oh, my goodness, I never laid a finger on her.
And there's, what, half a dozen witnesses who can confirm that.
- What about her other accusation? - What?
- Did you spend the night with him? - What's that got to do with you?
Oh, Sal...
- He's my husband. - Ex!
Who's now engaged to one of the school governors.
He's also the stepfather of one of our students, a very vulnerable,
very troubled student.
This wasn't my doing. He came to me...
You hopped straight into bed with him.
Without a thought for what it might mean for Bethany,
- or Karen or for the school. - No, I didn't.
Not that it's any of your bloody business.
But we just talked, talked all night,
about Karen and Bethany and the situation.
And the fact that he still loves me and I love him.
Well...
..let's see what the governors have to say.
This was always what I was afraid of, Sally.
Right.
I just can't believe you'd do something so stupid.
She had it coming!
You'll be bloody lucky if a suspension's all you get.
They might not let you back at all.
I'm not taking any lectures from you.
I know where you were last night.
Yeah, shagging her, when your wedding is months away.
So are you going to tell Mum that it's off or am I?
Beth. Beth!
Mothing happened last night.
- Beth. We-we just talked. - Oh.
I swear, that's all.
I know I should have come home,
I know it was thoughtless of me,
and you've every right to be angry with me.
But I didn't go there to hurt you or your mum, believe me.
It is possible...
..to... love two people at the same time, albeit in different ways.
It doesn't mean those feelings are any less real...
..that they are any less genuine.
Bullshit.
Bullshit! You just wanted to have your cake and eat it!
No, no, Beth, that's not true. Beth.
No, me and Mum had the chance to be happy, to have a normal family,
and now you have come along and you have destroyed it all!
Oh, for God's sake.
Is Beth in?
You were at home with your mum and gran
on the day of Matthew's death?
At some point in the afternoon, your mum popped out. Is that right?
Do you know roughly when?
Erm, would have been around five,
because Pointless had just started and my gran was a big fan, so...
- And how long was she gone for? - Not long.
Specifically?
About... three quarters of an hour.
And how was she when she got back?
- Fine. - You spoke to her?
Yeah, yeah, and she was good.
- Did she say where she'd been? - No.
- Did you know where she'd been? - No.
So, you weren't worried that she'd gone to find Matthew?
No, because... erm, I hadn't told her about the bullying by then.
Hmm... but you had.
Your mum's confirmed that.
She even told your stepdad all about it.
That's why I'm asking you if you knew where she was going.
No, I didn't.
So, you never had any suspicion that
she was involved in Matthew's death?
No. No fucking way!
- Hey, Beth... - No, what is wrong with you people?
My mum is innocent, do you get that?
So why don't you just leave us all alone and do your fucking job?
When I was in prison,
I used to dream of being back here, in Keswick.
I used to think if I can just get back home,
everything'll be all right.
I'd get my job back, and I'll see Sam,
and spend loads of time with you.
I just wanted to be home.
I just wanted to be happy.
- You're late, Hollins. - Sorry, guv.
OK, heads up.
According to his wife,
John Taylor arrived home at 5.30pm.
Now, we don't have any other witnesses to confirm that,
but someone did call Taylor's sister from their landline
- at around quarter to six. - Yeah, I've spoken to the sister...
she's confirmed that it was John that phoned her,
but we've only got her word for it.
OK. Ask her to come in, make a statement. Karen Moss...
now, she's admitted that she met Matthew at Valerie Close
at around quarter past five.
From there, it's about a 15-minute walk to the crime scene
at Amblestone Pass. Bethany Moss says her mum arrived home
at quarter to six.
Given that a dog walker found Matthew's body just before six,
it's very likely that Karen Moss
was the last person to see Matthew Taylor alive.
How would she have made it home without being clocked?
I mean, there would have been blood on her clothes, in her hair.
Good question, look at your maps...
from the crime scene at Amblestone Pass,
she could easily have made it home only passing one or two houses,
via this small path...
which drops down, skirts round some dense woodland,
and eventually crosses over the river.
Now, I've requested a POLSA team and an underwater dive unit
to explore this area again.
Guys, the missing bottleneck remains our best bet for forensics,
given that the clothes Karen Moss was wearing that day
were probably binned years ago.
But if we want to bring charges, we need more.
Principally, we need to place Karen Moss at the crime scene
at around 5.30pm.
- Where are we on her phone? - Um. No.
No calls made between 3pm and 7pm,
and triangulation that suggests her phone was at home during that time.
What about neighbours? Did anybody see anything unusual?
Nothing so far, but we'll keep trying.
OK, we go old school on this.
Door to door from Valerie Close to the crime scene,
and from the crime scene back to Karen Moss's house.
Now! Come on! Let's rock and roll.
Call me 24/7 when you find something.
And you... you find something, OK?
'It was done very badly from the start.
'I'm sorry, but this is turning us into a laughing stock.'
'I appreciate what you're saying... I'm trying to be fair.'
She came with so much baggage.
I do understand, but there are other things to consider. Look...
Sally, erm, this isn't a great time.
We were just in the middle of a meeting.
Yes, I know, I heard, and I'm going to save you the bother.
- I resign. - Oh, come on, now. You don't have to do that.
Well, no, I think I do, Emily.
I wanted my job back. Oh, my God,
I wanted it so bloody badly...
but what's the point? I don't have a future here.
I'm a curiosity, aren't I?
A distraction.
So, look, I'll...
I'll wait until you find a replacement,
but after that, I'm gone.
You don't need to worry about me any more.
Just wondering if you recall seeing her at all that day?
It would have been late afternoon, around quarter past five,
do you recall seeing anybody that looked like this on the day?
Take your time. Just wondering if the photo rings any bells.
- No, sorry. - OK, no problem at all, sorry to have bothered you.
I didn't plan on doing it, well, certainly not like that.
'But, to be honest, I didn't really have a choice in the end.
'I'm never going to be accepted around here, not really.'
So to reward myself,
I have checked into the Derwent for a couple of nights.
- Good for you. - 'Give me some time to think about the next steps.
'To be honest, it has made things clearer.'
I thought I was coming back here for my job,
and friends and community,
but, to be honest, I was only really coming back here for you.
'I'm going to leave, I'm going to start over,
'find somewhere nice for me and Mum...'
and I would love it if you would come with me.
'But, you know, I do understand if you can't.'
I would love that, Sal, of course I would...
'Look, I'll come and see you as soon as I can get away, OK?'
Yeah. OK.
I love you.
I love you, too.
Suzy, give me something good, please.
So, I spoke to a Mrs Gibbons.
'She says she saw Matty go past her house
'on his way to Amblestone Pass.'
She often saw him heading that way on Wednesday afternoons.
- Did she see Karen Moss? - 'No, sorry.'
And she said she regularly saw him heading that way out of town?
'Every Wednesday for seven, eight weeks in the lead up to his death.'
That wouldn't have been on his route home.
So, what was he doing, was he meeting someone?
Girlfriend? Mates?
Or was he just trying to get away from the tensions at home?
Beth! Tea's ready.
Beth?
Tea's ready.
Beth?
Uniform picked her up late last night
after she tripped the school alarm.
Wouldn't say a word to them, but asked to see you this morning.
Right.
I killed him.
You killed Matthew Taylor?
Yes.
Yesterday...
you told me that you were at home that day.
That you were there when your mum got back.
I was lying.
Right. OK.
I knew where my mum was going that day.
That's why I went after her.
Why did you go after her?
Because she was in a state at the hospital.
She was... she was guilty and crying.
And then when we got back, I told her what Matty had done,
and that was it, she just...
flipped. She headed out, she was dead set on finding him,
and then that scared me.
That's why I went after her.
OK. And then what happened?
She went to his house, but he wasn't there, so...
so she came back to town, and then she just bumped into him.
Where?
One of the closes at the edge of town,
I actually don't remember which.
And then?
She'd obviously calmed down, erm...
a lot by this point, because...
..because, actually, I could see that she wanted to walk away.
But of course, he came up to her and he was pissed,
and he went for her, abusing her, abusing me...
so she grabbed him, and she shouted at him, and he just pushed her away
and then walked off laughing.
So she didn't know what to do,
because she-she just stood there in shock.
Now, what I should have done...
..is I should have gone to her,
and believe me, I wish I had...
..I do. But...
..but I didn't...
..I went after him.
And after a while, he saw me and he sped up,
and I thought, "No, no, no, no, I'm not having that."
So I carried on, and I caught up with him just, erm,
just past the Amblestone Pass but, by this point, of course,
he's had enough. So he turns on me...
..and he chucks the bottle, and it smashes in front of me.
And then, for a moment...
..I don't know what to do, you know.
But of course, then he's on the move again,
so I picked up the broken bottle...
and I ran at him and I hit him with it.
How many times?
Once.
Where?
His neck.
It must have hit an artery or something, cos...
blood pissed up in the air.
So, you attacked a 16-year-old boy,
despite the fact that you were, what, 14 at the time?
I hit him from behind, so he never had a chance to react.
He went down like a sack of spuds.
So that's how he died.
Flat on his back, drowning in his own blood.
I don't know why Bethany would do this,
but I promise you, we're going to fix it,
we'll have this looking as good as new.
That's the only copy we have.
- I always loved that photo. - Yeah.
But, look, the damage, it's only superficial.
I will make this right. OK.
Sally...
I'm so sorry for everything you've been through.
I'm sorry, too.
For all of us.
So... you followed him...
..you attacked him...
..and then what?
I walked home.
I threw the neck of the bottle in the woods.
- Did anyone see you arrive home? - No.
No, I went straight up to my room.
But your gran was there? And your mum?
Yeah, I-I guess so. But you'd have to ask them.
And she's never spoke to you about that day?
Never asked you what happened?
We've never spoken about it. No.
And you've kept this to yourself all this time?
Despite all the heartache it's caused?
I didn't feel any pity for Matty,
if that is what you are trying to ask me,
no, after all he put me through!
So why tell us now?
Because you've got my mum in for this, and that's not right.
She didn't do anything, she is not... she's not capable!
But you were prepared to let Sally Wright take the rap for it?
Yes! That woman has got no morals.
- Do you know where she was last night? - Where?
She was with my stepdad.
Yeah... how do you like that?
Police called me as soon as they'd picked her up.
I went straight down the station, but she refused to see me.
Now they're-they're both in there, being questioned about Matty.
And I... got no idea what's going on,
much to the annoyance of your friend, Jenny,
- who's camped out on my doorstep. - Oh. I'm sorry, Sam.
Anyway, I, erm...
..packed a few things. I thought I might stay for a bit...
Mm. ..until things die down. You know.
Yeah, yeah. Of course you can.
And, erm, what about after that,
once you know what's... what's going on with them?
Well, then, after that, I'm...
..I'm going to come with you.
I've no idea how fucked up things are gonna get, and...
..whatever I had with Karen, if...
..ever I had anything at all with Karen, it is...
..done, it's finished, so...
I... I want a new life,
away from this place...
..with you.
If you'll have me.
Beth would never have hurt Matty. That is insane!
- Was she at home when you got back... - Yes.
- ..from your confrontation with Matthew? - Yes!
- And you actually saw her? In the flesh? - No.
Mum was watching TV, and Beth was up in her room.
Did you go up to her then?
No, not immediately. I was very shaken
after the argument with Matty and I needed some time alone.
- And Beth? - She came down later.
- How much later? - Oh, God, I don't know.
About an hour?
So you've no idea where she was at the time of Matthew's murder?
- Or what she did immediately afterwards? - No.
No.
That's why you deleted any evidence of her being bullied, isn't it?
Because you suspected she might have killed him?
Do you think Beth's capable of it?
Honestly, I have no idea.
Maybe she did, or maybe she's just covering for her mum.
But I'm also wondering if they might be in it together.
- Maybe they both went out that day. - Guv?
Hang on a second. Maybe it wasn't accidental.
Maybe Matthew's murder was a calculated,
pre-meditated act of revenge by two very damaged people.
- Sorry, guv... but you're gonna want to see this. - Yeah?
So, Amazon, they finally got back to me.
Now, four of the gift cards given to Matty Taylor
were paid for with cash, but the fifth one,
the one that wasn't checked, was paid by debit card.
And we've got a name.
Just answer the question.
Was Sam Wright with you that day or not?
Look, we had an arrangement, all right?
He was supposed to be with me every Wednesday afternoon,
but we made a deal...
that I could go out doing what I needed to do, and...
..as long as if anyone ever came asking...
..I'd say that he was with me as planned.
So, what are we saying? That Sam Wright and Matty Taylor
were in some kind of relationship?
Matthew had empty condom wrappers in his coat pocket,
so he was clearly sexually active.
And we now know he was sneaking off on Wednesday afternoons
to meet someone up at Amblestone Pass,
at exactly the same time
that Sam Wright should have been with Aaron Holmes.
Now, why would you do that? Huh?
Why would you meet someone somewhere so remote,
unless you had something to hide?
All right, love?
Wasn't expecting to see you back so...
Read it.
"You said you loved me, but now you won't speak to me.
"If you don't come, I'll tell Sally.
"I mean it, Sam."
It was you, wasn't it?
It was you.
- Mia, where are we at? - No, nothing yet.
- Mia, where is he? - Er, so phone signal places him
- somewhere near Bretherdale Head. - What the hell's up there?
A whole load of heathland. Ah, and the Derwent Hotel.
Good work.
OK, so that day, the day Matty died, when we rowed at the school,
it all started because I asked him
why he was being so weird with me.
After everything I'd done for him,
why he was treating me like that.
And he couldn't even look at me, Sam. Couldn't meet my eye.
And then he lashed out at me,
he hurt me rather than tell me the truth.
- And now I know why, because of that. - Sal, I...
..I want you to know that I would...
I would never have hurt Matty...
but, yes...
..I have...
I have lied about who I am.
For that, I am so, so ashamed, my love.
I wanted to be a good husband to you, I really did. I...
I just... I just... I couldn't.
So, you admit it?
You were with him?
Yeah.
And were there others before him?
Were there?
Oh, my God.
When did you know that...?
I think always.
Wha... what?
Like, "always" always? Like, before we were married, always?
Yeah.
- Oh. So what was I, then? Just cover? - No.
- No, I loved you, Sal, I-I still do. - Oh, yeah.
You loved me from the minute we met, you lied to me.
- I know, and... - And did your family know?
Are you serious? No. It would have killed my dad.
- Come on, he adored you. - No, no, no. He adored who he thought I was.
You know, his... his "lad", who loved his rugby,
who always bought the first round in the pub,
who kept the streets safe. Can you imagine what he would have felt
if he'd heard that his... his boy liked having sex with men?
In parks and toilets.
And lay-bys.
You know, my life here would have been over,
I'd have had to move away from everything I'd ever known.
So I took the easy way out.
I wanted to be a good husband to you,
I wanted to be the man you thought you'd married,
but I had this need. And every time I did it,
I...
..I hated myself a little bit more, and then...
..after a while, it felt like I couldn't carry on...
..that I'd rather kill myself than... than keep living that life.
I-I had a... I had a plan.
I-I had a date. And I knew what I'd say to you in the note.
That I'd always loved you, that I'd always genuinely wanted a family
and I couldn't live this lie any more.
And then...
..two weeks before I was... I was gonna do it...
..that's when you brought Matty home for the first time.
- He was a boy. - I know.
A very troubled, a very vulnerable boy...
Who I fell completely in love with.
He was... he was just so different from the others.
You know, he was, erm, beautiful, innocent and funny.
And I never felt ashamed with him, never.
And everything that I wanted and everything I believed in
you were just willing to betray all that?
No, no, of course not.
That's... that's why I ended it with him.
You're lying.
- I'm not. - You are.
You are, I know you're lying to me.
Oh, shit.
I never meant to hurt him.
I'd gone up there to talk, that's all.
I'd told him that...
I couldn't carry on seeing him,
that I wouldn't throw away my marriage.
But he wouldn't accept that.
He said I was hurting him, hurting you...
..hurting myself, living a lie.
I can still hear his voice.
"Why are you so fucking scared of the truth, Sam?"
It was just... it was all so simple for him.
You know, I tried to reason with him, to explain,
but he was... he was... he was drunk, he was past caring.
He, you know, he accused me of...
of leading him on, of abusing him, for God's sake.
Then he threw the bottle at me.
He screamed at me that he was gonna to do it there and then -
that he was gonna go straight back into town
and tell everyone who I was, what I was...
Dave, you go round the back.
I...
..I don't...
I don't remember picking up the bottle...
..or going after him.
And-and I don't even remember hitting him with it.
Just... just remember the look of surprise on his face afterwards.
I just wanted to stop him, Sal.
And me?
When the police questioned me, and arrested me and charged me,
you were happy to just stay silent?
- Oh, no... - Just leave me in prison...
..to let me lose our baby in that fucking awful place?
I don't know how you could do that to someone.
Because I was scared.
I was scared of being a probation officer in prison
for killing a teenage boy.
Cos I'm a... I'm a coward.
I came back here for you, Sam.
I wanted our life back.
But there was never anything here for me.
- Sal. - I was never even gonna be second best.
- No, Sally, Sally, Sally... - Goodbye, Sam.
Sally, please. Sally, please.
Don't do this, I can't...
Sam Wright, I am arresting you on suspicion of murder.
- You do not have to say anything... - Are you OK?
I just came to say goodbye, and good luck.
You too, Mike.
Thank you. Thanks... thanks for everything.
So, er, where you headed to?
Oh, just to Ripon.
Yeah, I've found a really nice place for me and Mum.
And when I'm settled,
I don't suppose you fancy grabbing that pizza some time?
Yeah, I'd like that very much.
- Good. - OK.
See you soon.
Yeah.
Hello.
*CREDITS*