1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,412 Had a call from a police officer in London 2 00:00:02,422 --> 00:00:03,315 wanting to speak to you 3 00:00:03,325 --> 00:00:06,493 about being a possible witness in a murder investigation? 4 00:00:06,503 --> 00:00:07,500 Murder of whom? 5 00:00:07,510 --> 00:00:08,887 Sorry, I'm confused. Are you saying 6 00:00:08,897 --> 00:00:11,395 that you did have a relationship with him, or you didn't? 7 00:00:11,405 --> 00:00:13,951 Yes... I did. 8 00:00:14,053 --> 00:00:15,728 And did his wife know about this? 9 00:00:15,738 --> 00:00:17,400 Have you told the police about the row that night? 10 00:00:17,425 --> 00:00:18,236 What row? 11 00:00:18,290 --> 00:00:21,642 I remember it all very clearly, Mum. 12 00:00:21,667 --> 00:00:24,556 Do you have any recollection of what he was like? 13 00:00:24,581 --> 00:00:27,437 He could be... quite aggressive. 14 00:00:27,768 --> 00:00:28,768 With you? 15 00:00:28,959 --> 00:00:32,060 Why have you doubled-locked the door, Marty? 16 00:00:32,070 --> 00:00:34,333 A week before her dad died, 17 00:00:34,343 --> 00:00:36,041 she'd come home from school 18 00:00:36,051 --> 00:00:40,055 to find a young man who'd worked for Gerry in our flat. 19 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,297 He told her that he wanted to hurt her dad. 20 00:00:44,453 --> 00:00:46,958 I don't know what to say that will best allow you to forgive me. 21 00:00:46,968 --> 00:00:49,338 Just the truth, Debs. 22 00:00:49,348 --> 00:00:52,567 It wasn't just a kiss. We did sleep together. 23 00:00:52,577 --> 00:00:54,774 Oh! 24 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 *CREDITS* 25 00:01:45,161 --> 00:01:47,146 You know the rules, Elliot, mate. 26 00:01:47,321 --> 00:01:49,752 You do the numbers in the brackets 27 00:01:49,777 --> 00:01:51,127 - first, yeah? - Yeah, I understand. 28 00:01:51,137 --> 00:01:53,811 Boys, we're leaving in... five minutes. 29 00:01:56,875 --> 00:01:58,606 What time are you back tonight? 30 00:02:01,610 --> 00:02:02,610 Love? 31 00:02:04,463 --> 00:02:05,669 I know. 32 00:02:06,222 --> 00:02:08,864 - Know what? - Everything. 33 00:02:10,308 --> 00:02:12,120 I spoke to Debbie again, so... 34 00:02:13,662 --> 00:02:14,799 now I know. 35 00:02:16,662 --> 00:02:19,640 And I swear, the only chance you have of saving anything, 36 00:02:20,182 --> 00:02:22,536 this, us... 37 00:02:24,775 --> 00:02:26,411 a normal relationship with them, 38 00:02:26,421 --> 00:02:30,502 is if you tell me the truth, if you tell me everything. 39 00:02:31,814 --> 00:02:33,662 So you have a think on that. 40 00:02:35,515 --> 00:02:37,202 We'll speak later tonight. 41 00:02:38,415 --> 00:02:39,592 Bye, boys! 42 00:02:39,602 --> 00:02:40,487 Bye, Mum. 43 00:02:40,497 --> 00:02:42,548 - Love you. - Love you, too. 44 00:02:45,555 --> 00:02:46,945 Hi, you've reached Leanne. 45 00:02:46,955 --> 00:02:48,944 Please leave a message after the tone. 46 00:02:49,303 --> 00:02:52,132 Hey, Leanne, it's me again. Erm... 47 00:02:52,885 --> 00:02:56,305 Listen, did I...? Have I done something wrong? 48 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,864 It just felt a bit odd... 49 00:02:59,261 --> 00:03:00,637 when I saw you in the canteen. 50 00:03:01,201 --> 00:03:03,259 Well, I wouldn't want anything 51 00:03:03,269 --> 00:03:05,293 to come in the way of our friendship. 52 00:03:05,318 --> 00:03:06,165 Erm... 53 00:03:06,758 --> 00:03:10,417 So, anyway, I'm in Ireland on the case for a couple of days, 54 00:03:11,134 --> 00:03:12,536 so hopefully, 55 00:03:13,667 --> 00:03:15,347 let's talk when I get back. 56 00:03:15,454 --> 00:03:17,453 Right, take care, now. Bye. 57 00:03:37,770 --> 00:03:38,770 Hey. 58 00:03:38,801 --> 00:03:40,706 They've sent one of their guys over here. 59 00:03:40,795 --> 00:03:41,819 Who have? 60 00:03:41,844 --> 00:03:44,169 British police, they want to talk to you some more. 61 00:03:44,194 --> 00:03:45,130 Oh, OK. 62 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:47,305 Wants to speak to you this afternoon at the station, 63 00:03:47,315 --> 00:03:49,321 two o'clock. You good with that? 64 00:03:49,779 --> 00:03:52,007 Er, yeah. Yeah, I think I can do that. 65 00:03:52,714 --> 00:03:54,095 You will be there, 66 00:03:54,399 --> 00:03:56,386 we're not gonna have any issues, are we? 67 00:03:56,396 --> 00:03:58,800 Yeah, I'll be there, Joseph, of course I will. 68 00:03:59,107 --> 00:04:00,690 Have a good day, now. 69 00:04:20,273 --> 00:04:21,831 OK, erm... 70 00:04:21,856 --> 00:04:22,797 Oh! 71 00:04:22,896 --> 00:04:24,666 Thanks for that. Bye, now. 72 00:04:25,820 --> 00:04:27,046 We have a match 73 00:04:27,234 --> 00:04:29,668 to DNA material found on the sweatshirt of Gerry Cooper. 74 00:04:29,739 --> 00:04:31,571 To Marty Baines - I'm setting up an arrest team. 75 00:04:31,581 --> 00:04:34,729 Not to Baines, or at least his test result hasn't come in yet. 76 00:04:34,739 --> 00:04:36,868 The match we found is Asif Syed. 77 00:04:38,842 --> 00:04:40,853 - OK... - Yeah. 78 00:04:41,458 --> 00:04:42,780 So you want him up here? 79 00:04:42,805 --> 00:04:44,951 - ASAP, please. Yeah. - Boss. 80 00:05:00,616 --> 00:05:04,885 So, Taylor attacked a teacher this morning. 81 00:05:04,895 --> 00:05:08,136 Kicked and punched her when she was given a detention. 82 00:05:08,146 --> 00:05:09,487 So, very reluctantly, 83 00:05:09,497 --> 00:05:12,790 the school has had to make the decision to expel her. 84 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,560 Right. And has she already left? 85 00:05:15,570 --> 00:05:18,298 She's getting the train back to London later today. 86 00:05:18,308 --> 00:05:20,597 OK, well, thanks for letting me know. 87 00:05:20,607 --> 00:05:21,564 Bye, now. 88 00:05:22,313 --> 00:05:25,081 - Is that the car park footage? - Yeah, er... 89 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:27,237 Not having a huge amount of joy, to be honest. 90 00:05:27,247 --> 00:05:29,658 Lots of footage in the five weeks after the 24th, 91 00:05:29,668 --> 00:05:31,678 but all the vehicles entering do so during the day. 92 00:05:31,688 --> 00:05:32,404 Right. 93 00:05:32,429 --> 00:05:34,752 Literally, the only one that comes in at night is this... 94 00:05:38,043 --> 00:05:40,217 at 03:29, 95 00:05:40,396 --> 00:05:43,148 but that's a little over 20 hours before he was even reported missing. 96 00:05:43,173 --> 00:05:45,468 - You checked the reg? - No, cos of the date. 97 00:05:45,478 --> 00:05:48,534 03:29 is an odd time for anyone to be pulling into that car park. 98 00:05:48,544 --> 00:05:51,156 - Might check the reg anyway. - OK. Cool. 99 00:05:52,523 --> 00:05:56,043 - OK, in here in ten, please, guys. - Guv. 100 00:05:59,636 --> 00:06:02,916 This is nothing to do with you, with this. 101 00:06:03,538 --> 00:06:04,788 It's me. 102 00:06:04,798 --> 00:06:07,645 I'm not who you think I am, Pat. I am not a good person. 103 00:06:09,772 --> 00:06:10,854 Yeah, you are. 104 00:06:10,864 --> 00:06:13,386 No. I lie. 105 00:06:15,316 --> 00:06:18,371 - Everyone lies. - Bad lies, for money. 106 00:06:19,183 --> 00:06:21,001 For a living. I lie for a living 107 00:06:21,011 --> 00:06:23,394 and pretend to be someone I'm actually not. 108 00:06:24,123 --> 00:06:26,632 I mean, m-maybe I believed some of it at the start, 109 00:06:26,642 --> 00:06:28,020 but everyone just always... 110 00:06:28,504 --> 00:06:29,768 He always wanted more, 111 00:06:29,793 --> 00:06:33,756 and you do it because you wanted the attention or the status. 112 00:06:33,766 --> 00:06:36,723 They filled a hole, but I really have to stop 113 00:06:36,733 --> 00:06:39,709 because pretending to think the things I say I do, 114 00:06:40,097 --> 00:06:41,319 it's hollowing me out. 115 00:06:41,329 --> 00:06:42,359 Mel... 116 00:06:42,369 --> 00:06:44,209 And I've also... I've done... 117 00:06:45,948 --> 00:06:48,348 I've done one truly terrible thing, my love. 118 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:54,330 What thing? 119 00:06:56,481 --> 00:06:57,499 Please. 120 00:06:59,163 --> 00:07:01,354 You deserve way, way better than me. 121 00:07:03,408 --> 00:07:04,593 I love you. 122 00:07:07,243 --> 00:07:08,440 And I... 123 00:07:09,642 --> 00:07:12,493 I love you, too, but I just... 124 00:07:13,966 --> 00:07:15,180 I can't. 125 00:07:21,590 --> 00:07:22,914 Mel? 126 00:07:25,057 --> 00:07:26,207 Mel! 127 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:28,574 Mel?! 128 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:31,199 Mel! 129 00:07:59,644 --> 00:08:01,341 A storage facility? 130 00:08:01,351 --> 00:08:03,498 Yeah, Cooper suggested one in an email. 131 00:08:03,508 --> 00:08:07,151 So there's no guarantee that she took him up on it, but... 132 00:08:07,161 --> 00:08:09,099 "Geordie Stores." 133 00:08:09,109 --> 00:08:10,951 Business started in Newcastle, apparently. 134 00:08:10,976 --> 00:08:11,735 Quality. 135 00:08:11,745 --> 00:08:13,424 But there's now a branch on the Mile End Road, 136 00:08:13,434 --> 00:08:15,593 between his pub and her flat. 137 00:08:15,618 --> 00:08:18,268 And that email is dated 3rd of February. 138 00:08:18,278 --> 00:08:19,748 Looking on BNC's website, 139 00:08:19,773 --> 00:08:23,752 Melinda's impending employment was announced December. 140 00:08:23,777 --> 00:08:27,399 Now, she could have shipped all her stuff to Ireland, but... 141 00:08:27,409 --> 00:08:28,928 Yeah, it's unlikely. 142 00:08:29,286 --> 00:08:31,767 Give them a call, and see if she did rent a space. 143 00:08:31,777 --> 00:08:33,034 - Sure. - Kaz? 144 00:08:33,044 --> 00:08:36,344 So, we have a car entering Whitney Marsh car park 145 00:08:36,354 --> 00:08:37,260 in the middle of the night 146 00:08:37,270 --> 00:08:38,870 the day before he was reported missing, 147 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,768 which we all agree is odd, doesn't fit with our timing. 148 00:08:41,778 --> 00:08:43,777 Except I've just found out 149 00:08:43,827 --> 00:08:45,853 that that car's plates don't actually exist... 150 00:08:46,073 --> 00:08:46,969 Hmm. 151 00:08:46,994 --> 00:08:48,595 that they're either fake, or they've been altered. 152 00:08:48,620 --> 00:08:51,408 - And that is very odd. - Can you tell what make the car is? 153 00:08:51,418 --> 00:08:53,090 No obvious badge, from what I can read, 154 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,384 but we are checking other cameras en route to the car park. 155 00:08:55,394 --> 00:08:57,963 Do we think this could have been the killer scoping the site? 156 00:08:57,973 --> 00:09:00,072 Could be, but also... 157 00:09:00,522 --> 00:09:05,469 did we check when Juliet Cooper actually last saw her husband? 158 00:09:05,752 --> 00:09:08,324 Are you thinking he might've been killed the day before? 159 00:09:08,334 --> 00:09:11,286 And she might not have known, if their paths hadn't crossed. 160 00:09:11,989 --> 00:09:14,008 To be fair, I haven't seen Rob since Monday, 161 00:09:14,033 --> 00:09:15,917 he could definitely be dead. 162 00:09:16,028 --> 00:09:18,733 But do we not have proof that he rang the brewery 163 00:09:18,743 --> 00:09:19,807 the day of his disappearance? 164 00:09:19,817 --> 00:09:22,049 I mean, the files say we have a brewery employee 165 00:09:22,074 --> 00:09:23,397 that received a voicemail from him, 166 00:09:23,407 --> 00:09:26,054 but we don't actually know it was from him, do we? 167 00:09:26,064 --> 00:09:29,668 OK, can you track down that employee? 168 00:09:29,693 --> 00:09:30,316 Mm. 169 00:09:30,326 --> 00:09:32,329 And can we chase the triangulation records? 170 00:09:32,339 --> 00:09:33,276 Yeah, Boss. 171 00:09:33,301 --> 00:09:36,855 And let's see what cars our suspects drove in '21. 172 00:09:36,893 --> 00:09:38,293 - Yeah, cool. - OK. Murray? 173 00:09:38,303 --> 00:09:39,582 So, I've been trying to track down 174 00:09:39,592 --> 00:09:42,015 the family that Cooper had the violent dispute with. 175 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:43,028 - Good. - Meanwhile... 176 00:09:43,053 --> 00:09:45,485 Martin Baines' mother is in intensive care, 177 00:09:45,660 --> 00:09:48,654 suffering from the effects of a barbiturates overdose. 178 00:09:49,560 --> 00:09:51,317 - Self-administered? - Maybe, 179 00:09:51,327 --> 00:09:53,396 but they were crushed up into a hot drink, 180 00:09:53,406 --> 00:09:55,743 which suggests to me an attempt to hide their consumption. 181 00:09:55,768 --> 00:09:56,676 Maybe. 182 00:09:56,686 --> 00:09:59,097 And given that Baines has also now disappeared, 183 00:09:59,180 --> 00:10:00,439 my guess would be "no". 184 00:10:00,449 --> 00:10:03,140 Either way, a search is underway for him. 185 00:10:18,922 --> 00:10:20,975 Stupid Marty. 186 00:10:21,616 --> 00:10:24,410 Stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid! 187 00:10:27,282 --> 00:10:28,322 Mum... 188 00:10:32,616 --> 00:10:35,097 I'm sorry, Mum! I... 189 00:10:35,537 --> 00:10:37,574 I just wanted to help. 190 00:10:37,747 --> 00:10:40,417 I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. 191 00:10:40,427 --> 00:10:41,526 Sorry, sorry. 192 00:10:41,536 --> 00:10:43,465 Sorry, sorry, sorry. 193 00:10:43,475 --> 00:10:45,482 Sorry, sorry. 194 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:48,347 You OK, mate? 195 00:10:49,827 --> 00:10:52,617 - Fine. Thank you for asking. - You sure? 196 00:11:14,076 --> 00:11:16,332 This is Sunil Khan. Please leave a message. 197 00:11:17,816 --> 00:11:19,526 Hey, it's Leanne. 198 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:21,657 Sorry I've not rung back. 199 00:11:22,045 --> 00:11:24,445 Erm, been a bit weird. 200 00:11:25,616 --> 00:11:27,616 And I know that sounds weird, but... 201 00:11:29,726 --> 00:11:31,493 I have shit... 202 00:11:31,530 --> 00:11:32,337 in... 203 00:11:32,417 --> 00:11:33,150 my... 204 00:11:33,370 --> 00:11:34,183 life, 205 00:11:34,208 --> 00:11:36,616 shit that I probably should have told you about, so... 206 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,616 let's meet when you're back. 207 00:11:40,902 --> 00:11:42,382 Sorry again. 208 00:11:49,397 --> 00:11:53,217 The day your husband disappeared, do you remember any of your 209 00:11:53,227 --> 00:11:56,092 and indeed his movements during the day? 210 00:11:57,434 --> 00:11:59,742 Just what I told the original investigation. 211 00:12:00,234 --> 00:12:05,587 Mm-hm. And I went back on that, and you detail everything 212 00:12:05,597 --> 00:12:08,697 from when you left work the evening before very clearly, 213 00:12:08,707 --> 00:12:12,095 but you don't mention seeing him the next morning. 214 00:12:13,727 --> 00:12:16,473 I'm just wondering if you do remember seeing him then 215 00:12:16,483 --> 00:12:18,423 or indeed the night before. 216 00:12:19,464 --> 00:12:22,592 I think I might have mentioned it if my husband hadn't come home. 217 00:12:22,602 --> 00:12:25,559 Right. Because when we first spoke, 218 00:12:25,569 --> 00:12:27,528 you mentioned a meeting in Winchester 219 00:12:27,538 --> 00:12:29,845 he was supposed to be at the day he disappeared? 220 00:12:29,870 --> 00:12:30,778 Yes. 221 00:12:31,271 --> 00:12:34,862 And generally speaking, did he travel a lot for work? 222 00:12:34,887 --> 00:12:36,860 Yeah, a fair amount... 223 00:12:37,554 --> 00:12:40,330 drinks fairs, potential suppliers, that kind of stuff. 224 00:12:40,687 --> 00:12:44,687 OK. And did he sometimes stay over? 225 00:12:45,460 --> 00:12:47,383 Sorry, where's this going? 226 00:12:47,393 --> 00:12:48,897 Well, we're just wondering 227 00:12:48,907 --> 00:12:52,687 if he might have actually disappeared the day before. 228 00:12:54,451 --> 00:12:58,677 He sent a voicemail at 2:00 on the day he disappeared. 229 00:12:58,687 --> 00:13:01,037 Mm-hm. And we're... we're looking into that. 230 00:13:01,047 --> 00:13:04,205 Well, as I say, I think I might have noticed if he wasn't there. 231 00:13:04,451 --> 00:13:05,834 Maybe, yeah. 232 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:10,922 My sense is, erm, your marriage at this stage wasn't the closest. 233 00:13:12,687 --> 00:13:14,330 Your "sense"? 234 00:13:14,687 --> 00:13:16,649 Well, you'd become... 235 00:13:17,187 --> 00:13:19,187 very different people, no? 236 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:20,792 We were fine. 237 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:24,505 What is this? 238 00:13:24,945 --> 00:13:26,391 I don't know, I'm... I'm thinking 239 00:13:26,401 --> 00:13:29,677 maybe you thought he'd kipped in the spare room, 240 00:13:29,687 --> 00:13:32,147 you left early to take Taylor to... 241 00:13:32,157 --> 00:13:35,200 Well, as I say, it's not my recollection, 242 00:13:35,210 --> 00:13:39,472 but, listen, I can't stop you having your little theories. 243 00:13:40,833 --> 00:13:42,891 No, you can't. 244 00:13:43,792 --> 00:13:47,977 And on the subject of Taylor, I spoke to her school this morning. 245 00:13:48,002 --> 00:13:50,572 - You did what? - I understand she's been expelled. 246 00:13:53,135 --> 00:13:55,628 What the hell are you doing, speaking to my daughter's school? 247 00:13:56,306 --> 00:13:59,188 Well, because we'd like to speak to her. 248 00:14:05,079 --> 00:14:06,660 OK, we're done. 249 00:14:06,670 --> 00:14:08,888 - You're not speaking to Taylor. - Juliet... 250 00:14:08,898 --> 00:14:11,328 No, I'm sorry, I've tried to be helpful, 251 00:14:11,338 --> 00:14:13,021 but you have pushed this too far. 252 00:14:13,031 --> 00:14:15,600 - Now, she is a vulnerable child! - There's no need... 253 00:14:15,610 --> 00:14:17,002 I would like you to leave... 254 00:14:18,681 --> 00:14:20,967 now, please, unless you're gonna arrest me. 255 00:14:23,661 --> 00:14:24,581 Now... 256 00:14:25,413 --> 00:14:26,523 please. 257 00:14:34,807 --> 00:14:37,062 I will still want to speak to Taylor... 258 00:14:37,779 --> 00:14:39,897 but it'll be with an appropriate adult, 259 00:14:39,922 --> 00:14:42,504 so she'll be fully protected and supported. 260 00:14:43,358 --> 00:14:45,668 But this is a serious investigation, 261 00:14:46,212 --> 00:14:48,591 and attempts by anyone to hamper it 262 00:14:48,601 --> 00:14:51,055 will be considered as obstruction or similar. 263 00:14:53,024 --> 00:14:54,639 Have a good day. 264 00:15:16,661 --> 00:15:18,850 Jules, have you got five? 265 00:15:25,245 --> 00:15:26,074 Fran? 266 00:15:26,099 --> 00:15:28,242 Yeah, just to let you know, Asif Syed is here. 267 00:15:28,252 --> 00:15:29,631 OK. I'll be there in an hour. 268 00:15:29,641 --> 00:15:32,597 And you know that pub employee who was travelling? 269 00:15:32,607 --> 00:15:35,266 Er... Brianna someone? 270 00:15:35,430 --> 00:15:39,287 West, yes. She just called me back with some interesting information. 271 00:15:39,297 --> 00:15:41,882 - What information? - So, he did hit her. 272 00:15:42,007 --> 00:15:46,007 Juliet, I mean. Cooper definitely hit his wife. 273 00:16:23,601 --> 00:16:27,538 And given that you've refused to accept the early retirement offer, 274 00:16:27,548 --> 00:16:29,439 the board have now come to a decision. 275 00:16:30,227 --> 00:16:32,585 Which is that we're going to suspend you, 276 00:16:32,595 --> 00:16:35,655 pending an external investigation into your conduct. 277 00:16:39,882 --> 00:16:42,309 - What the fuck?! - You utter prick! 278 00:16:42,319 --> 00:16:44,137 Oh, you are so done. 279 00:16:44,147 --> 00:16:47,912 No, you are done, Paul, because you will not win this, 280 00:16:47,922 --> 00:16:49,872 neither you nor Lizzie fucking Jones! 281 00:16:49,882 --> 00:16:53,175 I will fight you all the way, and I will destroy you. 282 00:16:53,185 --> 00:16:55,589 I want your desk cleared now. 283 00:16:57,765 --> 00:16:59,676 - Wow. - Yeah. 284 00:16:59,882 --> 00:17:03,912 I mean, despite everything, I'm still shocked. 285 00:17:03,922 --> 00:17:05,730 Right. Why? 286 00:17:05,882 --> 00:17:08,500 Well... Well, because, I mean, she doesn't present as, 287 00:17:08,525 --> 00:17:09,826 I don't know, the sort of woman 288 00:17:09,836 --> 00:17:11,921 who would put up with that sort of thing. 289 00:17:11,931 --> 00:17:13,962 What sort of woman should she be, then? 290 00:17:13,972 --> 00:17:17,065 - Sorry, I mean... - I mean, any woman can be a victim 291 00:17:17,075 --> 00:17:18,611 - of domestic abuse. - Yeah, of course. 292 00:17:18,621 --> 00:17:21,276 Blokes don't do it because you're weak 293 00:17:21,286 --> 00:17:22,789 - or submissive. - Jess... 294 00:17:22,799 --> 00:17:24,311 They do it because they can. 295 00:17:25,328 --> 00:17:27,659 Er, I'm sorry. Sorry. 296 00:17:28,033 --> 00:17:31,065 - No, my bad. - No, no, really, it's... 297 00:17:31,075 --> 00:17:33,075 It's just things are... 298 00:17:35,195 --> 00:17:36,756 So, do we think that 299 00:17:36,766 --> 00:17:39,771 what Brianna West saw was a one-off, or...? 300 00:17:39,781 --> 00:17:41,769 Well, she certainly only saw it once, 301 00:17:41,779 --> 00:17:45,146 - but it rarely is that, is it? - No. 302 00:17:45,530 --> 00:17:48,489 So I think it might be worth pressing Melinda again. 303 00:17:48,499 --> 00:17:49,431 Will do. 304 00:17:49,441 --> 00:17:51,666 And I'm also speaking to social services 305 00:17:51,676 --> 00:17:54,325 about how best to handle speaking with the daughter. 306 00:17:54,335 --> 00:17:56,197 I mean, she must have seen some stuff, 307 00:17:56,207 --> 00:17:58,035 we just need to know what. 308 00:17:58,868 --> 00:18:01,496 Surely, I have some legal right 309 00:18:01,506 --> 00:18:03,585 to not want my very vulnerable child 310 00:18:03,595 --> 00:18:05,582 interviewed about her murdered father. 311 00:18:05,592 --> 00:18:08,316 And I understand all of your concerns, Mrs Cooper, 312 00:18:08,326 --> 00:18:11,066 but if the police believe she may have relevant information, she... 313 00:18:11,076 --> 00:18:13,555 So, can I insist I sit in with her? 314 00:18:13,565 --> 00:18:14,877 You can ask, 315 00:18:14,902 --> 00:18:16,748 but obviously, if you yourself are... 316 00:18:17,587 --> 00:18:18,969 a person of interest, 317 00:18:18,994 --> 00:18:22,019 they'll almost certainly say no and appoint a social worker instead. 318 00:18:32,101 --> 00:18:34,246 Oh, thank you. 319 00:19:07,181 --> 00:19:08,181 Hey. 320 00:19:16,775 --> 00:19:18,496 Er, Mel... 321 00:19:21,115 --> 00:19:25,745 I think maybe it's best if you don't come here any more. 322 00:19:27,075 --> 00:19:28,220 What? 323 00:19:30,141 --> 00:19:32,733 See, after what happened with you and Patrick... 324 00:19:34,795 --> 00:19:36,161 and now this other 325 00:19:36,563 --> 00:19:37,825 business... 326 00:19:37,950 --> 00:19:39,413 with the British police... 327 00:19:40,571 --> 00:19:42,565 It's a very small community. 328 00:19:43,883 --> 00:19:47,104 I think maybe it would be better if you found somewhere else to worship. 329 00:19:48,656 --> 00:19:50,576 But this is my church. 330 00:19:52,061 --> 00:19:54,336 Just, people are really talking now. 331 00:20:01,668 --> 00:20:03,010 I'm so sorry. 332 00:20:11,362 --> 00:20:14,304 Yeah, so their previous address was... 333 00:20:15,099 --> 00:20:20,796 Flat 6, 32 Altringham Gardens, DA2 3CP, 334 00:20:21,033 --> 00:20:23,848 but what I'm really after is if they left a forwarding one. 335 00:20:23,873 --> 00:20:26,445 Sure. Can you hold the line, please, sir? 336 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,226 So, when we spoke to you over Zoom a few days ago, 337 00:20:32,236 --> 00:20:34,753 we asked you about the nature of your relationship with Gerry Cooper. 338 00:20:34,763 --> 00:20:36,648 - Do you recall that? - Of course. 339 00:20:37,333 --> 00:20:40,700 And you said, "Our relationship was brief, 340 00:20:40,710 --> 00:20:43,272 "a few weeks, two months at most." 341 00:20:43,282 --> 00:20:45,418 - Do you remember telling us that? - Yes. 342 00:20:45,808 --> 00:20:47,455 So, is there anything that you want to add, 343 00:20:47,465 --> 00:20:49,922 anything you might want to change, since you last spoke to us? 344 00:20:49,932 --> 00:20:53,445 Yes, erm... That wasn't entirely true. 345 00:20:53,578 --> 00:20:54,833 OK, which bit? 346 00:20:56,180 --> 00:20:58,826 That the relationship only lasted... 347 00:21:00,083 --> 00:21:01,464 a couple of months. 348 00:21:02,291 --> 00:21:03,629 How long did it last? 349 00:21:05,138 --> 00:21:06,429 Erm... 350 00:21:06,439 --> 00:21:08,858 Maybe it would be useful if I told you 351 00:21:08,868 --> 00:21:11,863 that we have a lot of Mr Cooper's emails and texts 352 00:21:11,873 --> 00:21:14,539 from 2017 up until his death. 353 00:21:14,564 --> 00:21:15,325 Yeah. 354 00:21:16,106 --> 00:21:20,551 We saw each other on and off between 2018 and... 355 00:21:21,453 --> 00:21:24,717 - yeah, just before he disappeared. - OK, thank you. 356 00:21:25,366 --> 00:21:28,366 So, why did you lie? 357 00:21:29,833 --> 00:21:30,997 I panicked. 358 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,614 I'd seen in the papers that it was a murder inquiry. 359 00:21:36,388 --> 00:21:37,683 I was scared. 360 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:40,676 I was scared that... 361 00:21:42,873 --> 00:21:46,353 I might be someone that you might suspicious about. 362 00:21:48,493 --> 00:21:53,116 So, you saw each other for a period of, er, what, maybe four years? 363 00:21:53,674 --> 00:21:55,443 - Yes. - OK. 364 00:21:55,453 --> 00:21:56,726 And you told us that 365 00:21:56,751 --> 00:21:58,486 the relationship... 366 00:21:59,180 --> 00:22:00,661 just sort of fizzled out. 367 00:22:00,671 --> 00:22:02,160 - Yes. - Was that true? 368 00:22:02,650 --> 00:22:04,177 Yeah, I... 369 00:22:04,374 --> 00:22:06,522 I just ended up getting bored of him. 370 00:22:06,547 --> 00:22:07,563 OK. 371 00:22:08,106 --> 00:22:10,062 So he definitely never hit you? 372 00:22:11,033 --> 00:22:12,924 No, I already told you. 373 00:22:12,934 --> 00:22:15,658 You've already told me a lot of things, and most of those are lies. 374 00:22:17,926 --> 00:22:18,873 No. 375 00:22:19,813 --> 00:22:24,315 Because we have evidence to suggest that he did hit his wife. 376 00:22:25,056 --> 00:22:26,922 We know that he attacked one of his best friends 377 00:22:26,932 --> 00:22:28,313 and was cautioned for that. 378 00:22:28,552 --> 00:22:30,169 And we also have evidence that 379 00:22:30,179 --> 00:22:32,941 he used violence against some of his tenants, so... 380 00:22:33,657 --> 00:22:35,774 Well, he never hit me. 381 00:22:36,825 --> 00:22:37,931 OK. 382 00:22:41,786 --> 00:22:44,237 Did he ever try to extort money from you, Melinda? 383 00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:45,353 No. 384 00:22:46,258 --> 00:22:47,625 Well, maybe... 385 00:22:48,275 --> 00:22:52,763 you can explain what he meant in these messages? 386 00:22:59,646 --> 00:23:01,374 No, I... 387 00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:05,422 - I can't explain these. - You don't remember them? 388 00:23:05,713 --> 00:23:06,463 No. 389 00:23:06,488 --> 00:23:08,611 Well, it looks like he's asking you for money 390 00:23:08,621 --> 00:23:11,482 and then threatening you if you didn't give it to him. 391 00:23:11,492 --> 00:23:13,823 - I have no recollection of this. - What was he threatening you with? 392 00:23:13,833 --> 00:23:15,159 - Like I say... - I mean, we know... 393 00:23:15,189 --> 00:23:16,539 he was in huge financial trouble... 394 00:23:16,549 --> 00:23:18,556 Yeah, I have no recollection of this. 395 00:23:20,566 --> 00:23:21,566 OK. 396 00:23:24,378 --> 00:23:26,414 So, you flew to Cork on the 2nd of March. 397 00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:27,382 Mm. 398 00:23:27,999 --> 00:23:31,243 Bringing forward a flight originally booked for two months later. 399 00:23:31,253 --> 00:23:34,043 So what prompted that change of plan? 400 00:23:34,053 --> 00:23:36,200 Oh, I... I just wanted more time to get settle in 401 00:23:36,210 --> 00:23:37,834 before I started work. 402 00:23:39,295 --> 00:23:40,653 And then when you were here, 403 00:23:40,663 --> 00:23:43,616 how did you find out about Gerry Cooper's disappearance? 404 00:23:44,154 --> 00:23:45,920 - I can't remember. - Oh. 405 00:23:46,626 --> 00:23:50,648 Well, you said that a mutual friend had rung and told you about it. 406 00:23:50,658 --> 00:23:53,513 Oh, er... Yes, I mean, maybe they did. 407 00:23:53,523 --> 00:23:54,973 OK. Which friend? 408 00:23:56,639 --> 00:23:59,499 - Oh, I can't remember. - Lots you don't remember. 409 00:24:01,112 --> 00:24:02,272 Yes. 410 00:24:04,873 --> 00:24:05,885 OK. 411 00:24:07,061 --> 00:24:10,812 And did you ever meet his wife, Juliet? 412 00:24:10,822 --> 00:24:11,989 No, why would I have? 413 00:24:11,999 --> 00:24:14,419 Maybe she found out about your affair, got in touch with you? 414 00:24:14,482 --> 00:24:15,416 No. 415 00:24:16,819 --> 00:24:17,698 OK. 416 00:24:18,516 --> 00:24:19,839 Last question. 417 00:24:22,020 --> 00:24:24,966 You have a storage facility in the UK. 418 00:24:25,303 --> 00:24:26,781 We'd like to search it. 419 00:24:27,171 --> 00:24:29,736 We can get a warrant or you can just give us permission, 420 00:24:30,322 --> 00:24:31,833 whichever you prefer? 421 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:35,747 That's my personal stuff. You wanna search it... 422 00:24:36,331 --> 00:24:38,096 you get a fucking warrant. 423 00:24:49,126 --> 00:24:50,936 There's something you should know. 424 00:25:02,285 --> 00:25:04,119 People know each other's business here. 425 00:25:04,243 --> 00:25:05,884 Secrets are hard to keep, 426 00:25:05,927 --> 00:25:09,221 which is something Melinda Ricci singularly failed to grasp. 427 00:25:09,231 --> 00:25:10,212 OK. 428 00:25:10,222 --> 00:25:13,355 So if you wanna know her secrets, speak to Father Ryan. 429 00:25:13,955 --> 00:25:16,082 He's been keeping her very good company 430 00:25:16,092 --> 00:25:17,663 since Paddy got injured. 431 00:25:19,543 --> 00:25:23,069 As I say, it... it may be nothing, but I thought I should mention it. 432 00:25:23,079 --> 00:25:24,296 No, absolutely. 433 00:25:24,306 --> 00:25:27,462 Erm, so, can I just ask... 434 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:33,230 why was he there, your dad, at... 3:30 in the morning? 435 00:25:33,526 --> 00:25:36,084 He worked shifts at a service station, 436 00:25:36,254 --> 00:25:38,522 and that was the route he cycled home. 437 00:25:38,547 --> 00:25:39,699 Right, OK. 438 00:25:39,881 --> 00:25:41,940 And, yeah, he said the following day 439 00:25:41,950 --> 00:25:45,860 that he'd surprised someone heaving something into the marsh 440 00:25:45,870 --> 00:25:47,232 and it felt a bit weird. 441 00:25:47,242 --> 00:25:51,644 So, er, notwithstanding his stroke, Susan, 442 00:25:52,392 --> 00:25:56,236 if you think he'd be up for it, I'd love to talk to him. 443 00:26:11,196 --> 00:26:13,443 Afternoon. DS Fran Lingley. 444 00:26:13,453 --> 00:26:14,806 I'm just trying to get some information 445 00:26:14,816 --> 00:26:17,900 on whether you're storing anything here belonging to a Melinda Ricci. 446 00:26:32,750 --> 00:26:35,682 - So, the swab you gave us, Asif... - Mr Syed. 447 00:26:36,996 --> 00:26:39,192 Apologies. The swab you gave us, Mr Syed, 448 00:26:39,202 --> 00:26:42,275 was compared against DNA evidence taken from the sweatshirt 449 00:26:42,285 --> 00:26:45,582 worn by Gerry Cooper the night he was assaulted outside his pub. 450 00:26:46,126 --> 00:26:50,478 And we found a match. Your DNA is on the sweatshirt. 451 00:26:50,488 --> 00:26:51,886 What's your response to that? 452 00:26:52,532 --> 00:26:53,814 No comment. 453 00:26:55,098 --> 00:26:57,303 Was it you that attacked Mr Cooper that night? 454 00:26:57,826 --> 00:26:59,030 No comment. 455 00:26:59,658 --> 00:27:01,763 If it wasn't you, can you tell me how else 456 00:27:01,773 --> 00:27:03,963 your DNA might have ended up on his sweatshirt? 457 00:27:04,279 --> 00:27:05,692 No comment. 458 00:27:06,005 --> 00:27:08,849 Maybe you came in to contact with him some other way that day? 459 00:27:11,056 --> 00:27:12,216 No comment. 460 00:27:12,889 --> 00:27:15,890 Perhaps he attacked you, you acted in self-defence? 461 00:27:15,915 --> 00:27:17,102 No comment. 462 00:27:17,438 --> 00:27:18,404 OK. 463 00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:21,152 Let's move on from that, then. Erm... 464 00:27:21,162 --> 00:27:24,128 I'd like to ask you again about the Dowari family. 465 00:27:24,242 --> 00:27:26,024 When was the last time you would have seen them? 466 00:27:27,475 --> 00:27:30,044 When I stopped working for Thamesford Borough Council. 467 00:27:30,662 --> 00:27:33,733 Which was in September 2020? 468 00:27:33,988 --> 00:27:35,434 - Yes. - Yeah. 469 00:27:35,756 --> 00:27:38,997 So, we have a witness who also worked for the council, 470 00:27:39,022 --> 00:27:42,666 who said they bumped into you in January 2021, 471 00:27:42,936 --> 00:27:46,384 and you told them that you were still helping the Dowaris even then. 472 00:27:47,379 --> 00:27:48,847 They're mistaken. 473 00:27:49,253 --> 00:27:51,392 The Dowaris would say the same, would they? 474 00:27:51,614 --> 00:27:52,528 Yes. 475 00:27:53,641 --> 00:27:55,619 Cos, you see, I think they wouldn't. 476 00:27:56,168 --> 00:27:58,180 I think they would say that, very generously, 477 00:27:58,190 --> 00:27:59,874 you continued to help them. 478 00:28:01,336 --> 00:28:02,105 No comment. 479 00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:04,073 My guess is that the assault on Gerard Cooper 480 00:28:04,083 --> 00:28:05,599 outside his pub was in revenge 481 00:28:05,609 --> 00:28:08,045 for how you felt Cooper was treating the Dowari family. 482 00:28:08,070 --> 00:28:09,335 Is that the case? 483 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:11,167 No comment. 484 00:28:11,710 --> 00:28:13,750 And my fear is, Mr Syed, 485 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,654 because I do believe, at heart, you are a decent man... 486 00:28:16,664 --> 00:28:20,218 My fear is that three weeks after that first assault, 487 00:28:20,228 --> 00:28:23,254 you went back and attacked Mr Cooper again. 488 00:28:23,264 --> 00:28:24,888 - Is that the case? - No comment. 489 00:28:24,898 --> 00:28:28,294 Perhaps something happened with the Dowari family 490 00:28:28,304 --> 00:28:31,576 that really got to you, and you went back to find Mr Cooper, 491 00:28:31,586 --> 00:28:33,683 and this time, things went too far. 492 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:35,187 No comment. 493 00:28:35,197 --> 00:28:37,071 - Maybe he fought back this time. - No comment. 494 00:28:37,081 --> 00:28:38,955 Or maybe it was self defence from you again. 495 00:28:38,965 --> 00:28:40,026 No comment. 496 00:28:40,654 --> 00:28:43,224 Either way, you returned, Mr Syed, 497 00:28:43,234 --> 00:28:46,321 and that second visit led to Mr Cooper's death. 498 00:28:49,209 --> 00:28:50,209 No comment. 499 00:28:54,390 --> 00:28:56,315 OK. Erm... 500 00:28:56,609 --> 00:28:58,613 So, just before I came into this interview, 501 00:28:58,623 --> 00:29:01,148 I got a call from one of my officers, 502 00:29:01,158 --> 00:29:04,848 who has managed to find a current address 503 00:29:04,858 --> 00:29:06,352 for the Dowari family, 504 00:29:06,841 --> 00:29:10,342 and he's on the way over to them right now to try and speak to them. 505 00:29:10,659 --> 00:29:13,626 So is there anything else that you would like to add now 506 00:29:13,636 --> 00:29:15,152 to what you've already told me? 507 00:29:24,169 --> 00:29:25,169 No comment. 508 00:29:27,142 --> 00:29:28,224 Right. 509 00:29:29,335 --> 00:29:31,235 We'll leave things there for now, then. 510 00:29:38,436 --> 00:29:40,727 - My front light had gone... - Right. 511 00:29:40,737 --> 00:29:43,467 which is why they wouldn't have seen me coming. 512 00:29:44,031 --> 00:29:45,426 And when you say "they"...? 513 00:29:45,436 --> 00:29:47,980 No, sorry, there was only... 514 00:29:48,005 --> 00:29:49,269 - one of them. - OK. 515 00:29:49,327 --> 00:29:52,570 - And was that a man or a woman? - Oh, I got no idea. 516 00:29:53,154 --> 00:29:54,230 It was raining, 517 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,608 and they had their hood up, and they were wearing a COVID mask. 518 00:29:57,633 --> 00:30:00,789 And obviously, it was also night, and so... 519 00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,997 So, what... what exactly did you see? 520 00:30:04,007 --> 00:30:06,162 They had their back to me, 521 00:30:06,587 --> 00:30:09,358 and they was leaning over a bag, 522 00:30:09,970 --> 00:30:12,237 and they were removing something from it. 523 00:30:12,262 --> 00:30:13,094 Mm. 524 00:30:13,828 --> 00:30:16,486 But when they heard me coming, 525 00:30:16,496 --> 00:30:19,607 from, what, 30 or 40 feet away... 526 00:30:19,617 --> 00:30:21,336 erm... 527 00:30:22,567 --> 00:30:26,296 they... they stop... what they were doing, 528 00:30:26,614 --> 00:30:28,418 and they look at me. 529 00:30:29,341 --> 00:30:33,730 And then they put whatever it was back in the bag very quickly. 530 00:30:34,669 --> 00:30:37,579 And then they stood up, 531 00:30:38,380 --> 00:30:40,211 and they pick up the bag... 532 00:30:41,273 --> 00:30:43,715 and then walk towards me 533 00:30:44,613 --> 00:30:46,772 - but with their head down. - So you didn't... 534 00:30:46,873 --> 00:30:49,090 actually see them throw anything in? 535 00:30:49,325 --> 00:30:53,458 Oh, well, no, but I did think that it was so odd 536 00:30:53,468 --> 00:30:55,769 that after I passed them... 537 00:30:56,692 --> 00:31:00,412 I turned back and watched them walk into the darkness. 538 00:31:00,422 --> 00:31:01,689 And then maybe... 539 00:31:02,210 --> 00:31:05,323 20 seconds later, I heard "splash". 540 00:31:05,653 --> 00:31:09,457 And two minutes after that, I heard a car start up. 541 00:31:09,467 --> 00:31:11,875 OK. And anything else? 542 00:31:12,954 --> 00:31:14,015 Oh. 543 00:31:14,051 --> 00:31:17,273 Nothing else springs to mind at the moment, no. 544 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:22,429 But how... how about if I check my diary? 545 00:31:24,373 --> 00:31:25,373 Your diary? 546 00:31:26,111 --> 00:31:27,578 Yeah, it... 547 00:31:27,898 --> 00:31:32,251 Till I had my stroke, I kept a daily diary. 548 00:31:32,261 --> 00:31:35,686 And that might have the specific day that this happened? 549 00:31:35,696 --> 00:31:38,694 No, no, not "might", it would. 550 00:31:46,813 --> 00:31:48,583 It's Martin, isn't it? 551 00:31:48,854 --> 00:31:49,895 Oh, hello. 552 00:31:49,905 --> 00:31:51,724 I used to see you in the pub, Marty. 553 00:31:51,813 --> 00:31:53,813 Do you remember me? Clemmie. 554 00:31:54,853 --> 00:31:56,511 Where's it gone? 555 00:31:57,032 --> 00:31:59,627 Oh, well, it's flats now, lovely. 556 00:31:59,652 --> 00:32:01,175 Yeah, the brewery sold it. 557 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,696 I was looking for his wife. 558 00:32:02,706 --> 00:32:05,886 Oh, Juliet moved. Er, Spitalfields, I think. 559 00:32:08,239 --> 00:32:09,641 Thank you very much, madam. 560 00:32:12,206 --> 00:32:14,955 What... What even is that? 561 00:32:15,304 --> 00:32:17,258 Sounds like something you clean a paintbrush with. 562 00:32:17,268 --> 00:32:20,622 Moral turpitude is deviant behaviour, Melinda. 563 00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:21,647 Deviant? 564 00:32:21,657 --> 00:32:25,670 Constituting an immoral, unethical or unjust departure 565 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,660 from ordinary social standards as would shock a community. 566 00:32:29,670 --> 00:32:32,570 Sorry, is this me fucking the priest or the murder investigation? 567 00:32:34,189 --> 00:32:36,466 Tell you what, you choose. 568 00:32:36,813 --> 00:32:38,970 Either way, you've got four weeks' notice, 569 00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:41,423 which is four more than the board wanted to give you, so... 570 00:32:42,493 --> 00:32:44,604 you can thank me in another life. 571 00:32:55,233 --> 00:32:56,233 Yeah... 572 00:32:57,853 --> 00:32:59,368 it's true. 573 00:33:00,853 --> 00:33:03,120 - Everything Debbie said? - Yeah. 574 00:33:03,813 --> 00:33:04,925 And more. 575 00:33:06,405 --> 00:33:07,575 "And more"? 576 00:33:10,281 --> 00:33:13,993 OK, er, I wanna be completely honest with you now, Jessie, 577 00:33:14,003 --> 00:33:17,499 because until I am, I know we can't move forward. 578 00:33:18,643 --> 00:33:19,813 I'm all ears. 579 00:33:21,066 --> 00:33:23,699 And I'm telling you this now because it's all in the past. 580 00:33:24,263 --> 00:33:25,284 This isn't... 581 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,781 who I am today, this isn't who I've been since... 582 00:33:29,334 --> 00:33:33,619 Debbie, and this isn't who I ever will be... again. 583 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,160 But... 584 00:33:40,313 --> 00:33:42,313 there were other women. 585 00:33:44,153 --> 00:33:46,153 None of them ever meant anything, but... 586 00:33:48,146 --> 00:33:49,419 there were others. 587 00:33:51,584 --> 00:33:52,471 My, er... 588 00:33:53,091 --> 00:33:54,398 therapist... 589 00:33:54,546 --> 00:33:57,050 - Your fucking what? - Yeah. 590 00:33:57,265 --> 00:33:59,514 I've been talking to an online therapist 591 00:33:59,694 --> 00:34:01,827 ever since all that stuff with your sister came out. 592 00:34:01,852 --> 00:34:03,801 It's really been helping me. 593 00:34:03,892 --> 00:34:05,776 Oh, I am pleased! 594 00:34:06,286 --> 00:34:08,471 Helping me realise... 595 00:34:10,028 --> 00:34:11,366 that I've got an addiction. 596 00:34:11,376 --> 00:34:13,534 Please, God, you're not gonna tell me you have a sex addiction. 597 00:34:14,144 --> 00:34:16,615 Oh, my God, Steve. 598 00:34:17,852 --> 00:34:21,132 You awful fucking cliche. 599 00:34:21,142 --> 00:34:23,605 Jessie, I'm telling you this 600 00:34:23,615 --> 00:34:26,376 because I wanna be completely honest with you 601 00:34:26,989 --> 00:34:30,331 so we can start with a clean slate. 602 00:34:33,411 --> 00:34:35,106 Start what with a clean slate? 603 00:34:36,962 --> 00:34:39,213 Rebuilding our marriage, obviously. 604 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:41,416 Well... 605 00:34:43,892 --> 00:34:47,738 I wanna thank you, Steve, for making this all so... 606 00:34:48,642 --> 00:34:50,602 easy for me. 607 00:34:54,969 --> 00:34:57,763 - No. - We're done. 608 00:34:57,852 --> 00:35:00,144 For good. Forever. 609 00:35:00,154 --> 00:35:01,790 - Jess... - So... 610 00:35:01,815 --> 00:35:05,064 you will need to find somewhere to stay tonight. 611 00:35:06,009 --> 00:35:08,843 Erm, you can come around tomorrow while I'm at work 612 00:35:08,853 --> 00:35:12,505 and pack up whatever you need for the next few months, and I'll... 613 00:35:12,515 --> 00:35:16,610 I'll speak to a lawyer first thing and get the ball rolling. 614 00:35:16,852 --> 00:35:19,669 So you don't wanna talk, give things a go, 615 00:35:19,679 --> 00:35:21,166 listen to what I've got to say? 616 00:35:21,176 --> 00:35:24,852 I couldn't care less what you have to say, 617 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,363 you bore, you narcissist, you fucking child. 618 00:35:29,691 --> 00:35:32,265 I am now, and will be from this day forward, 619 00:35:32,275 --> 00:35:35,453 as interested in you as you clearly were in me over the last few years. 620 00:35:35,463 --> 00:35:38,758 Please, go ahead, shag as many women as you want. 621 00:35:38,768 --> 00:35:42,015 I hope it's as meaningless and hollow as you say it was. 622 00:35:42,443 --> 00:35:44,757 It's the most you deserve. 623 00:36:02,497 --> 00:36:06,179 All I'm saying is you have to learn to control your temper. 624 00:36:07,504 --> 00:36:08,695 Please. 625 00:36:09,467 --> 00:36:10,861 You taught me well, Mum. 626 00:36:11,364 --> 00:36:13,779 - "I" taught you? - Dad did angry. 627 00:36:13,832 --> 00:36:15,110 You did... 628 00:36:16,096 --> 00:36:17,250 fury. 629 00:36:26,625 --> 00:36:28,370 Listen, I need to, erm... 630 00:36:30,227 --> 00:36:32,882 I think the police are going to want to speak to you, 631 00:36:32,892 --> 00:36:34,852 so, again, if you could... 632 00:36:35,827 --> 00:36:38,214 just say what we agreed? 633 00:36:38,484 --> 00:36:41,677 - You want me to lie for you? - No, I just... 634 00:36:41,702 --> 00:36:44,613 This is the Met, Tay, so much as I would love to say, 635 00:36:44,623 --> 00:36:46,852 "Just tell the truth, and everything'll be fine..." 636 00:36:48,564 --> 00:36:53,236 Just... say you don't remember anything that happened that night. 637 00:36:53,696 --> 00:36:56,852 Because we cannot give them an opportunity to fuck up our lives. 638 00:37:01,338 --> 00:37:03,832 But I am so sorry, sweetheart. 639 00:37:20,305 --> 00:37:21,805 I can't even cry. 640 00:37:23,595 --> 00:37:25,124 What does that say? 641 00:37:25,134 --> 00:37:28,226 That you already knew. You've already grieved. 642 00:37:29,073 --> 00:37:31,305 But still, what a colossal prick. 643 00:37:32,392 --> 00:37:34,997 So, listen, tonight, I'm staying, 644 00:37:35,022 --> 00:37:37,075 and tomorrow, we get the locks changed, 645 00:37:37,266 --> 00:37:38,854 and I'll grab some stuff from my place, 646 00:37:38,864 --> 00:37:40,521 and I'll stay for a couple of weeks, 647 00:37:40,783 --> 00:37:43,365 until we work out how to get you through this. 648 00:37:43,982 --> 00:37:44,797 Hey? 649 00:37:46,147 --> 00:37:48,319 I just want you to know you're not on you're own. 650 00:37:49,759 --> 00:37:51,408 We're in this together. 651 00:37:56,018 --> 00:37:57,267 So, listen, Father, 652 00:37:57,277 --> 00:38:00,319 I don't wanna involve you in a murder investigation. 653 00:38:00,329 --> 00:38:01,274 In a...? 654 00:38:01,306 --> 00:38:04,566 I really don't want to have Officer Kane 655 00:38:04,576 --> 00:38:07,196 bring you down to the station, have people gossiping about you. 656 00:38:07,206 --> 00:38:09,294 I have done nothing wrong. 657 00:38:09,593 --> 00:38:11,441 But I need some information. 658 00:38:13,148 --> 00:38:14,355 What information? 659 00:38:19,362 --> 00:38:21,181 I know you got close to Melinda, 660 00:38:21,206 --> 00:38:24,861 and you've been a good... friend to her. 661 00:38:24,975 --> 00:38:26,483 DI Khan... 662 00:38:26,493 --> 00:38:28,452 I don't need to know anything more about that. 663 00:38:28,462 --> 00:38:32,345 But good friends tell each other things, don't they? 664 00:38:34,062 --> 00:38:35,190 Yes. 665 00:38:36,793 --> 00:38:37,713 They do. 666 00:38:38,110 --> 00:38:39,379 Yes, they do. 667 00:38:40,834 --> 00:38:41,850 So... 668 00:38:44,332 --> 00:38:47,175 did she tell you why she came out here so suddenly, 669 00:38:47,746 --> 00:38:50,234 why she changed her flight and got one two months earlier? 670 00:38:50,244 --> 00:38:53,362 OK, so, I didn't know she'd done that, 671 00:38:53,688 --> 00:38:56,338 and she never mentioned anything about changing a flight. 672 00:38:56,709 --> 00:38:58,042 But, erm... 673 00:39:09,982 --> 00:39:12,630 And this was told to me as her friend... 674 00:39:15,164 --> 00:39:16,982 not as her priest. 675 00:39:22,328 --> 00:39:27,009 She had a long relationship before she moved out... 676 00:39:28,982 --> 00:39:30,673 with a married man. 677 00:39:34,334 --> 00:39:36,335 And she had a baby with him. 678 00:39:49,049 --> 00:39:51,798 Hello? Hello? 679 00:39:51,808 --> 00:39:53,761 Why am I still here? 680 00:39:53,771 --> 00:39:56,500 I have done nothing wrong! Why am I still here?! 681 00:40:13,982 --> 00:40:14,838 Hey. 682 00:40:15,767 --> 00:40:17,972 What are you doing? I have nothing to say to you. 683 00:40:17,982 --> 00:40:19,720 I'm sorry I lost my temper. 684 00:40:19,730 --> 00:40:22,808 If we can't disagree agreeably, then we're all sunk. 685 00:40:33,182 --> 00:40:34,997 I'm sorry about the book, too. 686 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,667 Maybe part of it was provocative. 687 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,021 You know, maybe, subconsciously, 688 00:40:40,031 --> 00:40:42,756 I did choose it deliberately. Who knows? 689 00:40:44,068 --> 00:40:46,598 It is a good read, though. 690 00:40:48,127 --> 00:40:51,017 I think... the older you get... 691 00:40:51,730 --> 00:40:55,109 the harder it is to keep adapting to change. 692 00:40:56,363 --> 00:40:58,646 You bend and you bend and you bend 693 00:40:58,656 --> 00:41:00,134 and then one day, you just... 694 00:41:03,475 --> 00:41:04,820 you snap. 695 00:41:08,073 --> 00:41:10,150 But... I'm sorry. 696 00:41:10,954 --> 00:41:13,602 You were right. I was wrong. 697 00:41:14,429 --> 00:41:16,783 And as your tutor, I should have done better. 698 00:41:19,242 --> 00:41:20,610 Just wanted to say that. 699 00:41:26,258 --> 00:41:27,982 It's hard for us, too... 700 00:41:29,415 --> 00:41:32,539 to see so little change, real change, I mean. 701 00:41:33,767 --> 00:41:35,920 Still getting taught the same shitty degree you were, 702 00:41:35,930 --> 00:41:38,676 except ours costs 50 grand, and it doesn't even get us a job. 703 00:41:39,524 --> 00:41:41,247 And actually, we don't even get taught it 704 00:41:41,257 --> 00:41:42,977 because everyone's always on strike. 705 00:41:44,689 --> 00:41:46,312 So we're angry, too... 706 00:41:47,113 --> 00:41:48,233 and scared... 707 00:41:49,015 --> 00:41:50,578 that we're gonna get it wrong... 708 00:41:51,096 --> 00:41:53,340 get caught out, get left out. 709 00:41:56,161 --> 00:41:58,225 But I don't want you to lose your job. 710 00:41:59,954 --> 00:42:01,308 We all just... 711 00:42:02,219 --> 00:42:03,700 We wanna be heard. 712 00:42:08,393 --> 00:42:10,084 And you are. 713 00:42:14,655 --> 00:42:16,041 Loud and clear. 714 00:42:24,041 --> 00:42:25,932 Oh, and, yeah, it is... 715 00:42:27,542 --> 00:42:28,889 a good book. 716 00:42:46,575 --> 00:42:48,987 - DCI James? - Juliet, hi. 717 00:42:48,997 --> 00:42:52,411 I've, er, spoken to social services, and we now have someone available 718 00:42:52,421 --> 00:42:54,740 to sit with Taylor while we have a talk with her. 719 00:42:54,750 --> 00:42:57,049 So when will be a good time for you to bring her in? 720 00:43:05,855 --> 00:43:08,356 Can we get the luminol in here, please? 721 00:43:12,949 --> 00:43:16,247 So, it is blood, we just need to know whose. 722 00:43:16,257 --> 00:43:17,690 You really think it could be Cooper's? 723 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:20,393 Listen, if she had a baby with him, they're telling us, 724 00:43:20,403 --> 00:43:21,917 then nothing's off the table. 725 00:43:22,168 --> 00:43:24,542 So, I pull her back in now? 726 00:43:24,915 --> 00:43:26,535 Do you think she'd be a flight risk? 727 00:43:26,545 --> 00:43:28,824 No idea. 728 00:43:28,834 --> 00:43:30,745 Right, let's just wait for the results. 729 00:43:30,982 --> 00:43:32,600 OK. Speak later. 730 00:43:47,315 --> 00:43:50,330 - Sorry, can I help you? - No. 731 00:43:50,791 --> 00:43:52,921 Thank you very much for asking. 732 00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:17,366 The blood on Melinda Ricci's jacket, it belonged to Gerard Cooper. 733 00:44:55,022 --> 00:44:58,398 Melinda Ricci, you're under arrest on suspicion of murder. 734 00:44:59,021 --> 00:45:02,176 You're not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so. 735 00:45:02,186 --> 00:45:04,354 Whatever you say will be taken down in writing 736 00:45:04,364 --> 00:45:05,982 and may be given in evidence. 737 00:45:07,202 --> 00:45:10,012 Gonna have to put the cuffs on you, I'm afraid, Mel. 738 00:45:16,715 --> 00:45:18,075 I didn't do it. 739 00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:16,900 *CREDITS*