Episode 4: Part 2 Hinterland

Checked CCTV all along the route. She didn't go very far.

She was dead within an hour. Where did she go?

I want every inch of that platform searched.

There was a way about her. Ready with a smile.

I loved my daughter.

Alys was adopted?

We killed her! You and me, our own daughter!

There's another meaning, sir. The triskele design.

Mother, father, child.

I hate and I love.

The two people she loved the most.

Stop!

-Where were you Monday night, Mr Rees?

-Here.

-Can anyone verify that?

-I can.

You think he was down on the marshes?

It was Dean that killed Alys.

Alys was extraordinary.

Alys Thomas didn't love my husband.

WAVES CRASH

"They baptised her in the way that they did at the time

"and named her Blodeuwedd."

There's another reading to the Blodeuwedd myth, isn't there, Mr Rees?

It's not all virgins and flowers.

-She seduced me.

-You were her teacher!

Blodeuwedd was created for the sole purpose of being the king's lover.

If she wasn't going to be his, she wasn't going to be anybody's.

And so she was condemned to an eternity of darkness and torment.

-Is that what you did to Alys?

-No...

-That's not how it was.

-How was it, then?

I was attracted to her.

Alys was everything I wasn't.

Brave.

Talented.

Fearless.

And when you took her out to the marshes, was she fearless then?

I didn't take her out there.

But you know where I'm talking about.

You know Borth. You were at the hotel.

The owner of the hotel, he heard shouting.

What were you rowing about?

I tried to end it.

Go on.

She phoned...

..demanding to see me...

threatening to come to the house.

She was going to confront my family.

So I agreed to meet her.

To tell her it was over?

-Yes.

-Why?

Alys wasn't looking for a lover.

She was looking for a father.

Keep him in the cells.

Were there any other men in your daughter's life,

besides your husband?

Older men? Did she ever talk about her lecturer?

What about Dyfan Richard?

Does that name mean anything to you?

-Why are you asking?

-What do you know about him?

Keeps himself to himself.

I've never had anything to do with him.

But you've seen him about?

Borth is a small place.

What happened to you?

Nothing.

GULLS CAW

WAVES CRASH

POIGNANT MUSIC

They're waiting for you.

After you.

I went up to the house.

I saw your car.

I respected you!

Maybe I was wrong to.

That's enough, Iwan!

Go home.

Tom, a word.

Yaaarrrggghhh!

You! You! It's you!

Take him down to the cell!

N-o-o-o-o-o-o!

Is that necessary, sir?

The man is grieving. He's lost his daughter, he's lost everything!

-I know him better than you do!

-Sir?

Dyfan Richard complained about the family on the marsh

23 times in the last four months.

That's once every three days.

It's like he was watching them.

-I've got the phone records and reports.

-Watching?

-What?

-You said like he was watching them.

Yes. That's what it says in the report. Watching.

Tom, wait!

Wynford Rees is downstairs.

We have evidence, motive, a strong case.

He was with her that night. They fought, she stormed off.

He's the last known person to have seen her alive!

(Watching...)

Where are you going?

Dyfan Richard spent his life watching Alys.

Watching her every movement.

Why?

-You don't believe me?

-I don't know what to believe.

You went up there on your own.

Did you sleep with her?

Did you?

Check the tape.

SIREN WAILS

Chwarae fe nol.

Dyfan Richard.

I can stand here for hours and never be bored.

There's so much out there.

She was your friend, wasn't she?

Alys.

I don't know.

I didn't know her.

Not really.

You've been lying to me, Dyfan.

Is that what you think?

I think you've been watching Alys the whole time you've lived here.

I think you've been watching the family. And me.

You've been watching me, too, haven't you, Dyfan?

Never a smile on those ruby red lips.

It was you who phoned Iwan, wasn't it?

Sent him up to the house.

I expected better from you.

Alys needed someone. Someone outside of it all.

Outside of her life.

Someone different she could talk to who wouldn't judge,

or harm...

or seek to influence her.

And that was you?

I probably needed the same.

Were you in love with her?

Ours was a friendship. Pure.

How could I harm a hair on her head?

She lit up my day.

And I hope somehow...

..I managed the same for her.

-Did you kill her?

-No.

Did you need to silence her, Dyfan?

Did she become too much for you?

Did she threaten to tell?

I was prepared to ignore the rumours.

But they seem to be true.

You seem to possess a chequered past, Mr Mathias.

I like to take an interest in those who take an interest in me.

Apologies if I touched a raw nerve.

Wait, Dyfan!

Dyfan!

Where the hell have you been?!

Where I should've been since this investigation started.

-Have you questioned Wynford Rees again?

-No.

-Why not?

-Because despite being

the most frustrating senior officer I've ever worked with,

I think you might be right about Dyfan Richard.

We saw the tape, sir.

-I need to search Dyfan Richard's house.

-What for?

He's lied to us. Alys was there.

It was Dyfan Richard that killed her, I'm sure of it.

We don't have any hard evidence.

All I want is to search the house.

He admits Alys was there, so we have grounds.

I'm not going to apply for a warrant on a hunch. No.

With consent. Get him to let you in.

If you find anything significant,

-then I'll back that up with a warrant.

-It's him.

CONSTANT TICKING

What now?

We'd like you to come to the station so we can confirm a few details.

Helping the police with their enquires.

Something like that.

I'll need a solicitor.

Of course.

What do you do with all these models?

I don't see any miniature railway.

There was a break-in.

They smashed it all to pieces.

It was really upsetting for me.

Now I make models to order.

For others' pleasure.

Sir.

Nothing. The place is clean.

Go back to the station and tell Prosser.

If I'm wrong, I'll interview Wynford Rees on my return.

I don't think you're wrong, sir.

Just keep him as long you can, OK?

I'll do my best.

This is DCI Mathias.

-You said Dyfan Richard owed money to your father for building work?

-That's right.

-When was this?

-Two years ago.

How well do you know the building?

-Better than anyone else. Why?

-Good.

-Come with me.

-What about my brothers?

I'll take care of them.

-It's like a warren in there.

-Is it?

Have we met before?

I thought you were stealing my horses.

I didn't meant to take the photograph.

I just wanted to find out who you were.

I didn't mean to hit you.

You didn't have to tell me that.

I know.

Does that make me stupid?

I hope not.

(But I'd like that photograph back.)

Deal.

I'm not what you think I am.

I know what love is.

What being close to someone feels like.

You need to charge me or let me go.

-Don't do that!

-Why not?

What if someone calls the police? You haven't got a warrant!

Through here.

That's brilliant!

MOBILE RINGS

-Mared?

-Not good news. We had to let him go.

'Prosser refused to hold him any longer.

'Listen, Tom, I'm really sorry.

'Tom?

'Tom?'

(Shit!)

Get him back on the phone!

Get a unit over to Gwen's place and another over to Dyfan Richard now!

We're on it.

Lloyd, with me, now!

PHONE RINGS

Come on, Gwen! Come on, pick up, please!

PHONE RINGS OUT

Gwen!

BIRDSONG

POIGNANT MUSIC

HE SOBS

HE BREATHES HARD

MATHIAS BREATHES HARD

DYFAN GASPS FOR BREATH

DYFAN COUGHS

DYFAN COUGHS

That night...

..Alys knocked on the door.

She'd lost her phone.

She couldn't get back into the hotel.

She was upset.

She'd missed the last train.

I...invited her in.

Said I'd phone a taxi.

I never meant to kill her.

She picked the model I'd made of her.

She started to talk to it.

Asking the model about me, about the "weirdo"...as she put it.

"What's it like living with a weirdo?"

I told her to stop.

She just laughed at me.

I held her.

Both arms...and asked her to stop.

She shrugged me off, told me where to go.

And then she fell.

Knocked her head against the table.

I heard her neck snap.

I wanted her to rest somewhere beautiful.

Somewhere where I could see her every day.

At the exact centre...of my world.

Here.

She looked so...beautiful.

Why Gwen?

Why did you do it?

She brought her sordid ways to this sacred place.

She should've been heartbroken.

But she took you to her bed.

I expected so much more of you.

You killed her daughter, Dyfan.

Hadn't you made her suffer enough?

They should never have had that little girl.

-She should've been with me.

-Why?

Why in this world should she be with you?

Alys was my daughter.

Now all I want is to be with her.

I thought you were going to do it for me.

But it looks like I'm going to have to do it for myself.

No!

MOBILE RINGS

Where are you?

I'm in the marshes with Richard. I need an ambulance now!

Lloyd!

POIGNANT INSTRUMENTAL

The ambulance is on its way!

Hey!

You OK?

Gwen died...because of me.

He's going to make it.

Tom?

Tom!