Episode 4 - Part 2 Hinterland

WHISPERING

SHE GROANS

Was Catrin considered a suicide risk?

No. This came as a shock to us all.

Catrin had a visitor - Iwan Thomas. They spoke about the children's home

Robert Owen.

He ran an outreach programme in the home during that time.

A man well placed to stop any enquiry into any abuse.

And somebody is going to do something about it eventually.

You are suspended as of now. You're in no position to make that call.

I'm giving you a chance to speak out.

No. What do you need from us, sir?

You might want to murder yourself, but don't drag everyone else

down with you.

PHONE RINGS

Hello? Paul's gone.

He's been gone hours and he's not answering his phone. I'm worried.

I've never seen him like this before. Maggie, calm down.

Just find him, please. We will find him. Everything will be all right.

We've got to go.

WHISPERING

DISTANT: Can I help you?

Can I help you?

HE SOBS

DOOR OPENS

Agnes?

Paul?

Paul!

Agnes?

Paul!

She used to lock us in that room for days.

Helen Jenkins?

She said we had the devil inside us.

She was the one that was evil.

That's where it happened.

Room number ten.

The hard room.

Locked in a room, drugged and abused.

I mean, we were kids.

What happened to us - to me, to Catrin and to Kieron...

And I couldn't stop them.

It wasn't your fault.

Kieron died because of me, he killed himself because I said nothing.

Paul, we will find out who did this.

How?

How are you going to find them?

Catrin is dead, Kieron's dead, they're all dead.

You know what happened here.

You could speak for them. I can't remember anything, OK? I've tried.

I have.

I've tried.

But I can't.

What happened to us in that room...

..is like a bad dream.

Like it wasn't real, but I know it was real, I know it happened.

I just can't remember.

I can't remember their faces.

Just their...

Just their what, Paul?

Nothing.

Just... I remember a stink.

The smell of the bastard.

His breath, his hands.

Like stale tobacco.

Pipe tobacco.

CAR DOOR SLAMS

On the night Iwan Thomas died,

Robert Owen received a phone call at 2:55am.

The call lasted 30 seconds.

Why was Robert Owen being called at that time of night?

And who called him?

The call was made from the home of Chief Superintendent Prosser.

Sir.

Yeah? What do you want us to do?

Get a unit over to Prosser's house now and arrest him.

For what, sir? On suspicion of child abuse.

We're on the way over to Robert Owen's now.

And Sian? Yes.

Do it quietly.

Yes, sir.

Hugh Vaughan.

POLICE SIREN

HE BREATHES HEAVILY

I didn't know what to do.

Vaughan...

He was already dead

by the time I got to the house that night.

I just helped to cover things up.

Buried the body.

I thought we were doing the right thing.

You were a police officer.

You had a responsibility to your job.

Robert Owen was my superior.

He was Chief Superintendent...

and I trusted him.

Robert Owen used his position to abuse those children.

To drug them, to rape them.

He murdered Hugh Vaughan, and you did nothing about it.

He told me Vaughan was responsible.

Vaughan never harmed those children.

He had nothing to do with what was happening up there.

This man...

Robert Owen...

..your friend - your boss, wasn't it?

Well, he was the man that you were protecting.

He was the man that you allowed to go unpunished.

Kieron Jones.

Catrin John.

Paul Webb.

All those lives ruined.

Iwan Thomas knew something about it, though, didn't he?

And you tried to stop him from investigating it...

..and he never gave up. He kept digging.

He kept getting closer to the truth.

That's why he called you the night he died.

He wanted to confront you.

So, you arranged to meet him up in Devil's Bridge,

and when you got there, he threatened you, didn't he?

He was going to expose you.

The truth was going to come out.

You panicked.

The children's home...

Hugh Vaughan.

His blood was on your hands.

You had to silence Iwan Thomas, and that's why you killed him.

That's why you killed Iwan Thomas.

Yes.

Tom...

Do you remember that morning you came round to the house

to offer your resignation?

Do you know why I wouldn't accept it?

Because you're good at this job.

It's in your blood.

DOOR SLAMS

The black fibres found underneath Iwan Thomas' fingernails...

..they've been matched to the fibres taken from Prosser's coat.

Tom...

We did the right thing.

I know.

Now we build a case to present to the CPS.

Sian, phone forensics.

Find out if there is a DNA comparison

between Robert Owen and Catrin Jones' baby.

Yes, sir.

Where are we with establishing whether Robert Owen

had any contact with other children?

We haven't found anything yet, sir.

Keep checking, will you? Yes, sir.

I'll speak to Ethni Vaughan.

She deserves to know the truth about what happened to her son.

Mared...

Thanks.

DISTANT CHATTER

THEY CHEER AND LAUGH

Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing by Ericsson