0:00:06 > 0:00:11MUSIC: "What A Wonderful World" By Louis Armstrong
0:00:13 > 0:00:14Morning, Mrs Greenwood.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Good morning, Tammy.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29Right. Have a good day.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35MUSIC CONTINUES
0:02:02 > 0:02:04A baby doesn't just disappear.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I want every available officer back on shift.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09Right? Everyone, uniforms, door to door on that street.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12What did the neighbours hear? What did they see?
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Right?
0:02:14 > 0:02:17Guv, road block on all major routes out of that area,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20stopping anybody with a baby in the car.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22Right, everybody? Good. On you get.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27Oh, Taylor contact the local press. Tell them we'll get that photograph out to them as soon as possible.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29- Dog handler? - On the way there, Sir.
0:02:29 > 0:02:30Hasn't turned up yet then?
0:02:30 > 0:02:33Nah, nah, it's been snatched, Guv. From its cot.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35Upstairs. In broad daylight. Can you believe that?
0:02:35 > 0:02:37Name of the baby?
0:02:37 > 0:02:38Faith Groves. Two months old.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Daughter of Stephen and Frances Groves.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43What do we know about Stephen and Frances?
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Right, well, he's 43, a bank manager.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48And she's 40, doesn't do anything.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Could we just say "wife and mother", John?
0:02:51 > 0:02:53Yeah, if you want. Nice way of putting it.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55No other children?
0:02:55 > 0:02:57No. She's their only one.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Mother's hysterical, apparently.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01Which is fair enough, isn't it?
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Hey, do you know where that comes from, "hysterical"?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06D'you know where that word comes from?
0:03:06 > 0:03:08You'll like this, I was reading about it.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12I thought it was hysterical, like, Tommy Cooper, he's hysterical.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13But, no, it's not. It's Latin.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16For "womb".
0:03:16 > 0:03:20Eh? Says a lot about women, that. Doesn't it?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22It's Greek.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Well, they knew a thing or two then, didn't they, the ancient Greeks?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32By the way, I need to dart off,
0:03:32 > 0:03:35- pick Leigh Ann up about two, if that's all right?- What?
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I know, I'm sorry. It'll only be for an hour.
0:03:38 > 0:03:42Just, Lisa's going away this weekend. With another new bloke.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45This one's serious, I think.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Women!
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- Afternoon, Sir.- Afternoon.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- It's this one up here.- Thank you.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59POLICE RADIO CHATTER
0:04:05 > 0:04:09Mr and Mrs Groves? No, please don't get up.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11I'm Detective Chief Inspector Gently.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14This is my colleague, Detective Sergeant Bacchus.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16Please tell me everything you know.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- This is my fault, Inspector. - Stephen!
0:04:19 > 0:04:23I should have heard something. Frances went shopping.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26I decided to do some gardening in the back,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28I was back and forwards through the house.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Both doors were wide open for a while.
0:04:32 > 0:04:36I looked in on her at quarter past twelve. She was sleeping.
0:04:38 > 0:04:40She looked like an angel.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44Ssh, Stephen, ssh.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Would it be all right if I take one of these photographs here?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Yes, take whatever you need.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Will you be happy to speak to the local press?
0:04:52 > 0:04:55We'll need to get this out to the public as soon as possible really.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57- Right, whatever. - And we will need something
0:04:57 > 0:05:00with your daughter's scent on it, for the tracker dog.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- An item of clothing, or a blanket. - I'll get it.
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- The pink top, Stephen. - Right.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09Wait for me, would you, please, Mr Groves?
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Is there somebody who can come and sit with you?
0:05:14 > 0:05:18Friend or neighbour or work colleague?
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Your husband seems to be taking it very badly.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Sometimes, you don't know what you've got until you lose it.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28Excuse me.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43Beautiful room.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47All Frances' doing. Everything perfect for the baby.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52This is where Faith was when she was taken?
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Yeah.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55Oh, no, please, may I?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03Give this to the dog handler, would you, please?
0:06:03 > 0:06:06Tell him to start with the woods behind the house. Sir.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Has anything been taken?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13Clothes, toys?
0:06:13 > 0:06:15I actually wouldn't know.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20You had Faith quite late in life, didn't you?
0:06:22 > 0:06:25Frances and I tried for many years with no success.
0:06:25 > 0:06:27Do you think this was planned?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30When you say "no success"...?
0:06:30 > 0:06:34Oh, Faith's adopted. Did nobody tell you?
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Have you noticed anybody loitering on the street in the last few days?
0:06:58 > 0:07:02No, no. I don't recall anyone.
0:07:02 > 0:07:06- You think this was planned, then? - Uh, yeah. I do.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08It would be different if it was from a pram outside a shop.
0:07:08 > 0:07:13Say, you know, barren lady walking past, and thinks to herself...
0:07:13 > 0:07:15- What do you know about that?- Huh?
0:07:15 > 0:07:18What do you know about barren ladies?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21Oh, no, no, no, sorry. I was just... I was just saying...
0:07:21 > 0:07:23Just saying what?
0:07:25 > 0:07:26I was just saying...
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Can I tell you something?
0:07:31 > 0:07:35I nearly did it myself. Twice.
0:07:35 > 0:07:40After my third miscarriage, I thought to myself,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42"Well, this is never going to happen for you.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45"You're childless, get used to it."
0:07:45 > 0:07:47And you'd be walking along the road
0:07:47 > 0:07:51and see some 17-year-old girl pushing a pram.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54And you'd think, "She didn't want that baby. Why can't I have it?"
0:07:54 > 0:08:00And I'd feel a strong, almost overwhelming urge to steal it.
0:08:02 > 0:08:07To follow her home, wait for my chance, and steal it.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14That's quite apart from wanting to smash her face in, of course.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17For having a baby?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Yes. For having a baby.
0:08:19 > 0:08:23And then eventually I had a hysterectomy.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25Do you know what one of those is? A hysterectomy?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28I do. It's from the Greek.
0:08:30 > 0:08:32Yes.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36How nice that our policemen have a classical education.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Mind you, with a name like Bacchus.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45We were childhood sweethearts.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51We eventually got married in '46, when I came back from Burma.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Army?
0:08:53 > 0:08:56- Signals.- Oh, yes.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59I got back as one of the lucky ones. All in one piece.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03Good job to go to. Good woman waiting for us.
0:09:03 > 0:09:06"Here's the lovely life, you deserve it, come and live it."
0:09:08 > 0:09:13All we needed was a child. Life made us wait 20 years
0:09:13 > 0:09:17and then...took it away from us.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20You have every chance of seeing your baby again very soon.
0:09:20 > 0:09:23That is the usual outcome.
0:09:26 > 0:09:28All right, first question, you ready?
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Do we think either of them did away with it?- Probably not.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Well, definitely not her. He might have done.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36He was left on his own with her.
0:09:36 > 0:09:39What was all those tears about? Crying like a big lass.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Maybe he was feeling hysterical, John.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45Ah-ha-ha, yeah(!) You know what I'm saying.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48Who wants a dad that cries?
0:09:53 > 0:09:57Right, so when your granddad opens the door, we shout, "Surprise!"
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Don't we? But a bit louder. Go on.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09And a big smile. Plenty of teeth. Let's have a look.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12Beautiful. You ready?
0:10:13 > 0:10:14Here he comes...!
0:10:14 > 0:10:16BOTH: Surprise!
0:10:16 > 0:10:19Hello, gorgeous. I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow!
0:10:19 > 0:10:22Well, I asked her what she'd most like to do today
0:10:22 > 0:10:26because Daddy has to go back to work and it's really, really important,
0:10:26 > 0:10:31and you said, "Daddy, I'd really like to see my granddad!" Didn't you? "Yeah!"
0:10:31 > 0:10:35Fobbing her off on your old man isn't being a dad, son.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37We've got a missing baby, dad.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42So, what have you brought to play, then? Let's have a look.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44A Meccano Set?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- Aye.- She's a little lass!
0:10:47 > 0:10:49That's what I said, Granddad.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52I wanted you to try summit different, didn't I?
0:10:52 > 0:10:54You could make a pram or something.
0:10:54 > 0:10:59Lads like building and fighting. Lassies like dolls and talking.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01You can burn any amount of bras you like,
0:11:01 > 0:11:03but you cannot change human nature.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06I don't have a bra.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Well, come on. Let's go on inside, pet, here you go.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12There you go, enjoy that. Listen, urm...
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- There you go, lassie. - I'll try not to be long.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17I'll pick her up soon as I can.
0:11:17 > 0:11:23You were never much as a son, but you are a spectacularly useless dad.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44What are they making?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47They all make a teddy bear that gets adopted with their baby,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50so that when the child is older they can look at it
0:11:50 > 0:11:52and know they were given up in love.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54I see.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Is it usually this quiet?
0:11:58 > 0:12:02Today's when Mrs Dunwoody tells them which babies have been placed,
0:12:02 > 0:12:03and which haven't.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06- "Placed"?- Chosen for adoption.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16Sorry, Guv. Back on the case.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19- I'll see if Mrs Dunwoody is ready for yous.- Thank you.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Who do you think it was? Looks serious.
0:12:27 > 0:12:28Do you think it's his fiancee?
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Where's all the bairns?
0:12:31 > 0:12:34Blissfully asleep in the nursery from two till four,
0:12:34 > 0:12:38when they wake up smiling and refreshed for their next feed.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39BABIES CRYING
0:12:39 > 0:12:43Course, the babies aren't all clever enough to read the rules.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Can I not pick him up, just for a minute?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50Here you go.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Oh, Lauren, I know it's hard, but I promise you
0:12:52 > 0:12:55your little lad's better off learning a routine, honest.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59Now, go and get on with his teddy, there's a good girl.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Would you like a baby each, officers?
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Or I'm doing three for the price of two this week
0:13:10 > 0:13:12if you've got a coupon.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Little baby Faith? Lord, those poor people.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24We shall need some details of the baby's real mother.
0:13:24 > 0:13:29Her name is Susan. Susan Faulkner. Sweet girl.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33Well, they all are for the most part. Lovely, lovely girls.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37They make one mistake, you know, Mr Gently, and they pay for it.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40My Sergeant can tell you all about that!
0:13:42 > 0:13:46Yes. My wife...made a mistake.
0:13:46 > 0:13:50You made it together. But you stood by her.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- Yes, and now we're divorced. Can we crack on?- Yes, well.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57To thread a needle requires both needle and thread, you know?
0:13:57 > 0:13:59These girls are usually abandoned.
0:13:59 > 0:14:04- Unlike your good lady. What's her name?- It doesn't matter.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Lisa.
0:14:06 > 0:14:11Lisa. God bless her. And the little one, what's his name?
0:14:11 > 0:14:14It really... Do you mind if we just...? Leigh Ann.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17- A little girl. Lovely. - Mrs Dunwoody, If we...?
0:14:17 > 0:14:18- I'll tell you one thing. - Yes, please.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Because they learn self-discipline in Dunwoody's,
0:14:22 > 0:14:23no girl has ever come back twice.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26- That's very nice... - Well, except Hazel.- Hazel?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Hazel Joyce, that showed you in.
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Came here with a little bundle in the oven four years ago
0:14:31 > 0:14:33and now she's back as my assistant.
0:14:33 > 0:14:39She's a treasure. Now, Susan Faulkner. How can I help?
0:14:47 > 0:14:53- Perhaps it was the shock of having twins that made Susan leave in the way she did.- Susan had twins?
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Yes. Faith, and her brother Thomas.
0:14:56 > 0:15:01I think Mrs Groves would've taken them both like a shot, you know.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03They looked at a lot of children,
0:15:03 > 0:15:07and I had the feeling he was vetoing them one after the other.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09What happened to Thomas?
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- Susan took him when she left. - Took him where?- We don't know.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16She left late one night, a week after giving up Faith,
0:15:16 > 0:15:18and without telling a soul.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Four o'clock. It's time for the feed.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44Susan decided Faith was for adoption,
0:15:44 > 0:15:47and I found a new life for her with the Groves.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Susan and the Groves never met, and know nothing of one another.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53So the mothers have no say in where their babies end up?
0:15:53 > 0:15:57No. But even we can't get every baby adopted.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- Given the choice, nobody wants a tainted child.- "Tainted"?
0:16:01 > 0:16:05It's nigh on impossible to place disabled babies, for instance.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Or children conceived in incest.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10How would the prospective parents know that?
0:16:10 > 0:16:14The child was conceived in incest, I mean?
0:16:14 > 0:16:16They wouldn't. Unless they asked.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- And if they don't ask? - Then it's buyer beware.
0:16:19 > 0:16:23So what was wrong with Hazel's little 'un?
0:16:23 > 0:16:25That's her business, not yours.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Yes. Would you bring me your register, please?
0:16:28 > 0:16:31We might need to borrow it for a while.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57You all right, love? Is somebody coming for you?
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Can I help? Would you like me to get Mrs Dunwoody?
0:17:03 > 0:17:07Once you hand your bairn over, you're out. They need your bed.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09I handed mine over this morning.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12He's gone.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15They'll be good to him, though, won't they?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Yeah, I'm sure they will.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23Look, I'm sorry to burden you, but did you know Susan Faulkner?
0:17:23 > 0:17:27We shared a room for a week. What happened to her?
0:17:27 > 0:17:31We really need to talk to her. Did she tell you where she was going?
0:17:31 > 0:17:35No. Just disappeared into thin air.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39I've got to get me bus.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Good luck, love.
0:17:47 > 0:17:52Susan Faulkner's mother received a phone-call from Susan
0:17:52 > 0:17:56the day after she left Dunwoody's, saying that she wasn't coming home,
0:17:56 > 0:17:59but she refused to say where she was.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- How're you getting on with that register?- Yeah, it's interesting.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05There was 23 mothers at Dunwoody's during Susan's time there.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08But, they've got these weird little symbols next to their names.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12- And it's the same for the babies. - What sort of symbols?
0:18:12 > 0:18:13According to the key at the back
0:18:13 > 0:18:16symbols for different characteristics, you know?
0:18:16 > 0:18:20So, for example, for the babies you've got one for social class.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22You've got one for hair colour.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Skin colour?
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Yeah. Skin colour, sleeping, feeding habits, fat or thin.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Disability. Type of disability. For the mothers you've got age,
0:18:31 > 0:18:35self-discipline - that's marked out of ten - cleanliness, intelligence.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39How they fell pregnant - I thought there was only one way of that happening.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43Esther Dunwoody really likes to process people neatly, doesn't she?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Vaguely unpleasant. Like eugenics.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48Like what?
0:18:50 > 0:18:5223 mothers there with Susan, you said?
0:18:52 > 0:18:56- 23, yeah. - Any of them live nearby the sea?
0:18:56 > 0:18:59- Uh... Why?- Her mother said she called from a phone box
0:18:59 > 0:19:02and she could hear seagulls in the background.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06No. None of them live by the sea. You get seagulls at tips, Sir.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- Do you want to see if any of them live on a tip?- No, no don't bother.
0:19:09 > 0:19:13Hazel. Hazel, the assistant.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15She clearly had a problem with the Dunwoodys.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19See if the register goes back to 1964. Hazel Joyce.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Here we go. Hazel Joyce.
0:19:24 > 0:19:2719-years-old. Student. Quite bright.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Says here, "Helpful with the younger girls.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33"Child not placed for adoption."
0:19:45 > 0:19:49SEAGULLS SQUAWK
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Bingo.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32There's a pram there, Sir.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36It's that copper. The one that came to Dunwoody's.
0:21:39 > 0:21:43All right, Susan. Susan, now don't run!
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Why don't you just leave her alone?! She's done now't wrong!
0:21:47 > 0:21:48It's all right, love.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Sue, he's a copper and all!
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Susan, it's all right.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55We're not here to take Thomas away from you.
0:21:55 > 0:21:59I just need to talk to you about Faith.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Faith?
0:22:09 > 0:22:12- What are they like?- The Groves?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Are you saying you don't know, Susan?
0:22:16 > 0:22:18How would I know?
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Spying on them, mebbies.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22Hanging around. Trying to get a look at Faith?
0:22:22 > 0:22:25Thinking to yourself, "How could I get her back?"
0:22:25 > 0:22:26That's stupid.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31They must be stupid, leaving a bairn where it could get snatched.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35That's my bairn. That's my little Faith.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Why did you leave Dunwoody's the way that you did?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Giving up Faith killed us. I couldn't do it again.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Why do you feel you have to?
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Because Mrs Dunwoody told me there was a couple who wanted Thomas.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51You could've said no.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57Yeah. You want to try saying no to Mrs Dunwoody.
0:22:57 > 0:23:03She tells you how terrible life will be as an unmarried mother.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06About the stain you'll carry round with you all your life.
0:23:06 > 0:23:12How happy you'd make some married couple.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14But, most of all,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17how you'd be doing the best for your baby to give it away to people
0:23:17 > 0:23:21who can give it everything that you can't.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22"The gift of life."
0:23:27 > 0:23:30Are they well off, these Groves?
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Very comfortable.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36So, in a way, Mrs Dunwoody's right, isn't she?
0:23:37 > 0:23:39I didn't meet any lasses at Dunwoody's
0:23:39 > 0:23:41that wouldn't have loved their baby,
0:23:41 > 0:23:44and done everything they could to give it a good life.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Why can't people help we to bring up our bairns,
0:23:47 > 0:23:49instead of taking them off us?
0:23:49 > 0:23:56Susan, are you telling me that you have no idea where Faith went to?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59I signed the forms for Faith to get adopted when she was six weeks,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02and that's the last I saw of her.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11Dunwoody tells you that it'll eventually pass. The pain.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15But, if anything, it's just got worse.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Do yous think I'm a horrible person
0:24:22 > 0:24:26- for giving away me own little bairn? - No, I don't.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29Susan, why didn't you just tell her that you wanted her back?
0:24:32 > 0:24:33What do you mean?
0:24:33 > 0:24:37Invoke the three month probationary period,
0:24:37 > 0:24:40tell Esther Dunwoody that you changed your mind?
0:24:43 > 0:24:45What probationary period?
0:24:48 > 0:24:53Susan, I need to ask you some questions about the twins' father.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Why?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Is there any way that he could have discovered
0:24:57 > 0:25:01the identity of the couple who adopted Faith?
0:25:01 > 0:25:03No, he didn't even know I was pregnant.
0:25:03 > 0:25:04What, you didn't tell him?
0:25:04 > 0:25:07- No.- He could've found out.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Could've realised that he didn't want to see his daughter go. Could've taken her back.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15He's not brainy enough to do that. And he doesn't even know he's a dad.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Well, I need to know his name,
0:25:17 > 0:25:19so I can eliminate him from our inquiries.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21But then he'll know that he's the father.
0:25:21 > 0:25:27- Susan, do you not think he has the right to know he's the father of your kids?- "The right"?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29He's pathetic, man.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32If I'd married him, I'd have three bairns to look after.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35You don't think he has a responsibility?
0:25:35 > 0:25:38What's the point of telling a half-wit he's got responsibility?
0:25:39 > 0:25:42What planet are yous two living on?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45I'm not being chained to him for the rest of me life.
0:25:45 > 0:25:50- Susan...- Stop messing around with my life and find Faith!
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Do the job yous have been paid to do and get off my back!
0:25:56 > 0:25:59- Can I go now?- Yeah.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06She's absolutely right. Seven hours Faith's been missing.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Sniffer dogs, nothing. Door to door, nothing. We are failing this little girl.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12Sir, Stephen Groves called. Asked if you can go over.
0:26:12 > 0:26:17- He say why?- No.- Did you ask? You are allowed to do your job, you know.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18I am doing my job.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23Why don't you just, once in a while, do it a little bit better?
0:26:23 > 0:26:27Sorry. Sorry. It's just... It's frustrating, isn't it?
0:26:27 > 0:26:30I thought you might like to see this, Sarge.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Sorry.
0:26:37 > 0:26:41Hey, Guv. Look at that.
0:26:41 > 0:26:43I knew I recognised him.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45- "Have a go hero"?- Yeah.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48He failed a robbery attempt at the bank that he worked at,
0:26:48 > 0:26:50about six years ago, it was.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53He absolutely battered these blokes with stockings on their heads.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57- He did?- Yeah! You wouldn't think it, would you? To look at him.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- No.- I knew I knew his face. - How's the phones going?
0:27:00 > 0:27:02Come on, Mr Roberts, that's the tenth time today.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Give us a break.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Are you sure this was a newborn baby?
0:27:07 > 0:27:10The one you're describing sounds as at least one or two-years-old...
0:27:10 > 0:27:15What was the colour of the car, Sir? Was it black or green? It was red?
0:27:15 > 0:27:18When you say gypsies took her...
0:27:19 > 0:27:24Bolt. Thank you.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28And nut. Thank you, sweetheart.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30All right?
0:27:32 > 0:27:34What is it?
0:27:34 > 0:27:39It's a pit-head, John. Working model of, with lift.
0:27:40 > 0:27:45Oh, aye. I didn't realise I'd bought a pit-head kit.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Ah, well, that's the beauty, you can make anything you like.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51Bet she had a barrel of laughs making that, did you?
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Screwdriver.
0:27:58 > 0:27:59There you go.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Thank you.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04You can wind it back up again, if you like.
0:28:04 > 0:28:08That's the nearest you'll get to any hard work.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10Thanks for looking after her.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15- Do you want a cup of tea before we go?- Dad!
0:28:15 > 0:28:17I wouldn't say no.
0:28:17 > 0:28:19And I have been working hard all day.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22What, in a collar and tie? You call that work?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Oh, you're right. No, I forgot.
0:28:25 > 0:28:30It doesn't count unless you're stripped to the waist, sweating like a pig, with bleeding hands.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52Anything?
0:28:52 > 0:28:55I'm sorry.
0:28:56 > 0:29:00She's gone, hasn't she?
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Seven hours. It feels like a lifetime.
0:29:03 > 0:29:07Don't give up hope. Not yet, not for a long while yet.
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Honestly.
0:29:10 > 0:29:14I barely know these people, even though we live cheek by jowl.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17They think they're being kind.
0:29:17 > 0:29:22It makes me think there's...been a death.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33You all right, Frances?
0:29:33 > 0:29:36PHONE RINGS
0:29:36 > 0:29:39It'll be nothing, usually is.
0:29:39 > 0:29:45We were given one just like this when we took Faith, that's all.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48- Sorry.- Yes. I saw them being made this afternoon.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51I find the whole thing a little bit bizarre, actually.
0:29:51 > 0:29:56It's hideous. "A gift of a child is a gift of life."
0:29:56 > 0:29:58I never knew what she was talking about, frankly.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01We threw Faith's away.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04I had other plans for letting her know she was loved.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08Well, you hang on to those plans. And that love.
0:30:09 > 0:30:11Are you a father, Mr Gently?
0:30:12 > 0:30:14It's for you, Frances.
0:30:14 > 0:30:15Who?
0:30:15 > 0:30:17He won't say.
0:30:29 > 0:30:35(You can't ring me here. I've told you.)
0:30:44 > 0:30:49This newspaper story. "Have a go hero" nonsense.
0:30:49 > 0:30:53It seems to have dislodged something in my memory.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55About?
0:30:55 > 0:30:58I received quite a bad blow on the head during the robbery.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02I was badly concussed at the time, it affected my recall.
0:31:02 > 0:31:06Things often come back a bit at a time.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08No. No thanks.
0:31:08 > 0:31:13So you've remembered something you want to tell me?
0:31:15 > 0:31:19There's been a car parked in the street the last week or so.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23Parked in the same place or different places?
0:31:23 > 0:31:26Different places. But always near the house.
0:31:26 > 0:31:27Can you describe it?
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Small. I think it was blue.
0:31:30 > 0:31:33- How about the driver?- A man.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36A young man. Young-ish.
0:31:36 > 0:31:40Small, blue car. Young, young-ish driver.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42What was he doing?
0:31:42 > 0:31:44- PHONE RINGS - Nothing. Just sat there.
0:31:44 > 0:31:46Like he was waiting.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48Did you mention this to anybody?
0:31:48 > 0:31:50No.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52Not your wife?
0:31:52 > 0:31:55No. Why should I?
0:31:55 > 0:31:58It's not very helpful at all, is it?
0:31:58 > 0:32:01- PHONE CONTINUES RINGING - Where is she?
0:32:01 > 0:32:03Excuse me.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12Hello? Speaking. >
0:32:32 > 0:32:34They've got her! They've got Faith!
0:32:34 > 0:32:37They want £10,000!
0:32:46 > 0:32:49Did you find the bairn?
0:32:49 > 0:32:51Ransom demand.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53How much?
0:32:53 > 0:32:57Why, you going to chip in? It's getting late. Look, I'll get Leigh Ann back home.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01You know what? You take it too seriously when I make a joke.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04Well, it gets a bit wearing, Dad. Especially in front of Leigh Ann.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07I have enough trouble keeping her respect as it is.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10John...
0:33:10 > 0:33:12What, Dad?
0:33:12 > 0:33:15When you made detective,
0:33:15 > 0:33:22I felt like...I was so proud.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25Yeah. Mum told us.
0:33:25 > 0:33:28Well, I'm telling you now.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33It's a bit late, Dad.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58What did you say?
0:33:58 > 0:34:01I said, "Did Leigh Ann enjoy visiting her Grandpa?"
0:34:01 > 0:34:04Oh. Yeah. Million laughs.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08Why can't I get anything right, Guv?
0:34:08 > 0:34:11- He was trying to talk to us, you know?- Is this your dad?
0:34:11 > 0:34:15Yeah, I think he was trying to t...
0:34:15 > 0:34:17Oh, Guv, blue car, do you see it there?
0:34:17 > 0:34:23- On your left, passing that cyclist now.- Yep.- Got it.- I got him.
0:34:25 > 0:34:29The blue car is approaching the drop-off point, over.
0:34:29 > 0:34:32'Over.'
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Why is he stopping now?
0:34:42 > 0:34:46- He's having a pee. - Yeah, maybe he's nervous.
0:34:46 > 0:34:50All units, hold fast until he gets to the drop-off point.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Go on my say-so, over.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Something's spooked him. Let's grab him.
0:34:57 > 0:35:03All units pursue and pick up. Pursue and pick up! Over.
0:35:14 > 0:35:15Mind the cyclist.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20He was going the other way.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24When we were watching the drop-off he was cycling that way
0:35:24 > 0:35:26and now he's... He's got the satchel!
0:35:26 > 0:35:28Guv, it's not the blue car, it's the cyclist!
0:35:31 > 0:35:33Hold tight.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11Said he was given a tenner to pick up the satchel.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Ten more on delivery.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15Given a tenner by who?
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Some bloke outside a pub - that's what he says.
0:36:19 > 0:36:20Delivery where?
0:36:20 > 0:36:23Answer him. Delivery where?
0:36:23 > 0:36:26I haven't got time for this. This is yours if you tell me.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29Or it's a borstal and a very long time in prison if you don't.
0:36:29 > 0:36:31You choose.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59POLICE BELL RINGS
0:37:11 > 0:37:13Out.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15- Where is she? - I haven't got her.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17- Where is she?- I swear to God.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20- John?- Nothing, Sir. - I'm going to ask you one more time,
0:37:20 > 0:37:22and then you and me going to take a little walk.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24And if you don't tell me where she is,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27you will have a terrible accident in the process of trying to abscond.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29- Do you understand? - I haven't got her.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Andrew Fleming, is this still your address?
0:37:31 > 0:37:34Yes, but she's not there. I haven't got her!
0:37:39 > 0:37:42Is this the man in the blue car, Stephen?
0:37:45 > 0:37:46Stephen?
0:37:46 > 0:37:49No. Can we speak in private?
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Why?
0:37:54 > 0:37:55Let's step outside.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00I recognise him.
0:38:00 > 0:38:04But not from the blue car on our street. That man was younger.
0:38:04 > 0:38:05Where from, then?
0:38:09 > 0:38:15Frances...can't know about this.
0:38:15 > 0:38:17Will you guarantee that?
0:38:17 > 0:38:19No, I won't.
0:38:22 > 0:38:23So?
0:38:28 > 0:38:34After the story about me tackling the robber made the newspaper,
0:38:34 > 0:38:36I received a lot of local attention.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38Civic award.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42I've never again had to pay for a drink
0:38:42 > 0:38:44in the Conservative Association, or my golf club.
0:38:47 > 0:38:52People just seemed to react to me differently.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54Including women.
0:38:56 > 0:38:59I first met the Flemings at a work's function.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03Sally Fleming recognised me,
0:39:03 > 0:39:06asked me to tell her all about what happened.
0:39:07 > 0:39:09She's a very attractive woman.
0:39:09 > 0:39:10You were flattered.
0:39:14 > 0:39:19Frances and I had been going through a very difficult period.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22She was struggling at the time with the belief that...
0:39:24 > 0:39:28..the certain knowledge that she could never have a child of her own.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30She'd had the hysterectomy.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Yes.
0:39:34 > 0:39:38That's an awful thing for a woman of Frances' age.
0:39:38 > 0:39:43So you showed your sympathy by shagging Mrs Fleming behind her back.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53After six months, I knew it had to end.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57But Sally beat me to the punch
0:39:57 > 0:39:59by telling me her husband had found out.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03I'm not proud of this.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06The marriage broke up soon after.
0:40:08 > 0:40:10They had children.
0:40:10 > 0:40:13I heard the divorce was very...
0:40:14 > 0:40:19..difficult. The children suffered.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25- Everybody suffered. - Well, except you.
0:40:29 > 0:40:35He particularly...hated...that he lost his children to another man.
0:40:35 > 0:40:38She remarried.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Frances mustn't know.
0:40:40 > 0:40:45It'll destroy her. It'll destroy us.
0:40:46 > 0:40:47Please.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54It's a lovely life, come and live it, eh?
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Guv, what was all that earlier you said about "lovely life"?
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Oh, something he said yesterday about getting out of the Army,
0:41:10 > 0:41:13coming back to England to the woman he loved.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16How everything seemed possible.
0:41:16 > 0:41:20All the things that they'd hoped for as young people before the war.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22Yeah. What if Stephen Groves never wanted a baby, Sir?
0:41:22 > 0:41:25What if it was the baby that spoiled this "lovely life"?
0:41:25 > 0:41:29He's got a lovely wife, he's got a lovely house, lovely job,
0:41:29 > 0:41:32he's got a nice car. He's a hero, isn't he?
0:41:32 > 0:41:35He's got women chucking themselves at him. For some reason.
0:41:35 > 0:41:41Who'd want to trade all that in for dirty nappies and no sleep?
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Parents don't get a probationary period, Sir. I should know.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49No, that's it for the rest of your life, whether you like it or not.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53What are you saying?
0:41:53 > 0:41:57I don't know. It's all them tears and that.
0:41:57 > 0:42:01It's all a bit of a lie, I think. It's all an act.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06What if Stephen Groves didn't want a baby?
0:42:06 > 0:42:09I mean, he vetoed as many as he could, and then he gets stuck with one.
0:42:09 > 0:42:11So let's just suppose, right,
0:42:11 > 0:42:14that he found a way to get rid of little baby Faith,
0:42:14 > 0:42:15keep his "lovely life".
0:42:15 > 0:42:18- Murder a baby?- Hmm.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22He was there. He was the last to see her.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25You said yourself it was local.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28Mebbies we don't need to look beyond the man and wife.
0:42:31 > 0:42:33Get Frances in.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39How were things between you and Stephen
0:42:39 > 0:42:42when Faith finally came into your house?
0:42:44 > 0:42:47- Why do you ask? - 20 years on your own, and then....
0:42:49 > 0:42:52Yes.
0:42:52 > 0:42:57Well, having Faith was a huge change for us.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00Most parents have nine months
0:43:00 > 0:43:03to get used to the idea of becoming parents.
0:43:03 > 0:43:07Whereas from the moment we first saw Faith, it was just weeks.
0:43:07 > 0:43:10Did you want to adopt Faith's brother Thomas as well?
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Yes.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18Instead of? Or as well as?
0:43:21 > 0:43:24Stephen didn't want a son, did he?
0:43:25 > 0:43:28He, er...
0:43:28 > 0:43:32He didn't want to be playing football
0:43:32 > 0:43:35and pumping up bikes in his 50s.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Whereas with a girl....
0:43:38 > 0:43:40Well, she'd be with me, wouldn't she?
0:43:40 > 0:43:42Less of a nuisance.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46He likes routine.
0:43:46 > 0:43:50He likes coming home to peace and quiet.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53Did Faith cry a lot?
0:43:55 > 0:43:58Why do you ask that? All babies cry a lot.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01Ours didn't. Some do, though.
0:44:03 > 0:44:07I've seen them drive grown men to distraction.
0:44:07 > 0:44:10I've seen men hit their kids. My dad hit me.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14Well, Stephen would never have harmed Faith at all.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19Is this where this is going?
0:44:20 > 0:44:24Why did Stephen finally agree to adopt?
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Why do you say "finally agree"?
0:44:27 > 0:44:32Well, because Esther Dunwoody said that he vetoed a lot of babies.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40He...
0:44:40 > 0:44:45He finally saw how much having a child meant to me.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48Well, I wonder if it was another reason.
0:44:50 > 0:44:52What other reason?
0:44:53 > 0:44:55Guilt.
0:44:55 > 0:44:56Guilt?
0:44:56 > 0:45:00What about? What about?
0:45:05 > 0:45:10This man who tried to extort £10,000 from you today...
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Yes?
0:45:12 > 0:45:16Stephen had an affair with his wife and destroyed their marriage.
0:45:16 > 0:45:17About a year ago.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23I don't believe you.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25He's just told us. I'm so sorry.
0:45:29 > 0:45:32No. No.
0:45:32 > 0:45:34Stephen would never do that to me.
0:45:34 > 0:45:36Frances, listen to us.
0:45:36 > 0:45:39In your heart of hearts, do you really believe that
0:45:39 > 0:45:41Stephen wanted to adopt a child?
0:45:41 > 0:45:44- But why else would he go to all that expense?- Expense?
0:45:48 > 0:45:51When we decided on Faith, we were told...
0:45:51 > 0:45:55Because we'd dithered, she was now reserved for another couple.
0:45:55 > 0:45:58And?
0:45:58 > 0:46:02Stephen paid a lot of money to have her taken out of circulation
0:46:02 > 0:46:04- and made available to us. - Paid a lot of money to who?
0:46:06 > 0:46:10Mrs Dunwoody. She told the other couple that Faith's birth mother
0:46:10 > 0:46:12had changed her mind about having her adopted.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14It was a lie.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16Faith's birth mother had no involvement.
0:46:16 > 0:46:17It was all done over her head.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20What about the other couple, Frances?
0:46:20 > 0:46:22Do you not care?
0:46:23 > 0:46:27We'd spent a long time
0:46:27 > 0:46:29searching for the right child
0:46:29 > 0:46:31to complete our family.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34Faith was that child.
0:46:34 > 0:46:36Maybe they'd searched a long time an' all?
0:46:36 > 0:46:40You out-bid them. It's like putting in a higher offer on a house!
0:46:41 > 0:46:43I'd had five miscarriages.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46I no longer had a womb.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50Why can't men understand a simple physical fact like that?
0:46:50 > 0:46:53Why is this so hard for you to comprehend?
0:46:53 > 0:46:55I had to have a child,
0:46:55 > 0:46:58otherwise my life would have been completely worthless.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05If you don't have a child, what are you?
0:47:07 > 0:47:09What is your life, really?
0:47:12 > 0:47:14Did you say all this to Stephen?
0:47:18 > 0:47:21And when you told him, he went out and he bought you a child.
0:47:22 > 0:47:24Keep you quiet.
0:47:26 > 0:47:32Yesterday morning, when Faith was taken, and you were out shopping,
0:47:32 > 0:47:34where was Stephen?
0:47:35 > 0:47:37He was doing the garden.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40Doing what, exactly?
0:47:40 > 0:47:42He was digging over the borders.
0:47:54 > 0:47:57Mr Gently...
0:47:57 > 0:48:00You are so completely wrong about my husband.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30THEY TALK QUIETLY
0:49:02 > 0:49:04Sir!
0:49:13 > 0:49:15Right. Go on, get in there.
0:49:23 > 0:49:24Carefully.
0:49:24 > 0:49:25Carefully!
0:49:53 > 0:49:55It's a dog.
0:50:03 > 0:50:04Put it back.
0:50:09 > 0:50:11All our babies come with a clear biography
0:50:11 > 0:50:14and a clean bill of health.
0:50:14 > 0:50:18We want our adopters to have as much information as possible
0:50:18 > 0:50:21on which to base their choice.
0:50:21 > 0:50:25So, Mr and Mrs Hopkinson, tell me what you're hoping for.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28And then you can begin to make your choice. Don't be shy.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31Is it the birth mothers you're worrying about?
0:50:31 > 0:50:32Yes.
0:50:32 > 0:50:36You're worried about their feelings, and bless your heart for that.
0:50:36 > 0:50:38Hazel.
0:50:38 > 0:50:41Just think of it like a bring-and-buy sale.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44We bring them, you buy them.
0:50:44 > 0:50:45Hazel...
0:50:45 > 0:50:49You can choose your baby by eye colour, skin colour,
0:50:49 > 0:50:52fat, thin - or by parentage...
0:50:52 > 0:50:57- No need for flippancy, Hazel. - Oh, sorry. I won't be flippant.
0:50:57 > 0:50:59You can choose how your baby was conceived.
0:51:00 > 0:51:03Back seat of a car.
0:51:03 > 0:51:05Quickie in a bus stop.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Right, that's enough. What's the matter with you?
0:51:07 > 0:51:09DOORBELL RINGS
0:51:09 > 0:51:11Drunken night on the beach with a total stranger.
0:51:11 > 0:51:14Enough. Shall we go over to the office?
0:51:14 > 0:51:18My baby, for instance, was conceived when my uncle raped me
0:51:18 > 0:51:20at my cousin's wedding.
0:51:20 > 0:51:23In the middle of my second term at uni.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26Which is why I suppose Mrs Dunwoody
0:51:26 > 0:51:29has me in her book as "quite bright".
0:51:29 > 0:51:33Which, compared to her, I am.
0:51:33 > 0:51:34MANY BABIES CRYING AT ONCE
0:51:34 > 0:51:36- BELL RINGS AGAIN - Let's go to the office.
0:51:36 > 0:51:39I'm sure you're keen to ask a few...
0:51:39 > 0:51:43- Will somebody answer that door?! - I'll get it, Mrs Dunwoody.
0:51:43 > 0:51:44BABIES CONTINUE TO CRY
0:51:44 > 0:51:47DOORBELL CONTINUES TO RING
0:51:48 > 0:51:52How much did Stephen Groves pay you for baby Faith?
0:51:53 > 0:51:56- Pay, Inspector?- Pay.
0:51:57 > 0:52:00- Oh, you mean the donation they made to the home.- How much?
0:52:00 > 0:52:03I would have to look that up.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06Most of our adopters pay a donation of gratitude to us.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09I never ask them. It's only if they feel compelled.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12This financial gain that you receive could be construed
0:52:12 > 0:52:14as buying and selling babies.
0:52:14 > 0:52:18Only by those with no understanding of what we do.
0:52:19 > 0:52:22Or perhaps with some sinister, un-Christian axe to grind.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25Did the couple who originally chose baby Faith
0:52:25 > 0:52:28know you gave her away to the highest bidder?
0:52:28 > 0:52:32They were only told that Faith's mother had decided to keep her.
0:52:32 > 0:52:33Which wasn't true.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38I had the opportunity to place two children instead of one,
0:52:38 > 0:52:42both in very good homes. Should I have passed that up?
0:52:42 > 0:52:45The whole point is to get better lives for the babies.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47Not to make money for yourself, then?
0:52:47 > 0:52:49I don't make any money, Sergeant.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52The home would just close without the donations.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53It's all spent on the children.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58The other couple were given the opportunity to take the boy
0:52:58 > 0:53:01- instead of Faith, and they agreed. - They didn't have much choice.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04There is always a choice.
0:53:07 > 0:53:11Unfortunately, while the paperwork was almost complete on Faith,
0:53:11 > 0:53:14it wasn't even started with her brother.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17And it had no sooner began when Susan disappeared with him.
0:53:17 > 0:53:19Leaving the first couple empty-handed.
0:53:19 > 0:53:21To my great regret.
0:53:21 > 0:53:22I need the name of that couple.
0:53:22 > 0:53:26- I'm not at liberty to give it. - Give me the name!
0:53:27 > 0:53:30They may have discovered that you let them be outbid
0:53:30 > 0:53:32in your baby auction, and decided to take back
0:53:32 > 0:53:35what they believe is rightfully theirs!
0:53:35 > 0:53:39There's no need for hysteria, Sergeant. It's impossible.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42- They couldn't have found out. - I know the name.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44I looked it up.
0:53:46 > 0:53:50Get the name, Hazel. And then go home.
0:53:51 > 0:53:53You're dismissed.
0:54:06 > 0:54:10Do you need me to come with you on this one?
0:54:10 > 0:54:12It's just it's the anniversary of me mam's death,
0:54:12 > 0:54:16and I usually take me dad to the cemetery so he can have a little chat with her.
0:54:16 > 0:54:20You know, we pay our respects, and we do it every year, and...
0:54:20 > 0:54:22Oh, no, it's all right, I'll have a chat with him.
0:54:22 > 0:54:27- We'll do it some other time. Let's go to the... - John, John. Go and see your dad.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32Sorry, Guv. I know it's getting desperate.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36- WOMAN:- 'We've taken a call from a farmer near Witton Gilbert
0:54:36 > 0:54:41'who thinks someone's been sleeping rough with a baby his outhouses. Are you anywhere near there? Over.'
0:54:41 > 0:54:43Give me two minutes.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45- No-one's seen or heard?- No.
0:54:47 > 0:54:48Vehicle?
0:54:48 > 0:54:50We went to the pub for our tea last night
0:54:50 > 0:54:54and we passed this parked car in the lane on the way in.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56But no-one inside, so we thought nothing of it.
0:54:56 > 0:54:58What kind of car?
0:54:58 > 0:55:00Vitesse, I think.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03- Colour?- Light blue.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05Well, it was dark. Can you be sure?
0:55:05 > 0:55:08I saw it in my headlights. Light blue.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13I closed the door to stop the dogs getting in.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16But it was half open at first light.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24- Over there.- Oh, yeah.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34I don't suppose you can remember the registration of the car?
0:55:34 > 0:55:36Not a letter.
0:55:37 > 0:55:39HE MUTTERS
0:55:53 > 0:55:55When you die, can I come and visit you?
0:55:57 > 0:55:59Er, is that what you'd like?
0:56:01 > 0:56:03Aye, yeah, I'd like that.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12What was Grandma like?
0:56:12 > 0:56:17Er... She was very kind.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19And very clever.
0:56:21 > 0:56:24And she was very funny.
0:56:24 > 0:56:26One Easter, right, when I was about your age,
0:56:26 > 0:56:29they bought us this big chocolate egg.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32I mean, it was huge. Couldn't believe me eyes.
0:56:32 > 0:56:36I started to take the foil off it really, really carefully,
0:56:36 > 0:56:39cos I wanted it to be absolutely perfect.
0:56:39 > 0:56:40And when I'd taken the foil off,
0:56:40 > 0:56:42I sat it in the middle of the kitchen table,
0:56:42 > 0:56:45so I could look at it, and it was the best thing I'd ever seen.
0:56:45 > 0:56:51It was smooth and it was huge and it was chocolatey! You know?
0:56:51 > 0:56:54And I couldn't take me eyes off it.
0:56:54 > 0:56:58And then your grandma came over, right, just to have a look at it,
0:56:58 > 0:57:00and she reached over
0:57:00 > 0:57:03and she smashed it to bits with the flat of her hand!
0:57:04 > 0:57:08- She just meant it as a joke, you know.- What did you do?
0:57:08 > 0:57:11I just cried, I think.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Like that.
0:57:14 > 0:57:16Granddad's ready.
0:57:28 > 0:57:32Hello, sweetheart. You going to take my thing for me? Thank you.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36How was she today?
0:57:36 > 0:57:39Well, you know women. Chatterboxes.
0:57:42 > 0:57:46- Did she ask after us?- You?!
0:57:46 > 0:57:48No, she never mentioned you.
0:58:06 > 0:58:08What you doing here?
0:58:11 > 0:58:13We've got surveillance on the barn,
0:58:13 > 0:58:16- but the kidnapper won't go back there.- No?
0:58:19 > 0:58:21How's your dad?
0:58:21 > 0:58:25Oh you know, him and me mam had a nice old chinwag.
0:58:25 > 0:58:28It's good to see him get a word in edgeways
0:58:28 > 0:58:32cos that never happened when she were alive.
0:58:32 > 0:58:34- Thanks.- Now, are we ruling out Stephen, Sir?
0:58:34 > 0:58:37I never thought it was that likely.
0:58:37 > 0:58:40And what about the couple originally intended for Faith?
0:58:40 > 0:58:45- Well, turns out they're both serving police officers.- Really?
0:58:47 > 0:58:51And they don't need to sleep in a barn.
0:58:51 > 0:58:54- The kidnapper does, though, so he's not local.- Yeah.
0:58:56 > 0:58:58We're not really getting far on this, are we, Guv?
0:58:58 > 0:59:00Well, yes, we are.
0:59:00 > 0:59:02Faith Groves was alive last night.
0:59:02 > 0:59:06She's cared for, she's been fed and changed.
0:59:06 > 0:59:10So, he wants something in return for her, doesn't he? He or she, that is.
0:59:10 > 0:59:12Well, if it's money, what's the delay for?
0:59:12 > 0:59:15It's blackmail, isn't it?
0:59:15 > 0:59:21Keep your eyes open for a blue Vitesse, driven by a youngish man.
0:59:21 > 0:59:22All right.
0:59:22 > 0:59:27A youngish man who parks outside the house.
0:59:27 > 0:59:30- What?- I think she's at it as well. - Nah.- Yeah.
0:59:30 > 0:59:34- Really?- Yeah.- Dear me.
0:59:34 > 0:59:36It's like Peyton Place, innit?
0:59:36 > 0:59:40- Are they in there?- Yeah. I phoned them and gave them an update.
0:59:41 > 0:59:44Do you want to tell me about it?
0:59:44 > 0:59:46About Mrs Fleming?
0:59:49 > 0:59:51I thought Gently was a better man than that.
0:59:51 > 0:59:54I thought YOU were a better man than that.
0:59:54 > 0:59:56Well, now you know I'm not.
0:59:57 > 1:00:01I'm not a war hero, I'm not a "have a go" hero. I'm just an ordinary man.
1:00:01 > 1:00:05An ordinary, vain, self-centred, middle-aged man.
1:00:08 > 1:00:09I didn't want Faith.
1:00:11 > 1:00:13I know.
1:00:13 > 1:00:16And this is life's punishment on me for not wanting her.
1:00:18 > 1:00:21For being too selfish to make room in my stupid little life
1:00:21 > 1:00:24for the thing you wanted the most.
1:00:24 > 1:00:26I'm so sorry.
1:00:30 > 1:00:34I made you have something you didn't want.
1:00:34 > 1:00:37Frances, I did want us to have children.
1:00:37 > 1:00:39I just wanted us to have them when we were younger
1:00:39 > 1:00:41and I wanted them to be ours.
1:00:41 > 1:00:44I can't help that. It's just the truth.
1:00:44 > 1:00:46I know.
1:00:46 > 1:00:47But I promise you,
1:00:47 > 1:00:50if life gives me a second chance to be a father to Faith,
1:00:50 > 1:00:52I'm going to grab it with both hands.
1:00:55 > 1:00:59You remember this moment, please, in the future.
1:00:59 > 1:01:03Whatever happens after this, you remember what I said.
1:01:05 > 1:01:08I love you, Stephen.
1:01:08 > 1:01:11You must remember it. Please, promise you'll remember it!
1:01:11 > 1:01:13I promise. But...
1:01:13 > 1:01:14PHONE RINGS
1:01:14 > 1:01:16No.
1:01:18 > 1:01:20It'll stop.
1:01:20 > 1:01:22PHONE CONTINUES TO RING
1:01:27 > 1:01:30PHONE STOPS RINGING
1:01:38 > 1:01:40I have to go out.
1:01:40 > 1:01:43Is this that young man who waits in the car sometimes?
1:01:53 > 1:01:55Sorry.
1:02:08 > 1:02:11Here we go.
1:02:11 > 1:02:13- I'll get him.- Wait.
1:02:50 > 1:02:52Where's she gone?
1:02:53 > 1:02:55Who's the man in the car?
1:03:06 > 1:03:10They're now turning right, repeat, right off the Shields Road, over.
1:03:33 > 1:03:35See all that?
1:03:35 > 1:03:37Used to be a lagoon.
1:03:37 > 1:03:40A tropical lagoon.
1:03:40 > 1:03:42260 million years ago.
1:03:43 > 1:03:49- Oh.- When you think about all the creatures that have lived and died here.
1:03:51 > 1:03:52People as well.
1:03:54 > 1:03:56Think of all the ghosts.
1:03:57 > 1:03:59Ghosts?
1:04:00 > 1:04:03Elizabeth Gibbon, for instance.
1:04:03 > 1:04:07Threw herself off the top of this mill tower. Broken-hearted.
1:04:07 > 1:04:09Ditched by her lover.
1:04:09 > 1:04:12She chose death.
1:04:12 > 1:04:15Her husband lived on happily with his wife.
1:04:15 > 1:04:18Her ghost walks this place at night.
1:04:18 > 1:04:22- Doesn't seem fair, does it? - How do you know that?
1:04:22 > 1:04:25I have a degree. History.
1:04:25 > 1:04:27- I didn't know.- No.
1:04:29 > 1:04:32There's a lot you don't know.
1:04:32 > 1:04:35Because you don't really want to know, do you, Mrs Groves?
1:04:37 > 1:04:39Gareth, I cannot give you what you want.
1:04:42 > 1:04:45I... I cannot be for you...
1:04:45 > 1:04:47what you want me to be.
1:04:51 > 1:04:55I've tried to explain, and I'm sorry you don't understand, but...
1:04:58 > 1:05:00- ..this has to stop.- Because of him?
1:05:02 > 1:05:05I hate him. I'd like to hurt him.
1:05:06 > 1:05:09You have. Believe me.
1:05:17 > 1:05:20- How long they been up there? - Ten minutes.
1:05:22 > 1:05:23Any sign of the baby?
1:05:23 > 1:05:26Nah. She's not in the car either.
1:05:29 > 1:05:31What do you want to do?
1:05:33 > 1:05:35Nothing.
1:05:37 > 1:05:39You're dead beautiful, you know.
1:05:44 > 1:05:46- I'm not.- You are.
1:05:49 > 1:05:51Gareth, I want this to stop today.
1:05:53 > 1:05:58I want you to drive away and never look back. Ever.
1:05:58 > 1:06:02I want you to find a lovely young woman
1:06:02 > 1:06:06and give yourself to her and make a life.
1:06:10 > 1:06:13And I want you to forget about me.
1:06:14 > 1:06:17Just as I'm going to forget about you.
1:06:24 > 1:06:26Let me ask you...
1:06:28 > 1:06:30Do you love me?
1:06:33 > 1:06:35Of course I do.
1:06:51 > 1:06:53What's that look like to you?
1:06:53 > 1:06:56The end of the affair.
1:06:56 > 1:06:57Is he the kidnapper, do you think?
1:06:57 > 1:07:01- I just don't think she'd be here otherwise.- Unbelievable.
1:07:01 > 1:07:04She forces her husband to buy somebody else's baby,
1:07:04 > 1:07:05and here she is shagging him.
1:07:05 > 1:07:07Women!
1:07:11 > 1:07:13Gareth...
1:07:14 > 1:07:15Sweetheart...
1:07:19 > 1:07:23If you feel for me as you say you feel,
1:07:23 > 1:07:26this is the biggest gift you can give to me.
1:07:29 > 1:07:31Listen, it's the only thing I really want.
1:07:34 > 1:07:36All you want.
1:07:37 > 1:07:38Not me?
1:07:40 > 1:07:41I want Faith.
1:07:44 > 1:07:45Please.
1:07:45 > 1:07:49Gareth, please take me to where Faith is.
1:08:06 > 1:08:08- No!- Police.
1:08:08 > 1:08:10No!
1:08:10 > 1:08:12Oi! Ey!
1:08:18 > 1:08:21Where's the baby?
1:08:21 > 1:08:23Where?
1:08:23 > 1:08:26Guv, Guv, he's not breathing.
1:08:26 > 1:08:29- Has he got the baby? - He was taking me to her.
1:08:29 > 1:08:32- Where? Where is she? - He didn't say.
1:08:32 > 1:08:36He just said she was in the last place I'd want her to be.
1:09:04 > 1:09:06HE FALTERS
1:09:08 > 1:09:11I just wanted to say how sorry I am.
1:09:11 > 1:09:15I used too much force, I know that.
1:09:16 > 1:09:18I just got angry.
1:09:22 > 1:09:25I get angry quite a lot, actually.
1:09:25 > 1:09:28I don't know why.
1:09:30 > 1:09:33Don't you?
1:09:43 > 1:09:47They don't think he'll last the night.
1:09:47 > 1:09:49SHE SIGHS
1:09:50 > 1:09:52SHE SOBS
1:09:55 > 1:09:58- Do you want to sit down? - Sorry.
1:10:05 > 1:10:09I'm sure he didn't want any real harm to come to Faith.
1:10:11 > 1:10:14We'll find her.
1:10:20 > 1:10:26Your husband only knows that we tried to apprehend the kidnapper
1:10:26 > 1:10:30and that in the process the man was severely injured.
1:10:30 > 1:10:35He knows nothing about your relationship with this man.
1:10:54 > 1:10:56Then it's time that he did.
1:11:01 > 1:11:03Why did you do it?
1:11:05 > 1:11:08- To hurt you.- Me?
1:11:11 > 1:11:17That man in the blue car...
1:11:17 > 1:11:20- always watching the house. - He was waiting for you, wasn't he?
1:11:20 > 1:11:24No, Stephen. He was waiting for you.
1:11:24 > 1:11:26Waiting for me to leave?
1:11:26 > 1:11:28No.
1:11:28 > 1:11:31He was waiting to talk to you.
1:11:32 > 1:11:34And I told him he couldn't.
1:11:35 > 1:11:38That he could never talk to you.
1:11:39 > 1:11:42Remember you swore to me that you'd come back.
1:11:43 > 1:11:47That you'd come back with double the love in your heart. Do you remember that?
1:11:51 > 1:11:53Yes, I remember.
1:11:59 > 1:12:02I've never seen anything as beautiful before or since
1:12:02 > 1:12:05as you on that day.
1:12:15 > 1:12:18What happened to our lovely life, Frances?
1:12:18 > 1:12:20You left me, Stephen.
1:12:22 > 1:12:24With a baby.
1:12:26 > 1:12:29You walked into that jungle...
1:12:31 > 1:12:33..and you never came back.
1:12:34 > 1:12:37I thought you were dead.
1:12:38 > 1:12:41I was 17, unmarried.
1:12:43 > 1:12:44And I had a baby.
1:12:47 > 1:12:49A son.
1:12:51 > 1:12:52Your son.
1:12:57 > 1:12:59What happened to him?
1:12:59 > 1:13:03I didn't really have much say, Stephen.
1:13:04 > 1:13:08They were very plain in the mother and baby home.
1:13:08 > 1:13:12Do you know, I did it for him as well as me.
1:13:12 > 1:13:14And then...
1:13:16 > 1:13:20..a year later, when I was told that you were safe,
1:13:20 > 1:13:22that you'd be coming home...
1:13:22 > 1:13:27You know your letter, "Let's start living that lovely life."
1:13:31 > 1:13:35How could that life include knowing about a son you could never see?
1:13:36 > 1:13:39How long have you been seeing him?
1:13:45 > 1:13:48He turned up...
1:13:50 > 1:13:53..just when we were looking for a child to adopt.
1:13:55 > 1:14:00He said he wanted to be part of our lives.
1:14:03 > 1:14:06Life hasn't been very happy for him, Stephen.
1:14:07 > 1:14:11He's really...very, very fragile.
1:14:11 > 1:14:13Do you have any idea what it's like
1:14:13 > 1:14:16to be completely cast adrift from your own?
1:14:16 > 1:14:20Never meet anyone who looks like you, talks like you, shares your history?
1:14:20 > 1:14:24Do you have any idea what it's like to walk through your own life
1:14:24 > 1:14:26and wonder who you really are?
1:14:26 > 1:14:28What your real name is?
1:14:28 > 1:14:32To wonder, "Was I so worthless that they gave me away?"
1:14:35 > 1:14:38Nothing's changed, has it?
1:14:38 > 1:14:40I still am WORTHLESS.
1:14:40 > 1:14:42I told him no.
1:14:42 > 1:14:45And I didn't expect to see him again.
1:14:48 > 1:14:53But then in the pile of toys and cards left for Faith...
1:14:54 > 1:14:56..I found this bear that I made for him in the home.
1:14:57 > 1:15:00The bear that had gone with him into his new life.
1:15:07 > 1:15:08What did you call him?
1:15:12 > 1:15:14I called him Gareth.
1:15:17 > 1:15:20Yes, your dad's name.
1:15:30 > 1:15:33Mrs Groves...
1:15:33 > 1:15:38What was the name of the mother and baby home where you had Gareth?
1:15:38 > 1:15:41It's what's now called Dunwoody's.
1:15:43 > 1:15:45MACHINES WHIRR AND BEEP
1:15:50 > 1:15:52CONTINUOUS FLAT TONE
1:15:55 > 1:15:57A BABY CRIES
1:16:02 > 1:16:0511:30, and there's a baby crying.
1:16:07 > 1:16:11Is somebody going to do something about this situation?!
1:16:11 > 1:16:14BABY CONTINUES TO CRY
1:16:21 > 1:16:23Oh, no, little laddie.
1:16:23 > 1:16:27If you're waiting to be picked up on demand by Esther Dunwoody,
1:16:27 > 1:16:30you'll have a long wait.
1:16:30 > 1:16:33You cry. I can wait.
1:16:35 > 1:16:37Go on.
1:16:37 > 1:16:40Go on.
1:16:41 > 1:16:44Leather lungs.
1:16:44 > 1:16:45SHE SIGHS
1:16:59 > 1:17:01Thanks. John...
1:17:01 > 1:17:04If he dies, there will be an inquest.
1:17:05 > 1:17:08I want you to know that, in my opinion, you are not at fault,
1:17:08 > 1:17:11and I will back you to the hilt.
1:17:11 > 1:17:13Thanks, Guv.
1:17:19 > 1:17:21BABY CRIES
1:17:31 > 1:17:34- GENTLE SINGING: - # Silver buckles at his knee... #
1:17:34 > 1:17:36Guv!
1:17:36 > 1:17:40# He'll come back and marry me
1:17:40 > 1:17:44# Bonny Bobby Shaftoe. #
1:17:49 > 1:17:53Is this little Faith come back to us?
1:17:54 > 1:17:56I've never had a return before.
1:17:58 > 1:18:01This baby needs a feed.
1:18:01 > 1:18:04And its mother.
1:18:10 > 1:18:12I had a son.
1:18:18 > 1:18:20You still have a daughter.
1:18:59 > 1:19:02It doesn't seem five minutes since this was Leigh Ann.
1:19:07 > 1:19:08Give her here!
1:19:11 > 1:19:13It's unnatural.
1:19:13 > 1:19:15Men crying.
1:19:15 > 1:19:18There, there.
1:19:20 > 1:19:22Here we are.
1:19:22 > 1:19:25Come on. There.
1:19:31 > 1:19:32Does her mother know she's safe?
1:19:34 > 1:19:38Mrs Dunwoody, how long is it since the Groves adopted Faith?
1:19:40 > 1:19:42Three weeks, is it?
1:19:42 > 1:19:44Well within the probationary period, then?
1:19:46 > 1:19:48What probationary period is that?
1:19:48 > 1:19:50Then one you don't tell the girls about.
1:19:54 > 1:19:57Well, yes, technically.
1:19:59 > 1:20:02It's time her mother knew she was safe.
1:20:42 > 1:20:44# Across the evening sky
1:20:46 > 1:20:52# All the birds are leaving
1:20:56 > 1:20:59# But how can they know
1:21:01 > 1:21:05# It's time for them to go? #
1:21:13 > 1:21:15Susie?
1:21:15 > 1:21:17Come here.
1:21:18 > 1:21:24# I shall still be dreaming
1:21:29 > 1:21:32# I do not count the time
1:21:37 > 1:21:39SHE MOUTHS
1:21:39 > 1:21:45# Who knows where the time goes?
1:21:46 > 1:21:52# Who knows where the time...
1:21:54 > 1:21:57# Goes? #
1:21:57 > 1:21:59Is she happy?
1:22:01 > 1:22:02How were they?
1:22:06 > 1:22:08Crucified.
1:22:14 > 1:22:17All we did was put things back the way they were
1:22:17 > 1:22:20before Susan was cheated out of her baby.
1:22:27 > 1:22:30- Who does the bairn belong to though, Guv?- Nobody.
1:22:30 > 1:22:33You can't own children. You just look after them for a bit.
1:22:33 > 1:22:36They belong to themselves, don't they?
1:22:36 > 1:22:39I don't know. I'm no expert.
1:22:45 > 1:22:47Suppose there's no law, is there,
1:22:47 > 1:22:50- saying that you and your dad has to get on with each other?- Nope.
1:22:52 > 1:22:54I suppose it's the same for him.
1:22:56 > 1:23:00Mebbies he's thinking what it must have been like to have a son
1:23:00 > 1:23:03who wasn't such a sarcastic clever-clogs.
1:23:06 > 1:23:08Ask him.
1:23:10 > 1:23:12Yeah, aye.
1:23:43 > 1:23:47So, this is the place you work?
1:23:47 > 1:23:48Aye.
1:23:48 > 1:23:52Mr Gently told me you're browned off.
1:23:52 > 1:23:53What? A bad day at work?
1:24:00 > 1:24:02I killed someone.
1:24:12 > 1:24:14Come here, son.
1:24:14 > 1:24:18- Come here, son.- No, it's all right. - Come here, son. Come here.
1:24:18 > 1:24:21Come here, come here, come here, come here.
1:24:26 > 1:24:32# I cannot get to my love if I would dee
1:24:32 > 1:24:39# The water of Tyne runs between him and me
1:24:40 > 1:24:47# And here I must stand with a tear in my ee
1:24:48 > 1:24:55# Both sighing and sobbing, my true love to see
1:24:57 > 1:25:04# Oh, where is the boatman, my bonny hinney?
1:25:04 > 1:25:12# Oh, where is the boatman? Bring him to me
1:25:12 > 1:25:19# To ferry me over the Tyne to my honey
1:25:20 > 1:25:26# Or speed him across that dark water to me
1:25:27 > 1:25:34# And here I must stand with a tear in my ee
1:25:35 > 1:25:42# Oh, sighing and sobbing my true love to see
1:25:46 > 1:25:53# Oh, bring me a boatman I'll give any money
1:25:54 > 1:26:01# And you for your trouble rewarded shall be
1:26:02 > 1:26:08# Just carry me over the Tyne to my honey
1:26:10 > 1:26:16# And I will remember the boatman and thee. #