0:00:03 > 0:00:06- Hello.- Morning!
0:00:06 > 0:00:09No, I've told you, I've had enough.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11I'm sick of driving you around.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13This is the last time!
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Isn't this great?
0:00:20 > 0:00:23Fantastic. Last time I came to the circus, I was with my dad.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Last time I came, I was nine!
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Last time I came, I was sick.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29I could kill Strickland for this.
0:00:29 > 0:00:34- What you moaning about? We're going to see a whole show for free. - There's no such thing as a free...
0:00:34 > 0:00:35This is exciting, isn't it?
0:00:35 > 0:00:38- Hermione and Rufus would have loved this.- Who?
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Hermione and Rufus. They're my children.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Sorry, sir, but why have you arranged all this?
0:00:43 > 0:00:46I wanted you to see the circus, and this is the last few days
0:00:46 > 0:00:48of rehearsal before they open the new season, so come on.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50I used to have a hamster called Rufus.
0:00:50 > 0:00:52Shut up!
0:00:52 > 0:00:55My lords, ladies and gentlemen,
0:00:55 > 0:01:01welcome to Spingles' Circus, the greatest show on earth!
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Roger, at that point I want the lights up, right?
0:01:03 > 0:01:07And, Phil, that's a cue for the music, yes?
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Take it away, Gina!
0:01:48 > 0:01:52God, I hate the bloody circus!
0:01:52 > 0:01:55# It's all right, it's OK
0:01:55 > 0:01:58# It doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:01:58 > 0:02:02# It's all right, I say it's OK Listen to what I say
0:02:03 > 0:02:05# It's all right, doin' fine
0:02:05 > 0:02:08# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:02:08 > 0:02:13# It's all right, it's OK, we're getting to the end of the day. #
0:02:16 > 0:02:21Amazing, that feeling you get from the circus. It never changes.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22It's just as I remember it.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- Yeah, crap. - I'd like to thank you all for coming.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29So, first thing tomorrow I'll send down the files.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32The Great Miraculo.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34In 1990, he burnt to death in his caravan.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36Suspected suicide.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39But there was no categoric proof, so it was left on file.
0:02:39 > 0:02:45Although Miraculo, aka Bert Dignam, caught fire, the caravan didn't,
0:02:45 > 0:02:48and the only thing left were his feet in a pair of Turkish slippers.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Why resurrect it now, sir?
0:02:50 > 0:02:52A woman called Christy Berlin.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56It seems that Mr Dignam was her biological father.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00Now, I've looked at the file, and I think she has good grounds to re-examine this case.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03She runs an international transport company.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Oh, I see...
0:03:05 > 0:03:07I'm sorry?
0:03:07 > 0:03:14I had hoped that the exotic complexity of this case might appeal to your more idiosyncratic natures,
0:03:14 > 0:03:19or perhaps I should simply have emphasised that the dead man was a human being, like his daughter.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Good night. - Good night.
0:03:22 > 0:03:23Oooh!
0:03:23 > 0:03:30- Not very smart.- What? Someone with money pulls a few strings and the next thing her "biological dad's"
0:03:30 > 0:03:32mysterious death is on our desks?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34- Do me a favour! - You know it doesn't work like that.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Whatever else he is, Strickland's no fool.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38He called his son Rufus!
0:03:38 > 0:03:43Strickland wouldn't push a case for no good reason.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47Spingles' Circus, August 3rd 1990, Finsbury Park.
0:03:47 > 0:03:52At 6am, the fire brigade attend a fire in the caravan of Bert Dignam.
0:03:52 > 0:03:57They broke in and found the door locked from the inside with the key still in it and all the windows
0:03:57 > 0:04:04- shut, but all the interior of the caravan was intact, apart from a melted television.- Cause of fire?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Unknown. Bert, he was a smoker.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- Who gained by his death? - Well, that's it, really - no-one.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13I mean, he wasn't insured, the circus wasn't left to any one person
0:04:13 > 0:04:16and in fact, the rest of the troupe got together and ran it as a co-operative.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19So you're saying that the mystery is both how and why he died.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22Yeah. The problem is he's disappeared again.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I can't find his feet.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26They're not with the rest of Forensics.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Oh, great(!) Now, what's this in the margin, in the fire report?
0:04:29 > 0:04:32- It says "spon.com".- Internet address?
0:04:32 > 0:04:36- Well, obviously!- In 1990? Unlikely. - Spontaneous combustion.- What?
0:04:36 > 0:04:40- Eh?- When people just burst into flames for no apparent reason.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43- Give over. There's no such thing. - Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45That's a work of fiction.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48It happens. People just self-ignite and there's nothing left. It would explain all this.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50It doesn't explain anything.
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Fine, but let's not dismiss it. Isn't there a better picture? It's hopeless.
0:04:54 > 0:05:00- Not on file.- Find one.- All right! - Starting Monday, we'll see how co-operative the co-operative are.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03- Meantime, let's talk to the dead man's daughter.- Yeah. Lovely.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05"Spontaneous combustion"!
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Well, it's only an idea!
0:05:07 > 0:05:11- Ridiculous!- I don't know what you're getting so shirty about...
0:05:20 > 0:05:25- Hi. Christy Berlin.- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29- This is Gerry Standing, Jack Halford and Brian Lane.- Hello.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33- Pleased to meet you. Have a seat. - Thank you.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Cheers.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39- So, you're the daughter of Bert Dignam?- I was adopted.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42My parents died in a car crash.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47I applied for a passport and discovered my birth certificate
0:05:47 > 0:05:51with the names of my real mother and father.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Thank you.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57Bert Dignam and Oona Magilton.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00I traced my mother quite quickly.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02She refuses to have any contact.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07So all I had left was my dad.
0:06:07 > 0:06:09He was a bit more difficult,
0:06:09 > 0:06:14partly because he worked in the circus and moved around so much, partly because of his alias.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15And partly because he's dead.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21When I found out how he died, I was horrified,
0:06:21 > 0:06:25even more so when I discovered the case had simply been forgotten.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28- On file, not forgotten.- Ignored. - It doesn't quite work that way.
0:06:28 > 0:06:3017 years and no-one does anything?
0:06:30 > 0:06:34I believe that the original team felt that the most likely explanation was suicide.
0:06:34 > 0:06:39A pair of smoking feet inside a locked caravan? No trace of an accelerant?
0:06:39 > 0:06:44Have you ever come across a case of someone setting fire to themselves without using fuel to get it going?
0:06:44 > 0:06:51- Exactly.- By the same token, it seems a rather bizarre and unlikely way to cover up foul play.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53I work in a very competitive business, Mr Halford.
0:06:53 > 0:06:59In my experience, if people want something badly enough, they're capable of anything.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- Yeah, but what would anybody want with your...- He owned the circus.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Ah.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09OK, thank you, Ms Berlin.
0:07:09 > 0:07:16- And I promise that we'll do our best to find out what really happened to your father.- Sandra?
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Do you mind if I call you that?
0:07:19 > 0:07:22- No.- You're a serving officer,
0:07:22 > 0:07:27but I didn't realise quite how elderly your colleagues would be.
0:07:27 > 0:07:28Experienced.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31And they were the best. Still are.
0:07:31 > 0:07:36It's just finding out about my father, it means everything to me.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Do you understand?
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Yes.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45- She'd eat you alive.- Lovely!
0:07:45 > 0:07:49Now we've met her, I think it's even more out of order taking on this case.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Why? Because she's a feisty young female who's put your back up?
0:07:52 > 0:07:55I seem to remember another feisty young female who put people's backs up.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- Thank you(!)- I gave her a job.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01Yeah, well. Maybe I'd like to help Christy the same way you helped me. You see, that's the trouble with men.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03They just can't handle a strong woman.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06What you on about? We've put up with you for bloody ages.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Several case studies.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13Bangor University.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Yes.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Have you done it yet?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19I'm doing it, I'm doing it!
0:08:19 > 0:08:24You haven't, have you? I'm warning you, Brian, if you don't do it, I will!
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Yes!
0:08:30 > 0:08:32I'm right and he's wrong!
0:08:32 > 0:08:35I am right and he is wrong!
0:08:37 > 0:08:40What are we doing here? It's the middle of bloody nowhere!
0:08:40 > 0:08:44Have you bought yourself a holiday home?
0:08:51 > 0:08:54- Christ!- What the hell is that?
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- It's a pig.- Pig?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58A pig in a magician's costume.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00I got it from a butcher.
0:09:00 > 0:09:05A pig being almost identical in body mass to a human being.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- Guess what I'm going to do now. - Turn into a pumpkin?
0:09:08 > 0:09:14I'm going to prove exactly how and why the Great Miraculo died. Gerry, give us a fag.
0:09:35 > 0:09:36So what do we do now?
0:09:36 > 0:09:38We wait.
0:09:38 > 0:09:42Well, we get out first, of course.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Brian, we've been here for hours.
0:09:47 > 0:09:53- Yeah, I've had enough of this, Brian. Are you going to explain or not? - All right, listen.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Spontaneous combustion IS a myth.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Five years ago, Bangor University decided to prove it.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04So they stuck a pig in a dress and set fire to it.
0:10:04 > 0:10:11What they found was that the pig kept on burning, only very slowly and for many hours.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14- How come?- The clothing.
0:10:14 > 0:10:18It absorbs the fat that leaches out of the pig due to the heat.
0:10:18 > 0:10:23It acts like an external candlewick, never burning quickly
0:10:23 > 0:10:26but with ferocious heat and only over a small area.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Yes! The fire's dying down.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41Argh! Bloody hell, that's hot!
0:10:46 > 0:10:49- Bloody hell! - Oh, the trotters are still there!
0:10:49 > 0:10:51The extremities. Hands and feet.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53Not enough fat to burn them.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56Well, that's the first part of the mystery solved!
0:10:56 > 0:10:59Terrible waste of pork.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02I still don't buy it.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04Bert Dignam was a circus performer.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Fit, energetic, 40.
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- Exactly.- And even if he did catch fire, he wouldn't just keel over.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12- He'd roll around and try and put it out.- Precisely.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15- I wish you'd stop agreeing with me! - So what are you saying, then?
0:11:15 > 0:11:17- Accident, suicide, what?- Neither.
0:11:17 > 0:11:23I'm saying he didn't roll over because he was already dead, because he was set alight after he died.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28And the only reason you'd do that is to cover up a murder.
0:11:28 > 0:11:29Well, fires need oxygen.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32If you set someone alight, why would you close all the windows?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35And if it was murder, how come the door was locked from the inside?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Well, he WAS a magician!
0:11:37 > 0:11:39I'm being serious here.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43If the Great Miraculo was murdered, how did the killer get out?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46I don't know!
0:11:46 > 0:11:52- That's what I can't work out. But I will. - PHONE RINGS
0:11:52 > 0:11:54- Come on, Gerry, where's that tea? - Hello?
0:11:55 > 0:11:58- Yeah.- There you go, one with sugar, one without.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01When?
0:12:02 > 0:12:08OK, yeah, thank you. I'll, er... I'll be right there.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Yeah. Bye.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16It's my mum. She's had a stroke.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29- She's resting at the moment. - Thank you.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44Hello, Mum.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51Gordon? Gordon...
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Er, no, Mum. It's me. It's Sandra.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56No car.
0:12:58 > 0:13:00Gordon not car...
0:13:00 > 0:13:01Mum?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Not Gordon car.
0:13:06 > 0:13:10- Why... - It's all right. It's all right.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22- Hi.- How is she?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24Well, she's a bit...
0:13:25 > 0:13:29It's affected her left side,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31but it could be worse, apparently.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- It's only a mini stroke, not the full-blown number. - Oh, well, that's something.
0:13:35 > 0:13:36She's not making any sense, though.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39She's just talking about my dad.
0:13:39 > 0:13:44- Yeah, well...- Anyway, thank you for waiting.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47- Please will you take me home? - Of course. Come on.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57Oh, all right? How's your mum?
0:13:57 > 0:14:01She was still asleep when I went, but the doctors seem pretty upbeat, so...
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- So how are you?- I'm fine.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06May I help you?
0:14:06 > 0:14:08Yes. Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- Oh, yes. YCOS. Yes. - It's close enough.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14You wanted to talk about the Great Miraculo. May I ask why?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Well, it was a suspicious death, still unsolved.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19As such, the case remains open on file.
0:14:19 > 0:14:24- So even after 17 years? - We never close.- And you were with the circus then?
0:14:24 > 0:14:27Yes, we both were, myself and Martita, my wife.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29- Did you witness the fire?- No.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31We were woken by the fire engines.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34When the firemen broke down the caravan door, we couldn't believe what they found.
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- I mean, the smell was... - Who identified the body?
0:14:38 > 0:14:42- That would have been me.- How? It was only his feet.- Oh, the slippers.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45I mean, who else could it have been except for Bert?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47What was Bert's mood at the time of his death?
0:14:47 > 0:14:49He was unhappy and depressed.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- Did he have any enemies? - What, apart from the bank? No.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Excuse me, may I help you?
0:14:57 > 0:15:01Now Bert, er, he wasn't married.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06He had a relationship, didn't he, with Oona Magilton?
0:15:06 > 0:15:11- Oona? Yes. - You knew her? - We suspected an affair.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13Actually, they had a child.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15Oh, you didn't know?
0:15:15 > 0:15:17I didn't know, no. I mean, she left quite suddenly.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- We weren't sure why, were we? - You never thought to ask?
0:15:20 > 0:15:23People often leave the circus.
0:15:23 > 0:15:28- Do you have any pictures of Bert? - Well, only one, I think. Er, would you mind? Thank you.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30Excuse me!
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Bow... Up...
0:15:33 > 0:15:35Speak, speak, speak.
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Come on! Come on! Come on.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41- Wow! - Come on. Here we go. Here we go.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Come on. This way. Come on. Come on.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Oh, hi there!
0:15:49 > 0:15:52No. No! Don't come too near.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Not before they've been fed.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55Oh, this is Antonio!
0:15:55 > 0:15:58He's also one of the original members of Spingles' Circus.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01- They're very twitchy. I just better get them something to eat.- Right.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05We understand that when Miraculo died, Spingles' was losing money
0:16:05 > 0:16:07badly and yet somehow you managed to keep it going. Is that right?
0:16:07 > 0:16:10Yes, that's right. A lot of the debts were written off.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13So Bert dying was a stroke of luck, really?
0:16:13 > 0:16:14No, I didn't mean that at all! No!
0:16:14 > 0:16:16How many of you were there when you took over?
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- 15 in the co-operative. - What about now?
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Well, it's still a co-operative, but a lot of the members have moved on.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26There's four of us now. There's myself, Antonio, Martita and...
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Joey. Joey the clown.
0:16:32 > 0:16:33God!
0:16:33 > 0:16:36That was a stu...
0:16:39 > 0:16:41- You...- Take it easy. Easy.
0:16:41 > 0:16:42Here.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46Thank you.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- So is that any good? - Yes.
0:16:48 > 0:16:54- Thank you very much for your time. - Oh, yes, bloody funny(!)
0:16:54 > 0:16:58- Do circuses earn any money these days?- I bloody hope not.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02He doesn't act like he's in a co-operative, does he, Michael?
0:17:02 > 0:17:04And he is the ringmaster now.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07How could he know they were Bert's feet inside those slippers?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Hang on, chaps, what if the Great Miraculo didn't die?
0:17:10 > 0:17:15What if he just pretended to, leaving a random pair of feet inside his trademark slippers?
0:17:15 > 0:17:18Why would he do that?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Well, what better way to get out of the money problems he was having?
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Yeah, but then he would have had to murder someone else.
0:17:22 > 0:17:28Exactly. Which is why we should be looking for missing persons in the Finsbury Park area circa August 1990.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31But you're right about Michael. We should check him out and see if he's got a criminal record.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Well, let's say you're right.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36It still doesn't solve the mystery of the locked caravan.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40And we'd still have to prove that those feet aren't the Great Miraculo's.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42And there's no way we can do that.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44We can if we can find them.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47- How?- DNA.- Won't work.
0:17:47 > 0:17:51- Why?- Well, even if we had the feet or the slippers to get a DNA trace,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54we don't have any of Bert's DNA to compare it to.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57No. But we do have his daughter.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Hello!
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Oh, darling! How sweet of you!
0:18:08 > 0:18:10You look much better.
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- How's your arm?- Well...
0:18:14 > 0:18:19- That's really good.- Oh, please! Don't patronise me. It's rubbish.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Oh, well, at least your speech has improved.
0:18:22 > 0:18:26I'm sorry. I'm not a very good invalid.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29When I came to see you the other evening, you kept talking about Dad.
0:18:29 > 0:18:31- Did I?- Yeah.- How odd.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35- Sandra, I need you to do something for me.- Yeah, of course.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- In case something like this happens again.- Oh, don't...- When.- Stop it.
0:18:38 > 0:18:43No, I have to be serious about this, which would be a first, I admit.
0:18:45 > 0:18:49There are some papers in my room at the home.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Well, actually, there's a power of attorney document.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Strokes run in the family.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01- Great(!)- I'm just trying to...
0:19:01 > 0:19:05- I need some more clothes, anyway. - Yes. It's all right.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07I'll get some stuff.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11Thank you. No wine?
0:19:20 > 0:19:22Any joy? On the search?
0:19:22 > 0:19:29We've, er, trawled through missing persons in and around north London in August 1990, but nothing.
0:19:29 > 0:19:30OK, try June, July.
0:19:30 > 0:19:35Spingles' weren't in London then. And Miraculo wouldn't keep a corpse in his caravan for a month.
0:19:35 > 0:19:40And Mr Ringmaster, aka Michael Meadowcroft, is clean.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43He's even got a bravery award for saving some drowning girl.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46Oh... PHONE RINGS
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Brian Lane, UCOS. Oh, Gerry.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Er...
0:19:50 > 0:19:53Where are you?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Just finding me feet.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01Or should I say Bert's?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02The mortuary.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05No, I worked out why the slippers weren't with Forensics.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08It's because the feet are still in 'em!
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Why would you want my DNA?
0:20:10 > 0:20:15Cos we need to be certain that your father's remains are his.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- Why wouldn't they be? - If your father was killed,
0:20:18 > 0:20:23we'll have to prove in court that any forensic evidence is 100% correct.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27OK. Do you think...
0:20:27 > 0:20:33Would it be possible for me to see what's left of my father?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Does that sound a bit weird?
0:20:39 > 0:20:42It's just...
0:20:42 > 0:20:49I just feel the need to connect to him somehow, to know what happened to him. That's all I want.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52What else have I got?
0:20:57 > 0:21:01- What?- DNA results are back. Christy Berlin and the feet.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Sounds like a band.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Bert and Christy aren't related.
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Yes! I knew it! Bert's still alive! I told you.
0:21:08 > 0:21:13Right, keep checking Missing Persons and then find out who was with the circus at the time of the fire.
0:21:13 > 0:21:14- See where they are now. - What, all of 'em?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Yeah. They're in the case file. God, that picture's hopeless.
0:21:16 > 0:21:19- Haven't you found a new one yet? - Here, I'll chase it up.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23No, hang on a minute - there might be somebody who's got his photo.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40- Mrs Pearce? Mrs Oona Pearce? - Yes. - Hello. I'm Detective Superintendent
0:21:40 > 0:21:45Pullman. This is Jack Halford. We're from the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, Metropolitan Police.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Yes?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49We need to talk to you about Bert Dignam.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Well, that's a new one.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58No! No! No!
0:21:58 > 0:22:00You have to leave.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01You can't stay here.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05- Are you all right? - My boys will be back any minute!
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Oona, we really need to talk to you.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10All right. All right.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13But not here. Not now, please!
0:22:13 > 0:22:17Well, there's a tea shop across the river - Maids of Honour. I'll see you there in an hour.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34Thinking about your mum?
0:22:34 > 0:22:37No, my dad, actually.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39It's bizarre, but I know this place.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43- I used to come here when I was a little girl on Saturdays after riding lessons.- Get away!- Yeah.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Dad used to bring me here as a treat, for chocolate eclairs and lemonade.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51She's here.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54- Hello.- Can I get you some tea?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57No.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01- Feeling better? - What do you want from me?
0:23:01 > 0:23:05We're re-examining Bert Dignam's death.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08What has it to do with me?
0:23:08 > 0:23:10You had his child.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13Is that so terrible?
0:23:15 > 0:23:19My husband is Head of a Catholic boys' school. He doesn't know about...
0:23:21 > 0:23:24How old were you when you had Christy?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Eighteen.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31My parents were devout Catholics.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32And very strict.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36When I was seventeen, I ran away.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38To the circus.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Bert took me on as a dancer.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47I was very naive.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52What happened when you got pregnant?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55It was terrible.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58My parents...
0:24:02 > 0:24:04I gave the child up for adoption.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06And you've never seen her since?
0:24:09 > 0:24:15- I can't!- We don't seem to have any photos of Bert. I don't suppose you happen to...- No.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17I'm sorry, I can't help you.
0:24:23 > 0:24:29Well, we know it's not suicide, and we know somebody killed somebody.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32But how the bloody hell did they get out the caravan?
0:24:32 > 0:24:34You made that, didn't you?
0:24:34 > 0:24:38- Yeah. - PHONE RINGS - Oh, get that for me, will you?
0:24:38 > 0:24:40UCOS?
0:24:40 > 0:24:41No.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Hold on.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Shock School of Motoring?
0:24:48 > 0:24:51Shock School of...? Yes?
0:24:51 > 0:24:54No, you've made a mistake. Sorry.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56Put that down!
0:24:56 > 0:24:59- Hi.- Any luck?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01No. No pictures and no help.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Told us her story of her life.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Very unhappy but ends up rich. Tea, anyone?
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Yes, please. You, Brian?
0:25:08 > 0:25:13July 1990. Spingles' Circus was in Norwich, St Albans and Reading,
0:25:13 > 0:25:17and the only thing that went missing around that time was the rain.
0:25:17 > 0:25:20August 3rd 1990, hottest day on record.
0:25:21 > 0:25:23- Gerry? Any joy?- No.
0:25:23 > 0:25:29All I got is that Joey the Clown's real name is Sidney Etherington and the Magnificent Martita is in fact
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- Millicent Crabbe. - No wonder they changed them.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36Look, if Bert still is alive, he could be anywhere.
0:25:36 > 0:25:41No. You're not going to fake your own death in order to save something and then just abandon it, are you?
0:25:41 > 0:25:46Well, there's only four of 'em left now from those days. There's Michael, Joey...
0:25:46 > 0:25:48- Hm!- What?
0:25:48 > 0:25:53Well, in 1990 there's absolutely no mention of the amazing Antonio.
0:25:53 > 0:26:00- What, no footballing dog act? - Nope. No, they've got horses, monkeys, budgies even, but no dogs.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02He wasn't there. They lied.
0:26:04 > 0:26:07Are you saying Antonio could be Bert?
0:26:07 > 0:26:12Well, if he is, then Michael, Martita and Joey all know about it.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- OK, but how would you prove it?- DNA.
0:26:15 > 0:26:21- No. No, he'd never give it willingly, and we can't force him.- Why not?- No! - Oona.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23She'd recognise the father of her child.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26Yeah, but we'd never get her there. No, the best thing we can do is go
0:26:26 > 0:26:30back to the circus and see what we can find out without being to obvious about it.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32It's all right, Jack, you don't have to come.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Oi!
0:26:41 > 0:26:43What, you think Bert might have had a sex change?
0:26:43 > 0:26:48Michael said he had a thing about dancers. Maybe he still does.
0:26:52 > 0:26:56Oona, I'm sorry I had to insist on bringing you down here. Oona!
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Oh, please, let's just get on with it.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06Jack, what's going on?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09I rang and asked to speak to her husband.
0:27:09 > 0:27:10Well, don't worry, I didn't.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Well, at least I gave her a lift.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45Hello!
0:27:49 > 0:27:50What are you doing in here?
0:27:50 > 0:27:53I was waiting for you.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55Sorry, I just wanted to talk to you.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57It's the middle of the final rehearsal.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Yeah, but you don't go on again till the end, do you? I was here the other night.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04Oh, I loved what you did with those boxers.
0:28:04 > 0:28:09This caravan, it's amazing!
0:28:09 > 0:28:11It's old.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14It's a bit like Bert Dignam's.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16And all this stuff!
0:28:16 > 0:28:18Do you collect all these animals?
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- Well, sort of.- Yeah?
0:28:21 > 0:28:24- We always have animals.- Oh, hello.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Is this you? You were a strongman.
0:28:27 > 0:28:29- Yeah.- Who are all these?
0:28:29 > 0:28:32My dad's family. The Lascelles.
0:28:32 > 0:28:37- But all animal acts?- My family could do amazing things with animals.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40- So how come you were a strongman, then?- That's from me mum.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42She was a Pietrie.
0:28:42 > 0:28:47Well, they were all strongmen.
0:28:47 > 0:28:52You see, exotic animals became less popular.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55- It wasn't, er... - ..politically correct.- Yeah.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58Things changed.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02A lot of circuses closed.
0:29:02 > 0:29:07- Are you sure you don't want one? - No, thanks.- You all right?
0:29:07 > 0:29:10Yes. I'd forgotten how much I...
0:29:10 > 0:29:14- Do you recognise anyone?- One or two.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16Oh, you mean Bert? No.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18What about Antonio?
0:29:18 > 0:29:22- Antonio?- We were told he was with Spingles' from the beginning,
0:29:22 > 0:29:25but we now know there wasn't an Amazing Antonio back then.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28That's because his stage name wasn't Antonio before.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31Because he was Geraldo, the Great Geraldo.
0:29:31 > 0:29:34- Circus strongman.- What happened?
0:29:34 > 0:29:37Well, he says he got ill. Arthritis.
0:29:37 > 0:29:40- I told you, it's already finished! - Christy, please!
0:29:40 > 0:29:43We're too bloody late! This is your fault!
0:29:47 > 0:29:51You remember Christy. Er, I mean Ms Berlin.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57- How could you?- I didn't know, Oona.
0:29:57 > 0:30:02- How?- Oona!- How could you do this? - Oona, I promise you.- Oona? Oona?! - Christy, come on!- Stop! Wait!
0:30:02 > 0:30:06- Don't turn your back on me. - Christy!- You have to talk to me!
0:30:06 > 0:30:07You can't just run away.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09You're my mother!
0:30:09 > 0:30:12Was that Oona?
0:30:12 > 0:30:15- Yes.- So who's the young lady?
0:30:15 > 0:30:19That's, er Christy Berlin, Oona and Bert Dignam's daughter.
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Oona?
0:30:36 > 0:30:39Oona, I'm truly sorry.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43I swear I had no idea she was going to be there.
0:30:43 > 0:30:44None of us did.
0:30:49 > 0:30:51She's so...pretty.
0:30:57 > 0:30:58Beautiful.
0:31:10 > 0:31:16Whoa! I haven't been that sick since I entered a pie-eating competition in Margate.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19If I told you the exact contents of your average donner kebab...
0:31:19 > 0:31:22- Yeah, thank you(!)- Right, thank you.
0:31:22 > 0:31:26I still don't understand what Strickland and Christy were doing there anyway.
0:31:26 > 0:31:31- I don't think she trusts us to do the job. Or him.- Thank you.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Antonio Lascelles was called the Great Geraldo because there was
0:31:34 > 0:31:38already a strongman called Antonio, from Latvia.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41What kind of a stunt did you think you were pulling last night?
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Or was that how you did things in the good old days(?) Get a bunch
0:31:43 > 0:31:48of traumatised people together, watch them scream and shout and then see how the pieces fall?
0:31:48 > 0:31:50No, sir, that isn't how we used to do things.
0:31:50 > 0:31:52We didn't mix our metaphors either.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54It was a disgrace.
0:31:54 > 0:32:00I should warn you that at the moment I'm still trying to determine what sort of disciplinary action to take.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02Sir?
0:32:02 > 0:32:04Could I have a word?
0:32:11 > 0:32:16First, what happened last night was a direct result of Christy Berlin being at the circus, which neither I
0:32:16 > 0:32:17nor my team could possibly have anticipated.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19You brought her mother.
0:32:19 > 0:32:24And secondly, at least none of my men are having a personal relationship with her.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28You see, I did wonder how she knew about the lack of an accelerant on Bert Dignam's remains.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31It's a very particular word, "accelerant".
0:32:31 > 0:32:38So, as of now I'm also trying to determine what action to take.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42I've been wondering if you haven't spent a little too much time with your more "experienced" colleagues.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45Well, I like to think we learn from each other, sir. Constantly.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Your father's daughter!
0:32:47 > 0:32:49Sorry, sir, what did you just say?
0:32:51 > 0:32:53I didn't say anything.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Yes!
0:32:57 > 0:33:00Now all we've got to do to prove whether Bert
0:33:00 > 0:33:04is or isn't in the circus is to test all the men for DNA.
0:33:04 > 0:33:08No. Strickland will never sanction that, not with the little we've got.
0:33:08 > 0:33:12Oh, yes, he will. Course he will, now you've got him by the short and curlies.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Brian's very good at lip-reading.
0:33:15 > 0:33:19So shall we say Spingles' Circus, Monday morning?
0:33:19 > 0:33:21Yeah, go on.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24'Attagirl!
0:33:24 > 0:33:29- Have a nice weekend. - Yeah. You too.- Night, Sandra.
0:33:29 > 0:33:33Jack? Jack?
0:33:33 > 0:33:38Strickland just made a crack about my dad, something along the lines of, "You're your father's daughter".
0:33:38 > 0:33:41What could he possibly mean by that?
0:33:41 > 0:33:45Ah, just lashing out because he's put himself in your pocket.
0:33:45 > 0:33:46He won't like that.
0:33:46 > 0:33:49It's meaningless. Good night.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51Good night.
0:33:56 > 0:33:57Are you all right?
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Look, it's none of my business, but I think you should know that
0:34:00 > 0:34:04I am aware you are having a relationship with Rob Strickland.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08I'm just wondering if the only reason you started the affair was in order to get this case re-opened.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10Why else would I sleep with him?
0:34:10 > 0:34:14You do know that his wife only left him last year? He's been pretty desperate.
0:34:14 > 0:34:20- Oh, thanks very much(!) The word he used was "delighted".- So you don't think you're being selfish, then?
0:34:20 > 0:34:22Oh, stop it and listen to yourself!
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Shock, horror, woman sleeps with a man because she wants something!
0:34:25 > 0:34:28I suppose you're going to tell me you've only ever slept with
0:34:28 > 0:34:31men to whom you've had a deep and long-lasting spiritual commitment?
0:34:33 > 0:34:37Look, the one chance I have to find out who I really am
0:34:37 > 0:34:41and where I came from rests on a 17-year-old unsolved police case.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43And you think I'm being selfish?
0:34:44 > 0:34:47Is your father still alive?
0:34:47 > 0:34:51- No. He died when I was fourteen. - Right.
0:34:51 > 0:34:53So you had fourteen years with him, then.
0:34:53 > 0:34:56Lucky you.
0:34:56 > 0:35:01Actually the reason I came here today was to tell you that your father may still be alive.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03The feet - the remains don't match with your DNA.
0:35:03 > 0:35:07Now the bad news is we think your dad faked his own death,
0:35:07 > 0:35:12which means that he substituted someone else's body, ie he killed someone.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16I don't believe you.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19- You're lying to me.- Afraid not.
0:35:25 > 0:35:26I didn't think you'd take your bike.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30Yes, I rode the bike to the lesson and came back on it afterwards.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33- Oh. Good lesson?- Yeah, it was great.
0:35:33 > 0:35:37- Y'know, hill starts, three-point turns - all that.- Where, Zambia?
0:35:37 > 0:35:43Or did you manage to park on the side of Vesuvius and have a little stroll round Pompeii?
0:35:43 > 0:35:45You haven't had a lesson, have you? Not a single one!
0:35:45 > 0:35:48- I've been on the phone to them. - Darling, listen...
0:35:48 > 0:35:50No, don't "darling" me!
0:35:50 > 0:35:52And don't expect any dinner, either.
0:35:52 > 0:35:55In 40 minutes' time you are having a two-hour driving lesson,
0:35:55 > 0:35:58and you can pick up some fish and chips on your way back.
0:36:01 > 0:36:03Bollocks!
0:36:13 > 0:36:17Oh, you'd think I'd bred an elephant.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19I suppose it's the flat feet.
0:36:19 > 0:36:21I brought you stuff I thought you'd like.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29Oh, that look.
0:36:29 > 0:36:32Go on, what have I done wrong now?
0:36:32 > 0:36:35I spoke to my boss on Friday - Robert Strickland. You've met him.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Oh, yeah.
0:36:37 > 0:36:39Yeah, rather good-looking.
0:36:39 > 0:36:42Divorced. Available.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45- Do I hear the sound of...- Stop it.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47..crashing disappointment?
0:36:47 > 0:36:51Now, there's no way that he could have known Dad, is there?
0:36:51 > 0:36:53At his age?
0:36:53 > 0:36:55I hardly think so. Why?
0:36:55 > 0:37:01I did something he didn't like at work and he said to me, "Like father, like daughter".
0:37:01 > 0:37:03Now, why would he have said that?
0:37:03 > 0:37:06No idea. It sounds like nonsense to me.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08No, Strickland never talks nonsense.
0:37:10 > 0:37:13OK. So tell me,
0:37:13 > 0:37:15how did Dad die?
0:37:15 > 0:37:17What?
0:37:17 > 0:37:19My dad. Your husband. Gordon.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- How did he die?- You know how he died.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23It was a heart attack.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Not according to this.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30I found it amongst your things.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36"Carbon monoxide inhalation".
0:37:36 > 0:37:40Or suicide, to be precise.
0:37:40 > 0:37:43So I presume that's what he shouldn't have done in the car?
0:37:45 > 0:37:47You didn't find that in my things.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49It was in a sealed envelope. You were prying.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51And you've been lying!
0:37:51 > 0:37:53You've lied to me since I was 14.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56All that time, all those years, all those people
0:37:56 > 0:37:59I met who must've known the truth. It makes me look like a complete idiot.
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Welcome to the club.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Why didn't you tell me?
0:38:03 > 0:38:06Why have you never told me the truth?
0:38:06 > 0:38:10- He was your father. - You've had thirty years!
0:38:10 > 0:38:12You loved him.
0:38:12 > 0:38:16How could I tell you?
0:38:16 > 0:38:18What good would it have done?
0:38:18 > 0:38:20He was your father.
0:38:25 > 0:38:29So what happened to make him do it?
0:38:29 > 0:38:34- I don't know.- You must have known. Was it something between the two of you?- No!
0:38:34 > 0:38:37- OK, work? Something at work. What?- I don't know.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40I knew there was something wrong, but he couldn't talk about it.
0:38:40 > 0:38:41Why not?
0:38:41 > 0:38:43I don't know.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46I promise you. No-one would say.
0:38:46 > 0:38:52Oh, look, Sandra, please don't keep asking me. I don't know.
0:39:00 > 0:39:02Ah!
0:39:02 > 0:39:04Brian, is it?
0:39:04 > 0:39:06I'm Brian, too.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Brian Tweedie. First lesson?
0:39:08 > 0:39:12Don't worry, there is nothing to be afraid of.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16Come on, let's get you sat in the driving seat, then, now. That's it.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18Careful on the road. Go on.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Right, then.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25You're in very safe hands.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27Let's start with the basics.
0:39:30 > 0:39:31HORN BEEPS
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Very good. Very good, Brian. You see?
0:39:39 > 0:39:42It's just about confidence.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45- Confidence, Brian.- Exactly.
0:39:47 > 0:39:52Right, let's try a left turn, shall we? Now remember, mirror,
0:39:52 > 0:39:54signal...
0:39:59 > 0:40:02- ..manoeuvre.- Manoeuvre.
0:40:05 > 0:40:06Ah!
0:40:06 > 0:40:11Are you sure you've never been behind the wheel before, Brian?
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Never, never, never, never, Brian.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17Never. I mean, I've sat in a car, of course.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20And Esther, she drives,
0:40:20 > 0:40:22so I've watched her.
0:40:22 > 0:40:29When she decided I should have lessons, I started to observe friends and colleagues,
0:40:29 > 0:40:31but no, I can promise you, this is the first time
0:40:31 > 0:40:36I've ever been in charge of any form of motorised vehicle.
0:40:38 > 0:40:41Brian? Brian! Oh, bloody hell!
0:40:41 > 0:40:44No, Brian! Brian! No! Brian! No, Brian!
0:41:01 > 0:41:02Heart attack.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Heart attack. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Heart attack! Heart attack!
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Sandra?
0:41:29 > 0:41:31Phoof!
0:41:31 > 0:41:33Had a drink, have we?
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Sandra?
0:41:59 > 0:42:01Oh, bloody hell.
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Oh...!
0:42:11 > 0:42:14ENGINE REVS
0:42:16 > 0:42:18Mirror, signal, manoeuvre.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40Hello.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Is this your car, sir?
0:42:42 > 0:42:45No, no. This one isn't, no.
0:42:45 > 0:42:50- Have you been drinking, sir?- No. No.- Can I see your licence?
0:42:56 > 0:42:58Oh! How did you get on?
0:43:00 > 0:43:04Don't ever ask me to get behind the wheel of a car again.
0:43:16 > 0:43:23Yeah, I'd like the police service record for Detective Inspector Gordon Arthur Pullman, please.
0:43:23 > 0:43:25He died in '75.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Bow.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31He was based in Bow.
0:43:34 > 0:43:40I'm sorry. Yeah, it's Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, UCOS.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42Thank you.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44Bye.
0:43:57 > 0:43:59Brian told you.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06- I'm sorry, Brian.- I'm not.
0:44:06 > 0:44:08I hate cars.
0:44:16 > 0:44:18I take it he also told you about my dad.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24- Sandra, listen...- I thought I knew him. I thought...
0:44:24 > 0:44:25Hey, hey.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Let's go to work, eh?
0:44:30 > 0:44:31Thanks, Brian.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40And so far no-one's refused to be tested?
0:44:40 > 0:44:42Nobody. I hope you're satisfied.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48- Christ, if this doesn't work... - I know.
0:44:48 > 0:44:50Oh, please let it be him.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Now that WOULD be funny.
0:44:53 > 0:44:55- What happened to my father? Where is he?- Oh, shit!
0:44:55 > 0:44:58- What happened to him? - OK, Christy, that's enough.
0:44:58 > 0:45:01I have a right to know! Somebody here knows!
0:45:01 > 0:45:03- Will you just tell me? - I have told you!
0:45:03 > 0:45:08The dead man is not your father! This has nothing to do with you. OK?
0:45:11 > 0:45:13What are you looking at, you freak?
0:45:13 > 0:45:16All of you freaks. Bloody animal!
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Nice cup of tea, guv?
0:45:26 > 0:45:28Yeah, cheers, thanks.
0:45:28 > 0:45:33- Brian?- Gerry, when have you ever known me refuse a cup of tea?
0:45:38 > 0:45:41- Want a cup of tea, Jack? - Yeah, cheers, Gerry.
0:45:43 > 0:45:47Samples have gone to the lab. Should have the results in the morning.
0:45:47 > 0:45:50Right. Just have to wait till then.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31I can't imagine Oona running away to the circus.
0:46:31 > 0:46:35- And having one of them as a boyfriend.- For God's sake!
0:46:35 > 0:46:37What?
0:46:38 > 0:46:43Police Service Record, Detective Inspector Gordon Arthur Pullman. My dad.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46Joined the Met in 1959.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48Tell me his record, Brian.
0:46:48 > 0:46:51I can't remember that far back.
0:46:51 > 0:46:53OK, from when you do know, then.
0:46:56 > 0:46:59Detective Inspector GA Pullman.
0:46:59 > 0:47:06Vice, 1970-'72, when he won the Queen's Police Medal for bravery.
0:47:06 > 0:47:10Serious Crime Squad, '72-'74.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14Drug Squad '74 to 1975.
0:47:14 > 0:47:18- Then what?- Then he died.
0:47:18 > 0:47:23What happened two days before he committed suicide, Brian?
0:47:23 > 0:47:29- I don't know. - Yes, you do. You know very well. He was suspended from duty. Why?
0:47:29 > 0:47:32- I'd be...- Say it!
0:47:36 > 0:47:40He was under investigation.
0:47:40 > 0:47:44For corruption. CIB.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50And who was the officer in charge of that investigation, Brian? Hm?
0:47:54 > 0:47:56Detective Chief
0:47:56 > 0:47:59Inspector
0:47:59 > 0:48:03- John Alan Halford.- What?!
0:48:03 > 0:48:06- Don't tell me you didn't know? - Too bloody right I didn't!
0:48:06 > 0:48:10Well, you'll just have to take that one on trust. So, Jack.
0:48:10 > 0:48:12You knew my dad.
0:48:12 > 0:48:16- I met him, yes.- You investigated him, and then he killed himself.
0:48:16 > 0:48:20So all those years ago, when you gave me my break in the Murder Squad,
0:48:20 > 0:48:22that's because you believed in equal opportunities, was it?
0:48:22 > 0:48:26Because you really rated me as a detective, regardless of what everyone else thought?
0:48:26 > 0:48:29- Yes.- Bollocks!- Guv'nor, calm down...
0:48:29 > 0:48:32All those years, you never said one word. You lied to me.
0:48:32 > 0:48:34- I never lied.- You lied by omission!
0:48:34 > 0:48:39- Just because you didn't speak his name doesn't mean you weren't lying! You lied.- Sandra!- NO!
0:48:39 > 0:48:41You lied to me and then you drove...
0:48:41 > 0:48:43Your father killed a man.
0:48:43 > 0:48:48He killed a small-time pimp called Ian Randle in Canning Town and he covered it up.
0:48:48 > 0:48:52I never told you and I never told your mother.
0:48:52 > 0:48:55But there you are. Now you know.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58Your father was a good detective, very good.
0:48:58 > 0:49:00But he made a mistake. It might even have been accidental.
0:49:00 > 0:49:02But the cover-up wasn't.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06Anyhow, shortly before I was due to arrest him,
0:49:06 > 0:49:11I let him know that I knew, because I thought he deserved that much.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14That was my mistake,
0:49:14 > 0:49:16and I'm sorry.
0:49:23 > 0:49:25I don't believe you.
0:49:26 > 0:49:33I don't believe he was capable of that, cos I knew him and I knew what he was like. He didn't do that.
0:49:41 > 0:49:45- You going after her?- I don't think that would do any good.
0:49:45 > 0:49:46So where ARE you going?
0:50:20 > 0:50:22What do you want now?
0:50:22 > 0:50:24I wanted to look at your eyes.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Brown.
0:50:27 > 0:50:29Brown.
0:50:31 > 0:50:32Christy's are blue.
0:50:32 > 0:50:34Blue-eyed blonde.
0:50:35 > 0:50:40There's only one great love in one's life, and it wasn't Bert.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42Is that what you were so afraid of?
0:50:42 > 0:50:45That you might still love him, Christy's real father?
0:50:47 > 0:50:49No.
0:50:51 > 0:50:53It's that I betrayed him.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Did you ring her? Sandra?
0:50:57 > 0:51:00Yeah. No answer. I left a message.
0:51:00 > 0:51:02All right, I give in. What are we doing here?
0:51:02 > 0:51:05I went to see Oona. Christy's mum.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07We talked about Christy's dad.
0:51:07 > 0:51:12- Yeah, Bert Dignam. - No. That was the name she put on the birth certificate.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15Having to confess to her parents she was pregnant was bad enough,
0:51:15 > 0:51:19but there was no way she was going to admit she didn't know who the father was.
0:51:19 > 0:51:23- You're kidding?- She said it was Bert because he was the circus owner.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26I suppose it sounded better than "strongman".
0:51:32 > 0:51:34Hello, Antonio.
0:51:34 > 0:51:40We'd like to ask you a few questions About you and Bert and Oona.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46Let me put some clothes on.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53Now let's get this straight. Antonio is not Bert?
0:51:53 > 0:51:56- He's not the Great Miraculo.- No.
0:51:56 > 0:51:57So who's dead?
0:51:57 > 0:51:59Bert. Bert's dead.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02Right. OK. So what happened?
0:52:02 > 0:52:04That's what we're about to find out.
0:52:05 > 0:52:08Jesus! Antonio!
0:52:08 > 0:52:13- No, don't go in. - Antonio! ..What are you doing?
0:52:13 > 0:52:17- No! No! - Jack!- Jack, leave it!- Jack! Jack!
0:52:17 > 0:52:18Somebody get a fire extinguisher!
0:52:38 > 0:52:41- Thank you.- OK, well,
0:52:41 > 0:52:44you should be OK now. Just keep an eye on the chest.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52Well, Antonio's not too bad, amazingly.
0:52:52 > 0:52:55The doc says he's even OK to talk.
0:52:55 > 0:53:00OK. That was a very stupid thing to do. What were you trying to prove?
0:53:00 > 0:53:03I'm retired - I don't have to prove anything.
0:53:03 > 0:53:10- Guv'nor, erm, Oona wants to see him. - Well, let her.
0:53:10 > 0:53:15- I think it might help.- OK.
0:53:28 > 0:53:30You're a very lucky man.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34So you killed Bert Dignam?
0:53:34 > 0:53:37He was going to close the circus.
0:53:37 > 0:53:40And that justified murder, did it?
0:53:40 > 0:53:43We argued in his caravan.
0:53:43 > 0:53:48I tried to make him change his mind, but he said I was an idiot,
0:53:48 > 0:53:53that I didn't even know that he'd slept with Oona.
0:53:55 > 0:53:56I hit him.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Once.
0:54:00 > 0:54:02Then what did you do?
0:54:03 > 0:54:07He still had a cigarette burning in his hand.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11I just turned on the gas.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15Then I left
0:54:15 > 0:54:18and got Minnie to lock the door so no-one could get in.
0:54:18 > 0:54:21- Minnie?- A monkey.
0:54:23 > 0:54:25Minnie was really clever.
0:54:25 > 0:54:27She locked the door and got out through...
0:54:27 > 0:54:30..through the skylight in the roof.
0:54:30 > 0:54:32I waited. Nothing happened.
0:54:32 > 0:54:36The gas had run out.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38But I couldn't get back in.
0:54:38 > 0:54:43Then through the window I saw Bert had caught fire.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46Why did you want to kill yourself?
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Antonio?
0:54:53 > 0:54:56I didn't know about Christy.
0:54:56 > 0:54:59Beautiful.
0:54:59 > 0:55:03But she took one look at me and called me a freak.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05An animal.
0:55:05 > 0:55:08I had a daughter who thought I was an animal.
0:55:11 > 0:55:14I loved you, Oona.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17I never loved anyone else.
0:55:17 > 0:55:19I'm sorry.
0:55:22 > 0:55:24I'm so sorry.
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Cheers, thanks a lot.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38- So, crime passionelle, eh?- Uh-oh.
0:55:40 > 0:55:43- I hear there was a fire.- Yeah. Yeah.
0:55:43 > 0:55:47Your mother and your father are in there.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03Right.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05Well, well done. Good work, all of you.
0:56:05 > 0:56:07Thank you, sir.
0:56:09 > 0:56:12OK, I'll finish up here, and we'll do the rest tomorrow.
0:56:12 > 0:56:14- All right. See you tomorrow. - Good night.- Good night.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17Cheers, Brian.
0:56:17 > 0:56:18Jack?
0:56:25 > 0:56:27You're wrong.
0:56:27 > 0:56:30About my father.
0:56:30 > 0:56:31You're wrong.
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