0:00:02 > 0:00:04# It's all right, it's OK
0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:00:07 > 0:00:09# It's all right, I say it's OK
0:00:09 > 0:00:13# Listen to what I say It's all right, doing fine
0:00:13 > 0:00:16# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:00:16 > 0:00:19# It's all right, I say it's OK
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# We're gettin' to the end of the day. #
0:00:32 > 0:00:37BELL CHIMES
0:00:41 > 0:00:45CREAKING
0:01:40 > 0:01:44FOOTSTEPS
0:02:03 > 0:02:06- Whoa! - HORSE NEIGHS
0:02:22 > 0:02:23Ah!
0:02:25 > 0:02:28SHE PANTS
0:02:49 > 0:02:52DOG BARKS
0:02:56 > 0:02:58SHE SCREAMS
0:03:06 > 0:03:09I'm Sorry, when was this?
0:03:09 > 0:03:11The fourth of January, 1851.
0:03:11 > 0:03:15- Don't look at me. - This one's mine. Sandra's starting from the same place you are.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17And that means it jumps the queue?
0:03:17 > 0:03:20- It's a day's work. Everything else can wait a day. - You all right with this?
0:03:20 > 0:03:22- I'm listening, Gerry. - Thank you, Sandra.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Though I am the ranking officer, Gerry,
0:03:24 > 0:03:26so "being all right with it" isn't a prerequisite.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- Tell that to Jack. - If he decides to grace us with his presence, I will.
0:03:30 > 0:03:34Abigale Padua. She was bludgeoned to death by an unknown assailant.
0:03:34 > 0:03:35A hundred and sixty-odd years ago.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38- Yes. - So why the sudden urgency?
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- Is it always like this? - Yes. But they do have a point.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44I assume you're not suggesting that Abigale Padua's killer is still at large?
0:03:44 > 0:03:48I just need UCOS to spend the day on this case.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49- Why?- It's been requested.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52And it's not a request I'm in a position to refuse.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55Sorry, Sandra, usually I'd tell you more but...
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Inspector George Renfield was the investigating officer.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01This is his report. It is the only copy in existence so I...
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Sorry, everybody! - Everything all right, Jack?
0:04:03 > 0:04:08Yes, yes, my bank Manager. Had a meeting first thing and...
0:04:08 > 0:04:12Oh, it... It overran. Sorry I'm late.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Since when did you have meetings with your bank manager?
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Since when did you become an authority on my comings and goings?
0:04:17 > 0:04:19My bank manager's got it in for me.
0:04:19 > 0:04:23No, that's your tailor. Is this a new one?
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Hardly.- Because I've been thinking about the Kirby business
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- and I think we need to go back to the stepdaughter.- No, no, no.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30The stepdaughter's in the clear.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32Only for her alibi, and I reckon there's a hole...
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Is this supposed to be a crime scene picture?
0:04:34 > 0:04:36What idiot took these?
0:04:36 > 0:04:39- They're daguerreotypes. - They're what?
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Well, it's old photography. Victorian.
0:04:42 > 0:04:451851 Jack. The unsolved murder of a woman named...
0:04:45 > 0:04:48- You're kidding! - ..Abigale Padua.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50I see and you're afraid this bloke might strike again?
0:04:50 > 0:04:53If I could get beyond saying this woman's name this morning, THAT would be...
0:04:53 > 0:04:58David Kirby's killer is alive and well, and we have a chance of catching her.
0:04:58 > 0:05:00This is a day's work, Jack.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03Well, when we have a spare day, we'll give it all our attention.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07- Coffee, Jack? - He's had enough coffee.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- Sandra?- If you could come back here please, Brian?
0:05:10 > 0:05:14Kettle's not long been boiled, it's a waste of energy just to leave it.
0:05:14 > 0:05:16< Quite right.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21And we wouldn't want to be careless with the kind of energy that's generated in this room.
0:05:22 > 0:05:26Black, one sugar. If it's real, of course.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28I'm sorry, who are you?
0:05:28 > 0:05:31This is Stephen Fisher. Stephen - Sandra Pullman.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33- The bloke from Intelligence? - Or thereabouts.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35How did you get down here without an escort?
0:05:36 > 0:05:40Oh, bless.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43It's instant.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Instant coffee... Sorry.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50I'll blink, shall I? I find these games a little tedious.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55I'll pass on the coffee, thank you, Mr Lane.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57I asked him down here, Sandra.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59The Abigale Padua case came from Stephen.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01Yes, how's that going?
0:06:01 > 0:06:03- Barely started.- Oh, really?
0:06:03 > 0:06:08I thought I was running late. Not to worry.
0:06:08 > 0:06:09May I?
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Abigale Padua.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Beaten to death in an alley in the city of London on the night
0:06:20 > 0:06:22of the fourth of January, 1851.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26Did that sound sufficiently "police-y"?
0:06:28 > 0:06:33Miss Padua was something of a whiz with numbers, a "computer"
0:06:33 > 0:06:37in the parlance of Victorian times. Literally someone who computes.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Rather unusual for a woman to do that,
0:06:40 > 0:06:44but it seems she had an uncommon gift for it.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47She worked for the family business, which was run by her brother,
0:06:47 > 0:06:51Sidney, both parents having died some years previously.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53To all intents and purposes,
0:06:53 > 0:06:58Miss Padua's death looks like a violent robbery.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02Money and jewellery were even removed from her person by the killer.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05But, a few weeks after she died,
0:07:05 > 0:07:09a new investment package the Padua's had been marketing
0:07:09 > 0:07:16went belly-up, ruining a lot of well-placed, influential members of London society.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20And Inspector Renfield, who was in charge of the investigation,
0:07:20 > 0:07:25came to believe there might be more to Miss Padua's demise than met the eye.
0:07:25 > 0:07:31Unfortunately, he was unable to reach any firm conclusions.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35And you think that we, without any new witnesses to interview,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38no new evidence, will succeed where he failed?
0:07:38 > 0:07:42That's what you do, isn't it?
0:07:42 > 0:07:43And there is new evidence.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46What Renfield didn't know at the time,
0:07:46 > 0:07:49because the various sections of the Metropolitan Police Force
0:07:49 > 0:07:52didn't work in such beautiful harmony as they do now,
0:07:52 > 0:07:54was that a man named Joseph Gleick,
0:07:54 > 0:08:01who had been Abigale Padua's mathematics tutor and who subsequently became her mentor,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05lost his life in a house fire later that same night.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09There are several other interesting commonalities,
0:08:09 > 0:08:13I'm sure your well-honed instincts will root them out very quickly.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Sir, there are a couple of ongoing cases that frankly should...
0:08:16 > 0:08:18Those cases are on hold as of now.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Abigale Padua is the priority.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27This is a burn-bag.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30At the conclusion of your investigation,
0:08:30 > 0:08:32everything you've discovered -
0:08:32 > 0:08:35any notes you've made, documents you've sourced,
0:08:35 > 0:08:41together with the original copy of Renfield's report and the various other items in the case file -
0:08:41 > 0:08:45will be placed in here to be incinerated by me.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Are you serious?
0:08:47 > 0:08:52Oh, dear, has my reputation as a prankster preceded me?
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Shove it. We don't take orders from you.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57- Jack...- And we don't take orders from you, either.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01Sandra does, we're all retired.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04We work on cases where there's at least a chance of nicking someone.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06And there's plenty of those to keep us busy.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08So you can shove it.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10Jack, if I decide this is a UCOS case...
0:09:10 > 0:09:14No, no, Robert, Mr Halford makes a perfectly fair point.
0:09:14 > 0:09:19Mr Halford, Mr Standing, Mr Lane - you're excused.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22You can't fire us either.
0:09:22 > 0:09:23I wouldn't dream of it.
0:09:23 > 0:09:28I will, however, need your desks for a day or two,
0:09:28 > 0:09:32so that I can draft in some new officers to work with Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37When this is all over, you'll be free to resume your duties.
0:09:42 > 0:09:43Fine by me.
0:09:45 > 0:09:52If you could just leave behind a cheque for £17,433, Mr Standing,
0:09:52 > 0:09:54I'll see it gets to the Inland Revenue.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56You what?
0:09:56 > 0:10:01The tax due on your undeclared earnings over the past 30 years.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03Are you threatening me?
0:10:05 > 0:10:08Actually, perhaps it would best if you all stay after all.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13We wouldn't want any of our guilty little secrets coming to light, would we?
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Mr Lane?
0:10:17 > 0:10:19Mr Halford?
0:10:20 > 0:10:22Bollocks.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26Excellent. I'll require hourly reports.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- That's your office, Detective Superintendent?- Yes.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Robert?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Grumpy lot, aren't they?
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Did they expect you to stick up for them, do you think?
0:11:07 > 0:11:10- I don't know. - But you didn't.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13They were right. They do have several active cases.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16This is important.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Why?
0:11:18 > 0:11:22You don't think I'm entitled to know why you're requisitioning my team?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24I KNOW you're not entitled to know.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27the vast difference in our security clearance levels tells me that.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30I really don't mean to keep you, Robert,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32you should feel free to go about your day.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35And leave you in charge?
0:11:35 > 0:11:36I think I'll stay.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44Maybe it's an academic exercise, you know, some kind of test.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Testing what?
0:11:46 > 0:11:50I don't know. Our ability to take shit from superiors?
0:11:50 > 0:11:51When was that ever in doubt?
0:11:51 > 0:11:56Question is, why is Fisher so interested in a Victorian murder mystery?
0:11:56 > 0:11:59That's what I want to know and I bet the answer lies somewhere in this case.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04It is an interesting one, computers being people, rather than machines.
0:12:04 > 0:12:10All these financial institutions trusting incredibly complex calculations to human beings
0:12:10 > 0:12:11like Abigale Padua.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Whereas now they use actual computers, and we know where THAT'S got them.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17She must have had an incredible brain, is what I'm saying.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19Maybe that's why she was killed?
0:12:19 > 0:12:21Well, if we find out who did it,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23we could have a seance and ask him.
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Well at least we know what he looked like -
0:12:25 > 0:12:29witnesses reported seeing a woman matching Abigale Padua's description
0:12:29 > 0:12:33being chased through the streets shortly before she was murdered.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37There was a coachman in Threadneedle Street
0:12:37 > 0:12:39who gave a description of the man chasing her.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Said he was tall and slim, wearing a dark coat and a black hat.
0:12:42 > 0:12:46In my mental image of Victorian London, they all look like that.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48But there was a night watchman called Thomas Quinn,
0:12:48 > 0:12:53who worked in a building adjacent to the alley where Abigale Padua was killed,
0:12:53 > 0:12:57who also claimed to have seen a tall, thin man dressed in black
0:12:57 > 0:13:00emerging from the alleyway a few moments later.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03And then the Southwark police claimed that
0:13:03 > 0:13:06a man matching the same description was seen later that night
0:13:06 > 0:13:09in the vicinity of Joseph Gleick's house,
0:13:09 > 0:13:12just before it burned to the ground.
0:13:12 > 0:13:14Although, of course Renfield wasn't to know that at the time,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17because nobody had made the connection between the two deaths.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Brilliant!
0:13:19 > 0:13:23We're looking for a tall dark stranger who's been dead for a hundred years!
0:13:23 > 0:13:25You're very quiet over there, Jack.
0:13:27 > 0:13:29I want to tell you all something.
0:13:29 > 0:13:30What is it?
0:13:30 > 0:13:32I was going to tell you first thing,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35then this nonsense with Fisher happened.
0:13:36 > 0:13:38I'm leaving.
0:13:38 > 0:13:39You what?
0:13:39 > 0:13:42I'm leaving UCOS. I'm retiring. Retiring again.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Why?
0:13:44 > 0:13:47Well, I just think it's time.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49If I don't go now, I never will.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51Yeah, but what are you going to do?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53Well, there's a little village in the Ardeche
0:13:53 > 0:13:56that Mary and I used to go to on holidays.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00We always used to say we'd try and find a little place there when I retired.
0:14:00 > 0:14:04Well, I've found a little place, I've sold the house,
0:14:04 > 0:14:06we finalised the deal this morning.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08You sold the house?!
0:14:09 > 0:14:11So, you've been planning this?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Why didn't you say something?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18Because I knew you'd try and talk me out of it.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22And you may have succeeded. Now, well, it's a fait accompli.
0:14:22 > 0:14:24I don't know what to say.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26I can't stay here forever.
0:14:26 > 0:14:27When are you going?
0:14:28 > 0:14:32Well, I was hoping to be able to settle this Kirby case,
0:14:32 > 0:14:34but that's not an option today, now.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Today?
0:14:36 > 0:14:39If I don't leave now there'll be another case. And another.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41I never thought I'd be here THIS long.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43PHONE RINGS
0:14:43 > 0:14:47So it looks like this Victorian business will be my last case.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51Fisher be damned, but it would be good to solve it.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Look, I've got to return this call.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55We need to talk about this, Jack.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57No, we don't, we really don't.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Let's get on with this case, and then we can all have a nice drink.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09- No. He's not serious. - You don't think?
0:15:09 > 0:15:12What him, retire to France?
0:15:13 > 0:15:17Like he says, he can't stay here forever. None of us can.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20- Yeah, well, I'm not buying it. - Why is it all so sudden?
0:15:23 > 0:15:27As you all seem to be sitting around chatting perhaps you could get us some coffee?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30- I need a word.- Excuse me?
0:15:30 > 0:15:31A word, sir.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35- Sandra, I know this is... - What the hell is going on?
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Look, Stephen Fisher...
0:15:36 > 0:15:39What are you playing at letting Fisher take over?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- Sandra...- What are you playing at letting him talk to us like that?
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- If I could get a word in. - Jack's leaving.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47What do you mean, leaving?
0:15:49 > 0:15:52He says he's retiring. For good, this time. He's moving to France.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Well, I suppose you can't blame the man for...
0:15:54 > 0:15:57I don't blame him, but his leaving affects the team.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Do you want me to talk to him?
0:15:59 > 0:16:02- And say what? You're hardly flavour of the month. - OK. We'll deal with that later.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Let's concentrate on the matter in hand.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Stephen Fisher's a very difficult man to deal with.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09- Butting heads with him gets you nowhere.- What's he up to here?
0:16:09 > 0:16:11I honestly don't know anything more about this case
0:16:11 > 0:16:14or his reasons for wanting it looked at than you do.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18- If I find anything out, you'll be the first to know. - I don't trust him.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20That's a very good place to start.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24No, he's just in one of his moods. He'll change his mind by lunchtime.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26No, there's more to it than that.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29He was late in this morning, that's not like Jack.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31Then there's the phone calls.
0:16:31 > 0:16:33What phone calls?
0:16:34 > 0:16:35Eh?
0:16:38 > 0:16:41The past few days, he keeps getting these calls on his mobile
0:16:41 > 0:16:44and he runs off and takes them in private.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47- Like just now. - I hadn't noticed that.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Call yourself a detective?
0:16:49 > 0:16:52I tell you what did surprise me, is how well he speaks French.
0:16:52 > 0:16:54Jack's a subject for later.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56We must get on now and get Fisher out of our hair.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58What are you doing, Brian?
0:16:58 > 0:17:00I'm trying to make sense of the crime scene.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05This bloke Thomas Quinn, who reckons he saw the murderer emerging from the alleyway,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08he was a night watchman working here.
0:17:08 > 0:17:09The coffee jar?
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Yeah, but what he says doesn't make sense.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15- Do you think he was lying? - Possibly. It's to do with the lines of sight.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18From here, through to that bag of sugar, there.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Course, I am working from a very old map
0:17:20 > 0:17:23and a slightly rudimentary model.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25- Slightly? - Does the alley still exist?
0:17:25 > 0:17:28Yeah. A lot of the buildings have changed, but it's still on the map.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31OK, good, get your coats.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33Find Jack and tell him to meet us out front.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Where are you going?
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- Crime scene.- No.- How did I know you were going to say that?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42Everything you need is in the documents I provided.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46If you're such an expert on criminal investigation, why are you wasting our time?
0:17:46 > 0:17:47No one leaves this building.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51We think that one of Renfield's witnesses was lying.
0:17:51 > 0:17:53How do you know?
0:17:53 > 0:17:55Apart from being good at our jobs, you mean?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58We don't think he could have seen what he claimed to have seen.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00And you want to check that on the real location?
0:18:00 > 0:18:02- Yeah.- It will have changed too much. - This is how we work.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Now, you either let us do our jobs, or there's the door.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- Miss Pullman... - Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Back in an hour.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16This is how you let them speak to you?
0:18:16 > 0:18:19No, Stephen, it's how I let them speak to YOU.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Jack...
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Ah-ha! Here we are!
0:18:27 > 0:18:28Not now, Sandra.
0:18:28 > 0:18:29This is the exact spot where,
0:18:29 > 0:18:33according to John Harper the coachman, Abigale Padua
0:18:33 > 0:18:37ran out from under that archway and into the street and in front of his cart,
0:18:37 > 0:18:41causing the horse to rear up and the cart's axle to break.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43It was quite a serious traffic incident at the time.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Now, in his statement, Harper reckoned that moments later,
0:18:47 > 0:18:51a man emerged from the archway and gave chase.
0:18:51 > 0:18:54Any idea where she was coming from?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56No, but we know where she ended up.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05So, this is where she died.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Now, this is my problem.
0:19:07 > 0:19:12Thomas Quinn, our night watchman, was working up there on the night of the murder, right?
0:19:12 > 0:19:14- That's the coffee jar? - Exactly.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17Now, according to the statement he gave Renfield's men,
0:19:17 > 0:19:21he saw a tall man in a dark coat emerging from the alleyway
0:19:21 > 0:19:23and heading off down in that direction.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25He says he saw the man turn left down at the end, there.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29But there's no line of sight.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33You can't see the bag of sugar from the first floor of the coffee jar.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Why would he lie? And why didn't Renfield spot this at the time?
0:19:36 > 0:19:39There were lots of witnesses, and lots of conflicting statements.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Maybe he was taken off the case before he had a chance to follow them all up.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46- And this is the actual alley, is it? - Yep.
0:19:46 > 0:19:50I think Jack's right. The witness statements are what threw Renfield's investigation,
0:19:50 > 0:19:54because Quinn said the killer turned left onto the main road,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57but there was another witness, George Boole, who says he saw
0:19:57 > 0:20:02the same man running south down the street behind these buildings.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04- One of them's wrong.- Or lying.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06PHONE RINGS
0:20:06 > 0:20:08So, this was where she was killed, yeah?
0:20:08 > 0:20:10Yeah. Her body was found here.
0:20:10 > 0:20:13Did anyone actually see it happen?
0:20:13 > 0:20:15No, no witnesses to the murder itself.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17She should have kept running.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Why?
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Well, rather than hide here and hope he didn't find her,
0:20:20 > 0:20:23if she'd kept going, she would have been in the clear.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26No, she couldn't have done, cos that was a dead end back then.
0:20:26 > 0:20:28This building was a factory,
0:20:28 > 0:20:32but originally it was L-shaped so it went right across the end there,
0:20:32 > 0:20:34so there was no way through.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36Then it was bombed during the Blitz
0:20:36 > 0:20:41and that half was made into a through-way when they...
0:20:41 > 0:20:43When they what?
0:20:44 > 0:20:45Where's he off to now?
0:20:48 > 0:20:49This is Maiden Lane.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Yeah. So?
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Well, this other witness, who said he saw a man
0:20:53 > 0:20:55running down this street in the opposite direction
0:20:55 > 0:20:58gave his address as 10 Maiden Lane.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01It was all one building.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03Before the Blitz, this was a dead end.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06This building is new, but back in 1851 -
0:21:06 > 0:21:09This would have been 10 Maiden Lane.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13Right, now two witnesses, two doors on two different streets,
0:21:13 > 0:21:16both leading into the same building.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Yeah, but the building was empty.
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Apart from Thomas Quinn.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21So who was George Boole?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24And which one of them sent the police on a wild goose chase?
0:21:24 > 0:21:26'Jack Halford's an interesting one.'
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- In what way? - Whiter than white on the surface.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33A role model, I'd have thought, hard-working, diligent,
0:21:33 > 0:21:36tenacious, intelligent, a good leader of men.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Yes.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44That is, without doubt, the worst cup of coffee I've ever had.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48What point are you trying to make about Jack?
0:21:49 > 0:21:53He was a Detective Chief Superintendent when he retired.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54That's right.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56A position he achieved through honest hard work?
0:21:56 > 0:21:57Yes.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Oh, come now.
0:21:59 > 0:22:00You don't know Jack.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03Well one of us doesn't know him, that's for sure.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Has he told you he's leaving yet?
0:22:06 > 0:22:07He's retiring to France.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Is he?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12Good for him.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Thomas Quinn, George Boole and John Harper, the coach driver,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19all claimed to have seen a tall man in a dark coat and a hat
0:22:19 > 0:22:21in the vicinity of Abigale Padua's murder.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24We don't think Thomas Quinn could have seen what he claimed to have seen
0:22:24 > 0:22:26from the first floor window of that factory,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29and there's a question mark next to George Boole
0:22:29 > 0:22:31because the address we have for him turns out to be
0:22:31 > 0:22:34in the same empty building where Quinn was a night watchman.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37All these women were local prostitutes who claim to have been
0:22:37 > 0:22:40variously harassed by someone matching the killer's description.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42- It's noise.- How d'you mean?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44They're all conflicting, they can't all be true.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48The police don't know what to believe, so can't get anywhere with the investigation.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Maybe so. Gerry, I want you to look into all these witnesses.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Find out who they were and what happened to them.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57Let's see if hindsight can give us a better idea of who was lying and who wasn't.
0:22:57 > 0:22:58Right you are.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01There are a load of figures in this file.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02Calculations.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Presumably Abigale Padua's.
0:23:05 > 0:23:09I think they might relate to that investment package she was working on.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12You know, that went belly-up when she died.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- Do you think you can make any sense of them?- I could try.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16The Padua company went bust.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19Did anyone benefit from that?
0:23:19 > 0:23:22A business competitor or someone involved in a family feud maybe?
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Then there's this...
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Abigale Padua's jewellery was taken,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30presumably to make the police think it was a robbery.
0:23:30 > 0:23:34But this ring here is quite distinctive.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Now, I know it's a long shot, but let's get an image out there
0:23:37 > 0:23:40and see if it turned up anywhere subsequently.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Very good, Miss Pullman. I'm sorry, Detective Superintendent.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45What are you not telling us?
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Ah, you're ahead of me now, I'm afraid.
0:23:49 > 0:23:50No, we're not.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53No, because nothing we've discovered so far would explain
0:23:53 > 0:23:55your interest this case.
0:23:55 > 0:23:57Ah.
0:23:57 > 0:23:58So?
0:24:02 > 0:24:06Abigale Padua was my mother's great-grandmother.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11This crime has haunted my family for generations.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18It was my mother's dying wish that I should discover
0:24:18 > 0:24:21the truth about what happened to Abigale.
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Abigale Padua didn't have any children.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Well, it can't be that then. I'll be in your office if you need me.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Do knock.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48PHONE BEEPS
0:25:01 > 0:25:03Jack? What do you make of this?
0:25:03 > 0:25:04What?
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Don't ask me, Brian, you're much better to do all this financial stuff than I am.
0:25:31 > 0:25:32PHONE RINGS
0:25:32 > 0:25:36HE COUGHS
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Oh, I'll be back in a minute.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54Gerry?! What are you doing?
0:25:54 > 0:25:56It's a woman.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57What woman?
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Elizabeth. Elizabeth Green. Nearly all his incoming and outgoing calls over the last few days,
0:26:01 > 0:26:03including that last one, Elizabeth Green.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Maybe it's a girlfriend?
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Of course.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08A girlfriend? Don't be stupid.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Well, what then?
0:26:10 > 0:26:11You think it's a girlfriend?
0:26:11 > 0:26:12What else could it be?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15I don't know but not Jack, no.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17He's leaving us for a bit of skirt.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19I doubt she's a "bit of skirt", Brian.
0:26:19 > 0:26:21What about Mary?
0:26:21 > 0:26:22Mary's dead.
0:26:22 > 0:26:25Oh, so that's a licence for him to shack up in France
0:26:25 > 0:26:27with the first girl that flutters her eyelashes, is it?
0:26:27 > 0:26:30This is Jack we're talking about, Brian, not Benny Hill.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Look, if he wants to talk to us about it, then that's fine,
0:26:32 > 0:26:36but we can't worry about it today, we must focus on this case.
0:26:45 > 0:26:51Fifth of January, 1851. Interview with Sidney Padua Esquire.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54It is Mister Padua's assertion that he was working late at his office
0:26:54 > 0:26:57on the night of the fourth of January and he was not expecting
0:26:57 > 0:26:59to see his sister, Abigale,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02until office hours commencing at eight o'clock the following morning.
0:27:02 > 0:27:03Sixth of January.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07I share with Mister Padua my concern that he bears a striking resemblance
0:27:07 > 0:27:11to a man seen by several witnesses in the vicinity
0:27:11 > 0:27:14of Abigale Padua's murder.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Mr Padua insists that he was in his office at the time of the murder.
0:27:17 > 0:27:21Seventh of January, Mister Padua denies being involved
0:27:21 > 0:27:25in any altercations with women of low repute
0:27:25 > 0:27:27in the weeks preceding Abigail Padua's death.
0:27:27 > 0:27:32He also denies reports by members of his household staff
0:27:32 > 0:27:35that he and his sister enjoyed a tempestuous relationship...
0:27:35 > 0:27:38I came out into the hallway and Mr Padua and Miss Abigale,
0:27:38 > 0:27:39they were arguing,
0:27:39 > 0:27:42and then he struck her across the face.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44How dare you, Inspector!
0:27:44 > 0:27:46This is the third time you have come to my house
0:27:46 > 0:27:49and the third time you have chosen to insult me!
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Renfield had his sights firmly fixed on Sidney Padua.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Did he ever talk to a man called William Anderson?
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Not so far. Why, who's he?
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Padua's most obvious business rival.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07When Padua & Co went under, Anderson cleaned up.
0:28:07 > 0:28:11There was speculation at the time that he'd somehow bet against Padua.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13Don't ask me how that works,
0:28:13 > 0:28:16but it would require that Anderson knew in advance
0:28:16 > 0:28:20that Padua's investment scheme would collapse.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Renfield wouldn't have known about that.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25The case was closed before anything about investments would've come out.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28What was it? Two weeks? It's a bit quick, innit.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30A lot of very important people lost a lot of money, Gerry.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34They wouldn't have wanted it known they'd invested in a shaky scheme cooked up by
0:28:34 > 0:28:36a bloke suspected of murdering his sister.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39Hence why there's only one copy of the Renfield report.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42And why there's absolutely nothing about this case online.
0:28:42 > 0:28:44And hence Fisher's burn-bag.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47So what the hell is he up to?
0:28:47 > 0:28:49I don't know, but I do think Sidney Padua is our man
0:28:49 > 0:28:54and whatever he did, must be connected to now, or he wouldn't be so interested.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58It took them long enough to focus, didn't it?
0:28:58 > 0:29:01I feel like I'm presiding over detention.
0:29:03 > 0:29:04Are you sulking, Robert?
0:29:04 > 0:29:06How did you know Jack was leaving?
0:29:06 > 0:29:08I know lots of things.
0:29:11 > 0:29:12How did Pullman take it?
0:29:12 > 0:29:15We haven't had much chance to discuss it, have we?
0:29:15 > 0:29:17She's losing her mentor.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19I think she can stand on her own two feet.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Oh, she's very capable.
0:29:23 > 0:29:24Too capable, wouldn't you say?
0:29:26 > 0:29:27The work we do here...
0:29:27 > 0:29:29Yes, yes, I know.
0:29:29 > 0:29:31It's all very vital and challenging.
0:29:31 > 0:29:35So is cleaning the toilets at the House of Lords but we don't put our best people on it.
0:29:35 > 0:29:36She's here because she wants to be.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39She's very loyal to this team.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41Interesting that you see it that way round.
0:29:41 > 0:29:46I wonder if it's not their loyalty to her that keeps her here.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49UCOS wouldn't survive Pullman leaving, would it?
0:29:49 > 0:29:51I don't know.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52Yes you do.
0:29:52 > 0:29:56You might find someone to replace her, but you'd very likely lose the team dynamic -
0:29:56 > 0:29:58if dynamic is the right word.
0:30:00 > 0:30:01Pullman knows that.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04She has no partner, no children.
0:30:04 > 0:30:08Her father committed suicide, her mother...
0:30:11 > 0:30:13Surely Sandra Pullman is here
0:30:13 > 0:30:16because it's the only place she actually feels wanted?
0:30:16 > 0:30:19Is this conversation useful, Stephen?
0:30:19 > 0:30:23It's interesting, human nature. Don't you find?
0:30:23 > 0:30:27If you understand what makes someone tick, they become predictable.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31I wouldn't call anyone out there predictable.
0:30:31 > 0:30:36Oh, but they are, Robert. You wait and see.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47There's something weird going on with these numbers.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50I love conversations that start like that.
0:30:50 > 0:30:55This algorithm that Abigale Padua invented for the investment company,
0:30:55 > 0:30:58I've been feeding the numbers into a spreadsheet
0:30:58 > 0:31:01and it works like a dream until the inputs get too high...
0:31:01 > 0:31:03What does that actually mean, Brian?
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Well, it means that if too many people invest too much money,
0:31:06 > 0:31:08the whole thing collapses and everyone loses.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12- That's what happened, didn't it? - Could it have been deliberate?
0:31:12 > 0:31:13Revenge, you mean?
0:31:13 > 0:31:19According to Renfield's report, Sidney Padua didn't treat Abigale very well.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22It's hard to tell if this flaw is intended or not.
0:31:22 > 0:31:27There are annotations alongside Abigale's calculations, initialled "JG",
0:31:27 > 0:31:32presumably Joseph Gleick, our second victim.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36The annotations suggest that he'd also spotted the problem.
0:31:36 > 0:31:38Why didn't they warn Sidney?
0:31:38 > 0:31:40- Maybe he didn't believe them. - Or didn't want to hear it.
0:31:40 > 0:31:44If someone warns you your company's about to go under...
0:31:44 > 0:31:46It could've been too late to do anything.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49Plus wealthy, influential people have invested with you,
0:31:49 > 0:31:53you'll lose a lot of face giving them their money back because you got the numbers wrong.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55You're going under either way, though, aren't you?
0:31:55 > 0:31:57So there's only one thing to do...
0:31:57 > 0:31:58William Anderson.
0:31:58 > 0:32:01We know Anderson made a lot of money when Padua & Co went under.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03He couldn't have done that without a tip-off.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Sidney goes to his biggest rival,
0:32:06 > 0:32:09presumably under a different name and bets against himself.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11The investment goes belly up.
0:32:11 > 0:32:12And Sidney makes a fortune.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14No, no, no, but did he, though?
0:32:14 > 0:32:16I thought he left London penniless?
0:32:16 > 0:32:19He'd have to make it appear that way, wouldn't he?
0:32:19 > 0:32:23And the only flies in the ointment would be Abigale Padua and Joseph Gleick.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26If they'd already warned him and he hadn't called the thing off,
0:32:26 > 0:32:28then they'd know he was up to something...
0:32:30 > 0:32:32Find out where Sidney Padua went
0:32:32 > 0:32:36and more importantly what kind of lifestyle he had when he got there.
0:32:36 > 0:32:40Well, yes, France will be different... More relaxing, yes...
0:32:40 > 0:32:43Something's come up, I'll call you back.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46- What's going on, Jack?- With what?
0:32:46 > 0:32:50Your sudden decision to leave for a start, and all these secret phone calls.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52They're not secret, they're private.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54There's a lot of things to do, Sandra.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57You're seriously leaving?
0:32:57 > 0:32:58- Yes.- France?
0:32:58 > 0:33:01The Ardeche. And it's not a sudden decision,
0:33:01 > 0:33:04I've been thinking about leaving for 50 years.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07In that case you could have given us more than a day's notice.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09I was trying to avoid this sort of conversation.
0:33:09 > 0:33:13Well, it didn't work, did it. Who's Elizabeth Green?
0:33:13 > 0:33:15Oh, so Gerry looked at my phone.
0:33:15 > 0:33:19- Yeah, cos we're worried. We don't understand... - I don't want you to worry about me.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21Who is she?
0:33:21 > 0:33:24- That's none of your business. - If she's the reason you're leaving it is my business.
0:33:24 > 0:33:26I'm leaving because I'm fed up.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29I didn't join the force to put up with the political machinations
0:33:29 > 0:33:32of Strickland and Fisher and all their kind,
0:33:32 > 0:33:36and yet that's all I seem to have done for the last five decades.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Fine. You do what you want, Jack. Please yourself.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41Is there anybody else I'm supposed to be pleasing?
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Is there anybody else I'm supposed to be responsible for?
0:33:45 > 0:33:47No.
0:33:47 > 0:33:50Are you trying to tell me you can't stand on your own two feet?
0:33:51 > 0:33:52I just don't want you to go.
0:33:52 > 0:33:55Well, why didn't you say that in the first place?
0:33:55 > 0:33:57Would it have made a difference?
0:33:57 > 0:33:58No.
0:33:58 > 0:34:01But at least it would have avoided this ridiculous conversation.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Come on, let's get back to work.
0:34:14 > 0:34:15Now. Witnesses.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18These women were all on the game.
0:34:18 > 0:34:22And according to Renfield's report they all claimed to have been hassled
0:34:22 > 0:34:24by a tall man in a long dark coat
0:34:24 > 0:34:26in the two weeks prior to Abigale's death.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29But none of them came forward until after the murder.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34Now Renfield was iffy about them and I think he was right to be,
0:34:34 > 0:34:37- I reckon they were paid to tell porkies to the cops. - Can we prove that?
0:34:37 > 0:34:39No. There's no way of tracing them,
0:34:39 > 0:34:41or checking if they suddenly came into money.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43What about Quinn and Co?
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Well, that is more interesting.
0:34:45 > 0:34:50In the 1851 census, there was a Thomas Quinn
0:34:50 > 0:34:53living within a few streets of the factory where he was night-watchman.
0:34:53 > 0:34:59But, he doesn't appear on the 1861 census.
0:34:59 > 0:35:00Tell them about the bomb.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03I'm coming to that, Brian. The factory was bombed in the Blitz.
0:35:03 > 0:35:08So I did a little search, and I came up with this...
0:35:11 > 0:35:14Now the bomb that landed on the factory didn't explode,
0:35:14 > 0:35:18but it caused a lot of damage as it fell through the building
0:35:18 > 0:35:20and buried itself in the basement.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23When the bomb disposal crews turned up to dig it out and defuse it,
0:35:23 > 0:35:26they found the body of a 30-year-old man,
0:35:26 > 0:35:32which they reckon had been buried in the dirt under the basement for a hell of a long time.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34Thomas Quinn?
0:35:34 > 0:35:38Can't prove it, there's no way of matching those bones, wherever they are, to Quinn's.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40But what is interesting is he cause of death.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42He was bludgeoned?
0:35:42 > 0:35:43Skull caved in in three places.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45What about this other witness?
0:35:45 > 0:35:49The one with the different address that turned out to be in the same building...
0:35:49 > 0:35:50George Boole.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54Never existed. At least, he's not on any census that I've found.
0:35:54 > 0:35:59Thomas Quinn couldn't have seen what he claimed to have seen from that first floor window?
0:35:59 > 0:36:03- No.- But he saw something. - There's a window at the back overlooking the crime scene.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07Quinn could have been a witness to the actual murder...
0:36:07 > 0:36:08And the killer saw him.
0:36:08 > 0:36:11So he finishes with Abigale Padua
0:36:11 > 0:36:13and then he pays Thomas Quinn a little visit.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16HE SCREAMS
0:36:16 > 0:36:18He takes the body down to the basement and he buries it.
0:36:18 > 0:36:23So he buries Quinn, cleans himself up and then he's about to slip away...
0:36:23 > 0:36:25but the alarm has gone up and there are police everywhere.
0:36:25 > 0:36:27Maybe they knock on the door looking for witnesses
0:36:27 > 0:36:30or maybe the killer comes out of his own accord.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32Either way, he's improvising now.
0:36:32 > 0:36:34Quinn's murder was spur of the moment
0:36:34 > 0:36:37but, he doesn't panic, he turns all of this to his advantage...
0:36:37 > 0:36:40He identifies himself to the police as Thomas Quinn
0:36:40 > 0:36:42and sends them in the wrong direction.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46But he can't leave the building because he's told them he's the night watchman.
0:36:46 > 0:36:48So he goes back through the factory...
0:36:48 > 0:36:49And out the back door?
0:36:49 > 0:36:51And there he meets more police,
0:36:51 > 0:36:54whereupon he identifies himself as George Boole
0:36:54 > 0:36:58and he sends those policemen off in a completely different direction.
0:36:58 > 0:36:59So, it's like Jack said,
0:36:59 > 0:37:01he's creating noise,
0:37:01 > 0:37:05he's confusing the police with contradictory witness statements.
0:37:05 > 0:37:09So Quinn and Boole are both the killer.
0:37:09 > 0:37:10It does fit.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12We can't prove it.
0:37:12 > 0:37:14You don't have to prove it.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17As you all variously pointed out earlier,
0:37:17 > 0:37:20it's a little late to arrest anyone for this crime.
0:37:20 > 0:37:23I just want to know what happened.
0:37:23 > 0:37:24But why?
0:37:24 > 0:37:27Please... Continue.
0:37:27 > 0:37:33All this actually means is that all our witnesses are fakes.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35No, no, not all of them. John Harper.
0:37:35 > 0:37:38The outlier. He doesn't fit the pattern.
0:37:38 > 0:37:41No, I reckon he's legit.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44Abigale Padua ran in front of his coach and caused this huge pile up.
0:37:44 > 0:37:49Now he described the man chasing her and I think he's the only one telling the truth.
0:37:49 > 0:37:50So what happened to him?
0:37:50 > 0:37:52- Murdered.- You're kidding.
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Two weeks later, down by the river.
0:37:54 > 0:37:55- How?- Skull caved in.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57It looked like a robbery. Maybe it was.
0:37:57 > 0:37:59And maybe it wasn't.
0:38:01 > 0:38:02It doesn't make sense, though.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Harper had already made his statement,
0:38:05 > 0:38:08which was woolly at best, so why kill him?
0:38:09 > 0:38:10He'd seen the murderer.
0:38:10 > 0:38:13Yeah, but his description was so general as to be useless.
0:38:13 > 0:38:17That's not the point. He'd seen him. There was a good chance he'd recognise him if he saw him again.
0:38:17 > 0:38:21Gerry, what was the date of John Harper's murder?
0:38:22 > 0:38:2430th of January.
0:38:26 > 0:38:30The date on this newspaper is February the second.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32He might not've given a very good description of the killer...
0:38:32 > 0:38:34But he'd have recognised the picture.
0:38:34 > 0:38:40And Sidney Padua must have known that piece was about to appear with his picture attached.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42So we're back to Sidney Padua.
0:38:42 > 0:38:45- It's only circumstantial, though. - It doesn't need to be anything more.
0:38:45 > 0:38:49Excuse me, but yes it does.
0:38:49 > 0:38:54If you're forcing us to pursue this nonsense, at least we'll do it properly.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57Professional to the last, Mr Halford.
0:39:02 > 0:39:05What outcome are you hoping for here, Stephen?
0:39:05 > 0:39:07I told you before, Robert, your clearance level...
0:39:07 > 0:39:09I mean, when is this over?
0:39:09 > 0:39:11It seems pretty clear Sidney Padua killed his sister.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14Brian Lane thinks that's circumstantial.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16And you said that was enough.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20Lane's an odd fish, isn't he?
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Does he still sneak the occasional drink, do you think?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24No.
0:39:24 > 0:39:26Can't ever be sure though, can you?
0:39:26 > 0:39:28Can never fully trust someone like that.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30I do.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33What would it take, I wonder?
0:39:33 > 0:39:36A bad day at work? Some bad news?
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Possibly a friend or loved-one in poor health?
0:39:39 > 0:39:42They say an alcoholic is always looking for a reason...
0:39:42 > 0:39:44Who's "they"?
0:39:44 > 0:39:48Well, that's true. I didn't answer your question.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52I don't require proof that Sidney Padua killed his sister.
0:39:52 > 0:39:55I doubt that's even available,
0:39:55 > 0:39:57but I need to know for certain what happened.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00And then you're going to destroy all the documentation.
0:40:00 > 0:40:02Yes. Yours not to reason why, I'm afraid.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04- DOOR OPENS - I thought we were knocking?
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Ellis-Finch.
0:40:06 > 0:40:08- I'm sorry?- The finance company? - The finance company.
0:40:10 > 0:40:11Well?
0:40:11 > 0:40:13What have you found?
0:40:13 > 0:40:16- We're asking the questions now. - I certainly am. What's going on?
0:40:18 > 0:40:21One of the items of jewellery taken from Abigale Padua
0:40:21 > 0:40:23was a very distinctive ring.
0:40:23 > 0:40:24This ring.
0:40:26 > 0:40:31It was sold to a museum at a charity auction in New York in 1987.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33Who was the seller?
0:40:33 > 0:40:34Joshua Ellis.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36Of Ellis-Finch?
0:40:36 > 0:40:38A company last year who was involved in the collapse
0:40:38 > 0:40:43of two mortgage companies and who are now brokering a deal
0:40:43 > 0:40:47to let some big Chinese corporation take over one of our largest pension funds!
0:40:47 > 0:40:51And God knows what happens to all those pensions when they do.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53What's the connection, Stephen?
0:40:53 > 0:40:55Between...?
0:40:55 > 0:40:58Do you honestly expect us to believe that it's a coincidence
0:40:58 > 0:41:00that a 160-year-old case
0:41:00 > 0:41:04is suddenly connected to a major financial deal involving the Chinese?
0:41:04 > 0:41:07I really can't control what you believe.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09The game's up, Stephen.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12You actually do say that, do you?
0:41:13 > 0:41:17I'm here because I was led to believe there might be a connection
0:41:17 > 0:41:20between Joshua Ellis and the murder of Abigale Padua.
0:41:20 > 0:41:22So why didn't you tell us?
0:41:22 > 0:41:25Because there's a difference between mounting an investigation
0:41:25 > 0:41:27and seeking to prove a hypothesis.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32I find the former to be a little more...honest.
0:41:32 > 0:41:35There may have been no such connection, after all.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37Well, now we know there is,
0:41:37 > 0:41:39would you like to share the nature of it with us?
0:41:39 > 0:41:42I have no idea, I'm afraid.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46I was assuming that would be your team's next course of enquiry.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Who told you about this in the first place?
0:41:48 > 0:41:51You know better than to ask.
0:41:53 > 0:41:57- Even- I- didn't think you'd involve UCOS in something like this.
0:41:57 > 0:41:59Something like what?
0:41:59 > 0:42:02This is political. You're a representative of the UK Government,
0:42:02 > 0:42:07tasking us to investigate an international investment scheme involving the Chinese.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10- You make it sound so sinister.- Well, I'm sure, to the thousands of people
0:42:10 > 0:42:13whose pensions are at risk in this scheme, it IS sinister.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15We don't know yet, do we?
0:42:15 > 0:42:17There may be a perfectly innocent explanation
0:42:17 > 0:42:20as to how that ring came into Joshua Ellis's possession.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22You don't believe that for a second.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24Not for a second, no.
0:42:30 > 0:42:32Talk to me about Gerry Standing.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33No, I don't think I will.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39Well, according to the bumph in this auction catalogue,
0:42:39 > 0:42:42that ring was an Ellis family heirloom.
0:42:42 > 0:42:44Yeah, right(!)
0:42:44 > 0:42:46- It could have been.- How's that?
0:42:46 > 0:42:50Depending on how far back you can trace the Ellis family.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52Well, that's the thing. I've gone as far back as I can
0:42:52 > 0:42:55and the first one I come up with is Henry Ellis,
0:42:55 > 0:42:58who turned up in New York in 1852.
0:42:58 > 0:42:59The year after the murders.
0:42:59 > 0:43:02- Where had he come from? - There's no record of that.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05He just seems to appear out of nowhere. But he's got money,
0:43:05 > 0:43:09because a few months later, he started an investment firm in Manhattan
0:43:09 > 0:43:12and that's the firm that went on to become Ellis-Finch.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13- Pictures?- No.
0:43:13 > 0:43:17And that's weird as well because in New York in those days,
0:43:17 > 0:43:20like today, if you're rich, you're moving in the right circles,
0:43:20 > 0:43:22somebody's going to take a photograph of you.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26But Henry Ellis seems to have been more than a little camera-shy.
0:43:26 > 0:43:28He'd learned his lesson after that newspaper article.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32So we still have no concrete link between Sidney Padua and Henry Ellis.
0:43:32 > 0:43:35Not concrete, no, but here's the kicker.
0:43:35 > 0:43:38Five years later, he got married and had two children.
0:43:38 > 0:43:40A boy and a girl...
0:43:41 > 0:43:42Abigale and Joseph.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45He names his kids after two people he's killed?
0:43:45 > 0:43:47- Sounds like it.- That's it, then.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49Fisher said he didn't need hard evidence.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52What we've got is circumstantial, but pretty damning.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54What's the point of it all?
0:43:54 > 0:43:59We can't prove Joshua Ellis knows the truth about his ancestry
0:43:59 > 0:44:02and, even if he does, he's not responsible for the murders.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05He wouldn't be where he is today without them though, would he?
0:44:05 > 0:44:07If Sidney hadn't killed his sister and Gleick
0:44:07 > 0:44:10and bet against his own company, then Ellis-Finch wouldn't exist.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14- Yeah, but who cares now? - The Chinese. It's very important
0:44:14 > 0:44:18- family history.- Especially when you're trusting your money
0:44:18 > 0:44:21- to a family who made theirs by ripping off investors.- It wasn't him.
0:44:21 > 0:44:22Who wasn't him?
0:44:22 > 0:44:26Sidney Padua. Guess where he went when he left London?
0:44:26 > 0:44:29It's not going to be New York, is it?
0:44:29 > 0:44:31He went home. Well, sort of.
0:44:31 > 0:44:33Padua?
0:44:33 > 0:44:37He died in 1881 in a little village just outside Padua, Italy.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41He wasn't living in an enormous mansion by any chance, was he?
0:44:41 > 0:44:44He was a shoe salesman for nearly 30 years.
0:44:44 > 0:44:46He had three daughters and he was practically penniless.
0:44:46 > 0:44:48I know the feeling.
0:44:48 > 0:44:52- So Sidney Padua didn't become Henry Ellis?- No.
0:44:52 > 0:44:57- And he didn't kill his sister or Joseph Gleick, or the coachman.- No.
0:44:57 > 0:44:59But what about the photo in the paper
0:44:59 > 0:45:02and the timing of the coachman's death?
0:45:02 > 0:45:05Coincidence. It wasn't him.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07- Then who was it?- We don't know.
0:45:07 > 0:45:08Well, that's ridiculous.
0:45:08 > 0:45:11How many people could it have been?
0:45:11 > 0:45:14In London? In 1851? Two million, maybe?
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Don't be facetious, Mr Halford.
0:45:16 > 0:45:17He's not being.
0:45:17 > 0:45:21If it wasn't Sidney Padua, then it could have been anyone.
0:45:21 > 0:45:23Anyone linked to the Ellis family.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25You can only link to the Ellis family
0:45:25 > 0:45:29once you've decided what two things you're trying to link together,
0:45:29 > 0:45:31that's just simple logic.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35Logic!
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Boolean logic!
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Why did the killer pick that name?
0:45:40 > 0:45:42George Boole you mean?
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Yeah, it was probably spur of the moment.
0:45:44 > 0:45:46He's just buried Thomas Quinn,
0:45:46 > 0:45:48he's sent the police off on a wild goose chase.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51He's improvising like mad.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53But he thinks he's home and dry,
0:45:53 > 0:45:57so he calmly walks out through the back door, bang into more policemen,
0:45:57 > 0:46:00and he identifies himself as George Boole.
0:46:01 > 0:46:03This newspaper.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05- Do we have the rest of this newspaper?- Yeah, I have somewhere.
0:46:05 > 0:46:07What have you got, Brian?
0:46:07 > 0:46:10Boole was a famous Victorian mathematician.
0:46:10 > 0:46:12There you go.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14Boolean logic - it's like binary.
0:46:14 > 0:46:16You know, ones and zeroes.
0:46:17 > 0:46:19Ah-ha!
0:46:21 > 0:46:25Who plucks a name like that out of his head on the spur of the moment?
0:46:25 > 0:46:26You?
0:46:26 > 0:46:29It's got to be another mathematician.
0:46:31 > 0:46:32That's Gleick.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35Yes. An etching taken from a photograph. A very good likeness.
0:46:35 > 0:46:39Published on the same day as the picture of Sidney Padua.
0:46:39 > 0:46:43Two days after the coachman who saw the killer was killed.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47Now we've been assuming that the coachman was killed
0:46:47 > 0:46:52to stop him identifying a picture of Sidney Padua in the newspaper.
0:46:52 > 0:46:53But maybe it was to stop him
0:46:53 > 0:46:57identifying another picture due to be published that day,
0:46:57 > 0:47:00to accompany an obituary for Joseph Gleick!
0:47:00 > 0:47:03Obituary is the point, surely? Gleick was dead.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05Well, no, not necessarily.
0:47:05 > 0:47:09Gleick's house was burned down and Gleick was never seen again.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12No remains were ever found and I doubt any were looked for.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15As far as the Southwark Police were concerned, he died in the fire.
0:47:15 > 0:47:20And if Gleick knew that the investment algorithm wasn't going to work...
0:47:20 > 0:47:24Maybe you were right before. Maybe it was designed not to work.
0:47:24 > 0:47:28These annotations - maybe Gleick wasn't correcting Abigale,
0:47:28 > 0:47:31maybe he was collaborating with her.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36They decided to have a go at Sidney for what he's done to Abigale
0:47:36 > 0:47:38and make a profit on the side.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40But if at some point Abigale had a change of heart...
0:47:40 > 0:47:44It doesn't take an expert to realise that not only Sidney would be hurt,
0:47:44 > 0:47:47but a lot of other people would also lose their money in that deal.
0:47:47 > 0:47:49So she goes to warn Sidney.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52She's a brave girl, considering how Sidney would have reacted.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54But Gleick knows, that if she gets to Sidney,
0:47:54 > 0:47:59not only will his profit disappear, but he'll be in serious trouble.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04This is another hypothesis.
0:48:04 > 0:48:06It seems like a pretty good one to me.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08And one we can prove.
0:48:08 > 0:48:09How?
0:48:09 > 0:48:12Look at this, these are the articles of incorporation
0:48:12 > 0:48:16for the company that Henry Ellis set up in 1852.
0:48:19 > 0:48:20Look at that.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23- You'd need an expert to verify it... - It's the same handwriting.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26It was Joseph Gleick all along.
0:48:28 > 0:48:30What are you doing to do?
0:48:31 > 0:48:32Do?
0:48:35 > 0:48:39I need Renfield's original report, all the documents you've used,
0:48:39 > 0:48:43every note you made, the physical samples of Gleick's handwriting...
0:48:43 > 0:48:45We have evidence here.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Of a crime that was committed a century and a half ago.
0:48:47 > 0:48:49As you've all taken great pains to point out,
0:48:49 > 0:48:51that's hardly relevant today.
0:48:51 > 0:48:52Yes, it is relevant.
0:48:52 > 0:48:57That information could stop this Ellis-Finch deal with the Chinese.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59He doesn't want it stopped.
0:48:59 > 0:49:01He wants to make sure it can't be stopped.
0:49:03 > 0:49:06And like Jack said this is a pension fund they're interfering with.
0:49:06 > 0:49:09- It's people's lives. - He doesn't care about that, Brian.
0:49:09 > 0:49:12Whether I care or not, that's not the business I'm in.
0:49:12 > 0:49:14What business are you in?
0:49:14 > 0:49:15I serve the national interest.
0:49:15 > 0:49:19And it's more important for the nation to make nice with China
0:49:19 > 0:49:21and keep people like Joshua Ellis happy
0:49:21 > 0:49:24than it is to protect hundreds of thousands of pensioners, is it?
0:49:24 > 0:49:27You're not even aware of how naive that sounds, are you?
0:49:27 > 0:49:30I think it's time you left, Stephen.
0:49:31 > 0:49:32By all means.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34Empty-handed, I'm afraid.
0:49:35 > 0:49:38- Ah.- It's one thing to come in here and requisition this team
0:49:38 > 0:49:40for your own private investigation.
0:49:40 > 0:49:42It's quite another to make us all complicit
0:49:42 > 0:49:45in the destruction of evidence in a murder investigation,
0:49:45 > 0:49:47especially one which may have implications in the present day,
0:49:47 > 0:49:49on the international stage.
0:49:49 > 0:49:52You've been rehearsing that speech.
0:49:55 > 0:49:57The evidence will stay here,
0:49:57 > 0:49:59pending a conversation I'm going to have with the Commissioner.
0:49:59 > 0:50:01I see.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05How do you envisage that conversation playing out?
0:50:05 > 0:50:07Well, we'll have to see, won't we?
0:50:07 > 0:50:10I can tell you, if you're interested.
0:50:10 > 0:50:12The conversation ends with you handing over to me
0:50:12 > 0:50:14everything I've asked for,
0:50:14 > 0:50:16just prior to writing your letter of resignation.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19I won't be threatened by you, Stephen.
0:50:19 > 0:50:23I know you'd like us all to think your power extends that far...
0:50:23 > 0:50:25Not my power, Robert!
0:50:26 > 0:50:29The power of the British Government,
0:50:29 > 0:50:32brandishing the Official Secrets Act, to which you are all subject
0:50:32 > 0:50:35and the contravention of which brings with it
0:50:35 > 0:50:38consequences far graver than you seem to be considering.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42Those of you who still have careers,
0:50:42 > 0:50:44consider what you will do without them.
0:50:44 > 0:50:49Those of you who don't, consider how your loved ones will cope
0:50:49 > 0:50:52while you live out the twilight of your lives at Her Majesty's pleasure.
0:50:56 > 0:50:57Now...
0:50:59 > 0:51:04..I suggest you put the documents in the bag
0:51:04 > 0:51:07and put today's events very firmly out of your minds.
0:51:18 > 0:51:21A wise decision, Mr Halford.
0:51:21 > 0:51:22Shove it.
0:51:53 > 0:51:57We must do this again, Robert. Always a pleasure.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06- I'm sorry.- It's not your fault.
0:52:06 > 0:52:08There was nothing we could do.
0:52:08 > 0:52:10Well, I think we've earned a drink.
0:52:10 > 0:52:12You up for that, Jack?
0:52:12 > 0:52:16There's a couple of things I want to do. I'll meet you there.
0:52:16 > 0:52:17What do you want to do?
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Couple of errands. I'll see you in about an hour.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25- Well, that was quick. - Maybe he's got a date.- A what?
0:52:25 > 0:52:29Perhaps there's more to Jack's retirement than meets the eye.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31I think we should throw a load of drink down his throat
0:52:31 > 0:52:33and just ask him outright.
0:52:33 > 0:52:36Go gently, I don't want it turning nasty.
0:52:36 > 0:52:40- You coming, Brian?- Yes, yes, of course. I'll just tidy up first.
0:52:40 > 0:52:42Work starts again tomorrow, Brian.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45We'll finish the Kirby case, so Jack can draw a line under it.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47I'll just close the computer down.
0:52:47 > 0:52:49Suit yourself.
0:52:49 > 0:52:51I'll see you in the pub.
0:52:51 > 0:52:52See ya.
0:53:56 > 0:53:57It's me.
0:53:59 > 0:54:00Yes, it's done.
0:54:00 > 0:54:03The information will be in the papers in the next day or so.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09No, I've no idea which one of them leaked it.
0:54:09 > 0:54:12I think our Mister Ellis will have plenty to worry about
0:54:12 > 0:54:14without stringing up some retired policeman.
0:54:16 > 0:54:17Exactly.
0:54:19 > 0:54:23I suggest it gets put down to yet another careless civil servant
0:54:23 > 0:54:25leaving his homework on the train.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Mission accomplished,
0:54:30 > 0:54:34we should let sleeping plods lie I think, don't you?
0:54:40 > 0:54:42Good luck, Jack.
0:54:54 > 0:54:56They think you've got a fancy woman.
0:54:56 > 0:54:59Bloody hell, Brian! What are you doing sneaking around?
0:54:59 > 0:55:00I was waiting for you.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02And you couldn't wait in the pub?
0:55:02 > 0:55:06I wanted to warn you. They think you've got a fancy woman.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10Elizabeth Green. It's not what you think.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13It's not what they think.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17You understand them being suspicious, though, don't you?
0:55:17 > 0:55:19It's all been a bit sudden.
0:55:19 > 0:55:21They think I'm running off to France with a floozy.
0:55:21 > 0:55:23What do they think I am?
0:55:23 > 0:55:24A liar.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27They even had me believing it for a while.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30Until I saw you switch those documents on Fisher.
0:55:30 > 0:55:33I saw that and I thought,
0:55:33 > 0:55:37"Why would Jack risk everything for this?
0:55:37 > 0:55:40"Why would he risk his whole future?"
0:55:41 > 0:55:44- That's when I looked up Elizabeth Green.- Brian...
0:55:44 > 0:55:47The Elizabeth Green Hospice.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54I'm going to the Ardeche.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57The hospice is arranging the medication I need to take with me.
0:55:59 > 0:56:01When did you find out?
0:56:01 > 0:56:02Few weeks ago.
0:56:02 > 0:56:04It's in the liver.
0:56:05 > 0:56:06There's nothing they can do.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11We're your friends.
0:56:11 > 0:56:12I don't want any fuss.
0:56:12 > 0:56:15We're your friends!
0:56:15 > 0:56:18Yes, you are. And I want you to remember me as I am.
0:56:20 > 0:56:24I want to go away to a place that was special to Mary and me.
0:56:24 > 0:56:28And just be there, with her and our memories.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31When are you going?
0:56:31 > 0:56:33ASAP.
0:56:33 > 0:56:36Will you do something for me, Brian?
0:56:36 > 0:56:39Yeah, of course I will. Anything.
0:56:39 > 0:56:41Don't tell anyone.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44Not until after.
0:56:45 > 0:56:47And I don't want anyone to try and stop me.
0:56:47 > 0:56:51Or anyone coming after me or anyone trying to get in touch with me.
0:56:53 > 0:56:55It's just me and Mary.
0:56:57 > 0:56:58D'you understand?
0:57:03 > 0:57:04Yes.
0:57:04 > 0:57:06Now, get into that pub and put on a brave face.
0:57:12 > 0:57:14I'm so sorry, Jack.
0:57:19 > 0:57:20Brave face, Brian.
0:57:23 > 0:57:25And mine's a large Scotch.
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