0:00:02 > 0:00:03# It's all right, it's OK
0:00:03 > 0:00:05# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:00:05 > 0:00:08# It's all right, I say it's OK
0:00:08 > 0:00:11# Listen to what I say
0:00:11 > 0:00:13# 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 > 0:00:18# It's all right, I say it's OK
0:00:18 > 0:00:20# We're getting to the end of the day. #
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Uh-uh. I think not.
0:00:48 > 0:00:49You don't own it, Archie.
0:00:49 > 0:00:54Consuetudo pro lege servatur, I think you'll find.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56OK, let's get started. The day after tomorrow,
0:00:56 > 0:01:00the Right Honourable Geoffrey Parks MP will be visiting the school
0:01:00 > 0:01:01to open the new computer centre.
0:01:01 > 0:01:03Well, it wouldn't be a language lab.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05That boy couldn't conjugate a verb to save his life.
0:01:05 > 0:01:10So Mr Parks will be accompanied by a dozen or so members of the press
0:01:10 > 0:01:13and also by his daughter, Melissa, who is his private secretary.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15I'm sure many of you will remember Melissa
0:01:15 > 0:01:17from her time here as a pupil.
0:01:17 > 0:01:19I hope someone's put the caterers on red alert.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21Archie!
0:01:21 > 0:01:23< NOISE FROM DIGGING TRUCK
0:01:33 > 0:01:34I'll get it, shall I?
0:01:34 > 0:01:36Yes.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01He's been in the ground long enough and fits the height and age description,
0:02:01 > 0:02:06but New Zealand police say it might be up to 48 hours before they can match the dental records
0:02:06 > 0:02:09- so there is a window if you want us to use it...- Hiya.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- OK, we'll do our best. Thanks, bye. - Who's this?
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Jason Bowe. A 25-year-old PE teacher from New Zealand.
0:02:18 > 0:02:21He worked at Peregrine Manor school but went missing
0:02:21 > 0:02:24on the 29th June 2007,
0:02:24 > 0:02:25it was the last day of the school year.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28The body was found just outside the school grounds.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31According to the pathologist, there's no obvious cause of death,
0:02:31 > 0:02:35but there is a slight nip to the lower ribs which could have been caused by a stab wound.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Now we've got a body, presumably it'll go to the murder squad?
0:02:38 > 0:02:42No, there's going to be a 48-hour delay before New Zealand can match the dental records
0:02:42 > 0:02:44so Strickland wants us to re-open the missing persons case
0:02:44 > 0:02:47in the hope we can tie things up before the press get hold of it.
0:02:47 > 0:02:52- What have the press got to do with it?- Peregrine Manor school is very old, very expensive
0:02:52 > 0:02:54and only accepts very high-profile offspring.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58So the tabloids will be all over the place once MIT go in.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03I do appreciate the police being so discreet in this situation.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Sadly, I don't have anything to add to what I said at the time.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Awful as it sounds, I'd forgotten all about Jason.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Staff come and go. Time rolls on.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15We need to establish his last known movements.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19According to the file, you noticed he'd gone in the morning, is that right?
0:03:19 > 0:03:21Yes. He was in school for tea the night before
0:03:21 > 0:03:26- and failed to show up for breakfast or morning meeting.- And you thought he'd left during the night?
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Yes. Well, no. The school's locked up at 11,
0:03:29 > 0:03:31so I thought he'd left either the previous evening
0:03:31 > 0:03:34or early that morning while we were all still at breakfast.
0:03:34 > 0:03:38Do you not check teachers are all in the building before locking up?
0:03:38 > 0:03:42It's hard enough keeping track of students without having to do lights out for the staff too.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46You didn't think it odd? Him upping and leaving with only one day left?
0:03:46 > 0:03:50A lifetime in school has taught me that youth often acts on impulse.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53I didn't call the police, but I did call his home.
0:03:53 > 0:03:54This should all be on your files.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56PHONE RINGS
0:03:56 > 0:03:58I'm sorry about this.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03We have a very high-profile event later in the week and I need to finalise all the arrangements.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Let me take you to Helen, our home support,
0:04:05 > 0:04:07I'm sure she'll be able to help you.
0:04:07 > 0:04:12Eleanor, take any messages, unless of course it's Geoffrey Parks' office,
0:04:12 > 0:04:15- in which case transfer them to my mobile.- Geoffrey Parks the MP?
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Yes. He's an ex-pupil, we used to be in the same year here
0:04:19 > 0:04:21and we've been friends ever since.
0:04:21 > 0:04:25Geoffrey has kindly agreed to open the new computer centre.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31Ah, Helen, there you are. We have some visitors.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36The police, I presume?
0:04:36 > 0:04:38Are we that obvious?
0:04:38 > 0:04:42No, but we've all heard about the find in the woods, I'm afraid.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46Helen Hadley. Nurse and home support.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48We used to use the word "Matron". Much simpler.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51- Archie Milgrow - Latin. - Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:04:51 > 0:04:54These are my colleagues Gerry Standing and Brian Lane.
0:04:54 > 0:04:56They have some questions about Jason Bowe. If you could...
0:04:56 > 0:04:59- I'm up to my eyes.- Of course.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03Is the body Jason Bowe's?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Well, we can't be sure, but it's possible.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11Jason Bowe was last seen at tea by your head teacher. Did either of you see him after that?
0:05:11 > 0:05:17- No.- But that's not unusual because most of the staff go to their rooms and relax after tea.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21The evenings are my busy time, not the teachers'.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- How well did either of you know him? - PE and Latin aren't a natural mix.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27We'd be speaking a different language in more ways than one.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Now, if you'll excuse me,
0:05:29 > 0:05:32I'd better go and prepare for Upper 3A and the imperfect tense,
0:05:32 > 0:05:35the irony of which will no doubt strike halfway through the lesson.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44I liked Jason. We weren't overly close, but he was good fun.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46- Was he seeing anyone? - Not that I know of.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Close friends on the staff? - I don't think he had many.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51He liked a drink in the pub of an evening,
0:05:51 > 0:05:55but I think he was closer to the students than the teachers.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57Nearer his age.
0:05:57 > 0:06:02That's him on the right. He wasn't exactly handsome, but he had something about him, don't you think?
0:06:02 > 0:06:06This was a couple of days before he disappeared. York?
0:06:06 > 0:06:08- Did they stay away? - They must have done.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Who's that boy? Oliver Lebbon?
0:06:11 > 0:06:13He was the sports captain. Very, umm...
0:06:14 > 0:06:15..popular.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19I didn't warm to him, but that's just me.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22He was very close to Jason -
0:06:22 > 0:06:26probably closer to him than any of the staff were.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32I take it you're not an athlete any more.
0:06:32 > 0:06:35Smashed my leg surfing the summer after school.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Now I can't run for a bus.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41< God, I'm so late!
0:06:41 > 0:06:44I should have been back 20 minutes ago. Dad's going to kill me!
0:06:45 > 0:06:46Hi.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50Police. Asking questions about Mr Bowe.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Mr Bowe from school?
0:06:52 > 0:06:54My girlfriend, Melissa Parks.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57Detective Superintendent Pullman.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59So you were at Peregrine Manor as well, were you?
0:06:59 > 0:07:02Yes. We were in the same year together.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05He went missing, didn't he, Mr Bowe?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07PHONE RINGS
0:07:09 > 0:07:10Hi...
0:07:10 > 0:07:14Yes, I know, sorry, I ran into a girlfriend from Uni and we lost track of...
0:07:14 > 0:07:17Yes, I'm heading back now.
0:07:17 > 0:07:18OK, I'll see you in...
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Charming(!)
0:07:21 > 0:07:25Tell me, how would you characterise your relationship with Jason Bowe?
0:07:26 > 0:07:29I liked Mr Bowe.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31He was a good coach.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Laugh, too - not like the rest.
0:07:34 > 0:07:35Were you ever in trouble with him?
0:07:37 > 0:07:39- No, he was cool.- Did he talk to you about his personal life?
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Was he seeing anyone?
0:07:41 > 0:07:44There was no school gossip if that's what you're asking.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Some of the girls had crushes, but...
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Two days before he disappeared, you were all away on a sports trip.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55Were you still getting on with him then?
0:07:55 > 0:07:58Yeah, we were.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00But actually...
0:08:00 > 0:08:03He was a bit...weird.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Distracted.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Snappy. Not like him.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Did you ask why?
0:08:11 > 0:08:13No, and he didn't say.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17That evening, when you got back to the school, did you see him at any point?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19No, don't think so.
0:08:19 > 0:08:24But it was five years ago. I'm a bit hazy.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25I saw you when you got back.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28I met you by the minibus.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31You were still talking to Mr Bowe, joking about something.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Just before tea.
0:08:33 > 0:08:34There you go then.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Then he saw another teacher and just left us mid-sentence.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40They started quite an intense chat.
0:08:40 > 0:08:41Who was the other teacher?
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Oh God, I can see him in my head, but the name's gone.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47Old. Dull. Fuddy-duddy.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49Wasn't it that Latin teacher?
0:08:49 > 0:08:51Mildew? Mr Milgrow.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55They were arguing about something, you're right.
0:08:55 > 0:08:57We just left them to it.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59That was the last time I saw Mr Bowe.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14You lied to us.
0:09:14 > 0:09:17On the evening that Jason Bowe disappeared,
0:09:17 > 0:09:19you were seen having an argument with him.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23Which is somewhat surprising, considering you told us you hardly ever spoke to him.
0:09:23 > 0:09:24I didn't.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28If you're observant, and I like to consider myself an observer of life,
0:09:28 > 0:09:31then you find you know a person without talking to them very much at all.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34But yes, we did have words.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36What about?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39I've never been keen on the over-popular teachers.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43You can be loved too much by students. You can want to be loved by them too much.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45It can cloud one's judgement.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49The relationship between Lebbon and Jason Bowe was a good example.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53They were more like friends than student and teacher.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56The particular case in question concerned a hunting knife
0:09:56 > 0:09:58that Lebbon had brought into the school.
0:09:58 > 0:10:02He had been told to hand it over to Jason Bowe, his tutor.
0:10:02 > 0:10:07I heard about it and checked with Bowe that the item had at least been confiscated.
0:10:07 > 0:10:08- And had it?- No.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10He said Lebbon hadn't got round to handing it in yet.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13As if it were a mobile telephone or something.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15That was just before they left for the championships.
0:10:15 > 0:10:22When they got back, I told Bowe enough was enough and I expected the knife to be in his possession
0:10:22 > 0:10:25by the following morning. But by morning, Bowe had vanished.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27And what about the knife?
0:10:27 > 0:10:30I have no idea what happened to it.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33It was the last day of term, I'm afraid I didn't pursue it.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Did you see Oliver Lebbon at all that night?
0:10:35 > 0:10:36I didn't.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Presumably, he was cavorting with Eleanor Higgins, as usual.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42The most popular couple in school -
0:10:42 > 0:10:45now one of them is a failed athlete,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48and the other is the headmistress' secretary.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52'So often the case with those who peak too early.'
0:10:52 > 0:10:55So, you were Oliver Lebbon's girlfriend. When did you break up?
0:10:56 > 0:11:00Pretty much as soon as school did. It's not that serious.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02And now he's with Melissa Parks.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08Melissa was always mooning around after Oliver. Guess she must have eventually got him drunk enough.
0:11:08 > 0:11:12Was he ever violent? Did he get into many fights at school?
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Oliver? No.
0:11:15 > 0:11:16Who'd want to fight him?
0:11:16 > 0:11:19He was incredibly popular.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23We understand he collected Japanese blades. Still does, apparently.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26And he brought a knife to the school at the end of that term.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28What has any of this got to do with Mr Bowe's disappearance?
0:11:28 > 0:11:31He was supposed to hand the knife in to Jason Bowe.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33How do you think he'd react to that?
0:11:33 > 0:11:35- Being told to get rid of it? - I don't know.
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Brian?
0:11:36 > 0:11:41I've lost me glasses. Well, that wasn't very clever, was it?
0:11:41 > 0:11:45The necklace. That's Jason Bowe's.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48It's the one he's wearing in that picture on the wall out there.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- That IS interesting.- So you were seeing him as well at the time?
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- It wasn't like that. - What was it like?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57I was in love with him. I thought he was in love with me too.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00- And were you still seeing him when he disappeared?- Yes.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03You "thought" he was in love with you.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04How do you mean "thought"?
0:12:04 > 0:12:09Well he ran off, didn't he? At least I thought he did.
0:12:09 > 0:12:13- You didn't wonder why? - I used to get jealous.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15All the girls had crushes on him.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18They used to make up stories about what they'd done with him.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22I used to get scared they weren't just stories and...
0:12:23 > 0:12:26I'm sure I wasn't easy to be with.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29Where were you when he disappeared?
0:12:29 > 0:12:30I was in my dorm.
0:12:30 > 0:12:31Can you prove that?
0:12:32 > 0:12:34There's the lock-up book.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37The whole school is locked up at night, so no one can get in or out.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39We had to sign in so they knew we were inside.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Could Oliver Lebbon have discovered you were two-timing him?
0:12:45 > 0:12:47No...
0:12:48 > 0:12:50I don't know. I don't think so.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Bastard!
0:12:53 > 0:12:55I totally looked up to him.
0:12:55 > 0:12:59What happened to the knife you had at school?
0:12:59 > 0:13:01- What knife?- The hunting knife.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05- You were supposed to hand it in to Mr Bowe.- Ah, that knife. It was a Hattori hunter.
0:13:05 > 0:13:08Very rare and very expensive.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Why do you think I was so reluctant to give it up?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12So you didn't?
0:13:12 > 0:13:14I was going to.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18When I got back from the competition, I went to get it from my room,
0:13:18 > 0:13:19but it was gone.
0:13:20 > 0:13:25The next morning, so was Mr Bowe. And whoever nicked it never gave it back.
0:13:25 > 0:13:30But I don't think you're going to find Mr Bowe by finding my knife.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33We found a body, buried in the woods behind the school.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Mr Bowe?
0:13:37 > 0:13:39We don't know that yet.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41But we think whoever it was had been stabbed.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44So if it does turn out to be Jason Bowe,
0:13:44 > 0:13:48the man who was having an affair with your girlfriend, who went missing the same night
0:13:48 > 0:13:51as your hunting knife... Can you see where I'm going with this?
0:13:51 > 0:13:53I've never hurt anyone in my life.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57I didn't know anything about Mr Bowe and Eleanor.
0:13:57 > 0:13:58Where were you that night?
0:13:58 > 0:14:01I got drunk in my room and passed out.
0:14:01 > 0:14:02- Alone?- Yes.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06You understand why I wouldn't just take your word for that.
0:14:06 > 0:14:08If you found him in the woods, then...
0:14:09 > 0:14:11The school's locked up at night.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15I couldn't have got out without setting the alarm off, and even if I could,
0:14:15 > 0:14:19I wouldn't have been able to get back in. This is nothing to do with me. I swear to you.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24I'll only be gone for two nights.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27There's some chicken in a Tupperware on the second shelf in the fridge,
0:14:27 > 0:14:30and there's fresh salad in the drawer for the lasagne
0:14:30 > 0:14:33which is in the middle of the fridge.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34They're all labelled.
0:14:34 > 0:14:39There's some bread there, and there's a new marmalade jar
0:14:39 > 0:14:41in the cupboard, in case that one runs out.
0:14:42 > 0:14:47And...there are your spare glasses.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Do not lose those as well.
0:14:52 > 0:14:54I didn't lose them.
0:14:54 > 0:14:57Did you hear what I said about the lasagne?
0:14:57 > 0:14:59- What lasagne? - For your tea tomorrow.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Oh, yes.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Yes!
0:15:04 > 0:15:06- Right, how long do you have to cook it for?- What?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08You weren't listening, were you?
0:15:08 > 0:15:12- Esther, I'm working.- You're not working. You're hiding from me!
0:15:12 > 0:15:15You have been ever since Jack retired.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Look? See? Working.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20What is the matter, Brian?
0:15:21 > 0:15:26How much do you think a new computer centre for a posh private school costs?
0:15:27 > 0:15:29I can't see how they can afford it.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34I shall miss these intimate little chats while I'm away(!)
0:15:53 > 0:15:58Yep, he did spend that last night in the pub.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02The landlord said that he was talking to, and being bought drinks by,
0:16:02 > 0:16:06a bloke called Lucas Graves, a local property developer.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09Apparently he didn't speak to the regulars, which was unusual,
0:16:09 > 0:16:13then he left ten minutes before closing, which again, was unusual.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16Lucas Graves? Where do I know that name from?
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Lucas Graves, the owner of LGG Developments.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23The company that dug up the body.
0:16:25 > 0:16:29You're asking me to remember a conversation I had with a virtual stranger five years ago?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Apparently you bought him drinks all night, Mr Graves.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Which was pretty generous of you if you didn't know him.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38I'm a generous man. I buy a lot of people drinks.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42He was often in the pub and normally he was quite chatty with everyone,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44but that night he was really quiet.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46So I asked him what was wrong and I bought him a drink.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48And what was wrong?
0:16:48 > 0:16:50He'd been having some trouble with old Archie Milgrow,
0:16:50 > 0:16:53the Latin teacher, but it didn't seem like that big a deal to me.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57And yet he disappeared a short while later.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59Well, obviously if I'd known that in advance,
0:16:59 > 0:17:02then I might have dug a little deeper.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05Assuming the body in the woods IS Jason Bowe,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07then Oliver Lebbon must be our prime suspect.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10He considered Bowe to be his mentor and his friend,
0:17:10 > 0:17:13but he was shagging his girlfriend. Lebbon had a thing about knives
0:17:13 > 0:17:16and the knife he had at school, which he was supposed to hand in to Bowe,
0:17:16 > 0:17:17went missing the same night as Bowe did.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Oliver Lebbon says he was passed out in his room all night
0:17:20 > 0:17:23but there's no one to corroborate that.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25If it wasn't Lebbon, could it have been Eleanor Higgins?
0:17:25 > 0:17:27According to her school file,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30her mother died in a car accident when she was 11 years old.
0:17:30 > 0:17:36She received counselling for it, but there's mention here of self-harming after that,
0:17:36 > 0:17:38so there's certainly psychological issues.
0:17:38 > 0:17:43If she'd become too attached to Bowe and it seemed he didn't reciprocate...
0:17:43 > 0:17:45And if she knew about Lebbon's knife,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48and he's telling the truth about it going missing, maybe she took it.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52There's no way to pursue that without either a murder weapon or a positive ID on the body,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- and I want to look at the school finances.- Why?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Because this school is practically deserted.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Attendances are down across the board at independent schools,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03they're all struggling for money,
0:18:03 > 0:18:07but this lot are about to open a state-of-the-art computer centre.
0:18:07 > 0:18:08How can they afford it?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10What's that got to do with a missing PE teacher?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12He might be onto something.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Claire Swain. English teacher.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19She started at Peregrine Manor in the summer of 2007
0:18:19 > 0:18:23and appears to have been fired six weeks into the following autumn term.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26- OK...- I can't find her.
0:18:26 > 0:18:31The references don't check out and the forwarding address is fake.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Another missing teacher.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34So maybe Brian's right,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37maybe there is something more sinister going on in this place.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Mr Lane. What can we do for you?
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Helen, if you could check all the students have clean blazers for tomorrow. Time is ticking on.
0:19:12 > 0:19:15We've been going through your staff reports
0:19:15 > 0:19:18and we've found a teacher called Claire Swain.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Now, you let go of her during the autumn term of 2007.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Yes, her time-keeping was dreadful.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26She never seemed to be where she was supposed to be.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Did her references check out?
0:19:28 > 0:19:29Of course. Why?
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Well, because we can't track down any of her referees
0:19:32 > 0:19:35and the forwarding address she left doesn't exist.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Well, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about that.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42You know, from your school photographs,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45it looks like the numbers have been falling for the last ten years.
0:19:46 > 0:19:48That must have caused a bit of belt-tightening.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51We receive very generous donations.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54It's one of the benefits of being such a well-connected school.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58Wouldn't it be easier to allow students from overseas to make up the numbers?
0:19:58 > 0:19:59That's what other independent schools do.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03That hasn't been necessary. What has this got to do with Jason Bowe?
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Well, it's just that, if you're relying on what's basically charity,
0:20:07 > 0:20:10rather than having the security of fee-paying pupils,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12well, that doesn't make sense, does it?
0:20:12 > 0:20:17This school was founded to provide an education for English boys and girls.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18It's part of the school's heritage.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22You mean white English boys and girls?
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Your ancestor, Edwin Clayton,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30he was against the abolition of slavery, wasn't he?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34And your grandfather, Arthur Clayton,
0:20:34 > 0:20:39- was one of Oswald Mosley's most fervent supporters. - I don't see the relevance.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Do you know, I haven't seen a single Asian or black pupil in this place.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44Not one.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Are you calling me a racist?
0:20:47 > 0:20:49I'm just making an observation.
0:20:49 > 0:20:50An offensive one.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53And I might say the same of you.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56I see no coloured faces in your team.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59And very few in your higher ranks.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02But we have some, rather than none.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04I'd like to take a look at your financial records.
0:21:04 > 0:21:11I'm sure your efforts would be better spent concentrating outside the school, but go ahead.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16It may take you some time. Our system is still on paper.
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Oh I'm good on paper.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Any possible Jack replacements yet?
0:21:59 > 0:22:01Not as yet, no.
0:22:01 > 0:22:03There's got to be someone!
0:22:03 > 0:22:05PHONE RINGS
0:22:07 > 0:22:08Sir?
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Oh. Yeah. Will do.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Thanks for letting us know.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20We're done. The dental records are a match for Jason Bowe,
0:22:20 > 0:22:22so I've got to hand it over to MIT.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25I wouldn't be too quick with that. I've found Claire Swain.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27- Where?- In the UCOS files.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Her real name was Claire Swan,
0:22:29 > 0:22:33and her listed profession is "private investigator".
0:22:33 > 0:22:37- So she must have been undercover at the school.- Missing or dead?
0:22:37 > 0:22:41Dead. Hit and run. Two days after she left Peregrine Manor.
0:22:41 > 0:22:45And Lebbon couldn't have killed them both because when Claire Swan was run over,
0:22:45 > 0:22:49he was still in hospital recovering from his surfing accident.
0:22:50 > 0:22:56But now she's a cold case, I think we should keep them both with UCOS.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22That policeman working late?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Maybe I should take him a cup of tea.
0:23:26 > 0:23:31This isn't a game, Helen. Enough is enough. You don't need it.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Give it back, it needs to be destroyed.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35It's not that simple.
0:23:35 > 0:23:36Of course it is.
0:23:36 > 0:23:40Nothing's changed. Not for me.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Believe me, Helen, you do not know what you have,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47and you do not want to come out on the wrong side of this.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22Oh, bloody hell!
0:24:56 > 0:24:58That chair's about 200 years old.
0:24:58 > 0:24:59What the...?
0:24:59 > 0:25:01I don't think you should stand on it.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05No.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10What do you think that camera's pointing at?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14I don't know. Something.
0:25:16 > 0:25:17They normally do.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27What are you doing out of bed?
0:25:27 > 0:25:29I'm conducting an experiment.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32Since they found those bones,
0:25:32 > 0:25:35everyone's going on about the Peregrine poltergeist.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36I'm not following you.
0:25:36 > 0:25:40All the stuff that goes missing? They think the poltergeist takes it.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42What kind of stuff?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Weird things. Toothbrushes. Bits of clothes.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Been happening for years, apparently.
0:25:48 > 0:25:52So what's the camera and thermometer all about?
0:25:54 > 0:25:58Well, sometimes ghosts and spirits can be caught on film
0:25:58 > 0:26:01even if you can't see them in real life.
0:26:01 > 0:26:06Plus, a sudden drop in temperature can be a sign of a paranormal presence.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Well, you've done your research. Anything so far?
0:26:10 > 0:26:13Nothing conclusive.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17Do you believe in ghosts?
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Well, I'm trying to keep an open mind.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23- But no. Not really. - No, I didn't think so,
0:26:23 > 0:26:26not with you being out here on your own in the middle of the night.
0:26:26 > 0:26:30I did try to do it this afternoon after prep.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34- But people got in the way. - Yes, people tend to do that.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Have you not got a friend you could do this kind of thing with?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41I did have a friend. David.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44He left, though. Had to go somewhere else.
0:26:44 > 0:26:45I had a friend like that.
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Do you miss him?
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Do you miss David?
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Shh.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06What are you still doing here?
0:27:06 > 0:27:09The doors are locked, I couldn't get out.
0:27:09 > 0:27:10Stay there, I'll come down.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17I'm sorry, I didn't wake you, did I?
0:27:18 > 0:27:22No. No. I'm a terrible sleeper.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25When my son was little, he was hyperactive.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Three hours' sleep a night seems to have become a habit.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30And which school did he go to?
0:27:30 > 0:27:32Well, he's here.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34That's a nice staff perk!
0:27:34 > 0:27:39Oh, it isn't normally allowed. Took some hefty persuasion, believe me.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41I was going to make some hot chocolate.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Do you fancy a mug?
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Then I can set you up in one of the empty dorms for the night?
0:27:47 > 0:27:50Well, that would be... Yeah, yeah, go on then.
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Thanks very much.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53I have a secret stash of marshmallows.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Do you like marshmallows?
0:27:57 > 0:27:58No.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11You're not really like the rest of them, are you?
0:28:13 > 0:28:14I don't know what you mean.
0:28:14 > 0:28:19You know. Privileged. Wealthy. Entitled.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Oh, I see. No. Hardly.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24But yet you're happy to make your son a part of that world?
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Well, I'd like to think I have some influence over who he is,
0:28:30 > 0:28:32the person he becomes.
0:28:33 > 0:28:35But a good education...
0:28:37 > 0:28:42The school he was at, the local school... He was in trouble there.
0:28:44 > 0:28:45Drinking.
0:28:46 > 0:28:48Drugs - I think, I suspect.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51And he was only 12.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54There's too many children.
0:28:54 > 0:29:00Those poor children. Too many of them in a class.
0:29:00 > 0:29:02How can they learn? How can they be helped?
0:29:04 > 0:29:07I know you're supposed to do something,
0:29:07 > 0:29:10to help make things better.
0:29:10 > 0:29:11But who am I?
0:29:13 > 0:29:15And all the time I was working here...
0:29:16 > 0:29:20..seeing the opportunities this school gives these kids.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25And you look at the disparity.
0:29:25 > 0:29:26I had to do better for him.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32And you think to yourself, "by hook or by crook".
0:29:34 > 0:29:39It's defeat, in a way. But what's the alternative?
0:29:39 > 0:29:41For him, I mean.
0:29:45 > 0:29:47Do you have children?
0:29:48 > 0:29:49Yeah. A son.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52Grown up now?
0:29:53 > 0:29:54Oh, yes.
0:29:56 > 0:29:57What does he do?
0:29:59 > 0:30:02Well, he used to be an accountant...
0:30:04 > 0:30:05I'm not sure now.
0:30:09 > 0:30:10I used to drink.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21Well, I'd better get to bed.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25Thanks for the cocoa. Second on the left?
0:30:25 > 0:30:27That's right.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Thanks. Good night.
0:30:29 > 0:30:30Night.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42I think I found something.
0:30:42 > 0:30:48You know, parents can't afford to send their kids to independent schools any more.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51Admissions are way down, year on year.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54So schools are having to make up the shortfall in income
0:30:54 > 0:30:57by bringing in high-paying foreign students.
0:30:57 > 0:31:00Yeah, but Klu Klux Clayton won't let anyone in who's not white?
0:31:00 > 0:31:05Exactly. So this school's short of money and yet Geoffrey Parks
0:31:05 > 0:31:08is on his way to open up a brand-new computer centre.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10And how did they pay for that?
0:31:10 > 0:31:14Charitable donations from very wealthy, very influential people.
0:31:15 > 0:31:21There's a fellow here called Ali Khan. Indian technology millionaire.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25He donated £180,000 to this school last year.
0:31:25 > 0:31:30Now why does a bloke from his background give money to a school like this?
0:31:30 > 0:31:32After Khan had made his donation,
0:31:32 > 0:31:36a government data contract was issued to his firm in Mumbai
0:31:36 > 0:31:41to the tune of £20 million by a select committee headed by Geoffrey Parks.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46All these donors have benefited in some way as a direct result
0:31:46 > 0:31:48of Geoffrey Parks' actions in government.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51And if that's what Claire Swan found out...
0:31:51 > 0:31:55Yeah, but hold on. None of this goes to Parks. It all comes to the school.
0:31:55 > 0:31:57If we're following this train of thought,
0:31:57 > 0:32:00he has to get something out of it and something worth killing for.
0:32:00 > 0:32:02PHONE RINGS
0:32:07 > 0:32:12Mr Graves, you hired Claire Swan to go undercover at Peregrine Manor.
0:32:12 > 0:32:16- Why?- About six years ago I heard the school was in financial trouble so I made an offer on it.
0:32:16 > 0:32:20A generous one. I quite fancied the place as a country club and hotel.
0:32:20 > 0:32:21Clayton wouldn't sell, though.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25So I got Claire to go in as a teacher and see if she could find some leverage.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29If they were having money trouble and if she could find a bit of scandal,
0:32:29 > 0:32:31well, Clayton might have had to rethink.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34- And what did she find out? - That's the thing. She never told me.
0:32:34 > 0:32:38She called to say she was out of the school and she'd found something that might be big.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42Said she'd call again when she'd checked out the facts.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45But the next night, she was killed, and that was that.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48Was it originally Claire Swan who told you the school was in financial trouble?
0:32:48 > 0:32:50God, no. That was Archie Milgrow.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54He rents a lock-up at one of my premises. Has done for years.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25< MAN CLEARS THROAT
0:33:25 > 0:33:29Archie Milgrow: the Peregrine Poltergeist.
0:33:31 > 0:33:36'Do you know how long I've been at that school? 35 years.'
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Hundreds of pupils. Teachers who come and go.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42None of them remember me.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46- You stole from them. - I didn't steal. Not really.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48I took nothing valuable.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Why did you take Mr Lane's glasses? He's not part of the school.
0:33:51 > 0:33:58You, this - it's all part of my story. All these things.
0:33:58 > 0:34:02They're my memories. My photo albums, if you will.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05- They're proof.- Proof of what?
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Proof that I was ever here at all.
0:34:08 > 0:34:13It's quite the collection. When did you start? 15 years ago?
0:34:13 > 0:34:14I don't know exactly.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16Oh, I think you do. It's quite clear to us.
0:34:16 > 0:34:20See, although you didn't take something from every student,
0:34:20 > 0:34:26you took something from every teacher who worked at that school since then. All except one.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29Jason Bowe. Why did you take nothing of his?
0:34:31 > 0:34:35I have to tell you, Mr Milgrow, that right now things aren't looking that good for you.
0:34:35 > 0:34:37None of this is exactly normal,
0:34:37 > 0:34:41but the one teacher who isn't represented in your...collection
0:34:41 > 0:34:44is the one you were seen arguing with on the night he disappeared.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46Did he find out about your little hobby?
0:34:48 > 0:34:52A few days before the end of term he saw me taking something from the laundry room
0:34:52 > 0:34:54and followed me to the lock-up.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56He said I was perverted.
0:34:56 > 0:35:00On reflection, perhaps the item I'd taken hadn't helped.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05A red bra belonging to Melissa Parks.
0:35:05 > 0:35:09He took it away. Along with his T-shirt.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11And what happened after that?
0:35:11 > 0:35:13I begged him to not report me.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15He said he'd decide what to do while he was away.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18That's what we were discussing on that last night.
0:35:18 > 0:35:21Lebbon's knife went missing. Maybe you took it while he was away.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25Then when Jason Bowe came back and decided to report you...
0:35:25 > 0:35:27You stabbed him.
0:35:27 > 0:35:28I didn't kill him.
0:35:28 > 0:35:30APPLAUSE
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Thank you, Mr Parks, for taking time out of your very busy schedule.
0:35:52 > 0:35:53I thought you'd left.
0:35:53 > 0:35:58We've taken somebody in for questioning - Archie Milgrow.
0:35:58 > 0:35:59He's the thief.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01The Peregrine Poltergeist.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Jason Bowe knew about it and was going to report it.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07Archie? Well, I... I'm quite surprised.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Well how did you manage that?
0:36:09 > 0:36:14Bowe caught him stealing Melissa Parks' red bra and followed him.
0:36:14 > 0:36:15Maybe I should let her know.
0:36:18 > 0:36:20You're as bad as him! You're as bad as him!
0:36:20 > 0:36:23You're a liar! A stupid, fat liar!
0:36:23 > 0:36:26What are you talking about? You're crazy!
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Don't touch me! You liar!
0:36:28 > 0:36:31I hate you! Don't touch me!
0:36:38 > 0:36:42I snuck into Jason's room to surprise him when he got back.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45It was the last night of term and I didn't really care if I got caught.
0:36:47 > 0:36:48And there it was on his bed.
0:36:50 > 0:36:53Her bra. I knew it was hers.
0:36:53 > 0:36:55Stupid fat cow.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58Melissa, fat? Hardly.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00She got fat at school.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03"Porky" Parks.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06You thought he'd slept with her.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09She told everyone she'd lost it getting off with somebody.
0:37:09 > 0:37:14It went round the whole school. Every boy, denying it was them.
0:37:14 > 0:37:17And then there it was, in Jason's room.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19That must have made you extremely angry.
0:37:19 > 0:37:22We argued, yes. I was hysterical.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24Asking how long it had been going on for.
0:37:24 > 0:37:25What did he say?
0:37:25 > 0:37:29He said the bra was nothing like that and that he loved me,
0:37:29 > 0:37:32but he wouldn't give me another explanation.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Just said I had to trust him.
0:37:34 > 0:37:35I said some terrible things.
0:37:38 > 0:37:43I told him I was going to tell Miss Clayton that he'd raped me.
0:37:43 > 0:37:44In the morning, he was gone.
0:37:46 > 0:37:48You called Geoffrey Parks a liar.
0:37:48 > 0:37:52I think you've got history with the Parks family that pre-dates Jason Bowe.
0:37:55 > 0:37:59My mother used to work for Geoffrey Parks.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06Are you trying to say you think they were more than work colleagues?
0:38:06 > 0:38:10She bought new things. Underwear.
0:38:12 > 0:38:13Started working late.
0:38:15 > 0:38:16My father didn't like it.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21She was working late the night she died.
0:38:22 > 0:38:24What do you mean, Eleanor?
0:38:24 > 0:38:27The coroner's report said she was alone in the car,
0:38:27 > 0:38:29but the doors weren't locked.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35The report says the doors weren't locked.
0:38:35 > 0:38:38If my mother was alone in the car or just with me,
0:38:38 > 0:38:41she always locked the doors from the inside. Always.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44So someone must have been with her.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50Whoever was with her left her there to die.
0:38:52 > 0:38:54He didn't even call an ambulance.
0:38:59 > 0:39:03She was my best friend when we were little, you know.
0:39:03 > 0:39:04Until the accident.
0:39:06 > 0:39:07Then we drifted.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12I started gaining weight and we moved to different friends.
0:39:13 > 0:39:16Why would she call your dad a liar?
0:39:17 > 0:39:18I don't know.
0:39:19 > 0:39:23She used to love my dad when we were kids.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26Something changed after the accident.
0:39:26 > 0:39:30But your father and her mother were close, yes?
0:39:30 > 0:39:34They worked together. Of course they were close. That was it.
0:39:34 > 0:39:37If I hadn't told that stupid lie about the bra,
0:39:37 > 0:39:38none of this would have come up.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Why would you make something like that up?
0:39:40 > 0:39:46You have no idea what it's like to be the chubby girl at school.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49"Porky" Parks. Pretending not to care about the snide digs.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54I just wanted to feel attractive. Normal. Like someone liked me.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59Eleanor wasn't the only one with problems.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01Your father's gone, Melissa.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04There's a cab for you at the side gate. And Mr Lane?
0:40:04 > 0:40:08If you could return the financial records to my office before you leave.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20Right, this is starting to make sense.
0:40:20 > 0:40:24Eleanor Higgins - she has a history of self-harming, she's emotionally unstable,
0:40:24 > 0:40:26she's involved in a relationship with Jason Bowe
0:40:26 > 0:40:31and she's come to believe that he's having an affair with Melissa Parks.
0:40:31 > 0:40:35Who's the daughter of the man that Eleanor believes was in the car
0:40:35 > 0:40:38when her mother crashed. But she couldn't have done it.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40The school was locked up and she was inside.
0:40:40 > 0:40:43How could she have got out?
0:41:03 > 0:41:05Remember what you said the other night?
0:41:05 > 0:41:07About what?
0:41:07 > 0:41:13I asked where this camera was pointing. You said, "Somewhere. They normally do".
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Stay here.
0:41:44 > 0:41:45Absolutely not.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48No, I didn't think you would.
0:42:07 > 0:42:11We must be outside the school perimeter by now.
0:42:26 > 0:42:30'The gardener's hut is only a few metres from where the body was found.'
0:42:30 > 0:42:36You know that if any blood was spilled in that shed then our forensic team will find it.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38No matter how hard you think you scrubbed.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42And I imagine some of it will be yours, won't it?
0:42:42 > 0:42:45You took Oliver Lebbon's knife out of his room while he was away.
0:42:45 > 0:42:49To cut yourself or to kill Jason Bowe?
0:42:52 > 0:42:54It was an accident.
0:42:54 > 0:42:58I put a note under Jason's door and told him to meet me in the shed.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00I said if he didn't come, I'd slit my wrists.
0:43:00 > 0:43:06I just kept thinking about that bra, and Melissa and her father...
0:43:06 > 0:43:07and my mother.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Melissa's red bra.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15My mother bought new underwear before she died.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19My father had shouted about it and I couldn't understand why.
0:43:19 > 0:43:24Thinking about Jason and Melissa made me think about my mother and Geoffrey Parks and the car doors
0:43:24 > 0:43:27and I didn't know why.
0:43:27 > 0:43:30I was just shouting all of this at Jason
0:43:30 > 0:43:33and I started cutting myself, right there in front of him.
0:43:34 > 0:43:36- He tried to stop me. - Then you stabbed him.
0:43:36 > 0:43:38It was an accident.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41He was trying to stop me and the knife just...
0:43:41 > 0:43:43It was so sharp. It didn't even go in that far.
0:43:43 > 0:43:45I could still see half the blade.
0:43:46 > 0:43:49I just couldn't bring myself to take it out.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51But you didn't try to get any help?
0:43:52 > 0:43:53No. He died.
0:43:54 > 0:43:58I dragged him out to the woods and buried him.
0:44:00 > 0:44:03You dragged a fully grown man at dead weight
0:44:03 > 0:44:05into the woods all by yourself?
0:44:05 > 0:44:09I couldn't do that, and I bet I'm a whole lot stronger than you.
0:44:09 > 0:44:13Unless you were extremely unlucky with where that knife hit,
0:44:13 > 0:44:16Jason Bowe would have been alive for quite some time after you stabbed him.
0:44:16 > 0:44:20So, your story is all very neat and tidy and tragic,
0:44:20 > 0:44:22but the ending doesn't work. Who helped you?
0:44:22 > 0:44:25That's what happened.
0:44:37 > 0:44:38Right, then.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Are you leaving?
0:44:40 > 0:44:42Yes.
0:44:42 > 0:44:45Eleanor Higgins has confessed to Jason Bowe's murder.
0:44:45 > 0:44:49Eleanor? Oh that poor girl.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54It's hard to believe.
0:44:54 > 0:44:56Yes. Yes, it is.
0:44:58 > 0:44:59You don't sound convinced.
0:44:59 > 0:45:03- Well, she's more convinced than we are.- What do you mean?
0:45:03 > 0:45:07Well, Eleanor's version of events doesn't fit with the forensic evidence.
0:45:07 > 0:45:12I don't know, maybe she's just mis-remembering a few things.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14- It was a long time ago.- Yeah.
0:45:15 > 0:45:19Well, it was nice to meet you, and thanks again for that cocoa.
0:45:23 > 0:45:25Why would she say she'd killed him if she hadn't?
0:45:29 > 0:45:31Maybe to protect someone.
0:45:31 > 0:45:32But there isn't anyone.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38He was a big lad, Jason. Heavy.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42A lot to drag through the woods and bury all by yourself,
0:45:42 > 0:45:46plus she was bleeding - she had some injuries, too.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48You think someone helped her?
0:45:48 > 0:45:52It's possible. And now she's covering for them.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55But even if she had help burying him, she still...
0:45:56 > 0:46:00She still did what she said. Killed him, I mean.
0:46:00 > 0:46:01Maybe.
0:46:02 > 0:46:08But the wound that she inflicted shouldn't have been fatal.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13So, if whoever was helping her finished him off, well...
0:46:13 > 0:46:16She could have spent all this time thinking she'd killed someone?
0:46:18 > 0:46:21- I expect it'll all come out in the wash.- Yes.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30There's something you need to see.
0:46:30 > 0:46:35And when you've seen it, I'll accept the consequences.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41Helen Hadley's been sitting on this footage
0:46:41 > 0:46:43since the night of Bowe's death.
0:46:44 > 0:46:47That makes her an accessory after the fact.
0:46:49 > 0:46:53After a few minutes, we get this.
0:46:59 > 0:47:00Well, well, well.
0:47:02 > 0:47:05Then there's a time gap of about an hour and a half.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08Before this.
0:47:18 > 0:47:19We should bring her in.
0:47:19 > 0:47:21It's not enough.
0:47:21 > 0:47:22But we see her...
0:47:22 > 0:47:26We see her with an upset girl. That's all. No body. No murder weapon.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28So now what?
0:47:28 > 0:47:31OK. Regardless of what we can prove,
0:47:31 > 0:47:34we feel certain that Clayton helped Eleanor bury that body.
0:47:34 > 0:47:35- Right?- Right.
0:47:35 > 0:47:39So she goes into the shed and sees Jason Bowe on the floor.
0:47:39 > 0:47:43She's probably left Eleanor in the passage or sent her out of the room.
0:47:43 > 0:47:47Bowe is still alive because the wound that Eleanor describes giving him couldn't have killed him.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50So Clayton could have saved him, but she didn't. Why?
0:47:50 > 0:47:52What made her stick the knife in deeper?
0:47:52 > 0:47:56The consequences of him surviving this were obviously greater
0:47:56 > 0:47:58than the consequences of her killing him.
0:47:59 > 0:48:03Eleanor said that before she stabbed Bowe she was ranting at him
0:48:03 > 0:48:05about her mother's crash.
0:48:05 > 0:48:06Well, is that it?
0:48:06 > 0:48:10Her talking about Geoffrey Parks in relation to her mum's death,
0:48:10 > 0:48:12is that the knowledge that got Bowe killed?
0:48:12 > 0:48:16It's what Clayton's got on Parks - how she's getting the donations to the school.
0:48:16 > 0:48:21So, as she sees it, she killed Jason Bowe to protect the school's future?
0:48:21 > 0:48:26But she's not going to admit it, is she? And we can't prove anything that happened that night of the crash.
0:48:26 > 0:48:30Parks is hardly going to tell the truth, and Eleanor's testimony wouldn't stand up in court.
0:48:30 > 0:48:32But she wasn't the only one traumatised by those events.
0:48:32 > 0:48:37If Parks was in that car, then there are two families involved.
0:48:37 > 0:48:42We've focused on Eleanor because she was the one that gave us the story in the first place
0:48:42 > 0:48:45plus she was the one most obviously affected by it.
0:48:45 > 0:48:48Maybe we should be looking elsewhere.
0:48:48 > 0:48:51You and Eleanor were best of friends, weren't you,
0:48:51 > 0:48:53right up until her mother's car crash.
0:48:53 > 0:48:58- So?- Well, everyone can see how it damaged Eleanor.
0:48:58 > 0:49:01But you changed after that, as well.
0:49:01 > 0:49:05I put on some weight. Lots of kids do.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08No, you put on a lot of weight. Very quickly.
0:49:08 > 0:49:13And this all started just after Eleanor's mother died.
0:49:15 > 0:49:21See, a lot of what's going on here seems to lead back to the events of that night.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26Where was your dad, that night?
0:49:28 > 0:49:29At home.
0:49:32 > 0:49:37This isn't a formal interview, you know. Nothing's being recorded.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39There's nobody listening.
0:49:39 > 0:49:44I'm not even a policeman. I'm retired.
0:49:46 > 0:49:50Whatever happened that night, you filed it away.
0:49:51 > 0:49:54So you didn't have to look at it.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57That's when you started eating,
0:49:57 > 0:50:00that's when you started to distance yourself from Eleanor -
0:50:00 > 0:50:03that way you could pretend it never happened.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10Well, maybe now's the time to get it off your chest, eh?
0:50:17 > 0:50:18Something woke me up.
0:50:21 > 0:50:24Maybe it was the car pulling in the drive. It was late.
0:50:26 > 0:50:28I wanted a glass of water.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35I was at the top of the stairs when the front door opened.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40My father came in.
0:50:43 > 0:50:44He was crying.
0:50:45 > 0:50:49I was only 11, he was my dad.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51I couldn't understand why he was crying.
0:50:55 > 0:50:56I ran back to bed.
0:50:59 > 0:51:05The next day, they all acted so normal. Even my mother.
0:51:05 > 0:51:10She came and told me that Eleanor's mother had died.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16I asked her about the night before. Where Dad had been.
0:51:17 > 0:51:19She said he hadn't gone out.
0:51:21 > 0:51:25When he came in, he was on his own, was he?
0:51:28 > 0:51:29No.
0:51:33 > 0:51:34Miss Clayton was with him.
0:51:40 > 0:51:41He ran away from the accident.
0:51:44 > 0:51:47He must have rung her, cos she drove him home.
0:51:51 > 0:51:55You know, you really should put this down in a statement.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Eleanor's whole future could depend on it.
0:51:59 > 0:52:05I know you're not friends now, but you were.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07This is a complete fantasy.
0:52:07 > 0:52:08No, it isn't.
0:52:08 > 0:52:11Then I presume you have some evidence.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14We have a videotape from the night that Jason Bowe disappeared,
0:52:14 > 0:52:18which Helen Hadley tells us you're very anxious to get hold of.
0:52:18 > 0:52:21We've also got a statement from Melissa Parks telling us
0:52:21 > 0:52:25that you brought Geoffrey Parks home on the night of the crash.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27She was 11 years old.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29Eleanor Higgins is next door.
0:52:29 > 0:52:31She's confessed to the murder of Jason Bowe.
0:52:31 > 0:52:35But we said we didn't believe she buried him on her own.
0:52:35 > 0:52:39We also told her that we doubt she delivered the fatal blow.
0:52:39 > 0:52:43She's confused at the moment, but it won't be long before she realises what really happened in that shed
0:52:43 > 0:52:44and gives you up.
0:52:44 > 0:52:47At which point you will have the testimony
0:52:47 > 0:52:51of a psychologically damaged, emotionally distraught young girl,
0:52:51 > 0:52:55against the word of a woman whose family has run one of the finest schools in England
0:52:55 > 0:52:57for six generations.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59That's the point, isn't it? That's what all this is about.
0:52:59 > 0:53:01You'll do anything to save your school.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04But what's going to happen when Eleanor finally gives you up
0:53:04 > 0:53:07and, unreliable testimony or not, we bring in Geoffrey Parks
0:53:07 > 0:53:10and present him with everything we've discovered?
0:53:10 > 0:53:14Do you think Parks cares more about your school than he does about his own career?
0:53:14 > 0:53:15No.
0:53:15 > 0:53:19He's going to paint you as a murderess, a blackmailer,
0:53:19 > 0:53:23and he'd be more than happy to sink your school to save himself.
0:53:23 > 0:53:27If you're really serious about saving your school
0:53:27 > 0:53:29then it's time for you to fall on your sword.
0:53:40 > 0:53:43I think I'm going to need a lawyer, aren't I?
0:54:35 > 0:54:38I never asked Elizabeth outright what happened that night.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44I thought she'd just helped... with the body.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46I thought Eleanor had killed him.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54I couldn't afford a school like this for my son.
0:54:57 > 0:55:00You've paid in other ways, though, haven't you?
0:55:00 > 0:55:02All those sleepless nights.
0:55:04 > 0:55:09I don't like to sleep. Jason Bowe haunts my dreams.
0:55:12 > 0:55:14He's always cold.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20Have you come to arrest me?
0:55:24 > 0:55:25They're waiting at the front.
0:55:33 > 0:55:36You found a new Jack in those files?
0:55:36 > 0:55:39You haven't even read any of them yet, have you?
0:55:39 > 0:55:42- Don't you start. - Look, Sandra,
0:55:42 > 0:55:47you're not the only one that misses that miserable old bugger. I wish he hadn't left. But he has.
0:55:47 > 0:55:50- And he's not coming back.- Gerry, I don't need a lecture.- Well, tough.
0:55:50 > 0:55:53Whether you like it or not, Jack has gone.
0:55:55 > 0:55:57But Brian and I, we're still here.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59And we can't do all this by ourselves!
0:55:59 > 0:56:00So read the bloody files!
0:56:00 > 0:56:03- All right! All right! I'll read them, OK?- Yeah, properly!
0:56:03 > 0:56:04Properly.
0:56:06 > 0:56:07- Promise?- Promise.
0:56:13 > 0:56:14- Good night.- Night.
0:56:30 > 0:56:34Brian? Remind me never to get that train again.
0:56:34 > 0:56:37It was full of commuters.
0:56:37 > 0:56:42I think the journey was nearly as tiring as looking after Jenny.
0:56:42 > 0:56:44Oh, she's camped out on the sofa, poor thing.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47Her ankle's black and blue and all swollen up.
0:56:47 > 0:56:49All she did was come off the kerb.
0:56:49 > 0:56:53Anyway, Anne's there till after the weekend, so I gave them both your love.
0:56:55 > 0:56:58What are you doing sitting here like this in the silence?
0:56:59 > 0:57:01Did you drop off?
0:57:01 > 0:57:05No, no, just...
0:57:05 > 0:57:06thinking.
0:57:06 > 0:57:11Oh, just thinking. Right, well, I'll leave you to it, then.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13I fancy a bath, anyway.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15I'm glad you're home.
0:57:17 > 0:57:18Are you?
0:57:21 > 0:57:22And I'm sorry.
0:57:24 > 0:57:26You know, for snapping at you.
0:57:27 > 0:57:29What is the matter, Brian?
0:57:31 > 0:57:34Why don't you just tell me and put us both out of our misery?
0:57:34 > 0:57:37Just sit with me, will you?
0:57:38 > 0:57:39All right.
0:57:44 > 0:57:45What is it?
0:57:45 > 0:57:47It's a secret.
0:57:49 > 0:57:51But I keep gnawing away at me head.
0:57:53 > 0:57:57I don't think I can carry it on my own.
0:57:57 > 0:58:02You can share it with me then, can't you? When you're ready.
0:58:03 > 0:58:05I think I'm ready.
0:58:10 > 0:58:11Well, go on.
0:58:18 > 0:58:19It's about Jack.
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