0:00:02 > 0:00:05# It's all right, it's OK, 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 > 0:00:19# It's all right, I say it's OK
0:00:19 > 0:00:22# We're getting to the end of the day #
0:00:25 > 0:00:30- Why did you kill him, Mehtin? - I didn't.- You're lying.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Look, I admit I was a bad man ten years ago.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37You were a heroin-smuggling sociopath who killed Sean Docherty.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39I didn't even know the guy.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42He was a poet, yeah? Do I look like I need a rhyme?
0:00:42 > 0:00:47- His body was found in your yard. - You "found" the poet on my patch
0:00:47 > 0:00:49and used it as an excuse to sniff around
0:00:49 > 0:00:52and bring me down for a load of other stuff.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55But you never charged me for the murder
0:00:55 > 0:01:00and I'm walking out of here in nine months, so go suck on that.
0:01:00 > 0:01:01Sean was
0:01:01 > 0:01:05bludgeoned to death and then set alight in your yard
0:01:05 > 0:01:08between 10 and 10.30pm on March 29th 2002.
0:01:08 > 0:01:13- If you say so. - Yet you weren't even in London according to your chauffeur Emre.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16- I was driving up to Newcastle. - He's told that story for ten years.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19He's a good lad. I'll buy him a drink when I get out.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23You'll have a job. He's gone into witness protection.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26But, before he went, he broke your alibi.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30So go suck on that.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32CHEERING AND WHISTLING
0:01:32 > 0:01:35Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thank you.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39You're all I got.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42A mirrored hostage to beauty,
0:01:42 > 0:01:47Never quite lost till very, Never quite lost till the end,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50"I would nail your arms to sunset,
0:01:50 > 0:01:52"I would pin your lies to luck,
0:01:52 > 0:01:57"When you put me to your crimson lips and make me want to f..."
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Sean Docherty at a poetry slam
0:01:59 > 0:02:03- in 2001. - That what you call it? - He was a 22-year-old
0:02:03 > 0:02:08from Belfast, recently graduated with a First from UCL
0:02:08 > 0:02:12and thought the most exciting poetic prospect of the new millennium.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14But his potential never got a chance to flower?
0:02:14 > 0:02:18His head was smashed his head in and his body burnt to a crisp.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Found in Mehtin Topal's scrap yard.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22- Who? - Topal - was a heroin smuggler
0:02:22 > 0:02:26with a network that reached from here to Turkey and beyond.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29What was a poet doing mixed up with a drug smuggler?
0:02:29 > 0:02:33Can I say right now, I'm allergic to poetry, OK?
0:02:33 > 0:02:36so I could take an admin role in this one.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40His body was so burnt, they couldn¹t get forensics,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43but Docherty's skin, blood, hair, finger and footprints
0:02:43 > 0:02:46- were all over the yard. - As were Topal's.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49As you¹d expect, seeing as he owned the place.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52He claimed he was nowhere near, but his alibi has just gone south.
0:02:52 > 0:02:56- And the initial investigation? - The evidence was only circumstantial
0:02:56 > 0:02:59and even though they had nothing solid to link into Sean's death,
0:02:59 > 0:03:04the CPS did him for drug dealing and laundering. He got 16 years.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07He'll have scores to settle, then, when he gets out.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10We have to prevent that from happening.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13They interviewed his sister before, she didn't have much to say.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18No, she's since married an Eoin Donaldson, who's got a GBH from 01.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21They don¹t share Sean's artistic sensibilities, then?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34- I didn¹t really know him. - Cos of the age difference?
0:03:34 > 0:03:3812 years. I'd left and come over before he got to primary school.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41What about when he came to university?
0:03:41 > 0:03:44He wasn't interested. I saw him a few times, when he needed money,
0:03:44 > 0:03:48- but he had more important things to do.- Things that got him killed?
0:03:48 > 0:03:51If you whore, fight and thieve, I¹m sure there's a price to pay.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- This is my husband, Eoin. They're asking about Sean. - Yeah?
0:03:57 > 0:04:00- How well did you know your brother-in-law? - He was a gobshite.- Eoin!
0:04:00 > 0:04:03I'm sure he was sweet when you were in Belfast,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06but when he came here, he was Billy Big Bollocks.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10- He got what was coming to him. - How did he get involved with Topal?
0:04:10 > 0:04:15Sean pissed off everyone he met. Round here that's not so clever.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18Can you tell us about your GBH?
0:04:18 > 0:04:23Load of nonsense. I used to be a silly boy before I fell in love.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27- Used to be? - Cleaned up my act ages ago, when I met the girl of my dreams.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Look, I got nothing to hide. All I'm saying is,
0:04:32 > 0:04:34if you want to find out who done Sean,
0:04:34 > 0:04:37you've got a job on your hands sorting through the list.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41Would you like to give us some names?
0:04:41 > 0:04:46You better come next door and take a seat. This could take a while.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49So we've got jilted lovers, angry husbands, dealers, pimps, bookies,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52bouncers and every villain who ever fenced in North London.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Like I said, he wasn't very popular.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59Mara said she hardly saw him, yet you give us a phone book - how come?
0:04:59 > 0:05:03I knew Sean a bit better than she ever needs to know, you understand?
0:05:03 > 0:05:08- No. Give me a little help. - We went on the lash a few times, that's all.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Sean was OK when he wasn't a twat.
0:05:09 > 0:05:13This list'll take weeks to look at. Are you sending us round the houses?
0:05:13 > 0:05:17I'm telling you how it is! But if you're really in a hurry
0:05:17 > 0:05:20and want to save yourselves some time...
0:05:20 > 0:05:23I'm no grass, but I'll give you this for free
0:05:23 > 0:05:25cos you'll never meet this geezer.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27Try us.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Gourkan Ozil.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34He ran some doors, sold some gear, kept a book or two.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Industrious chappie - what's he got to do with Sean?
0:05:36 > 0:05:39Sean owed him. Sean owed most people,
0:05:39 > 0:05:44but Ozil was the only one who'd slice you for his debt.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54I didn't know poets were so minted.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59We're in the wrong game. I could've been a poet.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02There was a young girl from Peru, who badly needed...
0:06:02 > 0:06:06Taxi's on its way to take him to the studio. You've got two minutes.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Wonder if SHE'S Peruvian.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11Thank you.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- Morning.- Morning.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Brian Lane and Gerry Standing.
0:06:19 > 0:06:24Sorry I can¹t give you long, I'm due on a chat show within the hour.
0:06:24 > 0:06:26Yeah? Why?
0:06:26 > 0:06:30Haven't you heard? I've been voted Britain's Sexiest Poet.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34- Your mum must be so proud. - Do a lot of that kind of thing?
0:06:34 > 0:06:39Too much. I only spend 20 per cent of my time actually writing.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42And the rest counting your money.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44Help yourself.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Oh.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51"Liminal Lakes". Thanks very much. Now, you were Sean's flatmate?
0:06:51 > 0:06:57Not at the time of his death. But we studied together and we were close.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00You told the original investigation you didn't know where he was living.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05Sean was a... a free spirit.
0:07:05 > 0:07:10He slept on floors, sofas, streets, boxes and other people's beds.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12When was the last time you saw him?
0:07:12 > 0:07:16- Haven't you read your notes? - We'd rather hear it first hand.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20He turned up and stayed a couple of nights, on the 17th and 18th -
0:07:20 > 0:07:22ten days or so before he died.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24How was he?
0:07:24 > 0:07:28Loud, funny,... brilliant.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Who was the last person to see him?
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Good question. He never carried a phone.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Last I heard he was trying to get to a party in Ibiza.
0:07:37 > 0:07:41We heard he wasn¹t very popular.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46Sean... Sean could start a fight in an empty house,
0:07:46 > 0:07:51- but that was only part of the story. - But that's the part we're hearing about most.
0:07:51 > 0:07:56He was also the most compassionate and inspiring of men.
0:07:56 > 0:07:58Were you lovers?
0:07:58 > 0:08:00Mm-hm.
0:08:00 > 0:08:05Not sexually. The modern era has a myopic obsession with sexual love,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09but there are other types. The Greeks had four different words.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Yes, Eros, but there was also Philia,
0:08:11 > 0:08:15Agape and Storge.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17Which type did you have for Sean?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Agape.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21I loved Sean's mind
0:08:21 > 0:08:24and his soul
0:08:24 > 0:08:28and every querulous and unpredictable moment with him.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Do people kill for Agape?
0:08:30 > 0:08:32I'm sure they do,
0:08:32 > 0:08:36but in this case, Sean was killed by that lowlife Topal. MOBILE PHONE CHIMES
0:08:36 > 0:08:39How they were involved, do you know?
0:08:39 > 0:08:42He never let me near his shady side.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46But I could tell he was terrified of something.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48The taxi is here.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51Did he ever mention a man called Gourkan Ozil?
0:08:52 > 0:08:54I have to go.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57He was a bookmaker. Sean owed him money.
0:08:57 > 0:09:03I don't know much about bookmakers. I'm sorry I can't be more help.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09He was frightened. Clammed up when we mentioned Ozil's name.
0:09:09 > 0:09:13Proper blast from the past, that. I haven't heard of him for years.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17- Didn¹t he keep a rival locked in a torture room? - Death by a thousand cuts.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22- If Docherty owed him, no surprise he wound up dead. - He had a deal with Serious Crime.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25I tried to get near him, they told me to back down.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28- Nothing about him on file. - Nah. SCD will have pulled it.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31I thought he went back to Turkey.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- Shall I ask the intelligence unit at his local station?- Yeah.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37- Shall I ask around on the streets? - OK.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00According to the original notes,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02nobody spoke to Docherty's university.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06- They questioned his college friends. - Didn¹t talk to his tutor though.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10- Tutors can be close to their students. - And the rest.- We got a name?
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Yeah, I just e-mailed HR.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15The tutor was a Professor Powell,
0:10:15 > 0:10:17she's an expert in modern poetry.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22She's still teaching at UCL AND she was tutor to Luke Oswald.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24Worth a visit. Anything on Ozil?
0:10:24 > 0:10:29- Nah. Everyone¹s too frightened to talk. - No, drop him. He's a smoke screen.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32The intel unit at Ozil¹s nick say he went back to Turkey years ago.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36- SCD probably helped him get there. - Eoin Donaldson said we'd never find him.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40But he didn't mention that his defence witness for his GBH in 2001
0:10:40 > 0:10:42was a Mr Tony Quinn.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Quinn? Wasn't he one of Topal's men?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Yeah, he got killed during the power struggle after Topal was nicked.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52If Donaldson knew one of Topal's thugs, he's got to be in the mix.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55You think Eoin worked for Topal as well?
0:10:55 > 0:10:58- Let's go and ask him. - Let's call a cab.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Cab for McAndrew?
0:11:08 > 0:11:12I used to hang about with Tony, got into a few scrapes.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14What sort of scrapes?
0:11:14 > 0:11:19Punch-ups in pubs. Tony was a big man, everyone wanted a pop at him.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Eoin, your GBH was more than that. It was intimidation of a shopkeeper.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27- Looked like racketeering to me. - Was that a job for Topal?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29OK, hands up, you got me.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33I was a bit of muscle, dished out a few slaps for Topal with Tony,
0:11:33 > 0:11:35that's all, it was innocent.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Why didn't you tell us?
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Not in front of Mara.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42If she thought I did stuff for Topal...
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Didn't she like the idea of someone who worked for a drug dealer?
0:11:46 > 0:11:48I never touched that side of things.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Anyway, Mara's the least of your worries.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55It looks to me like you avoided mentioning your connection to Topal
0:11:55 > 0:11:59because you knew it linked you to the scene of crime.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02I had nothing to with... Did you kill Sean?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05No! Look, I¹ve been helpful!
0:12:05 > 0:12:08Given you a list of people who might've wanted him dead.
0:12:08 > 0:12:12To throw us off the scent. Then you gave us Ozil, a bloody ghost!
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I told you he disappeared years ago.
0:12:14 > 0:12:18Where to? I dunno! Turkey? Witness protection?
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- Someone whacked him? I heard he... - Changing the subject again!
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Look, I had nothing to do with it.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27We'll be in touch.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31I don¹t like you.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37Auden's talking about the banality of human affliction,
0:12:37 > 0:12:39but we can all do that in the pub -
0:12:39 > 0:12:44"death sucks, but life goes on" is the thrust of what he's saying.
0:12:44 > 0:12:49But poetry isn't about the simple pursuit of a puzzle,
0:12:49 > 0:12:51it's about the method of expression.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54The language of a poem IS its ideas.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Didn't Auden also argue that poetry should,
0:12:58 > 0:13:01as far as possible, tell us the truth
0:13:01 > 0:13:03by exposing life's contradictions?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Beaux Arts is a manifestation of that,
0:13:06 > 0:13:10- the way it juxtaposes the ordinary...- Back in the real world -
0:13:10 > 0:13:15someone beat Docherty to death with a brick and set his body on fire -
0:13:15 > 0:13:19have you got any idea who might've done that to him?
0:13:19 > 0:13:23Did you know what was going on in his life outside these walls?
0:13:24 > 0:13:27I only knew him as a student.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31- What about him and Luke Oswald? - They seemed very close.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35Did you get any sense that Sean was in trouble? Did he miss lectures?
0:13:35 > 0:13:37No. Not at all.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Have you ever heard of a man called Mehtin Topal?
0:13:40 > 0:13:45- Not before... all this happened. - We're trying to find a connection
0:13:45 > 0:13:48between the two of them. Was Sean a druggie?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Absolutely not. - A dealer, then?
0:13:51 > 0:13:55Sean was a prodigiously talented poet. That was his alpha and omega.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00We've seen a tape of him performing at a slam. He was very compelling.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Poetry is all he ever thought about.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Really? I heard he was a bad bugger. Birds, booze and brawling.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11Poetry is the pursuit of truth. You can't find that sitting at home
0:14:11 > 0:14:15- with a Horlicks.- I suppose he wore velvet jackets an' all?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18I must apologise for my colleague.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21It's fine. To him, poetry is fey and unimportant
0:14:21 > 0:14:24whereas to me it's vital, muscular,
0:14:24 > 0:14:28it plunges us into the heart of the human condition.
0:14:28 > 0:14:29Absolutely.
0:14:29 > 0:14:35Sean had an appetite for life and heightened experience.
0:14:35 > 0:14:40- You sound like you were very fond of him.- I was.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Did you shag him?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Why are you so determinedly anti-intellectual?
0:14:46 > 0:14:52- She was selling us guff, not answering questions. - You wear it like a badge of pride.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56I was after the "truth of their human condition". They were at it.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00Maybe, but there are subtler ways of drawing her out
0:15:00 > 0:15:02and helping the investigation.
0:15:02 > 0:15:07Maybe she did him in when he chucked her. She looked like a bunny boiler.
0:15:07 > 0:15:12- She's not the type. - You're only saying that cos you want to get into her Alans.
0:15:12 > 0:15:18- Eh?- Cockney poetry. Alan Whickers. Work it out.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I hope you like prison food, Mehtin -
0:15:26 > 0:15:28cos you're gonna have an extended stay.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Is that like a joke, only much smaller? Should I be laughing?
0:15:32 > 0:15:35- You lied to us. - It's been known to happen.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39So you didn't know Docherty? His brother-in-law Eoin worked for you.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41Says who?
0:15:44 > 0:15:47Everyone talks too loud.
0:15:47 > 0:15:50Did Eoin also tell you that Sean worked for me?
0:15:50 > 0:15:52So you DID know Sean?!
0:15:52 > 0:15:57- Eoin introduced us. - You've spent ten years denying any knowledge of him.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01You were desperate to pin his death on me. Denial was my best tactic.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04So why yourself get an alibi if you had nothing to hide?
0:16:04 > 0:16:08Did Eoin also tell you that Sean grassed on him and Tony?
0:16:08 > 0:16:14He put them in the dock for GBH to get off a drink-drive charge. Idiot.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17- Is that why you wanted him dead? - I didn't like him. Nobody did.
0:16:17 > 0:16:22He was mouthy. So he never worked for me again, but I didn't kill him.
0:16:22 > 0:16:26- It's bad for business. - So who did kill him?
0:16:26 > 0:16:31- Somebody was trying to stitch me up. - Like who?- I don't squeal.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Well, you better start, cos everyone else is at it
0:16:34 > 0:16:37and from where I'm sitting, you're the only one in chains.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42Eoin Donaldson. He had a motive,
0:16:42 > 0:16:46- access to the yard and he had a problem with Sean.- Is that right?
0:16:46 > 0:16:50He wanted to marry the sister, but Sean kept getting him into trouble.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54She doesn't want a gangster for a husband.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56So Eoin does him, dumps him in my yard,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00calls it in and waits for you lot to put the blame my way.
0:17:00 > 0:17:05Where were you on the night of 29th March 2002?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Is this for real?
0:17:11 > 0:17:15I was at Spurs-Arsenal. I know I wasn't straight with you...
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Got any witnesses?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Sure.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Mark, Jase, Lenny -
0:17:24 > 0:17:26they all saw me there.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30Mark, Jase, Lenny. I'll be needing their full names and addresses.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33I didn't say anything cos Mara would have torn me apart if she found out.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36Found out what?
0:17:37 > 0:17:41That I introduced Sean to Topal.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45The kid ends up dead in his yard - that's game over for my marriage.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Football finishes just after 10 -
0:17:47 > 0:17:49still gives you time to kill Sean.
0:17:49 > 0:17:55- I was in the pub. The Barn - everyone would've seen me there. - What, Mark? Jase? Lenny?
0:17:55 > 0:18:00You admit working for Topal and introducing Sean? He needed cash. Thought I'd help.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Fat chance. What happened?
0:18:02 > 0:18:06He played the big lad.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09I had to slap him about - bring him in to line.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- Is this a confession, Eoin? - I didn't kill Sean.
0:18:12 > 0:18:17- Didn't he grass you up for your GBH? Is that why you killed him? - Topal done him. Everyone knows that.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19You thought Ozil last time.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25Tell you what I think - Topal had nothing to do with this,
0:18:25 > 0:18:29neither did Ozil or anyone else you've tried to put us on to.
0:18:29 > 0:18:33Sean was a bad penny. No end of trouble. He'd already squealed once,
0:18:33 > 0:18:36which proved he couldn't be trusted to keep his mouth shut
0:18:36 > 0:18:41so you killed him and then you put him in Topal's yard
0:18:41 > 0:18:44hoping he'd get the blame. That¹s what I think.
0:18:48 > 0:18:54- Thank you for coming along. - I'm happy to help, but I'm not sure what you're hoping to gain.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57An understanding of how this sort of life works.
0:19:00 > 0:19:02He seems very popular.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Shall we get our seats?
0:19:12 > 0:19:16"You remember our summer's secret,
0:19:16 > 0:19:19"Wild strawberries and honeyed wine,
0:19:19 > 0:19:24"Our fingers over lawns and flowers,
0:19:24 > 0:19:27"The season's ceaseless turn,
0:19:30 > 0:19:34"Naked, we were pure in rapture,
0:19:34 > 0:19:39"Let me be still... in your heart."
0:19:39 > 0:19:44- Are you all right? - I've heard those lines before. From Sean.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58I overreacted earlier. I'm not saying Oswald stole those lines.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01"Naked, we were pure in rapture"?
0:20:01 > 0:20:06"Let me be still in your heart". Sean once used them on me.
0:20:06 > 0:20:07Used?
0:20:07 > 0:20:11He was trying to get me into bed. Oldest trick in the book.
0:20:11 > 0:20:16- I expect you get a lot of that. - Most students get crushes,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18few of them do anything about it.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Sean was more impulsive.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24He, um, claimed he was in love with me.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28He'd been struck by "coup de foudre" - love at first sight.
0:20:28 > 0:20:33"Whoever loved that loved not at first sight". Shakespeare knew his onions.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Oh, it wasn't Shakespeare actually.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39Though he did use the line in As You Like It.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Marlowe coined the phrase seven years earlier.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Poets borrow and reference each other the whole time.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50So when Oswald... used a line today
0:20:50 > 0:20:54that you'd previously heard from Sean - doesn¹t mean he stole it?
0:20:57 > 0:21:00I shouldn't have got involved,
0:21:00 > 0:21:05it was completely unethical, but we were so happy.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07How long were you together?
0:21:07 > 0:21:11Eight months.
0:21:11 > 0:21:15- This could really help us. - It won't. That's why I didn¹t mention it before.
0:21:15 > 0:21:20- You might be able to shed light... - Our relationship was entirely personal.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24It didn¹t exist in any other context.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26Did he ever talk about Eoin?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28He didn't tell me anything about his life.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33We didn't talk about each other. We held each other and read our books.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38- Where would you meet? - My flat always. There wasn't anywhere else.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41Though he did take me away to a cottage once.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Very romantic.
0:21:44 > 0:21:48A place that Yeats rented once apparently.
0:21:48 > 0:21:52The idea thrilled Sean, sleeping in a bed of giants.
0:21:52 > 0:21:56- So what went wrong in the end? - I had to end it.
0:21:56 > 0:21:59One, the age difference.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02I was doing the right thing.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05He was so angry afterwards.
0:22:05 > 0:22:10Got into all sorts of trouble. I just wish I hadn't hurt him.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14- I knew they were at it! - No, it was a proper love affair.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19Sounds like she still loves him. Should've seized the day back then.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Still, not much to go on, is it?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23It's a tangible motive.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26Oswald, who wasn't a brilliant poet, kills Docherty, who was,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28and nicks his poetry.
0:22:28 > 0:22:33No, no, no. Brian, people kill each other because of love, hate, money -
0:22:33 > 0:22:35not poncy poetry.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40Well, I'd like to follow it up, Sandra. How's Eoin's alibi?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43His mates are standing up for him - at the game and then the pub.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47Whoa, whoa, whoa. Eoin's credit card was used at 10.45
0:22:47 > 0:22:50at a petrol station in Deptford!
0:22:50 > 0:22:54What was he doing over there? That's nowhere near the football.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56- Or the crime scene. - Pull him in again?
0:22:56 > 0:23:00No, let's wait til we get his mobile records, give him time to stew.
0:23:00 > 0:23:05All right, Brian, come on, let's go and see your thieving poet.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11SHE RINGS BELL
0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Is Oswald here?- No.
0:23:18 > 0:23:25- Are you his partner? - That's rather personal. You'd better come in.
0:23:25 > 0:23:31I'm sorting out Luke's papers while he's away. He's lost some notebooks.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33Are you his PA?
0:23:33 > 0:23:38His agent. Writers can't look after themselves. You end up being
0:23:38 > 0:23:41psychiatrist, butler, teacher...
0:23:41 > 0:23:44- Where can we find him? - Haven't a clue.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48- You mean he's gone missing? - No. He's gone writing.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50- Where?- Who knows?
0:23:50 > 0:23:55Some writers like the monotony of sameness and work from home.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Whereas Hemmingway wrote in brothels.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Was this trip planned?
0:24:01 > 0:24:06- You'll have to ask Luke. - Or did he skip off because we turned up asking awkward questions?
0:24:06 > 0:24:12Don't flatter yourself. He's got a reading tomorrow. He'll be back.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15I¹ll try and get along to it.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20Do you know why some of Docherty¹s work shows up in Luke's poetry?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- You suggesting he's a plagiarist? - Just asking.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26Sean and Luke were incredibly close.
0:24:26 > 0:24:29They discussed ideas, themes, techniques.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32You're implying Luke "stole" a line,
0:24:32 > 0:24:36but it's equally possible it was Sean who stole it from Luke first.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40- Have you any proof of that? - No. And nor have you.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45But poets constantly influence and quote each other in their work.
0:24:45 > 0:24:50Thanks. We'll be in touch... when your client come out of hiding.
0:24:56 > 0:24:58Who's she?
0:24:58 > 0:25:03- Eoin's real alibi. And why he's been telling us so many fibs.- Mistress?
0:25:03 > 0:25:06Not for ten years and she still hates him for taking fright
0:25:06 > 0:25:09and dumping her after Sean got killed.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14- So Eoin's persuaded her in to clear his name? - She didn't want him done for murder.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17He knew the phone records would lead us to her in the end.
0:25:17 > 0:25:22Anyway, she swears he was with her that night after the game.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Eoin's clean.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28"GARBLED VOICE"
0:25:31 > 0:25:34It's Topal all we need is the evidence.
0:25:34 > 0:25:37Topal ran a tight ship - why kill a numpty like Docherty,
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- then dump him in his own back yard? - Usual story, innit?
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Got cocky, thought he was bulletproof. Forgot to clean house.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47He hasn't got a motive, Gerry.
0:25:47 > 0:25:50Then why did he find himself an alibi and steer us to Eoin?
0:25:50 > 0:25:55- What did you get out of Oswald? - Vanished. Gone to do some writing, apparently.
0:25:55 > 0:25:59- You don't sound convinced. - I don't like people going AWOL. How we doing with Ozil?
0:25:59 > 0:26:04The files have definitely been pulled but SCD and Five both swear
0:26:04 > 0:26:08- they had nothing to do with it. - Great. He's in witness protection.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11I spoke to some uniform at Belmarsh, that¹s what they'd heard about him.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16- That's us stuffed. We'll never be allowed to near him. - All we¹ve got is hearsay on Ozil.
0:26:16 > 0:26:22- Both Eoin and Topal are much more likely suspects. - This is about poetry, not gangsters.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24Here we go.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27Oswald killed Docherty to steal his poetry.
0:26:27 > 0:26:32- Why else did he disappear as soon as we turned up? - I just want to know where he is.
0:26:32 > 0:26:38- And that agent of his claims she hasn't got a clue. - She's hiding something.
0:26:39 > 0:26:44- Look at this. - Oh, you bored our bollocks blue with this already!- Hang on.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50- "The scent..." - There!
0:26:50 > 0:26:53"Through human voices
0:26:53 > 0:26:56"Shake us
0:26:56 > 0:26:59"And we follow."
0:27:01 > 0:27:03He was schtupping Roxanne as well?
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Was this before or after the split with Powell?
0:27:06 > 0:27:10- I'm not sure. - Let's find out tomorrow morning. Come on.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12What I don¹t get
0:27:12 > 0:27:17is why two attractive, intelligent women are throwing themselves
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- at a scrote like Docherty? - It's the power of poetry, pal.
0:27:20 > 0:27:24- Don't be daft. - It's an aphrodisiac, man.
0:27:24 > 0:27:29Ugly men have always used honeyed words to lure attractive women.
0:27:29 > 0:27:34At last. An explanation of how he pulled Esther.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Darkness.
0:28:06 > 0:28:11Eternal... silence.
0:28:15 > 0:28:17A womb!
0:28:17 > 0:28:19Twisted with regret!
0:28:25 > 0:28:29Don¹t leave me! I shall die of pain!
0:28:29 > 0:28:32SHE SHRIEKS La-la-la-la-lal-la-la-la-la-la
0:28:32 > 0:28:36la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...
0:28:41 > 0:28:45Brilliant. I've always loved Andrew Marvell.
0:28:45 > 0:28:51This York stone is £15. So we could go for that or the terracotta.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Oh, yes, listen to this.
0:28:55 > 0:28:57"Had we but world enough and time,
0:28:57 > 0:29:00"This coyness, lady, were no crime."
0:29:00 > 0:29:03Or Indian sandstone, that's nice.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05"But at my back I always hear,
0:29:05 > 0:29:08"Time's winged chariot hurrying near,
0:29:08 > 0:29:11"And yonder all before us lie,
0:29:11 > 0:29:14- "Deserts of vast eternity." - Well, it's your own fault.
0:29:14 > 0:29:16I said we should sort out the lawn.
0:29:16 > 0:29:21"Let us roll our strength and all our sweetness up into one ball,
0:29:21 > 0:29:24"And tear our pleasures with rough strife
0:29:24 > 0:29:27"Thorough the iron gates of life!"
0:29:27 > 0:29:30Shut up.
0:29:32 > 0:29:37Actually, on second thoughts... Come here.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Ooh!
0:29:39 > 0:29:45Take those to the post room. And get me a double macchiato.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51You again? Are you looking for representation? Is Oswald back yet?
0:29:51 > 0:29:55- No. - Anyone would think he had something to hide.
0:29:55 > 0:29:58I have every confidence he'll be at his reading later.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02TV shows, book tours, lectures in America - you work him hard.
0:30:02 > 0:30:07Poets don¹t bathe in gold. If you want to make a living,
0:30:07 > 0:30:12- you need to maintain a profile. Luke understands that. - Why didn't you tell us
0:30:12 > 0:30:14you and Sean were lovers?
0:30:14 > 0:30:17I don't recall you ever asking.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21Most people would volunteer the information. Less suspicious.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24You can put away the nasty eyes.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29I took Sean on straight from uni.
0:30:29 > 0:30:32We subsequently slept with each other four times,
0:30:32 > 0:30:35or rather 15 times on four occasions if you really need to know,
0:30:35 > 0:30:41and he was a demanding lover, albeit a little bit impatient and weepy,
0:30:41 > 0:30:44who was on the rebound and had a thing for older women.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48Is this too much information or just about right?
0:30:48 > 0:30:52- Is this after he finished with Powell? - That's what I meant by "rebound".
0:30:52 > 0:30:55You should have told us this before.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58Did he mention any of his underworld activities to you?
0:30:58 > 0:31:03Nope. It was obvious he was taking a walk on the wild side
0:31:03 > 0:31:06and maybe even a little bit pleased with himself for it,
0:31:06 > 0:31:10but I wasn't interested in his autobiography.
0:31:10 > 0:31:13I was bloody annoyed at the older-woman tag too - I was only 29.
0:31:13 > 0:31:16Was his poetry any good?
0:31:16 > 0:31:18He was the real deal.
0:31:18 > 0:31:24- What about Oswald? - He is also a very exciting poet, I'll make him Laureate one day.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27- When did you take him on? - About the same time as Sean.
0:31:27 > 0:31:30Buy one, get one free?
0:31:30 > 0:31:32Poets aren't commodities.
0:31:32 > 0:31:37- But they pay for all this. - Misery memoirs of balloon-breasted celebrities pay for all this.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41- Poets bring prestige. - Who came first? Sean or Luke?
0:31:41 > 0:31:42I can't remember.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46You must have the details on file. Can we take a look?
0:31:46 > 0:31:49The filing is pretty chaotic.
0:31:49 > 0:31:54You take a look. I've got some calls to make.
0:31:59 > 0:32:02This is your filing?
0:32:02 > 0:32:05Yeah, we're fully computerised from 03,
0:32:05 > 0:32:08but I'm afraid the rest is still on paper. Sorry.
0:32:08 > 0:32:12Don¹t worry. Everything from the last 150 years is here somewhere.
0:32:12 > 0:32:15I'm sure you'll find what you¹re looking for.
0:32:15 > 0:32:19I wonder if Oswald is actually going to turn up.
0:32:19 > 0:32:24- He'd be a fool not to. - It would look extremely suspicious if he's done a runner.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28I don't mean that, I'm talking about the amount of fit birds here!
0:32:28 > 0:32:32I told you - poetry is an aphrodisiac.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35You don't need an aphrodisiac with this amount of crumpet.
0:32:35 > 0:32:39Open your mind to it. You might find yourself surprised.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43Where's Sarah got to?
0:32:43 > 0:32:45Ah, here she is.
0:32:48 > 0:32:52- Hi.- Hi. Are you all right?
0:32:52 > 0:32:55Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just...
0:32:56 > 0:33:01..being silly. Overactive imagination, I expect.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Luke Oswald.
0:33:15 > 0:33:21This isn't what I wanted when I set out to be a poet. Not at all.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27My, um, my friend died tragically young
0:33:27 > 0:33:30before his talent could flourish
0:33:30 > 0:33:33and, uh, there's not a day goes by
0:33:33 > 0:33:35that I don't...
0:33:39 > 0:33:43This poem "Rainsong"
0:33:44 > 0:33:48is a true expression of Sean Docherty¹s genius.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54"Summer rain drums the heads of broken yeomen...º
0:34:02 > 0:34:05"Mud-black horses shiver mouth-on-mouth,
0:34:05 > 0:34:07"Gaunt and quick as drunken wind..."
0:34:09 > 0:34:14- Enjoying it? - I'm loving it. Very surprising.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19Ooh, ooh!
0:34:35 > 0:34:36Gotcha!
0:34:38 > 0:34:41- Find what you wanted? - There was a lot to wade through.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44Sorry I couldn't be more help.
0:34:44 > 0:34:50We did find this. A letter you wrote to Oswald in November 2001.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53You thank him for sending in his material,
0:34:53 > 0:34:56but you can't represent him because you think his poetry
0:34:56 > 0:34:59is "immature and lacklustre".
0:34:59 > 0:35:02- There's no point mincing words. - It's a bit confusing -
0:35:02 > 0:35:07we also found a terms-of-engagement letter between the two of you
0:35:07 > 0:35:09from April the following year.
0:35:09 > 0:35:11Yes. So?
0:35:11 > 0:35:16You turn Oswald away, then after Docherty dies, you represent him.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18I had a spare place on my list.
0:35:18 > 0:35:23- That simple? - Luke sent me some new work. It was much stronger.
0:35:23 > 0:35:27- Really? - Poets mature at different moments.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30Some, like Dryden and Donne, get better with age.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33Some hit a couple of hot spots over 40 years
0:35:33 > 0:35:37and others, like Wordsworth, never recapture the glory of their youth.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40Have you ever read The Prelude?
0:35:40 > 0:35:41No.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44Don't.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47"Saved by what I am and pulled by what will be,
0:35:47 > 0:35:50"Hollow dusk widens every day..."
0:35:50 > 0:35:52- MOBILE PHONE CHIMES - Ooh...
0:35:56 > 0:35:57Hello?
0:35:57 > 0:36:01- Is Oswald with you? - Yeah. He's been going for hours.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04His agent is a liar and his poetry's transformed since Docherty died.
0:36:04 > 0:36:09- It's time we had a chat. Will you ask him to come in? - With pleasure.
0:36:09 > 0:36:14Are you insinuating I killed my dearest friend to steal his poetry?
0:36:14 > 0:36:17It's something we're considering.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20Your poem "Wild Strawberries"
0:36:20 > 0:36:23contains the line "Naked, we were pure in rapture
0:36:23 > 0:36:25"Let me be still in your heart."
0:36:25 > 0:36:28It does.
0:36:28 > 0:36:30Sean Docherty wrote that in 1998.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33- Says who? - You're denying you stole the line?
0:36:33 > 0:36:36Sarah Powell told you that, didn't she?
0:36:36 > 0:36:39You do know she's slightly conflicted when it comes to Sean?
0:36:39 > 0:36:46- So you knew about their affair? - I was too polite to say, but seeing as she's telling tales...
0:36:46 > 0:36:48Were you jealous of Sean's talent?
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Yes.
0:36:50 > 0:36:56He was a natural. You had to work harder. Did that make you angry?
0:36:56 > 0:37:01It made me full of admiration. And proud to be his friend.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04So how come his words are in your work?
0:37:04 > 0:37:09This is ridiculous. Sean was 22 when he died. Brilliant though he was,
0:37:09 > 0:37:12no poet produces real quality until they¹re much older.
0:37:12 > 0:37:16Wordsworth was best when he was young. Have you read The Prelude?
0:37:16 > 0:37:18Course I have.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20- Boring, isn't it? - What I mean is
0:37:20 > 0:37:25it's hardly worth me killing him for a few pages of juvenilia.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28Hm? Wouldn't it be better to wait till he's older
0:37:28 > 0:37:32to get my hands on a real, decent body of work?
0:37:32 > 0:37:37Why did you run away when we started asking you questions?
0:37:37 > 0:37:39I went away to write.
0:37:39 > 0:37:44You've got a habit of heading for the hills. When I first met you,
0:37:44 > 0:37:46you were very chatty until my colleague
0:37:46 > 0:37:49started asking you about Gourkan Ozil.
0:37:49 > 0:37:52- I told you, I don't know him. - You left as soon as
0:37:52 > 0:37:55- his name was mentioned. - I had a taxi waiting.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57- Where did you go to write? - I'm not telling you.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00I'd advise that cooperation is the best strategy here.
0:38:00 > 0:38:05I've never told anybody. That's the point of having somewhere secret.
0:38:05 > 0:38:10- I don't want you disappearing again, is that understood? - You can't stop me from working.
0:38:10 > 0:38:14If I need to go away, I'll go away.
0:38:16 > 0:38:21You approached Roxanne Guthrie in September 2001.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24She turned you down. But she signed Sean.
0:38:24 > 0:38:29Six weeks after his death, you approached her again and she agreed.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32Why the change?
0:38:32 > 0:38:35- You'd have to ask HER that. - She said you got better.
0:38:35 > 0:38:41She'd be right. The first pieces I sent her were... insipid.
0:38:41 > 0:38:46I was impatient, immature. A callow, coltish, privileged boy.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49Unlike Sean.
0:38:51 > 0:38:56He'd lived! That's what was inspiring about him.
0:38:56 > 0:38:58He made you a better writer?
0:38:58 > 0:39:05- Yes!- Because you stole his work. - Because I loved him so fiercely that when he died, I became a man!
0:39:05 > 0:39:10And I used my despair to become a better poet.
0:39:10 > 0:39:13That quality suffuses my work today.
0:39:15 > 0:39:20But I'd trade all my success and plaudits in a heartbeat,...
0:39:21 > 0:39:24..if I knew it would bring Sean back.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33It's annoying, but I think he's genuine.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36He clearly adored the bloke.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40- Didn¹t stop him nicking his poetry though, did it? - That's going to be hard to prove.
0:39:40 > 0:39:45If you ask me who's a more likely killer - Oswald or Topal and Ozil..
0:39:45 > 0:39:49What about Sarah Powell? Mara? Roxanne?
0:39:49 > 0:39:53- She rubbed you up the wrong way. - I'm surprised she hasn't married her own reflection.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57She's got a career, plenty of cash - why would she want to kill Sean?
0:39:57 > 0:40:01She was his rebound lover after Powell. Maybe he chucked her.
0:40:01 > 0:40:03She wouldn't take rejection well.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05She might hurt him in a moment of passion,
0:40:05 > 0:40:09but bash him on the head, douse him in petrol?
0:40:09 > 0:40:13- If she hated him badly enough... - You'd have to put Powell in the loop too.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17Maybe she killed him after she found him dipping his pen with Roxanne.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20Pardon my metaphor.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24Any luck?
0:40:24 > 0:40:27- I don't know. Women today. - Maybe it's your technique, Gerry.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30Nothing wrong with my technique, thistleface.
0:40:32 > 0:40:35- PHONE RINGS - Try a bit of poetry on her.
0:40:35 > 0:40:40- Do what?- Worked wonders for me and Esther.- Yeah?
0:40:40 > 0:40:45I read her a bit of Marvell's Coy Mistress and...
0:40:45 > 0:40:49- And what? - Poetry can be very effective.
0:40:52 > 0:40:57Sarah Powell's called the station. She claims she¹s being stalked.
0:40:57 > 0:41:00- Sorry to cause all this trouble. - What happened?
0:41:00 > 0:41:04- Someone followed me home. - Why would they want to do that?
0:41:04 > 0:41:07- I don't know. - Did you get a look at him?
0:41:07 > 0:41:10No, I just ran in here and locked myself in.
0:41:10 > 0:41:13When I looked out, he was by that tree.
0:41:13 > 0:41:18When he saw me pick up the phone to call you, he ran away.
0:41:18 > 0:41:20OK, thank you.
0:41:24 > 0:41:26There's a few shops further up the road.
0:41:26 > 0:41:29See if you can harvest CCTV from any of those
0:41:29 > 0:41:31and the ones en route from the tube.
0:41:31 > 0:41:35Brian... Can you stay for a bit?
0:41:38 > 0:41:41Ah, thank you.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43Well, these are Sean's.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46Ah, thanks.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Aha. "Rainsong" again.
0:41:50 > 0:41:54Think there's any significance in Oswald reading that today?
0:41:54 > 0:41:57It's one of Sean¹s best poems.
0:41:57 > 0:42:01Are there any clues in Sean's work
0:42:01 > 0:42:04as to what he was feeling or doing before he died?
0:42:04 > 0:42:09I've looked. Analysed every verse, metre, metaphor, rhyming scheme,
0:42:09 > 0:42:13- tried every sort of acrostic, numerology.- Numerology?
0:42:13 > 0:42:17You can find a "hidden" message in anything if you want to enough.
0:42:17 > 0:42:20You know, like the Bible Code fanatics
0:42:20 > 0:42:22or literary conspiracy theorists
0:42:22 > 0:42:25who say there's a hidden sentence in Shakespeare¹s sonnets
0:42:25 > 0:42:28that proclaims "Kit Marlowe wrote this."
0:42:28 > 0:42:31- HE CHUCKLES - But there¹s none of that in Sean¹s?
0:42:31 > 0:42:35Sean didn't go in for layered ambiguity. His work is very direct.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38Sadly, there's no hidden secrets from beyond the grave.
0:42:38 > 0:42:43Oswald's pretty good though, isn't he?
0:42:43 > 0:42:47Mm. Yes, I'd dismissed him as a media construct,
0:42:47 > 0:42:50but I've enjoyed what I've heard of his work so far.
0:42:50 > 0:42:54Here, you can borrow this if you like.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57- Oh.- There's a terrific tension in his work.
0:42:57 > 0:43:02He's very big on identity, redemption,
0:43:02 > 0:43:04the healing power of nature.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06I think he's exploring...
0:43:06 > 0:43:12Sorry. Would you mind going? I feel a bit tired.
0:43:18 > 0:43:22But soft, what bike from yonder copper breaks?
0:43:22 > 0:43:24How was your damsel in distress?
0:43:24 > 0:43:28"Brian, Brian, wherefore art thou, Brian?"
0:43:28 > 0:43:31Have you found that stalker yet?
0:43:31 > 0:43:33I've got your professor coming out the tube
0:43:33 > 0:43:38and I've got her walk home from bars, chemists, even a hairdresser.
0:43:38 > 0:43:42But it's hard to identify anyone who looks like they're following her.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46I bet it was Oswald. He's not answering. Nor is his bloody agent.
0:43:46 > 0:43:49Yeah, that makes sense. He was rattled.
0:43:49 > 0:43:52He probably left us and went straight to find Powell.
0:43:52 > 0:43:57- Worked out she told us about the missing poetry. - And he wanted to shut her up.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Yeah, so he's stalking her, planning his next move...
0:44:00 > 0:44:02And we turn up mob-handed.
0:44:02 > 0:44:08- Right, issue a picture. - Hold it, hold it. Take a look at this.
0:44:10 > 0:44:11What?
0:44:13 > 0:44:16Blimey, it's Sean Docherty!
0:44:16 > 0:44:19So who's the body in the yard?
0:44:19 > 0:44:23I've got some good news for you, Mara.
0:44:23 > 0:44:28It's not Sean's body in Mehtin Topal's scrap yard.
0:44:28 > 0:44:32But then you knew that all along, didn't you?
0:44:32 > 0:44:35Did you not know she lied to the police? Let us think Sean was dead?
0:44:35 > 0:44:39- He's alive? - Yeah, she probably knows where he is right now.
0:44:39 > 0:44:42- I don't! I swear I don't! - Mara...
0:44:42 > 0:44:44He made me do it.
0:44:44 > 0:44:48Listen, son, the Prison Authorities aren't going to let you walk
0:44:48 > 0:44:50with this complication over your head.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54We just want to know what actually happened in that yard.
0:44:54 > 0:44:56It's not Docherty, but the bones were dressed like him.
0:44:56 > 0:44:58He's your suspect, I'm in the clear.
0:44:58 > 0:45:02- So what's his connection with Ozil? - He owed him money.
0:45:02 > 0:45:07Ozil had been chasing him all day. Sean was terrified.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Ozil? So he IS involved in this?
0:45:09 > 0:45:14I don't know! Sean said the police would find a body with his stuff
0:45:14 > 0:45:16- and when they did I was to...- Lie.
0:45:16 > 0:45:19If I didn't help him, he'd tell you lot about the jobs
0:45:19 > 0:45:21that Eoin and him did for Topal.
0:45:21 > 0:45:27- What jobs? - I knew you'd stop all your bad behaviour
0:45:27 > 0:45:30if Sean wasn¹t around to lead you astray!
0:45:30 > 0:45:33- Where is he now? - I don't know!
0:45:33 > 0:45:36I just wanted him out of our life!
0:45:43 > 0:45:46Right, how does this sound?
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Ozil is after Sean for his debt.
0:45:48 > 0:45:53Sean comes clean and arranges to meet him at the yard after hours.
0:45:53 > 0:45:58So they get together at the yard. Sean lumps him, swaps his clothes,
0:45:58 > 0:46:01pours petrol all over him and then scarpers.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04Could've been planning the whole thing for months.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08Yeah. All we've got to do now is find the bastard and ask him.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11OK, we're saying that he burns Ozil and runs.
0:46:11 > 0:46:14He's a poet who loves nature, but he's a drinker and a gambler
0:46:14 > 0:46:18- and he likes a Friday-night punch-up, so where would he go? - Isle of Dogs?
0:46:20 > 0:46:24I can't find Powell. She's skipped her lectures,
0:46:24 > 0:46:26hasn't been seen since last night.
0:46:28 > 0:46:29Sarah!
0:46:29 > 0:46:33- Sarah, are you in there?! - Not unless she's been murdered.
0:46:33 > 0:46:37- Well, it's what we're all thinking. - We can¹t wait for backup.
0:46:37 > 0:46:42- OK, I'm concerned for the safety of the person inside. All agree? - ALL: Yeah.
0:46:42 > 0:46:45Steve, do your thing.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Oh, OK.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52Here we go. This should do it.
0:46:55 > 0:46:57- Open sesame. - Well done.
0:46:57 > 0:46:59Sarah!
0:46:59 > 0:47:03- She's not strangled in the bedroom. - Or chopped up in the bath.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06- So what's happened to her? - She's with Docherty.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08What happened here last night?
0:47:08 > 0:47:10We talked.
0:47:10 > 0:47:15A wide-ranging literary discussion actually, it was wonderful.
0:47:15 > 0:47:21Although she did suddenly ask me to leave. Her mood just changed.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23I asked her about Docherty's poems
0:47:23 > 0:47:27and if they contained any hidden meaning.
0:47:33 > 0:47:38It's "Rainsong". She's noticed some kind of message in "Rainsong"!
0:47:38 > 0:47:42- What message? - I'm not sure. Where he is maybe?
0:47:42 > 0:47:48If we can decipher what she saw in this poem, we can find Docherty.
0:47:48 > 0:47:53All right. You stick with that. Boys - with me.
0:47:53 > 0:47:58I reckon Oswald, Docherty and Powell are all in on this.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01- I¹m going to go to Oswald's house. - He won't be there.
0:48:01 > 0:48:07- No, but it's time his agent helped. - I'll get on CCTV, see if there's any trace of Powell leaving here.
0:48:07 > 0:48:09- OK. - What about me?
0:48:09 > 0:48:14- Track her phone, tell us where she went.- We haven't got time for a triangulation request...
0:48:14 > 0:48:19- You still got that contact at the mobile network? - Alice? Yeah.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23- Pay her a visit. - Do I have to? She's a bit overwhelming.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26Take one for the team, Gerry.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31You know, there's a lot of similarities
0:48:31 > 0:48:36between this and the supposed death of Christopher Marlowe in 1593.
0:48:36 > 0:48:40Marlowe had debts, he was in trouble with the state
0:48:40 > 0:48:44and a lot of academics reckon that he didn't die,
0:48:44 > 0:48:47but faked his own death and then...
0:48:47 > 0:48:52- Spare me the literary lecture. This is a manhunt. - Yeah, but nobody can find them.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54This can show us where they are!
0:48:54 > 0:48:58I know you feel taken for a ride, but let that go, do some policing.
0:48:58 > 0:49:04Look, if we start by running a simple cipher text,
0:49:04 > 0:49:09where we replace each letter with the next letter in the alphabet...
0:49:14 > 0:49:17Alice! Fancy bumping into you.
0:49:19 > 0:49:23You didn't call. You're very rude.
0:49:23 > 0:49:27No. but I've been ever so busy. Been undercover.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30And I've got a booty like Beyonce's.
0:49:30 > 0:49:34No, no, Alice. I've been thinking about you, honestly.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36I've written a poem about us.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39A proper poem?
0:49:41 > 0:49:43Naked,...
0:49:43 > 0:49:47We were pure in rapture,
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Let me be still in your heart...
0:49:49 > 0:49:53It bangs on like that for a bit. I'll tell you the rest later,
0:49:53 > 0:49:56but first, I need a favour.
0:50:01 > 0:50:08No. There's no sign of them. She must have gone out a back exit.
0:50:08 > 0:50:12All is not lost. We could find her with a mono-alphabetic substitution.
0:50:12 > 0:50:16We just identify a "key text" to match against...
0:50:16 > 0:50:19Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21This is a long shot,
0:50:21 > 0:50:25but if you apply... frequency analysis
0:50:25 > 0:50:30to each letter of the poem,...
0:50:30 > 0:50:32you get a message.
0:50:32 > 0:50:35Yes? Yes! What?!
0:50:44 > 0:50:47DOORBELL
0:50:48 > 0:50:50- Where's Oswald? - He¹s gone away.
0:50:50 > 0:50:54- And you're going to tell me where. - I told you, I don't know.
0:50:54 > 0:50:57But Sean phoned me, if that's of any interest.
0:50:57 > 0:51:00He wants to come out of hiding.
0:51:00 > 0:51:06- I presume you told him to hand himself into the police? - I asked him if he was still writing.
0:51:06 > 0:51:08His renaissance'd be a sensation,
0:51:08 > 0:51:10but only if his poetry was up to snuff.
0:51:10 > 0:51:14You do know that Oswald has been in on this all along. With Sean.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18I suspect they've even been writing together. What do you think?
0:51:18 > 0:51:22This whole affair is becoming tiresome.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26Just find Sean and Luke, do what you have to do to sort this out
0:51:26 > 0:51:31- and let us get on with our lives. - I could get you ten years for perverting the course of justice.
0:51:31 > 0:51:37- Where is Oswald hiding? - Suffolk. And that's all I know.
0:51:37 > 0:51:42Oswald is in Suffolk. Any joy with Powell on CCTV?
0:51:42 > 0:51:45Not yet, but she hasn't used her Oyster or credit cards.
0:51:45 > 0:51:48That's coincidence or she knows what she¹s doing.
0:51:48 > 0:51:52- Has she been in contact with him all along? - She could've helped plan the escape.
0:51:52 > 0:51:57- Maybe she even helped kill Ozil. - You're being ridiculous!
0:51:57 > 0:52:01God, phone companies! Said it'd take three days to process my request!
0:52:01 > 0:52:07- We haven't got three days, Gerry. - Fortunately, Alice has hidden skills.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09It took her twenty minutes.
0:52:09 > 0:52:13Powell's mobile phone was last registered yesterday at 11.17.
0:52:13 > 0:52:15Junction 30 of the A12.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19- That's in Suffolk! She's gone to see Oswald. - Oh, I'm a bloody fool!
0:52:19 > 0:52:23Docherty and Oswald are Marlowe and Shakespeare!
0:52:23 > 0:52:25I'm looking at the wrong poem.
0:52:25 > 0:52:28A lot of people think Marlowe faked his death
0:52:28 > 0:52:31and subsequently fed his verse to Shakespeare.
0:52:31 > 0:52:36- There's meta-textual reference to the arrangement in As You Like It. - Brian, get to the point.
0:52:36 > 0:52:40Docherty has been alive all this time and giving his work to Oswald.
0:52:40 > 0:52:44So all Oswald's poems are actually Docherty's. D'you see?
0:52:44 > 0:52:48And that's where Powell got her clue from.
0:52:48 > 0:52:51Not from "Rainsong" but from "Liminal Lakes",
0:52:51 > 0:52:57- which, when we broke into her house, was open at this page. - So what did she see?
0:52:57 > 0:53:01I'm telling you, they're in a cottage nearby.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04There's got to be a thousand cottages in Suffolk.
0:53:04 > 0:53:07Yeah, but there's only one that Yeats rented.
0:53:07 > 0:53:11Docherty and Powell stayed there once ten years ago.
0:53:11 > 0:53:14And it's in his poem!
0:53:14 > 0:53:17"A decade dreaming in a giant's bed" -
0:53:17 > 0:53:20these are Docherty's words in Oswald's guise.
0:53:20 > 0:53:25- Makes all the sense in the world. - They're the words Powell used to describe their weekend away
0:53:25 > 0:53:30at the cottage that Yeats once rented. Yeats is the giant!
0:53:30 > 0:53:33You see, the poem's describing where Docherty lives.
0:53:33 > 0:53:37It's an autobiographical map if you know they once stayed there.
0:53:37 > 0:53:42And this is the clincher - "a white-bricked prisoner
0:53:42 > 0:53:45"circled by nature's changing crown".
0:53:54 > 0:53:57KNOCK AT DOOR, DOOR OPENS
0:53:59 > 0:54:01Where's Sean Docherty?
0:54:01 > 0:54:04Did you never hear about the man from Porlock?
0:54:04 > 0:54:08The entire poem "Kubla Khan" came to Coleridge in a dream,
0:54:08 > 0:54:14but while writing it down, on line 54, he was interrupted by a visitor.
0:54:14 > 0:54:16The rest of the poem vanished
0:54:16 > 0:54:20- like ripples on the surface of a stream. - Is there anyone else here with you?
0:54:20 > 0:54:23- Nope. - Have Powell and Docherty been here?
0:54:23 > 0:54:25No.
0:54:25 > 0:54:31And as you don¹t appear to have a warrant, I have to ask you to leave.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33Did you help fake Docherty's death?
0:54:33 > 0:54:36This feel a lot like harassment.
0:54:36 > 0:54:39- Why don't you answer the question? - I have lots of work to do.
0:54:39 > 0:54:44Arrest me or I promise I'll see you tomorrow to answer your questions.
0:54:44 > 0:54:48- - Tell us about Gourkan Ozil. - Do I need to call my lawyer? - We know you're alive, Sean!
0:54:48 > 0:54:54- You're starting to look very foolish now. - We can wait all day.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59This is embarrassing.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02Yes, you do need to call your lawyer.
0:55:04 > 0:55:08It's over, Luke. Don¹t tell them anything. Let me sort this out.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12This is my mess. It's right that it's me who pays the price.
0:55:15 > 0:55:18I'll come with you.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27When did you know?
0:55:27 > 0:55:30Not till I read the poem. Brian, I would've told you...
0:55:33 > 0:55:38You're not living up to the legend, Sean - rock-star poet,
0:55:38 > 0:55:41pursuing the truth - but I'm not getting any sense of that.
0:55:41 > 0:55:44Perhaps you're not so brilliant after all.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49Maybe that's why you killed Ozil.
0:55:49 > 0:55:54You were angry because you couldn't live up to the hype.
0:55:55 > 0:55:59It's OK. You don't have to tell us.
0:55:59 > 0:56:03Sarah's in the next room, sweating on a conspiracy charge.
0:56:03 > 0:56:07- Leave her alone! She's nothing to do with this! - Then, who is?
0:56:07 > 0:56:11You're in a world of trouble, son.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13I know.
0:56:13 > 0:56:16Tell me from the beginning.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18I did it.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21I...
0:56:21 > 0:56:23killed Gourkan Ozil.
0:56:25 > 0:56:29Right, Sean, Luke says that he did it.
0:56:29 > 0:56:31He wants you to tell us the truth.
0:56:35 > 0:56:37I owed Ozil money.
0:56:37 > 0:56:42It was only a few hundred quid, but...
0:56:43 > 0:56:47..he was determined to get his flesh.
0:56:48 > 0:56:52He'd been following me all day.
0:56:52 > 0:56:56- He was enjoying it, you know? - What happened?
0:56:59 > 0:57:01I was frantic.
0:57:01 > 0:57:04I ran to Luke's, I thought I¹d be safe there.
0:57:04 > 0:57:08But... Ozil smashed his way in and...
0:57:08 > 0:57:13- What happened then? - I got home.
0:57:13 > 0:57:16I heard Sean... whimpering.
0:57:18 > 0:57:21The smell of blood...
0:57:21 > 0:57:24He'd tied him to a chair.
0:57:24 > 0:57:26He was torturing him.
0:57:28 > 0:57:32He was going to kill me. Be under no doubt about that.
0:57:32 > 0:57:35So what did Luke do?
0:57:35 > 0:57:37Just went for him.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39And then?
0:57:39 > 0:57:42Got him cold with this punch.
0:57:44 > 0:57:47So pure and clean that...
0:57:49 > 0:57:51..just killed him.
0:57:53 > 0:57:58So after he killed Ozil, they just made the rest up on the hoof?
0:57:58 > 0:57:59Pure opportunism.
0:57:59 > 0:58:02And Oswald's got famous on Docherty¹s poems.
0:58:02 > 0:58:08- Oswald saved his life. I expect Sean was happy with the deal. - Maybe felt safer being "dead"
0:58:08 > 0:58:13- than having half of North London's gangsters after him.- Anyway,
0:58:13 > 0:58:15Oswald is determined to take the fall.
0:58:15 > 0:58:18He hated his friend being a fugitive because of what he'd done.
0:58:18 > 0:58:23- I'm sure his lawyers will be expensive enough to get him off. - And sadly Topal's in the clear.
0:58:23 > 0:58:27Doesn't matter, does it? We got a result. All's well that ends well.
0:58:27 > 0:58:32- Ha! That's Shakespeare, you know. - I know. I bloody love poetry!
0:58:32 > 0:58:36When I went to see Alice, she was ready to give me a right earbashing.
0:58:36 > 0:58:40One line of verse and she melted. It's bloody Viagra that stuff!
0:58:40 > 0:58:44- Told you. - Wasted on the likes of you.
0:58:47 > 0:58:49# It's all right, it's OK
0:58:49 > 0:58:52# Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey
0:58:52 > 0:58:55# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:58:55 > 0:58:58# Listen to what I say
0:58:58 > 0:59:00# It's all right, doing fine
0:59:00 > 0:59:03# Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine
0:59:03 > 0:59:06# It's all right, I say, it's OK
0:59:06 > 0:59:09# We're getting to the end of the day #
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