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BABY CRIES

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BABY CRIES

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Justine?

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Justine, it's me, Debs. Used my key.

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BABY CRIES

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Justine?

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Oh! Oh, Ellie!

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Oh, come here, darling. Oh, dear.

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Oh, come on.

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Oh, come on, sweet pea.

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Let's go and find out where Mummy is, shall we?

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Oh, poor you.

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Come on, then.

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Come on, then. What a good girl.

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Let's go down the stairs.

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Good girl.

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Oh.

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It's OK.

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It's OK, Ellie.

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It's OK.

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Let's go and find where Mummy is.

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Let's go and find...

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Oh! Oh, God! Oh, God!

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# Testator silens

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# Costestes e spiritu

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# Silentium. #

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'I can't take your call.

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'Leave a message and I'll call back.'

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Harry, I've got the coffees this morning. See you in a bit.

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And not a magnolia in sight.

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Now, now, don't be such a misery.

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Put your party face on.

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Please don't do that ever again.

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Yep, we'll go down the park. Try out your new boots.

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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, all right.

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Look, you be good a lad for Mum.

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DI Ronson. Jim.

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Harry Cunningham.

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-Three dead?

-Well, not quite.

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Paramedics worked on the son at the scene. Managed to resuscitate him.

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Took a couple of cracks to the skull. They're talking brain damage.

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Ex-husband. Frank McAteer, Father of Gemma, the dead girl.

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Poor bastard.

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They're nice people, might be fun.

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Oh, look!

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We could've just slipped away after the service, you know that?

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And miss the unveiling?

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-What?

-They've commissioned a statue of you.

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Please kill me now...

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Everything all right?

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Hi, it's Nikki Alexander. Yeah, hi.

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My colleague, Harry Cunningham,

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was just called out to an address in Staines...

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Can you just confirm the names of the victims for me, please?

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One day I was over at their lab, picking something up

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and Justine was pregnant, very pregnant.

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Almost full-term, in fact,

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and she had an eclamptic seizure.

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Luckily, I was able to help.

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Thank you.

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What was that about?

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The receptionist at Forensics... Justine Thompson.

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Yeah, what did she want?

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She's been murdered.

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It's not as if I knew her very well.

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And after the party we'd spoken on the phone,

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but just work stuff.

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Where's the father?

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Oh, we haven't managed to contact him yet.

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-Stuart, isn't it?

-Yeah.

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Ah, our angel of mercy, Doctor!

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-What can I get you? Beer? Wine?

-Beer'd be great. Thank you.

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Great, and Mrs C?

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No, Nikki's not... I mean, I say we're not married, we're...

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-Just colleagues.

-We're colleagues.

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That's all right, it's allowed. Great, come through.

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Red-letter day. Young Gemma was due to take a dance exam.

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The initial attack on the mother was here.

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No void areas... Probably attacked from behind.

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Blood pattern analysis suggests the blow to the head happened in here.

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But she's still conscious...

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She somehow manages to get herself out of the kitchen...

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Makes it to the stairs.

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Trying to go up?

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That's where her kids were.

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-So the killer followed her here, stabbed her in the back.

-But her body wasn't found here?

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-No.

-Then she was moved.

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Blood loss on that scale, she almost certainly would have been dead.

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So her attacker moved her from here,

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through into the front room.

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I know. Anyway, I know you need to stop.

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Oh... Look at him.

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Chatting to a beautiful woman, and he hasn't even had to pay her.

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She's smilier than I thought she'd be.

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Pathologist.

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I speak to her on the phone most weeks.

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It's funny though, I had her down as more of a librarian type.

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So she's not with...?

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No. Why? Do you fancy a crack?

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Just think, Debs... He knows your body better than you do.

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The head injury wasn't caused by a knife.

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The wound's larger.

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Roughly circular.

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So he used two weapons?

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Why change?

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Rigor firmly established in the larger joints.

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She's been dead in this environment a while.

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Roughly ten to 12 hours.

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It's 11 now, so...

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that takes us from 11 till one in the morning.

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Does that fit with your time frame?

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We don't have a time frame.

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Well, we've just started interviews, but we think she was last seen

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pulling on the drive at about six last night.

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That's where the boy was lying.

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Charlie Thompson, Justine's stepson, but Stuart's son.

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Oh! Oh, God! Oh, God!

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We've got press at the end of the road.

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Keep them there. You found Dad?

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No.

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If he's responsible, knows he can't escape this.

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Doubt he'll even try.

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So he's topped himself.

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Focus on the car, Billy.

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Picnic areas, lay-bys, woodland,

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anywhere he can park out of sight.

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Use your imagination. 20 miles, max.

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Yeah, sure.

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-Got everything you need?

-Did SOCOs find any weapons?

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They think the knife used on the mum came from the kitchen.

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They found one with a similar blade profile washed up

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and sitting on the draining board.

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-They've taken it for analysis.

-Washed up?

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As if he'd just finished chopping the veg.

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But the weapon used to inflict the head injury, the weapon used on the boy...

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Not found them yet.

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I'll bet they came from the house too.

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Using a knife you found in the kitchen?

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Doesn't sound like the murderer came with intent.

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We've considered burglary, but nothing's been taken,

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no sign of forced entry.

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And all... All the windows and doors were locked.

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Are you ready for upstairs?

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What's upstairs?

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This party is so retarded...

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-Ah, can we get a photo?

-Oh, quick one. I'm not very good with babies.

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She's a natural. Look at her.

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Come and get a photo of the Doc with Ellie.

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I wouldn't mind a few photos of his girlfriend.

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Yeah? You've got to admire his ambition, eh?

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-Dad.

-Come on.

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The toddler was in the cot when the neighbour came in.

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Any sign her room had been entered?

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No.

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Suggesting he's making a distinction between Gemma and her.

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Also suggests he knew who slept where.

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Are you ready?

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You'd think she'd just fallen asleep.

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Suffocated?

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Possibly.

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Rigor established in the fingers, but...

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still getting going in the elbows, which means...

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She was killed later than her mother.

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Best guess?

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Nine to ten hours, approximately.

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Somewhere between half two

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and half three in the morning.

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Leo!

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Good to meet you at last.

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Gill.

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What?

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Nothing...

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Just on the basis off all those phone calls,

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I'd built up a mental image.

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Do I look disappointed?

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Come on, I'll show you the Batcave.

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Pathology meets Forensics.

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It's like Nixon in China all over again.

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Our new toy.

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3D Fabricator.

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We think he was an eight-year-old boy.

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Police found two thirds of his skull in the Thames.

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CT scan, imaging software, 3D printer.

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And there you have it.

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Maybe now, they can find out who he was.

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Jealous?

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A little.

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Is that why you're here?

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To steal my secrets?

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No.

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I thought you might not have heard yet and I wanted to tell you myself, not over the phone.

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It's about your receptionist, Justine Thompson.

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So he kills Mum.

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Waits an hour or so and kills Daughter.

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And at some point finds time to knock a bloody great big hole

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in the son's skull too.

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Taking his time.

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No, there's no running home from this one.

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Because you think he already was at home.

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You're assuming it's the father.

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Why? Because statistics say so.

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Statistics also suggest that...

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perpetrators of familicide very rarely leave a family member alive.

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True.

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But Ellie was untouched.

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Family dead.

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Dad vanished, incommunicado.

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Hardly statistical whitewash.

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Look, I don't want it to be him any more than you...

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Choice between Dad and some toerag who's just walked in off the street?

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You want it to be Toerag. But...

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We don't get to choose.

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Oi, stop perving Gemma up, you mong.

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I wasn't.

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KNOCK AT DOOR

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Joel?

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Joel?

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Why do you always keep this door locked?

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Are you OK?

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Are you?

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Linda, it's me.

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Just give me a ring back.

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Where's Family Liaison?

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Two down and rushed off their feet. They said they'd be here as soon as they can.

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Ring them again. Give them a rocket.

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Can't leave the ex-husband out there all day.

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Oh, and Billy, get a team doing door-to-door.

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There would have been eyes all over that house.

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I want to know when every member of this family checked in.

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I want to know if anyone saw any strangers, any vehicles...

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-Check for private surveillance, neighbourhood watch, the works.

-Sure.

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-Have you found him yet?

-Mr McAteer...

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He did this. You know he did this.

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I don't know anything for sure right now.

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Do you?

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Did you know Stuart Thompson well?

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Yeah, all my life.

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You were friends?

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When we were younger.

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But then he married your ex, Justine.

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Bet that put the cat among the pigeons?

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Not really. We were done. You move on.

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But you kept in contact?

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You think I'd abandon my daughter?

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It's hard, I know it is, but try not to jump to any conclusions.

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Things may not be what they seem.

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D'you believe that?

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'Course not. Case like this?

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You bet your life, Daddy did it.

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Baby has to be Charlie I think,

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so I suppose this must be Stuart's first wife.

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Charlie's at the hospital.

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No-one seems able to tell me if he has other relatives.

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-I thought I might give him a visit.

-Yeah.

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The little girl's been taken into temporary care, apparently.

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They think Stuart's responsible.

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I know that psychologically, statistically,

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they're probably right, but...

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I remember...

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I remember leaving here, thinking...

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I'd quite like that.

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Just an ordinary family.

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That was just one day.

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I guess no-one really knows what goes on inside a family.

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How can you judge people?

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Think of that man we met, I...

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just cannot imagine it.

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I cannot imagine it.

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Can I help you, sir?

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What's going on?

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'Tried to stop him, guv. But we got a fella heading your way.'

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Charlie! Justine! Justine!

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Where are they?

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Let him go, let him go, let him go!

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Let him go!

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All right, all right.

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Get off me! Get off me!

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All right, all right!

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-No!

-All right, all right.

-No!

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Stuart?

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Stuart.

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It's Harry.

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Harry Cunningham. You remember me?

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I'm sorry.

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Mr Thompson, we'll need to speak to you.

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-Now?

-Won't take long.

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What if you're wrong?

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Spoke to his employers.

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They said Stuart was worried he'd lost his touch.

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He hadn't made a sale in seven months.

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How did that affect him?

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70% of his take-home was commission-generated.

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So how does he keep up the lifestyle?

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He borrowed. Borrowed like mad. I checked out his credit history.

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And he really was about to lose the lot.

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Go on...

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OK, he's got a joint bank account and that's kept funded all right,

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but then he's got a separate sole bank account

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and it is a proper horror show, guv.

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I'm talking about nine grand overdrawn.

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That's not unusual nowadays.

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Add on 35 grand's worth of credit card debt.

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And another 20 grand's worth of car finance secured against...

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-Wait for it...

-The house.

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Just missed his third payment to the finance company.

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And to cap it all, hasn't paid the mortgage in two months.

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Sinking fast.

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His job's on the slide.

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He's going to lose the house.

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It's textbook context for family annihilation.

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Looks like you were right, guv.

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OK, the neighbour who found them. Have a word.

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-But...

-I'll handle the father. Go on.

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I suppose I should try to arrange some kind of counselling.

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That's what you're supposed to do, isn't it?

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Might help.

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Stuart must be devastated.

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Yes, dreadful.

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Just when they seemed to have turned a corner.

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Justine left him for a while.

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Couple of years back.

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For a few months after Ellie was born.

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But then she went back.

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I got the impression things were on the mend.

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Where were you last night, Stuart?

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Nottingham.

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Business?

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Where did you stay?

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Stuart?

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Where did you stay?

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'I don't know anything much about their finances.'

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Not sure Justine did either, to be honest.

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Stuart liked handling all that kind of stuff.

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Weren't in trouble, were they?

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Did Justine ever say anything?

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No. But Stuart was doing well.

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He kept making all these big sales.

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Employee of the month.

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And they gave him that new car only a few months back.

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Yeah, the car was bought on finance.

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His boss said that he thought maybe Stuart was depressed.

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D'you think he's depressed?

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Mrs Barron?

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Stuart.

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Do you think he's depressed?

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No, not really.

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Did he have a good marriage?

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What's a good marriage?

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Well, if you don't know, why you asking the question?

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I'm sorry...

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They struggled sometimes.

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Justine used to say Tanya cast a long shadow...

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Tanya?

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His first wife.

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And is Tanya still on the scene?

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She died. Car crash.

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Charlie must have been less than a year old.

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Stuart raised him.

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Really loves that boy.

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We've spoken to Charlie's friends.

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They said they dropped him off at the end of the road

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at about quarter to three this morning.

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Is he usually out that late?

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Has your son ever been out that late before?

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Not when I was around.

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Nikki's gone to see him, Stuart.

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She'll talk to his doctors and stay a while.

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I should be with him.

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I'm afraid that's not possible.

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Who are you to say when I can see my son?

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Look, he's a witness, Mr Thompson.

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Ellie?

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She's being looked after by a great bunch of people.

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Don't suppose I can...

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No. Not yet.

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I'm sorry.

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Have you got kids?

0:26:090:26:11

Yes.

0:26:140:26:15

Girls or boys?

0:26:150:26:17

Two sons.

0:26:190:26:20

Your brother Kevin, is it?

0:26:270:26:31

He lives locally, doesn't he?

0:26:310:26:33

Shall I ring him? See if you can stay?

0:26:330:26:35

I don't think I can deal with him just now.

0:26:350:26:38

Look, I just want to see how he's doing, that's all.

0:26:380:26:41

-Calm yourself, maybe...

-Look, you have to let me see him, I'm his uncle!

0:26:410:26:44

-Could take a seat and...?

-I don't want to take a seat!

0:26:440:26:46

Excuse me, are you Charlie's uncle?

0:26:460:26:47

-Yeah, who are you?

-I am Nikki Alexander.

0:26:470:26:50

Sorry, you don't know me, but I met your brother a couple of years ago.

0:26:500:26:53

Did you sleep with the curtains closed last night?

0:27:040:27:06

Yeah, I think so.

0:27:060:27:08

So you didn't see anything or hear anything?

0:27:100:27:12

No. I'm sorry.

0:27:120:27:15

No need to be sorry, mate.

0:27:150:27:17

You're actually the same age as the boy, Charlie, aren't you?

0:27:220:27:25

And Gemma too?

0:27:250:27:26

Yeah, so are you guys all friends, then?

0:27:270:27:30

Gemma, mostly.

0:27:300:27:32

Joel, can you think of anyone who would have wanted to hurt Gemma?

0:27:350:27:39

PHONE RINGS

0:27:410:27:45

What about her uncle, Kevin Thompson? What's he like?

0:27:490:27:52

Well, your mum said that you guys, you really get along.

0:27:540:27:58

You like your motorbikes and stuff so...

0:27:580:28:00

What did Gemma think about Kevin?

0:28:000:28:02

She didn't like him.

0:28:040:28:06

Extradural haematoma, cerebral contusion.

0:28:120:28:15

Whoever attacked him, hit him more than once.

0:28:150:28:17

And hard.

0:28:170:28:19

But he'll be OK?

0:28:190:28:20

Hard to tell.

0:28:200:28:22

So he may never recover?

0:28:220:28:24

Tenner says that she was shagging a neighbour and he found out.

0:29:020:29:05

Got time for a swift one?

0:29:080:29:09

No, not tonight.

0:29:090:29:11

See, that's why I'm never having kids.

0:29:110:29:13

Steal your life.

0:29:130:29:14

That's him. That's Kevin Thompson.

0:29:230:29:26

You know him?

0:29:260:29:27

Yeah, I nicked him when I was in uniform.

0:29:270:29:29

Shoplifting to feed his habit. I thought the name was familiar.

0:29:290:29:32

This family gets more and more interesting by the minute, doesn't it?

0:29:320:29:36

OK, we're missing something here.

0:29:380:29:42

OK, let's dig into the Thompson brothers.

0:29:420:29:44

Find out who is this Uncle Kevin,

0:29:460:29:49

why is he calling in on Deborah Barron and where was he last night?

0:29:490:29:54

And Stuart Thompson's story.

0:29:540:29:56

Put some heat under it.

0:29:560:29:58

You should get yourself home,

0:30:180:30:20

ask Linda to pour you some whisky.

0:30:200:30:22

She's left me, Billy.

0:30:260:30:27

What?

0:30:290:30:31

HE CHUCKLES

0:30:310:30:32

Nah. Linda?

0:30:320:30:34

You serious?

0:30:380:30:40

Look, guv, I mean...

0:30:420:30:43

You know she'll be back.

0:30:430:30:45

She's probably just making a point.

0:30:450:30:47

Yeah, that's what I thought.

0:30:470:30:49

This time it's different.

0:30:490:30:51

We arranged to meet up last night.

0:30:510:30:54

I waited for her for, for over an hour.

0:30:540:30:58

She didn't turn up.

0:30:580:30:59

And then I get back home,

0:30:590:31:02

find she's used the time to clear out the rest of her stuff.

0:31:020:31:05

I'm sorry, Guv.

0:31:070:31:08

No, it's my fault.

0:31:090:31:11

I've spent too many hours here and I should have been there.

0:31:120:31:16

No, it's too late.

0:31:180:31:19

There's a significant disparity in times of death.

0:31:230:31:27

Er... The mother, Justine, was killed first.

0:31:270:31:32

But there's then a time gap of as much as two hours,

0:31:320:31:35

which can't really be explained by environmental factors.

0:31:350:31:39

So I'd like to get on with the postmortem as soon as possible.

0:31:390:31:41

I don't think that's a very good idea.

0:31:430:31:45

You knew Justine, you'd met her daughter.

0:31:450:31:49

Fleetingly. But...

0:31:490:31:51

Still...

0:31:510:31:52

I think I'd better do the postmortems.

0:31:520:31:54

OK.

0:31:580:31:59

You decided to pass this one up?

0:32:200:32:22

DI Ronson, Nikki Alexander

0:32:240:32:27

-Hi.

-Hi.

0:32:270:32:28

The temporal bone on the left side has been pierced...

0:32:310:32:35

and the entry wound is roughly circular...

0:32:350:32:38

Surrounding bone is fractured.

0:32:400:32:42

There's evidence of blunt trauma to the surrounding skin.

0:32:440:32:48

There's contusion and swelling evident above the left ear,

0:32:480:32:51

which suggests, first of all, that the blow didn't kill her.

0:32:510:32:54

As for the weapon, I don't know what is was,

0:32:540:32:57

but whatever it was that hit her,

0:32:570:32:59

it had a protruding part that entered into her skull,

0:32:590:33:02

and was part of something larger

0:33:020:33:04

that accounted for the surrounding bruising...

0:33:040:33:07

and it must have been pretty heavy as well.

0:33:070:33:10

The middle meningeal artery has ruptured...

0:33:140:33:17

BPA patterning at scene was consistent with this kind of injury.

0:33:170:33:21

There were no void areas.

0:33:230:33:25

Well, that suggests the attacker approached her from behind.

0:33:250:33:28

Speculative, but...

0:33:300:33:32

Yeah, it's supported by the fact

0:33:330:33:35

that there are no defence marks on her hands or arms.

0:33:350:33:38

So it looks like the victim was

0:33:380:33:40

either unaware that the attacker was approaching from behind...

0:33:400:33:43

or that she was comfortable enough to turn her back on him.

0:33:430:33:46

There are two stab wounds, to the middle of the back.

0:33:470:33:51

As I say, I think she was still alive when she was stabbed.

0:33:510:33:54

Maybe unconscious.

0:33:540:33:56

Where was she found again?

0:33:560:33:57

The living room floor.

0:33:570:34:00

But we think she died at the bottom of the stairs

0:34:000:34:02

and was moved postmortem.

0:34:020:34:04

Stab wounds to the back have pierced the right lung

0:34:110:34:14

and the heart respectively.

0:34:140:34:17

Cause of death is hypovolemic shock due to the stab wounds.

0:34:170:34:20

So this wouldn't have been a quiet death, Professor.

0:34:200:34:24

No. It would not.

0:34:240:34:26

It's a small house.

0:34:260:34:28

Toddler and Gemma upstairs.

0:34:280:34:29

Why didn't they wake?

0:34:290:34:31

How do you know that they didn't?

0:34:320:34:34

'Pull Stuart Thompson in.'

0:35:010:35:02

But we're still waiting on traffic to check out his journey. What's happened?

0:35:020:35:05

OK, this is the situation.

0:35:050:35:08

The mum's dying.

0:35:080:35:09

'She's screaming.

0:35:090:35:10

'It's a small house. The girls would have woken up.

0:35:100:35:12

'But we know that Gemma was reassured enough to go back to sleep.'

0:35:120:35:17

So she must have known him. Pull him in.

0:35:170:35:20

The deceased has what looks like

0:35:280:35:32

threads of white material underneath her fingernails.

0:35:320:35:35

Could be from the attacker's clothing.

0:35:350:35:38

Or her bed sheet.

0:35:380:35:39

Any hypostasis on her back, Leo?

0:35:390:35:42

Just give me a chance.

0:35:420:35:43

If she was violently assaulted,

0:35:450:35:46

but she looked, for all the world, like she'd just fallen asleep.

0:35:460:35:49

That's what you said. She wasn't just left.

0:35:490:35:51

She was arranged.

0:35:510:35:53

Have you thought maybe she was seeing someone?

0:36:050:36:09

Justine?

0:36:090:36:11

'Course she bloody wasn't.

0:36:110:36:13

Think about it. All the times you've been away. It's possible, isn't it?

0:36:130:36:16

She wouldn't do that... Have done.

0:36:160:36:19

Stay strong, Kevin. Mm?

0:36:340:36:36

There's evidence of hypostasis on her front and back.

0:37:010:37:04

According to Dr Cunningham's notes, she was found lying on her back.

0:37:060:37:09

Which means that she must have been turned postmortem.

0:37:090:37:14

Hypostasis on her front and her back.

0:37:150:37:18

When blood stops circulating round the body,

0:37:190:37:21

gravity pulls it down to a pool on the lowest point.

0:37:210:37:24

And you can see evidence of the pools through the skin, it's called hypostasis.

0:37:240:37:27

If Gemma was killed on her back, we would expect to see hypostasis on her back.

0:37:270:37:30

But just her back, yeah?

0:37:300:37:32

So whoever killed her turned her over?

0:37:320:37:34

Possibly. But hypostasis takes several hours to set in.

0:37:340:37:36

So she would have to have been lying on her front

0:37:360:37:39

for two to three hours postmortem before being turned.

0:37:390:37:43

So she was killed, she was left and then she was moved onto her back.

0:37:430:37:47

But that happened much, much later.

0:37:470:37:50

The liver and spleen are enlarged,

0:38:360:38:39

but I'm satisfied they neither contributed to,

0:38:390:38:41

nor was caused by her death.

0:38:410:38:43

Seems likely that she was smothered while asleep on her front.

0:38:430:38:48

She was suffocated, she died and then her body was turned.

0:38:480:38:52

Why would somebody do that?

0:38:520:38:55

Does it suggest a certain amount of respect for the victim?

0:38:550:38:58

The way she was killed.

0:38:580:38:59

That she wasn't stabbed or bludgeoned like her mother or brother?

0:38:590:39:03

Oh, dear.

0:39:070:39:09

I'm sorry to tell you

0:39:110:39:13

your stepdaughter was pregnant when she died.

0:39:130:39:16

Did she have a boyfriend?

0:39:220:39:23

What makes you think that?

0:39:270:39:28

Cos she would've told her mum.

0:39:300:39:33

And your wife would've told you.

0:39:330:39:35

Because you had a good relationship.

0:39:370:39:40

Of course... Is this even relevant?

0:39:410:39:44

I'm just trying to get an insight.

0:39:440:39:47

You'd be amazed how many couples don't even have two words for each other one day to the next.

0:39:470:39:53

But that wasn't you.

0:39:530:39:55

So she had any problems, she'd come to you and vice versa?

0:39:560:40:00

So you talked about stuff?

0:40:020:40:04

Of course we talked about stuff.

0:40:040:40:06

Did you talk about the amount of debt you were in?

0:40:060:40:09

No.

0:40:110:40:13

Did she know you were about to lose the house?

0:40:130:40:15

That must have been very difficult for you.

0:40:180:40:21

Having to keep something so important a secret from her.

0:40:210:40:25

Why didn't you tell her?

0:40:260:40:27

I just expect you thought you could sort it all out

0:40:290:40:32

before it got out of hand. Is that it?

0:40:320:40:35

KNOCK ON DOOR

0:40:350:40:37

What?

0:40:380:40:40

He couldn't have done it, guv.

0:40:400:40:42

ANPR cams clocked Thompson's BMW travelling north on Wednesday afternoon

0:40:440:40:47

and south again on Thursday morning. Nothing else.

0:40:470:40:50

That just means his car was in Nottingham.

0:40:500:40:53

Nottingham CID interviewed the hotel receptionist.

0:40:530:40:55

They are sending down CCTV footage.

0:40:550:40:57

She actually knows Thompson personally.

0:40:570:40:59

He's stayed there upwards over a dozen times in the past two years.

0:40:590:41:03

She took his credit card payment in the morning face to face.

0:41:030:41:05

He was in Nottingham all night, guv. Just like he said.

0:41:050:41:08

Leo?

0:41:150:41:16

Gill?

0:41:180:41:19

-Harry Cunningham?

-Yes.

-Hi.

0:41:190:41:22

And you must be Nikki Alexander?

0:41:220:41:26

Hi.

0:41:260:41:27

Leo in?

0:41:270:41:28

I think so, yes. He's in the cutting room, I think.

0:41:280:41:31

I brought him a new toy.

0:41:310:41:33

Way of saying thank you for taking the time to visit yesterday.

0:41:330:41:36

Gill.

0:41:360:41:37

Hi.

0:41:370:41:39

-Thanks for coming. Shall we...?

-Yeah.

0:41:390:41:41

Lovely to see you.

0:41:430:41:45

So you could use it to reconstruct broken or degraded bone.

0:41:450:41:48

Yup.

0:41:480:41:49

-Tissue?

-Yup.

0:41:490:41:50

Could you scan a bite mark? Build an image of the biter's teeth?

0:41:500:41:53

If you can scan it, you can print it.

0:41:530:41:55

It'll be magic !

0:41:550:41:56

You off?

0:41:580:42:00

Yeah, thought I'd go and sit with Charlie again.

0:42:000:42:02

No relatives?

0:42:020:42:04

-Kevin Thompson. He was at the hospital.

-Was he?

0:42:040:42:06

You went straight from the scene. How would he have heard about the attack?

0:42:060:42:09

Kevin? Stuart's brother Kevin?

0:42:090:42:11

Yeah, do you know him?

0:42:110:42:12

I know the damage he caused.

0:42:120:42:14

About a year ago, Justine was getting a lot of calls from Kevin Thompson.

0:42:140:42:18

She asked him to stop, but he just kept on ringing

0:42:180:42:22

and eventually she had to get a block put on his number.

0:42:220:42:25

And when Nikki went to visit Charlie in hospital,

0:42:250:42:29

she said that Kevin Thompson was already there.

0:42:290:42:32

What's odd about that?

0:42:320:42:33

Just a few hours after the bodies had been found.

0:42:330:42:35

Stuart couldn't have told him. Stuart didn't find out until he showed up at the house.

0:42:350:42:39

But any one of a dozen neighbours could have called him. Bad news travels fast.

0:42:390:42:43

True. But you've already established that whoever did this

0:42:430:42:45

either was allowed into the house or had means of access.

0:42:450:42:48

You've got two children upstairs asleep.

0:42:480:42:51

Mum gets attacked. It's noisy and you've said you think it's likely

0:42:510:42:54

that one or both of those children would have woken up.

0:42:540:42:57

And that somebody would have had to talk them down.

0:42:570:42:59

Mm.

0:42:590:43:01

So what about Kevin?

0:43:010:43:02

Why do I get the feeling you know something I don't?

0:43:050:43:08

What's going on?

0:43:080:43:09

It's Uncle Kevin, he's off his head.

0:43:090:43:12

Stuart won't have him in the house if he's wasted.

0:43:120:43:14

Shouldn't be so hard on him.

0:43:140:43:16

Is everything all right?

0:43:200:43:21

Yes, just my brother, think he's come straight from the pub!

0:43:210:43:24

-You all right?

-Yeah.

0:43:240:43:26

Come on, it's fine, honestly.

0:43:260:43:29

Just ignore him.

0:43:290:43:31

Oh, what's she doing now?

0:43:310:43:34

Soft cow.

0:43:340:43:35

PHONE RINGS

0:43:520:43:57

Billy.

0:44:020:44:04

'Just in, guv.

0:44:040:44:05

'CCTV footage from the hotel Stuart Thompson stayed in in Nottingham.'

0:44:050:44:08

This is the hotel CCTV footage from Wednesday night.

0:44:080:44:11

-Nottingham CID watch this?

-No.

0:44:110:44:14

Sloppy.

0:44:140:44:15

Just interviewed the hotel receptionist.

0:44:150:44:17

She seemed to know Stuart and she confirmed it was him.

0:44:170:44:20

Stacy Leech, ex-prostitute, ex-junkie.

0:44:220:44:26

And there he is.

0:44:260:44:28

The time and date on the tape, they can verify it?

0:44:310:44:34

Yes.

0:44:340:44:36

Make sure the tech boys clean it up and get it to evidence.

0:44:360:44:41

Oh, good work, Billy.

0:44:410:44:43

Thanks.

0:44:430:44:45

PHONE RINGS

0:44:450:44:47

You OK, guv?

0:44:490:44:52

Never better.

0:44:520:44:53

-Were you in love with her?

-Justine?

0:44:560:44:58

Why did you assume I meant Justine?

0:44:580:45:01

So, were you?

0:45:050:45:07

She was married to my brother, Stuart.

0:45:090:45:11

Didn't stop Giggsy.

0:45:110:45:14

You, Stuart and Frank, Justine's first husband.

0:45:140:45:18

You used to knock about together when you were young.

0:45:180:45:22

And Justine, she was part of the scene too, wasn't she?

0:45:220:45:24

I bet you fancied her.

0:45:240:45:27

Fancied lots of people.

0:45:280:45:30

How did you feel when her and Frank got together?

0:45:330:45:38

And later, when she came on the market again, who should snap her up?

0:45:380:45:41

Little brother Stuart.

0:45:410:45:43

That's got to hurt.

0:45:450:45:46

Tell me about the nuisance calls.

0:45:520:45:54

They weren't nuisance calls.

0:45:540:45:57

She blocked your number.

0:45:570:45:58

D'you have a key to 26 Magnolia Drive, Kevin?

0:46:010:46:05

Yeah.

0:46:070:46:08

Where were you on Wednesday night?

0:46:080:46:11

At home.

0:46:110:46:12

Alone?

0:46:120:46:14

So you don't have anyone who can verify that's where you were?

0:46:160:46:19

No.

0:46:190:46:22

Did you know your brother was going to be away that night?

0:46:220:46:25

Yeah.

0:46:250:46:26

Why are you doing this?

0:46:310:46:33

There's only a couple of you that could have done this crime, Kevin.

0:46:330:46:36

Motive and opportunity.

0:46:360:46:38

I'm fishing in a very small pond.

0:46:390:46:41

There's only a couple of you down there, swimming around.

0:46:410:46:46

In the depths.

0:46:460:46:48

Do you like him for it?

0:46:530:46:54

Maybe.

0:46:540:46:56

But you let him go?

0:46:560:46:57

Let's see his next move.

0:46:590:47:01

Hello.

0:48:030:48:04

Hi.

0:48:040:48:05

Sounds like everybody's having a good time.

0:48:050:48:07

Yes, Stuart's doing his paso doble.

0:48:070:48:10

Strictly's got a lot to answer for.

0:48:100:48:14

I should be going, I'm afraid.

0:48:160:48:17

Yeah, er...

0:48:170:48:19

One question before you do.

0:48:190:48:22

Mm?

0:48:220:48:23

The world's full of women, right?

0:48:230:48:25

-It is.

-Millions of us.

0:48:250:48:28

And yet, here you are, Harry Cunningham.

0:48:280:48:32

Unclaimed.

0:48:320:48:33

You're good-looking, got a great job,

0:48:330:48:37

still got all your own teeth.

0:48:370:48:40

Stuart?

0:49:120:49:13

What are you doing here?

0:49:170:49:19

Gemma was pregnant.

0:49:190:49:21

I just keep thinking about all the lads we know of...

0:49:260:49:30

And we thought... one of Charlie's mates...

0:49:300:49:32

who could have got her pregnant? And then I think...

0:49:320:49:34

What's the bloody point? She's dead.

0:49:340:49:37

They still won't let me see my little girl or Charlie,

0:49:400:49:42

which means they still think that I did it.

0:49:420:49:44

-They're just following procedure, that's all.

-Will you not talk like them!

0:49:440:49:48

I'm sorry.

0:49:520:49:53

It's all right.

0:49:530:49:54

I feel like I'm dreaming with my eyes open.

0:49:570:50:01

I just don't know what to do with myself.

0:50:030:50:05

And then I have these moments...

0:50:070:50:09

..when I don't even think about it, you know?

0:50:120:50:15

Like minutes or seconds.

0:50:150:50:18

And then it all, all comes rushing in.

0:50:180:50:21

It's like getting hit by a truck, over and over.

0:50:250:50:29

Did you get any sleep last night?

0:50:320:50:34

I could arrange for a prescription for you.

0:50:360:50:40

Said I don't want that.

0:50:400:50:41

Could help, a sedative.

0:50:410:50:43

To shut this out?

0:50:430:50:45

No, I want to feel this.

0:50:450:50:49

I deserve it all.

0:50:490:50:51

PHONE RINGS

0:51:040:51:07

TV: 'When we see the civil war being played out in Sierra Leone and the bloodshed there is...'

0:51:400:51:44

Just popping down the shop. Need anything?

0:51:440:51:47

No, thanks, lovely.

0:51:470:51:48

All right, the kid from next door's just shown up.

0:52:170:52:20

INSISTENT KNOCKING ON DOOR

0:52:200:52:22

Please, Kev. Just let me in!

0:52:250:52:26

Please, Kev!

0:52:350:52:37

Kev!

0:52:440:52:45

OK, I dunno what that was all about.

0:52:580:53:01

But he's off again now.

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Shit.

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Charlie was slightly jaundiced.

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He has a rash on his chest and his lymph nodes were right up.

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So I talked to the nurse

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and she said she didn't think the rash was related to his injuries.

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She'd thought that it looked like it might be something that you'd get with mononucleosis.

0:54:390:54:43

Glandular fever?

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Remember what Leo said in Gemma's PM? Enlarged liver and spleen.

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Not contributory, but present. I know it might not be relevant, but...

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No, no, no...

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Whoa, Charlie.

0:55:110:55:13

Stuart said he thought Gemma didn't have a boyfriend, but...

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Wouldn't be the first teenage girl not to tell her parents.

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-No.

-And particularly if it was her stepbrother.

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Even if they were having sex,

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even if Charlie was the father of Gemma's baby,

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they weren't blood related, they were step-siblings.

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Must happen all the time.

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Hardly a motive for a double murder, is it?

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Ah!

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TYRES SQUEAL

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CRASH!

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SIREN WAILS

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Someone's left in a hurry.

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Joel?

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You really do underestimate your charms, Leo.

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Look, what is this?

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There are multiple small abrasions

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and signs of blunt trauma to the face and head.

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It has to stop!

0:57:060:57:08

We're in the Dark Ages here, Billy.

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We got plenty. Photos tell us Joel Barron was at the scene.

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They're going to say I killed them. But I never.

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Yesterday you questioned him. Today he's dead.

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Joel!

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If you want someone to blame, take a bloody long look in the mirror!

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