Part 2 Silent Witness

This programme contains some scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

-'Thanks, Nikki, much appreciated.'

-The conviction is quashed.

A guilty man was released yesterday. I'm not looking for anybody else.

-What are you doing? Get off!

-Did you write this?

You come after me and mine again, and I promise you,

I'll come after you and yours.

Same place as Daniel Harris and Michael Freeman.

Remind you of anything?

ON THE FLOOR NOW! ON THE FLOOR! Hands behind your head!

Byron Lee. No passport, birth certificate,

previous convictions, driving licence, nothing.

-This guy doesn't exist.

-So, who is he, then?

So, am I being removed for political reasons or

because of the DI's displeasure?

Shall we say the former?

He's got previous for sexual assault. Callum Jordan.

Should've worn a condom, Callum. DNA. Yours. On the body.

I can't make it up. I can't make Bennetto be innocent.

-I don't want that.

-No, but you need it.

The night?

You said spend the night.

The police are on me back, the press are after me family.

-You said you'd sort it.

-I am sorting it, David.

We've got another body. Charlie Masham.

Nikki!

All units in position.

How much longer are you going to wait?

-Tell me what they know.

-She's told you...

-Again!

-I've told you it all.

-She's not keeping anything back, David.

-Again!

-David...

-Again!

-David!

-The drugs, the gun...

-What else?

-Nothing.

-David, put the gun down.

-Right, get up. We're going. Get up!

-You don't know what you're doing, David.

-Shut your mouth.

-We've got activity.

-They're watching.

-Shut your mouth!

-David.

Shut up! SHUT UP!

NIKKI PANTS, PHONE RINGS

At least hear what they've got to say.

David, listen. You're never going to make it out of here.

The first chance they get, they'll take the shot. Now, they want to negotiate. They're trying.

OK, so, think, think about it. Take the call.

PHONE RINGS

David? It's Rachel Klein.

I'm not going back to prison.

Look.

You know me, we go way back.

You'll be heard, David, all right?

We'll take our time.

Come on, there's no need

for anyone else to get hurt cos of what you've done.

"What I've done"?

What I've... What have I done?

What have I done? What have I done?

What have I done?!

DEAD TONE, SHE SIGHS

Brilliant.

HELICOPTER OVERHEAD

What's going on, David?

What are you looking at?

Daniel's not here. He was meant to be here now.

He's not here.

David, listen to me... Listen, listen.

Come on. Don't do that.

Hey, David, it's me, listen to me carefully.

Do you remember last night, you told me

that you were going to give me the gun. Do you remember that?

Well, that's why you asked me here. So that you could give me the gun.

Is that what we're saying to the police?

Yeah. Exactly. Now, Nikki has nothing to do with this,

so you don't need to put her into danger.

All you need to do is just give me the gun, OK,

and that way no-one is going to try and shoot you,

no-one's going to hurt you.

OK. I will sort it out. I promise you.

Everywhere I turn, there's something else.

I know.

It just has to stop.

It's OK. OK?

Come on.

Everything's going to be OK.

OK. That's good.

SHE GASPS

David? What are you doing?

Subject visible.

-He's going to fire.

-Take the shot.

-No!

Subject down. He's down.

I've lost visual.

Stay down. Stay down.

HE SCREAMS

He's down!

HE GASPS

SIRENS WAIL

You OK?

Yeah. Thank you.

No, I'm...I'm sorry.

Why don't you ever listen?

-Hey...

-Hmm? I told you!

-Look, now's not the time.

SOCOs need organising in Bennetto's flat. Forensic sweep.

Well, go on.

I'll see you later.

-Well?

-I'm OK.

-You think?

INAUDIBLE

Dad?

I'm very sorry for your loss.

It's your fault.

You got him out - you put him back on the streets.

Charlie'd still be alive!

Was it quick?

Have you ever lost anybody?

Yes.

Could you cry?

Shock can freeze you up.

It's like a safe mode, so we can still function.

Is that what happened to you?

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

The other three victims had exit and entry wounds

but, er, no bullets recovered.

-So, you can match that to Bennetto's gun?

-I can run tests.

So, well, we've got him.

Do we have a time of death yet?

Around 8pm.

So, we released Bennetto yesterday around three.

Charlie Masham leaves his father's house around six.

Bennetto picks him up somehow, kills him somewhere,

-and then dumps him somewhere else?

-Are you sure the body was moved?

There was hardly any blood at the scene, so, yeah.

Which means a vehicle was involved.

Again, like Byron Lee. A transit-type again?

Maybe, but there were no tyre tracks this time.

-Cameras?

-No.

-At least we've got an ID on the victim this time.

-Any progress with that?

-I sent mug shots through.

-Right.

Well, anything else you can do would be gratefully received.

Why didn't he dump THIS one in the same marshland area

as the other three victims?

Maybe he was disturbed. Maybe he couldn't get clear access.

Nikki's here for a meeting.

Give us five minutes.

-So, what do you want to do with Callum Jordan?

-Let him go.

-Really?

-No, I thought I'd just wind you up.

You loved it when I looked like a twat, didn't you?

Well, not any more. From now on, when I say jump, you say...?

"Off what cliff?

"Ma'am."

The Home Office are calling for an inquiry.

You can't expect anything else, can you? You help get him released,

-then this happens.

-It was the court's decision, not mine.

Whatever. There will be an inquiry, I'll make sure of that.

To what end? To scapegoat me?

This whole thing begins and ends with YOU, Nikki.

You're planning to announce that to the public, are you? The inquiry?

-You're damn right I am.

-Which will drag the Home Secretary into it,

thereby guaranteeing this whole thing will run and run.

So, what instead? Do nothing?

The press won't stay quiet for long.

DI Klein's holding a press conference later.

-For what reason?

-To appeal for information. How about I tag along?

-Can I say something...?

-To...?

To formally announce that Nikki's contrite

and that disciplinary measures are in train. No mention of an inquiry.

That way, we give them something to chew on

-but do nothing to escalate the crisis.

-Does the little woman get a say in this?

-No.

Agreed. But you announce that she's suspended.

-That's my call.

-The minister...

-My call, Richard.

My centre, my decision.

There'll be no suspension, no sacking,

not without a proper INTERNAL investigation.

On your head be it.

Didn't my partner, Jason... Didn't he phone for me?

Strangely enough, we're not a hotel, sir.

-Be complaining about the state of the beds if you were.

-Right. Come on.

You didn't tell Jason, did you? What I said, paying for it?

That's for me to know and you to find out. Go on. Off you go.

-Police sent this over.

-What is it?

From Byron Lee, or whatever his name is. From where he was staying.

Thought it might help you piece together his ID.

-It's police work, that.

-OK.

CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING

CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING, SHOUTING

CLAMOUR

Do you know these boys?

Should we?

-Yes or no.

-No.

How about this?

-Is this the gun that Davey's supposed to have used?

-Mmm.

-A Browning Hi-Power 9mm.

-You know about guns?

Nope, but I know this one, and it's not Davey's.

It's my dad's. He was in the Marines. 3 Commando. Falklands.

He got it off a prisoner of war.

His own...little bit of Goose Green.

He told me mum he'd got rid of it.

-Right, so, when would this have been?

-Years ago.

So, how come David had it? Would your father have given it to him?

No, no way. He wouldn't give Davey the time of day.

He'd have hidden it.

One in the eye for authority and all that.

PHONE VIBRATES

Excuse me.

I heard, mate. I'm really sorry.

-You still feeling loyal because...

-You want him locked up.

Yeah, well, that or...no more. Gone, dead, I don't care which.

If you want to help, the offer's still on the table.

Walker? Wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

"Deal in facts, don't get emotionally involved." Your mantra, right?

OK, fact. Bennetto's DNA wasn't on Byron's body.

Could've been wearing a condom.

Not just in the semen, but in any other way. There was no contact.

I'll bet you that we'll get the same results from Charlie Masham.

"Dear Martha"? Do 19-year-olds still write love letters?

Don't they just text their requirements?

SOS?

-ABBA?

-Huh?

Just trying to lighten the mood. Go on, give us a song.

Maybe later. The O is lower case, so maybe towns?

I don't know something on something...

Stoke on... Shipston-on-Stour.

-Stourport-on-Severn.

-Where?

-Sorry, bit classy for you.

Byron had a biopsy or he'd donated bone marrow, didn't he?

OK, so...you want to get on to the bone marrow register

-and local transplant centres?

-Local to where?

Anywhere with "SOS" in the name.

How much Lorazepam was Bennetto prescribed when he left prison?

60 milligrams total. Why?

I just finished the tox screen on Charlie Masham.

Add what was found in his system to the amount found in Byron Lee's

and it's way higher than 60 milligrams.

So, he saw a GP and got another prescription.

-Not according to his medical notes.

-You want me to double-check that?

-Thanks. What's all this?

-Klein wanted us to work on ID'ing Byron.

After the bullet comparison, please. Prioritise that.

Where were you yesterday between 3pm and 8pm?

What? When he wasn't murdering rent boys?

Does this pretty boy mean anything to you?

Oh, wow! He does, doesn't he?

Go on, then, who is he?

-You don't have to answer that.

-Peter Masham's son.

Yeah. Now, he had the bullet still in him.

What's the betting that'll match your daddy's gun?

-Actually, I have information...

-Mr Walker, please.

It's relevant to the investigation. Do you want it or not?

Listen. I don't want to waste your time,

especially with upstairs looking on.

If you've got something to say, say it.

OK, he told me yesterday that he found the gun at his father's.

He didn't know what to do with it.

He knew that if you people got to know, he would be in deep trouble.

Right, so, don't tell me, so you went to the flat

so he could give it to you, to give to us. Bollocks!

Dr Alexander came across the gun before we could make the exchange.

Next thing, here comes the sheriff and her posse.

No, but why didn't he say something at the time

-when I phoned the flat?

-Come on.

He's got...he's got snipers eyeing him through their sights,

he's shitting himself. You... You want a rational explanation?

You could've told me this earlier. Why didn't you?

I don't remember you asking.

HE COCKS GUN

GUNSHOT

HUSHED MURMURS

Ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you.

As most of you already know, I'm DI Rachel Klein.

On my right, Assistant Commissioner Simon Riley

and Dr Thomas Chamberlain of the Lyell Centre.

To begin with, I want to confirm that David Bennetto

has been rearrested in connection with the murders of both...

-Byron Lee and Charles Masham.

-CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK

OK, any questions before I ask Dr Chamberlain to read his statement?

Remember, we're looking at reaching out to the public

for information on these murders.

Yes, Patrick?

Dr Alexander and Greg Walker, did they know Bennetto was guilty?

Sorry, I couldn't possibly answer that.

This lady on the second row here?

-My son was murdered...

-Are we looking at a serial killer now?

-Potentially...

-Were mistakes made because of institutionalised homophobia in the police?

-My son!

MY SON was killed because I knew who Bennetto is, and WHAT he is.

-Mr Masham...

-His appeal was a farce.

His lawyers employed a tame pathologist to make him look innocent.

You turned a killer loose and now two young men,

their whole lives in front of them...

they've gone.

And where is Dr Alexander, eh?

-Hiding away?

-If you'll let me explain...

No. No. No. You should be ashamed, really.

You should be ashamed.

That's the bullet fired from Bennetto's father's gun. OK?

And THIS is the one recovered from Charlie Masham's body.

Striations don't match.

I think you might be interested in this too.

Shit.

Two things. Clarissa checked with medical records,

just got an e-mail back.

Bennetto didn't file a prescription for more Lorazepam

so, he couldn't have drugged Byron Lee with what he had.

-And?

-And the bullet that killed Charlie Masham

didn't come from Bennetto's gun.

-You're sure?

-Positive.

-I'd first like to clarify...

-Why was she there, at his flat?

PHONE VIBRATES, CAMERAS CLICK

If you'll allow me to, Mr Masham, I will explain.

-Yeah, will you hell(!)

-Dr Alexander had already been removed from the case.

Her presence at Mr Bennetto's flat was entirely...

If she was off the case, why was she there with Greg Walker?

What were they cooking up? Dr Chamberlain?

-Sorry, what was your question?

-What were they cooking up?

My son would still be alive if Bennetto hadn't walked out of that court.

I deserve some answers!

You know you're hiding something.

I'm sorry. You'll have to, er, excuse me for a few minutes.

SHOUTING AND CLAMOUR

Hey! Hey! Hey!

I'll explain.

How many more young men are going to die?

-He could've bought more Lorazepam on the streets?

-You can't prove that.

-OK, the gun.

-It's not the same weapon.

-He could have hidden another somewhere.

-Conjecture.

Oh, what, a legal expert now, are we?

There's absolutely nothing to place Bennetto at either areas of marshland.

Tyre tracks there don't match Jill's car. They're van tyres.

He didn't have access to one. I've checked all the hire companies.

Why not hold him for possession of the handgun, let us keep digging.

What, the handgun that isn't his?

Who let you in?

-It wasn't his gun, Rachel.

-He was still in possession of it.

You saw him hand it to me, right?

-That was his intention all along.

-Oh, piss off, Greg!

-Nikki?

No, you shouldn't even be in here.

-He handed it to me, right?

-Will you back off?

-Yes or no?

-Yes.

-Yes.

So, here's the bottom line.

You drove an innocent, mentally ill man to attempt suicide by cop.

-Oh, come on!

-Then you had him shot for waving a mobile phone.

-For Christ's sake!

-Now, what you have does not stand up.

Is that right? Huh? Eh?

-Ow!

-Did Bennetto give him the gun?

-What? You think I'm lying now?

He is working you, Nikki.

-Get off.

-OK, enough.

You're on your own.

Come in.

-You want a drink or something?

-No. Thanks.

I'm really sorry.

Shall we get this over with?

Do what you want with them.

He deserves what he gets.

-No, honestly.

-Take it.

This is just between us, right?

DOOR SLAMS

SHE SIGHS

Charlie Masham. The killer must've been disturbed

or else he didn't have access to the marshes without being seen or...

-I told YOU that.

-Well, no, it was Dr Alex...

Whatever. Look, the thing is, he's got a ritual.

The cutting, THEN the shooting.

It's getting to the root of that, why he does what he does.

Because, obviously, he wants to shag other blokes

and he can't come to terms with it.

And why? Because his father was a knob. There you go.

Is that enough psychology for you?

SHE SIGHS

-Release him.

-You what?

Well, we're not going to get anything out of him in here,

not with Walker standing guard.

Put him under surveillance.

OK.

FOOTSTEPS RETREATING

DOOR CLANKS, HINGES CREAK

OK. That's as far as we go for now. I've, er, got another client to see.

OK. Come on, you're OK, David.

Come on, you're OK, man.

Listen, er, don't go back to your dad's tonight.

Yeah, the press will be all over it. OK, get a hotel.

Take it, David.

-David, take it.

-Thank you.

CAR DRIVES AWAY

SIRENS IN DISTANCE

ARGUING VOICES NEARBY

Here.

How are we doing?

PHONE RINGS

PEN SCRATCHES, ANSWERPHONE BEEPS

-WALKER:

-'Hey, I...got your message. Yeah, er, lunch would be great.

'I'll see you there. I've, er, got a meeting nearby, so, um...'

Hi?

Hi.

VOICES NEARBY, KIDS YELLING OUTSIDE

DOOR SLAMS

OK.

He's moving.

INAUDIBLE

TRAIN RUMBLES NEARBY

INDISTINCT RAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

TRAIN CLATTERS

METAL FENCE JINGLES

TRAIN ROARS

HE PANTS

'Ma'am, we've lost him.'

Oh, shit!

SHE SIGHS

Not eating?

Not got the stomach for it.

Downside of the job, huh?

Listen, I forced your hand at the Lyell Centre, yesterday?

Is that what this is about?

Nikki, you knew he was going to hand the gun over.

No, you told him that at the time.

But it was the intention from the beginning.

You got here early, did you?

-Sorry?

-To make sure you weren't seen being dropped off.

Your wife, presumably?

And child?

-I don't do this, Greg. I really...

-I was going to tell you.

I just didn't want you to panic and run.

-Like I'm not going to do that now?

-Before you jump to conclusions...

We're separated, and we were separated before I met you, so...

-So, why didn't you tell me before?

-Because...

I suppose I'm still working some things out in my own mind.

What things?

Walking out on them.

-How Bella is dealing with that.

-Your daughter?

-Yeah.

-Adopted?

Yeah. Well, I saw her for breakfast this morning.

And her mum picked us up and dropped me off, so...

-Listen, we were trying for kids and...

-You know what...

-No, please, let me explain. We had IVF and...

-I...

OK, which was my fault. Because of me.

Then we went through an adoption,

all that upset and the stress of that, and then me walking out.

Well, I guess I just...

I am...

I have a lot of guilt.

It would've been nice to know.

Yeah.

Thanks for standing by me with the Home Office.

You're welcome. It won't just stop with you, you know?

If you fall, they'll come after the Lyell.

-Ah, so, I am a firewall.

-Come and have a look at this a second?

It's THESE marks.

Did you notice this before?

No. Same on Charlie Masham.

Look at his eye.

What does that tell you?

Asphyxiation.

They were suffocated.

I thought previous PM reports were shipped out.

Yeah, I kept copies though, thank God!

Was this cause of death, do you think?

Asphyxiation? Shooting? It's impossible to tell.

Right...

these are the murders that Bennetto was convicted of.

And that he was acquitted of.

Daniel Harris and Michael Freeman.

Where's his face?

Here.

MONITOR BEEPS

Here we go.

Yeah, the same.

What caused it?

Don't know.

-Some sort of mask maybe, a vent mask?

-They're padded.

Sure, but apply a lot of downward pressure,

-it's going to bruise...

-How come Dr Bell missed this?

I did, too, to begin with.

More than one set of marks too. Look, it's repeated.

So, starve the victim of oxygen,

take him to the brink of unconsciousness, and bring him back.

Do you want to tell Klein?

We ran an ESDA test on Byron Lee's notebook

and I think we may have traced him.

Brian Lowe is a runaway.

Left home in Southend when he was 14. Not been heard from since.

Well, could be anybody.

Byron Lee. Brian Lowe. Same initials.

Dr Alexander wants a word.

We've got something else for you.

-He donated bone marrow, right?

-Possibly.

We've got a lead to ID him, but the hospitals won't talk to me.

-Can you call them?

-Sure.

All four victims were asphyxiated before they were killed,

and I think asphyxiation changes the whole thing.

-How?

-Well, we thought that Bennetto's motive was sexual, right?

-Getting some degree of sexual pleasure from this?

-And?

I don't think that this guy was killing for those reasons.

What he gets off on is taking them to the brink of death

over and over again.

It's having ultimate control, that's what's giving him his kicks.

Their sexual orientation isn't at the heart of this...

So, what's with masturbating over them...

He does that after death, after controlling them, after killing them.

No...!

Think about it.

Byron was the only victim whose body exhibited signs of recent sex

and he was selling himself.

None of the other victims were interfered with sexually.

OK, it's a theory.

But it doesn't mean Bennetto couldn't have done this.

I'm very grateful, thanks. Bye.

-So?

-Brian Lowe had a sister a couple of years younger than him called Martha.

Figures. The girl in the photo. He was writing to her.

She was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma

when he was about 14 years old.

-He donated bone marrow to her.

-Hence the scars on his lower back.

-But she died a few months later.

-So, how come he was writing to her?

Don't know.

Maybe, maybe not for real. Not TO her, not the way you mean.

Like he took her death really badly and just...disappeared.

-Parents have been looking for him ever since.

-Right.

Klein should be told.

I'll do it.

DOORBELL RINGS

DOORBELL RINGS

Can I come in?

Sure.

OK, I bow to your greater insight.

Greg Walker is somewhat economical with the truth.

-Personally, anyway.

-Want to go into detail?

No. It's not a big deal.

Not such a blue-eyed boy any more, hey? That's a shame.

-You don't mean that.

-What gave you that idea(?)

Thomas told me about Byron...

-Police work.

-Hmm?

Tracing him. Should've been Klein and her team.

-If she was more competent?

-You two still at war?

It's not of my making.

Course not, you've been fully objective all along(!)

Oh, come on!

I'm just saying, that maybe it's time to bury the hatchet,

and not in her head.

So, have you told Klein about Byron's real identity?

-No.

-Why not?

-Because...

-Jack?

-Because...

what's she going to do, go round his mum and dad's and tell them,

"Hooray, we've found your missing kid!

"But, oh, he's dead. Shot in the head."

They're better off not knowing.

We have to be objective, don't we? Your words.

-Yup. But this is different.

-Is it?

Give your evidence, Jack.

It's up to others what they do with it. You're not responsible.

I think the police have made a huge mistake, right from the start.

They've assumed that the victims were targeted because of their sexuality.

Well, they were all gay.

Sexual violence isn't about the sexual preference

-or even sexual pleasure, is it?

-I don't know.

We've found evidence of torture, asphyxiation.

This guy almost killed them over and over again

and then revived them over and over again.

-He played with them.

-Right.

So, I don't think that it's necessarily about him being gay -

-or even anti-gay - that's not what the motivation was.

-So, what?

-Power? Control?

-Yes.

-So, then why target gay men?

-Was Charlie Masham gay?

What he did was target young men.

OK, same question.

Well, I think back to when I was that age,

and I was like pretty much everyone else.

I wanted fun however it came, I wanted as many highs as I could get,

and that makes you vulnerable, doesn't it?

Sure, but there are plenty of women at weekends out there,

drunk, wandering the streets - why does he not target them?

Because his problem is with men, and not with women.

THAT'S what's at the root of this.

Am I describing David Bennetto?

I don't know.

HE CLEARS HIS THROAT

I mean, look, I'm no psychologist but...

David's father controlled the people around him,

in his family, through fear.

He would pick on whoever was vulnerable.

Through violence, the threat of violence...

never knowing what is coming next.

And that takes away your self-respect,

any control you feel you have over your own life.

And, I think, sometimes that can make people...

do things that they hate themselves for

-in order to get that control back.

-So, you think Bennetto...?

What? Having power over another human being,

being able to decide how and when they die,

that's the ultimate control.

And it must be... must be a massive hit.

Must feel like you're on the very cusp of existence.

But that's not David.

And that's not because he's your client, and that's what you're supposed to say?

It's because I know he's innocent.

And so do you.

Here.

ENGINE STOPS, HANDBRAKE CRANKS

Better she doesn't know, isn't it?

Carries on living in hope.

You and me?

You.

Thanks(!)

INAUDIBLE

INAUDIBLE

SHE SIGHS

DOOR CLOSES

-Did you close the curtains?

-No.

(Stay here.)

How much did he pay you, mate?

Get upstairs! Jacob, take Mummy's bag!

Davey! David get off!

Davey!

Davey! Stop it!

Davey, look at me!

David, look at me! Look at me!

Calm down. Calm down, please.

Can I have the police, please?

HE GROANS

SHE GASPS

You've heard?

Yeah.

They've just picked him up at his sister's.

Klein won't let it go. No other suspect, still just Bennetto.

You've changed your tune.

I'm doing what she should've done. Just focused on the evidence.

No prints, no DNA.

-Sorry?

-Nowhere.

Everything's circumstantial - nothing forensic.

No smoking gun,

literally or otherwise.

DRAWER OPENS

DRAWER SLAMS

Here we go.

Bodies.

In the marshland. Riverside.

One of them, Bennetto's lover.

So, he's really tied into it.

The other one, Michael Freeman,

so Bennetto goes down for five years.

You get him out of prison,

because the evidence doesn't entirely stack up.

-Thank you.

-Then what? CCTV.

He's in Byron's street the day he's murdered.

And then, the gun and the Lorazepam.

So, OK, either it is him and he's got a fantastic lawyer,

or it's all massively coincidental, every tiny bit of it.

Or the evidence is planted.

What if it's all staged, all make-believe, everything we see,

everything we think we know -

the Lorazepam, Bennetto on CCTV...

-Explains the coincidences.

-And the next logical question is?

Who staged it? It would have to be someone who knew him incredibly well.

They'd have to know where he'd been, where he was planning to go,

-what kind of things he did in his spare time...

-What medication he was on.

-Someone he met in prison?

-His sister? Brother-in-law?

There is one other person.

Oh, come on.

HE CHUCKLES

OK, yeah, a woman scorned, but...

-Why not?

-Because, if it was him, he'd already got away with it.

Bennetto was already banged up, why would he get him released?

Because, with Bennetto locked up,

he couldn't kill - not with the same MO -

that would be like running up a flag to say Bennetto's innocent.

That the wrong man was convicted.

Exactly! But with Bennetto back on the streets,

Walker could indulge again.

He has control fantasies.

He wants to dominate, to take people to the brink of death,

and then, when he's had enough, he takes their lives.

What about the siege? Walker saved Bennetto's life.

Yeah, because he needed a patsy and he needed him alive and free.

And targeting Charlie Masham?

Well, that tied Bennetto right back into it.

Bennetto had a motive to go for Charlie -

he wanted to get back at Peter Masham - Walker knew it!

It's all a set-up, an invention!

You must feel like you're right on the cusp of existence.

-Huh?

-That's what Greg Walker said to me.

Like a confession.

Deal in facts. I thought we agreed.

OK, facts.

There were two sources of semen on Byron Lee's body.

-One we know came from...

-Callum Jordan.

-And the other?

-No trace.

Yes. But that sample contained absolutely no sperm.

So, the donor was infertile.

Greg Walker couldn't have kids. They had to adopt.

What time was Byron Lee killed?

-Sometime between 6 and 8pm.

-And Charlie?

Similar time frame. Why? Where was Walker then?

Did you see him either of those days?

Yeah. Both.

And both times, at the same bar.

He was late the first time, and the second...

Time?

Nine-ish.

So, there was time to dispose of Charlie's body and then get to you.

If he'd just used a gun to kill Charlie...

..then there'd be gunshot residue on his hands.

-I've already run the tests!

-So, run them again!

Bennetto's not your man, Rachel.

So, what are you telling me?

I've spent the last six years barking up the wrong tree?

Uniform have been to Walker's flat and office. He's not there.

I've put out an all-vehicle alert.

OK, so, where else would he go?

Just help me, David. I've stood by you and I'm on your side.

-Who knew you were taking Lorazepam?

-Why?

Please, just answer.

-Jill and Mark.

-And Greg?

-Yeah, course.

Remember that time you got caught on CCTV in Byron's street?

-Yeah.

-Whose idea was it for you to go down that road?

Greg said that he dropped you off.

So, did you just walk and find yourself in the street

or did he tell you which way to go?

He told me.

How did you meet Greg? Did he come to you?

Yeah.

When Daniel died, I got arrested, he said he'd represent me.

-He got me out.

-So, when Michael Freeman was murdered

-you were already a suspect?

-Yeah.

-Which would have made you easier to frame.

-What you talking about?

Look, this is going to be really difficult for you to hear,

but all the evidence against you has been planted.

Now, we need to find Greg, right away.

He's not at home or at his office. You know him really well,

so we thought that you might know where he might've gone.

-What you saying?

-Where else would he go?

-I don't know.

-Well, think!

-I said, I don't know, didn't I!

SHE KNOCKS SOFTLY

FOOTSTEPS APPROACH

He played me.

He played me, too.

No. You didn't put the wrong man away.

No.

They're moving me.

I can forget about DCI now.

Desk job, regular hours.

Yeah, right. Who gives a shit(?)

Why's she bothered about being promoted now?

That surely, that's not the priority.

Because...

Anyway,

once I've put this to bed they can shove the job.

SHE SNIFFLES

There's no paperwork at his office for a Transit van.

And there's nothing registered in his wife's name either.

-You did an all-ports? Circulated details?

-Ma'am.

There is one other way we can get to him. Maybe.

-Does he know you're onto him?

-No.

-You're sure?

-Yeah.

-Not the slightest inkling?

No.

So, call him.

Keep him on the phone long enough to trace his mobile signal.

OK.

KEYPAD TONES

MOBILE RINGS

KEYPAD TONE

-Nikki, hi.

-Hi.

I, er... I hoped you'd call.

Where are you?

Can we meet?

When?

Now. Tonight?

I don't think so.

I'm, um... I'm tired, Nikki.

You worked it out yet?

Sorry?

Cos you're the only one who could have.

Yeah.

I worked it out.

Good.

KEYPAD TONE

HE SIGHS

MOBILE VIBRATES

David.

Listen. You'll get compensation money.

Just make sure you get a good solicitor.

It's over now.

We're free.

Is that it?

KEYPAD TONE

BIRDSONG

SIRENS APPROACHING

ENGINES REV

SIRENS STOP

Greg?

Out the van.

Out the van, Greg?

Hands above your head, where we can see 'em.

Hands above your head, where we can see them!

GUNSHOTS No, don't! It's what he wants...

HE CHOKES AND GASPS

You, with me!

All right. Clear!

Has he got a pulse?

Bring him back. I want him alive.

NIKKI PANTS

HE GASPS

SHE PANTS

TROLLEY CLATTERS

I was right, wasn't I?

I was right.

SHE SOBS

The victim is an unidentified female in her early twenties.

Victim has a broken nose that's partially healed.

From the bruising, it looks like the breakage was sustained

roughly a week before her death.

I'm trying to ID a young woman, recently deceased.

Well, well! Look what the cat dragged in. DI Laing.

Somewhere here, he's made a mistake.