Mistletoe and Crime Armchair Detectives

Dear Santa, I've been a very good girl. This Christmas,

please could you deliver the best evidence,

prime suspects galore and help me catch the killer?

Welcome to the TV show with only one question, whodunnit?

Welcome to a very festive Armchair Detectives,

the show where these 15 murder mystery enthusiasts will be

hoping to solve a fictional deadly crime.

Our detectives will sift through the evidence from a case

set in Mortcliff,

the village with its fair share of nightmares before Christmas.

Helping them solve the crime is Mortcliff's dream police team -

DI Knight, DC Slater, and Scene of Crimes Officer Simmons.

Before we head to Mortcliff for the first time,

let's meet our Armchair Detectives.

Hello, and happy festive season.

-DETECTIVES:

-Hi!

-Hello. Oh, they're so Christmassy.

Only three of you play each day, so please take your armchairs,

Bola, Dipak and Ellouise.

The detectives who guess the killer correctly will add another

one of these to their collection.

Yes, it's the golden magnifying glass.

-DETECTIVES:

-Ooh!

Never gets any less exciting.

Bola, tell me,

what have you loved about appearing on Armchair Detectives?

I think my ultimate moment was getting my magnifying glass.

Mm-hm, mm-hm.

Yeah, it's just been great all round.

And I have loved your shoes every time.

-Thank you.

-Dipak, tell me, how have you enjoyed appearing

on Armchair Detectives? What have you enjoyed?

There are places in Scotland that I don't want to live,

even if they are fictional.

Yes. Yes, although it is balmy weather at times,

as we've discovered.

Ellouise, you've been a fantastic contestant due to

changing your strategy every single time you've appeared on the show.

Have you enjoyed Armchair Detectives?

I have. I like the fact that you just never know

what's going to happen.

-You never know at all.

-Never.

Never know. Are you going to take notes today or not take notes?

-No. So today, we're going to work as a team.

-OK.

I'm going to... I'm going to watch.

-Right.

-I'm going to be the eyes on the prize.

OK. And?

I'm going to be the detail detective,

so I'm going to take the notes and take specific details down.

And Dipak?

I'm supposed to bring comedy, but I think I'm going to bring

another angle, which is tying the observations, the detail together,

and seeing if we can link things together, get that motive, so...

-Right.

-Kind of what we've learnt

-what we are good at throughout this, yeah.

-Yeah.

Let's see if this strategy works.

It's time for round one, the Crime Scene.

Knight and Slater meet Simmons at the Mortcliff Training Company

after their annual Christmas party.

Off we go.

MUSIC: Silent Night

Silent Night.

In Mortcliff? Hardly think that's likely.

LIFT DOORS OPEN

Merry Christmas to you both.

Have you got us here under false pretences, Simmons?

Yeah, is this a surprise Christmas party, Simmons?

No, sorry, it's neither.

Yeah, the victim was taken to hospital

and pronounced dead on arrival.

Glynnis Wainthorn, late 50s.

Managing director of the Mortcliff Training Company,

they specialise in training financial institutions.

Much needed service, some may say.

She'd come back to the office during the company Christmas party.

Cause of death?

Looks like a heart attack.

There's one witness, though,

that says it appeared she just went to sleep.

I've never heard of a peaceful heart attack.

There was an attempt to resuscitate but no use.

There's just something about this death

that doesn't sit right with me.

This witness?

Oh, she's waiting for you over there, HR manager.

OK, we'll speak to her now.

Oh, wait, we found this list by the victim.

You'd better hang onto it, Simmons, might be worth checking.

What, worth checking it twice?

Yeah, maybe it'll let us know who's been naughty or nice.

You'd better watch out, you'd better take care, Slater.

Good evening, I'm DI Knight this is DC Slater.

I'm Marianne Rogers, IT manager. Well, assistant.

I'm Josephine. I saw what happened. I didn't know what to do.

I've never seen someone die.

Oh, God, it was meant to be fun!

What was?

We were all at our Christmas party at the Mortcliff Inn.

That's around a five-minute walk from here, isn't it?

It's the last day before the Christmas holidays, we always

do a secret Santa, and Glynnis's present had been left behind.

Josephine offered to come back with her to collect it.

I just came back from the loo.

And she was sitting in her chair.

I thought she'd fallen asleep.

After a few minutes, I realised she wasn't breathing.

I got a phone call from Jo to come over immediately.

We rushed over to try and do CPR, but none of us were trained.

Who is the trained first aider in the office?

-BOTH:

-Glynnis.

-DETECTIVES:

-Oooh!

-Hmm. OK.

The lady that was the HR assistant quoted herself as the HR manager.

-Was that the IT...?

-IT, sorry.

-Yes, yeah.

-IT, yeah.

What I also thought about, we do secret Santa at my work

and we do it in the office, we wouldn't take it to the

Christmas party because it'd get lost, someone would leave it there.

That's interesting, so whoever was in charge of the secret Santa

might have had a means to make sure they knew whose present needs

to be left behind, to get the opportunity to commit the murder.

Yeah. Possibly.

Cos it's a bit suspicious that your vic, as in victim,

is the only person who had to have their present left behind,

-to go and get it or something else like that was going on?

-Yeah.

And just so happened that that was the first aider.

-Yeah.

-Convenient. Can't save yourself.

Let me tell you a bit more about the victim.

Today, we're investigating the death of Glynnis Wainthorn.

Glynnis was aged 57,

she was the managing director of the Mortcliff Training Company.

In her personal life, Glynnis was married.

Glynnis was taken to hospital with suspected heart failure and her

time of death was approximately between 10.30 and 11pm.

Suspected heart failure, so it's not confirmed just yet.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, Simmons said something about it looked like it was more

peaceful rather than an actual heart attack.

Yes, there's a bit of confusion about what actually caused

the death, I think, just now.

And Glynnis was DOA as well, so she died on scene.

Yeah.

Let's take a look at the suspects board.

There are two names just now.

We have Josephine Monroe, who's the HR manager,

and Marianne Rogers, who's the IT assistant.

One thing that I wasn't sure of, what I captured,

so the party was at a different location.

-Yep.

-And Josephine found her,

but she said, "I'd just come back from the loo."

-Yeah.

-So had you been there already, left and come back from the loo?

That's the bit I didn't understand.

If she'd been in the same building, that was more understandable.

-Yes.

-In the first place.

But also, if they went together, why did Marianne feel

the need to join them?

So I think... Didn't one of them come because the secret Santa

-had been left?

-Yeah.

-Realised she wasn't there...

-Said, "I'll come with you".

-One present had been left behind.

Yes.

OK, here's the first piece of evidence for you to look at.

This is the list of names.

It says on the top of it "donors"

and then "randomise".

And then randomise 16 numbers against each

of their names, which is numbers.

Yes.

So does Tim need to get a present for Jasper?

Ah, yeah, so it's...

It's a bit of a strange...

Because Glynnis is buying her own present

if it is a secret Santa list, so not sure what "donors" mean.

OK. Time for round two, Last Movements.

We'll start piecing together Glynnis Wainthorn's final hours.

Notepads at the ready.

Let's see what happened at the office Christmas party.

Stop working so hard, come and have a drink with us.

I will later. Where's me old ball and chain?

What do you call a bunch of chess players

bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?

Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer!

Chess reminds me of that bloke in Moscow, the chess board killer.

He wanted to kill 64 people, one for every square of a chess board,

but before he could, the police got him, he only killed 63.

He must have been gutted.

Must you really mention serial killers tonight?

Number four!

I want that!

Number two.

Oh.

Now that is something truly novel.

Thanks for helping out, Brian, I couldn't believe

when the caterers pulled out at the last minute.

We'd no chance of getting anyone else.

It's great to be appreciated for something in a 32-year marriage,

even if it's rearranging vol-au-vents.

Really? You're going to do this tonight?

When else do I ever see you?

Sorry, all, for being late.

I couldn't get out of my meeting

in the afternoon and then there was the trains as usual.

Oh, Glynnis, you don't stop working.

It's not going to stop in January.

Guys, where's the last one?

I'm sorry, I didn't know Glynnis would be here.

I was told to put it on her desk.

It really doesn't matter.

It absolutely does matter.

I'll go back and get it,

I've got a couple of things to get before lock up anyway.

I'll come with you. I could do with a walk.

You'll regret this, I promise you, you'll regret this.

Oh, there it is.

Oh, thanks, Jo.

-Back in a mo.

-Sure.

Honestly, this must have cost more than a tenner.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

PHONE BEEPS

Well, she's going to have to work hard to live this one down.

Brian, Brian, come and have a look at this.

No, Tim.

PHONE VIBRATES

Hi, Jo, we got your picture!

-Oooh!

-Ouch.

Josephine is an interesting one for me.

She's an HR manager but comes across a little bit unprofessional,

taking pictures of her boss possibly asleep.

Let's bring up the new suspects, actually,

so you can talk about them.

So we can now add two more names.

Tim Alteron, head of IT, and Brian Wainthorn,

who's Glynnis's husband.

That's four names, the board is full.

So, guys, have we got a situation here where the murder

didn't happen at 10.25,

the murderer set this up, so the position of

these peoples during her death isn't the point. There's something about

that necklace or maybe something on her desk, that is premeditated.

I wrote down, "Is there an allergy to some metal in...?"

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Let's see if we can help you out with some more evidence.

We have Josephine's selfie,

or Glynnis's meeting schedule,

and finally the contents of Tim's desk.

If we're saying that the murder happened by it being

planted on the desk, who decided that she wasn't

going to come to the party and she needed to go back to her desk?

So who had Glynnis's meeting schedule,

knew that she can't make the party.

Do you know what, from what you're saying, I'm edging towards

-the meeting schedule...

-Yeah.

..but also from the perspective of she's rushed to get there...

Back.

And then from landing there, realising her present wasn't

there, then going straight back to the office, so something could have

happened during that meeting and I'd like to know who was at the meeting.

-Yeah, cool.

-Do you want to see the meeting schedule?

-Sounds good.

-Yeah, I'm happy with that.

-These are her January appointments.

OK, so she's interviewing new staff members.

It'd be great if they said what the job roles were,

but this is what we've got.

Just... We've got some movement going on, haven't we?

There's kind of like a re-org going on -

people are being interviewed for their own jobs?

-Yeah.

-Yeah. Oh, but then again, there's no familiar names on there.

But at this point, I need to ask you to lock in your prime suspect.

Please write a name down in your detective's notebook now.

Tell me who is your prime suspect and why, Bola.

Right, so I've gone for Brian.

For me, he just seemed a little bit shifty.

How he spoke about his wife as the ball and chain. He...

He prepared the food,

and also there was a hint that he didn't feel appreciated by her.

Dipak, who's your prime suspect and why?

-So, I have gone for Brian.

-Right.

The only thing I can grasp hold of which Brian fits for,

somebody knows her well enough to do something not obvious to kill her.

OK. So it's really down to cause of death in a lot of ways, isn't it?

Possibly at this stage, yeah.

Ellouise, who's your prime suspect and why?

At this stage, I've gone for Josephine.

-OK.

-Just purely because she walked back with her, she's...

-She was there.

-She was the one that said, "No, let's go back

"and get your present" as if it was really vital.

Well, in summary, our Armchair Detectives'

prime suspects are... Bola has gone for Brian,

Dipak has gone for Brian

and Ellouise has gone for Josephine.

It's on to round three now, the Police Interviews.

Knight and Slater are about to question Brian, Josephine and Tim.

Who's been naughty and who's been nice?

Notepads at the ready, it's off to Mortcliff Police Station.

We're sorry for your loss, Mr Wainthorn.

It's all right.

That must have come as quite a shock to you.

Death is a part of life.

Right.

Um, can you think of any reason why Glynnis was under stress or

strain that might have caused her death?

Had a major heart operation, so she was looking to retire fairly soon.

Your wife's medical records show that she was fitted with

a pacemaker.

Yes, she was.

You were the only one who had knowledge of her operation,

you and the doctors?

I guess.

According to the medical examiner, your wife's pacemaker malfunctioned,

it seems it powered down.

The power pack it uses doesn't need to be replaced for five years.

According to the photo that you took of the deceased,

she was clearly wearing that necklace at the time of her death.

I'm sorry, I don't understand.

Where is it?

How am I supposed to know?

Well, it looks quite expensive.

Are you accusing me of stealing?

We have your record, Josephine.

Shoplifting, stealing from your previous employer.

Did you take the necklace?

I can't remember.

Look, this is embarrassing.

I can become a bit of a magpie when I'm drunk.

I could have taken it, but I don't think I did.

We've been told that you organised the secret Santa

and you determined who gets which present?

No, it's random.

I'm not great with computers,

I just draw up a list of names on a spreadsheet.

Ask Marianne, she'll tell you.

Oh, we will, but she's on leave.

I didn't know she was going away.

She's not, she's just had an emergency at home.

Really?

Yeah, it's something about a runaway cat and a broken cat flap.

A few witnesses saw you arguing with a barmaid at the night of the party.

That's Ellie, my girlfriend.

What was the fight about?

I told her I'd resigned.

And she wasn't happy about that?

She was angry about the new job.

Which is?

I'm going to work for a charity in Russia.

Why's that?

It has the most interesting serial killers.

Right.

Now, just to confirm, the IT hacks you had recently...

They weren't hacks. The breaches were internal.

We've had a problem with colleagues snooping into each others' files.

And how did you deal with that?

Everyone with mid level or lower security clearance

had cross-user access privileges denied.

And what did a high level security clearance give you?

Access to CVs, salaries,

meetings, minutes,

health records even.

Everything.

And who had high level security clearance?

Glynnis...

..and me, of course.

Well, now!

A malfunctioning pacemaker that allegedly only Brian or Tim

could have known about, or somebody who had Tim's access.

But he said that there was a problem with people

-getting into the files, so in theory...

-That's right.

..anyone in that office could have seen it at any given point until

-fixed it.

-Yeah, even Josephine and Marianne funnily enough.

Yeah, funny enough.

My thoughts around the pacemaker is that the power pack needs

replacing every five years.

-Yeah.

-Correct.

-That's one thing that stood out for me,

and Brian knew that.

-Yeah.

-And possibly Tim may know that and possibly Marianne may know that.

The other thing that stood out for me,

the pacemaker how does it malfunction, did it malfunction?

-And if so, could it have been the necklace?

-The locket.

Yeah, the locket, the metal.

That's what I mean in terms of does certain metals react with

other metals?

I'm guessing the pacemaker works by sending a small electrical

pulse to your heart to keep it regular

cos you've got a irregular heart thing, so a magnet or something

too close to the mechanism, cos it's all concealed in the chest.

I don't think you've got a battery pack

-on your back Ghostbusters style.

-No, no, no.

Who had access to swipe the necklace away as well

is a question that I keep...

-Evidence.

-Let's see if the evidence can help you.

Josephine's selfie, the contents of Tim's desk

or the new piece of evidence, Glynnis's login history.

So I think when it comes to the login history, at the moment

I'm not ruling out that everybody's been able to get in there.

I'd like to see the desk.

What do you want?

-Tim's desk.

-Tim's desk?

-Let's go with Tim's desk,

-just to see where we are.

-OK, let's look at the contents of Tim's desk.

-So..

-Interesting.

So he's addicted to crime, he's a bit of a psycho when it comes to it.

He's got serial killers books on there, crime scenes, obviously...

How To Get Away With Murder, completely obvious.

He's got an interest in killing.

-Yeah.

-Yes, he has.

And I think we kind of knew that already because he talks about it

all the time, he's going to Russia because it's full of serial killers.

OK, guys, it's time again to pick your prime suspect.

Write it down now.

Time's up, Armchair Detectives, notepads down.

Last time, Bola, you chose Brian, who have you picked this time?

Josephine.

Josephine, why?

She's a criminal, number one.

-Yes.

-She also possibly steals, she's a bit of a magpie

when she drinks, maybe she kills too once she's had a drink.

Maybe she kills too. That's the name of my autobiography.

LAUGHTER

Dipak, last time you chose Brian, who have you gone for this time?

Marianne, there's something about the access to removing

the necklace, is it convenient

you work with a kleptomaniac ex thief who's now an IT manager?

Last time, Ellouise, you went for Josephine,

-have you changed your mind?

-Yes, I've gone for Brian.

Brian.

I get that he's got a rocky relationship with his wife,

I get that.

Even if your marriage is bad...

-Yeah.

-..surely you'd at least fake that you're upset.

LAUGHTER

So let's round up on the suspects. Bola has gone for Josephine.

Dipak has gone for Marianne. And Ellouise has gone for Brian.

Well, now it's on to round four, Big Deeper.

Time to delve into what happened at the Mortcliff Training Company

a day before Glynnis's death.

Notepads at the ready, let's head back to Mortcliff.

That's very odd.

RECORDING: Merry Christmas from MTC.

All our operators are currently busy, please hold the line.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYS

Having a good day?

I can't escape the stupid Christmas music.

Marianne thought it would be festive. Hmm, that bad?

I don't mean to sound alarmist,

but I think somebody's been accessing my files.

I thought I was imagining things.

I'm pretty sure my appointments list for January has been accessed too.

There's been another breach in security, Tim.

Happens all the time, I'm afraid.

Get it sorted, will you?

As I've already explained, the only way to do it..

We're not buying any computers this year, Tim.

Don't ask me that again.

Remove all cross-department privileges,

and implement it immediately.

That means the only people who can access documents are those

who create them, or you or me, are you sure?

Yes, I'm sure.

Marianne?

Yes.

Can you send an e-mail to everyone to change their passwords

immediately?

And this time tell them not to write them on a sticky note.

I'll make sure they pick safe passwords, don't worry.

I know a trick where...

Get on with it, will you?

Right, it's time for our board meeting, what's on the agenda?

The new benefits package for next year.

Yeah, thanks.

Should I join you after I've sent this?

No, it's for management only. You're fine to get on with that.

But next year..

Does she realise how rude she can be?

It's not a big deal.

To be honest, it makes more sense

for you to attend this meeting than me.

How so?

Glynnis is on a mission to maximise profit

so that our share price increases.

I think she's looking to sell some of her options soon.

How does that affect you?

Are you kidding? The squeezing budgets is driving me crazy.

These computers are ancient, slow, bug ridden,

difficult to protect from hacks.

Tell me about it, I'm either asleep or at work,

I haven't seen the outside world for a month.

Ellie's probably wondering who you are.

Yeah, she's not going to be happy when she hears I've resigned.

You've got another job to go to?

I'm going to follow my passion.

Write about serial killers?

You don't think there are far too many people doing that already?

There are, none of them come from my perspective. It's unique.

Ho-ho-ho, okey dokey!

Josephine again, on the phone, pretty angry,

she actually made me jump when she slammed that phone down.

-So again, she's got a bit of a temper.

-Yeah.

She was looking at something on the computer screen and she said,

"Mm, that's interesting", I wonder what that was.

Has she got access to something?

But it's been blocked.

Possibly.

But also Marianne then made a reference to people

writing their passwords down on post-it notes, which

kind of said like we thought before, it was a bit of a free for all.

-Maybe, maybe.

-Yeah.

Marianne herself, she's got big ideas for herself, hasn't she?

-Yeah. She's..

-Yeah.

I mean, if we're following what motives are,

does she want to be bigger than she is?

I feel like she doesn't feel valued.

Yes. Let's look at some evidence, see if we can help you out.

You can have Josephine's selfie, Glynnis's log in history

or the new item of evidence -

the IT department's password security poster.

I feel like we're forgetting about the selfie, and for me,

are we going to see something behind the selfie

that has set off her pacemaker?

Could we maybe go for the selfie cos it was there initially?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Put it to bed

-and then possibly go for the login history afterwards?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

Let's have a look at the selfie.

What's that? So... Oh.

So the necklace is there.

I'm just going to jump in on this one, you put a necklace on,

-pendant's going to make it dangle down the middle.

-Yeah.

It has been specifically positioned a couple of inches to the left.

Technically, that's where you think your heart is,

but it should be down in the middle anyway, so someone's touched it.

That's what I'm trying to say. There's...

So then, who removed it between that selfie and SOCO getting there?

And do we now believe that that's...

..that was used as the murder weapon?

Armchair Detectives, it's prime suspect time again.

Never...

I need you to write down who you think your prime suspect is...

..now.

Bola, last time you picked Josephine.

-Who have you gone for this time?

-Stuck.

-Josephine?

-Yeah.

Gosh, this is a tough one, but I'm going back to the beginning of

when she was intent on going with her to get the...

..the gift. I was thinking, "What's the motive, though?"

And they mentioned that Glynnis was...

-Am I right in she was going to sell off some of the business?

-Yep.

So maybe she was worried for her job, quite possibly.

Maybe. Maybe.

-So that's where I'm at.

-OK.

Dipak, last time you picked Marianne,

have you changed your mind?

I've moved on.

Who have you moved on to?

I've moved on to Josephine.

Why?

There's a hook there, with that lingering look.

I keep coming back to it, I wrote a note and I read it again

and reminded myself,

"Why would you bother looking about what someone's opening?"

Ellouise, last time you went for Brian, have you changed your mind?

Yeah.

-Who have you gone for?

-I've gone for Marianne.

-OK.

Just because she sits opposite Tim,

who's obviously very much interested in serial killers and the way

they kill, and she did say to him "So you're following your passion?"

So they've obviously had a lot of conversations, as you do with

colleagues, and the fact that she felt underappreciated,

and obviously she...

..she was there to remove the necklace.

-Yes.

-And get rid of the evidence.

-Yeah. OK.

Bola has gone for Josephine, Dipak has gone for Josephine,

and Ellouise has gone for Marianne.

Well, now it's time for round five, the Final Clues.

Will Knight and Slater find enough clues to cancel someone's Christmas?

Notepads at the ready. Let's head back to Mortcliff.

HE WHISTLES CAROLS

Wonder if it will snow in Mortcliff this year, sir.

I don't do small talk, Slater, you should know that by now.

Let me know if you get visited by three ghosts tonight, sir.

No, Scott, I don't know why the cat flap's still not working.

Can't you just open the door?

Yes, I know he's faster than Usain Bolt. You chose him.

I have to go, bye.

Sorry to interrupt your call.

It's no problem. Just domestic admin.

Excuse the mess.

Here it is.

Sorry, takes a while.

Slow computers.

Doesn't really help when you're trying to be time efficient.

Well, thanks for coming in to take us through the system.

Our SOCO lead officer showed us a list of names?

Oh, that. It's nothing, really. Is it the donor or recipient list?

There's two?

Yes, the donor list is the one I do,

then Josephine makes up

the recipient side.

It's random. The computer decides.

We break it into two parts

so no-one can rig it.

I draw up a list of names,

then assign them numbers,

then on Jo's side, she assigns

those numbers to random recipients.

Didn't realise you were in today, Marianne.

The detectives asked me.

So what's this all about?

Oh, we wanted to see Josephine's secret Santa list.

Ah. Marianne doesn't have clearance, let me log into my account.

Tim, about the other night with Ellie.

Here you are, detectives, this is the spreadsheet.

If you press F9 several times, you'll see that the spreadsheet

randomises everything,

that's how she did it.

Thank you, Marianne.

Can you show us log-in attempts by Glynnis over the past week?

Sure.

They seem normal, apart from that day.

HE WHISTLES JINGLE BELLS

You're in the Christmas spirit, Slater.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, sir.

Even for us detectives.

Well, I'll have that tune going round my head all day now,

along with your terrible whistling.

It's not terrible.

Clever.

What?

Very clever.

What is?

-DETECTIVES:

-Ooooh!

-What?

So he was singing...

He was whistling along to the song and he said,

"It's going to get stuck in my head all day, along with your whistling,"

and then he had a light bulb moment.

I don't get it, but you're the connection guy, I'm the watcher.

What was the song what was being whistled?

-ELLOUISE WHISTLES JINGLE BELLS

-# Jingle all the way... #

Right, one thing I am going to say, and this might be relevant,

when it came to talking about the secret Santa list...

-Yes.

-..Marianne was talking about how she randomises the numbers

and then Josephine randomises the numbers,

so they both get involved in it, and it's a computer-generated list...

-Yes.

-Yes.

-But what Josephine actually said way back when she was

talking about the secret Santa, she said she draws up a list of names.

-Yes.

-Now, she doesn't draw up a list of names, does she?

Because Marianne inputs the names...

-Yes.

-She then sends it across to Josephine...

-Yes.

-..and she puts the numbers in and randomises it.

-So she wasn't drawing anything.

-Yes.

Or it that just an expression?

OK. OK.

And pregnancy test.

-Is that what it was?

-Oh, was that what was on the desk?

Marianne is learning things by repetition.

That Jingle Bells has stuck in your head because Marianne has been

sitting there, she's been learning about F9 how to...

how to change the list until she gets what she wants.

She's been watching Tim and nicking passwords

and being able to access where she needs to be.

Let me see if the evidence backs you up,

cos you've got one more evidence pick.

You can have either Glynnis's log-in history or the IT department's

password security poster.

I actually think the poster's going to possibly give us

more than the log-in history cos we've kind of been given

a clue that we've seen that someone logged in when somebody

wasn't there, so the MD wasn't there and yet a log-in happened with them.

Right, let's hit that poster cos I didn't want it last time.

-I'm going for the log-in history.

-The problem I've got right now is I've not ruled out anyone.

Ellouise, tell me now.

The log-in.

Let's see Glynnis's log-in history. This is the day before her death.

-So someone has been trying to access her computer.

-Yeah.

And finally got access to it at 10.58.51. OK.

Yeah, why would they want to see it the day before?

Cos that doesn't tie into the whole idea of premeditated

murder and knowing about the medical history and doing this in a timely

fashion, this is someone rushing for some reason to look in there.

OK. Armchair Detectives, the big moment has come.

Will you have an early Christmas present by guessing today's killer?

You're about to make your final accusation for the chance

of winning another golden magnifying glass.

It's time to answer the only question that matters.

Whodunnit?

Let's find out who you've accused. Bola, who are you accusing?

-Josephine.

-Why?

All the evidence that I've got - her shiftiness,

her looking at the computer, wanting to see her put the necklace on...

Dipak, who are you accusing?

OK, I'm accusing Marianne. There's..

She's got the opportunity to get around, she's involved with IT,

but I'm sticking with her, she knows too much.

OK. Ellouise who are you going for?

I've gone back to Josephine.

Right.

Why did she seem to look and wait as if to say, "Put it on and die!"

LAUGHTER

-Don't you do that with all your gifts?

-No.

-Absolutely.

So Bola is accusing Josephine, Dipak is accusing Marianne

and Ellouise is accusing Josephine.

You've left a final piece of evidence like leftover

turkey on Boxing Day. Let's take a look if this could have helped you.

It is the IT department's password security poster.

Let's have a look at it.

Does that assist you at all?

No.

So let's find out what really happened in today's story,

Mistletoe And Crime.

Who killed Glynnis Wainthorn? Let's find out whodunnit.

Tim, he had an abnormal interest in murder

and had ultimate access to everyone's information.

He could have easily found out about Glynnis's pacemaker.

He'd already resigned though, and there's no evidence to link him.

He had means and opportunity, but no motive.

SIGHING

Brian?

Didn't seem to like his wife very much, did he?

Hm. Yeah, no, he wasn't that upset when he found out about her death.

Yeah.

He knew about the pacemaker and he was at the pub five minutes

away, he could easily have made it back to the office.

So he had motive, means and opportunity.

But where's the evidence?

Marianne?

Yes, and her pregnancy test.

Two lines, it was positive.

Yeah, and they've been trying for ages.

She was due a big promotion which would have made her life

so much easier.

And she didn't have the same unlimited access as Tim had.

She had enough, though.

You had access to all the confidential

information for the employees for MTC, don't you?

Medium level access only.

Which you used very efficiently to discover that Glynnis was

doing interviews for new jobs.

A job you wanted.

Well...

It's also how you found out Glynnis had a pacemaker fitted a few

years ago.

Your colleagues started to notice that on certain documents,

the timestamps had been changed.

Now, we know you had control of one half of the secret Santa list,

but how to rig the other half that was in Josephine's computer,

bearing in mind that your security level had been downgraded

so you couldn't get in?

When Tim sent advice around the company for people to change

their passwords, you encouraged them to use memorable phrases.

This was especially helpful to

Josephine who was a self-confessed technophobe.

So if you're a fan of Beauty and the Beast, say,

you could take the first letters of each word and use the password

of BATB, couldn't you?

It's too short, it's got to be eight characters minimum.

We looked at a list of failed log-in attempts.

WWYAMCAAHNY.

The first lines of a song. Right?

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

And this one, DDMOHIHTBAR -

Ding dong, merrily on high, et cetera.

So with a few failed attempts, you finally hit on the right

password, so you were able to access Josephine's user account.

They could have chosen anything.

Yes, but you arranged for Christmas music to be played throughout

the company. In the lift,

the music when you're on hold for the IT help desk.

The staff had been complaining of the same music being played

repetitively until it lodged into their brains.

You got lucky, and Josephine used one of the songs to generate

a password for her account.

With this access, you were able to rig the other

half of the secret Santa list, so that Glynnis always got

present number three, and you donated that present.

You have no proof, just crazy Christmas songs.

Well, there is one thing that pacemakers are vulnerable to.

The pendant was hanging rather unnaturally on the left

side of her body, you know why that is, don't you?

The pendant was a magnet.

A magnet strong enough to play havoc with a pacemaker.

She put it on, and a few minutes later she was dead.

You rushed over to give her CPR,

perfect opportunity to reclaim present number three.

You knew Josephine would be blamed for theft, you checked her files.

Where on earth would I get a magnet like that from?

How's your cat?

I wonder if we examined its collar

if we'd find a heart-shaped magnet's missing.

No, Scott, I don't know why the cat flap's still not working.

After all the work, all the loyalty.

Glynnis had back-to-back interviews, people less skilled than me

with less experience.

She was going to veto my promotion

and replace Tim with an outside candidate.

She didn't deserve to live.

That doesn't give you the right to take her life, though, does it?

Congratulations, Dipak, you caught today's killer

and win another golden magnifying glass.

I'm so sorry, Bola and Ellouise, not this time.

How many of you got that right, Armchair Detectives?

Quite a lot of you. How many worked out it was the cat?

-Yes!

-Of course.

-It's always the cat.

Now, throughout the series, all of you detectives have won at least

one golden magnifying glass, but you haven't received them yet.

So I'm going to give them to you now,

and I've got some special guests to help me with that.

Come on in, bring in the golden magnifying glasses.

CHEERING

How are you both?

Very well, thank you.

Very well, where's Slater?

Oh, he's off getting me a coffee.

Right, he does like coffee. We know that, don't we?

Well, thank you for coming in. I'm going to ask you to hand out

the trophies in just a moment, but first, that's all for this

series of Armchair Detectives, we hope to see you again soon.

Have a Merry Christmas.

And remember, no-one gets away with murder in Mortcliff.

Goodbye. Hand out those trophies, go on, hand them out.

Well done. Well done, well done, well done.

Well done to all of you.