ALAN CUMMING: This is "Masterpiece Mystery!"
CASSIE: David Walker had a lot of secrets.
We've just found another-- Ellen Price.
They'd get invited to the gatherings.
JAKE (on phone): David Walker sexually assaulted her.
CUMMING: Previously on "Unforgotten."
I promise you, I knew nothing about it.
CASSIE: We need to consider the possibility that one of these people was assaulted by Walker.
The question is, which?
AHMED: What the hell have you done?
She was the one who did it in the first place!
That it screwed me up so much I could've killed someone?
Did it?
(phone ringing) TONY (on phone): Marion, are you okay?
I'm in trouble, Tony.
CUMMING: "Unforgotten," (thunder claps) (whimpers) (click) ♪♪ ♪ All we do is hide away ♪ ♪ All we do is, all we do is hide away ♪ ♪ All we do is lie in wait ♪ ♪ All we do is, all we do is lie in wait ♪ ♪ I've been upside down ♪ ♪ I don't wanna be the right way round ♪ ♪ Can't find paradise on the ground ♪ ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) I did always keep stuff.
Silly bits of receipts and things.
There'll be something that proves I was there, abroad.
Right, well...
I'll start this side.
♪ ♪ (waves crashing) Bye, Dad, I love you.
Bye, sweetheart, I love you.
And remember, don't be late.
I won't!
♪ ♪ You didn't call me back.
Someone stole my phone.
When's our money coming?
I can have it for you by Wednesday.
I just want to be sure you're making the right choices.
I'm making the right choices?
Because like I said last week, I'm not the kind of man who forgets when someone screws him over.
That's very Liam Neeson.
3:00 Wednesday, in the caf-- be there.
♪ ♪ (motorcycle engine buzzing) Okay, thank you.
She was in a B&B in Havering.
The landlady found her when she didn't come down for breakfast.
Found her?
Unconscious.
They're taking her in to St. Agatha's now.
Is she going to be okay?
I've no idea.
(sighs) Love, I'm sorry.
You see, you asked me to take the wall down, Tony, but that's what's behind it.
What I did to her and what I do to every single relationship I've ever had-- try to mess it up.
(door opening and closing) (birds chirping) TESSA: You're overreacting.
Because I'm pissed off you stayed married to a child abuser?
Sorry, but I want to go home now.
Oh, what, to that depressing little flat and your pretend friends?
Oh, God, Jason, I'm sorry.
Come on.
(sighs): What is this?
We've always been there for each other.
And I always thought that was because I needed you.
Please, love, don't... Jason?
Jason, please.
Please, love.
Please, don't leave me on my own.
I think being on your own is just what you need.
Time to think about who you are.
♪ ♪ (siren blaring in distance) Well, I know you'll be aware of how carefully we need to tread here, Cass.
Notwithstanding the mistakes that we have made in the past, there are also some very unreliable witnesses out there.
Very aware of that, sir.
And we'll tread very carefully indeed.
So 'cause a few unfortunate people made some stuff up, suddenly it's all made up?
Again, like it has been for the last 50 years.
Yeah, I know-- it's rubbish, isn't it?
Listen.
I'm sorry if I got arsey the other day.
I'm sorry if I got arsey, too.
I think with my girls, I...
I, I just get very emotional about it all.
No, yeah, I get it.
Hm.
So where are we with Maudsley?
We still need to know if Colin Osborne could have ever got out.
Yeah, yeah, no, I'll chase up.
And the airline manifests.
Oh, okay.
And then I want Marion, Sara, and Colin in.
All three of them together.
What are we saying, a voluntary interview?
Mm-hmm.
And we're gonna need photos of them when they were teenagers.
I wanna show them to Ellen Price.
No, we can't use photo I.D.
from Price evidentially.
No, I'm not worried about evidence.
I want to know I'm not going mad.
You don't want to concentrate on just Marion Kelsey for now?
No, I don't think so.
Because maybe they were all at one of these parties.
They all knew each other, you mean?
Why not?
And maybe all three were involved in his murder.
So I want it coordinated.
I want them all in front office at the same time.
♪ ♪ AGENCY MANAGER: So, Maria Gonzalez.
We placed her with Klein Egerton on the 13th of March 1990.
The 13th, that's interesting.
And she left on the 17th, it says here.
Right.
Um, was this her home address at the time, here?
Yeah.
It's been really helpful.
Would you mind if I took a copy of this?
You can have it, love.
She hasn't been back in 26 years, so I don't think we'll be getting any return business.
Sorry, what's this here?
That's just her reference, her previous employer.
CASSIE: David Walker?
Yeah.
I went online at Companies House and looked at his accounts.
Gonzalez worked for Walker for 18 months before she temped at Klein Egerton's.
As what?
A dancer.
And she'd only been at Klein's two days before she made the rape allegation.
Okay, so we have photos of Osborne with Walker in February, and then a few weeks later, a woman who clearly knows Walker very well gets a temp job at Klein's, and within two days, she accuses Colin Osborne, a gay man, of raping her.
So even in 1990, a woman makes a very public accusation of rape, you'd reasonably assume the police would be called.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The man would be interviewed.
At the very least, his reputation is seriously damaged.
At the worst, he goes to trial.
Except this is banking, and they would... Yeah, it's all handled internally.
Yeah.
But if you took that anomaly out of the equation, you'd have to assume that someone wanted Colin Osborne out of the picture, wouldn't you?
And that someone was David Walker.
♪ ♪ (people talking softly) Hi, Mr. Osborne.
DC Fran Lingley.
Can I have a quick word?
(doorbell rings) Hello, young man.
DS Murray Boulting.
Is your mum or dad in, please?
Hello there.
DC Jake Collier.
Have you got five minutes please, Mrs. Kelsey?
ELLEN: This is it.
(directional clicking) It's here.
Yeah, it's that one over there.
CASSIE: How sure?
ELLEN: Hundred percent.
It's the number.
There was a joke going round, round that time-- 99's like a 69, except you shove a flake up your... Told me that gag the first time we were there.
Yeah.
There.
CASSIE: So how many times did you come here?
Three.
Always with Walker?
He was always the one that picked me up, yeah.
From your school.
Yeah.
So what did your headmaster say about that?
The gatherings were supposed to be prayer evenings.
There was a bloke there that was something to do with the local church.
We were supposed to have been reading the Bible, talking about God.
No.
It was never a problem, no.
And Walker would... would pick you up in his car?
In a taxi-- came straight from work.
And how would you get back from the party?
(strained): Sorry.
This is weird, I've, um...
I've never talked about this in 35 years.
Not to my husband, not to anyone.
If you want to stop... No, it's all right.
It's all right, it's fine.
Twice...
He put me in a taxi, take me back.
Right.
And another time, there was a woman that drove us back.
Was that a woman from the party?
No, um, she just turned up outside.
She had a row with Walker on the pavement there.
She was screaming at him.
I think she was his wife or girlfriend or something.
Okay.
And how many other children were here?
There were never less than half a dozen.
What age range?
The youngest was about 12.
The oldest was maybe... 16.
And how many adults?
About the same.
There was something for everyone.
If I showed you some photographs of some other children we think might have been here, as well, do you think you might be able to recognize any of them?
(gasps) I suppose it's worth a try.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
(phone buzzing) I'm so sorry, I just...
I'll be two minutes.
Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm fine.
♪ ♪ Sunny.
SUNNY (on phone): So the Maudsley say they had a soft locked door policy in the 1990s, meaning that it was hard but not impossible for a patient to walk out.
But can they confirm Osborne was there?
SUNNY: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For the exact dates that he stipulated.
And there's no record of him absconding at any time.
CASSIE: But they can't rule it out?
SUNNY: If he was in and out within a few hours, then no.
Okay.
SUNNY: And then Sara Alazi.
Uh, we have found both her outbound flight in March and her inbound flight in December.
But what we can't do is check every airline, rail service, ferry service, for every day between her departure and the eighth of May to see if she returned here at any point.
No, okay, thanks.
Listen, right now I need you to pull Tessa Nixon in again.
My witness here might be able to place her at this house in Brentford.
Wow.
CASSIE: Yeah, I know-- thanks.
Hm.
(doorbell ringing) (dog barking in distance) MAN: Hello, can I help?
Hi there.
DCI Cassie Stuart, Bishop Street Station.
Okay.
You don't happen to know who lives here, do you?
Oh, yeah, that's Pete and Katie.
They been here long?
Oh, about five or six years.
You don't happen to know who lived here before them, do you?
Oh, before them was Ken-- he was here donkey's years.
You remember his surname?
Uh, no.
But he worked for the council, I think, some sort of social services.
And when you say donkey's years, roughly how long did he live here?
Oh, well, well before me, and I've been here since '79.
Right.
Brilliant.
Okay.
Thanks for your help.
Oh, sorry.
Just one more thing.
You don't have any idea where he moved to, do you?
Oh, yeah-- about half a mile down that road.
To the cemetery-- he's dead, love.
Thank you.
(phone ringing) She is out of line doing this.
You could have rung me-- I'd have come up.
Come on, let's not make this any harder than it needs to be, Tess.
Detective Inspector Nixon.
(computer playing audio) (people talking indistinctly) JAKE: Sorry, Marion.
Can you bear with for two minutes?
Bit short on interview rooms.
Yeah, sure.
Do you wanna take a seat, grab you a tea or a coffee?
Yeah, I'll have a tea-- milk, no sugar, please.
JAKE: No worries.
♪ ♪ FRAN: So as I said earlier, Colin, you're obviously not being arrested, but you will be questioned under caution, so would you like a solicitor present?
No, I'll be fine, thank you.
FRAN: Okay-- just grab a seat and I'll be right back.
♪ ♪ CASSIE: Do you recognize this girl?
♪ ♪ No, sorry.
No problem.
What about this one?
♪ ♪ Show me the next one.
♪ ♪ Show me the middle one again.
It was 35 years ago, and I was drunk.
But this girl...
I'm pretty certain she was at the party.
I'm pretty certain I recognize her.
♪ ♪ Any of them spoken to each other?
No.
They looked at each other?
Nothing.
Which is weird.
Weird?
Well, you nod at people in a situation like this, don't you?
You talk about the weather.
Don't you?
Yes.
Okay-- you do Tessa.
I'll do Marion.
I gave evidence against her.
Why would she not try and drop me in it?
Mmm.
So you think that's why Sinead Quinn said this stuff about you and Walker?
Absolutely.
So how, how do you think she knew who he was?
Well, because maybe it was her who identified him as a possible target.
Her who, who wrote that address down.
Of your parents' house?
Well, she was my girlfriend at that time.
We did stay there on several occasions when my parents were away.
But whichever of you it was gave him your parents' address on the seventh of May, that's the day before he disappeared, it suggests you were staying there, in North London.
Yeah, I guess so.
Just a few miles from where David Walker's body was eventually found.
Okay.
I want, if I may, Marion, to ask you a couple of questions about your childhood.
So you were brought up by your parents?
Yes.
And you lived with them till what age?
16.
Did you have any problems with the police?
Other than the one that you asked me about, no.
You never spent any time in any youth detention facilities?
No.
No periods in care?
No.
You ever run away from home?
No.
And your mother would corroborate this, would she?
Yes.
Does the address 99 Shanklin Avenue in Brentford mean anything to you?
No.
This is it.
I've never seen it before.
You've never been to any parties there?
A party?
Jesus, I don't know-- when?
At some point between 1981 and 1983.
(scoffs): Okay, well, I think that's fairly unlikely.
And why's that?
Well, firstly, I was only 14 in 1983, and my parents were not that relaxed about that sort of thing.
But more to the point, I don't think they would have been that happy about driving me to Brentford, given that between 1980 and 1985, we lived in Ireland.
If he was doing this sort of stuff, how on Earth would I have known about it?
Hmm?
He would have done everything he could have to keep it from me, obviously.
Except wives often do suspect, Tessa.
You know that-- you're a copper.
(shouting): Little girls!
They have an instinct, which they can ignore sometimes for years, because who would want to ever dig that up?
(clicks tongue) But then one day, I guess it just gets too much.
And maybe you... follow him.
From work.
On one of those nights when he always said that he had late meetings.
One of those nights when he came home smelling of booze and something else-- something that scared you.
You saw where he went, and then later, a child coming out with him.
No.
And you were disgusted, of course.
And you fought with him, and you took that child back to her residential home.
(scoffs) It's a nice theory.
But that is all it is, DS Khan.
You know that, I know that.
(sniffs) Except we have a witness.
Who says she remembers being driven home by a woman in a blue convertible Golf with red trim.
What car did you drive?
♪ ♪ (knocking on door) Hello.
I'm looking for Maria Gonzalez.
(calling): Mum.
I'd imagine that was a very traumatic event for you.
Yes.
Doubly so, in that Mr. Osborne was never charged with anything.
No.
If you don't mind me asking, why didn't you call the police?
I didn't want to go through the trauma of a rape trial.
Absolutely.
A very difficult thing to go through.
Mrs. Gonzalez, there's a couple of things that I'm still confused about.
Firstly, did you know Mr. Osborne was gay?
(softly): Okay.
Secondly, what can you tell me about David Walker?
MURRAY: Basically, she's now admitting that Walker paid her five grand to make it all up.
Bloody hell.
MURRAY: Apparently Osborne was a very heavy drinker at the time, which Walker knew, so Gonzalez plied him with booze at this party, took him to the toilets, where he passed out.
20 minutes later, she was found on a stairwell, "distressed and partially undressed."
Was she meant to go to the police?
Absolutely.
Her conscience "wouldn't let her go through with it."
(sighs): Yeah, that and the ten grand Klein Egerton offered her to keep schtum.
And did she know why Walker asked her to do this?
She said, "Osborne'd asked him one question too many."
♪ ♪ (knocking at door) Hi there.
Jesus, Granddad.
Sorry, mate.
He's lost his wallet, I'm afraid.
And he wanted to walk home, but Egham's a bit of a schlep, so we gave him a lift into town.
Right.
Think he just needs a bit of kip.
Is, is he okay?
He's not in any trouble or... No, no, he's fine.
He did seem a bit tearful on the way in, but...
Right, yeah.
He lost his wife a couple of years ago.
He's been finding it hard.
Sorry to hear that.
I'll leave you to it, then.
Yes.
Thanks again.
Okay, I'm gonna start, if I may, Colin, by, uh, going back to your departure from Klein's.
Yes.
Can you tell me why you didn't mention the rape allegation that was made against you the last time we spoke?
Well, for obvious reasons.
It's something that you're ashamed of.
It's the worst thing I've ever done.
It's sat with me every day for...
Almost 30 years, uh...
Even talking about it now...
It disgusts me.
And what is your recollection of the event?
I had no, I have, I have no recollection of the event, of any of the evening.
'Cause you were too drunk?
I was going through a period of having blackouts, losing whole days.
You were drinking that heavily?
Sadly, yes.
Now, did you know you were gay at the time of the allegation?
No, um...
I mean, I maybe knew instinctively, but I certainly hadn't admitted it to myself.
Well, I'm guessing that it's going to, uh, shock you to learn that we have evidence to suggest that Maria Gonzalez made up the allegation.
That she was paid to make it up.
(voice shaking): Paid by who?
By David Walker.
Wh... why, why?
Well, that's what we hoping you could tell us.
I have no idea.
Really?
Well... well, um... Like, I said, I...
I... ...don't even remember meeting him.
SUNNY: Colin.
I find that hard to believe.
We've got photos of you with him, your number's in his diary.
According to Maria Gonzalez, you were asking him lots of questions in the weeks before she, she did what she did.
So what were you asking him?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
You were asking him questions about his past?
No.
Were you trying to discover if this was the same David Walker that attended parties in the early 1980s at a house in Brentford?
Parties?
What, what parties?
Parties that we think that you also attended as a teenager.
No, no.
Where we think Walker might have sexually assaulted you.
I was born and raised in Scotland.
The first time I came to London was when I went to university in 1985-- I...
I was 19.
(papers rustling) Your parents still alive, Colin?
Yeah.
Well, my dad, yeah.
(sniffs) And he would corroborate that, would he?
(sniffs): Of course he would corroborate.
Do you know a Marion Kelsey?
Maiden name Marion Dunphy?
No.
Or a Sara Alazi?
Again, that, that would have been her maiden name.
She's now Mahmoud.
No-- I want to leave now.
♪ ♪ (phone ringing) Where have you been?
I've been interviewed by the police again.
Is everything okay?
COLIN: Yeah, fine.
Did you need me?
SIMON: Flo had ballet-- you were meant to pick her up.
God, I'm, I'm sorry.
SIMON: No, it's fine-- Freya's mum brought her home.
But listen, I think we need to talk, love.
♪ ♪ (doorbell rings) (exhales) Mr. Mahmoud?
Yes.
I'm so sorry to disturb you.
I got your address from the mosque.
I was wondering if I could talk to you for a few moments about Sara.
I'm sorry I don't want to talk about...
Please, please!
I found these images on my grandson's phone.
With jokes about Mrs. Mahmoud.
And I believe that woman is my daughter.
♪ ♪ So where were you brought up, Sara?
Hayes.
Was that with mum and dad?
Yes.
And are your parents alive now?
No, they both died in a car crash when I was 20.
Sara's mother died in a car accident on Christmas Eve 1980, when Sara was just 12.
CASSIE (voiceover): I'm very sorry to hear that.
But you had a... a happy childhood?
Yes, it was very happy.
TARIQ (voiceover): Sara was completely devastated by the loss of her mother.
They were very close.
Perfectly understandably, her death made her very angry.
With the world, I guess.
And me particularly.
You enjoyed school?
Yes.
TARIQ (voiceover): She started to play truant at school, to fight with her friends, and was incredibly challenging at home, refusing to abide by any rules.
You never got into any kind of trouble?
No.
TARIQ (voiceover): She started to drink and smoke and I think even to take drugs.
No trouble outside of school?
No.
TARIQ (voiceover): I lost count of the number of times the police brought her home.
To me.
In the middle of the night.
And when did you leave school?
When I was 16.
By 13, she pretty much stopped going to school altogether.
And very often, she'd stay out all night.
I tried to be tough.
I tried to be gentle.
I tried everything.
Until I had no idea what to do.
Why so young?
Why didn't you do A levels?
Just didn't.
And then I...
I did something I'll regret till the day I die.
You were clearly smart.
You know, you should've done sixth form, gone on to university.
What happened?
Nothing.
TARIQ (voiceover): And so I told her if she couldn't live in my house by my rules, she had to leave.
When she was 13?
Of course, I never expected her to... actually do it, to leave.
But she did.
I don't believe you, Sara.
I think something very bad happened to you around this time.
No.
And I think it had something to do with this house.
♪ ♪ Do you recognize it?
No.
This is 99 Shanklin Avenue.
TARIQ (voiceover): Of course I reported it to the police, who were completely uninterested, and who kept saying she'd come back when she's ready.
So we looked for her.
Her brother had heard she had a... room.
In a squat.
Did David Walker do something to you here, Sara?
TARIQ (voiceover): So we looked there, and then in hostels and houses.
With men we heard... ...took her places.
And used her.
At a gathering?
No.
TARIQ (voiceover): For months, for years, we looked for her, but never found her.
We want to help you, Sara.
And then we just stopped hearing anything.
SARA (voiceover): You don't want to help me.
You just wanna solve your case.
I want a solicitor.
(birds chirping) Please.
Just tell her I love her.
I've always loved her.
And I'm so, so sorry for what I did.
♪ ♪ (ladder rattling) (rustling) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Zoe?
Zoe.
No, I just want to speak to Zoe.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (seagulls squawking) I didn't kill that man.
And you must know I would never hurt a hair on her head.
I do, 100%, but...
There's still stuff that you're not telling me.
(quietly): If I could tell you the truth, Simon, I...
I would, but I can't.
So I'm going to call Janet now, and tell her what's been happening, and ask for her help in deciding what's best for Flo.
♪ ♪ (phone buzzes) (sighs) (chuckles softly) Umm... Duty solicitor's on his way for Sara.
Okay.
You definitely think she was there, at one of these gatherings?
Ellen Price thinks she recognized her.
God, if you'd seen her face when I showed her the photo of Shanklin Avenue.
(phone rings) Cassie Stuart.
(man speaking on phone) ♪ ♪ Um, Sara's husband's downstairs.
Says he has something I need to see.
(door opening) Mr. Mahmoud?
Yeah.
She told me that your victim died on the eighth of May 1990.
Yeah.
A ticket stub to see Roma play Lazio, and a photo of her in a cafe in Rome, date-stamped on the eighth.
On the ninth, a train ticket to Naples, and a photo of her inside a bar in Naples date-stamped on the ninth.
On the tenth, restaurant receipts in Naples, and on the 11th, a new Interrailing card stamped and dated with her photo, in Naples.
I'm taking my wife home now.
(doors unlock) (siren blaring in distance) (seat belts clicking) I love you very much.
And I always will.
There's some stuff you need to know.
♪ ♪ (siren blaring in distance) Okay.
I now officially give up.
And a glass of Malbec.
No, no, no, no, I'm here, I'm here.
CASSIE: So has he come out of his room?
No.
(sighs) I mean, the bloke didn't clobber him or anything, did he?
No, but I can't imagine it went well.
Unless he got pissed before the event, which is always a possibility.
Yeah, okay.
Um... Look, I'm going to be a while.
But I'll be back about half past ten, 11:00.
Cool, I'll take him up some grub in a bit.
Okay, love you.
Um, can I get a large vodka with that?
(sniffling) (breathing nervously) (door opening) Said I needed to be on my own.
Pulled my cancer kid face.
(chuckles) Um... it's... uh, it seems... unbelievably selfish that I'm saying this to you, you of all people.
But, um, I just really want you to understand two things.
Firstly, um, I have some serious crap in my life which makes me-- has always made me-- hurt the people that I'm closest to.
It makes me push them away whenever I get scared that they might see something that, you know, I didn't want them to, and...
I'm...
I'm so sorry that I did that to you because you didn't deserve it.
And the second thing I, I wanted to say was that, um...
If I'd ever had a daughter, I would have wanted her to be just like you, because...
I think you're smashing.
(crying) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ It's like all the key pieces of an investigation there, but nothing... nothing quite fits.
Sara had the motive, but not the opportunity.
Yeah.
Marion had the opportunity, but no obvious motive.
Colin is clearly somehow connected to him.
But... just join the suspects up.
I'm sure that... Do you know what?
Can we just talk about something else?
(sighing): Yeah.
What do you want to talk about?
How was your date?
(stammers on purpose) (laughing): Come on, tell me-- how was it?
(laughing): It's... Hi.
I know what you did, Tony.
What did I do?
They're yours, I know-- I've always known.
What are mine?
Ned and Jack, come on!
I'm the father of your sister's children?
And a part of me doesn't blame you, because I...
I know you've always wanted kids, and I know you've always resented the fact that I didn't... but, uh... Marion...
I really think that, uh, you need to leave now.
Yeah, I really do, actually.
I really think it's time.
We're done now, we're done now.
(sighs) I'm gonna call your mum and Elise, and ask them to come and look after you.
Get you the right help, get you back on some meds, maybe.
And, you know, I actually think you're right asking me to leave.
I don't think I'm good for you anymore, Maz.
I want too much from you.
Things you can't give me.
(sniffs) You know, uh... Not having children was the hardest thing for me.
Still is some days.
But I was always completely prepared to do that.
Because I loved you.
Love you.
(inhales sharply) ♪ ♪ I don't know.
I mean it's been... A few years now, and do you know what?
I just think you... You sort of forget why you might be attractive to anyone.
You got...
I... seriously?
Yeah.
I mean, you... You know, if no one's telling you, it's not... You don't, you don't go round telling yourself, do you?
Right, right.
'Cause that would be a bad thing, wouldn't it?
(laughing) (sighs) For what it's worth, I...
I think you're attractive.
Oh, God, shut up, no, just... No, I do.
Yes, well, that would be because you're drunk.
No, no, it's because you're... you're...
It's because you're funny and, and clever.
And kind.
(scoffs) And pretty.
(sighs) Am I?
I sound fantastic.
Well, yeah.
Yeah, you are.
Oh, no.
No.
Oh, (no audio), sorry.
No, no, I wasn't, it... No, absolutely.
Nor was I.
Sure-- um, but Cassie, sit down.
No, I've got to shoot, because...
Please... No, no, look-- it's all good.
I'll see you tomorrow, Sunny.
♪ ♪ (sighs) (bus engine roars, people laughing) (indistinct conversations) ♪ ♪ Sunny!
I need to talk you.
Boss, I'm sorry about that.
No, no, no, not about that.
That was just cripplingly embarrassing.
No, no, there's no reason why you should feel in any way... No, not for me-- for you.
Oh, right, yeah.
It's about the case.
Well, what about the case?
What you said earlier, about nothing quite fitting.
I think I can see a way that it does.
Okay.
And if I'm right, there are gonna be more bodies.
♪ ♪ (birds chirping) So what did he tell you?
My dad?
Enough for me to know if you never want to talk about this again, then that's fine.
Or if you want to talk about it every day for the rest of your life, that's fine, too.
♪ ♪ (birds chirping) He was just very shocked when I introduced myself.
And scared.
And he was babbling, and kept repeating that it... didn't mean anything.
He kept on apologizing.
But I wasn't interested in apologies.
I didn't want contrition.
What I wanted was... To understand.
And the only person who could help me do that... ...was dead.
Would you like to come through?
JANET (voiceover): And in terms of the bigger investigation, the murder investigation, where are you with that?
I don't know.
They questioned me again yesterday, but I have a watertight alibi.
And this was that you were sectioned in the Maudsley.
26 years ago, yes.
And for what it's worth, I did not kill David Walker.
Okay.
I just hope I have all the facts now.
I just need to... consider how best to proceed.
Yeah, of course.
How long do you think it will be?
I don't know!
I've never had to deal with anything remotely like this.
I'm sorry for snapping, but I'm, I'm... cross and disappointed.
And Flo?
Um... Simon, could you pick her up from school today?
Yeah.
Okay, thank you.
And Colin, until I decide what to do, I need you to find somewhere else to stay, please.
Sure, sure.
And if the investigation goes away, then maybe we can get through this.
If it drags on, if God forbid, you were charged, and it went to trial... We could obviously never let you parent Flo.
You'd either have to move out permanently, and we'd have to consider Simon as a single parent, or if you both felt you couldn't do that, then we'd have to take her back.
So for over two weeks now, we've all wrestled with this case, following one dead end after another, with the final nail in the coffin of the idea of Sara Mahmoud's possible guilt coming last night, when her husband turned up out of the blue with this.
Evidence she was in Italy at the time of Walker's death, which... was a blow because we know that Sara knew Walker, and I reckon if we hunted hard enough, we could conclusively place her at a gathering Walker was at.
Given also we know what Walker liked to do to young girls, when he turns up at her flat, as a client eight years later, she has the perfect motive for a revenge murder.
Except the alibi is good.
CASSIE: More than good.
It's watertight.
There's no way she could have killed him.
Question is... is it too good?
What you... think it's faked somehow?
No.
I think it's real, but what it feels like to me is, is a bunch of information collected by a woman who knew she'd need an alibi.
Which would mean... She'd have had to know that Walker was going to die.
Yes.
(sighs in relief) Okay, here goes.
And, um... Stop me when it gets too mental.
CASSIE: So we have three suspects who actually all have dysfunction consistent with abusive childhoods-- drink issues, mental health issues, relationship issues.
We have three people who, for my money, just tried too hard to look like they didn't know each other.
And then we have an idea.
That Sara Mahmoud was abused by David Walker, but that Colin and Marion were abused by people we've not yet identified.
And that at some point in early 1990, after Sara realizes the client is the same man who'd raped her at a gathering eight years before, three of them, already, I believe, known to each other somehow, came together and hatched a plan to murder all three of their abusers.
Now, they knew if they murdered their own abuser, there'd almost certainly be an easily traceable link back to them.
So they agreed to kill each other's.
(murmuring) MURRAY: Sorry, guv, if I'm being dim here, but, um, if you've created the perfect alibi, why did Sara wait two weeks before she gave it to us?
SUNNY: Because offering it up immediately could also arouse suspicion.
How much more credible for her husband to find it?
JAKE: And you think Walker was the first victim?
I think him turning up as a punter at Sara's flat was what kicked it all off.
And he was killed by?
Has to be Marion.
Doesn't it?
I think so.
Osborne was in the Maudsley, Sara was in Italy.
SUNNY: And Walker's body was found less than eight miles from Marion's parents' house.
So why did Osborne spend so much time with Walker, then?
I think he was trying to confirm that Walker was who Sara thought he was.
FRAN: So then that has to mean Sara would have had to kill Colin Osborne's abuser and Osborne Marion's?
Yes.
(murmuring) And if we're right, to prove this theory, we'd need to find three things.
We'd need to find evidence of that historic connection, we'd need to find evidence of who those other abusers might have been... And we'd need to find two more bodies.
It won't be forever, it's fine.
(sniffles) Give her a big kiss from me.
Tell her I love her, and I'll, I'll be back very soon.
♪ ♪ (crying) Murray and Jake, we need to find out where our three suspects might have met.
And we know that two of them weren't even in London till 1985.
So we're looking at a meeting that happened some time between then and 1990.
Where might that have occurred?
Was it through a job, party?
Flat share, group counseling?
I don't know, think laterally.
We will be focusing on the suspect's families.
DCI Stuart will go to Glasgow to talk to Colin Osborne's father.
Fran will visit Sara Mahmoud's husband.
I'll visit Marion Kelsey's sister.
We don't think they'll know a lot about what's been going on the last few weeks, and if our suspects were abused, then their families are our most likely source of information.
And how much do we actually tell them?
We stop short of actually lying, but not by much, or we'll get nothing.
We don't need these interviews to be admissible.
Right now we just need to know that we're on the right lines.
So no appointments, no warnings we're coming.
We need to catch them on the back foot.
♪ ♪ (announcements running in background) GILL: They're trying to trace more of the victims of the activities inside this Brentford house, and if they do, they think they could support the allegation you were present there on at least one occasion.
You're going to be suspended from all duties whilst a full investigation takes place.
I have to ask, if you did know what he was doing, how could you have not said anything?
(sighs) It sounds so inadequate, doesn't it?
When you hear it on the news, people saying they were different times.
But they were.
They were times when a rock star could go on telly, being interviewed about his underage girlfriend and no one got arrested.
We all just... shrugged it off.
We thought it was sort of cheeky and amusing.
We all bought into that, until we didn't.
(sighs) (sniffs) So that time I followed him.
And it was just once.
(inhales sharply, exhales slowly) He told me she was 16... ...and willing.
And he begged me to forgive him.
And I wanted to.
Both forgive him and believe him.
Because otherwise, it was the end of our marriage.
And everything we built up together.
And so I did.
And for that...
I am truly ashamed.
(crying) (sirens blaring, horns honking) HARRY: Well, Colin was a lively lad, you know, when he was a little boy.
He was full of mischief and fun.
And then when he was about... ...nine... he just... slowly started to change.
Became quieter, you know.
More introverted.
Staying in his room more, not seeing his pals so much, you know?
And his... his schoolwork suffered.
And he stopped being affectionate.
Got angry at the slightest thing, and...
He just... became a different child.
And I, I presume you asked him what was wrong?
Over and over, for years.
He would always just say, "Nothing."
And, I mean, say, "I'm fine."
So in the end we just thought, well, that's how it is.
That's, that's how he was.
That, uh... Children change.
And what you're talking about, sexual abuse, wasn't something that you considered back in the '70s.
It wasn't one of the options for why a child isn't themselves, huh?
But if we consider it as a possibility now, do you have any idea where something like that could have happened to Colin?
Were there ever any issues in his primary school?
No.
I never...
I never heard of anything like that there.
Any friends or family?
No.
Was he a member of a church, or a... football team, or a scout group or... Mr. Osborne?
There was one bloke, a pal from work, Len Paxton.
He ran the local platoon of... Club Rangers.
(car locks) (birds chirping) ELISE: I don't know why she seems to hate me.
Or hate our mum.
Like I said, she's troubled.
Was it always like that?
Absolutely not, no.
We adored each other when we were growing up.
Do you remember when it changed?
Was it overnight or... No, I remember exactly when it changed.
I was 14 and Marion was 11, and we'd moved to Cork.
Our dad had got a job as a lecturer there.
You know, we had a great house, a lovely garden.
We even got our own rooms for the first time.
But Marion just... seemed to hate it.
Overnight she became... distant, sullen, aggressive.
Towards you?
Well, towards me, towards our mum, at school-- everyone.
Including your dad?
Actually no, not Dad.
But then him and Marion were always stupidly close, so no, Dad was the only one who escaped her ire.
When did your dad pass away?
1991.
How old was he?
57.
That sounds pretty young-- was he ill?
Why do you ask?
Just trying to fill in the gaps.
Well, no, he wasn't ill. Well, not physically, anyway.
He, um, took his own life.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Do you mind if I ask how?
He hanged himself.
Highgate Woods.
So did he have a history of depression or mental illness or... What are you suggesting?
(exhales) Did he?
No.
Right.
Do you know if your mum's at home?
ROBERTS: Paxton?
Don't recall a Len Paxton.
Before my time, probably.
Really?
Sorry?
Well, no, it's just, um... Well, I found him with a simple Google search, so... What you asking me about him for, then?
Because I want to know what happened to him after he left prison in 1988 for assaulting two boys from a platoon in Dumfries.
Look, this is all ancient history.
(chuckling): Do you know, I am getting really pissed off with that expression, because it's just not.
The sort of things that people like Len Paxton did, they're still affecting people today.
Catastrophically.
It...
It ruins whole lives, okay?
So unless you want me to come back tonight when all the parents are here, I'd start trying a little harder to remember if I were you.
He's dead.
When?
'92.
How?
He topped himself, everyone reckoned.
Reckoned?
He had this little yacht he used to take some of the lads out on.
It was found a few days after he went missing, drifting in open water off Greenock Harbor.
They never found his body.
Although I'm not sure anyone looked too hard.
It's changed.
We've changed.
People like him don't slip through the nets anymore.
Well, I really hope so, but they were saying that 30 years ago.
And 20.
And ten.
And I just... pray that they won't be saying it 20 years from now about today.
(door closes) ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) (quietly): Oh, Jesus... You knew.
No.
(sniffling): She told you-- you knew!
(crying): I did not know!
She was always making things up, Elise.
Exaggerating everything.
Your father would never have done the things that she said.
How old was she when she told you?
You tell me now or I swear I'll...!
Elise... 12.
(quietly): Oh, my... (exhaling) And you decided not to believe her because... what?
You didn't wanna lose the house?
Or the research trips abroad?
Or because what?
You're an evil witch.
We... We have wondered all our lives why she is so angry.
(moans) ♪ ♪ (door opens and slams shut) I need you to tell me exactly what Marion told you.
Please.
(airplane engine roaring) What sort of a mother does that?
I'm struggling to be charitable.
Well, Osborne's dad clearly had no idea.
Nor did Marion's sister.
I guess we've lost our element of surprise.
I'm pretty sure all three of them will know the questions we're going to ask them now.
Yeah, which is why I want to get in front of Colin and Marion today, while they're still on the back foot.
And ask them what?
Where they were when their own abusers died.
Because if we're right, they'll have absolutely watertight alibis.
Which both proves the theory and sort of screws us, evidentially.
What have we got from Murray?
So he's spent all day trawling NHS records.
Turns out that at various points in '87 and early 1988, both Colin and Sara were under the care of the Ealing Hospital psychiatric unit.
As in-patients?
Yeah.
CASSIE: What about Marion?
We haven't located her records yet.
But here's a thing-- before she lived at her Smoke Lane flat, from early '86 to late '87, she lived in a flat in South Ealing.
So that's the link.
They met in Ealing psychiatric unit.
Well, this could be hard to prove, but, yeah, it's gotta be a possibility, isn't it?
Yeah.
You track down Colin, I'll speak to Marion.
Thanks, Sunny.
(people talking indistinctly) (talking stops) ♪ ♪ (house door opens) ELISE: Marion, please don't go out now.
I'm fine, honestly.
Please don't say anything to Tony just yet, because I need to speak to him myself, okay?
Back in a couple of hours.
I love you.
I love you, too.
And I am so, so sorry.
♪ ♪ (Marion's car starts) (engine revs) ♪ ♪ (phone ringing) Sunny.
Guv, Colin's not at his house.
His husband said that he'd moved out for a bit and was staying at a Holiday Inn, but he's not there, either.
CASSIE: Right.
You at Marion's yet?
Uh, no, no, not... not yet.
I'll call you.
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (people talking in background) They have no proof of anything, Marion, and they never will have.
But they know.
COLIN: But knowing something and proving it in a court of law are two very different things.
CASSIE: Yeah, they are.
Very different.
♪ ♪ Marion.
Where are you running to?
It's over.
So I want to speak to my husband now, okay?
Now I want to explain.
(door opens) Well, I was in Goa when Paxton went missing.
I have hotel and flight receipts.
I can prove I wasn't here.
I'm sure.
And when Marion's father died?
Can you prove you weren't in Highgate Woods?
And did you meet them both in Ealing psychiatric unit, or... Just Sara?
(inhales) I've read people who've been abused can always recognize other victims.
Something in the way they carry themselves.
Was it that... That drew you to each other?
So I guess now you... pull what you have together, and present it to the CPS, and they may go for it, and you may be able to charge us.
But before you do, maybe I could just give you some other facts.
Please do.
So...
He used to come round to our house on Sunday nights, mainly, for roast dinner.
And he'd always find time to play with me.
He'd pretend to be a horse and I'd climb on his back, and he'd buck and twist and turn, and I was a cowboy at a bucking bronco contest and I loved him.
And when my dad found out that he ran the local Club Rangers platoon and suggested that I join, I could not have been happier.
And for six months, it was the best time of my life.
We played football and kick-the-can, and made fires in the woods, and bows and arrows.
It was... Enid Blyton for real.
The first time it happened was when we went camping for the weekend.
My tent was an old army one of my granddad's and when we started to put it up, he said it wouldn't be any good because it wasn't waterproof anymore, and it was gonna rain.
But that was okay, he said, because he had room in his tent.
That night, he only gave me a massage, to "help with the day's hike."
The next night, he touched me and asked me to touch him.
It didn't rain that night, either.
I could spend a lifetime talking to you about the shame and... guilt.
And how I thought I must have actually wanted him to do it because sometimes I got an erection.
And how I couldn't tell Mum and Dad because he was their friend and I didn't want to upset them or embarrass anyone.
And how I couldn't tell anyone else because he said I'd be sent away if I did.
But I do still ask myself, every single day, why didn't I tell someone?
Then, over the next... six months, on visits to our house when my parents were out, he did... he did things... which actually physically damaged me for life.
Because a 48-year-old man is not meant to put himself inside a nine-year-old boy.
But much worse than the physical damage is the damage he did to me as a person.
Because that first time, he changed me, instantly and forever.
The, the drinking, the... rage, the suicide attempts, the fighting, the manic working, the... (sighs) ...endless, exhausting, visceral rage that I feel every day of my life, that I feel right at this moment having to explain this to you.
That is all because of him.
So you might put me in prison.
But let me tell you this: you can't judge me unless you've had it done to you.
I won't ever, ever, let anyone judge me for what I did.
♪ ♪ And, and just so's you know, what happened to Sara and Marion was much worse.
(gasps) (dishware rattling) Hiyah.
You okay?
I need to tell you something.
♪ ♪ For a while I wondered if he only took the job in Cork because of the house.
Which meant that Elise and I had our own rooms finally.
(sighs) First time, my mum was just downstairs.
She was watching "The Onedin Line."
I could hear the theme music.
And he came in, when my lights were out, and he knelt by my bedside.
And he said that I was growing up now, becoming a young woman, and that soon I'd have boyfriends.
And he wanted me to be prepared for that.
He wanted to help me, so I knew how to enjoy it.
And then he put his hand under the covers and... he did what a boyfriend might do.
And he did that pretty much every Saturday night, when he was home, for about a year.
And then one day, when I was having my tea, I finally told my mum that he did things to me while she was downstairs.
And I remember she was, she was peeling potatoes at the sink.
And she never even stopped.
She, she never turned to me, she never said anything.
And five minutes later, she told me to go back upstairs and finish my homework.
And I wondered at first if she hadn't been listening.
But then, that night, she came upstairs and she stayed there, folding clothes and, and tidying, for an hour after I went to bed.
And... of course he never came near me.
And she did that for about six months, and then one day she just stopped.
And then when she and my sister were out at the cinema, a few weeks later, he raped me for the first time.
And I remember, I said to him... (laughs) If he did the same to Elise, and he said no, no, it's just me, because I was special.
(voice breaking): I was special.
(crying): And the anger, Tony, the anger that I felt for so many years, and I still do... (whimpers) In the end, it made me do a terrible thing.
♪ ♪ (door opens) (door closes) Hey.
(keys jingling) Hiyah.
How are you?
He sent me that.
Who did?
Him.
Your mother's lover.
It's the letter she wrote telling him why she was finishing with him.
How she realized that what we had was what she wanted.
How terrible she felt about what she'd done, and how the affair made her realize how much she loved me.
It's a good letter to read, Cass, for me.
(sobs quietly) (clears throat): It's very good for me to know that.
Mm.
(sobs) (sniffles) And you wouldn't have got it if you hadn't gone to see him, Dad.
(sighs) (sniffles) So you, you were right.
You.
(sniffles) (sniffles) ♪ ♪ (groans) Listen, I, I've just...
I've gotta make a quick call.
(sniffles) I love you, Dad.
Just... (laughing) (phone ringing) (TV playing in the background) (girls laughing) (ringing continues) CASSIE (on phone): Sunny?
Hey.
Can you meet me?
CASSIE: This case rests or falls on them knowing each other.
Without conclusive proof of that, it is just a theory, and they're not gonna confess.
And without any bodies, it's gonna be... very hard to connect any of them to the deaths.
So I can't see the CPS being delirious to press charges.
But we do have proof now.
You just told me you saw them together.
I saw them.
On my own.
CCTV, or...?
They arrived separately.
♪ ♪ SUNNY (voiceover): Well, I guess in the end you have to ask yourself the old question: why do we send people to prison?
And do Colin, Sara, and Marion... (sighs) ...need to be deterred from committing murder again?
No.
No, I don't think so.
So do they need to be rehabilitated?
I mean, for the last 20 years, at least, I mean, they've all been very valuable members of society.
All three of them.
I mean, helping the most vulnerable.
SUNNY: Which means... (sighs) In the end, it pretty much comes down to punishment.
Do Colin, Sara, and Marion need to be punished?
(Cassie sighs) CASSIE: And that's it, you see, because for me, I think their whole lives have been one long, indescribably brutal punishment.
And I just can't see why we would punish them further.
I can't see who would benefit.
No, no.
Nor can I.
Okay.
So...
This is... significant.
Sunny, this is a pretty (no audio) huge thing I would do here.
Wait, wait, you know... You?
Mm-hmm, yeah.
To be absolutely clear: this is just me.
You would never be implicated in any decision I make.
But if you have a single shred of doubt, please, you tell me now.
You tell me to go and see Andrews first thing tomorrow morning, report everything, tell him I saw them all together.
(sighs) (siren blaring) I don't believe they could be charged, and I see no point in disrupting their lives further, so no, I won't tell you to do that.
♪ ♪ (kisses) You're all right, do you know that?
You're not so bad yourself.
I'm gonna leave now before you try and snog me.
Smart move.
(sniffs) (sighs) Night-night, Sunny.
Night, Guv.
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