♪ ♪ MARTY: I don't want to get into trouble.

Don't want you to, either.

So should I lie, then?

(door opens) SAM: Hiya!

SAM: All I have done is walk into my house, and I found an illegal immigrant.

FRAN: A few months before he disappeared, he'd seen him with another woman.

SUNNY: A row that got out of hand about infidelity-- it's just about the oldest motive for murder there is.

DOT: Don't say anything about Daddy.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (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 want to be the right way round ♪ ♪ Can't find paradise on the ground ♪ ♪ ♪ FRAN: I just find it rather hard to square Juliet Cooper's description of their relationship with what Prentice told me.

Hm, ditto the bar manager.

Ditto her.

Well, husbands and wives are allowed to have different political opinions, you know?

No way.

But that diametrically opposed?

Although we're assuming that Juliet's who she says she is.

Yeah, I'm just asking if maybe this was a toxic marriage, perhaps violent, perhaps coercive, that finally imploded.

Where are we on his girlfriend?

KAREN: Mm.

So our Melinda is Melinda Ricci.

Peachy Ricci?

FRAN: Yeah.

(whispers): Peachy?

She had a column in the "Mail" a few years back-- it's like a... Well, she's just, like, writing clickbait.

Working for a cable channel now.

And you think that they met through this forum that Cooper set up?

U.K. United, yes-- Cooper is in the background of the viral video about the retweet.

Do we have an address for her?

Well, I spoke to HR at BNC, her current employers.

They're based in Docklands, but she dials in her contribution from her home about ten miles west of Cork, apparently.

Hm.

Uh, okay, contact regional Garda, see if they can get a local plod down to set up a Zoom with her.

And check if they have anything on her in their systems, too.

FRAN: Yeah.

And as much background as you can find before we speak to her, please.

Yeah, sure.

(softly): That's mad, yeah.

(softly): I know.

JESSICA: So, you mentioned your dad earlier, Marty.

MARTY: Yes, I mentioned my dad earlier.

I'm guessing he's always been a great support to you.

Mm, he has, yes.

So, I'm wondering, did maybe your dad go and speak to Mr. Cooper about the money?

You okay, Marty?

I, I'm fine, thank you for asking.

Did he go and speak to Gerry for you?

No, he never went to see Gerry.

SUNNY: You seem a bit upset at these questions.

ALISON: Marty?

Well, he couldn't go and see Gerry, could he?

Why not?

I think we should probably take a little break.

MARTY: Because he was dead.

Because Gerry made him be dead.

♪ ♪ (sirens blaring in distance) Why am I even at that school, anyway?

You're supposed to be a socialist.

Taylor, not this, not now.

We'll miss your train.

I loathe that school, I loathe everything it stands for, and you should, too.

Or is that all a lie, as well?

♪ ♪ (softly): Gerry told me the vaccine was a plot to control us, that it contained micro-transmitters, and that we should not take it.

When did he say this?

Whenever I went to see him to get my money.

And did he tell you not to take it?

Yes, he told me not to take it.

Did he suggest that your parents shouldn't take it, too?

(softly): No, he didn't do that.

I did that.

But maybe you told your mum and dad not to take it because of what he said to you?

(whispers): Yes.

Did they listen to you?

Um, Mum and Dad were offered the vaccine at the end of January, and they, they refused it.

On the second of February, Dad got COVID and was admitted to Dover Royal Hospital a week, a week later with severe respiratory difficulties.

On the 19th of February, Dad died.

All on his Jack Jones.

Thomas Henry Baines was 76.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

We both are, Marty.

He had a good innings.

as they say.

So, on top of the money... ...you now had the awful tragedy of your dad dying.

Yes, this is correct.

How did you feel about Gerry at this point?

No good crying over spilt milk.

Were you not angry with him?

Because I'm wondering...

I'm wondering if maybe you arranged to meet him somewhere on the 24th.

No.

SUNNY: Not to tell him about your dad?

Not because you were angry?

No.

JESSICA: Maybe... Maybe you rowed?

You know, maybe he pushed you again, and it all got out of control?

No-- no, no, no, no, no...

I think he's answered your questions, so unless you've got any evidence you haven't mentioned, I think we bring this to a close.

(Marty's breath trembling) ♪ ♪ (phone ringing in background) JESSICA: Let's R.U.I.

him for now and do some more background on that arrest.

We better head.

(birds chirping) (Melinda sighs) ♪ ♪ (car door opens) ♪ ♪ (clears throat softly) ♪ ♪ KANE: Hey, Mel.

Hey, Joseph, how are you doing?

Good, thanks-- you?

Uh, yeah, I'm fine.

How's your man doing?

Slow, but steady.

Father Ryan being very supportive, I hear.

How can I help you, Joseph?

Had a call from a police officer in London, wanting to speak to you about being a possible witness in a murder investigation?

Wow-- murder of whom?

A man called Gerard Cooper.

♪ ♪ Yeah, I, I knew Gerry, he...

He, he went missing a few years back.

Just before you came over here, they said.

Right.

They asked if you could make yourself available for a Zoom, tomorrow at 4:00?

Yeah, yeah, I, I think I could do that.

So just drop by the station, we'll take care of everything our end, and I'll sit in with you.

♪ ♪ I mean, do, do I need a lawyer?

Entirely up to you.

See you tomorrow.

♪ ♪ (phone chimes) Oh, Murray's just forwarded me an email from the lettings agency.

So, the lettings agent thinks police were called to the dispute she told him about.

Okay, so, this guy Asif would remember that, too, no?

Look, these are absolutely top-quality.

From the same factory that makes the genuine article.

And, uh, the passport.

(car brakes squeak) How much?

MARK: Well, the passport, driver's license, and the National Insurance card, I can do you for 7K.

We do also offer finance options, if that were something you were interested in.

A lot of people go for a five-year replacement schedule, which makes it very affordable... (continues indistinctly) ♪ ♪ Out the back-- now!

(loudly): Now!

(speaking Dari) ♪ ♪ (door closes) (sniffs, clears throat) Hi.

Hi-- Asif Syed?

Yes.

DCI Jess James, and this is D.I.

Sunil Khan.

Um, have you got five minutes for a quick chat?

Uh, yes, maybe.

Uh, about what, please?

It's in connection with a murder investigation.

We think you might have known the victim.

Who was the victim?

Could we come in?

Yes, yes, please, of course.

MAN (on phone speaker): It's the Matrix, buddy.

They're trying to shut your voice down 'cause you're a strong man.

So what do you need to do?

MARTY: I need to be one step ahead, man.

MAN: Be ahead or be dead, dude.

Be ahead or be dead.

(softly): Ahead or be dead.

Ahead or be dead.

Ahead or be dead.

Ahead or be dead-- ahead or be dead.

(aloud): Ahead or be dead.

(sniffs) ♪ ♪ Ahead or be dead.

Ahead or be dead.

♪ ♪ SUNNY: This is him.

Name of Gerard Cooper.

(audio distorts) Yes, I, I think I remember him.

And what do you think your connection to him was?

I work as an interpreter.

And back then, I worked with tenants whose rent was being paid by the council.

Uh, I think he was one of the landlords.

Um, what council was that?

Uh, Thamesford.

Okay, and can you remember specifically when you might have encountered Mr. Cooper?

I would have to check.

Okay, uh, roughly, then.

I think maybe it was early on in the pandemic?

Maybe the first year?

I have a vague recollection of some COVID-related issues.

Okay, so it was, uh, 2020?

Yes.

Do you have any recollection of what he was like?

Uh, I mean, I must've met dozens of landlords in the three or four years I was in London.

Because the agency that, uh, managed his portfolio said he was quite tricky.

Did they?

You don't remember that?

I remember, um, he wasn't very good at maintaining his properties.

The agency said that.

Anything else?

Um...

He could be quite aggressive.

With you?

With the tenants, who obviously were often very vulnerable people.

And physically aggressive?

No.

I never saw that.

Because we have an agent who gave us details of several cases where disputes had blown up, uh, one in particular, which was a family of asylum seekers from Herat, where it had turned violent.

Which family?

The Dowari family?

(murmurs): Dowari.

As I say, I must've dealt with many dozens of cases.

Most of them were fractious.

SUNNY: Except the police were called to this one.

It was a dispute about a chronic damp problem?

The family had a toddler, a newborn.

It was making them all sick.

The police getting involved wasn't that rare, sadly.

JESSICA: Okay.

Quite a distinctive case, but you've no memory of that at all?

They all just merge into one, sorry.

No worries.

And, uh, when was the last time you think you might've seen Mr. Cooper?

(inhales) My contract with the council ended in September 2020, so not after that.

Right.

SUNNY: And, um, do you mind me asking what your nationality is, Asif?

I hope to very soon be British.

Oh, well, good for you, and welcome.

This can be a fabulous country.

(chuckles): Yes, it can, and thank you.

And before that, where are you from?

Afghanistan.

Oh, okay.

Well, that must have been tough, to see your fellow countrymen and countrywomen, vulnerable people, being mistreated often by this man.

Of course.

♪ ♪ Did it make you angry or...?

(chuckles) If I got angry every time I saw a refugee being treated badly, I'd be living in a permanent state of rage, D.I.

Khan.

♪ ♪ Thanks for your time.

♪ ♪ (car alarm chirps, doors unlock) (car door opens) SUNNY: I think we need more detail on this Dowari case.

Mm-hmm.

♪ ♪ (car doors close) Sam.

Who was that?

(engine starts) Social services-- they wanted some gen on a client.

♪ ♪ Can, can we talk, please?

Sure.

Yeah, so, if Hassan moves out after he comes home from work today, and if you can minimize any future contact with him, then... Yeah, I'm happy to just move on.

(inhales) And if I don't agree to that?

Oh, okay, why-- why do you immediately have to turn this into a conflict?

Says the man who's just given me an ultimatum.

No, it's not an ultimatum.

No, you're not going to hold a gun to my head because I did right by a man who saved your life on at least two occasions.

Okay, Asif... And you know what really winds me up?

It's that you think you can do this.

Do what?

Just tell me how it's going to be.

You don't even consider the idea of finding another way through.

No, is that not exactly what we're trying to do right now?

What?

Telling me what's going to happen?

(chuckles) Not really, Sam.

I'll play by the same rules.

No.

Hassan's not going anywhere.

But this is my house.

Then call the police.

♪ ♪ JESSICA: I mean, I never really believed him.

But there was always just enough ambiguity to make me think we could get through it.

Except now...

If he could have done that... ...he could do anything.

Mm.

So?

So... What do I do?

KAREN: So, digging into the Marty Baines caution, and it gets interesting.

In 2016, he studied a foundation course in computer programming at the University of Ramsgate, but eight months in, he's asked to leave after he starts to regularly pick the locks of the rooms of his fellow students in his halls and enter their rooms.

Right.

Now, he's not trying to steal anything.

They're just coming back from the pub at night to find Marty sitting on their beds in their rooms.

Jesus.

Mm.

SUNNY: Male or female?

KAREN: Both.

Not at all scary.

(sighs): And, and how many times did this happen?

Well, the university weren't really sure.

Some students thought that maybe they had forgotten to lock their rooms, and so treated it more like Marty wandering in uninvited, and so didn't report it, but there are three formal cases.

Was there ever any violence?

Not from him, and not from any of the other students, until the last incident.

Which was?

So, one bloke comes back from the pub, pissed up, to find Marty in his room, and kind of loses it-- calls him all kinds of stuff.

Which ends up with Marty trying to strangle him.

Whoa-- what, like, properly strangle?

Yeah.

He had to be pulled away by the guy's mates.

Takes three of them, apparently.

Wow.

How come he only got a caution?

KAREN: So, the student didn't want to pursue anything.

He admitted to the investigating officer that he'd used inappropriate language about disability, and was scared it was gonna be brought up in court.

SUNNY: Hm, and do we know why Marty was doing this?

He said he was just looking for a friend to talk to.

(inhales softly) MURRAY: In terms of any potential link to violence, I've just received the evidence list for the assault on Cooper in his pub car park?

Oh, yeah?

What we got?

Well, we've got Cooper's sweatshirt, and they've taken DNA off it, so, we've got material for comparison.

Nice one-- thanks.

So, Melinda Ricci, tell me stuff.

(clears throat) Okay, so, born in 1978 in a small market town in Surrey, went to a local Catholic girls' school, got decent As, went to Rochester Uni to study marketing, then enlisted in the Navy.

Served four years and left in 2005 following a disciplinary issue involving a fellow officer-- a fellow Muslim officer.

(inhales): She then started her own green beauty business, which gained the attention of some red tops following an advertising campaign she herself featured in.

After the 2008 crash, the business went bankrupt, and she lost her home and had to rent.

And it was a bad experience with an Asian landlord prompting this online rant, uh, which gained half a million views, um, got her an invitation to write an article for the "Mail," which went down so well, it led to a weekly column.

SUNNY: What sort of column?

FRAN: Opinions-- of which you know, she has a lot.

On?

FRAN: Uh, recurring themes include immigration, benefit cheats, the E.U., um, anti-abortion stuff, uh, arming the police, all as self-styled Sister Mel.

Ah-- she's not a real nun, right?

She spent six months in a convent in Wicklow in 2009, actually.

Oh!

And the column ran from when to when?

2015 to 2020, but she also wrote for pretty much every red top and also started popping up on breakfast TV guest spots.

And when was that Boris Johnson retweet-post thing?

FRAN: Uh, October 2016.

SUNNY: Do we know why she moved to Ireland?

FRAN: No, just that she went there in 2021.

Okay.

(sighs) Thanks, Fran-- right.

Shall we?

Mm.

♪ ♪ (siren blaring in distance) (mutters): Jesus.

(sighs) What are you doing?

Eating a sandwich.

What are you doing here?

I didn't want to go back.

(sighs): You have to go back.

I really don't.

Yes, you do.

If you still hate it at the end of this year, then we can talk about moving you, but right now, I need you to just... Was it you?

Was what me?

Who killed Dad.

What?

Was it?

How can you even ask me that?

Well, you haven't said, "No."

♪ ♪ (voice trembles): No.

It wasn't me.

You don't seem that sure.

I'm very sure, I'm just in shock that you could even think that.

No-- a thousand times, no.

No.

Have you told the police about the row that night?

What row?

Do you think I don't remember?

I remember it all.

Very clearly, Mum.

It was just one of our rows.

Okay?

Nothing more.

I would never have hurt your father, Tay, never.

♪ ♪ But I do want you to promise me something.

What?

I want you to promise me that you'll never mention that row, or, in fact, any of the others, to the police.

Why?

Because they will almost certainly come to all the wrong conclusions, and it, it's just not worth it.

Will you promise me that?

♪ ♪ There's, um...

There's, uh... (clears throat): ...something I never told you.

(gulls calling) JESSICA (on computer): So thanks for taking the time to speak to us.

No problem at all.

Um, can I dive straight in, Melinda, and ask you how you knew Mr. Cooper?

(audio distorts) Sure, um...

I met him initially at a political thing he'd started.

This was U.K. United?

MELINDA: Yes.

So when was that, exactly?

That would have been late 2015, I guess?

And you hit it off straight away?

Yeah, kind of, mm.

We shared a similar outlook on the world, sense of humor.

Neither of us were afraid to call it as we saw it.

And you became friends, would you say?

Yes, briefly.

Briefly?

Yeah, we ran into each other a few times over the next few months.

I think I might have had lunch with him once.

Right.

So, it didn't develop into anything more?

Like what?

Like a romantic relationship.

No.

Right.

Uh, because we spoke to a witness who suggested it did.

What witness?

JESSICA: An old friend of his who ran into you both in a pub in Aldgate in 2020.

Well, it, that was then.

(chuckles) Sorry, I'm confused-- are you saying that you did have a relationship with him, or you didn't?

Yes, I did.

A very brief one, just not when you were saying.

My question didn't actually specify a timeframe, but that's, that's fine.

So, um, spell it out nice and clearly for us.

When did you two get together?

Um, summer of 2020, just as things were opening up again.

And when you say "brief"... Um, just a few weeks-- two months at the most.

And did his wife know about this?

I've no idea.

But you think you weren't seeing him in February 2021.

No.

But you were still living in the U.K. at this point?

Yes.

SUNNY: So, when exactly did you move to Ireland?

Uh, early March 2021.

Okay, so, just a couple of weeks after he disappeared.

Well, I obviously had no idea about that.

You didn't know he'd gone missing?

No.

So, when did you find out?

A mutual friend told me, months later.

How?

Uh, they messaged me, I think.

Mm.

Can you forward that to us?

Actually, no, wait, I, uh...

It...

It might have been a call.

Okay, uh, well, I think we'll come back to that.

And what prompted the move to Ireland?

Um, I used to come on holiday here as a kid.

My dad was born here.

I was feeling a bit burned out from London, and then, when I got offered the job with BNC, I could do that from anywhere, so, change as good as a rest.

And so when do you think was the last time you might have seen him?

Oh, maybe, um, October, November 2020.

So, this was just as your relationship was coming to an end?

Yes.

JESSICA: And how did it end?

Oh, just fizzled out, really.

No rows?

No.

No fights?

No.

Because we do have a fair amount of evidence to suggest he could get violent.

Not with me.

Okay.

Um, were you aware of anyone that you'd come into contact with, through him, who you might have wanted to do him harm?

No.

But, like I said, I, I didn't actually know him that well.

Our lives weren't that intertwined.

Okay.

And if we needed to know where you were on the 24th of February 2021, would you be able to provide us with that information?

I could try.

Any proof will do.

Sure.

Obviously, you have our email.

I do.

JESSICA (inhales): Okay.

Anything else you'd like to add?

Anything else you think might be relevant?

(blows out) No.

Okay.

Thanks so much for your time.

You're so welcome-- you have a nice day.

You, too.

♪ ♪ (sighs) So, he was violent to her, yeah?

100%.

(birds chirping) ♪ ♪ (objects shifting) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (mouse clicking) (phone ringing in background) ♪ ♪ (blows out) (chair creaks) (softly): It's just, this site... ♪ ♪ (talking indistinctly) (brakes squeaking) MAN (on megaphone): Okay.

Can everyone please stop what they are doing and stay exactly where they are?

(all murmuring) We're officers of the Immigration Enforcement Agency, and we believe that some of you working here today may be doing so illegally.

(phones ringing in background) MURRAY: So, Martin Baines' phone... Melinda Ricci emailed, can't find the diaries for that year.

No way!

(scoffs): Just calling it as she sees it.

(chuckles): Sorry, Murray, carry on.

SUNNY: Sorry.

Martin Baines' phone records show multiple calls to a landline which has the same address as the Three Crowns pub.

Also, multiple texts to a Gerry which are very angry and threatening in nature.

But weirdly, they don't stop after the 24th.

Right.

SUNNY: Although you'd do that if you were covering your tracks.

Fair point.

But listen, we still need to take a swab from him for the assault in the car park.

Can we get someone down there?

Yeah, I can sort.

And where are we on Cooper's records?

(blows out) So, we've obviously looked at a fair amount of his open-source stuff.

He used a number of platforms-- Parler, Reddit, obviously, Twitter.

X. X.

And?

Endless fights on X, very aggressive and hate speech-y from him, but perhaps more significantly, to him.

Any physical threats to him?

Dozens, that we've found so far.

And death threats.

Mm-hmm.

And the rows were about?

Everything that you'd expect from what we're now learning about him.

Um, immigration, lockdown, grooming gangs, vaccines-- it's gammon bingo.

You can't say that.

(both chuckle) Emails and texts have just come in.

I'm getting them printed up.

Triangulation, still waiting on.

Man.

(sighs) I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall in that house.

Well, the daughter was.

I mean, if this was some sort of coercive toxic marriage that blew up, she would've witnessed it, right?

She'd have certainly seen something.

I wonder if the school would let us talk to her there.

Why don't we call them?

♪ ♪ (knock at door) (door opens) Hey.

Hi.

Just, uh, just wondered if you got my email.

Uh, no.

Sorry, been a bit... What did it say?

Uh, the board want a meeting.

They, they think they have a solution.

What solution?

Well, obviously, uh, you're aware that funding's on the floor for the next five years, anyway, so, basically, um...

They want to offer you early retirement.

♪ ♪ (breathes deeply) ♪ ♪ FALLON: Asif was a lovely guy.

Couldn't do enough for people.

And I presume that includes the Dowari family.

Absolutely.

In fact, I ran into him a few months after he stopped working for us, and he told me he was still in contact with them, still helping them, all pro bono.

Did you personally ever see him have any interaction with Gerard Cooper?

A few times, yeah.

What was he like with him?

Always incredibly polite.

Very quietly spoken.

Very diplomatic.

So, he never got wound up by him?

Not to his face, no.

How do you mean, not to his face?

I gave him a lift to another rental one time.

It was on my way back to the office, and he said back in his country, in his village, people like Cooper got dealt with.

What do you think he meant by that?

I don't know.

I just remember there was something in his eyes when he said it that sent a chill down my spine.

And the Dowaris-- can I speak to them?

If you can find them.

We moved them from Cooper's flat to another in February 2021, and then, a few weeks later, they just upped and left one night.

Completely dropped out of the system.

Specifically when did they disappear?

February 28, 2021.

♪ ♪ Can I have their last address, please?

MURRAY (voiceover): For elimination purposes, I really think we should swab Asif Syed.

On it.

♪ ♪ (entering number on desk phone) So these are text messages from 2019-2020, and you don't have to read too many to realize that they were quite clearly in a relationship at this point.

"Hey, at work and can't stop replaying last night.

"Getting hard just thinking about you.

G. Kiss, kiss, kiss."

Yeah, last of the great charmers.

That's, uh, February 2020.

Okay.

Um... "Eurostar full, how about we fly?"

"J. and T. away with her mum for the weekend.

Shall we play?"

That's April 2019.

Mm, so, we've got emails going between them from late 2018, which is when the relationship seemed to have started.

Okay, so she flat-out lied.

Mm, yeah.

It all seems to go sour sort of start of 2021?

My guess is that he knew not to write down too much, uh, but I did find these three messages.

These are just from his side, and these are from February 2021.

"Do not ignore me, Mel, or you will regret it."

Yeah.

Uh, "Mel, call me.

"We can still discuss the amount.

I am open to discussion."

And this last one is from the 15th of February.

"If you make me lose "everything I have ever worked for, "I swear to God, I will mess you up."

Okay, so these are blackmail threats.

Mm, from a person we know was violent.

(sighs) Do you think they could have met?

Who?

Uh, Melinda and Juliet.

♪ ♪ Wow.

No, it's just a thought.

Okay, uh... One of us has to go over there, and it can't be me.

Okay.

Sorry.

Uh, no, that's fine...

It's just, I, I, um...

I still have stuff going on at, at home, Sunny.

No, you don't have to explain.

I, I'm sorry, because I know we, you know, we, we both shared before, but, um... (stammering) (laughs): To be honest, it is just so damn complicated, I wouldn't even know where to begin.

Seriously, no worries at all.

But also, you know, I'm here if you...

Thank you.

Seriously, thank you.

Okay, right.

♪ ♪ (talking indistinctly) Um, sorry-- hey, Lee.

Hey, how you doing?

Yeah, all, all great, thanks-- uh, did you get my message?

Yeah, really sorry, I've been mad busy, but, um, I'll call you.

Yeah, I... No rush.

Just, yeah.

Yeah.

Speak soon, then.

Uh, yeah, Uh, yeah.

Sorry to, uh, interrupt.

♪ ♪ MAN: So what I was saying is that financially... ♪ ♪ (gulls squawking) It'll just be ten seconds.

Alison said she needed to be here if you spoke to me, so where, where's Alison?

I didn't want to get her all the way down here just for a swab, Marty.

DOT: Come on, love.

Help the young lady out, huh?

Okey-dokey, pig in a pokey.

I, I, so, just give me a minute.

♪ ♪ Okay.

Here we go.

♪ ♪ (footsteps approach) Hey.

Hey.

Is Hassan not here?

He's not back from work yet.

Look, Asif, I've been thinking about everything you said, and...

I'm, I'm sorry.

I, I really am.

(exhales) Asif, you, you cope so well.

You're so, so strong, that I, I forget what you've been through.

But, I mean, the truth is, I...

I can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like for you.

And I do completely understand your anger.

And...

Listen.

I want to try and help.

(heavy knock at door) ♪ ♪ Evening, sir.

Hello.

Is this your home?

Uh, it is, yeah.

You're Samuel Collet?

Yes.

Mr. Collet, my name is Officer Hughes from the Immigration Enforcement Unit.

I have a warrant to search these premises under Section 28D of the Immigration Act 1971, with regard to information gained on an earlier raid today.

Are we okay to come in, please?

Yeah, yeah, sure.

♪ ♪ (door closes) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Enjoy your flight, sir.

Thanks.

♪ ♪ (birds chirping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ DOREEN: Marty?

Marty, come on!

(knocking heavily) (grunts) Why have you double-locked the door, Marty?

I just need to see Mum, sweetheart.

Please let me in.

♪ ♪ Marty!

I just need to see Mum's okay.

If you don't let me in, I'll have to call the police.

(breath trembling) ♪ ♪ (breath trembling) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (Hughes talking softly) Okay, sure.

(aloud): Okay.

Do you want to come through, please, Mr. Collet?

Wait.

Why is my partner still here?

Ah, ah, ah, ah... No, I've already explained to you, it's got nothing to do with him.

It was all me.

♪ ♪ HUGHES: This way.

♪ ♪ BISHOP: Okay, we've had a request from a Bishop Street Station in London in connection with another investigation.

They're asking if they could get a swab from you today.

Are you okay with that?

Yes.

If you'd like to follow me, then, please.

(phone ringing in background) (birds chirping) (breathing softly) ♪ ♪ Yeah, it would just be a general chat, really, um, just about the events leading up to her dad's disappearance.

Right.

Which, as I say, for a number of reasons, we would rather do without her mum present.

BUXTON: Is she...

I mean, has Mrs. Cooper been arrested?

No.

Not yet.

(knock at door) BUXTON: I'll need to take some advice on this.

Can I call you right back?

Yep, okay.

(stammers): A.S.A.P., please.

Bye.

Sorry to disturb, guv.

Juliet Cooper's downstairs.

And she wants to speak to you.

Yesterday, my daughter told me that about a week before her dad went missing, she'd come home from school to find a young man who'd worked for Gerry in our flat.

He'd obviously broken in somehow.

I was still at work, Gerry was out at meetings, meaning Taylor was alone with him.

And did she know him?

Yeah, she chatted to him when he worked downstairs, but she said he was very agitated and very angry.

About?

Her dad.

Maybe me, a bit.

And he told her that he wanted to hurt her dad, like he thought Gerry had hurt him.

And how old was Taylor?

Eleven.

My God, that must have been terrifying for her.

It was.

And so, what happened?

Well, she managed to convince him that hurting her dad would be a bad idea, and that it would really upset her.

He said he didn't want to do that.

So then she made him a glass of squash.

(chuckles softly) They chatted a bit more, and after about 20 minutes, he just left.

And why... Why has she never told you about this before?

She hadn't wanted to get him into trouble.

She liked him.

She felt sorry for him, as do I.

Hence my slowness in telling you this.

I know he went through a really tough time in the pandemic.

Does she remember his name?

Yes.

It was Marty.

Marty Baines.

(battering ram pounding door) (lock breaks) Here.

(panting) OFFICER: There's no one in either of the bedrooms.

Ambulance.

OFFICER: Medical assistance required urgently, please.

Dot?

Dot, can you hear me?

Dot?

(panting) ♪ ♪ (click) ♪ ♪ You okay, mate?

SUNNY: Gerry Cooper.

What was he threatening you with?

The only chance you have of saving anything is if you tell me the truth.

(computer beeps) FRAN: We have a match to DNA material found on the sweatshirt of Gerry Cooper.

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