♪ ♪ SUNNY: Sorry, I'm confused, are you saying that you did have a relationship with him?

I did.

♪ ♪ Have you told the police about the row that night?

What row?

I remember it all.

SUNNY: Do you have any recollection of what he was like?

He could be quite aggressive.

JULIET: A week before her dad went missing, she'd come home from school to find a young man in our flat.

He told her he wanted to hurt her dad.

♪ ♪ (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 ♪ ♪ ♪ STEVE: You know the rules, Eliot mate.

You do the numbers in the brackets first, yeah?

Yeah, I understand.

Boys, we're leaving in five minutes.

(refrigerator opens and closes) What time are you back tonight?

Love?

I know.

Know what?

Everything.

I spoke to Debbie again, so... Now I know.

(boys talking indistinctly) And I swear, the only chance you have of saving anything-- this, us... ...a normal relationship with them-- is if you tell me the truth, if you tell me everything.

So you have a think on that.

(keys jingling) We'll speak later tonight.

Bye, boys!

Bye, Mum!

Bye, Mum!

JESSICA: Love you!

BOY: Love you!

ELIOT: Love you, too.

(door opens) LEANNE (on voicemail): Hi, you've reached Leanne.

Please leave a message after the tone.

(tone beeps) Hey, Leanne, it's, uh, me again.

Um...

Listen, did I, um... Have I done something wrong?

(stammers): It just felt a bit odd when I saw you in the canteen, and... Well, I wouldn't want anything to come in the way of our friendship.

Um...

So anyway, I'm in Ireland on the case for a couple of days.

So, hopefully... (inhales) ...let's talk when I get back.

All right?

Take care now-- bye.

(call ends) (gulls calling) (dog barking in distance) (knocking) Hey.

They sent one of their guys over here.

Who have?

British police-- they want to talk to you some more.

Oh, okay.

Wants to speak to you this afternoon at the station, 2:00-- you good with that?

Uh, yeah, yeah, think I can do that.

You will be there?

We're not gonna have any issues, are we?

Yeah, I'll, I'll be there, Joseph.

(chuckles): Of course I will.

Have a good day now.

(dog barking in distance) ♪ ♪ (beeping) (chimes) (picks up phone, entering number) (phone ringing out) Okay, um-- oh!

(door opens) Thanks for that-- bye now.

(door closes) We have a match to DNA material found on the sweatshirt of Gerry Cooper.

To Marty Baines-- I'm setting up an arrest team.

No, not to Baines-- or at least, his test result hasn't come in yet.

The match we found is Asif Syed.

(slowly): Okay.

Yeah.

So, you want him up here?

A.S.A.P., please, yeah.

Boss.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (school bell ringing) So, Taylor attacked a teacher this morning.

Kicked and punched her when she was given a detention.

So, very reluctantly, the school has had to make the decision to expel her.

Right, uh... And has she already left?

She's getting the train back to London later today.

Okay, well, um, thanks for letting me know.

Bye now.

Is that the car park footage?

Yeah, uh... Not having a huge amount of joy, to be honest.

Lots of footage in the five weeks after the 24th, but all the vehicles entering do so during the day.

Right.

Literally, the only one that comes in at night is this.

At 03:29.

But that's a little over 20 hours before he's even reported missing.

You checked the reg?

No, 'cause of the date.

3:29's an odd time for anyone to be pulling into that car park.

I'd check the reg anyway.

Okay, cool.

(Jessica sighs) Okay, in here in ten, please, guys.

MURRAY: Guv.

Guv.

(monitor beeping) MELINDA: This has nothing to do with you, with this.

It's me.

I'm not who you think I am, Pat.

I am not a good person.

(chuckles) Yeah, you are.

No.

I lie.

Everyone lies.

Bad lies.

For money.

For a living-- I lie for a living and pretend to be someone I'm actually not.

I mean, may, maybe I believed some of it at the start, but everyone just always...

They always wanted more.

And, and you do it, because you, you wanted the attention or the status-- they, they filled a hole, but I really have to stop, because pretending to think the things I say I do, it's hollowing me out.

Mel.

And I've also have done...

I've done one truly terrible thing, my love.

(whispering): What thing?

Please.

You deserve way, way better than me.

I love you.

(chuckles sadly) (gasps): And I....

I love you, too.

But I just... (whispering): I can't.

♪ ♪ Mel?

(shouting): Mel!

♪ ♪ Mel!

Mel!

♪ ♪ (sniffles) (gulls cawing, waves lapping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JESSICA: A storage facility?

FRAN: Yeah, Cooper suggested one in an email, so, there's no guarantee that Melinda's took him up on it, but... JESSICA: Geordie Stores.

FRAN: Business started in Newcastle, apparently.

Quality.

But there's now a branch on the Mile End Road, between his pub and her flat.

And that email is dated third of February.

Looking on BNC's website, Melinda's impending employment was announced December.

Now, she could have shipped all her stuff to Ireland, but... Yeah, it's unlikely.

Give them a call and see if she did rent a space.

Sure.

Kaz.

So, we have a car entering Whitney Marsh car park in the middle of the night the day before he was reported missing, which we all agree is odd-- doesn't fit with our timing.

Except I've just found out that that car's plates don't actually exist.

JESSICA: Mm.

That they're either fake or they've been altered.

That is very odd.

Mm-hmm.

Can you tell what make the car is?

No obvious badge from what I can read, but we are checking other cameras en route to the car park.

Do you think this could've been the killer scoping the site?

Could be, but also, did we check when Juliet Cooper actually last saw her husband?

Are you thinking he might've been killed the day before?

And she might not have known if their paths hadn't crossed.

FRAN: I mean, to be fair, I haven't seen Rob since Monday-- he could definitely be dead.

(chuckles) But, do we not have proof that he rang the brewery the day of his disappearance?

KAREN: I mean, the files say we have a brewery employee that received a voicemail from him, but we don't actually know it was from him, do we?

Okay, can you track down that employee?

Mm.

And can you chase the triangulation records?

Yeah, boss.

(sighs) Um, and let's see what cars our suspects drove in '21.

Yeah, cool.

Okay-- Murray.

MURRAY: So I've been trying to track down the family that Cooper had the violent dispute with.

Good.

Meanwhile, Martin Baines's mother is in intensive care, suffering from the effects of a barbiturates overdose.

Self-administered?

Maybe.

But they were crushed up into a hot drink, which suggests to me an attempt to hide their consumption.

Maybe.

And given that Baines has also now disappeared, my guess is no.

Either way, a search is underway for him.

♪ ♪ (Marty muttering indistinctly) Stupid Marty!

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!

(moans) Mum.

(crying): I'm sorry, Mum-- I...

I just wanted to help!

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

(gasps for breath) (dog barks) You okay, mate?

Uh... Fine, thank you for asking.

You sure?

♪ ♪ (bell tolling) (people talking in background) ♪ ♪ SUNNY (on voicemail greeting): This is Sunil Khan-- please leave a message.

(voicemail beeps) Hey, it's Leanne.

Sorry I've not rung back and been a bit weird.

And I know that sounds weird, but.... (sighing): I have stuff in my life.

Stuff I should probably have told you about, so... Let's meet when you're back.

Sorry again.

(call ends) (sighs) JESSICA: The day your husband disappeared, do you remember any of your-- and, indeed, his-- movements during the day?

Just what I told the original investigation.

Mm-hmm, and I went back on that, and you detail everything from when you left work the evening before very clearly, but you don't mention seeing him the next morning.

I'm just wondering if you do remember seeing him then.

Or indeed the night before.

I... ...think I might have mentioned it if my husband hadn't come home.

Right.

Because when we first spoke, you mentioned a meeting in Winchester he was supposed to be at the day he disappeared.

Yes.

And generally speaking, did he travel a lot for work?

Yeah, a fair amount.

Drinks fairs, potential suppliers, that kind of stuff.

Okay.

And did he sometimes stay over?

Look, where's this going?

Well, we're just wondering if he might have actually disappeared the day before.

He sent a voicemail at 2:00 on the day he disappeared.

Mm-hmm.

And we're, we're looking into that.

Well, as I say, I think I might have noticed if he wasn't there.

Maybe, yeah.

My sense is, um, your marriage at this stage wasn't the closest.

Your "sense"?

Well, you'd become very different people, no?

We were fine.

What is this?

I don't know-- I'm, I'm thinking, maybe you thought he'd kipped in the spare room, you left early to take Taylor to... Well, as I say, it's not my recollection, but listen, I can't stop you having your little theories.

No, you can't.

And on the subject of Taylor, I spoke to her school this morning.

You did what?

I understand she's been expelled.

What the hell are you doing, speaking to my daughter's school?

Well, because we'd like to speak to her.

♪ ♪ (sighs) Okay, we're done.

You're not speaking to Taylor.

Juliet... No, I'm sorry, I've tried to be helpful, but you have pushed this too far.

Now, she is a vulnerable child...

There's no need... ...and I would like you to leave.

Now, please, unless you're gonna arrest me.

♪ ♪ Now.

Please.

♪ ♪ I will still want to speak to Taylor, but it'll be with an appropriate adult, so she'll be fully protected and supported.

But this is a serious investigation, and attempts by anyone to hamper it will be considered as obstruction or similar.

Have a good day.

(phones ringing, people talking in background) ♪ ♪ Jules.

Got five?

(sighs) JESSICA: Fran.

FRAN (on phone): Yeah, just to let you know, Asif Syed is here.

Okay, I'll be there in an hour.

And you know that pub employee who was traveling?

Uh... Brianna someone?

FRAN: West, yeah.

She just called me back with some interesting information.

What information?

FRAN: So, he did hit her.

Juliet, I mean.

Cooper definitely hit his wife.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (kids calling in distance) (whistle blowing) (exhales heavily) ♪ ♪ (engine starts) (whistle blows) MERRICK: And given that you've refused to accept the early retirement offer, the board have now come to a decision.

Which is that we're going to suspend you pending an external investigation into your conduct.

(phone ringing in distance) You utter prick!

Oh, you are so done!

No, you're done, Paul.

Because you will not win on this, neither you nor Lizzie Jones.

I will fight you all the way, and I will destroy you.

I want your desk cleared now.

SUNNY: Wow.

JESSICA (on phone): Yeah.

I mean, despite everything, I'm, I'm still shocked.

Right.

Why?

SUNNY: Well, because...

I mean, she doesn't present as, I don't know, the sort of woman who would put up with that sort of thing.

(snorts) What sort of woman should she be, then?

Sorry, I mean... Any woman can be a victim of domestic abuse.

Yeah, of course.

Blokes don't do it because you're, you're weak or submissive.

Jess...

They do it because they can.

(Jessica sighs) I'm sorry, sorry.

No, my bad.

No, no, no, really, it's...

It's just, things are...

So do we think that, uh, what Brianna West saw was a one-off or... Well, she certainly only saw it once, but it, it rarely is that, is it?

No.

So, I think it might be worth pressing Melinda again.

Will do.

JESSICA: And I'm also speaking to social services about how best to handle speaking with the daughter.

I mean, she must have seen some stuff.

We just need to know what.

Surely I have some legal right to not want my very vulnerable child interviewed about her murdered father.

And I understand all of your concerns, Mrs. Cooper, but if the police believe she may have relevant information, she...

So, can I insist I sit in with her?

You can ask.

But obviously, if you yourself are a, a person of interest, they'll almost certainly say no and appoint a social worker instead.

♪ ♪ (girl babbling) WOMAN: Oh, God.

Oh, thank you.

(girl wailing) (wailing continues) ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) ♪ ♪ Hey.

Uh, Mel...

I think maybe it's best if you don't come here anymore.

What?

See, after what happened with you and, and Patrick... ...and, and now this other business, with the British police...

It's a very small community.

I think maybe it would be better if you found somewhere else to worship.

(softly): But this is my church.

Just, people are really talking now.

(footsteps retreating) I'm so sorry.

(door opens) Yeah, so, the previous address was Flat 6, 32 Altringham Gardens, DA2 3CP.

But what I'm really after is if they left a forwarding one.

WOMAN (on phone): Sure.

Can you hold the line, please, sir?

(bell tolling, car alarm chirps) SUNNY: So, when we spoke to you over Zoom a few days ago, we asked you about the nature of your relationship with Gerry Cooper-- do you recall that?

Of course.

And you said, "Our relationship was brief, a few weeks, two months at most."

Do you remember telling us that?

Yes.

So, is there anything that you want to add, anything you might want to change, since you last spoke to us?

Yes, um, that wasn't entirely true.

Okay, which bit?

That the relationship only lasted a couple of months.

How long did it last?

Um... And maybe it would be useful if I told you that we have a lot of Mr. Cooper's emails and texts from 2017 up until his death.

Yeah, um... We saw each other on and off between 2018 and... Yeah, just before he disappeared.

Okay, thank you.

So, why did you lie?

(chuckling softly) I panicked.

I'd seen in the papers that it was a murder inquiry.

I was scared.

I, I was scared that...

...I might be someone that you might be suspicious about.

So you saw each other for a period of, uh, what, maybe four years?

Yes.

Okay, and you told us that, uh, the relationship "just sort of fizzled out."

Yes.

Was that true?

Uh, yeah, I...

I just ended up getting bored of him.

(chuckles) Okay.

So he definitely never hit you?

No, I, I already told you.

You've already told me a lot of things, and most of those are lies.

No.

Because we have evidence to suggest that he did hit his wife.

We know that he attacked one of his best friends and was cautioned for that.

And we also have evidence that he used violence against some of his tenants, so... Well, he, he never hit me.

Okay.

(page turns) Did he ever try to extort money from you, Melinda?

No.

Well, maybe you can explain what he meant in these messages.

♪ ♪ (sighs) No.

I...

I can't explain these.

You don't remember them?

No.

Well, it looks like he's asking you for money, and then threatening you if you didn't give it to him.

I have no recollection of this.

What was he threatening you with?

Like I say...

I mean, we know he was in huge financial trouble... Yeah, I have no recollection of this.

Okay.

So you flew to Cork on the second of March.

Mm.

Um, bringing forward a flight originally booked for two months later, so, what prompted that change of plan?

Oh, I, I just wanted more time to settle in before I started work.

Mm-hmm.

And then, when you were here, how did you find out about Gerry Cooper's disappearance?

I can't remember.

Oh.

Well, you said that a mutual friend had rung and told you about it.

(sighing): Oh, uh, yes, I mean, maybe they did.

Okay, which friend?

Oh, I can't remember.

Lots you don't remember.

(chuckles) Yes.

Okay.

(pen scratches) And did you ever meet his wife, Juliet?

No, why would I have?

Well, maybe she found out about your affair.

Maybe she got in touch with you.

No.

Okay.

Last question.

(taps paper) You have a storage facility in the U.K. We'd like to search it.

Now, we can get a warrant, or you can just give us permission.

Whichever you prefer.

That's my personal stuff.

You want to search it, you get a warrant.

♪ ♪ (door closes) There's something you should know.

♪ ♪ People know each other's business here.

Secrets are hard to keep, which is something Melinda Ricci singularly failed to grasp.

Okay.

So, if you want to know her secrets, speak to Father Ryan.

He's been keeping her very good company since Paddy got injured.

As I say, it, it may be nothing, but I thought I should mention it.

KAREN: No, absolutely.

Um, so, can I just ask, why was he there, your dad, at 3:30 in the morning?

He worked shifts at a service station, and that was the route he cycled home.

Right, okay.

And, yeah, he said the following day that he'd surprised someone heaving something into the marsh, and it felt a bit weird.

So, uh, notwithstanding his stroke, Susan, if you think he'd be up for it, I'd love to talk to him.

♪ ♪ (train brakes screeching) (brakes squeaking) (car alarm chirps) FRAN: Afternoon.

WOMAN: Yeah?

FRAN: D.S.

Fran Lingley.

I'm just trying to get some information on whether you're storing anything here belonging to a Melinda Ricci?

♪ ♪ (keys jingling) ♪ ♪ So the swab you gave us, Asif... Mr. Syed.

Apologies-- the swab you gave us, Mr. Syed, was compared against DNA evidence taken from the sweatshirt worn by Gerry Cooper the night he was assaulted outside his pub.

And we found a match.

Your DNA is on the sweatshirt.

What's your response to that?

No comment.

Was it you that attacked Mr. Cooper that night?

No comment.

If it wasn't you, can you tell me how else your DNA might've ended up on his sweatshirt?

No comment.

Maybe you came into contact with him some other way that day.

No comment.

Perhaps he attacked you, you acted in self-defense?

No comment.

Okay.

Let's move on from that, then, um...

I'd like to ask you again about the Dowari family.

When was the last time you would have seen them?

When I stopped working for Thamesford Borough Council.

Which was in September 2020?

Yes.

Yeah.

So, we have a witness who also worked for the council who said they bumped into you in January 2021, and you told them that you were still helping the Dowaris, even then.

They're mistaken.

The Dowaris would say the same, would they?

Yes.

'Cause, you see, I think they wouldn't.

I think they would say that, very generously, you continued to help them.

No comment.

My guess is that the assault on Gerard Cooper outside his pub was in revenge for how you felt Cooper was treating the Dowari family.

Is that the case?

No comment.

And my fear is, Mr. Syed-- because I do believe, at heart, you're a decent man-- my fear is that three weeks after that first assault, you went back and attacked Mr. Cooper again.

Is that the case?

No comment.

Perhaps something happened with the Dowari family that really got to you, and you went back to find Mr. Cooper, and this time, things went too far.

No comment.

Maybe he fought back this time.

No comment.

Or maybe it was self-defense from you again.

No comment.

Either way, you returned, Mr. Syed, and that second visit led to Mr. Cooper's death.

No comment.

(inhales deeply) Okay, um...

So, just before I came into this interview, I got a call from one of my officers, who has managed to find a current address for the Dowari family, and he's on the way over to them right now to try and speak to them.

So is there anything else that you would like to add now to what you've already told me?

No comment.

Right.

We'll leave things there for now, then.

(birds cawing) TERRY: Well, my front light had gone.

Which is why they wouldn't have seen me coming.

And when you say "they"... No, sorry, there was only one of them.

Okay, and was that a man or a woman?

Oh, I got no idea.

It was raining, and they had their hood up, and they were wearing a COVID mask.

And obviously, it was also night, and so...

So, what, what exactly did you see?

They had their back to me, and they was leaning over a bag, and they were removing something from it.

Mm.

But when they heard me coming from 30 or 40 feet away... Mm.

...um, they, they stop what they were doing, and they look at me, and then they put whatever it was back in the bag very quickly, and then they stood up and they pick up the bag, and they walk towards me, but with their head down.

So, you didn't actually see them throw anything in?

Well, no, but I did think that it was so odd that after I passed them, I turned back and, and watched them walk into the darkness.

And then maybe 20 seconds later, I heard "splash."

And two minutes after that, I heard a car start up.

KAREN: Okay.

And anything else?

(murmurs) Nothing else springs to mind at the moment, no.

(chuckles) But, but how about if I check my diary?

♪ ♪ Your diary?

Yeah.

Till I had my stroke, I kept a daily diary.

And that might have the specific day that this happened?

No, no, not might, it...

It would.

♪ ♪ (traffic humming in distance) It's Martin, isn't it?

Hello.

I used to see you in the pub, Marty.

Do you remember me?

Clemmie.

Where's it gone?

Oh, well, it's flats now, lovely.

Yeah, the brewery sold it.

I was looking for his wife?

Oh, Juliet moved.

Uh, Spitalfields, I think.

♪ ♪ Thank you very much, madam.

(scoffs): What... What even is that?

Sounds like something you clean a paintbrush with.

Moral turpitude is deviant behavior, Melinda.

Deviant?

Constituting an immoral, unethical, or unjust departure from ordinary social standards as would shock a community.

Sorry, is this me doing the priest or the murder investigation?

(exhales) Tell you what-- you choose.

Either way, you got four weeks' notice, which is four more than the board wanted to give you, so... (breathes deeply) ...you can thank me in another life.

(computer chirps) ♪ ♪ (glassware clattering) (vehicles reversing, horns honking outside) Yeah.

It's true.

Everything Debbie said?

Yep.

And more.

And more?

(sighs): Okay, uh, I want to be completely honest with you now, Jessie, because, until I am, I know we can't move forward.

I'm all ears.

And I'm telling you this now because it's all in the past.

This isn't who I am today.

This isn't who I've been since Debbie, and this isn't who I ever will be again.

But...

Uh...

There were other women.

None of them ever meant anything, but...

There were others.

My, uh, therapist... (laughing): Your what?

(sighs) I've been talking to an online therapist.

Ever since all that stuff with your sister came out.

It's really been helping me... (sighs): Oh, I am pleased.

...helping me realize that I've got an addiction.

Please, God, you're not going to tell me you have a sex addiction.

(laughing): Oh, my God, Steve.

Oh!

You awful cliché!

Jessie, I'm telling you this because I want to be completely honest with you, so we can start with a clean slate.

Start what with a clean slate?

(scoffs) Rebuilding our marriage, obviously.

Well...

I want to thank you, Steve, for making this all so easy for me.

♪ ♪ (quietly): No.

We're done.

For good.

Forever.

Jess...

So, you will need to find somewhere to stay tonight.

Um, you can come round tomorrow, while I'm at work, and pack up whatever you need for the next few months, and I'll...

I'll speak to a lawyer first thing and get the ball rolling.

So, you don't want to talk, give things a go, listen to what I've got to say?

I couldn't care less what you have to say, you bore, you narcissist, you total child!

I am now and will be, from this day forward, as interested in you as you clearly were in me over the last few years.

So please, go ahead, have sex with all the women you want.

I hope it's as meaningless and hollow as you say it was.

It's the most you deserve.

♪ ♪ JULIET: All I'm saying is, you have to learn to control your temper.

(scoffs): Please.

You taught me well, Mum.

I taught you?

Dad did angry.

You did fury.

Listen, I need to, um...

I think the police are going to want to speak to you, so again, if you could just say what we agreed?

You want me to lie for you?

No, I just...

This is the Met, Tay, so, much as I would love to say, "Just tell the truth and everything'll be fine," it... (inhales) Just say you don't remember anything that happened that night.

Because we cannot give them an opportunity to mess up our lives.

♪ ♪ But I am so sorry, sweetheart.

♪ ♪ (dog barking, motor revving) Can't even cry.

What does that say?

KATE: That you already knew.

You've already grieved.

But still, what a colossal prick.

(chuckles) So, listen-- tonight, I'm staying, and tomorrow, we get the locks changed, and I'll grab some stuff from my place, and I'll stay for a couple of weeks until we work out how to get you through this.

Hey?

Just want you to know you're not on your own.

We're in this together.

SUNNY: So listen, Father, I don't want to involve you in a murder investigation.

In a...

I really don't want to have Officer Kane bring you down to the station, have people gossiping about you.

I have done nothing wrong.

But I need some information.

What information?

I know you got close to Melinda, and you've been a good friend to her.

D.I.

Khan...

I don't need to know anything more about that.

But good friends tell each other things, don't they?

Yes.

They do.

Yes, they do.

So... Did she tell you why she came out here so suddenly?

Why she changed her flight and got one two months earlier?

Okay, so I, I didn't know she'd done that, and she never mentioned anything about changing a flight.

But, um... ♪ ♪ And this was told to me as her friend.

Not as her priest.

She had a long relationship, before she moved out, with a married man.

And she had a baby with him.

♪ ♪ ASIF (shouting): Hello!

Hello!

Why am I still here?

(banging on door) I have done nothing wrong!

Why am I still here?!

(exhales) ♪ ♪ (panting) (laughing) (talking in background) Hey.

What are you doing?

I have nothing to say to you.

I'm sorry I lost my temper.

If we can't disagree agreeably, then we're all sunk.

(pen clicks) I'm sorry about the book, too.

Maybe part of it was provocative.

Mm?

Maybe subconsciously, I, I did choose it deliberately.

Who knows?

(inhales deeply) It is a good read, though.

I think the older you get, the harder it is to keep adapting to change.

You bend and you bend and you bend, and then one day, you just... You snap.

But I'm sorry.

You were right, I was wrong, and as your tutor, I should have done better.

Just wanted to say that.

It's hard for us, too.

To see so little change-- real change, I mean.

Still getting taught the same degree you were, except ours costs 50 grand and it doesn't even get us a job.

And actually, we don't even get taught it, because everyone's always on strike.

So we're angry, too.

And scared.

That we're going to get it wrong.

Get caught out, get left out.

But I don't want you to lose your job.

We all just... We want to be heard.

♪ ♪ And you are.

(exhales) Loud and clear.

♪ ♪ Oh, and yeah, it is.

A good book.

♪ ♪ (footsteps retreating) (phone ringing) DCI James?

JESSICA (on phone): Juliet, hi.

I've spoken to social services, and we now have someone available to sit with Taylor while we have a talk with her.

So, when will be a good time for you to bring her in?

♪ ♪ Can we get the luminol in here, please?

♪ ♪ JESSICA (voiceover): So it is blood.

We just need to know whose.

You really think it could be Cooper's?

(chuckling): Listen, if she had a baby with him, they're telling us, then nothing's off the table.

So, I pull her back in now?

Do you think she'd be a flight risk?

No idea.

(clicking tongue): Right, let's just wait for the results.

Okay-- speak later.

(call ends) ♪ ♪ Sorry, can I help you?

No.

Thank you very much for asking.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (exhales) (knocks) The blood on Melinda Ricci's jacket, it belonged to Gerard Cooper.

♪ ♪ (key turning) (siren chirps) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Melinda Ricci, you're under arrest on suspicion of murder.

You're not obliged to say anything, unless you wish to do so.

Whatever you say will be taken down in writing, may be given in evidence.

Gonna have to put the cuffs on you, I'm afraid, Mel.

(handcuffs clicking) I didn't do it.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (siren wailing, car horns honking in distance) ♪ ♪ (lock rattling) (click) ♪ ♪ Can you stop harassing me and my daughter now?

SUNNY: Are you able to explain why Mr. Cooper's blood is on it?

This is our murder car.

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