

Victim
Season 3 Episode 2 | 44m 7sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
The team identifies the body of a girl missing for two years. Where has she been?
Martha, Jack and Charlie are called to the Thames riverbank, where a badly burned girl has been dumped. The victim went missing two years ago – but no one has seen her since. Where has she been all this time? Who dumped her in the river?
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Victim
Season 3 Episode 2 | 44m 7sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Martha, Jack and Charlie are called to the Thames riverbank, where a badly burned girl has been dumped. The victim went missing two years ago – but no one has seen her since. Where has she been all this time? Who dumped her in the river?
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipREPORTER: A badly burned young woman has been rescued after being dumped in the River Thames.
Police believe she is the victim of a botched murder attempt and are appealing for witnesses to what they're describing as a horrific crime.
Crime scene extends all the way down there and 'round the back, but witnesses have been all over it.
Where are the witnesses?
Uh, witnesses are these two homeless guys here.
Saw someone, possibly male, with a white van throw a body into the river.
BELLAMY: Victim?
STEELE: Um, female, very badly burned.
No I.D.
on the body.
She's been taken to the burns unit.
She's still alive.
She's a fighter, but it could go either way.
BELLAMY: All right.
I'll see you back at base early doors.
STEELE: Okay.
Well, you'll be earlier than me, obviously, but... -Good night.
-Night, guys.
-Safe home.
-Want a lift?
-Yeah, do you mind?
-No.
[ Telephone ringing, siren wailing in distance ] WESTON: Boss is in?
STEELE: Yeah, she wants to see us.
Victim's made it through the night, so we are dealing with attempted murder.
Priority is I.D.
the victim and track down who's responsible.
One good piece of news is that we've got some blood under the victim's fingernails, which may suggest that she fought her attacker.
I've got that blood being fast-tracked for DNA.
I'm working on I.D.
'ing the victim.
Facial recognition is gonna be really difficult just 'cause she was so badly burned.
But we know height, her hair color, which is brown.
We know her eye color, which is hazel, and that she's about 20 years old.
Um, her clothing, or what's left of it, is being fast-tracked through Forensics, and so is this, which is a necklace she was wearing which is quite distinctive, so I'm running it through MISPER and maybe we'll get something.
WESTON: Okay, so, we've got our white van.
Pick it up on CCTV leaving the scene in and around the time of the incident.
No way of getting the reg plate because it seems to have been deliberately obscured by what looks like duct tape.
This van goes around the corner.
It disappears.
We lose track of it.
Got a potential I.D.
on our victim.
WESTON: Mm-hmm?
Yeah?
-Yeah.
-WESTON: Great.
So, that necklace that we put through MISPER spat out the name of Sian Jenkins.
She went missing in 2012.
Same hair color, same eye color, same height, so I think this is her.
BELLAMY: Uh-huh.
What do we know about her?
Um, she's a musician.
She's got a website.
Tech are having a little look, but it looks like it's not been updated since two years ago.
BELLAMY: Well, so what's our Sian been doing for the last two years, then?
WESTON: Dave!
You still got missing persons in archive nine?
Uh, yeah, brown boxes on the floor.
Yeah?
How's the solitary going?
Okay, we're looking for Sian Jenkins, -missing since 2012.
-Okay.
-Quick as we can.
-Yeah.
[ Sighs ] Okay.
File in from the archive.
I got two DVDs.
Uh, one is a fan-made video of Sian performing, well, busking, on Wargrave Street.
Crucially, though, uh, the video was made on the night she disappeared.
[ Singing indistinctly ] ♪ And I know it's just my thoughts ♪ ♪ That are leading me astray ♪ ♪ When I look at you... ♪ How many people do you reckon are there, 15, 20?
STEELE: More than your normal busker.
She's good, eh?
Shame.
That's all we've got.
Um... STEELE: There's also, um, in the file -- Her father, Neil, was suspected of having some involvement in her disappearance, so he was taped on interview.
Yeah.
BELLAMY: How long ago was this?
STEELE: Uh, two years.
It's 2012.
She's gone away!
She'll come back!
She's been away before.
She'll go away again.
Um, okay, Neil Jenkins, on the night that his daughter, Sian, disappeared, he lied about his whereabouts.
He'd actually spent the night in the red-light district.
So we're obviously dealing with an exceptional piece of work.
Neil, take a seat there, please.
So, Neil, um, tell me, what -- what happened that night when you last saw Sian?
-Sian.
-Yeah.
WESTON: Because you fought with Sian.
You're right.
I did.
Um, we fought a lot.
We -- I was a tough father on Sian and, uh, too tough.
She was a teenager.
She was, uh -- But she was -- she was a-a naughty teenager.
She -- She would -- She'd be out for days on end, and I-I didn't like that, funnily enough.
WESTON: You were naughty yourself, though, weren't you?
You were frequenting brothels.
I-I did frequent brothels.
I was an angry man who didn't like himself much, and, uh, as a result, I, uh, did some stupid things, and one of them was going to brothels, yes.
-You still angry?
-No, I'm not angry.
-WESTON: Still in brothels?
-No, I'm not, no, no.
-WESTON: Still drink?
-No, I don't.
No.
Two years.
I've not had a drop to drink.
WESTON: What do you do now?
I spend my time [Clears throat] a lot more... purposefully than I ever have.
I, uh -- I-I give aid to homeless people.
That's my main purpose in life.
How do you actually help them, the homeless people?
I, uh -- I have blankets in my van and, uh, invite them to -- to come and use the blankets and just take -- get themselves out of the cold.
-WESTON: What type of van?
-It's a Ford Transit.
-WESTON: Color?
-White.
This is Neil Jenkins.
This is Neil Jenkins.
Uh, according to the DVLA, he does have a white van.
He does use it to distribute blankets and deliver soup to the homeless.
An all-around Good Samaritan.
But he's not affiliated to any particular charity or Christian group or whatever.
Okay, so maybe if Sian's been living in London for the last two years and he's out and about in his van doing his good works, he's run into her.
-You mind if I sit down?
-No.
How is Sian doing?
Uh, the same.
There's nothing changed at all.
Okay, listen, the reason I've come down to talk to you -- Um, in order to kind of further my investigation, I'm gonna need written consent to forensically search your van.
You don't have a problem with me searching, do you?
No, I've got no problem, but, um, I've got to say that you -- you won't find anything.
Uh, I-I have the van cleaned regular.
Why do you have that?
Well, as I said before to you, uh, the, um -- the homeless people sleep in there.
So you're very welcome, but I'm not sure how much eliminating it'll do.
Thank you.
[ Knock on door ] -Grace?
-GRACE: Yeah.
-Hi.
-GRACE: Hi.
Uh, my name is Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.
Uh, this is Detective Constable Charlie Steele.
We're local police officers in charge of the investigation surrounding your daughter, Sian.
Mm-hmm.
Um, how is Sian doing?
She's alive.
She's... Tell me about Neil.
-Uh... -What's, uh...
He's a -- He's a difficult man.
He had -- He had booze, and now he's got God, and I can't cope with either of those things.
So I -- No, I don't see him.
STEELE: Grace, when Sian first disappeared, you were in very close contact with the police, as you would expect.
Um, but then after a little while, you just sort of stopped calling and stopped coming 'round.
I knew she was okay.
I'm sorry.
I know.
I -- [ Sighs ] It was really difficult, I know, but if I'd told the police, then her dad would have found out, and she didn't want any contact with him and didn't want any danger of him coming -- -She's been in contact with you?
-Yeah.
I mean, not direct contact, but through a friend of hers.
He gives me messages from her, and I send messages back to her, and I send her some money sometimes when I can.
-Who's this friend?
-Uh, Lewis.
And how do you or how does Sian know him?
Um, they lived in a squat together, I think.
[ Knock on door ] -Hi.
Lewis?
-LEWIS: Yeah.
Lewis... -LEWIS: Taylor.
-Hi.
Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.
Sorry for interrupting.
Continue.
So, you met Sian.
Living rough.
You became friends.
How did you go from that situation to a situation in which you're her liaison with her mother, who she hasn't seen?
She just asked me to call her mum.
She just wanted to contact her to let her know that she was all right, and I said yeah.
Look, she didn't want Grace to know where she was because she didn't want Neil to find out where she was.
Simple as that.
There was something going on between her and Neil.
Sian and Neil.
Don't know what it was.
It's not for me to say.
She wouldn't say.
STEELE: Yeah, but I still find it a little bit strange that if, as Lewis said, she's been moving around all these squats in London that no one's seen her or heard of her.
Some of them are really close friends.
WESTON: That was Forensics on the phone.
They got back to me on the DNA that was found under Sian Jenkins' fingernails.
BELLAMY: Yeah.
Okay, one, the DNA belongs to a female.
Two, the DNA belongs to someone who's been registered missing since 2005.
Okay, someone called Josephine Wilson, disappeared when she was 8 years old.
Josie Wilson?
God, yes.
I remember the case so well.
She was young.
Little girl.
WESTON: It cannot be just a coincidence that the DNA from one missing person has been found under the fingernails of another missing person.
STEELE: Where has she been for nine years?
BELLAMY: I don't know.
Look at her face.
Come on.
Is that little girl ultimately responsible for burning, then dumping Sian Jenkins in the river?
[ Sighs ] She's all grown up.
BELLAMY: Mr. Wilson?
-Mike Wilson?
-Yes?
Martha Bellamy.
Detective Inspector.
Mr. Wilson, I have some news about Josie.
We believe she may be alive, Mr. Wilson.
I don't want to get your hopes up because there has been no concrete sighting of Josie, but what we do have is forensic evidence.
We have DNA under the fingernails of a female victim, a victim of an assault.
It's a young girl called Sian Jenkins.
Does that ring any bells?
Sian Jenkins?
No.
No.
Has -- Has she told you how she knows Josie?
No, sadly, she's not well.
She's in hospital, and we're fingers crossed.
We haven't been able to interview her as yet.
There is a connection between this young girl, Sian Jenkins, and a vehicle.
And, um, I was just wondering, how -- how do you do your deliveries?
In a van, car?
I-I-I use-- I used to do it myself, but I don't.
I use delivery firms to do it for me.
-You don't have your own van?
-No, not -- not anymore, no, no.
Well, this afternoon, we are doing a media appeal with Sian's parents, and I'd like you to take part in it.
Um, obviously appealing for any information regarding Josie.
If you -- If you think -- If you think that would help, of course, I'll do anything.
Yes, of course, of course.
Historically it can make a big difference.
Okay.
Josie had been staying with her aunt in Oxfordshire when she went missing.
Her father apparently was at her London home grieving.
Josie's mum killed herself a couple of months before she went missing.
The investigating officers thought that she'd been abducted and then probably killed.
No 8-year-old can survive on their own for all that time, surely?
But then how do we go from 8-year-old abducted, probably killed, to her DNA being under Sian's fingernails?
It's got to be that she assaulted Sian.
The alternative is just too odd to contemplate.
The homeless people that we talked to said that they saw a man, a man with a white van.
Neil has a white van.
Speaking of which... No one's seen Josie in nine years.
It still doesn't account for the fact that they said they saw a man.
Have you checked anything out in that corner there?
How you getting on?
This thing's absolutely spotless apart from a few long brown hairs over in that corner.
Um, fingers crossed they're Sian's.
If they're not Sian's, then maybe they're Josie's.
In which case, maybe we're looking at a joint enterprise between Josie and mystery-white-van man?
Exactly, because we've already got the DNA under her fingernails.
-STEELE: I have news.
-WESTON: Yeah.
Um, I spoke to a lady from a homeless shelter in North London.
They don't know anything about Josie or Sian, but they do know Neil, and they do not like him.
-Um, apparently... -Why is that?
...a homeless girl called Sarah, who used to go to their shelter, said that she, one night, was trying to sleep in the back of Neil's van.
God only knows why.
And when she woke up, he was watching her.
And it really freaked her out, and she told the people at the shelter.
Like Sian and Josie, she's young, brown hair, hazel eyes.
Um, I would just like to ask anyone out there who has any information about this terrible crime to come forward to tell the police what you know.
If the person out there is watching this, um, please come forward.
Please come forward.
And the good Lord will forgive you.
Uh, we have Mr. Wilson with a second appeal.
[ Clears throat ] This is my little girl, Josie.
[ Sighs ] I bet you Neil Jenkins knows where Josie is.
But I haven't seen her for nine years.
WESTON: Okay, I was wondering if I could speak to Neil.
Do you know if he's around or... -He's in the chapel.
-WESTON: 'Course.
What's that?
[ Chuckles ] It's, um...
It's a bracelet that Sian sent to me.
Usually keep it tucked up here.
Wear it all the time.
-Sent through Lewis Taylor?
-Yeah.
Yeah, she sent me that.
She sends me songs sometimes she's written.
It's lovely.
Nice to feel that I have contact.
Would I be able to look at those songs?
'Course you can, yeah.
I mean, I haven't got them with me, but I can find them for you.
Yeah, that would be great.
Uh, Grace seems to be pretty convinced the lyrics are actually Sian's handwriting, but I'm gonna send them down to Forensics just to get them double-checked.
This is definitely genuine, though.
Um, I called around Sian's old friends again, and one of them confirmed that she made it for her a couple of years ago.
None of this is, like, directed at mum, is it?
Do you know what I mean?
I mean, I don't know why Sian would be sending Grace a friendship bracelet that one of Sian's friends gave her years ago.
It just doesn't add up, really.
-[ Ding ] -WOMAN: Going up.
Lift going up.
Lewis Taylor, it's the police.
Lewis?
Lewis?
-Hello.
Can we come in, please?
-Can we chat with you?
Uh, yeah, hang on.
I-I... -No, can we come in now, please?
-Just have a quick chat.
-Is this your bedroom?
-LEWIS: Uh, yeah.
STEELE: Why don't we pop in here, then?
Have a seat, Lewis.
Hands off the computer just for a second if you don't mind.
STEELE: Do you play the guitar, Lewis?
LEWIS: Yeah, I play a bit of guitar.
Oh, yeah?
Since when.
Is this your backpack?
LEWIS: Uh... WESTON: Lewis, sit on your hands.
That's my, uh, friend's backpack.
It's your friend's?
Do you mind if I have a look inside?
No.
Okay, good.
In order to search more thoroughly, I'm going to arrest you on the suspicion of the theft of property of Sian Jenkins and on suspicion of the abduction of Sian Jenkins.
No, mate -- You do not have to say anything.
This is for -- This is for your safety.
You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense... LEWIS: Yeah, that's Sian's.
Mate, it's Sian's.
WESTON: ...if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
-Do you understand?
-I'm being arrested for what?
WESTON: Okay, let's sit down.
STEELE: You said a friend who stayed here last night?
Did Sian stay here last night?
-LEWIS: Um, no.
No.
-Okay, all right.
LEWIS: Sian didn't stay here last night.
All right, I'm gonna grab the case and the bag.
[ Door opens ] WESTON: Hi, Lewis.
Hi, Lewis.
There was the guitar and the rucksack that we found in your house that clearly belonged to Sian.
Where did you get them from?
No comment.
[ Chuckles ] You're kidding, right?
No comment.
The journal in her bag, where did you get that from?
-No comment.
-Same place you got the bag?
No comment.
STEELE: Lewis, all of the pages that you sent to Grace, Sian's mother, saying, "Oh, Sian's written you really lovely songs just for you," we're matching those to the journal we found in your flat.
I haven't got a solicitor.
So...no comment.
BELLAMY: Yeah, come in.
-How'd the Lewis interview go?
-WESTON: No comment.
Lewis "No Comment" Taylor had nothing to say and now wants a solicitor.
Mm.
Joy.
Doesn't surprise me.
Uh, especially after seeing this lot.
Forensics have confirmed that the ripped-out pages from that journal... Are Sian's?
...they're a match to the notes and the letters and the songs that were sent to Mum.
So presumably -- I don't know -- he's been ripping out the pages, sending them, pretend-- I mean, none of them are related to her anyway, so... And you're going to wet yourself with this one, so just keep calm, all right.
It says -- It says that she woke to find her dad watching her sleep.
-Drunken.
Watching her sleep.
-Thank you.
-He was drunk, so... -Can we get him in?
Get him in for a friendly chat, Jack.
-Friendly... -Trust me.
...chat.
Thanks for coming in, Mr. Jenkins.
Did you ever watch your daughter sleep?
As a baby, yeah, sure.
But as a 16-year-old?
No, no, I didn't, no.
'Cause we found her journal.
And she says you did.
She also says she didn't like it.
Okay, "Wake up as the sun was appearing over the horizon, and all seemed peaceful in the world until I saw him..." Is that you?
"...just sitting there watching me sleep."
Is that you?
No, it's not me.
No.
Neil, is that you?
-"So fucking weird."
-No, it's not me.
"I hate him.
I don't know why Mum doesn't leave him.
Always drunk.
He treats her like shit."
Is this you she's talking about?
The end bit of it sounds exactly like me, yes.
Yes, it -- that sounds like me.
I-I did not watch her sleep, though.
WESTON: Who's this?
I don't know.
It's Josie Wilson.
Do you know her?
Have a good look.
-WESTON: Look at her.
-I've looked at her.
I don't know her.
WESTON: Not even from your generous Good Samaritan work?
No, I don't know her.
I don't know who it is.
Did you have her in your van?
No, I did not have her in my van.
You -- You have had it in for me from the minute you set eyes on me.
This -- This is -- This is victimization, this is.
-I'm not having it.
-Mr. Jenkins... NEIL: No, I'm not having it!
BELLAMY: He's digging himself a hole, isn't he?
WESTON: This born-again Christian has revealed himself.
-Well, God is his witness.
-STEELE: There has been a potential sighting of Josie Wilson.
Where?
I don't know.
I might just wang it in here.
[ Police radio chatter ] Oh, wait, is that -- is that... -Josie!
-WESTON: Josie!
-STEELE: Josie.
-WESTON: Josie, Josie.
We just want to help.
Josie, Josie.
-We want to help you.
-Josie, Josie, Josie.
No!
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
All right, all right, all right.
Okay, sit down.
Sit down.
Sit down.
Sit down.
Sit down.
Josie.
[ Crying ] I want my dad.
STEELE: You're freezing.
Hi.
I need an ambulance down here at Newcourt House.
Immediate medical assistance required for a missing person.
JOSIE: No, I just want my daddy.
Get off me!
I want my dad!
Okay, Josie, look at me.
Josie, my name's Charlie.
-And I'm gonna take you -- -No, I don't want you.
-I want my daddy.
-I'm going to take you to him.
Come in the car, and I'm take you to him, okay?
-My daddy?
-Yes, absolutely.
Yeah?
Pop up.
Up you get.
-[ Siren wailing in distance ] -There we go.
-Let's bring her to the car.
-All right, come on.
I'm going to take you to him.
That's where we're going now, yeah?
-To my daddy?
-Yes, absolutely.
Come on.
[ Indistinct talking ] -No, I don't want to.
-Can you get back into bed?
-Please, can I not?
-Okay.
Sean, Sean, will you -- Sean, wait.
Josie, you get back into bed, darling, please?
Please?
All right, just for a sec.
Okay.
Legs up, come on.
I don't want them.
Okay, you don't want the cover.
That's fine.
WESTON: Hey, what did the doctors say?
Um, she's got burns on her hands, pretty bad ones.
She's got scratches consistent with Sian's injuries.
Like Sian, she's also malnourished and showing signs of vitamin D deficiency.
Fuck.
Um... What?
Vitamin D deficiency comes from a lack of sunlight.
What you getting at?
The girls have been locked up.
That's a little bit of a leap, Jack.
Charlie, the girls have been locked up.
[ Telephone ringing ] Boss!
Yeah.
The lab have confirmed that the girl we picked up -is definitely Josephine Wilson.
-BELLAMY: Okay.
So we have the girl whose DNA is under the fingernails of Sian Jenkins, and also, she's got burns, like Sian's.
WESTON: Two girls.
One missing for nine years.
One missing for two years.
Both malnourished.
Both showing signs of vitamin D deficiency.
-Lack of sunlight.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa, Jack.
Okay, is this one of your theories?
Is this a two girls missing, held captive against their will.
Well, that or they're anorexic and they're in nightclubs all the time.
-What do you think?
-By someone.
Are you suggesting by Neil Jenkins?
That's exactly what I'm suggesting.
Okay, suggest something when you've got the proof.
Okay.
Josie, none of your family have seen you for nine years.
Where have you been?
Don't know.
You don't know?
Have you been staying with someone?
Have you been in London?
I don't know.
Okay.
Um...
When you went missing, you were staying with your aunt, right?
And you were walking back from school and you just never made it all the way home.
So what -- Can you tell me what happened on that walk?
JOSIE: Nothing.
STEELE: Did someone take you away?
Did you just decide you didn't want to go back to your aunt's house?
Um, how did you hurt your hands?
That time when the fire happened.
-What fire?
-The fire.
-Just... -Where was this?
When was this?
This was recently, yeah?
Do you know someone called Sian Jenkins?
-I don't know those names.
-No.
You're sure you've never met her before?
I only ask because she's a lady who turned up very, very injured yesterday.
JOSIE: I don't know who she -- I don't know those names.
It's all right.
Come on.
STEELE: Maybe you don't know her name, but maybe you know her face?
I could maybe show you some pictures?
I don't know what happened, and I don't know the names.
Okay, I'm gonna leave it there for now.
But I'll come back and see you a bit later?
-MIKE: It's all right.
-STEELE: Thank you.
WESTON: Okay, I've been tracking Josie's movements for the last couple of hours.
It looks like she was trying to go from here to her childhood home, where Mike lives, but she got lost.
Why has she waited until now to try and get home?
Perhaps something or someone has been preventing her.
Stop with the theories.
Come on.
Now, let's get something concrete.
When I spoke to Josie, I mean, I tried to ask some of the same questions, but she just didn't have anything to say.
"Where have you been?"
"I don't know."
"How did you hurt yourself?"
"I don't know."
It was just all a bit odd, and her Dad, who you would think would want to know where she's been for nine years, just wasn't having really any of me asking the questions.
Didn't want me to ask them.
Well, maybe Josie -- Josie's selective amnesia is coming from the fact that she's trying to subconsciously suppress the traumatic events that have befallen her.
You love a fairy story, don't you, Jack?
You can't ignore this.
BELLAMY: I'm not ignoring anything.
Mr. Wilson, I'm gonna need your help at this point.
Can you not just leave her alone for about five minutes?
You know, just give her a break for... No, I can't leave her alone because we are here for a reason and you know that.
MIKE: Yeah, but she's in distress.
She's in distress.
BELLAMY: I need to talk to her clearly, and that's not happening at the moment, is it, Mike?
But I believe that Josie will be able to just open up and to not worry about your feelings, et cetera, that appear to be getting in the way.
So as long as you understand what we need to do here... Tell her I love her.
BELLAMY: Of course I will.
Josie, we'd like to know where you know Sian from.
I live with her.
-You live with her?
-Can I see my dad now, please?
-Where do you live?
-Where do you live?
I live with her.
Please can I see my dad?
Where do you live with Sian, Josie?
I live with her.
-WESTON: Very much, thanks.
Bye.
-[ Telephone hangs up ] Forensics.
Uh, the brown hairs found in the back of Neil's van belong to registered missing person Sarah Baker.
Oh, yes.
Do you think it's the same Sarah that complained about him watching her sleep?
Okay.
I've got to throw the book at him.
Neil Jenkins, I am arresting you on suspicion of attempted murder.
-What have you done?
-You do not have say anything... Grace, I've done nothing.
I've done absolutely nothing.
...you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be used in evidence.
Do you understand?
Okay, Neil.
We don't have a lot of time.
Tell us about Sarah Baker.
-About who?
-Sarah Baker.
Homeless Sarah.
Come on, you're the Good Samaritan.
You remember her.
No, I don't remember Sarah Baker.
She stayed in your van, Neil.
You watched her sleep.
You do remember Sarah Baker, so tell us, who's Sarah Baker?
How do you know her?
Okay, okay.
I had a Sarah Baker in the back of my van.
Jesus, that was easy, wasn't it?
Yes, it was.
Yes, it was, Jack.
-Thank you.
-Yeah.
Tell us, then, why was she in the back of your van?
Because she was cold.
Because she was on the streets.
Because she's in difficulty.
And because what I do is help people out who are in difficulty.
What did you do with Sarah in the van?
-Um... -Answer the question.
Let me bloody answer.
Jesus.
I, um...
I gave her some food, and she -- she went to sleep.
She... She -- She came out of the cold.
Did you watch her sleeping?
Did you watch her sleeping?
-Yes, I did.
-Why?
Okay.
I, um...
I watched Sarah sleep because... ...she reminded me of my daughter, Sian.
Why did you watch Sian sleep?
Why shouldn't I watch my daughter sleep?
What is the crime in watching somebody sleep?
Did you do anything else?
What do you mean, did I do anything?
Answer the question!
Do you do anything else to your daughter?
What do you mean, did I do anything else?
Were you just watching Sian sleep?
What the fuck do you mean?!
-How dare you insinuate that?
-Calm down.
-To her father!
-Calm down!
To say what I did to somebody else!
-Do not do this to me!
-Calm down!
Calm down!
-This is wrong!
-Calm down right now.
You are wrong!
BELLAMY: Well, he's lost my fucking vote, that's for sure.
WESTON: Thank God for that.
There's a line you don't cross.
Do you know what I mean?
I have Sian's phone back from Tech.
WESTON: Yeah?
There are quite a few photos from her last gig.
WESTON: Neil in them?
No, not that I can see.
But there is one very interesting spectator.
Hello, Lewis.
Right, I have some photos here taken from Sian's phone that we recovered in your house from the night that she disappeared.
This is from her gig, and if I'm not mistaken, that's you, right?
-Yeah, that's me.
-Okay.
That is the night that she disappeared.
So you've met her before?
I saw her before, maybe.
Maybe I was there, but I didn't meet her.
What else have you lied about?
Have you actually been seeing Sian all this time, have you?
I-I haven't -- We're gonna take it as read, Lewis, that you've lied -because you have.
-No comment.
Have you been seeing Sian all this time?
No comment.
You're on really, really patchy ground, Lewis.
Can I remind you that Sian is in hospital fighting for her life?
She's been attacked.
You have no alibi for last night, and you have all of her stuff in your flat.
And you won't find any evidence that I was involved in that, -because I wasn't.
-Where were you last night?
-I was at home last night.
-We have your stuff -- her stuff in your flat.
Yeah.
[ Speaking indistinctly ] [ Telephone ringing ] -Boss?
-BELLAMY: Tell us the truth.
He had the opportunity.
Uh, Tech have just come through, um, with Lewis's laptop.
Lewis has been researching other missing persons, as well as Sian.
He's also researched Josephine Wilson.
Uh, these are some of the e-mails taken from his laptop.
The guy is sick, right?
He writes to the parents of the child, claiming to contact them on behalf of the child, who needs money.
-Money.
-Perfect.
That's just what I need.
Thank you.
So he's -- he has contacted Mike?
Yeah, he's contacted Mike.
He's contacted loads of parents.
Some have said, "Great, oh, my God, yes.
Please, you know, have the money."
Some have said, "Piss off.
We don't believe you."
Mike's one of the guys who told him to piss off.
He sent him a really angry e-mail.
Well done, Jack.
You sent those, right?
-Yeah.
-STEELE: Okay.
Talk to me, Lewis.
Tell me what's going on.
I don't know any of those people.
STEELE: Right.
So you did the same thing with Sian, I'm guessing with Grace.
Yeah.
STEELE: Okay.
So the last time you saw Sian was that night that she disappeared.
Is it?
Yeah.
Okay, and how did you get her stuff?
I...
I stole it.
STEELE: And you've had no contact with her since at all?
-No.
-STEELE: No.
The last time you saw Sian, when you got all of this stuff, was the night she disappeared?
Yeah?
Yeah.
So you're watching the gig.
The gig, I assume, ends.
Then tell me what happens.
Then she started talking to this guy.
And I just nicked her stuff.
She had a case, guitar, some money in there, about £50.
STEELE: She was talking to someone she knew?
I just -- Look, I just don't know.
I just don't know whether -- I can't remember that kind of detail.
They were talking.
She didn't look like she was scared or anything like that.
Okay, fine, can you tell me what he looked like?
He was white.
He had a cap on.
Is that it?
BELLAMY: We need to know as much as we can about him, obviously.
'Cause potentially that's the last person that saw Sian.
Right?
The last person we know of.
WESTON: You know what I think.
I think it's Neil.
Well, it could be Neil, so let's talk to Technical.
They can do a better job than this, surely.
-Um, I will ask.
-Enhance that.
Okay, I hate to keep bashing on about this, but now that we know Lewis is lying, as far as we're aware, no one has seen or heard from Sian for the last two years.
just in the same way that no one has seen or heard from Josie for the last nine years.
Both girls are showing signs of malnutrition.
Both girls are deficient in vitamin D. Let me go down to Neil's house, make sure he's not got two more brown-haired girls down there.
Do it.
-WESTON: It's the house here.
-STEELE: I think so.
WESTON: Okay.
Fox, you cover the back.
Quick as we can.
-Police!
Stand still!
-Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
STEELE: Kitchen's clear.
Empty.
Living room's clear.
Bedroom one's clear.
Does that door open?
Bedroom two clear.
STEELE: That's it.
There's nothing down here.
I am the wrong person.
I'm not -- You've searched my house?
Have you searched my house?
Yes, you've searched my house.
There's nothing there, is there?
There's absolutely nothing in my house!
You know that!
That's really helpful.
Brilliant.
Thank you.
Boss, that was the hospital.
Sian is off the ventilator.
-BELLAMY: How is she?
-Um... Bad, but she's breathing on her own, which is always good.
She's been calling out for someone called Sarah.
Is that our Sarah Baker?
Oh, could be our third abductee.
So we need to know who Sarah is and where Sarah is, Charlie, okay?
As it stands, we believe we may have a third victim.
Girl, brown-haired, brown-eyed, called Sarah Baker.
We know she was in your van.
We believe that she was kidnapped.
Held against her will for a period of time.
And we now believe that she may have been involved in a fire, the same fire as Sian.
Sian has woken up, Neil, okay?
NEIL: Well, go and find the person -that has done this to her.
-The first thing Sian said -- Neil, I'm asking for your help now, okay?
Neil, a young girl is missing.
Okay, you are the only person that can help us find her.
I am not the only person that can help you find her, Jack.
I watched these girls sleeping.
I w-- I watched them because they were calm.
They were peaceful.
I haven't had peace like that for a long time.
BELLAMY: Hey, Josie.
Josie, have you heard or do you know of a girl called Sarah?
My Sarah.
-Sarah, yeah.
-Mm-hmm.
Sarah Baker?
Do you know someone called Sarah Baker?
No, I don't know those names.
That's not my Sarah.
Y-You do-- You don't know this -- this girl.
Okay, well, who do you know called Sarah, then?
Who's Sarah?
Please can I speak to my daddy?
Josie, who is Sarah?
Tell -- Okay.
I need to speak to my daddy.
I have some news from Tech.
Um, they've enhanced the images on Sian's phone which were from her last gig.
The mystery man in the baseball cap is not Neil.
It is Mike Wilson.
WESTON: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
STEELE: Okay, right, there should be two rooms upstairs, but beyond this door, there should be a whole load more.
I've got a locked cellar door!
What have you got?
Okay, go ahead.
[ Indistinct shouting ] BELLAMY: Sarah!
Sarah!
Is there someone called Sarah?
-It's the police.
-Is there anyone down here?
WESTON: Eyes on the fire over here, boss.
BELLAMY: That's nothing, Jack.
Sarah?
Um, we found Sarah.
Can I see her?
Can I see my baby, please?
And my daddy.
Um... Josie, is Sarah Mike's daughter?
Josie?
Josie?
Is your daddy Sarah's daddy?
Josie?
Is he?
Yes.
[ Police radio chatter ] Well, it doesn't look like good news.
Uh, witnesses say they saw a man matching Mike's description abandon the van, jump in the river from the pier over there.
This time of year, he's not gonna come out alive, is he?
No, I've got the divers down here to have a look, but I'm not particularly hopeful.
Okay.
What about the van?
Is this the one they transported the girl in?
We're pretty sure that it is.
The van was reported missing, stolen, in fact, three, four days ago.
And there's a letter -- Ramen?
Sir.
Letter left in the front seat addressed to Josie, most likely from Mike.
Better get back to base.
Release Neil.
Got to be done.
Josie, why did Mike take Sian?
She looks after Sarah.
And then me and Daddy can spend time together still.
And how did you -- how did you get out?
How did you get out of the room?
Daddy and Sian l-left the door open, and I wanted to see what it was like, just for a minute.
And...
I...
It closed behind me, and I couldn't get back in.
So I went to find the house.
-And -- -Where you used to live?
But I got lost.
Sian wanted to be outside.
-She -- -Did she try and get out?
-Yeah.
-Outside?
She did?
Like the time when the fire happened.
She was caught in it, too, and I stopped it.
But she wasn't well, and -- and so Daddy had to take her to hospital.
But Daddy didn't take her to hospital, did he, darling?
Yes, he did.
Daddy promised that he'd take her to hospital.
-Is that what you think he did?
-Mm-hmm.
W-- Please can I see my daddy?
Because I don't know what to do.
There has been an accident.
And your dad is dead, I'm afraid.
No.
That's untrue.
He isn't.
He's written you a letter.
JOSIE: That's not true.
That's -- I need you to be strong for Sarah, all right?
Josie, I promise you, we'll look after you.
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