Season 2 | Episode 4

♪ ♪ Are you three telepathic or something?

♪ ♪ JUDITH: I think it's one of the people in that close.

We was in bed till 8:00 and we've nothing more to add.

JUDITH: I couldn't help noticing... (shutter clicks) ...you're packing up.

SUZIE: Doesn't it bother you, driving people out of their homes?

I'm building a vision!

(exhales heavily) (flies buzzing) ALICE: They saw someone matching Phil Wingrove's description chucking something in the river today.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (thunder claps) (whimpers) (click) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JUDITH: Something's been bothering me about these two couples.

Phil and Caroline have sold their house, but didn't tell their neighbors.

SUZIE: And now Kerry feels betrayed.

We know Dean's taken out a series of loans at punitive interest rates.

He's trying to persuade Kerry to sell.

Maybe she doesn't know about the loans.

Is he behind with payments?

Tanika says not, but it suggests his business isn't going great guns.

And he's refusing to talk to us.

Thank you.

Well, this could be why Louis was in the close that day.

Maybe he was sorting out another loan for Dean.

Remember, Tanika told us there'd been no communication...

Thanks.

...between Dean and Louis' company.

I'll tell you what else I don't get.

One of those residents killed Louis Oldham, dumps his body in the middle of the close, and none of the others see a thing?

Well, that's my point exactly-- there's something going on between those two houses.

Oh, Becks, we didn't tell you how much we enjoyed the art class last night.

And Daniel!

(chortles) Daniel was very, uh... Attentive?

That's the word: attentive.

Is he single?

Are you asking for yourself or a friend?

Pssh!

BECKS: Stop it, the pair of you-- you're not even subtle.

Not subtle at all.

What are these?

Last night, I went hunting, and found that cache of letters to my great-aunt.

From a gentleman called Nathan Edwards.

The man in the photo?

JUDITH: I think he must be.

BECKS: And what are they?

Love letters?

They are.

I knew it.

He was an accountant.

He lived just off the Henley Road.

So, why did your aunt hide his photo?

That's really rather sad.

He was already married when they met.

He had an affair?

Mm, yes and no.

They never had a physical relationship, but they poured their thoughts and feelings into those letters.

SUZIE: An emotional affair.

This one isn't open.

The handwriting's different.

Someone else sent that one.

Why didn't she open it?

I'm not sure.

(phone vibrating) (vibration stops) Tanika, what have you got?

We'll meet you there in ten minutes.

(police radios running) SUZIE: No!

Seriously?

You found another body?

TANIKA: Afraid so.

JUDITH: Is there any connection to the death of Louis Oldham?

It's too early to say.

Body's been in the ground a long time.

For how long?

Our forensic anthropologist thinks it could be more than ten years.

Um, can I have a word?

Course.

Don't worry, they're with me.

Okay, so, he's male and probably a teenager, perhaps a little bit older, but there's been a central skull base fracture caused by blunt-force trauma.

This was the cause of death?

May need to test further, but I think so.

Oh, and you'll also need a forensic archaeologist to come and look at the site.

JUDITH: Oh, of course!

There will have been significant water erosion and soil settlement in the last decade.

That's right.

It, it's possible the body was originally buried in the garden beyond that fence, and then moved here in the intervening time.

BECKS: Whose garden is the other side of that fence?

TANIKA: Kerry and Dean Butler's.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (police radios running) No, no sign... (radios continue, officers talking indistinctly) (doorbell rings) Hi.

You lot never give us a moment's peace!

We've said all we have to say!

You heard what they found?

It's just not possible.

I've no idea how he got there.

"He?"

How do you know the body is a man?

That's what the police said.

BECKS: Is your husband home?

Dean left for work ages ago-- just, just leave us alone.

(door slams) (exhales) (inner door slams) Well, that went well.

We may as well try Grace.

ALICE (in distance): I don't know, maybe it's food for the ducks or something?

BRENDAN: Or a murder weapon.

JUDITH (whispers): Quick.

Here.

(doorbell rings) SUZIE: Move out of the way-- I can't see!

(door opens) Oh, oh, oh.

PHIL: Officers.

BRENDAN: I wonder if we could come in.

Ask you a few questions about Louis Oldham.

No, I don't think so.

(ringtone playing loudly) Not without proper grounds and a warrant.

SUZIE (softly): Is that you, Becks?

(ringtone continues, women shushing) JUDITH: Becks!

She's seen us!

(ringtone continues) (ringtone stops) (clears throat) Oh, sorry, uh... A witness reported seeing a man who matched your description throw an object in the river yesterday afternoon?

Between 1:30 and 2:30?

(breathes deeply) Nothing to do with me-- I was playing cricket.

Mr. Wingrove, police divers are currently searching the area.

ALICE: Are you sure there's nothing you want to tell us?

PHIL: I left the house, went straight to cricket, played all afternoon, albeit not very well, then came straight home and bumped into those women.

The busybodies.

JUDITH: How dare he!

Such a... We chatted for a while.

Ask them if I looked like someone who's just disposed of crucial evidence.

(sniffs) Out of interest, who was the witness?

Dean Butler?

Thank you for your time, Mr. Wingrove.

(door closes) SUZIE: Uh-oh.

Eavesdroppers never hear any good about themselves.

JUDITH (gasps): We were just.. (sighs) Mm.

♪ ♪ (Suzie sniffs, clears throat) (exhales) (sighs) I wonder what Phil was throwing in the river.

Assuming it was him.

The murder weapon?

Well, it could've been anything.

But what's interesting is that someone flagged him up to the police.

Mm.

Kerry is super-stressed.

And is that because this second body is a surprise to her?

Or because it isn't?

If a body was found at the bottom of my garden, I'd probably react the same.

What are you talking about?

You got hundreds of dead bodies at the bottom of your garden.

(chuckles) JUDITH (softly): One dead body over here.

And one over here.

Found one day apart.

There's got to be a connection-- it's not a coincidence.

(calling): Good morning!

Hm!

How are you doing?

It must've been terrible digging up a body.

I can't imagine how you must be feeling.

JUDITH: The police said it's been in the ground at least ten years.

I don't suppose you were here ten years ago.

I only moved to Marlow five years ago, when I bought this site.

Well, can I ask, what made you dig here?

What?

Well, yesterday, your diggers were there, and this morning, they're here-- why?

I don't have to talk to you.

Yes, you do.

Or you're going to get arrested for criminal damage.

I'd be very careful what you say to me next.

Phil told us all about the rotting food in his bins and down his drains-- that was you, wasn't it?

Which is why you got an old bin full of rotten food by your office.

That's criminal damage, intimidation... All right.

I can't start the next stage until Kerry and Dean move out, and they're so stubborn.

And you'll go to any lengths to get rid of them.

GRACE: You don't... You don't get it, do you?

For the past five years, those two families have stood in the way of their whole community.

And your profit.

(sighs) It's not a crime to make a living.

JUDITH: We need to speak to Dean Butler.

I want to know why his wife's so jittery, where he is with his loans, and what he has to say about a body right by his garden.

(different ringtone playing) BECKS: Oh!

Oh, sorry, I'd love to come.

I promise, this is the last time.

♪ ♪ (sighs) Phil Wingrove's not giving anything away.

We're gonna need hard evidence next time we go and talk to him.

Thanks, Brendan.

Okay, everyone, dental records confirm the skeleton belongs to a man called Sebastian or Seb Teller.

He was reported missing in...

Hold on.

He's Seb Teller?

JASON: You knew him?

Yeah, I arrested him loads of times.

He was a little horror.

But flashy with it.

And smart-- he could've made something of himself.

But he was, he was all about easy money.

What was he into?

Uh, robbery, mainly.

Then he fell off the radar.

All activity on his bank accounts stopped in June 2009, the same month that his father, John Teller, reported him missing.

Alice, can you see if you can make contact with John?

Got it.

So, what are we saying?

He died in June 2009?

It's how it's looking.

Brendan, I want you to find out what you can about Seb Teller.

See if there are any links to Louis Oldham or any of the residents of Linnet Close.

Okay.

And Jason, see if you can find out what our four witnesses and Grace Wellingborough were up to at that time.

Think one of them could have killed him?

I think one of them killed Louis Oldham.

Let's see if it's the first time they've committed murder or the second.

(saw whirring) (saw stops) (mallet pounding) (dog barking in distance) Hi, Dean?

I hope you don't mind us coming to your place of work.

Kerry seemed quite upset when we called round.

Don't you go near my wife, and you stay away from my property.

Well, then, it would help if you tell us what you know.

It's not every day a body is found at the back of your garden.

SUZIE: Except that's two bodies now, one at the front and one at the back.

The first I knew about it was when you lot showed up.

Phil seemed to think that you were the one on Linnet Close capable of murder.

(wood drops) (Dean scoffs) He's the one who's obsessive, spying on me and Kerry.

And he's two-faced, agreeing to sell to Grace, and then lying to us about it.

But that's not a motive.

Whereas you have significant money problems.

All those loans you're juggling.

Business is going through a rough patch, that's all.

Yeah, but your, your debts are spiraling, and I doubt Kerry's wages can make much of a dent.

And Louis Oldham worked for a loans company.

Yeah, if I was up to my eyes in debt, I'd, well, I'd sell my house and I'd clear it all off in one go.

Get out.

Kerry doesn't know, does she?

(slams table, yells): Get out!

♪ ♪ (exhales) (birds squawking) Mrs. Wingrove?

Oh.

Sorry, I didn't see you there.

I find this spot comforting, too.

So you've heard?

Another body.

When things get too much, I...

I find solace in a church.

"That which is has already been... ...and what is to be has already been."

You were already dealing with major life events.

Evie's new baby, moving to another country... And now two murders on our doorstep.

Anyone would feel unmoored.

All of this forces you to look at everything in a new light.

Recalibrate memories.

In what way?

Phil always says, "You think you know someone, but you never do."

Are you talking about Kerry?

Yesterday, we heard Kerry ask you to stay, for her sake.

For years, we stood shoulder to shoulder against Grace Wellingborough and the development, and now... Now I'm just swanning off.

You're supporting your daughter.

Do you think Kerry's involved in these deaths?

No.

Dean?

I just don't know anymore.

(truck reverse signal beeping) ♪ ♪ Tanika said that Seb Teller disappeared in June 2009.

There may be some sort of appeal for information.

Mm-hmm.

Quotes from family, friends.

Possibly a contact number.

Something that won't be online.

Special delivery.

"Maidenhead Advertiser," June to August, 2009.

(sniffs) Have you opened the last letter in the stash?

You're not distracting me that easily.

It's all connected.

Your aunt held onto items that were important to her: the newspapers, the letters...

Yes, but even Jess didn't open the last letter.

Resisted the temptation for decades.

Look, whatever happened, it's in the past.

You're right.

I'll just open it.

♪ ♪ (envelope tears) "He'd want you there"?

Well, it doesn't say who it's from.

I bet it's Nathan's wife.

And she still invited Jess to his funeral?

Aw.

When did Jess die?

Um, 2018.

And Nathan died in 1972.

BECKS: Is that when she stopped wearing those fancy clothes?

And mink stoles.

She never got over him, did she?

For how many years, Judith?

46 years.

(Suzie sighs) That is a long time to hang on to the past.

Uh-oh.

Once again, Great-Aunt Jess to the rescue.

It's Grace.

Looks like she's working on a housing development in Marlow.

June 2009, to be precise?

The same month Seb vanished.

JUDITH: But Grace told us she only moved to Marlow five years ago.

So why did she lie?

♪ ♪ You were in Marlow the same month Seb Teller vanished.

Hm.

You're in arrears at the bank, you can't afford staff.

Do you know how you make it in the building industry?

As a woman?

Be one of the lads.

Laugh at their jokes.

Protect yourself.

I shouldn't have lied to you, but I can't be connected to that body.

I can't afford the, the delays.

SUZIE: Someone killed Seb Teller.

It could easily have been you.

It wasn't.

(exhales) I never even heard that name before today.

And Louis Oldham?

(sighs) I will threaten and I'll intimidate, no problem.

I draw the line at murder.

♪ ♪ (sighs) I'm struggling to find any of Seb Teller's family or known associates.

His mother died recently, his father's not returning our calls, and local police are getting no response at the house.

Maybe he's out on the rob.

John Teller was a bigger crook than his son.

He thought of himself as some sort of gentleman thief, but he was just your bog-standard burglar.

And what about Grace Wellingborough?

She was in Marlow when Seb went missing, and she owns the land where Louis' body was found.

Phone records confirm her alibi.

(Becks moans, Judith exhales) ALICE: She was speaking to her supplier.

(sighs) JUDITH: What did the pathologist say about Seb Teller?

The report's due any time.

BRENDAN: But we do have his missing person's from 2009.

JUDITH: Oh!

He looks so young.

I also checked his last known address, but it was pulled down to build a block of flats in 2013.

JUDITH: Well, wait.

How old was Seb when he died?

Uh, 20.

And 15 years later, Louis was 35 when he died.

You're right-- both men were born in the same year.

Are we saying there's a link?

JUDITH: Two boys the same age, both living in Maidenhead, both wind up murdered in the same spot.

I'd call that a link.

JASON: Okay, you need to see this.

I've been focusing on Kerry and Dean Butler, and look.

The High Wycombe planning portal.

They applied for planning permission to build a pergola in 2009.

What month?

May 2009.

The month before Seb went missing, presumed dead.

Coincidence?

I don't believe in coincidence.

In this instance, I'd tend to agree.

Wait, either Dean or Kerry killed Seb Teller, and then buried him under the pergola they were building?

Let's bring them in.

BRENDAN: Hm.

♪ ♪ BRENDAN: Calling all officers... (police radios running) I haven't done anything.

Our lawyers will do you for wrongful arrest.

We've got nothing more to say.

BRENDAN: Right, come on, head down.

♪ ♪ (siren wailing in distance) (siren continues) The Butlers aren't cooperating.

Hm, that's 'cause they're guilty.

Or one of them is.

We need to focus on finding some evidence which is going to force them to talk.

Chase up the river police-- why is it taking so long?

(inhales) In the absence of a murder weapon, we have got to find a link between Kerry and Dean Butler and Seb Teller and Louis Oldham.

(Brendan sighs) Look, it's been a hard few days.

Let's all come back with fresh eyes tomorrow.

Well done, everyone-- thank you.

(exhales) There's only one word I want to say: pub?

Hey, how about bowling?

If you lot don't mind being defeated again.

(exhales) You still dining out on that story?

Oh, I'm sorry you're still bitter about my overwhelming talent, Jason.

Oh, you're talking about your lucky strike?

Oh, well, as the great man said, the more I practice, the luckier I get.

(chuckles) You all went bowling?

(stammers): Yeah, we... We would've asked you, but we didn't think it was your thing.

(chuckles) Ah, you know me too well.

Honestly.

Brendan, record another victory for the senior management team.

BRENDAN: Yeah, I will.

I, I guess you'll be celebrating the poetry assembly with Shanti?

How did it go?

Sarge?

She was brilliant-- thanks for asking.

♪ ♪ (sighs): Right.

(dogs barking) SUZIE: Go on!

Go on, Luna!

Come on!

(dog barking, Suzie chuckles) I love getting out here.

(dogs barking) She'll let you know when she knows.

I've always hated waiting.

(phone vibrates) Oh, it's her!

(vibration stops) JUDITH (over phone): Have they confessed to the murder?

TANIKA: Which murder?

JUDITH: Well, either?

Both?

Not yet.

SUZIE (over phone): Are you okay?

We still can't find any links between the Butlers and either victim.

(on speaker): We can't find any links between Seb Teller and Louis Oldham.

And I'm the worst mother who's ever lived.

Apart from that?

Yeah, great.

Why?

What happened?

I missed Shanti's poem assembly.

Well, you are trying to solve two murders... BECKS: Did Shamil go?

Of course he did.

He's the good parent.

BECKS: There'll be other assemblies.

SUZIE: Tanika, the worst mother that ever lived wouldn't give a toss about assemblies, or helping with poems about hedgehogs.

I still let her down and put my job before her.

BECKS: You'll make it up to her.

SUZIE: She knows she's loved.

And kids don't care when we make mistakes, as long as we own up to it.

You're right.

You're right, thanks.

Speak tomorrow.

(inhales sharply, sniffles) (birds twittering) (man talking indistinctly on speaker in background) ♪ ♪ (key taps) Oh, thanks for doing that.

What social media are you on?

Me?

Just Tinder.

Chloe... (laughing): Your face!

Seriously.

I'm not telling you.

It's for the murder cases.

Okay-- Snapchat, Insta, and TikTok.

Not Facebook?

That's for old people.

That's the point, isn't it?

It was all different 15 years ago.

See you!

MAN: ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ (song playing in background) We've been trying so hard to find a connection between Seb Teller and Louis Oldham, but maybe we've been looking in the wrong place.

What do you mean?

Well, 15 years ago, the internet was completely different.

Very true.

Everyone was signed up to Friends Reunited.

(laughs): Oh, my God!

I'd forgotten about that!

Weirdos from school trying to hook up with you decades later.

(chuckles) Oh, you, as well?

It was everyone!

(laughs) But there was also Blogger-- do you remember that?

Mm-hmm.

And MySpace.

And Bebo.

No, never signed up to none of those.

But what if Louis or Seb did?

That's a good point.

(people talking in background) Alice, anything from the river police?

Uh, nothing yet.

And where are we on the pathology report?

(stammering): No news.

Then chase them up!

Go to the lab if you have to.

I want answers about both within the hour.

(Alice groans) JASON: Okay.

Next time, we invite her bowling.

(sighs): Oh, yeah.

♪ ♪ (house door opens) ♪ ♪ (door closes softly) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ JUDITH: Who are you?!

Tell me at once!

That's a mop.

The Carthaginians poisoned the tips of their javelins with lime and arsenic.

I've used chili powder and bleach.

Fascinating.

What are you doing with that photo?

You're John Teller, aren't you?

You kid yourself he's abroad somewhere, wheeler-dealing.

(chuckles) And then one day, he'll just walk... (voice cracks): ...walk through that door.

(breathes deeply) I think I always knew.

What was Seb like?

Total charmer.

Bit of a git, like his old man.

We went through all the proper channels at the time, me and his mum.

Reported him missing to the cops, but they don't do nothing.

Not for an ex-con.

Um...

I suppose you tried to find him?

Yeah, went round all his old haunts.

I got my contacts to keep an eye out, but... SUZIE: Judith!

We found a link between Seb Teller and Louis Oldham-- look!

They were in a band together.

(gasps): Oh!

Oh, sorry.

Um, these are my friends-- Suzie and Becks.

This is John Teller.

Oh, sorry for your loss.

Can I see that?

Of course.

(chuckles) Louis couldn't sing and Seb couldn't play.

It was like nails down a chalkboard.

So, you knew Louis Oldham?

(chuckles) Yeah.

Hadn't seen him in 15 years.

But it was my ex-wife's funeral a few weeks back.

Seb's mum.

Louis was there.

John!

Uh, John!

It's me, Louis.

JOHN (voiceover): I barely recognized him.

I mean, he was all grown up.

A man.

Hair's a bit shorter.

It is, yeah.

Seb would never have missed his mum's funeral.

Louis knew that.

And I couldn't pretend anymore.

(voiceover): Louis told me about the last time he saw Seb.

The band had a gig, but Seb didn't show.

Do you remember anything he said to you before...

He disappeared.

JOHN (voiceover): Didn't answer his phone or his emails from that moment on.

I thought maybe I could explain that, 'cause the last time I spoke to Seb, he told me that he was trying to get back with some girl in Marlow, some posh bird.

John, wait.

JOHN: That seemed to trip a switch, and he asked for my number, and promised he'd get in touch.

Then I heard from Louis a few days ago.

He said he was on to something, and I had to come to Marlow.

But by the time I got here, well, he'd been murdered.

Couldn't you have gone to the police?

Told them what you knew?

(chuckles): Me and the police don't see eye to eye.

But you lot look like you're on the ball.

SUZIE: I don't suppose you remember the name of that "posh bird"?

No.

But she looks about Seb's type.

And Seb's body was found by her garden.

JUDITH: She's not talking, but maybe Caroline knows something.

(doorbell rings) (phone vibrating) Looks like no one's home.

Tanika.

Have Dean or Kerry confessed?

TANIKA (over phone): Not yet, and we can only keep them for a few more hours.

But we finally got the pathology report.

It confirms Seb Teller died 15 years ago.

Which fits the time he disappeared.

And the blunt-force trauma was caused by a smooth object.

Splinters of wood were found at the site of the wound.

The killer hit him with something wooden.

Oh, and they found trace elements of a product called tung oil.

Apparently, it's used to protect the wood on boats, sheds, garden furniture-- that sort of thing.

Okay.

Thank you.

What is it?

♪ ♪ (people shouting in background) (bat hits) (people applauding, exclaiming) (bat tapping ground) ♪ ♪ (bat smashes ball) (ball hits wall) SUZIE: Ooh, okay.

(spectators applaud) Watch it!

What's that, a six?

(people exclaiming) (applause slows) Mrs. Wingrove.

Hm?

(match continues, people cheering in background) Can we ask you a few questions?

Yes, of course-- do you want a sandwich?

Oh, ham and, uh-- oh, no, we're fine, thank you.

No?

JUDITH: Has your husband always played cricket?

Oh, yes, I've been a cricket widow for decades.

(chuckles) And, may I ask does the name Seb Teller mean anything to you?

Who?

BECKS: He's the one whose body was found on Grace Wellingborough's site.

Seb went missing 15 years ago.

Uh, no, sorry.

The name doesn't mean anything to me.

BECKS: Is it possible you and he were an item?

I'm sorry?

(bat hits, people cheer) Did you... Did you have a relationship with a man 15 years ago?

He would've been 20.

Oh, how the mask slips.

No, I have never been unfaithful to my husband.

(spectators applauding) (spectators cheering and exclaiming) Never felt very likely, did it?

Mm.

JUDITH: Mr. Wingrove.

May I ask, what oil do you use on your bat?

What did you say to upset my wife?

Have you ever used tung oil?

What?

I only use pure linseed oil, like all proper cricketers.

What did you say to Caroline?

Just had a few questions, but she was most unhelpful.

Stay away from my family.

You're devoted to them, aren't you?

And now a grandson on the way.

"Man loves family"-- not exactly breaking news.

No, of course.

But this move means everything to you.

When's the baby due?

Why is that relevant?

A witness came forward-- they saw you throw something into the river.

Evidence?

The marine unit's been trawling the river for days.

It's only a matter of time.

You're a decent man, Phil.

Anyone can see that.

But... (exhales): ...we've all done stupid things in our time, and...

It was a knife.

I found it in the garden, just lying there, I panicked, chucked it in the river.

(exhales) Caroline and I tried for years to start a family.

Doctors said it was never gonna happen, and then it did, Evie.

And now she's going to give birth in a few weeks?

I just wanted it all to go away-- be with my daughter.

Why throw the knife away instead of calling the police?

The police?

Why do you think?

I didn't want anything to do with it.

(sighs) I'll tell them.

Does the name Seb Teller mean anything to you?

No, nothing.

(people talking in background) BECKS: Phil knows who Seb Teller is.

JUDITH: But Caroline doesn't.

SUZIE: Oh, this is crazy.

Okay, let's forget about Seb Teller for a minute and think about Louis' case.

There's only five people that could've killed him.

Three of them were women-- they couldn't move the body.

So that leaves Phil or Dean.

(bat hits) And do we really believe Phil?

That he just panicked about the knife?

Plausible to me.

But is that right?

Is what right?

Are we sure it couldn't have been a woman who killed Louis?

But they couldn't move the body.

You said so yourself.

BECKS: I know.

Look.

He's not strong enough to move his kit bag, so he's leaving it where it is and he's moving everything else.

What are you saying?

What if the reason Louis' body was found in the close is because he was killed there?

And all of the evidence in the woods-- his wallet and so on, even the blood that they found-- was taken from the body and placed there to misdirect the police.

So now we're back to five suspects who could've killed him.

Four.

Grace has an alibi.

It's about the four people on Linnet Close.

Though only two of them could be described as "posh birds."

If we're linking it back to Seb Teller's murder.

You're right, Becks.

We've had this case the wrong way round.

We have?

The place Louis was murdered wasn't where he was murdered.

And more than that, the posh bird wasn't the posh bird.

None of this even makes sense.

Yeah, we're close, in our own way.

And what if no one hit Seb Teller on the head?

We saw the photos?

TANIKA (voiceover): They found trace elements of a product called tung oil.

Apparently it's used to protect the wood on boats.

We got a local carpenter to make the staircase.

Is that it?

Well, Kerry and I still get on-- we always have.

Is that what happened?

Why is she talking in riddles?

Hold on-- we've been here before.

Do you know who killed Louis Oldham?

I think I do.

And is it the same person who killed Seb Teller?

JUDITH: It is.

In fact, they had to kill Louis because they killed Seb.

How can you know that?

Identify the posh bird and the killer is revealed.

You said the posh bird wasn't the posh bird!

Yes!

But there's a third posh bird out there we haven't even considered.

(sighs) ♪ ♪ (door closes) ♪ ♪ JUDITH: Becks said you might be here.

You weren't at home.

You understand me so well.

So, I'm not a complete pariah.

Not yet, anyway.

We know what happened.

And that you knew Seb Teller.

I didn't set out to hurt anyone, I was...

I was just trying to protect my family.

15 years ago, Seb Teller dated your daughter Evie, didn't he?

Dated?

He controlled her.

Gaslit her.

She was a shell of herself.

(chuckles): Phil and I were so relieved when she finally finished it.

JUDITH: Until, one night, he turned up again.

♪ ♪ CAROLINE (voiceover): Phil and Evie were away in France.

I need to speak to Evie.

She's not here.

CAROLINE (voiceover): And I told him that she wasn't in.

Evie!

Baby!

Please!

JUDITH: But he didn't believe you?

You poisoned her against me.

No, you did that on your own.

CAROLINE (voiceover): He was drunk, started shouting.

(shouts): Now!

He said that they belonged together.

Demanded to see her, and he wouldn't take no for an answer.

(Caroline panting) JUDITH: You fought on the stairs?

(grunts) (grunts) (head bangs newel cap) JUDITH: Seb hit his head on a wooden surface that had been treated with tung oil.

♪ ♪ It was an accident.

You've got to believe me.

But what followed wasn't.

I couldn't move.

He was just lying there.

There was this sort of... thundering.

(knocks at door) KERRY (calling through door): Caroline?

(pounding): Open the door!

Caroline!

CAROLINE (voiceover): Just like a storm.

It was Kerry.

She'd heard us.

And then she saw him.

She saw what I'd done.

♪ ♪ I'll call the police.

No!

No.

I'll lose Evie.

I'll lose my little girl.

It was self-defense.

JUDITH: You had a decision to make.

You couldn't leave Seb where he was.

So you got Kerry to help you.

No, she offered.

We went through every scenario, and it was the only option.

Kerry and Dean were doing their back garden, and it was just...

It was mud.

So we carried him into the back garden.

We buried him there.

And then the pergola went up, and, well, he's been there ever since.

Kerry did all that out of friendship.

Mm, she'd known men like Seb.

Most women do.

And then what?

Then I just got on with my life.

We both did.

You have no idea what it was like, though.

Every time I heard a knock at the door, I just, I...

I thought my whole world was going to collapse.

BECKS: And then one day, it did.

Louis showed up.

Just when you were about to start a new life in France with Evie.

♪ ♪ CAROLINE (voiceover): He said he'd been talking to Seb's dad, and they were starting to piece it together.

He knew Seb had come here that night.

That it was the last time anyone had seen him.

And I, I told him I didn't know what he was talking about, but I could see he knew I was lying.

You can talk to the cops.

CAROLINE (voiceover): And it all came back.

Wait!

You're a liar!

CAROLINE (voiceover): Everything I'd tried to bury for 15 years.

♪ ♪ I was so scared he'd tell Evie, too.

Before I knew it... (knife clattering) (knife stabs, Louis yelps) (groans) (groans) BECKS: It was daylight.

I can't imagine how much you must have panicked.

You couldn't move the body on your own, so you decided to misdirect the police.

♪ ♪ You took Louis' possessions into the woods so they'd think that was where he was killed.

SUZIE: And to really sell it, you took the pollen from the fake murder scene and you carried it back to the body, making it look like he must have been there.

♪ ♪ JUDITH: Your one mistake: you forgot about the knife, didn't you?

♪ ♪ JUDITH: You had to get rid of it, so you dumped it in the first place you could think of-- your back garden.

(water running) (garbage disposal grinding) CAROLINE: Kerry and I kept it a secret, just the two of us, for 15 years.

Which is why she was so upset when you sold up.

Everything I did, I did it for Evie.

You've got to believe me.

To keep her free.

(door opens) Please, I will tell the police that I made Kerry do it, but just... Help me keep her out of prison.

BECKS: "That which is "has already been, and what is to be has already been."

But you didn't say the next part.

"God requires an account."

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (car door opens) Can I, please?

Please.

(softly): All right.

♪ ♪ (car door closes) (car door closes) (engines start) OFFICER: This way, sir.

(sirens blaring) (Suzie exhales) I never thought I could hurt anyone till I had Zeta.

But when someone threatens your child, huh, you just see red.

Judith, there's something I want to show you.

♪ ♪ JUDITH: Yes, I do know where my great-aunt is buried.

It was me who put the flowers there.

Of course, but I got out the parish records to see where Nathan Edwards was buried.

Oh!

She took the plot next to him.

She spent 46 years without him after he died.

So she made sure she could be with him in death, for all time.

♪ ♪ I got a tattoo.

Huh?

It's what I've been doing with Daniel.

But... No!

That's extraordinary!

I'd always wanted to get one, but I wasn't sure I could pull it off anymore.

Of course, you can!

To be honest, I was worried it was all a bit midlife-crisis, embarrassing, so I kept it a secret.

Well, it is a little midlife-crisis.

(chuckles) But I love it.

Can we see it?

What, here?

Oh, absolutely!

No time like the present.

Right, it's still a bit raw, but it'll look better in a few weeks.

(gasps) Ooh!

(both laugh) (Suzie vocalizing) BRENDAN: Right.

I think that's cause for a celebration.

What's it going to be?

Pub?

Or we could go bowling again.

Oh, yeah!

(softly): Can we invite the DS this time?

Uh, yeah.

Huh.

Where is she?

(children playing) SHANTI: "I love you, spiky hedgehog.

"You lovely, spiky hedgehog.

"You're round like a pound and near to the ground, And live in a hedge like a hog."

That was amazing!

Read it again.

"I love you, "spiky hedgehog.

"You lovely, spiky hedgehog.

"You're round like a pound "and near to the ground, And live in a hedge like a hog."

♪ ♪ (click) (sirens wailing in distance) Of course they're here.

SUZIE: What's going on?

JUDITH: There's been a death at the sailing club.

Is it murder?

Sounds like he rubbed a few people up the wrong way.

JUDITH: There's something you need to see.

If this is my last case as S.I.O., I've got to solve it.

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