Ludwig.2024.S01E06
Ludwig.2024.S01E06
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00:00James's phone has been cracked.
00:03Who is this?
00:04Someone set it so that you can't withhold numbers anymore.
00:06The number that called last night, they didn't know he could see it.
00:08It's his old partner, Matt Neville.
00:10He could be anywhere.
00:11How do you know she wasn't followed?
00:12Leave!
00:13I'm sorry.
00:14Matt!
00:15Something is being covered up here, but that all seems a bit big.
00:20It has to be big, doesn't it?
00:21Dad wouldn't just abandon us if it wasn't.
00:23I was obsessed with this thing, particularly after Dad left.
00:26He knew that our Dad was never coming back.
00:28The same as I know that yours is.
00:30I don't think this woman likes me very much.
00:32Or James, anyway.
00:34Don't worry, I've wiped the system.
00:36Are we really going to keep pretending like nothing happened between us?
00:39You kiss me, remember, not the other way around.
00:43Lucy Taylor?
00:44I'm Holly, I work with your husband.
00:46How did you get my number?
00:48I need to talk to you in person.
00:50It's about James.
00:51Please come.
00:58James?
01:28James?
01:51Open the door!
01:58Open the door!
02:29Lucy?
02:30Coffee?
02:36I'll leave it here.
02:46Mum, what are you...
02:49Holly Pinder was discovered dead in her flat in the early hours of this morning.
02:59Your wife has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
03:22Sir, I don't know what to...
03:25It's got to be a mistake.
03:27It has to be.
03:29Can I see her?
03:36Why don't we just...
03:37I think perhaps my office, DI Carter.
03:48Mum.
03:57Mum.
04:13I just made her coffee.
04:16It's still on the landing.
04:18Holly's neighbours heard a fight.
04:21Called the police.
04:22They picked up Lucy at the scene.
04:24She had no ID on her.
04:25She was barely communicating at all.
04:27It wasn't until the day shift arrived that she finally told them who she was.
04:30And that's when she asked to see you.
04:32Then let me see her.
04:33You know that can't happen.
04:39Gov, she was found with a knife.
04:42No, that can't be right.
04:45This can't be real.
04:47No, no, no.
04:48It's a mistake or a trick or a dream.
04:56Is this a dream?
05:14You okay?
05:16Sir.
05:17At Henry's school.
05:18Get someone to pick him up.
05:19Unmarked car.
05:20No uniform.
05:22Sir.
05:25Sir.
05:33Mrs Bets Taylor.
05:36My name's DI Carter.
05:37I work with your husband.
05:38I know who you are, Detective.
05:39I need to speak to James.
05:40Your husband's a DCI here.
05:42I'm sorry, but in circumstances like this...
05:44He's still my husband.
05:45I still have a right to see him.
05:47And you will.
05:50But your connection to this department means we have to do this by the book.
05:53More than ever.
05:55Lucy, I want to help you.
05:56And him.
05:57Believe me.
05:59But that is going to mean answering some questions before we can move forward.
06:03Do you think we can do that?
06:11I am DI Russell Carter.
06:13The date is 14th of March, 2024.
06:15And the time is 10.05.
06:17I need to remind you, you are still under caution.
06:20Mrs Bets Taylor.
06:22Did you kill Holly Pinder?
06:24No, I did not.
06:55Hello.
07:05Why did you go to her flat in the middle of the night?
07:07She called me.
07:08She wanted to talk to me in person.
07:10She said it was important.
07:11Did you know her?
07:13I knew of her.
07:14And yet you just went.
07:15Right then in the middle of the night.
07:16Didn't wake your husband.
07:17Didn't tell him.
07:19No, I...
07:20I...
07:24I wasn't thinking.
07:26I need to speak to James.
07:28Why did you take a knife?
07:29Protection.
07:30Holly Pinder was someone you felt you needed protection from.
07:33No, I was...
07:34I'm a woman.
07:35I was going alone to meet a stranger in the middle of the night.
07:41She was like that when I got there.
07:42She died in my arms.
07:44Look, if I could just see my husband.
07:46Speak to him just for a minute.
07:47Then I can tell you everything.
07:49There's more to tell.
07:50No, I...
07:51No, I'm not saying that.
07:52I...
07:54I have been arrested for the murder of one of your colleagues.
07:58Someone that you knew.
07:59Someone everyone who saw me brought in knew.
08:04I'm sorry, the only thing that's being talked about out there in every single corridor.
08:07I just need to speak to somebody that I know.
08:08Please.
08:11Let's take a break.
08:20You know, he's the most brilliant man I've ever met.
08:23I'd tell him, but I think he'd just agree.
08:27Irritating, isn't it?
08:34I can't let you talk to the gov.
08:38But I can fetch you a glass of water.
08:44It'll take me about two minutes.
08:47It'll take me about two minutes.
09:09Hello?
09:10John, it's me.
09:11Lucy, where are you? What's happening?
09:13I'm in an interview room.
09:16Your DI Carter left me his phone.
09:18Not that I trust him any more than I trust anybody else here.
09:20You need to get me out.
09:24Sir.
09:25Coroner's report.
09:26They sent me straight down here.
09:28In two hours?
09:29That's unheard of.
09:31She was one of us, sir.
09:34Why were you even there?
09:36She called me last night.
09:37She said she had information about James.
09:40Oh.
09:41You don't sound surprised.
09:43I don't think being surprised is something I'm even capable of any more.
09:47Why on earth didn't you wake me?
09:49Well, would you have let me go?
09:50Of course not.
09:51Well, there you go, then.
09:52No, there you go, then.
09:53You're not going to let me go, are you?
09:55You're not going to let me go, are you?
09:57You're not going to let me go, are you?
09:59You're not going to let me go, are you?
10:00You're not going to let me go, are you?
10:02There you go, then.
10:03You're now under arrest and I think I'm being held in my boss's office.
10:06In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd lock me in.
10:12You all right, sir?
10:14Uh, yes.
10:16Can I go to the toilet?
10:20Yes.
10:22Okay, good.
10:24Perhaps later.
10:29Well, I wish I hadn't done that.
10:31You're not thinking clearly. I need it, Ludwig.
10:33What?
10:34That's who I need right now to solve this.
10:37This was deliberate. It has to have been.
10:40I don't even know if it was her on the phone.
10:42I've never actually heard Holly speak.
10:45You think it was them?
10:46Yes, of course it was them.
10:47And whoever they are, they are here now in this building.
10:51For all I know, they're right outside this door.
11:02Any news?
11:04We've got a problem.
11:06What sort of problem?
11:07Well, the sort that would usually be anything but.
11:09The post-mortem confirms that the knife Lucy Betts-Taylor brought with her to Holly's flat
11:13is the same one used in the murder.
11:16What's she said?
11:17That she found Holly like that and the attack had already happened, which is impossible.
11:21Why would the DCI's wife kill Holly?
11:23It doesn't make any sense.
11:25No, it doesn't make any sense.
11:27Why would the DCI's wife kill Holly?
11:29It doesn't make any sense.
11:31Did she even know her?
11:32I don't know, Detective Sergeant.
11:33I have no idea what to make of this.
11:35Sir, I think there's something I need to tell you.
11:39I don't know what else to do, Lucy.
11:41It's unravelling.
11:42You must be able to see that.
11:44Our only choice now is just to come clean, explain everything.
11:50What, you think they're just going to let us go?
11:52Do you not see what's happening here?
11:54They killed Sinclair, they killed Bowen, and now Holly.
11:57We don't actually know any of that.
11:59But we know that I didn't.
12:04John?
12:05John, are you there?
12:13Mrs. Betts-Taylor, in light of new information, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to return to holding.
12:18We'll reconvene later.
12:20What new information?
12:25Henry.
12:28Henry.
12:31Son.
12:33You probably better give me a hug or it'll...
12:43Are you crying?
12:45Of course I'm crying.
12:46Of course you are, that makes sense.
12:49Sorry.
12:55Come and sit down.
13:07Notify all comms.
13:09Tell them I want a complete media blackout on this, do you understand?
13:13Yes, sir, I assure you I'm going to try and keep this...
13:15Now don't try, do.
13:17I am five minutes away from delivering a talk on public trust in the police force.
13:22And I do not intend to lose column inches to a story that completely undermines it.
13:26I bet.
13:27Do you have any idea how many leaks have come from your station in the past year?
13:31If I so much as hear this being alluded to, I will personally launch an investigation myself and stop it once and for all.
13:39Lock it down.
13:40When the story breaks, it needs to break with us already having made a charge.
13:45And anyone tangentially connected to the situation already moved on.
13:49And by tangentially connected, you mean...
13:51Like me.
13:52An active DCI married to the prime suspect in the murder of a colleague, Chief Superintendent.
13:57Yes, sir.
14:05DI Carter, what's happening?
14:07We've...
14:09Mom, Constable Evans has some information we believe may be important.
14:20Is she going to prison?
14:22No.
14:23She didn't do it.
14:25And I'll prove it.
14:27How?
14:28They're not going to let you go anywhere near the case, you must know that.
14:31And how much digging until they realise you're not even who you say you are?
14:34What if they search the house?
14:36You have a photo of the murder victim pinned up in Dad's office next to pictures of half a dozen other people working here?
14:42And a load of weird codes and ciphers.
14:44Yes, I have.
14:45That is going to look a little bit serial killer-y.
14:47Yeah, just a little.
14:49What are we going to do?
14:52Trust that justice will out?
14:54Seriously.
15:00Gov, sorry to, um...
15:02I realise this is a bit awkward for the both of us, but I'm afraid...
15:06I need to get a statement.
15:08What?
15:09I realise this is a bit awkward for the both of us, but I'm afraid...
15:13I need to get a statement from you.
15:18Only we kind of need to do it officially, so...
15:21I won't be long.
15:40It's Henry, isn't it?
15:42You probably don't remember me. The last time we met was, um...
15:45Well, it was just after you were born, actually.
15:48Yeah, no, I don't remember that.
15:50Henry, I'm afraid we can't have you wandering the station,
15:53so I'm going to have to ask you to come with me to the family room and stay put.
15:57But if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you to come with me to the family room and stay put.
16:01But if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you to come with me to the family room and stay put.
16:05I'm going to have to ask you to come with me to the family room and stay put.
16:09But if there's anything at all you need, please consider everyone out there at your disposal.
16:14Thanks.
16:25Oh.
16:27When you said you needed to do it officially, I didn't realise...
16:31I'm afraid I have some questions to ask you that I'm not sure you would have wanted your son to hear.
16:40Uh, please.
16:42I am DI Russell Carter. The date is 14th March 2024 and the time is 12.14.
16:48Is that necessary?
16:50Gav, when I said this was awkward, I wasn't lying.
16:54There isn't a detective in the world who'd want to be in my position right now.
16:57I'd happily swap.
16:58Trust me, if Lucy is innocent, the only thing that's going to help her is the truth.
17:04DCI Taylor, what was the nature of your relationship with Holly Pinder?
17:16What are you standing around out here for? Haven't we got a crime scene to investigate?
17:20Oui, ma'am.
17:22Yes, Sergeant. Oui.
17:29Mum, what are you doing here?
17:31Well, I haven't come to perform a limbo routine, so...
17:37Stuff has only just left. There's some weird stuff in there, Mum.
17:41Weird how?
17:42Well, just that...
17:44All right.
17:45All right.
17:56What rumours?
17:58Rumours from whom?
17:59From a source I trust.
18:01Just as much as I trust you, so you can see the predicament I'm in.
18:05And why I just have to ask you this straight out.
18:08Were you, or have you ever been, sexually involved with Holly Pinder?
18:16I don't know.
18:23Mum, do you...
18:25Do you think she did it?
18:27She had a motive, Constable. The oldest one in the book.
18:31I keep thinking I've got it wrong. Like I shouldn't have said anything.
18:34I mean, I know what I heard, but I just can't see it.
18:38I mean, the boss is having an affair.
18:40Middle-aged can do funny things to a man.
18:43I see no reason why he'd be any more immune to it than others.
18:46We've got a guy demanding access outside, Mum.
18:49OK.
18:53This is ridiculous. I don't understand why he won't let me in.
18:56That's her flat, number 21, Holly Pinder.
19:00Who are you?
19:01Adam Newsome. I'm her boyfriend.
19:03Boyfriend?
19:04Will someone please tell me what's going on?
19:06Mr Newsome, when did you last see Miss Pinder?
19:08What? Last night? Sorry, what's happened?
19:12Last night. You were here. May I ask what time you left?
19:16I don't know. Erm, midnight?
19:19I live across town. I had work in the morning.
19:21But for God's sake, would you just...
19:24Is she OK?
19:26Mr Newsome, I'm sorry to inform you,
19:28Holly Pinder was found dead in the early hours of this morning.
19:33Holly's flat is an active crime scene, so I'm afraid you can't be there.
19:38I also don't think you should be getting behind the wheel of a car.
19:41At the moment, officer, would you mind running Mr Newsome to the police station?
19:45No questions. We'll take a statement later.
19:48And find him a liaison officer.
19:49Ma'am. This way, sir.
19:57Ma'am?
20:04Constable!
20:06Oh, um...
20:10Holly never once mentioned having a boyfriend.
20:14Holly never mentioned a lot of things.
20:18What is this?
20:21She was a stalker.
20:23I think this goes a bit beyond stalking, Sergeant.
20:36Oh, the girl has a twin.
20:38Ma'am, there's a folder here with your name on it.
20:40Don't touch it. Don't touch anything.
20:42Don't press the button. Don't move a mouse.
20:44There's files here so restricted, even I don't have access.
20:46We need to clear out and get a specialist team in immediately.
20:49Ma'am, what's going on?
20:52Well, Holly's murder's not the only crime that's been committed here.
20:58How can you be so sure?
21:00Holly's murder's not the only crime that's been committed here.
21:04How can you not know whether or not you had an affair?
21:14Gov.
21:20I'm not the Gov.
21:27Russell, I'm so sorry, but...
21:31I'm not DCI James Taylor.
21:39I'm his brother, John.
21:50I need to speak to James.
21:52No, you need to speak to me.
21:54Back in the interview room.
22:01James.
22:04They know.
22:07What?
22:08You said we know.
22:30James.
22:54Ma'am. Ma'am.
22:56All those files.
22:57Forget it.
22:58If it doesn't relate to the murder, forget everything you saw.
23:01The contents of that flat are a matter for internal affairs now.
23:04Ma'am, your name was on one of the folders on...
23:06I'm aware of that, Sergeant.
23:09Was yours?
23:10No.
23:11Was yours?
23:12That's called plausible deniability.
23:14I don't have it.
23:16You do.
23:17Whatever happens, maintain it.
23:19Ma'am, we need to talk. I have some very troubling news.
23:22Not nearly as troubling as the news we have.
23:25Trust me, Ma'am, that is not a bet you're going to want to take.
23:28She said nothing else?
23:30Only that James disappeared a few weeks ago.
23:32She said he left a letter alleging he was in danger
23:34and that she shouldn't try to contact him.
23:36Almost every question after that got a no comment.
23:39She's paranoid as hell, and given what she seems to believe,
23:41I guess that's understandable.
23:44We're holding her for now.
23:45And John?
23:47Much the same.
23:48Claims he just wanted access to his brother's office,
23:50but instead we kept him out of it.
23:53Claims he just wanted access to his brother's office,
23:55but instead we kept sending him off to solve murders.
23:58If he's not a detective, what is he?
24:02Apparently he's a professional puzzle setter.
24:04Goes by the name of Ludwig.
24:06Ludwig?
24:08No way.
24:09My mum's got some of his books. He's a...
24:12Sorry.
24:13He's been held voluntarily. In fact, he insisted on it.
24:15He doesn't seem to understand or care about just how much trouble he's in here.
24:19His only priority is convincing us of his sister-in-law's innocence.
24:22His only priority is convincing us of his sister-in-law's innocence.
24:29Holly knew.
24:32I don't think they were having an affair.
24:34I think what I overheard was her testing him, seeing if he knew that.
24:38A test he failed.
24:39She was a bloody IT consultant.
24:41We've got four ranks of officers in this room.
24:44How could she work it out and not us?
24:52Exactly how many cases has your department closed in the last fortnight?
24:57Six, ma'am.
24:58It's actually a new record.
24:59And everyone will be reopened.
25:01They'll have to be.
25:02They could all walk free.
25:03What are we going to do?
25:04Your jobs, Constable.
25:07Like it or not, you still have a murder to solve.
25:09As for everything else we've discussed, for now on, nothing leaves this room.
25:13If and when heads roll for this, I intend to make sure that yours aren't amongst them.
25:19And yours, ma'am?
25:20None of your concern, Detective Inspector.
25:40What is that?
25:42I think you know as well as I do that we've absolutely no idea.
25:46But if you're asking where your uncle is, he's downstairs in a holding cell.
25:50He's under arrest?
25:51Technically, no.
25:53He's there voluntarily.
25:55What?
25:57Your mum is being held overnight.
26:09Can I stay too?
26:11I don't want to go home.
26:12Do you think you might be in danger?
26:13Can you guarantee that I'm not?
26:17We'll arrange somewhere safe for you to stay.
26:23If the real DCI Taylor is missing, shouldn't we, or someone, be investigating that?
26:28I mean, isn't there a good chance that that's connected to this?
26:31More than a good chance, I'd say.
26:33You heard the super.
26:34That's a can of worms we need to kick down the road for now and focus on what we do have.
26:38What do we know about the boyfriend?
26:39Adam Newsome. Up until today, we didn't even know he existed.
26:43Are we even sure they're an actual couple?
26:45And then there's Lucy Betts Taylor.
26:47That man downstairs may not be the real Gov, but no one can deny he has a detective's brain.
26:52He's known her for 40 years. He doesn't believe she did it.
26:55And for all the lies he may have told, I'm struggling to believe he would ever protect a killer.
27:00The evidence is so damning.
27:02She brought the murder weapon with her, literally had it on her when she entered the flat,
27:06but claimed the crime had already occurred. That's impossible.
27:09Yes, well, impossible is a word we've heard a lot lately, Sergeant.
27:12Yet in each and every case, we successfully managed to prove otherwise.
27:16No, we haven't. I mean, it wasn't us that did that, was it?
27:21Well, I'd like to think we helped.
27:23What are you thinking, boss?
27:25I'm thinking that it's time you two went home.
27:32Oh, sorry. I think we both agree that we'd rather stay.
27:35I know. Which is why I'm making this an order.
27:38Which is why I'm making this an order.
27:43Okay.
27:46Good night.
27:47Good night.
28:06Yeah, hi, Carter. I'm glad you're here.
28:09I really want to apologise for...
28:13You know, the massive crime I've committed.
28:17Well, as long as you've learned your lesson.
28:20Sarcasm. Go. James.
28:25John.
28:28Look, it may interest you to know that we do not believe your brother was involved in any form of relationship with Holly Pinder.
28:38Then why did she say he was?
28:40We're working on that.
28:42I have two questions.
28:44Do you truly believe that Lucy is innocent of this crime?
28:49Yes.
28:50And you are aware that all the facts and all the evidence suggest otherwise?
28:54Yes. It's quite the puzzle.
28:58My sentiment exactly.
29:05What's this?
29:06What's this?
29:07Well, something that could cost me my job.
29:10But given that's hanging by a thread anyway, I...
29:14Well, I'll have to see what I've got left to lose.
29:18Good night.
29:21Ludwig.
29:36Good night.
29:46Do you know where my dad is?
29:50I don't, Henry.
29:54Do you know why he disappeared?
29:57I think because he's a good man.
30:02That's rather cryptic.
30:04You really are your uncle's nephew, aren't you?
30:11He's a good man too, you know.
30:14My uncle.
30:17I don't doubt that.
30:26Come in.
30:33Come in.
31:03Come in.
31:33Come in.
32:04Come in.
32:15How did Lucy enter the flat?
32:17Good morning to you too. She said the door was open.
32:20Okay, good, good. That makes sense.
32:22And do you have any other suspects?
32:25There was someone in her life. A boyfriend, apparently.
32:28Can you get them to the flat? We're going to need them there.
32:30Their reactions will be important.
32:32I'll also need Lucy there and Chief Superintendent Shaw.
32:36Are you saying you solved the case?
32:38Well, I wouldn't go that far.
32:40Though I do have a strong working theory on how Lucy didn't do it
32:44despite being in possession of the murder weapon, so...
32:47So, tell me.
32:49I'd rather tell everyone at the same time in front of witnesses.
32:53In fact, can we ensure that DC Evans and DS Finch are there too, please?
32:57No, we can't, Gov.
32:59You're not the Gov.
33:00All right?
33:01You can't attend crime scenes and you can't make demands.
33:03So, if there's anything you spotted in here, can you just tell me?
33:06That's the reason I gave it to you in the first place.
33:10I came here to find out what happened to my brother.
33:14But I don't care anymore.
33:16I'm angry with him.
33:17I have been since the very beginning, if I'm honest.
33:20But whatever he thinks he may have uncovered,
33:23Lucy and Henry should always have come first.
33:25Family never does in this job.
33:27Maybe that's the difference between you and a real detective.
33:30I'm glad I'm not one.
33:31The only thing that matters now is proving Lucy is innocent,
33:35which I believe I can do, provided it's within a controlled environment
33:39and in front of witnesses.
33:41Witnesses like myself, Finch, Evans and the Super?
33:44So, you trust us, then?
33:46I believe he's playing the odds, DI Carter.
33:48You've no idea who you can trust, do you, John?
33:51But it only takes one of us to be on the level
33:53so that everything you say can't simply disappear on us.
33:56You can't simply disappear into the system, am I right?
33:59Yes, Mum.
34:01Can you really prove that DCI Taylor's wife didn't do this?
34:04I think so.
34:05Can you prove who did?
34:07Well, if it all played out the only way it could have,
34:12then yes, probably.
34:22How's that?
34:23It'd be better if we were at the actual scene.
34:25You can't attend a crime scene, John.
34:27You should never have attended a crime scene.
34:29You do get that, don't you?
34:32John.
34:33Oh, hello.
34:34Don't worry, it's good news.
34:36They're going to let me solve one more murder before I go to prison.
34:39What?
34:40Prison? Sorry, who is this?
34:41He's one of our consultants.
34:44And what does he consult on?
34:45Puzzles, actually.
34:47And we've got a good one here.
34:49I think I need to pace about.
34:51Can I pace about?
34:54So, the puzzle is,
34:56how was a murder committed with a weapon that was only brought into the scene
35:00after the murder had been committed?
35:02Well, that's impossible, isn't it?
35:03Correct.
35:04The murder was unplanned,
35:06as was the presence of Lucy here,
35:09whom Holly had telephoned half an hour earlier,
35:12supposedly with information about her missing husband.
35:14Missing husband?
35:15Yes, my brother, but that's not really relevant.
35:19Don't worry about it.
35:20The only important factor here is that the killer had no idea she was coming.
35:25They'd arrived first for reasons of their own.
35:27The flat door was left open,
35:29so I'm assuming they pretty much barged their way in when Holly answered it,
35:34whereupon an argument ensued, spilling over into here.
35:38Oh, this is supposed to be a reconstruction of the kitchen, by the way.
35:42Is it?
35:43Well, we only had five minutes.
35:44Look, that's a stall made of binders.
35:48The murder happened here,
35:50at which point the killer heard someone else enter the flat...
35:54Hello? Holly?
35:57...and quickly hid.
36:06Lucy comes through...
36:08Holly?
36:09Holly?
36:16...sees the body behind the kitchen island
36:19and puts the knife that she'd brought with her down here.
36:24Stool.
36:27Then, like ring-a-ring-a-roses,
36:29she comes round this way,
36:31while the killer, with the actual murder weapon,
36:34comes round this way.
36:36I imagine their first instinct was to run,
36:39but then they spotted what fate had just handed them,
36:43and while Lucy was on the floor with Holly,
36:46they simply swapped knives,
36:51depositing Lucy's knife here,
36:54in this knife block.
36:57Knife block.
37:03A knife block from which, only minutes earlier,
37:06they'd snatched the actual murder weapon.
37:08I did hear a door slam.
37:10That would have been the real killer leaving,
37:12now completely sans knife,
37:14whilst you mistakenly picked up the murder weapon.
37:18Et voila!
37:19How the murder could have been committed without Lucy doing it.
37:23Er, could have?
37:25Point up.
37:26Yes, well, I may not have got every part of the sequence right,
37:29but you get the general gist.
37:31Erm, Constable Evans, did you...
37:33Oh, yes, hang on.
37:37You brought the evidence up in a bag for life.
37:39We thought we were trying to be low-key.
37:42Yep.
37:49Ah, there.
37:50See, they are pretty identical,
37:52but the ones we have at home are a teensy bit longer,
37:54and that's why this one here is sticking out more.
37:59They look the same to me.
38:01Well, they're not.
38:02This one is blatantly sticking out more by at least a millimetre.
38:05Trust me.
38:07I don't suppose you'd like to confess, would you?
38:12Save them checking for fingerprints.
38:15Gov, I mean, er,
38:17Consortant Taylor, you've already done that.
38:20Yes, on the murder weapon,
38:21but that doesn't prove anything, does it?
38:23I'm sure her boyfriend could come up with a dozen reasons
38:26why their prints would be on Holly's property.
38:29But this one, this is Lucy's.
38:32Her prints will be on it.
38:33Mine will.
38:34Henry's.
38:35Possibly my brother's, if he ever did the cooking.
38:37He didn't, and neither do you.
38:39Good point.
38:40Perhaps mine won't be on there either.
38:42And what about you?
38:44Do you think yours might be on there?
38:47On a knife that was brought from another location,
38:50by a different person,
38:52after the murder?
39:00It's...
39:01It's possible.
39:08I want...
39:09I want to make a deal.
39:11Absolutely.
39:13You tell us everything we want to know,
39:15and I'll see to it you get extra pillows.
39:17Sergeant.
39:19Go on.
39:20Would you...
39:21Just this once.
39:25Oh, hang on.
39:26Do I have the...
39:28Yeah.
39:29Please.
39:34Adam Newsome, I'm arresting your suspicion of murder.
39:37You don't have to say anything.
39:38That was terrific.
39:39Thank you very much.
39:41Oh, yes.
39:43You know, for a minute there,
39:44I almost forgot how much trouble I'm in.
39:59Officers?
40:02Am I going to a real prison now?
40:04No.
40:05Chief Superintendent Shaw would like to see you upstairs.
40:08Oh.
40:10I'm not sure if that's better or worse.
40:12Boss.
40:14Whatever you are.
40:15I just wanted to say that was really good work today.
40:20Thank you, Sergeant.
40:23Mr Taylor.
40:25Do you think you could sign this for my mum?
40:29He went home to get it.
40:47Thank you, sir.
41:00Lucy.
41:03How's Lucy?
41:04She's fine.
41:05As is Henry.
41:06They're both back at home.
41:09I said take a seat.
41:13Adam Newsome was not Holly Pinder's boyfriend.
41:15She employed him to do grunt work
41:17on what she probably considered her real job.
41:19Real job?
41:20Acquiring and selling information.
41:22To who?
41:23To whoever paid the most.
41:24Holly Pinder has been the source
41:26of every leak we've had here over the past year.
41:29She tipped off people under investigation,
41:32extorted money from employees whose emails she'd hacked,
41:35and she sold multiple stories to the media.
41:38Roger Sinclair was a regular client.
41:40I'm assuming you know all about him,
41:42given that you have been investigating us
41:44for the past fortnight.
41:46He was a journalist.
41:47That's generous.
41:49He was a blogger, commentator, and conspiracy theorist.
41:54One with a surprisingly long reach.
41:58We have no idea what information Holly sold him.
42:01It's been cleared from her system.
42:03And as you've probably already discovered,
42:05every blog, tweet, article, and post
42:08that Sinclair ever put out into the world
42:10has completely vanished from the internet.
42:13Henry's good with computers.
42:14He says that's really weird.
42:20A postman saw Sinclair's body through the window.
42:22Your brother was first on the scene.
42:24Within 24 hours, I got word from on high
42:27that a specialist team was being brought in,
42:30and James and his partner were off the case.
42:32But James didn't stop investigating.
42:34Well, he got hold of the amended report,
42:36and he sat right where you are now
42:38and told me it was all lies.
42:39There was no robbery, no break-in, no broken windows.
42:42That his first instinct was professional.
42:46That his first instinct was professional hit.
42:51What did you do?
42:52I ordered him to drop it.
42:54And you've no idea how much I wish he had.
42:56Holly knew he'd been removed from the case,
42:59but of course she could also see everything he was accessing.
43:02Extortion was one of her sidelines,
43:04and DCI Taylor was to be her next victim.
43:07James would never have paid her.
43:08Well, I'd like to think not, but she never got that far anyway.
43:11Because he left, and you arrived.
43:14Unlike the rest of us,
43:15she clocked something was amiss straight away,
43:17and she's been testing you ever since.
43:19She was going to blackmail me instead?
43:21You and Lucy.
43:22That's actually what their meeting was supposed to be about.
43:25It happened to fall on the same night
43:27that her dog's body caught a glimpse of their Bitcoin account,
43:30and their supposed 50-50 split was anything but.
43:33Mum, why did you tell my brother to stop digging?
43:40The entire contents of the Sinclair house were brought here.
43:43Box upon box of documents, pictures, thumb drives, and God knows what else.
43:48They were all eventually packed up and sent to Scotland Yard.
43:52They never got there.
43:53The van did, but it was empty.
43:55The driver and the escort were fully investigated,
43:58and they couldn't explain why.
44:00Your brother was never going to win this fight.
44:03Not when the people at the top can move mountains to ensure that he doesn't.
44:07He was going to lose everything.
44:11What happens to me now?
44:16Tell me something, John.
44:18Does the identical nature of the twin thing stretch as far as handwriting?
44:24Your brother's resignation letter.
44:27Lucy gave it to me.
44:29Apparently, she was supposed to have posted it on the day he left.
44:33Did you notice it was unsigned and undated?
44:36Sign it on his behalf, would you, and add today's date.
44:39Why?
44:40So that we have it on record that up until three o'clock today,
44:44the only tailor who'd been working at this station and solving a record number of cases
44:50was the one who was actually a detective.
44:54And then?
44:55And then, John, you can go back to your own life.
45:07I learned a long time ago what I can and I can't control in this job.
45:12But I make it my business to look around and work out who the good guys are,
45:17and then do everything in my power to protect them.
45:22Your brother was one.
45:24As are D.I. Carter, Sergeant Finch, and Constable Evans.
45:30So for their sakes, if not yours, sign the letter.
45:47Did you sign it?
45:50Yes.
45:55Oh, uh, here you go.
45:58Oh, thanks. Great, thanks.
46:01I, uh, just wanted to say that, you know, outside of the whole lying to me about everything stuff,
46:10it's been a pleasure working with you.
46:15You too, Russell.
46:30Come in.
46:39Come in.
46:50DCI Taylor.
46:52I've heard your wife has been released.
46:54Well, yes, she didn't do it.
46:56I see.
46:57Come with me, I want the full report.
46:59Um, sorry, I'm going home.
47:03Excuse me.
47:05I've actually just quit.
47:09Here you go.
47:39You have one new message.
47:42Hi, John. It's James.
47:45You know, I thought through a hundred different scenarios for how all this might play out,
47:50and not one of them involved you taking on my identity and going undercover.
47:54That was never the plan. How could it have been?
47:57How could it have occurred to me that you would ever even leave Mum's house,
48:02let alone travel halfway across the country to play detect him?
48:06I mean, that's not you, is it?
48:10But now I realize there was one variable I never fully factored in.
48:14Lucy.
48:18You were always her best friend.
48:21I may have been the one to marry her, but that never changed.
48:24There's nothing you wouldn't have done for her.
48:27So, I need you to do something for her now, John.
48:30And that's tell her the truth.
48:34Because I've been lying.
48:35More to myself than anybody else.
48:38Something was rotten in the state of Cambridge, and I threw myself into it wholesale.
48:43I disappeared from my family's life weeks before I disappeared from home.
48:50And I told myself I was doing so in search of answers and the greater good.
48:56But the truth is, I was just looking for anything to pull me away from a life I'd grown unhappy with.
49:05We're identical in almost every way, John.
49:09But there's one major difference.
49:12You take after Mum.
49:15And me?
49:17I take after Dad.
49:21I'm the Bowerbird, John.
49:24I'm the Bowerbird.
49:33Hello.
49:37I wanted to do that at the station, but it was a bit awkward, what with the murderer being there and all.
49:41So she kept her promise? You signed the letter? She let you go?
49:44Yes.
49:45That doesn't mean we can trust her, though. And it doesn't mean we're going to stop, does it?
49:49Lucy...
49:50What? Lucy mean that Ludwig way? Just because we don't have access to the station anymore doesn't mean that...
49:54Mum.
49:57Oh God, now what?
50:00Can we go and put the kettle on?
50:01But...
50:02Just, thank you, please.
50:05What do you want? All the charges have been dropped.
50:07Relax. I come in peace and with a peace offering.
50:13What's this?
50:14This is a contract to put on a retainer.
50:16It's admittedly hastily written, but I wanted to get it out to you before the super changed her mind.
50:20Or someone changed it for her.
50:22A contract?
50:23We're offering to put John on the payroll as a consultant.
50:25A consultant in what?
50:26Puzzles.
50:27We phrased it as lateral problem solving, but yeah, puzzles.
50:31Look, I recognise this isn't a decision you're going to want to make on the spot, but...
50:35I do urge you to make one soon, before the situation changes.
50:39We don't want to lose the best detective we've never had.
50:47Yes!
50:49This is brilliant!
50:50This means we can carry on now.
50:52Amazing.
50:54I can really get cracking now.
50:59I'm not taking it.
51:04What?
51:06What do you mean, why?
51:07Lucy, I'm going home.
51:09And I think you should come with me, but both of you.
51:12Get away from this place.
51:14No more conspiracies, no more murders, no more danger.
51:19We could just live a life.
51:20John, what are you talking about?
51:23My husband is still missing.
51:27He left you, alright?
51:29My brother left you.
51:30Can we all stop pretending he didn't have a choice, when of course he had a choice.
51:36And one that I would never have made.
51:37John, we don't know how he is.
51:39He could be in a terrible state.
51:41He's fine.
51:42He's alive well and leaving me answer phone messages.
51:46What?
51:50He left you and...
51:54What did he say?
51:56That he was like Dad.
51:58He's even the same age as when he...
52:03Perhaps it's just in our DNA.
52:05You don't believe that?
52:06He said he was the Bowerbird.
52:08What?
52:09It's a bird that leaves the nest the moment its mate lays their eggs.
52:12Never comes back.
52:13How do you know that?
52:14It's in that book that James gave him.
52:16The same one that our Dad gave us.
52:19I used to stare at that one page in it so much.
52:22That cartoon of the Bowerbird leaving the family nest, clutching a suitcase.
52:27I don't understand. Why would Dad say that?
52:30What does he mean?
52:31It's a metaphor.
52:32Oh, come on. Since when did James, or you for that matter, ever use metaphor?
52:36Never. They're ridiculous.
52:37Why describe one thing by describing another?
52:40I never saw the sense in that and neither did...
52:46Oh my God.
52:50I'm not a genius.
52:52I'm a complete moron.
52:57Johnny, are you alright?
52:58Are you alright?
53:04It was so obvious that the only thing we ever really shared,
53:08and it's just been sitting there throughout all of this.
53:12I'm so embarrassed.
53:13What exactly is happening?
53:14I'll tell you what's happening.
53:15My brother knew full well that someone else could listen to that message.
53:19Probably already has.
53:20He was giving us an out while also giving us a clue.
53:26That's a clue?
53:27Not the picture, the text.
53:31It's the source code.
53:33It's how we solved the cipher.
53:37First page of his notes.
53:39First page is important.
53:40If we crack this, we might crack it all.
53:45C...
53:47F...
53:48Well, that's not it.
53:49There needs to be a vowel in between.
53:52So...
53:54It can't be that complicated.
53:56It wouldn't need to be.
53:57So...
53:59Every seventh word.
54:01Seven was always James' favourite number.
54:04Who has a favourite number?
54:06Every seventh letter or paragraph.
54:11Now...
54:13U...
54:14The Taylor boys apparently.
54:17N...
54:20I...
54:24T...
54:25I think this is it.
54:26We multiply each number by seven...
54:29And find the corresponding word in the text.
54:32And we take the first letter of that word.
54:36V...
54:39What is it?
54:40S...
54:41T...
54:42N...
54:47A...
54:48It's an address.
54:54Number seven.
54:56Well, the security guard said it's on the right.
55:24What's all this?
55:30It's all of Sinclair's research.
55:33And I use the term loosely.
55:35It was stolen, all of it, from the back of a moving police van.
55:40Even Chief Superintendent Shaw didn't understand how it was possible.
55:44You think Dad stole it?
55:45I've no idea.
55:46But what I do know is that somewhere in here,
55:48amongst all the nonsense about fake moon landings and false flag operations,
55:52there's one small, probably completely insignificant-looking story,
55:56which even Sinclair himself didn't realise was
55:59A, totally true,
56:01and B, important enough to kill him over.
56:04We have to call the superintendent.
56:05So we can go missing again, not on your nelly.
56:07Look at it all.
56:08It'd take a team of ten over a year to go through all this.
56:11Well, ten normal people.
56:13And I don't mean to blow my own trumpet,
56:15but I'm a very fast reader.
56:17And good at filtering out gibberish.
56:23What does this mean?
56:25He's staying?
56:33Where are we going to follow this?
56:35Following Sinclair?
56:53FOLLOW SINCLAIR
57:13I'm just going to say it again, sir.
57:16Is there absolutely no way that the body could have been moved?
57:19It wasn't.
57:20He died here, exactly where he was found.
57:23He was heading to his car, he had his keys in his hand,
57:25he was about 20 feet away from it, and then he just...
57:27Drowned?
57:30That's impossible.
57:32Isn't it?
57:34Course it is.
57:51So, er...
57:53Do you have any idea what happened here then, John?
57:56Oh, well...
57:58Yes.
58:00Isn't it obvious?