series 1 episode 5 (2024)
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00:00Who really does say supercop?
00:02Have you got anywhere with that cipher? Anywhere at all?
00:05So since you've been here you've solved four murders and not a single letter of that thing.
00:09I need the source code.
00:10Right, we'll work out what and where it is then.
00:13Oh no, that computer woman's here. She almost caught me this morning.
00:16Caught you doing what?
00:17Chief Constable Ziegler has been accessing a lot of files lately from your computer.
00:22Even on the days he's not been there.
00:24What do you think you're playing at?
00:25Who is this?
00:30I don't know.
00:49Yes?
01:01Mr. Doros?
01:07Mr. Doros?
01:08I told you, it's locked from the inside.
01:13Here.
01:30Have you got somewhere to be?
01:41Yes I have.
02:01Out! Out now! Out! Everybody out!
02:08Go! Go! Get out!
02:14What's happening? What's going on?
02:18Freya, what is it?
02:30Freya!
03:00You didn't go back to bed. We all agreed to go back to bed.
03:09Are you not going to ask us what we found out?
03:11You found something out?
03:13James's phone has been cracked.
03:17Really? It was fine when I had it.
03:20What? No. Crack. Hacked.
03:22Someone's tampered with the software. Set it so that you can't withhold numbers anymore.
03:26That asterisk before the number that called last night, that's what that means.
03:30It was supposed to be withheld. They didn't know we could see it.
03:33That's weird, right?
03:34I did some Googling. Networks can do it, but users shouldn't be able to.
03:38It's hardly James's area of expertise.
03:41Holly?
03:42She does seem good at that sort of thing.
03:44Well, maybe she's been helping Dad all along.
03:46She doesn't seem to like me. Or rather him. Possibly a bit of both.
03:50You need to talk to her today. Alone.
03:53Alone?
03:54You need to get on with it, because we've hit a dead end here.
03:57Yeah, we tried calling it back, but it doesn't take incoming.
04:00It's his old partner, Matt Neville. It has to be.
04:03If it is him, then he's ex-directory.
04:05The area code is for Manchester, but you can buy area codes. He could be anywhere.
04:09Good.
04:10Good?
04:11If you knew the address, you'd insist on going to see him.
04:14And I'd tell you that that was too dangerous, and you'd tell me,
04:16OK, I won't go then, but then you'd just go and see him anyway.
04:19Don't you have a detective to impersonate?
04:22Yes.
04:23And talk to Holly.
04:28Alone.
04:35Mum.
04:38If I told you I might know a way to get an ex-directory address,
04:42would you be willing to not make a big thing about how I know?
04:54MUSIC PLAYS
05:12Ah, there you are, Gov. Great timing.
05:15Let's go.
05:16Go where?
05:17Back to school.
05:24Well, my school certainly never looked like this.
05:27Mine did.
05:29We even had a clock tower, just like that one.
05:40Oh, morning, Govs.
05:42The body's already gone. I saw it, though. Not pretty.
05:46I'm going to say it'd be in here a couple of days, at least.
05:49Caretaker broke in with a drill. Door was locked from the inside.
05:52Looks like a suicide. There's even a note.
05:55Handwritten? Typed.
06:00So the deceased was the headmaster? Yes, sir.
06:03Ian de Rose. Been here 20 years.
06:05Promoted from head of English in 2015.
06:07Head of English, eh?
06:09Standards must have plummeted. Two double negatives, no apostrophes.
06:13And how did he do the deed? Jump off the desk?
06:16Leaving no footprints, no shoe marks, not disturbing a single thing.
06:19I mean, that's the straightest pile of papers I've ever seen.
06:22I've seen straighter.
06:24But, yes, if you're alluding to the fact this scene appears staged,
06:27I would agree.
06:29This wasn't suicide. This was murder.
06:32Yes! Knew it!
06:34Sorry, sirs. It's just that's what I was saying earlier, wasn't it?
06:38Yeah, I'm glad I didn't take the bet now.
06:40I mean, I'm glad that there wasn't a bet,
06:44because why would there be a bet?
06:46We don't bet.
06:48We don't bet.
06:50Don't bet.
06:54If it was a murder, though, how did the killer get out?
06:58I mean, the windows are painted shut and the door was locked from the inside.
07:02No, it wasn't.
07:03Oh, it definitely was, sir.
07:04No, it can't have been.
07:05Don't really think it's in question, boss, sorry.
07:08It was locked from the inside. The key's still in it.
07:12Well, seeing as you're not here to collect your winnings,
07:14Detective Sergeant, what do you have for us?
07:17Right, yes, sorry.
07:19We've shut down this building and the pupils have been moved to the sports hall.
07:22I think they're sending them home.
07:23And who's in charge? There's a deputy head, I presume?
07:26Miss Cordwell. She's a bit shaken up. She found the body.
07:32Gov?
07:37How do you know how to do all this?
07:39You did say you wouldn't ask that.
07:41That was before I found out it was on the dark web.
07:44I mean, isn't that where you buy drugs and hire hit men?
07:48Possibly. I don't know.
07:50I do know you can get ex-directory addresses on here, though.
07:53Henry.
07:54What? OK, a friend, not me, used it to send a fleet of taxis to our drug review teacher's house.
08:01One an hour, all night long.
08:04That is quite funny.
08:06I mean, I will pass that on.
08:11Oh, I've got it.
08:12Really?
08:13Yeah, it's an address in Wales. It's registered to a woman, not a man.
08:17Gillian Botley.
08:18Do you know her?
08:20No.
08:22Are you sure?
08:23Of course I'm sure.
08:27You're not going to go, are you, Mum?
08:30Only, I do think Uncle John's right on this one.
08:33Dad's letter says trust no-one and if you don't even know who this guy is...
08:35Oh, Henry, don't give over. You're starting to sound like him.
08:38I'm not going anywhere. I do have a day job, you know.
08:40Go and have a shower.
08:44Shit.
08:49Thanks, Henry.
08:51Don't ever go on the dark web ever again.
08:55Murder?
08:56The post-mortem will either confirm or deny this, but for expediency, we need to work on the assumption that it was.
09:04But the door was locked from the inside.
09:06Yes, which is really annoying. Have you any idea how that happened?
09:09What?
09:10Perhaps a better starting question would be, when was the last time you saw Mr Durows?
09:16Just before I left. I saw him heading to his office.
09:20He often worked late. I do too, but it was a Friday after a long week and I just wanted to get home.
09:27And where is that home?
09:29I have a cottage here on Staght.
09:32And so did Mr Durows.
09:34But you were here, basically at the school, all weekend. And you live alone?
09:38No, I live with my... my fiancée now, actually.
09:43Though I don't have a ring yet.
09:45Mr Bishop.
09:47He's a sportmaster here. He was away over the weekend.
09:51House-sitting for his parents up in the Highlands.
09:54Very nice. You didn't go with him?
09:59No, we had to give.
10:01But it doesn't matter now.
10:03And you didn't see anybody else on that Friday evening?
10:07One of the housemasters. He left late.
10:10I saw him out the window, heading to a car.
10:14But he's not all there sometimes.
10:16He used to be our math teacher, but he doesn't actually teach anymore.
10:20Probably fell asleep in the office.
10:22Wouldn't be the first time.
10:25Mr Tard?
10:30What do you know?
10:38Mr Tard.
10:40Oh, hello.
10:42Morning. Sorry to intrude.
10:44No, you're not intruding. I'm just doing the morning puzzles.
10:48Which ones?
10:51Well, my name's D.I. Russell Carter, and this is D.C.I.
10:56Well, I actually believe you two may know each other.
11:00Oh, yes, it's Taylor, sir.
11:03I attended St. Edward's. Taylor, the Taylor boys.
11:07Taylor boys?
11:10Oh, yes, I remember the Taylor boys.
11:15Yes, Jacob and Joshua.
11:19No, sir, James and John.
11:22That's right. Which are you?
11:25James.
11:26Master James, of course.
11:29You were the nervous, awkward one.
11:32No, that was my brother.
11:34Really?
11:35Yes, really.
11:36Sorry, would you mind if I just...
11:39No. Well, what is it I can do for you, gentlemen?
11:43Well, obviously, we're here to investigate the death of Mr DeRose.
11:47Oh, of course, of course. I'm so sorry.
11:51I was having a senior moment, I'm afraid, yes.
11:55Mr DeRose was a good, kind man.
11:59He's thrown me for quite the loop.
12:02Whatever I can do to help you, just say.
12:05I understand you may have been working late Friday evening?
12:08Erm, possible.
12:10Friday is...
12:12What day is it today?
12:14It's Monday, sir.
12:16Ah, thank you, Taylor.
12:19Oh, I recall now, yes, I did leave early that day.
12:23I'm rather embarrassed to say I may have had a little doze.
12:27Do you not think you should wear your glasses when reading?
12:31My glasses? Er...
12:33Oh.
12:44Well, that all seems in order.
12:47Miss Cordwell believes she saw you leaving at around 7pm.
12:50I wouldn't dispute that.
12:52Do you recall whether you saw anybody else,
12:54or indeed anything out of the ordinary?
12:56Or a vehicle you hadn't seen before?
12:58No, nothing like that at all, I'm sorry.
13:01I'm not actually sure that I'd spoken to our headmaster that day.
13:06Or even seen him.
13:08Oh, no, yes, I did see him just before final bell.
13:14I didn't talk to him, though.
13:16I'm afraid he was having a rather heated exchange with our sportsmaster.
13:22Mr Bishop? That's Miss Cordwell's fiancée, right?
13:26Fiancée?
13:27She mentioned they were engaged.
13:29No, no, no, no, I don't think so.
13:31Um, OK.
13:33What was this heated exchange about, sir?
13:36I'm afraid I don't know. I'm not one for heat-stopping.
13:40And I avoid Mr Bishop like the proverbial plague.
13:43The man's a bully, and I hate bullies.
13:46And I certainly don't like them as teachers.
13:50So, young James Taylor, eh?
13:56And how's your brother?
13:58I was always very fond of him.
14:01He was very fond of you too, sir.
14:03I imagine he has a family by now, does he?
14:06A family?
14:08Yes, he has family.
14:11Oh.
14:21You OK, Gov?
14:23Must be weird, bumping into your old teacher like that.
14:26He got nearly half those puzzle solutions wrong.
14:30So?
14:32So, he was the most brilliant man I've ever known.
14:36What happened?
14:38Well, nothing happened, Gov.
14:40I mean, he was a brilliant man.
14:43I mean, he was a brilliant man.
14:46What happened?
14:48Well, nothing happened, Gov.
14:50He just got 30 years older, that's all.
15:10Taylor.
15:13Nice shorts your mum gave you then, did she?
15:16Well, yes.
15:18What are you stood here for? Aren't you meant to be in pity?
15:24Well, go on then. You don't want to be late, do you?
15:29Everything in order, gentlemen?
15:34Yes, sir.
15:36Ah, Master Taylor.
15:40Is it John or James?
15:42John, I believe, yes.
15:45Wow, excellent timing.
15:47I need a hand sorting some papers.
15:50I've got P.E., sir.
15:52Well, I'll write you a sheet.
15:54And you two, shut that door.
15:56There's a terrible draft in here.
16:10Oh, my goodness.
16:12Sir?
16:16Are you police?
16:18Detectives, yes.
16:21What, both of you?
16:27You carry on, there won't be a moment.
16:30I was in at seven, packing all that up.
16:33I was supposed to be tanking a rugby team on a two-day outbounder.
16:36Really? All my P.E. teacher ever did was make us run around the field.
16:39You need to train up willpower as well as just muscle.
16:4248 hours roughing it with scant provisions is worth 100 laps around the track.
16:46Obviously, had to cancel it now.
16:49Obviously. Your fiancée mentioned you were away for the weekend.
16:52She's your fiancée, right, Miss Cordwell?
16:54There seems to be a bit of confusion over that point.
16:56We got engaged this weekend.
16:58I thought you were in Scotland?
17:00I do have phones in Scotland.
17:01You got engaged over the phone?
17:03Over video, if you must know.
17:05But I don't see what that's got to do with anything.
17:07It hasn't. We're just clarifying.
17:09What we did want to talk to you about is your relationship with Mr DeRose.
17:13We understand you had some sort of argument with him on Friday afternoon?
17:16What? That wasn't an argument. Who told you that?
17:20Ah, right. Sure. Yeah, the nutty professor.
17:23I wouldn't listen to much of what he says.
17:25He's on the verge of being let go as it is.
17:27Why would the school want to lose Mr Todd?
17:29Have you met him? He doesn't even teach anymore.
17:32Hasn't done for two years now.
17:33They gave him some pity job as housemaster
17:35and now he just sits around earning 60 grand a year for doing nothing.
17:39Even a place like this is feeling the pinch these days.
17:41DeRose was planning on letting him go. Everybody knew it.
17:44Including him? Of course.
17:46You didn't tell us what the argument was about.
17:51Upton! Get out of here!
17:57Isaac Upton is the captain of our rugby team.
17:59Last week he was caught smoking marijuana on the school premises.
18:03But that's illegal. It was just half a joint.
18:05That doesn't make it half legal.
18:07Yeah, well I don't care whether it's legal or not.
18:09What I care about is a rugby player inhaling smoke into his lungs.
18:13But Mr Upton here isn't the most academic of boys.
18:16He is however on course for a sports scholarship right here in Cambridge.
18:20Is that what you were arguing about?
18:21I wasn't arguing.
18:23I was pointing out that any suspension or disciplinary action on his record
18:29will affect the rest of his life.
18:31And did Mr DeRose agree?
18:32He said he'd need to ask advice from the board.
18:34I don't know whether he ever did.
18:36Right. Well, under the circumstances and just to draw a line underneath it
18:41we need to ask whether you have an alibi for Friday evening.
18:44Er, yeah. I was at my girlfriend's.
18:48Sasha Sparks. Head girl.
18:51Right, go on. Finish unpacking and clear off.
18:58He's a moron. But he's the moron that's won us two trophies this year.
19:02Now, anything else?
19:05Er, yes. Do you have an alibi?
19:08I was several hundred miles away.
19:10That's more of a statement than an alibi.
19:12No, it's just the truth.
19:13But I'm sure one of the locals would have seen me at some point if you really need an alibi.
19:17Yes, please.
19:19It might be helpful.
19:25I'll have a think.
19:43So, what are you thinking, Gov?
19:45I'm thinking he did it.
19:47I sense you're not a fan of PE teachers.
19:49Two things can be true at once.
19:59I'm telling you, sir, it was locked from the inside.
20:02The key was still in it and multiple witnesses saw it being drilled open.
20:05But he can't have been!
20:06So we have statements from the entire staff, 30 in total.
20:09We have around 200 more coming from the students.
20:12We need them all.
20:13Headteacher is the type of victim that has almost an endless pool of suspects.
20:17That being said, we have a few prime candidates that have found their way to the top.
20:21Starting with the heir to the throne.
20:23Someone with everything to gain, which presumably includes a giant leap in salary.
20:28She comes up in quite a few of the statements.
20:30She actually seems well-liked as a person, but there's definitely a split among staff when it comes to her politics.
20:34Mr Duroze was pretty old school.
20:36Pardon the pun.
20:38Miss Caldwell is vocally much more progressive.
20:41She apparently tried to push quite a few policy changes, genderless uniforms, that sort of thing.
20:47But they were all rejected.
20:49We have a student, Isaac Upton.
20:51Rugby hero with a bright future that was on the verge of a crash and burn.
20:55He was caught smoking weed, which could potentially scupper his scholarship.
20:59Mr Duroze was going to write a letter to the board asking for advice on how to proceed,
21:04but we're not sure whether he did that or not.
21:06Contents of his bin included healthy and unhealthy snacks,
21:11several discarded letters, though there were two rather than from him,
21:15and they were just about general everyday school stuff.
21:18There's his computer, of course, which is presumably where everything is typed and saved, but Holly's on that.
21:23Holly's here?
21:24Well, downstairs in her office, yes.
21:26Is she coming up later?
21:28I don't know, if she finds something, I guess.
21:31And there's a sportsmaster who is recently engaged to Miss Caldwell.
21:35Apparently he spent the weekend alone in the middle of nowhere.
21:38He came back to us with an alibi.
21:40Passed a couple of hikers, didn't know any of them, all untraceable.
21:44What about his motive?
21:45Well, take your pick from the first two, Sergeant.
21:47Either manipulating his fiancée into a position of power,
21:51or ensuring his sports star can continue to be his sports star.
21:56And then there's Mr Todd, ex-maths teacher, current housemaster,
22:00and apparently, according to rumours, not long for employment.
22:04No alibi for him either.
22:05Everyone seems to think that he was on borrowed time.
22:07Yeah, a couple went to pains to point out how he never married, never had children,
22:11nothing but an empty house to come home to every night.
22:14This job was his whole life.
22:16It's a strong motive, but this is a complicated, risky, and seemingly impossible crime.
22:21And having spoken to him for five minutes, there's just, there's no way he could have done it.
22:25Could it be a trick lock? Are those a thing?
22:35GILLIAN BOTLEY
22:39Gillian Botley. Do you know who that is?
22:42Never heard of her.
22:43Are you sure?
22:45Yes, I'm sure. Why does everybody keep asking me that?
22:50It's just another dead end. Fake address, fake name.
22:53Well, I mean, we don't actually know.
22:54I'm a little bit disappointed with you, John.
22:56You couldn't find five minutes to talk to Holly.
22:58But she never came upstairs.
22:59Why didn't you go downstairs?
23:01I can't go down there. I'm not allowed.
23:03Says who?
23:04I think she mentioned it once.
23:06But you're a DCI. She's a civilian. You can go wherever you like.
23:09I'm sure she'll come upstairs tomorrow.
23:14Talking of tomorrow, I've got an assignment. A big wedding, too big to turn down.
23:18I have to stay over. It's in Leeds.
23:21Why would someone from Leeds hire a photographer from Cambridge?
23:24Because I did her last wedding.
23:26She liked the photos, just not the groom.
23:28She can cope for one day without me.
23:30Can make a lad's night of it.
23:32A lad's night? What exactly does that entail?
23:36I don't know. I've never been a lad.
23:37Neither have I.
23:38Yeah, and I'm pretty borderline, to be fair.
23:40Goodness me! Do you want me to cancel it? Is that what you want?
23:42Oh, no, of course not.
23:43No, of course not. You must go.
23:47All right, then.
23:48Oh, morning, boss. Post-mortem confirms strangulation. Not hanging?
23:53Your instincts were right.
23:55Yeah, yeah, yours too.
23:57Oh, these. 200 student statements.
24:01Feels like we've been doing homework ourselves.
24:03D.I. Carter's already back at the school.
24:05I'm sure he'll be back.
24:06I'm sure he will.
24:07I'm sure he will.
24:08I'm sure he will.
24:09I'm sure he will.
24:10I'm sure he will.
24:11I'm sure he will.
24:12I'm sure he will.
24:13I'm sure he will.
24:14I'm sure he will.
24:15I'm sure he will.
24:16I'm sure he will.
24:17D.I. Carter's already back at the school. Wants you to join him.
24:19Yes, but the chief superintendent would like to talk to you first.
24:22She's in your office with Holly.
24:24Holly?
24:26What are they talking about?
24:29I don't know, sir.
24:30The case?
24:32The case. Yes, that would make sense.
24:38Well, I'd better go in there, then.
24:43Off I go.
24:48MUSIC
24:59Morning, D.C.I. Taylor.
25:01Have you seen this?
25:03Headmaster of a posh, expensive school.
25:06They're loving this.
25:07And with a couple of hundred pupils all on Instagram,
25:09there was no way of keeping it quiet.
25:11So, all eyes on us again, I'm afraid.
25:14Do I need to give you my customary speech?
25:16No, ma'am.
25:18Good, because as you can imagine,
25:20I've had Chief Constable Ziegler in my ear all morning.
25:23I've sent D.I. Carter straight back there,
25:25plus we have some new information for you.
25:28I got into DeRose's computer.
25:29There was a letter about Isaac Upton, unfinished.
25:32There was another letter, too, completed but unsent,
25:34regarding a Mr Bishop
25:36and rumours of inappropriate conduct with a female student.
25:40What sort of inappropriate conduct?
25:42If you can't guess that, D.C.I. Taylor,
25:44maybe you should go back to school yourself.
25:46I'm just saying.
25:48Right.
25:50Was that all you wanted to talk to me about?
25:53Is that not enough?
25:54Oh, no, no, of course it is.
25:59How are you, anyway?
26:00What?
26:01Yeah, I'm fine.
26:02Right, good.
26:06Are you two just staying here, then?
26:09In my office?
26:10Is that a problem?
26:11No.
26:14Right.
26:33Morning.
26:34Spoken to the super.
26:35Lessons all cancelled
26:36and students were told to stay at home,
26:38but apparently rugby practice is far too important to miss.
26:42You heard about the letters, I take it?
26:44Yeah.
26:45I haven't spoken to him yet
26:46because this bloody thing's been going on since I got here.
26:50Run, run!
27:01Yes!
27:03Upton, that's my lad!
27:07Great work.
27:08OK.
27:09If there was a letter about me, it's the first I've heard of it.
27:12I actually can't believe Mr. Jarose would have listened to that sort of rubbish.
27:15He'd heard the rumours, though.
27:16I look younger than I am and I take care of myself.
27:18Girls get crushes, they fantasise, they make stuff up,
27:22they tell their friends.
27:23Whoever this one is, she isn't the first and she won't be the last.
27:27Well, I presume it was Sasha Sparks.
27:31I saw you touch her.
27:32I'm sorry, Detective.
27:33Can you say that again, please, just so I can remember it for my lawyer?
27:37Solicitor.
27:38What?
27:39Sorry.
27:40Gav, you saw him touch her?
27:41Oh, yes, didn't you?
27:42Just now, on the playing field.
27:43I patted her on the back.
27:44Her boyfriend had just won the game.
27:45What's wrong with you?
27:46I don't think we need to get confrontational.
27:47I'm getting confrontational!
27:48It's your little friend here that's all been accusing me of...
27:50Mr. Bishop!
27:58Let me make this very, very clear for you.
28:02I don't listen to rumours.
28:04My fiancé doesn't listen to rumours.
28:06And if you had any idea how this sort of place works, neither would you.
28:11And I follow the first and only rule of sport.
28:13I never cheat.
28:22Hello?
28:23Hi, Mrs Taylor?
28:25Speaking.
28:26I'm just calling from the school.
28:27Henry didn't appear to be at registration this morning,
28:30so we just want to check everything's okay.
28:36Yes, er, tummy bug.
28:38Sorry, I forgot to call.
28:40Oh, that's fine.
28:42What do you think you're doing?
28:43What do you think you're doing?
28:44I might suck at geography, but I'm pretty sure Leeds is north.
28:51You did know the name Botley, didn't you?
28:54Matt's wife's maiden name.
28:56Dad and I were at their wedding.
28:58Matt Neville.
28:59I knew it.
29:01Okay.
29:02Pull over, let me get in the front.
29:03No, no, no, no.
29:04You're not coming with me.
29:05No?
29:06What are you going to do?
29:07No, no, you're not coming with me.
29:08No?
29:09What are you going to do?
29:11Leave me on the side of the road,
29:13or drive three hours back to Cambridge.
29:18Side of the road is pretty tempting.
29:20Oh, you wouldn't.
29:21You wouldn't.
29:36Oh!
29:37Hi.
29:38Oh, oh my goodness, I'm so sorry.
29:41I just spoke with Missy Bittstock.
29:43I heard the rumour too, but it's not uncommon.
29:47Especially for someone like him.
29:48Someone who looks young and keeps himself in shape?
29:51Is that how you put it?
29:53Well, I'm not too sure.
29:55No, more like someone who still thinks and acts
29:58like he's one of the stick filmers himself.
30:01It makes him over-friendly with them.
30:03That's always been the problem.
30:05Is that what your tiff was about?
30:07No, no, not really.
30:08Well, not at first.
30:10I was actually the one that caught Isaac with the joint.
30:14That was what it was about mostly.
30:15He didn't think I should report it.
30:17I knew I had to.
30:19Quite right.
30:19And unfortunately, that was also the night he left for Scotland,
30:22meaning we didn't actually part on good terms.
30:25So the tiff continued all weekend.
30:28I wrote him essays, just poured it all out,
30:31every insecure thought I ever had about him and me.
30:34Got a lot of OKs and write and go on and not much else.
30:39He finally ran on Sunday about one o'clock.
30:42I'd gone for a walk and came back to a long video message,
30:46mostly rambling apology.
30:47And then suddenly out of the blue, ended with a proposal.
30:52As if he'd only just realised it himself, he added,
30:56I really mean that.
31:01And he did.
31:02I could see it.
31:04And that sent him more than the proposal to me.
31:15I don't suppose you've brought anything?
31:18A toothbrush?
31:19Yeah, I did nothing off our heads.
31:21No, no, no.
31:22Well, would you mind, darling?
31:26Chop, chop.
31:29Hello?
31:30Hello.
31:31Slight change of plan.
31:32Henry had a couple of study days, so I roped him into helping me.
31:36So you mean I'll be home alone?
31:39Yes.
31:40You've lived alone for 30 years, John.
31:42Yes, but in my home, not yours.
31:44Where are you?
31:46A hotel.
31:47Wedding's in the morning.
31:49Is Henry with you now?
31:50Mm-hmm.
31:52Henry?
31:53Oh, hello.
31:54You take care of your mum, OK?
31:57Yeah, I will.
32:00Goodbye.
32:05He knows.
32:06Of course he doesn't.
32:08Ah.
32:10Gov, everything OK?
32:12Shall we head back to the station?
32:13I'll meet you back there.
32:16I need to see a man about a door.
32:19OK, thank you.
32:20I'll see a man about a door.
32:46Oh, do have a seat, Taylor.
32:48Ah, now, in case you haven't figured it out,
32:57I don't really have any work for you.
32:59But I presume you don't really want to go to PE
33:03or walk past those boys again, huh?
33:06Bullies are insecure.
33:08That's why they bully.
33:10Always remember that.
33:16Ah, yes.
33:18What do you make of that?
33:20I don't know, sir.
33:21What is it?
33:22Well, it's a puzzle, isn't it, obviously.
33:25Why don't you have a crack at solving it?
33:28Is it for a test, sir?
33:29No, no, no, no.
33:30It's just for me, really.
33:31I like making them.
33:33I find the process quietens a busy mind.
33:38Might be something you should try sometime.
33:41You strike me as a boy with an especially over-busy mind
33:45yourselves.
33:46So you just made this up, sir?
33:49Yes.
33:50It's not hard.
33:52Well, hopefully the puzzle is, but making it isn't.
33:56You merely start with a solution, work backwards,
34:00and then layer in a few false paths
34:04to confuse the less lateral-minded amongst us.
34:10Is this a three, sir?
34:12Reflected?
34:14I had a feeling about you, Taylor.
34:28Ah, Taylor, how are you?
34:32Oh, I'm sorry, did we have a meeting scheduled?
34:35No, sir.
34:36I was just, um, I actually wanted
34:40to ask you a question, sir.
34:44I'm a bit stuck on a, well, on a puzzle, I suppose.
34:50And I know that was always your forte, so.
34:54Oh, please, I'm all ears.
34:57A man was killed inside a locked room.
35:00His body was discovered three days later with the room still
35:03locked from the inside.
35:05There's only one way in or out.
35:08How did the killer leave again and relock
35:11the door behind them?
35:15They didn't.
35:16But they did.
35:17Yeah, on the contrary, the one thing we know for certain
35:19is they didn't.
35:21Because?
35:22That would be impossible, wouldn't it?
35:26Oh, do stop butting, Taylor.
35:28Honestly, boy, you know this.
35:31If a solution is impossible, then it's
35:34impossible by design, thereby making it...
35:40A false path.
35:43One that was deliberately layered in.
35:47So what's the real solution?
35:48Well, you tell me.
35:49It's your puzzle.
35:52You do understand that I'm talking about the murder
35:55of Mr. Duroze, sir?
35:57Oh, I do apologize.
36:00I thought it was just, oh, yes, Mr. Duroze.
36:07Of course, that was a terrible thing.
36:20Off I, Detective.
36:21Yes.
36:30Can I ask you something?
36:33What was it that made you decide to pursue
36:34a career in the police?
36:37Just sort of happened.
36:39Did it?
36:41I've heard there's always two types that join up,
36:44alphas and betas.
36:46Alpha is because it's a natural fit.
36:49And beta is because authority over others
36:53is the only way that they can make up for their shortcomings.
36:57I thought that was PE teachers.
37:04It's very awkward for you, isn't it?
37:07That door being locked from the inside.
37:11Makes me wonder if justice will ever be served.
37:15Oh, I promise you it will.
37:16It will.
37:36I knew it.
37:37It was Mr. Bishop.
37:38He did it.
37:39He's the killer.
37:40Oh, yes.
37:42That is two cans of Coke and a Freddo, you know, I mean.
37:45No, no, no, no, no.
37:46That is not fair.
37:46You knew I was going to choose him.
37:47That's why you said it first.
37:49Yeah, yeah, sorry.
37:49Can we all just slow down for a minute?
37:53He practically confessed.
37:55You have a confession?
37:57I mean, not technically, no.
37:59But he was very sarcastic.
38:01Well, can you prove it?
38:02That he was sarcastic?
38:03No, Detective Chief Inspector, that he did it.
38:06No.
38:07And it seems impossible, but he did.
39:10Oh.
39:25Hello.
39:26How are you?
39:27Enjoying having the house to yourself?
39:29No, I hate it.
39:31You liked your own company.
39:32I don't know.
39:33What gave you that idea?
39:34The last three decades.
39:38John, are you OK?
39:39No, I'm not OK.
39:40I didn't manage to talk to Holly.
39:43I know who killed the headmaster,
39:44but I can't prove it.
39:46I've just spilt tea all over my puzzle,
39:48and I can't stop thinking about my old maths teacher.
39:51Hmm, that last one's a bit weird.
39:54He was my mentor, Lucy.
39:56My inspiration.
39:58The only person who ever actually made sense.
40:00He was me.
40:02Still is.
40:03He's the me I'm going to become in another 20 years.
40:06A sad, lonely old man with nothing in his life,
40:10but an empty house.
40:12No, that's not true.
40:14You'll meet someone.
40:14No, I won't.
40:16That was my brother's path, not mine.
40:18I never even cared about it, because as far as I was
40:22concerned, I'd always have my mind.
40:26It didn't occur to me that that could vanish too.
40:30It has for him.
40:32You're not alone.
40:33You'll never be alone.
40:34Listen, this is what we're going to do.
40:36As soon as James gets back, we're
40:37going to build you a granny flat right
40:42on the side of the house.
40:47I never wanted you not to be in my life.
40:50You were the one who always.
40:59John?
41:00Are you there?
41:01John?
41:02Yes, hello, sorry.
41:03I was looking at a banana peel.
41:06What?
41:07I've got to go.
41:12A granny flat.
41:34Oh, great, you.
41:36Don't tell me you've solved it.
41:38Some of it.
41:40What are you doing here?
41:42It's called overtime.
41:44Holly, wait.
41:47I, um, about that thing the other day
41:50with the logins and stuff.
41:55Why did you cover for me?
41:57Are we really going to do this, are we?
42:00Are we really going to keep pretending like nothing
42:03happened between us?
42:06The Christmas party, you kiss me, remember?
42:09Not the other way around.
42:12All right, so you're just going to deny it, are you?
42:16No, I can't.
42:20No, you can't.
43:03No, you can't.
43:34Are you waiting for something?
43:36What are we even doing here?
43:45Right, perfect.
43:47OK, then.
43:49Hello.
43:51I don't know if any of you know this,
43:52but Mr. Todd here, as well as being a terrific teacher,
43:56is also one of the greatest puzzle setters
43:58this country has ever seen.
44:00I asked his advice on this little locked room
44:03puzzle of ours.
44:05He said the solution was impossible.
44:08He was correct.
44:10By trying to answer the question of how the killer left
44:14an office that was locked from the inside,
44:16we were being led down a false path that had been deliberately
44:19layered in.
44:21The killer never actually left the office at all.
44:26That's not true.
44:28At all.
44:30That doesn't make sense.
44:31I think that was probably the idea.
44:33I mean, who needs an alibi for a murder that wasn't possible?
44:39It was a shame that camping trip you were going on
44:41was cancelled, Mr. Bishop, though in fairness,
44:44you had just returned from one of your own.
44:47Three whole days with scant provisions,
44:50equipped with nothing but the iron willpower
44:53needed to bed down on a hard floor
44:56next to the corpse of a man you murdered.
45:05Is this a joke?
45:06It's interesting.
45:08How did he get out again, Taylor?
45:11Oh, quite easily, sir.
45:13The body was clearly visible from the door.
45:15It doesn't take much intellect to work out
45:18what the reaction would be once it was open.
45:26Oh, my God.
45:37Out.
45:38Out now.
45:39Out.
45:40Everybody out.
45:42Go on.
45:50What's happening?
45:51What's going on?
45:52I threw out a banana peel last night.
45:56Two hours later, it was already browning.
45:58There was an apple core in the headmaster's bin.
46:01It had barely turned its shade.
46:03It could only have been eaten that morning
46:05inside that locked room.
46:08Breakfast, was it?
46:10Bit absent-minded of you to throw it in the bin
46:13when you'd obviously gone to all the effort
46:15to bag up and remove everything else you'd been surviving on.
46:18But given how poorly you faked the suicide,
46:22I can't say I'm surprised.
46:24Well, take a DNA swab, if you like.
46:26But I can tell you now that I ate that apple on Friday
46:30in this office in a meeting with Mr. Jarose.
46:33And as for its colour, well, you're a science teacher.
46:36Well, tell him.
46:39Oh, um, it depends on many factors,
46:43like room temperature.
46:45Exactly.
46:46So you even got this apple core anymore?
46:50How brown is it now?
46:54He called out evidence.
46:55Oh, I doubt it would even make it to trial
46:57if that was all we had.
46:58But fortunately, we can do a lot better.
47:01I'm afraid to say that you were rather integral to his plan,
47:04Ms. Cordwell.
47:05I don't know if the accusations against him were true,
47:07though one doesn't tend to kill over rumours.
47:10But I do know that with his partner in charge of the school,
47:14matters certainly wouldn't have been taken further.
47:16But that part had started to go wrong, hadn't it, Mr. Bishop?
47:19The row you orchestrated to give yourself the excuse
47:23to disappear for the weekend
47:24had been instrumented a tad too aggressively,
47:28leading to your having to spend the whole weekend
47:30desperately messaging back and forth
47:32to a woman who was beginning to ask herself
47:34if you even had a future together,
47:36resulting in your impromptu
47:38and romantically questionable video proposal.
47:43Constable Evans.
47:45Constable Evans.
47:46Uh, yes.
47:47Oh, sorry.
47:49Ms. Cordwell was kind enough to share this with us.
47:52I know... I know that I can... I can sometimes be.
47:56But it doesn't mean that...
47:58HE SIGHS
47:59Crash, I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
48:02I want to marry you.
48:04I mean, will you?
48:08Will you marry me?
48:11Oh, God, I actually really mean that.
48:15I'm sure you never expected something like this to happen.
48:19Something so personal to be shared with anyone
48:21other than your fiancée.
48:23And you also knew that she wouldn't have been able to hear
48:26what we just did.
48:28I presume we all heard it.
48:30Heard what?
48:32The bells, of course.
48:34BELL TOLLS
48:49BELL TOLLS
48:52BELL TOLLS
48:53We had a clock tower at my old school.
48:56I always hated it.
48:57I think you're going to spend the rest of your life
48:59hating yours, too.
49:01BELL TOLLS
49:03HE GASPS
49:05HE GRUNTS
49:06HE GRUNTS
49:07HE GROANS
49:08HE GROANS
49:10HE GROANS
49:12Bradley Bishop, I'm arresting you in suspicion of murder.
49:15You don't have to say anything, but any harm you do...
49:17..I do hate Paulina.
49:19..is charged by on court.
49:21HE SIGHS
49:23SOMBRE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
49:25KNOCK AT DOOR
49:37Lucy?
49:39What are you doing here?
49:40You called James two nights ago.
49:44It wasn't James, was it?
49:46Where is he?
49:47I don't know.
49:48But if he knew you were here, then...
49:49What's going on?
49:55No.
49:56No, no, no, no. We've got to go. We have to leave.
49:58We don't have to leave.
49:59How do you know she wasn't followed?
50:01Followed by who?
50:03Is this all connected to the Sinclair case,
50:05the one that you and James were working, the blogger?
50:09Matt, please.
50:12We don't know who she's been talking to.
50:14You are. My husband's no longer on the force
50:16and you need to leave now before you get us all...
50:19Get us all what?
50:20Harriet!
50:21Hey!
50:23Hello.
50:24Everything's OK. Everything's fine.
50:27How do you fancy a trip away?
50:29You, me and Daddy?
50:30A holiday, yeah?
50:33Matthew.
50:34Hang on a second.
50:35Matt, come on. Lucy, I'm sorry, all right?
50:38Come on. Sorry. I'm sorry.
50:40Matt!
50:47KNOCK AT DOOR
50:49Ah!
50:51Taylor, do come in.
50:54It's OK, sir. I'm not stopping.
50:57I... I just wanted to say goodbye.
51:00Ah.
51:01And to thank you for your help.
51:03Oh, not at all.
51:05Glad I could be of assistance.
51:07Was I of assistance, then?
51:10It's all you've ever been, sir.
51:13Ah.
51:14Taylor, do you mind if I ask you a question?
51:19Why are you pretending to be your brother?
51:25Do you think I don't know my students?
51:28You're not James.
51:30You're John.
51:32So what's it all about?
51:34This ruse you're engaged in, hmm?
51:39It's, um...
51:41It's, um...
51:43complicated, sir.
51:47But it's all for a noble reason.
51:49Ah, that's what I hoped.
51:55Sir, I've been doing this for a while now.
51:58I go to work every day
52:00and I'm surrounded by detectives,
52:02sergeants, superintendents,
52:04trained sleuths.
52:07None of them has worked out.
52:11That I'm not who I say I am.
52:17But you did.
52:21I can't tell you how relieved I am to know
52:23that you're just as brilliant now as you ever were.
52:27I always had a good feeling about you, Taylor.
52:32Thank you, sir.
52:41DOORBELL RINGS
52:51Not going to talk to me for the whole journey, no?
52:57You shouldn't have gone there alone.
52:59Yes, well, I did. And as I said, the place was abandoned.
53:02They'd moved on.
53:04If, indeed, they'd even been there in the first place.
53:06I don't believe you. And neither will Uncle John.
53:09Yes, well, we're not going to tell Uncle John, are we?
53:14Look, Henry, if he thinks either of us have put ourselves in danger,
53:17he'll pull the plug on the whole thing.
53:20The place was abandoned.
53:22OK?
53:36See you tomorrow, sir.
53:39Oh, stop sulking.
53:41Hey, you might win the next one.
53:43Stranger things have happened.
54:09Hello?
54:11Hi. You're up.
54:13Yep. Here I am.
54:15Up.
54:17Oh, any news? Did you speak to Holly?
54:19No. I mean, yes, but it wasn't what we thought.
54:22What was it, then?
54:24Um...
54:26Nothing. She just likes clearing logins, I think.
54:29That's not possible. That doesn't make any sense.
54:32How was the wedding?
54:34The what? Yes, fine. Yes.
54:36Nothing to report, then?
54:38No.
54:41Very much like yourself, it would seem.
54:45Right. Right.
55:01PHONE VIBRATES
55:06Hello?
55:08Lucy Taylor?
55:10I'm Holly. I work with your husband.
55:13Holly?
55:16How... Sorry, how...
55:19How did you get my number?
55:21I can't sit with this any longer.
55:23I need to talk to you in person.
55:25Tonight.
55:27Tonight? I'm not sure that I...
55:29It's about James.
55:32Tonight? I'm not sure that I...
55:34It's about James.
55:36I'll text you the address.
55:40Please come.
55:47MUSIC PLAYS
56:01MUSIC CONTINUES
56:32MUSIC CONTINUES
56:50Your wife has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
56:53You think it was them? Of course it was them.
56:55And whoever they are, they are here now.
56:58From all I know, they're right outside this door.
57:00I do have a strong working theory on how Lucy didn't do it.
57:04I think you should come with me.
57:06But both of you, get away from this place.
57:08No more conspiracies, no more murders, no more danger.
57:12Is this a dream?
57:16MUSIC PLAYS
57:30MUSIC CONTINUES