10x03 - Terminus 1

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[SOLEMN PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[SOLEMN PIANO AND
VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING]

[BELL TOLLING DISTANTLY]

[BRAKES SQUEAKING]

[SOLEMN PIANO AND
VIOLIN MUSIC PLAYING]

[CAR HORN HONKING]

[TIRES SQUEALING]

[SOLEMN PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

[SOLEMN VOCALIZING]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]

[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SIRENS WAILING DISTANTLY]

[MEN CHATTING]

[WOMAN VOCALIZING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

We've got a body on the
Catchley Street Estate.

Probably a fail to stop,

but they want to be
certain before they move it.

Your turn I think Harry?

What do you mean it's my turn?

We're not playing Monopoly.
What are you doing?

Work becoming to a
head of department.

[LAUGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

You all right?

Do you want to come
to Greece with me?

What's up?

I only suggested we went away
on a cheap package holiday,

and Jane just went off on one.

Oh.

Sorry.

You don't want to hear all this.

Hey, what are friends for?

Come on, I'll take
you for coffee.

No thanks, but we
ought to get home.

Come on the kids
must be starving.

Hmm, so am I.

My treat.

Okay. Kids!

Who wants a burger?

KIDS: Me!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Sergeant Susan Fenn,
Traffic Investigation.

Dr. Harry Cunningham.

There's no reports of an RTC,
so I'm thinking it's a fail-to-stop,

but the DI said
to get you out first.

He's called Lee
Hawthorne. 16 years old.

A lot of money.

Doing well for himself.

It's more than you'd
expect on an estate kid.

Could be a dealer who
strayed onto the wrong turf.

I'll have a better
look at the mortuary,

but first impression suggests
an impact at some speed.

You got my Lee in here?

[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Thanks.

- Professor Dalton.
- Finally.

You found us.

I was going to send
up a smoke signal.

D.I. Dave De Rohan.

Neighbors called
the fire brigade.

They found her.

- Her being?
- The wife.

Husband and the kids
came back from the park

just as Trumpton showed up.

Does she have a name?

Jane Doe. Can you believe that?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

This is a sh*t in the dark, but
I think fire might be involved.

Clothing scorched.

LEO: The legs are slightly
blackened, which suggests that

she was exposed to
heat rather than flames.

Smoke get her?

I'll know more in due course.

Can we move the family away?

I don't want them to see
the body being moved.

- Let's get the family
moved. OFFICER: Right.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

SUSAN: Mrs. Hawthorne.

Do you have
anyone we could call?

A friend, a relative?

Don't want anyone.

Football.

He loves football.

He's playing for the
England team this season.

SUSAN: You're certain I
can't contact someone?

MRS. HAWTHORNE: You
hear about people who survive,

go into a coma.

I'm sorry.

There's nothing
anybody could have done.

LEO: Do we know
what happened here?

Judging by the spread
and direction of the smoke,

the fire investigation boys
reckon it started in here.

You can see the paint's
bubbled on this side of the door.

Must have been pretty fierce.

[DOG BARKS]

Sniffer dog's picked up
accelerant on the sofa there.

- So it is arson.
- And maybe m*rder.

I'll see you down the mortuary.

Injuries to the face,

chest.

Both lower legs are broken.

HARRY: Looks like a typical
bumper impact and scooping-up.

There are abrasions containing

grit, presumably from
impact with the ground.

Got some black paint here.

It's minor traces mixed up in
lacerations around the knee.

We found some shards from a
headlight at the scene as well.

I'll run that against
the database.

Should get us an ID
on the make of car.

[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

Cause of death appears to be
complete transection of the thoracic aorta.

At least it would
have been quick?

LEO: I said goodnight,
good morning,

he said good morning, goodnight.

[LAUGHS]

It's very becoming for
a head of department.

These are case reports actually.

So, was it a hit and run?

Maybe, or it could
have been deliberate,

but either way we're probably
not going to catch the guy,

but you have to try haven't you?

How was your copper?

Dedicated.

Hi, um,

I'm looking for some perfume
for my beautiful girlfriend.

Then you've come
to the right place.

So, your girlfriend is
beautiful is she, sir?

Absolutely.

That's why I'm marrying
her on Saturday.

I just wanted to see you first.

And make sure you behave
yourself on your hen night.

I know what you girls are like.

You don't have
to worry about us.

I'll see you later, yeah?

SUSAN: The money's
not counterfeit.

There's a dusting of
cocaine but not conclusive.

Most notes in
London have traces.

What do you know about him?

Lee dropped out of school
and was registered unemployed.

So, the money is suspicious.

Any links to crime?

No convictions, and
he's not on the CID radar.

He has had a couple of cautions
for possession of marijuana.

We'll have to find out
what the mother knows.

There are splits in the skin,

which could be heat, could
be wounding before the fire.

LEO: Make sure that all
gets to the lab will you?

TECH: Yep, sure.

LEO: She has some
burns, not immediately fatal.

Probably d*ed of
smoke inhalation.

Her fingernails are broken,

and bloodied.

Which could be consistent with

scrabbling at the
door to get out.

Or defense wounds?

Yep, possible.

There's blood on the
surface of the brain

and a fracture to the skull.

Could that be consistent with
her being struck on the head?

Not necessarily.

Heat can cause skull fracturing.

LEO: The blood could
be a heat hematoma.

There's soot in the larynx.

Which means she was probably
alive when the fire started.

But he could have
incapacitated her

and then started the fire?

He?

Husband.

Got to be the husband.

Why would you think that?

SUSAN: Thanks for talking to us.

We're trying to find
out more about Lee:

who his friends were,

who he hung out with.

Lee had lots of friends.

Why do you want to know?

We're still investigating
the possibility

that this could have
been deliberate.

Why would someone
want to hurt him?

Lee been cautioned for
possession in the past.

It's possible that this could
have been drug-related.

SUSAN: Was Lee in a g*ng?

Do you have to do this?

We just want to find
out who was responsible.

[SCOFFS]

Are you trying to say that my
son was some kind of gangster?

Lee was carrying a significant
amount of money on him.

SUSAN: 200 pounds.

Where do you think
that came from?

It was his wages.

Lee works on the
market three till six.

Cash in hand.

I didn't mean to
jump to conclusions.

So you can't put this down
as a black-on-black crime then.

We have to follow every
possible line of inquiry,

Mrs. Hawthorne, I'm afraid.

Whatever the reason
for your son's death,

I'm going to do everything I can

to find out who's responsible.

An insignificant
black boy is run over.

k*lled.

Is that really going
to be top of your list?

Yes.

SUSAN: Let's see where
he team is on the vehicle data.

We'll match that
against your PM findings.

You didn't do
anything wrong Susan.

I should have done more
background before I talked to her again.

It was a perfectly
reasonable inquiry.

Come on.

There's still a hell
of a lot we can do.

BOY: I'm trying, I told you.

Yes! [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Lynne, it's Nick.

Sorry, I didn't know
who else to talk to.

They've put me and
the kids in a hotel.

I don't know what to do.

The police have
taken half my stuff,

and they want to talk to me.

Look, I'm on the mobile,
if you wanted to talk.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

SUSAN: This is
where Lee was found.

There's no skid marks.

HARRY: Doesn't mean anything.

Most cars now have ABS.

SUSAN: Just here we have
the glass shards of the headlight.

We also have a pick-up mark

slightly in front of
the glass just here.

SUSAN: That's the mark his trainers
made as the car connects with his legs

and scoops him
up onto the bonnet.

That's the point of impact?

The glass will continue forward in
the direction the car was traveling.

So, the car was coming from
the direction of the car park?

SUSAN: And Lee ended up here.

So, what I want to know is

whether this was
deliberate or not.

Was the driver braking
or accelerating on impact?

If the car was accelerating,
then the body would be

carried along until
it rolled off the side.

But, if the car was braking,

then we'd expect the body to
take on the momentum of the car

and travel in an arc
until it slides to a stop.

So, which is it?

Well, there's evidence
of contact injuries

on the front of his
shins and on his chest

and abrasions on his back,

which suggests that
he slid rather than rolled,

which would make it an accident.

It makes it unintentional,
but it's still a crime.

SUSAN: Now we've worked out
how fast the vehicle was traveling.

Lee was found 25 meters
from the point of impact,

which suggests the car was doing
between 35 and 45 miles per hour.

He didn't stand a chance.

Any news on the
make and model of car?

Analysis of the headlight
shards indicate it's a BMW.

That helps.

In 2004 there were


We know it's black.

That narrows it down to 163,000.

DE ROHAN: Tell
me about your wife.

I don't know where to start.

She was everything to me.

I was the one who was always
clowning about with the kids.

But she held the
family together.

So, you describe your
marriage as being strong?

We've been married eight years.

That wasn't my question.

I loved her.

So you never argued?

Well, a bit.

Who doesn't?

It's normal.

We were a normal
family until this.

HARRY: You've still got
door-to-door and local inquiries.

You're going to run an appeal?

You know they won't
get us anywhere.

We'll never identify the car.

We still haven't analyzed
that paint I found.

It could be a re-spray, or a
custom order or something?

On the Catchley Street Estate?

Look, I appreciate it,

but the department's
budget's stretched as it is.

I'll never get clearance
for a test like that.

Look, I've got a
friend over at the FSS.

I could ask him
to run it for you.

SUSAN: Would you? HARRY: Yeah.

That's great.

- Thanks Harry.
- Okay.

Sergeant Fenn's dedication

seems to have rubbed off on you.

What do you mean?

Didn't you say you thought
you'd never catch the driver.

I also said one had to try,

and she's a bit

green and

keen.

But... [DOOR BANGS]

Doesn't matter.

DE ROHAN: The lock on this
door is a standard double lock.

LEO: So?

So, it was locked when the fire
brigade went in from the front door.

With these locks
you've got two choices:

you can let it swing
shut, and it catches.

If you do that you need a
key to get in from the outside,

but from the inside,
you just click the catch.

So, she should have
been able to get out.

Except it was double locked.

This way you can double lock
it from the inside or the outside.

If you do that, you need
a key to open the door,

whether you're
trying to get in or out.

What about other exits?

DE ROHAN:
Windows are all locked.

The back door was
bolted from the inside.

So, either she locked
herself in to burn,

or someone locked her in.

Carbon monoxide levels in
the blood hematoma were high,

which means that she
was almost certainly alive

before the fire started.

But not necessarily conscious.

I can't say
definitely either way.

The point is we
found a set of keys

in the burnt-out living room.

So why didn't
she let herself out?

Enlighten me.

Because she was unconscious
when he started the fire

and locked her in to burn.

But the husband has an alibi.

Does he?

We've only got the doting best friend's
word that she was with him in the park.

I'm thinking she's the lover.

They try to be clever, but
no one's ever clever enough.

Yeah, the police have had me in, and
I can't stand another night in this hotel.

Could we come over?

Pink champagne
all round, eh girls?

[GIRLS SQUEALING]
[MUSIC BLARING]

Make mine an
orange juice, please.

- Oh, thank you.
- Thank you.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[GLASSES CLINK]

[SONG PLAYING] You
need me, you need me, well

You need me, you need me, yeah

You need me, you need me

You need me

[UPBEAT TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING]

[SNORTING]

Do you want some?

Early wedding present?

No thanks, I'm fine.

You're going to have to
teach me how to do that.

I'm too scared of red.

I'll see you out there.

One more dance here and
then on to Wilde's, yeah?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

I knew I would find you in
here. I told you, your lippy is fine.

- Now come on!
- I know.

I know, I'll just be a sec.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

ANSWERING MACHINE: Please
leave your message after the tone.

[BEEPS]

Hi Sergeant Fenn, Susan,
it's Harry Cunningham.

I was hoping I
could talk to you.

Look, I've spoken
to Phil at the FSS,

and he says he will be
able to do that P.G.C. test

on the scrap of paint
we found on Lee's body.

And I'll have the
result in a few days,

so I hope that's a help.

Okay, bye.

DE ROHAN: You wanted to go on
holiday, but not to her parents' house,

because you didn't like them,

- is that correct?
- No, no.

Well, sort of.

Why am I here?

The kids need me.

You'll see them soon, Mr. Doe.

There has to be an inquiry
to find out what happened.

DE ROHAN: I'm
sure you want that too.

I'm just the guy that
does the finding out.

NICK: The fire brigade
didn't tell me anything.

I mean, some of the
wiring was pretty old.

Was it that?

DE ROHAN: We'll let you see
the report when they've finished it.

But for now, you can help me

with a little more
background on Jane.

- I don't understand.
- Me neither,

but we'll get there.

Tell me about your
friend Miss Fraser.

Lynne?

She was Jane's friend really.

They got on well from the
minute we moved in to the area.

So, you wouldn't say
you were close to her

during your
marital difficulties?

What?

I didn't have any
marital difficulties.

DE ROHAN: You claim you were
with her in the park when the fire started.

She works near the park.

Then we went for a burger.

DE ROHAN: You'd
arranged to meet her there?

No!

I just bumped into her.

I can't believe you're
asking me these questions.

I told you,

it's background.

I want to see my kids, and I
want my photographs back.

Sensitively handled.

Oh come off it.

It's there on a plate.

Neighbors told us
they'd been rowing.

It's a life insurance scam.

He gets the girl,
she gets a sports car.

DE ROHAN: The hotel told
us he made a call last night.

We did a repeat,

and it turns out
it was to Lynne.

I wonder what that was about.

Maybe he needed comfort.

Surprisingly enough, people
tend to at times like this.

Or he was asking if she
wanted a soft or a hard top.

If you're so certain, then
why don't you arrest him?

We haven't got enough yet.

What was that about photographs?

No idea what he was on about.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

- Dr. Nikki Alexander.
- Up the stairs

NIKKI: Thanks.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

- Hi, D.I. Parry.
- Hi.

Samantha Christian. She
was out on her hen night.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Witnesses say she
went to the toilets.

Five minutes later,

she came staggering
back out and collapsed here.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAMERAS CLICKING]

There's coke on a
cistern in the toilets.

[PILLS RATTLE]

What do you think?

NIKKI: They could
be painkillers.

I'll get them checked.

There is a wound to the temple.

I can't see any
blood on the floor.

Can I take a
look in the toilets?

DE ROHAN: What was your
relationship with Jane Doe?

- She was my best friend.
- What about Nick?

What do you mean?

Your relationship with
Nick, Jane's husband.

He says you were together for about
an hour around midday yesterday.

DE ROHAN: Did you
often meet him like that?

No.

He was in the
playground with the kids.

LYNNE: I was
passing and saw him.

There's a large hedge grows
in front of the park railing.

You couldn't have seen him.

- I didn't actually see him.
- Through the hedge?

I saw him go into the
park and hurried after him.

DE ROHAN: He said he
first saw you by the play area.

That's when I
caught up with him.

I was on my lunch break.

What did you do
then for an hour?

We got a burger from
the cafe in the park,

LYNNE: watched the kids play,

and then I had to get back.

He rang me at work.

That's when I found
out what happened.

So, you had arranged
to meet Nick in the park?

No, I told you.

So, you just happened
to bump into him

so you could give him his alibi?

That's not what happened.

[DOOR OPENS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

DE ROHAN: Don't go away.

I'm close to a confession, Leo.

This better be good.

I've got the results
on Jane's clothing.

There are traces of accelerant
on her friendship bracelet

and on her right
cuff at the sleeve.

Nowhere else.

- Jane started the fire?
- Absolutely.

She's lying about something.

Okay, so say Nick and
Jane are in on it together?

What?

They decide to burn the
house for the insurance,

but something goes wrong.

Say Jane panics, they fight,
she falls to the floor. He runs?

The body shows no
evidence of a struggle.

All right, maybe she was
in the house on her own.

But that doesn't mean the
husband wasn't in on it too.

None of it explains
why she couldn't get out,

given that she had a key.

I've got a search warrant
for the house on the way over,

see if we can find some motive.

I'll come with you.

I want to take another
look at where she d*ed.

NIKKI: I'm finished here.

Verity and Heather,
Samantha's friends from work.

How much had Samantha drunk?

Nothing.

Sam never drank.

She didn't drink or smoke.

She was really healthy.

How old was she?



NIKKI: Did she say she was
feeling ill, anything like that?

No.

It was her hen night;
she was really up for it.

She was always really up for it.

Had she taken any dr*gs?

Sam never took dr*gs.

Really?

Look, if Samantha took
or was given anything,

you really need to tell us

so we can find out
what happened to her.

Okay, well there was some
stuff around, all right, but,

not Sam.

No way.

[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]

Here it is, plenty of
motive all neatly filed:

loans, overdrafts, mortgage
arrears, credit agreements.

At a quick glance, I reckon
it's just south of 40 grand.

There's no evidence
that Nick was involved.

There's no evidence
that he wasn't.

Can I see the inventory?

DE ROHAN: What for?

There is nothing
about photographs?

He said something about
his photos going missing.

I told you, we haven't
taken anything yet.

So where are they then?

Most people

have the odd photograph lying
around somewhere, don't they?

On the mantel piece, wherever.

Nothing.

They have kids, but there
aren't any school photos.

There is no art work on
the fridge in the kitchen.

There is nothing personal.

They moved them.

Not uncommon in insurance job.

People set the fire to
destroy the valuables

to claim insurance,

but can't bear to destroy little
Johnny's sports day certificate.

If Nick's as guilty
as you say he is,

then why draw attention to it?

All right.

What are you thinking?

I don't know yet.

What do we know about this fire?

The fire boys say she
shoved a wad of tissue paper

soaked in barbecue lighter fluid
down between the cushions here.

Splashing the accelerant
on herself as she does it.

Then she lights it.

Waits for it to catch,

and then she heads
for the front door.

But it's locked.

LEO: For some reason
she hasn't got her keys.

DE ROHAN: Why?

She couldn't remember
where she put them.

LEO: And if she does remember,

then she can't get back to
them because of the smoke.

So.

She tries to open the
door, scrabbling at the lock,

injures her fingers.

It's too late.

She makes for the
back door, collapses.

She's planned all this.

Maybe waited until
the husband's out.

Nah, I don't know.

DE ROHAN: Why didn't
she have the keys ready?

Maybe they weren't where
they were supposed to be.

[BUZZING]

- Mr. Finlayson.
- Can I see her?

I want to see her.

Yeah, follow me.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

When did you last see Samantha?

I went to see her at
work, yesterday afternoon.

Did she seem all right to you?

Yeah.

She was going on her hen night.

We were supposed to have
the wedding rehearsal today.

Do you know why she
was carrying these?

What are they?

NIKKI: We're
running tests on them,

but we think
they're painkillers.

We found them in Samantha's bag.

I don't know why
she'd have them.

She had an operation a few weeks
ago, just to get some moles removed.

But,

she didn't like taking dr*gs.

Everything had to be

homeopathic or natural.

Where did you meet?

MIKE: In a club.

It was through a
friend of mine, Verity.

She was my
girlfriend at the time.

How long ago?

MIKE: Six months.

But as soon as I
saw her, I knew.

We called for you at the hotel.

They told us you were here.

Do you recognize these?

Yes of course.

They're Jane's keys.

What's this about?

LEO: Where did she keep them?

Always in the same place,

on a table in the
hallway by the front door.

There was a table?

Yes, one I made
myself with the children.

Mr. Doe,

we have some new information
regarding your wife's death.

DE ROHAN: We have evidence
that she started the fire deliberately.

That's stupid.

There's no doubt, I'm afraid.

But why would she?

She was hoping to
claim on the insurance.

NICK: Sorry, I don't understand.

DE ROHAN: What can you tell us

about the state of you
and your wife's finances?

NICK: We were
all right, I think.

I'm not much good with all that.

Jane handled all the book work.

Would it surprise you to know that
you are almost 40,000 pounds in debt?

Yes.

I knew we owed on some stuff.

I didn't think we
were flush exactly,

but she said we were okay.

DE ROHAN: We think Jane removed
a number of items from the house

before she started the fire.

Personal effects and so on.

The table you
mentioned is also missing.

It's possible that by moving the
table she made a fatal mistake.

When she set the fire,

she forgot that the keys
weren't by the front door.

LEO: By the time she remembered
where they were, it was too late.

She couldn't get to them.

Creature of habit.

We're very sorry, Mr. Doe.

[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm so, so sorry Nick.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

LYNNE: It's all
there in the box.

Wedding pictures, photo albums,

stuff she really cared about.

You knew what
she was going to do?

No.

She just said she had a plan
to make everything all right.

LYNNE: She didn't say what.
- Didn't you even ask?

I never thought she'd do this.

She said,

she would lose you

when you were out shopping.

Asked me to find you

and make sure you didn't
come back for an hour.

She said that would
be long enough.

What did you think
was going to happen?

I don't know.

Clean the slate, she said.

LYNNE: She tried so hard.

But the credit got away from her,
and she didn't know how to tell you.

She should have said something.

We could have worked it out.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

This is the body of an
adult Caucasian female,

appearance consistent
with the stated age of 29.

There is a large bruise

and a laceration to the
left-hand side of her forehead.

The wound is
consistent with a fall

striking the forehead on a
corner surface as she went down.

NIKKI: She has
cuts in the eyelids.

Looks like she's had a
bit of cosmetic surgery.

Yes, and there are scars

suggesting she's had
liposuction at some point.

There's also a scar
at the bikini line.

Could be a Pfannenstiel
scar after a C-section.

She has moles on her body.

Here are what look like
some recent mole removals.

This one appears to be infected.

Must have been
extremely painful.

Hello, can I interest you in
our new mature skin range?

Remember me?

She loved her job.

Always had great nails.

She went to the gym
every morning before work.

Even brought her own
smoothies in for lunch.

- Look. I...
- She had this real vocation

to help people look better.

She taught me how to
do the perfect eye liner.

Do you know her fiancé, Mike?

A bit.

Verity's known him ages.

She went out with him first.

Is Verity here?

Was Samantha under
any pressure at work?

VERITY: We're all
under pressure at work.

Most of our pay is
commission on what we sell.

It's pretty competitive.

- She was good at it?
- Oh yeah.

But she said when she was
married, she was going to quit

and start her own
mail order company.

She was going to leave?

VERITY: She wanted
something of her own.

Time runs out for girls
like us in this business.

You used to go out with Mike.

Mike and I weren't
serious or anything.

He was just a guy, you know?

So, you weren't wishing it
was your hen night or anything?

Look,

Mike is sweet, okay?

But he was never
going to be the one.

Results are through on those
tablets you found in her bag.

Prescription only painkillers.

Thanks, I thought so.

There are no obvious signs of
previous surgery to the uterus and tubes

that could account
for that bikini line scar.

She's had a tummy tuck.

Could be.

She's had a lot
of other stuff done.

The aortic valve is bicuspid
and has vegetations.

NIKKI: There's the
likely cause of death.

HARRY: Staphylococcus
aureus probably.

Looks like bacterial
endocarditis.

And the infection
from the mole removal

must have reached her heart.

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Can you send that
for testing please?

TECH: Sure.

She's got a lot more atheroma
in her coronary arteries

than you'd expect to
see in a 29-year-old.

Early stages.

That's odd in someone so young.

[CELLPHONE RINGS]

- Hi, it's Nikki Alexander.
- Oh, Hi Nikki.

PM says we're looking
at natural causes,

and the tox shows no
sign of dr*gs or alcohol.

There was something
strange, though.

Could you access her
personnel records for me?

HARRY: How are we doing?



Her P45 says so.

How old is she
meant to be again?

According to her friends, 29.

HARRY: You are joking.

Good on her.

Externally, she was
in good condition.

Her skin and muscle tone
pointed to someone in their 20s.

[BEEPER BEEPS] Sorry, a message.

The Coroner's
going to love this one.

Thanks for all your help.

I'll get my report
to you tomorrow.

Message from Susan.

She wants to meet after her
shift to talk about that P.G.C. test.

HARRY: You want to come?

I've got to meet
Samantha's fiancé.

Are you going to tell
him about her age?

Do you think I should?

Well if does know,
there's no harm done.

What if he doesn't?

If he doesn't, then

he'll either hear it from you
or from her death certificate.

She had a heart condition?

Yes, what's called a
bicuspid aortic valve.

It's genetic.

NIKKI: She may well not have
known that she had it herself.

It's something that can sit
unnoticed in all of us for years.

But unfortunately,

her most recent
operation to remove a mole

resulted in an infection,
and the infection traveled

to this vulnerable
place in her heart.

Right

Mike,

there's something else
that I think I should tell you.

You're going to tell me
that she was pregnant.

No, she wasn't pregnant.

Oh, I thought she might be.

Her period was late.

Right,

no, it wasn't that.

NIKKI: How old was Samantha?



You see, we've discovered

that she was actually
rather older than that.

How old?



I'm sorry.

I know it must be a shock.

It's probably none
of my business,

but I thought it was better
that you found out from me.

Are you certain?

We've had it confirmed
by work records.

But she looked amazing.

She looked incredible,

and she must have worked
very hard to look that good.

She did.

I used to call her
the Sunday Times

because she had so
many supplements.

Could she have had
children at that age?

It's very unlikely

if her periods were
starting to be irregular.

In fact,

that may have been the
onset of the menopause.

She knew that I wanted children!

She knew it!

Why didn't she tell me?

Would you have stayed
with her if she'd told you?

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Thank you.

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IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]