SEAGULLS CALL
HE MOANS Stop it.
Oh, come on. No, stop.
I have to go. No, you don't.
Come on. Oh, grow up!
HE SCOFFS
SHE SIGHS
DOOR OPENS, CLOSES
SHE PANTS
MOBILE RINGS
SHE SIGHS
You've already said this.
'Hello, gorgeous.
How you doing?'
Tell me you've booked your tickets,
or I'm bloody well hunting you down.
Time we met face to face.
'I'm sorry, but the person
you called is not available.'
CAR LOCK CHIRPS
'Not long now, though.'
I'll let you go.
'See you soon.' OK.
SHE WHIMPERS, SOBS
YELLING: No, please!
Open up, you scumbag!
Sorry to bother you,
but we've got two guests
saying some woman's kicking
off outside the Fairmont Suite.
Mr Simmons.
SHE SOBS
CAR LOCK CHIRPS
Mr Simmons?
ENGINE STARTS
It's the manager, is
everything all right?
I'm letting myself in,
Mr Simmons. LOCK BEEPS
Mr Simmons?
THEY GASP
CAMERA FLASH
Room was booked in the
name of Travis Simmons.
Staff say he's been a
regular this past six months,
every couple of weeks.
Always the same suite,
always paid in cash.
No sign of a m*rder weapon.
It looks like the coffee
table did most of the damage.
And we've got two witnesses
saying they saw a woman,
maybe late 30s, brown hair,
shouting and screaming
in the hallway.
There are cameras in the
lobby and in the lifts.
Pull the tapes.
See when this woman
arrived, when she left.
Do we have any ID?
No, nothing at all.
And there was some cash
in his trouser pockets.
And there's this.
It looks like a burner to me.
OK, let's get that
to Digital Forensics.
I wanna know who
he was talking to.
HE SIGHS
And get a positive ID
on Mr Simmons here.
Let's find out who he was.
'Hey, darling, it's me again.
'Look, I just wanted to say, I'm so
lucky to have met someone like you.
'You're my soulmate,
you know that?'
SHE SOBS
SHE SIGHS LIGHTLY
You're sure you're gonna
be... It's.. It's OK.
I'm ready.
SHE INHALES STEADILY,
EXHALES SLOWLY
Well, in that case, I've got
you a possible m*rder victim.
Male, 30s, head trauma.
Found in a hotel room
last night, no ID.
That's... very
thoughtful of you [!]
You OK?
Ari?
What you got there? Ah!
Oh, nothing. Erm, just work.
And I'd better be going,
I'm short-staffed again.
All right.
HORN BEEPS
Er, you might wanna consider
a different parking spot.
Might wanna consider
minding your own business.
All right, listen up, please.
As you know, we have our new
team member joining us today. Hi.
DC Vee Wilde.
Impressive track record, and I'm
very happy to welcome her on board.
Bella, I would like you to work
with Vee, help her get settled in.
Be my pleasure.
OK. Travis Simmons.
What have we got so far?
Ah, more than we
thought we would.
It seems like two women
visited Travis last night.
So, say hello to Woman A.
Green coat, red
hair, shoulder-bag.
hotel with Travis Simmons.
We've got them on the lobby
cameras coming out of the lift
and heading towards
the Fairmont Suite.
She stays in there with Travis
for... more than two hours.
Then she leaves at 8:17pm.
She goes into the lift...
..across the lobby...
and here she is in the
street, walking away.
Now, this is where
it gets weird.
Three minutes later, she
changes her mind, comes back.
Except this time, the lobby
cameras don't pick her up.
And she doesn't use the lifts.
Takes the stairs?
Yeah, looks like it.
I mean, there's no CCTV in the
stairwell or the corridors.
And... I think she knows that.
Mm. Yeah, this feels deliberate.
Like she's trying not
to be seen this time.
Well, say hello to Woman B.
Brown hair, denim jacket.
She enters the hotel at 8:31pm,
and up she goes to the third floor.
And this is where the
disturbance happened?
Yeah, look here.
So, Mr and Mrs Tanner
come out of the lift
and see her hammering on Travis's
door, swearing up a storm.
They go back downstairs and
let the duty manager know.
While they're doing
that, Woman B leaves.
Lift to the ground floor,
and out through the lobby.
Then at 8:38pm, we have
the duty manager arriving.
At which point, Travis is dead.
Woman A, where's she now?
Well, she's not in the room
when the duty manager goes in.
And we haven't got
her leaving the hotel.
She's vanished.
I checked, and there's a fire exit
at the bottom of the stairwell
that goes into a side street.
She must've gone out that way.
So, according to this timeline, they
both have a window of opportunity?
So... Travis Simmons.
Er, several hits for that name, but
there's nothing that matches up.
Maybe it's an alias - burner
phone, cash for the room...
Maybe Travis was having himself an
affair and wanted to keep it quiet.
Nick, get Digital Forensics
to hurry on the burner phone.
The sooner we find out who
this Travis Simmons really is,
the sooner this is going
to start making sense.
All right. Thanks, everyone.
So, what are we looking for?
Well, I've got this.
What you could do is file and
tag the crime scene evidence.
Do you want me to... organise
the paperclips and...
sort the rubber bands
by size while I'm at it?
Well, the devil's in the
detail. Everything matters.
CHUCKLING: OK. Wax
on, wax off. Whatever.
NOTIFICATION PINGS
I think I might have
something. Let's hear it.
I was going through the
evidence, er, that I was tagging,
that the search team
found in the hotel room.
And they found a hotel room key
in our guy's trouser pocket.
But it's for a different
hotel. The Brighton Central.
Nice catch.
Nick, Travis Simmons'
real name is Toby Seward.
He's a manager for a
Levinson Logistics.
Can you get me his
home address? Thanks.
Front desk says he was
in Brighton on business.
Business? So, Levinson puts
him up here on the company tab,
but Toby splashes his own cash
on a seafront suite for
a special lady friend.
And he's done it before. Been
going on for six months or so.
Long enough for a
wife to find out...
..and maybe do
something about it.
Mm.
POLICE RADIO CHATTER
What's happened here?
Someone really went to town.
Did you run the plates?
Yes, Sir. It's registered
to a Toby Seward.
We need to find out
exactly when this happened.
Someone vandalises his car on
the same night that he's k*lled.
PHONE BUZZES
Nick, what've you got?
So, Toby Seward's home
address is in London.
He's married. His wife's
name is Charlotte. Two kids.
And when I called his
house, I got the babysitter,
because his wife is
visiting Brighton.
'We're checking on the
place that she's staying.'
SHE COUGHS
SHE SOBS
NICK: The only number
in Toby's burner phone
belongs to an Emily Harton.
Turns out she works at
the same company as him.
Managed to get her photo
from their website.
That's Woman A from the CCTV.
Yeah, and she's visiting Brighton
on business, just like Toby.
I've got a hotel reservation in
her name, but she's not there.
I want someone at the
hotel waiting for her.
No-one slips through
the net, OK? Guys?
Er, I've been running plates
on all vehicles near the
Lenore Hotel last night,
and Charlotte Seward's
car was parked nearby.
So Toby's wife is our Woman B.
SHE INHALES SHARPLY
No, I was just there, and
the car is gone, so...
'There's no record
of that...' No, I...
Good afternoon. 'Those
spaces are reserved for CID.'
Well, I am CID, so what's the
problem with parking in CID spaces?
Vee? 'Was your
permit displayed?'
What permit? Vee!
Thank you.
We're all conscious of increased
organised criminal g*ng
activity in Brighton recently.
Now, in response to this,
the Chief is authorising the
creation of a new OCG taskforce.
We will be creating
a dedicated database
into which we will
log all OCG activity.
Glenn, I want you across that.
Nick, you will be
logging known players,
building up association charts
so that we can connect any new
faces with the existing framework.
Any sniff of an organised crime
element, and it comes to my desk.
Understood? Thank you.
Sir.
You know how stretched
we are right now...
Upstairs have said that this
is a priority, and they...
They're not exactly happy.
So... we're just gonna
have to make space.
Look...
SOFTLY: The incident at the
stadium, the situation with Sandy,
it's a lot on your plate.
If you feel the need
to step back, then...
I don't feel the need.
Good. I'm just...
..concerned for your wellbeing.
I'm fine. Thanks.
All right, then.
He looked cheerful. Mm.
He's concerned for my
wellbeing, apparently.
GLENN CHUCKLES Well,
makes a nice change.
Tell me you've got good
news. Actually, I do.
We have just picked
up Toby's wife.
Cause of death was blunt
trauma to the head.
There are some small signs
of a struggle before that.
But we also found hair samples from
two sources different to Mr Seward.
Waiting on DNA from those.
It's not the
reaction I expected.
SOFTLY: Yeah.
She's in shock.
Tears come later.
I-I followed him.
I wanted him to know
he was caught. I was...
CLEARS HER THROAT ..angry.
Oh, we can't afford a new kitchen,
and it turns out the reason why
is Toby's blowing all his money
on suites at the Lenore, so...
You waited outside the hotel
for Emily Harton to leave?
I sat in the car, and I
waited for her to leave.
And then I went up,
and I lost it. I...
SHE INHALES SHAKILY
I banged on his door
and shouted at him.
And when he opened the
door...? He didn't.
And at first, I thought
he was hiding in there.
You know, too scared to
face the music. But then...
I don't know, I...
..I started to think
maybe he'd done a runner.
Or maybe he'd gone out for a drink,
and I just hadn't seen him go.
So...
..after a while, I'm just
standing in the hallway,
feeling like a bloody idiot.
So I left.
How did you hurt your hand?
Ah, I, er...
I cut myself.
On broken glass. From
the coffee table.
N-No, erm...
SHE CHUCKLES Just from a car.
You mean this car?
SHE EXHALES SHAKILY
It was later. I was on my
way back to a friend's place,
and I-I saw it parked across
the street and just...
Look, I couldn't take it out on him,
so I took it out on the car instead.
It's stupid.
But you wanted to
take it out on him?
I... I didn't mean
that! I just...
Look, I don't know what
I meant. I was angry.
I-I wanted to shout
at him, scream at him.
Not k*ll him.
Someone else apart from Emily
was definitely in that room.
I mean, look, if we can prove
that it was Charlotte...
Emily Harton just came
back to her hotel.
Uniform are bringing her in.
Er, boss, I was just wondering if
I could sit in on the interview.
No, I think it's better
if we take this one.
Maybe next time.
KNOCK ON DOOR
You wanted to see me?
Ari, come in. Sit down.
This shouldn't take long.
Tell us about your
treatment of Beth Dankworth.
She presented with sepsis.
I prescribed an initial IV
infusion of 500mg amoxicillin.
She had an adverse reaction.
The team did everything we could.
It was just terrible bad luck.
You knew the patient was
allergic to this medication?
What?
No. She wasn't.
There was no note.
It was clearly
logged on the system.
Did you see her
before prescribing?
Er, no, I...
Did you check her records
before prescribing?
Yes, of-of course! But...
there was no allergy recorded.
Ari, anyone can make a mistake.
It's better for you if you
hold your hands up to this now,
and then we can work
together... to manage it. OK?
I didn't miss it.
It wasn't there.
OK, so this means we'll
do a full investigation.
You're suspended
pending the outcome.
Do not talk to anyone
on the team about this.
Don't try to get your story
straight, anything like that.
Do you understand?
ARI SIGHS
There was a conference in
Seattle three years ago.
And we hooked up.
And that was it for a while.
Toby was in America,
and I was in Edinburgh.
But then six months ago, he got
transferred to London, and...
we picked up where we left off.
Like last night.
You met at his hotel,
slept together...
And when you left... how was he?
He was fine.
He was irritated.
We were supposed to spend
the whole evening together,
but I got a call from work.
The Seattle office needed
me on a video conference.
He was saying, "Tell
them you can't."
He wanted me to stay.
So, you had a fight? No.
I left. That's all.
And then you changed your
mind and went back. What?
Yes. That's me.
And that's you again,
three minutes later.
No.
I went back to my hotel.
You said he was
irritated with you.
I told you we didn't fight.
Well, maybe not at first.
But then you're walking away, your
argument stewing in your mind.
You decide to go
back and finish it.
That's not what happened. We're
not saying it was deliberate.
Maybe Toby slipped,
hit his head.
I mean, it's normal
to panic, to run away.
I am telling you, that's not me!
OK. Run it back to where
Emily Harton leaves the hotel.
Now pause it there.
What is it?
The guy with the bike
in the green helmet.
Bella, can you show me the other
camera from when she arrives?
But can you put it side by side?
Right, pause it there.
It's the same guy.
He's preparing to pull
away from the hotel
at 8:17 and at 8:20.
The timestamps are out of sync.
sh*t. So, Emily Harton
leaves the hotel...
..at 8:17 and walks in this
direction down the street,
and at the exact same moment...
..she appears from here
and approaches the hotel
from the direction of the
pub across the street.
Yeah. She was
telling the truth.
It's not her.
This is someone new.
This is someone else.
Someone that's
disguised themselves
to look like Toby
Steward's mistress
and knows exactly how to evade
the hotel security cameras.
Right, so, Toby, he's in his room,
but he says goodbye to Emily,
and there's a knock
at the door, and...
He looks through the spyhole,
and maybe she's turned her
back or turned her head away.
He notices the...
the green jacket, the red
hair... and opens the door.
There wasn't two women that visited
Toby in his hotel that night.
There was three.
MAN: She's through there.
Right, give me a hand.
Let's get her down.
HUBBUB
We've got credit card ID
from the pub on Woman C.
She was in there last night
for a couple of hours.
Her name is Georgina Driver.
Can you run that right now?
Yeah, get me
anything you've got.
Yeah, sure, I'll hang on.
Starting to wonder how many
affairs Toby was having.
Yeah, go on.
OK.
You're not gonna like this.
She's a suspected suicide.
I'm sorry, sir.
What is going on? You're
going to have to leave.
Not until I find out
who wrote this sh*t.
This says he's dead! Says his
name's something it isn't!
Are you people just
making stuff up now?
Hey... Who's in charge?!
According to our intelligence,
Georgina Driver was
an investment banker.
No parents living. They're
tracing a brother in London.
PHONE BEEPS
It looks like forensics ran
the DNA they had for Georgina.
It matches the hair sample and
skin samples from Toby Seward...
..which means she was definitely in
the room with him before he died.
She knew Toby somehow.
And she was watching him long
enough to know his movements,
to know that he
was seeing Emily.
Yeah. So, what are
we missing here?
What did Uniform take?
A laptop, phone, ID.
But not the car keys.
Roy.
That's how she got
Toby to open the door.
Yeah. By preparing a
disguise, staking him out.
You say Uniform took a laptop.
Yeah. Maybe there's something on it.
Suicide note?
You said it yourself -
a woman scorned is the
oldest motive in the book.
We just got the wrong woman.
OK, but why should Georgina
be jealous of Toby and Emily?
She's not in Toby's burner.
She's not in his main phone.
So how does she even know him?
Let alone well enough
to want him dead.
Roy, the brother's here.
OK, er, Nick, Bobby, keep on
this. There must be something.
Georgie had a great
job. A great place.
Everything was good.
There's no way she'd
have done this.
I know this is an
intrusive thing to ask,
but what about alcohol
or substance abuse?
Anything that might
have... What, drugs? No.
She... She doesn't even
drink. What, not at all?
She used to. Erm...
She was a bit of a wild thing,
you know, when we were kids.
Georgina the party animal.
But she got her head
down, went to uni.
Got a first in Economics.
And what about relationships?
Was she seeing anyone?
I don't think so.
Do you, er...?
Do you know this man?
No. Sorry. Maybe someone
at her work might know him.
You worked with Georgina Driver?
Yeah, I was her PA
until they let her go.
Georgina was fired? Why?
She made some mistakes
just recently.
It was like her mind
wasn't on the job properly.
We lost a few clients
because of it.
Why do you think her
mind wasn't on the job?
Was it... something personal?
Something... outside
of work, maybe?
Yeah. Arran, I
think. Her boyfriend.
Tell me about him. He's
in the Army. Overseas.
Do you know how they met?
Like, a professional
network or something.
You said that Georgina's
mind wasn't on her job...
She'd been seeing him for a
while, and it was all fine,
but, like, a month back, it
just... it just went wrong.
And she told me not to
take his calls any more,
and she said that he
wasn't what he seemed.
Is this him? Yeah,
that's Arran.
HE SIGHS
SOFTLY: Come on. Come on.
Georgina Driver's
bank statements.
She was doing pretty
nicely a year ago,
but since then, transfer,
transfer, transfer.
She's remortgaged her flat, too.
Money troubles, boyfriend troubles,
and then she loses the job.
Find out where the money went.
Roy. Uniform just cautioned
and released a bloke
who was kicking off in the
Brighton Argus offices.
He was shouting that
this isn't Toby Seward.
It's someone called
Hans, apparently.
Do you have an address?
Down here.
DOORBELL RINGS
KNOCKING ON DOOR
Mr Brookes?
Roy.
KNOCKING ON DOOR Mr Brookes?
Jarvis. Jarvis.
DAN ON SPEAKERPHONE:
'You, cooking?
'Let me guess - you're gonna put
turmeric and chilli in a stew
'and call it a day.
'You're lucky you're sexy,
'cos your cooking sounds
like a disaster zone.'
Er, my dad is right here.
Hi, Dan. 'Hi, Johnny.'
DOORBELL RINGS I'll get it.
So, I take it you've been
in Morocco, too, then.
'Eight months stationed there.
'We were working
with rural clinics,
'training the staff, getting
the local kids vaccinated.'
You're amazing.
'Seriously, I can't
wait to see you.'
Something smells good. Oh,
Lou's here. Er, have to go.
'I'll phone you later.
Enjoy your meal.
'Love you.' I love you, too.
Get a room.
Jarvis Brookes - 47, worked
as a personal trainer
at Brighton and Hove Boxing Gym.
Looks like a painkiller
overdose, but we'll run tests.
Two suicides in a day? Yeah.
And both linked to Toby Seward.
The custody sergeant said
that he'd calmed down
by the time they released him.
He looked almost ashamed.
Apologised for all the fuss,
said that he made a mistake
about his boyfriend, Hans.
Well, he's behind on his
rent and his electric.
So, money trouble again.
Just like Georgina.
Gaming station, it's still on.
ROY SIGHS
So, he comes home, makes
himself something to eat,
plays some games...
..and then ends it all.
Oh, let's get Vee to run
a reverse image search
on Toby's face first
thing tomorrow.
Georgina thought he
was called Arran.
Jarvis thought he
was called Hans.
Let's find out what other
names he's been using.
SHE SIGHS
SHE SCOFFS
Look, this is bullshit.
I mean, Jarvis would never
do something like that.
And he was on a real high
lately because of Hans.
The man was in love.
How did they meet? Online
gaming, would you believe?
Pinned down in some foxhole,
and they're, like,
swapping life stories,
getting in each other's DMs.
Did you meet Hans? No.
Well, Hans was in Germany.
Well... Jarvis, he had a
little spring in his step,
said he was off to meet
a friend the other day.
I figured a cheeky
hook-up was on the cards.
HE GRUNTS, PADLOCK CLICKS
This is Arran Taylor,
Georgina's boyfriend.
And this is Hans Weber,
Jarvis's boyfriend.
Neither of them exist,
but you wouldn't be able to
tell from looking online.
Both have accounts on all
major social media platforms.
That photo of Hans you
found at the gym...
That is actually from a
corporate skiing event
that Toby Seward was at
in Aspen seven years ago.
On Hans' social media, it's tagged
as a holiday from last year.
Both of these guys have entire lives
that someone's created for them,
all ripped from Toby
Seward's online footprint.
So if Jarvis or Georgina
did an online search
for their boyfriend...?
They'd find all of this, and it
would look like the real thing.
I think we should concentrate
our resources on this,
just really focus the search.
Yeah. Er, that's
all I have, Sir.
Thank you, Vee.
So...
It looks like Toby
wasn't involved at all.
This is identity theft.
Oh, this is catfishing.
Someone out there using
Toby's face as bait.
Our victim falls for
him, thinks he's the one,
and then, when
they're on the hook,
whoever's really behind it
starts asking them for money.
HE SIGHS
I mean, Georgina was
in a lot of debt,
and we can't trace any
of those bank transfers.
So she finds the man she
thinks is responsible,
sees that he's having an affair,
and it just confirms
everything that she suspected.
But it's the wrong guy.
I mean, this is why we weren't
able to figure out a motive.
Toby Seward was never
Georgina's target.
Arran was, and
Arran doesn't exist.
So Toby opens the door to some woman
he's never seen before in his life,
and she's accusing him
of stealing all her money
and betraying her in love.
But it gets out of hand, they
struggle, he falls and then...
HE EXHALES SHARPLY
I mean, she must've been
horrified at what she'd done.
If this is a catfishing scam,
then whoever's behind it
could literally be anywhere
with an internet connection.
Moscow, Mumbai...
But if this is a global scam...
..what are the odds that two of
its victims are local to each other
and both die on the same
day, and by suicide?
There's actually a
charity for this.
They run a phone line you
can call if you've been had,
online fraud, that
kind of thing.
They have a local office which
takes calls for our area.
Might be worth talking to.
Most of our staff
are volunteers.
We have a helpline, and we offer
support through our website, too.
There's more and more
catfishing these days.
It's horrible. Tears
people's lives apart.
And with AI and
deepfake and all that,
sometimes, you can't
even tell the difference.
Well, we just wanna know more
about how it usually works.
Rupert does most
of the online work.
The typical romance fraud starts
by finding out about your victim.
And with everything
online these days,
that means just scraping
somebody's social media data,
scanning who they follow, and
just building up a picture.
I mean, romance fraud is
just the worst, emotionally.
I mean, you don't just lose money.
You lose... trust, self-esteem.
Cos you've been played by
someone you thought was the one.
That hits hard.
Did either Georgina Driver or Jarvis
Brookes call the hotline here?
Well, I can check, actually.
No. Sorry.
I mean, we've had two victims
of this kind of fraud in a week.
Two deaths.
Statistically, like,
isn't that unusual?
Hm, sadly, I don't
think it is, no.
I mean, you go a
whole year without one
and then a couple
turn up together.
It's just like the law of
averages being lumpy, really.
Also, Brighton does get
targeted, like London.
I mean, there's money
here. They know that.
So, who exactly is "they"?
Teams of scammers, usually.
I mean, they work in shifts.
Erm, they'll rent out a
whole office block in, like,
downtown Jakarta or something.
But sometimes we do notify the
local police to get them taken down,
but they just spring
back up again.
The cause of death for Jarvis
Brookes was opioid overdose,
which is consistent with swallowing
most of a bottle of painkillers.
But...
..the active constituents
were evenly distributed
throughout the GI tract.
That's strange, almost like the
pills were ground down into a powder
before he swallowed them.
So, forensics took Jarvis's
prints from the pill bottle?
A good clean set, right hand,
on the bottle and the lid.
I think we need to pay another
visit to Georgina's flat.
So, what was Georgina's height?
So her feet were about there?
Yeah. That looks right.
So, if she really
did k*ll herself,
she must've learned
to levitate first.
You think it was m*rder?
But there was no
sign of a struggle...
Yeah, there wasn't
with Jarvis either.
Yeah, well, Jarvis took pills.
That's what we're
supposed to think.
Clean prints, right hand, on
the pill bottle and on the lid.
How you do hold a pill
bottle in your right hand
and open it with the same hand?
Let's get a tox
screen on Georgina
and get Digital Forensics
to take another look at
the victim's devices.
See if we can find spyware
or tracking software.
What, you think
they're being watched?
Well, whoever did this knew
exactly when she was home.
Same with Jarvis.
If you've scammed someone out of
their life savings, why k*ll them?
Why not sit back and
enjoy your winnings?
This isn't some
catfisher in Mumbai,
this is a k*ller right
here in Brighton.
Digital Forensics are saying
two separate sets of files
were deleted from
Georgina's laptop.
That's it. So, these, we
recovered from her hard drive.
They were just dragged to the
trash and deleted the normal way,
so Bobby and her team were
able to get them back.
We reckon Georgina
deleted these herself,
but her messages and
emails are gone too,
and whoever did that
did it surgically.
"Whoever did that"?
So, it wasn't her?
You'd need serious computer skills
to erase them that forensically.
And it looks like they were deleted
after Georgina's death, not before.
Someone's covering their tracks.
DAN ON COMPUTER CALL: 'It'll
be sorted soon, I promise.
'My lawyer's all over it,
'and the moment it's resolved,
I can pay you back properly.'
There's no rush. 'But
I hate owing you money.
'I want to be the one buying you
things, not asking for help.'
Dan, please. I know
it's not your fault.
Anyway, I'm happy I can help.
I don't deserve you.
'Don't say that.'
It's true, though.
You help people.
You're a good person.
'And you help me.
'The good news is it
should be over very soon,
'and then we can be together.'
Oh, I can't wait.
Look, I'm gonna
call you later, OK?
'All right.
'Love you.' Love you too.
SMACKS LIPS, CHUCKLES
EXHALES SHARPLY
GRACE: Our suicide victims
were both m*rder*d.
We ran a tox screen
on Georgina Driver
and found the exact same amount
of opioids in her bloodstream
that k*lled Jarvis Brookes.
Digital Forensics have been
over the victims' devices.
Look, if there ever was any
surveillance software on them,
it's long gone, along with
their messages and emails.
But the k*ller's still
made mistakes - twice.
The length of the
extension cable,
and the fact that Jarvis' bottle of
pills was ground down into a powder
so they could be
hidden in his food.
So, what else in this
picture is not adding up?
Jarvis Brookes as
a victim. Exactly.
I mean, look, Georgina Driver
lost 300k with Arran, right?
But you saw what
Jarvis's place was like.
His life savings were 20 grand.
That would've been
everything to him, though.
No, of course. Look,
not saying it wasn't,
but if money's your aim and you
can score 300k off Georgina,
then why bother with a
little fish like Jarvis?
Maybe it wasn't about the money.
Maybe it was something
else, something personal.
One of them was an investment
banker in a fancy apartment,
the other was a personal
trainer in a basement flat.
I mean, they're worlds apart.
Maybe now.
What about in the past?
Jarvis got into personal
training about ten years ago.
Erm, before that,
he was a bouncer.
He worked at the night
club Under The Arches.
Yeah, and Georgina went
straight into banking after uni.
I mean, she was fast-tracked.
She's got no hits on the database.
She kept her nose clean. Yeah.
What was it her brother
said, though? Erm...
She kept her head down
at uni, but before that.
Yeah, he said before that, she
ran wild for a bit as a teenager.
Call the brother.
Find out if Georgina ever
went clubbing at that place,
Under The Arches.
Yeah, I know him. Jarvis.
Worked for us, oh, I
dunno, about 15 years ago.
Good lad.
How comes he left?
Ah, he took himself
out the business.
It was some kind of bother,
court case, I think,
and he'd had enough.
He said he wanted to run a gym.
How's he doing? We're
investigating his m*rder.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Like I said, good lad.
I hope you don't think I'm
intruding, Mrs Balkwill.
Well, there's nothing
wrong, is there?
Oh, no, no. Nothing at all.
In fact, I'm really only
here to tell you that...
..because Sandy's no longer missing,
that we're closing her case file.
And I just wanted to offer
my condolences in person.
That's very good
of you. Thank you.
I can't imagine how hard this
must have been for you and Derek.
Well... it's all the questions.
All the things we wish we knew,
things we wish we
could have helped with.
And you didn't... speak
with Sandy before the end?
We wanted to, of course.
We called the hospital, but...
..she didn't want
to speak to us.
I'm so sorry.
Oh, Bruno!
What are you doing over there?
Well, come on, come and
say hello to Cassian.
Hello. Hello, Bruno.
Well, I, erm... I need
to get back, but, er...
it was good to see you.
Mm. And you, Bruno.
Sixteen years ago, Jarvis
Brookes was a bouncer
at the night club that
Georgina frequented.
He is a witness in a court case.
Now, the case involved
a guy named Ben Close,
who was a dealer in the club,
used to deal to his friends.
Ben was 18.
One night, he spiked a girl's drink,
and she wandered into traffic,
she got hit by a delivery van
and ended up in a wheelchair.
The case went to trial.
Ben got six years.
There were four witnesses
who testified against him -
Jarvis Brookes was one of them.
He testifies that he'd seen Ben
dealing several times before,
so prior behaviour.
The other witnesses were
friends of the girl who got hit.
Now, their identities
were redacted
because they were all
minors at the time.
But one of the friends...
..was Georgina
Driver. She was 16.
So out of the four witnesses who
testified, what, two are now dead?
This was never
just a money scam.
I think this was something
personal all along.
Did we manage to get the
photo yet of this Ben Close?
Yep. Just a sec.
Here it is.
What?
Is that...? Yeah. Oh, sh*t!
Get uniform down
there. Come on!
I'm telling you, he's not
here. We can't reach him.
What's his address? I don't
know! We've lost everything.
All our computers are
wiped. Everything's gone.
All our records, our back-ups,
even the stuff on the
cloud's been erased.
We've been trying
to reach Rupert.
I mean, he's so good with
computers, we thought he could help,
but his phone's disconnected, and
emails are just bouncing back.
Nah.
You know, maybe you should
think about online dating.
Dad... come on.
I'm not like Sam. Hey...
You are super, sweetheart.
Now, you think about it. OK?
DAN: 'It won't be
like this forever.'
I really do hate to keep asking.
'I'm working on it, I really am.'
BEN: I mean, they owe me,
like, three months' leave now.
It's just every time,
something comes up.
It's driving me
crazy. 'Yeah. Me too.
'You just need to
get over here. Soon.'
Yeah, tell me about
it. I can't wait.
I've got a mate who
works in scheduling.
I'm trying to convince
him he owes me a favour.
'Well, you work
hard at that, OK?'
WHISPERS: 'I'll make
it worth your while.'
Damn!
AS DAN: 'Damn! It's a
date, then. I'm on it.
'Look, I've gotta go.
'The medical supplies we've been
waiting for have just come in.'
BEN: We need to get them
out to the teams fast.
'Of course. I love you.'
AS DAN: 'I love you too.'
EXHALES SHARPLY
Louise Fordwater.
This was taken 16 years ago, just
before she stumbled into traffic
and was hit by a delivery van.
Our tox screen at the hospital found
her system awash with ketamine.
She suffered permanent spinal
cord damage as a result.
The case was taken to trial.
Now, there was four witnesses
for the prosecution.
KEYBOARD CLICKS
Jarvis Brookes. Bouncer at
the nightclub. Now dead.
Georgina Driver, 16 at the time.
One of a group of teenagers who went
out clubbing with Louise that night.
Also now dead.
Sam Fordwater, Louise's
younger sister, 15.
And Lena Cartwright,
another friend.
Now, the girls
were all underage.
She used to blag their way into
the club regularly, apparently.
Which brings us to this man...
..Ben Close,
AKA Rupert Thomas when we met him
at the Centre for Fraud Awareness.
Now, Ben was Louise Fordwater's
boyfriend at the time.
He was 18. He had a couple
of run-ins, a caution.
He's got a reputation for
being a small-time dealer.
Now, the other teenagers
testified to having seen Ben
spike Louise's drink that
night with some kind of powder.
Why'd he do it, if
they were together?
Well, seems like they'd had
a falling out - a quarrel.
The girls who were with Louise
said that he was pissed off,
like he was looking
for a fight. OK.
Now, Ben Close was
sentenced to six years.
When he got out, he left
Brighton. Dropped off the radar.
But now he's back.
So we have to assume
that Lena Cartwright
and Sam and Louise Fordwater
are next on Ben's list.
We need to find them,
and we need to find him.
It isn't gonna be easy.
We know he's clever.
We know he's methodical.
I've just got a hit on
a last-known contact.
It's Ben's dad. He
still lives locally.
I ain't seen him
since he got out.
He come here, he took his
stuff, he buggered off.
Australia, I heard. What
was he doing in Australia?
Do I look like I give a toss?
He's your son, isn't he?
Maybe if you'd been there for
him, shown him some interest,
things might have worked out
a little bit differently.
Woulda, shoulda, coulda.
Can we talk to Ben's mother?
Not unless you've
got a Ouija board.
She k*lled herself, right
after he got sent down.
I'm sorry.
Dunno why you'd be sorry
- you never knew her.
She was always mental.
I couldn't deal with it.
Ben was a little
mummy's boy, though.
Thick as thieves, them two.
Just pushed her over the edge...
..seeing her kid...
done like that.
Anyway... she ain't
my problem no more.
Well, thanks for your help.
If Ben makes contact,
call us immediately.
Don't hold your breath.
'Ben's lost everything.'
This is revenge.
Yeah, he takes away their money,
their hope, their self-worth,
and then stages their death to
make it look like a suicide.
Georgina's laptop. "I was
a b*tch. I deserve this."
Remember? That wasn't
a suicide note.
That was him, labelling
her, blaming her.
He's justifying what
he's done. PHONE BUZZES
Bella. 'Roy, we've
got an update.'
Er, OK. Hang on.
OK, go ahead.
'Looks like our fourth
witness, Lena Cartwright,
'might have moved abroad.
'But Sam Fordwater,
the victim's sister -
'she's still here in Brighton.'
Could I ask you to
turn your phone off
while we talk, please,
Miss Fordwater?
It's on silent.
Turn it off completely, please.
SHE EXHALES
There's really no
easy way to say this.
We think you're the
victim of fraud.
A kind of online dating scam.
This man you've been
seeing - Daniel?
He may not be who he says he is.
EXASPERATED: That's impossible.
I know him.
I-I've seen him
a thousand times.
Is this him?
SHE SIGHS No.
SHE CHUCKLES
See, Dad? They've
made a mistake.
This guy's not even
close to my type.
That doesn't mean anything.
It could be a different face.
Different...? This...
No, this is nonsense.
Can I ask...
your sister, Louise -
is she seeing anyone?
No.
Wait, you think this guy
might be after Louise as well?
Well, we're just exploring
all possibilities.
But why?
If it's a fraud,
why both my kids?
Do you know who this guy is?
We think that... Ben Close...
..might be targeting people
involved in his conviction.
SOFTLY: Little b*stard.
Little b*stard!
Where is he?
We're working on that.
First Louise, now
he's after Sam, too?
Mr Fordwater, I understand.
But you have to let
us deal with this.
It would be best if you had no
more contact with this... Daniel.
And we'll need to
take your phone. Why?
It's possible he's installed
tracking software on it.
He may be monitoring
your emails,
your bank accounts or
anything that you have online.
May I? No.
No, no. Sorry.
This doesn't make any sense.
It's... It's not possible.
Sam! No, Dad,
it's all rubbish.
I'll talk to her. DOOR CLOSES
Tell her not to
hand over any money.
And keep an eye
on her and Louise.
Most importantly, if
this man gets in contact,
you must call us immediately.
Call us, Mr Fordwater.
We'll handle it. I heard
you the first time.
Ben Close'd better hope we
find him before that guy does.
PHONE BUZZING
Nick. 'So, Lena Cartwright
was abroad in Italy,
'but she returned home
about two years ago
'and later died in a hospice.'
It's just for a couple of
weeks. I can get it back to you.
Sam... come on.
You know I don't have 20,000.
Not even close.
What's it for, anyway?
It's just... Dan's been
having this legal problem.
His mum died, and because
he's been overseas,
there's all this legal red tape
getting access to the inheritance...
Sam, wait.
What about your savings?
The deposit money?
OK. You know what? Don't
worry about it. OK?
I shouldn't have asked.
Did you already give him money?
Sam, talk to me. How much
money did you give him?
SAM SCOFFS
He's absolutely gonna
get it back to me, Lou.
Like, six months ago, I gave
him 10,000 for the lawyers,
and he paid it straight
back, with interest.
I told him no, but
he wasn't having it.
He hates being in debt.
It's just, if he doesn't get it,
he won't be able to... OK, stop.
You've met Dan, right?
We talk all the
time. I mean...
you've met him face to face?
In person?
He's...
He's gonna be here any
day, when he gets leave.
You gave all your money to
a bloke you've never met?
SCOFFS
You know what? I
shouldn't have asked.
Yeah, I should've...
I should've known you
wouldn't understand.
What's that supposed to mean?
So, last contact the
Australian authorities had
with Ben Close
was 18 months ago.
He's quiet as a mouse for years.
And then Lena comes home, and
suddenly he's back in Britain,
looking for revenge?
Yeah, that doesn't feel
like a coincidence.
I wanna know everything there is
to know about Lena Cartwright.
Yeah, the Aussies also gave us
a recent photo of Ben as well.
And it matches up
with a passport,
used to enter the
UK 18 months ago,
in the name of Edward Stower.
It's clearly a fake, but
a really good one. OK.
We know he was
tracking his victims.
So there must be
software on their phones.
What if that software links
to a physical location?
Yeah, well, that could be
why he's erased it all.
And what about Toby?
His death was a
spur-of-the-moment accident.
Ben couldn't have
seen that coming.
BELLA: Toby was
important to him, too.
The face he was using
for Georgina and Jarvis.
Wouldn't he have been
monitoring him, too?
We've got Toby's phone
in the evidence room.
If he did put spyware on the phone,
couldn't he have erased it remotely?
It's switched off, in a
metal evidence locker.
He couldn't possibly
get a signal in there.
DOOR OPENS, CLOSES
The money you've
been saving up...
..the money for
your own place...
How much of it did you give him?
They've made a mistake, Dad.
Dan's real.
He loves me.
LAPTOP CHIMES
CHIMING CONTINUES
Hey.
I was starting to think
you'd forgotten about me.
Sorry.
But I think I can make it up
to you. I've got a surprise.
Oh, yeah? My leave
came through.
I'm in Britain. And my
lawyers say we're sorted.
What?!
In a couple of
weeks at the most,
I can get you all the money
back, plus interest, OK?
You don't need
to do that. I do!
You've changed my life. I
want to change yours, too.
I just need to pay the
lawyers for the work,
and they can release
all the funds.
I know it's a lot to ask, but...
did you have any
luck with the 20,000?
I'm kind of... low on funds.
I shouldn't have asked.
No, no. No, it's fine.
I do have access to my
dad's account, so...
as long as we pay him
back, it'll be fine.
You know what?
We could meet up.
Get the money stuff done with and
have some actual fun together.
Yeah, that would be... so cool.
Like, when are you thinking?
Well, how about this evening?
I know the perfect place.
This little cottage, in
the middle of nature.
All to ourselves.
I'll send you the location.
What do you think?
I think, yeah! GIGGLES
I'll bring the money.
GRACE: I want you to visit
the hospice where Lena stayed.
Did she have any
contact with Ben Close?
Did she do something,
give him something,
say something that
might have set him off?
OK.
There's something
I'm just not getting.
What?
Revenge on the witnesses.
Ben Close served his time
in prison for what he did.
Then when he got out, he
moved far away from here
and started again.
But then, one day, he just...
wakes up and chooses revenge.
That's the part that
I don't understand.
They did put him in jail. He
deserved it, he was guilty.
Why not just suck it up,
get on with your life?
Something triggered his return.
Boss. We're ready.
BOBBY: 'You were right.'
Toby Seward's phone is
packed with spyware.
Location services,
eavesdropping, the works.
Can we use it to trace Ben?
I can get you a location.
The thing is, when I do, it's
likely to show up on his system.
Right, so he'll know
we're on to him?
If we don't, we'll
never find him.
Do it.
Armed response unit
to lockup one-one-four
at Hollingbourne
Industrial Estate.
SIRENS BLARE
OFFICERS SHOUT: Armed
police! Armed police!
Police! Show yourself!
Armed police!
Clear! Clear!
Clear! All clear!
sh*t!
BOBBY: Running
password generator now.
I'm in.
Texts, data, it's all here.
That's to Sam Fordwater.
"See you at five o'clock.
Here's the place. Can't wait."
There's a map pin. It's
in the middle of nowhere.
Five o'clock? That gives
us less than 30 minutes.
Did she reply? Erm...
"On my way. Love you."
'We need to call her.'
If we warn her off, Ben
will know we're on to him.
He'll vanish. We'll
never catch him.
Roy, we can't get there in time.
He's gonna k*ll her.
VOICEMAIL: 'I'm sorry, but the
person you called is not available.'
No.
SIRENS BLARE
How far out are we?
Ten minutes, at least.
CREAKING
SAM: Dan?
I'm in here!
I've got the money.
I'm waiting for you.
BEN COUGHS, SPLUTTERS
SIRENS WAILING
Remember, there's a
civilian in place.
Go in fast and silent, or
we'll have a hostage situation.
Where's my daughter's money?
Hm?
DOORBELL RINGS
Sam! You have to help me.
I don't know what to do!
Dad's taken my car.
I think he's gonna
k*ll him. Slow down.
SHAKILY: It's Dad -
he's gone after Daniel.
He's... He's not
Daniel. Not really.
It's Ben. He's come back.
Sam, come in. Thank you.
'When Lena arrived,
she was upset.'
She kept saying she
needed to tell the truth.
Tell the truth about what? I
don't know. She wouldn't tell me.
All I know is, she said she didn't
wanna die with it on her conscience.
PUNCHES LANDING, GRUNTING
After what you did to
Louise, you little sh*t...
well, now you're
coming for Sam, too?
What is wrong with you?
BEN CHUCKLES
Mate...
you don't know the half of it.
JOHNNY GRUNTS
OFFICERS SHOUT: Armed
police! Armed police!
Get down on the ground! Do it!
Medic! Medic!
Jesus.
Where's Sam? Where is she?
JOHNNY: She's not here.
Get him up.
JOHNNY GRUNTS
Mr Fordwater, I'm gonna have
to take you into custody.
Boss? Just got a call
from Digital Forensics.
They're saying that
something on the laptop
we found at Ben's
place doesn't add up.
Some of the messages that
Ben sent to Sam Fordwater
are timestamped at
the exact same time
he was supposed to be at
Georgina's place k*lling her.
We also found remote access
software on all of his machines,
which would allow someone
else to control it.
There's someone
else involved here.
This thing Lena wanted
to get off her chest -
it got resolved, right? Yeah.
When she'd been here about
a week, she had a visitor.
They talked for an hour or more.
Afterwards, she was
a different person.
Like... what was eating
her up was gone at last.
I'm guessing this was
the man who visited her?
No. No, I... I don't know him.
It was a woman that came.
A woman in a wheelchair.
Grace. 'Boss, Lena Cartwright
made a deathbed confession.'
But it wasn't to Ben, it
was to Louise Fordwater.
Get uniform to the
Fordwater house now.
What? What's happened?
What's happened to Sam?!
Get him out of here!
SAM COUGHS LIGHTLY
You're the best.
What's this?
The easy way out.
What?
Doesn't hurt. You go to sleep.
Or...
we can start telling the truth.
What you did to me.
What you did to Ben.
It all comes out.
I make it all public.
And your life won't be worth
living a day longer in any case.
Either way, you lose everything.
Just like I did.
Your choice.
I can wait.
Lena Cartwright said something
to Louise before she died,
something that brought
Ben back from Australia
and set him and Louise
on a path of revenge.
Now, we seek revenge
when we are wronged.
What, so he didn't do it?
I think they set him up.
And Lena finally confessed.
Uniform say Sam Fordwater's
not at her house.
We were sisters. We... We
should've been friends.
Why did you hate me so
much? I didn't hate you!
Well, you hated that I was clever.
You hated that Dad liked me more.
You hated that Ben loved me. So...
you went and burned it all down.
No, I didn't do anything.
Lena told me the truth.
She was lying. She
filmed it, Sam.
MUSIC ON VIDEO BLARES
SAM ON VIDEO: 'You know
what would be funny, though?
'Ah! It's gonna
loosen her up a bit.'
'OK, go. Go, go, go.' 'Yeah?'
'A taste of her
boyfriend's medicine!
'Oh, sugar. That
is a lot. Whoops.
'She won't notice.
It'll be fine.'
TEARFULLY: I didn't mean it.
It was a laugh.
And then it went wrong.
And I ended up like this.
And instead of owning up,
admitting what you did...
..you lied.
You and your b*tch friends.
You lied, and you blamed the
one person I really loved!
I was scared!
So you tore apart two
lives instead of just one?
SHAKILY: Mine and Ben's.
You know...
..his mum k*lled
herself because of this.
Stop. That's what
your bit of fun did.
Well...
..our turn now.
You can't be serious?
MOCKINGLY: "Oh, Dan,
you're such a good person.
"I don't deserve you.
"Now, please, go and
pump more medicine
"into those poor orphans, so I
can believe I landed a hero."
LOUISE LAUGHS
You were so easy to fool.
And now look where you are.
Life ruined.
Boyfriend gone.
It doesn't feel good, does it?
I'm getting bored.
Time to choose.
SOFTLY: Sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I was a coward. It's too late.
CRASH
Police!
Louise Fordwater,
I'm arresting you
for conspiracy to m*rder Georgina
Driver and Jarvis Brookes.
Lena Cartwright gave you this?
'Watered down.'
GIGGLING ON VIDEO
'Georgina, don't tell her.
Promise?' GEORGINA ON VIDEO: 'Yeah.'
Samantha Fordwater...
I'm arresting you on suspicion
of maliciously administering
an ill*gal substance,
so as to inflict
grievous bodily harm,
and for perverting
the course of justice.
You should've taken the pills.
SIREN WAILING DISTANTLY
Roy said you had an
impressive track record.
I'm guessing a bit of a
star in your old posting?
Yeah, I suppose.
Well, everyone here was top
of their game back in uniform.
That's why they're here.
But we shine best as a team.
Look, you're gonna do just fine,
but let's sort the basics first -
where you can go to the toilet
and where you're allowed to park.
That sort of thing.
Little things
matter. That's right.
Now, do me a favour.
Pop that on your windscreen.
Well, you can't save the
world if your car's impounded.
Right. Cheers.
HE SIGHS
CHILDREN PLAYING UPSTAIRS
Hey.
I was starting to get worried you
were dodging my calls or something.
What is it? What's wrong?
I'm being investigated
for negligence.
For negligence?
Ari, what happened?
I gave medicine to a patient,
and they were allergic.
They died.
Jesus.
I'm sorry I didn't pick up. I
didn't know how to tell you.
I've been suspended.
But... y-you didn't know
that they were allergic?
The hospital says it's
there on the record.
Well, you checked that,
right? It was really busy.
We were run ragged.
I'm sure I checked.
At least, I think I did.
Right, a-are you
sure, o-or you think?
Jesus, Ari.
That's no good.
I mean, you need to be
certain. OK, look at me.
Think back, right? Step by step.
I told you. They're
investigating me.
So don't worry,
YOU don't have to.
I didn't... Ari...
Please, look... Ari, listen,
I'm trying to help you!
HE SIGHS
What is it?
That... is sea glass.
Once upon a time, it was a
piece of a broken bottle.
Lot's of different
colours, if you look.
That's cool.
You all right?
Who's Cassian? Cassian?
Just someone I work with. Why?
He was at the park
with... with Grandma.
He was asking about Mum.
He said he was sorry.
But he wasn't.
What? He wasn't sorry.
Not really.
Bruno?
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05x02 - Dead at First Sight
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Based on the bestselling novels by novelist Peter James, series follows Detective Superintendent Roy who is a hard-working police officer that has given his life to the job; plagued by the disappearance of his beloved wife.
Based on the bestselling novels by novelist Peter James, series follows Detective Superintendent Roy who is a hard-working police officer that has given his life to the job; plagued by the disappearance of his beloved wife.