01x02 - Episode 2

[bunniefuu]

It's a long time since
I felt like I'm on the brink

of something as
wonderful as this.

This is the
most valuable thing I own.

Not in terms of price,

but memories and dreams.

I've owned it
since I was a young girl.

It was given to me

by special people.

This is the key that unlocks me.

I think you've
experienced the same things as me.

I want you to know what I've done.

PHONE RINGS

Colin?

I'm so glad you rang.

MUSIC: Let Your Love Flow
by The Bellamy Brothers

♪ There's a reason for the warm
sweet nights

♪ And there's a reason for the
candlelights

♪ Must be the season

♪ When those love rights
shine all around us

♪ So let that wonder... ♪

ON TV: First, a notorious crime
that two months ago made headlines

all over Britain.

On Wimbledon Common in south-west
London a young mother,

Rachel Nickell, was waylaid
and repeatedly stabbed.

Her scratched and bruised
two-year-old son was found

clinging to her body.

A consultant clinical psychologist
has been handed evidence

of Rachel's m*rder

and he is drawing up a likely
profile of the k*ller.

The k*ller is under the age of 30.

He lives locally.

He's a low achiever,
so he has never done well at exams.

He has few friends
and has solitary hobbies.

He likes p*rn*graphy,
including some of the violent sort.

He doesn't have a steady girlfriend.

If he's had previous girlfriends,
they'll have found him

unsatisfying, sexually inexperienced

and wanting to act
out domineering gameplay.

He's has pestered woman before.

Indeed, he may have been
caught for minor sex offences.

Above all, he could cause a tragedy
and suffering like this again.

Most of the calls are coming in on
the Rachel Nickell m*rder.

We've got a large number of names
that have been put forward.

One in particular is causing

considerable interest to the team.

We've also, I've just got one here,

a woman who
was on the common at the time,

maybe a possible useful witness.

So 90 calls here to the studio

the last time I spoke to the team.

Ten of them, Superintendent Bassett
says, are very interesting.

One man has gone straight
to the top of their priority list.

Sit.

Good lad.

Good boy. Good boy.

> Keith?

Follow me.

SIREN WAILS

MUFFLED SHOUTING

CAR HORN BEEPS

CAMERAS CLICK

MACHINE BEEPS

This interview is being
tape-recorded.

I'm Detective Inspector Keith Pedder

attached to the Incident Room
at Wimbledon Police Station.

The other officer present is...

Detective Constable
Martin Long.

What's your full name, please?

Colin Francis Stagg.

Also present is..

Mr Wood, duty solicitor.

The date is September 18th, 1992.

The time now 3:21pm

and we're in the interview room
at Wimbledon Police Station.

Now, you've been arrested
on suspicion of the m*rder

of Rachel Nickell,

which occurred July 15th, 1992.

That's two months ago.

Do you remember that day?

Yeah.

Can you tell me why you remember it?

Well...

..because of what happened,
obviously.

And the...the way I felt that day.

ON VIDEOTAPE: Splitting headache.

I hadn't had a
headache since I was a teenager.

After I did my normal
things during the morning

and I had my breakfast,
did some shopping,

I took Brandy, my dog,
straight over the common.

But when I got
to the second underpass

I was stopped by the police.

I asked what had
happened and they told me

there had been
an incident on the common.

I thought it was flashers

or perverts or something.

They told me
that a girl had been m*rder*d

and that they're clearing
the common.

What were you wearing

when you went to
the common that day?

It had brightened up.

I put on my shorts - cutdown jeans -

black T-shirt,

boots I was wearing that morning
and a pair of sunglasses.

The shoes that you were
wearing that day,

you still got 'em?

No.

I threw them away two days ago.

Where did you throw 'em?

In the rubbish.

Why did you throw them away?

The heel came off.

Studies show from birth to seven

the most important person
in a child's life is their mother.

The vast majority of serial K*llers
either have a*usive mothers

or the maternal bond was severed
abruptly at a young age.

Interventional work with
abused children has the potential

to predict which
children are likely to be

become serial K*llers.

ON VIDEOTAPE: How long have
you lived at your current address?

Since 1968 or '69.

I was living with the family,
you know?

Which consisted of...?

Me mum and dad,

me brothers and a sister.

They got divorced,

but my mum remarried

and my dad died in 1986,

so I took over the tenancy.

Were you very close to your dad?

That's why the common
is so dear to me, you know?

Since I was a little kid.

That's why I go there with the dog,

because every part of the common
reminds me of my dad.

Are you close to your mum?

ECHOING VOICES: What are you doing?
You can't just break in here.

Why are you trying to
run away from me? I'm not running.

I'm not doing anything.
Come home with me.

Please, don't touch me.

SMASHING GLASS AND BANGING

MUFFLED SPEECH

You're going to wake the kids up.

Yeah, and they'll find out
what a dirty little sl*t you are.

No, I'm not.

Where is he?

There's no-one here.

Come on. No, let's just...

ON VIDEOTAPE:
I always felt sorry for my dad

more than anything, you know?

ECHOING VOICES: Where is he?

There's no-one here but me
and the kids.

Please just calm down. Please.
Don't you tell me to calm down.

It's all in your head.
All in my head?

All in my f*cking head?!

Sorry, sorry.

Sorry? Argh!

She was always
out with other blokes.

She actually brought in
the bloke she's married to now

when she was
still married to my dad.

Right, it fits your profile.

Lives alone or with the parent in
close proximity to the crime scene.

Considered odd
by those who know him.

All Stagg's neighbours think that
he's odd, right?

And this...

"An inappropriate
interest in the crime."

That fits Stagg.

He went around talking about it,

telling people
a girl had been k*lled.

So if that's what Stagg is,
a disorganised k*ller...

Except, he's not.

Rachel was acquired and controlled.

He k*lled her
quickly and effectively

and then vanished,
leaving almost no evidence.

Those are not the classic signs
of a disorganised homicide.

Do you think he's k*lled before?

No.

Repeat K*llers get more
experience as they go on.

They refine their
technique and behaviour

and leave a...

..an ever clearer signature.

So you think he planned it?

He rehearsed it in
his masturbatory fantasies,

right down to the finest detail.

All except one.

He couldn't know
who the victim would be.

So she could have been anyone?

Anyone...

..with lovely long blonde hair.

TEASPOON CLINKS

To get this right,

you need to
understand what he's capable of.

And you needn't
concern yourself with his past.

It's his future you
should be worried about.

It's inevitable he will k*ll
another young woman at some point.

How long?

I mean,

how much time do we have?

Oh, I'm afraid I can't say, Sadie.

But I can tell you that K*llers
like this don't do it just once

and then live
off the memory forever.

It fades, like...

like all memories.

It lessons in intensity.

And it needs to be felt again.

INSPECTOR:
You've had two girlfriends?

What kind of relationship did you
have with Wendy?

COLIN: Well, I would say proper.

It wasn't full sexual intercourse,
but...

..we did things together, you know?

Can you tell me what that was?

She'd come round to my place

some evenings...

..and take a few clothes off
and that and...

..just generally play
with each other.

Any problems in that way at all?

No.

I was round her place one evening...

..we was just snogging on the couch,

and...she closed the door...

..took her top off...

..and it just went on from there,
you know?

HE CHUCKLES

And what was it that you found...

..most attractive...about Wendy?

Hard to believe it,

but her hair.

I told her a lot of times.

When I used to sit with her...

..her head dipped.

The smell of her hair
just REALLY made me feel relaxed

and turned on, you know?

PHONE RINGS

..the natural smell of her hair...

PHONE CONTINUES TO RING

SHE EXHALES DEEPLY

Hello.

COLIN: All right?

You sound a bit flat, Colin.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm OK.

DISTANT VOICES AND FOOTSTEPS

Just people around here, spreading
rumours about me and that.

Why?

Well, it's mainly cos of something
that happened last year.

You know, people just can't keep
themselves to themselves.

It's even worse where I'm from.
People just love to gossip.

Well, this is more than gossip.

Oh, God, can't you move?

No, I've been living here
since 1968.

I've got all my memories here,
I've got a nice home -

I'm not giving that up for anybody.

You know what? You're dead right.

You shouldn't just uproot yourself
just because people are being mean.

HE SIGHS

Yeah.

Look, it's just that something
terrible happened around here.

You probably read about it,
in the news.

No, I...

..I don't pay much attention
to the newspapers and...

..don't really have a television.
CHUCKLES SOFTLY

You know, it's just cos I'm not
married.

I don't have kids or a car or a job.

They think there's something
weird about that, there's...

HE SIGHS

It's just playing on my mind.
You know?

Yeah, people are awful.

If you don't fit into
what their idea is,

that's their problem.

Yeah.

If you wanted to spend
the summer with me...

..it's very nice around here.

It's very green, there's nice
parklands and that, you know?

Yeah?

Yeah.

Yeah, we could enjoy ourselves,
you know?

I'll think about it.

We just have to get a few hurdles
out of the way first.

But I'll definitely consider it.

Don't worry, I won't prejudge you
if you don't prejudge me.

It's just nothing like this has ever
really happened to me before.

You know?

No-one's ever really shown interest,
so...

SHE CHUCKLES SOFTLY

..I'm not going to give that
up for anything.

You might not even like me
when you meet me.

Oh...

You know, you get so used to, uh...

..not trusting someone...

..and then, uh...

..you build up a wall to
protect yourself.

And then, suddenly...

..you meet want someone you want
to trust and...

..it's difficult to let
that barrier slip.

I know, yeah.

But I'm getting there.

Lizzie...

What?

I love you.

HE HANGS UP

COLIN, ON RECORDING: I'm not going
to give that up for anything.

SADIE, ON RECORDING: You might not
even like me when you meet me. Oh...

You know, you get so used to, uh...

It's difficult to let that
barrier slip.

But I'm getting there.

Lizzie. What?

I love you.

MUSIC PLAYS, CHATTER

It's pretty good, right?

So, Colin Stagg's in love with you?

It worked. I won his trust.

If he's in love with you, he'll be

thinking about you all the time,
obsessing about you.

Good! The more he wants me,
the more likely

he is to tell me what he's done.

Let's not forget about what
he did to Rachel.

How's your family?

What?

Well, you checked in with them
recently?

You checked in with your wife
recently?

I'm doing what I need to do, Baz.

You of all people should
understand that.

Yeah, I do understand that.
I've got a real chance here.

To do something none of the men
could ever do.

They wouldn't have the ba*ls for it,
even if they could.

Yeah, I get that.

But we need to think about where
it's heading, Sadie.

To a confession.

To material evidence.

To no more women being k*lled.

Listen, Pedder and Wickerson
are getting squeezed by the Yard

and they're going to keep
pushing you.

So we need to be honest
with each other, Sadie.

I need to know you're really OK with
what they're asking you to do

and you need to think seriously
about how far you're prepared to go.

All the f*cking way.

Slainte.

The room was filled with
candlelight and smoke,

and everyone was chanting.

It was electric.

And she was laid out on this...

..this kind of altar.

And I was looking at her,
and she was looking at me,

and then he handed me the knife.

And I did what he asked me to do.

There was a look on her face
when I did it.

I know it's such an awful
thing to say, but...

..it really was the greatest moment
in my entire life.

And what does it sound like?

When a knife cuts human flesh.

It's more like how it feels.

It's like this power coursing
through your veins,

like you're in total control.

Tell me again what you did.

So, I took the knife in my hand,

and she was just laying there naked.

You're not eating.

Oh, what the f*ck...

I can't.

It needs to be as normal for you
as it is for him.

SHE EXHALES DEEPLY

And so I took the knife,
and she was smiling at me.

She was willing me to do it...

Start again. I don't believe you.

CUTLERY CLATTERS
If he wants to be in control

so much, why wouldn't I be
more submissive?

He wants someone he can trust
with his secret.

This whole Satanic cult thing,
it's...

Is designed to specifically appeal
to the k*ller of Rachel Nickell.

To humanise his fantasies.

To win his confidence.

VIDEO: Don't touch her.

Everything she does now must be
of her own free will.

You understand, Catherine,
what your future is to be?

Yes. And I am content.

Yes. And I am content.
And I am content.

Yes.

And I am content.

VIDEO: If my master pleased
with his virgin sacrifice?

You have no idea what these
people are capable of.

They deal directly with the devil.

He told me he had to k*ll her.

They made a bargain.

He had this sort of cellar

in his basement,

with candles and an altar,

and what you'd call
some sort of chalice?

If I had known her blood would
end up in there...

If I had known he'd make me
drink it...

SCREAM FROM TV

No!

BUZZER SOUNDS

VIDEO: You were up that common,
weren't you?

Indecently exposing yourself
to women.

Hello? Ey up, mate. It's me.

Yeah, do you want to come up?
DOOR ENTRY BUZZES

I was sunbathing naked there.

SADIE READS TO HERSELF

She says you smiled at her.

She smiled at me first.

And then you opened your legs.

I went up there to sunbathe.

If you just give me two minutes.

I'll pop the kettle on, then.

I just need to finish
the end of this.

She didn't have to look.

Women have got the right to walk
on that common unmolested,

without fear of seeing naked people,

in particular, naked men.

SADIE MUTTERING: Defining
characteristics...

So, have you shacked up with
a student, then, or what?

This stuff is...
it's mind-blowing.

Seriously.

Lucy, they should teach us
this sh*t at Hendon.

So, this is why you haven't been
calling me back, then, is it?

SADIE READS TO HERSELF

Sadie?

Sadie.

When did you last see daylight?

Sade...!

Sade...hold up, mate...!

Hold up... Hold up...!

Oh...!

LUCY PANTS

You all right?

BREATHLESSLY: I'm good...!

I can't keep up with you
and your long legs, man.

SADIE CHUCKLES

It's not funny.

What are you doing
with all this research?

We do what we do based on instinct.

This is different.

I have to understand what
makes him the way he is.

Listen to me, Stagg's mum left
when he was a kid, right?

Severed bond.

So you do think that Stagg's
a serial k*ller, then?

Yeah, I think he will be
if I don't stop him.

What, just you, mate, yeah?

No, it's not just me.

There's Pedder,
there's the professor.

His profile of the k*ller is spot on
and literally describes Stagg.

But you don't think that these
profiles are a bit vague?

I mean, they all sound
the same to me.

Weirdo, white, in their 20s,
lives alone or with a parent,

who are into martial arts
and hard-core porn.

Come on... Morning, ladies!

What, do you want a bit
of this, do you?

Sade.

Well, you can if you want.
Go on, get it out.

In fact, you can have both
of us, if you like.

Ah, is it not big enough?

Sade. Go on, walk off, then. Go on.

Sade.

Come on, mate, let's go home.
I'm knackered.

Come on, man.

Come on.

SADIE GROANS

SHE EXHALES

VIDEO: You're not telling
me the truth.

About the time that
you were on the common.

It wasn't two years ago,
that may seem.

You saw her on July 15
and she recognised you.

I never saw Rachel that day.

You did see Rachel.

I did not see Rachel that day.

Why?

Hm?

Why did you?

PHONE RINGS

Hm?

What was it that made you do it?

PHONE RINGING

RECORDER CLICKS

MUTTERING: Lizzie, Lizzie...

Hi, Colin...

Hello. Hi, Lizzie.

What are you up to?
Nothing much.

Just, uh, cat sitting for
that lady I told you about.

Yeah. What about you?

I've been in my garden.

I've just been picking fruit.
You know, for my wine.

What sort? Erm, well...

Redcurrants and that, you know.

I can't wait to taste it.

Is it strong?

VIDEO PLAYS LOUDLY

What's that?

Sorry, what? What's that...

..I just heard there in the back?

Erm...

They play the radio next door
really loud.

Can you, erm...

Can you give me a call
back later, Colin?

Yeah, that sounded like it was...

Yeah? Uh, yeah, yeah.
OK, yeah.

OK.

OK, bye, bye, bye.

You were up on that hill
the day of the m*rder.

No.

I think I saw her, Rachel, on...
on the common.

But I'm not sure.
It was about two years ago.

Did you expose yourself to her? No.

It wasn't a nude sunbathing day? No.

It wasn't two years ago,
that may seem.

It was a lot closer to the m*rder
that happened, wasn't it? No.

It WAS two years ago.

She was smiling at me.

And I thought...

"Nice looking girl." You know?

It wasn't two years ago,
was it, Colin? Yes, it was.

You came up there, didn't you?
You wanted to bump into her again.

Yeah, I was hoping that
I'd see her there, yeah.

You wanted to progress it,
didn't you?

I've got two witnesses who
are certain in their minds

the dates and times
that they saw you.

You thought, "I'll try my luck."

She smiled at me.

What was it about Rachel that day?

I never saw Rachel that day.
You did see Rachel.

I did not. You did.

I did not see Rachel that day.

I never saw Rachel that day.

You did see Rachel that day!

SADIE GASPS

DOOR SHUTS

But I never did it.
I'm not a k*ller.

I can never do anything like that.
Like what?

m*rder. A raping, a m*rder.
I couldn't do that!

TAPE REWINDS

But I never did it.
I'm not a k*ller.

I can never do anything like that.

Like what?
m*rder. A raping, a m*rder.

I couldn't do that!

SADIE GASPS

SHE BREATHES SHAKILY

There are things that happened
to me a long time ago.

Bad things.

And I've only ever told one man.

And when I did, it all went to sh*t.

I really want to tell you
what happened to me, Colin.

But I can't go through
that again...!

I can't...!

SHE EXHALES

The Commissioner
wants results yesterday.

And does he think that I don't?!

He's not the arsehole that has
to call Rachel's family every week.

KNOCK ON DOOR

What?

Keith. Mate.

Hear you've got a covert op
running. You care to comment?

Yeah, sure.

You want to come up to my office?

Your source is unreliable.

You deny it, then?

Let me offer you some advice.

Any irresponsible reporting will be
viewed with a very jaundiced eye.

So you can f*ck off.

And tell your source when I find out
who he is, he'll need a wheelchair.

Can I quote you on that?

It wouldn't be in the public
interest for me

to just walk away from a story
like this.

Well, if you don't...

..you won't be walking anywhere.

Mate.

Sadie.

You've got to be kidding!
So the press know about me?

How did that happen?

Look, I've held him off for now.

All right? But if this goes to
print, the op's f*cked.

We need to move things on a bit
faster than I would have liked.

Move them on how?

It's been approved already, Sadie.

The Yard signed off on it
this morning. Did they?

What did they sign off on?

HE BREATHES UNSTEADILY

We need you to go and...

..to go and meet Stagg.

Good.

Why am I always the last to know?

AS LIZZIE: Colin, my darling,
you are driving me mad.

And I love your special letters.

Tell me something that will
really send me crazy.

I can't help thinking you are
showing great restraint.

You are showing control
when I feel like you're bursting.

I want you to burst.

I want you to feel all-powerful
and overwhelming

so that I'm
completely in your power.

SHE GASPS

Stop!

SHE SCREAMS

BUZZER SOUNDS

BUZZER SOUNDS

f*cking hell.

sh*t. sh*t!

Sadie!

Sadie!

Can you give me like ten minutes?

f*ck sake, you twat.

SHE BREATHES RAGGEDLY

What's she playing at?

She's coming. There's reputation's
on the line here, Keith.

Not least yours and mine.

It's lovely here in the summertime.

It's lovely here. You can sit on
the deckchairs and feed the ducks.

It's lovely here in the summertime.

You can sit on the deckchairs
and feed the ducks.

AS LIZZIE: There's secrets about me
I long to share with someone.

This is the most valuable thing
I own, not in terms of price,

but memories and dreams.

I've owned it
since I was a young girl.

It was given to me
by special people.

This is the key that unlocks me.

I think you've experienced
the same things as me.

I think we're the same.

I want you to know about the things
I've done.

I've been waiting to meet you.

It's fate all coming together
for us, Colin.

We've only got to overcome
one last hurdle.

I can hardly wait.

See you later, boy.
DOG WHINES

SHE INTONES UNDER BREATH

CONTINUES INTONING

SHE EXHALES

f*ck.

SHE INTONES UNDER BREATH

All right, ladies and gents,
let's move out

if everyone knows
what they're doing.

Take a piss before you go. See you
at location one.

Be hypervigilant, please. Thank you.

INTONING

You know the signal?

Sorry, what? The signal?

If you're in trouble?

Got it.

Are you OK?

Of course.

Update on India 1, please?.

James, still blindside of RV.
Received.

Hold off, we've got Stagg, though.

For the benefit of all units,

India 2 is approaching
RV from the green aspect.

SHE BREATHES SHAKILY

All units, India 2 approaching.

All eyes on India 2 and India 1.

You must be Colin.

You must be Lizzie.