01x01 - Jackie

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All right, Jackie?

Danny.

What are you doing here?

Kenny Glass asked me to drop by.

He's got a family emergency.

Tell me what you want.

You've got an unidentified female.

He's been asked to take a look

into a missing persons case.

Saskia someone or other,

uh, disappeared six months ago.

Brought her dental records.

No, I don't do teeth.

Leave it on the side.

I'm sure we can get someone

to take a look.

Can't ID her by any other means.

Can you not give me something?

Uh

It's not even nine. What's the rush?

You know how it works.

What, you want to see her?

Is that it?

The headlines will do.

OK.

Uh, mid to late 20s,

5'3, 110 lbs,

soaking wet.

Just found hanging in her bedroom.

And evidence of foul play?

No. They'd have brought in the

Home Office boys if there were.

Mm.

Suicide then.

Yeah. What else?

Sex game gone wrong.

Really?

She tried to sever

her radial artery first.

What with? I don't know,

something sharp.

It's all in the police report,

Danny.

So she made a mess of it then.

Mm. Half a dozen hesitation wounds,

one single deep cut.

Blood alcohol?

No idea.

We won't see the tox report

for a while.

Now, if you don't mind,

I've got a lot of work to do

so bye, Danny.

What about these?

Found on her person, I think.

Any idea what they are?

Not my field.

Might she have taken some?

I've told you,

we won't know for some time.

Most likely weeks.

Hesitation, wouldn't you say?

They always hesitate.

She was afraid.

Maybe she was searching

for a reason to stay alive.

Or a reason to die.

Take your pick.

I'll let you know.

If we find out it's your girl.

OK.

Thanks.

It's Christine.

My daughter.

Danny, you shouldn't be in here.

Get off me.

Chris

Danny. Danny.

Richard wants to speak to you.

Danny.

Danny.

Go and sit outside.

I'll be there shortly.

Danny.

Danny.

Tell me what happened.

I already did.

Then tell me again.

Tell me why my Christina

is lying there.

Danny. Oh, my God.

My heart goes out to you.

But this just isn't the right place

or time for this conversation.

Come on. Let's just get out of here.

Danny, what are you doing?

What happened to her?

Tell me.

Tell me!

She k*lled herself.

I carried out a routine examination.

Nothing about this is routine.

I'm sorry, I wasn't to know.

She had no idea on her.

Now, come on, Danny,

give me the key.

Let's wait outside for Richard.

Take me through it, from the top.

Where was she found?

Uh, a flat, off Riverside.

What was she doing there?

I haven't a clue.

Well, you've read the police report.

She was in the bedroom.

There was blood on the rug,

mostly likely where the original

attempt took place,

and by the door,

where she was found.

There's more severe haemorrhaging

than I'd expect

from a partial severance.

It's possible the tox report will

reveal the presence of some kind of

anticoagulant agent.

She certainly didn't bleed to death,

but it was sufficient for it to drip

between the floorboards

and through the ceiling below.

The woman who lives there

called it in.

How long had she been there?

Danny,

you know better than to ask me that.

Uh

The neighbour told your colleagues

that she heard someone

between 1 and 2am.

She thinks.

She's a light sleeper, apparently.

Was there a note?

Not that I'm aware of.

And no evidence of a struggle.

Nothing at all to indicate

that it wasn't suicide.

Yet she was found in a strange

flat with no ID on her.

You don't think any of that

sounds suspicious?

It's not my job, Danny.

Well, what happened to

lateral thinking?

I'm a hospital pathologist,

I'm not a police officer.

I report what's in front of me.

Was she fully dressed?

No scratch marks, no broken nails,

no sign that she resisted

in any way.

But she might have been drugged.

And the volume of blood,

it was consistent with the veins

and her wrist being severed

before she died?

I haven't been to the scene.

Is that it?

There's livor mortis in

the lower part of the body

and petechiae in the eyes and gums,

what you'd expect.

You get off on those, don't you?

What? Those fancy words.

They're technical terms.

My daughter is dead.

Is that technical enough for you?

I'm sorry, Danny, but it is my job.

Just call a spade a spade.

OK!

This ends now.

Open the door.

Danny!

Open the door!

Come on.

Open it.

Open the door.

Danny!

Christina didn't k*ll herself.

Give me that.

Would the angle be different if

someone was trying to make it look

like she'd done it herself?

Danny, stop.

You can't fake hesitation wounds.

You can fake anything.

She died of asphyxiation.

She was strangled, then.

Look at this.

The ligature marks are diagonal

and rising to the point of

suspension just behind her ear.

They're consistent with her

body weight being suspended.

There would almost certainly be

lateral marks encircling her neck

if she'd been strangled

and there's no sign of any trauma

to the back of the neck.

Do you know how much force it takes

to throttle someone?

OK.

What about internally?

What do you mean? Well,

I don't know, you're the expert.

Broken vertebrae, bleeding.

Isn't there some way to distinguish

between suicide and homicide?

I'd expect multiple fractures

of the laryngohyoid complex

in the case of strangulation

and localised contusion in the neck

muscles as well.

So you checked for that, yes?

I did a wide dissection, yes.

And? And it seemed undamaged.

Intact.

Show me where it says that?

Are you calling me a liar?

Is this the one you use?

Petechiae in

the sclera and the

Find it.

Find it.

The trachea, proximal bronchi

No sign of any fractures in the

hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage.

Satisfied?

What about the marks on her face?

They're old injuries,

they're not related to her death.

But they could prove she's been

the victim of violence.

You're clutching at straws.

An autopsy isn't

based on supposition.

It's a scientific equation.

It's a process of elimination.

Show me.

It's not going to happen.

That thing in her neck -

you mention it in your report.

it's not conclusive on its own.

You need an X-ray or MRI

to confirm it.

Open her up or I'll do it myself.

Stop.

Huh? All right!

I wouldn't have expected

this of you, Danny.

You don't know anything about me.

But I do know about your daughter.

No signs of substance abuse.

Track marks.

Perforated septum.

You feel you let her down,

is that it?

What?

You want the postmortem

to say that it's not your fault.

Shut the f*ck up!

Don't you speak to me like that.

I speak to everyone like that.

Well, I'm not everyone.

Please, Jackie.

Please.

Mm.

I need scissors.

Autopsy knife.

What are you doing?

I've had enough of this.

Danny!

Richard, he locked me in!

What? Give me the keys. Danny!

Come on, then. I dare you.

They are going to throw

the f*cking book at you for this.

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

Really, Richard, I'm fine.

The f*ck you playing at?

He's lost his mind.

Can you wait for me? Yeah.

Jackie doesn't know her arse

from her elbow.

She's the best in her field.

I'm so sorry, Danny

..that you had to find her

like this.

Christina's been m*rder*d.

There's There's no evidence

to support that.

You need to investigate this.

OK.

I'll ask Mike Pickersgill

to take a look, make sure

it's all been handled by the book.

Has the scene been properly

documented?

Of course. But Mike will

double check everything

before we close the file.

Good.

You're in shock.

I'm here as a friend, Danny,

and I'll do whatever I can

to support you

but this isn't helping anyone.

You need to call Susannah, come on.

She was afraid.

I wasn't there for her.

It's not your fault.

Please, give me two minutes.

Two minutes with her to say goodbye.

I can't.

You can.

As a friend.

Please.

Two minutes.

I'll be right outside.

Where have you been

this whole time, huh?

..been this whole time

Just have to find another way.

..find another way