New Tricks s11e10 Episode Script
The Queen's Speech
It's all right, it's OK Doesn't really matter if you're old and grey It's all right, I say it's OK Listen to what I say It's all right, doin' fine Doesn't really matter if the sun don't shine It's all right, I say it's OK We're gettin' to the end of the day.
And what's that one? Come on, that's a warrior.
A warrior.
Orion! He's clearly got a sword in his right hand.
And those three stars ~ What, are supposed to be his belt? ~ Well supposed? ~ Yeah, and you've put two fish in Pisces.
~ One.
~ Two.
Look.
~ I don't want to, I haven't got my glasses.
Look.
Well, that one's supposed to be Aquarius, isn't it? It is, though, look! Look.
Never had you down as a closet astronomer.
Or a Goth girl.
~ Glasses look good on you.
~ It's research.
If you were 16 and this was your kind of music No, no, no, you're deflecting again.
Let's talk about everything, anything, please, but you.
I've given you my whole autobiography.
What do I know about you? What do I know about the real Sasha Miller? That you love being with her.
~ Yeah, it's all right, I suppose.
Passes the time ~ Oi! OK, right.
Three questions, Mr Beckett.
Ask me anything.
All right.
Do they make you work weekends at MUCOS? Sometimes.
And it's UCOS.
Who puts an M on the front? ~ What about this weekend? ~ No, not this weekend.
You want to come to Barcelona? We can get two rooms.
We're finished.
OK, that's a bit of a disappointing reaction.
~ I mean the wine, we've finished.
~ All right, I'll get another one.
~ No, I've got to work in the morning.
~ What did I say? It's been lovely.
Yeah.
Lovely.
Sasha! Sasha.
'It's scary, knowing the end's so close.
'Living with it every day.
'By the time you hear this, I'll be ashes.
'Wish I could tell you about Alec.
About all of this.
'But you'd never believe me.
' Bet you couldn't do that again.
Who's winning? Teen Wolf.
Was that the tape you were talking about? Yeah, I made a track list last night.
And a rough transcript of spoken words, or what I think she's saying.
Thought you were going out? Amy Taskerland was killed on the night of 1st July 1983 during the school disco.
Now, two weeks before, she made a tape for her class time capsule.
Just the other day, first year gardening club dug it up by mistake.
~ 31 years later? ~ Yeah.
One minute she's on the dance floor, next she's on the main steps with a broken neck.
Impact study said that she was pushed.
Any suspects from the first time round? There were a couple of lads but nothing came of it.
~ And what about Alec? ~ That's the name she keeps saying on the tape.
~ Sounds to me like she's scared of him.
~ Boyfriend? ~ Could be.
"Shadows", "dust".
Well, just looks like angst-ridden teenage poetry.
~ Depression? ~ Pretty teenage girl at a party.
What's to be depressed about? Eyewitnesses said that she was acting strangely that night.
Mr Hines, the headmaster.
Let's see what he's got to say for himself.
I looked through the school registers ~ but I couldn't find an Alec here at that time.
~ No-one on the staff? Not that I could see.
I should thank you for getting here so quickly.
I know the governors feel that Amy Taskerland is a tragic chapter of the school's history that needs closing.
The body was here, I believe? ~ Amy's body.
~ Of course.
Who found her? Miss O'Brien, apparently.
Left the school a long time ago.
You got an address for her? Well, we can have a look, but I doubt it'll be much use.
Such a long time ago.
It's a fair way from the hall over to here, isn't it? Wonder what she was doing so far away from her friends.
Admiring the view? Meeting a boy? Or maybe this is the kind of place you come to if you want to be alone.
'By the time you hear this, I'll be ashes.
~ 'Wish I could tell you about Alec.
' ~ Who'd be 16 again, eh? Oh, I don't know.
If I could get the 1.
21 gigawatts to go back I might be tempted.
To correct past mistakes? Kick Stacey Craven's butt.
Ah! An old enemy? Total bitch.
It's all right, I'm over it.
All grown up now.
That bell's not ringing itself, Danny.
~ 'Yes?' ~ Mr Taskerland? DCI Sasha Miller and Danny Griffin.
Unsolved Crime and Open Cases.
We're re-investigating the death of your daughter.
It would be a lot easier face to face.
And inside, perhaps? Shoes.
Yes, they're generally considered to be a good thing.
Take them off.
Do you know how many bacteria thrive on the sole of a shoe? Approximately 60 million.
Depending on variables like material used to make the sole, ~ location, time of year ~ William Sorry, Mr Taskerland.
Did Amy ever mention somebody called Alec? Water? ~ Yes, please.
~ No, thank you.
I'll pour a jug.
That way you can keep your options open.
So, your daughter's tape.
No.
I don't want to hear.
Then maybe you can help us with the name? Alec? There might have been a boyfriend called Alec.
~ Did you ever meet him? ~ I'm afraid not.
Did she talk to you about him? Did you discuss boyfriends with your father? Depended on the boy.
What about Amy's friends? Friends yes.
The closest was Harriet Meagher.
A kind girl.
Good family.
When Amy went to the disco, several of her schoolmates mentioned that she seemed distressed.
I went away that night.
A conference.
In Sheffield.
Oh, er, please Thank you.
She seemed happy before I left.
What do you think, Dad? 'Didn't even say goodbye.
' Not properly.
Was everything between Amy and her mother OK? This was a good home.
I meant no offence.
Your wife said as much in her statement.
Ruth passed away ten years ago.
I'm sorry, but I have to ask you divorced, didn't you? A year after Amy was murdered? Strain.
We couldn't understand.
We both have daughters of our own.
They're written in a language that no-one will ever understand.
What are their names? ~ Maddie.
~ Holly.
Amy was our only child.
When I'm gone .
.
nobody will remember who I was.
Or that I ever even lived.
Just phone up Robin and tell him I dunno.
Tell him I broke my arm or my leg or my neck.
~ Anything.
Just get me out of tonight.
~ It's a stag do.
~ It's a stag don't.
~ What the hell is that?!? ~ That is my sketch pad.
~ Harriet Meagher? I'll give you an answer if you tell me your secret.
~ What? ~ Your regime? I have a shower in the morning.
You the bitch then? No.
We're partners.
And we work for the police.
Martin.
Stephen.
James.
Paul.
Matt, of course.
Then Other Matt.
Then Matty Matt But no Alec? No.
No.
I snogged an Andy once, though.
I think we both did.
Oh, and then there was Jason, Rick and ~ How about you just let us have a list of names? ~ Of course.
So I thought Amy just put a normal mix tape in the capsule.
You know, stuff off the radio, and DJs' voices at the beginning and the end.
~ What did you put in it? ~ Well, I couldn't really think of anything so the teacher made me write a letter.
Day in the Life sort of stuff, you know? You and Amy were best mates, right? Practically synchronised our periods.
'Spent every moment we could together.
' 'But if you were so close, don't you think it's strange' ~ that she never mentioned what was on this tape? ~ Or this Alec? I mean, do you see where we're coming from? It's like nobody really knew her.
Not you.
~ Not even her dad.
~ Well, he certainly didn't know her.
How'd you mean? He was cold.
Not unkind or cruel.
Just distant.
Can't imagine how that must've made her feel.
My dad was the local vicar.
Kind bloke.
Heart of the community.
Close to everything, everybody.
Some of the witnesses said that Amy was a bit upset that night.
All I really remember is that one minute Amy was there and then she was gone.
A few songs later, the lights come up and Mr Hines is telling us there's been an accident.
Hines? The headmaster? No, no, no, no.
He was a teacher then.
History, I think.
'Strong 'even in the face of terror' 'Strong even in the face of terror' ~ So this is what was in the time capsule.
~ 'Give in despair' And each pupil's contribution.
Harriet Meagher was right.
Hines was there in 1983.
Slipped his mind when we saw him earlier.
Anything else? We've got an eyewitness statement here says she saw him leave the disco at 7.
52pm, just as Club Tropicana came on.
And Amy's body was found at 7.
58.
So he could have got to where her body was found in those six minutes? Yeah, then she says she saw him come back in just not long before the song ended, but he was ruled out of enquiries.
That track lasts only 3 minutes, Even if you ran you couldn't get to where Amy was found and back again in six or seven minutes, let alone under four.
a very specific number, Danny.
My sister was in the fan club.
~ Evening, sir.
~ I took the liberty of bringing down the results of the search you requested.
There was no need.
I was actually hoping to Well, I just wanted to Anyhow, um there are six Alecs in the borough with form at that time, so I think we should look at this first.
Now, I've transcribed the remaining words from the B-side of Amy's tape.
Or at least the ones the downgraded audio will allow me to hear.
I think she's reading from this.
The Queen's Speech? Written in 1982 to be read aloud on the radio if a nuclear attack was imminent.
Now, in 1983, the Doomsday Clock was at three minutes to midnight.
Governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain were preparing for Armageddon, and this speech was a key part of those preparations.
So the words that Amy is saying on the tape match the words in the speech? ~ Well some.
~ It could just be a coincidence, Danny.
~ All this would've been secret at the time, yeah? ~ Top secret.
It was only declassified 18 months ago under the 30-Year Rule.
Then how did a schoolgirl get hold of it in 1983? ~ Exactly.
~ Let's focus on something concrete before we start upsetting Security Services.
We need to find this Alec.
And also, why didn't Hines mention that he was there in 1983? Get Forensics to clean up the audio and then we can see if any other words match.
Yeah, first thing in the morning, eh? But now, it's Pub O'Clock.
Haven't you got somewhere to be, Gerry? We've already warned Traffic Division they might be missing a few hundred cones by the morning.
~ Yeah, yeah, all right.
~ Have a good night, Gerry.
~ Yeah, yeah.
~ So, what's up with him? Oh, he's got a stag do, sir.
~ Oh, so does that mean you're a man down tonight then? ~ What? ~ You must be busy, sir, with ~ Well, no, I'd love to, actually.
Um ~ Right, let's go.
~ That's great.
Very good.
~ Terrific.
~ I'll just get my coat.
Do you always sit in complete silence? No, no.
Sorry.
What do you like to talk about? I have some amusing golf anecdotes ~ Oh! ~ Um.
~ Next round's on me.
~ Ah.
Yes.
I'll help.
Same again, please.
~ So, glad you came, sir? ~ Robert, please.
Yeah, I've enjoyed myself.
I hope I've filled in adequately for Gerry.
Well, it's a bit disappointing that you haven't started a fight yet.
Well, the night's young.
Actually, Sasha, I was hoping for some advice.
~ Something's just happened ~ Excuse me.
~ You said this was your local, so ~ Er last night Yeah, you walked out because you couldn't control your excitement ~ at the prospect of going to Barcelona? ~ Barcelona? ~ Stay out of this, Robert.
~ Yeah, Robert.
Pleased to meet you.
I'll be over there.
Listen, I don't know why you left.
Or why you keep ignoring the texts.
But, you know, if it's me? ~ No.
No, no, it's not ~ I mean, if you don't want to see me any more, it's a really elaborate way of saying it.
But it's fine No, no, no, I want to see you I do, I just This ~ I'm just ~ Whoa, are you buffering? ~ No, I'm I'm I've never ever made a woman buffer before.
~ Listen, I can't Steve? ~ I'm not familiar with the verb "to Steve".
What is it - a secret lady thing? I've never been called a secret lady thing before.
~ Steve, Ethan.
Ethan ~ Steve.
No, I'm Steve, you're Ethan.
Anyway.
Do you want to join us? ~ No, he's probably got to get back ~ Oh, no.
We insist.
Yes.
We'll have fun.
Dad! Hey, Dad's here! ~ Give him some air, Rob.
~ I'll go and get my trousers on.
Please.
So you all right, sweetheart? You look after him tonight.
What are you worried about? His mates have something planned.
I know they have.
It's a stag do.
What's the worst that can happen? It's just the ironing board! And a few other.
bits.
Shouldn't you be getting ready for your hen night? Just a quiet one in with the girls.
~ Oooh, that's not like you.
~ Come on, then, Gerry.
This dance ain't for everybody.
Only the sexy people! ~ So what do you do for a living? ~ He runs a record shop.
~ We were asking Ethan.
~ I trade in vintage vinyl.
Ah, you see, this is an excellent topic of conversation.
I love vinyl.
~ Oh, yeah.
~ Infinitely preferable to digital in every way.
Really? I don't understand it.
How can you tell the difference? ~ It's a warmer sound.
~ Yeah, you know your stuff.
~ Damn straight.
~ Danny knows lots of stuff.
Like how I know there's more to vinyl than sound.
There's something special about holding a record, isn't there? It's delicate.
It's precious.
Yeah, like it needs taking care of.
I'm sure Mr Beckett's very careful.
Listen, gents, I know how precious vinyl is.
I respect it, and I only want what's best for it.
That's true.
He wants to take it to Barcelona.
Oh, yeah? Well, then he should understand that every time he takes it out of its sleeve and plays it, there's a risk of damage.
It might be better to leave it on the shelf for while.
No, no, hold on a second.
The risk of damage depends upon a lot of factors, most of which have very little to do with the record itself.
The kind of turntable you're using.
Tone arm adjustment.
~ Tracking force.
~ The pressure of the needle in the groove? ~ Danny! ~ Whether it's a 7-inch or a 12-inch ~ Steve! It's fine.
They like to euphemise.
Let's euphemise.
I can euphemise all night long, by the way.
~ Well, now he's just showing off.
~ Listen, it's brilliant that you've met my work colleagues, Ethan, but We're going for a kebab later on.
Do you like kebabs? ~ Is that a euphemism too? ~ No.
We really are going for a kebab.
You like kebabs? ~ You don't? ~ I'm not judging you.
I've never had a kebab.
Well, sir, this was clearly meant to be.
Cheers! Said you'd love it, didn't I? Right, guys, everyone got name tags? Before we begin, I just wanted to say a few words on why we're here.
As you all know, something very special is happening to me in a fortnight's time.
I am officially joining the Standings, or, to use the correct family name, the Le Stades! Parlez-vous francais? Now, you may not know this, but we Le Stades I can say we, can't I, Gerry? ~ Yeah! Yeah.
~ We were butchers.
So I thought I should learn something about my new heritage.
Connect with it.
I hope you all enjoy coming on this voyage into the past.
Let's salt these loins! Hear, hear! You need a bit more on the skin, mate.
~ Listen.
when's the stripper arriving? ~ Sorry? ~ Well, you're the best man, aren't you? ~ Yeah.
~ Don't worry, you can tell me.
When's the ambush? ~ Ambush? Yeah! What we going to do? Tie him to a lamp post? Chuck him in the water? There's a cake later.
But it's a surprise.
Cake? What sort of best man are you? Meat's cooking.
Won't be long.
Bad news.
They're not going to kidnap you and throw you in a skip.
There's no stripper.
They're not even going to chain you to a lamp post and piss on you.
~ Seriously? ~ Yeah.
I know, mate.
I know.
You know, the first time I met you, you in your little solicitor's suit and your curly barnet, I thought to myself, "What a knob.
" Then the second time, I thought to myself ~ "What a" ~ Oh, even more so.
Yeah.
Nothing's changed, really.
I'm glad we're having this talk.
Tonight, you've reminded me what's important.
All this yeah.
My old dad used to say, "Remember your roots.
" He'd have liked this.
Wouldn't have minded you either, I suppose.
Well, rest assured, Dad.
This baby will carry forward the family traditions.
~ What baby?! ~ Shit! So that's why Caitlin's having her hen night at home, eh? ~ She forced me! ~ How exactly? ~ She sort of straddled me ~ No, no, no.
Don't actually tell me! ~ We're getting married in two weeks! ~ And you couldn't wait? Don't kill me, Gerry.
Or if you have to, please do it humanely.
What exactly happened last night? ~ Well, what's he said? ~ Not much.
But he kept singing this song about being King of the Skip.
~ You don't remember, do you? ~ Remember what? Did he get you a stripper last night? Is that what it is? ~ No! ~ Did he? ~ Of course not! Did you? I asked you to look after him! Yeah, and now I know why.
He's going to be my husband! He's going to be more than that.
You bloody told him? I bloody must have.
Why didn't you bloody tell me? What did you do to Paula's boyfriend after she told you she was pregnant? Ah, you can hardly notice the limp now.
And Amelia's fiance? He says I'm the reason that his sinuses cleared up.
Yeah, after you clonked him one! Yeah, and do you remember what he Look, look, look, look, I didn't come here for a row.
All right? I came here to give you, all three of you, a little present.
See, Caitlin's great-grandma used to work at Spitalfields Mill.
That's near where we were last night.
She chose Chinese silk Cos it shines in candlelight.
That's right, yeah.
The old girl thought it'd only be used for one christening.
But how many have there been? Too bloody many.
Yeah, too bloody many.
There will be candles, won't there? Yeah.
Grim.
Thankfully, it's nothing you have to worry about.
Just work.
Well, a theory about work that no-one will listen to.
~ You off somewhere? ~ Shops.
~ Well, I'll drive you.
~ Ian just got back from uni.
He's picking me up.
~ Oh, right.
Would you rather I lied? No.
I'd rather you were honest with me.
~ I'm always honest with you.
~ Yeah.
And uncomfortable though the truth is sometimes, you have no idea how privileged that makes me feel.
~ Or how proud.
~ You're going to start gushing.
I'll spare you.
We should have Ian round for dinner.
He's a good boy.
He's a bad boy.
That's kind of That's enough honesty, thank you.
So, what about this case, then? I've been told to lay off a line of inquiry I quite like the look of.
And the one suspect we thought we had was scuppered by Club Tropicana.
Prefer Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
No, they were still finding themselves with that track.
No, you've got to go back to Freedom or Last Christmas before you can discover the true marriage of George Michael's lyrical sophistication with Andrew Ridgeley's almost clinical guitar playing Holly, I'm teasing you.
Auntie Jo.
She was a Whamette.
~ A Wham what? ~ Before your time.
Auntie Jo hates pop music.
The thing is, Club Tropicana is too short.
Unless you were playing the 12-inch remix.
Holly, you are brilliant.
I know.
Here you are.
Try in here.
Lists all the releases from 1983.
You didn't come in here just for this, though, did you? Well, I thought I'd take the opportunity to inform you that you may well be a suitable candidate.
I'm saying nothing without my solicitor.
You have a solid yet unspectacular credit score.
Stable income.
Clean record.
Ah, you and Steve the Secret Lady Thing have been checking up on me? Apart from those three points on your licence.
Knew they'd let me down one day.
We're more concerned about you letting Sasha down.
Oh, my God, you sound like her dad.
Or her big brother or something.
I'm her friend.
She's lucky.
I'm the lucky one.
You are too.
The beard'll have to go.
What beard? ~ Ah ~ You found it? What you're looking for? Yes.
Club Tropicana was released on 23rd July 1983.
Four weeks after the school disco.
Was there a 12-inch remix? Er, yeah.
Yeah, there was.
There was a, there was a 12-inch preview disc of the remix doing the rounds, yeah.
Record companies used to punt them out as promos for DJs, and not many people would've known that at the time.
~ Holly was right.
~ Yeah? Who's Holly? The most extraordinary girl in the world.
Do you have the remix? Yeah.
Stick it on a tape for you? I'll need something to play it on.
Something I can take outside.
You are going to dig this.
INTRO: Club Tropicana by Wham! Let me take you to the place Where membership's a smiling face Brush shoulders with the stars Where strangers take you by the hand And welcome you to wonderland From beneath their panamas Club Tropicana, drinks are free Fun and sunshine There's enough for everyone All that's missing is the sea But don't worry, you can suntan! Castaways and lovers meet Then kiss in Tropicana's heat Watch the waves break on the bay Soft white sands I stopped the tape at 5 minutes I'm surprised you lasted that long.
At that point there was 7 minutes, On the night, that would've been plenty of time for you to leave the disco when the song started, come all the way here .
.
and back again before it finished.
I'm sure you're a lot fussier about the quality of your alibis these days, aren't you? There's nothing wrong with the quality of Wham! You're basing this on the testimony of a teenager who might have been drinking? Plus the fact that Amy had lots of unauthorised absences from school in those last few months.
Some of which overlapped with your own.
Were you and Amy going somewhere together? That is a very serious allegation.
I am a very serious man.
I can vouch for that.
Why didn't you tell us you were here back then, Mr Hines? I assumed you knew.
Look, is it my fault that you hadn't read all the paperwork? I was the one who gave Amy's tape to the police.
Only after a colleague had discovered it first.
~ And listened to it.
~ And insisted that you act upon it.
And let's face it, would've been pretty suspicious for you not to.
Anything else? I'm sure we can think of something.
Well, until then, I've got some new parents to show around.
Doubt any of them would be impressed to find you here.
He's right.
It's all circumstantial.
~ But I don't like him.
~ Well, can we go back to my theory ~ about the Queen's Speech? ~ Yeah, once Forensics are done.
~ Where'd you get that remix anyway? ~ Vinyl Heaven.
~ Danny, you didn't.
~ Danny, I did.
Why can't you just leave him alone? Gerry wants to have a look too.
Yeah, I don't need your help! Would it surprise you to learn that I have helped and that I have saved 7.
5 marriages? ~ I've got a counselling diploma.
~ How do you save.
5 of a marriage? One person thought it was still a good idea.
What is wrong with me? I finally meet someone who's kind.
Who doesn't make me feel like I've got to put on a mask every morning.
Who even puts up with you.
And what do I do? I run the four-minute mile.
~ You're afraid.
~ Of what? ~ That things will go wrong again.
That you'll get hurt if you open up and include this man in your life.
~ And you're going to tell me I'm wrong? ~ I wouldn't dream of it.
Many catastrophically.
No, your fears are very well placed.
But just because something seems inevitable doesn't mean there isn't hope.
And the Sagrada Familia looks extraordinary at this time of year.
Does that look like he's showing new parents around? Not unless they're invisible and taking a particularly scenic route.
Now, where's he going in such a hurry? Wait here.
~ 'You OK?' ~ Danny? I've lost Hines.
Must've gone into one of the flats.
And I've got no idea of knowing which one.
Just a moment.
Why, Danny, what are you going to do? Club Tropicana drinks are freeeee Fun and sunshine, there's enough for everyone! All that's missing is the seaaaa But don't worry, you can suntan! .
.
lovers meet and kiss in Tropicana's heat Watch the waves break Don't touch me! Flat four, Dinsdale Close.
Any new parents live there? Well, we'll tell you who lives there, shall we? Carla O'Brien.
The teacher who found Amy's body.
Also your former fiancee.
Although the engagement was called off immediately after Amy's murder.
~ So either your timing is terrible, or ~ There's a connection.
~ Just like your visit today.
~ Why would you go and see Carla just after we've been asking questions about Amy? To tell her to get in touch with you.
After you left, ~ I tracked down an address ~ Ah, so you were helping us? Well, thank you very much.
Not often we get a suspect who worries about good customer service.
Of course, you could've just phoned her.
But it's must easier to intimidate ~ someone face to face, though, isn't it? ~ What? You were worried we'd get to her.
You wanted to make sure she'd keep quiet.
There's nothing for her to keep quiet about.
No? We'll soon find out anyway.
We picked her up an hour after you left the flat.
Did you have time to get your stories straight? Because if there's anything you've told us that she ~ can't independently corroborate ~ It could be awkward.
~ This is highly unethical.
~ Moderately, maybe.
We could push it up to "highly" though, couldn't we? If we had to.
I Amy and I ~ She was 16.
~ You were her teacher.
I want a solicitor.
Amy came looking for him and found us together.
He hadn't told her we were engaged.
And he hadn't told you about her? Do you think I'd have wanted to marry him if he had? So you and Amy found out about each other on the very night that she was murdered? That's right.
That would explain why she was so upset.
No, she was upset BEFORE she got to us.
That's why she wanted to talk to Nick.
She was looking for comfort and thought he'd give it to her.
That's when I knew they'd been And you saw red, naturally.
With him.
Not with her.
So you didn't follow her out to the top of those steps ~ and shove her down? ~ No She was vulnerable, she was just a child.
I could see she was in love with him, I told her to go away.
I only went looking for her after I'd got myself together and finished with Nick.
It was too late.
Hines didn't want her to tell anybody, did he? He's a lot of things, he's not a killer.
Maybe we should be looking at you, then? Be understandable.
Revenge.
I don't know who killed Amy or why - I do know you're looking in the wrong place.
She said she had a secret.
Something she wanted Nick to know.
Something she wanted us all to know.
Did she say what? She never had a chance, but whatever it was she was terrified.
'Fallout can kill.
'Since it can be carried for great distances by the winds, 'it can eventually settle anywhere.
'So no place in the United Kingdom is safer than any other.
'The risk is as great in the countryside as in the towns.
'Nobody can tell where the safest place will be.
'So you are just as safe in your own home area as anywhere else.
'In fact, you are far better off at home, 'because it is the place you'll know and where you are known.
'So, stay where you are.
' This must be Amy's secret.
Now, Forensics have transcribed the rest of the words on Amy's tape and there are too many matches.
She is reading from the Queen's Speech.
Now, the same department behind that speech also made this emergency broadcast.
It's to keep people off the streets and in their homes.
There were 600 specially chosen government, military and civilian personnel planning for the end of the world.
All of them would've lived near Amy.
And if an attack was imminent, all of them would've gone into the Regional Command Centre in Essex.
So they wait out the apocalypse and then come back out ~ and rebuild the country? ~ But this was far more than any state secret.
They weren't allowed to tell their families.
Because if the wider population knew how seriously the government were taking it Now how come only 600 people would be saved? ~ There'd be civil unrest.
Riots.
~ Complete societal breakdown.
No booze in the pubs.
Can we get a list of these ~ National Archive at Kew.
~ Have you called them? They say any files that can be declassified already have been.
~ Huh, it's a hush up.
~ No, no, wait a minute.
Why don't we look at this from another angle? Like how did you get selected to be on that list in the first place? Your profession.
Would have had to be something useful in any attempt to re-establish society.
Mm.
William Taskerland was a civil servant.
Nicholas Hines was a teacher.
Harriet Meagher's father was a priest.
Many of the parents there had professions that would've qualified.
And they'd all want this to be kept quiet.
Hines already has a motive for killing Amy.
Let's make him sweat.
You don't want to take a risk on this one? I'm focusing on what we have.
Not worrying about what we don't have.
Sir? What is it? We think the Taskerland case is linked to the ~ Civil Defence Programme of the 1980s.
~ Murky territory.
That's why we were thinking about your contacts.
~ Contacts? Absolutely not.
~ Oh, come on, Bob ~ Sir.
~ I thought we'd got closer? You know, after the kebab, and that? ~ We're practically brothers.
~ Sorry, I'm out of favours.
One thing I've learnt - not to go wandering in the dark when you don't know whose toes you'll be treading on.
Oh, does Sasha know that the two of you have come to see me? Does she need to? It was a lovely kebab.
~ That's that, then.
~ No.
That's this, then.
That's what, then? After World War Three, what was left of the country would've been ~ divided into 12 police states.
~ Is that a fact? So do you want to tell me where we are going? The South East Regional Command Bunker is right here, under our feet.
Encased in ten metres of concrete.
Did you bring those with you specially? No.
Experience has taught me to always keep a pair handy.
What exactly did you do in the Diplomatic Service, Danny? ~ Keep a look out.
~ Why, who's around? Landowners.
Gamekeepers.
Badgers, possibly.
Or, if we're really unlucky? Armed guards.
I'm just so sorry about last night.
Don't be.
They only want what's best for you.
~ They're not the only ones.
~ I didn't actually think that I'd I didn't actually think that I'd meet someone.
Someone I could be with.
You know, properly be with.
Not so soon after Ned.
OK, so, all right, that's the only problem? No, I just I don't think I can get serious again.
~ I'm not ~ Just Just take another risk.
I asked you to come away for the weekend.
I didn't propose.
No, I know, but me and Ned, it was a long time.
World's changed a lot since nineteen ninety Them Old Days.
Guess what? Now, just cos you kiss someone, you don't have to marry them.
You can hold hands in public, the law won't touch you for it.
Look, I am going away for the weekend.
I'd much rather it was with you than without.
The Queen's Speech was written there during a war game in 1982.
~ A war game in a bungalow? ~ Beneath the bungalow.
It was mothballed in 1990.
Hundreds of Cold War documents just left behind.
I'm betting we'll find something in there ~ that'll tell us how Amy got that speech.
~ Right.
So this is where the chosen 600 would've come to wait it out? ~ What exactly did you do? ~ In the Diplomatic Protection Service? Yeah, yeah, I know, if you told me you'd have to kill me.
Imagine being stuck down here for two years with that nuclear winter raging above you.
All the books you'd have time to read.
How can you think about bloody books when you don't know ~ what's happened to your family? ~ Of course you'd know.
Vaporisation.
Incineration.
Or, if they survived the initial blast, radiation sickness.
What about all those Protect and Survive films - taught you to build a shelter at home? Yes, similar in design to a coffin.
They were encouraging people to bury themselves.
Hold this.
Wow.
Right.
Right.
~ Nothing.
~ Keep looking.
Stewie was supposed to be cooking for me tonight.
Sounds like you've had a lucky escape.
Well, he makes a passable bolognese, actually.
The boy can clash a pan.
~ Danny.
~ Mmm? ~ Come here.
Oh.
Fallout projection.
They estimated a 210 megaton attack as a minimum.
Two thirds of UK homes wiped out in an instant.
Read that.
"Annihilation and Losses Estimation Committee.
" Hello, ALEC.
There was no boy, was there? But there was the ALE Committee.
Which you were part of.
Forecasting how many people will die.
With your wife and daughter included in that figure.
~ I've signed the Official Secrets Act.
~ Amy didn't.
She found a draft of the Queen's Speech in my study one night.
Showed it to my wife, Ruth.
It was a disaster.
Families weren't supposed to know.
~ When was this? ~ Six months before she was killed.
I tried to explain it, explain it all to them How do you ever explain that you'd abandon your family? Do you know what Einstein said about it? He didn't know how they'd fight World War Three.
But he knew how they'd fight World War Four.
With sticks and stones.
Yes.
If the sirens had sounded over London this conversation wouldn't be taking place.
We'd be a corpse of a country.
Dark skies, frozen ground Somebody had to survive the horror, rebuild.
Did Ruth and Amy keep the secret? I suppose they thought the day would never come.
~ Besides, girls are very good at keeping secrets.
~ Unlike boys.
You weren't at a conference in Sheffield on the night that Amy was murdered, were you? We found your training manuals.
They were just standard stories that you would use in order to cover your tracks.
You see, the Civil Defence Programme is all about cover.
The truth would terrify people.
There'd be mass panic.
They'd block the roads.
Riot! ~ Jam the phones! ~ We know that your daughter went to the disco with the specific intention of telling Mr Hines a secret.
Maybe it was this secret.
Where were you that night? ~ I wasn't at the school.
~ You'll need to prove that.
Well a NATO training exercise had started the day before.
Code named Zachariah.
Oh, you wouldn't have found any papers on this one.
It was a rehearsal for an American pre-emptive strike.
President Reagan moved thousands of troops across Europe.
It was just an exercise, but ~ But the Russians reacted? ~ Yes.
Activated the Moscow bunker, primed their SS-20s, each one ready to deliver 100 Hiroshimas on targets across Europe.
~ Including London? ~ Especially London.
What do you think, Dad? She knew.
There was no point trying to hide it.
We were the human buttons.
Trained not to think or to feel.
Don't go! You won't! You won't! No! Dad! Mum? Our country's future was at stake! Your family is your only future.
Look, if I hadn't gone there voluntarily, they'd have sent soldiers to collect me.
I'm sorry.
I'm very sorry.
Terribly sorry.
I prayed in that bunker.
And 36 hours later, Zachariah was over.
The Russians backed down.
If only Ruth had kept Amy at home.
What home? Amy did what every girl would do - try to talk to somebody that she thought might care.
DCI Miller? Harriet? Thank you for coming.
Colleagues aren't with you? I thought it'd be better this way.
Just us girls.
You've read it? Teenage years don't have to be full of misery and pain, do they? You were so happy back then.
Had this wonderful family around you.
~ I was lucky.
~ Lucky to have Amy too.
From the letter, I can see that you and Amy were each other's allies.
Against everything.
But do you really expect us to believe that Amy wouldn't tell you about the tape? The A-L-E Committee that her father was part of? Her best friend? On the night that Amy was killed, she had another, even more devastating secret.
One she tried to tell her lover, but didn't get the chance.
But there was still you.
Why hold all it back? You do want to tell us, don't you? For Amy.
For Amy.
I saw her running out, crying.
~ I just wanted to help ~ Like best friends do.
Nobody noticed me when I left the dance floor.
Nobody ever noticed me.
I found her alone on the steps.
I thought it had something to do with Mr Hines, you know? I knew that bastard had been using her.
It'll be better in the morning.
You'll see.
So, erm, I comforted her There isn't going to be a morning.
The missiles are coming.
And you're right.
She had told me about ALEC, her dad She said it was here.
The end of our world.
Nowhere we can go! He just took his clothes.
Left us.
"No.
I'm going home.
" ~ Come with me.
~ So we can all die together? So we can BE together.
We can hide! You are so stupid.
There's no hiding.
What about your dad's leaflets? "Protect and Survive"? It's a lie.
Please, don't Go home, take the doors off their hinges, make a shelter.
It'll burn like everywhere else! "I'm still going.
" Dad! ~ Don't leave me! ~ "Well, come if you want.
" Your mum'll burn too! And your stupid dad! "But at least mine still love me.
" Amy never got to face the end of the world.
She'd been let down by her father and I let mine down that night.
I came back to the disco.
The police came.
People crying when they said they'd found her body.
I just stood there, waiting for it all to end.
~ Sorry I'm late.
I had to go shopping.
~ For what? ~ A cot.
Yeah, Caitlin and Robin! ~ Congratu-bloody-lations, Gerry! ~ How many grandchildren is that? ~ Too bloody many.
Look at his face.
He's made up.
Yeah, it's brilliant.
So, what's everybody want then? ~ Drinks are on me.
~ Beaten to it.
Eh? Since when did he come out with us? ~ Since the other night.
~ We can't figure out what's wrong.
I'll find out.
Governor.
Oh, hi, Gerry.
Do you want a drink? Yeah, yeah.
I'll have a pint of Jensons.
Governor, we've worked together now for, what, ten years? And in all that time, you've never been out with us once.
~ You're not leaving, are you? ~ No, no.
no.
Rest assured - I'm not leaving.
Good, good.
And you're not ill? ~ Oh, my God! ~ What's so funny? Well, look - snap! My youngest is expecting as well.
No, no, you don't understand.
No, this isn't a grandchild.
(You're going to be a dad again?) ~ Well, that's good news, isn't it? ~ When this child's 15 ~ I'll be, what, nearly 70? ~ I see, so that's what's worrying you? Yeah, well, what if something happens to me? To my health? Listen, governor, can I give you some advice? You cannot worry about the future.
You've got to live for today and you've got to enjoy it! I always knew you were the brains of the outfit.
Yeah, finally cottoned on, have you? Listen.
This is a double celebration so the same again, eh? ~ And two of your biggest cigars.
~ And it's on me.
~ Yes! YOUR child? Well, I think this deserves a toast! To your child, and your child.
To your children! Let's have a look, sir.
~ You haven't got a picture of her, have you? ~ Oh, look at that! ~ Where you off to? ~ Yeah, all right.
~ Bye.
Congratulations.
Going to see a man about a record.
~ Oh, I see.
~ See you all Monday.
~ Bye, Sasha.
~ Don't mind me.
MUSIC: Just Like Heaven by The Cure Hiya.
How are you? What are you? Ha.
~ What? ~ Is this you buffering? Spinning on that dizzy edge Kissed her face and kissed her head Dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow Why are you so far away, she said Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you? That I'm in love with you You Soft and only You Lost and lonely You Strange as angels Dancing in the deepest oceans Twisting in the water
And what's that one? Come on, that's a warrior.
A warrior.
Orion! He's clearly got a sword in his right hand.
And those three stars ~ What, are supposed to be his belt? ~ Well supposed? ~ Yeah, and you've put two fish in Pisces.
~ One.
~ Two.
Look.
~ I don't want to, I haven't got my glasses.
Look.
Well, that one's supposed to be Aquarius, isn't it? It is, though, look! Look.
Never had you down as a closet astronomer.
Or a Goth girl.
~ Glasses look good on you.
~ It's research.
If you were 16 and this was your kind of music No, no, no, you're deflecting again.
Let's talk about everything, anything, please, but you.
I've given you my whole autobiography.
What do I know about you? What do I know about the real Sasha Miller? That you love being with her.
~ Yeah, it's all right, I suppose.
Passes the time ~ Oi! OK, right.
Three questions, Mr Beckett.
Ask me anything.
All right.
Do they make you work weekends at MUCOS? Sometimes.
And it's UCOS.
Who puts an M on the front? ~ What about this weekend? ~ No, not this weekend.
You want to come to Barcelona? We can get two rooms.
We're finished.
OK, that's a bit of a disappointing reaction.
~ I mean the wine, we've finished.
~ All right, I'll get another one.
~ No, I've got to work in the morning.
~ What did I say? It's been lovely.
Yeah.
Lovely.
Sasha! Sasha.
'It's scary, knowing the end's so close.
'Living with it every day.
'By the time you hear this, I'll be ashes.
'Wish I could tell you about Alec.
About all of this.
'But you'd never believe me.
' Bet you couldn't do that again.
Who's winning? Teen Wolf.
Was that the tape you were talking about? Yeah, I made a track list last night.
And a rough transcript of spoken words, or what I think she's saying.
Thought you were going out? Amy Taskerland was killed on the night of 1st July 1983 during the school disco.
Now, two weeks before, she made a tape for her class time capsule.
Just the other day, first year gardening club dug it up by mistake.
~ 31 years later? ~ Yeah.
One minute she's on the dance floor, next she's on the main steps with a broken neck.
Impact study said that she was pushed.
Any suspects from the first time round? There were a couple of lads but nothing came of it.
~ And what about Alec? ~ That's the name she keeps saying on the tape.
~ Sounds to me like she's scared of him.
~ Boyfriend? ~ Could be.
"Shadows", "dust".
Well, just looks like angst-ridden teenage poetry.
~ Depression? ~ Pretty teenage girl at a party.
What's to be depressed about? Eyewitnesses said that she was acting strangely that night.
Mr Hines, the headmaster.
Let's see what he's got to say for himself.
I looked through the school registers ~ but I couldn't find an Alec here at that time.
~ No-one on the staff? Not that I could see.
I should thank you for getting here so quickly.
I know the governors feel that Amy Taskerland is a tragic chapter of the school's history that needs closing.
The body was here, I believe? ~ Amy's body.
~ Of course.
Who found her? Miss O'Brien, apparently.
Left the school a long time ago.
You got an address for her? Well, we can have a look, but I doubt it'll be much use.
Such a long time ago.
It's a fair way from the hall over to here, isn't it? Wonder what she was doing so far away from her friends.
Admiring the view? Meeting a boy? Or maybe this is the kind of place you come to if you want to be alone.
'By the time you hear this, I'll be ashes.
~ 'Wish I could tell you about Alec.
' ~ Who'd be 16 again, eh? Oh, I don't know.
If I could get the 1.
21 gigawatts to go back I might be tempted.
To correct past mistakes? Kick Stacey Craven's butt.
Ah! An old enemy? Total bitch.
It's all right, I'm over it.
All grown up now.
That bell's not ringing itself, Danny.
~ 'Yes?' ~ Mr Taskerland? DCI Sasha Miller and Danny Griffin.
Unsolved Crime and Open Cases.
We're re-investigating the death of your daughter.
It would be a lot easier face to face.
And inside, perhaps? Shoes.
Yes, they're generally considered to be a good thing.
Take them off.
Do you know how many bacteria thrive on the sole of a shoe? Approximately 60 million.
Depending on variables like material used to make the sole, ~ location, time of year ~ William Sorry, Mr Taskerland.
Did Amy ever mention somebody called Alec? Water? ~ Yes, please.
~ No, thank you.
I'll pour a jug.
That way you can keep your options open.
So, your daughter's tape.
No.
I don't want to hear.
Then maybe you can help us with the name? Alec? There might have been a boyfriend called Alec.
~ Did you ever meet him? ~ I'm afraid not.
Did she talk to you about him? Did you discuss boyfriends with your father? Depended on the boy.
What about Amy's friends? Friends yes.
The closest was Harriet Meagher.
A kind girl.
Good family.
When Amy went to the disco, several of her schoolmates mentioned that she seemed distressed.
I went away that night.
A conference.
In Sheffield.
Oh, er, please Thank you.
She seemed happy before I left.
What do you think, Dad? 'Didn't even say goodbye.
' Not properly.
Was everything between Amy and her mother OK? This was a good home.
I meant no offence.
Your wife said as much in her statement.
Ruth passed away ten years ago.
I'm sorry, but I have to ask you divorced, didn't you? A year after Amy was murdered? Strain.
We couldn't understand.
We both have daughters of our own.
They're written in a language that no-one will ever understand.
What are their names? ~ Maddie.
~ Holly.
Amy was our only child.
When I'm gone .
.
nobody will remember who I was.
Or that I ever even lived.
Just phone up Robin and tell him I dunno.
Tell him I broke my arm or my leg or my neck.
~ Anything.
Just get me out of tonight.
~ It's a stag do.
~ It's a stag don't.
~ What the hell is that?!? ~ That is my sketch pad.
~ Harriet Meagher? I'll give you an answer if you tell me your secret.
~ What? ~ Your regime? I have a shower in the morning.
You the bitch then? No.
We're partners.
And we work for the police.
Martin.
Stephen.
James.
Paul.
Matt, of course.
Then Other Matt.
Then Matty Matt But no Alec? No.
No.
I snogged an Andy once, though.
I think we both did.
Oh, and then there was Jason, Rick and ~ How about you just let us have a list of names? ~ Of course.
So I thought Amy just put a normal mix tape in the capsule.
You know, stuff off the radio, and DJs' voices at the beginning and the end.
~ What did you put in it? ~ Well, I couldn't really think of anything so the teacher made me write a letter.
Day in the Life sort of stuff, you know? You and Amy were best mates, right? Practically synchronised our periods.
'Spent every moment we could together.
' 'But if you were so close, don't you think it's strange' ~ that she never mentioned what was on this tape? ~ Or this Alec? I mean, do you see where we're coming from? It's like nobody really knew her.
Not you.
~ Not even her dad.
~ Well, he certainly didn't know her.
How'd you mean? He was cold.
Not unkind or cruel.
Just distant.
Can't imagine how that must've made her feel.
My dad was the local vicar.
Kind bloke.
Heart of the community.
Close to everything, everybody.
Some of the witnesses said that Amy was a bit upset that night.
All I really remember is that one minute Amy was there and then she was gone.
A few songs later, the lights come up and Mr Hines is telling us there's been an accident.
Hines? The headmaster? No, no, no, no.
He was a teacher then.
History, I think.
'Strong 'even in the face of terror' 'Strong even in the face of terror' ~ So this is what was in the time capsule.
~ 'Give in despair' And each pupil's contribution.
Harriet Meagher was right.
Hines was there in 1983.
Slipped his mind when we saw him earlier.
Anything else? We've got an eyewitness statement here says she saw him leave the disco at 7.
52pm, just as Club Tropicana came on.
And Amy's body was found at 7.
58.
So he could have got to where her body was found in those six minutes? Yeah, then she says she saw him come back in just not long before the song ended, but he was ruled out of enquiries.
That track lasts only 3 minutes, Even if you ran you couldn't get to where Amy was found and back again in six or seven minutes, let alone under four.
a very specific number, Danny.
My sister was in the fan club.
~ Evening, sir.
~ I took the liberty of bringing down the results of the search you requested.
There was no need.
I was actually hoping to Well, I just wanted to Anyhow, um there are six Alecs in the borough with form at that time, so I think we should look at this first.
Now, I've transcribed the remaining words from the B-side of Amy's tape.
Or at least the ones the downgraded audio will allow me to hear.
I think she's reading from this.
The Queen's Speech? Written in 1982 to be read aloud on the radio if a nuclear attack was imminent.
Now, in 1983, the Doomsday Clock was at three minutes to midnight.
Governments on both sides of the Iron Curtain were preparing for Armageddon, and this speech was a key part of those preparations.
So the words that Amy is saying on the tape match the words in the speech? ~ Well some.
~ It could just be a coincidence, Danny.
~ All this would've been secret at the time, yeah? ~ Top secret.
It was only declassified 18 months ago under the 30-Year Rule.
Then how did a schoolgirl get hold of it in 1983? ~ Exactly.
~ Let's focus on something concrete before we start upsetting Security Services.
We need to find this Alec.
And also, why didn't Hines mention that he was there in 1983? Get Forensics to clean up the audio and then we can see if any other words match.
Yeah, first thing in the morning, eh? But now, it's Pub O'Clock.
Haven't you got somewhere to be, Gerry? We've already warned Traffic Division they might be missing a few hundred cones by the morning.
~ Yeah, yeah, all right.
~ Have a good night, Gerry.
~ Yeah, yeah.
~ So, what's up with him? Oh, he's got a stag do, sir.
~ Oh, so does that mean you're a man down tonight then? ~ What? ~ You must be busy, sir, with ~ Well, no, I'd love to, actually.
Um ~ Right, let's go.
~ That's great.
Very good.
~ Terrific.
~ I'll just get my coat.
Do you always sit in complete silence? No, no.
Sorry.
What do you like to talk about? I have some amusing golf anecdotes ~ Oh! ~ Um.
~ Next round's on me.
~ Ah.
Yes.
I'll help.
Same again, please.
~ So, glad you came, sir? ~ Robert, please.
Yeah, I've enjoyed myself.
I hope I've filled in adequately for Gerry.
Well, it's a bit disappointing that you haven't started a fight yet.
Well, the night's young.
Actually, Sasha, I was hoping for some advice.
~ Something's just happened ~ Excuse me.
~ You said this was your local, so ~ Er last night Yeah, you walked out because you couldn't control your excitement ~ at the prospect of going to Barcelona? ~ Barcelona? ~ Stay out of this, Robert.
~ Yeah, Robert.
Pleased to meet you.
I'll be over there.
Listen, I don't know why you left.
Or why you keep ignoring the texts.
But, you know, if it's me? ~ No.
No, no, it's not ~ I mean, if you don't want to see me any more, it's a really elaborate way of saying it.
But it's fine No, no, no, I want to see you I do, I just This ~ I'm just ~ Whoa, are you buffering? ~ No, I'm I'm I've never ever made a woman buffer before.
~ Listen, I can't Steve? ~ I'm not familiar with the verb "to Steve".
What is it - a secret lady thing? I've never been called a secret lady thing before.
~ Steve, Ethan.
Ethan ~ Steve.
No, I'm Steve, you're Ethan.
Anyway.
Do you want to join us? ~ No, he's probably got to get back ~ Oh, no.
We insist.
Yes.
We'll have fun.
Dad! Hey, Dad's here! ~ Give him some air, Rob.
~ I'll go and get my trousers on.
Please.
So you all right, sweetheart? You look after him tonight.
What are you worried about? His mates have something planned.
I know they have.
It's a stag do.
What's the worst that can happen? It's just the ironing board! And a few other.
bits.
Shouldn't you be getting ready for your hen night? Just a quiet one in with the girls.
~ Oooh, that's not like you.
~ Come on, then, Gerry.
This dance ain't for everybody.
Only the sexy people! ~ So what do you do for a living? ~ He runs a record shop.
~ We were asking Ethan.
~ I trade in vintage vinyl.
Ah, you see, this is an excellent topic of conversation.
I love vinyl.
~ Oh, yeah.
~ Infinitely preferable to digital in every way.
Really? I don't understand it.
How can you tell the difference? ~ It's a warmer sound.
~ Yeah, you know your stuff.
~ Damn straight.
~ Danny knows lots of stuff.
Like how I know there's more to vinyl than sound.
There's something special about holding a record, isn't there? It's delicate.
It's precious.
Yeah, like it needs taking care of.
I'm sure Mr Beckett's very careful.
Listen, gents, I know how precious vinyl is.
I respect it, and I only want what's best for it.
That's true.
He wants to take it to Barcelona.
Oh, yeah? Well, then he should understand that every time he takes it out of its sleeve and plays it, there's a risk of damage.
It might be better to leave it on the shelf for while.
No, no, hold on a second.
The risk of damage depends upon a lot of factors, most of which have very little to do with the record itself.
The kind of turntable you're using.
Tone arm adjustment.
~ Tracking force.
~ The pressure of the needle in the groove? ~ Danny! ~ Whether it's a 7-inch or a 12-inch ~ Steve! It's fine.
They like to euphemise.
Let's euphemise.
I can euphemise all night long, by the way.
~ Well, now he's just showing off.
~ Listen, it's brilliant that you've met my work colleagues, Ethan, but We're going for a kebab later on.
Do you like kebabs? ~ Is that a euphemism too? ~ No.
We really are going for a kebab.
You like kebabs? ~ You don't? ~ I'm not judging you.
I've never had a kebab.
Well, sir, this was clearly meant to be.
Cheers! Said you'd love it, didn't I? Right, guys, everyone got name tags? Before we begin, I just wanted to say a few words on why we're here.
As you all know, something very special is happening to me in a fortnight's time.
I am officially joining the Standings, or, to use the correct family name, the Le Stades! Parlez-vous francais? Now, you may not know this, but we Le Stades I can say we, can't I, Gerry? ~ Yeah! Yeah.
~ We were butchers.
So I thought I should learn something about my new heritage.
Connect with it.
I hope you all enjoy coming on this voyage into the past.
Let's salt these loins! Hear, hear! You need a bit more on the skin, mate.
~ Listen.
when's the stripper arriving? ~ Sorry? ~ Well, you're the best man, aren't you? ~ Yeah.
~ Don't worry, you can tell me.
When's the ambush? ~ Ambush? Yeah! What we going to do? Tie him to a lamp post? Chuck him in the water? There's a cake later.
But it's a surprise.
Cake? What sort of best man are you? Meat's cooking.
Won't be long.
Bad news.
They're not going to kidnap you and throw you in a skip.
There's no stripper.
They're not even going to chain you to a lamp post and piss on you.
~ Seriously? ~ Yeah.
I know, mate.
I know.
You know, the first time I met you, you in your little solicitor's suit and your curly barnet, I thought to myself, "What a knob.
" Then the second time, I thought to myself ~ "What a" ~ Oh, even more so.
Yeah.
Nothing's changed, really.
I'm glad we're having this talk.
Tonight, you've reminded me what's important.
All this yeah.
My old dad used to say, "Remember your roots.
" He'd have liked this.
Wouldn't have minded you either, I suppose.
Well, rest assured, Dad.
This baby will carry forward the family traditions.
~ What baby?! ~ Shit! So that's why Caitlin's having her hen night at home, eh? ~ She forced me! ~ How exactly? ~ She sort of straddled me ~ No, no, no.
Don't actually tell me! ~ We're getting married in two weeks! ~ And you couldn't wait? Don't kill me, Gerry.
Or if you have to, please do it humanely.
What exactly happened last night? ~ Well, what's he said? ~ Not much.
But he kept singing this song about being King of the Skip.
~ You don't remember, do you? ~ Remember what? Did he get you a stripper last night? Is that what it is? ~ No! ~ Did he? ~ Of course not! Did you? I asked you to look after him! Yeah, and now I know why.
He's going to be my husband! He's going to be more than that.
You bloody told him? I bloody must have.
Why didn't you bloody tell me? What did you do to Paula's boyfriend after she told you she was pregnant? Ah, you can hardly notice the limp now.
And Amelia's fiance? He says I'm the reason that his sinuses cleared up.
Yeah, after you clonked him one! Yeah, and do you remember what he Look, look, look, look, I didn't come here for a row.
All right? I came here to give you, all three of you, a little present.
See, Caitlin's great-grandma used to work at Spitalfields Mill.
That's near where we were last night.
She chose Chinese silk Cos it shines in candlelight.
That's right, yeah.
The old girl thought it'd only be used for one christening.
But how many have there been? Too bloody many.
Yeah, too bloody many.
There will be candles, won't there? Yeah.
Grim.
Thankfully, it's nothing you have to worry about.
Just work.
Well, a theory about work that no-one will listen to.
~ You off somewhere? ~ Shops.
~ Well, I'll drive you.
~ Ian just got back from uni.
He's picking me up.
~ Oh, right.
Would you rather I lied? No.
I'd rather you were honest with me.
~ I'm always honest with you.
~ Yeah.
And uncomfortable though the truth is sometimes, you have no idea how privileged that makes me feel.
~ Or how proud.
~ You're going to start gushing.
I'll spare you.
We should have Ian round for dinner.
He's a good boy.
He's a bad boy.
That's kind of That's enough honesty, thank you.
So, what about this case, then? I've been told to lay off a line of inquiry I quite like the look of.
And the one suspect we thought we had was scuppered by Club Tropicana.
Prefer Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
No, they were still finding themselves with that track.
No, you've got to go back to Freedom or Last Christmas before you can discover the true marriage of George Michael's lyrical sophistication with Andrew Ridgeley's almost clinical guitar playing Holly, I'm teasing you.
Auntie Jo.
She was a Whamette.
~ A Wham what? ~ Before your time.
Auntie Jo hates pop music.
The thing is, Club Tropicana is too short.
Unless you were playing the 12-inch remix.
Holly, you are brilliant.
I know.
Here you are.
Try in here.
Lists all the releases from 1983.
You didn't come in here just for this, though, did you? Well, I thought I'd take the opportunity to inform you that you may well be a suitable candidate.
I'm saying nothing without my solicitor.
You have a solid yet unspectacular credit score.
Stable income.
Clean record.
Ah, you and Steve the Secret Lady Thing have been checking up on me? Apart from those three points on your licence.
Knew they'd let me down one day.
We're more concerned about you letting Sasha down.
Oh, my God, you sound like her dad.
Or her big brother or something.
I'm her friend.
She's lucky.
I'm the lucky one.
You are too.
The beard'll have to go.
What beard? ~ Ah ~ You found it? What you're looking for? Yes.
Club Tropicana was released on 23rd July 1983.
Four weeks after the school disco.
Was there a 12-inch remix? Er, yeah.
Yeah, there was.
There was a, there was a 12-inch preview disc of the remix doing the rounds, yeah.
Record companies used to punt them out as promos for DJs, and not many people would've known that at the time.
~ Holly was right.
~ Yeah? Who's Holly? The most extraordinary girl in the world.
Do you have the remix? Yeah.
Stick it on a tape for you? I'll need something to play it on.
Something I can take outside.
You are going to dig this.
INTRO: Club Tropicana by Wham! Let me take you to the place Where membership's a smiling face Brush shoulders with the stars Where strangers take you by the hand And welcome you to wonderland From beneath their panamas Club Tropicana, drinks are free Fun and sunshine There's enough for everyone All that's missing is the sea But don't worry, you can suntan! Castaways and lovers meet Then kiss in Tropicana's heat Watch the waves break on the bay Soft white sands I stopped the tape at 5 minutes I'm surprised you lasted that long.
At that point there was 7 minutes, On the night, that would've been plenty of time for you to leave the disco when the song started, come all the way here .
.
and back again before it finished.
I'm sure you're a lot fussier about the quality of your alibis these days, aren't you? There's nothing wrong with the quality of Wham! You're basing this on the testimony of a teenager who might have been drinking? Plus the fact that Amy had lots of unauthorised absences from school in those last few months.
Some of which overlapped with your own.
Were you and Amy going somewhere together? That is a very serious allegation.
I am a very serious man.
I can vouch for that.
Why didn't you tell us you were here back then, Mr Hines? I assumed you knew.
Look, is it my fault that you hadn't read all the paperwork? I was the one who gave Amy's tape to the police.
Only after a colleague had discovered it first.
~ And listened to it.
~ And insisted that you act upon it.
And let's face it, would've been pretty suspicious for you not to.
Anything else? I'm sure we can think of something.
Well, until then, I've got some new parents to show around.
Doubt any of them would be impressed to find you here.
He's right.
It's all circumstantial.
~ But I don't like him.
~ Well, can we go back to my theory ~ about the Queen's Speech? ~ Yeah, once Forensics are done.
~ Where'd you get that remix anyway? ~ Vinyl Heaven.
~ Danny, you didn't.
~ Danny, I did.
Why can't you just leave him alone? Gerry wants to have a look too.
Yeah, I don't need your help! Would it surprise you to learn that I have helped and that I have saved 7.
5 marriages? ~ I've got a counselling diploma.
~ How do you save.
5 of a marriage? One person thought it was still a good idea.
What is wrong with me? I finally meet someone who's kind.
Who doesn't make me feel like I've got to put on a mask every morning.
Who even puts up with you.
And what do I do? I run the four-minute mile.
~ You're afraid.
~ Of what? ~ That things will go wrong again.
That you'll get hurt if you open up and include this man in your life.
~ And you're going to tell me I'm wrong? ~ I wouldn't dream of it.
Many catastrophically.
No, your fears are very well placed.
But just because something seems inevitable doesn't mean there isn't hope.
And the Sagrada Familia looks extraordinary at this time of year.
Does that look like he's showing new parents around? Not unless they're invisible and taking a particularly scenic route.
Now, where's he going in such a hurry? Wait here.
~ 'You OK?' ~ Danny? I've lost Hines.
Must've gone into one of the flats.
And I've got no idea of knowing which one.
Just a moment.
Why, Danny, what are you going to do? Club Tropicana drinks are freeeee Fun and sunshine, there's enough for everyone! All that's missing is the seaaaa But don't worry, you can suntan! .
.
lovers meet and kiss in Tropicana's heat Watch the waves break Don't touch me! Flat four, Dinsdale Close.
Any new parents live there? Well, we'll tell you who lives there, shall we? Carla O'Brien.
The teacher who found Amy's body.
Also your former fiancee.
Although the engagement was called off immediately after Amy's murder.
~ So either your timing is terrible, or ~ There's a connection.
~ Just like your visit today.
~ Why would you go and see Carla just after we've been asking questions about Amy? To tell her to get in touch with you.
After you left, ~ I tracked down an address ~ Ah, so you were helping us? Well, thank you very much.
Not often we get a suspect who worries about good customer service.
Of course, you could've just phoned her.
But it's must easier to intimidate ~ someone face to face, though, isn't it? ~ What? You were worried we'd get to her.
You wanted to make sure she'd keep quiet.
There's nothing for her to keep quiet about.
No? We'll soon find out anyway.
We picked her up an hour after you left the flat.
Did you have time to get your stories straight? Because if there's anything you've told us that she ~ can't independently corroborate ~ It could be awkward.
~ This is highly unethical.
~ Moderately, maybe.
We could push it up to "highly" though, couldn't we? If we had to.
I Amy and I ~ She was 16.
~ You were her teacher.
I want a solicitor.
Amy came looking for him and found us together.
He hadn't told her we were engaged.
And he hadn't told you about her? Do you think I'd have wanted to marry him if he had? So you and Amy found out about each other on the very night that she was murdered? That's right.
That would explain why she was so upset.
No, she was upset BEFORE she got to us.
That's why she wanted to talk to Nick.
She was looking for comfort and thought he'd give it to her.
That's when I knew they'd been And you saw red, naturally.
With him.
Not with her.
So you didn't follow her out to the top of those steps ~ and shove her down? ~ No She was vulnerable, she was just a child.
I could see she was in love with him, I told her to go away.
I only went looking for her after I'd got myself together and finished with Nick.
It was too late.
Hines didn't want her to tell anybody, did he? He's a lot of things, he's not a killer.
Maybe we should be looking at you, then? Be understandable.
Revenge.
I don't know who killed Amy or why - I do know you're looking in the wrong place.
She said she had a secret.
Something she wanted Nick to know.
Something she wanted us all to know.
Did she say what? She never had a chance, but whatever it was she was terrified.
'Fallout can kill.
'Since it can be carried for great distances by the winds, 'it can eventually settle anywhere.
'So no place in the United Kingdom is safer than any other.
'The risk is as great in the countryside as in the towns.
'Nobody can tell where the safest place will be.
'So you are just as safe in your own home area as anywhere else.
'In fact, you are far better off at home, 'because it is the place you'll know and where you are known.
'So, stay where you are.
' This must be Amy's secret.
Now, Forensics have transcribed the rest of the words on Amy's tape and there are too many matches.
She is reading from the Queen's Speech.
Now, the same department behind that speech also made this emergency broadcast.
It's to keep people off the streets and in their homes.
There were 600 specially chosen government, military and civilian personnel planning for the end of the world.
All of them would've lived near Amy.
And if an attack was imminent, all of them would've gone into the Regional Command Centre in Essex.
So they wait out the apocalypse and then come back out ~ and rebuild the country? ~ But this was far more than any state secret.
They weren't allowed to tell their families.
Because if the wider population knew how seriously the government were taking it Now how come only 600 people would be saved? ~ There'd be civil unrest.
Riots.
~ Complete societal breakdown.
No booze in the pubs.
Can we get a list of these ~ National Archive at Kew.
~ Have you called them? They say any files that can be declassified already have been.
~ Huh, it's a hush up.
~ No, no, wait a minute.
Why don't we look at this from another angle? Like how did you get selected to be on that list in the first place? Your profession.
Would have had to be something useful in any attempt to re-establish society.
Mm.
William Taskerland was a civil servant.
Nicholas Hines was a teacher.
Harriet Meagher's father was a priest.
Many of the parents there had professions that would've qualified.
And they'd all want this to be kept quiet.
Hines already has a motive for killing Amy.
Let's make him sweat.
You don't want to take a risk on this one? I'm focusing on what we have.
Not worrying about what we don't have.
Sir? What is it? We think the Taskerland case is linked to the ~ Civil Defence Programme of the 1980s.
~ Murky territory.
That's why we were thinking about your contacts.
~ Contacts? Absolutely not.
~ Oh, come on, Bob ~ Sir.
~ I thought we'd got closer? You know, after the kebab, and that? ~ We're practically brothers.
~ Sorry, I'm out of favours.
One thing I've learnt - not to go wandering in the dark when you don't know whose toes you'll be treading on.
Oh, does Sasha know that the two of you have come to see me? Does she need to? It was a lovely kebab.
~ That's that, then.
~ No.
That's this, then.
That's what, then? After World War Three, what was left of the country would've been ~ divided into 12 police states.
~ Is that a fact? So do you want to tell me where we are going? The South East Regional Command Bunker is right here, under our feet.
Encased in ten metres of concrete.
Did you bring those with you specially? No.
Experience has taught me to always keep a pair handy.
What exactly did you do in the Diplomatic Service, Danny? ~ Keep a look out.
~ Why, who's around? Landowners.
Gamekeepers.
Badgers, possibly.
Or, if we're really unlucky? Armed guards.
I'm just so sorry about last night.
Don't be.
They only want what's best for you.
~ They're not the only ones.
~ I didn't actually think that I'd I didn't actually think that I'd meet someone.
Someone I could be with.
You know, properly be with.
Not so soon after Ned.
OK, so, all right, that's the only problem? No, I just I don't think I can get serious again.
~ I'm not ~ Just Just take another risk.
I asked you to come away for the weekend.
I didn't propose.
No, I know, but me and Ned, it was a long time.
World's changed a lot since nineteen ninety Them Old Days.
Guess what? Now, just cos you kiss someone, you don't have to marry them.
You can hold hands in public, the law won't touch you for it.
Look, I am going away for the weekend.
I'd much rather it was with you than without.
The Queen's Speech was written there during a war game in 1982.
~ A war game in a bungalow? ~ Beneath the bungalow.
It was mothballed in 1990.
Hundreds of Cold War documents just left behind.
I'm betting we'll find something in there ~ that'll tell us how Amy got that speech.
~ Right.
So this is where the chosen 600 would've come to wait it out? ~ What exactly did you do? ~ In the Diplomatic Protection Service? Yeah, yeah, I know, if you told me you'd have to kill me.
Imagine being stuck down here for two years with that nuclear winter raging above you.
All the books you'd have time to read.
How can you think about bloody books when you don't know ~ what's happened to your family? ~ Of course you'd know.
Vaporisation.
Incineration.
Or, if they survived the initial blast, radiation sickness.
What about all those Protect and Survive films - taught you to build a shelter at home? Yes, similar in design to a coffin.
They were encouraging people to bury themselves.
Hold this.
Wow.
Right.
Right.
~ Nothing.
~ Keep looking.
Stewie was supposed to be cooking for me tonight.
Sounds like you've had a lucky escape.
Well, he makes a passable bolognese, actually.
The boy can clash a pan.
~ Danny.
~ Mmm? ~ Come here.
Oh.
Fallout projection.
They estimated a 210 megaton attack as a minimum.
Two thirds of UK homes wiped out in an instant.
Read that.
"Annihilation and Losses Estimation Committee.
" Hello, ALEC.
There was no boy, was there? But there was the ALE Committee.
Which you were part of.
Forecasting how many people will die.
With your wife and daughter included in that figure.
~ I've signed the Official Secrets Act.
~ Amy didn't.
She found a draft of the Queen's Speech in my study one night.
Showed it to my wife, Ruth.
It was a disaster.
Families weren't supposed to know.
~ When was this? ~ Six months before she was killed.
I tried to explain it, explain it all to them How do you ever explain that you'd abandon your family? Do you know what Einstein said about it? He didn't know how they'd fight World War Three.
But he knew how they'd fight World War Four.
With sticks and stones.
Yes.
If the sirens had sounded over London this conversation wouldn't be taking place.
We'd be a corpse of a country.
Dark skies, frozen ground Somebody had to survive the horror, rebuild.
Did Ruth and Amy keep the secret? I suppose they thought the day would never come.
~ Besides, girls are very good at keeping secrets.
~ Unlike boys.
You weren't at a conference in Sheffield on the night that Amy was murdered, were you? We found your training manuals.
They were just standard stories that you would use in order to cover your tracks.
You see, the Civil Defence Programme is all about cover.
The truth would terrify people.
There'd be mass panic.
They'd block the roads.
Riot! ~ Jam the phones! ~ We know that your daughter went to the disco with the specific intention of telling Mr Hines a secret.
Maybe it was this secret.
Where were you that night? ~ I wasn't at the school.
~ You'll need to prove that.
Well a NATO training exercise had started the day before.
Code named Zachariah.
Oh, you wouldn't have found any papers on this one.
It was a rehearsal for an American pre-emptive strike.
President Reagan moved thousands of troops across Europe.
It was just an exercise, but ~ But the Russians reacted? ~ Yes.
Activated the Moscow bunker, primed their SS-20s, each one ready to deliver 100 Hiroshimas on targets across Europe.
~ Including London? ~ Especially London.
What do you think, Dad? She knew.
There was no point trying to hide it.
We were the human buttons.
Trained not to think or to feel.
Don't go! You won't! You won't! No! Dad! Mum? Our country's future was at stake! Your family is your only future.
Look, if I hadn't gone there voluntarily, they'd have sent soldiers to collect me.
I'm sorry.
I'm very sorry.
Terribly sorry.
I prayed in that bunker.
And 36 hours later, Zachariah was over.
The Russians backed down.
If only Ruth had kept Amy at home.
What home? Amy did what every girl would do - try to talk to somebody that she thought might care.
DCI Miller? Harriet? Thank you for coming.
Colleagues aren't with you? I thought it'd be better this way.
Just us girls.
You've read it? Teenage years don't have to be full of misery and pain, do they? You were so happy back then.
Had this wonderful family around you.
~ I was lucky.
~ Lucky to have Amy too.
From the letter, I can see that you and Amy were each other's allies.
Against everything.
But do you really expect us to believe that Amy wouldn't tell you about the tape? The A-L-E Committee that her father was part of? Her best friend? On the night that Amy was killed, she had another, even more devastating secret.
One she tried to tell her lover, but didn't get the chance.
But there was still you.
Why hold all it back? You do want to tell us, don't you? For Amy.
For Amy.
I saw her running out, crying.
~ I just wanted to help ~ Like best friends do.
Nobody noticed me when I left the dance floor.
Nobody ever noticed me.
I found her alone on the steps.
I thought it had something to do with Mr Hines, you know? I knew that bastard had been using her.
It'll be better in the morning.
You'll see.
So, erm, I comforted her There isn't going to be a morning.
The missiles are coming.
And you're right.
She had told me about ALEC, her dad She said it was here.
The end of our world.
Nowhere we can go! He just took his clothes.
Left us.
"No.
I'm going home.
" ~ Come with me.
~ So we can all die together? So we can BE together.
We can hide! You are so stupid.
There's no hiding.
What about your dad's leaflets? "Protect and Survive"? It's a lie.
Please, don't Go home, take the doors off their hinges, make a shelter.
It'll burn like everywhere else! "I'm still going.
" Dad! ~ Don't leave me! ~ "Well, come if you want.
" Your mum'll burn too! And your stupid dad! "But at least mine still love me.
" Amy never got to face the end of the world.
She'd been let down by her father and I let mine down that night.
I came back to the disco.
The police came.
People crying when they said they'd found her body.
I just stood there, waiting for it all to end.
~ Sorry I'm late.
I had to go shopping.
~ For what? ~ A cot.
Yeah, Caitlin and Robin! ~ Congratu-bloody-lations, Gerry! ~ How many grandchildren is that? ~ Too bloody many.
Look at his face.
He's made up.
Yeah, it's brilliant.
So, what's everybody want then? ~ Drinks are on me.
~ Beaten to it.
Eh? Since when did he come out with us? ~ Since the other night.
~ We can't figure out what's wrong.
I'll find out.
Governor.
Oh, hi, Gerry.
Do you want a drink? Yeah, yeah.
I'll have a pint of Jensons.
Governor, we've worked together now for, what, ten years? And in all that time, you've never been out with us once.
~ You're not leaving, are you? ~ No, no.
no.
Rest assured - I'm not leaving.
Good, good.
And you're not ill? ~ Oh, my God! ~ What's so funny? Well, look - snap! My youngest is expecting as well.
No, no, you don't understand.
No, this isn't a grandchild.
(You're going to be a dad again?) ~ Well, that's good news, isn't it? ~ When this child's 15 ~ I'll be, what, nearly 70? ~ I see, so that's what's worrying you? Yeah, well, what if something happens to me? To my health? Listen, governor, can I give you some advice? You cannot worry about the future.
You've got to live for today and you've got to enjoy it! I always knew you were the brains of the outfit.
Yeah, finally cottoned on, have you? Listen.
This is a double celebration so the same again, eh? ~ And two of your biggest cigars.
~ And it's on me.
~ Yes! YOUR child? Well, I think this deserves a toast! To your child, and your child.
To your children! Let's have a look, sir.
~ You haven't got a picture of her, have you? ~ Oh, look at that! ~ Where you off to? ~ Yeah, all right.
~ Bye.
Congratulations.
Going to see a man about a record.
~ Oh, I see.
~ See you all Monday.
~ Bye, Sasha.
~ Don't mind me.
MUSIC: Just Like Heaven by The Cure Hiya.
How are you? What are you? Ha.
~ What? ~ Is this you buffering? Spinning on that dizzy edge Kissed her face and kissed her head Dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow Why are you so far away, she said Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you? That I'm in love with you You Soft and only You Lost and lonely You Strange as angels Dancing in the deepest oceans Twisting in the water