Silent Witness (1996) s22e05 Episode Script
To Brighton, To Brighton: Part 1
Thomas? A body part has been found on a municipal dump and they want a couple of Home Office pathologists on the scene.
How do you feel about a trip to Brighton? DI Neil Taramelli.
Nikki Alexander? Jack Hodgson.
Dr Nikki Alexander's my colleague.
She's on her way.
Oh, sorry.
Crossed wires.
That's all right.
He's not himself this morning.
DS Hannah Quicke.
Hello.
It's, um It's over there.
Right.
He's already coughed up his breakfast.
It's not funny.
I'm meant to be investigating this.
How am I going to do that if I can't even look at the evidence? The guy who found it thought it was part of a painted dummy.
Uh-huh.
There.
Thanks.
Any more body parts been found? No.
As soon as they found that, they called us and cordoned off this area.
According to the time sheets, it was the first lorry of the day.
Uh-huh.
Where there's one body part Oi! Get out of it! Ah! Yeah, that's a foot in a pizza bag.
HE GAGS Here! I'd rather not.
If you're going to be sick You OK, sir? Yes How quickly can you raise a DNA profile? We need to do the initial examination here first.
Once that's done, everything will be sent to the Lyell.
It's only about an hour away.
Right.
Now let's see if we can find the rest of this body.
WATER RUNS THOMAS: To Brighton, to Brighton, where they do such things.
CLARISSA: Poetry, Thomas? One of my first jobs was in Brighton.
A young man found murdered under the pier.
We never did catch his killer.
Not a happy memory, then? Well, you know how you always remember the failures.
What time did you call Nikki? She not there yet? How did she sound? Quite pleased to be out of the Lyell, if I'm honest.
Why? She seems a little preoccupied.
Long-distance relationships.
Most relationships, if you ask me.
That's an irezumi.
An ire what? I'll call you back.
VOICEMAIL: Hello.
This is Mark Garcia.
Please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Hi, it's me.
I'm in Brighton, and it's lovely.
I know you're an ocean away, but standing here by the sea with the sun on my face .
.
just made me think of you.
Call me.
PHONE VIBRATES Clarissa? Nikki.
Where are you? Nearly there.
Are you OK? I was going to ask you the same thing.
I'm fine.
You should come down.
I'd love to, but someone needs to be here, hold the fort.
What's the weather like? Terrible.
Wind.
Rain.
You'd hate it.
So when it says 24 degrees with a light south-westerly? I'll bring you back an ice cream.
On first viewing, I would say these have been cut using a saw of some kind.
Would it need an electric saw? Not necessarily, though that would be quicker.
Dismembering a body by hand is hard work, it takes time, not to mention the mess.
Look, can you see? It's not a clean cut - kerf marks at the end suggest a hand saw.
Oh DI Taramelli.
Dr Nikki Alexander? Yeah.
How are you doing? Been one of those mornings.
I'm guessing you people get special injections.
For what? For working in a place like this.
God knows what you could catch.
Bubonic plague, if you're lucky.
We've got the right arm, heavily tattooed, and a left foot.
So far, anyway.
HE WHISTLES Nikki! This smell gets right inside you.
Maybe that's it, Detective.
The smell, not the body parts, making you feel sick.
You must have seen worse.
Bobby on the beat - one of my first jobs was to wait inside a house with a dead body.
His face had been half eaten off by his Jack Russell.
Ohh! How long had he been in there? Two weeks.
So the smell must have I had to burn my uniform.
I should have come to you for my post-traumatic therapy.
Should have.
I wonder if the head has been put somewhere else.
What, to hide possible identification? And the hands.
Neither have been found so far.
Property News.
You see those outside every estate agent's.
So unlikely to help us find the scene of the crime.
And there was me thinking police work was going to add some glamour to my life.
Not done this long, then? This time three years ago, I was teaching Year 11s quadratic equations and single variable inequalities, but then My husband calls it the ultimate mid-life crisis.
What's that? Thomas! Mick? Yeah.
What? You're not going to work, are you? You should be inside.
I'm OK.
You need to rest, you lost a lot of blood.
Hello, you.
We need to decide on a name.
What about Maud? Maud? You are kidding me? Carola, can you hear me? Carola? Her pulse rate has increased slightly.
Her temperature is down.
Is her husband still here? I don't think so.
After you talked to him about the possibility of Carola donating her organs Yes, well I'm waiting to speak to a colleague who's more of an expert, but if these body parts are from the same body, what you're looking at is an irezumi body suit.
Japanese? Traditional tattooing - done by machine, or by hand using a tebori.
The needles at the end of the tebori are jabbed into the skin, depositing the different-coloured inks.
It's a highly skilled art form.
And painful, by the looks of it.
How long does it take? It depends on the size and the intricacy of the design, but usually months, years sometimes.
Aren't they symbols of gangs and criminals? Irezumi tattoos are associated with yakuza, but not limited to them.
Yakuza gangs in Brighton? That's all we need.
BANGING ON DOOR MAN: Akito! We know you're in there! CLARISSA: Heisuke, konban wa.
Yeah, Clarissa, mata kondo mitte ga ureshi, yo.
Watashi mo.
Kochira wa watashi no douryou .
.
Nikki, Thomas, and this is Detective Inspector .
.
Taramelli.
And Detective Sergeant Quicke.
Nice to meet you all.
Sorry to call you so late.
That's fine.
This is important - these photos you sent me.
I'll put up some of the more recent ones we've found.
This style of bodysuit is called munewari.
The man had this done in the UK? We don't know.
You might find he's come to Japan and gone to an irezumi master.
Or it could be a Japanese man who's come to the UK.
I wanted to ask you about the meaning of the various images.
It might help tell us something about the man.
Sure.
On his shoulder is a koi, which swims against a very heavy current, so this suggests the person has been through very difficult times.
And the .
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lotus flower? It's an image tied to the Buddhist faith.
Spiritual awakening.
The lotus starts at the bottom of the pond and slowly makes its way to the top.
And what about this one? The namakubi - death before dishonour.
This man was not to be messed with.
TARAMELLI: Any idea who might have done these tattoos? Oh, yes.
Most irezumi artists sign their name - the first part in Chinese kanji - "hori" meaning "carving", and the second part in Japanese characters.
Does that mean that whoever did these tattoos might know who this man is? That would be possible, but the signature on this irezumi isn't complete.
As a result of the dismembering, I think.
PHONE VIBRATES Hello? Are there traditional irezumi artists like this in the UK? I'm sure there are but, again, this work looks quite exceptional.
I can circulate the images with the people I know.
Also, I do have a database of known yakuza designs that I can share with you, Clarissa.
Heisuke, arigatou.
Iie de.
Clarissa no tame datta nande wo suru, sa.
Mata ne.
Mata ne.
Are there no limits to this woman's talents? No, wa nai.
Ah, apologies.
That was the lab.
DNA confirms all parts from the same body but there's nothing on the database to identify him.
What about a familial search? They're doing that now.
So, no identifiable DNA, but we do have the tattoos.
Which we can show to the various tattooists in Brighton Well, not just Brighton.
If this is as specialist as your friend suggests, we need to spread the net wide.
What? You lied to me.
I found this in your jacket pocket.
You promised me It was the last time.
It was a final blowout before the baby came.
How can you even afford this when we can't even afford a new cot for the baby? It's not my fault she came early! That's all done now.
Yeah? I swear .
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on the baby's life.
This is a new start, yeah? For me, you, the baby.
We're a real family now.
I'm sorry.
What's this? I cut myself.
My mum bought us this.
You're going to have to be more careful, Mick, especially around the baby.
CLARISSA: Make sure we get the far end.
JACK: Brought your new toy to Brighton, then? When will we see the results? Once I've combined the scans at the Lyell, we should have a full 3D model.
Uh-huh.
Would you, uh, mind getting out of shot? Have you identified the dismembered man yet? Not yet, but they're working on it.
What about the bin lorry? What about the bin lorry? Well, we know it was the first lorry back after the early-morning round.
Timed in at 07.
42.
We also know which route it took.
So now all we have to do is go through all the rubbish and hope they'll give us a clue as to which bin, or bins, the body parts were dumped in.
We've already collected some evidence - papers, letters, business details that were in contact with some of the body parts.
I'll go through those.
Which means that? You coming back here first thing tomorrow and seeing what you can find.
Right.
So, let's have a look.
CLARISSA: I'd like to take something back.
A stick of rock? Hmph! Hmm Shells.
I used to love listening to them - you know, the sea, and I'd be off on a ship, sailing the seven seas.
Hmm.
What about a wooden seagull? Hmm? Here we go.
Perfect.
Wherewhere are we going? Lovely as this is, Jack, it's just downtown Tokyo rather than Brighton.
A lot of people come to Brighton just to get one of these.
You mean a tattoo? Don't tell me you've never thought about getting one.
I've thought about it, and then I thought about how my mother would react.
How your mother would react! Bet you still got one, didn't you? When did you get yours done? 15.
I told them I was 19.
And they believed you? They believed in the money, all right.
Can I help you? This is what you should get.
Is that done by hand or machine? All done by hand, in the traditional way.
I bet that hurt.
Of course.
But the pain was worth it.
Is that cherry blossom? Cherry blossom falls, scattered by the four great winds.
Life is but fleeting.
Did you get that done here? Yeah.
A few years ago now.
The colours - nothing has faded.
I wish I could do work as good as this.
So who did it? MK.
But he's not here right now.
He travels around a lot, but I think he is due back in Brighton soon.
If you leave your number with me, I can see if I can contact him.
How long are you here for? A few days, a week.
Does this tattooist have a name? This is his unique signature.
Hori Cho Cho.
Sorry? Thethe carving butterfly.
Thanks.
I'll be in touch.
Brilliant.
Thanks.
How come you know Japanese? How come you don't? Sorry.
I was busy earlier.
I couldn't answer KNOCK ON DOOR Wait a second Your one-thirty.
I'll be right there.
I'm just And the press briefing I got it.
Thanks, Audrey.
You sound busy.
Bat-shit crazy.
Starting a new campaign never gets easier.
But I always have time for you.
I miss you.
I miss you, too.
Can you still come over next weekend? God willing.
Nikki? I, um KNOCK ON DOOR Sorry, sir, but he's not waiting.
You'd better go.
We can talk later.
It's fine.
No, no, no.
We're talking right now.
OK? So, what's going on in Brighton? I'm sure you've seen some gruesome stuff.
Gruesome body parts, but with the most amazing tattoos on them.
Don't get me started.
Kelly just got back from a trip and she got a tattoo.
Can you believe it? I thought you liked them.
You said you liked mine.
It's not the tattoo, she was always going to get one, she just promised she wouldn't do it till after she graduated college.
Makes me wonder what else she's getting up to.
Well, if she's anything like I was at her age, then KNOCK ON DOOR Sir? OK, just send him through.
I'm sorry.
Nikki, I'm so sorry.
I have a major donor who's threatening to walk out on me if I don't OK.
Right.
I'll call you later.
I love you.
You all right to drive? You go safe now, yeah? Now, collapsed sinuses in the groin.
Pock marks to the lower limb.
Do you see? Mm-hm.
Looks like intravenous drug use at some point in this man's life.
He was stabbed in the heart.
Upper end of the wound is 10cm below the clavicle, 6no, 7cm left of the midline.
Judging from this, the blade entered the left ventricle causing a cardiac tamponade.
I can't see any obvious incision or defence wounds to the forearms.
Maybe he didn't have time to protect himself.
Hmm.
The fatal injury was a vertically positioned stab wound to the chest.
The trackyeah, appears to be angled downwards, angled in towards the midline.
Last night, me and Clarissa found this place.
We met a tattooist - Bex.
She knows an irezumi artist.
Did you get their name? His tattooist name is Carving Butterfly, but better known as MK.
He doesn't have a real name? She's gonna call me later.
I'll get someone down there.
Thanks.
Uh-huh.
You all ready for this? No breakfast, and I'm sucking mints.
I love the smell of festering rubbish in the morning.
HE CHUCKLES Very good.
Sir? Thank you.
HE EXHALES Here's another one.
Bloodstains? Bloodor ketchup.
Looks like blood to me.
We'll get it tested, see if it matches the dead man's.
This is in Church Street.
Hmm.
At the far end.
So far, we've got letters addressed to three houses and two businesses at the western end of Church Street.
Clarissa will be thrilled.
We're closer to identifying the dead body.
Yeah, but mainly because it was her idea.
Hmm.
Teeth.
Two of them.
In his stomach? Mm-hm.
Knocked out and swallowed? I've seen it happen to people in road traffic collisions, where their teeth have been hit so hard Could he have been tortured? The teeth pulled out and the man then forced to swallow them? If this is yakuza related, torture is their stock-in trade.
Male aged between 30 and 40.
He was in the past an intravenous drug user.
Anything from Missing Persons? Not yet.
Did you speak to that tattooist I told you about? I've called her, we're meeting her tomorrow.
We have spoken to a number of other tattooists, two in London, one in Bristol and Portsmouth.
Did they recognise any of the tattoos? Most of them, like Heisuke, think they were probably done in Japan by an irezumi master.
So, with little else to go on, we have evidence that the body parts were dumped in this area of Church Street.
So, the only way of knowing where they were put before the bin lorry collected them is to walk along Church Street and inspect every single bin.
What exactly will we be looking for? The head and the hands? Blood.
Most of the body parts were wrapped in newspaper and bin liners, but the average body contains five litres of blood.
You chop one up, you're going to leave a trace, no matter how conscientious you are.
Morning.
Morning.
Bright and early.
Yep.
Sorry to interrupt you there.
I was just wondering if you'd managed to contact MK yet.
Oh.
I thought you'd come here to see me.
Aye, well, that, too.
I've called him a couple of times, left messages, but that's MK.
Maybe if I call him.
What? Steal my commission? I'll tell him you gave me his number.
Scout's honour.
I don't believe that you were ever in the Scouts.
I'll text you his number.
Great.
Hang on.
You're not in the police, are you? Do I look like police? They came round here yesterday wanting to talk to me, but me and the police, we don't have a particularly happy history.
Uh-huh? I used to shout a lot, get arrested.
I still do sometimes.
OK.
Here you go.
Fantastic.
Thanks.
Much appreciated.
You sure there's nothing else I can interest you in? I mean, I can't do irezumi, but there's plenty more things I could offer.
Mmm.
DOGS BARK MK's phone number.
How did you get that? I went to that place twice, and I rang her.
Shall we start? That's the problem with cadaver dogs.
They're brilliant, but they're trained on pork.
These bins must be driving them mad.
Some water? Thanks.
Thanks for helping out with this.
Checking bins? Top of my bucket list.
JACK CHUCKLES Ready? Yeah.
JACK GASPS FLIES BUZZ Do you ever think about being a dad? Yeah, sometimes.
Unlike you, I haven't found anyone who'll put up with me long enough to find out.
Is that what you've been thinking about? Doesn't everyone at some point in their life? Anything? Not yet.
Well .
.
I think he'd be mad to say no.
JACK: Just another 3,000 to go, huh? SHE GASPS You've got to stop him! Carola? What are you doing here? You're in hospital, you have sepsis.
Where's Guy? Does he know? We're trying to contact him.
Guy He said he was going back to the boat.
SHE MUTTERS JACK: Over here.
DOG WHINES Huh? This could be blood.
This is blood.
Excuse me.
What are you doing? Sorry? You live here? No, I work at the estate agent's that rents out these flats.
What's going on? Who are you people? Stephen's not here right now.
He owns the flats? No, we just act as agents.
And you are? Andrew.
Andrew Dewey.
When will Stephen be back? I'm not sure.
He's not been in for a couple of days.
I can give him a call, if you like.
I'm assuming you've got a record of who was using the apartments over the last few weeks.
Yeah.
I'll print you a copy.
How do they book? Mostly online.
Some call, some just walk in.
It depends.
And they pay cash or card? Mostly card or PayPal.
The apartments are owned by different people.
Hi, Stephen.
The police and some other people in masks want to talk to you about the booking last week.
They also want to look at the Church Street holiday apartments.
Call me.
Do you have keys for all the Church Street apartments? I'm not sure I have the authority, and most of them are occupied right now.
It's a very busy time.
Summertime in Brighton.
We're conducting a murder investigation.
We need those keys.
Who's been murdered? If you could help us it would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah.
This is a master key - it opens all the apartments.
Printer's not working, sorry.
According to this, all the apartments were booked out last week except number 3.
E-mail me what you've got there.
Here.
- Thanks.
- Sorry, what's happened? It's just Stephen As I said, I've not seen him in a couple of days.
And that's unusual? No, he does have to travel for work sometimes.
I just When I know anything more, I'll let you know, and if Stephen calls Yeah, I'll tell you.
And get me the names and contact details for the last few weeks.
Detective? Do we know if anyone's in this one? KNOCK ON DOOR Hello? By the smell of it, someone's been using a lot of bleach in here.
Yeah.
We should find out when the apartment was last cleaned.
When was this apartment - number 3 - last occupied? I'm not sure, the printer's broken.
He's going to send me the list.
He did say that apartment 3 was unoccupied last week.
I'll find out some more.
If this is where the body was dismembered, someone must have been in here for quite some time.
Yes, I'll send you the details.
Can you just give me your e-mail address? Thank you.
Goodbye.
Sorry.
I managed to get the printer working again.
The list of all the apartments and who was in them last week and the week before.
Names, addresses and payment details.
But no-one in apartment 3 last week? Stephen deals mainly with the rental side of the business, but it doesn't look like it.
Are you and Stephen the only people who have access to the flats? We don't go into them, we just hand over the keys, and organise the cleaning and so on.
Is it possible that someone else could access the apartment? Not to my knowledge.
The only people I can think of are the people who own it.
They live in the Algarve.
I can print off their details, if you like.
Thank you.
Do they often come over and use the apartment? Not to my knowledge.
I'm sure they would have contacted us to make sure we didn't rent it out if they did.
Here you go.
Thank you.
And when was apartment 3 last cleaned? That was empty, sofive, six days ago? Has something happened in there? Have you got a photo of Stephen? Why? You said he was missing.
Is Stephen your boyfriend? We don't live together or anything like that.
We just .
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go out.
Does he have any tattoos? Tattoos? No.
No.
Does that mean? Send me Stephen's photo and details.
We'll be in touch.
NIKKI: Whoever cleaned this place has done a pretty thorough job.
How tall are you, Detective? 6ft.
Really? 5'11"with my shoes on.
We estimate the height of the dead man to be 5'10", so that should be about right.
Would you mind? Stand here for me.
Now, it's hard to determine if this happened in the last few days, but it appears someone was pushed violently against this wall.
With enough force to knock his teeth out? Mm-hm.
Cessation cast-off.
See that? As the object - in this case, the man's head - hits the wall .
.
blood is cast off, causing the fine spatters.
Jack? Detective? Attacked in the hallway .
.
and then dragged into the bathroom .
.
and then cut up in the bath.
Mick? Keryn.
If you're coming to see me, you can piss off.
I lost my phone.
I knew it was a one-nighter but you could have at least said goodbye.
I didn't want to wake you.
Bollocks.
Look, you can't tell anyone I was with you.
No more messages.
I thought you lost your phone.
Just make sure you lose my number.
Yeah? Possible murder weapons? Possibly.
Hungry? I've seen this.
What? This logo.
It's a pizza place on the front.
A moped.
A moped with this logo on it.
Excuse me Excuse me! He's taking the moped! He was wearing a black hoodie, dark trousers And the moped - it looked like it had been in an accident.
Yes, the main light and indicator were broken, I think there's debris from it here.
It was reported stolen by the Sea View pizza restaurant on Thursday night.
Shit! But if it was the killer, why risk taking the moped? Incriminating evidence? Something in the box maybe.
We need to set up a door-to-door.
If that moped was involved in an accident on this street someone will have seen something, or at least heard it.
FLIES BUZZ Jack? Stop! Stop the work! The commercial waste is collected depending on the contract we have with the customer.
Sometimes it's daily, twice a week, or whatever.
And the bin in Church Street? That came in this morning and, as I say, was emptied in that area.
Usually they check the contents of the bins before they put them into the lorry, but the driver says he didn't see anything untoward.
Detective Taramelli? We've found a dismembered hand.
I'm assuming they did this on purpose - put most of the body parts in one bin, the head and the hands Hold on Is that the head? The left arm with an irezumi.
But we already have a left arm Detective? There There A second dismembered body.
Right, let's get a full team in here as quickly as we can.
I want this place sealed off and every part of that body found.
Yes, sir.
What can you tell us? Anything.
We'll find out more when we do the postmortem back at the Lyell.
What time's Matt calling you? He said before midnight.
His midnight or your midnight? That's the problem.
You know what we were talking about earlier? Years ago, I was .
.
seeing a woman, I was very close to her, and she called up, she asked me if I wanted kids.
I was so surprised.
What, you didn't answer her? I did, but .
.
she heard the silence.
Had she been in the room, well, who knows? Might have turned out different.
Know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Yeah.
See you tomorrow.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Ruby.
Ooh, sorry.
My bad.
How do you feel about a trip to Brighton? DI Neil Taramelli.
Nikki Alexander? Jack Hodgson.
Dr Nikki Alexander's my colleague.
She's on her way.
Oh, sorry.
Crossed wires.
That's all right.
He's not himself this morning.
DS Hannah Quicke.
Hello.
It's, um It's over there.
Right.
He's already coughed up his breakfast.
It's not funny.
I'm meant to be investigating this.
How am I going to do that if I can't even look at the evidence? The guy who found it thought it was part of a painted dummy.
Uh-huh.
There.
Thanks.
Any more body parts been found? No.
As soon as they found that, they called us and cordoned off this area.
According to the time sheets, it was the first lorry of the day.
Uh-huh.
Where there's one body part Oi! Get out of it! Ah! Yeah, that's a foot in a pizza bag.
HE GAGS Here! I'd rather not.
If you're going to be sick You OK, sir? Yes How quickly can you raise a DNA profile? We need to do the initial examination here first.
Once that's done, everything will be sent to the Lyell.
It's only about an hour away.
Right.
Now let's see if we can find the rest of this body.
WATER RUNS THOMAS: To Brighton, to Brighton, where they do such things.
CLARISSA: Poetry, Thomas? One of my first jobs was in Brighton.
A young man found murdered under the pier.
We never did catch his killer.
Not a happy memory, then? Well, you know how you always remember the failures.
What time did you call Nikki? She not there yet? How did she sound? Quite pleased to be out of the Lyell, if I'm honest.
Why? She seems a little preoccupied.
Long-distance relationships.
Most relationships, if you ask me.
That's an irezumi.
An ire what? I'll call you back.
VOICEMAIL: Hello.
This is Mark Garcia.
Please leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Hi, it's me.
I'm in Brighton, and it's lovely.
I know you're an ocean away, but standing here by the sea with the sun on my face .
.
just made me think of you.
Call me.
PHONE VIBRATES Clarissa? Nikki.
Where are you? Nearly there.
Are you OK? I was going to ask you the same thing.
I'm fine.
You should come down.
I'd love to, but someone needs to be here, hold the fort.
What's the weather like? Terrible.
Wind.
Rain.
You'd hate it.
So when it says 24 degrees with a light south-westerly? I'll bring you back an ice cream.
On first viewing, I would say these have been cut using a saw of some kind.
Would it need an electric saw? Not necessarily, though that would be quicker.
Dismembering a body by hand is hard work, it takes time, not to mention the mess.
Look, can you see? It's not a clean cut - kerf marks at the end suggest a hand saw.
Oh DI Taramelli.
Dr Nikki Alexander? Yeah.
How are you doing? Been one of those mornings.
I'm guessing you people get special injections.
For what? For working in a place like this.
God knows what you could catch.
Bubonic plague, if you're lucky.
We've got the right arm, heavily tattooed, and a left foot.
So far, anyway.
HE WHISTLES Nikki! This smell gets right inside you.
Maybe that's it, Detective.
The smell, not the body parts, making you feel sick.
You must have seen worse.
Bobby on the beat - one of my first jobs was to wait inside a house with a dead body.
His face had been half eaten off by his Jack Russell.
Ohh! How long had he been in there? Two weeks.
So the smell must have I had to burn my uniform.
I should have come to you for my post-traumatic therapy.
Should have.
I wonder if the head has been put somewhere else.
What, to hide possible identification? And the hands.
Neither have been found so far.
Property News.
You see those outside every estate agent's.
So unlikely to help us find the scene of the crime.
And there was me thinking police work was going to add some glamour to my life.
Not done this long, then? This time three years ago, I was teaching Year 11s quadratic equations and single variable inequalities, but then My husband calls it the ultimate mid-life crisis.
What's that? Thomas! Mick? Yeah.
What? You're not going to work, are you? You should be inside.
I'm OK.
You need to rest, you lost a lot of blood.
Hello, you.
We need to decide on a name.
What about Maud? Maud? You are kidding me? Carola, can you hear me? Carola? Her pulse rate has increased slightly.
Her temperature is down.
Is her husband still here? I don't think so.
After you talked to him about the possibility of Carola donating her organs Yes, well I'm waiting to speak to a colleague who's more of an expert, but if these body parts are from the same body, what you're looking at is an irezumi body suit.
Japanese? Traditional tattooing - done by machine, or by hand using a tebori.
The needles at the end of the tebori are jabbed into the skin, depositing the different-coloured inks.
It's a highly skilled art form.
And painful, by the looks of it.
How long does it take? It depends on the size and the intricacy of the design, but usually months, years sometimes.
Aren't they symbols of gangs and criminals? Irezumi tattoos are associated with yakuza, but not limited to them.
Yakuza gangs in Brighton? That's all we need.
BANGING ON DOOR MAN: Akito! We know you're in there! CLARISSA: Heisuke, konban wa.
Yeah, Clarissa, mata kondo mitte ga ureshi, yo.
Watashi mo.
Kochira wa watashi no douryou .
.
Nikki, Thomas, and this is Detective Inspector .
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Taramelli.
And Detective Sergeant Quicke.
Nice to meet you all.
Sorry to call you so late.
That's fine.
This is important - these photos you sent me.
I'll put up some of the more recent ones we've found.
This style of bodysuit is called munewari.
The man had this done in the UK? We don't know.
You might find he's come to Japan and gone to an irezumi master.
Or it could be a Japanese man who's come to the UK.
I wanted to ask you about the meaning of the various images.
It might help tell us something about the man.
Sure.
On his shoulder is a koi, which swims against a very heavy current, so this suggests the person has been through very difficult times.
And the .
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lotus flower? It's an image tied to the Buddhist faith.
Spiritual awakening.
The lotus starts at the bottom of the pond and slowly makes its way to the top.
And what about this one? The namakubi - death before dishonour.
This man was not to be messed with.
TARAMELLI: Any idea who might have done these tattoos? Oh, yes.
Most irezumi artists sign their name - the first part in Chinese kanji - "hori" meaning "carving", and the second part in Japanese characters.
Does that mean that whoever did these tattoos might know who this man is? That would be possible, but the signature on this irezumi isn't complete.
As a result of the dismembering, I think.
PHONE VIBRATES Hello? Are there traditional irezumi artists like this in the UK? I'm sure there are but, again, this work looks quite exceptional.
I can circulate the images with the people I know.
Also, I do have a database of known yakuza designs that I can share with you, Clarissa.
Heisuke, arigatou.
Iie de.
Clarissa no tame datta nande wo suru, sa.
Mata ne.
Mata ne.
Are there no limits to this woman's talents? No, wa nai.
Ah, apologies.
That was the lab.
DNA confirms all parts from the same body but there's nothing on the database to identify him.
What about a familial search? They're doing that now.
So, no identifiable DNA, but we do have the tattoos.
Which we can show to the various tattooists in Brighton Well, not just Brighton.
If this is as specialist as your friend suggests, we need to spread the net wide.
What? You lied to me.
I found this in your jacket pocket.
You promised me It was the last time.
It was a final blowout before the baby came.
How can you even afford this when we can't even afford a new cot for the baby? It's not my fault she came early! That's all done now.
Yeah? I swear .
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on the baby's life.
This is a new start, yeah? For me, you, the baby.
We're a real family now.
I'm sorry.
What's this? I cut myself.
My mum bought us this.
You're going to have to be more careful, Mick, especially around the baby.
CLARISSA: Make sure we get the far end.
JACK: Brought your new toy to Brighton, then? When will we see the results? Once I've combined the scans at the Lyell, we should have a full 3D model.
Uh-huh.
Would you, uh, mind getting out of shot? Have you identified the dismembered man yet? Not yet, but they're working on it.
What about the bin lorry? What about the bin lorry? Well, we know it was the first lorry back after the early-morning round.
Timed in at 07.
42.
We also know which route it took.
So now all we have to do is go through all the rubbish and hope they'll give us a clue as to which bin, or bins, the body parts were dumped in.
We've already collected some evidence - papers, letters, business details that were in contact with some of the body parts.
I'll go through those.
Which means that? You coming back here first thing tomorrow and seeing what you can find.
Right.
So, let's have a look.
CLARISSA: I'd like to take something back.
A stick of rock? Hmph! Hmm Shells.
I used to love listening to them - you know, the sea, and I'd be off on a ship, sailing the seven seas.
Hmm.
What about a wooden seagull? Hmm? Here we go.
Perfect.
Wherewhere are we going? Lovely as this is, Jack, it's just downtown Tokyo rather than Brighton.
A lot of people come to Brighton just to get one of these.
You mean a tattoo? Don't tell me you've never thought about getting one.
I've thought about it, and then I thought about how my mother would react.
How your mother would react! Bet you still got one, didn't you? When did you get yours done? 15.
I told them I was 19.
And they believed you? They believed in the money, all right.
Can I help you? This is what you should get.
Is that done by hand or machine? All done by hand, in the traditional way.
I bet that hurt.
Of course.
But the pain was worth it.
Is that cherry blossom? Cherry blossom falls, scattered by the four great winds.
Life is but fleeting.
Did you get that done here? Yeah.
A few years ago now.
The colours - nothing has faded.
I wish I could do work as good as this.
So who did it? MK.
But he's not here right now.
He travels around a lot, but I think he is due back in Brighton soon.
If you leave your number with me, I can see if I can contact him.
How long are you here for? A few days, a week.
Does this tattooist have a name? This is his unique signature.
Hori Cho Cho.
Sorry? Thethe carving butterfly.
Thanks.
I'll be in touch.
Brilliant.
Thanks.
How come you know Japanese? How come you don't? Sorry.
I was busy earlier.
I couldn't answer KNOCK ON DOOR Wait a second Your one-thirty.
I'll be right there.
I'm just And the press briefing I got it.
Thanks, Audrey.
You sound busy.
Bat-shit crazy.
Starting a new campaign never gets easier.
But I always have time for you.
I miss you.
I miss you, too.
Can you still come over next weekend? God willing.
Nikki? I, um KNOCK ON DOOR Sorry, sir, but he's not waiting.
You'd better go.
We can talk later.
It's fine.
No, no, no.
We're talking right now.
OK? So, what's going on in Brighton? I'm sure you've seen some gruesome stuff.
Gruesome body parts, but with the most amazing tattoos on them.
Don't get me started.
Kelly just got back from a trip and she got a tattoo.
Can you believe it? I thought you liked them.
You said you liked mine.
It's not the tattoo, she was always going to get one, she just promised she wouldn't do it till after she graduated college.
Makes me wonder what else she's getting up to.
Well, if she's anything like I was at her age, then KNOCK ON DOOR Sir? OK, just send him through.
I'm sorry.
Nikki, I'm so sorry.
I have a major donor who's threatening to walk out on me if I don't OK.
Right.
I'll call you later.
I love you.
You all right to drive? You go safe now, yeah? Now, collapsed sinuses in the groin.
Pock marks to the lower limb.
Do you see? Mm-hm.
Looks like intravenous drug use at some point in this man's life.
He was stabbed in the heart.
Upper end of the wound is 10cm below the clavicle, 6no, 7cm left of the midline.
Judging from this, the blade entered the left ventricle causing a cardiac tamponade.
I can't see any obvious incision or defence wounds to the forearms.
Maybe he didn't have time to protect himself.
Hmm.
The fatal injury was a vertically positioned stab wound to the chest.
The trackyeah, appears to be angled downwards, angled in towards the midline.
Last night, me and Clarissa found this place.
We met a tattooist - Bex.
She knows an irezumi artist.
Did you get their name? His tattooist name is Carving Butterfly, but better known as MK.
He doesn't have a real name? She's gonna call me later.
I'll get someone down there.
Thanks.
Uh-huh.
You all ready for this? No breakfast, and I'm sucking mints.
I love the smell of festering rubbish in the morning.
HE CHUCKLES Very good.
Sir? Thank you.
HE EXHALES Here's another one.
Bloodstains? Bloodor ketchup.
Looks like blood to me.
We'll get it tested, see if it matches the dead man's.
This is in Church Street.
Hmm.
At the far end.
So far, we've got letters addressed to three houses and two businesses at the western end of Church Street.
Clarissa will be thrilled.
We're closer to identifying the dead body.
Yeah, but mainly because it was her idea.
Hmm.
Teeth.
Two of them.
In his stomach? Mm-hm.
Knocked out and swallowed? I've seen it happen to people in road traffic collisions, where their teeth have been hit so hard Could he have been tortured? The teeth pulled out and the man then forced to swallow them? If this is yakuza related, torture is their stock-in trade.
Male aged between 30 and 40.
He was in the past an intravenous drug user.
Anything from Missing Persons? Not yet.
Did you speak to that tattooist I told you about? I've called her, we're meeting her tomorrow.
We have spoken to a number of other tattooists, two in London, one in Bristol and Portsmouth.
Did they recognise any of the tattoos? Most of them, like Heisuke, think they were probably done in Japan by an irezumi master.
So, with little else to go on, we have evidence that the body parts were dumped in this area of Church Street.
So, the only way of knowing where they were put before the bin lorry collected them is to walk along Church Street and inspect every single bin.
What exactly will we be looking for? The head and the hands? Blood.
Most of the body parts were wrapped in newspaper and bin liners, but the average body contains five litres of blood.
You chop one up, you're going to leave a trace, no matter how conscientious you are.
Morning.
Morning.
Bright and early.
Yep.
Sorry to interrupt you there.
I was just wondering if you'd managed to contact MK yet.
Oh.
I thought you'd come here to see me.
Aye, well, that, too.
I've called him a couple of times, left messages, but that's MK.
Maybe if I call him.
What? Steal my commission? I'll tell him you gave me his number.
Scout's honour.
I don't believe that you were ever in the Scouts.
I'll text you his number.
Great.
Hang on.
You're not in the police, are you? Do I look like police? They came round here yesterday wanting to talk to me, but me and the police, we don't have a particularly happy history.
Uh-huh? I used to shout a lot, get arrested.
I still do sometimes.
OK.
Here you go.
Fantastic.
Thanks.
Much appreciated.
You sure there's nothing else I can interest you in? I mean, I can't do irezumi, but there's plenty more things I could offer.
Mmm.
DOGS BARK MK's phone number.
How did you get that? I went to that place twice, and I rang her.
Shall we start? That's the problem with cadaver dogs.
They're brilliant, but they're trained on pork.
These bins must be driving them mad.
Some water? Thanks.
Thanks for helping out with this.
Checking bins? Top of my bucket list.
JACK CHUCKLES Ready? Yeah.
JACK GASPS FLIES BUZZ Do you ever think about being a dad? Yeah, sometimes.
Unlike you, I haven't found anyone who'll put up with me long enough to find out.
Is that what you've been thinking about? Doesn't everyone at some point in their life? Anything? Not yet.
Well .
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I think he'd be mad to say no.
JACK: Just another 3,000 to go, huh? SHE GASPS You've got to stop him! Carola? What are you doing here? You're in hospital, you have sepsis.
Where's Guy? Does he know? We're trying to contact him.
Guy He said he was going back to the boat.
SHE MUTTERS JACK: Over here.
DOG WHINES Huh? This could be blood.
This is blood.
Excuse me.
What are you doing? Sorry? You live here? No, I work at the estate agent's that rents out these flats.
What's going on? Who are you people? Stephen's not here right now.
He owns the flats? No, we just act as agents.
And you are? Andrew.
Andrew Dewey.
When will Stephen be back? I'm not sure.
He's not been in for a couple of days.
I can give him a call, if you like.
I'm assuming you've got a record of who was using the apartments over the last few weeks.
Yeah.
I'll print you a copy.
How do they book? Mostly online.
Some call, some just walk in.
It depends.
And they pay cash or card? Mostly card or PayPal.
The apartments are owned by different people.
Hi, Stephen.
The police and some other people in masks want to talk to you about the booking last week.
They also want to look at the Church Street holiday apartments.
Call me.
Do you have keys for all the Church Street apartments? I'm not sure I have the authority, and most of them are occupied right now.
It's a very busy time.
Summertime in Brighton.
We're conducting a murder investigation.
We need those keys.
Who's been murdered? If you could help us it would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah.
This is a master key - it opens all the apartments.
Printer's not working, sorry.
According to this, all the apartments were booked out last week except number 3.
E-mail me what you've got there.
Here.
- Thanks.
- Sorry, what's happened? It's just Stephen As I said, I've not seen him in a couple of days.
And that's unusual? No, he does have to travel for work sometimes.
I just When I know anything more, I'll let you know, and if Stephen calls Yeah, I'll tell you.
And get me the names and contact details for the last few weeks.
Detective? Do we know if anyone's in this one? KNOCK ON DOOR Hello? By the smell of it, someone's been using a lot of bleach in here.
Yeah.
We should find out when the apartment was last cleaned.
When was this apartment - number 3 - last occupied? I'm not sure, the printer's broken.
He's going to send me the list.
He did say that apartment 3 was unoccupied last week.
I'll find out some more.
If this is where the body was dismembered, someone must have been in here for quite some time.
Yes, I'll send you the details.
Can you just give me your e-mail address? Thank you.
Goodbye.
Sorry.
I managed to get the printer working again.
The list of all the apartments and who was in them last week and the week before.
Names, addresses and payment details.
But no-one in apartment 3 last week? Stephen deals mainly with the rental side of the business, but it doesn't look like it.
Are you and Stephen the only people who have access to the flats? We don't go into them, we just hand over the keys, and organise the cleaning and so on.
Is it possible that someone else could access the apartment? Not to my knowledge.
The only people I can think of are the people who own it.
They live in the Algarve.
I can print off their details, if you like.
Thank you.
Do they often come over and use the apartment? Not to my knowledge.
I'm sure they would have contacted us to make sure we didn't rent it out if they did.
Here you go.
Thank you.
And when was apartment 3 last cleaned? That was empty, sofive, six days ago? Has something happened in there? Have you got a photo of Stephen? Why? You said he was missing.
Is Stephen your boyfriend? We don't live together or anything like that.
We just .
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go out.
Does he have any tattoos? Tattoos? No.
No.
Does that mean? Send me Stephen's photo and details.
We'll be in touch.
NIKKI: Whoever cleaned this place has done a pretty thorough job.
How tall are you, Detective? 6ft.
Really? 5'11"with my shoes on.
We estimate the height of the dead man to be 5'10", so that should be about right.
Would you mind? Stand here for me.
Now, it's hard to determine if this happened in the last few days, but it appears someone was pushed violently against this wall.
With enough force to knock his teeth out? Mm-hm.
Cessation cast-off.
See that? As the object - in this case, the man's head - hits the wall .
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blood is cast off, causing the fine spatters.
Jack? Detective? Attacked in the hallway .
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and then dragged into the bathroom .
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and then cut up in the bath.
Mick? Keryn.
If you're coming to see me, you can piss off.
I lost my phone.
I knew it was a one-nighter but you could have at least said goodbye.
I didn't want to wake you.
Bollocks.
Look, you can't tell anyone I was with you.
No more messages.
I thought you lost your phone.
Just make sure you lose my number.
Yeah? Possible murder weapons? Possibly.
Hungry? I've seen this.
What? This logo.
It's a pizza place on the front.
A moped.
A moped with this logo on it.
Excuse me Excuse me! He's taking the moped! He was wearing a black hoodie, dark trousers And the moped - it looked like it had been in an accident.
Yes, the main light and indicator were broken, I think there's debris from it here.
It was reported stolen by the Sea View pizza restaurant on Thursday night.
Shit! But if it was the killer, why risk taking the moped? Incriminating evidence? Something in the box maybe.
We need to set up a door-to-door.
If that moped was involved in an accident on this street someone will have seen something, or at least heard it.
FLIES BUZZ Jack? Stop! Stop the work! The commercial waste is collected depending on the contract we have with the customer.
Sometimes it's daily, twice a week, or whatever.
And the bin in Church Street? That came in this morning and, as I say, was emptied in that area.
Usually they check the contents of the bins before they put them into the lorry, but the driver says he didn't see anything untoward.
Detective Taramelli? We've found a dismembered hand.
I'm assuming they did this on purpose - put most of the body parts in one bin, the head and the hands Hold on Is that the head? The left arm with an irezumi.
But we already have a left arm Detective? There There A second dismembered body.
Right, let's get a full team in here as quickly as we can.
I want this place sealed off and every part of that body found.
Yes, sir.
What can you tell us? Anything.
We'll find out more when we do the postmortem back at the Lyell.
What time's Matt calling you? He said before midnight.
His midnight or your midnight? That's the problem.
You know what we were talking about earlier? Years ago, I was .
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seeing a woman, I was very close to her, and she called up, she asked me if I wanted kids.
I was so surprised.
What, you didn't answer her? I did, but .
.
she heard the silence.
Had she been in the room, well, who knows? Might have turned out different.
Know what I'm saying? Yeah.
Yeah.
See you tomorrow.
Yeah.
Thanks.
Ruby.
Ooh, sorry.
My bad.