The Suspect (2022) s01e01 Episode Script
Episode 1
All fear can be overcome,
rational and irrational.
And sometimes we need help
in doing that.
That's why I'm here.
You'd be held.
Buoyant.
You'll be safe.
It works best if you do the buckle.
Oh. Yep, yeah.
I feel silly.
Put yourself there.
Mm.
Step onto the bridge.
Calm, deep breaths.
Oh, no, I can't, I can't do this.
Because?
Because the bridge will fall down,
and I'll go in the water with it.
Why would the bridge fall down?
It just will.
What is the bridge made of?
Yep.
So it's steel
rivets
and concrete.
Dr O'Loughlin, you have to come now!
Find out the owner of that vehicle.
Hi.
Dr O'Loughlin?
Yeah.
DS Amanda Fisher, thank you for coming.
As you can see, we've got a situation.
There's a young boy on the ledge.
We think he's going to jump.
Our negotiator's on the way,
but he's stuck in traffic.
He'll be here soon,
but the situation
requires an intervention now.
What do you mean?
'Dramatic scenes from
the City of Westminster Hospital.
'A young patient is standing on a ledge
'on the seventh floor
of the main building.'
Right, Joe? All right.
Yeah.
Don't worry, this is the harness
for the kid.
Make sure you stay focused on me.
Your harness is tethered to the building
and is gonna be strapped around you.
Make sure you get his legs in first.
Put the harness on the top.
OK, your radio is contacted
up to the police, open mic,
OK, so if you need anything,
just let them know.
We have visual. Civilian negotiator
on the ledge. Seventh floor. Over.
'Joe, this is DS Fisher.'
He's called Malcolm. He's 17.
He's left a note to his parents.
Just two words - "I'm sorry".
Whew!
Some view, huh?
It's Malcolm, isn't it?
Malcolm, I'm Joe.
Don't come near me! Stay away!
All right.
No, don't come near!
I'm gonna take one more step
Stay away! Stay away!
I'm gonna
I'll-I'll stay away.
I'm gonna take one more step.
That's us.
There we are.
Joe, you should also know he's got
a tumour next to his brain stem,
he's two weeks into a second course
of chemotherapy.
His prognosis is terminal.
You know the way people always say,
"It'll be fine.
"Everything'll be OK"?
I don't buy it.
I think people just say that.
Because they can't think
of anything else.
Get him talking.
Keep him talking. He's smart.
His parents say
he's been accepted at Oxford.
Keep the conversation
away from his illness. Just
I don't want any more chemo.
I've had enough.
I keep telling them.
I'm not scared of dying.
I'm not.
I think you're old enough to make
these decisions yourself, Malcom.
Try telling them that.
I think people think it's easy
to be cynical and pessimistic,
but it's actually
really hard work.
I think it's much easier
to be hopeful, to be honest,
and optimistic.
Optimistic!? It's a brain tumour!
They can't operate!
Yeah, I know.
I get it.
And it's probably gonna kill you,
Malcolm.
That's the truth of it.
Oh, God.
No, no, no, no, he shouldn't, um
He
What?
He can't be out there.
Why?
Ah, he is a patient of mine,
and he Well, he's just been
diagnosed with Parkinson's,
so, um
Why should I go back inside?
Cos it's fucking freezing, Malcolm.
And I've seen what happens to people
when they fall from buildings
this high, and it's not good.
You don't wanna do that.
Why would you come out here?
I'm all right, I'm fine.
I know you're all right.
But if you're gonna jump
..I think you need to say goodbye
to your mum and dad first.
Even if you can't find the words.
Let them hold you.
All that love
they have for you, Malcolm
..give them that.
And it's still really cold and
I think we should go back inside.
I'm gonna reach down
and get this harness.
You're gonna take this,
I'm gonna show you how to put it on,
all right? Oh!
Oh!
Dropped the harness. Over.
All right. You're good.
Stay calm.
All good.
Plan B.
I'm gonna take this off, all right,
and I'm gonna put it on you.
Yeah?
OK.
Stay where you are.
Er, why's he That doesn't, er,
that doesn't look like a good idea.
Please, Joe. Please!
Stay still, Malcolm!
Stay calm! Look at me!
Joe, please.
Look at me, that's good.
Argh!
Argh, argh, I'm slipping!
You're not gonna fall, Malcolm,
I have you.
Steel, rivets
Fire crew to the floor below.
Repeat, to the floor below.
Hold tight, Malcolm.
I'm-I'm slipping!
Joe!
I'm gonna throw you a line!
You're not gonna fall!
Listen to me.
You're gonna have to swing into us.
I'm gonna fall!
Grab hold of the line.
You've got to swing!
We're gonna pull you in now!
One more time, here we go!
My boy!
Where is he?
Son!
Are you OK?
Sorry, we do need to get him out
into the
Stupid!
I know, I know, I know.
Stupid, macho, alpha
I know.
..idiot!
All right, I just It's
I haven't adjusted to it yet.
Oh, you forgot you had Parkinson's!?
Well, for a minute I wanted to, yeah!
Come here.
I get that.
Come here.
I get it, but
I'm sorry.
You go and you do the most stupid
suicidal thing without
..without even a thought
for Charlie or me?
Hey!
What's all this about?
Now I can talk about you at school.
Oh, you couldn't before?
Mum said your work
was getting inside people's heads,
that would just creep everyone out.
Yeah.
I suppose when you put it like that
Hey! Charlie.
You're a hero, Dad.
You're everywhere.
'..Westminster hospital.
'A young patient is standing
on a ledge' Oh, dear.
'..on the seventh floor
of the main building.'
OK. Have you had your bath?
There's no hot water.
This doesn't make any sense.
That's cos you don't speak boiler.
How did it go with the life jacket?
Yeah, good. She made it
halfway across the bridge,
she's never got that far before.
Wow!
Then we got interrupted.
Hey
..you were right, it was stupid.
Hm. Yeah.
I was stupid.
Sorry.
I don't expect you to give in to it,
but you can't fight Parkinson's
like that.
And you're the worst plumber
I ever slept with.
How-How many plumbers
have you actually slept with?
Enough.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Arrrrgh!
Oh! Quickly.
Stop it!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, my God!
You need to get upstairs immediately
and take your clothes off, go!
Oh, you planned that!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, you!
Nice to meet you, sir.
DS Devi.
Female, no ID as yet,
called in by a dog walker.
I don't like bodies
being dumped in graveyards,
that's a crime twice over.
The dog walker didn't give a name.
So how long has she been here?
Can't be more than a few days.
A groundsman saw something
and started to uncover her.
It's a shallow grave.
Not very well hidden.
Done in a hurry, or were we meant
to find her this quickly?
I mean, look at the sods.
You know, the-the lumps of earth,
the soil, they were turned over
by a spade.
Tidy and workmanlike,
so no, not done in a hurry.
Collect up all the spades.
Every single one.
Her body was brought in by a vehicle.
The gates are all locked at night.
So, near the end of the day,
her body hidden close by,
the grave gets dug that night.
I'll check local CCTV
for vehicle registration.
How many murders have you done?
This is my fourth.
It doesn't get any easier.
Turning up to the murder
of yet another young woman,
I mean, knowing there'll be another
one, and another one, I just,
I-I don't have the words for it
any more. I really don't.
ETA on forensics?
They're saying two hours.
God.
Let's get some coffees.
Send one of the sods.
Oh, hello.
Morning.
I've been dining out
on sharing my practice
with super-shrink hero Joe.
Oh, yeah?
What were you trying to prove,
and to whom?
They asked me to do it.
I didn't really think.
Ah. Clearly.
How are the wedding plans going?
Oh, you know, ongoing,
irritating and expensive.
Busy list?
Back to back.
How d'you put up with it all day?
All that talk, talk, talk?
Should send them next door to me,
I've got a pill for everyone
and everything.
Sorry I'm late. Hey, Bobby.
Hey, Joe!
Would you like to head in?
I'll be with you in a moment.
Course. Don't be long, please, mate.
Dr O'Loughlin?
Yeah?
The way he whispers to himself,
he frightens me.
I don't understand why
you can't see him in the hospital,
why you treat him like
one of your private patients.
He doesn't like hospitals,
they're too noisy, busy.
I've whittled it down to three.
Three?
My replacement.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sorry, but I am leaving.
Yeah. I'll get to that later,
but thank you, Meena.
So, as you're aware,
you're coming up for sentencing,
and I am writing a report
to try and persuade the judge
that it's help that you need,
rather than punishment
No, actually, um
I-I didn't do anything.
But you did, didn't you?
You assaulted a woman at a taxi rank.
Yeah, well, she jumped the queue.
Joe?
And how did you feel
when she jumped the queue?
I was upset.
Very upset, if I'm honest.
Because?
Because it's wrong, OK?
It's a queue. You know the rules.
Mm-hm.
Queue up.
Talk to me more about her.
Does she remind you of anyone?
The only time she'll sleep alone
is when she's in the ground,
and she will sleep.
What do you mean by that, Bobby?
Is that important?
That piece of paper?
Does it have something written on it?
Yeah, it's a number.
21?
How did you know that? How did
No, how did you know that?!
That's mad you knew that! Wow!
Can I see it?
Whoo! Whoo!
Here you go.
Ah, ah, like a Christmas cracker.
Hm.
We talked before about this number
being important to you, didn't we?
Does the number 21
bring back good memories, Bobby,
or not so good memories?
Um, it's a bus, actually.
My dad drove a number 21 bus.
No, he did, he did.
He was a good man.
There's nothing off CCTV as yet,
and we have found 17 spades
so far, sir. It's a big cemetery.
Well, get the ground staff
fingerprinted and swabbed,
and statements from everyone
who works there. Yep.
Oh! Sir.
Any word on that dog walker?
Er, yeah, he used an untraceable mobile.
An untrace
A dog walker with a burner?
We don't know who the victim is
or anything about her.
Why have the media
tagged her a sex worker?
That didn't come from this team.
Don't tell me.
Because they know I'm the one
who usually gets given
the murdered sex workers, OK.
Well, I could talk to
some women who work in the area,
find out if any have gone missing.
Mm.
This is the post-mortem,
it's a preliminary report,
we're still waiting
for toxicology results,
but they thought
you should see this now.
OK, so when it's urgent,
you're gonna have to interrupt me.
Mm-hm.
You've had a look?
And?
She was stabbed 21 times.
But it's the way she was stabbed.
Good God.
Hi.
Hi.
I saw it on TV.
Falling off a roof, saving that boy.
Yeah.
What are you doing to yourself?
Is that the detective?
Oh, is that the reason
you're here early?
No, no. No, I'm just curious
when you said you were meeting her.
Come on, get your drink.
Thanks.
Detective Sergeant Devi, she's
come to talk to the collective.
This is Dr O'Loughlin.
Hi.
He's a psychologist. I was
a patient of his many years ago.
I'm still here because of him.
Oh!
I'm researching a book
on attitudes to sex workers,
I've been working with Cara and the
group for well, quite some time.
Do you want me to wait at the bar,
I can come back?
No! Oh, no, it's fine, um,
we're nearly finished.
Do you mind if I take this seat?
Thanks.
She's, er, trying to identify
a woman, er, who's been murdered.
They think she could have been
a sex worker.
Oh, how did she die?
Oh, we're not disclosing that.
What makes you think
she was a sex worker?
She was found in an area where
sex workers are known to operate.
Down by Kings Cross by the canal.
She had no ID.
Sex workers are most likely
to be anonymous,
with no friends or family
to report them missing.
This description doesn't fit
anyone we know,
and if it did, she would've had
a lot of friends
and it would've been reported.
Yeah, well, Sergeant Devi
is unfortunately right,
sex workers do account for the
largest number of unsolved killings.
That's how I recognise you.
You're the doctor who saved that boy.
Yes.
You know your, um
research into attitudes,
did that extend to the men
who murder sex workers?
Yes, it does.
Um, the main motive being
the ability to get away with it.
Except for those who leave a signature,
that's when it gets really complicated.
Have you ever been involved
in profiling?
Never thought about it.
Is this him?
Yeah. If you don't think it's a good
idea No, no, it's a good call.
It's definitely a murder that could
do with a shrink. Dr O'Loughlin?
Yes. Detective Inspector Ruiz.
Good of you to give up your time.
Glad I can help.
If you'd like to come this way.
Mm-hm.
We, er, still haven't identified
the victim
and we're waiting on some
final tests on some tissue samples
to come back from the lab.
It's, um, the nature of the attack
that we'd like to get your opinion on.
And we should warn you,
you might find this distressing.
Would you like me
to set up a proper viewing?
No, the fridge will do fine.
She was in the ground
three to four days.
No evidence of sexual assault.
But what's unique
is the 21 stab wounds to the chest,
all in a very deliberate pattern,
not one of them more than an inch deep.
This is an extremely nasty,
brutal murder.
The pathologist concluded that
the wounds were self-inflicted.
He found hesitation marks.
She had to work up the nerve
to force the blade in.
Somebody forced her to kill herself.
That's our thinking so far.
Can you help us to understand
the sort of person
who could inflict such a torture?
21 times, you said?
Yes.
The pathologist concluded that
the final stab
was to the carotid artery,
but he couldn't say
whether that was the victim,
desperate to end her torture,
or the murderer.
All right.
I'll need to see the paperwork.
I'm sorry, it was a bit of a mistake
bringing him in.
He couldn't wait
to get out of the fridge.
Ah, that's understandable.
What do you think of Murder so far?
Oh, I don't think I'll make a career
out of it.
Sorry, I-I know you have.
Didn't realise I had a career.
Right, let's hope he didn't
throw up all over the paperwork.
I'm so sorry.
Excuse me? What are you doing?
You shouldn't be in here alone
and you should not be touching her!
Sorry, I
How did you get in?
The door was open.
No, you should've asked me.
Right, well, I needed to take a
second look, to confirm my thinking.
Which is what?
Well, I wasn't sure
from the photographs,
but it looked like she had old scar
tissue on her arms and on her legs.
I-I-I wanted a closer look.
She's been cut before.
Meaning?
She self-harmed in the past.
Right, so you think the person
who made her stab herself knew that?
I don't know, I don't know.
It's a possibility.
You all right, Dr O'Loughlin?
Yeah, yeah, um I
I-I have early onset Parkinson's.
It's a recent diagnosis.
I'm not used to coping with it yet.
Thanks again.
Yeah.
Another dead end.
We got matches from the groundsmen
off the spades,
but no alarm bells on their backgrounds.
4-8-5-9.
Code to the fridge room. 4-8-5-9.
I watched the attendant as she
punched in the code. I memorised it.
It's how my mind works.
I've got a criminal mind.
It helps me catch criminals.
Don't worry about it.
But it seems
..O'Loughlin
also has a criminal mind.
He lied about the door to the fridge
room being open.
So he memorised the code so he
could go back in there without us?
Is there CCTV in the fridge room?
Nope. Six minutes alone with her.
I mean, it could be innocent, right,
just like me,
he noticed the numbers
when the code was being punched in.
He wanted to check out
his little theory,
and it was quicker to do it without us.
Yeah, but he lied about the door
being open.
You're right.
He lied to us. I don't want him
anywhere near this investigation.
We don't share any information
with him. OK?
Got it.
Why here?
Well, there's no-one around at night.
But there's lots of places like that.
What if it wasn't a dog walker
that dialled in?
What if it was the killer
using a burner?
Gets a kick out of seeing us find her.
Missing person.
And matches the age,
height, hair colour,
and she disappeared at the right time.
Yeah, that looks like her.
Catherine McCain.
X-ray technician.
Liverpool.
All right, confirm with a DNA match,
get a full background,
circles of association,
then get a detailed trace of her
starting out in Liverpool
..all the way to here.
How's Julianne?
I'm amazed at how high-tech your
branch of medicine's become, Jack.
You treat all of your patients to this?
Oh, no, no, no.
This is just for you, my friend.
Hm-mm!
Special treatment.
What did she make
of your hero stunt on the ledge?
Well, you told me to carry on
as normal, so that's what I did.
Yes, yes, I did. "Normal",
my friend, is not what you did.
Ah, shit!
All right, then,
what did crushing my fingers
and my dignity tell you, then?
Well, that my dominance over you
for the last 20 years
continues to reign supreme.
And that the diagnosis
I gave you last week
well, still stands.
Early onset Parkinson's.
Yeah, I'm aware of that.
Well, what else can I say?
You know, you've looked it up,
everyone does,
you'll know the history,
every theory, research programme,
you'll know every celebrity sufferer,
the drugs, the diet.
You won't die from it,
you'll die with it,
and you'll have everything
you had before,
including the woman everyone
wanted to be with at university.
No, no, no, no. The one
you wanted to be with at university.
Daughter adores you,
a successful practice,
books that by some small miracle
continue to sell -
God knows if anyone
actually reads them -
and now, it seems,
you're a national bloody hero.
Yeah, and then I get this fucking
thing, Jack! Look at my hands.
I'm 42!
Yeah.
Argh!
What's up?
Do you remember a patient
you referred to me a while back?
Er, Bobby Bobby Moran.
Bobby Moran? Um
Early twenties. You sent him to me
after some neurological tests
you-you did on him
Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
I thought you could prise
something out of him, yeah.
Yeah, what about him?
Well, I know this is
This isn't gonna make sense, right?
But
Bobby has this thing
about the number 21, right,
he's obsessed with it.
And recently, I've been asked
to profile a murder investigation,
where a woman was forced
to stab herself 21 times.
Right. And?
My lucky number, by the way, is-is four.
Right, right, but it was just
only a couple of months ago
Bobby attacked a woman who
jumped him in a queue for a taxi.
Attacked how?
Bad enough that she went to A&E
and he was convicted of assault.
Bobby have any connection
to the murdered woman?
They don't know who she is yet.
Right.
I know, I-I told you it was
it didn't make any sense, you know?
It's weird, though, isn't it?
Look, there's a lot
happening to you at the moment, OK,
feeling overwhelmed, anxious, angry,
they're all, you know,
common symptoms of Parkinson's.
So perhaps, um, criminal profiling
at this
at this particular junction in your
life is, um, maybe a step too far.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Dr O'Loughlin, please, my replacement,
if you could take a moment
to consider the candidates.
I was gonna head in with I'll
hold your next patient until you do.
Yeah.
Be with you in a moment.
This is her room.
So how long have you and Catherine
been flatmates?
A little under six months.
Just gonna take a quick look around.
Yeah.
And she was a, um, an X-ray technician?
No, that's-that's me.
I was the one who reported her missing.
Catherine is a community nurse.
Was a community nurse.
I still can't believe it.
I'm sorry, um, information
can sometimes get twisted round.
What was Catherine like?
When she was up
she could be good company,
but a lot of the time she was depressed.
Any friends? Relationships?
She never had anyone over here
that I saw.
But she was seeing someone in London.
Any ideas who?
Nope.
That was her big secret.
Mm.
I got the impression, um, and
that's all this is, an impression,
that she went for the job interview
in London so she could be near him.
What's that?
How's the investigation going?
Oh, we'll get there.
Have you identified the victim yet?
Nope.
So you had some thoughts?
Yeah, er, thank you,
not so much thoughts
as a really strange coincidence.
Um Sorry, I should have mentioned
this earlier, but, er,
you know that all families
have their rituals
and things that might look strange
to other people,
well, we, um,
we do this thing every year,
we celebrate my mum's birthday
by throwing leaves at each other.
Hm!
My mum died when I was 14.
She was agoraphobic,
she died in a house fire.
I managed to get out, erm, but
a couple of years before she died,
we cleared out the garage,
and we filled it full of leaves
and we hung fairy lights, and
to give her the impression
like she was outside.
Honestly, I've never seen her happier.
I'm sorry, what has this
gotta do with
Right, yes, so at the end
of this experience,
we, um, we had a leaf fight.
So that's something now that we
recreate every year on her birthday.
And, um
'I can see you!'
That's you.
Well, that's the first car arriving.
We left soon after.
Oh!
So you were in the car
that drove past me that day?
Yeah, yeah, that was us.
A-ha.
So, you were at the cemetery
at the same time
We were there
..as us finding the body?
..at the same time
as you finding the body.
Myself, my wife, my daughter. Yeah.
But you didn't say anything before?
When we met at the mortuary
I know, I just
I didn't join up the dots
immediately, and we looked
at the video last night,
I was reminded of the cars going by,
and I thought, we were there,
we were there when you were there,
so
Right.
..I felt I should come in
and say something about it.
Huh!
Yeah.
Er, sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah?
Hi, you got a minute?
'Mm-hm.'
I found something
in Catherine McCain's room.
She knew Dr O'Loughlin.
OK. Good idea.
I'll see you when you get back.
That's it, that's all I got.
You went into the jewellers
to collect your wedding rings,
but the engraving was wrong.
They misspelt your fiancee's name.
Yeah, that's correct, um
You see, her name is Jenni,
and it ends in an I,
and they decided to spell it with
a Y, which is incorrect, Joe, so
Right, so you lost your temper
and then you stormed out.
It was raining, so you flagged
a taxi, and then what happened?
Right, OK, just for the record, she
jumped the queue, do you understand?
Yeah.
She pushed in and she tried
to steal my taxi, which it was, OK?
And she had this young boy with her,
and he was screaming
..and she just ignored him.
She was pulling him along
like he was an injured animal,
and I could see in his face
..how he was frightened and in pain.
You know, I-I really wanted to stop
the noise, if I'm honest with you.
Then what happened?
What was it about the little boy
screaming that upset you, Bobby?
You know what,
some people really deserve to die,
don't they? It's just, like,
so obvious when you see it.
Who do you think deserves to die, then?
Who are you talking about, Bobby?
It's not for you, it's not for him,
it's not for anybody, actually.
It's not for you, it's not for you,
it's not for you, it's not for you.
Is that the piece of paper with
the important number written on it?
21?
It's not for you
Not for you, it's not for you,
it's for anybody
How does it feel to hold it?
Does it make you feel better?
The number 21?
Afternoon.
Afternoon.
Oh, sorry.
Didn't mean to startle you.
You all right?
Most of my patients
are people who have
just got a bit stuck in their lives,
but there's something about him.
Something
unsettling.
I've seen him around,
he seems perfectly nice.
Oh, yeah, talk to Meena.
She's terrified of him.
So
..about my wedding.
Wedding, yes, what about it?
I'd like you to walk me down the aisle.
You serious?
Well, my father is dead,
my other relatives are incredibly dull.
So who better than a strong,
handsome national hero?
You know we fell off that ledge, right?
Oh, we can gloss over that part.
Say yes.
Yes!
Yes?
Yes, of course!
Aw!
More than yes. Thank you.
I'll be honoured.
Oh, my God!
You're the best.
Thank you.
See you later.
Yeah.
Hi, fifth floor.
OK.
Uhh, let's take the lift.
OK.
You all right, sir?
Yep.
Wait! One second, please.
Dr Gerald Owens?
Er, yes?
I'm Detective Inspector Ruiz,
this is Detective Sergeant Devi.
Have you got a minute?
Oh!
Hi.
Sorry to disturb you at home, doctor.
How can I help?
Do you know this woman?
Yeah, yeah, this is, er,
Catherine McCain.
She was a patient of mine
about four or five years ago.
Please, sit down.
Did you not recognise her
at the mortuary when you saw her?
No, no, I didn't
Well, not at first.
Once I saw the paperwork and
the history of self-harm,
I well, that's why I went
back inside for a second look.
And then you recognised her?
Yeah, then I recognised her.
Why didn't you tell us?
Well
Look, you gotta understand
she was a patient of mine
for nearly a year, I think,
and she was self-harming.
I was treating her for that. Um
I cared about Catherine very much.
And seeing her like that, in the morgue,
lying there, just imagining
what she'd been through
I don't know,
I-I think I didn't want it to be real.
I didn't want it to be her.
Erm
And me being at the cemetery
when you found the body,
and with everything
that's been going on,
I think I just blocked it out.
Catherine McCain was more than
a patient, though, wasn't she?
Mm-hm.
No, no,
she wasn't, none of that was true.
We found documents in Catherine's room,
her account of you
sexually assaulting her.
Right, she withdrew those allegations.
But there was an inquiry.
Yeah.
And I was completely cleared.
The documents we found
listed a Dr Gerald Owens
as a character witness for you.
Well, talk to Dr Owens,
he'll confirm everything I'm saying.
Oh, no, we've already had a chat,
we thought
that was the better way round,
but he told us that
Catherine McCain's allegations
nearly wrecked your career
and your marriage.
Did she come after you again?
No, she didn't. She didn't wreck
anything because she was lying.
Your career has
really taken off, right?
Book sales, media profile,
the private practice.
You couldn't allow her to threaten that
and your family all over again.
She was a patient who became
infatuated with her therapist.
It goes with the job. It happens
sometimes, that's all this is.
Back at the mortuary,
you went back to take another look
at her corpse.
I've explained that.
Why did you lie to us?
About the door to the fridge room
being open. It was locked.
You memorised the code,
so you could have access,
because you were
expecting to see Catherine McCain.
No, no, that's not why, I
Look, I saw the code
being punched in, I memorised it,
I don't know why I did, but I did.
I.. It I didn't think
it was a big deal.
But you lied to us.
Yeah.
I'm sorry about that.
We'll need fingerprints and DNA
to eliminate you
from handling the spade
that was used to bury Catherine.
Wh Hold on,
there was a spade leaning against
my mother's graveside
when we got there,
I-I picked it up and I moved it.
You remember the spade, right?
None of this makes any sense.
Look, I know how this sounds,
but this is just a series
of coincidences.
It That's all this is!
Well, tomorrow, come in,
we'll take a statement.
Just make sure it's a coherent one.
Bring a lawyer, er, we might
need to interview you under caution.
Well, thank you for tea, Mrs O'Loughlin.
I hope your heating gets fixed soon.
Thank you.
Why is she back in our lives?
I don't know.
Why didn't you tell me?
What else are you hiding?
Even if Catherine
withdrew the allegation,
that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I'm just saying.
And he might have played me.
If he knew I was meeting up
with those sex workers,
that could be why he showed up.
He wanted to find out what I knew.
I mean, he was all soft charm.
So, what have we got -
a rooftop hero or
sick killer?
Perhaps he's both.
rational and irrational.
And sometimes we need help
in doing that.
That's why I'm here.
You'd be held.
Buoyant.
You'll be safe.
It works best if you do the buckle.
Oh. Yep, yeah.
I feel silly.
Put yourself there.
Mm.
Step onto the bridge.
Calm, deep breaths.
Oh, no, I can't, I can't do this.
Because?
Because the bridge will fall down,
and I'll go in the water with it.
Why would the bridge fall down?
It just will.
What is the bridge made of?
Yep.
So it's steel
rivets
and concrete.
Dr O'Loughlin, you have to come now!
Find out the owner of that vehicle.
Hi.
Dr O'Loughlin?
Yeah.
DS Amanda Fisher, thank you for coming.
As you can see, we've got a situation.
There's a young boy on the ledge.
We think he's going to jump.
Our negotiator's on the way,
but he's stuck in traffic.
He'll be here soon,
but the situation
requires an intervention now.
What do you mean?
'Dramatic scenes from
the City of Westminster Hospital.
'A young patient is standing on a ledge
'on the seventh floor
of the main building.'
Right, Joe? All right.
Yeah.
Don't worry, this is the harness
for the kid.
Make sure you stay focused on me.
Your harness is tethered to the building
and is gonna be strapped around you.
Make sure you get his legs in first.
Put the harness on the top.
OK, your radio is contacted
up to the police, open mic,
OK, so if you need anything,
just let them know.
We have visual. Civilian negotiator
on the ledge. Seventh floor. Over.
'Joe, this is DS Fisher.'
He's called Malcolm. He's 17.
He's left a note to his parents.
Just two words - "I'm sorry".
Whew!
Some view, huh?
It's Malcolm, isn't it?
Malcolm, I'm Joe.
Don't come near me! Stay away!
All right.
No, don't come near!
I'm gonna take one more step
Stay away! Stay away!
I'm gonna
I'll-I'll stay away.
I'm gonna take one more step.
That's us.
There we are.
Joe, you should also know he's got
a tumour next to his brain stem,
he's two weeks into a second course
of chemotherapy.
His prognosis is terminal.
You know the way people always say,
"It'll be fine.
"Everything'll be OK"?
I don't buy it.
I think people just say that.
Because they can't think
of anything else.
Get him talking.
Keep him talking. He's smart.
His parents say
he's been accepted at Oxford.
Keep the conversation
away from his illness. Just
I don't want any more chemo.
I've had enough.
I keep telling them.
I'm not scared of dying.
I'm not.
I think you're old enough to make
these decisions yourself, Malcom.
Try telling them that.
I think people think it's easy
to be cynical and pessimistic,
but it's actually
really hard work.
I think it's much easier
to be hopeful, to be honest,
and optimistic.
Optimistic!? It's a brain tumour!
They can't operate!
Yeah, I know.
I get it.
And it's probably gonna kill you,
Malcolm.
That's the truth of it.
Oh, God.
No, no, no, no, he shouldn't, um
He
What?
He can't be out there.
Why?
Ah, he is a patient of mine,
and he Well, he's just been
diagnosed with Parkinson's,
so, um
Why should I go back inside?
Cos it's fucking freezing, Malcolm.
And I've seen what happens to people
when they fall from buildings
this high, and it's not good.
You don't wanna do that.
Why would you come out here?
I'm all right, I'm fine.
I know you're all right.
But if you're gonna jump
..I think you need to say goodbye
to your mum and dad first.
Even if you can't find the words.
Let them hold you.
All that love
they have for you, Malcolm
..give them that.
And it's still really cold and
I think we should go back inside.
I'm gonna reach down
and get this harness.
You're gonna take this,
I'm gonna show you how to put it on,
all right? Oh!
Oh!
Dropped the harness. Over.
All right. You're good.
Stay calm.
All good.
Plan B.
I'm gonna take this off, all right,
and I'm gonna put it on you.
Yeah?
OK.
Stay where you are.
Er, why's he That doesn't, er,
that doesn't look like a good idea.
Please, Joe. Please!
Stay still, Malcolm!
Stay calm! Look at me!
Joe, please.
Look at me, that's good.
Argh!
Argh, argh, I'm slipping!
You're not gonna fall, Malcolm,
I have you.
Steel, rivets
Fire crew to the floor below.
Repeat, to the floor below.
Hold tight, Malcolm.
I'm-I'm slipping!
Joe!
I'm gonna throw you a line!
You're not gonna fall!
Listen to me.
You're gonna have to swing into us.
I'm gonna fall!
Grab hold of the line.
You've got to swing!
We're gonna pull you in now!
One more time, here we go!
My boy!
Where is he?
Son!
Are you OK?
Sorry, we do need to get him out
into the
Stupid!
I know, I know, I know.
Stupid, macho, alpha
I know.
..idiot!
All right, I just It's
I haven't adjusted to it yet.
Oh, you forgot you had Parkinson's!?
Well, for a minute I wanted to, yeah!
Come here.
I get that.
Come here.
I get it, but
I'm sorry.
You go and you do the most stupid
suicidal thing without
..without even a thought
for Charlie or me?
Hey!
What's all this about?
Now I can talk about you at school.
Oh, you couldn't before?
Mum said your work
was getting inside people's heads,
that would just creep everyone out.
Yeah.
I suppose when you put it like that
Hey! Charlie.
You're a hero, Dad.
You're everywhere.
'..Westminster hospital.
'A young patient is standing
on a ledge' Oh, dear.
'..on the seventh floor
of the main building.'
OK. Have you had your bath?
There's no hot water.
This doesn't make any sense.
That's cos you don't speak boiler.
How did it go with the life jacket?
Yeah, good. She made it
halfway across the bridge,
she's never got that far before.
Wow!
Then we got interrupted.
Hey
..you were right, it was stupid.
Hm. Yeah.
I was stupid.
Sorry.
I don't expect you to give in to it,
but you can't fight Parkinson's
like that.
And you're the worst plumber
I ever slept with.
How-How many plumbers
have you actually slept with?
Enough.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Arrrrgh!
Oh! Quickly.
Stop it!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh!
Oh!
Oh, my God!
You need to get upstairs immediately
and take your clothes off, go!
Oh, you planned that!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, you!
Nice to meet you, sir.
DS Devi.
Female, no ID as yet,
called in by a dog walker.
I don't like bodies
being dumped in graveyards,
that's a crime twice over.
The dog walker didn't give a name.
So how long has she been here?
Can't be more than a few days.
A groundsman saw something
and started to uncover her.
It's a shallow grave.
Not very well hidden.
Done in a hurry, or were we meant
to find her this quickly?
I mean, look at the sods.
You know, the-the lumps of earth,
the soil, they were turned over
by a spade.
Tidy and workmanlike,
so no, not done in a hurry.
Collect up all the spades.
Every single one.
Her body was brought in by a vehicle.
The gates are all locked at night.
So, near the end of the day,
her body hidden close by,
the grave gets dug that night.
I'll check local CCTV
for vehicle registration.
How many murders have you done?
This is my fourth.
It doesn't get any easier.
Turning up to the murder
of yet another young woman,
I mean, knowing there'll be another
one, and another one, I just,
I-I don't have the words for it
any more. I really don't.
ETA on forensics?
They're saying two hours.
God.
Let's get some coffees.
Send one of the sods.
Oh, hello.
Morning.
I've been dining out
on sharing my practice
with super-shrink hero Joe.
Oh, yeah?
What were you trying to prove,
and to whom?
They asked me to do it.
I didn't really think.
Ah. Clearly.
How are the wedding plans going?
Oh, you know, ongoing,
irritating and expensive.
Busy list?
Back to back.
How d'you put up with it all day?
All that talk, talk, talk?
Should send them next door to me,
I've got a pill for everyone
and everything.
Sorry I'm late. Hey, Bobby.
Hey, Joe!
Would you like to head in?
I'll be with you in a moment.
Course. Don't be long, please, mate.
Dr O'Loughlin?
Yeah?
The way he whispers to himself,
he frightens me.
I don't understand why
you can't see him in the hospital,
why you treat him like
one of your private patients.
He doesn't like hospitals,
they're too noisy, busy.
I've whittled it down to three.
Three?
My replacement.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sorry, but I am leaving.
Yeah. I'll get to that later,
but thank you, Meena.
So, as you're aware,
you're coming up for sentencing,
and I am writing a report
to try and persuade the judge
that it's help that you need,
rather than punishment
No, actually, um
I-I didn't do anything.
But you did, didn't you?
You assaulted a woman at a taxi rank.
Yeah, well, she jumped the queue.
Joe?
And how did you feel
when she jumped the queue?
I was upset.
Very upset, if I'm honest.
Because?
Because it's wrong, OK?
It's a queue. You know the rules.
Mm-hm.
Queue up.
Talk to me more about her.
Does she remind you of anyone?
The only time she'll sleep alone
is when she's in the ground,
and she will sleep.
What do you mean by that, Bobby?
Is that important?
That piece of paper?
Does it have something written on it?
Yeah, it's a number.
21?
How did you know that? How did
No, how did you know that?!
That's mad you knew that! Wow!
Can I see it?
Whoo! Whoo!
Here you go.
Ah, ah, like a Christmas cracker.
Hm.
We talked before about this number
being important to you, didn't we?
Does the number 21
bring back good memories, Bobby,
or not so good memories?
Um, it's a bus, actually.
My dad drove a number 21 bus.
No, he did, he did.
He was a good man.
There's nothing off CCTV as yet,
and we have found 17 spades
so far, sir. It's a big cemetery.
Well, get the ground staff
fingerprinted and swabbed,
and statements from everyone
who works there. Yep.
Oh! Sir.
Any word on that dog walker?
Er, yeah, he used an untraceable mobile.
An untrace
A dog walker with a burner?
We don't know who the victim is
or anything about her.
Why have the media
tagged her a sex worker?
That didn't come from this team.
Don't tell me.
Because they know I'm the one
who usually gets given
the murdered sex workers, OK.
Well, I could talk to
some women who work in the area,
find out if any have gone missing.
Mm.
This is the post-mortem,
it's a preliminary report,
we're still waiting
for toxicology results,
but they thought
you should see this now.
OK, so when it's urgent,
you're gonna have to interrupt me.
Mm-hm.
You've had a look?
And?
She was stabbed 21 times.
But it's the way she was stabbed.
Good God.
Hi.
Hi.
I saw it on TV.
Falling off a roof, saving that boy.
Yeah.
What are you doing to yourself?
Is that the detective?
Oh, is that the reason
you're here early?
No, no. No, I'm just curious
when you said you were meeting her.
Come on, get your drink.
Thanks.
Detective Sergeant Devi, she's
come to talk to the collective.
This is Dr O'Loughlin.
Hi.
He's a psychologist. I was
a patient of his many years ago.
I'm still here because of him.
Oh!
I'm researching a book
on attitudes to sex workers,
I've been working with Cara and the
group for well, quite some time.
Do you want me to wait at the bar,
I can come back?
No! Oh, no, it's fine, um,
we're nearly finished.
Do you mind if I take this seat?
Thanks.
She's, er, trying to identify
a woman, er, who's been murdered.
They think she could have been
a sex worker.
Oh, how did she die?
Oh, we're not disclosing that.
What makes you think
she was a sex worker?
She was found in an area where
sex workers are known to operate.
Down by Kings Cross by the canal.
She had no ID.
Sex workers are most likely
to be anonymous,
with no friends or family
to report them missing.
This description doesn't fit
anyone we know,
and if it did, she would've had
a lot of friends
and it would've been reported.
Yeah, well, Sergeant Devi
is unfortunately right,
sex workers do account for the
largest number of unsolved killings.
That's how I recognise you.
You're the doctor who saved that boy.
Yes.
You know your, um
research into attitudes,
did that extend to the men
who murder sex workers?
Yes, it does.
Um, the main motive being
the ability to get away with it.
Except for those who leave a signature,
that's when it gets really complicated.
Have you ever been involved
in profiling?
Never thought about it.
Is this him?
Yeah. If you don't think it's a good
idea No, no, it's a good call.
It's definitely a murder that could
do with a shrink. Dr O'Loughlin?
Yes. Detective Inspector Ruiz.
Good of you to give up your time.
Glad I can help.
If you'd like to come this way.
Mm-hm.
We, er, still haven't identified
the victim
and we're waiting on some
final tests on some tissue samples
to come back from the lab.
It's, um, the nature of the attack
that we'd like to get your opinion on.
And we should warn you,
you might find this distressing.
Would you like me
to set up a proper viewing?
No, the fridge will do fine.
She was in the ground
three to four days.
No evidence of sexual assault.
But what's unique
is the 21 stab wounds to the chest,
all in a very deliberate pattern,
not one of them more than an inch deep.
This is an extremely nasty,
brutal murder.
The pathologist concluded that
the wounds were self-inflicted.
He found hesitation marks.
She had to work up the nerve
to force the blade in.
Somebody forced her to kill herself.
That's our thinking so far.
Can you help us to understand
the sort of person
who could inflict such a torture?
21 times, you said?
Yes.
The pathologist concluded that
the final stab
was to the carotid artery,
but he couldn't say
whether that was the victim,
desperate to end her torture,
or the murderer.
All right.
I'll need to see the paperwork.
I'm sorry, it was a bit of a mistake
bringing him in.
He couldn't wait
to get out of the fridge.
Ah, that's understandable.
What do you think of Murder so far?
Oh, I don't think I'll make a career
out of it.
Sorry, I-I know you have.
Didn't realise I had a career.
Right, let's hope he didn't
throw up all over the paperwork.
I'm so sorry.
Excuse me? What are you doing?
You shouldn't be in here alone
and you should not be touching her!
Sorry, I
How did you get in?
The door was open.
No, you should've asked me.
Right, well, I needed to take a
second look, to confirm my thinking.
Which is what?
Well, I wasn't sure
from the photographs,
but it looked like she had old scar
tissue on her arms and on her legs.
I-I-I wanted a closer look.
She's been cut before.
Meaning?
She self-harmed in the past.
Right, so you think the person
who made her stab herself knew that?
I don't know, I don't know.
It's a possibility.
You all right, Dr O'Loughlin?
Yeah, yeah, um I
I-I have early onset Parkinson's.
It's a recent diagnosis.
I'm not used to coping with it yet.
Thanks again.
Yeah.
Another dead end.
We got matches from the groundsmen
off the spades,
but no alarm bells on their backgrounds.
4-8-5-9.
Code to the fridge room. 4-8-5-9.
I watched the attendant as she
punched in the code. I memorised it.
It's how my mind works.
I've got a criminal mind.
It helps me catch criminals.
Don't worry about it.
But it seems
..O'Loughlin
also has a criminal mind.
He lied about the door to the fridge
room being open.
So he memorised the code so he
could go back in there without us?
Is there CCTV in the fridge room?
Nope. Six minutes alone with her.
I mean, it could be innocent, right,
just like me,
he noticed the numbers
when the code was being punched in.
He wanted to check out
his little theory,
and it was quicker to do it without us.
Yeah, but he lied about the door
being open.
You're right.
He lied to us. I don't want him
anywhere near this investigation.
We don't share any information
with him. OK?
Got it.
Why here?
Well, there's no-one around at night.
But there's lots of places like that.
What if it wasn't a dog walker
that dialled in?
What if it was the killer
using a burner?
Gets a kick out of seeing us find her.
Missing person.
And matches the age,
height, hair colour,
and she disappeared at the right time.
Yeah, that looks like her.
Catherine McCain.
X-ray technician.
Liverpool.
All right, confirm with a DNA match,
get a full background,
circles of association,
then get a detailed trace of her
starting out in Liverpool
..all the way to here.
How's Julianne?
I'm amazed at how high-tech your
branch of medicine's become, Jack.
You treat all of your patients to this?
Oh, no, no, no.
This is just for you, my friend.
Hm-mm!
Special treatment.
What did she make
of your hero stunt on the ledge?
Well, you told me to carry on
as normal, so that's what I did.
Yes, yes, I did. "Normal",
my friend, is not what you did.
Ah, shit!
All right, then,
what did crushing my fingers
and my dignity tell you, then?
Well, that my dominance over you
for the last 20 years
continues to reign supreme.
And that the diagnosis
I gave you last week
well, still stands.
Early onset Parkinson's.
Yeah, I'm aware of that.
Well, what else can I say?
You know, you've looked it up,
everyone does,
you'll know the history,
every theory, research programme,
you'll know every celebrity sufferer,
the drugs, the diet.
You won't die from it,
you'll die with it,
and you'll have everything
you had before,
including the woman everyone
wanted to be with at university.
No, no, no, no. The one
you wanted to be with at university.
Daughter adores you,
a successful practice,
books that by some small miracle
continue to sell -
God knows if anyone
actually reads them -
and now, it seems,
you're a national bloody hero.
Yeah, and then I get this fucking
thing, Jack! Look at my hands.
I'm 42!
Yeah.
Argh!
What's up?
Do you remember a patient
you referred to me a while back?
Er, Bobby Bobby Moran.
Bobby Moran? Um
Early twenties. You sent him to me
after some neurological tests
you-you did on him
Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
I thought you could prise
something out of him, yeah.
Yeah, what about him?
Well, I know this is
This isn't gonna make sense, right?
But
Bobby has this thing
about the number 21, right,
he's obsessed with it.
And recently, I've been asked
to profile a murder investigation,
where a woman was forced
to stab herself 21 times.
Right. And?
My lucky number, by the way, is-is four.
Right, right, but it was just
only a couple of months ago
Bobby attacked a woman who
jumped him in a queue for a taxi.
Attacked how?
Bad enough that she went to A&E
and he was convicted of assault.
Bobby have any connection
to the murdered woman?
They don't know who she is yet.
Right.
I know, I-I told you it was
it didn't make any sense, you know?
It's weird, though, isn't it?
Look, there's a lot
happening to you at the moment, OK,
feeling overwhelmed, anxious, angry,
they're all, you know,
common symptoms of Parkinson's.
So perhaps, um, criminal profiling
at this
at this particular junction in your
life is, um, maybe a step too far.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Dr O'Loughlin, please, my replacement,
if you could take a moment
to consider the candidates.
I was gonna head in with I'll
hold your next patient until you do.
Yeah.
Be with you in a moment.
This is her room.
So how long have you and Catherine
been flatmates?
A little under six months.
Just gonna take a quick look around.
Yeah.
And she was a, um, an X-ray technician?
No, that's-that's me.
I was the one who reported her missing.
Catherine is a community nurse.
Was a community nurse.
I still can't believe it.
I'm sorry, um, information
can sometimes get twisted round.
What was Catherine like?
When she was up
she could be good company,
but a lot of the time she was depressed.
Any friends? Relationships?
She never had anyone over here
that I saw.
But she was seeing someone in London.
Any ideas who?
Nope.
That was her big secret.
Mm.
I got the impression, um, and
that's all this is, an impression,
that she went for the job interview
in London so she could be near him.
What's that?
How's the investigation going?
Oh, we'll get there.
Have you identified the victim yet?
Nope.
So you had some thoughts?
Yeah, er, thank you,
not so much thoughts
as a really strange coincidence.
Um Sorry, I should have mentioned
this earlier, but, er,
you know that all families
have their rituals
and things that might look strange
to other people,
well, we, um,
we do this thing every year,
we celebrate my mum's birthday
by throwing leaves at each other.
Hm!
My mum died when I was 14.
She was agoraphobic,
she died in a house fire.
I managed to get out, erm, but
a couple of years before she died,
we cleared out the garage,
and we filled it full of leaves
and we hung fairy lights, and
to give her the impression
like she was outside.
Honestly, I've never seen her happier.
I'm sorry, what has this
gotta do with
Right, yes, so at the end
of this experience,
we, um, we had a leaf fight.
So that's something now that we
recreate every year on her birthday.
And, um
'I can see you!'
That's you.
Well, that's the first car arriving.
We left soon after.
Oh!
So you were in the car
that drove past me that day?
Yeah, yeah, that was us.
A-ha.
So, you were at the cemetery
at the same time
We were there
..as us finding the body?
..at the same time
as you finding the body.
Myself, my wife, my daughter. Yeah.
But you didn't say anything before?
When we met at the mortuary
I know, I just
I didn't join up the dots
immediately, and we looked
at the video last night,
I was reminded of the cars going by,
and I thought, we were there,
we were there when you were there,
so
Right.
..I felt I should come in
and say something about it.
Huh!
Yeah.
Er, sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah?
Hi, you got a minute?
'Mm-hm.'
I found something
in Catherine McCain's room.
She knew Dr O'Loughlin.
OK. Good idea.
I'll see you when you get back.
That's it, that's all I got.
You went into the jewellers
to collect your wedding rings,
but the engraving was wrong.
They misspelt your fiancee's name.
Yeah, that's correct, um
You see, her name is Jenni,
and it ends in an I,
and they decided to spell it with
a Y, which is incorrect, Joe, so
Right, so you lost your temper
and then you stormed out.
It was raining, so you flagged
a taxi, and then what happened?
Right, OK, just for the record, she
jumped the queue, do you understand?
Yeah.
She pushed in and she tried
to steal my taxi, which it was, OK?
And she had this young boy with her,
and he was screaming
..and she just ignored him.
She was pulling him along
like he was an injured animal,
and I could see in his face
..how he was frightened and in pain.
You know, I-I really wanted to stop
the noise, if I'm honest with you.
Then what happened?
What was it about the little boy
screaming that upset you, Bobby?
You know what,
some people really deserve to die,
don't they? It's just, like,
so obvious when you see it.
Who do you think deserves to die, then?
Who are you talking about, Bobby?
It's not for you, it's not for him,
it's not for anybody, actually.
It's not for you, it's not for you,
it's not for you, it's not for you.
Is that the piece of paper with
the important number written on it?
21?
It's not for you
Not for you, it's not for you,
it's for anybody
How does it feel to hold it?
Does it make you feel better?
The number 21?
Afternoon.
Afternoon.
Oh, sorry.
Didn't mean to startle you.
You all right?
Most of my patients
are people who have
just got a bit stuck in their lives,
but there's something about him.
Something
unsettling.
I've seen him around,
he seems perfectly nice.
Oh, yeah, talk to Meena.
She's terrified of him.
So
..about my wedding.
Wedding, yes, what about it?
I'd like you to walk me down the aisle.
You serious?
Well, my father is dead,
my other relatives are incredibly dull.
So who better than a strong,
handsome national hero?
You know we fell off that ledge, right?
Oh, we can gloss over that part.
Say yes.
Yes!
Yes?
Yes, of course!
Aw!
More than yes. Thank you.
I'll be honoured.
Oh, my God!
You're the best.
Thank you.
See you later.
Yeah.
Hi, fifth floor.
OK.
Uhh, let's take the lift.
OK.
You all right, sir?
Yep.
Wait! One second, please.
Dr Gerald Owens?
Er, yes?
I'm Detective Inspector Ruiz,
this is Detective Sergeant Devi.
Have you got a minute?
Oh!
Hi.
Sorry to disturb you at home, doctor.
How can I help?
Do you know this woman?
Yeah, yeah, this is, er,
Catherine McCain.
She was a patient of mine
about four or five years ago.
Please, sit down.
Did you not recognise her
at the mortuary when you saw her?
No, no, I didn't
Well, not at first.
Once I saw the paperwork and
the history of self-harm,
I well, that's why I went
back inside for a second look.
And then you recognised her?
Yeah, then I recognised her.
Why didn't you tell us?
Well
Look, you gotta understand
she was a patient of mine
for nearly a year, I think,
and she was self-harming.
I was treating her for that. Um
I cared about Catherine very much.
And seeing her like that, in the morgue,
lying there, just imagining
what she'd been through
I don't know,
I-I think I didn't want it to be real.
I didn't want it to be her.
Erm
And me being at the cemetery
when you found the body,
and with everything
that's been going on,
I think I just blocked it out.
Catherine McCain was more than
a patient, though, wasn't she?
Mm-hm.
No, no,
she wasn't, none of that was true.
We found documents in Catherine's room,
her account of you
sexually assaulting her.
Right, she withdrew those allegations.
But there was an inquiry.
Yeah.
And I was completely cleared.
The documents we found
listed a Dr Gerald Owens
as a character witness for you.
Well, talk to Dr Owens,
he'll confirm everything I'm saying.
Oh, no, we've already had a chat,
we thought
that was the better way round,
but he told us that
Catherine McCain's allegations
nearly wrecked your career
and your marriage.
Did she come after you again?
No, she didn't. She didn't wreck
anything because she was lying.
Your career has
really taken off, right?
Book sales, media profile,
the private practice.
You couldn't allow her to threaten that
and your family all over again.
She was a patient who became
infatuated with her therapist.
It goes with the job. It happens
sometimes, that's all this is.
Back at the mortuary,
you went back to take another look
at her corpse.
I've explained that.
Why did you lie to us?
About the door to the fridge room
being open. It was locked.
You memorised the code,
so you could have access,
because you were
expecting to see Catherine McCain.
No, no, that's not why, I
Look, I saw the code
being punched in, I memorised it,
I don't know why I did, but I did.
I.. It I didn't think
it was a big deal.
But you lied to us.
Yeah.
I'm sorry about that.
We'll need fingerprints and DNA
to eliminate you
from handling the spade
that was used to bury Catherine.
Wh Hold on,
there was a spade leaning against
my mother's graveside
when we got there,
I-I picked it up and I moved it.
You remember the spade, right?
None of this makes any sense.
Look, I know how this sounds,
but this is just a series
of coincidences.
It That's all this is!
Well, tomorrow, come in,
we'll take a statement.
Just make sure it's a coherent one.
Bring a lawyer, er, we might
need to interview you under caution.
Well, thank you for tea, Mrs O'Loughlin.
I hope your heating gets fixed soon.
Thank you.
Why is she back in our lives?
I don't know.
Why didn't you tell me?
What else are you hiding?
Even if Catherine
withdrew the allegation,
that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I'm just saying.
And he might have played me.
If he knew I was meeting up
with those sex workers,
that could be why he showed up.
He wanted to find out what I knew.
I mean, he was all soft charm.
So, what have we got -
a rooftop hero or
sick killer?
Perhaps he's both.