Patience (2025) s01e03 Episode Script
The Locked Room
1
MUSIC PLAYS ON HEADPHONES
PHONE CHIMES
Oh, I forgot my bag.
What, at home?
In the car. Get it.
SHE SIGHS
Ms Metcalf?
I spoke to your
..to Alfie's dad.
Oh, my ex, yeah. David.
He suggested having Alfie tested.
For what?
Bye, Mum!
Bye!
We were thinking maybe ADHD.
Right. Well
..let me know what you
and David decide.
SHE SIGHS
Hey. Hey.
Your shift doesn't start till ten.
A body's been found at the museum.
Ha-ha. Is it 8,000 years old?
No, I'm serious. I just got a call.
It's a prank, Jake.
It's really not, boss.
The fatality, it's one of the staff.
Oh.
It's all right, you can call her.
No, I wasn't
I was going to text.
I don't mind.
It's probably just an accident.
Well, you were right.
She's an asset. Hmm.
Think you could tell HER that?
Deceased is a 28-year-old female.
Emily Barret - two Rs, one T. Um
The body was found by the cleaner
on the early morning shift
and it was called in by
the museum director at 8.25.
Just fill me in on the rest inside.
Patience?
You all right?
Where is he?
Over there.
Mr Scott.
Miss Evans.
I'll Yeah, yeah.
You're the museum's director?
Um, yeah. Hi, Raymond Starr.
The young woman,
she's known to you?
Well, she's one of
our conservators, yeah.
Which does what exactly?
Um, evaluating and incorporating
new specimens,
installing exhibits,
that kind of thing.
I didn't know fossils
needed cleaning.
Um Well, um
..a lot of them are made of
fibreglass, so
They're clever fakes.
Patience?
Patience.
I thought I'd lost you.
HE CLEARS THROA
Patience?
You all right?
You seem a bit spooked.
Just
Just my dad used to bring me here.
Oh.
And I haven't been back since
he died.
You should have said.
No, I find it hard to talk about.
My son loves to come here as well
with his dad.
The dinosaur gallery is his
happy place.
Ma'am, this is a crime scene.
Oh, don't worry, I won't
touch anything.
I'm sorry, I have to insist.
I'm here to interview
Behind the tape, please.
I'm here to interview
Now. ..Raymond Starr
for Palaeontology Today.
We're dealing with a sudden death.
Raymond?
Raymond's tied up right now.
Cate, I'm so sorry. Look, I'll have
to call you later.
I have a deadline. Ma'am.
SCOFFS
Deadline!
She writes about things that have
been extinct for thousands of years.
Er, about 65 million years,
actually.
Tania found Emily's body at just
after seven, Mr Starr.
She says she phoned you immediately,
but you didn't notify us
until 8.25.
Yeah, sorry, it was
a misunderstanding.
I thought she'd made the call.
All right.
Can you keep yourself available?
Yeah.
Cause of death?
I've only been here five minutes.
She drowned.
There are certain signs, I admit.
Yeah, the cyanosis of the fingers
and the swollen eyelids
and the foam around the nostrils.
Yes, but, um
But what?
Well, in my experience, drowning
usually involves some form of water.
The body, the clothes, the floor,
they're all bone dry.
DOOR OPENS NEARBY
Hi. So, I checked to see if Emily
Barret had any previous convictions,
and there weren't any. But charges
had been brought against her
for fossil trafficking.
Velociraptor teeth were found in her
bag four years ago
in customs in Mongolia.
And the charges were dropped when
her boyfriend, Peter Venkman,
admitted to stealing
and putting them there.
He got a six-month sentence.
For a few teeth?
This is really helpful.
Anything else you find,
bring it straight to me.
Well, I checked the system
to see if any of the other museum
employees were on it,
and no-one was, apart from Mr Starr.
Yeah?
Well, he got a speeding ticket.
I I didn't mean anything.
Anything relevant to the case.
PHONE CHIMES
Oh.Oh.
It's Parsons.
Can you take a break?
I've OKed it with your boss
for when I need you.
Yeah, Mr Alistair John Maynard.
He told me.
W-Wouldn't it make you feel less
anxious if we spoke to Baxter,
made your role with us official?
Um
I'llI'll get my stuff
and meet you outside?
Right.
Pulmonary oedema, congested lungs,
subpleural haemorrhage.
As we thought,
Emily Barret drowned.
As Patience thought.
I didn't disagree.
I've tested the water in her lungs.
It could show us where she drowned.
We'll let you know when we're done.
Mm-hm.
Postmortem report.
What exactly are we doing here?
Looking for evidence. What, of
who shoved her head into a sink?
No-one did.
There was no bruising to the neck.
So, what, then?
We think Emily may have been
involved in trafficking.
Trafficking? Trafficking what?
This.
It feels real. It's
It's definitely not fibreglass.
What are we doing here?
Alfie forgot his lunch.
Can you pass me that bag?
Dino cookies?
Mm. He's obsessed with dinosaurs.
Don't tell him a lot of
the bones are replicas.
Well, if he's obsessed,
he probably already knows.
Thanks.
Hey, bub.
Sorry, you forgot your lunch. Here.
What's this?
Some new things.
Um, it's protein
and fibre to help you grow.
Alfie, this is Patience.
Patience, Alfie. Hi. Hi.
Um, do you know what this is?
I-It's a dinosaur hip bone!
Can I touch it?
Yeah. Careful.
Oh, my God. Wow.
So, when I was your age,
triceratops were my favourite.
I like caseosaurus.
It's from the same family.
Yeah.
Sorry, bub. We've got to go.
The bad guys are getting away?
"Thank you for my delicious
and nutritious lunch, Mum."
Thanks. And Patience.
Thanks, Patience. It's OK.
CHUCKLING
You had no idea she'd taken it?
No, none at all.
Any idea how much it's worth?
An ischium?
From a brachiosaur,
this well preserved? Pfft.
Thousands of pounds at auction.
Is it insured?
Oh, not many people would know
this was a genuine fossil.
My 11-year-old son did.
Did he really?
Then I may just have something
for him.
The museum came up
with some CCTV, sir.
DC Akbari's been through it.
This is near the main entrance,
sir. 11 o'clock, Sunday evening.
She looks drunk. Is she drunk?
Still waiting on the tox report.
Um, this is about ten minutes later.
That's Peter Venkman,
convicted fossil trafficker
..and her ex-boyfriend.
We don't see him go inside.
Not really. Don't have all the
entrances covered, I'm afraid.
But we see him come the same way
an hour or so later.
You think it's a homicide?
Well, we may have a motive, sir.
Emily Barret removed
a valuable fossil from the museum.
We found it at her flat,
set up to be photographed.
And you think Venkman was involved?
Well, he'd certainly
know its worth, sir.
The fossils that Venkman served time
for stealing
were found in Emily's bag.
Maybe he took the fall for her,
she owed him payback.
Can we prove there was any contact
between them?
Emily's phone's missing. The signal
stops close to Robin Hood's Bay
around 7pm on Sunday night.
All right.
Let's assume he went to the museum
for a handover. What then?
Emily gets cold feet.
Venkman tries to force her to reveal
the fossil's location.
You know "Where is it?"
Only with more colourful language.
Except there's no signs
of struggle anywhere on her body.
You don't think it was a murder?
I didn't say that, sir.
I just
..don't buy Emily Barret as a thief.
I found something online.
Can you?
EMILY ON VIDEO: Rosalind Franklin -
she is the one who unlocked
the DNA double helix.
But who got the credit?
Francis Crick and James Watson.
Then we have Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
who discovered radio pulsar.
What's the word on Venkman?
His flatmate says he's gone into
town to attend an auction,
she thinks.Hmm.
PHONE CHIMES
Oh, bollocks. What?
I'm meant to be picking up Alfie.
Call his dad.
I don't want to speak to him.
I thought you two were getting on
better. We are. It's just
He's He's chasing me
on something. I
..haven't made up my mind.
What aboutyou-know-who?
SOFT SQUEAKS
PHONE RINGS
Um, this is Patience Evans speaking.
Patience, hi.
This is DI Metcalfum,
Detective Bea.
I'mcalling to ask a
humongous favour.
I wondered if you could pick up
Alfie from school for me?
He
He really seemed to like you.
I-I wouldn't ask it,
it's just we're about
to interview Emily Barret's ex.
Actually, do you know what?
Never mind. The interview can wait.
No, I'll do it.
Are you sure?
Yes. I-II want to do it.
That's brilliant.
I'm unbelievably grateful.
I-I'll I'll ring the school,
let them know,
and I'll text you the details.
Thanks.
CALL ENDS
W-What?
AUCTIONEER CALLING INDISTINCTLY
Watch him. Go.
You buying or selling?
AUCTIONEER: £1,000. Any more?
I have a lot up for sale.
£1,100. Thank you.
£1,200.
£1,300.
Illegal fossil?
£1,500.
Agh!
Gentlemen, please.
Gentlemen! Gentlemen, please!
I'm very sorry about that,
ladies and gentlemen.
Argh!
Agh!
Agh!
CHILDREN LAUGH
He's such a loser.
Look at his stuff.
Have fun, Alf!
Children, that's enough!
Get inside.
I ran because I didn't
want to go back to prison.
I had a hard time inside.
Oh, yeah, cos there's two things
every decent convict hates -
sex offenders and fossil thieves.
They hear the word "trafficking"
they don't ask what kind.
The lot you were selling
at auction
It was legit.
I swear.
So why not act like it?
They changed the law about
what you can take and sell.
How was I going to prove
I got it before the rules changed?
When did you last see Emily Barret?
Don't know.
What, like three months ago?
That you?
We used to be a couple.
She phoned, asked me to meet her
outside the museum last night.
Only she wasn't there.
I knocked. No answer.
Went away, come back an hour later,
still no sign.
What's she been saying about me?
Nothing.
Emily was found dead in
the museum at seven this morning.
Dead?
What happened?
Oh, God.
DOOR BEEPS
Um, I'm going to show you
something, OK?
Mm.
GASPS
Mice are very good
at solving puzzles.
They carry germs.
No. No, they're actually very clean.
SQUEAKING
Oh This is Accio.
GASPS
I don't like things that scratch.
Oh. Well, I find animals much nicer
than people.
How Wait, don't you have
any friends?
Um I'm not
I'm not sure.
How do you make friends?
I don't know.
But I've joined a group of people
that want to help.
How do they help?
Well, they talk about facing
your fears.
It's OK. Look.
She's soft, isn't she?
Yeah.
Aw. Hey.
Aw.
Yeah, she likes you.
SOFTLY: Aw
Do you want to hold her?
ALFIE EXHALES SHARPLY
It's OK.
For the tape, I'm showing Mr Venkman
the call log from his phone.
Time of call, 9.27pm on Saturday.
Do you recognise that number?
It's Emily's number.
Why was she phoning?
I told you, she wanted to hook up.
At the museum, at 11pm on a Sunday?
She said it would be safer.
Safer than what? For who?
I don't know.
But you went along anyway.
She said she had something exciting
to tell me.
I thought maybe she wanted
to get back together.
And that's the last you heard
from her?
Um
I had a message about 8.30
last night
from a number I didn't recognise.
It was a woman mumbling
and slurring like she was
..she was drunk or something, and
..the tone sounded like Emily,
but I couldn't make out
a word she was saying.
Would you be able
to play it back for me?
I deleted it.
It's so cool where Patience works.
What, cooler than my part of
the station?
Way cooler.
I got to play with mice.
I thought you hated mice.
Since when?
What's this?
We're trying Japanese food.
It's healthy.
Japan has the highest life
expectancy in the world.
Looks yuck.
Have a seat.
I have a present for you
from the museum's director.
It's a dinosaur apparently. Oh!
Oh, brachiosaurus!
There's There's no instructions.
Oh? There isn't?
This is stupid.
No, the first palaeontologists only
had fragments to work with, Alfie.
It's stupid!
Alfie
Stupid.
Alfie, get back here.
Alfie!
Sorry.
Can you make it?
"Please."
Please.
CLATTER
SHE SIGHS
She's added an extra branch.
You're right.
And it looks recent. Mm.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
I'm so sorry, give me a minute.
You again, detective.
Can you take a look at this?
It's Darwin's tree of life.
Patience and I have just been to
the tattoo parlour
that Emily frequented.
Apparently, she liked to mark
important milestones in her life
with, um, fresh ink.
A couple of days before she died,
she added an extra branch.
Any idea what it might represent?
Well, the tree shows how
the genus of a species -
dogs, wolves, jackals,
for instance -
might evolve by divergence from a
shared genetic starting point, so
..this might refer to the discovery
of a new evolutionary branch,
a new genus
..of any one of the, um,
8.7 million species
with which we share our planet.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
She came back then, the journalist?
Yes. They go to press tomorrow.
I submitted an article
which called for an interview.
What's the article about?
HE CHUCKLES
Nothing that could possibly
interest you.
So sorry about that.
That's all right. Where were we?
When you said Emily drowned,
how sure were you on
a scale of one to ten?
Well, what end of
the scale is certain? Ten.
Ten.
Then are there any natural causes
of death
that mimic the symptoms of drowning?
Or could it have been staged
to look as if she died that way?
I have to be allowed
to question your ideas, Patience.
Emily calls you, arranges
to meet you at the museum,
and you think she's going to hand
over the fossil.
But when you get there, she says
she's had a change of heart.
There is no dino bone.
She's left it where it'll be safer.
Safe from you, that is.
I never went inside.
That's thousands of pounds
she's denying you.
More than enough to make up for
the, what, six months that you spent
inside on her behalf?
Em–Emily didn't know about
the teeth that I'd been smuggling.
She would never risk her career.
She owed you, didn't she, Peter?
She wouldn't tell you what she'd
done with it
and that made you angry. No.
So you followed her into her lab,
you forced her head under a tap,
maybe just to scare her at first
No! She was drunk. She couldn't
fight back.
I told you, I didn't go inside!
Then what are your fingerprints
doing all over the lab?
I
No! Not now.
HE SIGHS
Right, interview terminated
at 10.25.
HE SIGHS
I thought you OKed it.
She said that you had to see her.
Boss, he was ready to confess.
All right. Yeah, but now he's got
time to think.
All right!
Just take him back to his cell.
But
Now. You as well.
Patience
..are you all right?
PATIENCE BREATHES SHAKILY
What just happened in there?
Well, you told me that if
I had any new information,
then I should bring it
to you straight away.
Boss
Boss!
Look, h-his brief says Venkman wants
to make a statement.
Apparently it's come back to him.
Emily used to bring him up
to her lab
to make out when they were dating.
We'll deal with this
when I get back. We had him.
I'mreally sorry. I
I should have been clearer.
He used to bring me here
after work.
Your dad?
Yeah.
Yeah, he loved the idea
that someone had been declared
the emperor of half the known world
in York, right here.
He used to walk me round the Minster
and tell me stories
about the people that had been
involved in building it.
He used to say that everyone had
a role to play and
..a contribution to make,
no matter how small.
I'm just really scared
of letting him down.
You You don't need to be.
And don't worry about
making things official.
We can just keep it casual,
or forget about it entirely
and just
..concentrate on being friends.
Friends?
Patience?
What was so urgent?
I know how Emily Barret died.
That's very rare. I mean, very.
Maybefour cases in 30 years.
But not unheard of?
How does it work?
Well, the cause of death
would be pulmonary oedema.
At some point before she died,
water entered her lungs,
causing them to swell
and making it harder for oxygen
to reach the bloodstream.
So your lungs slowly fill
with fluid
and it looks as if you've drowned.
Yeah. It can take hours.
And Emily appearing to be drunk?
Well, nothing showed up on
the tox report,
but she'd have been extremely weak
due to oxygen deprivation,
shortness of breath. Oh.
Have we tested the water in
her lungs?
I'll give them a hurry up.
It could give us a clue as
to where she drowned.
PHONE RINGS
This is Patience Evans speaking.
Oh, Patience, it's DI Metcalf.
Oh, Detective Bea.
I was just calling
to see how you are.
Um, very busy at the moment.
Oh, well, I won't keep you.
I just thought you'd like
to know you were right
about the secondary drowning. We
think an incident may have occurred
at a place called Marshall's Quarry.
We spoke to a delivery driver,
Ben Colston.
He picked her up Sunday evening
very close by,
at a place called Croft Corner.
Patience?
Hmm.
Maybe it makes the whole thing work.
Oh, I thought you did yoga
on Friday?
No time for that.
I've been digging into Ben Colston,
the driver who picked up
Emily Barret.
He's been using his mother's
maiden name.
His birth name is Benjamin Gooch,
and he's got a suspended sentence
for indecent exposure
at a girls' school.
We've got a lead on someone.
Suggests Emily's death may be
a homicide.
Yeah, it was. Um, I know
who killed her.
Yeah, Benjamin Gooch, right?
No.
PHONE RINGS
SIGHS HEAVILY
Baxter.
Another lead?
Are you sure?
All right, five minutes.
You've got this.
Thank you.
All right. I'm listening.
Um Um
Marshall's Quarry. This is where
Emily inhaled the water.
We don't know at what time,
but at 8.27pm, Emily made a call
from the delivery driver's phone.
Now, Croft Corner - a traffic camera
picked up a speeding offence
made by Emily's boss on the A171
at 8.14pm.
Now, this initially came up
when I first searched the database
and I didn't think it was part of
the puzzle,
but speeding seemed
so out of character for Mr Starr,
and it was actually the extra piece
that made everything come together.
It can't be a coincidence, sir.
He's half a mile from the quarry,
yards from where Emily made
that call.
Why else would he be speeding?
OK. Get him in.
Good work, Patience.
Bring me something to convince
the CPS
before you start handing out
the gongs.
For the tape, I'm showing a map of
marked areas
where Emily Barret inhaled water,
where she dialled 999,
and where Mr Starr, around the same
time, broke the speed limit.
I was out for a drive.
When Tania Macalinden called
to tell you Emily's body had been
found at the museum,
you refused to believe it.
Yeah. I was shocked.
Yeah, I bet you were.
We spoke to Cate Furnish.
Her journal was due to publish an
article by you,
the culmination of two years' work.
On Friday, you asked her to
substitute it for a different one.
Towards A Reclassification
Of Theropods.
Yeah.
This reclassification hinges
on the ischium.
The very same bone that
Emily had taken home to photograph.
Another coincidence.
Was the second article Emily's?
HE SCOFFS
Of course not.
I think it was.
I think she asked for your opinion,
you read Emily's article,
and suddenly yours is worthless.
You needed to buy yourself time,
didn't you?
Figure out how to salvage
your reputation.
You tell her you'll help her get
it published,
and in the meantime you tell her
to take the bone,
take some photos to accompany
the article.
Bring 'em in, Will.
Found in Marshall's Quarry.
Why would Emily launch her phone
and laptop into the water?
Submerging the laptop doesn't erase
the data.
We're going to find Emily's article
on there, aren't we?
It will be identical to the one you
submitted to the journal.
I just wanted to talk to her.
It wasn't until I'd sent in
my article
that Emily showed me her research.
She'd made the kind of breakthrough
I'd been
..struggling for my entire career.
That must have been hard to accept.
Her conclusions were drawn from
areas of research
that I'd been studying for years,
that I'd pointed her towards.
So
..I sent it to them under my name.
They loved it.
Said I'd make the front cover
if I gave them an interview.
By that pointit was too late
to admit the truth.
You knew that she'd gone
fossil hunting.
I went to the quarry to offer her a
research credit, that's all.
And then instead of accepting my
offer, she starts berating me
about men taking credit for women's
scientific discoveries.
HE SCOFFS, LAUGHS
This girl
..with piercings, tattoos
and a criminal boyfriend.
And then this.
You don't understand, this is like a
chimp with a typewriter
coming up with King Lear.
HE LAUGHS
She threatened to expose you.
I tried to reason with her,
but I lost my temper
and threw the laptop into the water.
She was filming me on her phone.
Screeching about how she was
going to show the world
what kind of man I am.
I tried to grab the phone.
We tussled over it
and stumbled into the lake.
I pushed her away,
maybe a little bit harder than
I meant to, and she
Sh-She She fell in. Sh-She
She went under.
And you didn't think to try
and help her?
Well, II thought she'd maybe hit
her head or something.
I-I-I panicked.
I panicked and I ran, and I
I didn't look back.
You left her for dead.
Raymond Starr, you are charged
with the manslaughter
of Emily Wilding Barret.
ALFIE: You know that new branch that
you told me about?
Yeah. Does that mean they think
there's a new type?
As discovered by Emily Barret.
KNOCK ON DOOR
That's your dad.
Already?
Well, Alfie, I can help you pack.
All right.
Hiya. Hey. Um, he's just going to be
a minute.
Patience is helping him get
his things.
Oh, Patience, eh? I've heard a lot
about her recently.
Oh, I wanted to give you this.
You've changed your mind.
Well, hishis best chance is if
we all pull in the same direction.
MUSIC PLAYS ON HEADPHONES
PHONE CHIMES
Oh, I forgot my bag.
What, at home?
In the car. Get it.
SHE SIGHS
Ms Metcalf?
I spoke to your
..to Alfie's dad.
Oh, my ex, yeah. David.
He suggested having Alfie tested.
For what?
Bye, Mum!
Bye!
We were thinking maybe ADHD.
Right. Well
..let me know what you
and David decide.
SHE SIGHS
Hey. Hey.
Your shift doesn't start till ten.
A body's been found at the museum.
Ha-ha. Is it 8,000 years old?
No, I'm serious. I just got a call.
It's a prank, Jake.
It's really not, boss.
The fatality, it's one of the staff.
Oh.
It's all right, you can call her.
No, I wasn't
I was going to text.
I don't mind.
It's probably just an accident.
Well, you were right.
She's an asset. Hmm.
Think you could tell HER that?
Deceased is a 28-year-old female.
Emily Barret - two Rs, one T. Um
The body was found by the cleaner
on the early morning shift
and it was called in by
the museum director at 8.25.
Just fill me in on the rest inside.
Patience?
You all right?
Where is he?
Over there.
Mr Scott.
Miss Evans.
I'll Yeah, yeah.
You're the museum's director?
Um, yeah. Hi, Raymond Starr.
The young woman,
she's known to you?
Well, she's one of
our conservators, yeah.
Which does what exactly?
Um, evaluating and incorporating
new specimens,
installing exhibits,
that kind of thing.
I didn't know fossils
needed cleaning.
Um Well, um
..a lot of them are made of
fibreglass, so
They're clever fakes.
Patience?
Patience.
I thought I'd lost you.
HE CLEARS THROA
Patience?
You all right?
You seem a bit spooked.
Just
Just my dad used to bring me here.
Oh.
And I haven't been back since
he died.
You should have said.
No, I find it hard to talk about.
My son loves to come here as well
with his dad.
The dinosaur gallery is his
happy place.
Ma'am, this is a crime scene.
Oh, don't worry, I won't
touch anything.
I'm sorry, I have to insist.
I'm here to interview
Behind the tape, please.
I'm here to interview
Now. ..Raymond Starr
for Palaeontology Today.
We're dealing with a sudden death.
Raymond?
Raymond's tied up right now.
Cate, I'm so sorry. Look, I'll have
to call you later.
I have a deadline. Ma'am.
SCOFFS
Deadline!
She writes about things that have
been extinct for thousands of years.
Er, about 65 million years,
actually.
Tania found Emily's body at just
after seven, Mr Starr.
She says she phoned you immediately,
but you didn't notify us
until 8.25.
Yeah, sorry, it was
a misunderstanding.
I thought she'd made the call.
All right.
Can you keep yourself available?
Yeah.
Cause of death?
I've only been here five minutes.
She drowned.
There are certain signs, I admit.
Yeah, the cyanosis of the fingers
and the swollen eyelids
and the foam around the nostrils.
Yes, but, um
But what?
Well, in my experience, drowning
usually involves some form of water.
The body, the clothes, the floor,
they're all bone dry.
DOOR OPENS NEARBY
Hi. So, I checked to see if Emily
Barret had any previous convictions,
and there weren't any. But charges
had been brought against her
for fossil trafficking.
Velociraptor teeth were found in her
bag four years ago
in customs in Mongolia.
And the charges were dropped when
her boyfriend, Peter Venkman,
admitted to stealing
and putting them there.
He got a six-month sentence.
For a few teeth?
This is really helpful.
Anything else you find,
bring it straight to me.
Well, I checked the system
to see if any of the other museum
employees were on it,
and no-one was, apart from Mr Starr.
Yeah?
Well, he got a speeding ticket.
I I didn't mean anything.
Anything relevant to the case.
PHONE CHIMES
Oh.Oh.
It's Parsons.
Can you take a break?
I've OKed it with your boss
for when I need you.
Yeah, Mr Alistair John Maynard.
He told me.
W-Wouldn't it make you feel less
anxious if we spoke to Baxter,
made your role with us official?
Um
I'llI'll get my stuff
and meet you outside?
Right.
Pulmonary oedema, congested lungs,
subpleural haemorrhage.
As we thought,
Emily Barret drowned.
As Patience thought.
I didn't disagree.
I've tested the water in her lungs.
It could show us where she drowned.
We'll let you know when we're done.
Mm-hm.
Postmortem report.
What exactly are we doing here?
Looking for evidence. What, of
who shoved her head into a sink?
No-one did.
There was no bruising to the neck.
So, what, then?
We think Emily may have been
involved in trafficking.
Trafficking? Trafficking what?
This.
It feels real. It's
It's definitely not fibreglass.
What are we doing here?
Alfie forgot his lunch.
Can you pass me that bag?
Dino cookies?
Mm. He's obsessed with dinosaurs.
Don't tell him a lot of
the bones are replicas.
Well, if he's obsessed,
he probably already knows.
Thanks.
Hey, bub.
Sorry, you forgot your lunch. Here.
What's this?
Some new things.
Um, it's protein
and fibre to help you grow.
Alfie, this is Patience.
Patience, Alfie. Hi. Hi.
Um, do you know what this is?
I-It's a dinosaur hip bone!
Can I touch it?
Yeah. Careful.
Oh, my God. Wow.
So, when I was your age,
triceratops were my favourite.
I like caseosaurus.
It's from the same family.
Yeah.
Sorry, bub. We've got to go.
The bad guys are getting away?
"Thank you for my delicious
and nutritious lunch, Mum."
Thanks. And Patience.
Thanks, Patience. It's OK.
CHUCKLING
You had no idea she'd taken it?
No, none at all.
Any idea how much it's worth?
An ischium?
From a brachiosaur,
this well preserved? Pfft.
Thousands of pounds at auction.
Is it insured?
Oh, not many people would know
this was a genuine fossil.
My 11-year-old son did.
Did he really?
Then I may just have something
for him.
The museum came up
with some CCTV, sir.
DC Akbari's been through it.
This is near the main entrance,
sir. 11 o'clock, Sunday evening.
She looks drunk. Is she drunk?
Still waiting on the tox report.
Um, this is about ten minutes later.
That's Peter Venkman,
convicted fossil trafficker
..and her ex-boyfriend.
We don't see him go inside.
Not really. Don't have all the
entrances covered, I'm afraid.
But we see him come the same way
an hour or so later.
You think it's a homicide?
Well, we may have a motive, sir.
Emily Barret removed
a valuable fossil from the museum.
We found it at her flat,
set up to be photographed.
And you think Venkman was involved?
Well, he'd certainly
know its worth, sir.
The fossils that Venkman served time
for stealing
were found in Emily's bag.
Maybe he took the fall for her,
she owed him payback.
Can we prove there was any contact
between them?
Emily's phone's missing. The signal
stops close to Robin Hood's Bay
around 7pm on Sunday night.
All right.
Let's assume he went to the museum
for a handover. What then?
Emily gets cold feet.
Venkman tries to force her to reveal
the fossil's location.
You know "Where is it?"
Only with more colourful language.
Except there's no signs
of struggle anywhere on her body.
You don't think it was a murder?
I didn't say that, sir.
I just
..don't buy Emily Barret as a thief.
I found something online.
Can you?
EMILY ON VIDEO: Rosalind Franklin -
she is the one who unlocked
the DNA double helix.
But who got the credit?
Francis Crick and James Watson.
Then we have Jocelyn Bell Burnell,
who discovered radio pulsar.
What's the word on Venkman?
His flatmate says he's gone into
town to attend an auction,
she thinks.Hmm.
PHONE CHIMES
Oh, bollocks. What?
I'm meant to be picking up Alfie.
Call his dad.
I don't want to speak to him.
I thought you two were getting on
better. We are. It's just
He's He's chasing me
on something. I
..haven't made up my mind.
What aboutyou-know-who?
SOFT SQUEAKS
PHONE RINGS
Um, this is Patience Evans speaking.
Patience, hi.
This is DI Metcalfum,
Detective Bea.
I'mcalling to ask a
humongous favour.
I wondered if you could pick up
Alfie from school for me?
He
He really seemed to like you.
I-I wouldn't ask it,
it's just we're about
to interview Emily Barret's ex.
Actually, do you know what?
Never mind. The interview can wait.
No, I'll do it.
Are you sure?
Yes. I-II want to do it.
That's brilliant.
I'm unbelievably grateful.
I-I'll I'll ring the school,
let them know,
and I'll text you the details.
Thanks.
CALL ENDS
W-What?
AUCTIONEER CALLING INDISTINCTLY
Watch him. Go.
You buying or selling?
AUCTIONEER: £1,000. Any more?
I have a lot up for sale.
£1,100. Thank you.
£1,200.
£1,300.
Illegal fossil?
£1,500.
Agh!
Gentlemen, please.
Gentlemen! Gentlemen, please!
I'm very sorry about that,
ladies and gentlemen.
Argh!
Agh!
Agh!
CHILDREN LAUGH
He's such a loser.
Look at his stuff.
Have fun, Alf!
Children, that's enough!
Get inside.
I ran because I didn't
want to go back to prison.
I had a hard time inside.
Oh, yeah, cos there's two things
every decent convict hates -
sex offenders and fossil thieves.
They hear the word "trafficking"
they don't ask what kind.
The lot you were selling
at auction
It was legit.
I swear.
So why not act like it?
They changed the law about
what you can take and sell.
How was I going to prove
I got it before the rules changed?
When did you last see Emily Barret?
Don't know.
What, like three months ago?
That you?
We used to be a couple.
She phoned, asked me to meet her
outside the museum last night.
Only she wasn't there.
I knocked. No answer.
Went away, come back an hour later,
still no sign.
What's she been saying about me?
Nothing.
Emily was found dead in
the museum at seven this morning.
Dead?
What happened?
Oh, God.
DOOR BEEPS
Um, I'm going to show you
something, OK?
Mm.
GASPS
Mice are very good
at solving puzzles.
They carry germs.
No. No, they're actually very clean.
SQUEAKING
Oh This is Accio.
GASPS
I don't like things that scratch.
Oh. Well, I find animals much nicer
than people.
How Wait, don't you have
any friends?
Um I'm not
I'm not sure.
How do you make friends?
I don't know.
But I've joined a group of people
that want to help.
How do they help?
Well, they talk about facing
your fears.
It's OK. Look.
She's soft, isn't she?
Yeah.
Aw. Hey.
Aw.
Yeah, she likes you.
SOFTLY: Aw
Do you want to hold her?
ALFIE EXHALES SHARPLY
It's OK.
For the tape, I'm showing Mr Venkman
the call log from his phone.
Time of call, 9.27pm on Saturday.
Do you recognise that number?
It's Emily's number.
Why was she phoning?
I told you, she wanted to hook up.
At the museum, at 11pm on a Sunday?
She said it would be safer.
Safer than what? For who?
I don't know.
But you went along anyway.
She said she had something exciting
to tell me.
I thought maybe she wanted
to get back together.
And that's the last you heard
from her?
Um
I had a message about 8.30
last night
from a number I didn't recognise.
It was a woman mumbling
and slurring like she was
..she was drunk or something, and
..the tone sounded like Emily,
but I couldn't make out
a word she was saying.
Would you be able
to play it back for me?
I deleted it.
It's so cool where Patience works.
What, cooler than my part of
the station?
Way cooler.
I got to play with mice.
I thought you hated mice.
Since when?
What's this?
We're trying Japanese food.
It's healthy.
Japan has the highest life
expectancy in the world.
Looks yuck.
Have a seat.
I have a present for you
from the museum's director.
It's a dinosaur apparently. Oh!
Oh, brachiosaurus!
There's There's no instructions.
Oh? There isn't?
This is stupid.
No, the first palaeontologists only
had fragments to work with, Alfie.
It's stupid!
Alfie
Stupid.
Alfie, get back here.
Alfie!
Sorry.
Can you make it?
"Please."
Please.
CLATTER
SHE SIGHS
She's added an extra branch.
You're right.
And it looks recent. Mm.
INDISTINCT CHATTER
I'm so sorry, give me a minute.
You again, detective.
Can you take a look at this?
It's Darwin's tree of life.
Patience and I have just been to
the tattoo parlour
that Emily frequented.
Apparently, she liked to mark
important milestones in her life
with, um, fresh ink.
A couple of days before she died,
she added an extra branch.
Any idea what it might represent?
Well, the tree shows how
the genus of a species -
dogs, wolves, jackals,
for instance -
might evolve by divergence from a
shared genetic starting point, so
..this might refer to the discovery
of a new evolutionary branch,
a new genus
..of any one of the, um,
8.7 million species
with which we share our planet.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
She came back then, the journalist?
Yes. They go to press tomorrow.
I submitted an article
which called for an interview.
What's the article about?
HE CHUCKLES
Nothing that could possibly
interest you.
So sorry about that.
That's all right. Where were we?
When you said Emily drowned,
how sure were you on
a scale of one to ten?
Well, what end of
the scale is certain? Ten.
Ten.
Then are there any natural causes
of death
that mimic the symptoms of drowning?
Or could it have been staged
to look as if she died that way?
I have to be allowed
to question your ideas, Patience.
Emily calls you, arranges
to meet you at the museum,
and you think she's going to hand
over the fossil.
But when you get there, she says
she's had a change of heart.
There is no dino bone.
She's left it where it'll be safer.
Safe from you, that is.
I never went inside.
That's thousands of pounds
she's denying you.
More than enough to make up for
the, what, six months that you spent
inside on her behalf?
Em–Emily didn't know about
the teeth that I'd been smuggling.
She would never risk her career.
She owed you, didn't she, Peter?
She wouldn't tell you what she'd
done with it
and that made you angry. No.
So you followed her into her lab,
you forced her head under a tap,
maybe just to scare her at first
No! She was drunk. She couldn't
fight back.
I told you, I didn't go inside!
Then what are your fingerprints
doing all over the lab?
I
No! Not now.
HE SIGHS
Right, interview terminated
at 10.25.
HE SIGHS
I thought you OKed it.
She said that you had to see her.
Boss, he was ready to confess.
All right. Yeah, but now he's got
time to think.
All right!
Just take him back to his cell.
But
Now. You as well.
Patience
..are you all right?
PATIENCE BREATHES SHAKILY
What just happened in there?
Well, you told me that if
I had any new information,
then I should bring it
to you straight away.
Boss
Boss!
Look, h-his brief says Venkman wants
to make a statement.
Apparently it's come back to him.
Emily used to bring him up
to her lab
to make out when they were dating.
We'll deal with this
when I get back. We had him.
I'mreally sorry. I
I should have been clearer.
He used to bring me here
after work.
Your dad?
Yeah.
Yeah, he loved the idea
that someone had been declared
the emperor of half the known world
in York, right here.
He used to walk me round the Minster
and tell me stories
about the people that had been
involved in building it.
He used to say that everyone had
a role to play and
..a contribution to make,
no matter how small.
I'm just really scared
of letting him down.
You You don't need to be.
And don't worry about
making things official.
We can just keep it casual,
or forget about it entirely
and just
..concentrate on being friends.
Friends?
Patience?
What was so urgent?
I know how Emily Barret died.
That's very rare. I mean, very.
Maybefour cases in 30 years.
But not unheard of?
How does it work?
Well, the cause of death
would be pulmonary oedema.
At some point before she died,
water entered her lungs,
causing them to swell
and making it harder for oxygen
to reach the bloodstream.
So your lungs slowly fill
with fluid
and it looks as if you've drowned.
Yeah. It can take hours.
And Emily appearing to be drunk?
Well, nothing showed up on
the tox report,
but she'd have been extremely weak
due to oxygen deprivation,
shortness of breath. Oh.
Have we tested the water in
her lungs?
I'll give them a hurry up.
It could give us a clue as
to where she drowned.
PHONE RINGS
This is Patience Evans speaking.
Oh, Patience, it's DI Metcalf.
Oh, Detective Bea.
I was just calling
to see how you are.
Um, very busy at the moment.
Oh, well, I won't keep you.
I just thought you'd like
to know you were right
about the secondary drowning. We
think an incident may have occurred
at a place called Marshall's Quarry.
We spoke to a delivery driver,
Ben Colston.
He picked her up Sunday evening
very close by,
at a place called Croft Corner.
Patience?
Hmm.
Maybe it makes the whole thing work.
Oh, I thought you did yoga
on Friday?
No time for that.
I've been digging into Ben Colston,
the driver who picked up
Emily Barret.
He's been using his mother's
maiden name.
His birth name is Benjamin Gooch,
and he's got a suspended sentence
for indecent exposure
at a girls' school.
We've got a lead on someone.
Suggests Emily's death may be
a homicide.
Yeah, it was. Um, I know
who killed her.
Yeah, Benjamin Gooch, right?
No.
PHONE RINGS
SIGHS HEAVILY
Baxter.
Another lead?
Are you sure?
All right, five minutes.
You've got this.
Thank you.
All right. I'm listening.
Um Um
Marshall's Quarry. This is where
Emily inhaled the water.
We don't know at what time,
but at 8.27pm, Emily made a call
from the delivery driver's phone.
Now, Croft Corner - a traffic camera
picked up a speeding offence
made by Emily's boss on the A171
at 8.14pm.
Now, this initially came up
when I first searched the database
and I didn't think it was part of
the puzzle,
but speeding seemed
so out of character for Mr Starr,
and it was actually the extra piece
that made everything come together.
It can't be a coincidence, sir.
He's half a mile from the quarry,
yards from where Emily made
that call.
Why else would he be speeding?
OK. Get him in.
Good work, Patience.
Bring me something to convince
the CPS
before you start handing out
the gongs.
For the tape, I'm showing a map of
marked areas
where Emily Barret inhaled water,
where she dialled 999,
and where Mr Starr, around the same
time, broke the speed limit.
I was out for a drive.
When Tania Macalinden called
to tell you Emily's body had been
found at the museum,
you refused to believe it.
Yeah. I was shocked.
Yeah, I bet you were.
We spoke to Cate Furnish.
Her journal was due to publish an
article by you,
the culmination of two years' work.
On Friday, you asked her to
substitute it for a different one.
Towards A Reclassification
Of Theropods.
Yeah.
This reclassification hinges
on the ischium.
The very same bone that
Emily had taken home to photograph.
Another coincidence.
Was the second article Emily's?
HE SCOFFS
Of course not.
I think it was.
I think she asked for your opinion,
you read Emily's article,
and suddenly yours is worthless.
You needed to buy yourself time,
didn't you?
Figure out how to salvage
your reputation.
You tell her you'll help her get
it published,
and in the meantime you tell her
to take the bone,
take some photos to accompany
the article.
Bring 'em in, Will.
Found in Marshall's Quarry.
Why would Emily launch her phone
and laptop into the water?
Submerging the laptop doesn't erase
the data.
We're going to find Emily's article
on there, aren't we?
It will be identical to the one you
submitted to the journal.
I just wanted to talk to her.
It wasn't until I'd sent in
my article
that Emily showed me her research.
She'd made the kind of breakthrough
I'd been
..struggling for my entire career.
That must have been hard to accept.
Her conclusions were drawn from
areas of research
that I'd been studying for years,
that I'd pointed her towards.
So
..I sent it to them under my name.
They loved it.
Said I'd make the front cover
if I gave them an interview.
By that pointit was too late
to admit the truth.
You knew that she'd gone
fossil hunting.
I went to the quarry to offer her a
research credit, that's all.
And then instead of accepting my
offer, she starts berating me
about men taking credit for women's
scientific discoveries.
HE SCOFFS, LAUGHS
This girl
..with piercings, tattoos
and a criminal boyfriend.
And then this.
You don't understand, this is like a
chimp with a typewriter
coming up with King Lear.
HE LAUGHS
She threatened to expose you.
I tried to reason with her,
but I lost my temper
and threw the laptop into the water.
She was filming me on her phone.
Screeching about how she was
going to show the world
what kind of man I am.
I tried to grab the phone.
We tussled over it
and stumbled into the lake.
I pushed her away,
maybe a little bit harder than
I meant to, and she
Sh-She She fell in. Sh-She
She went under.
And you didn't think to try
and help her?
Well, II thought she'd maybe hit
her head or something.
I-I-I panicked.
I panicked and I ran, and I
I didn't look back.
You left her for dead.
Raymond Starr, you are charged
with the manslaughter
of Emily Wilding Barret.
ALFIE: You know that new branch that
you told me about?
Yeah. Does that mean they think
there's a new type?
As discovered by Emily Barret.
KNOCK ON DOOR
That's your dad.
Already?
Well, Alfie, I can help you pack.
All right.
Hiya. Hey. Um, he's just going to be
a minute.
Patience is helping him get
his things.
Oh, Patience, eh? I've heard a lot
about her recently.
Oh, I wanted to give you this.
You've changed your mind.
Well, hishis best chance is if
we all pull in the same direction.