Waking the Dead (2000) s01e01 Episode Script

We all know the stats.
If a murder doesn't get cracked in the first week, it's probably not going to happen.
Unsolved crime.
Cold cases.
The Mets got more than its share.
Which is where we come in.
We go back through the evidence, the statements, every last detail from the first investigation.
But we've got new weapons, new forensic expertise, psychological profiling.
We sift through every layer, we dig into the past, we excavate, reconstruct, find whats never been found.
There's no such thing as an unsolved crime, not any more.
Not if we get it right.
Grace! It's my fault.
Spencer thought I was gonna call you.
Gone are the days when the profiler sees the files weeks after everybody else, tells the police to pick up a psycho with a thing about prostitutes.
Thats why I asked for you.
I'll sort you out a jacket and wellies.
OK.
Five years ago, schoolgirl Alice Miller, aged 16, spent Friday evening with a school friend.
She set out for home but never got there.
The next day, her kidnapper contacted the police.
- How? - He left a note at a police station.
He demanded money - five grand - and said he'd call to fix up the exchange.
Three days later, he rang, but something spooked him and he hung up.
The case went cold.
Three weeks later, Alice's body was found here on this dump, naked, handcuffed, raped and wrapped in roofing felt.
He's still out there somewhere.
He thinks he got away with it.
- Cold cases? - Thousands of them.
And we get to live right over the shop.
We need every notebook, every scrap of evidence.
Dig right back.
All the usual.
This is yours, Grace.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
CD of the post-mortem and photos.
And a cup of coffee! Thank you, Mel.
Get a copy of that abduction letter for Grace.
Every lead, every clue, every contact was followed up.
Every single one.
This was my case.
The trail went cold, the press wanted someone to blame - And found you.
- Exactly.
All right! - Id lodge a complaint if I were you, Boyd! - Makes you look almost middle-aged! Alice's home in Digbeth Street.
She went to see her friend Kelly Warner in St Anne's Avenue by tube, arriving at 6.
00.
They left for the pub at about nine.
Alice had her hair coloured by Kelly that evening.
Mel, would you mind? Family photos show her as blonde, but she looked like this.
That is the photo we issued.
She left the pub, The Kestrel, by ten.
Her friend went on to a party but Alice decided to go home.
- No mention of a boyfriend? - Never had one.
And, by all accounts, she wasn't a girl to take risks.
Start sifting through these.
There's more upstairs.
One more box to come.
We found semen in the body last time, but we couldn't get his DNA from it.
The decomposition was so bad, we couldn't get hers either.
Is it worth trying again? - DNA testing is more sensitive nowadays.
Five years ago, it was like the Dark Ages.
Amazing we ever managed to solve anything! "BABY ONE MORE TIME" BY BRITNEY SPEARS) - Was she buried? - Not as such.
Just loose stuff piled on top.
See here? - Kids were messing about and saw - Right, OK.
- Looks longer than three weeks.
- She was hidden under a vinyl sofa.
- It acted like an incubator.
- This stuff ferments.
- It kicks out heat like warming a pie.
- Thank you! You don't know where he killed her? - Wherever it was, he kept her there for days.
Hardly any traces of blood on the roofing felt, so he wrapped her in it to move her.
So? It's important.
Very specific MO.
It's an important part of the killer's signature.
He got off on hiding the body.
Every day you searched for her was a victory for him.
Then when you didn't find him either, well, he'd have really enjoyed that.
Taxi? Poor kid! The post-mortem barely mentions the skull.
If we had more details about the fractures, wed know how many blows and what weapon.
PM disc and photos missing from the archives.
Give me the reference number.
Ill talk to the pathologist.
Thanks.
We have found some fibres in the roofing felt.
Were pretty sure it's carpet.
- It's a cheap synthetic with a fleck.
- So she was probably killed inside? These arent police-issue.
Well, sex shops sell them.
May be important to him, part of his sexual routine.
We looked for previous form - flasher, peeping Tom - anything sexual.
Bondage isn't necessarily a sexual perversion, Boyd.
May have been part of a consensual routine with his partner until that evening.
Anyway, the abduction scam would suggest he didn't originally intend to kill her.
I'm sorry.
I don't know what else to say.
If you're just out to murder someone, you shoot them.
Anything else starts to tell you about the personality of the killer.
The killing was impulsive, but he definitely planned on abducting a girl.
- In his late 20s, maybe a bit older.
- Intelligent? He can focus obsessively on a plan, which isn't quite the same thing.
But if he enjoyed it You are saying he enjoyed it? - Oh, yeah.
- So he could do it all over again.
Cant you just come out and I'll pay you later? Great! Thanks for nothing.
- Try charming them a bit! - I havent paid my subscription.
Boyd! This was sent to the Raymond Road nick, to the officer in charge of the Jodie Whitemore investigation.
- Jodie Who? - He's abducted another girl.
We've compared this letter to the one at the time of Alice Miller's abduction.
We've got similarities on - Both delivered by hand.
- Any prints? The letter was photocopied and the envelope was self-adhesive, so I doubt there are any.
He's been quiet for five years.
Where's he been? Check Prison Index - anyone who's done time since Alice's murder.
He's probably been inside more than once, not necessarily sexual.
Maybe minor crimes.
Shoplifting, burglary, probably involving violence.
Get it started, Spence.
I'm going to see Mavers.
- Is that a good idea? - I have to run this abduction.
If officers arent usually allowed to return to cases, why are you? - Not now, Grace.
- You think you've woken him up.
Not now.
- The cases are linked.
- DCI Connor is investigating the case.
- You'll work with him.
- I should run both cases.
You share leads and resources.
- He murdered Alice.
He's got another girl.
- DCI Connor will keep you informed.
- Sir, with all due respect, It's not the time for politics and protocol.
Boyd, the Cold Case Squad is a one-year pilot.
You need results, not complications.
Your brief is to investigate unsolved cases.
Where they have a bearing on current crime, you cooperate.
Any sign of Jodie Whitemore, call me.
Let me know when you're in position.
- Yes? - Our mans written to Connor.
He's given him an address where he held Alice hostage, off Aldgate Street.
Tell Connor to wait and get down there now.
Here we go! Armed police! Show yourself! Clear! Pop in the back, will you? Jodie's got a mobile but hasn't told her mum.
We cant risk ringing her.
If she's hidden it, it might blow her chances of using it.
Get onto the phone company.
If anybody's used that mobile, I want to know.
- We need your men out of the vicinity, sir.
When I'm ready, Sergeant.
This house might be the scene of Alice Millers murder.
My priority is the safety of Jodie Whitemore.
Shes obviously not here.
So now it's our turn, sir.
Were meant to be working together.
- Trying to get it right this time, Boyd.
Boyd, I cant get any results from the semen sample.
The cells are knackered.
It's due for demolition.
Five years ago, this was a squat.
This is where he killed her, isn't it? No one saw us, no one can hear you and you'll never be found.
You've already seen me.
Remember? Can someone knock those lights down a bit? - Make sure they fingerprint every piece.
Yep.
Bloody Connor and the cavalry! What? This carpet looks like it matches the fibres in the roofing felt.
This is probably the room.
- Mel? - Yep.
So where's the blood? - There's probably still minute traces here.
Mel, pass me that fibre-optic lamp.
Cheers.
- This just isn't adding up.
- No blood? If he killed her here, there must be.
Maybe she was dead before he brought her here.
Uh-uh.
I don't think so.
Dead bodies don't splash.
Not like that, anyway.
- Whats going on? - I was gonna call you.
The playgroup said you hadn't even arrived.
You weren't answering your mobile.
- Then I find he's here.
- Jan, I'm sorry.
I was gonna call you.
Anything could happen.
There was a bloody SWAT team! That was a precaution.
- You didn't think.
You just took the call.
DCI Boyd had to be there first and sod the rest of us! - That is not true! - He's two, Peter, and you left him here.
- He was all right.
- He's been here hours! He was well looked after, werent you, baby? Look, Jan, you and little Matt are all that matter to me.
Us and all this.
You don't have to bullshit me, remember? This is where he killed her, Jan.
- Oh! How did you find it? - I didn't.
He decided it was time to tell me.
Peter He's starting the whole thing over again.
So you're going to stop him.
If you don't believe that, hand this case over right now.
I am going to stop him.
I don't suppose you'll be back for supper? Here, drink it.
Drink! What do you want? Cheese? Ham? Ham.
The first blow made the wound itself.
The scalp bleeds profusely, so the second blow caused this splashing.
There's cast-off blood flicked off the weapon there.
He's tried to wash it all down but on the edge you can see the two separate areas.
He must have hit her with something quite bulky.
- After he raped her.
- Sir? Downstairs.
Please Please, I need that.
First you're going to talk to Mummy.
OK, go ahead.
He probably burnt it to get rid of bloodstains before dumping it down here.
- He was obviously looking after her.
- But not as long as he'd planned.
Boyd! This could be your murder weapon.
- Mel? - Yeah.
She wouldn't have sex with him, so he rapes her.
Decides to keep her up in his room.
Starts the abduction scam.
But shes getting difficult.
She won't shut up.
- It isn't gonna work, so he hits her.
- You're saying this was impulsive? Mmm.
So whys he doing it all again? Please Can we talk? Wait! Don't leave me here.
I'm trying to trace anyone who lived in the squat.
He probably lived, worked or socialised round there.
Rapes usually occur within a two-mile radius of the perpetrators home territory.
Do you think he might have Jodie where he's living now? No.
No, Alice was an opportunist pickup late at night.
Jodie's abduction seems much more carefully planned.
He's reliving it.
Reminding us.
He's probably been cooking up this fantasy ever since the last time.
And, well now that It's happened again, he's feeling invincible.
Take the A40, drive eight miles and take the White City exit.
Hang on.
There are two, arent there? That was five years ago.
What do you think scared him off with Alice? Your officer questioning his directions? I don't know, Grace.
He didn't phone back to discuss it.
OK, take the A40.
Drive eight miles, then take the White City exit.
Hang on.
There are two, arent there? Clive, I need your help.
No, look, look, look.
The blood patterns not right for just a head wound.
See? - Here and here.
- Tomorrow.
I need time, OK? It wont take long, I promise! Junk food and ambition kills, Frankie.
Trust me, I've seen some arteries.
Nah! Alice Millers post-mortem photos.
The pathologist retired to Oz.
He filed them under the wrong year! It took me hours to track them down.
You must have replayed that tape over and over again in your head.
You're the one with all the theories.
A nagging worry that you might have missed something.
He made you wait to get her, told you what to do.
The time, the place, the ritual.
You tried to get everything right.
I messed up, Grace.
All right? I sent a male officer as a courier.
He said a WPC.
It was in his letter and you didn't spot it either.
I've had to live with that for five years.
So don't you start on me.
It's me.
Jodie.
Please, do what he says.
Please do exactly what he says.
Listen, the papers have got it wrong.
Alice didn't suffer.
It was her fault.
I did hit her but that wasn't how she died.
She was asleep and I stabbed her through the heart.
No pain.
Let the papers know, Boyd.
Do you hear? Put the bloody record straight.
He's talking as if Alice's death was a minor detail.
He wants you and the world to think well of him.
This request is important, Boyd.
It cant be ignored.
- He wants to show he's in control.
- Monitor all my phones, including home.
We can verify his claims if we see Alice's ribcage and spine and get a DNA profile.
- Exhumation? - Yeah.
OK! Stop, guys, stop.
Listen, I'm not happy.
The grounds waterlogged, the coffin's knackered.
It'll fall apart! Well transfer the bones and get out.
Were looking for knife marks.
I don't want her shuffled like a pack of cards.
- What do you suggest? - I take them out one by one.
- Archaeology versus the big digger.
- No way! - Well be here till dawn! - As long as it takes.
- You know Alice's father's just arrived? - God, Spence, what did you let him in for? He insisted! I could hardly tell him to piss off! We've got two press here already.
Soon they'll all arrive.
We have to move fast! We cant risk compromising the evidence! - Chipped bones are going to stay chipped.
OK, OK.
Lets get her back to the mortuary.
Great! Thanks a lot, Spencer! Now well do it my way, shall we? Shit! - Did you see a gold locket round her neck? Bagged it.
- I need to show it to her dad.
- You cant do that.
- It's only got a photo in it, Frankie! - Hess upset.
Anything could happen.
It's all he's got left! The lockets evidence.
There could be hair in it.
You've just dug up his daughter! - In case you've forgotten! - I'll take responsibility.
- Like you did before? - This is not If your pathologist had done his job properly, Alice's dad wouldn't be going through this now! Well discuss this later.
Shit! Mr Miller? Metal? From the torch casing.
There.
Two blows.
You can trace the radiating fractures.
They think they know it all! But they needed me to put them right.
You contacted the police? Every last detail.
Will it? Will it be soon? This was you? Her third thoracic rib has a clean nick out of it consistent with a knife.
And so does the corresponding rib near the vertebrae.
Right.
Look.
A distinct notch.
Made by a long, thin blade.
- Used with some force.
- It would have pierced the heart? Shed have died within minutes.
So not an accident.
He was carrying a knife.
And felt fully justified in executing her when he ran out of options.
Why the hell doesn't he tell us what he wants in exchange for Jodie? He wants you to put the record straight.
Issue a press release.
It's his first condition.
They're going to listen now.
Please don't leave me here in the dark.
When you shut that door, It's like I can't breathe.
I know.
Wait! Did someone do this to you? Nothing! I had to play it safe.
Right.
So now we go back to every witness.
"RISE" BY GABRIELLE) Kelly Someone from the police to see you.
I wanted to ask you a few questions about the murder of Alice Miller.
I told Boyd everything I knew years ago.
You were Alice's best mate, weren't you, Kelly? Look, she was a loner.
She didn't fit in.
Her mum was alive but they didn't get on.
I took pity on her.
Did she have a boyfriend? Are you kidding? I told Boyd she was shy.
She didn't go out at all.
- Was she with you all that evening? - Until ten.
I was invited to a party.
She didn't want to come.
She went home.
- Did you go with her to the tube or bus? She wasn't a kid! Shed done it loads of times.
She could look after herself.
Hows it going? - Alice's bones degenerated in the grave.
We hoped to find some bone marrow in one of her femurs but it doesn't look good, so I've asked the labs to grind down more samples.
Boyd, about what I said - Boyd! - You said it and It's done.
This arrived, addressed to you.
He's ordered what he wants down to the last banknote.
He's placing an ad in the late edition of the "Standard", telling us where and when.
The fax was addressed to me.
Thats what he does.
Taunting us is part of his MO.
He also wrote to Connor.
- To cause confusion at the murder scene.
- I want to do a TV appeal for information.
The media cant get enough of it.
If it goes wrong again, let Connor take the rap.
If we lose Jodie, we lose him and any hope of solving Alice's murder.
You cannot separate them! If you blow this, Boyd, there'll be a full-scale inquiry.
- They'll hang you out to dry.
- I know.
- Yes? - Forget this TV appeal, Boyd.
Is there nowhere I can escape from you? He said no publicity.
He's a control freak.
He has to make the next move.
I'm surrounded by people who know about Jodie, who may have seen him.
He has to be warned.
He might kill Jodie to show you you cant play this card.
We have to take the initiative, Grace.
We are investigating the disappearance of Jodie Whitemore.
She was last seen on Monday, on her way to a music lesson.
She never arrived at her destination and hasnt been seen since.
We believe that her disappearance may be connected with the murder of Alice Miller.
Please if you've got my daughter, contact the police now.
Um Jodie was wearing her school uniform and carrying her flute case.
She was on her way to a music lesson, but Poor sod.
Just what the police wanted.
Don't say that.
They want her to break down, Kel.
Thats how it works.
They want people to feel sorry for her.
Shes our only child.
Jodie never made it to her music lesson, which was in her lunch break from school.
That copper made me go through it all again.
Poor Alice! - I havent even got a photo of her.
- Hey, I'll get you one.
Yeah? Frame it up for you.
Id forgotten, you know what he did to her.
If you've seen anything, or seen her, please contact the police.
We just want our daughter back safely.
- He's someone's husband, someone's son.
- Tissue.
Have you noticed anyone behaving differently, noticed anything that might help us in our search for Jodie? Please, if you've got my daughter, contact You scripted the whole bloody thing, didn't you, Boyd? Wait.
Whats your name? The appeals working.
A girl rang in saying Jodie had a part-time job in a supermarket.
- Not now, Grace.
- She didn't know where.
- Jodie didn't want her mum to find out.
- It'll be between her school and home.
Ring every supermarket in the area.
You should have got her name! - That was the "Standard".
He's placed the ad.
Right.
We're on! The courier has to catch a boat from here to the Eye, then walk to the Royal Festival Hall for exactly 4.
30.
She must not be early.
Mel will be radio-miked.
Cars will keep one channel secure in case he has a scanner.
What about the bag? - 15 grand as specified and it'll be tagged.
- Right.
- Lets go, Mel.
Ill start briefing you.
- I'm not getting anything from the bones.
I don't believe it! - Getting DNA depends on a lot of things! So maybe forensics isn't everything! Maybe respect for people's feelings matters more! - This stops now.
- That wasn't a pile of bones! It was a girl who went out and never came home! - How dare you? - You've got a great CV, Doctor! - Pity you don't do people! - Wait for me outside.
Move! - I will not be spoken to like that.
- Hell apologise.
I played it by the book.
- You played it like a tight - arsed prick.
If you're on the receiving end of a parent's grief, playing it by the book means sod all.
- That was really unprofessional.
- She alienates everyone she works with.
Shes tough.
She crossed you and you can't forgive her.
She slagged you off! What she said was fairly accurate.
When you make a mistake, you have to come to terms with it.
Shes one of the best at her job, but lacks experience.
Ease up on her.
And if anyone messes up, I bollock em.
PC Silverman.
WX101.
- How many coppers are listening to this? None, honestly.
Bollocks! You must be wired, I've got an echo.
- Were doing this exactly as you wanted.
- Get that wire off now! All right, OK.
It's just in this box.
I can go to another box.
That'll only be No, no, no.
Mel, you've lost him.
- You were answering back, not listening.
I could hardly admit it, could I? Keep it simple, Mel.
You've got to be totally convincing.
Sincere, calm.
He's got to trust you.
OK? Lets start again.
DC S PC Silverman.
Don't underestimate him, Mel.
If theres a way to throw you off balance, he'll find it.
Yeah? Thought her parents would get to me, did you, Boyd? You've won, OK? The moneys yours.
Just let me have Jodie back.
If I get one sign you're following that courier, the girls finished.
You really pissed him off, letting Jodie's parents speak to the public.
Alice happened by accident in his head.
He cant feel quite so good about Jodie.
- So maybe he wont kill her.
- He is agitated.
He's not the cool, calm planner any more.
Hess getting tired, stressed.
Well be careful.
- You should have listened the first time.
Everyone's got a raw nerve.
Touch it and they start behaving unpredictably.
Even you.
Connors rattled you, the Super's on your back, even your team My team are fine.
- You would say that.
It's getting to you.
Not at all.
- And no more than your own fears and doubts that he could do it to you again.
Why did you reopen this case? - Was it for the murdered girl or for you? Thats enough! OK.
Thats how he feels.
You've made him dangerous, Boyd.
So start listening to me! - Thanks.
- How are you feeling? Like I worked really hard to get out of this uniform! Good luck.
Everything working? Were right with you.
- Were all in position, sir.
- They're all in position.
And Mel's on her own.
What are you doing, Mel? Go to the phone.
The phone, Mell PC Silverman.
WX101.
- You're late.
- I'm sorry.
- I'm sorry.
I've got your money.
- Take the tube to Epping.
- Go to the station phone box.
- Right.
- Right? - I'm going to give you a number to ring.
OK.
Go ahead.
I'm ready.
I'll write it down.
Hello? Hello? Shit! - What happened? - I don't know.
He just hung up.
- You must have said something.
- No! You heard me! Spence, get to Epping.
Check it out.
He's gonna kill her, isn't he?