[gentle piano music]
[tense music]
[breathing heavily]
[very tense music]
[birds squawking]
[engine rumbling]
[tense music]
[gentle music]
There she is.
Ma'am.
Welcome to Denford Hill.
I know, the stench is something else.
It's this way.
[Kenny] It's the methane.
-Aye. -Me and Kenny reckon
this must be the biggest landfill in the north.
No, the second biggest.
Brigwell Quarry's got a good 50 acres on this.
Right, take me through it.
Unidentified female.
Mid to late 20s.
Multiple stab wounds.
Who found her?
Excavation driver.
He turned up for a six o'clock shift
and then he saw her body in the pit.
This is their first day back.
Back, from where?
Refuge workers were on a 48 hour strike ma'am.
Lucky for us, otherwise she'd be under
10 feet of rubbish by now.
Right.
Kenny.
That pathologist, tell me it's not who I think it is.
Yes, Malcolm Donahue.
Transferred back here last week.
[Vera sighs]
That's all I need.
Okay.
DCI Stanhope I hope you weren't thinking of
coming any closer.
Oh, I wouldn't dare pet.
I know how prickly you get about boundaries.
Well they're there for a reason.
And it's good to see you too Malcolm.
I count five, maybe six puncture wounds
to her abdomen and chest.
Any idea about weapon?
Something sharp I would imagine.
And no ID on her.
Nothing.
Well, we did find this in her pocket.
Looks like a receipt.
Other than that there's nothing to tell us
who this girl is right now.
Well this should help.
What about time of death?
Recent.
I'd say the last 12 hours.
Right.
Not much sign of blood splatter.
Look I'm just saying, probably killed somewhere else.
Body was brought here post mortem.
Try and do this quick Malcolm.
I don't want her lying there any longer than she has to.
Kenny!
Till receipt, 69.99, couple of days old.
-Mm hmm. -Find the shop.
Yes ma'am.
Now Malcolm reckons she was brought here
sometime last night.
Now if there was a strike, she didn't come in a bin lorry.
Then her killer brought her.
Well you're on fire this morning Aiden.
What's his name?
A Peter Lyle, ma'am.
Mr. Lyle.
You all right?
Yeah.
I'm DCI Vera Stanhope.
That girl, was she really murdered.
We don't know yet love.
But I do need to ask you about access to the site.
Well there's only one way in, through the main gates.
But if there was a strike the gates would be locked, hmm.
Ah, suppose.
So if someone wanted to sneak in how'd they go about that.
Old access road for the steelworks.
Fly-tippers use it sometimes.
And that from the road to here, that's what, 200 yards.
Maybe less.
Thanks love.
Kenny.
Receipt.
It was issued by Naseem Phones.
It's a place in Whitley Bay ma'am.
Yeah.
Okay, Jac.
I want you to stay here until forensics are finished
and get someone to take care of Mr. Lyle.
-Right. -Now Kenny,
there's an old access road down here.
Get some uniforms and check it out.
Will do.
Right come on.
Let's find out who our victim is.
[gentle music]
Yeah, I remember her now.
She was here a couple of days ago.
She give her name?
No, just bought a phone.
Did she use a card?
Well it's cash according to the receipt.
Where's she going?
Oh right, yeah, she didn't have enough.
Went to get more money.
How long was she gone?
Not long.
So where's the nearest cash-point?
Just round the corner, two minutes.
Thanks love.
[gentle piano music]
ATM provider says at the time the phone was bought
there's only one withdrawal.
Card was registered to a Joanne Caswell.
26 years old.
Did you get an address?
House in Jesmond.
Belongs to her parents, Graham and Ava Caswell.
[Man] We go through this every time we come round!
[Woman] No but, I want you to go home.
[Man] Oh here we go again, here we--
Oh get out!
-This is my house-- -Get out!
Mrs. Caswell?
Yes.
DCI Vera Stanhope and this is DS Healy.
Can we come in love?
This is a mistake.
It can't be Joanne.
Yeah of course it's a mistake.
Some other poor girl.
When did you last speak to her?
I called her last night.
I mean I left a message.
She didn't pick up.
Ma'am.
Mrs. Caswell, is this your daughter Joanne.
[Graham] Yes.
I am so very sorry love.
Oh my God.
[dramatic music]
When did you last see her?
I had dinner with her on Sunday.
You hadn't seen her since Sunday?
No.
During the week Joanne stays in the city
with her girlfriend.
What's her girlfriend's name?
Melanie Kirk.
Her flat's closer to Joanne's work.
It's an easier commute.
That's where you need to start looking.
That bloody job of hers.
What is her job?
She's a forensic psychologist.
Trainee with the prison service.
Right, so you saw her on Sunday
and how did she seem, was she all right.
She seemed fine.
Actually I'm not sure if she was fine or not.
Graham and I separated recently.
He moved out of the house last month.
What's that got to do with anything?
Just trying to explain that I wasn't paying attention
to Joanne lately.
[sobbing]
And when did you last see your daughter, Mr. Caswell?
Well it wouldn't have been on Sunday
if you've moved out.
No it wasn't.
I saw her yesterday, as it happens.
We had lunch together.
And where was that?
At the Lorsica.
In town.
What time was that?
Finished up around three o'clock.
Joanne had to get back to work.
And how did she seem?
She seemed fine.
Just.
Just normal.
[sobbing]
[downbeat music]
And how was her relationship with her dad?
All right was it.
Lately not great.
Graham has found himself a new girlfriend.
Younger is she?
Well he didn't choose those trainers himself pet.
Still.
Things can't have been so bad
if they were meeting for lunch.
Joanne Caswell, aged 26.
She's a trainee criminal psychologist
with Her Majesty's Prison Service.
Now there's no obvious motive here.
A young woman, good job, girlfriend.
Parents are separating but, apart from that,
home life is stable.
So how does a lass like that end up dead
and dumped in a landfill, hmm.
So background.
Mark, emails, phone records, social media,
the whole shebang.
-Now the last known sighting-- -Shouldn't we be looking into
the prison connection.
Well she'll have worked with some violent offenders.
Well thanks for keeping me on my toes Mark.
I'll be talking to her boss
just as soon as I've finished here, is that all right.
Now the last known sighting
was yesterday afternoon at three.
She was having lunch with her father, Graham Caswell,
at the Lorsica Cafe in the city.
Jac, check with the Lorsica.
Confirm she was there and what time did she leave.
[Jac] Yes ma'am.
Mark, I wanna know where she went after the Lorsica
and start setting up a timeline.
Kenny, where are we with the access road at the landfill.
I've sent the forensics team up there ma'am.
Right, well let me know as soon as.
Now finally, we think she was moved to the landfill
post mortem, which means we sill need to find
the original murder site.
So come on, start looking.
Ma'am!
Uniform, they didn't get an answer at the girlfriend's flat.
The neighbors seem to think that she's in London all week.
Well they need to find her
otherwise the first she's gonna hear of this
is when she opens tomorrow's paper.
Come on, we're going to jail.
[tense music]
I'm looking for Matthew Wells.
You're here about Joanne?
Sorry, Sandra Madani, I'm the office coordinator.
I'll get Matthew.
Matthew, police are here.
Matthew Wells, Senior Psychologist.
DCI Vera Stanhope, this is DS Healy.
Is there somewhere we can talk?
Joanne was a third year trainee
and one of the best we've ever had.
And such a lovely girl.
So she was popular?
Very.
Everyone liked her.
Was she close with anyone in particular?
No one special, if that's what you mean.
She was all about her work.
And was she in work yesterday?
She was here until lunchtime then she left
but she didn't come back.
Was that unusual, her not coming back?
Not really.
The office is really just a base.
People come and go.
What sort of work did she do?
Everything from prisoner risk assessments
to preparing reports for hearings.
So she did work with prisoners.
Mostly lifers.
Did any of them have an issue with her, threaten her?
Well.
Working with prisoners is always challenging.
Not all of them appreciate we're trying to help.
Sometimes they can be hostile.
What about Paul Eastman?
That was a one-off event.
What was?
Do you wanna tell us about that?
Eastman is a former prisoner.
He had a run-in with Joanne
during his parole assessment last year.
Well what sort of run-in?
Eastman got violent.
You said former prisoner.
He was released four weeks ago.
Well we're going to need his address.
[tense music]
Paul Eastman, 36 years of age.
He's been arrested for everything from possession to GBH.
Right.
Bit of an all-rounder then.
Morning.
[Aiden] How long has he been staying here?
About three weeks.
He give you any trouble?
[Man] He's got a mouth on him.
Who are you?
Paul Eastman?
[dramatic music]
[Aiden] Oi!
Shift it man!
[Aiden] Police!
Paul!
[car horn blasting]
I ain't done anything, I haven't done anything.
Yeah, then why you running?
Look, you're hurting me.
You can't just swan into my room
and start going through all my stuff.
Where were you last night?
I was out.
We're gonna need more than that mate.
At a party.
Wear your white shirt did you?
[dramatic music]
Ma'am.
Manager confirms that Eastman left the hostel yesterday
at 2:00 p.m. and didn't get back till 4:00 a.m.
Sounds like quite a party.
I've sent the shirt off for testing
then we'll see what comes back from the lab.
-Right. -Oh here you are.
What's this?
Incident reporting Eastman's attack on Joanne
at Scanton Prison.
Do you mind telling me what this is all about?
[Vera] Certainly, if you'd like to sit down sir.
Not until you tell me what this is all about.
Sit down!
Now then I need you to tell me
when you last saw Joanne Caswell.
Wait, what's happened?
Is she all right?
No, not really love.
We found her body this morning.
Oh.
There something you want to tell us Paul.
We know you attacked her at your parole assessment
at Scanton last year.
[Paul] No no.
I didn't attack her.
Well I've got an incident report here says you did.
What happened?
I didn't attack Joanne.
She just got in the way, that's all.
It was him I was going for.
Her boss.
Who, Matthew Wells?
Yeah, Matthew Wells.
He was supposed to be supervising
but he just couldn't resist showing off.
Wells made sure that I got another three month
on top of my sentence because of that session.
Joanne came to see me two weeks ago.
She came to see you?
What at the hostel?
Just turned up.
She said Wells was out of order.
I didn't get a fair deal.
She asked me how she could help
so I told her about my lad, Alfie.
I've been trying to see him
but my ex wasn't having it.
She persuaded Alfie's mum to invite me to his birthday.
She even got me a present to give to him.
And that's where I was last night.
You were at your son's birthday party
till four in the morning.
I was there until it kicked off
between me and Jane's new bloke.
Got kicked out about 10.
I went to the pub, it's all a bit of a blur after that.
So how did you get blood on your shirt?
It's his blood on the shirt.
Oh yeah, and you expect me to believe that.
Call Jane.
She'll only be too glad to tell you
how we were in the night.
Oh we'll be calling her love.
So what did she get?
[Paul] What?
You said she got your lad a present, what was it.
Asked her to get him a new mobile.
Eastman's ex wife's just confirmed
that he was at the party until they threw him out
and she said Joanne was the one who persuaded her
to invite him.
So he's telling the truth.
Let's see what the lab comes back with on the shirt.
Nah, let him go.
We know where to find him if we need him.
But what's our Joanne playing at?
Tracking him down to make amends.
Maybe she really did think Wells gave Eastman a raw deal.
Well our Wells does sound like a piece of work.
But she was going above and beyond.
I mean would you buy a lad you've never met before
a 70 pound phone.
Ma'am, Melanie Kirk's been in contact.
She's back at her flat.
Family liaison have been round.
All right, thanks Mark.
Come on, we've gotta go and see this girlfriend.
I don't understand.
When did this happen?
Well sometime last night, we think.
Now we tried contacting you earlier love
but you weren't answering your phone.
Stupid thing died.
What if she was trying to call me?
What if I could've stopped this?
It's best not to dwell on what ifs, pet.
Now your neighbor said you were in London.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm opening a gallery in Selben.
I was down visiting St. Martin's Studios.
So you last saw Joanne?
Monday morning, so three days ago.
She saw me off at the station.
And how was she?
Fine, I think.
I was running late, I was worried I'd miss my train.
I'd neglected her recently.
Ah.
Now no, I've seen her phone records.
You called her five times yesterday.
That doesn't sound like neglect.
Just checking in I suppose.
What about the last couple of weeks?
How did she seem?
A little withdrawn maybe.
Any reason for that?
I think work was getting to her.
Now according to the girlfriend,
Joanne was worried about work.
Now I know she had a run-in with one prisoner,
Prince Charming here,
so maybe someone else had issues with her.
Where are we with the case files Mark?
Her office just sent them over.
I'm about to start going through them.
Right, well focus on those prisoners
most recently released.
And do a background on the girlfriend while you're at it.
Ma'am.
Now where are we with forensics at the landfill, Kenny.
Found tire tracks at the access point
and they've taken some casts.
Ma'am.
Just spoken with the manager at the Lorsica Cafe.
She remembers the Caswells coming in for lunch.
Said they had a row and Joanne Caswell stormed out.
She say what the row was about?
She couldn't say but she said Joanne was furious
with her dad.
Was she?
[gentle music]
If you're looking for Ava
they took her to identify Joanne's body.
No, it's you we're looking for Mr. Caswell.
Graham, as far as we know you're the last person
to be seen with Joanne alive,
so whatever it was about we need to know.
My partner Janet, she's pregnant.
And Joanne was upset
because you're starting a new family.
No not exactly.
She's pretty far gone.
The baby's due next month.
I let Joanne believe that I didn't meet Janet
until after I left her mother.
Ah.
So she realized you'd been lying to her and her mam.
Yeah but that's,
that's not why she walked out.
So why did she?
I asked her out to lunch to help me convince Ava
to sell the house.
I don't have a choice.
I've got a baby coming.
Janet's got two of her own.
We need a bigger place.
I'm 59 years old.
Who's gonna give me a mortgage?
Don't know love.
Right charmer him.
Stripping his old family to pay for his new one.
Well he's a man with problems all right.
Sounds like you feel sorry for him.
He's pushing 60.
Girlfriend half his age and a new bairn on the way.
Wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Right I'm gonna see Malcolm.
Come on, I'll drop you at the station.
[tense music]
So there were six wounds in all.
Four to the abdomen, two to the upper chest.
The fatal wound broke through her ribcage
and pierced her heart.
Any update on the weapon?
A five or six inch blade.
My guess is domestic kitchen knife.
Oh and there are defense wounds here.
Right arm, right hand.
Oh so she put up a fight.
Mm.
For all the good it did her.
Any sign of sexual assault?
None that I could see.
Ah, small mercies.
What about forensics?
Well you are aware that the body was found
on an industrial-sized landfill site?
Come on Malcolm, you must've found something.
Well yes, there's plenty of material
but unfortunately it's all compromised.
Well can I see it?
[Malcolm] Paint traces.
Yellow.
On her hair and on the back of her clothes.
[Vera] So where's this paint from?
Well there's no way of telling.
It could easily have transferred at the landfill.
Or it could come from the original murder site.
I've missed your optimism.
Ah, I didn't know she was still here.
Ah well, it's all right, off you go.
Are you all right love?
I remember the first time I came here.
Horrible place to be.
This isn't my first time here.
At the end of last year my dad,
he had a heart attack in the supermarket.
This is where they brought him.
That was different, mind.
He was old, he looked like he belonged here.
But not your daughter, eh.
Like she was sleeping.
I wanted to wake her up and take her home.
Who did this to my baby girl?
We don't know love.
Yet.
Right now we're just trying to get a sense
of what was going on in her life.
What do you want to know?
Well Melanie seems to think
Joanne seemed a little withdrawn lately.
Maybe something to do with work.
She mention anything to you?
She was a little distracted
but I don't think that was about work.
There was a text.
A text?
A few weeks ago.
Joanne was upstairs.
She left her phone in the lounge.
It just popped up on the screen and I read it.
So what did it say?
I need to see you tonight.
And who was it from?
Some girl called Ashley.
But when I asked who Ashley was
Joanne got very defensive.
She didn't want me to know anything about her.
[tense music]
Mark, I'm on my way back.
Now listen.
It could be Joanne was seeing someone
other than Melanie Kirk.
Her mam thinks the girl's name is Ashley.
Sent a text.
Now I need you to find her pronto.
What have you got Mark?
Her phone records show she called an Ashley Beck
four times, last week.
So I did a bit of digging.
It turns out she's Simon Beck's sister.
Who's he when he's at home?
He's a lifer at Scanton.
I've got him here ma'am.
Good work Mark.
Joanne was assessing him for parole.
Four weeks ago he took his own life.
He was a taxi driver from Crowley.
He confessed to the murder of
15 year old Jordan Payne in 2003.
Now this lad's body was found in the woods
just outside Crowley.
That case rings a bell.
According to this Beck strangled Jordan
after a training session.
What sort of training session?
Football.
Beck also coached Jordan's team.
Crowley Wood Football Club.
Now where have I seen?
Aiden, with me.
[tense music]
There's Ashley.
She can only have been a lass
when her brother was convicted.
That can't have been easy.
I think it's weird she was going out with a woman
who was assessing her brother for parole.
Oh, been in this job so long
nothing seems weird anymore.
But I do wanna know why she returned to Crowley last year.
15 years after her brother's conviction.
Maybe she thought everyone had forgotten.
In places like Crowley?
Nah.
People never forget.
Ashley Beck?
What do you want?
You been getting some trouble?
[Ashley] They don't scare me.
Even so, there must be easier places
for you to live than Crowley.
[Ashley] What was it you wanted?
We're here about Joanne Caswell.
Why?
What's the problem?
I'm afraid she's dead love.
Murdered two nights ago.
You didn't know?
[gentle music]
When did you last speak to her?
Don't know.
Sometime last week.
[Vera] What was your relationship to Joanne?
Suppose we were mates.
Ah, nothing more than that.
What?
It was nothing like that.
She was helping me with a case.
Case?
What case?
[tense music]
Been trying to prove my brother's innocence
since he went inside.
Conviction was a joke.
It broke me mam and dad.
I want justice for him.
But your brother, he confessed.
Load of crap.
That confession was either forced or they made it up.
So what made Joanne decide to get involved?
Joanne met Simon in prison.
She got to know him.
Soon realized he wasn't a murderer.
Oh aye, and how did she know that then love.
Simon told her.
He told her he was innocent?
-Yeah. -Then why did he
take his own life.
They denied his parole.
He thought he was coming home.
I guess he couldn't face anymore time.
After he died Joanne found me and she understood.
She was the only person who offered to help me.
So how did she help?
She looked into the original case.
Try and find new evidence.
[Vera] She find any?
Well if she did she didn't tell me.
But it is out there.
Has to be.
Simon wasn't a killer.
Here you are.
Get it while it's hot.
If Joanne was looking into the Beck case
maybe she found something.
What, something that got her killed?
Mm.
If she was looking into it.
But why would she help out Ashley?
Why'd she help Paul Eastman?
The girl was out to make amends.
You think she was trying to make amends
for Beck's suicide?
She's young.
New to the job.
And something like that's bound to make an impression
on her.
You coming?
Simon Beck was a hard one to take.
His suicide was unexpected.
He was one of Joanne's cases?
She evaluated him for parole.
How did Joanne take his suicide?
It's hard when someone you've been working with
decides there's no hope left.
Did she talk to you about it?
Tell you how she's feeling.
Well we spoke after the fact but, to be honest,
she seemed to be coping.
Matthew, you need to sign off on the McKinlay evaluation.
Yes, excuse me.
Did you know she was looking into Beck's conviction?
What do you mean looking into it?
She was trying to overturn it.
Working with his sister.
She's working with Ashley Beck?
You know Ashley?
I know she's been trying to get
her brother's case reopened for years.
Now we've been led to believe that Beck told Joanne
he was innocent.
What, she never told you that either?
No.
She didn't.
I'm sorry but I had no idea about any of this.
You think that was the reason Joanne was killed?
The Beck case.
That's one line of inquiry.
Simon Beck, 37 years old.
Serving a life sentence for murder at HMP Scanton.
Now we know Joanne was assessing Beck for parole
and when that parole was denied he took his own life.
Now that was four weeks ago
and it looks like Joanne was upset by his death
and maybe even felt partly responsible
because we know she started looking into his case.
Now archive have sent up Beck's files.
I want you to go through them
and see if you can identify anyone she might've spoken to.
Because according to his sister,
Joanne was looking for new evidence
regarding the Jordan Payne case
and maybe that is what got her killed.
So come on.
Ma'am, you might want to talk to a woman
called Natalie Webb.
Who?
Joanna had sent Natalie a number of emails
from her personal account.
What were the emails about?
Asking to get her husband to go on record.
And who's her husband?
Kieran Webb.
He was a teammate of Jordan's around the time he died.
[Vera] Aye, news travels fast.
[Natalie] I can't believe she's dead.
It's awful.
Did you know Joanne well?
No.
Apart from the emails we only spoke the once.
When she come round the flat looking for Kieran.
He wasn't in so she started asking us questions
about that Jordan Payne lad.
So what did you tell her?
Nothing really.
I wasn't here when it happened.
I grew up in Jarrow.
Anyway she was dead keen to talk to Kieran about it.
That's when she started emailing.
Trying to get me to persuade him to talk with her.
[Boy] Mammy!
And did Kieran talk with her?
-Yeah. -Push me!
Yeah, last week.
But I don't think he told her anything
she didn't already know.
I mean he probably didn't tell her anything,
knowing Kieran.
Daddy's the strong silent type, isn't he Ryan.
He doesn't say much.
So where can we find Kieran?
That's him over there.
The coach.
Yeah go and have a chat with him.
[Kieran] Yeah I spoke to her.
About Jordan Payne's murder?
She wanted to know what I remembered.
And what do you remember?
Nothing much, it was a long time ago.
It seems before she died
she was looking for new evidence.
Well she didn't get any from me.
Then what did she get?
Oh look, come on Kieran.
We don't wanna have to do this down at the station.
Look.
The day that Jordan was murdered
I saw Frank Payne going into Crowley Wood.
As in Jordan's dad?
Yeah.
I was on my way home when I saw him going in but,
he looked pretty angry.
You didn't report this at the time?
Course I did.
To one of your lot when they came to interview me.
They follow it up?
I guess there was no need to.
Two days later I came home from school to find out that
Beck had confessed.
Did you tell Joanne this?
Yeah.
How'd she react?
She must've thought it was something.
I mean she marched straight round the corner
to Frank's house.
She confronted Frank Payne?
Yeah, managed to get him all riled up.
Thanks Kieran.
[tense music]
Mr. Payne?
Your wife not about Mr. Payne?
She passed.
Two years now.
Oh I'm sorry to hear that.
You want to tell me what this is all about?
Joanne Caswell.
Did you know her?
I heard she's dead.
We understand, before she died,
she was looking into your son's murder.
She was meddling.
Bloody do-gooders.
You don't like people who do good?
Not when they're trying to clear the name
of my son's murderer.
[Vera] So you did have contact with her then?
She came around.
And did she ask you what you were doing
on the day Jordan died?
Now look here.
The girl's dead and I feel sorry for her parents
'cause I know what it feels like to lose a kid.
But she was trying to slur my name.
Important to you, is it that.
Your name?
It's all I've got left son.
So what did you tell her?
You wanna know what I told her?
I told her about how I came home from work
to find my son missing.
I told her I went out to look for him.
Three full hours I searched.
The whole bloody estate.
Then I told her how I came back
to find some copper sitting there
telling my wife they'd found his body in the woods.
I didn't kill my son.
I loved him.
Where were you two nights ago?
I was here, all night.
On your own Frank?
What do you think?
He's bitter.
I suppose he's got a good reason to be.
Aye, well getting drunk
at 10 o'clock in the morning's not gonna help.
Eh?
What did you think was in that mug?
[tense music]
Here you go.
I think we should look at Frank Payne.
Especially if he was in the woods
the night his son was killed.
We would've checked Frank out.
Aye you'd have thought.
In fact, Kenny, who was the lead investigator
on the Beck case.
Eh, Jim Paisley.
He's retired now though.
Well I wanna speak to him.
Okay.
Ma'am, I've been going over Melanie Kirk's statement.
I just wanted to check something.
What?
Well she says she's been in London since Monday, right.
Came back yesterday afternoon.
Well how did she do that?
[Vera] Train.
Well there was a points failure at Darlington yesterday.
The east coast line was out of action.
Earliest she could've got back was around nine last night.
What about other routes?
Well I checked the airport.
She didn't get on any flights.
There was one other route on the west coast but even then,
the timings don't work.
So what, are you saying she wasn't in London.
No I'm saying she wasn't in London yesterday morning.
[tense music]
Well well well.
Dad please!
No there's no need!
Because I don't want to.
Dad I have to go.
Sorry.
Is everything okay?
[Vera] So why didn't you tell us?
I didn't think it was important.
You didn't think it was important to tell us
where you were.
Well I was actually in London,
I just came back a day early, that's all.
Which means that you were in Newcastle
at the time that Joanne was murdered.
So why'd you come back early?
Joanne had called the night before.
She left a message.
She said she didn't want us to be together anymore.
She broke up with you?
I couldn't understand it.
We were so good together, at least I thought we were.
So these calls you made.
You weren't just checking up on her.
I needed to talk to her, find out why, what I did wrong.
She wouldn't even discuss it.
So you came back home, then what.
I couldn't find Joanne so I went to the flat
and waited but she never showed up.
After a few hours I needed to get out so I came here.
Drank two bottles of wine and fell asleep.
You stayed here at the gallery overnight?
Crashed out drunk.
Woke up, charged my phone.
Seen I had about 20 messages from you lot.
Then I called you back.
I'm sorry.
I should've said.
It's the shock, I didn't think.
Can anyone vouch for you?
The joiner worked late.
He was here till about 10, sorting out some snags.
What about after that?
It was just me.
[tense music]
Joiner confirms Melanie was at the gallery
when he left at 10.
He say anything else?
He said she seemed upset, which chimes with her story.
I wanna know why she lied.
Well she didn't exactly lie,
she just didn't tell us everything.
She'd lost her girlfriend, she was in shock.
No she had every opportunity to tell us the truth.
She chose not to.
Mark, did you find anything on the girlfriend's background?
Nothing that stood out.
She's got money, well at least her family has.
They put up the cash for the art gallery.
Right, so she's well-off.
Anything else?
Bit of trouble in university.
What?
Seems she had to leave under a cloud.
What sort of cloud?
I don't know the details.
Well you let me know the second you do Jac.
You keep looking.
Kenny, tell me you've got something on those tire tracks.
Ah, good news and bad news boss.
Good news is we've identified the brand.
Oh don't tell me.
Common brand, right.
Yeah, half the cars in the car park
would be sporting the same tires.
But I did manage to track down Jim Paisley.
-And? -And he's happy to talk.
Address.
[gentle music]
It was the wife's idea.
Legacy wall she calls it.
Well you've had quite the career.
Thanks.
Had its moments I suppose.
So how can I help you?
Oh it's an old case of yours Jim.
This fella.
Simon Beck.
It's come up as part of an investigation we're working on.
The Caswell girl.
Very sad.
Did you know her then?
About two weeks ago she turned up at the door.
And like you, she was looking for background on the case.
[Vera] So what you tell her?
As much as I could.
Case itself was straightforward.
We had a witness who saw Beck near the crime scene.
We brought him in for questioning and he confessed.
Did he say why he killed him?
Apparently Beck had dropped Jordan from the team.
The lad didn't take it too well.
They argued after a training session and Beck flipped.
Didn't that strike you as odd?
I mean, Beck had no history of violence.
It did bother me, yeah, but then,
as you know, sometimes people snap.
Did you ever look at anyone else?
You mean like Frank Payne?
Well, now, we have a witness.
Kieran Webb said he saw Frank Payne going into Crowley Woods
around the time of the murder.
We followed that up.
Frank said he was out looking for Jordan.
What, and that was good enough for you, was it?
Normally no.
But by that time Beck had confessed to the murder.
Well apparently Beck told Joanne he was innocent.
Did you know that?
She mentioned it.
What do you think about that?
To be honest.
I were disappointed.
The thing I remember about Beck
is he had the courage to own up to his crime
and I respected him for that.
I never thought he'd be the type
to start pretending he was innocent.
Young lad being killed like that.
Never get used to 'em.
Ah well, it can't have been easy with a case like that.
Lad murdered, not a mile from his home.
That's a lot of pressure.
I'm first to admit I got lucky.
[tense music]
Now Jim Paisley is worried about something.
Like what?
I don't know.
But I want us to take a look at Beck's interview tape.
Can you get hold of it?
Yeah I'll do my best.
Do you think there's something dodgy about the confession?
Paisley's holding something back
and he certainly doesn't want us looking into this case.
Worried about his bloody legacy wall.
[Jim] Be a lot easier if you just come clean Simon.
We know you were with Jordan.
We know you argued.
I'm responsible.
[Jim] What was that Simon?
[Simon] I said I'm responsible.
[Jim] Are you saying you killed Jordan?
Come on Simon, this is your chance.
Tell us what happened, give your side.
I did it.
I'm not saying anymore.
I don't wanna talk anymore.
Well Paisley's not subtle but he's got the confession.
[Jim] Interview suspended--
Did he?
The interview lasted 20 minutes.
Beck couldn't wait to confess.
He said he was responsible.
Okay, fine.
But why would Beck admit to murder if he didn't do it.
I don't know, but if he was innocent
and Paisley did get it wrong,
then Jordan's killer is still out there.
Mark.
Where are we on Joanne's movements?
We've got her leaving the Lorsica at 15:10
and then nothing after that.
But uniform did just send this over.
Incident report from the night of the murder.
Uniform were called out at 9:48 p.m,
to a shout on Old Drive.
Old Drive?
That's the Caswell's address.
Yeah, some drunk bloke hanging around acting suspicious.
They cautioned him and moved him on.
I hope they got a name.
Aye, they did.
Frank Payne.
You've got no right coming round here
and harassing me like this.
We're just asking you a question.
What were you doing outside the Caswell home?
I wasn't.
I told you I was here.
DS Healy call the officer who spoke to him
and get him over here now.
He'll soon confirm it.
All right, all right.
I just wanted her to stop.
Stop what?
That girl was out to ruin my life.
Talking about going to the police and the papers.
Telling them I was a suspect in my own son's murder.
So you went to her house?
Now what was your plan Frank?
Nothing.
There was no plan.
I'd had a skinful.
I don't even remember.
You confront her?
No, she never showed up.
Ah, now how do you know that Frank if you don't remember.
Mm?
Did you see her that night?
The truth is.
I don't know.
[tense music]
Where you going?
Come on.
Everywhere we turn we run into the Jordan Payne case.
I wanna get a sense of the lad.
Starting with where he died.
Frank may have had motive to kill Joanne,
but is he really capable?
Oh he's angry.
You heard what he said.
She was a threat to him.
Implicating him in the murder of his own son.
She had a sighting of him near the crime scene.
Hardly a smoking gun.
Yeah, well who's to say that's all she had.
Maybe she found something else.
Nah, I can't see him killing her.
No matter how angry he gets.
Boss?
[tense music]
Call forensics.
I want a team here within the hour.
This is where Joanne Caswell was killed.
[dramatic music]
-Aye, it was just there. -Great.
[Woman] Here's the lanyard.
[Aiden] Let me know if you find anything else.
-All right. -Thanks.
[gentle music]
[gentle knocking]
So they're taking samples of the paint from the trees.
And they found this by the outcrop.
Joanne Caswell's work ID.
They find anything else?
Nothing we can use.
They'll keep looking but the crime scene's four days old.
Aye and it was raining last night.
It cannot be a coincidence,
her dying in the same place as that lad.
Now then, Joanne Caswell was murdered in Crowley Woods
so from now on we concentrate our attention on this area.
Now Mark, timeline.
The last known sighting of Joanne was leaving the Lorsica
in the city, so how did she get to Crowley Woods.
Did she get there under her own steam
or did someone take her?
How did her killer get her from those woods
to this landfill site?
Now the more observant amongst you will have noticed that
Joanne was killed not 50 yards from where Jordan died
so what's the connection between these two deaths.
And now the good news.
I want you to go through those files again.
We need to know every detail of that original Beck case.
Now I'm going to see Paisley.
Ma'am before you go.
I found out why Melanie Kirk left university.
Why?
Well it turns out she had some trouble with a tutor,
a Laura Powell.
What sort of trouble?
Melanie developed a bit of a crush on Laura
in her first year.
Harmless at first but then things escalated.
Melanie soon became a problem.
Calls, text messages.
She even broke into Laura's flat one night.
She ever get violent?
No but she did threaten Laura.
Do you want me to bring Melanie in?
No not yet.
Check out the CCTV at the gallery.
Make sure she was there the night she said she was.
Oh, and Jac.
Get Kenny to go through her bank records
and mark any payments from her parents.
Right.
[tense music]
[Jim] How'd you find me?
[Vera] Your missus told me where you were
and she says you're not to be late for your dinner.
Joanne was killed not 50 yards from where Jordan died.
Oh you think there's a connection.
Well wouldn't you.
Girl looking into an old murder ends up killed herself
in the same place as the first victim.
Same killer, that your theory.
No, I'm not saying that.
But you think I got the wrong man.
No I just want to know what makes you so sure
it was Beck who killed him.
I told you, the confession.
Now I've watched that confession Jim
and I'm not convinced by it.
Yeah?
Well the jury was.
And then there's Beck's motive.
Snapping over a row about dropping Jordan from the team.
He'd been coaching them for years.
He was used to those lads moaning all the time
so what made Jordan Payne so different.
You're looking for holes now.
Well aye, didn't you look for holes.
Look, Jim, I'm just trying to understand
because there's something about this.
I mean, it just doesn't sit right.
He was abusing the lad.
What?
You're right.
Motive was weak, was nothing to do with football.
Where's this come from?
There were rumors in Crowley.
You follow 'em up?
And why is none of this in the files?
I only found out after the fact.
How'd you find out?
One of my squad must've picked it up
from one of their informers.
So did you check it out?
The Payne family had been through enough.
They didn't need to know.
This is nothing to do with the Payne family.
I stand by my decision.
Yeah, well it wasn't your decision to make!
[tense music]
[Aiden] I'll go through the files again
but I'm certain there was no mention of abuse.
Okay and while you do that I'm going to find out
if there's any truth to these rumors.
Oh could I have a quick word Mr. Webb?
Kieran.
We're just about to go to my mam's.
Oh, won't take long Natalie.
You're kidding?
Jordan was an absolute lad.
Yeah well that doesn't mean anything.
Even so.
There's no way.
Are you sure?
Jordan never mentioned him, never even talked about Beck.
Thing about Jordan is when he died
people had him down as this angel.
And that wasn't the case?
He wasn't bad but he was streetwise.
Beck would've had to have been stupid
to try it on with you.
What was your impression of Beck?
Seemed all right.
He was a half decent coach.
When it happened we were shocked.
All of us.
The team, it folded after that.
It's revived now, that's good.
Keeps me fit.
Gets me a break from Natalie.
-Ma'am. -Hang on Kenny.
Kieran Webb said he never heard anything about Beck
and Jordan Payne.
[Aiden] Yeah, well Trevor Dyer heard about it.
Who?
The other detective in the Beck interview.
He heard it from Paisley a week ago.
-What? -Yeah.
He says that Paisley took him out for some drinks
then out of nowhere, dropped it in the conversation.
What's Paisley playing at?
Ma'am!
Trevor, he reckons that he's scared.
Worried that they're gonna reopen the Beck case.
What and he's making sure we're all singing
from the same hymn sheet.
Did this fella say who had told Paisley?
Paisley didn't say.
Melanie Kirk, ma'am.
I've just been going through her bank record.
She did use her debit card and it was at 10:49 that night.
Are you saying she left the gallery?
Yeah, she bought a train ticket
from a self-service machine at Selben Station.
You catch her on CCTV?
Yeah, well never mind all that.
Where was she traveling to?
Well we don't know, she just bought a ticket
for five pound 80.
Yeah well how much is a ticket
from Selben to Crowley?
[Jac] Eh.
5.80.
[gentle music]
The first time, when you didn't tell us
you came back from London early,
I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
But not this time Melanie.
I'm sorry, I don't understand.
I know you left the gallery
the night Joanne was killed.
There's a reason I didn't tell you.
Because it didn't matter.
It didn't matter?
You gave us a false alibi, Melanie.
You lied to us.
Okay, I went out.
But I didn't see Joanne.
I'd never hurt her.
In fact I'd never hurt anyone.
No?
What about Laura Powell?
I didn't hurt Laura either.
No but you threatened to.
You broke into her flat.
I made a mistake.
I was feeling things too intensely back then.
Look, I got help.
I realized I fixated on Laura
and didn't cope when she rejected me.
So what about Joanne?
She rejected you, just like Laura.
That's not the same.
Joanne and I were in a relationship.
Which she ended the day she died.
Coincidence or what?
So where'd you go?
Nowhere.
Hmm?
We know you took a train.
I didn't take a train.
So why buy a ticket?
To get through the barrier.
Yes, I was devastated when Joanne ended our relationship.
I still am.
And yes I rushed back here to try and change her mind.
I would've said or done anything to keep her.
[gentle music]
The last call I made that night,
I was going to threaten to do something stupid
if she didn't come to me.
So I went to the station
and I stood on the platform
and I wondered what would happen if,
if I just stepped out.
But I couldn't do it in the end.
Why didn't you tell us this before?
Isn't it obvious?
I was ashamed.
Nah, that's not the reason is it.
Mm?
You didn't tell us 'cause you didn't want your mam and dad
to know what you'd been planning.
I mean all this, a gallery, nice flat.
That's all your mam and dad isn't it.
So what would've happened if they knew?
About how low you were feeling.
Coming here was an experiment.
A chance for me to prove to them
that I can live my own life.
So yes, if they knew, all this would be gone
and they'd assume that I'd failed.
Please don't tell them.
I checked with Selben Station.
CCTV confirms that Melanie was on the platform
till around midnight.
Right.
Get someone from family liaison over to talk to her.
And I want someone with her in that flat overnight.
Jac?
[Jac] I think I've found one.
Found what?
[Jac] A witness.
We're at Pizza Cortona ma'am.
Right, you stay there.
We're on our way.
What?
Jac's found a witness.
His name's Tariq Kamawy.
He's a delivery driver for this place.
So what's he witnessed?
Says he saw a woman matching Joanne's description
running from a car on the night of the murder.
Can he give us a description of the driver?
Doesn't have to, he's got a dashcam.
Here we go.
Well there's our girl.
[tense music]
What's she doing?
[very tense music]
And there's Matthew Wells.
He's in his office.
-He's not here. -Where is he?
He's in court all day.
You told me you had no idea
Joanne was looking into Beck's conviction, hmm.
And we didn't.
Ah, now you see that little hesitation there.
That tells me she's lying.
So I'll ask you again.
Did you know she was looking into it?
You have to understand,
Matthew's been under a lot of pressure lately.
This job is not easy.
Beck's suicide wasn't unexpected.
Joanne considered him high-risk.
So why wasn't the man given help?
Because Matthew thought he was bluffing.
Trying to manipulate Joanne.
And when he died?
Joanne demanded Matthew take full responsibility,
which he couldn't do.
Why not?
[tense music]
Beck wasn't the first one Matthew missed.
There was another suicide two months ago.
One of the prisoners Matthew was working with.
He could be struck off.
So when Joanne demanded he accept culpability
for Beck's suicide, what happened.
Matthew threatened her.
[dramatic music]
Just move round and arrest him.
[Vera] Ah Mr. Wells.
Hello.
Excuse me what?
This is a mistake, no this is really a mistake.
Please!
Okay, listen up everyone.
We now have Matthew Wells with Joanne
on the night that she was killed.
Kenny, I need forensics to go over his car
so his tires match those treads up at the landfill.
And Jac, I wanna know where he was
before he got to Crowley.
Well I can tell you where he wasn't.
Where?
Well the hearing Wells was supposed to be
giving evidence at was postponed.
So where was he?
Well, according to EMPR his car was in the city center
at 2:30 p.m.
Fulton Street.
Fulton Street?
That's just round the corner from the Lorsica, isn't it.
Yeah.
He was following her.
[tense music]
I didn't kill her.
No?
We know you were with her the night she died.
She was in your car.
That is the last I saw of her.
Why would I murder Joanne?
Well, for a start, she was writing up a report
saying that you dismissed her concerns about Beck.
That was a bad call.
And how about threatening to damage her career?
That a bad call too?
I shouldn't have done that but,
there was no way I was actually going to do it.
Joanne was upset about Beck and I understood that but
I was trying to teach her that, in this job,
you can't take things personally.
You weren't teaching her anything Mr. Wells.
You were scared.
You'd already lost one prisoner to suicide.
Beck would've made it two.
And if that came out, you would've been finished.
That's not true.
Were you following Joanne?
It's just that we have your car near the Lorsica Cafe
on the day that she was murdered.
There you are.
Just round the corner.
No.
I intercepted her.
That's a funny word for abduction.
I didn't abduct Joanne.
She got into the car voluntarily.
Okay.
I was worried.
Joanne told me she was handing in the report.
So you were following her.
I just wanted to talk to her.
Persuade her to change her mind.
She was obsessed with Beck.
Saw him as some big miscarriage of justice.
Why'd you take her to Crowley?
She asked me to take her there.
And on the way I tried to tell her
a few home truths about Simon Beck.
You told her about Beck and Jordan.
Did Paisley put you up to that?
Paisley came to me.
After Joanne spoke to him he was worried that
she'd find some flaw in the conviction.
So you lied to her.
Filled her head with this abuse story.
I can prove he was guilty.
-Yeah. -Beck admitted it.
I went back over everything we had on him.
15 years of the sessions and evaluations
and eventually I found it.
Found what?
Notes on a therapy session.
The therapist pushes him on why he killed Jordan.
Beck eventually admits he was in love with him
and Jordan was going to expose him.
The notes are back in the office.
Get them if you don't believe me.
So how did she react when you told her about
Beck and Jordan?
You can see for yourself.
She got angry and jumped out of the car.
So I went back to the office and drafted my resignation.
Whatever way you look at it
you can't deny Wells has got motive.
Kenny.
You got anything back from forensics?
Eh, they're still processing the car.
Nothing yet.
Oh and the tires don't match the tracks
up at Denford Hill.
So it wasn't his car at the landfill.
No, his car was being snapped by a traffic camera
close to where he works.
Clocked at 10:20.
Well that'll be him going back
to write his resignation letter.
Okay, so let's say he's telling the truth
and she just ran from the car.
Where's she gonna run to?
Maybe she was heading home.
The station's the other side of Crowley Woods.
Nah, she's not gonna go home.
I mean, what do we know about Joanne Caswell.
Well she liked to make amends.
Exactly.
She wanted to prove Beck innocent.
And she's no slouch.
She goes round talking to everyone
trying to find out the truth.
And then along comes Wells and says oh,
Simon Beck, he's not so innocent after all.
So what's gonna be our girl's next move.
She'd want to know if it's true.
And where's she gonna find that out.
Come on.
[Ashley] Even if Joanne had come round that night
she wouldn't have found me.
[Vera] Why not?
I was working.
Supermarket at the retail park.
I'm on nights.
Did you know Jordan Payne?
Not really.
I used to go to matches with Simon
and I met him a few times.
Can't say I took to him though.
How did your brother get on with him?
Well he had to, he was on Simon's team.
No, I mean outside of football.
Were they close?
Did you ever see them together?
What you saying?
Look I'm just asking.
Is it possible that Simon had feelings for Jordan?
Feelings he might have acted on.
No.
Never, not Simon.
No, look Ashley, I know you loved your brother
but I do need you to think back to that time because
-No. -if that is true
it would've given Simon, perhaps, a reason to kill Jordan.
Mm?
Makes sense doesn't it.
You're wrong.
Simon wouldn't have gone anywhere near Jordan Payne.
He was a horrible lad.
That's why Simon dropped him.
All the other lads were glad.
They couldn't stand him.
I want you out.
[tense music]
Talk about being in denial.
The poor girl has spent half her life
believing her brother's a saint.
Can't be easy to learn the truth.
You all right?
Something I need to check.
And it's that file Wells found.
What's this about?
I'll tell you inside love.
[Aiden] What is it we're looking for?
Well what if she's right.
Ashley.
And Simon wasn't interested in Jordan.
But he said he loved him.
Did he?
Thanks love.
[tense music]
Look at that.
Beck admits it.
Psych asked for a name, Beck says Jordan Payne.
Yeah but look how he describes Jordan.
Quite, sensitive, thoughtful.
Aye.
That's not Jordan Payne.
Beck was lying and he was lying to protect the lad
he was really in love with.
[dramatic music]
Eh, I'm sorry Natalie, but we need to talk to Kieran.
[Natalie] He's not here.
Where is he?
He's out, he said he wanted a walk.
Now on the night that Joanne Caswell was killed
where were you.
Me and Ryan went to my mam's.
Was Kieran with you?
Where was he Natalie?
He was here, at the flat.
And was anyone else with him?
No, of course not.
Please can you tell me what this is about.
[Man] Excuse me.
You look that way.
So did you love him?
No.
What was it then, hmm?
And how did Jordan fit into this?
We got careless.
Jordan clocked us coming out of Simon's house.
He wasn't stupid.
He knew he had us.
Blackmail.
He was an evil little bastard you know.
Still no reason for Simon to kill him.
Now the day Jordan died, you saw Frank going into the woods.
Is that right?
Now I reckon you saw him
because you were coming out of the woods.
[tense music]
Simon was a mess.
He was worried that no matter how much he paid Jordan
he wouldn't keep quiet.
So I caught up with Jordan in the woods after training.
I wanted to talk to him.
But it was no use.
He kept laughing.
Calling me and Simon perverts.
He said they'd string us up if they found out.
Look I don't know who started it.
But it was probably me.
And before I knew it I was on top of him.
I had my hands around his neck.
And that was it.
Then I came back here and I told Simon,
then I was panicking, I was crying.
And I asked him what I should do
and he said that he would sort it.
So I went home
and I waited.
And I figured that you lot would come for me.
And then two days later I found out
that Simon had confessed.
So I guess that he must've loved me
to take the blame like he did.
Ah, the things we do for love, eh.
Nah.
You were only 15, love.
What happened between you and Beck was abuse
and he knew it.
It didn't feel like abuse at the time.
Now the day Joanne died, did she come to see you
at your flat.
She was upset.
She'd heard some things about Simon.
Things that she didn't want to believe.
So what did you tell her?
I put her straight.
I told her the truth.
What, about you and Beck?
About everything.
Anyways, she said that I could hand myself in,
which was nice of her.
But you weren't gonna do that, were you pet.
I mean I've got a family.
Wife.
[gentle music]
Ryan.
I couldn't have her out in the world
knowing what she knew.
So I let her leave the flat
and then I caught up with her in the woods.
I killed her right there and then.
I'm sorry.
I really am, I am so sorry.
[Aiden] Ma'am!
Come on son.
You all right?
[Man] This way sir.
[mournful music]
Two murders, almost 15 years apart.
Same killer.
Same location.
And practically the same motive.
And they say that lightning doesn't strike twice.
It doesn't.
Jac?
[Jac] Yes ma'am.
I need you to do something for me.
[dramatic music]
[doorbell chiming]
Can I come in love?
Natalie.
I need you to help me with something.
Where's Kieran?
He's down at the station.
Why what's happened?
Now one of my officers went through Kieran's phone records
on the night that Joanne died
and it seems you called Kieran just after 11 that night.
Can you remember what that was about?
Of course you were here at your mam's.
Probably say goodnight.
You see he just told us that he killed Joanne.
Now are you sure you were here
when you made that call Natalie.
Or were you somewhere else?
Were you in Crowley Woods, Natalie?
So what happened, hmm?
What happened Natalie?
I forgot Ryan's bunny.
He can't sleep without it.
So I left him here at my mam's and I went back to the flat
to get it.
I was on my way out when I saw her on the stairs.
She looked frightened.
I asked her what she was doing there and she said
[tense music]
I should just go up and speak to Kieran.
When I walked in he was on the floor bawling his eyes out
like a kid.
Then it all came out.
All the stuff about Jordan and Beck.
And he's talking about forgiveness and guilt
and me and Ryan and I remember thinking to myself
this is bad Natalie.
You're gonna have to handle this.
You're gonna have to be strong.
So you went after her.
Is that right?
Just to talk with her.
Just to make sure she wasn't gonna go to you lot.
You took a knife Natalie.
I wanted her to know I wasn't some daft lass.
I was a wife and a mother who's to be taken serious.
I went out and I couldn't find her anywhere,
I thought I'd lost her, and then I remembered.
She'd be going to the station.
And I found her near the clearing.
She said she wasn't gonna say anything then.
She decided to let it all be.
And I wanted to believe her.
I really did.
Six times Natalie.
You stabbed that poor lass six times.
I know.
I couldn't look afterwards.
She was on the ground and I was just standing there
shaking and crying.
I didn't know what to do.
So you called Kieran.
The look on his face when he saw her.
So did he deal with the body?
He brought the car to the woods
and I helped him put her in the boot.
Then he told me to go back to Ryan.
And that's what I did.
[very tense music]
Natalie Webb, I'm arresting you for the murder of
Joanne Caswell.
You do not have to say anything
but it may harm your defense if you fail to answer,
when questioned, something you later rely on in court.
Doesn't feel like a win does it?
Never does.
I mean obviously they did it but
I can't help but feel for them.
Well what about Joanne?
Jordan Payne.
Young Ryan.
Don't you feel for them too?
Yeah, I suppose.
Right, come on.
Where we going?
Well you're going home.
Spend some time with that bairn of yours
you hardly ever see.
[Aiden] Yeah I meant to tell you.
He's started reading, you know.
Whole sentences and everything.
[Vera] Oh, proper little Einstein.
[Aiden] Go on say it.
[Both] Takes after his mam.
[gentle music]