[waves crashing]
[thumping dance music] [guests yelling]
[engine thrumming]
[guests yelling]
[guest jeering] - What are you doing?
- Come on! - Come on, peoples!
[thumping dance music]
[horn blaring] [guests cheering]
[thumping dance music]
- Have a good night.
Take care.
Thank you.
- Come on, yeah, yeah. - Okay, goodbye!
- They're still not leaving!
None of them are going home!
- I know, it's an absolute nightmare!
- Ah, listen to that, come on!
[DJ yelling] [guest cheering]
[thumping dance music]
Let's go-- - No!
- I can't let it go! - Let it go!
You gotta go!
You've gotta get your friends outta here now, go!
[girls laughing]
[dock creaking]
Get away from there! [women laughing]
[thumping dance music]
[chain rattling] [engine roaring]
[thumping dance music] [guests screaming]
[guests cheering]
- Lisa, we've got to get everyone off the boat, now.
- Dani, where are ya?
I've been tryin' ya for ages?
[ominous music]
[guest screaming]
- Is that, Dani! - Oh, my God!
- Dani!
Dani's in the water!
- Dani! - Oh, my God!
Someone do something!
[water splashing]
- MCG, Kirsty!
- Dani! [dramatic music]
- Mayday, mayday, man over board, assistance required!
[women screaming]
- Dani!
- What's happened?
- No!
[guests exclaiming] [water splashing]
[ominous music]
[women exclaiming]
This way, come on, come on!
Go on, girl, grab it! [suspenseful music]
[guests exclaiming]
- Dani! - Dani!
[mysterious orchestral music]
[sirens blaring]
[birds calling] [ominous music]
[somber music]
- There he is, the ray of sunshine.
He's gotta be here and then send him on.
Nothin'?
- Did he text you when I was there?
- [Vera] Aye, yes he did.
- He did. - Yes.
How sure are ya?
- Well, I wouldn't say it if I wasn't sure, would I?
There's strangulation marks.
- So how soon we make it official?
- Just as soon as that damn coroner switches on
their bloody mobile.
[phone ringing]
[door slamming]
- Who called them, the coastguards?
- [Aiden] The skipper, that's the fellow with the stripes.
- He the one who found her?
- No, it was a bunch of lasses.
They took some statements then sent them home.
- They did what? - To sober up.
- Hmm.
Next of kin?
- Saw the whole thing. - Ah, saw the body.
They think she fell in.
- Brother tried CPR, cracking her rib cage.
He'd a killed her if she wasn't already dead.
- Look, can you show a bit more compassion, please?
- I think it was a brother-in-law.
- So if anyone asks our position, it's unexplained.
- [Aiden] Unexplained it is.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- [Kenny] Apart from the office, that is. [sighs]
[ominous music]
- [Vera] Are we calling her Danielle or Dani?
- [Aiden] The family are using Dani.
- Then that's what we'll use.
Who moved her?
- Well, she was moved twice. [sighs]
Dragged on board and then some guys carried her in here.
They didn't want her to get cold, apparently.
The redness in the cheeks is petechial hemorrhaging.
The eyes will be the same.
- Is that a headlock?
- No, I doubt it.
More likely to be a squeezed throat.
See this here, it's about the size of a thumb.
I see it all the time in domestic violence.
- Oh, my.
Just wanted to shut her up.
- There's a patch missing on the scalp, too.
- Hmm.
What, drug by her hair?
And no one noticed?
- Apparently not.
What was this, a corporate?
- Yeah, her sister own Varseys.
- Should I know it?
- Hair and beauty salon, there's quite a few of them.
- [Vera] Right, so the next question is when?
- I'd say less than 11 hours.
- Ambulance was called at 12:06 a.m.
The sister went looking for her on the deck
and she her some lass' scream
and that's when they saw the body in the water.
- Right, so strangled and then dropped, or pushed,
into the water.
Is that from the boat or the quay?
- Boat?
Skipper said barely anybody had left.
- Right, well we need to talk to anyone who did leave.
Have we phoned for divers? - Divers, yeah.
- [Vera] Poor lass.
[birds calling]
- Do you want us to just leave your guys to it?
- Oh, no, no, no, not yet.
How do people normally end up in the river?
- Normally?
Falls from land.
Most of us cite fatalities
as people walkin' about on the quay.
- Could she have gone in elsewhere?
And didn't you say they stopped off somewhere up river?
- Yeah, a round trip to a barbecue at a hotel,
The Allenburn Manor.
- That's what, 20 minutes? - About that.
- I think if she went in on purpose,
she wouldn't have been found here.
- [Vera] Why not?
- This current, wind and a small body like
hers would have probably ended up in the sea.
- Well, if the tide was goin' out?
- Could have got dragged under in the wake,
but then the propeller could have--
She'd probably have more obvious injuries.
- Have you come across this lot before, the crew?
- No, the owner, the one in the pale blue trousers,
has not been in the business long.
He's usin' a lot of the lingo.
I get the impression he's--
- He's just coverin' his ignorance.
Anythin' else, any corners cut?
- No. refurb's fairly recent.
All safety equipment's up-to-date.
- All right.
- But again, there's mutterin' about guests sneakin' on
their own drink.
- Oh, was it all their own fault?
- Not what I've seen before.
This crew, servin' after licensing hours.
- Sounds like asses are bein' covered.
Get 'em up here, Kenny.
Thanks, love.
[shoes tapping]
Thanks.
Now, is this a list of invitees or who actually came?
- Who was on board.
- [Vera] And could anyone else have got on?
- No, we checked them on board.
- And did you check them back on board
after the stop off at the barbecue?
- I can't say we did, no.
- Why'd you take home addresses?
- Helps brace us for insurance.
- What about crew?
- Well, it's just us and a few agency crew.
- [Aiden] When did they leave?
- I sent them home before it all kicked off.
- Yeah, well, we're gonna need to talk to them, love.
- Yeah, well, all the details are back at the office.
- Yeah, well, make sure we get them this mornin'.
- Was she hammered, do you think?
- I don't know, was she, did you see her?
- Well, I saw a lot of very drunk girls.
- It can get a bit Wild West.
We try our best.
- Right. [somber orchestral music]
Right, get Mark on that CCTV at the barbecue.
I want to know exactly who came back to Quayside.
- We'll do it.
- Now, who am I meetin'?
- Oh, lady with the dark hair is Sadie, the victim's sister.
- [Vera] The one who had the party?
- No, that's Lisa, Sadie didn't come.
The redhead is Paula,
works works for Varseys, organized the day.
- Right, so where's this Lisa?
- She had to be sedated and taken home.
- Right.
We got the victim's house keys?
- [Jac] It's all here.
- Uh, Sadie?
I'm DCI Vera Stanhope.
I'm so sorry for your loss, pet.
[Sadie sobbing]
- I'm sorry, I just can't believe this is happenin'.
- Come on, love, let's get ya somewhere
a bit quieter, come on.
- We've got a room upstairs.
[camera clicking]
- [Sadie] 36.
37 on April 30th. [camera clicking]
- [Vera] And she's a hairdresser?
[camera clicking]
- She's a branch manager, it's centered right here.
- I can show ya the guest list.
- [Vera] Yes, please.
- You see, that is that I don't get.
There were lots of people there,
how did no one see her fall in?
- Well, we will be speaking to everyone, love.
- Did something go on?
- Now we're waitin' for the post mortem,
that should clarify.
- That means yes, doesn't it?
Something went on. [somber music]
- [Vera] Can you tell us what time you last saw your sister?
- [Paula] After the speeches.
She was upset, 'cause the boat had run out of booze.
So, we took matters into our own hands
and brought some bottles on from the hotel.
- Right, so you took on your own booze.
- And we'd complained to the crew,
but I mean, it'd done nothin'.
- Have ya asked Nial what happened?
- [Vera] Who's Nial?
- Her boyfriend.
Ask him if they had a fallin' out.
He was there, wasn't he? [ominous music]
- So why would they have had a fallin' out?
- Because he's just horrible to her!
[somber piano music]
Last night,
no, night before,
us three went out.
Dani just wasn't herself.
I couldn't quite get it out of her,
but I think she was tryin' to tell me
that Nial had been bullyin' her.
[Paula sighs] What?
It was before you'd got there.
[Paula sighs]
- So, what did she say, exactly?
- She wouldn't say it exactly, but she made a comment
about manipulative blokes.
Ones that wheedled their way in.
- You can't just assume that was Nial.
- No, I think it was.
I think she finally clocked on to him.
She was tryin' to tell me!
- Of course, we asked about her boyfriend.
No one mentioned it!
- Okay, the sister said on-and-off,
so I'm given ya the benefit of the doubt.
- [Aiden] Oh, very gracious of you!
- Jac.
- They found him, he works at Cirexo Industries,
near the port.
- Right, come on, we're gettin' ourselves south.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- [Aiden] Try Niall with two l's just to be sure.
- [Nial] Sorry.
- No, that's all right, Nial.
It's a shock.
- Just unexplained, meanin' it was an accident?
- No, it means we're lookin' at all angles.
- I wondered why she hadn't texted me, I was...
[sighs] I was waitin' for her to text me.
We'd had a fallin' out on the boat.
- Ooh.
What about?
- Her ignorin' me.
She was just focused on her family.
- Do you not get on with her family?
- They're all right, it's just everyone's suckin' up
to Lisa all the time does my head in.
Anyways, there was somethin' up with them all.
Dani was leavin' me in the mornin',
so I stropped off at half-time.
- [Vera] So what was up with them, hmm?
- I have no idea, she'd never tell me.
- [Vera] Now what do you think about--
- I don't know what it was!
[sighs] Look, she'd been actin' funny
for the last few weeks.
I saw her with her laptop all the time,
fought me off about it.
Maybe that was somethin' worse.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- Perhaps he got a taxi from the barbecue.
- Fine, I told you, I'll check it out.
- They didn't have a clue who was on board.
No wonder it was all a bit Wild West.
Come on, get in.
[ominous music]
- [Aiden] There's a team leader standin' in, Megan Sibisi.
- [Vera] Do we know anythin' about her?
- [Aiden] Not yet.
That's probably her.
- [Vera] Right, have a chat with her,
get a feel for the place.
- [Aiden] Where are you goin'?
- [Vera] Dani's flat.
[lock clicking]
[door slamming]
[suspenseful orchestral music] [phone beeping]
Hello?
[ominous music]
[alarm beeping] [dramatic music]
- All right, [sighs] there's no sign of a forced entry,
so it could be that we're looking for something specific.
- Right, I want the date of that alarm system
and I want a family member to ID what's missin'.
Um, timeline.
Now then, the last known sightin's of our victim.
- Uh, there's one camera on the both of them near the bar.
- 23:13, and what time did they get back?
- They left shortly after,
so they'd have been on the quayside
between a quarter-to and midnight.
- And she's dead within an hour of this.
- Hmm.
- What happened on that boat?
I mean, where did she go?
It's not like it's the Queen Mary!
- We've asked people for photos taken at the disco.
- And what time did this Lisa start lookin' for her?
- Unclear, apparently she's still
too upset to be interviewed.
- Ma'am, sorry, do you want the guest statements
or the burglary prioritized?
- I want 'em both prioritized.
- Uh, there was over 80 out on the boat.
- Aye, and on the quayside, drunks, passersby,
late-night joggers, the lot!
Where are we with the agency, uh, crew?
Oh, for cryin' out loud!
The skipper was supposed to send us a list.
Chase it up, I want to know with absolute certainty
who was crewin' that boat when it got to Quayside!
- It's casual workers on the waterways,
it could be hard to nail down, ma'am.
- Aye, well get out your biggest hammer, Kenny.
Now, the last 12 hours of her life.
- [Jac] She went to Lisa's to get ready
around five yesterday.
- Yeah, Mark, get up!
- No, sorry, ma'am, it's the vehicle sweep at the hotel.
We found the cab that took the boyfriend back to his flat.
Uh, left when he said he did and went to Yarm.
- Well that's a long way to go in a cab, isn't it?
I mean, there's 20 or 30 miles, it's gotta be 50 quid.
- Must have been desperate to get away.
[somber piano music]
[doors creaking]
- Can you see what's missing in this picture?
Shall I explain it to you?
- There's no foam in the nasal passages,
meanin' she didn't struggle for breath,
meanin' she was probably unconscious when she hit the water.
- Well, you got that in one.
- Now, are there any propeller injuries
that weren't evident earlier?
- No. - So, didn't travel?
- All evidence is that marine-wise, she didn't have a clue.
- She has a name!
- Yes, well, I didn't take to her, myself.
So, the upside is we have recovered a substantial amount
of DNA material, particularly from under the fingernails.
The downside is, we have--
- [Malcolm and Vera] Recovered a substantial amount
of DNA material.
- It's gonna take some time to descramble it all.
Bear with us, but like I said, definitely murder.
Oh, we've gotta crack on.
- Right, uh, so I can break it to the family?
- [sighs] You see, that's the bit I couldn't stomach.
That's the bit I, um,
well, I, I take my hat off to you.
Door!
- [Vera] 15 million?
For hair-dressin'?
- [Aiden] That's turnover, not profit.
- [Vera] What, accountin' for the tax man?
- [Aiden] Not necessarily, there's 200 employees,
that's a lot of wages to pay.
- Well, that business study degree finally came in handy.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- They've been rakin' it in.
- Oh, there's a boom in Botoxes, there.
Well, it's just what we need reverse industrial decline.
- To be fair, she does a lot of work for charity.
- What, as in feedin' the homeless
or givin' parties for her rich friends?
Look, I don't begrudge anyone,
but what if they've grafted? [bell ringing]
- Yeah, well, money won't soften the blow, will it?
- No, buy 'em a good lawyer, though.
- You were right.
- [Sadie] Not of this.
- I saw her body, she didn't--
- I mean how?
Did someone get on the boat?
- Well, it's a possibility, yes.
- I thought they checked people?
- Yeah.
- Can I ask, when did you first notice she was missin'?
- [Paula] Was it when the cab called?
- Yeah, uh, the cab called Paula.
We must have nearly got to Quayside.
I went to find her, tried the ladies,
she wasn't on the dance floor.
- Do you have an idea of the time?
- Shall I, shall I check on the cab call to me?
- Aye, that'd be useful, love.
[somber orchestral music]
- She was supposed to sleep here.
Hated goin' back to an empty flat after a night out.
- Okay, uh, it's an obvious one, this,
but had your sister fallin' out with anyone?
- No, she didn't have fallin's out.
- You're not understanding what she was like.
- She wasn't confrontational.
- She's very trustin' and very naive.
Tell her what you told me about Nial bullying her.
- I've told her.
- Come on, Lis, you talkin' of murder?
- Were there any other fellas in her life?
- No.
- No, she'd never cheat.
He might. [huffs] - I don't think he would.
What?
I don't like the fella, but--
- Why don't you like him?
- Nial's one of those who has an issue
with us havin' a bit of cash.
We get that a lot.
- Dani just never saw the dark side in anyone.
She gave everyone the benefit of the doubt.
- What can we do?
Do we do a press conference, what?
- Um, I'd leave it to us for now.
- Yeah, and, uh, you might want to prepare yourselves,
might be a long haul.
[somber music]
[bell clanging] [ominous music]
- All right, you're gonna need these on your feet.
- She'd hate it like this.
Am I allowed to-- - No, love.
Now can you know if there's anythin' missin'?
- Why didn't the alarm go off when they got in?
Lisa just spent a fortune upgrading security.
Not just here, but all the properties.
- Anythin' not here that should be?
- Um.
Uh, her daytime handbag
and, um, a laptop.
Like a posh one, a thin one.
- Right, anythin' else?
- I know you think I've been clutchin' at straws,
but I don't trust Nial.
- Well, now, aren't you just speculatin', love?
- No, you see, I've been thinkin' and thinkin'
and a couple of weeks ago,
Dani asked me about life insurance.
It was so unlike her.
She never did like pensions or anything,
so what if that came from Nial?
- Now, do you know this, love, or are you just inferrin'?
- I'm just tryin' to make sense of it.
- Now, why was the security upgraded?
- Pilferin', I think.
- Well, was that a big issue in the business?
- There are always issues in the business.
That much money, that many women,
it's a nest of vipers.
- [Aiden] Right, so the alarm was turned up at 18:02
and reset at 18:18.
- Well, that's when she was gettin' ready at the sister's.
If that's not inside information, I'll eat my hat.
- Or the family, or the boyfriend.
- Or someone in the business.
See if you can find out what she was up to online,
if that's possible.
And check out money accounts.
There's big money floatin' around,
causes all types of trouble.
Look, will you just give us 30 seconds.
- You know, they found out all the clothes are collected
by slave labor in these shops?
- Yeah, well, organized crime gets
its fingers everywhere, doesn't it, even in good causes.
[phone ringing]
Kenny!
- Uh, background checks are in from the boatman.
Yeah, the skipper and his daughter reported a woman
for harassment. [suspenseful orchestral music]
[engine roaring]
[birds singing]
[bell ringing]
- Yes?
Yes?
- Oh, uh, we're police officers, Mrs. Anwel.
DCI Stanhope, this is DS Healy, can we come in?
- Sorry, no. - No, hang on!
Hang on, well, how about outside the house in the open,
would that be better?
Just a quick chat. [Patricia huffs]
- Do I look like I could harass anyone?
- Well, maybe someone's got their wires crossed, love.
- I mean, I confronted them, yes,
because I just wanted to get a straight answer.
- Answer?
- Because you lot did nothing.
Gave me a leaflet, that's about it!
- Sorry, what should we have done, when?
- Arrested them!
For, I don't know, accessories.
They're tipping off burglars when houses are empty.
- Oh,
right!
- Yes, ask any one of the women.
They made sure we're all safely stuck out on the water
and then they had some lads do the place over!
- Look, I, I'm sorry you've been burgled, love, but--
- Just as well I was out.
If I'd been here, it doesn't bear thinkin' about.
- Look, I know it's disconcertin'
and I do understand it, I do.
But you know this because?
- Because it's obvious!
Ring the other guests.
They took all our names and addresses for no good reason.
Now why else would they need them?
[ominous music]
- Get into the neighborhood about patterns of burglaries,
see if any bells are ringin'.
- Do you want us to get the skipper in for an interview?
- Oh, no, no, not yet, let's get her in a dry dock first,
see what we find.
- So I was thinkin',
they pass addresses on to a third party.
Dani somehow clocks they're on to it
and they find a quiet place on board to shut her up.
- Yeah, but is that motive, though?
Hmm?
I mean to kill the lass just to protect some housebreakers?
- [Aiden] Or could have been
into something bigger, organized gangs.
- Yeah, well, it was two burglaries,
it could be a bit of a thread.
What have you got, love?
- [Gayle] Come on, come see her.
- Yeah, what, Lord and confessions, then?
- [laughs] No, wouldn't like to make it too easy.
I'm gonna go and order photos
but until we get into dry dock, it'll have to do.
- Right.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
Now where was this found?
- Your divers found it snagged on modifications to the hull.
- What'd you mean?
- [sighs] There's four clamps on the underside.
These scraps of cloth were caught on them.
Matches the top she was wearin'.
- So, her clothes got caught up on one of these.
What are they for?
- [laughs] That's the question.
I've never come across it.
Educated guess, I would say it would be
to attach like a storage container.
It's bizarre to put it somewhere so inaccessible.
- Unless they're transportin' somethin'
they might want to conceal. [ominous music]
- Is that my boat? - Aye.
The underbelly, so to speak.
Now what are these for, hmm?
I mean, they're not mentioned on any certification,
so I'm guessin' they were added in the last year.
- We need the addresses for insurance.
Honestly, ask me dad.
- Well, could you have passed the information
on inadvertently?
- To whom?
- I don't know, someone connected to organized criminality.
- We don't know organized criminals.
- Okay,
can I show you an image from under your boat.
- So what's your sideline, Eddie,
what have you got yourself mixed up in?
- I never went through with it.
- No?
- Some fella approached me out of the blue,
offered me a good fee, so I got the clamps sorted out.
I never saw him again.
- Oh, the criminal who disappears into thin air!
Never come across one of them before!
- Check me mobile, I must have texted him 20-odd times.
- Oh, you were up for it, then?
- I was havin' a bad time!
And, well, [sighs] I wanted to get one over on the boss.
- I've never even seen this.
There's got to be some kind of explanation.
- Your father admitted to bein' approached
by someone tryin' to import goods illegally.
- [sighs] Oh, God, this is gonna ruin everything!
Does Richard have to know about this?
He's bailed us out enough already!
- Oh, he, he bought us up when we were broke.
Acted like a mate, got to know the ropes, kind of,
and, well, then he took us over.
We did the work, he took the profit!
This is me tryin' to make back what's mine!
[ominous music]
I never went through with it.
[dramatic music]
- Why didn't the bloke see this?
- Well, we think these were added subsequent
to you're acquirin' the boat.
Is this Eddie?
What's he been up to?
- What's your main line of work, Richard?
- Uh, I invest in businesses I think will make money.
Mainly hospitality.
- Also, if they're on their last legs,
you see an opportunity.
- If I think I can turn the business around, yeah.
Booze cruises up the Tyne seemed
like a no brainer, didn't it.
Shows how much I know, suppose I'm sullying myself
in the mud right now.
- Can you shed any light on what happened on Saturday?
- Yeah.
Yeah, they were completely understaffed.
No agency crew signed on.
- Are you sayin' it was just the skipper and his daughter?
- They rang me to tell me they weren't legal to sail and uh,
[sighs] I put pressure on 'em to go out anyway.
I've put so much money into this damn thing.
I thought, if we let down Varseys it might bury us.
They've put so much business my way.
- And you didn't think to get yourself down here to help?
- Under he circumstances, I wish I had, yes!
But, [sighs] I'm not qualified.
Listen, [sighs]
I watched them.
I'm embarrassed to say because it's not my style.
[sighs] But I put an extra camera in the steerin' room
[sighs] to keep an eye.
[ominous music]
- Oh, aye, there's a surprise.
But you didn't disclose to us that you'd spoken to her,
now why is that?
- 'Cause I barely did.
She just asked me if she could speak to management.
She wanted to complain, I was just tryin'--
- To cover the fact that you only had half the crew
you needed to legally set sail.
- I'm sorry, I just knew that we had nothin' to do
with her fallin' in, so I didn't want questions.
We've been rescued from the brink,
I was just lookin' out for me dad!
- Oh, don't give me that!
Now, look at her, love, that's not someone concerned
about a bar runnin' dry!
- I don't know anything.
- Look at her! [dramatic music]
[door banging]
Hardly spoke to her, apparently.
Look, I know it looks bad,
she failed to mention she'd even met her.
We know they're involved in criminal activity
and I could put together a picture
how Dani saw somethin' she shouldn't and paid the price,
but somehow, I just,
I just don't think they had anythin' to do with it.
- NCA have got no intelligence linkin' them
to organized activity, either,
but maybe we've found it for them?
- It's possible, but...
- I spoke to the neighborhood,
they reckon this burgle at Patricia's is opportunistic,
regulars, maybe.
They just took stuff they could grab.
- Whereas Dani's break-in was more targeted.
- Exactly!
They didn't take any other stuff of value,
no forensic traces.
So to me, that sounds like it's professional.
- Gah, professional doesn't mean anythin'.
There's burglary tutorials on the internet these days.
But I take your point.
May not be related, different M.O., different people.
Oh, is there anythin' on that boat
that links them to this murder?
- They are trying.
- Yeah, well let's see what they've got!
- [Gayle] They've about turned everything
but taken apart the engine.
- [sighs] Well, they'll just have to keep lookin'.
How'd that get damaged?
- When those girls released the mooring ropes,
it banged into the quay.
I think that's what dislodged the body
from where it was caught on the clamps.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- So if her body was trapped under here,
could she not have gone into the water en route,
like I said?
- It's possible,
yes.
[sighs] Sorry.
- Right, so we could have missed somethin' up river.
Need a search of the embankments.
- Maybe the reason we're not findin' evidence--
- Right, lookin' at the wrong crime scene!
[dramatic orchestral music]
- So, ladies and gentlemen, can I ask you all
to stop what you're doin', drop everything
and make your way to the hotel lobby, please.
- What's goin' on?
- [Officer] This is a crime scene now.
- You go down there, if you find anythin' let me know.
You guys that way and best of luck.
Off you go, go, go, go.
[shoes tapping]
- Kenny!
Keep an eye on those two,
I don't want 'em sailin' off
into the sunset. - Right.
- I need to know exactly where that boat was moored.
- What about the contraband issue?
- Well, tip off customs, they will push him on his contacts.
Well, what else can I do? - Ma'am.
- A couple of clamps is not evidence, Kenny.
- The family have done a social media appeal.
- You are kidding me?
- Someone must know the truth of what happened.
- Looking at the comments, I think it's snowballed.
- Now, did they reveal anythin' they shouldn't have?
Things only the killer might have known?
- I don't think so.
But it has produced a witness.
- What, linked to the suspects?
- Linked to the victim.
Someone who saw her the night before she died.
- Now, is this a real witness or a time-waster?
Okay, call Aiden, tell him to meet us there.
- All right.
- Ma'am!
[bell ringing]
- You're the detectives, aren't you?
Well, you're picture's on the webpage.
She was stood out there a good 15 minutes,
just starin' at us.
- [Vera] What time was this?
- Late,
11'ish.
We're here all night changin' the display.
She took a photo of outside.
- Have any of these shops ever been hairdressers?
- No, nothing that high end.
- Does anyone here know her?
- No, I asked, no one had caught eyes on them 'til then.
Wouldn't have remembered if I'd not seen the appeal.
- Did you speak to her?
- No, I went outside to see if she was all right,
but when she saw me coming, she just got in a cab and left.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- [Aiden] Run her plates through the cameras
on Dawstone Road around 11 p.m. on Friday.
Yeah, 24-hours before time of death.
- Okay, Jac, we're on our way.
Look, I don't care how many brides are turnin' up,
they're shuttin' the whole thing down!
- So her car was near here about the time the lady said.
So she came here direct from havin' a drink
with her sister and the mate.
- They found hairs close to where the boat was moored.
- [Kirsty] It was just like down to here.
- DC Williams!
Has she told us what we need to know?
- Yes, ma'am.
- Then get her off the crime scene!
- Well, at least we can rule her out as a suspect.
- What?
- Spy cam, her and her dad are in the cabin
for the duration they're moored up.
Neither get off the boat.
- What, not even for a few minutes?
- Nope. [sighs]
- Let's see, the barbecue's windin' up.
They re-dock.
People are back on board
and she comes
down here.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
That poor lass, last moments of her life pegged out
like dot-to-dot.
Right, so let's say the first confrontation happens here,
but most of the encounter,
happens here.
Maybe she tried to run off and she is dragged back
by her hair, all the way down here.
She's dragged to the water's edge
where she's strangled
and dropped into the water with her heart still beatin'.
- Why did no one hear her scream?
- Engine revvin' up?
Some kind of noise from the boat?
The disco's startin' up.
Aye, the disco! [ominous music]
So she's dropped off the bottles of booze and gets back off
and she's come back along here and meet her killer.
Meanwhile,
the gangplank's pulled up.
Dropped into the river and she gets caught
on the bottom of the boat as it passes over her.
- What makes her get off?
- Boyfriend leavin' at half-time.
- He would have known the alarm.
- Aye, he did and he hinted at some affair, didn't he?
So is that what all this says?
A couple's row that turns nasty.
I mean, this,
this is rage, isn't it?
But droppin' her in the water, that's calculated.
No, there were other ways.
He could have given her a smack and then walked off.
But no, whoever did this made sure the job was done.
- And random attack, that doesn't appeal?
- Oh, it's possible of course.
Possible a psychopath just happened to be passin' by.
- It's public access!
- [sighs] Yeah, no, you're right.
Maybe the poor lass just walked headlong
into somethin' without a clue.
- Ma'am, Kenny called, we think we found her bag.
[suspenseful music] [water rushing]
- They drain this twice a year.
It's a trainin' exercise.
The bag got caught in the grid.
- Yeah, I bet they thought this would never be found.
- [Kenny] Right!
The laptop there.
[camera clicking] [ominous music]
- The laptop, any chance of retrievin' anythin'?
- Oh, well, a quick blow dry and, bob, you're on.
- Oh, shut up, I'm serious.
- What, so am I.
If it was switched off when it went into the water,
then we might get somethin'.
- Right.
- And this bag is pretty solid.
- Yeah?
And here's me thinkin' designer is a ripoff. [laughs]
- Bag it. - Right, Aiden.
[somber music]
This is en route for the boyfriend, isn't it?
That cab to Yarm, you'd come right past this.
- Yeah, it's just his route into work.
- Aye, he suspects her of cheatin',
stole the laptop before the party,
confronts her with it, somehow, kills her
and then dumps it here! [dramatic orchestral music]
- Why would I go to the Tees Barrage?
- Well, this one line of questionin' concerns her laptop.
- This a DNA thing?
My DNA will be on her laptop, definitely!
- No, this is not about DNA, love.
Did you ever bully Danielle?
- No! - You sure about that?
- Who's sayin' I did?
- Do you know who did bully her?
- What are you talkin' about bullyin', nobody bullied her!
Is her family sayin' this?
- Oh, it's just we have a witness,
said she felt bullied--
- No way! - By someone.
- Dani was not a doormat!
She stood up to people.
You're lookin' at the wrong guy!
- Am I?
- Look, I'm no' sayin' we were gonna last forever,
but I loved her and I didn't push her off a boat.
- Ma'am. - Oh, don't tell me.
None of his DNA on her body.
- Well, some of his DNA on the body,
but not as much on the body as of other people.
Some ID'd, some not.
- So it wouldn't stand up in a million years.
[sighs]
Kenny, come through for me, give me his motive.
[sighs]
What was Dani up to online?
- Oh well, nothin' to suggest an affair.
Not password protected, no hidden email account,
no private browser.
- So we got nothin'.
Other than the fact his cab was, sort of,
near where the bag was found.
- [Kenny] Not quite.
You know, you asked us to look
into what she up to money-wise?
- Yeah, what?
- Well, she was researchin' a firm called Holt and Reed,
for life insurance, which struck me as odd.
- Well, it could just be being sensible.
- Now then, wait a minute, wait a minute!
Now she wasn't the type, was she, according to Sadie.
I mean, she had no dependents,
she was livin' rent-free in her sister's flat.
No, I think Kenny's right.
[phone ringing]
I think that sounds dodgy.
Jac.
- [Jac] Ma'am, we've got a witness from the barbecue,
said she saw Dani.
- At Allenburn? - Yes, a waitress.
- Well done, pet.
She's found a waitress who remembers her.
- [Employee] Just through here.
- I'm really sorry I didn't come forward yesterday.
- Oh, that's not unusual,
people don't always put two-and-two together.
- Actually, it's more that I didn't want to bad mouth
someone who'd just been...
- Ah.
- Was she murdered?
Everyone's sayin' that, but I heard it was an accident.
- God, no, she was murdered, love.
So, what was your interaction?
- I had a run-in with her,
probably about an hour before she was found.
- What kind of run-in?
- Shouted at her and, uh, swore at her.
- Right.
So, what were the circumstances?
- I thought she was tryin' to get me to shut up.
- Why?
- I was doin' the champagne at the barbecue
and some guy put his hands on me backside.
He was drunk, but I wasn't happy!
- Well, technically, that is a sexual assault.
- I know!
It really hacked me off! - That would.
- Obviously, it happens some times,
but this guy was just laughin' it off and I saw red.
Anyway, I wanted him chucked out
and she, her name's Danielle, right?
- That's right.
- Danielle tried to smooth things over.
Offered me a cab home, said she'd make up the wages.
- And you thought she was trying to shut you up.
- Yes.
The way they spoke about it made me think
I wasn't the first.
- Right, so you think she knew this fella.
Can you give us a description?
- Yeah, of course.
Or I could just show you him.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
This guy. [dramatic music]
- [Vera] He's got no previous convictions?
- [Aiden] No and there's no intelligence.
- We also checked the sex offenders register, nothin'.
- He hadn't cleared his own queries,
but there's only really work stuff.
- He runs the training side of the business,
him and Dani did it together, and selling brand values.
- Brand values!
Don't mention that upstairs, they'll want us to get some!
- Well, just arrest him on suspicion of sexual assault.
Bring him 'round to confront him.
- Ah, if we're gonna confront him, Kenny,
I want him unprepared.
- Yeah, the way things are, he'll get wind of it.
- Yeah, they're all talkin' to each other online.
- The perils of social media, huh?
- Is there anyone on the inside we could approach?
- [Aiden] There's Megan at Varseys.
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- Yeah, you gonna chop it?
I wondered if anyone'd stop in.
- Oh, it's just a chat.
- It's just a background, love.
- Shall we.
I find him disgusting, but hand on heart,
some people find him funny.
- So are you sayin' sexual assault is routine?
- See I won't call them assaults,
it's just part and parcel of workin' here.
You want your MVQ you just put up.
I mean, let's face it, he only does the training time
around the flirty 19-year olds.
- Was Danielle aware of this?
- Well, I don't know.
She was big on the family showin' a united front,
but she did stick up for us behind closed doors as a rule.
- [Aiden] But not on this.
- No.
- But persistent harassment wasn't something
that was discussed?
- Like I say, a lot of people think Ross is funny.
Not I.
Maybe he had paid some people off.
Not shy about brigin' the brown envelope
at the end of the week.
- So cash was being handed out.
- It was to silence complaints.
- Maybe, but then again, could be nothing.
They're always flingin' perks at their favorites.
Usually the youngest and dumbest.
Just how it works.
- [Ross] I want to defend myself.
- I still suggest you choose no comment.
- But they're intimatin' all sorts.
- Maybe we take a break. - No!
No breaks, I won't be marked down as a pervert.
- So you're denying the allegation
of sexual assault of Marina Dinuk?
- Who?
- [Vera] The waitress servin' champagne at the barbecue.
- Of course I deny it!
- Okay, so let's move on.
Now, we've a witness who alleges you persistently
sexually harass junior members of staff
at Varseys health and beauty business.
- No, never!
I have a love for people.
I've never harassed anyone.
- Are you denying you sexually touched a number of women?
- [sighs] I may have, I might have touched them.
It's not sexual, it's jokey.
- Ah, do they feel that way?
- Yes, okay, right.
A few have not liked it, I understand that.
- Ah, and are these the ones who've been paid off?
- No, it's just never come to that!
Look, I know I'm a fool and I should have known better.
But it's, it's just a bit of fun.
You don't understand that Lisa's a high-profile woman,
she's very busy, she doesn't have much downtime.
- Oh, what, so you feel neglected.
So that justifies it?
Well, now I think I've heard everythin'.
So let's get back to Murina Dinuk.
- The waitress. - Ah, the very one.
Now, did you and Dani fall out at the party
over your behavior?
- We didn't fall out, she gave me a talkin' to.
- Oh, so why did you conceal this talkin' to
when we first spoke?
- I would have thought that was obvious.
- So this talkin' to do, is it a physical encounter
or a fight? - No!
No, I wouldn't lay a finger on Dani.
[ominous music]
I risked me life to try and save her, I did CPR.
- Um-hmm,
is that why your DNA is on these areas of her body?
- Obviously, obviously it is.
- It's not obvious to me, pet.
It's not obvious at all.
[dramatic music]
- Are you lookin' for me?
I'm with the trustees.
- Are you not aware your husband's been takin' into custody?
- What?
Why did nobody call me?
Are you goin' to release her body?
- [Aiden] They think it might be another week,
but I'll go check.
- You'll have to forgive me,
it's the only way I'm gettin' through.
Would you? - Oh, not on duty, pet.
So, you're aware of these rumors
about your husband's behavior?
- Of course. - What do you make of them?
- I assumed it was people tryin' to get money off us.
We have more then others.
People want their slice.
To know of our increases, spitefulness increases.
- So you think there's no truth to it.
- No.
It's complete and utter rubbish.
- Were you aware of the allegation on the night?
- No, though it doesn't surprise me it's comin' out now.
- Why not?
- People try it on when you're vulnerable.
Normally it's water off a duck's back, but, with Dani...
I don't think I can take much more.
[sighs] [somber music]
- Look, is there anythin' more you can tell us
about this set-to between Dani and your husband?
Anythin' at all?
- If there was anythin', anythin', I'd tell you.
- Only we have a witness, said Dani was concerned recently
about a family issue.
Now we think it's about your husband's behavior.
He concealed the argument with Dani.
- He didn't conceal it!
He didn't want to upset anyone by bringin' it up!
Ross loved Dani.
Why do you think he jumped in after her?
- [Vera] Were you aware of your husband's movements
for the duration of the party?
- [Lisa] Yeah, we were together.
- But you said you went lookin' for Dani on your own.
- Okay, maybe for a few minutes, but,
if he pushed her off the boat I'd know about it!
Believe me, nothin' he does escapes my notice.
- [sighs] Buryin' her head in the sand.
Sees it but doesn't see it.
- Could be a bluff or she could be involved herself.
- Yeah, maybe, but somehow I don't think so.
[huffs] I'll never cease to be amazed the lengths
some women go to to protect their men. [smirks]
- If I say maternal instinct are you gonna hit me?
- No, you could well be right.
Would be some explanation for it,
rather than being completely stupid.
She's not that.
- Oh, ma'am, you need to call Jac.
And this was goin' cold on your desk.
- Oh, Kenny, you're a lifesaver!
[phone ringing]
- [Kenny] No call for hospitality, then?
- [Aiden] No, afraid not.
[suspenseful orchestral music] [phone ringing]
- [Vera] Jac, you wanted me?
- Yeah, I don't think it was her online activity
that was significant, it was what was on her hard drive.
- [Vera] So what's on it?
- Looks like she was keeping some kind of record
on payments to female employees.
- [Vera] Yeah, how many?
Can you have a look?
- Uh-huh. [ominous music]
Can you go to the next page, please.
- Okay, so here's what Dani does.
She does all her research behind closed doors
and then presents it to Lisa.
- Okay, so the obvious one is,
Ross clocked that she was gathering evidence
to expose him to his wife.
- That one's possible, isn't it?
Might explain why that laptop ended up in the river.
Now let's go through this list of girls.
Divvy it up and let's start ringin' 'round.
- I have not havin' much enjoyment in contactin' employees.
It's not clear whether the details are kept up-to-date.
- [Vera] Well, we've got the addresses, haven't we?
- Yeah.
- Oh, well, call me old fashioned,
but can't we just turn up?
[suspenseful orchestral music]
We're looking for Amelia Garwood?
- [Employee] She's just in there.
- Mornin', this is DCI Stanhope,
I'm DS Healy from Northumberland and City Police.
Can you confirm your name and postcode?
- Amelia Leone Garwood, 18174 R-G.
- Oh, you're definitely the right person.
You're not easy to track down.
- What's this about?
- Well, you'd have heard about the lady we found dead
on Quayside.
- Last I heard, she was pushed off the boat.
- [Vera] Aye, that's the word.
- Awful.
I don't know anythin' about it.
- What, so no one at Varseys is talkin' about it?
- I don't know anyone at Varseys.
- Did you not work there?
- No.
I applied but they never gave me a job.
- So did you do the recruitment day?
- No, I just stopped and logged an application.
Gave them all my contacts and references,
but I didn't even get an interview.
Which to be honest, really upset me
because the money and benefits package looked amazin'.
She barely even gives me a dinner break. [sighs]
- So what was so amazin' about the benefits package, love?
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- Ma'am. - Kenny!
That life insurance company Dani checked out,
somethin' and Reed, was it?
- [Kenny] Holt and Reed, ma'am.
- Aye, that's it.
So what's the address, I want to pay 'em a visit.
- [Kenny] It's Mangrove House in Cour-get.
- You're kiddin' me?
- [Witness] I thought they were decorators.
- Now that's 67, we're lookin' for 67-A?
The insurance company.
- [Witness] The next one along, maybe?
Insurance doesn't ring a bell.
I'm pretty certain there was only one tenant
and they were in property clearances.
- When they move out?
- [Witness] Uh, couple weeks ago.
[door rattles]
[ominous music]
- Well, definitely used by someone.
- Yeah, a voice on the phone to sort the post pilin' up.
- Left in a hurry.
I'd say Holt and Reed Insurance is nothin' more
than a logo and a website.
And that's why Dani came lookin'.
[sighs]
Now don't be fooled by this, it's not a company,
it's a setup for movin' money around.
- Now the question is, who set it up and why?
- The Varseys themselves,
they're doin' it to hide harassment payoffs.
- Yeah, well maybe, but it's a pretty complicated way
to go about it, isn't it?
Now 24 hours before she died,
Dani was in a bar with her nearest and dearest
and she touched upon manipulation.
She didn't elaborate, but maybe someone clocked it,
check it out.
And then she goes here!
Late at night.
- I reckon it was to see more employees, not the bigwigs.
- There's 200 of them, they'd get wind of it.
- Ah, well if there are 200 employees,
why were there only 80 at that party?
- Maybe it was for the in-crowd.
- Or maybe there are only 80 employees.
Maybe the rest are just names on a payroll.
Fake company, fake employees, it makes sense!
- A good way to siphon money.
Pay people who don't exist or will ask questions.
- Aye, look at the lass in baby wear.
They take her ID, then reel her in with a promise of a job.
And how many staff are there
with life insurance they barely understand.
- Oh, you're right.
Young women are showed contracts,
but won't necessarily know that they're being used.
- Aye, target the youngest and the most vulnerable.
- Good way to cook your books.
- Exactly!
So what if this is not about sexual harassment at all!
What if it's about good, old-fashioned fraud!
[suspenseful orchestral music] [detectives muttering]
- [Detective] Load these in the van, sir?
- Yeah.
- [Paula] This is absolutely ridiculous.
It's not me.
- I'll take her to the car. - Yeah.
- This way, madam.
Watch your head.
- [Lisa] First my husband and now me!
[handcuffs clicking]
[ominous music]
- Yeah,
I do remember.
It's her. - Really?
- I've never been in their offices, I've no idea.
- Well, but you have authorized quite a few payments
to them, look at this!
- I'm not the only one who authorizes payments.
- Hmm, that night, when you said Dani was upset,
was that because she confronted you about a fraud?
And don't tell me it was about the booze runnin' out.
- She was upset because Ross had got himself
in trouble with a waitress.
- Ah, now I know everyone's talkin' about that,
but I don't think that's connected.
- I think they paid girls off and they covered it up.
- And I don't think that's true, actually, not anymore.
I mean, if that was the coverup, why do all these women
who've never even worked at Varseys have a paper trail?
Look, I know you're loyal, Paula, but a woman has died.
You need to cooperate.
- Look, I don't want to get anyone into trouble.
I mean, if this is somethin' Lisa was up to,
I don't want anythin' to do with it.
[door banging]
- How much has she authorized in the last seven days?
- There's a new staff who had to cut corners.
- All right, let's make her fake employee
of the month, shall we?
Now, are there many more like that lass from baby wear?
- Oh, yeah, there's quite a lot of names.
All amount to just under 12 grand.
- Oh, I'd keep 'em on zero or else their tax, their problem.
- Yeah, I reckon someone's inflatin' invoices.
I mean, look at this, Simon the decorator,
one-man-band repainted 15 shops in a week.
- Should give them my extension.
Oh, the prices of those, maybe not.
- Get Aiden to check out these contractors, if they exist.
Is this a tax dodge?
Or is someone creamin' off for themselves?
- Ma'am, where do you want Lisa?
- Uh, put her in room one, let her stew.
Jac.
Bring yourself over to Paula's place, have a poke about.
- Right.
- I run a charity with your superintendent.
I can ring him and ask him why you're harassin' me.
- Oh, right, well, maybe you shouldn't,
it's on suspicion of false accountin',
because he's got fraud targets, you'll make him very happy.
- If there was anything crooked, I'd know about it.
- So, are you aware of all the monies goin' into
and out of your accounts? - Um-hmm.
- Now the refurbishment of Jasmine, how much was that?
- 50,000. - A hundred.
How much are ya payin' Megan Sibisi?
- I don't know, she's a team leader, so I'd say 23 grand.
- Try 46. [paper rustling]
Into two different accounts.
- Okay, so I'm not on top of everything.
I leave a lot of it to Paula.
I'd ask her.
- Do you think she's on the fiddle?
- [sighs] I thought maybe she was givin'
herself the odd grand here and there.
- What, and you ignored it?
- I've probably not rewarded her the way I should have,
over the years.
She was still in a good set, profits were goin' up,
I felt like maybe she earned it.
[ominous music]
[moves into suspenseful orchestral music]
- Uh, my DS spoke to this fella earlier,
do you recognize him?
- [Paula] No?
- No, well that's hardly surprisin',
apparently you'd had a few. [laughs]
He's the bouncer at the Trip Ditch Bar in the city.
Night before Dani died, he put you into a taxi.
- Right, well, that's kind of him.
- Said you'd been sittin' on the pavement,
bawlin' your eyes out with the deceased.
Now, what was that all about?
- 'Cause we'd been havin' a lot of arguments
about how to deal with the Ross situation.
- No, I don't believe ya.
I think this Ross business is convenient.
- Well, tell that to the women he's been harassin'.
- You are defraudin' Varseys.
Covering inflated payments, openin' bank accounts,
usin' names taken from people lookin' for work.
Well, [laughs] that's an elaborate way
to reward yourself, Paula.
But Dani had clocked onto it.
How do I know that?
Because she left you in that bar
and she went to check out the fake insurance company
you'd set up!
How much have you taken Paula?
What did Dani really find out?
All right. [papers rustling]
[Kenny sighs]
- The bank accounts, ma'am.
- Ah, what is she, up to her knees in debt?
- [sighs] No, the thing is she's never even overdrawn
on he bank account.
- What about credit cards, they can be a killer.
- Nope, Jac reckons there's nothin' in her home
to suggest spendin' sprees,
luxury holidays or unexplained gifts.
- What, she's not even makin' a profit on it?
- Well, what there is, is charges on some transactions.
I thought it might have been foreign currency,
but I looked into it.
It's encrypted.
- Encrypted?
[sighs]
Well, we thought this was a sophisticated fraud, Kenny,
but that's another level, isn't it?
- So, I've done a bit of diggin'.
All these companies are registered under the same shell
in the British Virgin Islands.
- Oh, so there's no other trace or paperwork.
- No.
- All services, nothin' physical?
[groans]
[suspenseful orchestral music]
We've got it.
Paula's actin' as a middle-man
for money launderin'.
No wonder the turnover went up.
Someone must be puttin' money into Varseys, hmm,
and she's havin' to justify the cash
and then creatin' fake spendin'.
- So you were right, organized criminals got
their fingers in everywhere.
- Aye, don't they just! [dramatic music]
- I got into debt.
So I moved money into my account to cover the shortfall
and then I covered that.
I started movin' work funds and it just sort of snowballed.
- Yeah, well that's all very touchin', love,
but you see, I know it's not you linin' your own pockets.
See, I think you're doin' all the donkey work,
you know, like you do for Lisa, only for someone else.
Now who is the link, love,
between you, a professional woman
who works hard for a livin', and them,
those people with dirty money from God knows what!
Now who is it?
[fist knowing] Not now!
- Ma'am. [Vera sighs]
- There was some wine glasses at Paula's.
They came up with a fingerprint match
to another crime scene. [door slamming]
[horn beeping]
[suspenseful orchestral music]
- Mr. Desai?
- Yes.
- I'm DCI Vera-- - Oh, you're detectives.
- Aye, yes, we were investigatin'--
- Where have you got him, have you traced the fella?
- Uh, not yet, but there has been a development
in your father's case.
- He was found here, head injuries, brusin',
splinters from the banister.
They couldn't be sure, but they said maybe he tripped
and then he had the heart attack.
Although they couldn't rule out a confrontation
and that he was pushed.
- Well, I'm sorry it's not been resolved, love.
Um. - Look.
I know everyone is doing their best,
but I've had no answers after this long.
Just left for dead, though, that's pretty cruel.
You happen to have got a fingerprint of the guy,
a good one, a big thumb?
- Yeah, well--
- [Manit] It just doesn't match anyone in the database.
- Look, I can't get your hopes up, love,
but I will say
that strong evidence often gets results.
- [smirks] Yeah, he'll slip up,
that's what we're hopin' for.
- Have you got any sense of why your dad was attacked?
- I've thought about it a lot.
I mean, it could be just obviously some random burglary.
- Um-hmm, but.
- I think Dad must have had some kind of gamblin' problem.
- Son, why do you think that?
- Look, I've not got a sniff of him, nor of anyone else,
but after he died it became obvious
that his finances were all over the place.
[ominous music] - Right.
- I think he must have dipped into the restaurant,
you know, borrow back to cover losses.
- Thank you.
- Right.
According to their books, turnover went up rapidly,
cash injections and then a sudden drop off.
- So he was putting money through, then what?
- Yeah, well, maybe Dad got cold feet,
messed up somehow.
Maybe he threatened to blow the whistle, I don't know,
but this was payback.
Hamish Desai, found dead a year ago.
You come across him at all?
No?
Well, whoever was with him at the time of his death was
in your home within the last few days.
[ominous music]
- I don't believe ya. - No?
Well, I can show fingerprint evidence if that will help.
Now who was it?
Who came 'round to yours?
Hmm?
Look, one of your oldest friends is dead.
- Yes, I know!
But I, I genuinely, hand-on-heart,
have no idea how that happened!
- Look, I'm not gonna charge you with murder
if you tell me who came 'round!
I mean, that's enough.
Because if you don't tell me, pet, and you leave here,
well, I think he came for Mr. Desai,
he came for Dani,
now what's to say he's not gonna come for you.
[dramatic music]
[somber music]
We need to have a serious talk about Paula, love.
Apart from your sisters, who else did she have in her life?
- No one.
There's us and work.
- What, no relationships? - No.
Famously single, it was a bit of a running joke,
if I'm honest.
- Was she resentful, this opinion you'd taken?
- Maybe.
Maybe it was there anyway.
I mean, I knew she envied Lisa, but who doesn't?
And I knew somethin' had changed, but I didn't think
she was doin' anything dodgy.
Not at all.
- Now, you said she'd changed, how?
- Um, she tried to sort of, assert herself a bit more,
but she went about it in the wrong way.
Like, classic example, she made up some fella she met
at an investment seminar.
Some lorded romeo, helpin' her manage her portfolio.
- Well, why would that be a lie?
- Because it was too good to be true.
To be fair, Dani said we should give
her the benefit of the doubt, but she took it too far.
[Vera sighs]
Like, made out he was some George Clooney-type.
Treated her like a princess, house in Greece, the works.
But he never turned up to anything we invited him to.
- Aiden.
Thanks, love.
Give us your phone. - What?
- [Vera] I'm out of juice.
I wanna check somethin'.
- What are you lookin' for?
- A sequence of events.
- Here, yep.
- Yeah, sequence of events.
Dani gets on the boat, hmm, party, party, party.
And they run out of booze, now what does Dani do next?
Asks Kirsty who manages the boat.
Now what if that is not about a complaint?
What if that's her makin' the final connection
to the money launderin'?
Hmm?
Look, who links both sides of the investigation?
The money man with a shed-load of businesses,
who's had a load of business put his way from Varseys!
Should be sunnin' himself in the Med!
- Richard? - Aye!
The boat owner! [dramatic orchestral music]
[doors slamming]
- All right, check 'round the house.
You come 'round the front.
[fist pounding]
[door rattling] [ominous music]
Anything?
- [Officer] No, no sign of anythin' here.
- Lookin' for your neighbor.
- He's just got in the cab.
- [sighs] He's just got into a taxi!
- Shit! - Right, you deal with it.
- [Aiden] I've got it.
Do you know the company name?
[dramatic orchestral music]
- We now he has a holiday home.
Where in Greece is it?
- I don't know?
- I don't believe ya!
- But he didn't do anything.
- Well, then he'll be able to explain himself.
Where in Greece is it!
[suspenseful orchestral music]
Now, identify these calls you made on the night she died.
Now who's saying what to who?
- Come on, Paula, where in Greece is it?
[dramatic orchestral music] [doors slamming]
- Yeah, I'm at the terminal now.
1745, Thessaloniki.
Got you!
[suspenseful orchestral music]
Police, watch your backs!
[Attendant announcing]
- He called me to say he'd smooth things over with her
and he as shocked as I was about what had happened.
- And you fell for that?
I mean, how can an intelligent woman like you fall
for that clap-trap?
- It's not clap-trap!
'Cause I just trust him! [Vera sighs]
He's made me twice the person I was before I met him!
[somber music] He loves me.
- [Vera] Well, he made ya party to a crime.
- [Paula] I agreed with the crime.
I was just gettin' what I deserved for once.
- [Vera] And did Dani get what she deserved?
- No, but he didn't push her off that boat!
- Aye, you're right about that, he strangled her first
and then dropped her into the water!
- He wasn't even there at the time it happened!
He'd gone home!
- Oh, so when do you think it happened?
- Midnight, around midnight.
- Wrong.
- But her body was at Quayside!
- Aye, 'cause she got caught under the boat!
- How do you mean?
- I mean, she got caught under the boat
after he killed her at that hotel!
I mean, that was bad luck for him,
but it was worse luck for Danielle!
[phone ringing] [Paula sobbing]
You gonna answer that?
[Paula sobbing]
[Richard panting] [suspenseful orchestral music]
[fist tapping] - It's occupied.
- Oh, that's all right, I'll wait. [sighs]
[sirens blaring]
[somber music]
[dramatic music] [Vera sighing]
[recorder beeping]
- Well, we've nothin' on ya, have we, Richard?
- Well, I don't have criminal convictions
if that's what you mean.
- Must be useful in your line of work, no record.
Must be very useful to your associates.
- No, I don't, I don't have associates, I work on me own.
- Ah, right, you're the fella
who takes opportunities, aren't ya.
Well, we know quite a lot about those opportunities.
About how ya been launderin' monies
through local businesses, Varseys included.
How you've charged your girlfriend into bein' an accomplice
and all this hidden away offshore.
- It's ridiculous, I thought I was here for a murder case.
- Oh, sorry, yes,
and we've evidence linkin' ya to that, as well.
Now this is a record of your mobile pinging masts
on Gray Street and Allenburn Manor on Saturday night.
- So?
I was out and about. - Ain't that the truth!
Because both of these places are connected to the victim
on the night of her death.
Which strongly suggests you were in the vicinity
of her burgled flat and then in the vicinity
of where she was killed.
- Well suggests doesn't mean proof, does it?
- Oh, it also pinged a mast on Teesside,
where her bag was found.
Here, you really went 'round the houses,
you covered your tracks, didn't you, Richard?
- This is all circumstantial.
You know it is. - Yeah, true.
But, it does build a picture, hmm.
And it's enough for us to ask the question,
why did you strangle Danielle Varsey?
- I didn't know her, [sighs] so why would I kill her?
- Well, one reason might be
because she clocked on to your scam.
See, all this is what she's uncovered about ya.
Now what I don't get is this,
I mean, even if she had exposed your fraud,
I mean, a fella like you, good grief,
you'd have danced around that.
You'd have got what, three years tops.
- Right, so now you're actually admitting
that I don't have a motive.
- Nah, I'm sayin'
this is your motive. [dramatic music]
You knew that any contact
with us would flag up the unexplained death of restaurateur
Hamish Desai,
identifying you as the mystery person present
at the time of his death.
Did you know there was a really great fingerprint left
at the scene? [ominous music]
So you're not as clever as you think you are.
[Richard smirks]
So you could risk Danielle exposin' the fraud,
but you couldn't risk being connected to Mr. Desai's murder.
Hmm?
So, just to be on the safe side,
you took one of your opportunities
and decide to silence her for good.
- [Richard] Wow, you are clutching at straws.
- Am I?
- You are completely irrational.
- Whereas you are completely rational,
you made a calculated decision to murder that lass
to avoid being pulled in for
his
murder!
And that's the truth of it, isn't it, Richard!
That was your motive!
I'm right, aren't I?
Lost your tongue?
[Richard smirking] [ominous music]
Okay, you don't want to speak,
we'll just push on with the formalities.
Right.
Yeah, a quick sample should do it.
Yeah, DNA for Danielle and the fingerprints for Mr. Desai.
- You do this, you send me down
and I will come for you! [table rattling]
- [smirks] And how're ya gonna do that, hmm?
And don't tell me you know people.
I've been threatened by worse than you, pet.
And if you think those types are gonna help ya,
you're more stupid than ya look.
DCI Stanhope leavin' the room. [recorder beeping]
Right, pet. [ominous music]
[trunk slamming] [somber music]
[door slamming]
Dani had no idea what she was walking into.
- I should have known.
I knew there was a problem, if I'd a pushed it--
- Why didn't she come to us?
- Well, my best guess, she didn't want to ruin the night.
- I wouldn't have minded.
- Why'd she not come and get me, why go for him?
- She wanted to hear his side.
Give him a chance to explain.
- Give Paula the benefit.
- Did Paula know all this time, did she?
When I was grieving, did she?
- I think not.
- Yeah.
Okay.
No, it's good news.
Yeah.
Okay, well, keep me posted on everything.
Thank you. [bells jingling]
- Ta-da!
What'd ya think?
- About what? - This!
- I don't not know what I'm lookin' at?
- Perfect! [laughs]
[phone chiming]
Ah, that lass who Ross assaulted at the hotel,
she's agreed to file a complaint.
- The CP should be able to prosecute him now.
- Oh, my.
God, that takes a lot of courage for her to do that.
A lot of courage!
- I wish more people would do the same.
- Well, I think people are nowadays, aren't they?
I thank God for it.
It's a different story back in my day.
Right, now don't let Kenny keep you out too late.
[Aiden laughs]
[door slamming]
[somber music]
[engine gunning]
[mysterious orchestral music]