(REGGAE MUSIC PLAYING)
SINGER: ♪♪ Saint Marie
♪♪ Charlie's the choice in the land of liberty
♪♪ Saint Marie
♪♪ It's a land of liberty
♪♪ Saint Marie
♪♪ For whatever my destiny ♪♪
(CYMBALS CRASHING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
-Yeah, bonfire! -SINGER: Jah, Rastafari!
Blessed love to you all.
We are Big Leon and the Ragers! (LAUGHS)
Boy!
They were even better than the first time around.
I know, it's like when Pink Floyd reunited in '05.
That performance, I'm telling you,
eclipsed every memory I had of them playing live.
Oh, well, that's not exactly the same, you know, Chief?
This is real, proper music. Reggae music!
Bonfire!
LEON: We won't be so long next time.
(MOBILE RINGING)
It's the commissioner.
Commissioner, what can I do for you?
Bonfire! Isn't it?
Yeah, if you say so, Del, man.
-What? -Come, come, come, man.
We gots to do this.
Come on, come on!
All for one, and one for all!
(LAUGHING)
All right, look, I'm gonna grab a shower,
and then I'm hitting that bar.
Who's in, Leon?
Well, me have a radio interview, but when me done, see me there.
Maya, you're ready to party?
A quick one for me. No more.
We'll see about that.
(CHUCKLING) Billy.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
Daddy, that was wicked, man. Serious.
It was all right.
It was more than all right. Trust me, Daddy.
You sure everything's okay?
Yeah, just took it out of me. That's all.
But, everything's gonna be fine.
You catch your breath, I'll grab us a drink from the bar.
KAI: ♪♪ Saint Marie I love liberty ♪♪
My apologies for dragging you away.
Not at all. It's not really my scene.
So, you said it's the guitarist we're meeting, Billy Springer.
I've been at a council meeting all afternoon. Had my phone off.
When I came out, there was a message from Mr Springer
claiming he'd discovered new evidence on an old case.
What old case would that be?
His wife's murder.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Dad, open up! Please!
-Everything all right? -It's Billy.
And he's not answering.
And the door is locked.
Here. Let me try.
It's locked all right.
Well, the key is in the lock.
Okay. Please, stand back.
I hate doing this.
Dad!
-I'm sorry. -Dad...
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
Sir, Dwayne and JP have gone to pick up the crime scene kit.
Great stuff.
Afternoon, Commissioner.
DS Cassell.
He shot himself?
That appears to be the case.
JACK: The room was locked from the inside.
Had to bash the door down myself, actually.
So it all points to suicide.
Hmm. Except?
Except shortly before Billy went on stage,
he called the commissioner and left a message.
(MOBILE BEEPING)
(ON PHONE) Selwyn. It's Billy. Billy Springer.
Get back to me as soon as you get this.
It's Jasmine. I know who killed her.
I found a note.
Selwyn, just get back to me. Will you?
So who's Jasmine?
Billy's wife.
She was murdered 30 years ago.
We never caught the person that did it.
But, if he'd arranged to meet the commissioner
to talk about his wife's murder, why would he kill himself?
Exactly the question we've been asking.
And the only answer we've come up with is...
-He wouldn't. -So it was murder.
Staged to look like a suicide.
SELWYN: And we can only assume that whoever killed Jasmine,
has now also killed Billy.
Because he'd found the evidence of the original murder?
But I thought you said the door was locked on the inside?
It was.
There are no other doors or windows.
So that's the only way in or out.
So how did the killer do it?
Well, there's the rub, Florence. We have no idea.
What's that doing there?
(SIGHS) A fork lying on the floor.
An old one, at that. It's all worn and starting to rust.
I'll go and talk to security on the stage door.
Good idea, Commissioner.
To get to the dressing room
you've got to go past the entry.
He might well have seen something.
Now, Florence, could you update Dwayne and JP?
They need to search this dressing room from top to bottom.
See if there's any sign of that note that poor Billy was talking about.
If the killer hasn't already taken it.
(SIGHS WEARILY)
So what did he say?
The only people who came and went to the dressing rooms after the concert
were the band themselves, and Kai.
That means one of these four has to be Billy's killer.
Except, if this is connected to Jasmine's murder,
all those years ago, Kai was just a baby then.
The one thing we can be sure of, he didn't kill his mother.
Well, we need to speak to them.
Now, I wonder if you could start by telling us, how was he?
Billy, over the last few days.
We've been rehearsing for a couple of weeks.
And he seemed to be enjoying himself.
-Wouldn't you say? -That's not quite true.
This morning, I went to Dad's
and something had changed in him.
In what way?
He was distracted.
Not himself, like something was bothering him.
He spent the morning fixing the pick guard on his guitar.
He said he had nerves about playing again, but...
And you're not sure that's what it was.
And were you aware of your father owning a gun?
Did any of you know about it?
So, after finishing the performance this afternoon,
which, by the way, was excellent,
could you just talk me through exactly what happened?
Well, we played the encore,
then we come off the stage
and then we headed back to the dressing room.
I jumped in the shower, got changed,
and when I knocked on Billy's door to go to the after show party,
there was no answer.
Then Delmar, him
knock on our doors,
so that he could see that Billy wasn't there.
-What? -You see Billy?
And Kai, where were you during this?
I was out here getting us a drink, and...
-Everything all right? -You see Billy?
I was just with him.
And between seeing him alive and finding him dead,
none of you heard a gunshot?
I've always got music playing after a gig.
Mind you it was pretty loud, so...
Tell me about it. That's all I could hear blasting away.
Hmm.
And tell me, did Billy mention Jasmine at all
at any point over the last few days?
Not that I remember.
My mum was playing on his mind
since the band started rehearsing.
I knew it'd brought some memories back up.
Billy called me this afternoon and left a message.
He said he'd discovered a new piece of evidence
that pointed to Jasmine's murderer.
And we believe it to be one of the members of this band.
What di...
(CHUCKLING)
Wait, this is a joke, right?
No. No joke.
I'm sure you'll all agree it's strange.
Billy chose to take his own life just a couple of hours
after making that call.
He wouldn't.
Not when he found out something about who killed mum.
You really think that Billy was murdered?
And you think it was one of us three who did it?
At this moment in time,
it's hard to draw any other conclusion.
Oh, and just one last thing before we go.
There was a rusty old fork
in Mr Springer's dressing room.
Any idea what it was doing there?
It was Dad's.
He lost a guitar capo once before.
Sorry. Guitar capo?
It's a device where you clamp onto the strings,
to shorten the length.
So it can make a different key.
And your father used a fork instead?
Yes, and an elastic band
to put it all in place.
I mean, you could use a pen, pencil, cigarette lighter.
But all Dad could find before the gig was a fork.
Us musicians, we love to improvise, Inspector.
Mmm. So what was it doing on the floor?
Had he been using it today?
I'm sorry, inspector, but does this have anything to do with Billy's murder?
No, Ms Oprey.
It certainly does not.
(SIGHS)
JACK: Sir, were you involved in the original Jasmine Springer investigation?
It was my first serious case as a detective.
I see.
And do you think you could bring us up to speed, at some point?
If you've got time.
Of course. First thing tomorrow.
They sit heavily, don't they? Over the years.
The ones that don't get solved.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Sir, we've searched the suspects and the dressing rooms,
and no sign of the note Billy Springer talked about.
Really?
So where is it?
The killer must have got rid of it.
If it was paper, it wouldn't be hard to destroy.
So the one piece of evidence we have
that could finally solve a 30-year-old murder case no longer exists.
(SIGHS)
JACK: One of them murdered Jasmine Springer.
And then, 30 years later, killed her husband Billy.
We just need to work out who.
And how.
Just how did they manage to make it look like, in every discernible way,
Billy locked himself in his dressing room
and then shot himself.
(SIGHS)
Florence.
There appears to be a little old man asleep on our bench.
Mmm-hmm, I can see that, sir.
-Should we wake him? -Yeah.
Maybe give him a quick prod.
Excuse me, sir?
(GROANS)
Ah.
What you doing here?
Oh, you're Nelson. You're his Dad.
Don't believe we've had the pleasure.
DI Jack Mooney, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance.
This is DS Florence Cassell.
Enchante.
What do you want?
Is that any way for a son to speak to his father? I ask you.
We should probably go inside, crack on.
NELSON: So you don't want to listen to my story.
Come all the way here to talk to you.
I thought Dwayne said his dad had gone.
Well, Dwayne told him to go.
But his father said he won't disappear until they make peace.
Oh, and... And JP, could you get the gun and the dressing room key to the lab,
and have a check for prints?
-I will do, sir. -Yeah.
And, Florence, in the morning, would you see about digging out
the original Jasmine Springer case file from the archives?
Oh, look at the time. We can pick this up again in the morning.
Yeah, I could do with nipping down to the harbour market before it closes.
Bye. See you later.
JACK: I'm going to ask to keep this shirt.
Got no choice...
So do you want to talk about it?
No. There's nothing to talk about.
In a day or so, he's going to disappear again like he always does.
And in about a week, it'll be like he was never even here.
But, in the meantime, we've got a very important investigation to solve.
So I'm going to need you focused and on your case. Okay?
Yes, Dwayne.
Good.
I'll see you in the morning.
If it's Ragers' stuff you're after,
you're better going with their first two albums.
Nelson!
You know, their earlier material was the real deal.
-Proper roots reggae. -Yeah?
It had something to say, you know.
Yeah, well, I just want to get a flavour, that's all.
My boat's over there. I got some beers chilling in the fridge.
We could shoot the breeze.
You could tell me how Dwayne's been doing.
Oh, well, er, I'd love that, Nelson,
but I gotta get some work done on the case.
Yeah.
But, my shack is just around the bay, so if you're passing and fancy a cuppa,
feel free to pop in.
Might take you up on that.
Night, then.
(KETTLE WHISTLING)
What in the name of?
NELSON: Good morning, Jack boy.
-Cup of tea, do you? -(LAUGHING) Nelson, what...
So I woke up this morning,
realised I was out of milk.
Then I remembered your kind offer.
-And here you are! -(LAUGHING) Yeah.
Quite a spot you've got yourself here.
Hmm?
I think it'd suit me down to the ground.
Sorry, suit you down to the...
Oh.
Heh.
Morning, everyone.
Ah, what a beautiful day, eh, Chief?
Ah, yes, Dwayne. Isn't it just?
Er, everything all right, Chief?
Yeah, yeah, everything's grand. Couldn't be better.
Oh, good, it's the commissioner.
-Morning, sir. -Inspector.
(SIGHS) You're just in time. We're about to make a start going over everything.
Florence, did you manage to dig out the Jasmine Springer file?
Yes, sir. It's over there.
Oh, and perhaps you'd like to reacquaint yourself with everything, sir?
Good.
Now, the shooting of Billy Springer.
Now, we believe that Billy's killer is one of our three bandmates.
Delmar Brown,
Maya Oprey
and Leon Laroche.
Whoever it was, we already know the motive for killing him, don't we?
-I... -Yes, Dwayne.
It was to stop him from revealing
that they murdered Jasmine Springer 30 years ago.
Correct.
Now, if we're to work out who killed Billy Springer in the present,
we need to open up a cold case from 30 years ago.
And work out who killed Jasmine Springer in the past.
Commissioner, perhaps you'd like to fill us in on the original case.
On the 3rd of June, 1988, officers were called to Siren's Point
at the north end of the island.
Jasmine Springer's body had been discovered by a dog walker.
Having recently been promoted to Detective Constable,
I attended the scene.
The post-mortem confirmed that she'd been strangled with her own neck scarf.
There'd been a spate of violent muggings at the time.
And, as her jewellery had been taken,
and her handbag emptied of any valuables, we assumed her death
to be at the hands of our unidentified mugger.
And whoever killed her,
dumped her body at Siren's Point.
In light of yesterday's murder,
it does now appear,
that we may have got the original investigation somewhat...
Wrong.
So three suspects. Who did it? Was it Delmar Brown?
Mr Brown is 53-years-old. He's the band's drummer.
He currently works as a general manager
over at Johnson's bar, just outside of town.
And that place attracts a very questionable clientele.
Yes. That's right, sir.
And Delmar's got a few charges on file.
But, nothing too major.
Right. Who's next? This fellow, Leon Laroche.
JP: Okay, The Ragers' front man.
Somewhat of a local celebrity.
He earns a living now singing at hotels and on cruise ships.
Firmly bitten by the showbiz bug, eh?
And what about Maya Oprey?
Er, forty-nine-years-old. She runs her own business, a real estate company.
From what I can tell, she's the only one who's made a success of her life
after the band split.
Mmm-hmm. Fair play to her.
(SIGHS WEARILY)
Our victim, Billy Springer.
Dwayne, you're the biggest Ragers' fan here, possibly anywhere.
Well, he's the lead guitarist and the songwriting talent of the band.
It took a few years for them to get their sound,
but by their early twenties, they were a big thing on the island.
And what about the split?
Happened shortly after Jasmine's murder, yeah?
Right, but things had been shaky in the band well before that.
Oh?
You see, in the summer of 1988, they'd planned this big European tour
to raise their profile.
But Jasmine put a halt to it halfway through.
-Do we know why? -No.
Billy had always had, erm, addiction issues.
All the pressures and stresses of touring
had caused him to start drinking and using drugs again.
So, when they got back into the studio,
there was still a lot of that resentment and tensions.
Well, we should look into these tensions.
And how deep they ran.
Isn't going to be easy, given the murder happened 30 years ago.
I can dig out our suspect's financial and phone records from the time.
Great.
And we should work through press coverage
of the band back in the day.
Er, and Dwayne and JP, could you go over to Billy's house, give it the once over?
Yes, Chief.
Do your thing. Hmm.
Commissioner, would I be right in thinking
that you'll want to stay involved with this one?
And why would you think that, Inspector?
Well, just with your connection to it...
The last thing I want is to get in the way.
You know where I am, if you need me.
(EXHALES)
Wow!
If you would have told me I would be visiting Billy Springer's house,
I never would have believed it, you know, JP.
I just wish it was under different circumstances.
But there's no time for wallowing, JP.
I wasn't. You were.
Listen, you take upstairs. I'll look downstairs.
And no shirking while you're at it.
When do I ever shirk?
(CHUCKLES)
(STRUMMING GUITAR)
♪♪ San Marie ♪♪
Florence, there's a string missing on Billy's guitar.
The top one, the E string, if memory serves me correctly.
It must've broken when he was playing.
That can happen, can't it?
Yeah, it's not uncommon.
Just, I don't remember seeing it happen.
Sir, I think you might be right.
What, you didn't notice it break either?
No, sir, about Jasmine calling a halt to the tour.
Like, it had quite a financial impact.
Oh.
According to the checks I've run,
there was nothing suspicious going on
in Leon's or Maya's bank accounts at that time.
But, the drummer, Delmar Brown, lost a lot of money.
Looks like he bankrolled the tour.
So when it was cancelled, he lost over $50,000.
Not a small amount back in the '80s.
Or today, for that matter.
Certainly enough to leave him hacked off with Jasmine.
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
The post-mortem and lab results are through.
And what do they say?
JACK: Cause of death, as you'd expect, only partial prints
found on the dressing room key, not identifiable.
And striation marks on the bullet match those of the gun found in Billy's hand.
Any prints found on the gun?
Two sets.
Billy Springer's and well, well, well, would you believe it?
Looks like we've now got two reasons to talk to Delmar.
Yup.
Why do you own a gun, Mr Brown?
For protection, you know?
There are some bad sorts that come into this place.
The kind of people that you do not want to be owing money to.
I take the gun with me most places,
just in case.
Who in the band knew you had it?
We were rehearsing hard, 24/7.
Maybe one of them saw it in my bag.
Tell me, Delmar.
Back in '85, the band went on tour to Europe,
but it was cut short.
Now, you lost a lot of money, didn't you?
Mmm-hmm.
Just over 50,000.
Yeah. My granny left it to me.
It was supposed to pay for me to go to law school in America.
But, instead,
I chose to invest it in the band's future.
Not the best decision you ever made.
My family kept on telling me to have a back-up plan.
-But you ignored them. -And, you know, it would've paid off.
Those first few gigs in Europe,
man, we were getting some serious attention.
Right up until Jasmine Springer interfered.
You must've really resented her.
Listen.
Every single thing that is wrong in my life now
is down to that woman.
Everything.
But it does not mean that I killed her.
Hello? Mmm-hmm. Sure.
We're on our way.
Dwayne. They've got something for us over at the victim's house.
Oh, good stuff.
Well, Chief, we really didn't find much connecting to either Jasmine's
or Billy's time with the band.
However, JP was searching Billy's bedroom
when he came across something of importance.
Would you like to update the chief, JP?
Er, yes.
So, these photo albums are from Billy's bedroom.
There was a chest of drawers stuffed full of them.
All mainly of Kai as he was growing up.
These three are from between 1990 and 1993.
'92. That would be a couple of years after Jasmine was murdered.
It's Maya.
She features a lot, and when I say a lot, I mean a heck of a lot.
Hmm? There, there. Mmm-hmm.
Er, Dwayne, would you like to do the talking?
(SIGHS) If I must.
As you can see, Chief, they had many days out, and holidays.
She used to spend a lot of time here at the house.
You know, everyday things like, cooking, TV...
Maya was always there.
There, there, there.
And then after two years, she stops appearing.
So what are you saying?
There's more to Billy and Maya's relationship than she let on?
We think it's possible, sir.
If you didn't know any better, looking at these photos,
you'd be convinced Maya was a part of the family.
Let's get a hold of Kai, see if he can shed any more light on this.
Yes, Chief. Hmm.
Hey, JP. Is everything okay with Dwayne?
I don't know, sir.
I think his dad being around
is bothering him more than he'd like to admit.
(SIGHS)
After Mum's death, Dad really lost it.
He got back on the booze, drugs.
You were just a few months old then.
My auntie took me in.
Dad wasn't really up for raising a kid.
So what happened?
Various people tried to intervene. He just shut everybody out.
Until Maya stepped in.
Somehow she managed to get through to him.
He got clean?
He went to rehab, the full works.
And when I was about two, he took me back in
and started being a dad again.
And he never looked back.
So, ah,
Maya stuck around after your dad sorted himself out.
She was really there for him.
Helped him learn to live without my mum.
After a couple of years, Maya stops appearing in the photos.
Why?
I was about five, and one night, there was a massive argument.
Never heard Dad so angry.
And then the next day, she gone.
Did you ever find out what happened?
What she wanted was more than friendship.
She was in love with Dad.
That night they argued. She suggested they get married.
But Billy didn't feel the same.
(SIGHS) He said he could never love anybody else.
He felt angry at Maya for even thinking that he could.
You don't think this has something to do with my mum's murder?
MAYA: And we're west facing here,
so the view at sunset is pretty special.
Why don't you go and take a look around without me?
-Thank you. -(LAUGHS)
(CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
I'm with clients here, so if you could keep this brief?
We'll try our very best, Maya.
Shall we?
I must say, I'm very impressed.
You've really made something of yourself since the band split.
I had no choice.
As my father always said, don't waste time
clinging to dreams that never come true.
(SIGHS) Sounds like a wise man. Yeah.
Tell me, Maya, would you say the same applies
when it comes to affairs of the heart?
Sorry? You lost me.
You were in love with Billy, weren't you?
FLORENCE: We know you were.
A few years after Jasmine died, you told him so.
That's right, isn't it?
At first, he was fine.
Billy was young, playing the field,
I thought when it'd come to settling down,
finding the right girl that mattered, it'd be me.
But then Jasmine came along.
I was convinced it wouldn't last.
But, on it went, they got engaged, married, had a son.
And all the time, I sat there on the sideline telling myself,
"Any minute now, he'd realise he chose the wrong girl."
I can see where you're going with this, Inspector.
And where is that, Maya?
You're wondering if I killed Jasmine Springer
so I could have Billy all to myself.
I may have resented Jasmine,
but I could never have harmed her.
'Cause I know that would have hurt Billy, and that I could never do.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
What's that saying?
"The love that lasts the longest is the love that's never returned."
It's very true, sir,
but very sad.
(EXHALES)
Oh, for the love of...
(GUITAR STRUMMING)
Ah, Jack boy.
Good day at the office?
So you're... You're sleeping here now.
It saves me going back and forth to the boat.
-You don't mind, do you? -Erm...
And in return, I'm cooking us dinner.
A proper Caribbean feast.
Oh, right. That's very kind of you, Nelson. Thank you.
So why don't we crack this open?
And have ourselves a little preprandial rum. What do you say?
Well, I was going to do a bit of work.
I suppose a little one might warm up the brain cells a bit.
I'll fetch the glasses.
(SIGHS)
Anybody fancy a beer at Catherine's? Dwayne?
Er, erm, I certainly wouldn't say no.
-Sarge? -No, you go ahead.
What, you find something?
It's a lease document belonging to the victim
for a property down by Sandy Bay.
Kai never mentioned that to us?
From what I can tell, Billy took the lease out
a couple of years after Jasmine's death.
I should go take a look.
You want us to come with you?
It's fine. You get off.
Okay.
Hello?
Is anyone in here?
Jasmine.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Who's there?
No, no, no, no, no.
Reggae's all about the downbeat.
Yeah, calypso is the upbeat, you know...
I might have to admit defeat on this, Nelson.
To be honest, music's more of a spectator sport for me.
That's what they call the chop,
or the strike.
Or my favourite, the chiki-chiki.
Chiki-chiki. I like it.
It's the hit on the offbeat
that's at the heart of every reggae song written.
♪♪ The time has come one day
♪♪ The time has come
♪♪ The time they conquer me
♪♪ The time has come ♪♪
(HUMMING)
That's brilliant, Nelson.
Did you never think of making a go at this?
Oh, I tried, man. I tried.
It's what took me to London.
But it never really happened for me.
Why did you never come back?
Pride.
You know, I left here, saying I'll make something of myself, and, er...
Then I didn't.
I guess I didn't want my family at home to know that I had failed them.
You see, when they're thousands of miles away,
you never think you're hurting anyone.
Then I saw Dwayne in London.
He had such anger in his eyes.
Such bitterness.
(GROANS)
I've left it too late with him, that boy, haven't I?
No, just...
He'll come around, he just...
Might need a bit more time.
It's the rum talking.
(SIGHS)
Look.
I should probably go get some sleep.
I better get some work done.
Good night.
Night, Nelson.
(ENGINE REVVING)
DWAYNE: Morning, Chief.
-Dwayne. -Apologies for the early visit,
but we've had a breakthrough in the case.
Oh, right. Well, that's great.
-Er... -Oh.
Erm...
(GROANING)
Sorry, Chief, I didn't realise you had company.
So that's why you snuck off early, huh?
Working from home, eh?
Eh, nice one.
No, Dwayne...
It wasn't like that.
I bet.
So, who is it? Who is the lucky lady, huh?
There's no lucky lady, Dwayne.
NELSON: Morning, Son.
What's he doing here?
Jack boy here invited me to stay.
Well, no, that's not quite how...
We've been having quite a high old time of it, haven't we?
I wouldn't go that far, Nelson.
We better get going, you know, Chief.
We've got a lot of work to do.
Maybe see you later, Dwayne.
(SIGHS)
DWAYNE: Thanks a lot, Chief.
Dwayne, I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Nelson,
but it's not how he says it was.
The man just sort of invited himself here.
Well, that's him.
Give the man an inch and he'll take a mile.
Now, I wouldn't want you to think I'm taking his side in any of this.
The man is a leech. He's forced his way into your life
the way he's trying to force his way back into mine.
Oh, but it won't be for long.
Give it a couple of days.
He'll be gone before you know it.
Are you sure about this?
Because from what he was saying last night,
I think he wants to stay, make it up to you.
Okay, we'll see.
Give it a day or two,
-and he'll be out of both of our hair. -(ENGINE STARTS)
This place is full of Jasmine's stuff.
Clothes, books, jewellery. Everything that belonged to her.
So Billy held on to it all? Fair play to him.
And this is where he put it.
Yes, it's a...
There's also his things from his time with the band as well.
We've been going through it all since first light.
Good.
You should also know, sir,
that someone had already broken in here,
gone through the boxes.
What were they looking for?
Probably the evidence Billy told the commissioner he'd found.
You mean the note?
So Billy didn't take it with him to the concert?
Question is, did whoever was here find it?
Well, what have we got?
Well, sir, there's nothing here that might point to a motive
or a suspect for Jasmine's murder.
But we did find these amongst Billy's stuff.
It's to do with the band.
All the session tapes from the Ragers' studio recordings.
Yeah, these here, from the last session before they split.
They were recorded the same day Jasmine was murdered.
June 5th, 1988.
Won't that just be the songs they were recording that day?
Er, more than likely,
but we wondered if maybe between takes
there might have been something that was said,
you know, like how things were between the band.
Oh, and do you know anywhere we might be able to play these?
Er, we could try the Sunshine Recording Studio.
That's where the Ragers made all their albums.
Right, well, why don't you fellas head over there,
listen to what's on them. Definitely worth a try.
Okay.
Yeah.
I do hope, Inspector,
considering that we have a double murder on our hands,
that that fork hasn't become the sole focus of your attention.
Absolutely not, sir. Of course, not.
I... (SIGHS)
-I was just... -I came for an update,
on how the investigation was progressing.
JACK: Well, sir...
I have to admit, the Jasmine Springer murder
is proving slow-going at the moment.
And the Billy Springer case?
Equally slow-going, to be brutally honest.
-They're both really quite... -Slow-going?
Well, that's about the size of it, sir.
Sorry.
Chief, check your email.
You should have a sound file emailed over to you from the studio.
-What is it? -It's a conversation caught on tape
during the break at a recording session.
Now, most of the band and sound engineers
had gone to get a coffee,
but they left the reel still turning.
So who is it heard talking?
-Jasmine Springer. -And Leon Laroche.
JASMINE ON RECORDING: I'm sorry but Billy need to know.
LEON ON RECORDING: Please, Jasmine, don't tell him.
JASMINE: I can't keep lying to him.
LEON: But he can't know what we've done.
They were having an affair.
I'd say so, Chief.
And a few hours after telling Leon
she was going to reveal it to Billy, Jasmine turns up dead.
Meaning, Billy never finds out.
Would you care to tag along on this one, sir?
LEON: One, two. One, two.
Mic check, mic check.
One, two. One, two.
Afternoon.
Not exactly Wembley Arena, is it, Mr Laroche?
Well, you know,
I go to where the music takes me.
And it's brought you all the way to
"Claire and Barry Thompson's Silver Wedding Anniversary".
Fair play to you. Commissioner, perhaps you'd like to kick things off.
Thank you, Inspector.
I think the best place to start would be with Mr Laroche
telling us about the affair he had with Jasmine Springer.
I don't know what you're talking about.
-I... -I'd...
Appreciate it if you didn't lie to us, Mr Laroche.
We've already wasted enough time on this case.
Close to 30 years.
Look, Billy was going through a rough patch, right?
He pushed the people that loved him away.
Jasmine, you mean?
Tried to help her through it.
By sleeping with her.
She was a grown-up.
She knew what she was doing.
She was also vulnerable.
Her husband was an addict. She needed support, Leon, a friend.
I'm not saying I acted with much dignity.
But, you know, we all make mistakes in our youth.
How long did it last?
A few months. No more.
JACK: And Billy never suspected?
Most of the time back then,
Billy was either drunk or stoned or both.
Jasmine and I, we were discreet.
I hired a little place up in the hills so we wouldn't get catch.
But when she threatened to confess all to Billy,
the thought of him discovering your betrayal was too much.
So you killed her.
I understand how this must look, right?
But you, you have to over-stand something,
We were in a band.
It was a wild time.
Relationships,
they can get a little blurred when they living like that.
So what are you saying, that
Billy wouldn't have minded?
I'm saying it wouldn't have been the first time
-things in the band get a little... -Dysfunctional.
Billy finding out about our fling, yes, man,
it would have complicate things.
But not so much you'd have think
that the only solution would be to kill his wife!
We'll get there, sir.
Just might take us a bit more time.
That's what I said to Billy Springer all those years ago.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
I assured him we'd solve it with a little time.
-(SIGHS) -We never did.
It's not your fault, sir.
You can only go where the evidence takes you.
And everything pointed to a mugging.
But I wasn't convinced it was just a mugging.
The escalation in violence felt too marked.
To me
it was too much of a stretch,
to go from threatening someone for their handbag to
strangling the life out of them.
And did you raise this at the time, sir,
with your senior officers?
I did.
But I was a mere junior detective.
It's hard to get your voice heard when all you've got going for you
is your lack of experience.
Yeah.
We've all been there, sir.
You speak out,
convinced an injustice has been done,
and all you're met with is indifference and inaction.
As you said, Inspector,
such cases
do indeed sit heavy over the years.
I need for us to put this right.
We will, sir.
We will.
Delmar Brown, Maya Oprey, Leon Laroche.
Three suspects, three motives, two murders.
And, as yet, no idea which of them is our killer.
June the 5th, 1988.
Jasmine Springer was murdered and the scene staged
to look like a robbery gone wrong.
Thirty years later, her husband, Billy Springer, was shot dead,
and that crime scene, staged to look like a suicide.
Leaving us puzzling,
just how did our killer manage to shoot Billy
and then escape from the crime scene with the door locked on the inside.
So any thoughts or batty ideas
on how we crack this trickiest of cases?
FLORENCE: Maybe we should call it a night.
Approach things again fresh in the morning.
You're probably right, Florence.
Nelson.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
It's all right. I'll go.
Dwayne, please.
Just tell me what I have to do to make it up to you, huh?
Whatever it is, I'll do it, son.
Then do what we both know you always do and leave the island.
Stay and finish your drink.
-Dwayne. -Catherine.
Everything all right?
Fine. Why wouldn't it be?
I know how hurt your mother was when he abandoned her.
And if she was alive today,
she'd be even angrier to see him back here now.
But that doesn't mean you can't give him another chance.
He's really trying.
I know he is.
Look, all I want to tell him is that it's okay with us,
and that we are good.
I just don't believe that he deserves my forgiveness.
And maybe he doesn't.
But
if forgiving him might finally bring you some peace,
maybe it doesn't matter if he deserves it or not.
Nelson, are you decent?
Well, Harry, fancy a brew?
(SIGHS) Yep.
Looks like it's just you and me again, old fella.
The key's in the lock.
It's a fork, lying on the floor.
There's a string missing on Billy's guitar.
The top one, the E string.
Us musicians,
we love to improvise, Inspector.
Why kill Jasmine?
Question is, did who ever was here find it?
You mean, the note?
He spent the morning fixing the pick guard on his guitar.
(GASPS)
Not possible. Is it?
Everybody, I need a screwdriver.
JP: A screwdriver? Okay.
FLORENCE: Are you feeling all right?
Top of the world, Florence.
I think I finally worked out how our killer shot Billy
and then left the room locked on the inside.
Well done, Chief.
And in a few moments time, if I'm right about this,
we'll also know who did it.
You were right, Florence, whoever killed Billy
never found our missing piece of evidence.
You don't think Billy had it with him in the dressing room?
Oh, no, it was there, right in front of our eyes.
Has been all along.
You see, one thing I've learned about reggae,
this piece of the guitar here takes a right battering.
And Billy's old pick guard was all rusty and worn,
so he had to replace it with a new one.
No way.
-Florence, I need you to dig out our financial checks for me. -Yes, sir.
And Dwayne, JP, it's that time.
Gather up the suspects.
Yes, sir.
(CYMBAL CLANGS)
You know what I like most about going to a gig?
It's the half-hour or so before the band come on stage.
That sense of anticipation
as you're all standing there, waiting for it all to start.
Of course, anticipation is one thing we're not short of here today.
For some people, this moment has been 30 years in the making.
Thirty years, poor Kai has been wondering who killed his mother.
And for the same amount of time, the island's commissioner of police
has been left burdened by the one murder he never solved.
Well, today, the waiting's over.
We now know not only who killed Jasmine Springer,
but also who killed her husband, Billy.
Don't we, Leon?
It wasn't me, man.
JACK: No?
Well, why don't we start with the murder of Billy Springer?
As the band came off-stage after playing their gig,
they all returned to their dressing rooms.
But moments later,
Leon came back out,
entered Billy's dressing room,
and proceeded to shoot him dead.
FLORENCE: Leon knew Delmar's post-gig ritual
of playing his music loud,
so the gunshot was never heard,
giving Leon time to stage the scene to look like suicide.
So when we arrived and broke down the door,
we found the room locked, the key on the inside,
and the gun in Billy's hand,
leading us to conclude that Billy killed himself.
So just how did Leon manage this?
Well, this is how.
Leon took the key from the door,
went out into the corridor and locked it.
He then proceeded to shoulder barge the door, breaking the lock.
Returning to the room, he closed the door
and put the key back in the lock.
And this done, he did something I believe all musicians are good at.
Delmar, you even said it yourself,
"Musicians love to improvise." And that's what Leon did.
He improvised with what he had to hand.
Just as Billy had improvised when he was about to go on stage
and he realised he'd lost his guitar capo.
So...
From Billy's little tin of guitar paraphernalia,
Leon took the fork.
From his guitar, he removed a single guitar string.
And with just these two items,
he was able to wedge the door on the inside of the dressing room.
So first, he placed the fork on the floor,
with the guitar string looped around the prongs.
He then slid the ends of the string under the door.
And then out in the corridor, he pulled the strings hard,
wedging the fork, so it appeared the door was locked.
He then pulled out the string, put it in his pocket,
and sauntered casually back to his own dressing room.
So, we broke down the door a few moments later,
we found the room locked, the key on the inside.
We naturally assumed that Billy had locked himself into his room
before shooting himself.
Now, I imagine you didn't think we'd pay too much attention
to a rusty old fork lying on the floor.
I mean, how could that possibly have anything to do
with Billy taking his own life?
But once you know Billy was murdered,
then even something as innocent as a fork
suddenly starts to look suspicious.
So why did Leon do all this?
Why the sudden need to kill Billy?
Kai, you said yourself,
Jasmine had been playing on your father's mind
since the band got back together over the past few weeks.
I think that's why he paid a visit
to somewhere that he hadn't been to for close to 30 years.
The place where he'd hidden all your mother's possessions
after she died.
And I think that's where he found the incriminating documents.
This is what prompted him to call the commissioner,
tell him that he found new evidence proving who Jasmine's killer was.
It says, "Siren's Point, 8:00 pm, Leon."
This proves categorically
that Jasmine's body was found at Siren's point
not because she was dumped there
after being killed during a botched mugging,
but because she was invited there by Leon Laroche and callously murdered.
That right, Leon?
As Billy told no one apart from the commissioner
about his discovery of the new evidence,
we assume you overheard him leaving the phone message
asking for the police's help.
It's Jasmine. I know who killed her.
I found a note.
In that moment, you realised you needed to kill Billy
and recover the proof that he had.
Except the note had gone missing.
So, after you killed him,
you must've searched that dressing room high and low,
but you couldn't find it.
FLORENCE: Which means it was you that broke into Billy's beach hut,
looking for the note.
That's right, but it wasn't there either, was it?
Because Billy was clever.
He wasn't gonna risk leaving the note lying around when he went on stage.
No, he took it with him,
hidden in the pick guard of his guitar.
But I don't understand. Why would Leon murder Jasmine?
FLORENCE: We found a recording from the studio
you were all at the day Jasmine was killed.
In it, Jasmine was heard telling Leon she wanted to confess to Billy
what had gone on between them.
JACK: We assumed they were having an affair.
And when we confronted Leon about this,
he confirmed that's exactly what it was.
But while it was true that they had indeed engaged in an affair,
what wasn't true was that their argument that day in the studio,
it wasn't just about Jasmine revealing details of the affair to Billy,
it was about more than that, wasn't it, Leon?
FLORENCE: When Leon admitted the affair,
he told us he hired a small place up in the hills
for him and Jasmine to go to.
I hired a little place up in the hills so we wouldn't get catch.
But during the investigation,
we went through all the financial checks from the year Jasmine was killed,
and there was nothing suspicious about Leon's bank accounts.
That's right, and I'm assured
that a sudden monthly outgoing for an extra property
would have stood out particularly
to a thorough detective like DS Cassell here.
So, we went through the finances again just a while ago, and we were right.
No sign of him renting a property in 1988.
But there was evidence
of Leon renting a house a year earlier than that.
So why the discrepancy in Leon's timeline of events?
Kai...
You were two months old when your mother died.
A year after, Leon rented that property,
and therefore a year since he and your mother had their affair.
I'm sorry, that this is how you have to find out.
I think it should come from you, don't you think?
Kai is my son.
Not Billy's.
JACK: That's what Jasmine was going to tell Billy.
(SIGHS)
And having not got through to her at the studio that afternoon,
you gave her a note
suggesting she meet you later on that night at Siren's Point.
I didn't mean to kill her.
I thought she'd come round to what I was saying,
but she was so stubborn, she wouldn't listen.
I didn't know how else to stop her.
I take it you assumed Jasmine had just binned this,
but unfortunately for you, Leon, she forgot she had it.
(JACK SIGHS)
All these years, it sat in the pocket of the jacket she wore
to the studio that day.
And it was only when Billy was finally able to face
going through her possessions,
decades later, that he found it.
How could you do that to her?
(STRAINING)
(ALL STRUGGLING)
JACK: He did it because in his mind, if Billy had ever found out,
that'd be the end of everything.
This was no messy musician's fling.
No, it was more serious than that.
Having to give up the son that Billy had raised for a year,
the son he loved.
It would've destroyed him
and the band.
And ultimately, that's all you care about, isn't it?
Of course, it is.
You're the lead singer, the frontman.
It's all about you.
Even now, all this time later,
you're desperately pursuing the spotlight.
Any little bit of attention at all
you can find to feed your ego.
You didn't care about Jasmine or... Or Billy,
or even your son, Kai.
It's all about you.
Always was.
Arrest him, please, for the murders of Jasmine and Billy Springer.
Up, come on.
Thank you, Inspector.
Anytime, sir.
Congratulations, to cracking the case.
Why, it was no mean feat.
Yes, a double murder spanning 30 years.
Two for the price of one, if you will.
You think he's all right?
It's not like Dwayne to go off on his own, you know?
I know he expected Nelson to do a runner,
but just not sure he thought it would be quite so soon.
I'll take him one of these.
Here. Get that into you.
Oh, thanks.
You doin' okay?
You know what? I am.
For the first time,
I've actually got some clarity in my life.
Really?
I need to make peace with the old man.
Right, I see.
Well, good for you, Dwayne.
Being the bigger man and all that. I like it.
Just... If you don't mind me asking,
how are you gonna do that, now he's gone?
Er, that's the thing, Chief.
(SIGHS)
I've decided that I'm going to go and look for him.
I see.
But I may need some time off,
if that's okay, of course.
Of course. Take as much time as you need.
Thank you, Chief.
No way.
It can't be...
Dwayne.
You're not gonna believe this.
Jack boy!
Dwayne!
I don't think I do believe it.
Help!
What the heck are you doing?
NELSON: The boat sank!
What a loser.
(GROANING)
I'm going to have to go and get him, you know, Chief.
He's not getting any younger.
And neither am I.
(GRUNTS)
FLORENCE: What's going on? JP: Is that Nelson?
JACK: It is indeed.
And we're rescuing him.
Okay...
(PANTING)
DWAYNE: Where in blazes was you going? Dominica?
I wasn't going anywhere.
So why you went out in your boat then?
I was moving it around the bay.
George Lopes said I could moor it at his place.
You mean you wasn't leaving the island?
-I told you, like it or lump it, I'm not going anywhere. -(GROANS)
You must let me buy you all a drink.
-DWAYNE: What? -As a thank you.
One drink? You cheapskate.
You mean, we saved your life for one drink?
CATHERINE: Don't worry about that.
The drinks will be on the house.
(WHIMPERING)
CATHERINE: I'll look after you, Nelson.
NELSON: Thanks, Catherine.
CATHERINE: Come on, let's get you dry.
He's gonna want my spare room back, isn't he?
(LAUGHS) Almost definitely, sir.
JACK: Probably want my clothes as well, and my shoes.
(LAUGHING)
I'm gonna have to move in with you, Florence.
(LAUGHS) Only joking.
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)