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Hello bathonians! Time now is 9.01 and you're
listening to me, Paul Watt, on Roman Radio 276 FM.
And it's that time again! It's my annual maximum wattage!
12 hours of non-stop tunes in the company of yours truly.
And speaking of truly yours, today Bath has got to be the official World City of Love!
Yes, we have 21 nuptials going down in 21 different venues.
So, let's kick things off with the Church of the Poison Mite.
What am I like? No, of course it isn't.
It's a genuine romantic hit, a solid gold wedding classic.
Take it away ladies!
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That's great, yes well done chaps.
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How do?
Thank you.
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So, the picture we're getting is
the father of the bride, that's Leonard Wood
came through here from the vestry
Where's that?
Just down there?
That's just before the ceremony was due to start
at around 9.45
and holding that
pending a positive match on those blood
stains pathology have confirmed it
correlates to the wounds on the victim
That is interesting
That's a
retractable blade
That's
aluminium
Vestry's this way boss
Yeah, yeah sure
So, trade of blood
and footprints here confirms the
emergent sequence of events
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Mitchell Morrison
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So, he was supposed to officiate
at the wedding of Loretta Wood and William
Bridges, him and Lenny Wood
were best friends
Ian, can we break for a few minutes
so the SIO can have a look? Come on Ian, out
you get, get a boat
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It's sort of a violent struggle
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There's nothing to suggest to break, Ian
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That door, was it locked
or unlocked when the first officer arrived?
It was locked, well I've spoken to the church
warden, that door never gets used, it's always
kept locked
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Multiple stab wounds there, the stomach
the whole torso and neck
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defensive wounds there to the
hand
it's like a
frenzied attack
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Someone's been drinking, the Prince will tell us whether it belongs
to the killer or the victim
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DCI McDonald's on her way
Sarge
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Morning man
Is it?
I hear you've been in the wars
Two hours sleep in the last 48
Looks like you've covered all your bases
Captain Dodds
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Right, pace clock's ticking
24 hours to charge or release
Sir, we've got conclusive
trace evidence, multiple eye witnesses
tell me it's the father of the bride and I can be home by tea time
Well we've got no eye witnesses, but I think
we've got enough trace evidence to get a confession
out of this, Leonard Woods
and he's in Castle Park
Hospital at the moment
Suspect of concussion
Yes, my next port of call
Wait, what about the bride?
What do you mean?
Well, poor girl and her
sisters, they've just seen their father be
arrested for the murder of his best mate who they
probably know, wedding's in tatters
job of an SIO
is to offer personal reassurance
and maybe get some insight
into motive
Yeah, right, sorry man
And then the flight from Melbourne to Dubai was delayed
because they couldn't find a bloody pilot
which meant that we had to have a
five hour layover
in Dubai and then there was no
flights back to Heathrow for another 12 hours
so they offered us a redirection
to Bristol via
Athens, which was a result
but then I didn't get a wink of sleep
because these bloody kids were
screaming
Got to Bristol at 5am
Huge queue at immigration
Got our bags on time
I was quite pleased with that
Then we came outside, no taxis
Had to get a bussage
Oh well, that's foreign travel for you
It's very complicated
I didn't understand any of that
I got lost at Dubai
You want me the first?
[Sighs]
You alright, ma'am?
Yeah, two hours sleep
and I had this really spooky dream
Spooky? How?
Well, you were in it
You had a moustache
It was my wedding and everything just went
really wrong
What a wedding
It seems a nightmare, it's just
mental garbage, isn't it?
So, um
how was New Zealand?
Yeah, great
Trip of a lifetime
Good morning
I'm DCI Laura Macdonald
Senior Investigating Officer
into the inquiry of the death of Mitchell Morrison
And I'm, uh, Detective Sergeant Dodds
Um, do you mind if we sit down?
Yeah, sure, please
I gather
you were close to Mitchell
Mitchell was
Uncle Mitchell
Our mum died when I was ten
and Dad brought the three of us up alone
Three girls, still don't know how he did it
God knows we weren't easy
And Mitchell was always there for Dad
and us
Your father is under arrest
on suspicion of murder
And what we're trying to do now
is just to, um
try and understand what happened
Yeah, and why?
Uh, well, we were at the altar
but Mitchell wasn't there, so
Lenny went off to see what was going on
and, um
when he came back
he...
Dad did not kill Mitchell
Why would he?
Isn't it obvious that some lunatic
just broke in, probably trying to rob the place?
Him and Mitchell built that summer house together
They played golf every Saturday
Lil, say something
Dad didn't kill Mitchell
(sighs)
Oh, could you just leave us alone?
Please
This is devastating for all of us
You're well within your rights
Ms Wood
We'll keep you up to date with any developments
and you can call me directly
if you've got any concerns
or want to give me any information
(birds chirping)
How is he?
He's very confused
The last thing he remembers is getting out of the wedding car with his daughter
He's got nothing after that
Do you believe him?
In your professional opinion
Short term memory loss is not uncommon in severe concussion
but his brain scan's clear, no bleeding
and the memories might come back in pieces
It's like when you have a dream
and a few days later you have flashbacks
and suddenly you remember new details
How did I get this?
What's happened? Nobody's told me anything
We're, er, questioning you and a caution, sir
on suspicion of the murder of Mitchell Morrison
Mitchell?
Mitch dead
Do you, erm, recognise this knife, sir?
No
Where are my kids?
How are they?
Mitch was...
Can I see them?
Not at the moment
Can you explain the blood we found in your clothes?
Mitch's blood?
Blood? No
Can you account for the fact that 50 witnesses, including your daughters
say they saw you coming out the vestry with that knife
which we've now confirmed is a murder weapon
that was used to fatally stab Mitch six times
Why...
Why would I kill Mitch?
What father of the bride comes to his own daughter's wedding
carrying a blade?
Because that aluminium knife
looks like it does not come from a church
It would sit a lot better with me if we had a motive
Why is that uniform pointing us out to a press photographer?
Great, thank you
Is that...?
Hi, Nora Lang
I've been trying to catch up with you for the last couple of hours
Detectives McDonald and Dots?
Yes
I believe my status on your inquiry is significant witness
Were you a guest at the wedding in St Mary's?
Miss Lang is one of the world's most
eminent photojournalists, ma'am
That's overstating it a bit
But I'm on sabbatical from foreign assignments
The Guardian commissioned a feature
The Great British Wedding
Handed reportage, granny black and white
Thought it'd be fun
Till this morning
I, uh, I have pictures
Of what?
Everything
I tried to save him
Erm, save who, ma'am?
The victim
When that man came into the church covered in blood
I guess, you know, my instinct kicked in
I ran down the corridor and found him
The vicar
And then?
I took a photo
I saw he was still alive so I tried to save him
But I was too late
He bled out
Nothing I could do
You interfered with the crime scene
My first duty was the preservation of life
And you're trained to do exactly the same thing, I believe
I wouldn't have stopped to take a photo
Sorry, instinct
Cold instinct
He was stabbed six times
Not the first time I've witnessed a violent death
So, two hours and ten minutes after the murder
And you didn't immediately identify yourself to our first response team
I'm here now
Good
So, I'll need fingerprints and a DNA swap as elimination
Formal statement and the memory card from that camera
Well, er, that is, it's a Canon AE-1
Erm, man just came out in 1976 to use his film
Erm, but we, we do need the film roll, miss
Miss, miss Lane, now please
OK
I'm supposed to cover a wedding at the old
barn over at Bathwick and three more after that
When you've just witnessed a murder?
The assignment is everything
Thank you
Oh, there's something else
Before the vicar died
He raised a hand and pointed to his chest here and I think he said "snake"
You alright, ma'am?
Erm, yeah
Where would I be?
It's 11.56 and we're getting some unconfirmed reports
of an incident at, er, St Mary's and All Angels
Hmm, OK, I did a dedication to the bride lottery
earlier, so, er, we'll keep you posted on that
Meantime, for richer or poorer, it's over to Diana for the latest traffic news
So, these are the photographs taken by Dora Lang
In chronological order, starting with the bride
and her father outside their house at 9.15
And ending here at 9.46
The, er, the time codes are estimates
What do you think, Sarge?
Wow, Miss Lang certainly has a flawless gift for capturing the decisive moment
Sorry, ma'am, you have police work, so...
OK, here we have the victim at 9.36 outside the
church, which was just before the bride arrived
Seems to be drinking, is that it?
Er...
Yeah, it's hip flask
Doesn't look happy
And he was having a fag as well
Oh, hello, it's, er, it's a little bit of a surprise
It's, er, well, that door's open
Well, didn't the, er, didn't the church warden
tell us that this door was always kept locked?
Yeah, and it was locked when our people got there
Well, so now the revenues should have a set of keys
There were no keys found on the victim's body or anywhere in the vestry
Dora Lang?
Er, yes, ma'am
She was the only other one in the vestry, maybe she took the keys
Well, why would she do that?
I don't know
Lee?
Yes, ma'am
Can you get me a background check on Dora Lang?
She's some sort of newspaper paparazzi or something
She's a photojournalist, ma'am
She's a photojournalist
Ma'am
Right, when someone comes to me after a suspicious delay with
a reason of why their trace evidence is all over my crime scene
I get a bit twitchy
Can you go and see Dora Lang? Get her DNA and blood samples
See if you can get a measure of her
Is there something she's not telling us?
Lee, go with him
Ma'am, she's renting a place in the centre of Bath, Sarge
And, er, have we got any background on her?
Well, January this year she spent ten days in Oldmere Clinic
Oh, isn't that the, er...
Specialised in mental health treatment
I can't access any details without a warrant
Sorry
Lifetime of eyes pressed up against view finders
Right, well, erm, when you're ready, er, Miss Lang, here
Not the first time I've had my prints taken, Sergeant Dodds
Oh?
Under the Milosevic regime, my first foreign assignment
Well, if I can just start with your, er, thumb, please, erm, there
There you go
I owe you an apology
Well, boss, I suppose
I should have come forward straight away, but it...
I suppose it's a kind of compulsion
Compulsion?
I wanted more photos
Well, it wasn't helpful, but then again I suppose you are a...
A trained observer
Sarge?
Shall we?
Er, erm...
We also need to take a DNA sample, Miss Lang
If I could just...
Thank you
So, has the father of the bride been charged yet?
Oh, no, I can't comment on that, ma'am
But I think you know that
We'll take a full statement from you, but, erm,
there is one question that I want to ask you
This photograph here, now, did you see a key to this
door behind the victim that leads out to the grounds?
No
So you... you didn't take it?
Sergeant, are you questioning me as a suspect?
No
We'll have taken a three month left on this place, as you probably know, so...
I'm not going anywhere
The CPS have agreed to release your father
He should be home with you in a couple of hours
So he didn't do it?
He's still under arrest, but we are exploring other lines of inquiry
What exactly does that mean?
Well, we have compelling evidence against him and
he clearly had a fight in the vestry with Mitchell
And I need to know why
What was going on between them?
I also need to know about this
He's drinking?
Just before he's about to officiate his best friend's daughter's wedding
He looks distraught
Why?
Lot of you are about to get married
Was there something going on with you guys?
Did your dad find out?
Are you...
That's disgusting
Uncle Mitchell and me, that's sick
Coming here with your filthy accusations and...
It was me
Me and Mitchell were...
We were gonna get married
What?
He was just about to tell Dad
When did this start?
When?
A year ago
And I heard what happened
Mitchell was stabbed to death
That's a maniac
Not my dad
He wouldn't have done it
No matter what
So there I am after 250 dates and 21 years
I'm standing in my kitchen at 2am
Mansplained in the offside rule to Alexa
And I think
Am I going wrong somewhere?
And at that very moment
I got a text from Florence
I'm getting married next week, she tells me
So I booked myself on a flight here
All set to meet my new brother-in-law down the dog and duck
Couple of pints, game of darts
And who should greet me?
Cassandra
No, come on now, settle down, settle down
Seriously
I couldn't be happier for you, sis
She's a wonderful girl
As you might have heard
The love of my life slipped through my fingers a long time ago
But seeing you and Sandra so happy together
Only wish mum and dad and Kirsten could be here
So
I'd ask you all to be upstanding
And to raise your glasses
To the bride and the bride
Florence and Sandra
The time has just gone 2.22
And in sickness and in health
That was the Duchess herself with love and marriage
You can't have one without the other
Try telling that to my ex-wife
Everybody out please
Come on, I need everybody out
Sarah, don't touch anything
Thank you
Yeah, just vacate the vehicle, thank you
Mum
Okay, this is Florence Saunders, 39 specialist nurse
Take a closer look
She's bleeding from her ears
It started with bleeding from her nose
I'd say she'd been poisoned with some kind of anti-coagulant
Orphrine
Arsenic even
She collapsed suddenly at the end of the meal
Someone got her food or drink?
Ah, Liz
I need all these dishes processed as soon as possible
I know it's Saturday but this is time critical
Okay, so
Victim's older brother
Her new wife
And her new wife's mother
They were the only people at the top table
And possible beneficiaries of her death
I'll get them back to the station for formal statements
No, we are officially overstretched here
It's all hands on deck
I'll lead the initial stages of this inquiry
How close are you to formally charging Lenny Wood?
I'm not sure, there's just some things that don't add up
But
Two suspicious deaths at two weddings in one day
Well, I've got a couple of PCs at the station
Mining for connections between both weddings
Dora Lang
The photographer
She said she was doing this wedding as well
We need to know more before we start talking about linked murders
Mm-hmm
Okay?
No
Are you okay?
Jet lag's brutal
I need to be
Lenny Wood's has just remembered something
Something tells me it's more on a suspicious death
All signs point to poisoning by someone seated at the top table
But let's not talk about connections until we establish one, okay?
You sure about this?
Yeah, he wants to do it, ma'am
Okay, Mr. Wood
You're now claiming there was a third party in the vestry
Yes, that's right
And what happened to her?
She was really healthy
Didn't smoke
Barely drank
Well, that's not quite true
Flo did like a drink, or used to
Not since I've known her
You got as far as here
And then, um, in your own words
What did you see?
I saw, um, Mitchell covered in blood
Lying in the, uh
Go on, can I get in there?
Sure, you can
Where do you think she was poisoned?
We're working on the basis that someone
adulterated her food or drink during the reception
Someone close to her
Physically
Hang on
You think one of us
No, no, no, no, no, no
I've seen stuff online
Someone else was murdered at another wedding earlier today
What?
Well, maybe you should be out there trying to find this maniac
Sir?
Are you okay?
No
Paramedics!
Clive?
I remember somebody punched me
He floored me, and I
I must have just passed out
I didn't kill Mitchell
Some kind of lunatic or somebody broke in
Mitchell caught him and
Why would I attack my own best friend with a knife?
Because he just told you that him and Lilith were in love
And they're planning to get married
Oh, come on
No
So, um, when he came round, um, this guy, um, where was he?
Um, he was at the door
I have a copy of the key to that door right here
The key, yes, he took the key out of the lock
After he opened the door?
Yes
Right, so what happened next?
Come on, Lenny, we need more
I think, think Mr. Wood
Yeah, um, he left
I tried to go after him, but he locked the door
And then I pulled the knife from Mitch, and I went out there to get help
Yes, and Trudy, you saw his face?
No, he was wearing a, a balaclava
But before he left, he turned to me and there was a, there, a tattoo of a snake
Excuse me
Um
Mitch
And my little girl
As far as we can send, sir, uh, your daughter and the Reverend Morrison,
they were consenting at all, sir, it's between you and your family
Oh my God
Ma'am
You know this, this snake tattoo, well, according to
Dora Lang, that was the last word Mitchell Morrison spoke
Yeah, okay, this might sound completely mad,
but remember the dream I was telling you about
So, it's my wedding day, lovely, I'm walking down the aisle, and
the groom turns around, but it's not the boyfriend, it's this guy
And he looks kind of creepy, and his shirt's
open, and he has a tattoo of a snake here
Oh, I, I don't know, ma'am, I think, you know, you're
so asleep, and, uh, it's, I think you're getting
I'm getting a little bit of a wind
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(Door opens)
Ma'am, do we really think that Mr Wood covered it in blood, carrying a knife,
came out through this door, closed it behind him, threw the key on the ground
and then walked round the outside of this church, back in through the front door, and somehow
sneaked past the congregation, slipped into the vestry, and then staggered out towards the altar
Do you think Lenny Wood was telling the truth? The
man with the snake tattoo killed Mitchell Morrison?
Go on now, look at this
That's been made recently, very recently
Maybe he was left here, since this morning
It's a message
I'm fine, I feel fine
Would still prefer you went to hospital to get checked
Can't, on a flight tonight, I'm in the middle of building a
holiday apartment complex and if I'm not there it all goes arse up
Okay, but you have presented with the same symptoms as your
sister when she died, so we need to take a blood sample from you
Fine
And you didn't accidentally share a dish with your sister or drink from her glass?
I don't think so, Flo's drinking red wine and I'm tea total, just over 21 years sober
Since you lost your fiancé
Now how do you know?
Oh, sorry, we always do background checks on
close family of murder victims, it's routine
I was driving
The inquest cleared me, not my fault, but I hit the boots pretty hard after that
Leaving this country and getting into the hospitality business, that's what saved me
And did you share anything from this menu?
Flo's vegan
This appetizer, amuse-bouche butternut
squash, yeah, yeah I had that, so did Florence
God, only one of us could have picked up that dish
Okay, back to the caterers, seize all the dishes that the appetizers were served in
Oh no, there were 67 people
Just do it, and tie, please
Yes ma'am, sorry ma'am
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Is Clive okay?
Fortunately he only ingested a tiny part of what killed your wife
Here, take these honey, they're good for your nerves
How did you feel about your daughter's marriage to Florence?
I love my daughter, if there's anyone what's best for her
Florence said the way you loved me was suffocating
Florence, I can breathe
I'm sorry baby
For what Mrs Blake? Is there something you want to tell me?
Are you actually accusing me of... you know, Clive Wright, you
should be out there catching whoever's killing people at weddings
You have no idea what you're doing, have you? Completely clueless
Well, we'll soon know more once we recover the murder weapon
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Ma'am, this dream of yours...
I don't want to talk about it
Yeah, but this snake man, what did he look like?
50s maybe, he had a ponytail, black hair, dyed, seeding
hairline, weathered look, oran, maybe, I don't know
Sarge, do you think you could give me a bit of space?
Oh yeah, sorry ma'am
Oh yeah, I'll just go and start the whiteboard ma'am
One of these four cups is our murder weapon, but they've been through a thorough
wash so it's unlikely forensics can pull prints, let alone traces of poison
Okay, two murders, two weddings, one a frenzied knife attack,
possibly a crime of passion and a suspect with a clear motive
Well, I'm afraid that's not what the evidence is telling us ma'am
Lenny Wood said that there was a third man in the vestry wearing a
balaclava, he claims that he was the one that murdered Mitchell Morrison
And it sounds like you believe him
Well, see this door from the outside here, now this is always kept locked,
it's never used, but there you can see Reverend Morrison has opened it
And Mr Wood here, he claims that this balaclava man,
he escaped through this door and locked it behind him
And it was locked when we got there wasn't it, and
see now look there, this is the key to the vestry door
And can you see it's got a peculiar X scraped on
it, and it was left just outside for us to find
Okay, Florence Saunders, three possible suspects, her brother unlikely
because he was also poisoned, must have eaten from one of those china cups
But Saunders mother, maybe, she didn't like the
idea of losing her daughter to another woman
Ma'am, toxicology has just come through, they've identified the presence of
tetrahydrozoline in the blood samples of both Florence and Clive Saunders
Embibed in a high enough dose it acts as a fatal neurotoxin, but not instantly
So the killer wasn't necessarily at the top
table, they could have gone into the catering van
Could the common factor be opportunism? So the killer of Florence
Saunders, he just dropped some poison into any one of these 60 china cups
Was Florence just unlucky? And the killer of Mitchell
Morrison, well he must have been outside watching
So when he saw that the door was open then he took his chance, he
went inside with his knife and intended to kill someone, anyone
Okay, so what are we saying? Someone with a grudge against
marriage is just randomly killing people at weddings
Did Lennywood give you anything on the man he claims to have seen in the vestry?
Yeah, this snake tattoo
And this poison? Tetrahydrozoline
How would a member of the public acquire that?
Oh it's an active ingredient in over the counter eye drops
What?
Doralaine
Well she was using eye drops earlier
She is a common factor, she was at both murder scenes
You said opportunistic, that photo that she took
placed her outside the church with the door open
Well any one of these photographs here, they put her inside
the church with a congregation, even before the murder happened
She could have an accomplice
Thank you for coming Miss Lang, as you may have
heard there's been a second murder at a wedding today
You're looking for a connection and I'm the common factor?
Well you were at both weddings and at the first you left your trace evidence at
the crime scene and then you absconded without reporting to one of our officers
Your eye drops Miss Lang
I've been hauled into a fair few rooms like this around the world and
they all have their methods of intimidation but eye drop confiscation
That's a new one
We've established that Florence Saunders was poisoned with tetrahydrozoline
OK
Unless this poisoning method was particularly fast acting, which I doubt,
I was at the wedding reception at the barn for less than 15 minutes
I left before the victim died but the reason I was
late was that you were taking my fingerprints and DNA
Which was probably when the poison was being applied
You've never been married have you Miss Lang?
Oh I see, dried up old spinster never found love
Gets so bitter and twisted that she loses the plot and starts
poisoning brides and launching frenzied knife attacks on vicars
And you're accusing pretty much everyone you come across today of these murders
Oh it's not me I'm too lazy
It's not funny
No it never is
You just evolve coping strategies
Your medical records, you have a history of violence
I don't even like calcations
I saw this idiot kick his dog in the ribs and I snapped I just lost it
I threw a five grand Leica camera at him
Broke his nose, you're lucky he didn't press charges
Pressure turned to stress, I'd seen too much violence and the aftermath of violence
I got help, I straightened myself out and I'm rehabilitated
Although the wedding assignment
Yeah that worked out well didn't it, therapeutic or what?
Sometimes things catch up with you
You think you're immune? You need to pace yourself
Did you take any photographs of the barn reception?
Yeah, they're at home I haven't developed them yet but if you need them they're yours
Thank you
If you have no basis to charge me I'd like to go
Maybe no more weddings today Ms Lang
I don't really think you have that kind of jurisdiction over me DCI Macdonald
I'm getting more reports of a second fatality at a second wedding today
It's all unconfirmed and the police have yet to comment so
So here in Rachel over at Victoria Park to love and to cherish, have a great day
More news at half past the hour
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Rachel, you ok?
Hamish?
It's Hamish
Hamish
Sahir
Hamish buddy
I'm sorry
Hamish
(Music)
Hamish Maclay, originally from Elgin in Scotland
Best friend to the groom, he flew in as a surprise, no one
knew he was coming, he has no known connections to Bath
Mum, respectfully I don't see how we can run
three murder inquiries without any outside help
I've asked the Chief Constable to declare a
critical incident, shut down any other wedding
Get some screens in here please Goldie
We've run out man
I've just spoken to the best man, well actually the substitute best man
It turns out the victim was the first choice but
he and the groom had a bust up on the stag weekend
Hunch is worth running
Ok find me a quiet room, I'll speak to him
Firearms incident, we need ballistics analysis in here as soon as possible
Mum
What are you thinking Mum?
Ok, 20 to 30 millimetre, one shot to the back of the head, the groom rolled him over
For sure kill you want to be no more than 20 metres away so, over there?
Now Mum we're completely overwhelmed here
Yeah tell me something I don't know
We already have a credible suspect, the snake tattoo man
Yeah but we only have one witness Lenny Woods who
had concussion and didn't see the suspect's face
Well we actually have another witness of sorts,
one who did see the suspect before the first murder
Now maybe the suspect in all three murders
Are you serious? It was a bad dream, just like this is a...
That looks like a Smith & Wesson
Look at that
Yeah I know it's got a pearl handle, don't expect to find any prints on it though
Yeah especially if he's leaving us the murder
weapon again, I don't get why he's doing that
Well we'll have to compare the bullets and the gun with the one in the victim
The ballistics unit are on a skeleton staff on Saturday, which
means I'll have to go to the firing range and do the test myself
And then take the bullet out of the victim in situ
What before the post mortem is that admissible?
No, but I'm going to cut some corners
Dora Lang, can you get the pictures from the barn wedding now please
Who?
Yes ma'am
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[Gunshot]
Mr Hassan, I'm sorry about your friend, but you didn't quite
tell the truth to the officer who took your statement did you?
I don't know what you mean
Mr Maclay texted you last night from Hong Kong
airport, saying he was coming to the wedding
Well as you can see, it was someone called
Sally he texted, he sent it to me by mistake
But that doesn't alter the fact that you knew he was coming, or
the fact that you and he had a fist fight on your stag weekend
Hamish got really drunk and was mouthing off and I lost my temper
I did not kill Hamish, someone else shot him in
the head while I was standing close to him, okay?
Well that doesn't mean
Come on, this is mad
You can also see I've got the Bath Live app and
they're reporting three murders at three weddings
You've got other people saying you're accusing friends and relatives
when it's obvious you've got some kind of serial killer on your hands
I'm just following up on this sir
Do your job and find this lunatic before the next wedding
A third killing?
Ah yes
What time?
Ah it's about an hour ago
Why are you and your boss for grilling me?
Through here
I only had time to take half a roll, about 20 prints or so
And these were taken after the meal?
Yeah, but I left before the speeches
Well
And so that means the appetiser dishes were long gone
You think the poison was in the appetiser?
Well in one of four cups we believe
You still think one of these three did it?
Oh I don't know, we were just running around looking
at everything and nothing and getting nowhere
Sorry I wasn't thinking
What happened to you?
A 14 year old demented with PTSD waves an AK-47 in your face and screams at you
And you realise in that moment of potential death that you've never felt more alive
And if you talk or bribe your way out of it
And after every assignment I'd be on the tube coming
back from Heathrow and that adrenaline would wear off
And I'd feel
Just empty
And the bad dreams kept coming
And I'd try a hobby, I'd try dating and then I'd try
More dating
And in the end the only answer was to get back out in the field
Until last January when I had my...
Wobble
And you smashed up a vintage like
I'm guessing you haven't got time for sex
What's that?
Well this wasn't on the roll you gave us
No I took that with my little Fuji
Look at that bridesmaid
She took a photo
Go and save the world, Sergeant Todd
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Extracting the bullet from the body should be with you in half an hour max
When it comes in please tell me that that bullet came from that gun
As soon as I know you'll know
Thanks
Yeah
Oh, er, mhm
Sure
I packed up uni after a year, went travelling
Did all sorts of jobs, all sorts of places
Enjoyed myself, got my heart broken
And I came back four years later
Mitchell, he knocked around the world a lot when he was young so
We had a lot in common
Sometimes we'd just sit in the pub for hours just talking
He made me laugh
I thought he was nuts but that's what convinced me to marry him
Dude, Dad, kill him
I don't think so
I'm sorry but, erm, do you remember this photo that you took of the photographer
In the churchyard before the ceremony
Do you still have it on your phone?
Yeah, why?
Can you send it to me?
Yeah
Then tell your Dad and your sisters what you just told me
Yeah?
Yeah
Bullet from the third victor matches the pearl gun
Take a look at this
Three axes?
Oh, look, she sent something through there
I think there's something behind her
A cross there
Who's that behind Miss Lang?
Sorry
That's the man, isn't it? From your dream
Yeah, I think so, maybe
What is going on here?
The time is 6.45 and that was classic Ruby Ruby from the key marginals
Requested by one H.F. Mitchell who sends one, two, three kisses to the city of Bath
Plus an extra large whopper in the post till death has two parts
OK, we've got to start filtering out these messages from Trowbridge
H.F. Mitchell?
Hamish, Florence and Mitchell
The victims
So that's one axe or a kiss at crime scene one and three kisses at crime scene three
Why kisses?
There's an extra large one in the post
OK, do you see Lee? Get on the phone and get me
276 FM
Let's see if there's two kisses in one of these china cups here
Hi, it's DCI Laura Macdonald from the west of England with stabulary
You've just made a request from an H.F. Mitchell
How did you get it? Was it text, email, phone?
Email
OK, we're going to send you an email address now
and then can you forward that as soon as you can
Thanks
I've got it
Two kisses
Here we are, the request was sent by this H.F.
Mitchell at 5.03pm a few minutes after the third murder
I don't think he said it right
He said I'm sending one, two, three kisses to the city
of Bath with an extra large one in the post, right?
Yeah
OK, well this says one, two, three X's to the city of Bath with an XL in the post
It's roman numerals 10, 20, 30 and XL is 40
Wedding anniversaries
The murder weapons, there look, ten years is aluminium, that's the knife
20 is china
30 is pearl, the gun
What's the 40th anniversary?
Ruby, and the song is Ruby Ruby
What's coming in the post?
First thing on my mind
Keep it locked on, 276 Roman Radio
We've got loads more romantic gems coming up right after the news
OK, every wedding that we know of in the city has been cancelled,
get checking, anything and everything, Ruby, streets, venues, people
It's enough
All in one day
Starting at 9.15
And the killings themselves, they might have been
opportunistic but the victims have chosen randomly
But he's, he's also weaving an intricate pattern
Meticulously choreographed
Why, why would he do that, what's he playing at?
It's not a game
Sorry but we're all running around like headless chickens because
we think we've found a pattern but we haven't found it have we?
He's given it to us
Well I know him, eh?
Just like he's given us the murder weapons and he gave us the key outside the vestry
But where's the lead to the killer? The actual
solid lead that tells us where he is and who he is?
Well the dream, you know who he is
Don't, no, don't
Well you saw him in your dream
Do not mess with me today
Sergeant Dodds, my office please
Take it down a notch
As you are
What's all this about a dream?
Oh well, um, yeah this man, I don't know quite how to put this man but DCI
Macdonald had a dream about him last night, you know, before the first murder
Are you serious?
She, well she described him in detail from his age, the colour of his hair,
his ponytail and even the snake tattoo before Lenny Wood told us about it
We need to get into this dream ma'am, I'd like to know more about
it and there's this interview technique that I'd like to try
Have we got time for that?
Well she won't want to do it but it's all we've got
Are we really this day?
Yeah, yes, we really are that desperate ma'am
OK, use my office, I need to get changed
Thank you ma'am
*Door opens*
You won't mind me back
Well I'm sorry ma'am but the stuff on that board out there represents a clear and
present danger to life so that in my opinion overrides all other considerations
No Ted
Excuse me
*Door opens*
Are we really doing this?
Yes ma'am, we are
Now what do you remember from the very beginning?
Well, I'm standing at the back of a church, I'm wearing white, my dad's there, walks me down the
aisle, it's a very sunny day, rays of light, it's all very beautiful, the happiest day of my life
Who's in the congregation?
Well there was you
Family? Friends?
Mmm, no, they were all strangers
So the pews, they were full?
There wasn't pews, it was rows of chairs, three on each side
Go on
I walk towards the altar and everything goes dark, like when
the clouds blow up the sun and then the moon tilts to the side
Who's there at the altar?
They've got their back to me but the groom and his best
man and the vicar is facing me, he looks kind of weird
Weird? Who?
Well he's very young for a vicar, but he's doing this strange gesture
Show me
What?
Go on
Then suddenly everyone disappears and I'm alone in the church, apart
from my groom and he turns around and it's the man with the snake tattoo
Yeah, it's him, it is him
What's going on? What's happening?
Strangers
Three seats either side of an aisle
The vicar, he wasn't conducting a service, he was pointing out the emergency exits
The vicar was a flight attendant, the strangers were holiday makers
He walked past me in the aisle when he was coming
out the toilet, the man with the snake tattoo
He was in the same flight
Which one?
He's in Bath, we just need the inbound flight to Bristol
This is everyone on flight AV94 from Athens last night in alphabetical
order, every passenger's photo as recorded at Bristol Airport immigration
OK, let's see him
Stop
I think that's him
Vassilis Giammakis, Greek citizen
That's him
OK, credit card hit, he is staying at the pond in Oldhampton
Let's go
Police!
Put your hands where we can see them
Secure
Getting processed
It's not him
It was an anxiety dream, the boyfriend asked me to marry him
Oh, and you refused?
No, but I didn't say yes
We were on this viewpoint thing overlooking the Pacific and the sun was setting so
He got down on one knee, told me that he loved me with
everything he's got and I just, I didn't say anything
I'm not that spontaneous Sarge, not
It's OK, OK
I hesitated and now he's got the hump and I think I'm really tired
and people are dying and I just, I didn't say yes, I just, I just
They're there, they're there
Can you not pat me? I'm not a collie
Sorry about that
Oh my God
The victims, they really need you to pull yourself together
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Start running this across the internet, does it mean something?
Can we trace where he got it? Anything to tell us who he really is
OK, so what do we know apart from the fact that he's refused to solicit her?
His passport under the name of Vassilis Geimakis is fake, but a high
grade fake and we recovered three more fake passports from his hotel room
Polish, Turkish and Armenian
Oh, the receptionist at the Pond Hotel said his
English is excellent, so he can't hide behind that
And we ran his prints across all three crime scenes, no hits
OK, so we can place him outside the church just before the first murder
Let's try and pick up other images of him around the other two
venues, we're going to need a lot more than your dream, DCR McDonald
Mitchell Morrison, Florence Saunders, Hamish Maclay, all dead. Why?
Why all these axes, all these clues for us to find
What are you playing at?
Do you know, Mum, I don't think this gentleman understands English
We'll have to get a translator in
What, Greek, Turkish, Armenian? That's
going to take time, especially on a Saturday
Well, we can hold him for 24 hours, and I reckon it will be easy to get an
extension for another 72 since he's been travelling with a fake passport
Well, it basically means we've got Snake Boy here for as long as we need him
Oh
'Mestigio Fidi Adel Fotitta' Am I saying that right?
No
'Mestigio Fotitta' translates to the whip snake
brotherhood, that snake tattoo, your Greek Mafia
Where I come from, there's many men with this tattoo
Yes, but how many of them are in Bath right now? We have
a witness that puts you at the scene of the first murder
And we have this
I have come here following a client who owes us money
My job is to make sure the client pays us back
Now maybe our client killed all those people, maybe not
I don't care, not my business, I don't belong here
You really think we're going to believe that?
Who are you following?
Well if I tell you that, my brothers will never get their money back
You know we can arrest you for obstructing justice
If you're telling the truth, that means that you're protecting a triple killer
So maybe you do belong here, in prison, for a very long time
We just want our money back
I just want a name
More than my life's worth
Ma'am, should we just pop out for a second?
Ma'am, could he be telling the truth?
Because if he is, then the person he's following is also on your flight
This is everyone on flight AV94 from Athens last night, in alphabetical order
OK, run the names through the database, see if anything pings
See if there's any connections to any of the victims or the weddings
So, snake guy over there claims he was following
someone but he won't tell us who, Greek Mafia
So either him or the person he's following suddenly turns into a wedding serial killer
Or, that's what the killer wants us to believe
All these patterns, all these crosses and murder weapons is just a big smokescreen
Ma'am, look at this
OK, the city's in panic
But the suspects in all three cases are meeting in 30 minutes
They're forming some kind of support group
Saying we've been wasting time accusing them when
there's obviously a multiple killer on the loose
Well, they're wrong about that, aren't they?
They are indeed, ma'am
OK, let's get down there
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Mr Lang
I always finish an assignment, Sergeant
Ah, marvellous
We were expecting somebody a little bit more senior, you know
Well, as you can imagine, we're a bit stretched today
So you've got us, I'm afraid
Yeah, and I've been telling you all along that this is some kind of crazed lunatic
You waste all this time and resources grilling us
Accusing me of killing my best friend
I knew nothing about Mitchell and Lilith
And we had no reason to kill Florence
You're right, all the evidence is pointing us to a crazed serial killer
So the first murder at 9.46 this morning
The killer, looking for the opportunity to kill someone, anyone
Got into the vestry at St Mary's Church through the unlocked back door
And murdered the Reverend Morris
He then took the key and we found it
With a very obvious X scratched into it
At your wedding, Sandra, the killer got into the
catering van and applied poison to one of the cups
Which was then served to Florence
This very cup there, do you see?
And it's got two little crosses scratched into it
The killing of Hamish Maclay was a random shooting with a pearl-handed revolver
Three X's etched into the bullet
One X, two X's, three X's, Roman numerals, 10, 20, 30
And the murder weapons, aluminium, china and pearl
10th, 20th and 30th wedding anniversaries
So this was the work of a multiple killer who not only
planned and executed three murders with cold precision
But also manipulated the whole inquiry
What are you saying?
Sarge?
Oh, sorry ma'am
So you see now this, this cup here
This is the key that unlocks the whole scheme
And it gets us to the truth
We know the killer broke into the catering wagon
Adulterated this very cup here with poison
And then marked it with two X's
For two reasons
One was to misdirect us
Get us to think that this was all the work of some crazed serial killer
But there was another, deeper purpose
Because when the appetiser was served the
murderer would know which of those was the poison
And ensure that it was placed in front of Florence Saunders
The murders of Mitchell Morrison and Hamish Maclay were random and opportunistic
But the murder of Florence Saunders was specific, deliberate and premeditated
She was always supposed to die
So does that mean one of them did it?
Not one of them
Because I was punched by a bloke
I was poisoned too
Well maybe you took a small dose so we'd rule you out
Maybe lots of things
If I did this why would I even be here?
Well because all these people they believe that
these three murders are the work of a serial killer
And it's in your interest for them and the world and us
To believe that too
You knew this man was following you
He's Greek mafia isn't he?
And you knew that he was following you because you owed him lots of money
And you knew about his tattoo
So you used that to your advantage
By confusing and deflecting us
I'm guessing you painted on the same tattoo
And made sure Lenny here saw it in the vestry
Maybe you should look at the obvious explanation
I don't have the money to repay them
So this is how they punished me
Framed me for three murders
That guy's a killer not me
We have him in custody
Good so charge him
Well the problem is I don't have any evidence against him
And everything he's told us about you suggests that you killed three people today
Oh he said I did this
It's been a long nightmare of a day
Three murders right under your nose and you haven't got a clue
You're tired and desperate
If you had one shred of physical evidence you'd have me in cuffs
Why would I kill Florence?
Revenge?
21 years ago Florence was responsible for the death of Kirsten Lewis
Your fiance
And the crash that killed her
Wasn't you driving was it?
It was Florence
Had she been drinking is that why you took the blame?
Do you think this is what she would have wanted?
Three people dead is that her legacy?
Legacy?
Are you kidding me?
I need to go, plane to catch
We've cancelled your ticket
Did you kill your sister?
I just lost Kirsten
I didn't want to lose my sister too so I told the police I was driving
Six months later Florence started drinking again and I had to leave the country
And Florence is in love, she's getting married, she's happy
Here I am burdened with debt
Flow had cash
If I framed Vassilis I could get the cash, clear my debt and get him off my back
So where's my legacy?
What is this?
Nothing but this
Two innocent people
And my daughter in law
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This is Paul Watt signing off and what can I say
three confirmed fatalities at three different weddings
On a day when we were supposed to be celebrating love and lifelong companionship
I guess I should play something poignant and emotional but
sometimes when you're left asking yourself where is the hope
Maybe silence is the only answer
Good night
You in her?
You know we had the first three months of a like relationship and three minutes
Is that a good thing?
I don't know
Do you ever wonder where the hope is Sarge?
Oh yeah I do, I do, more and more
And?
All we have is tomorrow
So I'm going to amber down to the sun rising
Sink a couple of pints of old peculiar
With a packet of salt and vinegar and lose badly again at darts
After Brian Watson and then walk home and count my legs
I have not my money
Sounds quite nice
How do you go?
Night night ma'am
Night night Sarge
The answer's yes
[Laughing]
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