This programme contains strong language and adult themes.
(HUBBUB)
Now you need to properly face the idea of leaving this place.
This entire town will be underwater.
We're building the wall, we're finishing the wall
and it'll protect the town.
JACKIE: 'I'm really sorry that I have to tell you this...
but I just found Cefin.'
(CRIES OUT)
'I found him in a drainage ditch.' (SOBS)
I think he drowned, Shell.
OWEN: Don't let this take you back there, Jackie.
Is it Nessa Taman? No. Male.
- Cefin's my best friend. - And were you with him after school yesterday?
- You were? After school? - You are not the right person for this.
You've already destroyed one family with your investigation.
You bastard! Dylan, stop!
You should never have left - the force. - My partner,
who I trusted with my entire life, fucked it up when they betrayed me.
IRENE: The sample's sea water. The water in his lungs is fresh water.
That ditch is not where Cefin died.
So I er, I hear you've got some theories about children, Osian.
You shouldn't have them.
Having children will condemn humanity to a hellish future.
(DOG GROWLS SOFTLY)
OK. Could you tell me, please, where you were on Thursday,
after the incident in the playground?
I was here.
I was here too, all day.
Lots of people saw my brother, the councillor, Gareth Morgan.
Do you think this is what happened to Nessa?
We don't know what "this" is yet.
Because everyone is wondering if we should start worrying
that one of us is capable of something like that.
Do you think one of you IS capable of doing something like that?
Oh, I think we all are.
If the circumstances are right, anyone could be capable of anything.
(SLURPS)
Personally though, I'm more worried about sink holes.
They're something to watch out for.
♪ BEADIE: Mosaic
♪ Night after sorrow
♪ You're my song
♪ Strings will collide
♪ We are undone
♪ Dark in the waters
♪ Deep in regret
♪ Better to remember
♪ Or better to forget...
(MUSIC FADES)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Not wrapping up any time soon? We're all wondering -
It doesn't look like it, does it? This town's been through a lot.
Remember? We'd hoped to see the back of you.
OK. That's enough of the interior decorating, thank you.
Let's get going. Detective Deng, can you please present? Is this me?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Oh. - Hi. - Jackie.
I just er... I wanted to see how James is doing.
Exhausted.
You know... nightmares all night.
My brother's come over to distract him.
Come in.
Cefin Hill left school with James Rees at 3:30.
Their usual route home takes them to the corner, where they split up.
We have witnesses saying they headed out of the school gates
towards this corner but no witnesses who saw them after that.
At five, James Rees returned home.
Cefin's body was found in a ditch at 7.30pm.
The body was intact but missing
a pair of blue Wellington boots, size two.
Now, the ditch had seawater in it but he drowned in fresh water,
so we know the body was moved.
We suspect it was brought along the footpath.
We don't have any CCTV -What we don't have is a primary crime scene.
And we only have a small window left to recover whatever forensics we can
from whoever moved the body. We have the handprint from the bank.
Which is incomplete and inexact.
Look, our biggest lead remains fresh water, OK?
This includes sheep troughs, water butts, garden features,
garden ponds, anything that can be filled with a hose.
Now, since no-one saw them after school,
then they were probably somewhere remote.
So, the footpath, it runs from the town through the marsh
to the Spider Island community in this vast tidal area.
There's also Solomon Bevan's farm - that's Cefin's grandfather -
and then there's Coed Mawr, here.
Which is the woods where Nessa Taman went missing.
If we find the evidence to link them, then we'll link them.
But until then, can we please just concentrate
on how Cefin Hill died and who was involved?
It's the weekend, perfect for meet and greets. Let's get to it, please.
Thank you. Deng? Deng?
Yeah, yeah. Have you got nieces and nephews?
Er, yeah. - I've got one nephew, he's two. - OK.
You're gonna interview James Rees.
I'm going to find out about that pipeline.
(SOFTLY) OK.
(CHATTER ON TV IN WELSH)
We're gonna watch TV all day, aren't we, boy?
James, can I show you something?
Here, just pause it for a minute.
(TV SOUND OFF) It's um...
...something that Cefin drew.
Do you know what it is?
That's the bee man.
Look. It is nearly better.
That's good. I'm glad.
The bee man?
Does he have a name?
Kieran.
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
Kieran Benbow?
I think.
- Did Cefin know him? - He gave Cefin a present for his birthday.
A present? (WHOOSHING ON TV)
(TV SOUND OFF)
James...
...were you and Cefin with Kieran on Thursday after school?
Are you questioning him?
I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important.
To who?
Important to who?
Come here. Come on.
How does he know Kieran? Why is he going to Spider Island?
Why would you let him do that? Slow down, Jackie.
Kieran Benbow was a suspect in Nessa's disappearance, Dylan.
That was years ago. I'm gonna speak to him.
Jackie, come on, don't. Has it not occurred to you
that what happened to Cefin might be connected to Nessa?
I don't know anything about it. It's not council owned.
Well, whose pipeline is it?
If it runs from up there, then probably Spider island.
Up there? Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop.
What? See there?
Where? There, look.
Redshank eggs. Oh, yeah.
That's weird. They shouldn't be nesting in October.
Um...
Your officers are not gonna be all over here now, are they?
Because there are a lot of rare marsh birds.
I'll tell them to be careful. So how long do you think
this pipeline's been here?
I'd say maybe a fortnight or else I would have seen it.
The homes on Spider Island are extremely precarious
and there's been a lot of high tides,
so I imagine that's why they put it in.
All this, yeah.
All this will be underwater soon.
What's going on with that weather front in the Gulf of Mexico?
It's er, unpredictable.
One minute it looks like a tropical depression, all normal,
and then the next it's a full-blown hurricane, 200km winds.
And do you think it's going to affect us?
The jet streams coming off it will create other storms
and those storms will hit Western Europe,
we just don't know exactly when or where.
Yeah.
Listen, I wanted to er...
I'm sorry if I um... put you on the spot yesterday.
I know you're here in a professional capacity
and I would never want to make you feel uncomfortable.
It's just it was, you know...
...a nice surprise to see you again.
Right. OK, look, I'm just going to er...
Yeah, that's fine. - Alright then. - You get on.
(EERIE MUSIC)
(BEES BUZZING)
No-one ever wants to come up this way.
I guess that's why they love Spider Island.
Would you ever join them, if we had to leave Morfa?
I don't want to live with them lot.
Don't you know some of them? Jean, Kieran.
Kieran Benbow.
All this with cousin Cefin and his accident.
It reminds me of when Nessa disappeared.
In what way?
I don't know. It just makes me feel bad.
Guilty, you know?
You don't need to feel guilty, Kathy.
Leave that to the adults. Two hours, alright?
(TENSE MUSIC)
Kieran?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(DISTANT CONVERSATION)
(INDISTINCT HEATED CONVERSATION)
I'm gonna have to be honest. That's all I can do, Shell.
(SOFTLY) Shit.
(INDISTINCT DISTANT CONVERSATION)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
MAN: Yeah? (DISTANT DOOR OPENS)
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
What in the fucking hell are you doing here?
What are you doing here? Are you bringing him in?
I should take you in for breaking and entering.
Don't wind yourself up, Bull. Jackie, you need to back off.
Do you hear me? OK? (FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)
Kieran.
- I've got nothing to hide. - Yeah, just come with me a minute, will you?
Listen, would you mind if we had a chat down the station, that OK?
(CONVERSATION CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Alright, Danny. Hey, Jackie.
Is Shell in?
No.
She's with the family up at the farm.
She went up this morning. Yeah, I just... I just... I couldn't face it.
Well, the police came this morning. Um...
Took things from Cefin's bedroom.
They er... they said not to say anything
but they know...
...they know someone moved his body.
What? Yeah. Someone here.
We assume.
Living here.
Why would they do something like that?
I don't know, Danny.
Yeah.
Hey, look, um, we're not gonna open and the freezer's full um, so...
Here, why don't you take this.
Er, these are... these are good. I don't eat meat, but thank you.
You could take those and er... I can't throw these out.
(SHAKILY) Um... would you er...
would you wanna take some... would you wanna...
Look, why don't you take some for your Dad, eh?
(GASPS BREATHLESSLY)
(SNIFFLES) I can't breathe. It's alright.
(PANICKED GASPS) Come here. Try and breathe through your nose.
(PANICKED GASPS) In through your nose...
(INHALES SHAKILY)..and then out through your mouth. Slowly.
(GASPS) Do it again. (INHALES DEEPLY)
(EXHALES SHAKILY) That's it, that's it.
One more time.(INHALES DEEPLY) In through your nose.
I'm sorry. Sorry! It's alright.
Sorry. Come here.
(GASPS TEARFULLY) Sorry. It's alright.
I'm sorry.
Jackie, you'll um...
...tell me, won't you, if you hear anything, anything at all?
You'll let me know, won't you?
They don't tell me anything anymore.
Yeah. But um I...
What?
They er...
they're questioning everyone again, right? They will.
- Yeah? - But I heard they're speaking to Kieran, Kieran Benbow.
Why Kieran Benbow?
Remember in Nessa's case?
Yeah -He was seen in the woods the morning that she went missing.
He was seen repeatedly, you know where the kids' swing is?
And now I've heard he's been spending time with Cefin.
No, he didn't um...
He didn't spend time with Cefin.
He gave him a present.
What? What kind of present?
What kind of present, Jackie? I don't know.
Er...
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything about Kieran. I just...
I know the police are gonna talk to you
once they know something for sure, I know they will.
I'm sorry.
(SHOP BELL TINKLES)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
Last time I was here you were living - in a bungalow on the seafront. - Yeah.
The council bought it up and smashed it down almost a year ago now.
OK, so then you took the payout and you moved to the sticks, yeah?
How many people live - on Spider Island? - There's 16 of us.
We're a community living in unison with the environment.
How does living in unison with the environment include dumping seawater
into a town that's already half - drowned? - Don't take the piss.
Hey, sit down. Kieran, sit down. We're only having a friendly chat.
I know how friendly chats go.
I live every day with the friendly chat we had three years ago.
It's like a bad smell.
People step away from me.
I know you know cos I see how people here look at you.
A child has been found dead
in the same ditch that you drain seawater into.
He also had a bee sting on his neck.
I think you better sit down, don't you?
Thank you.
You were tending your beehives on Thursday afternoon, is that right?
- Yes. - Was Cefin Hill with you? No, he wasn't.
But you do know Cefin Hill? - I know who he is. - Yeah.
Cos him and his best friend, James Rees...
...both had bee stings. There's plenty of bees around.
They're defensive creatures. Are they?
Yeah. And they do sting when they feel threatened.
I'm not doing this without a lawyer present.
I only agreed to talk to you about the pipeline.
OK, yeah. We'll stick to the pipeline.
How does it work?
The generator that services all the boats is sinking.
We're living below sea level.
We're doing all we can to survive. Yeah, I get it.
So, could you er, write a list of everyone who knows about it, please?
Just here.
I've got a list of all the Spider Islanders
who knew about the pipeline.
I want statements, please.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ON RECORDING)
James wouldn't speak to me.
Nothing. Not even his name.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ON RECORDING)
I doubt we can get another interview.
We're gonna have to.
He looks scared.
Um, before I came to Morfa,
I read over your notes - on the Nessa Taman case. - Mm-hmm.
And there are a number of links.
You interviewed both Osian Northam and Kieran Benbow.
And...
There was a farmhand at the Bevan's too. August Antonov.
- Do you remember him? - Yeah. He came in and made a statement.
Well no, he wanted to give a statement but he never did.
There was no interpreter available and, by the time one was found,
he'd decided he didn't want to make a statement anymore.
We spoke to a lot of people back then.
There's nothing to suggest he knows anything about this case.
Yes, but he just might help shed light on -
Have you done a record-check on all the labourers
that were working on the sea wall? No.
Mac Jones hasn't given us a list of who was working yet.
He wanted to speak to you first. - Why? - He didn't say.
OK.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
Oi!
Oh, fuck.
What are you doing here?
It's not a crime scene anymore, Bull. You need to stop now, Ellis.
You are a liability. If we wanted to bring in any evidence
from Kieran's boat it wouldn't be admissible now.
There's a child-sized beekeeping suit on that boat. You gotta bring it in.
Jesus fucking Christ!
It's perfectly useable as evidence. But you gotta bring it in right now.
Don't you tell me what I need to do.
OK?
I heard the body was moved.
I can't help but be part of this,
Bullshit. Of course you can. Look at this.
Please.
Cefin drew this.
Nessa drew this. Three years apart.
Two days before Cefin died and Nessa went missing.
- Just go home, Ellis. - You can't tell me they're not connected.
You need to stop playing at being detective. For your own sake, right?
- Fuck off. - For your own sake. You're fucking high risk and you know it.
You know everyone here, you're impulsive,
talking to suspects, breaking into fucking boats.
You are interfering with this investigation and if you do not stop
I will have you arrested. Do you understand?
You cannot tell me that they're not linked.
Go home.
You've got to investigate both cases, Bull.
Give me an argument for linking Nessa Taman's case...
...with Cefin Hill's.
Well, the MO's similar.
Both nine year-old children missing in similar circumstances.
We don't know they were similar because Nessa's body was never recovered.
But it's unlikely to be a kidnapping and, given her age,
it's highly likely she's dead. We might be interviewing the same suspects,
but there is no link in the evidence or witness statements,
and your MO is questionable.
How's the cauliflower cheese?
Not bad.
Have you finished with it?
Cheers, thank you.
I know why you don't want the cases to be linked.
It would make you wrong about Jackie Ellis's sister, Lydia Taman.
I know that was a big thing, when you accused her.
Is that why Jackie Ellis resigned?
Because you accused her sister of Nessa's murder?
Jackie Ellis was suspended for gross misconduct. That's why she left.
Misconduct? Yeah.
(DISTANT ROCK MUSIC)
♪ CREAM: Strange Brew
♪ She's some kind of demon
♪ Messin' in the glue
♪ If you don't watch out
♪ It'll stick to you
♪ To you
♪ What kind of fool are you?
♪ Strange brew
♪ Killin' what's inside of you...
(MUSIC FADES)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
(INDISTINCT HEATED CONVERSATION)
(SIGHS)
(DISTANT BIRDSONG)
(LAUGH ECHOES)
(GROANS SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
You alright?
Shell.
Sticking your bloody beak in.
Do you know last night was the first night in 16 years
that Danny didn't sleep in his house?
He was that upset. Shell, I understand.
I'm so sorry - I should be furious with you.
Do you know, I am furious with you.
I didn't tell Danny but I saw you at Spider Island with Kieran.
You're such a fucking nosey parker, Jackie Ellis.
This has nothing to do with Kieran.
Not in the way you think.
Well, in what way then? Stay out of this.
Are you still seeing him? It was a bloody long time ago.
Just leave it, yeah?
Wasn't it around the time Cefin was born, Shell?
Stay out of it.
(EXHALES SHAKILY)
What you doing here?
- I couldn't sleep. - What about my sister? Get yourself home.
Be with her and the boys. What do you think you're doing?
- She's alright. - She's bloody not. Now, go home. Now.
The hair we found on his body is not Cefin's.
We ran it through the database, no match.
OK.
Any other details? Er, it's cut short. Brownish.
Right.
The fingernail scrapings... Yeah... contain butyl rubber fibres
and high-density polyethylene fibres. No DNA.
Likely your killer wore a protective suit and rubber gloves.
And we're not talking about Marigolds.
My killer? - Most certainly. - Shit.
Cefin was held under the water...
...and he struggled.
There's bruising on the back of his neck.
Finger marks.
Shall I go on?
Yeah. Yeah.
Er, we found traces of sodium hydroxide in Cefin's eyes.
Sorry, sodium what? Lye. Caustic soda.
It's highly alkaline and corrosive, depending on the dilution.
Given the inflammation around his eyes, nose and mouth,
it appears to have been in the water he was drowned in.
But how would it have ended up in the water?
Are there any landfills in that area?
Landfills? - First place I'd look. - OK.
Alright then.
Look, is there er... anything else I should know?
Close contact with sodium hydroxide
can cause a nasty burn on the skin.
Well, was Cefin burned? No, but your killer could be.
OK. Thanks, Irene. Thank you.
Detective. Mac Jones.
I need a list of all the labourers that were working on Thursday.
I wanted to speak to you before I gave you the list.
The ledger's in the yard, do you - want to follow me there? - OK, yeah.
You been out of town?
I had to pick these up. Mm-hmm.
Back in a second. Thank you.
Names, addresses, days worked, it's all there. Every man I've employed.
- You're welcome to copy it. - Alright. Can I just check, just to be clear,
that you were on site from 4pm on Thursday
until you went to the town meeting - at 7? - That's right.
Listen, I wanted to speak to you because you see over there...
What, Dylan Rees? Yeah.
He was working the day Cefin died but he was here, alone, not on site.
And he's got a record. It's minor. A long time ago.
Stole some TVs, possession of weed. I know about Dylan Rees.
Well, he's an idiot, but he's a good idiot.
And I know how these things work - you look for people with records -
but I want to reiterate Dylan's a good guy,
he'd nothing to do with this. Why was he here, not on site?
I tend to keep people here for deliveries and so on.
And what's happening with Sunnyside? We're waiting for planning.
- Yeah? - Been four years already. It's a ruin.
Yeah.2005. Massive flood, took out the whole site.
I used to come over here as a kid.
I thought it was magic.
They'll love it when we've done it up.
I thought you were all being encouraged to leave Morfa?
I love this place. I met Nisha here.
We've a one-year-old now.
This is home. We all feel like that.
And this wall will mean none of us will have to leave.
Thanks for this. I'll get it - - back to you. - Good luck. - Cheers.
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
SHELL: - Come on, let's get in the car. - OK.
DENG: Right, I see.
And there are no council ones?
OK. (PHONE CLICKS)
So, the nearest landfill is 30 miles away on the mainland.
It's too far. With the time of death and the tides,
he must have died here. (INDISTINCT DISTANT CHATTER)
(CHATTER CONTINUES)
Hey.
Kieran Benbow.
(GULLS SCREECH)
Dad. Hello, love.
- Hi. - Hello. - How are you doing? - Hi.
Hello, little one.
I want to thank you all for coming,
to pay your respects to us
and to pay your respects to Cefin.
Cefin was a splendid boy...
...and he loved this place.
He loved this community...
...and he wouldn't want to see us lose that, you know, lose each other,
lose this place.
Morfa Halen was everything Cefin knew and loved.
So, you know, whatever lies ahead...
...we must all stick together.
The police have been in touch with us...
...and they don't think Cefin's death was an accident.
We just want to understand what happened, you know?
So if any of you know anything or hear anything
and don't want to go to the police,
then come to me, will you?
Eh?
I mean, we just want to...
(SIGHS)
(IN WELSH) # Dwedwch fawrion
(OTHERS JOIN IN) # O wybodaeth
♪ O ba beth
♪ Y gwnaethpwyd hiraeth
♪ A pha ddefnydd
♪ A roed ynddo
♪ Na ddarfyddo
♪ Wrth ei wisgo?
♪ Derfydd aur
♪ A derfydd arian
♪ Derfydd melfed
♪ Derfydd sidan... ♪
(LIVELY CHATTER)
(HEATED ARGUMENT IN WELSH)
(ARGUMENT CONTINUES)
(WIND WHISTLES)
Kieran!
What are you doing here?
Paying my respects. You think it's respectful
showing up when the family know you're being questioned?
Look, I know you want to pin this on me
but I had nothing to do with Nessa and I have nothing to do with this.
I know he was your child.
Cefin.
How do you fucking know that?
Who told you?
Was it Shell?
DENG: Jackie Ellis.
Detective Jess Deng.
I'm Bull's DSIO.
Assigned for the case, not his partner.
I heard you were good police.
This your first case?
You don't need to let that - worry you. We're all over it. - Yeah.
I had that confidence on my first case.
Nothing's straightforward, Detective. You've got to listen to your doubts.
And if you don't have 'em, you gotta find 'em. (KIDS SHOUT)
Danny!
Shell. I know he's really upset.
Where's he going?
Shell?
Is he going to Spider Island?
Bring him back, Jackie. Please.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Kath! Kath!
Listen, will you wait there for a sec? I'll be right back.
Oi!
Where are they going? - Eh? - Your cousin Kath and Jackie,
where are they going? They're going to Spider Island.
Shit.
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
DANNY: I'm not gonna hurt anyone, OK?
I just wanna talk to Kieran, that's all.
Danny. Jackie.
I want to help you, Danny.
There's nothing you can do.
It's between me and Kieran.
Get out of here, please. Give him some space.
I know... why you kept going to the woods.
It's where you met him, isn't it?
Shell told me.
For years...
you met and played with my boy...
like he was your own son. It wasn't like that.
Danny, put it down. Please. Did you ever tell him?
No. Danny, we can figure it out.
I just wanted was to see him occasionally, that's all it was.
It changes everything, him knowing.
- He didn't know. - Don't tell me what you think I want to hear!
OK. Danny.
Stop this. Put it down.
Did you kill him? No!
Put the gun down, Danny. Please.
I...
...I always suspected but I never knew.
And...
yeah, it didn't... it didn't matter when he was alive.
It just didn't matter. He was just...
He was there being... beautiful Cefin...
...and I was there being his Dad.
Do you have any idea... what it's like...
...to stand there,
in front of...
...in front of everyone,
friends consoling you...
...paying their respects to...
to Cefin's father?
And I'm thinking, "It's all a lie."
You're his father.
You are. So...
...what does that make me?
An imposter.
Fuck it.
(COCKS GUN) No, Danny!
(GASPS) You're his father, Danny. Look at me.
You cared for that boy day in, day out, since he was born.
You loved him.
OK? That's what family is.
That's what parenting is, not fucking genetics.
And that's why you're grieving.
And you've got every right to grieve because he loved you, Danny.
Oh, jeez.
No!
(EXHALES WEARILY) It's alright.
I'm sorry.
It's alright. I'm sorry.
(GASPS WEARILY)
(SOBS)
I'm so sorry. I don't know what I'm fucking doing.
(SOBS)
It's OK.
(SOBS)
Come on then, Danny.
So that's why you were in the woods that day Nessa disappeared.
You were with Cefin.
I... I know you think I saw her
but... I didn't.
She wasn't there. No-one was.
The woods were empty.
Six of the Bevan cousins said
they saw her playing in the woods that day.
Six Bevan kids lied.
Just keep an eye on him. Thank you.
OK? Good night. Come inside.
Everywhere, you are, in't yer, eh?
Jackie Ellis in everyone's business, as usual.
Well, thank God one of us is.
You know people round here don't lock their houses
because they trust one other.
- They trust me. - So what are you saying, that I need your help?
Yeah. Use me.
But... it can't be a one-way thing.
You've got to share information - with me. - Against the bloody rules.
Grow up.
Evidence has already been washed away.
We don't have time for fucking rules.
So...
...Kieran Benbow...
He said that Nessa wasn't in the woods the day she disappeared...
that none of the kids were.
And if that's true then...
everything we thought we knew about Nessa's last moments,
they're not true, are they?
And all the Bevan cousins are fucking lying.
I think that Cefin MIGHT have gone to their farm after school.
Why do you say that?
Just got a hunch.
You don't have hunches.
James told me.
On the beach. He said to me, "Sometimes me and Cefin
used to go and play at Solomon's farm after school."
But he won't talk to Deng. I mean, you're his teacher.
Maybe you could sit in on an interview and we could er...
I dunno, it could help us out.
Hiya. You OK, Shell?
I've been told you're asking around town about... about a landfill.
Yeah? Look, I can't be sure,
but I think there's waste buried up at the old quarry.
On my dad's land, out beyond the farm.
OK. Thank you.
This could be our primary crime scene.
Come on then.
Get in.
(UNSETTLING MUSIC)
So, Cefin was drowned in water that showed traces of sodium hydroxide.
Irene said the most likely source is industrial waste.
Solomon would never allow it on - his land. - Well, let's see, shall we?
Look, barrels.
Why would Cefin come all the way out here?
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