George.
Come here.
Yeah.
I suppose there is no doubt that it was arson.
Well, the chief fire officer thinks so, yes,
but we need forensics, Jack.
They should be able to get into the reception now.
That's where the fire started.
Right.
I suppose you'll want a statement.
Well, you have been conscious for at least 10 minutes.
So, we ought get started, shall we?
No jokes.
The laughings what hurts.
Hey, come on.
Come on now. You're doing so well.
Unless they'll charged, we're going to have to release them.
Mrs. Moorehead's lucky to be alive.
I don't know how she feels now about being the only witness we have.
Oh, hello, it's Sophie, isn't it? And Joshua.
I'm Inspector Frost, Jack Frost.
Is she all right, Mr. Frost?
Oh, well, yes. She's going to be fine.
Ah, You guys go and see mom. I'll catch up.
- Yes. Yes. Right down the corridor on the left. - Thank you.
- Allen Moorehead. - Oh, how do you do?
We'll give the kids an edited version of what happened.
Is she all right?
Yes. She's going to be fine.
But the line between that and what might have been was pretty close.
Was this fire an accident?
Um... No. I don't think it was.
I gather you're a friend as well.
Christine won't think that's any of my business,
but we've got two children who's safety makes it my business.
Yes. Of course.
Well, Christine will fill you in with the details.
I'm afraid that I must be off.
- Nice to have met you. - And you.
Yeah. Bye-bye.
So, if you just like to check through all the details,
make sure it's all good and signed at the bottom please.
OK.
What do you want, Mr. Salmond.
Don't worry, Inspector, not you.
My car's being stolen last night.
Really?
Well, quite a lot happened last night then.
Something I should know about?
You judge.
There was a fire at the RSPCA Center.
The fire brigade told us it was arson.
So, if Mr. Berland hasn't been in touch with you, he will be.
Oh, is that an accusation, Inspector?
Mrs. Moorehead was in the clinic last night when it was firebombed.
Now, they called him the cat killer not because he killed cats.
No. Nope.
Because he used cats at least twice to get his victims to stop.
Yes. Yes. I know that, Trigg.
Yes. I'm just cranking up my motor.
It's a long time ago, you know, 20 years.
- Twenty-two. - What?
It's here. Look.
Daniel Rockman.
Where is Daniel Rockman now?
Well, it was another two years before he was caught.
He killed two more women by then though,
but that's all we got in the computer.
Daniel Rockman died 21st of April 2003 at Broadmoor.
Transferred from Leeds in '98.
Ten years to work out, he's barking mad.
Well, it looks like you were right, Trigg.
We've got two crimes that are the same as something that happened years ago.
Three.
What?
If Mr. Trigg is right about the attack on your car and the smashed kitchen window.
Hmm. All right.
Get me everything you can on the underpass, the cat killer,
and the attacks on officers' cars, all right?
Oh and see if there's anything about something being written on a windscreen.
Like what?
Like a death threat.
- George. - Hmm.
There was a kitten where Phillip Headon was killed.
Where is it?
- I don't know, Jack. - Well, find it.
Gerry Berland's. We're trying to reach you all morning.
No charges against his son or the other boy.
They're due for release.
He wants to know why you're not on it?
- That's not only he wants me on. - Well, I do want him on my back.
- All right. - Did they find your car, Rick?
No. And I don't have high hopes.
I hope Berland is paying us a lot of money.
It's Greg's problem not mine.
Yeah. He is the problem.
Somebody who hasn't done much for the reputation of this practice.
Since when has that been any concern of yours?
Well, I hope soon it will be, Alice.
Neil, call over tomorrow, party.
The RSPCA,
Berland has an alibi?
His house was burgled.
They made such a fuss that no one from CID was turned out.
So his alibi is Georgie Toolan.
Be careful about making it too personal, Jack.
That's a weapon his lawyer will use against us.
Why would I want to make it personal?
Hello.
Hi, Maxine, Christine Moorehead.
Emergency.
Let's say my hair needs some attention.
Can you come to the house?
Oh, great.
Oh, you're an angel. Thanks.
See you then. Bye.
He's had someone following my kids, Jack, photographing them.
Berland is not going to get away with this, Christine.
He is not, I promise you.
I made a decision.
Nobody would intimidate me out of telling the truth about Brian's murder.
But it's not me I'm afraid for, Jack,
not now.
All right, Marek.
She shut up, right?
Oh, she shut up, all right.
It's a surprise though she hasn't been shut up for good.
You remember the brief. Yeah?
A small fire after the place was empty?
The job is done.
Yeah.
I think you've been sampling too much of the merchandise, me old son.
You should take a holiday, Marek, eh?
Poland, see the family?
By the way, here's a wee bonus for you.
It's one of the Taleban's best.
Knock yourself out.
Hey, George.
- We found Mr. Salmond's pride and joy then, have we? - Yeah.
Someone tried burning it out by the Fernside Shopping Center.
They weren't very good of it.
But it's not your average nicked car.
What?
Keys, still in the ignition.
And this, 50 grams of cocaine found in the boot.
And the car also matches the description of a hit and run
that's put a 4-year-old girl in a hospital.
She's in a coma.
That's it. That's the car.
Are you sure?
It was only a moment but I could still see it now.
You know who did it.
This car was reported stolen the night or the morning before the accident.
Now, we have this car.
And if there are any traces of the bike on it, we know it's the one.
It's not just about finding the car, it's about what was in it.
I just bought some coke quite a lot, and it was in the boot.
- You left it in your car? - I was out of my treat.
- Alice, I don't even remember getting home. - Do I want to hear this?
- If they think the drugs had something to do with me, then we... - Why would they?
Criminals steal cars. They use them for crimes.
Well, I would have to prove that I was at home that night,
and that I never went out.
You expect me to lie for you.
I don't think they could prove anything, but surely,
it's better for all of us if they don't even try.
The question of what I would be doing with that much coke.
A Mugging, a murder and a bike rider who's into ancient history.
Your ancient history, Jack.
And now, death threat.
Words on the windscreen.
It doesn't put us in a position to make a link, does it?
Well, if we haven't lost the evidence, of course.
I was in no position to do a forensic examination last night, was I?
Anyway, who's ever doing this knows a lot about you, you specifically.
And our man is dead.
What about the RSPCA?
Is there any way this could be linked to Berland?
No. No. Berland's too clever to threaten me.
Trigg's right.
If the death threat does connect,
it'll be with the mountain bike attacks.
Jenny and I are trying to find a link between the original attacks
20 years ago.
Yeah. But there was no link then, was there?
They both gave you a hard time.
There was a lot of criticism of CID.
The criminals went on to commit similar crimes to kill.
Those were the feeling things we missed.
I'm not saying it's true.
No. But maybe it was.
I mean, it wasn't Denton's CID's finest hour, was it?
Or mine either, come to that.
The attacks on officer's cars was never solved,
not in the same league, I know,
but still a failure.
Someone's rubbing your nose in it, Jack.
That's the nearest I can get.
No. It goes deeper than that.
We're investigating a murder.
I know we are, Jack.
And until it's proved otherwise,
I'm taking it that this death threat is real.
The cat is about 5 months old.
Anything distinctive?
No.
If we had an Abyssinian, or a Persian, or a Russian Blue,
you could start with a list of breeders.
This is all muggy.
I couldn't guess how many of these have been born around Denton in a week,
dumped, drowned, thrown out of cars.
And occasionally, given a loving home.
Would he have been bought?
Probably not.
Oh, but this was.
Most cats don't even get a collar.
A big pet shop would sell dozens of dog leads in a week.
They wouldn't sell one of these in a month.
- Can I take it like that? - Oh.
Thank you.
I thought you were going to get your hair done?
No barrier, no CCTV,
easy enough to steal a car from here.
Especially, if you leave the keys in the ignition.
Hello, here he is.
Oh, inspector.
Hello.
Not bad eh, living above the shop?
Yeah. Well, only during the week, you know.
So good news, found the car then?
What's the damage?
I thought you didn't want anything to do with Sean anymore.
If Sean and I didn't do anything,
we should be behaving like we didn't,
according to Mr. Berland.
You do everything he says.
Why not?
You do.
What time did you arrive home?
Just before 9 with my girlfriend, Alice Parmenter.
She can vouch for that, can't she?
Yeah.
Sorry.
I don't mean to come to heavy handed, solicitor.
Particularly when you found my car so quickly,
but why am I being interrogated?
A time frame, Mr. Salmond.
Right.
Well, like I said, we got back just before 9 and
I didn't leave again the next morning 'till 10
when I saw the car was gone.
So, the car could have been stolen that night or the next morning?
Well, I guess.
Did you know that there was nearly 2,000 pounds' worth of cocaine in the boot?
Ah, no.
No, I... um.
So, it was stolen for crime then?
I guess.
But they dumped the car with the drugs in it.
That's a little... it's a little odd, isn't it?
Well, the car was also involved in an accident,
a serious hit and run that put a little girl in Denton Hospital.
She's in a coma.
Her mother and father are praying that she'll come out of it.
So, what I need from you, Mr. Salmond,
is evidence that your car was really stolen.
All right, everybody?
That's some drinking in there.
Sean,
what are you doing up here?
Come on. It's like a wake down there.
A wake.
Yeah. Let's cool, dad.
No, son, come on. Come on.
Put it behind you. Come on. Put it behind you.
You don't need to think about this stuff again.
It's all right.
Come downstairs.
There's hardly anybody here.
What did you expect?
Well, my X to rally around.
It's what people do when there's trouble.
You're confusing people with us, Gerry.
Most people don't have a party when a boy gets killed.
Aloo a gobi or gobi as some people say.
Bombay Aloo.
Well, you can't have enough potatoes if
you're having Indian. That's what I would say.
Prawn madras and chicken madras
Now, for the rice.
Lovely.
What's the matter? Don't you like Indian?
We don't usually have in quite such large amounts, Mr. Frost.
Right.
Well, look, call me Jack, please.
Is that your real name?
No. My real name is William,
but don't tell your mother because she'll be using it.
Wow. Right.
Let's dish up, shall we?
Right. Yes.
Could you go get Josh for me?
Yup. Yup.
I'll a... Oh, thanks, right.
He's upstairs.
Upstairs, right.
Follow the noise.
What's going on now, mom?
Nothing.
I've been working with Inspector Frost.
He's been very kind to me.
I see.
This is all part of a community policing scheme, is it?
Dinner's ready.
Mr. Frost.
Hmm.
You know, the fire at mom's work?
Yeah.
Well, she said it was an accident.
I don't believe her.
Look, you won't get along very well with us
if you don't tell us the truth.
Well, with me, anyway.
Would you like me to get along well with you?
Mom would want you to.
Yeah, well, at least, we know who's been following Christine's kids.
Petrol, tar, sugar.
Have you set fire to the RSPCA Clinic, eh?
That's closer if you're going to get to the forensic analysis of what did it.
Yeah.
Who was he?
Well, he rented the room as Joseph Malkovich.
The landlord thought he heard him speaking Polish on the telephone.
- His name in the driving license is Marek Lisowski. - Lisowski.
Look at this, cause of death, do you reckon?
This bloat worked for Berland.
So do we bring Berland in?
No.
No. No. Not yet.
I don't want him to know about Lisowski, not until we know more.
Now, you didn't investigate Mr. Berland's burglary, did you?
When I turned up, it was all we could do to stop laughing.
Yeah. Well, I know.
But you see, you didn't interview the neighbors, did you.
There was no forensic, no dogs.
Very often, it's not for a while after the burglary that people realize
what in fact has been taken.
You'd like to look at this list that your husband gave Sargent Toolan?
There's nothing else, inspector. I wasn't even here.
- Gerry... - I'm sure he's filled you in.
What's the meaning of piling in here and searching my house,
I mean, where's your warrant?
We're investigating a burglary, sir.
You asked for CID involvement and, well, here we are.
And of course, you don't need a search
warrant to investigate a crime scene, do we?
Just going upstairs, governor.
Yeah. Good. Carry on.
Yeah. But they didn't go upstairs, did they?
Oh, but you don't know. You can't be too sure.
Now, I wouldn't want you to feel that we weren't taking this seriously.
Yeah. Right. Well, I mean, it's no big deal.
I was a bit of upset on the night. That's all.
It was actually, Sally, I was worried about, you know,
being on the house on her own.
Right, love?
Well, she seems to be holding up.
Listen, Inspector Frost, I appreciate what you're doing.
But honestly, they were in and out in minutes.
I doubt you'll find any clues really.
Well, the way we handle these things, sir,
is that it sends out a message to the villains,
that we're serious.
- Governor. - Yeah.
Upstairs.
Excuse me, sir.
They were in the drawer.
The dog got them as soon as he walked in the room.
It's probably Ecstasy.
Oh, dear. Drugs, Ecstasy.
You do realize that these are a Class A prohibited substance, don't you?
Oh, well, of course, you do.
Are they Sean's or are they yours, Mr. Berland?
My client is not prepared to answer any questions now.
He'll give a statement later, at which point, he will answer your questions.
It won't be necessary to take him into custody.
Even a successful prosecution will be unlikely to generate more than a fine.
Think about it, Sean, all of it I mean.
Think hard.
Stupid toe-rag.
I want to beat the living shit out of you.
There's more intelligent dogs.
Just get in the car.
Gerry, listen, I'm getting a bit uneasy.
About what?
- What happened to Christine Moorehead? - What, that's got something to do with me?
- I didn't say that. - Then what are you saying?
I am saying I'm going to find it very difficult to represent you
if the truth becomes too unpalatable.
Look, you're involved with a lot of things
that a lot of people might find unpalatable
including Jack Frost, but you just remember that.
George, what have you got on Salmond's car?
Now, we've got footage of it on the bypass before the accident.
Yeah?
- There's no doubt how erratic the driving is. - Oh, good.
I'm trying to work backwards from there.
Any news on the girl?
Still the same.
Do you think it was him?
- I know he's lying. - Jack.
Hello.
I've had a chance to look at Lisowski.
He was a regular heroin user,
and he injected shortly before he died.
What, an overdose?
He wouldn't have thought so.
What do you mean?
This wasn't just any heroin.
This stuff was so pure that a normal dose would kill anyone.
Now, I mean, I don't know where Lisowski got
it, but if dealers are selling this in Denton,
you'd be picking bodies up off the streets.
- Well, could it have been bad luck? - No.
Well, it's possible it was bad luck or incompetence, but it's unlikely.
I'd say this stuff was designed to kill.
Right.
Your mother says I'm not allowed to kill you, but as you know,
I don't normally follow her advice,
but I'm going to give you a break this time, Sean.
So listen up, here's the scoop.
There are a lot of things that are difficult in
this world, but you just have to deal with them.
There are two types of people, right?
There's scum, and there's us.
Scum do drugs.
- Nobody in my family goes near drugs. - You sell the bloody stuff.
Yeah. But this is my business, Sean, right?
Nobody questions me about that.
If I see any signs of this again,
you're going to be carrying the bruises for a month, right?
It's for your own good, son.
Yeah?
Sean,
come on.
Let's talk about something else. Yeah?
What about the two of us going on a holiday, yeah?
And what about going to the States?
- Yeah, all right. - Yeah, all right?
Yeah, all right.
Come on. Listen.
It was the last three months from the Met.
There's a man they wanted in connection with two suspicious deaths.
They were both drug dealers.
- The man was foreign. - Hold on, I'm getting there.
Oh, Jenny, come on.
Can't you come and give him a hand, you know, crank him up.
I ain't do ancient history. Sorry.
Pity.
All right, try two months then, Trigg.
Yes. I've got it. Yeah.
A body found in Tottenham, a body found in Chiswick by the river,
same heroin,
and a description on the man wanted in connection with.
Right. Let me see that.
Yes.
You see, according to this description, this could be Lisowski.
I'm off to the Met.
Jack.
Well, it's been a long time.
Yup.
- Do you want to come up. - Ah, no.
I want some information that you may not want to tell me
for all sorts of reasons that you are going to say are operational.
So, I think it's better if we were off the premises?
We didn't have a name but that's the man.
He was a fixer for Berland.
Then, he disappeared.
We had a witness who thought he might be Polish.
So, we wondered whether maybe he had gone back home.
And he was only in Denton.
Yeah. Well, he was off our radar.
You ought to be looking at the range you're getting on that radar of yours.
Well, we still can't get enough evidence to put Berland away.
And, well, he's making it very hard for us to track him.
So, it needs to know stuff, is it?
He's no joke. You know that.
I've got a dead body that I think Berland is responsible for.
I've got a friend who's lucky to be alive.
I've got a dead boy who wouldn't be dead if Berland didn't live in Denton.
Now, I intend to make my problems his problems and bang him up.
He should be inside already considering the Met' resources,
and that's what you left us for, wasn't it?
The bright lights.
We have had the chance to put Berland away for a couple of years,
but there's no point doing that if you're going to leave his infrastructure intact?
Oh, his infrastructure.
That's a word you never learned at Denton, Nick.
I would be grateful for anything you've got on Berland, anything at all.
You wouldn't have had the chance that you got if I haven't given you the thumbs up.
You don't think they took your word about how good you were, did you?
No. They picked up the phone and spoke to your governor.
Jack, I'm not in the position to give you
any information which we're still active on.
But you will though, won't you, sir?
Look, I know Frost.
He thinks I was driving the car.
He thinks I hit the girl, and he thinks the drugs have got something to do with me.
- He's right about that. - Yeah. But, he's not right about the rest.
Greg, I have given you an alibi.
What else do you want?
You're a solicitor for God's sakes.
If there's nothing the police can prove, then there's no case.
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry.
It's just... I'm wound up about Gerry Berland, too.
- He is playing a dangerous game, and we shouldn't be involved. - We're not.
Whatever he's doing, we don't want to know.
You are his solicitor, not his bloody priest.
You're right.
You're right. I'm sorry.
You'll be fine. Don't worry.
Right.
You know, sooner or later, you're going to have to tell him about us.
I'm not entirely sure there's an "us" to tell him about, David.
Well, that sort of things doesn't matter much, anyway,
but we did have a chat about a partnership for me.
- I haven't forgotten. - Good.
Some things are easy to forget, Alice, but some things do just keep popping up again.
We don't sell many.
Mostly it's people with real pedigrees who buy them
and only sell to kind, Siamese. Bermese.
Did you sell this one?
Hmm, sure I did.
Not very long ago, either. A week or 10 days.
Do you remember who bought it?
Very well, a woman.
Is there anything distinctive?
She had a fantastic mountain bike outside.
I'd give my IT for it.
Now, you say when it feels right, it doesn't matter how long it takes.
OK. Well, I have a picture in my mind.
It's not as clear as I thought,
but I can see the hair and the face shape.
- Can we start with that? - Mmm.
All right, George.
How's it going with the photo fit?
Anything worthwhile?
I don't know.
What do you mean?
Well, we've got a likeness. We've got a very good likeness,
if it's right, that is.
Oh, so it's someone we know?
Like I say, if it's right.
All right. George, you get around the back.
The back door was open.
Oh, right.
- Well. - It doesn't look as though there's anybody here.
There's a mountain bike in the yard.
I'd say it's the one the pet shop woman saw.
All right.
You check upstairs.
Jack.
Hello.
You better come up here.
You need to see this.
Eric Edwin.
Jenny is Eric's daughter.
The last time I was here, she was 8 years old.
The cuttings, files, it's all about you.
And the photographs of you, they've all been defaced.
Hello. Yeah.
Yeah. Thank you.
- Jack. - Yeah.
They found her.
If we move any closer, she says she'll jump.
The only person she'll talk to is you, sir.
Pity about my vertigo, ain't it?
I knew there was something.
I mean, I didn't recognize you, but you were always familiar.
When I was a kid, I loved the sound of sirens.
I thought it was dad going to catch rubbers, dad and you.
Yeah. That was a long time ago.
I never meant to kill the man in the lane.
He wasn't meant to die.
No. I know,
but you did the tires and the window, didn't you?
Well, it doesn't matter,
but the woman in the underpass, Jenny.
You could've killed her, too.
It was just to show you.
Show me what, love?
I didn't know what to do when the job at Denton came up.
It wasn't an accident.
Dad sent me.
Mom's gone now six months ago.
She was never the same after he died.
I knew I had to find a way to make you remember
like he remembered all the bad things you did, to people you hurt.
Dad knew.
I made a mess of a lot of things.
I admit that.
He didn't deserve what you did.
Jenny, your father and I were good friends for a long time.
I remember that.
I made a mistake because he was a good friend.
I ignored things that I shouldn't have ignored.
Being a policeman was his life, and you took it all away.
He wanted to find a way to pay you back.
Jenny, you were only 8 years old.
You didn't understand what was going on.
You didn't understand that what he was doing was wrong.
I understand what you did.
- He was planting evidence on people. - Liar.
Whether they were innocent or guilty, that was wrong.
It's not true.
And some of those people were innocent.
He trusted you.
Jenny, there are people you can talk to.
There are people who can help.
You don't have to jump.
That's it.
Very good.
That's good.
Stay where you are, George.
I don't need to jump,
but you will,
one way or another.
And if... if I don't jump, you will shoot me, eh?
I don't like heights, you know, Jenny.
I get very frightened of heights.
In fact I'm terrified of heights.
And stay, George. Now!
Get an ambulance, quickly.
Are you all right?
Yeah.
Poor devil.
He spent his last years following everything that I did.
What for?
Evidence.
He was hoping that he'd discover something to get me kicked out of the force
like he was kicked out.
I mean, look, he's got it all here, look.
Newspaper cuttings, letters. He's got hundreds of letters.
Look at them all.
There's one here, it is Chief Constable's office,
Police Complaints Commission, MPs, the Home Office.
What about Jenny?
The bullet broke her thigh bone.
It'll mend.
You know, I used to come home sometimes with Eric
here to have meal.
I'd read her a bedtime story.
She was always laughing.
She was so happy.
Why did you do this to her?
As soon as school is over, I'm going to get
a cheap flight somewhere hot and sit it out.
Have you signed on at Oxford in September?
You'll be going off to Harv.
Well, depending on the results.
I'm expecting a disaster.
I'm not you.
- Mrs. Moorehead could've died... - But she didn't.
So, she's a lot better off than Brian Shanklin, right?
- I never meant... - It doesn't matter.
You did it, but you've got a break.
Take it.
If people are afraid of you, you can do what you like even murder.
- I just... I can't get Brian out of my head. - I can.
I need to talk and dad won't talk about it.
What I need is never to see this place again and you either.
Jack, I think I've got something on the hit and run, a postman.
He saw the car about 2 miles from where it hit the girl.
Does it give us anything new?
It was stationary,
but the car door was opened and someone was leaning out, a man.
The postman thinks he was throwing up.
Right.
The man had his head out the driver's door that's why the postman couldn't see him.
There's no description, dark clothes, possibly a suit.
Not your average joyrider then.
He also thinks there was someone else in the car, possibly a woman.
But, again, there's no description.
Miss Parmenter arranged that she spent the night with Gregory Salmond.
There's no alibi if they were both in the car.
Hello.
What is this?
What does that look like to you?
- Sick. - Exactly.
And if that belonged to Gregory Salmond,
we got him bang to rights.
Scoop it up, George.
Sean.
Sean, open the door.
Hi, guys.
You left these at my place.
I don't know how do you think you're doing your schoolwork without them.
Sorry.
And it's been raining, anyway, thought I'd drop them off.
Thanks, Allen.
Coming in, dad?
No, no, I'm late.
- I'll see ya, day. - Bye.
Can we have a drink sometime, Jack?
Jack, all right?
No big deal.
Just, you know, kids... and you're going to be around now.
Yeah. All right. Whenever you like.
I'd give you a bell.
I can't believe Allen had the nerve.
How dare he do that.
I guess, he had a point.
The least he could have done is speak to me.
I have told him what I thought about it as well.
You know, it's probably why he didn't.
He's on his third partner.
If I mentioned wanting to bet one of them, he'd go berserk.
And now, he wants to interrogate you because we've been out a couple of times.
- He seemed nice enough. - Yes.
He can be.
Anyway, I had a very nice evening.
I hope I did all right with the kids and me.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, you did.
Though I have to say, I was a bit preoccupied.
You didn't tell me someone trying to shoot you.
I did hear about it.
Well...
You don't want to talk about it?
It's just that it's all rather complicated,
and I just wanted to get some fresh air tonight,
and I got it.
Thank you.
I'm sorry. Excuse me.
Frost.
This better be worth my while.
Were you busy, Jack?
Yes.
Come and look at this.
The evening before the hit and run.
Gregory Salmond had an unlikely acquaintance, Berland's fixer,
Marek Lisowski.
Almost worth it.
They took a DNA swab from Greg.
We'll, giving an alibi doesn't seem such a good idea now, does it?
I don't recall you having a better one.
You know, I'm wondering if you might have to own up to lying for it now.
What does that mean?
Well, when it comes to crunch, you might just have to admit that you lied
because you love your man that you can't keep on when he's in jail.
You bastard.
Frost knows Greg asked you for an alibi.
It was like admission of guilt.
Case closed.
According to Darwin it's what a billion years of life is all about,
survivor of the bastards.
Jack, it wasn't Salmond puking out the car.
It's not his DNA.
Oh.
Now, we've got a car that was burned down on a piece of waste ground
behind the shopping center which you need a car to get to or from.
Or a bus, or a train.
Ferndale Station is just over the road.
All right. Try the station and the buses.
Take a picture of Salmond with you.
- But you have just told me that... - I know that we don't think that he was there,
but he's not telling the truth about it.
Look, just bring him in.
First, 50 grams of cocaine in the boot of your car given to you by one Marek Lisowski
who was employed by Gerry Berland.
Lisowski was murdered.
You were the last person to see him alive.
Second, we have a witness who saw a couple in a car that hit
a 4-year-old girl and put her in a coma.
There is no alibi if Miss Parmenter was with you.
She wasn't. We were at home.
Oh, all right.
Let's start with the cocaine.
It was... look. It was for friends.
It's for personal use.
I wasn't making any money out of it.
Well, right. Just being Mr. Helpful then, are you?
Look, the way drugs are treated
puts the trade into the hands of the criminals.
- Ordinary people just want a recreational drug. - Oh, really?
Oh, well, don't worry about all the dead bodies from here to South America then.
It's the law that needs changing.
Oh, is it? We'll have to see what we can do.
All right. Come on. What else did you do that night?
I'd been drinking.
I wanted to try some of the stuff, so I went to a pub.
I had a couple of shorts, a bottle of wine,
and then, I went to the loo and I did a couple of lines.
Stone me.
You were lethal, and then you drove home.
I know. I got back safely.
It's just where I woke up the next morning.
There's a funny way looking at it, ain't it?
I blacked out. I don't remember getting home.
I don't remember getting to bed, but I know that I did.
The next morning, the car was just gone.
I was not driving that car that morning.
Where was Miss Parmenter?
She wasn't there.
She'd been lying to try and help me.
Well, Mr. Salmond, apart from the possibility of jail,
I don't think you'll practice law ever again.
It's Inspector Frost terminating the interview.
All right. That's it. Go on. Off you go.
I said off. Go on, out.
Right now, you got the cocaine from Gerry Berland, right?
Come on. If I testify against Gerry,
I won't be practicing anything again.
I don't want you to testify.
I want something off the record, anything.
And if you'll would help me get what I need,
I could help you.
Forget ethics, think of survival.
It's a farm in Hertfordshire,
organic vegetables, and they import from all over the world,
you know, French beans and avocados from Kenya, that kind of stuff.
And it's Berland's business?
It's a holding company.
Berland doesn't appear to own it, and there's
certainly nothing connecting him to it.
Then, what's his involvement?
Pretty sure it's his money.
Why?
It's where he trains his dogs.
Oh, right.
So what about this deal?
Well, if this leads anywhere,
I'm sure the CPS will look sympathetically on the cocaine charges.
Of course, there's no real evidence, is there?
I mean, about the girl, the accident.
Oh, yeah.
Well, according to the DNA evidence, it's most probable that you weren't involved.
- I'll keep you informed. - What?
You lied to me.
- You implied that you... - You never once asked how she was.
Did you know that?
Uh, Jack, good.
On the hit and run,
we found a taxi driver at Denton Station who dropped the couple off,
and guess where?
George, I'm no mood to play games.
Salmond's office.
And from the description of the woman, it could be Alice Parmenter.
All right. Greg,
Mr. Salmond, did ask me to say I spent the night with him.
I did it without thinking, but I wasn't there.
That's not quite true, is it? Hmm?
You were there
because you went to see Mr. Salmond with Mr. Mansell-Smith
because dear old Greg,
he supplies the drugs that the police stupidly make illegal.
You've got a key, haven't you?
- Yes. - Yes.
So you know what I think,
I think that you let yourself in to Mr. Salmond's flat
where you found him unconscious on his bed.
You got what you wanted
whether or not you brought the drugs up from the car or they were already there.
It doesn't really matter.
But then, you both stayed the night
because next morning, Mr. Mansell-Smith
decided that he wanted to go for a drive.
Mr. Salmond, he thought that his car had been stolen
because he had left his keys in the ignition, but he didn't.
You knew where they were.
You were covering yourself all the time.
I can place you and Mr. Mansell-Smith on the train
and in a taxi that dropped you both off here the next morning.
And when I have taken a swab, I will have the DNA of Mr. Mansell-Smith
who threw up outside Mr. Salmond's car
minutes before it knocked down Kaitlin Calorie and drove away.
And that's just the beginning, Miss Parmenter.
You were in the car.
You were the passenger.
No.
David, David had just been sick.
So I took over.
I was driving.
Will she go to prison?
I don't know, Mr. Calorie.
They were drunk, drunk up to their eyeballs.
How does this woman not go to prison, both of them?
Well, I hope we can prove something about the drugs and the drinking.
We have some forensic evidence, but
it's not as conclusive as catching the driver at the scene.
And they're both liars.
The CPS will be pushing for a custodial sentence,
but I can't promise you.
We talked about America, yeah.
Sure, why not.
Well, you can look on the Internet and everything, but
take a month, six weeks.
Start in New York, all the way across, eh?
Route 66.
I say you go through St. Louis,
Joplin Missouri.
Oklahoma City looks so, so pretty.
Just follow the song. How about that?
Cool.
Here, take these with you.
He'll be all right when he's out there.
No. He won't.
Can't you see that?
He's like you, is it?
I hope he isn't.
I hope he finds a way of turning his back on everything you stand for.
It's a good location,
easy access to the motorway of the big cities, it's isolated,
surrounded by a Forestry Commission land.
So, not very many neighbors.
- Good location for money laundering. - Yeah.
And for drug running as well.
So what do you think, Sam, eh?
It looks like infrastructure to me.
Have you talked to Lee Valley?
Yeah. As far as they're concerned, it's a farm.
Never had any calls for concern except for traffic.
You know, big lorries going into it now.
Sounds very promising.
Well, we can't go steaming in.
We've got to know when the next delivery arrives.
We have got some intelligence.
Yeah. Well, come on.
I shown you mine, you show me yours.
There is a delivery due, a big one.
Monday or Tuesday says the word on the street,
and the same word on the street says that it's Berland's firm.
What we don't know is where it's going.
You can have a ruddy good guess, couldn't you?
Yeah. But
it would just be a guess, wouldn't it?
Now, we'll set up an operation with Lee Valley,
put this place under observation, wait and see.
But thanks, Jack.
"Thanks, Jack." Oi, just a minute.
What do you take me for?
If you're going in after Gerry Berland, so am I.
This is a Met operation, Jack.
Well, to make it official, Mr. Mullett would like you to join him for luncheon.
Mullett?
Come on, Jack. You're not serious.
Oh, yes. I am. Unfortunately, I can't join you.
I have a prior engagement, but I'll catch up with you later.
Mr. Mullett remembers you very well.
- A pleasure to see you again... - Sam.
Sam, Sam, of course.
Let's go this way, go to the canteen, shall we?
Get a bite to eat, how's everything?
Very good, sir.
- How's the family? - Oh good. Yes, yes.
I love my children,
and whatever Christine says I need to know what's going on.
She hasn't been out with anyone, not in a long time.
I am what you see, Mr. Moorehead.
My CV wouldn't impress you very much not unless you're looking for a policeman,
but if you listen to my superintendent, he would have doubts about that.
I'm not asking questions. That's none of my business.
I just want to be able to say hello when I turn up at the house.
I'm only over there to collect the kids, but the kids know.
And they know there's more than... well, you know.
Well, they're ahead of me.
Jack, they always are.
But, they're good kids, Mr. Moorehead.
Despite us,
and it's Allen, I'm sorry if you thought this was inquisition.
It's just, you know, we would be bumping into each other.
No, I know.
Well, do you want another?
No. I don't drink,
and there's a limit to the amount of orange juice and lemonade that a man can take.
Well, anyway, look, I'm sorry. I must go.
- Good to have met you. - And you, mate.
Sir.
Whiskey, large one.
Sean!
Sean.
Dinner.
I'm having a beer.
Sean.
Sean!
No, Sean.
Sean, no!
How?
He hanged himself.
I can't tell you how many years
I've been watching terrible things happen to peoples' children,
and they always blame themselves.
And too many times, they're right, too.
Well,
it doesn't change the job today, does it?
Not for us, anyway.
Help me, Sally.
Please, help me.
How can I?
I can't help myself.
I didn't know what he was feeling.
I didn't know any of it.
No, you didn't.
You couldn't
because you did it.
You did it. You did it. You did it. You did it.
You did it.
Come on in.
We've got, at least, two who'll identify Berland.
So, we're away.
We're into the network now, here and Holland.
And we're in for the money, too.
Criminal assets on a serious scale.
We've got him.
He's still on my patch.
Then you bring him in, Jack. You bring him in.
It'd be a pleasure.
There's nothing left for us.
I don't want to see you, speak to you, ever.
We let it happen, too, Tom.
I need to speak to the police, about Brian.
It's what Sean wanted, what he wanted all along.
- It's still not your fault. - Shut up.
It's all our fault.
For God's sake, let it be our fault.
I heard about what happened, Gerry,
and I'm sorry, very sorry.
I've never even thought about Brian's mom and dad.
Do you know that?
He was everything, everything.
It's just over. It's all over.
It's all over.
Time to go, Jack?
Still another boy, a dead boy,
but a boy just like Joshua,
and none of it had to happen.
No.
But mostly, that's how it is.
Yeah.
- And what about that woman? - Hmm?
- The one who tried to kill you. - Oh.
You still haven't told me what happened.
You made it sound as if it happened every day.
But you left out, well, almost everything.
Almost.
Would it always be like that?
A lot of the time.
As long as I know.
You shouldn't drive tonight.
Well, I was hoping I wouldn't have to.
Ah, good morning. Lovely morning.
- Ah, good morning, George. - Good morning.
How do you fancy a cup of coffee and a nice sticky bun.
It's only three days old. So eat it while it's fresh-ish.
Well, It's a nice surprise.
Tell me, George, have you...
Yeah.
Ever been a best man?
Oh, a long time ago.
Don't tell me someone's asking you to be a best man.
Now who would be daft enough to do that?
Then I take the ring and give it you.
You put it on Christine's ring finger.
You continue to hold it and then, William, you say,
"With this ring, I thee wed."
With this ring, I thee wed.
"With my body, I thee worship."
With my body, I thee worship.
"And with all my wordly goods, I thee endow."
And with all my wordly goods, I thee endow.
I say a prayer, then I say,
"Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder."
And if you want to kiss, well, that is the usual procedure of course.
Well, we should make sure that's OK.
William?
OK.
William. I'll William you.
Thank you.
Fancy a curry, Jack?
You ought to get home early and work on your best man's speech.
I'm assuming there's nothing embarrassing about me in it.
Oh, I've got a long memory. Come on, curry.
I'll keep you company.
That's what the best man does.
Yeah. All right.
Thank you, George.
If you ever hope to make an inspector, you've just blown your last chance.
Thank you. All right.
Oh, and I get to sit with Mr. Mullett.
That's even better.
I hope that was a surprise, Jack.
Well, yes. It certainly was, sir,
and you know how I like surprises.
Now, before we get on with the festivities,
I think I should say a few words.
It may surprise to some of you to know that Inspector Frost and I
have not always seen eye to eye.
Yes.
It would be an exaggeration to say that he and I have been close over the years,
but I will say this, however hard he tries to get away,
I'll always find him.
Of course, I would never have made a detective of his caliber myself.
And over time, he's taught me the value of instinct, gut feelings.
I've even developed gut feelings of my own.
So much so that it is extremely rare that I don't
know when Inspector Frost is up to something
that I shouldn't know about.
Um... Jack has dedicated his life to what he does.
And whatever our disagreements, nobody does it better.
Nobody... nobody does it with more honesty or commitment.
And perhaps, Jack, I haven't always recognized that.
So let's raise our glasses to Jack, our colleague and our friend.
To Jack.
Jack Frost.
You're dead.
I'm about to go to bed, Allen.
You do know what tomorrow is.
I saw the light, I was passing.
- What do you mean passing? - Passing.
Shh. The kids are asleep.
I don't want you to do this.
What are you talking about?
Frost, marrying him.
You've only known him months.
It's a bad idea.
I don't think it's right for you or for Josh and Sophie.
It's what I feel, Christine.
What you feel?
You walked out of my life because of what you felt.
You left me with two small children because
of what you felt, never mind what they felt.
It was a mistake, and I knew it was a mistake before I went.
I've been on my own most of the kids' lives.
I'd given up the idea there'd ever be anybody.
What are you trying to do to me, Allen?
I never loved any of the others.
You've been drinking.
Oh, Allen, you're an alcoholic. You don't drink ever.
I can make it up to you.
We can start again.
It's never too late.
We've got the kids. It can work.
You still think I'm your bloody property, don't you?
Just get out of my house.
Don't tell me what to do.
This was my house once, remember?
How dare you touch me!
Dad, what are you doing?
It's all right. It's all right.
He's just going.
- You're all right, mom? - Yes. I'm fine. Fine.
All right.
Thank you.
How are you feeling?
How do I feel?
Hmm. I'm not sure.
I feel... I feel happy.
Yeah. That's what it is.
I feel happy.
Mom you look great.
Oh, you look fantastic.
Here we are, Jack.
- Thank you. - And...
Jack.
Oh, I seem to make it a habit of making a mess of important things.
I should have told you that, shouldn't I?
What have they said?
Well, apart from you taking their trolley, when can we have it back you mean?
- Jack, please. - No. I'm all right.
I'm all right. I'm just... you know.
I was just a being battered and bruised, that's all.
- I saw George. - Oh, oh, yeah.
He's taking the trolley as well, isn't he?
Yeah, he's got a broken arm.
Mr. Mullett is all right. He'll just need a new suit, that's all.
How’s Allen?
Oh, I'm sorry, love.
Right.
We're going to get you down to x-ray now Mr. Frost.
Make sure there's nothing going on we don't know about.
- Are you ready then? - Yes. Thank you, doctor.
I'll all right, love. I'll be all right.
Just concussion kicking in.
Excuse me. Doctor!
Coming through. Excuse me.
Are you going to operate?
No. That's not an option.
There must be something.
His heart was stopped too long.
The truth is it's just a machine that's keeping him alive now.
And you've got to switch it off.
We have no other choice.
Mrs. Toolan wanted you to be there.
Now, we see through a glass darkly, and shall we see face to face.
Now, I know in part, but then shall I know even as I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, and love,
these three, and the greatest of these is love.
Goodbye, George.
It's hard to see a way back from all of this.
I know, but we will.
I've already made my vows, Jack.
I made them at the rehearsal for better, for worse.
I meant it.
Denton Police Station has always been a refuge
as well as a job for me.
It stopped me thinking about anything else.
I don't think I feel that anymore,
and I often thought that I'd left it too late
to be anything other than a policeman.
Now, I don't think that.
George had a life that wasn't just about being a policeman
in fact I think it was much of his life,
and I know that, sometimes,
he felt sorry for me because I hadn't...
You know, I hadn't had what he had.
But now, we've got a life to live,
and we've got an awful lot to cram in.
Come on. Let's go.