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[ Hip-hop music playing ]
-Get out of the way, you ***. -Hey!
[ Grunts ]
[ Groans ]
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
[ Police radio chatter ]
[ Car alarm chirps ]
-Morning. -Morning, gov.
So, what is it? Fresh, bloat, or decay?
Fresh. Six hours, give or take.
The divers have just fished him out.
Preliminaries?
Time of death between midnight and 4:00 a.m.
IC1 male.
Vagrant, by the looks of things.
So first wash he´s had in weeks, then.
Funny.
FRIEND: Whoever did it must have been very strong,
dumping someone of his size in the lake.
Weapon?
No. Not yet.
When you´re ready.
Forensics would like you to take a look at some vomit.
-FRIEND: Nice. -[ Cellphone rings ]
Friend.
Scott. Yeah.
Did you find anyone to use that spare ticket?
Can you take over here?
What, Scott need his hand holding?
IC1 thrown from a window.
Yeah, I´ll be right with you.
What about cross-contamination? Two *** sites?
Actually, we can´t be sure this wasn´t an accident.
There´s no weapon. Pile of sick.
Might have had too much to drink
and smacked his head on the way in.
The other case is sexier, more like.
As if.
Cheeky cow.
FRIEND: Have you got a name?
Martin Ramsey. Teacher at Burrough College.
Local secondary.
Barry´s running a data-source check.
-Next of kin? -He lived alone.
But there are personal photos. A child and a woman, mid-30s.
I thought burglars were supposed to break in, not out.
Someone must have heard something.
Downstairs neighbor is 82 and deaf.
Next door was on his night shift.
Returned at 5:00 a.m.
He called the police but didn´t come in the flat.
Story checks out.
He was stacking shelves in the supermarket till 4:00.
And he´s got the ticket for his night bus home.
FRIEND: Other residents?
Third floor was woken by voices at 1:00 a.m.,
but he can´t be sure if they came from in the building.
Any signs of a struggle?
Well, we´ve got some prints around the frame.
But if he was pushed, he didn´t put up much of a fight.
What else you got?
We´ve got four sets of prints.
Some alien fibers on the victim´s jacket.
And down by the window, there´s some heavy soil particles.
Oh, and two cups in the kitchenette.
Coffee granules inside waiting to go.
Excuse me.
Thank you.
Right ankle´s broken.
Landed on his feet, thrown forward by the force of impact.
You see the grazing to his face and forehead.
But he´s lying on his back.
He´s, say, don´t know, 10 1/2 stone?
Dropping from about 40 feet.
Gravitational pull increases the speed of his mass
from an initial 3 miles per hour to an estimated 25.
Try crashing into a wall without seat belts on at that speed.
I´d expect to see massive internal injuries,
instant death.
Someone turned him over.
Blood disturbance here...
...here...
...here.
Where are his shoes?
DR. CORNELL: Wasn´t wearing any when we arrived.
But he was when he landed.
No distress on the fabric.
There´s a good amount of barely digested food.
[ Cellphone rings ]
FRIEND: Rosie, we´re at the old ***´s den.
What do you reckon on the old boy´s shoe size?
MacMANUS: Shoe size?
-HANDS: Yeah, size nine. -MacMANUS: Nine, we reckon.
FRIEND: How far between the two sites?
Half a mile. Maybe less.
-Okay. Thanks. -Cheers.
What are we looking for?
A link.
We´ve all got to go somewhere.
It´s Martin Ramsey´s driving license.
I need a corridor between the two sites.
Get a map. Work out the most direct route.
Barry. Yeah, I need another search team ASAP.
Okay. Thanks.
Gov. Found the wallet.
-[ Cellphone rings ] -Great.
Friend.
Yeah. Patrick.
Indentations retain bone and tissue nicely.
Opportunistic. Uses anything to hand.
Blood traces indicate the attack took place over there.
A number of partial trainer prints in the soil.
Could be that more than one person gave him a kicking.
Blood spray here indicates he was hit with a slab twice --
once breaks the skin, twice creates the spray.
So slab -- side of skull.
[ Indistinct talking, laughter ]
Okay, let´s have a bit of quiet.
Right.
Shoes and the driver´s license
found in the vagrant´s possession.
Ramsey´s wallet was found midway between the two *** sites.
No money. No cards.
Just the N.U.T. membership,
registered to an alternative address.
Electoral roll´s given us a Mrs. Sandra Ramsey.
Did the homeless man have any cash?
MacMANUS: No, just an old period photo
of a woman found in his jacket.
Wrapped in a plastic bag for protection.
Obviously meant a lot to him.
FRIEND: Scott, tour the soup kitchens
within a three-mile radius.
Someone knows who he is.
Now, Ramsey´s door pane was shattered from the inside.
The assailant disguised the scene.
Door locks weren´t tampered with.
So Ramsey must have let him or her in.
Maybe the *** did it. Teacher´s good deed for the day.
Invites him up for coffee.
No. No sign of the vagrant´s fingerprints in the flat.
So he stole Ramsey´s wallet post death.
Yeah.
Witness to the first *** maybe.
The data check -- Ramsey´s on the general register.
File number refers to the Rahinder stabbing case
18 months ago at Burrough College.
Didn´t the papers make it out to be gang related?
PURVIS: Rahinder was 15, found in an alleyway.
Ramsey came forward with a description
of an ex-pupil fleeing the scene.
Raoul Jiminez.
Currently serving a community service order for affray.
What about the *** charge?
Went to court six months ago. Found not guilty.
Ramsey was the prosecution´s main witness.
Fell apart after two days of cross-examination.
HANDS: The *** got a kicking from a group, right?
Might be the same gang.
Jiminez. Looking for revenge.
Kills Ramsey. *** sees it.
Jiminez has to deal with him too.
Okay. I want a time line.
Last seens of both victims.
Trevor and I will go to the school,
establish any precursor incidents.
Patrick, get a team door-knocking the estate.
Rosie, go break the news to the wife.
See what she can tell us.
-Okay, gov. -Okay.
[ Steel-drum music playing ]
[ Music stops ]
WEAVER: Thank you, Burrough Steel Band
for an excellent dress rehearsal.
And what are we, Burrough?
-The best! -The best!
Mrs. Ramsey?
Yes.
Sorry. Yes, that´s him.
Raoul Jiminez has a younger brother in Year 7.
Uses collecting him from school as an excuse to hang about.
And he´s made threats since he was acquitted?
Before, during, and after the trial.
Against Martin Ramsey, his family.
Little wonder his marriage was a failure.
The stress of the case?
He split up with Sandra shortly after the trial collapsed.
I lent him a spare room until he found somewhere else.
And before that was it a happy marriage?
We were colleagues for six years.
Martin was a very conscientious teacher.
He contributed in all aspects of school life.
But certain things he kept private.
This week of all weeks.
PEMBREY: The last Ofsted report
happened shortly after the stabbing.
We were hoping to show the inspectors a new face tomorrow.
Did Mr. Ramsey mention
if Jiminez had approached him recently?
Nothing explicit, no.
But he did come to see me a couple of days ago.
Wanted to apply for posts elsewhere.
[ Siren wailing ]
He´d had enough.
So Sandra´s highly strung?
Watching TV on your own isn´t an alibi.
It´s not a reason for suspicion either.
25% of all murders are domestic. You said that.
Jiminez is a much better prospect.
Gov?
I´m checking the photo out with the Tatler archive.
I´ve got a first-name I.D. on the ***.
Nelson.
Used to boast that his mother was a Lady.
Something about a debutante.
Yeah. I´ll e-mail that to you now.
HANDS: Jiminez hangs out in the snooker club on Siskin Road
or at the basketball court on the estate.
Well, it´s a nice day, so basketball courts first.
Trevor and I will make the initial approach.
Then I´d like two backup cars.
Anti-stab vests, please. They´ll be carrying.
Files from local CSU re the Ramseys.
Six domestics, all NFA´d.
House totaled every time uniform went ´round.
Martin Ramsey wouldn´t talk to the police,
and Sandra refused to press charges.
Maybe she was too frightened. That is, until she snaps.
Still doesn´t put her in the flat the night Ramsey died.
Well, it depends whether the blond hairs found in the flat
match Sandra´s or not.
[ Siren wailing ]
Raoul Jiminez?
Detective Inspector Friend. D.S. Hands.
You´re on my court.
Martin Ramsey was found dead early this morning.
Me lo siento.
We know you made repeated threats
during and after your trial.
So? Ramsey lied. The jury believed me.
And your commissioner´s gonna have to pay.
I´m suing big bucks.
Injury to -- to feelings.
-Boo-hoo. -[ Laughter ]
When did you last see him?
Outside the court.
How´d he die?
Out of a fourth-floor window.
Mm. Not my style.
I´d have cut him.
FRIEND: Maybe you wanted to try something new this time.
So arrest me. I´m sure your commissioner would love that.
Where were you between midnight and 4:00 this morning?
Ask him.
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
HANDS: Oi!
Who gave you permission to take my photo?
I´m an investigative journalist. I observe, print what I see.
Press card.
I´ve been on this story for weeks,
writing about life on the Burrough Estate.
Jed Whitby.
You were with Raoul Jiminez last night?
Yeah. Raoul and the crew.
We´re making inquiries
concerning the *** of Martin Ramsey.
They were with me until 4:30 a.m.
That´s when I went home to write up my notes.
-FRIEND: Take any shots? -Last night? No.
Where were you till 4:30?
South side of the estate.
Yeah, nowhere near Ramsey´s bed-sit.
How do you know where Martin Ramsey lived?
I write about the streets, yeah?
The Rahinder Singh stabbing case is central.
I do my research.
-Anything else? -Not at the moment.
Providing a false alibi is a serious offense.
I´ll keep it in mind.
You do that.
MacMANUS: Why did you never press charges?
He´d lose his job.
I couldn´t do that to him.
When did he start hitting you? After you were married?
More recently than that.
Delayed reaction to the trial probably.
He became withdrawn. Couldn´t settle back at work.
Who could blame him after what happened?
We found divorce papers at the flat.
I started proceedings last month.
What changed?
Kim. He never hit her.
But why tempt fate?
It´s hard to let go sometimes.
Did you ever feel like going back?
You know, call ´round the flat, try to patch things up?
No. Clean break.
Martin and I agreed access.
I never visited the flat.
Sandra, would you object to giving
DNA and fingerprint samples?
It´s routine stuff.
Just eliminate you from our inquiry.
Of course.
Sounds like just cause to me.
FRIEND: Well, we´ve no concrete evidence.
Arrest Jiminez, and his solicitor
will be straight on the phone to the commissioner.
Who won´t be phoning me.
Yeah, well, the Burrough Estate is a racial hot spot.
We don´t want to be seen to be making trouble
if the press are in tow.
Raise an inquiry team to corroborate the gang´s story.
And I want a full background history on Whitby.
Tests confirm Ramsey´s blood is mixed in with Nelson´s.
Vomit results show the usual mix of digested and part digested.
The part digested suggests a Chinese meal.
Puked about an hour after consumption.
Noodles, bean sprouts. They break down quickly.
Sound like a nice meal for a homeless man.
Maybe he scavenged it out of a bin.
DNA proves it´s not Nelson´s.
We´ve also got nuts.
Slower for the acid to break down.
Cashews. Very posh.
-Trevor. -Mm?
Work to a time parameter. An hour radius from the estate.
Check all the Chinese restaurants from the outside in.
I could waste away here.
Meet Lady Victoria Fairgrieve.
Eldest son, Nelson. Died a couple of years ago.
***´s mum, right?
Oh. She was a stunner in her day, weren´t she?
FRIEND: Any other relatives?
Jenny at Metropolitan Archives
is looking for birth certificates as we speak.
Jenny now, is it?
Gov, she´s 53.
Rosie, how did you get on with Mrs. Ramsey?
Martin´s been knocking her about since the trial.
She reckons the whole thing´s rocked his self-esteem.
-So he takes it out on her. -She´s still in the frame.
Mm, okay. Well, any other motives?
Money?
Solicitor says he wasn´t contesting the house.
She´s still low priority.
Take a look at Ramsey´s
disciplinary record at work instead.
Might just throw up a few more enemies than Jiminez.
Okay.
Now please.
How much did these cost? 20 textbooks?
We must present a positive image.
Exclusions down 70%.
I introduced a more tolerant approach.
Turning problem children away isn´t the answer.
So what do the rest of the kids do whilst the teachers
are punishing the troublemakers instead of teaching?
And which school is it that your offspring go to?
King Edward´s.
If only everyone had the same privilege.
What can I do for you?
Ramsey´s disciplinary record.
Sorry. My remit is as policy maker.
Mr. Pembrey´s the one who oversees
the staff´s pastoral care.
Only son.
Two uncles, both dead.
Draw a line under it. Release the body to the coroner.
Have they done the second postmortem yet?
Well, find out.
-Mr. Pembrey? -Yes?
Could I have a word?
Only Ms. Weaver pointed me in your direction.
Oh, yes. She´s very good at that.
Thank you.
PURVIS: Full range of gangsta magazines.
Examples of Jed Whitby´s work.
He´s keen on violent crime.
Even poses with an *** to make himself feel big.
Has he got a license for that?
We should charge him just for being a pillock.
Little *** in the back of my brain.
I think I´ve seen Whitby before.
And I know I´ve never met him.
He hasn´t got form. You checked.
It´s a two-dimensional image.
All I can think of is...
...scene-of-crime recording.
Try it.
Confirmation that Sandra Ramsey´s fingerprints
are on the table used to smash the front door.
MacMANUS: She says she´s never been to his flat.
What about the blond hairs?
We won´t get a DNA comparison till tomorrow.
Same with the soil sample.
Well, Ramsey prepared two coffees.
Maybe she goes ´round to discuss CSA payments.
Tempers fray.
He goes for her, and she shoves him out the window.
Yeah, but where does Nelson fit in?
All right, well, maybe the two aren´t linked.
GRANGER: Jiminez still gets my vote.
Tell her about the house-to-house.
Description of a youth loitering outside the tower block
earlier that night.
Rode a mountain bike.
Description match any of this lot?
LINCOLN: Too vague.
Okay, well, reinterview your eyewitness in the morning.
Take this lot with you to flick through.
[ Sighs ]
Anybody fancy a drink?
Yes, please.
Pembrey and Kirsten Hughes seemed quite intimate.
Who? Who you on about?
That young teacher.
So he´s having a fling.
Probably need all the comfort he can get in a place like that.
That school´s a war zone.
You´re lucky your kids aren´t in the same boat.
It´s not luck.
We moved house to get into that catchment area.
That house cost us an arm and a leg.
Call yourself a socialist?
[ Laughing ]
The boys are putting a new CD compilation together --
"Now, That´s What I Call Bonking."
Patrick says he´s had some success with progressive jazz.
I´m more interested
in your compilation of Chinese takeaways
within an hour radius of the Burrough Estate.
Four outlets in the time perimeter.
Blanks on three.
Confirmed sightings of Jiminez and his crew at the fourth.
-And what about Whitby? -Paid by credit card.
The order slip is stapled to the counter form.
[ Cellphone rings ]
Two dishes containing cashew nuts.
Friend.
Barry.
Yeah, we´ll be right over.
Scene-of-crime video. He´s found something.
That man got a life?
You didn´t, did you?
Spare ticket. End of story.
Rosie!
Would you?
Patrick´s a nice guy.
He´s too nice.
PURVIS: It´s Jed Whitby.
At the scene of the crime where the *** was murdered.
HANDS: Guilty conscience or thrill?
One of the two.
Ring around.
Arrest strategy briefing, 5:00 a.m.
[ Metal clangs ]
-[ Indistinct shouting ] -Shut her up.
-Get off me! -Calm down!
...suspicion of the *** of Nelson Fairgrieve.
You do not have to say anything...
You can´t do this! You got nothing on me!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you understand what I´ve just said?
You better have a good reason for this.
You´ll soon find out.
All set?
Exact times.
Got out of bed about 11:30.
Hooked up with Raoul at the snooker club.
That´s a 20-minute walk from Ramsey´s flat.
Then we went in the opposite direction.
-You sure about that? -Calling me a liar?
What´s that?
Chinese for four on the Applecroft Road.
That´s a five-minute walk from Ramsey´s flat.
Were you buying the homeboys a meal?
Okay.
On the way, we stopped by --
From the snooker hall, it´s going north, not south.
-What did you eat? -[ Chuckles ]
You want a recommendation?
Let´s try that again. What did you eat?
My usual. Number 52.
I...
Chicken Szechuan served with cashew nuts?
I don´t get it.
You pull me out of my house,
ask me questions about Chinese meals.
We found vomit.
10 meters from where Nelson Fairgrieve
had his skull crushed by a slab of concrete.
Is it yours?
You keep telling us you do research.
Well, think about DNA.
We´ve already got a sample from the vomit.
Will you provide a sample of your DNA?
Did it get out of hand, Mr. Whitby?
Did they want you to join in?
Did you see the old man die?
You didn´t have the stomach for it, did you?
I tried to stop it.
They saw the wallet in the old man´s hand.
It was like a frenzy. Nothing I could do.
Raoul Jiminez. I´m arresting you on...
MAN: Runner!
Went wrong.
Go on.
-They chased him. -Where?
You know where. To the lake.
They´ll kill me.
You´re not scared of them. Big man like you?
What happened by the lake, Jed?
They gave him a kicking.
Raoul wanted to initiate me.
Told me to drop the slab.
I couldn´t do it.
He just laughed...
...picked it up...
FRIEND: Rosie!
WHITBY: ...dropped it himself.
You´ve got nowhere to go, Raoul.
Raoul, come on.
Ugh!
All right, take it easy.
Is this what it was like with the Asian lad?
I´m not 15. I´m not so easy.
-What you gonna do, Raoul? -Aah! Drop it!
Raoul Jiminez, I´m arresting you
for the *** of Nelson Fairgrieve.
You do not have to say anything. Anything you do say...
Four out of six gang members say Jiminez dropped the slab.
Maybe he went on a spree.
Killed the *** and then killed Ramsey.
No. Think about the forensics.
Nelson had Ramsey´s blood on him.
So it had to be Ramsey first, then Nelson.
So you reckon Jiminez killed Ramsey?
What do you think?
This is a stitch-up.
Do you want to phone the commissioner?
Forensics found specks of Ramsey´s blood on your trainers.
Oh, you´re -- you´re not sticking that one on me. No.
-No way, man. -Why the blood, Mr. Jiminez?
I didn´t kill Ramsey.
Jiminez´s prints don´t match any at the flat.
And the fibers we found are from a tweed.
Rosie said Ramsey´s blood was on the trainers.
-Maybe it´s enough. -No, it´s cross-contaminated.
Mixed in with Nelson´s.
Transferred from Ramsey to Nelson,
then from Nelson to Jiminez during the kicking.
-Didn´t Scott tell you? -I said! I said!
I thought I´d offer it up anyway,
see if Jiminez would bite.
What did your eyewitness give you?
Couldn´t I.D. any of them.
Fantastic.
The hair samples aren´t Sandra´s either.
Okay, but it still doesn´t eliminate her.
So whose are they?
Maybe Ramsey had a relationship with a pupil.
Any hints from his personal documents?
Overdraft. Solicitors fees cleared him out.
Phone was cut off two weeks ago.
FRIEND: What have you got there?
GRANGER: GCSE coursework.
"Who is the stronger, MacBeth or Lady MacBeth?"
I´d have thought that was easy.
What about diaries, phone books?
Obviously a small circle of friends.
"MacBeth and his wife were equally strong and weak.
Their hunger for power and each other drove them
and in the end was their destruction."
That´s not bad. Burrough´s got a star pupil.
Ramsey didn´t think so.
POLSA found this screwed up in Ramsey´s bin.
-But he gave him an "A." -James Small?
[ Telephone ringing, indistinct talking ]
-Rosie. -Uh-huh?
Spell "liaison."
L-i-a-s-o-n.
FRIEND: Mnh-mnh. It´s two I´s.
MacMANUS: Cheers, gov.
How many truants do you know get an "A" using words like that?
Unless someone´s writing them for him.
Like Ramsey.
-Why would he do that? -Blackmail?
Maybe he´s into boys, not girls.
Careful, jazz boy.
[ Men chuckling ]
Couldn´t this wait until after school?
FRIEND: No, Mr. Pembrey.
I´m sorry. I´m taking you the wrong way.
[ Indistinct talking ]
Why is there so much noise?!
[ Talking stops ]
Where´s Miss Hughes?
Is there a problem?
Small. Come with me.
I know my rights.
You can´t interview me without an appropriate adult.
Well, we´ll call your mum, then.
But she´s at work.
-And where´s that? -Can´t remember.
Give me five minutes with him.
-Want a ciggie? -Yeah, all right.
Oh.
-Here. -Oh, thanks.
50p.
Cheers.
So why don´t you want your mum here?
Don´t know.
Is that one of yours?
I could do better in my sleep.
I hated art.
Always drawing fruit bowls.
Miss Hughes is cool. She lets us do what we want.
Is that why you´re in today? You like art?
Well, it´s better than staying at home.
You got brother and sisters, Jamie?
Four. Five next year.
Bit tight for space. Bet you can´t breathe sometimes.
Yeah. Mum says she can´t cope.
Sends me to bed at 6:00.
Is there anybody you´d like to sit in?
We really need to talk, Jamie.
Miss Hughes. She´s cool.
Right.
Could you spell "liaison" for us?
I use the computer spell checker.
What´s it mean?
Well, if you don´t know, I ain´t gonna tell you.
I wonder if Kirsten Hughes was having an affair with Ramsey.
Hm?
School photo. Hair down to here.
Yeah. Every Word document.
I want a complete list of everything
on Ramsey´s laptop by the time I get back.
Okay. Thanks.
According to you, she´s seeing Pembrey.
So she´s putting it about. Some people do.
-[ Cellphone rings ] -Some people, anyway.
Friend.
Fergus.
What´s in the profile?
Well, the parent material is nutrient rich,
and there´s a high moisture content too.
Could it have come from the lakeside?
Not necessarily.
True that sloping ground
collects more rainwater at the bottom
than from samples taken at the top.
But there´s elements of a clay-based loam.
Heavy in rotting mushrooms.
It smacks of compost.
There´s also evidence of a systemic weed killer.
So a well-cared-for garden perhaps.
Narrows it down a bit.
Soil samples change a thousand ways every two square meters.
Yeah. But which two meters?
Thank you.
Getting kids like Jamie interested in something --
That´s a talent.
Oh, it´s not hard. He´s got a crush.
Half wet dream, half surrogate mum.
That´s me.
You turn lots of heads in the school.
Not short of attention.
We found blond hairs at Ramsey´s flat.
We were seeing each other.
Martin wanted to keep it quiet.
He didn´t want to complicate his position at school.
Why didn´t you come forward?
Well, because I didn´t think it mattered.
We were on and off. Mainly off.
I loved Martin.
But he just didn´t love me enough.
That make you angry?
No. It made me stupid.
Well, you move on.
Did John Pembrey know about it?
Was he jealous?
What?
Oh, I saw you in the corridor. You seem close.
Look, John´s sweet, but he´s more of a mentor.
He says I remind him of how he was when he started out.
Kirsten, where were you between 12:00 and 4:00
the night before last?
I-I was at home.
Surfing the Net for material for class until 2:00.
You can check my phone bill.
B.T. are sending them through.
Background checks?
Nothing from Kirsten Hughes so far.
Small´s essay was created on Ramsey´s laptop.
He´s definitely writing his GCSE coursework for him.
FRIEND: Maybe it´s a long-standing arrangement.
We could be looking at more than one piece of work.
Has Ramsey got another computer at school?
Action list, please, Barry.
Okay, what does the investigation now know?
What does it tell us about what might have happened?
What do we still need to know?
And where is that information most likely to reside?
Small´s got a crush on Hughes.
He finds out she´s seeing Ramsey.
Blackmails him to do his work to keep quiet.
Ramsey´s too weak to say no.
HANDS: Maybe it´s not enough.
Kid´s too jealous. Has to do something about it.
Is Small our boy on the bike?
How long are you gonna be?
Your son has been positively identified at a *** scene.
These are serious charges.
Are you gonna get my kids´ tea on?
MacMANUS: Were you there, Jamie?
JAMES: Not long.
Did you know that Miss Hughes was seeing Mr. Ramsey?
Did Ramsey have another computer?
We´ve got docking stations.
There´s a shared hard drive for files.
It´s a warrant. We need access.
Miss Hughes reckons you´ve got a bit of a crush on her.
-I ain´t! -We´ve all had them.
Did you *** Martin Ramsey?
All I did was play knock and run.
So you admit you went to his flat?
I followed Miss Hughes there.
-What time was this? -About 9:00.
Wanted to muck things up.
Did Ramsey and Hughes know it was you?
Couldn´t hear me. Too busy shouting their heads off.
Did you double-check the forensics from Small?
Yeah, his fingerprints weren´t found at the flat.
Scott´s bringing two guys from technical support
to go through the server.
Keep Weaver at bay. Let me know what you find.
Okay, gov.
We have a witness that put you at Ramsey´s flat at 9:00 p.m.
What was the argument about?
Martin had planned to leave in the morning
after wiping the slate clean.
This about the coursework?
What?
Did you know he was writing Small´s coursework for him?
No. I had no idea.
So what did he mean by "wipe the slate clean"?
Well, he wouldn´t say.
He kept banging on about his self-esteem.
He said that he wanted to
get as far away from the school as possible.
Start afresh.
And you didn´t want to?
If he´d said, "Let´s travel the world," maybe.
But he was manic.
Like it was his last great idea.
And I was just sick of him turning hot and cold on me.
Why didn´t you tell my colleague you were at his flat?
Because I´d knew how you would react.
What happened, Miss Hughes?
Was he so desperate he wouldn´t let you go?
You throw him out of the window in an effort to get away?
Was it a terrible accident?
No.
[ Knock on door ]
Phone bill checks out.
Online between 11:00 and 2:00 a.m.
-Correlates with time of death. -Great.
Mobile phone´s more interesting.
Call made to John Pembrey´s address -- 9:24.
Duration time, about a minute.
Martin had his phone cut off.
He could have used my mobile when I was in the loo.
Where can we find Pembrey?
Taking alternative curriculum activities.
For the less-bright kids.
Down at the allotment.
Thanks. I´ll call if we need your help.
Looks like we´re not the only ones interested
in what Ramsey´s been up to.
The boys have had a look at the registry files.
Whatever they are.
It keeps a copy of everything on the server.
They´re just retrieving the folders now.
Someone´s used his password to delete his documents.
After he died.
HANDS: Mr. Pembrey!
Who are they?
Year 11s.
-MacMANUS: GCSE year? -That´s right.
Who has access to these files?
What´s going on?
Earth was found on the floor of Martin Ramsey´s flat.
Look, can´t you see I´m teaching?
Elements of a clay-based loam, lots of rotting mushroom.
As well as systemic weed killer.
Just what exactly is the crime here?
Dirtying my friend´s carpet?
Gov?
Rough enough to be a fragment of tweed.
Get Jim and the boys down here ASAP.
Oh, and by the way...
That´s the last time I go anywhere with you.
-It slipped out. -Yeah, whatever.
John Pembrey.
I am arresting you on suspicion of murdering Martin Ramsey.
You do not have to say anything.
The computer´s now evidence, Ms. Weaver.
I don´t understand.
Every document appears to be a pupil´s GCSE coursework,
dating back as early as July last year.
Martin Ramsey has been cheating on a massive scale.
Right under your nose.
Attendance, exclusion records. They´ve all been doctored.
I don´t get it.
Well, the school´s got to hit targets
set by the previous Ofsted report.
If the GCSE pass rate falls below 15%,
the school closes automatically.
It´s a government directive.
What, Ramsey was killed
because he was on a one-man mission to save the school?
Kirsten Hughes said in her statement
Ramsey wanted to wipe the slate clean.
Sounds like he was gonna blow the whistle.
Which makes it Pembrey´s idea.
What does he say about it?
I´d like to talk to Mrs. Ramsey first.
Yeah?
We´ve got confirmation that Martin took the table
from the marital home.
Which is why Sandra´s prints are on it.
I´d still like to talk to her.
Okay, gov.
We have evidence that your husband was involved
as far back as July 16th last year.
Sorry. A date imprinted on my brain.
Why´s that?
The first of many visits by your boys in blue.
What happened that night?
John Pembrey called ´round
with some work Martin had left behind that day.
We had dinner.
Martin went upstairs to work.
Next thing I know,
Martin smashed a window with a textbook.
Did John Pembrey call ´round a lot?
Met him a few times.
Mainly during the trial.
He was very supportive.
Were he and Martin close friends?
Not really.
Someone at a teacher´s do said
they were in the same year at university,
but Martin never mentioned it.
Which university, Mrs. Ramsey?
Take a team to the school. Statements from every teacher.
I want a record of their movements between 8:50 and 9:20.
Gov.
Patrick can give exhibits a hand
logging all the school´s paperwork.
We need to go through the lot with a fine-tooth comb.
E-mails, memos, et cetera.
And I want you two interviewing Pembrey.
Could I have a word?
Rosie to lead.
My pleasure.
I thought you were a champion of personal development.
Absolutely. But are you sure this is wise?
I´d rather we had an officer of rank in there.
And I´d rather we had a parent.
I don´t deny that I´ve been to Martin´s flat.
I often dropped by.
Usually after the allotments,
which would probably explain the mud on the carpet.
As for the tweed fibers,
well, we all share coat hooks in the staff room.
I can only think that his coat brushed mine that day.
-So why did you burn it? -Could you --
Irreparable.
Tore the sleeve.
On what?
A broken door pane?
May I go now?
No.
How long have you been a teacher?
26 years.
MacMANUS: Kirsten Hughes said that she reminded you
of how you were when you first started out.
Touch of nostalgia.
You changed that much?
Well done, Rosie. Go on.
It´s my responsibility to nurture the inexperienced staff.
I´ve checked with Ramsey´s university.
Pembrey´s not on the admissions roll.
Do you recognize this?
Graham O´Shea´s coursework.
The English Civil War.
Written by Martin Ramsey for your history student.
Did you not spot the difference in style?
PEMBREY: I have many papers to mark.
I look only for the salient points.
Was that the deal?
Ramsey wrote essays for your students
so you could keep you hands clean?
This is preposterous. You have no proof.
I know it, you know it. the boy knows it.
[ Sighs ]
Martin Ramsey told Kirsten Hughes
that he was gonna wipe the slate clean.
What do you think he meant by that?
Oh, they were lovers. Did -- Did you not know?
I got two kids.
They´re not gonna be rocket scientists.
But I look at their grades and think,
"Yeah, they´re doing all right."
Every day I have to hand my kids over to total strangers
in the hope that they will protect, educate,
and look after them.
My boys´ futures in their hands.
It´s a huge responsibility,
yet I have no say in who I give it to.
Do you care about your pupils?
Or does your job matter more?!
I care. I´ve always cared.
Yeah, well, Ramsey cared more!
His conscience got the better of him.
Now, he was gonna come clean despite the consequences.
Was he gonna blow the whistle on you too?
After all, it was you organized the whole thing.
You just told me that Ramsey was cheating the system.
He´s dead.
You can´t prove that I was cheating, because I wasn´t.
Pembrey´s got an answer for everything.
All we´ve got is hearsay evidence from Kirsten Hughes.
FRIEND: I gave you a list of questions.
Yeah, I´m sorry. I saw red.
Never have guessed.
What do you mean?
Pembrey´s got a temper.
Easily provoked if you know how to push the right buttons.
My turn.
I sympathize.
I do.
We´re in the same boat --
police service and the education system.
Results driven.
Slaves to impossible targets.
Uniform cheat all the time.
They´re supposed to answer emergency calls
within 12 minutes, but we´re understaffed.
City gridlocked with traffic.
They put down 12 minutes or less anyway.
Just to meet those targets.
What else can they do?
I blame the blame culture.
Who do you blame, Mr. Pembrey?
[ Sighs ]
Sorry about my colleague earlier.
She´s a mum.
Never sees it from the other side.
Not many people can be bothered, can they?
Parents banging on about their precious little jewels.
They don´t have to spend any time with them.
Think about it.
Drop them off at 9:00. Pick them up at 4:00.
Send them to bed by 10:00.
Only have to deal with them at the weekends.
And that´s what pocket money´s for.
Get them into town and out the way.
Then they moan when their kids underachieve.
It´s not as if they´re doing anything about it.
And who gets the blame?
You do.
Who has to discipline them day in, day out,
with two arms tied behind your back?
You do.
Who has to fight a system designed to defeat itself
´cause parents won´t take responsibility themselves?
You do.
Look, thanks for the sympathy,
but I really do have some work to do.
Ms. Weaver´s pulled the plug.
Called in the local education authority.
How does that make you feel, Mr. Pembrey?
The result of this inspection would have been huge for you.
After failing the last one.
Ms. Weaver was airlifted in by the government.
The writing was on the wall.
She had nothing to lose if Burrough went down.
She´ll be moved on to a new school now.
But you...
Burrough´s your life.
Do you love your job, Inspector?
Very much.
I´m a good teacher.
Especially with no qualifications.
Your C.V. says you studied history
and went on to do your teacher training.
Only we checked.
You made it up.
It´s a great driver --
fear of failure.
Fear of being found out.
You´ve been a cheat all your life, Mr. Pembrey.
It still doesn´t make me a killer.
[ Knock on door ]
Gov?
Are you sure it´s the right computer?
Yeah. Everything´s logged on the computer´s registry files.
What are they?
Trust me. I´ll explain later.
Assaults on teachers.
Numerous thefts.
Security must have been high on the agenda.
Like any other inner-city school.
Do you keep your office locked, Mr. Pembrey?
Of course.
-Who has a key? -Myself and the caretaker.
What were you doing between 8:50 and 9:20 yesterday morning?
At assembly.
We have 12 witness statements of members of staff
who were all there.
But you said you felt unwell.
I...
According to a conversation you had with Ms. Weaver.
So where were you?
-Staff room. -Can anyone corroborate that?
As you say, they were all at assembly.
Did you go to your office?
The one you keep locked?
I told you.
Only your computer was used at 9:04 a.m.
to access Martin Ramsey´s files
and delete coursework he´d been working on.
Then the caretaker must have.
The caretaker had a hospital appointment.
It´s all a bit of a mess, isn´t it?
Do you wish to say anything, Mr. Pembrey?
No.
I doubt he´ll change his plea to guilty.
He´s a control freak in self-denial.
You´re a manipulative cow. You set me up.
What I think you mean is,
"You´re a manipulative cow, Detective Inspector."
Well, you can me manipulate me anytime you like.
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♫ Where there was hope ♫
♫ There´s an empty shell ♫
♫ Now, sweet ♫
♫ Sweet bitter love ♫
♫ Why have you awakened ♫
♫ And then forsaken ♫
♫ A trusting heart like mine? ♫