Silent Witness

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Paul can have the life he wants.

I ain't doing that again.

You want people here knowing what you did?

David Sellers, 31.

Someone's tried to clean up.

Where were you that day, between 7 and 10pm?

Oh, right. Yeah.

Pull another lifer in for it.

I'm outside flat 63.

The warden, Ryan White, there's blood in his bathroom.

Better get down here.

How can we contribute unless we know who and what we're dealing with?

I know you're Joe Sherringham.

He's out, Sylvie. I was going to call you.

Fire crews found a body in the kitchen.

We're just waiting for the Fire investigators.

This isn't Joe Sherringham.

No, but this is.

I can tell you who killed Joe.

We need to take Sylvie to the building in the woods.

# Testator silens

# Costestes e spiritu

Impact abrasion to the upper right cheek.

It's almost circular.

Bruising to the surrounding area.

Also to the knuckles of his right hand.

Thomas.

MUFFLED SHOUTS FROM CELLS

Raise your arms.

SCANNER BLEEPS

Turn around.

Clear.

So, what did Ted Blake tell us dead that he couldn't when he was alive?

Puncture wound made by a small blunt object.

We haven't been able to match it with anything in the house,

and it wasn't made by the murder weapon.

Bruising on the knuckles of his right hand,

but we didn't find any matching bruises on Joe.

We think Jack was right, there was someone with him at the scene.

So you're suggesting there was a fight between Ted and this third person?

This is the likely spread of the fire from the set point outside the kitchen door, OK?

Body's here.

Here it comes. Open Sesame.

Kaboom.

Now, the extent of Ted Blake's burns would require

higher temperatures than those caused by an accelerant.

He also had a distinctive crescent-shaped burn

on the palm of his right-hand.

From Joe Sherringham's front doorknob, on the outside.

So the house was already on fire when Ted opened the door? Yes.

The sudden increase in oxygen created the fireball.

Hence the flash burns.

So there was a fight.

Ted tried to go back inside.

He was trying to save Joe Sherringham?

INDISTINCT SHOUTS FROM PRISON

SEAGULLS CALL

SIRENS SOUND

Nikki. 'It's happening.'

Mitchell wants us to drive up together,

we meet Marcus at the scene of Craig Blake's murder.

Sasha?

I'm on my way.

Ben. Not working today? I think Mandy's expecting you.

Er... I'll go in later, I'm just here to see Sasha.

Dr Blackburn. Oh. All right.

I have to be somewhere. Can we... Can we do this later?

Hey. Was the other night real? You shouldn't have come here.

Not now, you mean.

I won't embarrass you, I just need to know.

Yes, it was real.

Well, hang on a minute. What are we afraid of? What else matters?

I have to go. This isn't fair. What am I supposed to do?

You are in my head every minute.

I see you, I smell you, my heart's going, my head's gone. Please!

Hey!

I can't do this now.

INDISTINCT CHATTER ON POLICE RADIO

Right. Everything is in place.

Chadwell is here to tell us about the current murders. Nothing else.

He's never confessed to anything.

You're both across the forensics.

He says anything that differs from the trial transcripts, I need to know.

Are we sure about this?

I want him to talk.

This is my choice. I want to know.

I'm going to bring him out now.

He's not going to get anywhere near you, OK?

Don't meet his eye or speak to him directly. Understand?

Today is about Chadwell inflicting maximum pain.

He's going to tell lies, he's going to sow doubt to get attention.

It will glorify him and you're letting him do it.

Open it up.

Nikki.

Sylvie.

Craig always wanted to know what we got up to here.

Came on his bike. Green, I think.

Can you remember, Sylvie? Chadwell.

You're here to answer our questions, nothing else, or it ends now.

I'd been here with other boys.

Joe was a late addition.

We were experimenting.

And you persuaded Craig, ten years old.

Not much, actually.

I didn't need to. He was curious.

He wanted to know.

CHILDREN'S VOICES ECHO

Joe and I brought him in. Me there, and Joe over there.

Joe showed Craig one of his girlie mags.

We were going to introduce him to one of our games,

but Craig got upset.

And he didn't want to play any more.

That's when he tried to leave and you stopped him. Yes.

Craig was scared.

Yes. Started to cry. Kept saying he was going to tell his mum.

And did that make you angry?

I don't like people crying.

And he was such a baby.

So you tied him with wire and then attacked him with a knife? Yes.

Why the face? Why did you attack his face after you killed him?

I just wanted him gone.

We're getting nowhere.

Did you influence someone to kill Joe Sherringham?

No, no, Superintendent, that's not why we're here.

He's enjoying this. Please, let's stop it.

New information, now, or you're back in the van.

Don't you want to know the most important thing about your boy?

May I?

He was here.

Yes, you said Craig was on the floor.

Not Craig. Connor.

Connor was standing right here...

watching.

You see, Connor was in my little group.

He took part in some of our games.

Didn't you know, Sylvie?

No, how could you?

He was late that day.

But he could see that we had Craig in here,

showing him the magazines, trying to get him to join in.

And then Connor was gone.

Connor ran away and left us to it.

And now he is angry.

Trying to kill the people that made him ashamed.

INDISTINCT CONVERSATION

Hello, mate.

Fancy a chat?

None of my business how long it's been going on, all that.

But this has to stop.

None of it is your business.

Have you thought about what'll happen to Sasha? She's fine.

I don't think that's true.

I don't think you're facing things. Think about her.

Does it make you feel you're better than me,

helping Sasha out with them creeps, following her around the place?

I mean, I know why you're there.

It's her. Am I right?

It can go wrong for people like us.

Very quickly, Ben.

HE SIGHS

Where's Mum? She's fine. She'll be home shortly.

Why am I here? Did she see him?

Yeah. She was very brave.

I just need to clarify a couple of things.

Can you describe the relationship you had with Marcus Chadwell and Joe Sherringham?

All this came out in the trial. I know.

Well, I knew them from school.

Erm, they lived close to us.

Marcus wanted me to be his friend, but I didn't like him. No-one did.

He had this weird hold over other kids,

so I stayed away.

And your brother?

I didn't want Craig to have anything to do with Marcus.

But he wouldn't listen. How do you mean?

Well, he looked up to older boys.

He just wanted to be cool, show me he didn't need me.

Marcus saw that, befriended him.

Craig was just a kid.

Where were you the day that Craig died? Why are you asking me this?

Marcus suggested you were at that building in the woods.

Jesus Christ.

I was at the park.

He claims you saw that Craig was with them

and you left without saying anything. That's not true.

If you had been there, you'd never forgive yourself, would you, Connor?

All that guilt turning to anger.

You'd want to hurt him the first chance you got, I understand that.

Did Mum hear him see this? Yeah. And you let him do that to her?

You have no proof I did anything Marcus Chadwell told you, have you?

Craig, my dad, now me. Can't you...?

Can't you see what he's doing?

HE EXHALES

I'd like to take a swab of your DNA, Connor.

This is a joke. Is that your dad's?

What, this? Mm.

No. Why would it be? Have a look?

Thanks, Connor.

Oh! Jack, I thought you'd never ask.

You're already taken. Meh. Look for Ted Blake's skin or blood.