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Thanks.

Marcella, what do you want?

- Jason, you've gotta help me. - I can't.

No, there has to be a reason. Just tell me why.

"Look... I'll call you once you've had time to think about things."

What am I supposed to think about?

You didn't say anything.

And I don't know anything.

- "I'll call you tomorrow, OK? This is not a good moment." - What am I meant to tell the kids?

"I don't know."

"I really can't talk right now. I'm in a meeting."

You went back to work?

- "Yeah." - You went back to work tonight?!

"Yes. I went back to work!"

Wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!

DTG Construction, SE1, please.

Evening.

Hi, love.

Hiya, Dash.

Saeed!

- Busy morning? - I had to take the car to the garage.

- I thought it was brand-new. - It is.

This was more the... human factor (!)

Sylvie!

Er... crumbs.

Phil!

- Nice to see you. - Glad you could make it.

Philip.

So... How's the family?

Fine, fine. Time moves on.

Sarah turned 16 last week.

Really!

Well, say hello and congratulations from me.

It's not bad, eh?

Indeed.

I hear you've started doing concrete jobs for Brenthams.

20% cheaper than you're doing them for me.

They're a... new relationship.

It's a way of getting a foothold in new markets.

Have you got tired of your old relationships?

Course not.

Jason?

With this new information, I took the liberty of rewriting our contracts.

You can't do that, Sylvie.

I represent more than half your turnover.

- Sylvie. - It's a long way down, Phil.

Metaphorically speaking. That... wasn't meant as a threat.

You'll drop by a third... but you won't fall all the way.

"Hi, it's Emma. Please leave a message and I'll get back to you. Thanks. Bye."

Ems, it's Mum. It's nothing in particular.

I just wanted to um...

I hope everything's fine and er... we'll catch up soon, OK?

Big hug. Love you.

- Marsella Backland? - It's Marcella. But yeah.

DI Rav Sangha. I work with DCI Laura Porter.

- Right. - It's about the... Grove Park murders.

Come in.

You might not remember it. It was a long time ago.

2005. Two women, one man, killed in their homes.

Plastic bags over their heads.

Tied around the throats with insulating tape.

Hands and feet tied... with cable ties.

Trophies taken from the scenes.

- I'm impressed. - Well, don't be.

- We never got him. - Yep. Well, it looks like he's back.

We found our second victim last night.

- An eleven year gap? - It looks like it.

The woman we found last night, Carol Fincher,

she lost her job at Bonn Electronics six months ago.

Laura thinks she interviewed someone called Bonn in the previous investigation.

But we cannot find the transcript.

The second victim was dating... a Clive Bonn?

Er... yeah. But a few weeks before she was murdered.

- We interviewed him, but he had an alibi. - Clive Bonn?

Yeah. Lives in Harrow. Or did at the time.

Can I take a look?

That's Liz Harper. Husband came home and found her two weeks ago.

Hm. And...?

Carol Fincher. Divorced, no children, lived alone.

- Found her last night but, as you can see, killed before Harper. - Mm.

- Peter Cullen. Have you talked to him? He was our prime suspect. - Mm-hm. It's not him.

He's behind bars.

- For what? - Manslaughter.

Killed his wife eight years ago.

- So he has killed. - Yes. But not these two.

- Yeah. Can I keep these? - No. Why?

Well, just to... look over with a fresh pair of eyes.

But you're not actually on the force, are you? So... you can't.

Do you wanna call Laura and ask?

DCI Laura Porter.

Hey. It's Marcella Backland.

Hi, Marcella. My God. It's been ages. How are you?

Er, I'm good, thank you. Erm...

One of your detectives visited me today.

Yes. Rav. Did you find something in the reports?

I wanna come back to work.

This is DS Marcella Backland.

She's been on a career break for several years, raising a family.

She's gonna be working with us.

Now, Marcella worked on the Grove Park case back in 2005.

So we're pleased she's joining our team.

Right. Forensics have finished at Carol Fincher's place.

Same kind of plastic bag and tape.

- Sorry. The same as in 2005 or on the other victim? - Both.

No signs of forced entry. It all points to the same offender.

Did you get hold of Clive Bonn. - Yep.

And he claims to have never met or even heard of Carol Fincher or Liz Harper.

And what about the other suspects from the 2005 investigation?

Well, we've got hold of pretty much all of them. They've been questioned and written off. Alex.

All the pictures we've got of Carol Fincher, she's wearing this Thomas Sabo bracelet.

- Six charms on it. It's missing. - Carol's telephone and computer records.

She was registered with a dating site -- Meet. That's M-E-E-T, not M-E-A-T.

Anyway, we're working out whether she's had any contact with people on that site.

Right. And was Liz Harper registered with them as well?

We're working on it. But the...

The four last unanswered calls to Carol's phone

were from a former colleague, Joanna Duggan.

Right. Alex, Marcella -- find her. See if she can tell us who Carol might have met.

- You want me to go? - Is that a problem?

- No, it's just -- - You weren't expecting to work today? - Of course I was. - Well, then.

- I feel so guilty. I should've gone over. - Why didn't you?

Erm...

There were times where she wanted to be left alone.

You rang her. Quite a bit.

You didn't think it was strange when she didn't call you back?

To be honest, I was a tiny bit relieved.

She kept going on about her husband leaving her.

Well, maybe it was the worst thing that ever happened to her.

Right. It's just there is a limit to what you can bear to hear over and over.

- Were you aware that she was a recovering alcoholic? - Yes.

And it didn't occur to you that maybe she'd started drinking again and that's why she didn't call.

I said I felt guilty, didn't I?

Do you um...

Do you mind if I take this?

Erm... no.

Thank you.

Did erm... did Carol ever mention a Peter Cullen?

- No. - You've never seen this man?

Erm... no.

- Sure? - Yeah.

Thanks.

Marcella? Why are you asking questions about Peter Cullen?

Well, he's not locked up, is he? He's in an open prison, doing a work scheme three days a week in a bakery.

You said he was behind bars so he couldn't have done it.

Prison officers drive him to the bakery and back

and a supervisor's watching him during the day.

2005, his car was spotted one block away from the first murder.

And he had a very good explanation for being there.

- He had the same insulating tape. - It's a common brand.

- And he didn't have any alibis. - It's all circumstantial!

We've looked into it, we've ruled him out,

- and, just so you know, we don't fly solo on this team. - Clive Bonn.

- He said he didn't know Carol Fincher, right? - Yeah. Why?

Alex, get Laura on the phone.

OK, Mr Bonn. You said...

you'd never met Carol Fincher.

The one on the right is Carol Fincher and the man in the middle is you.

Apparently, I was wrong.

- When and where was that photo taken? - Why don't you ask the photographer?

I'm asking you.

The company was having its 20th anniversary in July,

so I came back from Rome for that.

- And met Carol Fincher. - If met means accidentally

ending up in the same photo as her, then... yes.

- You fired her a month later. - We let 50 people go at that time.

HR handled everything.

Liz Harper. You said you never met her either.

- You got a photo of us two? - Is there one?

No.

So... er, are there any other women I don't know you wanna talk to me about?

Or are we done?

Nope. We're done. Thank you.

Clive Bonn. Connected to one of the 2005 victims and to Carol Fincher.

If there's any connection to the other victims, I want us to find it now.

Mark. Contact police in Rome. See if they've had any murders similar to ours between 2006 and now.