The Suspect

If you know anything

about Catherine McCain's death you need to tell me.

We know Bobby Moran didn't kill Catherine McCain.

Bobby lies all the time.

You have to tell the police Cara's your alibi.

Oh, God, Cara.

You are part of him setting me up.

Joe, that is ridiculous.

Why would someone want to set you up for murder?

Why would anyone hate me enough to do that? I don't know.

I've never fallen out of love with you. Never.

Bobby Morgan submitted a request to view his file.

What names would he have seen?

Well, maybe, we're all being punished.

Oh, Jesus, I condemned his dad to being a paedophile.

I'm trying to track down someone I used to worked with

in Liverpool, years ago.

Mr Erskine?

Neighbours said Rupert Erskine was quiet.

No-one had anything to say apart from he kept bees.

He's been there a week, maybe two.

There's no sign of wounds or any trauma to indicate violence.

With his mouth taped shut

cause of death was probably dehydration.

It would have taken him a long time to die

in considerable pain and discomfort.

So, someone really didn't like him.

It was a punishment killing.

Thank you.

We need to find out what Erskine's connection to O'Loughlin was,

other than them having worked together.

Erskine knew something?

Something O'Loughlin didn't want coming to the surface?

But why the cruelty?

And why would O'Loughlin ask Rachael Fenwick

to find Erskine for him, if he killed him two weeks ago?

He assumed we were listening in on his calls,

and he wanted to seem innocent.

A jury might buy it.

It's what he's done all along, sir, he's trying to play us.

Mm.

Well, along with Bobby's family,

maybe there's another list of people whose safety we need to consider,

the people he worked with in Liverpool.

I'll get onto that.

And how we doing with tracing Morgan's family?

Well, there isn't many to trace.

I mean, we're still trying to locate a half-brother in Australia.

And O'Loughlin, do we think he's still in Liverpool?

They swamped the area around the Land Rover

and they're still looking. Thank you.

So, he does this every day? Yeah.

Come rain or shine, his wife said.

Painting over the graffiti, his way of fighting the drug gangs.

There he is.

He was a great social worker.

He helped push through the court order for Bobby's dad.

Doesn't look like he's in a good way, does he?

No. I'm hoping he can tell us

who might've poisoned his daughter, though.

I just don't wanna cause him any more pain.

Wish me luck.

Lucas.

Hi.

It's Joe O'Loughlin?

I don't know if you remember me, we worked together, years ago.

Thanks to you, my wife talked to me last night.

First time in months.

Actual words got spoken.

She had a call from Melinda.

And I asked her questions.

She answered. It was almost normal.

Lucas...

do you mind telling what happened to your daughter, Sonia?

Why?

Because I don't think her death was an accident.

I've been waiting for a long time for someone to say that.

I've always said it wasn't.

She never took drugs, never.

The police wouldn't take it seriously.

What have you found out? What exactly happened to her?

Just tell me what you know!

Please, Lucas, just tell me if you can.

She was in her first year at uni.

She went to a club.

Somebody gave her a drug.

Three weeks in a coma,

she never regained consciousness and she wasn't going to.

We argued about turning off her life support.

I wanted to remember her the way she was, and...

she was beautiful.

Do you know who gave her the drug?

I talked to her friends who saw her dancing with him.

It was dark, but...

they said he wasn't a student, he-he was much older than Sonia.

He was older?

Yeah.

Confident and good-looking...

was what they said.

Right.

So what have you found out?

When we worked together

at social services, 13 years ago, we had a child welfare case.

We accused a man of abusing his eight-year-old son.

We got it wrong.

The man killed himself.

Now his son has grown up and taken revenge.

What? It's not your fault, you didn't...

It wasn't your case, you did nothing wrong,

you were just helping out, doing your job.

And he killed Sonia?

I... I think he could be connected somehow, yeah.

Well, if he... if he wanted to punish me,

why not hurt me, kill me?

I'm so sorry Lucas.

My daughter!

Sorry, I'm so sorry,

I will do everything in my power to get at the truth.

Whoever gave Sonia that drug, it wasn't Bobby Morgan.

Did you ever meet Jack Owens?

Lucas could have just described him to me, it...

Where's just too many coincidences linking him to Catherine's murder

for him not to be involved.

Mel... I don't want you involved in this any more.

I don't want the police coming after you for helping me.

It's as much my fault.

Boyd would still be alive.

The parents of that teacher, Lucas's daughter...

No, you did nothing wrong, it was a mistake.

It's all it was.

I gotta get back to Julianne and Charlie.

Take my car.

You might never get it back.

Well, how else are you gonna get back to London

without being arrested?

Mel, thank you.

Oh, yeah...

I stole this too.

It's my only hope of proving my innocence.

Joe, you...

You can't keep running.

Go to the police,

tell them what you've found out.

Just a minute, Charlie.

Leave us alone.

Mrs O'Loughlin, we're just doing our job.

My husband hasn't contacted me, I have no idea where he is.

Well, if he tries to make contact, please get him to turn himself in.

Charlie!

Have you seen my daughter? She was right there.

Charlie!

There she is.

It's OK, it's OK. Oh, my baby...

It's all right. I found her, um...

She was hiding behind some bushes, I think...

I think she's feeling a bit neglected.

Hey, hey, it's OK. It's OK. She's OK.

How did you know where we were? Oh, your, um...

your plumber said.

I, um...

Yeah, I just... Look, I just... I just wanted to apologise.

Leave us alone, Jack. I just wanted to let you know how...

Later.

OK.

'Ruis, yes.'

We've just had a call from the cemetery,

one of the groundsmen found a spade hidden under leaves.

What? I thought we did a thorough search?

How come it's only turning up now?

Well, this one was well hidden. We're getting it tested,

to see if there's any trace of O'Loughlin on it.

Get them to analyse any soil deposits from the spade

and compare them to samples from Catherine's grave, right?

And we think he's on his way back to London.

Melinda Cossimo couldn't account for where her car was last night

and then it flagged up on cameras heading south.

'We've got an alert out for it now.'

Well, double the presence outside his house.

I wanna know where his wife and daughter are at every minute.

Sir.

Thanks for coming alone, Detective.

How do you know I have?

Because you're an honest man.

My wife and child need protection. They've got it.

Right, come on...

let's go.

We'll go down together. I'll go with you...

but I want you to look at the evidence first.

What evidence?

This evidence.

Fine. Pick it up, come with me, I'll look at it.

That...

is Bobby Morgan's social services file

from when he was a child, and everything else I've uncovered.

It lays out his motive

for framing me for Catherine and Cara's murder.

He didn't kill either of them!

But he's been driving this, and Jack Owens,

he's involved as well. What? Your best friend?

Your best friend who's been defending you