The Suspect - First Season

The diagnosis I gave you last week still stands.

Early Onset Parkinson's.

I was a patient of his, many years ago.

Been working with Cara and the group for, oh, quite some time.

'I've been asked to profile a murder investigation

'where a woman was forced to stab herself 21 times.'

We talked before about this number being important to you, didn't we?

It's a bus, actually. My dad drove a number 21 bus.

You were at the cemetery at the same time as us finding the body?

'At the same time as you finding the body.'

Missing person. Liverpool.

Please, my replacement?

If you could take a moment to consider the candidates?

Did you not recognise her at the mortuary when you saw her?

No, no. I didn't.

We found documents in Catherine's room,

her account of you sexually assaulting her.

And I was completely cleared.

Why is she back in our lives? What else are you hiding?

SHE CLEARS THROAT

Doctor. Nurse?

Oh, Christ!

You'd better come with me.

I'm sorry, Dr O'Loughlin.

I just...

wanted the pain to help block it all out.

Catherine, you're self-harming.

If you want my help, you'll have to come and see me professionally.

Regular appointments, OK?

It's the only way I can help you.

Thank you.

'When Catherine came to see me, it...

'it was clear that the self-harming was getting worse, '

but these things take time. It's a process.

Progress was slow, but she did stop self-harming.

And she was my client for, well, ten months, I think.

Until she made the allegation

that you sexually assaulted her under hypnosis...

No. And then you were suspended...

That happens with any serious allegation.

An inquiry concluded that there was no basis...

So why'd she make the allegation?

I don't know why she made the allegation, I...

Look, it-it's not...

It's common for some clients to become infatuated

with their therapists, that happens.

I mean, I didn't see the signs at first,

but she did start wearing make-up to the sessions and perfume.

'She would schedule our sessions for the end of her shift

'so she could come in in her civvies.

'There was one occasion she tried to kiss me,

'and I stopped her, '

another occasion where she tried

to undress in the room and I stopped her too.

Maybe she was angry at the rejection.

Do you have a habit of befriending your clients?

No, I don't.

Ah, yeah. Cara Velasco.

Mm-hm. The sex worker

that I witnessed you meeting up with

when I made inquiries about Catherine.

Yeah, Cara's an ex-client of mine, she's, um...

She was one of my clients from years ago, actually.

Do you keep in touch with your male clients

or is it just the female ones?

I think you're aware that Cara is helping me in my research...

And like Catherine, Cara is both attractive and damaged.

She served time for assault, was sectioned

after she tried to commit suicide.

What has this got to do with my client...

Dr O'Loughlin. Mm.

Tell me about your Friday - 23rd.

The-The date that Catherine disappeared?

Um...

It was a usual morning.

I had clients until about three o'clock.

At four o'clock,

I went to the hospital to meet Dr Owens.

He confirmed my Parkinson's diagnosis

and... I left around five o'clock, I think.

'Then I just went walking.

'I was just walking, trying to take it all in.

'Ended up in Soho, went to a few pubs.'

Oh, which ones?

Er...

Honestly, I don't remember.

I was trying to... deal with... It was a difficult time for me.

I had some bad news,

and I got stupidly drunk,

stayed for a few hours in town, and... and I left

and got home before midnight.

My wife can corroborate this.

And you've had no communication with Catherine McCain

since she made those allegations five years ago?

Look, there... HE CLEARS THROAT

There is something that I haven't told you.

Um...

Several weeks before any of this happened,

she applied...

for a job to be my receptionist.

Dr O'Loughlin, I'm putting you under caution.

You do not have to say anything,

but it may harm your defence if you do not mention

when questioned something which you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence. Is that clear to you?

Yes, it is.

So, you didn't think to tell us the moment you found out?

I think I'd like a word with my client...

No, no, it was the same feeling I had at the mortuary.

It-It... It didn't feel real.

It-It felt out of place,

and it...

This is coming on top of my Parkinson's diagnosis.

I-I just wasn't thinking clearly, and if I had have been, I...

So, you didn't tell us that you were at the cemetery

when we found her body,

you didn't tell us that you recognised her at the mortuary,

and you didn't tell us that she applied to work for you?

Is there anything else that you haven't told us

that might be rather important?

No.

Why would a woman who'd previously accused you of sexual assault

apply for a job as your receptionist?

I don't know why she'd apply for a job!

Maybe she was still obsessed! Obsessed enough to turn up dead

in a cemetery on the one day of the year

that you happen to be there? I mean, is that what this is?

She arranged the whole thing

before stabbing herself 21 times

and then someone buried her?!

Detective Inspector... No, no, I had the same thought!

Let's hear it out loud!

Makes it sound even more crazy!

PIPE RATTLING

Nah, it's all pretty loose.

I think someone's had a go at getting in here before.

That one's definitely a replacement, but I can't tell...

PHONE RINGING Sorry, excuse me.

RINGING CONTINUES

Hi.

Hi. 'How'd it go?'

Yeah, yeah, everything's fine.

I mean, none of us understand any of it, but...

'But they've let you go?'

Of course they let me go.

Thank God.

'Er... look, love, I'm gonna go into work, '

I'm feeling OK now, so...

I'll give you a buzz later, all right?

'I love you.'

I love you. 'Bye-bye.'

I assume psychologists aren't big on events being coincidental?

No, not really. Um...

Look...

I think there's a possibility

that one of my patients might be involved in this somehow.

You can't withhold information in a murder investigation.

No, I-I don't have any evidence and I might be just grabbing...

for... You've already set alarm bells off

by not saying that you recognised the victim in the morgue.

Technically right now, I can't break doctor patient confidentiality...

If the police wanna speak to you again,

you might not have a choice.

Simon... thank you. I appreciate it.

'And your dad?'

I was eight, and, er... he went to work,

and he didn't come back.

What happened to him?

You know, nothing was gonna knock him down,

not even those horses.

Horses? Yeah, yeah.

I used to, like, sit on his shoulders at football games,

you know, that was our thing.

We'd go to, like, the Chelsea matches together,

and, you know, sometimes there'd be, like, running fights between fans,

and the police would charge on horses...

Like, and I know, then, you know, I-I should've been scared,

but I...

I never was, you know, not... not when I was with Dad.

What happened to him?

Hmm.

It wasn't his fault.

Did he abandon you?

Abandon? Mm.

Joe, you know nothing about him!

Would you feel more comfortable talking about your mother?

I don't want to remember her.

Because?

Cos, I haven't seen her in years, that's why.

And she's dying of cancer.

And I'm glad.

You're glad?

Yeah.

She'd stay out and sleep with all types.

Me and my dad'd wait up for her to get home in the mornings.

How would your dad take it?

I-I-I-I see him... I see him disappearing little by little.

Death by a thousand cuts.

"Death by a thousand cuts"?

What do you mean by "death by a thousand cuts"?