Bergerac

The victim is Tony Sallinger.

He was found dead in his hotel room by his sister Ruth.

From now on, no more secrets.

What do you think he meant by that? I have no idea.

Anybody else think it's very convenient this guy gets murdered

hours after he gets married?

A contaminated batch of heroin was taken out of circulation.

Tony was involved in a fatal RTA 15 years ago.

Guess who the attending officer was. The first person on the scene.

Richard Gibbon. He took Tony to the hospital to get the blood test.

Basically exonerated him.

Can I come down now? I'm getting a bit hungry. Nearly, darling.

I leave in five days. You need someone.

I think I know who killed Tony. I think it was my mum.

What makes you say that? Because 12 years ago she killed my father.

They found my dad's car by the cliffs,

with a note inside...

...but no body.

He's never been found.

This was two weeks before my graduation.

He was coming up to Manchester.

He'd booked his train ticket, a hotel.

He'd even bought a new suit.

I just don't think that sounds like someone planning to kill themselves.

But why do you think your mother might have killed him?

Dad phoned me four days before he died.

He was crying.

He said him and Monica had had a fight.

She'd been drying the carving knife, when she just snapped.

She'd threatened him with it.

Literally, like, pointed it at him.

And, would you believe it, a few days later he was dead.

And you didn't say anything to Monica?

No, not at the time, no.

But I did seven years later, though.

I told her what I thought she'd done. Why then?

That was when Dad was officially declared dead.

So Monica arranged this, like, memorial service...

...and I watched her and...

...she was relieved...

...and she was happy,

so I told her I knew about the knife.

I said, "I think you killed him."

And, well, it destroyed our relationship.

But, over the next few years, I started to have doubts,

I started to think maybe I was wrong,

and I...

I missed her.

I missed my mum.

But now you're saying, again, she killed your father?

Because then I found out about Tony saying "no more secrets".

Because then I found out that he was stabbed.

MOBILE PHONE BUZZES

Erm, just give me two minutes.

NICOLA SIGHS OK.

So Nicola's dad Alan Barton's disappearance

was properly investigated at the time

but it was deemed not suspicious.

Was there any mention of Monica threatening him with a knife?

Yeah. Hang on... She said that he imagined it.

You know that came out at the memorial service?

Yeah, there was a big argument. It was a bit more than an argument.

Nicola was cautioned for harassing Monica

and being drunk and disorderly.

She made the accusation to the officer that arrested her

and the CCRC, they reopened the case,

they went through it all again,

but they were happy that the original investigation was sound.

It's been through the mill twice already.

OK, yeah. Thanks, Simon. No worries.

DOOR OPENS

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Nicola.

Leave it with us and we'll reach out if there's anything else we need.

Oh.

Right.

So that's...

That's it, then?

Gotcha.

Thanks for your time, DCI Bergerac.

There are so many things we...

We just bury.

And we think it's the right thing to do.

What's that? Tony's speech is on Facebook.

Christ. The whole thing? Since when?

Erm, it went on a couple of minutes after he made it.

It's on the Jersey Golfing Group.

The lad that posted it is a caddy

but he was also helping out at the hotel with the catering.

It was his first gig. I don't think he's going to be getting another.

How many people are in that group? 87.

Kara, can you get that taken down ASAP? Yeah, I'll see what I can do.

Hey. Did you see that?

The video of the speech? Yeah. Last thing we need.

Right, where were we with Richard's report?

OK, so, Tony was acquitted

of causing death by dangerous driving on three counts.

Ice on the road, his clean blood alcohol test and a witness.

Witness was the barman at the pub where Tony spent his evening.

But Andy Todd was mistaken.

The witness did not say that Tony was drunk. His statement

at the inquest said Tony was drinking orange juice all night.

Now, ask me who the barman was. Who was the barman?

Karl Furman. Karl?

He used to work for a living? Apparently he wasn't always

the lovable heroin addict we now know.

But, like I said, his statement says Tony was stone-cold sober.

What did Nicola Barton want?

She claims Monica killed her father, and so killed Tony to cover it up.

Jesus! Based on what?

Nothing, you know? A feeling.

It's just like Andy. You know, she just wants to make sense

of a shitty, shitty thing.

Is this the whole file? Yeah.

It says here that Karl was interviewed

the morning after the crash,

but all I can find here is...

...the inquest statement.

Where's the original statement from the day after the crash?

Karl's initial statement is missing.

And if it was assigned a document number, then it was here.

It's been removed...

...some time between then and now.

Do you think Karl's original statement said Tony was drunk

and he changed his story at the inquest?

Let's make that our first question. That might be tricky.

I talked to Robbery, they're already looking for Karl

but he's hiding under a rock somewhere.

OK, get on to Response. I want everyone looking for Karl Furman.

In the meantime, let's pay Richard Gibbon a visit.

Erm, don't you think that's a bit premature?

I mean, it's one missing statement. It's just a conversation.

It was his case, after all.

If Andy Todd wants to make an accusation of corruption,

we should be going to Professional Standards.

OK, what would we say to them? Andy didn't even give us a name.

OK, but this has to be strictly fact-finding.

There can be no mention of the C word.

Trust me, five minutes with Richard and you'll want to use the C word,

but, yeah, it's purely for background.

That said...

That said, what? That said...

What's this? Just a hunch.

Erm, bear with...

Just...

I knew it. Richard Gibbon is in the same Facebook group

where the speech was posted.

OK, so he sees the speech, yeah?

He rushes over to the hotel to stop Tony from exposing their secret...

We don't know that they had a secret.

And we don't know that they didn't, so, look, they talk, they argue,

yada-yada, because...

...that is not a guest or a member of staff,

so let's find out where Richard was on Saturday night.

Thank you, my love. Yes, thank you, Mrs Gibbon.

You're welcome.

30 years next month.

I'd be lost without her.

Absolute carcass.

Shadow of my former self. RICHARD CHUCKLES

Oh, I'm so sorry Jim, how insensitive. No, it's fine.

Keep your eye on this one. Such precocious talent,

right from the get-go. Yeah.

Lone wolf, we called him. Didn't like to mix with us mere mortals.

Or maybe that was just me.

Lone wolf? It'd be terrible if the rest of the team heard about that.

Oh, and hard luck on the promotion, Barney.

Tough year this year.

But we thought your interview was...

...really something.

Richard, we wanted to ask you

about an RTA.

La Route de la Trinite, winter, 15 years ago.

Gosh, hold on. Erm... BMW hit a tree.

Route de la Trinite? Accessing memory banks!

Oh, passenger died, is that right? Yeah.

Driver survived.

Yes, it's coming back to me now. So muggins here had to take him

to hospital for a blood test. Was that really 15 years ago? Mm.

Why are you asking about it now?

The Hotel de Clairemont murder, the victim was Tony Sallinger,

the driver of the car.

Good lord.

You know, I thought the name rang a distant.

And you think the two things might be related?

Well, we don't know...

...yet.

But someone has made an allegation of corruption.

BARNEY GULPS That's... Well, it's very vague.

Erm, look, they didn't even give us a name, just...

...you know, connected to this incident.

Well, I'm afraid that's all I remember.

As I say, it was a long time ago. Mm.

Absolutely. And all of this is purely for context,

but we have already taken up too much of your time,

so, Jim, we should go. I haven't finished my tea.

Look, so we have the full picture, where were you between 7:45pm

and 8:30pm on Saturday evening?

Bird-watching at Le Sauchet.

Bird-watching.

At night?