Bergerac

You're far more ruthless than I could ever be.

I think you're the most dangerous man I've ever met.

I never thought Kim was unsafe with you.

Of course she's safe.

Agh!Kim!I'm OK.

Julien, who was driving

your car in the lead-up to Cate's murder?

Ellie, these photographs were on your phone.

They're of the Wakefield house. Did you take them?

Cate sent them to me. Cate had a second

secret phone that she's hidden somewhere.

John Blakely's life was ruined. What about my life?

It's about your confidence in the conviction.

They found my hair in his car. He disputes that.

Are you a corrupt cop who pursues vendettas by framing innocent men?

No comment.

What the hell are you doing, John?

Oh, you've spoken to Chloe, then. She's a real bloodhound, that one.

Well, that's a shame, I was on a roll.

But this will be far more entertaining.

Right, you listen to me, yeah? You did it. You were guilty.

Ah. I was found guilty under false means.

I've been thinking, how many other poor innocent souls

have you stitched up?

I don't know about you, but that keeps me awake at night.

Yeah? What about Sophie Armstrong? Did you think about her?

Oh, I think she'd want the right man to pay for the crime.

BANGING Ooh!

Careful, Jim. God's eyes are everywhere.

CCTV of the soul. Now, I forgave you,

but you just kept coming. You stopped me from starting over

after I'd served my time.

The only reason we went to the press is

because we can't trust the police. Who's we?

Someone who hates you as much as I do.

Arthur Wakefield.

So the law is paralysed,

for the wicked surrounds the righteous.

So justice go forth, perverted.

Yeah, thou shalt not fucking abduct.

DOOR OPENS, SHUTS

Where's Julien?

He's at the police station.

He left the opera on the night of.

I didn't mention it for obvious reasons.

And then he took my car.

Drove it here. He was seen en route on CCTV.

Well, he must have killed Cate.

But why?

He took out a life insurance policy on Cate for 250k,

presumably to pay off his gambling debts.

But I thought you'd paid them off, that he'd managed to stop.

Yeah, so did I. Looks like he's fooled us all.

And he faked the ransom after Lily had been taken.

What? No! His own daughter?! He...

I need to call Lawrence, get him to draw up a strategy.

Plead insanity, say that we did everything that we could to help,

but in the end, addiction won out, you know?Mm.

The ungrateful little shit! He's robbed us of everything.

We need to preserve what little we have left of our reputation.

Arthur I...What?!

I need to tell you something.

PHONE BUZZES

Hi, Dad.

Hi, love? You OK? Um...

How's Dragon Lady?

Still breathing fire.

Says it could have been a lot worse. I could have broken my arm.

Uh, you didn't.And I could have seen you being killed.

Yeah. Well, she should keep her fantasies to herself.

The thing is...

..she doesn't want me to see you for a bit.What?

Not till you've sorted yourself out.

Who does she think she is? Look, it's not her choice, Kim, OK?

It's yours. Look, I'll talk to her. Put her on.

No, Dad.I'm not going to let her take over your life, Kim.

I don't want you two fighting. Again.

DOOR OPENS

She's coming. I should probably go. Wait. Sorry.

You can't even talk to me now? Kim? DIAL TONE

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Hi. Guess who just came to the hostel like a man possessed.

Bergerac?Yeah. Totally lost his shit. The cage is rattled.

Prison beckons. So how long till you run the story?

Cos I can't wait.I spoke to Sophie.

I was hoping she'd concede that

Bergerac had coached her into identifying you.

But she is convinced it was you.

Right, but we still have the second search of the car.

No. I just had to explain this to Arthur Wakefield.

It's not enough. Without hard proof that Bergerac did this,

we could be sued for defamation.

Sorry, are you saying that you're not going to run it?

I'm sorry, John.

You're serious?

OK, fine.

You need to go to this address.

It's the house I grew up in.

You'll need to go into my old bedroom.

Top of the stairs, first on the right.

There's a wardrobe.

Taped to the inside of the wardrobe there's an old mobile phone.

I need you to get it, and I need you to bring it to me.

But why can't you get it?

It's not safe for me to go there.

But it is safe for ME to go there?

You said you need evidence.

Wait, so there is evidence?

Well, why didn't you use it at trial?

You'll see.

DOOR OPENS

DOOR SHUTS

So, we know that Julien took out

a life insurance policy on Cate right around

the time he went into debt with Rachini.

People have life insurance policies.

For all we know, maybe she had one on him.

It doesn't mean that he was desperate enough to kill her.

And besides...

..insurance companies don't pay out immediately after

a murder. It's a long shot, Barney.

He was desperate enough to fake a ransom note

to his father for his own daughter.

That's opportunistic. It's not pre-meditated, Barney.

It's a key difference.

Not pre-meditated? He knew that she was at home,

alone, with no CCTV. He snuck out the opera house,

he took his dad's car.

Master Wakefield in the nursery with a candlestick.

Julien, look...definitely, it's promising.

PHONE BUZZES But Arthur is still in the frame.

BARNEY SCOFFS Hold on. Any luck enhancing

the CCTV of Arthur Wakefield's car?

Yeah, I've sent it to tech but I'll chase them up.

Yeah.

What?

What exactly did she say?

I haven't gone into any detail with her.

She just gave me the headline. I put her in here.

Chief Inspector, I came here to tell you that it was me driving

Arthur's car from the opera house.

I slipped out from the stalls,

took Arthur's keys from his coat pocket

and drove back to the house to talk to Cate.

What about?

Something she'd said before we left, about Ellie Robson.

I presumed Julien must have told her we'd been receiving

threatening letters. Why? What did Cate say?

That she empathised with Ellie. And that concerned me.

And then, during No, Non Tremare, O Perfido...Sorry?

Oh, Do Not Tremble, You Treacherous One.

Act one, scene nine.

It struck me that they may have been in contact with each other.

OK. So you left. Yeah?Mm-hm.

OK. What happened when you got back to the annexe?

Well, we talked. And I was right. I mean, Ellie had convinced Cate

that there was some great conspiracy,

that she was denied all this money,

and Cate was naive enough to believe her.

OK. So an easy target for a vengeful woman.

Well, I'm sure Ellie was very convincing.

There's just one problem.

The usher told us that no-one left the stalls before the interval.

No, no, no.

It doesn't seem inconceivable to me that you wouldn't step up

and take one for the Wakefield team.

Was this Arthur's idea?

That you would put yourself in the frame to save him?

Your petticoat's showing, Chief Inspector.

I'm sorry?

Your fixation with Arthur!

OK. For the sake of argument, then,

you go back to the annexe because Cate and Ellie are conspiring.

Conspiring to do what exactly?

Well, that's what I wanted to find out.

I mean, there isn't any proof,

so the best Cate could hope to do would be to,

I don't know, undermine Arthur in some way,

damage his profile, our profile.

I made it very clear that that would be

a very, very bad idea, and I left.

Right. And Cate was still alive?

Yes. Absolutely.Why didn't you tell us this before?

Because I knew how it would look.

And I didn't want Arthur grieving

a daughter-in-law who was, in effect, stabbing him in the back.

But I can't stand by and watch Julien be incriminated. So...

Cate thought there was proof. I'm sorry?

About the illegal purchase of Allied Cirocell.

You said there wasn't any proof. Cate thought there was.

Their plan was, Cate would go to the theatre,

Ellie would sneak into the house and go to Arthur's laptop

and take all of the incriminating evidence

and sneak out and take it to the press.

I mean, Cate had sent Ellie hand-drawn plans of the house,

the location of the laptop, the passcode.

I see.Ellie got cold feet. Cate's last message to Ellie was,

"If you won't expose Arthur, I will."

Cate feigned illness so she could get the information herself.

Where did this argument take place?