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Andy.

Come on. No. Please, come on.

It's nearly midnight. I've got to get home.

Have you thought any more about telling the girls?

I can't, not at the minute. Not with a job like this one.

I hardly see them as it is, never mind...

Why don't we try and organise a Sunday off together

and take them for a meal and tell them?

Together, and Dorothy. Yeah... just not now.

Not with this job like it is. Obviously not now.

I mean, in a couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

You don't sound too convinced. I'm tired.

Is everything OK? It's fine.

I'm still a bit... What?

Bothered... about why you didn't tell me you and Ade had split up.

Are you going to keep picking at this?

No, I'm not. I'm sorry.

I'm just... You are.

I didn't want to talk about it.

I didn't want people coming up to me saying,

'Oh, I'm sorry to hear about you and Ade.'

I wanted time to think about things. Properly.

Yeah, but... I'm not on about 'people'.

I'm on about me.

Janet. Don't analyse things to death.

'Detectives in Greater Manchester are continuing the search

for the missing schoolboy, Dylan Nicols.

Following Dawn Nichols' plea yesterday for information

on her eight-year-old son's whereabouts,

Manchester Police's Major Incident Team

have recieved hundreds of calls with alleged sightings of Dylan

in Amsterdam and Barcelona.' We want him home.

We just want him home.

'Friends, relatives and neighbours have joined a team

'..Who was last seen four days ago.'

Hello?

Uh, yeah, it is, yeah.

Tomorrow morning? What time?

Uh...

Yeah, no, it's fine.

Yeah, that's fine. It's fine. Thank you. Nine o'clock?

Thank you. All right, bye-bye-bye.

What?

Dom's gotta have an HIV test.

That was the clinic. I've booked him an appointment for three weeks

but they've had a cancellation and they can see him tomorrow at nine.

You couldn't go with him for me, could you?

I've got my exam, my sergeant's exam. You're on three elevens.

Look, if someone doesn't go with him then he's not going to turn up.

I've taken three hours out of the exam.

I don't want to ask Godzilla if I can have the whole morning off.

Not in the middle of this. Why's he got to have an HIV test?

Course I will. Course I will. Course I'll go with him.

Is it: A - when he arranges to meet the child?

B - when he starts walking to meet the child?

C - when he first meets the child in the park?

D - he does not commit the offence as he has not previously communicated with the child?

I think it's B - when he's walking to meet the child.

I think it's A - when he arranges to meet the child.

Well, go on, then! What? D. Why? How come?

Section 15 makes it an offence for a person aged 18 or over...

or to travel with the intention of meeting a child...

DS Roper... the stumbling block to the offence in this question

is the lack of previous communication.

Thanks. He's here. He has entered the building.

Ooh, he's here. He's here!

Boss, he's here. Right, excuse me.

Who's here? The Chief Con.

Mr Rutterford? Aw, look at you, all star struck.

Why's he here? They're having a gold meeting.

Here? Mm. Big enquiry like this, they just do.

It boosts morale allegedly and it looks good.

Do we get to sit in on it? Of course you do, Kevin.

You and the strategic commanders.

We're going to go through to the briefing room, Andy.

Can you organise us some teas? Thank you.

Ma'am.

A 48-year-old guy owns a sweet shop which he uses to further

his paedophilic desires. He sees a 12-year-old kid in the shop

and has desires to touch him sexually.

He arranges to... Put that away.

Get on with what you're supposed to be doing. Exam's tomorrow!

I didn't get to bed last night, Kevin. I didn't even get home.

Get on board.

Idiot.

Mr Rutterford. Morning. Good morning. Sir.

Morning, sir. Morning, sir.

Thought we'd take it through to the briefing room. Good, good.

The key to the whole thing, I think we all agree,

is the fact that Dylan spent the entire day in the slot machine arcade on Silver Street.

He was in there for upwards of nine hours.

We've identified 47 people who went in there during those nine hours.

Gambling addicts, druggies, alcoholics,

a convicted sex offender. We've identified all 47

and we're in the process of speaking to all 47.

Can you talk me through his last known movements?

I can, yes. The arcade manager, Michael Nash,

locked up just after eight o'clock.

Dylan was hanging about outside the arcade with a little girl, Louise Armitage.

Nash knew Dylan, knew where he lived,

offered to drive him home with Louise Armitage

who lives four doors down from Dylan.

Nash dropped them both off on the corner at the end of their street, 8:20, we've got that on CCTV.

Louise went straight home, Dylan didn't.

Dylan said he was going to the chip shop.

Louise wanted to go with him but Dylan wouldn't let her.

Normally he will share. We both do.

Depends who has the cash.

Why do you think he didn't want to this time, Louise? I don't know.

Do you remember what he said?

'Bugger off, Louise.'

It was an excuse to get rid of her. What we also know

is that Dylan never went into the chip shop. CCTV confirms that.

So he had plans other than going in the chip shop

and he had to shake Louise off first.

At the minute, Louise is the last person we know spoke to him.

The last sighting is the CCTV from Netherfield Road

that you've seen so much of on the news.

So he was walking away from his home and back towards Wynthenshawe.

So where he was going and who he was gonna meet

is the $64 million question.

I am convinced it's someone he spoke to at that arcade,

during those nine hours.

Obviously, you're talking to this Michael Nash, the arcade manager?

Oh, are we talking to Michael Nash!

I've had him in twice with one of the tier threes.

She's downstairs again with him now.

I wish that I'd taken him to the door. Both of them.

I would have normally... only he were insisting on going buying chips.

So... Normally...

what do you mean, 'normally', Michael?

Have you driven Dylan home before?

I know his mother.

The thing is, I know that he's not old enough to be in the arcade

and I know that he should be in school...

but I'd rather he was there where I could keep an eye on him.

And what about this registered sex offender?

Ryan Varney, 22 years old, small-time low-life dickhead.

Mental age of a banana.

Convicted of having sex with a 12-year-old girl five years ago.

We know he spent a lot of time with Dylan that day.

He took photos of him on his phone, messing about in the arcade,

and he gave him money for pop and crisps.

I've had him in twice, as well, with another tier three

and she's asked him back in today.

There's an eight-year-old boy missing...

who, on the day that he went missing,

you gave money to and you filmed on your phone.

In an arcade that he wasn't old enough to be in.

On a day that he was meant to be in school.

We've got half of the Manchester Metropolitan Police Force

out looking for this kid.

It's really important, Ryan, that you try and tell me the truth.

Do you understand that?

And what're you thinking?

I'm thinking that out of the 120-plus people we've TIE-d,

one of these two knows significantly more than they're telling us at the moment.

Nash was the last adult to speak to Dylan

and Varney has this child sex offence.

Beyond that, it's an instinct.

I'm just unhappy about the pair of them.

And we're thinking the boy's dead?

Statistically, historically, yeah.

I've got 30 officers doing house-to-house.

I've got 20 dedicated search officers.

Based on advice from POLSA and CATCHEM,

we're moving out in concentric half-mile circles

from the point of the last sighting on Netherfield Road.

What I'd like to do, Gill... Given the nature of the inquiry...

this is no reflection on the job you're doing...

I'd like to bring the review team in sooner rather than later.

Think of it as a support, too, in this instance.

Is Mandy Saunders back off maternity, then?

No. Uh, no. You'll be working with your ex-husband.

I assume you haven't got a problem with that?

No, sir. Thanks for asking.

I'd rather he was there in the arcade where I know he's safe

than wandering the streets which is what he'd do.

At least then I can say, hand on heart, I was trying to keep an eye on him.

How long have you known Dawn, Michael?

Five or six months.

Is something the matter, only you seem a little bit embarrassed?

I...

OK, well, I've been seeing her. Dawn.

You mean you've been having a relationship with her?

Yeah. What sort of relationship? A sexual relationship?

Yeah, yeah. Sort of, yeah.

But, obviously, my wife doesn't know.

It's OK, Michael, we're not sat here judging you.

We just want to know where Dylan is and what's happened to him.

Sweet kid.

I just want to help her and be doing something for her.

OK. I'd like to take you back to that Monday night again,

if that's all right with you, Michael?

After you dropped Dylan off.

But, before I do, when you said just now, 'sweet kid, '

who were you referring to?

Well, Dawn.

But, yeah, he's a sweet kid and all.

So what we know now, Ryan, is that when you told us