The Fall

You went to the police, Rose. Made my life very difficult.

Peter?

No!

First appointment at work was at eight this morning.

She didn't turn up. No word from her either.

This has never happened before.

- Can I help you? - I'm here to see a patient.

Annie, I'm Paul Spector.

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

- Did you learn that at school? - No. From Peter Piper, Mummy's friend.

- I warned you once before, this is your last warning. - Good.

They've managed to lift a partial print from the scissors.

We've run it through the system and found a match. Paul Spector.

What have you done with Rose Stagg?

Stella, I don't know what's going to happen to me, to you,

to anyone else in this world.

All I know is no-one can outwit death.

Hey, cutie.

Hey, cutie. Hello.

- Morning, sir. - Morning.

- Did you get any sleep? - A little.

What's he doing here?

- Eastwood's your new deputy SIO. - Excuse me?

Garrett Brink is tied up with a court case,

McIlroy has further blood tests to undergo

and you need someone urgently.

So is he keeping an eye on me or am I keeping an eye on him?

Make it work.

Don't worry, we'll beautify it for you.

- Good to have you on board. - Likewise.

Sh, sh, sh. Hey, hey, hey.

- Good morning, everybody. - Morning, ma'am.

I am pleased to say we are about to take a very significant step

in our investigation.

This is a formal declaration

that from now on the enquiry will be focusing on a particular individual.

Our prime suspect, Paul Spector.

Paul Spector was caught on CCTV at the botanic gardens

on Saturday 14th April,

the day that Sarah Kay was there with her sister.

He came in to the police station on Saturday 21st

and was interviewed by DCI Brink.

He gave his DNA and his fingerprints and was, at that point, eliminated.

We now have tangible evidence to link Paul Spector

to the murder of Joe Brawley.

Namely his fingerprints on a pair of decorating shears,

identical to a pair purchased by Annie Brawley.

- 'Do we need to put an arrest strategy in place?' - 'Not yet.'

'There's very good reason for believing that Paul Spector is also

responsible for the abduction and unlawful imprisonment of Rose Stagg.'

Last night, I received a phone call

on my old private number from Rose Stagg's mobile phone.

The call he made on Rose's phone last night has been triangulated.

We have a location. A search is under way.

We have a live cell trace on Spector's registered mobile phone

and we have his historic phone records.

Right now that phone is off but we know he has access to other phones.

He made calls in Scotland, so we know he did go away.

Yesterday, he made and received a call in the vicinity

of the city hospital in Belfast, so we know he's back.

Does he have a car?

He reported his car as stolen the day after the Brawley murder.

It was a Peugeot 405.

Registration... sierra, India, whisky, three, one, six, zero.

- Has he made an insurance claim? - No.

We need to find that car.

DCI Matt Eastwood is my new deputy SIO.

Thus far, he's been covering the Rose Stagg disappearance.

We have some CCTV footage that you may not have seen of Rose shopping.

This is her last known appearance in public.

All the evidence thus far suggests that Rose

was abducted from her home by an individual who,

in conversation with Rose's daughter, Nancy,

aged six, called himself Peter.

Now, on that point, we have the suspect's birth certificate.

Peter Paul Spector.

Mother, Mary. Father, John Paul Spector.

He began an 18-month tour of duty here in March 1978

with the Duke of Cumbria's Regiment, Third Battalion.

Now, Spector was born, as you can see, on the 25th of May 1979.

The year the Shankill Butchers were sentenced to life imprisonment

for 19 murders, the year of Warrenpoint.

A bad year.

Spector is a married man. Married in 2004.

Sally-Ann Goodall.

He has two children... Olivia, eight, and Liam, five.

Sally-Ann's a senior staff nurse

in the Belfast neo-natal intensive care unit.

She leads a team that has responsibility for 30 beds.

We have Sally-Ann under surveillance in the hope that

she'll lead us to her husband.

Our priority is to find him.

Find him, put him under surveillance in the hope that he will lead us to Rose.

We know next to nothing about Paul Spector's childhood.

All we have is a list of children's homes that he himself provided.

All of those need to be checked out.

A man doesn't wake up one morning

and find that he has become a sexual psychopath.

Nor does he wake up one day and discover that the condition has gone.

It develops over a very long period of time.

We need to find out everything that we possibly can about Paul Spector.

Every detail of his life needs to be established,

checked and double-checked.

I also believe that Paul Spector is responsible for the deaths

of Fiona Gallagher, Alice Monroe and Sarah Kay.

I'd say all of his previous victims

were dead within an hour of being attacked.

She's lost to us already?

The one glimmer of hope is that he knows Rose.

Not from watching and stalking, objectifying her.

He really knows her.

And she's a mother.

'I feel sorry for you, I really do.'

'You must have had a terrible childhood

to be able to do this to me.'

'I feel sorry for you, I really do.'

'I feel sorry for you.'

Pay a follow-up call to Sally-Ann Spector. Make it seem routine.

Ask her to account for the night that she was at work

and Spector told us that he was at home alone with the kids.

- The night of the Joe Brawley murder? - Just that night, though.

- Don't spook her too much. - So just a little?

- Take McNally. - Thank you, ma'am.

She wants me for herself, really. She's just being generous.

Do you carry that stuff about bombs and shootings around in your head?

Etched on my soul.

X-Ray One to Control,

that's a CID car pulling up at the target's address.

Control, from X-Ray One.

CID car pulling up at the target's address.

That's two CID officers at the target's door.

Female at the door, possibly the target's wife.

Two CID officers enter the house.

Doors closed.

I don't know if you remember me, Mrs Spector.

- I spoke to you on the phone a while ago. - Yes, I do remember.

I'm sorry to intrude like this, but there are a few questions

I should have asked you about the night of the 20th.

- What questions? - Oh, they're just routine.

I should have asked you at the time.

You were working, you said?

I wasn't meant to be working that night. I'd been on all day.

We'd withdrawn care from one of the babies in the unit

so I stayed with the mother to see it through.

And Paul was at home with the children?

He told my colleague that he was at home all evening

and all night with the children.

Bathed them, put them to bed, read them a story.

He said that after that he was in his study listening to music.

- I'm not sure. - It's OK, Mrs Spector.

We just want to be able to eliminate your husband

from our enquiries and move on.

Just tell us what you know.

A friend of mine...

a friend of mine picked up the children from school.

She was looking after them until nine.

She couldn't stay any longer.

So when I couldn't get hold of Paul, I called our usual baby-sitter.

She came and stayed the night.

She was gone when I got back the following morning.

Paul was here.

Can I get those names from you, Sally?

The friend? The baby-sitter?

- Talk to you, ma'am? - Yeah.

According to Mrs Spector, a baby-sitter...

Katerina Benedetto, known as Katie...

was at the Spectors' house on the night of the Joe Brawley murder,

Not Spector himself.

- How old? - 15 at the time, just turned 16.

School student.

Should we talk to her?

Well, she'll need one of her parents present.

Father's dead, motorcycle accident three years ago.

He was an art dealer.

Mother works for an auction house. Fine art, paintings and stuff.

I know what fine art is.

Pay her a visit.

- Mrs Benedetto? - Yes.

DC Martin, DC McNally. We'd like to talk to your daughter, Katerina.

- Is she home? - Yes, she is. Come on through.

- Thank you. - Thanks.

Katie? Katie!

These police officers want to talk to you.

When did you start baby-sitting for the Spectors, Katie?

When I was 14.

And you were baby-sitting on the night of the 20th?

- And you stayed all night? - No.

- No? - I left at about three in the morning.

- Really? - You were asleep and didn't hear me come in.

- Did you leave because Mr Spector came home? - No.

I left because we suddenly realised the time and he wanted to go to bed.

- We? - Paul came home at about 9:30.

9:30?

- Yes. - I see. Then why did you stay?

We got talking, listening to music in his study.

You were alone with Mr Spector from 9:30 till 3am?

The children were there.

- Have you stayed that late at the Spectors' before? - No.

Where did Sally-Ann suggest you should sleep that night?

- She said to use their bed. - Did you use their bed?