Vera

What are you, a girl?

Come on, play something real man.

Ah, that's it.

Fuck!

What is that?

Here.

Right you are.

Hello.

He's come off that edge into the water.

Bunch of sixth formers on a residential

at the activity center saw it happen.

Tried to get him out, couldn't find him in the dark,

divers pulled him out this morning.

And he was burning?

Yeah, give me a bell around lunch time,

I'll have more for you then.

New phone.

You've got your own ring tone.

What?

Billy.

Fire burns upwards.

Lowest point of burning gives you the point of ignition,

in this case, here.

From the feet up.

No wonder he jumped.

Must've been in agony.

Ma'am.

Gideon Frane.

Extreme sports fanatic, 25 years of age.

Parents live abroad, they've been informed.

No siblings, no partner.

Well how come we've got so much on him so fast?

Well all the intel's come from the fella

who runs the place, Jim McKinnon.

He ID'ed the body.

He cannot stop talking according to Kenny

with the shock.

Or guilt.

Nah, his alibi's good.

Aye, according to Kenny.

Is there anything else you remember at all?

Well that's about all I saw really.

How's she handling herself?

Shep.

Good.

I reckon the military police's loss is our gain.

Oh aye.

We've got statements from the kids who witnessed it.

Same story from everyone.

They heard an altercation then they saw him on fire.

School's keen on letting the parents take them home.

Yeah and you thought you'd spend your first day

learning how the coffee machine works, right?

Private school is it?

Yeah, Saint Finan's.

They had the whole place booked out for the sixth form.

What was Gideon Frane doing here?

Well apparently investing money in the center

a while back.

He spent all his time off here.

He even kept a yurt in the grounds.

You know, one of those Mongolian tents.

Time off from what?

Investment banking.

Well let's go meet Kenny's talkative friend.

We were going under.

Bailiffs literally at the door.

So Gideon saved your center from ruin?

Oh no question.

No question, it wasn't just the money, it was the ideas.

Turf and surf, treetop adventures, along with coasteering,

drift diving, we were planning a via ferrata.

Make Honister look like a kid's playground.

Yeah and you last saw Mr Frane?

Tuesday evening, seven o'clock, nineteen hundred hours,

I know because I was meeting some friends in the pub

and I was running late.

I asked if he wanted to come but he said no,

he was going back to the yurt.

Right, thing is I know it's gonna come out

so I'd rather tell you guys right now, right up front.

Nothing hidden, nothing concealed, like I said to your man,

I'd rather lay it all out, everything and then you'll know.

Know what, Mr McKinnon?

The planning office said no.

After everything that Gideon had done for us

I was scared to tell him, so I put it up anyway.

The yurt.

It's illegal.

Only gotta see a police officer

and they start confessing to anything from

losing a library book to cheating on their missus.

We're gonna be hours sifting through that lot.

Still, I'll check out that investment of Gideon's there.

Right.

Make sure there's no motive in it.

Oh.

It looks like a fight.

Mm.

But what set him alight?

So the fight starts inside the yurt and then moves outside

and then, either accidentally or on purpose,

Gideon's assailant gets him into the fire pit.

No, his shoes weren't burnt.

Well maybe he wasn't in it long enough

for his shoes to burn, you know?

Just for his combat trousers to take light.

Wasn't she at the adventure center?

Hello love.

I'm detective chief inspector Vera Stanhope

from the Northumberland and city police.

We were just up at Craith.

I thought everyone was been picked up by their parents.

I didn't want to bother my mam.

Be fine on the bus.

Well we can give you a lift, what way are you going?

It's really kind of you but I'm still a bit shaky.

Yeah?

I was planning on having a cry at the back of the bus.

Dear, you don't have to be worried

about crying in here love, my sergeant does it all the time.

Come on.

Hop in the back.

Sorry.

Here love.

Ah, I don't blame you.

It's a difficult thing, it'll take a while to settle.

It was just so sudden.

We heard him shouting and then,

probably only lasted a few seconds.

It's coming up on the left.

Do you want us to come in with you,

let your mum know what happened?

I'll talk to her later,

when the little ones are in their beds.

Whoa!

Rubin, run, run fast, she's coming after us!

How many times has Mum told you?

It's a road!

I'm really sorry.

Thanks again for the lift.

Was Alex there?

Did he like your hair?

Where's their mother?

They could've been killed.

Mm, maybe she's at work.

Can't all be your Celine.

Home made fairy cakes, towels that much the soap.

There's no need to sneer.

I'm not!

I'm just saying, you know, a seventeen year old girl

witnesses a murder.

She has to get the bus home

'cause she doesn't wanna bother her mam.

Yeah well, maybe it's not a murder.

Until we've got something concrete to go off

could be anything.

Accident, misadventure or spontaneous human combustion.

Anything.

Woo, woo!

Woo!

Woo!

Gideon Frane.

Now we know who he was, what he did for a living

and that he loved extreme sports.

What we don't know is how and why he came to be alight,

but more importantly,

we don't know who he was arguing with before he appeared

on fire on the edge of the cliff, so,

where do we start looking?

Investment banker.

Well, nobody's favorite profession at the moment.

Nah, but there's something about burning.

It's personal and sadistic.

People hate bankers as a group, not as individuals.

Well all the same, Mark, get onto the FIO.

Let's check out any group's activists

who might have targeted someone like Frane.

What about Jim McKinnon?

The money that Gideon invested in the center.

Nah, I checked, there's nothing going on there.

Well, I'm with Joe.

Even if this was just a fight that took a wrong turn

I think it's personal.

So let's keep coming at this from both angles,

personal and professional.

Joe, Kenny, I want to know who was in the vicinity

of that adventure center.

Teachers, pupils, center workers,

dog walkers, star gazers, everyone.

And Shep, I wanna know who he worked with,

who he socialized with.

Who he slept with.

McKinnon said he didn't have a partner.

Well maybe not a partner but if I was built like that

I'd not be wasting time.

Well get back to McKinnon then.

Ah, that interview, that was a station record.

That man can talk for England and breathe through his arse.

Well get him talking about Gideon Frane's sex life then.