Line of Duty

What have you got against Michael Farmer

except him being retarded enough for you to frame?!

Is this you, Michael?

I'm not sure

DC Desford, for what reason have you been accessing highly sensitive

AC-12 files, namely DI Matthew Cottan's Dying Declaration?

This wasn't me, sir.

But I don't want to be somewhere I'm not wanted,

so I'll take a transfer

And obviously the person with the opportunity and means to frame both

Michael Farmer and Timothy Ifield is DCI Roz Huntley.

Your files should be handed over to a new, more impartial authority.

What are friends for?

Let me give you a different phone number.

There's a network of corrupt police officers doing

the bidding of organised crime.

"H?" His name begins with H.

"H."

Superintendent Hastings, you will be served with a Regulation 15 notice.

The wound was very deep. If they didn't operate, you could've died.

- No! - Shh!

We've learnt Mr Huntley shares a solicitor with Michael Farmer.

I represented Michael.

What went on between myself and my client is privileged.

I've got tangible concerns that she's involved in a serious crime.

You were at the crime scene the night Tim Ifield was murdered.

Nicholas Huntley, I'm arresting you on suspicion of

the murder of Timothy Ifield.

You're hurting me.

That was incredibly brave and honest of you, ma'am.

It was Roz, she's lying about everything. Everything.

The hotel wasn't able to provide an adjoining room...

on such short notice...

.. but the other one's just down the hall.

I know it's difficult.

It's just while the officers are at the house.

Is Dad going to come here too?

These things take time.

Why aren't you doing anything, why aren't you helping him?

It's complicated.

I want the other room.

You think Nick Huntley would've risked leaving evidence here,

his missus a copper?

'Message for DS Twyler. There's a DS out here to see him.

Received.

- DS Twyler? - DS Railston, DC Antonioni, Murder Squad.

What can I do for you?

Nick Huntley's solicitor's kicking up a stink.

He's accusing Polk Avenue officers

of favouring their own DCI's story over his.

Your Chief Super's worried the defence could use it in court.

You're taking over?

Sorry.

Kate.

Polk Avenue is starting the first round of interviews.

There's no news yet.

Dammit! She's done it again.

We had that case in the palm of our hands,

and she's thrown everybody off the scent! Who's on it?

Murder Squad, plus AC-9 observing -- Jamie Desford.

AC-9 -- Desford. God give me strength.

The whole thing's kicking off! We're not even in the game!

Kate.

Who from Murder Squad?

Mr Huntley, I'm Detective Sergeant Railston, this is my boss,

Detective Chief Superintendent Hargreaves.

We're Murder Squad out of Fourth Street Station.

None of us have any previous work connection with DCI Huntley.

However, detectives from AC-9 will be observing

'in connection with ongoing anti-corruption inquiries.'

'Noted.'

'What you were doing at Tim Ifield's flat?'

My wife, Roz...

DCI Huntley, she...

I was following her.

All right. Why was that, then?

I suspected that she was seeing someone else, an affair.

Was she?

I believe so, that's what she told me, with another police officer,

a married man.

Mrs Huntley denies an affair,

and our inquiries find there was no other officer present that night.

So you thought Tim Ifield was having sex with your wife?

No. I don't know...

How would you describe your emotional state that evening,

Mr Huntley?

Were you in a frame of mind to control your wife's behaviour,

Mr Huntley, to coerce her?

No, no, no... She was the one that went to the flat.

She went inside!

There are no witnesses to your wife entering Timothy Ifield's flat.

No CCTV. No traffic cameras. No mobile phone GPS data.

Well, she'd left her mobile phone at home.

So did you, pal.

I was in a rush. I'd forgotten it.

So this fella, this Timothy Ifield,

who you may or may not have thought was having sex with your wife,

- what did you plan to do to the pair of them? - Nothing.

Nothing. Why would I kill Timothy Ifield?

How would I?

- We look at three things. - Opportunity.

- You were there. - Means.

Tim's not a big fella, not a fighter,

- there were knives in the flat. - Motive.

You believed he was having an affair with your wife.

No. No. Look. No! This is all Roz. She's trying to frame me!

"So it wasn't me, it was the one-armed woman." Eh?

'Is that it?'

My gaffer wants the 18-search of Huntley's home completed

by first thing in the morning.

Hi.

Hi.

How's it going?

All right.

- I heard about your accident. How are you doing? - I'm fine.

So what's Nick Huntley been saying?

She's not at liberty to disclose.

And this was our case.

Not according to Assistant Chief Constable Hilton.

He assigned you?

Hastings didn't appreciate my ability. Hilton does.

I'm sorry.

You know what, you dumped Steve at the first sign of trouble.

I think it's a bit late for apologies.

Night.

Wait.

This has to be totally off the record.

Yeah. Yeah, of course.

'And then I saw her'

stop off at a minicab office.

So she took a minicab

'part of the way and then she carried on on foot.'

- To Tim's flat? - Yes.

- She went inside? - Yes.

Roz got out of the cab to avoid the traffic cameras.

She was inside Tim's flat while Nick was waiting outside

in his car, like Marion and Geoff.

And then he sees something.

Uh... around...

seven...

'a man came out of the flat. And then...

'an hour later he came back with a couple of shopping bags.'

All right, what was in these bags?

I don't know.

All I remember is there was a big tube sticking out of one of them, like a...

Like a roll of something.

That fits with the security cameras at the DIY store that evening.

A large roll of plastic sheeting.

Can you describe this man?

Medium height, medium build. Receding hair. Fair hair.

Tim Ifield.

And then there's this.

When did you leave Tim's flat?

Uh...

about 11.

A woman came out of the flat, and she was looking at my car.

She'd arrived a few minutes earlier, in a nurse's uniform.

Tim's downstairs neighbour,

who told us she mistook Nick's car for a minicab.

'I thought she might'

get suspicious, so I left. I drove home.

Your wife says different.

'She was at home, off sick from work.'

You didn't come rolling in till nine the following morning.

No! No! That was her!

She was the one that was out all night!

It's hard to know who to believe, Nick or Roz.

A traffic camera spotted Nick's car leaving the area at just after 11,

exactly as he's stated in his interview.

Maybe he's telling the truth -- he went home.

Roz hired a minicab to avoid the traffic cameras.

According to Nick, she was still in the flat when he left.

Unfortunately no-one saw her leave.

But we know she was on foot.

That's a hell of a distance to walk all the way home.

Her car was at the minicab firm, that's much nearer.

I'll check it out.

Roz Huntley pitched up at the minicab firm as a walk-in.

No name given, no contact information

and the place doesn't have security cameras.

Yeah, well, she knew the one to pick, all right.

One of the drivers recalled a woman as being dark-skinned,

but that was all,

and no-one saw her return the next day for her car.

Sorry, sir.

That's it. We've lost her. The trail's gone cold.

No, it hasn't.

Tim Ifield died of severe blood loss.

There's no way anyone managed to kill him and clear up the

whole crime scene without getting bloodstains on their clothing.

A search of the crime scene uncovered spare hangers in Tim's wardrobe

that bore grey synthetic fibres probably from a tracksuit.

This item of clothing has never been found.

The killer took the tracksuit.

It'd be a perfect choice.

It's loose-fitting and it's also unisex.

I mean, it could've been worn by Roz just as easily by Nick.

Yeah, well, that's all very good,

but it doesn't really tell us what either of them were doing next.

Actually, it does, sir.