Annika

I don't know about you, but a high point at school was, erm,

learning about the Scandinavian sagas.

And there was one in particular,

where a man foraging in the woods discovers a cabin

where 12 women are at work at a loom.

And it's not one of those charming wood looms,

it's this gruesome thing made out of men's heads and human entrails

and the women start singing a song

where they choose who is to be slain at the upcoming battle.

Ahoy, any souls on board?

And at the end they get on their horses and fly away.

These women were known as Valkyries.

Now, I haven't seen a loom...

or heard anyone singing,

but someone made a choice about whether the person on this boat

should live or die...

and I only get called out for the second thing.

It's been carved.

Looks like schist rock.

I think it looks pretty good.

It'll be a gag like that that got him stabbed.

Do you want me to sail this back? No, I'll do it.

You get a team ready.

The hand sanitiser contains isopropyl alcohol.

I'm not asking you about that.

It's an antiseptic and works by killing microbial cells.

It was used as early as the 1300s... Morgan.

There's vodka in the water bottle.

Also an antiseptic.

All right. All right.

Check in the berth.

I think a panel's been replaced weirdly.

Sure.

And, erm, your daughter's school's been calling the station.

Excellent.

I imagine she's won a prize of some sort.

This is my chance to lobby for the inclusion

of the Norwegian sagas as part of the curriculum.

DI Strandhed.

She's done what?

Are you all right?

And Michael?

Erm, yeah, yeah, he's fine to keep working.

Light duties for him, OK?

He prefers being busy.

What about the crime scene?

We've got a team down there salvaging and reconstructing.

So then have Michael oversee it.

Say it suits his skillset.

OK. It's a management word.

No I... I understand it.

So give it a go and if you want any more, just ask.

I've got loads more.

The device was meant to go off at sea, Annika.

It could've been a lot worse.

I know, I know. At least now we've got a chance of, um,

piecing it together.

I meant for you. Oh.

Have you spoken to your daughter?

She's having some problems at school, but, yes,

I've spoken to her. Good.

It's important she knows you're all right, as does the team.

I know.

Oh, you mean I should go and talk to them? Yep.

Yeah, OK. Thanks, Diane.

Am I, am I OK to...?

I just called you Diane.

It's fine.

It's, it's my name.

Sharks don't really have noses.

They've got these olfactory lamella which interact with organic

molecules in the water and alert them to prey.

What?

I'm just saying a bunch of sharks are coming down the

Clyde cos you blew up a corpse.

Smelled it from Greenland, apparently.

OK, everyone seems to have processed things all right.

So the victim was Ronnie Kidd.

He's 28 years old.

He was an art teacher at St Blane's Academy on the Isle of Bute.

And the Valkyrie has a mooring spot in Bute Harbour.

Good chance that's where it set off.

And we have these things.

The, erm, carvings, they look Viking to me,

and I'm not just saying that to feel at home.

The killer also brought explosives, so it was clearly premeditated.

My guess is he took the boat's dinghy back to shore.

You stick a wee responder on an IED, call it up on a mobile and bang.

That's what I'd do.

The panel on the berth you mentioned...

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, we've certainly g-got the crime scene.

It's just, you know, in a billion pieces.

Yeah, it's going to take some reconstructing.

So I'll need you to head that up and the, the rest of us

will go over to Bute early tomorrow and we'll pick it up from there.

Whoa, you're keeping me behind?

It suits your skillset.

It does what?

Thanks, everyone.

Hey, that was a joke, by the way, the shark thing.

I hope I didn't... No, it was good.

Listen, how do you scare a kid off booze?

I'm being parented with a website about liver damage?

Yes, because no-one believes you use vodka as a mouthwash.

Do you count your units?

We're not talking about me.

We're not talking about me either, not properly.

Sorry, what did you say? It won't happen again. Happy?

Who the hell is selling you vodka?

Cos I can get an officer down there to...

Ah, right. Yeah.

So am I allowed to go upstairs or d I have an AA meeting somewhere?

Why are YOU being snippy with ME?

I could sail a boat before I could walk.

Actually, that's ridiculous.

I could probably draw a picture of a boat before I could walk.

Either way, it was early.

And the first time I saw a dead body was out to sea...

floating upwards with a life jacket on.

I thought he was swimming,

but when I shouted, he didn't answer.

So...

I tied a rope to him and towed him back to shore.

Never found out what happened to him.

I was 13.

So the body could've been mine floating in the sea today,

so if anyone's bloody drinking, it's,

it's me.

Oh, Christ.

She could've put a mixer in it.

Did Oban agree to your daughter coming?

I don't have any choice.

She's been suspended.

Can you hang out with her?

She's not talking to me.

Sure.

We're being met by Sergeant Tam Glenn.

He's set up an incident room for us.

Oh, he's found us a blackboard, has he?

Play nice, will you? We're guests.

Oh, hello, article here about Bute

being the jurisdiction of the Norse King, Ketill Flatnose,

which I will read aloud to you.

How come Michael gets to stay in Glasgow?

"By the year 800, a new force had appeared on the Scottish scene,"

"giving concern, especially to the south-west of Scotland,"

"these were the Norsemen, or Vikings."

The baker onboard the Titanic was a guy called Charles Joughin.

He survived two hours in the Atlantic before being rescued.

You want to know how he did it?

He drunk a pint of whiskey and kept warm and alive long enough

to shout for help.

Why would you tell me this?

Because if we sink it'll be the drunk one

who'll have to do the shouting. I'm not drunk.

OK.

Then I guess we'll both drown.

Tam. Hey. Hi.

Did you get your daughter settled in? Yes...

Yes, thanks for having us.

Oh, no bother.

Takes it off my desk. Ha.

How long have you got?

Two months. Congratulations.

Aye, just trying not to get blown up before then.

You'd rather go out on a parking ticket?

Well, yes and no.

Ha.

Do you have a car that I can use while I'm here?

Do you use it for catching sheep?

Oh.

Well, I've been briefed on the case, boss

and I don't think a sheep did it.

OK.

The victim, Ronnie Kidd, he worked at the academy, here,

and he lived in the north of the town, here,

and his boat was moored here, just down from the harbour.

CCTV on the mooring?

Oh, it doesn't cover that far.

Erm, next of kin is a brother, Grant, and he works at the quarry.

We told him yesterday.

Did you tell Ronnie's employer, too?

Not yet.

Well, anyone else know?

I guess the person that killed him.

Erm, Ronnie's boat was found ten miles up the Firth,

so I've been looking at how far it drifted.

The coastguard could brief you. It's OK, I worked it out.

So I modelled the tides and I'm 84% certain

that the Valkyrie left Bute on Friday night.

A motorised dinghy's missing from it.

We assume the killer took it to get back to the shore.

We'll get looking.

Need anything else from me?

They'll be times when I try to bum a cigarette off you.

Erm, it'll be hard to resist cos I'm a rank but stay strong.

Right you are.

Otherwise that's it. Thank you, Sergeant.

Pleasure.