City Homicide

Go on, Officer! Go on!

Quiet!

This is Mr Fox, manager of the facility.

Gerald. Sorry. We're minimum security here, but procedure.

I'm Detective Ryan, this is Detective Mapplethorpe.

Oh, sorry, that'll be my cuffs.

Mr Stackpole, open up.

Arundel's run under private contract. There'll be inquiries.

A death like this is the last thing I need.

Well, what's worse for you then - accident or murder?

There's no way this was an accident.

Samuel Hegarty. He was in for embezzlement.

Can't we get him out of there?

He deserves a little dignity, surely.

Um, Reverend Waldergrave, I'm the prison chaplain.

Sorry, Reverend, this is now a crime scene.

Who found him?

Mr Patel and me.

He was still going round.

We heard the thumps, stopped the machine.

I checked to see if he was still alive, of course.

I'd say all the blood's from his... missing bits.

Missing bits?

His genitals.

If he didn't bleed to death, he probably choked.

His missing bits are halfway down his throat.

How was Hegarty day to day?

Er...

No trouble at all. Best behaviour.

He was due for release in four months.

We'll need to see his file. Any particular friends?

Not that I know of. He worked with some inmates in here, on rotation.

Rotation - no pun intended, one hopes.

I can give you a list of his co-workers.

The laundry's run in shifts. That'd be useful.

I found this in the sheets.

Nasty. Mmm.

The pathologist said he was still alive when they started the dryer up.

His hands were tied with a torn sheet.

Gerald, they need your signature

for the release of the body.

Of course they do.

Tomorrow we'll need to interview the inmates and your staff too.

Terrible business. Terrible.

Did you see much of Hegarty? Oh, a bit.

Counselling, you know.

Think of any reason anyone would want to murder him?

No.

I really can't think who would have done this.

Thank you.

The jail's privately run.

Inmates are all on their way through and out.

Any violent offenders? Some.

But more your vehicular manslaughter,

domestic flip-out types.

Lots of transfers like Hegarty from other jails. Soft landings.

Everyone's focused on getting out, getting on with their lives.

Model prisoners.

Obviously one of them isn't. Mmm.

This is his transfer photo.

Samuel Hegarty, 47.

The head warder, Karl Stackpole,

and this guard, Rameesh Patel,

they found him.

He'd been fed his own meat and two veg. Lovely.

Jennifer, prior convictions?

Um, sorry, Sarge, don't know.

The file from the jail's pretty basic -

transfer dates and personal details.

Simon's pulling the rest off... Pol-search.

And I'm not getting very far. I can't access his file.

I spoke to Criminal Records,

they said there's a need-to-know flag on it.

It's restricted.

Mr Quayle is with the ACPCF.

The Administrative Council of Private Correctional Facilities.

Good morning. Pleased to meet you.

And what does the ACPC do?

The ACPCF.

We liaise between outsourced entities

and the various government and judicial bodies.

Bureaucracy - the curse of the age, I'm afraid.

You won't be upset if I agree? After you.

The files you requested.

Wrapped in red tape, I bet.

No, not at all.

The only requests I have are that you sign the confidentiality agreement,

keep them safe and return them to us when you're done.

Sounds reasonable.

Hagan? Hegarty was an alias.

His real name was Samuel Hagan,

he was under an internal protection order.

Just before his transfer to Arundel,

he had served 5 years of an 8-year sentence

for carnal knowledge of a minor.

He was a paedophile.

Is that right?

The unforgivable crime, eh?

Well, that could make sense of the phone call I've just had.

Hmm?

From Mr Fox at the prison.

He's very concerned that this should be kept as quiet as possible.

Why?

According to Quayle,

the prison administration were never told

of Hegarty's real case history.

Well, I think Mr Fox's concerns

are more about

his facility's reputation

and retaining his company's government accreditation.

Yeah, and his own job. Yeah, possibly.

Mmm. Fair enough.

A murder on his watch is not going to win him any points, is it?

True. Now, what about the team?

Are they going to be, now that they know about Hegarty's history,

able to put a lid on their distaste and get on with it?

They will do their job. If they don't, they'll have me to answer to.

Actually, a word from their superintendent wouldn't go astray.

United front.

Wouldn't hurt.

The guy who killed him is already in jail,

so why are we even wasting our time with this crap?

Chopping off the old equipment's the best way

of dealing with these bastards, if you ask me.

Fortunately, Wilton, you're not being asked to provide your expert opinion.

Given the animosity that so often arises

when dealing with these people...

What - rock spiders?

I thought I'd better make it quite clear.

No fear or favour, this is a murder victim.

And if anyone has any problems with that,

we can always find them something else to do.

Thank you, Senior Sergeant.

Yeah, I've got a problem with it.

What's this protection order crap, Sarge?

Hegarty slash Hagan was transferred

on the recommendation of the Sentencing Review Board.

He was placed under a new name with a sealed file,

his original charge to be confidential.

According to our Mr Quayle, Hegarty was a big success story.

Rehabilitated, remorseful.

He'd requested and been approved for chemical castration.

Copped the real McCoy instead.

This Fox guy who runs the prison,

did he know anything about this?

No. No-one was supposed to know.

This was part of an experiment

giving rehabilitated sex offenders a chance at having a new life

by changing their identity before release.

But if someone found out...

Well, there's your motive. Yep, exactly.

And that's our starting point from which we now proceed.

You've got the list, check the inmates.

Maybe someone recognised him.

A bit hard, Sarge.

Long hair, beard - he arrived in disguise pretty much.

Well, nevertheless, that is our starting point.

I want you to run computer checks and do interviews in the jail.

OK. I'll run computer checks. Ah, Simon's across that.

You and Matt are the leads on this case, you do the jail.

I can't believe they didn't inform me! It's outrageous!

Well, it might work for you in the end.

Your bosses can't blame you if they didn't tell you what the deal was.

Well, I'm surprised you didn't pick it.

As far as I can see,

these blokes may as well have it tattooed across their foreheads.

I'm an administrator.

I don't have time to get to know these men personally.

If you want a closer perspective, speak to my staff.

Yes, I make it my business to try to get to know all of the prisoners.

Even the Catholics.

So what can you tell us about Sam Hegarty?

Essentially, Sam had become a better man.

He was reformed.

Reformed?

Now, Reverend, did Sam Hegarty tell you why he was in jail?

Well, I saw his file, of course.

Well, come on, Rev, it's not like you're bound

by the rules of the confessional, is it?

I still have a duty of care.

I can't just...

Listen, Sam Hegarty's dead and our job is to find out who killed him.

No matter what he's done.

Alright.

Yes, he told me why he was in jail.

He also told me that he was truly remorseful.

And I believed him.

And was happy to support him.

Alright. Did you mention this to anyone else? Anyone at all?

No. No-one.

You were on the same laundry shift as Hegarty?

Yes. But I went straight back to my cell when I was done.

Sam was finishing up on some sheets.

Sam? Yeah.

Did you know him well? Not really.

Look, I'm due for release at the end of the week.

I've done nearly seven years, I've still got lots of debts to pay,

people I've got to set things straight with on the outside.

And I just want to get out of here, do that, start again.

Why would I want to hurt anyone and screw that up?