Manhunt

BELL RINGS

Hello?

Oh God.

I'm gonna go get help, OK?

Gonna get help.

One, two, three. - SIREN WAILS

That's it.

Let's get her in there. ...151.

Can we get night duty CID here?

It's a possible fatal.

...five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen...

Evening.

Alright, do we know who she is?

Eh, was. We just heard she died.

No ID, no purse, just the carrier bag.

You alright? - Mm.

It's only her second week.

Well, let's just keep our heads and we'll find out who did this.

There's some evidence bags in the boot of my oar.

Silver Vectra by the tree.

Right, can I use your torch please?

Scene of Crime on their way? Coming from an RTA in Kingston.

There's a couple of handwritten phone numbers on the receipt.

PHONE BEEPS

DIALLING TUNE

Hello? - Oh, hi, good evening.

Uh, this is Detective Constable Clive Grace. Uh, who am I speaking to?

Olivier. Olivier Lenfant.

What's this about?

Um, we've found the property of a young female.

We're hoping you can help identify her.

OK.

We think she's got blonde hair. She's in her early twenties.

She was in the Twiokenham Green area this evening

she was wearing a red top, white jacket... - Amé/ie. It's Amé/ie.

Amélie.

BIRDS CAW - PHONE RINGS

COLIN SIGHS - CHARGER BEEPS

Hello? Colin, Dave Cobb.

Something up with your mobile? - Oh, just it's owner. What's up?

Boss asked me to call. He's got a job for you.

Dead French girl on Twickenham Green. Battered over the head.

Briefings at nine at Barnes. - OK.

I'll be there.

Congratulations, mate. - What?

Feels like a proper job.

Yeah.

What?

Call me later. - Why?

No reason. Just let me know you're OK.

Alright. - Mm.

Bye. - Bye.

Thanks for letting Kat stay. - Don't be daft.

Was that work? - Yeah.

Young French girl.

They found her body on Twiokenham Green.

They want me as S“).

That's great!

Well, the timing could be better. - Timing's perfect.

You've been waiting ages for this.

Yeah, well, I won't be much help with the move.

Look, if we need help we'll get help.

In Surrey this'd be a promotion case.

In the Met it's your boss who gets promoted.

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

Here we go.

Bye-bye. - Bye.

BEEP - Hello?

Yep.

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Morning, sir.

Thank you.

...victim's name is Amélie Martine Josette Delagrange

twenty-two years old, born 2nd February 1982.

Been in the UK two months working at a patisserie on Lyntall Street.

Her ID has been confirmed by the manager.

Amélie's parents live in France and she spoke to them regularly.

Have they been informed? - French police are doing the honours.

Her address is 55 Paynters Road, Twiokenham.

Now, that's two streets north of the Green where she was attacked.

DCI Colin Sutton is taking over as Senior Investigating Officer

but there is one more thing I want to say, um...

I've heard murmurs about Operation Upwey

but there's currently no reason to link this with the Marsha McDonnell murder.

We've got a good suspect in that case, sectioned up in...

Newcastle, Guv. - Thank you, DC Grace.

Yes, there are similarities, but for now we stay focused on Amelie.

Thanks, Dave.

Um, well, most of know me already, but for those of you who don't

I'm more John Major than Churchill when it comes to speeches...

THEY CHUCKLE - so I'll keep it simple.

Me, you, all of us, we give this everything we've got.

Alright. Everything.

That's all. Thanks. - INDISTINCT CHATTER

Hello Clive. - Guv'nor. How goes it?

Uh, yeah, moving house, but apart from that I can't complain.

Oh, well, you know what they say?

Third most stressful thing after bereavement and divorce.

Whoever decided that probably wasn't Old Bill, were they?

No, probably not.

Long overdue if you ask me. - What?

You getting a case like this.

Oh, cheers, Clive.

Um, you're not convinced either, are you -

there's no link to Marsha?

Well, doesn't matter what I think, does it?

YOU?

I think these things are rare, and we've got two very similar victims

in the same safe corner of south London.

Sir. - Need to talk staffing before I go.

Uh, yeah, 'm a “(mute Guvnor.

I've just got a few things I want to get off and running.

Fine. I'll be in your office.

Great. Cheers, Clive.

Jo. Jo. Just a sec.

Just a few things.

It's your biggest case ever and you're brioking it?

Yeah, don't write that down.

Get TIU to give us data on calls and cell-sites, not just billing.

OK. Jonesy's already volunteered his services as CCTV officer.

Course he has.

Sitting in a dark room... Thanks.

...watching videos of strangers with crap lighting.

Right up his alley. - SHE CHUCKLES

Shouldn't you be making me a cup of coffee?

Uh, of course Guv. Thanks, Gary.

Make sure Jonesy casts the net wide. Shops, banks, ATMs.

Every frame, every camera, everywhere she might've been.

Yeah, who's to say she wasn't being followed? - Exactly. We could have a face by tonight.

Guy?

Need a signature.

Hire cars, twenty and counting.

Sir.

I got you some help tee'd up from the Flying Squad

the Kidnap Squad and the other Murder teams.

Should take you up to sixty or seventy. - Oh, that's great, Andy.

I'll keep the Up-Aboves off your back and, uh

and handle the media for the first few days.

I'm helping you out. I'm not muscling in. - Alright.

This is gonna be huge.

The press are gonna be all over it.

I'm already fending off local community numpties

and four different branches of Neighbourhood Watch.

Thank you, sir.

So, who's gonna be your number two?

BS Jo Brunt.

Uh, we worked together on-- - You can have Jo but, uh...

your deputy's got to be a DI.

What about Richard Ambrose?

I don't know him, sir.

He was on the Marsha job.

Oh, right. So you think it was the same bloke?

I think we keep an open mind until there's proof either way.

Hm...

You're gonna need an extra DI.

Chris Saunders is available.

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. - He's been up in Enfield.

Earned his spurs by all accounts. - Yeah, we can do better.

Chris is on your team, Colin. Get over it.

Truth is not everyone thinks you're up to this.

Like who?

Doesn't matter.

Just go out and prove 'em wrong.

DOOR OPENS AND SHUTS

LEIC 97.3.

NEWS MUSIC PLAYS

A woman was found last night with a serious head injury

lying on Twickenham Green in southwest London.

She was taken to West Middlesex Hospital

where she was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

Metropolitan Police have yet-- - HANDBRAKE CRACKS

CROWD CHATTERS INDISTINCTLY

Can I help you, sir? - Yeah, I'm DCI Colin Sutton. I'm the SIO.

We need to tape the pavement on all sides of the Green.

And, uh... can we put these somewhere safe on the other side of the street

and make sure that that's as close as our friends from the press get?

Thank you.

Gary. Ludlow.

Guv.

Might have something from the house-to-house.

Back in April, a woman named Adele Harbison was attacked

'bout a quarter of a mile north from here.

And she'd been in that restaurant with some mates.

Attacked how? - Uh, three or four heavy blows to the head.

Now, her route took her across the Green

but she doesn't remember anything after leaving the restaurant.

Who found her? - A Good Samaritan.

But it turns out that wasn't the scene of the crime.

They found her bags in a pool of blood about four streets away.

Anything stolen?

Uh, “handbag, mobile, shopping,” all present and correct.

That rules out robbery. - Yeah, not quite.

Now, apparently 8000s found an open carton of orange juice in her shopping.

Now, I'm thinking, thirsty work attacking women.

And? Did forensics get anything off the carton?

TBC. - What d'you mean “TBC”?

Yeah, well, I called Twiokenham but they said the DC who handles forensics is on a job.

So we don't know if they got prints or DNA?

I'll give him a call.

No, get over there now! If he's our guy and he's in the system then we got him.