Suspects

REPORTER: Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was found unconscious with life-threatening head injuries by the West Willow Canal in East London today.

Police are treating the attack as attempted murder.

Charlie?

STEELE: Um, bear with me two seconds?

WESTON: I.D.

Oh.

Well done.

Victim's name is Scott Freeman.

Works at Bellingham's Casino.

It's inevitable, you know.

I told the guy -- Do you remember that video that was going 'round last week in the office?

The pedophile hunter?

I didn't watch it.

I didn't see it.

Yeah.

Okay, well, this guy, Scott Freeman, he claimed to track down a pedophile.

His M.O.

is he poses as a 14-year-old girl online and he lures in pedophiles, goes to meet them, and then fucking bashes them.

Geez.

That's a high-risk strategy.

Yeah, well, I mean the guy's got what's coming to him, you know.

That's hardly fair.

You didn't see him.

He's in a bad way.

Yeah, when you take the law into your own hands, you take the risks.

Okay?

I'm just going to finish up this statement, yeah?

-Yeah.

Okay.

I'll talk to Sam.

-I'll be like five minutes.

SCOTT: Some 14-year-old girl had set you up.

-What you talking about?

– SCOTT: It's Cindy.

Look, I've been talking to you all day online.

You make me absolutely sick.

What have you got here?

MAN: I don't -- I don't go online.

WESTON: I kept telling him if he's going to keep going like that, we'd do him for assault.

– STEELE: Yeah.

-[ Video beeps ] We know that he arranged another one of these little meetings this morning.

Tech have been into his Internet chat-room exchanges, as to where he's going -- "I'm Cindy, come meet me" -- before he does this.

He had been exchanging messages with another user and arranged a meeting for the tow-path this morning.

WESTON: Okay.

Tech managed to pull the IP address of the other user, but it goes back to a coffee shop, like an Internet -- public Internet chat room.

Do we have a physical address for the place?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

Okay I reckon it's worth getting down there, getting some CCTV from that shop, -see if it's, uh... -If they have it.

BELLAMY: Hundred percent.

Yep, do that.

Listen, obviously somebody else is filming this.

-So the guy's not working alone.

– STEELE: Mm.

Can we pull up his phone records from TIU?

-Yes.

Yep.

Will do.

– STEELE: Sure.

Yep.

Thanks.

-Bye.

– WESTON: Yeah?

How is he?

STEELE: His injuries have caused some bleeding to the brain, unfortunately, um...

They've stabilized him as much as they can, but sadly he's in a critical condition.

So we've got a wife, Iris Freeman, a daughter, Kelly Freeman, -and a younger daughter... -WESTON: Rose.

Yeah, Rose Freeman.

Um, I've not come across her before.

No, she's a vicious bitch, man.

She's been in a number of times on drug charges... -WESTON: She's vicious.

-...on theft, and also assault.

Can you break the news to the family, please?

And I think probably take a uniform with you if this one's gonna kick off.

Hi.

My name is Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.

I'd like to speak to Iris Freeman, please.

She died two weeks ago.

Is it about Rose?

No, it's not about Rose.

I'm very sorry to hear that.

Listen, maybe it's better if we come inside.

[ Clears throat ] Um...

Listen, Kelly, I'm really sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but your father, Scott, has been involved in a very serious assault.

He's in hospital.

He suffered quite a large blow to the head.

Okay.

Okay.

How was your relationship with your father?

Disappeared for nine years.

Came back when Mum died.

Played superhero to Rose, and I carried on sweeping up pieces, so... [ Exhales sharply ] Okay.

Hi.

How's he doing?

Not good.

It's a brain swell.

We know your father was attacked between 9: 00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.

But at 9: 43, someone used your father's cash card to take out money.

So we were wondering if it could be Rose.

I mean, yeah, i-it could be.

It's possible.

A couple of hours before you came, they were arguing, you know?

And then he stormed out, and then she went after.

-But I don't know... -S-So -- Hang on.

-They had an argument.

-Yeah.

He left the house, and she followed him?

I mean, she went.

I don't know if she followed him.

Do you think Rose could have attacked your father?

She would never attack him.

She loves him.

But how do you know?

I mean, she's a drug addict.

I mean, what's she taking these days?

She's... [ Sniffles ] [ Voice breaking ] She's taking meth.

And I don't know.

I don't know anymore.

I don't -- I don't know.

I don't know what she does.

I don't why he's here.

And I don't know if she could have done it.

I don't know.

STEELE: Boss?

Jack?

I've just received the list of calls from Scott Freeman's phone.

Um, nothing unusual, other than a couple of calls to a local dance school, the Shaffer Dance Academy.

Daisy goes there.

Really?

-Your Daisy?

-My Daisy, yeah.

Do you want to head down there now?

No.

It's okay.

You take care of it.

Um... -Sure?

-Let me know what happens.

Yeah.

That's good.

WESTON: Yeah.

STEELE: Here we go.

Did you know I did three years of Irish dancing?

STEELE: I'm not remotely surprised.

[ Chuckling ] That's so rubbish, it's unbelievable.

-...or if there's an office?

– WESTON: Hello?

– TAMSIN: Hello.

– WESTON: Oh, hi.

– TAMSIN: Hi.

-Hi.

Sorry to interrupt.

Hello.

Nice to meet you.

Tamsin.

-Tamsin.

-Hi.

-Last name?

-Uh, Shaffer.

-Shaffer.

You run the place?

-That's right, yes.

-Edward?

-Yeah?

-Hi.

Mr. Shaffer?

– EDWARD: Yes?

I'm Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.

-Hello.

-We're investigating an assault on a man called Scott Freeman.

Scott?

Oh.

– WESTON: Do you know Scott?

-Yeah.

Is he -- Is he all right?

WESTON: No, he's in a very critical condition.

He suffered a very serious blow to the head.

Um, but we do know that he phoned the dance studio this morning, and we just wanted to know what that was about.

Well, he rang me and he did ask me to go with him to go and film this fella he thought was a -- was a -- was a pedophile.

And obviously I didn't go.

I wish I -- I should have gone with him.

I could have looked after him, -protected him.

-Why didn't you go?

TAMSIN: Well, I wouldn't let him.

I don't think he should be associating with people like pedophiles.

But you have gone to these kind of confrontations before?

I did go once before with him, yeah.

He asked me, and I filmed him, yeah.

I have to ask you, Mr. Shaffer, why you got involved in the first place?

He said it was the right thing to do, that we should be standing up for these kids because nobody else does, and he's very sort of persuasive.

With all due respect, Mr. Shaffer, the right thing to do would be to come to the police.

Okay?

It's our job to deal with criminals, not yours.

You could have gotten yourselves hurt, as Scott did this morning.

– EDWARD: Yeah.

– TAMSIN: We understand.

That's a lesson learned, I hope.

– EDWARD: Sorry.

-Yeah.

Jack, how did you go at Daisy's dance school?

Scott was phoning the dance school because Edward is the cameraman for the pedophile confrontations.

He's not a target.

[ Sighs ] Well, thank fuck for that.

It's weird, but he's a reluctant cameraman.

-That's -- -Mm.

Lesser of two evils.

Yes?

STEELE: I have CCTV from the cash point where Scott's debit card was used if anybody would like to watch.

– WESTON: Press play.

– BELLAMY: Ah, here she is.

STEELE: So, Rose Freeman.

Hello.

BELLAMY: Hm.

Jittery little thing.

STEELE: She's gagging for a fix.

She's emptying her dad's account, so she's obviously going to score somewhere.

Where is this?

The cash point is on Windsor Street, so we know exactly where she is.

I fucking hate that place.

Up on your feet.

Rose, up on your feet.

Don't touch me!

-Up, up!

Up!

-Get off of me!

No!

No!

[ Indistinct shouting ] Pipe down or you're coming in, too!

-Come on.

-No!

-Rose!

-Get off of me!

-Rose!

-No!

-Aah!

No!

-Rose!

-Rose!

-Get off me!

WESTON: Okay, okay.

STEELE: On your knees, on your knees, on your knees, on your knees, on your knees, on your knees.

Rose, I am not going to break your arm!

Pipe down!

– WESTON: Rose Freeman.

– STEELE: I am arresting you on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.

You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something that you later rely on in court.

Anything you do say may be given in evidence.

Do you understand?

Rose, do you understand what I'm saying to you or do you not?

I've been going through Rose's mobile phone.

At 11: 25 p.m. last night, Scott, her dad, texted her simply saying, "I think I've found the bastard."

So maybe Scott realized that he had found Rose's rapist.

Well, who's raped who?

Bringing her back in the car, she was screaming and ranting and raving about, "I've been raped, and if anyone's attacked my dad, it's not me.

It's the guy who raped me."

I don't know.

We just need to wait for her to come down, calm down, and then talk to her about it, because at the moment, she's making so little sense.

Well, we can't talk to Rose, can we, so we're going to have to talk to Kelly, okay?

Kelly, um, Rose mentioned... Rose mentioned when we arrested her that she had been raped.

So I don't know if that's news to you.

I don't know if that's -- No, it's not.

It's not news.

It was something she said happened years ago.

We were away for the weekend.

How many years ago?

Eight or nine years ago.

I don't know.

Okay, and where did you go?

Apparently the rape is supposed to have happened at a dance competition nine years ago in Brighton, when Rose was just a child.

When both girls were under the care of Tamsin and Edward Shaffer.

Rose, um, we've had a little look at your phone, and there's a conversation that you've been having on a text with your dad.

There's actually an unanswered reply from your dad.

It says, "I think I've found the bastard."

Uh, remind yourself of how that went.

Who do you think he's referring to there?

My dad was trying to find the man that raped me.

And...

I told -- I told him there's no point -- there's no point trying to find him 'cause I don't have any proof and no one will believe me.

Sounds like he thinks he found the person responsible.

Hm?

Do you know who the person might be that he's found, that he thinks is responsible?

I don't remember.

I...

I remember waking up in -- in this strange room, and there was -- there was a man on top of me, and another man, he -- he put something in my arm, and I was unconscious.

And I don't remember.

What do you mean, put something in your arm?

What do you mean by that?

He -- He injected me with something, and I woke up the next morning, and I felt pain -- I felt pain down there.

It was so sore.

Do you remember if the man said anything or did anything at all?

Can you remember any detail about it?

He said -- He said... "Sweet dreams, sweet dreams.

Sweet dreams."

-Ah!

– TAMSIN: Martha, hi!

Ms. Shaffer, how are you?

I'm good, thank you.

How are you?

Yes, not too bad.

I'm here in a slightly different capacity today.

I never realized you were a police officer.

Wow!

Oh, thank God for that.

Yes, they're a manly bunch.

I'm glad you didn't spot it.

Um, so I'm aware that you've been talking to my officers, and we've, in fact, been talking also to Rose, your old student.

-Rose Freeman?

Yeah.

-Yeah.

There's been an allegation about a rape when she was younger, and she said that she spoke to you about it.

TAMSIN: Yeah, she did.

She's saying that she was raped at a dance competition about nine years ago in Brighton.

Yeah, the first I heard of this was Scott told me.

He said this had happened and this is why he wanted to go on this, you know, vigilante thing.

I told him we should go straight to the police as soon as something like that happens.

Let's go straight to the police.

That's the right thing to do.

How is he?

Scott is -- He's not great, to be honest.

Oh, God.

Poor Scott.

That could have been me, couldn't it, lying in that hospital bed.

Yeah.

-Thank God, eh?

– EDWARD: Yeah.

I just want to see what you remember, really, because she said she spoke to you about it.

Yes, she did, and I put the children to bed about 9:00.

Everything seemed fine, but the next day, she was so tearful.

She came to me saying that she'd had this experience where she'd been touched.

Um, so I asked her a bit about it, and she was very incoherent.

Some of it didn't make sense.

So I gave her a big cuddle.

Um, I phoned her mum, and she told me that possibly one explanation was that Rose had been doing something about stranger danger in school, and maybe that was a side effect.

Right.

If I thought for one moment it was possible, then I would have of course gone to the police, but given that Kelly, Rose's sister, was in the room all night, then it couldn't have happened, because I questioned Kelly, and she said that nothing had -- nothing untoward had gone on and that Rose had slept fine all night, so...

Right.

I don't think I made any mistakes.

I snuck out that night to meet a guy from another dance team.

But I was 15.

I was tired of being a carer for my mum and a parent to my younger sister.

I just wanted to have fun, that was all.

I didn't mean anything.

The next day, uh, Tamsin asked me if Rose woke up in the night.

I said no.

But I lied.

I wasn't there.

I didn't -- I didn't know.

What was the name of the boy that you snuck out with?

Alistair Green.

Does Rose know that you snuck out now?

Have you told her?

No.

I have to say, I have to just slightly question why you haven't mentioned any of this to my officers before now.

Obviously you've been talking to them, I believe.

Well, because I didn't want to damage the reputation of the school, Martha.

I notice that Daisy isn't here today, for example, and I do hope that she's feeling better next week.

My Daisy?

Oh, it's fine.

She's got a head cold or something.

She's a terrible patient.

I'm sure she'll be back soon.

Okay, thanks for your time.

Appreciate it.

-Thank you.

-Bye.

BELLAMY: How'd you go with Edward?

WESTON: Well, he's not the sort of person that I'd warm to naturally.

-What do you mean?

-He's just a gobshite, isn't he?

How's Daisy?

I didn't know she was sick.

No, is she, hell.

But any sign of a kiddie fiddler, and -- -Do you know what I mean?

-I don't blame you.

BELLAMY: Not on my doorstep, thank you very much.

Who's broken the printer?

– STEELE: Jack?

-Yeah.

Okay, I have just been down in TIU.

So there's a series of text messages from last night between Scott posing as Cindy -- And you know the guy that he arranged to meet on the towpath, right?

What caught my eye is that the person he was texting signed off his last message with the phrase "Sweet dreams," which is what Rose said that her rapist said to her that night in Brighton.

The mobile phone number is registered to a guy called Dr. Philip Cleaving.

He runs St. Jonas Surgery on Capland Road.

Yeah?

So, that coffee shop with the IP address registered to the person that Scott was corresponding with in that Internet chat room.

This is CCTV, and here we see Dr. Phil Cleaving in there at the time of the chat, I'm pretty sure accessing the Web room on his mobile phone.

Okay, I don't think it's looking good for him at all.

He is messaging someone who he believes to be a 14-year-old girl called Cindy, then arranges to meet her on a deserted towpath by a canal.

So in my mind, that sequence of events leads to Dr. Cleaving turning up, meeting not Cindy, but a very angry Scott Freeman, who calls him out as a pedophile and a rapist, says, "I'm going to out you," and I think he then batters him.

WESTON: Dr. Philip Cleaving?

Yeah?

Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Hold on, hold on.

-Okay.

-Don't hit me.

What?

Whoa, hang on.

I'm Detective Sergeant Jack Weston.

I'd like you to come down to the station with me.

-What?

Now?

-I have some questions to ask you.

Yes, please.

-You are Dr. Philip Cleaving?

-I am.

Okay, let's go down to the station.

Do you mind accompanying me?

Not at all.

No, that's fine.

If we can maybe -- maybe talk through this.

Who's that?

-Well, it's me, obviously.

-Is it?

Yeah.

A closer look.

– CLEAVING: No, thanks.

– WESTON: Yeah?

What are you doing?

Are you texting?

-Are you checking photographs?

-It looks like it, yeah.

Who are you texting?

Oh, well, I text people, you know.

Who the fuck are you texting?

Okay.

Who's Cindy?

What were you doing at the towpath?

I was -- I'd been going online the last few months.

Just a big relationship broke up, you know, and you go online and you chat.

To children's forums.

-No, no, no, no, no, no.

-To children's forums.

Cindy's a child.

You're texting Cindy.

You wanted to meet Cindy on the towpath.

No.

I want to be absolutely clear about this.

WESTON: Please be very clear.

Right, if you let me get two words out, maybe I can clarify.

You go online, people role-play.

You wouldn't believe the number of Xena Warrior Princesses that are out there, people who think they're Vlad the Impaler.

In this case...

I'll admit that I'm -- I've been having... trouble with certain fantasies.

So I'm in the forum.

It seems to me to be just role-play.

You'll get into it, and -- and it's probably a 35-year-old woman.

So I arranged to meet.

I'm not proud of it.

I -- It's just one of those things that you're on the Internet and you're kind of in a -- you know, you're just kind of sleepwalking a little bit.

I turned up thinking, "What would I say to a 14-year-old?

It isn't a 14-year-old girl.

It's probably --" And then it turns out to be this guy, this big guy who starts, you know, attacking me.

Okay, that guy is now in a very critical condition in hospital.

So what did you do to him?

-I did nothing to him.

-What did you hit him with?

I didn't hit him with anything.

I ran.

-You ran?

-I ran.

-He hit you, and you ran?

-He clipped me.

He hit you, and you probably hit him back.

I didn't hit him back.

I'm not very good at all that.

I don't like physical violence.

You met a guy called Scott Freeman.

Scott Freeman finds fuckers like you on the Internet.

He says, "Are you up for this kind of stuff?"

You say, "Yes, let's meet," then he bashes you one.

He bashes you one.

You turn around, you bash him one, okay?

-No.

-Is that what happened?

You see, he hit you, okay, because he believed that you raped his daughter.

What?

WESTON: Hello.

Me again.

Not for the last time, I'm sure.

Hi.

Mr. Shaffer, could you join us for two seconds?

Listen, I'm having awful trouble identifying this man.

Do you know who that is?

Yes, Phil.

TAMSIN: Dr. Phil Cleaving.

Dr. Phil Cleaving.

So you know this man?

Yeah, I was at university with him like 20-odd years ago.

-So you're good friends?

-Well, then we were.

I've not seen him for years and years.

-Nine years?

-I don't know.

About 15 years, I think, at the reunion or something.

I can't remember.

Years ago.

Okay.

But not nine years ago.

-No, why would... -In Brighton.

Is this connected to Rose?

WESTON: Yes.

-Phil was never there, was he?

– EDWARD: No.

TAMSIN: He's not connected to our studio, our academy.

I don't think he'd have any reason to be there that evening.

He has no interest, no.

Why would he be there?

It's just a question.

There's no right or wrong answer.

It's not an exam.

-Okay.

-Don't worry.

TAMSIN: Sorry, you just caught us in the middle of something.

We're just sort of stock taking.

I'm in the middle of something, too.

Um, listen, I'm gonna need a list of people who attended that dance competition.

EDWARD: That would have been on our old computer.

WESTON: I'm sure you have something, though, yeah?

EDWARD: What's he supposed to have done, anyway?

Just helping us with our inquiries.

Thanks very much.

Okay.

It's okay.

STEELE: Rose, are you sure, as sure as you can be, that this is the man who attacked you?

Okay.

Who was in loco parentis that night?

-The Shaffers.

-Shaffers.

If Phil raped Rose, the Shaffers gave him access.

End of story, Charlie.

Scott Freeman has just passed away.

Bleeding to the brain.

Um, Charlie, listen, go down, break the news to Rose, then whip her down to the hospital, okay?

I'm going to liaise with Central MIT, all right?

WESTON: Okay, we've got a murder inquiry now.

Uh, Rose, Kelly, listen, I'm very sorry for your loss.

STEELE: They've just been in the Chapel of Rest.

How you guys doing?

Yeah, Rose, you okay?

Why -- Why would they kill him?

WESTON: That's what we're trying to figure out.

– STEELE: Yeah.

– WESTON: Rose.

He just came back into our lives.

-I know.

– ROSE: Why would they kill him?

I know.

We need to figure out, "A," who's done this, "B," why they've done this.

Um, Kelly, what's the story with the Shaffers?

-Do you do you trust them?

-Jack!

Jack!

Do you think they had something to do with it?

-Uh, listen.

-You asked me about him before.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

Kelly, listen, from our point of view, we're trying to figure out how whoever has done this to your sister got access to the room without the Shaffers knowing.

Will you excuse us a second?

Jack, can I have a word?

Won't be a tick.

I know what you're gonna say.

I know what you're gonna say.

-I know what you're gonna say.

-That's not good enough.

Have you lost your fucking mind?

Okay, hang on a second, Detective Constable.

Wind your neck back in.

Edward Shaffer is in this up to his eyeballs.

I'm scratching a few wounds to see if they bleed.

I'm going to drive the girls home, okay.

I'm going to see if they have any photos from that dance competition, a program, something like that.

Hopefully something helpful.

Ladies, I'm so sorry about that, first of all, and second of all, why don't I drive you home?

[ Sniffles ] Oh.

-This is it.

-Is that it?

ROSE: My mum made this for me as a... ...good-luck gift for the competition.

There was two.

I remember I woke up the next morning, and it was -- it was gone.

The other one was gone.

Okay.

Um... Rose.

Can I take it?

Look, why don't you pop it in here?

I will take very good care of it.

Thank you.

I remember Tamsin said to me that it was all a bad dream.

They didn't believe me.

-Rose.

-She didn't believe me.

I believe you.

They didn't believe me, Kelly.

They raped me, Kelly.

They held me down and they raped me.

-I'm so sorry.

-[ Crying ] BELLAMY: So, U.V.

photos of Scott Freeman's head injury indicate the murder weapon was a chain with a padlock attached.

-Fuck.

– STEELE: Afternoon.

Oh, Charlie, here you go.

Keeping it warm.

Keeping it warm.

Honestly, you're welcome to it.

So Rose said that her mum made her a set of earrings as a good-luck charm for the dance competition, right?

She said she went to bed wearing two and that when she woke up in the morning after the attack had happened, she only had one left.

So I'm wondering if -- 'Cause she scoured that room looking for them.

I'm wondering if maybe the attacker took it as a trophy, a memento?

BELLAMY: Possibly.

Uh, apparently there's some sort of disturbance down at the dance academy.

– BELLAMY: Really?

-Yeah.

-Are there any kids down there?

-I don't think so.

-Can you check?

-I'll check.

-Get back to me.

-Charlie, you want to come?

Yeah.

What kind of disturbance?

Geez!

KELLY: How could you let him do that to her, you lying bitch?

How could you let him do that to her?

-Calm down.

-How could you let him do it?

Are you seeing this?

Are you seeing this?

-Look at this.

No, look at this.

-Don't fucking touch me.

Lookit.

The whole street's seen this.

"Paedo" sprayed on my fucking van.

Mr. Shaffer, I'm going to have to ask you... No, no, I think you two should calm down.

You've been putting ideas in that stupid girl's mind.

Back inside your dance academy.

I'm going inside, and I'm filing a complaint against you, yeah.

-Please do.

-Official complaint.

– STEELE: Hold your temper.

-Weston -- W-E-S-T-O-N, yeah?

Fucker.

STEELE: Jesus!

Nice to see what he's capable of.

Did you see him fucking grab me?

[ Siren wailing ] I can cheer you up with a little nugget of information, all right?

So, do you remember Kelly said that she wasn't in the room with her sister when she was raped?

WESTON: No, she was with her boyfriend.

She was with her boyfriend, in theory.

Well, I've tracked down the boyfriend, Alistair, and he has confirmed they went clubbing till sod o'clock in the morning.

3:00 or something like that, okay?

He's also said that he saw, when they returned to the car park, two men talking to each other.

He's identified one of those men as Edward Shaffer.

The other guy he didn't recognize, but he said the other guy was driving a bright-red Porsche Boxster.

I checked with DVLA.

Guess who was driving a bright-red Porsche Boxster nine years ago.

Excellent.

Edward Shaffer said that Philip Cleaving wasn't there that night.

We now know he's lying.

Arrest him?

-Absolutely.

-Where's he live?

Porsche Boxster.

A nice bright-red one.

Ever had one of those?

It doesn't ring a bell.

That's funny because I've got, um -- I've got the DVLA records that show me that you did own a bright-red Porsche Boxster.

In fact, a car that it would be very hard to forget.

-Doctor.

-Well, if you say so.

Mr. Shaffer?

Hi.

I'd like a quick word, actually.

Have you been sent back to apologize, have you?

WESTON: No, not exactly.

I'm arresting you for aiding and abetting a rape.

You do not have to say anything, though it may harm your defense if you fail to mention when questioned something you later rely on in court.

-Do you understand?

-Yeah.

-Understand?

-Yes.

In you go.

Okay.

I'm arresting your husband for aiding and abetting a rape.

The rape of a child.

We've been making friends with a gentleman called Alistair Green.

Do you know his name?

Alistair Green.

No.

-He knows you.

-Oh.

He knows you from Brighton.

Nine years ago.

Right, right.

I don't remember -- I don't recall the name.

See, Alistair saw you in Brighton nine years ago in a car park at 3:00 a.m. with Dr. Philip Cleaving.

Ohhhh.

-Okay.

-What was he doing in Brighton?

What were the two of you doing in Brighton at 3: 00 a.m.?

Okay, so perhaps he was there.

That doesn't make me a pedophile, does it?

You're the first person to mention pedophile.

Really, is that the only evidence you've got?

-No, no, it's not.

No.

-Alistair Green sees me in the car park.

That's just the fucking tip of the iceberg.

-Right.

-Hmm.

Can I just say, you know, we are very serious about making an official complaint, because it does seem to me a bit more than a coincidence that one minute you're questioning me about the rape of that poor little girl and then the next her sister is spray-painting "paedo" on my van.

Now you clearly told her that you thought I might have been a suspect, didn't you?

How else would she know?

I mean, that sort of thing's against the law, isn't it?

Against the rules?

I'm not an expert.

Listen, shut up, okay?

I'm asking the questions.

-Yeah.

– WESTON: Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Talk to me about Rose Freeman.

She a good dancer?

Don't want to say anything else to you, really.

WESTON: No?

How old was she when she was there?

8.

-That's all right isn't it?

-8.

Under your guardianship, under your care.

Hmm.

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

STEELE: The search team at Dr. Cleaving's flat turned up a trinket box.

In it -- Rose Freeman's missing earring.

But also, look at all of these.

They all belong to little girls, man.

It means that he is a prolific sex offender.

Have we had these tested for DNA?

No, not yet.

Okay, can we test it for Edward's DNA at the same time we test it for Phil's?

Jesus, it's so sad.

Look, little girls' stuff.

-It's grim.

-It is.

-I guess Scott had his man.

– STEELE: Yeah.

Dr. Cleaving?

Do you recognize this earring?

I am going to find your DNA all over that earring, aren't I?

With the other trophies, it is leading me to believe that Rose was not the only girl that you raped.

You've done it before.

You may have done it since.

It turns my stomach.

But that's the -- that's the truth, isn't it, Doctor?

And you didn't act alone, did you?

Who did you do it with?

More exciting when you do it with somebody?

I did it on my own.

It was all me.

Okay.

Okay?

Her dad knew that you'd done this.

Scott Freeman.

And he came after you, and you met him, and then you killed him.

-No.

-Because you had to.

-Yes, you did.

-No.

No, I didn't.

I will con-- I will confess to...this.

But I did not kill him.

I didn't attack him.

I-I don't -- I can't -- I don't deal -- I don't deal well with all that.

Violence.

So you ran away like a little girl.

Like an 8-year-old girl.

From a big man who was trying to protect his daughter.

Couldn't face up to that.

Don't like that sort of business.

Is that right?

Wonder how Rose feels about violence.

About being violated.

I suspect you are a serial pedophile.

And I suspect that you have used your knowledge of drugs and medicine to make sure that those little girls don't remember and can't say anything about who did it.

There's not many things that turn my stomach, Doctor.

But there's a bloody awful smell in this room, and it smells of you.

So, ANPR picked up the Shaffer van in the vicinity of the towpath at the time of the attack this morning.

– BELLAMY: We've got him.

-Thank you, great.

-Welcome.

-That's amazing.

Good work.

Why was your vehicle near the towpath this morning?

EDWARD: Well, I say, I have absolutely no idea.

I was in the office doing accounts.

BELLAMY: Around what sort of time?

Half 9: 00, 10:00-ish, something like that, I think.

WESTON: That's convenient.

What?

Is it?

– WESTON: Mm-hmm.

-Oh.

It's just convenient that you would be at the dance academy when Scott Freeman was being attacked.

Oh, I mean, that's where I was.

WESTON: What is the Shaffer van doing at the towpath?

I have no idea.

– SCOTT: Are you Richard?

– RICHARD: Who's asking?

SCOTT: I'm the 14-year-old girl... -WESTON: Remember that guy?

-...that set you up.

RICHARD: What are you talking about?

SCOTT: It's Cindy.

[ Indistinct talking ] WESTON: And who's holding the camera?

Well, that's the time I went... That's the time that Scott asked me to go with him to confront that chap.

So who's holding the camera?

Well, I was, 'cause that's when Scott asked me to go with him.

Absolutely.

EDWARD: I filmed this confrontation here.

But that's it.

I didn't go with Scott.

Okay, well, let's just say that you were there this morning.

Okay, you're there this morning, and you're waiting in the bushes.

I mean, I don't know what you do, but then you see Dr. Phil Cleaving, your old buddy, coming up the towpath, and you realize that he is the pedophile that you're supposed to be confronting today.

Is that right?

So you start to panic, start to shit your pants.

Phil Cleaving immediately gets a whack across the head, and he sees you behind the camera, probably cowering, hiding behind the camera.

He says, "Edward.

Edward, buddy, chum, pal, protect me, help me."

Scott's like, "What's going on?"

You shit your pants again.

You pick up what we think is a long length of chain with a padlock attached to the end of it, and you bash Scott across the fucking head with it.

You beat his brains out.

I do need to say we are making this complaint against him, and I'm not going to say anything else with him here 'cause it seems, well, he's broken some rules, hasn't he?

So...

Okay, Mr. Shaffer, if you're more comfortable, I am happy for my colleague to withdraw.

I will, of course, be briefing him... Well, I'll be outside.

...when we've finished.

Okay?

Feel more comfortable now?

Yes, thank you.

BELLAMY: Good.

Okay, yep.

Understood, got it.

Thank you.

Okay.

Oh, bollocks.

Okay, due to the lack of hard evidence and the fact that Edward is about to make an official complaint, I have now got to bail him, Jack.

Why do I even fucking bother doing this fucking bullshit job?

I have some news that you might want to hear, as well, Jack.

Um, so the diving team...

Hang on a second, Charlie.

Jack, sit down.

Okay.

Yes, Charlie?

Um, the diving team at the canal have pulled up a chain and padlock from the bottom, so... -BELLAMY: Right.

-The weapon.

Well, it's a -- it's a chain with a padlock attached only, unfortunately, because it's been sat in the water for however many hours, so there's no DNA.

WESTON: That's fucking fantastic.

What there are, though, are some gray cotton fibers trapped in the links of the chain, so... Shaffers have got gray towels.

I have gray towels.

BELLAMY: They do.

No, no, he's right.

They do.

They use -- They use gray towels.

The kids have them.

Look, I tell you what, okay, get down to the towpath, extend the search area, take a dip while you're there.

Be careful.

Don't drown yourself.

WESTON: Thanks, boss.

– BELLAMY: Thank you, Charlie.

-Yep.

BELLAMY: Thanks.

– STEELE: Jack?

– WESTON: Yep?

STEELE: Hang up, hang up, hang up.

– WESTON: What?

– STEELE: Jesus.

Look, Edward's complaint is bullshit, right.

I don't give a fuck about the complaint, Charlie.

"A," the guy has been covering up a rape of an 8-year-old.

"B," the guy killed Scott Freeman.

"C," the guy is linked with a known pedophile -- Dr. Philip Cleaving.

And "D," we're about to release him into the community so he can go and fucking work with kids.

You're not the only one who is pissed off about this.

I've been in the Freeman house with all the tears and all the sobbing and all of the heartbreak that comes with it.

Listen, I'm not letting him get away with this.

I'm going to search the crime scene.

I'm going to find something concrete that I can link to Scott Freeman's murder.

Call me, Sarge, if you need something.

Paul, do me a favor.

Look through there, yeah?

I know it's been a while since you had your gloves on, so... Sam, why don't you check that bag?

Nicole?

Over here.

Okay, there's fucking shitloads of the stuff here.

Well, you will, of course, be hearing from my solicitors.

Charming.

Has his complaint got legs?

BELLAMY: Well, I hope not.

I hope not for Jack's sake.

I don't know.

He's his own worst enemy, isn't he?

I'm slightly sick of babysitting.

You and me both.

Nicole?

I've just been called back to the station.

-All right.

-Okay, so you finish here.

When you finish there, just pop up here, yeah?

Okay, I think Sam just needs you there for a second.

Okay.

[ Car door locks ] EDWARD: Oi!

oi!

Can't you leave me alone for five minutes?

No, I'm here to apologize.

You just followed me around, did you?

-This is pathetic, son.

-Man-to-man to talk to you.

Leave me alone, will you?

Just piss off.

Walk away, go back to your fucking shitty job.

-Leave me alone.

-Mr. Shaffer, maybe we can go -- Boss?

So, search team at the dance academy turned up Edward Shaffer's digital camera, okay?

There's an SD card inside it, which he thought that he'd wiped clean, but tech managed to recover the footage, which I've been watching.

SCOTT: I'm going to make sure you're locked up for a really long time, scum.

You make me sick.

Aah!

-Edward!

-What you talking about?

STEELE: Keep watching.

BELLAMY: Jack was right.

This is how Scott Freeman was attacked.

That's going to put the bastard in prison.

Okay, Edward Shaffer's address.

Which one?

Okay, there you go.

Linfield Road.

Go get him.

MAN: All units, all units.

Potential fatality, Linfield Road.

-Oh, shit, Linfield Road.

-Ambulance on way.

-Units to attend.

-Control from D.C. Steele.

All received.

I will attend.

Out of the road.

Jesus!

Jack!

What the fuck happened?

What the fuck are you doing here?

Control from D.C. Steele, how are we doing with the ambulance?

WESTON: He's dead.

Control from D.C. Steele, how are we doing with the ambulance?

-He's fucking dead.

– STEELE: What happened?

Jack!