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Ridley and Carol are called out to investigate the suspicious death of a man after a fall.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[Water laps gently] ♪ [Gasoline trickles] ♪ [Door buzzer and alarm] [Chatter outside] ♪ [Vehicle approaches] ♪ [Church bell tolls] Hey, Cal.
Good to see you.
You're looking well.
There you are, then.
OK. Good job.
Clergyman: Our sister, Gloria Flannery, beloved mother of Michael and Cal, has gone to her rest in peace with Christ.
May the Lord now welcome her to the table of God's children in heaven.
May we who mourn be reunited one day with Gloria.
Together, may we meet Christ Jesus when he who is our life appears in glory.
Michael, time to go.
Just give me a minute with my brother.
Cal... you have to stay--stay strong for me.
OK?
Promise.
I promise.
Good lad.
♪ So nice of you to come, Ridley.
Oh, come on.
You knew I'd be here.
You finished her.
Her oldest boy in prison... sent her to an early grave.
You're a bit late thinking about things like that, aren't you?
The screws won't even let me stay for the wake.
Oh, yeah.
I see some of Adam Donnelly's associates have showed up.
On you go.
♪ [Vehicle approaches] ♪ ♪ [Siren wails] [Hip-hop music and low chatter] - Oi, look at it.
- Oh, ey, ey.
[Laughs] Look who it is.
The Framley Fairy!
Where have you been hiding?
Boom!
[Elevator pings] [Banging on door] [Banging continues] [Keys rattle in lock] [Muffled shouts and crashes] - No... - [Scuffling] Stop it!
No!
Agh!
[Heavy thud] ♪ [Radio chatter] Darren: Morning.
Carol: You all right?
Male fatality.
We've ID'd him as Patrick Elliot.
Lived in a flat on the 10th floor.
Caretaker found him this morning.
Has he been there all night?
The body was hidden behind these bushes.
OK. Start asking around, see if the neighbors can enlighten us.
I doubt anyone's going to talk to us, an estate like this.
Well, if anyone can charm them, Darren, I'm sure it's you.
Carol: Dr. Newstone.
Wendy: Depressed skull fracture, cerebral contusion, several broken bones.
Typical injury patterns after a fall from any height.
Any idea when it happened?
He's been dead for a few hours.
I'd say sometime late yesterday evening.
Do we think he could have jumped?
Unlikely.
There's some bruising to the neck and upper torso, inconsistent with a fall from any height.
And a tear to his shirt.
Both of which point to a struggle.
We're doing a sweep of the balcony.
Might give us some leads.
Ridley's already up there.
Thanks.
- Not yet, no... - Ridley.
Carol.
So no sign of a forced entry.
He kept the place locked and bolted.
Looks like he had cause to.
Yeah.
That paint's not fresh.
Somebody bearing a grudge, maybe.
So what are we thinking?
A robbery?
No.
If it was a robbery, they'd have taken that wallet.
Looks like he worked at the Juniper Practice, that therapy center up in Burmanton.
Clinical psychologist.
How well did you know Patrick Elliot, then?
Lived on my floor.
A few flats along.
Didn't really have too much to do with him.
Did you see him at all last night?
I bumped into him just by the lifts.
What time was this?
I was off out to work.
Must have been just before 7.
And was anybody with him?
No, he was definitely on his own.
What about a partner?
Anyone we should be talking to?
He wasn't short of callers.
Coming and going all hours, they were.
Couldn't give any names.
- Where is it you work, then?
- The community center.
Help out when I'm needed, you know?
Keep the kids out of trouble.
What kind of trouble are we talking about?
Just the usual shenanigans.
Not much for them to do round here.
Hey... jumped, did he?
What makes you say that?
Always had the weight of the world on his shoulders.
We found two sets of shoe prints on the balcony.
These scuff marks on the floor-- definite signs of a struggle.
And we'll run a pattern recognition test, but it's likely one of them belongs to our assailant.
Is there anything else we can work with?
We lifted a palm print outside of the glass.
We'll need to run it for a match for the deceased.
So he's on the balcony and, what, he gets rushed, is that it?
They'd have to have been pretty strong to have pushed him over the edge.
Mm, a sudden rush of blood to the brain releases all sorts of endorphins.
So he loses his balance, tries to stop himself from falling... but by that stage it's too late.
♪ [Indistinct P.A.
announcement] Hi.
I'm looking for room 227.
- Just up there on your left.
- OK.
Thank you.
Sorry...sorry, sorry, sorry.
Oh, baby, I'm so sorry.
I couldn't get a parking space and... [Heartbeat echoes] Ohh... We're going to have a little girl.
Really?
Ohh!
She is gorgeous!
[Both laugh] The Juniper Practice is a registered charity.
Probation orders, um, court referrals.
Plenty of ex-offenders.
Yeah.
We probably nicked a few of them.
Yeah.
They sign up for a bit of counseling, earns them an early release.
How long had Patrick Elliot been working at the practice?
He joined us around 5 years ago.
I interviewed him myself for the job.
You must have known him pretty well, then.
Practice lunches, occasional drink after work.
And was he working yesterday?
He came in for some case files late afternoon.
First time we'd spoken in over a week.
So he hadn't been seeing any patients?
He'd been having some personal issues.
I'd recommended a period of home leave, some time to take stock.
What kind of issues?
Borderline depression.
Anxiety attacks.
The stress of the job.
It had led to some poor decision-making.
Would you care to elaborate on that?
Patrick had a tendency to get too involved with his patients.
You can never take on their problems.
What about his private life?
I know Patrick was gay.
He never mentioned a partner.
And these patients that he wasn't allowed to see-- do you think any of them would have been known to the police?
We use counseling to help them move forward.
It would help us move this investigation forward if you'd let us see the details of the patients.
That would compromise everything we do here.
A blatant breach of trust.
Their medical records would remain confidential.
I'm under no obligation to share that information.
And you know that as well as I do.
Carol: Patrick Elliot, 36.
Body was discovered this morning on the Framley Estate.
He had a fatal fall from a 10th-floor balcony.
He was suffering from stress and depression.
So we can't rule out a suicide?
The flat had been ransacked and there were signs - of a struggle on the balcony.
- What about his movements yesterday?
Have we established a timeline?
We know he went to the Juniper Practice at around 5 p.m.
He had a run-in with the medical director there when she refused to allow him to return to work.
Dr. Samantha Larsson.
Bit of a tough cookie.
Had no problem stonewalling all of our questions.
We got a statement from that neighbor, Diane Blaine.
She reported seeing Patrick arrive home around 7 p.m. She was certain he was alone.
No partner that we know of, but we have established that Patrick was gay.
The neighbor implied that he had regular visitors.
She didn't elaborate but the gist was clear.
Get on to his service provider.
Phone logs, recent calls.
See if he was using any dating apps.
The deceased's door was recently defaced with paint.
According to the caretaker, there'd been regular reports of antisocial behavior.
That estate does have a bit of a rep. Let's check the Command and Control System, Darren.
Any recent call-outs to that address.
- Yeah.
- CCTV from the flats, those doorbell cameras.
Let's see if that leads to anything.
If not, we can issue a public appeal.
Dr. Larsson also refused to allow us to see the details of Patrick Elliot's patients, which was a great frustration to us, because the practice is known to work with ex-offenders.
It might be worth looking into, see if any names flag up.
Fine.
I'll apply for a court order, but let's exercise some discretion.
A word.
My office.
♪ Michael Flannery's mother.
Heard you attended her funeral yesterday.
Oh, I see.
Yes.
No, I showed up.
Openly consorting with a convicted murderer?
I would not call it consorting, no.
This consultancy role comes with certain responsibilities.
That may be, but what people round here have got to get their head around is that I am not a working detective anymore, and what I do in my own time is my business.
Not if it reflects badly on this force, it isn't.
We have to be careful.
Right, well, I'm sorry I interrupted the PR drive.
Believe it or not, Ridley, I'm just looking out for you.
OK. Well, your concern has been noted.
♪ I hear Eve Marbury's pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Really?
So sad, the whole thing, isn't it?
You know, Kate aside, you've always been a poor judge of women.
- Ha!
- It's not a good trait in a copper!
Right.
Well, you know, maybe that'll explain how I ended up with you as a mate.
[Laughs] Ooh, ouch!
[Exhales] Michael Flannery's mother was buried yesterday.
I had a bit of a run-in with Adam Donnelly's associates.
They laid flowers on Kate and Ella's grave.
You think that's some kind of threat?
Well, I think it was my evidence that sent him down.
You know, I reckon they knew I'd show up at the funeral.
But now you're an ex-copper with no one to watch your back.
Yeah, right.
No, they were just winding me up.
This is serious, Alex.
I mean, you should be worried.
We should be worried.
Oh, come on.
If Adam Donnelly and his mates wanted to do something, - they'd have done it by now.
- Well, I hope you're right, because the last thing either of us needs is any more grief.
[Jazz music] What the hell are you doing coming to the club?
They set a date for Adam Donnelly's trial.
All the more reason why we shouldn't be talking!
Donnelly isn't stupid.
He's gonna work it all out.
That I'm your source.
It could have been any number of people, all right?
I've got access to the database, staff rosters, PIN codes.
I knew when he was bringing those consignments in.
Look, I told you-- our sources are always protected.
I'm giving you my word on that, all right?
So just keep your head down.
You've just got to keep your distance, at least until we get him banged up, all right?
So off you go.
Go on.
Get home.
And Michael... don't ever show up here again.
♪ [Bottles clinking] We've catalogued the full extent of the injuries sustained in the fall.
Multiple fractures, notably thoracic and lumbar spine.
Extensive abdominal trauma and some visceral damage to the internal organs.
There was also a tear to the tissue of the left deltoid, which adds weight to the theory he was pushed.
Hung on for dear life before he fell.
- The palm print?
- Confirmed as a match for the deceased.
Alcohol in the postmortem fluids and tissues.
Also traces of oxycodone, a prescription opiate.
The combination of drugs and booze would have made him woozy.
You know, might have affected his balance.
Any joy with the shoe treads?
First set belonged to the deceased-- the trainers he was wearing when he fell.
The other set were quite distinctive.
I'd say something more formal.
Glass tumbler in the kitchen had been wiped clean.
So chances are Patrick knew his killer.
I did find a couple of matching prints that haven't been accounted for.
Could you match them against the database?
No joy, I'm afraid.
Carol: That rules out our offender as having any previous.
Ridley: We need to get a list of Patrick Elliot's patients.
We must get Goodwin going on that.
Yeah, that chat you had with him.
Is there anything I should know about?
No, just him trying to keep me on message.
[Phone vibrates] Blossom?!
Everything all right?
Oh.
Geri's pregnant.
- Oh!
Congratulations.
- Thanks.
She's come up with some godawful names, though.
Bluebell.
Coral.
Meadow.
- Little girl, then, is it?
- Yeah.
Another dose of estrogen for Jack to contend with.
Poor, old Jack.
Can we keep it between us for now, though?
Oh, yeah.
Course.
- Boss?
- Yes?
I followed up on those antisocial behavior incidents - on the Framley Estate.
- Mm?
Neighborhood police were called out on 3 separate occasions by Patrick Elliot.
He claimed he'd been a victim of homophobic abuse by a gang of girls on the estate.
He also reported a break-in 6 months ago.
Some personal items were stolen.
A watch and a tablet and some personal documents.
Did we get any names?
The ringleader's Rochelle Blaine.
Patrick's neighbor.
Ridley: We've got a statement from the caretaker on the Framley Estate and, apparently, you and your friends are a regular source of trouble.
All we ever get from your lot is grief.
You were named by Patrick Elliot in a number of complaints that he made to the police.
- [Rochelle scoffs] - Alcohol-related nuisance, criminal damage, and homophobic abuse.
We give him a bit of lip now and then.
Bit of banter, that's all.
These days, that's what's known as a hate crime, Rochelle, which earns you a Criminal Behavior Order.
People like him... his...sort... sometimes they're just asking for it.
And what sort might that be, Rochelle?
It just wasn't right.
That's all she's saying.
What about this burglary 6 months ago?
Rochelle had nothing to do with that.
I see from the statement that you gave DS Lakhan, you failed to mention that your daughter and the deceased had history, which makes me think that you're trying to cover for her.
I didn't know that she'd been out.
Not until I got back home from work.
So you're confirming for the record that your daughter wasn't home on Monday night?
It's hard to keep tabs on her sometimes.
She runs me ragged.
Yes, but I think I can help you with that.
Here's a screen grab from a CCTV camera showing Rochelle outside the lockups - with her mates.
- We were talking.
That's all.
You were giving Patrick Elliot verbal abuse.
Was that just a bit of banter as well?
Your mates also confirmed that you were drinking, both of which would be breaching the terms of your Criminal Behavior Order.
I think you and your friends followed Patrick Elliot back to his flat and just continued where you left off.
We never went anywhere near his flat.
Ask my girls.
They'll tell you.
All their accounts of that evening seem to tally.
An altercation with the deceased outside the lockups, though one girl did break ranks.
She said that Rochelle left the group around 8:30 and went off to see her boyfriend-- Jared Boakes.
And he was questioned in connection to that burglary at Patrick Elliot's flat.
- Come on, I've not done nothing!
- Watch your head.
Mind your head, Jared.
We've got a statement from one of your mates.
She claims that you met up with Jared Boakes on the evening that Patrick was murdered.
So what if I did?
Well, that would mean that you've been lying to us, Rochelle, and it calls into question your account of that night.
We spent some time at his lockup, the garages on the estate.
What were you doing?
Do you want me to draw you a picture?
[Tuts] Oh, Rochelle.
You were told not to associate with Jared.
It was a condition of your CBO.
Why do you think I didn't tell ya?
This lockup.
What's in it?
Jared keeps all kinds of stuff in there.
[Dog barking] [Radio chatter] Let's get them bagged and tagged.
♪ We're questioning Rochelle Blaine in connection to Patrick Elliot's murder, and as you were with her on Monday night, you're the one person who can vouch for her whereabouts after 8:30 p.m. OK.
I was with her.
About an hour tops.
Which directly contravenes the conditions of the Criminal Behavior Order.
Which, in turn, could earn you a custodial sentence.
Now, we know that Rochelle and Patrick Elliot had an altercation earlier on that evening.
Yeah.
She was mouthing off about Patrick, as usual.
I told her I didn't need the aggravation.
And then, sadly, a few hours later, he was murdered.
Which had nothing to do with me.
Patrick Elliot was burgled 6 months ago.
You were questioned as a person of interest.
What's this got to do with Rochelle?
The break-in at Patrick's flat.
A wristwatch was one of the items that was reported stolen.
The same watch that we found hidden in your lockup.
Never seen it before.
Really?
That's strange.
'Cause your fingerprints are all over it.
Monday, I never went near the place.
You think I'd be that stupid?
Well, I imagine Rochelle could be very persuasive.
Full of resentment.
Bearing a grudge.
Couldn't see her friends, couldn't see her mates, couldn't see her boyfriend.
And all because of Patrick Elliot and the complaint that he made.
It was like he could see it.
That she was broken.
Chelle couldn't bear that.
So...she thought she'd go and even the score, and you were on a promise, so you just went along for the ride?
We hooked up.
We made out.
We went home.
Jared Boakes' prints didn't match the ones at the flat, and we didn't find any shoes that fit the tread on the balcony.
We can charge him with the theft of the mobile phones.
Let's liaise with the team who are investigating the burglary.
But we know that watch was stolen 6 months ago.
We've got nothing to connect him to Patrick's murder.
Patrick Elliot's patients.
Any joy with that court order?
Medical records just came in, handed over under duress by Dr. Larsson.
I'll have a good look through them.
Confidential information, Ridley.
Let's make sure it stays that way.
♪ Listen, Carol, I've been looking through Patrick Elliot's patients' files.
The name that jumps out at me is Cal Flannery.
Michael Flannery's younger brother.
He's been in counseling for the last 18 months.
Grief trauma, anger management.
His last appointment was just over two weeks ago.
Well, that makes sense with when Patrick was furloughed.
Yeah, exactly, however, there's been 5 calls to Patrick's phone in the last week alone.
And the caller's ID has been traced to an address in Stanley Corner, number 24.
- That's Gloria Flannery's house.
- OK...?
So he's the brother of a convicted murderer.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean that he's guilty of anything.
Yeah, I know, I know, but we still have to follow this through, right?
Do you really think he'll talk to you?
He knows I've still been in touch with Michael, so... got to be a bit of common ground there somewhere, hasn't there?
[Distant siren] Cal Flannery?
Yeah, who's asking?
DI Farman, Copelton police.
What's he doing here?
He's got no right coming round here, him.
We just want to ask you some questions.
Might be best if we do it inside.
Cal: What's all this about?
Carol: We understand that you were one of Patrick Elliot's patients.
Yeah, the social services put me in touch with the center.
They used to check up on me and my mum.
Oh, so you'd been seeing him for some time, then.
I had a few issues that needed addressing.
Listen, I looked at your progress report.
That made interesting reading.
According to Patrick, your wellbeing was called into question, is that right?
What are you talking about?!
You shouldn't be looking at that.
That's private stuff.
You must have known that he had been suspended.
Yeah, the practice got in touch.
That must have been tough.
Didn't need him anymore.
I don't think that's really true, is it, Cal?
It appears from Patrick Elliot's phone records that you had stayed in touch.
Yeah.
Might have rang him now and again-- he always said it was fine if I needed to talk.
Ever been round his house?
I didn't even know where he lived.
Really?!
Where were you on Monday evening, Cal?
My mum's wake.
Ask him.
He'll tell ya.
Yeah, he was there at the funeral.
Weren't ya?
This wake, was it local?
Social club on Kirkhall Rise.
I must have been the last to leave.
That was the evening that Patrick Elliot was murdered.
What's that got to do with me?!
Well, you see, these phone calls make you a person of interest to us.
We're just asking you some questions, Cal, some routine inquiries.
I'm still grieving me mum!
And yous are coming round here, asking questions that I can't answer.
What do you want me to say?
I've bagged up all of her clothes there, ready to take to the charity shop.
It's been sitting there days.
Yeah.
Must be tough, you know... on your own.
Everybody gone, nobody left.
Do you know that they threatened her?
A couple of Adam Donnelly's lot, after they sent Michael down.
They said her son was on borrowed time.
Do you know that?
You should have called the police.
What good would that have done?!
I saw what you did to Michael.
You went to his mother's funeral?
It's complicated.
Yeah, it always is with you, Ridley.
He's lying through his teeth.
You had no right to bring up his medical records.
It was a good job I did.
We got a rise out of him.
Now, the sooner I get down to this social club, the sooner I can check out his alibi.
Yes, I will get a uniform onto it, but you - are stepping away from this.
- Fine.
Fine.
It's your case.
[Car door opens] [Car door closes] I'm releasing Rochelle into your care as a person under investigation.
She won't be facing any charges, and neither will Jared Boakes, but they are both still under suspicion.
Rochelle!
Mrs. Blaine...do you understand what I'm saying to you?
I did clock someone that night.
What?
And this is only just coming to mind since your daughter's been implicated?
He was by the entrance bit, nowhere near the flat.
Can you describe him?
Late 20s, dark hair.
He were attractive-looking.
Had you seen him before?
He wasn't local.
I know all the lads on the estate.
Smart suit, black tie.
It's the reason he stood out.
We tracked down Patrick Elliot's next of kin.
His mother.
She lives in Hampshire.
Good.
I'll make arrangements for her to ID the body.
Is there something else?
[Sighs] [Door closes] Yeah.
We have another potential lead.
Michael Flannery's brother was - one of Patrick's patients.
- What?
No record, no previous.
We are still checking out his alibi on the evening of the murder.
You've spoken to him already?
Ridley insisted we ask some questions.
I'm assuming this is based on some pertinent intel.
Cal Flannery and Patrick were still in touch.
His medical notes reported erratic behavior.
I'm going to need more than that, Carol.
He also fits the description that Diane Blaine just gave me.
A young male that she claimed she saw on the evening of the murder.
Right.
Let's bring him back in for a lineup, see if she can make an ID.
Sir...Ridley's behavior, earlier, with Cal Flannery, it was concerning.
He seems to want to settle some scores.
I had to warn him off.
I've never seen it before, but it worries me.
You're running this case, Carol.
I know.
But it's not a call I want to make.
Then let me make it for you.
Sir.
♪ [Door opens] - Ridley?
- Yeah?
Glad I caught you before you left.
Yeah, I'm giving evidence at Donnelly's trial tomorrow.
Bit of light reading.
The CPS have thrown us a curve ball.
They have concerns that that source was never registered.
Concerns that a source was never registered?
Flannery would never have agreed to it.
It's got to be off the books!
The defense will ask how you got hold of the evidence.
You're going to have to give them a name, Ridley.
Oh, for Christ's sake!
I gave him my word!
Recruiting an informant without due process.
No authorization, no risk assessment-- you broke every rule in the book.
Yeah.
You had no problem with it at the time.
No problem taking the plaudits when we made all those arrests!
The only thing that matters is getting Donnelly sent down.
We've worked too hard to throw it all away.
♪ No names, you said.
Look, we needed your evidence to send him down.
There was no other choice.
You think I'm ever going to be safe after this?
We are going to put Adam Donnelly away for a long time, somewhere where he can't touch you.
He called me.
From his prison cell.
Said he were going to shut me up.
I'm a dead man, Ridley.
Look, I will talk to the DCI.
We'll get you a safe house - till this all calms down.
- Safe house?
I need witness protection, somewhere a long way from Allerton.
It's complicated.
Look, you were never an official informant.
So, what?
Y-you're going to just wash your hands of me?
No, no, I'm going to fix it.
I promise you, I will fix it.
I've had enough of your promises.
Seems like they don't count for much.
Michael... Michael.
♪ There was really no need for a court order.
Well, you know, the police felt that you were obstructing a murder inquiry, so I think there was every need.
I was looking out for my patients.
One of those patients I'd like to talk to you about.
Cal Flannery.
I never discuss individual cases.
Absent father.
Brother in prison.
Buried his mother two days ago.
[Sighs] OK, in here.
He's never really ever had anyone there for him.
Yeah, well, Patrick Elliot was there for him, until you made that intervention.
It's all on record.
Was Cal one of those patients that Patrick got too close to?
Cal had grown too attached to Patrick.
Their sessions had become too intense, inappropriate.
What are you saying?
That, er, the relationship was sexual?
That's a line Patrick would never have crossed.
Well, we know that they kept in touch the two weeks of Patrick's suspension.
Are you seriously suggesting that Cal might have killed him?
I'm just saying, in your professional opinion, given the circumstances, would you say that Cal was capable of murder?
That's a question the police need to answer.
If you'll excuse me, I need to get to work.
♪ Patrick Elliot's relationship with Cal Flannery?
Dr. Larsson called it "inappropriate."
And how exactly did you find that out?
Well, I went to see her this morning.
After I warned you to step away from this?
Just following up a lead, that's all.
Ridley.
A word, please.
♪ If it was just a bunch of kids on a housing estate, there'd be a lot more to connect them to the crime.
They'd have stolen the wallet, the phone.
OK. Carol tells me that you went to see Cal Flannery.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
I think she thought I was going to be compromised.
She was right to be concerned.
Michael Flannery's brother?
Yes, but what if Cal Flannery and Patrick Elliot's relationship was more than just professional?
So, what, you're saying that this is a crime of passion?
Well, it's definitely a line of inquiry.
I def-- [Knock on door] Sorry to intrude, sir.
Diane Blaine has just arrived for the VIPER lineup.
[Exhales] [Clicks pad] No.
No.
Wait...
Number 7.
It's definitely him.
- You can't just leave!
- I don't have a choice, Cal.
Donnelly knows I grassed him up.
Right, well, talk to that copper.
He owes you, don't he?
I already tried.
He doesn't want to know.
What about me and Mum?
I'm supposed to just look after her?
Just until things calm down a bit.
No, no, we can talk to Donnelly, tell him it was a set-up.
You're better off without me!
Don't you understand that?
Don't open that door to anyone.
I'll call you as soon as I can.
Now, go on.
♪ Dr. Larsson.
I got a phone call from your duty solicitor.
She told me you'd arrested Cal Flannery.
Yes.
We're just about to question him in relation to Patrick's murder.
Cal's been diagnosed as a vulnerable adult.
Oh.
He failed to mention that when we arrested him.
Which casts doubt on his ability to participate effectively in procedures related to this investigation.
Yes, I am familiar with PACE codes of practice.
I've brought along one of our own solicitors.
He'll be taking over as Cal's brief.
He'll need a proper psychiatric assessment to determine his suitability for questioning.
She's playing for time.
Well, maybe if you hadn't riled her.
If we hold back, we can search his house.
While that solicitor advises him to give a no-comment interview?
Let's get him signed off by a doctor.
And when we do interview him... you won't be anywhere near him.
We spoke to several of the mourners who attended your mother's wake on Monday, and no less than 3 of them confirmed that you left the club around 8:30 p.m.
They must have got that wrong.
They also said that you'd been drinking heavily.
I'd just buried my mum.
You told us that you didn't know where Patrick Elliot lived.
That's right.
But we found your prints all over his flat.
Can you explain how they got there?
You are under no obligation to answer that.
I-I went round to return a book that I'd borrowed.
Must have been a couple of weeks ago.
So you lied when you told us that you'd never been there?
I wasn't supposed to be in contact with him.
I didn't want to get in trouble.
Which book?
What?
What was the title?
It was one...one of his therapy books.
He thought it might be good for me to read.
We have a witness who can place you on the Framley Estate on the night that Patrick Elliot was murdered.
She picked your face out of a lineup.
This is...this is him trying to...trying to... set me up.
This is what he's trying to do--DI Ridley.
He's trying to set me up!
He's trying to set me up!
Can none of you see it?!
Do you know...?
Do you know something?
He's got nothing on me.
♪ We've got a CSI team, Cal, round at your mother's house.
They're searching for evidence that can tie you to this.
Well, they're not going to find anything.
Those clothes that you wore to your mother's funeral, they were bagged up, ready for disposal yesterday, when we came round to talk to you, weren't they?
I've told you, they were my mother's clothes.
Was your relationship with Patrick ever sexual?
[Scoffs] I don't think that question's appropriate.
Unless he's got something to hide.
We were close.
We'd made a connection.
Maybe he misread the signs.
I don't know.
Are you saying that he came on to you?
I swear I didn't see it coming!
I thought I could trust him!
[Sobs] The thing is, Cal...
I think that Patrick Elliot stopped taking your calls and then you went over there - to have it out with him.
- No!
And he made a clumsy pass at you, you lost it, and then you lashed out.
No, I wasn't there!
I think we should take a short recess.
OK. OK. Why are you protecting Cal Flannery?
He's a vulnerable adult with some deep-rooted underlying trauma.
It's my job to make sure he gets a fair hearing.
We've got phone calls, we've got fingerprints, we've got a positive ID.
And contrary to what the public might think, we're not in the business of stitching people up.
Cal displays classic traits of narcissism.
He's self-obsessed and prone to self-pity.
His lack of empathy could easily be misconstrued.
So no guilt?
No remorse?
Do I think he killed Patrick?
It's unlikely.
Well, I think that's for the police to decide, don't you?
Maybe it's your judgment that should be called into question.
What exactly do you mean by that?
The Adam Donnelly conviction.
All based on evidence provided by Cal's brother.
Michael Flannery has nothing to do with this.
I read up on the fire, what happened to your family.
It must have been so hard, losing them both like that.
Yeah, yes, we are, we're working through it, yeah.
If you needed to talk to someone, I'm a good listener.
Thanks.
Thanks for the offer.
A problem shared.
Another perspective.
It always helps to talk it out.
[Door opens] Do you ever record your sessions?
Did Patrick...ever record his sessions?
He may have done, on occasion.
And where would they be kept?
At the practice?
It's unlikely.
He'd taken most of his work home with him.
OK. [Radio chatter] Ridley?
Oh.
Still hard at it?
It will take us a few days to process the whole scene.
Mm, yeah.
Do you mind if I have another look around?
We've boxed most of it up and logged it as evidence, but...
Thank you.
♪ [Evidence bag rustles] ♪ [Evidence bag rustles] ♪ ♪
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