Charlie One to 912 rescue.
We've identified a heat signature, over.
Charlie One, what's your location? Over.
Our current position is 51 degrees, 31 minutes north,
zero degrees, 51 minutes west. Over.
That's Bryce Farm.
All right, let's go. Reece, come on.
This way, this way.
It is something. Right. She's definitely in there.
There's a heartbeat. Reece.
Hello, lovely girl.
You've had your family worried sick.
There. You got her?
Charlie One, subject located unharmed. Over.
It's going to be tight if you want to get changed.
What? You don't think this is a good look?
That's up to you. It's your award.
- Are you coming to this lunch? - I don't think so.
- Oh, go on. - Daniella's waitressing.
I help him find the dogs,
I'm not going to sit there bigging him up.
All right. It's okay.
Hello! Kitty, kitty, kitties! Kitty, kitty, kitties!
Mummy's home. Hello!
Oh, look at you.
Are you greeting party? A little greeting party.
Aren't you lovely? Hey, darling.
Look what mummy's bought for you, hmm?
There you go.
Don't you look handsome?
Okay, Frank. That's great. Nice smile, Frank.
Yeah. Just chin up a little bit.
Yeah. Perfect. Great. Yeah. Lovely.
- Are you serious? - I am so sorry.
This is brand new.
I really am sorry. I tripped.
It runs in the family.
- What? - Being clumsy.
Are you talking about my brother?
No, of course not. I just meant what your mother's always...
You meant Edison. His accident.
Come on, sweetheart. Just... Just calm...
No, Mum. Why are you defending him?
- I'm not defending him. - No, you are.
Okay, Daniella, go and get some fresh air.
Oh, I'm really sorry about that.
- It's fine. - Let me help you with that.
I said, I'm fine. Thank you.
Daniella. I said, go outside.
You okay?
Not really.
So sorry. Can I... Can I help?
Excuse me, but I just need to...
No, it's ruined. Sure. Yeah. Thank you.
I'm really, really sorry. Sh-She didn't mean it.
It was an accident.
Paddy! Paddy.
Look, through the tunnel. Through!
Paddy. Through the tunnel.
Such authority.
Paddy's determined to enter.
Dog agility competition?
Well, it's for a good cause, I suppose.
Then let's donate the money and skip the humiliation.
I've had enough of that for one morning.
Oh, forensics training with Fleur?
Oh, she was in such a bad mood.
Quit the dating apps, apparently.
Sworn off men.
She should get a dog.
Less work and better standards of...
hygiene.
No luck on that stain?
What? Yeah. Uh, no.
H-Has Frank not come back yet?
No. Should someone check the gents? He's been...
Tai!
Tai, what's happened?
Sir. Frank Bailey, 47.
Private investigator,
specializes in missing pet cases.
- A pet detective? - A very successful one.
He was here with his wife collecting a local hero award.
- Hello there. - How's it, um...
Stab wound to the neck.
- Right. - Medium-sized blade.
Dead less than an hour.
You want more than that? You'll have to wait.
I'm still looking for the weapon.
I've got multiple witnesses
inside that said that Frank was at his table
until a few minutes before his body was found.
So he was stabbed almost as soon as he went outside.
Yeah. I assume.
There would drag marks into the kennel.
Difficult to do that without getting covered in blood.
Difficult, but not impossible if you have something
to cover your clothes. Are these his?
Yes. Mainly camera equipment.
Well, find out what's on there.
- Who found him? - Tai Yang over there.
He's a delivery rider who spotted the body
when he came to collect a lunch order.
He's also the victim's nephew.
The girl that he's with is a waitress, Daniella Saunders.
Apparently, Frank had an altercation with her.
Really?
They've both given DNA samples
and agreed to be interviewed at Daniella's home.
Okay. You said the victim had a wife.
I told him it would end like this.
Those people who steal dogs are dangerous.
Do you think this is linked to Frank's PI work?
His body was found inside the kennel of the dog
we were searching for. Yes.
I think it might be connected.
The family that owned this restaurant have
a Czechoslovakian Wolfdog, Storm.
She's been missing for four days.
Frank was working the case.
Did he have any leads?
Sorry, I... I wasn't trying to be funny.
Uh, we went hard on social media, press, posters.
There's so much money in dog theft now.
There's organized gangs involved.
Pet detection is quite niche.
How did Frank get into it?
He used to be in tech.
He launched an e-signature app type thing.
I don't know how it works.
I just know that, by the time I'd met him, it had made a lot of money.
He was supposed to retire after he sold the company.
Then our dog, Mabel, she was stolen.
Well, no offense, but the police
would have done more for a stolen mobile phone.
- So he found her? - Yeah. Eventually.
She was being used for breeding
on a farm near Cambridge. It went in the local paper.
Some other people started to ask for help.
It just went from there, really.
Was there anyone outside of his PI work
that Frank had a problem with?
No.
He had a...
A feud with our next door neighbor, William Fleming.
He's getting quite old. He's getting slightly...
But he's harmless.
What about your relationship with Frank?
Were you happy?
We were just...
normal.
I think.
I loved him.
Do you know why he left the restaurant?
No. No, I thought he'd gone to the loo.
We heard that Frank had an argument
with one of the waitresses.
He was a bit offhand when she spilled
some food on me. It was nothing.
Look, I know that you need to tick your boxes or whatever,
but Frank's body was found inside Storm's kennel.
If you want to find Frank's killer,
you need to find that dog.
Take it back. Can I see that again?
So he went out the back door into the car park.
We don't have any coverage out there, I'm afraid.
It's a lot, you know, living next door.
This is our home.
I'm okay.
You didn't see or hear anything unusual?
No, we were short-staffed.
We were both dashing around.
You ran this place together?
It feels like it sometimes,
but this is Eshani's thing. I'm a mortgage broker.
And you own Storm, the dog Frank was searching for.
Is that right?
Can you imagine what our kids are going through?
We did report it to the police, but...
Was Storm taken from the kennel outside?
No. From the cemetery.
I usually pop back and walk her in my lunch break.
There was a noise from the bushes.
She ran towards it, and the next thing I knew,
she was gone.
- It wasn't your fault. - It happened on my watch.
That's why I agreed to use Frank.
It was awkward, obviously.
Kim wasn't happy,
but under the circumstances...
Sorry. Um...
I assumed somebody'd already told you.
I'm Frank's ex-wife.
W-We weren't even close.
It's... It's just the shock of it.
I... I thought he was still alive, so I tried to help him,
but...
He was still warm.
Had your uncle fallen out with anyone?
I don't think so. I... I mean, he argued with Kim,
like a lot, accusing her of cheating and stuff, but...
I think that was just their thing.
I moved out in the end.
So you used to live with Frank?
Only for a month.
I moved to Midsomer to be with Daniella.
Then the neighbor let me rent his caravan.
- William Fleming. - Yeah.
Did Kim tell you about the dog poo wars?
I heard there was a feud.
It was about dog excrement?
Williams got this really nice garden.
He's obsessed with it. But he's going nuts
because Frank's dogs keep getting in.
He's a sweet old guy, though, isn't he?
We're friends with his grandson, Reece.
Are you aware of Frank having
a disagreement with anyone else?
So, obviously,
I guess people have been talking about earlier.
I was the waitress for his table, but things got kind of...
Um, Madeline Saunders. Hi.
I'm Daniella's mum. I'm sorry to interrupt,
but I was there when she got a bit upset.
It was a misunderstanding.
He was asking me.
I know, I just want to make sure they know, that's all.
You've never been in any trouble.
She's a straight-A student, a place at medical school.
'Cause there's never been a killer with good A-levels.
Daniella.
I'm not going to med school.
Not this year, anyway.
I would like to hear from Daniella if possible.
He said something about my brother, Edison.
Or at least I thought he did.
Four years ago,
when he was hiking near some cliffs,
he was trying to take a photo and he tripped.
He died.
So, when I tripped over, I thought that Frank
was making fun of him.
I went outside to calm down.
Did you see Frank out there or hear anything?
I was at the front by the parasols.
I had my music on.
Daniella, this is the time to speak up.
If you were upset,
if the argument carried on outside.
- My daughter is not a liar. - I am actually.
Sometimes.
But not about this.
Eshani Hughes divorced Frank 12 years ago
after he had an affair with Kim.
Frank's wife was originally the other woman.
So our pet detective wasn't just left in a dog kennel.
He was left in a dog kennel belonging to his ex-wife.
If the killer put the body there to send a message,
then it must have been planned.
They knew Frank was going to leave the restaurant.
Or they lured him out there. Any messages on his phone?
No. Nothing to imply that he was lured.
But he did have his satnav open, and he'd entered this address.
That's here.
Why would he be going to Madeline Saunders' house
when Madeline and Daniella were both at the restaurant?
Should we go back in and ask them?
No. Let's do some more digging first.
Get the kitchen staff to check if they're missing any knives
and ask forensics to give the once over
- to any knives they do have. - Sir.
He was talking to me! I didn't butt in.
I just wanted him to know what was going on.
Well, he didn't need to know.
Dad? Dad, can you help me?
Hold on, Zadie, I'll be out in a second, okay?
Another beer?
Oh, please.
Is this, um, dog agility thing that Betty saw
run by Madeline Saunders?
Yeah, she's the woman we use for Paddy's obedience classes.
The one who made you cry?
They were tears of pure frustration.
He's a delinquent.
Well, just be extra careful on walks, okay?
There have been a few dognapping cases.
Really? Round here?
Yes. So you stay close, all right.
You might be a delinquent, but you're our delinquent.
Oh, what's this?
We can do this.
- No, Toronto. - No.
- Why not? - No, because I want to go over there.
Yeah, but we can get there if we go this way.
It's getting late, isn't it?
I told Tai he could stay over.
You know the rules.
It's okay.
Was Daniella having a listen?
Uh, yeah. Do you want to...
Anytime.
You know that.
There he is.
Well done, Yarra. Well done.
Right. So if you could all pick
a piece of equipment, and then...
Well, off you go.
Madeline. Hi.
I'm giving these out. Could you put some up?
Yeah, absolutely.
Charlie. Come on. Good boy.
And then, perhaps people will listen to me
about the importance of recall training.
Storm was stolen.
Had nothing to do with her recall.
I'm sorry, Eshani,
but a dog that stays close can't be stolen.
I'll do what I can to help, though, of course I will.
Come on.
Sir.
These were taken on Frank's camera 24 hours
before he was killed.
- Do we know who she is? - Not yet.
Well, judging from that, we need to find out.
Did you check if anyone at the restaurant
had been in trouble before?
Tai Yang was on the database.
Anonymous allegation of drug dealing earlier this year.
- But no charges? - There was no evidence.
There's a lot on this neighbor feud, though.
Frank and Mr. Fleming accusing each other of theft,
trespass, criminal damage, dangerous dog offenses.
In the end, they were referred to arbitration.
And, also, Mr. Fleming has a caution for a pub brawl
that happened years ago. Nothing to do with Frank.
Sounds like you need to pay Mr. Fleming a visit.
- Dr. Perkins. - Flying visit.
I'm going to disappoint you, I'm afraid.
Never.
The lab is busy, so DNA will take a while.
Cause of death, as suspected, was the visible stab wound.
Hit the carotid artery, so death would have been speedy.
You're looking for a fixed blade,
20 centimeters, maybe. Kitchen knife territory.
No missing knives from the restaurant.
I'll... call you when I have more.
Or just if you need a chat.
Oh. I-I mentioned to Sarah that you seemed a bit...
A bit... what?
She had a good idea, actually.
She thought you should get a pet.
Wow. That's extraordinarily patronizing.
One bad date does not make me some lonely old spinster.
I'm sure she didn't mean it like that.
If you were going to get a pet, what would you get?
- I'm 100% a cat person. - Really?
I'd have put money on you being team dog.
Hmm. I get that.
Dogs are loyal, enthusiastic, good companions.
But studies suggest that cat people are more intelligent.
Exactly. That's why I thought you'd be a dog person.
They get in over there and cause mayhem.
But when I complained, well, it was all out war.
He even trained his dogs to sh...
Do their business on my lawn.
It went to arbitration, right?
Well, Frank had to pay £500 compensation.
Oh, well, look how he paid it.
Good, eh?
Dumped it on dad's doorstep in a wheelbarrow.
Then he tried to get away with a land grab.
- What do you mean? - This.
He was ordered to erect a fence,
a new fence, but he did it while I was away last weekend.
So when I came back, he put it up at the wrong angle.
The way he'd done it, he got five feet extra garden.
Where were you yesterday lunchtime?
Now, wait a minute. I didn't do anything.
I was going to confront him, but he was with his fan club,
rescuing some dog from a hole.
So I decided to wait.
So you were where around 2:00 PM?
He was here. I cooked his lunch.
Everything okay?
Police about Frank.
You both live here with William?
No. We've got a house up in the village.
I own the garden center.
Green fingers runs in the family?
No, just looking for a way of getting out of the rat race.
So we've got the business, and we do holiday lets
with the caravan and the narrow boat.
- Which Frank complained about. - Reece Fleming, right?
Your name came up in a list of people
that volunteered with Frank.
Yeah, yeah, but only 'cause her mum made me.
I work for Madeline with the dog training,
so she got me to sign up, despite Frank.
Not a fan?
He was bullying an old man, so...
I'm not going pretend it was nice just because he's dead.
Sorry, Tai, but I'm not.
We've logged any reported sightings,
but it's been five days now.
I think she's been sold on.
There were some photos on Frank's phone
of this woman.
That's Lorna McIntosh.
Frank was investigating her for a cat seduction.
Cat seduction?
Enticing other people's cats into her home
and keeping them there. It's theft, essentially.
She's hardly a killer, though, despite the rumors.
Which are?
Oh, wait, it's just a joke.
People say that she fed her husband to the cats.
Apparently she was married to a professor.
Her neighbor said the post still arrives for him,
but nobody's ever seen him.
Right.
Yeah, it looks like Frank put Madeline Saunders' address
into his satnav yesterday afternoon.
Do you know why he might have done that?
He must have wanted to look for evidence
- while they were both out. - Evidence of what?
Frank noticed a pattern.
All of the dogs stolen recently,
they were all clients of Madeline.
Yeah, she's got pretty strong opinions
when it comes to dog behavior.
As in, any problem with the dog
is actually a problem with the owner.
Frank wondered if she was taking the dogs, but not for money.
To rehome them with other families?
That was his theory.
Did Storm's owners use Madeline?
Yeah, because of her barking.
Madeline thought it was
because they weren't giving her enough exercise.
Are you aware that someone used your home computer
to research divorce lawyers last week?
I'm sorry. I thought we were talking...
- Were you aware of it? - Yeah.
Yeah, it was me.
I was angry when I first found out
that Frank was helping Eshani. I got over it.
Because she's his ex-wife.
He was to have zero contact. That was our deal.
But you were all at her restaurant.
Yes, I know. "The Gazette" booked it.
Was there still something between them?
No.
Briefly, they rekindled.
Or whatever it is you want to call it.
Not long after Frank and I were married.
That was over a decade ago. He hasn't spoken to her since.
And then, suddenly, she's his new client.
Like I said, I got over it.
There is something that I wanted to mention, actually.
Frank's solicitor phoned and his nephew, Tai,
the one that found him,
he's entitled to 50% of Frank's estate when he turns 21.
Is this something Frank discussed with you?
I think he tried to. He just wasn't very clear.
Probably knew how I'd react.
- What do you mean? - Well, he told me
that he wanted to leave something for Tai,
and did I mind? I said "No, of course not."
But I thought we were talking about a-a flat deposit
or something. Not half.
It must have been quite a shock.
I might have to sell the house to pay his share.
Has made me reflect a bit though.
On him moving to Midsomer to be with Daniella.
I mean, it's a bit unusual, no? To move halfway
across the country to be with some girl
that you met in the pub on Christmas Eve.
You think Tai killed his uncle in order to inherit?
I mean, I c... I can't...
I can't think like that.
But at the same time, it's hard not to think like that.
Tai Yang is living next door, right?
- Yeah. He's there now. - I need to speak to him.
Have you seen this from the editor of the "Causton Gazette"?
Oh, tell them no comment for now.
No, no, no. She said that she received
an anonymous letter last week
telling her to look into nondisclosure agreements
at Frank's old software company.
He was issuing gagging orders. Why?
Don't know yet, but he's obviously got something to hide.
Look into it. But I need you to go here first.
It's the woman from the photos. Her name's Lorna McIntosh.
You did say you're a cat person, right?
Coming.
Can I help you?
I just wanted to say... sorry.
About Frank.
About everything.
Look, I know I've no right to ask this, but...
I've got two kids at home sobbing their eyes out.
You want me to keep looking?
You must know how Frank did it.
Are you there now?
Yeah, I'm on my way.
DCI Barnaby.
We've already spoken to the police.
Is Tai still here?
Down there. Why?
I need a quick word.
Are you okay?
Hay fever.
Sorry. Where?
Half? As in half of everything?
On your 21st birthday.
That's the week after next.
You didn't know?
But you're aware how much your uncle sold his company for?
What are you asking me here?
- You were covered in his blood. - 'Cause I tried to help him.
I had no idea about his will.
A man with no children, no other nieces or nephews.
Yeah, maybe I'd get something, but not half.
No, no.
Stay there, stay there.
Charlie. Charlie. You stay.
Good. Good Charlie.
Sorry.
Uh, there you go.
Ah. Thank you.
And you don't have to shut them in the kitchen.
I don't mind.
Not everyone appreciates the full clowder.
Clowder?
The collective noun for cats.
Hmm. How many do you have here?
Oh, it varies.
They all belong to you?
You don't own a cat. You simply borrow
their attention for a short while.
Right. It's just that some of your neighbors
have said that your cats are, in fact, their cats.
That's absurd.
Do you feed other people's pets?
If I see that an animal is malnourished, I put food out.
Of course I do.
It's just that at least three local families
have asked you to give their pets back,
and you've refused.
Cats choose their people, not the other way round.
But if I was made aware
that a family was missing their animal,
I would reunite them. That goes without saying.
Is this really a police matter?
Oh, potentially.
Where were you around 2:00 PM yesterday?
I was here, alone. Why?
Is this you?
Indeed it is.
Can you tell me what's happening in this photograph?
A... A vulnerable woman
is exercising her right to self-defense.
You're threatening the photographer?
I-I was minding my own business
when suddenly there's a man in the garden with a camera.
Hmm. Well, the man who took this photograph
was gathering evidence about the kidnap of local cats.
He was a private investigator. Frank Bailey.
Well, yesterday afternoon, he was killed.
Stabbed in the neck.
I'm sorry he lost his life.
But if he made a habit of this kind of thing,
I'm not entirely surprised.
Hey, I decided to finish early today.
Well, I say finish. I just sort of gave up, really.
Are you okay, Eshani?
Right. We have to go to the police.
No. Hold on. He says...
No, the police need to see this right now.
Hello.
Yeah, the solicitor I spoke to earlier, your colleague.
He said it takes a while for the inheritance to come through, but...
is there any way I can get some now?
Like today.
Sir, I've just been to the spot
where Aden said that Storm was stolen
and Father Hinton was there.
Yeah. He said that he saw Frank and Aden
arguing by the cemetery gates on Monday afternoon.
Now, he couldn't hear what they were saying,
but he felt, from their body language,
that it looked like Aden was... was pleading with Frank.
There's more to this than a missing dog, sir.
No. Frank knew me.
He knew I could never harm an animal.
His theory was that you steal the dogs because you care.
You want them to have better lives.
I've been tempted, believe me.
They're intelligent creatures.
Paddy!
These are animals that can keep a blind person safe.
Or spot that a person is about to have a seizure.
My Labrador is being trained to sniff out bowel cancer.
So if a client gives it five minutes on a lead
and wonders why it has behavioral problems,
then, yes, I do feel like taking it away.
But I don't.
Where were you when Frank left the table
at the restaurant?
Sitting with the journalist. I didn't move.
Ask anyone. Are you accusing me?
I'd like to know more about your dealings with Frank.
Were you friends?
Work friends.
Well, personally, I-I liked him.
But it was a bit tricky with everything with William.
The neighbor feud, why would that affect you?
My son,
Edison, was an organ donor,
and the only good thing to come out of his accident
was Reece over there.
He'd been on the transplant list for over a year,
and then Edison's heart saved him.
Reece has your son's heart?
Yeah. He extended the lives of five people.
Reece was one of them.
You must be extremely proud.
He'd just finished his third year at medical school
when he died.
So he was always going to end up
helping people one way or another.
And you're close to Reece and his grandfather now?
The whole family.
They're the reason we moved to Midsomer.
When the transplant coordinators put us in contact,
we just felt right.
And what about your daughter's boyfriend, Tai?
What do you know about him?
Enough to know she deserves better.
Well, not... better. I don't mean to sound...
It's just that she worked so hard for those grades,
and now he wants her to go round Canada with him.
She'd be throwing it all away.
Do you think Daniella was the only reason
he came to Midsomer?
Is there something I need to know about Tai?
You have to tell me.
If he's a...
danger to my daughter.
Did he do this to Frank?
Five grand in cryptocurrency for the safe return of Storm.
- She wants to use our savings. - Don't do that.
If it gets her back?
How do we even know it's for real?
There's a chance that we can trace where this came from.
But it says we have to pay by tomorrow
if we want to see Storm again.
Leave it with us.
But in the meantime, I did want a word.
Perhaps in private?
We don't have secrets.
It's about a conversation you had with Frank the day
before he was murdered.
A witness saw you in the cemetery.
You were pleading with him?
I spoke to him, yeah, but I wasn't pleading.
I told him to be professional with his Eshani.
You what?
I didn't want him playing the hero, taking advantage.
Because if he did manage to get our dog back,
I'd obviously want to run off with him?
You got back together with Frank after your marriage ended,
is that right?
Yeah. That was 10 years ago.
And it was a mistake, believe me.
Did you arrange to meet Frank?
No. I just bumped into him.
In the cemetery?
It's where Storm went missing. I was retracing my steps.
Look, no one was happy about being in touch with Frank again,
but he was the best person to get Storm back,
and that's all we care about. We just want her home.
It's okay.
Oh, sorry we're later than last night.
Good night?
I've deleted the dating apps.
I'm going to get a pet.
Hang on. When I suggested that you said it was...
Oh, Fleur thinks it's a great idea.
And to test drive dog ownership,
I'm taking you for a walk this week.
Walkies!
He'll come round.
He was found by William Fleming just after 9:00 AM.
Electric dog training collar. Banned in the UK.
They usually emit a low-level electric shock using batteries,
but this one has been tampered with.
It was wired up to the mains?
Looks like it.
Electric burns on the neck.
- And those scratch marks? - Probably defensive.
So he was trying to claw the collar off.
He knew what was happening.
Given the degree of rigor,
I would usually say he'd been dead for at least eight hours.
But with electrocution, the violent muscle contractions
cause rigor to set in earlier, so it could be closer to four.
Giving us between 2:00 AM and 6:00 AM.
Roughly.
I'll let you know when I have more.
Go on, after you, sir.
Mind your head.
Okay. Uncle and nephew killed two days apart,
both involving some sort of pet paraphernalia.
We need to find out if Tai was involved with Frank's PI work.
We're still treating him as a suspect in his uncle's murder?
We can't rule him out. He was covered in his blood.
And Frank's death was going to make him
a very wealthy young man
if he made it to his 21st birthday.
Or, assuming that Tai was innocent,
he turned up moments after Frank had been stabbed,
and maybe he witnessed something.
Look at this.
It's been ripped off,
presumably how the killer gained entry.
Then why isn't there evidence of a struggle inside?
You'd think smashing the door would alert Tai to an intruder,
wake him up if he was asleep,
and then, surely,
he'd fight back to stop the collar going on.
Hmm. Unless the door was smashed after the event.
Which the killer would only do if...
They wanted to disguise the fact that Tai let them in.
Or that they had a set of keys.
How long had Tai been renting the caravan from you?
Since Easter.
He said he wanted to save some money.
He wanted to go traveling. He had all sorts of plans.
Did anything change with him over the past few weeks?
- Any unusual visitors? - No, no.
I mean, his girlfriend had come to see him.
And my grandson, Reece.
- And were you here last night? - I was in bed.
You didn't see or hear anything at all?
His bedroom's at the front. He wouldn't have heard anything.
You all right, Dad?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm fine, I'm fine.
Police behaving themselves.
Have you been drinking, Mr. Fleming?
No. Just don't want you interrogating him.
Who has keys to the caravan?
Well, me, obviously. And you've got one, haven't you?
And we keep a spare under a rock.
And...
I believe they've actually got one next door
from before we fell out.
Yeah.
So, well, I'm not sure if there's been an error
or I'm just looking at the wrong thing,
but we are definitely not overdrawn.
I'm sure.
I mean, should I have security or something?
It's like they're working their way through the family.
We still don't know why Tai was killed.
Did he ever help out with any of Frank's investigations?
No, he wasn't interested. But he was found wearing a dog collar, right?
They have to be connected.
There are other possibilities.
Did you ever see evidence of Tai using or dealing drugs?
No, not at all.
He was due to turn 21 in a couple of weeks,
but as he's died before reaching that age,
he won't become eligible for his inheritance.
You won't have to worry about selling the house
or splitting the estate after all.
And your logic is what exactly?
What, that I killed him before he could inherit?
It would be helpful to know where you were overnight.
Asleep. Is there any way that you can prove that you were at home?
My husband has been dead less than 48 hours.
I was in bed alone.
He had a delivery shift on his bike last night.
Then he was going to meet us in the park.
But he texted.
He said he was going straight home.
And when you say "us"...
Me and Reece. We were having some beers.
She was home by 10:45. Reece dropped her off.
Not that you're keeping tabs.
Daniella, did Tai tell you anything
about finding Frank's body
that he might not have shared with us?
No.
It's possible that he saw something and that
that's what got him killed.
So if there's anything at all.
There isn't.
Were you two getting on okay?
We were fine.
Better than fine. He was like...
He was my best...
- Oh, sweetheart. - No, you don't get to do this!
You did everything you could to undermine us.
- That's not true. - Mum!
You reported him to the police for dealing drugs.
That came from you?
Tai... loved Daniella,
I'm sure he did, but he could be controlling.
He gave her these packets of white powder
to look after for him,
and luckily, I found them and I flushed them away.
Those weren't Tai's. They were mine.
He just took the blame when you found them.
Daniella! She's upset.
If anyone was a bad influence, it was me.
They were my drugs.
Think about what you're saying.
They won't let you be a doctor if you have a criminal record.
That's a good thing, then, isn't it?
Because Edison is the one who wanted to be a doctor,
not me!
She's angry. She's impulsive.
You can imagine how that row with Frank could have escalated.
You think she snapped?
She grabs a knife on the way out of the kitchen,
follows Frank out, and then Tai turns up and witnesses it.
He covers up for her to begin with,
but then maybe Daniella and Tai, they fall out.
He's going to talk. It's a credible scenario.
Let's see if Reece knows anything.
He's friends with both of them.
What's all this from the "Gazette"?
Oh, I haven't seen that yet.
I asked the editor to send over everything that she had
on gagging orders at Frank's old software company.
Well, she certainly delivered.
She says two lawsuits were started against Frank
and then suddenly dropped,
presumably because he paid to make them go away.
The first litigant is one Perry Fleming.
William's son?
He apparently spent six years employed
as Frank's office manager before trying to sue him.
Somewhat unfortunate he forgot to mention that.
Look who the second litigant is.
"The future of digital encryption.
Professor Lorna McIntosh." That's our cat lady.
So she isn't married to Professor McIntosh.
She is professor McIntosh.
Yeah, I worked for him.
A long time ago now.
And you didn't feel the need to mention this to my sergeant?
Nobody asked me for my employment history.
You tried to take legal action against Frank.
- Why? - Someone had to.
The whole environment in that place was toxic.
What did he do to you specifically?
Well, let's see. Outed me to clients.
Humiliated me in front of me colleagues.
Constant homophobic remarks, banter, as he called it.
So you were suing for constructive dismissal?
I wanted to.
But Reece was waiting for his heart transplant,
and things with my ex, Noah,
well, that was all falling apart.
In the end, it was just easier to take the money
and sign the NDA.
Frank paid you off.
I needed to move on with my life.
- And did you? - What do you mean?
Well, Frank forced you out of your job,
but he was still living next door to your father,
bullying him in his own home.
It seems like you couldn't get away from him.
I don't know where you're going with this, but...
Now Frank is dead, and the person
most likely to have witnessed his murder
is also dead on your father's property.
Nothing to do with me.
And the letters to the local paper?
What?
Sending complaints about Frank's local hero award.
Hardly the action of someone who's moved on.
I don't know what you mean.
Really? Because those letters
referred to the nondisclosure agreements.
How many people knew about those?
I did.
Bah, it made me sick. Calling him a hero?
I wanted people to know what he was really like.
And I don't care. I'll say it.
I'm glad he's dead.
But that doesn't mean either of us killed him.
It was another life.
Can you put it away, please?
I looked you up online.
You developed encryption software,
lectured on cyber security.
But then you left academia to help Frank launch his company.
What... What did you do for him, exactly?
Come here, bunny. Do you want a cuddle?
Yes? Is it time for a cuddle?
Professor McIntosh?
I wrote encryption algorithms for identity verification.
Uh, when you sign something online,
you need software that will keep
that signature secure and legal.
That's what I was working on.
Frank turned it into an app.
Right. So you were the technical brains behind Frank's startup.
But less than a year after this photo was taken,
you tried suing Frank. What happened?
I loved that company.
The idea of building something from scratch.
So I didn't want to admit what was going on there,
who he was.
Did Frank do something to you?
Not me.
Well, not to start with.
Perry Fleming?
Frank would humiliate him in front of the entire office
and then pretend it was all a joke.
We have it on record that you and Perry
started legal action against Frank,
but then you both withdrew.
I tried to stand up for Perry,
but once I did, there was a target on my back.
Did Frank bully you out, too?
If I stayed, it would be hell.
He made that quite clear.
And so...
You didn't want to go back to academia?
Oh, no, no, I did,
but... but everything with Frank left me...
I don't know.
I've been struggling.
With people.
Cats are more straightforward.
Oh, I know what they all say about me.
The crazy cat woman thing.
But if it keeps people away, then fine.
I'm not crazy.
I just want to be left alone.
When I asked you yesterday about Frank,
you concealed the fact that you knew him.
Are you having a lovely cuddle? Are you enjoying it?
You... You deliberately withheld information.
Are you? Oh, you're beautiful.
Oh, you're my little beauty.
I can't get a hold of Reece Fleming, sir.
- I've left a message. - Okay.
A pet detective stabbed in the neck
and left inside the kennel of the dog
he was trying to find.
Who belongs to his ex-wife.
And now the murder of his nephew,
who may or may not have witnessed his uncle's death.
And there's something about Aden's encounter
with Frank in the cemetery, something he wasn't saying.
See what you can dig up on him.
How does that link into Tai?
I don't know.
There are other possibilities. Frank's wife, for one.
We know that she was contemplating divorce.
And the fact that Tai didn't live
to see his 21st birthday saved her inheritance.
You always say look for the simplest explanation.
I'm a simple man.
But that's Daniella, surely
She had an argument with Frank moments
before he was killed. We know that
she went outside, passing a kitchen full of knives.
And then, victim number two is her boyfriend.
The timing works that he saw her killing Frank.
You're forgetting one thing... blood.
In this version of events, Daniella is killing
in a fit of rage. She hasn't planned it.
She hasn't taken steps to cover her clothes.
So why wasn't she soaked in blood?
Hmm. Her mother then? Premeditated.
Perhaps Frank was right
that she was stealing her clients' dogs,
and she knew that he was on to her.
He was trying to get to her house, right?
Rock solid alibi, though. Several people confirmed
she didn't leave the table.
I'm wondering if this is actually about Frank's life
before he became a PI.
His software company?
Perry Fleming and Lorna McIntosh
both have a long history with him,
and both of them lied about it.
My initial assessment was correct.
Ventricular fibrillation leading to cardiac arrest
caused by electrocution.
Not even 21.
He was saving up to go traveling.
You know the rule. We don't go there.
I can't do this if I let myself do that.
Sorry.
We've got blood under the fingernails,
but before you get excited, it could turn out to be his own.
Oh, from scrabbling around the collar.
Exactly. The lab's taking a look.
Thank you.
I hope I didn't outstay my welcome
at your place the other night.
Although that second bottle of Malbec was Sarah's idea.
Oh, she's a terrible influence, that woman.
Are you still taking Paddy out this lunchtime?
I'm not sure about the dog thing, actually.
That was possibly the wine talking.
But I promised him you'd do it. He'll be crushed.
And on the subject of overenthusiastic mutts.
Sorry I'm late. I know that you asked me
to do a full 360 on Aden Hughes.
What have you got?
I... I spoke to HR at the mortgage broker
where he said that he works,
and apparently he doesn't work there anymore.
- He was fired over a month ago. - What for?
Turning up late, failing to turn up at all,
and getting high at lunchtime.
That'll do it. But she also said
that I wasn't the first person to ask about Aden this week.
Frank called on Monday, asking the same questions.
What did she tell him?
She wouldn't give him any detail,
but Frank obviously knew something about Aden
because he was doing his own investigation into him.
I was clean for about 10 years,
but then it crept back in.
And your wife doesn't know?
No, and she can't find out.
She's always said, once we had kids,
if I went back to it, it'd be game over.
She thinks you're still going out to work every day.
I'm hoping to line something else up,
and I can say I was headhunted, can't I?
And in the meantime?
I put on my suit,
wave good-bye, park up near the cemetery,
walk the dog at lunch, and wait for the day to end.
And you're still using?
Some days.
Some days I manage not to.
Frank cottoned on, didn't he?
He called your employer asking if you still worked for them.
He must have seen me.
Is that what you were arguing about at the cemetery gates?
He said,
"If the father of Eshani's kids was using drugs,
then she had a right to know."
He gave me till the end of the week to tell them.
Which, by your own admission, would end your marriage.
So what did you do?
Did you find a way to silence him?
Of course not, no. I...
Did Tai know that you were using, too?
All the delivery riders used the cemetery as a shortcut.
Did he see you? Blackmail you?
You're both completely wrong.
I didn't touch either of them.
And I...
I actually have an alibi for when Frank was killed.
I was with Dani.
Daniella Saunders? Where?
We were round the side of the restaurant, had a smoke.
I asked her not to tell you because, um...
Because you were buying drugs off her!
Perry! Sorry.
I probably should have called or something.
Of course not. Don't worry. Come in.
Good boy, Paddy.
Good boy.
Uh, no, no, no.
Give it to me. That's it.
Now fetch!
Paddy.
Paddy!
Hello?
Who's there?
Paddy!
Look at him. He's milking it for all he's worth.
Well, at least he's safe.
I think I'll pass on dog ownership.
Not my idea of a hobby.
You didn't manage to get a look at whoever it was?
Sorry. I found this though.
They must have taken it off to crawl into the bushes,
then decided running away from me
was more important than going back for it.
If I was being chased by you,
I'd definitely prioritize getting away.
Collar. Muzzle. Treats.
It's a dog catching kit, isn't it?
That's what I thought.
I'll see if the lab can get anything from it.
We had a key ring like this when we went sailing.
The cork stops the keys...
from sinking if you drop them in the water.
You think the thief's keeping the dogs somewhere near water?
Where's that map that Kim gave us?
Yeah, there were a number of sightings along the river.
Kim said that Storm was a problem barker.
That would make her difficult to hide, wouldn't it?
If she stays in one place,
the noise would attract attention.
Yeah, but if they kept her moving.
Then she's never in one place long enough for it
to be an issue.
She's being kept on a boat.
William Fleming's canal boat was moored at the end of his garden
when I was around Wednesday, and yesterday it was gone.
Shall we?
Okay, Dad?
I thought you might like a bit of company.
Anything need doing?
Oh, it's pretty quiet, to be honest.
Shouldn't you be taking it easy after everything yesterday?
A bit of a distraction is probably for the best.
Plus, it helps stop you being on your own.
- Oh, I'm all right. - Are you?
It was spotted opposite the Mallard Pub.
Is that it up ahead?
Stay right there.
I've been taking good care of her.
How many times have you done this?
She's the third.
I do feel bad for the owners.
No, you don't. You saw an easy way to make money,
so you stole a member of someone's family.
I needed to help a friend.
Sh... Th-They owe money to people
Like, people you don't want to owe money to.
Daniella? We know about the drugs.
She just sort of spiraled after exams finished.
Like, once that focus was gone,
everything with her brother just...
Grief.
It's like she's got this self-destruct button.
And now she owes money to someone?
This kid from school. H-His older brother sells pills,
and he said that she could have 'em for free
if she held on to a package for him, only...
Only Madeline found the drugs,
thought they were Tai's, and flushed them away.
Yeah.
Yeah. S-So...
So he said that she had to pay him back.
But it was so much. Like, Tai was working
extra delivery shifts to help.
And then, I remember
this guy I met at this dog training thing.
He said he was looking for specific breeds
to sell and that...
he wouldn't ask questions if I ever...
found one.
We'll need his details.
What happens now?
We arrest you.
And if you're lucky, you'll be released on bail.
- Who else knows about this? - No one.
I told Daniella I was getting the money from my dad.
Where did you learn to use such sophisticated encryption?
What?
The ransom note. Tech team were impressed.
You used some kind of dark web proxy.
What... I-I didn't send a ransom note.
Honestly, that wasn't me.
I'm not going to pretend to know what a Tor node IP is,
but you're the expert, aren't you?
Professor McIntosh.
Our digital team can take it from here if you prefer.
- They'll do a deep dive. - There's no need.
I sent it.
I've been feeling sick ever since.
Why did you do it then?
After everything with Frank, I wanted to get back to work,
but I...
I get very anxious now.
It's all got a... a bit out of control.
I-I stopped opening them months ago,
so I'm not sure how bad it is.
You thought Storm's family could pay your bills?
Their photos were all over the papers.
They looked like they were well-off.
And they're dog lovers, aren't they?
What's that got to do with it?
I thought they'd pay.
Dog people are crazy.
Go on.
Thank you so much.
- Eshani Hughes called it in. - Yeah, at 3:48.
Apparently, when uniform returned Storm to the family,
they told her where the ransom note came from.
They did what?!
I know. Eshani said she came here to confront Lorna.
That's when she found her.
Can you get rid of that?
They're all over the forensic field.
Come, come on.
It's for catching dogs, isn't it?
They call them snare poles, I believe.
The noose closes around the neck to hold the animal.
I was here interviewing her just over an hour ago.
What time did you leave?
- 2:45. - Well, look at this.
It operates on a timer,
and it's set to dispense dry cat food at 3:00 PM.
So those crumbs on her hand...
She was dead on the floor by the time it went off.
Her cats ate the food off her.
Lovely.
But it does at least pinpoint time of death.
The doors were all locked, weren't they?
Yeah, but that window was open and that plant pot
had been knocked over.
Killed through the window.
Which might tell us something psychologically.
They're trying to keep their distance?
Potentially, which is a... A shift in mind-set.
Frank and Tai were both killed at very close quarters.
So what was special about Lorna?
Maybe her murder is not connected to the others.
A dog kennel, a training collar,
and then a dog snare is too much of a coincidence.
Okay, but Lorna doesn't have any connection to Tai
that we know of.
She didn't have any connection to anyone quite deliberately.
There was one visitor, though, sir.
Neighbor said that Lorna let a man into her house
at lunchtime today.
Early 40s, slim, blue beanie, and a beard.
Lorna?
Are you sure?
I mean, obviously you're sure,
but why would anyone want to hurt Lorna?
Who's Lorna?
Someone your dad used to work with.
- Come on, let's leave him to it. - But I want to...
Reece, you're in no position to argue.
I still can't believe what he's been up to.
We knew nothing about it.
Did you visit Lorna at home today?
Yeah.
At lunchtime. I was there for about half an hour.
Is that a regular thing?
No, I hadn't seen her for probably about a year.
So why the visit today?
Gossip, basically.
Our old boss had just been murdered,
and I know it's not very nice to pick over it, but...
he wasn't very nice, so...
Did Lorna have theories about why Frank was killed?
Well, if he was still behaving the same way around women,
her money was on his wife.
And where were you between 2:45 and 3:00 PM today?
You think I'm involved in this?
Help us out. Where were you?
On dad's boat.
When Reece phoned us from the station,
told us what he'd been doing,
he said the dog had caused some damage.
I've got someone renting it from tomorrow,
so I thought I'd go and do some repairs.
Did anyone see you?
I was inside the boat, wasn't I?
You didn't see anyone at all?
Do you want me to make something up?
No. I didn't see anyone.
No alibi.
Clear motive for Frank's murder. Access for Tai's.
And the only person with a clear connection to Lorna.
We need to know if he was really on that boat.
Fleur.
Hi. The blood under Tai's fingernails,
it's a familial match for William Fleming.
So William's son or his grandson?
The genetic relatedness is exactly 50%.
It can only be his son.
And we've just let him drive away.
That's his truck.
Perry?
Perry, we need you to open up.
Winter.
It won't look good if you run.
We have DNA.
Look, this is harassment now.
I'll say it again.
There's DNA.
When Tai fought back,
when you put that collar around his neck,
- he scratched you. - No.
Someone's made a mistake.
Then show me your arms.
I didn't want to hurt Tai.
Or Lorna. It was only ever about Frank.
So this was revenge for what he did to you at work?
And for what he did to my dad.
Because people like that, they don't stop, do they?
Not unless somebody stops them.
And Tai saw you?
He saw the blood on my clothes.
I promised him cash,
but then he was getting that inheritance.
He didn't need my money anymore.
The only way to silence him was to kill him.
And Lorna?
She knew how much I despised Frank... she worked it out.
You left his company years ago.
When I saw him going after my dad,
it was like it was all starting up again.
And I couldn't let that happen, could I?
Not when I wasn't going to be there to protect him.
What do you mean you weren't going to be there?
What are those?
It's private.
These are all for Reece.
You're writing them now because...
Because I've left it too late.
I knew I had symptoms, but...
head in the sand.
Cancer?
It's fairly...
you know.
I'm not going to be there in person, so...
Sorry.
Do your family know?
Nobody does.
Reece's heart transplant's not going to last.
He's going to need another one.
And my dad's going to need to get him through that.
I can't have him thinking about Frank.
My sergeant is going to place you under arrest now.
Am I looking at life for this?
I would think so, yes.
Hopefully not too long then.
I just had to pay for that guy's dinner
because someone jumped up and stole his sausage roll.
We've all been there.
Seriously, Paddy, you know that there are...
There are dogs who can lead blind people across the road,
rescue people from mountains, sniff out disease.
All we ask you to do is sit in the pub without causing chaos.
- Sir. - Did you see what he just did?
Perry's alibi for Lorna's murder checks out.
He was on his boat.
The pub's CCTV, it points straight across there.
You can see his boat and that he was on it.
Well, why did he just confess to killing her?
Maybe he's trying to protect someone.
His father, his son.
Neither of them could have killed Lorna.
Reece was in our custody suite and William was there
- to collect him. - Who else would Perry lie for then?
If Betty needed an organ transplant,
if her life was saved by someone's sacrifice,
I'd do almost anything for them.
- Madeline Saunders. - Without her son's heart,
Reece wouldn't be here.
But why would Madeline want to kill Lorna?
And how does that connect to Perry killing Tai and Frank?
I mean, we do still think that it's Perry, right?
It's Perry's blood under Tai's fingernails.
Why would...
Paddy!
Madeline told me that her dog could sniff out cancer.
Perry said no one knows about his diagnosis.
But what if Madeline did know
and used that knowledge to her advantage?
U-Used it how?
What if Madeline is the one with the motive, not Perry,
and she persuaded him to kill for her?
But why would Madeline want to kill Frank?
I don't think she did. But she hated Tai, didn't she?
She tried everything to keep him away from her daughter.
And Tai turned up in that car park moments after Frank.
Two men of the same height and build,
both wearing dark jackets,
both in full-face motorbike helmets.
You think Tai was the target all along?
It was just a case of mistaken identity?
Wrong time, wrong place.
It's possible.
Tell Sarah we'll be back.
Sir, I found him. Uniform took him to the river
to locate the knife. And you're right.
It wasn't Frank being lured to the restaurant car park.
It was definitely Tai.
The takeaway that he was meant to collect
was ordered to a church hall.
When it wasn't delivered, no one chased it up.
The whole thing was a trap.
Daniella's not here.
I wanted to speak to you.
Oh, right. Oh, sorry.
Charlie, away.
This must be the dog you mentioned.
The one that can sniff out cancer.
He's still training.
He was good enough to spot Perry's illness,
though, wasn't he?
Don't know what you mean.
You do know, Madeline.
Shall we sit down?
You did an incredible thing,
allowing your son's heart to go to Reece.
I can't imagine how difficult that was
and how grateful Perry was.
He always said...
if there was anything he could do.
And then there was.
You wanted Tai to disappear.
And you asked Perry to make that happen.
When I found the...
drugs in Daniella's bag...
I had to do something.
And...
And it is like...
it all fell into place.
Charlie had been behaving strangely around Perry,
and I eventually persuaded him to go to the GP,
and he confided in me about his diagnosis.
I saw a solution.
You saw a way to take advantage
of a terminally ill man.
- Perry. - I know what I owe you.
When I see Reece laughing with his mates,
or kicking a football,
when I can still look in on him at night,
I know that's only possible because of what you lost.
I would have done anything you asked me to do.
But shouldn't have asked me to do that.
I just thought that
you were more able to take the risk.
Because I wasn't going to live to see the consequences.
I'm sorry.
All the planning for Tai's murder,
luring him to the restaurant, that was you?
I used to wait behind the kitchens
to collect Daniella after her shifts.
Hardly anyone used that area.
Just the takeaway drivers and...
the app, the delivery app that Tai worked for.
You could see the rider's name, but...
it went wrong.
It accepted the order.
Then, right on time, there he was.
He was coming from the wrong direction,
but I mean, black jacket, same sort of helmet.
It was only when I heard him screaming
that I realized it wasn't Tai.
And then I heard the bike. I knew I had to hide him.
The only place I could see was that kennel.
That story about buying Tai's silence.
That was a lie. He didn't witness anything.
And he was still alive.
So you tried again in the most brutal way.
You electrocuted him.
Everyone was saying that Frank had been killed
because of his PI work.
And when I heard that theory, it was easiest to play into it.
She told me it would be painless for him.
It wasn't.
And his eyes...
When I put the collar on, he woke up.
When he realized what I was doing, it was just
sheer terror.
We know that Perry didn't kill Lorna.
You did that.
He told her everything.
I had to talk to someone, and we could have trusted her.
She understood.
I couldn't take the risk.
I tried to do it quickly.
She didn't know it was coming.
He killed for you, and then he lied for you.
Was it worth it?
I thought I was helping, but...
You were!
He was saving my daughter's life.
The way Edison saved Reece.
Except Daniella didn't need saving.
She did.
She'd worked so hard!
And she was just...
throwing it all away!
From the moment that she met Tai,
her life went off the rails.
You mean, it went in the direction she chose.
You do not know what you're talking about.
She's my daughter.
Exactly.
She's your daughter, not your pet.
You don't own her.
I realize that.
No.
You think you can control everything,
and you even managed to control me, but it's over.
I did what you wanted. Now we're quits.
Mum?
What's going on?
I got your text, so I got a new round in.
At last. Thank you.
So, Fleur's on her way back. She's just gone to get Lysander.
- Lysander? - 42, supremely handsome.
And it's all happened very quickly.
Here he is.
I did the postmortem on his owner
and heard he needed a new home.
Now I see it.
It's like you've been missing a parrot this whole time.
Birds are more my thing than dogs.
More chat, less excrement.
Who's a pretty boy then?
Not you, nitwit. Not you, nitwit.
See? My soul mate?
I think you've finally found the one.
Yes. Here you are, darling.
Yeah. Yeah.