The day after an alcoholic college professor who killed a young girl in a drunken accident is released from prison and returns home, he is run over by his own car
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00:59Who can remember what we learned last lesson about chain reactions?
01:05It's like dominoes, sir.
01:06That's right. It's like dominoes.
01:10When just one molecule is activated,
01:13it can cause a reaction,
01:16which in turn releases more unstable molecules.
01:24They then trigger further reactions,
01:26and so the chain gathers momentum.
01:28See how it's branching and growing as it feeds itself.
01:33L is the angular momentum quantum number.
01:35Angular momentum.
01:36L tells you the type and shape of the orbitals.
01:38Tells you the type of the orbitals.
01:40L is the magnetic quantum number.
01:42Quantum number.
01:43L tells you where the orbitals are along the x and y axis.
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02:53Home?
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02:59Home.
03:03Today we're going to take a look at the first chain reaction ever discovered.
03:08Hydrogen and chlorine.
03:11All you need to trigger this is UV light,
03:14which you get by burning magnesium.
03:17But once the chain is in motion,
03:20it's unstoppable.
03:24CHAIN REACTION
03:42Chrome every time, sir.
03:44James.
03:46The flat's looking a bit tired.
03:49This is what you're doing with your day off,
03:51sprucing out the bachelor pad.
03:53That's it.
03:54Marine dream blue. Nice.
03:57Haven't you got somewhere else to be?
03:59I don't remember you booking the day off.
04:01Community partnership seminar, 3pm.
04:04Enjoy.
04:24I wasn't sure what you'd want to do.
04:26The garage said they could fix it.
04:28Just get rid of it.
04:32The interview isn't that bad, as long as you know your chemistry.
04:35Make sure you do some mock interviews with Mr Drew,
04:37if you do decide to apply.
04:39They basically ask me all the same stuff.
04:41Glad to be of service.
04:42Anyone else?
04:44Is it loads more work than A-level?
04:46Well, it's a big step up, obviously.
04:49But it's all right.
04:51Most of the time.
04:52Good.
04:53Well, I think we should give Adam a round of applause
04:55to say thank you for coming back to talk to us.
04:57Good.
04:58Well, I think we should give Adam a round of applause
05:00to say thank you for coming back to talk to us.
05:27Thank you.
05:47Erin had this bean plant.
05:49She was supposed to grow it over the holidays
05:51and measure it every day.
05:53Mum carried on watering it for weeks afterwards.
05:56And I just kept thinking,
05:58how is this thing still alive?
06:02How is it possible that this stupid little plant
06:05can keep on living, and yet...
06:12We both realise how difficult this must be.
06:17But do you feel able to let Richard respond?
06:27Rachel...
06:29I need you to know that your sister
06:32and what I did will stay with me forever.
06:36If I could do anything to change what happened...
06:39All you had to do was think,
06:41I've had a nice boozy lunch,
06:43maybe I won't get in my car this afternoon.
06:45How hard is that?
06:47I know I can't expect forgiveness.
06:49But prison has strengthened my faith.
06:53And as part of my recovery.
06:55Your recovery?
07:00Of course.
07:02That's what this is about.
07:04Rachel, please.
07:05Forget it.
07:06Three years out in one.
07:08It's a joke.
07:24Are you all right, OK?
07:26I'm sorry.
07:28I'm so sorry.
07:39I know you don't want to hear it,
07:42but I think that was brave.
07:45It was selfish.
07:47It was selfish.
07:50It was selfish.
07:58Things will get easier, I promise.
08:02With God's help.
08:14Yeah, I'm not sure that I've done it right.
08:17No, that sounds fine.
08:18As long as you're juicy drunk and you're OK.
08:20Anything else?
08:22Yeah, then leave it on a hot dish for 20 minutes to relax.
08:25Thanks.
08:27As long as one of us is relaxed.
08:30Well, wish me luck.
08:32Good luck.
08:48Good luck.
09:18Come on.
09:48Come on.
10:05Beautiful place, this, isn't it?
10:08What have we got?
10:10Deceased is Professor Richard Seager, biochemist.
10:13Fellow of Bennison College.
10:15He was released from prison yesterday
10:17by dangerous driving.
10:19No signs of a break-in.
10:21Body was discovered two hours ago by his wife,
10:23the Reverend Martha Seager,
10:25crushed under his own car.
10:33Bloody hell.
10:35I know.
10:37You do read about these freak accidents, don't you?
10:41No, sir.
10:43This is not an accident.
10:45It's hard to turn up this much gravel.
10:47I can't get to them properly,
10:49but the first thing I'm seeing under here
10:51is multiple flaying injuries
10:53where the wheels have taken the skin away.
10:55Suggests he was knocked down
10:57and then driven back over several times.
10:59All right, all right.
11:01Didn't say it wasn't an accident.
11:03Just giving humanity the benefit of the doubt, for once.
11:06She left here the first time at around eight,
11:09if that's any use.
11:12Sorry, who left today?
11:14Rachel Cliff.
11:16The girl who killed my husband.
11:20Erin Cliff was the young girl involved
11:22in the fatal road accident with Professor Seager.
11:25Rachel was Erin's sister.
11:28And the Jag outside is the same car that killed Erin.
11:32Yes.
11:34It was my fault.
11:36Rachel and her mother were on their own,
11:38and I thought I could help.
11:40What do you mean?
11:42I persuaded her to meet Richard.
11:44I honestly thought it would be good,
11:47but she left here angrier than ever.
11:49She must have taken the keys from the hall
11:52and come back.
11:54Can you take us through what happened
11:56in between Rachel leaving here
11:58and you finding Richard's body this morning?
12:01We had an early night.
12:03He was exhausted.
12:06Then this morning when I took him his tea in bed,
12:09he wasn't there.
12:11I thought he must be pottering in the garden.
12:15And then I found him.
12:19How was your relationship with your husband?
12:22Good.
12:24We were happy.
12:26But you didn't realise he wasn't in bed
12:28until you took him his cup of tea.
12:31So you weren't sleeping in the same room.
12:34Well, prison makes things difficult.
12:36He needed some time to adjust,
12:38so he slept in the spare room.
12:40And where did you sleep last night?
12:42The main bedroom.
12:44The one on the front of the house with the window open?
12:46That's right.
12:48And you didn't hear anything?
12:50No, not a thing.
12:57Some people do sleep very deeply.
13:00So deeply they miss a violent murder
13:02going on outside their window.
13:04How's it looking, Laura?
13:06Like a man under a car at the moment.
13:10I won't be able to judge luvidity
13:12till we get him out from under there.
13:14But there's early rigor mortis in the neck and jaw,
13:16so dead maybe five, six hours.
13:19There's something else, though.
13:21Some small scratchings in the bodywork
13:24with what seems to be the same colour paint
13:26at the end of his keys.
13:28It's a number.
13:31500.
13:33Well, it looks like Seager wrote that as he was dying.
13:36Would that be possible?
13:38Depending on his injuries, it might have been possible.
13:40Why 500?
13:42Look at all these search results for him.
13:44He was quite famous for a scientist.
13:47What did he discover?
13:49Well, it seems to be more about his promotion of the idea
13:51of intelligent design, that the complexity of the universe
13:54is down to the existence of an intelligent creator.
13:56We know what it is, Sergeant.
13:58Sorry. Anyway, Seager was a leading proponent.
14:01He ran a lecture course arguing that God and science
14:03aren't mutually exclusive.
14:05Sorry I missed it.
14:07Still, explains why he was married to a vicar.
14:11Do you know what she was claiming?
14:12She slept through the whole thing.
14:14You're not convinced?
14:15Not for a minute.
14:16How can anybody sleep through that kind of racket?
14:18Well, if you find out, do let me know.
14:24What's she mean by that?
14:25I think she's implying you're a snorer, sir.
14:29Marlowe always said it was more of a snuffling.
14:34Maybe she was being kind.
14:39It's strange, you know.
14:41After all these years.
14:43Good strange.
14:44Yeah.
14:46Really good strange.
14:48So you should have ended up with something that looks like this.
14:51With the intermolecular hydrogen bonding shown by the dashed lines.
14:58So is everyone all right with that?
15:00Any problems at all?
15:04Adam, do you want to hang on for ten minutes at the end?
15:07Right, let's move on to disulfide linkages and other covalent bonds.
15:17There you go.
15:18Thank you.
15:19You're welcome.
15:20Rachel Cliff?
15:21Yeah.
15:22D.I. Lewis, D.S. Hathaway, Oxfordshire Police.
15:25Could we have a word?
15:27What about?
15:28I'm her mother.
15:30We understand you've had dealings with Professor Richard Seager.
15:33Dealings?
15:35I've not heard it called that before.
15:37He killed my daughter, if that's what you're getting at.
15:40He was found murdered at home this morning.
15:44Oh.
15:45There you go.
15:47Maybe I'll buy a lottery ticket later.
15:49Mum!
15:51Under the circumstances, we do need to ask you some questions.
15:54Ask away.
15:56In particular, Rachel, we need to speak to you
15:59about your contact with the professor last night.
16:02I'm sorry.
16:04You promised me.
16:06You promised me you wouldn't go round there.
16:08Adam said he wouldn't let you go round there.
16:10Martha thought it might help.
16:12Oh, well, if Martha thought...
16:14Rachel, is there somewhere we can talk in private?
16:21You'd think it'd be enough, wouldn't you, them taking my little girl,
16:24then they had to try and take Rachel, too.
16:27Phone calls and letters and,
16:30come to our church, come to our house.
16:33And now...
16:35Now we've got the police round here asking questions.
16:40If you and your daughter would be willing to give us DNA samples
16:44and prints down at the station...
16:46Fine. Whatever.
16:47Thanks.
16:49It would also be helpful to know where you were
16:51in the small house this morning.
16:53I was reading Heat magazine
16:56in the waiting room of A&E.
16:59I managed to twist this when I was putting the bins out.
17:02PHONE RINGS
17:04Excuse me.
17:07Liam?
17:09Everything OK?
17:11When was this?
17:13It was weird.
17:15It was like she was his wife, so I hated her.
17:18But it also felt like she understood.
17:20Like I could say things to her that I couldn't say to my mum.
17:24She told me about last night.
17:27I finally realised it was all an act.
17:29She was just pretending to be nice, so I'd forgive her husband.
17:33She said that you were really upset when you left.
17:35Where did you go after?
17:37Went back to my boyfriend's. Got trashed.
17:40Where were you during the night?
17:42Still in my boyfriend's room in town.
17:44Adam Tibbett, he's a first year at Benderson College.
17:46We went to school together.
17:48Can anyone else confirm that you were there all night?
17:51Why?
17:53What's she been saying?
17:55We just need to establish your whereabouts.
17:59She thinks I killed him, doesn't she?
18:02Well, you know what?
18:04I wish I had.
18:12Can I hang on a minute?
18:14Everything all right?
18:16I... I just need a word.
18:18Sounds ominous. That's the sort of thing you say to your suspects.
18:21Yeah, well, I don't usually offer these to my suspects.
18:24Come on.
18:27My old granny used to pay me in giant chocolate biscuits for mowing her lawn.
18:31Sounds like an excellent trade-off.
18:33It wasn't bad.
18:40Stayed with her almost every year.
18:43Bungalow out at Whitley Bay.
18:46Do you know when I last saw my grandson?
18:49Christmas, for a day and a half.
18:52Took him a toy fire engine that he already had.
18:55Take a week off, go up there.
18:59Apparently he's been in hospital the last three days.
19:02Lynne just phoned me a couple of minutes ago.
19:05Is he all right?
19:07Not in hospital.
19:09Back home running riot, according to his mam.
19:12Thing is, she didn't even call me until that whole thing was sorted.
19:17Didn't want to worry me.
19:20Don't even feel part of my own family any more.
19:25Anyway, that's it now.
19:27Been going on about retiring for ages.
19:30Time I chucked it in.
19:32Put my family first.
19:35And Laura, if she'll let me.
19:37I'm sure she will.
19:42Thing is, when I go, there'll be a D.I. job come vacant.
19:46You should apply for it.
19:48Set up a meeting with Innocent.
19:50Let her know you're interested.
19:52Yeah, thanks. I don't think I'm...
19:54Come on. You're more than ready.
19:56No, I don't mean that.
19:58I mean, it just wouldn't feel right if you went for me to stay.
20:01Well, I'd hate to break it to you,
20:03but you're a bit too young to retire with me.
20:06Much as I'd like us to have an allotment
20:08and a nice little sailing dinghy together.
20:10Well, I've heard worse plans.
20:15Seriously, though,
20:17you're ready to go and do this on your own,
20:19so go and do it.
20:21I'll think about it.
20:23Think about it? Mm-hm.
20:27Well, why don't you think about it on your way down to the prison?
20:31Find out if Seeger had made any enemies while he was inside.
20:36I'll see what I can dig up at this college.
20:41Now, I'm sorry, but the exams are two weeks away,
20:44and you're still struggling with basic concepts.
20:47But I'm working as hard as I can. I mean...
20:49Why don't we see how these exams go and then talk again, OK?
20:54But it might be that you're better suited to another course...
21:00..at another university.
21:04Oh, I see.
21:06It's one cup down out there.
21:08Start the application straight away.
21:10Dr Yardley?
21:12Detective Inspector Lewis.
21:14I need to speak to you about Professor Seeger.
21:16Yes?
21:18I'm afraid I have some bad news.
21:20He's dead, I know.
21:22What do you want from me?
21:24Well, I'm told you're the master here,
21:26and I was hoping you could give me some information
21:28about his academic life, if it's not too much trouble.
21:31No, no, not at all.
21:33Forgive me, I'm a bit, er...
21:36Do you know anything about 17th-century roofs?
21:39Not my specialist subject, to be honest.
21:41Nor mine. Turns out they're expensive.
21:44Apparently ours is on the verge of collapse.
21:47I'm sorry to hear that.
21:49Well, how can I help?
21:51Did Professor Seeger have any enemies that you were aware of?
21:55Well, the usual intellectual squabbles,
21:57but nothing serious that I can recall.
22:00And what was the plan for after his release?
22:02Was he coming back to work?
22:04Well, that was a difficult one.
22:06Richard had a brilliant scientific mind, truly brilliant,
22:09but with fellowship comes moral responsibilities.
22:13We held a ballot,
22:15and the majority vote was to revoke his fellowship
22:18and promote Stella to his chair of the chemistry role.
22:21Stella?
22:22Dr Stella Drew, Richard's prodigy.
22:24I think she's the best person for you to speak to.
22:26You knew her much better than I did.
22:28Any idea where I might find her?
22:30You could try her rooms, Old Quad, top of J staircase.
22:38Dr Drew?
22:40D.I. Lewis, Oxfordshire Police.
22:42Hello. Stella's at work.
22:45Is this about Richard?
22:47Yes.
22:48And Martha phoned us this morning.
22:49Sorry, you are...?
22:50Karl Drew. I'm Stella's husband.
22:52That's the last time I let my year nines loose with the iodine.
22:55Please, come in.
22:58So you knew Professor Seager?
23:01He taught me and Stella when we were undergrads here.
23:04Stella decided to stay on, and I was kind of stuck with him.
23:07Not his biggest fan?
23:08No, he wasn't that bad, I suppose.
23:10Just a little bit, you know, Oxford.
23:14If you weren't ridiculously gifted like Stella,
23:17you basically were invisible to him.
23:19How well did you know his wife?
23:21Far too well.
23:23She's Stella's best friend. One of mine, too.
23:26So we've been treated to the ongoing saga of their marriage for years.
23:30The saga?
23:31It's been dragging on forever.
23:33Richard filed for divorce a couple of years ago.
23:36Martha was fighting it, and he never quite moved out.
23:40I think she was almost glad when he was sent to prison.
23:44At least it made me want to leave her.
23:47Stella knows more about it.
23:49Greenway Labs, Science Park.
23:53She'll be there till late.
23:57James, see what you can find out
24:00about a Dr Stella Drew of Bennison College.
24:04Meet me in the Science Park in about an hour.
24:07Can we make it more like three? I've got a bit sidetracked.
24:10What by?
24:11Stapleton did some digging and came up with years of debate
24:14in the scientific press between Seager
24:16and the master of Bennison College, Graham Yardley.
24:19I just met him. A bit cagey.
24:21I'm not surprised. He's been waging war on Seager since the 80s,
24:24arguing that his Christian teachings should be banned from universities.
24:27Really? I don't think he got around to telling me that.
24:55How's that thinking going?
24:57Have you fixed up a meeting with Innocent yet?
24:59No, but I managed to get in touch with Seager's prison officer.
25:03Changing the subject. OK.
25:05Apparently, Martha forgot to tell us that he was a raging alcoholic
25:09and had been for a decade.
25:11He had a drink problem. Are you sure about that?
25:14Everyone in the prison says the same.
25:16He spent his days praying, going to alcohol recovery meetings
25:19and talking about how to lead a better life when he got out.
25:22Visited?
25:24Only Martha the entire year, with the exception of one visit
25:27ten days ago from Adam Tibbett.
25:29Rachel's boyfriend. Interesting.
25:32Right, where are we? Greenaway Labs?
25:35I realised after you called I've come across Stella Drew
25:38before I heard her interviewed on Woman's Hour a few months ago.
25:41Woman's Hour?
25:43It's an excellent programme. You should download the podcast.
25:48What did she have to say for herself?
25:50What did she have to say for herself on Woman's Hour?
25:53She was quite impressive, actually.
25:55She made some sort of breakthrough in Alzheimer's research
25:57while she was still a postgrad, became a fellow in her early 20s,
26:00campaigned for more women in science.
26:02Oh, God, what a name. What, feminist?
26:05No, overachiever. They make me uneasy.
26:14He was my mentor for 15 years.
26:17Everything we're doing here is down to him.
26:19It's research into dementia, is that right?
26:22Into Alzheimer's, yes.
26:24My particular research stems from my doctoral work
26:26on the amyloid hypothesis, the question of whether
26:28amyloid fibril formation is a cause of neurodegeneration
26:31or if another protein such as...
26:34Sorry, I lost your hypothesis, didn't I?
26:36You might have. Never mind.
26:39Well, so let's get to the point.
26:41Carl called. He thinks he put his foot in it about Richard divorcing Martha.
26:44And now you want to know whether or not my friend killed her husband.
26:48We wouldn't have put it quite like that.
26:50Presumably it's one of your hypotheses.
26:53I can tell you that she isn't capable of it.
26:55I've asked her to stay with us until she's ready to go back home
26:58and I wouldn't have done that if I thought she was a risk to anyone.
27:03Surely you should be speaking to the family
27:05of the little girl from the accident.
27:07We have to keep an open mind for the moment.
27:10You run Professor Seeger's research team now, is that right?
27:14Yes.
27:15And you were promoted to his chair of chemistry.
27:19Only thing I stood to gain from his death.
27:22Just establishing the fact.
27:24That's fair enough.
27:26Well, the facts are that, yes, I have now taken over his positions
27:29but that happened while he was in prison.
27:31And when there was a bit of controversy about whether or not
27:33he should be allowed to stay on at the college, I voted in his favour.
27:36Any way we can confirm that?
27:38The Master Secretary should be able to show you the ballots.
27:41It wasn't anonymous.
27:43Thank you.
27:49Does the number 500 mean anything to you?
27:52A measurement, perhaps, or a reference to a chemical?
27:55500? No.
27:57Not particularly. Why?
27:59Just part of our investigation.
28:01Could you keep it in mind? Let us know if anything occurs to you.
28:04Of course.
28:09Surely if Seeger wanted to point us towards somebody in the chemistry department
28:12he'd have written their name, not just their extension number.
28:14There could be a connection.
28:16If all the phones begin with extension 500,
28:18then there might be a voicemail on one of them.
28:20I could ask the university to grant me access.
28:22Are you proposing phone hacking, Sergeant?
28:24It's not phone hacking, if you ask nicely.
28:27From the degree of hypostasis and the decreased fluid pressure behind the eyes,
28:30I put time of death at 2 or 3am.
28:35What?
28:36Nothing. Do it. Carry on.
28:39The contusions, multiple fractures and tyre impression
28:43are all consistent with...
28:46I'm sorry. I'm not smiling at...
28:49Oh, God. Sorry.
28:51It's all a bit odd now, isn't it?
28:53You and me and...
28:55Oh, I don't know.
28:56Some of our best times together have involved a mangled corpse.
28:59Yeah. That's just me point. It's not normal, surely.
29:03We do have to work together, Robbie.
29:06I hope this isn't going to be a problem.
29:08Well, I've been having a think.
29:12You know, I'm always banging on about retiring.
29:19What would you say if I just did it?
29:22I'd say about bloody time.
29:24Would you? Really?
29:26I mean, you'd be all right about being with a pensioner?
29:30Would that pensioner have my dinner on the table when I get home
29:33and rub my back for me till I can retire too?
29:36I'm sure he would.
29:38Then I'd love it.
30:03Oh.
30:18Reverend?
30:21Martha!
30:23Hello?
30:26Oh.
30:27Could we have a chat?
30:34Thank you.
30:44Is there any news?
30:46Why are you lying to us?
30:50I'm not sure I know what you mean.
30:52Why didn't you tell us that your husband was an alcoholic?
30:55Because he was in recovery.
30:57And that he'd asked you for a divorce.
30:59I didn't say anything because it was all in the past.
31:02Richard filed the petition before he went to prison.
31:06But only because he wanted to protect me from his drinking.
31:11He did it because he loved me.
31:13Had he withdrawn the divorce petition?
31:16No.
31:18But he would have done, I'm certain.
31:21If there's anything else you haven't told us, Martha,
31:24we really do need to know.
31:26There's nothing.
31:28Must have been difficult.
31:30To stick by him through the alcoholism,
31:32through the accident, through prison.
31:35And at the end of all that, to find that he's still filing for divorce.
31:41What are you saying?
31:43Did he reject you?
31:48Did you snap?
31:59I went to his room and tried to comfort him.
32:04He pushed me away.
32:09He always said he was leaving because of the drink.
32:13No other reason.
32:15So when he was released and he was doing so well,
32:19I thought I was getting my husband back.
32:23But then last night he told me I wasn't.
32:27He said the drinking wasn't just about work.
32:30It was about me.
32:37I went upstairs and I lay in our bed on my own
32:41until I went to sleep.
32:45I didn't hurt him.
32:48I didn't expect to be saying this, but I think I believe her.
32:51You're just a sucker for a dog collar.
32:53It's true, but if she did snap, why would she use the car?
32:56It's a bit elaborate.
32:57Well, maybe she was driving away and he was trying to stop her.
33:01Look, I need to check on her getting on down at the station.
33:04Why don't you try and track down this Adam Tibbett?
33:07See if he admits to visiting Siga in the prison.
33:10I don't think he would.
33:12I don't think he would.
33:14See if he admits to visiting Siga in the prison.
33:26Cheers.
33:28Good little artist, wasn't she?
33:30Erin. Yeah, she was brilliant.
33:33I gave her a paint set for her eighth birthday
33:35and then the pictures just kept on coming.
33:40So, erm, tell me what you can about Professor Siga.
33:43Did you know him before the accident?
33:45Well, I met him once in my interview.
33:48And the strange thing was, I actually liked him at the time.
33:52Did you see him again after?
33:54Not at college, no, no, no.
33:55He was already in prison by the time I came up.
33:57But then...
33:59Then he started writing these letters to Rachel.
34:02It was getting creepy.
34:03Like every week going on, wanted to meet up as soon as he got out of prison.
34:07So I went to see him, asked him to leave her alone.
34:10And what did he say?
34:11Well, he promised he'd stop.
34:12But by this point, it was too late.
34:14Martha had already gotten into her head and persuaded her it was a good idea.
34:18So did you go with Rachel when she went to see Siga last night?
34:21Yeah, I... I waited outside.
34:24What did you do after?
34:26We came back here. Hasn't Rachel already told you all this?
34:29I need to confirm these things with you.
34:31Where were you between the hours of 2 and 3am?
34:34Why are you asking me that?
34:37I'm not accusing you of anything.
34:40I was asleep right there with Rachel.
34:42Look, I've got my exams in less than two weeks
34:45and I'm really behind with my revision, so...
34:52Good luck with that. I'll try not to disturb you again.
35:09Come on.
35:39Good luck.
36:10Robbie?
36:12What's this from HR about your pension forecast?
36:15Ah, I was going to talk to you about that once I was certain.
36:21You're going?
36:23Well, I'm giving it some serious thought.
36:25Something happened I should know about.
36:27Old age.
36:29It happened when I wasn't looking.
36:32Well, probably when I was sitting here trying to...
36:35Don't be so bloody maudlin. You love it, really.
36:38I love my kids. I love my grandson.
36:42I quite like Laura.
36:44But it'd be nice to spend some time with them.
36:47Well, then I'm glad you're thinking about it.
36:49That's not the same as believing for a second
36:51you'll actually go through with it.
36:53But it's reassuring to know that one of us
36:55looks forward to going home at night.
36:57Well, I'm not.
36:59I've got to go.
37:01It's reassuring to know that one of us
37:03looks forward to going home at night.
37:07So, how's the current puzzle looking?
37:10Well, house to house didn't come up with anything,
37:13and, er, Seeger's place is too remote for CCTV to be much use.
37:18Well, maybe Hathaway's solved it and you can get off early.
37:21Alas, not, Mum, but the phone company got back to me.
37:24Seeger took a 30-second call from a pay-as-you-go mobile
37:27at 2.20 this morning.
37:29But they can say that it was only ever used to make that one call.
37:32So the killer called Seeger to lure him onto the driveway.
37:35And it was someone he'd agreed to see in the middle of the night.
37:38An affair?
37:39That's what I was thinking.
37:41And there's this. A screenshot from the John Radcliffe.
37:44Shows that Debbie was in A&E all night.
37:47Well, that's good.
37:49Just as useful to know who it isn't.
37:51What about this 500, the thing he scratched into the paintwork?
37:55Eight phones in the lab, all have extensions beginning 500.
37:59None of the messages left on them seem significant.
38:01Nothing more concrete?
38:02Not yet.
38:03I've got two teams going through his papers, his computers,
38:07but so far, nothing.
38:09It must be something else.
38:11Come on, Cambridge, you'll start her for ten.
38:14Find out what it means.
38:17Do you fancy a pint?
38:19Yeah, well, usually.
38:21It's just, Laura's...
38:23Don't worry about it. We'll do it another night.
38:27You know what, though?
38:29Mum!
38:31James wants a word, if you've got a minute.
38:53DOOR CLOSES
39:24DOOR OPENS
39:26Early start. Someone's trying to impress.
39:29Yeah, thanks for that last night.
39:31How did it go?
39:33It didn't.
39:34If it's all right with you, I'll decide when I go for promotion,
39:37if I go for promotion.
39:39OK. Message understood.
39:41Yardley's secretary got back to me with the results of the fellows' ballot.
39:45Said it was telling the truth. She did vote for Seeker to stay on.
39:48Oh, wow.
39:49So she wasn't after his job.
39:51Yeah, but the weird thing is, Yardley also voted the same way.
39:54Now, if he objected to Seeker's beliefs that much,
39:56you would have thought he'd take the opportunity to get rid of him.
39:59Robbie.
40:00Hello. Did I forget something?
40:02No, but the lab have just called.
40:04They've got the first DNA results from the car.
40:06Anything helpful?
40:07Well, there are dozens of DNA profiles in there.
40:09His wife, his colleagues, and some that we can't identify.
40:12But one of the hairs taken from the driver's headrest
40:14had some follicle matter attached.
40:16And the DNA from that follicle is an exact match for Rachel Cliff.
40:22Morning.
40:23It's your full English.
40:26Your pancakes are on their way, I promise.
40:29We're hoping for another chat with Rachel, if she's around.
40:32Oh, does it look like she's around?
40:34Any idea where we might find her? It's actually quite urgent.
40:36She's 18. I don't keep tabs on her.
40:38Shall we try her boyfriend, perhaps?
40:40You can try, wherever you like. She's not going to say anything.
40:42She hasn't already said.
40:45OK. Thank you.
40:48OK. Thank you.
41:06Oh!
41:17Oh!
41:25This is important.
41:26Are you absolutely sure you've never been inside Professor Seeger's car?
41:29No. I told you.
41:30Why would I want to go anywhere near that thing?
41:32In that case, we'd like you to come down to the station with us
41:35and answer some questions on the tape.
41:37What? Are you arresting her?
41:38You can't. You can't arrest her.
41:40Not arresting, no.
41:42But we do need your help with our investigation.
41:44I haven't done anything.
41:46It would be better for everybody if you'd do that voluntarily.
41:55Are the police in there with you?
41:57There's no problem. They just need to check something.
41:59Sorry to interrupt, but the master's asking if you can pop down to the main quad.
42:03Thanks. Tell him we'll be there in a few minutes.
42:07He says it's urgent.
42:13Don't go anywhere.
42:17Call her. Now.
42:26It would appear we have a situation with our roof.
42:30What kind of situation?
42:32I think it's best you take a look, but your discretion would be appreciated.
42:35It's delicate.
42:37This gentleman will show you.
42:39This way, gents. Have you a word?
42:41It's delicate. This gentleman will show you.
42:44This way, gents. Have you a word?
43:11And I will pay the price.
43:18See you here, then.
43:20And I will pay the price.
43:26And he said, he said,
43:30You and your father.
43:37Just through here. Mind your step.
43:41Just through here. Mind your step.
43:59Good God.
44:03How long has this been up here?
44:12How long has this been up here?
44:24Sir.
44:26Hmm?
44:27Maybe it wasn't a number that Segal was scratching into his car.
44:32There's a name.
44:36Multiple fractures, including the skull.
44:38She was an exchange student from South Korea.
44:40It's me. Call me as soon as you get this.
44:42Look, tell me what they said.
44:44You're saying that Reverend Segal's been pulling your hair, eh?
44:47I don't want to hear sob stories. I want to know what happened that night.
44:51What has the fact that I went out zooming 15 years ago got to do with Segal?
44:54I said, I don't know.
44:56I want to know what happened that night.
44:58What has the fact that I went out zooming 15 years ago got to do with Segal?
45:01I should never have left her in that house on her own.
45:03Segal's blood is on Suman's suitcase.
45:06Under the handle.
45:07I knew there had to be a connection.
45:12Well, it's the last in the series of Lewis next, Monday at 9.
45:15But you can pre-order now.