01x01 - Episode 1

[bunniefuu]

Brit, you're gonna be late.

Britney, you need to be leaving now!

Right, you got everything?

I need lunch.

On it.

Homework?

Yeah. Can you take me, please?

I can't, darling.

I've gotta sort out work.

Please?

Your sister is puking.

OK. Fine.

Tomorrow though, yeah?

All right.

Love you.

Love you.

BOTH: Bye.

DOOR OPENS,

CLOSES

RAY: 'OK, I'm going on the record.

'Ignorance really is bliss.

'Ignorance is a state

where believing in evil

'is mocked because

it sounds religious.

'Ignorance helps people

go about their lives

'without having to face

up to the fact

'that monsters are around

every corner and under every bed.

'The blissfully ignorant

would have you believe

'that monsters

are few and far between.

'That they're mentally ill

or simply sick.

'They always see the good in people

'and believe they can be fixed

if they're not functioning properly.

'Well, I hate to burst their bubble,

but I've stared evil in the face,

'and let me tell you,

'evil people don't want to change

or be redeemed.'

Look at smelly, wee Britney.

You mean Shitney.

BOTH: Shitney Britney Hamil.

GIRLS CHUCKLE

'There's a saying that the road to

Hell is paved with good intentions.

'Not in my mind, no.

'The road to hell

is paved with ignorance.'

VAN DOOR SLIDES SHU

ENGINE TURNS OVER

You see, back then,

Before the mediocrity of this

- Scotland/

- England union kicked in,

we Scots could actually

design things.

Design something to scrape

the shite off your shoe.

Worst argument for indy ever.

Shut your moaning pus!

Ooh

Your piles giving you gyp?

HE LAUGHS

Listen, this is

our last-ever stakeout together

before your Floridian babe drags

you off to the Land of the Free,

so, shoatie

That's an escort bird

with Winterburn.

Ah, he's gonna hurt her.

That's all those New Town ponces

are good for, is hurting lassies.

Oi!

God's sake, Ginger!

Winterburn! Police!

I want a word with you.

This is private business.

Aye, get away from her.

I should warn you,

I am an Oxford Blue.

You'll be an Oxford black and blue

in a minute, pal.

Argh!

HE SCREAMS

Come here, you.

I'll f*cking break your arm.

f*cking stand still.

f*ck! No!

Ooh

HE GROANS

Thanks for making me drive (!)

HE SIGHS

Ha-ha. You should have gone

to the A&E.

No, too embarrassing.

They ken me there.

I'll get seen to in Florida.

You're in no fit state

for your leaving do tonight.

Is the location

still a big secret?

Mind, no f*cking strip clubs.

Trudi will have my guts for garters.

That would be entirely inappropriate

for female officers

in the department.

HE SCOFFS

Are you seriously gonna give

all this up for Florida?

This is the golden city, mate.

Dreams come true here.

MOBILE RINGS

Aye. Sure.

Right.

Not everyone's dreams.

Two bodies have been found.

In a flat in the Old Town.

All right, all right,

all right, all right.

I'm warning you, do your job.

Get 'em away to f*ck.

Aye, there's dead bodies

up the stair.

Want to come out and ride 'em

while they're still warm?

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

Top flat, sir.

Course it is.

Go on, then. sh**t your load.

French. Ages 22 and 26.

Death by asphyxiation.

f*cking French!

PHONE RINGS

Text me the details

of the leaving do.

Aye, nae bother. Ooh

Boss.

Ray. Amanda, yes.

Shut that door. Bloody builders.

Now, as you know,

Eddie Rodgers is retiring today.

Amanda's been promoted to DS.

You two are gonna be partners.

I thought that Gill Glover and I

Well, that was the original plan,

but there's not enough

female officers in Serious Crimes

to justify a dedicated unit.

So we're gonna

have to spread our women. Oh, aye?

Dougie, the two French students

found dead this morning.

Anything new?

Aye, Fabienne Rodier

and Gaston Villiers.

Froggy goes a-courting,

gets a wee bit carried away

with the turning off the gas games,

she croaks, and then in

MOCK FRENCH ACCENT:

..romantique regret

NORMAL ACCENT: ..he tops himself.

Can we dispense

with this froggy stuff?

I'm with the toxicologists

and the forensics wankers on this.

Both full of GHB,

ligature marks on both necks,

her full of his spunk.

It's obvious

auto-asphyxiation shite.

f*cking French, eh?

Thanks, Dougie.

Aye. Back to the coalface.

Dougie? Dougie?

Any similarity in MO to

other sexual strangulation cases?

Oh, do you mean the serial k*ller

cases that obsess you?

Aye. If you discount the fact

that the boyfriend Fabienne

was shagging died an' all.

This is my case, Lenny.

I don't need some social-justice

warrior poking his neb in.

The point is

And my point is keep it out.

f*ck off and play with the lasses.

Go on.

Ah, f*ck!

Late! Sorry, sorry,

I got caught up in the

It's fine. Never mind.

Guess who got the job?

Wow! Congratulations!

Well, let's face it,

they'd have been rags to give it

to anybody else, eh?

Well, sadly,

they gave it to Charmaine.

No! No! I'm sorry, honey.

Well, more fool them, eh?

Yeah, or more fool you.

SHE SNIGGERS

Course they didn't give it

to f*cking Charmaine.

THEY LAUGH

I am finally on

Dunedin Power's management team!

THEY LAUGH,

HE CHEERS

Well, as you know,

alcohol and I aren't exactly

parking in the same lot these days,

but I wish we were

so we could celebrate!

Honestly, I can't believe it.

I started there as an agency clerk.

You're gonna be a director soon.

Hey, when I'm a jakeball

on the street, spare me a quid!

THEY LAUGH,

MOBILE RINGS

Bob.

Right. OK, I'll be, er

I'll be right there.

Sorry, I've got to go.

Something important and urgent.

As a manager, I am both

important and urgent, Mr Lennox.

Yeah, it's a young girl

that's gone missing,

and I need to find her.

Oh. God, yeah. No, yeah, please

please do that.

OK. I'm so proud of you.

HE LAUGHS

'OK, everybody,

this is very important.'

We have a missing schoolgirl.

Britney Hamil, 13.

Number 36/1 Murrayburn Quadrant.

Left for school yesterday,

usual time, eight thirty.

Never arrived. Whereabouts unknown.

She walked alone

to school yesterday.

Normally she goes with her sister,

Tess, who was ill.

Vanished into thin air.

Ray.

As we know, in child abductions,

the first 24 hours are crucial.

The uniformed officers

have been out knocking on doors,

talking to neighbours,

schoolkids, teachers and so on.

Stuart, you've been consolidating

the information, eh?

She's not believed

to have a boyfriend.

There's been no activity

on her phone or social media

to suggest she's been

making or receiving calls.

She hasn't been acting

out of character recently,

nor has she done

anything like this previously.

Uniforms have done

a search of the bedroom,

but there's nothing to suggest

anything going on in her life

her mum doesn't know about.

And the dad?

He lives in Canada. He left

the mother, Angela Hamil, 35,

when Britney was a baby.

Surprise (!)

Find out who hangs about with her.

Confirm the dad's still in Canada.

Gill, let's see the CCTV,

let's see what those pixels tell us

in the moments before Britney

vanished, eh?

I don't need to tell you

how much we're gonna be scrutinised

on this one.

So, er, we say nothing to the press

for now, and I mean nothing.

Aye, keep the vultures at bay.

By the way,

I'd get your wee team here

to check out

the other school absentees, like.

Billy Lumsden, the janitor, is one.

Always eliminate them first.

Good, Dougie.

See if you can find this Lumsden.

What, take one of my boys

off the frog case?

I thought that was cut and dried.

Well, as you say, Raymondo,

nothing's cut and dried.

We're gonna speak to the mother,

this, erm

GILL: Angela Hamil.

This Angela Hamil in Hailes d*kes.

She's with a liaison officer now.

Right, you all know what to do.

'Walks onto Slateford Road,

vanishes. No sighting there.

'Nothing of her on the camera

above the school, 50 yards away.'

A white van, let's go back to it.

What's she looking at there?

She sees something when

she's halfway down Slateford Road.

That's when she goes off camera,

that wee blind spot.

Aye, she's definitely distracted

by something or somebody

on Slateford Road.

Is there any CCTV

at the bottom of Slateford

and corner of Hailes? There.

Not till further down.

There's a dead zone.

Only about ten foot

until the other camera picks it up.

So she vanished in

that ten-foot blind spot.

Let's check the vehicles'

comings and goings.

Especially that white van, eh?

Maybe some of the residents

have door-bell cameras,

they might have

picked something up.

This isn't an area where

they can afford that kind of tech.

What about traffic cams

on the roundabout?

Yeah, let's just see

what the speed cameras offer up.

We have got this

from the roundabout.

Stop it there. Rewind a bit.

Can we ID the plates?

KF67 D

I need to guess the rest.

Run the numbers through the database

and see what comes up.

Go back to the lassie again.

Go back.

Notepad.

Let's get down there.

See what's across the road, eh?

I'll keep working

through the pixels.

Find us the rest of that plate.

Yeah.

You OK to drive?

All right.

All OK?

Yeah.

It's just, in my experience,

male cops don't generally like

female officers driving.

Yeah. I'm not keen on driving.

I like to observe. And think.

SOFTLY: f*cking sh*t's

happening again.

Do you remember Claire Gorman, 16,

found dead ten years ago?

Yeah. I was a student at the time,

but it was a huge case.

Never caught the perp.

Robert Ellis,

convicted of the murders

of Stacey Earnshaw

and Nula Andrews five years ago.

The Confectioner killings?

Of course.

Claire's m*rder was a similar MO

to Ellis's two.

Drugged, r*ped and strangled. So?

Ellis had an alibi for Claire,

but not for Nula and Stacey,

so he went down for them.

He was guilty.

He confessed after being caught

masturbating over their graves.

And those murders stopped

after he went down.

Why are you talking about this?

Just thinking aloud.

You're suggesting Britney is dead

at the hands of a serial k*ller

already in prison

when we haven't even found her yet.

Do you realise

how f*cked up that is?

Follow the trail that's hot,

not the one that's cold.

SIRENS BLARE

So, she came down here

and was taken there.

This is incongruous.

Eh? It's out of place.

It's not where it's meant to be.

I know what "incongruous" means.

The point is, if something's

where it shouldn't be,

there's a chance

it's there for a reason.

You're thinking

from Britney's backpack?

Oh Andy?

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

We're in the transparency game, and

the best disinfectant is the light.

Sir.

Have you worked on

many missing-kids cases?

There's no such thing.

Kids just don't go missing. No?

No, they've either fallen

into a river, got trapped somewhere,

or they've been abducted.

Right.

But you're thinking abduction here.

Absolutely.

And in child abduction cases,

the probability points

to either the parents

or family members being involved -

let's talk to them.

Don't be scared to lean on her,

particularly about

her male associates.

Yeah. It's very distressing.

Child abductions are.

I mean, I haven't

It's not just a kid being snatched,

it's the misery that you find when

you start turning over the stones.

More often than not,

they'll target kids

from single-parent families.

Why is that? Well, if you take

a kid from a broken home,

there's a higher probability

of chaos

impeding the investigation

right from the start. Right.

A bit of a stereotype,

but it makes sense.

We are at w*r, Amanda.

This isn't about solving crimes.

It's about eradicating scum

from the face of the Earth! It's

Aye, well, that's why we

we eliminate them as suspects

from the off.

99% probability, 1% inspiration.

But this white-van man,

it's like if this boy had

six minutes from 8:46 to 8:52

to grab her, put her in the car

and silence her,

drive as far as the roundabout

It's like somebody

who'd know what they were doing.

I like the way you're thinking,

Amanda,

but it's still supposition,

so best keep this between us.

Don't worry on that score.

DOG BARKS

'Hi, Miss Hamil.

DI Lennox, DS Drummond.'

I know you've given us

formal details,

but I just want you to tell me

as much as you can about Britney.

She's

QUIVERING: She's an angel.

When was the last time you saw her?

I put her to bed.

We were off to the cinema

Wednesday night.

Tessa was sick after a burger.

Missed the film,

couldn't go to school,

so Britney walked on her ain.

Just

..walked out that door.

I know it's distressing.

We need to try and retrace

her steps

within the timeframe

of her going missing,

so I have to ask.

Definitely no boyfriends

on the scene.

No. I don't

Not with the girls.

I meant Britney.

No!

Of course not.

Not my wean.

SHE WEEPS

WHISPERS: She's 13, it does happen.

We didnae think she'd make it.

She was starved of oxygen

when she was born.

On one of those incubators

for weeks.

She was a miracle.

One in a million.

ANGELA SOBS

Miss Hamil.

Erm

ANGELA SNIFFS

I have to ask about

your own relationships.

I told you, I don't date.

Not with the girls here.

Promise me you'll find her.

Promise me!

I

I promise.

ANGELA SOBS

Everyone's doing their best.

Almost everyone.

We're gonna look upstairs,

Miss Hamil.

SOBBING CONTINUES

'Relatives or friends nearby?'

'Yeah, Ronnie Hamil.

Estranged father.'

We're doing doors on the parents

of her friends.

It's just the three of them

living here? Her, Britney and

Tessa, Britney's big sister

usually walks to school with her.

Is this ex-husband definitely

in Canada? Yes. Vancouver.

Husband, lover, ex, I want a list

of every guy she's shagged,

worked with, got on the bus with

in the last five years.

Checked against

the beast's register.

We're on it, but I have to say

The sister who was ill?

With a friend. She's sleeping off

a bad stomach bug.

Let's look at her room.

Then we'll walk the beat, eh?

Pished the bed.

A nervous kid.

She would probably be wary

of strangers.

Every girl's dream.

A prince coming along

and saving her.

Not some filthy nonce

in a white van.

Great. Thanks, Gill.

So, have we got anything

about her boyfriends?

Men in her life?

People who work in the offices

that she cleans?

You heard Angela - she hasn't had

any romantic interest in years.

Sister, what about the sister?

Tessa. Gill's with her now.

She's 15, might be knocking about

with an older guy.

MOBILE PINGS

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

That street camera cuts off here.

Several feet from where

the white van was parked.

Tommy Loughran.

The people's choice, for sure.

On the Offenders Register.

Guess where he lives?

That flinch of Britney's.

The possible source?

Confirm with Gill

who Tessa regularly saw on the walk.

Anybody who stood out.

Dirty old Tommy, probably too feeble

to do this alone.

So probably not our man,

but a possible witness?

Aye. Well, looks like he's out,

but

opportunity, proximity,

Tommy's got both.

Just an old flasher now, right?

Pfft! It's all he can muster.

But when footballers

lose their legs,

they often become coaches because it

keeps them involved in the game.

'Was Britney Hamil regularly

walking to school on her own?'

No. Generally with her big sister.

"Generally"?

She sometimes came on her own, then.

No, usually with her sister.

But it wouldn't surprise you

if it happened on occasion?

Well, Angela Hamil is a single

parent under pressure, so no.

Did anybody else ever

pick Britney up from school?

Oh, no.

Did you ever have occasion to speak

to Angela about her parenting?

Well, not exactly.

Sorry to be curt here,

but time really is of the essence.

What does "not exactly"

actually mean?

At school sports last summer,

she was chain-smoking,

and I simply pointed out that

this sort of behaviour

in front of the children

on sports day

was hardly the example to set.

How did she react?

Sneeringly.

She was with a man.

And they'd both

obviously been drinking.

Did you recognise him?

No.

MOBILE RINGS

Could you give DS Drummond

a full description of this man,

and perhaps look at some pictures?

One second. 'Boss?'

Stuart, how's that list

coming along?

'Slow. The grandfather's

got previous convictions.'

What about that white van,

any matches?

'Er, we've matched 86 white vans

with that partial reg

'on the Swansea database.

We just need to work through them.'

Right.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS

Mind, we're on the clock here, eh?

And how should we get that to you?

Is email OK?

Yes, that's fine.

Well, please let me know

if I can be of any further help.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Dull but crucial.

When we get back to base,

I need you to try and trace

the source of that yellow notepad.

Retailer, manufacturer, etc.

You think this school's sports man's

the white van guy?

Angela lied about her boyfriends.

What else was she lying about?

You undermined me in front of her.

Don't give guarantees.

You're a DS, for f*ck's sake!

Yes, it was an error.

But don't you pull me up

in front of a member of the public.

You wouldn't do that to

a male colleague.

Women's rights are hardly

Britney has probably been rifled

by some psychopath,

who will then f*cking choke her

to death.

THAT is women's rights being abused.

That, right there.

Quite. That's why I'm focusing

on this case instead of cold cases.

Amanda, I'm sorry, you were right.

I did undermine you.

You're apologising?

Unreservedly.

It's we men, we have this bullshit

conditioned into us

from a very early age.

Patriarchy is crumbling, Ray.

Let us contribute, for f*ck's sake.

I mean, I try

and dispense with the nonsense,

but sometimes, it just

creeps out of me

when I'm under pressure.

So, again, I'm sorry.

Accepted.

Thanks.

It's a lot of pressure,

catching paedophiles.

The word "paedophile" is wrong.

"Paedo" means child,

and "phile" means love.

These beasts don't love children.

They hate children.

It's about evil, twisted power.

These are the kind of sick b*stards

that we're up against, Amanda.

Exhibit A.

Jesus!

Who's that from?

It's a minging beast that we

nicked for distributing child porn.

Could you just pull up for me

up here, please?

And let me out.

Er, yeah. Sure.

Thanks.

Are you OK?

Yep.

GRUNTING

Yes!

No!

No!

What a point! What a point!

Well, you'll certainly add

a competitive edge

to our management team.

Oh, come on, you're the head of HR.

You're like the

trailblazer when it comes

to all that stuff.

Oh.

Ooh.

Ooh.

I'm looking forward

to getting some sisterly support.

I haven't been getting

much of that at home lately.

I mean it, you know, I, er

My promotion last year was

a bit emasculating for Roddy.

You know, some men, they just

they can't handle strong, powerful

women, do you know what I mean?

Anyway, how's your new

romance going? Tell me.

TRUDI LAUGHS

Yeah.

Yeah, he's, er, really good.

He's so lovely.

He's just, er

He's so caring, and he's attentive.

And he's reliable.

'He used to have a bit

of a problem with the drink,

'but he's so over that now.

'He's under all this stress at work,

and he copes with it so easily.'

Hi, my name is Ray,

and I'm an addict.

You know, I'm, er

struggling to cope with my work, eh?

It's literally a matter

of life and death. Yeah.

Every day I walk into that f*cking

place, it tears my soul apart.

Every day, I deal with

human debris.

These are my colleagues,

people around me, my people,

who the state employ to pursue

the real scum of this Earth.

Clowns to the left of me,

jokers to the right.

And

And all I want is oblivion.

All I want is oblivion.

Every cell in my body

just craves it.

I wanna I wanna drink

this f*cking city dry.

I want to snort the entire

rainforest of South f*cking America,

and I just want to

HE SCREAMS

..tear this f*cking place apart.

And I don't know how

to stop and I just I just

'Well, that sounds as if you're

onto a winner with him, doesn't it?'

Yeah. I am.

Listen!

Gill's got something for us.

Go ahead, Gill.

Britney's grandfather,

Ronnie Hamil, has vanished.

Last seen in the Royal Oak

the night before her disappearance.

This could be significant.

He's not at home,

and his phone's off.

The pub landlord last saw him

on Wednesday night,

which is unusual.

Ronnie Hamil's got previous.

Not for anything like this,

though, boss.

That arsehole Angela's shagging.

You mean the school sports

boyfriend?

Aye.

It's a guy that the, erm, headmaster

said she stepped out with.

Well, let's find him.

But Ronnie Hamil's

the main priority.

I'm just saying that

the only previous that Ronnie's got

is for shoplifting

and drunk and disorderly.

He could be involved, though, Ray.

The laws of probability

are at play here.

I think it's highly unlikely.

Well, we haven't got much in the way

of "highly likely" right now.

So, let's split the team up.

You carry on as normal, Ray.

You find Ronnie Hamil.

Dougie, what's

that yellow piece of paper?

Oh, we found it

at the froggy expiry on her desk.

It's a bit of paper

with a number on it.

3720.

Can I get a look?

Aye.

f*ck off!

Ray?

My office, please, a word.

We need a press release.

Some lassie at the school

has just tweeted

that her friend Britney's

gone missing.

Ian Hoy at the news

has got hold of it.

He's gonna tip off STV and BBC

Scotland if we don't play ball.

Well, I think it's good to get it

out to the public.

Maybe they can help us

find Ronnie Hamil.

Listen Ha!

..I smell nonce off that jakeball,

but there's no way

that he snatched Britney.

Six minutes to secure her,

get her in the van and speed off?

But he went missing at the same time

as his granddaughter.

Come on! I doubt he's even got

a driving licence.

Who's to say he was acting alone?

Aye. You're saying you smell

short-eyes off him, right?

Well, who's he's been noncing?

Britney, Tessa.

Probably Angela before that.

You say she's a bed-wetter.

13 years old, pissing the bed.

'Some creep's been

freaking this kid out.

'Who's her bogeyman?'

BIRDSONG

'Perhaps indicating a struggle.

'Perhaps it was placed there by some

f*cking serial f*cking k*ller!'

That's what I'm f*cking saying!

That's what I'm f*cking saying!

He fixed her, the f*cking nonce!

The nonce!

Ray?

Listen. I spotted this.

Piece of yellow notepaper.

It's, er

It's a piece of common notepad.

But maybe it flew out

of a notepad.

Perhaps as a result of the struggle.

Maybe it was placed there.

No!

Maybe it was placed there.

No, no. Ray, for God's sake.

Haul in your missing suspects

before you go fixating

on a piece of f*cking paper.

Right. The white van sped off at

the same time as Britney vanished.

The piece of paper wasnae there

until after the white van sped off.

Have a look at the CCTV.

Have a look at it!

CCTV? What does it mean?

The piece of paper could have

blown in onto the scene.

Just find Ronnie Hamil.

And the boyfriend.

Sweat the f*cking name out of her!

Her daughter's missing.

Why would she not be

straight with us?

Everyone's got secrets.

And why are you holding back

on the school sports boyfriend?

Because we don't know anything yet.

Boss has a hard-on

for Ronnie f*cking Hamil.

MOBILE PINGS

And you don't?

Ray? Ray?

I'm just thinking through stuff.

HE SIGHS

It's gonna be a long day.

You OK with how we're working

so far?

Yeah. The mansplaining irritates me

a bit, though.

The need to patronisingly

explain every single thing

in that voice.

And what voice

would that be, Amanda?

HE LAUGHS

Seriously, Ray. You wouldn't talk

to Ginger like that.

No, you're right. Just talk to me

like you talk to him.

Right, then,

you fat, tight-arsed b*stard,

your shout at the boozer.

THEY CHUCKLE

'Where's your dad, Angela?

Why didn't you mention him before?'

I told them, I don't know

where he could have gone.

I don't know what he does.

Not seen him in years.

You lied about the boyfriend, too,

didn't you? No!

The school sports, Angela!

Who was the guy you were

at the school sports with? Ray!

You don't understand,

it's not like that.

Name and phone number.

We do not have time to piss about!

Graham Cornell. Graham Cornell.

Right, tell me about him.

Why?

Because he might know something.

It wouldnae. It wouldnae be him!

Angela.

Graham's a friend.

Works at the offices I clean.

Nah, Graham wouldnae.

And anyway, he's g*y.

Did you ever

talk about the girls with him?

The girls?

Aye.

I don't

We just go for drinks. He's no

When did you last hear from him?

Erm

A while ago.

He goes away a lot.

Keeps himself to himself.

MOBILE RINGS

Hi, Gill. Thanks.

Good to know.

HORN TOOTS

Guess who's taken

two weeks' annual leave

without telling a f*cking soul

where he's gone, eh?

Cornell.

Something's not right.

How can all our prime suspects

disappear at the same f*cking time?

There are a lot of people

vanishing around this case.

Wonder who she's going

to see now, then?

Graham Cornell? Follow that taxi.

I've always wanted to say that.

It was a win-win.

If we broke her down, she'd tell us

where her dad or Cornell was.

If not, she'd lead us to him,

as she's doing now.

Hang on, where's she going now?

Why's she protecting him?

It's her daughter.

She isn't! Come on!

What you wanting?

Where is she?! Where's my bairn?!

Ow!

You're trying to nonce her like you

did me, you filthy old b*stard!

No, Angela!

Ow!

That filthy old nonce has got her!

He beasted me!

I said I'd never let him

get his hands on my bairns!

I never touched your f*ck' bairns!

If he's hurt her, I'll k*ll him!

Get out! Take her to the car,

come back up with masks!

You, up. Get in the house.

Get in!

Ach.

RAY GAGS

FLIES BUZZ

Oh

What's this smell?

I cannae smell nowt.

The Dennis Wynesses are done in

with the ching, eh?

RAY GROANS,

FLIES BUZZ

Oh, for f*ck's sake!

RAY GROANS,

COUGHS

Oh, Emlyn!

That's where you got to,

you daft wee bugger.

The place is clear,

there's no sign of Britney.

Aye, I know. Take that.

RAY SHUDDERS

HE EXHALES WEAKLY

f*ck!

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

Too pissed to question now.

Let him de-jakey and we'll see

if we can get some sense out of him.

We should pop our heads

round the door at Ginger's do, eh?

Yep.

'No, no, wait till you hear

this one.'

The frogs had

been potted heid for two days!

f*cking two days!

Lenny boy!

Ginger!

Eh? Amanda!

Hiya.

So the end of an era, eh?

Aye.

Gutted we cannae stay long.

Gotta go and question Ronnie Hamil

when he sobers up.

Oh, well, needs must.

Aye.

So, er, how's life

with the new partner, eh?

Soft furnishings in the motor?

Listen, I don't give a f*ck

any more.

I mean not about

the missing bairn, of course.

So, er, what do you think

about Gillman's case?

It's just silly sex games

got out of hand, surely?

I'm sensing something different.

How're you sensing

something different?

Well, think it through.

What, so you're postulating

that the k*ller of

the French couple's got Britney?

You ken me, Ginger.

I dinnae postulate, I hypothesise.

Aye, well, let's just hope

wee Britney's still alive

and she's not potted heid

like the Frenchies, eh?

Here. Dinnae tell me

you two p*ssy eaters are vegan, eh?

I've heard it all now.

I'm straight.

But I'd rather munch on any hole

than go near the c*ck of a diseased

slab of old gammon like you.

LAUGHTER

I thought you were joking

when you said this place was vegan.

You're full of surprises!

Oh, I'm just getting started.

HE CLEARS THROA

Right, thank you.

So, it has been

a pleasure to serve with youse all.

In the immortal words

of William Shakespeare

HE CLEARS THROA

..f*ck the Edinburgh polis!

CHEERING

Cheers!

Cheers!

Now, as you know, I'm off to Miami,

but before I go,

I'd like to leave you all

in the capable hands of

the lovely Jessica and Tatiana!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

COUNTRY ROCK MUSIC

Here, how about you two lesbos

gettin' the gear off?

Get on the table,

give us all a show!

Has anyone ever told you how

repulsive that mole on your chin is,

and how perfectly

it goes with the rest of you?

Duty calls, brother. Gotta go.

Take care of yourself, Lenny boy.

Here, Lenny, why don't you go and

play with the wee lassies? Go on.

What, me? Ah, well. Duty calls.

APPLAUSE

Thank you, all. Ladies.

HE GROANS

OK, right. OK, thanks.

So, Ronnie has an alibi.

He was in the hospital Thank you.

..when Britney was taken.

They fished him out of the canal,

half-drowned,

and then he discharged himself

later in the morning,

went back on the drink.

He may have an alibi,

but he's still a beast.

Should have left him

in the f*cking canal.

Graham Cornell's our man.

We still need to speak

to Tommy Loughran.

Maybe there's a link somewhere.

Ray?

Yeah, sorry. Yeah. I doubt it,

but we need to eliminate it.

MOBILE PINGS

So all we've got now

is circumstantial.

We've got nothing concrete.

We need some

..evidence?

There's nothing but sh*t porn

on Ronnie's laptop.

My mate, Georgie boy.

We got so drunk on that forensics

residential up in Harrogate.

OK. He was the SIO

in the Confectioner case.

What's this thing everyone has

with Confectioner?

There was a lot of stuff

that never came out.

He terrorised communities.

I always suspected

that he was guilty of the m*rder

of at least 12 girls

all over the country.

Mr Confectioner

was like the Yorkshire Ripper.

He didn't just send shivers

down the spine of every woman,

but every husband,

boyfriend, father, son.

Every man who ever truly

loved a woman.

I investigated the missing girls

up here, like Hazel Lloyd.

She was a ballet dancer

who I always suspected

was taken by Confectioner.

This man is pure,

unadulterated evil.

Oh.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I I just

I wasn't being nosy.

I mean, I was, but

Ray, what is this?

The man who took their lives

is still out there somewhere.

And he won't let go.

Not ever.

These people

..they leave a mark.

Wait. What's that?

What's there?

PHONE VIBRATES

Lennox.

'The thing about ignorance, though,

'is, at some point,

reality always shatters it.

'Some people don't want redemption.

'They know

they're on the road to Hell.

'They just want to drag as many

other souls with them on the way.'