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with these boys.

I wanted to help her.

I wanted to pray with it.

She kept talking to me.

- What are you doing?

- Buliegh. Listen to this.

Why would Angela need your prayers?

She kept... She kept

talking about two boys.

Guilty kind of talk.

You see, because they took her

to the cinema, and so...

She wasn't going to school.

It was closed.

We didn't hear him.

It wasn't the school that was closed.

- Robert...

- We didn't hear what he was giving us.

Robert, who cares if he gets confused?

It's a diversion.

I wanted to help her.

I... I saw the guilt.

It's a lie.

You know, Joe, sometimes we make the mistake

of confusing anger with caring.

Maybe the most useful thing

for us to investigate is ourselves.

Yeah? Really? If anyone needs

investigating round here, pal, it's you.

You should hear what people say about you.

They call you loner, saddo, Obi-Wan.

To pray with it. Talking about two boy...

They took her to the cinema, and so...

She wasn't going to school.

It was closed.

It wasn't the school that was closed.

Yeah? Come on. Come on.

We thought he was rambling.

But Buliegh isn't confused.

He said cinema.

I think he followed Angela here.

Somebody call the police.

I've been a very naughty boy.

Why don't you come and arrest me?

Detective Fairburn.

Send out the women and children first.

We've got you surrounded.

Come out, come out, wherever you are.

Detective Fairburn.

Boys.

Jesus.

Detective Fairburn.

We know you're in there.

We know you're in there.

I notice you've been living here.

Where else am I gonna go?

You might have cleaned it up.

Why are you saying this?

Because there'll be evidence.

I didn't do it.

You were here when it happened, though.

- Yeah.

- Your friend did it.

Darrell.

Yeah.

F***ing get in trouble all the time, eh?

D'you hear me?

Look at me when I speak to you,

you little git. Look at me.

D'you hear what I'm saying?

Darrell was drunk. He had the knife.

Just to scare her, that's all.

She started to cry, like, you know,

panicked sort of crying.

So everything just got worse.

She was sort of screaming.

So he just stuck the knife in her arm,

to warn her sort of thing, that's all.

But then she was screaming even more.

So then Darrell says,

"We'll have to now."

Like that.

And kept stabbing her.

Then she was sort of dying.

And what about you, Sammy?

Hmm? Why didn't you run away?

Or why didn't you try to protect Angela?

'Cause... he's my friend.

You phoned her, didn't you?

Why did you call her?

Sort of hoping she wasn't dead.

Got them. Got the f***ers. Superb, Joe.

How good is that? Bloody magic, is that!

Why do they take it so personally?

Guilt.

OK, chaps, we need to talk about the

Renton case and what's happening Thursday.

Well, I'll be seeing

the Dl in charge of it.

Dig!

Dig.

Sandra Buliegh just rang.

Jason still isn't home.

- Hasn't been seen for three days.

- He's not our problem any more.

We caught the boys. It's done.

Yeah. It is done.

Those boys, getting caught, maybe it's

the best thing that'll ever happen to them.

The ones I feel sorry for

are the ones that get away with it.

You're not what your friends and family

think you are.

So every moment of love they give you

must be agony.

I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Getting away with it.

Natalie's been asking Lily about you.

Honest, she's keen.

I've been married

and I've been lonely.

I'd rather be lonely.

What about when you get old?

On your own? Is that the plan?

Wrapping your arms around a woman.

Don't you miss that? Don't you want that?

I can give you her number.

Will I give her your number?

Hello?

Hello?

Jason?

Jason, is that you?

Jason?

I know you will show me the lighted path

in my hour of need.

- Dad, what are you doing?

- What?

It sounded like you were saying a prayer.

- No.

- Yeah, you were. The lighted path?

You're not OK, are you?

You're up late.

Homework.

- And what was the score?

- I'm not telling them.

- Tell everyone. Why?

- Because he always cheats.

- I do not cheat. I don't cheat.

- He always cheats.

- Paul, do I cheat?

- Don't get me involved.

- I'm not even asking you.

- Joe,

- Yeah?

- Have you got a moment?

Yeah.

So, I'm finally getting this man

to move in with me.

I went to see Buliegh's mother.

She said Jason called her.

- Well, good.

- Though he didn't say anything apparently.

Just thought you'd wanna know.

Do you want a drink? Come on.

Come and have a drink.

Come on. Paul's here. Paul.

Ah, Robert.

Hey. All right?

Who was that man?

That's Robert, Dad.

You remember Robert, the Zen detective.

- No, not him.

- Hello.

The other one.

- The one out on the islands.

- Dad?

- The one who fell over.

- Dad, keep your voice down.

We can't talk about the islands any more.

Well, you wanted me to remember.

Now I want you to forget, d'you hear me?

I want you to forget. Understand me?

Jemma and Chrissie, happy ever after.

- Jemma and Chrissie.

- Cheers, Dad.

Hello. My son is missing.

Excuse me. Have you seen my son?

Thank you. Thank you very much.

When I first heard that this boy I had held

and was part of me,

that he could do this,

expose himself to girls,

it broke my heart.

And when this poor child was killed,

I doubted Jason.

I've got to put that right.

I can never give up, not for one day,

until I find out what happened.

It's just not knowing, it's killing me.

What's that, winter jasmine?

Robert?

You look older.

I am older.

The world is older.

It happens.

This is peaceful.

I sometimes think to... sit in a garden,

nothing else...

... I'd miss the work.

I realise I need the work. I don't know why.

You were always too quiet.

Outside. Looking, watching, thinking.

Never trusted you. No one did.

I just didn't wanna join in your way

of doing things, Lenny, that's all.

Why not? It works. We didn't fanny about.

You f*** up, it should hurt.

When it stops hurting, get out.

Go and become a window cleaner.

All that stuff you talk about,

beating the truth out of them,

all that stuff you told your boys,

that's not true, you never did any of that.

We used to take the bastards

out to the islands.

They'd admit to shagging their own...

No, no.

I've been told not to talk about the islands.

I'm supposed to forget.

What is it I'm supposed to forget

about the islands?

I don't know, Lenny.

What is it you're supposed to forget?

F*** you. Coming here, winter jasmine.

Who do you think I am? Old? Gone?

I can make you sorry

your mother ever opened her legs.

Mmm.

I was quiet because I was scared of you.

You made sure of that.

Made sure everybody knew

whose kingdom it was, even your boys.

Well, I'm not afraid

of you Fairburns any more.

Hey, Chrissie's found a new witness.

Some guy that lives near the church.

Thought he might have seen something

the night Buliegh disappeared.

- Joe. Joe.

- What are you f***ing doing?

- Sandra Buliegh.

- What are you doing?

- I saw her suffering, Joe.

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