And you feel you want to be in control?
I just find myself in the strangest of places.
Last night I ended up in Highfield.
Found myself buying milk in an all-night garage.
And no recollection of how you got there?
None.
I just felt so stupid.
Kate, they're here.
Hello.
- Kate, I'm so sorry. - Thanks for coming.
Not a particularly endearing sight for my hotel guests,
wouldn't you agree?
- Yeah, we'll sort it. - I want reimbursing.
I said we've had a chat with the hotel owner afterwards.
He's worried about loss of trade and deal
to the delayin building his spa centre.
Nice to know he's got his priorities right.
Hi. What have we got?
Female. Small but mature. Been dead some time.
Considerable decay to the bones and cells.
There's no soft tissue or ligament present.
I'll examine back and give you a better date later.
Nothing to get excited about?
Well, something troubles me.
I'm no forensic archaeologist
but the soil compaction seems incompatible with the skeletal remains.
What's that in English?
The soil inside the skull cavity is compacted tight,
but around the bones it's looser.
A recent grave for a very old body.
OK, do what you have to and keep me informed.
Dr. Vernon,
there's another body buried underneath it.
There's nothing to see. I told Get back. Ladies and gentleman, please!
DI Jordan will speak to you when she has something to say.
In the meantime, go to the press office.
This is madness.
Someone said they've found a body.
I don't know. I'm just manning the tapes.
Is it one...or more than one?
- And you are? - Just a guest.
Missing men and women for the last 20 years.
What age did Vernon say?
He hasn't yet. Start young, I remember wearing shoes like that.
Paula, would you liaise with Forensic. I want a comprehensive list of clothing from the bodies.
Sure.
Wasn't there an unsolved in that area?
Yes. Er, ten years ago, the other side of those woods.
Woman in her 40s, called Linda Osbourne.
Out walking her dog. Died of multiple stab wounds.
OK, dig it out, you never know.
Why the hell do you kill two people
and bury them under an old body?
I just miss him so much.
I know.
Carol.
Yeah. Yeah.
Right.
The bodies underneath were male and female.
Both late teens to early 30s.
How old were the bones on top?
I've run some carbon analysis tests.
She's been dead 500 years.
She's 500 years old?
Died around 1500, give or take 15 years.
Where do you lay your hands on an ancient corpse?
You have to know where to look.
It's a she?
Oh, yes. Definitely female.
And the others were directly underneath, no to the side?
No. Right underneath,
but her jawbone was underneath them.
So it was her grave first,
she was dug up,
they were buried, her bones placed on top.
Any implements, artefacts found?
No.
Was the grave marked in any way or was it known to have existed?
No mark, no.
It seems that no-one knew about the grave locally.
Except the person who buried these two.
You mentioned a previous case.
Nearby...
10 years ago, a woman was stabbed
to death when walking her dog.
Where exactly?
Off this photo,
about half a mile the other side of this wood.
Her name was Linda Osbourne.
- Shallow grave? - No, just left in the field, on the attack place.
Ah, what sort of dog?
It was a Labrador. Do you want its colour?
- Not really. - It was golden.
The dog might have prevented the killer moving the body.
How did ours corps die?
There were rips in their clothing consistent with stab wounds.
We have a match from the clothing to a missing couple.
Richard Carter and Leanne Williams.
20 and 19. Both from Bradfield. Went missing in 1998.
A young Romeo and Juliet, parents didn't approve.
Conclusion was they had eloped together.
His car was found burnt out near Bradfield Railway Station.
- Anything other than clothing? - Yeah, this locket.
It's got both their initials on.
OK, we go and see the parents in the morning.
There's no need.
Leanne's mum's down in reception.
I had this feeling. Suddenly it went all cold.
I felt this presence.
I knew something was wrong
and then I saw the evening paper.
I just knew.
It is them, isn't it?
We need you to identify a locket for us.
Could you do that?
Yes.
Was that where they used to meet?
Wha...?
Leanne stopped telling me anything after my husband had a go.
He wasn't an easy man to disagree with.
And it was him who disapproved of Richard?
He was a racist,
and I'm glad he's dead.
- Any thoughts? - The motive wasn't robbery.
And if it was an attack by a jealous ex-lover, then
one would have had more injuries than the other.
Why take his car?
If it wasn't for the burial beneath the 500-year-old corpse,
I'd say we were looking at a frenzied, sexually motivated attack.
I'll need to see the burial site.
- Can it wait until tomorrow? - Please.
- It's been a long day, yeah. - Ooh, yes, very smart.
- Interview? - Funeral.
- Carol. - Sir?
What's this I hear about these bizarre burials?
No idea, sir.
Mrs. Draper.
Just a minute.
Norton Park Hotel,
- how can I help you? - Can I speak to Mrs. Draper, please?
Yes, of course. Mrs. Draper.
I'm sorry, she's gone out for the evening.
- Who shall I say called? - Her husband.
Thank you.
- Emily hit me. - No, he's lying.
Quiet! Come on, guys, please. Play upstairs.
- That was your fault. - No, it wasn't.
To the car park!
All over to the car park.
The car park!
Two people dead.
The fire started in the area of the bed.
Usually see this sort of thing with electric-blanket fires
but there aren't any in the hotel.
Their mattresses are all fire-resistant.
The speed of the spread suggests an accelerant has been used.
And the blokes who burned to death...
were in the room upstairs.
What happened to the person in this room?
A woman called Joanna Draper.
Unaccounted for.
She wasn't on the roll call of guests.
Her car's gone. No-one saw her leave.
Above floor level.
What about it?
There are eight basic motives for arson.
Fraud.
There's pyromania.
Crime concealment.
Vanity.
Revenge.
There's civil disorder, political
Oh, and kid's playing with matches.
I think in this case we can disregard the last three.
Anybody try and play the hero, saving people from a fire they started?
Yeah, yeah, the hotel owner?
He tried to get people out, was beaten back for tha flames.
- No-one else? - No.
What we've also got here's a total
and a deliberate targeting of the bed.
What does the bed mean?
Well, it depends what it represents.
Female arsonists tend to set fires closer to home...
and in daylight.
Their motives are more self-destructive, self-punishing -
"My room...my bed...
"my marriage?"
But I wouldn't discount fraud.
Surely it's connected to the bodies up by the wood.
We only found them yesterday.
Isn't this just a simple cover-up?
Where's the similarity in the underlying signature?
The threat here is to a building and a non-specific group of people...
But...
- Assistant Chief Constable... - I'm not making any comment.
I'm here solely to be briefed by the investigating officers.
My wife was in the building, I need to go through.
- Your name, please. - Mark Draper.
One second, sir, I'll get on the radio.
- JOANNA! - Mr. Draper, please!
JOANNA!
Oh, God.
Mr. Draper.
Mr. Draper, it's not your wife. Come this way, please.
We have no evidence to suggest your wife died in the fire, Mr. Draper.
We don't even think she was in the hotel, her car had gone.
Thank God!
We do need to trace her, though.
So do I.
That's when I came down when I heard the radio this morning.
She hadn't been returning my calls.
When did you last speak to her?
Three days ago.
Why was your wife staying in the hotel, Mr. Draper,
when you only live 30 miles away?
She's a journalist.
Sometimes when she's working on something she stays away from home.
What was she working on?
I have no idea.
Look, I don't see how this is relevant.
The fire was started in your wife's room.
- And you think...? - No, we don't think anything, Mr. Draper,
We just want to find her.
Was she different when she left?
Had you rowed?
No. She seemed all right.
Seemed?
Look, sometimes...she does get a bit down.
The day before she left wasn't particularly good.
Yes, we did, we did row.
By down, you mean depressed?
Kind of.
Post natal. When Emily was born.
But that was six years ago.
That's why she went back to work. We thought she was over it.
She wouldn't have done this.
Well, if she was out, she can't have done.
We need to find her so that we can eliminate her from the investigation.
Thank you, Mr. Draper, we'll be in touch.
Did you notice, in her room?
She hadn't taken any of her clothes or makeup.
So she was planning on coming back.
Or she had a breakdown.
Sometimes people like to leave their own life behind.
And then sit fire to it?!
But arson can be an attempt to
regain power or a feeling of success
in a life that's been spiralling out of control.
Usually it's the loss of love
or a job that precipitates an arson attack.
She might be fearing returning to work after
the loss of confidence having had a child.
Check if she had a history of drug abuse.
OK.
The bed might represent the place she gave birth to the child
and the resentment she felt.
A lot of arsonists used to wet the bed as children.
Could be the place she felt ridiculed.
Right, so we're looking for a bed-wetting arsonist.
- That's really useful, Tony. - That's only pyromaniacs.
Underlying frustration at their lack of control.
Fraudsters don't.
Revenge attackers don't. That's women, as well.
Or gay men.
So, whose funeral was it you went to?
A friend from the department.
He was 44.
- Brain tumour. - God, sorry.
There are some killers you just can't profile.
Joanna Draper. No previous convictions.
She freelances investigative articles
and sells them around the cheaper weeklies and monthlies.
From dodgy washing machines
to "Elvis Is My Cat".
She does have a history of dependency, not drugs, alcohol.
Could be...but it might not be her.
You walk into a normal scene of crime and there you have it,
everything laid out for you like a jigsaw.
But fire consumes, it destroys.
That's why people use it to disguise other motives.
Fraud, crime concealment, revenge.
Kevin,
anything on the husband?
Runs a small marketing company, register at home address.
They're both directors.
Find out how it's doing and how it was doing before they had kids.
OK, was this marriage falling apart?
Get into their phone records and their mobiles, particularly hers.
Had she started taking more money out?
If she was back on the booze, how was she funding it?
Why haven't we found her car?
Until Joanna is ruled out, she is very much ruled in.
Any more on Richard Carter or Leanne Williams?
Er, just thoughts, Carol.
The hotel owner, Mr. Roth, and his solicitor are here.
OK, come on, Kev.
Don, Linda Osbourne's body,
any scene-of-crime photos?
So, put Linda on the map for me.
I think she was there.
So, the way Linda was found was this.
Well...
Maybe she was moved.
Not buried but moved.
Richard and Leanne.
Yeah.
All facing the same direction.
Where was the skull of the 500-year-old body?
Up by their heads.
All north.
Are you thinking they're connected?
I don't know what I think.
- You're insured, aren't you, Mr. Roth? - Yes, of course, I am.
- And how's business been? - Could always have been better.
Do you know anyone who might have a grudge against you?
No, I don't.
OK, I'll need to see your accounts for the last three years
and I'd also like to access your bank details.
- For what reason? - I'd have thought the deaths
of two innocent people were enough.
I'd also like to see your fire certificates.
You believe I would kill my own guests?
It's the woman in room 115 that you should be speaking to, not me.
Yeah, we will when we find her.
It's a conscious act.
You know what you're doing.
Why are you doing it?
You kill, you dig, you remove.
Then you...bury...
and then...
North.
And she's 500 years old.
North.
Carol Jordan.
Don.
Right, get Vernon down there.
I'll be there as soon as I can.
Sorry.
Oh, yes, Doctor Hill, hello, yes, sorry.
- The same arrangement? - It appears so.
About 15ft from the other bodies.
What the hell is going on here?
Again, ancient human remains reburied above a recent victim.
Died within the last four years.
Size of the forehead suggests he's male.
Angle of the jaw indicates middle-aged.
Could the older remains have been buried in a different direction
and could originally have been faced west?
All the bones we've found are consistent
with this being the original line of burial.
The same as the bones buried underneath.
What difference does that make?
The ritual of burial 500 years ago,
everyone was buried facing west.
It was called the Direction of Last Things.
To be buried facing north means you were denied a Christian burial.
Yeah, but how would a killer today even know this was a burial site?
- There's no record of it. - Exactly.
How would they know that?
Any chance of finding out how the older victims died?
Might be possible.
But they can't be copycat killings.
How would they know what to copy?
I don't know, but somehow they obtained knowledge
of deaths centuries ago that are unrecorded.
Well, that's impossible...
isn't it?
Five bodies, six if we include Linda Osbourne, 500 years apart.
Same burial technique, same location.
(Location, location...)
Well, what we have here couldn't have happened.
- Ah, Dr. Markham. - Thank you.
In everything we do,
we have our hinterlands.
Conscious or unconscious, we only go so far.
It's not that we're scared, we just act out of habit.
We never go beyond where it's comfortable, do it?
I don't know.
It's the same with killers.
I live here. This is my perimeter.
I don't go here.
We stay where we know, inside our boundaries, our hinterland.
But what's this got to do with the bodies?
Why couldn't this happen?
The dumpsite is usually at the edge of the hinterland.
If Linda Osbourne is one of our victims,
then this is the dumpsite And the killing ground.
People kill in environments they know. It's someone local.
Yes, but it's the same hinterland that someone had 500 years ago.
Same location, burial and, I believe, method of death.
It's as if the same person killed these people 500 years apart.
- That's impossible. - Yes, I know that.
But it's like they died and have come back to kill again.
Good afternoon, Jenny.
Are you going to lunch, Mr. Hill?
Mm? No. Do you have maps?
Of course, when for?
Can I photocopy this?
No, but I can sell you a copy.
Thank you.
Well, what have you got for us today, Inspector?
Has the woman from 115 materialised?
Or did you just want to treat us to more of your delightful company?
As requested...
Interviewing John Roth with solicitor G. Markham
in the presence of DI Carol Jordan, DS Don Merrick.
The time is 12:30.
OK, we've learned that last week you increased
the sum your hotel was insured for to £1,250,000.
That's a sudden increase of £500,000.
In line with the rise of property.
Had I stayed at the old values, I would have been under-insured.
Do you know Joanna Draper?
No, I don't.
Did you know that she suffered from depression?
No.
Did you ask her to burn your hotel down?
That's absurd.
Any chance of a...
window being opened?
I don't know how it happened.
Maybe it's haunted.
Somebody from beyond the grave.
Or a curse.
Perhaps we incurred God's displeasure.
And he sent flames to engulf us.
It wasn't me!
Why would I go to the bother of extending my hotel
just to have it burned to the ground?
Mr. Roth, you stand to gain at least £500,000
as a result of this fire
and I think that is possible you realised that no-one would want to stay in a hotel
where human remains littered the grounds.
- And having met Joanna Draper... - ... you decided to use her.
You set fire to her room knowing that she'd be blamed.
Mr. Roth.
Mr. Roth, are you all right?
Perhaps we should suspend the interview.
Oh, my God!
Don, get ambulance.
get him on the floor.
Could you just step back now, please?
- Thank yoi. - Do you know what happened?
He's been out for six and a half minutes.
- Can you open your eyes? - I can't get a pulse.
He just keeled over.
Charging to 200.
Stand clear. Shocking.
Again. Shocking.
Charging to 300. Stand clear. Shocking.
Congratulations, Detective Inspector.
My office, one hour.
Mrs. Joanna Draper.
I don't want excuses, Detective Inspector.
I'm not giving you anything. I'm offering to go on leave, sir.
That's not up to you decide.
I want to know how these inquiries have turned into such disasters.
There are no explanations, sir.
Then you'd better find some.
How do we find human remains
at a place that goes up in flames that same night?
How did one suspect go missing,
and the other die under your questioning?
How is it we find three murder victims
buried beneath human remains that are over 500 years old?
We don't know, sir.
Then tell me what we're thinking, Carol.
I have to give answers to people who are asking questions of me.
The latest rumour is we've called in some mediums.
- That's rubbish, sir. - Good.
Tell me something that isn't.
Well, the chief suspect for the fire, Joanna Draper,
is missing, but we've found her car.
What bout the murders?
Well...
Dr. Hill says that we should consider the possibility that
the same killer has...
in some way been killing for 500 years.
Paula, where's Carol?
In with Brandon.
Me and my big gob.
Carol.
There'll be an inquiry.
I'll be lucky if I'm suspended on full pay.
The interview's on tape, it'll show you did nothing wrong.
He's dead, Tony.
Do you have any godchildren?
No.
Ironic, really,
that I've just agreed to be the spiritual guardian of a newborn soul.
You know right from wrong, Carol.
Do I? Then how come my life's such a mess?
Why are you here, anyway?
I don't believe Joanna Draper started the hotel fire.
Tony, I really have to move beyond theories now.
The size of the fire and threat to life doesn't fit with Joanna Draper personality.
If she had developed pyromania
and started a fire, it would have been in her house.
Not a hotel. She was depressed, Carol.
It would have been a cry for help.
The arson equivalent of an aspirin overdose.
It's lethal, yes, but not to other people.
Not spraying accelerant and causing the deaths of innocent people.
- What sort of personality does that? - I don't know.
I'm certain the mode of operating here is concealment of another act.
- Which is? - The murder of Joanna Draper.
So why didn't we find her body at the hotel?
Because it was removed.
Where are the things from Joanna Draper's car?
The laptop's with the engineers,
some is with Forensic, the rest is here.
This was placed inside the Bible.
Where did you get this?
In the woods, near the hotel, where the bodies were found.
This links Joanna Draper to that site.
These carvings also appear in the ruins of Norton Priory.
On four pillars. It's the same in the wood.
One carving for each tree, each tree forms a corner of a prefect rectangle.
There's even a log with daffodils.
- So? - It's an altar.
Somebody's building their own church.
And filling their own graveyard?
- I think it's darker than that. - How dark can you get?
I don't know, exactly.
That's great that is! That's fantastic.
Is that what I tell Brandon and the press?
That what we have here are dark and evil forces.
Surely, if we've linked Draper to the site, it could be her.
Maybe she started the fire and killed Richard and Leanne?
Check the Linda Osbourne files.
I'm sure there's a reference to fire.
These are ritual killings, Carol.
Location, burial, death.
All done with significance and, for some reason, linked back 500 years.
I think Joanna Draper's our latest victim.
- You are impossible boy. - No, I didn't not!
I'm not going to play with you again!
Let's go and play in the garden.
But only this once. I'll never trust you again.
Daddy!
It's a different killer from the 500-year-old case.
- It must be a copycat. - No, it isn't.
Copycats killers involve imitatin of modus operandi
perpetrate with a different motivation. Here...
- the motivation it's the same. - It can't be the same killer, Tony!
No, but it can be the same ritual, Carol, spanning over 500 years.
In all rituals, everything means something,
weddings, funerals, even christenings.
Or sacrifice.
How many peoples ar involve?
I have no idea, Carol.
I just know these are ritual killings.
We've got an ID on our unknown victim.
Teeth and skull are a perfect match. William Shaw, aged 45.
Went missing at the end of 2000.
Three days after he went missing,
his house was burnt out.
One of his children died.
Did you find any reference to fire in the Linda Osbourne files?
Yeah.
We originally thought it was a robbery, her purse went.
The photos of her children were found, burnt, near her body.
They're targeting children with fire.
Get Kev and Paula over to the Drapers' as quickly as you can.
When's Mummy coming back, Daddy?
I don't know.
I miss her.
Shit.
Mark, are you there? It's DS Jeffries.
- I'm going in. - I'll get the Fire Brigade.
(It's all right.)
You're OK, it's all right.
Yaeh, she's all right.
Thank God.
Listen, get the family checked out at the hospital, I'll arrange for a safe house.
Carol.
Joanna Draper was a victim.
I think I know where's she's buried.
Where?
We have here is an imperative to dispose of the bodies around the hotel site,
and in any serials of killings
the location of the first victim is usually significant.
On all the original maps dating back 500 years,
one thing remains constant,
a line...
passes through this property.
And all the bodies are found on one side of it.
The parish boundary.
- What does that mean? - Well, not a lot today,
but this site wasn't chosen today, it was chosen 500 years ago,
and 500 years ago, this boundary was everything.
Social, political, religious.
We are dealing with ritual killings with the mindset based 500 years ago
and Joanna Draper is buried somewhere along this boundary.
What are you...?
- You're not Catholic, are you? - No.
So, what's the point in being here?
I know it's in the parish but this church wasn't around 500 years ago.
Yeah, but William Shaw was part of the congregation.
Not a regular but he came often enough.
No regular it came enough. His child's funeral was here.
Excuse me, we're from Bradfield CID.
We're looking for Father Peter.
He's away.
Do you know where we can contact him?
You can't, he's on retreat.
Back the day after tomorrow if it can wait.
Thanks.
You were right.
I found blade marks on both the earlier skeletons
but they're different to our modern victims.
Unidentified male has again been repeatedly stabbed
but the early skeletons are more interesting.
Different injuries?
On both, several ribs were broken.
Heavy impact, large blade.
- Could it be a sword? - Yes, it could be.
Everybody get up there. We've found it.
Call Forensics, get DI Jordan here now.
Pointing north.
It's Joanna Draper.
Looks like multiple stab wounds.
Why?
May the voices of St. Catherine and St. Michael
guide you in your task
as they guided our beloved saint.
Amen.
ALL: Amen.
We want to keep you under police protection, Mark.
It might not be safe for you or your children.
What have we done?
Why us?
I'll need you to come in for a formal identification of her effects tomorrow.
I want to see her.
- That won't be possible, I'm afraid. - It's all right.
I think your dad needs to see you.
- Daddy. - (Oh, God!)
(Oh, God!)
I can't cope with this, let's go, please.
Is this her, your Goddaughter?
Yep.
Once we were all that innocent.
What sort of people would do this?
I mean,
how do you burn children, having already killed their fathers or mothers?
How do you set fire to a hotel and not feel anything?
Because you're following strict patterns and rules.
They're evil bastards, Tony. It's not human.
Well, unfortunately, Carol, that's exactly what it is.
What I don't understand is what the ritual is.
Why these people?
We know how they die and are disposed off, but not why.
Your head says it's a groupof people,
but where's the evidence of ceremonial death?
There's plenty of ceremonial burial.
If the killing was ceremonial or sacrificial it would be one big blow.
Dismemberment. Here we have a single frenzied attack.
They died where they met their killer and that just doesn't make sense.
You drive!
Ignore me.
- Home? - Yeah.
This is a compliment, I can't do this with anyone else.
Norton Witch.
Witch.
Witchcraft.
Somebody's out there, Carol. Somebody's doing this.
A person.
People don't suffer multiple stab wounds out of thin air.
I'm just telling me what we have, sir. Where the evidence leads.
Exploring ritual killings is that gave us Joanna Draper's body.
We're following her movements.
We're onto something but what that will prove to be we've no idea.
- We definitly are something. - I hope so.
I was considering sugesting
that you put in for Detective Chief Inspector.
But I think we should just wait and see.
Kate? What are you doing back?
I figured the quicker I got back, the quicker I might start to cope.
I'd like to take you up on your offer.
Coming over to talk.
I came round last night but you were out.
Yeah, I stayed out, yeah.
Well, when would be a good time for you?
Me, I've got all the time in the world.
- Tony. - Kate, can I call you later?
Just say it's not convenient, Tony. It's easier that way.
- Kate, I... - What's up with her?
Her husband died.
Where are we going?
Why the bloody hell have you brought me to the museum?
I knew you wouldn't come if I told you.
What I want you to remember is that with any chain of killings,
the psychology of the killer is always at its purest with the first victim. OK.
OK.
Variations may occur but essentially that is where the template is set.
OK, so we're here to research Linda Osbourne?
No, the woman who was killed 500 years ago.
- The witch. - The witch?!
You're not serious?
Why do you think they were called the burning times?
Now, what we have is a skeleton of a female who was killed during those times.
- Henry. - Tony.
- This is DI Carol Jordan. - How do you do?
Hello.
She wasn't burnt, she was killed with a sword.
She was buried like a witch.
Right, so Leanne and Richard
and Linda Osbourne were all witches?
I didn't say that.
I said our original victim was killed for being a witch.
After their trials, witches were always disposed of outside the parish,
never in consecrated ground.
The idea was that they should never be able to rest in peace.
Their souls had to stay in limbo which was thought of
as a kind of periphery of hell. And we had witches in Norton?
Allegedly, there was a trial of two women.
There are several versions of the story.
In some, they were hung,
- in others, they were burnt. - Nothing about a sword?
Not as far as I'm aware, no.
But one part of the story is always consistent.
If one of their bodies was ever found,
the result would be a ball of fire,
usually from the burning of another witch.
- It doesn't prove anything, you know. - No.
But if they were killed for witchcraft
how does that tie with our victims?
The ferocity of the attack means there was more than just mistrust.
I know.
And the fires, why are they targeting children?
I think that's an act of purification.
These things were seen as contagious.
Why stop at the mother when she could have passed it on to the children?
Who could be doing this?
500 years ago, it was the church.
I'm afraid whichever way you look at the motive, these are religious killings.
You know, if Brandon finds out that I've asked you to explore this, I'll deny it.
- Do you understand that? - Yep.
OK, explore it.
What religion was she?
Church of England.
Was she practising or was that just what she said on her passport?
We weren't churchgoers, if that's what you mean.
- You got married in church? - Yes, we did.
And you had your children baptised?
Yes.
How do you explain the brand-new Bible in the back of the car?
I don't know.
Had she been exploring any religion?
No, I don't think so.
Did she believe in God?
I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance.
I just need as big a picture of Joanna as you can give me.
No, I don't think she did believe in God.
Well, I'm hoping she's being proved wrong right now.
Do you know what she was working on?
No.
Was there anything in Joanna's life
who or where that could have got her killed?
No, nothing.
What hand do you write with?
- Me? - Yeah.
My right. Why?
You don't have to lie, Mark.
I'm trying to find your wife's killer.
I-I-I'm not lying.
Right-handed people who look to the left when answering are remembering the truth,
those who look to the right before answer the question are creating information .
So, you're opening or closing the body.
You do it subconsciously.
Why was there a Bible in her car?
What was she working on that put her in danger?
I don't know.
Mark, is there something you're not telling us?
Why wouldn't I do that?
My wife is dead.
Why would I hold anything back?
Because, sometimes we avoid confronting things we're afraid of.
Let's say I was in your position and I knew something.
Something small, might be relevant, might be nothing, but it's something...
... and I don't know if it's important or not
but I'm afraid it might be and I'm afraid that if I tell anyone,
it might bring on what I'm most afraid of.
You can understand, that could you?
Afraid of whoever killed Joanna might come back here and finish what they started.
It was a priest.
What was?
Who she was meeting.
He was helping her with her story.
What was the story about?
- What about his name? - That's all.
And that's what you were afraid of?
Nothing's going to happen, Mark.
- Detective Inspector. - Er, no.
The Bishop's office said you'd like to see the archive.
- Please. - Thank you.
People seem to be obsessed with the Norton Witches.
The abbey was French, I believe.
Run by monks from Rheims and Burgundy.
There's nothing, I'm sorry.
We thought you'd have details of the trial.
Only if it took place within the Ecclesiastical Court's jurisdiction.
Inquisitions and witches' trials were in the civil court,
beyond our jurisdiction.
But I thought the Church are central to these trials?
We are responsible for the belief of community
but it was the people who tried the witches and heretics.
Of course.
Heretics.
Yes, maybe they're mentioned in the correspondence of the time.
Although, of course, after the split of 1431,
the records are largely incomplete.
It's highly likely that the splinter group presided over the trial.
Where would they have been based?
Nowhere. They became a secret religion.
What happened in 1431 that caused the split?
The execution of Joan of Arc,
driven by the voice of God to defeat the English.
It split France as it split the abbey.
Those who supported the English stayed,
those who believed in Joan, that she really had heard the voice of God,
and was not a witch or a heretic, went underground.
All the symbolism is about St. Joan,
killing with the sword,
burning and cleansing the heretic.
That's what our victims were killed for, acts of heresy, not witchcraft.
Tried and killed in secrecy for not believing.
Switch on the news every night.
How many people are killed in the name of religion?
It's happening all over the world.
People persecuted for their beliefs retreat in to himselfs
and eventually become intolerant and intransigent sects.
And anyone who opposes the doctrines or principles of that sect
pay with their lives.
And you think this religion still exists?
Why not? Other religions have lasted far longer.
OK. Let's suppose you're right
and what we have here is an underground religion who by nature are secret.
How do we find out who they are?
Richard and Leanne's parents thought they'd eloped.
Had they contacted a vicar?
Did any of them go to church?
If so, which churches did they go to?
We're looking for religious connections to our victims. Any line of inquire.
Mark Draper used the word "priest".
Vicars are Church of England. Priests are Catholic!
The Church of England didn't exist 500 years ago.
Norton Abbey was Catholic. It's a Catholic parish boundary.
William Shaw went to the Catholic church in Renton.
The priest there is on retreat until tomorrow.
Well, that's what we were told.
- He's not here. - Carol.
We need Father Peter's address.
Yes, yes, all right.
Cleanse him.
Careful, Don.
Wait!
Get some people over to the parish boundary,
they may be trying to bury him.
It's him, isn't it?
He's the victim.
Yeah.
So, when did Joan of Arc do this, then?
She was a saint, he was a priest, what was his heresy?
I don't think so, Tony.
I still believe in everything I've said, Carol.
You're right about the ritual but this is just slaughter.
Have they found the body?
- No. - A priest! Is nothing sacred?
What was his heresy?
What did he do to offend their beliefs?
He helped Joanna Draper.
We believe she was near the truth.
Linda Osbourne was the only body that hadn't been buried
and Joanna stayed at the hotel to be close to where Linda's body was left.
It was the story Joanna was investigating
and we know she met Father Peter.
They both died because of it.
Why kill him so long after meeting Joanna?
Because he wasn't around to be killed.
He was on retreat.
How do you identify a group of people who share the same idea?
Well, without betrayal, you can't.
So this could go on indefinitely?
Well, it depends how well organised they are.
What's odd here is that sect murders
are usually of the people within the group,
not outsiders.
And when they do, usually, it's mass murder. It's 10, 20, 50.
What do they care? The cause is just.
Here there's a lot of anger.
Lots of ceremony after the event but an absence of it during the assault.
Killing a heretic should be ceremonial.
You are dispensing God's justice.
And you're sure that the motivation is a ritual religious killing?
- 100 per cent. - Come in.
They've found Father Peter's body.
- On the parish boundary? - Facing north.
So far I've counted over 50 stab wounds.
50?
More than twice the other victims.
OK, what we go from here, what haven't we tried?
Is there a particular concentration of wounds?
No, they're all over the body.
I suppose we should be grateful that priests don't have children.
Why is there so much anger?
Everything else fits...
... except the anger.
What are you doing?
Starting again.
Linda Osbourne. Walking her dog.
Heretics. Sword. Burial.
Burial again. Stabbed. North. Stabbed. Anger. Anger. Anger.
William Shaw. Richard Carter. Leanne Williams. Car Fire. Fire. Fire.
Reburied. Stabbed. Hotel. Joanna. Children. Father Peter.
Anger. Boundary. Knife. Anger. Fire.
Ceremony. Joan of Arc. Voices. Anger.
Knife. Knife. Calm. Stab.
Fire. Fire. Linda. Ritual. Richard. Leanne.
Joanne. Ritual. Father Peter. Knife.
They use a knife, not a sword.
The sword is ritual, the knife is murder.
Why didn't I see it before?
They were both present - one at the killing, one at the burial.
Two people?
No, not two people, one person.
- Two personalities. - Schizophrenic.
Delusional schizophrenia.
The wood, the carvings, the church.
The working habitat of one person.
Even the altar with the daffodils. It's domestic.
But the arch.
I don't know about the arch.
What arch?
In the wood. It had been cut.
Abbeys.
Sacred journey for the dead but only those who believe.
- The ritual. - Yes, the ritual.
The belief structure's there. The ritual is carry out.
The reasoning, the heresy, the execution, the burial and the cleansing.
All committed in line with the ritual of the religion of 1431
except it no longer exists, except in our killer's head.
They tried heretics. They killed them with a sword.
They buried and reburied them.
Kept them in limbo, that's why the soil in the skull was compacted.
They'd been left for 400 years.
And then somebody comes along.
Somebody who knows about the split,
Someone who identifies with St. Joan.
Someone who thinks they have a sword but actually uses a knife.
So these heresies weren't a sin against God,
- they were a sin against the killer? - Yes!
Probably nothing more than trespassing on the sacred site.
Maybe Linda's dog peed on the altar.
Richard and Leanne might have had sex in the church. We won't know,
but what they saw was Joanna Draper interested in the site.
Asking questions
Delusional paranoia conjures up all sorts of conspiracies theories.
But what had Father Peter done wrong?
Most common delusion?
Perceiving a relationship that doesn't exist.
- Like stalking? - Yes, Don.
He hadn't done anything.
Friendship, love, work, marriage.
Our killer bilieve Father Peter was part of their delusion
and having been seen talking to Joanna Draper,
having betrayed them in their eyes, he just had to die.
Who are we looking for? A man? A woman?
Well, this person identifies with St. Joan.
Woman.
Linda Osbourne was killed 10 years ago.
Delusional onset is usually in late teens, early 20s
so she'll be in her late 20s to mid 30s.
She'll be known as odd.
She won't have many friends.
A loner. She'll live a Spartan existence.
She sees herself as a disciple.
She'll display inappropriate behaviour.
Imaginary conversations.
Her history of mental illness will be well documented
but she won't be a model patient.
Argumentative and probably prone to self-harm
and highly intelligent, but you'll never know
because when you catch her she won't speak.
She'll live locally to the wood.
A walk or a bus ride away. She won't want to be far away.
It's the centre of her world.
OK, concentrate on patients from Renton and Norton.
GPs should have a record of psychiatric cases.
Exercise caution when approaching her
because as we know this woman is extremely dangerous.
Does anyone want a tea?
Lyndsey McCoy?
Hi, I'm looking for Sarah Bailey.
This is it. In here.
Ma'am.
Don, it's her.
Her name is Isobel Lomas.
She's 34 years old.
Academically bright.
Had a place at university but her performances tailed off.
No job.
Tried to commit suicide four times.
Was admitted to hospital once.
She...tried to push... the end of an arrow into her breast.
Same injury Joan of Arc received in battle.
We've checked her home, there's no sign of her.
She'll try for the Draper children.
I'm on my way.
No, we haven't seen anybody.
Yaeh. Everyone's accounted for. Doors and windows are locked.
Shit!
Listen, everyone. I need you all outside now.
- What's going on? - Just get Simon and get out.
- Simon. SIMON! - Daddy.
SIMON!
Listen, stay there. All right. Good girl.
- Come on, Simon. Out. - Don,
- Simon! Open the door! - we need a fire engine.
She's here and she's torched the garden.
Simon, what are you doing. Simon, open the door.
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Simon!
Come on! Simon, open the door.
Simon!
When do I cleanse him?
Who are you talking to?
I could stone him.
I think he prefers the torch.
- There's someone in there. - Petrol.
- She's got Simon in the bathroom. - What does she want?
We haven't engaged with her yet but we can smell petrol.
Pass me the torch.
Carol, she's delusional. She thinks she's a martyr.
You can't negotiate.
Simon!
Please be seated.
Will the parents and godparents please step forward?
- Do you reject Satan? - I do.
- And all his works? - I do.
- And all his empty promises? - I do.
Do you believe in God Almighty, the Father,
the creator of heaven and earth?
I do.
Repeat after me,
"I renounce all evil."
I renounce all evil.
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