Why do you think he didn't want to this time, Louise? I don't know.
Do you remember what he said?
'Bugger off, Louise.'
It was an excuse to get rid of her. What we also know
is that Dylan never went into the chip shop. CCTV confirms that.
So he had plans other than going in the chip shop
and he had to shake Louise off first.
At the minute, Louise is the last person we know spoke to him.
The last sighting is the CCTV from Netherfield Road
that you've seen so much of on the news.
So he was walking away from his home and back towards Wynthenshawe.
So where he was going and who he was gonna meet
is the $64 million question.
I am convinced it's someone he spoke to at that arcade,
during those nine hours.
Obviously, you're talking to this Michael Nash, the arcade manager?
Oh, are we talking to Michael Nash!
I've had him in twice with one of the tier threes.
She's downstairs again with him now.
I wish that I'd taken him to the door. Both of them.
I would have normally... only he were insisting on going buying chips.
So... Normally...
what do you mean, 'normally', Michael?
Have you driven Dylan home before?
I know his mother.
The thing is, I know that he's not old enough to be in the arcade
and I know that he should be in school...
but I'd rather he was there where I could keep an eye on him.
And what about this registered sex offender?
Ryan Varney, 22 years old, small-time low-life dickhead.
Mental age of a banana.
Convicted of having sex with a 12-year-old girl five years ago.
We know he spent a lot of time with Dylan that day.
He took photos of him on his phone, messing about in the arcade,
and he gave him money for pop and crisps.
I've had him in twice, as well, with another tier three
and she's asked him back in today.
There's an eight-year-old boy missing...
who, on the day that he went missing,
you gave money to and you filmed on your phone.
In an arcade that he wasn't old enough to be in.
On a day that he was meant to be in school.
We've got half of the Manchester Metropolitan Police Force
out looking for this kid.
It's really important, Ryan, that you try and tell me the truth.
Do you understand that?
And what're you thinking?
I'm thinking that out of the 120-plus people we've TIE-d,
one of these two knows significantly more than they're telling us at the moment.
Nash was the last adult to speak to Dylan
and Varney has this child sex offence.
Beyond that, it's an instinct.
I'm just unhappy about the pair of them.
And we're thinking the boy's dead?
Statistically, historically, yeah.
I've got 30 officers doing house-to-house.
I've got 20 dedicated search officers.
Based on advice from POLSA and CATCHEM,
we're moving out in concentric half-mile circles
from the point of the last sighting on Netherfield Road.
What I'd like to do, Gill... Given the nature of the inquiry...
this is no reflection on the job you're doing...
I'd like to bring the review team in sooner rather than later.
Think of it as a support, too, in this instance.
Is Mandy Saunders back off maternity, then?
No. Uh, no. You'll be working with your ex-husband.
I assume you haven't got a problem with that?
No, sir. Thanks for asking.
I'd rather he was there in the arcade where I know he's safe
than wandering the streets which is what he'd do.
At least then I can say, hand on heart, I was trying to keep an eye on him.
How long have you known Dawn, Michael?
Five or six months.
Is something the matter, only you seem a little bit embarrassed?
I...
OK, well, I've been seeing her. Dawn.
You mean you've been having a relationship with her?
Yeah. What sort of relationship? A sexual relationship?
Yeah, yeah. Sort of, yeah.
But, obviously, my wife doesn't know.
It's OK, Michael, we're not sat here judging you.
We just want to know where Dylan is and what's happened to him.
Sweet kid.
I just want to help her and be doing something for her.
OK. I'd like to take you back to that Monday night again,
if that's all right with you, Michael?
After you dropped Dylan off.
But, before I do, when you said just now, 'sweet kid, '
who were you referring to?
Well, Dawn.
But, yeah, he's a sweet kid and all.
So what we know now, Ryan, is that when you told us
that you went to McDonald's after you left the arcade...
what we know now is that, in fact, you didn't.
Because we've got CCTV from inside and outside of McDonald's on Campbell Street...
and you're not in there at all.
At any point during the evening.
Did I say the one on Campbell's Street, McDonald's?
Cos it might have been that other one.
By Tesco's.
I don't normally go in that other one but I do sometimes.
OK, but you told me...
that when you ordered your meal, you went and sat on the left-hand-side
by the window and, opposite, you could see people standing at a bus stop, yeah?
Do you remember telling me that? Yeah.
Did I?
Mm, Well, you wouldn't have sat on the left-hand-side
at the one near Tesco's, would you?
Because there's no seating down the left-hand-side
when you're facing away from the counter.
And you couldn't have seen anybody stood at any bus stops, could you?
At the one near Tesco's? Cos it's in, like, a...
like a shopping, industrial estate type of area, isn't it?
All you'd have seen is a car park.
Yeah, yeah... I must have been in that first one, then.
No, Ryan.
That's the point. You weren't.
Yeah, well, I must have got me days... mixed up, then.
Right. This Monday night, this last Monday night...
That is what I normally do do. I come home from the arcade,