Episode One - Sunday 28 August at 9.30pm on 主播大秀 ONE
A young woman, Isabel Price, lays down her bracelet and climbs onto
a ledge. A cityscape of London spreads out in front of her.
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She takes short, terrified breaths as she turns her head, looks and
then falls into the stillness of the day.
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Three weeks later. The quiet of a suburban London street at night is
fractured by the sound of Jack Price, Isabel's father, hammering on
the front door of his own home.
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Inside, his son Daniel comforts his sister Jacqueline whilst his wife,
Rachel, tries to blot out Jack's drunken, anguished cries and reaches
for the phone.
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DCI Red Metcalfe takes the call from Rachel as he and DI Duncan Warren
are leaving the station.
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Jack and Rachel Price are colleagues of Red's - Rachel is the police
pathologist, Jack a Detective Sergeant. Red tells Rachel he's on his
way over.
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Red arrives at the Prices' to find Jack, emotionally spent, slumped
on the doorstep. As he reaches out for Red's help, all Jack can utter
is the question that has haunted him for weeks - "Why did Izzy
do it, Red?"
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Having reassured Rachel and Daniel that he will take care of Jack and
get him on duty at the station the following day, Red drives Jack away
from his family, torn apart by grief.
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A landfill site. The air is full of the cries of gulls. Duncan Warren
and new team member DS Vickie Clarke walk towards an abandoned van.
The door is locked, the windows dark and the sound of angry buzzing
comes from inside.
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Red joins Duncan and Vickie to discover that their first victim is
a young woman, Catherine McArdle.
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They find her in the front seat, her hands gaffer-taped to the steering
wheel, knee-deep in writhing maggots and her face and neck swollen with
stings from the hundreds of bees that filled the van.
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A piece of gaffer tape hangs from her mouth and her wrists have been
slashed. On the windscreen Duncan sees SAVE ME written in blood.
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Catherine was a student at the University of London, the university
that Rachel's daughter Isabel attended. Red tries to deter Rachel from
dealing with this case, fearing it will remind her of the death of her
daughter.
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But Rachel's professionalism allows her to separate the two cases
in her mind. Not so her husband Jack, who is still tormented by his
daughter's death and who becomes obsessed that she was the killer's
first victim - despite clear and incontrovertible evidence that she
committed suicide.
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Jack's grief is wrecking his life and impeding Red's investigation.
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The car Catherine was found in leads them to a terminally ill woman
in a hospice - Claire Fullerton. They find her lying dead, pumped full
of morphine.
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SAVE ME is written in blood on the curtains round her bed. In Claire
Fullerton's room, Red finds a video: it shows two women gagged and bound
in the back of a van.
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As the team desperately try to find the van and save the two women,
Rachel, Jack and Daniel Price attend the inquest into Isabel's death.
Jack gets violent and has to be thrown out of the court when the Coroner
delivers the verdict of suicide.
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Red's team find the women from the video hanging from a railway arch,
joined together by meat hooks. A man's ring has been placed on one of
their fingers. Inside the van, scrawled in blood, are the words SAVE
ME.
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