Silent Witness
Season 15
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Silent Witness S15E01
Part 1
Sept. 3, 2021, 7:11 p.m.
OK. We have a deceased, as yet unidentified female through there.
Looks like she's been stabbed to death.
Now, we've secured this floor but not the next.
So confine your work to down here only.
A-a-agh! A-a-a-a-a-agh!
A-agh! A-agh! A-a-agh! A-a-a-agh!
"And Death Shall Have No Dominion
"Dead men naked they shall be one
"With the man in the wind and the west moon
"When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone
"They shall have stars at elbow and foot
"Though they go mad they shall be sane
"Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again
"Though lovers be lost love shall not
"And death shall have no dominion."
Right, it's time to go, girls. -Coming, Dad!
Right, we're off, Lizzie. Back in about an hour or so, yeah?
Bye, Mum.
"And death shall have no dominion
"Under the windings of the sea
"They lying long shall not die windily
"Twisting on racks when sinews give way
"Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break..."
See you.
"Faith in their hands shall snap in two
"And the unicorn evils run them through..."
"Split all ends up
"they shan't crack
"And death shall have no dominion."
"And death shall have no dominion
"No more may gulls cry at their ears
"Or waves break loud on the seashores
"Where blew a flower may a flower no more
"lift its head to the blows of the rain
"Though they be mad and dead as nails
"Heads of the characters hammer through daisies
"Break in the sun till the sun breaks down
"And death shall have no dominion."
Do it. Do it.
It's lovely to see you, Derek.
Funny Leo didn't turn up. -Actually it's not. He texted me.
Texted you?
Yeah. Uh, Lizzie Fraser committed suicide this afternoon.
The police are going to pay for this.
I mean it.
Work.
Things were OK with your father, weren't they? Last couple of years.
They were OK.
DS Charlie Winter.
Detective Inspector Connie James. Nice to meet you, Charlie.
So you're heading this one up, are you?
No, I just happened to be passing by a major crime scene.
Thought I'd look in.
I'm up here, by the way.
Lead on, DS Winter, please.
Oh, thanks.
DI Connie James.
I'm Harry Cunningham, pathologist. This is Professor Leo Dalton.
Hi.
His bus pass and Game loyalty card identify him as Luke Francis.
Who would do this?
Who would do this?
For what it's worth the till's empty,
as is the safe below the counter, apart from a few deposit slips.
Don't tell me in all this he didn't leave his DNA.
Those wounds to his chest. They're too shallow
to have left all this blood.
Is that a question?
He was found with a bag over his head
and there were signs of petechial haemorrhaging in his eyes.
So COD was asphyxia?
If we establish cause of death, it'll be at the postmortem.
In the mortuary.
So where'd all this blood come from?
There was another body recovered in the house with substantial injuries.
Mick Francis, the homeowner.
Looks like he was handcuffed to that pipe but managed to break free.
And the missing piece? -There.
How'd it get all the way over there?
You can see all these circular lacerations on the wrist.
And these paint chips round the cuffs look like they're the same colour as the pipe from the shop.
So he managed to free himself, then? -Maybe. Temporarily.
Is that the emblem of the SAS? -I believe it is.
Doesn't really go with the earring and the Easy Rider poster, does it?
So where'd the fire start?
Up here.
Do we have an ID?
Jessie Francis, apparently.
Daughter of Mick Francis, the guy on the stairs
and, er, mother of...
Luke, the boy.
Christ.
She was raped, wasn't she?
She was partially clothed when she was set on fire
but sexual assault may be hard to prove.
Thank you.
Sorry, just need some air.
I almost envy her.
The baby? -Her shock.
Ever since Dad, I feel... I don't even want to say it.
Numb.
How we handle pain, I suppose.
What if we never get it back again?
He was your dad.
Perhaps the death of strangers just won't register for a while.
Frightening thought.
Perhaps I'm not meant to do this job forever.
All right? -Yeah.
Sort of.
It is a bad one.
And they've entrusted it to a humble DI who's six months along.
Do you want to do it? -That's irrelevant.
Is it?
Yeah. By chucking out time, I'll have been bumped for some ambitious Chief Super.
But do you want to do it?
Yeah, I do.
All right.
All right, guys. We're almost certainly looking for someone
with previous for sex crimes, even if it's just window peeping.
Jessie Francis was the target here,
her father and her son were collateral damage.
Jessie had a travel pass but no driving licence
so it looked like she and her son came by bus.
Which bus? Where from? Any witnesses see them get off?
Anybody get off at the same time? Erm...
Check with the bus company right now.
They might be scrubbing the CCTV footage as we speak.
We need to go and speak to Jessie's mum.
Silent Witness
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