606-8 will be posted when I've written them...
Right, so we start off in London, supposedly in September 1992. Hey, WTD people, here’s an idea: if your caption says 1992, how about not using shots of London with (to pick just one example) THE LONDON EYE in them?
Anyway, some pouty blonde woman is an office, and it’s Black Wednesday.
She walks away from the window to where some guy is laid out on a sofa (asleep?).
“Forgive me.
Better by far you should forget me and smile, than that you should remember me and be sad.”
She kisses him and then takes her stuff and leaves in a taxi.
She ends up at a bank office, and as she goes in the building, the music gets all doomy at the same time a black BMW comes past, so presumably it’s significant.
Does it seem to anyone else that there’s more filler this series? Not that I’m actually saying I want more plot, but there seem to be a lot of flashback/London shots/characters just wandering about.
She goes into this office where this American guy is waiting.
He’s an OIH but the only thing I can definitely say he’s been in is Hustle.
“Did you think I wasn’t going to come?”
”And let a prize like me get away?
I knew you were smarter than that.”
And then he says he’s got something for her, and it turns out to be a gold necklace with an ingot pendant thing. I’m not sure of the correct term.
And then there is kissing…
And someone else comes into the building and up the stairs and into the office…
And she looks over just as the guy shoots, and bang bang they’re dead.
Then its fifteen years later and there’s building work being down, and the bodies crash through the ceiling.
Back at CCU, everyone comes in and Boyd explains what’s happened along with some rambling about calling them Adam and Eve because of the religious connotations of them falling down from above…
“Very clever, but you know we’ve got an Eve.
”
”Yeah, one’s dead, one’s alive.”
Stella asks why it’s a cold case. I presume she means because as they’ve only just been found it wasn’t a cold case to begin with?
Boyd shows a photo of the back of the ingot that has the same number on it as a piece of paper found on the River Corpse, a case they investigated in 2000, but made no progress on. Spence is really worryingly happy these days.
“We have two murders linked by the same sixteen digit number.
So are we excited, or are we just plain…excited?”
Yeah, that line doesn’t quite work, does it?
They go to the scene and Eve tells them they have two passports, a broken champagne flute, and the two bodies.
“It screams crime of passion, doesn’t it?”
The ceiling isn’t secure enough for a ladder, so Boyd and Stella go off to look for the room. They can’t find it.
There have been quite a few banks using the office space.
“All these banks seem to have a pretty short shelf-life.”
“Don’t be fooled by their flash titles, they’re just a bunch of wide boys in handmade suits.
”
They’ve also found plane tickets to Dublin, and Stella comes back with a tracker and off they all go to find the room (except Eve of course).
“It’s not going to tell us to go in this bloody room, is it? There isn’t a hole in here, I’ve been in here, yeah, no hole!
”
“It is a mystery.”
”[Tracker beeps] It should be here.”
”Oh, forgive me for not knowing that there was a hole behind the wall.
”
Stella and Grace watch Boyd and Spence try to bash the wall in, and there is another flashback of the gunshot, quickly followed by the bodies crashing down, and as Spence is bashing the wall, Boyd notices a draft, and they spring a catch he finds, and the door (complete with cobwebs) opens. And voila, hole.
And then Boyd manages to nearly crash through the ceiling.
Heh.
So they say that the bank – BICF – was involved in a fraud scandal after Black Wednesday, and Stella has no idea what they’re on about.
“I was a kid at the time!
And I was in Paris!”
“Currency speculators sold huge amounts of sterling and bought it back again at a massive profit.”
“And it cost us, the taxpayers, about four billion pounds.
”
They get outside.
"Welcome to the city. The biggest crooked casino in the world.
”
And then we have some totally unnecessary zoomy shots of buildings, and then it’s back to the lab for Eve to do her fiddly things with the evidence.
She takes a look at the bodies and starts talking into her Dictaphone and mentions a long period of desiccation, which I presume is why nobody noticed the smell and found the bodies before?
“Both wounds consistent with a single shot, not at close range.
At least one metre away.”
So the person who shot them had to know what he was doing, right? It can’t be that easy to aim and kill two people with one shot, can it?
Dental records have confirmed that the American bloke is a guy called Mervyn Simmell. Anyone know how the dental records thing actually works? Is it a comparison of x-rays, or what?
What if you’ve never had an x-ray?
Anyway, he disappeared after Black Wednesday, and an investigation by the SFO began a few days later, but somehow managed to miss the decrease in floor space in the office, as did everyone who subsequently rented the office*.
“They thought he’d scarpered with the bank funds.
”
”Instead he was lying in a room with a bullet in his back.”
They still don’t know anything about the woman, but Simmell’s co-chairman at the bank was a very skinny Pater Capaldi, or rather Lucian Calvin. He got 8 years for fraud when the BICF collapsed and was released 18 months ago.
But hang on, if the investigation was ‘92, and he got sent to prison 9 and a half years ago, that still leaves, what, five years spare?
And then we’re at some nice house, which looks like it’s just begging to be used as a set in some fantasy film. Spence says Calvin was moved from the prison to a high-security unit when he broke another prisoner’s jaw and three of his fingers.
Ouch. There are shots of Calvin looking through what seem to be random pictures.
Outside the crime scene, some blonde woman wanders along and slips under the tape while the policeman is helping a tourist.
At the original investigation, the SFO found a letter from Mervyn to Lucian just basically saying ‘it’s all a game, I’ve buggered off, have a nice life’.
Spence sees the blonde woman and asks her if she’s authorised to be there, and she says
“Absolutely. Syndicated press.
I’m upholding the public right to be informed.”
Riiiight, sure you are. And also, crime scene.
The tape is not exactly there for decoration.
“This is a closed crime scene. No press.
I’d like you to leave now, please.”
Yes, bye bye. Was I the only instantly irritated by her?
Boyd and Grace are going through the crime. It’s quite funny, in a very odd sort of way.
“I come in here and the door is open and see you making mad, passionate love.
”
”And that makes you mad as hell.”
”Furious, I’m crazed with rage. So I pull out my gun -“
“Clear, premeditation –“
”And I shoot you bang.
”
“So when the gunshot dies away, you start to think clearly again, you think ooh, I’m going to rot in jail for this.”
”Yeah, I’m going to rot in jail, so I think I’d better get away and cover everything up.”
In the lab, Eve makes Stella hold a flap of…skin/cloth because she thinks the woman has had a boob job.
“Do I have to?”
”Yeah, you have to, go on.”
Spence has got some information on Lucian Calvin – he’s now set up a consultancy service for psychological wellbeing in the financial sector and he’s doing a private seminar in about an hour, which is convenient.
Meanwhile, Eve removes a silicone implant. Stella just makes a face. And there’s a reference code on the silicone that shows the surgery was done in the US.
Boyd and Grace go to the merchant bank.
“Why would a major merchant bank like this invite a convicted fraud to give a lecture?”
”Well, they’ve come to see a man who stole a few hundred million and nearly got away with it.
”
“I mean, Calvin, he comes out of prison, he’s self taught, unqualified, and he puts a sign over his door, tells the world he’s a psycho therapist.”
“And your point is?”
”Well, it’s worrying, isn’t it?
The amount of charlatans in your line of work. Grace.”
So Calvin’s seminar thing is not going well, but I can’t be bothered to quote it as it’s very rambly.
I swear this programme gets more difficult to quote with each passing week.
Anyway, he’s rambling on about Freud and people are leaving one by one until there’s only Boyd and Grace left. Then there’s a random flashback to what is presumably Lucian as a boy and his parents.
They ask him about his relationship with Mervyn Simmel.
“Heated. Frosty.
Murderous. We shared a love that proudly screamed its name – money.”
Boyd tells him about Mervyn, and he’s not surprised, and then he asks Grace if she’s Grace Foley, and Boyd’s all raised eyebrows and eh?
He quotes the book title, but I can only make out the ‘…and age’ part. Anyone?
“[To Boyd] It’s my latest book.
”
”Yeah, I know, I know.”
I can’t decide if she’s looking at Boyd with a ‘help, help, get me away from the nutter’ look. And now I want to write fic where Grace is being chatted up and trying to get away and Boyd comes over and rescues her at the last moment…
Anyway, they ask him where he was on Black Wednesday, and he says he was in Glasgow for a meeting with the creditors.
“You’ll take me in, I hope, for further questioning.”
And he’s staring at Grace. Boyd, do something!
Oh, it’s definitely a ‘LET’S GET OUT OF HERE NOW’ look.
Stella and Eve (oh dear, the Stella in my head obviously has a thing for pathologists) tell Boyd about the implant and tell him that she was Irish and her name was Catherine Keane.
“So do we know anything else about her apart from her cup size?
”
She was a financial journalist, and Stella says she broke some of the biggest fraud stories of the 80s. Her husband reported her missing, and then they’re watching footage of her husband doing a press conference.
“Reading between the lines, I’d say it was a very unusual relationship.
”
They married three weeks after they met, which is pretty fast going by anyone’s standards. And he was a writer but not a very successful one. He went back to Dublin after this and the police are trying to find him.
And then Spence shows footage of the journalist girl from earlier. Who is supposed to have been working in 1992. Wow.
I want to know what moisturiser that actress uses, because I’d judged her age to be 5-10 years younger than she actually is.
“That’s the journalist I saw at the crime scene. Now, she made the connection between Mervyn Simmel and Catherine Keane before we did.
”
“Did she now?”
Then Boyd and Grace are talking.
“So why do you want me to sit in on this interview?
”
”Because I always take an instant dislike to journalists and I want to see if this one’s a run of the mill hack, or if she’s got another agenda.”
Spence shows the journalist (Lisa Tobin) in and Boyd’s quite taken with her. Now there’s a shock.
And she says she knows him by reputation. Well, she’s less creepy than Lucian, at least…
Lisa knows a lot about Catherine Keane because she was researching her biography, but the trail goes cold after Black Wednesday.
“Now we’ve found the body, you’ll be able to finish the last chapter of your biography.
”
”No, the last chapter’s about who killed her, isn’t it?”
I’ve just noticed that Grace is wearing a really nice brooch on her jacket.
She says that when Catherine disappeared, her husband went back to Dublin and started drug dealing, which is a bit of a leap.
“It gives him an income, and a new dependency to replace Catherine – cocaine.”
And then we see the husband at home, and when he sees the police outside, he grabs some stuff and runs off. And then, omg, the main Irish policeman is an OIH from among other things, Spooks (in which he was an English spy).
I don’t actually know if he’s English or Irish or whatever.
And then when the police go, Declan opens an envelope that has a note from Catherine in it. Did anyone get REALLY confused when this happened?
Why does he have the note now? Who’s been sitting on it all this time?
“Declan, when you read these words I will already be dead.
But don’t grieve for me. I had more life than I deserved. Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Think of this as my gift to make your dream come true.”
And along with the letter, there’s a key.
Back at the office, Lisa asks if they’re going to question Declan.
“You know, if we share information, it can only raise the profile of the cold case squad. And its boss. I know my editor would be interested in you.
As a subject.”
”Oh no, that wouldn’t work. I’m far too shy.
And I have a badge in my pocket which means that you’re going to give me any information that I want anyway.”
Ha!
“Well, the thing to understand about Catherine Keane is that she had a very complicated love life.
Relationships with many powerful men, financiers, captains of industry.”
I love the phrase captains of industry. Don’t know why.
Oh, and when Catherine Keane died she had four lovers. How did she get anything done?
Then Spence, Stella, Grace and Boyd are looking at a light box (why?
What the hell have they got the glass wall for?) With pictures of Catherine and her lovers.
“Here she is, seductress par excellence, who cheated on her husband with these four men.
”
”Do you think we could lose the emotive language and leave the character assessment to me?”
Um, Grace? She was a woman who had affairs with powerful men and was cheating on her husband FOUR TIMES OVER.
How exactly would you put it?
Boyd says that she had four lovers that they know about, and Spence points out that the husband could have had five lovers and known about all of hers etc etc.
“This is Alderman Philip White who met Catherine at the 1989 Businessman of the year lunch, thought she was on the menu.
”
Has anyone ever actually said to Boyd ‘when you’re in a hole, stop digging.’?
Anyway, the other blokes were all very rich too.
“So why aren’t these guys in the investigation files?”
”Because, Spence, these guys all have high positions in life, and they would lose a lot if they came forward.”
They discount two of them – one of them is Simmel, who obviously is dead, so it wasn’t him, and one of the others is dead and was in Hong Kong on the day of the murder.
That leaves them with a Shadow Minister and Alderman White.
The politician is less than helpful. This is not a shock.
“Mr Taggart, you’re a politician, so I presume you’re a busy man. Let’s not waste each other’s time. You had an affair with Catherine Keane.
That was a statement, not a question. We’ve reopened the investigation into her disappearance.”
“We think we may have found her body.
”
“She was remarkable. You just wanted to be with her, and for her to smile at you. Even now, there isn’t a day when I don’t think about her.
”
”You thought so much about her, but you didn’t even come forward when she disappeared.”
“I had – I have a wife and a position. The press would have crucified me.
”
And then as Alderman White is coming in, Lisa tries to get him to talk to her, but he’s putting her off. And then she reveals she thinks the police have found Catherine, and asks him if he was her lover but he denies it.
At the CCU, White admits that he bought Catherine a lot of gifts, and that they had an ‘understanding’.
He also says he never met her husband, but he thought he was something of a liability.
Grace asks him why he didn’t come forward and he says the affair had been over for months.
Then on their way to the lab:
“You still think that Catherine was a promiscuous and undiscerning seducer.
”
”No, I think she was very discerning. None of her lovers were poor.”
”Obviously her seduction skills were very well developed.
”
”Obviously.”
”What I mean is, we all have seduction skills. As children, that’s how we learn how to charm our parents.
But if somebody doesn’t put a boundary to set the limits, we go on using it for the rest of our lives.”
“So everything’s the parent’s fault?”
They get into the lab.
“Girls, what do you think? Boyd thinks that any woman who has surgery to enhance her breasts is a slapper.”
”I didn’t – I did not use the word slapper.
”
“I think if men are dumb enough to worship the breast, you can’t blame women for taking advantage of it.”
Why is it that the only fandom I seem to be able to write femslash in is this one? Hm?
“No, we’re talking about a woman who has multiple lovers. She gets gifts from these lovers and then sells the gifts.”
”Well, I don’t know.
Having more than one lover doesn’t make her a slut.”
”Well, it doesn’t exactly make you a saint, does it?”
”What, you mean she’s had the sort of power that men are supposed to have?
”
”Just because you outnumber me, it doesn’t make you right.”
Eve then says that the bullet from Catherine and Mervyn doesn’t match the one in the River Corpse, but she has managed to find an ID due to an ID card pilot scheme that took the fingerprints of civil servants. Um, how did she guess that he might be a civil servant?
His name is Brian McGarrick, and he was aide to the Irish Ambassador. Boyd asks how the Garda are getting on; Stella says they haven’t found him yet. Boyd stomps off, shouting.
“Don’t you just love the Irish?”
Boyd is on the phone to the Garda (having to spell his name) and Stella walks in (looking very cute) as he says they’re going to have to go to Dublin.
“We’re going to Dublin?
”
”No, we’re [pointing to Spence and himself] going to Dublin.”
She tells him that Calvin’s alibi doesn’t stand up because he was only absent for two days not three.
“What am I supposed to do?
”
”What do you think? Grace’d love to have another chat with him.”
Oooh, you bastard.
He goes into his office and Stella turns round to Spence.
“You’re going to Dublin. That’s so unfair!
”
Is it just me or are they all a lot more…young this series?
Alderman White goes to meet Some Bloke Who Was In Spooks.
“There’s no need to worry, Philip.
The police will ask questions, the press will ask questions, the world will turn and our work will continue.”
“But if the truth becomes known –“
”The truth is always known. There’s nothing we can hide from the father in heaven.
”
Sorry, what? Oh, hang on; it’s the Unnecessary Plot Twist. As per usual, the writers seem to think it wasn’t complicated enough as it was, so let’s chuck something else into the mix!
“Of course. But I –“
”If you’re anxious that these developments might affect your elevation within the work of God –“
”No, no, it’s not that.”
”The things that happened are in the past.
You must forgive yourself, as the father has forgiven you. Be at peace.”
“Thank you.
”
And then he walks off back to his car. Okay. And the guy he was speaking to phones up someone and talks in the most English-accented Italian you can imagine.
I don’t speak any Italian, but I’m guessing he said there was a problem with Alderman White.
Boyd and Grace talk to Calvin.
“You think I came back down and killed Mervyn Simmel.
I wonder if that’s true. Perhaps I did.”
Boyd asks him if he knew Catherine Keane, and instead he starts going about how their team would make an interesting case study.
It’s irritating and boring, so I won’t quote.
Boyd keeps trying to get him to answer the question, while Grace is just observing. And then Calvin starts going on about Oedipus.
And then we get another flashback.
Boyd responds by getting louder, although in this case I can understand why, because I just wish Calvin would shut up (and I get that this is the point of the character, that’s he is farcical now, but still, gah).
“Could we have the seminar some other time, please?
This isn’t about fairytale creationism; this is about flesh and blood. Fact. This is about the maggots and the blowflies that ate their organs.
[Calvin tries to interrupt] This is a murder investigation about a sudden, violent death!”
“Death. The ultimate transformation.
”
Grace tries to ask him a question, but then Boyd asks her if she’ll leave (was that just to get a rise out of Calvin?) and when he puts his hand on her shoulder, Calvin stands and shouts ‘Don’t you dare touch her!’ which is weird.
“What’s all that about, eh, Grace? The untouchable.”
”I can’t read him.
He seems to want us to believe he’s got it in him to kill Mervyn Simmel.”
”But he didn’t.”
”He has got a certain expertise that makes him psychoanalytically aware.
”
”You mean he’s misdirecting us to talk about something else.”
“Yes. But don’t ask me what.
I don’t know yet. And what was all that about? Doctor Foley, will you please leave the interview’?
”
”Well, I didn’t see any point in indulging him in his pretentious crap; it was going to get us nowhere.”
“Are you sure you don’t mean my pretentious crap?”
Grace, were you listening to the same conversation as I was?
Because he wasn’t doing so well on the making sense front…
Then in the lab, Eve makes Stella and Spence get into position as the bodies (she does this kind of thing a lot) so she can work out where the shot was fired. It was fired from just outside the door.
And then Eve says they can relax and they just stay there *g* and then eventually disentangle themselves.
Oh dear, I really may have to write some more WTD fic.
And then Eve says she’s got some marks on her thigh and scars on her back.
“We have a theory.
”
”About the least secret secret society in the world.”
Then there’s a lovely shot of a church reflecting in a building (I LOVE glass buildings that do that) and a not so nice shot of Alderman White talking Latin and whipping himself. It’s Opus Dei.
The only stuff I’ve ever known about them is from The DaVinci Code, and I’ve kind of wiped that entire book from my brain.
Anyway, the theory is based on the connections between the Catholic Church, Opus Dei and fraudulent dealings in the world’s major banks, Stella says. So nothing too heavy, then?
And then Spence starts talking about the Roberto Calvi, who was the pope’s banker, and who was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge.
“If Catherine was part of Opus Dei, then her connection with the BICF bank and her and Simmel’s resulting death could be even more in depth than we originally thought.”
“Not a bad little theory.
”
Ahhhh, and they all look pleased as punch when Boyd says that.
Then there are more shots of White whipping himself. Okay…
Lisa calls Boyd and says she spoke to her editor about doing a piece on him.
“Oh, yeah? What was my unique selling point?”
”That you were a unique, morally fragmented agent of justice?
”
Hey, people, what does RSI feel like? Because I think I might finally have given myself it, because my hand feels really weird.
Back to the episode, she says something about a photo, and then he says he’ll have to call her back.
Spence has the SFO files on BICF, and then Stella tells Boyd the Opus Dei bloke is in the office, which throws him for a loop a bit.
OPD bloke is Spooks bloke. Boyd asks him if Catherine Keane was a member, and he says he asked to speak to a senior officer because of the need for confidentiality and discretion.
“Well, discretion, yes, although Opus Dei hasn’t actually been publicity shy over the last few years. Confidentiality, no. I have a murder investigation in progress and reasons to believe that an Opus Dei member may be involved.
”
“Don’t make a fool of yourself, Detective Superintendent, by taking seriously the swirls of conspiracy that surround us.”
Then Boyd starts talking about him being in Rome in 1971 and then having meetings with Calvi and Opus Dei being involved with deals where people have then been assassinated. He tells him about the case and says that there’s evidence one of the victims was a member.
“Now, my investigation has to ask, is history repeating itself?”
“Do you have a faith, Mr Boyd?”
”Think of me as a…scientist of the enlightenment.
I follow the evidence and go where it takes me.”
“Nothing is sacred?”
”Only the truth.
”
Then there’s some random flashes of images, and Boyd and Lisa are walking through this covered space (it’s not really a market) that I know I have been to with my sister. Is it near Guildhall maybe? I can’t remember.
He says the article’s not really his thing, and then she asks how the case is progressing.
“It’s your favourite game, isn’t it? Who killed Catherine Keane?
”
Lisa asks why he won’t tell her anything, and says she thinks she’s holding back. He asks her if she ever met her, and Lisa says no and then there’s a flashback to Lisa being in the office and Catherine Keane being at reception and Lisa telling Reception that she’s not in.
Boyd gives Lisa his card and tells her she’s off to Dublin.
She guesses it’s to interview Declan Keane, which is a) not much of a leap, and b) a bit dumb on Boyd’s part.
“See, that’s not how it works. You’re supposed to give me information.
”
”Oh, yes, I’m sorry. I’ll try and remember that.”
Then there’s some city footage of Dublin, which at least makes a change from London.
Irish Police Bloke is on the phone as he comes in.
“…I know. I can’t allocate man hours to finding some small time dealer just because some arsehole from London thinks its priority.
”
”DI Bailey?”
”Yeah?”
”Superintendent arsehole from London.
Top of the morning to you.”
”[into phone] I’ll call you back.”
”I take it we still don’t know where Declan Keane is?
”
”Not exactly, Sir, no.”
”DI Jordan. Another arsehole.
”
IPB says he has a meeting, and Boyd tells him just to leave them what he has on Declan Keane.
“He’s a nice chap.”
”Oh, yeah.
”
Then Declan Keane is signing something out of a safety deposit bank thing… (I’ve forgotten the actual word, if there is one…)
Grace and Stella (in another nice jacket) go to where Calvin lives.
“Nice place.”
”Especially if you’re registered bankrupt.
”
He says he last saw Brian McGarrick ‘a life ago’, though he doesn’t say how he knew him. He does he say he met him once or twice – why would they know each other?
“Does the psychotherapy business pay you well, Mr Calvin?
”
”You mean did it buy me this fine place? No. I’m pleased to say that a grateful client gifted the lease to my Calvin Foundation.
”
”Very grateful.”
In Dublin, someone’s watching as Declan Keane goes home.
Stella asks Calvin exactly when he saw McGarrick, and he gets all creepy, telling Grace he dreamt about her last night, and just…there must have been a less irritating way to write this guy?
Boyd and Spence go round to Declan’s place.
“Now, let’s see if we can succeed where Dublin’s finest have failed.”
”I always thought there was a healthy profit margin, selling coke.
”
And then when he tries to open the door, I think it gets slammed back shut from the inside? So they’re both sort of excited (see what I mean about them being younger?) and then Boyd opens the door and Spence goes in, and then there’s a guy in a balaclava, and chasing!
Grace says they need him to answer questions, and he says he will if she’ll answer one of his in return. He asks her what she dreams of, and she starts to say she dreams she’s falling,
“Please, don’t insult me with this textbook. If you want the truth from me, give me the same.
What is it that you dream?”
My sister has the weirdest dreams. Real long in depth ones.
And if we ever watch zombie films, she has zombie dreams for a week afterwards. Really.
In Dublin, Boyd’s looking around and he finds an open window leading onto the roof.
Grace is quiet, and then she says she can’t breathe, and she wakes up but she’s still dreaming, and there’s a dark shape on her chest, and it sounds just as textbook to me…
Boyd chases Declan onto a gangway and he falls through… (not sure splitting the chase with the conversation is the best editing ever)
“And do you ever ask yourself what this is all about?”
”I know what you’re going to say it means. The animal is a symbol of authority.
[shrugs] My father, dictating how I should run my life.”
”Ah, don’t be blind, Doctor Foley. The animal on your chest is not your father.
It’s Peter Boyd.”
And Grace kind of laughs at him, but she looks surprised. Oh, what so this guy saw it but Grace has never thought that?
Please.
Then Declan’s hanging from the gangway, and Boyd reaches for him, and he’s shouting ‘don’t kill me!’ and Boyd’s hanging on, but he slips out of his hand, and then IPB comes along (where’s Spence?
) and pulls him up, and Declan’s on the ground with a load of gold bars. Oooh…
*is there a logical explanation for this?
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