Episode 3

♪ ♪ Morgan, there's vodka in the water bottle.

(pouring) How do you scare a kid off booze?

You're keeping me behind?

It suits your skillset.

OBAN: She's learning how to lead a team.

It's not going to be easy for Annika.

You'll get your shot, Michael.

Just not now.

Not now.

Would it be helpful to talk to someone?

You know, a professional, to work it through.

That would be good.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (thunder claps) (whimpers) (click) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ No pictures of Freud.

Have I told you about the origins of psychotherapy?

This isn't a test.

No, of course, of course.

This is your time to explore your story with a neutral professional.

And you can talk about anything, you know, even our relationship.

This is... it's, it's your session.

(door opens) (door opens) Okay.

(door closes) Morgan, hi.

And Annika?

The mother.

Guilty.

It's always about the mother, isn't it?

Well, and guilt as well, probably.

At least now you can put a, a... a face to the source of the trauma.

It's not always about the mother.

Would you like to come through?

♪ ♪ Have fun.

Make me sound good.

(chuckle) Just... (door closes) (sighs) ♪ ♪ I mean, sometimes it is the mother.

♪ Throw a line ♪ ♪ Into the darkness ♪ ♪ We are shadows ♪ ♪ Blaze inside ♪ ♪ This light ♪ ♪ Will shine ♪ ♪ Unbroken ♪ ♪ Tonight ♪ ♪ Shine ♪ ♪ ♪ ANNIKA (voiceover): In Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People," there's this medic, Dr. Stockman, who works at a health spa in a little coastal town in Norway.

When some of the visitors start getting sick, the doctor identifies the cause as infusoria.

It's a kind of microscopic creature that's got into the pipes.

As soon as he tries to alert the authorities, his life pretty much unravels.

His family suffers, and everyone wishes it hadn't been a righteous doctor who'd found something nasty in the water supply.

So let's see how this plays out, 'cause we've certainly found something nasty in this one.

♪ ♪ (birds chirping) TYRONE: It looks like he put up a fight.

ANNIKA: How long's he been out the water?

BLAIR: About an hour.

There were no witnesses.

Any I.D.?

Only thing on him.

(bag crinkling) Let's see if we can find out who he is.

The person who called this in mentioned a boat, but there's no sign of it.

I'll check the hire places, couple around the loch.

It's a reservoir.

And this is where he works.

Okay, I know where this is going.

So there's a film of "Enemy of the People," if you're short of time, Steve McQueen plays the doctor.

Speaking Norwegian?

And "Jaws."

"Jaws" is based on it, too.

Do you think he was killed by a shark?

Yeah let's definitely start that rumor.

♪ ♪ (insects chittering) BLAIR (voiceover): Working assumption; the victim is Murdo Stirling.

No nominal record and no one has reported him missing.

Likely time of death between 3:00 and 4:00 this morning.

Yeah, the pathologist's initial take is that it was a forced drowning, and then the body was hacked up shortly afterwards.

Wounds consistent with a propeller of an outboard motor.

Call came in at 4:15.

You got it?

Mm-hmm.

OPERATOR (on recording): Police Emergency.

MAN (on recording): There's a bloke in the water, west side of the lake.

He's pretty cut up.

Okay, you need to get someone out here, okay?

He's a mess.

(recording ends) TYRONE: Well, he's stressed, clearly.

Could be that he's just seen a dead body, or, that he was involved.

Yeah, but would he have called if he was?

Uniform are making local inquiries to see if we can find him.

Okay, well, listen for a New Zealand accent.

What about the boat?

They found it on the other side of the loch.

Forensics are probably gonna be a bust, 'cause it's a hire boat, but the owner's making his way over to check the records.

Thanks, Tyrone.

So what was he doing there?

Was it a nighttime fishing trip?

Was it related to work?

BLAIR: Natural Water's a charity.

They do awareness campaigns and more political stuff about how we treat our natural resource.

♪ It falls from the sky, it belongs to you ♪ ♪ It's natural water ♪ What was that?

It's their slogan.

I feel they might make everyone sing it each morning before work.

Okay.

MICHAEL: Murdo was their chemical analyst.

The friendly science guy telling us that if we knew what was in the tap water, we wouldn't let our kids drink it.

How's that friendly?

Mine drink it, they seem all right.

BLAIR: They've got officers in each of the nations, and they're looking to expand overseas, so, they're pretty well-funded.

ANNIKA: Well, whatever he was doing there, he wasn't on his own.

So let's, uh, check with his work, find out if they sent him, and get a next of kin.

And Blair, I could hear something in the background of that call, like a drilling?

I can try and isolate it.

♪ ♪ I think we need a company song that we can sing before work.

Yeah, that's a hard no, Blair.

After you.

♪ ♪ (humming) ♪ ♪ Any of your kids been in therapy?

(chuckling): 'Course not.

'Course not.

Seriously.

Didn't mean it like that, I just mean mine seem fine.

Because of your excellent parenting and by implication my terrible one.

How do you jump to that?

Well, surely they'll have to talk to someone at some point, like a... a GP or a dinner lady.

Think they just talk to their friends.

Does Morgan have any friends?

Bloody hell, Michael, twist the knife.

(doorbell ringing) Can I help?

Ah, here to see the boss.

That's Mel Hetherington, she's just in the middle of something.

And you are?

Heidi.

Can I ask what this is about?

No, just point the way for now, Heidi.

Does this fall from the sky and belong to us, too?

(tapping) Just move your left foot a little bit.

And what does the Marine Homicide Unit do?

What do you think?

I think we're done.

Right, should I come back tomorrow... We're done, full stop.

Because I'm booked for another week.

Out the room, Stuart.

Making a promo, he's been at it for bloody weeks.

Well, who's died?

Well, we believe it to be your employee, Murdo Stirling.

He was drowned in Loch Katrine in the early hours of this morning.

Who did it?

Oh, that's another role of the Marine Homicide Unit.

I'm sorry.

You put up a front to lead, and I know I can sound a bit brusque.

(pages turning) When did you last see Murdo?

Three, four days ago.

And how was he?

Anything on his mind?

Any personal issues?

I don't know much about his personal life, but he seemed fine.

And was he at the loch for work?

He was having a few days' leave.

I don't know why he was there.

Your company has a colorful way of presenting information.

Would that have made him enemies?

We do awareness campaigns about agricultural polluters, the plastics industry, chemical spills, as well as looking into treatment plants.

So, yes, I'm sure he made some enemies along the way.

We all have.

Any recent threats?

Usual rubbish on social media.

But I post mainly, not so much him.

And why you?

I'm a woman.

Where's his desk?

We'll need to get into his computer.

Uh... And also his HR file.

Heidi on the desk can sort that out.

Please, pass on my sympathies to his family.

Natural Water will organize a tribute, maybe a little remembrance pond.

♪ ♪ (phone ringing in distance) BOTH: Pond.

♪ ♪ (car approaching) (brakes squealing) MICHAEL: Shouldn't we be making the tea?

ANNIKA: Yeah, I think he wanted a minute.

(cups clinking) I don't know how you like it.

I'm sure it's fine, thanks.

(cup clanking) Busy?

I'm winding down.

I was never gonna pass the business on.

Your son not into motorbikes?

He liked them for a while.

Was it quick?

Oh, I think so.

Well, you find the bastard who did it.

We will.

Any reason your son might've been at the loch?

Any significance?

Fishing.

I don't know.

Did he have a partner?

(sighing) Aye, there was someone staying at his place, I think... Siobhan... (sighing) I cannot remember her second name.

Murdo wrote the word "Ma" in his diary on the date he was killed.

Was he seeing his mum?

I wouldn't think so.

She died years ago.

Right, sorry.

But you don't have to drink that if you don't want.

Great.

(cups clattering) We, uh... We need you to identify the body, Mr. Stirling.

(sighs) ♪ ♪ (sighs) Oh, man.

(metallic jingling) MITCH (voiceover): I didn't close up last night.

I don't know where he's put the forms.

The victim was using your credit card machine at 9:33.

I can't find a record for Murdo Stirling at all.

Did he come in with anyone else?

Like I said, I wasn't here.

And where the hell have you been?

Sorry, Mitch, I lost track of time.

I'll go sort out today's boats.

Hey!

♪ ♪ (motor revving) TYRONE: Stop!

(splashing) MORGAN: We're going to be massively early.

Yeah, it shows that you're, you're keen to grow as a person.

(water churning) How is he?

Jake?

Is that what you call him?

Not like... Dr. Siegfried or whatever?

No, it's not Victorian Scotland.

Is he funny?

Is he, is he married?

I think I saw a picture of his wife in the waiting room, actually.

Okay, I get it.

What?

How about you wait until my assessment's over before the two of you go on a mini-break together?

I wasn't saying that.

Why, why would you think I was saying that?

Like, no way was I saying that.

Finished?

Take this.

Don't want you drinking tap water for a bit.

What's wrong with the tap water?

Tell Jake the boat's called "Mimir."

After the Norse god renowned for his knowledge, wisdom, and brilliance.

Just like its owner.

♪ ♪ So, there are a ton of important women in psychotherapy-- your Anna Freuds, your Melanie Kleins, your Susie Orbachs.

And I was hoping for one of those so Morgan could work through whatever she needs to and... (sighs) might put a decent spin on me, frankly.

I'm thinking with Jake, you know, she's gonna get into tricky, like, father transference stuff, which I'm, I'm sure he's equipped to deal with.

(exhales) But I don't know how helpful that is right now.

Anyway, it's her choice.

But, if they both, like, mutually decide after this assessment period that it's best to, you know, switch therapists, then, you know, I will fully support them.

♪ ♪ Sorry.

I need to drop Morgan off at the things.

I mean, she doesn't need it, but it's the only time I get to talk to her.

No, I get it.

My mum used to drive me to police college every day and I was 22.

Oh, see.

And you turned out okay.

She keeps asking why I'm not chief constable yet.

(Annika chuckles) Sets the bar nice and low then.

Oh, you have no idea.

Nathan's in the interview room.

Yeah, so you, uh, tackled him into the water.

Yeah, why did you say it like that?

No, it's just I've been tempted to write that in an arrest report here.

So why did you run?

I haven't slept.

Okay, I feel sick.

If it was an accident, just say and we can deal with it.

My visa's expired.

But you don't run 'cause of an expired visa.

I gave the guy some weed.

Okay, I saw him about midnight with his boat still tied up.

He said he was meeting someone.

ANNIKA: Who?

I don't know.

Not someone he liked by the way he said it.

He was pretty gloomy, so I rolled him up one and left him to it.

In the morning I went on the loch to smoke and my boat went over him.

He was just floating in the water.

Did you see anyone else out there?

No.

Gone to shore and called it in.

Did the weed kill him?

Did my boat?

Well, no, neither helped.

Your boss couldn't find any bookings.

Well, it's definitely there.

Okay, S. Campbell.

Credit card had the same name.

Declined, though.

Maxed out or the machine was routed.

Look, it's been a rough couple of days.

If you really wanna deport me, I'm okay with it.

Mimir means "the rememberer," and he was so smart he was the advisor to all the other Norse gods.

That's one I don't know.

Though he can't have been that smart.

He got his head chopped off.

So why do you think your mum liked the name then?

Maybe she doesn't know about the head thing.

But you do.

Are you worried something bad will happen to your mother?

Have you told her?

She loves her job.

She loves you too.

Don't want her to have to choose.

In case she doesn't choose you?

And also in case she does and she has to give up being a detective.

Lose-lose.

Yeah.

Well, perhaps it's not about the choice, perhaps it's about talking to her.

I'm talking to you instead.

Yes, you are.

Can you think of a moment in your childhood when you didn't feel like this, when you felt safe?

♪ ♪ Take your time.

Here, have some water.

TYRONE: So Murdo had S. Campbell's card, but we don't know if he stole it or who S. Campbell is.

Got a request in for the card details.

Should have it soon.

MICHAEL: We've looked into Murdo's finances and they're a rollercoaster.

Loads going in, loads going out.

Mostly on indulgent stuff.

And his current account, aside from his salary, he had 50 grand added to it in the last week.

Who gave him that?

A blandly anonymous company.

Somebody's working really hard to conceal where the money's from.

And then he's killed soon after.

Yep.

I'll keep digging.

In the building's car park, he had a flashy car, too.

Until someone wrote "bastard" across it.

Mind you, that could've been anyone.

Who's the partner?

The phone I found belongs to a Siobhan Kelly.

And if she's the one who smashed the car up, she is seriously pissed off.

Well, we know Murdo was meeting someone he didn't like.

I guess she'd qualify after a bad break-up.

(phone ringing in distance) Anything to help us with the "M.A."

in his diary?

"Massive arse (muted)."

Well, he's certainly starting to look that way.

"Marijuana Anonymous."

"Methamphetamine."

"Makeup Artist."

(laughs) Okay, that's fine, let's follow the money, see where that gets us.

How you getting on with that sound?

Uh, it's a wee bit clearer.

Could be a chainsaw.

(indistinct fuzzy sound) Mm, I guess.

Who's cutting down trees at 4:00 a.m., though?

(phone chimes) Morgan messages you?

Uh, since the Bute case, she's sent me some messages and the odd picture of herself.

What kind of pictures?

Just friendly.

Bit flirty, I guess.

But nothing to worry about.

Okay.

S-So... (phone chimes) Is that another one?

No, just something about her therapy.

♪ ♪ (birds squawking) Evidently with the, the Blair thing, what I need to do is approach it sensibly.

Get it out in the open, talk it through, like a grown-up.

Thing is, I've got Ibsen in my head, and when Dr. Stockman does the same, he gets fired from his job, his daughter gets fired, uh, his, his kids get suspended from school, and he gets, like, bricks chucked through his windows.

All, all of them.

Hi.

Hi.

Siobhan's address.

Yes, of course.

Do you want me to come with you?

I'll take Michael.

Okay.

♪ ♪ So I'm thinking I'll just ignore the whole thing, 'cause that's also an option.

So I've had, what, eight cars in the same amount of time.

It was a graduation present.

Oh, I'd get it if you were graduated in Miami, but not in Fife.

Oh, Scotland seemed warm to my folks.

Oh, come on, it still runs.

Don't give me a hard time about it.

(knocking) You okay?

I want to ask you something, but I think you might be judgy.

I'm not judgy.

Some people's families are a mess, and just because yours isn't, it can make you a little bit... What?

Oh, hi.

Is your mum there?

GIRL: Daddy.

Not saying anything.

ANNIKA: We're looking for Siobhan Kelly.

Daddy's just gonna speak to some friends outside.

GIRL: Okay.

You look after your brother.

Do you want to get out of the office?

BLAIR: Definitely.

What have you got?

Well, the credit card of S. Campbell is registered at Murdo's address.

It's one of five cards registered to that address, all with different names.

Hm, bit of fraud now, is it?

One of those names is Heidi's.

BLAIR: Natural Water Heidi?

TYRONE: Her debts are deep, and now she's got the Sheriff's Officers after her.

So whatever he did with that card, he's screwing her over.

Well, that'd make me murderous.

Siobhan was (muted) Murdo for a couple of months, then he called me out the blue.

Told me what they'd been doing.

Said it'd run its course.

Can only keep it fresh for so long before it gets boring.

(scoffs) Jesus.

Did you smash his car up?

What?

No.

Kicked Siobhan out, though.

While the kids were at school.

Do you know where she went?

I haven't seen her for three days.

Where have you been the last three days?

Here, for God sakes.

Trying to explain to an eight-year-old and a six-year-old why their mother isn't home.

Would she have gone to stay with relatives?

Maybe.

She left in a state.

Christ knows what she'd been doing.

(siren blares in distance) BLAIR: Closed out of respect for Murdo Stirling.

Door's been forced.

Reasonable cause.

Agreed.

♪ ♪ (metallic clattering) (man panting) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (both panting) Just to let you know, I've also been working on some lyrics for a company song.

(phone ringing) His line is that he was just getting his camera back.

Mm.

Did he take anything else?

Nothing on him.

But we don't know what else he did in there.

You okay to start the interview?

I need to sort out Morgan.

They're just selfies.

Jokey more than anything.

I can show you if you like.

I meant sort out her dinner.

Right.

Okay.

Stuart's been filming for weeks, get the footage off him.

(phone ringing) ♪ ♪ Weirdly quiet dinner.

Are you ill?

(utensil clatters) Actually, I, I know this is, uh, private, um... You wanna talk about the session?

Actually, it was more Blair.

Jake wanted me to talk about a moment in my childhood where I felt safe.

I couldn't think of anything.

There were lots of times when you were safe.

When I felt safe.

Different thing.

I keep you safe.

You told me not to drink the water.

Well, that's an example of me keeping you safe.

Sounds a bit paranoid.

(phone ringing) Who's that?

This is what I mean.

Hey.

(door slams) I won't follow.

Uh-uh.

Damn it.

♪ ♪ Sounds beautiful, Morfar.

I think the next holidays are Easter.

Wait, are you talking to my dad?

He's asking when I can fly out.

Mum!

(speaking Norwegian) I was in the middle of a conversation!

You talk to me before you organize a holiday.

Jake said I should reach out to other family members.

Well, Jake doesn't know what your grandparents are like.

Maybe he does.

Maybe he gets that I need different things.

Different, dif... different from what?

You!

Half the session was about you!

Can I have my phone back, please?

(phone clangs) S... ♪ ♪ (birds chirping) (doorbell rings) Campbell?

Aye.

♪ ♪ Do you want a lift to therapy?

MORGAN: So you can tell me off when I get back?

No, because we paid for a week.

Okay, it's... it's not because of the money, I...

I think it's important you see it through and I promise I'll keep my mouth shut.

(loud music blaring) (cellphone ringing) (exhales, ringing continues) Michael.

MICHAEL (on phone): Siobhan's husband called.

His wife's taken the kids out of school.

The head called him to check because she was overheard talking to them about going on a plane.

She's booked a hotel next to the airport.

She there now?

(loud music continues) MICHAEL (on phone): Just checked in.

You having a party?

♪ ♪ TYRONE: There's Heidi.

BLAIR: Yeah, I think you're right.

TYRONE: Uniform got her alibi but they're leaving Murdo's fraud for us to break to her.

Nice of them.

(children playing nearby) Did you get the camera boy's video footage?

BLAIR: About 80 hours of it.

I'm working through it.

♪ You and me together ♪ ♪ In all and every weather ♪ ♪ Trying to deliver ♪ (gasps) ♪ A cold blooded killer.

♪ That's the world's creepiest company song, Blair.

TYRONE: Murdo liked stealing people's wives.

Think the kid's his?

BLAIR: Let's find out.

TYRONE: Heidi Greenshields?

HEIDI: I worked for him for three years.

What an utter bastard.

I should've guessed.

(humorless chuckle) I bet he got in to my computer.

Well, if it's any consolation, you weren't the only one.

That's why we're here.

Then I bet he'll have done it to them all with a smile on his face, and more, probably.

What a monster.

So is this little one, uh...?

What, Murdo's?

(laughs) God no.

No, his dad's serving overseas.

Did you look after the diaries at Natural Water?

For the senior team?

Was everyone around three days ago?

Oh, we were all in-- except for Murdo and Mel.

She blocked out two days.

I remember because, well, with both of them gone, it... it was just really, really nice.

Does the name S. Campbell mean anything to you?

MICHAEL: So Siobhan's car was caught by CCTV near Callander the day after the murder.

Callander's pretty near Loch Katrine.

She has an early flight tomorrow.

Tickets for Oslo.

You're kidding me?

Just talk about that salty licorice that you all eat, that should put her off going.

Yeah, you and me both know that'll be her number one motivation.

Siobhan, it's Annika, I'm a police officer, can I come in?

Ah.

Hello again.

Is your mummy there?

(game device chirping) ♪ ♪ You winning?

Good lad.

She's in the bathroom.

Okay.

Siobhan, I'm-I'm going to come in unless you tell me you're all right.

Michael!

(shower running) (turning faucet off, grunts) The medics are coming.

MICHAEL: Okay.

Hey, let's go.

MICHAEL: Come on, come on!

What have you taken?

Valium.

And I went in to the mini fridge.

Okay.

Come on.

(softly): There.

There.

(pushes toilet lid down) Siobhan, I'm investigating the death of Murdo Stirling.

Death?

He drowned in Loch Katrine three nights ago.

Do you know anything about that?

It's got to be a woman who did it, right?

Anyone who'd anything to do with him must've thought about killing him sooner or later.

And you?

Oh God!

No.

No, I was just having a bit of fun.

I...

I paid for the trips, the dinners, when I suggested he might pitch in for some of this, he went cold and called my bloody husband.

Who would do that?

Trashed his stupid car.

Been on a friend's floor since.

We'll need to check that, Siobhan.

When you catch her, I'm visiting her in jail.

Seriously.

I'm bringing her a bloody cake.

(distant phone ringing) I knew the name rang a bell.

Sandy Campbell.

Came in for a visit four weeks ago, marked as unscheduled.

Here's the visitors' log and the number is... there.

I can get an address from that.

Can you get me a copy of his work diary for the last year?

Yeah.

(cellphone chimes) Dad's on his way.

Poor kids.

Yeah.

Poor all of them.

They found S. Campbell.

Heidi at Natural Water had a lead.

Okay, so I've got-- well, it's two things.

First: Morgan's been sending pictures of herself to Blair.

What kind of pictures?

I dunno, I haven't seen them.

Well, you need to do that.

Well, you asked her if she had friends and now she's... Friends at school I meant.

Yeah...

So what do I do?

Tell her to stop and block her phone.

Oh, she already thinks I don't trust her.

Fine then, let her keep sending secret photos of herself to one of your investigators.

Oh God... What's the second thing?

I've got a crush on her therapist.

Hi, we're here to see S. Campbell.

In regards to what?

Murdo Stirling.

FIONA: Some police here, Sandy.

Want to talk to you about your father.

Ah, father.

That your Saab out there?

No.

It's mine.

The '93 is it?

Got that need-to-know feature on the dash.

Cuts out distractions.

They have them in aircraft cockpits.

Oh really?

Aye.

So maybe don't be so quick to deny you own it.

Ah, you don't know what you've done for me, Sandy.

What's this about?

Murdo Stirling was found dead at Loch Katrine two days ago.

(sighs) Good.

He was drowned.

Deliberately.

I can't say I'm surprised.

I'm guessing you didn't have much to do with him then?

He left after Sandy was born.

He would turn up the odd Christmas but not for years now.

Does he not pay maintenance?

He was doing the bloody opposite.

Sandy's got compensation money from the hospital, held in Trust.

Murdo's been draining it.

Called on him about four weeks ago to ask for it back.

Wouldn't see us.

ANNIKA: How are you getting things paid for?

Calling in favors.

People rally 'round.

Murdo tried to hire a boat using a credit card under Sandy's name on the night he was murdered.

Of course he did.

Where were you two nights ago?

(Sandy breathing rapidly, grunting) (grunting loudly) Do you want some help?

No!

No, you're okay.

Okay?

(chuckling) I was laughing.

No, you weren't, you bugger.

We were at the football two nights ago.

That's what we were doing, weren't we, Mum?

Aye.

Bad result.

Like getting hit over the head with a spade every week.

Yeah, it's fine, we'll check.

Thanks for your time.

Any chance I can have the credit card?

(chuckling): Nice try.

(on computer): We're 60% water, and in our lifetime, each of us will drink about 60,000 liters of it.

And so, the small amounts of nitrate in there scale up to-- MEL (on computer): You vicious bastard.

What?

MEL (on computer): Seriously?

Christ, Murdo.

STUART (on computer): Shall I cut?

(chuckling): No, keep rolling, this'll be fun.

MEL (on computer): Yes, stop the damn camera.

Swear to God, have you any idea what this'll do to the company?!

Got a fair idea like.

Sam, listen, quick one-- has anything come across your desk recently about Natural Water?

The mum was a wee bit hazy about the match, don't you think?

Yeah.

Check with the grounds, see if they did go.

And if she didn't kill Murdo, she's shown a lot of restraint.

Is Blair talking to the press?

This is Sam.

I know her from school.

And I know her from a press conference.

Glad I was memorable.

Wasn't the word I was thinking of.

What have you got?

The news outlet I work for paid Murdo £50,000.

What for?

He had a Natural Water story.

It was supposed to come out today but it's been held back.

I imagine Mel's legal team have been trying to prevent publication.

What's the story?

I'm not senior enough.

Sounded career-ending though.

But, of course, now we've lost the source.

Which Mel will be hoping fatally damages the story.

I mean it gives her a big bloody reason to... Blair.

Would you give us a minute?

Sure.

I'll go and, uh... police.

What do you want?

Nothing.

So this is a free tip-off?

I hope you think I've been useful.

Well, guess we'll see.

Blair will show you out.

You going to bring Mel in?

You need a press officer.

♪ ♪ (phone camera clicks) (phone camera clicks) ♪ ♪ You back, Mum?

♪ ♪ MICHAEL: Murdo was paid a significant sum by a news organization to supply information incriminating to Natural Water.

The credibility of that story is undermined by his death and the person best placed to gain by it is you.

I reject the phrase "best placed."

We've got you arguing with Murdo on tape.

And we've got a gap in your diary at the time of his death.

What did he have on you, Mel?

Natural Water is funded by that water brand you're drinking.

Turned out every time we talked about what comes out of your tap, the bottled water industry benefited.

So, they offered us research money.

Our goals were aligned, so we took their money.

You've still got something to say.

Just now it looks like you're lobbying for a commercial company.

You make pragmatic choices.

I've got a lot of salaries to pay.

So you killed the source of that story.

I was at Spritz three nights ago.

They're based in Aberdeen.

Letting them know the story might come out and they should prepare a response.

Their response was to cut all ties.

They'll have records of my visit.

(knocking) (door opens) Sorry, boss, you've got a visitor.

ANNIKA: She said that she'd finished with therapy so why did she call you?

JAKE: Because she was feeling anxious, didn't know who else to call.

Well, you must think I'm awful.

She wanted me to go over, but, of course, I can't do that.

Oh, I...

I'm-I'm...

I'm so sorry about this.

Don't apologize.

She knew I was gonna be late.

(keypad beeping discordantly) Then I think she's making a point.

What's your system?

Uh, it's historical dates and this one's the Fire of London.

1666.

No, the... no, that's the French Revolution.

(chuckling): 1789 is the French Revolution.

I'll call Michael.

Don't you trust me?

I get three goes and then we get locked in a panic room.

♪ ♪ (keypad beeping affirmative) Okay.

I mean I lobbied for 1397, which was the year Norway entered in to a union with Denmark.

I wouldn't have got that.

So what point is my daughter making?

She's allowing in some difficult emotions.

And because they're difficult, she's taking them out on you.

Why isn't she taking it out on you?

I mean, isn't that what you're for?

Well, up to a point, but also she might be worried about a union between Norway and Denmark.

S-- what?

In the scenario where I'm Denmark.

Oh.

Right, and I'm, um... Yeah.

Yeah, obviously I am.

Which she might find conflicting.

Might or definitely?

She definitely might.

Um, and, um... is such a, a union, um... Ratifiable?

Do you think we'll get to a point where we can talk normally?

(laughing): God, I hope so.

Uh, thank you for coming.

(opens car door) She not giving you a lift?

Doesn't look like it.

Okay.

I get it now.

I don't suppose-- There's a bus stop round the corner.

(Michael's car keys jingling) (car chirps) ♪ ♪ At the end of the Ibsen play, the doctor says, "The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."

And his daughter grasps his hands, lovingly, and with admiration and says, "Father."

I mean, it's easy to write that stuff, isn't it?

♪ ♪ (water trickling) I don't think you should be mad at granddad.

I spoke to him after and he said he was sorry he upset you.

He was just trying to do the right thing.

Wait.

(stammering): Rewind.

What did you just say?

Granddad's just trying to do the right thing.

(engine revving on headphone) Hear it?

A motorbike.

Mm.

That's what the drilling was.

Okay, so, Morgan needs a mother, therapist, and possibly a grandparent, but I'm on the fence about that.

But definitely a friend.

And, you know, she'll get a... a proper one soon, but, in the meantime it seems it's you.

So please be kind to her.

Of course.

What did you find?

Well, his mum died six months ago.

He took some compassionate leave.

It's marked up in his work diary.

Her name was Katrine.

So she was named after the loch.

That's the significance.

And the only one Murdo shared with his father.

Who told us she died years ago.

"M-A" was Ma after all.

Yeah.

Although "makeup artist" was strong too.

We don't know she wasn't one.

He loves them so he helps them.

Even if his son never did.

So there really was something nasty in the water.

Yeah.

I just need to have a quick word with your granddad.

(hammering in next room) (material crumbling) (hammering continues) What do you want?

I don't think you planned it, Rab.

Planned what?

What you did to your son.

On the boat.

I think he said something and you snapped.

♪ ♪ He left them.

And he hurt them.

And then he robbed them, Sandy's money.

I asked him to give it back for his mother's sake.

We were spreading her ashes.

I promised her we'd do it together and I would talk to him.

What did he say?

He said he needed compensating too!

(grunting loudly) And I knew he would keep on doing it over and over... Let's just wait in here.

No, I can't... No, it's fine, honestly.

(grunting) (drops mallet) (breathing deeply) I held his head under.

And he was drunk and stoned, but he... (voice breaking): He was just a wee boy, for a moment.

(crying) And he was struggling.

I felt... Oh, what a thing to do!

What a thing against nature.

Your own blood.

You need to say goodbye to them.

♪ ♪ He was already dead to us, Grandpa.

I know.

As soon as I did it, I knew.

(grunts) (weeping) (car door opens) So, Ibsen got his house servant pregnant, did you know that?

She had a son and apparently he never made any attempt to see him.

You read it.

Read it aloud to the kids.

Are you keying up a joke about how it got them to sleep?

Never, I respect your culture.

Anyway, my eldest went to a counselor at the school for anxiety, I'd forgotten all about it.

Thanks.

Just trying to remember if I slept with his shrink or not.

Okay, that's very good.

I haven't, and I won't.

Yes, you will.

(sighs) (places book down loudly) You're walking home.

(chuckles) So is the water safe to drink or isn't it?

Mm, drink as much as you like, best water in the world.

(door opens) Hi, Morgan.

Final session.

Hello, Miss Strandhed.

Mr. Strathearn.

Oh God...

Okay, well, thanks for what you've done for Morgan.

It was a pleasure.

I'll send my assessment after the session.

What, about this whole experience?

Right, you can have that now, thumbs up.

I see why you get paid big bucks.

(soft chuckle) I've been reading up about the unification of Norway and Denmark, described by historians as 400 years of darkness.

Yeah, there was the odd year that would've been fun, though, right?

Definitely.

Perhaps I should, um... Yeah.

♪ ♪ I mean, that wasn't a no, was it?

♪ ♪ (click) ANNIKA: Marine Homicide is a new unit.

People are still getting their heads around it.

Guess she made some enemies.

ANNIKA: Well, she definitely made one.

So you're going to try and pin her murder on the Black guy?

BLAIR: You don't need to keep proving yourself.

Just trying to be a good cop.

What do you want to do?

MORGAN: Call Jake and see if he can recommend someone else.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Morgan, hi.

And Annika.

The mother.

Guilty.

It's always about the mother, isn't it?

Well, and guilt as well, probably.

At least now you can put a, a face to the source of the trauma.

NICOLA WALKER: Morgan is just starting to, um, enter a really difficult part of her, you know, of her teenage life.

Morgan is very complex, playful character.

She's got a lot going on in her head.

She's kind of going through that awkward stage of growing up and she's going through that teenage stage where she's starting to like people and start to fancy people and she's kind of exploring her sexuality.

And she's discovering alcohol.

I'm being parented with a website about liver damage.

Yes, because no one believes you use vodka as a mouthwash.

NICK WALKER: It's a fascinating and very dynamic age to meet a character.

So the kind of, you know, teens on the brink of kind of adulthood, having to make some choices, but also independent enough so that there's not quite that kind of pull on, on Annika in different sorts of ways.

Best news is that I get taken in a crappy boat to a crappy school to be in a totally crappy play.

NICOLA WALKER: I've uprooted her many times, you realize, because of my career.

Because it's just us two against the world.

Um, we've not... it's not been stable in that way.

The job has dictated quite a lot of moves in their lives.

And this one seems difficult for her this time.

You know what, nothing.

♪ ♪ I'm sorry.

Too late.

Hey, maybe you're having trouble fitting in because you're so chippy!

FURNEAUX: Well, she's got that relationship with her mum, which I can definitely relate to in the fact that you argue like cat and dog and you clash, but, like, you still love each other.

And so I definitely like that kind of side of it.

And I thought it would be really interesting to play someone that has got so much going on in their head like all at once and that she doesn't really know how to sort of deal with it.

And I've obviously...

I've gone through that stage of my life where it's kind of, like, awkward.

You're not old enough to do, like, things that you want to be doing, but you do them anyway.

Like, I don't know, it's like... it's just an awkward stage.

(phone camera clicks) PHILLIP JOHN: She's struggling with a new school, she's struggling with a new house.

She struggles with the fact that Annika can't give her any time, that Annika is always working and sometimes drags her along to interview people, or when really she should be having a young person's life, which is quite difficult of course in the wilds of Scotland.

You know, so... you know, there's a massive weight on Annika.

She tries to keep an eye on Morgan because Morgan can be a bit wayward, she's pushing back, which is perfectly natural and healthy.

But, you know, she's a handful for Annika while she's trying to work and sort things out and then come home and try to have some kind of family life.

It's, it's sort of an impossible balancing act, really.

Why are you being snippy with me?

NICK WALKER: When I was writing the series, I, I do have a teenage, you know, daughter and sort of like recognize that sort of really fascinating, you know, combination of wanting to be independent but still really needing, you know, your parents around for reassurance, and also the concerns that, you know, that a daughter might have for somebody who essentially is, is... her work puts her in contact with murderers every, every single week, you know, and what the concerns are about that.

NICOLA WALKER: She's really worried about her mum and her mum's really worried about her.

So you've got these two people that really love each other.

It seems a very honest portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship.

I think they understand each other really well because it's just been the two of them.

It's not full of screaming angst.

It's not... it's much more complicated and layered than that.

FURNEAUX: They definitely do clash.

But there's definitely some really nice moments between them.

She struggles with her mum being away a lot of the time, especially the work that her mum is involved in.

It, it stresses Morgan out, but there's nothing she can do about it.

Like, it's her mum's job.

She's kind of left alone a lot because her dad's not in the picture.

Her mum never really talks about him or anything like that.

And I think Morgan kind of just accepts it, like, it's kind of just always been her and her mum.

But Morgan, like, she knows that her mum loves her job and she doesn't want to, like, get in the way.

But I think having her dad would help a lot.

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