Bill Spoilers 21st and 22nd January 2009
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 8:00PM - 9:00PM
Teenage Kicks - Part 2
After the body of seventeen-year-old athlete Alistair Ransome is found, beaten to death, in a park, Superintendent Heaton (Daniel Flynn) and DCI Jack Meadows (Simon Rouse) hold an urgent briefing. They explain that Simon Thorn (Daniel West) and his girlfriend, Katie Fielding (Jennie Jacques) are the prime suspects, but concrete evidence is desperately needed.
Heaton decides to hold a press conference, headed up by Simon and Katie, in order to put pressure on them to confess. The teenagers agree to the conference and Simon acts confidentially next to a clearly terrified Katie. However, when it is revealed during the course of the journalist’s questions that the previous suspect Michael Fleming has been released, Simon and Katie are clearly stunned.
As the case continues, CSE Eddie Olosunje (Jason Barnett) explains that Alistair died from a puncture wound to the top of his spine. He has the piece of wood which he believes is the murder weapon but the crucial nail is missing. Fibres from Katie’s jacket were found in Alistair’s wound, but so far there is nothing to connect Simon to the murder and Heaton is determined to find the missing part of the murder weapon.
The bloodied nail is eventually uncovered and Simon and Katie are brought back into Sun Hill where they finally give their versions of what happened the night Alistair was murdered. As Heaton listens in on both interviews, he is stunned when the truth is revealed.
Thursday, 22 January 2009, 8:00PM - 9:00PM
PCs Mel Ryder (Rhea Bailey) and Roger Valentine (John Bowler) are called to a park where two children have found buried human remains. CSE Eddie Olosunje (Jason Barnett) is quickly on the scene and finds a student card belonging to Susan Clark, who went missing in 1988. Eddie’s forensic tests prove that Susan was brutally murdered and DCs Jacob Banks (Patrick Robinson) and Kezia Walker (Cat Simmons) are tasked with telling Susan’s father, Brian (David Peart) and step-mother Heather (Lynn Farleigh), who are horrified to learn that she has been dead for 20 years. Brian explains that he never reported Susan missing as he always thought that she would return home, after storming out of the house after an argument. While Brian and Heather attempt to come to terms with the horrific news, Heather’s son and Susan’s step-brother, Andy Hodges (James Macartney), arrives home and is stunned.
Elsewhere, Banksy meets Susan’s old friend, Liz Flint (Andree Bernard) who admits she accused Susan of sleeping with her boyfriend, Rob Summers (John White). She tells Banksy that the last time she saw Susan, Rob had Susan by her throat. Rob is quickly traced and questioned alongside his friend, Philip Dowson (Simon Gregor). Rob denies threatening Susan so violently and explains that he was angry she lied about them having an affair, while Philip gives Rob an alibi for his whereabouts the night Susan went missing. Back at the station, Heather is interviewed and breaks down when confessing that she caught Susan and Andy in bed together the night Susan went missing. Andy, now the main suspect, is eventually found in the park where Susan’s remains were buried. Drunk and emotional, Andy is questioned but swears he couldn’t have murdered Susan as he was in love with her.
When evidence proves that Andy wasn’t in the country when Susan was murdered, Superintendant Heaton (Daniel Flynn) calls together a briefing and explains to his officers that the case appears to mirror one he worked on 20 years ago, when he had Ian Ellis (James Gaddas) sent to prison for murdering a young woman, Rebecca Clayton. Promising to visit Longmarsh Prison to speak to Ian, the other officers are concerned that Heaton may not be aware of other victims that Ian could have killed and buried.
