Midsomer Murders - Season 19, Episode 4 - Red in Tooth & Claw - Full Episode

[Music] over there okay [Music] right let's find you a good spot shall we dad yeah [Applause] [Music] wow look at that one oh he must be a very special rabbit uh assuming he is a he yes this is hercules well he's beautiful obviously the judges agree well he's been best in show four years running and uh hopefully this will be the fifth do you mind if i take a photo of betty with hercules uh sorry i'd rather you didn't just a quick snap i said no never mind let's go and see the guinea pigs now then let's see what we can do with you eh needs more milk the hurdles need to be cleared away we've lost generator power in the trade area and delphi is bordering on the hysterical seriously i've never seen her as bad as this well it sounds like you need a breakdown oh delphi sorry we were just sorry i was just leaving there's no time for any distractions not this week uh um no i'm sorry he's just not very good at taking no for an answer evidently listen have you given us any more thought not now well these things are always time sensitive tim i'm just thinking about you as all i said not now why are you even here i'm gonna need the small brush to start with oh and how is the returning champion hello fine fine just fine you're slipping timothy you don't usually miss an opportunity to wax lyrical about the greatest rabbit to ever hop the earth come on it's bad sportsmanship if you don't let us get a proper look at the competition you know that's the problem with shows like these full of amateurs who don't know how to mind their own business [Music] so [Music] what are you doing here [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] oh [Music] i am [Music] [Applause] we weren't expecting guests oh well meet bernie the nursery mascot it doesn't explain why he's here it's our turn our turn to take a fun family photo with bernie for the nursery scrapbook fun that sounds ominous yeah well apparently some people take their fun a little bit more seriously than others by some people i'm guessing you mean angela besbrod just because she's a solicitor listen i can cope with her patronizing little chats outside the nursery gate she said something about teachers holidays didn't she how wonderful to have all that time off i only wish i worked till three o'clock whatever do you do with yourself well she's the one with enough time on her hands to take bernie the badger up kilimanjaro really really barnaby okay and where's the crime scene belleville hall i can find it belleville hall we were there yesterday for the pet show is everything okay they found a body in the marquee oh no well you better go now then what are we gonna do with you [Music] i'd like a room yes of course um there are how many nights just a couple but i may stay a bit longer okay i assume you're here for the pet show i'm not is that a problem no no no no not at all uh it's just during the show we have an open door policy when it comes to pets and as my wife keeps reminding me not everyone is an animal lover so perhaps i'll pop you in the annex no no you shouldn't um the air conditioning unit remember it's like a fridge in there i thought josh was saying to that he's waiting on a part fine uh room three then right you know it's just as nice just through the door upstairs hi you checking in what's the name please sprinkles sprinkles they're sorry your name [Music] morning sir morning victim is seb huntington works for the local estate agents his parents live abroad but they've been informed i assume the security guard found the body you'd think so but no it sounds like he's asleep on the job didn't hear or see anything so who found him elsa benson she has a stall at the pet show so she was here early to set up she said she realized something was wrong when she saw some rabbits i'm sorry it's all a little bit alice in wonderland perhaps you should see it for yourself hello i'm dr oliver marsett i'm standing in for dr caramel that's news to me i was all very last minute uh she's been asked to teach in a training course she'll be away for a month a month should we get on well as you can see the scene is pretty contaminated the body has been here all night but we're doing our best cause of death stab wound to the neck i suspect to caught the carotid artery causing rapid exsanguination he'd have been dead within minutes do you know how the killer went about the attack from the position of the wound and the body i'd say he was attacked from the front looks like there was a bit of a struggle at first murder weapon hasn't been left at the scene but i should be able to work out what sort of blade was used i'm going to need at least another hour before i can remove the body understood we'll get uniform to start searching the grounds so do we think the killer also let out all the rabbits and the victim disturbed them possibly or could have been the other way around why would anyone want to release them in the first place at first i just saw the rabbits that was bad enough i mean the damage that's been done they seem pretty happy a little too happy they're not just pets i'm married to a champion breeder so i know how seriously they take it all i suspect a few breeding programs have been ruined overnight ah once the rabbits were loose they probably it is what rabbits are famous for i assume the breeders are also your customers you run a pet supply store that's right and you were here first thing and late last night it's my busiest time of year it was about eight when i finished packing up and you went straight home to my shop in the village i needed to do a stock take can anyone verify that no what about your husband we're not living together at the moment did you see seb huntington at the show during the day he was with tegan tegan langton and she works for the owner of the hall she was seb's girlfriend forcing far too young to have her heart broken i wasn't even that interested at first i thought he was a bit um flash a bit full of himself and i thought he was just passing through on his way to the big time i didn't want to fling with someone that would be here today and gone tomorrow what changed your mind well once you got past the flashiness he was just a really nice guy and he seemed to really fall in love with belleville didn't he i don't think it was the village who was falling lovely to you you were all friends i worked with seba eden and moss these state agents tegan and i are old school friends so last night said was it cu no we didn't have any plans he knew how busy i was but you'd been together earlier well we've managed to get five minutes together but that was it until after the pet show if i'd known it would be our last five minutes so where were you last night um i live in at the house delphi and i were discussing what needed to be done today and then um i went to bed so tired can miss hartley confirm that i don't see why not it's fine at the moment but winter will be upon us before we know it i get that and without the new oil tank the hall will be rather chilly look darling i've ordered the concrete for the base if i can't pay for it i can't do my job can i jesh i can assure you it's not a lack of funds that is the problem it's merely a lack of time taken manages all the finances and with the pet show fine but i need the money by tomorrow [Music] yeah miss hartley dci barnaby coursed in cid this is ds winter i wonder if we might have a word of course [Music] i was dead to the world last night a symphony orchestra could have been playing in my bedroom and i would not have stirred it sounds like the pet show is a great deal of hard work oh it is but i do love it so everybody does everybody everybody it's lovely it's the happiest week of the year well perhaps not this year poor sebastian miss hartley it's possible that someone was trying to sabotage the show i find that very hard to believe and yet the cages were open the animals were loose and there was a dead body amongst them gentlemen there has been a pet show at belleville hall for over 50 years and in all that time we have never had so much as a crossword and is this how you make your living from the pet show good grief now it hardly breaks even in fact if we didn't have our sponsor we'd have to call it a day and so for the rest of the year i'm an author anything we might have read perhaps do you read much historical romance i'm more of a stephen king fan myself you do surprise me so what do you think oh it's all lovely lovely seb huntington the lovely estate agent that's suspicious for a start in a lovely relationship with his lovely girlfriend who works for the lovely pet show which everybody loves lovely except for the dead body covered in rabbits let's go speak to his boss seb huntington didn't just work with you for me he worked for me i'm the branch manager he didn't just work for you he was also seeing your daughter it sounds like it was quite serious yes tigger's very upset i'm heading up to the show to see her shortly but they were both still very young he'd only been in belleville six months and in that time had he crossed anyone any dissatisfied customers any uh house sales that have fallen through anyone being gazumped no no he was doing very well we're gonna need to take this of course help yourself bless you thank you sorry pet allergies i always struggle during show week are you a competitor yes i uh have a rabbit agamemnon his judging class is tomorrow he's a silver fox and you're allergic to him it's something that's developed over the years agamemnon short-haired so i only have a mild reaction to him and i stay well clear of the long head breeds but as long as i keep taking the tablets it's fine this is shrey our lettings agent we met earlier hi oh i'll need the keys for rose cottage the latents have decided to sell but i had a tenant lined up it doesn't matter now does it ah mr varma i didn't ask you earlier but were you at the pet show yesterday yeah i was helping my dad he's a rabbit breeder as well and did you see seb at any time i did actually he was talking to timothy benson any relation of elsa benson yeah he's her husband how would you characterize their conversation was it chatty friendly it looked like an argument to me any idea what they were arguing about look it might be nothing but ever since the benson split up sepp's been trying to get the sale sale the shop in the house seb said that if they were getting a divorce he wanted in on the carve up maybe not quite so lovely ladies and gentlemen thank you for your cooperation you will be able to retrieve your pet shortly what were you discussing with mr huntington i don't really remember perhaps i can jog your memory something about selling your properties as part of your divorce settlement look i'll tell you what i told him we're not getting divorced not yet i'm living temporarily at my daughter's hotel look there's a lot to sort out and the last thing i needed was him hovering over me like some sort of vulture mr benson where were you last night i was at the shop i run with my wife can anyone verify that i was the only one there [Applause] you can let them back in now thank you right well if you'll excuse me i need to go and check on my rabbit [Music] oh somebody help me please please it's an emergency quick please come [Music] mr benson are you okay of course i've now look he's gone hercules has gone someone's taken him [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how much would you pay for a rabbit am i keeping it or eating it you're breeding it i've just had a very interesting conversation with the chair of misper the mid-summer small pets association hercules had been offered out to stud through their rabbit registry a dating agency for rabbits and they say romance is dead timothy benson was offering hercules services at 200 pounds per successful date so hercules could be worth thousands no wonder timothy benson was so distraught so do we think that seb huntington disturbed a thief and not a saboteur well on the sabotage angle i called the editor of the local paper to see if there'd been any complaints or objections these things usually do play out in the local press well actually miss hartley was pretty much telling the truth people love the show it's always front page fluffy bunnies exactly and the only thing i could find in the archive was a letter published back in the 90s it claimed that pet shows were cruel to animals and robbed them of their natural dignity who's this letter from perry trestle he owns the belleville country hotel in the village these days he's also married to elsa and timothy benson's daughter belinda ah the benson family they do keep popping up don't they we already know that either elsa or timothy are liars unless they both manage to do a stock check in their shop without noticing each other go and talk to elsa benson i'll speak to their daughter belinda and to the midsummer animals of people too campaigner valessa it was um quite a few years ago it was about the pet show oh good grief that really was years ago i was a teenager i've been listening to a lot of chumbawamba and the levellers so you support the pet show if anything it supports me it's our busiest time of year look i'm still not a fan of animals in cages which is why we've got an open door policy for animals at the hotel that's quite unusual i should imagine it was my mum and dad's idea i grew up at the hotel i always used to love meeting all the pets during show week hamsters at their breakfast table gerbils in the corridors sam jedick it was to me which is why when my mum and dad passed on and i took this place on i didn't see any reason to change things it would have been nice to hear from my husband that he was filing for divorce but i had to hear it from a jumped up little estate agent you didn't know i hadn't a clue not until seb huntington came oiling asking about room dimensions and council tax bandings have you discussed this with your husband why should i he's the one who walked out if he wants a divorce that's just fine i just wish he'd get it over with and stop stop dragging it out would you like a ham with that how many years have you had a stall at the pet show too many in fact this might be my last year what's that this used to be the most profitable week of the year but with the increased pitch fees i'll be lucky to turn a profit they've gone up they've doubled listen don't let delphi hartley's act fool you correct oh i know she comes across all sweetness and light like when i asked her why the fees were so high this year she told me that she welcomed my feedback but she didn't well considering she's put my stool next to the chemical toilets this year you tell me uh just one more thing mrs benson you told dci barnaby and myself that you were here last night that's right doing a stock check that's right with your husband heavens now you'd have just got under my feet have you got any um paperwork i could look at not really it wasn't a formal stock check just checking things really i see it seems a strange time to do it though you're so busy up at the show working long hours i like to keep on top of things thank you mrs benson [Music] thanks very much thank you he's absolutely beside himself of course maybe it's a blessing in disguise how so well with no rabbit to argue over maybe mom and dad will see sense and get back together they split up over the rabbit and not for the first time it's the same before every show dad gets obsessive mum feels neglected they have a huge row and he walks out it usually doesn't last more than a few days and how long has it gone on this time a couple of months and it doesn't help that the shop's struggling financially what did you do well i coaxed him out with some sweet corn it turns out hamsters love sweet corn i can't believe you've got the nerve to show your face timothy are you okay you were always jealous of him weren't you hercules admired him yes he was a champion yes but you wanted your own champion didn't you couldn't manage it yourself so you decided to take mine mr benson i find uh public accusations tend to do more harm than good if you have any information okay fine fine why don't you tell him how much you offered me for the stud rights to hercules the exclusive stud rights no less is this true what yes i made him enough you see there you go she admits it timothy that's enough if you can't behave in a civilized manner you're not taking her side are you perry i just think your dad needs to calm down yes i agree mr benson if you wish to make a statement oh i believe i just have what are you doing here what do you think i told that i'd get the rabbit food of course you did little daddy's boy i'll bring it when i'm finished fine i'll see you later so uh where do you keep your rabbit food you'll have to come through to the back room [Music] [Applause] morning all of us finish with the pm when you're ready briar's pet foods no longer wish to be associated with the belleville hall small pet show delphi hartley has lost her sponsorship i'm not surprised the show is nothing short of a shambles with organizations so poor it verges on the negligence i am shocked that you would associate yourself with this debacle and will no longer be purchasing any briar's pet food products where did you find that seb huntington's laptop he wrote similar letters to the mid-summer small pets association and some animal welfare charities why not entirely sure but i did find an email correspondence between seb and the regional manager of eden and moss estate agents or as seb likes to call him uncle peter [Music] [Music] well the rabbit food all right jesus is getting it jayish yeah you said he'd bring it when he was done we're done with what oh never mind i don't want to know i'm sorry son he's pain killers i don't know whether i'm coming or going it's okay dad it's all right you know what will make you feel better right winning best in show and with hercules out of contention come on you know timothy must be feeling and i'd rather win fair and square yeah i know but whoever took that rabbit is no friend of mine do you understand yeah of course i do cause of death was as i theorized stab wound to the neck puncturing the carotid artery he would have bled out pretty quickly any thoughts about the weapon it's a double puncture wound inflicted by two pointer blades simultaneously two blades scissors open scissors that would be consistent the blades were long and thin possibly hairdressing scissors or grooming scissors a rabbit fancy is using for trimming fire that makes sense doesn't really narrow things down there must be dozens of pairs at the show thank you dr mossette have you uh you heard from cam yeah she called earlier to check up on things you having a good time well have you ever been on one of those residential courses a long time ago well then you know what they're like more play than work [Laughter] yeah well when your boss wants you to give his nephew a job look it pulled off a couple of good sales suddenly his salesman of the year then he wasn't satisfied with what he had on his own books he wanted what was on mine too including belleville hall oh i had no idea he was sniffing around belleville hall if i had i could have told him he's wasting his time why i have been working on delphi for years the place is far too big for her i mean it must cost her a fortune just to keep it ticking over but every time i've tried to talk to her about selling i get the same answer a hard no how much do you think that had to do with the pet show oh everything i mean i've said we can find a new venue but she says it wouldn't be the belleville hall pet show unless it was at belleville hall how did you feel when your daughter started seeing seb tegan's a smart girl should have seen through him eventually though you couldn't be sure of that could you where were you last night mrs langton i was here working alone tim i want to talk to you i was sorry to hear about hercules i know how much he meant to you oh here we go no no i wasn't having a go i promise i don't think you should be working not after a shock like that that's that's very decent of you just because we're doesn't mean i've stopped caring thank you [Music] [Music] uh [Music] delphi hartley said that the pet show barely broke even and without sponsorship it would be all over it's a big house for one woman and her assistant and without the pet show she has no real reason to stay you think seb hunting had worked that out i think that's why he was trying to scupper the sponsorship deal and that would explain something a forensics have just sent through they found multiple prints on the handles for the cages in the marquee not surprisingly but they found multiple examples of one set the victims seb huntington was sabotaging the show to get delphi hartley to sell the hall check out the benson's conflicting alibis i'll talk to miss hartley meet me back at the pet show [Music] cleo i'm not sure it's a good idea for you to be here i need to look at the register okay oh he's here what's going on room three i'm gonna need you to show me his room ah no i can't do that oh please perry i'll explain everything please just trust me come on [Music] minibar oh something i suppose oh now i've got a viewing cleo what is going on do you remember i told you once that i had to tell a terrible lie to protect someone i do it's him what are you gonna do i don't know but now i've got to go so thank you perry i'm sorry i was just about to give lizzy a little bar ready for her big day but i'm sure i can spare a few moments not writing no the muse isn't with me today i understand she hasn't been with you for quite some time miss hartley i'm sorry i spoke to your literary agent she told me that your latest manuscript has been rejected by your publishers no no not rejected simply been asked to make some revisions it's a new editor she's keen to make her mark she wants me to explore more contemporary themes contemporary she wants me to put in a bit more smut a delay in publication means a delay in payment doesn't that leave you in a financially precarious position i'm sure i'll manage and yet you've already had to put up pitch fees for this year's show i've kept them down as long as i could and a house of this size the running costs must be considerable why is everybody obsessed with money and costs these days i find it so distasteful has someone else been showing an interest in your finances seb huntington by any chance i suppose it's an occupational hazard even tegan was getting tired of all his questions [Music] who lives here through here mr lewis i thought we'd um start in the kitchen mr lewis [Music] but i've already told you i just need you to confirm it were you in the shop last night no he wasn't he was in here really propped up the bar all night long is this true oh he always gets like this during the pet show literally doesn't know what day the week it is dear dad thursday see clearly a confusing time what did you say that for uh in case you haven't noticed i pretty much do everything in this place i am the barmaid the chambermaid the receptionist the night porter which is why i know that you didn't return to your bedroom until the early hours of the morning right care to explain why listen you don't have to worry about anything okay i've got everything under control dad that's not an answer dad 15 years errol 15 years how did you expect me to react well i didn't expect you to try to run me over that was a warm welcome compared to what i've imagined doing to you since you left well i probably would have deserved it back then right oh sorry is this the bit where you tell me you've changed yeah because i have no i'm not the man i was cleo the drinking everything now that is all gone i know i've said all that before cut to the chase errol i want to see her no no i don't think that's your choice to make not anymore i'm gonna see her with or without your blessing [Music] that was just a little too convenient what belinda trestle suddenly providing her father with an 11th hour alibi you and your suspicious nature well one of the benson families lying about where they were when seb huntington died only one of them i'm looking for perry haven't you seen enough of him today i don't have time for the green eyed monster today belinda is he here no sorry oh i'm sorry this air is not open to the public you can't be here sorry i didn't mean to frighten you i'm looking for tegan why what do you want i just want to talk to her i just want to talk to my daughter no jayish not today i haven't got the patience where have i heard that before whatever honestly you and your dad have wasted enough of my time sounds about right always in too much of a rush to think about other people aren't you [Music] you better come in before you say anything i need you to know that everything i did everything was for the best you told me my father was dead to protect you to protect yourself to save yourself from having to explain she didn't need to know of course i did he's my father i needed to know what he was going through going through well he was going yes of course sorry this is about your pain and your suffering you haven't changed one iota have you i think that's quite enough thank you delphi this is between me and my daughter my daughter not yours don't you dare speak to delphi like that she has been more of a mother to me than you have how can you say that well for one thing you must have known what seb was up to but you never spoke to me about it would you have listened that's not the point you know it i think you should go deacon you heard the girl [Music] it's all arranged [Music] oh no [Music] tim i wasn't expecting to see you again today oh clearly i can explain oh i bet you can [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] paddy you didn't you did oh no sarah it's probably not as bad as it looks we'll tell that to angela blooming best brode she took bernie up a mountain and he barely lost a stitch five minutes in the barnaby household and look at him it's been a bad week for small animals first the rabbit napping and now a dog on badger hate crime someone stole a rabbit from the petcher not just any rabbit a champion rabbit oh no not hercules well yes how did you know well we met him betty and i i would show you the photos but nizona wouldn't let me take any really you think he would have been proud of his prize-winning bunny yes you would i'd better get going i'm sure you can deal with all this no signs of trauma or struggle she appears to have died of respiratory distress but until i can do a pm i'm not prepared to confirm that and if i told you that cleo langton had an allergy to rabbits recent development adult onset allergies are not that unusual and can be quite severe i put an urgent request in for her medical records so this might not be a murder it could just be a bad asthma attack i want everything here bagged and catalogued of course were the car windows shut when she was found yes check the air vents we'll do evidence bag please let's see who cleo langton was speaking to over the last few days [Music] she appears to have had an extreme allergic reaction rabbits of course it's all right love i'm here i don't believe we've been introduced errol judd tegan's father and cleo langton's ex-husband i presume that's right do you live in midsummer mr judd no thailand i'm just over for a visit and when did you arrive back in the country a couple of days ago i'm staying at the hotel in the village had you had any contact with your ex-wife since your return i saw her yesterday where here at the hall a family reunion no not really things got a little heated i told her to go i want a background check run on errol judd leo langton's ex-husband i didn't think he was in the picture anymore he's back interesting timing anything on cleo langton's phone most of her calls were to her clients but she'd had a series of calls with a law firm here in corsten she oversaw house sales there's always plenty of legal paperwork involved in that but this firm specializes in litigation and negligence cases someone was suing cleo langton who drew varma i also found this the last text message the victim received before she died who the hell do you think you are i'm going to make you pay yeah that only sounds bad because she's ended up dead it was just a threat when cleo langton was still drawing breath now it sounds a bit like a promise okay yeah i was angry with her but i didn't kill her angry about your father's court case there wasn't gonna be a court case that's already settled it's over jay how can it be over look at what she did to him and i can't believe you were still working for her it was an accident a preventable accident dad i used to think you're the strongest man in the world so did i and then i fell off a roof and how was cleo langton involved in that well she wanted a quick sale on the house i told her the chimney needed repointing she asked me to sort it before the surveyor turned up i told her i need to wait for the right kind of scaffolding and she told him that either he got up a ladder or we'd never do any work for edenmoss again she forced him to work in unsafe conditions and what about the settlement figure were you happy with it it's fine it's an insult dad it just about covers his legal costs i couldn't face dragging it through the courts for another couple of years i just wanted it over with if you could have hung on what do you mean weed that's the one in constant pain i know that's why i think you know what i think i think you should concentrate on not running my business into the ground i might not be much use on sight but i can still look at the books yes dad i just don't know what to do what to say he's in pieces see what i mean this can't just be about hercules being stolen oh i can't stand it you've got to do something mum and what do you suggest well i've no idea i've got my own problems to deal with darling what's wrong just had enough of perry always going to cleo for advice on this place and now she's dead i want him to realize i have ideas too i just want him to listen to me mum i know the feeling believe me so i've decided to make him listen to me cleo was here yesterday but not for long she had a viewing she was also busy were you and ms langton good friends we were when my mum and dad died and i took on this place she helped with all the legal stuff she was amazing and she's been there for me ever since i don't know how i'm going to run this place without her input thank you mr tressel is your father-in-law in the hotel at the moment tinky please i don't want it i was perfectly happy with what i was already drinking oh here we go why can't a man have a drink in peace we need to talk to you about cleo langton yes yes i'm very sad really because i was here when you accused her of stealing hercules so so were you aware of her allergies yes but that was just one of the reasons why she should never have been allowed anywhere near rabbits mr benson i do hope you're taking this seriously i've already had calls to question your alibi for the night seb huntington died oh no um she explained uh belinda explained yes she did let me take this opportunity to remind you all that lying to the police and obstructing justice is a criminal offence if there's anything that any of you feel the need to tell me now is your chance [Music] look it needs to stop for dad's sake what are you on about i know what you're up to and i know she's married so that's her problem typical not thought for anyone else but yourself at least i had to get what i want brav man up good afternoon you were right about the vents we found rabbit hair in them could it have got there accidentally not unless the victim groomed her rabbit in the car seems unlikely my theory is that someone put it there to trigger anaphylaxis this is what i don't understand she was around rabbits all the time it's about concentration it's the reason peanuts are banned on some airlines these days for a nut allergy sufferer if they're sat in a beer garden and someone opens a packet of dry roasted no problem but on a plane with recirculated air it could prove fatal and like rabbit hair in a small car our victim's respiratory system just shut down what i don't understand is why she didn't have any medication on her according to her gp she had prescriptions for inhalers antihistamines as well as the epinephrine auto injector but there was nothing in her bag not even a cough suite well if the murder had access to her car maybe they had access to a handbag is there any way we can identify which rabbit the fur came from a dna test something like that the fur was cut not pulled or shed so the chances of finding a viable dna sample is negligible but if i call in a couple of favors i might be able to confirm the rabbit's breed and how quickly could you do that i'll see if i can put a rush in it i'd appreciate that thank you oh sorry i was just on my way out this won't take long i was going to see tegan she shouldn't be on her own her father's with her father i thought he was dead the rumors of his demise had been greatly exaggerated apparently we're tracing cleo's movements yesterday she had a viewing in the afternoon yeah at rose cottage with mr lewis are there any details did he leave a phone number an address tomorrow it has to be tomorrow are you sure after cleo yeah that's why we need to get this done just the man just wondering if you had any idea when you were gonna get that part what part for the air conditioning unit for the annex i've no idea what you're talking about and i'm a builder not an electrician sir this has just come through harold judd has quite the criminal record hmm mostly drink related public order offences a couple of driving burns and a subsequent conviction for uh driving while disqualified nothing violent though still i think i'd like to speak to him again follow up on mr lewis and i want you to take a look at rose cottage you could be where the killer tampered with cleo langton's car speak to the neighbors see if any of them noticed anything out of the ordinary sir [Music] so next up it's here and perseus i wanted to reconnect with my daughter but i didn't know what i might be walking into although i never expected well cleo told teagan i was dead imagine how it felt to hear that you tell me i was heartbroken for almost 15 years i was nothing more than a footnote in my daughter's life well that's all about to change you have an interesting police record mr judd hmm that tends to happen when you're a raging alcoholic are you now in recovery yes after a long journey down the road leading to tyler oh i went through all the usual detox programs grubby hospital wards and grey rooms i finally realized i'd have to travel further afield to find my serenity i have been sober now for three years congratulations now that you have reconnected with your daughter what are your plans well but obviously what happened to cleo has put things into perspective obviously i ideally i'd like to take teagan back to thailand with me and how does teagan feel about this i haven't broached the subject yet but it's all about the timing it is mr judd just one more thing were you aware of your ex-wife's allergies no what a terrible way to die [Music] [Music] i get my jacket sarah was just speaking to cam sounds like she's having a great time she probably won't want to come home that's not exactly what she said she said she's learning a lot on the course but she's a bit bored in the evenings ah that's a shame did she um she said anything else about what okay let's go oh i almost forgot she asked how you would do i think bernie needs rescuing what oh bertie no the scissors tested positive for blood residue i think we have our murder weapon well done any thoughts on the engraving on the blade 18th of july 2012 well certainly isn't any of our suspects birthdays wedding anniversary maybe any news on clio's final house showing are we any nearer to finding the elusive mr lewis we're drawing a blank so far the phone number and address given for the viewing both false but we'll we'll keep looking into it can all exhibitors make their way to the show tent judging will commence shortly hey been looking for you how are you doing i wish i was a rabbit i'll care in the world primped and pampered and fussed over well i could give you a comb out if you like you know trim your nails for you you cheer me up well that's what i'm here for do you think sharok's in with chance this year i hope so dad needs a win with hercules out of the competition no you you do anything for your dad but you didn't what hercules no sorry no i'm sorry i'm sorry of course not can you forgive me always they're grooming scissors i've sold dozens of pairs over the years but i couldn't tell one pair from another even if they were engraved engraved with what a date 18th of july 2012. does that mean anything to you i can't say it rings any bells sorry thank you mrs bence all right oliver he's had a result on the rabbit fair good luck to all of today's competitors make sure you've signed in at the reception tent hi i wondered if we could have a talk how are you feeling how do you think sorry stupid question i'm not very good at this no you're not okay i have to go back to thailand fine i've managed without you before i'll manage again i want you to come with me why would i do that why wouldn't you because i have a life here a job oh think about it teagan you know for how long can you fetch and carry for her i mean run this silly pet shop no no i know you've lost your boyfriend you lost your mother you think you can replace them i never said that i just i am so sorry i wasn't there for you i came back to offer you a better life really because everything was fine i had my boyfriend i have my mum i had my job running a silly pet show and then you turned up i know it seems like that why would going to thailand with you make anything better for me congratulations to sprinklers looking good she is beautiful coach she's a french lap isn't she that's right i didn't think that you were an enthusiast a recent interest fur from a french lock was found in cleo langton's car it's what caused her death well it couldn't have been lizzie's fur we checked the other entries the only rabbit that matches that description is lizzy does she seem to have any fur missing no apart from you and tegan does anyone else have access to her everybody who comes to the house she's anybody's for a cherry tomato thank goodness she can't understand if she thought for one second she was implicated in a murder yes thank goodness would you say you and tegan are close she started out as an employee but now she's family like a daughter perhaps i like to think so was there ever any tension between yourself and cleo over your relationship with tegan no not really i think we both had tegan's best interests at heart but did cleo have your best interests at heart she did try to make you sell the hall but she did not succeed my ownership of belleville hall has never been in question now if you don't mind the judging is underway i just need a little more of your time the 18th of july 2012. does that date mean anything to you yes the pet show is usually around that time any other significance well if i remember correctly it was hercules first show he was a winner from the very start now gentlemen if you will excuse me how much are you willing to bet that timothy benson wanted something to remember his first big win with hercules bye oh a great deal hello [Music] [Music] [Music] he's done it we need to talk i've got nothing more to say to you why don't you have a chat with jay ash varma that's not important now tim oh isn't it does he know timothy for once in your life will you just listen i know what you've done what it's okay we can sort it out if we can just get our stories straight oh yes i bet you're good at that tim i am trying to help i don't need your help and the winner of the final people chase is socrates [Applause] yes if those are mine and when did you last see them a couple of days ago i left them in the marquee but then with hercules going missing i completely forgot about them and the engraving they were a gift from my wife to celebrate my first best in show victory reminder of a time when she actually gave a damn about me you're very welcome to keep them i can assure you that we will [Music] how's the temperature i spoke to jayesh i know there's nothing wrong with the air conditioning unit i just want you to tell me what you've been up to it was supposed to be a surprise i think we've had enough of those to last a lifetime don't you i know how much you love having the animals to stay in the hotel during the pet show yeah i don't know how much you hate them well it's not the animals that i hate it's the cleaning up after them but i know that you'd love to see the animals run free so i thought we could come up with a compromise i thought we could advertise ourselves as a pet-friendly hotel throughout the entire year what do you think i love it i i just don't understand why you had to keep it a secret uh because you have never trusted me with anything to do with the hotel if i've ever wanted to change anything other than the sheets you've always had to run it past cleo that's not fair really so if i'd have told you this idea you wouldn't have waited to get her approval before giving me the go-ahead i just i knew i could always rely on her well from now on you'll have to rely on me she looks happy she does doesn't she i wish i didn't have to be the one to spoil it for her marquee company they're threatening to come and take the thing down was the show's still going on i can't do that let them it's the least of delphi's worries it's keeping the hall open it's the real problem the concrete for the oil tank is turning up today but i've had to pay for it with my own money tegan you shouldn't have to do that no i shouldn't well maybe i'll take my dad open his office a few weeks in thailand sounds pretty good right about now a few months sounds even better congratulations thank you we're positively thrilled someone's getting extra tomatoes tonight trey could you give us a moment yeah of course i'll see how dad's getting on what is it dear well i've been going through the figures and without the sponsorship money we're in serious trouble you're in serious trouble because even if you persuade the publisher to go ahead with the new book my mum was right you're going to have to sell the hall no no no i can help we can find you a nice little cottage with a garden for lizzie but what about you i'll be fine maybe i'll go to thailand with my dad no there's no need for that i have a way come on it's been my guilty secret for years i come down here whenever i need a moment to myself i find them so calming i think it's because they were my mother's oh she was so glamorous so chic but of course these days they're quite beyond the pale but i couldn't bear to part with them so i keep them down here but now i understand they might be worth a great deal of money they've gone someone's taken them my mother's first who'd do something like this and you'd had the first value well some of the first were vintage pieces worth a couple of thousand pounds maybe more but they're very delicate they need to be kept somewhere cold so they don't shed i do hope whoever took them knows that the door hasn't been forced someone had a key there's only one key i have it here i keep it in my desk drawer is that drawer locked no miss hartley your home has been open to the public for the last few days have you seen anyone hanging around back here perhaps they saw you coming out of the cellar oh miss hartley i'm so sorry teagan but your father no you're right he was back here and he's been in the house it's a serious accusation to make against your father earlier today he asked me to come with him to thailand he said that there was nothing left for me here that's simply not true is it and where is your father now [Music] hello linda harry [Music] who's that [Music] all right come on get out hey i wouldn't put your hands on me i'm warning you and i'm warning you keep your nose out of my business what are you trying to hide dad what's he talking about nothing if he knows what's good for him you have no idea who you're messing with you understand i think you better leave yeah i think he needs help yes that's true but still dad what were you thinking what he's a guest well i can't dad i don't talk to me what on earth dad we need to speak to errol judd is he here i haven't seen him which room is [Music] here his luggage is still here check the wardrobe can you open this yeah there's a master coat thank you some thai currency driving license is passport and two boarding passes two you know one in his name and one in the name of tegan langton so is she leaving with him that looks like it hang on a driving license i thought he was disqualified yeah he is apparently michael lewis is not mr lewis that's who cleo langton had her rose cottage appointment with perry oh perry i think dad has finally flipped and what makes you say that he was fighting by the sheds with errol judd hercules did errol judd leave with your father no before him i don't know where he was going but your father might any idea we'll find him i don't know i don't know anything anymore thank you [Music] in the syrian hamster class the judges were particularly impressed by the winners clear markings good proportions and a winning personality and the winner is xena warrior princess and now for the final prize but first i would just like to take a moment to thank you all for coming each year it's meant so much to me and also thank the one person without whom this show would not happen tegan i do hope she knows how important she is to the show and to me and now for the moment we have all been waiting for the prize for best in show so oh the winner is shahrukh owner drew congratulations and one more that's great congratulations oh thank you but i think he's done all the hard work where's shrey he'll be over the moon he's been a bag of nerves all week thinks the world of you oh yeah well i know there's someone who thinks more of [Music] mr benson we just met the famous hercules it's not what you think i think we should discuss your whereabouts on the night that seb huntington died perhaps you should put the box down no no i'm fine how long have you been back there long enough oh tim what have you done you're the one who's been skulking around with the builder mrs benson what exactly is it you think your husband has done isn't it obvious the scissors the lies he killed seven i did what and i drove him to it i'm sorry i'm so sorry but when i told you it was me or the rabbit you weren't supposed to choose hercules is that him perhaps you'd care to join us i knew it tim i just wanted to hurt you like you'd hurt me he's nothing to me all right love i just wanted you for your chest freezer what what does that even mean and for your information i didn't kill anyone how could you even think that you've been acting so strangely and it's been going on for weeks the drinking but skulking about belinda's been worried too well that wasn't why oh for goodness sake mr benson in a matter of weeks i'd lost everything my wife my home my pride and then on top of all that i lost the one thing that could still make me happy it happened the day after we had the row the day after i walked out i went to his hutch and he was just and the rabbit that was taken from the show a last-minute replacement and a pale imitation i'd already taken the stud freeze i just needed a rabbit who could perform then i got greedy i thought i could try and pass him off at the show but hercules was a celebrity rabbit people wanted a closer look photographs even i just wanted to be part of it a few days in the year when people treated me with respect i actually cared about what i had to say oh tim i felt sure cleo had worked it out i had to find a way of withdrawing from the competition without raising suspicion so i i decided that hercules too needed to disappear and that's when you killed seb what no why'd you keep saying that one other question did either of you have access to delphi hartley's cellar hmm i'll check the freezer elsa what have you done [Music] i'm sorry tim i was just trying to keep the shop going can you forgive me we'll have to see so timothy was the rabbit napper elsa and jaish are the fur thieves so where's errol judd not on his way back to tyler and not without his passport or his daughter said we think this is about teagan someone cutting her ties to midsummer her boyfriend her mother or is someone trying very hard to keep her close not this one [Music] [Music] tegan [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] duffy is that the new book why i've written over 30 books and some would say i have written the same book 30 times i like my stories and my characters but if nobody wants my books anymore what's the point in writing them i'm going to sell the hall i think it's a good idea [Music] i am going to need you more than ever please don't go to thailand no i won't either i'll stay here for you and there's someone else i'm staying for bless you [Music] check the house and ground i'll check the show can i help you are you okay yes i'm fine do you know where your father is no [Music] so you need to get around to the back of the hall stop straight you come any closer now push the button you need to let tegan's father go shrey you need to stop this now before it gets any worse for you dad teagan no please don't hurt why not he hurt you he left you trey please you're scaring me he doesn't care about you teagan not like i do he just wants to take you away i'm i'm not going anywhere i'm staying here with selfie with you [Music] i was gonna talk to you tell you how i really felt do you remember your birthday i took you to our favorite place yeah at the the picnic i remember it was perfect the perfect place the perfect time to finally say it and then seb called you and you told him to join us but i i didn't realize no it's okay because then i knew what i had to do i just needed to get the moment back but i couldn't do that while sam was still around son what did you you couldn't see what he was really like the way he used people to get what he wanted he lied all the time and then you caught him in the marquee ruining all tegan's hard work he didn't care about what he'd done he just wanted the sale and then he was going to leave and take you with him if only timothy benson hadn't left those scissors lying around there would have been a lot of blood but luckily you had somewhere to go to clean up rose cottage you still had the keys the next morning until cleo took them you killed my mom i couldn't be sure about what she'd found i couldn't take that risk i tried to make it look like an accident i tried to make this all as easy on you as i could easy she was lying to you teagan all those years about your dad a liar like seb i'm not like them i never do that to you i trusted you i thought you were my best friend and i don't know maybe they could have been the future between us they still can take it taken taken down please trayvon i'm arresting you for the murders of seb huntington cleo langton and the attempted murder of errol judd dad dad i'm sorry i've let you down son you didn't i must have look at you look at what you've done if only he'd got his perfect moment if he was too scared of rejection to tell tegan how he really felt maybe he didn't deserve her after all faint heart never one fair maid [Music] oh am i doing that one tricky to it's a [ __ ] who's that come here come here oh there we go okay come on we've got to get this back to the station in an hour let's get this photo taken out one for you and one for bernie look at the lady over there look say [Music] cheese foreign you

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