Page 246 of Murder in the Family

For heaven’s sake, what did he say?

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

Let’s take a look, shall we?

Screen changes to INTERVIEW with Ian Wilson. He’s sitting at a marble-topped table in a beachside bar. There are palm trees, low-rise houses with a gabledDutch feel, and in the distance shimmering orange dunes. He’s tanned, in a cream linen shirt, with sunglasses propped on his head, a negroni on the table and a cigarette smoking in an ashtray. His blond hair is thinning and he’s got even heavier, but the confidence and self-assurance remain.

MITCHELL CLARKE

Where is that?

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

(glancing across)

Swakopmund. On the coast of Namibia. That’s where he’s been living. I’d never been before but I can see why he chose it – great climate, nice people—

HUGO FRASER

(caustically)

I’m sure. And the absence of an extradition treaty with the UK no doubt only added to the attraction.

CUT TO: INTERVIEW, shown on the screen in the room, so we see the reaction of the team throughout.

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

So, Ian, why are you breaking your silence now, after all these years? You must have known the police have been wanting to talk to you for nigh-on two decades.

IAN WILSON

Of course – but ‘on the advice of my lawyers I declined to comply’. As they say in American cop shows.

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

Until now.

IAN WILSON

Right.

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

So what changed your mind?

IAN WILSON

I’ve been watching your series, just like everyone else. Seeing all your little theories about how it went down. And then when you announced there was going to be some sort of shit-hot big reveal and the finale was delayed I put out some feelers and found out the Met were on the point of arresting that girl. Amelie.

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

And you think they’ve got the wrong person, is that it?

IAN WILSON

I bloodyknowthey have.

NICK VINCENT (Producer)

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