JESS:Do you really have to go to work?
I don't have a choice.
[Betsey crying] - You will be okay. Oh...
You will be okay. You will be okay.
[Betsey continues crying]
Boys, are you excited to show off your baby sister?
BOTH:Yeah!
[Betsey continues crying]
CHILD:Mum, where's the butter?
Just a minute. I am coming down.
[Betsey continues crying]
No! No!
Betsey. Betsey!
[Betsey continues crying]
I am a bad mother.
A bad, bad mother.
[Betsey continues crying]
[music fades]
[monitor beeping]
You off? - Yeah.
I hope you have a quiet one.
I am gonna say goodnight to Betsey.
Okay. See you.
[phone ringing]
Hello?
[monitor beeping]
Shit!
When did you last do your rounds? - Ten, 11 minutes ago.
Betsey was in her bed? - Yes, of course.
She should still be there. - She is gone.
Look, we need to tell security.
Call the police. - No. Not yet. Not yet!
Why not? - Because she might
be with her mum. She won't have gone far.
This is madness. That baby is under police protection.
Please, Sheila, just do what I say.
Have you seen Mrs Carrisford? - No.
[breathing heavily]
Baby abduction. Notify security.
All staff to man main exit doors.
Put me through to the police.
Oye.
[Indistinct chatter]
Make sure you have checked the CCTV.
[Indistinct chatter]
Jess!
[siren wailing]
[baby crying]
Jess.
Jess?
Jess. Jess, please.
Let's just talk.
Please talk to me.
Jess...
They were gonna take her.
I am going to protect her.
Yeah. No, I know you did. I know you did.
But this is not the way to do it. Please.
Betsey's condition is still really serious, Jess.
And we can't monitor her when she is out here.
We can't... we can't help her if she has another seizure.
We have got no oxygen or anything. Please.
Jess, I know you wouldn't want to hurt her.
[Betsey fussing]
It's just... wait. Just give me a minute.
Gimme a minute.
Please, Jess, just open the door. Let's talk.
Unlock the door.
Okay.
Please, I promise, I promise I will take care of her.
I am never gonna forgive you for this.
Well, that's a shame.
I am sorry you feel like that, Jess, because
[Betsey crying]
I believe you.
Jess, I know, I know you didn't hurt Betsey.
Please.
I know. Come on.
I know. Come on. It's okay.
It's okay. There's a good girl.
Well done, Jess.
[Betsey continues crying]
It's okay, baby. It's okay.
OFFICER: Can you please step out of the vehicle?
It's bedtime.
That's it. Come on. Night-night.
Sweet dreams.
DC RUSTIN:Stand up, please, Mrs Carrisford.
Jessica Carrisford, I am arresting you
for abducting a child in care.
You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention when questioned
something which you later rely on in court.
Anything you do say may be given in evidence.
Be gentle with her.
I don't think Jess even knew what she wanted to do
when she took Betsey.
I don't think she was thinking that far ahead.
I...
I think she believed that just in that moment
Betsey needed her more.
Charl, this can't be a repeat of Friday.
You know what? You can't actually kick me out tonight.
Remember? The safety plan.
I legally have to be here. Bad luck!
Just don't tell Rustin that you are sleeping over.
He is already convinced we are having an affair.
What? The bar!
The copious amounts of alcohol.
I can see how he reached that conclusion.
Eddie. - Hm?
Andrew, he is a really wonderful man.
I mean, we don't even fight, but he is not um...
He is not...
He is not you!
So, I don't know how you feel. Okay?
But for me, it's always been the same.
I can't bear seeing you like this.
And so I am just, I am going to say it.
I am going to say it out loud, and then it's just done, okay?
Yeah.
I am in love with you.
I love you, Ed.
I always have.
And...
I am... Yeah, I am prepared to leave Andrew for you.
Oh, Charlotte.
Oh, my God.
I am... I am so sorry.
Charlotte.
You are my dear, dear friend. I think the world of you.
But I do love Jess.
I am going to do everything I can to protect her
and be there for her.
I am sorry, but, you and I, that... this can't happen.
[phone ringing]
It's Liz. You should...
LIZ:Ed? - Yeah.
Jess has been arrested. She tried to take Betsey.
What? - Baby's okay, though.
Oh, my God. Okay.
Jess just tried to abduct Betsey.
Ed? - Go on. Where's Jess now?
All right. Thank you. Thanks, Liz.
Hello?
ROB:You're home then?
Yeah. I want to see Connor. - Oh.
Feeling guilty?
No. - He doesn't want to see you.
I need to ask him about what happened today.
Has he told you anything?
I don't want a bully for a son. - Connor's not a bully.
You sure about that, are you?
Yeah.
Did you take money out of my account?
My card got declined today. - Yeah, I did.
I needed to top up the mortgage payment.
But I will put some money into your account later.
My phone's not working.
Well, I forgot to pay the bill.
Are things really that bad?
I don't know why you just won't let me get a job.
Um...
Doing what exactly?
Sorry, remind me what it is that you are qualified to do.
Where are you going? Come on. - To see Connor.
Well, bad luck, cos he is at my sister's, so...
What, don't you believe me?
Andrew, what is going on? How far did she get-
They won't even tell me why they have arrested
- Ed,
go home.
You are not doing anyone any good here.
I am not gonna leave!
I have just spoken to the duty sergeant and they have told me
they are not going to interview her tonight.
They are going to... they are going to keep her?
They can keep her for 24 hours.
Go be with your boys.
Yeah, all right.
JESS:Bad, bad mother.
[Betsey crying]
NURSE:Female, active labour, 39 weeks.
JESS:What's happening?
NURSE:Baby is stuck.
[Jess screaming]
NURSE:Push now! We need to get her out.
No!
JESS:Is she dead?
NURSE:Placenta won't detach. She is bleeding out.
[flatline tone]
[door opening] ANDREW:Jess.
Oh, thank God.
Oh, Andrew. - How are you?
I brought you some food and a proper coffee.
Thank you.
Now, if you agree to instruct me,
I will act as your legal representative today.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Her lawyer's arrived.
So, current timeline we are working to.
Friday after school,
Jess is at home alone with their two youngest.
She claims that Betsey slips, bumps her head on the fridge.
But SOCO found no DNA evidence backing this up.
Their eldest, Kit, arrives home at 6:45 from football.
And Jill Baker, the parent who dropped Kit off,
hears the baby crying from the driveway.
But Jess claims that she puts the kids to bed as normal.
She turns in herself around nine.
Ed gets home at ten, inebriated, finds the baby in distress.
Raises the alarm. - Anything else?
I asked Financial Investigations to expand their check.
Look at the time of that transaction.
Whose card was used? - Jessica Carrisford.
Have we sent a PCSO to pull CCTV?
Yeah. For now, we have got to focus on this interview.
What are you thinking?
I think the Carrisfords lived a very charmed life
until child number three.
That's when everything started to fall apart.
Are we looking at a violent mother
who hurt her child on purpose?
Or a desperate woman who accidentally lost control?
Yeah, I mean, either way,
she put her sick child at serious risk
by snatching her from ICU last night.
Hmm. Oh, last thing. - Yeah?
Her lawyer, Andrew Hinman, married to Charlotte Hinman.
Quite the tight knit, well-to-do social circle, isn't it?
Now, I have to ask, has anyone interviewed you
since you were taken into custody? - No.
Has anyone made you sign anything?
Have you said anything to the police
that I need to be made aware of, when they brought you in?
Like what? What are you suggesting?
It's just all a big blur, last night. I don't remember much.
Jess, I am here as your friend, but I am also your lawyer now.
I will protect you, but you have to be completely honest with me.
Of course.
So, is there something that you want to tell me?
Something you haven't told anyone
about what happened?
They weren't looking after her.
[bell ringing]
Anyway, I should get him in.
[Indistinct chatter]
F***k's sake, Rob. Why did you rush them in?
Oh, steady. - I wanted to talk to Connor.
I wanted to say goodbye. - I am sorry.
You knew that! - Sorry, I didn't see you.
And I am not a mind-reader. - Why are you doing this?
Doing what? What are you talking about?
I am really sorry about this. - Sorry.
What are you talking about? I have been waving the kids off to school.
You know, it's really hard for them not to feel abandoned,
yeah, when their mum's just left them.
You are punishing me. - What?
All I am doing is helping our friends out for a few days. - Mel,
you are my partner, and I love you,
and I want you to come home tonight,
or just don't f***g bother coming back at all.
No, do you know what, Rob? I am not doing this any more.
I have had enough!
Mel! Hey, Mel. Mel.
You are coming home with me. Come on.
There you go, love. - Thank you.
Nick.
There's gonna be a clinical incident report
with my name on it, and that is not good.
But what happened isn't your fault.
And whatever she is going through,
she is obviously not coping, so...
Yeah, and then I went and made it worse.
I could have just put a note on her file.
The minute she came into A&E on Friday night,
I never gave her enough time.
You know, I was just focused on the baby.
I was in work mode.
I didn't treat her like a friend.
I treated her like a stranger.
I just think you are being a little hard on yourself.
You know, if you are in a safeguarding role,
you have to act.
So you would have done it?
Would I have called social services on Jess?
Probably. I don't know.
It's hard. It's Jess.
Right?
How's the hangover?
I am not... I don't...
It's bin day.
I found the bottle of prosecco.
Oh, don't start!
Honestly!
It's like my first drink in three days!
Well done on your remarkable restraint.
Yeah, thanks. Thank you.
I surprise myself sometimes.
Shouldn't you be at school?
It's careers morning. I have got a free period.
You know, a whole bottle of prosecco at midnight
is not nothing.
I am sorry.
It won't happen again.
It will, until you realise that you can't just have one drink.
All right. Everybody's got their own
unhealthy coping mechanisms, haven't they?
It's just, it's not every day. - Yes, it is!
And I am worried.
Mrs Carrisford.
Great.
So there'll be a buzzing for a couple of seconds,
and then we can start.
[buzzing sound]
Okay, Jess.
Tell us about when you took Betsey.
Why did you do it?
Because I love her. And I was worried about her.
But taking her away meant you put her in danger.
I wasn't thinking. I was trying to protect her.
I thought they were going to take her away from me.
You grew up in the US, didn't you? - Yes.
Somewhere without a public health care system.
And you don't care for our medical system?
I don't really trust doctors.
I don't think they always know best.
And you don't like medicating your children, is that right?
Not unless it's strictly necessary.
And you don't believe in vaccinating your children?
I believe vaccines are risky
and that drug companies aren't always transparent.
But that's an informed choice. That's hardly a crime.
Look, I know it's an unpopular opinion, but
I am trying to do what's best for my children.
And to keep them safe, always.
And do you always try to keep Betsey safe, Jess?
Of course I do. That's what mothers do.
But you didn't keep her safe on Friday, did you? - Yes, I did.
Well, then can you explain to me why it took you over five hours
to bring her into the hospital?
Because I am a bad mother.
I told you. I didn't want to overreact.
I told you all of this already.
It didn't seem any more serious than a tumble that my two boys
might have had when they were toddlers.
You are a bad mother? - An evil mother?
My client has said she didn't realise the severity of the injury.
Yeah, but you didn't even bring her in
after she had been sick in her cot.
That's a clear sign of a concussion.
I didn't know that she had been sick.
I was asleep. - Right.
According to your husband, you were in bed.
It had been quite a day, and I was exhausted.
But if I had known that she was sick or was crying,
of course I would have gone in. I mean, I am not a monster.
I am not the mother you think I am.
By all accounts, you are an attentive mother, a good mother,
aren't you, Jess?
Yes.
Your children are always well dressed and fed.
Look, there was nothing else of any concern
on Betsey's skeletal survey.
And we have seen the social media posts,
the happy kids and the beautiful home.
Okay.
So what I am struggling to understand
is what happened that made you dismiss Betsey's injuries
as something that didn't need hospital attention.
Because an attentive mother is always alert
to the possibility of her baby waking up.
She doesn't just lie there ignoring her baby.
I was not ignoring her. - My client has said
she was exhausted, she fell asleep.
What does your husband think
of your relationship with Betsey, Jess?
What? - Does Ed think that you are bonded with Betsey?
Does he think you are in tune with Betsey's needs?
I think so. - Isn't that what you argued about?
Isn't that why he had
to come home Friday lunchtime to check up on you?
Because he was concerned about your relationship with your daughter.
How does that make you feel?
Your husband coming home to check up on you.
Does that make you feel angry?
So angry that you would take it out on Betsey?
They think I am a bad mother.
And Betsey is upstairs screaming!
You are a bad mother. You are an evil mother.
No! - Did you know that your husband was so concerned
that he confided in a female friend
minutes after leaving you on Friday lunchtime?
What are you talking about?
Immediately after leaving you on Friday, he and thisfriend,
they shared a few bottles of wine in an intimate wine bar.
In fact, they spent the rest of the afternoon together,
into the evening.
I don't know what you are saying.
With who? - Mrs Charlotte Hinman.
Did you find out about your husband's betrayal,
and did it make you angry Jess? - No.
So angry the next time you were with Betsey,
you are changing her nappy,
maybe you are a bit brusque with her, rough with her?
No. - Maybe she just wouldn't be quiet. Right?
You are distressed because Ed is coming home to check up on you,
and you have just found out that he is confiding
in Charlotte Hinman. - No!
You are frustrated. You are exhausted.
These are a lot of emotions, Jess. - No.
Right! And Betsey will not be quiet. - No.
Did you want to grip her a bit harder?
Did you want to shake some sense into her?
No! - You knew that you shouldn't
do it, but it's all getting a bit much.
You are a bad mother. - Maybe it was accidental.
You are changing her nappy, it's all getting a bit much,
and maybe you accidentally grip her hard.
Did you want to shake her?
Shake some sense into her? - You are an evil mother.
No! - Just bang her head, Jess.
[muted screaming]
No!
Sorry, I think my client needs a moment.
Perhaps we could
take a short break, please.
Okay.
[buzzing sound]
When our babies were tiny,
Jess became convinced that they had slept together at uni.
It became an obsession.
She worried that Ed would find Charlotte
more attractive and leave.
We could all see that Ed adored Jess
and Charlotte could only have ever been a fling, at best.
Still... nothing you could ever tell me
about those two would surprise me.
Sorry. - Everything all right, sir?
Can't believe Jess, of all people, has been arrested.
I know.
Ed's devastated.
Andrew said the police have been relentless,
and it's hard to imagine a jury
feeling any sympathy for a mother
whose accused of harming her baby.
But, Mel, we also need to talk about
what just happened at school.
I don't understand. Why is he being so vile to you?
He is lovely 80% of the time.
He just...
He just doesn't like it when I do something
he doesn't want me to do. Like
helping out the Carrisfords.
He is really... secretive about money.
I never see any bills. The house is in his name.
I have no idea how much money we have got
or haven't got. - What?
And now he is withdrawn the amount he gives me each month.
Wait, he gives you an allowance?
I don't think of it like that, but...
Look, since he was made redundant--
Hold on. He was made redundant?
I thought he was striking out on his own.
Yeah, well, that's what he wants you to think.
But Ed never invested.
I don't know, Charlotte.
Every relationship has its ups and downs.
Well, yes, I know it does.
But, Mel, this is extreme.
I am not like you.
With your career, your confidence, your determination.
I haven't worked in over a decade.
I have no income, no savings.
He said if I ever try and leave him, he will take the kids.
I knew he was a bit of a dick, but...
I don't know how you put up with it.
I mean, you can't be happy.
Are you happy all the time?
Well, no.
I mean, of course, everybody knows marriage is hard, and...
At least you have got a good one in Andrew.
[buzzing noise]
So we had like to talk about the timeline Friday early evening,
specifically the time between 6 and 6:30.
You told us that once you had returned home
from the school run, you didn't leave the house again.
Kit was picked up for football at 4:45,
but you didn't leave.
Is that still your recollection?
No comment, please, Jess.
Yes.
Now, as discussed, everyone that we have spoken to
has described you as a very attentive mother.
Would you agree with that assessment?
Sorry, for the tape.
Yes.
You are not the sort of mother who would leave
her young children alone in the house?
I am not that sort of mother, no.
And just to clarify, your stance on medicating your children
is so firm that you would only do so
if strictly necessary.
You wouldn't even keep
children's paracetamol in the house?
[Betsey crying]
Frankie!
[Betsey screaming]
God damn it!
[Indistinct chatter]
[Jess screams]
[screaming] - Frankie!
I am just trying to help.
Please don't scream, mummy. - I am just trying to help.
FRANKIE: Please don't scream. Don't scream, don't scream.
[Jess screaming] Stop crying!
I am a bad mother.
A bad, bad mother.
There you go.
Thank you.
Bye-bye. - See you. - Bye.
Hi. What can I get you? - Hi.
Children's paracetamol please.
Is it for baby or the older ones?
The baby. - Is she teething?
Peekaboo. Peekaboo!
Peekaboo!
[Betsey screaming]
Please don't scream!
There you go.
This footage shows you in Superb Deli Stores
at 6:23 on the day you brought Betsey to hospital.
You are purchasing children's paracetamol
an hour after you said your daughter sustained a head injury.
I must object to this being sprung on my client without warning.
This is you in the footage yes?
DC FARRON: For the tape, please.
Yes.
You look distressed in this recording.
That can't be deduced from this image.
We also spoke to Jill Baker, who dropped Kit off at 6:45.
She confirmed that you seemed distressed, distracted.
Like you had been crying. Had you been crying, Jess?
Possibly.
Possibly?
Mm... probably.
Something happened to cause this distress.
What happened, Jess?
What happened that was so distressing that you would leave
your ten-month-old baby and your young son to go and buy medicine
that you would only use if strictly necessary?
Medicine that was necessary,
because you knew that Betsey was hurt.
Why would you leave them, Jess?
Did you leave them after you did something that you didn't intend?
After getting frustrated and losing your temper?
Jess?
You leave them because you hurt Betsey?
How did you fracture her skull, Jess?
I didn't.
I didn't do it.
[buzzing sound]
Hello, sweetheart.
[Indistinct chatter]
I missed you, too.
Oh! Hello!
You better keep your distance, young man.
I am not pleased with you at all, at all.
Are you coming home? - Don't change the subject.
You are never home. - Hey, listen, I actually
came home to talk to you last night about Frankie, but-
Hey, listen. Listen, you and I, we are gonna have
a proper conversation about all this.
You can't treat people like that without serious consequences.
Hiya. - Where's mummy?
She is busy with Betsey. But have you seen Kit's cool cast?
You okay? - Yeah. Good.
I can take the kids to Jess' for pizza.
Well, considering our son was the one being attacked yesterday,
I think we should probably head off, don't you?
Come on, you two. Come on. - No, please, dad.
It's a play date. They are fine. - Look, they have got homework.
Since when did you give a shit about homework?
Well, one of us has got to be responsible.
Mollie, Connor, in the car now.
Oh, just remember what I said earlier, okay?
Tonight.
Come on, troops. Let's go home.
LIZ: Hi. - Oh, hey.
How was work?
Yeah. No drama.
Apart from someone totally trashed the boys' toilets.
Ew! - Yeah!
How was your day?
Yeah, it was good.
I spent the afternoon googling symptoms actually,
went down a bit of a wormhole.
It still terrifies me that doctors use Google.
I just...
You know we all do it, right?
Go on then.
Okay, so I think Jess is suffering from a mental health disorder.
A postnatal anxiety. I found this thing called perinatal OCD.
It's a form of obsessive compulsive disorder,
but it's triggered by the birth of a child.
In this case, Betsey.
I just think it would explain her behaviour
over the last few days and
why she is not quite the Jess we know.
What do you think I should do?
Well, I mean, you have to tell Ed.
Not exactly his favourite person right now.
Well, I mean
I could come with you. A bit of solidarity.
Thanks, but I just, I don't think so.
Hey, hey.
If you think that this can help Jess, then you have to try.
Even if Ed isn't your biggest fan.
Jess is what matters most.
Mm.
And I have been thinking about what you said this morning.
Yeah?
Yeah, about the drinking.
And you are right.
And I do need to sort it out and I will.
That's really good, Frank. CHARLOTTE: Okay.
Pizzas are in. - Thank you, Auntie Charlotte.
Thanks, Auntie Charlotte. - [doorbell ringing]
The answer is 89. - Sweet.
Well done. We will do the last one after dinner.
I already know the last one, dad.
Go on. - It's D.
LIZ: Hi. - Hi.
Hi, guys. I just wanted to see how you are getting on.
How's Jess?
Andrew said he had call if he had any news.
Well then... - We should hear in the next few hours.
I have, um... I have been doing some reading,
and I think that Jess is suffering from a thing
called perinatal OCD.
All right, go on.
It manifests itself in, like, compulsive behaviour,
like obsessing over whether your children are safe,
or compulsive cleaning, to manage your thoughts.
For how long?
Probably since Betsey was born.
She might have been trying to keep control ever since then.
But does this make her more or less guilty?
I don't know, Ed. She is not my patient.
Yeah, right.
Do you think that she could have actually hurt Betsey?
I had like to remind you that my client has been in custody
for 20 hours at this point.
She has a family and a sick child.
She is been extremely cooperative. DC Farron and I are in agreement.
We will be referring the case to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Then I insist Jess is released on pre-charge bail immediately.
FRANKIE:Don't scream! Don't scream! Don't scream!
JESS:Stop crying!
[Betsey crying]
Mrs Carrisford?
Mrs Carrisford, did you hear me?
While we continue investigating Betsey's skull fracture,
we feel we have sufficient evidence to convince the CPS
to charge you with child abduction
and child endangerment.
[Betsey screaming]
Mum!
Mummy?
DC FARRON:In the morning, you will be taken in a police van
to the magistrate's court for your first appearance,
where the court will decide if you should get bail.
JESS:I am a bad mother.
A bad, bad mother.
FRANKIE:Mum's a bit upset.
Mummy's a bit upset. - [Betsey continues crying]
Oh, Betsey! Did you do a smelly poo?
Oh, it's okay. Mummy will be back in a minute.
[doorbell ringing]