Appropriate Adult (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2011)

Sylvestra Le Touzel: Detective Constable Hazel Savage

Quotes 

• [DC Hazel Savage is questioning Fred West about the suspected murder of his daughter, to which he has confessed] 

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : Are you sure you buried Heather all in one place?

  Fred West : You what?

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : You sure you didn't *scatter* any of her body around the garden?

  Fred West : No.

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : Cos they found another body part in another part of the garden.

  Fred West : Well I can't think how that could have got there.

  Howard Ogden : Are you suggesting it *wasn't* part of Heather?

  Fred West : It must have been.

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : [sarcastically]  It was a thigh bone. They've already found two thigh bones. Heather didn't *have* three legs, did she?

• Detective Constable Hazel Savage : We're all having difficulty understanding this. Especially how these things can have gone on without Rose's knowledge.

  Fred West : Rose was out.

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : Out where?

  Fred West : Shopping.

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : Whilst you had sex, murdered and buried them? She must have had an awful lot of shopping to do!

  Fred West : [flippantly]  She does. It's a fair old walk to Tesco.

• Fred West : [after telling police he'd killed and buried his daughter Heather in the garden]  I'm telling you now what I just told my solicitor - Heather is not in that garden. She's alive and well and possibly living in Bahrain. She's been recruited to work for a drugs cartel as a drugs runner. They treat her like a queen. She gets in touch now and again to tell me she's all right. She's using a false name. I have no idea what that is and I will not let her tell me. Now, whether or not you believe me in that is entirely up to you. But that's why you found nothing and you won't, not even if you dig till Kingdom Come. And I don't care how much money and time you waste, cos you wasted mine. Not just now but in the past.

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : Because there were previous allegations.

  Fred West : There was nothing in them!

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : Rape and buggery of two of your children!

  Fred West : Which was never proven. You had me remanded in prison, spat at by other prisoners, my younger kids put into care, where they still are - poor little lambs - trying to force me to admit that I assaulted them!

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : [Overlapping]  Trying to get to the truth, Fred!

  Fred West : You turned my house upside down...

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : - And we'll do so again - and the garden...

  Fred West : - £3,000 that cost me last __

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : We'll keep on searching until we find Heather!

  Fred West : All because of some stupid remark about her being under the patio!

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : That remark was made by your own daughter, Fred. Anne-Marie said it was a family joke...

  Fred West : A joke - there you are!

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : - to social workers who, like me, have had concerns about your family for a considerable time.

  Fred West : You're the beautifulest woman in Gloucester, when you're angry, Hazel.

• Rose West : Oh bloody hell, not you again!

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : That's right. Me again.

  [Shows Rose a piece of paper] 

  Rose West : Well, what's that?

  Detective Constable Hazel Savage : A warrent. To search the house and the garden.