Episode Two - Monday 29 August at 9.00pm on 91Èȱ¬ ONE
The man's ring found on the dead women leads them to the missing person's
file of John Giardello.
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Red thinks he is finally ahead of the killer - he believes he can save
Giardello.
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But an email arrives from the killer with a video file attached showing
Giardello tied up, screaming for help.
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Red visits Giardello's wife at the family-owned restaurant. She identifies
her husband from the video.
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When another clip arrives from the killer, the team are able to pinpoint
Giardello's location - in the vast stainless steel vats of a disused
brewery.
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They arrive too late; he is dead. He was dead before the first email
arrived.
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On the wall they find words written in Italian which resonate with
Red: 'I am the way into eternal grief. I am the way to the people lost.
Abandon every hope all ye who enter.'
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They are words from Dante's Inferno. Red makes the connection between
Dante's description of Hell and the previous victims' fate.
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Catherine McArdle's death represents the "Vestibule" known as Gehenna
- a garbage dump outside Jerusalem.
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Claire Fullerton's life was in limbo after the death of her daughter
- the "Limbo" described in Dante's first circle of hell.
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The lovers represent "The Carnal" in Circle II.
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John Giardello represents "The Gluttonous" from Circle III.
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Red knows there are nine circles in Dante's vision of Hell: "The Greedy",
"The Wrathful", "Heretics", "The Violent", "The Fraudulent" and "The
Traitors" are still to come.
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Red knows that the horror is just beginning.
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After Circle V, the killer will have entered lower hell where darker
punishments await the damned.
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As the search for the killer intensifies, a suspect - university lecturer
Richard Eccleshall - is arrested. Convinced that Eccleshall also murdered
his daughter Isabel, Jack Price wants vengeance.
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