Taggart, Series 1

Taggart:
Margaret Balfour. [Referencing the picture of her as a teenager] Sixteen years have changed you... or maybe you've changed yourself. [He places the photo on the armrest of the settee next to Margaret.]

Margaret:
We destroyed all the later pictures.

Mrs. Robertson:
[About Fiona] Take her out.

Taggart:
[To Fiona] Come on, hen. [Taggart leads Fiona to a waiting PC, who takes her out of the room so he and Livingstone can interrogate Margaret.]

Livingstone:
How long have you known, Mrs. Robertson?

Mrs. Robertson:
That Margaret was alive? For years.

Livingstone:
You let David stay in prison for a... for a murder he never committed?

Margaret:
We all did!

Livingstone:
Why?

Taggart:
Because if you told the truth, you, David and Mike would've gone inside for conspiracy to defraud.

Margaret:
Mike and David wanted my insurance money to start a car hire business.

Taggart:
So it had to look as if you'd died? Your car abandoned in a lay-by, the knife, the blood...

Margaret:
It was meant to look as though I'd been... killed by a stranger. David wasn't meant to go to prison for it. No-one was.

Taggart:
[Tuts] Poor David. He must've loved you a lot to carry the can for you.

Mrs. Robertson:
When David came to see me three weeks ago, he... told me about the body. How it was Mike who put it there.

Margaret:
We both did, mum. [Christopher briefly starts crying. Margaret sighs] Mike picked a girl up in a railway station in London. We never even knew her name. Mike just made sure she was my height, age...

Livingstone:
You killed a total stranger?

Margaret:
It was the only way to free David.

Taggart:
When did you do it?

Margaret:
After the trial.

Taggart:
And then you brought the body back to Glasgow in a trunk, planted it in a house you thought was going to be demolished, and left your wedding ring by the body.

Margaret:
David was convicted on evidence that he'd buried me. Circumstantial evidence that was wrong. Mike said if my body was to be found somewhere where David couldn't have put it... [Christopher squeals] Mike went to see David in prison. Told him what we'd done. Told him he'd only have to wait.

Taggart:
He did. Only you didn't.

Livingstone:
Why did you look after the baby, Mrs. Robertson?

Mrs. Robertson:
They're my grandchildren, aren't they? Even though I've never been allowed to see them... send them presents, anything. They didn't know I even existed.

Margaret:
Don't, mum!

Mrs. Robertson:
[Choking back the tears] David told me you'd gone on holiday and couldn't take the baby. I never knew the truth... until I heard it on the news.