Cold Case

COLD CASE It’s 1955 in (black and white) four ten year old boys walk into a cemetery. Three of the boys murder the other one and bury him in a freshly dug grave. They dig down deeper then cover him up His mother MS Ballard (30) reports him missing to the police. The next day a Linda May is buried in the new grave. Detective Brian Walker (30) leads the investigation which comes to a dead end. We jump to 2010 in (colour) MS Ballard now (85) still comes to her front door to peer down the road for her lost son. We see three manual workers retiring aged (65) Dave a brick layer, Paul a bus driver, and Roy a metal worker. A new inspector called Peter’s (50) arrives at the police station. Then a constable says “a ten year old boy has failed to return home from school”. Peter’s interviews the boys parents, the police also search the local cemetery. They discover Ben (45) who lives in a vault, he sells flowers outside the railway station. The three retired manual workers decide to learn the computer. One takes free classes at the library, one has his grand daughter teach him, and one buys a book called (Computers For Dummies). They contact each other via face book, and meet up at a hotel. They decide to disturb the grave of the boy they murdered 55 years ago. A back packer who is spending the night in the cemetery discovers them digging up the grave. He calls the police when they arrive they run for it, and make their way back to the hotel. At the grave side Peter’s decides to fill in the grave. At the library he checks the local papers from 55 years ago. He discovers a boy went missing from the same school as the current missing boy. Back at the station he checks the old file, he also discovers Brian Walker now (85) is still alive. Walker tell him of the investigation 55 years ago, it’s seen in ( black and white) with V.O. He also gives him the names of the three suspect boys at the time. At the police station the three boys now (65) are found on face book. The police trace the hotel where the three killers stayed. The night porter tips of the police when they stay at the hotel again. That night the police collect their drinking glasses, the prints on them match those found on the shovels in the cemetery. They reopen Linda May’s grave and discover the remains of MS Ballard’s son. A fake time is placed in the obituary’s column for her sons funeral. The three killers walk into the cemetery for the funeral, and are instantly surrounded by police. They are told they are under arrest on suspicion of murder. When confronted with MS Ballard one of them confesses. After their interviews we are back in the cemetery. We are left with the impression the missing boy is also in the cemetery. Did Ben have anything to do with it?