- 4/14/2025
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A desperate mother hires Hetty to locate her schizophrenic son who has disappeared and is off his medication. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
A desperate mother hires Hetty to locate her schizophrenic son who has disappeared and is off his medication. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
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03:29I won't give up Robert
03:31I'm not asking you to give up Hetty
03:33We need a higher profile, that's what it is
03:37Oh yes!
03:39Oh yes!
03:40Magnificent offer!
03:43Don't miss your opportunity!
03:45For one day only in this town!
03:48Discretion guaranteed!
03:50Oh yes!
03:52Oh yes!
03:53Oh yes!
03:54You could have brought me one of those!
04:00It wouldn't be suitable, Mrs. Wainthrop!
04:03You like the freedom of movement for complicated eating!
04:06You get ketchup all over your chin!
04:07Cheek!
04:09I'd take over from you, you know I would!
04:11Oh!
04:11But my shoulders aren't wide enough!
04:13The straps will keep slipping!
04:14Excuse me, are you free for a consultation?
04:24Oh, too smart for his own good, that one they used to say
04:27You had a wonderful brain
04:29I was shopping in the market
04:31And I saw your board
04:33And I thought
04:33If I don't do something now
04:35I never will
04:36So I ran after you
04:38It's foolish
04:39Impulse
04:40Reg won't have him in the house, you see
04:44Reg is your husband?
04:46Yes
04:46He's a dental surgeon
04:48He just won't put up with Michael anymore
04:51Well, you can't expect it
04:53Not from a professional man
04:54I hate dentists
04:56It's the label, you see
04:58We never called it schizophrenia
05:00Nervous breakdown was the expression we used
05:04But everyone knew
05:05And it was bad for the practice
05:07What you're asking people to pay for bridge work these days
05:11And Michael not being Reg's own son
05:15Just talking about him, I can't keep still
05:19Could you take it more in order?
05:22You may be losing me
05:23I was three months pregnant
05:25When we married
05:27We couldn't have children of our own
05:30As it turned out
05:31Reg never
05:33I mean, he never blamed
05:36He was a father to Michael
05:39He was so proud
05:40School exams, university
05:42Encouragement, always
05:44You'd drive that boy too hard, I'd say
05:48Oh, not a bit of it
05:49And then
05:51Have you something more recent?
05:55A snapshot?
05:56Something smaller?
05:57No, there's nothing recent
05:59Michael changed, you see
06:02The first time he went into hospital
06:06We thought they'd make him better
06:09And he was
06:11But not the same
06:13Not like himself
06:15He'll never be that
06:18There's things
06:21You can't explain to people
06:23Little things
06:24Like not getting out of bed in the morning
06:27Washing and getting dressed
06:29He didn't see the necessity
06:31I'm not going anywhere, he'd say
06:33It's a point of view, I suppose
06:35Yes, it is
06:37Reg didn't understand it
06:40He'd always pushed Michael
06:42He'd say, you have to push that boy
06:45Or he'll never get anywhere in life
06:46It wasn't a happy atmosphere
06:50And then you moved away
06:53Sold up, came here, started again
06:56Um, not at once
06:59Michael got sick again
07:01Right
07:03And when he came out of hospital
07:07Reg wouldn't have him home
07:09They found him a bedsitter
07:11But he'd come over to see me
07:14And if he didn't want to leave
07:17You can't put him out in the street
07:20But your husband did
07:24Oh, it's only the once
07:29But it brought on
07:31The symptoms got
07:32Worse
07:33Talking silly
07:37And stopping people in the street
07:40Wandering into places
07:43He tried to walk through glass once
07:46It was just a mistake, I think
07:48And the canal
07:51That was in the paper
07:54And Reg said
07:56He's beyond our hell-builder
07:59He's not our responsibility
08:01We do more harm than good
08:03And we moved and came here
08:07What happened to Michael's real father?
08:12Oh
08:13He was hit by a train
08:17It could have been an accident
08:20But
08:20They said not
08:22He was a gentle man
08:25Never put himself forward
08:28Shy
08:29He's like Michael in that way
08:31We met at evening class
08:34Reg never held him against me
08:39I owe Reg a lot
08:42But
08:44I just keep thinking
08:46Wondering
08:47And it's not
08:50That I want Michael back
08:52I know I can't
08:53I can't have him back
08:54But I just
08:55Have to know
08:57He's all right
08:58You see
09:00He's all right
09:10He's all right
09:24He's all right
09:24He's all right
09:26What time is it children?
09:32It's day time
09:33Oh no it isn't
09:35Oh yes it is
09:37Oh no it isn't
09:39Oh yes it is
09:41I'm only going away for a couple of days
09:46and come straight back.
09:48You could be back tonight.
09:49It's no time on the bus.
09:50Two and a half hours each way.
09:52I'm not gonna know what I'll find when I get there.
09:54There'll be contacts to interview,
09:56I can be sure of that.
09:58The Wayne Thropp Detective Agency
10:00doesn't skimp, Robert.
10:02We've a reputation to think of.
10:04What about me and Geoff?
10:05There's food in the freezer
10:06and Geoffrey can cook.
10:09Only hot pot.
10:10There's nourishment in hot pot.
10:13If you were on a desert island,
10:15you'd be glad of it.
10:16Oh, she'd come with you.
10:20You'll be at the public library.
10:22I wasn't gonna show me ignorance
10:23in front of that dentist's wife,
10:25but we know less than nothing
10:27about this schizophrenia.
10:29Find out all there is to know
10:31and write it down.
10:33Now I'll have to go or I'll miss me bus.
10:40I always thought of myself
10:42as the field operative.
10:43He's gone.
10:57Gone where?
10:58I don't know where.
10:59And when?
11:00I don't know when.
11:01You don't seem to know much.
11:02Not as much as I'd like, no.
11:04But yours is, what do you call it?
11:07Community psychiatric nurse for this area.
11:09At least 18 years old.
11:1128, and fully qualified.
11:13But thank you for your concern.
11:14His mother told me
11:16he needs an injection every fortnight.
11:19Right.
11:20So if he's just taken off...
11:22Then he's not having it.
11:24Won't he get ill?
11:25He will get ill.
11:27Probably.
11:31I'm sorry, we'd better start again.
11:33We've got off on the wrong foot.
11:46What am I going to tell his mother?
11:48She knows.
11:49Oh, no, she doesn't.
11:51Oh, why would I be here?
11:52I informed the family as soon as I knew myself.
11:55She never said.
11:57Why would she ask me to come if she already knew?
12:00The stepfather answered the phone.
12:03I asked him to let us know if Michael turned up.
12:06He couldn't have told her.
12:08It doesn't surprise me.
12:10You mustn't blame him, Mrs. Wainthrop.
12:12She will?
12:13Probably.
12:13Probably.
12:14But it isn't easy for families.
12:16Worry, yes, they expect to worry.
12:19It's the little things.
12:21Personal neglect.
12:22Dirt.
12:24Beds never made and bits of food left on the carpet.
12:27It wasn't a good atmosphere.
12:29Stepfather disapproving.
12:31Mother overprotective.
12:33If only he could have managed independence.
12:35But did he really try?
12:37His mother said he kept coming back home.
12:39Had to push him out.
12:42Mind you, we had to push our Derek out in the end if he was ever to come to anything.
12:46Then he went to Australia.
12:47Well, how can our people manage to be independent when there is nowhere for them to live that won't make them ill again?
12:55A bedsit.
12:56One room flat in a run-down tower block.
12:59And no chance of any work.
13:01Day after day of nothing to do but wander around listening to your own thoughts.
13:06But they can come in here, can't they?
13:07Yeah.
13:08That's why it's called the drop-in centre.
13:11A cheap meal.
13:12Meet people.
13:13Talk.
13:14Get your medication.
13:15Art therapy.
13:17Occupational therapy.
13:18Group therapy.
13:19Oh, we're great on therapies.
13:22Providing they're cheap.
13:24Did Michael come here regularly for therapies and such?
13:28He had off and on periods.
13:31Times he'd come in, times he'd keep away.
13:34You're surprised I can't tell you when he went.
13:37I am.
13:38He was having one of his off periods.
13:40That's okay.
13:41He's a free man.
13:42He doesn't have to come in.
13:44He missed an injection.
13:45I wrote to him.
13:46He didn't reply.
13:47I went to see him.
13:48He wasn't in.
13:50I asked around.
13:50Nobody knew.
13:51I informed the family.
13:53And that's all?
13:55Once he's gone out of this area, there's nothing I can do.
13:58You could have told the police.
14:00He hasn't committed a crime.
14:03But you said yourself without his injection he'd be ill.
14:06He can't be forced to take it.
14:08He does have the right to refuse.
14:12I'd like to see this room you've found him.
14:17We'll have to go to the town hall for a spare key.
14:20Won't the caretaker have a key?
14:22Caretakers were privatised long ago.
14:24I never see one these days.
14:27Don't mistake me, Mrs. Wainshrop.
14:29I do want you to find Michael.
14:31I'm afraid he may have reached what we call the rational suicide stage.
14:35The what?
14:35He knows he's going to be on medication for the rest of his life.
14:39And he can see the empty days stretching ahead of him.
14:42Always the possibility of a relapse.
14:44Never much chance of any work.
14:46And any work he does get will be well below his capacities.
14:49He doesn't like what he sees.
14:52And he may make a rational decision that he doesn't want it.
14:55I see.
15:02Are you sure you'll be OK, Mrs. Wainshrop?
15:04I would come with you, but I really am needing you back at the centre.
15:07I'll be all right.
15:08I always have been.
15:09I'll be all right.
15:39Gone bad in here, has it?
15:48He never used to wash you up much at best of times.
15:51Who are you?
15:52I'm Todd from next door.
15:55I used to clean up a bit of my cell at one time, but Michael never did.
16:00Never thought of it.
16:02And since he went away, I've not been able to get in.
16:07You from social, are you?
16:09Wainshrop Detective Agency.
16:11I'm acting for the family.
16:13You what?
16:14His mother's paying me to find out how Michael's getting on.
16:18He's not getting on, though, is he?
16:20He's not here.
16:23We used to play chess.
16:25He taught me, but...
16:27We were a funny sort of chap.
16:29Still, I'm Mr. Company.
16:33You don't play chess yourself, I suppose.
16:36No.
16:37Did he say where he was going?
16:40No.
16:41Not a word.
16:42Police, please.
17:03What about the skeleton?
17:05Was that part of his illness?
17:07I don't think so, no.
17:09He took a lot of trouble doing it.
17:12He were quite proud of it, I think.
17:15It's not meant to be for hiding.
17:16And he went off Monday last week?
17:25Aye, that's right.
17:28I knocked at doer.
17:29Special no.
17:30Same as always.
17:32Then he'd answer.
17:33But this time he didn't.
17:35He could have been dead.
17:37What's the odds if he had have been?
17:38He'd have been found eventually.
17:41They always are.
17:41But you were his friend.
17:44Maybe his only friend.
17:45Now, I wouldn't say that, no.
17:48You're making assumptions there.
17:51You're presuming.
17:53He'd got no friends.
17:56Neither have I.
17:59You came in every day.
18:01You tidied up.
18:03Well, we were neighbours.
18:05I liked to keep tidy.
18:08But he didn't talk much.
18:10We'd play chess.
18:13Sometimes I'd get him a bite to eat.
18:16But we both had the same problem, you see.
18:19Getting through the day.
18:30What do you think you're doing hanging round?
18:34Sunny sands.
18:36Allerton Road.
18:36Don't track in sand on the carpet.
18:41We've a neighbourhood watch here, you know.
18:45Sometimes.
18:46They ask you questions.
18:49Different stories.
18:52There's always a skeleton.
18:54Do you need help?
18:57Something to eat like?
18:58A bed?
19:01I can take you to the cell of Jan.
19:04Han.
19:06Mum.
19:08Come.
19:09Run.
19:10Mum.
19:11Mum.
19:13Mum.
19:13Mum.
19:14Mum.
19:15Mum.
19:16Mum.
19:19Mum.
19:21Why didn't you take him in?
19:24Not committing an offence.
19:25He's a loony.
19:26Standing there, staring for hours.
19:29Who knows what's in his mind.
19:31If he's not in immediate need of care and control, I can't do nothing.
19:34Well, if he gets in the papers, it's your responsibility.
19:36You will write.
19:48I didn't need an overnight bag.
19:52I better get the juboni.
19:57Rational suicide, he said.
19:59These people, they have a language all their own.
20:07Yeah, they would have.
20:09All this talk about community care.
20:13There's no money provided.
20:16That flat was a pigsty.
20:21They need looking after.
20:23They do.
20:24That poor woman.
20:32What am I going to tell her?
20:40And you say that was a skeleton?
20:42Yes.
20:45Well, there was nothing like it in his room at home.
20:49It wasn't all part of his...
20:51Oh, no, no.
20:52That was...
20:53It was all muddled up, of course, but different things.
20:58Yet it all worked out.
21:04I had quite a long talk with the nurse at the drop-in centre.
21:09Ian?
21:10Yes.
21:12He told me he'd phoned to let you know that Michael had disappeared.
21:18No.
21:18He said your husband took the call.
21:26Excuse me.
21:28Excuse me.
21:28You knew he'd gone.
21:54Yes.
21:57And you never told me.
21:59I didn't want to upset you.
22:00Well, now you have.
22:02What did you tell me when you hired a detective?
22:04Out of my own savings.
22:07I'm sorry about this interruption.
22:09Please bear with me.
22:10It won't take a moment.
22:12And it'll hardly hurt at all.
22:13Please continue your investigation, Mrs. Waynthrop.
22:22I'll find a way to pay you.
22:24If I have to steal the gold fillings out of the patient's teeth.
22:33Mr. Waynthrop.
22:36Case conference.
22:37It's the first decent day we've had for a week.
22:40If I don't get this done now, I'll be all behind.
22:43Well, you know what she's like.
22:44This stuff doesn't come out of the horse free, you know.
22:49I'll spell it out.
22:51If his injections were still working, the only place he'd want to go would be his mum's house.
22:56So he could be searching for her.
22:57Where?
22:59Anywhere.
22:59Everywhere.
23:01He doesn't know where she's moved to.
23:03Now, we know he left his flat a fortnight ago.
23:05But he missed the injection before that.
23:07So the symptoms could have come back.
23:10This is heavy stuff and I'm not used to it.
23:13I don't understand most of the words.
23:16What symptoms?
23:17Um, seeing things, hearing voices, delusions.
23:24Like thinking you're Hercule Poirot?
23:26Try to be more helpful, Robert.
23:28What I'm trying to say, if he was still in control and try to find his mum, we don't know where he'd try.
23:35And if the symptoms had come back and he was hearing voices, he might go where the voices told him to go.
23:41We still don't know where that would be.
23:43Either way, we can't win.
23:44I'm sure that skeleton's in it somewhere.
23:50I have a feeling in me bones about that skeleton.
23:52That's it.
24:12You pong, you know.
24:15Pong?
24:17Wrong.
24:18Right.
24:19Song.
24:20No way in, I'm pissed off.
24:27No!
24:28I'm sorry!
24:31Isolated.
24:32Sawn or moody.
24:34Sometimes hostile.
24:36No job.
24:37Nowhere to go.
24:38No friends.
24:39Poor concentration.
24:41Wonders off the point.
24:43Conversation becomes difficult.
24:45Letters are easier.
24:46Reliant on routine.
24:50Upset by change.
24:51Say that again.
24:53Upset by change.
24:54No.
24:55Conversation becomes difficult and then...
24:58Letters are easier.
25:00So.
25:01Who did he write to?
25:04And who wrote back?
25:05That's right spooky.
25:26Come on.
25:31Sutton Surrey.
25:32Stoke on Trent.
25:37Another from Sutton Surrey.
25:42Stoke.
25:45Stoke on Trent.
25:48That's it.
25:50We've got a few more trips to make, Geoffrey.
25:52I've got ten pen pals all together.
25:56French.
25:57German.
25:58Darlene's American.
26:00She's a born-again Christian at the moment.
26:02It's her third time.
26:04Makes her letters very monotonous.
26:06I don't think people should be born again more than once.
26:09And Yuri's Russian.
26:11He doesn't write off him because he can't afford the stamps.
26:14And Michael?
26:14Oh, Michael's in a special subgroup.
26:17Mentally challenged.
26:19Of two of them.
26:21He's been rather naughty about replying lately.
26:24I hate writing letters.
26:25Well, that's the advantage of a word processor.
26:27Provided you stick to general subjects, you can send the same letter, just slightly altered to each one.
26:32Come in, Mother.
26:37Oh, thank you.
26:40Isn't she wonderful?
26:42A network of positive thoughts across the world.
26:45We're all so proud of her.
26:48Yeah, you must be.
26:52I know it's confidential, like, but anything Michael's written recently about his state of mind,
26:58if he was thinking of going anywhere, wondering where his mum might be.
27:03Any suicidal thoughts, even?
27:09I think there might be something wrong with your coffee.
27:12Unless it's cocoa.
27:14Oats and Rola.
27:15Essence of oats, fortified with every known vitamin.
27:18Just let it cool.
27:19The cactus likes it.
27:24Now, Michael.
27:26Any clue to his intentions?
27:27We represent the family.
27:29We have to find him.
27:31Sorry, there's nothing.
27:33I told you, I keep my correspondence general.
27:36It's the only way.
27:38If you let pen friends get too personal, you'll be sucked in.
27:42I've known Michael a long time.
27:44I worked in the public library near his home.
27:46He was, uh, what I'd call a reading boy.
27:50Three books a day sometimes, anything as long as it had a story.
27:53We have great chats.
27:55I can't come now, father.
27:59I'm with someone.
28:02Then, three years ago, when mother fell ill...
28:05Well, they were both ill, both parents, but mother didn't last.
28:08I was the unmarried daughter, so I gave up the library and came back south.
28:11But you kept in touch with Michael.
28:14He'd already had his first breakdown.
28:16It seemed important to keep up some kind of contact, touch of his past life.
28:22It doesn't take much to write a letter.
28:24I said I'm busy, father!
28:26He doesn't understand.
28:29I can't keep going up every time he calls.
28:31I'd be up and down all day.
28:33Has there been anything unusual in Michael's letters recently?
28:38Just the poems.
28:40What poems?
28:41Scraps, really.
28:45But interesting.
28:49They'd do art therapy at that drop-in centre.
28:52Would they do poetry as well?
28:54Bound to.
28:58Lions, when sick, look for a place to die.
29:02Birds crouch in corners.
29:05Breaks off there, but there's quite a cadence, don't you think?
29:08A bit morbid.
29:11Here's another one.
29:14Old Bones is a merry fella.
29:16Comes into every story.
29:18Sinbad, Aladdin, or Cinderella.
29:21Old Bones takes all the glory.
29:25Old Bones?
29:28Death, I suppose.
29:31The skeleton with the scythe.
29:34Bailey!
29:35He certainly comes into every story.
29:41There was a skeleton painted on the wall of Michael's flat.
29:46Bailey!
29:48I'll have to go up this time.
29:50Would you mind if I copied these?
29:52No, not at all.
29:53I won't be a moment.
29:55Old Bones is a merry fella.
29:58It's a merry fella.
29:58Comes into every story.
30:02Sinbad, Aladdin, and Cinderella.
30:06Old Bones takes all the glory.
30:11Michael wrote that.
30:12Is it anything to do with the skeleton?
30:18Do you remember?
30:19I asked you about the skeleton.
30:21You said you had no idea.
30:24Does this give you any idea where he might have gone?
30:29No.
30:30No, none.
30:34Comes into every story.
30:36Does that mean anything?
30:42No.
30:43No, it doesn't mean anything.
30:56Go in.
31:00Shut me up.
31:00Can I help you?
31:09Worth it, you two.
31:10Leave it alone!
31:16I'm sorry.
31:17I've been wasting your time.
31:18No, you haven't.
31:20It was silly of me to think you could find him.
31:22I can find him, I hope.
31:24With your cooperation.
31:26Anyway, I can't afford to pay for a long inquiry.
31:29I'm sure you understand that.
31:30It's got something to do with that poem, hasn't it?
31:33Thank you so much for all your trouble.
31:42Geoffrey!
31:45Get over here with the scooter as soon as you can.
31:48I'm not giving up the case.
31:49That woman knows something.
31:51Hmm?
31:52The phone box across the road.
31:56The phone box across the road.
31:57The phone box across the road.
31:58The phone box across the road.
31:59The phone box across the road.
32:00The phone box across the road.
32:01The phone box across the road.
32:02The phone box across the road.
32:03The phone box across the road.
32:04The phone box across the road.
32:05The phone box across the road.
32:06The phone box across the road.
32:07The phone box across the road.
32:08The phone box across the road.
32:09The phone box across the road.
32:10The phone box across the road.
32:11The phone box across the road.
32:12The phone box across the road.
32:13The phone box across the road.
32:14The phone box across the road.
32:15The phone box across the road.
32:16The phone box across the road.
32:17The phone box across the road.
32:18The phone box across the road.
32:19The phone box across the road.
32:50Follow that cab!
33:07She knows Mary's gone.
33:10But she's no experience. She'll make a mess of it.
33:14Here.
33:16There must be somebody in that ticket office she were at school with.
33:20All right.
33:35It's freezing.
33:38Stavarton Sands is a train in ten minutes.
33:41No, it's too soon.
33:43And anyway, she'd see us.
33:47We'll let her have the evening to sort herself out.
33:50And we'll go there tomorrow.
33:52Mrs. Wainthrob, I have to say, well, we can't afford to work for nothing.
33:57No, you're right.
33:58But there's more than one way to skin a rabbit.
34:06Excuse me, Mr. Townsend.
34:08Yes?
34:08There's a lady who wants an urgent word with you.
34:11Just have a rinse, Mrs. Cooper.
34:17Hetty Wainthrob, I think you should know your wife has gone to Stavarton Sands.
34:21How much do you need?
34:30Seven days daily rate and reasonable expenses.
34:37Very well.
34:41I require strict confidentiality.
34:45You understand?
34:46Nothing to come out.
34:47You get nothing for nothing in this world.
34:57No!
34:57I don't care.
35:19I don't care.
35:21I don't care.
35:23I don't care.
35:23I don't care.
35:24I don't care.
35:24I don't care.
35:27Hey!
35:29What's your game?
35:30Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
36:00I shall be out there digging.
36:15Oh, don't go on so, Robert.
36:18There's nothing in the allotment at this time of year but Brussels sprouts, and you hate sprouts.
36:24You don't grow sprouts to eat them.
36:26You grow them because all the other allotments grow them.
36:28So let them live out their spouty lives, and you stay by the phone.
36:33Come on, Geoffrey.
36:34She never did understand about gardening.
36:45Your husband gave me this address.
36:50He said you used to come here with Michael every summer.
36:54Just the two of you. He never came. He never had time.
36:57He stayed two weeks and always in this boarding house. Am I right?
37:02It's a private hotel now. Will you be taking luncheon?
37:06What about this skeleton that came into every story?
37:18Well, it did.
37:20It was the marionettes.
37:22Michael loved them.
37:23We went every day.
37:25They did all the traditional stories, phantomime stories.
37:29Sinbad, Aladdin and Cinderella.
37:31And the skeleton came into them all.
37:34Oh, he couldn't be kept out.
37:36He was so cheeky and disrespectful.
37:40He was Michael's favourite.
37:41Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
38:11to find him. He's been seen. Seen? Everywhere there have been complaints. The pier, the
38:18esplanade, the floral clock. What you might call the scenic features of the town. He'd
38:25be there loitering. Did he come here? Yes, for hours in the rain, peering in the windows,
38:31upsetting the guests. He'd been happy here. Well, if I'd known who he was, I'd have asked
38:37him in. But you can't know, can you? We can't be sure it's him. We've no positive identification.
38:43No, but it's the best lead we've had so far.
38:52We'll start with the sea front. There's three of us now. We can go three different ways.
38:58Geoffrey, you try the pier. I'll go this way, and we'll all meet back here later.
40:07So much of this job is legwork. I shall have to keep him trim.
40:13So much of this job is legwork. I shall have to keep him trim.
40:25Most of the time, it's not the illness that makes them act strange. It's the drugs they
40:29take to control it. I don't know why he couldn't have gone to Blackpool. There'd be more to do
40:35in the evening.
40:37Duke Bonnie's a great comforter at a time like this. We'll tackle the police and such tomorrow.
40:51We've got no jurisdiction. If he's not in immediate need of care and control...
41:01He was. He was eating from litter bins.
41:03It's not a crime. He needed care. You won't deny that.
41:07Not our care, Mrs. Wainthrop.
41:09We try to make it home leave. Long stay or fly by night. All are welcome if they'll only ask.
41:17You said you saw him hovering outside.
41:19He might have wanted to come in.
41:21Well, we don't drag people in off the streets. We've no resources and no authority.
41:27People come to us if they need help. They come when they're ready.
41:31He walked away.
41:33Why didn't you go after him?
41:39It's out of season, lad. No occupancy to speak of.
41:43Just a few regulars on social security, that's all.
41:47Well, that's what I mean. You'd have caravans empty.
41:50Locked.
41:51Well, they could be broken into.
41:53Look, I'd notice it, wouldn't I?
41:56Well, you could be hiding, you see. Lying low like.
41:59Look, I go around every day trying the doors.
42:03When?
42:04When I feel like it.
42:06God.
42:08If you felt like it now, maybe I could go with you.
42:26It'll never see it now.
42:29Listen to your neighbors.
42:30Oh!
42:31Kind of.
42:33I hated how you shut up.
42:34The public's father.
42:36No.
42:38Oh!
42:39Oh.
42:45It will never do anything.
42:46He could give you this evil.
42:47I did try to warn you.
43:11Try to sleep.
43:13I will.
43:15Good night, Hetty.
43:17Good night, Hilda.
43:20We'll have some new ideas by morning.
43:33She'll sleep, I hope.
43:35We need to talk.
43:44Now, we know why he came here.
43:47He was trying to find something he'd lost.
43:50You can't know that, Mrs.
43:51Wainthrop.
43:52I do know it.
43:53You're not allowing for his disordered thoughts.
43:55I'm the one who had to read the books.
43:57If his symptoms have come back, then there's no logic.
44:01It's nothing to do with logic.
44:03Look, if he decided he couldn't find what he was looking for, because it wasn't here anymore,
44:08he might have just given up, gone back to where he came from.
44:11They'd have told his stepfather, and he'd have told us.
44:15Forget logic, Geoffrey.
44:17It's feelings in this case.
44:19Well, that's your department, Mrs. Wainthrop.
44:20Yes, it is.
44:28Those bits are poems.
44:31Do you remember what they said?
44:32I brought them with me.
44:37Old bones, was it?
44:39Yes, but the other one.
44:41Lions, when sick, look for a place to die.
44:47Birds crouching corners.
44:53He's in a bad state.
44:56He may not last.
45:00Lions, when sick, look for a place to die.
45:07Feelings.
45:07He came back, and he was rejected.
45:15So he's given up.
45:16Look for a place to curl up and die.
45:22We've been asking in public places.
45:26He's found somewhere private.
45:28Somewhere where nobody would come across him.
45:31Somewhere...
45:32Somewhere he felt he was safe.
45:35Go on.
45:36Somewhere he was happy, before.
45:42Come on.
45:49The marionettes, where were they?
45:52Where exactly did the whole of the marionettes show?
45:55Where's the door?
45:59It's here.
46:01The glass has been smashed.
46:04It's locked.
46:06Geoffrey, put your hand through.
46:07Try and unlock it.
46:08Mind yourself.
46:10Right, it's open.
46:10No!
46:11No!
46:12Let Geoffrey go in first.
46:14He's in there.
46:36Michael!
46:36Michael!
46:41He's dead.
46:41Fetch the police.
46:47Fetch the police.
46:57Oh, my God.
46:59Somebody beat him up.
47:05It's murder and you know it.
47:07The beating didn't kill him, Mrs. Wainthrop.
47:10He died a cold and a lack of nourishment.
47:12If he hadn't been beaten up, would he have gone down there to die?
47:16There's some evidence.
47:18Signs of a struggle down by the jetty.
47:21We've had problems down there before.
47:22Some boat owners.
47:25There's been vandalism.
47:26You can't blame them.
47:28Somebody's got a club or an iron bar.
47:32Something with Michael's blood on it.
47:34Now you find that somebody,
47:36or you can take it from me,
47:38there'll be one big, very public fuss.
47:41Schizophrenia.
47:58Anything like that,
48:00I couldn't manage, Robert.
48:01I couldn't manage at all.
48:02If it were me.
48:08You're too old.
48:09Couldn't happen.
48:12If it were Geoffrey.
48:15He's not our son.
48:19Who else would look after him?
48:20Who else would like me?
48:42Who else would like you?
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