- 8 months ago
Inspector Ghote arrives in England on an invite to the flat of retired Colonel Bressingham and his wife, but is puzzled when they deny having ever invited him. Although he is permitted to stay there, along with their Indian maid, Ghote begins to get an uneasy feeling that something is not quite right. And it seems that his feelings were correct when something happens during the night...
Starring Sam Dastor, Irene Worth, Alfred Burke, Zohra Sehgel, Tony Doyle, Barbara Hicks, Patrick Durkin and Maev Alexander (who some older viewers may recall from TV series Sutherland's Law in 1973-74).
Starring Sam Dastor, Irene Worth, Alfred Burke, Zohra Sehgel, Tony Doyle, Barbara Hicks, Patrick Durkin and Maev Alexander (who some older viewers may recall from TV series Sutherland's Law in 1973-74).
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00:00The Lone Ranger
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Well, what can we do for you?
01:25Please. It is the residence of Colonel and Mrs. Bressingham.
01:29Yes, but they're much too busy to see you now.
01:32But I am to be paying guest.
01:34Oh, you must have made some mistake.
01:36Mrs. Bressingham would never take in a lodge, especially with the Colonel being so ill.
01:40But I have letter from League of the Commonwealth.
01:43I am coming to England as visiting officer at Scotland Yard.
01:47Well, I don't know anything about that, I'm sure.
01:49But I have letter.
01:51Please, look.
01:52Oh, precious, it's an Indian officer.
01:54Oh, my dear, sir.
01:55My dear Captain Goat.
01:58Goatier.
01:58My name is Goatier.
02:00I am here by appointment.
02:01Yes, sir, I'm sure you are, but you see, I'm afraid you're not.
02:05Not?
02:06But I have letter from League of the Commonwealth.
02:08Yes, I'm sure you have.
02:11Oh, dear, this is Mr. Awkward.
02:13This is number 53, Cottingham Court?
02:15Oh, yes, yes, of course it is.
02:16But you see, my husband hasn't been very well recently, and when I realized you were coming, Captain Major, I rang and said that it wasn't after all convenient.
02:31I'm afraid you never got the message.
02:33Oh, dear, oh, dear.
02:34But I was coming straight from Heathrow Airport.
02:37Now what to do?
02:39I must make contact with League of the Commonwealth.
02:41Well, you must stay here, of course, or for tonight at least.
02:44My husband would never forgive me if I turned away a fellow officer.
02:47No, no, no, no, the room's all ready, so do please feel your welcome.
02:52Major.
02:53Actually, it is not kept, Jean.
02:54Well, if that's all settled, I must be getting along.
02:57I have another patient to see, too.
02:58Thank you so much, nurse.
02:59I'm sorry we've kept you.
03:00It's quite all right, dear.
03:02Now, you will remember what I told you about those little green pills, won't you?
03:05Give the old fellow one only.
03:08Don't go trying to give him more or he'll sleep the clock round, and we don't want that, do we?
03:11Well, I think you can trust me to get it right, nurse.
03:14I did look after my little boy in India after all, with Aya's help, of course.
03:18I dare say.
03:19And remember, dear, whenever you decide to put the old fellow into a home,
03:24there's always my sister's place.
03:25It's very clean.
03:26She'll take good care of him.
03:28He won't give her any trouble.
03:30You are kind.
03:31But we're hoping to get a regular nurse soon.
03:34Thank you so much.
03:36Oh, well.
03:37Ta-ta, then.
03:39Come on, Lord, Captain.
03:41You can leave your bag here.
03:43Aya will look after it.
03:48Come and meet my husband.
03:50But he is ill, isn't it?
03:51He is in bed, no?
03:53No.
03:55Peter!
03:56Peter, dear!
03:57We've got a visitor.
03:59Unexpected visitor.
04:00Don't be a damn fool woman, can't you see?
04:02Johnny Tiger's just coming back to his kiff again.
04:04Do you remember that I said I'd write to the League of the Commonwealth
04:07to ask if they'd got anybody they wanted us to put up for a bit?
04:10Well, they've sent this gentleman, Captain Goethe.
04:13I was just recalling a night I spent up in a Macharn
04:17south of the Natchee River.
04:18Do you say you'll know it?
04:19No, sir, no.
04:20I'm afraid I...
04:21No, Richard Schicari had no idea.
04:23Put the damn thing up a tree and sway it about like a ship
04:26every time you scratched a mosquito bite.
04:28It's a very, very difficult case.
04:30I hope you can stay with us for as long as you're over here.
04:32Well, Peter, dear.
04:33What regiment are you, my dear fellow?
04:36Ninth Gurkhurst, myself.
04:38The ones that showed the other fellows the way.
04:40What?
04:41Yes, well, that was all a long time ago.
04:43Very long time ago.
04:44I say, look here.
04:46You're not a bloody madras sapper, are you?
04:49Colonel Bressingham, sir, I must explain.
04:51I am not an army officer.
04:52An army?
04:53An army?
04:54It is a police officer that I am, Inspector Gauthier.
04:58I am here as visiting officer at Scotland Yard
05:00to observe methods and procedures, sir.
05:02Oh, God!
05:04A police scholar!
05:07But, dear, we always had some charming people in the police.
05:10Did you remember that, Mr. Morrison or Mason,
05:12when you played frightfully good game of tennis?
05:15Yes, sir?
05:15Oh, Aya, dear, we're having a guest.
05:19My man, my man, Aya, Shrathko.
05:21Nein, nein, sir.
05:22Not tonight.
05:23You don't remember, you said that we...
05:25It'll be all right, Aya.
05:26This gentleman is a police officer.
05:28It's an inspector, Aya.
05:30Inspector, Aya.
05:33It'll be all right.
05:34In fact, I think it's going to be better.
05:37Will you take this gentleman's luggage
05:38up to the spare room
05:39and make sure that everything's pucker there?
05:42Off you go.
05:43You don't know
05:50a fellow called Ketkar,
05:52do you?
05:53You remind me of him in some ways.
05:55He was a Konkani Marater,
05:57subaltern under me in 49.
05:58Sue O'Neil Ketkar called him Sonny.
06:00No, Colonel Saab.
06:01I'm afraid I am not at all knowing such a gentleman.
06:04You see, I am not much acquainted with army officers.
06:06Not acquainted with army officers?
06:09I've been with this for years.
06:11Ever since little Peter John was born,
06:12he was killed in the Cyprus show, you know.
06:15And somehow she just wanted to stay on and on.
06:19I don't know what I'd do without her now.
06:21You are having no other servants here in England?
06:26I do, Inspector.
06:27I had to learn to do everything.
06:29From my surf once we got back to England.
06:37Please.
06:39Sometimes I find it a bit difficult to cope.
06:42But, Mrs. Blessingham,
06:44it is seeming to me that you are coping up altogether very well.
06:47You have this so nice flat here,
06:50and everything in it so well kept up.
06:51Do tell us about Scotland Yard, Inspector.
06:57It sounds most thrilling.
07:00Well, I am not able to tell at all.
07:03You see, I am not due to report until tomorrow,
07:06at three pip emma only.
07:07But you're a detective, are you?
07:09You're trained to notice things and everything.
07:14You'd make a first-class witness, wouldn't you?
07:18Well, it is true that I am a crime branch officer.
07:21Aren't we lucky to have you in our flat?
07:24In case we got burgled tonight or anything.
07:27Oh, I must sincerely hope not.
07:30Well, don't be more of a fool than you can help.
07:33No, Peter, you never can tell.
07:34Now, you know one has the most terrible stories about London these days.
07:37I heard of some people the other day.
07:39You know, they were sitting at dinner,
07:41and they had all their jewels taken.
07:43My dinner was at dinner.
07:43This man crept in and took everything,
07:46and they were at dinner.
07:47I suppose you'll think somebody's going to make off
07:49with all your trinkets.
07:50Trinkets?
07:51They're my mother's jewels.
07:52She was a Courtney.
07:53Don't you forget that.
07:54Oh, Courtney's were never an India family,
07:56not even army.
07:58In any case, you never wear them nowadays.
08:00And all those perfectly good pearls
08:02that cost me damn nearly two months pay.
08:04Well, I can't think this is of any interest, Mr. Goethe.
08:07I can't think why we're talking about it.
08:08Oh, it is altogether very interesting
08:09to hear about the many Budmash fellows here in London.
08:12Anyway, one doesn't want to be wearing one's pearls
08:14day in and day out.
08:15They're safely locked away in my jewel case, darling.
08:18Have you had anything to eat, Mr. Goethe?
08:20Well, on the plane...
08:22Oh, my dear fellow,
08:23you don't want to eat any of that appalling stuff
08:24they serve up on those damn machines.
08:26Now, cut along to the mess.
08:28You'll find an orderly in the dining room
08:30asking him to get you something.
08:31Yes, sir.
08:34I would be most happy to do that.
08:38I expect you want to wash first.
08:40Your room's first on the right.
08:42Left.
08:42Right.
08:43Oh, up the stairs.
08:44I will find you something to eat
08:47as soon as you're ready.
08:48Mylar, your jewel box.
08:51That insurance wallet's coming tomorrow.
08:52Bet you'd forgotten all about it
08:53and your memory's appalling these days.
08:55Yes, but I haven't forgotten.
08:57The gusel can is next door to your room,
08:59on the left.
09:00I'm afraid it makes a terrible noise,
09:02but I expect you won't mind.
09:03Oh, no, no, not at all.
09:04Thank you very much.
11:15Yes.
11:16Yes.
11:17Yes.
11:18Yes.
11:19It is Colonel Sir's nightcap.
11:20Always he's having nine pip emma on dot.
11:22Yes.
11:23Yes.
11:24Yes.
11:24Take to him now.
11:25Yes.
11:36Yes.
11:44Yes.
11:50don't get up don't get up I just looked in to make sure that everything was all right
11:58oh yes thank you this is most kind this is very very good
12:02oh good inspector have you noticed this yes yes it is fine idle
12:11in Bombay Ganesh is much much worshipped once per year we are having the festival of Ganesh
12:19Chaturthi when they are immersing the statues of the god into the sea we've had
12:24him for donkeys yes he's called Ganesh you know I can't remember how he got his
12:29elephant's head but please you must be calling him Ganesh oh really we've always
12:34got the funny old thing Ganesh actually that is being my name also I am Ganesh
12:40Ganesh Goethe Aya garnishes him with flowers every morning it's a sort of
12:46worship you know she loves her garnish she is extraordinary she came home from
12:51some Indian store the other day wanting to buy perfectly awful plastic garnish I
12:57told her she was much better off with this one I believe it's frankly old yes it is
13:05certainly looking most old yes well I just thought I'd point him out to you I
13:09thought you'd be interested and then when you finish your supper I must bring my jewel case and
13:17put it in here to remind me that the insurance man's coming first thing in the morning he wants to
13:23check that we've got all the proper locks and everything and if I don't do something to
13:26remind myself it's sure to go straight out of my head Peter's quite right my memory is getting
13:32perfectly awful well I'll leave you to finish your supper oh there's some revanche on the sideboard I
13:42expect you'll like that oh yes yes that is most kind
14:02oh
14:12there you are my dear chap yes yes I'm here good I once shot two tiger in one night for this
14:23up in your own poor district back in 36 I was in 37 my memory shot to hell these days
14:29you all right hey oh yes yes thank you sir mrs. Bressingham has been most kind
14:34yes well all same my dear chap you and I all stick together what
14:42men's it was the same mess and all that different regimens different traditions but
14:47brother officers hey oh yes indeed sir it is most kind of you to extend your hospitality
14:53to myself well my dear chap been here long eh well I was telling in fact I'm arriving per air this
15:03oh no good heavens my dear chap you think I've forgotten what you've told me half an hour ago
15:06no here ma'am in here been in here long in this dining room oh where else you haven't been wandering
15:13all over the mess have you oh no no sir I assure you I have been in my bedroom that your wife is so
15:18kindly allowing me to stay in and only in here also
15:21you're here when I was here yes yes sir she was telling that my supper was on table
15:41notice anything did you oh well there is so much to notice there is uh that fine idol of Ganesh
15:52Garnish oh Garnish you've been talking to the memsab haven't you why do women never learn to speak
15:57thingy and languages properly no wasn't the jolly old Ganesh I was hoping you noticed something else
16:03altogether uh what was it you were wanting me to note sir fellow doesn't like to think he's the
16:10victim of a conspiracy oh no no sir I'm sure such must be a most distressing feeling so you didn't
16:15notice eh you saw that damn woman slip something into that hey well sir I was not able to tell very
16:22well what she was doing well sir as I was telling oh come on now man out with it did you or did you
16:29not see I did you or did you not see I slip one of those damn sleeping pills into my drink no word of
16:39an officer yes or no word of an officer yes my word of an officer yes or no yes sir I was seeing I
16:46putting something into that shutter peg huh it was not one green pill sir it was two no
16:52oh two eh Captain Ketkar something damn funny is going on
17:06yes damn it Ketkar they're up to something the Bibikana brigade they're up to something
17:12my very dear wife I arrived safely today here in Viliath it is a strange household I find myself in
17:22most strange the colonel himself is much of the time living in the past in much the same manner as
17:30was you will remember the beggar who was staying on the pavement outside our quarter the one who believed
17:36he was still the mahout of an elephant and would sit on top of parked cars and smite them with a length of
17:41sugarcane thereby attracting many flies but this is not all Shreemati Bressingham is also behaving in
17:50a manner most strange while I was eating the English meal they had provided oh my wife how I shall miss
17:57your spices and pickles she was all the time insisting that I notice an idol of Ganesh which I had already
18:03clearly seen
18:05Tentral!
18:06Tentral!
18:07Tentral!
18:08Tentral!
18:09Tentral!
18:10Tentral!
18:11Tentral!
18:12Tentral!
18:13Tentral!
18:14Tentral!
18:15Tentral!
18:16Tentral!
18:17Captain Ketkar!
18:18Where's a bloody Bristol man that put times on the wire were under attack?
18:20Shoot to kill man!
18:22They'll have your tent about your ears and a jiffy and a knife in your guts!
18:26Get your pistol man get your bloody pistol!
18:39They were going that way Colonel Saab.
18:41I saw them.
18:42Four of the blighters only.
18:43They won't escape.
18:44Subadar Major is there.
18:45He would have them surrounded pretty damn quick.
18:47You sure captain?
18:48You know what the baton is like.
18:50Crafty as a juggle.
18:52Yes sir.
18:53You're right.
18:57But Colonel Saab.
18:59Perhaps one of them is still lurking in your tent only.
19:02Shall we make checks sir?
19:04Good thinking.
19:05I can't.
19:06This way.
19:07Come out down you!
19:21I know you're in there!
19:23Nick Law!
19:26Then I'm coming in after you!
19:28Well, it seems to be 100% all clear sir.
19:40Yes!
19:41Dump of times!
19:42Yes sir.
19:43Well perhaps you could be getting some more sleep sir.
19:47It is not very far into the night.
19:49Hmm.
19:50Oh that's a good idea.
19:52Oh.
19:53Look at that bird will you.
19:55You haven't seen such a mess.
19:57Can't think what I was doing out of it.
19:59Yes sir.
20:00The bed does appear to be in a state of disorder sir.
20:03Let me put it right for you.
20:05Perhaps that was what was making you wake up.
20:07Yes.
20:08Yes sir.
20:09I don't always sleep too well these days.
20:12Yes sir.
20:13Yes.
20:14And you seem somehow to be holding your tiger gun.
20:17What gun?
20:18What sir?
20:19Oh!
20:20Oh good lord yes.
20:22Can't think I got a hold of that.
20:25Yes sir.
20:26Shall I be putting it away for you?
20:29It's hanging in the dining room isn't it?
20:31Yes yes.
20:32Oh thank you all.
20:34My dear sir.
20:35Ha!
20:36Look.
20:37Got a pair of eyes in your head I see.
20:39Then you're a police waller aren't you?
20:42Need to be pretty sharp.
20:44Hey!
20:45Yes sir.
20:46So I am hoping.
20:49I'm hoping.
21:15Put it on the match at Donny, that's a good job.
21:17Yes, sir. Yes.
21:40Mrs. Spencer.
21:44I'm afraid you've been disturbed.
21:46My husband's...
21:48He was having some sort of nightmare I think.
21:51I have succeeded to get him back to bed once more.
21:53Oh you are kind.
21:54He'd had a sleeping pill you know but somehow
21:58I'm afraid it didn't seem to work.
22:00I can't think why.
22:02No, perhaps the pill was just not taking effect.
22:06Yes, well evidently not.
22:09Well, Mrs. Spencer.
22:10Oh, I beg your pardon.
22:11No, no, you were saying...
22:12No, no, please, you were saying.
22:14Well, it wasn't anything really.
22:16Go to bed, Ayah.
22:18I'll be back.
22:19I'll be back.
22:21I'll be back.
22:23It'll be all right.
22:25Good night.
22:27Good night, ma'am, sir.
22:32Good night, sir.
22:33Well, Mrs. Bressingham, I will put away this gun then only.
22:40Oh, no, no, no, don't you bother.
22:42I'll put it away.
22:43You've done quite enough for tonight.
22:47Oh, thank you, Mrs. Bressingham.
22:49Well, then I will just say good night.
22:51Good night.
22:52Good night.
22:53Good night.
23:22Good night.
23:49you
24:04good morning inspector I hope you slept well I mean I hope you managed to get
24:10to sleep after that little upset oh that was not anything I'm so glad I'm so
24:17glad too that you weren't disturbed by our other trouble other trouble mrs.
24:21dressing it is I'm afraid that we were burgled in the night but you know I
24:29always leave that window open just a crack whenever my husband's been smoking
24:32one of these beastish roots in here but colonel sub was not smoking last night
24:36not oh yes he was I promise you that's why I left the window open and and that's
24:43how the man climbed up the fire escape and got in and my drill box was here with
24:46everything in it to remind me you know the insurance man was coming first thing
24:50in the morning so silly of me I don't know what I'm gonna say to him no no I do not
24:57know what you would be able to say oh and the garnish was there you see and all the
25:02Indian ornaments some of them must have been quite valuable oh it's not the
25:09insurance man what's our best comes that's up the kite the kite I am showing in inspector you
25:26won't mind if I see him in here will you you want to look at the scene of the crime and if and you
25:32could be a sort of witness couldn't you witness well yes to say that you saw the
25:38garnish and everything and you're a senior policeman he'll believe you oh yes good morning good
25:46morning my name is Helford Harold Helford Helford by name but helpful by nature yeah but
25:52you'll excuse me if I see you rather than my husband he's somewhat of an invalid and he spends his
25:57mornings in bed I'm afraid oh not at all madam not at all I don't think we need to bother him
26:02with our little piece of business good I'm so glad may I introduce mr. Gautier he's just
26:07arrived from India I'm here on attachment only quite yes quite so very very nice to see you if I
26:16may say so do get on with your breakfast mr. Gautier you'll find everything on the table
26:21cornflakes and cornflakes and oh I'm afraid there's no marmalade do you like milk mr. Helford
26:28I'm afraid that's still on my husband's tray but I could get it for you if you rarely want it
26:33oh no not at all I like cornflakes very much oh I'm so glad sorry mr. Helford you'll find me a
26:40little bit disorganized but the fact is we were burgled in the night I'm very sorry to hear that
26:51madam a great deal taken was that yes I'm afraid there was my jewel case was there with everything
26:56in it and Indian works of art including a very fine statue of the god garnish that was here that went
27:04didn't it mr. Gautier uh well yes there was an idol of Ganeshan here last night and today it is no more here
27:13I say and you can assure me can you sir that particular object together with others of no doubt
27:25considerable value were all in this room last night hmm well I'm unable to state the full extent of what
27:33is missing but the idol has gone that I can witness I'm quite sure you can sir I am quite sure you can
27:43well mrs. Bressingham of course this puts quite a different complexion on my visits a different
27:51complexion mr. Helford I don't quite understand well it's very simple you see I came here by appointment to
27:56inspect the premises for security reasons which is something we do whenever a premium has been
28:01substantially increased like yours mrs. Bressingham and instead I find that an alleged break-in has
28:09already occurred so naturally I've got to take a different attitude a different attitude miss
28:14well I don't understand well I have to look at the circumstances in quite a different light are you
28:22suggesting that I'm lying my husband holds the Queen's Commission you know he's an officer I dare say madam I
28:30dare say permit me to ask have the police been informed of this incident oh I was going to tell them I assure
28:36you the minute I finish my breakfast then let me do that for you I have some very good friends in the
28:42local CID and I will return with one of them in due course thank you so much are you
28:49you are calling Colonel sir of course I'm calling man do you think I'm blowing me down nose is there
29:06something I can be doing for you Colonel ah got a I'll be a good fellow got a take this damn breakfast
29:13tree off my knees can't think where I ask God to this morning men sir tells me we had a damn burglar in
29:21the night can't say I knew anything about it but then I was having some sort of nightmare I said I
29:26didn't wake you or did I well sir yes if I'm to tell the truth but I was very pleased to be of
29:33assistance after mrs. Bressingham had been so kind as to allow me to stay the night I remember seeing you
29:39oh I'm grateful I'm grateful you know if it hadn't been for you cat car the damper Charles would have
29:46been through the entire camp we'd have lost half a dozen rifles oh good man oh yes sir thank you
29:52yes sir about the pathana I'm learning sir but there is another matter on which I would very much
30:01appreciate your advice I was pretty loud man yes sir thank you sir well sir it is like this
30:08sir it has come to my notice that the wife of a senior officer not at all in your our regiment sir
30:15is for the best of possible reasons pretending that she has lost a valuable horse sir she is asking
30:23for compensation for this loss because she is needing money very very badly to to to send home
30:28to England her son who is suffering from one of those dreadful diseases sir and whose life is at stake
30:33only yeah yeah I don't know what you mean can't come your own boy Peter John Dan nearly had to be
30:38sent home twice oh but he pulled through thanks to the mems of remarkable woman the mems of good car
30:44yes sir the blessing of mems of is a very very remarkable lady oh yes well sir what should I do
30:52should I be keeping my damn mouth shut or should I be saying what I am knowing yeah I remember one
30:57occasion in particular when a boy's temperature had finally come down after ten days a Corby Smythe was
31:04my adjacent then fine chap Russell Corby Smythe God knows where he is now but he had children too you
31:10see so I thought I could let go in front of him and I did the God I blobbed Kedka don't mind admitting it
31:18I blobbed I blobbed like a five-year-old in front of Russell Corby Smythe so you know the answer don't you
31:27in your heart
31:32there's only one thing an officer can't do tell the truth but if they get you in bad in the mess
31:41take the consequences
31:43Oh pressing a mems up to hide shopping never mind how much of drugs shopping must be done yes yes but
32:09will she be back soon back she must come and quickly quickly police follow is coming
32:14I am tell me something no time no time much of work to be done I am there are flowers there in
32:28front of the fire why is that lovers how should I be knowing what for are some flowers only they're
32:39there now I must go I am I want you to tell me why you put those flowers there I am putting I am not
32:48putting why are you asking this you are guest in house you are not expected to ask such things up I
32:57I must go now I must go yes all right I ago I mean I mean ah colonel sir I thought I would just be
33:18looking in to see if there was anything you might be wanting hmm no good everything I want thank you
33:23oh good of you to ask no damn good of you oh well then all is well sir yes all is well yes yes then I'll be
33:34going hey hiya what are you wanting now in colonel sir's room there is something very sticky on floor you
33:51where haver you must come and clear up I done oh oh you must come and clear up
33:58ah what miss
34:01this is
34:04yeah this room is something very bad
34:07up
34:15up
34:17up
34:50now the question remains mrs. Bressingham why did you place your jewel case in your
35:00dining room late last night detective sergeant Phillips here will tell you
35:04that that was well most unusual behavior very unusual to say the least oh but I
35:08but I've already explained my memories not what it used to be and I put it in
35:13here to remind myself that the insurance inspectors coming first thing in the
35:17morning mm-hmm so you took the whole jewel case weighing what would you say
35:21ten twelve pounds from the bedroom but it's normally kept into the dining room
35:25but I did I did do it I have a witness you know an impeccable witness that would
35:30be the Indian gentleman I met Indian who'd just arrived ah but that's the point
35:34dude you see he was here last night oh yes and why was he here really he's a
35:40paying guest as a matter of fact in financial straits are you mrs. Bressingham
35:45my financial position and my husband's are nothing whatever to do with you you
35:52are asking my company to make a substantial payout for items which you
35:56allege were stolen oh I do not allege I tell you I tell you they were stolen they
36:01were here last night and this morning we were gone
36:03ask mr. Cote he can tell you that the statue Garnish was here all right let's have a
36:10a word with the gentleman where is he I'll just call you
36:15mr. Cote
36:19I'm afraid you went out
36:26I'm afraid you went out
36:28oh and this one too right mrs. Bressingham the jewelry you know this list really is remarkably complete there must be 40 items in the
36:33oh and this one too right mrs. Bressingham the jewelry you know this list really is remarkably complete there must be 40 items here all clearly described remarkable memory madam well I explained to you I compiled that list yesterday yesterday yesterday
36:40before the alleged burglary took place oh oh
37:07oh yes mrs brissingham has already explained that she compiled this list yesterday in anticipation
37:14of my visit today isn't that right mrs brissingham yes that was the reason very convenient i did like
37:19your tone sergeant when a crime has been committed crime madam whether it's burglary or any other
37:25crime we treat the matter very seriously very seriously indeed but i need the money i need it
37:34how yeah look mrs brissingham i do not envisage any payment in compensation being made
37:41you are short of cash is that right yes no
37:49well i i i want to replace my jewelry and i must make sure that i have proper compensation yes
37:58that's the reason mr goatey mrs brissingham
38:08i have first-class news i was uh endeavoring to uh assist of your uh domestic arrangements when lo
38:16and behold what you think i'm finding in the rubbish bins at the back of these flats
38:21everything that was stolen last night mrs brissingham everything
38:23yes yes for some reason the badmash must have tried to hide his booty as he was escaping
38:33isn't he clever um excuse me but are you claiming to have recovered the items that were alleged to have
38:39been stolen from here last night yes yes that is exactly what i am saying just a list here of just a
38:45minute items who are you what is your name on your right name please my name is goatey ganesh
38:53binaya kagote how do you spell that g-h-o-t-e when did you leave pakistan it is from india that i am
39:03you are a police officer is it you guessed it didn't expect to see one quite so soon eh oh yes yes
39:10when did you leave india i left bombay day before yesterday what are you doing in this country
39:15i am here to study methods and procedures methods and procedures of what of police work oh yes a
39:23policeman oh yes yes i am that also very nice you'll be telling me next you're a bloody sergeant
39:28no no not at all i'm inspector inspector crime branch bombay cid here as visiting officer at
39:35sodden yard please to see my identification and this very very nice letter
39:46doesn't say anything about scotland yard here
39:51oh yes
39:55thank you
39:55sir not at all and now may i have your name please phillips sergeant phillips
40:07sir good
40:13yes well uh you seem to have uh cleared the matter up
40:17well all's well but ends well except the jewels and the jewel case i don't think i see them inspector
40:26uh
40:29the jewel case well of course mr healthford i have given that to colonel blessingham he has taken it in
40:36charge
40:39oh you seem to have cleared everything up very nicely sir
40:42you just take that for fingerprints you won't find any sergeant
40:53yes sir the only fingerprints you will find are my own
41:01yes sir they're gonna love you at scotland yard inspector goodbye sergeant
41:12yes well uh mrs brissingham i don't suppose we shall be uh proceeding any further with this matter
41:21thank you so much
41:28how can i ever thank you oh but no no no mention please it was most lucky i found these things where
41:35that fellow had hidden them no no mr goetay that won't do you and i both know better than that
41:42but how you managed to find garnish and all the other things that i and i had hidden behind the fire
41:48i'll never know but you did and you produced them in the nick of time you clever man mrs
41:53bressingham you were being so kind to me last night taking me in here with your husband so
42:00i'm most truly grateful i made a complete ass of myself you've got me on the most fearful mess
42:08yes poor peter he must have someone to look after him that's why i did that very foolish thing
42:17but where i'm to find the money now i just don't know
42:19no your jewels they are a long time ago all sold the colonel must never know that no no when a man had
42:27had command of a regiment and had led others into battles it would be very very bad for him to think
42:31he could no longer support even himself yes but what i'm to do now i don't know now that that hotty idea
42:42of mine's gone up in smoke mrs bressingham excuse me please there is something i must do mr
42:52better yes yes i must go out at once
43:06ah good morning colonel sir ah ah good morning inspector of gutter isn't it yes yes god i thought
43:23you were off to scotland yard this morning inspector no sir not till this afternoon now i have to visit a
43:30friend yes sir uh at once oh
43:37hiya hiya it's a tip-in time there
44:00oh mr gilte mrs bressingham may i introduce a friend of mine i'm from weatherby and randall indian
44:18and oriental antiques and i gather you possess what sounds to me like a shivpuri gneesh it is
44:24the garnish mrs bressingham i was explaining it to this young lady and she is believing that it is
44:29what they are calling a shivpuri gneesh and if so it is very rare actually i'd need to make a close
44:35examination of course but how funny old garnish actually it's pronounced gneesh oh
44:43well look thank you miss oh it's joe just call me joe
44:50well there it is oh this looks very promising oh aren't you handsome this is the most extraordinary
45:01we need further authentication of course but it is a shivpuri gneesh i haven't seen one since bombay
45:09but you mean it's valuable then we are talking in terms of thousands mrs brissingham i promise you
45:19my dear isn't this just an answer to a prayer i was at my wits end to think how we could afford a nurse
45:25for the colonel yes don't need a damn nurse if i like you out of your head no no no peter i won't
45:32be bullied this is just an answer to our prayer i say what's my gneesh doing in hell he's come to
45:40our rescue darling there are people all over the world it seems willing to pay absolute fortunes for
45:45evening my gneesh the devil is all this let me introduce myself i represent weatherby and randall
45:53valuers we specialize in indian antiques and i could name several museums who'd give a great deal of
45:59money for your gneesh this minute i see the thing is i can't let it live here oh peter oh gneesh maybe
46:08something to stick in a museum to you my dear but he's a very different proposition to i are don't
46:14you see this little chap is the god before whom she performs her religious rights every damn morning
46:22but colonel brissett oh no no always respect the troops religion but peter dear we need the bunny
46:30we must have it nonsense whole thing can't go about it this way wouldn't do it all
46:38uh sir it really ought to be being cared for properly in a museum very well cared for here
46:44thank you but uh colonel pressingham sir ayah is no more wanting to worship this ganesh no sir yes
46:53mrs blessingham was telling me herself ayah has seen in nearby emporium and altogether new ganesh in
47:00plastic which she is very much wanting to buy that for herself a plastic ganesh and ayah's ready to
47:06worship life yes sir it's true dear it was all i could do to stop them then and there from
47:12buying it with all her little money well she will learn woman you're hindu will worship any old
47:18thing it's the quality of the prayer that matters ayah ayah oh damn it ayah come here
47:25now i do want to buy that jolly old ganesh you saw in a shop the other day oh yes karna sahab ji
47:33huh such beautiful such beautiful that ganesh all pink and red just like baby
47:40ah asia asia i'll be sure i'll be sure tiffin ranido
47:49I'm very happy.
47:51I'm happy.
47:53I'm happy.
47:55I'm happy.
47:57I'm happy.
47:59Trot along now, trot along.
48:05I'm so glad.
48:09Well then, I'll take the Ganesh run to the shop straight away.
48:13Shop?
48:14Oh, we have excellent security.
48:16What damn shop is this?
48:18Oh, now look here.
48:19Do you think I'm going to let my Ganesh fall into the hands of some bloody bucks?
48:23Well, you're very much mistaken.
48:25Oh, I don't think you quite understand.
48:28We are specialists in Indian and Oriental antiquities.
48:32Oh, indeed.
48:33Most of our work is making valuations.
48:36I'm sure it is.
48:38Actually, I'm the part owner.
48:40How nice of you.
48:43My name is Quarmbi Smythe.
48:47Joanna.
48:48Quarmbi Smythe.
48:49Quarmbi Smythe.
48:50Quarmbi Smythe?
48:51Hmm.
48:52Quarmbi Smythe?
48:53Did you say Quarmbi Smythe?
48:54Yes.
48:55I used to know Quarmbi Smythe in India.
48:57He was my adjutant when we were stationed up for club.
49:00You remember Razzle Quarmbi Smythe, Violet?
49:01No, bet you don't.
49:02Your memory's gone.
49:03I remember Razzle very well.
49:04Played a perfectly bloody game of polo.
49:05You're not related to him, are you?
49:06As a matter of fact, he was my grandfather.
49:07Well, well, well, well.
49:08Old Razzle's granddaughter, eh?
49:09Hmm.
49:10Can't think why I let you keep a shop, though.
49:11Actually, he gave me his blessing for it.
49:12Good job.
49:13There's a funny thing.
49:14Still, times change, I suppose.
49:15And we all have to keep up with them, don't we?
49:16I always have.
49:17That's what's kept me up to snuff, you know.
49:19Well, you better be wrapping up, Jolly Old Ganesh, and make it all for them, my dear.
49:24Old Ketka, hey, I'll give you a hand.
49:25It would be my pleasure, sir.
49:26Major Quarmbi Smythe's granddaughter, you remember.
49:28Razzle Quarmbi Smythe.
49:29Oh, you're not.
49:30I'm not.
49:31I'm not.
49:32I'm not.
49:33I'm not.
49:34I'm not.
49:35I'm not.
49:36I'm not.
49:37I'm not.
49:38I'm not.
49:39I'm not.
49:40I'm not.
49:41I'm not.
49:42I'm not.
49:43I'm not.
49:44I'm not.
49:45I'm not.
49:46I'm not.
49:47I'm not.
49:48I'm not.
49:49Oh, yes.
49:50I remember Major Quarmbi Smythe very well.
49:53Do you?
49:54I didn't know Old Razzle ever had anything to do with the police.
49:59Still, no accounting of things sometimes, that's what.
50:02No accounting of things at all.
50:03Oh, Peter.
50:08Thank you, Miss Jo.
50:09You were really most clever.
50:11Well, I think you're pretty clever yourself, Inspector.
50:15Well, Miss Jo, I am doing my level best.
50:18You are all right, Mrs. Pressingham.
50:21I really must be attending to my packing, if I am to be in very good time for Scotland Yard.
50:33Mrs Bressingham, I really must be attending to my packing if I am to be in very good time for
50:44Scotland Yard. It has been most interesting to be in your home. Thank you. But you aren't thinking
50:51of leaving us, are you, Mr Gautet? Not leaving? Oh, no, you must stay with us for as long as you can,
50:58at least until you get settled. After all you've been through, you're one of us now, you know.
51:04Don't forget that. You're one of us, Ganesh.
51:28You're one of us, Ganesh.
51:58You're one of us, Ganesh.
52:04Ganesh.
52:04Ganesh.