A Fatal Inversion. Part 3 of 3.

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First broadcast 24th May 1992.  Back in 1976, everybody at Wyvis Hall was in a panic when Zosie steals a baby.  Douglas Hodge - Adam Saira Todd - Zosie Julia Ford - Vivien Gordon Warnecke - Shiva Rachel Joyce - Anne Victoria Little - Rose Ian Bailey - David Janet Steel - Lily Jeremy Northam - Rufus Lisa Coleman - Office Girl Nicholas Woodeson - Inspector Winder Michael Simkins - D.C. Stretton Alan Gilchrist - Drug Addict Patricia Kerrigan - Marigold Philip Glenister - Young Detective Jane Wymark - Meg Chipstead Philip Bowen - Alec Chipstead Nicholas Le Prevost - Robin Tatian (as Nicholas le Prevost) Laura Smith - Catherine Ryemark Rachel Garner - Catherine Ryemark Joanie Garner - Catherine Ryemark Sadie Lowe - Catherine Ryemark Angharad Thomas - Abigail Lowri Thomas - Abigail

Transcript

00:00A young woman met with a violent death.

00:03The child too, probably.

00:05Suicide is a possibility in the woman's case,

00:08but she could hardly have killed herself and dug her own grave.

00:11Well, I've only ever lived with my family.

00:13I don't know what this commune will be like.

00:15Don't worry.

00:16They'll be good, hard-working people.

00:19Leave them alone.

00:22Look, suppose the police do contact you?

00:25You have nothing to reproach yourself for.

00:28The police are on the trail of the Koipu Manor.

00:31Get out of here, you murderer!

00:33Could you forgive me?

00:35You get tired of me.

00:37No.

00:38No, I won't.

00:39Be careful, Adam.

00:41Falling in love can be a dangerous thing.

00:44And what do you think fate might decide for me here?

00:47Marriage.

00:49Why shouldn't you be involved?

00:51Why should I carry all this alone?

00:53Because it was your bloody fault, that's why, Adam.

00:55Go through it, go on. There's no one to see us.

00:57There's no one to see us.

01:04Sosie, I can't sing.

01:06Oh, Christ, Sosie, no.

01:08What have you done?

01:10Me.

01:12See you more!

01:16See you, I know.

01:51Oh, Christ, Susie, no.

01:57What have you done?

01:59Please don't be angry, Adam.

02:01You mustn't be angry.

02:03What a bit of luck this was in the cot with her, otherwise we'd have to buy one from her somewhere.

02:24What do you mean, in the cot with her?

02:28I took the cot as well.

02:30Oh, and I took her, I took the carry cot too.

02:32She was already in it, you see, in the back of Mr. Tation's car.

02:37Susie, we've got to take it back.

02:38I'm going to turn the van round, and we're going to take it back to where you found it.

02:47Her.

02:48She's a her, not an it.

02:50Vivian said she was called Nicola.

02:52Oh, Jesus.

03:00And I didn't find her.

03:01She was waiting there for me, Adam.

03:03Don't you see?

03:03I was meant to find her.

03:04Susie, we've got to take it from her.

03:07We've got to take her back.

03:08Her parents will be going crazy.

03:12Don't cry, please.

03:14Don't cry.

03:15You can have a baby.

03:17We can have a baby, you and me.

03:20I won't give her up.

03:23I'll get rid of the others.

03:24We live together at Ecalcimos.

03:26You can have a baby.

03:27I'll love you forever, but we have got to take her back.

03:30All right?

03:38All right?

03:39I'm going to get the police.

03:44I threw myself under the next car.

03:55Oh, come on, then.

03:56I suppose we don't know how to decide this instant.

04:04Come on, get in.

04:05I'll take you home.

04:26I'll take it home.

04:27Oh, my God.

04:57She needs a bath before she feeds.

05:04She can do it.

05:05Come on.

05:08Come on.

05:15Vivian, could I have a look?

05:17Not now, Adam.

05:19Why don't you help Shiva?

05:21We're going to have a special dinner to celebrate

05:23Sozi getting her baby back.

05:27We should never have come out.

05:35Not with Abigail running a temperature.

05:36Adam, come inside and stop worrying.

05:39I'll never forgive you

05:40if you spoil this.

05:41Are you happy now?

06:06Have I made you happy?

06:11Yes.

06:13Oh, yes.

06:14Do you love me?

06:37I'll never forgive you.

07:07I'll never forgive you.

07:23I'll never forgive you.

07:25And he put up his hand and said, sir, I want to be a brain cellist.

07:40It's true.

07:42Anne, what about you? Come on.

07:44Come on.

07:44Come on, you're a nice friend.

07:46I never thought of what I would be.

07:50Life just stretches ahead of you.

07:53I never gave it a thought.

07:58Come on, Adam, it's your turn.

07:59Come on, you can't get out of it now.

08:03Well, I certainly didn't picture myself doing what I do now.

08:07I'm the eternal optimist.

08:09As you know, I'm not very good at these games.

08:10Oh, I don't know, you're quite good at cheating at cards.

08:12Yes, I heard that story.

08:15I do remember something.

08:18At 19, I can remember very clearly saying to myself,

08:22I'll never be happy again.

08:23Oh, dear.

08:24Oh, dear.

08:26By and large, with a few very minor exceptions,

08:29I was proved to be right.

08:33I'm sorry to spoil the party, but I've got to get home.

08:36Our daughter's ill, you see.

08:37Adam!

08:39Adam!

08:40Adam!

08:41Adam!

08:42Right.

08:43All right.

08:44Don't move.

08:45Stay here.

08:46Keep out of sight.

08:47And keep the bloody baby quiet.

08:48Adam!

08:49Come on.

08:50Come on.

08:51Come on.

08:52Come on.

08:53Come on.

08:54Why don't you make him big me all the way out here?

08:55Because someone else was using a gun.

08:56You're not going to be able to eat.

08:57I don't know.

08:58I don't know.

08:59I don't know.

09:00I think you've certainly been able to eat.

09:01I don't know.

09:02I don't know.

09:03I don't know.

09:04I don't know.

09:05I don't know.

09:06I don't know.

09:07I don't know.

09:08Bloody, baby, quiet.

09:13Adam!

09:16Come on, come on.

09:20Why did you make him drink you all the way out here?

09:22Because someone else was using my van, that's why.

09:26What do you expect me to do? Walk home?

09:37It's Zosie's baby.

09:38Yeah, thank you, Shiva.

09:42I think I just might have worked that out, given time.

09:46So you didn't come home from London quite empty-handed?

09:49Just, just...

09:49Now, if it keeps you happy, I don't care.

09:51I don't want to know.

09:54I'm going to sleep.

09:55So, Zosie, what's her name?

10:11What's your baby's name? Why haven't you decided yet?

10:14It isn't Zosie's baby. Excuse me?

10:18I said, it isn't Zosie's baby. It's someone else's baby.

10:21She is mine.

10:22Only in the sense that she is currently in your possession.

10:26I don't understand you, Adam.

10:27Zosie took this baby from a car when we were in London yesterday.

10:33She kidnapped it, if you like.

10:35I don't believe it.

10:36Of course you do.

10:36People take babies.

10:41Especially when they've lost their own.

10:42She just took a baby.

10:44She just took this baby out of her car.

10:47Well, didn't anyone see her do it?

10:48Well, obviously not.

10:51Look.

10:52It's done now.

10:56I know it was wrong and terrible.

10:58I know it's got to go back.

10:59No!

10:59The sooner the better, as far as I'm concerned.

11:02It was a wicked thing to do.

11:04It's an evil-minded thing.

11:06This baby has got to go back to her parents.

11:09Now.

11:09You've got to drive back to London.

11:11Now with her.

11:12Do you hear me?

11:13Yes, I do.

11:14I don't suppose you know who the parents are.

11:18This is a human being you've stolen.

11:20It's a person.

11:23It's not an animal or a toy.

11:26God, did you realise that?

11:27Parenthood already beginning to fall, is it?

11:31Zosie's stolen this baby out of someone's car.

11:34She just took it.

11:36She's mad.

11:38I mean, she doesn't even know who the baby is.

11:39Or who his parents are.

11:41Yes, we do.

11:42It's Tatians.

11:44The man you're going to work for.

11:50This isn't Nicolatation.

11:53She's nine months old.

11:55She crawls about.

11:57Whose baby is this?

12:02You're useless, aren't you?

12:04You'd think anything was funny.

12:08You'd think murder was funny.

12:09You haven't told me everything, have you, Shiva?

12:18No.

12:20So tell me now.

12:21You'll hate me.

12:24Tell me about when you discovered Zosie had stolen the baby.

12:29Now I can imagine exactly how she did it.

12:31It was the last day of summer and the hottest.

12:35It was the last day of summer and the hottest.

12:35etya Jest.

12:45What do you think blest?

12:53What?

12:58What do you think?

13:00What do I like?

13:02What do I like?

13:05What?

13:05Must have seemed as if the baby was being offered to her in some way.

13:35Suffolk C.I.D. Personal for Mr. Verne Smith.

13:51Hello. Hello, Mr. Verne Smith. This is Detective Constable Stretton. Do you remember me?

13:57Yes, of course I do. What do you want?

14:00Oh, just a few small further inquiries, sir. I won't keep you.

14:03I wonder if you can remember.

14:05What?

14:07When you were living at Wyvis Hall 12 years ago.

14:10I told you, I never lived there.

14:12When you stayed at Wyvis Hall.

14:15What I wanted to ask you was, do you remember ever being paid a visit by some pest control people called Vermstroy?

14:23Mr. Verne Smith?

14:26No. No, I'm sure I would have remembered.

14:30Mr. Pearson, we believe, small darkish man with a moustache.

14:33Used to destroy vermin for your grandfather.

14:35Yeah, my great uncle.

14:37Oh, yeah.

14:37Rats and moles.

14:39Oh, and those other things.

14:40Those peculiar things.

14:43What are they called?

14:45Small South American rodents?

14:47I really don't know what you're talking about. It sounds like a joke.

14:52This is a murder inquiry, Mr. Verne Smith.

14:54I don't think there's anything to joke about.

14:55No, no, of course not.

14:57I really can't remember you're Mr. Pearson.

15:01Never mind.

15:02If you can't help us, you can, and that's all it amounts to.

15:05You'll be pleased to hear our inquiries are nearly complete, sir.

15:07We'll be letting you know.

15:09Letting me know?

15:11Know what?

15:12Yeah.

15:13Could be in the country.

15:14You're not planning on any more Greek holidays in the near future, are you, sir?

15:18Thank you for your time.

15:19And the main story again.

15:29Police in North London say they're anxious for the safety of the missing Highgate baby.

15:33This is Brian Engel, and that was the news at six.

15:38But it didn't say who the baby was.

15:41How can we take it back if we don't know who the baby belongs to?

15:44That's police procedure, so the kidnappers won't know how much they know.

15:47You'd like to go into town, please, to get her some things.

15:51She needs a new vest, and she really ought to have some proper lappies.

15:53You are not going into town.

15:55You're going to take that baby back.

15:57I'll go.

15:59I'll go and get a paper.

16:00It'll have the details in there.

16:01You realise it was fortunate.

16:03It wasn't actually Mr. Tation's baby you took.

16:05The police would have found you by now.

16:08Mr. Tation would have told the police everything about himself.

16:11He would have said he had a new nurse come in to look after his children next week.

16:14He hadn't seen her, but his sister-in-law had.

16:19And there was something odd about her address.

16:21She'd given him a false address.

16:23There's no such place as a Calpamos, but there is a Newnes in Suffolk.

16:27They would have been here by now.

16:28They would have knocked on every door of every house, and they would have found us.

16:31Oh, congratulations.

16:33You'll be a credit to the force.

16:34It's true, though, isn't it?

16:36My guardian angel was looking after me.

16:38And what about the baby's guardian angel?

16:41He was on leave, was he?

16:42I thought you were on my side, Rufus.

16:44Oh, you did, did you?

16:46Well, I'll tell you whose side I'm on.

16:48I'm on Rufus's.

16:50And that goes for always.

16:54And to be quite frank,

16:56this is no place for me.

17:02It's time for me to quit.

17:06I'm off in the morning.

17:07As you like.

17:12It's your decision?

17:13Yeah, it very definitely is.

17:15And my van goes with me, so if you need it for anything, I suggest you do it now, whilst the going's good.

17:26Rufus!

17:27Please don't go just yet.

17:29I'm going to sort this mess out.

17:30I promise I'll deal with it.

17:31Adam, I am a medical student with a brilliant career ahead of me.

17:36I'm going to be very good.

17:37I'm going to be a great success.

17:39Do you understand me?

17:40And I'm not going to jeopardize my career for some crazy girl with a weird line in kleptomania.

17:46I mean, what kind of gynecologist specializes in kidnapping babies?

17:50No, Adam.

17:52Not for you.

17:54Not for anyone.

17:54I'm going to be a good partner.

17:57I'm going tomorrow morning.

18:04Catherine Rymark.

18:07That's a big name for such a little baby.

18:11I think I like Catherine better than Nicola, don't you?

18:21We'll have to buy her a cot soon.

18:24You weren't to blame.

18:29You just happened to be there.

18:32Unless you mean you should have rung the police yourself.

18:38You don't understand.

18:40I was to blame.

18:42Adam was going to take the baby back.

18:45He really was.

18:47He really was.

18:54I'm taking it back now.

19:19I'm just going to get the van.

19:21I was just going to say, I've had an idea.

19:36Oh, yes?

19:36We couldn't do that.

19:43Why not?

19:44You have the name and the address.

19:45It'll take a load of their minds.

19:48You need the money.

19:49Look, you didn't intend to take the baby, but now it's happened.

19:52Why don't you try and make something of it?

19:55We'll all be gone by the end of the week.

19:57It'll just be you and Zosie here alone.

19:58How are you going to live?

20:02Support her.

20:07We couldn't ask for very much.

20:10Something any middle class family could easily afford.

20:13Ten thousand?

20:15We couldn't phone.

20:17No, because they could trace a call.

20:18And we don't have their phone number.

20:19What we do is we send them a ransom note.

20:23We cut individual words out of this newspaper.

20:26Anonymous words.

20:27It was the first time, you see.

20:33The first time that either of them had relied on me.

20:40You're always trying to get in with those two.

20:43Make them like you.

20:47And now, you blame yourself

20:51because if you'd never suggested the note,

20:55Adam would have taken the baby back.

20:57And nobody would have died.

21:04Lily.

21:08Lily.

21:13I think you're right to blame yourself.

21:15I think you were both.

21:35I think I should.

21:36Let's go.

22:06As civil servants hold a one-day strike, armed police have raided an address at one...

22:24Is Abigail asleep?

22:26Sir?

22:28Adam, did you keep that appointment?

22:32You need help.

22:34I don't need a doctor.

22:35I need a priest.

22:36What?

22:37Look.

22:38Look, how about going on holiday?

22:40We could leave Abigail with your parents.

22:42No.

22:43No.

22:44I can't plan ahead just now.

22:45I just...

22:46Adam.

22:47Shut up.

22:48Shut up and leave me alone.

22:49Shut up.

22:50Are you all packed then?

23:04Not exactly.

23:05We didn't arrive with suitcases.

23:07What's this?

23:08Adam asked me to ask you if you please post this when you get signed then.

23:11Oh, he did, did he?

23:12What is it?

23:13A ransom note.

23:14And just who might Mr. and Mrs. Rymark be?

23:27Why has Adam printed the address?

23:28It's very late.

23:29Isn't Catherine good?

23:30She didn't wake us tall.

23:31She'll be wanting breakfast.

23:32You're right.

23:33It's really late.

23:34It's 10 o'clock.

23:35It's 10 o'clock.

23:36Vivian must be going crazy.

23:37That dress will be wetter than when she washed it.

24:03That dress will be wetter than when she washed it.

24:10I don't believe this. Adam is only asking for 10,000 pounds.

24:14Look, the mother is to take her to Liverpool Street Station,

24:17100 yards along Platform 12.

24:19One hour later, she'll find the baby in the station mother's room.

24:22Stupid idiots! No one will be hurt, Rufus.

24:24And when they pay, why is it worse than ordinary stealing?

24:27This has nothing to do with me. Adam's gone mad.

24:29And you, you want to get into medicine and get yourself into this shit!

24:33But the money's not for me!

24:34Oh, for Christ's sake, there won't be any money!

24:37There'll be a policewoman with a suitcase full of paper

24:39and another one waiting for the baby!

24:41Well, if that's what you think, you must tell Adam.

24:43But I have to tell you, he's sold on my idea.

24:45I won't bother to tell him anything.

24:48I'm off out of here right now.

24:59She was lying with her face down.

25:04Make it shut up! Get her out of here!

25:14Help! Help! Help! Help!

25:18Come on!

25:29What is it? What happened to her?

25:42I think it's sudden infant death syndrome.

25:46It's cop death to you.

25:51I put my ring on her finger for luck.

25:54But her fingers were too small!

25:56It's nothing to do with your brain!

26:02It's not normal.

26:03I don't know what causes cop death.

26:05But it may be something to do with the respiratory centre in the brain

26:08that controls breathing shutting off.

26:10What makes it happen?

26:13I don't know. She had a cold.

26:15Did he hear her wheezing?

26:18What are we gonna do?

26:20There's a theory that cop death's due to fear.

26:26Things are not the way the child has become used to.

26:30It's not the mother's face the child sees when it first wakes.

26:33Are you saying she died because she was afraid?

26:38I don't mind. I'm just telling you there's a theory.

26:40You're not making me feel any better!

26:42I'm not in the business of making me feel better!

26:44You won't go, will you? Please?

26:46Please?

26:47Don't go and leave me with all this, please!

26:55No, I won't go.

27:00What's happening?

27:01The baby's dead.

27:02It means you're not going to get the chance to see whether your little plan would have worked.

27:07Why not?

27:08You're not going to shell someone.

27:09Please wear a mask.

27:10Come on.

27:17Hold this still.

27:18Here's some pills.

27:19Come on.

27:20Open round.

27:21Sosie.

27:22Sosie.

27:23Sosie.

27:24Come on!

27:25Come on!

27:26Sosie.

27:27Sosie.

27:28Come on!

27:29I heal!

27:30Don't ask me what we're going to do again. Please, I don't know yet.

27:37Don't tell the others. Sheever already knows.

28:00I don't know.

28:30I'm sorry, I thought I had a baby.

28:42But you didn't.

28:45No, you're here.

28:47Have you got something useful?

28:48No.

28:50I assure you, we don't carry any chemicals around with us.

28:54They're all locked up.

28:56Too bad.

28:58She's a cat.

29:00She's a cat.

29:30The man from Brighton was remanded for two years.

29:42And in the Wyvis Hall mystery bodies story, the police have said this evening that they've completed their inquiries and will be making a statement in the next few days.

29:51And now the weather forecast.

29:52You know, this is it, Rufus. They're definitely on to us. Cat and Mouse, they call it. It's only a matter of time.

30:08Adam, don't do anything stupid. Just sit tight.

30:12Good.

30:13I'll never win.

30:14I'll never win.

30:14Alright.

30:15I'll never win.

30:16I'll never win.

30:20Ooh.

30:20What's that?

30:21Alright.

30:21I'll never win.

30:22I'll never win again.

30:23online.

30:25I'm sorry.

30:49So you've decided.

30:52Yes.

30:53I'm sorry.

30:55I was going to ring you later.

30:58It wasn't going to work out between us.

31:00If you say so.

31:03It's just...

31:04You're so secretive, Rufus.

31:09I know I'd never get through to you.

31:13Well, you might not always want to know everything about a person.

31:17You see...

31:18I could tell you my worst secret, if you like.

31:21Would you stay if I told you?

31:27Oh, don't joke.

31:29You could have something terrible in your past, but that wouldn't be the problem.

31:33It's not your fault.

31:38It's just something in your upbringing, that inbred, keep it to yourself, everything's a joke.

31:43I just can't live with that.

31:46It's not your fault.

31:48You're just sort of pre-programmed.

31:50And there I was, preserving the idea that I might be charmingly unpredictable.

31:56It's your decision.

32:01It's your decision.

32:05Are you off somewhere?

32:08Maybe.

32:11Possibly.

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32:40Tomato's gone, Shiva.

32:42Oh, I wanted to listen to the news.

32:44You know, it's bound to have something on about the baby being returned.

32:47I wanted to listen.

32:49I wanted to share in the parents' joy.

32:54Do the vegetables, if you like.

32:56I'm cooking something special for Zozie.

33:00You know she's been in the room all day.

33:02Poor Singh.

33:05So, never mind.

33:06She's young.

33:07She'll get over it.

33:08And thank God there's no harm done.

33:13You know, I've been thinking.

33:16I can't possibly go to the Tatians now.

33:19He knows the baby's parents.

33:22I'd better phone him.

33:24Tell him I'm sorry to let him down.

33:29You do think Adam will let me stay on a while longer?

33:38I'll come.

33:42I'll come.

33:50I'll come.

33:51You have to stay.

34:19Please, Shiva, please stay and help us.

34:23We've got to get Vivian to leave.

34:26Please help me.

34:49I think you're right to blame yourself.

34:56Stop crying.

35:11Please.

35:13Where's Catherine?

35:15She's in the other room.

35:17Leave her there, Zosie.

35:21She's dead.

35:22She's not a baby anymore.

35:23She's not there.

35:26It wasn't our fault.

35:28We have to look after ourselves.

35:30We don't want to end up in prison, do we?

35:32I'm not meant to have babies.

35:34Why are all my babies taken away from me?

35:37It wasn't yours.

35:38You had no business with it.

35:39She was a person.

35:41Where are things?

35:43I burned them.

35:45I made a bonfire and burned everything.

36:04Can't drink your tea, Adam.

36:09Would one of you drive me to the village?

36:12I've got to phone with Cetacean.

36:14Tell him I won't be going.

36:16You realise how much you're letting a poor man down?

36:18I mean, he's expecting...

36:19You can't stay here, Vivian.

36:20You have to go today.

36:24I could take you back to London with me when I go.

36:27I still have to phone to say I'm not going.

36:31It's only right.

36:34Well, I'll run you down to the village phone now.

36:39I'll just go and get me sure.

36:41I've forgotten that it gets cold.

36:57It's only the post.

37:18Are you crazy?

37:23I thought it was the police.

37:25Oh, yeah, what were you going to do? Shoot the lot of them?

37:30Christ.

37:31The sooner I'm out of this mad house, the better.

37:55Oh!

37:56Oh!

37:57Oh!

37:58Oh!

37:59Oh, I want my baby back!

38:01Shh!

38:02Shut up or I'll kill you!

38:04What are you doing with that gun?

38:05It was a cock death, Vivian.

38:06A cock death.

38:07It was no one's fault.

38:08I don't believe you.

38:09Why should I lie to you?

38:10We're all in this together.

38:11You have lied.

38:12You said you'd taken that baby back.

38:13But we're not lying now.

38:14And Susie wouldn't have hurt the baby.

38:15She loved her.

38:16Shut up!

38:17Put that thing down, won't you?

38:18Mind your own business!

38:19Adam!

38:20Susie, you must be very brave.

38:21And we're going to go to the police.

38:22And we're going to tell them about this.

38:23You have lied.

38:24You have lied.

38:25You said you'd taken that baby back.

38:26But we're not lying now.

38:27And Susie wouldn't have hurt the baby.

38:28She loved her.

38:29Shut up!

38:30And we're telling them how you came to take the baby because you weren't well.

38:41Because you'd lost your own baby.

38:44And we'll all be there.

38:46and we're going to go to the police

38:48and we're going to tell them about this.

38:51We're going to tell them

38:52how you came to take the baby

38:54because you weren't well.

38:56Because you'd lost your own baby.

38:59And we'll all be there.

39:01We'll tell them how well you looked after her.

39:04Hey.

39:05And Rufus will tell them that he was a cop dead.

39:08And they'll listen to him

39:09because he knows about medical things.

39:11You've got to be joking.

39:13There isn't anything else we can do, Rufus.

39:16We have to go to the village now

39:17and phone the police.

39:20And they won't do anything bad to us.

39:21It'll be probation at the worst.

39:23They just kicked me out of medical school, that's all.

39:25And what about me?

39:26My father's counting on me to go to a good teaching hospital.

39:30This was someone's child.

39:31It's a precious child and she's dead.

39:33They'd think we did it.

39:35We could go to jail for life.

39:40Look.

39:42Let's get on with things as we planned.

39:43Vivian and Shiva should get ready

39:46and I'll run them to the station.

39:48No, I'm sorry.

39:49If you're not going to phone the police,

39:50then I'll have to go alone.

39:51You can't drive, Vivian.

39:53Then I'll walk.

39:54No, you won't.

39:57You see, there's four of us

39:58and only one of you.

40:00Now let's get a move on.

40:18We won't be out of here in the hour.

40:21Come on!

40:22Come on!

40:23Come on!

40:24Come on!

40:26Come on!

40:28Come on!

40:29Come on!

40:30Come on!

41:00Oh, my God.

41:30Oh, my God.

42:00Oh, my God.

42:30Oh, my God.

43:00Oh, my God.

43:02Oh, my God.

43:07Where is your mother?

43:10Here, in Nunes.

43:13In Nunes?

43:14I moved here the week before I did.

43:16You were on your way to Nunes when Rufus picked you up.

43:20Yeah.

43:22I didn't say.

43:23I did tell him.

43:25They didn't want me.

43:26Never looked for me, did they?

43:27Rufus, what are we going to do about Tatian?

43:42He's expecting Vivian today.

43:43If she doesn't turn up, you might connect her with a baby.

43:45Remember the false address.

43:48It could be all right.

43:49It could be all right.

43:50I'll have to phone Tatian.

43:53Yeah, I'll have to phone him.

43:54I'll have to tell him that Vivian's ill.

43:59What about Zozie?

44:00She wants to get her with parents in Nunes.

44:02Nunes?

44:03That's right.

44:03I told her it's impossible.

44:04I just don't know what else we're going to do.

44:33I just don't know what else we're going to do.

44:39I just don't know what else we're going to do.

44:41I want to be very sure.

44:44I don't know what else we're going to do.

44:46I just don't know where to help.

44:50I'm going to get the baby.

44:51Bye.

45:21Well, this is it then.

45:38We never see each other again.

45:41Are we?

45:42That would be a mistake.

45:46It's forever and forever.

45:58Good luck.

46:16You sure you're going to be all right?

46:29Yes, of course.

46:31Good luck.

46:50Good luck.

46:54Good luck.

47:05Good luck.

47:07Good luck.

47:11Good luck.

47:17Good luck.

47:32He said he had something to tell you.

47:34Or think he's drunk or something.

47:36Couldn't get him to go home.

47:39Mr. Burns Smith, what a surprise.

47:45We've just written you a letter.

47:47Today, in fact.

47:49Saved us the postage.

47:52A letter?

47:54Yes, just with the final details of how we ended the Yvis Hall inquiry.

47:58The girl was local, as we thought.

48:00Her name was Zoe Jane Seagrove.

48:03It was her daughter, the baby.

48:05The girl's mother and Mrs. Pearson identified them both by a ring found on the baby's finger.

48:10And she told us a thing or two about the stepfather as well.

48:15The stepfather?

48:18You mean the coit pill man?

48:20That's right, Pearson.

48:22Seems the girl had run away from home.

48:25She'd done it before many times to get away from the stepfather's attentions.

48:30Oh, God.

48:32Hmm.

48:33Not a pleasant story, is it?

48:36And the baby?

48:38It seems likely it was his, doesn't it?

48:43The girl was local.

48:44He needed a place to hide the bodies.

48:46His job helped him there.

48:47He knew your uncle's property and then there was no one there.

48:50Then six months later, he committed suicide.

48:53Oh, God.

48:55The baby.

48:57Yes.

48:58You'd be surprised at some of the stories we've come across.

49:02Still, sir, we can't choose our parents, can we?

49:06Or our children.

49:08Some kids are never gonna make it.

49:14You best get home to your family, sir.

49:16That pretty daughter of yours, what she called?

49:18Abigail?

49:19Yes.

49:23You remember that?

49:24Yes, sir.

49:25We are trained to observe details, sir.

49:37What was it you wanted, sir?

49:39Uh, just...

49:42Something I thought I remembered.

49:45It's not important now.

49:46You seem to have sorted everything out.

49:57Anne?

50:16You must be on your side.

50:17Do you know the king.

50:18You're alright.

50:19You're up for it.

50:20That's so great.

50:21Oh, the king.

50:22Oh.

50:23Oh, my God.

50:24Oh, your God.

50:25You're not a good one.

50:26Oh, I've been on the last two night.

50:27But you're lucky enough to be too.

50:28Oh, my God.

50:29No.

50:30Mm-hmm, it's a total hour, my God.

50:31I'll be quite a long rest of it.

50:32I've been on the night.

50:33No.

50:34I've been on the night.

50:35I've been sitting here as a night.

50:36No.

50:37No.

50:38No.

50:39No.

50:40No.

50:41I thought I'd be a little late.

50:42As long as I would say,

50:44I hope you didn't mind coming so far out of town.

50:47I know you're busy.

50:49Of course not.

50:51Not to make time for old friends.

50:53Especially for celebrations. It's hardly that.

50:58Most of it was in our own heads, you see.

51:01The police never really suspected us.

51:03They knew from the beginning it was the copier man.

51:05But it wasn't Pearson.

51:08No, but they thought it was.

51:11And all their questioning of me was only to confirm

51:13what they thought they already knew.

51:16All the times, as you must have known,

51:18that the man we called the Koyipu man

51:19was really her stepfather.

51:31Suicide while the balance of his mind was disturbed.

51:37So that's that.

51:41Who do you think sent me that?

51:43Shiva, trying to get in on the act again?

51:45I don't think we need worry about Shiva anymore.

51:51All that about Zoe Zeema.

51:54Her made-up name.

51:56It was lies, too.

51:59She was called Zoe Jane.

52:01Was?

52:01A strange sort of way I forget that it wasn't Zoe in the grave,

52:08but Vivian.

52:13Wonder whatever became of her.

52:15Didn't you ever wonder before?

52:16No.

52:19I sort of switched it off.

52:23Planked it out of my mind.

52:24Well, I think she probably never got in touch with that mother.

52:32Would you?

52:34And so, after a while, she was reported missing, luckily for us.

52:38She was a disaster person, Adam.

52:43She was never going to survive.

52:46She's probably in jail or on hard drugs or something.

52:49Not living in our sort of way.

52:51But don't blame yourself.

52:52We were very young.

52:57I don't.

53:02That's it.

53:03Cheer up.

53:05I thought you would be euphoric.

53:07I mean, this is it.

53:08This is the end.

53:09It's over.

53:10This time the police don't get their men

53:12and society fails to exact its revenge.

53:18You can go back to living your life.

53:19Yes, I've realised that.

53:20We've got away with it.

53:31Do another.

53:33Hmm?

53:34No, I must get back soon.

53:37We should, um, try to keep in touch.

53:43We shouldn't lose touch, that is.

53:47We weren't best friends, after all.

53:50We should have dinner.

53:58Yes.

54:01Let's swap numbers properly.

54:03Let's swap numbers, after all.

54:16There.

54:18Now we're official.

54:19They must be keen.

54:35They're very early.

54:39No wonder they need a large house.

54:41My God, the wife's pregnant, too.

54:49She looks much younger than him.

54:50What do they call it?

54:54Latham, or Patience, or something or other.

55:00What a glorious place.

55:02My wife said it would be fabulous, and she was right, as always.

55:05Won't you, Viv?

55:06If we do decide to buy, we'll have to fence in that lake, I'm afraid.

55:11We'll teach them to swim.

55:13And I could learn, too, in case I fell in.

55:15Would you move permanently to the country, Mr...

55:20No, no, we'd keep the Highgate house.

55:22But my wife's always wanted to live in this part of the world.

55:26Haven't you, darling?

55:27Naomi, Nicola, why don't you take the others down to that pretty wood?

55:31I...

55:31By the way, the name's Tation.

55:35We saw the advert for the house in the East Anglin Daily Times.

55:39My company's got an office in Ipswich.

55:41No, thanks.

55:43I suppose we have to go through an agent.

55:46Well, uh...

55:47I know we're not supposed to let on,

55:51but I think we like the house very much.

55:54Don't we, Vivian?

55:56I've fallen in love with it.

56:01First moment I saw it.

56:07And we ought to say we do know about those grisly happenings up in the wood.

56:12We read about it in the paper.

56:16But we really don't mind a bit.

56:31So...

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