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Bookish Season 1 Episode 2
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00:00I'm Book, and I run a bookshop. You must be here about the job.
00:12You know where I've come from, don't you?
00:14I have a little hobby on the side, and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and more.
00:18Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you? Now that you've got the job.
00:21What exactly is it you do? I sell books.
00:24Yeah, but that's not all, is it? Yesterday, out there at a bomb site.
00:28So you don't think they died in an air raid?
00:31Inkerman Street was already empty, wasn't it, Mr. Bessart?
00:34Scheduled for demolition.
00:35It's a chaotic world, Jack. I have a system.
00:39Do you think it was suicide?
00:41Why would a chemist kill himself with something as horrible as prussig acid?
00:45It's murder.
00:46There's a daughter, isn't there?
00:48A right money-grabbing little cow.
00:50And then she has the gall to run off with him.
00:54Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving.
00:56Got the chemist's wheel through, sir.
00:58Daughter doesn't get a bean.
01:02This is a sacred charge, you understand that?
01:05I wouldn't ask this of you if I didn't think you were ready more than that.
01:08But you were the one creature on this earth to whom I could entrust this.
01:12This message must go to Trotty and to no one else.
01:16Is that clear?
01:18Good-bye. Off you go.
01:35Morning.
01:36Morning.
01:37Uh, Doc, stay.
01:39Can I help you?
01:41Oh.
01:42Yes.
01:44With wallpaper, that is. It's a little early for that.
01:47For what?
01:49Never mind.
01:51I'm looking for a Mrs. Book.
01:53You've found her.
01:54Wow, that's a crying shame.
01:56What is?
01:57You're married, that is.
02:01Can I help you?
02:02Yeah, yeah.
02:03You got a message from your husband.
02:05Said you were having problems with your alternator.
02:07Why?
02:08In the car.
02:09It's what I do, see? Cars.
02:12I see.
02:13I missed a book sent for you, did he?
02:14Yeah.
02:15Yeah.
02:16I mean, no idea why he didn't go with someone more local, but...
02:18I'll not say no.
02:19Got to go where the work is, right?
02:21Quite.
02:22Oh.
02:25Got a light?
02:27Yeah.
02:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:29Somewhere around.
02:30One minute.
02:31Um.
02:35Uh, what have I got?
02:37Uh, a reading somewhere.
02:41Where's that last pocket you look, innit?
02:46Um.
02:47Ah.
02:48Here we are.
02:52Oh.
02:57So, you are a mechanic, Mr...
03:02Mickey.
03:03Mickey Hall.
03:05And, uh, yeah.
03:06Yeah, I've got a garage.
03:07Mile end.
03:08All yours?
03:09Well, no, me and the, um...
03:12Oh, yeah.
03:13Yeah, all mine.
03:15I see.
03:17Um.
03:19If you'll excuse me a moment.
03:21I need to lay my hands on a...
03:23Well...
03:24Find my car.
03:26Right home.
03:27Yeah.
03:28Well, I ain't going anywhere, so...
03:29The very man.
03:30Oh, good morning, Mrs Buck.
03:32Ah.
03:33Morning, Eric.
03:34I wonder if you'd be an absolute darling before me, Eric.
03:36Anything for a lady?
03:37As I recall, Sheila's a proud owner of a rather splendid Daimler.
03:38Yes, she's got a car on you.
03:39Yeah, is she in?
03:40Can I just pop in to ask to borrow the car?
03:41No need for that.
03:42I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
03:43It's just parked round the back, I'll get the keys for you.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Hello.
03:47Hello.
03:48Hello.
03:49Hello.
03:50Hello.
03:51Hello.
03:52What's up?
03:53A puncture, I think.
03:54As bald as Daddy.
03:55I told her I was going to have a rather splendid Daimler.
03:56Yes, she's got a car on you.
03:57Yeah, is she in?
03:58Can I just pop in to ask to borrow the car?
03:59No need for that.
04:00I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
04:01It's just parked round the back, I'll get the keys for you.
04:03Yeah.
04:04Hello.
04:05Hello.
04:06What's up?
04:19A puncture, I think.
04:20As bald as Daddy.
04:22I told him these wheels won't get me to Cambridge.
04:26I don't suppose you could help me out.
04:29It's not really my department.
04:31I'm just looking after the place.
04:32I'd be most awfully grateful.
04:35Oh.
04:36Yeah, alright.
04:37I'll see what Mickey's got.
04:39Thanks ever so.
04:41There must be a repair kit back here somewhere.
04:44I really appreciate this.
04:46It's like you put things in those random places.
05:16Oh no.
05:22Let me walk a drink.
05:25Oh no.
05:27Okay.
05:28Oh no.
05:29Okay.
05:31Come on.
05:32Oh no.
05:32At first of all.
05:34SIGMONY CRIVEN
05:42I don't know how to live, isn't it?
05:45Oh, my God.
06:15Oh, my God.
06:45Oh, my God.
07:15Oh, my God.
07:44Oh, my God.
07:45Oh, my God.
07:46Oh, my God.
07:49Oh, my God.
07:50Oh, my God.
07:51Oh, my God.
07:52Oh, my God.
07:54Thank you very much, Mr. Hall.
07:56That was, uh...
07:56That was quite a ride.
07:59Yeah, not at all, love.
08:01And, uh...
08:03Any time you want to go a bit further...
08:07Sunday, maybe?
08:11Hmm.
08:12Desperately tempting, though, that is.
08:14I find I'm washing my hair that evening.
08:16Besides...
08:17Besides?
08:18I think perhaps your dance card may soon be a little full.
08:24Quick word, Mr. Hall.
08:27Well, isn't this nice?
08:40Who are you?
08:41We thought, Mr. Hall, that it was high time we had a little chat.
08:44Listen, I know my rights.
08:46Straight out of the block.
08:48Disappointing.
08:48Dear me, Mr. Hall.
08:50One point deducted already.
08:51Point?
08:51What are you talking about?
08:52Listen, you can't stick anything on me.
08:55There you go again.
08:57Aye?
08:58Textbook.
08:59Quotidian.
09:00Banal.
09:01What?
09:02You see, the inspector and I have been through this routine a hundred times.
09:05A thousand.
09:06You have no idea how tedious it is having to listen to the same old stock responses from gnarly old lags like something from the musical.
09:14Hold your hand out, you naughty boy.
09:17Hold your hand...
09:17That's probably enough of that.
09:18So here's the question that you would ask, were it not for your fear of me dinging you.
09:25Why would I want to kill poor Mr. Harcup?
09:28Well, why would I?
09:29I wouldn't hurt a fly.
09:30I never did it.
09:32But you meant to go into the shop.
09:42Yeah.
09:43Yes, all right.
09:44I went there to talk things for him.
09:46To reason with him.
09:46Now me and Marula got a little one on the way.
09:48Oh, did you go with the express intention of filching the jade elephant and replacing it?
09:53That's a dirty lie.
09:54Oh, bravo.
09:55Haven't heard that one in a while.
09:57Should have put copper at the end, though.
09:58What?
09:59That's a dirty lie.
09:59Copper is much more effective.
10:01But you ain't a copper, is you?
10:03Oh, fair point.
10:04No, I ain't.
10:05Isn't.
10:06Aren't.
10:07But I do have a special letter from Churchill.
10:11So?
10:11Anyway, you can't prove that I did that.
10:13No, but it's very probable you'll admit.
10:15What happened then?
10:16I waited outside the shop.
10:20I knew he'd be in.
10:21He never goes anywhere except Mondays and Thursdays.
10:23Play dominoes down the ball.
10:25I waited too well after seven, but there was no sign of him.
10:27So you went into the flat?
10:29No sign of him.
10:31But first she come out.
10:32Who?
10:33The char.
10:35Mrs. Dredge.
10:37Coming out of chemist acting all shifty.
10:39Yeah, well, you know all about her.
10:40She had something in her coat.
10:42Trying her best to keep it hidden.
10:46Didn't let her see me, obviously.
10:48When was this?
10:50About six.
10:51Now go on.
10:54Then someone else come.
10:55Looks like Piccadilly Circus on your notebook.
10:57Couldn't see him properly, what me eyes and that.
10:59Oh, yes, we've heard all about.
11:01But it was a hymn.
11:04I do know the difference, mister.
11:06Your reputation precedes you.
11:09And it was all bundled up.
11:13Scarf.
11:14Overcoat.
11:17After he left, I went to the flat.
11:21The door was shut, but I know my way around a lock, so...
11:24In I went, and...
11:26That's when I found him.
11:31Marula's dad, that is.
11:32Stone dead.
11:33So naturally, you thought you should call the police.
11:36Well, that wouldn't have been a very wise thing to do, would it?
11:39I almost just legged it.
11:41And then I remembered about the ornaments.
11:45The jade figures.
11:47Months ago, he told me about how precious they was.
11:49I...
11:49I thought no one was going to miss one of them, are they?
11:53Alas, for you, that wasn't quite the case.
11:57I had my little chess set with me.
12:04So I swapped one.
12:06Then I took off straight home, I swear.
12:08I never killed Harker.
12:11I never even touched him.
12:12He was dead when I got there.
12:13All right, son.
12:13Maybe you're telling the truth.
12:14Maybe you're not.
12:15But let me assure you, if you are lying, if you think you can take Scotland Yard for a ride,
12:20I'll come down on you so hard, you won't be able to see straight till Christmas.
12:24I'll throw the bloody book at you.
12:27Inspector.
12:36Do we believe him?
12:38Ben does Dog's hind leg.
12:40Yeah, but is he a murderer, though?
12:44I need to think.
12:47Do you have time to queue?
12:48Do you have time to queue?
12:49I'm planning a casserole.
12:50I'm planning a casserole.
13:06This your stopping moaning, love?
13:07Chance would be a fine thing.
13:08Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:11Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:13Come on, he needs sharp now.
13:17That's not going to wrap itself.
13:19Yeah.
13:21She's new.
13:28Out the way, you.
13:29We'll be all bleeding day.
13:32Right.
13:33You're watching.
13:35Over, over, under, under.
13:40There we go, lovely.
13:41Bye.
13:43All right, come in.
13:44Let's be having you.
13:48So now to turn you vegetarian.
13:51Our cat brought home a pigeon the other night.
13:55And?
13:56Well, Mrs Bliss was sorely tempted.
13:59We had plenty of pigeons in the war.
14:00Nothing wrong with a bit of pigeon.
14:03Yeah.
14:04Yeah, I know, but now it's all over.
14:06We want to weigh him a bit higher, don't we?
14:08We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the Starlings.
14:15Right, bugger this.
14:16All right.
14:17Excuse me.
14:18Police business.
14:19Coming through.
14:20Coming through.
14:21Police business.
14:22Police business.
14:25Sorry.
14:26Sorry, madam.
14:27Police business.
14:28Thank you very much.
14:29Oh, madam.
14:30Sorry.
14:31I just ask you to take a few steps outside.
14:33It's because it's urgent police business.
14:39Afternoon, Alex.
14:40Afternoon, sir.
14:42Now, stewing steak.
14:44I've kept it aside, sir.
14:45You are a prince amongst men.
14:48Oh.
14:50You've got something just there.
14:52Oh, excuse me.
14:54Powdered egg.
14:55Bit of a rush breakfast.
14:56How's Sheila?
14:58Well, sir.
14:59Well.
15:00She's driven up to Sheffield.
15:01A nice family.
15:03Yes.
15:05Terrible about George Arkham.
15:08He certainly is.
15:10I knew I.
15:11I wager old Basart won't shed any tears.
15:14Huh?
15:15I never got on.
15:17Many are running during the Blitz.
15:19Arkham was a stickler for the rules.
15:22Always on at Mr. Basart for being too slack.
15:24Blackout curtain.
15:25Showing light.
15:26That sort of thing.
15:29Rub your tick.
15:32Right then.
15:33Where are we up to with the murders?
15:34Murder?
15:36There's only one, as far as I know.
15:38Ah, yes.
15:40Well, Mrs. Dredge says she saw the chemist at approximately 6pm.
15:44We have only her word for that.
15:45Yes.
15:47But Mickey Hall did say he saw her leaving the shop around that time with something in her coat she wanted to keep hidden.
15:54And she has a strong motive now we know she inherits the law.
15:58So, Harcup appears to have died somewhere between 6 and 10 according to Dr. Calder.
16:03An awful lot could have happened in those four hours.
16:05Indeed.
16:06Now, we're presuming the killer called around.
16:09No sign of forced entry.
16:12So Harcup knew them?
16:13Probably.
16:14I've told you this before.
16:16Hear me out, Mr. Harcup, please.
16:17It's about Marona.
16:20I suppose you'd better come through.
16:23So, he let them in.
16:26There was some sort of chat.
16:31The killer proceeds to pour prussic acid down his throat.
16:38Harcup croaks.
16:40Literally, I should imagine.
16:43But why did he take just the one piece?
16:46Why would I grab the knot?
16:48Then it would look like burglary.
16:50Whereas he wanted to make it look like suicide.
16:53There we are, sir.
16:55Oh, bless you, Eric.
16:56Oh, anything for dog?
16:58I'll spoil you.
16:59You do.
17:00Would you like it, rats?
17:01Oh, no, no. He won't mind.
17:04Toodle-pip.
17:05Enjoy your day, gentlemen.
17:06Cheerio.
17:12Oh, Beryl.
17:14Hello.
17:15Mrs. Dredge has motive and opportunity.
17:17Mickey Hall, motive and opportunity.
17:20What about Marula?
17:21Mickey says the bundled-up stranger is a man.
17:23Yeah, then he would.
17:24If they were in it together.
17:28Did they know that Harcup was going to disinherit them?
17:34Hello, Jack.
17:35Sir?
17:37Not for you.
17:47What have you done?
17:48Oh, tidied up.
17:51Tidied up.
17:53Oh, dear.
17:55Well, you said you wanted things cataloguing.
17:57So, I need to just put it in a proper order.
18:00We've only done these shelves so far.
18:02Yeah, sorry.
18:03It takes time, you know.
18:05Thank God.
18:06Put it all back.
18:07Hey?
18:08Put it all back just as it was.
18:09I told you I have a system.
18:10You said that-
18:11Catalogue it, I said.
18:12Not desecrate it.
18:14Gross.
18:16Bulk.
18:21I'm sorry.
18:23He said soon as men did, eh?
18:25Well, I think I might have done something right.
18:35You found something?
18:36Yeah.
18:37I have.
18:39It's been cleaned recently.
18:42The residue you can see.
18:45This remains a silver polish.
18:46Meaning?
18:47Meaning that it got into the ground recently.
18:50Probably dropped.
18:53Or something far more sinister.
18:56What are you getting at?
18:581665.
18:59Year of the plague.
19:00Yeah.
19:01Very specifically the year of the plague.
19:03Not a year or two before.
19:05Capital.
19:07Too convenient.
19:08Horribly.
19:09Where better to hide a tree than in a forest.
19:13Eleven skeletons in the plague pit from the 17th century.
19:17And the 12th from 1946.
19:20Oh, bloody hell.
19:22You said earlier.
19:24Murders.
19:25Plural.
19:26Yes.
19:28Linked?
19:29Oh, I should think so.
19:30Top of the class, Jack.
19:31Really, I should give you the afternoon off to go to the pub.
19:34So I will.
19:35More specifically the bull.
19:36Where the late Mr. Harcup used to play dominos.
19:38Take Nora.
19:40Nora?
19:41I believe you've met.
19:42She's good at this sort of thing.
19:44You could learn a lot.
19:52Ah.
19:54Something.
19:56Very much something.
20:01What's this?
20:02A list of addresses and a very particular question.
20:04I'd be ever so grateful if you'd go on a little field trip for me.
20:08All right.
20:09If you cook tonight.
20:10I am.
20:11Casserole.
20:12Oh, casserole.
20:13I'm in the middle of this.
20:14All right.
20:15I'm here.
20:16I'm here.
20:17No.
20:18Let's go.
20:19You're telling it.
20:20It's great.
20:21No.
20:22No.
20:23No.
20:25No.
20:26No.
20:28No.
20:29No.
20:30No.
20:31No.
20:32No.
20:33No.
20:34No.
20:35No.
20:36No, no.
20:37No.
20:38No.
20:39No.
20:40No.
20:41I don't know.
21:11Very irregular, this.
21:22Kiddies on the premises.
21:24I'm not a kid.
21:26You look like one.
21:27Appearances can be very deceptive.
21:30I'll have a drink if that's what you're worried about.
21:32That would make it worse.
21:34She'll have a lemonade.
21:35Oh, what?
21:37And I'll have a bottle of mild, please.
21:40All right.
21:42Thanks.
21:45You'll have to get these.
21:46What?
21:47I haven't got any money.
21:48I know.
21:50Ask Mr Book.
21:51We'll advance you your wages.
21:58There you are.
22:00Thanks.
22:00Keep the change.
22:01You were saying, Mr Harkop.
22:08That's right, son.
22:09Every Monday and Thursday.
22:11Sit just over there.
22:14Mr Well-Beloved the Butcher.
22:15Mr Bass Hartley RP Warden.
22:18Mrs Akers from the junk shop.
22:20Mr Quillen the tailor.
22:22It's like Happy Families.
22:25Mr Toovey from the Cobblers.
22:26Mr Harkop.
22:27Oh, God rest his soul.
22:30Yeah.
22:33Are you with the Cobblers then?
22:39In a manner of speaking.
22:42I mean, I don't mind.
22:43You know, I was in the force myself back in the day.
22:47Ah, poor old Harkop.
22:49Didn't seem the type.
22:51You know, to do himself in.
22:53But then, do they ever?
22:55I know.
22:56We had a teacher.
22:58Life and soul.
22:59Drowned herself in a weird one.
23:00How was he?
23:01When you last saw him?
23:03Well, that's the thing, you see.
23:05I saw Mr Harkop just the day before.
23:08Oh.
23:08Yeah.
23:09Very out of character it was.
23:11Yeah, he marched in here in the middle of the day.
23:14He was a man of very regular habits.
23:17So, it did seem a bit queer.
23:20Yeah, seemed like he had a lot on his mind.
23:22He said he was sitting on a secret.
23:26Obviously eating him up a bit.
23:28Did you get it out of him?
23:29The secret?
23:31Ah, not at first.
23:32No.
23:33More than my life's worth, he said.
23:35He said that?
23:36His very words, son.
23:38And the next day?
23:40Dead.
23:44Did he, um, elaborate?
23:47Yes, son.
23:48Eventually, he did.
23:50Now, Mr Harkop was a very upright citizen.
23:56You see, he suspected one of his pals was cheating at Spotties.
24:04Spotties?
24:06Spotties.
24:09Domino's.
24:10Oh, that was smashing.
24:27Well, Kez's uses.
24:29Better than what you're used to.
24:32Oh, yeah.
24:32So, uh, you were saying, uh, Scarlet Fever?
24:38Well, that's what brought us together, yes.
24:42We met on the Scarlet Fever ward when we were, what, both 12?
24:47And so, what?
24:49You fell for each other right from the off?
24:52Uh, it wasn't quite like that, no.
24:55Profitable day.
25:01I'm not sure.
25:03I put my foot right in it.
25:05Oh.
25:06I tried to tidy Mr Book's bookshelves.
25:08Oh.
25:10I mean, I don't think I did too much damage, but...
25:12And then I was out and about with Nora.
25:16Detecting.
25:17Well, it certainly put some colour in your cheeks.
25:21So, go on, then.
25:23Well, if you didn't fall for each other straight away,
25:26when did you know?
25:30You'll forgive me, my dear,
25:31but we'll have to know each other rather better
25:33before such confidences are exchanged.
25:36Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
25:37I didn't mean to overstep, but...
25:39No, not at all. You haven't.
25:40I do hope we'll become fast friends, Jack.
25:46It's complicated.
25:48That's all.
25:52Book and I were inseparable for years.
25:55And then...
25:58Life got in the way.
26:05Love is where it falls, isn't that what they say?
26:10I couldn't trouble you for a lie, could I?
26:17Sorry, I...
26:18I don't smoke.
26:24Sure?
26:24I don't know.
26:32I don't know.
26:32I don't know.
26:46I don't see you.
26:47And why are things more than formal between you and your employer?
27:05I resent that question, Inspector.
27:07Nevertheless.
27:08Well, I won't deny there was a degree of affection between Mr Harcourt and myself.
27:15If you've been doing for someone all those years...
27:19Well, that's my point, Mrs Dredge. Is that all you were doing?
27:22What my friend is trying to suggest, dear lady...
27:23So, no full well what he's trying to suggest?
27:25What he's trying to elucidate, then, is whether this affection took any more tangible form.
27:32Well, what's it got to do with you?
27:34Well, the fact is, Mrs Dredge, certain new facts have come to light.
27:36Mr Harcourt gave the lot to you, love.
27:40The Sharpe and Will's whole estate is all yours.
27:45Never.
27:45I didn't see that coming.
27:50Everything?
27:51Everything.
27:53Is your son at home, Mrs Dredge?
27:56He's upstairs, in bed.
27:59A late riser.
28:01A war hero.
28:03His Wellington came down over Holland, 44.
28:05Oh, I know. I'm sorry.
28:07Nothing to be sorry for. He survived, didn't he?
28:09Given that we don't believe Mr Harcourt took his own life, you can see why that leaves you in a rather difficult position.
28:18Do you never think I topped him?
28:20The fact remains, you're in a rather sticky position, Mrs Dredge. The new will was properly signed and witnessed.
28:25Well, I don't know anything about that.
28:28But you could have done.
28:29You could have found a draft when you were cleaning and decided to, you know, speed things up a bit.
28:34What, by knocking off Mr H?
28:36Yes.
28:38Barmy.
28:39No, it's her you should be talking to.
28:41Marula.
28:41And him.
28:42Mickey Hall.
28:43Have you nabbed him?
28:43He is assisting us with our inquiries.
28:46Oh, well, good.
28:47That's something, then.
28:48In fact, Mr Hall's been most helpful.
28:51He has?
28:52Yes.
28:53Yeah, most helpful.
28:54In fact, he told us that he saw you leaving the chemist shop the night of the murder.
28:59There's no mystery there.
29:00I told you.
29:00I saw him.
29:01Leaving and trying your very best to conceal something.
29:05Bandages.
29:05I told you, for elf.
29:07I wasn't trying to hide.
29:10He lost a leg, didn't he, your son?
29:14How?
29:15One of them worn and creased.
29:17The other almost completely smooth.
29:19His prosthesis must need constant attention.
29:23And painful, I should imagine.
29:25Very, very painful.
29:28Of course.
29:29Painful enough for morphine.
29:31Why didn't you just ask Mr Harcourt to help?
29:40I couldn't.
29:44Elf needs more than he's ever given by the doctor.
29:48So I need some extra.
29:51I didn't think Mr Harcourt would notice, but he did.
29:54And he assumed Mickey Hall must have done it.
29:56I couldn't tell him it was me.
29:58He was such a stickler, you see, for the rules.
30:01Well, how could I tell him I'd had a way with drugs from his own shop?
30:07You've no idea what it's like, the pain.
30:11My poor elf.
30:13So you dropped in on the pretext of getting bandages and instead stole more morphine.
30:17And Mr Harcourt was alive when you left him?
30:23I swear on my son's life.
30:31If you'll excuse me.
30:33Yes, of course.
30:35Oh, and...
30:36When do I get it then?
30:40Beg pardon?
30:42The money.
30:43The money.
30:47Not her then?
30:51No, life is pardoned, Mrs Dredge, but not a killer.
30:54No.
30:54Then who did it?
30:56Them.
30:56Two murders, remember?
30:57Them then?
30:59Oh, look, I suppose it'd be too straightforward for you to just, you know, just tell me.
31:02It would be my...
31:03Well, no.
31:06Not my pleasure.
31:08You're going to need backup, Inspector.
31:12What?
31:12What?
31:12I...
31:13Oh, no, no, sorry.
31:25Uh, we're just...
31:26Oh, good evening, sir.
31:29Eric.
31:30Oh, we're just closing, I'm afraid.
31:32That's all right.
31:34How's Sheila?
31:36Well, you asked me that, Mr Book.
31:38Oh, yes.
31:40She's in Sheffield.
31:41What day did she drive up there?
31:45Oh, it was, um...
31:46Thursday.
31:47Yes, Thursday.
31:50I see.
31:51Well, if there's anything special I can help you with, sir, you know, I've got a lot on.
31:55But she couldn't have done that, could she, Eric?
31:59When Trotty borrowed her car...
32:02on Friday.
32:03Come on!
32:17Come on!
32:18Come on, Ian!
32:19Come on!
32:21Come on!
32:22Come on!
32:23Come on!
32:31Oh, my God.
33:01I didn't mean to do her in.
33:05Go on.
33:06Things hadn't been right for some time.
33:09Always raring we were.
33:10And then...
33:12I met her.
33:18He...
33:18An old fool and a young beauty.
33:21It's a very old tale.
33:23When did you know, Mr. Book, if you don't mind me asking?
33:27I suspected right away that something was off.
33:30And that was confirmed when I discovered that some of the bones in the plague pit were newer,
33:34though you'd made an effort to age them.
33:37Gravy browning.
33:39Sheila uses it on her legs.
33:43Couldn't afford to get annoyed, aren't you?
33:44Plus the knife marks on them are very distinctive.
33:47I checked your handiwork.
33:49That bone you gave me for dog.
33:50So, for the sake of a future with Miss Enid Clegg,
33:56you sent your wife to meet her maker.
34:02You then found yourself confronting the murderer's oldest dilemma.
34:07Getting rid of the corpse.
34:09Should have been simple for you, not being a stranger to the notion of chopping things up.
34:17Unfortunately, Inspector, people can tell the difference between the bones of hogs and homo sapiens.
34:23So, I think that after removing the flesh from your unfortunate wife,
34:27flensing her,
34:30you still needed to dispose of her skeleton.
34:34Which is where the caustic soda comes in.
34:36Precisely.
34:36Freely available at any chemist.
34:38Getting rid of her body, are you?
34:46Oh, yeah.
34:48Yeah.
34:49Drains.
34:50It's for the drains, George.
34:52Terrible pulp.
34:57Alkaline hydrolysis.
35:00Was that what you were going for?
35:04I'd read about it, see?
35:05For any of the things you pick up in this trade.
35:12Caustic soda.
35:15Dissolves flesh.
35:16I'd used it before to get rid of carcasses, you know.
35:20It didn't work properly.
35:22You know, lots of...
35:25Lots of bones left.
35:29I didn't know what to do, and then...
35:32And then,
35:32Baseheart mentioned the skeletons that he'd found.
35:36Strange to think that if it wasn't for the Luftwaffe,
35:39we'd never have known those poor devils
35:41were under our feet all these years.
35:43You told the cop, is?
35:45Not just yet.
35:47Well, no rush, I suppose, out of 300 years.
35:50I've put a tarp over the crater.
35:53Yeah?
35:53Well, you know what kids are like.
35:56They probably run off with the bones
35:58and give them to a dog.
36:01Anyway, cheerio.
36:02Oh, no.
36:02Nope.
36:08So well,
36:09you know what?
36:10I'm playing,
36:18but I think it is a dream.
36:23I think it was a dream..
36:23America's what makes lots of people
36:24and tons of babies,
36:26that we've got children there...
36:27I think we needed children,
36:28we already tried children.
36:28I don't know,
36:29but lastly,
36:29I think we should have Jingleиться.
36:30It's that time.
36:30Yeah?
36:31As I said, where better to hide a tree than in a forest?
36:41Who would notice?
36:44Oh, you.
36:46Then there was this, of course.
36:51Eric here, though exhibiting a lively skill at improvisation, is not an imaginative man.
36:58No offense.
36:59I'll go for it.
37:00More game.
37:00Mate is mate.
37:03He rather overdid it by planting the coin in the plague pit.
37:07That rang an alarm bell straight away.
37:10So armed with a description of our suspect, my wife made a short, but instructive tour of the local curio shops.
37:16Oh, how do you know he hadn't gone further afield to get the coin?
37:20Unimaginative, remember?
37:22Anyone conceiving so clumsy a clue would never stray far from their own neighborhood.
37:26Eric was very much in the frame when I noticed the clincher.
37:30in the queue at the butchers.
37:35Notice what?
37:36Powdered egg.
37:40Oh, you've got something just there.
37:43Eh?
37:44Excuse me.
37:46Powdered egg.
37:48Bit of a rushed breakfast.
37:49Such an intimate thing to do, with absolutely no acknowledgement from Mr. Well-beloved.
37:54Uh-huh.
37:55Uh-huh.
37:56I thought.
37:57Uh-huh.
37:58Uh-huh.
37:59How's Sheila?
38:00Well, sir.
38:01Well.
38:02She's driven up the Sheffield.
38:03A nice family.
38:04A nice family.
38:05I inquired with Sheila's family in Yorkshire.
38:08They've seen neither hide nor hair of her, of course.
38:11So, it all looked rosy.
38:14And then?
38:16I've got the note.
38:18I suspected something of the kind.
38:21Some sort of vague threat.
38:23Urgent that we talk.
38:26I don't want to have to take this to the authorities.
38:34I hope we can sort this matter between ourselves.
38:41George, look.
38:43And you assumed it was about the murder?
38:46Well, of course.
38:48What?
38:49And it wasn't?
38:50No.
38:51Well, then what was it about?
38:55Domino's.
38:58What?
39:00Mr. Harcup was a stickler for the rules, as we know.
39:03He suspected you of cheating at his favourite pastime.
39:06That's all it was.
39:08No, no, no, no.
39:09No, it had to be a threat.
39:12About Sheila.
39:14What else could it be?
39:16So?
39:18What happened next?
39:21I had no idea I could buy him off.
39:28With cash.
39:29With beef.
39:30With beef.
39:39So you went round?
39:41I was scared.
39:42You know, scared of what he might say.
39:48What if he wouldn't listen to reason?
39:51You know, there was poison everywhere all round.
39:54And so I kept him talking.
39:57I just need you to tell the truth.
39:59George, just take...
40:00Tell the truth, Eric.
40:02And then I took my chance.
40:04I got hold of him.
40:06And then I poured the poison down his throat.
40:08Right.
40:09You poisoned him, did you?
40:11Oh, yes.
40:12It's horrible.
40:13Nothing else?
40:16Aye.
40:17You see, that's very interesting, Eric.
40:20Because before he was poisoned, George Harcup was struck over the head.
40:24And the weapon left a bloody residue in his hair.
40:27You remember there was blood, but no wound, Inspector?
40:29Yes.
40:30Dr. Calder analysed it for me.
40:33Cow's blood.
40:35Ah.
40:36And you would have known that, Eric.
40:38If you'd been the one who'd hit him with a joint of beef.
40:41No.
40:42Yes.
40:43No, no, no, no.
40:44I remember now.
40:45I did hit him!
40:46So...
40:47So who did?
41:01Enid.
41:02Obviously neglected to mention the part where she clobbered Mr. Harcup.
41:06Was it her idea?
41:08From the start?
41:09No!
41:11She was...
41:16I'm...
41:17I was...
41:18I was.
41:19I'm sorry.
41:21Yes.
41:22I was sorry!
41:23I knew you were trying to go...
41:24but...
41:25I left him.
41:26I left him.
41:27I left him.
41:28Always.
41:29And he left him.
41:30But there was something.
41:31I didn't want to go in here.
41:32You didn't?
41:33And he left him.
41:34She just took charge, didn't know what to do, and it was so calm, methodical, and we reckoned
41:50we was going to be okay until... What the hell can we do now?
41:57Leave this to me.
42:04Fuck.
42:11I am to finish the job.
42:26You make it look like suicide.
42:41She poured plastic acid down poor Mr. Harcum's gullet.
42:56Can you say that I did it?
42:59Please.
43:01I mean, I'll swing, won't I, but ain't it?
43:05The law must take its course.
43:09I'm sorry, Eric.
43:10I truly am.
43:12But I'm even more sorry for George Harcum.
43:16Poor Sheila.
43:20Oh.
43:21Oh.
43:22Oh.
43:23Right.
43:24Formal charge done.
43:26Sign out.
43:27We'll be taken to a hold of yourself.
43:29Very good of you.
43:31Thank Mrs. Book.
43:33She said you might be a while.
43:35Quite a tale.
43:37Wish I could have sat in on it.
43:39I'm pushing my luck as it is.
43:41What exactly did you do in the war?
43:48It must have been pretty big for you to get that letter from Churchill.
43:52And for the inspectors to let you have run of the shop like this.
43:55Now, now, Jack.
43:56Don't be nosy.
43:57Where would the fun be if everyone knew everything, eh?
44:02Besides, I hardly had the run of the place not with laughing boy there hovering the whole time.
44:07He's just waiting for his chance to collar me.
44:10The slightest malfeasance.
44:17Surely you're a model of respectability, Mr. Book.
44:20You'd be surprised.
44:22They got Ivan Avello for his petrol coupons.
44:37All right, where are you?
44:39All right, where are you?
44:41All right, you go.
44:46Eric?
44:48Eric!
44:50Hey!
44:51Hey!
44:52No, no.
44:53No contact.
44:54Enough of that.
44:57That's enough, eh!
44:58Run for Eric!
44:59Nothing happened!
45:00Run!
45:01Eric, give me a pullman!
45:02Eric!
45:03After him!
45:04Oh!
45:05Hell's bells!
45:09Eric!
45:10Eric!
45:13It's right!
45:14Go down here!
45:20Eric!
45:21Come out, man!
45:23Don't be a fool!
45:28Make us see it!
45:29Eric!
45:34That way!
45:35Come on!
45:48Come on!
45:49Come on!
45:50Come on.
46:20Where did he go?
46:28There.
46:41A crater.
46:45This is...
46:46Was Inkermund Street.
46:47Which means?
46:48Mr Baseheart's fastidiousness has come good at last.
46:52If the ruddy thing's still working.
47:13All right, well beloved.
47:15Come quietly.
47:17Do you see him?
47:26There.
47:30Eric, stop.
47:31Don't lose him.
47:32I'm trying.
47:33I'm going in.
47:34Let me talk to him.
47:35Let me talk to him.
47:36Where are you going to run to, Eric?
47:49Where are you going to run to, Eric?
47:50There's nothing to be done.
48:04Where will you go?
48:06Where will you go?
48:07Where will you go?
48:08Ellen!
48:10Ellen!
48:11Get off.
48:12Get off.
48:13Get off.
48:14Get off.
48:15Get off.
48:16Get off.
48:19Get off.
48:20Get off.
48:24You can give up today or tomorrow, Eric.
48:48It's inevitable.
48:48The law must take its course.
48:51That's what you said.
48:53Eric, you're not stringing me up.
48:59Eric, no.
49:02No.
49:03You shall do that to me.
49:06I've seen Beast's skull.
49:08It's not always kind.
49:10Eric, stop.
49:12What about Enid, hmm?
49:14You better leave us to face the rope alone.
49:18You're right.
49:19She did all this for me.
49:23Yes.
49:25All for me.
49:32I can't leave her to face the music, can I?
49:38If we're gonna go,
49:39we go together.
49:42No!
49:49No!
49:49No!
49:50No!
50:02For him, the hemlock shall distill.
50:04For him, the axe be bared.
50:10For him, the gibbet shall be built.
50:14For him, the stake prepared.
50:16I see him up there with Mr. Book.
50:23And then...
50:23Wallop.
50:27He just fell.
50:28Dropped like stone.
50:29I mean, he must have broke his neck.
50:31What's that business?
50:34Very sad.
50:35Well, this is a treat.
50:39Pineapple chunks.
50:41Haven't had these before the war.
50:46So what now?
50:47What do you mean?
50:49We just go back to selling books.
50:52Well, that's the job, Jack.
50:54Just Jack.
50:54Yeah, but that was...
50:55Yeah.
50:58But it was so bloody exciting.
51:00Can't be like this all the time, young man.
51:02And anyway...
51:03Who are you?
51:06You haven't really said.
51:11Uh...
51:12Jack Blunt.
51:17I was brought up in an orphanage.
51:19Like I told you.
51:21Made acquaintances with the wrong sort.
51:25I did time for it.
51:26Oh?
51:26Yeah, oh.
51:31I was the driver for a smash and grab.
51:33Up Mayfair Way.
51:35They got away with a load of mint coats.
51:39I got away for two years.
51:42I missed the war.
51:43Some of it, anyway.
51:45And then...
51:47I'll get a letter...
51:49from the Prison Reform Society.
51:51An address for a job.
51:54This address.
51:55Well, there we are, then.
51:56No need to mention it again.
51:57Yeah, but why me?
52:00Why'd you pick me?
52:02Altruism.
52:03What?
52:04Giving a second chance to someone felt like the right thing to do.
52:07Yeah, but you don't know me from Adam.
52:08Oh, he was hopeless, wasn't he, Trotty?
52:10Always wandering around the shop in the altogether.
52:12Getting his fig leaf trapped in the till.
52:14I'm serious.
52:16I mean, bloody hell, I am grateful and all that, but...
52:20It's nice here.
52:24It's really nice, but...
52:26Books is a raft on the great turbulency of life.
52:29Then you mean books are a raft?
52:31No, no, books, this place, my shop.
52:36Don't dwell on it, Jack.
52:37Just accept it.
52:38It's a second chance.
52:40But why me?
52:42Why not?
52:44You only live once,
52:45but if you do it right,
52:47once is enough.
52:50Shakespeare.
52:52May West.
53:01You only live once,
53:31You only live once,
54:01You?
54:02You?
54:07You?