- 5 months ago
First broadcast 13th March 1975.
The Smith Brothers, a vicious group of mobsters, abandon their usual strong-arm tactics to run a parking ticket scam at a car park.
John Thaw - Regan
Dennis Waterman - Carter
Garfield Morgan - Haskins
Warren Mitchell - William Wardle
Catherine Schell - Stella Goodman
Godfrey James - Charley Smith
Julian Holloway - John Smith
Billy Hamon - Barry Smith
Maureen Pryor - Enid Wardle
Peter Armitage - Jacko
Peter Glaze - Joe Spratt
Sally Knyvette - Angela
Tony Allen - Bill, Squad Officer
Jack Armstrong - Racegoer
Frances Baker - Racegoer
Maxwell Craig - Racegoer
Bill Hemmings - Club Member
Walter Henry - Detective
Pat Judge - Barman
Ken Lacey - Flying Squad Officer
Ivan Santon - Racegoer
Jeff Silk - Police Officer
Alecia St Leger - Racegoer
The Smith Brothers, a vicious group of mobsters, abandon their usual strong-arm tactics to run a parking ticket scam at a car park.
John Thaw - Regan
Dennis Waterman - Carter
Garfield Morgan - Haskins
Warren Mitchell - William Wardle
Catherine Schell - Stella Goodman
Godfrey James - Charley Smith
Julian Holloway - John Smith
Billy Hamon - Barry Smith
Maureen Pryor - Enid Wardle
Peter Armitage - Jacko
Peter Glaze - Joe Spratt
Sally Knyvette - Angela
Tony Allen - Bill, Squad Officer
Jack Armstrong - Racegoer
Frances Baker - Racegoer
Maxwell Craig - Racegoer
Bill Hemmings - Club Member
Walter Henry - Detective
Pat Judge - Barman
Ken Lacey - Flying Squad Officer
Ivan Santon - Racegoer
Jeff Silk - Police Officer
Alecia St Leger - Racegoer
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TVTranscript
00:00Give me your tires.
00:02All right?
00:04Give me your tires.
00:06All right?
00:07Give me your tires.
00:08Give me your tires.
00:30Nice one.
00:50All right, boys.
00:51Lose that van.
00:56You know, Barry boy?
00:57Little present for you.
01:00About 500 of them.
01:02Worth 20 grand at least.
01:05Better than working, eh?
01:06Come on, let's go.
01:10A little graft and a lot of bread.
01:14I've found a way of getting a lot of bread for no graft at all.
01:35Two hundred and fifty hundred grid cameras on that truck.
02:03Makes twenty-five thousand pounds.
02:05Second floor have had enough, the insurance companies have had enough, and I've had enough.
02:11We all know that the Smith brothers are behind these hijacks, so come rain or shine, I want them nicked.
02:16Yes, but, uh, Gov, you know I'm on that post office job.
02:19That's all right, I should be taking that over. Right now your squad are gonna concentrate on these faces.
02:23Barry Smith, the pretty one, the youngest brother.
02:28John Smith, the brains.
02:32Charlie Smith, the muscle. I want him away, Jack.
02:36We're gonna hound these three musketeers until we've got a case that no brief can break down.
02:40Now your particular target is gonna be Barry.
02:42I wanna know everything that bandit does.
02:45Friends, girls, money, what he has for breakfast, what time he goes to the toilet.
02:48Gov, I'll get you the date of his auntie Flo's birthday and his inside leg measurement, if you like, but what good's that gonna do in court?
02:54Jack, we've been trying to get the brothers Smith for two years by supposedly orthodox detective methods, without results.
03:00Well, I propose we now try a new approach. Everywhere they go, the squad will be watching them.
03:04We'll have too much evidence for any of their bent briefs to wriggle out of.
03:07You hope.
03:08I beg your pardon?
03:09You'll be dissipating manpower for nothing. All you'll do is drive him over to Mallorca for a few months.
03:14I see. What do you have to offer?
03:16Wait till we get a reliable tip, then nick him in the act.
03:19We've been waiting for a reliable tip for as long as I care to remember.
03:23I think it's time for a new approach to the brothers Smith.
03:26You'll be wasting your time.
03:28Well, I'll be the judge of that.
03:29And you're wasting my squad's time, isn't it?
03:31Now, don't push your luck, Jack.
03:33What's that supposed to mean?
03:34This is not a college debating society, it's a police force.
03:37I'm trying to tell you that.
03:39You've been given an order, Inspector. Are you refusing to obey it?
03:45Are you?
03:47No. No, I just thought it was my duty to offer my advice.
03:51Listen, Jack, you've got a good track record with this squad.
03:54So have a lot of other men.
03:56The rules apply to you just the same as everyone else,
03:58and I mean to make sure that they do.
04:00I hope I make myself clear.
04:0196, 97, 98, 99, 500.
04:07Did you check it, Angela?
04:09Yes, Mr Wardle.
04:11Check it again, love. Can't be too careful, you know.
04:21I've got a nerve, aren't you?
04:22Cool as a cucumber, you are.
04:23Bring your own case next time. I'm tired of supplying you when you want.
04:24Yeah, yeah, okay, no sweat.
04:25I've got a nerve, aren't you?
04:26Cool as a cucumber, you are.
04:27Bring your own case next time. I'm tired of supplying you when you want.
04:28Yeah, yeah, okay, no sweat.
04:29You are, though, mate, dead cool.
04:30Yeah, well, have to be, don't I?
04:31Dealing with the likes of you.
04:32If some other people I know had sussed you,
04:35will be my own case.
04:41Hey, I'm the cow.
04:42Yeah, well, I've got a nerve, aren't you?
04:43Cool as a cucumber, you are.
04:45Bring your own case next time. I'm tired of supplying you when you want.
04:48Yeah, yeah, okay, no sweat.
04:51You are, though, mate. Dead cool.
04:54I have to be, don't I?
04:56Dealing with the likes of you.
04:58If some other people I know had sussed you, it'd cost you a lot more than this, you know.
05:03Quite well aware of that, Mr Smith.
05:05Yeah. Don't forget it, mate.
05:13You're not likely to.
05:28Just going off to lunch, Mr Wardle.
05:34Righto, Angela.
05:39Blimey. You can pick them, can't you?
05:41Hmm?
05:43I see. Not on your own doorstep, eh?
05:46I've got to hand it to you. You're a dead band of figures.
05:49Who are you talking about?
05:51Never mind. The man from the insurance court, did he?
05:54Oh, yes. As usual.
05:58How, um...
06:00How'd you get on at the casino last night?
06:03Lost a grain.
06:04Did you?
06:09Oh, I see what you mean. A double hand of figures.
06:14You're a lad, Jacko.
06:21Been here for three races, hasn't it a beck?
06:24Perhaps he's skinned.
06:26What are you doing for the next one?
06:30Ballybrook.
06:3335 to 1?
06:35Oh, I see. You think your luck's changing, do you?
06:39God, dear. I hope he does something soon.
06:41Another half hour of this, I'll be brassic myself.
06:43Does he look like moving?
06:47But no.
06:48I'll see you at the rails.
06:51Here, what are you really back in?
06:53Six pounds to one. Lazy grey. Ticken 44.
06:56Two to one the field. Five spar.
06:57Two to one the field. Five spar. Five spar.
06:59Two to one the field.
07:00Two pounds. Bright boy on the nose.
07:02Ten pounds to two. Bright boy.
07:04Down to Mr. Regan.
07:05And paid on.
07:07Cheeky.
07:08Well, I'm right, aren't I, Governor?
07:10Anyway, saves your ticket, don't it?
07:12Stay quiet, Spratty, or I'll nick you for taking money under false pretenses.
07:15What was that, man?
07:16Two to one the field. Five spar. Five spar. Two to one the field.
07:20Come on, make your pitch with happy Joe Sprat.
07:45Move, move, move, move, move.
07:52Hey!
07:54Come on, Mike, go, move, move, move!
08:07Number six, station.
08:08A beef brown.
08:09Here you go.
08:1339, ready for it.
08:23Let's go home. I love a sight of you.
08:26Central?
08:36Central.
08:37Advise Oscar 7 that Oscar 24 is at multi-storey car park in Emerson Road, West 12.
08:44I'll meet him back at the office at 8. Okay?
08:50Hello, Mr Wardle.
08:52Here I am again. Bang on time, right?
08:56I bought my own case this time, didn't I?
09:18Well, say along, Mr Wardle. We'll be seeing you down at the club tonight, will we?
09:23Quite a surprise, you being a member. Stella got you in, I suppose.
09:27Yes, she did, actually.
09:30Nice girl, Stella. Very, er...
09:34...understanding.
09:35Yes, putting a kid sister through university, you know.
09:39I ordered a 24-hour watch on Barry Smith.
09:51You're getting it, Gar.
09:52Well, where is he now?
09:53I don't know. I lost him.
09:54Really?
09:55It's all right. George Carter's with him.
09:57As long as somebody is.
09:59As long as somebody is.
10:01As long as somebody is.
10:03As long as somebody is.
10:05As long as you are,
10:15Hi, John.
10:44Charlie?
10:45Hello, Barry.
10:46How's my young brother, then?
10:48OK.
10:49Got it?
10:50When didn't I?
10:51Don't get a believe in muscle, Barry.
10:53I didn't need it this time, did I?
10:56Bet you might next time, eh, boy?
10:58You're giving the wrong ideas, Charlie.
11:00Muscle's useful, but only when we need it.
11:02How many times do I have to tell you that?
11:03Forever, John.
11:04Forever.
11:07Have the old man heard of you talking?
11:09The old man's dead, Charlie.
11:11Yeah, I know.
11:13I know worse luck.
11:16Because he, he was the best.
11:19The hardest.
11:21You hear me, Barry boy?
11:24The hardest.
11:26Yeah, Charlie, sure.
11:27Excuse me, sir.
11:28Are you a member?
11:29No, is there a member's only?
11:30Oh, yes.
11:31I didn't realise that.
11:32OK, Tom.
11:34Mugs.
11:35The world's full of them.
11:36Thank God, eh, Charlie?
11:37Eh, John?
11:38Eh, John?
11:39Ah!
11:40Ah!
11:41Ah!
11:42Ah!
11:43Ah!
11:44Ah!
11:45Ah!
11:46Ah!
11:47Ah!
11:48Ah!
11:49Ah!
11:50Ah!
11:51Hello, Stella.
11:52Hello.
11:53I've got a little business I'd like to discuss with you.
11:54Oh, really?
11:55And what sort of business would you and I have in common?
11:58That mugger you got in tow, Wardle.
11:59Do you know him?
12:00Got a little interest, in him?
12:01Oh, I see.
12:02See, I know the form would you?
12:03I know the form would you?
12:04I know the form would you?
12:05Ah!
12:06Ah!
12:07Ah!
12:08Ah!
12:09Ah!
12:10Ah!
12:11Ah!
12:12Ah!
12:13Oh, ah!
12:14Hello, Stella.
12:15Hello.
12:16Got a little business I'd like to discuss with you.
12:17Oh, really?
12:18And what sort of business would you and I have in common?
12:21That mugger you've got in tow, Wardle.
12:23Do you know him?
12:24Got a little interest, in him?
12:25Oh, I see.
12:26See, I know the form would you, Stella.
12:29You'll take him for every penny he's got and then drop him.
12:32What I do is my business.
12:34Yeah, well, not this time, love.
12:36I want a mug kept happy, and when I say happy, I don't want him squeezed dry and ditched.
12:40Right?
12:41Look, I've got more to do with my life than look after some menopausal spendthrift for you.
12:46Yeah, well, this mug's a very important mug.
12:49It's worth a lot of money to us.
12:51And if I don't?
12:53Don't even say it, love.
12:55You've got a nice face.
12:57So, keep him sweet, keep him happy.
13:01And if there's anything I ought to know about, you come and tell me, right?
13:05You're a very persuasive man, Mr. Smith.
13:09Good chance.
13:10Hiya, Stella.
13:11Yeah, well, I think I'll go and have some nush.
13:13Hey, Barry!
13:14Huh?
13:15Fancy some nush?
13:16Hey, why?
13:17Right.
13:18Charlie?
13:19No, no.
13:20I'll just stay out here and have a sandwich.
13:21You know, Stella, I've always fancied you.
13:34Your frankness is compelling, but the feeling's not neutral.
13:37Hey, come off it, love.
13:41Don't you forget I've had you.
13:43I don't remember.
13:45Hmm.
13:46Yeah, we were just starting up then.
13:49Not quite so hoity-toity.
13:51But in those days, love, you did a hell of a lot for tango, eh?
13:56Here, have a drink, eh?
14:00Push!
14:01Drink!
14:02Do you insist?
14:04Shut up!
14:06Hey, Stella, how's it going with Big Spender, eh?
14:09Mr. Wardle's a very generous man.
14:10Well, he's every reason to be, ain't he?
14:11I don't follow you.
14:12Well, if you say so, not.
14:13If you say so!
14:14Hello, Stella.
14:15Charlie?
14:16Hello, Stella.
14:17Hello, Stella.
14:18Charlie.
14:19Hello, Stella.
14:20Charlie.
14:21Oh, how's it going with Big Spender, eh?
14:22Hey, Stella.
14:23Hey, Stella.
14:24How's it going with Big Spender, eh?
14:26I don't follow you.
14:28Well, if you say so, love.
14:30If you say so.
14:35Hello, Stella.
14:37Charlie.
14:39Can I get you a drink?
14:41No, no. I've got to be off.
14:43Leave you two lovebirds to it, eh?
14:45Well, bye-bye, Stella.
14:50She's quite a good, a girl.
14:52Be lucky, boy.
14:56Why'd you let him do that?
14:58Do what?
14:59I'm only bound like that.
15:05You're jealous.
15:06No, I'm not.
15:09Right, yes, I am.
15:11Stella.
15:13There's no need to be.
15:16You're number one.
15:18So you tell Barry Smith to this car park, he went in and came out.
15:28About ten minutes later.
15:29Yeah.
15:30Check it out.
15:31See if they've got an interest in the place.
15:33I'll look to the company's list.
15:35The answer's no.
15:36Nominees?
15:37No, it's mouldy car parks.
15:39They're a big public company.
15:43Oh, no thanks.
15:44My mum used to work in a pie factory.
15:46All the stories she used to tell us.
15:48Do you know, one Christmas, there was this cat and had a poor little thing...
15:53Eh, thank you, George.
15:55He must have dinner with me more often.
15:57Why don't you go up and have a look?
15:59Well, I thought he might just be parking his car.
16:03It is a car park.
16:04Anyway, it's not the easiest place to hide up there.
16:06Hmm.
16:07Look, he left the race course in the middle of a race, right?
16:10Obviously, he didn't want to tail.
16:12He was taking precautions.
16:13So you think he was meeting someone in there, then?
16:15Well, what else could it be?
16:16Twenty-one, two-dee!
16:18Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
16:20I got the key.
16:23And twenty...
16:24That's holding me.
16:28How old do you make me feel, Stella?
16:30Ha-ha-ha-ha!
16:32Got a little present for you, Simon?
16:36Oh!
16:37Oh!
16:38Oh!
16:39Oh!
16:40Oh!
16:41Oh!
16:42Oh!
16:43But it's your birthday!
16:44I know.
16:45I know, sir.
16:46It's just that...
16:47You know, Stella, you're...
16:49You're very...
16:50Hmm.
16:52I know.
16:53I know.
16:54You're special, too.
16:55Do you really think so?
16:57Hmm.
16:58But you've spent enough on me.
17:00Mm-hmm.
17:01You go on as if there's no future.
17:02Isn't?
17:03Of course there is!
17:04Oh, no!
17:05You have to eat and drink and be...
17:07Ha-ha-ha!
17:08That's all the eating!
17:10Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
17:12Oh, Stella!
17:14Hey!
17:15She wants us...
17:16Hey!
17:17Where do you get your money from, anyway?
17:19You...
17:20You guess.
17:21You guess.
17:22You guess, you see.
17:23Blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-stun!
17:26Blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv-blv!
17:27Brv-blv-blv-blv-blv!
17:28There, you fee-paying!
17:29Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
17:30To perform a service to the public!
17:32Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
17:33Do you?
17:34You'll perform a service...
17:36For the...
17:37Philippa, I'll feel sick.
17:52Well, George, there's only one way to find out.
17:55Capture him?
17:56Haskins wants evidence. Let's go.
18:07Oh, he's seen us.
18:32He's kind of bitten me.
18:34What are you expecting today?
18:35Come on, Joe.
19:05No!
19:05What are you expecting?
19:06No!
19:06No!
19:07No!
19:08No!
19:09No!
19:10No!
19:10No!
19:10Oh, my God.
19:4010,000 quid, give or take a pound or two.
19:59Yeah, and one badly injured villain.
20:01Yeah, bad, that.
20:03Makes you think about your expense sheets, doesn't it?
20:06Yeah.
20:0710,000 quid. Now, what would he be doing with 10,000 quid?
20:14One thing, Gov.
20:16How are we going to explain all this to Askins?
20:19With long words and a dead straight face.
20:2210,000. Any ideas?
20:24Not yet.
20:26All right.
20:27So we went to the car park.
20:29Now, could they have diversified into car parks legally?
20:32We check the company's list now.
20:35If the staging hijacks all over the place, they must be making a lot of bread.
20:38You saw nothing suspicious there? No faces?
20:41No, sir, nothing.
20:43Is Barry Smith still unconscious?
20:44Yeah.
20:46Hmm. It's a pity about that.
20:48He was running away from us.
20:50We gave him several signals to stop.
20:53And we were, what, 100 yards away when he crashed?
20:56Hmm.
20:57He was driving, you know, not us.
20:58I want you to go and see the brothers.
21:00Get to John and Charlie, check on their reactions.
21:02Hey, John!
21:12Stop playing silly buggers, will you?
21:14Get that lot shifted!
21:19What the hell do you think you're doing?
21:23You stay with me a week, it's about all you wildos!
21:32Hello, Charlie.
21:39Do I know you?
21:40No, but I'm sure you'll want to.
21:42I chased Barry.
21:44Flying squad.
21:47You've got a bloody nerve barging in here.
21:50Regan, is it?
21:51Before he's even come round?
21:53He was obstructing the police in the execution of their duties.
21:56Hmm.
21:58You want to talk business?
21:59We'd better go inside.
22:02Well, what can we do for you, Mr. Regan?
22:21I want to know about that ten grand.
22:22What ten grand?
22:24The ten grand that Barry had with him.
22:26Barry was carrying money on him.
22:27It must have been his own.
22:28They tell me that you can carry three sets of books in your head at one time.
22:34Two bent and one straight.
22:36Is that right?
22:37Don't want to believe everything the intelligence boys tell you, you know.
22:39I don't.
22:40You're the Sweeney, right?
22:41Yep.
22:42So what are you chasing Barry for?
22:43What's he supposed to have done?
22:45Nothing.
22:46He was over the speed limit, see?
22:47Oh, that's an only spare time.
22:49You work as a traffic cop.
22:50Now, come on, do us a favour.
22:52You've no idea what that money was.
22:54No idea at all.
22:56None at all.
22:56I'm sorry.
22:58Make much money here, do you?
23:00We make a living.
23:02Oh, by the way, that ten grand will be scrutinised.
23:07The income tax people will be looking at it.
23:10I wanted to explain how he came by it.
23:12All that.
23:15Thanks for the tip.
23:16Thanks very much.
23:17Anytime.
23:17It's a kid's bad luck rolling that motor with all that bread on board.
23:28Maybe.
23:30No, they're just snipping.
23:31They didn't hit us otherwise.
23:33I think we ought to give tomorrow the elbow, just to be on the side side.
23:36No, no.
23:38There's too much going on it.
23:39And that kid don't scare me none.
23:41Tomorrow's on, John, and that's definite, boy.
23:43Come on, John.
23:53Jack?
23:53George?
23:54Don't tell me to smith.
23:56It would seem so.
23:57No, see?
23:57Well, you didn't drag me all the way out here to show me this.
24:02No, I wanted to ask you something.
24:04As you probably know, there's been an increase in establishment for chief inspectors.
24:07There are some immediate vacancies.
24:09In the squad?
24:10No, these are divisional appointments.
24:12Getting me kicked upstairs, eh?
24:14I'm just advising you of an opportunity of advancement.
24:17Yeah, finding stolen bikes in Pinner.
24:20I take it you're not interested.
24:22Why tell me now?
24:23The appointments have to be made quickly.
24:25Yeah, yesterday, as far as you're concerned.
24:28Do you have to make a personal issue of everything?
24:30If you dream up any more schemes for me, I'll be at that car park, sir.
24:37What's all that about?
24:39What?
24:40A confidential chat.
24:41Haskins is trying to get rid of me.
24:43Down at the squad.
24:44He'll have his bloody work cut out, though, I'll tell you that.
24:55Well, there's an office here.
25:01You never know, we can try.
25:03You stay here.
25:05Send it over right away.
25:07Give me a regards to your wife.
25:09This gentleman wants somebody in authority.
25:11Oh.
25:12Can I help you, sir?
25:13Yeah, I was wondering if you have a special reduction scheme
25:15for drivers using a car park every day.
25:18We're new in the district, you say?
25:19No, not really.
25:20There's no call for it.
25:27Yeah, of course.
25:28You've got a big turnover, I expect.
25:29Oh, I know.
25:30Pretty full most days.
25:32Well, it was just a thought.
25:34Oh.
25:36There's no point in getting in touch with your sales manager.
25:39Not really, no.
25:41You're not sales?
25:42No, it counts.
25:43Chief cashier.
25:45Chief cashier?
25:46That's right.
25:48Well, I am in the wrong place.
25:50Sorry.
25:51It's no trouble.
25:53Sorry I couldn't help you.
25:54Oh, but you did.
25:55Bye.
25:59Anything?
26:00Yeah, a face from the recent past.
26:03Who?
26:03A cashier with a liking of a car breaker's yards.
26:06All my friends.
26:15Seven of us, right?
26:16Yes, start on the seven of us, and you start on the nine.
26:18Right.
26:20Hello, Governor.
26:21I see you here more often than Lord Wig.
26:24Seen this face before?
26:25I don't know.
26:25Let's have a butcher.
26:27Here.
26:28Yeah.
26:29Yeah, I think I know him.
26:31Tell me.
26:32Well, he's a mug, for starters.
26:34Done a lot of mummy here with me,
26:35and with a lot of others and all.
26:36How much is a lot?
26:38Well, he done a grounding with me the first day's race in here.
26:41Is he here today?
26:43I need him.
26:45Always cash paid on.
26:46Yeah, keeps it in his kit.
26:48Had over a grand there last time.
26:50Anybody with him at all?
26:51Yeah.
26:52A blonde bit.
26:53Bit of all right and all.
26:55And he has a fella with him now and again.
26:57Calls him Joey.
26:58No, I'm wrong.
26:59Jacko.
27:00And he's carrying it and all.
27:01So, Joe, now the good news.
27:03Yeah.
27:04He's here today.
27:05How long for?
27:09I knew it couldn't last.
27:12There's a murder call for P. Johnson.
27:16Will you please go to the steward's office in the Grands?
27:21They're here.
27:22I know.
27:23How do you bring out today?
27:47I'm three grand behind already.
27:50Never.
27:50I'll get it back on the next red.
27:53I don't even know where that came from, eh?
27:56I'll see you down at the club tonight, then.
27:58Possibly.
27:58Hey, it's all right with you.
28:02All you have to do is cop.
28:04We have to do autographed.
28:07Will you talk to me, snot-dose?
28:09Come on.
28:10Come on, look.
28:11Here.
28:12I'm going to keep this from my missus.
28:15She's starting to ask questions.
28:17It's ridiculous.
28:19I've got a fortune and I can't spend it.
28:22She's going to suss it.
28:23I suggest you don't tell her, boy.
28:27I will show them away, please.
28:29It's too much.
28:31It's too much.
28:37Leave him.
28:39I'll look after him.
28:41You better, mate.
28:43Come on, Jack.
28:43Come on.
28:44Come on.
28:53Here, Charlie.
28:57You know, sometimes I think that Wardle's the biggest bung I've ever seen.
29:00Yeah, and the widest, Charlie.
29:02It's a hell of a scheme he's got there.
29:03I'll give you that, but I'm three grand behind.
29:06I'm cheery.
29:07Well, if you don't do that, what else is he going to do with it?
29:09He can't sling it into a building, society.
29:12No, it's not Wardle I'm worried about.
29:14It's his oppo that's the problem.
29:16That Jacko's bottling out.
29:17You reckon?
29:18Well, he's always on the source.
29:20And he's stopped pulling birds.
29:21That's a sure sign.
29:22Yeah.
29:23Don't for the bad news.
29:25The old bill's under us.
29:27In the other bar behind the linen.
29:29Who is he?
29:31I don't know, but I've seen him down at club.
29:32He's a copper, Charlie.
29:34We're under Robbo.
29:36Yeah, well, we're not on our tod this time.
29:38Wardle, we can handle.
29:39We can shop in tomorrow, but why cool and goose?
29:43No, it's Jacko that's the problem, Charlie.
29:45And if they're watching Jacko, oh dear, oh dear.
29:49You know, sometimes
29:52you remind me of the old man.
30:01You remind me of the old man.
30:02Wardle, yeah, Wardle, he's the kingpin.
30:19Wardle William.
30:20He earns 3,000 a year.
30:22He's got a house in Pinnock.
30:24Mortgage paid up last December in cash.
30:27What about his mate?
30:28Jackson, Herbert.
30:30Semi-detached in Wembley.
30:31He's also got a small boat and a car.
30:33No last sums in his bank account.
30:35Dishes our tickets at the car park.
30:37And the bird?
30:38Yeah, Stella Goodman.
30:40High-class scrubber.
30:41No form.
30:44I assure you won't come to the clone Jacko.
30:47Now, I've had enough of Big Brother for one day.
30:50Do you want to stop and let me go after him?
31:05No, we'll stay with Wardle.
31:06Hey, Jacko.
31:20Nice little boat you got there.
31:21No, no, no.
31:22Stay, boy.
31:22Stay.
31:24Yeah.
31:25Yeah, it's all right, Mr. Smith.
31:26Charlie.
31:28Call me Charlie.
31:30After all, yeah.
31:31We're friends.
31:33Yeah.
31:33Charlie.
31:34I just thought I'd come down and have a little chat.
31:39You know, after all, you were a bit upset back there at the races.
31:43You know me, Jacko.
31:45I can't stand to see a mate upset.
31:50You're not pulling the birds these days, Jacko?
31:53No.
31:54I got a bit fed up with them.
31:55Yeah, I know.
31:57Feeling a bit depressed.
31:59Feeling like talking to somebody about it.
32:01Well, I'd like to relieve your mind.
32:06Like losing off to the old lady.
32:08Oh, me?
32:08Well, why should I?
32:09I know, I know.
32:10I get my depressions.
32:14It's them headaches.
32:17They're blind in headaches.
32:19They're terrible, Jacko.
32:22Terrible.
32:25I know just how you feel.
32:26I'm all right, Charlie.
32:29Honest.
32:30I'm all right.
32:32Yeah, but...
32:33You're sweaty, Jacko.
32:37Yeah.
32:40All right, you and me go for a little trip, eh?
32:42Come on.
32:43Come on.
32:43Hey, Jacko.
33:12Hey, Jacko.
33:14How are you?
33:16Hey.
33:25Hey.
33:34Hey.
33:36Hey.
33:38Hey.
33:39I want two of you round the back.
33:57You're worried about it.
33:59You know something could be wrong,
34:01or you wouldn't be talking to me at all, would you, Mrs. Wardle?
34:04No.
34:06He paid off the mortgage on the house.
34:08Yes, I know.
34:09He said he got it through investments.
34:13And then recently we went abroad, went to Portugal.
34:17It was the three of us, my daughter as well.
34:19Well, he'd never done anything like that before.
34:23He was always Bournemouth.
34:25That must have cost money the trip to Portugal.
34:33William paid all the bills.
34:36I never asked him.
34:37I mean, I never asked him about money,
34:39because, well, he always saw to it.
34:42He works very hard, you know, all hours, very late.
34:47Do you believe all that, Mrs. Wardle?
34:49Do you really believe he works late?
34:55No.
34:55Oh, I've not believed that for a very long time.
35:01Do you believe he works or I don't have any plans?
35:02Do you think he's safe or not?
35:02Uh-huh. Excuse me.
35:18These mean anything, Garth?
35:21What do you think they are?
35:23They look like tickets to a car park.
35:25That's just what they are.
35:27Frankly, Bill, I don't know how you do it at your age.
35:31You all right? Oh, thank you.
35:33Crawling home with the milk?
35:35It's only four o'clock in the morning.
35:37I'll have a lie until seven.
35:39Your potty?
35:41No.
35:43Oh, no.
35:45Live for today. That's my motto.
35:48I think I've done enough living for today.
35:52Hello?
36:00Hi, Stella. Charlie here.
36:02Charlie, do you know what time it is?
36:04Yeah, yeah.
36:06Tell Romeo I want to talk to him.
36:08It's Charlie Smith. He wants to talk to you.
36:12Hello.
36:14Wardley.
36:15Do you think the law knows a lot?
36:16Oh, heck.
36:17Well, how can they know?
36:18We can't be sure.
36:19We've had a tale.
36:20Chances are you've had one too.
36:21Well, I'm on a minute.
36:22Don't go and look.
36:23Listen to me.
36:24Get yourself out of Stella's out the back way and get over here as soon as you can.
36:27John and me have got a scheme to get you out well off the hook. A few weeks holiday.
36:43What do you mean, out of the country?
36:46Once the law starts sniffing, they get the lots and all right.
36:49Now, that would involve us. Now, you get over here as soon as you can, okay?
36:54Well, if you say so.
36:56What about Jacko?
36:57Don't worry about Jacko.
36:59Yes, but I do. See?
37:01I mean, he's like the weak link.
37:04Jacko has been well looked... well, well looked after.
37:08Looked after?
37:11What do you mean?
37:21Is it about way out of here?
37:23No.
37:24No.
37:25What am I going to do?
37:26What am I going to do?
37:27Take your trousers off.
37:28Eh?
37:29All right, Mike?
37:30Oh, Hank.
37:34It's five o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Wardle.
37:37Yes, I know that.
37:38It's five o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Wardle.
37:44Yes, I know that.
37:45Yes, I know that.
37:49Is he usually this late?
37:50Not usually.
37:51Sometimes.
37:52Sometimes.
37:53Sometimes.
37:54Not often.
37:55as late as this.
37:56Not often.
37:57as late as this.
38:28Yeah, well, at least we're not the only people up.
38:29Oscar 24.
38:30Calling Oscar 24.
38:31Oscar 24.
38:32Instructions from Oscar 7.
38:33Pick up suspect.
38:34Okay, will do.
38:35Hey, who do you think you are?
38:36Police.
38:37Identification.
38:38Identification.
38:39Yeah, well, at least we're not the only people up.
38:47Oscar 24, calling Oscar 24.
38:50Oscar 24.
38:52Instructions from Oscar 7, pick up suspect.
38:56Okay, will do.
39:03Hey, who do you think you are?
39:04Police.
39:06Identification.
39:07Where's Wardle?
39:14Oh, do come in, Sergeant Carter.
39:17I don't know what you're talking about.
39:19Look, I saw him come in.
39:21He's a casual acquaintance we meet occasionally.
39:23He comes, he goes.
39:24Just save me the little girl loss routine, will you?
39:27Where's your sugar daddy gone?
39:28I don't know.
39:30Out the window.
39:32What do you mean, out the window?
39:34I'm not his psychiatrist if he chooses to leap out of my back window.
39:37That's his affair.
39:38I could book you, you know.
39:39On what charge, may I ask?
39:43All right, did he say why he left in such a hurry?
39:48Not to me.
39:49You do realise you may be implicated in a major crime?
39:56A man called Smith telephoned.
39:59Smith?
40:01Charlie Smith.
40:03And you've no idea where Wardle's gone?
40:06I find it pays to mind my own business on these occasions.
40:10Taxi!
40:11Taxi!
40:11Taxi!
40:12Charlie Smith blew in his ear and he aimed himself out the back somehow.
40:18Now, if we'd had a full surveillance on him...
40:19Yeah.
40:20Anyway, I've got a general out on him.
40:22Yeah, well, I doubt if he'll get too far, they'll pick him up.
40:25What's all this?
40:27The basis of a gigantic fiddle.
40:29This is how they got all that cash together.
40:32Eh?
40:33Yeah, you take your motor into a car park, you get one of these, right?
40:36And when you come to collect it, you pay so much for so many hours parking.
40:41But Wardle didn't pay that into his bosses.
40:44No, he had phony tickets made which stated that lower charges had been made.
40:48He pocketed the difference.
40:50Mm, clever.
40:52And he brought all the real tickets back home to get rid of.
40:55Right.
40:56I see now why Jacker had to be in on it.
40:59Yeah, well, it wouldn't work with a straight ticket attendant.
41:03They must have been making thousands.
41:06They made so much, they didn't know what to do with it.
41:09I wouldn't mind that problem.
41:12Yeah, Wardle could think of all sorts of ideas of using it.
41:15But he was too scared.
41:18This old lady knew nothing about it.
41:20She thought he was doing a lot of overtime.
41:22Oh, dear.
41:22Maybe that kind of overtime any day.
41:25I'll tell you what, Carl.
41:26I've been doing this job for a few years now.
41:28I still don't understand why a bird-like stepper thinks to go on a cane.
41:32She doesn't think she likes it.
41:34What about Jacker?
41:43Disappeared.
41:44Smiths got to him on time, then?
41:46Maybe.
41:47What about the Smiths?
41:48Well, they saw Arpere spending like he was going out of fashion.
41:52They knew they had to be getting it under the counter.
41:54So they blacked him and took the half share.
41:57You told Askins?
41:59What?
41:59Wake him up.
42:02What are you standing with my pencil?
42:04Hello, Mr. Wardle.
42:33You do look nice.
42:38Oh, my God.
42:43He need to see.
42:44She's upstairs asleep.
42:47Don't wake her, please.
42:49If you don't want to see.
42:54Can I have a drink?
42:55Do you have a drink?
42:56Where do you join me?
43:07Why not?
43:09Whiskey.
43:17Anything in it?
43:18You, why did you come back here?
43:25I mean, the Smiths rang you.
43:26Why didn't you go to them?
43:28Because I don't trust them.
43:30With you.
43:32Well, quite.
43:33But Jacko did, and he's missing.
43:35Well, everything comes to an end.
43:48By the way, anything I've said, I will deny in court.
43:51I mean, I can't afford to offend certain people.
43:54I've got a wife and a daughter.
43:58I owe him something.
43:59All right.
44:01Anything you say will be...
44:02Oh, that's all right.
44:03Why not cut and run?
44:05What are you, no shoes?
44:07Why come back here, then?
44:10Well, it's over, isn't it?
44:17Stella.
44:20Stella.
44:21Well, I've nothing to say.
44:50I'm sorry, love.
45:05Eddie, there's no tail.
45:06I've been out there.
45:07I looked everywhere.
45:08It's us, Barry.
45:09Now they're under us.
45:10I had your idea to get Wardle here.
45:11So?
45:12I wish you'd let me handle this.
45:14Unless we have to.
45:16Wardle's shrewd.
45:16If we let him out, he won't talk.
45:18We've got too much to lose.
45:19No, this time I'm not listening to you, John.
45:20No more thinking.
45:21No more orders.
45:22This time we do it my way.
45:24Now, for Wardle's.
45:25Because let's face it, boy, there's no more bread coming from that mug.
45:28Oh, Charlie, use your bloody loaf.
45:30There's no need to do anything like that.
45:33What was that?
45:34Shoot him away, Wardle, you won't talk.
45:52I've told him.
45:53You told him.
45:54You told him.
45:55What do you think they're here for?
45:56Charlie, don't be a monk.
45:57We're on this world, you know, Smith.
46:08We're on this world, you know, Smith.
46:08We're on this world.
46:09We're on this world.
46:10Oh, my God.
46:40Oh, my God.
47:10Oh, my God.
47:40There's nothing that his brief can't disprove.
47:42Wardle may be a come, but this was a bloody big one.
47:45Yes, indeed.
47:47He's not going to shop the Smith brothers, is he?
47:49Get a contract out on his wife and daughter.
47:52You've ruined it, Jack.
47:54We could have had them all if you'd been prepared to play cool.
47:58What about the girl, Stella?
48:01She owes you nothing.
48:03She's got good looks to think about.
48:05I did nick a felon, Gov.
48:07And a pretty big one at that.
48:09That wasn't the purpose of this particular game, Jack.
48:12I shouldn't have to tell you that.
48:16Screwed up my promotion chances, then, have I?
48:18See you on the turn again, Gov.
48:29The best laid schemes of mice and men and all that.
48:33Yeah, well, I know somebody else who's pondering on that right now.
48:36Yeah, yeah, poor old Wardle.
48:39Yeah, poor old Wardle.
48:39Yeah, poor old Wardle.
49:06Yeah, poor old Wardle.
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