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00:00The End
00:30Oh, my God.
01:00Let's go.
01:30I don't get any lighter.
02:00I don't get any lighter.
02:01I don't get any lighter.
02:02I don't get any lighter.
02:03I don't get any lighter.
02:04I don't get any lighter.
02:06I don't get any lighter.
02:17A bit lost, Lot.
02:23One five eight.
02:25Just there, sweetheart.
02:28Ta.
02:47Hold that, would you?
03:08What do you make of it?
03:11Looks old.
03:13It is.
03:13Fairly indifferent Jacobean poetry, calfskin binding, worth a couple of bob.
03:18What are these brown spots on the pages?
03:21It goes straight to the heart of the matter, Mr. Um...
03:24Jack.
03:26It's just Jack.
03:27That's called foxing.
03:29Jack, just Jack.
03:31It's what time does to books.
03:33To all of us.
03:35In the profession, we say it's slightly foxed.
03:37Interested?
03:39You know there's a mistake.
03:42A mistake?
03:44Well, isn't there?
03:46Above the door, the sign.
03:48What about it?
03:49Well, it's wrong, isn't it?
03:52There's no apostrophe in books.
03:54There is.
03:54No, there isn't.
03:55There is.
03:55There isn't.
03:56There is.
03:56There isn't.
03:57There is that your name is Book and you own the shop, which it is and I do.
04:00My name's Book.
04:01Books, books.
04:02Confusing, I know.
04:03Or is it handy?
04:04I can never decide.
04:06Anyway, I'm Book and I run a bookshop.
04:08This one, obviously.
04:08You must be here about the job.
04:10Tea?
04:11Not quite there yet.
04:29I've tried to make ginger snaps.
04:35Uh, how much?
04:36Where were you dragged up?
04:37One for each person and one for the pot.
04:39Now, where have we got to, Jack?
04:48Just Jack.
04:49Uh, this is dog, book, dog, job.
04:54I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and more.
04:59So, I require assistance.
05:01Oh, God.
05:17Oh, that's better.
05:19I must have tea.
05:21Without tea, I am merely unreconstituted dust.
05:23Look, this isn't really my sort of gaff.
05:32I mean, I thought they'd maybe send me to a factory or something.
05:35They?
05:37You know where I've come from, don't you?
05:40You know that I was...
05:42No need to mention it again.
05:44What are you hoping for now you've got the job, Jack?
05:46Just Jack.
05:47I just want to keep my head down.
05:49You know, try and get back to norm...
05:51Wait, I've got the job.
05:53Normality is overrated.
05:54Yes, you've got the job.
05:56If you want it.
05:58Darling, you must come at once.
06:02Oh.
06:02Uh, Trotty, this is Jack.
06:04Just Jack.
06:05Jack, this is Trotty, my wife.
06:07Hello.
06:09Hello.
06:10Well, what is it?
06:11The bombsite.
06:12The man carrying the bombsite.
06:13You know where Incommon Street used to be?
06:15Oh, yes, that one.
06:16What of it?
06:16Well, they found something.
06:19In suspicious circumstances.
06:23My favourite kind of circumstances.
06:32Oh, yes, that one.
07:02Oh, yes, that one.
07:49I was wondering if we'd be seeing you.
07:57Like a bad penny, Sergeant.
07:59Yeah, well, you know my feelings.
08:00You've made them exquisitely plain.
08:02But as you know, I do have a special letter from Churchill.
08:05Yeah.
08:10All right.
08:13Oh, hello, Book.
08:14This is Book.
08:15Thought this might be up your street.
08:17Almost literally.
08:17Start at the beginning, Inspector, and leave nothing out,
08:20especially if it's salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous.
08:22Bit of a puzzle.
08:24Mr. Baysart here was starting to clear away the rubble
08:26from his old bombsite the other day.
08:28Incommon Street caught it in 44, did it?
08:31Yes, sir. Terrible pounding.
08:33Do you remember that raid, sir?
08:34How could I forget?
08:36Trotty and I ended up cheek by a jowl in the Anderson Shelter
08:38with the man from the Prudential Insurance Company.
08:41He had lovely fingernails.
08:43Terrible halitosis.
08:45Those shelters weren't built for sharing.
08:47War's over, Mr. Baysart.
08:49Quite so, sir, but I still like to patrol my route.
08:52For old time's sake.
08:54And to keep an eye on old Brenda there.
08:56My trusty searchlight.
08:59Well, here he was, trying to clear away the rubble,
09:01when Lowe, what does he find?
09:02Lowe what?
09:03What happens to Betsy?
09:15Tossed together like a skeletal salad.
09:17How many?
09:18It's hard to tell, because they're all jumbled up.
09:20Ten or twelve, I'd say.
09:21Quite why Mr. Baysart didn't tell the authorities
09:23about his discovery forthwith is another matter.
09:26He didn't?
09:27No.
09:27Some kiddies who were playing here let us know.
09:29As I was saying, I have a theory.
09:31Well, obviously they copped it in the raid, didn't they?
09:35What do you think, Jack?
09:37Me?
09:38You.
09:42Uh, yeah, that's what must have happened.
09:47Air raid killed them.
09:49Died two years ago, and now they're all rotted away.
09:52That would be a logical assumption.
09:54Who's this?
09:56So you don't think they died in an air raid?
09:58If you recall, Inkeman Street was already empty,
10:00wasn't it, Mr. Baysart?
10:02Scheduled for demolition.
10:04So nobody was living here, in which case...
10:06Who are they?
10:07Well, anybody, surely.
10:10Anybody could have taken shelter from the bombing
10:11in one of the empty houses.
10:13A dozen of them.
10:14What about clothes?
10:15Clothes?
10:16All flesh is grass.
10:18The raid was only two years ago.
10:19Even if the bodies had rotted away,
10:21their clothes would still be intact.
10:23I think Mr. Baysart and I are thinking along
10:25similar lines.
10:36Well, that would appear to be the clincher.
10:41What do you think?
10:41The unmistakable bonds of King Charles II.
10:48Oh, does it have a date on it, too?
10:521665.
10:54Plague pit, yeah?
10:55So I would see him.
10:58A what?
10:59Plague pit.
11:00The Great Plague.
11:02London's burial grounds were overflowing,
11:05so they dug these great big pits
11:07and dumped all the corpses in them.
11:08I'm a bit of an archaeologist.
11:13On the side, strictly amateur, you understand?
11:16So why didn't you tell us straight away
11:17when you found them?
11:19Well, I knew I'd never get a chance like this again.
11:23I just wanted a bit of time to excavate them.
11:27Fascinating stuff.
11:30I really am very sorry, Inspector.
11:33Yes, well, no harm done, I suppose.
11:36Not sure about that.
11:37These skeletons might still be lively.
11:39Well, you mean it's still catching?
11:42The jury, as they say, is out.
11:44But I think it's very unlikely.
11:46Do you mind if I hang on to this?
11:48You're welcome to it.
11:49Right, Mr Book?
11:50Oh, hello, Nora.
11:51Why, I'm not surprised to see you here.
11:53Did you know that back then,
11:55they used to use great catapults
11:57to toss plaguey corpses into besieged cities
11:59to deliberately affect people?
12:02That's horrible, Nora.
12:04I know.
12:05And a split infinitive.
12:06Even more horrible.
12:11I'd be worth a bit, too.
12:15Sergeant, get this long taken care of
12:17in a prompt hour with you today.
12:19With care.
12:21Where to, sir?
12:22At the morgue, I suppose.
12:24Get Dr Golder to take a shifty.
12:26See if there's any chance they're still infectious.
12:28Yes, sir.
12:29Thank you, Book.
12:30Any time, Inspector.
12:31Sergeant.
12:36Why can't you collect stamps like normal people?
12:48Oh, dear.
12:49Are you all right?
13:09Yeah, um, it's all just a bit, uh, being coppers.
13:18I've, uh, been away, you see, and...
13:21Oh, yes, I have.
13:22I know.
13:23I find it being very nice.
13:25Tell me all about it when you're ready.
13:27Here, let me take this.
13:28Well, you must stay with us, Musselmian,
13:30now that you've got the job.
13:31I have the premises next door.
13:33Book has his books,
13:35I have my wallpaper,
13:36and there is a darling little attic room between the two.
13:39Why are you helping me like this?
13:40Why not?
13:41I'll get this.
13:44I'll get this.
13:44I'll get this.
13:46What about Harcup?
13:48Suicide, I heard.
13:50Heard?
13:51Uh, from your colleague over there.
13:52Oh, they've his ruddy guts for garters.
13:55This goes against all the rules of...
13:56All right, Sergeant.
13:57All right.
13:59Mr. Book's always welcome to give us the benefit of his wisdom,
14:02as you know.
14:02Yes.
14:04Yes.
14:07Bad business, not very bad.
14:09Oh, sod.
14:10But, look, Morris has a point.
14:13This is a plain, ordinary suicide.
14:15I mean, I can be flexible, as you know.
14:16It went something a little bit more...
14:18Recherche, outré, anything with an acute accent.
14:23Unusual, comes along.
14:24Like our barb friends, the skeleton.
14:27This is a meat and potatoes, Joel.
14:29You know, the Sergeant and I are perfectly capable of...
14:30Who found him?
14:32Charwund.
14:33A hated dredge.
14:35Pretty shook-up, she is.
14:37Dredge?
14:37That rings a little bell.
14:38Which she'd been doing for Harcup, for donkeys.
14:42Ding dong.
14:44Was there a note?
14:45No, no, no.
14:46How did he do it?
14:48Prussic acid.
14:49It's not...
14:51Nasty.
14:51Nasty.
14:52And intriguing, don't you think?
14:54Mr. Harcup.
15:01Great, sir.
15:02Looks like suicide.
15:04Oh, how dreadful.
15:06Well, I'd better get on.
15:08Too much excitement for one day.
15:10Jack, nip back to the shop, would you?
15:12There's a pile of newspapers, third stack on the right as you come in.
15:16Charing Cross Dispatch, underneath two volumes on Eleanor of Castile and the Wilting Aspedistra.
15:23Fetch them for me, would you?
15:28Okay.
15:29Oh, and put the kettle on again.
15:31We're going to have company.
15:32Have a drink, all right?
15:47Oh.
15:49Oh, well, seeing as it's from him.
15:51Yeah.
15:52Oh, I brought a coffee and walnut cake round for Mr. Harcup.
15:56You might as well have it.
15:59This is your usual char day?
16:00Yes, every week, regular as clockwork.
16:03But I only saw him yesterday.
16:05Pop round to get some bandages.
16:07Bandages?
16:08Oh, my son, he was injured in the war.
16:10He needs constant attention.
16:13The dressing.
16:14What time did you see Mr. Harcup?
16:17Six.
16:18Six-ish, I think.
16:19Oh, it doesn't seem possible.
16:21Him standing there all full of life and then...
16:26Finding him lying there, like that.
16:28You're doing very well.
16:29And was he?
16:31Was he what?
16:33Full of life, when you saw him.
16:35In good spirits, I mean.
16:37Well, to be honest, he seemed a little down.
16:41Although I'd want to go and do an horrible thing like that to himself.
16:44Any vices?
16:47Vices, sir?
16:49We must investigate all angles, alas, dear lady.
16:51Oh, man of very regular habits he was.
16:56Church every Sunday.
16:58Kept his accounts in very neat order.
17:00I think that was the soldier in him.
17:02He did play dominoes.
17:04Dominoes?
17:05Every Monday and Thursday night.
17:07In the ball.
17:08With Mr. Bace Hart and some others.
17:10Does that count as a vice?
17:11I hardly think so.
17:13Do you have any family?
17:14My mother always said if you can't see anything nice about someone, don't open your trap.
17:25So there was bad blood then?
17:28There's a daughter, isn't there?
17:31Some estrangement?
17:34I wouldn't like to say.
17:35No.
17:36Don't seem right.
17:38What with Mr. H not cold in his grave.
17:41Heavens, this cake.
17:43Yes?
17:43Oh, it's superb.
17:44Oh, too kind, sir.
17:46But then I'd expect nothing less.
17:49Oh, why'd you say that?
17:50From Miss Lyons' Corner House, 1921.
17:53Oh, I fancy you knowing that.
17:57It was 1922, though.
17:59My mistake.
18:00How about Dickens?
18:02I store up a lot of little tidbits like that, mostly useless.
18:06Must have been a lovely experience.
18:09Oh, yes.
18:10Oh, I've never felt so glamorous.
18:13I've got a new hat and the Lord Mayor winked at me.
18:17Winked.
18:18Fancy.
18:19Worked there for years, I did, at the Corner House.
18:22So I got very good with the baking.
18:24Mr. H used to love my pineapple upside down.
18:28You know, it really would be most helpful to know why he and his daughter, Sarah, er,
18:34Lor, Lor, Mary?
18:35Marula.
18:36Marula, that's right.
18:37Why he and Marula no longer saw eye to eye.
18:40Well, seeing as you've been so kind, sir.
18:45Very good of you.
18:46She was a cow.
18:48Oh.
18:48A right horrible, money-grabbing little cow.
18:52I see.
18:53Apple of his eye, she was, after his wife passed on.
18:56But she knew how to twist him round her little finger.
19:00Nothing was too much for his little princess.
19:02Oh, and then she has the gall to run off with him.
19:07Him?
19:09Mickey.
19:10Mickey Hall.
19:12It's a right and there do well.
19:13Up to all sorts in the war spivvy stuff, you know.
19:15Black Market.
19:17He's a motor mechanic.
19:19They've got a garage out Mile End way.
19:21Mile End.
19:22Charming.
19:23And now Marula will inherit the lot.
19:25Don't seem right, do it?
19:30No, it, um, don't.
19:34Thanks for the cake.
19:39What the hell do you think you're doing?
19:41Just being neighbourly, Sergeant?
19:44Er, your witness, I think.
19:46Hello again.
19:59Oh, hi, Book.
20:00I just wondered if I could have a little nosy round before I head out.
20:05See if I can help at all.
20:07Head out?
20:08Oh, Mrs. Book and I are often pleasure-bent.
20:10The new boy's babysitting.
20:12Up for the dog?
20:13Dog.
20:14There's no definite article.
20:15Oh, off to the pictures.
20:17Rerunning a Sandra Dare at the Rialto.
20:20The opera.
20:21Fat ladies singing.
20:24Speaking of which, may I, um...
20:30There's a daughter.
20:32But Mrs. Dredge says they didn't get on.
20:35So I gather.
20:37Yeah, we're endeavouring to trace her.
20:40She has a garage at Mile End.
20:43Oh, right.
20:45Thanks.
21:05Funny, aren't they?
21:06Mrs. Bliss goes in for something similar.
21:10A little, a little make-nacks.
21:12Not quite the same, I think.
21:13These are jade.
21:15Rather fine.
21:18And this one...
21:21Mr. Harcup was obviously a connoisseur.
21:28Do you think it was suicide?
21:48Do you have doubts?
21:50I do.
21:51What's your theory?
21:52Evening, gentlemen.
21:54Evening.
21:55Oh, Eric.
21:56Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
21:58What?
21:59That book for Sheila.
22:00It's arrived.
22:00Oh, smashing.
22:01Do you come over tomorrow for me?
22:03Righto.
22:04Wait a whistle.
22:04Oh, no, thank you.
22:05I was never keen on him myself.
22:09Harcup.
22:10God forgive me.
22:12Bit of a little Hitler.
22:14Still, poor bugger.
22:15Stop it himself like that.
22:17Hmm.
22:18So, so...
22:19What's your theory?
22:21Patience, Inspector.
22:22Patience.
22:23The two most powerful warriors
22:25are patience and time.
22:27Holstoy.
22:27Oh, I couldn't get into it.
22:29I tried that one, you know,
22:30where she chucks herself
22:31in front of a train.
22:32No?
22:33No.
22:35Well...
22:35Inspector.
22:45There you go.
22:49Too much?
23:14No, not at all.
23:16Er...
23:17You look amazing.
23:19I meant the walls.
23:22Oh.
23:23Book says it's enough
23:24to good taste,
23:25but I don't know,
23:26I think it has a certain
23:27something, don't you?
23:29I'm good at knocking
23:30things together.
23:31I...
23:31I always have been.
23:33Wardrobes,
23:34wireless sets,
23:35heads.
23:36I was in the land army.
23:38Gin?
23:39What?
23:40Oh, yeah, please.
23:44So you're going out, then?
23:46My dear,
23:46we're always going out.
23:48Well, one has to live,
23:50doesn't one?
23:51Especially after the time
23:52we've all had.
23:53There's some chops
23:54in the larder, I think.
23:55Yours runs up at the top.
23:56I've aired the sheets.
24:02You're...
24:02I mean...
24:04better go and unpack.
24:16Well?
24:30Well?
24:31Well?
24:34I know that look.
24:36You're onto something.
24:38Nonsense.
24:39Merely the happy look
24:39of a contented man.
24:41I have my lovely wife,
24:42my lovely shop,
24:43my lovely dog,
24:44or more could a man ask for.
24:46Broad.
24:48Three things, then.
24:49Mr. Harkup collected
24:51Chinese jade figures
24:52of exceptional quality,
24:54but dust is eloquent,
24:56as someone once said.
24:57Dust doesn't lie.
24:59One of the figures
25:00has been replaced
25:01with a bit of cheap trash,
25:02a chess piece,
25:03but the larger outline
25:05remains clear.
25:07Mrs. Dredge hasn't
25:08cleaned in a while,
25:09despite what she said.
25:10Secondly, Mr. Harkup
25:11has a small lump
25:13on the back of his head,
25:15not caused by him falling,
25:16I don't think,
25:17or probably a blow
25:18with a blunt instrument,
25:20a blunt instrument
25:21that didn't break the skin,
25:23and yet there is blood
25:24on the back
25:24of Mr. Harkup's scalp.
25:26Thirdly...
25:27Yes?
25:29Darkly, I listen,
25:30and for many a time
25:31I have been half in love
25:32with easeful death,
25:35called him soft names
25:36and many amused rhyme
25:39to take into the air
25:40my quiet breath.
25:43Pardon?
25:44Why would a chemist
25:46with every known
25:47gentle poison in the shop
25:48choose to kill himself
25:50with something as horrible
25:51as prussic acid?
25:55Hmm.
25:56Well, Puck,
25:58there you are, then.
26:00Yes, Trotty.
26:01There we are.
26:06It's murder.
26:07It's murder.
26:07Book?
26:35Book?
26:35Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:05Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:35Shop.
27:40Ah, good morning.
27:45How can I help?
27:47Oh, well, I'm...
27:48I'm after a book.
27:50You are very much in the right place.
27:52What do you think, young man?
27:53What would suit the lady best?
27:55Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James?
27:58Do you have the new Georgette Heyer?
28:01Oh.
28:03Well, I've read all her other ones.
28:04Me too, and what a smasher she is.
28:06But that would be a new book, Miss...
28:08Mrs. Goodwin.
28:10Mrs. Goodwin.
28:11Jean.
28:12Jean.
28:13We're not really going for those, do we?
28:16We should try foils.
28:19It's a bit of a trudge.
28:21My feet being what they are.
28:22I have the perfect alternative.
28:24One who was spinning romantic yarns
28:26when Miss Heyer was still in the cradle.
28:28Probably.
28:28Oh, well, if you think that...
28:30I mean, if you'd recommend...
28:32Shh!
28:33Beg your pardon?
28:34Sure.
28:35Sorry.
28:35Thinking.
28:36Ah!
28:36Ortsy.
28:48Never heard of him.
28:49Her.
28:49Baroness.
28:50Hungarian.
28:51The Scarlet Pimpernel.
28:53Oh, I've heard of that.
28:55French Revolution.
28:57It's a delight.
28:58You won't regret it.
29:00When you've finished,
29:01come back and I'll find you the sequel.
29:03Oh, that's very good of you.
29:05What do I owe you?
29:06Oh, let's call it a bob.
29:07Hang on.
29:09Feet.
29:10Feet, feet, feet.
29:12Ah.
29:14This is free.
29:17Oh, I couldn't possibly.
29:19Oh, there's nothing.
29:20But sending you off happily on the bus
29:22without further bunions
29:23is a price above rubies.
29:25Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
29:30Cheer, bye.
29:32Come on.
29:33Woman.
29:35I'll never make any money like that, will I?
29:40Hey-ho.
29:41Now then, Jack.
29:43Excited to start the day?
29:45There's a whole world of learning in here.
29:48All human life.
29:50And some inhuman.
29:51Little got that coin.
29:52What?
29:53Oh, uh...
29:54Yeah.
29:54Yeah, of course.
29:55Good.
29:56I don't mean to pry, Mr Book, but, um...
30:01What exactly is it you do?
30:05I would have thought that was obvious.
30:07I sell books.
30:09Yeah, but that's not all, is it?
30:11Yesterday, out there, the bomb site.
30:14A chat with a charlady.
30:15Yes.
30:16Well, is that, like, your...
30:18Your hobby?
30:20I mean, the way you talk to those coppers,
30:23where they let you roam around that pit,
30:25are you, like, some sort of advisor to them or something?
30:28I mean, why should they listen to you?
30:30They frequently don't.
30:31More fool them.
30:33I did the inspector a favour once, during the war.
30:36He hasn't forgotten.
30:38Also, I have a special letter.
30:40A letter from Churchill.
30:41Yeah, the cop has said that.
30:42A letter saying what?
30:47It's a chaotic world, Jack.
30:50I have a system.
30:52Sometimes people like me to give an opinion on things.
30:55Impose a little order.
30:56That's all.
30:57You can read all sorts of things.
31:00As well as books.
31:03That's it.
31:04This...
31:05This is your system?
31:07Yes.
31:08What's wrong with it?
31:10Well, they're not in any kind of order.
31:13I...
31:14Cataracts of denial.
31:19Diseases of the eye and their treatment.
31:22Cataracts. Eye disease.
31:23Logical.
31:24The guillotine.
31:27A practical guide.
31:28The life and death of Alfred Mutting's gent.
31:31Coins of the realm.
31:32I mean, there's no system.
31:33There's no system at all.
31:34Well, it's all up here, isn't it?
31:36How best to explain.
31:39Alfred Mutting's was a career criminal.
31:41And a successful forger in his day, which was Queen Victoria's day.
31:44Extraordinary chap in his field.
31:45He was a coiner, a forger of coins.
31:47But his luck ran out of Paris and they chopped off his head.
31:50Which is why all those books are clumped together, you see?
31:53Yeah, but that's...
31:54I mean, that's silly.
32:00Nevertheless.
32:00Well, I shall leave you to, uh, hold the fort.
32:06Slightly foxed.
32:29Slightly foxed.
32:31Says it home.
32:33Good morning.
33:03Yeah, can I help you?
33:05I've come to collect an order.
33:07Right-o. What's her name?
33:10Sheila Well Beloved.
33:17Hello. Jack.
33:20Yeah?
33:21I'm Nora. We've got lots to talk about.
33:33Thank you, Miss. Again, very sorry for you.
33:41Can I go now?
33:42Well, if you wouldn't mind just answering a few questions.
33:45Um, would you just come with me, please, Miss?
33:49Fascinating.
33:51Way better to hide a tree than in a forest.
33:54And these are markings.
33:57Indeed.
33:58Book?
33:59Oh, hello.
34:01Just checking in on those skeletons with Dr. Calder here.
34:04Ah, yes. Any risk of infection?
34:06Quite safe on that, Count Inspector. However...
34:09Ah.
34:10Loose lips drop slips, as they say in the knicker trade.
34:13Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, would we?
34:15Surprise?
34:17Anyway, back to the case in hand. This is Miss Marula Harcup.
34:21Oh, my dear child, I'm so very sorry.
34:24A few questions, you said.
34:26Do you mind if I tag along?
34:34Oh, don't forget that blood test, will you?
34:36On its way.
34:42Sorry about that.
34:44There you go.
34:45Black lamb and grey falcon.
34:48Sounds interesting.
34:49Tough.
34:57Getting the hang of it?
34:58Slowly.
35:00So, who are you?
35:02Nora.
35:03I live across the road in the Turkish restaurant.
35:05Help out in the shop sometimes.
35:07So, um...
35:09Do you know him well, then?
35:10Mr and Mrs Book?
35:12Yeah.
35:14And do you know about his little hobby?
35:16Bloody hell.
35:18Yes.
35:19It's all I think about.
35:22Isn't all that...
35:23I mean...
35:25Isn't that...
35:26Unhealthy?
35:28I should think so.
35:29What do your mum and dad think?
35:32Don't have any.
35:34What do you mean?
35:35Well...
35:36It was the war, wasn't it?
35:39Everyone lost someone.
35:42I lost them.
35:44Sorry.
35:47What happened?
35:48So...
35:50How are you getting on, anyway?
35:51With the books?
35:53Mr and Mrs.
35:57It's not quite what I expected.
35:59What is his Christian name, by the way?
36:02What do you think?
36:04Cookbook?
36:05Scrapbook?
36:06Mucky book?
36:08Gabriel.
36:10Ah...
36:12Like the angel?
36:13Archangel, I think you'll find.
36:16They're a dream.
36:17Both of them.
36:18Such sweethearts.
36:21So...
36:23What's the real story?
36:39I think I'm hard.
36:41I'm not...
36:42Sniffling.
36:43Boohooing.
36:44All over the shop.
36:46I mean, it's just not the way I'm made.
36:48So there.
36:50Your father.
36:52I'm sorry that he's dead.
36:55Course I am.
36:56He was my dad.
36:57In spite of everything.
37:01He didn't make it easy to, um...
37:04To love him.
37:05Though.
37:06Can you think of any reason why he'd want to take his own life?
37:08None.
37:09No, he was nicely set up with his shop and...
37:12Well, Mum had left him a few bob when she died.
37:16You don't think your estrangement?
37:18No.
37:19Nothing to do with that.
37:20He wasn't the type to get all emotional.
37:23Maybe that's where I get it from.
37:27I mean, he made it very clear that...
37:29He didn't approve of, um...
37:32Me and Mickey.
37:34But, um...
37:35He'd hardly have gone and killed himself in a fit of the glums about it.
37:37He just...
37:38He weren't the type, as I say.
37:40Tell us about Mickey.
37:44What's to say?
37:45He's my fella.
37:48How was his war?
37:51Why do you ask that?
37:53Well, we know how much our father appreciated the armed forces.
37:55Always wore his metal ribbons with great pride.
37:57Yes.
37:58Well...
37:59Mickey wasn't lucky.
38:00His eyes, they're not...
38:01They're not good.
38:04I say that's why he ended up with me.
38:07I mean...
38:08He wouldn't have been much good against Gerry with eyes like his.
38:11Dad didn't like that.
38:13Thought he was a shirker.
38:15That was the start of it.
38:16What was the finish?
38:20Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving from him.
38:23Cash?
38:25Morphine.
38:28Mickey got up to some shady business during the war.
38:32Just stockings, cigarettes, small stuff.
38:35Dad had, um...
38:37Just got it into his head that Mickey was bad.
38:38And he'd noticed morphine had gone missing.
38:41Yes.
38:43Wouldn't speak to us.
38:45But you've had a bit of news, haven't you?
38:52I mean, I thought a little one might be the thing that brungs back together.
38:56What's all this about?
38:57Why are you so interested in Mickey if...
39:00Dad has gone and...
39:02topped himself?
39:09Stories?
39:11Detective stories.
39:13That's what I want to write.
39:15I've got so many ideas.
39:17It's...
39:18Such an exciting new world out there.
39:22Everything's all smashed up.
39:24The whole world.
39:25No one knows what to do anymore.
39:27Well, I do.
39:29The war turned everything upside down.
39:31Shook it up.
39:32That's great.
39:34There's no going back to how things used to be.
39:36Including murders.
39:37Half the soldiers in Britain have come home with pistols they stole from dead Nazis.
39:43The country's a washroom.
39:45So?
39:47So...
39:48We only seem civilised in this country because we're not armed.
39:51Think of all that throbbing suburban passion.
39:56Husbands having affairs with secretaries.
39:59Ladies having affairs with their chauffeurs.
40:02All those contested wheels and domestic rows.
40:05People used to kill each other by boiling down arsenic from their wallpaper.
40:11Now they just have to reach for a lugar.
40:15Pow pow pow!
40:16Pow pow pow!
40:24What did happen to your parents?
40:27You're supposed to be telling me your story.
40:29I'm an orphan too.
40:31I never knew my mum.
40:33I've got a picture of my dad.
40:35That's all.
40:37I'm sorry.
40:39It's alright.
40:40Look, I should erm...
40:41Yeah.
40:42It was nice to meet you.
40:43It was an incendiary.
40:44What?
40:45What?
40:46An incendiary.
40:47Set the roof on fire.
40:48In the Blitz.
40:49Mum got me out and went back for Dad.
40:50It was in the roof on fire.
40:51It was in the Blitz.
40:52Mum got me out and went back for Dad.
40:56Then the roof fell in.
41:05I just sat there in the garden, looking at the house.
41:12And the garden kissed me thinking of me.
41:15I sat and thought I'd leave him nowhere.
41:19I'd
41:20I just sat there in the garden looking at the house, just felt sort of numb.
41:35The ARP warden found me, then my uncle took me in, so now I have to help him out with the restaurant.
41:46But you'd rather be.
41:51Much more exciting over here, isn't it?
42:16I gave up pleasure for Lent.
42:22I gave up Lent.
42:27Pleasure.
42:29Well, what's your answer?
42:39I told you before, I'm just a bookseller.
42:43I sell books again like I did before the war.
42:46This would be for old times' sake.
42:51And we did help you find him.
42:57Very kind of you.
43:00How's all that working out?
43:03It's complicated.
43:05Well, yes, I imagine it is.
43:09Delicate.
43:10Delicate.
43:13And we wouldn't want anything to go wrong.
43:17Now would we?
43:40No.
43:42Do, do, do.
43:46No.
43:52No.
43:56No.
43:57No.
44:00No.
44:01so what do we make of him hmm jack put him in the attic room like mrs rochester only slightly more
44:29butch has it ever occurred to you that you are such a bibliophile because of your name
44:34nominative determinism hmm i mean if you've been called butcher you might be slicing up choice
44:43cuts of meat flensing that's the word removing fat from a carcass wonderfully descriptive word
44:51flensing i shall endeavor to bring it back well i wish you joy with that yes you could be slipping
44:57your black market chops under the counter like mr well beloved much more useful than books these
45:02days i could have been an archer or a baker or a chandler speaking of which farewell my lovely
45:11oh you're going out again you're so sharp you'll cut yourself crime fiction american customer put in a
45:17request i know it's here somewhere i saw a lady in the lake recently anyway jack
45:23oh definite promise definite promise and he didn't try to flog that coin so jail hasn't made
45:32him a wrong gun for life touch wood
45:35and the uh other matter
45:42it's too soon to tell him
45:46what was so special about your life
46:08What was so special about your book?
46:17Nothing really, it's just about some chaps at school playing cricket.
46:23And what do you think of Carol Darley?
46:25Wait, you've read Tim?
46:27Started it.
46:28When?
46:30After I saved it from the incinerator.
46:37Book.
46:38What's your name?
46:41Bajova.
46:44It's a funny name.
46:52Stratford Perry.
46:55But my friends call me Trotty.
46:58You're splendid.
47:00You owe me.
47:01I do.
47:04So when I get into trouble here, will you help me out?
47:08Let us make a solemn pact.
47:10Put your strong arms around me, Carol, and raise me a little.
47:26I can talk better so.
47:33Carol bowed his head without a word and kissed him, and thus their friendship was sealed.
47:38Good night, Mrs. Book.
47:48Good night, Mrs. Book.
47:49Good night, Mr. Book.
47:50Good night, Mrs. Book.
47:58Good night, Mrs. Book.
47:59Good night, Mrs. Book.
48:00ny
48:02Mrs. Book.
48:03The daughter, the spiv, the char, the warden
48:11Who gave her cup
48:14The ruddy poison
48:17Absent friends
48:33Absent friends
49:03Sir, you never believe it.
49:12It takes a lot to surprise me, Mark.
49:15What? Why is it?
49:16We just got the chemist's wheel through, sir.
49:18Who?
49:19Daughter doesn't get a bean.
49:21No?
49:21No.
49:22Well, he does.
49:30Oh.
49:31The char.
49:33Mmm.
49:34Mrs. Ada Dredge.
49:38No!
49:41No!
49:43Come!
49:44Move!
49:47No!
49:52Move!
49:54Come!
49:55Come!
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  • @lemouel.dorina743 weeks ago
    Thank you so much for posting all these wonderful series which otherwise would not be available for French viewers! Thank you again!
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