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00:01I'm Book and I run a bookshop. You must be here about the job.
00:05You know where I've come from, don't you?
00:07I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and more.
00:11Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you? Now that you've got the job.
00:14What exactly is it you do? I sell books.
00:17Yeah, but that's not all, is it? Yesterday, out there at a bomb site.
00:21So you don't think they died in an air raid?
00:24Inkerman Street was already empty, wasn't it, Mr. Bessire?
00:27Scheduled for demolition. It's a chaotic world, Jack. I have a system.
00:33Do you think it was suicide?
00:34Why would a chemist kill himself with something as horrible as prussic acid?
00:39It's murder.
00:40There's a daughter, isn't there?
00:41A right money-grabbing little cow.
00:44And then she has the gall to run off with him.
00:47Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving.
00:49Got the chemist's will through, sir. Daughter doesn't get a bean.
00:52This is a sacred charge, you understand that?
00:57I wouldn't ask this of you if I didn't think you were ready more than that.
01:01That you were the one creature on this earth to whom I could entrust this.
01:05This message must go to Trotty and to no one else.
01:09Is that clear?
01:11Is that clear?
01:13Good boy. Off you go.
01:28Morning.
01:29Morning.
01:30Uh, Doc, stay.
01:32Can I help you?
01:34Oh, yes.
01:37With wallpaper, that is. It's a little early for that.
01:40For what?
01:41Never mind.
01:43I'm looking for a Mrs. Book.
01:45You found her?
01:47Well, that's a crying shame.
01:49What is?
01:50You're married, that is.
01:54Can I help you?
01:55Yeah, yeah, you got a message from your husband.
01:59Said you were having problems with your alternator.
02:01I...
02:02In the car.
02:03It's what I do see, cars.
02:05I see.
02:06I missed a book sent for you, did he?
02:08Yeah.
02:09Yeah.
02:10I mean, no idea why he didn't go with someone more local, but...
02:12I'll not say no.
02:13I'll go where the work is, right?
02:15Great.
02:18Oh.
02:19Got a light.
02:21Yeah.
02:22Yeah, yeah, hang on.
02:23It's somewhere here.
02:24One minute.
02:25Um...
02:29Oh, they got...
02:32Yeah.
02:33There we are.
02:34It's always the last book you look in at.
02:36Um...
02:40Ah.
02:42Here we are.
02:50Ta.
02:51So you are a mechanic, Mr...
02:55Mickey.
02:56Mickey Hall.
02:57And, uh, yeah.
02:58Yeah.
02:59I've got a garage.
03:00Mile end.
03:01All yours?
03:02Well, no.
03:03Me and the, um...
03:05Oh, yeah.
03:06Yeah, all mine.
03:08See?
03:10Um...
03:12If you'll excuse me a moment.
03:14I need to lay my hands on a...
03:16Well, find my car.
03:18Right on.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Well, I...
03:21I ain't going anywhere, so...
03:24The very man.
03:25Oh, good morning, Mrs. Buck.
03:26Ah.
03:27Morning, Eric.
03:28I wonder if you'd be an absolute darling for me, Eric.
03:29Anything for a lady?
03:30As I recall, Sheila's a proud owner of a rather splendid Daimler.
03:31Yeah, she's got a car on you.
03:32Yeah, is she in?
03:33Can I just pop in to ask to borrow the car?
03:34Nothing about that.
03:35I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
03:36It's just parked round the back.
03:37I'll get the keys for you.
03:39Yeah.
03:40Yeah.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Yeah.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Yeah.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Yeah.
03:47Yeah.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Yeah.
03:50Yeah.
03:51Yeah.
03:52Yeah.
03:53Yeah.
03:54Yeah.
03:55Yeah.
03:56Yeah.
03:57Yeah.
03:58Yeah.
03:59Hello.
04:00Hello.
04:01What's up?
04:02Puncture, I think.
04:03As bald as daddy.
04:04I told him, these wheels won't get me to Cambridge.
04:07I don't suppose you could help me out.
04:09It's not really my department.
04:10I'm just looking after the place.
04:12I'd be most awfully grateful.
04:13Oh.
04:14Yeah.
04:15Yeah.
04:16All right.
04:17I'll see what Mickey's got.
04:18Thanks ever so.
04:19There must be a repair kit back here somewhere.
04:20I really appreciate this.
04:21I feel like he puts things in those random places.
04:22Oh.
04:23Oh.
04:24Oh.
04:25Oh.
04:26Oh.
04:27Oh.
04:28It's like he puts things in those random places.
04:29Oh.
04:30Uh.
04:31Oh.
04:32Oh.
04:33Oh.
04:34Oh.
04:35Oh.
04:36Oh.
04:37Oh.
04:38Oh.
04:39Oh.
04:40Oh.
04:41Oh.
04:42Oh.
04:43So nice.
04:44Oh.
04:45Oh.
04:46Oh.
04:47Oh.
04:49Oh.
04:50Oh.
04:51Oh.
04:52Oh.
04:53I'm.
04:54I don't know.
05:24I don't know.
05:54I don't know.
06:24I don't know.
06:54I don't know.
07:23Slow down.
07:28Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
07:30The all-nay, I mean, you have enough trouble starting it?
07:33He didn't mention it.
07:34Maybe I should put my specs on it.
07:39Maybe.
07:46Thank you very much, Mr. Hall.
07:49That was quite a ride.
07:52Yeah, not at all, love.
07:55And, uh, any time you want to go a bit further, Sunday, maybe?
08:04Hmm.
08:06Desperately tempting, though, that is.
08:07I find I'm washing my hair that evening.
08:09Besides...
08:10I think perhaps your dance card may soon be a little full.
08:19Quick word, Mr. Hall.
08:20Well, isn't this nice?
08:32Who are you?
08:34We thought, Mr. Hall, that it was high time we had a little chad.
08:37Listen, I know my rights.
08:40Straight out of the block.
08:41Disappointing, dear me, Mr. Hall.
08:43One point deducted already.
08:45Point?
08:45What are you talking about?
08:47Listen, you can't stick anything on me.
08:48There you go again.
08:51Aye?
08:51Textbook.
08:52Quotidian.
08:53Banal.
08:54What?
08:55Well, you see, the inspector and I have been through this routine a hundred times.
08:58A thousand.
08:59You have no idea how tedious it is having to listen to the same old stock responses from
09:04gnarly old lags like something from the musical.
09:07Hold your hand out, you naughty boy.
09:10Hold your hand...
09:11That's probably enough of that.
09:13So here's the question that you would ask, were it not for your fear of me dinging you.
09:18Why would I want to kill poor Mr. Harcup?
09:21Well, why would I?
09:23I wouldn't hurt a fly.
09:24I never did it.
09:25But you're meant to go into the shop.
09:29Yeah.
09:37Yes, all right.
09:37I went there to talk things for him.
09:39To reason with him.
09:40Now me and Marula got a little one on the way.
09:42Oh, did you go with the express intention of filching the Jade Elephant and replacing...
09:46That's a dirty lie.
09:47Oh, bravo.
09:49Haven't heard that one in a while.
09:50Should have put copper at the end, though.
09:52What?
09:52That's a dirty lie.
09:53Copper is much more effective.
09:54But you ain't a copper, is you?
09:57Oh, fair point.
09:57No, I ain't.
09:59Isn't aunt.
10:01But I do have a special letter from Churchill.
10:04So?
10:05Anyway, you can't prove that I did that.
10:07No, but it's very probable you'll admit.
10:08What happened then?
10:09I waited outside the shop.
10:13I knew he'd be in.
10:14He never goes anywhere except Mondays and Thursdays.
10:16Played dominoes down the ball.
10:18I waited too well after seven, but there was no sign of him.
10:21So you went into the flat?
10:23No sign of him.
10:24But first she come out.
10:25Who?
10:27The char.
10:27Mrs. Dredge.
10:30Coming out of the chemist acting all shifty.
10:32Yeah, well, you know all about her.
10:34She had something in her coat.
10:36Trying her best to keep it hidden.
10:39Didn't let her see me, obviously.
10:42When was this?
10:43About six.
10:45Now, go on.
10:47Then someone else come.
10:48But it's like Piccadilly Circus on your name, look.
10:51Couldn't see him properly, what are my eyes and that?
10:53Oh, yes, we've heard all of that.
10:54But it was a hymn.
10:57I do know the difference, mister.
11:00Your reputation precedes you.
11:04It was all bundled up.
11:06Scarf.
11:07Overcoat.
11:10After he left, I went to the flat.
11:14My door was shut, but I know my way around a lock, so...
11:18In I went, and...
11:20That's when I found him.
11:24Marula's dad, that is.
11:25Stone dead.
11:26So naturally, you thought you should call the police.
11:29Well, that wouldn't have been a very wise thing to do, would it?
11:33I almost just legged it.
11:35And then I remembered about the ornaments.
11:38The jade figures.
11:40Months ago, he told me about how precious they was.
11:42I...
11:43I thought no one's gonna miss one of them, aren't they?
11:46Alas, for you, that wasn't quite the case.
11:50I had my little chess set with me.
11:57So I swapped one.
11:59Then I took off straight home, I swear.
12:02I never killed Harcup, I never even touched him.
12:05He was dead when I got there.
12:06All right, son, maybe you're telling the truth, maybe you're not.
12:09But let me assure you, if you are lying, if you think you can take Scotland Yard for a ride,
12:14I'll come down on you so hard you won't be able to see straight till Christmas.
12:19I'll throw the bloody book at you.
12:21Do we believe him?
12:32Bent as dog's hind leg.
12:34Yeah, but is he a murderer, though?
12:38I need to think.
12:40Do you have time to queue?
12:43I'm planning a casserole.
12:45Come on, Enid, shut up now, it's not going to wrap itself.
13:12Wolf, we are.
13:15She's new.
13:22Out the way, you, we'll be all bleeding, day.
13:26Right.
13:27You're watching.
13:29Over, over, under, under.
13:33Here we go, lovely.
13:34Bye.
13:37All right, come on in, let's be having you.
13:39So now to turn you vegetarian.
13:45Our cat brought home a pigeon the other night.
13:48And?
13:50Well, Mrs Bliss was sorely tempted.
13:53We had plenty of pigeons in the war.
13:55Nothing wrong with a bit of pigeon.
13:57Yeah.
13:57Yeah, I know, but now it's all over.
13:59I mean, we want to weigh him a bit higher, don't we?
14:02We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the starling ones.
14:09Right, bugger this.
14:10All right.
14:11Excuse me.
14:12Police business, coming through, coming through.
14:14Police business, police business, thank you, thank you.
14:16Sorry, sorry, madam, police business, thank you very much.
14:19Oi!
14:20But you're bloody turn like the rest of us.
14:21I'm so sorry, madam, it's urgent police business.
14:23One minute.
14:24Oh, madam, sorry.
14:25I could just ask you to take a few steps outside.
14:28It's urgent police business.
14:29Afternoon, Alex.
14:33Afternoon, sir.
14:35Now, stewing steak.
14:38I've kept it aside, sir.
14:39You are a prince amongst men.
14:42Oh.
14:43You've got something just there.
14:44Eh?
14:46Oh, excuse me.
14:48Powdered egg.
14:49Bit of a rush breakfast.
14:51How's Sheila?
14:52Well, sir.
14:53Well.
14:54She's driven up to Sheffield.
14:55A nice family.
14:57Yes.
14:57Terrible about George, Arkup.
15:02He certainly is.
15:04Mind you, I...
15:05I'll wager old Basart won't shed any tears.
15:08Huh?
15:09I never got on.
15:11Many are running during the Blitz.
15:14Arkup was a stickler for the rules.
15:16Always on at Mr. Basart for being too slack.
15:19Blackout curtain, showing light, that sort of thing.
15:23Rub your tick.
15:24Right, then.
15:26Where are we up to with the murders?
15:29Murder?
15:30There's only one, as far as I know.
15:32Uh, yes.
15:34Well, Mrs. Dredge says she saw the chemist at approximately 6 p.m.
15:38We have only her word for that.
15:39Yes.
15:40Wait in!
15:41But Mickey Hall did say he saw her leaving the shop around that time with something in
15:46her coat she wanted to keep hidden.
15:48And she has a strong motive now we know she inherits the law.
15:51Uh-huh.
15:52So, Arkup appears to have died somewhere between 6 and 10, according to Dr. Calder.
15:57An awful lot could have happened in those four hours.
16:00Indeed.
16:00Now, we're presuming the killer called around, no sign of forced entry.
16:06So Arkup knew them?
16:07Probably.
16:08I've told you this before.
16:10Hear me out, Mr. Arkup, please.
16:11It's about Marula.
16:14I suppose you'd better come through.
16:17So, he let them in.
16:20There was some sort of chat.
16:23Ah!
16:23The killer proceeds to pour prussic acid down his throat.
16:32Arkup croaks.
16:34Literally, I should imagine.
16:37But why did he take just the one piece?
16:39Why would I want to grab the lock?
16:42Then it would look like burglary.
16:44Whereas he wanted to make it look like suicide.
16:47There we are, sir.
16:49Oh, bless you, Eric.
16:50Oh, anything for dogs?
16:52I'll spoil you.
16:53You do.
16:54Would you like it, rats?
16:55No, no, no.
16:56You won't mind.
16:57Toodle-pip.
16:58Enjoy your day, gentlemen.
17:00See you later.
17:06Oh, Beryl.
17:07Hello.
17:09Mrs. Dredge has motive and opportunity.
17:11Mickey Hall, motive and opportunity.
17:14What about Marula?
17:15Mickey says the bundled-up stranger is a man.
17:18Yeah, but then he would.
17:19If they were in it together.
17:23Did they know that Arkup was going to disinherit them?
17:28Hello, Jack.
17:29Sir?
17:30Ah, ah, ah.
17:32Not for you.
17:32He, he, he.
17:40What have you done?
17:41Oh, tidied up.
17:45Tidied up.
17:47Oh, dear.
17:49Well, you said you wanted things cataloguing.
17:51So, I need to put it in a proper order.
17:54We've only done these shelves so far.
17:56Yeah, sorry.
17:57Takes time, you know.
17:59Thank God.
18:00Put it all back.
18:01Hey?
18:01Put it all back just as it was.
18:04I told you I have a system.
18:05You said that...
18:06Catalogue it, I said.
18:07Not desecrate it.
18:09Christ.
18:10Book.
18:15I'm sorry.
18:17We said soon as men did, eh?
18:25Well, I think I might have done something right.
18:29You found something?
18:30Yeah, I have.
18:31It's been cleaned recently.
18:36The residue you can see.
18:39That's remains a silver polish.
18:40Meaning?
18:42Meaning that it got into the ground recently.
18:44Probably dropped.
18:47Or something far more sinister.
18:51What are you getting at?
18:531665, year of the plague.
18:54Yeah.
18:55Very specifically, the year of the plague.
18:57Not a year or two before.
18:59Capital.
19:01Too convenient.
19:03Horribly.
19:04Where better to hide a tree than in a forest?
19:08Eleven skeletons in the plague pit from the 17th century.
19:11And the 12th from 1946.
19:13Oh, bloody hell.
19:16You said earlier, murders, plural.
19:19Yes.
19:21Linked?
19:22Oh, I should think so.
19:23Top of the class, Jack.
19:25Really, I should give you the afternoon off to go to the pub.
19:28So I will.
19:29More specifically, the bull.
19:30Where the late Mr. Harkup used to play dominoes.
19:33Take Nora.
19:34Nora?
19:35I believe you've met.
19:36She's good at this sort of thing.
19:38You could learn a lot.
19:46Ah.
19:46Something.
19:49Very much something.
19:54What's this?
19:56A list of addresses and a very particular question.
19:58I'd be ever so grateful if you'd go on a little field trip for me.
20:02All right.
20:03If you cook tonight.
20:04I am.
20:05Casserole.
20:06Oh, casserole.
20:07All right.
20:14We'll do it.
20:16Have a great day.
20:17We'll do it.
20:18I'll do it.
20:18I'll do it.
20:18I don't know.
20:48I don't know.
21:18I don't know.
21:19You look like one.
21:20Appearances can be very deceptive.
21:22I'll have a drink if that's what you're worried about.
21:25That would make it worse.
21:27She'll have a lemonade.
21:28Oh, what?
21:29And I'll have a bottle of mild, please.
21:33Alright?
21:34Thanks.
21:35You'll have to get these.
21:39What?
21:40I haven't got any money.
21:41I know.
21:42Ask Mr Book.
21:43We'll advance you your wages.
21:45There you are.
21:46Thanks.
21:47Take the change.
21:48You assign, Mr Harker.
21:49That's right, son.
21:50Every Monday and Thursday.
21:51Sit just over there.
21:53Mr Well-beloved, the butcher.
21:54Mr Base Hartley, RP warden.
21:55Mrs Akers from the junk shop.
21:56Mr Quillen, the tailor.
21:57It's like happy families.
21:58Mr Toovey from the cobblers.
21:59Mr Harker.
22:00Oh, God rest his soul.
22:01Yeah.
22:02Are you with the coppers then?
22:03No.
22:04No.
22:05No.
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22:57You see, I saw Mr. Hargop just the day before.
23:01Oh.
23:02Yeah, very out of character it was.
23:05Yeah, he marched in here in the middle of the day.
23:08He was a man of very regular habits,
23:11so it did seem a bit queer.
23:14Yeah, seemed like he had a lot on his mind.
23:16Said he was sitting on a secret.
23:19Obviously eating him up a bit.
23:21Did you get it out of him?
23:23The secret?
23:24Ah, not at first, no.
23:26More than my life's worth, he said.
23:28He said that?
23:29His very words, son.
23:31And the next day?
23:34Dead.
23:37Did he, um, elaborate?
23:41Yes, son.
23:42Eventually, he did.
23:45Now, Mr. Hargop was a very upright citizen.
23:50You see, he suspected one of his pals
23:53was cheating at Spotty's.
23:58Spotty's?
23:59Spotty's.
24:03Dominos.
24:05Oh.
24:05That was smashing.
24:20Well, Kaz's uses.
24:23Better than what you're used to.
24:25Oh, yeah.
24:26So, uh, you were saying,
24:28uh, scarlet fever?
24:30Well, that's what brought us together, yes.
24:35We met on the scarlet fever ward
24:37when we were, what, both 12?
24:40And so, what?
24:42You fell for each other right from the off?
24:45Uh, it wasn't quite like that, no.
24:52Profitable day?
24:53Oh, I'm not sure.
24:56I put my foot right in it.
24:58Oh?
24:59I tried to tidy Mr. Book's bookshelves.
25:02Oh.
25:03I mean, I don't think I did too much damage, but...
25:06And then I was out and about with Nora,
25:09detecting.
25:10Well, it certainly put some colour in your cheeks.
25:14So, go on, then.
25:17Well, if you didn't fall for each other straight away,
25:19when did you know?
25:21You'll forgive me, my dear,
25:25but we'll have to know each other rather better
25:26before such confidences are exchanged.
25:29Oh, I'm sorry.
25:30I'm so sorry.
25:31I didn't mean to overstep, but...
25:32No, not at all.
25:33You haven't.
25:35I do hope we'll become fast friends, Jack.
25:39It's complicated.
25:42That's all.
25:45Book and I were inseparable for years.
25:47Life got in the way.
25:59Love is where it falls, isn't that what they say?
26:08Couldn't trouble you for a lie, could I?
26:11Sorry, I...
26:11I don't smoke.
26:16Sure?
26:18I don't know.
26:48And were things more than formal between you and your employer?
26:58I resent that question, Inspector.
27:00Nevertheless.
27:01Well, I won't deny there was a degree of affection between Mr Harcourt and myself.
27:10If you've been doing for someone all those years...
27:13Well, that's my point, Mrs Trench. Is that all you were doing?
27:15What my friend is trying to suggest...
27:16Yes, I know full well what he's trying to suggest.
27:19What he's trying to elucidate, then, is whether this affection took any more tangible form.
27:25Well, what's it got to do with you?
27:27Well, the fact is, Mrs Trench, certain new facts have come to light.
27:30Mr Harcourt gave the lot to you, love.
27:34The sharp work and well is the whole estate. It's all yours.
27:38Never.
27:39I didn't see that coming.
27:43Everything?
27:44Everything.
27:46Is your son at home, Mrs Trench?
27:49He's upstairs, in bed.
27:52A late riser.
27:54A war hero.
27:56His Wellington came down over Holland, 44.
27:59Oh, I know.
28:00I'm sorry.
28:01Nothing to be sorry for.
28:01Well, he survived, didn't he?
28:04Given that we don't believe Mr Harcourt took his own life, you can see why that leaves you in a rather difficult position.
28:11Do you never think I topped him?
28:13The fact remains, you're in a rather sticky position, Mrs Dredge.
28:17The new will was properly signed and witnessed.
28:19Well, I don't know anything about that.
28:21But you could have done.
28:22You could have found a draft when you were cleaning and decided to, you know, speed things up a bit.
28:27What, by knocking off Mr H?
28:29Yes.
28:31Barmy.
28:32No, it's her you should be talking to.
28:34Marula.
28:35And him.
28:35Mickey Hall.
28:36Have you now, Tim?
28:37He is assisting us with our inquiries.
28:39Oh, well, good.
28:40That's something, then.
28:42In fact, Mr Hall's been most helpful.
28:44He has?
28:45Yes.
28:47Yeah, most helpful.
28:48In fact, he told us that he saw you leaving the chemist shop the night of the murder.
28:52There's no mystery there.
28:53I told you.
28:54I saw him.
28:54Leaving and trying your very best to conceal something.
28:58Bandages.
28:59Oh, I told you.
29:00For elf.
29:01I wasn't trying to hide.
29:03He lost a leg, didn't he, your son?
29:08How?
29:09One of them worn and creased.
29:11The other almost completely smooth.
29:13His prosthesis must need constant attention.
29:16And painful, I should imagine.
29:18Very, very painful.
29:21Of course.
29:23Painful enough for morphine.
29:28Why didn't you just ask Mr Harcourt to help?
29:33I couldn't.
29:37Alf needs more than he's ever given by the doctor.
29:42So I need some extra.
29:43I didn't think Mr Harcourt would notice, but he did.
29:47And he assumed Mickey Hall must have done it.
29:49I couldn't tell him it was me.
29:52He was such a stickler, you see, for the rules.
29:55Well, how could I tell him I'd had a way with drugs from his own shop?
30:00You've no idea what it's like, the pain.
30:05My poor elf.
30:07So you dropped in on the pretext of getting bandages and instead stole more morphine.
30:13And Mr Harcourt was alive when you left him?
30:16I swear on my son's life.
30:24If you'll excuse me.
30:26Yes, of course.
30:27Oh, and, uh, when do I get it then?
30:34Beg pardon?
30:36The money.
30:43Not her, then.
30:44No, life is hardened, Mrs Dredge, but not a killer.
30:47No.
30:48Then who did it?
30:49Them.
30:49Two murders, remember?
30:51Them, them.
30:52Oh, look, I suppose it'd be too straightforward for you to just, you know, just tell me.
30:55It would be my, well, no, not my pleasure.
31:01You're going to need backup, Inspector.
31:05What, what?
31:17Oh, no, no, sorry, uh, we're just...
31:20Oh.
31:21Good evening, sir.
31:22Herrick.
31:23Oh, we're just closing, I'm afraid.
31:26That's all right.
31:27Her Sheila.
31:30Well, you asked me that, Mr Book.
31:32Oh, yes.
31:33She's in Sheffield.
31:36What day did she drive up there?
31:38Oh, it was, um, Thursday.
31:41Yes, Thursday.
31:43I see.
31:45Well, if there's anything special I can help you with, sir, you know, I've got a lot on.
31:48But she couldn't have done that, could she, Herrick, when Trotty borrowed her car on Friday.
31:57Come on!
32:11Come on!
32:12Come on, Eve!
32:13Come on!
32:14Come on!
32:16Come on!
32:17Come on!
32:17I don't know.
32:47I don't know.
32:54Now then, Mr. Well-Beloved.
32:56I didn't mean to do her in.
32:59Go on.
33:00Things hadn't been right for some time.
33:02Always raring we were.
33:04And then...
33:08I met her.
33:11He...
33:13An old fool and a young beauty.
33:15It's a very old tale.
33:16When did you know, Mr. Book, if you don't mind me asking?
33:19I suspected right away that something was off.
33:23And that was confirmed when I discovered
33:25that some of the bones in the plague pit were newer,
33:27though you'd made an effort to age them.
33:30Gravy browning.
33:32Sheila uses it on her legs.
33:34I...
33:35And I thought it'd get annoyed, aren't you?
33:38Plus the knife marks on them are very distinctive.
33:40I checked your handiwork.
33:42That bone you gave me for dog.
33:44Yeah.
33:45So, for the sake of a future with Miss Enid Clegg,
33:49you sent your wife to meet her maker.
33:52You then found yourself confronting the murderer's oldest dilemma.
33:59Getting rid of the corpse.
34:02It should have been simple for you not being a stranger to the notion of chopping things up.
34:09Unfortunately, Inspector, people can tell the difference between the bones of hogs and homo sapiens.
34:16So, I think that after removing the flesh from your unfortunate wife,
34:22flensing her,
34:24you still needed to dispose of her skeleton.
34:27Which is where the caustic soda comes in.
34:29Precisely.
34:30Freely available at any chemist.
34:33Getting rid of her body, are you?
34:40Oh, yeah.
34:41Yeah.
34:42Drains.
34:43It's full of drains, George.
34:45Terrible pump.
34:51Alkaline hydrolysis.
34:53Was that what you were going for?
34:58I'd read about it, see.
35:01Funny the things you pick up in this trade.
35:06Caustic soda.
35:08Dissolves flesh.
35:09I'd used it before to get rid of carcasses, you know.
35:13It didn't work properly.
35:15You know, lots of them.
35:20Lots of bones left.
35:21I didn't know what to do.
35:24And then...
35:25And then...
35:27Baseheart mentioned the skeletons that he'd found.
35:29Strange to think that if it wasn't for the Luftwaffe,
35:32we'd never have known those poor devils were under our feet all these years.
35:36Have you told the cop this?
35:39Not just yet.
35:40Well, no rush, I suppose, after 300 years.
35:44I've put a tarp over the crater.
35:46Yeah?
35:47Well, you know what kids are like.
35:49They probably run off with the bones and give them to a dog.
35:54Anyway, cheerio.
35:55Oh, no.
35:56Oh, no.
35:57Oh, no.
35:59Oh, my god.
36:03They could.
36:05I want you to pick your v plank or can't get frozen.
36:16Pence, style, once you need.
36:18No, no...
36:20I'm sorry.
36:23I won't take any of your legs.
36:24As I said, where better to hide a tree than in a forest?
36:35Who would notice?
36:37Oh, you.
36:40Then, there was this, of course.
36:44Eric here, though exhibiting a lively skill at improvisation, is not an imaginative man.
36:51No offense.
36:52I'd go for it.
36:53More game.
36:55Me is me.
36:56I rather overdid it by planting the coin in the plague pit.
37:00That rang an alarm bell straight away.
37:03So, armed with a description of our suspect, my wife made a short, but instructive tour of the local curio shops.
37:09Oh, how do you know he hadn't gone further afield to get the coin?
37:13Unimaginative, remember?
37:15Anyone conceiving so clumsy a clue would never stray far from their own neighborhood.
37:19Eric was very much in the frame when I noticed the clincher.
37:24in the queue at the butcher's.
37:29Notice what?
37:30powdered egg.
37:33Oh, you've, uh...
37:35You've got something just there.
37:37Eh?
37:37Excuse me.
37:40powdered egg.
37:40Powdered egg.
37:41Bit of a rush breakfast.
37:42Such an intimate thing to do, with absolutely no acknowledgement from Mr. Well-beloved.
37:48Uh-huh.
37:49Uh-huh.
37:50I thought.
37:51Uh-huh.
37:52Uh-huh.
37:53How's Sheila?
37:54Well, sir.
37:55Well.
37:56She's driven up the Sheffield.
37:57A nice family.
37:58I inquired with Sheila's family in Yorkshire.
38:01They've seen neither hide nor hair of her, of course.
38:05So, it all looked rosy.
38:08And then?
38:10I've got the note.
38:12I suspected something of a kind.
38:14Some sort of vague threat.
38:16Urgent that we talk.
38:18I don't want to have to take this to the authorities.
38:28I hope we can sort this matter between ourselves.
38:35Joe Locke.
38:37And you assumed it was about the murder?
38:40Well, of course.
38:42What?
38:43And it wasn't?
38:44No.
38:46Well...
38:48Then what was it about?
38:51Domino's.
38:53What?
38:55Mr. Harcup was a stickler for the rules, as we know.
38:58He suspected you of cheating at his favourite pastime.
39:02That's all it was.
39:03No, no, no, no, no.
39:04No, it had to be a threat.
39:07About Sheila.
39:09Well, what else could it be?
39:12So?
39:14What happened next?
39:18I had no idea I could buy him off.
39:22With cash.
39:23With beef.
39:24With beef.
39:25With beef.
39:26With beef.
39:27With beef.
39:28With beef.
39:33So you went round?
39:36I was scared.
39:38You know, scared of what he might say.
39:42What if he wouldn't listen to reason?
39:44and there was poison everywhere all around
39:48and so I kept him talking
39:51I just need you to tell the truth
39:53George, just take
39:54Tell the truth, Eric
39:56And then I took my chance
39:58I got hold of him
40:00and then I poured the poison down his throat
40:02Right
40:03You poisoned him, did you?
40:05Oh, yes, yeah, it was horrible
40:06Nothing else?
40:10Aye?
40:11You see, that's very interesting, Eric
40:13Because before he was poisoned
40:15George Harcup was struck over the head
40:18and the weapon left a bloody residue in his hair
40:21You remember there was blood but no wound, Inspector?
40:23Yes
40:24Dr. Calder analysed it for me
40:27Cow's blood
40:29Ah
40:30And you would have known that, Eric
40:32if you'd been the one who'd hit him with a joint of beef
40:35No
40:35Yes, no, no, no, no
40:38I remember now, no, I did hit him
40:39I don't think so
40:40So who did?
40:43He needed
40:56Obviously neglected to mention the part where she clobbered Mr Harcup
41:00Was it her idea?
41:02From the start?
41:03No!
41:03She was...
41:05She was...
41:17Enid found me
41:18After I'd strangled
41:20After Sheila died
41:25She just took charge
41:30Didn't know what to do
41:33Enid was so...
41:37Calm
41:38Methodical
41:40And...
41:42We reckoned before he was going to be okay until...
41:45What the hell can we do now?
41:52Leave this to me
41:53What the hell can we do now?
41:55What the hell can we do now?
41:56What the hell can we do now?
41:57What the hell can we do now?
41:58What the hell can we do now?
41:59What the hell can we do now?
42:00What the hell can we do now?
42:01What the hell can we do now?
42:02What the hell can we do now?
42:03What the hell can we do now?
42:04What the hell can we do now?
42:05What the hell can we do now?
42:06What the hell can we do now?
42:07What the hell can we do now?
42:08What the hell can we do now?
42:09What the hell can we do now?
42:10What the hell can we do now?
42:11What the hell can we do now?
42:12What the hell can we do now?
42:13What the hell can we do now?
42:14What the hell can we do now?
42:15What the hell can we do now?
42:16And to finish the job and make it look like suicide,
42:39should pour plastic acid down poor Mr. Harcum's gullet.
42:46Don't we just say that I did it, please, I mean I'll swing, won't I, but ain't it.
43:00The law must take its course.
43:02I'm sorry Eric, I truly am, but I'm even more sorry for George Harcum, and poor Sheila.
43:14Right, formal charge done, sign out, if you take into a hole in yourself.
43:24Very good of you.
43:26Thank Mrs. Boog, she said you might be a while, quite a tale, wish I could have sat in on it.
43:34I'm pushing my luck as it is.
43:36We seem to play with people in questioning now.
43:39What exactly did you do in the war?
43:43It must have been pretty big for you to get that letter from Churchill.
43:46And for the inspector to let you have run of the shop like this.
43:50Now, now, Jack, don't be nosy.
43:52Where would the fun be if everyone knew everything, eh?
43:57Besides, I hardly had the run of the place not with laughing boy there hovering the whole time.
44:02I was just waiting for his chance to collar me.
44:04I've got some.
44:05The slightest malfeasance.
44:07Surely you're a model of respectability, Mr. Boog.
44:14You'd be surprised.
44:16They got Ivan Novello for his petrol coupons.
44:20All right, we're out.
44:35Out you go.
44:40Eric?
44:42Eric!
44:45Hi.
44:46No, no, no contact.
44:48Enough of that.
44:51That's enough, Eric!
44:52Run for Eric!
44:53Love you, Eric!
44:54Run!
44:55Eric, don't be a fool, man!
44:56Eric!
44:57After him!
44:58Oh, hell's bells.
45:03Eric!
45:04Eric!
45:05Eric!
45:07This one!
45:08Go down here!
45:14Eric!
45:15Come out, man!
45:17Don't be a fool!
45:18Don't be a fool!
45:19Don't be a fool!
45:20Don't be a fool!
45:21Don't be a fool!
45:22You just need it!
45:23Eric!
45:28You just need it!
45:29Eric!
45:33It's it. That way.
45:43Come on.
46:03Where did he go?
46:20There.
46:33Come on. Crater. This is was Inkermann Street.
46:42Which means Mr. Baseheart's fastidiousness has come good at last.
46:47If the ruddy thing's still working.
46:58All right, well beloved. Come quietly.
47:16See him?
47:20There.
47:23Eric, stop. Don't lose him.
47:27Try it. I'm going in. Let me talk to him.
47:32Where are you going to run to, Eric?
47:37There's nothing to be done.
47:42Where will you go?
47:46Where are you going to run to, Eric?
47:56There's nothing to be done.
47:59Where will you go?
48:02Eric!
48:04Eric!
48:05Eric!
48:07Eric!
48:08Eric!
48:09Eric!
48:10Eric!
48:12You can give up today or tomorrow, Eric.
48:17It's inevitable.
48:18The law must take its coast.
48:22That's what you said!
48:23You're not stringing me up!
48:27Eric!
48:29Eric!
48:32Eric!
48:33you can give up today or tomorrow eric it's inevitable the law must take its course
48:44that's what you said you're not stringing me up
48:49eric no no you shouldn't do that to me i've seen beast scow it's not always
49:02kind eric stop what about enid hmm you better leave her to face the rope alone
49:09you're right
49:13she did all this for me yes all for me
49:19i can't leave her to face the music can i
49:28if we're gonna go
49:32we go together
49:36no no
49:43for him the hemlock shall distill
49:58for him the axe be bared
50:02for him the gibbet shall be built
50:06for him the stake prepared
50:10i see him up there with mr book
50:15and then
50:17wallop he just fell
50:21dropped like stone i mean he must have broke his neck
50:23what's that business
50:26very sad
50:28well this is a treat
50:32pineapple chunks
50:34haven't had these before the war
50:36so what now
50:40what do you mean
50:41we just go back to selling books
50:44well that's the job jack just jack
50:47yeah but that was
50:48yeah
50:49but it was so bloody exciting
50:53can't be like this all the time young man
50:56and anyway
50:56who are you
50:59you haven't really said
51:01jack blunt
51:08i was brought up in an orphanage
51:12like i told you
51:13made acquaintances with the wrong sort
51:18i did time for it
51:19oh
51:19yeah oh
51:20i was the driver
51:25for a smash and grab
51:26up mayfair way
51:27they got away
51:29with a load of mint coats
51:30i got away for two years
51:33i missed the war
51:36some of it anyway
51:38and then
51:39i'll get a letter
51:42from the prison reform society
51:44an address
51:46for a job
51:47this address
51:48well there we are then
51:49no need to mention it again
51:50yeah but why me
51:51why'd you pick me
51:54altruism
51:55what
51:57giving a second chance to someone
51:59felt like the right thing to do
52:00yeah but you don't know me from adam
52:01oh he was hopeless wasn't he trotty
52:03always wandering around the shop in the altogether
52:06getting his fig leaf trapped in the till
52:08i'm serious
52:08i mean bloody hell
52:10i am grateful and all that but
52:12it's nice here
52:16it's really nice but
52:19books is a raft on the great turbulency of life
52:22then you mean books are a raft
52:24no no books this place my shop
52:26don't dwell on it jack just accept it
52:31it's a second chance
52:33but why
52:34me
52:35why not
52:36you only live once
52:38but if you do it right
52:40once is enough
52:41shankspeare
52:44may west
52:46and
52:52so
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