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00:00You've been doing everything to me.
00:04What the hell was that?
00:05Love Lord in London, scene 28, take three.
00:09I hope we did the right thing, letting those people into the lane.
00:14Film struck girl, Inspector.
00:16Dead.
00:17I've shut down filming for the time being.
00:19What do we know about this film?
00:21Stuart Howard.
00:22He and Sandra have bound their careers together.
00:25The nation's sweethearts.
00:26Then there's the Honorable Jesse McKendrick.
00:28You're the director?
00:30And the writer.
00:30What about Billy?
00:32Someone is trying to kill me.
00:37Strictly.
00:38Drop it, it's poison!
00:40Can you think of anyone who might want to kill you?
00:43Take your ruddy pick.
00:44When are we going to tell him?
00:46Not yet.
00:50It's one of the extras.
00:54It's Norena Bean.
00:55You're still rolling, Sandra?
01:04Yeah.
01:07And...
01:08Action!
01:08Action!
01:15Oh, no, God.
01:16I'm so sorry, Jesse.
01:17Um...
01:18Can I beg ten minutes?
01:20So he'll sort me out.
01:23Cut there.
01:26Scene 49, take nine.
01:29Ah.
01:32Action!
01:33It was dead.
01:34I knew...
01:35We have fallen in last.
01:37Kill the sound, please.
01:39Can we stop the film and take a proper look?
01:41No, we'd burn in the projector.
01:44I think the difference is pretty obvious.
01:46You'll see in just a moment.
01:49Here comes the post.
01:51Oh, gosh, I see what you mean.
01:56He's lost six inches.
01:57Just while Sandra Dad went off for a gasper.
02:00So, between takes eight and nine,
02:03Norena Bean gets her screen break.
02:05An hour later, is that right?
02:07Well, certainly no more than two.
02:08She's on the cutting room floor.
02:10Well, the bottom of the basement steps.
02:14I know who he is.
02:16The postman.
02:18You do?
02:18He was down the lane yesterday.
02:23I see him in the yard just now.
02:26Would you be so kind?
02:30Yep.
02:34Of course, she hit that step with tremendous force.
02:38Too hard for an accident, do you think?
02:40Did you fall?
02:43Or was she pushed?
02:48I don't know.
02:55I did.
03:02I don't know.
03:36I think John Mills' lovely hair, in his nails, always looks so neat.
03:58Riveting stuff, this, Mrs. B.
04:00Well, Book thinks there's something here.
04:03A clue. We like those.
04:05There's many names coming up a lot. Regular correspondence.
04:10Name and address supplied is a very reliable contributor.
04:13I try to give myself a mole like Margaret Lockwood, and now Mum says I look like a tart.
04:22Hang on.
04:30I've seen a letter from this one before.
04:34Signed, Basilisk.
04:37If only we could step through the screen.
04:46Oh, the romance of the pictures is really getting to you, isn't it?
04:49It's not that.
04:51Beyond the door, behind that set, there's a flight of stairs when I think Norena Bean is already dead.
04:57Do you think this is linked to the poison girl?
05:04Kurt Masterson.
05:14Kurt Masterson.
05:14Normally, I do landlords.
05:17I've seen a glass pushed in a bloke's face, and I've laughed. See?
05:26Very good.
05:28Very good.
05:28Robert Newton should watch his back.
05:30But you're not auditioning now, Mr. Masterson.
05:34We're investigating the unfortunate death that took place here last night.
05:38The second one on this production, in fact, after Miss Barbara Markham.
05:42And two looks like carelessness.
05:45Whose, though?
05:47Are you the police?
05:49Inspector Bliss is the police.
05:50Hello.
05:51I'm just helping them.
05:52With their inquiries?
05:53With the fiddly bits.
05:55Now, Kurt Masterson, not your real name?
05:59How did you know?
06:01You went home early last night, Mr. Masterson. Why?
06:04Well, I was made an offer I couldn't refuse, wasn't I?
06:06I knew the lady, Norena Bean. I read a column. I always do.
06:10She gave me a fiver, just to borrow the uniform mine.
06:13Said she would go on for me, and no one would clock it.
06:14Now, why would she want to pose as you?
06:19She said she was writing a story.
06:22The poisonous secret at the heart of Loveless in London.
06:25Love-lorn.
06:27Something like that. She wasn't specific.
06:30But she said she needed one last bit of proof.
06:32I didn't think nothing of it. I was barely in the shop.
06:35You sell a lot of stories to the press, do you, Mr. Masterson, about actors here?
06:40No.
06:42Well, nothing nasty. Just whether they like mink or feathers or where they drink.
06:47Or how much.
06:48All right, thank you. We'll come and get a statement from you.
06:51That's it?
06:51That's it.
06:52I was a red herring before.
06:56Once.
06:57Arthur Wanda tapped his pipe and looked all beady at me.
06:59But I'd never done it.
07:00I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
07:02All right, thank you.
07:03Why was she here, though, Norena?
07:07Why am I going to have the trouble of bribing him and putting on his costume?
07:10The extra security.
07:12She can just hang around in a lane, could she?
07:14So I suppose she needed a disguise.
07:16The title of that article, though, eh?
07:19Maybe she was onto the poisoner.
07:21So she had to go.
07:23What's that?
07:25It was something I noticed.
07:27Backwards impression on Norena Bean's hand in ink.
07:30It was something she was holding.
07:32Evidently, she was sweating.
07:34And whether from the exertion of going up the stairs or the heavy costume.
07:39And reversed, it reads...
07:44Ty wins.
07:45Ty...
07:46Ty win.
07:47Ty...
07:47Ty wins.
07:48Two twins.
07:50Hardly.
07:51More likely the fragment of two words, wouldn't you say?
07:54I, uh, better go back to work.
07:57Work?
07:58I'm standing in for Stuart.
08:00But it's not a profit trade, you know?
08:03Yeah.
08:05Like being a part-time detective.
08:11What's up with it?
08:18Hmm?
08:19Me.
08:23She's dead.
08:24You saw her.
08:26She was at the bottom of the stairs.
08:27Like a broken dog.
08:30Oh God, how awful.
08:32I mean, she was awful.
08:34But still, how awful.
08:41If it was murder, there'd be a lot of suspense.
08:47Half the British film business.
08:49All of it.
08:50It's true.
08:51Everybody hated her.
08:52You hated her.
08:57What did you do last night?
09:01Had a drink with that boy.
09:02Nice kid.
09:04Went to bed early.
09:05Did some film star duties.
09:07No.
09:08Yes, you know.
09:10Signing photos.
09:11Answering questions from fans.
09:13What's your ideal night out?
09:15What'd you like for breakfast?
09:16Hmm.
09:16You were just shooting here?
09:19Yes.
09:20Due take-off to take.
09:23Sinful stuff, really.
09:24Oh.
09:30How many stars have sat here like me?
09:35Watching the creases grow.
09:38The hair's thin.
09:39The flesh's rope.
09:41The chins.
09:43I met a man once.
09:48He was an astronomer.
09:50Now he knew about the stars.
09:53The real ones, I mean.
09:55Did you know that the stars that we see in the sky aren't really there?
10:00Most of them.
10:01Anyway, it takes so long for the light to reach us.
10:07But they're just echoes.
10:09Ghosts.
10:10Just a memory of what was once there.
10:15Christ, darling.
10:17But some of those stars don't go quietly.
10:20Well, no, towards the end.
10:22Later in life, shall we say.
10:24They get bigger.
10:26Bigger stew.
10:27They give out more and more light and heat.
10:30Till nothing can eclipse them.
10:32Nothing.
10:33I don't want to go quietly.
10:37I want to burn.
10:39Light up the town like I used to explode.
10:44Boom!
10:48The chocolates were injected with one of these.
10:51So why do you got one?
10:52Well, it's hardly a secret, is it?
10:55Diabetic, aren't I?
10:56Everyone knows that.
10:58Interesting.
10:59So anyone could have gained access to this, for instance.
11:02Hmm?
11:05Well, you might have done it yourself.
11:06Why the hell would I have wanted to poison Miss Dare?
11:09Well, that's just a thing, Sonny Jim.
11:10Miss Dare wasn't the target.
11:12Then who was?
11:13Her fiancé.
11:13Yeah, this puts a rather different complexion on things, doesn't it?
11:19Mr. Howard fired you, didn't he?
11:20Yeah, yeah, but not till after the chocolates...
11:22Yeah, but he treated you badly.
11:24You were his whipping boy.
11:25You need to develop a thick skin in this business, Inspector.
11:28I've dealt with bigger egos than Stuart Howard, believe me.
11:31If I'd wanted to get my own back, I'd have pissed in his tea, not poisoned his chocolates.
11:36And then there's the late Miss Nareem Bean.
11:38Yeah, well, she was a right-off.
11:40I mustn't speak ill of the dead.
11:45Does she have anything on you?
11:46Like what?
11:48You can account for your movements last night, can't you?
11:50Shot right through.
11:51What? No coffee breaks?
11:52Yes, of course, coffee breaks.
11:54So theoretically, you could have pushed Nareem Bean down the stairwell, couldn't you?
11:58Yeah, well, theoretically, I could have won the pools and rung up Veronica Lake for a date.
12:02But I didn't.
12:03What's this?
12:05Tomorrow's pink page.
12:09Rewrite.
12:09Mr. McKendrick's rewrite of scene 34.
12:13Just a little one.
12:14But in this business, the details matter, Inspector.
12:17You don't want actors bumping into the furniture.
12:19I'm a details man myself.
12:24I'm terrible at the pictures, me.
12:26I always know it, done it, straight off.
12:30It takes the marrow out of Mrs. Bliss.
12:32But as I always say to her, the why is the thing.
12:34So why not take her to a Western?
12:36Watch all those cowboys getting shot in the chest and falling forwards.
12:42Don't think so.
12:44You ever get home, Billy?
12:46If I try hard, Mr. Book, I can remember the daylight.
12:51Can I go now?
12:51Well, we'll need to get this tested.
12:55For insulin.
12:56For strychnine.
12:58Basilisk.
13:06To be continued...
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42:36poison. And I've told you, I want to go on and on and light up the town, explode.
42:56Sandra, that script that Jesse wrote, I read it. It's about a woman who makes a
43:04terrible moral mistake. But she faces her fate with dignity. Inspector Bliss will be here
43:15soon, and you'll be under arrest. But before he arrives, I could save you a little bit of
43:24humiliation. What do you say? Let's go out to the tank. Bring that film. The one with you
43:36as a 17-year-old with your whole life ahead of you. If all this business made you what
43:43you've become. Oh no, Mr. Book. Ah. I've always had it in me. I've always been a star. I think
44:00that's what the camera saw. And why they've always loved me.
44:10Just give me a moment, will you?
44:17Not bad.
44:31That's long enough. Keep the bloody door in.
44:44Look at you.
44:49ORCHESTRA PLAYS
45:19ORCHESTRA PLAYS
45:49ORCHESTRA PLAYS
45:53Who?
46:19ORCHESTRA PLAYS
46:29It's a tragedy, really.
46:31Or they...
46:33Or they hang?
46:35Jesse McKendrick, undoubtedly.
46:39But I'm sure the jury will be kind to Miss Dare.
46:43It was an accident, after all.
46:48Now you're a free man, Mr. Howard.
46:50Just what I wanted.
46:54What a cost.
46:56Mind you.
46:58Tragic ex-fiancé.
47:00Broken-hearted leading man.
47:02Suddenly single.
47:03What is it?
47:13It was an accident, wasn't it?
47:16Marina Beanstaff.
47:18Well, you shall never know, Inspector.
47:23After all, Sandra Dare is a terribly good actress.
47:27Well, I give her a chance.
47:45Whatever.
47:46Hello, Jack.
48:07What's up?
48:09Jack, we need to tell you something.
48:12I'm sorry we didn't say it before,
48:14but I wanted to let you settle in,
48:15and it's a delicate matter.
48:17It's about our relationship.
48:22Oh.
48:25I think I guessed it.
48:28Is it that obvious?
48:30Well, it wasn't at first, but...
48:33Yeah.
48:37I found a photograph.
48:39A photograph?
48:41My dad.
48:45You have a photo of my dad.
48:49It's just like the one that I have.
48:55And this.
48:57I know I shouldn't have taken it.
48:59I'm sorry, but...
49:01With the picture, I...
49:03Eric Percival Banks, your first husband...
49:06Is this him?
49:13Is this him?
49:13Yeah.
49:14I know I should have done.
49:19I know I should have體 Captain.
49:19Yes.
49:21I need to know that he should be a shot at all...
49:24You will hear me, man.
49:26I may not.
50:27You're my mother.
50:57Not at all.
51:00I'm so sorry.
51:01What's all this about?
51:15Jack.
51:16We have rather a lot to tell you.
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