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First broadcast 2nd/9th/16th July 1985.
The discovery of a skeleton under the floorboards of a house leads to the release of a man Taggart arrested for the murder of his wife 9 years prior.
Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart
Alastair Duncan - DS Peter Livingstone (as Neil Duncan)
Tom Watson - Superintendent Murray
Colette O'Neil - Josephine Peebles
J.G. Devlin - Bill Lynch
John Carlin - George Cunningham
Jake D'Arcy - Ronnie McIsaac
Bill Leadbitter - Alan Tulloch
Alexander Morton - David Balfour
John McGlynn - Mike Balfour
Maureen Beattie - June Balfour
Ron Bain - Laurie Johnson
Valerie Lush - Mrs. Robertson
Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart
Geraldine Alexander - Alison Taggart
Sybil Wintrope - Carol
Jackie Farrell - Norman Burt
Anne Myatt - Sheila Burt
Ken Drury - Det. Constable Sinclair
Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews
Gavin Brown - Sgt. Blackman
Joe Mullaney - Dougie Turnball
Steven Whinnery - Tom
Mike Travis - Jack
Annie Louise Ross - Dr. Burns (as Anne-Louise Ross)
Anne Downie - Mrs. Cochrane
Edith Ruddick - Mrs. Moy
Betty Bright - Rose Dawson
The discovery of a skeleton under the floorboards of a house leads to the release of a man Taggart arrested for the murder of his wife 9 years prior.
Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart
Alastair Duncan - DS Peter Livingstone (as Neil Duncan)
Tom Watson - Superintendent Murray
Colette O'Neil - Josephine Peebles
J.G. Devlin - Bill Lynch
John Carlin - George Cunningham
Jake D'Arcy - Ronnie McIsaac
Bill Leadbitter - Alan Tulloch
Alexander Morton - David Balfour
John McGlynn - Mike Balfour
Maureen Beattie - June Balfour
Ron Bain - Laurie Johnson
Valerie Lush - Mrs. Robertson
Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart
Geraldine Alexander - Alison Taggart
Sybil Wintrope - Carol
Jackie Farrell - Norman Burt
Anne Myatt - Sheila Burt
Ken Drury - Det. Constable Sinclair
Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews
Gavin Brown - Sgt. Blackman
Joe Mullaney - Dougie Turnball
Steven Whinnery - Tom
Mike Travis - Jack
Annie Louise Ross - Dr. Burns (as Anne-Louise Ross)
Anne Downie - Mrs. Cochrane
Edith Ruddick - Mrs. Moy
Betty Bright - Rose Dawson
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00:00:30Tom, come here!
00:01:00Good morning, Joe.
00:01:17Good morning.
00:01:19Maybe a sign till I can...
00:01:35Oh, come on.
00:01:41Good morning, Joe.
00:02:11I thought this place was supposed to be demolished.
00:02:29Ah, they were grunting like a lot of the other places.
00:02:37Good morning, Jim.
00:02:38Christmas comes but once a year.
00:02:40Exciting, isn't it?
00:02:44Well...
00:02:45I can't think of another adjective.
00:02:48I haven't touched anything.
00:02:50The workmen opened this one.
00:02:52They are human.
00:02:54I'd have gone if they weren't.
00:02:59How long do you think they've been here?
00:03:01From these bones, eight to ten years...
00:03:04I'm not able to be more exact when we open the rest.
00:03:11Hey.
00:03:12I'm sorry.
00:03:13Over here.
00:03:14Over here.
00:03:19Now take care of that, you may get a print from the inside, I don't know where these are yet.
00:03:47We have a dismembered body down here. I suppose you'll want to look at it.
00:03:52Start.
00:03:59Stunning. A complete pelvic girdle. Just what you've always wanted.
00:04:04One body?
00:04:06What are you, greedy? Yes, I'd say one.
00:04:09At least it confirms the sex. The pubic arch and inlet look too wide for it to be male.
00:04:13So you know your anatomy?
00:04:15A little.
00:04:17You're right. There should be a groove.
00:04:20Yes, there we are, on the front of the ilium.
00:04:23Uterus is decomposed. Often is the last organ to go.
00:04:27Why the discoloration?
00:04:29Fireburns.
00:04:31That would have been big enough, wouldn't you say?
00:04:33Yes. One limb at a time.
00:04:38There must have been a lot of blood. He could have cut her up in the bathroom.
00:04:42You realise this property has been subject to a lot of short lets.
00:04:45Aye, I know.
00:04:49Jan.
00:04:50I hope you're going to work.
00:04:51Haven't have been a good boy so far.
00:04:52About the, what is it?
00:04:53The sentence of classification.
00:04:54Anybody to tell the age.
00:04:55Sure you wouldn't like my job?
00:04:56Right now, I'd prefer it.
00:04:57Provided she's under 25, I can pin it to a year.
00:04:58But I'd sooner do it in my laboratory.
00:04:59Well, can you at least have a look just now?
00:05:00Why are you so impatient?
00:05:01Well, the sooner we find out who she is, the sooner we find out who murdered her.
00:05:06Then the sooner you stop working with Jim Taggart.
00:05:08Right.
00:05:09Well, we don't have porridge here.
00:05:26Reminds too many of my men of being back in the room,
00:05:31We don't have porridge here. Reminds too many of my men of being back inside.
00:05:40I like porridge. Potato scone? Oh please. What would you like?
00:05:47We'll always have. I was just saying to Alan we don't have porridge here. I'm gonna
00:05:55see a guy about a van today. Are you? There we are. Them tamarys are about rife. Oh good.
00:06:03Hey, hey, hey. That's my chair. It's off. Bill, you come and sit here.
00:06:11I always sat in that place. Well sit down and shut up. Bloody bickering.
00:06:17Oh, Alan, could you drive me to Malini today? I've just left the place.
00:06:24Well I've got another release. He's not coming here though. He's got a wife and a home.
00:06:29He's lucky. I want the floorboards up in every room. And a complete digging operation out there.
00:06:38Right, sir. I hope you're in the mood for gardening. Oh well, don't mind.
00:06:42Right. Well, I suppose I'd better go and feed a few scraps of information to the vultures.
00:06:52Okay, you lot. Come on. Let's start digging. You can get the shovels.
00:06:56We found the remains, the skeletal remains, of a person we believe to be female.
00:07:01How long has she been there?
00:07:03Difficult to say at the moment. Number of years. We are treating the case as a murder inquiry.
00:07:07They identified the victim? Not yet, but I'm confident we will.
00:07:11How were the remains concealed?
00:07:13The body was concealed beneath the floorboards. More than that, I'm not prepared to say.
00:07:17Were the adult remains? Yes.
00:07:19Do you know the age of the victim? Not at the moment. Obviously it's too early to tell us now.
00:07:24So I've got your back.
00:07:37It wasn't my idea.
00:07:38Never mind.
00:07:39Do you still keep that lucky charm?
00:07:42Why?
00:07:43You might need it.
00:07:44There's a name engraved on the inside. Margaret Balfour. Of course, it could just be coincidence.
00:07:50I can give you an indication as to her age.
00:07:53She was 22.
00:07:54What do you?
00:07:55You're surprisingly clairvoyant this morning.
00:07:58Well, the upper and central vertebrae have almost joined, which would put her between 22 and 25.
00:08:04What have you found?
00:08:09A load of trouble.
00:08:11How long have you got to go?
00:08:23Oh, 11 months.
00:08:26How many were you over?
00:08:2881. I was 81.
00:08:30And he did you for that?
00:08:31Mm-hmm.
00:08:36Here he comes.
00:08:46Get in.
00:08:56You could have had a shave. Look at you.
00:08:58I want a drink.
00:08:59It's down the door you're going, and then home.
00:09:10Margaret Balfour, aged 14.
00:09:12It was the only photo we had to work on.
00:09:15Husband David is serving a life sentence in Barlinny for a murder.
00:09:21Now, that's the Balfour's car.
00:09:23It was found abandoned on the 20th November, 1975,
00:09:27in a lay-by between Howwood and Johnston on the A737.
00:09:34See the blood staining on the seats?
00:09:36Consistent with a stab wound to the left side.
00:09:38Now, that's the ground around the car.
00:09:45Notice there's no blood.
00:09:46I'm suggesting that Margaret Balfour was removed from the car somewhere else.
00:09:49Not in the lay-by.
00:09:51Blood-stained handkerchief.
00:09:53Same blood group found in Balfour's possession.
00:09:57His shirt sleeves were also blood-stained.
00:09:59His story was his wife had had a nosebleed.
00:10:06There it is.
00:10:07The murder weapon.
00:10:09Ordinary-sized kitchen knife, found in the grass about 12 feet away.
00:10:12No prints.
00:10:13Heavy soil traces in the car matched those found in the shovel in Balfour's flat and on his boots.
00:10:24He said they'd been for a drive down Kilburn the way the day before and he had to dig the car out of some mud.
00:10:30This could have been true after all.
00:10:34The theory was he buried her body in this area and then abandoned the car here to make it look as if she'd been abducted by a passing motorist.
00:10:48Your theory, Jim.
00:10:49I wasn't on the crime squad then.
00:10:50He made a confession.
00:10:51And retracted it afterwards.
00:10:53I was in my first year at university.
00:10:54I followed the case.
00:10:56One of the few convictions for murder without a body on record.
00:11:00The evidence was circumstantial.
00:11:03But there was a motive.
00:11:05She had a £50,000 insurance policy taken out by her father before he died.
00:11:09It wasn't to mature until she was 40.
00:11:12Did Balfour have any connection with 16 Delmally Road?
00:11:15No, none.
00:11:16I've placed the honour of the flat.
00:11:18It was one of the Peebles properties.
00:11:20Josephine Peebles owned it.
00:11:30I want a drink, Sheila.
00:11:31Get in there.
00:11:32Look, you're not the only one who's suffered.
00:11:33You've had it easy.
00:11:34I'm the one who's had to keep the house going and earn a living.
00:11:35Thanks, Joe.
00:11:36I'll see you at the PWG.
00:11:37Do you still want to come?
00:11:38Of course I do.
00:11:39He'd have been better off staying inside.
00:11:40He'd have been better off staying inside.
00:11:41I'm not the only one who's suffered.
00:11:42You've had it easy.
00:11:43I'm the one who's had to keep the house going and earn a living.
00:11:46Thanks, Joe.
00:11:47I'll see you at the PWG.
00:11:48Do you still want to come?
00:11:49Of course I do.
00:11:50He'd have been better off staying inside.
00:11:52So, what's his big idea?
00:12:11Do you know?
00:12:15He doesn't like friction.
00:12:16He's unprofessional.
00:12:18He doesn't like friction. He says it's unprofessional.
00:12:21So it's like the lecture I got.
00:12:23Can we at least work together this time? It is teamwork after all.
00:12:27Are you gonna lecture me?
00:12:29When I was a wee boy, Peter, my father forced me to shake hands with my worst enemy after a fight.
00:12:34Did you?
00:12:36He shook hands with me.
00:12:41I need him in the balls, so you better watch yours.
00:12:46Here.
00:12:49Ronnie McIsaac.
00:12:51Ah, it's you.
00:12:53Detective Sergeant Livingstone. Mind if we come in?
00:12:56What do you want?
00:12:57How long you been here?
00:12:58Three months.
00:13:00Glad to see you're in good hands.
00:13:02I've been up to nothing since I got out.
00:13:05It's not you we want.
00:13:08It's Jo.
00:13:10She's out picking somebody up.
00:13:12Oh? I thought she'd lost her license.
00:13:15She gets enough people to drive for her.
00:13:17You want some tea?
00:13:18Oh, that'd be very nice. Thank you.
00:13:20Is that a plum in Hismuth?
00:13:21All the young ones speak like this these days, Ronnie.
00:13:24It's part of a police drive to encourage a better class of criminal.
00:13:30Do you want some tea?
00:13:32What did she do to them?
00:13:34What was he in for?
00:13:35Barned robbery.
00:13:36Who's that?
00:13:38Angus Peebles, the shipbuilder.
00:13:41Jo's father.
00:13:43Reputed to be the meanest bastard in the Clyde.
00:13:45Dead?
00:13:46I wouldn't speak so well of the living.
00:13:49Jo inherited everything.
00:13:52Then gave most of her away, helping her ex-cons.
00:13:55There was a time in this city it paid to be one.
00:13:59Ronnie?
00:14:03Jo.
00:14:07Hello, Mr. Taggart.
00:14:09What can I do for you?
00:14:10Detective Sergeant Livingstone.
00:14:11Hello.
00:14:12Ronnie!
00:14:15Will you give me a bill if he's in the greenhouse for his cucumbers?
00:14:18I'll see if your hemwell came.
00:14:20I think you know my husband, Mr. Taggart.
00:14:25Your husband?
00:14:26We were married three months ago.
00:14:28Quietly.
00:14:29I'm not surprised.
00:14:31You hoping he'll make a respectable woman out of you, Jo?
00:14:34It's too late for that.
00:14:36What's your business?
00:14:3720th of November, 1975.
00:14:39You were living at 16 Dalmali Road.
00:14:42That's right.
00:14:43You keep records of your ex-cons, don't you?
00:14:46Who was living with you and for how long?
00:14:48Yeah.
00:14:49Would you like to tell us who was living with you on that date?
00:14:52What's it for?
00:14:53Inquiries.
00:14:55They're in the office.
00:15:07How long have you lived here?
00:15:09December 75.
00:15:11We had to leave the Dalmali Roadhouse.
00:15:13The neighbours complained it was attracting undesirables.
00:15:16I let it to students mainly afterwards.
00:15:19Yes, here we are, November 75.
00:15:22I had two with me.
00:15:23George Cunningham and Frederick O'Donnell.
00:15:27What was the form?
00:15:29Form?
00:15:31What were the end for, Jo?
00:15:33Er, Cunningham.
00:15:35Attempted to kill his wife.
00:15:36He thought she was a witch.
00:15:37He was a very peculiar man.
00:15:39He was only with me for a week and O'Donnell was robbery, fraud, attempted murder, not proven.
00:15:45I thought he was quite a gentleman.
00:15:47A lot of murderers are, Jo.
00:15:51What's he done?
00:15:52Who was she?
00:15:53We don't know.
00:15:58Who had the roof back of the house?
00:15:59Well, that was mine.
00:16:01Look at this one.
00:16:02It was George's.
00:16:03It all looked so different.
00:16:04Joel, who had this roof?
00:16:05This was Schley's room.
00:16:06And O'Donnell's?
00:16:07Yes.
00:16:08This is where we found the body.
00:16:09Who had the roof back of the house?
00:16:10Well, that was mine.
00:16:11Who had the roof back of the house?
00:16:12Well, that was mine.
00:16:14Who had this one?
00:16:16It was George's.
00:16:17It all looked so different.
00:16:22Joel, who had this roof?
00:16:25This was Schley's room.
00:16:27Fred O'Donnell's?
00:16:28Yes.
00:16:29This is where we found the body.
00:16:38Okay.
00:16:43Okay.
00:16:45Do either of you have a cigarette?
00:16:47No, I've only got cigars, I'm afraid.
00:16:48I've given up to you.
00:16:49Does someone have a cigarette?
00:16:50For the lady.
00:17:00Did O'Donnell have a car?
00:17:02No.
00:17:03Did he have access to one?
00:17:05No.
00:17:07Quite certain?
00:17:08I'm sure.
00:17:10Joel, did you ever see a trunk in his room?
00:17:14I can't suppose.
00:17:15Did you own one, of George Cunningham?
00:17:18I didn't.
00:17:20And George, he came with very little.
00:17:23How often did you go into O'Donnell's room?
00:17:26Every day, to clear up.
00:17:30Joel, did he ever light fires?
00:17:33Oh, yes.
00:17:39Mrs. Cochrane.
00:17:40Yes?
00:17:46We're police officers.
00:17:48We're looking for Frederick O'Donnell.
00:17:50This was his last known address.
00:17:52Oh, aye, he did lodge here right enough.
00:17:54Do you know where he is now?
00:17:55I can point you to him.
00:17:57He goes straight down the road, turn right, and it's first on your right.
00:18:00But he's there a bit late.
00:18:03We need the lucky charm when I've got you.
00:18:04Here we are.
00:18:05Five foot six, taking the mean of several estimations.
00:18:07No fetal bones.
00:18:08We've everything here but the skull.
00:18:09Presumably he disposed of that elsewhere to prevent identification.
00:18:10I wonder why.
00:18:11The neck looks unnaturally bent.
00:18:12Clever of you to notice.
00:18:13I had x-rays taken to see if any disease could account for spine curvature.
00:18:16By the way.
00:18:17The neck looks unnaturally bent.
00:18:18The neck looks unnaturally bent.
00:18:19Clever of you to notice.
00:18:20I had x-rays taken to see if any disease would account for spine curvature.
00:18:23Margaret Balfour has no record of any.
00:18:24No, there wasn't any.
00:18:25Must like the neck and spine were bent after death.
00:18:26Could she have been cracked?
00:18:27Far.
00:18:28Europe, there's your eyes closed.
00:18:29The neck looks uncovered quite tall, so many times that someone might have ever planned.
00:18:32Well, what you've done!
00:18:33All right, Woody.
00:18:34Let's go.
00:18:35Flew.
00:18:36You said he did not do all the matter which way to me.
00:18:37Come.
00:18:38What did he say.
00:18:39Now?
00:18:40Hello, oh, MasterwJosh.
00:18:42Are all we doing but this?
00:18:43Right, this is okay.
00:18:45Well, there's hard but it's hard to try but to find out and know 좋아.
00:18:48were bent after death. Could she have been crammed into something? Could be. Like a trunk or chest.
00:18:54Cause of death, or is that too hopeful? Impossible to say. Any fracture such as here and here
00:19:01would be caused by dismemberment of the body. And what was used? A saw, I'd say.
00:19:09How is she? She'll be up in a couple of days. Tess brought up one print on the metal catch
00:19:14inside the bag. Terrified is Margaret Balfour's thumbprint. That's what I like, a nine-year-old
00:19:18print. What do we have in a donnel? House drapings, check fraud, attempted murder of a waitress,
00:19:24not proven, and one conviction for incest against his daughter. Where's she? Same place as him.
00:19:31She took a drug overdose nine years ago. Deathbed confession, Jim? He did us no favours. Fell out
00:19:38of bed drunk. Died of hypothermia. He was stiff when the landlady found him. George is a
00:19:44voluntary admission. One of our informal patients. Admitted for what? Well, he gets depressed
00:19:49from time to time. I think I'll join him. Whenever he feels in a state of stress, he
00:19:57comes to us. When he feels better, he goes. Well, is he cured or isn't he? They don't cure
00:20:02this, Mr. Penia. Can you let me control it? I wasn't asking you. George, these gentlemen
00:20:13are from the police. They'd like to have a word with you. Certainly. I'll be in the office
00:20:19if you need me. Sit down. Don't be strangers. Smoke? Oh, that is very kind of you. I used
00:20:35to smoke these myself. Did you? That's an Edinburgh accent, isn't it? Yes. I was in Edinburgh.
00:20:42Went to university there. Same here. Shake my hand. Mr. Cunningham, we'd like to ask you some
00:20:47questions about the week you spent at 16 Dalmali Road when you came out of prison. What have
00:20:53they told you about me? What would you like to tell us? Well, the first step is understanding
00:21:00it. I suffered from these delusions. I believed that my wife was possessed by devils. I tried
00:21:10to beat them out of her. Crazy. She's dead now. Poor witch. Do you remember being at Dalmali Road?
00:21:22Miss Peebles. Who else lived there? It was an Irish chap. O'Donnell, I think his name was.
00:21:31I played the mouth organ. Badly. Did he have a car or access to one? He had a mouse. He used
00:21:40to live in his pocket. A car? No. Well, I was only there a week. Did you ever see a trunk in his room?
00:21:52I never went into that room. Or in Miss Peebles' possession? No. How is she? Is she well?
00:22:01Yes, sir. Yes, O'Donnell. Did he ever bring a young woman back? I would have remembered. A dead young woman.
00:22:15They said that I was mad. But if she were dead, why did he bring her home?
00:22:27How did you guess about the trunk? Those pieces of wood that were in the cellar, they had to be
00:22:32sewn out of something to make it sink. Which means it could be anywhere. No, not anywhere. In the
00:22:40street, near to Dalmallie Road. But how O'Donnell got it there without a car, I'll never know.
00:22:45How did he get Margaret Buffer's body from the lay-by to 16 Dalmallie Road, if he didn't have a car?
00:22:51Mrs. Robertson, remember me?
00:23:09Sit down.
00:23:12This is Detective Sergeant Livingston, by the way. Hello. What do you come for again?
00:23:24We've found your daughter, Mrs. Robertson.
00:23:28It was only a matter of time.
00:23:35Her body wasn't where we expected, where we thought it might be.
00:23:40I don't. We found her body in Glasgow.
00:23:43And a house in Mary Hill.
00:23:45A house?
00:23:47On the night your daughter was killed, she was driving down to see you.
00:23:50Is that right?
00:23:51Yeah.
00:23:52Well, we now think it's possible she...
00:23:54She was abducted from my car, after all.
00:23:57I don't understand.
00:24:00But, um...
00:24:03It seems likely your son-in-law, David, wasn't responsible for Margaret's murder.
00:24:07Are you sure it's my Margaret?
00:24:12Quite sure.
00:24:14We found that by the body.
00:24:16It had her thumbprint inside.
00:24:20It's hers.
00:24:23I bought it for her.
00:24:28I'd like to see her.
00:24:29She...
00:24:30That wouldn't be a very good idea.
00:24:31See what he means, Mrs. Robertson.
00:24:35She's been dead a long time.
00:24:39There'll be a press announcement this afternoon, but we wanted you to know first.
00:24:43Have you any neighbors we could ask to come in?
00:24:46No neighbors.
00:24:48No friend.
00:24:50No one comes to see me anymore.
00:24:52I prefer it that way.
00:25:00Why did you leave larks?
00:25:03Too many people wanting to speak about me and not to me.
00:25:09Does it mean that David'll come out of prison?
00:25:12A report has to go to the Procurator Fiscal, then to the Crown Office, then all the way to the Home Secretary.
00:25:17But yes, that's what it means.
00:25:21They, er, like a drop of the stuff.
00:25:25Mind you, so do the slugs.
00:25:28Well.
00:25:29That's why you can't feed them outdoors.
00:25:31Sorry?
00:25:33Joe.
00:25:35You went out early.
00:25:36I went to look at a school this morning.
00:25:38The last slate I let them down.
00:25:40They're good to get back to my old trade.
00:25:43Yeah, I've seen the newspaper.
00:25:45I wish they hadn't mentioned me.
00:25:46Well, you owned a house show.
00:25:48I didn't think it would become so important.
00:25:50Balfour's been saying for years he's innocent.
00:25:55Well, inside people believe him.
00:25:59The police know everything, Joe.
00:26:01You're the one that's always going on about being honest.
00:26:04Are you being honest?
00:26:09I told the police that Donald didn't have a car.
00:26:11I lied.
00:26:13He did.
00:26:15I thought you might come.
00:26:17Been a long time.
00:26:18What do you want?
00:26:20A chat.
00:26:21We're busy.
00:26:22Can you not read?
00:26:2324 hours means I can't afford the time.
00:26:26Have you got a problem?
00:26:27New Clutch.
00:26:28The problem is, the law won't be done.
00:26:29.
00:26:30What?
00:26:31What?
00:26:32I'll try.
00:26:33I'll try.
00:26:34I'll try.
00:26:35I'll try.
00:26:36I'll try.
00:26:37What do you want? A chat. We're busy. Can you no read?
00:26:47Twenty-four hours means I can't afford the time.
00:26:51Have you got a problem? You clutch.
00:26:54The problem is the law won't admit it can make a mistake.
00:26:58We admit it. Nine years too late.
00:27:01If hanging had never been abolished, who'd have been the murderer then, Mr. Taggart?
00:27:07How is David? Haven't seen him. That surprises me.
00:27:12Haven't seen him in seven years. Some support.
00:27:15A year after a trial, you couldn't have campaigned hard enough.
00:27:18Right. I couldn't. Was there anything else?
00:27:22David was convicted on evidence that he buried his wife's body.
00:27:26I suppose he didn't have any connection with 16 Dalmali roads.
00:27:31What are you suggesting? It's only a question.
00:27:35David was convicted because you dragged the confession out of him.
00:27:39Because a jury ignored how impossible it would be for him to carry a shovel home across Glasgow at night without being seen.
00:27:45Three appeal court judges couldn't even see how ridiculous it was.
00:27:49It didn't seem ridiculous at the time.
00:27:52Sir Taggart. I tried to get you a loan after the press conference.
00:27:57Did you?
00:27:58Laurie Johnson, Sunday Tribune.
00:27:59I've got nothing to add to the official statement.
00:28:02Any update you can get from the press office.
00:28:05It's not an update I want.
00:28:07I want your reaction to the eight and a half years David Balfour spent in prison.
00:28:11Why didn't you ask him?
00:28:16Who's that?
00:28:21Tied up.
00:28:24The one who picked David in prison.
00:28:30Mr Balfour. Laurie Johnson, Sunday Tribune.
00:28:33I've come to ask to see how you feel about your brother again.
00:28:36Why don't you piss off?
00:28:40The two of the three.
00:28:58Keep searching.
00:29:00I'm looking for a fine hacksaw blade.
00:29:02Thanks.
00:29:03Sarge.
00:29:10Sir, I think you'd better come over here and see this.
00:29:16Just tell them out like you told me, Joe.
00:29:20I lied about Fred O'Donnell.
00:29:22When I told you he didn't have access to a car,
00:29:25he did have.
00:29:26Mine.
00:29:28He used to borrow it on Wednesday nights to go and see his daughter in Ochen Tiber.
00:29:31Ochen Tiber?
00:29:32That's a small village near Beeth.
00:29:34It wasn't in the regular bus routes.
00:29:36Why Wednesday nights?
00:29:37That was her night off, I believe.
00:29:40She worked in a bar, he said.
00:29:41Did you know there was an injunction against him seeing his daughter?
00:29:44Yes.
00:29:45Yes, I knew about the relationship between them,
00:29:48but he said it was all over.
00:29:50He said they were reconciled.
00:29:51All the same.
00:29:52You encouraged him to break the law.
00:29:54I trusted him.
00:29:56That's what so many of my men need when they come out.
00:29:59Somebody to trust them.
00:30:00You know he would have taken the A737 through Howard?
00:30:03Yes.
00:30:04It was on a Wednesday night Margaret Ralfour was killed.
00:30:07It didn't mean anything until now.
00:30:12When his daughter committed suicide a month or two later, I blamed myself.
00:30:16I thought it was my fault for letting him visit her.
00:30:21What make of car was it?
00:30:23It was a Ford Consul. I scrapped it years ago.
00:30:26Do you remember that particular night?
00:30:28It was nine years ago.
00:30:30I've tried.
00:30:31Do you remember ever finding any blood stains in the car?
00:30:34Or indications he'd try to remove them?
00:30:36I would have remembered that.
00:30:39Are you saying he brought the body back in my car and buried it under the floorboard?
00:30:42How great were his chances of doing that without you knowing?
00:30:46Did you ever see O'Donnell with this knife?
00:30:48No.
00:30:49Are you going to arrest him?
00:30:50He died in 1981.
00:30:51So, if you're covering up for him?
00:30:52My wife isn't covering up for anybody.
00:30:53Just don't say anything more, Joe.
00:30:55What's that?
00:30:56It looks like a biscuit tin.
00:30:59I'll see you before.
00:31:00No.
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00:31:24Woof, woof.
00:31:36Sorry, sir.
00:31:54I met my wife.
00:32:01Me and Mike were done from Glasgow for the weekend.
00:32:07It was sunbathing.
00:32:11It's over there.
00:32:14How about a drink?
00:32:16Give me enough for that.
00:32:19I used to have this nightmare inside.
00:32:26In the middle of the city.
00:32:29A traffic island.
00:32:32Didn't know anyone.
00:32:35It was dark.
00:32:37Raining.
00:32:40I was trying to find my way home.
00:32:44Nobody knew where home was.
00:32:48That's the only reason why I wanted to come down here.
00:32:53Yeah.
00:32:54I like the sea as well.
00:32:58I was born in Dunnoon.
00:33:00Do you know it?
00:33:01I hate the sea.
00:33:04You ever read the Cruel Sea?
00:33:06Once, that, eh?
00:33:09I've had a lot of time for reading.
00:33:12What kept you going?
00:33:14None of us innocent.
00:33:17Been guilty.
00:33:18They've been harder to take.
00:33:24That paper has authorised me to offer you £20,000.
00:33:29The story of your arrest and how Taggart forced you to confess.
00:33:33I've wasted eight and a half years, David.
00:33:38It's a chance to hit back.
00:33:40You know what I'd like?
00:33:42What?
00:33:43A great big ice cream with nuts on top.
00:33:50There we go.
00:33:51Where do you go?
00:33:52Your brothers?
00:33:53No.
00:33:54There's a niece and a nephew.
00:33:55You haven't seen yet.
00:33:56No.
00:33:57No.
00:33:58There's no chance of my photographer getting a family shot, eh?
00:33:59No.
00:34:00There's no chance of my photographer getting a family shot, eh?
00:34:01No.
00:34:02There's no chance of my photographer getting a family shot, eh?
00:34:03No.
00:34:04David Balfer reunited with...
00:34:05Listen, he gave up on me.
00:34:06Didn't he come to see us for six years?
00:34:07Why should I go and see him?
00:34:08Why did he stop?
00:34:09Got married.
00:34:10Yeah.
00:34:11Like everybody else.
00:34:12I lost faith.
00:34:13That's the first bitter thing I've heard you say.
00:34:14But not a good reason to be.
00:34:15Sure.
00:34:16We close the case.
00:34:17We can't.
00:34:18We can never convict so it stays open.
00:34:19We can never name O'Donnell as a murderer.
00:34:20Your paper did.
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00:35:15Some place I have to go.
00:35:37Look, are you sure there's no chance of an interview with her?
00:35:40No.
00:35:41She's been through enough.
00:35:47What did you talk about?
00:35:50Margaret.
00:35:53What happened to the insurance money?
00:35:56I mean, that was supposed to be your motive, wasn't it?
00:35:58It's still there.
00:36:00She never claimed.
00:36:01Why not?
00:36:04She always felt that one day Margaret might turn up.
00:36:11You are going to be a very rich man.
00:36:16There's one thing I'll never buy back.
00:36:25Where to?
00:36:27Glasgow.
00:36:28Sure.
00:36:30Listen, if you're looking for somewhere to stay...
00:36:32It's okay.
00:36:34I know a place.
00:36:38Well, thanks again, Jo.
00:36:40It's only a morning, Jo.
00:36:42Oh, it's something.
00:36:45Sweeping the factory floor.
00:36:48I think I used to be proud of the work I did.
00:36:49I used to watch them shirts being launched, feel like I put a partner.
00:36:52Do you know anything about cars?
00:36:54No.
00:37:00I wish I could stay here, Jo.
00:37:03Oh, you're lucky you've got her home.
00:37:05And Sheila.
00:37:06Lucky?
00:37:07She still wants to come to your prisoner's wife's grill.
00:37:10Shows you what she thinks of me.
00:37:12Miss Peebles.
00:37:14Yes?
00:37:16I'm David Balfour.
00:37:20Jim, you keep on about it.
00:37:22Peter feels the same as me, sir.
00:37:24There's some evidence there was a trunk.
00:37:26What do you want me to do about it?
00:37:28Frog me.
00:37:30Selected parts of the clive where a trunk might be disposed of, starting near Dalmali Road.
00:37:33Have you any idea how long an operation like that would take?
00:37:37No, sir.
00:37:38You think you should consider it?
00:37:39I am not wasting police time searching the clive for something that might not exist anywhere.
00:37:45She could have been kept in a knotted sack under the floorboards.
00:37:47That would account for the curvature of the spine.
00:37:50You find some hard evidence there was a trunk, I'll sanction the request.
00:37:55Thanks for your enthusiasm.
00:37:57He has a point.
00:37:58What does he want?
00:38:00A photograph.
00:38:01You'll be all right.
00:38:03Always pretty confident, weren't you?
00:38:05Saw yourself as a bit of a celebrity.
00:38:07Some of us came out of nothing, you know, not a bean.
00:38:10Always above the rest of us, weren't you?
00:38:12Won't Sheila be expecting you home, Norman?
00:38:14Aye.
00:38:16Well, don't keep her waiting, then.
00:38:18You're talking to somebody that was a real criminal, you know.
00:38:21I'm no talking.
00:38:23I made more money out of a house-breaking than you'll get.
00:38:25I could have been big.
00:38:26Norman.
00:38:28Go on.
00:38:31How much compensation money do you think you'll get?
00:38:37When you get it, just remember the likes of us.
00:38:41It came out of nothing.
00:38:43We've had enough of him inside.
00:38:46Sit down.
00:38:56Why'd you bother with us?
00:38:59I always have done.
00:39:01I suppose you'd call it a vacation?
00:39:03No.
00:39:05My brother went to prison when I was 19.
00:39:08The family disowned him.
00:39:10Help yourself to some cake.
00:39:11What did he do?
00:39:13He forged our father's name in a check.
00:39:16Father preferred charges.
00:39:17I'm sorry, I can't tell you something about Fred O'Donnell.
00:39:22I didn't know any more than the papers have said.
00:39:25Well, actually you can help me, Miss Peebles.
00:39:29I'm looking for a place to stay.
00:39:34Why here?
00:39:35My needs are the same.
00:39:38I've got an interim payment until the compensation's worked out.
00:39:41I can pay my way.
00:39:43You have a brother, don't you?
00:39:45I did have.
00:39:47He...
00:39:49He deserted me.
00:39:51I couldn't stay somewhere I wasn't welcome.
00:39:54Well, it can only be for a short while.
00:39:57I usually say three weeks.
00:39:59After that, I expect my mentor find a job in more permanent accommodation.
00:40:09What...
00:40:11What sort of guy was Fred O'Donnell?
00:40:15It's so long ago, I really can't remember.
00:40:19If you drink up your tea, I'll show you your room.
00:40:23Come on.
00:40:32Do you have to leave these toys all over the floor?
00:40:34I'll pick them up.
00:40:36Why don't you just relax?
00:40:38I can't.
00:40:40We can't stop them visiting us.
00:40:42It's what he'll say.
00:40:44Who could have gone away?
00:40:45Had a holiday or something?
00:40:46I'm not disrupting Fiona's schooling.
00:40:48She's got settled.
00:40:49June, I haven't been in touch with her for seven years.
00:40:51Well, maybe you should have.
00:40:53You said what?
00:40:55Sorry, Dave.
00:40:56I've got a family now.
00:40:57I haven't got time to come and visit you.
00:41:01You don't care, do you?
00:41:03If he comes, he comes.
00:41:05I don't care.
00:41:06Go give the new big kiss in one.
00:41:08Hi there.
00:41:09Any more reporters at the door?
00:41:10Aye, one.
00:41:11I didn't open it.
00:41:12He'll be all right.
00:41:13Had any more reporters at the door?
00:41:22Aye, one. I didn't open it.
00:41:25He'll be all right.
00:41:27They said in the paper he could get as much as 70,000 compensation.
00:41:31It's over eight grand a year.
00:41:33Well, he deserves it.
00:41:35Come on, Tony.
00:41:37Fan belt shouldn't have worked loose again.
00:41:44I'll take it for a wee drive.
00:41:46See if that's was causing a problem.
00:41:48He didn't look loose to me.
00:41:49I'm sure he knows what he's doing.
00:41:51I saw my brother and me whatever I'm any good at.
00:41:55What's going on?
00:41:57Oh, David's just fixed the fan belt in the car.
00:42:00Uh, David Barfer, my husband Ronnie McIsaac.
00:42:03Isn't that?
00:42:04Sure.
00:42:07No more.
00:42:11What do you mean?
00:42:12I want a home, not a halfway house.
00:42:14I want to forget.
00:42:15Well, he's here only for a few weeks.
00:42:17But you said we'd have time in a row and you promised.
00:42:19I know.
00:42:20And why him?
00:42:24Quite a party.
00:42:29He's just come to apologise.
00:42:32Too late.
00:42:34Try the car.
00:42:35Listen.
00:42:36If there's anything I can do.
00:42:37Try resigning.
00:42:38After next Sunday, your name won't be worth the space.
00:42:40It takes up my telephone directory.
00:42:41Well, for those who aren't up and about yet, can I just tell you that over the studio window here, it seems to be reasonably bright Monday morning.
00:42:47Stay tuned.
00:42:48It's time now for more music.
00:42:49Christopher, will you please stop crying?
00:42:50Now look, Mummy, it won't be a minute.
00:42:51Okay, darling?
00:42:52It won't be a minute.
00:42:53Okay, darling?
00:42:54It won't be a minute.
00:42:55Okay, darling?
00:42:56It won't be a minute.
00:42:57Okay, darling?
00:42:59Uh-oh...
00:43:21Christopher, will you please stop crying?
00:43:23David Balfour, a man wrongly convicted of murdering his wife Margaret in 1975, who was raised two weeks ago after serving more than eight years in jail, has been awarded compensation of 80,000 pounds.
00:43:53Thirty-one-year-old Balfour described the award as adequate, but he added that no amount of money could compensate for the injustice he had suffered.
00:44:02And now some industrial news. The dispute in the Scottish shipyards continues. 200 boilermakers...
00:44:23Oh, my God.
00:44:25That's it.
00:44:27That's it.
00:44:30That's it.
00:44:32That's it.
00:44:3480,000 knicker.
00:45:00Yeah.
00:45:02Works out at nearly 9,500 a year.
00:45:069,411 and 76 pence.
00:45:10Can't folk work things out in their heads nowadays.
00:45:13Have you started in the Highlands electrical inquiry yet?
00:45:16Yeah, we've got 230 customers returns.
00:45:19Don't be enthusiastic about it.
00:45:21I'm just off to a conference in London.
00:45:24What conference is that?
00:45:25Policing in the 90s.
00:45:26Well, you'd better hurry.
00:45:29Is David Balfour still in your conference?
00:45:32He'll be all right for the rest of his life.
00:45:3430,000 doesn't carry you far these days.
00:45:36Is he still at Joe Peebles?
00:45:38As far as I know.
00:45:39Forget about him, Jim.
00:45:41He's been compensated.
00:45:42You can't give him back eight and a half years of his life.
00:45:45I can find out the truth about Margaret Balfour's murder.
00:45:49You really think Joe Peebles knows more?
00:45:56Yes, I do.
00:45:59Why did O'Donnell try to conceal Margaret Balfour's identity?
00:46:05Maybe he panicked after David Balfour was arrested.
00:46:08He had a dismembered body under the floorboards.
00:46:12What difference did it make?
00:46:14Anyway, he's left before the arrest.
00:46:17Motorers don't always behave logically.
00:46:22You wade through that lot.
00:46:23I'm going out.
00:46:25Call sign 361.
00:46:49Hurry, please!
00:46:51Hello.
00:46:52Mike.
00:46:53Hang on, dude. I'll get him.
00:46:55Mike!
00:46:56What are you doing?
00:46:57Mike?
00:46:58Christopher's been kidnapped.
00:47:00What are you doing?
00:47:01Mike.
00:47:03Christopher's been kidnapped.
00:47:06What are you doing?
00:47:07What are you doing?
00:47:16Mike, Christopher's been kidnapped.
00:47:24George is gone.
00:47:25Decided to leave us about a week ago.
00:47:27Where?
00:47:28Ethiopia, he said.
00:47:30But then George has been going to Ethiopia for years.
00:47:33What's he done?
00:47:35Been masquerading as a priest again.
00:47:37Collecting money for the poor.
00:47:38You worked with these people for a long time.
00:47:40Well, long enough to know that the schizophrenic's world is as real to them as ours is to us.
00:47:45George tells stories. Lies.
00:47:47If I was to question him about events that happened ten years ago,
00:47:50how would I know if he was telling the truth?
00:47:53You mean the murder of Margaret Balfour?
00:48:00Aye.
00:48:01If you like.
00:48:03George wouldn't stop talking about it in therapy group.
00:48:06Wouldn't he?
00:48:07Why not?
00:48:08Well, he seemed to feel responsible for it after you'd questioned him about it.
00:48:12Why?
00:48:13Well, he felt he'd caused it.
00:48:15Schizophrenics often feel they've caused something that they haven't and want to be punished for it.
00:48:20Don't you make some attempt to cure them?
00:48:22You can't cure a schizophrenic personality.
00:48:24You can control it with drugs or ECT, turn him into a vegetable.
00:48:32But that would destroy the only personality that he has.
00:48:35Which is worse.
00:48:37Oh, Mike.
00:48:40Oh, Mike.
00:48:43Okay.
00:48:45What happened?
00:48:47I found that in the car.
00:48:48I left him for a few minutes.
00:48:54You left him?
00:48:56In the multi-storey.
00:48:58Well, he was crying so much.
00:49:00The lift wasn't working.
00:49:02You cannae take bush chairs into some of the supermarkets.
00:49:04You left him in the car on his own.
00:49:06Well, he was crying so much.
00:49:08Oh, stupid, bloody...
00:49:09Oh, Mike!
00:49:11Jesus Christ!
00:49:13Look, I'll phone the police.
00:49:14No!
00:49:15Well, you've got to, Mike.
00:49:17Read it.
00:49:18It says no police.
00:49:19Well, what are you going to do?
00:49:21Pay it.
00:49:2250,000.
00:49:24This is all because of David.
00:49:26Look, do you know where David is?
00:49:27Has he been in touch with you?
00:49:28No.
00:49:29The police'll know.
00:49:30Well, I can't bring the police into it, Doogie.
00:49:35I know who might know.
00:49:38Do you want me to pick up Fiona from school?
00:49:44Yeah, thanks.
00:49:48Mike, what if David won't help us?
00:50:01Ah, I thought that was for your plants.
00:50:04Ah, just, uh, testing.
00:50:08You'll be off soon.
00:50:14You don't get impression people are in here trying to get rid of me.
00:50:17Made any plans yet?
00:50:19You know what I would do if I had your money?
00:50:22I'd go and live in Monte Carlo.
00:50:24Monte Carlo?
00:50:25Ah-ha.
00:50:26Always in a great fascination for Monte Carlo.
00:50:28Well, but I suppose I'll still be here as long as Joe allows me.
00:50:36Might go to London.
00:50:37Ah, there's a city.
00:50:40Oh, I spent a good few years there.
00:50:42Me and my brother had this dream once.
00:50:46Ah, there's more than that.
00:50:51I'm going to go into the car hire business.
00:50:53Mm-hmm.
00:50:53Go to London, buy a couple of flash cars.
00:50:59I'll never come off.
00:51:03Someone's might go abroad.
00:51:04Mm-hmm.
00:51:05Spain, Portugal, France.
00:51:10Right, Taggart's here to see you.
00:51:11You tell him I don't want to talk to him.
00:51:14You tell him.
00:51:33New gear.
00:51:35I've got nothing to say to you.
00:51:37You've said it all through the papers.
00:51:40Maybe that's the curds way.
00:51:42If I said what I really felt, it'd be libelous.
00:51:45How long have you been here now?
00:51:47Two weeks.
00:51:49Sit down.
00:51:57You didn't come here just because it was a place to stay.
00:52:02I need your help.
00:52:04You find that funny?
00:52:05Oh.
00:52:07What I find funny is you coming here to ask me.
00:52:09Why should I help the police do a job you should have done nine years ago?
00:52:14Why did O'Donnell bring her body back 20 miles from the lay-by to Dalmallie Road?
00:52:19How could he use Joe Peebles' car without her suspecting anything?
00:52:22Why did you trust him so much?
00:52:24Why did you trust him so much?
00:52:28You've got more opportunity to talk to her than I have.
00:52:31You think she knew?
00:52:32There were two other people in that house.
00:52:36George Cunningham and Joe Peebles.
00:52:38Cunningham's been in and out of mental hospitals for years.
00:52:41I doubt he'll tell us anything.
00:52:42But you're saying Joe can.
00:52:43Well, let's say there's too much that doesn't make sense about what O'Donnell did and why he did it.
00:52:52There was a lot that didn't make sense about what I was supposed to have done.
00:52:57I didn't hear you asking those questions then.
00:53:00Why did you confess to me?
00:53:03Never been interrogated, have you?
00:53:04No.
00:53:05I just went along with you to get some sleep.
00:53:15Sorry.
00:53:17You're nine years too late.
00:53:20You.
00:53:22Foy.
00:53:35Hello.
00:53:38Hello, David.
00:53:40It's Mike.
00:53:42Look, I need to talk.
00:53:45Somewhere private.
00:53:46Somewhere private.
00:54:05Where the hell have you been?
00:54:17Shopping.
00:54:18Since this morning.
00:54:20You finish work at twelve, Norman.
00:54:22It's now a quarter to five.
00:54:24I know the time.
00:54:24Yeah, and I know women whose husbands have gone back inside.
00:54:28And they all said they weren't up to anything.
00:54:30You want the whole neighbourhood to hear you?
00:54:32Just warning you.
00:54:35What are those?
00:54:37They're leaves.
00:54:38Where have you been to get leaves on your tyres?
00:54:41Up a tree.
00:55:02Why here?
00:55:03Meet the man that killed Margaret.
00:55:09Said you wanted somewhere private.
00:55:12Much more private than a cemetery.
00:55:16How'd you find me?
00:55:18Phoned the Tribune.
00:55:20Spoke to that reporter, Laurie Johnson.
00:55:23Why are you staying there?
00:55:24She's about me to stay with you.
00:55:25I need a favour.
00:55:34A big favour.
00:55:37We've got a son, Christopher.
00:55:39He's ten months old.
00:55:42He's been kidnapped.
00:55:44They're asking a ransom of fifty thousand.
00:55:46They say they'll kill him if I phone the police.
00:55:51So I'm not going to...
00:55:53Did you know we had a son?
00:55:58I heard.
00:56:00Our daughter too.
00:56:01She's six.
00:56:02Everything gets to you inside.
00:56:03I've no right to ask.
00:56:09It's your money there after.
00:56:11How'd you know?
00:56:14All that stuff about you in the paper.
00:56:17Do you make me laugh?
00:56:18Davey, I don't know what I'm going to do.
00:56:20Who left me to rot in there?
00:56:23A year campaigning and then nothing.
00:56:26No even a letter.
00:56:28It was the guilt that stopped you visiting us.
00:56:31Maybe you were just too busy bringing up a family.
00:56:35Come on.
00:56:35Look at what I did do for you.
00:56:37You know what kept me going?
00:56:40None there'd be compensation when she was found.
00:56:42A lot of it.
00:56:45I wasn't coming out today.
00:56:46I tripped down the social.
00:56:48That money is all I've got.
00:56:52I've earned it.
00:56:52So you'll know help, ma'am.
00:56:57I should've.
00:57:22I can't stand this any longer.
00:57:27Phone them, June.
00:57:29I would.
00:57:31David won't help.
00:57:32I know he won't.
00:57:35Have you ever met him?
00:57:37No.
00:57:39I just know he won't.
00:57:40Do you want me to?
00:57:54Yes.
00:58:07This morning.
00:58:09In the car park.
00:58:10What's going on?
00:58:12Look, they want £50,000 from us.
00:58:14There's no way that we can...
00:58:15Oh, please, Mike.
00:58:16We'll get out of the car too.
00:58:22Get in the car.
00:58:23What's up now?
00:58:24I'll explain in a way.
00:58:25This is Carol's first night home.
00:58:26Isn't that urgent?
00:58:27We've got a kidnapping.
00:58:30A Balfour baby.
00:58:33Does money know?
00:58:34I've left instructions for him to be told.
00:58:36Do you really think you ought to be doing this?
00:58:37Just stop and think.
00:58:39After the David Balfour case,
00:58:40do you think his brother's going to welcome you taking charge?
00:58:42Oh, just get in the car.
00:58:43You've got a bloody nerve coming here.
00:58:55Who's in charge of you?
00:58:56Mike, give them a chance.
00:58:58He's the guy who put David in Berlini.
00:59:00Oh, so what?
00:59:01Christopher's life could be in danger
00:59:02while you're arguing now.
00:59:03I'd listen to him if I were you.
00:59:06What's your name, sir?
00:59:07Dougie Turnbull.
00:59:08I'm Mike's assistant.
00:59:09Why didn't you phone us sooner?
00:59:11Because the note says no police
00:59:12or they'll kill him
00:59:14and I want my son back alive.
00:59:16So if you don't mind, just go.
00:59:22I'm afraid it's too late for that now.
00:59:27Have the kidnappers been in contact since?
00:59:29No.
00:59:31Your brother?
00:59:32Have you spoken to him?
00:59:34He won't help me.
00:59:35We're going to have to talk to your wife.
00:59:38Find out exactly what happened.
00:59:39She's in no state to talk to anybody.
00:59:41I'm all right, Mike.
00:59:44If it's, um...
00:59:46If it's any consolation to you both,
00:59:49a baby can't inform on his kidnappers.
00:59:54It's, um...
00:59:56It's not in their interest to harm him.
00:59:58What do the cops want?
01:00:03I don't know.
01:00:06You think you're a big shot, don't you?
01:00:08No.
01:00:11You shouldn't be here, you know.
01:00:13No of your money.
01:00:15When Joe wants me to go, I'll go.
01:00:17How much are you worth now?
01:00:23You've got 50,000 for your wife's insurance.
01:00:2620 for that story you sold to the papers.
01:00:28And 80 in compensation.
01:00:31That makes you worth about 150,000.
01:00:34I did time for that money.
01:00:36I'm no disputing it.
01:00:37Good.
01:00:38I'm just saying that you don't have the same problems
01:00:40the rest of yous have got.
01:00:41Trips doing the dole.
01:00:42Trying to get people to give you a job.
01:00:44Having to admit you've been inside.
01:00:46You're okay.
01:00:46You're a celebrity.
01:00:48You're a famous David Balfour.
01:00:49I've got to start my life all over again.
01:00:52Oh, that'll be difficult.
01:00:53It takes more than money.
01:00:58Where's Joe?
01:00:59My kitchen.
01:01:06What are you doing?
01:01:08Making everything.
01:01:09Well, they're not bloody kids, Joe.
01:01:13Balfour's been here for two weeks now.
01:01:15What's he up to?
01:01:15What do you mean up to?
01:01:17Taggart came to see him today.
01:01:19Then some guy phoned one to meet him.
01:01:21So I followed him.
01:01:23Why did you do that?
01:01:24Joe, he went to the cemetery.
01:01:26He went to Adonald's grave.
01:01:27He met some guy there.
01:01:28Now, why?
01:01:30I don't know.
01:01:32Have you told me everything about Adonald?
01:01:34Yes.
01:01:35Well, now he's got his money, he can move on.
01:01:38You don't owe him anything.
01:01:40Well, he'll have to.
01:01:41I've got a release from Peter Head in four days, I've promised his room to him.
01:01:45Sometime, can I have the experience of returning to a home?
01:01:48This is a home.
01:01:50Look, a home means privacy.
01:01:51We don't get that.
01:01:53I don't even feel married to you.
01:01:55I want to forget my past.
01:01:56I can't.
01:01:57I come home, I see a whole load of ex-cons.
01:01:59It's like being back inside.
01:02:01You of all people, Ronnie, should understand their needs.
01:02:04But you don't understand mine.
01:02:05Why did you marry me, Joe?
01:02:19What happens if they cannae pay their ransom?
01:02:21We hope the kidnapper accepts less.
01:02:24Who do you live with, son?
01:02:26Just my mum.
01:02:27But don't say anything to her.
01:02:29Don't say anything to anyone.
01:02:31I won't.
01:02:32Secrecy is crucial, OK?
01:02:33OK.
01:02:35I'm like an uncle to these kids, you know.
01:02:44There.
01:02:45Now that's all working, OK.
01:02:47OK.
01:02:48You'd better stay here tonight.
01:02:49What?
01:02:50Well, somebody's got to remain on duty.
01:02:53I'm sorry if it interferes with your domestic arrangements.
01:02:57You'll be relieved in the morning.
01:03:02Lie down.
01:03:03Try and rest.
01:03:04I can't.
01:03:05Had to be tagger, eh?
01:03:11Can you not try and have someone else put in charge?
01:03:14Yeah.
01:03:16I'll try my best.
01:03:19Where is he, Mike?
01:03:22Where is he?
01:03:23Why are we stopped here?
01:03:37Don't you know?
01:03:42I have to be in Berlinie and half an hour.
01:03:45I've been here a few times.
01:03:48I've never been inside.
01:03:49I'd like to see where they found my wife's body.
01:03:58When I wait in the car.
01:04:00You know where O'Donnell's room is.
01:04:02I'm here a few times.
01:04:03I'll see what's next.
01:04:04I was on the floor.
01:04:05I'll see where he's in the house.
01:04:05I feel like he's in the house.
01:04:10I feel like I'm in the house.
01:04:11I was down there.
01:04:29Gave my mate and me an ice kit.
01:04:32How was it?
01:04:34It was all in brown paper parses.
01:04:37This place should have been demolished years ago.
01:04:40Like it was supposed to be.
01:04:42She might have been found sooner.
01:04:45Are you satisfied?
01:05:10You don't believe in ghosts, do you?
01:05:13Was it the same curiosity that took you to his grave?
01:05:18How did you know I went there?
01:05:19Ronnie saw you.
01:05:21Oh, I'd have been surprised if you hadn't.
01:05:24Who do you meet there?
01:05:26My brother, Mike.
01:05:28I thought you weren't talking.
01:05:31He wanted to borrow some money.
01:05:35Why, dear?
01:05:37To remind him.
01:05:39The guy I spent eight and a half years in prison for.
01:05:43The guy I bought here.
01:05:45The guy that he was scared.
01:05:48The guy that I could put in his home was so he would have moved across the world.
01:05:51All the time.
01:05:52I'm going to let the water into his home.
01:05:53I'm going to let the water into his home.
01:05:55I'm going to let it break out the water in prison.
01:05:56I'm going to let it break out the water.
01:05:58I'm going to let it break out the water.
01:06:00What do I know?
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