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00:00:00Against the bridal day which is not long, sweet Thames run softly till I end my song.
00:00:15I don't think Spencer ever saw the river at Wapping.
00:00:20I thought we ought to talk.
00:00:23What about?
00:00:24I saw you letting yourself into innocent house last night.
00:00:30I see.
00:00:32Going to see Gerard?
00:00:35Yes.
00:00:37Why?
00:00:39Well, the decision he'd taken about Esme Carling's book, it wasn't his business.
00:00:44Is that all?
00:00:47No, I'd had enough of the way he treated Francis.
00:00:50What he said to me yesterday was just unforgivable.
00:00:53So what did he say?
00:00:55I, er, lost my nerve.
00:01:00If you'd watched for a little longer, you'd have seen me come out again.
00:01:03Didn't get any further than reception.
00:01:06I realise I'd never get him to change his ways, probably just make things worse.
00:01:10You were right there.
00:01:14But I'm glad he's dead.
00:01:16If I had some kind of faith, I'd go down on my knees and thank God he's dead.
00:01:22But I didn't kill him, Gabriel.
00:01:24No, I don't believe you did.
00:01:30Night, James.
00:01:35Mandy Price saw me putting Hising Sid in the drawer.
00:01:39And Miss Claudia, before she followed Mr. Gerard into his office.
00:01:44Mr. Dauncy was there as well.
00:01:45How long did you work for Mr. Peverell?
00:01:5127 years.
00:01:53I came here the week after I left school.
00:01:56It must have been hard adjusting to life without him.
00:02:00I worked very closely with Mr. Henry.
00:02:04He confided in me.
00:02:05The door between our rooms was always open.
00:02:09That's what Hising Sid was mostly used for.
00:02:12To prop it open.
00:02:14And when he died?
00:02:16I had to adapt.
00:02:18Were you successful?
00:02:19Not wholly.
00:02:21I wasn't the only one.
00:02:23Esme Carling, for instance.
00:02:26Not one of our easiest authors.
00:02:29She could be very nasty.
00:02:30You must have heard about the scene she created here yesterday.
00:02:52No marks on the neck.
00:02:59Hmm.
00:03:00Take a look.
00:03:03On the roof of the mouth.
00:03:05A distinct scratch.
00:03:07Post-mortem, by the look of it.
00:03:09Have you at all?
00:03:16Looks as if something sharp-edged was forced in or out of the mouth after death.
00:03:21By the look of the scratch, I'd say out.
00:03:25Difficult to be 100% sure, but it looks like the direction of the scratch is from the back of the palate.
00:03:30To the top teeth.
00:03:32No doubt it was after death.
00:03:33Etienne himself may have put it in, whatever it was, but someone else certainly took it out.
00:03:39With some force and in a hurry.
00:03:41How much strength would it take to open the jaw after Riga had established?
00:03:46Fairly easy.
00:03:47Easier still if the mouth was open and he could get his fingers inside and find some leverage.
00:03:52The child couldn't do it.
00:03:54It was only enough looking for the child.
00:03:56Any idea, Doc, what kind of object it was?
00:03:59Well, there are no other marks.
00:04:01Which suggests it wasn't too difficult to fit.
00:04:03Something small and sharp-edged.
00:04:06Key.
00:04:07A bunch of keys.
00:04:11Or a cassette.
00:04:16Or a tape recorder.
00:04:19Don't say machine.
00:04:21Assume it was the tape, just for the sake of argument.
00:04:24Gerard knew he was going to die.
00:04:26He's trapped, carbon monoxide filling the room.
00:04:29The door locked.
00:04:30Gas cap missing.
00:04:32A window he can't open.
00:04:33And he puts a tape in his mouth.
00:04:36Why on earth would he do that?
00:04:37The only explanation that makes any kind of sense to me is that he was trying to hide it.
00:04:43Hide it?
00:04:44From his killer.
00:04:45But the murderer did find it.
00:04:47He came back for it and eventually found it.
00:04:50But he had to force the door open to get it out.
00:04:54So he used the snake to cover it up.
00:04:57Yeah, but what about the tape?
00:04:59And why did Gerard hide it?
00:05:00Why did the killer look for it?
00:05:02I mean, what was on the bloody thing?
00:05:05Daniel.
00:05:05Daniel, back to Innocent House.
00:05:11Okay, let's assume the murderer lured Etienne into the room.
00:05:16Fire was already on.
00:05:17With a gas tap key removed so they couldn't turn it off.
00:05:20Yeah, and don't forget the table.
00:05:21Yeah, I mean, that'd be moved.
00:05:25What if it and the chair had been taken out?
00:05:28So that Etienne couldn't use it to climb out of the window.
00:05:31Then the murderer left.
00:05:33Locking the door behind him or her.
00:05:36When he came back some hours later, he found the tape in Etienne's mouth.
00:05:40The obvious conclusion is that Etienne dictated the name of the killer onto the tape.
00:05:44And he would have had time.
00:05:46He wouldn't have died at once.
00:05:47The murderer was too careful for that.
00:05:50Everything had been cleared from the room that would have allowed Etienne to leave a message.
00:05:53Papers, pencils, the lot.
00:05:55Even the floor was clean so he couldn't scrawl a name in the dust.
00:05:58Yes, but why did he leave the tape recorder?
00:06:01What if it was the other way around?
00:06:03What do you mean?
00:06:04The murderer prepared a tape to play to Etienne as he was dying.
00:06:09Exactly.
00:06:09That would explain why Etienne tried to hide the tape.
00:06:17The murderer must have had an uncomfortable few minutes until he found it.
00:06:21Yes, but why?
00:06:26Why leave the message?
00:06:29To gloat.
00:06:30Show how clever he is.
00:06:31Or perhaps to explain to Etienne why he had to die.
00:06:35Well, if that's the reason, then the motive for the murder may not be obvious.
00:07:05Well, if that's the reason, then the motive for the murder may not be obvious.
00:07:35How does our leader take it if you ask for a bit of time off in the middle of a murder investigation?
00:07:54What do you think?
00:07:57What's it for?
00:07:59My brother's wedding next week.
00:08:01You're the best man, then?
00:08:03No.
00:08:04Registry office.
00:08:05Oh, must be joking.
00:08:07No, no, the full Monty.
00:08:09Synagogue, reception, cabaret.
00:08:11Registry's flying in.
00:08:12Where from?
00:08:14Israel, America.
00:08:15All over the bloody place.
00:08:24How long have your family lived here?
00:08:26Uh, mother's family came over at the 10th century, I think.
00:08:29Not really sure.
00:08:30What about your father's?
00:08:31Uh, grandparents brought him and my uncle over just before the war from Poland.
00:08:36Got out just in time.
00:08:38Most of the family didn't survive.
00:08:40I'm sorry.
00:08:41Dad doesn't talk about it.
00:08:42Long time ago, wasn't it?
00:08:44Yep, this is the house.
00:08:45Mr. Etienne, I should like to offer my sympathy for your loss.
00:09:06Oh, please, spare me your condolences.
00:09:10They can hardly be sincere.
00:09:12You didn't know my son.
00:09:14He died needlessly and young, I am sorry.
00:09:17Well, I know why you had to come, but I can't help you.
00:09:20I have no idea why Lerar died.
00:09:23I believe your son was murdered.
00:09:27Well, if he was, and frankly, I find it hard to believe,
00:09:30I hope you'll bring his killer to justice,
00:09:34however inadequate the justice may be.
00:09:37If you find me unhelpful, it's because I have no help to give.
00:09:40Did he visit you regularly?
00:09:44Once a month.
00:09:47He would intrude on my privacy to recount all the tedious goings on at the press.
00:09:53Evidently, he needed my approval for the changes he was making.
00:09:56I couldn't give it.
00:09:59What did I know?
00:10:01Or care?
00:10:03What do you think your son had enemies?
00:10:07Well, no doubt he had rivals.
00:10:10Discontented authors, colleagues who resented him.
00:10:15But I can think of no one who wished to destroy him.
00:10:19Well, about something in his past, or yours,
00:10:23that could have caused resentment.
00:10:28My past?
00:10:30You fought in the war, in the resistance.
00:10:34The enemies of France were once my enemies.
00:10:37I fought them the only way I could.
00:10:42The answer lies in the present.
00:10:44Not in the past, Commander.
00:10:46It's about Thursday evening.
00:10:51I thought it might be.
00:10:54We've spoken to Mr. DeWitt.
00:10:56James never lies.
00:10:57It's one of the things about him I find most tiresome.
00:11:00How long have you lived here?
00:11:02Four and a half months.
00:11:03He took me in when I could bear the hospice no more.
00:11:06We're not lovers, by the way.
00:11:10James is depressingly heterosexual.
00:11:12He loves the tedious Peverell woman.
00:11:16Perhaps you could tell us what happened on Thursday evening.
00:11:19Depressingly straightforward.
00:11:22James got back at his usual time, about half past six.
00:11:25We chatted.
00:11:26Then he made some supper at about nine.
00:11:29I fell asleep at about ten.
00:11:31He did various messy things for me when I woke up in the middle of the night,
00:11:34so he was around then.
00:11:38Have I said something significant?
00:11:41Mr. DeWitt told us he didn't get home until after eight.
00:11:46Oh.
00:11:48Oh, dear.
00:11:51Just trying to help a friend.
00:11:52Oh, dear.
00:12:22we got back to innocent house about 10 30 tied the launch up claudia drove me home and as i expect
00:12:41she told you she stayed there till two o'clock will the shop owner mr simon isn't be able to confirm
00:12:46that the old darling's getting very deaf but his room was just across the hall from mine so he may
00:12:51have heard various noises have you worked here long i've been manager here for two years i run the
00:12:57place mr simon well he's he's very frail how did you meet miss etienne what is this blind date
00:13:07we were on a tube train that got stuck in a tunnel we were sitting together she got edgy i made her laugh
00:13:15so you and miss etienne were together the whole evening from about 6 30 till two in the morning
00:13:22that's right sergeant inspector
00:13:29how much do you think that alibi is worth about as much as the one ripper father's given to wit at least
00:13:34we know that claudia and her toy boy were at innocent house they could have killed him before they set
00:13:39out inserted the snake when he came back and they had a clear motive all that money
00:13:54what on earth is an intelligent woman like that seeing a man like him
00:13:58come on kate does this mental intelligence have anything to do with sex it does for me it turns
00:14:03me on i do best to pretty obliging women who aren't very bright maybe one day you should look
00:14:09dangerously and find someone with more than a gcse in domestic science
00:14:18hello kate ah hello sir you know the woman who committed suicide at innocent house
00:14:24yes sir sonia clements i want to go and see your sister she's a nun lives in a convent near
00:14:31brighton i'll pick you up a whopping at uh two
00:14:43i presume this is not some experiment in archimedean physics
00:15:01i believe you're a dead man not a pit bull
00:15:14All right, Robins, let go. You're a dead man, not a pit bull.
00:15:45Welcome to the house of fun.
00:15:58Oi!
00:16:02Let Robins out in ten minutes, will you?
00:16:03OK, sir.
00:16:14Was Gerard Etienne murdered, Commander? Is that why you're here?
00:16:22It's a possibility.
00:16:24We're investigating anything that happened in Innocent House in recent months that might have a bearing on his death.
00:16:31Your sister's suicide amongst them.
00:16:34There are some people there who believe Gerard Etienne drove her to it.
00:16:39Yes.
00:16:40If he did, then a friend, a particular friend, might have wished him harm.
00:16:46I was Sonia's particular friend. She had no others.
00:16:50And I was here on the night he died.
00:16:52I'm not suggesting that you had anything.
00:16:54Gerard Etienne had nothing to do with Sonia's death.
00:16:57She died because the two people that she cared for most,
00:17:02probably the only two people she ever cared for, left her and left her for good.
00:17:08Who were they?
00:17:10I took my vows the week before she died.
00:17:13And of course, Henry Peverell had died.
00:17:16Are you saying she was in love with him?
00:17:18She was his mistress.
00:17:20She called it love.
00:17:22I don't know what he called it.
00:17:25They were never seen together at his insistence.
00:17:28The room where she died was the room where they made love twice a week.
00:17:34Did you know Henry Peverell yourself?
00:17:38I knew them all.
00:17:39I'm a book restorer, you see.
00:17:42Or was before I came here.
00:17:45I did some work from time to time in the Peverell Press Library.
00:17:49In fact, at one stage, Jean-Philippe Etienne wanted me to catalogue the archives,
00:17:53but Henry soon put a stop to that.
00:17:56Why?
00:17:58I would have been put to work in that room.
00:18:01His love nest.
00:18:02I don't think he liked the idea of that.
00:18:06Come to that, neither did I.
00:18:10That house.
00:18:13I never liked going there.
00:18:14Now I'm glad to think that I need never return.
00:18:32Is this him?
00:18:36Yes.
00:18:38Remember what I told you?
00:18:39I'm intrigued by what her sister said about the archives.
00:18:47Henry Peverell's refusal to let her catalogue.
00:18:51He didn't want her around.
00:18:53Maybe it was something else.
00:18:55He used to work up there.
00:18:56There could be something in the archives he didn't want disturbed.
00:19:00How would that be relevant to Etienne's death?
00:19:03I don't know.
00:19:05But I think we should take a look.
00:19:10When I got there, they told me the signing was cancelled.
00:19:13They gave me this. As you can see, it's on Peverell Press notepaper.
00:19:16But they sent it after I was on my way.
00:19:19So, somebody sent this on Thursday morning, saying you were ill and couldn't come?
00:19:24Probably Gerard Etienne.
00:19:26He was, I'm sorry to say, a most unpleasant man.
00:19:29And the day before he told you that he wasn't going to publish your latest book?
00:19:34Yes, I tried to see him on Thursday morning, but I couldn't get past that blackhead woman.
00:19:39Anyway, I had my sign to get you in Southampton. I didn't know then it was cancelled.
00:19:43So, what happened when you got back from Southampton?
00:19:46I came back here, worked for a while, read, went to bed about midnight.
00:19:49Did you see anybody or talk to anybody during the evening?
00:19:51Daisy? My neighbour's a single parent. She works most evenings. Daisy, her daughter, comes in here.
00:19:59She reads, we talk. She has a bite to eat.
00:20:04Nice little girl.
00:20:07Daisy? Daisy? This is Detective Inspector Aaron. He wants to ask you a few questions.
00:20:13PHONE RINGS Oh, excuse me, I'll leave you to it.
00:20:21PHONE RINGS
00:20:23Daisy Carling?
00:20:24Hello, Daisy.
00:20:25Hello.
00:20:27I was wondering you'd phone.
00:20:31Yes, yes, I think that would be sensible.
00:20:35Tomorrow evening?
00:20:38About six?
00:20:40I'll be there.
00:20:43Bye.
00:20:47PHONE RINGS
00:21:00Hey.
00:21:02Um...
00:21:04Right, let's leave it for today. Meet here tomorrow at 7am.
00:21:06OK?
00:21:07OK.
00:21:14Copperplate writing and dust. I need a drink.
00:21:18That's the best idea you've had all day.
00:21:25Ah, there we go.
00:21:28Cheers.
00:21:29Cheers.
00:21:30You worked with John Massingham, didn't you? What do you think of him?
00:21:41He was a good detective.
00:21:44But not as good as he thought he was.
00:21:46You know, he once called me a clever little Jew boy.
00:21:52Admittedly, not to my face. Oh no, he'd never do that.
00:21:56But I don't think it was meant as a compliment.
00:21:59The only time I do feel Jewish is when I go home.
00:22:02My family.
00:22:04When are you gonna bring a nice Jewish girl home?
00:22:05When are you gonna get married?
00:22:07And when are you?
00:22:10Last one moved out a couple of weeks ago.
00:22:13Went to live in the States.
00:22:16I kinda miss her.
00:22:18It's when you get home, isn't it?
00:22:20And it's late and dark and you shut the door behind you and stop and listen.
00:22:25And there's nothing.
00:22:27Nobody there.
00:22:28Kate.
00:22:34No, Daniel.
00:22:37I like you.
00:22:39But...
00:22:40I like you, but...
00:22:41It wouldn't work.
00:22:43You're the one who told me to try an intelligent woman for a change.
00:22:45Yeah, but I didn't plan on being part of the experiment.
00:22:50Daisy dear, be alright? I'll be back about eight.
00:22:53Okay.
00:22:54Cheerio.
00:22:58In this house.
00:23:02In this house.
00:23:15See you then.
00:23:16Bye.
00:23:28Bye.
00:23:49Oh, shit!
00:23:58Bye.
00:23:59Bye.
00:24:28Bye.
00:24:29Bye.
00:24:30Bye.
00:24:31Bye.
00:24:38Bye.
00:24:53Bye.
00:24:55Bye.
00:25:47Thank you for coming.
00:25:50Come on!
00:25:56You must come.
00:26:00Mandy, what's happened?
00:26:01Something awful.
00:26:03Come on, please.
00:26:04Come on.
00:26:04Please.
00:26:06Come on.
00:26:07Come on.
00:26:08Come on.
00:26:14What is it?
00:26:16Oh, my God.
00:26:18It's all right, my darling.
00:26:19It's all right.
00:26:19Of course it's not all right.
00:26:21It's a woman.
00:26:22Carly.
00:26:24Esme.
00:26:25To the partners of Peverell Press.
00:26:27God rot you all.
00:26:34Frances!
00:26:43Right.
00:26:45Back to the archives, is it?
00:26:47Yeah.
00:26:49See you later.
00:26:55We ought to call the police.
00:26:56We can't leave her like this.
00:26:57It's obscene.
00:26:58We must pull her out.
00:27:00Please pull her out.
00:27:11Mandy!
00:27:12Come, do the buckles.
00:27:22Who is it?
00:27:27Esme Carling.
00:27:28Oh, shit.
00:27:31You shouldn't have taken her out of the water.
00:27:33You shouldn't have touched her.
00:27:34I'm sorry.
00:27:35I'm sorry.
00:27:36I'm sorry.
00:27:37I'm sorry.
00:27:38I'm sorry.
00:27:41Yes?
00:27:44I see.
00:27:46Right.
00:27:47Ten minutes.
00:27:47Ten minutes.
00:28:04Oh, thanks. I needed that.
00:28:14What's happening, Gabriel?
00:28:16Adam Talglish has just arrived.
00:28:19To the partners of Peverell Press, Godrod Trueall,
00:28:22don't you know that when a writer is no longer published, you may as well be dead?
00:28:26But at least I can make her name stink.
00:28:28It's a bit at the end that's interesting.
00:28:30Believe me, I shall.
00:28:32This is only the beginning.
00:28:34Yeah?
00:28:36Odd thing to put in a suicide note.
00:28:38This is only the beginning.
00:28:40Who says it's suicide?
00:28:43Zinni's?
00:28:46Must have been pinned up somewhere.
00:28:48What's in the back?
00:28:56What is it?
00:28:58Mrs. Carling's manuscript. The one that was rejected.
00:29:06We're all to blame, aren't we?
00:29:08Look, do we have to do this now?
00:29:10I'm afraid we do. This won't take long.
00:29:12Had Mrs. Carling been in touch with any of you after she heard you weren't going to publish a book?
00:29:18Well, she came to the office the day Gerard died, but you know that.
00:29:22And who was it who decided to pull the body out of the river?
00:29:24I did.
00:29:26You surely didn't think she was still alive.
00:29:28No.
00:29:29It was just so terrible seeing her hanging at the end of that strap.
00:29:33So inhuman.
00:29:35Well, not all policemen, Inspector. Some of us still have human instincts.
00:29:38And some of us try to retain them.
00:29:40Despite the things we have to encounter during the course of our work.
00:29:45Have you been out on business this evening, Mr. Dorsey?
00:29:47Oh, no, no. I went for a drink. Dog and duck.
00:29:50It's such a pleasant evening.
00:29:52Find out if anybody saw anything going on here this evening.
00:30:07I'll check out the river traffic.
00:30:12Daniel, what about Mrs. Carling's alibi for Gerard Etienne's murder?
00:30:17At first the kid didn't want to talk, but once I reassured her, she opened up.
00:30:22I'm pretty sure she told me the truth.
00:30:25Why, sir? You think I was too easily satisfied?
00:30:29It was a traumatic day for Mrs. Carling.
00:30:32She heard her new book wasn't going to be published and the book signing had been cancelled.
00:30:37Did she strike you as the sort of woman who would spend a quiet evening at home after that?
00:30:42Or would she try to have it out with Etienne?
00:30:48Maybe we should talk to Daisy again.
00:30:51Yes, sir.
00:30:52Yes, sir.
00:30:53Yes, sir.
00:30:54Yes, sir.
00:30:55Yes, sir.
00:30:56How old is she?
00:30:57I love you, sir.
00:30:58You think Auntie Esme was murdered, don't you?
00:30:59We think it's possible, but we can't be sure.
00:31:00I told that other policeman everything I know.
00:31:01You're trying to pin that man's murder on Auntie Esme, aren't you?
00:31:04She said you would.
00:31:05She said you would.
00:31:06She said you would.
00:31:07She said you would try and fit her up.
00:31:08I don't think she had anything to do with Miss Etienne's death.
00:31:09I'm not trying to pin a murder on anyone.
00:31:10All I want to know is the truth.
00:31:11How do I know I can trust you?
00:31:12You don't.
00:31:13You just have to think about it and make up your mind.
00:31:14But whatever you do decide, don't lie to me.
00:31:15I'd rather you said nothing at all than I'd.
00:31:16I don't want you to take five years later.
00:31:17Just believe it.
00:31:18I don't know what you're saying.
00:31:19I'll tell you to go.
00:31:20But you think nothing I know, you're trying to pin that man's murder on Auntie Esme, aren't
00:31:21you?
00:31:22She said you would.
00:31:23She said you would try and fit her up.
00:31:24I don't think she had anything to do with Miss Etienne's death.
00:31:26I'm not trying to pin a murder on anyone.
00:31:28All I want to know is the truth.
00:31:30How do I know I can trust you?
00:31:32You don't.
00:31:33You just have to think about it and make up your mind.
00:31:37But whatever you do decide, don't lie to me.
00:31:41I'd rather you said nothing at all than lied.
00:31:43Do you understand?
00:32:13Do you understand?
00:32:33She asked me to lie, Auntie Esme, before she died.
00:32:37What about?
00:32:39About that night when he was murdered,
00:32:41she asked me to say I was in her flat.
00:32:45But you weren't?
00:32:47Daisy!
00:32:49When did she ask you this?
00:32:51The next day. She met me out of school.
00:32:53She was scared.
00:32:55She said she'd be suspected because she hated that man so much.
00:32:59You knew she hadn't murdered Mr Etienne, didn't you?
00:33:03Why was that?
00:33:05You know why.
00:33:07I think I do. But tell me anyway.
00:33:09She only asked me after that man was found dead.
00:33:13After it was on the news.
00:33:15If she'd done it, killed him I mean,
00:33:17she'd have come straight away, not the next day.
00:33:19You'd make a good detective, wouldn't you?
00:33:21But tell me,
00:33:23why was Auntie Esme so worried?
00:33:25Why was Auntie Esme so worried?
00:33:27Was it because she'd actually gone to Innocent House that night?
00:33:29She didn't tell me much.
00:33:31But she said that man was alive when she left.
00:33:33Someone had rung and told him to go upstairs,
00:33:35and he told her he wouldn't be long.
00:33:37But it was so long she got tired of waiting and left.
00:33:41Did she say anything else?
00:33:43She said something I didn't understand.
00:33:45Tell it as you remember it.
00:33:47She said, I heard the voice, but the snake was outside the door.
00:33:51Why was the snake outside the door?
00:33:53Anything else?
00:33:55She said it was a funny time to borrow the vacuum cleaner.
00:34:03I should have broken that alibi.
00:34:05It was a bad mistake.
00:34:07Unfortunate, yes, but then Daisy's no ordinary child.
00:34:11But if I hadn't believed her story so easily, Carling would still be alive.
00:34:15Possibly.
00:34:17There's only one person responsible for Mrs. Carling's death, and it's not you.
00:34:21I'll talk to you.
00:34:23Where's the copy of the note we found on the railings?
00:34:25It's through here, sir.
00:34:31OK.
00:34:36PM reports in, sir.
00:34:37Death by vagal inhibition.
00:34:39She died as soon as the strap tightened around her neck
00:34:42before she went into the water.
00:34:45This is interesting.
00:34:47Looks like a first draft.
00:34:51What interests me more is that neither of them mention Etienne's death.
00:34:57That's all?
00:34:59You don't buy it as a suicide note, then?
00:35:01I think she was out for revenge, not suicide.
00:35:04We know she was at Innocent House on the night of Etienne's murder.
00:35:08Maybe she went there, took it with her, and pinned it up somewhere.
00:35:12Obviously, someone saw it and took it down.
00:35:14If it was the night of Gerard Etienne's murder, the most obvious candidate is his killer.
00:35:18The murderer saw the note and realised Esme had been there.
00:35:21Maybe he killed Esme Carling, too.
00:35:23He knew she might have seen him.
00:35:26Yet she went to Innocent House willingly.
00:35:29Why would she do that?
00:35:31Go to her death like that?
00:35:33In view of the tragic events of the last 24 hours, I think it would be best if we suspended discussion of Mrs Carling's final manuscript for a week or two.
00:35:45I hope you're agreeable, yours, etc.
00:35:47So we might publish after all.
00:35:51Did you get that done correctly, Blackie?
00:35:54Of course, Miss Etienne.
00:35:56You all right, Mandy?
00:35:57Yeah, I'm fine.
00:35:59I gave him a statement and signed it.
00:36:01Good. If you're feeling a little fragile, you can always go home.
00:36:04No, I'm fine.
00:36:17Still here, then?
00:36:18Oh, yeah.
00:36:20Beginning to feel I've been sent to this investigation as equivalent to Siberia.
00:36:26Yeah, I know, I know. Self-indulgent.
00:36:29What are you up to?
00:36:31He wants me to check all the alibis again.
00:36:36He doesn't make snap judgments, you know.
00:36:39I haven't exactly covered myself in glory, though, have I?
00:36:42You're a good officer, Daniel.
00:36:48Yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks.
00:36:55Blackie, Commander Dargleish would like to see all the partners in the boardroom in half an hour.
00:37:00He wants you to be there.
00:37:04This is the note we found on the railings near Mrs Carling's body last night.
00:37:08It's addressed to the partners.
00:37:10I think you all ought to read it, perhaps later.
00:37:13What does it say?
00:37:15She was obviously very angry when she wrote it about the way she imagined she'd been treated,
00:37:19especially by your brother.
00:37:21I believe that Mrs Carling was here in innocent house on the evening of Mr Etienne's death.
00:37:26Why?
00:37:27To speak to your brother, have it up with him.
00:37:29Try and get him to change his mind and publish her book.
00:37:32It sounds as if you've just found this out.
00:37:33Didn't you ask her where she'd been that night?
00:37:34Yes, we did.
00:37:37And she provided a very good alibi.
00:37:39The neighbor's child said she'd been with Mrs Carling between 6.30 and midnight.
00:37:44So?
00:37:45It's not true.
00:37:47She now admits that Mrs Carling persuaded her to tell that story.
00:37:50Mrs Carling had actually been here.
00:37:53Why are you telling us all this?
00:37:56Do you think that Esme killed my brother?
00:37:58Don't be so naive.
00:38:00What he's saying is that this child has told them everything she knows,
00:38:05so there's no point in any of us trying to trace her and silence her.
00:38:09You don't think one of us killed Gerard?
00:38:12And Esme Carling, most likely.
00:38:14It's probable that Mrs Carling has been murdered.
00:38:17So you want to know where we all were in the early evening?
00:38:19Well, that's easy.
00:38:20I was with my fiancé, Francis was with James, and Gabriel was having a drink.
00:38:25Yes, I know.
00:38:26Where exactly did you go for this drink of yours, Gabriel?
00:38:29A dog and duck.
00:38:31Why on earth did you go there? It's horrible.
00:38:33You might have trouble finding someone who remembers seeing him there, Commander.
00:38:37Claudia.
00:38:38I didn't realise you were such a fan of glitzy theme pubs, Gabriel.
00:38:41Don't. Please don't.
00:38:42Is your alibi any more reliable?
00:38:44Or yours, for that matter.
00:38:46I'm sure Francis would be willing to lie for you.
00:38:48It's quite a small sin.
00:38:50Listen.
00:38:51It's odd, isn't it, how terrible events begin with something small.
00:38:56If someone hadn't sent that fax cancelling Esme's signing,
00:39:00she might not have come back here that night. She might still be alive now.
00:39:03Stop it! Stop it!
00:39:05You sent it, didn't you, Blackie?
00:39:08She was so horrible.
00:39:10Not just about me, but about Mr Henry.
00:39:13How he thought I was a nuisance and he didn't care for me.
00:39:18That's not true, though, is it, Miss Francis? He did care for me.
00:39:21Blackie.
00:39:22I did send that fax.
00:39:24But nothing more.
00:39:26You have to believe me.
00:39:31Oh, James, leave her alone. We don't all need your shoulder to cry on.
00:39:35Some of us prefer to be alone in our misery.
00:39:38Congratulations, Commander.
00:39:40It would have been kinder to have questioned Blackie in private.
00:39:43But that would have taken longer, wouldn't it?
00:39:45Might not have been so successful.
00:39:47Two people have died and it's my job to find out why.
00:39:50I'm afraid kindness can't be my first priority.
00:39:53I'm sorry, Gabriel. I shouldn't have spoken to you like that.
00:40:02I thought the past might help us here somehow, but it hasn't.
00:40:07Well, you never know, sir. We still might find something.
00:40:10No, let's cut our losses, move on, help Kate with the alibis.
00:40:14Actually, I'm just about to go.
00:40:16Go?
00:40:17My brother's wedding. I mentioned it last week.
00:40:18Oh, yes, of course. Now, where is it?
00:40:20Synagogue in Alfordson.
00:40:21Muzzled of Haas and Kala.
00:40:24I beg your pardon, sir?
00:40:25Good luck to the bride and groom. It's a nerve-wracking occasion.
00:40:29Adam, may I have a word?
00:40:32Of course.
00:40:34Ahem.
00:40:41The young man you're Mr. Aaron, he's still trolling through the archive?
00:40:46For the time being, yes.
00:40:50Do you think he might find something relevant to your inquiry?
00:40:53It seems increasingly unlikely, but you never know.
00:40:57Is this a policeman's hunch, Adam?
00:41:00Behind every murder there's a story.
00:41:03Perhaps here the story lies in the distant past.
00:41:08I suppose a century and a half counts as the distant past.
00:41:12I'm sorry?
00:41:14It's a prayer book.
00:41:16Published in 1716, but it's not the book that's interesting.
00:41:19It's what I find inside it.
00:41:26I, William Peverell, write this with my own hand
00:41:28on the 4th of September 1850 at Innocent House,
00:41:32in my last agony.
00:41:34When you first came to Innocent House,
00:41:35I told you his story, a part of it anyway.
00:41:38He ran Peverell Press and built this house in 1831.
00:41:42And his wife jumped from the roof?
00:41:44She didn't. He threw her off.
00:41:46Inherited her fortune.
00:41:48It allowed him to finish this place.
00:41:49She saw my love of the house as an obsession and a sin.
00:41:54I have lived in Innocent House and killed for it.
00:41:59But since her death, the house has given me no joy.
00:42:03All this beauty and grandeur.
00:42:06The Peverell legend was built a murder.
00:42:08Oh, damn it.
00:42:17Oh, damn it.
00:42:18I mean.
00:42:31Sophie Dauncey, 1920, 1942.
00:42:34Martin and Ruth Dauncey, 1938 to 42.
00:42:38Counted Auschwitz.
00:42:48Counted Auschwitz.
00:42:50party
00:43:11Have you seen Commander Duglich?
00:43:29Sorry. He lived with Mr. Dauncy some time ago.
00:43:32What about Detective Inspector Miskin?
00:43:34Oh, she went about an hour ago.
00:43:36Great.
00:43:41You'll have to come to Wapping Police Station to make a formal statement about this.
00:43:58Is there anything else you want to tell me?
00:44:00No.
00:44:01Are you sure?
00:44:02I wasn't bloody sure.
00:44:04This is a murder investigation. You've already lied once.
00:44:07Perjury is one thing. Accessory to murder is quite another.
00:44:14I'd appreciate it if you could come to Wapping tomorrow.
00:44:17Nine sharp.
00:44:23Cow!
00:44:24The cell phone you are calling is switched off. Please try again later.
00:44:47Oh, come on.
00:44:54Claudia.
00:44:57What was she doing here?
00:44:59Oh, come on.
00:45:00We are going.
00:45:01Oh, come on.
00:45:02God.
00:45:03He got a
00:45:05She got a
00:45:14ıma bardzo good.
00:45:15Oh, come on.
00:45:18Oh, come on.
00:45:19Oh, come on.
00:45:21Oh, come on.
00:45:23Oh, come on.
00:45:24Her name is Raylons,
00:45:25Ah, at last.
00:45:33I bet you're never late for your precious commander, the L.
00:45:36Dalglish.
00:45:38And your suit? You're not dressed. Where's your suit?
00:45:40Dad, I'm in the middle of a murder investigation.
00:45:42You'll be in the middle of another one when your mother sees you.
00:45:46I can handle Mum, and I'm sure God won't mind me wearing a suit from Next rather than Moskos.
00:45:50Well, I know who I'd rather answer to.
00:45:53Anyway, what do you know about God?
00:45:55You haven't set foot in a synagogue from one yet to the next.
00:45:57Please don't. I let you live your life. Let me live mine.
00:46:11She forced it out of me.
00:46:13What, with thumbscrews?
00:46:16What did you tell her?
00:46:17The truth. Just tell her what happened.
00:46:19No, you didn't.
00:46:21You admitted that you lied before, that I lied.
00:46:24You've just dumped us both very deeply in the shit.
00:46:30Listen, ma'am.
00:46:33I think it's best if we don't see each other for a while.
00:46:36Something else has happened, has it?
00:46:39Well, Simon, he's changed his world.
00:46:41He's...
00:46:41He's not selling. He's leaving the place to me.
00:46:45Oh, great.
00:46:49So you don't need me any more.
00:46:51Or rather, you don't need my money.
00:46:53Come on. That's all you care about, too.
00:46:56When you phoned me that morning from the house with his body line beside you,
00:47:00all you could talk about was the money you'd inherited and the alibi that you wanted me to give you.
00:47:03You think I killed Gerard?
00:47:06You think I killed someone worth ten of you just so that you could buy this pathetic heap of junk
00:47:11to convince yourself that you're a man and your life has meaning?
00:47:14I'm waiting.
00:47:31Francis.
00:47:33Are you all right?
00:47:38We haven't talked since last night.
00:47:42What is there to say?
00:47:45The commander thinks one of us killed Gerard and Esme.
00:47:48I've sat in my office for the last few hours thinking about that.
00:47:52Is it Claudia?
00:47:54Gabriel?
00:47:55You?
00:47:58You've probably begun to wonder whether it's me.
00:48:00Don't be so upset.
00:48:01We're all just waiting for something else to happen.
00:48:04I can't bear it anymore.
00:48:07What are you going to do?
00:48:09All my life I've waited.
00:48:11I've waited for my father to love me.
00:48:13I've waited for Gerard to love me.
00:48:17I've had enough of waiting.
00:48:22Where are you going?
00:48:25Francis!
00:48:25Francis!
00:48:26Dad, I need to speak to you.
00:48:38Dad, I need to speak to you.
00:48:39Dad, I need to speak to you.
00:48:40It's just your brother's wedding.
00:48:41It's important, please.
00:48:42Please.
00:48:42Please.
00:48:43Please.
00:48:43Dad, I need your help.
00:48:46Please.
00:48:47Please.
00:48:48Please.
00:48:49Please.
00:48:50Please.
00:48:51Dad, I need your help.
00:49:04Well, there's always a first time.
00:49:06I know this isn't the time or the place, but it's important.
00:49:12You're the only one I can ask.
00:49:15You're the only one I can ask ofenels.
00:49:40There were Jews in France. Many of them died in the gas chambers, didn't there?
00:49:44Fewer than in the old country, but enough.
00:49:48They were taken to a place on the outskirts of Paris called Drancy,
00:49:52and then on to the death camps by train.
00:49:56And how much did the French cooperate?
00:49:58Enough. The authorities, the Vichy government, the police,
00:50:03did the Nazis' work for them.
00:50:05Collaborators?
00:50:06Many people were involved. Powerful people, respectable people.
00:50:11People with families of their own who lived happy and useful lives after the war.
00:50:16Even some who were supposed to be on our side.
00:50:27Daniel?
00:50:36Sir, I've been checking alibis. Dornsey
00:50:42was in there...
00:50:46Sir, I've been checking alibis.
00:51:05Dornsey was in the pub that night, but Claudia Etienne's story shot to pieces.
00:51:16BIRDS CHIRP
00:51:46he was in no doubt he dropped her at innocent house on the night of gerard's death at about
00:52:0010 30 and he didn't see her again that night the next morning she rang him and asked him to say
00:52:08they'd spent the night together well where's she now i don't know sir innocent house
00:52:16so
00:52:18so
00:52:23so
00:52:27so
00:52:29so
00:52:31so
00:52:33so
00:52:43Hello?
00:52:46James, it's Francis.
00:52:48Listen, are you doing anything?
00:52:50No, nothing at all.
00:52:53I wondered if you'd like to have dinner with me tonight.
00:52:56Dinner?
00:52:59I should love her very much.
00:53:01Me too.
00:53:02Listen, James, I think things could be different now.
00:53:06I don't... I'm not frightened anymore, James.
00:53:10Um, I'll come straight over, okay?
00:53:13I've just got to pick up my car.
00:53:14Okay.
00:53:15All right, bye-bye.
00:53:40Oh, shit!
00:53:50Is somebody there?
00:53:55Oh, shit!
00:53:56What are you doing?!
00:53:58Oh, shit!
00:53:59I'm so sorry.
00:54:00Oh!
00:54:01Oh, shit!
00:54:02Oh, shit!
00:54:03Oh, shit!
00:54:04Oh, shit!
00:54:05How are you?
00:54:06Oh, shit!
00:54:07Oh, shit!
00:54:08Oh, shit!
00:54:09Oh, shit!
00:54:11All right, there's no such thing.
00:54:16Oh, shit!
00:54:17There's no such thing.
00:54:18Huh.
00:54:19There's no such thing.
00:54:20Oh...
00:54:21Ah.
00:54:22Oh, shit!
00:54:23Oh, no, not you.
00:54:53You all right?
00:55:06Did you see who that was?
00:55:08Yes, sir.
00:55:16Take care of the gun.
00:55:17Sir.
00:55:23What's going on?
00:55:30The old man, Dornsey.
00:55:31I think it might be him.
00:55:34I found it in the archive room.
00:55:37There was a box with lots of prints, copies of letters to organisations all over Europe
00:55:40asking how his family ended up in Auschwitz.
00:55:43When I went to look for him, he almost ran me over.
00:55:46Oh, shit.
00:55:47I think I've lost him.
00:55:53Francis.
00:55:56You do see why I couldn't let you go.
00:55:58I don't know.
00:56:28so it does come into it what the past the old man etienne he was in the resistance wasn't he
00:56:42yes he was sir i found claudia etienne in the underground car park she's dead sir
00:56:52how gassed in her car that makes two of them just like dawn's children
00:56:58he's going to get jean philippe kate he's on his way to a thona house ring him and warn him get
00:57:05yourself down there very good sir let's go
00:57:23there's no reply sir but we're on our way okay we're nearly there ourselves
00:57:27have you called for backup yes sir good
00:57:39i thought you were my friend
00:57:51i am you're the one happiness in my life you must have written those letters you know how horrible
00:58:01mine was how it said my father disliked me
00:58:07i told you the truth about a cold and rather unpleasant man you said i was going to die in
00:58:12the tunnel i forced you to confront your nightmares my life has been blighted by my past
00:58:19i wanted you free of yours
00:58:24what are you going to do now
00:58:25gabriel what is it a crisis of clever press
00:58:49well
00:58:55i've waited for this moment
00:58:58there's his cousin go around the back
00:59:08what do you want your daughter is dead
00:59:12i killed her
00:59:27commander
00:59:30thank god are you all right it's gabriel
00:59:32he's in the house i saw him kill claudia yes i know
00:59:36look go to our car over there lock the doors you'll be safe
00:59:42you feel it do you
00:59:48inspector
00:59:51daniel isn't it
00:59:52you found this in the archives room
01:00:06we know
01:00:06look look at our faces
01:00:24who are these people
01:00:26in july 1942
01:00:29in obia near clement ferron central france
01:00:32you betrayed a jewish woman and her two small children to the german authorities
01:00:39they've been hiding in a farmhouse belonging to an employee of yours
01:00:45they were deported from france
01:00:48and executed in auschwitz two months later
01:00:53what were their names they went under the names of loire
01:00:57in fact the names of sophie martin and ruth stauncy
01:01:06gabriel
01:01:06no adam please two minutes you can spare me two minutes
01:01:09i've been waiting 50 years to tell my story and i want you to hear it too
01:01:18we've been living in paris
01:01:21but i was in london when the nazis invaded i couldn't get them out
01:01:24look at them look at the people you murdered
01:01:35i don't remember the names
01:01:39i cannot be expected to remember the names
01:01:44i did what was necessary at the time
01:01:46how dare you
01:01:47many french lives depended on me
01:01:52it was important the germans would trust me
01:01:55that way i could get the information the paper and the ink
01:01:58i needed for the underground press
01:02:01i don't remember these people
01:02:05i do
01:02:07so now you have come for your revenge
01:02:09justice not revenge
01:02:13a son and a daughter for a son and a dot
01:02:18don't delude yourself gabriel
01:02:22it's not justice which has driven you but guilt
01:02:26you left your family and they died
01:02:30why purge your guilt by killing the innocent
01:02:32well now this is your forte isn't it
01:02:37you bombed dresden
01:02:40nothing i did can compare with the horror of that
01:02:43that was entirely different
01:02:46necessity of war
01:02:48for me also necessity of war
01:02:53gabriel let's go
01:02:55wait
01:03:01i have something to say
01:03:04if you want to act like god gabriel
01:03:07you must first ensure to have god's all-seeing knowledge
01:03:11what do you mean
01:03:14when i was 13 i caught a viral infection
01:03:18as a result i became totally infertile
01:03:22when i married my wife was very anxious to have children
01:03:26and i obliged her
01:03:28gérard and claudia were adopted
01:03:31they were not related by blood to me
01:03:34or indeed to each other
01:03:38see what you have done
01:03:41dana
01:03:43gerald dawnson
01:03:45i'm arresting you for the murder of gerald and claudia etienne and esme carling
01:03:49you don't have to say anything it may harm your defense if you don't mention when
01:03:53question something you later rely on in court
01:03:56anything you do say may be given in evidence daniel
01:03:58you don't
01:03:59take mr dotsey out will you
01:04:02come on
01:04:14Mr. Etienne, can we do anything for you?
01:04:29How was the wedding?
01:04:31Wedding?
01:04:32Fine.
01:04:34I find them unbearable.
01:04:37The poignancy of it.
01:04:39A young, so much hope, so rarely justified.
01:04:44Yes.
01:04:49Do you think about death, Daniel?
01:04:54I've thought of little Elsie's last few years.
01:05:01I'm ready for my own.
01:05:04Indeed, I crave it.
01:05:08I'd so like it to be on my terms.
01:05:14Go on.
01:05:33Go on.
01:05:49I think you're a good man.
01:05:51Oh, God.
01:05:58Let's go.
01:06:28Daniel?
01:06:45Where's Dauncey?
01:06:54Daniel, where's Dauncey?
01:06:58Daniel.
01:06:59For God's sake, just let him be.
01:07:13Commander!
01:07:14He's gone to the chapel.
01:07:15What? He's gone to the chapel.
01:07:23Take care, Miss Peverell. Sir.
01:07:45That's far enough, Adam.
01:08:04Why this? Can't you face what you've done?
01:08:08This is what I brought to the people of Germany all those years ago.
01:08:13It's fitting, don't you think?
01:08:17You like symmetry, don't you?
01:08:23Is that where you gasped?
01:08:26Gerard, Claudia, Etty.
01:08:30And Esme Carling.
01:08:32Why did she have to die?
01:08:40She was blackmailing me.
01:08:43She knew I was there the night Gerard died.
01:08:49Why did you involve me?
01:08:52I wanted a witness.
01:08:54Someone who'd understand.
01:08:57You're a man I've always admired, a poet as well as a policeman.
01:09:00Adam, I've never been able to make sense of my life.
01:09:10Now, I can't make sense of its ending.
01:09:14Give it to me, Gabriel.
01:09:18Give it to me, Gabriel.
01:09:21Gabriel...
01:09:24No, Gabriel?
01:09:29Oh!
01:09:30Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:10:00Adam, the nightly dream returns.
01:10:30I'll see you.
01:10:40Shh, shh.
01:10:42you let him go yes I let him go he didn't escape break free
01:11:04no
01:11:12that man Etienne he couldn't even remember their names he felt nothing they didn't count
01:11:24they were expendable
01:11:27they were Jews
01:11:42and Esme Carling was she expendable what right had he to decide that her life
01:11:49didn't count you're so certain aren't you Kate I'm certain about murder how could I
01:11:55be a police officer if I weren't
01:12:07what'll he do
01:12:09what do you think he'll do
01:12:16I've forgotten something
01:12:23we will of course require a statement but at a more appropriate time
01:12:37on second thoughts I think you should have this
01:12:46I'd never know
01:12:48he won t be done
01:12:49he's not she wanted to handle
01:12:51what we said
01:12:53is that he was I was never gonna be wrong
01:12:55he's always a thief
01:12:57so I'm not going to be scared
01:12:58he seemed to be emergency
01:12:59he's always good
01:13:01he's always good
01:13:01so he's not gonna be scared
01:13:02but I can't tell you
01:13:03if I'd be afraid
01:13:04just let's go
01:13:05because he's like
01:13:06OK
01:13:06you know
01:13:07he's weak
01:13:08I know
01:13:09and he's like
01:13:10yeah
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