P.D.J. Original Sin. (1997) Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 20th/27th March/3rd April 1997.  Gerard Etienne, new CEO of Peverell Press, wants big changes, but is killed mysteriously.  Roy Marsden - Adam Dalgliesh Ian Bannen - Gabriel Dauntsey Cathryn Harrison - Claudia Etienne Amanda Root - Frances Peverell Sylvia Syms - Esme Carling James Wilby - Gerard Etienne Lizzy McInnerny - Kate Miskin Jonathan Coy - James de Witt Carolyn Pickles - Miss Blackett Raymond Gérôme - Jean-Philippe Etienne Rowena Cooper - Mrs. Demery Samantha Edmonds - Mandy Price Eoin McCarthy - Declan Cartwright Gabrielle Lloyd - Nun, Agnes Clements Brooke Kinsella - Daisy Reed Matthew Mills - Poetry Promoter Tim Dutton - Daniel Aron Jason Hall - Rupert Farlow David Dixon - Dr. Wardle Vicky Murdock - Mrs. Reed

Transcript

00:00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:00:30ORGAN PLAYS

00:01:00FRIENDS WHO COULD TELL ME WHAT IT IS TO DIE

00:01:22Death, the great neutral, choosing friend or foe.

00:01:30If skies are calm and the dead stars ride high,

00:01:36sometime tomorrow midnight, I may know.

00:01:41FRIENDS WHO COULD TELL ME WHAT IT IS TO DIE

00:01:45FRIENDS WHO COULD TELL ME WHAT IT IS TO DIE

00:01:50Oh, my God.

00:02:20Morning, Frances.

00:02:24Morning, Gabriel.

00:02:26Race you to the door.

00:02:30Morning, Miss Claudia.

00:02:33Lucky.

00:02:39James.

00:02:41Sorry.

00:02:42Rupert wasn't well this morning.

00:02:45Am I the last?

00:02:50Ready for the fray?

00:03:11It's rather an accurate way of ascribing life of Pembroke Press.

00:03:15Good evening.

00:03:16Good evening.

00:03:25Yep.

00:03:27Good evening.

00:03:34Hmm.

00:03:40You like follies? Come on in.

00:04:10It's hard to resist a Venetian palace, especially if it's on the side of the temples.

00:04:15I doubt if you'd say that if you had to work in it.

00:04:21Yes?

00:04:22Mandy Price, the Tempin Agency sent me to see Miss Etienne.

00:04:27Ah, that'll be Miss Claudia.

00:04:31Good morning, Mr Gerrard.

00:04:33Morning, Mrs Stemmering.

00:04:40Miss Blackie?

00:04:54Yes?

00:04:57Oh, she's not here, Mrs Stemmering.

00:05:00All right, I'll find her and send her down.

00:05:02Where is that bloody water?

00:05:14Good morning, Mr Etienne.

00:05:15When you've quite finished mooning over my predecessor, Miss Blackett,

00:05:31you might see your way clear to starting some work.

00:05:33This way, Miss Price.

00:05:51Meet 200 years of the Pevereaux.

00:06:12Fine collection of rogues, aren't they?

00:06:16Aren't they supposed to be some of the greatest names in the history of publishing?

00:06:19People always say publishing is the preserve of gentlemen.

00:06:23Not so.

00:06:24Take our energetic new managing director.

00:06:27Do you know Gerrard Etienne?

00:06:28Only by reputation.

00:06:31Henry Pevereaux died suddenly last year.

00:06:34Gerrard came in and took over.

00:06:36The king is dead.

00:06:37Long live the king.

00:06:38Something like that.

00:06:40And a new monarch has an ego to match his status.

00:06:43I'm sorry I can't offer you any advice about how to handle him.

00:06:46I'm not a psychologist.

00:06:47Yes, well, that isn't why I asked you to come.

00:06:52We have a prankster.

00:06:55That seems a banal word to describe him or her.

00:06:58Last week I received an anonymous letter.

00:07:01I don't mind saying I was very disturbed by him.

00:07:04Well, what did it say?

00:07:04Once upon a time you had a talent, a minor derivative talent, but even that has deserted you.

00:07:22You contribute nothing to the press which has employed you for so long and lacking family and friends, nothing to life.

00:07:30What is the point of your continued existence?

00:07:32Continued existence?

00:07:33Why don't you do us all a favor and save me a tedious chore by terminating it forthwith?

00:07:38This is very unpleasant.

00:07:41Mm, all the more for being so accurate.

00:07:44How old are you?

00:07:4523.

00:07:4623.

00:07:48Well, I'm going to give you a typing test to see if you're as good as you claim.

00:07:53Mr. Dorsey needs a tape transcribing.

00:07:55Come with me.

00:07:55This is the room where Mr. Dorsey does most of his work.

00:08:12Oh, what a smell.

00:08:20And do they all look the same?

00:08:21Same paper, same typeface.

00:08:31What is going on?

00:08:37Mr. Dorsey, would you come up to the archives?

00:08:39It must have been a terrible accident.

00:08:41I shouldn't do that if I were you.

00:08:52Who are you?

00:08:54Gerard, this is a friend of mine, Commander Darglish of the Metropolitan Police.

00:08:57How do you do?

00:08:59Well, it seems pretty obvious what's happened here.

00:09:02Is it?

00:09:05Did she have a letter, too?

00:09:06A letter?

00:09:07Not that I'm aware of, no.

00:09:09Oh, get out!

00:09:12Go on, get out!

00:09:13I think perhaps you all ought to leave.

00:09:15Get out!

00:09:16Get out!

00:09:22So what happens now?

00:09:50Ah, post-mortem. Then we know precisely what we're dealing with.

00:09:54But she killed herself.

00:09:56We don't know that. That's for the pathologist to investigate and the coroner to decide.

00:10:01Gabriel tells me that Miss Clements was about to leave.

00:10:05Yes, I had to sack her. Restructuring. It happens.

00:10:09Did Gabriel ask you down here because of the letters?

00:10:12Yes.

00:10:14He's an old woman. He had no business involving the police.

00:10:17He received a letter making a threat against his life. I think that's most definitely his business.

00:10:21You have one too, he said.

00:10:23It's nothing.

00:10:25These threats, they don't concern you?

00:10:27Of course they concern me, but they don't frighten me.

00:10:30And what did you say?

00:10:32I rather think that's my business, don't you?

00:10:34It won't be if it turns out that Miss Clements was murdered.

00:10:38Obviously, you've all heard of the tragic news of Sonia's death.

00:10:55She was found dead this morning in the archives room in circumstances which seem to indicate that she committed suicide.

00:11:01Though, clearly, there will have to be an inquest.

00:11:03Of course, I realize how distressing this must be to all of you.

00:11:07But I've just spoken to the police, and it seems evident that the cause of Sonia's death is personal.

00:11:12And nothing to do with events here at Peverell Press.

00:11:15Under the circumstances, I think it would be best if we closed the offices at lunchtime as a mark of respect.

00:11:22I'm sure we're all deeply sorry to lose such a valued colleague and friend.

00:11:35That was rash.

00:11:37What?

00:11:38Saying Sonia's death had nothing to do with the phone.

00:11:41Claudia, she didn't kill herself because I gave her the push.

00:11:45She knew she had to go from the day I took over.

00:11:47And she knew she wouldn't find another job, not at her age. Innocent House was her life.

00:11:50That's sentimental nonsense.

00:12:01Clearly someone's got a grudge against the firm or the people running it.

00:12:05It's likely that person's an employee.

00:12:07I'm not surprised. Most of the staff here are terrified of losing their jobs.

00:12:12We can investigate, you know, if you want to make a formal complaint.

00:12:15I can't guarantee we'll catch them, but we'll certainly make them aware we're looking.

00:12:19That usually puts us down to it.

00:12:21Can we...

00:12:22Can we just leave it for the moment in view of Sonia's death?

00:12:26You know where to find me if you change your mind.

00:12:28Thank you so much for coming.

00:12:30Not at all. It was...

00:12:32It was good to see the place again.

00:12:34Did you know there was once another suicide at Innocent House?

00:12:37No.

00:12:38The place was built by Sir William Peverell in 1831.

00:12:42He'd taken his beautiful young bride to Venice on his honeymoon.

00:12:46But found more pleasure in the buildings he saw than in what they did together.

00:12:50So he came home determined to recreate his favourite Venetian palazzo here in Wapping.

00:12:56Used his wife's money to do it.

00:12:58She gradually realised she couldn't compete with his obsession

00:13:01and threw herself off the roof shortly after it was finished.

00:13:05Your iron logic is all very well, but even if she did commit suicide...

00:13:08Of course she did.

00:13:09People will say that you killed her.

00:13:11So you'd better prepare yourself for the consequences.

00:13:18For God's sake!

00:13:20I need this typing.

00:13:21Perhaps the new girl should do it.

00:13:23Quickly.

00:13:24And no errors.

00:13:25What's that?

00:13:38This.

00:13:39This is hissing the seed.

00:13:41Of course it is.

00:13:43Mr Henry gave it to me.

00:13:45I told him one day my feet were cold.

00:13:48And he bought me this to keep the draughts out.

00:13:51Such a kind man.

00:13:54People whoバイus had an old town.

00:13:59He's gone with these guys.

00:14:21Are you a romantic, Kate?

00:14:27Sir.

00:14:28Do you believe a building can be infused with evil?

00:14:33No, sir.

00:14:35The personnel report you asked me to look at on D.I. Aron.

00:14:38I've negotiated a start date with us from his division.

00:14:41Good.

00:14:43Let me have the results of the post-mortem on Sonia Clemens when it comes with you.

00:14:47And I want you to go to the inquest for me.

00:14:50Very good, sir.

00:15:06Frances?

00:15:07Oh, hello, James.

00:15:09Hey, um, just wanted to ask you.

00:15:12It's been such an awful day.

00:15:14I really need a drink.

00:15:15I wonder if you'd like to join me.

00:15:17Thank you, but I can't.

00:15:19Look, I've got something on.

00:15:21But thanks for asking.

00:15:22It was kind of you.

00:15:24Well, maybe another time.

00:15:25Thanks.

00:15:26I can see you next time.

00:15:27Thank you, sir.

00:15:29Amen.

00:15:31I hope you're doing something here.

00:15:33Let me come to my class.

00:15:40Amen.

00:15:43Amen.

00:15:44I don't know.

00:16:14I don't know.

00:16:21Coming.

00:16:24Coming!

00:16:36It had better be a good move.

00:16:38You've thought about it long enough.

00:16:40Sorry.

00:16:42Thanks for inviting me up.

00:16:44I needed the company more than the game.

00:16:53I'm glad you missed the staff meeting.

00:16:56Gerard surpassed himself.

00:16:59No.

00:17:01So cold, so unfeeling.

00:17:03The nature of the man, he doesn't care.

00:17:06Well, he should do.

00:17:08He killed her.

00:17:09Frances, you mustn't say that.

00:17:11You must never say that again.

00:17:12Promise me.

00:17:14When I was in church, I tried to pray for her.

00:17:19But it was impossible.

00:17:22All I could think about was him.

00:17:24How happy I'd been before he dumped me.

00:17:29I thought about how we would have run Peverell Press together.

00:17:33The children we might have had.

00:17:35Oh, God, Gabriel, I feel so ashamed.

00:17:38The things you wanted, marriage, children, home, are quite natural desires.

00:17:46You mustn't be ashamed of them.

00:17:49I know.

00:17:50Once upon a time, I had all three.

00:17:51Remember?

00:17:52Oh.

00:17:53I'm so sorry, Gabriel.

00:17:54Your poor wife and children.

00:17:56That was a long time ago.

00:17:59But you never quite get over the loss of a child.

00:18:05James loves you.

00:18:07Well, I think I could have loved James if it hadn't have been for...

00:18:12I mean, I don't even like Gerard.

00:18:15I never did.

00:18:16Not even when I wanted him most.

00:18:19And now I hate him.

00:18:21You mustn't.

00:18:23But you hate Gerard, too.

00:18:25I don't.

00:18:26I don't feel anything for him.

00:18:28Hate is dangerous.

00:18:30Gets in the way of justice.

00:18:31It's the last thing I feel in the evening.

00:18:34And the first thing I feel in the morning.

00:18:37How can I be free of it, Gabriel?

00:18:40PHONE RINGS

00:18:42Yes?

00:18:45Oh, hello, then.

00:18:47I see.

00:18:50Well, thank you for letting me know.

00:18:53I will.

00:18:56Bye.

00:18:57Adam Dalgleish.

00:19:00Sonia died of an overdose.

00:19:03A bit of an overdose.

00:19:04A bit of an overdose.

00:19:05A bit of an overdose.

00:19:10of an overdose.

00:19:11One.

00:19:12Three.

00:19:13They will start to improve my life.

00:19:14Two.

00:19:15Two.

00:19:16Four.

00:19:17Two.

00:19:18Two.

00:19:19Two.

00:19:20Two.

00:19:21Two.

00:19:22Two.

00:19:23Three.

00:19:24Two.

00:19:25One.

00:19:26Three.

00:19:27Two.

00:19:28Three.

00:19:29Two.

00:19:30Two.

00:19:31Two.

00:19:32One.

00:19:33Two.

00:19:34Two.

00:19:35Two.

00:19:36Good morning, Francis.

00:19:58Not any real.

00:19:59Thanks.

00:20:06Oh, no.

00:20:36He should have been here.

00:20:41No, Gerard doesn't like funerals.

00:20:45He came to Daddy's.

00:20:47Not that he hadn't really.

00:20:49Of course, there were those people he had to impress.

00:20:52Or Francis.

00:20:54No, there's nobody important here today, so he didn't bother coming.

00:20:58He's gone to see his father, hasn't he?

00:21:01Oh, yes.

00:21:03The only member of a very select group.

00:21:06People who are important to Gerard.

00:21:17Who's that?

00:21:33O'er the theme song.

00:21:34There's no clock, so he's a kid and a man to watch the other side.

00:21:36That's why there's no room for the?

00:21:38That's right.

00:21:39A house.

00:21:40That's why I'm here.

00:21:41We'll see you later.

00:21:42There's no room for her.

00:21:43There's no room for her.

00:21:44Oh, no.

00:21:45And the woman's true of what is her?

00:21:46Sorry.

00:21:47What's her name?

00:21:48I'm here.

00:21:49And the woman's true.

00:21:50No?

00:21:51And the woman's true.

00:21:52The woman's true.

00:21:53The woman's true.

00:21:54It's a woman's true.

00:21:55And the woman's true.

00:21:57The woman's true.

00:21:58The woman's true.

00:21:59I was not expecting you.

00:22:18Bonjour papa, ça va?

00:22:20Seems hardly a month until the last year.

00:22:22Matters are coming to a head at the press.

00:22:29I think I may have found a buyer for the house.

00:22:32Oh, the grand plan.

00:22:35Scully, the property man.

00:22:37Made a fortune out of Systems Building, but he's mad about innocent house.

00:22:41He wants to live in it and seems prepared to pay almost any price.

00:22:44Francis will be unhappy.

00:22:47Well, she's a peveral.

00:22:49For years, they've squandered money on that building as though the house was the firm.

00:22:53That's nonsense.

00:22:54It is their way.

00:22:56Well, they no longer run the firm,

00:22:58so what Francis thinks is of no real importance.

00:23:02Do you think it's the right thing to do?

00:23:06I have no opinion.

00:23:09You will do as you think fit.

00:23:12Pevel Press means nothing to me now.

00:23:15No.

00:23:16I don't see why you think it's necessary to come all the way down here to give me these reports.

00:23:21Actually, I came to give you some news.

00:23:25Hmm.

00:23:26And what would that be?

00:23:29I'm engaged to be married.

00:23:31Her name is Lucinda Norrington.

00:23:33Lady Lucinda Norrington.

00:23:35I see.

00:23:37Second disappointment for Francis.

00:23:40Fast!

00:23:41It's a rather bleak valediction.

00:23:56I'm not sure they'll find much more to say about me when the time comes.

00:24:01I don't think that's true.

00:24:03I know what you're going to say in my poetry, eh?

00:24:06I've always enjoyed your work.

00:24:09That was a very long time ago.

00:24:12Do you know Original Sin made a big impression on me?

00:24:16I was a fool, you know.

00:24:18I thought I could use a minor talent to exercise the war.

00:24:22You're not writing anymore?

00:24:26Nothing left to say.

00:24:28But I am reading for the first time in years in Greenwich at the Cutty Sark Inn on the 29th, if you feel like coming.

00:24:37So?

00:24:38I'm curious.

00:24:39Well, what about?

00:24:40See?

00:24:41Well, I'm still capable of feeling.

00:24:42I have my doubts.

00:24:43Ah.

00:24:44Excuse me.

00:24:45I think I'd better go to Francis.

00:24:46She was devastated by that business with the painting.

00:24:47Yes, of course.

00:24:48Oh!

00:24:49Excuse me.

00:24:50I think I'd better go to Francis.

00:24:56She was devastated by that business with the painting.

00:24:59Yes, of course.

00:25:15Oh!

00:25:16Excuse me.

00:25:17Gerard!

00:25:18Gerard!

00:25:19Gerard!

00:25:20I was hoping I'd see you here.

00:25:22Hello, Esme.

00:25:23Do you two know each other?

00:25:24I wanted to have a word with you about the publication date.

00:25:27What?

00:25:28Of Death on Paradise Island.

00:25:30Oh!

00:25:31That.

00:25:32Now, you know you always publish me in November in time for Christmas.

00:25:36But I haven't had the date yet.

00:25:38Nor notification of the launch party.

00:25:40Launch party?

00:25:41I thought as it was a nautical theme, we might use the Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

00:25:45Listen, Esme, the reason you haven't had a date is because we haven't yet agreed to publish.

00:25:48I beg your pardon.

00:25:49There are matters to discuss and resolve.

00:25:53What the hell do you mean?

00:25:55I think we'd better discuss this at another time and in a more appropriate place.

00:25:58I'll give you a call.

00:25:59Excuse me.

00:26:09Old man Simon.

00:26:10He's not getting any better.

00:26:12He told me today he's definitely going to sell.

00:26:15Oh, yes.

00:26:17I made this shop what it is.

00:26:20He can't sell it to somebody else.

00:26:22I've decided to speak to Gerard to ask him to buy me out.

00:26:28My share's in the press.

00:26:30Claudia, that's...

00:26:31How much?

00:26:33About half a million.

00:26:36More than enough for the freehold on the shop and the two flats.

00:26:40And you'd do that?

00:26:43You'd do that for me?

00:26:45Yeah, don't flatter yourself.

00:26:46It's a commercial proposition.

00:26:49I know what I'm buying.

00:26:52When are you going to ask him?

00:26:55After the board meeting next Thursday.

00:26:59Why don't we go out on the river afterwards in the launch and celebrate?

00:27:07Oh, hello, Daisy.

00:27:08Mummy gone to work, isn't she?

00:27:10Yes, Auntie, hasn't she?

00:27:11Come, please, then.

00:27:18There we are.

00:27:21Help yourself to a glass of milk and a biscuit, will you, Daisy?

00:27:24You'll have to amuse yourself.

00:27:27I've got work to do.

00:27:28Can I get one of your murder books in a minute?

00:27:38Excuse me, it's Gerard Etienne.

00:27:39Listen, obviously I couldn't say this before, but we've decided not to publish your book.

00:27:45I know your association with Peverell Press goes back many years, but frankly we're unhappy with the quality of this new one, and certainly in its present state we can't proceed.

00:27:53Obviously we need to talk further.

00:27:55You shit.

00:27:57You shit.

00:28:25You shit.

00:28:26You shit.

00:28:31Hello?

00:28:37I have no idea that you're writing about if that's how it works.

00:28:47Oh, 볼.

00:28:52Oh, my God.

00:29:22Good morning, Gerard.

00:29:25What's the matter?

00:29:26Has your car gone in for service again?

00:29:29Come and have a look.

00:29:48There.

00:29:50Oh, Gerard.

00:29:52Nice piece of abstract expressionism, isn't it?

00:29:54We've got to do something about all this.

00:29:57Oh, don't you start.

00:30:00This is getting really unpleasant.

00:30:01This isn't the work of a letter writer.

00:30:03This is probably some envious little shit of a National Front skinhead.

00:30:08With the key to our garage?

00:30:09Oh, Miss Blackett, this is a private meeting of the partners.

00:30:18We've confidential business to discuss.

00:30:20I'll take my own notes, thank you.

00:30:21That was unkind.

00:30:36Blackie's taken notes of the partners' meetings for over 20 years.

00:30:39Wasting her time and hours.

00:30:41You shouldn't have suggested that we don't trust her.

00:30:44I don't.

00:30:46She might have been responsible for that.

00:30:48Anyway, we're not here to discuss that.

00:30:51More important matters to discuss.

00:30:53The survival of this firm.

00:30:54Scholling has upped his offer for this building by 300 grand.

00:30:59It now stands at two and a half million pounds.

00:31:01A clear million more than the commercial valuation.

00:31:03I propose to accept verbally today

00:31:05and to get the solicitors working on the details

00:31:07so that we can exchange within the month.

00:31:08No, you cannot sell innocent house.

00:31:10I can.

00:31:12We can.

00:31:13We must if we're to survive.

00:31:15You can't run an efficient publishing house

00:31:16from a Venetian palace on the Thames.

00:31:18My family has for 160 years.

00:31:20I said an efficient publishing house.

00:31:22Publishing's no longer a hobby

00:31:23for elderly gentlemen with private incomes.

00:31:25It's a business.

00:31:26Well, you make money and make it efficiently

00:31:27or you go under.

00:31:28I will not have it.

00:31:31Fred, it isn't your decision.

00:31:33If just one other partner agrees, then it will happen.

00:31:37You know, I don't see why you're so upset.

00:31:39You haven't any children.

00:31:40It's not as if there's a peveril to inherit.

00:31:42Don't, Frances, don't leave.

00:31:44Innocent house is sold over my dead body.

00:31:46Is that clear enough for you?

00:31:48Oh, Frances, don't be so melodramatic.

00:31:50Of course we're going to sell.

00:31:54By the way,

00:31:56I bumped into Esme Carling yesterday.

00:31:59I told her we weren't going to publish her Richard book.

00:32:02You had no right.

00:32:03I'm editorial director of this firm.

00:32:05James, it's a crap book

00:32:06and the woman's well past her sell-by date.

00:32:11Mrs. Carling!

00:32:12Where is he, then?

00:32:19I don't think you have an appointment, Mrs. Carling.

00:32:23Of course I haven't got a bloody appointment.

00:32:26I'm not some rep selling paperclips.

00:32:29Where is he?

00:32:31He's...

00:32:32He's in the partner's meeting.

00:32:36Right!

00:32:36You can't go up.

00:32:39Partner's meetings are never interrupted.

00:32:43Ever.

00:32:44Very well.

00:32:45I'll wait till it's finished.

00:32:47That may not be for hours.

00:32:51And don't you have a book signing in Southampton at lunchtime?

00:32:54I'll let Mr. Gerrard know you called

00:32:56and no doubt he'll get back to you when he has a free moment.

00:33:00When he has a free moment?

00:33:01You stupid bitch.

00:33:06Who do you think you're talking to?

00:33:08It's my talent that's paid your wages for 20 years.

00:33:11Mrs. Carling, please.

00:33:13Just because you worked for old Henry,

00:33:15he spoiled you.

00:33:17God knows why.

00:33:19How dare you?

00:33:20You don't know what he really thought of you.

00:33:23He told me because I was his friend.

00:33:27He was sick of you hanging around gazing at him

00:33:30like a moonstruck cow.

00:33:31He was sick and tired of you and wanted you out.

00:33:35But he didn't have the guts to sack you.

00:33:37No.

00:33:38At least we can rely on Gerrard Etienne for that.

00:33:41Tell him I want to see him.

00:33:44At my convenience, not his.

00:33:48It isn't true.

00:33:49You're lying.

00:33:49It isn't true.

00:33:51You stupid cow.

00:33:56She doesn't know anything about it.

00:33:57I just think it would have been diplomatic

00:34:16to have discussed it with James first.

00:34:18Where's my bloody diary?

00:34:21Sometimes, Claudia, there just isn't time for the nice it is.

00:34:24Have you taken my private diary?

00:34:27Of course not.

00:34:28Isn't it in your right-hand drawer?

00:34:30If it were, I should hardly be asking for it.

00:34:32I brought it up to date yesterday

00:34:34and put it back in the drawer.

00:34:35I haven't seen it since.

00:34:37Well, it was there last night.

00:34:38If you haven't taken it, you'd better find out who has.

00:34:41If you can't find the diary,

00:34:42I should be glad to have the pencil back.

00:34:44It's gold and I'm rather fond of it.

00:34:46Are you accusing me of theft, Mr Etienne?

00:34:48Don't be a fool.

00:34:49No one's accusing you of anything.

00:34:50Just get my diary back.

00:34:51For God's sake, get rid of that bloody snake.

00:34:53It makes the place look like a nursery.

00:34:55I'm sorry, Miss Blackett.

00:35:22It's not exactly your day, is it?

00:35:23Get on with your work.

00:35:25This is Southampton, Central.

00:35:28Change here for Romsey and Salt.

00:35:31Please consider spending the place.

00:35:32So we're planning to take the place.

00:35:32This is Southampton, Central at H

00:35:50Let's go.

00:36:20Thank you for supporting me this morning.

00:36:46Gerard, you know I'll support you when the time comes, but I want you to do something

00:36:53for me first.

00:36:54What?

00:36:55I want you to buy me out, either partly or wholly, I don't mind which.

00:37:01I need 350,000.

00:37:02Why would I want to do that?

00:37:06Because my shares would give you a permanent overall majority.

00:37:10You could do anything you wanted.

00:37:12Well, I can't afford to buy you out.

00:37:19I'm sorry, I told you.

00:37:22I might be interested, but not just now.

00:37:24That's a pity.

00:37:26I need the money now.

00:37:28Why?

00:37:29What for?

00:37:30To invest in the antiques trade.

00:37:33Declan has a chance to buy the shopping stock at a giveaway price.

00:37:37Isn't 350,000 rather a lot to pay for a pretty fence?

00:37:40I need the defense.

00:37:41I need the defense.

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00:40:34but I was terrified of that tunnel so dark and sloping and I'm sure the water

00:40:45would break in and drown every day twice a day for years I had to face that I

00:40:53thought it was gone but now I'm dreaming it all over again you haven't told me

00:40:59about your letter what is it it said that I was a disappointment to my father

00:41:06but he didn't love me

00:41:11it said I was going to die in the tunnel

00:41:29so

00:41:34so

00:41:38so

00:41:43Oh, my God.

00:42:13interesting poets of his generation despite having published only two

00:42:18collections. He served as a bomber pilot in the Second World War and his poems

00:42:24offer a vivid picture of service life. Would you please welcome Gabriel Dauncy.

00:42:34I'm going to read a poem from my first collection, Original Sin. This is called

00:42:40After Debriefing. His dressing gown hangs limply on a hook, a chair precisely

00:42:49placed, a tidy bed, the table holding coins, an open book place downwards, the

00:42:56last chapter still unread.

00:43:10After each raid, the nightly dream returns. I see them blown apart. I watch them die.

00:43:18Beneath their shattered wings, the city burns. They fall like torches from the blazing sky.

00:43:23Friends who could tell me what it is to die. Death, the great neutral choosing friend or foe. If skies are calm and the dead stars ride high, sometime tomorrow

00:43:30midnight, sometime tomorrow, midnight, I may know.

00:43:52I enjoyed your poetry very much.

00:43:55No, Adam, no good. No bloody good at all. I'm going home.

00:44:11Can I give you a lift?

00:44:12No, thank you very much. It's very nice of you. I think I'll just go for a little walk. I feel like being alone. Thank you.

00:44:21Oh, Gabriel.

00:44:27Hey!

00:44:41Woo-hoo!

00:44:45Woo-hoo!

00:44:49Gabriel.

00:44:53You all right?

00:44:55It's all right. They didn't get anything. You've frightened them off. You've... That's a cat. That looks nasty.

00:45:02No, it says... Oh! It's just a phrase.

00:45:06Come on. I'll need stitching. Let's get you to hospital.

00:45:08No, I'm all right, really. Yeah. Come on. I want to go home. I...

00:45:14I want to go home.

00:45:15I want to go home.

00:45:16I want to go home.

00:45:17Come on.

00:45:18Oh, what a bloody awful day.

00:45:33Well, I enjoyed the reading. It was good to hear the early poems. It's fine work, Gabriel.

00:45:38For the lift.

00:45:39Gabriel.

00:45:40What happened?

00:45:41He was mugged.

00:45:42Oh, my God.

00:45:43No, it's not as dramatic as it looks.

00:45:44Oh, thank you for bringing him home, Commander.

00:45:46Not at all. Good night. Good night.

00:45:57People say it's good for the old to have new experiences. I'm not sure that street crime should be included.

00:46:03Well, come on up. I'll pull your whiskey.

00:46:05Oh, I must have a bath. I'm aching all over.

00:46:11I'll give you a ring when I get out. And you can come up.

00:46:16Are you sure?

00:46:17Yeah.

00:46:41Okay, I'll come straight up.

00:47:11Bye.

00:48:47I'm just checking round the building. He's bound to be here somewhere.

00:48:51Ah, Miss Claudia.

00:48:53Yes?

00:48:54This gentleman has an appointment with Mr Gerrard at 8.30.

00:48:57Well, I'm sure he won't be long.

00:48:59But he's here.

00:49:00And?

00:49:01But not in his office.

00:49:03His jacket's on the back of the chair.

00:49:05And the front door wasn't double locked when I arrived.

00:49:07So he must be here.

00:49:15This is exactly how it was when I left last night.

00:49:18I don't like this.

00:49:20Well, we should search the house.

00:49:21Better start at the top.

00:49:22No, I'm not really sure you wouldn't come up here.

00:49:41Jesus.

00:49:48This is my telephone in Scotland Yard.

00:50:03Ask for Commander Dalvish.

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00:50:46Good morning. This is Detective Inspector Miskin.

00:51:04Would you share me, please?

00:51:11Who was it you found, your brother?

00:51:13I did. Blackie, that's Miss Blackie, his secretary.

00:51:15Miss Keffer will be with me.

00:51:17Well, perhaps you could show me.

00:51:20Oh, I wonder if the rest of you could wait in here.

00:51:23I'll join you as soon as I can.

00:51:24It's warm in here.

00:51:45I know how hard it is for you, but if you can bear it, I'd like you to confirm that the room and your brother's body are exactly as they were when you first came in.

00:51:56Nothing has changed.

00:51:59Did you touch his body?

00:52:01I touched his face with my fingers.

00:52:04And the room?

00:52:10Nothing has changed since I found him.

00:52:13But there is something odd.

00:52:17The room looks cleaner, tidier than I remember it.

00:52:21Has this window cord always been broken?

00:52:26I don't know. I don't think so.

00:52:28Is that the end under the table there?

00:52:29I'm sorry.

00:52:41I appreciate how difficult this must be.

00:52:44You're capable of walking downstairs by myself.

00:52:48Why don't you go home like all the others?

00:52:54What, I'm missing the excitement.

00:52:55You're the one who should go home.

00:52:57Look at you.

00:52:59He'll want to interview me, the commander, as Mr Gerrard's personal assistant.

00:53:06Personal punch bag, more like.

00:53:18Ah, Daniel.

00:53:35Sorry, sir. Heavy traffic on Commercial Road.

00:53:37Suspicious death on your first morning, eh?

00:53:39Doesn't happen every day, does it, Kate?

00:53:41Right, the usual thorough search.

00:53:43A gas engineer to look at the fire and the flue.

00:53:46That's most urgent.

00:53:47I always suddenly get forensic to look at the window cord,

00:53:50check whether it wore out or whether it was cut.

00:53:52Sir.

00:53:54Oh, Daniel.

00:53:55See what you make of the job, will you?

00:54:09Careful of the snake.

00:54:17I'll need a list of the staff and a plan of the building if you have one.

00:54:21Who holds keys to the building?

00:54:22All of the partners have a set.

00:54:24And Mrs Demery at reception has a key to the main door and the burglar alarm system.

00:54:29Does she arrive first?

00:54:30Normally, yes.

00:54:31But when she got here this morning, she found that the door is free.

00:54:35The security lock on the main door wasn't on, and the alarm switched off as well.

00:54:40So she assumed that one of us was in early.

00:54:44Who was the last person to see Mr. Etienne?

00:54:47I was.

00:54:48I was.

00:54:49I was with him in his office before I left last night about quarter past six.

00:54:52He was still working.

00:54:53He usually worked late on Thursday night.

00:54:54I was again with my wife.

00:54:55Does she have a good job, that one of you?

00:54:56Who was there, after the coming door?

00:54:57And I was.

00:54:58And your wife, whom are you?

00:54:59And you had a great job?

00:55:00Well, when it was a bad job, who was any danger to your sleep.

00:55:01Yes.

00:55:02And then that you'll see you.

00:55:03We are still in your house.

00:55:04Time for your night.

00:55:05Have you seen this all day?

00:55:06No wonder you don't have an excuse.

00:55:07Yes.

00:55:08It's all the trouble you could get back in the room.

00:55:09Your wife could get back to me.

00:55:10Bye.

00:55:11Wonderful.

00:55:12And that's what I do now with you.

00:55:13Yes, and I'm not sure.

00:55:14Actually, I can't 사pe you.

00:55:15in his office before i left last night about quarter past six he was still working he usually

00:55:21worked late on thursdays was that generally known he seemed his usual self did he tell any one of

00:55:30you that he intended to work in the archive office as far as i know he never visited there i've no

00:55:36idea why he went up there or why he died there why he was murdered jimmy james please we can't be

00:55:44sure of the cause of death until after the post-mortem mr lewitt thank you i'll be with

00:55:50you again shortly words out the reptiles are here news is coming in of a suspicious death of a man

00:56:03in bizarre circumstances in east london the police have not yet confirmed the dead man's identity

00:56:10but it's believed to be gerard etienne managing director of the peverell press the body was

00:56:16found by staff arriving for work at the prestigious publishing firm first thing this morning

00:56:22mr etienne took over the firm fairly recently would you say that he was well liked

00:56:42well he wouldn't have been carried out of here in a body bag if he'd been a little ray of sunshine now

00:56:46would he commander so when you came in this morning you noticed that this front door was unlocked that's

00:56:59right well it's unusual oh it happens from time to time sometimes one of the partners gets in early

00:57:08you know to think great thoughts did you notice anything odd or difference when you came inside

00:57:17no not really well little thing it's hardly worth mentioning what was that when i came in here this

00:57:26morning to hang up my coat i noticed that the hoover wasn't in its usual place it usually sits right there

00:57:33in the corner of the cupboard and i'm sure it was there yesterday well well blackie told me that

00:57:41the room was very clean the cleaners weren't even in last night i think someone else has been using the

00:57:48hoover well i imagine mrs damry is enjoying herself hugely her moment center stage well i don't suppose

00:57:56she can tell them anything on the other hand we'd better take care of what telling them things they

00:58:01don't need to know like we weren't exactly united about the future of the firm what does it matter

00:58:05what we say none of this is anything to hide i mean it's obviously what happened jared had some

00:58:15sort of an accident an accident what sort of accident well i don't know he could have a heart attack or

00:58:20something with a toy snake stuffed in his mouth get real it was just a suggestion yeah bloody stupid

00:58:26one yeah all right claudia we know you're upset we all are oh yes what did he die for then if it

00:58:31wasn't an accident gas gas carbon monoxide poisoning when i went in there the room was very warm didn't

00:58:42that strike you claudia the room was warm very little struck me except gerard's body and that snake

00:58:48frances i'm sorry to say i don't think it was an accident

00:59:01daisy daisy can i have a word with you come on daisy we'll be late for school morning

00:59:10mrs reed would you like me to pick daisy up from school oh thanks very much mrs carlin

00:59:18this archives go back over 200 years i take boxes out of here and go through them next door

00:59:28when it's a little more comfortable the old henry had a rule he was so obsessed by confidentiality he

00:59:35said this room was never to be cleaned we haven't got round to changing old henry's room when you came

00:59:42up here this morning did anything strike you about the room apart from the body of course yes it seems

00:59:50stripped the room so ordered i mean the cleaner's never come up here neat and tidy you mean yes

00:59:57yes of course please don't touch anything i mean look at the mantelpiece it's spotless and the floor

01:00:03i think they've been vacuumed you know has this table always been hit yes it looks as though it's

01:00:12been moved you know five or six inches to the right you can tell by that mark on the wall oh yes is

01:00:19anything else the tape recorder i used to dictate notes isn't in its usual place i keep it in the middle

01:00:26of the table do you ever use this file no no but i didn't notice how warm it was when i came in this

01:00:37morning was the room unlocked when you left oh yes i never locked the door

01:00:46this looks comparative for you yes henry peverell had it fitted a few years ago i don't know exactly

01:00:52why he was a solitude chap he liked to work up here from time to time going through old papers i think

01:01:02i've had enough of this i'm gonna go and do some work

01:01:17i'm frightened james

01:01:18it started isn't it what all these these letters saying that we were going to die now one of us has

01:01:32don't be scared no one's gonna harm you i loved him i should i should be thinking about him praying for

01:01:42him he wasn't worthy of you it's true

01:01:50and i saw how unhappy he made you how he played with you it made me so angry

01:01:56it's done with now

01:02:00if you need me i'm here

01:02:07you're a good man james

01:02:12it's so strange to be sitting here in gerald's room

01:02:41discussing his death

01:02:43i'd like to offer you my condolences i only met your brother the once but i know how respected

01:02:49he was in the publishing business yes few people liked him but most respected him

01:02:54did you like him yes i did we weren't very close ours wasn't that kind of family we were brought up in

01:03:01boarding schools but i liked him i was on his side were there people who weren't

01:03:07i should think there will be some people who won't be sorry to hear that he's dead

01:03:13every death benefits someone who will benefit from this one

01:03:18me

01:03:18i'm gerald's heir i inherit everything including the shares in the firm that would have all changed

01:03:27upon his marriage of course i see

01:03:30is that what all policemen say commander when they hear something significant

01:03:37no no no no it's just a small linguistic tool to keep the conversation flowing

01:03:40so now you've established motive you'll be anxious to hear about opportunity well i'm sorry to

01:03:48disappoint you i was with a friend all of last night a friend my lover declan cartwright came here

01:03:55and we went out in the firm's launch it was a lovely evening so we went down to the thames barrier and

01:04:01stopped off for dinner in greenwich and what time did you get back about uh 10 30. the light was still

01:04:09on in here but i had no reason to come up gerard often worked late so i drove declan home to westbourne

01:04:18grove he lives above an antique shop that he manages i stayed there until about two o'clock and

01:04:26then went back to my flat in the barbican i see

01:04:32that's all for the time being thank you i have to go up to essex now and break the news to my father

01:04:40would you mention that i'll want to talk to him myself

01:04:42he won't like that he lives as a virtual recluse he won't even answer the phone

01:04:49broods about the past always has

01:05:02i have a lodger his name's rupert farlow he's a writer i was with him for most of the evening

01:05:17i left here on the 5 30 launch and went for a drink in covent garden

01:05:22did you meet someone no no no i was on my own i had some books to buy

01:05:26i was back in hillgate village just after eight didn't go out again what did you think of gerard

01:05:34etienne did you know he was a mountaineer yes it was a passion of his for a while he trained got

01:05:44himself fit and went off and climbed a mountain the matterhorn very impressive not at all but

01:05:53would have fixed ropes right to the top of the summit for a real mountaineer it's a sunday

01:05:58afternoon jaunt but for gerard etienne it was the climb of the century

01:06:04says it all you didn't like him he was hard to like he could be very cruel

01:06:12and he was an angry man but what i suppose you had to understand was that he was

01:06:23mostly angry with himself

01:06:28thank you

01:06:34uh when you want to talk to rupert to check my story ring and make sure it's convenient

01:06:39he's very ill and some days better than others

01:06:44it's all around us isn't it death

01:06:48so

01:07:00daisy

01:07:00hello auntie esme

01:07:07let's go and buy some ice cream for tea

01:07:09then I want you to do me a very special favour.

01:07:39Oh, Commander, I'm sorry.

01:07:42There's no need to apologise.

01:07:45I just, um, I didn't think this would still be here.

01:07:49Clothes someone of the dead more powerful than anything else, don't they?

01:07:53We should have taken it away.

01:07:56It smells of him.

01:07:59It has his shape.

01:08:03You were fond of him?

01:08:05I was in love with him.

01:08:07We, um...

01:08:10We had an affair, but it ended a week before he got engaged.

01:08:15By mutual consent?

01:08:18No.

01:08:21Are you happy to go on? We could leave it till later.

01:08:23No, no, no, I'm fine.

01:08:27So...

01:08:30Where were you last night?

01:08:34Well, I was at home all evening.

01:08:36Apart from a short walk along the riverside path towards Greenwich before I went to bed.

01:08:41Um, I didn't see anybody or talk to anybody.

01:08:44Apart from Gerard.

01:08:46I, um, rang him before I went out.

01:08:50Must have been about twenty past seven.

01:08:52I knew he'd be working late and I wanted to talk to him about his plan to sell the house.

01:08:58When I got through to him, he said he'd have to call me back.

01:09:02He had a visitor with him.

01:09:04Visitor?

01:09:06Is that what he said?

01:09:07Yes.

01:09:08Interesting word, isn't it?

01:09:12He didn't call me back.

01:09:14So, apart from your walk, you stayed in until I brought Mr. Dauncey home.

01:09:18After you'd left, um, he explained what had happened and said he wanted to have a bath.

01:09:23Um, I went up to his flat when he'd finished.

01:09:24How long was it before you joined him?

01:09:27Well, it can't have been long. I suppose about eight to ten minutes.

01:09:30No more than that?

01:09:32Well, maybe a little shorter.

01:09:33No, eight minutes would be about right.

01:09:36Why?

01:09:38You don't think...

01:09:41You can't believe Gabriel came back here and killed Gerard.

01:09:44Mr. Etienne was dead long before midnight.

01:09:49What we're considering is the possibility that the snake was stuffed in his mouth some hours later.

01:09:54But Gabriel would never have done that.

01:09:57I mean, anyway, he wouldn't have been able to do it in the time.

01:10:00He's old.

01:10:01I mean, he'd just been mugged.

01:10:03Besides, he was in the bath.

01:10:05Are you sure of that?

01:10:06My flat is directly below his. I can hear it when his water runs away.

01:10:10Last night, I was listening out for it.

01:10:11And a few moments later, he rang and said he was ready.

01:10:15When he answered the door, he was in his dressing gown and his hair was still wet.

01:10:18He couldn't have done it.

01:10:21He wouldn't have done it.

01:10:25This is a very old fire.

01:10:27Nursery fires, I think they were called.

01:10:30A detachable tap.

01:10:32And a fire hasn't been serviced for years.

01:10:35And it don't need to be an engineer to see what's happened.

01:10:37The flu's completely blocked.

01:10:38Yes, but it could have fallen naturally.

01:10:41Yeah.

01:10:42Or been deliberately dislodged.

01:10:44Possibly.

01:10:46So what you're saying is a familiar story.

01:10:47Old fire block flew carbon monoxide poisoning.

01:10:50It's not quite all set.

01:10:52Before the engineer took the fire off the wall,

01:10:54I had to look at the screws holding it in place.

01:10:57The old brass screws dulled by the years they've been in that wall.

01:11:02And look at the groove and the scratches round about.

01:11:05The metal gleams like new.

01:11:06I reckon somebody's turned those screws and had that fire off the wall very recently.

01:11:12Yes.

01:11:15Another scoop.

01:11:21You're a good girl, aren't you, Daisy?

01:11:23What do you want me to do for you, Auntie?

01:11:24Daisy, in the next few days a policeman is going to come here to talk to you.

01:11:33He's going to ask you questions about last evening.

01:11:36He's going to ask if you spent it here with me.

01:11:40I didn't.

01:11:42I know that.

01:11:44I want you to tell him that you did.

01:11:47Why?

01:11:49Because the man who published my books has been murdered.

01:11:53And I think the police think that I did it.

01:11:57Because I'm a crime writer and I know all about murders.

01:12:01And I didn't like him very much.

01:12:04Do you see?

01:12:06Did you hate him?

01:12:07Yes, I rather think I did.

01:12:11Did you kill him?

01:12:13No, I didn't.

01:12:15All right.

01:12:17Alibis that need checking.

01:12:20Claudia Etienne, James DeWitt and Gabriel Dauncy.

01:12:23Dauncy?

01:12:24Can't have been him.

01:12:25He was with you.

01:12:27Yes, I know, but I'm intrigued about the business with the bath.

01:12:30Do you think he could have done it then, sir?

01:12:31You don't? What?

01:12:32Come over here and back in eight minutes.

01:12:33A bloke in his seventies.

01:12:35Walk it through tomorrow after you've checked the alibis, will you?

01:12:37Okay.

01:12:38What about Francis Peverell, sir?

01:12:40After all, she has no alibi.

01:12:41And she had just been dumped by Etienne.

01:12:43That would give her the clearest motive.

01:12:45Apart from Etienne's sister, who's just become very rich.

01:12:47No, it's too early to talk about suspects.

01:12:49The killer could be any one of them.

01:12:52Let's just get on with the legwork, shall we?

01:12:58I thought the building had been cleared.

01:13:03Wait here.

01:13:15Miss Blackett?

01:13:17Oh.

01:13:18I'm sorry to have startled you.

01:13:20Commander.

01:13:21I thought everybody had gone home.

01:13:24You said you wanted to interview me.

01:13:26I've been waiting.

01:13:27Oh, yes, I'm too sorry.

01:13:29It's been a hectic day.

01:13:31Would you excuse me a moment?

01:13:36It's Miss Blackett.

01:13:37I'm just gonna have a few words with her.

01:13:39I'll catch her up at the mortuary.

01:13:40Sir.

01:13:41I'm notってる as well.

01:13:44Um...

01:13:45She probably fell.

01:13:47Isn't that dumb?

01:13:49Yeah.

01:13:51Well, I'm 1994 inượct.

01:13:53I'm checking all the PeSO's.

01:13:54We were just doing that.

01:13:56Harry, you look!

01:13:58I'll be thanks.

01:14:01Okay, that's what it's been there.

01:14:03Can you MontgomeryStop?

01:14:05Yes, I left now.

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