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00:00:00My grandfather first brought me here when I was eight.
00:00:15He was head of Chambers then.
00:00:17I drank in the history, romance, traditions.
00:00:23It has taken me a lifetime to understand the spirit of this place.
00:00:26In recent years, that spirit was exemplified best by Venetia.
00:00:32Some people may disagree with some of the things she did.
00:00:36Myself among them.
00:00:38Whatever she did, she did it because she believed in the law with a great passion.
00:00:47I think sometimes she believed in the principle that testing the evidence,
00:00:51testing it again, was more important than the outcome of the individual cases.
00:00:56I lied to you about the night of Venetia's death, Commander.
00:01:06I didn't get home till eight.
00:01:09I asked my wife to say that I was an hour earlier.
00:01:14I see.
00:01:17And where were you really?
00:01:18And I think I was here.
00:01:25You think you were here?
00:01:28Some weeks ago, in court,
00:01:31I was coming to the middle of my closing argument.
00:01:35Suddenly, language deserted me.
00:01:38I could remember nothing, not the name of the judge, or the parties, or the opposing counsel.
00:01:46For a long minute,
00:01:49I could say nothing.
00:01:52And somehow, I spoke some words.
00:01:55I don't even remember what they were.
00:01:57Since then, there have been other lapses of memory.
00:02:04Longer.
00:02:04What happened on the night of the murder?
00:02:17I remember leaving the office.
00:02:20I remember Paul in court.
00:02:22The next thing I knew, it was an hour later.
00:02:24I was sitting in here.
00:02:29It's empty church.
00:02:31Darkness.
00:02:32Darkness.
00:02:54Hi.
00:02:57That's fantastic.
00:02:59We've made a good time, haven't we?
00:03:01You bet we do.
00:03:03This is going to be spectacular.
00:03:09These are all I could find.
00:03:16Well, do you like it?
00:03:17I don't know.
00:03:47I don't know.
00:04:17Yes.
00:04:18I'd like to talk to you about the murder of Miss Venetia Aldridge, QC.
00:04:26Her father ran a boys prep school, Dansford.
00:04:30I was his deputy headmaster.
00:04:32However, the study of criminal law has been my hobby, and I used to discuss cases with Venetia.
00:04:41She was 14 when we began our lessons.
00:04:45I can say without conceit, Mr. Dalgleish, that I was chiefly responsible for making her a criminal lawyer.
00:04:52Have you any information about her death?
00:04:54Not directly, but about her life.
00:04:58With murder, the two are indissolubly linked.
00:05:02Now, we lost touch after Aldridge gave up the school.
00:05:08Venetia's career has been my absorbing passion for the last 20 years.
00:05:14Now, everything is here.
00:05:15All her important cases.
00:05:17I believe the mystery of her death might lie with her professional life.
00:05:23May I look?
00:05:25Do, yes.
00:05:25Have you been in contact with her since you left the school?
00:05:42I've seen her only from the public gallery.
00:05:45Time intervened, and I would not have been welcome at the Aldridge home after the tragedy at Dansford.
00:05:53What was that?
00:05:53Clarence Ulrich was a sadist.
00:05:57I protested to him constantly about the severity over which the boys were beaten.
00:06:04But even I didn't know how bad it was.
00:06:07One of the pupils hanged himself by his pajama cord from the banisters.
00:06:14Naturally, after young Ulrich's death, the school had to close.
00:06:19Ulrich?
00:06:20Yes, yes.
00:06:22Marcus Ulrich.
00:06:23Of course I knew that Aldridge had a daughter named Venetia, and the age was right.
00:06:39I was naturally curious when she joined Chambers all those years ago, and I asked her.
00:06:43But it was a matter of slight interest, no more.
00:06:47Can you remember the conversation?
00:06:49Well, I told her that I was the elder brother of Marcus Ulrich.
00:06:54She made no comment for a moment, and then said, I thought there might be a relationship.
00:06:58It's not a common name.
00:07:00And I said, I don't think either of us need talk about the past.
00:07:04We never spoke about it again.
00:07:06What happened to your mother?
00:07:07It must be gratifying to have a job that can be used to justify what in others might seem intrusive curiosity.
00:07:18Marcus was 11 years old.
00:07:20My father and my mother were abroad.
00:07:22I was at Oxford.
00:07:24My father had lost money.
00:07:26Dainford seemed a satisfactory but relatively cheap school.
00:07:32My parents would have found it inconvenient to discover that Aldridge liked beating small boys.
00:07:41And your brother said nothing to them?
00:07:42Aldridge used to prescribe a number of strokes and then delivered them publicly.
00:07:52It was the threat of that daily humiliation and pain that Marcus couldn't face.
00:07:58He hanged himself.
00:07:59Now, it wasn't a quick death.
00:08:02He suffocated.
00:08:04The scandal finished the school and finished Aldridge.
00:08:09It was Vinicius' father's misfortune that she had to live with, too.
00:08:12Obviously, you believe he was responsible for your brother's death.
00:08:18Hmm.
00:08:19The responsibility for Marcus's death is a heavy one, but it was never Vinicius.
00:08:23If I'd felt an obligation to kill Vinicius, you know, on some preposterous eye-for-an-eye basis, I would have done so 15 years ago.
00:08:33You should have told me this earlier.
00:08:36Well, since it has no bearing whatsoever on your investigation, I make no apology.
00:08:41I don't know what has a bearing on this investigation and what hasn't until I've heard it.
00:08:46Too many people in these chambers are deciding for themselves what I should or shouldn't consider relevant.
00:08:52That's not very helpful.
00:08:53You do realise that now there's no reason why anything should stand in the way of me taking silk?
00:09:11As soon as possible.
00:09:14Sooner.
00:09:14We aim to please.
00:09:18Oh, it's hardly down to you, darling.
00:09:20We still aim to please.
00:09:28You have told me everything.
00:09:29Look, I'm capable of a great deal, Lois, but, you know, do you really think I'd murder?
00:09:37Just so you can continue to shower money on the shopkeepers of Knightsbridge.
00:09:44Darling, if you don't want to screw up becoming a QC again, I think you should remember something Desmond said.
00:09:50So what pearls of wisdom from your devoted uncle this time?
00:09:58My uncle Desmond reminded me that although you're off the hook now, you're stupid enough to climb back on it.
00:10:04You could still lose everything.
00:10:05And if you do, Simon, you can be damn sure you'll lose me.
00:10:39Father, will you hear my confession?
00:10:55There's no confession this evening.
00:11:02But of course.
00:11:04Please.
00:11:09In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:11:15Amen.
00:11:15Amen.
00:11:18Bless me, Father.
00:11:20For I have sinned most grievously.
00:11:25My name is Janet Carpenter.
00:11:26And of the Son.
00:11:38wishes.
00:11:40I have sinned.
00:11:49Amen.
00:11:49Amen.
00:11:49Amen.
00:11:51Amen.
00:11:51Amen.
00:11:51Amen.
00:11:51Amen.
00:11:52Amen.
00:11:52Amen.
00:11:52Amen.
00:11:54Amen.
00:11:55Amen.
00:11:56I don't know.
00:12:26I don't know.
00:12:56I don't know.
00:13:26I don't know.
00:13:56Yeah, it's Mrs. Carpenter.
00:13:59Is she also following Venetia Aldridge's career?
00:14:04Or did she get froggers?
00:14:05Did the Hampshire police come up with anything more?
00:14:13No, they haven't got back to me.
00:14:15Have you chased them?
00:14:16No, sir.
00:14:17They gave me some information over the phone and told me they'd give me a more detailed
00:14:21fax later on.
00:14:22What sort of information?
00:14:24Well, she was a widow, as Mrs. Buckley said.
00:14:26Her only son died of leukemia about five years ago.
00:14:29And her granddaughter was murdered in 1994.
00:14:33Murdered?
00:14:33Mm.
00:14:35Why didn't she tell me this before?
00:14:37It didn't seem relevant, sir.
00:14:39In the murder of a serving life, a man called Beale, the trial was in Winchester.
00:14:43It had nothing to do with Venetia Aldridge.
00:14:45It had something to do with the law.
00:14:54What's the time?
00:14:56About four o'clock.
00:15:00You carry on here.
00:15:01I'm going to go to Winchester.
00:15:10Oh, Kate.
00:15:11Get hold of Frogger.
00:15:12Find out how long he's known, Mrs. Carpenter.
00:15:14It was very sudden.
00:15:39The house was sold in a matter of weeks.
00:15:41Jana didn't care what price she got.
00:15:43No, put it on.
00:15:44It's cold.
00:15:45So she said she was going to London, hmm?
00:15:48Yes.
00:15:49She left an address, but when we tried to contact her, no one had heard of Janet Carpenter.
00:15:55Sandwiches, drink, and a strawberry yoghurt.
00:15:59Yes!
00:16:01There's the school bus.
00:16:04I won't be a moment.
00:16:06Goodbye.
00:16:07Bye.
00:16:07Bye.
00:16:13I was at school with Rosie, her daughter-in-law.
00:16:22I'd hoped that somehow I could give Janet a little of what she'd lost.
00:16:26But the truth was, it hurt her too much.
00:16:30Even to be here.
00:16:32To see us.
00:16:33Rosie lived every day, every night, in the horror of how that man Beale killed her little girl.
00:16:43I know she tried.
00:16:50And Janet tried to help her.
00:16:55I did my best.
00:16:59But Rosie's heart was broken.
00:17:04She committed suicide.
00:17:06It shouldn't ever have happened.
00:17:19Everyone knew about Beale.
00:17:21They knew what he was.
00:17:24He was tried the year before for the rape of another girl, but they acquitted him.
00:17:28The police, the lawyers, the judges, the doctors, the social workers.
00:17:34Mrs Hart.
00:17:34They couldn't stop a man who'd done that to a child.
00:17:37And they knew.
00:17:38They all knew.
00:17:40That's how you protect our children.
00:17:43You let him walk out of court and do it again.
00:17:45You let him walk out of court and do it again.
00:18:04You let him walk out of court and do it again.
00:18:07You're frightened of life out of me.
00:18:11Did you get some sleep?
00:18:14Yeah.
00:18:15A bit.
00:18:19You haven't been up all night, have you?
00:18:22Yeah.
00:18:22Most of it.
00:18:23I don't know what I've got now, so...
00:18:25I'll make some coffee.
00:18:30Yeah, I'll do it.
00:18:32What's the matter with these things?
00:18:35Oh, they're the ones Mrs Buckley brought down.
00:18:39I can't make them work either.
00:18:43I'll go and get some more.
00:18:45No, yeah, I'll give them you.
00:18:47I'll do it.
00:18:49Well, she might as well get used to me.
00:18:55These scissors are useless.
00:18:59They look perfectly all right to me.
00:19:01I think I can tell if a pair of scissors can cut or not.
00:19:05I'll find some more.
00:19:08Those must be Mrs Carpenters.
00:19:11I should have noticed.
00:19:13She said she thought she'd lost them.
00:19:17Well, why shouldn't those scissors cut?
00:19:20They won't cut for anyone right-handed.
00:19:23What are you talking about?
00:19:27Oh, look.
00:19:30Right-handed.
00:19:34Useless, you see?
00:19:36Mrs Carpenters left-handed.
00:19:38Left-handed people have to have special scissors.
00:19:40No.
00:19:43Oh, my God.
00:20:13Did you have any luck with Janet Carpenter's old neighbour?
00:20:26She blamed everyone for the acquittal which let Beale loose to kill again.
00:20:32It was Venetia Aldridge who defended him.
00:20:38And it was she who actually destroyed the prosecution case.
00:20:41I'm a police officer. Open the front door, please.
00:20:57Mrs Carpenter?
00:21:11Mrs Carpenter?
00:21:12R.V.B.
00:21:33R.V.B.
00:21:45Regina versus Beale.
00:21:50She'd done what she set out to do.
00:21:53To kill Venetia Aldridge.
00:21:56I suppose there was nothing left.
00:21:59Suicide.
00:21:59Suicide.
00:22:12Anything strike you as odd?
00:22:14No, not really, sir.
00:22:20On her left hand middle finger there was a slight thickening of the skin.
00:22:23It was almost a callous.
00:22:28I think she wrote with her left hand.
00:22:43She was left-handed.
00:22:44If she was, why did she write R.V.B.
00:22:49With her right hand?
00:22:54I think someone who didn't know she was left-handed cut her throat.
00:23:00I'm trying to make it look like suicide.
00:23:04Look, I don't know when we'll be back.
00:23:06Octavia, dear, I don't think you should go.
00:23:09What's it got to do with you?
00:23:10I don't think you should be on your own with him without other people.
00:23:13I don't think you should be on your own with him without other people.
00:23:40I don't think you should be on your own.
00:24:02Sir.
00:24:03Hmm?
00:24:05I've got Mrs Buckley on the phone.
00:24:07Oh?
00:24:07Janet Carpenter was definitely left-handed.
00:24:10And did you tell her she was dead?
00:24:11I did, but I don't think she took it in, though.
00:24:14We came here looking for the answer to one murder, and now we have another.
00:24:17They must be connected.
00:24:19Perhaps.
00:24:22Or does the killer just want us to think that?
00:24:25If this suicide had worked,
00:24:28we might well have closed the Venetia Aldridge case
00:24:30on the strong probability that Mrs Carpenter killed her,
00:24:33and then killed herself.
00:24:35But it still means they're linked.
00:24:37Don't tell us how.
00:24:40All we know is that the motive wasn't robbery.
00:24:44Look at this.
00:24:47It's not exactly what you'd expect to find.
00:24:52The killer wasn't after it, but it must mean something.
00:24:56I think we can assume that Mrs Carpenter knew him.
00:25:01Yeah, I think it's a man, too.
00:25:05Do we know when Mrs Carpenter was last seen?
00:25:07About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
00:25:10She was on her way to church.
00:25:11She was on her way to church.
00:25:11She was on her way to church.
00:25:11Huh?
00:25:12She went to work.
00:25:13She was on her way to church.
00:25:14Yeah.
00:25:14Who was on her way to church?
00:25:22No?
00:25:23Mrs. Carpenter had been coming to St. James's for almost two years.
00:25:49To communion, sometimes even so.
00:25:53But I wouldn't say there was any real sense in which I knew her.
00:25:57She was a private woman.
00:25:59That had to be respected.
00:26:01What about the other people in the congregation?
00:26:03She came to church for God, not for social life.
00:26:07Father Prestane, have you any information which may help us?
00:26:11She came to me for confession.
00:26:14It was something she'd never done before.
00:26:17And everything I know about her was told to me under the seal of the confessional.
00:26:21I'm sorry.
00:26:22Mrs. Carpenter can't care now if you break faith with her.
00:26:25Wouldn't she want you to help?
00:26:26Wouldn't she want her murderer to be caught?
00:26:28It isn't Janet Carpenter I'd be breaking faith with.
00:26:34Where is she now?
00:26:36She's Anna Flandt.
00:26:37We'll be moving her to a mortuary very shortly.
00:26:39If there's no one else to take responsibility, I will take charge of the funeral.
00:26:48Before she left the church, she said she was thinking of going away.
00:26:54But that she would write me a letter.
00:27:00She didn't say, and I didn't ask.
00:27:03But afterwards, I thought she might have had suicide on her mind.
00:27:06I haven't looked at the post this morning.
00:27:10I shall read it first, and let you have it if that is what you wanted.
00:27:36It's evidence.
00:27:41He must give it to us.
00:27:43Patience.
00:27:43Are you hungry?
00:28:02I'm starving.
00:28:04Well, I'll put him back to some sandwiches.
00:28:07There was a pub in the last village, right, Andrew?
00:28:09Get something there.
00:28:12I'd love a drink.
00:28:13No, you stay here, and you look after the stuff, all right?
00:28:19I can't give you back.
00:28:21When I'm back.
00:28:23I can't give you back.
00:28:24I can't give you back.
00:28:24She has authorised me to give this to you.
00:28:46We're told that vengeance belongs to God.
00:28:53I think when we take it into our own hands,
00:28:56it's not only on those we hate that destruction falls,
00:29:02but on ourselves.
00:29:03dear father,
00:29:14I have something to add to my confession.
00:29:19Something that I could not bring myself to tell you face to face.
00:29:23Mrs. Carpenter's letter said she was looking for a young man she believed guilty of murder
00:29:29who'd been successfully defended by Venetia Aldridge,
00:29:32just as her own granddaughter's killer,
00:29:33Dermot Beal, had been.
00:29:35So she found Gary Ash?
00:29:36Yeah.
00:29:37She believed he'd killed his aunt, Mrs. O'Keefe.
00:29:39She wanted him to be her instrument of revenge.
00:29:45She sensed that he was powerful enough,
00:29:48attractive enough,
00:29:50greedy enough
00:29:51to do what she wanted.
00:29:53So she offered him £10,000
00:29:55to start an affair with Octavia
00:29:57and another £15,000 to be married.
00:30:00So because Venetia was determined to stop the relationship,
00:30:04Mrs. Carpenter murdered her.
00:30:06No, she found the body.
00:30:10But she didn't murder her.
00:30:12I find that difficult to accept under the circumstances.
00:30:14In her letters,
00:30:15she says she put the week on the body and poured on the blood.
00:30:18But in that act of desecration,
00:30:20she'd also poured out all her hatred.
00:30:23Then, of course, she was left with what she had done.
00:30:26She put another innocent girl into the hands of a murderer.
00:30:29So she contacted Ash,
00:30:31told him he had to stop.
00:30:33But by that time, of course, he had other ideas.
00:30:35Her thousands couldn't compete with all the money
00:30:38Octavia Aldridge was about to inherit.
00:30:41So Ash killed Venetia?
00:30:45Well, at least certainly killed Mrs. Carpenter.
00:30:46I see.
00:30:58And what did he do when you told him the scissors were left-handed?
00:31:02Well, he went rigid.
00:31:05And then he stabbed them into the table.
00:31:07I thought he was going to attack me.
00:31:09And they left shortly afterwards?
00:31:11Yes.
00:31:12Octavia came upstairs very bubbly.
00:31:14She said they were going for a few days holiday.
00:31:17What?
00:31:17I'd told her about the memorial service Mr. Langton's arranging,
00:31:21but she wasn't interested.
00:31:22She just said that all that mattered now was her and Ash.
00:31:25Mrs. Buckley, do you know where they've gone?
00:31:27She did say it was somewhere Ash knew.
00:31:31Somewhere he used to go.
00:31:33She's in danger, isn't she?
00:31:35She's in danger, isn't she?
00:32:05She's been gone for hours.
00:32:07According to this, Ash spent the happiest years of his life
00:32:34at a special school in Norfolk.
00:32:36He was sent there after he sexually assaulted
00:32:38the 14-year-old daughter of his foster parents.
00:32:41A place called Banyard Court.
00:32:46That's the same name on the drawings.
00:32:48What?
00:32:52Look.
00:32:54He's drawn the same scene over and over again.
00:32:58Yeah, it may mean nothing, but it reminds me of a child
00:33:04always drawing the same thing, trying to hold on to something special.
00:33:09Most of these are signed Gary Ash Banyard Court.
00:33:12But some of them are quite recent.
00:33:15Look.
00:33:16He's the one on prison low paper.
00:33:18He must have done it on remand.
00:33:20Wherever this is, he's still obsessed by it.
00:33:25Ash was very close to one of the social workers there, a man called Gates.
00:33:47If anyone knows where Ash has gone, he will.
00:33:50And do we know where he is?
00:33:51Social services have lost touch with him.
00:33:54Ash made some allegations against him.
00:33:56They were false, but he never got another job.
00:33:59I've been on to the Norfolk police.
00:34:00They say he's got a sister who's a nurse, Mrs. Page.
00:34:03They're trying to find her.
00:34:05Well, they may have done so by the time you get up there.
00:34:07When you'll be coming up, sir?
00:34:09No, I can be up there in a couple of hours.
00:34:11I want to stay for the memorial service Langton's organising.
00:34:14Well, he didn't waste any time, did he?
00:34:17I don't think the indecent haste has anything to do with Langton.
00:34:20However, there's little doubt the rest of them
00:34:22would like the memory of Anisha Aldridge dispatched as quickly as possible.
00:34:25But surely Ash is the only suspect now.
00:34:28Hmm.
00:34:30We have two murders, and you could be right.
00:34:37We may have only one murderer, but I'm not convinced.
00:34:41I still believe the key to Anisha Aldridge's death
00:34:44lies here in Paula Court,
00:34:46and I don't intend taking the pressure off them
00:34:48until I know the truth.
00:34:50One of them here could be the killer.
00:34:54My soul, there is a country
00:34:59Where we are beyond the stars
00:35:04Where stands the winged century
00:35:09All skilful in the walls
00:35:14If thou canst get but hither
00:35:20There grows the flower of peace
00:35:25Thou grows that cannot hither
00:35:31Thy fortress and thy ease
00:35:36Leave them, thy foolish fingers
00:35:42O man can be secure
00:35:46But one who never changes
00:35:53Thy good, thy life, thy cure
00:35:58Yeah, I'll talk to your inspector
00:36:11But I don't see how I can help her
00:36:13I haven't seen Gary Ashey in years
00:36:16And if he's heading for Norfolk
00:36:18There's no way he'll come looking for me
00:36:20Yeah
00:36:23I'll be here
00:36:24Yeah, okay
00:36:25Bye
00:36:27Who was that on the phone?
00:36:28Hmm?
00:36:29On the phone?
00:36:30Ah, just some geezer trying to sell something
00:36:32Oh yeah
00:36:33Look
00:36:35I'm not going into work today
00:36:38I've got something else to do
00:36:39Can you call the supermarket
00:36:40And tell them I'll be in for the night shift?
00:36:42Venetia will always be remembered
00:37:04As one of the finest advocates of her day
00:37:06And I for one
00:37:08Shall remember her as a friend
00:37:11To Venetia's memory
00:37:14Venetia
00:37:17Well, now that's done
00:37:24You announce your retirement at next week's meeting
00:37:28And confirm that I take over
00:37:30Does nothing last once we have gone?
00:37:34Well, we'll start the meeting with an expression of regret about Venetia
00:37:38But since Simon is taking Silk in May
00:37:40We can end by offering him our congratulations
00:37:42The future is what matters
00:37:45Oh, thank you for coming, Commander
00:37:53I think it went very well
00:37:56As well as these things can go, yes
00:37:58Well, I take it you'll be letting us have our room back now
00:38:01We are very short of space
00:38:02The investigation hasn't closed yet, Mr. Law
00:38:05No
00:38:05But since you know who murdered Venetia and Mrs. Carpenter
00:38:10Wouldn't your time be better spent in trying to locate him?
00:38:14You may remember I suggested you look a little closer at Gary Ash
00:38:17The day Venetia's body was found
00:38:19If you'd listened, he wouldn't be on the loose with Octavian now
00:38:22It's the same place
00:38:31No, no, no, not yet
00:38:33It's okay
00:38:34Yes, it's so great
00:38:34It's okay
00:38:34No
00:38:47No
00:38:51Commander.
00:39:06Mr. Progress.
00:39:07I wondered about my book.
00:39:12If it's still useful to you, please keep it.
00:39:15But naturally, I should like it back.
00:39:19All the more precious now.
00:39:21Look, I'd like to hold on to it a bit longer, if I may.
00:39:24It's on, you know.
00:39:27I had the clearest image of a teacher during the service.
00:39:33Not in the old Bailey, not as a lawyer, but just as a young girl again.
00:39:40Pretending she was running an errand for a father when all the time I knew she was posting letters for the boys.
00:39:47I never let on.
00:39:48Her father censored everything the boys wrote.
00:39:51She charged him sixpence to smuggle out the letters he hadn't seen.
00:39:59It's a pity she didn't smuggle one out for Desmond Ulrich's brother.
00:40:04Desmond Ulrich?
00:40:05It's the older brother of the boy who hanged himself at Danesford.
00:40:09He's a barrister in Miss Aldridge's chambers.
00:40:13I never knew.
00:40:15I'd have hoped there was no letter.
00:40:18The parents were in South Africa, I believe.
00:40:22Imagine if such a thing had arrived after the boy's death.
00:40:27If someone had been closer, well, he might not have died.
00:40:30Mr. Floyd, could you come and pick the book up tomorrow from Paula Court?
00:40:39Say, two o'clock.
00:40:40Of course.
00:40:41The and one.
00:40:50Oh.
00:40:51Ah.
00:40:52Yeah.
00:40:52Yeah.
00:40:52That seems to be a miracle.
00:40:58If nothing was done, I have harm.
00:41:00Oh.
00:41:00Let's have a smile.
00:41:01Oh.
00:41:04Oh.
00:41:09Is.
00:41:09Right, you carry the stuff over, I'll bring the bike.
00:41:39Oh!
00:41:41Oh!
00:41:46Oh!
00:41:54Oh!
00:41:59Oh!
00:42:04Oh!
00:42:06Oh, my God.
00:42:08How are we going to get back?
00:42:18Well, we can swim.
00:42:20We can hitchhike and get a train.
00:42:22Don't need a bike anymore.
00:42:25We can buy whatever we want.
00:42:27Remember, everything your mother had is yours now, isn't it?
00:42:38Oh, my God.
00:43:09We just went off.
00:43:11But you now think you went to look for Gary Ash?
00:43:14Yeah.
00:43:17Michael believes if you offer people love, you get love back.
00:43:22Maybe God can redeem Gary Ash.
00:43:26A human being can't.
00:43:29Do you know any of the places that your brother went to with Ash?
00:43:32No.
00:43:36Here.
00:43:37Does this mean anything?
00:43:38Yeah.
00:43:44Michael had a picture like this on his wall a long time ago.
00:43:46It was a present from Ash.
00:43:48I made him burn it.
00:43:51Have you any idea where it is?
00:43:52It's a fishing shack.
00:43:56On the lake near the sea.
00:44:00Does that go to the sea?
00:44:03Yeah.
00:44:04Eventually.
00:44:07That's where I go when I want to be alone.
00:44:08We will make love tonight, won't we?
00:44:17How long are we going to stay here?
00:44:31How long are we going to stay here?
00:44:33I don't know.
00:44:34A couple of days.
00:44:36Why?
00:44:36Don't you like it?
00:44:37Yeah.
00:44:38I love it.
00:44:44I just wondered when we go home.
00:44:48This is home.
00:44:50I want to be able to go home.
00:44:52Good.
00:44:53Good to know.
00:44:54Good to know.
00:44:55I haven't jumped after that.
00:44:56He's lost style.
00:44:58But why don't you choose leaving Kingsman?
00:44:59What has been done here?
00:45:01You're the best of Krantosi.
00:45:02Let her know.
00:45:02Should we go home?
00:45:03Isn't no free?
00:45:04It's been fun.
00:45:05It was a chase.
00:45:06Shouldn't go home?
00:45:07At least a değil.
00:45:07If I leave the bus, it means no.
00:45:09Let me go home to Gabriel.
00:45:10Let the añossaintian này.
00:45:11This is an overlap with Kingb purple.
00:45:13инки.
00:45:13It's an elephant in the lake.
00:45:14It's a beautiful and a few parks.
00:45:15It's a beautiful place.
00:45:16I don't know.
00:45:46I don't know.
00:46:16This morning smells wonderful.
00:46:35It doesn't smell like this in Lennon.
00:46:45Don't follow me.
00:46:55Don't follow me.
00:47:03Don't follow me.
00:47:11Don't follow me.
00:47:13Don't follow me.
00:47:21Don't follow me.
00:47:23Don't follow me.
00:47:25Don't follow me.
00:47:35Don't follow me.
00:47:37Don't follow me.
00:47:39Don't follow me.
00:48:01Don't follow me.
00:48:11Don't follow me.
00:48:19Don't follow me.
00:48:21Don't follow me.
00:48:23Don't follow me.
00:48:31Don't follow me.
00:48:33Don't follow me.
00:48:35Don't follow me.
00:48:37Don't follow me.
00:48:47Don't follow me.
00:48:49Don't follow me.
00:48:51Don't follow me.
00:48:53Don't follow me.
00:48:55Don't follow me.
00:48:59Don't follow me.
00:49:01Don't follow me.
00:49:03Don't follow me.
00:49:13Don't follow me.
00:49:15Don't follow me.
00:49:17Don't follow me.
00:49:19Don't follow me.
00:49:21Don't follow me.
00:49:23Don't follow me.
00:49:25Don't follow me.
00:49:27Don't follow me.
00:49:29Don't follow me.
00:49:31Don't follow me.
00:49:33Don't follow me.
00:49:35Don't follow me.
00:49:37Don't follow me.
00:49:39Don't follow me.
00:49:41Don't follow me.
00:49:43Don't follow me.
00:49:45Don't follow me.
00:49:46Don't follow me.
00:49:47Over here.
00:49:55Quick.
00:50:01Hurry up.
00:50:06My name's Michael Gates.
00:50:09The police are looking for Gary.
00:50:10For murder.
00:50:17Look, swim back with me now.
00:50:35You can do it.
00:50:36We can be in the village before he even knows.
00:50:38You'll be cold and wet, but anything's better than staying here.
00:50:41You're mad.
00:50:42I'm not leaving here.
00:50:44Leave me alone.
00:50:44I used to come here with him.
00:50:46I was a friend.
00:50:48You can't stay here.
00:50:50Ash needs help.
00:50:51But you can't give it to him, and neither can I.
00:50:54Not anymore.
00:50:56Hello, Gates, mate.
00:50:57You all right?
00:50:58What, you, uh...
00:50:59You didn't hear what the lady said, did you?
00:51:01She's staying here.
00:51:02Anyway, how's your sister?
00:51:04She all right?
00:51:05Do you know I ain't seen her for a long time?
00:51:07Come here, you all right?
00:51:08Luke, come on.
00:51:36Come on.
00:51:36I can't do this, Gary.
00:51:43Please don't make me do this.
00:51:45Come on.
00:51:47Come on!
00:52:06Come on.
00:52:36Come on.
00:53:06I know I was going to find you.
00:53:10You all right?
00:53:11Here.
00:53:12Come on.
00:53:16Let's go.
00:53:18I'll tell you what.
00:53:18I've got loads of food in there.
00:53:20Hey.
00:53:20You cook up, Sammy.
00:53:21I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:22I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:23I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:27I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:28I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:29I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:31We've pinned it down to a couple of miles of coastline, sir.
00:53:43right, and there's still no word about the girl?
00:53:47Just a minute.
00:53:49Okay, I'll be up there as soon as I can.
00:53:53I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:54I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:55I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:53:57Okay, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:54:01Oh, I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
00:54:04Come on.
00:54:05Mr Froggitt, sir.
00:54:07Mr Froggitt?
00:54:09Come on.
00:54:10Thank you for coming to see me.
00:54:11My pleasure.
00:54:12Sir, this was her, um...
00:54:16There's a book.
00:54:18Oh, thank you.
00:54:19I hope you found it useful.
00:54:21It was, indeed.
00:54:24indeed. Mr. Proggers, look, I'm sorry to rush you, but I am very busy. Thank you for your
00:54:49time, Mr. Proggers. You must really like us, Dalglish. Even my commissioner's beginning
00:54:55to think so. He was so interested in what was happening down here, I thought perhaps
00:54:59someone had telephoned him. Drysdale Lord, I would imagine. Subtle is not his gift. Oh,
00:55:05there's someone I'd like you to meet, Mr. Proggers. He was a great friend of Venetia
00:55:09Aldridge. In fact, he used to teach at her father's school, Dainsford.
00:55:19Mr. Ulrich. Do you know, I don't think anyone would even know where he came in.
00:55:39You all right? Do you want something to eat? No, I'm not hungry. Well, that best some eggs,
00:55:45I mean, you've got to eat, you know. Gary, what are we going to do? Look, it'll be all
00:55:53right. It's like you said, no one will ever know.
00:56:05You'll listen all day, it's simple now, is it?
00:56:15Oh, Commander. I thought I'd get some of your things packed up. Mr. Lord said you'd want
00:56:23Oh, Commander, I thought I'd get some of your things packed up.
00:56:44Mr. Lord said you'd want them moving.
00:56:47Really?
00:56:47What I'm afraid, Mr. Lord's mistake.
00:56:53What I'm afraid, Mr. Lord's mistake.
00:57:23I won't say this is unexpected, Commander.
00:57:27I'm sure it's not.
00:57:31Shall we save ourselves the embarrassments of questions and answers that serve no other purpose than to waste time?
00:57:37I imagine that you have a variety of questions about my niece, about what her husband might have lost in Venetia's hands.
00:57:44But that's not why you're here.
00:57:47I'm sure you're here.
00:57:48No.
00:57:49You are not by nature an unfeeling or vicious man.
00:57:54I hope not.
00:57:55But your performance with Mr. Froggett was quite deliberate.
00:57:59You know I am a man of regular habits.
00:58:01You knew when I would return from lunch.
00:58:04And you made a point of introducing me to a man whose associations could only cause me the deepest pain.
00:58:12I had to ask myself why.
00:58:13When we last spoke in this room, you talked about your brother's death.
00:58:16You said Venetia Aldridge was not responsible and I naturally assumed you meant the responsibility lay with her father.
00:58:24But that wasn't right, was it?
00:58:28You meant yourself.
00:58:29That was percipient, Commander.
00:58:32You were 11 years older than your brother, up at Oxford, only a few miles away.
00:58:39Your parents were overseas.
00:58:41Your brother was desperate, so he wrote to you.
00:58:45Yes.
00:58:46He wrote.
00:58:49I should have gone to the school, but the letter came at the wrong time.
00:58:52I played cricket for my college.
00:58:54There was a match that day and a party afterwards in London.
00:58:57Three more days intervened, you know, as they do when you're young, happy, busy.
00:59:03On the fourth day, I received a phone call from my uncle
00:59:07with the news that Marcus had killed himself.
00:59:15Do you still have the letter?
00:59:18Not any longer.
00:59:21You went to see her that night?
00:59:24Think of it as fiction, Commander.
00:59:27A niece phones her uncle to tell him that her husband's career is in jeopardy.
00:59:36The uncle goes to reason with the woman who intends to throw the niece's husband out of chambers.
00:59:44Let us call the woman Venetia Aldridge.
00:59:47Now, she has just learned that her daughter has had an affair with a man who's committed a brutal murder.
00:59:56A man she has got acquitted.
00:59:59Venetia.
01:00:00She's a very angry woman, and her response to our uncle arguing for his niece's husband is bitter rejection.
01:00:11But that wouldn't be enough to drive him to kill her.
01:00:15There had to be something else.
01:00:17Something...
01:00:20Something she could throw at this man in her fury.
01:00:26Something he thought no one else could ever know about.
01:00:33The letter?
01:00:33How else could his brother have got it out of the school?
01:00:41Venetia Aldridge posted it for him.
01:00:45All the suppressed emotion came together.
01:00:47Long years of guilt, disgust with himself.
01:00:49Anger that this woman whose family has so harmed his should be planning even more destruction.
01:00:54The paper knife is on the desk.
01:00:58He seizes it.
01:01:00Strikes.
01:01:02And Venetia Aldridge is dead.
01:01:07It's a very convincing hypothesis, come on now.
01:01:11Then came the bizarre events perpetrated by Mrs. Carpenter.
01:01:16That was a genuine shock.
01:01:18I saw that shock on your face when you burst into the room that morning.
01:01:22But you still don't have a case.
01:01:25Not as yet.
01:01:27But don't underestimate my determination to make one.
01:01:32You left here that night half an hour later than you told us.
01:01:34You didn't go home before you went out to dinner.
01:01:37However long it takes, I'll find a witness who saw you.
01:01:40Someone will place you somewhere at the wrong time.
01:01:45And prove you a liar.
01:01:47I would be very surprised if you could provide anyone whose testimony couldn't be demolished
01:01:52in five minutes by the cross-examination.
01:01:55You have no forensic evidence.
01:01:56And the CPS would never allow such flimsier case to be brought.
01:02:01And if it was brought, you wouldn't need a Venetia Aldridge to defend it successfully.
01:02:05You are used to success, Commander.
01:02:09And failure is galling.
01:02:12But perhaps salutary.
01:02:15I mean, it is good to be reminded that our system of law is human and therefore fallible.
01:02:20And the most that we can hope to achieve is a certain justice.
01:02:26Afternoon, sir.
01:02:46How do you do?
01:02:47OK, fill me in.
01:02:48There.
01:02:49Put it down to there.
01:02:50We're right there.
01:02:50I know more.
01:02:51I see.
01:02:52That's cool.
01:02:56That's cool.
01:03:26Thanks.
01:03:36No.
01:03:51I don't know.
01:04:21Leave me alone!
01:04:32Throw down the knife, Mr. Ash.
01:04:34Go away!
01:04:35Enough's enough.
01:04:37This won't help you.
01:04:39I'll kill her!
01:04:40And I can do it in one cup!
01:04:43No one comes any closer!
01:04:45No one is going to move, Mr. Ash.
01:04:50What is it you want?
01:04:51I don't want nothing from you!
01:05:00Larry.
01:05:02I know you don't want to hurt me.
01:05:06I don't want to hurt you.
01:05:07I love you.
01:05:08You love me.
01:05:09You love me.
01:05:10Yes.
01:05:12I know you do.
01:05:14I was paid to do it.
01:05:17Mrs. Carpenter paid me to get off with you.
01:05:19Paid me to screw.
01:05:20Just to destroy your mum.
01:05:22It doesn't matter when you think I care.
01:05:29You think...
01:05:29You think I didn't want to speed my guts up when I had to do it with you?
01:05:33I mean, I...
01:05:33I left it as long as I could.
01:05:35I believed you.
01:05:40You said...
01:05:43Why don't you use the knife?
01:05:50Finish where you started.
01:05:52Might as well.
01:05:54I can't.
01:05:56I can't just see you.
01:05:57You're my only way out now.
01:06:02I'll make it!
01:06:07God!
01:06:08Kill me!
01:06:10There's nothing left for us now!
01:06:12Can't you see that?
01:06:16Fuck!
01:06:17You're right.
01:06:17I will end it here.
01:06:20It's the right place.
01:06:22Home.
01:06:28Don't worry, darling.
01:06:30You won't hurt.
01:06:32Take him.
01:06:32Bye-bye.
01:06:52Bye-bye.
01:07:32Hi.
01:07:37How are you?
01:07:42I have to ask a question.
01:07:46We can't wait, I'm afraid.
01:07:49It's about Ash.
01:07:54We know he killed Mrs. Carpenter.
01:07:55But we have to check his alibi for the night of your mother's death.
01:08:05What we need to know is whether he killed your mother.
01:08:12Now, you said he was with you that night.
01:08:14Look, did he make you say that, Octavia?
01:08:26Does that mean he was with you all that evening?
01:08:29All that night?
01:08:30There's no point in any of this, is there?
01:08:48He's dead.
01:08:49Isn't that what you wanted?
01:09:05I'm not giving up.
01:09:07But without more evidence, Mr. Desmond Ulrich will remain at the inns of court.
01:09:11And if he plays the game well, we can even end up with an unconvicted murderer as a high court judge.
01:09:16I don't suppose he'd be the first.
01:09:18She's in a sitting room.
01:09:30Come through.
01:09:31She's finding great strength from somewhere.
01:09:34There's a lot of her mother in her.
01:09:36And will you stay on?
01:09:38I hope she wants me to.
01:09:43Octavia?
01:09:47Good evening.
01:09:48Um, Mrs. Buckley took me into chambers.
01:09:53We've cleared out all my mother's things.
01:09:56Well, you look a lot better.
01:09:59Well, if I wasn't better, I'd be worse.
01:10:03There's no point surviving one kind of death just to sink into another.
01:10:10I'll try to sit down.
01:10:18You know, when Gary told me what he did, I really did want to die.
01:10:35And now?
01:10:37Now I want to live.
01:10:46Most of the time.
01:10:53It's odd, you know, I've never been to chambers before.
01:10:55Never seen my mother's room.
01:10:58I wish I had.
01:11:09It was full of her.
01:11:10In a way, this house never was.
01:11:15I thought I could have liked the woman that belonged to that room.
01:11:23Did you find out who killed her?
01:11:33Yes.
01:11:35Have they been arrested?
01:11:36No, he hasn't.
01:11:39And I have to say, I'm not sure he ever will be.
01:11:42There's nothing that can be proved in a court of law.
01:11:46We won't give up, of course.
01:11:47But I'm not going to pretend there's much hope of her conviction.
01:11:58It's the sort of case my mother would have relished, isn't it?
01:12:02Yes, it is.
01:12:05I'd like to know why.
01:12:08Why what?
01:12:12Why she did it all, I suppose.
01:12:13You'll find no easy answer.
01:12:20No.
01:12:25But I will find an answer.
01:12:30I hope you do.
01:12:43Your job is to convince the jury that the Crown has failed to make its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt.
01:13:08One day, you're going to be a great advocate, too.
01:13:13One day, you're going to be a great advocate, too.
01:13:13One day, you're going to pity.
01:13:21One day, you're going to be a good advocate, too.
01:13:21And the one day, you're going to be a great advocate, too.
01:13:22It's great, too.
01:13:23You can see the others who are either koral or the
01:13:35wife or her family.
01:13:37I just want to know it.
01:13:39So, I can go.
01:13:39Your wife or her man, obviously,
01:13:41I can go.
01:13:41You can see thenea.
01:13:42So, I take everything in his case.
01:13:42My wife is my husband.
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