Tggrt. E06. Funeral Rites. Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 9th/16th/23rd September 1987.  While a hapless dentist keeps trying to kill his invalid wife, Taggart and his new partner, Mike Jardine, investigate the murder of a satanist private eye found burned in a tunnel on the day of the equinox.  Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine Annette Crosbie - Maggie Davidson Paul Young - Colin Davidson Vincent Friell - Tommy Campbell Jimmy Chisholm - Malcolm McWhinnie Ron Donachie - Pat Connolly Colin Gourley - Father Martin Isabella Jarrett - Linda Abernathy (as Isabella Jarret) Gavin Brown - Derek Abernathy Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie Stuart Hepburn - Kenny Forfar Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart Nic D'Avirro - Roger Freedman Sandra Clark - Mary Freedman Mona Bruce - Queenie Anthony Cochrane - Dr. Crawford Eliza Langland - Sheila Foy Deborah Poplett - Grace McVitie Ann Scott-Jones - Marjory Bennett (as Ann Scott Jones) Michael McCallum - Minister Mel Donald - Douglas Abernathy Maly Hunwick - Nurse Matthew Hodgman - Glue Sniffer Marie Louise O'Hara - Samantha Foy Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews Brian Pettifer - Ian Sommerville Eliza Langland - Sheila Foy Gilly Gilchrist - Gordon Ferry Billy Johnstone - Billy Sweeney Donalda Samuel - Annie Johnstone Anne Myatt - Mrs. Campbell Robert McBain - Dr. Carson Frances Lonergan - Moira Chrichton Jamie Barnes - Archie Gilly Gilchrist - Gordon Ferry Katy Hale - Shona Freedman William Blair - Scott Gordon Fulton - DI Brodie Alan Tall - Ken (as Allan Tall) Rhonda MacLeod - Television Presenter

Transcript

00:00:00To be continued

00:00:30PIANO PLAYS

00:01:00PIANO PLAYS

00:01:01Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.

00:01:09Murder.

00:01:18PIANO PLAYS

00:01:19Who was the victim?

00:01:21PIANO PLAYS

00:01:22Maggie.

00:01:24PIANO PLAYS

00:01:25My wife.

00:01:27PIANO PLAYS

00:01:28Oh.

00:01:30PIANO PLAYS

00:01:31Electrocution.

00:01:33PIANO PLAYS

00:01:34PIANO PLAYS

00:01:49Oh, my God.

00:02:19Oh, my God.

00:02:49Oh, my God.

00:03:18Oh, my God.

00:03:48I've turned it off.

00:03:51Didn't you smell the smoke?

00:03:53I fell asleep.

00:03:54Amy, you know I can't smell anything.

00:03:56You had your bath?

00:03:58Yes.

00:03:59Well, that heater you put up,

00:04:01it won't switch off.

00:04:03Oh, I'll see to it.

00:04:05Oh, my God.

00:04:48Is that the lot?

00:04:59For the next six months, anyway.

00:05:02Let that be a lesson to you.

00:05:03Too many of these boiled sweets my wife keeps giving you.

00:05:06God, do you have some pleasures?

00:05:08Yes, I'm sure you've got more than a few.

00:05:11Well, you're only young ones, see?

00:05:13Yes, I wish I was your age again.

00:05:16Most of the women who fall for me are married.

00:05:19That's out of the business.

00:05:20Only women never seem to fall for dentists.

00:05:23Maggie did.

00:05:24That's debatable.

00:05:26Anyway, I'll see you in six months, and keep eating the sweets.

00:05:30I need the money.

00:05:32Oh.

00:05:32Mr. Taggart, please.

00:05:44Why did you leave it so long?

00:05:47Half-faced gunmen and maniacs.

00:05:51But dentists still scare the hell out of me.

00:05:53Don't worry, we'll soon have it fixed.

00:05:57Open white now.

00:05:58Nice and white.

00:05:59That's it.

00:06:00Now, how's Jean?

00:06:02Oh, hi.

00:06:03Oh, that's nice.

00:06:14Mrs. Davidson?

00:06:16Yes?

00:06:20Father Martin.

00:06:22St. Beat's Church.

00:06:23Oh, it was you, was it?

00:06:25I was halfway down the stairs.

00:06:26Can I give you a lift somewhere?

00:06:29If it's God you've brought, you're too late.

00:06:31I lapsed long ago.

00:06:33Mr. Davidson told me you weren't, well, in a lot of pain, that's all.

00:06:36I'm not ready to die yet.

00:06:37Sorry to disappoint you.

00:06:39I just wanted to make sure you were okay.

00:06:41Oh, damn.

00:06:44Here.

00:06:46A priest?

00:06:48Smoking?

00:06:49Oh, I'd sooner smoke in this life than the next.

00:06:51I'd like to pop in from time to time, if that's okay.

00:07:02I wouldn't put yourself out.

00:07:04Perhaps to the rhythm of a bouncing ball, or the skipping of sandaled feet.

00:07:11There was nothing elaborate about the composition of these rhymes.

00:07:14It was their simplicity and timelessness that made them so evocative.

00:07:18But if the nature of such songs was innocent, the content very often was not.

00:07:22Murder, murder, police, three stairs up.

00:07:26The women in the middle floor hit me with a cup.

00:07:28My face is a-bleeding, my head's a-cut.

00:07:31Murder, murder, police, three stairs up.

00:07:35Murder, murder, police, three stairs up.

00:07:38The women in the middle floor hit me with a cup.

00:07:41My face is a-bleeding, my head's a-

00:07:43Oh, my God.

00:08:13That you, Linda?

00:08:43Don't come into my middle.

00:08:46Where the hell I could?

00:08:47That you, Linda?

00:08:48Oh, my God.

00:08:51Oh, my God.

00:08:53Oh, my God.

00:08:54Oh, my God.

00:08:56Oh, my God.

00:08:58Oh, my God.

00:09:00Oh, my God.

00:09:05Oh, my God.

00:09:09Oh, my God.

00:09:13Oh, my God.

00:09:19Oh, my God.

00:09:24Oh, my God.

00:09:29Oh, my God.

00:09:34Morning, sir.

00:09:57Smells like a flower garden in here.

00:10:01Haven't you got a bad dream at home?

00:10:03Yes, sir.

00:10:04Let my mother and brother's get in before me.

00:10:07Well, you'll have to get up an hour earlier, eh?

00:10:09Yes, sir.

00:10:16You got some sort of odour problem?

00:10:20Listen, if you're going to be my neighbour,

00:10:23you wash and shave in your own time, OK?

00:10:27Yes, sir.

00:10:33I hope you're not being hard on DS Jarvis.

00:10:48I'm not the school bully, sir.

00:10:50Peter Livingstone, but not for greed of you.

00:10:54Oh, but he was bigger than me.

00:10:56You know very well what I mean,

00:10:57but with his background of school and university,

00:10:59you'll never let him forget it.

00:11:03Rumour has it that you interfered

00:11:05in two of his relationships.

00:11:06Yes.

00:11:09One of them was with my daughter.

00:11:11Work with this man, Jim.

00:11:12Not against him.

00:11:13There's no problem, sir.

00:11:15We're both out of the same drawer.

00:11:18Or should I take a hundred lines?

00:11:21Sir.

00:11:22Can I help you?

00:11:33I'm looking for him.

00:11:34Where is he?

00:11:35No idea.

00:11:36Hasn't been here for a couple of days.

00:11:37Point waiting, then, is there?

00:11:39Nothing I can handle.

00:11:41I want the chief.

00:11:42No that end to you.

00:11:45You needn't come to my poo, boo.

00:11:47When I was your age,

00:12:12it was dog walkers that found bodies.

00:12:15Now he's blue sniffers.

00:12:19Can I just say, sir,

00:12:20that I'm glad to be your new neighbour?

00:12:26Well, that's very nice.

00:12:29Where are we going?

00:12:31Teddy bear's picnic.

00:12:32Oh, jeez.

00:12:57Smell.

00:13:03Sir, uh,

00:13:05you don't have a spare handkerchief, do you?

00:13:09Who the hell carries two hankies?

00:13:24Who are you?

00:13:24Dr. Crawford.

00:13:27Sorry, we haven't met.

00:13:29Inspector?

00:13:30Chief Inspector.

00:13:31I don't like anybody touching the body to our eyes.

00:13:35I wasn't touching it.

00:13:36I...

00:13:37I saw you.

00:13:39In future, just wait.

00:13:42It looks like petrol was poured over him pretty closely

00:13:50to contain the fire.

00:13:52Em?

00:13:53That's what I was looking at.

00:13:55It's the least burnt part of his anatomy.

00:13:58Michael.

00:14:00Go up the tunnel.

00:14:01See if you can find a car.

00:14:06We'll need to be careful about moving him.

00:14:08His body's so badly charred, he could fall apart.

00:14:23That's a great start.

00:14:24Feeling better?

00:14:43He's all right.

00:14:43Now,

00:14:46the fingers are far too badly charred,

00:14:49so you'll not get any prints off them.

00:14:50But,

00:14:51excuse me,

00:14:52this is interesting.

00:14:56It's a Zickel.

00:14:59What do you do with a plate?

00:15:02No, it's a pin for repairing fractures

00:15:04of the subtracantric and proximal shaft regions.

00:15:06Now,

00:15:06I removed it from his femur.

00:15:07The thing is,

00:15:08it's shorter than the usual Zickels,

00:15:11which should make him easy to identify.

00:15:13What about his teeth?

00:15:14Well,

00:15:14I shouldn't think he's been to the dentist in years.

00:15:17Cause of death?

00:15:18It's impossible to say.

00:15:20I mean,

00:15:20he's so badly burnt.

00:15:21Excuse me?

00:15:23Shouldn't you have five fingers?

00:15:27Good God,

00:15:27you're absolutely right.

00:15:30Um.

00:15:33Oh, dear.

00:15:36Here it is.

00:15:41I hope you take better care of me when I'm gone.

00:16:01Dean,

00:16:02I can't find a shot.

00:16:04Did you eye me any?

00:16:06I don't know if I could take my eye and a shot.

00:16:08I'm on a piece.

00:16:10I'll get that.

00:16:11It's for me.

00:16:12You have some friends,

00:16:13you know.

00:16:14Tiger.

00:16:15Morning, sir.

00:16:16I saw Mr. Carson,

00:16:17orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Lake last night.

00:16:20He identified the pin in the leg.

00:16:22He said it's one of six he had specifically made

00:16:24and used in operations.

00:16:26One patient has a record.

00:16:28Douglas Abernathy.

00:16:29Did two years for sexual offences

00:16:31against a couple of 14-year-old girls.

00:16:33Did you say Abernathy?

00:16:34Abernathy.

00:16:36Oh, Jean,

00:16:36can you turn that thing down?

00:16:41Here,

00:16:41take this.

00:16:42I'll find you a shirt.

00:16:43Right,

00:16:44on you go,

00:16:44Mike.

00:16:45His son and daughter

00:16:46still run a long-jury wholesale business.

00:16:50What?

00:16:51A long-jury wholesale business

00:16:53on the south side.

00:16:54That's what I'm off to now.

00:16:55I'll, er,

00:16:56see when you come in, sir.

00:16:57I'll find you a little bit more.

00:16:58I'll find you a little bit more.

00:16:59I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:00I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:01I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:02I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:03I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:04I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:05I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:06I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:07I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:08I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:09I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:10I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:11I'll find you a little bit more.

00:17:12Oh, my God.

00:17:42Oh, my God.

00:18:12No, don't!

00:18:19Can't you smell the gas?

00:18:20Can't you smell the gas?

00:18:50Are you trade?

00:18:54Police!

00:19:00Are you Derek Abernathy?

00:19:01Abernathy.

00:19:02I'm looking for your father.

00:19:04Again.

00:19:05Linda!

00:19:07Yes?

00:19:08It's the police.

00:19:09They're looking for Dad.

00:19:10We don't know where he is.

00:19:18Why can't you leave him alone?

00:19:19We just want to talk to him.

00:19:21Talk?

00:19:22The last time you talked to him, he went inside because of lies that two teenage girls...

00:19:25It's not about that.

00:19:27We've just got a body we're trying to identify.

00:19:31A body?

00:19:33Derek?

00:19:37You could have blown yourself up.

00:19:39Colin must have left it on accidentally.

00:19:43It's a good job you came.

00:19:44I've got no sense of smell at all.

00:19:49Well, how long must I wait before I can light this cigarette?

00:19:54Hmm.

00:19:54Well, I'm sure he'd be in touch if he had something, Mr Friedman.

00:19:59These jobs can involve a bit of travelling around.

00:20:05Look, someone's just come in.

00:20:07I'll call you back, OK?

00:20:08What the hell are you doing here?

00:20:15I've got a case you can't solve.

00:20:16If I did, you'd be the last one that has to handle it.

00:20:24Is Douglas Abernathy here?

00:20:26He's on a case.

00:20:28I haven't seen him for two days.

00:20:30He's done time for sexual offences against underage girls.

00:20:34You're kidding me.

00:20:35You didn't know that?

00:20:36I've only been here two weeks.

00:20:43An ex-cop working with a child molester.

00:20:47That's great, Kenny.

00:20:50Why do you want...

00:20:51Where does he stay?

00:20:52Flat upstairs.

00:20:53Have you got the keys?

00:20:59You might be lucky.

00:21:04Sir?

00:21:06Detective Sergeant Jardine.

00:21:08My new neighbour.

00:21:10What happened to Peter?

00:21:11Did you finally eat him?

00:21:13No.

00:21:14I ate you and it gave me indigestion.

00:21:17It seems prison didn't deter him.

00:21:29They seem tasteful enough.

00:21:31Aye.

00:21:31I wonder where he keeps the other kind.

00:21:32I wonder where he keeps the other kind.

00:21:34I wonder where he keeps the other kind.

00:21:36I wonder where he keeps the other kind.

00:21:41Seems prison didn't deter him.

00:21:43They seem tasteful enough.

00:21:45Aye.

00:21:46I wonder where he keeps the other kind.

00:21:50I wonder where he keeps the other kind.

00:21:54I was right.

00:22:00Look at this.

00:22:12I was right.

00:22:14Look at this.

00:22:18The date of the murder. It's ringed.

00:22:33He goes to my dentist, too.

00:22:35The guy downstairs.

00:22:37Used to be a policeman.

00:22:38Aye, used to be.

00:22:40What happened?

00:22:40Oh, he rigged evidence on an investigation.

00:22:44One of my investigations.

00:22:48Would you make it that?

00:22:50Some sort of witch doctor's mask?

00:22:54Looks like the biscuit in a bad day.

00:23:01Looking for me?

00:23:02Yes.

00:23:03Why did you go to my house this morning?

00:23:05If I hadn't done, your wife would be dead.

00:23:07Oh, some sanctity of the confessional, eh, father?

00:23:09Do you realise the position you've put me in?

00:23:11Now, just think.

00:23:11No, you think, father.

00:23:13You give Maggie one hint, just one hint, and you are out of bounds.

00:23:17What am I supposed to do?

00:23:18Let you succeed?

00:23:19You didn't choose my profession, father.

00:23:22I didn't choose yours.

00:23:23You're sure it's Abernethy?

00:23:37Well, there were six operations performed with that pin, sir.

00:23:40We've traced the other five, and they were all vertical.

00:23:45The fourth was right there.

00:23:48Unhappy coincidence?

00:23:49It could be for him.

00:23:52Walter.

00:23:53If there is one, I'll find it.

00:23:55Aren't you being a bit unfair?

00:23:57I mean, whatever he did, he shouldn't bear a grudge.

00:24:00Doesn't make him a murderer.

00:24:01Whose side are you on?

00:24:03Fair play.

00:24:04Look, you, get round there and search that flat.

00:24:07And watch him.

00:24:09Yes, sir.

00:24:09Fair play.

00:24:19There were photos here.

00:24:21What happened to them?

00:24:22Don't ask me.

00:24:23I've never been up here.

00:24:24Do you mind waiting outside?

00:24:26Curious.

00:24:27I just want to look.

00:24:28Look, you can answer my questions from outside.

00:24:30I don't owe the police force any favours.

00:24:35My marriage broke up over it.

00:24:37I was accused of being an alcoholic.

00:24:38Third, when I did try, Jim Taggart saw to it that I lost my job as well,

00:24:42so don't ask me to help in any inquiry he's on.

00:24:45I'm no interested in your grudge.

00:24:50Listen, Sonny, I was a copper while you were still at school.

00:24:54Well, act like it then.

00:24:55What are you doing up here?

00:24:59Out, out.

00:25:01I'm going.

00:25:05Why'd you let him walk up here?

00:25:06I didn't let him up.

00:25:11Where are the photos?

00:25:12They've gone.

00:25:13And the slides as well.

00:25:14Kenny!

00:25:16Kenny!

00:25:25Give us a hand.

00:25:45Give us a hand.

00:26:14Who am I accused of?

00:26:15Between yesterday and this morning, photos went missing from that flat.

00:26:19I keep telling you, I was never in the flat.

00:26:22Oh, come on.

00:26:23He lived upstairs.

00:26:25You worked for him.

00:26:25I was never invited.

00:26:28Come on, Jim.

00:26:29Don't you, Jim, me!

00:26:31In the route of the police!

00:26:34He was working on a case.

00:26:36I want the details.

00:26:38Just a missing schoolgirl.

00:26:41Shona Friedman, age 15.

00:26:42Why weren't we informed?

00:26:44She's just run away from home.

00:26:46You know the law about minors.

00:26:48Her parents live in a commune.

00:26:51They don't trust the police.

00:26:53And why would that be, do you think?

00:26:56For God's sake, Maggie, why are we going this way?

00:27:01I have been using these steps since I was a girl, and they're not defeating me now.

00:27:06Well, you can hardly run up and down them nowadays, can you?

00:27:08I let go of my arm.

00:27:10Perfectly capable.

00:27:12You won't let anyone help you, will you?

00:27:14It's a good job I let that priest in, isn't it?

00:27:17Otherwise, I wouldn't be here, thanks to you.

00:27:19Maybe you'd like me blown up.

00:27:22Be out of your way.

00:27:23You're very lucky, Mrs. Boulton.

00:27:44I have a charmed life.

00:27:48Well, I'll take care of her from here.

00:27:50You?

00:27:52I'll take care of myself.

00:27:55You just rest up for a while now.

00:27:57And keep off that leg.

00:27:58Yes, I'll make sure she does.

00:28:16Maggie!

00:28:17Hello, I thought it was you.

00:28:19What on earth's happened?

00:28:21She had a fall down some steps.

00:28:23I'm sorry to hear that.

00:28:25Oh, I'm fine, Jean.

00:28:26Her knee's very painful.

00:28:28Not to mention the arthritis.

00:28:32Your hair looks very nice.

00:28:34Oh, this young man comes and does it for me.

00:28:37Oh, I'll have to get his number from you.

00:28:39Anyway, I must away.

00:28:41Take care.

00:28:43And you, Jean.

00:28:46Nice woman, Jean Taggart.

00:28:53Who looked at it?

00:28:54The Pan Lothi one?

00:28:56Yeah.

00:28:57He said it was old.

00:28:58Probably came from a medical school.

00:29:00What was Abernathy?

00:29:01No, Satanist.

00:29:02The day he was killed, the 21st of March.

00:29:05It's the spring equinox.

00:29:06One of the witch's sabbaths.

00:29:08Really?

00:29:09By the way, what is that?

00:29:10What are you planning to do, hibernate?

00:29:19I don't drink.

00:29:21It's a decision I came to after my father died.

00:29:25I saw how it affected his career and a lot of other things.

00:29:28What are you trying to do, what are you trying to do and make me feel guilty?

00:29:31Oh.

00:29:31There is another thing I'd like you to know, sir.

00:29:36About me, as we'll be working together.

00:29:39Another decision I came to.

00:29:42I'm a Christian.

00:29:42Excuse me.

00:29:49I've got a commune to visit.

00:29:52What about the witchcraft angle?

00:29:54Why ask me?

00:29:55Let's go, witch.

00:29:56Let's go, witch.

00:30:26You'd better hold you up, mister.

00:30:34She'll turn you into her frog.

00:30:38Mrs Bennet?

00:30:39Mm?

00:30:39I'm a police officer.

00:30:41I wonder if I could come in and have a wee word with you?

00:30:43Sure.

00:30:44Come in.

00:30:44Thanks.

00:30:46Go on, clear off, you little buggers.

00:30:49I'm turning, I'm turning, I'm turning.

00:30:51Oh, shut up.

00:30:56Here we are.

00:31:06Here we are.

00:31:06It's only broth with a few herbs.

00:31:23Do you have to put up with that a lot?

00:31:25Mm-hmm.

00:31:26They don't burn us now.

00:31:27Well, we have to be thankful for that.

00:31:37Here you are.

00:31:39And you had kept it.

00:31:40Is that the same, Mr Abernathy?

00:31:47Yes, that's him.

00:31:48He wrote wanting to join our coven.

00:31:51I met him, but he wasn't suitable.

00:31:54All he was interested in was getting to know teenage girls, virgin ones.

00:32:02With, uh, what purpose?

00:32:04The usual purpose, I suppose.

00:32:08He was a Satanist, and we are not.

00:32:11We're witches.

00:32:12Oh, there's a difference.

00:32:15Satanists are really just mixed-up Christians.

00:32:18We worship the old gods.

00:32:22People always confuse us with devil worshippers.

00:32:26Abernathy died on the 21st of March.

00:32:29His body burnt.

00:32:31Could that have any significance?

00:32:34It wouldn't have anything to do with witches.

00:32:45Who's that, Mama?

00:32:46Hey!

00:33:12Hey!

00:33:16Who are you looking for?

00:33:19Your name's Friedman.

00:33:22Detective Chief Inspector Tiger.

00:33:27It's about Shona, isn't it?

00:33:29There's a reason we didn't call the police.

00:33:48Three years ago, one of the members got caught to growing cannabis.

00:33:53You guys haven't left us alone since.

00:33:55You don't expect a lot of cooperation here.

00:33:58I won't.

00:33:59It's in here.

00:34:07She has a very high IQ.

00:34:11Well, that helped her with all the perverts out there.

00:34:15I could include private detectives.

00:34:17We adopted her, a year after we began here.

00:34:22We adopted her, a year after we began here.

00:34:26Did you know anything about her real parents?

00:34:29No.

00:34:29She was still a baby at the time.

00:34:32As soon as Mr. Abernathy saw that picture, he said he had to help us.

00:34:35You picked the wrong man.

00:34:38You picked the wrong man.

00:34:47It's all about it.

00:34:49All the gentlemen, get your time to know.

00:34:53All the gentlemen, get your easy time to know.

00:34:59All the gentlemen.

00:35:02No one you need to know.

00:35:32Aye, I got it.

00:35:45Now, you never saw me with him.

00:35:50That's for keeping your mouth shut.

00:35:56I know that that wasn't got any trouble for you.

00:35:58Right, thank you, children.

00:36:13Thank you, Father Martin.

00:36:16Right, children.

00:36:17Good to meet you.

00:36:17It was as though I pushed her.

00:36:24And you didn't?

00:36:25No.

00:36:28No, I...

00:36:28I was going to, and...

00:36:32It was as if something read my thoughts.

00:36:36She just fell.

00:36:37And now you feel guilty.

00:36:41Father, I need absolution.

00:36:43You think it's that easy?

00:36:46That hasn't been easy for me.

00:36:47Marriage isn't supposed to be easy.

00:36:49How would you know?

00:36:51How would you know what it's like to be married to a crippled wife who might live for another 20 years?

00:37:00How much time will I have then?

00:37:02Time for what?

00:37:05For freedom.

00:37:06I will give you absolution when you start caring for your wife.

00:37:11Not before.

00:37:12I will give you absolution when you start caring for your wife.

00:37:13Not before.

00:37:36Miss Abernathy?

00:37:41Miss Abernathy?

00:37:47I took them.

00:37:50Before we knew he'd been killed.

00:37:56Why?

00:37:57To protect him.

00:38:03Where'd he get his models?

00:38:05He just asked.

00:38:07Is there anything wrong with that?

00:38:15In his flat, we found some other items.

00:38:18His shrine.

00:38:20He wasn't a real Satanist, you know.

00:38:23He just played at it.

00:38:24Played?

00:38:25He had those things when Derek and I were children.

00:38:30He used to joke.

00:38:32Say those were the things that made Daddy powerful.

00:38:36Protective.

00:38:41What, um...

00:38:42What did your mother have to say about that?

00:38:46She walked out on us when I was ten.

00:38:49Do you know who killed him?

00:38:51No.

00:38:53I just wish...

00:38:55He hadn't died that way.

00:38:58He had a horror of cremations.

00:39:08Since it has pleased almighty God to take to himself the soul of our brother Douglas Abernathy,

00:39:14he had departed.

00:39:16We therefore commit his body to the ground

00:39:19in the sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life

00:39:24through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

00:39:28Let us pray.

00:39:29Almighty God,

00:39:34open your eyes.

00:39:36You might be a Christian, you're still a bloody detective.

00:39:39We give you thanks for his victory over the grave.

00:39:44Keep us an everlasting fellowship

00:39:45with all your saints on earth and in heaven

00:39:48and in union with him

00:39:51who is the resurrection and the life.

00:39:55And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

00:39:57the love of God,

00:39:59and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit

00:40:00be with us all.

00:40:02Amen.

00:40:09I never realised that he had no friends.

00:40:30I'm sorry.

00:40:36If there's any way I can help in this investigation,

00:40:38I like the chance.

00:40:40There are different ways open to me.

00:40:42You're a suspect, Kenny.

00:40:44Now you keep out of it.

00:40:45No more.

00:40:46You keep out of it.

00:40:48Mom!

00:41:18local extraction what can i do for you jim well i need your help on a mother inquiry

00:41:26oh but she fell it was an accident

00:41:28sorry i thought i'm sorry i thought you were talking about maggie

00:41:35oh i um jean told me maggie had had an accident how is she oh she's fine fine

00:41:46she had a fall i think she's indestructible it's just about this private detective abernathy who

00:41:55was murdered see we found one of your cards on his desk where's his photo

00:42:01thought it might be a patient of yours no no i don't know i've never seen him oh well

00:42:10maybe you just planned to pay a visit and then had a fit of courtesy seems the most likely solution

00:42:16you wouldn't have had any reason to hire a private detective no why should i well people do

00:42:23by the way why do you think maggie'd be involved in this

00:42:31nerves

00:42:35well if policemen can be afraid of dentists dentists can be afraid of policemen

00:42:41if i thought of that

00:42:48well

00:42:51well

00:42:54well

00:42:56well

00:43:00well

00:43:02well

00:43:03well

00:43:04well

00:43:06that grave digger you were with yesterday where is he

00:43:18i'm talking to you

00:43:21you being funny

00:43:23hey just a minute you

00:43:25he can't hear you

00:43:27what

00:43:28what is it you want

00:43:29i just wanted to know what his mate was

00:43:31oh big pat

00:43:32well he's doing a bit i'm sure

00:43:34it's uh

00:43:36sorry sir

00:43:38buy yourself a drink

00:43:40you

00:43:49you

00:43:51you

00:43:53you

00:43:54you

00:43:55you

00:43:57you

00:43:59you

00:44:01Maybe it's 13 months.

00:44:03Oh, 13 months.

00:44:0513 months.

00:44:07What is the number of them?

00:44:0913 months.

00:44:13Remember me?

00:44:15No. Abernathy's office.

00:44:17You were looking for him.

00:44:19I don't know anybody of that in him.

00:44:21That's funny.

00:44:23You just buried him yesterday.

00:44:25I buried lots of people. I don't ask them about names.

00:44:27They'll think again. I don't know how they think I'm gonna do.

00:44:30Go away.

00:44:42What are they?

00:44:46You're the police, aren't you?

00:44:48I've worked with a few goats myself.

00:44:52Manford!

00:44:54Don't chase the ducks!

00:44:56You, um...

00:44:58You think a commune's the right place to bring up a kid?

00:45:02Where's the right place?

00:45:04A housing estate?

00:45:06Where they discover drugs before they discover ice cream?

00:45:08You trying to tell me nobody dabbles in it here?

00:45:10I thought this was about Shona.

00:45:12Do you know where she's run away to?

00:45:14No.

00:45:22You don't like the place here much, do you?

00:45:24Last time you came here you dug up the herb garden.

00:45:28You've got 7-0 levels.

00:45:30What in, flights of fancy?

00:45:32How come you're digging graves?

00:45:34You've got 7-0 levels.

00:45:36What in, flights of fancy?

00:45:38What in, flights of fancy?

00:45:40How come you're digging graves?

00:45:48Earn money to buy a hanglade?

00:45:50Then I think your brain's already doing it.

00:45:52And one of these days these lies of yours are gonna get you in trouble.

00:46:00Here.

00:46:01Read that.

00:46:02Make sure you don't go blind as well, eh?

00:46:06Now wait here.

00:46:08Oh my della tutta, metà.

00:46:10Yeah.

00:46:11I can't do that.

00:46:12I can't do that.

00:46:13I can't do that.

00:46:14Nice seeing you.

00:46:15I can't do that.

00:46:16All right.

00:46:17Can you find us?

00:46:18Please do this.

00:46:19We need to find us.

00:46:20Can you find us?

00:46:21Oh my God.

00:46:22I've got a new story.

00:46:23You can find us.

00:46:24I really can't find us.

00:46:25We're here in the next place.

00:46:26We're here in the next house.

00:46:27I'm leaving.

00:46:29We're out.

00:46:30We're here.

00:46:31Oh, my God.

00:47:01Just a pinch.

00:47:31If you're looking for...

00:47:33We've got a message for you.

00:47:34For Pat Conley.

00:47:37He says you've to...

00:47:40Oh, my God.

00:47:48Let's go!

00:48:18What happened?

00:48:41What are you doing here anyway?

00:48:45Watch it.

00:48:52What happened to you?

00:48:57Two characters laid into it at the detective agency.

00:49:00One of them mentioned a name.

00:49:03Connors.

00:49:04Connery.

00:49:05And they had motorbikes.

00:49:06I heard them.

00:49:07Make.

00:49:08Size.

00:49:09My ears were ringing too much.

00:49:10Next time you get beaten up, try and be more observant, eh?

00:49:13Fawfer come back.

00:49:15Seconds too late.

00:49:16Almost too conveniently.

00:49:17Probably thought I was him.

00:49:19You brought him in, of course.

00:49:22What do you think this is?

00:49:24Christian Forgiveness Week?

00:49:26Come on.

00:49:27Come on, me.

00:49:28What do you mean you'll walk me home?

00:49:31What do you think I am, a lassie?

00:49:33Go on, get him.

00:49:34Your mother will be waiting up for you.

00:49:35Hey, Tommy.

00:49:36Don't you go talking to any strangers now?

00:49:40It's...

00:49:41Yeah, they said...

00:49:42...yeah, they said...

00:49:43Yeah, they said...

00:49:44They said, you know this hmm, train?

00:49:45Ha'am!

00:49:46He saidervais.

00:49:47And then tiempo.

00:49:48The 나오 flat!

00:49:49And then it till...

00:49:50More thought he knew I'm praying.

00:49:51What do you think she did, ey?

00:49:52Who would you think I am, a lassie?

00:49:53Go on, get him.

00:49:54Your mother will be waiting up for you.

00:49:56Hey, Tommy!

00:49:59They're gonna go talking to any strangers now.

00:50:02Hey, Tommy!

00:50:03kt.

00:50:04Hey, Tommy,

00:50:06Oh, my God.

00:50:36Ah, oh, my God.

00:50:42Come on, get out of here.

00:50:56Oh, my God.

00:51:00Hey, come on.

00:51:06Help, help, help.

00:51:36Oh, my God.

00:52:06I'd let you know what you did with Big Pat last night.

00:52:09Big Pat last night.

00:52:15I don't know who they were.

00:52:30Maybe I got up somebody's nose.

00:52:35You're getting up our noses, Kenny.

00:52:37Are you interfering in this case?

00:52:40I thought you needed the help.

00:52:41Not from an ex-cop.

00:52:43Especially a bent one.

00:52:45And who's he?

00:52:46Mr Clean.

00:52:47Snooping around when I'm not there.

00:52:50Jim.

00:52:50I'm sorry about what happened.

00:53:05You and me have got no differences.

00:53:07Why don't we sink a few one night?

00:53:09Compare notes.

00:53:10I don't drink.

00:53:11Come on.

00:53:13No, really.

00:53:18You got a cigarette?

00:53:20No.

00:53:21What's happened to this place since I left?

00:53:23A morality drive?

00:53:28It's Connolly.

00:53:29Park Connolly.

00:53:30That was it.

00:53:33Is this Connolly a grave digger by any chance?

00:53:44Well, I've conducted examinations in better places.

00:53:48Conclusions?

00:53:50Sharp knife or a razor.

00:53:52But if you want to know what killed him, I'd say asphyxiation.

00:53:57He was buried alive.

00:54:00I can think of a better death.

00:54:02I can think of a better job right now.

00:54:08I hear you had an identification problem.

00:54:10A few graves up.

00:54:11Aye.

00:54:13You solved it.

00:54:22Jim.

00:54:39Something interesting.

00:54:41Pat Connolly's record.

00:54:43Two years in Bolinia of a grievous wounding, same time as Abernathy.

00:54:47So that's where they met.

00:54:50Sir.

00:54:52Would you do me a favour?

00:54:54Ask that funeral party to go home.

00:54:57Bottle of whiskey.

00:54:58Bribery, Jim.

00:55:00Is it true what I hear about young Jardin being as a totaller?

00:55:04And a churchgoer?

00:55:06Aye, it's true.

00:55:07Refreshing change.

00:55:09What's that supposed to mean?

00:55:12Connolly said no to you, walking him home.

00:55:17Why?

00:55:20You don't know?

00:55:22What are you doing?

00:55:23This is Tommy Campbell.

00:55:25He was drinking with Connolly last night.

00:55:27Is it not easier to use a pipe?

00:55:30I know the language.

00:55:31I used to know a girl that taught it.

00:55:35Tommy.

00:55:35What happened next?

00:55:36What happened next?

00:55:41Connolly.

00:55:44The pub walked here, the graveyard, through the graveyard, home, home.

00:55:54You walked away, watching Connolly.

00:56:02What's he saying?

00:56:11He says he saw a man follow Connolly into the graveyard, wearing a pointed hat.

00:56:21What?

00:56:22A pointed hat?

00:56:26Well, maybe it loses something in translation.

00:56:29Here, write it down.

00:56:33Write down what you told him.

00:56:39Write it down.

00:56:39He says you needn't shout, he's deaf.

00:56:55Tommy, it's no hard of hearing.

00:57:01Tommy, go on.

00:57:07I saw two men.

00:57:10This sign.

00:57:12I don't know it.

00:57:16Each, each.

00:57:19Hey.

00:57:20What the?

00:57:21Ask him if he knows the difference.

00:57:22He says there was two guys in each of the motorcycles.

00:57:40That's him.

00:57:46Right, wait outside.

00:57:47Give me some satisfaction.

00:57:49I thought you lot turned the other cheek.

00:58:00You pair.

00:58:03Outside.

00:58:05Who is?

00:58:06What about?

00:58:07You gave one of my men a doing.

00:58:09Why are you yours?

00:58:10We didn't know he was one of yours.

00:58:14Hey, come on.

00:58:17Hey, come on.

00:58:20Hey, come on.

00:58:21He didn't know he was a police.

00:58:23I don't care if he thought it was Ritzio's ghost.

00:58:26Far paid us.

00:58:27He didn't ask any questions.

00:58:28How much?

00:58:30A hundred quid each.

00:58:32What did he run?

00:58:34A youth opportunity scheme.

00:58:35He had some windfall.

00:58:37We thought it was the horses.

00:58:38Say them again.

00:58:40Wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:58:42What about bites?

00:58:51Mr Davidson, surgery?

00:58:54He's just leaving.

00:58:56Who is it calling?

00:58:56Mr Davidson?

00:59:00Hmm?

00:59:01And Miss Crichton.

00:59:02It's personal.

00:59:04Oh, er...

00:59:05Oh, er...

00:59:05Hello.

00:59:17Hello.

00:59:21Yes.

00:59:24Yes, I remember.

00:59:29Tonight.

00:59:29You're lucky I'm still here.

00:59:42What with the heater falling in the bath,

00:59:44Colin leaving the gas on,

00:59:46and now my leg.

00:59:47Never mind.

00:59:49With this hairdo,

00:59:50you are going to look like a goddess.

00:59:52I don't feel that one.

00:59:53Take your pick.

00:59:56Hera, Aphrodite,

00:59:58Diana, Persephone.

00:59:59I need a cigarette.

01:00:01And you should give those up as well.

01:00:03This room's beginning to smell like an ashtray.

01:00:05Frank, did I die before you get paid?

01:00:08Never bad.

01:00:17I'll get it.

01:00:18I'm sorry to interrupt.

01:00:35Oh, er...

01:00:36This is Malcolm.

01:00:38Detective Chief Inspector Taggart.

01:00:39His wife and I are at school together.

01:00:41Can we talk privately, Maggie?

01:00:49Oh, I'll, er, make some tea.

01:00:55Don't get up.

01:00:57Take your coat off.

01:00:59Oh, yeah.

01:01:01I'm sorry to hear about your accident.

01:01:02Oh, it's my own stupid fault.

01:01:06Well, Colin probably told you.

01:01:09I went to see him about the murder of a private detective.

01:01:11called Abernathy.

01:01:12No.

01:01:13I know, he never mentioned it.

01:01:16Must have slipped his mind.

01:01:19Would there be any reason for Colin to hire a private detective?

01:01:23Colin?

01:01:26Eh, would there be any reason for him to, eh,

01:01:31suspect, eh,

01:01:33well, you, uh, uh, another man, let's say?

01:01:36Oh, I wish I had the strength, Jim.

01:01:41You never had a detective to check up on him.

01:01:44Don't be stupid.

01:01:47See, it's just that this man's got a record.

01:01:50I thought you might have met him

01:01:51when you were in the probation service.

01:01:54But what would I do with information about Colin?

01:01:56I need him too much.

01:01:58Aye.

01:02:00I thought that.

01:02:01Anyway,

01:02:02he's too strict a Catholic to mess about.

01:02:05If there's one thing I know about Colin,

01:02:07it's that.

01:02:08what would he be doing with that?

01:02:08Okay.

01:02:10Okay.

01:02:12Okay.

01:02:13Alright.

01:02:13Yep.

01:02:14Alright.

01:02:15And,

01:02:16I'll let you do that.

01:02:16Let's go.

01:02:17And I'll let him do that.

01:02:20Okay.

01:02:20I'll let him do that.

01:02:21He has a back.

01:02:22All of the way,

01:02:23yes,

01:02:24I'll let you do that.

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