- 5 months ago
First broadcast 20th September 1976.
Turkish policeman Captain Shebbeq arrives in England for his old friend Regan to help him track down a gold-smuggling ring, possibly connected to an insurance firm which is fire-bombed.
John Thaw - Regan
Dennis Waterman - Carter
Garfield Morgan - Haskins (credit only)
Nadim Sawalha - Capt. Shebbeq
Morris Perry - Det. Chief Supt. Maynon
Valentine Palmer - Carew
Jim McManus - Ollie Parsons
Frederick Treves - Beemax
Michael Cronin - Sgt. Chivers
Ian Thompson - Det. Insp. Thompson
Ronnie Brody - Garage Mechanic
Anthony Langdon - Shand
Katya Wyeth - Helga
Laurence Harrington - Lawyer
Ric Felgate - McFarland (as Richard Felgate)
Joe Griffiths - Pianist
Pauline Cunningham - Typist
Lewis Alexander - Senior Police Officer
Tony Allen - Bill the Driver
Jerry Baker - Flying Squad Officer
Durra - Belly Dancer
Charlie Gray - Airline Passenger
Clay Hunter - Pub Patron
Eric Kent - Detective
Jay McGrath - Carew's Assistant
Dinny Powell - Angry Driver
David Rolfe - Custody Officer
Ivan Santon - Airline Passenger/Club Patron
Robin Scott - Club Patron
Byron Sotiris - Police Constable
Guy Standeven - Detective
Terry Yorke - Man Tailing Regan
Turkish policeman Captain Shebbeq arrives in England for his old friend Regan to help him track down a gold-smuggling ring, possibly connected to an insurance firm which is fire-bombed.
John Thaw - Regan
Dennis Waterman - Carter
Garfield Morgan - Haskins (credit only)
Nadim Sawalha - Capt. Shebbeq
Morris Perry - Det. Chief Supt. Maynon
Valentine Palmer - Carew
Jim McManus - Ollie Parsons
Frederick Treves - Beemax
Michael Cronin - Sgt. Chivers
Ian Thompson - Det. Insp. Thompson
Ronnie Brody - Garage Mechanic
Anthony Langdon - Shand
Katya Wyeth - Helga
Laurence Harrington - Lawyer
Ric Felgate - McFarland (as Richard Felgate)
Joe Griffiths - Pianist
Pauline Cunningham - Typist
Lewis Alexander - Senior Police Officer
Tony Allen - Bill the Driver
Jerry Baker - Flying Squad Officer
Durra - Belly Dancer
Charlie Gray - Airline Passenger
Clay Hunter - Pub Patron
Eric Kent - Detective
Jay McGrath - Carew's Assistant
Dinny Powell - Angry Driver
David Rolfe - Custody Officer
Ivan Santon - Airline Passenger/Club Patron
Robin Scott - Club Patron
Byron Sotiris - Police Constable
Guy Standeven - Detective
Terry Yorke - Man Tailing Regan
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TVTranscript
00:009,000.
00:019,000. That's not very much bread, is it?
00:03Well, it's not a bad return for a year's investment on 50,000.
00:05All right, so it's straight. As long as it's straight, man.
00:07It's straight. It's legal, I'm telling you.
00:10Okay.
00:13If they want 50,000 pounds, that'll buy you all the companies.
00:16That's not a bread bar.
00:17What's 18%? 50,000 is what I want.
00:19Yeah, 90,000.
00:21Hey, Carew?
00:23What?
00:24You're nicked.
00:25What for?
00:26Say nothing. Say nothing. You're not advised to speak.
00:28You robbed the jewellers?
00:29Say nothing, Mr. Carew, please.
00:31Where?
00:32Mr. Carew, don't say anything.
00:33Rotherhithe.
00:34Rotherhithe?
00:35Say nothing.
00:36Wasn't me.
00:37Mr. Carew, I told you before, you don't have to talk to these people.
00:40Carew!
00:47They've got no right to apprehend you like that.
00:50You're not a criminal.
00:51You're a illegitimate businessman.
00:53All right.
00:54Come on, Carew!
00:58Come on, Carew!
01:10Say nothing.
01:14Right, that's enough, Carew.
01:15I don't know you, do I?
01:16You know who I am?
01:17Do I know this man?
01:18I've never met him in my life.
01:20My client would be grateful if you would, er...
01:22You know me now.
01:23Oh.
01:24By the way, right in.
01:25I think this man's a policeman.
01:27Mr. Carew has a complete answer to these charges, and William Dupont...
01:30Oh, yes.
01:31Mr. Carew has a complete answer to these charges...
01:33Oh, shut up, will you?
01:34Oh, nice.
01:35David Anthony Carew, I'm arresting you on charges of conspiring to rob McLeod and May...
01:39Diamond Merchants of 106 Rotherhithe Square...
01:42...on Tuesday the 25th of March.
01:46Where was I on Tuesday?
01:48You were robbing McLeod and May.
01:49I have witnesses.
01:50I wasn't.
01:51I was having dinner with the detective inspector on the Flying Squad.
01:55His name is Jack Regan.
01:57Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
02:27You might ask why I spent three and a half hours with Carew last Tuesday.
02:47The answer is simple.
02:50Oh.
02:52Uh...
02:54I had to get him drunk and in a place where he felt secure.
02:58Which was?
02:59The Ritz.
03:02Carew...
03:03The Carew, Carew, is not the sort of man you meet in the local pub.
03:07Furthermore, he has a hollow leg.
03:10Took a whole bottle of brandy before he began to unwind.
03:13Just a moment.
03:15Okay.
03:17Uh...
03:19Took a whole bottle of brandy before he began to unwind.
03:22I just said that.
03:25Uh, it was 1.30 in the morning before we left the hotel,
03:29so it was physically impossible for him to have participated in the robbery at Rotherhithe.
03:35Governor?
03:36Yeah?
03:37Uh, God wants to see you.
03:38God or God-God?
03:40If it was God-God, there would have been a flash of lightning
03:42and the summons would have been delivered by an angel with wings.
03:44With rubber heels.
03:46Oh, right, love.
03:49Far be it from me to suggest that Detective Inspector Thompson is in error in this case.
03:55Merely that there has been a mistake in identification.
04:00It is important that Carew be released before he calls upon me to corroborate his alibi,
04:07which would be extremely embarrassing for all concerned.
04:10Carew is a reliable informant and must not, underline not, not be got at.
04:17Oh, by the way, George, 3 o'clock this afternoon, meet a Turkish police officer at the air terminal.
04:22And if he hasn't made any arrangements, book him in the section house at Tardbridge, will you?
04:26Right, you are. 3 o'clock, air terminal, one Turkish policeman.
04:29Yeah, listen, take him down to Turkish club and entertain him till I get there, right?
04:33Certainly.
04:34What shall I do with these?
04:35Uh, top copy for Detective Chief Superintendent, C Division, and I'll take the other one away.
04:43Keep it around the store, George.
04:45OK, Gar.
04:50Oi!
04:51Doesn't mean I won't be coming back.
04:57This statement could put you out of the force.
05:01Freeloading off a known criminal in a place like the Ritz?
05:04Well, that's not the point, is it, sir?
05:06I was with Carew.
05:08Detective Inspector Thompson will charge Carew whether you put in this statement or not.
05:12Then he'd better be stopped.
05:15Don't...
05:16Don't back him into a corner he can't get out of.
05:19Is that all, sir?
05:22Oh, that Turk will be arriving this afternoon.
05:25He particularly requested that you meet him.
05:28Yeah, I've sent Sergeant Carter in my place.
05:32Good.
05:35What...
05:36What did Carew come up with that night?
05:38Er...
05:40It...
05:41It's a big job.
05:42Er...
05:43Something to do with an official building.
05:44A post office.
05:45And the getaway car's gonna be a white Jaguar.
05:49You could've got that from a little old lady on Southend Pier.
05:51Hello, Jack. What do you want?
05:52You know what I want. I want my man. That's what I want. You're putting him in the frame.
06:01For what? For the Rotherhithe job.
06:02Now, how would I do that?
06:03I don't know.
06:04Perhaps you're trying to get a quick result. Or maybe you're trying to put me in the middle.
06:07Well, that's paranoia, Jack.
06:08Well, that's paranoia, Jack.
06:09Well, 90% of this work is.
06:10Furthermore, it's not the first time you've stolen my gravy.
06:11I've got witnesses, Jack. They've made statements.
06:13Well, they'd better unmake them. Listen, this just isn't a little power play between you and me, you know, Thompson.
06:15There's something big coming off, and I won't cover it.
06:16You know what I want. I want my man. That's what I want.
06:17You're putting him in the frame.
06:18For what?
06:19For the Rotherhithe job.
06:20Now, how would I do that?
06:21Well, I don't know.
06:22Perhaps you're trying to get a quick result. Or maybe you're trying to put me in the middle.
06:24Well, that's paranoia, Jack.
06:25Well, 90% of this work is.
06:27Furthermore, it's not the first time you've stolen my gravy.
06:32I've got witnesses, Jack. They've made statements.
06:35Well, they'd better unmake them. Listen, this just isn't a little power play between you and me, you know, Thompson.
06:40There's something big coming off, and I want Carew on the outside passing me information.
06:45The, er, the post office job, you mean? The getaway in a white Jaguar.
06:50All the villains wearing stockings on their heads.
06:56Give this to your governor. That corroborates Carew's alibi. I've signed it.
07:01Well, that's why I'm not behind it.
07:07Inspector, you beg?
07:08Yeah, I'm coach. Connecting with TWA flight number TWA...
07:14Captain Shebeck. Detective Sergeant Carpenter.
07:15We're aiming from gateway nine in ten minutes.
07:21I said that right?
07:27Very good.
07:31What's it mean?
07:32Happy birthday.
07:34May the horsetang you're about to eat on this trip taste sweet.
07:39Is that an old Turkish greeting?
07:40Did you obtain it from the cultural officer at the Turkish embassy?
07:43No, a great calf down the road.
07:45Uh-huh.
07:47Give us a minute.
07:53Short game, Jack. It's only taken you two days to get down here.
07:56Shut your throat, Karu. We're both in trouble.
07:58It's me what's been deprived of my liberty, son.
08:00It's me who's walking around with that shoelace.
08:01You've been talking to Thompson. You put me in here.
08:04I didn't put you in here.
08:05You can't have it both ways.
08:07You tell Thompson to get off my back.
08:09If he discharges me, I won't cause any bother.
08:11But if he doesn't...
08:12He won't believe me. He thinks I'm protecting you.
08:19What's the next move?
08:21Well, you'll have to face the possibility of going down.
08:24I'm not going down.
08:26You're going to have to make a statement, Inspector.
08:28Same where I was that night.
08:30Do you really want me to identify you as a police informer?
08:33Do you really want a piece of paper like that floating around your briefs office?
08:37All right, then.
08:38Give me the faces that say they saw me outside their jurors.
08:41That's what I came to warn you about.
08:43Don't mess with the witnesses.
08:44That'll finish you.
08:46What's more important is to find out who's behind it.
08:48You're being set up.
08:50When I get out, I'll find out.
08:51I'm not a man of violence.
08:54You know me, Jack.
08:54When I find who it is, I'll crucify him to the front of a circle-lined train.
08:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:59Meanwhile, I'll make some inquiries.
09:02Then stop brooding.
09:03It won't do you any good.
09:04And if you've got any information about the man with the white jaguar, let me have it.
09:08You get nothing till I get out of here.
09:10Jack, you're in no position to make demands, Carew.
09:15Here.
09:17I'll buy you a comic.
09:23Oh, Joe.
09:24In me comes the ball.
09:27Hey, Jack.
09:30My friend, how are you?
09:31Nice to see you, Daddy.
09:32Yeah, we met before.
09:35Remember a guest.
09:36Jack, I've got a present for you.
09:39A bottle of rat.
09:40Oh, that's great.
09:41It really is good, that stuff.
09:43Oh, welcome back.
09:45Yeah, you're all right.
09:46We had a bit of trouble at the airport.
09:48Yeah, they stripped him.
09:49Oh, that's parfait through, isn't it?
09:51Fortress England.
09:53If Hitler was alive, they'd give him a job out there.
09:55Isn't that right, darling?
09:56This is one of my favourites, this one.
09:58Helga, Captain Shebek.
10:00Hello.
10:00In Turkey.
10:01How do you do?
10:02Have you met?
10:04Oi.
10:06Where's the boss?
10:07Locked himself in the office.
10:09Tell him we've got a long-lost cousin of his here.
10:11He says he's not coming out until you've gone.
10:14See what terror you inspire.
10:16But the drinks are on the management.
10:18Makes a welcome change.
10:20Especially as we've got our own bottle.
10:22How long are you here for?
10:24Depends.
10:25Sergeant.
10:27Well, here's to it, then.
10:28To the permissive society.
10:30Fortress England.
10:31Bobby Charlton.
10:32Football mad, he is.
10:33Do you remember?
10:35Last time I was in London, it was for the World Cup.
10:38Well, that was long ago, Captain.
10:40We're all much younger.
10:44And funnier.
10:45Let's do it.
11:45Hey, hey, George.
11:51Hey, Joe.
11:52Joey.
11:53Yeah.
11:54Do you remember that thing that George and I did at the squad do last year?
11:58Oh, do you know?
11:59Yeah, that's it.
12:00Give us a bit of that.
12:01That's good.
12:01Hey, come on, Jim.
12:03Jimmy's...
12:04Jimmy's...
12:05You like this?
12:12Okay.
12:12I can't get that.
12:13What?
12:14What do you think he is?
12:14Maria Callas?
12:16Give him a chance.
12:17Do I don't understand this?
12:19You like it, huh?
12:20Right?
12:21Don't be afraid.
12:23You'll make the grave.
12:25Why, you can't sing as good as big.
12:30That's why I say from the start.
12:33Big that the song has got to come from the heart.
12:36Listen to these kids sing.
12:38Okay, stand back.
12:39It doesn't have to be weighty or smart.
12:45Nothing's impossible.
12:46Long as it comes from the heart.
12:48He's not just a pretty face.
12:50It doesn't have to be classic or art.
12:53No, he's not.
12:53Long as it comes from the heart.
12:56Smile, baby.
12:57I'll give them that.
12:59I'll give them this.
13:01I'll stand up, babe.
13:03Why, you can't miss.
13:06Just pin my star to a chart.
13:08On my shoulders.
13:10The song's gonna come from the heart.
13:12Together now.
13:13I'll be gone.
13:14No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
13:44Give those boys a tonic water.
13:48Suspended?
13:49No, not suspended.
13:51Ginger, is it?
13:53No, straight.
13:54Just take three days leave.
13:57You're due to that.
13:59And after that?
14:00I don't know.
14:03Do you talk to anyone in the press about this?
14:06No.
14:07No, they've got hold of the story.
14:09It's an executive decision now as to whether to throw you to the wolves.
14:14Cheers.
14:15Yeah, but why?
14:18There's got to be an explanation as to why you were consorting with Carew,
14:22a top criminal at an expensive restaurant
14:25whereby your own admission he picked up a bill for 50 quid.
14:28Well, you didn't expect the yard to foot it.
14:30That alone is a disciplinary charge.
14:32You've got no defence.
14:33Unless you can dig up more about these new robbers
14:39with their white jag and their penchant for robbing post offices.
14:43Well, I'll tell you the truth, Governor.
14:44Well, there was more, but by that time I was too smashed and...
14:50Jack, there are enough people in this building trying to bury you.
14:53Don't, don't dig your own brain.
14:56Look, just stay out of the office for three days.
15:00Yes, sir.
15:00Go home, lock the door, take the phone off the hook.
15:03Watch football.
15:04Just see if you can stay out of trouble till Monday.
15:06Yeah, all right.
15:35Ah, Jack.
15:36Good morning.
15:37How are you?
15:38Shocking.
15:39All right?
15:41I suppose you were happy to crack at dawn, will you?
15:48I like it.
15:49Yeah, so do I.
15:51Safe.
15:53Yeah, I can see you now on your little prayer mat.
15:55Facing east, praising Allah.
15:58Allah Akbar!
16:00Did you say something?
16:26Yes, I brought you a car, for which many thanks.
16:30And last Friday when I left, I forgot my notes.
16:34Well, you left them here for me to read.
16:35Do you remember?
16:37Oh.
16:37And could you turn that kettle off for me?
16:41And could you contain your natural desire to imitate your ancestors?
16:47If I'm to shave this morning, it must be done in complete silence, with concentration.
16:53Did you know I've been unofficially suspended?
16:59Yes.
17:00I've been to the office.
17:02Sergeant Carter is sitting at your desk.
17:05No one seems to miss you.
17:06I can only interpret it as one of those strokes of fate, which occasionally come one's way.
17:11Kismet.
17:12My kismet.
17:15It means that now you can devote yourself full time to helping me with my inquiries.
17:23Did you read the report?
17:24The four paragraphs that weren't in Turkish.
17:27You want a coffee?
17:28Yes, please.
17:29Get that cup of tea.
17:30Do you know the security officer at the Cromwell Insurance Company?
17:37Bill Shand, yeah.
17:38He was an ex-squad man.
17:40I need access to his files.
17:42Do you know what the word illegal means?
17:45It means contrary to or forbidden by law.
17:50I can't ring my mate in organisation like that and ask for access to confidential information.
17:55Anyway, what do you want it for?
17:57It is obvious, my friend, that you haven't grasped the report.
18:00Well, it's only about nicking trucks in Turkey, innit?
18:04You know, with a stolen cask, would have been very nice to you.
18:08Chief Inspector Marron, he's one of the kindest, most courteiest coppers you'll ever meet this side of the channel, mate.
18:14I have given him the slip.
18:16You what?
18:18There are many cases which we are investigating together, but there is only one which really interests me.
18:24Okay.
18:26Okay.
18:29As I said in my report, in most cases, the actual cargo is found abandoned but intact.
18:39Now, there has been only one exception.
18:42A TIR truck driven by a man called Ollie Parsons.
18:46Now, I came across...
18:50Regan.
18:51It's me.
18:52What's going on?
18:54Everything's under control.
18:55Oh, and Mr Thompson's been on the blower.
18:57He claims that Carew's been threatening his witnesses.
18:59Oh, Carew doesn't know who they are.
19:01Yeah, well, Thompson very obligingly told me who two of them are.
19:04One is a man called Ardbeg, and hold on to this, the other one's Mrs Carew.
19:11What do you want me to do?
19:12Well, what do you think you can do?
19:14Well, as you're not around, I thought I could go and interview them on the grounds they're being interfered with.
19:18Has Ardbeg got a record?
19:19Oh, yeah.
19:21Okay, go ahead.
19:23You were saying?
19:33It was while making my inquiries that I came across Ollie Parsons.
19:38His long-distance rig had been stolen and subsequently recovered, but minus its container.
19:45He'd reported this to the police and had been put in jail for his pains.
19:49I'd heard a rumour that it contained gold, just a rumour.
19:55I could get nothing out of Ollie.
19:58He was sick and frightened.
20:01Sometime later, after he'd been sent back to England, I uncovered the culprits.
20:07Now, their story was that shortly after stealing the vehicle,
20:11they were intercepted by four men armed with guns who identified themselves as police.
20:17They bolted, abandoning the truck, and that was the last they saw of it.
20:24So, I go looking for the four policemen.
20:28It was then that I run into difficulties.
20:35I suffer bureaucratic harassment.
20:39I am offered leave.
20:41I receive threats.
20:45Meanwhile, my investigation makes little progress.
20:49I find no trace of any of the gold, no flicker of change in the market,
20:55and nothing from my good friends in the Lebanon.
20:59So, I turn to another aspect of the case.
21:05The British shippers.
21:06Why had there been so quiet, right through the whole affair?
21:13Why had there been no insurance investigation?
21:17How had Mr. Parsons been shipped so discreetly back home?
21:24Rather late in the day, I did some calculations
21:28as to how much gold the container could have actually been carrying.
21:33It's been driving me mad.
21:36How much?
21:37Five million dollars worth.
21:40If I get my head cut off, I'll send you the bill.
21:43By the way, Jack, I had some trouble with the car.
21:46I think the plugs are dirty.
21:48Now you tell me.
21:49Also, can you see that man over there?
21:53Yeah.
21:53Did you know your apartment was under observation?
21:58I thought not.
22:23I thought not.
22:33Blame!
22:50Blame!
22:51Blame!
22:51Blame!
22:52Blame!
22:53Blame!
22:53Blame!
22:53Blame!
22:53Hey!
23:03Get off me!
23:05My car!
23:07All right!
23:09Come!
23:11All right!
23:23Oh, Bill.
23:25There's nothing doing with those files, Jack.
23:27Why's that, Bill?
23:29Well, someone's been through them to start with.
23:31And last night, we had a fire.
23:33Took all that corner of the room.
23:35Very thorough, isn't it?
23:37Yeah.
23:39And when you've got a moment, I'd like a word about your interest in the case.
23:41And not now.
23:43City CID are over there.
23:45Distinctly curious.
23:47I'll have to humour them.
23:49Well, it's about a truck that was nicked in Turkey.
23:51The story is it was carrying gold, and your company insured it.
23:55It's worth about five million dollars.
23:57It's the first I've heard of it.
23:59Well, give us a ring at the office, Bill.
24:01When the fire dies down.
24:03Yeah, I will.
24:09I've only been here two minutes.
24:21Just one question, sir.
24:39Have you and 810 put my home under observation?
24:41No, we have not.
24:43Go home.
24:45I can't foresee any repercussions from us, sir.
24:53Oh, George, I thought this ground was taboo.
24:56What did you find out at Rotherhithe?
24:58They're all lying.
24:59Hardbeg's trying to put Carew in it.
25:01Mrs Carew was talked into it by Hardbeg.
25:03If that's all Thompson's case is, you've got nothing to worry about.
25:05No, there's more to it than that.
25:07Did you talk to Carew?
25:09Well, yeah, I told them about both of them.
25:11He's marked their cards.
25:13Did he mention anything about that post office job?
25:15Oh, yeah.
25:16He said a big white bird is gonna come out of the sky,
25:19and out of that is gonna jump lots of men with black faces.
25:22Then he asked for a drink.
25:24What are you giving, man?
25:26I told him it was your round.
25:41Four pounds worth of four, staff, please.
25:43Four.
25:44You got a telephone?
25:45Yeah, there's one in there.
25:46And have a look at the engine, will you?
25:47I'm having trouble starting.
25:49Yeah, all right.
25:50Hello.
25:51Is Mr Chebec there, please?
25:52It's for you.
25:53Regan.
25:54Ah.
25:55Regan?
25:56Listen, I've been down to the insurance office.
25:57They've had a fire.
25:58And they're suspicious.
25:59You'd be hard put to get anything out of them, even with a warrant.
26:02All right.
26:03I want you to go down to B-Max.
26:05The transport company in Sussex.
26:07They are the people who had Parsons under contract.
26:08Jack, are you carrying?
26:09I've got this hunch.
26:10Things are getting hot.
26:11Chabak, will you stop talking like something out of a Hollywood movie?
26:14You know that fellow outside my flat?
26:15Did you fix him?
26:16He was a neighbor.
26:17You fingered the wrong man.
26:18Jack, you're not the wrong man.
26:19Jack.
26:20What's your turn?
26:21He was a neighbor.
26:22You're fingered the wrong man.
26:23Jack.
26:24Please help me.
26:25All right.
26:26To get anything out of them, except for a warrant,
26:27all right?
26:28I've got some injuries.
26:29You're a tough man, man.
26:30Fill me.
26:31I've got some injuries.
26:32They're all right.
26:33I want you to go to the air.
26:34He was a neighbour. You fingered the wrong man.
26:37Jack, will you please go down and see B-Max for me, huh?
26:40Listen, how far is this investigation authorised?
26:42Because I am now under two clouds.
26:44Wild horses will not drag me to see B-Max.
26:53Do you want your stamps?
26:56No, boys. You keep them.
26:59You were right. It wasn't starting.
27:01I found the coals of the trouble.
27:02Someone wired this to the dynamo.
27:07I think it's a bomb. It's got to...
27:09Look out! It's a bomb! Look out! Look out!
27:13Down!
27:16Down!
27:27Are you all right, mate?
27:30Hey, come on. Calm down. Calm down.
27:32It's not right. Listen, why don't you go inside and phone the police?
27:37Phone the police.
27:38Will that be all?
27:39I think so.
27:41Any oil or water?
27:42No.
27:43No.
27:43Well, what was that all about then, eh?
27:56Well, don't worry about it.
27:56Well, who are you?
27:58What's going on here?
27:59Look, when the police get here...
28:00Wait a minute, I want an explanation about it.
28:01When the police get here, give them this number and tell them to ask for Sergeant Carter.
28:06Sergeant Carter?
28:07That's right.
28:08Well, try it again.
28:13Oh, come on.
28:39I'm looking for Detective Inspector Regan.
28:58Yeah?
28:59What can I do for you?
29:02We're making inquiries about a truck you used last year.
29:05It was owned by Mr. Ollie Parsons.
29:09The truck was stolen in Turkey.
29:12The container was lost and never found.
29:14What is your interest in the case?
29:17Well, I have reason to believe that the container was carrying gold.
29:23If that is the case, there may have been a breach of customs regulations.
29:39Yes, the truck was carrying gold.
29:42But I doubt whether we, as carriers, were breaking any Bank of England rules.
29:46You see, all necessary permissions were obtained before departure.
29:52What?
29:54Of course, there might have been a few minor infringements of customs papers at the frontier.
29:59But I'm sure you'd be the first to admit that would be a sensible precaution.
30:02After all, we don't want to advertise to the world at large one of our trucks carries gold.
30:07Was it insured?
30:09No.
30:10Why was that?
30:11Because I have an old-fashioned belief in security.
30:15And I believe that insurance offices are the weakest link in a security chain.
30:21People get at their files.
30:23What sort of operation do you run here?
30:29Is it all high-risk cargoes?
30:32Yes, we have been building a reputation in that direction.
30:36You know how it is.
30:38I spend a lot of time in the Middle East.
30:40Got to make quite a few shakes.
30:42They tend to go for people who don't let them down.
30:46Is any of your work government-sponsored?
30:49I mean, by our side.
30:51Of course not.
30:52We're just a small private enterprise group trying to earn an honest penny in the face of a growing bureaucracy.
31:00Of which you represent today's example.
31:05Tomorrow it may be that man.
31:07The day after that...
31:08The Turkish police.
31:09As far as they're concerned, the case is closed.
31:12Did you know that a senior Turkish police officer has just come to London to reopen it?
31:18No, I did not.
31:19No, but everybody else did.
31:29Hold on.
31:29Um, yeah, someone called Kennedy rang, complaining that you threw a bomb into his market garden, destroying a thousand pounds worth of cucumbers.
31:40I thought it was raspberries.
31:41No, cucumbers.
31:43Er, bomb squad rang.
31:45Got to get in touch with Detective Sergeant Chivers.
31:47He wants to interview you about the same explosion.
31:49Oh, yeah, and one Alan Norman has filed a complaint at Westgrove Nick.
31:55Says you've backed him up the street and forced his car into an accident, totally wrecking it.
32:00Where are you?
32:01The Turkish club.
32:02No needn't else.
32:04I'll be down later.
32:04All right, you might as well bring Chivers with you.
32:07See you.
32:07Yeah, all right, yeah.
32:08Tire.
32:19Carew.
32:22Known associates.
32:26It's a white bird.
32:28It's got me a helicopter.
32:38Sergeant Chivers.
32:39How do you do?
32:40How do you do?
32:40Want a drink?
32:41I'll have a scotch, if I may.
32:44Two beers and a scotch, then.
32:46I, er, suppose you've seen the evening papers?
32:49Yep.
32:49Well, if you could just have a word with the press office, papers seem to have got off on the wrong foot.
32:54Well, they always do, don't they?
32:55Yes, well, if you could just correct the impression that you deliberately threw the device in order to blow up his rhubarb.
33:01I thought it was cucumbers.
33:02No, no, it was rhubarb on the nine o'clock news.
33:05Er, there's also the question of why you didn't stick around to assist the local police.
33:09Well, I was up in hot pursuit, wasn't I?
33:11In a vehicle not equipped with our tea.
33:13Thank you, Olga.
33:15Thank you very much.
33:18Good health.
33:19Cheers.
33:23Tell me, what do you think planted the device?
33:25Well, leaving aside the obvious choice, that it was Detective Inspector Thompson, I think it was meant for our Turkish friend.
33:32Turkish?
33:32Captain Shebek.
33:34I lent him my car last night at, er, what, 2 a.m.?
33:38And when he brought it back this morning, he said the engine was giving trouble.
33:40Where's he staying?
33:41The Quebec.
33:42It's off Queensway.
33:43Right.
33:45I don't suppose you could tell me what he's doing in this country?
33:53He was making private inquiries of a confidential nature.
33:56Oh, I see.
33:58I usually find that blowing a man up tends to draw attention to his inquiries rather than away from them.
34:03It can be very counterproductive.
34:04Do you think it could have been a warning?
34:06You probably know more about the case than I do.
34:08Oh, thank you.
34:11They take life seriously in the bomb squad, don't they?
34:15No, it's just because he's Welsh.
34:18When was Shebek due?
34:19At six.
34:20Well, he's either gone north to see United, pulled a bird, or the geezers who planted the bomb didn't miss the second time.
34:50We've been studded through the window.
35:05Yes?
35:06Yes?
35:09Mrs Parsons.
35:10We're police officers.
35:12Captain Shebek.
35:13He was here yesterday.
35:15Come in.
35:15Yeah, that's what we wanted to talk to you about.
35:23Detective Inspector Regan, Detective Sergeant Carter.
35:27Do you want me to have a look at that, Gav?
35:29Do you like it?
35:30Yeah.
35:31Right little masterpiece, innit?
35:33It's a yank job.
35:35You don't get nothing like that over here.
35:37They take a real pride in their rigs.
35:39Do you want a cup of tea?
35:41Oh, yes, me, Gav.
35:42Thanks.
35:42How much your rig cost, Ollie?
35:47Everything.
35:48It was the house, the old inheritance, my savings, over £20,000.
35:54You're short for theft, were you?
35:56Well, the truck wasn't stolen.
35:57It was confiscated.
35:59It was the cargo that was stolen.
36:01What was the cargo?
36:03I didn't know then, but I know now.
36:06It was gold, wasn't it?
36:07Yeah.
36:07When did you find that out, Ollie?
36:09When I was inside.
36:11I was inside for three months, till finally B-Max bailed me out.
36:15Took his time, didn't he?
36:16I won't hear a word said against him.
36:18He got us into the best hospitals, none of this national health rubbish.
36:21What did the doctors say was wrong with you?
36:24I got some sort of cancer.
36:33Yeah, give us a minute, eh, love?
36:38What are the d***s in charge you with?
36:42Carrying an unauthorised cargo.
36:45Nothing about gold.
36:47The consul, he said when he came to visit me, that I could go down for 15 years.
36:53Well, that frightened the life out of me, I can tell you.
36:56And I think that that was what it was to pull the illness on.
36:59Yeah, but if you were only driving the truck...
37:00Does that matter in a Turkish court?
37:04I mean, their argument is you're a rogue if you do know, and a bloody fool if you don't.
37:09Then when Shebek turned up yesterday, I thought, here we go again.
37:12They're going to extradite me now in me wheelchair.
37:15I started screaming for my lawyer, I tell you.
37:17When was this?
37:18Last night, about six.
37:20You ever met him before?
37:21Oh, yeah.
37:22And his relatives.
37:23Relatives?
37:23That whole town is run by Shebek's uncles.
37:27There's one who's a judge.
37:29The other one runs the police.
37:31The third one owns the garage where my rig was impounded.
37:33And a further...
37:34Nick, the container?
37:35Could be.
37:36I think that was why the provincial governor sent for Shebek.
37:39So he could suss it out, see whether any of them were in on it or not.
37:43At that point, his uncle was already driving my truck around as if he already owned it.
37:47I could see him from my window, out in the harvest, hauling bleeding freshers.
37:51Well, then it dawned on him that the container was not going to turn up.
37:54And then he started getting nasty.
37:56He said, I knew something that I wasn't telling him about.
38:00Well, then he got summoned back to Ankara.
38:02And while he was in Ankara, B-Mac sprung me.
38:05The next I saw of him was yesterday.
38:09He come in through the window with a bottle of scotch in his hand and says,
38:11Hello, Ollie.
38:12I've come to resume our conversation.
38:14We got interrupted.
38:15So I asked him about his uncles and he asked me about my illness.
38:18And then we went through my story again, point for point.
38:21He finally disappeared about three this morning.
38:24He was not sober.
38:26What about these Turks to put the gold on board?
38:31At the time, I wanted their heads.
38:34I told B-Macs that.
38:36But B-Macs said to me, let me talk to the geezers, see if they'll come across with a bit of bread,
38:40so that certain wheels might be oiled.
38:43That way, at least you get out of Turkey alive.
38:45He gave me 24 hours to make up my mind.
38:49During that 24 hours, the doctor did not visit.
38:52My bedpan disappeared.
38:53There was no food.
38:54I can't tell you what it was like.
38:55You were intimidated.
38:56I was terrified.
38:57And when B-Macs did turn up the next day, I just said to him, get me out of here.
39:01And eventually he did.
39:02Meanwhile, B-Macs is probably playing the same game with other drivers.
39:06Oh, please.
39:07I can't stand that high moral tone.
39:10I'm sitting here worrying about dying, and you're sitting there getting into a hot flush
39:15about someone transporting little yellow bricks from London to Turkey.
39:18I mean, it's like Ludo, innit?
39:20If that was a regular run, it could be blowing a hole in this country big enough to sink it.
39:24It's very hard for me, sitting here, to think of it like that.
39:43Where do you have been?
39:45Making my inquiries.
39:46You know, a bomb nearly went off underneath my car.
39:50I told you this case was important.
39:53Here, this came for you.
39:57Do you know what they're trying to do to me up there?
40:00They're about to put me through the shredder.
40:04Oh, don't worry, it's been steamed open.
40:06It's my recall.
40:08Surprise, surprise.
40:10Well, what did you find out?
40:12Have you checked out B-Macs?
40:14Hmm.
40:14Yeah, he's a sort of paramilitary type, you know.
40:19You mean he's working for your government?
40:20I don't know.
40:21Anybody could be funding him.
40:23He sticks out like a handy blazer at a Jewish wedding.
40:25B-Macs is not shipping gold out to the Middle East.
40:29He's shipping plutonium, the iron oxide variety.
40:33It was Ollie's illness which confirmed my suspicions.
40:36He must have come in contact with it.
40:38Not on this trip, but sometime in the past.
40:40You mean he's made more than one trip?
40:42I mean, this could be a perfectly legitimate operation, but run undercover.
40:48On the other hand, it could be very dirty.
40:52Well, everybody wants their own bomb.
40:56If you're a sheikh, and you ain't got your own bomb, then you're a nobody, right?
41:03What are you thinking about?
41:05I'm thinking about my pension.
41:07Listen, Jack.
41:08Let us go back and see B-Macs again.
41:12Let's go and see Ollie Parsons first.
41:14If Ollie Parsons has got radiation sickness, there's got to be some reason why they're letting
41:18him run away out here.
41:33Hello?
41:33I'm going to go.
41:50I'm going to go.
41:54I'm going to go.
41:57Where do you get that from? Portobello Road?
42:27I don't know.
42:57Regan, what the blazes are you doing mucking about on my patch?
43:09Get back to London and report to your commander.
43:13You've no business blundering around the countryside getting in other people's way.
43:19This job is nothing to do with you.
43:22Out of here and take that pint-sized turf with you.
43:27And put that bloody book down. It's not yours.
43:32Up yours, McFarland!
43:35You're not wanted. Go home.
43:57Who was he?
44:11In our terminology, he's one of the funnies.
44:14Funny?
44:15Yeah. One of the people who live in Whitehall and start wars.
44:19Last I heard of him, he was seen running out of a bank in Belfast with a bag of money in one hand and a gun in the other, shouting,
44:26Don't shoot. I'm on your side.
44:29Claimed later he was infiltrating the IRA.
44:32Ah, you mean intelligence?
44:37Well, we can't win them all, can we?
44:39They'll crucify me.
44:43Well, you've still got your three pensions, haven't you?
44:46One for each wife's.
44:48I have a confession to make.
44:54I'm not a Muslim.
44:56I'm a Christian like yourself.
45:00In my car in Ankara, I have three pictures.
45:04One of St. Anthony, one of the Virgin, and one of Nobby's Tiles.
45:10Oh, well, he's a great footballer.
45:18A name to conjure with.
45:20A man of determination and guts.
45:23If we could but emulate him.
45:30Where are you now, Nobby, when we most need you?
45:34Captain Shebek came to this country to make certain inquiries into stolen vehicles.
45:40His zeal, in that regard, is not in question.
45:42But when he turns his mission into some piece of derring-do, he went too far.
45:49Yes, sir.
45:49You're no fool, Jack.
45:50You must have realised this was a political matter and that you had need of advice.
45:53Well, the whole thing got off at half-cock.
45:55I thought we were investigating one thing, when in fact...
45:57This is the statement issued by the security executive.
46:01Consignments of plutonium are being shipped to certain Arab states.
46:05These shipments, for obvious reasons, are made undercover.
46:07Police authorities are requested not to take action
46:12before consulting the appropriate security department.
46:16With McFarlane booming down at me from 2,000 feet, back off, Regan.
46:20Is that a consultation?
46:21Whether it's 2,000 feet or ground level, that's exactly what you're being told.
46:25You mean you're telling me?
46:27I'm ordering you to cease your inquiries.
46:28Well, what about that bomb in my car?
46:36I just think you're bloody lucky you weren't inside when it went off.
46:40I'm ordering you to, uh, ready now.
47:05I'm ordering you to run up to my car.
47:08I'll be here, here, here.
47:10Shut down, there, here.
47:18Regan.
47:19Governor, I thought I ought to tell you.
47:21They've done the main post office at Bar Lane.
47:24Now, half the London Fire Brigade are here,
47:26the whole of C Division, and God's arrived.
47:28They left hell of a mess.
47:30They blew up half the building.
47:31And just for good measure, the getaway car drove through the back of Habitat's store
47:34and up the front at 100 miles an hour.
47:37Yeah, the latest score is a quarter of a million.
47:39And that's without stamps, postal orders, registered letters, pool scoop ones, that sort of thing.
47:44That's just money.
47:45Hang on a minute, George.
47:51Are you all right?
47:52Yeah!
47:57Tell me, did anyone see the car?
47:59Uh, the night watchman.
48:01He couldn't really miss it.
48:02It ran him down.
48:03From his description, it was a white Jaguar.
48:05They landed on the roof in a stolen helicopter.
48:08Where's Thompson?
48:09Well, he's in Edinburgh playing golf.
48:13I should imagine he's on the milk train back now, in a state of shock.
48:17No, no, he mustn't.
48:18Gloat, Sergeant Carter.
48:21It's not every day that a man gets a direct hit from Providence.
48:24You coming down, Guff?
48:26Oh, I may.
48:27Oh, I'm on holiday, aren't I?
48:29No, I'll come back when I'm sent for you.
48:31You'll be a day, you'll be a star, and you can sing as good as being.
48:49Vindicated.
49:12Vindicated.
49:12All traffic units close off streets in area one court.
49:16Vindicated.
49:17Vindicated.
49:19All traffic units close off street away.
49:20I don't know.
49:21In fact, it's a difficult time.
49:21You're going to be a star, and you're gonna be a star.
49:23You're going to be a star.
49:23In fact, you're going to pass it on.
49:23You're going to be a star.
49:24Yeah.
49:25All day, all day, we'll be a star.
49:27Look.
49:27We'll be a star.
49:28All day, I'll be in the car.
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