Two police officers discover the body of a local businessman's wife in the boot of his Rolls-Royce, stolen from outside his shop in the new town centre. It should be an open and shut case - only the new town centre won't be built for another five years.
Douglas Blackwell as Det-Insp Simmonds
Peter Wickham as Det-Sgt Colt
Joan Matheson as Mrs Francis
Policewoman:…….Anne Rosenfeld
Alan:………..Aiaric Cotter
Helen:………..Christine Absalom
Pathologist:……….Jonathan Scott
Paul Holden/Doctor:…………..Gavin Campbell
Councillor Butcher:………William Eedle
Powell:……….Cyril Appleton
Produced and directed by Margaret Etall
Afternoon Theatre: The Twisted Image
First broadcast: Thu 21st Apr 1977, 15:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM
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Douglas Blackwell as Det-Insp Simmonds
Peter Wickham as Det-Sgt Colt
Joan Matheson as Mrs Francis
Policewoman:…….Anne Rosenfeld
Alan:………..Aiaric Cotter
Helen:………..Christine Absalom
Pathologist:……….Jonathan Scott
Paul Holden/Doctor:…………..Gavin Campbell
Councillor Butcher:………William Eedle
Powell:……….Cyril Appleton
Produced and directed by Margaret Etall
Afternoon Theatre: The Twisted Image
First broadcast: Thu 21st Apr 1977, 15:05 on BBC Radio 4 FM
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00:00The End
00:30Has anything happened yet?
00:31Over
00:32Thank you, Kilo One
00:33A message from Mr Scott
00:35Operation suspended
00:37Return to normal duties
00:39Aren't you going to tell us what happened?
00:41Return to normal duties, Kilo One
00:44And please observe correct RT procedure
00:47Roger B.D.
00:49Please observe correct RT procedure
00:52Richard
00:52Aren't they all?
00:55Oh, come on, let's go home
00:57Pass the board
00:58What's up?
01:00Looking for an alert?
01:02No, nothing
01:04Should there be?
01:05I thought there might be something about a white Rolls Royce
01:07One just went by while you were chatting up in this world
01:09I'd like to some
01:10I don't know how the traffic lads can stand these things
01:14My back's killing me
01:15With a yobbo and a bird in it
01:17Probably a member of the South Sea Bubble
01:19If you were a respectable married man with an eight-year-old daughter
01:22You'd know that the South Sea Bubble is a group of weirdos
01:25Who jump around dressed in Hawaiian guitars and grass skirts
01:28They put on a concert at night in Oak Hanger
01:31Some of our wonderful boys in uniform were complaining about the extra duties
01:36He was going like a bat out of hell
01:37About a minute ago
01:38About that
01:39We'll be a mile away by now
01:40More if they're breaking the law
01:42Let's go home
01:43I don't think we should take a look
01:45I should be home in bed before I have a divorce action on my hands
01:49If we were to nip along the common riding track
01:50We could lie and wait for them at the top of Telegraph Hill
01:52Go on then
01:55Do your autocross stuff
01:57I don't think this one's going to make it
02:22Maybe they stopped off for a quick snog
02:32I'd stop off for a long one if I had the back of a Rolls to muck about you
02:36This doesn't sound like a tea break model
02:38That's the lad
02:42He's turning up the wick of it
02:54We've lost him
02:55Okay
02:57Don't stampede him into taking to the country
02:59We don't want lawyers raiding the widows and orphans
03:02Fuck the repairs to a Rolls
03:04There's that good lad
03:09Showing a bit of respect
03:10This is the bit I always used to enjoy in my uniform days
03:33This is the slow, nonchalant walk back to the offending driver
03:36Do it properly and you can break their spirit by the time you reach them
03:40But in view of the inclement weather, we'll skip that bit
03:43Oh, good evening, sir
03:46I think it's a shame
03:48I'm sorry, we didn't realize
03:50All this hard practice you're putting in for Brooklands when it's been closed since the war
03:54We didn't know you were the police
03:55There's nothing on your car
03:57Ah, well, you see, when villains put signs on their cars that say, I am a villain
04:02Then we'll shove up signs that say, I am a policeman
04:05Good evening, miss
04:06It was
04:07Nice car you've got here, sir
04:09Perhaps you'd be good enough to tell me its number
04:11Save me having to walk round the back
04:13I don't know
04:14We've only had it a little while
04:16Funny, there's no dents in it
04:19What's he on about?
04:20Dents, miss
04:21The sort of things goods get in them when they fall off the backs of lorries
04:23May I see your driving license, please?
04:27I don't actually have it
04:29Well, we might as well tell them, Alan
04:30I'll be in enough trouble as it is if I'm not home
04:32Same here, miss
04:33How old are you?
04:35Sixteen
04:35Me dad'll kill me if I'm not back from...
04:37Well, we won't go back to Oakanger
04:39We'll use the Northfell office
04:40Have you got the keys, Colt?
04:42Yes
04:42Can't we go back to Oakanger?
04:44That place brings on my chillblings
04:45You heard what the young lady's father will do
04:47Don't want to push up the night's crime figures, do we?
04:49How much petrol in this car, sonny?
04:52Nearly on empty
04:52Northfell office
04:53Yes, it is then, Colt
04:54We'll go and frighten the mice
04:55Show over, lad
04:56You've gone ahead, Colt
04:58I'm not sure of the way
04:59Right
04:59Right, miss
05:07Helen Susan Snowden
05:0977 New Park Drive, Tilford
05:11And your boyfriend is Alan Stephen Roberts
05:14A training motor mechanic
05:15Off 79 New Park Drive
05:17Where is Alan?
05:18Detective Sergeant Colt
05:19Is taking his statement from him in the next room
05:21Telephone number?
05:22We're not on the phone yet
05:23Nor are Alan's parents
05:24It's a new estate
05:25Oh look, just charge us
05:28Whatever it is you do
05:29I've got to get home, my dad will kill me
05:30You should have thought of that
05:31Before taking a car without the owner's permission
05:33Picking the roles was silly, you know
05:36You might not have noticed if you treated yourselves to something a bit more modest
05:40It was the only one there
05:41Oak Hanger is my hometown, Miss
05:44It's been ruined by the motor car
05:46The streets are crammed with them
05:47Half of them are legally parked
05:48It's true, there was only the roles
05:50You went to Oak Hanger to see the South Sea Bubble concert?
05:54Yes
05:55There wasn't a bus for half an hour, so we went for a walk to look around
05:59Where to?
06:00Well, I don't know
06:01We'd never been to Oak Hanger before
06:03Describe it
06:03Well, we went down the main street
06:07And then turned off into a sort of shopping centre, it looked like
06:11All made into little squares with roads going off at each corner
06:14It was spooky
06:16I got frightened
06:17I've never heard of anyone being frightened of shops
06:19Except the prices, maybe
06:20The whole place was dead
06:22Shops usually are at night?
06:23No, not dead like that
06:24Like what, then?
06:26They were all empty
06:27Why go there in the first place?
06:30Alan wanted to...
06:31Alan wanted to what?
06:35Oh, you know
06:35No
06:36He wanted to, you know, mess about
06:40In a shop doorway?
06:41Yes
06:42But I was too scared
06:44There was no one about, not even cars, so it didn't seem natural
06:47You like an audience when you and Alan mess about
06:50You don't understand
06:50That's right, miss, help me
06:51Well, I'm trying to, aren't I?
06:53If you say so
06:54Was it a shopping precinct, this centre of yours?
06:59In a way
06:59But it wasn't like an ordinary shopping centre, you know what I mean?
07:03No
07:03There were no lights in the window, sort of thing
07:06We kept walking, but we got lost
07:09Each square looked like the last one
07:11And then I got scared
07:13What could you see in these shop windows?
07:17It was too dark
07:18Most of them looked empty
07:20We walked for ages and couldn't find anyone to tell us the way back to the town
07:24I thought you said you were already in the town
07:26Well, we couldn't have been, could we?
07:28There was no traffic noise
07:29It was like
07:29Oh, what's the use?
07:32You don't believe me?
07:36Well
07:37It was like a ghost town
07:40Except everything was new
07:42All we wanted to do was ask someone the way
07:45I was getting scared
07:47Where did you find the rolls?
07:50It was parked outside a shop
07:51There was a light on at the back
07:54We could see the shadow of a man sitting behind a frosted glass screen
07:57As if he was at a desk or something
07:58What sort of shop?
08:00Fabric and curtain materials
08:01Mm-hmm
08:02Alan tapped on the glass
08:04But the man didn't move
08:05And then Alan shouted through the letterbox
08:08And still he didn't move, even when Alan shouted hard
08:10And then
08:11Well, then just as it started to rain
08:15I noticed something odd about the dummies
08:17Well?
08:21Well, they had cloth wrapped around them
08:23All pinned up to make it look as if they were wearing evening dresses
08:25Well, I'd never seen such materials
08:28There were patterns of dragons with flames coming out their mouths
08:32And there was this dummy with really funny material around her
08:36She looked like she was wrapped in fire
08:38But it was her eyes
08:41They were slanting like she was Chinese
08:44And they followed you
08:45You know
08:47Like those pictures on hoardings where their eyes follow you
08:50No matter where you stand
08:51But you never see their eyes move
08:52The dummy's eyes were like that
08:55Staring at me all the time
08:57And then I started screaming
08:58Alan had to hit me
09:00I see
09:00You started screaming for no reason
09:03I've just told you why
09:04You described something you've noticed before on hoardings
09:06So why be frightened?
09:07Well, I don't know why I was scared, do I?
09:10I mean, when you're scared
09:11You don't say to yourself
09:12Why am I scared, do you?
09:14All I know is I started screaming
09:15And the man in the shop didn't even move
09:17Not even when Alan started his car up
09:19It was unlocked?
09:21Yes
09:21How did he start it?
09:24A piece of wire from the cord of the battery?
09:25Something like that
09:26What was the name of this shop?
09:29I don't know
09:30Living Fabrics or something
09:33The Living Fabrics Centre?
09:35Something like that
09:36Listen, Miss Snowden
09:39Oak Hanger is an old-fashioned town
09:42With old-fashioned streets
09:43And very old-fashioned shops
09:44There's nothing there that even remotely resembles
09:47This shopping centre you described
09:48But there is a shop called
09:50The Living Fabrics Centre
09:51It's an old place
09:53That's been smartened up
09:54And it's just across the road
09:56From my office
09:57In Oak Hanger Police Headquarters
09:59Both stories match
10:04Kids get themselves worked up
10:06Into a chance at these concerts
10:07Oh, hell, look at the time
10:09My wife will be sitting at home
10:10Writing letters to solicitors
10:12Aren't you down for some leave?
10:13Yeah, three days
10:14I'll spend it patching up our marriage
10:16The last thing I want is a court appearance
10:18Over a lousy taking without owner's consent
10:20We'd better put the rolls in the garage
10:22And look up
10:23Come on, you two
10:25We'll run you home
10:25Aren't you going to charge us?
10:28It's your lucky day
10:29I'm feeling generous
10:30And the mice have eaten the charge sheets
10:31Thank you
10:32I shouldn't celebrate just yet
10:34The rolls owner could always prosecute
10:36On his own account
10:37Is that turning on the right?
10:43On the corner will be fine
10:44The road's not made up yet
10:45Remember what I said
10:50Not all the funds are as good-natured
10:52And as amiable as I am
10:53You've been very kind
10:54We won't do it again
10:55Thank you very much, sir
10:57What'll you tell your parents?
10:59We'll think of something
11:00With your imagination
11:02I should have got you to dream up
11:03A story for my wife
11:04Well, goodnight
11:05And stay out of trouble
11:07Goodnight, sir
11:08And thank you very much indeed
11:10Home, Colt
11:11What are you grinning at?
11:15You're getting soft in your old age
11:17Well, they seem decent enough kids
11:19From now on, they'll think
11:21Nothing but good of the police force
11:23They'll get married
11:24Have kids of their own
11:26Bring them up as law-abiding citizens
11:28Come on, to hell with the speed limit
11:31I want to get home
11:35Morning
11:41Get out of my chair
11:44Oh, sorry
11:45Why is the place crawling with uniforms?
11:48Protest rally this afternoon
11:50Over the town centre redevelopment
11:51Oh, yeah
11:52I've traced the index on that Rolls Royce
11:54It belongs to a David Peter Kingham
11:57Coombe Copse
11:58Oak Hanger
11:59The index letters match his initials
12:01Personalised number plates
12:03One of the customs of the rich
12:04I thought we agreed to swing the whole thing out of traffic
12:06Oh, well, they're up to their eyes over the rally
12:08They asked if we'd deal with the problem as we found it
12:11And you said yes
12:13Well, they were very polite
12:14This David Kingham hasn't reported his card as missing
12:18Well, ring him up and tell him to come and collect it
12:20It's still over at Northfield
12:21I told you to bring it here first thing
12:23Yeah, there's a problem
12:24London issued the number
12:25They say it was for an MGB
12:27Not a Rolls
12:28Oh, right
12:29So he's transferred the number to his Rolls
12:31If it matches his initials
12:32It's pretty off
12:32There's another problem
12:33Oh, no
12:34How much do you think a new braking system will cost for Rolls?
12:38A larger packet than the ones you and I see each month
12:40Why?
12:41Do you remember thumping the rear end on a pothole or something
12:43When you drove it last night?
12:44No
12:44Why?
12:46What's the matter?
12:47Must have been those two kids then
12:48When I went to collect it this morning
12:50I noticed a pool of brake fluid on the floor of the garage
12:52Right under the rear axle
12:54That's why I didn't drive it back from Northfield
12:56I was hoping for a nice, quiet Sunday
12:59Come on, let's go and take a look
13:02Right
13:03There, see?
13:12Pool of it
13:13It's larger now than when I first saw it
13:15It was perfectly okay when I drove it last night
13:18What are you doing?
13:21That's odd
13:24The brake pedal feels firm enough
13:27It should be spongy with all that fluid leaking out
13:31It could be something broken in the boot
13:36Let's have a closer look
13:39You'd better get this boot open, Colt
13:46It doesn't brake fluid
13:48It's blood
13:50I thought your keys could open anything
14:01It's always the last one that fits
14:03Wasn't it Paul Jennings who wrote about the hostility of inanimate objects towards man
14:08The Sunday papers will be writing about my hostility towards you if you don't get this boot open
14:12Jennings was right
14:14Oh
14:19Oh
14:20This should make my divorce a dead suit
14:25Human female
14:30Ten out of ten
14:32Aged twenty-four to thirty
14:35Weight would have been around forty kilos
14:37Including blood which wasn't supplied
14:39Had a child around two years ago
14:42And this would have been another in thirty weeks
14:45Length one hundred and fifty centimetres
14:47Quite small
14:49Asian bone structure
14:50Possibly Cantonese
14:52But I'm not an anthropologist
14:53Sandwich?
14:55No thanks
14:55COD
14:57Is that how you came by her?
14:58Cause of death
14:59Sure
15:00That's good
15:01No thanks
15:01Manually induced asphyxion
15:04It's spelt with Y
15:06A foot strangulation
15:08And a clumsy job done in her afterwards
15:12It was this tibia that punctured the polythene bag
15:14And caused the blood to leak out
15:16Quite definitely foul play
15:18There was a wedding ring
15:19I tried to get it off
15:20It's quite easy when they're dead
15:21Here
15:21Damn
15:23No mustard in this one
15:24Can you let me have a report later today?
15:27Now who would I get to type it on a Sunday?
15:29First thing in the morning
15:30I'm sure you won't try one of these
15:33My wife cured her own ham
15:35Doctor Inspector Simmons' office
15:43Yes he's here now
15:45Mr. Scott
15:46No
15:47Good afternoon sir
15:50Yes
15:51We expect to make an arrest in twelve hours
15:53So there won't be any need to set up a
15:55Thank you sir
15:58But there's my leave
15:59So if
16:00He trusts us Colt
16:05Says he's happy to leave the whole affair in my hands
16:07Naturally I didn't tell him the kids who nicked the rolls
16:10Gave us false names and addresses
16:12Their descriptions have been circulated
16:14Do you reckon they're involved?
16:15No
16:15They took the rolls just as they said
16:17I only wish I'd shown them all of my customary ruthlessness
16:20They seem decent kids too
16:23Did he?
16:24Do you want to see the center of our town
16:26A town center protest rally
16:28Shut that window
16:30Do you want to see our fine buildings fall down
16:33To make way for a new shot?
16:35These things are rare now
16:36Powder compacts
16:38Yeah
16:38Women don't use them as much as they used to
16:40I bought the wife one and she's never looked at it
16:42But then she doesn't like anything I buy her
16:45Any inscription?
16:47To my darling Lee San on our first anniversary from your loving husband David
16:52Well that's funny
16:54What?
16:55That rabble rouser outside just said something about the new town center having squares
16:59Well there's film in this camera
17:01Three exposures usually
17:02Now listen a minute
17:03Well I don't know what they're getting so worked up about
17:07New town center won't be built for at least five years
17:10By which time most of them will have moved
17:11Time we moved in on David Peter Kingham
17:15Smart place
17:22You have to have someone decent to keep a Rolls Royce
17:25They're fussy about the homes they go to
17:27Yes?
17:30Oh good morning
17:31I'm Detective Inspector Simmons
17:33And this is my colleague Detective Sergeant Colt
17:35Oh madam
17:36Oakanger CID
17:37Is Mr. Kingham at home please?
17:40No
17:40When will he be in?
17:42Why do you want him?
17:43We'd like to ask him a few questions
17:46Well you
17:47You'd better come in
17:48I'm David's mother-in-law
17:53I'm looking after the children while he's abroad
17:56Mother-in-law?
17:57Yes
17:58Where is he Mrs.
18:01Oh Francis
18:02David's in Hong Kong
18:03I see
18:05Can I help?
18:06When will he be back?
18:08Not for two weeks
18:09Is there anything like...
18:10Why hasn't his car been reported missing?
18:12Well it's not
18:13I used it this morning to take the children to school
18:16How many cars has he got?
18:18Well only one
18:18An MGB
18:19What about a white Rolls Royce?
18:21Oh
18:21That only exists in his dreams
18:24It's his great ambition to own one
18:26Maybe he will one day
18:27He's ambitious and the shop's doing well
18:29What shop is that Mrs. Francis?
18:31You're not very observant for policemen are you?
18:33The Living Fabric Centre
18:35Right opposite the Oak Hanger Police Station
18:37How many branches are there?
18:38Only one at the moment
18:39And what's he doing in Hong Kong?
18:43Supposing you tell me what all this is about?
18:44One thing at a time Mrs. Francis
18:46If you would tell me what your son-in-law is doing in Hong Kong
18:49He's gone there to look for new textile designs
18:51But David's like that
18:52He wanted to see for himself what is available
18:55Rather than rely on the tastes of importers
18:57When did he leave the country?
18:59Four days ago
19:00What is all this about?
19:02We're making inquiries about his wife
19:04Caroline?
19:06Why?
19:07It's hard to believe she's your daughter
19:09Caroline is dead
19:11How did you find out?
19:13What are you two playing at?
19:16Caroline's been dead for six months now
19:18Give us that envelope, Colt
19:20Here you are, sir
19:21Is this her?
19:26Of course not
19:27Caroline didn't look like that
19:30What do you think I am?
19:32Give us time and we'll find out, Mrs. Francis
19:34Is this normal to come around asking horrid questions?
19:38Look
19:39This is Caroline
19:40Did she look Chinese?
19:44Do I look Chinese?
19:46Well
19:47Sir, our David Peter Kingham is leading a double life
19:55Looks like it
19:56I suppose this Chinese girl is his wife
20:00To my darling Lee San on our first anniversary
20:03From your loving husband, David
20:06Maybe a big of his double life
20:08If he married Lee San before his first wife died
20:10Pity there's no date engraved on that wedding ring
20:14He's made previous trips to Hong Kong
20:16Which he's kept from his mother-in-law
20:17Found the lovely Lee San
20:19Brought her home
20:20And set her up in a flat
20:21And bought a Rolls Royce
20:23Acted out his fantasy
20:24So he must have other branches to be able to afford it
20:26Like the one those kids found the Rolls parked outside
20:29Yeah
20:30It's odd we haven't been able to find it
20:32Even oddest that we haven't been able to trace those kids
20:35Oh, hell
20:39That idiot's blocked the road
20:41Why don't those uniforms have him for obstruction?
20:50Let me say he's on wine, Gilda
20:52Maybe she was blackmailing him
20:54Maybe she saw him as a likely sponge to be squeezed
20:58When she first met him in Hong Kong
20:59Yeah
21:00Or maybe he discovered he couldn't afford to run two cars
21:03Two homes and two wives
21:05So he decided to liquidate some of his assets
21:08That is a very sick joke
21:11We're looking for a very sick man
21:12Oh, take me home
21:15I'll have some explaining to do about my leave
21:17No, I haven't
21:23Morning
21:24If you're late
21:25Shut up and get out of my chair
21:27Our burst of passion when the alarm clock went off
21:30Oh
21:30Telegram for you
21:32You work your guts out to provide him with a home
21:35Anyway
21:36He didn't kill his first wife
21:38She died during a kidney transplant operation
21:40Where's that Rolls?
21:41Still locked up in the Northfell office
21:42I asked you to shift it here into the station yard
21:45Haven't you got enough sense to realise
21:46It's asking for trouble
21:47Leaving a car worth several thousand at that abandoned hole
21:50All the spare parking spaces are needed
21:52For the extra mobiles being drafted in to deal with the demos
21:54Does it matter?
21:55Not if you don't mind driving out there
21:56To recheck the chassis number you were supposed to write down
21:59Why?
22:00Rolls-Royce say they haven't issued such a number
22:03It's too high
22:03I'd like double-check
22:04Well, go back and triple-check
22:06According to this telegram
22:07Rolls-Royce say that at the present rate of production
22:09They don't expect to issue this chassis number for at least another five years
22:13I'll go right away
22:14Be back by two
22:15We're going to the Home Office Immigration Department at Croydon
22:18Then we toddle along to the Passport Office in Petit France
22:21Our lovely Lisanne must be in someone's records
22:24Maybe you brought her into the country rolled up in a bolt of cloth
22:27She's small enough
22:28Was small enough
22:29Stop when you see a brick wall
22:35Why?
22:36So I can beat my head against it
22:38What am I going to tell Scott?
22:41The truth?
22:42You're skinny
22:42The only reason he hasn't called in the RCS
22:45Is because I promised an immediate arrest
22:47There's banking on the Immigration Office finding something
22:50It's crazy
22:52We've got a murder?
22:53Definite
22:54We've got a body?
22:55Definite
22:55And we've got a number one suspect we can't lay our hands on
22:59What about flying out to Hong Kong?
23:01With the Hong Kong police watching him on a 24-hour surveillance for us
23:04What are you going to say to justify drawing two or three thousand in expenses?
23:08Maybe the photographs from the film and the camera will tell us something
23:11The lab promised to have them on your desk by the time we got back
23:14Mrs. Francis was lying
23:18Eh?
23:18She said she'd never seen Lisanne
23:20Look
23:21Lisanne and our Mrs. Francis posing outside the Kingham House
23:25And look
23:27The lovely Lisanne and Mrs. Francis sitting on the bumper of a Rolls-Royce parked in the Kingham Drive
23:33Yes
23:33Come on, Colt
23:34Can I have another look at those photos before we see her?
23:47Yeah
23:47What's the matter?
23:50Something that's been worrying me
23:51Hmm
23:51Now, this peach tree in the photograph
23:55Yeah
23:55That one over there on the front wall
23:56In the photograph it looks about five or six years old
23:59Now look at the one over there
24:01See?
24:02It looks like a sapling
24:04It is
24:05That thing flapping in the breeze is a nurseryman's label
24:08So, the original tree died and they planted a new one
24:10Take another look at that tree in the photograph
24:13I don't think it could have died
24:15It's in a sheltered, well-drained spot
24:17Ideal for a peach
24:18And it looks perfectly healthy
24:21Fascinating
24:22Let's go and see Mrs. Francis
24:25Come on and look around the garden
24:29Okay
24:31I'll talk to Mrs. Francis while you talk to your peach tree
24:34Something for you to bark up
24:36I tell you, I've never seen her before
24:41I see
24:42So she was just someone who happened to be passing when the picture was taken
24:46Who just happened to sit beside you on the bumper
24:48And you just happened not to notice
24:51Is that it?
24:52Photographs can be faked
24:53No, Mrs. Francis, it is possible to use negatives in such a way as to produce fake photographs
24:57But we have the negatives of these pictures and they're perfect
25:00David was a keen photographer
25:02He used to spend hours in his darkroom
25:04Was a keen photographer?
25:05He gave it up
25:05The shop took up all his time so he sold his equipment
25:07I can show you pictures he's taken indoors
25:10And yet they look like the outdoors
25:11Because he took them against a background picture
25:13David was clever like that
25:15I doubt if he was clever enough to fake this picture, Mrs. Francis
25:18But it can't be me
25:20I'd never worn my hair like that for one thing
25:25It doesn't make sense
25:26The only thing that doesn't make sense
25:27Is why you insist that you've never seen Lee San
25:30Well, we'll call again tomorrow
25:32I might be out
25:33We'll wait, Mrs. Francis
25:35And then we'll ask you the same questions
25:37And show you the same photographs
25:38And then we'll come the following day
25:41And the day after that
25:42We'll keep coming, Mrs. Francis
25:44Day after day
25:46And when you draw your curtains at night
25:48You'll see our car outside
25:49Waiting
25:50You wouldn't do this to me if David was here
25:52If David was here, we probably wouldn't have to
25:55Come on
26:00Back to the office
26:01I've spent a lot of time and money on this garden
26:04Not one rose tree's got black spot
26:06And it's a bad year for it
26:07She denies all knowledge of Lee San
26:08Been planned so there's something in flower all year round
26:11She even suggested the photographs had been faked
26:13I reckon that conifer was only planted this year
26:15And she had the nerve to say
26:16It must be someone made up to look like her
26:18Show me
26:19It's definitely her
26:23Conifers shoot up given the right conditions
26:27But that one seems to have shrunk
26:28Are you still going on about the garden?
26:31It's about 15 foot high in the photograph
26:33It had only come up to the top of my head
26:35When I stood beside it just now
26:36You can have another look tomorrow
26:37I'm going to keep the pressure up until she decides to talk
26:40And it's not only the conifer
26:41Colt, what are you going on about?
26:43BD to Kilo 1
26:44Kilo 1 to BD, over
26:47Is Detective Inspector Simmons with you, Kilo 1?
26:50Over
26:51They're sitting beside me
26:52No, no
26:53State your position, please, Kilo 1, over
26:55We're on the Coombe Copse Park Estate, over
26:58Thank you, Kilo 1
27:00Message from Mr Scott
27:02Go to Sylvan House on Coombe Copse Park Estate
27:06And see Councillor Butcher regarding windows broken by vandals
27:10Why me?
27:11Councillor Butcher is chairman of the Oak Hanger Planning Committee
27:15Mr Scott would prefer a senior officer to visit him
27:18Please acknowledge Kilo 1
27:20Roger BD
27:22And Kilo 1, Mr Scott stresses that Councillor Butcher be treated with tact
27:27It's wasting ratepayers' money sending a detective inspector
27:32Even one of your dimmest constables would have been able to work out who did it
27:36That blasted, troublemaking red
27:37Paul Holden
27:38Who is he, sir?
27:39I thought your people knew them all
27:41He's the rogue who's stirring up the opposition to the town centre redevelopment scheme
27:44Oh, yes, we've seen and heard him in action
27:46Never had this sort of trouble until he moved into the district?
27:49Well, he just did it for himself
27:50Trying to whip up a following for when he stands in the council election
27:53Did you actually see him breaking the windows?
27:55He didn't have to
27:55Every stone was wrapped in one of his handbills
27:58There
27:59That's him
28:00Wake up, you dreaming squires of Oak Hanger
28:03The days when you could dictate to the masses are over
28:05Blasted red
28:07I don't know why people listen to him
28:09The new town centre is just what Oak Hanger needs
28:12New shops
28:12Big ones to attract multiples
28:14A play area where mothers can leave their kids fountains the lot
28:17All laid out in a series of squares
28:19So it doesn't have the impersonal atmosphere of a new centre
28:22The Oak Hanger Chamber of Commerce is 100% in favour of the planet
28:25Yes, sir
28:26But because the stones were wrapped in these handbills
28:28Would you mind to see them?
28:30Now
28:30Two years' work for the architect's department
28:35All this area here will be cleared
28:38Family units moved out to new flats on the edge of the town
28:40That's the first stage
28:41During the next
28:42After that, we'll build a multi-storey car park
28:45And a new police station for you, fellow friends
28:48And this area here will be devoted to the shops
28:51Over 200
28:52A lot of shops, sir
28:54Options have already been taken up on
28:56Half of them
28:56Deacons
28:57Parkland Gardening
28:58Living Fabric Centre
29:00The Living Fabric Centre?
29:02That's right
29:03David Kingham
29:04Lives a few doors away
29:05Put his name down for three units to be made into one shop
29:08Bet you chaps know him
29:10His shop's right opposite the police station
29:12Do you know his wife, sir?
29:14Well, I used to
29:14Caroline
29:16Died a while back
29:18Damn shame
29:18Have you ever seen him with this woman before?
29:25I'm getting a bit off the subject
29:26Have you ever seen her before?
29:27Can't say I have
29:28I don't pry into my neighbour's affairs
29:29What do you know about him?
29:31Well, not much
29:32He's shrewd, you know
29:34He took up the options on three shops
29:36Even though they won't be ready for another four to five years
29:38He said his business will have expanded so much by then
29:41That he'll need larger premises
29:42What sort of car does he drive?
29:44You people should know that
29:45An M.G.
29:46What's this got to do with my windows?
29:47Have you ever seen him with a Rolls Royce?
29:49Oh, I've heard him talk about one
29:51So he has got one
29:52He's talked of owning one
29:54You know what he said?
29:56That his ambition was not to actually own one
29:58But to be able to afford to own one
30:00You've got to hand it to him
30:02It should go a long way
30:03He already has
30:05Yes, well, thank you very much indeed, Inspector
30:11You've been extremely cooperated
30:13Yes, a very good line
30:15Oh, two o'clock in this country
30:18P.M.
30:19That's right, in the afternoon
30:21Well, sayonara
30:23Oh, is it?
30:25Sorry, I thought it was Chinese
30:26Goodbye, Inspector
30:27Yes, you call when he's about to leave
30:30Bye now
30:31Good grief
30:34Inspector Channing of the Hong Kong police
30:38He's having Kingham watched day and night
30:40By one of his best undercover agents
30:41Only one?
30:43A policewoman
30:44Day and night
30:45Chinese have a more practical approach to surveillance than we have
30:49You smell of Eastern promise
30:51Anything?
30:52There's five Chinese restaurants in the area
30:54I must count at the takeaways
30:56None of them know anything about Lee San
30:58Well, we can forget the theory that he met her in Hong Kong
31:02Inspector Channing said this is his first visit
31:04How can you be so sure?
31:06Seems they have an efficient system for filing landing cards
31:08Channing's going to maintain this watch
31:10And call me when Kingham's about to leave
31:12His return ticket is for the 25th
31:16He'll be arriving at Heathrow at 15.20 on the 27th
31:20Haven't you had the feeling about this case there's something odd?
31:23Something not right?
31:25No
31:26The only thing that's not right is your imagination
31:28This five year period that keeps coming up
31:29Your wild imagination won't close this case
31:32Now I want you to
31:33Supposing he doesn't come back
31:34He'll be watched at every refuelling
31:36Stop to make certain he does
31:37And we just sit around until he shows up
31:39You wouldn't want to sit around
31:40If you had the sort of fires lit under you
31:42That are being lit under me
31:43There's still this camera
31:46The Cosmetic TriStar 80
31:50Scraping the bottom of the barrel
31:52Better than being stretched over it
31:53Keep looking for those kids
31:55Where are you going?
31:56To see Scientific and Optical Measuring Limited
31:59Sole importers of the Cosmetic TriStar Camera
32:02And the Cosmetic Microscopes, Mr. Simmons
32:05I see
32:06We import all Cosmetic Optical Equipment
32:08And very good it is too
32:10You wouldn't believe that such a so-called backward country could make such a crime
32:13So you couldn't tell me much about an individual camera?
32:16You merely pass on the goods to retailers?
32:19We inspect and test every instrument before repacking them with an English language handbook
32:23And a guarantee card
32:24To keep a record of camera serial numbers?
32:26We allocate the serial numbers
32:28We have an engraving machine for that very purpose
32:31Now, how can I help you?
32:33I'd like to know everything you can tell me about this, please
32:35When it was imported
32:37When you released it
32:38The name of the retailer you sold it to
32:39Hold on, Mrs. Simmons
32:40One thing at a time
32:41May I?
32:43Oh, yes
32:44Thank you
32:45Is there a full minute?
32:47I have to open it to look at the serial number
32:49Go ahead
32:49It's 5136
32:51I doubt it, Mr. Simmons
32:53Oh
32:555136
32:57Yes
32:59I think there's been a mistake
33:01One of our
33:01What mistake?
33:03Just a second, Mr. Simmons
33:04Ah, yes
33:085136
33:11That's very odd
33:13What is?
33:14I don't see how we could make a mistake
33:17All instruments pass through our works
33:20In batches of ten on a tray
33:21Each inspector has to sign for them
33:23Before passing them on to the next department
33:25And check that the serial numbers agree with the inspection note
33:28Security, you understand?
33:30Yeah
33:31It means that the serial number on each camera
33:33Is checked at least six times before it leaves us
33:36What's wrong with it?
33:38The serial number's far too high
33:39Up in the 5000 series
33:41That wall chart is the sales forecast for this camera
33:45Based on the last six months' figures
33:46A thousand a year
33:48So we won't be issuing the serial number on this camera
33:51For another five years
33:52Mr. Simmons
33:54Is anything the matter?
33:57No
33:57Well, I must admit I'm
33:59Baffled?
34:02Well, yes
34:03That makes two of us
34:05Except I'm getting used to it
34:07You can get out of my chair
34:14Fine
34:15I've got a cigarette
34:23Oh, yeah
34:24Thanks
34:34I gather there's been a reaction to the report
34:38Loud and long
34:40I could hear it from here
34:41I'm thinking of jacking it in
34:43I could have your chair
34:43Mine doesn't swivel
34:44I was turned slowly on the spit
34:46While Scott basted me with a tirade of vitriolic scorn
34:49After that, the CC carved me into neat slices
34:51With the edge of his tongue
34:52Painful
34:53We've only just lit one
34:57Come on, where are they?
35:00Where are what?
35:00All the stuff from the Rolls Royce
35:02The photographs
35:02Lee Sands things
35:03They were in this drawer
35:04I haven't touched them
35:05You were sitting at this desk when I came in
35:06Yeah, but I didn't open your drawer
35:08And the camera's gone
35:09You're not supposed to keep exhibits in your desk
35:12Maybe Mr. Scott had him moved
35:13I have a good mind to jack the whole business in here
35:16And now
35:17I find myself a cushy number as a security officer
35:20I don't please a few
35:21That's why I'm not going to do it
35:23So what do we do now?
35:26David Kingham is due back the day after tomorrow
35:28I'm going to have this case completely sewn up
35:30Even if we have to work all night
35:31We're going to start from scratch
35:33Go over that Rolls from bumper to bumper
35:35Talk to that mad pathologist
35:36Even if I have to eat his sandwiches
35:38Put the screws on Mrs. Francis
35:40Well, what do you reckon?
35:41Okay
35:41Where do we start?
35:43With the Rolls
35:43Go and get me the keys to the North Thel office
35:46It's gone
35:52Did you give anyone the authority to move it?
35:56No
35:56Sure?
35:57Positive
35:58Have you seen it in headquarters, Car Park?
36:00No
36:00If anyone would have wanted to move it
36:02They'd have had to come to me for the keys
36:03Those bastards have taken the case from me
36:05And haven't had the guts to say so
36:07The blood stain's gone
36:08Look
36:09There's no sign of it
36:10I suppose they thought they'd clean up properly
36:12While they were at it
36:13Yeah
36:13How could they get a stain that size out of concrete?
36:17I remember a TV play about someone
36:19Who was kicked out of his job
36:21He wasn't sacked out right
36:22He was eased out gradually
36:24First his parking place disappeared
36:27Then he was given a smaller desk
36:29Then his desk was moved into the main office
36:31Each day it was moved nearer the door
36:33Until one day
36:35He didn't bother to show up
36:37He was about five foot ten
36:40Dark hair
36:41And forever eating sandwiches
36:43I'm sorry, Inspector Simmons
36:45No one of that description works in the path department of this hospital
36:47But he examined a body
36:49He gave me a report
36:50See?
36:51Can I see it, please?
36:52Well, no
36:53It was verbal
36:54He promised to follow it up with a written report
36:56But never did
36:57What was his name?
36:58Hell, I don't know
36:59What was his name, Colt?
37:00I don't know
37:01You bloody well should know
37:02I wasn't with you
37:04All right, then
37:05I'd like to see the body of the Chinese girl
37:07When was it brought in?
37:09The sixth
37:09Of this month?
37:11Of course
37:13I think you must be mistaken
37:17We received nothing on the sixth
37:19And it was a Sunday
37:20The lab would have been closed
37:22Oh, look here
37:23Oh, you look, Doctor
37:24She was brought here on the sixth
37:26The Chinese girl
37:27Five foot nothing
37:28Long black hair
37:29Detective Sergeant Colt
37:30And I brought her here
37:31We waited in the outer room
37:33While the pathologist carried out
37:34An on-the-spot examination
37:35So I know she's here
37:37And I'm not leaving
37:38Will you please give me those papers?
37:40What are you doing?
37:42Inspector, please
37:43Look, can't you stop him?
37:45Do you tell me where she is
37:46Or do I yank all these out?
37:48Now, look there
37:48You think you can just walk in here
37:50And then
37:50Where is she?
37:51It's a man
37:51Oh, Mr. Samuel
37:52Don't you think we...
37:53Shut up, Colt
37:54Well, Doctor
37:55Who told you to hide her
37:57And where is she now?
37:57I've no idea
37:58What you're talking about
37:59Satisfied?
38:06Well, I'm not leaving
38:09Until you tell me
38:09What you've done with her
38:10Will you please let go?
38:11Mr. Simmons
38:12Shut up, Colt
38:13Look, please believe me, Inspector
38:14I know nothing about
38:15The body of a Chinese girl
38:17Look, you've seen our records
38:20Yeah
38:22I'm sorry, Doctor
38:25It was inexcusable behaviour
38:28We've both been under
38:30A bit of strain lately
38:31I'm sorry
38:33How much sleep has he had recently?
38:37He's been on the go
38:38For two days solid
38:39Look, Inspector
38:42Yeah
38:42Some friendly advice
38:44I'll give you a couple of tablets
38:46Go home
38:47Take them with a glass of water
38:48And go straight to bed
38:49And knock you out
38:51For 24 hours
38:52You'll wake up ready for anything
38:53I could have done with them
38:55A few days ago
38:56And I will always look back
39:01With affection
39:02On my tenures
39:03With
39:03Oak Hanger C.I.D
39:05Yours
39:09Sincerely
39:12Got an envelope?
39:16No
39:17Although we haven't got a case against him
39:19I've arranged for you to collect
39:20Kingham at Heathrow
39:21The details are in the tray
39:24What's the matter?
39:27Nothing
39:28Now listen
39:29Simmons
39:31Oh yes
39:32Put him through
39:33Hello, Inspector
39:36Yes, indeed
39:38And you?
39:39Yes, an excellent line
39:40Before you start, Inspector
39:42Detective Sergeant Colt
39:44Is now handling the case
39:45I'll hand you
39:45He's not
39:49I see
39:52When did this happen?
40:00How old was she?
40:04Yes
40:04Yes, terrible
40:04I'm sorry, Inspector
40:07I never thought
40:07Such a thing could happen
40:08What was her name?
40:14Yes
40:15Detective Sergeant Colt
40:18Will be in touch
40:18Thank you for calling
40:21Goodbye
40:23Kingham's done in another girl
40:26Kingham has put off his return flight
40:29For another week
40:30And the girl
40:31The undercover agent
40:32Channing assigned to watch him
40:34Day and night
40:34Has handed in a notice
40:36She and Kingham
40:38Have got engaged
40:39She was one of Channing's
40:41Best girls
40:41Her name is
40:44Lee Sam
40:45You and I are going to keep a close watch
40:56On David Peter Kingham
40:57In future
40:58Douglas Blackwell
41:10Played Detective Inspector Simons
41:12In The Twisted Image
41:15By James Follett
41:17Colt was played by Peter Wickham
41:20And Mrs. Francis
41:22By Joan Matheson
41:23Alan
41:25Alaric Cotter
41:26Helen
41:28Christine Absalom
41:29The Pathologist
41:32Jonathan Scott
41:33Paul Holden
41:34And the Doctor
41:35Gavin Campbell
41:36Counselor Butcher
41:38William Edel
41:40Powell
41:41Cyril Appleton
41:42And the Policewoman
41:44By Anne Rosenfeld
41:46The play was produced and directed
41:49By Margaret et al
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