Tggrt. E08. Dead Giveaway. Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 7th/14th/22nd September 1988.  After a mother and son are found dead, Taggart hunts after a murderer who's putting rat poison into food products made by a company called "Wonderland".  Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine Anne Raitt - Dolly Armstrong (as Annie Raitt) Martyn Hesford - Roy Armstrong John Grillo - Tibor Meray James Cosmo - Victor Baird Matt Costello - Brian Baird (as Matthew Costello) Kathryn Howden - Pauline Baird Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart Patricia Ross - DS Laura Campbell Jenny McCrindle - Pat Dunn Harry Jones - Robert Higgison Martin McCardie - Joe Higgison John Murtagh - Doug Knowles Alison Peebles - Anne Fairley Stuart McGugan - Walter Fairley James Cairncross - Julian Sharp William Macbain - Andy Cochrane (as William McBain) George A. Cooper - Bill Grieve Tony Curran - Ian Jardine Steve Owen - Peter Mackay Alex McCrindle - Tramp Patrick Lewsley - Mr. Wheeler Ann Swan - Householder Steven Wren - Sergeant David Gallagher - Barman Mark Buckland - Simon Baird Ron Paterson - Mr. Henderson Kenneth Glenaan - Policeman Graham Valentine - Blind Man Aileen O'Gorman - Mrs. Watson Maeve Watt - Sotheby's Valuator Ajaykumar - Lionel Woods Julie Miller - Tasmin Woods Audrey Jenkinson - Usherette

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00:01:29Oh

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00:03:01You made it

00:03:03Aye

00:03:05Well what do you think?

00:03:07They're too old fashioned

00:03:09I want something modern, breezy

00:03:11The windows open

00:03:13Look if you can't be serious you shouldn't have agreed to come

00:03:15Look Jean, you asked for my advice

00:03:17and I said that

00:03:19They wouldn't go

00:03:21I'm afraid I've got to go

00:03:23I've got paperwork

00:03:25Well try to find time to take a look at this

00:03:29It was very good

00:03:31Thank you

00:03:53Home decor

00:03:55This wouldn't have anything to do with your house move, would it, sir?

00:04:01No.

00:04:02You taking the day off for it?

00:04:05Never had a removal first.

00:04:07Do you think I'm forking out 400 Necker for nothing?

00:04:12I get the impression you're not exactly enthusiastic.

00:04:16Correct.

00:04:19Tiger.

00:04:23Where?

00:04:25Where?

00:04:31Here.

00:04:52I need you to get off of.

00:04:53I need you to get off.

00:04:54Clear.

00:04:55He was staggering about all over the place.

00:05:02Drink or drugs, terrible at his age.

00:05:05Can I have your name, please?

00:05:07Uh, Shaughnessy.

00:05:08John Patrick Matthew.

00:05:11Constable, sir, I used to be a police force officer myself a long time ago.

00:05:16If I may offer you a word of advice, you're going to have trouble with that one.

00:05:21In the case of drowning, you can't put a white line round the corpse.

00:05:25Uh, address.

00:05:28No fixed abode.

00:05:31Isn't a bit cold for you, this time of year?

00:05:34It's kind of you to express that, sir.

00:05:37Since I reported the body, do you think that might be a reward for a cup of tea?

00:05:48Make sure it is tea.

00:05:49I never drink anything else, sir.

00:05:55How much did you give him?

00:05:58A pound.

00:05:59What do you think this is?

00:06:00The Sully Army?

00:06:05I know him.

00:06:07It's Joe Higgison.

00:06:08He's in the church youth club I run on Sunday nights.

00:06:11Over here.

00:06:20Excuse me, miss.

00:06:21As I pointed out the body, do you think that might be a reward?

00:06:24Excuse me, sir.

00:06:25Do you want to come with me?

00:06:26I can't smell any alcohol.

00:06:38Your witness said he was swaying.

00:06:39That's right.

00:06:41There is an injury on his left temple.

00:06:44I thought he could have got that falling in.

00:06:46Or knocked it on a branch.

00:06:47Otherwise, he shows all the signs of drowning.

00:06:52He wasn't the type.

00:06:55To drink or take drugs.

00:06:56A lot of kids don't look the type.

00:06:58He wasn't the type.

00:07:00I've met his parents.

00:07:01I'd like to break the news to them.

00:07:03Right on, you go.

00:07:04While you're about it, ask about drugs.

00:07:07You know what to look for.

00:07:09Sir, we found this over there.

00:07:11A pair of boxing gloves inside.

00:07:13Could be they're his.

00:07:15Sensible deduction.

00:07:16Sensible deduction.

00:07:46Shame on the wall, Frank.

00:07:50Fall, Frank.

00:08:08Not in.

00:08:09Meet me at the Balladler Youth Boxing Club.

00:08:12I think that's where he just came from.

00:08:15Boxing?

00:08:16Aye, that boy had more strength to his heart than you thought.

00:08:20Church Youth Club, I don't know where you find the time.

00:08:23Is that no more your community police activity?

00:08:26I enjoy it.

00:08:28It's a way of introducing young people to church, sir.

00:08:30Oh, I'm not knocking it.

00:08:32Ping-pong and Bible lessons.

00:08:33Is that what you mean?

00:08:35That sort of thing.

00:08:39Joe!

00:08:49What the day?

00:08:51Well, he was here for, what, 20 minutes.

00:08:54He had a row with his girlfriend.

00:08:56I think he just came to box it out of his system.

00:08:59What was the row about it?

00:09:01Some youth-hostling ski trip

00:09:03that was supposed to be going on this weekend to Abbeymore.

00:09:06I think she stood him up the last minute.

00:09:09He seemed to have a lot of interests.

00:09:13I was his parents.

00:09:14They were always warring.

00:09:16I don't think Joe just did anything to get out of the house.

00:09:20Was one of them drugs?

00:09:21Drugs?

00:09:22Joe's?

00:09:24Never.

00:09:25I like to think I keep my boys out of that sort of trouble.

00:09:28I was in the prison service

00:09:29till he could to a detention centre.

00:09:31How many knocks did Joe take?

00:09:34Punches?

00:09:35I never counted.

00:09:36To the head.

00:09:38A few.

00:09:39He possibly may have suffered a delayed concussion.

00:09:42Hey, I would not have let him leave.

00:09:44It's only one option amongst many.

00:09:46There's nothing wrong with boxing.

00:09:53Oh, you think he's right to turn a lot of kids into punch-drunk animals?

00:09:57Skiers break their legs.

00:09:59Racing drivers have crashes.

00:10:01Every sport's dangerous.

00:10:02Not all, sir.

00:10:03Well, I've never played ping-pong,

00:10:06so I couldn't comment.

00:10:07He was only 15.

00:10:09He's whole life ahead of him.

00:10:10And that lets him take a 20-minute bashing

00:10:13and walk out into the street.

00:10:15I don't know yet.

00:10:17You're jumping to conclusions.

00:10:19I saw those two at the club.

00:10:20I'm sorry, I just think it's uncivilised.

00:10:23I had my collar felt when I was a kid.

00:10:25The local inspector ran the boxing club.

00:10:27He suggested I go there.

00:10:28Well, he insisted, really.

00:10:31I was 15.

00:10:33Never did me any, Herman.

00:10:34Oh, aye.

00:10:37Roger.

00:10:40We've heard that Tiggerson's taken a customer to Fort William.

00:10:43He's a menicam driver.

00:10:45Cost a few bob, that.

00:10:47The Fort William police have been informed

00:10:48they're keeping a lookout for him.

00:10:50Any news from the boy's mother?

00:10:51No.

00:10:52We've not got her yet.

00:10:54Any feeling?

00:10:55Accident.

00:11:03No problem.

00:11:26Thanks.

00:11:27Thanks.

00:11:32He was only 15.

00:11:38I'm sorry, Mr. Higgison.

00:11:40But, um, we'll need you and your wife

00:11:44for a formal identification.

00:11:47We can wait till morning.

00:11:49You may not remember me, Mr. Higgison.

00:11:52Around the church youth club.

00:11:55Your son was a member.

00:11:59Police in Fort William.

00:12:01They brought the news to him

00:12:02and then let him drive back on his own.

00:12:03I wanted to.

00:12:05We haven't been able to contact your wife yet.

00:12:08Mr. Higgison.

00:12:11It would be all right if, um,

00:12:13we came round and took a look at the boy's room.

00:12:19Hi.

00:12:20Hello?

00:12:28Was it normal for your wife

00:12:29to leave all the lights on

00:12:30when she went out?

00:12:32Hello?

00:12:35Hello?

00:12:46Mike.

00:12:50She's cold.

00:12:53Ice cold.

00:13:05It's got me stumped.

00:13:06I need an explanation.

00:13:08She dies of hypothermia

00:13:09in a house with central heating on.

00:13:11I don't know what she died of yet.

00:13:13A body temperature of 29 degrees.

00:13:15Even I know that's cold.

00:13:17Well, something lowered it dramatically.

00:13:18Bearing in mind your evidence

00:13:20that the boy was swaying as if drunk,

00:13:23I'll hazard a guess.

00:13:24Poison.

00:13:26Poison?

00:13:28What kind?

00:13:30You do know how many kinds there are.

00:13:33Look.

00:13:34When these lab boys work through the night,

00:13:36I need a result in the morning.

00:13:38Well, you start off by asking

00:13:39to have a look at the curry.

00:13:41In the pan on the stove.

00:13:44Curry?

00:13:45It's what we've found so far

00:13:46in the boy's stomach.

00:13:47I want all these gardens searched.

00:14:00Oh.

00:14:06Where's Higginson?

00:14:07It's at number seven with a Mrs. Mann.

00:14:09She's simply in a war on fire.

00:14:11I could do that myself some nights.

00:14:14Listen, then.

00:14:16Am I right in thinking

00:14:17he didn't know his son

00:14:18had changed his plans and come home?

00:14:20That's right.

00:14:21He thought Joe was an avy more.

00:14:26Why did he come straight to us,

00:14:28not to his wife?

00:14:29Oh.

00:14:30There it is.

00:14:30Nein,

00:14:31eight,

00:14:31seven,

00:14:32six,

00:14:328, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

00:15:02Morning. Cash for antiques. Porcelain, silver, glass, old pox furniture, anything you want to get rid of. Valuation on the spot and a good price paid.

00:15:32Hello. I'm an antiques dealer and we're buying for rich Americans in London. Now we're willing to pay high prices for furniture, silver, jewellery, paintings. Is there anything you're fed up with?

00:15:48No, nothing. Just people like you that get me up out of bed at this time on a Sunday morning.

00:15:55Glucositaldehyde. It's a narcotic rat poison used by pest control companies.

00:16:01Rat poison?

00:16:02Hmm. It was in the curry and in both their stomachs. The sun to a much lesser extent.

00:16:09What I think happened is this. They ate together, but the boy had rather little.

00:16:16The strenuous exercise hastened the narcotic effects, causing the boy to sway as though he were drunk.

00:16:22If he hadn't drowned, he'd probably have lived.

00:16:26What exactly does it do, this poison?

00:16:29Oh, it kills people, sir.

00:16:31Destroys the nerve ends in the body, causing rapid heat loss, which explains the hypothermia.

00:16:36That's all I need.

00:16:44Fetch Heggerson. Don't alarm him. Lots of sympathy, tea, anything he wants.

00:16:49A solicitor?

00:16:52Here you go, sir. Thank you.

00:16:54I spoke to three of his cab driver colleagues. Got the full info on the marriage.

00:16:59Marge Heggerson was in a mental hospital five years ago.

00:17:02She's been in Valium ever since for her nerves.

00:17:04She made Heggerson's life such a misery.

00:17:07He used to sleep at nights in his cab just to get away from him.

00:17:10He even joked about bumping her off.

00:17:12And you never knew this? I thought you'd met them.

00:17:15Only briefly.

00:17:15Well, maybe she'd play less ping-pong in that club of yours and get to know the kids.

00:17:21Do we know what it was?

00:17:23It was a, um, uh, glucosetaldehyde.

00:17:27Rat poison.

00:17:29Still think boxing's an unsevilized sport.

00:17:32That's £20 for the tea set and five for the...

00:17:38But I thought you said £30.

00:17:41Oh, that was before I noticed the cracks.

00:17:44Nobody wants to drink out of cracked cups, you see.

00:17:47I tell you what, I'll make it £20.

00:17:50Right, Mr. Wheeler, that's your receipt.

00:17:57And there's your money.

00:18:04I wish you would part with this pottery cottage.

00:18:07Oh, that was my wife's grandmother's.

00:18:10They're not worth anything singly these days.

00:18:13You need the set.

00:18:15Tell you what.

00:18:16I'll give you £25 for it.

00:18:20I suppose I've just got used to it.

00:18:23I know.

00:18:26They're a bugger to dust.

00:18:28Not a bad haul.

00:18:31A Clarence Cliff tea server's worth a good £700 or £800.

00:18:34Plus an embroidery sampler.

00:18:37Period.

00:18:38Early Victorian.

00:18:39And this.

00:18:41First one I've come across.

00:18:42What is it?

00:18:44William Palmer's cottage.

00:18:46A famous Staffordshire poisoner.

00:18:49Sold by the thousand after his execution.

00:18:51Worth a good £500 today.

00:18:54Who did he poison?

00:18:55Ha ha.

00:18:56Almost anybody.

00:18:58His wife, brother, creditors, children.

00:19:02Seems like a nice fella.

00:19:05Let's go over yesterday morning again.

00:19:07Now, you left the house after your son.

00:19:11Yes.

00:19:13You were under the impression he was going away for the weekend.

00:19:19Your wife was cooking a curry for lunch.

00:19:21You said you'd be back at one o'clock.

00:19:22But you didn't come back.

00:19:24Instead, you took a fair to Fort William.

00:19:26It was good money.

00:19:31Hmm.

00:19:37I'm sure it was.

00:19:41I rang, Marge.

00:19:42I told her.

00:19:44I wouldn't be home.

00:19:45Well, uh, what did you expect?

00:19:48She was going to have it without you.

00:19:50Didn't you think about it?

00:19:52Oh, well, a bit like myself.

00:19:56My wife prepares meals and then something turns up.

00:20:05Just a tragedy that your son came home.

00:20:09Good looking boy.

00:20:10How do you think that rat poison got into the curry?

00:20:16I don't know.

00:20:16You see, the thing about that is it can only be obtained through pest control officers.

00:20:22Now, do you know any of them?

00:20:23No.

00:20:24Now, you know what I'm getting at here, don't you?

00:20:26I didn't even do it.

00:20:29Look, Robert.

00:20:31There's a lot of guys here would love to go home for their Sunday lunch.

00:20:34Well, what's that?

00:20:41Not now.

00:20:42It's important.

00:20:54One more minute or have had him.

00:20:56The labs have found more poison than this.

00:20:59It was in the pedal bin.

00:21:00It's traces of glucosetaldehyde in both sashes.

00:21:02Please, contact the people and make this stuff.

00:21:11Did you poison that?

00:21:15Did you?

00:21:17No.

00:21:19Why do you keep on me?

00:21:21Is it no bad enough?

00:21:22My family's dead.

00:21:23Hmm?

00:21:28You still think Higgison might have done it?

00:21:30Possibility.

00:21:31If he did, you're going to have a very unhappy manufacturer.

00:21:34I'd sooner risk that than end up with half a city dead.

00:21:37I think this is him.

00:21:42Mr. Pilbamurray?

00:21:45Tibor Mary?

00:21:48Detective Chief Inspector Taggart.

00:21:49This is Detective Sergeant Jardine.

00:21:53You'll have been told that we found rat poison in one of your three samples.

00:21:57You're too late.

00:21:57They've all gone out.

00:21:58Yes, we know that.

00:21:59We want to know which areas they went to so we can recall them.

00:22:02Recall?

00:22:03Oh, it's just a precaution.

00:22:04It's a new lie.

00:22:06Two people have died.

00:22:08That's not my fault.

00:22:10You panic people.

00:22:19He's too young for that.

00:22:22Your dad has no idea.

00:22:23He likes it.

00:22:32Come on, Brian.

00:22:37It'll be dark soon.

00:22:42It's too cold for him.

00:22:45He's wrapped up.

00:22:48Aren't he?

00:22:48He's the best pal in the whole world, eh?

00:23:06Attention.

00:23:12Could anyone who has received a free sample from Wonderland Products please hand them to the collecting officers.

00:23:21There is no cause for alarm.

00:23:22What's going on?

00:23:23Do you live in these parts, sir?

00:23:25Yeah?

00:23:25That one will fall.

00:23:26What's the matter?

00:23:26Did you receive one of these through the letterbox?

00:23:29Yeah, why?

00:23:29We're collecting them in.

00:23:30One was found to be contaminated.

00:23:32Well, it's upstairs.

00:23:33We haven't touched it yet.

00:23:34I'll care for you.

00:23:43How many so far?

00:23:45About 2,000.

00:23:473,000 went out altogether.

00:23:50If Higgison turns out to be guilty, we're going to look foolish.

00:23:54We can't find a link between him and the poison, sir.

00:23:57It's not something the man in the street can get a hold of.

00:23:59We traced the fare he took to Fort William.

00:24:01Well, at least that part of the story is true.

00:24:05She leaves us with an employee of Wonderland Products.

00:24:09I wonder if Tobermory ever called in a pest control firm.

00:24:13Tyburn Mary.

00:24:14Mary's his surname.

00:24:16Mary by name, not by nature.

00:24:18Oh, thank you.

00:24:45You're a bastard! He does you!

00:24:48Give him a word, son. You suck at it, son!

00:25:00Morning.

00:25:01How are you?

00:25:02Not so bad.

00:25:03Passage out that big one, will you?

00:25:06Thanks.

00:25:15I'm sorry, I can't find Mr. Mary.

00:25:30He's usually in his office about eight and a half.

00:25:33You are?

00:25:34I've had done his secretary.

00:25:36See, what it is, he wanted a couple of rooms to interview employees.

00:25:42Mr. Mary promised us that.

00:25:44Well, he's really loud, come on, do you?

00:25:49Can I use your open skeleton?

00:25:52There he is, do you?

00:25:53Up there.

00:25:54Aye.

00:25:54Aye, aye.

00:25:56How long have you worked for him?

00:25:58Too long.

00:25:59Not a happy ship?

00:26:01Oh, I've heard working for Wonderland products build many things but never a happy ship.

00:26:06See, Mr. Mary's Hungarian and I don't think they treat their employees the same way over there.

00:26:11That's a different impression from the one he gave us.

00:26:13Really?

00:26:15Do you know of any employee with a grudge against him?

00:26:17Do I?

00:26:18I know people who wouldn't even spit in Mr. Mary if you've been fired.

00:26:22Michael, come on.

00:26:32You'll get your chance down at the station.

00:26:33He bloody assaulted me!

00:26:34The man's a lunatic!

00:26:35You know when I listen to a word he says!

00:26:36I'll have you for everything, Mackay!

00:26:38Sue you through the course!

00:26:39Let go of me!

00:26:40I was his warehouse manager for six months, and you know what he stabbed me for?

00:26:42Taking the day off because my kids were who...

00:26:43You're a maniac, Mary!

00:26:44Get having a car!

00:26:45I'll leave your brain to science!

00:26:46If they can find him!

00:26:47Let go of me!

00:26:48I called you here!

00:26:49When I asked you if any of your ex-employees had a grudge, why weren't you honest?

00:26:55Because you'd take him away, lock him up, and I would not get the satisfaction!

00:26:58Have a mind to take you away and lock you up?

00:27:01I thought this was a free country!

00:27:03It is.

00:27:04And I'm sorry!

00:27:05Let go of me!

00:27:06I called you here!

00:27:07Let go of me!

00:27:08Let go of me!

00:27:09I called you here!

00:27:10Mary!

00:27:11Mary!

00:27:12Come on, Mary!

00:27:13When I asked you if any of your ex-employees had a grudge, why weren't you honest?

00:27:16Because you'd take him away, lock him up, and I would not get the satisfaction!

00:27:19Have a mind to take you away and lock you up?

00:27:20I thought this was a free country!

00:27:21It is!

00:27:24and I'm free to do what I like.

00:27:33How do you get people to part with things like this

00:27:36for practically nothing?

00:27:37It gets harder.

00:27:39This is an early star.

00:27:41Leather trim.

00:27:42Porcelain handle.

00:27:44Worth what?

00:27:45About 250 to 300?

00:27:49Look good in your window, Julian.

00:27:51I'll offer you 50 for it.

00:27:5250?

00:27:53After all.

00:27:54Let's remember what the Bible says about greed.

00:27:57The love of money is the root of all evil.

00:28:01Suits me fine.

00:28:07That man.

00:28:09He doesn't appreciate a good thing.

00:28:11I'd like to buy some new clothes.

00:28:14Why?

00:28:15Clothes you've got are perfectly good enough.

00:28:18What do we ever do with the money?

00:28:20Except live like gypsies.

00:28:22We have a home.

00:28:25Gypsies don't.

00:28:27Anyway, somebody has to put money aside for you.

00:28:30I won't always be here.

00:28:32I'd rather see it now than when you're gone.

00:28:35You'd waste it on girls.

00:28:38There's only one woman in my life.

00:28:43You know that.

00:28:44Where would I get rat poison from, Mr. Taggart?

00:28:55If I wanted to get my own back, I wouldn't risk killing an innocent person.

00:28:59I mean, do I look that sort?

00:29:00Yeah, when you left Wonderland Products, you threatened Mr. Merry.

00:29:06Said you'd get revenge.

00:29:07I meant take him to a tribunal.

00:29:09Official channels.

00:29:11I won't be the first to do that either.

00:29:13No?

00:29:14Colette Ingalls, his secretary before Pat Dunn.

00:29:16Sexual harassment.

00:29:18And then there's a couple of women on the factory floor.

00:29:20Get your pad out.

00:29:21I'll give you a list.

00:29:23I mean, why'd pick on me?

00:29:31No wonder it's called Wonderland Products.

00:29:34I think Tobermory lives in Wonderland.

00:29:36Want me to check him out?

00:29:38No.

00:29:39You check out the pest control firms.

00:29:42Find out who has that poison.

00:29:44Check their stocks.

00:29:46I'll take care of that flame.

00:29:52Wonderland is definitely not what Luke has said all the day.

00:29:54Nice to meet you.

00:29:55I'll try that for about a year.

00:29:56Cheers.

00:29:57Cheers.

00:30:13Sorry we don't use that poison.

00:30:14Thanks so much.

00:30:22Right, Mrs. Arlick.

00:30:25Come and see you now, please.

00:30:27Mr.

00:30:28We'll have Mr. James and Mrs. Kennaway from the beetroot bottling next.

00:30:33In that order.

00:30:42Get back to work.

00:30:52What the hell do you think you're doing?

00:30:58Who gave you permission to keep those people away?

00:31:01Did I give you permission?

00:31:07Oh, Mr. May.

00:31:10Well, did you charge him?

00:31:13We have to have something we're going to charge people.

00:31:16It's called evidence.

00:31:18He threatened to get even.

00:31:20So did a lot of other people.

00:31:22Look, you hold anything back from me again,

00:31:26or try and take a law in your own hands,

00:31:28I'll charge you for obstructing the police.

00:31:31Is that all you came to say?

00:31:32For a moment, yeah.

00:31:34Because there's something I want to ask you.

00:31:43It's about publicity.

00:31:46How much can you play down what's happened?

00:31:48Make out it's not the fault of Wonderland products.

00:31:52How do you mean, play down?

00:31:54In the papers.

00:31:55I don't want my company to suffer.

00:31:58Listen, I'm hunting a maniac that's killing people.

00:32:02Your potential losses take second place to that.

00:32:05This is a free country.

00:32:07I have a right to carry on my business.

00:32:10Mr. Mary,

00:32:10Have you ever hired a pest control firm for Behrman?

00:32:15Rats?

00:32:16Never.

00:32:17Are you sure about that?

00:32:19There are no rats here.

00:32:21Yeah.

00:32:26I don't know.

00:32:27I don't know.

00:32:28You're welcome.

00:32:28Mm-hmm.

00:32:52He's sent for Sergeant Jarden,

00:32:54Mary Hill Police Station.

00:32:56Aye.

00:32:57Look what's that aldehyde.

00:33:01You mean this?

00:33:06There's lots of ways to kill a rat.

00:33:08That's right.

00:33:10There's that sticky stuff that gets in their firm,

00:33:12makes them want to lick it off.

00:33:14There's that stuff.

00:33:16Makes them thirsty.

00:33:18Then when they go and search of water,

00:33:19they keel over when they drink it.

00:33:21And then there's that stuff.

00:33:22Cyanide and magnesium.

00:33:24When it's exposed to the air, it creates cygene gas.

00:33:26We use that in front of their inner layers.

00:33:29Of course, it's not all rat poisonous.

00:33:31Mouse, cockroach.

00:33:33I'm told glucosetaldehyde is one you mix with a cereal base.

00:33:36Well, you've obviously been doing your rounds.

00:33:39Just how easy would it be to steal the concentrate?

00:33:42Any pest control officer that left that line around

00:33:45wants his neck broken.

00:33:46Can you tell me if any's missing?

00:33:48Do you keep a register?

00:33:50Well, not a register as such.

00:33:52Job sheets.

00:33:53I can tell from looking none's missing.

00:33:55Isn't that a bit arbitrary?

00:33:57A wee bit.

00:33:58You fancy a cup of tea?

00:33:59Ah, no thanks.

00:34:00Did you ever do any business at Wonderland Products?

00:34:03In the Caldmore Industrial Estate?

00:34:05Aye, Wonderland.

00:34:06About a year ago.

00:34:07And when I say business, that's another matter.

00:34:10What are you going to see the day, Dolly?

00:34:23Something about, uh, zombies.

00:34:25You should stay in here.

00:34:27See them free of charge.

00:34:28You put the price up.

00:34:29Oh, it's coming on Monday afternoons because it's cheaper.

00:34:41Still cheaper than a normal admission price.

00:34:43Check to pay an extra 20p.

00:34:44Before decimalisation prices went up by twopence or throopence.

00:34:46Whee!

00:34:47Whee!

00:34:48Whee!

00:34:49Whee!

00:34:50Whee!

00:34:51Whee!

00:34:52Whee!

00:34:53Whee!

00:34:54Whee!

00:34:55Whee!

00:34:56Whee!

00:34:57Whee!

00:34:58Whee!

00:34:59Whee!

00:35:00Whee!

00:35:01Whee!

00:35:02Whee!

00:35:03Whee!

00:35:04Whee!

00:35:05Whee!

00:35:06Whee!

00:35:07Whee!

00:35:08Whee!

00:35:09Whee!

00:35:10Whee!

00:35:11Whee!

00:35:12Whee!

00:35:13Whee!

00:35:14Whee!

00:35:15Whee!

00:35:16Whee!

00:35:17Whee!

00:35:18Whee!

00:35:19Whee!

00:35:20Oh, my God.

00:35:50Roy? I'm back.

00:36:20Good film?

00:36:24What I saw of it. Fell asleep.

00:36:29Dolly?

00:36:30When are we going on a trip again?

00:36:33Not for a while.

00:36:36The strain of this life is getting to me.

00:36:39I thought Newcastle.

00:36:41We haven't done Newcastle.

00:36:42I'm going for a lie down.

00:36:45I'm going for a lie down.

00:37:15I'm going for a lie down.

00:37:24I've seen you.

00:37:35So far, I've covered every pest control firm in the north side.

00:38:02What would have done that?

00:38:04Give me a chance.

00:38:05Well, I've been to one, Bearden's site.

00:38:09We're called out to Wonderland Products.

00:38:12To where?

00:38:14Called out.

00:38:15Because of rats.

00:38:17Mary called them.

00:38:18They didn't do any work, though.

00:38:20Mary took umbrage of being told you needed £30,000 worth of maintenance just to keep the rats out.

00:38:25Said he could do the job cheaper himself.

00:38:28That explains the typhos.

00:38:32Typhos?

00:38:33Where?

00:38:34Wonderland.

00:38:36They're illegal.

00:38:38Look, I didn't spend all day with rat catchers and learn nothing.

00:38:42The rats stick to the gum.

00:38:45Then they chew their own feet off to escape.

00:38:46Here's the weather forecast for the Strathclyde area.

00:39:02Starting dry with sunny intervals, but cloud will spread in from the west later the summer.

00:39:07Maximum temp...

00:39:08Get rid of it.

00:39:10You're worried about cruelty to a few rats?

00:39:13What about people's lives?

00:39:15Get rid of it.

00:39:16You want to get your priorities right, Inspector?

00:39:19I don't like seeing dumb animals being hurt.

00:39:22You want rats in here, huh?

00:39:24Well, we're on the subject.

00:39:28You lied again.

00:39:30You're a pest control company in here called Bird and Son.

00:39:33They didn't do any work here.

00:39:34I sent them away.

00:39:36Ah, I know that.

00:39:37You took one look at this dump and told you how much maintenance had to be done.

00:39:40Are you the environmental health or the police or what?

00:39:42You'll have both in here unless you're more open with us.

00:39:47Or else you're the pest here that I'll control myself.

00:40:09I don't believe it.

00:40:10Looks as though we might get away early.

00:40:12You think so?

00:40:13Aye.

00:40:13It's one we're finds and we're finished.

00:40:15Orfsky.

00:40:16Have you seen what it is?

00:40:17No.

00:40:28Come on.

00:40:29Am I a turn to drive this then?

00:40:31The first rise of five years.

00:40:33Right.

00:40:34Right.

00:40:35Take us up to lingerie.

00:40:37OK, going on.

00:40:38Oh, no.

00:40:42I think she was showing it to me, you, by the way.

00:40:50I played my car a bit at the end the other night.

00:40:53Eh?

00:40:53Andy.

00:40:54Andy.

00:40:55Andy.

00:40:55You stop mucking about it.

00:40:57Yeah, where are you?

00:40:58Andy, jack of hand, will you?

00:41:01God's sake, man.

00:41:03Oh, yeah, sir.

00:41:04Andy, for God's sake, Andy, jack of hand.

00:41:07Stop this thing, Andy.

00:41:09Stop it.

00:41:10Andy, what are you playing at?

00:41:14I'm going to kill us.

00:41:18Andy, what do you think?

00:41:20Andy, stop it.

00:41:21Andy, what's up?

00:41:22Andy.

00:41:23Help me.

00:41:25Andy.

00:41:26We're going to see him over something.

00:41:35Oh, my God.

00:41:36Oh, my God.

00:41:37Oh, my God.

00:41:38Oh, my God.

00:41:39Oh, my God.

00:41:40Oh, my God.

00:41:40Oh, my God!

00:41:41Oh, my God!

00:41:42Oh, my God!

00:41:57Oh, my God.

00:42:01OK, take Uno.

00:42:02Bye-bye.

00:42:05Bye-bye.

00:42:06Bye-bye.

00:42:08Bye-bye.

00:42:08Does he have any family?

00:42:16No, no family.

00:42:20His wife, she died six months ago.

00:42:27Alcoholic.

00:42:30Had he been drinking?

00:42:32Lunchtime?

00:42:33A couple of witnesses said he looked that way.

00:42:35That's what I don't understand.

00:42:36He just had what he always had.

00:42:39Cheese and a pickle sandwiches.

00:42:41Ihris.

00:42:53No matter who I am.

00:42:55You all right, son?

00:43:14Aye.

00:43:25Jean, that's me, I'm off.

00:43:31Oh, I can't throw this out.

00:43:33It's Alison's teddy bear.

00:43:36What?

00:43:42Jean, she's a ward sister.

00:43:45She's 22 years of age.

00:43:47If she'd have wanted it, she'd taken it with her.

00:43:49It belonged to your mother.

00:43:51Ah, but she's hardly coming back for it, is she?

00:43:55Now, Jean, we're moving to a new bungalow.

00:44:00We have to get rid of some junk.

00:44:03And look at this place, it's a junk house.

00:44:06I've got it out.

00:44:08Look, I know you're not looking forward to moving,

00:44:11but you'll soon feel at home.

00:44:14After all, let's face it, we've hardly changed a thing in 15 years.

00:44:18That's what I mean.

00:44:19I like this wee hoose.

00:44:21I feel at home here.

00:44:23You know, they say apart from divorce, moving house is the most traumatic thing you can do.

00:44:27Well, try catching a maniac and moving house.

00:44:36Jim, we could have another poisoning.

00:44:40Oh, no.

00:44:49Who's it this time?

00:44:50An engineer, Andrew Cochran, and contract work at Collins Book Warehouse.

00:44:54It's just a possibility, sir.

00:44:55I discovered this jar of Wonderland pickle in the guy's kitchen.

00:44:58He had it on his sandwiches.

00:45:00Fatal accident.

00:45:01Concussion.

00:45:02Proceeded by drunken-like behaviour.

00:45:04When?

00:45:05Yesterday afternoon, sir.

00:45:07Yesterday?

00:45:09You see possibilities sooner than that.

00:45:12Come on, mate.

00:45:17That's a boy.

00:45:22Is that good?

00:45:23Ready, Dad.

00:45:24You know what?

00:45:25Look.

00:45:26No.

00:45:27No.

00:45:28No.

00:45:29Go there, son.

00:45:31You know how.

00:45:32There you are, son.

00:45:33It's okay.

00:45:34But your granddad would be a good boy.

00:45:37Yeah.

00:45:38Yeah.

00:45:39You're going to grow up and be a big boy for your granddad, aren't you?

00:45:42Oh, it's okay.

00:45:43Do you want to have tea with us tonight, Mr. Baird?

00:45:54Tomorrow night, maybe.

00:45:55Okay, son.

00:45:57You look after my boy.

00:46:00Why wouldn't you speak to her?

00:46:14You know why.

00:46:15I married her because...

00:46:16You married her because she got you to marry her.

00:46:19There was a hundred things you could have done with your life.

00:46:21Then why come up at all?

00:46:22Because he's still my grandson.

00:46:24And she's too young to be a good mother.

00:46:27I suppose I'm too young to be a good father.

00:46:30Well, I'm not.

00:46:43Come on, take your walk.

00:46:45You're in here.

00:46:46There you go.

00:46:47I'll give you a brochure for that.

00:46:49What exactly do you make here, Mr. Henderson?

00:46:52What do you think, in the holy hat?

00:46:54The flanges, the telephone boxes.

00:46:57Some bad propeller parts.

00:46:59Some M.O.D. work, but you're not allowed to talk about it.

00:47:03It's a secret.

00:47:04What?

00:47:05A secret?

00:47:06Oh, that's him there.

00:47:14Mr. Knowles.

00:47:15Dougie Knowles.

00:47:17Detective Chief Inspector Tiger.

00:47:18Detective Sergeant Jardine.

00:47:19Sorry about your work, mate.

00:47:20I never saw anybody die before.

00:47:21Ah, it's always a shock.

00:47:22What do you do to the book warehouse?

00:47:23Contract work.

00:47:24Replace an aluminium flanges in a ventilation system.

00:47:25Had Mr. Cochran been drinking?

00:47:26No.

00:47:27We're working on a ventilation shaft 70 feet up.

00:47:28What did he do to his grocery shopping?

00:47:29What's that got to do with him?

00:47:30Mr. Cochran.

00:47:31Well, it could be important.

00:47:32I don't know.

00:47:33Somewhere around about where he lived, I suppose.

00:47:34Where's his car?

00:47:35Still outside.

00:47:36Want to show us?

00:47:37What do you do to the book warehouse?

00:47:38What do you do to the book warehouse?

00:47:39Contract work.

00:47:40Replace an aluminium flanges in a ventilation system.

00:47:41Had Mr. Cochran been drinking?

00:47:42No.

00:47:43We're working on a ventilation shaft 70 feet up.

00:47:44What did he do to his grocery shopping?

00:47:45What's that got to do with him?

00:47:46Well, it could be important.

00:47:47I don't know.

00:47:48Somewhere around about where he lived, I suppose.

00:47:49Where's his car?

00:47:50Still outside.

00:47:51Want to show us?

00:47:52Don't you ever do things the easy way?

00:48:12This door's unlocked.

00:48:15What are we searching for?

00:48:20Well, sometimes when I pick up the shopping, I'll leave receipts lying about in the car.

00:48:27And receipts have the shop names on them.

00:48:30I never thought of you doing the shopping, sir.

00:48:33I eat it too sometimes.

00:48:35Did that never occur to you?

00:48:38Yeah.

00:48:39I've just thought, that wife of his, she used to work in a grocery delicatessen shop near the house.

00:48:46It's possible they sell shops there.

00:48:49Yes.

00:48:50Yes, he did.

00:48:51Why?

00:48:52Did he buy a jar of this off you?

00:48:56I think so.

00:48:57Well, yes, he usually did.

00:48:59He came in the other morning and...

00:49:01Can I use your phone?

00:49:03Yes, of course.

00:49:04It's in the back shop.

00:49:06Help yourself.

00:49:07What's wrong?

00:49:08Well, I don't want it to alarm you, but there's a suspicion of poisoning.

00:49:13Just a suspicion.

00:49:14Poison?

00:49:15From this shop?

00:49:17Nothing to do with hygiene, Mr. Fairley.

00:49:19Then what are you talking about?

00:49:21It's taken us two years to build up this business.

00:49:24And now you say Andy was poisoned.

00:49:27It's rubbish.

00:49:28Would you remove all Wonderland products off your shelves until we're certain?

00:49:33Wonderland?

00:49:34Oh, no.

00:49:35There was that other case.

00:49:39Walter.

00:49:40The three sample, remember?

00:49:42Two people died.

00:49:44Yeah.

00:49:45I'm afraid so.

00:49:46There could be a connection.

00:49:47He, um...

00:49:51I believe his wife worked here.

00:49:53Yes.

00:49:54Part-time.

00:49:55Until we had to get rid of her.

00:49:56She had a drink problem.

00:49:58Yes, we know about that.

00:50:00It's positive.

00:50:01Glucosetaldehyde.

00:50:03Gluco...what?

00:50:04Rat poison.

00:50:17How long do we have to stop for?

00:50:32We can't say.

00:50:33Just hold up production until we re-interview certain employees.

00:50:37We'll also need to search the staff locker.

00:50:39You have a master key.

00:50:40It could have been poisoned to the shop, not in the factory.

00:50:44We're aware of that, Mr. Mary.

00:50:46Stop the machinery!

00:50:52This one?

00:50:53Quite remarkable.

00:50:55The foundry seals.

00:50:57And the signatures.

00:51:03Do you know how much these fetch?

00:51:05I've done my homework.

00:51:06What do you expect me to do?

00:51:08Buy them.

00:51:09Getting rid of pieces like these takes time.

00:51:12Well, you've managed before.

00:51:13What's the problem?

00:51:14These are worth far more.

00:51:15At least, they would be if they were genuine.

00:51:18People talk in this trade.

00:51:20I can't just flood the market with them.

00:51:22A collector here.

00:51:23A collector abroad.

00:51:25A dealer here.

00:51:26It takes time.

00:51:27I'll take part in my percentage up front.

00:51:29I need to pay my source.

00:51:34It's mother.

00:51:35She mustn't know I'm here.

00:51:37Dolly!

00:51:38Light of my life.

00:51:39Cut the crap, Julian.

00:51:40Give me a good price for this.

00:51:41Mmm.

00:51:42Poison bottle.

00:51:43Not just any.

00:51:44Bottle collectors would cut throats to get one shaped like that.

00:51:46With your eye for a valuable object.

00:51:47I don't know why you don't go into the trade properly.

00:51:49Too much like hard work.

00:51:51I'll give you 20 pounds for it.

00:51:52I'll take it somewhere else.

00:51:53All right.

00:51:54All right.

00:51:55All right.

00:51:56I could never resist your charms.

00:51:58I'll take it somewhere else.

00:51:59I'll take it somewhere else.

00:52:00All right.

00:52:01All right.

00:52:02I could never resist your charms.

00:52:06I'll take it somewhere else.

00:52:11All right.

00:52:13All right.

00:52:14I could never resist your charms.

00:52:17When did you leave Hungary, Mr. Mary?

00:52:311956.

00:52:37Have you tried that locker yet?

00:52:39No.

00:52:40Give us a key amount.

00:52:44Mr. Mary.

00:52:47We're going to have to close down your factory.

00:52:57I'm sorry.

00:52:58Close down my factory?

00:53:00Yeah.

00:53:01I just think it's all we catch this linear.

00:53:03And we're going to have to recall all your products.

00:53:07You can't do this to me.

00:53:08You have no right.

00:53:10And soon...

00:53:13Who is your superior?

00:53:15I am.

00:53:16Miss Dunn.

00:53:19We'd like to see all those people again.

00:53:22On the manufacturing side.

00:53:23It's lunch time.

00:53:25Time flies when you're having a good time, doesn't it?

00:53:30We want to see them now.

00:53:31Okay.

00:53:32Pickle, sir.

00:53:33I think not.

00:53:47Oh, by the way.

00:53:48Mary's secretary asked me to give you this.

00:53:49Thanks.

00:53:50Thanks.

00:53:53I'm just getting no feeling about anybody here.

00:53:57You know the one person we've forgotten?

00:53:58Is Robert Higgison.

00:54:00You're not still suggesting that you...

00:54:02As a victim, sir.

00:54:04With respect, we always seem to ignore our mistakes.

00:54:07He loses his wife and son and...

00:54:10As if that isn't bad enough, we accuse him of the murder.

00:54:14Then, when we turn out to be wrong, we don't apologise to him.

00:54:17We just turn the other way.

00:54:19You're the end of the lesson.

00:54:21Oh, I think it's a very noble fortune.

00:54:49Jesus!

00:54:56Mr. Mary!

00:54:58Mr. Mary, come here!

00:55:00Look.

00:55:01Receive this.

00:55:04You better tell the police right away.

00:55:09No.

00:55:11We tell the police nothing.

00:55:19Mr. Higgison?

00:55:20Can I come another one?

00:55:21Hiya.

00:55:25Jesus, who...

00:55:26Mr. Higgison, can I come in a minute?

00:55:36Aye, uh, please yourself.

00:55:48What do you want?

00:55:51To see how you are.

00:55:52The police care.

00:55:53There's been another poisoning. You know about that.

00:55:57You've come to blame that, haven't you?

00:55:59Do you need any help?

00:56:01You've, uh, got a pair of eyes, haven't you?

00:56:07I feel personally involved.

00:56:09Knowing Joe through the church youth club.

00:56:11Ah, the church youth club. Oh, aye, aye, aye.

00:56:14Well, he only joined that to get away from his mother.

00:56:18And the boxing club, too.

00:56:21The, the, the skiing.

00:56:24That was ought to get away from your heart.

00:56:27And now...

00:56:29Now he...

00:56:30We owe you an apology.

00:56:34Sometimes we get it wrong.

00:56:37You owe me what?

00:56:49I got accused of their murder.

00:56:51And now...

00:56:52You apologize.

00:56:54You people are no interested in the truth.

00:56:59All you want is someone to fit the frame.

00:57:02To clear your desks.

00:57:04You don't want to know the truth.

00:57:06You know, a large company.

00:57:07There's no stakes.

00:57:08There's no stakes.

00:57:09There's no stakes.

00:57:10There's no stakes.

00:57:12There's no stakes.

00:57:13To clear your door.

00:57:14There's no stakes.

00:57:15Here's no stakes.

00:57:16I don't know.

00:57:17I'll get heavy.

00:57:18I'll have no stakes.

00:57:19Morning.

00:57:23Just bringing a little brightness to the front.

00:57:43How's business?

00:57:45Not too good. Hardly surprising.

00:57:48Trying a few loss leaders.

00:57:51I want you to look at a few photographs.

00:57:54See if you recognise anyone who might have been a customer.

00:57:58I'll just get Walter.

00:57:59After.

00:58:01Morning.

00:58:02I want your separate reactions.

00:58:08No, no, I don't think so.

00:58:10Take your time.

00:58:14I'm sorry.

00:58:15Why?

00:58:16That jar of pickle was manufactured after a batch of free samples.

00:58:21Now between the two dates, all these employees left Wonderland products.

00:58:27You think one of them might have come in here?

00:58:29It's possible.

00:58:30Walter, do you recognise any of these people?

00:58:33As customers?

00:58:34Oh, he or she wouldn't be a regular customer.

00:58:40Nope.

00:58:42I don't recognise any of them at all.

00:58:45I'm sorry.

00:58:46I'm sorry.

00:58:54Oh, how is your mother, dear?

00:58:56Oh, still bedridden.

00:58:58I'm glad I still get out for my pension.

00:59:02Not for long, though.

00:59:03Why's that?

00:59:05I'm putting myself into one of these nice retirement homes by the scene.

00:59:09After all, I've nobody left now.

00:59:12I'm having difficulty getting about.

00:59:14Oh, what a shame.

00:59:15I'll be sad to sell the house, though.

00:59:18I've lived in it for 53 years.

00:59:22My brother and sister used to live in it, too, but they've gone now.

00:59:26Oh, I'm looking for a good home for my cat.

00:59:30I can't take him with you, you know.

00:59:32Did you say 53?

00:59:35Oh, excuse me.

00:59:38Hello.

00:59:39It's mother's pension.

00:59:42I'll wait for you when I'm finished.

00:59:44I'd like to have a chat.

00:59:46Oh, that would be nice.

00:59:51What are you sitting here for?

00:59:54Why us?

00:59:56Why our shop?

00:59:59The folk will forget.

01:00:03Somebody died.

01:00:06And we sold the thing that killed him.

01:00:14It was always our dream to have a wee business like this.

01:00:22It's not a big dream to have.

01:00:26Other people succeed at far bigger things.

01:00:31Our customers aren't going to be put off.

01:00:34Happened once, that's all.

01:00:35It's not going to happen again.

01:00:39We are not to blame.

01:00:41Don't you see?

01:00:45We handled the thing that killed him.

01:00:51Both of us.

01:00:52We handled that tug.

01:00:54We're not to blame them.

01:00:56We'll deal with that ang nypussy.

01:00:58Whatever we wanted to have, we'd like to try.

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