Tggrt. E09. Root of Evil. Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 28th September/5th/12th October 1988.  Taggart and Jardine investigate a brutal dismemberment of a local loan shark.   Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine Celia Imrie - Helen Lomax Kenny Ireland - Ken Lomax John Kane - Mick Lomax Gordon Kane - Willie Lomax Emma D'Inverno - Julie Adamson Peter Kelly - Robert Carrera Tom Mannion - DS Scott Don Gallagher - DS Hind Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart Leigh Biagi - Alison Taggart Sandy Welch - Tim Webster Irene Sunters - Mrs. Lomax Jonathan Hackett - Bill Shires Elizabeth Millbank-Turner - Lana Shires (as Elizabeth Millbank) Kirsty Miller - Linda Bill Murdoch - Kennel Owner Alex Howden - Libby Carol Brannan - Fanny Jean Craig - Aunt Peggy Kay Lyell - Aunt Hetty David Meldrum - Nicholas Frame Stewart Ennis - George McSherry James Gibb - Archie Cook Alan Vicary - Paul Hunter Harry Glass - MacIntyre James Martin - Steve Gooch Robert Stefani - Police Sergeant Joe McFadden - David Shires (as Joseph McFadden) Emma Currie - Prospective Hostess

Transcript

00:00:30Jim, stand here with Auntie Hedgie and Auntie Peggy.

00:00:37Come on, put your arms in Jim's.

00:00:39Try it.

00:00:41Jim, smile.

00:01:00Jim, smile.

00:01:29I always knew it would be you.

00:01:35Since I heard your lilting laughter, it's your Irish heart I must know.

00:01:44Take off my heart.

00:01:48Your glasses.

00:01:49Your A1, smashing.

00:01:51Thanks.

00:01:52Just wish the audiences were better.

00:01:55What are you drinking?

00:01:56A pint of Murphy's.

00:01:57Come make your home in my heart.

00:02:03In my heart.

00:02:09Thanks, folks.

00:02:14We're at the Garden Festival as well, twice a week through the summer.

00:02:17Petty and Peggy want to go and look at the water displays.

00:02:34You know, Gene, I was just thinking how my old man used to drive one of these things.

00:02:39That was my ambition, too, to be a driver.

00:02:42Good job we joined the policy.

00:02:43I wish Alison could have come home this week for the opening.

00:02:49Right.

00:02:51It is certainly going to change the image of Glasgow.

00:02:55It's certainly going to do that.

00:02:56There are two colours of star.

00:03:03Blue stars and there are red stars.

00:03:06You're one of my good wee blue stars, aren't you?

00:03:16So why are you borrowing money off Frank Bell?

00:03:20That's not a good idea.

00:03:22Going to one money lender to pay off another.

00:03:24I'll tell you what I'll do.

00:03:26I've got a wee proposition for you.

00:03:27I will lend you the money to pay back Frank Bell,

00:03:31and that way you stay in to me.

00:03:34Right.

00:03:36Right!

00:03:37Ah!

00:03:54Right.

00:03:55Right.

00:03:56Go.

00:04:05Right.

00:04:05Come on, my son!

00:04:35Yes, there you go, there you go, come on!

00:04:40Come on, sit down!

00:04:43Come on, sit down!

00:04:46Come on, sit down!

00:04:49Sit, come here.

00:05:03Good try, Satan, good try.

00:05:08Okay.

00:05:19Yes, there you go.

00:05:34Yes, there you go.

00:05:47Let's go.

00:06:17Where's Pat?

00:06:32Sorry, Mr Bell. We don't know how it happened.

00:06:36We're going to have to hang on to the dog for a while.

00:06:39An autopsy.

00:06:42Okay.

00:06:47What happened to your fingers?

00:07:11Hello, Max.

00:07:15Yeah, I'll do it.

00:07:22Who saw this?

00:07:24He said I have to pay you back.

00:07:27Loan and interest.

00:07:29I have to stay into him for 60%.

00:07:31I'm sorry, Frank. I wish I'd get into you earlier.

00:07:35I wish I had the muscle to match his.

00:07:41I've had to start cleaning windows in the quiet to pay off the debt.

00:07:45One day I'll do it.

00:07:46Here you go.

00:07:54You were brisk.

00:07:55Teenager said,

00:07:56Mommy, I'm 19, now can I wear a bra?

00:07:58She said, no, John.

00:07:59Oh, that's garbage, do you, man?

00:08:01One house, boy.

00:08:03Cheers.

00:08:04I get my sickness benefit,

00:08:05as well as my social.

00:08:07Give me your books.

00:08:08That way you don't fall behind,

00:08:09and I don't have to come looking for you.

00:08:10See ya.

00:08:37We don't serve your type here.

00:08:39You can't afford to be that fussy.

00:08:42Um, listen, Mick,

00:08:44I mightn't have managed to get to Mum's tomorrow.

00:08:46I thought I might go down to London for a few days,

00:08:47you know, a wee bit of a break.

00:08:48It's Sunday.

00:08:50Ken and Helen are gonna be there.

00:08:51That makes it special for Mother.

00:08:53We are all gonna be there.

00:08:56Aye, all right.

00:08:57We are all gonna be there.

00:09:09We are all gonna be there.

00:09:17Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

00:09:47More, Mum?

00:10:10I don't know why you have to waste money on champagne.

00:10:18The garden festival's on.

00:10:20Helen and I were thinking of going.

00:10:23Thought you might like to join us.

00:10:24Oh, that would be nice.

00:10:27Willie, pass Helen a napkin.

00:10:30Wouldn't want her to spoil her nice new clothes.

00:10:33You ought to come through to see the club one night, Mrs Lomax.

00:10:36I'm not the club type.

00:10:38We did have an elderly party, once.

00:10:41They behaved themselves better than some people I know.

00:10:44Why employ hostesses if they're not there to please?

00:10:47They're not there to please you.

00:10:50Why own a nightclub, then?

00:10:51I don't run it as a family knocking shop for scumbags like you.

00:10:54Sorry, Mum.

00:11:04Matter of fact, I thought of coming through to Edinburgh tomorrow.

00:11:09Willie and I might drop in.

00:11:10Yes?

00:11:12Can I come in, Mrs Lomax?

00:11:15Shh.

00:11:16What is it?

00:11:20I've got most of the interest, Mrs Lomax.

00:11:22Do you think I'd have another 30?

00:11:24I've got to buy the Wayne shoes for school.

00:11:26And I'm already losing 11 out my allowance for fuel payments.

00:11:30It's my wee boy's birthday tomorrow.

00:11:32Shh.

00:11:32If you can't pay the interest in one loan, how do you expect to pay it in another?

00:11:46I just will, Mrs Lomax.

00:11:48I promise.

00:11:55After this 30, I'm freezing it till you pay back all the interest.

00:12:02Thanks, Mrs Lomax.

00:12:04I appreciate it.

00:12:17There's a list of 12 names.

00:12:19All in this block.

00:12:21All missed between four and six weeks.

00:12:24I wish you wouldn't lend to a woman, Mum.

00:12:26I refuse to beat up a woman.

00:12:28What do you think I asked you for?

00:12:30And no Willie.

00:12:32Oh, good man.

00:13:00You kept it for us.

00:13:02Oh, Dad.

00:13:05We've got a surprise for you, Willie.

00:13:10Okay?

00:13:11I hear you and your boys have taken a cut off Frank Bell.

00:13:26He's buying out my customers at 25s.

00:13:29Says you killed his dog.

00:13:31There's a warning.

00:13:34Wasn't me.

00:13:36He's out for revenge.

00:13:37I said it wasn't me.

00:13:41I like animals.

00:13:44Do you remember that mouse we kept in a shoebox at school?

00:13:47Yeah.

00:13:48I remember what happened to it.

00:13:52I loved that mouse.

00:13:57I bet he hasn't got a mouse in a shoebox.

00:13:59Not at his school.

00:14:00David.

00:14:01David.

00:14:11I mean, we're getting you home.

00:14:13Mum's at keep fit and he's got staff meeting at the scale to six.

00:14:17He?

00:14:18He's your stepfather.

00:14:20And you'll just have to get used to the idea.

00:14:22Okay, then, David.

00:14:38See you next Sunday.

00:14:39Official time.

00:14:40Don't leave the camera here till then.

00:14:43Aye, I'm here.

00:14:45Remember my comic next week.

00:14:46And don't forget who your real pals are.

00:14:48Do I love you?

00:15:16My, my, my, river deep, mountain high.

00:15:23Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:15:25If I lost you, could I cry?

00:15:31Oh, I love you, baby.

00:15:33Baby, baby, baby.

00:15:41The problem with a door is what I want to see.

00:15:44Make warm eyes.

00:15:50Do you want to see a lot of good people?

00:15:54I'm a marvel at a venue.

00:15:54I've got a visitor at the lobby.

00:15:58Told you I was probably on, didn't I?

00:16:01Any girl stronger, baby, in every way.

00:16:05Watch that, dear.

00:16:07Any girl's higher, baby, everyday.

00:16:11How did you know we were here?

00:16:26The car was outside.

00:16:27Right shell at home with my wife married.

00:16:30You see David two Sundays a month, no other time.

00:16:33But I'll see to it that you'll never have access to him.

00:16:37You're out of line, Shire.

00:16:39David's in a good school now.

00:16:40I don't want him growing up admiring you or your brother.

00:16:44I'm his father.

00:16:45Don't forget that.

00:16:46You might be a couple of hard men through in Glasgow,

00:16:49but here you're nothing.

00:16:51What's going on?

00:16:53Nothing.

00:16:54I'm finished.

00:16:56Oh, Shire.

00:16:57Tell Lana if she wants any excitement.

00:17:00She knows where to come.

00:17:02I'm only here.

00:17:02Yeah.

00:17:13You're the other son.

00:17:15They're your brothers, huh, are you?

00:17:17Yeah, yeah.

00:17:18I knew if I'd lost you when I cried.

00:17:21Good night, Shire.

00:17:31Good night, Shire.

00:17:32Good night, Shire.

00:17:33Good night, Shire.

00:17:34Good night, Shire.

00:17:35Good night, Shire.

00:17:36Good night, Shire.

00:17:37Good night, Shire.

00:17:38Good night, Shire.

00:17:39Good night, Shire.

00:17:40Good night, Shire.

00:17:41Good night, Shire.

00:17:42Good night, Shire.

00:17:43Good night, Shire.

00:19:14You'll be lucky to find somewhere to stick your thermometer.

00:19:28Give me one of that, will you?

00:19:44Well, so far as I can judge, I'd say the time of death is between 2 and 4 a.m.

00:19:55Not a lot of folk about.

00:20:00What do you think was used?

00:20:02I'll give you my opinion later.

00:20:04Oh, come on.

00:20:06I know it wasn't.

00:20:08An axe?

00:20:09Yes.

00:20:10The rest of it's up there.

00:20:13I think he played fit-by-wear.

00:20:14What's up?

00:20:15Oh, hello you.

00:20:16Back in the job.

00:20:17I found this.

00:20:18Look at the logo in the corner.

00:20:20Glasgow Garden Festival.

00:20:21I've got your souvenirs, Mum.

00:20:32Oh, yes, thanks.

00:20:33See the nice handkerchief, Helen?

00:20:39Mmm.

00:20:40Enjoying yourself?

00:20:42Oh, yes.

00:20:43It's good to remember Glasgow the way it was.

00:20:46Isn't it, Helen?

00:20:48Pardon?

00:20:48I think the point is, Mum, it is better than it was.

00:20:52There's still a lot to see.

00:20:54Could take the whole day.

00:20:56There's the Chinese gardens, the water tower, water display, and don't forget the thrill ride.

00:21:08Mick and Willie would love it here.

00:21:10Why?

00:21:11They're just boys at heart.

00:21:18It's Prince and File.

00:21:25Willie Lomax, the moneylender.

00:21:28His flat's only about 100 yards from where we found him.

00:21:33So somebody did it at last.

00:21:35If you're looking for a moneylender's tally book, you've got to think like a moneylender.

00:21:52We did all right for himself.

00:21:54Look at that stuff.

00:21:56The interests these boys charge, they always do all right for themselves.

00:21:59If there wasn't so much poverty, they wouldn't get the opportunity.

00:22:02Well, it's a social worker's job, not hers.

00:22:13Hey, Michael.

00:22:15What's the time?

00:22:16What?

00:22:18The cloak.

00:22:22Oh, look at this.

00:22:25More than money.

00:22:26There must be about 200 suspects' names in this book.

00:22:38Don't get that off, any.

00:22:40Listen, his brother's got a bar on the south side.

00:22:43I'll go and talk to him.

00:22:45You go down to the Garden Festival, find out how many of those hankies have been sold.

00:22:49Great.

00:22:49Can I help you, gentlemen?

00:22:58DCI Tiger.

00:22:59Superintendent McVetty.

00:23:01Maryhill Police Station.

00:23:03Sit down.

00:23:07What brings you on to foreign soil?

00:23:11When was the last time you saw Wally?

00:23:13Last night.

00:23:14Where?

00:23:16We drove through to Edinburgh.

00:23:18At the Oasis.

00:23:19It's my brother's club.

00:23:20What time did you get back to Glasgow?

00:23:23About half past two.

00:23:24This morning.

00:23:25Were you driving?

00:23:27Yes.

00:23:28What's this about?

00:23:29He didn't make it home in one piece.

00:23:38All right.

00:23:39I hope you haven't been up to anything, Mum.

00:24:09I hope you haven't been up to anything.

00:24:39I'll put the kettle on, Mum.

00:25:02It's on general sale to the public as a souvenir.

00:25:05Thousands have been sold.

00:25:06Wonderful.

00:25:18I know he had his faults, but what if I...

00:25:22He had a book with 220 names in it.

00:25:26Names of people he led money to.

00:25:28Do you have to bother her now?

00:25:29I'm afraid we must.

00:25:30We don't know anything about any book.

00:25:32Don't insult us.

00:25:34If people weren't too ashamed or too frightened to come forward, we'd have put you out of business years ago.

00:25:41Look at the state she's in.

00:25:42Can't you wait?

00:25:43I don't know what you're talking about.

00:25:45You know what I'm talking about.

00:25:47I'm not interested in your activities.

00:25:49Only his.

00:25:51But I might get interested.

00:25:53Now, do you understand her?

00:25:54I don't know anything about illegal money lending.

00:25:58The P-Mont.

00:25:59There were always been good boys.

00:26:04On the last birthday, the 5th of November, they took me to see Frankie Vaughan at the Theatre Royal.

00:26:12Then they took me out for a lovely meal at the Albany Hotel.

00:26:18Very nice.

00:26:19It might have been you.

00:26:36What might?

00:26:38Well, money lenders must invite murder.

00:26:42Especially those that charge 60% interest a week like your brother.

00:26:46As much as that.

00:26:46What would a blue asterisk and a red asterisk in his book mean?

00:26:53How many times I knew nothing about my brother's business.

00:26:57But I know about his business.

00:27:01And I know the misery it causes.

00:27:04Have you thought of the misery that would be without it?

00:27:14Mr. Cook.

00:27:15Police.

00:27:29What happened to the finders?

00:27:32Yeah, they got jammed.

00:27:33In a windy.

00:27:35I'm doing sudden.

00:27:36Is there somebody on the other end of it?

00:27:38I don't know what you're talking about.

00:27:40Archie Cook.

00:27:41Is that you?

00:27:42That's a common name.

00:27:44Well, it's not that common.

00:27:46How much do you owe Willie Lomax?

00:27:47Who?

00:27:48Now, listen, you.

00:27:50This is a murder inquiry.

00:27:52You can help us here.

00:27:53I'll do it the night.

00:27:55I paid him half.

00:27:57I didn't owe him anything.

00:27:58That's funny.

00:28:00According to this, you still owe him £200 and a £50 loan.

00:28:04I paid him back, honest.

00:28:06He put his heavies on you.

00:28:08What are their names?

00:28:09No, no.

00:28:10He never set anybody on me.

00:28:11What does a blue asterisk mean?

00:28:13A year name in his book.

00:28:16Asterisk?

00:28:16Why don't you just call them stars?

00:28:19He'll know what you're talking about.

00:28:20I've no idea.

00:28:22We have reason to believe he had a good motive for killing Lomax.

00:28:26We're holding you on suspicion of murder.

00:28:28Now, if your memory comes back,

00:28:32you might do yourself a bit of good.

00:28:35What?

00:28:36My Wendy's?

00:28:38Why bother with him?

00:28:39He don't seem to agree with you.

00:28:46Why bother with him?

00:29:16Willie Lomax is dead.

00:29:24Aye, I know.

00:29:25I read it in the paper.

00:29:26The police don't know you had that reason to want him dead.

00:29:30You like animals too, right?

00:29:34Even dead ones.

00:29:36You see, Willie's death has left us unemployed.

00:29:40Polis have got his book.

00:29:42But we know the faces, right?

00:29:44So we thought, you know,

00:29:46with your book,

00:29:47we might go into partnership.

00:29:49Partners?

00:29:52I'd sooner hear a couple of monkeys.

00:29:55Report from Forensic of interest.

00:29:58In a few cuts on Lomax's clothing,

00:30:04they found pollen grains.

00:30:06Pollen?

00:30:08They've gone to the botany department

00:30:09of the university for identification.

00:30:13And you have a theory about the handkerchief?

00:30:15I think the killer used it

00:30:16to wipe the blood off the axe, sir.

00:30:18And it's on sale only at the Garden Festival?

00:30:20Yes, sir.

00:30:21And thousands have been sold.

00:30:28Inspector Taggart.

00:30:30Hello.

00:30:31My name's Paul Hunter.

00:30:33I'm the director of a play at the Tron Theatre

00:30:35about Lizzie Borden,

00:30:39the axe murderess from New England.

00:30:40I read in the paper

00:30:42about the axe murder of the moneylender.

00:30:44Well, this may just be coincidental,

00:30:47but two days before,

00:30:49we had something stolen.

00:30:51Lizzie Borden's axe.

00:30:52The axe murderess from New England

00:31:22Oh, my God.

00:31:52Oh, my God.

00:32:22The horns of Elfland faintly...

00:32:24Did you feel that?

00:32:27I'll put some of it into the poem.

00:32:32The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

00:32:35Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying.

00:32:38Blow, bugalancer, echoes dying, dying, dying.

00:33:10It was just an axe.

00:33:13You don't think somebody's going to steal an axe.

00:33:16Who can get into that stage area?

00:33:18Almost anybody.

00:33:20The people use the bar here.

00:33:21And anyone could nip through to the theatre area.

00:33:23It's not kept locked.

00:33:25How big would you say that the head of the axe was?

00:33:29Five, six inches.

00:33:31Bigger than the new axe.

00:33:36You really think somebody saw the show and got the idea?

00:33:39It's one theory.

00:33:39It's crazy.

00:33:43Lizzie Borden was a good few years older than you, wasn't she?

00:33:47Dramatic licence.

00:33:48She was also a very unattractive woman, I believe.

00:33:51Dramatic licence too.

00:33:54What interested you in the part?

00:33:56I wanted to show that, driven by hatred,

00:34:00the most unlikely person can commit murder.

00:34:04Listen, if you're going to be about for a couple of weeks,

00:34:06maybe we could have a longer chat.

00:34:09A drink.

00:34:09Hey.

00:34:13We've got work to do.

00:34:15I was just telling Julie how much we enjoyed the play.

00:34:17We're on duty.

00:34:19We're not supposed to enjoy ourselves.

00:34:23Go on.

00:34:24Did your mother never warn you about actresses?

00:34:36You think Lizzie Borden did it?

00:34:37Who cares?

00:34:38Didn't happen on my patch.

00:34:40I'm keen on knowing if it was her axe.

00:34:42Someone could have been unhinged by watching the play.

00:34:46Unhinged?

00:34:46But listen.

00:34:47But listen.

00:34:48Willie Lomax was no random victim.

00:34:50Somebody had it in for him.

00:34:52Let's go.

00:34:54One leg of the family we haven't spoken to yet.

00:34:55Please, sit down.

00:35:06I've got to ask you, did you like your brother-in-law?

00:35:20I didn't like or dislike him.

00:35:23I married Ken.

00:35:25Not his family.

00:35:27Did you know he was a moneylender?

00:35:28He'd see through me if I lied.

00:35:32Yes, I did.

00:35:34When did you last see him?

00:35:35Monday night.

00:35:36At the club.

00:35:37I was working there.

00:35:38As what?

00:35:39As Ken's wife.

00:35:42I employ girls for him.

00:35:44Not that I don't trust him.

00:35:46Have you had experience with this kind of job?

00:35:48I know what men look for.

00:35:51Um, did you know anyone that might want to murder Willie?

00:35:56Didn't hundreds of people.

00:35:57No.

00:35:58I mean personally.

00:36:01Well, as what happened at the club.

00:36:04That was mainly a threat to Mick.

00:36:07Why?

00:36:08What happened?

00:36:09Mick had a row with his son's stepfather about access.

00:36:13He said he'd put an end to David saying his father all Willie.

00:36:16He said he didn't like the boy admiring villains.

00:36:20And this was the night before he was murdered?

00:36:21Well, why didn't you mention this before?

00:36:24Maybe I agreed with him.

00:36:26Someone did your city a favour.

00:36:34I don't call murder doing anyone a favour.

00:36:37Everybody's got the right to live.

00:36:38My boy has a right, too, to grow up emulating decent people.

00:36:42Which Willie Lomax wasn't.

00:36:44The row is between me and my wife's ex-husband.

00:36:47Did you wait for them to come out?

00:36:49At half past eleven at night.

00:36:50Yeah.

00:36:52Edinburgh folk turn into bumpkins at midnight, do they?

00:36:55He's different, sir.

00:36:58It's your ex-husband.

00:37:00Bill and I grew up in the same street in Edinburgh.

00:37:03Went to the same school.

00:37:04I met Mick and just made a big mistake.

00:37:09How long were you married to?

00:37:11Ten years.

00:37:14That's how big a mistake it was.

00:37:17He never went to prison, but I felt as though I did time every day of it.

00:37:24Now, if you'll excuse us, we're driving up to St Andrews for dinner.

00:37:27What do you think?

00:37:43Maternal jealousy?

00:37:45It was Willie who died.

00:37:46No Mick.

00:37:48Aye, but the boy admired both of them.

00:37:50Maybe he saw a threat in both of them.

00:37:52Doesn't seem the type.

00:37:53Neither did Lizzie Borden.

00:37:54I'll show you a bandit, son. It's going off.

00:37:57Come on, there, please. Thanks, lads.

00:38:01Come on, there.

00:38:05Come on, lads. You know Holmes can go.

00:38:07Give the band on a break.

00:38:10Come on, son. Put her down. You don't know where she's been.

00:38:13Mick, visit her.

00:38:14She's got the police.

00:38:17Come on, there.

00:38:20Hello, Dad.

00:38:21Help me if you can.

00:38:24Do you know a man called Mr. Shire?

00:38:40Oh, I don't think so.

00:38:42He was well-spoken. Slightly baldy.

00:38:45Please help me.

00:38:47Thanks very much.

00:38:48And now my life is true.

00:38:54Not one person saw Shire's hanging around after us.

00:38:58I think we're wasting our time.

00:39:01Ah.

00:39:02So do I.

00:39:04Every villain in Edinburgh must be here tonight.

00:39:07Can spot them a mile away.

00:39:09See that prayer?

00:39:11They're Glasgow.

00:39:12I know them.

00:39:13I just can't put my finger on them.

00:39:18They're faces.

00:39:20I might have lifted them.

00:39:23Who are they?

00:39:24Come on.

00:39:26Just think.

00:39:28They're up to something.

00:39:30Come on, let's satisfy our curiosity.

00:39:32Oh, help me get my feet back home.

00:39:39Boys.

00:39:40Mind if we join you?

00:39:42You're interrupting something, I hope.

00:39:44No.

00:39:46You want to remind us of your names.

00:39:49You've had a memory lapse.

00:39:50If you can, I'm feeling down.

00:39:55And I do appreciate it.

00:40:00Do you know, Dax?

00:40:03It might mean that we went in for that kind of thing.

00:40:06But then we had different pleasures.

00:40:16Can I ask you something?

00:40:18Sure.

00:40:21Is it true you're in money?

00:40:22It really hides its interest illegally.

00:40:24Who told you that?

00:40:26Mum.

00:40:29It's true.

00:40:30Is it true you have people beating up you can't pay?

00:40:35Time I was getting you home.

00:40:36Why'd you do it?

00:40:41You're good at science at school, yes?

00:40:44Some boys are good at sports.

00:40:46Some at languages.

00:40:49It was the same when I was at school.

00:40:51Some were good at some things.

00:40:53Some were good at others.

00:40:58Let's get you home.

00:40:58You've just got Mick Lomax in your patch.

00:41:09We've got his whole money lending operation in ours.

00:41:12We've been working with the consumer credit guys for months trying to get enough evidence.

00:41:16Is that why you're here?

00:41:17Ah, and for the fun.

00:41:20We drink with the Lomax brothers a lot here.

00:41:22Real nice guys.

00:41:24Three Alabama Slammers.

00:41:26Count me out.

00:41:27Oh, you're having one.

00:41:29Three Alabama Slammers.

00:41:30And what about the boss?

00:41:31No, really, I don't want one.

00:41:33I don't drink.

00:41:33Look, you're not sitting at this table and not drinking.

00:41:37Three Alabama Slammers.

00:41:39And a double malt for the boss.

00:41:41Besides, I'm driving him back.

00:41:44Do you hear Christmas?

00:41:46An angel just landed on my shoulder in death.

00:41:49Mr. Tagger, you're what?

00:41:59There's a guy, Frank Bell, lives in heartache.

00:42:04Well, he was taking a couple.

00:42:07Great.

00:42:11Thanks.

00:42:19Hello, Dad.

00:42:33Aye, aye.

00:42:37When did you get here?

00:42:39About eight o'clock.

00:42:40We've been waiting up for you.

00:42:41I was through in Edinburgh.

00:42:43Inquiries, you know.

00:42:44It's good to see you.

00:42:49Dad, this is Tim.

00:42:51Pleased to meet you.

00:42:53Hello.

00:42:55Tim and I are engaged.

00:42:59You're what?

00:43:00You might say congratulations.

00:43:03I don't even know the guy.

00:43:08Um.

00:43:10Here's something for you.

00:43:12It's 12-year-old.

00:43:15Thanks.

00:43:18Sit down.

00:43:19It's just that Alison never told us

00:43:27she was going out with anybody.

00:43:31How long have you known each other?

00:43:34About three months.

00:43:37I broke my leg.

00:43:38I was a patient in the ward she was working in.

00:43:40What do you do?

00:43:42I'm a carpenter.

00:43:44I've got my own business.

00:43:45How about it?

00:43:50That's good.

00:43:51Is something wrong?

00:43:57No.

00:43:58I've got my own business.

00:47:16You two again.

00:47:18Your usual.

00:47:18We met two colleagues from the north side last night in Edinburgh.

00:47:25They're investigating your brother's murder.

00:47:27Wish we could have been in on that one.

00:47:29Aye.

00:47:30We'll be pulling out all the stops to congratulate him.

00:47:34One pound eighty.

00:47:37One pound eighty.

00:47:38That's nice.

00:47:39We'll drop in for a friendly chat and he doesn't even buy us a drink.

00:47:43I don't encourage the police in here.

00:47:46That's why I had a carpet put down.

00:47:47This was Bell's routine, it seems.

00:47:53Collecting his debts the same time folk collected their social.

00:47:57We were hoping to interview him this morning.

00:47:59What's it, Bell?

00:48:01Yes, sir.

00:48:03There were witnesses who owed them.

00:48:04Two moneylenders down, two hundred to go, sir.

00:48:07All right, all right.

00:48:09Who gave you his name?

00:48:12Ken Lomax, sir.

00:48:14Last night in Edinburgh at the Oasis Club.

00:48:16It's pretty you didn't visit him at once,

00:48:19instead of staying on and enjoying yourselves.

00:48:22I will remember next time.

00:48:30Oh, Archie.

00:48:32No hoping to clean the wind, is he?

00:48:35Franky was all right.

00:48:37It's a lot worse than him.

00:48:43Do you mind a couple of names?

00:48:46Hi.

00:48:48Good morning.

00:49:16Some place this time, eh?

00:49:25Mm-hmm.

00:49:26Do you think the killings are connected?

00:49:28Oh, I don't know.

00:49:30I'd be happier if you knew what a vine-leave the butylone was.

00:49:33I've got one in my greenhouse.

00:49:34I'll show it to you sometime.

00:49:36Doing very well this spring.

00:49:39Come in.

00:49:41Come in.

00:49:41Hello.

00:49:42Oh, Mrs. Lomax.

00:49:44Mr. Lomax.

00:49:46Superintendent McPittie.

00:49:47Hello.

00:49:51Splendid collection of blood.

00:49:54You respond well to a wee burst of puccini.

00:49:58That name you gave me the other night, Frank Bell.

00:50:01Who gave you the tip-off?

00:50:02My brother, Mick.

00:50:04As someone who might have a motive for murdering Willie.

00:50:06That's right.

00:50:08What do the names, uh, Nicholas Frame and George McSherry mean to you?

00:50:12Not a lot.

00:50:14Why?

00:50:15Well, they were henchmen for Willie.

00:50:17You see, we think they might have had it in for Bell, too.

00:50:19I knew nothing of Willie's business.

00:50:22We've always kept ourselves apart from Mick and Willie.

00:50:24Haven't we, Ken?

00:50:26Yes.

00:50:27Ken tried to give a guiding hand to them, but they just went their own way.

00:50:31Willie was pretty affected when our father died.

00:50:34Ken would make a good father.

00:50:36Have you got a butylone?

00:50:40They haven't.

00:50:42Did you speak to Frank Bell?

00:50:44We never had a chance.

00:50:46His car was blown up this morning.

00:50:49He was in it.

00:50:50Jelly Ignite, I sure think.

00:50:58I don't know the difference between Jelly Ignite and Jelly Babies.

00:51:00They remind me of a bomb.

00:51:02Come on, that's IRA's department, officer, not mine.

00:51:15Do you need much intelligence for this line of work?

00:51:18I mean, how many O-levels?

00:51:20Do you have any O-levels?

00:51:25Just that my boy's interested in science at school.

00:51:28I could recommend this as a career if nothing worthwhile turns up.

00:51:34Do you do toenails as well?

00:51:36You know one of the delights of my job?

00:52:00Seein' a hard man go soft at the sight of four walls.

00:52:05We never murdered anybody.

00:52:09Look straight at me.

00:52:11What are you on?

00:52:13Coke?

00:52:15Nothing.

00:52:15What's that we found in your pocket?

00:52:17That's just a little weed.

00:52:21What are you and your pal?

00:52:24The floor of port main.

00:52:25I don't have an alibi.

00:52:28I don't need an alibi.

00:52:30I didn't plant that bomb.

00:52:32This was found in the search of your flat.

00:52:35It's just a book.

00:52:36It's an American publication.

00:52:40Banned in this country.

00:52:43Terrorists' standard issue.

00:52:45Tells you how to make the lot.

00:52:48It's a revolutionaries recipe book.

00:52:51I thought it was Mrs. Beaton's.

00:52:54Collecting hankies.

00:52:56This is a really exciting job I joined the force for.

00:53:02Lizzie Borden and the Axe.

00:53:04The Tron Theatre.

00:53:05Lizzie Borden and the Axe.

00:53:08Tron Theatre every lunchtime.

00:53:10Lizzie Borden and the Axe.

00:53:12Mack'em.

00:53:14You've seen it.

00:53:15Look, you're backing me into a corner.

00:53:21You were in a corner

00:53:22when you got out of bed this morning.

00:53:27Okay.

00:53:29I've got an alibi.

00:53:31All night.

00:53:33Not that one again.

00:53:35What's her name?

00:53:37My son.

00:53:39David.

00:53:45Thanks.

00:53:48You didn't tell me you also played the guitar.

00:53:51I was playing before I ever thought about acting.

00:53:53What kind of music?

00:53:56Country and Western mostly.

00:53:58What ages did you start singing?

00:54:00About this high.

00:54:02Mind you, I was practically pushed into it.

00:54:05Who'd buy it?

00:54:07Why are you going round like nankages?

00:54:09Everyone connected with the festival

00:54:11got one in their infobank.

00:54:12You can buy them at the Sudanese time.

00:54:14There's a difference.

00:54:17I don't even know where mine is.

00:54:20Don't worry.

00:54:21Why not?

00:54:23Well, because...

00:54:25I'm a woman.

00:54:27And therefore I can't possibly be a suspect.

00:54:29It's not just that.

00:54:33Electronic dog lead in case I stray.

00:54:36I'll be back in a minute.

00:54:43Okay, sir.

00:54:44Right, sir.

00:54:46You have 20 minutes.

00:54:4720 minutes.

00:55:09David!

00:55:09These gentlemen are from the police in Glasgow.

00:55:22I want to know where you were last night.

00:55:27I spent the night with Dad, that's all.

00:55:31He's only meant to see him twice a month.

00:55:33The court's laid that down.

00:55:34The court's never asked me.

00:55:36You were 10 at the time.

00:55:38Mr. Shires.

00:55:39Can we ask the questions?

00:55:40I don't want him growing up like his father.

00:55:42I hate Edinburgh.

00:55:43I hate this school and I hate you.

00:55:45Mr. Shires.

00:55:46We want to know what your dad did last night.

00:55:52We sat up and talked till about 2 o'clock.

00:55:56Then went to bed.

00:55:57I slept with some tea.

00:55:59Did your father go up and go out again?

00:56:00No.

00:56:02How do you know if you were asleep?

00:56:04I wasn't asleep.

00:56:05I was too scared of not getting back home in time.

00:56:08I made Dad a cup of tea about half past five.

00:56:10Then he drove me back to Edinburgh.

00:56:11I fell asleep in French today.

00:56:15That just about does it.

00:56:17Just about does it for us too.

00:56:26Oh Jim.

00:56:27What are you at?

00:56:28Hello sir.

00:56:29No way.

00:56:29I'll get this.

00:56:30I'll get this.

00:56:31Well, the boy says the same as his father, sir.

00:56:44Family alibi.

00:56:46In this case, sir, I think it's the truth.

00:56:49Lomax didn't have a chance to plant that boat.

00:56:51I'd to person test the lift.

00:56:54He could have some sort of vigilante.

00:56:56Killing moneylenders.

00:56:58There you are, sir.

00:56:59A toast.

00:57:01To your daughter's engagement.

00:57:04Speak, sir.

00:57:06No, see you after the wedding.

00:57:31You know what the word is?

00:57:46Somebody's out to kill moneylenders.

00:57:48Why should that concern me?

00:57:51Watch your back, Lomax.

00:57:53I'll be right back.

00:57:57I'll be right back.

00:57:59Thank you, sir.

00:58:29So you think you're funny.

00:58:31A chance to star as a comedian for you, perhaps for 10 minutes at 7 o'clock tonight.

00:58:35That's until Saturday, 21st of May.

00:58:38It's 10 minutes to 8.

00:58:59Dad, could we have a party here on Tuesday night?

00:59:14No.

00:59:14Just for some of the nurses from the General.

00:59:16I haven't seen them since I left.

00:59:18Ali and I thought we'd prepare everything.

00:59:20But we won't cause you any trouble.

00:59:23Ali.

00:59:24I'm sure we'll manage.

00:59:25I'll do what I can.

00:59:26Bring your partner along, Dad.

00:59:27I'd like to meet him.

00:59:28Oh, wait a minute.

00:59:30Who's this Ali?

00:59:31Is this my name for her?

00:59:35Look.

00:59:36We give our daughter a perfectly good name.

00:59:40Use it.

00:59:46I suppose I live a rather dull and uninteresting life.

00:59:52Well, except for the tour.

00:59:54Dear Papa paid for that.

00:59:56Oh, Emma didn't want to come.

00:59:59So she stayed at home.

01:00:01Oh, I visited Britain and France and Italy.

01:00:07But I preferred France most of all.

01:00:12But all the time,

01:00:14I kept thinking about Mother.

01:00:18How much I hate her.

01:00:20I refuse to call her Mother.

01:00:26I'll call her Mrs. Borden.

01:00:30How that infuriates, Papa.

01:00:35I'd like to...

01:00:37I'd like to strike her dead.

01:00:41I'm not holding this.

01:00:49Oh, I guess it's my turn to chop the wood.

01:00:52I'm not holding this.

01:01:11Oh, hello, Mrs. Lomax.

01:01:19Hello.

01:01:20Excuse me.

01:01:22I didn't know you were a theatre guard.

01:01:24Frequently.

01:01:26Did you enjoy the play?

01:01:27Yes, thanks.

01:01:29I wish a particular interest in this play.

01:01:31Nothing, really.

01:01:33I suppose it's culture.

01:01:35I'd better go shopping to do, you know.

01:01:37I'll see you.

01:01:39Sure you will.

01:01:40I'll see you.

01:01:51Hello.

01:01:53Was it a good house, as they say?

01:01:55Yes.

01:01:56Marvellous what a bit of publicity can do, huh?

01:01:59It has helped.

01:02:01You know, I've been thinking about this axe that went missing.

01:02:06Did you make that story up?

01:02:08Are you accusing me of wasting police time?

01:02:12No.

01:02:14Not yet.

01:02:16The axe was stolen from here two days before the murder.

01:02:21Did you take it?

01:02:22Look, ask anybody when the axe went missing.

01:02:26I couldn't foresee an axe murder two days after.

01:02:30One person did.

01:02:31There, that's everything ready.

01:02:41The best.

01:02:42My huck and a coffin with solid brass bits.

01:02:46You'd have liked that.

01:02:49And velvet and teary.

01:02:52Good taste.

01:02:53You're good, boys.

01:03:13Did you kill Frank Bell?

01:03:15Me, no.

01:03:16The truth, Michael.

01:03:18Are you calling your brother Amandara or Kenneth?

01:03:22Then take your hands off my cashmere coat.

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