Tggrt. 11. Flesh and Blood. Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 5th/12th/19th September 1989.  Jim Taggart attends the wedding of social worker Jane Ross and jailbird Charlie Forbes.   Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine Tony Rohr - Flynn Gerard O'Hare - Martin Duffy Roy Sampson - George McKnight Dorothy Paul - Violet McKnight Simon Donald - Andrew McKnight Karen Westwood - Janie Ross Hilary Maclean - Fern McCulloch Leon Sinden - Lt. Col. Ross Morag Forsyth - Marion Ross Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart Andrew Byatt - Charlie Forbes Jimmy Logan - Bernie Sullivan Duncan Bell - Tom McAllister Stuart Davids - Duncan Knox Ray Greenaway - Barnes (as Raymond Greenaway) Pauline Little - WPC Drummond Alastair Galbraith - Kevin Brown Faye Milligan - Landlady Robert Cavanah - Lennie Moffat Roddy Lambie - Taxi Driver Andrew Fairlie - Barman Alasdair McCrone - Priest Fozzie O'Donnell - Irish Musician John Gahagan - Irish Musician St. Andrews Secondary School Glasgow School Band - School Band Margo Cunningham - Mrs. Cameron Jane Nelson Peebles - Dr. Gilchrist Pauline Little - WPC Drummond Michael Elder - Colin Murray Michael Nardone - Games Player Anne Maria McAuley - Games Player Kay Lyell - Aunt Hetty Jean Craig - Aunt Peggy Alastair Galbraith - Kevin Brown Gordon Fulton - DCI Paton Steve Anderson - Reveller Neil Connery - Country P.C. Patrick Samuels - Drunk

Transcript

00:00:00you have come together in this church so that the Lord may seal and strengthen your love

00:00:13Christ abundantly blesses this love and so in the presence of the church before me its minister

00:00:21and with these your friends as witnesses I ask you to state your intentions to live in

00:00:27a lifelong fidelity to each other and to God in whose image you have been made

00:00:32Charles Forbes do you freely and willingly take Jane Ross your present for your lawful wife

00:00:47according to the laws of God and of Holy Mother Church

00:00:49I do

00:00:53Jane Ross do you freely and willingly take Charles Forbes here present

00:01:04for your lawful husband according to the laws of God and of Holy Mother Church

00:01:10I do

00:01:15with this ring I wear you

00:01:22in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

00:01:29as gold and silver I give you

00:01:41tokens of all my worldly goods

00:01:46you may kiss the bride

00:01:52for her

00:02:15Thanks for coming, Mr. Tigger.

00:02:27Well, thanks for asking me, Charlie.

00:02:31Sorry I couldn't think of a present to bring you.

00:02:35She's my present.

00:02:37Aye.

00:02:45It's all right.

00:02:56Pass me.

00:02:57Come on.

00:03:15Stop struggling and you won't get hurt.

00:03:35Marble, hurry up!

00:03:36Are you sure I'll pay you?

00:03:39Sure, I'm sure.

00:03:41What?

00:03:42What do you want?

00:03:44Why did you marry him?

00:03:48Why do you think?

00:03:53The fact he's got three years still to serve has nothing to do with it.

00:03:58Well, I'm glad he's got a reason for going straight.

00:04:03Well, I'm glad he's got a reason for going straight.

00:04:07I'm hoping more than that.

00:04:10Well, sure you are.

00:04:21Good luck now. Thank you.

00:04:33Fairy lights?

00:04:52Well, there's still 20 shopping days to Christmas.

00:04:57You try getting rid of 10,000 sets of Irish fairy lights.

00:05:02They're not Irish. They're on their way there.

00:05:05That's where I wish I was right now.

00:05:07And that's where you belong.

00:05:11Okay, I was wrong. But that's the Irish shite, right?

00:05:15Piss off.

00:05:23Put that out.

00:05:27I want nothing to do with this, you hear? Nothing.

00:05:33What is it?

00:05:34It was on its way to your country.

00:05:57I want nothing to do with this.

00:06:00I'm just joking.

00:06:01Thank God.

00:06:03Let's go.

00:06:14All right, all right, all right, sir.

00:06:17What are you having?

00:06:18I find the area.

00:06:19You make that too?

00:06:20Very far.

00:06:24I've got a favour to ask you.

00:06:25What?

00:06:26Not in here.

00:06:27I'll see you up the road after.

00:06:28All right.

00:06:29That's on the band.

00:06:30Cheers, mate.

00:06:36Can I ask me?

00:06:38You must know other safe floors.

00:06:39Guys who'd find a use for it.

00:06:40I just want it out of me hands.

00:06:42What kind of it?

00:06:43How should I know?

00:06:45You're the expert.

00:06:46Where did you get it?

00:06:48Fell off the back of a Larry.

00:06:50I'm not interested.

00:06:52Come on, George.

00:06:54I don't know anybody else.

00:06:56Do you know the last time I blew a sea?

00:06:581978.

00:07:00I'd done six years.

00:07:01I said at the time, that's it.

00:07:03I don't want you to buy it.

00:07:05Just give me a name or two.

00:07:07You must have the connections.

00:07:09You were the best in your time.

00:07:11Oh, admiration will know where.

00:07:14Besides, how do I know where it came from?

00:07:16Come on, George.

00:07:17You've known me for years.

00:07:18You know it wouldn't get wrapped up in all that.

00:07:22I'll think about it, all right?

00:07:24Right.

00:07:25I'll see you then.

00:07:26I'll see you then.

00:07:57There you are, Violet.

00:08:02I'll take my change.

00:08:11Have a good night.

00:08:13All right.

00:08:15I thought I'd see you, didn't there, son?

00:08:17Ah, I'm skinned.

00:08:18Ah, well, don't look at me.

00:08:20Between now and Christmas, I've still got to pay Mrs. Ross for the button bend.

00:08:24Yeah, this guy reminded me the night how good I used to be.

00:08:28Good at what?

00:08:29Blonde safes.

00:08:31Did you tell him the only thing you're good at blowing nowadays is your brew money?

00:08:54Hello?

00:08:58Martin?

00:09:00It's George McKnight.

00:09:02I'm OK.

00:09:08Listen, about that stuff.

00:09:10I'd like to see it.

00:09:11Make it at six tonight.

00:09:13It has to be dark, you see.

00:09:16OK, see you.

00:09:17Oh, Jim, that looks nice.

00:09:42We could buy that for Allison.

00:09:44Nah, she wouldn't like that.

00:09:46We still have to get presents for Auntie Hetty, and for Mary and John and Mrs. McIntosh.

00:10:01What do you have to buy presents for all the neighbours for?

00:10:03They've been good to me since we moved in.

00:10:05Buy them bolted.

00:10:08It's Christmas.

00:10:09It's nice to use a little imagination.

00:10:11Don't I know it?

00:10:12OK, there you go.

00:10:13It's your seat as well.

00:10:15You never heard of spontaneous combustion?

00:10:16What?

00:10:17It's a wee micro-organism, eh?

00:10:18It loves wet stuff.

00:10:19It produces heat.

00:10:20One minute you've got explosives, the next.

00:10:24A crater.

00:10:25Fancy that.

00:10:26Oh, you know your science, do you?

00:10:27I want a straight answer this time.

00:10:28Where did you get this?

00:10:29That was a straight answer.

00:10:30The truth!

00:10:31It was being smuggled with goods or anecdotally.

00:10:32It was being smuggled with goods or anecdotally.

00:10:33It's a wee micro-organism, eh?

00:10:34It's a wee micro-organism, eh?

00:10:35It loves wet stuff.

00:10:36It produces heat.

00:10:37It produces heat.

00:10:38One minute you've got explosives, the next.

00:10:39A crater.

00:10:40I suppose it's the next.

00:10:41A crater.

00:10:42I fancy that.

00:10:43Oh, you know your science, do you?

00:10:50I want a straight answer this time.

00:10:52Where did you get this?

00:10:53That was a straight answer.

00:10:54The truth!

00:10:59It was being smuggled with goods or anecdotally.

00:11:01But nobody knows I've got it.

00:11:02Smuggled where?

00:11:03To Ireland.

00:11:04These people, they don't...

00:11:08They don't hand out solicitors' letters, you know.

00:11:14Can you help me?

00:11:15Get rid of it.

00:11:19First, we'll bury it properly.

00:11:23Aye, properly this time.

00:11:33You swear to me you've no connection?

00:11:35How many times?

00:11:38You going back to Ireland for Christmas?

00:11:41Nah.

00:11:42I'm staying here.

00:11:43On your own?

00:11:44I prefer it that way.

00:11:45I don't get on me family.

00:11:46Ha!

00:11:47Violet has this ritual.

00:11:50Me and Andrew and her, we go to this cottage in Renfrewshire.

00:11:53She likes to play at family Christmases.

00:11:55Thanks grand.

00:11:56How would you like to do a job?

00:11:57With those explosives?

00:11:58Safe job?

00:11:59Aye.

00:12:00Big.

00:12:01Really big.

00:12:02You're asking me?

00:12:03You told me I was the best in my time.

00:12:04Right, I'm giving you a chance to work with the best.

00:12:06What is it?

00:12:07There's upwards of a million in it.

00:12:08I want you to know.

00:12:09Are you with me?

00:12:10Are you with me?

00:12:11Am I?

00:12:12Safe job?

00:12:15Aye.

00:12:17Big.

00:12:18Really big.

00:12:20You're asking me?

00:12:21You told me I was the best in my time.

00:12:24Right, I'm giving you a chance to work with the best.

00:12:27What is it?

00:12:29There's upwards of a million in it.

00:12:31I want you to know.

00:12:33Are you with me?

00:12:35Am I?

00:12:36That's ten, twenty, thirty, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five.

00:12:47Oh, I've got more in here.

00:12:48Wait a minute.

00:12:49That's right.

00:12:50Fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine, sixty.

00:12:55That's it.

00:12:56That's for the three nights.

00:12:58Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

00:13:01As before.

00:13:03Well, you certainly like being cut off for Christmas.

00:13:09Well, keep your men out the pub.

00:13:13Well, I never had Christmases as a girl.

00:13:16Well, no proper ones.

00:13:20I think it's important to have your family round you, don't you?

00:13:25Well, for at least one occasion in the year.

00:13:28Yes.

00:13:30What is it your husband does again?

00:13:32Oh, he's not working at the moment.

00:13:34No, he's on a disability pension.

00:13:36Of course.

00:13:37I forgot.

00:13:39More coffee?

00:13:41Oh, no, thanks.

00:13:42I'll have to get back to business.

00:13:47That's a lovely tree, Mrs. Ross.

00:13:50Is it real?

00:13:52Yes, we always have a real tree.

00:13:54Come on, sir.

00:14:03Don't you know that only fools and bosun's whistle?

00:14:06It's Christmas.

00:14:08Oh, that's funny.

00:14:09The calendar says December the 14th.

00:14:11Oh, no.

00:14:12Oh, no.

00:14:17Get them down.

00:14:18Pardon, sir?

00:14:19Do you know what the date is?

00:14:21There's a week and a half to go.

00:14:22I don't mind what happens out there.

00:14:24In here, I want a bit of sanity.

00:14:27Good morning, sir.

00:14:36Not be home for Christmas?

00:14:38Mum, I'm 27.

00:14:40I have my own friends.

00:14:42I want to spend Christmas with them.

00:14:43But it's a family time, Jamie.

00:14:45Look, you know we're having a treasure hunt on Boxing Day.

00:14:48It's a stupid day to have a treasure hunt.

00:14:50Why is it stupid?

00:14:51Lots of people go out on Boxing Day.

00:14:53But Christmas Day is different.

00:14:54And it's the time we all get together.

00:14:57It's not as though you have a husband and family of your own.

00:15:02Look, I just...

00:15:04I just want to be by myself.

00:15:07A minute ago you wanted to spend it with friends.

00:15:09Do you know there are more murders and suicides at Christmas

00:15:12than at any other time, and I'm not surprised.

00:15:14You bring that subject up again.

00:15:16You bring it up every year just to spoil our Christmas.

00:15:18Just try being a social worker, Dad.

00:15:21You'll see what I mean.

00:15:22I'm late.

00:15:23Oh, yeah.

00:15:24Yeah, that's right.

00:15:25Your friends are more important than we are.

00:15:27Janie, don't forget the keys.

00:15:37Here are footsteps behind you.

00:15:40You think you're being followed by someone or something.

00:15:44On the floor of the cave are the bones of an ancient water.

00:15:49Yeah.

00:15:50There's also a large pool of black fluid,

00:15:55which seems to be feasting on a piece of flesh.

00:15:58You realise that the black fluid is, in fact, one creature.

00:16:03The black spawn of Nerfgar.

00:16:06Oh.

00:16:08Can I talk to you?

00:16:09It's a spawn, it hasn't got ears.

00:16:12It now merges into four distinct spawn creatures,

00:16:15each with its own nucleus.

00:16:17Right.

00:16:17I'm going to fire a crossbow bolt at the nearest one.

00:16:22You miss.

00:16:23The spawn subdivides into six,

00:16:26enters your system,

00:16:28and poisons you.

00:16:29Did that 12 hit points?

00:16:31It's not poison again.

00:16:32You keep killing creatures with poison.

00:16:34A hit with my arrow.

00:16:39Ten for damage.

00:16:41One is severely wounded.

00:16:42It's making for the wounded one of your party.

00:16:4818.

00:16:49Got it.

00:16:54Three for damage.

00:16:57The creature dies.

00:17:00But, alas, its gelatinous quality

00:17:03was binding the roof of the cave.

00:17:04The cave falls in, crushing you,

00:17:06for you're too weak with poison to resist.

00:17:08Come on.

00:17:10Your character's crushed to death.

00:17:13I've been running that character for two years.

00:17:16You can't kill her.

00:17:18You're dead.

00:17:19Crushed.

00:17:19Sorry.

00:17:20Sorry.

00:17:34I've just been a pig of a week.

00:17:50Duncan knows I've been running that character for two years.

00:17:53It'd be like a walk.

00:17:54And where's your car?

00:17:56In the garage.

00:17:57It's ill.

00:17:58I'll give you a lift in mine.

00:18:00I'd sooner walk.

00:18:01Be a moan.

00:18:02I'm a big girl.

00:18:03I'm a girl.

00:18:19Chidi?

00:18:19Ginny?

00:18:35Silence night, holy night.

00:18:44All is calm, all is bright.

00:18:53Round yon virgin, mother and child.

00:19:02Holy earth I saw tender and mild.

00:19:10Sleep in heavenly, sleep in heavenly.

00:19:19Sleep in heavenly.

00:19:28Silent night, holy night.

00:19:36Sleep in heavenly, love and child.

00:19:52Stop!

00:19:53Stop!

00:19:55Stop!

00:19:57What are you doing?

00:19:57Stop!

00:19:58Stop!

00:19:59Ah!

00:20:00Ah!

00:20:01Ah!

00:20:03Ah!

00:20:04No!

00:20:13No!

00:20:14No!

00:20:15No!

00:20:16No!

00:20:21We wish you a Merry Christmas.

00:20:23We wish you a Merry Christmas.

00:20:25We wish you a Merry Christmas

00:20:27and a Happy New Year.

00:20:30Good tidings we bring

00:20:32To you and your king

00:20:34We wish you a merry Christmas

00:20:37And a happy new year

00:20:41Hello, dear.

00:20:46Wait on you, don't you?

00:20:54I'm going to do it with you, going to do it with you.

00:20:57It gets earlier every year.

00:21:02When I was a boy, the decorations went up on Christmas Eve.

00:21:06If we could afford any.

00:21:08It's the spirit that's important.

00:21:10Does that not get lost somewhere along the way

00:21:12with the road deaths and the divorce statistics?

00:21:14You know something, sir? You're a cynic.

00:21:16Just realistic.

00:21:17Good morning.

00:21:18Aye, so it is.

00:21:19Is it a prostitute?

00:21:21What makes you seem that?

00:21:23The street.

00:21:25I'd say she died sometime yesterday evening.

00:21:28Earlier rather than later.

00:21:30Severe bruising to the groin and legs

00:21:32consistent with being crushed.

00:21:34Crushed by what?

00:21:35I'll tell you that

00:21:36when I know what her internal injuries are.

00:21:40Only a vehicle could do that.

00:21:42All this publicity about dangerous weapons.

00:21:45Weapon amnesties.

00:21:47The most dangerous weapon's got four wheels

00:21:50and millions on them.

00:21:52Thanks for the philosophy.

00:21:55It's my own.

00:21:56It just looks like some

00:21:57that's come out of a serial fantasy figure.

00:22:04What's the matter?

00:22:05Mr. Ross.

00:22:06Colonel Ross, yes.

00:22:07Detective Chief Inspector Taggart.

00:22:08Detective Sergeant Jardine.

00:22:09Could we come in, please?

00:22:10Certainly.

00:22:11These gentlemen are from the police.

00:22:42I'm afraid I've got bad news about your daughter.

00:22:54Janie, it was just time to phone her.

00:22:58What's happened?

00:23:00She's been found dead.

00:23:02Oh, my God.

00:23:06We've notified her husband.

00:23:08Husband?

00:23:10There must be some mistake.

00:23:12Janie isn't married.

00:23:14If the girl you've got is married, that's not our daughter.

00:23:16No, you've made a mistake.

00:23:18Mrs Ross,

00:23:20she married Charlie Forbes on the 11th of November.

00:23:24He's in prison doing time for bank robbery.

00:23:27That's not our Janie.

00:23:30You've got somebody else.

00:23:32Chief Inspector Target was at her wedding.

00:23:34That's right.

00:23:36Look, there's been a muddle.

00:23:38You've got the wrong person.

00:23:40I'm sure we can sort this out.

00:23:42I'm sure we can be a bad man.

00:23:44No.

00:23:46No.

00:23:48No.

00:23:50No.

00:23:51I can't go.

00:23:52It's fine.

00:23:54No.

00:23:56It's fine.

00:23:58So he's going to be a bad man.

00:24:00why didn't she tell us who's this man who we knew nothing nothing about him at all

00:24:21apparently she met him through working with prisoners dependents in her job as a social

00:24:27worker didn't even know that we thought you we never really asked about the job she she had a good

00:24:42university education why she wanted to do social work we never knew when did you last see her last

00:24:52night we had a row about Christmas she didn't want to spend it with us it was very important to us

00:25:11that she should spend Christmas at home you see our our son died eight years ago I'm sorry Northern

00:25:20Ireland he was in the army do you know what Jenny went last night her friends queer lot who we didn't

00:25:30know them of course they they played some sort of game dragons and dungeons or something like that

00:25:39role-playing games my niece is quite into popular with a certain age she married that man in prison to get

00:25:49back at us

00:25:49oh no I know I do

00:25:51what about the garden festival and the city culture I don't know what that glass going on about that's a good one

00:26:16where did the bus go on about that's a good one

00:26:18ok

00:26:19走

00:26:22oh no

00:26:33yeah

00:26:34Burnie sullivan's please businessman racehorse owner gambler committing money out of shipping

00:26:39no criminal record it's hard to catch somebody that cheats at blackjack

00:26:45how do you know he has a simple never heard of bernie's bash every had money he gives this

00:26:58grand fancy dress party businessmen top cops sprinkling outlums but before that during the

00:27:06day bernie and some of you semi-pro friends and one or two suckers sit down to play for high stakes

00:27:15i know i was one of them new year's eve it was 1977 i had 20 000 pound taken off me with a stacked deck

00:27:26i'm gonna get it by with interest this hug many oh the house full of people no no before they arrive

00:27:34in after the game and there could be as much as two million in the safe i'm sure they'll hear the

00:27:40noise no they won't that's where the explosives come in eh see we set off two explosions a big one down

00:27:46the bottom of the garden the other one blows the safe we detonate them simultaneously it they

00:27:50diverts their attention so everyone rushes to see what's happening we make off aye but the beauty

00:27:57of it is it's gambling money a lot of it from the proceeds of crime and all of it undeclared

00:28:02i'll never report it how long have you been planning this years i never thought i'd actually do it

00:28:11this thing's all rotten you have brain and your feeders

00:28:25this is

00:28:29oh

00:28:31oh

00:28:35oh

00:28:39oh

00:28:41oh

00:28:43oh

00:28:45oh

00:28:46oh

00:28:47oh

00:28:49oh

00:28:51oh

00:28:53oh

00:28:55oh

00:28:59oh

00:29:07oh

00:29:09oh

00:29:11oh

00:29:13oh

00:29:15oh

00:29:17oh

00:29:19oh

00:29:21Flynn.

00:29:28If I get out of here, I'd find them.

00:29:52Sit down.

00:29:54Sit down?

00:29:58Charlie, do you know anyone that wants to get even with you?

00:30:09I know a few psychopaths, but none who do this.

00:30:19There's no chance it was an accident.

00:30:23Postmodern report says she was run over three or four times.

00:30:26What about the old gang?

00:30:32Nobody knew about her marriage on the outside.

00:30:36Janie wanted it that way.

00:30:38Word gets out of prison.

00:30:42There's only Lenny Moffat.

00:30:44The other two are still doing time at Peterhead.

00:30:47Why should this Lenny Moffat be a grudge?

00:30:49He thinks I grasped him.

00:30:52I didn't.

00:30:56Well, there's a small problem with a bank job.

00:31:01The proceeds from it.

00:31:02Fifty grand.

00:31:04Now, none of you have admitted squirreling it away for a rainy day.

00:31:10I don't have it.

00:31:11Mr. Knox.

00:31:30Duncan Knox.

00:31:32Police.

00:31:33I phoned you as soon as I heard the news about Janie.

00:31:37She was playing with us last night.

00:31:39Dungeons and Dragons?

00:31:40No, the mines of Northgar.

00:31:42Pardon?

00:31:44Dungeons and Dragons was the first to come out.

00:31:46Since then, the markets exploded.

00:31:48Fantasy, SF, even 19th century France.

00:31:52This one's my own module.

00:31:53You're a role-playing games club?

00:31:57Right.

00:31:58Janie started the club when she was at university.

00:32:01There are students, a couple of lecturers, and me.

00:32:05I hold the keys.

00:32:08I used to be a student here, but I dropped out.

00:32:11Prefer this job.

00:32:12Who were you playing?

00:32:14In the basement.

00:32:16Would you show us?

00:32:17Aye, sure.

00:32:21Oi, Jim.

00:32:22This place has got the right atmosphere.

00:32:26Come and join in again if you're interested.

00:32:28Oh, another time.

00:32:52When did Janie leave here?

00:32:57About half past four.

00:32:59The game broke up a few minutes later, and we all drifted home.

00:33:02Was she alone?

00:33:03Yeah.

00:33:04Do you recognize this?

00:33:07Yeah.

00:33:08That's Janie's character.

00:33:10Valiara the fighter.

00:33:13I'll need the names of these players.

00:33:17Well, there's Fern.

00:33:18Fern McCulloch.

00:33:19She's a social worker beside Janie.

00:33:21And Kevin Brown.

00:33:22He's a loony.

00:33:23You won't get any sense out of him.

00:33:26Let me be the judge of that, okay?

00:33:28This is a spot.

00:33:42I didn't give the police any description of the two boys.

00:33:44Good man.

00:33:45One was Irish.

00:33:47The other called him Martin.

00:33:50He dropped this.

00:33:54They seemed like amateurs.

00:33:56I mean, he'd want to steal Christmas tree lights.

00:33:58Exactly.

00:34:03Fern McCulloch, sir.

00:34:04I feel terrible.

00:34:06I mean, I offered to take Janie home, but she insisted on being on her own.

00:34:09If only I had, this might never have happened.

00:34:11If only she'd had her car as well.

00:34:13Come in.

00:34:14Sit down.

00:34:19Miss McCulloch?

00:34:20Detective Sergeant Jardine.

00:34:22Hello.

00:34:23She must have been followed.

00:34:27Did you know she was married?

00:34:29To a bloke in prison?

00:34:30Yeah.

00:34:32I'm the only one she told.

00:34:34I've been wondering if that had something to do with it.

00:34:36How long have you been into these role-playing games?

00:34:39Jane and I had been into them for years.

00:34:41That was the uncanny thing.

00:34:43Duncan killing off her PC just half an hour before.

00:34:47A police constable.

00:34:49Player character.

00:34:51Jane had been running this character for about two years, through dozens of games.

00:34:56It becomes real.

00:34:58A real personality.

00:35:00And when it dies, you become devastated.

00:35:03Duncan killed Janies that night.

00:35:06Crushed her to death.

00:35:07Didn't you know?

00:35:20I'd like some raffi tickets as well.

00:35:2350p a ticket.

00:35:24Okay.

00:35:26Fill it in your cellar.

00:35:27Mind you stick your name in the back.

00:35:28Martin Duffey?

00:35:47No, the day.

00:35:49He'll be in the moor tonight.

00:35:50Galway boys are clean.

00:35:52Evening, Andrew.

00:35:53What do you have tonight?

00:35:56Just the usual.

00:36:01Any idea of a motive?

00:36:03None.

00:36:04Or clue of any kind.

00:36:06Just that the car used, according to Forensic, was a dark blue Volvo.

00:36:10Stolen.

00:36:10Abandoned a mile away.

00:36:12They're going over it now.

00:36:13Sir, we once had a Christian debate in role-playing games.

00:36:17Really?

00:36:18Yeah, a lot of Christians think they're dangerous.

00:36:20They can take over people's minds.

00:36:21What do you think?

00:36:23Well...

00:36:23Sparious.

00:36:24Get into that game.

00:36:26Find out.

00:36:26Anybody could have followed her home.

00:36:28You mean play it?

00:36:29You don't expect me to.

00:36:33This is your character.

00:36:34You're a dwarf.

00:36:36Flint bonehead.

00:36:37Now, your character's fairly inexperienced since you're just starting out.

00:36:40And your armour will determine how hard it is for monsters to hit you.

00:36:44It will hit points.

00:36:44Because that's a measure of how much damage your character can take before dying.

00:36:49When a character dies, who decides?

00:36:51I do.

00:36:52Or the dice.

00:36:53Can we start?

00:37:01I'll raise your 5p joint, eh?

00:37:03Come on.

00:37:03I've got enough polis-played games tonight.

00:37:16Get out and bring me in Lenny Moffat.

00:37:19Okay, sir.

00:37:20By the light of your lantern, you can see the treasure.

00:37:30Hundreds of gems and gold pieces.

00:37:34Go back, adventurers.

00:37:35Come no further.

00:37:37Eh, well, who are you?

00:37:40Tell us.

00:37:40I am Morgenghast, the paralyser.

00:37:45But I warn you, there are traps on the floor, so come no further.

00:37:50Well, Morgenghast, the paralyser, we think you're bluffing.

00:37:55Am I indeed?

00:37:56It so happens we have a dwarf in our party who can detect traps.

00:38:01Is this what I come in?

00:38:02Right.

00:38:06There is a trap.

00:38:08Well-detected dwarf.

00:38:10And you are standing right on top of it.

00:38:15Look, I don't bear Charlie Forbes any grudge.

00:38:19And even if I did, I wouldn't harm his wife.

00:38:22Even if I knew he was married.

00:38:24Which I didn't.

00:38:25That money from the Scotland Street bank job, Lenny.

00:38:28It's never been found.

00:38:29One of the others has got that stashed away somewhere.

00:38:31For his release.

00:38:32You know that.

00:38:33Like Charlie Forbes.

00:38:35Like Charlie Forbes.

00:38:37Classic case of dishonour among thieves.

00:38:41Look, I'm not a violent man, Mr. Tackham.

00:38:44I tied up that bank teller nice and gently.

00:38:47She said so at my trial.

00:38:49What do you want?

00:38:51A Nobel Peace Prize for robbery?

00:38:54Give us names.

00:38:56Enemies of Charlie Forbes.

00:38:58Who'd kill a guy's wife?

00:38:59I mean, that's...

00:39:01That's wicked.

00:39:03No sane guy would do a thing like that.

00:39:05Maybe an insane one.

00:39:12A hit.

00:39:13You've got him.

00:39:1416.

00:39:15Right, now roll for damage.

00:39:18Immortally wounded.

00:39:19The treasure is yours.

00:39:21About time.

00:39:21What do I do?

00:39:22Well, gather it up.

00:39:23As much as you can.

00:39:24It's not nailed down.

00:39:25It's ours.

00:39:26Yes.

00:39:27The treasure is yours.

00:39:29But be warned.

00:39:30There's a curse that goes with it.

00:39:36Right.

00:39:37You get 30 gems and 100 gold pieces.

00:39:41But be warned.

00:39:42The curse is for your next adventure.

00:39:43I've killed you.

00:39:44This game has ended.

00:39:46I was just getting to enjoy it.

00:39:47Good morning.

00:39:52Good morning, sir.

00:40:02Did you survive?

00:40:03I fought killer bats.

00:40:05A deadly fungus and a ghoul.

00:40:08All you've got to face is me, eh?

00:40:09They all take it so seriously.

00:40:13Janie had 15,000 experience points.

00:40:15That's a measure of how many times she's played the game.

00:40:19What's the purpose in it?

00:40:21Intellectual stimulation.

00:40:22Fun.

00:40:23Role playing.

00:40:25Give me snakes and ladders any time.

00:40:29Are we any closer to finding a motive?

00:40:31Well, I think to do that, we really have to know Janie.

00:40:34Hello.

00:40:36Hi.

00:40:36I was on my way to work and I thought I'd drop these into you.

00:40:39I meant to tell you last night.

00:40:41Janie left them behind.

00:40:43That night she was killed.

00:40:45Did you enjoy the game?

00:40:47Yes, thanks.

00:40:48What are they?

00:40:49Clues for a treasure hunt.

00:40:51Janie was planning it for Boxing Day.

00:40:52I mean, they're probably not that important.

00:40:54Everything's important.

00:40:56Well, look, I've got a case meeting at nine a bit ago.

00:40:58Miss McCullough.

00:41:00When you say a treasure hunt, what do you mean?

00:41:03Well, you know, in cars.

00:41:05Following up clues.

00:41:06I think she was just desperate to get away from her family.

00:41:08I think she was just desperate to get away from her family.

00:41:36How do you know Bernie Sullivan's using the same caterers?

00:41:45He uses the same ones every year.

00:41:48You're going to go into the house when one more person in overalls isn't going to be noticed.

00:41:52And at the same time, make sure that none of the real caterers see who you are.

00:41:57And then you lie low.

00:41:58Where?

00:41:59It's a big house.

00:42:00See, your job's going to be to switch off the alarms.

00:42:04Well, how will I know where they are?

00:42:05I'll tell you nearer the time.

00:42:09I mean, well, I'll be laying the decoy explosives.

00:42:12Well, let's hope your friends over the water don't connect us.

00:42:16They're not my friends.

00:42:18You don't think for one minute, do you?

00:42:23That they're going to believe that van hijack was just luck.

00:42:25Well, let's hope your friends over the water don't connect us.

00:42:55It's all about the crying.

00:43:01It's all about the crying.

00:43:05It's all about the crying.

00:43:10It's Martin Duffy coming.

00:43:15Aye, aye.

00:43:15I'll be with you in a second, pal.

00:43:17I've got the rafferty day.

00:43:18It's Christmas!

00:43:19Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

00:43:26Now, I'm going to make the raffle, but remember, there's another one on Christmas Eve, so get your money to poke it, eh?

00:43:32Now, first one out of the box is...

00:43:35430, and it's Brendan.

00:43:39Come on, Brendan!

00:43:43By the way, girls, if he's like chocolates, Brendan's the man to see before he leaves here.

00:43:49Here we go, one more.

00:43:53226.

00:43:54226.

00:43:57And that's Martin...

00:43:59Martin Duffy.

00:44:01Come on, Martin!

00:44:04Take it!

00:44:05There's a ticket, then.

00:44:06I'm fine with the package.

00:44:08Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks.

00:44:09There we go, carry 30 seconds.

00:44:12Take Mr. Key on the whiskey!

00:44:13Yeah!

00:44:19Come on!

00:44:20Come on!

00:44:21Come on, Martin!

00:44:22Come on!

00:44:23Come on!

00:44:24Good morning, man!

00:44:25This is all the, yes?

00:44:26Yes, I'm here, sir!

00:44:27Yes, I'm here!

00:44:28Happy Christmas!

00:44:29Happy Christmas!

00:44:30Keep going on this way!

00:44:31Yes, I'm here!

00:44:32Can I wait a second, sir?

00:44:34What?

00:44:35We're going to have a little bit of a second, sir?

00:44:37We're going to have a little bit of a second, sir!

00:44:38We're going to have a little bit of a second, sir!

00:44:40I'll see you, man, way off the first back, yeah.

00:44:41Have a nice...

00:44:43Good luck, all right?

00:44:44Good luck, all right.

00:44:50You all right? You all right, sir?

00:44:53Happy Christmas and have a nice New Year, all right?

00:45:14Oh, my God.

00:45:44Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

00:45:58You have something belonging to friends of mine.

00:46:01Don't hold that!

00:46:14I swear I didn't know the explosives were on it.

00:46:17You just struck lucky.

00:46:31I lost it one last time.

00:46:35Then the damage could be permanent.

00:46:37Who tipped you off?

00:46:39I swear I didn't know.

00:46:41Oh, please, God, no. You take it all back.

00:46:43I won't tell anyone.

00:46:45It's a bit late for that.

00:46:47You've caused a lot of inconvenience to a lot of people.

00:46:51What are we going to accomplish?

00:46:53Tom McAllister, but he doesn't know if finding explosives, I swear!

00:46:57What were you going to do with it?

00:46:59Blow us safe.

00:47:01With all of it?

00:47:02Where is this safe?

00:47:03The Bank of England!

00:47:04I'll tell you!

00:47:07George McKnight.

00:47:09He's a safe blower now.

00:47:15We were going to blow a safe belong to a guy called Bernie Sullivan.

00:47:19At New Year, George needs the explosives to create a decoy.

00:47:23It's the truth.

00:47:25You can beat me up all you like.

00:47:26I'll tell the same story.

00:47:27Okay, Duffy.

00:47:29Suppose I give you the benefit of the doubt.

00:47:31Suppose I believe it was an accident.

00:47:35What's in this safe?

00:47:37Two million pounds, gambling money.

00:47:39That's a lot of money.

00:47:41I'll take it where the explosives are buried.

00:47:43You can have them.

00:47:44That's very gracious of you.

00:47:47Okay, cover it up.

00:47:48Don't you want to move?

00:47:49Cover it up.

00:47:50It's safe where it is.

00:47:54You know, you're in a position to help us put right some of the inconvenience.

00:48:09What do you say?

00:48:10I'm not helping you.

00:48:11Two million pounds would be very useful to the movement.

00:48:15Look, it's not me that's planning it.

00:48:16It's George McKnight.

00:48:17He doesn't have to know until you get the money.

00:48:18Then you just make sure you remember your friends.

00:48:22The ones who made it possible.

00:48:23You're not my friends.

00:48:24I'm not helping you.

00:48:26Two million pounds would be very useful to the movement.

00:48:31Look, it's not me that's planning it.

00:48:33It's George McKnight.

00:48:35So he doesn't have to know till you get the money.

00:48:38Then you just make sure you remember your friends,

00:48:41the ones who made it possible.

00:48:43You're not my friends.

00:48:45The way it looks from here, you haven't any choice, pal.

00:48:54Oh, yeah, that's right.

00:49:02Yeah, that's great.

00:49:12I've got a hard job!

00:49:19Valleyxico

00:49:24I'll call on my way home how about that or it'll be five o'clock exactly yes I'll

00:49:51see you then mrs. Cameron mrs. Cameron with all her money she could afford the

00:50:09Queen's surgeon twice a week

00:50:21I

00:50:23I

00:50:25I

00:50:57Hey, they look the same in the fit.

00:51:09Still a wee bit taken up at the arms.

00:51:12You can take it on.

00:51:14Where'd you get them from?

00:51:16Sweet K-dun supply place in the Gallagher.

00:51:18I got them in there.

00:51:20So you take them away with you when you go tonight.

00:51:22I don't want Violet finding them in the house.

00:51:23No problem.

00:51:25Where'd you get the bruise?

00:51:27It's nothing.

00:51:28I just got into a fight with someone, that's all.

00:51:30I want you in perfect shape for having me now.

00:51:33We're not going to get two chances at this one.

00:51:35Right, look at these photos.

00:51:39Second window.

00:51:40East side of the house.

00:51:41Second floor.

00:51:43That's Bernie Sullivan's study.

00:51:45That's where the safe is.

00:51:47You and I will make our way down this drainpipe to the ground.

00:51:51It's the west side of the house.

00:51:53Swimming pool.

00:51:53That's where the decoy explosion's going to be.

00:51:56How are you going to make sure they go off together?

00:51:59Two alarm clocks.

00:52:00Both time they go off at exactly the same time.

00:52:03It's going to take a bit of working out.

00:52:09You thought I heard someone.

00:52:11Yeah, but there's no due back to 12.

00:52:14What's wrong?

00:52:15You seem nervous.

00:52:17No.

00:52:17Martin, there's one other thing.

00:52:22This job's between the two of you, isn't it?

00:52:24No boasting.

00:52:25No acting out of the ordinary.

00:52:27No even a whisper to anybody else.

00:52:29I'm going home.

00:52:40Already?

00:52:42Ah, well, I promised Jane I'd help her put up the tree.

00:52:47Something amuses you?

00:52:48No, sir.

00:52:51Good night.

00:52:53Sir, I'm collecting money for the Christmas party.

00:52:55How much is it this year?

00:52:59Ten pounds.

00:53:01Ten pounds to watch this crew make fools of ourselves.

00:53:08Thanks, sir.

00:53:13Misery.

00:53:14Bah, humbug.

00:53:15I heard that.

00:53:17It's not fair.

00:53:22My elf has fired seven arrows and this thing is dead yet.

00:53:25If you're going to create these monsters, Duncan, you're going to have to give them equal weaknesses.

00:53:29You missed the saving throw.

00:53:31You've been eaten alive.

00:53:33You're dead.

00:53:35That's not funny.

00:53:37And you know why.

00:53:38It's the rules.

00:53:39Your rules.

00:53:40Well, you created this cannibalistic ghoul.

00:53:42You lot can play on against it.

00:53:44I'm going.

00:53:44Did you have to kill her off?

00:53:50You entered a strange town.

00:54:12It's night.

00:54:14The windows are boarded up.

00:54:15There's a smell of sulphur in the air.

00:54:19Something stops you.

00:54:23You shine the lanterns up the street, which is 100 feet long and 20 feet wide.

00:54:30Now that leads into a square 100 feet across.

00:54:34And you see statues.

00:54:36All the inhabitants have been turned to stone.

00:54:38The creature emerges from behind the wall.

00:54:42First you see the rioting snakes.

00:54:44Then the Medusa's head.

00:54:46All those caught with you have will be turned to stone.

00:54:51Now, you also know that a Medusa is fairly resistant to magic.

00:54:56If I hold up my metal mirror, will she petrify herself?

00:54:58Well, I'll keep round behind this wall with my dagger.

00:55:02And being a halfling, hope the Medusa won't see me.

00:55:05Go back, adventurers, or I will turn you to stone like I have done all the other.

00:55:09Hello.

00:55:29Hello.

00:55:30This is Detective Sergeant Michael Jarden.

00:55:32This treasure hunt of Janie's...

00:55:35Could you help me with the clues?

00:55:36No, I'd love to.

00:55:37Come over now if you like.

00:55:38Oh, right.

00:55:40Is it not a bit late?

00:55:41No, no bother.

00:55:43I've just been to a game.

00:55:44I left early.

00:55:45What happened?

00:55:47Duncan killed off my player character.

00:55:49Just like he did Janie's.

00:55:52What do you mean, you dumb witness, Lord?

00:55:54Then look at her.

00:55:55I saw a face of light in the window.

00:55:58You said that.

00:55:58Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:56:09I thought Glasgow's bane for the stranger's tongue must be Mogai.

00:56:20Since so many strangers mispronounce it.

00:56:23But look for adventure in the misty moon.

00:56:27Well, Mount Doom, Mordor and Barad-dûr are all from the Lord of the Rings.

00:56:31What were they?

00:56:33Mount Doom was the volcano where the ring had to be destroyed.

00:56:36Mordor, the mountainous land. Barad-dûr, the fort of Sauron.

00:56:41In its beginning is also its end. Seek ye the rune before the way doth wend.

00:56:46Well, a rune's a symbol or a sign.

00:56:50Mordor, Mount Doom.

00:56:53Did you say fort?

00:56:55Yeah.

00:57:01Right, you headbangers. What are you up to?

00:57:05Put that down.

00:57:07Aye, gang.

00:57:10Put it down now.

00:57:13It's only a joke. We're all playing games about adventuring.

00:57:16Where'd you get that thing?

00:57:17Look, I've had it for years.

00:57:19I tried to get rid of it at the last amnesty, but I couldn't get it in the bin.

00:57:25Hey, you.

00:57:27I've had one of your loonies in here.

00:57:29Loonies?

00:57:30Aye.

00:57:34Kevin Brown.

00:57:36Fern and I managed to work...

00:57:37He carried this all the way from Knightswood to the university and then to the game and nobody stopped him.

00:57:44Would you stop someone carrying that?

00:57:46They're not normal.

00:57:47When was this last night?

00:57:48He walked in as if he was going to strike somebody.

00:57:51I was there.

00:57:52I thought you were going home to help your wife cut up the Christmas tree.

00:57:54So?

00:57:55I was detoured.

00:57:56So?

00:57:57I was detoured.

00:57:58So?

00:57:59What have we got?

00:58:00The starting point for Janey's treasure hunt.

00:58:01It's at Mulgay.

00:58:02The beginning of the West Highland Way.

00:58:03To Fort William and Ben Nevis.

00:58:06Seek ye the rune before the way doth wend.

00:58:07A rune is a sign or a symbol.

00:58:08And?

00:58:09Well, the second clue would be left there under a rock or something.

00:58:14And the treasure hunters would be expected to find it, decipher it, and then move on to

00:58:18the second location.

00:58:19On the way to the bulls.

00:58:20Yeah.

00:58:21Do you think you can find it?

00:58:22Do you think you believe it?

00:58:23Do you think you'll find the way to get your help?

00:58:25If you think you'll find it?

00:58:26If you think you'll find it in the end of the house.

00:58:27If you'll find it, then you'll find it.

00:58:28If you'll find it.

00:58:29Well, you'll find it as well.

00:58:30You'll find it.

00:58:31And you'll find it that way you'll find it.

00:58:32May you'll find it.

00:58:33Then move on to the second location.

00:58:35On the way to Fort William?

00:58:37No, south across the Erskine Bridge.

00:58:40Fern and I think it's the Firmakin estate.

00:58:42Fern and I?

00:58:45Aye, she's prepared to take a day off.

00:58:48Follow it through with me.

00:58:50Suddenly she's recruited to the police.

00:58:52There are Tolkien and games references she can help me with.

00:58:55She's got the same mind as Janie's.

00:58:57Michael.

00:58:58Sir, it's vital we get inside Janie's mind.

00:59:01What do you expect to find at the end of this hunt?

00:59:03Charlie afforded his money.

00:59:05The Holy Grail perhaps.

00:59:07Let's get by to the earth.

00:59:18Hello, sir.

00:59:20I had a Fern McCulloch on the phone.

00:59:22Social worker, friend of Janie's.

00:59:25He insisted on speaking to me specifically.

00:59:28What about?

00:59:30She said she was taking tomorrow off work,

00:59:33so she and Jardin could follow this treasure hunt through.

00:59:36Is that so?

00:59:38I think it's vital we know what it means, if anything, don't you?

00:59:42Absolutely, sir.

00:59:44You gonna sort that out?

00:59:46Absolutely, sir.

00:59:48Here's a wee sweetie from your Auntie Violet.

00:59:51Here you are, son.

00:59:53Here you are.

00:59:54Here you are.

00:59:55Here you are, dear.

00:59:56Here you are, dear.

00:59:57Here you are, dear.

00:59:58I don't remember you being like that with me.

01:00:03I don't remember you being like that with me.

01:00:10What does she look like?

01:00:12My real mother?

01:00:14Many times have I got to tell you.

01:00:16She was just a skinny, real assy.

01:00:19You must have known something about her.

01:00:21Where she lived.

01:00:22Where she lived was pulled down years ago.

01:00:25Mum, a girl who can't look after her own baby

01:00:27wouldn't just give away to a complete stranger.

01:00:30You must have known her.

01:00:31What would you know about girls with babies?

01:00:35You haven't even got their brains to get a proper job.

01:00:40Cleaning floors.

01:00:42What kind of job's that for a young man?

01:00:58Minus morgue you must seek.

01:01:00Among the soaring slender birds.

01:01:02Jenny's games are worth a peek

01:01:04to crack this clue of cryptic words.

01:01:07Move on, sir.

01:01:07My mum's so selfish.

01:01:30Everything's for her.

01:01:31Just because she never had proper Christmases when she was a girl.

01:01:36She imprisons me and my dad

01:01:40in this cottage in the country.

01:01:44Miles free anywhere.

01:01:46For three whole days.

01:01:48Just so that she can have a family Christmas.

01:01:52It's all for her.

01:01:53Yeah.

01:01:54Don't you talk away, her mother.

01:01:57Christmas is that time of year.

01:01:59People get selfish.

01:02:01You know what I wish sometimes?

01:02:03But my real mum was Irish.

01:02:06And that she's living over there.

01:02:09In the mountains.

01:02:10Why?

01:02:12They like to be Irish.

01:02:14They see their songs.

01:02:16I mean, I know we've got songs.

01:02:18But they feel theirs.

01:02:21They also feel the hand of the lockham

01:02:23and down in the moor off the floor.

01:02:26Yes, decent, sir.

01:02:29Success.

01:02:48This is it.

01:02:50Minus Morgul.

01:02:51Minus Morgul was a tower with a light

01:02:52and Lord of the Rings.

01:02:54The soaring slender birds

01:02:55and the clues are those.

01:02:56The cranes.

01:02:58What does it mean,

01:02:59Jeannie's games are worth a peek?

01:03:02Every role-playing game Jeannie devised

01:03:03had a black and white tower in it.

01:03:05It became a sort of obsession with her.

01:03:06You know, black and white, good and evil.

01:03:08I didn't know she devised her own games.

01:03:09Every player tries to.

01:03:12Now, I still can't understand

01:03:13why you bein' before

01:03:14in your superintendent direct.

01:03:16Let's just say he's more of a forward-thinker.

01:03:19What's next?

01:03:20The arch of Sirius Unglenow

01:03:22where monkeys guard and steer

01:03:23leads you to this font of wisdom

01:03:25in the lion's lair.

01:03:28Mrs. Ross,

01:03:29we have to know everything

01:03:31about Jeannie's last day.

01:03:33Every last detail.

01:03:36Something you may have forgotten.

01:03:39Telephone call.

01:03:41Some comment she made.

01:03:43We've spoken to her friends and colleagues.

01:03:45Well, what's the good of that?

01:03:46When some maniac killed her?

01:03:48What makes you think that?

01:03:49Because nobody who knew Jeannie

01:03:51would do such a thing.

01:03:53On the contrary.

01:03:54We believe that Jeannie knew her killer.

01:03:58Well, there's one thing.

01:04:00The day before,

01:04:02I asked her to deliver the key

01:04:03to Mrs. McKnight.

01:04:05To the cottage.

01:04:07We have this little place in the country.

01:04:09We go there in the summer.

01:04:10At Christmas,

01:04:12we let it to Mrs. McKnight

01:04:14and her family.

01:04:18Yes, sir.

01:04:19Mrs. McKnight.

01:04:21Would you have her address?

01:04:23Yes.

01:04:32Violet McKnight.

01:04:33She has a shop

01:04:42in the Barrowland Market area.

01:04:45And Jeannie delivered the keys.

01:04:47Yes.

01:04:48Mrs. McKnight came here

01:04:49to pay me the money.

01:04:50She always does.

01:04:52But I forgot to give her the key.

01:04:55So I sent Jeannie over with it later.

01:04:59And that's all?

01:05:00Oh, well.

01:05:02That gives us something else to work on.

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