The Sweeney. S04 E08. The Bigger They Are.

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First broadcast 26th October 1978.  Tycoon Leonard Gold is being blackmailed by Harold Collins, who has a photo of him present at a massacre of civilians in Malaya when he was in the Army twenty-five years earlier.  John Thaw - Regan Dennis Waterman - Carter Colin Jeavons - Leonard Gold Jenny Runacre - Sharon Raymond Skipp - Harold Collins Tony Steedman - John Masterson Donald Burton - Chief Superintendent Grey Colin McCormack - David Wade Ian Collier - Logan Trevor Thomas - Leroy Garner Richard Wilson - D.C.I. Anderson Nick Brimble - Det. Con. Gerry Burtonshaw Richard Hampton - Barnes John Carlin - Pierce

Transcript

00:00The End

00:22John, alone and no drink, enjoy.

00:25Oh, thank you, Leonard.

00:27Perhaps I should now address you as Sir Leonard.

00:29Not until it's announced in the New Year's Honours list.

00:32You must be very proud.

00:33Oh, yeah. Well, it's a great honour.

00:35Who would believe a boy from the East End knighted for services to industry?

00:39Hmm. Well, Endeavour has its little compensations.

00:43And it's ironies too, eh, John?

00:46Ironies?

00:48Used to be me who called you, sir.

00:51You were always an enterprising chap.

00:55Even as a squarry, Leonard.

00:59What's so awful?

01:01It looks like it's almost like a street.

01:02Um, your dog's sobred.

01:03You're aollarle.

01:05He washou sober, he Caissauga.

01:07He was out for you, and so I'm sorry.

01:08You're not sure your dog had it in the middle.

01:09There it is.

01:10He wanted anything for you.

01:12You're not sure your dog just hadn't gone per sonata.

01:13No?

01:14You're not mad.

01:15Now I'm ready to call you?

01:16This is what, to buy a building

01:16and I just really hobby life for you.

01:18First thing, people like that, everyone.

01:21What the fuck are you doing?

01:49Oh, excuse me.

02:20Who are you and what do you want?

02:22You've got my calling card, I see.

02:24I repeat.

02:26Who are you and what do you want?

02:29I know you're moving in exalted circles these days, Mr Gold.

02:33But civility costs nothing.

02:36The name's Collins.

02:39I used to have a brother.

02:41Matter of fact, he was in the same mob as you in Malaya.

02:45Company clerk he was, just a pen pusher.

02:48Not a man of action like you, but done his bit for king and country.

02:51Know what I mean?

02:53He died recently, but he left me what you might call a legacy.

02:58Matter of fact, that's part of it.

03:02Well, I reckon it's got to be worth, what, 50 grand?

03:18Everyone was doing this.

03:19And when you come to the hill, you don't look like you.

03:20Don't look like a monster that's gone.

03:21This guy named the farm.

03:23He's got to be broke.

03:24He's got to be broke.

03:25He's got to be broke.

03:26He's got to be broke.

03:27He's just a mess.

03:28D.R. Green, C-11. Thought you might like a butchess at that lock.

03:51Sir.

03:58Regan, you're not too busy at the moment, are you?

04:01I'm just having a show.

04:02The Assistancy Commissioner's desperate for a report on all the search wants we obtained

04:05and the convictions they led to in the last 12 months ending December.

04:08Oh, leave it out. There's ten bloody units on this way.

04:11I do know that.

04:12I'll have to question all of them.

04:14The Warrant Register doesn't show convictions. Only property recovered.

04:17It'll take me ages.

04:18We'll get Carter to assist you.

04:20Oh, come on. Why me?

04:21Because I'm your superior officer and I'm telling you to do it.

04:24That's for an answer to a question in the house.

04:26It rather undermines any argument I might stick up then, doesn't it?

04:29Just get on with it.

04:32Global Security Services.

04:35Major Masterson, please. This is Leonard Gold.

04:38Just a moment, Mr. Gold.

04:43Hello, Leonard. How are you today?

04:45I have a problem, John.

04:47Oh?

04:48I need to talk to you about it, but not on the phone.

04:51I'm at home. Do you think you could come on over?

04:53Not now.

04:54Now.

04:55Oh, that's terrific, innit? Why me?

04:58Because, as your superior officer, I am telling you to.

05:09You don't seem exactly camera shy here, Leonard.

05:12I was under your command.

05:14Not to pose for mementos.

05:17It was you who gave the order for that.

05:20The orders for those little expeditions came from a higher authority than me.

05:25You do realise what this would do to me if it ever became public?

05:28I can't see the New Year's Honours list sporting your name.

05:33Ruined me socially altogether, and my business would suffer.

05:36Who'd want to do business with someone associated with that?

05:39You could simply pay the man.

05:41Never!

05:42I grew up amongst scum like that.

05:46Pay them off and they come back for more.

05:48Hello.

05:51You've got to help me.

05:53I have.

05:54You think if the media got hold of this, you'd come out of it, Mr. Clean?

06:00You seem to forget that I was a mercenary in Africa.

06:03I doubt if my involvement would come as much of a surprise.

06:07It's you who are forgetting something.

06:11Major.

06:13No.

06:15Who was it you came to for help?

06:17When you retired playing soldiers and wanted to start your security business?

06:21I did approach other prominent businessmen apart from yourself.

06:26And did they give you the volume of business I gave you?

06:29Continue to give you?

06:31I see.

06:33What is it exactly you expect me to do?

06:36I want this bastard, Colin, stopped from giving me aggravation.

06:39I want whatever material he's got to do with that.

06:44That's what I want.

06:48And with your connections and your specialist skills,

06:53it shouldn't be too difficult.

06:56When do you expect him to call again?

06:58Tomorrow.

06:59Well, he must try and stall him as long as possible.

07:02I need time to get organised.

07:11Yeah, well, he's here at the moment, Governor.

07:13You...

07:15Tell him yourself.

07:17What's the matter?

07:18He says he's too busy at the moment to be bothered with crap-like returns of warrants.

07:22Mr. Green from C11's got some more for you, Governor.

07:24More on what?

07:25Initial surveillance on one Harold Collins.

07:28He's a candidate for target this year.

07:29Yeah, I forgot about him.

07:31Didn't you feel his collar a year so bad?

07:33Yeah, for all the good it did.

07:34He got a knock guilty at the Bailey.

07:37You got a right arm about that, didn't you?

07:38Yeah.

07:39A jury consisting of bleeding hearts and morons.

07:42Some you win, some you lose.

07:44That's an original thought, George.

07:46Must remember that.

07:48What's he been up to?

07:50Ducking and diving, you know?

07:51There's nothing I can see that really stands out.

07:53I don't believe it.

07:54A professional like him never stops grafting.

08:00Hey, Jerry, you're not doing anything.

08:02Come hold of that.

08:04C11.

08:06Jimmy Green, then.

08:08Priority, you understand?

08:09I'll wait.

08:11And as your superior officer...

08:12Yes?

08:13Mr. Logan and Mr. Wade have arrived, sir.

08:14I'll send them straight in, will you?

08:15Yes, sir.

08:16Yes?

08:17Mr. Logan and Mr. Wade have arrived, sir.

08:18I'll send them straight in, will you?

08:19Yes, sir.

08:20Come in.

08:21Logan.

08:22No, Wade.

08:23How are you both?

08:24Fine, sir.

08:25How are you?

08:26Oh, a bit desperate, aren't they?

08:27More stiff.

08:28I'm hoping to change all that.

08:29Do sit down.

08:30Problem?

08:31Oh, caught a bit of shrapnel, sir.

08:32Ethiopia.

08:33It's on the mend.

08:34Good.

08:35The agency tells me that you will have to leave.

08:36It's on the mend.

08:37It's on the mend.

08:38It's on the mend.

08:39It's on the mend.

08:40Good.

08:41The agency tells me that you were in Angola before that.

08:42How was it?

08:43I think it might have been better if you'd been with us, sir.

08:45Yes, they also told me that you only just got out in time.

08:47Not so good for you, chaps.

08:48Political climate as it is nowadays.

08:49Yes, sir.

08:50Anything else in the pipeline?

08:51Yes, sir.

08:52Anything else in the pipeline?

08:53Yes, sir.

08:54Yes, sir.

08:55Anything else in the pipeline?

08:56Yes, sir.

08:57Yes, sir.

08:58Yes, sir.

08:59Yes, sir.

09:00Yes, sir.

09:01Yes, sir.

09:02Yes, sir.

09:03Yes, sir.

09:04Yes, sir.

09:05Yes, sir.

09:06Yes, sir.

09:07Yes, sir.

09:08Yes, sir.

09:09Anything else in the pipeline?

09:10Not at the moment, sir.

09:11Good.

09:12Well, good for me, that is.

09:14See, I need help.

09:16The sort of help that only chaps like yourselves can give me.

09:19I need men I can trust and rely upon to do a discreet and professional operation.

09:26It could mean us working together as a team again.

09:31Interested?

09:32Oh, look at the state of that.

09:35Smart, sir.

09:37Yeah.

09:38Never you mind the color.

09:39Just feel the width.

09:40Yeah.

09:41Yeah.

09:42Yeah.

09:43Yep.

09:47I don't know.

10:17What do you mean?

10:44You want more proof?

10:45You think I'm going to pay out 50 grand for one miserable photograph?

10:49No, I told you.

10:51Pay on and you can have the rest.

10:53What does that amount to?

10:54Oh, come on, Mr. Gold, you know.

10:56I know you could be full of bullshit!

10:58You think I got where I am by being intimidated by awful like you?

11:02Slaughtering helpless women and kids makes you Mr. Wonderful, does it?

11:09Now, what's a villain like Collins doing visiting a millionaire like Leonard Gold, George?

11:13I don't know, but whatever it is, you can bet your life it ain't kosher.

11:17I could have you keeping company with the rest of the sewage in the Thames.

11:26Do you know that?

11:28Not while I'm holding the transcript of the regimental inquiry into that little turnout in the layer.

11:34Eh?

11:35I see.

11:40And if I pay you, do I get the transcript and the negative?

11:45Yeah, of course.

11:48I want proof that you actually have these items.

11:50Fair enough.

11:51Tell you what, I'll show you a few pages of the original report.

11:56That'll convince you.

11:58Very well.

12:00Nice to do business with you, Mr. Gold.

12:04No need to see me to the door.

12:07I'll let meself out.

12:09You heard?

12:26Yes.

12:27I do believe our friend Collins has made a tactical error.

12:33I thought if you could give me a sort of letter of introduction to the bank manager explaining

12:55who I am and that, I could have a look in me brother's safety deposit box for me papers.

12:59I'm afraid it isn't as simple as that, Mr. Collins.

13:02Oh?

13:03You would need to be granted letters of administration before you could get access.

13:06And who do I get those from?

13:08Me.

13:09Oh, well, no problem then, is there?

13:13Actually, I would have to see the contents of this safety deposit box.

13:17Why?

13:19All your late brother's assets have to be registered, Mr. Collins.

13:23Mainly for the inland revenue, for the purposes of capital transfer tax.

13:27Death duties.

13:29Any valuable asset your brother may have possessed.

13:32Leave off?

13:33My brother?

13:34He was only a jumps-up clerk.

13:36He owned his flat.

13:38In any case, I could still have to verify.

13:40You mean, you'd have to be present when the box was opened?

13:44You have no objections, have you?

13:46What?

13:47Oh, no.

13:48Of course not.

13:49I presume there's a key somewhere to the box.

13:54I don't know.

13:57I suppose so.

13:58Well, see if you can find it and bring it along here.

14:01We could then go along to the bank together.

14:04Yeah.

14:05I'm beginning to think we'd be better off back at a factory with those boring bits of paper.

14:10Oh, no.

14:14Oh, no.

14:16Oh, no.

14:17Oh, no.

14:19Oh, no.

14:20Beautiful, baby, okay, all right, all right, beautiful, ah, yeah, yeah, ooh, la, la,

14:43mm, crazy, crazy, man, all right, yeah, hey, we'll be with you in a minute, man, okay, baby,

14:57ah, on your knees, beautiful, mm, ah, yeah, Leroy Hensley Garner, got a studio flat up there,

15:06there's a pretty shrewd spade, not much form, bit of ponce in seven years ago, possession of pot,

15:12nothing lately, seems to make a living out of photography, soft porn in the guise of artistic

15:20poses, suspected of being into hard stuff as well, Liv's case is one of his models,

15:27white, and blonde, yeah, that figures, doesn't it, you're just gonna have to try and hustle him,

15:33man, I'm telling you, he won't stand for it, not unless I come up with a report,

15:38not the report, man, we'll make a copy, first, we gotta get at it, and there's no way without

15:43that lawyer breathing down my Gregory, yeah, that's a problem, do you want any coffee, Harry,

15:50yeah, I'll have,

15:50okay, I'll tell you what we do, we're gonna have to hustle a bank manager, yeah, how, this

16:00solicitor, you got any correspondence from him, sir, and it's on headed notepaper, right,

16:05naturally, that is cool, that is cool, okay, because we're gonna choreograph a real fancy

16:13letter to this manager dude, oh yeah, yeah, what I say, trust O'Leroy, because O'Leroy knows

16:20best, ain't that so, baby, yeah, O'Leroy, baby, he sure know how to screw us honkies,

16:27we can't get near him, sir, the police are trailing him everywhere,

16:33you're sure it's the police, or can't you see their car from where you are now,

16:39well, give me the registration number,

16:40VHK491S,

16:46fine, well, you just keep a low profile, I'll find out who they are, and see what can be done

16:53about them, right, bye,

16:55Miss Taylor, would you get me New Scotland Yard, please,

17:03I want to speak to Chief Superintendent Alan Gray of the Special Branch.

17:07Good God, I thought the whole thing was hushed up at regimental level, and the report's destroyed.

17:30Well, Kynes claims that his brother was the company clerk at the time, I've checked, he was.

17:37And this is no forgery?

17:39No.

17:42Well, as such, he would certainly have had access to all the reports of the internal inquiry.

17:47And been in a position to make copies.

17:55As you were personally involved, you can appreciate the difficulty.

17:59Your career would be placed in considerable jeopardy.

18:05You do appreciate that, don't you?

18:08What do you want me to do? Arrest him?

18:10No, if you did that, this would become public property.

18:15Yes.

18:15I do have a plan.

18:19I don't think it's in your best interests to know the details just yet, but there is one complication.

18:26Oh?

18:27Collins is being followed by plainclothes policemen.

18:31Do our people know about this?

18:33Well, my guess is they don't otherwise they'd have contacted Gold.

18:37But I must know about it.

18:40To protect us all, I must have them kept away from Collins.

18:45Well, I can't interfere. I'll get the sack.

18:48Oh, come on, Alder.

18:50You are chief superintendent of the special branch.

18:54It could be a matter of state security.

18:58That sort of thing.

18:58You don't want a petty blackmailer ruining your life, everything in the decent that you've worked for, do you?

19:09Do you know which lot it is of following him?

19:12No, but I have a registration number.

19:18I'm sure that you'll be able to find out.

19:21It needs to be done quickly, Alan.

19:26Now, what's he up to?

19:28Do you think something's about to go off?

19:31Nah, he's a drummer, George.

19:33Breaks into people's homes.

19:35All he's ever done.

19:37Bank blagues aren't his game.

19:38Ain't got the bottle, for one thing.

19:40Maybe he's been educated since you last nicked him.

19:43Oscar 2-4 from MP.

19:44You're receiving. Over.

19:46Oscar 2-4.

19:47Tell us to agree that as soon as Detective Inspector Regan returns, I'll bring him up.

19:53Received, off.

19:55Pity.

19:56Okay, Bill.

19:59Let's go and see what Scotland's answer to you or I read once.

20:02Come back, Frank Askins.

20:04All is forgiven.

20:04Where the bleeding hell are you been?

20:14I've been dwelling here for 20 minutes.

20:16Wonder I ain't had that for loitering.

20:18Hey, cool it, man.

20:20I had to get this.

20:21Simple, you dig?

20:30And here's a solicitor's letter.

20:32A real work of art, man.

20:34There ain't no way they're gonna know this ain't genuine.

20:37Look, I'll be waiting right here.

20:38Be on your way now, okay?

20:39You sure this is gonna work?

20:41Hey, what'd I say?

20:42Trust Leroy, right?

20:43I'll be waiting right here.

20:45What if something goes wrong?

20:47Right?

20:47Run, baby, run.

20:52Terrific.

20:53Terrific.

21:17Well, Inspector, there doesn't appear to be anything in this docket that warrants priority treatment from somebody of your rank.

21:42No, sir.

21:43Unless they've overlooked something.

21:44I'm not quite with you, sir.

21:47I mean, he doesn't appear to be up to anything specific that should be of special interest to you.

21:54Collins is a known villain.

21:56It's my job to be interested in his activities.

21:58To the exclusion of all else.

22:02I understand you arrested him at one time.

22:05Got him into court and he got off.

22:07Yes, sir.

22:08I'd be wrong, however, in thinking that this might be personal.

22:11Well, he's a thief and I know he's at it.

22:15At what, precisely?

22:18Well, that's what I'm trying to find out, sir.

22:20Are we any real evidence?

22:23My knowledge of the man tells me I'm right.

22:25Still, nothing concrete?

22:26No, sir.

22:30Well, he's just a common housebreaker, isn't he?

22:34Then, with due respect, sir, why is Special Bride so interested in him?

22:38We just are.

22:40All I can tell you is that it's a matter of security.

22:43So, Inspector, we'd appreciate it if you'd leave Master Collins to us.

22:47Cheers, mate.

23:01Cheers, mate.

23:30Done.

23:31Hey, great, man.

23:33Great.

23:33Now, give me.

23:35All right.

23:36Fifty big ones.

23:38Yeah.

23:39When do you reckon you'll have it developed?

23:41Today.

23:42I've got to go and see my lady later on.

23:44No sweat, man.

23:45You ain't seen gold until tomorrow, are you?

23:46So, call around in the morning and the big glasses will be waiting for you.

23:50Right.

23:51Right.

23:51Cheers, sir.

23:52Right on.

23:53Yeah.

24:00Well, that's Cronin's unit done.

24:14Yeah.

24:16Think it's about time we called it a day, don't you, Gov?

24:17Leonard Gold.

24:21What?

24:22Millionaire.

24:23Friend of the rich and powerful.

24:25Government ministers even.

24:27Contributes to party funds and what have you.

24:29So?

24:30So a villain from the sweaty lower orders visits him at his posh house.

24:34Twice that we know of.

24:36Why?

24:37Maybe he wants to become a rabbi and thinks gold can fix it for him.

24:44And what would a drummer like Collins be doing socialising with a ponce like Garner?

24:49Recruiting for the National Front.

24:50Turn it in, will you, George?

24:53Fact.

24:54The rich and powerful are heirs to the sins of the flesh, just like the rest of us.

24:58And Garner takes naughty pictures.

25:01Right?

25:02Make sense?

25:02What, you mean special branch involvement?

25:05The right first time.

25:07Tell you what, tomorrow I'd like you to visit Leonard Gold.

25:11Give him the crime prevention officer routine, you know, mention Collins, a known thief, seen visiting him, is he aware, etc, etc.

25:20See how he reacts.

25:21Governor, I can see you in a tool out directing traffic.

25:25And that solicitor Collins called on.

25:27Same routine.

25:32Gov.

25:33Right, show me.

25:37Hey, Sharon, maybe.

25:48Leeroy!

25:49Hey, Leeroy!

25:50Hey, Leeroy!

25:52Hey, Leeroy!

25:54Oh, my God!

25:56Oh, my God!

25:57Leeroy!

25:58Oh, my God!

25:59Oh, my God!

26:00Oh, my God!

26:01Oh, my God!

26:02Oh, my God!

26:06Lee-roy!

26:07Oh!

26:08Oh, Leeroy, baby!

26:09What have they done to you?

26:10Leroy!

26:15Oh, my God.

26:18Leroy?

26:21Oh, Leroy, baby, what have they done to you?

26:25Leroy!

26:28Oh, Leroy!

26:32Fix us one of them, George.

26:34Hold on, Governor.

26:35I think I can offer you something better than coffee to liven you up.

26:38One Leroy Hansley Garner was burgled and assaulted last night.

26:45Right.

26:47Andy Pandy isn't going to like it.

26:49Well, he told us to keep off Collins, not Garner.

26:52I've already made a statement to the police.

26:54I mean, what's gone down has happened.

26:56I just want to be left alone, man, you dig?

26:59You look in pretty bad shape, Mr. Garner.

27:01Shouldn't you be in hospital?

27:02No, he discharged himself as soon as they patched him up.

27:05Cool it, baby.

27:08Did you see these two men, miss?

27:12She saw nothing.

27:15There were two men reported leaving this building carrying a holdall.

27:18Did you know that?

27:19Well...

27:20She saw nobody.

27:23Leroy mentioned he did notice one just before they'd done him over.

27:26Well, now you've had time to think about it.

27:30What's the problem here, officer?

27:32I walk in and there's two dudes robbing my place.

27:35So they beat up on me and that's it.

27:37Full stop.

27:38That's all we know.

27:41Hey, man.

27:42What's going down here?

27:44I'm looking for clues, Mr. Garner.

27:46Trying to find out who attacked you.

27:48And why?

27:49Why?

27:50Because they're burglars, man.

27:51That's what burglars do.

27:53No, Mr. Garner.

27:54It isn't what burglars do.

27:57See, burglars don't usually hang around to methodically beat someone up.

28:01Not if they're professionals.

28:03And judging by the fact there was no sign of forced entry.

28:06They were professionals.

28:07Yeah, and they don't leave behind expensive items like this either.

28:10Well, I disturbed them at their thing, didn't I?

28:13So they do this number on me and take off.

28:15I mean, that figures, don't it?

28:19I'll tell you what doesn't figure, Mr. Garner.

28:23Your attitude.

28:25My attitude?

28:26Well, you're not being what I'd call cooperative, are you?

28:29It's what we call in the trade a hostile witness.

28:33You dig?

28:35I'm sorry, officer.

28:36I've got this headache, see?

28:37I mean, those dudes last night, they really hurt me, man.

28:40Look, we've told you all we know.

28:43Ain't that so, baby?

28:45Yeah.

28:47Yeah.

28:48You've got an interesting job, Mr. Garner.

28:51Tell me.

28:53All these pictures you take, are they for girly magazines?

28:56Yeah, I guess.

28:58No private work.

28:59For consenting adults, things like that.

29:02Or non-consenting.

29:03Like people who might object to you taking pictures of them

29:06in compromising positions?

29:08I object to the point of doing something about it.

29:11Like learning to play football with your head.

29:13Hey, man.

29:15That ain't my bag.

29:16I'm a professional photographer.

29:18Strictly legit, you know?

29:20Artistic poses for people who got repressions.

29:22I provide for a market, man, and that is it.

29:25Maybe he's a good actor.

29:27Leave off.

29:28His bottle was on the floor till we suggested he was at the Badger gang.

29:32So where does that leave your theory?

29:34Don't know, George.

29:35It's been a long time.

29:49I didn't realise when I saw that terrible photograph.

29:52Still, John here has been telling me how helpful you've been.

29:56I want you to know that I'm grateful.

29:59Leonard, Alan is as concerned as we are

30:02that this business is settled as quickly and as quietly as possible.

30:05Yes, of course.

30:06Well, tell me, John, what progress?

30:08You mean you know them two dudes?

30:10Bloody right I do.

30:11They're Sweeney.

30:12Sweeney?

30:13Man, they were heavy.

30:15You don't have to tell me.

30:17They felt my collar once.

30:19They must be on to us.

30:21Regan wouldn't make himself busy over a straightforward burglary.

30:23He'd leave it to the local old Bill.

30:25Ah, slow down, man.

30:26It's okay.

30:27Yeah, I know.

30:28Trust all Leroy, baby.

30:30I must have been a loot whoever let you talk me into this.

30:33Look, man, I'm telling you,

30:34they just figured we were into setting up marks to put the black on.

30:37Ain't that so, baby?

30:38Oh, yeah, as far as I could tell.

30:40As far as you could tell?

30:42Yeah, man, they know nothing about where we're at.

30:45Listen, Leroy, let me tell you about Regan.

30:47He doesn't have to.

30:49He only needs to think we're at it

30:50and he'll keep pushing till he does.

30:52That geezer is one tenacious bastard.

30:54He doesn't let go.

30:55You got me?

30:56Come on.

30:57No.

30:58I don't want to know.

30:59Just give me those photos I took

31:01and I'll get rid of them

31:02and we forget it.

31:05What's the matter?

31:07Um, look, man.

31:09I was gonna tell you, Harry,

31:10but you ain't giving me the chance, man.

31:13The photos have gone.

31:14Gone?

31:16Gone where?

31:17Look, them two dudes last night,

31:19they must have grabbed everything.

31:20Christ almighty.

31:23But it's okay.

31:24You could get more

31:25because you've got access now.

31:28Tell me, Leroy,

31:29just what else do these two merchants take?

31:32How did you get hold of them?

31:33The details are unimportant.

31:35The point is I now know precisely where the report is,

31:39even the number of the safety deposit box.

31:41So you know where.

31:42The question is, how do we get hold of it?

31:44Collins collects it.

31:46And my men collect Collins.

31:49He wasn't at his office nor at his home

31:51and I got a total blank from the maid.

31:54What about the solicitors?

31:55Collins is a client of his

31:56and anything between a solicitor and a client

31:58is privileged information officer.

32:00You know the routine.

32:01Client?

32:02The only time he ever needs a brief is when he's knit.

32:05Well, he did sort of mention in passing

32:06it was something to do with

32:07settling his dead brother's estate.

32:09I didn't even know he had a brother.

32:12That is it.

32:14Not with you, man.

32:15What are you, a schmock?

32:17They took rubbish.

32:18The break-in was a moody,

32:19just a cover to get the photos.

32:22Gold must have employed some ebbies to follow us about

32:25and somehow Regan had a whisper.

32:27Talk sense, man.

32:28I'm gonna do more than talk here.

32:30I'm out.

32:31Finish. Kaput.

32:32Forget it, Leroy.

32:34Otherwise, we end up in one of two places.

32:36The river or the boob.

32:38What about the report?

32:39It can stay where it is and rot as far as I'm concerned.

32:43No way am I going near it.

32:45Harry!

32:47Yeah.

32:48See you around, baby.

32:49Leroy, baby.

32:53What are you staring at, you stupid hunky bitch?

32:58I'm going to.

33:16Collins gone, Gone where?

33:18My man followed him to Brighton.

33:19He booked him to a cheap boarding house there.

33:22What does that mean?

33:24It means that we have frightened Collins off, Leonard.

33:26He won't worry you anymore. We'll keep an eye on him, of course.

33:29The report, man. What about that?

33:32It's still in the bank.

33:33Where Collins or God knows who else can get their hands on it any time in the future.

33:38Yes, I suppose that's true.

33:41I want that report.

33:43And I want it destroyed.

33:46And you are going to find a way to do it.

33:49And soon.

33:52Well, he does seem rather persistent.

33:55Aye, that's Regan, all right, sir.

33:58It's just that any interference with our operation at this juncture...

34:00I understand perfectly, sir. I'll have another word with him.

34:04Has he discussed his views of the atoll?

34:07Well, he has this theory that Collins and this Gardner fellow are in collusion to blackmail prominent people.

34:13Blackmail?

34:15Sex, sir. Photographs, you know.

34:17Oh, I see.

34:19The most important point to remember is that the alarm will go off as soon as we detonate.

34:23So the moment we enter, we've got just four minutes before the police surround the building.

34:28Any questions?

34:29It's a bit tight, sir, if there should be any, as you like.

34:32I've thought about that.

34:34As a precaution, but only to be used in the case of dire emergency.

34:48Still, if we use the old speed and precision, we shouldn't have to worry.

34:51It's going to be a bit physical. Is that angle going to be all right?

34:54No problem, sir. It'll be okay.

34:55Good. It's a lot as you understand.

35:03Here, don't let him wind you up, Governor. Gray's probably been on his back again.

35:06Yeah.

35:09You know, there's one thing I can't figure.

35:12If the Cloak and Dagger boys are so keen for us to ignore Collins, how come C-11 was schlepping about after him?

35:22Ah!

35:37T.I. Barnes.

35:39Where?

35:40Have the squad on RCS been informed?

35:43On my way.

35:45Shhh!

36:05Yes!

36:15You're okay?

36:28Yeah, I think.

36:30Oh, ah!

36:32Sam, it's no good.

36:35It's broken, you have to go on.

36:39He turns.

36:40Your finger told him he won't fall.

36:44Oh, I can't move.

36:45Ah!

36:57Shit!

37:06Alpha 3-1, go ahead.

37:08I don't know.

37:38I'll be right over.

37:40Oi, oi.

37:41Can't just go chasing off.

37:43George, George, who's your superior officer?

37:46Andy Pandy, for one.

37:48Who's just got vital information on a bank robbery.

37:51So we saw Collins lurking outside the same gaff.

37:53What does that prove?

37:54Well, don't you think that's a little bit of a coincidence?

37:57It was you who said it wasn't his game.

37:58And it was you who said maybe he'd been educated.

38:01And Andy Pandy said ours is not the reason why.

38:04No, it was Tennyson.

38:06And it was theirs not the reason why.

38:08Come on.

38:11Tennyson.

38:13This is my line.

38:16I'm not trying to steal your glory, Dave.

38:18I'm just interested.

38:19Do me a favour, Jack.

38:20Hold on.

38:21Hold on.

38:22The guise you've got in custody.

38:23He's staying dead, still.

38:24Won't even let us take these dabs.

38:26Is he one of them?

38:27No.

38:29Who are they?

38:30Well, the spades called Garner.

38:31The other fella's Collins.

38:32Collins?

38:33Philip Fines?

38:34No, Harry.

38:35Why do you say Philip?

38:36Hmm.

38:38Probably just a coincidence.

38:39Collins is a common enough name.

38:41What do you mean, coincidence?

38:42Well, it was a weird sort of bank robbery.

38:44Weird?

38:45They got into the vault.

38:46We were alerted immediately because there's an alarm system which is connected directly

38:50with this station.

38:52Now, if they knew that, why do the bank in the first place?

38:55I mean, they'd only have a couple of minutes to do anything, right?

38:57Well, maybe they didn't know.

38:58But they were on their way out when we arrived.

39:00And there's no bells or anything like that which could have warned them.

39:03Do you mean they didn't take anything?

39:04I don't know.

39:06There was a safety deposit box which had been opened, and it belonged to a man called Philip

39:10Collins.

39:11Has he been contacted?

39:12Well, he tried.

39:13But unless you know of a good medium, I don't think we're going to.

39:17He died recently.

39:19What did that solicitor tell Jerry Burton, sure?

39:22Well, it was something about looking after Collins' dead brother's estate, wasn't it?

39:25Well, I suppose you're telling me what this is all about.

39:28Oh, that's wonderful news, John Wonderful.

39:31You shan't go unrewarded.

39:33Now, I want you to bring it round here so that I can destroy it personally.

39:36When can you do that?

39:37Shall we say around midday?

39:38Good, that'll be fine.

39:40Oh, have you informed Gray?

39:42No, I haven't, but I will.

39:44I'm sure he'd like to be present.

39:46Yes, I'm sure he will.

39:48Well, until later then.

39:49Until then.

39:53Mr. Gold is pleased.

39:55He says our efforts won't go unrewarded.

39:57About Wade, sir.

40:00Isn't there something we can do?

40:03Nice cup of coffee, this day.

40:04Yeah, it's not bound, is it?

40:08You must be thirsty.

40:10All the rabbiting you've been doing.

40:15Go on.

40:17Be my guest.

40:18You've got much form, have you?

40:43Well, this will soon tell us, won't it?

40:44Don't smudge those prints on the way to the lab, don't you?

40:53I don't get it.

40:54Look, if he's got a letter from his solicitor giving him legal access to the books, why would

40:59he be involved in robbing it?

41:00A good question, George.

41:01It's obvious, but a good question.

41:05Maybe I should start reading poetry, eh?

41:07Tennyson, was it?

41:08Yes, all right.

41:10More like Paris.

41:11Letter?

41:12What letter?

41:14Well, this is a copy.

41:16The manager felt he ought to keep the original.

41:18This is a forgery.

41:27If that's so, sir, it was forged by one of your clients, Harry Collins.

41:31And that being the case, Mr. Pearce, perhaps you could see your way clearly giving us some

41:35privileged information.

41:39Hey, man, you're positively hostile.

41:40Okay, Leroy, get your coat on.

41:44What for, man?

41:45Because there's no central heating in the cells.

41:47That's what for.

41:48Hey, man, don't talk that way.

41:50I'm clean.

41:51Ain't that so, baby?

41:52Yeah, baby.

41:54Leroy, he takes a shower at least once a day.

41:57Don't make jokes, baby.

41:58These guys are policemen.

42:00Boats, Leroy.

42:02Hey, man, come on, slow down.

42:04Look, maybe I do know a little something, but I gotta have insurance, you know?

42:11Like we gotta trade?

42:12No guarantees.

42:15Well, look, it's true, Collins, that something going down.

42:18I swear, I don't know.

42:19He wouldn't tell me.

42:21He just promised to lay some bread on me if I lent him a camera and develop a film.

42:25What film?

42:26That you took with a camera, man.

42:28And did you?

42:28Yeah.

42:29I figured there ain't no law against it, you know?

42:31What was on the film?

42:32I don't know, man.

42:33Didn't make no sense to me.

42:35Just a couple of pages from some army papers.

42:38I didn't paint on mine, and that is the truth.

42:40These two blokes have beat you up.

42:42Did they take the film?

42:43You better believe it.

42:44Man, they scared the hell out of me.

42:46And Collins, when I told him he took off like there was a rocket attached, you know?

42:51I think you better tell us a little more about this army thing, Leroy.

42:55I'm trying, man.

42:56I'm trying.

42:58It was some kind of a report.

43:00Report?

43:00Yeah, something about Malaya.

43:02Back in 53.

43:04Some sort of inquiry.

43:07Yeah, I recall them words.

43:08Regimental inquiry.

43:10What regiment?

43:11I don't know, man.

43:12I can't get it together.

43:13What about names?

43:14Can you remember any names?

43:16No.

43:17What about gold?

43:19Leonard Gold.

43:22Yeah.

43:23Yeah.

43:24I do remember there was a gold.

43:26You must have been out of your bloody mind.

43:31Good God, you're not in the Congo now.

43:33Calm down, Alan.

43:35You've got the transcript.

43:36That's what matters.

43:37I suppose this lunacy was your idea.

43:39No, John's.

43:40But I agreed naturally.

43:42Why couldn't you have waited?

43:44I would have found a way to get a hold of it eventually.

43:46Eventually, yes.

43:48Unfortunately, it would not have served my purpose.

43:51Your purpose?

43:53Mine.

43:54Don't you mean ours, John?

43:55No, I mean mine.

43:58And my men, of course.

44:01I don't understand.

44:02You don't seriously think that I would risk my liberty and that of my men to suit you, do you?

44:08I don't even like you, Leonard.

44:12A modern-day robber baron.

44:15Greedy and as crash as they come.

44:17Wait a minute.

44:18You can't talk to me like that.

44:20Really.

44:21You were an obnoxious bore when you were a squarry.

44:24Having money has made you even worse.

44:27Then why did you do it?

44:28Well, let's call it my early retirement plan.

44:31Your Collins was a fool.

44:33He was worse than that.

44:34A petty fool with a singular lack of vision.

44:3850,000 pounds from a man with millions.

44:43Peanuts.

44:44Listen, you bastard.

44:46I think 300,000 pounds is a more fitting price to pay for your reputation

44:53and your knighthood, Leonard.

45:00I'm sorry you were involved in this, Alan, but it was unavoidable.

45:05I don't expect you to pay any of the money, of course,

45:07but one of my men was a casualty in this business,

45:12and, well, perhaps you can assist in that area.

45:15And should I need you at any time in the future,

45:18well, you will be there, won't you?

45:24I want the money in cash here at 8 o'clock this evening, Leonard.

45:34Good day, gentlemen.

45:34David Peter Way, not much form.

45:45Couple of assorts, one GBH,

45:47next regular soldier, now mercenary.

45:50See what else you can dig up on him, Dave.

45:52Find out who he ran with.

45:56I'm going to pay.

45:58I have a choice.

45:59What are you going to do?

46:06I don't know.

46:08I just don't know yet.

46:14Come in.

46:24I've just had the Ministry of Defence on the phone.

46:26Why did you get the military police

46:29to turn over classified regimental records?

46:32To prove that a certain Leonard Gold

46:34and a certain Lieutenant Alan Peter Gray

46:37were involved in the massacre of Malayan civilians

46:39during the emergency there.

46:42Gray?

46:45Chief Superintendent Gray is...

46:49This is a very serious allegation.

46:53I also think there's a guy's name Masterson in it, too.

46:56The blagger that Dave Barnes captured

46:58used to work for him.

47:03You going to back me

47:04or do I go to the commander personally?

47:09It was in 53.

47:12The armed forces in Malaya

47:14had been ordered to take a hard line

47:16with the guerrillas,

47:17so punitive expeditions were sent out

47:20to destroy the villages

47:22of any natives found harbouring them.

47:27I was a subaltern

47:28in Major Masterson's company

47:29just following orders.

47:35We came across this village

47:37where we found evidence

47:39that guerrillas had recently been.

47:40I don't remember how I'd started.

47:46Somebody fired a shot.

47:50It was terrible.

47:5475 Malays.

47:56Mostly old people.

47:58Women.

47:59Children.

48:00Killed.

48:03I've never forgotten it.

48:04You want to see her, sir?

48:12No, no, because there are certain facts

48:13with which you are not cognisant,

48:14Chief Inspector.

48:16These officers have given me permission to...

48:20Well, there's been a new development.

48:22Rather ironic, really.

48:23Ironic, sir?

48:25Masterson wasn't the least bit interested

48:27in saving his reputation.

48:28He just reported himself in

48:29order to blackmail us.

48:32His price was

48:32300,000 pounds from Gold

48:34and me in his pocket.

48:37He's due to collect that money

48:38in Gold's house

48:4150 minutes from now.

48:4650 minutes, Inspector.

48:4850 minutes, Inspector.

48:59Major John Masterson.

49:12Yes.

49:13Who might you be?

49:14Detective Inspector Regan,

49:15Flying Squad.

49:22I hope you're not going to try

49:23anything like that, sir.

49:25John Masterson,

49:26I'm arresting you

49:27for robbery and blackmail.

49:28You're not obliged to say anything

49:30unless you wish to do so,

49:32but anything you do say

49:33will be taken in writing

49:34and may be given in evidence.

49:37Get him in the car.

49:46Police.

49:53Governor?

49:58Bigger day, Al.

50:22Yeah.

50:23No.

50:26No.

50:28All right.

50:30No.

50:31No.

50:36No.

50:37No.

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