Tggrt. 24. Gingerbread. Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 20th/27th April/4th May 1993.  The murder of his father sets young Simon Barrow on a nightmare journey, and his dying words on Simon's answer-phone throw the police on a trail of confusion.  Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine Blythe Duff - DC Jackie Reid Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews Mary MacLeod - Betty Duncan Jay Smith - Tom Barrow Gary Hollywood - Simon Barrow Fiona Gillies - Gemma Normanton Hugh Fraser - Bobby Gault Vivien Heilbron - Elsa Chalmers Malcolm Rennie - Willie Fraser Sheila Reid - Jessie Fraser Christopher Robbie - Albert Brockwell Heather Ann Foster - Nicola Barrow (as Heather Foster) Eeva-Maria Mutka - Agnetha (as Eeva Maria Mutka) Louise Ironside - Waitress Andrew Melville - Jimmy Buchanan Anne Marie Timoney - Ann Kirk Alice Bree - Jenny McClusky Alan McHugh - Gavin Johnstone Gregor Duncan - Joe Soutar Heather Ann Foster - Nicola Barrow (as Heather Foster) Roselean Pelan - Cathy Ross Marjorie Thomson - Mrs. Innes Joy McBrinn - Mrs. Scott Stuart McQuarrie - Dave Jobson Alan Vicary - Nigel Wynn-Davies Bill Barclay - Duty Sergeant Irvine Allen - Billy Jackson Vari Sylvester - Salon Manageress Michael Derrington - Ginger Craig Duncan - Driver

Transcript

00:00:00A long time ago lived an old woman who was also an enchantress and her daughter was the most

00:00:09beautiful creature under the sun. But the old woman was ever thinking how to entice men in order to kill them.

00:00:30A long time ago lived an old woman who was living in the world and was a whole new woman.

00:00:40A long time ago lived an old woman who was living in the world and was a girl who was living in the world.

00:00:48Oh, my God.

00:01:18Oh, my God.

00:01:48I've got you now.

00:02:01Oh, my God.

00:02:02I'm sorry.

00:02:03I'm sorry.

00:02:04I'm sorry.

00:02:05I'm sorry.

00:02:06I'm sorry.

00:02:07Dant! Dant! Part your tracks.

00:02:11Must be a saint nearby. Well spotted.

00:02:15You'll make a detective yet.

00:02:23Nicola, come on. We'll have to go now.

00:02:37What do you think of this one for an eight-year-old?

00:02:57Kids grow up far quicker these days.

00:03:01What about this one?

00:03:03Too young.

00:03:05Thank you. I hope you enjoy it.

00:03:09Would you like it dedicated to anyone in particular?

00:03:13To join, please.

00:03:19Sign, please.

00:03:21Would you like it dedicated to anyone in particular?

00:03:23Michael!

00:03:27What are you doing these days?

00:03:29I read in the paper that you were doing this, signing on...

00:03:31Excuse me. Sorry.

00:03:37Oh, this is Jackie.

00:03:39A colleague.

00:03:41I joined the police force.

00:03:43There's no need to sound so reticent about it.

00:03:45You joined the police force.

00:03:47I heard something, but I didn't believe it.

00:03:49You were going to become an airline pilot.

00:03:51I was going to do a lot of things when I was 17.

00:03:53I just think we're the aviation industry's lost, eh?

00:03:57What are you doing for lunch?

00:03:59Oh, I'm sorry. It's a cheese and wine publicity do upstairs.

00:04:03Eat the press and that sort of thing.

00:04:05Come on up.

00:04:07Be my guests.

00:04:09First book.

00:04:11She was the best looking girl in my school.

00:04:13She always wanted to be a journalist.

00:04:15Yeah, I had a crush on the best looking boy in mine.

00:04:19You should see him now.

00:04:21Seventeen stone, running a chippy in Annie's land.

00:04:23It's more than a crush.

00:04:25We nearly got engaged.

00:04:27What, when you were at school?

00:04:29Well, we were 17.

00:04:31She hadn't gone to university.

00:04:33We might have done.

00:04:37Oh, I hope you're not feeling left out.

00:04:39What's she drinking?

00:04:40Mineral water.

00:04:41You used to bring half a bottle of vodka to school

00:04:44and keep it in your desk.

00:04:45Ah, don't let everybody know.

00:04:47Well, that's when you've got the front page.

00:04:49Thanks for the invite.

00:04:51Ali, I'll see you back at the office.

00:04:53Yeah.

00:04:57Just the colleague?

00:04:58Just.

00:04:59Congratulations on the book.

00:05:01I haven't signed it.

00:05:14What is this?

00:05:15A public library.

00:05:17Sorry, sir.

00:05:22Life before death.

00:05:23Lives on death row, sir.

00:05:25I thought you'd go over that woolly liberal stage.

00:05:29It's written by an old school friend of me.

00:05:33Not so old.

00:05:35You keep your mind in the job.

00:05:37I'll stay behind after school if you like, sir.

00:05:40Aye.

00:05:41And you can take a hundred lines as well.

00:05:55Get out of there.

00:05:56Go on.

00:05:57Go on.

00:05:58Go on.

00:05:59Go on.

00:06:00Go on.

00:06:01Go on.

00:06:02Go on.

00:06:03Go on.

00:06:04Go on.

00:06:05Are you working tonight?

00:06:06Yeah, I'm afraid so.

00:06:07I'll probably be late.

00:06:08How late?

00:06:09Very late.

00:06:10What case are you working on?

00:06:11What case are you working on?

00:06:12I've got Chalmers missing person.

00:06:13Can I come with you?

00:06:14Not this case.

00:06:15Why did he go missing?

00:06:16Some adults just go missing.

00:06:17Some adults just go missing.

00:06:18If children go missing, the whole police force is out looking for them.

00:06:19That's because adults have the right to go missing.

00:06:21Children don't.

00:06:22Go on.

00:06:23Go on.

00:06:24Go on.

00:06:25Go on.

00:06:26Go on.

00:06:27Go on.

00:06:28Go on.

00:06:29Go on.

00:06:30Go on.

00:06:31Go on.

00:06:32Go on.

00:06:33Go on.

00:06:34Go on.

00:06:35Go on.

00:06:36Go on.

00:06:37Go on.

00:06:38Go on.

00:06:39Fine to go missing.

00:06:40Children don't.

00:06:45So what got you into crime?

00:06:48I got a job as a crime reporter on the Manchester Evening Times for five years.

00:06:52Then I met this American guy.

00:06:54Went to New York.

00:06:55Got a job as reporter on the evening news.

00:06:56Yeah.

00:06:57I read part of your book last night.

00:06:58What did you think?

00:06:59You really believe a lot of these guys are innocent.

00:07:01You have to visit death row.

00:07:03It changes your perspective.

00:07:08So, uh, what happened to the American guy?

00:07:13He had a wife and five children in Seattle.

00:07:16Sorry.

00:07:17Still, I've travelled, seen some of the world,

00:07:21and now I'm back, living with Mum and Dad,

00:07:23but launched on a new career, I hope.

00:07:25No, I'll drink to that.

00:07:26But you're not, not really.

00:07:28I mean, how can you be a policeman and not drink?

00:07:30It's like being a journalist and not drinking.

00:07:32Ah, I get my kicks in other ways.

00:07:34Tell me all.

00:07:36Later.

00:07:38So you never married, then?

00:07:41I never found the right person, I suppose.

00:07:44I wonder how we would have worked out.

00:07:46Oh, I shudder to think we were far too young.

00:07:49We'd have held each other back.

00:07:50Can you see me with a string of babies?

00:07:53I've met so many people who have jumped into marriage

00:07:55and regretted it.

00:07:57I'm sorry, I didn't mean it to sound like a diatribe.

00:08:00I'll keep it up.

00:08:01I might just find out what I went wrong.

00:08:02Turn that down.

00:08:27It's too loud.

00:08:29You've woken up Nicola.

00:08:30Now she wants a story.

00:08:32Can you not tell her one?

00:08:33I'm trying to watch the end of my film, Simon.

00:08:35Do you think Dad would pay me to be an au pair?

00:08:43It was now the third morning since they had left their father's house

00:08:49and they still walked on, but they only got deeper and deeper into the wood

00:08:55and Hansel saw that if help did not come very soon, they would die of hunger.

00:09:00As soon as it was noon, they saw a beautiful snow-white bird sitting upon a bough,

00:09:08which sang so sweetly that they stood still and listened to it.

00:09:12It soon left off and spreading its wings, it flew.

00:09:16And they followed it until it arrived at a cottage, upon the roof of which it perched.

00:09:24And when they went close up to it, they saw that the cottage was made of bread and cakes

00:09:30and the window panes were of clear sugar.

00:09:33We will go in there, said Hansel, and have a glorious feast.

00:09:39I will eat a piece of the roof and you can eat the window.

00:09:44Will they not be sweet?

00:09:46So Hansel reached up and broke a piece of the roof in order to see how it tasted.

00:10:03I call up.

00:13:14Help me! Help me! Help me!

00:13:19Help! Please! Somebody's killing her dad!

00:13:21Calm down! Please!

00:13:23Where do you live?

00:13:24In her house up there.

00:13:25Get in the car and stay there.

00:13:27Stay there!

00:13:44هو

00:13:51How is he going

00:13:57How is he going

00:14:03There!

00:14:05How is he going

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00:16:07I saw this man in Nicola's bedroom I thought he was the murderer that's why I

00:16:19hit him I didn't know he was a detective oh the children where are they

00:16:26I must see them

00:16:27listen just try and calm down if you go with this officer I'll chat to you later

00:16:31I'll get you a cup of tea see you appear sir

00:16:37this is where the attack happened sir the victim made it upstairs to see to his kids

00:16:49what was Michael doing playing cavalry he thought he might have prevented a murder being committed

00:16:55if you just watch out for the blood sir

00:17:00no eyes thank you

00:17:03apparently he had the phone in his hand when the au pair found him

00:17:09she used it to telephone the police and

00:17:13put it back on the cradle what was used looks like an open razor

00:17:17he lives probably for quite a few minutes after being left for dead

00:17:21with his throat gashed like that

00:17:25he had kids Jim

00:17:26it's amazing what strength we can muster

00:17:30what did he do he was a private detective sir

00:17:33your father did business and commercial work

00:17:36yes used to be in the serious fraud office

00:17:39where was he last night simon

00:17:46it was a missing persons case

00:17:48my father was a policeman too you know

00:17:50i want to be a detective for my dad

00:17:52yeah maybe you will one day

00:17:56who's your mum simon

00:17:58she's dead she died about three years ago

00:18:01that's why we have igneesa

00:18:02any aunts or uncles? grandparents?

00:18:05better get on your social services

00:18:08right sir

00:18:09i want to help look for the person

00:18:11yeah and you can

00:18:12by describing him

00:18:15i didn't see his face

00:18:17it was too dark

00:18:19i just wore this rain mack with the hood over his head

00:18:22and what colour was it?

00:18:23blue

00:18:24dark blue

00:18:25i think

00:18:26was it a type of rain mack that you put your arms in the sleeves

00:18:29or the type that drapes over your shoulders

00:18:30it's okay simon

00:18:35see ya mister

00:18:39I don't know.

00:19:09I was asleep with my headphones on.

00:19:17I hear nothing when I have my headphones on.

00:19:20Then I woke up and I took them off.

00:19:24That's when I heard the noise.

00:19:27Whereabouts in Sweden are you from?

00:19:29Finland.

00:19:30I'm sorry.

00:19:32It's been a long night for all of us.

00:19:34Whereabouts in Finland?

00:19:36A place called Borkala.

00:19:39How long have you worked for the family, Agne?

00:19:42Three years.

00:19:44Ever since Mrs. Barrow died.

00:19:47What was your relationship with Mr. Barrow?

00:19:50Pardon?

00:19:53Your relationship?

00:19:55I was the au pair.

00:19:58Were you more than just the au pair?

00:20:00I take the children to school.

00:20:04I cook them breakfast.

00:20:05I cook them dinner.

00:20:07I clean.

00:20:08You want to know what else?

00:20:12You mean, do we screw?

00:20:15Never.

00:20:16That's what we know about Tom Barrow, sir.

00:20:23Ex-CID.

00:20:24Joined the serious fraud office in London.

00:20:26But resigned when he was passed over for a promotion.

00:20:29He moved to Glasgow about seven years ago with his family.

00:20:33Where he's done some lucrative private work.

00:20:35Any job could provide the motive.

00:20:37He was working on a missing persons case, sir.

00:20:40A Philip Chalmers from Edinburgh.

00:20:42Is he on our records?

00:20:43Yes, sir.

00:20:44He's on the missing persons register.

00:20:46Really?

00:20:48Sorry.

00:20:49Sir, he went missing two months ago on a business trip to Glasgow.

00:20:54They found his car near the Jamaica Bridge.

00:20:56How relevant is it?

00:20:57Barrow was working on the case the night of his murder, sir.

00:21:00And both his son and the au pair say that he went out with a file marked Philip Chalmers.

00:21:05And we can't find it anywhere in the car or in the house.

00:21:08We don't think he would have left it anywhere.

00:21:10So we must assume that the murderer took it.

00:21:14What's happening to the children?

00:21:16Emergency foster parents, sir.

00:21:26You must be Simon and Nicola.

00:21:30I'm Mr. Fraser and this is Mrs. Fraser.

00:21:35I want you both to feel very much at home here.

00:21:38Detective Chief Inspector Galt here at Edinburgh CID.

00:21:51I understand there may be a connection between a missing Edinburgh man and your recent murder.

00:22:02I may be able to help you with some facts.

00:22:04Let's just say there are suspicious circumstances.

00:22:08Although they don't suggest murder.

00:22:09Doctor, you drive for me to Edinburgh.

00:22:15Do I have a choice?

00:22:23I hope you don't mind Earl Grey.

00:22:24No.

00:22:25We drink it all the time.

00:22:27The station can't eat.

00:22:28Well, as you know, it's not a crime to go missing.

00:22:32Philip Chalmers may have done a regi parent for all we know.

00:22:35You said there were suspicious circumstances.

00:22:37I knew Philip Chalmers.

00:22:38We belonged to the same lodge.

00:22:40Oh, I only knew him socially.

00:22:43Did he seem the type to go missing voluntarily?

00:22:46Well, who can tell what goes through a man's mind?

00:22:49I can tell you that he phoned his wife the day he disappeared from a call box in Glasgow.

00:22:53Told her he loved her.

00:22:55So at all?

00:22:56And that he'd be back at about ten that evening.

00:22:58How did he sound?

00:23:00Normal.

00:23:02What did he have on him?

00:23:03Checkbook, credit cards.

00:23:06He drew out sixty pounds the day he disappeared.

00:23:09And the clothes he stood up in.

00:23:10I take it there was nothing drawn from his account?

00:23:13Oh, nothing.

00:23:14It's a joint account with his wife and would you smoke?

00:23:16No.

00:23:18Do you mind if I do?

00:23:19No.

00:23:22Being a joint account, of course, it's frozen.

00:23:24People who disappear leave a lot of problems like that.

00:23:30There is another strange fact.

00:23:32When the wife retrieved the car, she found cake crummers on the driving seat.

00:23:36Why is that so strange?

00:23:37Well, Philip had just had a cholesterol test.

00:23:39The reading was high.

00:23:41He was on a strict diet.

00:23:42Well, we all break them, sir.

00:23:44Maybe he's worried about his health and committed suicide.

00:23:48Look, when we get done here, I'd like to see Mrs. Chalmers.

00:23:55Well, you can't do that.

00:23:56She's on holiday.

00:23:58On holiday?

00:24:00Her husband's missing.

00:24:02She's hired a private detective.

00:24:04And she's away on holiday.

00:24:05Okay.

00:24:05You found anything?

00:24:27Get the illustration.

00:24:28Hello again, Mrs. Fraser.

00:24:44This is my colleague, D.S. Jardine.

00:24:46We've come to speak to Siren, please.

00:24:47Oh, I don't think so.

00:24:49Pardon?

00:24:50He's having his dinner.

00:24:52And anyway, I think after the trauma he's been through, he needs time to settle down.

00:24:57Maybe if you leave it for a couple of days.

00:24:59This is a murder inquiry, Mrs. Fraser.

00:25:01The same as a witness.

00:25:03I really don't think you should speak to him again quite so soon.

00:25:07Do you?

00:25:09We really just came to return his book.

00:25:11I'll give it to him.

00:25:13No, that's okay.

00:25:14We'll do it.

00:25:15Well, it was easier getting into Spandau.

00:25:27I understand you want to speak to Simon again.

00:25:31Look, I've already explained.

00:25:32Oh, hi, Simon.

00:25:33How's it going?

00:25:34Okay.

00:25:34We're sorry to drag you away from your dinner.

00:25:36That's okay.

00:25:37We found this in your room, Simon.

00:25:40Thought you might like it.

00:25:43Special book, is it?

00:25:44My dad gave it to me for my seventh birthday.

00:25:47It's a rare edition.

00:25:49That picture, Simon, the blue cape, it's like the clothing you described.

00:25:55Are you absolutely sure that's what you saw?

00:25:59Absolutely.

00:26:01Okay, then.

00:26:03We'll keep it now.

00:26:05Aren't you a bit old for fairy stories now?

00:26:07Can I have my wife from home?

00:26:11Sure.

00:26:12We'll have it brought round.

00:26:14Well, away and finish your dinner before it gets cold.

00:26:21It's Chillicun County.

00:26:24Kind of special.

00:26:25The first few days are always the most difficult.

00:26:30I'm sure you understand that.

00:26:32Of course.

00:26:33I think that children have childhood taken away from them too early these days.

00:26:38No one tonight.

00:27:03No.

00:27:0324 hours with neither a suspect nor a clue.

00:27:14What about the au pair?

00:27:16She had nothing to do with it, sir.

00:27:19And we don't even know if the boy imagined what he saw.

00:27:23Or if Barrow's death has got anything to do with this charmer's case.

00:27:26I don't want us going up this one road and ignoring all these other cases.

00:27:32Something smells about you, though, sir.

00:27:34Her wife goes on holiday.

00:27:37After two months' strain, maybe she needed one.

00:27:40A Nile cruise.

00:27:45I don't like it here.

00:27:51Go to sleep.

00:27:52Go to sleep.

00:27:56Go to sleep.

00:28:26Go to sleep.

00:28:56Oh, my God.

00:29:26Oh, my God.

00:29:56Oh, my God.

00:30:26Probably sunning himself on a beach in Brazil somewhere.

00:30:29I did tell you, didn't I?

00:30:31My next book's going to be an anthology of Glasgow murder cases.

00:30:34Glasgow Bowman, the...

00:30:35Oh, what in the Bowman?

00:30:37Did you?

00:30:37Yeah.

00:30:38Discovered the clue that led us to him.

00:30:39You'll have to tell me all about it.

00:30:42Why not?

00:30:44Sir?

00:30:47Mike!

00:30:48I'm sorry you've had the bother, Sergeant.

00:30:51We didn't even know he'd sneaked out.

00:30:53Well, you can't lock them in, can you?

00:31:01If it's no trouble, I will see you soon.

00:31:04It seems that Simon got a fright about something.

00:31:13Thought that someone here was the person who murdered his father.

00:31:17Oh, I knew it.

00:31:19I said to them, that boy's going to have too many problems.

00:31:22Oh, he's all right.

00:31:24He's with that detective, Sergeant.

00:31:27He's going to bring him home.

00:31:29He's just an imaginative boy.

00:31:31Simon, you just can't keep jumping to conclusions.

00:31:42The man you saw was Mrs. Fraser's cousin.

00:31:45He was a magician, children's entertainer.

00:31:47He stays there in the converted tall flat.

00:31:49Well, there was obviously something about him that frightened Simon.

00:31:52I wasn't frightened.

00:31:54It was just the same mac and hood.

00:31:55There must be hundreds of people out there with similar raincoats.

00:31:58Anyway, I don't like it in that house.

00:32:00Well, you're going back there as soon as you've eaten.

00:32:02You'd like to order.

00:32:03Grab some wine.

00:32:05No!

00:32:06Ah, we'll have two margarita, please.

00:32:09What would your son like?

00:32:11Grab four seasons with extra pepperoni.

00:32:19Thanks for bringing him back.

00:32:21Just make sure he doesn't run away again.

00:32:23We'll make doubly sure of that.

00:32:30Simon, this is my cousin, Mr. Brockwell.

00:32:49Ah, so this is the young man with a vivid imagination.

00:32:59Well, let me tell you something about imagination, Simon.

00:33:04It's a gift.

00:33:07It's a gift.

00:33:34That sign wasn't up here 18 years ago.

00:33:47Should we peel it, Dame?

00:33:48Such lawlessness.

00:33:53Oh, they'll be waiting up for me.

00:33:56I know they will.

00:33:57Still?

00:33:58Mum and Dad are wonderful.

00:34:00But they've never got over the shock of me not being 16 anymore.

00:34:06Do you remember that night I brought you back at three o'clock in the morning?

00:34:12That's probably what traumatised them.

00:34:14It's your fault, you see.

00:34:16Did they leave you alone to work?

00:34:18No.

00:34:19Mum brings in cups of tea every ten minutes,

00:34:22and Dad brings the lamp just a little bit closer.

00:34:25They're well-meaning, but...

00:34:29Oh, well.

00:34:30It's just a temporary measure to get somewhere of my own.

00:34:34I, uh...

00:34:35I could suggest a better temporary measure.

00:34:38Mm-hmm.

00:34:40Move in with me?

00:34:42I wouldn't get any writing done.

00:34:44Well, there's that.

00:34:45You never see me.

00:34:49Okay.

00:34:50Okay.

00:34:55Elsa, can I introduce Detective Chief Inspector Talia,

00:35:11Tam D.C. Reid, from Glasgow?

00:35:13Have you found Philip?

00:35:14I'm afraid no.

00:35:15Sorry.

00:35:16Then what are you here for?

00:35:18It's about a private detective he hired.

00:35:21He's been murdered.

00:35:21I spoke to Tom Barrow before I left.

00:35:25I said if he made any important discoveries,

00:35:28he could contact me abroad.

00:35:29When was that?

00:35:31Must have been...

00:35:32two weeks ago yesterday.

00:35:34He drove over here.

00:35:35I made him lunch.

00:35:36We talked about Philip.

00:35:38I gave him some photographs of him.

00:35:40Do you know what Angle intended to work on?

00:35:43No, I don't.

00:35:44Only that Philip's car was found in Glasgow,

00:35:46and somebody may have seen him.

00:35:48I don't know.

00:35:51You don't think that Tom Barrow's death

00:35:52has anything to do with Philip?

00:35:54We don't know.

00:35:57I just want to know whether he committed suicide,

00:36:00whether he's washing dishes in Glasgow

00:36:03somewhere with amnesia.

00:36:06Some men do that, apparently.

00:36:07They just forget who they are

00:36:08and adopt new identities.

00:36:10Some men don't want to be found.

00:36:13That too.

00:36:15Was he under any pressures?

00:36:16No.

00:36:21Was there another woman in his life?

00:36:24No.

00:36:25How do you know that?

00:36:27I don't.

00:36:31Did you have a row on the day he disappeared?

00:36:35No.

00:36:36Do you know of anyone with a motive for wanting him dead?

00:36:39Philip was a charming, gentle man.

00:36:42Of course nobody would want to kill him.

00:36:43What do you make of that?

00:37:04A bit like,

00:37:04if anything important comes up, let me know.

00:37:07Otherwise...

00:37:07That's the impression I got.

00:37:09Don't you think you're reading too much into it?

00:37:11No.

00:37:14She's got dignity.

00:37:16She doesn't want to be seen weeping and wailing.

00:37:17Tell them.

00:37:25Check.

00:37:28Other missing persons.

00:37:33Stop!

00:37:34Stop!

00:37:36Tell them.

00:37:39Check.

00:37:42Other missing persons.

00:37:44Gingerbread men.

00:37:56Gingerbread men.

00:37:57Gingerbread men.

00:37:58Check.

00:37:58To the dead one.

00:37:59beds.

00:38:00Dead one.

00:38:06Of course?

00:38:13drunk.

00:38:18The dead one.

00:38:19The girl.

00:38:50Yeah, he's here again.

00:38:56Yeah, don't worry, I'll bring him back.

00:38:58Bye-bye.

00:39:01Shall I give you some advice about being a detective, Simon?

00:39:05You need some imagination, but not too much.

00:39:09What are you doing in the woods, eh?

00:39:11I took us there, the day before he was murdered.

00:39:13Back again, Simon?

00:39:15Simon, Simon's seen another caped figure at a cottage in Dunleith Woods.

00:39:20This time, I'm certain.

00:39:22It was the same person.

00:39:24You've got to believe me.

00:39:27You'd better check it out.

00:39:30Just do it, Michael.

00:39:33Come on, Simon.

00:39:36I'll drop you off on my way.

00:39:53Sorry to bother you.

00:39:54DS Jarden, Maryhill Police Station.

00:39:57Are you the owner of the Fiat Panda?

00:39:58Yes.

00:40:01Did you happen to arrive home in it about five o'clock this evening?

00:40:05Yes.

00:40:07You don't happen to own a dark blue raincoat with a hood.

00:40:10And if you do, were you wearing it tonight when you came home?

00:40:13I have a green raincoat.

00:40:15I think I had it round my shoulders.

00:40:18What's it about?

00:40:20Do you mind if I see it, please?

00:40:21That's fine, thank you.

00:40:44I'm sorry to have bothered you.

00:40:47Did it go through a red light or something?

00:40:50Somebody did.

00:40:50But it wasn't you.

00:40:57Tell them.

00:40:59Check.

00:41:01Other missing persons.

00:41:05Ginger.

00:41:08Bread.

00:41:10Men.

00:41:13Tell who?

00:41:15Us, sir.

00:41:16Tell us to check other missing persons, not just Philip Chalmers.

00:41:23Good God, there must be hundreds of them.

00:41:25We could narrow it down, sir.

00:41:26To men that have disappeared in similar circumstances, say, in the last few years.

00:41:30Any lead on gingerbread men?

00:41:33Fairy tales.

00:41:34Did I do well?

00:41:41You did just fine.

00:41:44Bobby, sooner or later they're going to find out why I hired Tom Barrow.

00:41:47There's no reason why they should.

00:41:49Let's just keep it to ourselves for as long as possible.

00:41:52At least until we know.

00:41:54At least until we know.

00:41:54Let's do well.

00:43:43I was hungry.

00:43:48I smelt the toffee.

00:43:50Don't you get fed at home?

00:43:51My parents are never at home.

00:43:53Pete!

00:43:54Didn't catch that.

00:43:55My parents are never at home.

00:43:57That's no reason to steal.

00:43:58Believe him.

00:43:59He's only a boy.

00:44:00I'd dare get back to work.

00:44:06Thanks, Joe.

00:44:08What part of the service?

00:44:09You ought to a knock and ask.

00:44:19Three missing person cases.

00:44:20Thanks.

00:44:21All bearing a striking similarity to the Chalmers case.

00:44:24Left home for just a few hours to go shopping, visit the theatre, that sort of thing.

00:44:29All totally disappeared without trace.

00:44:31Their cars found abandoned within half a mile of Central Station, just as Chalmers was.

00:44:36This pattern's never emerged before.

00:44:38Well, this is over a period of about two and a half years.

00:44:40Well, but Chalmers is his wife, sir.

00:44:43You satisfied with her?

00:44:44No.

00:44:45I'm very dissatisfied.

00:44:48I'll go and check it out, sir.

00:44:51How you do, Dan?

00:44:53Sir, I'd like to discuss something personally with you.

00:44:56Well, Gemma Normanton, sir, the crime writer that wrote that book, Life Before Death.

00:45:02Well, she's doing a new book on Glasgow murderers, and she'd be dead keen to talk to you, sir,

00:45:07about the Balfour, the Samson, or the Bowman cases.

00:45:11Do you think that's all I have time for?

00:45:14Well, I said it asks her.

00:45:16Well, you've asked, and now you know my answer.

00:45:22Thanks.

00:45:22And there was my cat on the doorstep.

00:45:37It'll be dark soon.

00:45:40You'd better go.

00:45:43But you will come and see me again, won't you?

00:45:46And bring me a little sister next time.

00:45:48Yes.

00:45:50I'll write down my number.

00:45:52But you must always ring first.

00:46:04Never, ever come without ringing.

00:46:08You understand?

00:46:09Coming through from Glasgow to Edinburgh is hardly calling by.

00:46:18It isn't, is it?

00:46:20It's just that the last time I was here, I think I got the wrong impression.

00:46:25What impression's that?

00:46:26I got the impression you didn't care whether your husband came back or not.

00:46:30That's nonsense.

00:46:33If I went missing and my wife hired a private detective, I hope she'd stay around.

00:46:39I'm sure all women behave differently.

00:46:41I'm sure.

00:46:41And I'm sure that if my wife did go on holiday, she'd make arrangements that the private detective would keep in touch.

00:46:49I did.

00:46:50Aye.

00:46:51If anything important came up, what about the unimportant things?

00:46:55Were they to wait until you got back?

00:46:56A clumsy expression.

00:46:58Mrs. Chalmers, I'm investigating a murder which involves the disappearance of your husband.

00:47:07I want you to tell me the truth.

00:47:09Now, we can do it here or we can do it at the station in Glasgow.

00:47:14All right.

00:47:20You're obviously going to be persistent.

00:47:23I want Philip back so I can divorce him.

00:47:44He went out to buy our son a birthday present.

00:47:49He never came home.

00:47:51He phoned from town to say he couldn't find the game that Peter wanted, but he'd find something else.

00:47:57And wanted to know if I thought it was suitable.

00:48:01I said I thought it was too old for him.

00:48:05We had what?

00:48:08He said he'd go on looking.

00:48:10And a few more shops.

00:48:14That was the last I ever heard from him.

00:48:19You people said he probably didn't want the responsibility of a family anymore.

00:48:26Or he had another woman.

00:48:28And that he just never wanted to be found.

00:48:31But he wasn't like that.

00:48:33I knew he wasn't like that.

00:48:38Peter!

00:48:40Come here.

00:48:44Peter.

00:48:44This man and woman are police officers.

00:48:49Come to ask about Danny.

00:48:51You're too lit.

00:48:56Do you know how difficult it is to get a divorce from a husband who is missing?

00:49:00Not technically presumed dead for seven years?

00:49:04Oh, you can go to court, bring it forward, but it's still a very long wait.

00:49:07Yes, but...

00:49:08The law says I can't dispose of anything for a very long time.

00:49:21Did Philip know you wanted a divorce?

00:49:24Yes.

00:49:25Did he intend making it easy?

00:49:30Not exactly.

00:49:33Where is he, Mrs. Chalmers?

00:49:41Presumably Elsa's told you?

00:49:42What she hasn't told me, I can put together myself.

00:49:48She asked Philip for a divorce, to marry me.

00:49:51He refused.

00:49:53A few days later, he disappears.

00:49:55His car is found abandoned in Glasgow.

00:49:57How do you think it might have looked?

00:49:59That you two killed him.

00:50:01Right.

00:50:02Why didn't you tell me that's two days ago?

00:50:05We both know how our colleagues' minds work.

00:50:07We do the same job!

00:50:09But not in the same force.

00:50:12I didn't know how much I could trust you.

00:50:15I wouldn't trust you, Pierre, one inch.

00:50:18Doesn't it make a difference that other missing persons are involved?

00:50:22That it isn't just Philip?

00:50:23It has to.

00:50:25The only person who says so is the private detective you hired.

00:50:31And he's dead.

00:50:35All the fours!

00:50:37Forty-fours, eh?

00:50:39If you don't speak French.

00:50:46Fun to do if yous have got a full house.

00:50:49All right, ladies.

00:50:53Number one.

00:50:54Numero uno.

00:50:57Whoa!

00:50:58There a wee woman down the front here.

00:51:00She thinks that I'm bi-

00:51:03Bilingual missus, eh?

00:51:07Look!

00:51:08All the twos!

00:51:10Twenty-two.

00:51:11Just my age missus.

00:51:12I've never been kissed, eh?

00:51:15And...

00:51:16Number seven.

00:51:19Seventh...

00:51:20Heaven!

00:51:22House!

00:51:23My lucky night tonight, eh?

00:51:28With a lot of truth, who can't cling to a round and roll, wild as the wind glows, that can't be...

00:51:47Eh, a pint of lager, please.

00:51:51Can I buy you a drink?

00:51:54Half a lager, please.

00:51:56And a vodka for my friend.

00:51:58Eh, half a lager and a vodka, please.

00:52:00It's a bit lonely celebrating on your own.

00:52:02Wouldn't want you to be that.

00:52:03Where in Ireland are you from?

00:52:04Country Clare.

00:52:05Yeah, I went there once, caravanning.

00:52:06Ah, great people, the Irish.

00:52:07Oh, I'm Jimmy, by the way.

00:52:08I'm Jenny.

00:52:09She's Anne.

00:52:10Great girls.

00:52:11Loser's a night, won't we, eh?

00:52:12Still...

00:52:13Shut up the winners.

00:52:14Loser every bloody night.

00:52:15You're a customer now.

00:52:16She is.

00:52:17Customer?

00:52:18So...

00:52:19So...

00:52:20I'm...

00:52:21I'm...

00:52:22I'm...

00:52:23I'm...

00:52:24I'm...

00:52:25I'm...

00:52:26I'm...

00:52:27I'm...

00:52:28I'm...

00:52:29I'm...

00:52:30I'm...

00:52:31I'm...

00:52:32I'm...

00:52:33I'm...

00:52:34I'm...

00:52:35I'm...

00:52:36I'm...

00:52:37I'm...

00:52:38I'm...

00:52:39I'm...

00:52:40What do you do for a living?

00:52:41I'm a rep for a confectionery firm.

00:52:44A travelling salesman.

00:52:45Are you giving it free samples?

00:52:47No.

00:52:48Neither is she.

00:52:50Well, I mean...

00:52:51We've all got to do something for a living.

00:52:54It's just...

00:52:55You seem too...

00:52:56Too what?

00:52:58Too nice.

00:53:01You wrote the part, haven't you?

00:53:05Look, I've got my car outside if you'd like to come for a drive.

00:53:09Where to?

00:53:10I don't know anywhere.

00:53:11I don't know anywhere.

00:53:12I don't know anywhere.

00:53:13You got it.

00:53:14Can't be too careful.

00:53:15I don't know anywhere.

00:53:16You got it.

00:53:17I don't know anywhere.

00:53:18I don't know.

00:53:19I don't know anywhere.

00:53:20You got it.

00:53:21I don't know anywhere.

00:53:22You got it.

00:53:23You got it.

00:53:24I don't know anywhere.

00:53:25You got it.

00:53:26I don't know anywhere.

00:53:27You got it.

00:53:28I don't know anywhere.

00:53:29You can't be too careful.

00:53:39Anyway, you got that?

00:53:41You can't be too careful.

00:53:53Sir, I'd like you to meet Gemma.

00:53:56Gemma Normanton, the crime writer I told you about.

00:53:59How are you doing? Pleased to meet you.

00:54:00How's it going?

00:54:01Lord heavens, yes.

00:54:02You published that book on prisoners on death row in America.

00:54:05I saw it the other day.

00:54:07Very pleased to meet you.

00:54:08And what are you working at at the moment?

00:54:10A book on Glasgow murder cases.

00:54:12Gemma's more interested in the recent ones.

00:54:14Well, you've certainly come to the right people.

00:54:16If I could talk to you about crimes such as the Bowman, the Samson inheritance, the Black Pudding Shop murder.

00:54:22I was in all the role-charge of all those cases.

00:54:25Yes, the Black Pudding Shop murder.

00:54:28That was where they cut up the drug stealer.

00:54:30Had us clambering about in rubbish insinorators looking for the head.

00:54:33If you'll excuse me, she's got a cocoa waiting for me in the microwave.

00:54:38So, uh, how do you two know each other?

00:54:44Oh, we were at school together.

00:54:45Practically the same desk.

00:54:52It really was very funny.

00:54:54I've never seen his nose so out of joint.

00:55:00Oh, I think he's a sweetie.

00:55:02I've heard him call some things, but never that.

00:55:07Like the music?

00:55:08It's a bit romantic.

00:55:11What's wrong with a bit of romance?

00:55:13Nothing.

00:55:14I've just had a lot of it knocked out of me.

00:55:15Can't you escape from all that?

00:55:19Oh, Mike.

00:55:21Meeting people who are queuing up to die.

00:55:24You don't escape from that.

00:55:26You just try and forget it for a while.

00:55:30Well, try and forget.

00:55:33For a while.

00:55:34When you're at the end of the day, eh?

00:55:41Ah!

00:55:46Oh!

00:55:47Oh!

00:55:48Oh!

00:55:49Oh!

00:55:53Oh!

00:55:55Oh!

00:55:56Oh!

00:55:57Oh!

00:55:58Oh!

00:55:59Oh!

00:56:00Oh!

00:56:01Oh!

00:56:02Oh!

00:56:03Oh, my God.

00:56:33Oh, my God.

00:56:51Hello.

00:56:53And you must be Nicola.

00:56:57Go on.

00:56:59Go on, then.

00:57:03Sit down.

00:57:11Go on.

00:57:13Sit down.

00:57:15I was washing blackberries.

00:57:17I was going to make a pie, but the time ran out.

00:57:21But never mind.

00:57:23Next time, eh?

00:57:25Drink.

00:57:27I was forgetting something.

00:57:29They'll want something to drink.

00:57:37Come on now.

00:57:39Eat up.

00:57:41Everything's got to be eaten, Nicola.

00:57:43Oh.

00:57:45I almost forgot.

00:57:49I almost forgot.

00:57:51Come on.

00:57:55Gemma says he hasn't turned up at my place.

00:57:57Aren't you people specially trained to stop this kind of thing happening?

00:58:01We're emergency foster parents.

00:58:03We look after other people's children at a moment's notice.

00:58:07Troubled children.

00:58:09We're not prison guards.

00:58:11We can't lock them up for 24 hours a day.

00:58:13What if a child's determined to run off?

00:58:15In Leithwood.

00:58:17It's been there before.

00:58:18It's where their father used to take them.

00:58:20They'll come home when they're hungry.

00:58:23Children always do.

00:58:25Nicola, you haven't had one of these.

00:58:29I'm full up.

00:58:30Nonsense.

00:58:31You can't be full up.

00:58:33I've made all this food.

00:58:35Everything's got to be eaten.

00:58:40We're going to have to be going soon.

00:58:43You can't go.

00:58:45Not till everything's eaten.

00:58:51Where's your husband?

00:58:52Well, he left us long ago.

00:58:55Why?

00:58:57Why?

00:58:59Because he died.

00:59:02He got this place for us so he could get out of the city.

00:59:06I was very young and attractive in those days.

00:59:10Would you like to see me?

00:59:12He made an honest woman of me.

00:59:24He was a baker.

00:59:26Topped me everything.

00:59:28Can I use your toilet?

00:59:30Yes.

00:59:31Top of the stairs straight ahead.

00:59:33Simon tells me that you like stories.

00:59:43What's your favourite?

00:59:44Hansel and Gretel.

00:59:46Hansel and Gretel?

00:59:48Well, the next time you come,

00:59:51I'll make a real gingerbread house.

00:59:53Would you like that?

00:59:55And there'll be a real witch.

00:59:57And a real Hansel and Gretel.

00:59:59Go on!

01:00:13Go on!

01:00:15Get out of here!

01:00:23Come on, Nicola, quick.

01:00:25What's that?

01:00:27Got to go home now.

01:00:28Sorry.

01:00:29Come back.

01:00:30Both of you.

01:00:31Of course.

01:00:33You promise?

01:00:54Up ahead on the left.

01:01:05Have you any idea the trouble you caused people?

01:01:08I did see it.

01:01:09Hanging in the bathroom.

01:01:10It was the same Kate.

01:01:12And why would an old woman want to kill your father?

01:01:14I don't know.

01:01:15You ran to Michael with the idea that it was Mr Brockwell that was the person.

01:01:18It was a mistake.

01:01:19Simon, the next time you want to go and visit this lady, just tell us where you're going.

01:01:25That's all we ask.

01:01:27Simon, remember I told you about being a detective?

01:01:30I said imagination.

01:01:32But not too much.

01:01:33She's mad.

01:01:35She made us all this food and expected us to eat it.

01:01:38Maybe she's just lonely.

01:01:40Maybe she's a witch.

01:01:41Simon.

01:01:43There are no witches.

01:01:45Magic.

01:01:46Oh yes.

01:01:48But no witches.

01:01:50What put us under the track of the bowman, of course, was his contact lens.

01:01:55You may not know this, but an optician can look at a contact lens the way the dentist can look at a felling and say,

01:02:00that's one of mine.

01:02:02So, who found the contact lens?

01:02:04One of his victims.

01:02:05She put it in her eye thinking it was one of her own.

01:02:08But I, of course, realized its significance.

01:02:10Yes, Jim.

01:02:13Oh, wait, sir.

01:02:17That's what good detective work is all about.

01:02:19Intuition.

01:02:26He's in there, taking a credit for one of my cases, putting himself in the centre of it.

01:02:31Sorry, sir.

01:02:32What do you tell Mrs Innocis?

01:02:34She has a wife of Frank in us, one of the missing persons.

01:02:37He says it was his case and he solved it.

01:02:39Just about takes the biscuit, so.

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