- 5 months ago
First broadcast 7th June 1997.
A research scientist of primates is found dead, stabbed in the back with a Samurai sword, inside of a locked room.
Charles Kay - Elliot Strange
Annette Crosbie - Ingrid Strange
Sara Markland - Cathy Strange
Simon Day - Jordan Strange
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Selina Cadell - D.I. Masterson
Barnaby Kay - D.C. Spelling
A research scientist of primates is found dead, stabbed in the back with a Samurai sword, inside of a locked room.
Charles Kay - Elliot Strange
Annette Crosbie - Ingrid Strange
Sara Markland - Cathy Strange
Simon Day - Jordan Strange
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Selina Cadell - D.I. Masterson
Barnaby Kay - D.C. Spelling
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00:00Satsang with Mooji
00:30Mooji
01:00Mooji
01:29Sampson!
01:40No!
01:42Come on, out with it.
01:44No, no, no, come on, spit.
01:45Good boy.
01:47Good boy!
01:50Thank you, Elliot.
01:51It's bad enough that he chews up half the newspapers.
01:54And anything that's left in my entry.
01:56He had an entire thesis on subdual hematoma yesterday.
01:59Anyway, it's an application for Barclaycard, it's not carcinogenic.
02:03Let's not prejudge the research on that one.
02:06You're not going into the lab today, then?
02:07This afternoon, possibly.
02:10When I'm tired without this presentation.
02:12Well, just keep the door locked in future.
02:15Come on, Southampton, we're going.
02:17Come on, good boy.
02:19Come away, come in there.
02:21Good boy.
02:29Second audition.
02:54What did I tell you?
02:56It's all happening.
02:57Yes, you like that, don't you?
02:59But I haven't got a morning to sit scratching you.
03:01Jordan.
03:02What?
03:03Your wife has some good news.
03:06Yes, wonderful.
03:07The director and I were particularly impressed by your interpretation of the character as an intellectual vacuum.
03:18What's that mean?
03:20It means they liked the way you made her empty-headed.
03:24Right.
03:25Oh, right.
03:28Well, maybe if for the next interview I had my hair up.
03:32Young lady, I swear you're putting on weight.
03:35It's normal during pregnancy.
03:37Yes, I suppose.
03:39Pregnant?
03:40Why?
03:41What do you mean, why?
03:43She's a sexually mature adult.
03:45God knows we could do with a few around here.
03:47And soon, the joys of parenthood will be yours, won't they, Polly?
03:54And all I can say is good luck.
03:55Do we know who the father is?
03:58Kathy, there are only two mangabies in this house, and they only mate with members of their own species.
04:05Oh.
04:06You wouldn't copulate with a rangy-tang, would you?
04:08Don't even dignify that with an answer, please.
04:11Wish we'd never started this conversation.
04:13Good luck for the tour today?
04:37First screenings, not until 10.30.
04:39I've got an hour.
04:41Someone you may know, actually.
04:42Do you remember Dr Sally Creek, who was in practice with me in that grotty old porter cabin in Harlow in the early 70s?
04:48I thought she immigrated.
04:49She did.
04:50This is her son.
04:51I promise to give him a full M.O.T. every couple of years, make sure he's still ticking over.
04:55Well, doesn't he get embarrassed?
04:58Stripping off in front of an old friend of his mother's.
05:01Oh, yes.
05:06Last time I saw you, if I remember, you were panicking about the moles on your back.
05:11What's I?
05:12Probably.
05:16How have they been?
05:17Somebody been keeping an eye on them for you?
05:20Not lately.
05:22Oh, dear.
05:23Has it been as bad as that?
05:26Mouth wide open, tongue down.
05:30I thought with you moving in these glamorous show business circles, you'd make lots of young ladies.
05:35Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
05:38Certain type, I suppose.
05:40Oh.
05:40Must be difficult.
05:42Yeah, smashing.
05:43Onto the bed now.
05:44Underpants down.
05:45Lie back.
05:45Think of England.
05:46What was it your mother was telling me the last time I rang about you fathening out some complicated murder case or something?
06:01Cough.
06:04Yes.
06:05I've been getting a bit of a habit ever since I ran into this crime writer woman.
06:11Things seem to keep happening.
06:13Unattached?
06:15What is?
06:16This person.
06:18Of course, you always did have that inside-out way of looking at things, which makes you so good at what you do.
06:24That's lovely.
06:25On your side now.
06:25Knees up to your chin.
06:26So, you've still got all your monkeys?
06:35Yes.
06:36Fourteen and a fifteenth expected shortly.
06:39Plus our son and his wife.
06:42And they call it evolution.
06:44How's the baby gorilla?
06:47Not much of a baby these days.
06:49You should come round and see us.
06:51It's been a long time.
06:53That's all, champion.
06:54There's a tissue there if you need it.
06:57Thanks.
07:24Continuing, conclusions drawn on the mutated role of apriotoxins from the Aspergillus mold in the liver cells of turkeys.
07:48Oh, my God.
08:00Oh, my God.
08:02No.
08:02No.
08:05No.
08:06No.
08:07No!
08:08No!
08:09No!
08:10No!
08:11No!
08:13No!
08:15No!
08:16No!
08:17Help me!
08:20Help me!
08:21No!
08:22No!
08:23No!
08:23No!
08:24No!
08:25No!
08:26No!
08:27No!
08:28No!
08:29No!
08:30Ahh!
08:31Yes!
08:32No!
08:33Ah!
08:34Ah!
08:35Hi.
08:36Anyone home?
08:45Well, anywhere will do.
08:47That'll be fine.
08:48Thanks.
08:48I'll do the two ticks.
08:58Elliot, do you have any change?
09:00I've got nothing smaller than a 50 for the taxi driver.
09:05Elliot?
09:06Elliot?
09:13Elliot?
09:36Elliot?
09:37Elliot?
09:37Elliot?
09:38Elliot?
09:39Elliot?
09:40Elliot?
09:41Mother?
09:42Mother?
09:45Mother?
09:45Mother?
09:46Mother?
09:46Mother?
09:47Mother?
09:48Mother?
09:49Whoo?
09:501.05, and that's coming up to three minutes now.
10:13You know, I don't think that's bad.
10:15When you think that I came up here at a fair old lecture, Sam.
10:18What is that?
10:20Pulse meter.
10:22Flip it to your ear.
10:24Messures your heart rate.
10:26She said everything else was fine, but my aerobic capacity is a little low,
10:29and I need more exercise.
10:32If you're coming up eight flights to stay, I shouldn't really knacker you, shall I?
10:34Knackers me?
10:36Yeah, well, you'd expect to...
10:39I mean you're a lot more.
10:43Yeah?
10:43You fancy a quick walk before lunch?
10:49The key is still in there, and the door is solid as a rock.
11:12How long will it take to cut through that grill on the window?
11:16No.
11:17I don't know.
11:18I don't know.
11:18I mean you're a lot of money, but I want to know.
11:19I want to know.
11:20I don't know.
11:21I don't know.
11:21I don't know.
11:21I don't know.
11:22I don't know.
12:22Thank you so much for waiting for me.
12:35I really appreciate it.
12:38Is there any luck you can't pick your way in through?
12:41A little walk before lunch?
12:45What the hell did you want to go all the way up that hill for?
12:48I said, are you on for a brief stroll to the top, and you said, I'll drink to that.
12:56I said bollocks to that, which you'd have heard if you hadn't gone striding off like a lunatic in a walking race.
13:02If I have to keep stopping for you to catch up, it's not continuous.
13:08Your regular exercise has no beneficial effect.
13:11Oh, shut up.
13:13What?
13:21No.
13:22Jessie, you know when you leave a beetroot in the larder too long and it goes all sweaty?
13:25Don't push it, Jonathan.
13:30Sorry.
13:38Jonathan, great.
13:40Ingrid, hi.
13:41How are you...
13:42My God.
13:48What?
13:54How did...
13:55Mrs. Strange, have you any idea why your husband would have locked the door to his study in the first place?
14:05This particular ape, you may have noticed we have quite a menagerie here, has a taste for paper.
14:13Just closing the door won't keep him out.
14:16I imagine that's why he locked it, to protect his work.
14:19And this suit of armour, or whatever it is in there, the sword was part of that?
14:26It's an authentic 12th century samurai battle dress.
14:31He picked it up eight years ago, on a lecture tour of the Far East, during his anthropological phase.
14:42Can I ask you not to sit like that?
14:44He's reading it as a display of sexual dominance.
14:52Your husband enjoyed quite a high profile in the field of medical research.
14:57Well, I don't know if I enjoyed.
14:59There are some very short-term questions.
15:01He'd cited people in our society, Inspector, who put the welfare of a laboratory mouse above a treatment for tumours.
15:09Because he believed in what he was doing, and said so, he was not a very popular figure with the so-called animal rights fraternity.
15:18It appears he was speaking into this dictaphone when the attack took place, just seconds before he returned through the front door.
15:26May I?
15:26May I?
15:27May I?
15:27No, no, no, no, no.
15:28Hello?
15:32Hello?
15:49Ah!
15:50Ah!
15:51Elliot, do you have any chains?
15:54I've got nothing smaller than a gift
15:54you're going to have to drop.
15:57Well, we do seem to have a problem here, Mrs. Strange,
16:05with the door still locked from the inside, as it was.
16:10The fact that no one could have left the room anyway
16:13without you or the taxi driver seeing them,
16:16and as we seem now to have eliminated any panels or openings in the walls...
16:24Inspector, the evidence is there.
16:27Someone was in his study and stabbed him to death.
16:30Don't ask me how, don't ask me who.
16:33And don't tell me the whole thing is impossible.
16:35I know it's impossible.
16:39You're the detectives. You tell me how it was done.
16:43Because if you can't,
16:46maybe there's someone else who can.
16:54They've been right the way round.
17:01Every corner, every crevice.
17:06The cupboard's a chock full of rubbish.
17:09The chimney's been blocked off.
17:11A rat couldn't get through.
17:12There are four walls of solid brick behind all this.
17:24And there was no-one else here, anywhere in the building?
17:29Jordan was in the garden.
17:31Cathy had gone shopping.
17:33I wasn't working today.
17:34I just went to the clinic to get some files.
17:36Do you know what I really don't understand?
17:41It's how the hell I'm coping.
17:44It's as if I've been given a painkilling injection.
17:47Everything is numb.
17:51Whoever did this...
17:53Well, we're all wondering how they could have got out of the room,
17:55but how did they get in here in the first place?
17:57The window was barred.
17:59The walls are all solid.
18:00Unless, of course,
18:04they were in here already
18:06when he went to lock the door.
18:11So he couldn't see them.
18:30The police had the same idea.
18:34They took the whole thing to bits
18:35and then put it together again.
18:38Not very successfully.
19:09Pretty hefty gash here, in the desk.
19:22Where the killer went for him, probably. He dodged out the way.
19:26Hmm. The body was over there.
19:30Put this blood on the desk as well.
19:33They're all struggle between the pair of them by the look of it.
19:35But these books would have come from that top shelf.
19:44Look as if they've been used as missiles or something.
19:47Like they've been thrown across the room.
19:51And why?
19:53Out of all this lot,
19:56why pick three books from a shelf he could have hardly reached?
20:01Unless he didn't.
20:03And they flew across the room on their own.
20:05Can I say two words here, if anyone's listening?
20:21Amityville Horror.
20:23Why don't you go and see to Cathy?
20:25That sedative will be wearing off now.
20:28You know I'm right.
20:30You just can't face the truth.
20:31You see why I need someone else here.
20:43Someone from the planet Earth.
20:48Night seems to have stolen up on us.
20:51You'll stay over, won't you?
20:53Both of you.
20:54It feels like we're teetering on the edge of reality.
21:04I really don't want to fall off.
21:07Oh, sorry.
21:17Um, I...
21:19didn't realise.
21:21It's just...
21:29Oh, my God.
21:59It's almost human.
22:08He's not so clever.
22:09I thought for a gorilla that was quite impressive.
22:13Would you go to the lavatory and eat the toilet roll?
22:16What sort is it? Andrax?
22:19Probably not, no.
22:26Actually, Jordan, I was just about to go in there.
22:29Not just yet, Jonathan. Come with me.
22:42Amazing things.
22:45Have you had them?
22:47Ninety years since my first Capuchin.
22:50I find their social behaviour totally compulsive.
22:57And the animals your husband used in his research?
23:02We're kept at the Institute.
23:06They didn't include the higher primates.
23:11Whatever the truth is,
23:14of what happened in that room,
23:17Jonathan will fathom it.
23:20He's got, like,
23:22this incredible way of juggling things in his mind.
23:27I'm glad he's found someone, finally.
23:32God knows it's taken him long enough.
23:35It's not like that, actually.
23:37Jonathan and I are more just...
23:41Why?
23:43What's he been saying?
23:46Oh, he doesn't need to say anything.
23:47It's there in his body language.
23:50In what way?
23:54When we're sexually attracted to someone,
23:56our whole posture changes.
23:58Barrier signals are dropped.
24:00We leave our mouths open for longer.
24:02We moisten our lips more.
24:04Well, if you study his eyes,
24:06you'll see his pupils dilate when he looks at you.
24:09It's an involuntary gesture.
24:10He won't be aware it's happening.
24:15Jonathan?
24:15It's doing all that.
24:21And I never noticed.
24:23This is my line of business, Jonathan.
24:26Orthopaedic office systems.
24:28If you want a state-of-the-art power-assisted swivel
24:30with dedicated desk control,
24:32this is the one.
24:33You've got your variable height and tilt.
24:38Individual foot support and lift.
24:44Yeah.
24:45Reminds me of the gynecology ride at Disneyland.
24:50Okay.
24:52Relax.
24:53I didn't bring you in here to show you a chair.
24:57Of course not.
24:58You and I, Jonathan,
24:59we're the same.
25:01We grew up with science all around us.
25:03But we also know there's something else out there.
25:06Science can't even get near.
25:10The Shining.
25:11Did you ever see that film?
25:13I'm afraid I did, yeah.
25:15Well, I'll tell you something weird about it.
25:18The initials, SK.
25:20Stanley Kubrick, right?
25:21Who directed it?
25:22Stephen King, who wrote the book.
25:25And South Kensington, where I went to see it.
25:28Well, the whole thing only struck me about a year ago.
25:35I kept thinking to myself, SK, why?
25:39And that night, do you know what I'd discover?
25:42The film is being shown on Sky Television.
25:46S-K-Y.
25:50Can you explain it, Jonathan?
25:51No-one can explain that.
25:55Can I go to the toilet now?
25:56In that film, the Overlook Hotel is built on the site of an ancient Cherokee burial ground,
26:03which leads to a whole string of unexplained horrific deaths.
26:08And I think that's what's happening here, in this house.
26:11I'm not sure the Cherokee's ever got as far as Amersham, actually, Jordan.
26:17But if I were to tell you that our Sega house was built on an unconsecrated soil,
26:22where murderers and witches were laid to rest in the 17th century,
26:26you'd begin to see.
26:27I'm sorry.
26:43How can you eat?
26:57I've got no appetite.
27:04Why isn't someone doing something?
27:07Instead of just sitting here, I mean, he's dead, and we're just...
27:10sitting here.
27:14For God's sake, Elliot's been murdered!
27:17And what have they said?
27:19I can't believe this.
27:22One policeman.
27:24How's he going to find the killer standing out there?
27:27Oh, you watch him!
27:29All he does is wander about by the gate.
27:31What's he think?
27:31The killer's going to walk past?
27:32I mean, it's a joke!
27:35Cathy, that's just a duty constable,
27:37posted there to keep away reporters and sightseers.
27:40The CID are carrying out a thorough investigation,
27:44I promise you.
27:49Well, what have we got?
27:52Some books that fell off a top shelf.
27:54A suit of armour that was completely empty.
27:56It doesn't exactly shout at you.
28:02I don't know.
28:04How it was done is a puzzle.
28:07But what really stumps me is why.
28:09If, even for the sake of argument, your husband killed himself
28:14and wanted to make it look like murder,
28:17he's not going to do it in a hermetically sealed room.
28:21Completely defeats the object.
28:23Equally, if whoever killed him wanted to make it look like suicide,
28:26somehow rigged up the locked room,
28:28why stab him in the back?
28:31And why leave that dictaphone behind?
28:34Which he must have known proved he'd been attacked.
28:36Well...
28:44Early night, I think. Sleep on it.
28:47Might just get the rest of those books down tomorrow,
28:49do a final check on the shelves.
28:54For now, say goodnight.
28:55Yes.
28:57Good night.
28:59Night.
29:29I know exactly what you're thinking.
29:49The sword came out of the wall.
29:52On some sort of mechanism.
29:55Probably from behind those books on the top shelf.
29:57Shot across the room, somehow, and got him in the back.
30:03Surely the sword was on the soup farmer.
30:05And, just wait a sec.
30:07The person he was shouting at was on the phone.
30:10They weren't in the room at all.
30:11They were on the phone.
30:13Making some sort of terrible threats.
30:15Which means it could have been any one of the three of them.
30:19His wife or one of those other two, dumb and dumber.
30:22But if he was on the phone when the sword hit him, how come the receiver had been replaced?
30:25Plus, I'll tell you something else.
30:28I think Elliot Strange was having an affair with his daughter-in-law.
30:32Based on what?
30:34I just got a strong feel.
30:36There was more to all those tears tonight.
30:38You can see our own marriage has gone to the pictures.
30:40All that guff from him about paranormal forces.
30:44There's definitely something going on in this house, under the surface, we're not seeing.
30:52It's a problem and a half.
30:58Shall I get in?
31:02If you want.
31:02I don't.
31:10Or what about this?
31:27One of the animals did it.
31:29One of the little ones.
31:32Could have been hidden inside a cupboard or something that was too small for a person.
31:37And stabbed him in the back.
31:39Right.
31:43I see your reasoning.
31:45But you think it sucks.
31:46Why?
31:48It's just that image, isn't it?
31:49The organ grinder's monkey coming at you with a sword.
31:53Would you really scream for mercy?
31:55Or put some money in its tin.
31:58The thing I can't get my head round.
32:00If the sword missed him, when he caught the edge of the desk,
32:05why was there blood there?
32:09I just can't work out where it's all leading.
32:11We're in bed together, Jonathan.
32:18Where's that leading?
32:19Why is it, do you suppose?
32:37You keep on seeing me.
32:40Sans l'or.
32:41The reason is, because you're deeply attracted to me.
32:50Emotionally and sexually.
32:54Ingrid explained it all.
32:56Your body gives off all sorts of signals you don't even know about.
33:01And why do you keep seeing me?
33:15I just want you.
33:18For your brain.
33:20What's this?
33:42Sorry?
33:43This thing that measures your pulse.
33:50What did you think about this on for?
33:52In bed?
33:53I...
33:54I...
33:55I just...
33:55Oh, you bastard.
33:59What?
34:01Is that what you were going to do?
34:03Keep a check on your heart rate while we were having sex?
34:06I just have to be careful I don't overload it, that's all.
34:08Overload it?
34:12Whatever you do, don't make love to me with that heavy goods licence.
34:15How dare you assume
34:17that I was going to walk in here
34:20and just get into bed with you?
34:23But you did.
34:24That is irrelevant.
34:25You have no right to assume it.
34:27I wouldn't sleep with you, Jonathan,
34:34if my life depended on it.
34:37I can't imagine whatever made you think I would.
34:41It was Ingrid.
34:45She told me the same as she told you,
34:48that your body language showed you were interested.
34:51Well, that just shows you what a hollow farce it all is then, doesn't it?
34:55So you can just bugger off right now
34:58and let me get some sleep.
34:59But this is my room.
35:01And I'm not in the mood for any more smart-arse logic.
35:04Just go.
35:18Gone up to 125 now.
35:20Get out!
35:25Gone up to 125 now.
35:26Gone up to 125 now.
35:27Gone up to 125 now.
35:28Gone up to 125 now.
35:29Gone up to 125 now.
35:30Gone up to 125 now.
35:31Gone up to 125 now.
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35:50Gone up to 125 now.
35:51Gone up to 125 now.
35:52Oh, my God.
36:22What happened to me?
36:28Get up.
36:34What happened?
36:36I just went...
36:38I don't know.
36:40What?
36:41Apeshit.
36:42Where?
36:43Don't try to move anything.
36:45It's okay, you know.
36:47I just took a tumble.
36:49It just came at me.
36:51Who, Miss Lucky was...
36:54Possessed?
37:21Could you go, Miss Back?
37:26Should I move?
37:28What?
37:31It's all I'm going to do to work together.
37:33Someone in my head andcott,
37:36I respect every year.
37:38Look there!
37:39you invent conjuring tricks
37:58sorry
38:01is that what you're gonna do
38:03work out how this was done
38:06so we'll all be totally amazed
38:07but you're not gonna bring him back to life
38:14are you
38:14no Kathy
38:17we're not gonna do that
38:20that is weird
38:28weird as weird can be
38:30what is
38:32a footprint
38:34what
38:38there's another one here
38:41someone's been climbing up these shelves
38:46hello
39:07hello
39:07hello
39:08is that Kathy Strange
39:09er no
39:10it's Amisham Police
39:11she's up and about now
39:13if you want to talk to her
39:14Inspector Master
39:15will be there about half past ten
39:16half past
39:17could you let her know
39:18right
39:19yes I'll tell her
39:20bye
39:21where are you going
39:25gonna have a poker bite in her room
39:27give me a shout if she comes back in
39:29what
39:30will you
39:32go
39:32no
39:32no
39:36it's
39:38good
39:40okay
39:42it's
39:44it's
39:47amazing
41:22I'm not too sure she'd thank you for this.
41:36I'm damn sure she wouldn't.
41:37What's happening now?
41:44I think we'd better go downstairs.
41:50I never knew you'd kept a diary.
42:06There's a lot you don't know, Jordan.
42:09You want to reach it out?
42:12You're a journalist.
42:13I suppose you did shorthand.
42:19October 15th.
42:20At long last.
42:23He and I had fantastic socks.
42:25Imagine that's meant to say sex.
42:28It does say sex.
42:29It actually says socks, but we won't quibble.
42:32Oh, really?
42:36I did two years at secretarial.
42:38I think I know the difference between sex and socks.
42:41I would...
42:42Afterwards, as we lay knackered next to each other...
42:48Naked, it says.
42:49I'm sorry.
42:49If we're being accurate, it says knackered.
42:51For naked, your outline would be completely different.
42:54No.
42:54He and I had sex.
42:55Why is this such a crime?
42:56The I doesn't stand for Ingrid, Jordan.
43:01Doesn't stand...
43:03You're making this up.
43:04I wish she was.
43:07What, you knew?
43:09How?
43:10I may be a wizened old bat in your eyes, Cathy.
43:12That doesn't mean I'm as blind as one.
43:15Some other time, I'll give you a lesson in subliminal bonding gestures.
43:20Oh, for God's sake.
43:22I'd seen it coming for months.
43:24I'd almost say he needed it to flush it out of his system.
43:29Afterwards, when he told me and all the guilt came out,
43:31he threw himself on my mercy.
43:33You're lying!
43:35Elliot would never tell...
43:36Cathy.
43:38You have the body of a woman
43:39and the brain of a sexually stunted newt.
43:54I can't get my head round this.
44:04On top of everything else...
44:05Jordan!
44:06My wife was sleeping with my father.
44:09Once, Jordan.
44:10Perfect tense.
44:12And can't you see that you were as responsible as she was?
44:15If you would only take your marriage
44:17by the scruff of the neck between you and make it work...
44:19How did this happen?
44:21Where did it happen?
44:23Not in this house.
44:24In this very house.
44:25Where?
44:25Can't you guess?
44:27No way, Cathy.
44:28You didn't.
44:29Oh, for God's sake.
44:30Does it matter?
44:31Not in the swivel chair.
44:34We set it to maximum tilt.
44:36The hydraulics were wonderful.
44:38With my father.
44:40In my chair.
44:42How could you do that to me?
44:44Oh, right!
44:46Then how do you think I felt?
44:47Losing my husband to a bloody monkey!
44:49Oh, monkey.
45:08The fingerprints on the sword have now been identified.
45:25Right.
45:26They all belonged to your husband.
45:29Well, if he picked it up off the floor the other morning,
45:31that's hardly surprising.
45:33Is that all?
45:34The circumstances here are unusual, to say the least.
45:39You can't expect a solution to just suddenly fall out of the sky.
45:43Mrs Strange, according to your statement,
45:45you went to the town yesterday to buy some clothes.
45:47If you wouldn't mind telling us which stores exactly you visited...
45:51Well, I didn't kill him.
45:53For God's sake!
45:55I wasn't even here!
45:56As you say, which is why, if you could let us know exactly where you were...
46:00Oh, God, do you think I could have killed him?
46:03No-one's accusing you of anything at this stage.
46:05At this stage, but you will!
46:06If I can't make account for my movement...
46:08Cathy, this is just a matter of elimination.
46:11She's very emotional.
46:12I'd say that if you've got a moment...
46:13Oscar!
46:14Or him, if you're looking for a reason.
46:15They had every reason, both of them.
46:17I wouldn't put it past them, either.
46:19You see all the irrational hysteria coming out?
46:20Where have we all seen that before?
46:23Two words.
46:24Fatal attraction.
46:25Am I right?
46:25If I could just butt in for a moment...
46:27Your statement will simply be compared with everyone else's.
46:29Oh, right.
46:30It's not as if I'm the one that's on trial here or anything...
46:32...because you can't even take my word for it.
46:34If you've got nothing better to do with your time...
46:36...that's not insinuating that I...
46:37I know who murdered him!
46:39If anyone's interested.
46:48A set of footprints on the shelves.
46:51What was that all about?
46:53Someone had climbed up this bookcase...
46:55...when there's a perfectly good set of steps over there...
46:58...taken three books from the top shelf...
47:00...held them across the room.
47:02Does that make sense to anybody?
47:06Then I realised that was the whole point.
47:09It doesn't have to make sense.
47:14Well!
47:16That was most illuminating, Mr. Krieg.
47:18Now, if we could just get back to our questioning...
47:21I think there may be more.
47:25There was no sense either in that gorilla suddenly going off its rocker...
47:29...leaping headfirst off the balcony...
47:32...when the day before it had been as nice as pie...
47:34...flushing the lavatory after it had been and everything.
47:36So what was there connected these two acts of total madness?
47:41About half an hour ago, in this room...
47:46...I found it.
47:54Book of his.
47:57That he'd signed on the inside.
48:00All sealed up and ready to be sent off to someone called Teresa Tolling.
48:04Does that name mean anything to anyone?
48:08Apart from the fact it's an anagram of Elliot Strange, obviously.
48:12Which probably means there's no such person and no such address.
48:16An anagram made up by who?
48:18Exactly.
48:20From the fact it's been folded and this isn't his handwriting...
48:22...it's obviously a stamped address job that someone had sent him.
48:28The envelope for which was still down there in the bin.
48:33Huge fan of your work.
48:38If you'd kindly sign the enclosed and return it to me...
48:42...I'd be the envy of all my colleagues.
48:45Oh, my God.
48:51I think I'm beginning to see.
48:53You see it now.
48:56So, when Elliot...
48:58Exactly.
48:59And when Samson...
49:00They were both.
49:01Precisely.
49:01Yes, thank you.
49:03If you have got something to tell us, will you, for God's sake, split it out?
49:07If they'd done that, they might still be alive.
49:11Split it...
49:11What?
49:12If you ask yourself, what did Doctor Strange do...
49:17...that Samson the gorilla also did?
49:20Looking at how chewed up and bitten into this is.
49:27They both tasted the gummed flap on this envelope.
49:32The second I realised, it frightened me to death.
49:35How easy it is for any lunatic to commit a long-distance murder.
49:39You don't need a letter bomb, just some pretext for them to lick a stamped-addressed envelope...
49:44...that you've sent them.
49:46You could put anything on the sticky bit.
49:49Poison.
49:51In this case, from the effect it had, both times...
49:55...I'd say a particular kind of poison, like some sort of bad acid.
49:59...something that was always going to kill him...
50:02...that was going to turn his brain inside out along the way.
50:08You're saying some animal rights activist could have put something on the flap of that envelope?
50:18Say they got hold of some dodgy stuff.
50:20It's fatal in the right dose.
50:22Excuse me, my father was found in a locked room with a sword in his back.
50:26How do we explain that?
50:31I've looked at it every which way.
50:38No-one else could have got into this study.
50:41And no-one could have got out.
50:42It may be that there's another sequence that could explain it to all.
50:47So far, I can only come up with one.
50:57Doctor Strange had locked the door to make sure he wasn't disturbed.
51:03First off, he deals with his morning mail.
51:09Signs the book someone sent him.
51:12He licks the flap to seal the envelope.
51:19Maybe it tastes a bit funny, but he's not going to read anything into that.
51:22He's not going to know he's just swallowed some lethal hallucinogenic drug.
51:27Only now, it's just a matter of time before he starts tripping out.
51:32Seeing things aren't there.
51:39Continuing.
51:40Conclusions on the mutative role of anti-toxins and espergyllis mold
51:46in the liver cells of Tate.
51:53Oh, my God.
51:57No!
51:57No!
51:58No!
52:00No!
52:01No!
52:18No!
52:19No!
52:20No!
52:20No!
52:21No!
52:22No!
52:23No!
52:23No!
52:24Why not?
52:26No!
52:26Tumbling off the shelves, onto that blade, had to be an accident.
52:38Something the killer no-one could have foreseen.
52:42The drug was the murder weapon.
52:45The sword, a rather horrible bonus.
52:53Elliot, do you have any change?
52:54I've got nothing smaller than a history for the taxi drug.
52:59Elliot!
53:03Something set that gorilla off.
53:06We all saw it.
53:08I just think it's too much of a coincidence otherwise.
53:11It has to be the envelope.
53:13Some point, later in the evening, it went back in the study, looking for a snack.
53:20I don't know if it's too much of a snack.
53:21I don't know if it's too much of a snack.
53:24So, if poor old Samson hadn't chewed his paper...
53:29Hang on.
53:30You said that's a made-up name.
53:33Are we ever going to trace the person that sent it?
53:35What was interesting about the address on the envelope the killer sent was the name of the street.
53:44Here, look.
53:47Polo Park Lane.
53:50When it should have been Paul Park.
53:53Polo instead of Paul.
53:55Two letters transposed like that suggest to me a typing error.
54:02Except it's been written by hand.
54:05Well, it could have been copied from something that had been mistyped in the first place.
54:08If someone wanted to kill a famous scientist...
54:12...and wanted to find out where he lived...
54:15...they'd...
54:17...write to his publishers?
54:19Who would simply forward it here?
54:22They'd never give out his address to the public.
54:24Any more than Elliot would when he wrote back.
54:27He knew how many cranks there were out there.
54:30As I discovered when I checked his files.
54:33So, what if they wrote to someone else in the house?
54:36Who wasn't so careful?
54:39Kathy Strange.
54:41Actress.
54:43Daughter-in-law of Elliot Strange.
54:46Would receive a fan letter.
54:47A letter sent on by her agent.
54:49From someone who knew she lived in the same house.
54:54She'd write back.
54:56A little thank you.
54:59Address at the top of the page.
55:02Except she mistypes...
55:03...Pool Park Lane as Polo Park Lane.
55:08And I'm afraid that's exactly what happened.
55:11On October 7th...
55:13...you wrote to Alistair Tyree.
55:15Of Nantwich in Cheshire.
55:18Al Sager House 17...
55:19...Poolo Park Lane.
55:23Could be an almighty coincidence.
55:27But...
55:28...his saliva checks out against that envelope.
55:31And you find he's a paid-up liberationist with known drug connections.
55:39You wouldn't be at all surprised.
55:41I wouldn't, actually.
55:43You're a cookie-sword.
55:44You're a cookie-sword.
55:45You're a cookie-sword.
55:52Within three days, forensic investigation confirmed 23-year-old Tyree, an unemployed graduate with previous convictions for violent radical activity and drug trafficking...
56:00...as the missing link in the strange case of Elliot Strange and the house of monkeys.
56:06And once again, the probing lateral brain of Jonathan Creek had pierced the veil of darkness, restoring reason to another seemingly impossible mystery.
56:15All right.
56:18I know it's cheesy and tacky and corny, but it also sells books, and it's going to get me in the shops.
56:26It's all right for you. You've got a secure income, but I need the dosh.
56:31It'd be different if I wasn't on my own.
56:33I've had someone else to support me and everything.
56:37You know, we came that close when we were at that house to doing it.
57:07And then I got all bitchy and blew up again.
57:19Sorry about that.
57:21It's all right.
57:22What do you mean?
57:25It's all right.
57:26You think I was bitchy?
57:29Is that what you were thinking? What an utter bitch?
57:31What is it with you?
57:33You can never say the right thing, can you? Never!
57:37I didn't mean...
57:39Can we start again?
57:41No.
57:44I'm right off the boil now.
57:46110 lying down. You've got to get some exercise.
58:11What are you doing?
58:12I'm running out of the boil now.
58:24I'm so sorry.
58:26I don't know.
58:27I'm so sorry.
58:29I don't know.
58:34It's only a bit of a laugh.
58:35I'm so sorry.
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