Jonathan Creek. S03 E02. The Eyes of Tiresias.

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First broadcast 4th December 1999.  When an old woman experiences dreams of the future, Jonathan must find out what is happening before her dreams of being attacked by a one-eyed man with a sword come to pass.  Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan Paul Blackthorne - Gino Rebecca Front - Heidi Peter Blake - Otto Danzigger Margery Mason - Audrey Panguitch Terrence Hardiman - Andre Masson Alexandra Hogg - Maid Diana Weston - Delia Masson James Gaddas - Craig Downey Stephen Frankham - Camera Operator Damien Goodwin - Josh Claire Malcomson - Becky Phillips Nick Hamilton - Detective Inspector Terry Bird - Security Officer

Transcript

00:00I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:30Well, I'm enjoying this night out in a Corby trouser press.

00:48There's no point in both of us getting crushed.

00:51You get the drinks.

00:52I'll try and grab some food.

01:00You don't get much, do you?

01:10Not lately.

01:12Sorry?

01:14Oh, no.

01:15I mean, it's Joe.

01:18Let me bring one plate up.

01:20Mm-hmm.

01:23Big mistake.

01:30Oh, God, sorry.

01:36Sorry.

01:37Don't worry, I'll pay for it.

01:38Here.

01:39It's OK.

01:39Oh, look at you.

01:40You're sobbing.

01:41It's gone everywhere.

01:41No, I hate the bloody things anyway.

01:43Please, just get it going.

01:44OK, honestly, it's no sweat.

01:45Honestly, it's no sweat.

01:46I'm telling you.

01:47I'm trying to give you my telephone number.

01:51Oh.

01:52Um.

01:53I'm joking.

01:55Come on, this is silly.

01:56I've locked up your suit.

01:57I'll pay for it.

01:58Can we get a top up here, please?

02:00Location manager.

02:02Sorry?

02:02What's that?

02:03Bribing people to let Channel 4 come round and make a film down their toilet.

02:07Ladies and gentlemen, we'll gather in this evening.

02:10Prepare to be amazed by the miraculous powers of Otto Danzig.

02:16Yay!

02:16Woo-hoo!

02:20Woo!

02:25Woo-hoo!

02:30Woo-hoo!

02:30Woo!

02:31Woo!

02:32Let's do it.

02:59Release the balls.

03:02In the bubble of relativity, where time curves back on itself, the future is revealed to

03:12those with the power to see.

03:16Molecules, particles colliding, a white ball with a number, a number eight.

03:24And first out is number eight.

03:26Is it a two and a five?

03:31Twenty-five.

03:32It's number twenty-five.

03:35Eleven.

03:36On a blue ball number eleven.

03:38It's number eleven.

03:41Fourth tonight is number three.

03:44The world has to park those cars in just 90 seconds to win a holiday in America.

03:48Fifth.

03:49It's number forty-six.

03:52Multi-talented, magnificent seven.

03:56Forty-seven.

03:58The bonus is number five.

04:01Look at the seven next to the third place live in the studio.

04:04The bonus is thirty.

04:05There you go.

04:28There you go. I wasn't like a talent like that. All six numbers. I mean, I'm sorry.

04:34Yes, but don't wait for him to be amazed. You'll be here all night.

04:38Sorry about that. I got distracted.

04:40Yeah, I noticed. Heidi, this is Maddie Magellan.

04:43Heidi, hi. So, has he told you what he does for a living yet?

04:47Chops women up into bits, basically, and then works out how to put them back together again.

04:51In his professional capacity as... How do you describe it? A kind of magic mechanic?

04:59What else? He's Capricorn. He's very tidy. He lives in a windmill, and he's so single, it's frightening.

05:07And if you ask him nicely, I'm sure he'll tell you exactly how that was done.

05:11The signal to the TV would have gone through some kind of relay.

05:22You only need a three or four second delay, just enough for an accomplice somewhere

05:26who's watching the picture live to feed the numbers through.

05:30The earpiece would probably be spotted, more likely to have done it through the mic.

05:34You could rig it up to receive some sort of pulse that he could feel through his fingertips.

05:38The guy then just transmits each number to him using a morse code or some other pre-array.

05:43And what if he didn't?

05:46Sorry?

05:47What if it wasn't a trick? He actually has the power to see into the future.

05:52Not everyone in life's a fraud, you know.

05:54There's documented evidence of people who can reach beyond this plane of existence,

05:59communicate on other levels we don't understand.

06:02Yeah, well, I walked past his dressing room earlier on,

06:05and his chest hair was hanging up in a sketchily bag.

06:09Do you think that's a big credibility problem?

06:11Well, OK, but it doesn't hurt to keep him more open.

06:15Look at a sec, did she say you lived in a windmill?

06:17Why did that, for heaven's sake?

06:19A place called Briar Hollow, West District.

06:22It's about 30 miles.

06:24It's about 30 miles north of Worthy.

06:27I said, isn't it weird?

06:55You come out to a party, you don't know who you're going to meet.

06:59Does that have a deal, then?

07:02Sorry?

07:03We'll say about...

07:04about 7 o'clock tomorrow.

07:08OK, great.

07:11Look, I have to go.

07:13I'm staying with my arms.

07:15I don't want to be late getting in.

07:19You still haven't...

07:21I don't want to get in,

07:35I don't want to be late getting in.

07:43Hey!

07:44Hey!

07:45Oh,пер innovating!

07:46Yeah!

07:47Yeah!

07:47They're not as weak as well.

07:48It's mean, it's too bad.

07:49I feel it in my room. I feel it in my door.

08:12I can't. I can't!

08:14Now go on, get out. Shoo! Go away!

08:19Now come back!

08:27Now clear off.

08:29Come round tomorrow for dinner.

08:32And I'll impress you with the size of my portions.

08:36Sweet dreams. Bye!

08:49Sorry. I thought you'd be tucked up and dead to the world by now.

08:57Oh, I did fall asleep, but I was having such a horrible dream.

09:03I was glad to wake up. How'd it go? Did you have a good time?

09:07Yeah, Chrissie couldn't make it in the end, so I went on my own.

09:10But yes, actually, as things turned out, it was rather productive.

09:16Now, I've just got a couple of calls to make before I turn.

09:20Auntie Audrey, what is it?

09:22Oh, no, no. It was just this dream.

09:26I'm not usually one for nightmares, but it was so vivid.

09:32It was so vivid.

09:33A man was being murdered.

09:35An elderly man, French he seemed to be, or a foreigner of some description.

09:41Someone had broken in through the window.

09:44Someone with a gun.

09:46And locked the door.

09:49And a man was about to be killed.

09:53And he was pleading for his life.

09:56And he just kept saying,

09:59Oh, dear.

10:01Oh, dear.

10:03Oh, dear.

10:06Yes, well.

10:09You'll lock up, won't you, before you come to bed?

10:12Don't worry.

10:14You get a good night's sleep.

10:17Hey.

10:19Pff!

10:20Pff!

10:21Une-muchin.

10:22Deuxième de bailly.

10:24C'est tout?

10:25Monsieur Masson?

10:26Oui.

10:27C'est bien, Yvette.

10:28Merci.

10:29Pff!

10:30Oui.

10:34Pff!

10:36Pas tout.

10:38Pas tout.

10:39Pas tout.

10:40Pas tout.

10:41Pas tout.

10:42Pas tout.

10:43Pas tout.

10:44Pas tout.

10:45Bon, pas tout.

10:46Pas tout.

10:47yes Greg he is yes how are you this morning missing you but that's bar for

11:00the course you know when this wretched lunch is through today I thought we

11:05might grab some time together I could book our favorite room at the post house

11:09we could order a pot of tea let it get cold yes of course oh by the way could

11:19you tell him I may not be there dead on 12 for this thing I have a client at 10

11:24is gonna be very hard to rush one second I'll ask Craig's saying he may be a

11:29little late for the meeting this morning is there any chance it could be put back

11:32to about the meeting will begin at 12 o'clock as I have instructed these are

11:37not complicated matters tell mr. Downey I will expect him to be punctual thank

11:43you I heard

12:07sorry Jim we're still getting a slight wobble

12:19I'm sorry about that we said seven I rang and rang and couldn't raise you I thought the best thing is

12:35to let him sleep while we quietly get on with things quietly get on with things

12:38I'm standing here in the middle of the D-day landings what the hell is going on

12:42come on you were fine about it last night when I said our own mill had just fallen

12:48through if I got straight on to the director and we did some rescheduling

12:50would tomorrow be okay to knock off a few exteriors when did you say that last night

12:56I said if you don't mind us going upstairs and humping our gear about you said no problem

13:01yes I obviously misheard sounds like you've made rather a pigs breakfast of this one Jonathan I may

13:09have to come round and wallow in your embarrassment what is it anyway some TV costume thing woman gets

13:17chucked by a lover and ends up leaping to her death of a windmill sale insides are all being done in a

13:23studio maybe shall be there'll be a way tonight by eight at the latest so if I came by about

13:29lunchtime hang on I think there's someone rather wonderful at my front door yes I could introduce

13:37you to the sound engineer it'll be your kind of guy about 12 then okay bye

13:41hey aren't you up bright and early two minutes I'm off to St Albans listen sorry we had to break

13:51things off last night before we got to know each other god I was in some state wasn't I listen I've

13:59been going through my seafood recipes for tonight how does a lobster grab you kind of like this

14:04stop

14:05stop

15:04Oh, I thought by now you'd all be so good.

15:07No, don't worry. It's all part of the power game.

15:10Lest we forget which one of us runs the company

15:12and which of us ranks somewhere below a species of pond life in the general order of...

15:18What are you...

15:20What kind of man this is?

15:23Are you insane?

15:27Sir?

15:27He's locked the door.

15:29Monsieur Masson?

15:29He's got the...

15:30No.

15:32You are mad.

15:35You would not dare.

15:38Oh, dear.

15:41Oh, dear.

15:43Oh, dear.

15:48That's not going to work.

15:49We're on the side.

15:50Oh, my...

16:00Oh, my...

16:01Oh, my...

16:32This is the most arse-achingly boring business I've ever sat through in my life.

16:41Is this what you invited me here to watch?

16:43No, this is what you invited yourself here to watch.

16:47What are they doing?

16:49Waiting for a scaf tag.

16:51A what?

16:52A safety tag to verify the scaffolding has been properly constructed and checked over as secure.

16:57The guys who put it up evidently forgot.

17:01Now they're halfway to another job in Swindon.

17:04Without a scaf tag, apparently, no-one's allowed on the platform so they can't film anything.

17:08So where's the costume, Van?

17:10Don't I get to see Colin Firth in his underpants?

17:16Madeline McGillum?

17:17Guess who?

17:20That's a tough one.

17:22Field Marshal Montgomery?

17:25Of course we are, you mad individual.

17:27Still on for tonight.

17:29What, you think I've had second thoughts already?

17:32Eight o'clock.

17:33And I should warn you, I'm very strict on punctuality.

17:35I most certainly will.

17:40You too.

17:42Bye.

17:44Very good feeling about this young chappy.

17:48It's so perfect.

17:50You almost wonder what the catch is.

17:53The attack on Swiss-born media tycoon Mr Masson took place at around 12.30 in the study of his financial Surrey home.

18:00Within earshot, his wife and senior business colleagues who were in the next room.

18:06There was a crash of glass.

18:10And we heard him crying out to whoever it was who'd broken in and locked the door.

18:17And his last words before the gun.

18:23Oh, dear.

18:25Oh, dear.

18:28Oh, dear.

18:30Yeah, I don't know what to say, actually.

18:37Um, maybe we'll talk about this tonight?

18:41Yeah.

18:42Right.

18:42Bye.

18:46Wow.

18:48Make it what you will of that.

18:51At prepare our conversation yesterday, what's your position on the predictive power of dreams?

18:57Go on.

18:58Do you know that Swiss millionaire advertising guy, Andre Masson, been in the news a lot?

19:04Something to do with...

19:05Business irregularities with offshore investments.

19:07Or something.

19:08Just over an hour ago, someone broke into his study, shot him in the chest.

19:12Last night, when I got back from the party, Aunty Audrey had just had this dream about an elderly Frenchman being murdered.

19:21I mean, it's unbelievable.

19:23Well, she foresaw every detail.

19:25The fact that the killer broke in through the window, locked the door.

19:29And even, which I think is really spooky, in the dream, she said, the man was shouting, oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

19:38Masson, before he was murdered, shouted, oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

19:44Try telling me that's a conjuring trick.

19:50I don't think so.

19:54How could it be?

19:56There's too much of it that matches up to be a coincidence.

20:00Anyway, I think that's Heidi coming.

20:03Yes, I will.

20:05Yeah, all right, all right, yes.

20:07Bye.

20:09Aunty Vera, what's she make of it all?

20:11Oh, what does she make of anything?

20:13She doesn't know how a pedal bin works.

20:16How'd it go today?

20:18Yeah, the usual snail's pace.

20:20We'll be back there again tomorrow.

20:21Look, are you okay?

20:22Well, of course I'm not okay.

20:25Twelve hours before a man's murdered, I see the whole thing happen in a dream.

20:30A man I don't know, never even heard of.

20:32It's almost like some...

20:38And then I had another one this afternoon.

20:42There, when I dropped off in that chair.

20:45Look, Aunty Audrey...

20:46This time I wrote it all down, so we have a record.

20:50It was another death.

20:56Someone was being killed.

20:58It was a little more confused this time,

21:01and I remember there was a creature with wings

21:07and the initials R-P were in there somewhere.

21:17That's all I could remember after I woke up.

21:19You'll excuse me, I think I'll go and have a spoonful of brandy.

21:30Has this thing meant to flush?

21:32The knob broke off.

21:34You have to put your hand inside and pull the little twisty bit.

21:37How do you manage to snap the handle off a lavatory system?

21:52Oh, I know.

21:53You'd be amazed at the strength I've got in this hand.

21:56Hmm.

22:01Oh, God, it's all go here tonight.

22:03Field Marshal Montgomery reporting for active service.

22:12Listen, 20 minutes late.

22:14I'm sorry.

22:15You're going to shoot me for desertion.

22:18Oh, wow.

22:19Lobster.

22:20I'm impressed.

22:22Come here.

22:23I haven't forgiven you for throwing me out of that taxi last night.

22:42Um.

22:44Yes.

22:45Sorry.

22:46Things seem to have gone slightly awry here.

22:50So, somehow...

22:53What was that phrase?

22:54A pig's breakfast?

22:56No, you've got to admit that's a classic.

22:57To go to a party and get off with two different blokes

22:59and think they're the same person.

23:01I know you were pissed, but that's ridiculous.

23:03So this first bloke you reckon had gone home early with a migraine

23:05and you come back from the loo and can't even remember what he looks like?

23:09Anyway, can we just put this behind us, please?

23:13How you fixed for Auntie Audrey's this morning?

23:16Or is this one too baffling even for your wizardly brain?

23:20If it actually happened, I wouldn't put it past her to say all that just to wind me up.

23:25Going again! Someone was talking!

23:27Can we keep the rabbit down in that room up there, please?

23:30Shh!

23:31Shh!

23:31Woof!

23:32Let's go.

24:02Let's go.

24:32Let's go.

24:38Maybe you'd heard of this man, Masson.

24:40His face has been in the papers a lot lately.

24:43To do with, what is it, money going missing in his company somewhere.

24:47Maybe you had an inkling someone might take a pop at him.

24:50That won't wash.

24:52How could I know about the window being broken or the door being locked?

24:56And the words, oh dear, is as near to oh dear as makes no odds.

25:02How could I predict a man's last words, a man I didn't know from Adam?

25:07Do you read a lot of Greek mythology, Mrs Panguitch?

25:10Greek and Roman, yes.

25:12The one closely parallels the other, if you know anything about the subject.

25:16Yes, I read.

25:17I listen to music.

25:19I watch very little television.

25:20Saturday night, it was that ghastly lottery show on, so I just switched it off and settled

25:27down for the night in this chair with Tiresias.

25:31Tiresias is...

25:32A blind soothsayer from Thebes who was given the gift of prophecy by the goddess Athena,

25:38if memory serves.

25:39Actually, he's my goldfish.

25:41Named after the soothsayer from Thebes.

25:44It depends, I suppose, if you buy into the idea of predestination.

25:49Like, if everything's been preordained by fate, is it already out there somewhere in the ether,

25:54sending signals back?

25:56I don't know, we can pick up sometimes in our dreams.

25:58And you buy your fish food in the market?

26:03I beg your pardon?

26:05Bob and Rita's.

26:07Stall 25 for all your pet supplies.

26:10Oh, yes.

26:11I do a good deal of my shopping there on a Saturday morning.

26:14Fruit and vegetables for the week.

26:16Plus any other odds and things.

26:19Oh, excuse me.

26:23Audrey Panguitch?

26:24There'll be some weird reasoning behind it.

26:26Best not to ask.

26:26Hello, Gordon.

26:27Right.

26:29I don't know, they're interesting places, markets.

26:31You never can tell sometimes where they're going to take...

26:33No.

26:35When did...

26:36Oh, dear God.

26:43Yes, all right.

26:55Gordon, our postman.

26:56I told him about all this this morning and then, you know how you witter on, I started to tell him about...

27:07The second dream.

27:08Becky Phillips at the manor house in Codlington was killed in a road accident a couple of hours ago.

27:21The number on her car was RP-13.

27:30And what else I wrote there?

27:31A creature with wings.

27:32A jaguar is a creature.

27:34A car has wings.

27:35I can't believe this is happening.

27:38I can't believe this is happening.

27:39Now, Mrs Panguitch, you've got to try not to let it upset you.

27:43Oh, yes.

27:44It wouldn't upset you, I suppose, to know you've foreseen your own death.

27:49Last night.

27:53The moment I woke up, I wrote it down.

27:58This time, a man coming up the stairs, a man knocked this with one eye and he came up to me in my bed with a sword.

28:11And then in the dream, there was blood. My blood everywhere.

28:17It was a nightmare. We all have them. It doesn't mean it's going to happen.

28:22Oh, really? Like the last two, you mean? Mr. Greek, I don't know what clever ideas you've come up with in the past.

28:31This time, you're out of your depth. You're dealing with forces you can't begin to understand.

28:38Now, please go. Go. Go. Go.

28:54Well, I don't know. The first bit was weird enough.

28:57Then you've got a car crash no one could possibly have foreseen.

29:01How's she doing here?

29:03Unless, I don't know, she somehow deliberately engineered both those deaths herself.

29:10It's deeper than that.

29:12At the moment, it's deeper than we can possibly see.

29:18I'm afraid we're going to need more information.

29:21So, what are we looking at now?

29:36Oh, erm...

29:38Another hour? Hour and a half? We've got our own lives to lead, you know.

29:42Well, very tricky to say, actually. Mrs. Masson?

29:48And how many more detectives are they going to send down here before they're finished?

29:51To try and put an innocent man behind bars?

29:54You've got nothing on Mr. Downey. Nothing that can possibly hold water.

29:58A contact lens that was found next to the gun. What does that prove?

30:01And as for these diary entries on my husband's computer...

30:06All right, so we'd found out. We were having an affair.

30:12And that was news to me.

30:14But all this rubbish about Craig threatening to kill him, I'm sorry.

30:18It's just a figment of somebody's warped imagination.

30:21Nevertheless, we will obviously need to have a further word with Mr. Craig about the...

30:26Downey?

30:28Craig. Downey. Who will be where exactly right now?

30:33At the company's London office all day.

30:36Oh, and incidentally, can something be done to stop all these reporters who keep finding their way into the house?

30:42There was another one yesterday afternoon turned up and started questioning members of the staff.

30:46Yes, absolutely. On to that now, Mrs. Masson. You may depend. Thanks for all your help. Bye!

30:51So hang on. He'd written about his wife's affair in a diary he kept on his computer.

31:00Which presumably wasn't password protected. Almost as if it was meant to be found.

31:06Here, go on. Oh, really? Even more interesting. Sorry?

31:16Not a great deal of progress today, no.

31:21No, she's not as it happened. She was taking her aunt to the doctors this m-

31:25Oh, no. Sorry. Something just popped in there suddenly.

31:31Look, if you can check out that woman in the car, and this bloke Downey, find out if he's had any burglaries lately.

31:41Meet me back here tonight. I've just had a fairly breathtaking thought.

32:11Keep up.

32:12I'm sorry, fired up!

32:14No, I don't know.

32:20Have a great deal of success, midday career!

32:26Come on.

32:28So, back to your gT candidate.

32:32Well, she's so popular-

32:34I've never been able to see.

32:37All right, all right, I was only for a quick word.

32:48I didn't want an audience with the Pope.

32:49Don't come back.

32:51Talk about the ruddy Gestapo.

32:53Look, we've been over this a hundred times.

33:10I'm not denying it was my contact lens.

33:13How it ended up beside his body, I do not know.

33:17What else can I say?

33:18It was one of several spares I kept at home.

33:20I can only presume it was taken in the burglary.

33:23I don't know.

33:24Burglary, Mr Downey.

33:27It's all on record.

33:29I reported it to the local station.

33:31Saturday morning, I arrived back from Geneva,

33:33found my flat had been turned over.

33:35Five grand's worth of gear, gone.

33:40Look, we're missing the point here, aren't we, surely?

33:43The whole suggestion, I could have shot him as absurd.

33:45I was in the next room when it happened.

33:47It would have been totally impossible for me to have killed him.

33:50So you say, Mr Downey.

33:53Unless, of course...

33:54Excuse me, sir.

33:56Apologies for interrupting.

33:58But I think we have an intruder on the premises.

34:05Come on!

34:10No, no, no!

34:11You bastards!

34:26You bastards!

34:44OK?

34:45Night-night.

34:46See you in the morning.

34:47Yes, of course.

34:47So, what have we got?

35:11A senior director was having it off with Boss's wife.

35:15Director's contact lens was found on carpet.

35:18And the flat was burgled while director was out of country.

35:21Yes.

35:21How did he manage that one?

35:23In a sec.

35:25What about the woman in the car?

35:26The unfortunate Becky Phillips.

35:30Her husband was quite helpful, surprisingly.

35:33The story there is she was on her way to the airport for a business trip to Antwerp.

35:37Apparently she had a serious phobia about flying, which he thinks could have caused a lapse in concentration

35:42and may have been why she went off the road.

35:45You know, I really thought I had it this afternoon.

35:48But then, the theory's all very well, but you've got to back it up with proof.

35:52I mean, a woman's had three very strange dreams, two of which have already come true.

35:58And in a third one, she's stabbed to death by a one-eyed man.

36:03I think I'd be scared titless in her shoes.

36:05She's had three dreams.

36:07Only one of them was strange.

36:08The key to this business is spotting which one.

36:11Clue?

36:13How much do you know about Greek mythology?

36:15Well, funnily enough, bugger all.

36:17I could never get behind that woman who had sex with a swan.

36:20Unlike the swan, of course.

36:22Where does that come in?

36:24To make any kind of sense out of this, we have to get inside a very perverse and utterly devious mind.

36:32You're kidding.

36:33You think all that dear little old lady thing was just an act?

36:36I'm not talking about her mind.

36:39I'm talking about the mind of Andre Masson.

36:42The guy who was killed?

36:46I'm sorry, Jonathan.

36:47Sometimes you could be talking in medieval Latin for all the sense it makes.

36:50It's like that stuff with...

36:52What was it again?

36:54Her buying her goldfish food at the market.

36:58Which I dare say to you had some highly profound significance...

37:00Goldfish bowl.

37:02Do you know that could be the one final possibility I overlooked?

37:05Get your coat.

37:06Good night.

37:15Good night.

37:21Good night.

37:33Yeah.

37:35Oh, my God.

38:05Oh, my God.

38:35Sorry, I know it's gone 11, but I'm not going to get any sleep tonight unless I check this out.

38:49What are you doing with that?

38:51What's going on here?

38:52Sit down, Mrs Pangwitch.

38:54I don't think we're going to be bothered by any one-eyed men with swords.

38:57And if you'll spare me a couple of minutes, I think we can lay this whole nightmare to rest.

39:01What are dreams, anyway?

39:15A marshalling yard for all the thoughts that have been swilling through your brain during the day.

39:20Great Freudian soup of symbols.

39:24The thing they're not, it's safe to say, is a window into events that haven't happened yet.

39:29Instead of lumping those three dreams together, we should have been trying to pick them apart to see which one didn't fit.

39:36For someone who's filling her head with myths and legends every night, the image of a one-eyed man is not hard to trace.

39:42Yes, Polyphemus, the cyclops from Homer's odyssey.

39:46And a creature with wings, how about a harpy?

39:52Initials RP.

39:56Suddenly those last two dreams don't seem that remarkable.

39:59Predicting the death of that poor girl in a road accident?

40:04I'd hardly call that unremarkable.

40:06Except the dream didn't predict anything, Mrs Pangwitch.

40:10The woman's already in a cold sweat about flying.

40:13The day she's about to go up, word gets round, via the local postman, about these dreams of yours.

40:19You've already predicted one person's death.

40:21Now it's not looking good for her.

40:24Death by a creature with wings.

40:26Obviously a plane.

40:27It's not looking good for someone whose initials are RP.

40:31Her initials.

40:33Rebecca Phillips.

40:35Her husband said she was out of her mind with worry.

40:40It was an accident waiting to happen.

40:42So the only real mystery then is this murder.

40:45And if we're looking for an explanation in this world, not out there with the fairies,

40:49we have to assume two things.

40:53Somehow the exact details of that shooting were predetermined.

40:56And somehow they managed to find their way into your dream.

41:00Once you read up on this bloke, Masson, you realise he was about to be nailed for a mega business fraud.

41:08Last ten years he'd been creaming off zillions into private bank accounts.

41:12We can assume he also wasn't wild about one of his senior directors, Mr Craig Downey, doing the dirty with his wife.

41:18Let's say he's given up the fight and decided to top himself.

41:24Only to make sure he dies with a smile on his face, he's going to make it look as if Downey murdered him.

41:31At some point, when no one's around to hear, he mocks up a recording of what sounds like someone breaking into his study with a gun.

41:47What kind of madness is this?

41:52Are you insane?

41:55He's locked the door!

41:58He's got a gun!

42:00No!

42:01You are mad!

42:04You would not dare!

42:07Oh dear!

42:09Oh dear!

42:12Oh dear!

42:13Downey's away on business.

42:27He plants the CD in his flat.

42:30Let's say he switches it for a Frank Sinatra in his record collection.

42:33At the same time, pocketing a contact lens, which he'll leave next to his body,

42:47there's evidence Downey was in the room.

42:52Everything's set.

42:53He's scheduled the lunch meeting so Downey and the others will be outside at the appointed hour.

42:59He's locked the door himself so no one can rush inside and see what was really happening

43:11when they heard all that noise.

43:13You are mad!

43:16You would not dare!

43:19Oh dear!

43:21Oh dear!

43:24Oh dear!

43:25Downey was outside with witnesses when they heard the gun.

43:33He's got to be in the clear.

43:34Or is he?

43:36Not only are the police going to find his contact lens by the body,

43:40Masson's also left behind some diary entries about Downey threatening to kill him.

43:45Probably invented.

43:47So sooner or later, they're going to tumble to the idea of a very clever time shift murder.

43:52They search his flat, find the CD, prosecution rests.

43:59It's your classic Columbo plot.

44:01Downey shot Masson earlier in the day, recorded it,

44:05and programmed the computer to play it back at half twelve,

44:09giving himself the perfect alibi.

44:13To say that is the most unlikely scenario I have ever heard.

44:17Downey's flat is exactly the point.

44:19No jury alive will believe it's a set-up.

44:22Downey's had it.

44:24And it would have worked.

44:26But for one glitch,

44:28Masson couldn't possibly have known about.

44:33Downey's flat is burgled.

44:36Along with all the usual stuff,

44:37TV, video, hi-fi,

44:39his CDs are taken.

44:41Of all the boggling connections here,

44:45there was one real stumper.

44:48The idea of pre-recording the murder,

44:51I could just about get to.

44:53But how did it get here,

44:55into the dream of a woman living 50 miles away?

45:00The fact that you shopped in a market

45:02had some distinct possibilities.

45:04It's not hard to imagine those stolen goods

45:09finding their way to the stall

45:10of some local back-of-a-lorry merchant.

45:13Yes, I love the...

45:14Back home that night,

45:17the new discs went in.

45:26By the time our soundtrack comes round,

45:29you've nodded off in your chair.

45:30What are you...

45:42What kind of madness is this?

45:43What are you going to think when you wake up?

45:45The whole thing was in your head.

45:48A rather unpleasant nightmare.

45:49No, you are mad.

45:53As a theory,

45:55it fitted like a glove.

45:57But it was still just a theory.

46:00It's still just a theory.

46:02I'm not just a theory.

46:03I'm not just a theory.

46:08This morning,

46:09when I'm afraid I took the liberty

46:11of checking it out,

46:12no luck.

46:20I found an empty box,

46:22but no computer disk for love nor money.

46:25No, it's gone 11, my...

46:26Till it struck me.

46:27There was one place it could have slid out of sight.

46:31I hadn't checked.

46:45What are you doing with that? What's going on here?

46:53Of course, if it plays Fly Me to the Moon, we're rather screwed.

46:57What are you? What kind of madness is this? Are you insane?

47:12He's locked the door. He's got a gun.

47:16No, you are mad.

47:19You would not dare.

47:23Oh, dear.

47:25Oh, dear.

47:27Oh, dear.

47:42Always clear as you can, everybody. Here we go. Roll in.

47:48Action.

47:49What's happening? I thought you'd finished here.

47:56Oh, hi. Yeah, we had a faulty mag on one reverse, can you believe?

48:00Neg was all fogged, so we had to come back.

48:03The leading actor's down with food poisoning.

48:05Unfortunately, we didn't see the back of his head on this shot.

48:08We just needed someone who was the same size and shape.

48:11Sorry, cut it.

48:12We're still catching the side of your face, Jonathan.

48:15One more, please.

48:25Okay, reset, please.

48:26Quickly as we can, everybody.

48:27Yes?

48:37Who's that?

48:41Gino?

48:41Oh, really? How are you both?

48:46What kind of ideal arrangement?

48:50I beg your...

48:52Take it in turns to sleep with me.

48:56Am I hearing right?

48:58What?

48:58No.

49:01We were just saying, sorry the other night was such a cock-up.

49:04If you wanted to get together any time for a beer or whatever, no agenda.

49:09I mean, you have got some nerve, the pair of you,

49:11asking me to share my body with two men on a rota basis.

49:17I'll think about it.

49:18Promising nothing, mind.

49:20Okay. Bye.

49:23You know, there's a word for what you are.

49:26Predictable.

49:28There's a word for what you are.

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