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First broadcast 18th December 1999.
Ghosts Forge or Ghost's Forge, does the apostrophe really make a difference. This plus five copies of the same book lead Jonathan to discover who "Killed" Ezra Carr.
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus
Kezi Silverstone - Cindy
Gina Bellman - Samantha
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Lysette Anthony - Mimi Tranter
Mark Aiken - Robin Priest
Sara Stephens - Shirley Priest
Jim Bowen - Duggie Dawson
Nicholas Amer - Bill
Ghosts Forge or Ghost's Forge, does the apostrophe really make a difference. This plus five copies of the same book lead Jonathan to discover who "Killed" Ezra Carr.
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus
Kezi Silverstone - Cindy
Gina Bellman - Samantha
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Lysette Anthony - Mimi Tranter
Mark Aiken - Robin Priest
Sara Stephens - Shirley Priest
Jim Bowen - Duggie Dawson
Nicholas Amer - Bill
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00:00Transcription by ESO. Translation by —
01:00I'll never forget.
01:07Take care, baby.
01:09Oh, and love the shirt.
01:12Love you.
01:24Afternoon.
01:26What can we get for you?
01:28It takes to wow a young lady and hang the prize tag.
01:30It's her birthday tomorrow.
01:31I want it to be really special.
01:32I'm sure we can put something nice together for you.
01:35What about a message?
01:36Do you know what you'd like to say on the card?
01:39To my dearest dreamboat, you are everything to me and more.
01:43A constant, unfailing vision of loveliness.
01:49The very sight of you lights up my life from ways I can't begin to describe.
01:58You must know by now, I am hopelessly in love with you.
02:04I'm sorry.
02:05I'm sorry.
02:06I'm sorry.
02:07I'm sorry.
02:08I'm sorry.
02:09Mimi Tranta.
02:10What sort of name is that when it's at home, anyway?
02:11Well, it was a running joke on the news desk, wasn't it?
02:14Mimi was always me, me, the super glam, girly reporter.
02:18You know the type.
02:19Women can't stand, but men all dribble over.
02:22Bit like a urinal.
02:23But without the charm.
02:25What she wants to meet you for, I showed her to...what?
02:29Two sorts of people you never want to spend time with.
02:31Serial killers and women who spell thanks with an X.
02:37I don't know how much longer I can wait, actually.
02:39We've got another live show going out tonight on the air at eight, so...
02:44Oh, no!
02:45Oh, spare us that, please!
02:48That ruddy oompar band again,
02:51practising outside every hour of the day,
02:55driving me witless!
02:57You dare start up that racket again!
03:00I forbid it!
03:01Yes, you, with the trombone!
03:04I'm warning you!
03:05One peep out of that thing and your...
03:07One peep out of that thing and your..
03:09Hey, fellas, fellas, love that sound of beer.
03:39But you can just take a breather for us, hmm?
03:41Be ever so grateful.
03:43No problem.
03:45So, you're Jonathan the Magic Man.
03:50I've got a little something might just be up your street.
03:53Coffee?
03:54I don't suppose you've got any iced tea.
03:56I'm afraid we'll just suck the last bag.
03:59Listen, I just loved that trick on the show last week.
04:04Dismantling the body in the boxes.
04:07Of course, it was obvious how it was done.
04:10With the dummy feet and the girl squashed up at the top and everything.
04:13Oh, and the bit with the crossbow.
04:15Brilliant.
04:16I mean, you could see that it didn't really fire
04:19and there was a duplicate bolt on a fish line or something
04:21that made it look as though it had gone through,
04:23but, hey, the fact that you can always work them out,
04:26that's the fun of it for me.
04:28Oh, now then, I'm running a bit late.
04:31Robin's picking me up for lunch at 12.
04:33Robin.
04:34Oh, I tell you.
04:35He is complete and utter heaven in every department.
04:40He's also married with a six-month-old daughter,
04:42but then when did life ever run smooth?
04:45And this time, I swear to you, I wasn't looking for it.
04:49I mean, why would I be interested in a Mr. Robin Priest,
04:53some sales rep who's won first prize
04:55in a national story writing competition?
04:58Well, then I don't know.
05:03Whatever it is that happens, happened.
05:07And, like, his wife was right there,
05:11but you could see it wasn't right.
05:13They just didn't fit together.
05:18But for us, it was like, I don't know,
05:21the end of the rainbow.
05:23I mean, for goodness sake,
05:25the last thing I want to do is wreck someone's marriage.
05:28But, hey.
05:29But I'm afraid just lately
05:31there have been a few more business trips in his diary.
05:36And then, the other night...
05:38What are you doing?
05:41No!
05:43To Ghost's Forge.
05:46When I asked him what or where was Ghost's Forge,
05:49he hadn't a clue.
05:51The Ghost's Forge.
05:53Then it came back to him.
05:54He'd read an article somewhere about this unsolved murder.
05:58The old bloodhound instinct.
06:00I looked it up.
06:01Turns out to be quite a mystery
06:03that they never got to the bottom of.
06:06Ghost's Forge, apparently,
06:08was this spooky old place in the wilds of Norfolk
06:11whose owner, a guy named Ezra Carr,
06:14had led a hermetically sealed existence,
06:16locked away from the rest of the world for 20 years,
06:19ever since his wife died.
06:21Well, 18 months ago...
06:23I know.
06:24I know.
06:25I know.
06:26I know.
06:27It's unclear.
06:28Now, the gist of it, all here in the police report,
06:54which the lovely detective inspector copied out for me,
06:57is as follows, says,
07:00The owner of the house, Mr. Ezra Carr,
07:03was found deceased in the north-facing upstairs bedroom of the east wing of the property.
07:07The owner of the house, Mr. Ezra Carr,
07:26I don't know.
07:56Although subsequent pathologies showed the blood here did not belong to the murder victim.
08:01So? Big deal.
08:04Old blokes found with a knife in his neck. Where's the story?
08:07Where's the motive? He lived alone. He knew no one. No one knew him.
08:11There was all kinds of valuable stuff there.
08:14Burglar would have had a field day, but nothing was stolen.
08:18Next of kin?
08:19He had none. Stuff's all been gobbled up by the state.
08:22The house has been bought by some property dealer who's doing it up to Sellers' Flats.
08:27I thought if we could get inside, have a little nose about.
08:31Now, I sweet-talked the estate agent into letting us in next Saturday.
08:35Get inside to look for what?
08:37What's that you always say? Don't know till you've found it?
08:39Anyway, why don't I just leave all this stuff here for you to absorb properly before we go...
08:46Oh, that'll be my lift.
08:53Hiya. You'll find the address okay.
08:55Must put the directions, no problem.
08:58Maddie? Jonathan?
09:00This is Robin.
09:01Hey. Pleased to meet you.
09:02Hello.
09:03Hiya. Hello.
09:09What's this?
09:10Oh, I was just telling them about Ghost Forge. Do you remember all that?
09:13Yes.
09:14Well, we don't have a lot of time, so nice to have met you both.
09:18Right. Thanks. Bye.
09:23Well.
09:26She's got some spunk, hasn't she?
09:27I can hardly let her down.
09:32She'd especially ask for my help.
09:35I despair of men generally.
09:46Everyone here?
09:48Okay, Jonathan. The floor's all yours.
09:50Right.
09:52Water tank.
09:53Yesterday's dry run, if I can call it that.
09:55It's all went very sm...
09:57smoothly.
10:01I think you said, Tim, the main thing to...
10:05watch out for
10:07is the cameras don't get in too close on the fourth floor.
10:10One other thought.
10:12If we can have a fireman standing by with an axe
10:15in case the trick goes horribly wrong,
10:17it'll help build up the tent...
10:19Sorry, what am I looking at here?
10:22From the Macclesfield Echo.
10:24Someone called Dougie Dawson.
10:28I mean, who the hell cares what he thinks?
10:30Mr. Great Big Nobody from Nowhere Land.
10:33Guys are total irrelevance, as far as I'm concerned.
10:37Okay, so we're looking at our first stagger at, what,
10:392.30 and tech run at four.
10:42Thank you, folks.
10:43Okay, great.
10:44We're at our last show.
10:47Yeah, on that fireman thing,
10:49I think we should get Nick or someone to do it,
10:50rather than some dance room
10:51just end up looking like something in this village.
10:53Pete.
10:54Very good point.
10:55What the hell is this?
10:57Sorry.
10:59Oh, right, yes.
11:01Well, I thought, why not?
11:02You can just, uh, be there, you know,
11:05let the audience make up their own minds.
11:07Now, if you'll excuse me,
11:09I have a special lunch date with a very special lady.
11:12Oh, uh, this is Samantha.
11:15Catch up with you later, Jonathan.
11:17And where are you tonight?
11:38At this precise moment.
11:40Halfway up the M1 to Sheffield.
11:47Oh, my God.
12:17Yeah?
12:28What the bloody hell?
12:31Filth is what you are.
12:32I know what's going on with you and Robin.
12:34I'm not totally moronic.
12:35Robin!
12:37No, no, you've got it all wrong.
12:40I found your address in his pocket.
12:42You could at least have the common decency to own up.
12:45I didn't write this.
12:47This is...
12:49Oh.
12:54Oh, you've got to be joking.
13:01Listen, I can't believe she would do that.
13:05I'm really sorry.
13:07I mean, wow, that stuff's lethal, I'm telling you.
13:10By the way, I meant to say, fantastic show again this week.
13:16The old water tank thing.
13:18I mean, I guessed how it was done, obviously.
13:21There's some kind of pipe under the stage that went to another tank behind the curtain that he just swam through.
13:27But it's like the audience, you could tell.
13:31They're really gobsmacked.
13:36Here we are.
13:37One creepy old house.
13:40One property agent with keys.
13:43Fifty minutes late, he's going to kill me.
13:47We should be so lucky.
13:48Sorry.
13:50Hello.
13:54Oh.
13:56What is that?
13:57Some local rag?
13:58Latest salvo from the Macclesfield Echo.
14:02Guy prints one snide remark about the show.
14:04Adam's going to make a big deal of it on air.
14:06So now he's gone to town on him.
14:08Two pages on the unbearable vanity of this shallow show business man who really puts the sham into shambolic.
14:14What does that even mean?
14:16In any way...
14:17Hello?
14:21Yes, just this second devouring it, Adam.
14:24What did I say to you?
14:25You can't win with these people.
14:26They're always going to have the last word.
14:28You want to throw him, I'll go completely the other way.
14:30Invite him over to a rehearsal or something.
14:32Then be super nice to him.
14:33Make him feel guilty for writing all this stuff.
14:36The old hostages bonding with the kidnapper technique.
14:41You're very welcome.
14:46Interesting.
14:51There's our first curiosity, the house sign.
14:54What about it?
14:56Oh, don't worry.
14:57You can see things are invisible to us mortals.
14:59I mean, this is absolutely Beezer, isn't it?
15:04Not only are we 18 months late, places now have been completely emptied, decorators have moved in.
15:11What are we hoping?
15:12The killer's going to suddenly pop back and say, I didn't make any chance to leave a knife behind...
15:17What?
15:18What?
15:19What?
15:20Those little blood splashes it said about?
15:21They're still here.
15:22Caused by some sort of fight, do you think, between Carr and the guy who killed him?
15:38Or, more logically, by someone falling down the stairs.
15:44Maybe there was a secret relative or something no-one knew about who stood to inherit.
15:53But then no-one ever came forward, so...
15:56What are you thinking?
15:59I just can't get past the name of this place.
16:04Ghost's Forge.
16:06Where does that come from?
16:08According to those cuttings, there was never any kind of forge here.
16:12Or, for that matter, any kind of ghost.
16:15It almost makes you wonder if...
16:17What was that?
16:20It's coming from the attic room.
16:22They can't meet the decorators. They don't work weekends.
16:37They're on water.
16:38They don't work longer.
16:56In this case, she was homeless.
16:58Oh, my God, it's the endoplasm, look, coming out of her mouth.
17:28Oh. Hey, what have you found? I don't know. A package of some sort seems to have got left
17:47behind. The Grave Digger by Gerald Eastland. Five copies.
18:08So this will be the north-facing bedroom here, where the body was found.
18:14Now all been renovated, of course, but...
18:18Why would this one be locked when none of the others are?
18:25Something in there. Looks like the key.
18:29Oh, certainly more promising. Do I smell a locked-room mystery?
18:34Don't think it's gonna budge?
18:36Well, there'd be a window and a ladder somewhere.
18:39Come on, memes. We'll race in.
18:44I think I saw a slightly open window up there.
18:48Hang on.
18:49Hang on.
18:50Hold on.
18:52.
19:01Oh, my God.
19:06Oh!
19:22You there yet?
19:23Hang about, I'm just coming!
19:36Any joy there yet?
19:38Hello!
19:48Any joy there yet?
19:50Hello!
20:06Come on, what are you playing at in there, for goodness sake?
20:20Ernie!
20:22Are you out there?
20:24What are you talking, she's in there with you!
20:27Well, she's not!
20:28She went up the ladder, but when I came...
20:31I mean, she must have come out through this door.
20:34How could she have come through this door when I can't even get the thing open?
20:40Stay put, I'm coming round.
20:42No key on this side, but it looks like it's been snapped off or something.
20:52I don't think this made any sense.
20:54She came in through the window, I saw her.
20:58But not in the wrong room or anything.
21:00I think we'd notice.
21:02Look, this is just totally not happening.
21:04I mean, there's no way, there's no human way she could have gone out of here.
21:08I swear!
21:10I do!
21:20I don't think it's all right!
21:22Just because of this side of the head, I will drop my knees in here, curtains,
21:25and where have you shared, yes?
21:27I can't do none in the window Oh no!
21:29What are you saying?!
21:30I怕 you'reiziert.
21:32I think we better call the police.
22:02What am I gonna say? A friend of mine's just vanished into thin air?
22:15Or not, as the case may be.
22:18What?
22:19Wing mirror.
22:20Are you all right? Looks as if you've seen a ghost.
22:40What's going on here?
22:43Did you...?
22:44Yes.
22:45Oh.
22:46Clever.
22:47Come on. Call yourself a conjurer.
22:50How the hell did I miss that? Very neat.
22:53Thought you'd like it.
22:55What's the matter, Mimi? A trick you can't work out?
22:59Surely not. You're always so good at them.
23:01That apart, Rum didn't really tell us much about the murder, so I don't know what you think.
23:08Well, you've probably seen all there is to see.
23:18I'm Klaus. That's a name to conjure with.
23:21Oh, yeah. Like I'm the first person who's ever said that.
23:27First? Absolutely. The very first one.
23:31You know, you have the most perfectly dazzling smile I think I've ever seen.
23:38Just give me two minutes to freshen up.
23:57Oh, come on.
24:26I thought I'd buy us a champagne supper to celebrate my first great triumph as a professional illusionist.
24:33Can't tell you how delicious that was to wipe that cocky smile off her face,
24:39just waiting now for her to come crawling to me, begging me to explain how it was done.
24:45I had you four for ten minutes. Must have been good.
24:51Oh, you're not still on this Ezra Carr thing.
24:53Some old bloke got it in the net from someone who didn't like him.
24:56That's all there is to it.
25:00What's that?
25:02Remember she said he'd won first prize in a national short story writing competition?
25:06This lover boy of hers, Robin Priest.
25:10Out of idle curiosity, I tracked down the magazine it was printed in.
25:15It makes very interesting reading.
25:17Why? What's it about?
25:19What it's about is not what's interesting.
25:22Sorry?
25:23What are you trying to say?
25:25You think this Robin bloke is somehow mixed up in it all?
25:29What was that she said about him and his wife, Shirley?
25:34They didn't fit together.
25:36You've met them both. What do you think?
25:38I suppose I can see what she means.
25:40And that stuff with him talking about the house in his sleep.
25:45Sorry, I don't buy the explanation that he'd read about it in an article somewhere.
25:50You know, the weirdest part of all this is this stupid house name.
25:55Which doesn't make any kind of sense.
25:58And for a very good reason.
26:00This is not the name of the house.
26:09You saw that sign of the gate when we went in.
26:11What did you notice about it?
26:18There was no apostrophe.
26:22Have you ever read Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce?
26:25Nor has anyone else. It's virtually unreadable.
26:28But one of the interesting things about it is the title.
26:30People are always putting an apostrophe in when there isn't one.
26:33It's meant to be like that, so the words are ambiguous.
26:35One Finnegan's Funeral Wake, or several Finnegan's Wake Up.
26:40So, what does ghosts with no apostrophe give you?
26:44There was more than one ghost.
26:46All right.
26:48Let's forget about that for the moment.
26:50What do we know about Gerald Eastland?
26:52Cabinet Minister during the late 1980s.
26:56Flashy bastard who was not my favourite person in the whole world.
27:01But contrary to all expectations, after he'd retired,
27:03turned out to be a rather nifty novelist.
27:05Died about four years ago.
27:07Hardly James Joyce, but he had a similar taste for puns
27:10and playing around with words.
27:12It's like the title of this one.
27:14The Gravedigger has nothing to do with a man who digs graves.
27:17It's about this very miserable Australian.
27:20Sorry, Lev.
27:22Oh!
27:24Gravedigger.
27:26Very clever.
27:28Now, why do you suppose someone would send six copies of this book
27:33to Ezra Carr?
27:35Well, where'd you get the six?
27:38There were only five in there.
27:40You can see from the size of the packet, one's been removed.
27:46Come on.
27:47Ghosts Forge.
27:49Gerald Eastland.
27:50The most unlikely author you can imagine.
27:54It's all here in front of us.
28:00Sorry, you're gonna have to spell it out for me, Jonathan.
28:04Sit down.
28:20Well, that was perfect from where I'm standing,
28:22but how was it for everyone else?
28:24My one concern is that maybe the skirt is too short.
28:28We have a broad constituency of women out there
28:30for whom this could be considered exploitative.
28:32And I think you know how I feel about cheap sexual titill...
28:36Ah, Jonathan, my uniquely gifted collaborator.
28:39Can I introduce you to Dougie Dawson from the Macclesfield Echo
28:42who I invited along here today to meet all the folks
28:45and see how we put these crazy shows together behind the scenes?
28:48Okay, so if no one has any problems...
28:51Just the one tiny problem, Adam.
28:54I'd quite like to know why you did a runner from my bedroom last night
28:59without so much as a by-your-leave.
29:01Samantha!
29:02What a lovely surprise.
29:03It went just a minute before you'd been telling me
29:05I was the most perfect creature you'd ever set eyes on.
29:08What can it have been, I wonder, that changed your mind?
29:13Well, no, actually, to be honest with you...
29:15Next time I take my grandmother to the hospital
29:18after she's just had a stroke,
29:20I'll make sure someone else looks after her teeth.
29:22It's obviously something you can't handle.
29:24Listen, how about we go to my room and talk about this?
29:27No, that's fine.
29:29I only came by to say thank you, Adam.
29:31Thank you for showing me how little I really mean to you
29:34and what a shallow set of values you live your life by.
29:37Can you believe he picked me up
29:39while he was ordering flowers for his girlfriend?
29:42This man has all the depth and sensitivity of a dog turd.
29:47That's Samantha Clarke, with an E.
29:50Enjoy.
30:04Bucket loads.
30:05I've just had a very interesting chat
30:07with Gerald Eastland's publishers.
30:09And?
30:10Looks as if you were right.
30:20What the hell are you doing here?
30:31Are you totally mad?
30:33She knows anyway.
30:34What's the deal?
30:35It's not going to go away, Robin.
30:38We may as well confront it here and now.
30:41Shirley!
30:43Sorry, that was my chum you got the other night.
30:46It's like a case of mistaken identity.
30:48Otherwise, I'm afraid it's all true.
30:50We are very much in love.
30:53And Robin would like a divorce.
30:58Oh, Mimi.
31:00You have no idea what you're saying.
31:02And why should you?
31:04You walk into my life.
31:06You think you can take it over.
31:08You think it's that easy.
31:12I have no life.
31:14I have no future.
31:16Robin, what on earth are you talking about?
31:18I killed him!
31:19I murdered Ezra Carr!
31:28Hi.
31:29Sorry to butt in, but the back door was open.
31:32And, um, perhaps when you've sorted your daughter out,
31:35we should have a little talk.
31:36Listen, Mr. Dawson.
31:49Dougie.
31:50That little outburst earlier on, I wouldn't take it too seriously.
31:54Samantha's a lovely girl, but prone to these irrational mood swings, you know.
31:58You talk to any other woman in my life who's got the measure of me.
32:02They'll tell you the kind of guy I really am.
32:04I don't doubt it, Mr. Klaus.
32:07Nice shirt, by the way.
32:08Bought for you by a girlfriend.
32:10Actually, it was.
32:12Kind of sweet, don't you think?
32:13Very.
32:14You speak much Japanese at all?
32:16I can't say that I do.
32:18I was over there for seven years with Reuters.
32:21Became quite fluent by the time I left.
32:23Really?
32:24And yes, I think you're right.
32:25Any woman who brings you a shirt back with the words,
32:28I am full of shit on it.
32:30I'd say I've got the measure of you very well indeed.
32:32Bye, Mr. Klaus.
32:34Thanks for the bubbly.
32:41It's very hard for a time to get the whole picture on this one
32:44when everything seems to be firing off in different directions.
32:47Once you bolt it all together, you start to see
32:51how one or two key details tell the story.
32:55That slightly wonky house name, Ghost's Forge,
33:00and that parcel we found when the book's in.
33:03Why would you order six copies of the same book
33:05when one was clearly enough,
33:06the other five had just been left in the attic to gather dust?
33:09Fred, I was painfully slow getting to that one.
33:12Author's freebies.
33:14Writer of a book will usually get half a dozen copies on publication.
33:18In my case, that's been known to double the print run.
33:21But why had six of these been sent to Ezra Carr?
33:24The author was Gerald Eastland.
33:27Or so we're all meant to believe.
33:29Gerald Eastland,
33:31depressingly tedious member of the government back in the 80s
33:34who wouldn't have won awards for his literacy or wit,
33:37turns out a series of skillfully crafted best-selling novels.
33:41Not without little help, I suggest.
33:44Bit of wheedling, a guy at the publishers came clean.
33:47Eastland's name was used to sell all these titles,
33:50but he never wrote a word of them.
33:53All that wry humour and verbal gimmickry
33:55was down to our friend Mr Carr.
33:57The kind of man who might have left an ironic clue to what he did.
34:02In the name of his house,
34:05you break it up like a cryptic crossword.
34:09Ghosts forge becomes ghosts for GE.
34:17In effect, here lives Gerald Eastland's ghostwriter.
34:21But Eastland's been dead for what, five years?
34:25Four and a half.
34:26You're not suggesting that he had anything to do with the murder?
34:30The pivot to this whole affair was in the motive.
34:33It was generally accepted by the police.
34:35No robbery had taken place.
34:37Too much valuable stuff had been left behind.
34:39But the police were wrong.
34:41What was removed from Ezra Carr's house that night
34:44was more priceless than any money or jewellery.
34:48It was Ezra Carr himself.
34:51Interesting how a name always conjures up an image of someone,
34:57even if it doesn't square with the truth.
34:59How Ezra Carr just has to be
35:02some grizzled Dickensian old fogey
35:05when it could just as easily be
35:08a charming young man in his late thirties.
35:17A man who tragically lost his wife
35:19when they were both young.
35:22We hardly met another living soul
35:24for nearly 20 years.
35:26Should we be surprised they got it wrong?
35:30The man they found dead in that room
35:33wasn't actually Ezra Carr at all.
35:37Not Ezra...
35:38But...
35:39Then who was he?
35:42Your father?
35:46Stepfather?
35:48I'm sorry, Shirley.
35:50I think you're going to have to
35:52fill in the gaps from here on.
35:54I don't!
36:00So where do you want me to start from?
36:12The whole sordid bit.
36:15How a 15-year-old girl was
36:17defiled by her wicked uncle.
36:19A man three times her age.
36:23How I suffered in silence.
36:25Ended up scarred for the rest of my life.
36:31Scarred, yes.
36:35Well, I enjoyed every minute of it.
36:39Me and my Uncle Bill.
36:42It was like suddenly I'd learnt to fly.
36:46I was in love, so I thought.
36:48Who cared?
36:49We were breaking all the rules.
36:51And then, of course,
36:54one day I noticed
36:56he wasn't an older man anymore.
36:59Just an old man.
37:01He wasn't my lover.
37:03He had become my jailer.
37:07Sometimes I'd manage it.
37:11Give him a slip for maybe months on end.
37:14But then, always, he'd hunt me down,
37:16claw me back into his life.
37:18And eventually,
37:19when I hadn't got any skin left to bruise
37:22or bones left to break,
37:25and the fight had gone out of me,
37:28I just gave in and stopped running.
37:32I realised late in the day
37:34just how evil he really was.
37:36And I was part of that evil.
37:41For half my life,
37:45we kept each other company in hell.
37:48Housebreaking was one of our many specialities.
37:53I'd call in at the front door,
37:56keep on talking, whatever.
37:57While he'd slip in behind me
37:59and turn the place over.
38:10I told him my car had broken down.
38:12Could I come in and use his phone,
38:13the usual blether?
38:14Well, he couldn't do enough to help me.
38:16The day she died,
38:29in every tangible sense,
38:30I swore that everything that was precious about her,
38:33her warmth and kindness...
38:35It was like,
38:36after all those years on his own,
38:37writing another guy's books,
38:39he just wanted someone to talk to.
38:42And suddenly,
38:43I've forgotten why I'm there.
38:45I'm just listening to this really sad story.
38:49How he had lost his wife
38:51when they were both 18
38:52from this crippling illness.
38:54And I'm staring into his eyes.
38:56All these wild fantasies
38:58whirling through my head.
39:00Fantasies I knew could never come to anything.
39:02I mean, who the hell was I?
39:04I'm going to corrupt the purity
39:05and the sanctity
39:07from the grave.
39:08I don't know.
39:10Maybe I hadn't forgotten
39:11who I was.
39:12I don't know.
39:14Maybe I hadn't forgotten at all.
39:17Maybe I wanted him to get caught this time.
39:19What the hell do you think you're doing?
39:21You get your grubby hands off those
39:23now!
39:24Come on, then.
39:26Let's see what you're going to do about it.
39:30You get your grubby hands off those
39:32now!
39:33Come on, then.
39:34Let's see what you're gonna do about it.
39:47Yeah.
39:47Oh!
39:51Come on, then.
39:53You get my blood together.
39:55…
40:01Jay-san!
40:01It killed him.
40:17I couldn't believe it.
40:18And he didn't care.
40:21Well, by this time, neither did I.
40:31.
40:51.
40:52.
40:55.
40:56.
40:57Oh, my God.
41:16Are you OK? I'm sorry.
41:18Something was wrong from the concussion.
41:21He could remember a struggle and a knife.
41:25The rest was a blank.
41:27His life, identity, everything.
41:35I don't know, maybe I'd never have had the idea if he hadn't said it first.
41:40I killed him.
41:44God help me.
41:45I can't seem to focus.
41:48At that moment, he needed someone.
41:51And dear God in heaven, I needed him.
41:54I'd known a boy with that name once.
41:56It was so easy, I just couldn't stop myself.
41:59Robin, it's me, Shirley.
42:01You must remember.
42:03Shirley, your wife.
42:05Now, look, it was an accident.
42:08You didn't mean to do it.
42:10It was an accident.
42:10But who's going to believe that?
42:20Come on, we've got to get out of here.
42:22We should never have come to this place.
42:23I told you we should never have come here.
42:25I told myself, convinced myself, that I was helping an escape from that mausoleum.
42:47From now on, his previous life was whatever I wanted it to be.
43:01Gradually, I rebuilt his memory.
43:05We'd been childhood sweethearts, always on the wrong side of the law.
43:10We'd got to use this experience to sort ourselves out.
43:14Settle down.
43:16Start a family.
43:17I mean, it was insanity to even believe I could get away with it.
43:27Sooner or later, you were going to remember.
43:29See me for what I was?
43:31Eighteen months.
43:33I just lived from day to day, clinging to every moment while it lasted.
43:39The one thing I never expected, just couldn't handle,
43:44was that you would find someone else.
43:54You programmed me like some kind of doll.
43:59You made me think I'd...
44:00and that's why you were haunted by it in your sleep.
44:03And when you started writing again as a hobby, it was a giveaway.
44:07Even a short story for a magazine.
44:10And prose style had an uncanny echo of someone else,
44:14suggesting that Robin Priest and Ezra Carr
44:17might just possibly be the same person.
44:23And still, I can't see it.
44:25Why can't I see it?
44:30Maybe it's better you don't.
44:34Twenty years of grief.
44:36It's enough for anyone.
44:39So, I'm going to have to leave that one with you, I'm afraid, folks.
44:42Oh, yes, Mimi.
44:46I nearly forgot.
44:48You must be going absolutely mental by now.
44:51Wondering how I disappeared from that room yesterday.
44:53Oh, yes, actually.
44:56Oh, good.
44:58Bye, then.
44:58What's with the hose pipe?
45:10Are you planning to water the carpet?
45:12It's for the window box.
45:14Window box?
45:15You haven't got a window...
45:15Never you mind what it's for,
45:18in case I need it,
45:19suddenly.
45:20You know, the one thing you still haven't told me,
45:24with all your masterful deductions, in this case,
45:27is what gave me away.
45:30You didn't tumble it straight away, you've got to admit.
45:33I think what actually sealed it, in hindsight,
45:36was that moment on the landing when we heard that noise.
45:39What was that?
45:42It's coming from the attic room.
45:43How did you know that was the door to an attic room?
45:49And you'd never set foot in there before?
45:52Or maybe you had.
45:55Maybe you'd paid a little visit a few days earlier
45:58to secretly try and get ahead of the game.
46:04Ran into the decorators
46:06and hatched a rather dastardly plan.
46:10Oh, but it was a gift, Jonathan.
46:13Two doors.
46:15One into the corridor, one into a cupboard.
46:18I mean, now I'm starting to think like you.
46:21What if the one on the right
46:23was blocked off on the inside,
46:25plastered over to make it look just like part of the wall?
46:29I mean, the possibilities were joyous
46:31and well worth a backhand to the lads
46:33who obviously would have to make it right again afterwards.
46:36I mean, they were so up for it
46:38when I told them about Mimi.
46:39I couldn't believe what a fab job they'd done.
46:42You there yet?
46:44Hang about. I'm just coming.
46:51Madam comes in.
46:53She's absolutely no idea.
46:56She's shouting into a cupboard.
46:58Maddie, are you out there?
47:00I just wish I could have seen her face.
47:05No, she's not.
47:07I think my favourite bit of improv
47:09was when I heard you rattling the door handle.
47:17Come on, then.
47:18Mark's out of ten.
47:20Hmm.
47:22Grudging six.
47:23Oh, and the rest.
47:25There's got to be a nine in anyone's.
47:28Oh.
47:30Not in the bloody road this time.
47:33Well, I am sorry.
47:35They're going to find out now
47:36what the word antisocial really means.
47:42Right.
47:43Let's see how you play with this up, you spout.
47:45Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop.
48:00Right.
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