- 13 hours ago
First broadcast 1st March 2003.
Jonathan and Carla investigate a serial killer who wears a Davy Crockett hat and strangles people named after flowers.
Stephanie Carey - Nurse
Adrian Edmondson - Brendan Baxter
Julia Sawalha - Carla Borrego
Terence Hillyer - Inspector Ted Parnevik
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus
Tina Martin - Velda
Anna Wilson-Jones - Sergeant Heather Davey (as Anna Wilson Jones)
Toby Walton - Reporter
Andrew Clover - Gary Basco
Gareth Farr - Cleaner
Yasmin Wilde - WPC
Anna Francolini - Coral
Veronica Leer - Moira Jane Rowe
Joan Oliver - Janet Blaydon
Jonathan and Carla investigate a serial killer who wears a Davy Crockett hat and strangles people named after flowers.
Stephanie Carey - Nurse
Adrian Edmondson - Brendan Baxter
Julia Sawalha - Carla Borrego
Terence Hillyer - Inspector Ted Parnevik
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus
Tina Martin - Velda
Anna Wilson-Jones - Sergeant Heather Davey (as Anna Wilson Jones)
Toby Walton - Reporter
Andrew Clover - Gary Basco
Gareth Farr - Cleaner
Yasmin Wilde - WPC
Anna Francolini - Coral
Veronica Leer - Moira Jane Rowe
Joan Oliver - Janet Blaydon
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00:00Transcription by CastingWords
00:30At 5.35 a.m. on Monday the 12th of October, staff nurse Jill Whiteley had just finished
00:42a late shift at Bracefield General Hospital.
00:51But as she returned to her car that night to drive home, she could little have imagined
00:56the living terror that lay before her.
01:00And we're going to develop this to her new car because she can't.
01:03I've been doing this to her new car and I've been doing this for our future.
01:07So, we're going to keep going.
01:10I'm going to ramp up and do not go for the car but I'm going to be here.
01:14Now I'm going to take a look at the car.
01:16A recurring car was on the car and bought the car.
01:19I can't do that.
01:21I think my car is great when we become a car.
01:26I can't fit the car, but I'm going to leave the car.
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03:43But you might want to rethink the lip gloss, multiple stranglings I go for more of a nut brown, Clinique No. 2, or Topaz Glow, something more restful.
03:52Superintendent Ted Parnovic, two young women slain on their way home, seemingly for sport, by what we can only take to be some kind of mental deviant, and without wishing to alarm the public in any way, there must be every chance this maniac could strike again.
04:07Well, it would be irresponsible of me, obviously, to rule it out.
04:10Try crabbing right on that sun, too. You might just get a little kick off that earring that could be fun.
04:15There, yeah.
04:17Just takes the eye to him, the two shot.
04:19And in the light of these two attacks, are there any special measures we should be considering?
04:23Well, it seems to me there's one very simple measure we may all be overlooking here, Carla, and that's a little thing called a noose.
04:32Right, well, of course...
04:33Social cleansing may be an unfashionable concept these days, but from where I'm standing, 40 years of slap wrists haven't exactly cleaned up the streets in this country.
04:42Quite, although I...
04:43And who's to say our old friends the cyanide pellet and lethal injection couldn't teach us a thing or two here?
04:49But people talk about getting inside a criminal's mind.
04:53Well, let me tell you, 2,000 volts up the spine will pretty much take you there.
04:58Superintendent, thank you very much indeed for coming along tonight to help us to be your eyes and ears.
05:05You talk about a baptism of fire!
05:08Which you handled, may I say, with great maturity.
05:11That guy's just scary enough to buy us another five ratings points.
05:13Let's see if we can get him back next week.
05:42Lovely.
05:43Adam.
05:45Hmm.
05:47I thought you were going to the Ivy tonight.
05:49Well, the Ivy was fully booked.
05:52Fully booked?
05:53I've just come from there.
05:55They said it was a really slow night.
05:56I've been halfway around Soho.
05:57Really?
05:59Well, you know...
06:04Oh, this is Velder, by the way, who, um...
06:08I don't know if you recall a little charity raffle I agreed to sport back in the summer.
06:13Well, action on osteoporosis.
06:15First prize, a magic night out with Adam Klaus.
06:19Actually, it was second prize.
06:21First prize was a tumble dryer.
06:27So...
06:28Hey, you want to sit down?
06:32Join us for a little chow?
06:33Uh, actually, we've got a bit of a last-minute problem with that surrealist painting.
06:37The dream twister set.
06:40Apparently we can't get clearance now on the Magritte, so design have come up with some alternatives.
06:44I seem to think of very you, the great masturbator, Salvador Dali, or possibly The Scream, by Monk.
06:50Oh, yeah.
06:55Maybe go with The Scream.
06:57OK.
06:58I'll get on to that.
07:01So where's he taking you afterwards, then, Velder?
07:03Stringfellows?
07:04Oh!
07:05Stringfellows?
07:07Oh, can we?
07:09And don't keep her out too late, Adam.
07:11You know what you like.
07:13See you in the morning.
07:14So, that's Police Constable Heather Davey, V-A-V-Y.
07:38Er, E-Y, and that's Police Sergeant.
07:41Sergeant Davey.
07:42And how do you feel right now, Sergeant, about retracing this poor woman's final footsteps?
07:48I mean, we're just a few hundred yards from where her body was found in that alleyway, strangled to death.
07:52That must get to you, I imagine.
07:54Well, if we can jog just one person's memory about something or someone they saw the night that Iris West was murdered,
07:59it would be more than worthwhile.
08:00I mean, Johnny Bradshaw.
08:01I mean, we're just a lot of...
08:01Yeah, we don't have to go up.
08:15Yeah, we're just a sure.
08:19Ba-bye, Brian.
08:22Get down!
08:34Stop that!
08:35Down!
08:35Everybody get right back out of this street!
08:42There!
08:43Neil!
08:44Front entrance!
08:45Tim!
08:45Cover the back!
08:46Right!
08:49Don't get up!
08:51You okay?
08:52Yeah, please.
08:54Missed by a mile.
09:22Stay close to the walls!
09:25Stay close to the building!
09:27Stay close to the walls!
09:29Stay close to the building!
09:42Let's see what time is it now.
09:46It's just coming up to 11.
09:47Guys, it's going to have to be another three feet upstage at least.
09:49Clear the hoist.
09:50Yeah, yeah, okay then.
09:51Um...
09:5212.30.
09:53Canon Studios, room 402.
09:55I'll see you then.
09:56Okay, bye.
09:57Late one, Adam.
09:58What'd you say?
09:59Where the hell have you been?
10:00Where the hell have you been?
10:01Is the unit nursing yet?
10:03Now, we'll get the unit pusher.
10:04Tell them it's urgent.
10:05God, you look like death.
10:06God, you look like death.
10:07String fellows.
10:08String fellows.
10:09Boy, you just...
10:10No.
10:11I'm sorry.
10:12See you then.
10:13Okay, bye.
10:14I'm sorry, Tom.
10:17I'm sorry, Andrew, I'm sorry, mate.
10:18I'm sorry, Andrew.
10:20I'm sorry, Andrew.
10:21Hello, Andrew, we'll see you later.
10:23Can we talk to you later?
10:24There's twoercons in the room.
10:25I'll see you later.
10:26I'll see you later.
10:27Here's fourercons.
10:28Then I'll be right back.
10:29You're over here.
10:30Who's ready?
10:31Hey, Andrew, you're back.
10:32Yeah, Andrew.
10:33string fellows boy you just had to go and open your big fat mouth didn't you what oh will you
10:43close those tabs feels like I'm staring in a mirror don't tell me a lovely founder after
10:52she bit the head off that live lobster I thought there was nowhere we could go but up so two o'clock
10:57in the morning we get to the nightclub where she insists on showing everyone the tattoo of mr.
11:01bean on her stomach combing his hair with her appendectomy scar that's just for starters
11:09I introduce her to Brian Ferry she just stands there giggling and picking her nose
11:18then she starts picking his nose then she comes over kind of green and dashes outside of the toilet
11:25ten minutes later I get a message saying she's choked to death on her own vomit
11:32oh don't the several large chunks of crustacean lodged in her windpipe
11:38it kind of brings it home to you I guess how important it is to chew your food
11:47yes it is
12:09what was all that about sorry previous life just flashed before me not when I'd care to revisit
12:22the reasons I'll explain later
12:25oh good oh should be more than 20 maybe less if Frank can be standing by with that rough cut
12:32how you doing sir Brendan Baxter thanks for your time Carla Borrego has just taken over as the new
12:40anchor in the studio mr. Jonathan Creek man I hope he's going to solve this little puzzle for us
12:44yes when you said about getting a specialist investigator you won't believe this six months
12:49ago a theatrical agent stuck behind a desk it was a case of lift up that bushel the world is about to be
12:54dazzled actually we already know each other the two of us did work together a while back on another
13:01project right no way well there you go small world okay we've all read the papers we know why we're here
13:14two women dead one very nearly big response so far to all our appeals for information this week we
13:20have to crime watch for the first time with a 52% share of the phone-in and of course more
13:25importantly eyes and ears does appeal to a much younger demographic kids want to check out the latest
13:30serial killing they turn to you because we don't patronize them with a load of radio 4 homilies
13:34plus we're not afraid to do our own share of the detective work which I hope is where you can
13:40assist us on this business of the phantom gunman okay what are they saying the key was still in the
13:47lock when they broke down the door and there's no way the guy was going to get out of the building
13:50without being seen despite which has been confirmed the bullets they recovered which nearly took her head
13:56off had definitely been fired from that rifle he'd left by the window which I take it our two coppers
14:02were very careful not to touch well obviously till it had been dusted for fingerprints and that's
14:09probably where they made their big mistake sorry I'll just take that speaking how have you been why
14:23didn't you return my calls I must have left at least a dozen messages on that answer mission I've been
14:28fine thank you and if you want to know I'm now a happily married woman
14:34yes it's just with our regular D.O.P tied up oh please not an actor to a very successful businessman
14:46yep still here haha so I'll see you tomorrow then yeah that'll get us out of a real figure at the scene of the crime
15:04you just want to uh give Jill a bell so that'll do it I may see you there on Wednesday depending
15:09how it goes the same okay great yeah maybe I should have mentioned it I don't know but
15:19and what's weird is it was all going actually quite well you know
15:23until this one night like an idiot I took him home to meet mum and dad and
15:28I couldn't believe it he just came out with this really offensive remark about my father
15:35no that was just so uncalled for and suddenly I just saw what he was really like it was such an eye
15:42opener but don't worry I will of course put it all behind me for the sake of the show so
15:49is that a promise mm-hmm great okay then jim and I'll call you tuesday and god willing we'll have
15:55some more news yeah yeah bye sorry sweetheart did you night-night
16:26uh if you don't mind the stick is very bad for my carp leather
16:47what
16:49that drain pipe by the window you wouldn't have to be spider-man to get onto that and shin your way down
16:54no just the invisible man when there are at least a dozen people down here watching at the time
17:01look I didn't have to trek out here today was your husband wanted to rope me in well absolutely
17:07I should hope it wasn't me and I thank you to stop giving me those dry cynical looks all the time as
17:13well dry cynical the ones that say since when did you become a tv presenter well not that it's any of
17:19your business but I did actually spend three years on a regional magazine program after I finished my
17:24media studies course so and Brendan said I should never have given it up because the camera loves
17:29me well maybe you should have buried the camera because you know what you've got there don't you
17:33it's a shoulder squeezer that's only one up from red braces look don't think I didn't clock it what was
17:40going through your grubby brain yesterday when he said I was the new anchor in the studio I could see you
17:46what happened to the old wanker I mean is that meant to be funny I think it's pathetic yes perhaps
17:51we should just get on with this do you think no problem I presume you'll be wanting to inspect
17:57that room up there where they found the rifle not especially
18:03fine I'll just go on my own then
18:14Carla Borego I see
18:27back in the back of the window
18:31the
18:34the
18:37the
18:40the
18:45the
18:46the
19:17It's all right, then. You want me to say it, I'm still none the wiser.
19:43Because you were looking for your evidence in the wrong building.
19:47The key to the vanishing marksman wasn't in the upstairs room, but in the abandoned warehouse opposite.
19:53It's no big deal to lock the door from the inside, then climb out the window, leaving a rifle poking out.
19:59Hours before anyone got here.
20:01Only tricky bit was getting some bullets to explode, just as our policewoman's walking past.
20:06Let's say he rigs up a couple of charges on the inside of that building, with some sticky, waits till she appears, then sets them off by remote control.
20:17Then when everyone's buzzing around the room with a rifle, he's in there, removing the evidence.
20:21Plants a couple of spent bullets, where they'll be easily found, and then hops it.
20:25And if they'd felt the rifle, of course it would have been cold.
20:34So he never wanted a killer, you think? Just scare off the police?
20:38There have got to be much simpler ways of doing that.
20:42I don't know, he's just got a very queasy feeling this could all be part of something a lot more sinister.
20:46And we're not going to find out what, until it's too late.
20:57He should be back in a minute. Can I get you a coffee or anything?
20:59Thanks, we'll just wait.
21:05Probably best if you let me do the talking. He's not exactly cuddly.
21:09Yes.
21:11Saw the interview.
21:12Had some rather innovative ideas about modern policing.
21:18Well, you did very well to head him off, before he got onto Chinese water torture.
21:39What the hell are you doing?
21:40Please don't tell us everything, you know. This is a perfect opportunity.
21:44Why don't you go and keep Cavey by the door?
21:46Keep Cavey?
21:47What are we now, the Famous Five?
21:50He'll have you garrotted as soon as look at you.
21:52Oh, will you stop being so soggy and just...
21:54Oh, my...
21:58Is that like an airbag or something?
22:01Oh, good. The decompression valve seems to have righted itself, then.
22:07Excuse my little passion for gadgetry, but...
22:09Security here is notoriously unreliable.
22:14I think it's as well to have a backup.
22:16Yes. We, um, thanks.
22:21Um, had some ideas about that gunman, actually.
22:26We thought might interest you.
22:28Hustfareia, I think so.
22:29Cavey!
22:29Oh, God.
22:30Thank you, sir.
24:32Thank you, sir.
24:33Look, if you're not up for this, I mean half of the last time...
24:41Are you kidding?
24:42This could be several wrongs up the ladder for me tonight.
24:45I get to know a public enemy number one.
24:48I could be out of this uniform in weeks.
24:49You know how you like me out of uniform.
24:59Look, um...
25:00This isn't the time.
25:03It's not the place, but, um...
25:11Of course, we could be seriously over-reacting, but if he's still in the mood for target practice, this time we'll be ahead of the game.
25:36Marty, take three men and fan out round the back.
25:39Yes, sir.
25:40Heather, you want to check out for Jim?
25:42Brian, the rest of you, seal off these walkways.
25:45You may have already got to her.
25:46Alternatively, this whole thing will be one big, nasty trap.
25:50Come on.
25:58Everybody in and that move is a ladder簡段.
26:09I don't need to be necessarily a man to the island valuable once in the
26:12time.
26:13It's going to be a kid to supine yet.
26:15I'm not even joking about the cake from here.
26:17I've just been planning on coming along with all over movies and all over the events.
26:19Who's there?
26:34Police!
26:37Who's there?
26:42Shit!
26:46Come in.
26:47Sergeant David DeBase, do you read me?
26:50Heather, what's happening?
26:52I don't know. I think...
26:54Someone's locked me in. I think...
26:56I think he may be in here.
26:59In the gym.
27:01God help us all.
27:03Right! Get this place surrounded!
27:11Somebody get a bloody key to this thing!
27:14Heather!
27:17Get back against the wall!
27:20You hear me?
27:21Don't let him get behind you!
27:32Heather!
27:35Oh, my God!
27:37No!
27:39You bastard!
27:42You'll never...
27:43You'll never get away!
27:44Paul!
27:45Come on, man!
28:09Heather!
28:09Until last night, I just thought we were looking for a lunatic.
28:34But now I don't know.
28:37He's even human.
28:39I was right outside that door while he was...
28:43I couldn't do a thing to help her.
28:50Ten seconds later, what, he slipped through a crack in the wall?
28:56The whole thing isn't real.
28:59So forgive me if I don't put my confidence in some...
29:03mop-haired magic geek.
29:04To lose one of your colleagues like that has got to be absolutely the worst thing.
29:11Though, would I be wrong in thinking she was more than just a colleague?
29:16It's not the sort of thing you go public on.
29:25I'm sure you'll appreciate the delicate dynamics.
29:30If people are looking for tacky explanations about how she got her stripes, you can bet they'll find them.
29:40Yes, I'm afraid that was her misfortune.
29:42To fall in love with a senior officer.
29:47Her misfortune...
29:48And mine.
29:52Sorry, Superintendent.
29:54That recording.
29:56Maybe we could just run it one more time.
29:57Oh, my God!
30:03No!
30:04God!
30:05No, you...
30:06You bastard!
30:07You...
30:07You'll never...
30:08You'll never get away!
30:10God!
30:11Oh!
30:13Oh!
30:15What?
30:18Oh, my God!
30:19I don't know.
30:20What is that?
30:20No!
30:21God!
30:22What?
30:22Is that like a bumblebee?
30:24You bastard!
30:24Did you hear that?
30:25I never...
30:25What do we make of that?
30:28Lab just found some tiny traces of blood on her flak jacket.
30:32Around the front of the collar.
30:34Where the wire cut into her skin?
30:36Well, you'd think so, except...
30:38The blood didn't belong to Heather.
30:45Heather?
30:48Oh, my God!
30:51Heather Davey.
30:53Rose McCleary.
30:55Iris West.
30:57Heather, Rose, Iris.
30:59And the fact that all three victims' names have a floral connection has tonight thrown
31:05up a chilling new question for those attempting to build up a picture of the killer.
31:09Is this man, who stalks his prey wearing an American frontiersman's fur hat, deliberately
31:14setting out in some twisted, symbolic way to deflower women, is he perhaps asserting a brutal
31:20hunting instinct?
31:32Tonight, a sense of fear and terror have gripped the Capitol, a Capitol where danger now lurks
31:38in every shadow.
31:39And as a terrified nation asks, what kind of fiend can strangle a young policewoman, then
31:45evaporate into thin air, we call in a man who may be able to provide the answer.
31:50A reminder that if you have any information on this...
31:56Oh, and if there's anything you're not clear about, just ask our stage manager and she'll point you
32:09you in the right direction.
32:10Okie dokie.
32:11Am I seeing things?
32:12That bloke, isn't that who I think he is?
32:13Oh, you know what, Jonathan?
32:14According to Coral, who does our audience research, that little episode of Coral, is
32:18the only one who's in the right direction.
32:19It's the only one who's in the right direction.
32:20It's the only one who's in the right direction.
32:21Okay, Gary.
32:22Oh, and if there's anything you're not clear about, just ask our stage manager and she'll
32:23point you in the right direction.
32:24Okie dokie.
32:25Am I seeing things?
32:30That bloke, isn't that who I think he is?
32:36You know what, Jonathan?
32:37According to Coral, who does our audience research, that little episode the other night actually
32:42tested surprisingly well in her exit poll.
32:4473% found his appearance risqué but fun, giving the show one of its highest appreciation
32:49indices for five years.
32:51Plus, while he was on stage...
32:53A barely significant 4.5% spotted the hidden mechanism behind the couch.
32:57Making it a perfect piece of theatrical misdirection.
33:00Great.
33:01What, I'm talking to Captain Queegg now?
33:04Some nutter does a streak across the stage and now you've signed him up to come back
33:08and do it every night?
33:09No, I'm sorry.
33:10This is totally unacceptable.
33:12Sadly, Jonathan, your views on this matter are redundant.
33:16Now, if you'll excuse me, I have more delicate affairs to attend to.
33:20Oh, yes.
33:21As a mark of respect to our dear departed Lady of the Lobsters, I expect to see you by my
33:26side at the crematorium on Sunday.
33:2810 o'clock sharp.
33:30So, incidentally, are they any closer, do you know, to catching that guy out there?
33:40I mean, after what they were saying on the box last night, obviously I've been absolutely
33:44catatonic with worry.
33:46But...
33:47Yes, well...
33:50I think you'll find coral is actually an animal.
33:55So...
33:56You...
33:57You angel.
33:58Emily, you hear that?
33:59I'm not a plant.
34:00I'm an animal.
34:01Isn't that brilliant?
34:02So, do you want to hear the good news or the even better news?
34:07Wednesday's overnight, 8.9 and a 42 share.
34:08This third killing has put us through the roof.
34:10Plus, I'm two pounds down on last weekend.
34:11So, here's to success.
34:12Now, Jonathan, what I thought we'd do is run your solution to the shooting on Monday.
34:14That is going to be a big water cooler moment.
34:16It's not a solution, Brendan.
34:17At this stage, it can't be any more than a useful hypothesis.
34:19I mean, I'm sorry, you've got God knows what kind of psycho out there picking off young
34:23women for reasons that may ultimately defeat us all.
34:26And, to be honest, I'm getting a bit uncomfortable with all this five and dime profiling that's
34:29in danger of trivialising a very nasty business.
34:31Which is absolutely where you come in to add a more academic curve to the manhunt.
34:32I mean, even as we speak, the nation is poised to hear you explain how that murderer managed
34:33to get out of the gym like a ghost in the night.
34:34So, no pressure there.
34:35That's not the way you're going to take a job, Brendan.
34:36You're not going to take a job on Monday, Brendan.
34:37I'm not going to take a job on Monday.
34:38You're going to take a job on Monday, Brendan.
34:39I'm not going to take a job on Monday.
34:40I'm not going to take a job on Monday.
34:41And then, I'm not going to take a job on Monday.
34:42I'm not going to take a job on Monday, Brendan.
34:43At this stage, it can't be any more than a useful hypothesis.
34:45I mean, I'm sorry, you've got God knows what kind of psycho out there picking
34:46It's in danger of trivialising a very nasty business.
34:49Which is absolutely where you come in, to add a more academic curve to the manhunt.
34:53I mean, even as we speak, the nation is poised to hear you explain
34:56how that murderer managed to get out of the gym like a ghost in the night.
34:59So no pressure, then.
35:01Oh, yes. Is the mackerel here low sodium? I have an elevated diastole.
35:06Pain to be always watching the blood pressure, Jonathan, but at my age.
35:09We'll have to ask the chef, then.
35:11No, well, if it's just lightly steamed, that'll be fab.
35:14Oh, here we go again. That look.
35:18No, I don't know. Blood pressure.
35:21Something just leapt across a synapse there, just to annoy me.
35:25To do with that speck on her collar?
35:27I mean, if it wasn't hers, where would it have come from?
35:30Now, careful. Don't crowd him.
35:32Remember, you're dealing with a level of intuitive genius here
35:35we can't begin to understand.
35:40God, he certainly picks his moments, doesn't he?
35:43No, no, no. It'd be best if I come straight over.
35:45I think we'll bounce it around. Yeah. Bye.
35:47Sorry, guys. I'm going to have to love you and leave you, I'm afraid.
35:50Jonathan, we'll catch up tomorrow, yeah? Bye.
35:52So I suppose you'll be wanting a lift somewhere.
36:07Carly Briegel. Right?
36:11Look, I can't talk here.
36:13It's too dangerous.
36:15You want some information?
36:17Come to my place. Tonight.
36:20Oh. Oh.
36:26But you must come alone.
36:28OK?
36:29I promise. You'll come alone.
36:30I promise. You'll come alone.
36:44Voyeuristic. I don't know where you get that word from.
36:46It's a public service we perform and this woman's the proof of it.
36:49She obviously knows something that she's far too scared to take to the police.
36:53Everything's about numbers now.
36:55Does he know how witless that sounds?
36:58How is it for you, darling?
36:59I won't know until the overnights come in,
37:01but it must be OK because it appeals to a young demographic.
37:05So do the Hitler Youth.
37:07And it's worse than voyeuristic. It's irresponsible.
37:10You've got every woman in London named after a flower now,
37:12afraid to leave the house.
37:14Daisy chain killer. What are you like?
37:17Look.
37:19Why don't you admit what this is really about?
37:22You just can't deal with the fact that I chucked you.
37:25And to think I got as far as introducing you to my parents,
37:28what a narrow escape that was.
37:30After what you said about my father that night,
37:32I can't believe I'm even speaking to you.
37:34What are you talking about?
37:36I was on my best behaviour that day.
37:39I remember I got hiccups just as we were leaving.
37:43Look, I was there, remember?
37:46I know what you said.
37:50Now, I wonder what this will be.
37:54Perhaps you know someone who owns one of those hats?
37:57Hmm.
37:58Something very odd about all that coonskin cat business.
38:02Makes you wonder if that was what they actually saw.
38:06Anyway, I don't imagine there'll be any call for your services.
38:10So if you can just bear to wait.
38:14...
38:15...
38:16...
38:17...
38:18...
38:19...
38:20...
38:23I don't know.
38:53I don't know.
39:23I don't know.
39:53Oh, my God.
39:59Oh, my God.
40:29Oh, my God.
40:59That's all I can say.
41:13You know, this is what frightens me more than anything.
41:37I mean, clearly there's some kind of powerful psychotic charge being derived, but it's not out of any textbook.
41:47My husband's been away for a few weeks looking after his mother, who's very ill, so I don't know.
41:54You can talk about being marginalised, cries for attention, but the truth is, Moira Jane Rowe defeats me.
42:04What about M.O.?
42:06Is she ready to share the secret of that gymnasium stunt with us?
42:09Strangely evasive on that one.
42:11All she'll keep saying is, you will have to fit it together.
42:15So, as serial kids go, not exactly archetypal, would you say?
42:24Because real life can be very badly written.
42:28The idea that a young woman can go around killing other young women just because she likes it is a psychoanalyst's nightmare.
42:34And because, inconveniently, for the tabloid criminologist, there was no pattern to the victims of any kind, and no tidy little backstory to explain why she did it.
42:43It's all right, but it still leaves us with a major disappearing act that does have to be explained, and I haven't heard any wise words from you lately on that subject.
42:53I'm not attempting to keep coming back to that vaulting horse, but I've probably been watching too many prisoner of war films.
42:59We know it was the first place they looked.
43:02Our best shot's got to be that recording.
43:05What did she say?
43:06You bastard.
43:07You'll never get away.
43:09The place was clearly airtight.
43:11She knew that.
43:13So why do I feel that it was a strange choice of words?
43:17She was choking to death at the time, which can sometimes cloud the judgment.
43:22Just can't unlock it.
43:25Well, why don't you go home for the night and try wiggling your key, and I'll check in with you tomorrow lunchtime.
43:31Not that I want to crowd your intuitive genius, but we do have this thing called a production deadline.
43:37Excuse me.
43:43I mean, quite frankly, I wouldn't board a dog in this room.
43:48Where am I supposed to lie down or take a nap?
43:50It's a joke.
43:51Also, this bread's stale, and I think you'll find I asked for sun-dried tomatoes.
43:57Oh, and can we try and keep the corridors clear for my entrance tonight and explain to that dimwit with the choc ice as they am actually part of this production.
44:04Okay.
44:05And what can we do for you?
44:13How about sticking your head down that pan while I flush?
44:17You don't come in here and talk to people like that.
44:19Now bugger off.
44:20Who the hell are you?
44:21I'm the man who's telling you to bugger off.
44:24Come on.
44:25As for now, your showbiz career is over.
44:29People come to the Adam Clouse magic show.
44:31They do not suddenly expect to see a dick on stage.
44:34All right, I'll rephrase that.
44:35Full frontal nudity is not admissible.
44:37Now pop it.
44:39You have no authority to fire me.
44:41I'm an integral part of that trick.
44:42We'll recast.
44:44I'm sure Jan will happily set up some auditions.
44:46Happy to have a streaker's dressing room, anyway.
44:48That's an oxymoron, surely.
44:50I can make big trouble for you and him.
44:52Don't think that I won't.
44:54Now you're really scaring me.
44:55Give him his clothes.
44:56Big trouble.
44:58And poxymoron yourself.
45:06Sorry to have interrupted one of your slanging matches
45:09knowing how much you relish the use of coarse language.
45:12God, you're never going to let it rest, are you,
45:14this business with your father?
45:16If you'd only tell me what the hell I'm supposed to have said
45:19to upset you.
45:20Just because he was sounding off that night
45:22about the trade unions or whatever,
45:23that's just his grumpy way, his generation.
45:26And?
45:27All I remember saying afterwards was
45:28he seems like a bit of a prick.
45:32Glee gentleman.
45:35On the other hand, I did have hiccups at the time,
45:37so he might have misheard me.
45:38Oh, right.
45:39Really.
45:39I mean, you've had a week to think that one up.
45:45Is that the best you can do?
45:46Look, it's not my fault if you only heard the first half.
45:51Heard the first half.
45:54Oh, shit.
45:57Which means if she was actually talking...
45:59Now what?
46:02Hello?
46:03You look at this painting, what do you see?
46:09Well, obviously, a person screaming.
46:11Well, obviously, because it's called The Scream.
46:14But if you think about it for a sec,
46:15it could equally be a painting of something else.
46:20A person hearing a scream.
46:23Which is what a lot of art historians now believe,
46:26based on the picture's original title,
46:28despair, and the fact that in Munch's day
46:30that landscape was said to contain a lunatic asylum.
46:34And you're telling me this because?
46:37Well, sometimes you just flip your perspective.
46:39You get a totally different idea of what's going on.
46:42We play that RT back,
46:43and automatically, what do we assume?
46:45That Parnabic is overhearing the victim's final words
46:48to the person who was strangling her.
46:52As opposed to?
46:54As opposed to.
46:56Something even more worrying
46:58that even now hardly bears thinking about.
47:02In which case, suddenly,
47:03that buzzing starts to make sense,
47:04and the specks of blood.
47:06To where the hell didn't we see that before?
47:09Come on, what's the most common explanation
47:11you can think of for blood on a collar?
47:14I don't know.
47:16Someone cutting someone's throat?
47:18Oh, that's very common, is it?
47:19Down your road?
47:22Can't you think more about someone
47:23cutting their own throat?
47:24Oh, Jonathan, don't make my brain ache
47:27any more than it is.
47:28What on earth are you driving at?
47:36Obviously, this is all in the way
47:38of a long-term pre-record
47:39for reasons of subdued,
47:40so none of this can go out to life to the trial.
47:42Oh, that's a point.
47:43OK.
47:44There you go.
47:45This gymnasium in the ultra-modern P.E. block
47:55at Hawley College of Further Education
47:57might seem an unlikely venue
47:59for a classic locked-room murder,
48:01but of course it was here
48:03on a freezing night in October
48:05that Police Sergeant Heather Davey
48:07was impossibly strangled to death
48:09while responding to a sighting
48:10of the so-called Daisy Chain Killer.
48:13Today, as Eyes and Ears
48:18prepares to shed sensational new light
48:20on that tragic event,
48:22we welcome back Superintendent Ted Parnovic,
48:24who hopefully will be kind enough
48:26to comment on our findings.
48:28And our own appointed mystery consultant,
48:30Jonathan Creek,
48:31whose flair for the intricacies of stage magic
48:33has led him, finally,
48:35to the solution of this bizarre
48:36and rather ingenious trick.
48:38Though, of course,
48:39there was very little to go on here,
48:40wasn't there, Jonathan,
48:41in the way of key data?
48:43I think we can all see,
48:45looking round,
48:45it's a bit of a fortress,
48:47a single door.
48:48Locked and under constant observation.
48:51And only one witness
48:52to what really happened,
48:54the victim herself.
48:57God!
48:58You bastard!
49:01You'll never...
49:02You'll never get away!
49:04God!
49:04God!
49:04God!
49:05Oh!
49:06From which two things struck you.
49:10A very slight humming or buzzing,
49:12you can just hear in the background,
49:14and the words,
49:15you bastard,
49:16you'll never get away.
49:18It's only since we found out
49:19the identity of this serial killer
49:20started to jar.
49:22And a woman might sometimes call another woman
49:25a bastard.
49:26But I don't know,
49:27I was suddenly thinking,
49:27what if you turn that whole moment on its head
49:29and the superintendent outside the door
49:32isn't overhearing her talking to an unknown killer at all?
49:36He knows exactly who she's talking to in there.
49:41She's talking to him.
49:45And from there,
49:46it isn't hard for us to imagine
49:47her more likely response,
49:50you'll never get away with this,
49:54cut off before she could finish.
49:58Excuse me.
50:00I don't know when he's taking any of this seriously.
50:03Have you any idea?
50:04As I said, superintendent,
50:05your response to this when we're done.
50:13And then, of course,
50:14there was something about that shooting
50:15in the street that bothered you.
50:17I had to ask myself
50:18why someone who'd previously strangled their victims
50:20would suddenly want us to believe
50:22they were toting a gun.
50:23Unless, of course,
50:25this was the work of someone else
50:26with another agenda entirely.
50:29Someone who'd decided to use these serial killings
50:31to mask a murder of their own.
50:35Moira Rose only comment on what happened here.
50:39You'll have to fit it together.
50:41There's some evidence
50:42she may have had trouble mentally
50:44separating this crime from her own,
50:46that, or she just didn't choose to cooperate.
50:49The more I thought about it,
50:50I could see only one possible reason
50:52to introduce the threat of gunfire.
50:55Recovered from the boot of your car earlier this morning
51:07and the whole key to how Heather Davey was murdered,
51:09may I?
51:11Of course, your passion for gadgetry
51:14was already well known to our superintendent.
51:15Except what we have here
51:17is rather more lethal than an airbag in a desk.
51:21The prototype for which I eventually realised
51:23was lying in my drawer at home.
51:27Anyone who's ever used one of these
51:29home blood pressure monitors
51:30will know how tight they have to get
51:32to cut off your circulation.
51:33Buzzing sound familiar.
51:39So I think we can imagine
51:41what something like this would feel like
51:42applied to your chest.
51:46A couple of concealed panels
51:49inside the lining,
51:51which, when activated,
51:53gradually inflate
51:54and lock together.
51:56Ready for this?
51:57So with the victim trapped inside,
52:13a piece of life-saving body armour
52:15becomes an instrument of death.
52:18Unable to breathe,
52:31to all intents and purposes,
52:34she's been strangled.
52:35A piece of life-saving body.
53:05Too late.
53:13She realised what was happening to her
53:14and who was responsible.
53:18Oh, my God.
53:20Oh, my God.
53:24No!
53:26God!
53:28No, you...
53:29You bastard!
53:32You...
53:32You'll never...
53:34You'll never get away!
53:38God!
53:40God!
53:42God!
53:42God!
53:46Of course, you couldn't risk
53:47leaving a customised flat jacket
53:49lying around for inspection.
53:50So at some point,
53:51there had to be a switch.
53:52A speck of blood on the collar
53:57should have told us
53:58it had been worn by a man
53:59who'd at some point
54:00cut himself shaving.
54:05So how did we do?
54:10In a breathtaking abuse
54:11of police manpower,
54:12you've engineered the murder
54:13of a woman you claim to have loved.
54:15regular viewers will be familiar
54:18with your views
54:18on crime and punishment,
54:20so I'm sure you'll argue
54:22just cause.
54:29Never underestimate
54:30the power of pride,
54:31Miss Borrego.
54:32It drives nations to war.
54:38Corrupts far stronger men than me.
54:44I was no more than a tool to her
54:46in every sense of the word.
54:50I had no place in her heart.
54:54Life was a ladder.
54:56I helped her climb it.
55:06As long as she lived,
55:09she knew she could control me.
55:12And in the end,
55:13I had no choice.
55:26Isn't that sweet?
55:39Let me.
55:40Yeah, but tonight maybe,
55:42when we get back,
55:43can't it wait?
55:46What if you don't come back tonight?
55:50You don't always.
55:53Only when it suits you,
55:54it seems.
55:56These days,
55:58I'm lucky if I see you
55:59one night in seven.
56:00Oh, there you go.
56:02One night in seven.
56:04Don't lock it.
56:06That should be more than enough
56:07for a man your age.
56:13You're not joined at the hip, Ted.
56:16You give me a helping hand,
56:18and I give you
56:20a helping hand.
56:23So don't be greedy, okay?
56:26Ever.
56:38Oh, God, be careful.
56:42You're trying to strangle me.
56:45I think I want this cheap tat
56:47around my throat.
56:48For God's sake, Ted,
56:51get a grip on yourself.
57:00Well, you can always argue,
57:01can't you?
57:03Which one's more to blame?
57:06The prostitute or her client?
57:07Yes.
57:08Yes.
57:16Right.
57:20Fine work, Mr. Creek.
57:25Very fine indeed.
57:26I'm telling you, people,
57:37when this goes out on air,
57:38big water cooler moment.
57:40Depend on it.
57:41And you want to know something?
57:42The two of you on screen.
57:44The camera loved us.
57:45Carla Borrego,
57:47Jonathan Creek.
57:48I think we're looking at a very strong combo.
57:50Velda Bessie Winstanley
57:54was a woman of great charm and energy
57:58with an appetite for life
58:00as big as her personality.
58:02And today,
58:03as the circumstances of her death
58:04remain tragically imprinted
58:06on our minds,
58:07I'm sure we all wish to honor
58:09her memory with a deep sense
58:10of pride and respect
58:12and, above all,
58:14dignity.
58:15to you.
58:17Oh!
58:19Oh!
58:22Jonathan!
58:23Jonathan!
58:25Oh, man!
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