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First broadcast 15th March 2003.
There seems to be no doubt that fashion designer Marco Bergman committed suicide.
Maureen Lipman - Louise Bergman
Nicholas Jones - Claude Bergman
Victoria Shalet - Carrie Bergman
Jeffrey Segal - Marco Bergman
Bill Bailey - Kenny Starkiss
Alexander Pownall - Little Boy
Jill Baker - Donna Henry
Adrian Edmondson - Brendan Baxter
Julia Sawalha - Carla Borrego
Haruka Kuroda - Presenter
Takuya Matsumoto - Husband
Takako Akashi - Wife
Selva Rasalingam - Sharif
Robert Atiko - Anwar
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Claire Jerath - Kaitlin
John Rogers - Photographer
James Barron - Mr. Cutler
Florencia Cordeu - Maid
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus (archive footage)
There seems to be no doubt that fashion designer Marco Bergman committed suicide.
Maureen Lipman - Louise Bergman
Nicholas Jones - Claude Bergman
Victoria Shalet - Carrie Bergman
Jeffrey Segal - Marco Bergman
Bill Bailey - Kenny Starkiss
Alexander Pownall - Little Boy
Jill Baker - Donna Henry
Adrian Edmondson - Brendan Baxter
Julia Sawalha - Carla Borrego
Haruka Kuroda - Presenter
Takuya Matsumoto - Husband
Takako Akashi - Wife
Selva Rasalingam - Sharif
Robert Atiko - Anwar
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Claire Jerath - Kaitlin
John Rogers - Photographer
James Barron - Mr. Cutler
Florencia Cordeu - Maid
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus (archive footage)
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00:00Thank you for having me.
00:307 minutes. That's the earliest it's ever been late.
00:54Not sure I'll even recognise her.
00:56Last time she came to stay with us, she was quite an infant.
01:00Well, let's see. Seventeen-year-old art student who likes bird-watching.
01:06Sometimes you just have to go with a hunch.
01:25This is interesting. You have a very strong sense of contour.
01:29I had a fear for what I'd call the organic imperative.
01:32Well, it's just some scribbles. I thought you and Grandad could run your professional eye over.
01:36Give me some pointers.
01:38Oh, and I got him this CD in Paris that just absolutely had his name on it.
01:41Marco Bergman for rule.
01:43So, of course, I had to get it, cos in a couple of weeks he'll be how many?
01:46Seventy-nine.
01:47Right.
01:48Right.
01:49I've got a few more spring collections in him yet.
01:51Oh, you know our father, Carrie.
01:53He just goes on forever.
01:54Shit!
01:55Shit!
02:00Did anyone see that?
02:02Something just flew right out in front of me there.
02:05A muntjack or something.
02:07I think I may have just clipped it.
02:09Are you kidding?
02:10Nope.
02:11Must have been lucky and just got clear.
02:12Well, it could have been a fox.
02:13It was hellish fast, whatever it was.
02:14Not far off then, though.
02:15A couple of miles?
02:16Yes.
02:17No lights on, I see.
02:18But, of course, it's well past your grandfather's bed.
02:19Oh, my God!
02:20What is it?
02:21What's he doing?
02:22What in hell's name is he doing?
02:23What in hell's name is he doing?
02:24What's that?
02:25What's that?
02:26Is he doing?
02:27It could have been a fox.
02:28It could have been a fox.
02:29It was hellish fast, whatever it was.
02:31Not far off then, though.
02:32Couple of miles?
02:33Yes.
02:34No lights on, I see.
02:35But, of course, it's well past your grandfather's bed.
02:37What is it?
02:38What is it?
02:42What's he doing?
02:47What in hell's name is he doing?
02:49Father!
02:53He'll never hear us from here. Come on!
02:55Oh, my God!
02:59No!
03:19Why?
03:27I mean, why?
03:49Oh, my God.
04:19Oh, my God.
04:48I'll take the particles of my body from this pod here invisibly through the ether to that pod there, where they will reassemble themselves into human form right before your eyes.
05:01Thank you very much.
05:02Ladies and gentlemen, the transmigration is complete.
05:30Oh, hey! Be assured, I am not a hologram. I am absolutely real. I think you'll confirm that, madam?
05:48It's a different man.
05:50Pardon me?
05:51It's a completely different man with a beard and glasses wearing the same clothes.
05:57I think not, Sonny.
05:59And if we look beneath the pod, there are no trapdoors of any kind.
06:05This is the crappest trick I've ever seen. What are we, morons?
06:09Yes. Well, if I just get back into the pod and teleport myself back again.
06:17Whoa, whoa. Whoa. Yeah. I'll be more than happy to allow our young friend to inspect the device inside for any signs of trickery.
06:31So, there you go. While he's checking that out, we move on to a little thing I call the human egg slicer.
06:44Interesting question. Perhaps I'll let Carla answer that one, sweetheart.
06:48Hmm?
06:49Donna was just asking if we felt ours is a marriage of equals.
06:52Or would you say professionally one of you tends to overshadow the other?
06:56Oh, no, no, no. Not at all. I'd say our careers utterly complement each other, wouldn't you?
07:03Carla has her own voice, her own very special skills, which, as yet, we barely started to exploit.
07:10Take a look at this.
07:12This is currently the number one show on Japanese television called Infidelity.
07:18We, today, are going to be making a pilot here in the UK, Carla presenting.
07:22Renamed Guilty Secrets, but same pitch.
07:24Contestant's crime is a lie detector for big cash prizes.
07:29See, the question she's asking there is, have you ever secretly yearned to have sex with your wife's sister?
07:41See, you've got the wife there, watching in the audience.
07:46There's nothing.
07:47Is that a slam dunk or what?
08:05And what's clever about it is it actually reveals to people true feelings they never knew they had,
08:10which I think is worth stressing in your feature that within the format of a game show...
08:14Well, the standards are certainly dropping in this place.
08:18I thought there was supposed to be a law about vermin in restaurants.
08:21I'm sorry, have we met?
08:22I wonder how you sleep at nights.
08:25Everything for you in life is black and white, isn't it?
08:28They're so full of certainties.
08:30Claude, come on.
08:33Someone should explain to you the difference between comment and crucifixion.
08:37Yes, how does it feel to be having lunch with a murderer?
08:40You sent him to his death that night, just as surely as if you pushed him off that ledge.
08:46Mr. Bergman, if your father was too weak to accept honest criticism, that's hardly a failing of mine.
08:54And if you'd like to repeat that slander here in front of witnesses, please do go ahead.
08:59And I'll be happy to sue you and your family's fashion empire for every last cent you possess.
09:06Come on, this is probably just the kind of confrontation she thrives on.
09:10I'll make you eat these words, so help me.
09:18People get a chip on their shoulders, what can you do?
09:21Now, getting back to the success of Eyes and Ears, what would you call that show?
09:25A kind of docudrama, I suppose?
09:27Well, it's more of a drama-mentary.
09:28Right.
09:36Mr. Starkis, may I say how much we enjoyed your act?
09:42So clever how you fooled the audience, right?
09:45Into thinking you're a complete idiot.
09:47By how you say, acting like a dumbass prick was very funny.
09:51Oh, well.
09:53Great stuff.
09:55So, you have much experience in the British magic industry, yes?
09:59I don't know, he tensed the wrong muscles or something, he wouldn't come out.
10:04Surgeons at the hospital had a rare old time.
10:06I think they had to get him from the other end somehow and push.
10:09Anyway, it's out now, but they reckon he'll be off for a week, which may be no bad thing,
10:12as we've just lost three of our four main showgirls for no apparent reason.
10:16I don't know.
10:18It's basically 48 hours, one after another.
10:20They all just handed in their notice and legged it.
10:22It's a complete mystery.
10:23So I'm afraid popping along to do some publicity pics for your true crimes peep show
10:30is not high on my list of current priorities.
10:32Just because I made one appearance...
10:39Look, I'll get back to you, OK?
10:46No, that sounds... absolutely...
10:50How exciting.
10:52Unit G, Kingsmere Industrial Estate, 8 o'clock Thursday.
10:59I'll be there.
11:00And thank you.
11:02Bye.
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11:52okay guys that's great yeah just this way turn up big smiles keep smiling at the camera that's
12:02excellent one okay just one more up here right i'm just going to change film you know what's
12:07still not working with this kind of grunge thing we're trying to build into the character
12:12maybe if we break it down some more with some fuller's earth or something
12:15just make it look a bit more lived in basically or how about if i take off the duffel coat
12:25you got from harrod's menswear department and put on my own duffel coat
12:35works for me if carlis happy
12:36yes all right then i suppose we can buy that now jonathan what i thought would be nice because
12:46you're a detective i don't think so sorry whatever you're going to suggest i know it's going to give
12:51me colitis promise you just a couple of props okay back to back carla's like this and you're like this
13:00yeah there you go goodbye will you just make the effort for once in your life and stop being such
13:06a joyless grump joyless grump i'm sorry but there's a level of moronic behavior i won't sink to
13:12really perhaps you'd like to define moronic
13:20guys what's going on here
13:30come on how's this good for business hmm no problem so big it can't be
13:36be solved okay so let's just kiss and make up mrs baxter
13:53now funnily enough i didn't believe that
14:04and now shake hands
14:22sorted
14:33Miss Henry, I hope you have a wonderful evening.
14:36Since you've last stayed with us, we've made many changes.
14:39I trust for your approval.
14:41And I think you'll find the news that we spend here.
14:53It's okay.
15:23I've got an admin.
15:25Please look forward to seeing what new menu is.
15:29I love you, I'm sure you are.
15:33I want to know that you are taking a moment.
15:36Ichi, I gotta go home.
15:38I'm already here.
15:40I can't stand that moment for you.
15:44I'm not sure you are here.
15:46I know you are here and you are here.
15:48I'm here and you are here.
15:50I will be here.
15:51Donna Henry, do you know how much hatred that name inspires?
16:05How did you get in here?
16:08You, and all those like you, trade in abuse, self-abuse, getting off on your own smug,
16:16unfeeling rhetoric, and abuse that destroys.
16:21Tear it up.
16:29I said, tear it up!
16:40Now start chewing.
16:43And that's how he made me eat my words.
17:01God, you're pathetic.
17:03All right.
17:03I said, all of it.
17:20Miss Henry?
17:23Henry?
17:24Are you okay?
17:25One word.
17:26I warn you.
17:28Miss Henry, we've had a report of someone acting very suspiciously on this floor.
17:38No, that's okay.
17:40I'm, um, you can come in.
17:43Everything's fine.
17:45Oh, sorry about that.
17:47You haven't had any problems?
17:50No.
17:51There's been no one.
17:52Well, I'd keep the security chain on, just to be safe.
18:04Sorry to have troubled you.
18:06Good night.
18:07Night.
18:07Very good.
18:15Unless you want to see me again, you keep your mouth shut, clear.
18:24Right, that guy.
18:25Okay, I've got him.
18:27And you can drop that gun.
18:28Come on.
18:28I said drop it.
18:29Well, I'm disappointing, Mr. Bergman.
18:35It hasn't worked out quite the way you plan.
18:40What is it?
18:50God help us.
18:51We can hardly accuse him of subtlety.
18:54I mean, the whole thing was clearly a set-up.
18:56Designed to question my certainties,
18:59to upend my black and white view of the world.
19:04You're sure it wasn't some kind of very good disguise
19:06if it was just for a few seconds?
19:10Claude Bergman walked into that shower, is all I can tell you.
19:15I mean, is anyone buying all this?
19:18Because I thought his father made lousy clothes and said so.
19:21That made him jump out of a window.
19:22So, what happened in that bathroom wasn't physically possible.
19:30And God damn him, he knows it.
19:35Oh, brilliant.
19:37Well, that's why she gave a reason.
19:39Any more than the other three did.
19:41No.
19:43Talk about rats leaving a sinking ship.
19:47Watch your fingers on those.
19:49They're lethal.
19:49Yes, I'll try and just bleed neatly into this cup.
19:54So, is that of any interest, then, what I've just told you?
19:57Or am I completely wasting my time?
20:00Yeah.
20:01Look, sorry, we've just had another girl hand in her notice.
20:05Something very strange going on around here.
20:07I'll have to get to the bottom of.
20:08Not that I can do anything about it till eight o'clock tonight.
20:10Look, about yesterday, I'm sorry about the tongue.
20:21Yes, it was like choking on a kipper.
20:24I could hardly breathe.
20:26But you didn't exactly resist.
20:28I had a thumb in each ear.
20:29My options were somewhat limited.
20:32And may I say, not exactly helping matters today, are you?
20:36If we're trying to keep our hormones in check.
20:39I'm sorry.
20:40Next time I'll wear a roll of lino.
20:43Decolletage happens to be deeply in at the moment.
20:48Here we go.
20:48So, what's the story here?
20:56She'd given this place a bad notice a few years ago.
20:59So, they invite her back for one night
21:01to show how much they've cleaned up their act.
21:03During which, Mr. Claude Bergman,
21:06heir to the Marco Bergman fashion empire,
21:08appears to have pulled off a minor miracle
21:10that you, with your superpowers, are about to explain.
21:13Possibly.
21:14Okay.
21:18You know, there's an art to looking inconspicuous.
21:26I don't think you've quite mastered, have you?
21:40This is all very well,
21:41but what if the real occupant comes back?
21:44He left for a meeting at ten.
21:45I checked.
21:46Now, get ready.
21:48Morning.
21:50Good morning.
21:51Are you well?
21:52Yeah, yeah.
21:53Um, I think I might grab a quick shower,
21:56if you're all finished in there.
21:57Oh, yeah.
21:58Yeah.
21:58Yeah.
21:58Yeah.
21:59Yeah.
21:59Yeah.
22:18Sorry, I think I left my polish.
22:31Um, just a sec, then.
22:35Okay.
22:36So, are we getting any closer?
22:55Mm-hmm.
22:57Well, there's nowhere they could have switched places in this room.
23:02Clearly.
23:03What's the thing?
23:04Maybe.
23:05Trapped or in the tray?
23:07Or maybe they got in and out through the walls somehow.
23:11Impractical.
23:12And with this curtain, you'd see the movement.
23:15Yet she swears blind she didn't imagine it.
23:18That he was here one minute, and then...
23:22Oh, hang on.
23:24This is getting scary.
23:26Well, whatever happened, I think we can assume the hotel were in on it.
23:31It's probably why they invited her here in the first place.
23:34Oh.
23:35Because they had a school to settle with her as well.
23:38Not with everyone else, she's ever rubbished in print.
23:41I see what you're saying.
23:46Don't think she's likely to come back now.
23:49Probably not.
23:50You want to dry me down?
24:05OK.
24:06I see what you're saying.
24:06I see what you're saying.
24:27OK.
24:27I don't know.
24:57I don't know.
25:27I don't know.
25:57I might have known the troglodyte intelligence that would be behind all this.
26:14What have you done with that girl?
26:16Jonathan Creek, what's happening?
26:18I absolutely shudder to think.
26:20Those two men just then...
26:22Oh, Sharif and Anwar.
26:23Guess what?
26:24Turns out, right, they're over here scouting talent for a new magic review in Dubai.
26:30Said with my contacts in the business, maybe I could suggest a few names.
26:33So, no pressure.
26:35We give them all a little try out, first of all, see how they fare.
26:37No pressure?
26:39She was nailed up in a crate.
26:41Hey, it's not what it looks like.
26:45What does it look like?
26:46I don't believe I'm hearing this.
26:49Do the words white slave trade mean nothing to you?
26:52Yeah, right.
26:53Do you take me for a complete and utter imbecile?
26:56Yes.
26:57For which reason, I'll give you 24 hours' grace.
27:01To get those women out of trouble, Kenny.
27:03By whatever means.
27:05And then I'm going to the police.
27:13Listen, I think I've got it, how we can untangle the whole thing.
27:17I'll tell you all about it on the way there.
27:18So, let me see if I've got this.
27:29We find out how he pulled off that trick by going to his house and asking him how he did it.
27:36I find the best thing in life is to be straight with people.
27:38We tell him the country's top magic expert is complete...
27:42Well, stretching it a bit there, obviously.
27:44It's completely baffled.
27:46Human nature.
27:46He'll be bursting to spill the beans, just to see your reaction.
27:50It's like when you know a really good secret.
27:52What's the point, unless you can tell someone?
27:54Trust me, Jonathan, you've got a lot to learn about psychology.
27:57I haven't the faintest clue what you're talking about.
28:00As I've already told Miss Henry, I was nowhere near the hotel that night.
28:04Not if I you or anybody else.
28:06Prove otherwise.
28:07No, I'm sorry.
28:08I have a very large business to run.
28:09Morning.
28:10I don't know which is worse.
28:17You saying it or thinking it.
28:19I'll just think it for now.
28:23Anyway, we're not out of options yet.
28:26There's also his sister, the lovely Louise.
28:29Who you never know, might have something to tell us.
28:31Not to beat about the bush, Donna Henry is scum, whose only talent is to sneer at the talents
28:43of others.
28:43As an ex-model, of course, she's had plenty to say about me over the years.
28:47If you're looking for a cheap plastic bag, try Louise Bergman.
28:55And similar attempts at wit.
28:58Frankly, I'm afraid, she needed teaching a lesson.
29:02And teaching her a lesson is what it was all about?
29:05Look, it's only 48 hours to my father's funeral.
29:11And I was just in the middle of a manicure, so...
29:13Well, that's okay.
29:14We can go on chatting while you carry on.
29:16He was quite an inspiration to you, your father.
29:37Well, his intellect was formidable.
29:40One could barely keep up.
29:43As he always used to tease me.
29:44There wasn't room for a brain that size in my lovely little head.
29:50In his words, Claude has the complexity and you have the complexion.
29:56That's how the genes fell.
29:59Of course, in recent years, he'd become more or less housebound.
30:03Although, some of the designs he'd produced from home, I thought, were electrifying.
30:08But, what with one thing and another, he really couldn't travel anymore, so...
30:12And, of course, he was famously afraid of flying, wasn't he?
30:16Ever since the war, so...
30:17I'm sorry?
30:19Didn't I read that once?
30:20My father flew all over the world, until recently.
30:24We have outlets in 37 countries.
30:28Now...
30:29Nostrils.
30:31Would you mind?
30:38Superfluous people who vomit their bile and call it a newspaper.
30:42Exactly.
30:44Who are we to disagree with Friedrich Nietzsche?
30:49Blimey.
30:50Horse feathers.
30:52Coconuts.
30:52That must be every film the Marx Brothers ever made here.
30:56My grandfather's.
30:58And he won't be watching them again, will he?
31:01So, what's the deal here?
31:03She's roped you in to nail my uncle by magic for something he didn't do.
31:07Well, it says he didn't do, but...
31:13Go on, then.
31:17Amaze me.
31:19Sorry?
31:20With something impossible.
31:29Um, when I flick the pack, just memorise any card at random.
31:37King of hearts.
31:47Three of spades.
31:57Not everyone can take it, you know.
32:00Just because he was rich and famous.
32:04He was an old man.
32:05He messed his head up that much.
32:09He's going to throw his own parrot out the window.
32:12It's unreal.
32:13I know, but...
32:14Is that okay?
32:18An African grey named Harvey.
32:22He all knew for a fact he felt the world on.
32:24By amazing good luck, it had survived.
32:40It tells you something about the state of mind he was in that night.
32:43How could you have known that?
32:51The king of hearts?
32:52I mean, how could you possibly have known?
32:55I couldn't for certain.
32:57It only works about 60% of the time.
33:00I flick the cards, let that one linger just a notch longer than the others.
33:04Usually the brain's too lazy to argue, so...
33:09This room he jumped out of was whereabouts, exactly?
33:15When you saw him on the ledge,
33:33was the light on in here?
33:35Can you remember?
33:35Was the light on?
33:39No.
33:41Because Aunt Louise switched it on when she came in
33:43and found the newspaper here on the table.
33:47I'll stay a week or two
33:51I'll stay the summer through
33:54But I am telling you...
33:56So we're saying he goes to bed
33:58churning it all over
34:02and now feels so worthless
34:05he decides to kill himself
34:07and his parent.
34:11I'll do anything you say
34:13In fact, I'll even stay
34:15Well, he was obviously in a state of great depression.
34:20Well, who knows?
34:37At that age, his brain had probably turned to chutney.
34:40I mean, last summer?
34:41Trying to mix tweeds and velvets?
34:43I don't think so.
34:48Meet me at the theatre at eight?
34:50What's that all about?
35:20So we're no nearer then, are we, basically?
35:27I'm just going to have to go back to her
35:29and say the maestro has failed.
35:32Unless she did just make it all up out of spite.
35:36Maybe that stupid face pat around her eye
35:38she couldn't see straight in the first place.
35:41Reasing now, standing here.
35:43I'm not surprised.
35:45If I thought, could have brought a couple of tea cosies.
35:51What did you say just then?
35:53What?
35:55Are you saying that Donna Henry,
35:57when she was in that bathroom,
35:58had one of those mud packs on her face?
36:00So?
36:00Well, I don't think you mentioned this before, did you?
36:04Why?
36:05What does that tell us?
36:06It tells us how Claude Bergman
36:08could have turned himself into another person that night
36:10right under her nose.
36:13With an idea almost certainly borrowed from Groucho Marx.
36:17And as a matter of fact,
36:28I'd say you have an unnatural preoccupation, actually,
36:31with female breasts.
36:33Based on what?
36:43You see, this is exactly the kind of thing...
36:46I had a word with the boys about what you suggested,
36:55and, um, as it happens,
36:57they had a better idea.
37:09Oh, no!
37:11Oh, no, please!
37:13Please!
37:13Oh, who are they from?
37:15Don't leave us here!
37:16Come back!
37:18Oh, Jonathan, we're going to fall!
37:20Oh, my God!
37:21Oh, it's going to fall!
37:22Look!
37:23On the spikes!
37:24Oh, my God!
37:25What are we going to do?
37:28Would you mind not doing that, please?
37:30It's not exactly helping matters.
37:31How does he get out in the act?
37:34Through a concealed flap just here,
37:36to which only he has the key,
37:38and then swings off on a special hidden rig,
37:39which they very thoughtfully left backstage.
37:42Oh, Jonathan!
37:43So how long do you think we've got before?
37:48Before that rope burns off around the steel safety cable.
37:52About 20 seconds.
37:53And then before the stage manager turns up tomorrow morning
38:01and lets us down,
38:02probably 11 hours.
38:04Yes, of course, normally we turn this off during the show.
38:21You were saying
38:25something about the Marx Brothers?
38:29Oh.
38:31Yeah, well, you have to see Duck Soup.
38:36One of the classic comedies of pre-war cinema.
38:38Well, I could certainly do with a laugh right now.
38:46What I said,
38:48the hotel had to be in on it.
38:51Some pre-arranged scheme he took to them.
38:55Hacking out secret doorways in the shower cubicles
38:57hardly going to escape notice,
38:58but what if they went for something a bit more oblique,
39:02using the very fact that it was a hotel to their advantage?
39:04So let's say the first guy, who's an accomplice,
39:10breaks into the bathroom,
39:12puts on a bit of a husky voice,
39:14could be Claude, could be anyone.
39:17Now, you take that face pack out of the equation,
39:19this all goes out the window.
39:21But with it, what happens?
39:23You've got two people there wearing masks.
39:26In a room that, because it's a hotel,
39:29is right next to another bathroom,
39:31completely identical,
39:32only built the other way round.
39:35So then,
39:37the key moment comes,
39:38when he shoves her head down.
39:41If at that moment,
39:42the mirror's briefly flipped back,
39:45leaving just a sheet of glass,
39:47with a couple of people on the other side playing reflections,
39:50the whole trick becomes pretty undemanding.
39:53It's the classic routine where Harpo's dressed as Groucho,
40:01matching all his moves behind the shattered mirror,
40:04except Louise,
40:05or whoever it is under the other mud pack,
40:09only has to keep it up for a few seconds.
40:11A moment later,
40:11the mirror's back in place,
40:12and there's not a shred of doubt in Donna's mind
40:15who's stepping into that shower
40:17and pulling the curb.
40:20That business with the manager grabbing in
40:22and the guy getting away,
40:23would all have been carefully rehearsed.
40:26So,
40:27the only question now is
40:29whether we can get him to admit it.
40:32Actually, I think that's fairly immaterial.
40:35Makes the much more worrying question
40:36of why Marco Bergman
40:39really threw himself out of that window.
40:49And that's his last recorded appearance in public
40:52nearly 18 months ago.
40:54Last couple of years,
40:55she said he'd been working totally from home.
40:58Now, I actually read this at the time,
41:01and I'm sure it said he had a fear of flying somewhere or other.
41:05I can't have imagined it.
41:07Just can't shake off the feeling
41:09we've been sidetracked here
41:10onto the wrong problem.
41:13No-one chucks a parrot out the window
41:15just before they're about to jump.
41:17Don't care how depressed they are.
41:20Something about this guy that's not right.
41:23What is it?
41:26Chums!
41:27How are we doing?
41:2912 hours together in a cage.
41:31It's a good thing I don't get jealous.
41:32It'll all be shot on the night.
41:38Jamie!
41:39How are you doing?
41:41I was sure you couldn't make the party last week.
41:43Here we are.
41:43Oh, you missed a good one.
41:44In the RAF, 1941,
41:47when his plane caught fire over France,
41:51flying in a burning aircraft
41:52was emotionally damaging as well as physically
41:54and left me with something of a lifelong phobia.
41:58Hmm.
41:59Something of a phobia.
42:03No, it went quite well,
42:04considering we were head-to-head
42:05against Geoffrey's leaving bash the same night.
42:07Perhaps we'll leave you in peace, darling.
42:09Yeah.
42:10No, I think our attendance peaked around 60, 65,
42:12something like that.
42:13Roughly a 30% share.
42:15I know I'm completely out of line saying this,
42:18but what are you doing with him?
42:20I mean, really?
42:22You're right.
42:23Well, completely out of line.
42:25I happen to love him.
42:26Though you obviously find that hard to believe.
42:35Well, this wasn't in the script.
42:39I really didn't think you'd come.
42:41Chance to gloat.
42:43Wouldn't miss that for the world.
42:45Look, because I do what I do
42:48doesn't mean I believe in it.
42:52Readers and editors got bored with balance a long time ago.
42:56Today, they want it plain and simple.
43:00Christians and lions.
43:05I'm sorry about what happened.
43:08He was your father, and...
43:11I'm sorry.
43:13Well...
43:22I'm not sure that was in the script, either.
43:26Oh!
43:26Where are you going?
43:32Sorry, Donna.
43:34You see, whereas I have the power to change into another person,
43:37you don't.
43:39You'll always be a cold, transparent manipulator.
43:45Pillow talk can be risky.
43:47I give away trade secrets.
43:48I know that's the last thing you'd want.
43:52I really think this is going to prove anything.
44:20And how's this thing supposed to work, anyway?
44:26The point is that it reveals your true feelings.
44:29Now, will you stop jabbering and press the button?
44:31Well?
44:41What shall I say?
44:42I don't know.
44:43You wanted to try this contraption out to make some point or other?
44:47Yes.
44:48To convince you that my marriage is totally solid
44:50and based on a very deep, reciprocal love between me and friends.
44:54Get me out of this thing!
45:05I can't believe you're putting your name to this garbage.
45:10The people who brought you Pearl Harbor.
45:12It may still not come to anything
45:15unless we get a new deal with the network
45:17to pick up the option for a full series next year.
45:21What?
45:23No, I just got a connection there, suddenly.
45:26New Deal and Pearl Harbor.
45:29What did she say that set it off before?
45:32He was in a state of Great Depression.
45:34Great Depression, New Deal, Pearl Harbor.
45:39All point towards...
45:42Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
45:46Did you see that quote again?
45:50There you go.
45:51It doesn't say he was afraid of flying at all.
45:55You put this together with those scratches around the lock
45:57and all those socks that were pinned together,
45:59you've got the makings of a murder so cynical
46:02it almost defies the...
46:03Jonathan Creak.
46:09Yes, what...
46:12I suppose.
46:14Why? What's happened?
46:15What's happened?
46:33I think it might be better if I take that.
46:48Slow down.
46:50It must have been somewhere around here they saw it.
46:52The old man committing suicide.
46:58Except there's no way, of course, it was suicide.
47:02Something in that room made him leap to his death that night.
47:05It certainly wasn't an article by Donna Henry.
47:07Oh, my God.
47:13Jonathan.
47:24Carrie!
47:25Carrie!
47:25For God's sake, get back inside!
47:28She locked me in.
47:29She took away my medication.
47:31My insulin!
47:33I'm telling you she's demented!
47:39Carrie!
47:40What's going on in there?
47:41What are you doing?
47:44For goodness sake!
47:45What the hell are you playing at?
47:48I can't believe you did that.
47:49Did what?
47:50You locked yourself in with the other key.
47:53When I heard her shouting, I just...
47:55She's insane!
47:56She's completely...
47:57Carrie!
47:57Oh, I mean, this is such nonsense.
47:59Really?
47:59She would have let me die there!
48:00Oh, God, would I do a thing like that?
48:03For heaven's sake, child!
48:06Because I know.
48:10How she murdered my grandfather.
48:12I suppose we might just have swallowed that line about an old man giving up after a bad
48:23press review.
48:25Possibly.
48:26It hadn't been for the utterly pointless act of hurling a live bird out of the window.
48:31A couple of things in his room, and the way he behaved last time he was seen in public,
48:42conjured up some obscure parallel with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
48:50FDR, the most respected president of the 20th century, who for 12 years managed to con
48:57the vast majority of America.
48:58Into thinking he could walk.
49:04People saw him drag himself along, hold body weight sporting on someone's arm, and had
49:09no idea he was completely paralysed from the waist down.
49:12Somewhere here, I don't know, there was a very creepy echo of that deception.
49:18A man who has trouble locating the keyhole in his wardrobe, whose socks have been very
49:24carefully pinned together in pairs, and whose eye lines in that bookshop were just a little
49:29bit uncomfortable, all pointed to a sad truth you were desperate to keep from the public.
49:37that for the last two years, Marco Bergman was blind.
49:43Between us, somehow, we kept things afloat.
49:55My designs.
49:56My designs.
49:57His name, naturally.
49:58How much would a painting by Monet's son be worth?
50:02When Marco Bergman had to survive intact.
50:09I was quite determined about that.
50:11But, um...
50:13I'm sorry, I don't follow this.
50:16Press reports, critical comment.
50:20The rule was we kept him fully informed.
50:22So if you're saying that he wasn't aware of what was in that article...
50:26But would it account for his very peculiar actions?
50:30For the sake of argument, then, let's try flipping the logic.
50:33He wasn't trying to kill the parrot, but protect it
50:36from something that threatened both their lives,
50:38something that terrified him so much he'd do anything to escape.
50:43Go back to his experiences in the war.
50:46Rather ambiguous remark.
50:50Flying in a burning aircraft left me with something of a lifelong phobia.
50:57We realise it wasn't flying he was afraid of at all.
51:02Was it, Louise?
51:05But fire.
51:09And for a man who couldn't see,
51:12a life-threatening inferno could all too easily be created.
51:16Sinking it all up wasn't a problem.
51:29An imaginary muntjac would place you at the top of the hill
51:32at just the right moment with your niece on hand
51:35as the perfect impartial witness.
51:37So the newspaper's been placed there to point the finger.
51:44And then, after dark, while he's fast asleep, it happens.
51:48To a man of 80, still barely conscious,
52:00the sound alone is going to be enough to convince him
52:02his own imagination will do the rest.
52:04Father, don't open the door!
52:26Whatever he heard you shouting to him,
52:30apparently from outside,
52:32was designed to convince him
52:34he had just one slim chance of surviving.
52:38We're bringing out masses of push-ups!
52:41Jumped from that window.
52:42This is your only chance!
52:44Somehow he tried to break his fall.
52:47Between the two of you managed to catch him as he came down.
52:49Wait a moment!
52:52Harvey!
53:02Dropping him!
53:06Catch him!
53:12He saved the parrot, so he thinks.
53:16Now it's his turn.
53:18What else was he going to do?
53:19It was a last, desperate act of trust
53:22by a man who feared for his life.
53:25Father, please!
53:27You have to trust us!
53:45So the next day, you dispose of the tape.
53:48Not quite as carefully as you should have done.
53:51Father, you have to!
54:08Father, please!
54:10You have to!
54:11Father!
54:11Please!
54:12You have to!
54:12Father, please!
54:13father jump you have to father please you have to trust us
54:22suddenly you're backed into a corner with only one lifeline
54:31get rid of the evidence and the only witness to that evidence and you might still see it through
54:37and if your niece happens to fall into a fatal diabetic coma who's going to lay the blame at your
54:47door don't make me believe that it can't you see i did it for us
54:58frail infirm blind you think that weakened him nothing weakened him
55:06did he ever value a single contribution we made to this business
55:12treat us as anything other than incompetent children day after day year after year
55:20the cold unfeeling arrogance of it all i'm afraid i've had enough
55:26as long as he drew breath we were going nowhere just meekly marking time waiting in the wings
55:36genuflecting to his genius and we would have gone to our graves
55:42you know that waiting in the wings well maybe there was more going on in my lovely little head than he'd imagined
55:51louise bless her may not be one of mankind's greatest thinkers
56:02but her eternal elegance and quiet youthful grace have made her the perfect repository for my creations
56:12my daughter the talentless clothes horse
56:21well no more daddy
56:24no more being the tailor's dummy
56:28for the first time in my life
56:32i think i've earned a little respect don't you
56:35for the sheer ingenuity of what i did
56:40why are you all looking at me
56:53as if i'm mad
56:55and that's it for now join us again soon for another penetrating examination of love
57:01life and life in guilty secrets good night
57:05that was great great thanks very much thanks guys
57:10come on then jonathan tell me that's not a hit
57:19sorry
57:20well yes when it came out that guy enjoyed mentally undressing his uncle there were certainly
57:27some fireworks i've never seen anyone break a sound boom over their knee before
57:31i want to come back from the lady the truth hurts mr huxtable
57:35even when it's not of course
57:38why do you think the show is such a hit in japan
57:44because they leave nothing to chance
57:48want to renew the polygraph's been specially programmed to produce a result six times out of ten
57:54on a random basis to preserve spontaneity but
57:58that's not a technique we share with the network who take a more pious view of these things
58:04don't get too deeply into how the show's made it'll never get commissioned
58:07which would be the nation's loss precisely angel that was a triumph i'm coming right down
58:14brandon not around just this second go on back to the studio
58:25you're doing a big profile piece on his production company did someone say
58:35well i'm gathering material which thus far isn't going to set the world alight
58:40why did you have anything to
58:43no no no no well it depends
58:51can you keep a secret
58:53so
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