- 4 weeks ago
First broadcast 27th November 1980.
With only three months to go of his sentence Terry's old school-friend George Palmer escapes from prison, protesting his innocence of the diamond robbery for which he was convicted.
Dennis Waterman - Terry
George Cole - Arthur
Diana Malin - Debbie
Paul Copley - Palmer
Sherrie Hewson - Olive
Peter Childs - Rycott
Derek Thompson - Harry
Paul Moriarty - Wells
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Nick Stringer - Tommy
Trevor Byfield - Billy (as Ziggy Byfield)
Harold Berens - Jacobson
Terence Plummer - Barry
Mike Reynell - Man in Pub
With only three months to go of his sentence Terry's old school-friend George Palmer escapes from prison, protesting his innocence of the diamond robbery for which he was convicted.
Dennis Waterman - Terry
George Cole - Arthur
Diana Malin - Debbie
Paul Copley - Palmer
Sherrie Hewson - Olive
Peter Childs - Rycott
Derek Thompson - Harry
Paul Moriarty - Wells
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Nick Stringer - Tommy
Trevor Byfield - Billy (as Ziggy Byfield)
Harold Berens - Jacobson
Terence Plummer - Barry
Mike Reynell - Man in Pub
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TVTranscript
00:00Three days, Terry. Three old bloody days.
00:03And I suppose you're going to tell me your phone was on the blink.
00:05No, I'm not going to tell you anything.
00:07Oh, that's nice.
00:09Here I am, working myself to death, trying to get you gainful employment,
00:12and you're off out of town without so much as a dicky bird.
00:14It's confidential.
00:16Don't be funny.
00:18I'm Arthur, remember?
00:20I'm the fellow who keeps you supplied with solves to stop you straying off the straight and narrow.
00:23You don't have nothing confidential from me.
00:26Well, if it was down to me, I'd tell you, but it isn't.
00:28I promised to keep Stun.
00:30Promised who?
00:31What a bloke I was working for.
00:34You mean you've been doing a job?
00:37Yeah.
00:38Well, well, well, where's the wages?
00:40No, there aren't any wages. It was a favour, you know.
00:42No, what?
00:43Right, I am subbing you for this month's rent, them new tyres on your motor,
00:47that flash cassette thing you fancy.
00:49Yeah, I know, I know.
00:49You are into me for 200 quid, Terry, and I want to know when I can see it.
00:52When I get the reddies.
00:53Oh, yeah? And who's going to rustle up these reddies for you?
00:56You, Arthur.
00:57Yeah, well, don't forget that.
00:58Don't go swanning off doing favours for other people while you've still got an overdraft.
01:02He who pays a piper calls a tune.
01:05Do what?
01:06You are my piper, young Terence, and don't you forget that.
01:09I'm not having you going off playing other fellas' music for free.
01:13Oh, right.
01:14Nah.
01:15That's it.
01:16That's what?
01:17Don't worry, you'll get your money, but after that, finished.
01:19What do you mean, finished?
01:20From now on, I'll get me own jobs.
01:23And you can find someone who won't do anything for nothing.
01:26That modern bloody generation, you're all the same.
01:30Give them a leg to stand on, and they use it to kick you up the arse.
01:32Let's go.
02:28Let's go.
02:59George?
03:00Oh, hello, Terry.
03:08Ain't lost a touch with the old locks.
03:12Not lost me touch with these, neither.
03:15Too much green in your spectrum.
03:18Should be OK now.
03:20Terrific. Well, where do I owe you?
03:22Uh, got a beer, have you?
03:24Of course I have. Come here.
03:25Here you go.
03:28So, when did you get out?
03:32Yesterday.
03:34What are you doing here?
03:35Well, I can't go on. They'll be watching it.
03:39You're not playing truant, are you?
03:41Yeah.
03:42Hold on, I thought you were due out this year sometime.
03:46Three months.
03:48Three months to go.
03:50Three months? You're round the twist, son.
03:52I mean, you've already done, what, four years?
03:54Yeah, three and a half.
03:56But I've thought about this all the time I was inside.
03:59It's the only way.
04:00The only way to what?
04:02Prove I was fitted up for that diamond job.
04:04Get people to start asking questions.
04:06It's a long time ago.
04:07I mean, who's going to be interested?
04:08Oh, they will be when this hits the papers.
04:11They're going to ask why I put myself in stuck
04:13so near the end of me bird.
04:15There can only be one reason for that.
04:16Because you left your brains behind in a nick.
04:18Of course, three years hasn't made no difference.
04:20I'm still saying what I said at the trial.
04:22It was the old bill who put me in the frame.
04:23For the diamond robbery, yeah.
04:25There were plenty of other blaggings you could have been done for.
04:28That's not the point.
04:29The point is, I've done three years
04:31for something that wasn't done to me.
04:32What's Olive going to think?
04:39She'd go spare.
04:40Yeah.
04:42Well, I thought maybe you'd explain to her.
04:46She'd take notice of you, Terry.
04:48About the only blagg from school she'd take any notice of.
04:51She still fancies you too, I reckon.
04:54All right, I'll talk to her.
04:55But you can't stay here.
04:57The old bill about to know we're mates.
05:02Hold on, that might be the old bill.
05:03If they haven't got a warrant, I'll stall them, all right?
05:05Get in the bedroom.
05:08Oi, oi!
05:10Jackie.
05:18Hello, Deb.
05:19Hello, Till.
05:21Mind if I crash here for a couple of days?
05:23What's wrong with your drum?
05:25Landlord's honoured me to do a private strip for him.
05:28He's had another key cut.
05:29I can't go back till I've changed the locks.
05:31Well, it's not really very easy at the moment, Debbie.
05:34Can't have a bird, have you?
05:35Oh, I don't mind.
05:36I'll keep on the floor.
05:38No, no, it's nothing like that.
05:39It's all right.
05:40Hold on, hold on.
05:42Oh.
05:44Yeah, George, Debbie, Debbie, George.
05:47Nice to meet you.
05:48Likewise, I'm sure.
05:50George's just popped in the memo, I tell you.
05:52Oh, yeah?
05:52Yeah.
05:54Just checking the aerial.
05:56The only thing is, he's doing a bit of moonlighting from his phone, right?
05:59And, well, if anybody found out, he could get into trouble.
06:02So, if anybody asks, not that they should, but if they did, you haven't seen him, all right?
06:07An invisible mender?
06:08Yeah.
06:09It's all right, Terry.
06:10I can't see a thing without my contact lenses.
06:13I love you.
06:22Nice implements, Arthur.
06:30Very nice.
06:32Hope they didn't get damaged in the fall.
06:35Fall?
06:35Off the back of the lorry.
06:37Oh, please, look, Mr. Rycott, do me a favour.
06:39Arthur, don't make jokes like that.
06:41One or two of your colleagues might get the wrong impression.
06:43Made in Hong Kong, I see.
06:44You got an import licence of you?
06:46Well, no, I'm not actually flogging them.
06:48I'm just storing them for a mate till he comes back.
06:49Yeah, well, save all that for customs and excise, Arthur.
06:53I've come to see you about something else.
06:54What?
06:55Not what, who?
06:57George Palmer.
06:58George?
06:58But he's still inside, isn't he?
07:00He is supposed to be, yeah.
07:02Only he isn't.
07:04He slipped his collar.
07:06Well, it wasn't very difficult, really.
07:08He was down at Farnham Open Prison,
07:10so he didn't exactly need a grappling hook and a rope ladder, did he?
07:13He was due out soon, wasn't he?
07:15Three months.
07:16Does that make any sense to you?
07:18No.
07:19Me neither.
07:20Some of these villains have got nothing in between their ears except sawdust.
07:23Yeah, look, Mr. Rycott, what's all this got to do with me?
07:26I hardly know George Palmer.
07:27You know, him and Terry were pretty close, weren't they?
07:29Fancy themselves as Jack the Lads when they were kids,
07:32even when they were picking up schoolgirls down Percival Street.
07:35So?
07:35Well, I thought you might like a friendly word.
07:39If Palmer does turn up at his drum,
07:41he wants to get him out of there fast,
07:42because I should be paying him a little visit very shortly.
07:45I'm afraid you're talking to the wrong fellow, Mr. Rycott.
07:47Terry and me have dissolved our partnership.
07:50Why?
07:50We had an agreement.
07:51He broke it.
07:52Well, give him his cards.
07:53I'm very sorry to hear that, Arthur.
07:55For his sake, yeah.
07:57And for yours?
07:58Mine?
08:00Well, what's that leave you with?
08:02Nothing.
08:03Except a load of dodgy golf clubs.
08:10No, Terry.
08:12I'd like to help you out, but I just can't take the risk.
08:14You owe me, Dave.
08:15I've just spent three days helping you out.
08:18Well, I offered you wages.
08:19You wouldn't take them.
08:19No, you don't take wages off of mates.
08:22But a favour for a favour, that's different, isn't it?
08:24Gin and tonic, please, dear.
08:25What I asked you, that was legal.
08:27What you're asking me, I'd get done good and proper for them.
08:29I know that, Dave.
08:31So after this, I'll owe you.
08:33Make it a double, would you?
08:34How long?
08:41A week.
08:42Well, two at the most.
08:43He just wants time to try and clear himself.
08:47Okay.
08:47Stick him in the loft.
08:48Yeah, if the old Bill finds him, I don't know nothing about it.
08:51Absolutely, Dave.
08:53Thanks a lot, mate.
08:56Bloody maniac, that's what he is.
08:59Three months before the end of his burden, he does something like this.
09:02Put some more water in that, will you, Harry?
09:07You don't sound very concerned.
09:09I'm not.
09:11You need to do a couple more years for this one.
09:14Two more years of having to manage on your own.
09:16Well, don't you care?
09:19No.
09:21Got somebody else, have you?
09:23Come on, Olive, I'm your brother, you can tell me.
09:26I suppose I had.
09:28I wouldn't blame you.
09:29Three years without a bit of nookie.
09:32I'll be good last, that one.
09:33You men.
09:35Whenever you hear of a woman going without, you think she must be desperate.
09:39Well, it doesn't work like that, Harry.
09:41The more you go without, the less you want it.
09:44Gets to be a habit.
09:46What about money?
09:48Another wage packet would be handy, wouldn't it?
09:50I'd do all right.
09:52With Social Security, my cleaning wages, there's some worse off than me.
09:56So you don't need George?
09:58I don't need the aggro that goes with him.
10:01Not knowing where he is, night after night.
10:03Well, we've got to find him, Olive.
10:08If not for your sake, then for his.
10:12You reckon he'll come here?
10:13Give you a bell?
10:14Well, if he does.
10:16He needn't bother transferring the charges, because I won't accept the call.
10:19There's this poncified wanker sitting in an editorial meeting.
10:30Managing director's boyfriend or something.
10:32So, he listens to everyone nattering on about what we're going to lead with.
10:36He suddenly asks, does anyone say, hold the front page, like they do in the movies?
10:41Stun silence.
10:42Then Mike says.
10:43Oh, no.
10:44The only thing we ever hold is page three.
10:46If we come across a bigger pair of tits.
10:51Kev?
10:53Excuse me.
10:57Well, if it isn't the Henry Cooper of Percival Street.
11:01Long time no see, Terry.
11:02How are you, mate?
11:04What are you going to hear?
11:04No, no, it's all right. I've got a log in.
11:08What brings you up here, Tal?
11:10I've got a story for you.
11:11Oh.
11:12How much?
11:13No, no, it's gratis.
11:14Well, what's the catch?
11:16There's no catch. It's about an old mate of ours.
11:19Or George Palmer.
11:20Yeah.
11:21Er, come over here.
11:29You, er, you know where he is?
11:32Yeah, and he needs help.
11:34Listen, he was fitted up for that diamond, something like that.
11:37They all say that.
11:38Not three months before the end of their bird, they don't.
11:41No.
11:41Didn't make sense when it came with a wire.
11:43But he's done three and a half years for nothing.
11:45I think he's telling the truth.
11:47I mean, violence has never been George's game, has it?
11:50Yeah.
11:51Seen to remember the evidence was a bit dodgy.
11:53There were no fingerprints on the gun?
11:54That's right.
11:54And they never found who else was in on it, right?
11:57Have a word with him, eh?
11:58He needs a break.
11:59Yeah, so do I.
12:00All the good crime stories go to the editor's crumpet.
12:03I'm in the wrong game.
12:05Much of it about?
12:06No, look.
12:07Better have a drink.
12:14Oh, Mr Daly.
12:16Oh, hello, um...
12:17Debbie.
12:18Terrian?
12:19No, he's gone out with...
12:20He's gone out.
12:22With who?
12:22No one.
12:23Can I talk to you a minute?
12:24What about?
12:25Please, I don't want the whole manor to hear.
12:28Oh, all right then.
12:34The thing is, Terry could be in a spot of bother.
12:36The old Bill's coming round to see him.
12:37What's he done?
12:38No, no, it's not what he's done.
12:39It's what he might be going to do.
12:41Help an escaped prisoner evade the law.
12:43There's been no escaped prisoner here, Mr Daly.
12:46Only some bloke who was...
12:49Who was what?
12:49Mending the telly.
12:51I didn't have nothing to do with it, Kev.
12:53Word of honour.
12:54Then how come you were in the area?
12:56What, it's like I said at the trial.
12:57I cleaned myself out of the dogs,
12:59so I had to walk home.
13:00Oh, come off it, George.
13:01If you were walking home from the track,
13:02you wouldn't have passed with a mine of the diamond merchants.
13:04Explain that.
13:05Got lost.
13:07Listen, do you want Kev to help or not?
13:08Because if you do, stop wasting his time, right?
13:10Now, the jury didn't believe that load of old cobblers,
13:12and neither do we.
13:13Yeah.
13:14Sorry.
13:15I've told that tale so often,
13:17maybe I start to believe it.
13:18So, what's the real story?
13:20And why couldn't you tell it at the trial?
13:21Well, because he was on another blagging, right?
13:26There was this flat.
13:27I'd sussed it out when I was repairing their telly.
13:30The old gaff was stuffed with silver and antiques.
13:33But as soon as I got inside,
13:34I heard this shot.
13:35Some bird started screaming.
13:36So I scarpered.
13:38Dosed into the alley, into the next street.
13:40You got collared by the law.
13:41Right.
13:42My form didn't stand a chance.
13:43You swear that diamond job wasn't down to you, George?
13:46Of course he wasn't.
13:48First of all, I always work solo.
13:50And second, I don't have nothing to do with shooters.
13:53Scared me to death, them things.
13:54And what about Olive?
13:55Did she know where you was that night?
13:57No.
13:58Never told her nothing.
14:01How'd she feel when they laid five on you?
14:04I don't know.
14:05Haven't seen her since.
14:07Well, she didn't visit.
14:08No.
14:11Right.
14:11Well, that's nice, isn't it?
14:15So you don't know whether you've got an old lady to go into or not?
14:18That's why, er, I'd like you to have a word.
14:22I'd like you to know how the land lies.
14:24You'd better start lining them up, Dave.
14:27This is a sad day.
14:29A very, very sad day.
14:33Oh, sorry to hear that, Arthur.
14:36Her indoors come back from her mother's, has she?
14:39No, no, nothing like that.
14:40Me and Terry.
14:42We're getting a divorce.
14:43Why?
14:43What's the problem?
14:44Only does a vanishing act for three days, doesn't he?
14:47I had two lovely jobs lined up for him, and he's out of town.
14:50And when he comes back, you won't tell me where he's been or what he's been doing.
14:53What did he say?
14:54Well, I've been doing a favour for a mate.
14:57I mean, that's not on, is it?
14:58Business is business, right?
15:00If he wants to work for no wages, he does it in his own time.
15:03He, er...
15:04He was offered wages.
15:06How do you know?
15:07I was the mate he was doing a favour for.
15:10Oh, why didn't he say?
15:12Because I asked him not to.
15:14I want it somewhat personal.
15:15Oh.
15:15I don't mind you not enough, I've seen us out of your uninterested party.
15:19No, no, no, no, no.
15:20Come on, I insist.
15:21All right.
15:27You, er...
15:28You remember me daughter, Naomi?
15:31Oh, the one that went to the training college?
15:33Yeah, on Newcastle.
15:34Well, she's only decided to become a...
15:36a one-parent family.
15:38Oh.
15:39Yeah, she got herself pregnant by one of them roundy so-and-sos up there
15:42and she wants to go ahead and have the baby.
15:44What about the father?
15:45He didn't want to know.
15:47Oh, so that's why you wanted Terry to go up there and sort him out.
15:50Not so much that.
15:51I needed someone to take the missus up there and bring the girl back.
15:54Someone who wouldn't blab his mouth all over the manor.
15:57So that's what he was.
15:58So, it seems I owe Terry an apology.
16:09Well, I, er...
16:11I reckon I owe you an Arthur.
16:13I don't know if you think I was the reason for you two breaking up.
16:15It's all right, dear.
16:16Oh, God.
16:17I should have told him.
16:18The old Bill wanted to talk to him.
16:20What about?
16:21Mate of his on the run.
16:23Did he say anything to you about it?
16:24A bloke called George Palmer.
16:25No, no, he never said nothing to me.
16:29See, the thing is, Terry's got a bird at his drum
16:31and if George does show,
16:32he'll need somewhere else to stick him, won't he?
16:35Yeah, yeah.
16:36I suppose he would have.
16:38Yeah.
16:43Here we are.
16:48You haven't changed much, have you?
16:51Still that hard look.
16:52It's like when you used to pull my pigtails.
16:54Hard, me?
16:56No, I've gone soft since then.
16:58It's easy life makes you flabby.
17:00I don't see no flab.
17:02Oh, well, it's all in the mind, you see.
17:04He's driving around in rollers all the time.
17:07Yeah, it's not like Percival Street Playground.
17:09Don't have to worry about getting a knife in the ribs.
17:12Rollers, eh?
17:13How many you got them?
17:14Oh, just the 12, you know.
17:15Well, you've got to change them every month, haven't you?
17:17Got anybody to share them with?
17:19Berge them?
17:19No, no, not likely.
17:21Get lipstick all over the upholstery.
17:23I don't wear no lipstick.
17:28Listen, what about George?
17:30What about George?
17:32Have your old bill been to see you?
17:34Yes.
17:35Well?
17:36Well, what?
17:38Well, what'd you tell them?
17:40Told them as far as I was concerned.
17:42The sooner he's inside again, the better.
17:44You don't mean that.
17:46Don't I?
17:47Do you know what it's like being married to a small-time thief?
17:53Oh, if he'd have been another woman, at least I know he was safe.
17:58But wondering all the time if he's going to be nicked,
18:01if he's going to be a wage pack at the end of every week.
18:05I can't live like that.
18:06And I don't intend to live like that ever again.
18:09Do you mean you wouldn't have him back?
18:10I plead him well wouldn't.
18:12And if he comes crawling to you, you can tell him that.
18:16Yeah, yeah, I will.
18:20Listen, thanks for the tea, eh?
18:24Listen, suppose he was fitted up for that diamond job.
18:27Suppose he was, Terry.
18:29Do you really think it'd make any difference?
18:31If he hadn't have been nicked that night,
18:33he'd have been nicked the next or the one after.
18:36I'll tell you something, love.
18:37You're the one with the hard look.
18:41It's all right for you, Terry.
18:43You got out of Percival Street.
18:45I never did.
18:46Yeah.
18:49Zara.
19:01Ever seen him before?
19:03Yeah, Terry McCann.
19:04Old friend of the family.
19:05Best man at George's wedding.
19:07Old friend, eh?
19:08Might be able to tell her something.
19:10Could be.
19:11Him and George was at school together.
19:12Not where he lives, do you?
19:14Yeah, Hammersmith.
19:16Just round the corner from the gym.
19:18Take a nose, then.
19:19See if he's got any company.
19:21Don't fancy that.
19:25When I start asking questions,
19:26Terry's going to start adding up two and two, isn't he?
19:29Do as I tell you, Harry.
19:31Because if you don't find that brother-in-law of yours,
19:33me and Billy are going to have to go after him.
19:36Then there might be nothing left to hand over to the law.
19:42You all right?
19:43Yeah.
19:43What's that?
19:45Rent.
19:46Eh?
19:47Rent!
19:48Leave it out.
19:49I'm not that skint.
19:52All right.
19:53See, don't need dough.
19:55Anything else I can offer you?
19:57Look, Debbie, one day I might need a place to crash, right?
20:00So till then, you owe me.
20:02Supposing if I really want to pay you now?
20:04I mean, really want to.
20:10Well, that might be a bit different.
20:17Oh.
20:18Oh, tell them we're in conference.
20:22Oh.
20:24Don't go away.
20:25No.
20:29Hello, Harry.
20:30Oh, Terry.
20:31You've been to see Olive.
20:33So?
20:34About George, was it?
20:36No, I just felt like pulling her pigtails.
20:38You know where he is?
20:40He's in Nick, ain't he?
20:41He know bleeding well, he isn't.
20:45Why'd you call an Olive?
20:47I fancy her always have.
20:50He's got to turn himself in, Terry.
20:51He's in real bother.
20:53Olive's worried sick.
20:54No, she ain't.
20:55She don't give her monkeys.
20:56She tell you that?
20:57Yeah.
20:58Well, don't you believe her?
20:59She cares, all right.
21:00So do I come to that.
21:02So, if you see George, give us a bell, all right?
21:04I want to talk to him.
21:06Yeah, all right, mate.
21:08And just remember, harboring an escaped prisoner is not too clever, that.
21:13Especially for a lad that's been inside himself.
21:17Yeah, well, tell her, Harry.
21:18Who was that?
21:28Oh, a bloke, I used to know.
21:29What's he want?
21:31That's a good question, as it happens.
21:33Well, come on, then.
21:34I want to get some kipped before I go to the club tonight.
21:37Think you're going to get any kipped, are you?
21:42Hello?
21:44Terry, it's Kev.
21:45Oh, hello, Kev.
21:46What's happening?
21:47Can you meet me straight away?
21:48I've got a lead.
21:50Oh, er, well, yeah, of course, yeah.
21:53Now, hold on, where?
21:56It's a pawn shop in Thomas Street.
21:58You've got a pencil?
22:00Where would I keep a bleeding pencil?
22:03Yeah.
22:04Hang on a minute, Kev.
22:06It's all right, I've got one in me bag.
22:09Hello.
22:09Now, what was that address again?
22:13It's a pawn shop called Jacobson's, in Thomas Street.
22:19Inside job, Mr. Wells, that's the word.
22:22We love a saucer and all.
22:24Well, you see any of the diamonds, Mr. Jacobson?
22:27It's all right, he's a mate of mine.
22:30Interested partner, you might say.
22:31Oh, well, yes, I was offered some of them.
22:35But it was too hot.
22:36When someone gets blasted, I don't want to know.
22:39Well, any idea who was behind it?
22:40No, except it was someone from outside the manor.
22:43I'm sure of that.
22:44If they'd been local, well, we'd have heard whispers.
22:47Listen, this source of yours,
22:49what made him think it was an inside job?
22:51Oh, had to be.
22:52Special consignment.
22:54Five times the value of anything they'd ever shifted.
22:56So, they moved it at night.
22:58It was only half a dozen people in the know.
23:00But somehow these villains got weird about it.
23:03Who shifts their gear?
23:05Secure ready for them.
23:07Yeah, but which one?
23:08Oh, my God.
23:10Oh.
23:10Oh.
23:20Oh.
23:22Oh.
23:22Oh.
23:22Oh.
23:24Oh.
23:24Oh.
23:30Oh.
23:34Oh.
23:35We're looking for a Mr. McCann.
23:45He's not here.
23:53What's this all about, anyway?
24:05She's right, Billy. He ain't here.
24:11I told you.
24:12Sit down, scrubber.
24:17What's your name?
24:19Debbie.
24:21Friend of McCann's, aren't you? Debbie?
24:23Yeah, sort of.
24:24What's that mean?
24:25Well, I'm just staying here for a couple of days.
24:28Anyone else staying here?
24:29No.
24:32What about George?
24:34Who's George?
24:35Don't get smart, Debbie.
24:38Just tell us what we want to know and you won't get hurt.
24:41Please, I don't know anything.
24:43I mean, what's this all about?
24:45Did a fella call here, asking for your boyfriend?
24:49Terry's not my boyfriend.
24:51He's just putting me up for a couple of days while I saw myself back.
24:54We're not interested in you.
24:56We're interested in George Palmer.
24:59Never heard of him.
25:01So why did McCann talk to Olive?
25:04Who's Olive?
25:05He told you, Debbie.
25:11Don't get smart.
25:13Please.
25:14Please, I don't know what you're all about.
25:16I'm going to ask you one more time.
25:18And if we don't get the right answers,
25:21we're going to start forgetting our manners.
25:23Now, where's George?
25:28Look, you want this the easy way?
25:30Or do you want my paper to get heavy?
25:33Well, like, hitting your security might not be so efficient after all.
25:36You'd lose a lot of customers, right?
25:39No.
25:40No, I'm not accusing anyone of anything, Mr. Muir.
25:41I just want the name of the guards that were supposed to shift back to Simon.
25:46Yeah, I thought you'd understand.
25:48Yeah?
25:52Yeah, go on.
25:54This is very good, Mr. Muir.
25:56Yeah.
25:58Of course I'll get the firm's name out of the story.
26:01Thanks for your corporation.
26:02It's McCann, Gov.
26:10Harry says he won't talk.
26:12You think he's seen Palmer, Harry?
26:14Got him hidden away somewhere?
26:16Yeah, I reckon.
26:18So we loosen him up a bit?
26:20Right, Gov?
26:21Can't do you no good.
26:23Oh, why not?
26:24Terry's hard.
26:25I've seen him in action.
26:26We've had trouble with hard men before.
26:28They weren't so hard after Thomas and William had finished, I've done it.
26:32Terry's different.
26:33You take my word for it.
26:34Very well.
26:35You'll try a shortcut.
26:37Who else does he hang around with?
26:43No, sorry, gents.
26:44This place is wholesale.
26:46Not retail.
26:49Unless, of course, you are genuine buyers from a kosher retail organisation
26:54with some sort of identification.
26:58You, Daly.
26:59Yes, Arthur Daly.
27:00That's me.
27:00Mate, at Terry McCann's.
27:02Yes, why?
27:03Is he in a spot to bother?
27:04Could be.
27:06You want to help him out?
27:07Sure.
27:09Where's George Palmer?
27:11Who?
27:12Dear, oh dear, Billy.
27:15Looks like we've got another one here.
27:17Another what?
27:19Someone else who's never heard of him.
27:21Or forgotten.
27:23Just like we're going to have to jog his memory.
27:25Good thinking.
27:26Good thinking.
27:26Good thinking.
27:56Look.
28:00Oh.
28:02Come back to you, has it, Arthur?
28:04Now, where's George?
28:06Look, why don't you ask Terry?
28:07I know. We're asking you.
28:09Well, I heard the name, right, but he's Terry's mate, not mine.
28:12I never had nothing to do with him.
28:14Afraid we're gonna have to jog his memory a bit more, Tommy.
28:16Yeah.
28:26All this stuff insured, is it, Arthur?
28:33Ooh, shame.
28:37Because I can see Billy's getting in the mood.
28:40And once he's in the mood, there'll be no stopping him.
28:42He'll break anything.
28:44Including people.
28:51Ben.
28:51Keep away from me, you bastard.
28:57Eh?
28:57You think you can push anyone around, don't you?
29:00Hold on, Deb, what's going on?
29:01Oh, God, just tell me Mr. Rycott here.
29:02I've got a good mind to bring charges.
29:07What's the matter, Terry?
29:08Fellow's getting too tough for you these days.
29:10Yeah, yeah, well, we had a pony and I lost my ride, that's all.
29:13I'm sorry, all right?
29:14Sorry?
29:15It's a bit bleeding late for sorry, innit?
29:18If I was you, I'd move out, miss.
29:20It's happened once, it can happen again.
29:23Yeah, well, I'll think about it, Mr. Rycott.
29:25What about charges?
29:27With Prince Charming's form here, we'd have no trouble making it stick.
29:30Yeah, well, I'll think about that too.
29:32Okay.
29:37Oh, by the way, Terry, reason I called.
29:39George Palmer ain't been to see you, is he?
29:42George Palmer's in Nick, ain't he?
29:44He's playing truant.
29:45Anyway, if he does turn up, you won't do anything stupid, will you?
29:49Like hiding him.
29:51Nah, nah.
30:03All right, then, who did it?
30:05Two fellas.
30:06What'd they want?
30:06Same thing as him.
30:08Your mate, who I never saw.
30:12Listen, thanks, lovely.
30:13You've been giving you a reputation as a woman, Beter.
30:16I ain't done you any favours.
30:18Kept Rycott off me back.
30:20Don't think he'd believe me.
30:21I could see it in his eyes.
30:24What you doing?
30:27I phoned George's old woman.
30:28What for?
30:29I need to talk to her.
30:32Clubhouse, her phone's probably tapped.
30:33Hello?
30:47Olive?
30:48It's the pigtail puller.
30:50What do you want?
30:52Can you get away?
30:52Well, maybe.
31:00Right, well, I'll, er...
31:02I'll meet in the place we first met.
31:05I'll be there in half an hour.
31:06Important, is it?
31:07Yeah.
31:08And come alone, do you know what I mean?
31:10Do you know what I mean?
31:10Listen, when I go out, you lock that door
31:18and you don't open it for anyone except me.
31:20Got it?
31:21Right.
31:24Oh, and tell.
31:26Don't be long.
31:27We've got a lot of unfinished business.
31:29Remember?
31:31Yeah.
31:34Take care.
31:35See you later, all right?
31:36Yeah.
31:36See you later, all right?
32:06I've had a coat of paint since our day.
32:19Yeah, well, it's comprehensive now, isn't it?
32:20Better class of yobbo.
32:23Fulham still rules, OK.
32:25Only just.
32:26I mean, fancy selling Richard money to Liverpool.
32:28It's criminal, isn't it?
32:31Er, talking about criminals,
32:34have you seen George?
32:37Yeah.
32:38Terry, I've told you I'm not interested,
32:41so if he's the reason you've asked to meet me...
32:43No, hold on, hold on.
32:44No, he's not the reason.
32:46Oh, what then?
32:48It's your brother, Harry.
32:50Harry?
32:52Now, I reckon he was in on that diamond job.
32:56And when George got nicked, he staged storm, right?
32:59You're joking!
33:00The old bill always reckoned that George heard about that consignment through Harry.
33:05But he didn't know anything about it, did he?
33:06He was just unlucky that he happened to be on a blagging in the next street.
33:10But that doesn't prove Harry was in on it.
33:13No, I know.
33:14But that's why we need your help.
33:17Why should I help?
33:19Because George has just done three and a half years for a cape,
33:22but it wasn't down to him.
33:23George is the villain, Terry.
33:27He always will be.
33:29But if Harry did go, Ben, then it's a one-off, I'm sure of that.
33:33It still don't make it right that George should do his bird for him, does it?
33:38Well, what do you want from me?
33:40I want you to talk to Harry, tell him he's blown it, and try to get him to turn himself in.
33:48Ruin his life for George's sake.
33:50Oh, leave it out, Terry.
33:54Oh.
33:54Why should you?
33:58Why should you care?
34:00Oh, I don't know, really.
34:02Maybe it's something to do with this place.
34:04I mean, I know they didn't teach anything, but...
34:06Well, what I did learn...
34:08It's Percival Street against the world.
34:17Yeah, didn't I shut that door?
34:19Well, not open yet, you know.
34:19Which room's he in, Chief?
34:21He?
34:22Who?
34:27Who, he says.
34:29Amazing, isn't it, Billy?
34:31Must be something to do with this manor.
34:33Never can get a simple answer to a simple question.
34:36Yeah.
34:38Always have to do it the hard way.
34:45Where have you been?
34:47Out.
34:47Say, George.
34:49No.
34:49I'm not the fella.
34:51I thought you told me.
34:52He wasn't like that, Harry.
34:55It was just no friend.
34:57It wasn't Terry McCann by any chance, was it?
35:00Did he call you?
35:01Yes.
35:02About George, was it?
35:04No, Harry.
35:06Terry says that George had nothing to do with that diamond job.
35:09But he says you did.
35:10Don't be funny.
35:12You were the inside man, according to Terry.
35:15He's got proof.
35:17Proof?
35:18What proof?
35:20He didn't say, but he wants you to turn yourself in.
35:25Tell the old bill who you're working with.
35:27Nah, he's just slinging mud.
35:29Trying to get some compensation for George, isn't he?
35:32Is he?
35:32Don't tell me you believe him.
35:33Don't tell me you believe him.
35:35I didn't know what to believe at first.
35:37And now?
35:38Now?
35:39Now?
35:42I'm sure.
35:43You've been putting yourself about, Dave.
36:01They, uh, they nicked your mate, Terry.
36:04Who the old bill?
36:05A couple of fellows.
36:08All right.
36:09Listen, I'm sorry, mate.
36:11Terry.
36:15Yeah?
36:17Look, I'm sorry.
36:18It was down to me.
36:19What was?
36:22They came round the lock-up and started breaking it up.
36:24You mean you shot George just to save some dodgy gear?
36:29God, that's terrific.
36:30No, Terry, look.
36:31They were going to start on me.
36:33I don't understand anything except pain.
36:35Well, all right, then, these two blokes.
36:38What'd they look like?
36:39Well, one was, uh, tall geyser.
36:41Fair hair.
36:43Right hard case.
36:44Yeah, the other one was tall, too.
36:45Bald with a moustache.
36:46But they're not off this man, Terry.
36:48I asked around.
36:49Nobody knows them.
36:50I bet I know someone who does.
37:05Larry.
37:08You've been spreading dirt about me, Terry.
37:11You want to watch your mouth, son?
37:12They got George.
37:14I don't know what you're talking about.
37:15Listen, sunshine, if I don't find George soon,
37:17there won't be any George to find, right?
37:19And that'll be down to you.
37:21So where do we start looking?
37:26Come on, I'll drive you.
37:35Hey, man.
38:05Well, well.
38:09Terry McCann, right?
38:10How do you know that?
38:17Ah.
38:19Good likeness, innit?
38:21Come on, George.
38:22We're going home.
38:24How'd you find us?
38:25Talked to Harry, did you?
38:26Who's Harry?
38:29Thing is, Terry,
38:31you put us in a bit of a spot coming here like this.
38:34Why is that?
38:35We was going to help George here disappear.
38:37I mean, with the law after him,
38:39he don't want to hang around too long now, does he?
38:41But now you're here,
38:43we've got to help you disappear too, haven't we?
38:45Hold on.
38:46Are you the two monkeys who've been round my man
38:48and showing off your muscles?
38:49We're pros, Terry.
38:50Like you.
38:51So no hard feelings, eh?
38:52Oh, no, no.
38:53I mean, you've got a lot of talent.
38:56He did a fantastic job on my bird.
38:58Oh!
38:58Oh!
38:59Oh!
39:01Oh!
39:10Oh!
39:11Ballery!
39:17Oh!
39:17Oh!
39:18Oh, my God.
39:48Upstairs.
39:52Terry?
39:53Yeah, he went after him.
39:54Didn't realise he was stepping up a division.
39:56That's the division you've been playing in, is it, Harry?
39:59She worry about me, Sergeant.
40:01Terry and George, we've got to worry about.
40:04We don't do something fast.
40:05They'll both end up propping up a flyover somewhere.
40:10Yeah.
40:13Yeah.
40:13What are they going to do, Terry?
40:16Don't know, son.
40:18If they were Fulham supporters, it'd be all right, wouldn't it?
40:22Don't like Fulham supporters, I mean.
40:25There's too many of them, isn't there?
40:28All right, brother.
40:29Now shut up and work on that rope.
40:30Back entrance.
40:50Next street.
40:51You and Jack go and block it off.
40:53Me and Arthur will make a front and assault.
40:54No, no, no, no.
40:55I reckon I should stay here and tell the other coppers where to go.
40:57What other coppers?
40:59I'm not having some bunch of uniform layabouts
41:00to nick all the glory on this one, Arthur.
41:02We're going to sort this out on our own.
41:04Our own?
41:05Oh, no, no, no.
41:06This one's down to you, Mr. Rycock.
41:07That's what I pay my taxes for, right?
41:10I thought Terry was your mate.
41:21Governor says we've got to wait until dark.
41:23Before we shift you.
41:25That's very clever.
41:26Could he work that out all by himself?
41:28Gives us a couple of hours.
41:30To play games.
41:31What have you got in mind, brag?
41:35I thought we'd start with the one you taught me.
41:40Yeah, that sounds like a good one.
41:42I'm going to have a go.
41:47Pleasure.
41:51Hold on, hold on.
42:00Whoa.
42:01Whoa.
42:01Whoa.
42:02Whoa.
42:05Whoa.
42:29Oh.
42:30Let's go.
43:00Let's go.
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44:39You might see I got that quicker couldn't I?
44:40Yeah.
44:41You'd have to double your productivity.
44:42Come on.
44:43I'll buy you a drink.
44:44No.
44:45Later on.
44:46I've got to make a call.
44:48Are you all right?
44:49A lot of good stuff here.
44:51I wonder what they'd take for a quick sale?
44:54He'll get a free pardon, Lou.
44:56No question.
44:57That means compensation.
44:59He'll get compensation?
45:00What about me?
45:01Well, it'll be enough for both of you.
45:03Keep you going until George finds his feet again
45:05you'll be inside in six months what then well maybe I can get you some
45:10compensation how well suppose my paper buys your story the lonely wife and a
45:15man in the frame husband betrayed by brother-in-law it's not a bad idea
45:19well worth at least three grand that maybe five
45:22I'll talk to the editor get back to you tomorrow I'll take care Terry yeah and
45:28you mate I'll see you cheers
45:35I'm not having them back Terry even if Kevin doesn't come up with the money
45:43you sure do you know how many times he's been inside since we've been married
45:48four that's eight years altogether next time it's gonna be six
45:53only there's not gonna be a next time not for me what you gonna do get a divorce
45:57you think I'm too old to get another fella don't be silly they'll be queuing down
46:03the street how about you let's see how it goes hey Terry what if I went back to
46:13pigtail wouldn't need me then would you you'd have them queuing from here to the
46:18the airport
46:25Hey, hey, I thought you were going to buy me a drink.
46:49No, thanks, Terry.
46:50I'm full up.
46:51Listen, Terrence, what I said when you come down from the north,
46:55was out of order.
46:56No, no, I was out of order.
46:57No, no, no, I was well over the top.
46:58I was out of order.
47:00I did not know it was Dave you was doing a favour for.
47:03Yeah, that's what friends are for, isn't it?
47:04Oh, you can do a favour for me and all.
47:07What?
47:08Drive us home.
47:09If I had to blow into one of them plastic bags,
47:12I couldn't blow into one of them plastic bags.
47:16Come on, then.
47:19No, no, I'm driving, aren't I?
47:20Oh, yeah.
47:23How long have you been in there?
47:24About half and half.
47:25About half and half.
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