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00:00And why are things more than formal between you and your employer?
00:22I resent that question, Inspector.
00:24Nevertheless.
00:25Well, I won't deny there was a degree of affection between Mr. Harkup and myself.
00:34If you've been doing for someone all those years...
00:36Well, that's my point, Mrs. Strange. Is that all you were doing?
00:39What my friend is trying to suggest...
00:41So, no, full well what he's trying to suggest...
00:43What he's trying to elucidate, then, is whether this affection took any more tangible form.
00:49Well, what's it got to do with you?
00:51Well, the fact is, Mrs. Strange, certain new facts have come to light.
00:54Mr. Harkup gave the lot to you, love.
00:57The Sharp Wiggenwell is the whole estate. It's all yours.
01:01Never!
01:03I didn't see that coming!
01:07Everything?
01:08Everything.
01:09Is your son at home, Mrs. Dredge?
01:12Oh, he's upstairs, in bed.
01:15A late riser.
01:17A war hero.
01:19His Wellington came down over Holland, 44.
01:22Oh, I know. I'm sorry.
01:24Nothing to be sorry for. He survived, didn't he?
01:28Given that we don't believe Mr. Harkup took his own life, you can see why that leaves you in a rather difficult position.
01:34Do you never think I topped him?
01:37The fact remains, you're in a rather sticky position, Mrs. Dredge. The new will was properly signed and witnessed.
01:43Well, I don't know anything about that.
01:45But you could have done. You could have found a draft when you were cleaning and decided to, you know, speed things up a bit.
01:51What, by knocking off Mr. H?
01:53Yes.
01:54Barmy.
01:55No, it's her you should be talking to. Marula. And him. Mickey Hall. Have you now, Tim?
02:00He is assisting us with our enquiries.
02:02Oh, well, good. That's something, then.
02:05In fact, Mr. Hall's been most helpful.
02:08He has?
02:09Yes.
02:10Yeah, most helpful. In fact, he told us that he saw you leaving the chemist shop the night of the murder.
02:15There's no mystery there. I told you, I saw it.
02:18Leaving and trying your very best to conceal something.
02:22Bandages. I told you, for health. I wasn't trying to hide.
02:27He lost a leg, didn't he, your son?
02:31How?
02:32One of them worn and creased, the other almost completely smooth.
02:36His prosthesis must need constant attention.
02:39And painful, I should imagine. Very, very painful.
02:45Of course.
02:46Painful enough for morphine.
02:52Why didn't you just ask Mr. Harcourt to help?
02:57I couldn't.
03:01Alf needs more than he's ever given by the doctor.
03:05So I need some extra.
03:07I didn't think Mr. Harcourt would notice, but he did.
03:10And he assumed Mickey Hall must have done it.
03:13I couldn't tell him it was me.
03:15He was such a stickler, you see, for the rules.
03:19Well, how could I tell him I'd had a way with drugs from his own shop?
03:25You've no idea what it's like, the pain.
03:29My poor Alf.
03:30So you dropped in on the pretext of getting bandages and instead stole more morphine.
03:37Right.
03:38And Mr. Harcourt was alive when you left him?
03:40I swear on my son's life.
03:48If you'll excuse me.
03:50Yes, of course.
03:52Oh, and...
03:56When do I get it then?
03:58Beg pardon?
04:00The money.
04:07Not her then.
04:08No, life is pardoned, Mrs. Dredge, but not a killer.
04:11No.
04:12Then who did it?
04:13Them.
04:14Two murders, remember?
04:15Them, them.
04:16Oh, look, I suppose it'd be too straightforward for you to just, you know, just tell me.
04:19It would be my...
04:21Well, no.
04:23Not my pleasure.
04:25You're going to need backup, Inspector.
04:29What?
04:41Oh, no, no, sorry.
04:42We're just...
04:45Good evening, sir.
04:46Herrick.
04:48Oh, we're just closing, I'm afraid.
04:50That's all right.
04:51Her Sheila.
04:54Well, you asked me that, Mr. Book.
04:56Oh, yes.
04:57She's in Sheffield.
04:59What day did she drive up there?
05:02Oh, it was, um...
05:04Thursday.
05:05Yes, Thursday.
05:07I see.
05:09Well, if there's anything special I can help you with, sir, you know, I've got a lot on...
05:12But she couldn't have done that, could she, Herrick, when Trotty borrowed her car on Friday.
05:21Come on!
05:22Come on, come on!
05:23Come on!
05:24Come on!
05:25Come on!
05:26Come on!
05:27Come on, come on, come on!
05:37Come on, come on!
05:57Now they're Mr. Well-Beloved.
06:19I didn't mean to do her in.
06:22Go on.
06:24Things hadn't been right for some time.
06:26Always rowing we were, and then I met her in it.
06:36An old fool and a young beauty.
06:38It's a very old tale.
06:40When did you know, Mr. Book, if you don't mind me asking?
06:44I suspected right away that something was off, and that was confirmed when I discovered
06:49that some of the bones in the plague pit were newer, though you'd made an effort to age
06:53them.
06:54Gravy browning.
06:57Sheila uses it on her legs.
06:59I couldn't afford to get annoyed, don't you?
07:02Plus the knife marks on them are very distinctive.
07:04I checked your handiwork, that bone you gave me for dog.
07:09And so, for the sake of a future with Miss Enid Clegg, you sent your wife to meet her maker.
07:18You then found yourself confronting the murderer's oldest dilemma, getting rid of the corpse.
07:28It should have been simple for you, not being a stranger to the notion of chopping things up.
07:33Unfortunately, Inspector, people can tell the difference between the bones of hogs and homo sapiens.
07:39So, I think that after removing the flesh from your unfortunate wife, flensing her, you still needed to dispose of her skeleton.
07:50Which is where the caustic soda comes in.
07:52Precisely.
07:53Freely available at any chemist.
07:54Getting rid of her body, are you?
07:56Getting rid of her body, are you?
07:57Getting rid of her body, are you?
07:59Get rid of her body, are you?
08:01Get rid of her body, are you?
08:03I don't think so.
08:04I don't know.
08:05Hell, hell.
08:06Oh, yeah.
08:07Drains.
08:08Oh?
08:09It's for the drains, George.
08:10Terrible pump.
08:11Alkaline hydrolysis.
08:15Is that what you were going for?
08:21I read about it, see?
08:25For any of the things you pick up in this train?
08:28Caustic soda.
08:32Dissolves flesh.
08:33I'd used it before to get rid of carcasses, you know,
08:36but it didn't work properly.
08:39You know, lots of...
08:40Lots of bones left.
08:46I didn't know what to do, and then...
08:49And then, Baseheart mentioned the skeletons that he'd found.
08:53Strange to think that if it wasn't for the Luftwaffe,
08:56I thought we'd never have known those poor devils
08:58were under our feet all these years.
09:00You told the cop this?
09:03Not just yet.
09:04Well, no rush, I suppose, after 300 years.
09:07I've put a tarp over the crater.
09:10Yeah?
09:11Well, you know what kids are like.
09:13They probably run off with the bones and give them to a dog.
09:18Anyway, cheerio.
09:19Oh, no.
09:26As I said,
09:54Where better to hide a tree than in a forest?
09:58Who would notice?
10:01Oh, you.
10:03Then, there was this, of course.
10:08Eric here,
10:09though exhibiting a lively skill at improvisation,
10:12is not an imaginative man.
10:15No offence.
10:16I'd go for it.
10:17My game.
10:18Mate is mate.
10:19You rather overdid it
10:21by planting the coin in the plague pit.
10:24That rang an alarm bell straight away.
10:27So, armed with a description of a suspect,
10:29my wife made a short,
10:30but instructive tour of the local curio shops.
10:33Oh, how do you know
10:34he hadn't gone further afield to get the coin?
10:37An imaginative, remember?
10:39Anyone conceiving so clumsy a clue
10:41would never stray far from their own neighbourhood.
10:44Eric was very much in the frame
10:46when I noticed the clincher
10:47in the queue
10:50at the butchers.
10:53Notice what?
10:56Powdered egg.
10:58Oh, you've, uh,
10:59you've got something just there.
11:01Eh?
11:03Excuse me.
11:04Powdered egg.
11:05Bit of a rushed breakfast.
11:07Such an intimate thing to do.
11:09With absolutely no acknowledgement
11:10from Mr. Well-beloved.
11:12Ah-ha.
11:13I thought.
11:14How's Sheila?
11:18Well, sir.
11:19Well.
11:20She's driven up the Sheffield.
11:21A nice family.
11:23I inquired with Sheila's family
11:25in Yorkshire.
11:25They've seen neither hide
11:26nor hair of her, of course.
11:29So, it all looked rosy.
11:32And then?
11:34I've got the note.
11:35I suspected something of a kind.
11:39Some sort of vague threat.
11:41Urgent that we talk.
11:44I don't want to have to take this
11:47to the authorities.
11:52I hope we can sort this matter
11:54between ourselves.
11:59George, look.
12:01And you assumed it was about the murder.
12:04Well, of course.
12:06What?
12:07And it wasn't?
12:08Yeah.
12:08Well, then what was it about?
12:15Dominoes.
12:17What?
12:18Mr. Harcup was a stickler for the rules,
12:21as we know.
12:21He suspected you of cheating
12:23at his favourite pastime.
12:25That's all it was.
12:26No, no, no, no.
12:28No, it had to be a threat.
12:30About Sheila.
12:31You know, what else could it be?
12:35So?
12:37What happened next?
12:43I had no idea I could buy him off.
12:46With cash?
12:47With beef?
12:48With beef.
12:48So he went round?
12:59I was scared.
13:02You know, scared of what he might say.
13:06What if he wouldn't listen to reason?
13:07You know, there was poison everywhere,
13:11all round.
13:12And so I kept him talking.
13:15I just need you to tell the truth.
13:16No, but George, just...
13:18Tell the truth, Eric.
13:20And then I took my chance.
13:22I got hold of him.
13:24And then I poured the poison down his throat.
13:27Right.
13:28You poisoned him, did you?
13:29Oh, yes.
13:29Oh, it's horrible.
13:31Nothing else?
13:34Aye?
13:35You see, that's very interesting, Eric.
13:38Because before he was poisoned,
13:39George Harcup was struck over the head.
13:42And the weapon left a bloody residue in his hair.
13:45You remember there was blood, but no wound, Inspector?
13:47Yes.
13:48Dr. Calder analysed it for me.
13:52Cow's blood.
13:53Ah.
13:54And you would have known that, Eric,
13:56if you'd been the one who'd hit him with a joint of beef.
13:59No.
14:00Yes, no, no, no, no.
14:01I remember now.
14:02No, I did hit him.
14:03I don't think so.
14:05So who did?
14:07Enid, obviously neglected to mention the part
14:22where she clobbered Mr. Harcup.
14:24Was it her idea from the start?
14:27No!
14:27Enid found me after I'd strangled, after Sheila died.
14:48She just took charge.
14:55I didn't know what to do.
14:59Enid was so calm,
15:03methodical,
15:04and we reckoned we was going to be okay until...
15:08What the hell can we do now?
15:13Leave this to me.
15:17Leave this to me.
15:24Bob.
15:24leave this to me.
15:49What the hell?
15:51And to finish the job and make it look like suicide,
16:03should pour the plastic acid down poor Mr. Harcum's gut.
16:13Why don't we just say that I did it?
16:15Please, I mean I'll swing won't I but ain't it?
16:23The law must take its course.
16:27I'm sorry Eric, I truly am.
16:30But I'm even more sorry for George Harcum and poor Sheila.
16:35Oh.
16:42Right, formal charge done. Sign out.
16:45You'll be taken to a home in yourself.
16:47Very good of you.
16:50Thank Mrs. Book. She said you might be a while.
16:54Quite a tale. Wish I could have sat in on it.
16:57I'm pushing my luck as it is.
16:59What exactly did you do in the war?
17:07It must have been pretty big for you to get that letter from Churchill.
17:11With the inspector to let you have run of the shop like this.
17:13Now, now Jack, don't be nosy.
17:16Where would the fun be if everyone knew everything, eh?
17:21Besides I hardly had the run of the place not with laughing boy there hovering the whole time.
17:25He's just waiting for his chance to call me.
17:28Slightest malfeasance.
17:35Surely you're a model of respectability, Mr. Book.
17:38You'd be surprised.
17:40They got Ivan Novello for his petrol coupons.
17:55All right, where are you?
17:59There you go.
18:04Eric?
18:06Eric!
18:09Hey, no, no, no contact.
18:12Enough of that.
18:15That's enough, eh?
18:16Run for Eric!
18:17Love you!
18:18Run!
18:18Eric, give me a call, then!
18:20Eric, after him!
18:21Oh, hell's bells.
18:25Eric, come on!
18:27Eric!
18:28Eric!
18:31It's right!
18:32Go down here!
18:38Eric!
18:39Come on, man!
18:41Don't be a fool!
18:46Make us leave!
18:47Eric!
18:55Go down here!
19:05That way!
19:05Come on!
19:07Come on!
19:08Come on!
19:08Get up!
19:11I need it!
19:18Come on, man.
19:20Come on, man.
19:20Uh.
19:21Yeah!
19:22Come on, man.
19:22Come on!
19:23Come on, man.
19:23Come on, boy.
19:23Come on, boy.
19:24Come on, man.
19:25Where did he go?
19:46There.
19:55A crater.
20:03This is...
20:04Was Inkermann Street.
20:05Which means...
20:07Mr. Baseheart's fastidiousness has come good at last.
20:11If the ruddy thing's still working.
20:25All right, well-beloved.
20:34Come quietly.
20:39I see him.
20:43There.
20:47Eric, stop.
20:49Don't lose him.
20:50I'm trying.
20:52I'm going in.
20:53Let me talk to him.
20:55Where are you going to run to, Eric?
21:20There's nothing to be done.
21:24Where will you go?
21:25Eric!
21:28Eric!
21:28Eric!
21:29Eric!
21:29Yeah.
21:59You can give up today or tomorrow, Eric.
22:05It's inevitable.
22:06The law must take its course.
22:08That's what you said.
22:11You're not stringing me up.
22:17Eric, no.
22:19No.
22:20You shall do that to me.
22:23I've seen beasts go.
22:25It's not always kind.
22:27Eric, stop.
22:29What about Enid, hmm?
22:31You better leave her to face the rope alone.
22:36You're right.
22:39She did all this for me.
22:41Yes.
22:42All for me.
22:49I can't leave her to face the music, can I?
22:55If we're gonna go,
22:56we go together.
23:05No!
23:07No!
23:07No!
23:07No!
23:07For him, the hemlock shall distill.
23:23For him, the axe be bared.
23:27For him, the gibbet shall be built.
23:29For him, the stake prepared.
23:36I see him up there with Mr. Book.
23:40And then...
23:42Wallop.
23:44He just fell.
23:45Dropped like stone.
23:46I mean, he must have broke his neck.
23:47What's that business?
23:51Very sad.
23:54Well, this is a treat.
23:57Pineapple chunks.
23:58Haven't had these before the war.
24:03So what now?
24:04What do you mean?
24:06We just go back to selling books.
24:08Well, that's the job, Jack.
24:11Just Jack.
24:11Yeah, but that was...
24:13Yeah.
24:15It was so bloody exciting.
24:17Can't be like this all the time, young man.
24:19Anyway.
24:22Who are you?
24:23You haven't really said.
24:24Jack Blunt.
24:34I was brought up in an orphanage.
24:36Like I told you.
24:38Made acquaintances with the wrong sort.
24:42I did time for it.
24:43Oh?
24:43Yeah, oh.
24:48I was the driver for a smash and grab up Mayfair Way.
24:52They got away with a load of mint coats.
24:54I got away with two years.
24:59I missed the war.
25:00Some of it, anyway.
25:02And then...
25:05I'll get a letter from the Prison Reform Society.
25:09An address for a job.
25:11This address.
25:12Well, there we are then.
25:13No need to mention it again.
25:14Yeah, but why me?
25:17Why'd you pick me?
25:19Altruism.
25:20What?
25:21Giving a second chance to someone felt like the right thing to do.
25:24Yeah, but you don't know me from Adam.
25:25Oh, he was hopeless, wasn't he, Trotty?
25:27Always wandering around the shop in the altogether.
25:30Getting his fig leaf trapped in the till.
25:32I'm serious.
25:32I mean, bloody hell, I am grateful and all that, but...
25:37It's nice here.
25:41It's really nice, but...
25:43Books is a raft on the great turbulency of life.
25:47Then you mean books are a raft?
25:48No, no, books.
25:49This place, my shop.
25:53Don't dwell on it, Jack.
25:54Just accept it.
25:55It's a second chance.
25:57But why me?
25:59Why not?
26:01You only live once,
26:03but if you do it right,
26:04once is enough.
26:08Shakespeare.
26:08May West.
26:10You only live once,
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