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An Edition from late 1972 of this fine Series.A Man just out of Prison is already swearing revenge on Tom Stone.Who he sees as the Man responsible for getting him sent there in the first place.
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00:00Yeah, are you near the station available to come in now?
00:10Yeah, I want you to go to the local.
00:12Yeah, just come and have a way to do it, please.
00:30Share about your house, Sarge.
00:52Yeah.
00:53When are you going to have to move out?
00:54Tell me.
00:55Any idea where you're going to?
00:56No.
00:57The council will have to find you somewhere, won't they?
01:01Look, Skinner.
01:02Yeah?
01:03I appreciate your concern about my domestic situation.
01:05That's all right, Sarge.
01:06But you've come round here to help me with my motoring problems, right?
01:09Right.
01:10So let's concentrate on one thing at a time, eh?
01:13Oh, Sarge, there is something you should know.
01:15All right, tell me later.
01:23Good morning, Bert.
01:25Morning.
01:25It's a grand day for us guardians of the law and order, isn't it?
01:29No different from any other day, as far as I can see.
01:31Oh, you're wrong there, Bert.
01:32In fact, I'm thinking of ringing up Chief Superintendent Galpin
01:35and getting to put in something on his personal assessment file.
01:39Like what, for instance?
01:40Well, I've decided that there's no life like a copper's life.
01:43Oh, he's been giving you a couple of quick snorts to pack door, then.
01:45No, strongest drink I've had is a cup of landlady's jar.
01:48Oh, you've come up with the poos, then?
01:50Better than that, I see prospects of things waking up
01:53in this dreary, dull-as-ditch-water patch of yours, lad.
01:56And who's going to wake them up, eh?
01:58Benny White and a bloke called Fowler.
02:01Oh, you've heard Dan's back in turn.
02:03That's right.
02:03And if that isn't good news, I don't know what is.
02:05Ah, just one thing.
02:07What's that?
02:08Mightn't be such good news for Tom Stone.
02:10No, no, I'd forgotten about that.
02:15Yes?
02:25You're right, Sarge.
02:27The engine's dead-roping.
02:29Think you can fix it?
02:30Don't see why not.
02:31Delaney says it needs a reconditioned unit.
02:33Take a car in there with a dud headlight bulb
02:36and they'll crack on it once a complete rewire.
02:40There's no harm in letting me have a try.
02:43I can't make it any worse than it is.
02:46When do you think you'll have time to...?
02:48I'm not doing anything tonight.
02:51All right.
02:52Ta.
02:54Oh, Sarge!
02:56What?
02:57Back at your house.
02:58I said there was somebody you ought to know of.
02:59Yeah?
03:00This morning in the paper shop, first thing.
03:02I saw Dan Fowler.
03:03So what?
03:05You'd watch out for him, wouldn't you?
03:07You watch out what you're doing with my car.
03:10Any coffee?
03:18I'll make you one, love.
03:19Ta.
03:22Two sugars, no milk.
03:24Right, Julie?
03:26Yes.
03:27Ask me anything you like about yourself.
03:29I bet I haven't forgotten the...
03:30Dan!
03:31What, love?
03:32I'm dying for that coffee.
03:34Coming up, Julie.
03:35Morning, Tom.
03:42All right.
03:44Quiet night.
03:45Yeah.
03:46Calm before the storm.
03:48Eh?
03:49An old friend of yours back on the patch, Tom.
03:52Who?
03:53Dan Fowler.
03:54Here you are, love.
04:01Ta.
04:01Got it?
04:03Dan?
04:04Oh, love.
04:05Did you mean it?
04:06What?
04:07What you said last night.
04:10Which?
04:11You said I could buy some new clothes.
04:14Sure I meant it.
04:16Things are expensive.
04:17Oh, so what?
04:18Well, where's the money coming from?
04:20Never mind.
04:22It'll be there when you want it, Julie.
04:24And that's a promise.
04:31What's this?
04:32Dan Fowler's back.
04:35I say?
04:36Dan Fowler's back.
04:37Yeah, so what?
04:39Well, he'd say something like, uh, thanks for telling me.
04:42What?
04:43What are you going to do?
04:46Well, we could try making you stop smoking.
04:49Fowler!
04:50Keep an arm.
04:52Does Benny white, no?
04:54He'll do a vanishing act.
04:55I wouldn't bet on that.
04:56No?
04:57When you put Fowler away, Benny took over, didn't he?
05:00I reckon so.
05:00Couldn't get any goods on him, though.
05:02Well, Benny must have been on easy street.
05:04All those clubs paying in protection.
05:05But that's Fowler's meal ticket.
05:07And he'll want it back.
05:08Benny'll hand over.
05:09What?
05:10The first big money caper has ever handled.
05:12Not on your nelly.
05:13All right.
05:14So, Fowler might go for him.
05:17If he does, we'll nail him.
05:21Might nail Benny and all.
05:23You'll have to get up very early in the morning to nail Fowler again, Tom.
05:26He's a smart aleck.
05:27A real pro.
05:29The sort that makes this job a pleasure.
05:31Not like the others.
05:32They're just a nuisance.
05:33Others?
05:34Aye.
05:34Flaming amateurs.
05:37Check the petty cash.
05:38Yes.
05:39You're balanced.
05:40Yes.
05:41You're sure?
05:43Well, did the petty cash balance?
05:46Yes.
05:53You...
05:54New Town Travel?
05:55Hold on a moment, please.
05:56Yes, Mr Flynn?
05:58Tell Mr Piochrist I want to see him.
06:00He's dealing with a client.
06:02As soon as he's free, then.
06:03BELL RINGS
06:05Sit down, Vernon.
06:07BELL RINGS
06:08You lost weight in prison?
06:21I missed your home cooking, Julie.
06:25You're the best there is with a tin opener.
06:27All your suits will be too big.
06:30Oh, I'll have a couple made.
06:31On credit?
06:33Are you worrying about money again?
06:35I've had to worry about it, haven't I?
06:37Oh, you've got your job at the club.
06:39Oh, yes, I've got that.
06:41Ray promised me you'd see you were OK.
06:42Well, he broke his promise.
06:43He should have told me.
06:45What could you have done?
06:47Wait till I flame him.
06:48We'll see him.
06:50Dan.
06:50What?
06:51It wasn't his fault.
06:52Eh?
06:53Well, business started falling off and Ray had to cut down.
06:56Oh, Julie.
06:56Look, if it wasn't for you, he wouldn't have kept me on.
06:59But there was a bit less in my wage packet every week.
07:04You sure that's what it was?
07:06Ray wasn't just trying to be clever.
07:07He may not be making much out of the club, but he doesn't want it wrecked one night.
07:14OK, then.
07:17You managed, eh, Julie?
07:20Oh, yes, I managed.
07:22That's all, though.
07:24And now you've come out with this big talk about new clothes for me and suits for yourself.
07:28It's not just talk, Julie.
07:30Out a couple of days and already you're going to hold up another bank.
07:34Who said anything about a bank?
07:36I'll see you, Julie.
07:41These vouchers were in the petty cash.
07:43Did you make them out?
07:46Why?
07:46Did you make them out?
07:53The handwriting's like mine.
07:58Postage.
07:58Five pounds.
08:00That doesn't agree with the entries in the postbook, plus the stamps in hand.
08:05Typewriter's service.
08:06Three pounds.
08:08The machine was only bought two months ago.
08:10It hasn't required servicing.
08:13Refund to client.
08:15Fifteen pounds.
08:17Gilchrist.
08:18Sir?
08:18Is there an entry in the book showing that a refund of that amount to a client was necessary?
08:23Well...
08:23Well, is there?
08:23I couldn't find one, sir.
08:26All right, Gilchrist.
08:28Thank you, sir.
08:32When you checked the petty cash, it didn't balance, did it?
08:35Twenty-three pounds was missing.
08:38You made out those vouchers to cover the shortage.
08:41Why?
08:42You're forcing me to make the obvious conclusion.
08:46Very well.
08:49Yeah, Fowler got, um, three years.
08:54A payroll job, yeah.
08:55That's right, yeah.
08:56We, uh, we nicked his mate first.
08:57Um, but, but, no, um...
09:00Burrows.
09:01That's right.
09:02Burrows.
09:02W.J.
09:04Ah.
09:04It's before your time, Gil.
09:06Fowler went over the wall just after I got my transfer here.
09:09We picked him up in Seaport.
09:10I thought you'd remember that, Sarge.
09:12Oh, yeah, yeah.
09:13It's coming back to me now.
09:14You and, um, Newcombe, right?
09:16Yeah.
09:17Yeah.
09:18He only finished his time when he scarred.
09:20Fowler?
09:21Yeah, his wife had, uh, had her appendix out and he was worried about her.
09:26Yeah, it didn't stop him knocking off a post office before he tried to get to the hospital, though.
09:29Got an extra two years for it.
09:31What you may call a compulsive villain.
09:33That's fowler.
09:34Like some people are compulsive gossip, is it?
09:37Uh, Sarge, I think it's just the, uh, timing on your car.
09:40I'll, uh, let you know tonight.
09:41All right.
09:41If I'm not about it, leave the keys down here.
09:43Okay.
09:44I wondered how, uh, Skinner knew about it.
09:47He went down for his three-year stretch before Joe's time here.
09:51Did you get it sorted out?
09:52Uh, more or less, yeah, more or less.
09:54Good.
09:55Well, I hope he knows what he's doing.
09:57Huh?
09:58If he mugs up my car, I'll brain him.
10:00Rub it, rub it, rub it.
10:01Where's the fire?
10:03Travel agency.
10:04Some stupid Bert's been filling the petty cash.
10:07Oh, Tom.
10:09Talking about Fowler.
10:11Yes?
10:13I reckon he meant it.
10:15You what?
10:16I was in court the first time.
10:19So, the look at his face.
10:21Wouldn't it surprise me if he'd taken his chance then and there?
10:24That's...
10:24Yeah, that's...
10:25Get him off here, Bert.
10:26How many times have you heard a villain say he's going to carve up the copper who nicked him?
10:29Fine, I wasn't joking, Tom.
10:31Of course he wasn't.
10:32Not then.
10:32Just got a three-year stretch, hadn't he?
10:34He'll have got over it by now, like the rest of them.
10:36Look, the club's losing money.
10:40I had...
10:40Julie told me.
10:42If I didn't cut her wages, I'd have had to let her go.
10:44It's OK.
10:46You sure?
10:47You don't have to prove it.
10:50Prove what?
10:51I know you're chicken.
10:54Same old Dan, eh?
10:56Same sense of humour.
11:00We've business to talk about.
11:03I'd only finish that later.
11:14OK?
11:16Fine.
11:17The, er, business.
11:25If it's about the insurance, then...
11:27No, it isn't.
11:31Benny White's still collecting.
11:33I'd rather deal with you.
11:36Stop worrying.
11:39What does that mean?
11:42Let Benny go on collecting.
11:44What, are you retiring?
11:45For a while.
11:49Look, Dan, I'd like to see you running things, but if you try and take over from Benny, you'll make trouble for me.
11:54Benny won't do a thing.
11:55And that's a promise.
11:57When I'm ready, I'll move in.
12:01OK?
12:03That's everything you say, Dan.
12:04No, same again?
12:12Yeah.
12:14But you have to do that.
12:16I said we've business to talk about.
12:18I'll be needing an alibi.
12:27I'll be needing an alibi.
12:27I'll be needing an alibi.
12:29When for?
12:31In, er, a couple of days.
12:34The law will be asking questions.
12:36Concerning what?
12:39One of their coppers.
12:44The facts speak for themselves.
12:46I'm a bit deaf.
12:48I beg your pardon?
12:49I'd like to hear the facts again.
12:51What, from Vernon?
12:52The other assistant.
12:53Gilchrist?
12:54Yeah.
12:55Well, I'll send him in.
12:58Oh, I...
12:59I thought Sergeant Haggard might like a cup of tea.
13:02Oh, he would.
13:03Thanks.
13:06Can I speak to you?
13:09Fire away.
13:11I'll just complete this client's booking first, sir.
13:13It'll only take a moment.
13:14All right.
13:15Then go in to Sergeant Haggard.
13:16Yes, sir.
13:17Er, this is Colin Vernon.
13:20It's about my son.
13:21He went into hospital yesterday.
13:24Hello, yes?
13:26Colin won't tell you.
13:28Know him pretty well, do you?
13:30Quite well.
13:31Oh.
13:32Fancy him?
13:33We've worked together for three years.
13:36You want to see me, sir?
13:38Yeah.
13:39All right, love.
13:40Er, I'll remember it.
13:42About the petty cash.
13:47Yes, sir.
13:48You, er, didn't go over it with Vernon?
13:50No.
13:51Why not?
13:52There wasn't time, sir.
13:54Mr. Vernon was going on holiday, sir.
13:55He had a train to catch.
13:57You see, sir...
13:58You jump in the gun a bit, aren't you, lad?
14:00Sir?
14:01The New Year's Honours list hasn't been announced yet.
14:04I don't quite...
14:05Oh.
14:07Carry on.
14:08Well, when Mr. Vernon's gone on holiday before, er, Mr...
14:12Oh, let's be informal.
14:14Sergeant will do for now.
14:16Well, what's happened before?
14:18Well, I've sometimes just taken Mr. Vernon's word for it that the money was all right.
14:22Mr. Pickering didn't mind.
14:23Who?
14:24Oh, this used to be his travel agency.
14:27He sold it to the present owners.
14:29And there'd never been any trouble before, sir.
14:31So I didn't think it would matter this time if I didn't check the petty cash.
14:35Did you...
14:40Did you want to ask me any more questions?
14:44Yes.
14:54Any more tea in the pot?
14:56Oh, I'll see.
15:05You finished with Gilchrist?
15:07Yeah.
15:09Vernon's admitted to making these petty cash claims out, hasn't he?
15:12Well, he hasn't denied that he did.
15:15Oh, time.
15:17Would you ask Mr. Vernon to come in, please?
15:19All right, Gilchrist.
15:20Thank you, sir.
15:22How many keys to the petty cash tin?
15:25Two.
15:25And who keeps them?
15:26Vernon.
15:27And you?
15:27Oh, thank you, Mr. Flynn.
15:33Now, sit down, then.
15:41Can you depend on Ray?
15:43Aye.
15:44Are you sure?
15:45Oh, look.
15:46When I wanted him to take care of you,
15:48I told him.
15:49And he co-operated, didn't he?
15:51Yes.
15:52Well, then.
15:54Come on, love.
15:55Time you're going to club.
15:57Best not change routine.
15:59Now, the law might get, er, nosy if you do.
16:02Oh, that's the last thing you want.
16:04Right now?
16:05Yeah.
16:07Dan.
16:08What?
16:09I don't like you taking two chances.
16:11Two?
16:13This money you've been talking about.
16:16Not coming from social security, is it?
16:19You and me can't live on peanuts, love.
16:22Mm-hmm.
16:23Peanuts.
16:24Something funny?
16:25Ask Ray.
16:27Well, you'll be taking a chance getting this money.
16:29Will I?
16:30All right.
16:32You've got away with as many liberties as the next villain.
16:35What?
16:35Maybe you'll get away with this one.
16:38Whatever it is.
16:40But going after Stone, that's more than taking a chance.
16:44Oh, Ray's given me an alibi, isn't he?
16:47Oh, I'd better take that night off.
16:50Why?
16:52Well, Ray swearing you at the club, that's all right.
16:55But if I'm there to vouch for you as well, your wife,
16:59there is such a thing as an alibi that's too good.
17:04Hmm.
17:05Yeah, maybe you're right, Julie.
17:10Is it worth it for something that happened five years ago?
17:13No one.
17:14But no one puts me away with a com trick.
17:17How do you know it was a trick?
17:18Wally Burroughs told me.
17:20They kept you apart.
17:21He sent me a message.
17:22Look, you got three years.
17:25Wally only got two.
17:26Why?
17:27Oh, he's not so much form as me.
17:29He shocked you.
17:30That's why.
17:31Don't let him up the garden.
17:33Said they'd nicked me and I made a statement.
17:36Wally's version.
17:37Well, I believed him.
17:38Yes, of course.
17:39Because you couldn't stomach the idea of being shot by an old mate, could you?
17:42Julie.
17:43Oh, what's the use?
17:46Maybe you're right.
17:47I don't know.
17:49I do know this, though.
17:50No man can beat a policeman's brains in and stay on the outside for very long.
17:56No man I know, anyway.
18:01Look, two little words, yes and no.
18:05Have you ever heard of him?
18:06I think so.
18:08I've answered your questions.
18:10Did you lend the key of the petty cashed in to anyone?
18:14I might have done.
18:15What was the name of the person who got the £15 refund?
18:18I can't remember.
18:20Do you call those answers?
18:22Yes.
18:23Oh, I must be hearing things, lad.
18:24I could have sworn you said yes.
18:27Well, it's better than going all the way around the mulberry tree, isn't it?
18:30Saves time and all, so keep it up, lad.
18:32Keep it up.
18:33Yes or no?
18:34Did you take that money?
18:37Everyone seems to think I did.
18:40A sample of your handwriting.
18:41Now, it looks the same as on these petty cash vouchers.
18:44Now, the experts will prove it if it is the same.
18:47So stop playing silly beggars.
18:49Because if you don't...
18:51You want this?
18:52It's the only pen I have.
18:55Tell me I'm right.
18:56Tell me you're determined to prove yourself a martyr.
18:59And why?
19:00Might send him to prison.
19:02For £23?
19:03Well, even if they don't, Colin will lose his job.
19:05Oh, someone will find him a vacancy.
19:07Well, a man who's been discharged for stealing.
19:10Yeah, well, he's only got himself to think about, hasn't he?
19:13What about his son?
19:15Oh, Mr Flynn's across at the bank, sir.
19:17I'll talk to him later.
19:19Did the hospital ring?
19:20Yes.
19:21They operated on Stephen last night.
19:22He's fairly comfortable.
19:23Is there anything I can do?
19:25No.
19:26Anything at all?
19:28I'll be all right, Jane.
19:46Flaming amateur.
19:48Something else, isn't it?
19:49Hey, you've come up against fellas like Vernon before,
19:52characters who won't commit themselves,
19:53but you don't usually get steamed up about it.
19:55I still think he's in the clear.
19:57Your well-known intuition, eh?
19:59He told me.
20:01He's got too much gumption to go in for these fake vouchers.
20:04He's got his head screwed on the right way.
20:06And vouchers wouldn't fool anyone?
20:08Not even you.
20:09Respect for each other, Cecil.
20:11That's what makes the difference between working coppers
20:13and ordinary people.
20:14And especially not an efficiency expert like Flynn.
20:17All right, then.
20:18Let's try my intuition, shall we?
20:20You reckon he's covering?
20:21The sort of thing it would do.
20:22A knight in shining armour.
20:24Who says?
20:25A girl he works with.
20:26Bent over herself backwards to blow his trumpet for him.
20:29Vernon's a do-gooder.
20:30Anything from voluntary hospital work to free dues for pensioners.
20:33Marital status?
20:34You've been filling in too many forms, Tom.
20:37Divorced.
20:38One son, 12 next birthday.
20:39Not like you, is it, Cecil?
20:42Wasting half a day on 23 quid.
20:46Look, trying to get Vernon to own up that he hasn't touched it.
20:49And all you got from him was a statement admitting that he had.
20:52Admitting that he'd made out the vouchers.
20:54Same thing.
20:55Mike, heck it is.
20:57You know, your eyes are just about as dazzled by his shining armour as the girls'.
21:01I still think it's in the clear.
21:02Come on, Cecil.
21:04He conned you and you fell for it.
21:07Then you thought of the handwriting test.
21:10And he couldn't stop himself putting his foot in it.
21:13He offered you his pen.
21:14Why?
21:15Because he knows the routine.
21:17Which in your book means only one thing.
21:19Yeah, he's been the same kind of fix before.
21:21In other words...
21:22He's got form.
21:23Right.
21:24Look, Cecil, it knocks me when my intuition's wrong about a fella.
21:28Look, there are a dozen different ways he could have known about the pen routine.
21:31Seen it on the telly, on the films.
21:32Read about it.
21:33Yeah.
21:34Yeah.
21:45That you, Ronnie?
21:46I've been trying to get you for a couple of days.
21:51Busy?
21:52Doing what?
21:55Casing gas meters.
21:58OK, I believe you.
22:03Now, listen.
22:05I left a message with your ma.
22:09Oh, good lad.
22:11Do as Dan Fowler says and you can't go wrong.
22:13Now, which station did you leave it at yesterday?
22:18Right.
22:20I'll see you in half an hour.
22:21Use your cuff.
22:22Oh, and, er, don't forget to bring the left luggage ticket with you.
22:28Good lad.
22:28Ah, OK, Stan.
22:36Ah, Tom.
22:37Phone message for you.
22:38Who from?
22:39I don't know.
22:40Woman's voice.
22:42Do you know what the message was?
22:44Yeah.
22:44Well, come on then, tell us what you say.
22:48Tell Stone to watch out for Dan Fowler.
22:54Ray's taken me off reception.
22:56Oh, what you on?
22:57Cloak room.
23:00Benny White thought it was funny, too.
23:03He saw me hanging up coats.
23:04He said something to the girl he was with, and they both had hysterics.
23:07Well, I'm not standing for that.
23:09Look, Ray can't get at me, so he's taken it out of you.
23:13Talk to him.
23:14Oh, late.
23:14When?
23:16A few weeks.
23:17If I don't get my job back, I'm not going near the club.
23:20Julie, we've got to keep the law happy.
23:24Now, it won't be for long, love, and that's a promise.
23:27Well, you're asking a lot.
23:29It'll be worth it.
23:31Convince me.
23:33Right.
23:34The law will be keeping tabs on me for a while.
23:37When they leave off, because they aren't getting anywhere,
23:39I'll get rid of Benny, fix smart Alec Ray, and we...
23:42Now, we'll all live happily ever after.
23:44Aye.
23:44Oh.
23:45Look, it'll be as you were at the club,
23:48and after a while, you can pat that in.
23:50Oh, yes, and what do we live on?
23:51Well, what do you think?
23:52Oh, this job you're going to do?
23:53Who's going to do one?
23:57Come on, close your eyes.
23:58Oh, Dan.
23:59Come on, close them.
24:00Oh, all right.
24:03Go pee-pee.
24:04Surprise.
24:14Is it real?
24:16Yeah.
24:17I nicked it a long time back.
24:20Where have you been keeping it?
24:22Mark Kelly's place in the pool.
24:25Her lad, Ronnie, kept an eye on it.
24:27When did you swipe it?
24:30Scarpered from the nick, didn't I?
24:32Then?
24:32Yeah.
24:33I pulled two capers.
24:35I let the coppers nick me for one.
24:38Blind them with science.
24:43No flies on me.
24:46Eh, Julie?
24:47Somebody doesn't like Dan Fowler.
24:51Fowler?
24:52His wife works here.
24:53I have the office phone.
24:56They'll ring again.
25:00Is there a Mrs Fowler on my staff?
25:02On your staff?
25:03She's practically a shareholder.
25:05And this man you mentioned, he's a husband, is he?
25:08Dan Dan, the insurance man.
25:11Insurance?
25:11Mr Harrop, drop the act, eh?
25:15I'm not putting on an act.
25:16Oh, yes, you are.
25:17And I've seen better ones die the death than the Liverpool Empire.
25:20If you'll excuse me, Mr Stone.
25:22Dan Fowler insured you against fire, flood, vandalism, anything he could think of doing to you.
25:30Premium.
25:31Part of your takings.
25:33That sounds like protection.
25:35Oh, now, there's a dirty word.
25:37It's illegal, isn't it?
25:39Yes.
25:40So why don't you and the rest of the club owners cooperate with us?
25:43Well, perhaps...
25:45Perhaps we couldn't get life insurance.
25:47That's our speciality.
25:50I'll make a note of it.
25:54Galaxy Club.
25:57When?
25:59Yes, yes, that'll be convenient.
26:02Ah, thanks for ringing.
26:06Well, look, that's all then, Mr Stone.
26:08That is not all, Mr Harrop.
26:09You see, somebody sent me a message.
26:11They want me to look after Dan Fowler.
26:13Trouble is, they didn't give me enough info.
26:15Didn't leave me the name and address.
26:16Well, do you think I sent the message?
26:18You'd have good reason.
26:19Why should I?
26:20Because you're Dan Fowler's best customer.
26:23You even looked after his wife for him while he was inside.
26:25I'm sorry, I've got...
26:26Benny White was good to you.
26:28Eh?
26:28He didn't squeeze you too hard.
26:30Now, look, Mr Stone...
26:31But he's due for the chop.
26:32Dan Fowler has been inside.
26:34He's going to make up for lost time.
26:35He's going to up the premium.
26:37If you don't stop him.
26:39Can he be stopped?
26:41Oh, yes.
26:42I can stop him.
26:44And the way you want.
26:45Without you being involved.
26:47Well, say I was interested.
26:49Then tell me.
26:51What is it I've got to watch out for?
26:54Life insurance.
26:54That's your speciality.
26:55That's your speciality.
27:02I hope you could do something for her, Mr Rothwell.
27:06Well, my wife really enjoyed working for you.
27:09You get such a good class of customer.
27:10Oh, no, no.
27:15No, the baby isn't a problem anymore, sir.
27:17There's someone who'll look after her till I get home.
27:21Yeah, yeah.
27:22I know it's over a year since my wife worked behind a bar,
27:25but she'd soon get into it again.
27:26I'll leave you to it.
27:27I see.
27:32Phone again in a few weeks.
27:34Yeah, I'll do that, sir.
27:36Yeah.
27:37Goodbye.
27:44I don't expect to see you back again.
27:46Miss Wardle thought you and I ought to have a little chat.
27:50I've nothing to say to you, Mr Vernon.
27:53Well, five minutes, that's all.
27:56No, Mr Vernon.
27:57There's nothing I want to chat to you about.
28:16What do you want, Dan?
28:20Nice house.
28:20Must have cost a packet.
28:29This will only rent the ground floor.
28:32This afternoon,
28:34when I phoned you at the club,
28:38you sounded cagey.
28:41Stone was there.
28:44What do you want?
28:45Nothing.
28:46Nothing.
28:47Just a social call.
28:51You sure?
28:53I'm due at the club.
28:55He's not the sort of copy that makes social calls.
28:59Worried?
29:00Not me, lad.
29:02Well, that's all right, then.
29:05If anyone ought to be worrying,
29:08it's Detective Sergeant Flaming Stone.
29:10It's going to let my keys.
29:21Ah.
29:22It's up.
29:23No.
29:23No.
29:24No.
29:29I don't know.
29:32No.
29:33So, let's go.
30:03Sergeant Stone been in yet?
30:14He's on inquiries.
30:17Hey, Sarge, do you know when Sergeant Stone's coming in?
30:20Sarge?
30:22What's up with him?
30:24He's going to court.
30:26He's acting like one of the prisoners.
30:28Yeah, probably the bad news he got from LCRO last night.
30:31Bad news?
30:32About Vernon.
30:34Look from the travel agency.
30:37Brian?
30:39The money out of the petty cash?
30:41Yes?
30:43Suppose you knew there was a chance that Colin didn't take it?
30:46How would I know that?
30:47I said suppose.
30:49Would you tell Sergeant Dagger?
30:52Do you think he mightn't have taken it?
30:55I was asking you.
30:58You were talking to that policeman yesterday.
30:59Yeah, about something else.
31:01What would you do?
31:04Depend.
31:05On what?
31:05Get head office.
31:09I want to speak to Mr Hardwick.
31:14What would it depend on?
31:16I've got to get on with this.
31:17Mr Hardwick's on the line.
31:29Good morning, sir.
31:29Yes, I've just come back.
31:34Vernon pleaded guilty.
31:35He was fined 50 pounds in order to make restitution.
31:39Yes, something else came out in court, sir.
31:42The policeman in charge of the case, Sergeant Hagger,
31:45said it wasn't Vernon's first offence.
31:47No, in 1965, he was sentenced to three years.
31:52Forging cheques, sir.
32:05Hello, Colin.
32:06Hello.
32:08Mr Flynn told me to get these ready.
32:11I thought he might.
32:13Cards, P45, wages up to next week,
32:15in the second week's holiday pay.
32:19Thanks.
32:20Well,
32:21goodbye, Jane.
32:25Goodbye, Colin.
32:26Would you make some coffee, Miss Wardle?
32:30The second post.
32:36Could I speak to you, sir?
32:38What, now?
32:38Yes, please, sir.
32:39Oh, go on.
32:40I'd like to apply for the vacancy of senior assistant, sir.
32:45If you give me the chance,
32:48I know I could do the job.
32:50I've been here nearly four years now.
32:51Of course, I realise you'll be making a lot of changes,
32:53but, well, I'm sure I could learn very quickly...
32:55Miss Wardle.
32:56You're a ripe pair, aren't you?
33:04I'm sorry.
33:06Well, why the blaze didn't you tell me yesterday?
33:08Well, obviously, Colin, Mr Vernon, didn't want me to.
33:12I tried hinting to him.
33:13Oh, Gilchrist?
33:14Yeah, well, I mean, I thought most people had a better side to their nature.
33:18Yeah, I bet you believe in fairies and all.
33:20Can you do anything?
33:21I'll do my best.
33:24I'll be very grateful.
33:25But it won't be for you.
33:28Sergeant Hagger, this is Flynn, Newtown Travel.
33:32Well, yes, he's here now.
33:33That's what I want to speak to you about.
33:36Look, I've had to dispense with Vernon.
33:38That's cut my stuff down to two.
33:40Gilchrist and Miss Wardle.
33:42Now she's gone off somewhere without even asking my permission.
33:45Well, why do you want to see him?
33:49Yes, but...
33:51If allowing him to go affects the efficient running of this business,
33:54I shall speak to your superior.
33:57Oh, well, you may not think there's such a person.
34:00I beg to differ.
34:02It's OK.
34:06You're wondering, aren't you, lad?
34:08Wondering why you're here.
34:10The home of murderers, bank robbers
34:13and big-time villains in general.
34:16Yes.
34:17But, you see, we're also taking stinking, petty little thieves.
34:22Have you seen Mr Pickering lately?
34:24Who?
34:25The man who used to own the travel agency.
34:27You told me about him.
34:28No, I haven't seen him.
34:30Then you've got the treat in store, lad.
34:34Ah, Mr Pickering.
34:39Sergeant?
34:40Yeah?
34:40How's the car?
34:41Better than it was.
34:42Well, it's still a bit rough.
34:43Yeah.
34:43I'll have another go tonight, if you like.
34:45All right.
34:46Same as before.
34:47Leave the keys downstairs.
34:48If I'm not about.
34:49OK.
34:50Here.
34:51Next time I see you in the black horse, I'll buy you a pint.
34:54I never use a place.
34:56Get away.
34:58I didn't think Miss Wardle knew.
35:01She tried to get you to own up, didn't she?
35:03Is that what she's been...
35:05It isn't easy, you know, married, trying to find somewhere to live.
35:16Oh, we had a place.
35:17Two rooms.
35:19And then the baby, they gave us notice.
35:21Well, I found another flat.
35:25I had to buy carpets and furniture, everything.
35:29It was more than I could afford an higher purchase, Sergeant.
35:31Sir, do you?
35:33Well, people make do with odds and ends, for a start, don't they?
35:36It was the first place of our own.
35:39I wanted my wife to have a good home.
35:41And then...
35:42And then somebody handed over 500 quid in cash, and you put it in your pocket.
35:45As soon as I did it, I was sorry, sir.
35:47As soon as you got caught, Jimmy.
35:49But you were lucky, weren't you?
35:52Vickering gave you a good rollicking, then let you off.
35:55And I was very grateful.
35:57But you can see, I had to get credit.
36:00I tried to keep up the payments.
36:02Things kept going up.
36:03I had to get some money from somewhere.
36:06Like from the petty cash.
36:09Why did Miss Wardle...
36:10Next time, wait until the funeral's been over for a while, lad.
36:14And if you can't wait, don't let the chief mourner senior try to grab the dead man's shoes.
36:20The money's in the bedroom.
36:22How much?
36:23I'll count it tonight.
36:25But there's more than enough.
36:27You were right.
36:29That visit when he broke out.
36:30Talk about the smile that wouldn't wash off.
36:34I was certain he'd have one of his surprises for me eventually.
36:38Now it's his turn to be surprised.
36:41Julie.
36:42Oh, don't you call me that.
36:44You sure he won't back out?
36:46He can't.
36:47Not after the way I've pushed him.
36:49No, he's got to prove to me that he's clever enough to beat up a policeman and escape the consequences.
36:55Well, I hope you don't grow tired of me.
36:57How's it going?
37:01Give my love to Sergeant Stone.
37:05Thanks, Brett.
37:07What are you doing here, anyway?
37:08Waiting for Ted Bowman.
37:10Going to his place for supper.
37:11Bangers and mash and treacle duff.
37:13How do you know?
37:14That's the Bowmans on Thursdays.
37:16Bangers and mash and treacle duff.
37:17Night.
37:18Night, Tom.
37:19Night, Tom.
37:49Let's go.
38:19What happens now?
38:26The papers go up to the top legal brass in London, and you cop a free pardon.
38:30Thanks for believing.
38:31Do-gooders.
38:32I know what it's like to be in debt, and I've...
38:34Oh, I've heard that sob story before.
38:35You find sob story a very inadequate description if you were married and had troubles.
38:39If I was, I wouldn't pick a wife like yours, one that makes me forge damn great checks just to keep her happy.
38:43She didn't make me.
38:44I have no idea what Tom's doing is.
38:46What?
38:47You haven't showed up this morning.
38:48Oh, he's probably having a lie-in'.
38:51I've been phoning this house since two hours after he went off duty last night.
38:56No reply.
38:56Newtown police, yeah?
39:12Who's the message for?
39:15Yeah, we know about that.
39:17Can I have your name?
39:18I said ca...
39:19Hello?
39:20Hello?
39:21Hello?
39:22Mr. Pickering's a saint.
39:23There are very few of us left.
39:25When I came out of prison, I knew it'd be pointless to go back to my hometown, so I came here.
39:30You knew Pickering?
39:31You knew Pickering?
39:32Oh, old friend of me father's.
39:33He gave me another chance.
39:35Hope Gilchrist will be as lucky.
39:37Well...
39:38Well, send us an invite.
39:40You and Miss Wardle.
39:42Our plans have had to be postponed.
39:43Why?
39:44If you must know.
39:45Yes, I must.
39:46I can't afford to get married again.
39:48Oh.
39:49Has Flynn cut your wages?
39:51Not exactly.
39:52What does that mean?
39:53I think I'd better see...
39:54Hey, hold on!
39:55I said, what does that mean?
39:57He stopped my wages.
39:59What, you mean he's fired you?
40:01Yes.
40:02Yes.
40:03But it was Gilchrist who took that 23 quid.
40:05He's been charged.
40:06And I went to prison for forgery.
40:08Then he's given you the boot for that?
40:10Yes.
40:11Why the blazes did he have to be in court.
40:14Circumstances he had to be.
40:15Yes, yes, yes.
40:17I'd like to ask a question.
40:19What's that?
40:20Why did an offence I committed seven years ago?
40:22The only one I've ever been guilty of.
40:24Why did that have to be made public property?
40:27Well, if the court asks for particulars of a person's record,
40:30the police have got to comply.
40:32It's the law.
40:33And don't blame Flynn for the fact I lost my job.
40:36Blame the law.
40:37What's the patient's condition?
40:42No change.
40:44Right, thanks.
40:47Where the heck have you been?
40:50Wigan.
40:51Eh?
40:52Alf Nuttall's retiring.
40:53Yeah, I know, next week, but...
40:54He said we've got a couple of fellas coming over for a quiet drink,
40:57come and join us.
40:58Got any aspirin?
40:59All I've got is indigestion.
41:01Huh.
41:02Mrs Bowman's treat called Duff?
41:03Look, I don't suppose, Tom.
41:04Yes, yes.
41:05I went to the bank special.
41:06Don't like owing money.
41:07Just as well I borrowed that quid from you.
41:08I've never been able to have to Wigan.
41:09I was going to say, I don't suppose you know we've been turning the patch upside down looking for you.
41:13Eh?
41:14You stay on Wigan till this morning?
41:16Yeah, a dust down on a half sofa.
41:18Why?
41:19Been home yet?
41:20Yeah, we're in for a quick shave.
41:22Cars outside.
41:23Couldn't use it.
41:24Skinner's got the keys.
41:25You wait till I see Skinner.
41:26S2.
41:27County General.
41:29Skinner brought your car back.
41:31But late ish.
41:32He was told you'd gone home so he drove the car over to your place and got clobbered.
41:36Bloke found him.
41:38Phoned for an ambulance.
41:39Hospital told us right away.
41:41Been trying to trace you ever since.
41:43How is he?
41:44Still unconscious.
41:46Oh, there was another phone call for you earlier on.
41:52Woman's voice again?
41:53Don't know, but caller knew Skinner was in hospital.
41:57Know anything else?
41:58Told me who put him there.
42:01Me?
42:02Give a copper a going over?
42:04Yeah.
42:05Yeah.
42:06Oh, you've made a mistake.
42:08You've made the mistake.
42:09It was meant to be me.
42:11Oh.
42:12I wouldn't lay a finger on you, Mr Stone.
42:15Not even for old times, eh?
42:17Get on with it.
42:18Last night, you said?
42:20Yeah.
42:21Ray Harrop's Club.
42:22From half seven till about...
42:26What time did I get in, Julie?
42:28I was asleep.
42:33Er, ask Ray what time I got back from the club.
42:37We will.
42:39Why'd you pick on me?
42:40Always like to give old customers first chance.
42:43Oh, come on.
42:44We've only been out a few days.
42:46You don't think I'd do anything so stupid?
42:53Same numbers as my car keys.
42:55Get your coat on, fella.
42:58You.
43:04Come here.
43:08Telephone?
43:09No.
43:10Phone box handy?
43:11Around the corner.
43:12Useful when you want to leave a message, eh?
43:20Open it.
43:21I'll tell you about that at the Nick.
43:22I'll see you, Julie.
43:23And that's a promise.
43:24I'll see you, Julie.
43:25And that's a promise.
43:26I'll see you, Julie.
43:30I'll see you, Julie.
43:31And that's a promise.
43:32I'll see you, Julie.
43:33I'll see you, Julie.
43:34And that's a promise.
43:36I'll see you, Julie.
43:37And that's a promise.
43:38And that's a promise.
43:40I'll see you.
43:41And that's a promise.
43:42And that's a promise.
43:43And that's a promise.
43:45I'll see you, Julie.
43:46And that's a promise.
43:47I'll see you, Julie.
43:48And that's a promise.
43:49I'll see you, Julie.
43:50You can't join our patch.
44:02We're up to strength.
44:03Tell him that to Inspector Connor.
44:04The crime rate's getting worse,
44:05so the establishment ought to be increased.
44:07Oh, Mr. Connor's going to fix it, is he?
44:09Yeah.
44:10Well, cosy for you.
44:11One take's bound to look after another.
44:13We've had taken over.
44:15You've got a face like that for something
44:17that's not going to happen for two years.
44:18I'm not on a bit as being joined at Liverpool City.
44:21The takes are moving in.
44:22Tykes.
44:23I haven't got one Yorkshireman on the strength.
44:24That's Inspector Connor, who?
44:28You?
44:29On permanent strength?
44:30Yeah.
44:31When?
44:32Oh, not yet.
44:33You'll have to muddle along without me for a while.
44:34Oh, by the way, um, how's Skinner?
44:36You interested?
44:37Well, it'll be one of my lads soon.
44:39Is he, er, is he conscious yet?
44:40Yeah.
44:42Confirm the chapel?
44:43No, he doesn't know who clobbered him.
44:45He doesn't even know who he is yet.
44:47Amnesia?
44:48Yeah.
44:49Hospital say he'll get his memory back this week.
44:51Next week?
44:52Sometime.
44:53Yeah, I'll go do it now.
45:00I see them on Dick and Dick new.
45:02Alright.
45:03Thanks.
45:04Bye bye.
45:05Keep the whole thingaga on.
45:08Alright, come on.
45:09T's, here we go.
45:11What's the movie?
45:12What's the movie?
45:13Yeah, first.
45:14Good.
45:15Look.
45:16Perfect.
45:18Had it all going to be.
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