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First broadcast 19th September 2021.
It's the summer of 1971. Endeavour and the team are called to investigate the murder of a cab driver on the outskirts of Oxford.
Lucy Aarden - Alison Appleby
Nicholas Shaw - Baz Appleby
Fraser James - Clarry Haynes
Lottie Tolhurst - Lynn Parry
Andrew Woodall - Major Jones
Arthur Sylense - Del Grady (as Joe Gallina)
Ian Hallard - Brian Frussell
Kirsty Oswald - Patty Grady
Shadrach Agozino - Lee Timothy
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Lynda Rooke - Gwen Morse
Oliver Johnstone - Joe North
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Amy Griffiths - Ann Lunn
Andrea Lowe - Pauline Lunn
Regan Garcia - Mark Lunn
Wayne Carter - Ifan Roberts
Jessica Layde - Lesley
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Issy van Randwyck - Laurel Maynard
Catherine Cusack - Mrs. Roisin Walsh
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Matt Rixon - Commander Len Drury
Philip Bubb - Father Francis Mahoney
Nick Davison - Shop Customer
Ty Hurley - Crime Investigation Department
It's the summer of 1971. Endeavour and the team are called to investigate the murder of a cab driver on the outskirts of Oxford.
Lucy Aarden - Alison Appleby
Nicholas Shaw - Baz Appleby
Fraser James - Clarry Haynes
Lottie Tolhurst - Lynn Parry
Andrew Woodall - Major Jones
Arthur Sylense - Del Grady (as Joe Gallina)
Ian Hallard - Brian Frussell
Kirsty Oswald - Patty Grady
Shadrach Agozino - Lee Timothy
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Lynda Rooke - Gwen Morse
Oliver Johnstone - Joe North
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Amy Griffiths - Ann Lunn
Andrea Lowe - Pauline Lunn
Regan Garcia - Mark Lunn
Wayne Carter - Ifan Roberts
Jessica Layde - Lesley
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Issy van Randwyck - Laurel Maynard
Catherine Cusack - Mrs. Roisin Walsh
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Matt Rixon - Commander Len Drury
Philip Bubb - Father Francis Mahoney
Nick Davison - Shop Customer
Ty Hurley - Crime Investigation Department
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00:00:00Hello there. Paradise Court, please.
00:00:14Paradise Court, come in right up.
00:00:17Madam?
00:00:30Paradise Court, come in right.
00:01:00Paradise Court, come in right.
00:01:30Paradise Court, come in right.
00:01:59Paradise Court, come in right.
00:02:29Paradise Court, come in right.
00:02:47Mr. and Mrs. Appleby, I presume.
00:02:53That's us.
00:02:54Welcome to paradise.
00:02:56Oh, very nice.
00:02:57Good, good, good, good.
00:02:59Come, come, follow me.
00:03:02Come on.
00:03:05Good night.
00:03:21Oh, yes, good night.
00:03:24And thank you.
00:03:26Good night.
00:03:27Good night.
00:03:35Oh, my God.
00:03:43TUNE
00:03:49TUNE
00:03:52TUNE
00:03:58TUNE
00:04:11TUNE
00:04:12TUNE
00:04:13I don't know.
00:04:43There you are.
00:05:03So wouldn't you hear anything with that racket?
00:05:06Don't just stand gawping, fetch my bags in, and don't give him too much of a tip.
00:05:10I'm sure he brought us a long way around, and found every pothole along the way.
00:05:18Light Amnestra's a friend of yours, is she?
00:05:21Relative, my stepmother.
00:05:23My condolences.
00:05:25Talk about a backseat driver.
00:05:27It's too fast, too slow.
00:05:29The cab was too hot.
00:05:30Yeah, that sounds about right.
00:05:32All right, I can take it from here.
00:05:33How much do I, um...
00:05:33Let me just check.
00:05:37With the excess, that'll be 75 of your new English pence.
00:05:42Here we go.
00:05:43Take 80.
00:05:44Think of it as danger money.
00:05:45Not very much.
00:05:45Get it all in.
00:06:01Just about.
00:06:02Well, just make sure you put it somewhere safe.
00:06:04The rest arrives tomorrow.
00:06:06The rest?
00:06:06Well, didn't you get my letter?
00:06:09I've sold the house and bought a place in Aynsham.
00:06:13Joyce has got herself engaged to some man she's living in sin with at Whitney.
00:06:17Oh, she never mentioned it.
00:06:18Well, who's to blame for that, if you don't keep in touch?
00:06:22Keith Garrett, his name is.
00:06:25Couldn't you stay with them?
00:06:27Do you think I'd be here if I could?
00:06:29They're abroad until Wednesday.
00:06:34Unmarried and both in the same room.
00:06:37Oh, it's not right.
00:06:39What about a hotel?
00:06:41Oh, you'll be all right on the sofa for a couple of nights.
00:06:43I mean, I don't like it any more than you do.
00:06:46It's only till I take possession.
00:06:48When's that?
00:06:50There is no need to ask in that tone.
00:06:53I am not one of your interrogation suspects.
00:06:59Monday.
00:07:00But you don't have to worry about me.
00:07:01I don't expect to be looked after.
00:07:04You won't even know I'm here.
00:07:14If you could give your statement to my colleague over here.
00:07:21Looks to be robbery.
00:07:23While it's empty.
00:07:25Dudley Lunn, according to the Speedy Cabs office.
00:07:2842.
00:07:28Married.
00:07:30Uniforms notified.
00:07:31His wife now.
00:07:32Paperboy came upon the car just after six.
00:07:36Doctor.
00:07:40Don't even know how long he's been there.
00:07:42Rigour well established, which, as well as making my labours more difficult, suggests he's been dead about 12 hours.
00:07:52Are we sure about that?
00:07:53Time of death?
00:07:54The glass on his watch is cracked and the hands are set to 10 to 7.
00:07:59Then the watch stopped ticking several hours before Mr. Lunn did.
00:08:04The body doesn't lie, Morse.
00:08:07Myself notwithstanding, it's the only impartial, reliable witness to any suspicious death.
00:08:13So, 10-ish last night, then.
00:08:16Hmm.
00:08:17By my reckoning, yes.
00:08:19Single shot to the back of the skull, point-blank range.
00:08:24Exit wound just above the left eye, as you can see.
00:08:29Bullet strikes the windscreen, drops onto the dash.
00:08:34A...
00:08:35Voila.
00:08:38Looks to be a 22.
00:08:40Though it has taken quite a battering.
00:08:42Be able to give you the death gem after the post-mortem.
00:08:46Shall we say half past two?
00:08:48It's late for you, Doctor.
00:08:50A stake and kidney at the Eagle.
00:08:53I wouldn't want to rush that dissection.
00:09:00Cab is about as easy a mark as it gets.
00:09:02They have to go out with a decent float, and it only gets bigger as the shift goes on.
00:09:08There's a driver a couple of weeks ago on our old ground got put in hospital.
00:09:12Pistol whipped.
00:09:14For what I could remember, the suspect was bearded, dark-haired.
00:09:17Speedy cabs again?
00:09:18No.
00:09:19A to B cars out of Cowley.
00:09:21It's a long way to drive to kill someone, isn't it?
00:09:24Yeah.
00:09:25Private, though.
00:09:26No witnesses.
00:09:27Well, that's fine as far as it goes, but if he kills his ride, how's he going to get back?
00:09:31Well, maybe you didn't have to.
00:09:34Carry on down the lane a ways, there's a place called Paradise Court.
00:09:38Some sort of naturist camp for nudists.
00:09:43That's what the paper boy was for.
00:09:45What have you got there?
00:09:48Piece of old tissue.
00:09:49All right, matey, don't rub it in.
00:09:51Haven't all got you all right.
00:09:52Just thought it might have been something, is all.
00:09:54Let's bag it in any case.
00:09:56We'll talk to the family and have a word with his work.
00:09:59You want to see if anyone heard anything up at that place?
00:10:03When he didn't come home, I thought maybe he'd had a long fare, you know?
00:10:25Somebody might want him to take them to Grimsby or anywhere you care to think of.
00:10:28I did say that to the constables who came by earlier.
00:10:33I thought they'd have written it down in their notebook or somewhere.
00:10:36But they didn't.
00:10:39I'm afraid that's our job, Mrs. Lum.
00:10:43I'm sorry to have to ask, but all was well at home, was it?
00:10:48Oh, yes.
00:10:50Ours was a very happy marriage.
00:10:52Fonella will be heartbroken.
00:10:57She's out playing right now, but...
00:11:00She idolises her father.
00:11:05You will tell Pauline, will you?
00:11:07Or have I got to do that?
00:11:09Who's Pauline?
00:11:11He was married before.
00:11:14She lives in Headington.
00:11:16There's a kiddie, a boy.
00:11:17She'll have to be told.
00:11:20And she won't thank me for it, will she?
00:11:25I think it's probably better coming from you.
00:11:32Good afternoon, sir.
00:11:36Luggage in the car, is it?
00:11:38No, it's, um...
00:11:39First visit.
00:11:40Well, there's no need to be nervous, no need at all.
00:11:44Now, I don't think we've any reservation down for today,
00:11:48but we've plenty of vacancies.
00:11:50The season hasn't really got going yet.
00:11:51I'm a policeman.
00:11:54And I'm a former major with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.
00:11:58But the naturist world takes us as it finds us, Mr...
00:12:02Detective Sergeant Strange.
00:12:05Thames Valley.
00:12:06And I'm not here for a frolic in the altogether, Major...
00:12:10Joe.
00:12:14If I could have everyone's attention for a moment.
00:12:31This is, uh...
00:12:32Detective Sergeant Strange, Thames Valley.
00:12:34If you wouldn't mind putting something on while I talk to you.
00:12:46Now, I must ask if any of you saw or heard anything unusual last night.
00:12:51I did say, Sergeant.
00:12:52With the music from the Luau...
00:12:54Like a gunshot, you mean?
00:12:56Perhaps.
00:12:57Miss...
00:12:58Appleby.
00:12:59Alison Appleby.
00:13:00Mrs.
00:13:01I thought it was a car backfiring.
00:13:03Barry Appleby.
00:13:04Buzz.
00:13:05What time would that have been?
00:13:07The guests all turn their watches in upon arrival as part of the process of getting back to nature.
00:13:12That's true, but I heard the church clock chime ten shortly after.
00:13:16Right.
00:13:24No need to go to all that trouble, Mrs. Lunn.
00:13:27There's no trouble.
00:13:28Oh, and Pauline, please.
00:13:30I only get called Mrs. Lunn by solicitors or the social or up at Mark's school.
00:13:36Carolee Secondary Modern.
00:13:37I thought I recognised her uniform.
00:13:39My two went there.
00:13:40Oh, yeah?
00:13:41When was that?
00:13:41Long time past.
00:13:43The youngest, my boy, is in the army now, out in Ireland.
00:13:45And my daughter, well, she's with the welfare, looking after kids.
00:13:50I probably know her.
00:13:51Mark's got into trouble once or twice.
00:13:53He's not a bad boy.
00:13:55He just misses his dad.
00:13:57God knows what this will do to him.
00:13:59I'm sorry for asking, but, er, you are divorced, I'll tell you.
00:14:03Oh, yeah.
00:14:04Four years last February.
00:14:06Anne is the official Mrs. Lunn now.
00:14:08Well, I don't know what you call it.
00:14:11What would it be?
00:14:12The dowager, Mrs. Lunn.
00:14:14He gambled, did he?
00:14:16Gambled?
00:14:17If he had four legs, he couldn't throw money after it fast enough.
00:14:20That and, well, you've met her.
00:14:23How did he meet the second Mrs. Lunn?
00:14:25Oh, didn't she say?
00:14:27She worked in the cab office, on the radio,
00:14:30handing out the jobs, started there.
00:14:32They usually fizzled out, only he got her in the family way and, well...
00:14:38You said they usually?
00:14:41With Dudley, it was four legs good, two legs better.
00:14:45I tried to keep it from Mark as best I could,
00:14:47but children pick up on things, don't they?
00:14:49Multiple voices coming at them all night.
00:14:55I don't know who is.
00:14:56I can't help you.
00:14:57That was great boy.
00:14:57I don't know if you're all alone.
00:14:58I'm out.
00:14:59I don't know.
00:15:01I don't know if you have any energy.
00:15:02I'm out.
00:15:02We're once in a while.
00:15:03Don't know if you've got any energy.
00:15:04Never mind.
00:15:05Some of you are.
00:15:06I don't know if I'm with you.
00:15:08I'm with you now.
00:15:09I don't know if you have any energy.
00:15:10It's not like you do stuff but you're gonna end up.
00:15:12I feel good enough.
00:15:13I feel good enough, maybe.
00:15:14I feel weird enough with you.
00:15:16I'm with anotherкон Q ofに I am sure.
00:15:18All right, then. See you back at base.
00:15:264545, pick up 52 Festive Avenue,
00:15:30going to Headington on a count to Mr. Ben.
00:15:34Oh, it's just awful news. Awful.
00:15:37You heard about what happened to the driver from A to B cars, presumably.
00:15:41What? The fellas have been talking about nothing else.
00:15:43You hope it's just a one-off.
00:15:45But now this puts the fear of God in everyone.
00:15:50Sorry about this.
00:15:52Got to answer it. Usually if a girl, but it's her afternoon off.
00:15:55Speedy Cabs, I can help you.
00:15:57Hello?
00:16:01Oh, yeah, that's my shoe one.
00:16:04Oh, Joan, she'd be in English.
00:16:06The most everybody calls a birdie.
00:16:09Fingyubach.
00:16:11Always singing around the oceans, like a cochlear net.
00:16:13Beautiful.
00:16:17You got kids?
00:16:18Yeah, two, as it happens.
00:16:19Speedy Cabs, I can help you.
00:16:22Um, yeah, what time would you like that for?
00:16:25Ah, how a pleasure.
00:16:27Thank you now.
00:16:28Goodbye.
00:16:29Did you give him a job to Hoville Wood last night?
00:16:33Paradise Court, perhaps?
00:16:35Oh, that's when it happened, is it?
00:16:37Uh, no, um, well, the last dispatch I had for Dudley was on.
00:16:43Let me see now.
00:16:43It's all in here, see?
00:16:44Oh, yeah, yeah, here it is, look.
00:16:46Uh, 5.18, pick-up, Summertown to Beaufort.
00:16:51Doctor Who.
00:16:53Oriental Studies.
00:16:54Old boy, one of our regulars.
00:16:56And there was nothing after that?
00:16:59Well, if it was, it didn't come from me.
00:17:01Oh, I had a word with the boys.
00:17:03A couple of the lads said he was on the rank at Cowley East last night.
00:17:08Do you want some tanny butter?
00:17:15No.
00:17:16You don't want to burn?
00:17:21Where did she get you last night?
00:17:23I woke up and you weren't there.
00:17:25All of nature.
00:17:26You were over such a long time.
00:17:27Yes, well, I couldn't find it.
00:17:29Maybe I should have said that we'd just come by taxi.
00:17:32You don't think it was our driver, do you?
00:17:34No, why would it be?
00:17:36He dropped us off at 7.30.
00:17:38You said yourself you'd heard the gunshot at around 10.
00:17:40If that's what you did here.
00:17:42Well, he's hardly likely to hang around at the top of the lane all that time.
00:17:46Was it the top of the lane?
00:17:47Oh, I don't know, do I?
00:17:48I'm just guessing.
00:17:50Anyway, you don't want to get involved.
00:17:52I wish that man would go and clip his privets elsewhere.
00:17:55Staring.
00:17:598.30, quarter to nine, something like that's about the last time we signed.
00:18:03What did you say, Brian?
00:18:05Yeah, that's right.
00:18:05Dadley was at the top of the rank, waiting for a fair.
00:18:10Did you say you got in the camp?
00:18:13No.
00:18:14And did either of you have a job out at the Hope of Wood last night?
00:18:17Hope of Wood?
00:18:18Mm-hmm.
00:18:19No, sir, no.
00:18:20All right, fellas.
00:18:22What's all this?
00:18:24The police joke.
00:18:25It's about Dadley.
00:18:26Dadley?
00:18:27What about him?
00:18:28You haven't heard?
00:18:29Oh, my.
00:18:31He's been murdered.
00:18:32Mr.
00:18:34North.
00:18:35Joe North.
00:18:37Yeah, don't I...
00:18:38Yeah, Mr. North dropped the fare at my house this morning, so I'm Detective Sergeant Morse, Detective Chief Inspector Thursday.
00:18:43So, what happened?
00:18:48Not another guy like this fellow with A to B?
00:18:51Well, you're keeping an open mind, but he looks that way.
00:18:53Yeah, Clary, you're up, look.
00:18:55Oh, if you'll excuse me, officers.
00:18:57Certainly, Mr. Hanks.
00:18:59He was keen on the horses, I understand.
00:19:02I think, yes.
00:19:03He was always touching one of us up for a couple of quid to put on the GGs.
00:19:08Right.
00:19:08And he liked women, too, I hear.
00:19:10Well, crumper in and out the back of the cab all day.
00:19:15Can't blame him, can you?
00:19:18Well, if anything else would cross your mind, you know where to find us.
00:19:28I can confirm that the bullet which killed Mr. Lunn was a .22.
00:19:39I've passed it to Ballistics for a full analysis.
00:19:41Small calibre.
00:19:43A woman's gun, perhaps?
00:19:45Ruth Ellis fired a .38, of course.
00:19:47She did, but it wasn't hers.
00:19:49You're not going to want to keep a Smith & Wesson in your handbag along with your compact, are you?
00:19:54Anything else?
00:19:55Nothing to suggest any kind of struggle for the weapon.
00:19:59He very likely had no inkling he was about to die.
00:20:03The ostrich fanciers' club?
00:20:05Never heard of it.
00:20:06No, no address, but there is a telephone number on the back.
00:20:09I'll see if we can get a reverse trace.
00:20:11What would he have had in his wallet?
00:20:12£10, £15, £20?
00:20:13Would you kill someone for that?
00:20:14I've seen people kill for less.
00:20:16What are you saying, that emptying the wallet was a blind?
00:20:19Unless I'm much mistaken, that's not just blood on his collar, that's lipstick.
00:20:23No, if you could keep Fenella with you and I'll fetch her on the way back.
00:20:28They're sending a car for me, to go and do the identifying.
00:20:32I know, I can't believe it myself.
00:20:39I don't know what I'm going to do for a tea.
00:20:41He was something of a womaniser, according to his mates, and the first Mrs. Lunn.
00:20:47Indeed.
00:20:49Morse noted a smudge of bright red lipstick on his collar.
00:20:54Another woman, then.
00:20:56Jealous husband, I bet.
00:20:58Or wife, sir.
00:20:59Or wife.
00:21:00Are we over 20,000 people on the side?
00:21:03Without a name, I'm afraid I can't help you.
00:21:05Right.
00:21:07Understood.
00:21:07Well, thank you very much.
00:21:09Sorry to have troubled you.
00:21:13I've conducted some odd interviews in my time, matey, but stone me this morning's go-takes the Garibaldi.
00:21:18What's this?
00:21:19Paradise Court.
00:21:21The nudie place.
00:21:22A couple there think they'd heard a gunshot.
00:21:24A Mr. and Mrs. Appleby.
00:21:25Only they took it to be a car backfiring just before 10.
00:21:29Lone picks his fare up outside the station between 8.45 and 9.
00:21:33Gets to all the Hubblewood area between 9.45 and 10.
00:21:36And that works, more or less.
00:21:38Must have been someone who knows Paradise Court, then.
00:21:40Get anywhere with the ostrich fanciers, Club?
00:21:42Oh, no.
00:21:43There's nothing on record in Oxford.
00:21:44Nothing in the phone book.
00:21:45And the number just gets you the BLMC switchboard, but without a name.
00:21:55Just going out.
00:22:01You've just got in?
00:22:02What's about tea?
00:22:04Well, there's cheese in the fridge and bread in the bin.
00:22:08I take it I have to see for myself, then?
00:22:10Well, you've found your way to the drinks cabinet, all right.
00:22:13Can't imagine the pantry a long-proof terra incognita.
00:22:15Oh, yes.
00:22:17Always the Latin.
00:22:19Must come in very handy consorting with the criminal classes.
00:22:22I expect this is one of yours, is it?
00:22:26Taxi drivers murdered in nudist camps.
00:22:29People running around with no clothes on.
00:22:33It's squalid.
00:22:34And you, grubbing around in it by way of a living.
00:22:39I can't imagine what your dad would say.
00:22:41Well, not much, if he was running true to form.
00:22:44Still, being the son of a cabbie may have its practical use for once.
00:22:49Cabbie?
00:22:49Your father was a private hire chauffeur.
00:22:54He drove the Aga Can.
00:22:56Once.
00:22:57He was a taxi driver.
00:23:00Got to drag us down, haven't you?
00:23:02Belittle him.
00:23:04Make him look small.
00:23:06I can't imagine your father and this dead man have a thing in common.
00:23:11Well, there's the horses our dead man like to gamble.
00:23:15There's nothing wrong with that.
00:23:16Lots of men like a floater.
00:23:18Oh, and he left his wife and child for another woman that he'd, um...
00:23:22What's the polite phrase?
00:23:24Put in the family way.
00:23:25So does that, I suppose.
00:23:27Don't wait up.
00:23:33You haven't seen my husband, have you, Major?
00:23:36I appear to have lost him.
00:23:39He asked me to call him a cab.
00:23:41About an hour ago.
00:23:42Did he say when he'd be back?
00:23:45I'm afraid not, Mrs. Atleby.
00:23:50You're welcome.
00:23:56Body of Christ.
00:23:57Amen.
00:24:00Body of Christ.
00:24:03Amen.
00:24:03Body of Christ.
00:24:20It's Mark, isn't it?
00:24:50Mark Lund, I'm Detective Sergeant Morse.
00:24:56I'm investigating what happened to your father.
00:24:58You're lying.
00:24:59No, I'm not.
00:25:00Let me show you my warrant card.
00:25:01Every police officer has to have a warrant card to prove he is who he says he is.
00:25:05Look, take a look.
00:25:08What are you doing here?
00:25:10They come back to the scene of the crime.
00:25:12Murderers.
00:25:13I've read about it.
00:25:15Where did you get the gun?
00:25:17Dad gave it to me.
00:25:19Dad gave it to me for rabbits.
00:25:20My dad gave me a gun once.
00:25:22For my birthday.
00:25:23That was for rabbits, too.
00:25:25Can I take a look?
00:25:28Swap.
00:25:33Hey!
00:25:36You're too young to be in possession of a firearm.
00:25:39And it's not for you to find out who killed your father, no matter how much you might want to.
00:25:43Just taking out the scene of the crime, just in case he comes back.
00:25:46No, you're not.
00:25:47You're going home.
00:25:48And I'm taking you.
00:25:49I know you want to help, but this isn't the way.
00:25:50Drop in the car.
00:25:52No, you're going home.
00:26:21It won't be a minute if you want to come up.
00:26:48No, no, you're all right, I'll wait here.
00:27:01Is it, um...
00:27:03Yeah.
00:27:04Oh, yeah.
00:27:07I forgot to say about gloves.
00:27:09Asked someone who'd been to one.
00:27:11Didn't want to let the side down.
00:27:13You couldn't.
00:27:18Should we...?
00:27:23Yeah, yeah, of course.
00:27:25Got you these.
00:27:30Shall we?
00:27:32Let me get you the door.
00:27:33Thanks.
00:27:34Mind your dress.
00:27:35Yeah.
00:27:36Don't you look a picture.
00:27:38Shall we, squire?
00:27:39Shall we, squire?
00:27:40Yeah.
00:27:41Shall we get you the door?
00:27:42Thanks.
00:27:43Mind your dress.
00:27:45Yeah.
00:27:46Don't you look a picture.
00:27:48Shall we, squire?
00:27:49Let's...
00:27:51Shall we, squire?
00:27:52Let's.
00:27:53Don't you look a picture.
00:28:07Shall we, Squire?
00:28:08Let's.
00:28:23I thought if I got a better report, he might come back.
00:28:30How do you mean?
00:28:31From school.
00:28:32I got a bad report and he was cross about it.
00:28:35And he went and lived with his new family.
00:28:39But...
00:28:40Well, that was just a coincidence.
00:28:43That wasn't your fault.
00:28:45Your mum and dad getting divorced had nothing to do with anything that you said,
00:28:49or did, or didn't do, or say.
00:28:51Do you understand?
00:28:54He was a good dad.
00:28:57Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure.
00:28:59He let me help with the garage sometimes when he was working on the cab.
00:29:02Yeah?
00:29:03Did you enjoy that?
00:29:09Can I have my gun back?
00:29:11No.
00:29:12You can't.
00:29:13It's...
00:29:14It's illegal, I'm afraid.
00:29:16You're just as likely to hurt yourself with it as someone else,
00:29:19so I'll keep hold of it until you're old enough, all right?
00:29:23No, go on.
00:29:24Go in.
00:29:25Give your mum a hug.
00:29:26Tell her you love her.
00:29:27Right, sorry.
00:29:28I loved her.
00:29:29Yeah.
00:30:00Good night.
00:30:19Can I see?
00:30:21Oh, certainly.
00:30:27It's amazing.
00:30:29You're very welcome to it.
00:30:31You mean I could keep it?
00:30:33Oh, me. If you like it.
00:30:35Could you sign it?
00:30:37Oh.
00:30:38Yeah.
00:30:45How's that?
00:30:46Oh, bright.
00:30:47What does the R stand for?
00:30:48Reginald.
00:30:50I'm Lynn.
00:30:51Lynn Parry.
00:30:53Miss Parry, how do you do?
00:30:55Lynn.
00:30:55A Mr. and Mrs. Denby.
00:31:10Mr. and Mrs. Cameron.
00:31:16Brother Strange and Miss Joan Thursday.
00:31:19You're a very worshipful master.
00:31:21Well, Strange.
00:31:22What a beautiful dress.
00:31:25You're very kind.
00:31:26Not at all.
00:31:26Really gorgeous.
00:31:29I hope you have a lovely evening.
00:31:31We will, I'm sure.
00:31:31Mr. and Mrs. Stubbink.
00:31:56Mr. and Mrs. Stubbink.
00:32:01And the winner of two tickets to see the Carpenters at the Royal Albert Hall is Mr. James Strange
00:32:19for Miss Joan Thursday. Some of us are trying to sleep. Oh, good evening. Never mind, good evening.
00:32:41What do you want? I'm looking for Miss Thursday. Well, she's out. Out.
00:32:48Some bloke in an evening suit in a private car. Oh. Was there a message? No. No, no message.
00:32:58A danger, a danger, will you be mine? My darling dear, love you all the time.
00:33:18Here you go. Thank you. All right? So far, so good. I didn't see anything that was...
00:33:26No, no, not at all. You were brilliant.
00:33:28So, what's this all about then, Jim?
00:33:37Well, it's kind of expected, isn't it, in my line? Not many of us went to the right kind
00:33:43of school, so this is the next best thing. Old boy network. If you like. There's no harm
00:33:49in it. Not why people go on. You'd think it was all black magic in sacrificing virgins.
00:33:54But, somewhere in amongst all that, somehow, we managed to do a lot of good work for charity.
00:34:01So, did you want to, er... Why not? Thank you.
00:34:14I'll be the vision of your happiness. Earth angel, earth angel, please be mine. My darling dear,
00:34:31love you for all time. Love you for all time. I'm just a fool. A fool in love with you.
00:34:52Hey! Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing? I couldn't kill you!
00:35:12What? Mr. You okay? Yes. Come on, sir. Come on, let me help you.
00:35:21I just...
00:35:26You okay? No, I just tripped him. This man sweating a little bit.
00:35:31That could have happened to anyone. Which way are you going?
00:35:36Look, let Clary take you home safe, sir. Come on. Take care of yourself. Come, come.
00:35:42You scared the life out of me. Ah!
00:35:45You scared the life out of me. Ah!
00:36:08.
00:36:19Well, listen, thanks for helping me out tonight.
00:36:23You're welcome.
00:36:26Right. Night, then.
00:36:29Night.
00:36:34Blimey.
00:36:35Won't wash me face for a week, then.
00:36:38What was that for?
00:36:39A lovely evening.
00:36:42Go on. In you go.
00:36:46Oh, listen.
00:36:47Don't feel like you've got to come to the Carpenters if it's not your kind.
00:36:50Excuse me. We won, didn't we?
00:36:51Yeah, but...
00:36:52A night out in London. I'm not going to turn that down.
00:36:56She does have a lovely voice.
00:36:58Yeah, she does.
00:37:02Right, then.
00:37:04Good night.
00:37:05Good night.
00:37:11Nice bit of crumpet.
00:37:25She's not crumpet.
00:37:30She's a smart, bright, independent young woman.
00:37:34You'll remember it if you're looking for a tip next time.
00:37:37Whatever you say, squire.
00:37:38Bye, bye.
00:37:44Bye.
00:37:49Bye.
00:37:57Bye.
00:37:58Bye.
00:37:58You all right now?
00:38:09Yep.
00:38:19Thanks for the lift.
00:38:28That's what I've got to do.
00:38:58Father Francis Mahoney, 56.
00:39:13Who found him?
00:39:14His housekeeper, a Mrs Walsh.
00:39:17She brought him up a cup of tea to his room at the rectory, only to find his bed and been slept in.
00:39:22So she came in here to look for him.
00:39:24This doesn't move in then?
00:39:25Goes home of an evening after he's had his tea, then comes in first thing to see to his breakfast.
00:39:33Looks to be another robbery in any event.
00:39:35Mollets open and empty on the floor of the confessional.
00:39:38Anything, Doctor?
00:39:39I'm afraid Father Mahoney got rather more of an earful than he was expecting.
00:39:45Shot through the screen.
00:39:46Body temperature and rigor suggests he joined the choir Invisible about 14 to 16 hours ago.
00:39:53That makes it some time after last night's seven o'clock mass.
00:39:57Doesn't confession happen before mass?
00:39:59Unless it's prearranged with the priest.
00:40:01There's no exit wound this time, so Calibre will have to wait on the PM.
00:40:06Might we remove the body?
00:40:08Of course, Doctor, by any means.
00:40:10Very well, then.
00:40:11Shall we say two o'clock?
00:40:12What would a taxi driver and a priest have in common that would be of interest to the same killer?
00:40:22Until we have forensics on the bullet, we don't know they were.
00:40:25What, two shootings in two days by two different killers?
00:40:27That hardly seems likely, does it?
00:40:29I went back to Cowley East, talked to the station staff last night.
00:40:32Waitress at the caf said a cleric had been in the night Lum was killed,
00:40:36hanging about over his coffee.
00:40:37One dog collar's much like another.
00:40:41We'll see if there's any photos of him up at the rectory and you can run it past, sir.
00:40:44Right.
00:40:45She also said there was a young woman, blonde, 20s, kept watching the cab ring.
00:40:51Get going with door to door.
00:40:53We'll brace the housekeeper.
00:40:54Sir.
00:41:00What happened to you this morning?
00:41:02Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the alarm.
00:41:05That shirt looks like you slept in it.
00:41:07Well, my stepmother's staying with me until she moves into a place in Eanesham.
00:41:11I'm on the sofa, it's not ideal.
00:41:13Still no excuse for a grubby shirt.
00:41:15A slovenly dress leads to a slovenly mind.
00:41:17If more connects these cases than robbery, then I'll need you to earn your keep.
00:41:21Well, I wasn't completely idle last night.
00:41:23I went back to where Lon was shot, almost went the same way myself.
00:41:26The son was lying in wait in case the killer returned to the scene.
00:41:30You mean he was armed?
00:41:30Yeah, a .22 pistol.
00:41:32Same as did for his old man.
00:41:34Don't worry, I took it off him and then drove him home.
00:41:36But while I was there, I found part of a metal canister on the verge by where the taxi was parked.
00:41:40What sort of canister?
00:41:41Couldn't say.
00:41:41I'd intended to take it to this naturist camp, but with the boy on board.
00:41:45Passed it to forensics for prints, along with a pistol for comparison testing.
00:41:49You want to come down?
00:42:01No, you're right.
00:42:02Miss Morris said it'd be right to carry on.
00:42:05Well, I'm saying it's not.
00:42:06So if you don't get down here and give your details on my sergeant, you'll have my foot up your arse.
00:42:10Come on, Pop.
00:42:11Stop me uptight.
00:42:12I've got a rotor.
00:42:13If I don't do them now, I'll put me all out.
00:42:14I'll put you all out.
00:42:15You don't get down that ladder.
00:42:16All right, all right.
00:42:18Keep your eye out on.
00:42:23Blimey, what's the matter of him?
00:42:24Ain't he getting any?
00:42:25Name, address, and date of birth, please.
00:42:27Lee Timothy, 3, Sidents, Jericho, 12th of October, 1950.
00:42:33When was the last time you saw Father Mahoney?
00:42:35Six weeks, last time I did his windows.
00:42:38Did he ever mention any trouble he was having, any difficulties with his parishioners?
00:42:43To his window cleaner?
00:42:45No.
00:42:46Funny enough, I did hear him have a bit of a ding-dong last I was here.
00:42:54I was a loftier in the window.
00:42:56And he was having a right old go at someone in the front bedroom.
00:42:59Top Bay.
00:43:00Did you hear what he was saying or see who he was talking to?
00:43:03No, not who he was with him, but I saw a Trilby on the hall table.
00:43:08Little orange feather in the band.
00:43:10Too racy for the father.
00:43:11What term is this?
00:43:12Early doors.
00:43:13Right, well, I think that'll be all for now, Mr. Timothy, thank you.
00:43:16If we need anything else, we'll be in touch.
00:43:18His ministry had taken him all over.
00:43:21He'd been a padre in the war, I think, and a prison chaplain, too.
00:43:25Did he have any family that you know of?
00:43:28Had a half-brother come by from time to time.
00:43:31Donal.
00:43:32But things weren't all that good between them.
00:43:38No?
00:43:39How's that?
00:43:40He turned up every few months like the proverbial bad penny.
00:43:45After money from the father.
00:43:47I told him I thought he was taking advantage.
00:43:51The father said,
00:43:53Am I not my brother's keeper, Roisin?
00:43:58Am I not my brother's keeper?
00:43:59Afternoon, Mrs. Appleby.
00:44:11Afternoon.
00:44:18Baz, where the hell have you been?
00:44:20I've been going out of my mind.
00:44:22It's not a big deal.
00:44:23I just had to get away.
00:44:24From me?
00:44:24No, from here.
00:44:26It was just for an hour or two.
00:44:28Baz, you've been gone all night.
00:44:30Where did you go?
00:44:31A pub in town.
00:44:34An old haunt from when I was an undergrad.
00:44:37I had too much to drink and passed out on Christchurch Meadow.
00:44:44Look, I'm back now.
00:44:46I'll try and make a go of it.
00:44:47You don't have to.
00:44:49We can just go.
00:44:50No, I'd like to.
00:44:52Really.
00:44:52I'll get over my hang-ups and...
00:44:55We've paid for the week.
00:44:59Let's just try and enjoy it.
00:45:01Yes?
00:45:01No, no, no, no.
00:45:02Yes.
00:45:15They're all nights.
00:45:16Anything from Lipney?
00:45:36No, nothing much.
00:45:37Other than he overheard Mahoney arguing with someone in his bedroom the last time he was here.
00:45:41And a woman.
00:45:42I couldn't say.
00:45:43Though he did see a trilby through the window with an orange feather.
00:45:46Not Mahoney's, so presumably a man.
00:45:49Could be his half-brother, Donal.
00:45:53Well, there's a call D in his diary.
00:45:57And his last appointment to his confession.
00:45:598pm.
00:46:00Ringed and underlined.
00:46:01Kept by his killer, presumably.
00:46:13The fruit of my labour.
00:46:2522.
00:46:27Same calibre as did for Mr. Lunn.
00:46:30By your leave, I'll pass it to Forensic Ballistics for comparison.
00:46:33See if we have a match.
00:46:34Well, I can't imagine we've too many robbers going around Oxford knocking people off with a .22 pistol.
00:46:44Three Feathers.
00:46:45That was on Lunn's membership card, wasn't it?
00:46:47The Auschwitz-Franciers Club.
00:46:49And the boys on D-Wing, Wandsworth.
00:46:52His housekeeper said he was a prison chaplain.
00:46:55It's a funny robbery that leaves a pocket watch.
00:46:58And it's smashed again.
00:47:00Two broken timepieces.
00:47:02The killer's motif, perhaps?
00:47:05Do you still think it was just a robbery?
00:47:073.50.
00:47:08So what's he after?
00:47:09Trying to fix a false time to give himself an alibi, maybe?
00:47:13Well, if that's his purpose, it's pretty redundant.
00:47:16We know from Dr. Debrin and from his appointment book that Father Mahoney was shot at 8.
00:47:20Well, whatever it means, I'd better get back and brief Mr. Bright.
00:47:23Two deaths in as many days isn't going to go down well at Division.
00:47:26You can bank on it.
00:47:27Well, I'll get back to the rectory, see if there's anything that this fits.
00:47:30There was a wardrobe that I couldn't get into.
00:47:33Just make sure nothing's been overlooked.
00:47:41Let's go.
00:48:11Let's go.
00:48:41Taxi driver, now a priest. Anything to connect them?
00:48:48We've no reason to believe the dead men were known to each other, sir.
00:48:51Well, whoever's behind it, you need to find them Thursday and fast. I've already had divisional.
00:48:56This is some lunatic murdering strangers at random for money.
00:49:02He's got 130,000 potential victims to choose from, and we've no way of knowing who's going to be next.
00:49:06Here we go.
00:49:36Here we go.
00:50:06Can't you wear a bell around your neck?
00:50:14Sorry. I've always been light afoot. What are you doing skulking in there? Looking for absolution?
00:50:20It's too late for me. I'm part...
00:50:21Never too late for the Almighty. Though your sins be as scarlet.
00:50:25Did you know him? What was he like?
00:50:27Whiskey priest. They get that look sometimes, clergy, that over-the-shoulder, hunted cast to the eye, as if they'll be discovered in their doubt.
00:50:39You mean he lost his faith?
00:50:41Well, there's a lot of it about.
00:50:46Have you ever heard of the Ostrich Fanciers Club?
00:50:48No. That's new to me. Where is it?
00:50:51I don't know. I'm not even sure what kind of club it is.
00:50:54I can ask around.
00:51:04Hi-hi. What's this, then? Magic Latin show?
00:51:08In a manner of speaking.
00:51:09Oh! Climbing.
00:51:15Boss found a bunch of them in a wardrobe up to Rectory.
00:51:18All right, boss. We get the general idea.
00:51:24Pornography?
00:51:25That's not Oxford business. That's London business.
00:51:28Oh, I was running. The A40 makes it everybody's business.
00:51:31I've got an old colleague in the dirty squad. I'll see if he can shed any light.
00:51:34Well, it wasn't Father Mahoney at the station cafe.
00:51:39I showed his photo to the waitress. She said it was another fella.
00:51:42Hello, hello. That's, uh, a Masonic apron.
00:51:45Yeah, we know. It was with the blue films in the bag.
00:51:47Well, it couldn't have been Father Mahoney's.
00:51:49The Pope stuck a ban on Romans joining the Brotherhood nearly 200 years back.
00:51:53His brother Donal, maybe. He sounds like a wrong.
00:51:56Sir.
00:51:59These canisters.
00:52:01Tin cans, you say.
00:52:03Well, you've had all sorts in hedgerows.
00:52:07No, it was half a canister.
00:52:09May have contained eight-millimeter film stock.
00:52:12Well, we have a film show once a week for the guests.
00:52:14We have a small library of them, but they're all 16 mil.
00:52:19The couple that heard the shot, Major, Mr. and Mrs. Appleby, when did they arrive?
00:52:24Friday evening.
00:52:25We gave them their flower garlands by way of a welcome.
00:52:28I asked if they wanted to dine, but they were very tired and wanted to get straight to bed.
00:52:32Well, I didn't see them again until morning.
00:52:35We were going to drive up, and then we thought, if we really are going to get back to nature,
00:52:40we ought to take the train and get a cab.
00:52:43And can you describe the driver?
00:52:45The driver?
00:52:46Mm-hmm.
00:52:46Oh, yes.
00:52:48You lied to us.
00:52:50Turns out you were the one who dropped the Applebys of Paradise Court the same night as the murder.
00:52:56I can't see I should have mentioned it, but I've had a lot on my mind.
00:53:01My wife's been sick, sir.
00:53:03Back and forth to the doctor.
00:53:04I'm sorry to hear it.
00:53:05And where were you last night?
00:53:06Well, no, sir.
00:53:08You knew where I was.
00:53:10I had a little accident with the officer, but I made sure he was all right and took him home.
00:53:17Before that?
00:53:20Oh, I had fears all over.
00:53:23Anything take you near St. Agnes?
00:53:26No, sir.
00:53:27I don't believe it did.
00:53:28And was everything all right between you, Mr. Lund?
00:53:32Me and Dudley?
00:53:33Yeah.
00:53:34Yeah, sure.
00:53:36We was good friends, you know.
00:53:38Ask any of the men on the rank.
00:53:40No money, worries, or anything.
00:53:43It's just I found this marker in the back of your cab last night.
00:53:46It's an IOU for £25, back of a Speedy Cabs card, signed by Mr. Lund.
00:53:51Oh, now that, sister, that was just a little private matter between us.
00:53:57Besides, Dudley paid all of that back a long time ago.
00:54:00My experience, Mr. Haynes, when a debt is paid, the mark is returned to the debtor, else destroyed.
00:54:06Also, £25 more sand.
00:54:09Week's wages or more.
00:54:10Well, sir, we all put a little bit by for a rainy day, don't we?
00:54:15But you can see why we're finding it difficult to believe that you being out at Paradise Court
00:54:21on the same night that a man who owes you money is shot dead is something that might just slip your mind.
00:54:26Look, maybe I should have said something.
00:54:30But I didn't want to get involved in that kind of trouble.
00:54:33Murder trouble, you know.
00:54:36I'm just a taxi driver.
00:54:39I mind my business.
00:54:41Mr. and Mrs. Maynard, good afternoon.
00:54:53Farewell, my dear.
00:54:55Have a lovely trip.
00:54:57See you in a few days.
00:54:58I'll get the door for you.
00:55:02Here's your coat.
00:55:33Well, if this is what you get up to living here by yourself, no wonder you can't get a decent girl to look at you.
00:55:44It's evidence.
00:55:46In a murder case.
00:55:47There's more to the world than you find in Reveil, Gwen.
00:55:55And you know all about it, I'm sure.
00:55:58Because you went to Oxford.
00:56:01But you didn't finish it, though, did you?
00:56:05For all your books and your poetry and your snooty music.
00:56:11You failed.
00:56:12Yep.
00:56:13Yep.
00:56:14I failed.
00:56:15I should have stayed at home and drove a taxi like my father.
00:56:20And then got one of the local girls knocked up.
00:56:23Then you could look down your nose at me and all would be well in your tiny little world.
00:56:29You were always a strange one.
00:56:34Close and private.
00:56:37Filled with your sweaty little secrets.
00:56:39You were a disappointment to him.
00:56:43So you said.
00:56:43A big disappointment.
00:56:45So you said.
00:56:46I didn't kill her.
00:56:50What?
00:56:51I didn't give her cancer.
00:56:56And you can't blame me all your life.
00:57:12I've got work to do.
00:57:15Can I go in?
00:57:21We took you in.
00:57:51It's Lund.
00:57:53You're sure?
00:57:53It's definitely him.
00:57:55He's into all three of the pictures.
00:57:56That's his connection to Father Mahoney.
00:57:58Lund's a performer in these blue films, which...
00:58:01There's no need to clam up on my account.
00:58:04Oh, I get it.
00:58:06I was in Blackpool with the ATS for two years during the war.
00:58:11There was this man.
00:58:12And he kept asking me if he could measure my feet.
00:58:16I know he takes all sorts, but there we go.
00:58:21You're looking tired.
00:58:23This is work.
00:58:27Must look after yourself.
00:58:30We all think a lot of you, you know.
00:58:33Thanks very much.
00:58:35I'm sorry you've had a bad go.
00:58:38Right.
00:58:40Well, come home safe, Dad.
00:58:44Of course.
00:58:47That was a factory.
00:58:51Who is the Worshipful Master?
00:59:06He's the Worshipful Master at my lodge.
00:59:22Commodore Maynard. Harry Maynard.
00:59:25I only saw him the night before last at the lodge.
00:59:30Who found him?
00:59:31Beat Constable. Anonymous tip-off.
00:59:35Next door thought they heard a pistol crack about nine o'clock last night.
00:59:39I'd chime with the grandfather.
00:59:41Morning, gentlemen.
00:59:42Doctor.
00:59:44Oh, yes. That does look nasty.
00:59:47You seem to be making a habit of collecting these, Chief Inspector.
00:59:51Shot.
00:59:52In the back of the head, at point-blank range, would be my first impression.
00:59:58Three in as many days.
01:00:01Oh, and I think his wife has just arrived by taxi.
01:00:15Good heavens, it's...
01:00:17Detective Sergeant Strange, Mrs Maynard.
01:00:19If we could speak inside.
01:00:20What have you gone for?
01:00:27At the station.
01:00:28Picked her up from here and dropped her there last night.
01:00:31What time is this?
01:00:33Uh, quarter six, something like that.
01:00:35She's booked to return for half nine this morning.
01:00:38What's up? What's up?
01:00:39Look, can I go now?
01:00:41I've got a pickup in Headington.
01:00:42Brian's not turned in and Ifran's doing his nut.
01:00:43No, I'd like you to give this officer a formal statement and then you can leave.
01:00:47You what?
01:00:50You OK?
01:00:51Three shootings in a week?
01:00:54Here.
01:00:55What's this?
01:00:57It's your Ostrich Fanciers Club.
01:00:58One of the classified ads boys recognised the name.
01:01:01The Glamour of Exotic Rare Birds.
01:01:03Mm-hmm.
01:01:04Films, £1.
01:01:06Send a stamped addressed envelope to the Ostrich Fanciers Club.
01:01:10The Rectory, 12 Cloisters Walk, Oxon.
01:01:13Exotic Rare Birds?
01:01:17For the one in the hand brigade, I fancy, rather than the two in the bush contingent.
01:01:23All right.
01:01:24Happy to be of personal service.
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01:01:48We understand he was involved in the Masonic Order, is that right?
01:02:15He was in charge of the lodge. We only had our ladies' night this week. He was so proud.
01:02:23Mrs Maynard, does the Ostrich Fanciers Club mean anything to you?
01:02:28No. Nothing at all, should it? Oh, now that's a shame.
01:02:36The clock's broken, sir.
01:02:38And it always kept such good time. Harry wouldn't have had it in the house otherwise.
01:02:45Sir, there are two indentations in the flower bed spaced about a foot apart. I think I know who made the tip-off call.
01:03:06Ladder, you mean? Well, if Acacia Avenue is on Lee Timothy's round, I can quite understand why he wouldn't want to be found at the scene of a murder two days running.
01:03:15What's all that about Maynard's carriage clock? Change of the time seems to be the killer's calling card, though God knows why. What do you think, Morse?
01:03:22I've... I've seen this room before.
01:03:26Well, been here, you mean. This is the room where Dudley Lund's blue film was shot.
01:03:31But you can see why I didn't want to get involved. Two people dead and around in two days could be havoc on my goodwill. I'm squeegee-ly. Not Typhoid Mary.
01:03:43How old did you know the Maynards? They're customers. I clean the windows, they pay me, that's it.
01:03:49And where were you last night at nine o'clock? Near my bird, wasn't I? She works with an evening, part-time, gets off about ten, and I walk around.
01:04:00So, no-one can vouch for your movements last night at nine? Not when you put it like that. No.
01:04:10Well...
01:04:12Hee, man.
01:04:16Hee...
01:04:34Hee-oh!
01:04:36Morse?
01:04:53Oh, Morse. I was hoping for a few words with DCI Thursday.
01:04:57He's gone to London, sir.
01:04:58Looking for a lead on this ostrich fanciers club.
01:05:01We think Father Mahoney's stepbrother, Donal, might be involved.
01:05:04In this smutty films case.
01:05:07Wretched business.
01:05:09Very well. Keep me apprised of any developments. Carry on.
01:05:12Sir.
01:05:17Ah, matey. Glad I caught you.
01:05:19Got this woman being knocked about by her husband.
01:05:21Uniform would like us to take a statement. Can you deal?
01:05:25Well, it's that we're watching to bring Root around Maynard's brain pan at the post-mortem.
01:05:29Thought you'd sooner the frail.
01:05:34I won't press charge him. It's my fault I provoked him.
01:05:40There's nothing you could have done that would warrant this.
01:05:43I met somebody.
01:05:46I went with him.
01:05:50And your husband found out?
01:05:53And who was he, this other man?
01:05:55I don't want him getting in any trouble.
01:05:57Please, Mrs. Graney.
01:05:58It's Dudley.
01:06:03Dudley Lund.
01:06:08And where can I find your husband?
01:06:12He's at a place called Paradise Court, but I don't want to press any charges.
01:06:16Mrs. Grady.
01:06:18Joan Thursday, welfare officer.
01:06:20You don't have to talk to Detective Sergeant Morse if you don't want to.
01:06:22I told him I don't want to press charges.
01:06:25Please.
01:06:25Well, then, that should be enough.
01:06:30Thank you, officer.
01:06:33Well, if you change your mind, you can find me at Castlegate.
01:06:36I don't want to press charges.
01:06:42I don't want to press charges.
01:06:42I don't want to press charges.
01:06:44I don't want to press charges.
01:06:45I don't want to press charges.
01:06:46I don't want to press charges.
01:06:47I don't want to press charges.
01:06:48I don't want to press charges.
01:06:49I don't want to press charges.
01:06:50I don't want to press charges.
01:06:51I don't want to press charges.
01:06:52I don't want to press charges.
01:06:53I don't want to press charges.
01:06:54I don't want to press charges.
01:06:55I don't want to press charges.
01:06:56I don't want to press charges.
01:06:57I don't want to press charges.
01:06:58I don't want to press charges.
01:06:59I don't want to press charges.
01:07:00I don't want to press charges.
01:07:01I don't want to press charges.
01:07:02I don't want to press charges.
01:07:03I don't know.
01:07:33Are you sure about Grady?
01:07:37I'm not sure, no, but it's a bit of a coincidence that his wife's love is killed.
01:07:40We're country laying not far from where he works.
01:07:43Good evening. We're looking for your groundsman, Del Grady.
01:07:45We've tried his home to no avail.
01:08:03Some sort of peeping Tom.
01:08:18A groundsman at a naturist camp.
01:08:21It's hard to imagine a position that affords greater opportunity for voyeurism.
01:08:24Anything out of the ordinary, Doc?
01:08:28All too ordinary, I'm afraid.
01:08:31The post-mortem may say otherwise, but at first glance, there's nothing to say it's other than it looks.
01:08:38Suicide?
01:08:38For the coroner to decide, of course.
01:08:40But there's a strong smell of liquor about the corpus.
01:08:44Yes. Alcohol, taken to excess, is a notorious depressant, and we rarely make wise choices when inebriated.
01:08:54Anyway, shall we say nine of the clock?
01:08:57Doctor?
01:08:59Morse?
01:08:59So, puts his wife in hospital, and does for himself in a fit of remorse, then?
01:09:10Or, it's what he did to Lunn and the others that just pushed him over the edge.
01:09:16I could see Lunn if he was carrying on with Mrs Grady.
01:09:20But where's your motive for Father Mahoney and Commodore Maynard?
01:09:23They can't have been seeing her too.
01:09:24I'll get on for a search warrant, but unless Grady's a .22 pistol at home, we're going to have to look elsewhere for a killer.
01:09:54It's just a mistake.
01:10:24A silly, youthful indiscretion.
01:10:29Did you meet him the other night, down by the lane?
01:10:34Only, my colleague found a paper flower out by where Lunn's taxi was parked, and I know that you and your wife were given Hawaiian garlands the evening you arrived.
01:10:43I just wanted to clear the air.
01:10:46To make plain that whatever youthful indiscretion has taken place belonged in the past.
01:10:51I'm a married man now, and so was Del.
01:10:55Well, he was, but far less happy than you.
01:10:56How did he take that?
01:10:59Not well.
01:11:01He was trapped in a marriage with someone he didn't care for.
01:11:07He'd only gone through with it because it was expected of him and to please his family.
01:11:12So that's where you were, when you heard the gunshot.
01:11:16And rather than having to answer any awkward questions about what you both were doing there, you agreed to keep quiet about it.
01:11:24Del begged me to meet him in town the following evening to finish our talk.
01:11:29I'm afraid I left him with no illusions.
01:11:33Or hope.
01:11:44Does Mrs. Appleby know about your, um, youthful indiscretion?
01:11:50No, of course not.
01:11:52Right, well, thank you.
01:11:54We'll be in touch if we need any more information.
01:11:55We'll be in touch.
01:12:25I'm off to dinner for three.
01:12:48Outside, all of you.
01:13:03I know you've been a long time out of smoke, Fred.
01:13:06But it's still manners to pay your respects when you come on somebody else's patch.
01:13:09Didn't lie to bother you, then.
01:13:11No bother.
01:13:12And it's commander-jury these days.
01:13:15For what it's worth.
01:13:17You've been talking to Chas Finch.
01:13:20Well, we were probationers together.
01:13:23At Cable Street.
01:13:25The dirty squad falls under my eye these days.
01:13:27What's your interest?
01:13:28A murder with a link to blue film sold by a firm called the Ostrich Fanciers Club.
01:13:35Now it is, Fred.
01:13:39We've got it just how the upstairs like it.
01:13:42Nice and quiet.
01:13:43No trouble.
01:13:44Sure.
01:13:45Do I, Nesbitt and D.S. need to put the word out?
01:13:48If it's some interloper, you can have them.
01:13:51If not...
01:13:52Tell them they're looking for a shite-hawk in a trilby with an orange feather.
01:13:56About your size.
01:13:59When do you blackmail Mahoney?
01:14:01When he was prison chaplain at Wandsworth.
01:14:03What did you have on him?
01:14:04Boys, was it?
01:14:05The flesh is weak.
01:14:06So you put the squeeze on.
01:14:09He fronts up your racket beyond the smoke.
01:14:12From time to time, you drop by, posing as his half-brother, Donal, to keep an eye on proceedings.
01:14:19Is there a real Donal?
01:14:20Or was that just for someone who might ask questions?
01:14:23Like his housekeeper, for instance.
01:14:25I could hardly show him my warrant card, could I?
01:14:28What happened then?
01:14:30You were a good thief-taker once.
01:14:32None of us is clean as we'd like the world to think, eh?
01:14:36Well...
01:14:39The priest is dead now, whoever did for him.
01:14:44The way I read it, I've got three men dead.
01:14:48All connected to your little caper.
01:14:52Maybe someone's decided to put you out of business.
01:14:55Be seeing you.
01:14:57Fred.
01:15:00Your car's marked.
01:15:02For old times.
01:15:05Don't come back.
01:15:06What you do in your sewers, you're concerned.
01:15:10You can be king of the shit heap for all it means to me, but you set foot on my ground again.
01:15:16You'll all swing.
01:15:19I don't care whose coat you're carrying.
01:15:21I don't care for you, but you're ill.
01:15:23I don't care.
01:15:23I feel right.
01:15:24Vol Says Radio
01:15:25I don't care.
01:15:26I'm sorry.
01:15:26What you say.
01:15:26How do you do in your sewers?
01:15:27I don't care for you guys.
01:15:27I don't care for you guys now.
01:15:28I don't care for you guys.
01:15:28I don't care for you, but I have a girl there.
01:15:30Okay.
01:15:30Don't care for you guys.
01:15:31So, what do you do later?
01:15:32He can be a child and wait for me.
01:15:33I will do a girlfriend.
01:15:34How do you work for me.
01:15:34deeply together?
01:15:35I have a brother-like hair and a baby smiled to me.
01:15:37Do you like me?
01:15:38Everything is Dad!
01:15:39And perfect for me.
01:15:40...
01:15:41Stay home, I've been aер learning for you.
01:16:22Ah, Morse, sir.
01:16:24Developments?
01:16:25Some, sir.
01:16:26I think we can rule out the passenger that Lund picked up at the station.
01:16:29How, sir?
01:16:30Oh, may I offer you...
01:16:31It's a whiskey, if I may.
01:16:37What's this?
01:16:38What?
01:16:40Oh, well, it's just...
01:16:41Just a hobby.
01:16:46These are very good, sir.
01:16:47Oh, thank you.
01:16:48Clearing out my wife's clothes.
01:16:50Found my old watercolour box at the back of the wardrobe.
01:16:53You were saying?
01:16:56Oh, yes.
01:16:57She appears to have been his mistress.
01:17:00He dropped her at home at twenty past nine to a beating from her husband.
01:17:02Who is she?
01:17:09Oh, yes, Miss Parry.
01:17:11Life model at the art school.
01:17:12She's quite striking, isn't she?
01:17:15Cheers.
01:17:15Oh, youne.
01:17:15Hu-h-h, I know.
01:17:15Go...
01:17:16Do you know what?
01:17:17Oh, yeah, 1880, I think.
01:17:18Oh, God.
01:17:18Go...
01:17:18Oh, maybe I know it.
01:17:23Yeah, yeah.
01:17:23...
01:17:24Oh, that's so nice.
01:17:25Yeah, yeah.
01:17:28Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:17:31Oh, yeah.
01:17:31Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:17:31Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:17:33Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:17:35Oh, yeah.
01:17:36I don't know.
01:18:06Oh, well, I finished at about nine o'clock.
01:18:20Ah, good morning, sir.
01:18:22Sir, do you remember Mr Roberts, the dispatcher from Speedy Cabs?
01:18:26He's very kindly offered to come in and help us out with a statement this morning.
01:18:29A statement?
01:18:30Just a small matter concerning timings.
01:18:32Mr Roberts, can you tell us, what time did you give Joe North the job to pick up Mrs Maynard from her house?
01:18:40Mid-afternoon, at about three, four o'clock.
01:18:43And was that over the telephone, or...?
01:18:45No, he popped into the office.
01:18:46Most of the fellas do around that time, you know, if they're slack.
01:18:51And Speedy Cabs, they sponsor a table at Commodore Maynard's Lodge charity nights.
01:18:55Is that right?
01:18:56No, yes.
01:18:57Now, would Joe North have ever gone to those events?
01:19:01Oh, we've all been to one or two of those.
01:19:03Joe included.
01:19:06You don't think he's involved, do you?
01:19:08I'm not sure.
01:19:10Oh, I can't believe it.
01:19:12Sir, do you remember that we found Commodore Maynard's body in front of the grandfather clock?
01:19:16Key was on the floor next to him.
01:19:18Glass door was open so he could wind it.
01:19:20Exactly.
01:19:20His wife told us he always wound the clocks at nine.
01:19:23Right.
01:19:24So we've been lucky insofar as we've been able to establish at what time each of the murders took place.
01:19:31Dudley Lunn, just before ten.
01:19:34Father Mahoney at eight.
01:19:37And Commodore Maynard at nine.
01:19:39Which tells us that the killer changed the time on a watch or clock at each of the scene of crimes.
01:19:45So, at ten o'clock, he changed Dudley Lunn's watch to 6.50.
01:19:51At eight o'clock, he changed Father Mahoney's pocket watch to 3.50.
01:19:55And at nine o'clock, he changed Commodore Maynard's carriage clock to 3.10.
01:20:00Now, we thought that he was trying to just supply himself with a false alibi.
01:20:04But it's actually far, far simpler than that.
01:20:06Oh, you say so.
01:20:07The actual time is immaterial.
01:20:11It's the position of the hands on the clock that's important.
01:20:15To use the terminology that was drilled into us in signals,
01:20:186.50, left hand down, right hand high.
01:20:213.50, left hand out, right hand high.
01:20:243.10, left hand out, right hand across high.
01:20:27Semaphore.
01:20:28Exactly.
01:20:29Mine's a bit rusty, but...
01:20:31C-Y-W.
01:20:32Yes.
01:20:33T-Y-W?
01:20:34Doesn't mean anything.
01:20:35No, well, it's a puzzle, isn't it?
01:20:39Ah, Miss Parry.
01:20:40Thank you, Miss Parry, for coming in to confirm what you'd confided in me earlier.
01:21:08Constable, if you can escort her to the canteen, I'll see you in a moment.
01:21:14Yes, of course, sir, you're right.
01:21:15C-Y-W doesn't mean anything in English.
01:21:18But in Welsh...
01:21:19And perhaps you can help me with my pronunciation here.
01:21:24Q is a term of endearment.
01:21:27Means chick.
01:21:29Now, you said to us,
01:21:31this is X-Y-W.
01:21:33Joan, she'd be, in English.
01:21:36But most people call her Birdie.
01:21:38Yes?
01:21:38So she was to everyone else.
01:21:42But to me...
01:21:44Fenghiew Bach.
01:21:46My little chick.
01:21:49Q.
01:21:50I recognise her from Chief Superintendent Bright's sketchpad, sir.
01:21:54Although she now calls herself Lynn Parry, after her mother's maiden name.
01:21:57She's also the blonde in the blue films made with Dudley Lunn.
01:22:09If Anne Roberts,
01:22:11I'm arresting you for the murder of Dudley Lunn,
01:22:14Father Mahoney,
01:22:15and Commodore Maynard.
01:22:19Presumably, you watched Lunn for a long time.
01:22:21Planning, waiting for your moment.
01:22:27You knew he was knocking off Paddy Grady.
01:22:30And you knew that Mr. Grady worked at Paradise Court.
01:22:36I watched them all for a month, on and off.
01:22:40Nobody notices taxis.
01:22:43Get behind the wheel of a car,
01:22:45and then you might as well be invisible.
01:22:47But we see everything.
01:22:51The pathetic secrets.
01:22:54The carrying on.
01:22:56All of it.
01:22:59As a dispatcher, you were perfectly placed to
01:23:02send Lunn on a non-existent job to have, or would,
01:23:06where you would be waiting for him.
01:23:09If I'm...
01:23:10What's...
01:23:10What's this about?
01:23:16See what you did, Dudley,
01:23:18to my swan?
01:23:20Huh?
01:23:20Tell me who else was involved.
01:23:23No one.
01:23:23Tell me!
01:23:24You probably told him he'd live,
01:23:27if he gave you what you wanted.
01:23:37How did you discover your daughter was involved?
01:23:40Oh, I see.
01:23:47Of course.
01:23:50You'd become a member of the Ostrich Fancius Club.
01:23:56You'd ordered some of the films.
01:23:59You saw her.
01:24:00I knew her.
01:24:01I knew her at once.
01:24:08She was my little girl.
01:24:12You, Buck.
01:24:13It was just a name on a card twice a year.
01:24:25Love, Dad.
01:24:28Dad, what does that even mean?
01:24:30I barely remember him.
01:24:32Perhaps, but he never forgot you.
01:24:35Or maybe it would have been better for everyone if he had.
01:24:37Something far easier said than done for any father.
01:24:42What can you think of me?
01:24:44I think you're an intelligent, sensitive young woman
01:24:47who fell among scoundrels.
01:24:51And his shame is on their side.
01:24:55Not yours.
01:25:264545.
01:25:28Pick up.
01:25:2998B Chestnut Way, New Hinkley.
01:25:33Going to...
01:25:34North Upset Lawn Telescope.
01:25:37Passenger, Mr. Carley.
01:25:40Yeah, Roger, Carley.
01:25:41I'm waiting.
01:25:56I should have tumbled.
01:26:16Cross flags on his arm.
01:26:18The badge of a naval signal.
01:26:20And what of the graffiti?
01:26:22Micah 515.
01:26:24And I will execute vengeance with anger and fury
01:26:29upon the heathen such as they have not heard.
01:26:31He did it in her name.
01:26:32Can't say I blame him.
01:26:34It would have been my daughter.
01:26:35Ah, but it never would be.
01:26:36They don't know anyone,
01:26:38given the right circumstances.
01:26:40They're all somebody's daughter,
01:26:41somebody's mother, sister.
01:26:44They all mean something to someone
01:26:46or did once.
01:26:49No, because of the ostrich fanciers club,
01:26:51they mean nothing to anyone.
01:26:54They said to us.
01:26:56They mean something to us.
01:27:00Me, at least.
01:27:03I'd have said to you, too, once.
01:27:06No, I'm not the fool I was.
01:27:07I quite like that fool.
01:27:13He hoped for the best in people.
01:27:17Surely it's better to see things as they are.
01:27:22People make bad choices.
01:27:24They have to pay the consequences.
01:27:26About pity, understanding,
01:27:28where does that fit into the picture?
01:27:29I'm not here to kiss the wounded.
01:27:34I'm here to make sure justice gets done.
01:27:37The rest I can leave to the likes of Father Mahoney
01:27:39for all the good it did him.
01:27:42Well,
01:27:44I'm sure you know best.
01:27:46Another beer,
01:27:53or are you bitter enough?
01:27:55No, I won't.
01:27:56Something on tonight.
01:28:00We're who we are, Morse.
01:28:03Our nature.
01:28:04We can try to escape it,
01:28:09but it will find us out in the end.
01:28:13A man's what he is,
01:28:15whether he likes it or not.
01:28:16There is no
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