- 17 hours ago
First broadcast 26th September 2021.
The team investigates the violent and peculiar murder of an Oxford college don.
Adam Ewan - Les Grant
William Sebag-Montefiore - Professor Patrick Stanton
Anna Burnett - Linda Travers
Adam Mirsky - Richard Blake
Ray Emmet Brown - John Peckett
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Chirag Lobo - Asif Faradoon
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Martin Hutson - Lawrence Yeager
Marion Bailey - Hilda Bruce-Potter
Matthew Marsh - Percy Walsh
Ben Bishop - Norbert 'Nobby' Hobbs
Estella Daniels - Elsie Watson
Jennifer Kirby- Dr. Gillian Nicholls
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Anthony Flanagan - Flavian Creech
Ty Hurley - Crime Investigation Department
Richard Price - Roland Parker
The team investigates the violent and peculiar murder of an Oxford college don.
Adam Ewan - Les Grant
William Sebag-Montefiore - Professor Patrick Stanton
Anna Burnett - Linda Travers
Adam Mirsky - Richard Blake
Ray Emmet Brown - John Peckett
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Chirag Lobo - Asif Faradoon
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Martin Hutson - Lawrence Yeager
Marion Bailey - Hilda Bruce-Potter
Matthew Marsh - Percy Walsh
Ben Bishop - Norbert 'Nobby' Hobbs
Estella Daniels - Elsie Watson
Jennifer Kirby- Dr. Gillian Nicholls
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Anthony Flanagan - Flavian Creech
Ty Hurley - Crime Investigation Department
Richard Price - Roland Parker
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00:00:00all right yes please and thank you all of all for the last bus that's it move right along down
00:00:12inside oh wait all right darling up on bleeding brass monkeys it's half waiting always room for
00:00:19one more on top
00:00:30yes please any more for mrs. moore
00:00:57if you're going then love all the way is it
00:01:21shipping pop turn end of the route turn around here for oxford
00:01:24head of the routes all passengers alike please
00:01:39you'll be all right then it call in nature
00:01:47cheers
00:01:50you'll be all right
00:01:53so
00:01:55you'll be all right
00:01:58you'll be all right
00:02:00so
00:02:02you'll get frostbite
00:02:27hey you're flying tonight
00:02:29go on then let's get going
00:02:35body was found by the local beatman just after six
00:02:51do we know who he was
00:03:08professor patrick stanton
00:03:10going by an envelope in his pocket in the math papers in his case he was a don at wolsey college
00:03:15wallet's untouched so it doesn't look to be robbery
00:03:18there's a bus ticket in his pocket says he boarded the 33 at stage two in town
00:03:23does he live out this way
00:03:25beatman doesn't recognize him as local so visiting someone maybe
00:03:30have to be wouldn't he
00:03:31bugger all else here except the boneyard and it's a bit late for leaving flowers
00:03:35i'll see if door to door gives us anyone who knows him
00:03:40doctor what have we got given the temperature overnight it's quite difficult to offer a precise
00:03:47time most likely a time of death was between 10 and midnight cause of death would appear to
00:03:55be loss of blood as the result of a number of stab wounds be able to say exactly which had been fatal
00:04:03after the post mortem
00:04:07what's that with his eyes someone's carved a cross into each one some sort of religious nutcase
00:04:14oh do you think sergeant what struck me is perhaps more clown like i think billy smarts are packing
00:04:22many looking like that kids have run out screaming signs and wonders chief inspector signs and wonders
00:04:31something write up morse's apps i'd have thought
00:04:37not with you this morning
00:04:40no he's um wrung in sick
00:04:44ah
00:04:46yes well there's a lot of it about this time of year
00:04:52unless there's anything else shall we say two o'clock
00:05:01according to the master of wolsey professor stanton was well liked he'd been at the college for six
00:05:24years and lived alone in north oxford what about family her sister in swanage
00:05:31other than that a single man without an enemy in the world as far as we can make out and where's
00:05:36morse in all this one can generally depend upon him contribute something useful he's off six
00:05:40sir he's off six several days last month was me has he seen anyone not that i know sir he's just a bit
00:05:47run down i expect i'm no fool thirsty nor are you he's not been himself for quite some time
00:05:54but venice business presumably he blames himself sir for
00:06:01well for everything really it's nearly a year he can't pull himself out of it
00:06:08wasn't there talk about a transfer to kidlington at some stage change of scene leave all this behind
00:06:12there was sir but well to be honest i've just got used to having him around
00:06:18we're officers thursday the men come first always
00:06:25whatever the personal cost
00:06:30well
00:06:33this was a sustained attack the majority of the wounds sergeant were to the front and back of the
00:06:41the torso the wounds penetrated the aorta the descending thoracic and abdominal areas another
00:06:49the left ventricle of the heart he really didn't stand a chance of recovery from either anything on
00:06:56the weapon a large single bladed knife about eight to twelve inches in length right or left-handed the
00:07:04injuries to the eyes aside these were stabbing wounds rather than slashes but more likely right
00:07:11then left doctor
00:07:15so what have we got here not much just his work papers which he looks to be marking up in red ink
00:07:23and an envelope addressed to stanley at wolsey sent the day before yesterday
00:07:27how do you make out of chipping compton that's a bit of a dead and alive hole wasn't known to
00:07:32any one of the locals at least nobody recognized his name or description so what was he doing there then
00:07:49oxford 2831 may i speak to mr thursday no no he's at work this is mrs thursday
00:07:59doesn't ring a bell we've a ticket says he was on your pass he may have been but i don't remember him
00:08:04many left on board by the time you got the trip in compton one or two maybe could you describe them
00:08:10the usual innit business types academics the old drunk caught in couples old people students anyone
00:08:17else i don't watch them thinking it's going to be a quiz about you mr peckett i don't see much from the
00:08:22cab and it was foggy we was crawling all the way back didn't get back till gone two anyone vouch for
00:08:30you one of the mechanics on the night shift maybe and whoever you got at home presumably my mother-in-law
00:08:37don't sleep so good so i took her in a tea when i got home about you mr grant no fear my little scrub
00:08:44has got a ball and chain on me yet well you run into any passengers you recognize from last night just
00:08:50point them out to ds strange here they'll be traveling with you this evening all right
00:09:00what'd you make to him driver seems decent enough
00:09:04i think you'd be too bummed for cosimodo no me neither show stanton's face around as many passengers as
00:09:11you can see if it jogs any memories he was on that bus long enough for somebody you have seen him
00:09:16excuse me gentlemen are either of you a dci thursday from castle gate police station yeah that's me a phone
00:09:23call for you
00:09:32dci thursday oh thursday control room did try to reach you in the car your wife telephoned
00:09:37asked if you could drop by home she said it's of some urgency thank you sir
00:09:46what's going on he's not been hurt that's the first thing to say that we
00:10:15know of what do you mean it's sam a man called a captain stand up from his unit his regiment over
00:10:23there i wrote it all down he wants to know if we've heard from him he's missing absent without leave
00:10:30his officer said he had an afternoon pass yesterday apparently and he didn't return to barracks they
00:10:36don't know where he is
00:10:50well
00:11:00oh
00:11:02hello matey
00:11:04wasn't sure we'd see you today feeling better yeah much where's uh
00:11:08The old man?
00:11:10Mm-hmm.
00:11:11Now, of course you might have heard, will you?
00:11:14What?
00:11:15He was last seen in a city bar, according to his CO.
00:11:19May have got involved with a local girl.
00:11:21A lot of the lads have, apparently, but nobody knows who she is.
00:11:26Might have gone AWOL, who were her, but it'd be out of character.
00:11:29If you need to go out, then.
00:11:31Thank you, sir, but the officer said I'd just be one more thinker than to worry about.
00:11:36Will you take whatever compassionate leave you need?
00:11:38Mrs Thursday will want you home, won't you?
00:11:40Wynne's got to help Joan.
00:11:42Looking after her, sir, I don't think she'd want me under her feet as well.
00:11:47I'm better here, to be honest.
00:11:49Working.
00:11:51Whatever you think best, of course.
00:11:53A couple of passengers have come forward to help us build a picture of who else was on the bus.
00:11:58So far, we've got a business type in a bowler, moustache, 40s.
00:12:03A girl, 20s, in a PVC, MAC, and white go-go boots.
00:12:08Drunk, medium height, medium build, clerk type, 30s possibly.
00:12:12A younger man, student type, reading a book, and an elderly woman.
00:12:17Retired, maybe.
00:12:19And where was the envelope?
00:12:20Inside the breast pocket of his jacket.
00:12:22Well, there's nothing in it. No letter, or...?
00:12:24What's there is there, matey.
00:12:26Not much of a speller, though, was he, for a don?
00:12:29Witch, with a Y.
00:12:30You're in, then. Feeling better?
00:12:34Oh, any news on Sam?
00:12:35No, no news.
00:12:37So, what was the matter with you yesterday?
00:12:38Oh, just something I ate.
00:12:40Maybe you should get a check-up.
00:12:41Oh, no, no, I'm much better, really.
00:12:43Well, better than this chap.
00:12:45What's the story with the eyes?
00:12:47Saw something you shouldn't have, maybe?
00:12:49Any idea what he was doing at Chipping Compton at that time of the night?
00:12:52No.
00:12:52There's a place in North Oxford, but nobody we spoke to there could shed any light.
00:12:56Well, he must have been meeting someone.
00:12:58What did the bus crew say?
00:12:59Not much. Didn't remember him.
00:13:01Right, so, according to the crime board, the bus was back at the depot, gone too.
00:13:06Does that chime with the Bundy clock?
00:13:08Which?
00:13:08Well, there'll be a Bundy clock.
00:13:10Here, at the terminus.
00:13:12The conductor turns it with his key and gets his card punched.
00:13:14It's to prove the bus was there when they say it was.
00:13:16I'd have thought checking that would have been a priority, to be honest.
00:13:18Would you?
00:13:19Well, funnily enough, we were a man down yesterday, which left us shorthanded.
00:13:23So.
00:13:24We did manage to make some headway mating, even without you there to oversee our efforts.
00:13:36We don't need someone coming in wise after the event to mark our homework.
00:13:48No.
00:13:49I can, um, I can go and check Stanton's rooms at Wolsey if you think it would help.
00:14:00Yeah, if you like.
00:14:03He had a mate killed.
00:14:07Right beside him.
00:14:08A fella from his unit there.
00:14:13Sniper at a checkpoint.
00:14:15Reprisal for what happened to Bally Murphy over the summer.
00:14:20Maybe that knocked him.
00:14:23Knock anyone, wouldn't it?
00:14:25Seeing a mate go like that.
00:14:31Reprisals.
00:14:32Thought we'd done with all that.
00:14:34Don't expect it.
00:14:34It's all not in peacetime.
00:14:36It was a policing job, as much as anything.
00:14:39Stop one lot, killing another lot.
00:14:42We went in to keep people safe.
00:14:44That's why Sam was there, keep them safe.
00:14:49Now, they're...
00:14:53I don't understand.
00:14:57What did you miss?
00:15:04What, besides my sparkling company and witty repartee?
00:15:08It's all in the report.
00:15:10Yes, yes, yes.
00:15:10I've read the report, but I want to hear from you.
00:15:12Not a great deal to tell.
00:15:14Death by exsanguination as a result of multiple stab wounds, fore and aft.
00:15:19Oh, and the crosses carved on his eyes, of course.
00:15:24Cheers.
00:15:26Now, there was one curiosity.
00:15:28His last meal.
00:15:29A surfeit of mince.
00:15:31The one with a hole.
00:15:33Presumably to mask the stink from a belly full of five-star brandy.
00:15:37Maybe he was the soak on the bus.
00:15:40Strange said the conductor mentioned there was a drunk.
00:15:4230s, average height and build.
00:15:44Could have been him.
00:15:44New horse.
00:16:03Come in.
00:16:04I was just passing.
00:16:07You heard?
00:16:08Of course.
00:16:10I was, uh...
00:16:12New.
00:16:14I don't know.
00:16:18It's silly.
00:16:19I...
00:16:19I always thought if something happened, then I would know.
00:16:23I'd feel it.
00:16:25Somehow.
00:16:27It's always been my little brother, you know?
00:16:30Like when we were kids, if he had a fall or was getting duffed up in the playground, I'd know and I'd get to him.
00:16:40And, yeah, now I can't.
00:16:41Well, if you need anything, what if there's anything I can do?
00:16:52Oh, Morse, I thought I heard someone.
00:16:54Oh, Mrs Thursday, I just... just came by.
00:16:58Oh, that's good of you.
00:16:59We're all all right, thank you.
00:17:01Don't need checking up on.
00:17:02And if we did, it's Fred, she'll be here himself, not sending his men round.
00:17:09Oh, no, I wasn't sent Mrs Thursday.
00:17:12No.
00:17:14Well.
00:17:18She's not herself.
00:17:19At least you don't...
00:17:20Well, you know where I am.
00:17:30Oh, Morse.
00:17:32Keep an eye on Dad.
00:17:35Of course.
00:17:35Thursday.
00:17:49Strange, sir.
00:17:50This Bundy clock Morse was asking about.
00:17:53It was an issue due to the weather, apparently.
00:17:56Conductor reported the hatch was frozen shut.
00:17:58On the level, you think?
00:17:59It was a cold night.
00:18:00Freezing fog and a bit of sleet earlier in the evening.
00:18:04They do freeze shut, according to the bus, Inspector.
00:18:06And another day's set for later.
00:18:08Heavy snow this time, according to the wireless.
00:18:10Yeah.
00:18:11I'm going to stick on here.
00:18:12Joe Stanton's face around.
00:18:14Right.
00:18:27I'll take her from here, thank you.
00:18:29I'll take her from here.
00:18:59Bye-bye.
00:19:01Bye.
00:19:02Bye.
00:21:48of all the tickets sold that day.
00:21:50Your number's 4493.
00:21:53Patrick Stanton's is 4479.
00:21:56He bought it at Fair Stage 2.
00:21:58You were on the same bus as the murder victim,
00:22:01and you didn't say anything.
00:22:03If you hadn't been so drunk, we'd have a credible witness.
00:22:08Excuse me.
00:22:10Excuse me.
00:22:11Yes, mate.
00:22:12Did you just say Greenlight?
00:22:13Next stop.
00:22:13I'm not riding that.
00:22:14Excuse me, we passed Broadwood Avenue.
00:22:17Unless the driver's changed the route, yes, mate?
00:22:19You don't remember, do you?
00:22:20You're the drunk on the bus that we've been looking for.
00:22:27You've grazed yourself.
00:22:34Those stairs are slippy.
00:22:35I know.
00:22:36Bad enough in the drive, but when they're wet, they're murdered.
00:22:39Will you be all right?
00:22:39Oh, yeah. Fine. Thank you.
00:22:44My old man was a devil for the drink.
00:22:45It's what did for him in the end.
00:22:47I'd hate to see you go the same way.
00:22:51You're young.
00:22:52You're smart.
00:22:53Break the habit before it breaks you.
00:22:56He was wearing cufflinks.
00:22:58Stanton.
00:23:01Silver cufflinks with some kind of a number on them.
00:23:05Cufflinks?
00:23:06Yeah, I've just remembered it.
00:23:10There's a place down in Sussex run by a fellow called Wayne.
00:23:13A kind of health farm.
00:23:15Very discreet.
00:23:16He'll see you right.
00:23:18There's no shame in needing help.
00:23:20I don't need help.
00:23:22As you like, but I'm signing you off all the same.
00:23:24I've got enough on my plate with it.
00:23:28Take the four weeks or don't come back.
00:23:30I can't use you in this shape.
00:23:32So far, we've got a girl.
00:23:5620s at PVC Mac and white go-go boots.
00:24:07Good evening and welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
00:24:09Up on board.
00:24:11That's it.
00:24:11Chip in Compton, is it?
00:24:23Yeah.
00:24:23I remember you from the other night.
00:24:25I'll never forget a pretty face.
00:24:27Someone had to meet you, is there?
00:24:29Yes, my boyfriend.
00:24:30Is he?
00:24:31Well, I hope he's got a nice warm car
00:24:33because he don't want to be out there in all that cold and snow
00:24:35freezing your little you-know-what off, do you?
00:24:37Is everyone all right?
00:24:45I think so.
00:24:47My head.
00:24:48Oh, you'd better let me take a look at that.
00:24:51It's perfectly all right.
00:24:52I'm a doctor.
00:24:52My name is Nichols.
00:24:54There.
00:24:55Does anyone have a light, huh?
00:25:02No, no.
00:25:03It looks worse than it is.
00:25:05Head wounds always bleed very heavily.
00:25:07Just watch out the concussion.
00:25:08If you feel giddy or sick, you let me know, yes?
00:25:11Does anyone else hurt?
00:25:12No.
00:25:13I've got a broken heart.
00:25:14You can fix that if you like.
00:25:16Now, now.
00:25:17Everybody all right?
00:25:19Yes.
00:25:19Your conductor's taking a bit of a knock,
00:25:21but everyone else seems to be faring okay.
00:25:23How about the passengers downstairs?
00:25:25Nobody on the bottom deck.
00:25:26Everybody come up for the warmth.
00:25:27Driver, what happened?
00:25:29Black ice, sir.
00:25:30I tried to hold her, but she wouldn't respond.
00:25:33We're stuck in a snowdrift and the engine can't call.
00:25:35Can you fix it?
00:25:36I'm a driver, not a mechanic.
00:25:38Well, someone will have to go for help.
00:25:40Are you volunteering, are you, squire?
00:25:42No, I'm not.
00:25:42He's the driver.
00:25:43His first duty is to the passengers.
00:25:45My first duty is to the Oxford and District Bus Corporation.
00:25:48That means this vehicle.
00:25:49Well, someone will need to go.
00:25:50After you then, Captain Oates.
00:25:51Look, arguing isn't going to help anything, is it?
00:25:55Where are we?
00:25:56The next stop would have been for Narricot Holt.
00:25:58For the station there.
00:25:59What's that, about a mile away?
00:26:00Nearer to.
00:26:01But you can't go out there, Chief.
00:26:02Not in this weather.
00:26:03You wouldn't get 200 yards.
00:26:05So the last stop was Tafton Park, is that right?
00:26:08What's up, babe?
00:26:09Nothing.
00:26:10Just we can't be far from Tafton Park Hotel.
00:26:12I used to work there as a waitress.
00:26:13Tafton Park?
00:26:14Did it close down after that business?
00:26:17What business?
00:26:18The Loomis case.
00:26:19Escaped lunatic, gatecrested a fancy dress dude.
00:26:21Killed a whole load of people.
00:26:22Grizzly affair, as I recall.
00:26:24Well, there might be a phone there.
00:26:26After all this, sir, and the wires have been cut shortly.
00:26:28Well, it's got to be better than sitting here catching our death of cold.
00:26:32We should stay with the bus.
00:26:33Somebody will come out.
00:26:34Well, I say put it to a vote.
00:26:35We're not in Athens now.
00:26:37Vote all you like, but this is my bus and I'm staying with her.
00:26:41And if you all got any sense, you do the same thing.
00:26:44Oh, no.
00:26:45Well, I say that rather settles it.
00:26:51Are you sure you know the way from here?
00:26:53I recognise the lamppost.
00:26:54It's not far.
00:26:55Here.
00:26:56You better have this.
00:26:58You lead.
00:26:58We'll follow.
00:27:06Still here on Thursday?
00:27:08Thought you'd have been away along City's.
00:27:11Just waiting on Strange, sir.
00:27:14He's on the 33.
00:27:15Oh.
00:27:18Well, perhaps...
00:27:19Perhaps I'll wait with you, unless you've any objection.
00:27:23None, sir.
00:27:24But he could be some time.
00:27:26The weather looks to have set in.
00:27:28You might be better getting home while you can.
00:27:31I find there's less cause to hurry back these days.
00:27:35Supper for one and the world about it.
00:27:37My table talk was hardly scintillating when there was someone there to hear it.
00:27:41Now I imagine it's rather less, sir.
00:27:44Certainly one-sided.
00:27:46Well, be glad of your company then, sir.
00:27:48Don't suppose there's any...
00:27:50Don't suppose there's any...
00:27:52Oh, sir?
00:27:53No, sir.
00:27:54No.
00:27:55Not yet.
00:27:58Well, that's something, perhaps.
00:28:01Yes, sir.
00:28:02That's something.
00:28:03We're nearly there!
00:28:15I told you it was a weird stuff time.
00:28:35Look, give me the torch and I'll go round the side.
00:28:39You see, Les?
00:28:40Nobody listen to me.
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00:29:35Come here, come here.
00:29:39Well done.
00:29:45It's rude.
00:29:46Now, there's no electricity,
00:29:48but do you know if there's an emergency generator, miss?
00:29:51Uh, Travers, Linda.
00:29:53I think there is a generator block among the cabins.
00:29:55Can you show me?
00:29:56Of course, if you like.
00:29:57Right, I'll get a file in it.
00:29:59What about the phone?
00:30:00That's what we come here for, innit?
00:30:02It's dead.
00:30:03I told you we should have stayed with the bus.
00:30:05We're in the drive, that's something.
00:30:07There should be a box of candles somewhere.
00:30:09We'd put a few out of an evening for the guests.
00:30:12Mr. Churchyard said it made things cosy.
00:30:14Who's Mr. Churchyard?
00:30:15Uh, he was the manager.
00:30:18Perhaps we should introduce ourselves.
00:30:20I really can't see there's any call for needless familiarity.
00:30:24Get you.
00:30:25If we're going to be here any length of time.
00:30:27Hopefully we won't be.
00:30:28I can't imagine we'll be sending each other Christmas cards.
00:30:31It's all right, lady, I don't mind.
00:30:34I have manners, even if others ain't.
00:30:36Norbert Hobbs.
00:30:37But my friends, they call me Nobby.
00:30:39Mrs. Bruce Potter, postmistress, retired.
00:30:42And what do you do?
00:30:44It's like the Queen Mum.
00:30:45And what do you do?
00:30:46Bit of this, bit of that.
00:30:47Jack of all trades, you might say.
00:30:49What a man of mystery you are, Mr. Hobbs.
00:30:52I'm Richard Blake.
00:30:54My friends call me Richie.
00:30:55I'm a student.
00:30:57Mrs. Watson.
00:30:58Elsie.
00:30:59Percy Walsh.
00:31:00I'm also retired.
00:31:01Previously with the exam board.
00:31:04Linda Travis, shop assistant.
00:31:06I'm John Peckett.
00:31:07And this is my Conduct Ales.
00:31:10Very well.
00:31:11If you must know, my name is Jaeger.
00:31:13Lawrence Jaeger.
00:31:14And I'm a solicitor.
00:31:16Morse.
00:31:17Just Morse.
00:31:19That's right.
00:31:34It's settling.
00:31:36I said it would.
00:31:37You come home, Mum.
00:31:48I know you will.
00:31:52I know.
00:31:58There should be more in the stores.
00:32:00I can have a look if you like.
00:32:02I'll come with you.
00:32:03There might be some painkillers that I can give to our conductor.
00:32:06Or we can go together in a moment.
00:32:08Then Miss Travis might show us where the generator block is.
00:32:12So this is where it all happened?
00:32:14Or what happened?
00:32:15The massacre.
00:32:16The Loomis boy.
00:32:17I've never heard of him.
00:32:18Posh boy, wasn't he?
00:32:19Some private school or other?
00:32:21He went off his head and tried to do for one of the teachers.
00:32:23So you put him away?
00:32:24Yes.
00:32:25Strangmory ended up.
00:32:26Headington Hill.
00:32:27A year later, Loomis and another prisoner escaped from a van,
00:32:29taking them back to the hospital from court.
00:32:31Loomis made his way here, killed one of the guests
00:32:33and went round in the dead man's fancy dress,
00:32:35murdering anyone that took his eye.
00:32:36You seem to know an awful lot about it.
00:32:38Well, I read a book on it by a fellow called Fitzowen.
00:32:40Yes, well, I really don't think it's something to dwell on this evening.
00:32:42We've got to do something to pass the time.
00:32:44Might as well be a story around the campfire.
00:32:46God, my head.
00:32:48Maybe you should lie down, Les, huh?
00:32:50What became of him? Loomis?
00:32:52Loomis.
00:32:53He was caught and sent back to Strangmore, I believe.
00:32:55He was.
00:32:56Only before the case came to trial, he killed himself.
00:32:59That's a horrible story.
00:33:01I don't know why anyone would want to tell it here and now.
00:33:03Miss Travis was a waitress here, weren't you?
00:33:05All we know, it happened during her time.
00:33:08Right.
00:33:09Which way's the bar?
00:33:11Presumably there is one.
00:33:13If I might suggest we all stay together for the moment.
00:33:16What?
00:33:17In case a bogeyman gets us?
00:33:18Yes.
00:33:21Miss Travis, after you.
00:33:35Mind your step?
00:33:37When were you last here?
00:33:38A long time ago.
00:33:40I only did six months or something.
00:33:42If I remember, this should be...
00:33:48Places like the Mary Celeste.
00:33:51As if whoever was here had just stepped out for a minute.
00:33:54How long did you say it had been closed?
00:33:56Eight years, it must be now.
00:33:58February 63.
00:33:59Is that when you were here?
00:34:01It's not really something I like to talk about.
00:34:03No, of course not.
00:34:04I'm sorry, that was thoughtless of me to ask.
00:34:07Here they are.
00:34:09There's not many left, but they should last us if we're careful.
00:34:12Can you give me a light?
00:34:22I'll find my own way back.
00:34:25If you want to push on and see about the generator.
00:34:29Hmm.
00:34:32It's better.
00:34:35Well, I was five years old.
00:34:38And you feel torn everything out.
00:34:42All filled open.
00:34:44But, that'swarted it.
00:34:45How is thatairy?
00:34:51Come in and let me hold it.
00:34:53Go, which way?
00:35:03To the right.
00:35:17Binka.
00:35:23Oh, lovely.
00:35:45You all right?
00:35:46Yeah.
00:35:49So, have you any idea how this thing works?
00:35:52Not really.
00:35:54Well, how difficult can it be?
00:35:57I'm sure she wasn't being rude, Dr Nicholls, earlier.
00:36:01No, I know.
00:36:02It's only natural people are curious.
00:36:04But they wouldn't be if they'd been here.
00:36:07Yeah, I'm sure.
00:36:09I was 14.
00:36:10My mum and dad let me do a little bit of waitressing for pocket money.
00:36:14We didn't really know what was going on for a while.
00:36:16People just disappeared.
00:36:18One of the guests, a waitress.
00:36:20You just thought they were off enjoying themselves somewhere, but he'd got them.
00:36:24Even poor Mr Churchyard.
00:36:26And then the police were here and they got him.
00:36:30The place closed down that night and never reopened.
00:36:36Well, who'd want to come here?
00:36:38Gruesome business, Thursday.
00:36:44There's something about it rings a bell, sir, but I'm damned if I know what it is.
00:36:47An old case, perhaps?
00:36:49If it is, it wasn't one of mine.
00:36:52You're back early.
00:36:54Service has been cancelled due to the snow.
00:36:56All quiet, Sergeant?
00:36:58Dead as, sir.
00:36:59I rode the outbound 33 out to the terminus.
00:37:02Stayed aboard.
00:37:03Came all the way back again.
00:37:04At least the lake's been cancelled.
00:37:06Saved you the bother of changing.
00:37:07No late service, maybe.
00:37:09But there was a 33 still running.
00:37:12Morse was on it.
00:37:13Morse was?
00:37:13He's on leave, as of this afternoon.
00:37:17Well, he was there, sir.
00:37:19I don't think he saw me.
00:37:20I saw him.
00:37:22Maybe he was just catching the bus home like a civilian.
00:37:25It goes by his way, doesn't it?
00:37:26It does, sir.
00:37:28Any event, he's left his car in the yard.
00:37:31Perhaps you didn't fancy his chances behind the wheel in this weather.
00:37:35And I can't say it's a blame.
00:37:37No, sir.
00:37:38Well, if all your strays are gathered in Thursday, I might cut a long haul.
00:37:43Yes, sir.
00:37:44I'll just give the case another pipe full.
00:37:46I wouldn't leave it too late, sir.
00:37:48The roads are getting pretty bad, and the wireless says this is set to go through till morning at least.
00:37:52Might now you go.
00:38:06Do you want to give it a try?
00:38:07Yes.
00:38:12Ah.
00:38:13You were on the 33 bus, weren't you, night before last?
00:38:19So was I.
00:38:20Yeah, I was meeting my boyfriend at Chipping Compton.
00:38:23He lives in Henley, but he drives up to meet me halfway.
00:38:26Did you hear about that chap?
00:38:27That was found dead.
00:38:28Was it in all the papers?
00:38:29Yeah, I read about it.
00:38:31Did you see him on the bus?
00:38:33I don't know.
00:38:34I might have done if I knew what he looked like.
00:38:37When you got off at Chipping Compton, you didn't see him?
00:38:39I fell asleep, and when I woke up, the bus was empty.
00:38:42It was only the conductor shouting for all change that brought me round.
00:38:44Shall we get back to the others?
00:38:47Ah, yes, let's.
00:38:58Any luck?
00:38:59I was going to say, well done.
00:39:04Where's everyone else?
00:39:05The conductor wasn't feeling very well.
00:39:07Bang on his head, I suppose, so the driver took him upstairs to see if there was somewhere
00:39:10he could lie down.
00:39:11That small leakage.
00:39:12No, no, there was someone else.
00:39:13Um, Mr Hobbs.
00:39:15He went to find the bar.
00:39:17Oh.
00:39:17Oh, so you get the lights working, then?
00:39:20How's your conductor?
00:39:21Not good.
00:39:22He might have a bad headache.
00:39:23But I settle him down.
00:39:25The fellow not back with the drinks yet?
00:39:27No, no, not yet.
00:39:37Someone's carved crosses on his eyes.
00:39:41Signs and wonders, Chief Inspector.
00:39:44Signs and wonders.
00:39:47Signs and wonders.
00:39:48Signs and wonders.
00:39:49Signs and wonders.
00:39:50Signs and wonders.
00:39:51Signs and wonders.
00:39:52Signs and wonders.
00:39:53Signs and wonders.
00:39:54Signs and wonders.
00:39:55Signs and wonders.
00:39:56Signs and wonders.
00:39:57Signs and wonders.
00:39:58Signs and wonders.
00:39:59Signs and wonders.
00:40:00Signs and wonders.
00:40:01Signs and wonders.
00:40:02Signs and wonders.
00:40:03Signs and wonders.
00:40:04Signs and wonders.
00:40:05Signs and wonders.
00:40:06Signs and wonders.
00:40:07Signs and wonders.
00:40:08Signs and wonders.
00:40:09Signs and wonders.
00:40:10Miss Frazil, do you see my Thursday?
00:40:36I wonder if I could pick your brains.
00:40:39It was about an old county case, eight years ago, a rather disturbed young man called
00:40:45Warren Loomis.
00:41:09I wonder if I could pick my brain.
00:41:15I wonder if I could pick my brain.
00:41:19I wonder if I could pick my brain.
00:41:23I wonder if I could pick my brain.
00:41:42I wonder if I could pick my brain.
00:41:57I wonder if I could pick my brain.
00:42:13What do you mean he's not there?
00:42:25Well there's a broken bottle on the floor behind the bar and fresh blood on the mirror.
00:42:30Same dropper bottle.
00:42:32Maybe he cut himself and went to clean up.
00:42:34Maybe he thought better of staying here and went for help.
00:42:36That's unlikely I'd have thought.
00:42:38Without his overcoat.
00:42:39I can help you find me.
00:42:40I feel worried.
00:42:41I can manage.
00:42:43Please all just try to stay together.
00:42:46At least until I return.
00:42:48Well, he's a funny so-and-so, isn't he?
00:42:55Highly strong, I'd have said.
00:42:57He's a drunk.
00:42:58What, you couldn't smell it on him?
00:43:00Oh, really?
00:43:01You can't go around saying things like that about people.
00:43:03There was a broken bottle, wasn't there?
00:43:04He's a drunkard.
00:43:05I'm telling you.
00:43:06My conductor knew him straight off.
00:43:09He was on the bus two nights back.
00:43:11Didn't even know what day of the week it was, let alone Insta.
00:43:15She knew.
00:43:18You must have seen him.
00:43:19Tell them.
00:43:20Oh, I don't remember.
00:43:21Really.
00:43:22He took a stumble down the stairs getting half.
00:43:45Oh, yeah.
00:43:47No, no, no.
00:43:50Oh, yeah.
00:43:54Yeah, I was so happy about that.
00:43:58No, no, no, no.
00:44:08Any sign?
00:44:35No, not yet.
00:44:38Probably just having a bit of an explore, wouldn't you think?
00:44:44Perhaps.
00:44:48Cowley bus depot, driver Faradun speaking.
00:44:50Has the last 33 outrunning returned to the depot?
00:44:53No, sir. We've had reports of the roads around Chipping Compton are impassable,
00:44:56so she might be a while, if she gets back at all.
00:44:59What are the passengers meant to do?
00:45:00Whoever's on the 33 would just have to sit tight and wait it out.
00:45:03Was there anything else, sir?
00:45:04If that 33 comes back, could you get word to Detective Chief Inspector Thursday at Castlegate?
00:45:09Certainly.
00:45:10Good night then, sir.
00:45:11Good night.
00:45:12Good night.
00:45:13Good night.
00:45:14Good night.
00:45:15Good night.
00:45:17Good night.
00:45:18Good night.
00:45:19Good night.
00:45:20Good night.
00:45:21Good night.
00:45:22Good night.
00:45:23Good night.
00:45:24Good night.
00:45:25Good night.
00:45:26Good night.
00:45:27Good night.
00:45:28Good night.
00:45:29Good night.
00:45:30Good night.
00:45:31Good night.
00:45:32Good night.
00:45:33Good night.
00:45:34Good night.
00:45:35Good night.
00:45:36Good night.
00:45:37Good night.
00:45:38Good night.
00:45:39Good night.
00:45:40Good night.
00:45:41Good night.
00:45:42Good night.
00:45:43Regular run for you, is it? The 33 route?
00:45:50Not particularly. You?
00:45:52I was coming to Haddonfield to visit an old pal.
00:45:56Oh, yes.
00:45:57You don't think something really has happened to him, do you?
00:46:00I don't know.
00:46:01So, what's your line, Mr Morse?
00:46:04I'm a civil servant.
00:46:06Oh, yes? What department?
00:46:08I only ask because quite a few of my boys went into the civil service.
00:46:12Your boys?
00:46:13My former pupils.
00:46:16I was a teacher before the exam board.
00:46:18Goldwater, Netherbridge, Gundaby.
00:46:36Oh, there you are.
00:46:38You find him yet?
00:46:39No, no, not yet.
00:46:41What are you up to?
00:46:42I left my refreshment on the bus.
00:46:44I can't go through to the morning without no food in my belly.
00:46:48And I thought Les might want something.
00:46:50So, but I'll be damned if I can't find an opener.
00:46:53Well, I think you should, uh, I think you should go back to the hall.
00:46:55Look, I don't mean to disrespect a passenger, huh?
00:47:02But you mind your business, and I will mind mine, all right?
00:47:08I just meant until we find Mr Hobbs.
00:47:10I think you should be careful, that's all.
00:47:11Of what now?
00:47:13There was a passenger murdered off the 33 bus, wasn't there?
00:47:15The night before last.
00:47:16Your bus.
00:47:17Uh-huh.
00:47:17Yes.
00:47:18The same bus.
00:47:19You were drunk as a lard on.
00:47:21So, if anyone wants to be careful, I would say it's you.
00:47:24This Hobbs has probably gone back into town, for all we know.
00:47:27And you carrying on like he's murdered?
00:47:29What are you trying to do to my passengers, huh?
00:47:31You're trying to scare them half to date?
00:47:33I never wanted him to go in the army.
00:48:03That's all your talk.
00:48:05Giving him ideas.
00:48:07The war this, the war that.
00:48:09Winnie.
00:48:09He shouldn't be out there.
00:48:11What's it his business with these people?
00:48:14I mean, who are they to us anyway?
00:48:16He should be home, here.
00:48:17Winnie.
00:48:18No.
00:48:19If anything happened to him, you're responsible.
00:48:22Not them.
00:48:23They don't know any better.
00:48:25I wonder if any of you do.
00:48:33Do you like Hawkwind?
00:48:42I don't know.
00:48:44What's that?
00:48:45Oh, they're a band.
00:48:46I saw them in the summer at this festival down in Somerset.
00:48:49They've just got a new album out.
00:48:50Oh.
00:48:53Any luck?
00:48:54No, I'm afraid not.
00:48:55No, nothing.
00:48:56Excuse me.
00:49:01Hey, man, I'm not sure you should be doing that.
00:49:06That's a man's private things.
00:49:12The damn cheek.
00:49:13The damn cheek.
00:49:40Dad.
00:49:43It's not only Sam, is it?
00:49:46Jim Strange saw Morse on a 33 earlier this evening.
00:49:49It's not gone back to the depot.
00:49:52But with this weather...
00:49:54You're not worried, are you?
00:49:56He's not been right.
00:49:59He came by earlier.
00:50:01Who, Morse?
00:50:02This afternoon.
00:50:04Just to see if there was anything he could do.
00:50:08Your mum never said.
00:50:10She's not herself.
00:50:14Miss Fraisal, you know our daughter, Jo?
00:50:17Of course.
00:50:18Hello.
00:50:19Uh, would you like a cup of tea?
00:50:22Or, um...
00:50:23I fancy Miss Fraisal a tuna something stronger.
00:50:25Whiskey, do you?
00:50:26Always, thank you.
00:50:30How are you?
00:50:32Oh, really, there was no need for you to come out.
00:50:35In weather like this, a phone call would have done.
00:50:37I'm rather afraid it wouldn't.
00:50:45Does anyone play cards?
00:50:47We could kill an hour or two with bridge or canasta, if anyone fancied it.
00:50:51Do you have any cards?
00:50:53No, but...
00:50:54I mean, it's a hotel, isn't it?
00:50:56They must have cards.
00:50:57They keep all the cards and games in the library bar.
00:51:00I can fetch back if you like.
00:51:01It might take our minds off the situation.
00:51:04I don't think you should go.
00:51:05Well, it's all right.
00:51:06I know my way around.
00:51:07I'll be back before you know it.
00:51:10Well, if we're stretching our legs, where did you say the ladies was?
00:51:15You saw the letter that that drunken, busybody Morse pulled out.
00:51:18What do you think's happened?
00:51:19To Hobbes, heaven the faintest.
00:51:21But if you're asking me to put my shirt on it, which you rather are, I'd say somebody's
00:51:27got it in for us, wouldn't you?
00:51:29All of us, you mean?
00:51:30All of us who are left.
00:51:32I'll watch your back if you watch mine.
00:51:35But Herkos O'Donton...
00:51:37Mind if I join you?
00:51:42Snooker isn't really a game for three, Mr. Blake.
00:51:45I'm happy to watch.
00:51:46As may be, but one might not be happy to be watched.
00:51:50A stroke, and that would never do.
00:51:53Bugger you, then.
00:52:16I wondered where you've got to.
00:52:28You all right?
00:52:29Mm-hmm.
00:52:31What do you, uh...
00:52:33What do you make of this?
00:52:39I don't know.
00:52:40I suppose it looks rather like a tallyman's account book, or that of a debt collector.
00:52:47Though I would expect to see a list of monies owed, and that's not there.
00:52:52Why?
00:52:53What am I meant to make of it?
00:52:55I don't know.
00:52:56It's what I found in Hobbes' coat.
00:52:58Yes, well, you should probably replace it, shouldn't you?
00:53:02I doubt it has any bearing on his whereabouts, and I can't think he'll thank you for rifling
00:53:05his pocket.
00:53:07Besides, it's not done to take things that don't belong to one.
00:53:11Didn't your mother ever tell you that?
00:53:15Oh, God.
00:53:16You really are in a bad way, aren't you?
00:53:18I don't know.
00:53:35So, looking at contemporary accounts, it seems that on the night in question, Warren Loomis
00:53:41and another patient, Flavian Creech, were being brought back from respective committal
00:53:45hearings to Strangmoor, when the vehicle they were travelling in went off the road.
00:53:50Creech?
00:53:51That's, um...
00:53:51Beast of Belgravia.
00:53:53A.K.A.
00:53:53The Devourer, self-styled apostle of hell, murderer, necrophile, and alleged cannibal.
00:54:00Good to his mother, no doubt.
00:54:02Kept her head in a hatbox.
00:54:03The psychiatrist who first examined him described Creech as the most dangerous man he'd ever
00:54:08met, a creature wholly without conscience.
00:54:11I remember.
00:54:12The epitome of evil, wasn't that the phrase?
00:54:14Yeah, he clearly had a liking for the Loomis boy, and took him under his wing at Strangmoor.
00:54:20They engineer the crash, you think?
00:54:23Or was that just bad luck?
00:54:24Never established.
00:54:26The weather was poor, much like tonight.
00:54:28February 63, the big freeze, icy roads.
00:54:32It's a wonder any of the party guests managed to get to Tafferden Park at all.
00:54:36In hindsight, I imagine they rather wish they hadn't.
00:54:39Any luck?
00:54:46With Hobbs?
00:54:46No, not yet.
00:54:48He's done a bunk, I told you.
00:54:50Probably didn't fancy spending the rest of the night in this.
00:54:52Cos he.
00:54:55Oh.
00:54:55I say.
00:54:59That's Johnny Devine, isn't it?
00:55:08His eyes!
00:55:09His eyes!
00:55:10What's happening to his eyes?
00:55:11Oh, my God.
00:55:17It's safe here.
00:55:18You're all right.
00:55:19It's going to be all right.
00:55:19Yeah, it's not all right, though, is it?
00:55:21What the hell are you telling her that for?
00:55:22Control yourself.
00:55:23Don't give me bloody orders.
00:55:25You've no authority here, Mr. Morse.
00:55:27Detective Sergeant Morse, Thames Valley.
00:55:30If you're a policeman, why didn't you say anything before now?
00:55:33Because I was hoping that I wouldn't have to.
00:55:35What is going on?
00:55:37Mr. Hobbs has been killed.
00:55:38Killed?
00:55:39He's in the ballroom with his throat cut and crosses carved into his face where his eyes should be.
00:55:44His eyes!
00:55:45It's like what happened to Mr. Churchard that night with Loomis.
00:55:48That's what he did.
00:55:49Loomis is dead, though, isn't he?
00:55:50He died.
00:55:52He killed himself.
00:55:52So whether there's some lunatic creeping around the hotel that we don't know about, or whoever did that...
00:55:57You can't mean it's one of us.
00:55:59It stands to reason, doesn't it?
00:56:06I'm...
00:56:07I'm going to look at the generator.
00:56:10I suggest you all stay within sight of each other until I return.
00:56:15What if something happens to you?
00:56:18Why should you take the risk?
00:56:19He's a policeman.
00:56:20It's what he's paid for, right?
00:56:22Yes, that's right.
00:56:23It's what I'm paid for, Mr. Yeager.
00:56:24I'm going to look at it.
00:56:28I know.
00:56:30I don't know.
00:56:40I don't have to look at it all.
00:56:45Yeah.
00:56:46Let's go.
00:57:16Let's go.
00:57:46How is she, Doctor?
00:57:50Out cold.
00:57:52She's had a terrible shock, Mr. Blake.
00:57:55Sleep and rest is the best thing for her.
00:57:59Anybody coming with me to check on Liz?
00:58:01I can, if you like.
00:58:02No, no, don't worry, Mrs. Bruce Potter.
00:58:04I should see how his head's doing,
00:58:06but I'd be glad if you'd keep an eye on Miss Travis.
00:58:08Of course.
00:58:09I'll keep you company.
00:58:11Three of us, then.
00:58:13For safety.
00:58:16Is that still?
00:58:22Yeah, it's fine on me.
00:58:33But if you all think I'm going to sit here
00:58:34waiting to be picked off by this bloody madman,
00:58:37you've got another thing coming.
00:58:38Well, but Sergeant Moistad, we should all stick together.
00:58:39I don't need anybody's permission to defend myself.
00:58:42If somebody wants to come for me,
00:58:44they'll get more than they bargained for.
00:58:49You're going to find Sergeant Moistad.
00:58:50Oh, my God.
00:58:52I'll see you next time.
00:59:22You're leaving.
00:59:52I'll send back help for everyone.
00:59:55I'm sure none of us want to be here any more than you, Mrs. Watson,
00:59:58but in this weather, you'll catch your death.
01:00:03Well, I'll take my chances.
01:00:06I can't stay here.
01:00:17Right.
01:00:18This way.
01:00:22It wasn't luck when I check on him.
01:00:25Les?
01:00:26It's John. Open the door.
01:00:28Maybe he's taken a turn for the worse.
01:00:30You'll have to put it in.
01:00:31I can't do that. It's private property.
01:00:35Les?
01:00:37Can you hear me?
01:00:39Open the door!
01:00:41Thank heavens.
01:00:42Perhaps we should wait for the police officer,
01:00:44if something's happened.
01:00:46I'm just a retired teacher.
01:00:47I don't have the authority for something like this.
01:00:51Sergeant Morse should be here.
01:00:52Where is everybody?
01:01:19What were they doing, leaving the girl alone?
01:01:22For God's sake!
01:01:24Is this all of you?
01:01:26Er, looks that way.
01:01:28Miss Travers?
01:01:30What's going on?
01:01:31It's all right.
01:01:32You fell asleep.
01:01:33You've had a nasty shock.
01:01:34I want to go home.
01:01:35We need to see about Les.
01:01:37We just went to check on him,
01:01:39but his door was locked.
01:01:40I can stay with her,
01:01:41if you can go with Mr. Pickett.
01:01:43No, we'll all go together.
01:01:44All of us.
01:01:46As County pieced it together,
01:01:47the first victim that night
01:01:49was a guest named Roland Parker,
01:01:51who was found dead in his room.
01:01:52And it was Parker's fancy dress outfit
01:01:55which Loomis put on
01:01:56to move freely among the other guests.
01:01:58Where the hell has he gone?
01:02:01He must have gone out of the window.
01:02:02He was in no fit shape for that, eh, Doc?
01:02:05You saw the state of him.
01:02:06He'd had a bang on the head, Mr. Pickett.
01:02:07That was all.
01:02:09Well, something has happened.
01:02:10I am telling you.
01:02:32So what do you think you're looking at with Stanton?
01:02:59Someone emulating Loomis' handiwork?
01:03:02It's odd, though, isn't it?
01:03:04Of all the victims at Taberton Park that night,
01:03:08only Churchyard had crosses carved onto his eyes.
01:03:13What are you thinking?
01:03:14Could Creech have been there with Loomis, do you think?
01:03:16No reply from horses.
01:03:18But according to the operator,
01:03:19the snow's brought down cables all over town.
01:03:22Jim's going to look in on his place,
01:03:24see if he's back.
01:03:25Right.
01:03:26Mr. Flake?
01:03:32You all right?
01:03:33Go on.
01:03:34You okay?
01:03:35Fetch the blanket.
01:03:36Get him by the fire.
01:03:37We must get him worn through.
01:03:38Right.
01:03:38Throw him some half to death.
01:03:39Come on, this way.
01:03:41Right.
01:03:41I went to find you.
01:03:43Lost my way.
01:03:43Me?
01:03:45I didn't think I was going to get back.
01:03:48I waved.
01:03:49Didn't you see me?
01:03:51I saw one of you.
01:03:53Thought you'd come out after me.
01:03:54What's the last of you?
01:03:56You didn't recognize who it was?
01:03:58Was it a shadow in the snow?
01:04:01Well, fingers crossed they'll find their own way back,
01:04:03and if not, then we can send out a search party.
01:04:06Uh, Dr. Mills, we should let them settle in,
01:04:08and then you and I go and examine Mr. Hobbs' body.
01:04:11All right?
01:04:11Yes.
01:04:12Thanks for coming.
01:04:13I'm not sure I've been any help.
01:04:15You want to get to the bottom of this,
01:04:17because there's only one person left alive
01:04:18knows what truly happened at Toverton Park,
01:04:21and that's Flavian Creech.
01:04:23Good night.
01:04:24Right.
01:04:25I have to see a patient at the Strangmore Hospital.
01:04:39It's urgent.
01:04:40Who's this for?
01:04:43Morse?
01:04:47It's Sam you should be out there looking for.
01:04:50That's who you should have to.
01:04:51Your own.
01:04:53Our son.
01:04:54My son.
01:04:55Not somebody else's.
01:04:56Why aren't you over there?
01:04:58I'll tell you why.
01:04:59Because you're a coward.
01:05:01That's why.
01:05:02If anything's happened to him...
01:05:03Mum, don't say that.
01:05:04You keep out of this.
01:05:05I'll say what I please in my own house,
01:05:07and I will thank you not to take sides.
01:05:11I'm not one of those women at work
01:05:12that you think you can talk down to.
01:05:14You think you know it all,
01:05:15with your books and your courses
01:05:17and your clever ideas.
01:05:19And where did that get you?
01:05:21Leamington.
01:05:21Don't, please.
01:05:22What does that mean?
01:05:23Never mind what it means.
01:05:25You weren't so bloody clever there, were you?
01:05:27No.
01:05:28I'm your mother,
01:05:29and you will give me the respect that I'm due.
01:05:32Well, go if you're going.
01:05:36And if you are going,
01:05:37don't bother coming back
01:05:38because I'm sick of the sight of you.
01:05:47She doesn't mean it.
01:05:49She does.
01:05:51And she's right.
01:05:53Doing nothing.
01:05:55Bearing it.
01:05:56That takes a different kind of guts.
01:05:58But I'm no good at sitting and waiting.
01:06:00I never have been.
01:06:01If I could do something
01:06:02to help find Sam...
01:06:04Horsha Wood, she knows that.
01:06:05We all know that.
01:06:06I'd tear the world down
01:06:08to bring him home safe.
01:06:10Give it my last breath.
01:06:11But I can't.
01:06:12There's nothing I can do.
01:06:14Nothing.
01:06:14And that...
01:06:19But if I can't fix the one thing,
01:06:21I've got to fix the other.
01:06:24You know how I am.
01:06:25Sam's always taken after your mum.
01:06:31Slow to anger
01:06:32and quick to forgive.
01:06:35But you and me, we're...
01:06:37I know.
01:06:39What happened out at Chipping Compton the other night?
01:07:00I'm not interested in any petty rule-breaking
01:07:03with the Bundy clock, say,
01:07:05but if there's anything which has a bearing
01:07:06on what's happening here...
01:07:10He's got a woman.
01:07:14Les.
01:07:16Her old man work away in the week.
01:07:19So...
01:07:20while I'm having my break,
01:07:22Les is...
01:07:24I turn a blind eye for him.
01:07:26That is all.
01:07:29How long was he gone?
01:07:31Half an hour.
01:07:33Forty-five minutes.
01:07:34Well,
01:07:35there's no great mystery
01:07:36as to the cause of death.
01:07:38Someone cut his throat,
01:07:39most likely from behind.
01:07:41The injuries to his eyes,
01:07:42and I'm no pathologist,
01:07:43but I'd say they were inflicted post-mortem.
01:07:45What about his pockets?
01:07:49Well, at least we now know
01:07:50what the book was about.
01:07:51He's not a tallyman or a debt collector.
01:07:53He's an agent for Zenon's football pools.
01:07:55The street names and numbers
01:07:57must have been his rounds.
01:07:58The address on the envelope
01:08:00in his jacket pocket.
01:08:01Isis House, Abingdon Lane.
01:08:03That's a probation hostel.
01:08:05Perhaps he was in prison.
01:08:07Oh, hello.
01:08:09There is something else.
01:08:12Cufflink, engraved.
01:08:14Number 37.
01:08:18What about his other pocket?
01:08:20Oh.
01:08:22Oh, good heavens.
01:08:23Oh.
01:08:25You think we should cover him?
01:08:29Use a tableclat or something.
01:08:30Just, just lay it over him.
01:08:32Oh.
01:08:33What about you?
01:08:44Oh.
01:08:44Oh, wait.
01:08:45Oh, wait.
01:08:46Oh, wait.
01:08:46Oh, oh, wait.
01:08:54Oh.
01:08:54Oh, wait.
01:08:55Oh, wait.
01:08:58Oh, wait.
01:08:58I killed the policeman.
01:09:28once he came asking for a missing boy i'd been enjoying door to door why the coppers call it
01:09:42that do you all secretly aspire to be commercial travelers knock knock knocking on suburban housewives
01:09:50doors with you with your little sample cases filled with shoes or brasiers or soap whatever it may be
01:10:07i had a sample case but i didn't keep bits of vacuum cleaners in it
01:10:13wow you kept bits of people in it
01:10:19there's somebody just gone up the stairs what didn't either of you see it no
01:10:29did you hear that it's bells
01:10:36fetch the others
01:10:43come quick you've got to come he's seen someone who has mr walsh
01:10:48i should have gone after him but i don't feel so good what did you see i don't know it was
01:10:52walsh they're sorry he went upstairs which way did he go left he went left
01:11:00that was taken yesterday morning a man carved up with crosses for eyes
01:11:05exactly the same as one of warren loomis's victims at tafferton park not just any man
01:11:14hobbs is out on parole then hey who's hobbs the least of them the least of who
01:11:21all i can tell you is that you can expect three more of them if it hasn't happened already
01:11:28i shouldn't think they'll let the grass blow who wouldn't the furies
01:11:32three goddesses of vengeance who punished uncalled criminals
01:11:44warren
01:11:44my poor little rich boy scholarship boy is what he was
01:11:51i've read the case files loomis wasn't rich
01:11:56yes he was
01:11:58we should have been
01:12:00that's what they really put him away for who did who put him away there were four of them
01:12:06i don't charge you all
01:12:36Oh, my God.
01:13:06Who did this?
01:13:12Yeah, God, what happened?
01:13:13What happened?
01:13:24Jim, come in.
01:13:30They tried to get you on the plower, but the lines must be down.
01:13:33Well, I went by Morse's, but the place is in darkness and he's not answering the door.
01:13:39I wouldn't fret.
01:13:41He usually lands but a side up.
01:13:46So, how is everyone?
01:13:50Add more to the point, how are you?
01:13:52I'm sorry.
01:14:03I'm sorry, I'm just...
01:14:04Hey!
01:14:06Hey, now.
01:14:07I got you.
01:14:09It's all right.
01:14:11I got you, don't worry.
01:14:12I'll be all right.
01:14:18I'll go here.
01:14:27Someone should go and see if Sergeant Morse is all right.
01:14:30I'll go.
01:14:30No, no.
01:14:31You'd better wait here.
01:14:33Mr. Blake and Miss Travers are in no fit state to defend themselves.
01:14:36And I'll be careful.
01:14:38Believe me.
01:14:41Here.
01:14:42You better knock this back.
01:14:45It'll warm you right through.
01:14:46You've got to get out of here now.
01:15:00What's going on?
01:15:01I don't know, but I think it's something to do with the Loomis case.
01:15:03No, and the mask or hate.
01:15:04No, it wasn't just the mask or hate.
01:15:05It was a school reunion.
01:15:07You think Loomis came here seeking revenge on the boys who had bullied him?
01:15:10This classmate's not, but the old boys may be.
01:15:12Look, I don't know, but I just know whenever Loomis started in 63,
01:15:14someone has come in, I'll help them finish it.
01:15:17You were there that night at Tafferden Park.
01:15:22Well, what can I say?
01:15:24Many Huns make light work.
01:15:28What were the eyes about?
01:15:29A religious thing?
01:15:31Hmm?
01:15:32Just crosses.
01:15:34What did you see him as, Loomis?
01:15:38A kind of apprentice.
01:15:40A disciple.
01:15:47But he didn't have the nerve for it, did he?
01:15:50That's why he stopped at Churchyard.
01:15:53If Loomis did for Churchyard at all.
01:15:56Warren had a great head for figures.
01:16:01For they burned it out of him.
01:16:03But no stomach fur.
01:16:06Wet work.
01:16:08Huh?
01:16:11They were all at Tafferden Park for the do.
01:16:13Of course they were.
01:16:14Hmm?
01:16:15The big night they'd all been waiting for.
01:16:19And the payoff.
01:16:20So, it fell to me to put things right for him.
01:16:29Manager was easy to find because he was in the office, but...
01:16:34didn't know what the others looked like, and...
01:16:37I got distracted.
01:16:42Tell me about his family.
01:16:47Please.
01:16:48The colour supplement sent a snapper to capture life in the nuthatch.
01:17:02Our head shrinker was very taken with the results.
01:17:06As you can see.
01:17:08I'm not allowed into the gardens.
01:17:10We'd worn out visitors that day.
01:17:13There's a picture on the right.
01:17:16Need a sister.
01:17:16My grandmother brought her every weekend.
01:17:22I think Nana was a bit camera shy.
01:17:24Is he out?
01:17:35Is he out?
01:17:46Cool.
01:17:47Get to the road and just keep going.
01:17:54When you get to the first house, call the police.
01:17:56Go!
01:17:56Go!
01:18:10Stop!
01:18:11Stop!
01:18:12No!
01:18:13No!
01:18:13Stop!
01:18:14Either way!
01:18:15Go!
01:18:16Yeah!
01:18:17Get in, get in.
01:18:18Any more fares? Any more fares?
01:18:23Any more fares?
01:18:25Move right along down this line.
01:18:28Keep stop.
01:18:30That's it.
01:18:31Yes, please. Thank you.
01:18:33You're safe now.
01:18:34I'm a police officer.
01:18:36You're safe.
01:18:37You're safe, all right?
01:18:39You'd better let me send him.
01:18:41Oh, Doctor and Dad.
01:18:43DCI Thursday.
01:18:44Doctor Thames Valley.
01:18:45It's all right.
01:18:46There's a woman in my car needs attending to as well.
01:18:49I wouldn't buy any chance to see my sergeant.
01:18:59Your concern for your friend is very, um, touching.
01:19:03But it'd help if you were in the right safe.
01:19:05That's the safe for the hotel guests.
01:19:08The manager's personal safe is behind that painting there.
01:19:11What the hell are you talking about?
01:19:13You know what I'm talking about.
01:19:15As did Jaeger here.
01:19:17And Hoggs.
01:19:18And Stanton.
01:19:19Now, my guess is that it's something to do with Loomis
01:19:22and whatever's hidden in that safe these past eight years.
01:19:25What?
01:19:26You can either tell me now, or you can tell them.
01:19:30But I'm the only one standing in between them doing to you what they've done to the rest of your little cabal.
01:19:34Oh.
01:19:35What, what, what little cabal?
01:19:37Actually, it's which cabal, isn't it?
01:19:39W-Y-C-H.
01:19:41That's what was written on the back of the envelope inviting Stanton to Chipping Compton.
01:19:46I assume he thought the letter came from you.
01:19:49One of who?
01:19:50W-Y-C-H.
01:19:53Walsh, Jaeger, Churchyard, Hobbs.
01:19:58Now, considering Churchyard is dead, that little cabal.
01:20:01Why would he think the invitation came from us?
01:20:04The code?
01:20:06W-S-W-3-M-A.
01:20:08I was stumped at first, but I saw your name on the seating plan.
01:20:13House Cawdor.
01:20:15W-S-W-3-M-A.
01:20:17When shall we three meet again?
01:20:19For Stanton, it was the terminus of the 33 bus.
01:20:23Last bus of the night.
01:20:24I know that because I was on it and I saw him.
01:20:26Now, there's two people still alive in this hotel who were also on that bus.
01:20:36End of the routes.
01:20:37All passengers alike, please.
01:20:44You'll be all right, isn't it?
01:20:46Call the nature.
01:20:56Let's get him off the path.
01:21:05My invitation to take the 33 to Haddonfield arrived this morning.
01:21:21I thought it came from him and that we were to speak about Stanton's death when we met.
01:21:27And supposedly he thought his invitation came from you or Hobbs.
01:21:32But why didn't you sit by each other on the bus?
01:21:35Never acknowledged one another in public. Those were the rules.
01:21:39At first I thought it must be some kind of macabre coincidence that we'd all ended up here in this bloody hotel.
01:21:46No, I don't think it's a coincidence.
01:21:48I think whoever sent those invitations never intended for you to get to Haddonfield.
01:21:53I think the hotel was always the intended terminus.
01:21:56Now, look, if you want to get out of here alive, I suggest you come with me now.
01:22:04So, what is it with these cufflinks?
01:22:06Look, I know the who and how of it. You need to know the why of it.
01:22:09I don't know what you mean.
01:22:10If I've got some bargaining power, I might be able to save your skin.
01:22:13Stanton had ten numbers on a blackboard in his room.
01:22:16Since then I've seen six of those numbers on three sets of cufflinks.
01:22:19First on Stanton, second in Churchyard's desk, third in Hobbs's pockets.
01:22:23Presumably the final pair belonged to you and Yeager. So tell me, what does it mean?
01:22:26I thought you were a detective, Sergeant Moss. Haven't you figured it out yet?
01:22:31The numbers on the cufflinks mark each man out as a member of the football pool syndicate.
01:22:36Uh, eight from ten?
01:22:38The most popular pools bet. You put a cross on the coupon next to ten football fixtures
01:22:42and hope that at least eight result in a score draw. Five men, two numbers each.
01:22:47Presumably the winning line.
01:22:49There was a pools coupon used as a bookmark in Stanton's rooms.
01:22:52One of the winners was a Mr. C from Oxford. Churchyard, presumably.
01:22:56Not so fast, Walsh. We go together.
01:22:59Go on, Sergeant. You're so close.
01:23:02So what Churchyard has locked in his safe these past eight years is a cash prize from a win on the pools.
01:23:08Bravo. Only to prevent any one person being able to make off with all the winnings,
01:23:12Stanton devised a double blind system that broke up the combination among the syndicate.
01:23:17It could only be open when all five of us were gathered together. Stanton said it was foolproof.
01:23:21As I'm sure it would have been had Churchyard not been killed.
01:23:24Whatever part he knew went with him to his death.
01:23:26Which prevented anyone else from gaining access to the money.
01:23:28They might have been able to work it out if they'd shared what they knew.
01:23:33But avarice breeds mistrust.
01:23:35Hobbs wasn't going to confide his part while they were at liberty and he wasn't.
01:23:39He was in prison?
01:23:40Eight years. Fraud. The rest of them didn't know how to blow a safe without destroying its contents.
01:23:45So where did Loomis fit into this?
01:23:47My grandson was born with a gift, Sergeant. An almost supernatural ability to see patterns in random data sets.
01:23:58Sets of data such as what?
01:23:59Such as several seasons worth of football results.
01:24:04You mean he came up with a method of predicting the pools?
01:24:06He said the numbers danced for him.
01:24:08He demonstrated his gift to a schoolmaster.
01:24:11I thought it was a joke.
01:24:14And if we'd been doing the pools for years, then the idea that a boy could have better luck.
01:24:19You must have thought you were onto your own rocking horse, Winner.
01:24:23Except it wouldn't do for a teacher to be found out enriching himself at the expense of a pupil.
01:24:28Which is where Churchyard came in.
01:24:30He put the pools coupon in under his own name on behalf of the Syndicate.
01:24:34So that Warren wouldn't realize that he had been betrayed by Walsh and the rest.
01:24:38Or so they thought.
01:24:40The first we knew of any of it was when the school ran.
01:24:45To say Warren had attacked Walsh in some violent and psychotic fit and been sent to Strangmore.
01:24:52It was his word against a teacher.
01:24:54Meanwhile, the money had already been claimed by Churchyard.
01:24:58So there was no way to connect it to Walsh or the rest of them.
01:25:02A year they let the money cool in the safe.
01:25:05A year, waiting for the fuss to blow over while Warren was dismissed as a disturbed and violent fantasist.
01:25:11But Linda found a coded message between Churchyard and the rest of them in the office.
01:25:17Betraying to the reunion.
01:25:20That's when they were meant to divvy up the spoils.
01:25:24Only my brother got to them first.
01:25:26So that's why you carved crosses on Stanton's eyes and the rest of them.
01:25:30You were following your brother's example.
01:25:32Well, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to deny you your last pair.
01:25:34We don't want to hurt you, Sergeant Moss.
01:25:37It's him we want.
01:25:39What has a bus driver to do with this, Mr. Peckett?
01:25:41He was an orderly at Strangmore.
01:25:43DCI Thursday, Thames Valley.
01:25:45I've just come from talking to Creech there now.
01:25:48Warren told me a story at the time, but I didn't believe him.
01:25:51After he killed himself, he didn't sit easy with me.
01:25:54So I looked up the family and they convinced me of the truth of it.
01:25:58I don't suppose 190,000 quid came into it.
01:26:01We know half of that money, sir.
01:26:03Even though it was the family's by right, this was about justice.
01:26:06Justice.
01:26:07But Walsh and the rest stole from one and they didn't kill him.
01:26:10They may not have held the blade that slashed his wrists,
01:26:14but they killed my grandson just as surely as if they had.
01:26:19So what now?
01:26:21Still want to get away with it?
01:26:23You'll have to do us all it.
01:26:25Right.
01:26:26Give it here.
01:26:27Give me a knife.
01:26:28Free in custody for Mariah.
01:26:29Now!
01:26:30Come on.
01:26:31We've heard the DCI fault too.
01:26:32Get a car for this one.
01:26:33You're all right.
01:26:34John, what charge?
01:26:35I think of something.
01:26:36We'll need an ambulance for Mr. Blake here.
01:26:38Right.
01:26:39Don't do it.
01:26:40I'm thinking of it.
01:26:41I'm thinking of it.
01:26:43Are there any news?
01:26:45On Sam?
01:26:46No, sir.
01:26:48No, not yet.
01:27:12Can you brief Mr. Bright this once?
01:27:26I...
01:27:27I've got to get back to the family.
01:27:29Yes, yes.
01:27:30Yes, of course.
01:27:37Sir.
01:27:38I will take those four weeks.
01:27:42If...
01:27:43the offer's still there.
01:27:46As long as you need.
01:27:56I'm beginning to thaw.
01:27:58No.
01:28:00Sun always comes up.
01:28:02Just got to hold on for it a bit longer.
01:28:09Sometimes.
01:28:12Is it all?
01:28:32No.
01:28:33No.
01:28:34No.
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