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First broadcast 5th March 2023.
A crime wave has taken hold of Oxford - a homeless man is grievously assaulted, a young PC is found dead, and a notable artist reported missing.
Kevin McNally - Kenny/Superintendent Jolliphant (as Kevin R. McNally)
Leo Staar - Richard/DI Chance
Richard Hope - Ted/Sergeant Wilkins
Jake Kenny-Byrne - Frederick Mulcaster
Bill Skinner - Archibald Ormsby-Gore
Todd Bell - Henry Brockhurst
Milo MacKenzie - Raphael Damon
Shaheen Khan - Librarian - Miss Hatch
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Ayesha Antoine - Freya Baynard
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Jack Bannon - Sam Thursday
Michael Keane - David Astin
Paul Bazely - Mike Gatwood
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Simon Harrison - Ronnie Box
Laurence Spellman - Uniform Stevens
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Jack Laskey - Peter Jakes
Ty Hurley - CID
Sammy Jonas Heaney - Student
A crime wave has taken hold of Oxford - a homeless man is grievously assaulted, a young PC is found dead, and a notable artist reported missing.
Kevin McNally - Kenny/Superintendent Jolliphant (as Kevin R. McNally)
Leo Staar - Richard/DI Chance
Richard Hope - Ted/Sergeant Wilkins
Jake Kenny-Byrne - Frederick Mulcaster
Bill Skinner - Archibald Ormsby-Gore
Todd Bell - Henry Brockhurst
Milo MacKenzie - Raphael Damon
Shaheen Khan - Librarian - Miss Hatch
Roger Allam - DCI Fred Thursday
Caroline O'Neill - Win Thursday
Shaun Evans - DS Endeavour Morse
Ayesha Antoine - Freya Baynard
Sean Rigby - DS Jim Strange
James Bradshaw - Dr. Max DeBryn
Anton Lesser - Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright
Jack Bannon - Sam Thursday
Michael Keane - David Astin
Paul Bazely - Mike Gatwood
Sara Vickers - Joan Thursday
Simon Harrison - Ronnie Box
Laurence Spellman - Uniform Stevens
Abigail Thaw - Dorothea Frazil
Jack Laskey - Peter Jakes
Ty Hurley - CID
Sammy Jonas Heaney - Student
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00:00:00it always starts with a body then come the questions
00:00:10that's where i come in jollyfant's the name detective superintendent jolly and jollyfant
00:00:21jolly for short
00:00:30so
00:00:42so
00:00:48so
00:00:54Now, you do remember you very kindly promised to give Raph your vote in the upcoming elections.
00:01:24I mean, we will know if he comes up short, and if by some unhappy circumstance he should
00:01:39come up short, there will be remonstrances, and likely worse.
00:01:44That's the slate, yes, chin-chin.
00:02:14I'm sorry.
00:02:21I'm sorry.
00:02:28I'm sorry.
00:02:33I'm sorry.
00:02:38Constable Banks,
00:02:45come along to old Marl Peckettys
00:02:46and see if you can't sort out these young
00:02:48tearaways. Yes, Sarge.
00:02:50Now, I'm sure what happened
00:02:52to DCI Blaze will be on your mind.
00:02:55Good copper.
00:02:56Gun down in the line of duty.
00:03:08But you can rely
00:03:19on this. When it comes
00:03:21to one of our own, we
00:03:22leave no stone unturned.
00:03:25No, Sarge.
00:03:26In the meantime, the best you and me can do
00:03:28is stick to our duties
00:03:30and do them to the best of our ability.
00:03:38No, Sarge.
00:04:08Well, well, well.
00:04:29I say, you fellows,
00:04:32here's sport.
00:04:38Every barrel has its bad apples, but in my book,
00:04:59there are very few creatures on this earth
00:05:01lower than a bent copper.
00:05:03Now, I don't know what led him down
00:05:05that path, but whatever it was,
00:05:07death has a way
00:05:09of wiping a man's slate clean
00:05:11in this world.
00:05:13I can't speak as to the next.
00:05:15Kettle on.
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00:05:46The finding of this board is that the tragic events of last December, which led to the
00:05:53shooting of D.I.
00:05:54Thirsty and the arrest of D.S.
00:05:56Morse, were due solely to a mental breakdown suffered by A.C.C.
00:06:01Clive Dear.
00:06:02We are also of a view that further investigation into other extraneous matters would not be
00:06:09in the national interest.
00:06:11To which end, all investigative materials relating to Blenheim Vale Boy's home are to be sealed
00:06:19for 50 years.
00:06:24Morning, Morse.
00:06:29Morning, Mrs. Thursday.
00:06:32There's tea in the pot if you want to go through.
00:06:34Ah, no time this morning, I'm afraid.
00:06:36Fred tells me Jim Stranger's asked you to be best man for him and Jones.
00:06:40Yes, yes, that's right.
00:06:43It'll mean a lot to him.
00:06:45Well, to both of them, I'm sure.
00:06:48Sam's settling back in, right?
00:06:50Morse.
00:06:52Morning, sir.
00:06:54Match in.
00:06:58Local beat man found him on his rounds, not long after six.
00:07:02Anything to say who he was?
00:07:04Dosser, by the looks of him.
00:07:06They hang out here in the wasteland by the old Kemble Theatre.
00:07:11Morning, Doctor.
00:07:13Chief Inspector.
00:07:14Much to go on.
00:07:16Male.
00:07:17Late fifties, early sixties.
00:07:19Most likely not in the best of health.
00:07:22Multiple injuries.
00:07:23Looks like he took a serious beating.
00:07:25What's with all the, uh, blood?
00:07:27Someone stuck a broken bottle in his neck.
00:07:31Whether that's what did for him, or he was already on his way out.
00:07:34I'm afraid I won't be able to express an opinion until after the post-mortem.
00:07:39Should we say two o'clock?
00:07:46Doctor.
00:07:53It's twenty pound.
00:07:55What's left of it?
00:07:57Burnt.
00:07:58That's a lot of money.
00:07:59Can't see him doing that.
00:08:01Maybe that's what he fell out with his mates over.
00:08:05See if he can run his powers to ground and find out what they've got.
00:08:10Jim, you take me back to the station.
00:08:35Fear not.
00:08:36For behold, I give you good tidings of great joy.
00:08:40The results are in, Mr. President.
00:08:46Vagrant?
00:08:47Kicked to death.
00:08:48Or stabbed with a broken bottle.
00:08:51According to Dr. de Brin.
00:08:52I don't know what the world's coming to.
00:08:57Those days I barely recognise it at all.
00:08:59No, sir.
00:09:01Criminal damage.
00:09:04Cars smashed and stolen.
00:09:06Violence between gangs of young men on Carfax in broad daylight.
00:09:11Wanton lawlessness.
00:09:13This is Oxford.
00:09:15It's not New York.
00:09:17No, sir.
00:09:18Have you thought any more about Carshall?
00:09:21Yes, sir.
00:09:23I've decided to put him for it.
00:09:25It'll mean a move, but that could be good for the family.
00:09:30Joan will be settled and...
00:09:32I'd like to see Sam properly back on his feet.
00:09:35I'm sure.
00:09:37And how's he readjusting to civilian life?
00:09:40Pretty well, sir.
00:09:42All things considered.
00:10:09I'm sure I had one more.
00:10:11I was just waiting for them.
00:10:13No.
00:10:14It's not all.
00:10:15No.
00:10:17I can't wait for you.
00:10:19I'm not sure for the children.
00:10:21I don't know.
00:10:23I don't want to be a family member.
00:10:25What else did you say?
00:10:27A family member has produced in the family member.
00:10:29But it was in a family member.
00:10:32I was just waiting for you to ask him.
00:10:34If you were so long with a dad,
00:10:36Oh
00:10:47Hello
00:10:51I'm the police
00:10:54It's all right
00:10:57It's all right, no need to be scared
00:11:01I just like to talk to you
00:11:04Devils in the shape of men
00:11:07Yeah, how's she mean by that? Oh, I don't know. She was terrified
00:11:10She said they look like Fred Astaire only their faces were wrong four or five of them
00:11:14That's what I'm to report to mr. Bright is it case like that she's drunk from dust till dawn's hard to know what she's seen
00:11:21Any of them have a name for it? Hugh or Huey knows her name
00:11:25I wouldn't put your hopes and get into the bottom of it
00:11:28These types blow into town without a trace and blow out again just the same unreliable witnesses are best and that's if you can never find him again
00:11:35Anything further on Brenda Lewis's time at Landersman's there was a missing person's case in her name in 63 but closed shortly afterwards
00:11:43She worked directly for Joe Landersman as his personal secretary nothing more from Ronnie box, I don't suppose
00:11:48Well expecting anything will we we never know with box
00:11:51I wouldn't put it past him to keep something up his sleeve so he's worked out whether it plays to his advantage
00:11:55Might be worth giving him another tickle see if we can jog his memory
00:11:59Thursday
00:12:01Maybe we should cool it for a bit
00:12:09Cool it the police aren't going to bother themselves too much over some filthy old man, you know if I didn't know better Archie boy
00:12:21I'd say you were losing your nerve. No, no, it's it's not like that right. I do hope not
00:12:27You got rid of it yet. No
00:12:29Not yet
00:12:34So the cause of death was finally exsanguination
00:12:39The jagged end of the bottle punctured his left carotid artery and the jugular vein
00:12:46Half a dozen wounds
00:12:49One hesitates to say frenzied, but it certainly wasn't just an unlucky blow when you say finally
00:12:55He was already in a pretty poor state
00:12:59Ruptured spleen number of cracked ribs fractured humerus liver laceration, which
00:13:06Could have proved fatal if left unattended
00:13:09That was all from the beating. Oh, yes
00:13:12Three or four assailants I'd have said
00:13:14Multiple contusions and abrasions
00:13:16I've put his bits and pieces on the side
00:13:26Kept his wedding ring
00:13:28Must have meant something to him
00:13:30Elsie'd have pawned it long since and chucked the proceeds then, isn't he?
00:13:37Kiddies
00:13:39Probably in their thirties by now
00:13:41Got much to show for her life
00:13:43We enter the world with nothing and leave with much the same
00:13:47Kings and beggars both
00:13:49The rich man at his table
00:13:52Woman kicked and stabbed to death
00:13:54Where was the beret?
00:13:56In the coat
00:13:58How'd it go?
00:14:02Ex-soldier, as it turns out
00:14:04Limehouse rifles, my old unit
00:14:07Much in over lunch
00:14:09Trying to work my way through the motors that got vandalised on the broad last night
00:14:13Turns out the sports car that got pinched belongs to the lady mayoress, so
00:14:18And we've got a missing person
00:14:20Locals are shorthanded, so they've asked us to deal
00:14:22Where's this?
00:14:23Out of sleepway
00:14:28Out of sleepway
00:14:43Afternoon, I'm Detective Sergeant Morse, Thames Valley
00:14:53Miss Baynard, would it be?
00:14:55Freya
00:14:56You reported a Paul Baynard missing, is that right?
00:14:59My dad
00:15:00He looked up after work and then went on his bike about 8.30
00:15:05I thought he was going to the Wheat Sheaf in the village about three miles
00:15:08And when did you expect him back?
00:15:10Chucking out time
00:15:11Is there anyone that you can think of you might have gone to stay with?
00:15:15No
00:15:18It's just us
00:15:22What does he do?
00:15:25Illustrator
00:15:26Book covers, magazines
00:15:28How has he seen recently?
00:15:30Hard to tell
00:15:31He doesn't say much
00:15:34Anything been troubling him?
00:15:37I wouldn't have said
00:15:39Why?
00:15:42You think something bad has happened?
00:15:45People disappear for many reasons, Miss Baynard
00:15:48Not all of them sinister
00:15:49Sometimes people just need to step away
00:15:54To be honest, we very rarely consider someone to be a missing person
00:15:56Unless they've been gone for at least a week
00:15:59It's just the two of you, you said
00:16:02Mum died
00:16:03When I was young
00:16:08Do you have a photograph of him?
00:16:10Um...
00:16:13Ordinarily, he's quite camera shy
00:16:17But he needed it as a study for a painting, so...
00:16:21Half a face, do you?
00:16:22Yes, do you?
00:16:23I don't know.
00:16:53Anything further on Mickey Flood?
00:17:17Nothing outside this protection racket, Warren, down the smoke.
00:17:21I'm tearing a man's tongue out and nailing it to the floor.
00:17:23There's got to be more to it than that.
00:17:25If I might have your attention.
00:17:31Reports are coming in
00:17:32that the body of a uniformed constable
00:17:36has been discovered by a member of the public.
00:17:39I'm on my way to division,
00:17:40but if it's foul play,
00:17:43I want whoever's behind it on the chart sheet inside 24 hours.
00:17:47First impressions, Doctor?
00:18:10Injuries are consistent with a fall from a great height.
00:18:16Neck's broken, but whether that was before or after he fell,
00:18:20I'm afraid I can't say just yet.
00:18:23What about the when of it?
00:18:25Five past twelve, according to his wristwatch.
00:18:28Face is smashed.
00:18:29Rigor would suggest six to nine hours or thereabouts,
00:18:33so it's about the right window, time-wise.
00:18:36Cause?
00:18:36Most probably the broken neck.
00:18:41Just feeling his skull,
00:18:43I'd say that's very likely badly fractured.
00:18:46Doubtless there'll also be a panoply of internal injuries.
00:18:50The nails of his left hand, they're quite badly torn.
00:18:54So you think he clawed at whatever window he's come through?
00:18:57It's true.
00:18:59Push, then.
00:19:00Not a conclusion I'd leap to, necessarily, Sergeant.
00:19:03Many set on self-slaughter, changed their mind at the last.
00:19:08Often, sadly, to no avail.
00:19:10I've found a set of car keys in his pockets.
00:19:15No notebook or warrant card.
00:19:19Face doesn't ring a bell.
00:19:21If he's out of Castle Gay, he's well off his beat.
00:19:25CM824.
00:19:26It's not a Thames Valley number, is it?
00:19:32See if you can get a steer on that collar number.
00:19:35And a statement from whoever found him.
00:19:39Have a look at that car, see who it belongs to.
00:19:42He looks familiar.
00:19:54Sure I've seen him somewhere before.
00:19:58So what do you think he's?
00:20:00Coming here after some bugger-up to no good, or what?
00:20:04Five past midnight.
00:20:06Could just as easily have been a midnight rendezvous.
00:20:09Someone he knew, then.
00:20:12Mm-hmm.
00:20:15You and Jim finish up here.
00:20:17I'll report to Mr Bright when he gets back from division.
00:20:19Is it true?
00:20:27I love you, but I'm having fun at this time.
00:20:30Some quá?
00:20:32No?
00:20:32No, no?
00:20:41No, no.
00:20:42No, no, no.
00:20:43No, no.
00:21:32Anything?
00:21:33A couple of cigarette butts, empty packet of old soldiers and the wrapper of a prophylactic.
00:21:38Midnight, the stars are new, eh?
00:21:41It's always been a popular spot for Tom's.
00:21:44What about this?
00:21:48Dumped.
00:21:49It's the lady Mayoress' motor, Nick, the night before last off the broad.
00:21:54I was thinking maybe he saw whoever dumped it and chased them inside the factory.
00:21:58Damage?
00:22:00I can't imagine the thief would want to be driving it around in that state.
00:22:03Who or me hadn't dumped it the night it was stolen.
00:22:06Any keys?
00:22:07Could be anywhere.
00:22:07I have a unit coming out to pick it up if you want to wait.
00:22:11Said to the old man I'd see him back at the station.
00:22:13Here I will take it.
00:22:32Hello there, I'm Detective Sergeant Morse, Thames Valley, Miss Hatch.
00:22:50I wonder if you could tell me which lender last borrowed this, just for jolly.
00:22:56This lender says it should have been returned on the 1st of July.
00:22:59Yes, of course.
00:23:00In fact, I remember him. It was late opening. He was the last one in here.
00:23:09Mr... Oh, yes, here we are. Mr Astin.
00:23:14Astin?
00:23:15David Astin. Six Kent Finn novels.
00:23:19I remember saying to him, he must be a fan then.
00:23:23Would you have an address for him?
00:23:30Bye now. I say, I say, I say, what can I do for you then, sir? He asked him knowingly.
00:23:41I'm not, I'm not buying.
00:23:43You say that now, sir, but wait till you've sampled my wares, said Simple Simon to the pieman. Laughter is the best medicine.
00:23:50Oh, sorry, do you mind turning that off? I'm on police business. I'm Detective Sergeant Morse, Thames Valley. I was given this address for a David Astin. Does he live here?
00:24:01Yes.
00:24:03Well, then I'm afraid I've got some bad news. His body was found earlier this morning, out by Cowley.
00:24:08Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, brilliant. Oh, well done. You nearly had me there for a minute.
00:24:17I'm sorry, sir, that's not a laughing matter.
00:24:19Who put you up to it? It's Ray, isn't it?
00:24:21Ray.
00:24:22My brother, in case he didn't mention.
00:24:24No, honestly, I'm here about David Astin.
00:24:27There's only one problem with that, see? I'm David Astin.
00:24:31I don't know.
00:25:01I suppose. Not for one of our own.
00:25:05An actor?
00:25:07Yes, sir. He's in this jolly for short program on the television.
00:25:11He plays a young PC, Constable Banks.
00:25:15They do most of it at Associated Midland Studios.
00:25:18Then what's he doing here?
00:25:19They film some of the outside bits in town and then put them into the rest of it so it's all one thing.
00:25:25I spoke to the people who make it.
00:25:26They said he was called yesterday, whatever that means, but not used.
00:25:31They're back here again today.
00:25:34And this Constable Banks is part of it?
00:25:38Banks is the part he's playing, sir.
00:25:40His real name is Raymond Swan.
00:25:43He must have borrowed my library card.
00:25:50I probably haven't used it since I was a kid.
00:25:54A fall, you say?
00:25:56And at least it would have been quick.
00:25:59But I don't understand how...
00:26:01Some sort of accident?
00:26:03Did he live here?
00:26:05No.
00:26:05No, he's got a place in Jericho.
00:26:08Would you have enough set of keys, would you?
00:26:10Yeah.
00:26:11He gave me a spare case of emergencies.
00:26:15What car did he drive?
00:26:17Little Fiat.
00:26:18He bought it with the first money he made off jolly.
00:26:22Repeats, they call it.
00:26:24They pay you every time it's on.
00:26:26Is it popular, this program?
00:26:29Oh, yeah.
00:26:30Must have been going five years now.
00:26:32But I think last time I saw him,
00:26:36he said they're finishing it after this lot.
00:26:39Right.
00:26:40That must have come as a blow.
00:26:42How did he take it?
00:26:43An actor's life, he said.
00:26:45And it was Raymond Swan, you said, not Astin.
00:26:50It was his acting name.
00:26:52For the union, there was already a Raymond Astin.
00:26:55It's one of their rules.
00:26:57You can't have two actors with the same name.
00:27:00I'd like to see him.
00:27:02Say my goodbyes?
00:27:03Yes, of course.
00:27:05Tell you the truth, jolly.
00:27:07I don't know how much change I've got left in me.
00:27:09I'm not so young as I was.
00:27:11I'll weigh with you.
00:27:12You'll see me out.
00:27:14I've been talking about packing it in.
00:27:16Maybe going down mine headway.
00:27:19Open a guest house.
00:27:20Sunset over the bay.
00:27:22Cut, cut, cut.
00:27:22Sorry.
00:27:23Sorry, plane.
00:27:24Are you going to be doing that pipe business over my line?
00:27:27Mike Gatwood, producer, studio rang to say you were coming.
00:27:40I haven't divulged the news yet to the cast and crew, but there's anything I can do.
00:27:45Mr. Swan was called yesterday, I understand.
00:27:51Yes.
00:27:51Yes, he was.
00:27:52He spent most of the day on the minibus, though.
00:27:54Why was that?
00:27:55Well, it's not unusual.
00:27:56He only had two lines.
00:27:58They were in the last scene of the day.
00:27:59So we cut one for time.
00:28:01And then Ted, Sergeant Wilkins, he thought the other one was something his character was more likely to say.
00:28:09And the minibus went back where?
00:28:12It went back to the studio.
00:28:13And who'd have been on that with Mr. Swan, the other actors?
00:28:15No, no.
00:28:16They have private cars, take them back home or to their digs.
00:28:19Kenny, Superintendent Jollyphant, he's staying in town at the moment because he's doing a thriller at the Oxford Empire.
00:28:26We'll need to speak to those of the cast who were here yesterday and anyone else who had anything to do with him.
00:28:32All right, well, that's difficult today.
00:28:34But we start rehearsals tomorrow for the next episode, if you want to come by then.
00:28:39We're in Pormor Hall.
00:28:40It's a little church hall that we use in Summertown.
00:28:46Daddy's me being summoned, so see you on the green.
00:28:52That's a rum caper.
00:28:55Sit in the bus all day and not get used.
00:28:58Wanted to do that, he could have joined the real police.
00:29:00I've got the keys to his flat in his car if you want to take a look.
00:29:03No, you're all right.
00:29:04Wynn's doing something.
00:29:07Jim's family's coming over.
00:29:08Well, just his grand, that's all he's got.
00:29:11She had the raising of him, apparently.
00:29:13You work with someone seven years, things you don't know about people.
00:29:17Let me know if you find anything.
00:29:18Let me know if I can.
00:29:19Let me know if I can.
00:29:20Let me know.
00:29:21Let me know if I can.
00:29:22Let me know if I can.
00:29:28Kur定!
00:29:33No, I don't know if I can...
00:29:33ollo Panmee!
00:29:35Play dead.
00:30:05Oh, my God.
00:30:35Lovely carrots, eh, Graham?
00:30:39Lovely carrots, Mrs Thursday.
00:30:41Best call me Wynne, Jim.
00:30:43Seems we're going to be family.
00:30:53No Sam tonight, then?
00:30:54No. He had to go out.
00:30:56Oh, did he?
00:30:57Oh, we, er, found that nicked car belonging to the lady mayor's house.
00:31:07Morse said.
00:31:08He found this Kent Finn book underneath it, apparently.
00:31:11So it must have been dumped after Swan hit the deck.
00:31:13Hmm.
00:31:14I put the smokes and the fag packet he picked up in the factory into forensics,
00:31:18and the wrapper for the, um...
00:31:23What's the name?
00:31:24They were hopeful they might be able to get some dabs off that.
00:31:27Well, then.
00:31:43I got it.
00:31:53All right, come on.
00:31:55Have your kit.
00:31:55That's it.
00:31:56Here we go.
00:31:58Oh, do you want me to, er...
00:31:59Er, no, no.
00:32:00You're all right, Jim.
00:32:01All right, got it.
00:32:02You go and, er, have your tea.
00:32:05Come on up, you get it.
00:32:06That's it.
00:32:06That's it.
00:32:08I'm all right.
00:32:10I tripped.
00:32:11I don't know.
00:32:13It's easily done.
00:32:14Yeah.
00:32:15Up the stairs.
00:32:15Come on.
00:32:16You go and sleep it off.
00:32:21Morse?
00:32:21This is Thursday.
00:32:22This is Thursday.
00:32:23Come in here.
00:32:24He won't be a minute.
00:32:29You want to wind up like that?
00:32:33Because that's the way you're going.
00:32:34You're carrying on the way you are.
00:32:35And then what?
00:32:41All right, Morse.
00:32:42I...
00:32:42And what put you onto it, sir?
00:32:48As a matter of fact, it was something Sergeant Wilkins said.
00:32:51We were talking about the tearaways who'd been troubling Mar Pegatty recently, and you said...
00:32:56The devil makes work for idle hands.
00:32:59And it was hands that got me thinking.
00:33:02Of the Ormolu clock found at the scene of Eduardo Sanchez's murder.
00:33:06The hands forever stilled at 10.28.
00:33:09Only trouble is, the post-mortems...
00:33:20Obviously, given what's happened, we're keen to understand Mr. Swan's recent mental state.
00:33:25Particularly in the days leading up to his decease.
00:33:28Is there anyone on the programme he was particularly friends with?
00:33:31Someone in the cast or crew, perhaps?
00:33:33Well, I really didn't know him well enough to say.
00:33:36So, you weren't on set the last time he was there?
00:33:39No, no, no, no, afraid not.
00:33:41I popped by the day before just to... just to look in.
00:33:44Do you remember seeing him then?
00:33:48Well, I mean, there were a number of uniformed extras at lunches.
00:33:51He might have been one of them.
00:33:53Oh.
00:33:54No, as a matter of fact, there was a bit of a contretemps around the catering truck.
00:33:58What was that?
00:33:58Well, a couple of passing derelicts were helping themselves, you know, stuffing their pockets
00:34:03with rolls, biscuits, all sorts.
00:34:06Mike knows, Mike.
00:34:08I was just telling the police about the beggars, and they were coming along and helping themselves
00:34:11to the grub.
00:34:11Oh, God.
00:34:12They're like wasps at a picnic.
00:34:14No one begrudges anyone a bit of food, but you've got to watch them.
00:34:17Otherwise, they're in and out of production and in artiste caravans quicker than you can
00:34:20say knife.
00:34:21I can't say that I knew him terribly well.
00:34:27I don't think we had many scenes together.
00:34:30Teddy had more to do with him.
00:34:32What about the day before last?
00:34:33He was cold, but not used.
00:34:35Did you see him or speak to him?
00:34:37Um, I may have over lunch next to the truck wagon, but I don't know whether anyone's mentioned
00:34:42I'm rehearsing a play for the Oxford Empire at the moment.
00:34:46Play Dead, would that be?
00:34:47That's the one.
00:34:48It's rather a neat little thriller, actually.
00:34:50I play this writer whose young, beautiful wife gets bumped off, and all the way through
00:34:56you don't know whether it's me or not.
00:34:58And is he here?
00:34:59Well, you'll have to come and see to find out, won't you?
00:35:02No, seriously, do let me know if you want some tickets for yourselves or maybe just a
00:35:08raffle off for charity, or both.
00:35:10We like to do our bit for the police because they're always so good for us when we hear
00:35:13You were saying about Raymond Swan.
00:35:15Oh, yes.
00:35:17Well, when I'm not being used, I'm in my caravan learning my lines because we go up next week,
00:35:22and I'm still on the book.
00:35:24It's a small wonder, really, the way they chop and change the lines on this.
00:35:28It's a miracle I can keep anything in my head at all.
00:35:32I was telling Raymond only the other day, your public are everything.
00:35:40They've been recognised, you see.
00:35:42First time for all of us.
00:35:44It could happen anywhere.
00:35:45In the butchers or the bakers, and you'd just be queuing up, like an ordinary person.
00:35:50And then you hear the whispers from members of the public from the back of the queue.
00:35:54You sit down, you know.
00:35:55And they'll rattle down the line like a cane fire.
00:35:58Yeah, Ryan.
00:36:00Siggy?
00:36:01I won't thank you, sir, and nor will they.
00:36:04Oh, well, then one of them pluck up the courage to ask,
00:36:07is it you?
00:36:08And I'll say, who?
00:36:10And they'll say, him, off the telly.
00:36:13I told my wife to put that on my gravestone.
00:36:16Ted Pickersgill.
00:36:17Him, off the telly.
00:36:20Of course.
00:36:22None of us are in the same league as Kenny in that regard.
00:36:25And about Raymond Swan.
00:36:29Nice enough lad.
00:36:30Very much wanted to get ahead.
00:36:33You know, there's a word in the right ear to the right person.
00:36:38In this game, it's never what you know.
00:36:40I suppose some are born to starring roles in new plays at the Oxford Empire,
00:36:47and some are born, they're a kick in the teeth.
00:36:53How's that?
00:36:57I'm surprised nobody's told you.
00:37:00I've been written out of this little extravaganza.
00:37:04We understood the programme was coming to an end.
00:37:07I'm coming to an end.
00:37:09Halfway through the run.
00:37:10And it's not just my post-bac.
00:37:14I get more fan mail than anyone else there, I do.
00:37:16Except Kenny, of course.
00:37:18Is that right?
00:37:19People like old Sergeant Wilkins.
00:37:23He reminds me of the way things used to be.
00:37:25Before the war.
00:37:27And it all went to pot.
00:37:30Quite literally, in some cases.
00:37:37None of them seem to know Swanwell.
00:37:40Well, we'll admit to it, at least.
00:37:42Do you think he was trying to mark our card with that look he gave to D.I. Charles when he mentioned the pot?
00:37:46I noticed he was smoking old soldiers himself,
00:37:48just like the butts he found at Cresswell's old biscuit factory.
00:37:51Yeah, I'm sure he's not the only man in Oxford smokes, then.
00:37:53Maybe not, but he's the only one we've met so far who knew Raymond Swan.
00:37:57Hmm.
00:37:57Morse?
00:38:16Nothing on him to say who he was before you ask.
00:38:21His name's Paul Baynard.
00:38:22He's an artist.
00:38:23Does the covers of those Jolophon books.
00:38:25We're missing three days ago.
00:38:27That would certainly agree with my initial findings.
00:38:30Body's been immersed about that long.
00:38:32Not a bad spot to fetch up, is it?
00:38:38Laid out by Capability Brown.
00:38:41That's some kind of faith, don't you think?
00:38:44All that work in anticipation of something you'll never live to see in all its glory.
00:38:51Any idea yet as the cause of death?
00:38:53I won't be able to give you a definitive answer until after the PM,
00:38:57but there's a number of obvious injuries.
00:39:01Lacerations and contusions in the main,
00:39:03though we've one broken arm and a sizable head wound,
00:39:08none of which immediately suggests drowning.
00:39:10Right.
00:39:12So injuries consistent with the road traffic collision, then?
00:39:14If he was riding a motorcycle, say?
00:39:17Was he riding a motorcycle?
00:39:18Last time he was seen living.
00:39:23Right.
00:39:24We'll get a team out.
00:39:25Get the lake dragged.
00:39:26Tomorrow, do you?
00:39:28For the post-mortem?
00:39:29Yeah, of course.
00:39:30Whatever you think best.
00:39:53Afternoon.
00:40:02It's Detective Chief Inspector Thursday, Thames Valley.
00:40:14I believe someone from the Regimental Association office spoke to my sergeant earlier.
00:40:20It's in connection with identifying a body.
00:40:24Someone who may possibly have served with the regiment.
00:40:31Thank you for the tea.
00:40:33I'm very sorry to have to ask, but we will need somebody to identify the body.
00:40:37Yes, of course.
00:40:38I'll do it.
00:40:39You sure?
00:40:40Look, this isn't the first parent I've lost.
00:40:42I know the ropes.
00:40:45The police, the post-mortem, the registrar, the undertaker, the endless bloody forms.
00:40:51What happened?
00:40:54She killed herself.
00:40:56He was in no state to do anything.
00:41:00Well, I'm sorry.
00:41:02That shouldn't have fallen on you.
00:41:05Was there anything else?
00:41:07Actually, yes.
00:41:14Do you know much about his paintings?
00:41:16Some, like what?
00:41:19Like, what was his inspiration for the images?
00:41:23He liked to draw on life wherever possible.
00:41:26Hence, all the props.
00:41:27And what about the places that feature in the background of some of the covers?
00:41:34If a real place was featured in the story, Dad would like to include it.
00:41:38I think St. Pancras Hotel got mentioned in one.
00:41:41And if the location was fictitious?
00:41:44He'd base it on somewhere he knew or had been.
00:41:47Now, what about this one, for example?
00:41:55Jolly Bad Business.
00:41:57What's that building based on?
00:41:59Well, it always seemed to me a bit creepy.
00:42:03I did ask him about it a few times, but it was one of the many things I could never get out of him.
00:42:09And the model?
00:42:10Who's she?
00:42:11I don't know.
00:42:12They came and went, but that one...
00:42:16Like I say, I couldn't get him to talk about it, and I didn't want to push.
00:42:20It could be tricky.
00:42:22Could he?
00:42:22How so?
00:42:24He had an extreme personality.
00:42:27He was either madly up or so gripped by despair he could barely get out of bed.
00:42:33Was he always like that?
00:42:35He was all right when I was a girl.
00:42:37At least, not so bad.
00:42:38I suppose he took a turn for the worst about ten years ago.
00:42:43He was drinking a lot.
00:42:45Some private member's place in town.
00:42:48I don't suppose you know where?
00:42:49Not sure.
00:42:51The downspout, I think.
00:42:53He'd finish work, get on his bike, and then I might not see him for a day or two.
00:42:57He'd be off on a bender.
00:42:58But then something changed.
00:43:00Something took hold of him.
00:43:02Some sort of scare or fright.
00:43:05And he was never quite the same after that.
00:43:08In what way?
00:43:11He started hating the phone ringing.
00:43:14Out of hours.
00:43:15Even in hours, he was none so keen.
00:43:17He didn't like to hear footsteps on the gravel after dark.
00:43:21It was like something or someone was after him.
00:43:25What someone did he say?
00:43:26I don't know.
00:43:28He wouldn't talk about it.
00:43:30I don't know if he had any real cause to be scared or if it was all in his imagination.
00:43:34But real or imagined, the past ten years, he's been...
00:43:39I suppose haunted is the word.
00:43:42I wouldn't know.
00:43:43I'll never get a garden.
00:43:57I don't know.
00:43:58I don't know.
00:43:59I know.
00:44:00I know.
00:44:01I don't know.
00:44:01I don't know.
00:44:02I don't know.
00:44:32You don't think about something for long enough.
00:44:53You think you've forgotten.
00:45:02What's all this?
00:45:16The superintendent Jolly from Books.
00:45:18I think the artist who illustrated the covers, Paul Bainard, was trying to say something.
00:45:23Bainard?
00:45:24That's your body out of the lake, isn't it?
00:45:25Yeah.
00:45:26It was his habit to draw from life anywhere that was mentioned in the books.
00:45:29But if the place was made up, he would base it on something that he knew.
00:45:33Where does that look like to you?
00:45:35Now, I've read this book.
00:45:38Nowhere described in it bears any resemblance to Blenheim Vale.
00:45:41So why do you use it?
00:45:43Well, I think he knew something about Blenheim Vale.
00:45:45About the disappearance of Brenda Lewis.
00:45:48Maybe even about Peter Williams.
00:45:50Williams?
00:45:50I think we need to get a dog team out there.
00:45:52Diggers, even.
00:45:54Oh, come on.
00:46:01Sir?
00:46:08You think I'm going to get the say-so from upstairs for something like that off the back of a bunch of paintings used on paperback novels?
00:46:14There's more than that.
00:46:15Look, if Paul Bainard thought he had a line on a missing person, why go to all the trouble of putting clues in paintings?
00:46:23Why not just come forward to the police?
00:46:24Because he was afraid.
00:46:26Look, in 1963, he was a member of the Downspout Club.
00:46:29Had been for years.
00:46:29So?
00:46:30So was everyone else involved with Blenheim Vale.
00:46:32Joe Landersman.
00:46:34Assistant Chief Constable Clive Deere.
00:46:35Now, if he was drinking with both of those...
00:46:37I don't care how pissed a man gets.
00:46:38He's not going to confess to doing away with someone and burying a body in Blenheim Vale.
00:46:42Well, at the same time, Bainard got a new model.
00:46:45She's on the cover of Just for Jolly and Jolly Bad Business, published in 64.
00:46:49Take a look at the initials.
00:46:56B.L.
00:46:59So you think Bainard's model is Brenda, Andrew Lewis's mother?
00:47:04Well, look, there is a similarity.
00:47:05Look.
00:47:07Brenda Lewis was working direct for Joe Landersman as his personal secretary.
00:47:11Now, let's say she finds out something she shouldn't have.
00:47:13She lets slip her suspicions to Paul Bainard.
00:47:16And then, unwittingly, or in his cups, he mentions it at the Downspout Club.
00:47:21Maybe even to Clive Deere.
00:47:22He's a high-ranking police officer.
00:47:24Exit Brenda Lewis, and Bainard gets lent on to keep his mouth shut.
00:47:27But instead, he starts alluding to what he knows in the paintings that he makes for these Jollyphant books.
00:47:33It's just about possible, I suppose.
00:47:40But do you really want to go over all that again?
00:47:43Blenheim Vale nearly did with a pair of us last time.
00:47:46We solved it.
00:47:47Not all of it.
00:47:49We didn't get Joe Landersman.
00:47:51Landersman is long gone.
00:47:53And even if he wasn't, it's history.
00:47:55Somebody gave Andrew Lewis a hot shot and then dumped his body at Beaumont College.
00:48:00Now, that's not history.
00:48:01That's last month.
00:48:02And it's on our ground.
00:48:03It's not mine.
00:48:05Not anymore.
00:48:11I've applied for a transfer.
00:48:14Castle.
00:48:15It's a superintendency.
00:48:18I can't take you with me.
00:48:20I'd like to, but I can't.
00:48:23So, there it is.
00:48:28I see.
00:48:29Look, it's not how I wanted to tell you.
00:48:35I've got to think of when.
00:48:36Joanie, you're getting Sam back up on his feet.
00:48:39No, of course.
00:48:40Of course.
00:48:41I understand.
00:48:43Two years, three at most.
00:48:45I'm done.
00:48:46Out.
00:48:47I can't be doing with all this Blenheim Vale all over again.
00:48:52Not now.
00:48:54And nor should you.
00:48:56You've got to let it go.
00:48:57I can't.
00:48:59Why not?
00:49:00We did our bit and then some.
00:49:02Why should you risk your neck?
00:49:04Because somebody has to.
00:49:10Well, let it be some other bugger.
00:49:12Just not us.
00:49:13Not this time.
00:49:26What, hey?
00:49:27What, hey?
00:49:29Why the long face, Archie, old Bean?
00:49:31You'll put me off my stroke.
00:49:33The car's been found.
00:49:34We know it was in the papers.
00:49:38Perhaps you should have parked him more carefully.
00:49:41And Bobby.
00:49:43Yeah, that was also in the papers.
00:49:45No, no, no, no, no.
00:49:46A different one.
00:49:50Well, that's unfortunate.
00:49:52But nothing to do with us, officer.
00:49:54Right?
00:49:55We all know the tune.
00:49:57Nothing to do with us.
00:49:58Nothing to do with us, officer.
00:50:02Buck up, you corks.
00:50:03I feel an evening's entertainment coming on.
00:50:14So what happened to you the other night?
00:50:16No new star.
00:50:19I've already copped an earful off the old man.
00:50:21Oh, you can't blame him.
00:50:22Hmm.
00:50:24What's all this?
00:50:26Oh, it's just some old turd I found in my room.
00:50:29Just gonna see if there's anything worth keeping before chucking it in the bin.
00:50:32Is there?
00:50:33Not so far.
00:50:34Hmm.
00:50:40Feels small.
00:50:41Don't you think?
00:50:42What does?
00:50:44This house.
00:50:46When we were kids, it felt...
00:50:48different, somehow.
00:50:51We were different?
00:50:52Yeah.
00:50:55I really thought that this was all there was.
00:50:58All there was in the world.
00:51:01Then you realise it's all just lies.
00:51:06What is?
00:51:08Everything.
00:51:09School.
00:51:10Papers.
00:51:12The telly.
00:51:14Sunday night at the London Palladium.
00:51:17Thank your lucky stars.
00:51:19Join the army.
00:51:20See the world.
00:51:26And then you realise it's all just about killing.
00:51:29That's just the hangover talking.
00:51:32Right?
00:51:34Put your boots on.
00:51:36Get yourself some fresh air.
00:51:38Come on.
00:51:38It'll make you feel better.
00:51:41There's a 99 in it.
00:51:42Got better with a pint, wouldn't it?
00:51:57Used to come here when we first left London.
00:52:01Sunday after tea.
00:52:03Ice cream.
00:52:04And a feed of the ducks.
00:52:05I suppose there'll be much of this at Carshall.
00:52:14New town.
00:52:17Who am I kidding?
00:52:18Too old for a new town.
00:52:20They'll be lucky to have you.
00:52:24Starting over my time of life.
00:52:25That's what my brain's testing.
00:52:30When are you off?
00:52:30After Joan's wedding.
00:52:36Well, that's the right thing.
00:52:38Is it?
00:52:42I've never run away from a fight yet.
00:52:44What do you mean?
00:52:45You're not running away from one now.
00:52:47It's like you said.
00:52:48You've done your time.
00:52:49You've the family to think of.
00:52:52It's like the war at the end.
00:52:55When we knew we got them licked.
00:52:56And they knew it too.
00:52:57I lost three of my lads those last few days.
00:53:01Fellas I've been with from the off.
00:53:03And still see them.
00:53:05Young still.
00:53:06Younger than you.
00:53:07Younger than Sam even.
00:53:10Get through all that.
00:53:13Only to catch a packet at the finish.
00:53:17Doesn't seem right, Summer.
00:53:21Insult to injury.
00:53:22Insult to injury.
00:53:27Was there anything from your old regiment on our vagrant soldier?
00:53:35Sellers, his name was Hugh Sellers.
00:53:37Hanging round the Legion kitchen on the couch from time to time somebody recognised him.
00:53:42Family?
00:53:43Looking into it.
00:53:44Shouldn't think the parents are still about, but wife, kids maybe.
00:53:49I'd like to let them know if I could get justice for him.
00:53:55And what about Andrew Lewis?
00:53:58Don't you think he deserves justice too?
00:54:01Look, I wasn't the first person to go nosing around the Downspout Club.
00:54:06Somebody had been there before me.
00:54:11Did Andrew Lewis give you a photograph of his mother to help with your inquiries?
00:54:20Would have been useful to have our noses across it before now, Ronnie.
00:54:24You never asked.
00:54:25It was my client, Fred.
00:54:28Long before he ever became your body in Beaumont College.
00:54:31Did the Downspout Club feature in your investigation?
00:54:34I heard somebody's been following in my footsteps.
00:54:37Yeah.
00:54:38Joe Landersman was a member.
00:54:40And others.
00:54:41Why?
00:54:42What about Paul Baynard?
00:54:43Doesn't ring a bell, is he?
00:54:44He's an artist.
00:54:47Killed this week in a road accident.
00:54:50Seems increasingly likely he has some connection to Brenda Lewis.
00:54:54Then his death wasn't an accident.
00:54:55What have you heard, Ron?
00:55:01Rumour.
00:55:03Whispers in the dark.
00:55:04It's like trying to catch wood smoke.
00:55:07One minute you think you've got a hold of something, only to have it come apart in your hands.
00:55:10Big picture.
00:55:12Can't say.
00:55:12But there's bits of London caught up in it.
00:55:15Big time.
00:55:16Not your old narc who copped it up here.
00:55:19Mickey Flood?
00:55:20What's he to do with any of this?
00:55:22Nobody's talking.
00:55:24But word is, he tumbled to some bit of villainy, connects it here and there.
00:55:28And that's what cost him.
00:55:29And that's somehow connected to Brenda Lewis?
00:55:34Who was Mickey running with down the smoke run?
00:55:38At the time of his decease, there was a warrant out for him on a protection racket.
00:55:42That was never Mick.
00:55:44All I hear, the past few years, he's been perched on a stool to land in some Dean Street walk-up
00:55:49minding the punters behave themselves.
00:55:51Money for jam.
00:55:52And just a cushy number for a broke-down, busted old leg like Mickey Flood.
00:55:57Hard to reconcile that with whatever he did to get him nailed to the floor in his tongue,
00:56:01I thought.
00:56:02Ain't it just?
00:56:08Better?
00:56:09Hmm.
00:56:11Much.
00:56:20So?
00:56:22Was it bad over there?
00:56:25No, not really.
00:56:28Boring more than anything.
00:56:31We were worried sick.
00:56:37So what are you going to do with yourself?
00:56:38Get pissed every day?
00:56:39I just need to get away from it all for a bit, you know?
00:56:47Go somewhere.
00:56:48Somewhere hot, preferably.
00:56:55So you and Jim's strange.
00:56:57What about me and Jim?
00:56:58I don't know.
00:57:00I don't know.
00:57:00I just never thought you two.
00:57:07I'll find you when you least expect it.
00:57:11It is love, then.
00:57:13What sort of question's that?
00:57:15Oh.
00:57:18He looks after me.
00:57:19I know he'd never hurt me, and he makes me feel safe.
00:57:24My tin hat made me feel safe, but that wasn't love.
00:57:27I've seen how short life can be, Joanie.
00:57:36One moment you're there, and then the next.
00:57:41Don't waste a second on regret.
00:57:42If what flood you has a bearing on Brenda Lewis,
00:57:49that means there's definitely a London connection
00:57:51between Blenheim Vale and what happened to Peter Williams.
00:57:55Landersman?
00:57:56Mm.
00:57:58Except no one's seen sightless out of that bastard in six years.
00:58:01I really think we need to get troops on the ground
00:58:04at Blenheim Vale.
00:58:05Forensics.
00:58:07What do you think you're going to find after all this time?
00:58:11His body.
00:58:12I give the go-ahead on that kind of operation.
00:58:21That could mean my move to Castle, the superintendency.
00:58:26All of it.
00:58:28I'm not asking you to give it the go-ahead.
00:58:30You've Hugh Sellers' family to track down, haven't you?
00:58:33On whatever happened to Raymond Swan to get to the bottom of.
00:58:35If you're off doing that, it's just my neck on the line.
00:58:37So, who's for a drink?
00:58:51Not tonight, thank you, Dickie.
00:58:52I'd love to, but I promised Anne I wouldn't be too late
00:58:55and I've got to get the last act of play dead under me belt.
00:58:58Are you doing a play, Kenny?
00:59:00Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:02Don't.
00:59:02He only does it to get a rise.
00:59:04Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:04Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:05Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:05Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:06Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:07Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:08Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:09Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:10Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:11Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:12Don't think we've heard about this.
00:59:13Don't think we've heard about this.
01:00:44Um, no, we never did.
01:00:48I'm stopping by the Eagle and Child tomorrow.
01:00:53Around six.
01:00:55I'll see you there.
01:00:55Yes.
01:00:58Yes.
01:00:58I'll see you there.
01:01:02Oh
01:01:32Oh, my God.
01:02:02THE END
01:02:32THE END
01:03:02THE END
01:03:04THE END
01:03:06Christ almighty, what the hell have you done, matey?
01:03:09Balloon's gone up.
01:03:10Mars!
01:03:11Morning, sir.
01:03:13Who ordered all this?
01:03:14I did.
01:03:15On what grounds?
01:03:17I believe there's a body buried here.
01:03:19What's this, a tipple, or what?
01:03:20Not exactly, sir.
01:03:22There's an artist, Paul Baynard.
01:03:24I think he's left visual clues in his paintings as to the location of the gravesite.
01:03:29Paintings?
01:03:30Used also in the cover of paperback novels.
01:03:33Did you know about this, Thursday?
01:03:37Certainly, sir.
01:03:38I have orders from division to see this business stopped and the excavation closed down at once.
01:03:45But they're not here.
01:03:56And I am.
01:04:00I can buy you until the end of the day.
01:04:03After which, I fear we shall all swing together.
01:04:08Will that be enough?
01:04:09Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.
01:04:10Very well.
01:04:12Carry on.
01:04:21You sure about this, sir?
01:04:23It's not as if they can threaten me with dismissal, is it?
01:04:29I once made a very grave mistake that left Morse in prison, and you fighting for your life.
01:04:36I'll be damned if I'm about to repeat it.
01:04:46Well, you've burned your bridges this time, matey, and no mistake.
01:04:50There's something here. I know there is.
01:04:53There better be.
01:04:54For your sake.
01:04:56There better be.
01:05:06Forensics from the Raymond Swan murder site.
01:05:14No dabs on the Johnny wrapper.
01:05:16Bog standard on the snout.
01:05:19Any luck at Blenheim vial?
01:05:21Ah, not yet.
01:05:22There's only so much staring at the mud a man can do.
01:05:24If there's something there, they'll find it.
01:05:25But there's something I wanted to show you.
01:05:27It's a mask.
01:05:29This piece was found by Hugh Sellers' body.
01:05:31This piece was found in the woods by where Paul Baynard was fished up.
01:05:35Same people involved in both deaths.
01:05:37Now, the woman who saw Hugh Sellers' attackers said their faces were wrong.
01:05:40Like devils.
01:05:42The masks.
01:05:43Very likely the same crowd caught up in this gang fight on Port Meadow.
01:05:47And both of these men were killed the same night that the Lady Mayoressa's car was stolen from the broad, right?
01:05:51It's her motor Raymond Swan's jolly book was under.
01:05:54So, they've what?
01:05:55Dumped for Sellers, then mowed Baynard down on some joyride in the country on a stolen car.
01:06:00Then dump his body in the lake on the Shifford estate.
01:06:02Next night, they've thrown Swan off the car park.
01:06:05I don't see how that follows, unless they're maniacs.
01:06:08Well, whoever they are, none of this gets us any closer to finding them.
01:06:12Do you mind?
01:06:13I think I know where this mask may have come from.
01:06:17Anywhere else local knock those out?
01:06:19No.
01:06:19It's my stock, no doubt.
01:06:24Is this to do with what happened to Ray?
01:06:25No, that may be useful in connection to another case.
01:06:28You sold many lately.
01:06:33Well, Mr. Ashton.
01:06:35There's a fella comes in.
01:06:36Regular.
01:06:37Young.
01:06:39Posh.
01:06:39Student, I suppose.
01:06:40He's had a bunch of them off me.
01:06:42How many's a bunch?
01:06:43Four.
01:06:44A while back.
01:06:45Then this week, he had another one off me when he brought the outfits back.
01:06:49What outfits?
01:06:50Fancy dress.
01:06:52We had words, actually.
01:06:53Really?
01:06:53About what?
01:06:54The state of the gear.
01:06:56I mean, I always take a deposit to cover wear and tear, but these were a write-off.
01:06:59In what way?
01:07:00Torn.
01:07:01Muddy.
01:07:02Oil.
01:07:02And a couple of the shirts were covered in blood.
01:07:06I just didn't think.
01:07:07When was this?
01:07:09Tuesday, was it?
01:07:10Yes, Tuesday.
01:07:11Do you have a name for him?
01:07:13No.
01:07:14He paid the excess in cash.
01:07:16But this was in one of the pockets.
01:07:20I don't know if it's him.
01:07:22Ormsby Gore.
01:07:32Good afternoon, gentlemen.
01:07:38Thames Valley Police.
01:07:39Which one of you is Mr. Ormsby Gore?
01:07:43Mr. Ormsby Gore?
01:07:50I'm afraid there's no such person.
01:07:53Might you mean Lord Ormsby Gore?
01:07:57Who might you be, sir?
01:07:59Viscount Henley?
01:08:00That's Lord Freddie Molcaster and the Honourable Henry Brockhurst.
01:08:05The Duboners, presumably.
01:08:09Who's this, Ralph?
01:08:11A police arch.
01:08:13Nothing to worry about.
01:08:15Lord Ormsby Gore,
01:08:17there are matters I must put to you under caution at the police station.
01:08:20Same goes for the rest of you.
01:08:21Now, see here, my good man.
01:08:24I'm sure you're a fine, dedicated public servant and all the rest of it.
01:08:28I'm not your man, good or otherwise.
01:08:31I'm the Queen's man.
01:08:33And I'm here to see her pieces kept.
01:08:35Look, my father is in the cabinet
01:08:39and your chief constable shoots on our estate.
01:08:42The Shifford estate, would that be?
01:08:44Held by the Ormsby Gores.
01:08:46Lake and grounds, landscaped by Capability Brown.
01:08:48That's right.
01:08:50From where we pulled the body of a motorcyclist.
01:08:54You can't imagine this is going to go well for you.
01:08:57Sir?
01:08:58All right, let's be having them.
01:09:03Get your hands off me.
01:09:05Nobody says anything about the lawyer.
01:09:07Archie, you keep your mouth shut.
01:09:09You hear me?
01:09:10They've got nothing.
01:09:15They're refusing to talk until their solicitors are present
01:09:18and they're coming up from London, so it could be a long wait.
01:09:20Well, it won't surprise you to learn I've already had the chief constable on the telephone.
01:09:25You're certain about these boys?
01:09:29It doesn't look good, sir.
01:09:31We can very likely place them at all three scenes of crime.
01:09:34We've bits of mask they brought found at the scene of Husella's murder
01:09:37and also where Paul Bainard's body was dumped.
01:09:39And the car was found at the same factory that Raymond Swan took a dive off.
01:09:45Sorry to interrupt, sir, but there's been a development.
01:09:48At Blenheim Vale.
01:09:48You'd better get out there.
01:09:55Me and Jim can deal with these truck arms.
01:09:57Dr. Morse?
01:10:26Morse?
01:10:27It's a man.
01:10:28In the state of the corpus, I'd estimate he's been here five to ten years.
01:10:33Single hole in the back of the cranium, no exit wound,
01:10:37and we may have a bullet or what's left of it still left inside the skull.
01:10:46You know you were right, Morse.
01:10:49You said we'd find remains here, and we did.
01:10:54They can't close it down.
01:10:56Not now there's a body.
01:11:02Somewhere I need to be.
01:11:04Oh, your, um, motorcyclist.
01:11:06I was wrong.
01:11:08He was still alive when they put him in the water.
01:11:11Drowned.
01:11:12Look, I really don't have anything to say to you people.
01:11:22Beneath you, are we?
01:11:28Pretty much.
01:11:28Pretty much.
01:11:29A man should know his place.
01:11:32Don't you think?
01:11:34I think overprivileged, entitled, arrogant young men who run around hurting innocent people and never believe they're gonna have to answer for any of it can always be relied on to turn on each other like rats in a sack.
01:11:48They'll give me you, or you'll give me them, but the longer you leave it, the worse it'll get.
01:11:58Who set fire to the £20 loan?
01:12:04Money to burn, that bajone.
01:12:06People with everything, taunting a man who has nothing.
01:12:09Who set fire to the £20 loan?
01:12:20Money to burn, that bajone.
01:12:23People with everything, taunting a man who has nothing.
01:12:28Who stuck him?
01:12:29Who killed Hugh Sellers?
01:12:31Nobody.
01:12:32He didn't bleed to death of his own account, did he?
01:12:35One of you broke a bottle and stabbed him in the neck with it.
01:12:38No.
01:12:38You went out with the sole intention of doing someone serious harm.
01:12:43For kicks, was it?
01:12:45Look, the old man may have been pushed around a bit, but he was alive and well when we left.
01:12:53I swear.
01:13:08Evening.
01:13:23What's the trouble?
01:13:25Officer.
01:13:26Sorry?
01:13:27What's the trouble, officer?
01:13:30Good manners don't cost nothing, do they?
01:13:32Bit of respect for the uniform?
01:13:35I'm Job, and I'm in a bit of a hurry.
01:13:37Oh, that's funny.
01:13:38Because I've got all the time in the world.
01:13:42Licence and insurance documents.
01:13:44Come on.
01:13:45Come on, let's be happy now.
01:13:47You're in a hurry, aren't you?
01:13:48I don't keep them in the car.
01:13:50Why have you stopped me?
01:13:51You have a, uh, defective brake light.
01:13:54Well, it's all right this morning.
01:13:56What the hell do you think you're doing?
01:13:58There's no call for profanity or belligerence.
01:14:02Wait a minute.
01:14:03Have you been drinking?
01:14:04I can smell it on your breath.
01:14:06No, you can't.
01:14:06And your aggressive demeanor leads me to believe your ability to drive may be impaired through
01:14:10the consumption of alcohol.
01:14:12Adams?
01:14:12Is this a joke?
01:14:16Are you refusing to comply with the instruction?
01:14:20One long, steady blow.
01:14:26That's it.
01:14:27See?
01:14:28Doing what you're told is not so hard, is it?
01:14:32You want to get used to it.
01:14:34Better for you in the long run.
01:14:36Better for everybody.
01:14:37It's Stephen's, isn't it?
01:14:44From county before the merger.
01:14:47Well, what a memory you've got.
01:14:50Yeah.
01:14:51It's Morse from Cowley.
01:14:53I've just come from Blenheim Vale.
01:14:54Oh, we know.
01:14:59You're not traffic at all, are you?
01:15:01What is this?
01:15:01This, this is as polite as it gets.
01:15:09We'll be seeing you, city man.
01:15:12Excuse me, was there a brunette here?
01:15:31Blue eyes?
01:15:32Yeah, she left about 40 minutes ago.
01:15:36Have you got a phone I can use?
01:15:37Yes, on the bar.
01:15:38Yes.
01:15:42Good morning.
01:16:03Stood you up, did she?
01:16:06Pretty little thing.
01:16:08Brunette.
01:16:09Baby blues.
01:16:10That the frail?
01:16:11Oh, is there any word on what happened to poor old Ray yet?
01:16:17Uh, no. No, not yet.
01:16:20I've just been doing a bit of press.
01:16:22Oxford Mail, little piece they're doing.
01:16:24Farewell, my Johnny.
01:16:26Oh, anyway, can't stop.
01:16:29I've got to get up to town for an audition.
01:16:31Cowardy custard at The Mermaid.
01:16:39Evening, Morse.
01:16:41Here with Jim.
01:16:42Jim Thursday was in earlier.
01:16:44Drink.
01:16:48Who was driving?
01:16:50Brockhurst.
01:16:53It wasn't his fault.
01:16:56The guy on the bike didn't have his light on.
01:17:03Whose idea was it to dump the body on the Shifford estate?
01:17:07Archie's.
01:17:07His family's away for a couple of months, we thought, by then.
01:17:15All the fuss would have died down and you could find a more permanent location for the body.
01:17:20Look, this is all conjecture.
01:17:24If you had anything like evidence, you'd charge me.
01:17:25We've got pieces of one of your masks found at Little Moors.
01:17:29That's something, I suppose.
01:17:31And I don't care how careful you were.
01:17:33Forensics will find your fingerprints all over the car and the motorbike.
01:17:36What did you do for Swan?
01:17:40Do you think he was a real copper?
01:17:44Who's Swan?
01:17:47Well, you left the car.
01:17:48Wait a minute.
01:17:53All I did was dump the car.
01:17:57Sure, I saw the guy off the television, but he was leaving when I arrived.
01:18:01I've just come from seeing Kenneth, sorry, call me Kenny, prior at the Oxford Empire.
01:18:10Did Ted pick a skill this morning.
01:18:12Sergeant Wilkins, this morning.
01:18:15And just finished now with young Narcissus, D.I. Chance.
01:18:18Thought he was going to make a move on Joan, but thankfully she left.
01:18:22Not long before you arrived, actually.
01:18:23And what do you make to them?
01:18:30Actors.
01:18:32Pick a skill's a grumpy sod.
01:18:34But I suppose it's Jollyphant makes it.
01:18:37Avuncula, that voice.
01:18:38You'd never know he's from up north, would you?
01:18:41Who is Kenneth Pryor?
01:18:43That's the rider for you, dear.
01:18:45Marvellous what they can do with electrocution lessons.
01:18:48Do you want a programme?
01:18:50You signed it?
01:18:51I've no use.
01:18:53And it's not Kenneth Pryor, at least it wasn't.
01:18:56There was already another actor in the union with his own name.
01:19:01Well, he changed it.
01:19:02Like Raymond Swan.
01:19:04Yeah.
01:19:05He could have changed his first name, but...
01:19:08Maybe he didn't want to be confused with Peter.
01:19:11Peter who?
01:19:13Sellers.
01:19:23Hugh Sellers was your older brother.
01:19:41I don't suppose I'd seen him since before the war.
01:19:44They tracked you down.
01:19:47No.
01:19:48No, it wasn't like that.
01:19:49It's just...
01:19:50The convergence of the twain.
01:19:55He came along to the set, along with all the rest of his tatterdemalion crowd, scavenging
01:20:00the bins, the bins, helping themselves.
01:20:02Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:20:03Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:20:04Get out of here.
01:20:05Come on.
01:20:05Get out of here.
01:20:08Keep going.
01:20:09I was hoping that he wouldn't recognise me, but of course.
01:20:16What did he want?
01:20:17I don't know.
01:20:21I don't think he knew money in the first instance.
01:20:27How much?
01:20:28A hundred pounds.
01:20:30But I knew that wouldn't be the end of it.
01:20:33But it wasn't even the money.
01:20:36It was the risk.
01:20:37The risk?
01:20:39Of it coming out.
01:20:41We were...
01:20:42Can you imagine if the press had got hold of it?
01:20:45The field day they would have had.
01:20:48The brother of television, Superintendent Jollyfront, is a tramp.
01:20:53I had to think of the show.
01:20:55The show was ending.
01:20:57You were thinking of yourself.
01:21:00You arranged a meeting.
01:21:04Yes, I said that we could meet and I would give him the money on the strict understanding
01:21:08that he didn't come to the set to get it.
01:21:12I had the money on me.
01:21:13I wasn't going there to...
01:21:16But when I saw him, he was already...
01:21:20Well, you could have called an ambulance.
01:21:24Even then, you could have saved him.
01:21:25He'd always been a bit of a...
01:21:33A weight.
01:21:35That's how you found a way to be rid of him.
01:21:44And you took him.
01:21:49And what about Swan?
01:21:49He'd seen us together earlier that day.
01:21:56I'm not quite sure that he realized exactly what he'd seen.
01:22:00But he knew instinctively that it was something that could be used to his advantage.
01:22:06So he tried to blackmail you?
01:22:10He said that he'd read in the papers that a tramp had been found dead.
01:22:14And wasn't that a coincidence, given the commotion that we'd had over lunch?
01:22:19And did I think that he should mention it to the police that they'd been there?
01:22:23Well, I said I couldn't discuss it there and then.
01:22:29But if he cared to go to the factory where I parked up after rehearsals for the play, then...
01:22:34We could talk about it then.
01:22:38We could talk about it then.
01:23:08I wondered if I'd been recognized.
01:23:18That's the thing about being on the television, you see.
01:23:22They may not know your name, but...
01:23:25People always know your face.
01:23:28Charlie and I had our problems, but to be that ashamed of your own flesh and blood...
01:23:40He was afraid, I suppose.
01:23:41That he'd lose all that he'd built up if his name was associated with a tramp.
01:23:45But murder?
01:23:47Who's to say what anyone would do if what they'd valued was threatened?
01:23:50A word just threw from Blenheim Vale.
01:23:55They found another one.
01:24:04Adult female.
01:24:05Somewhere between her late twenties and fifty.
01:24:10Most likely mid-thirties.
01:24:11And, like the male, shot in the back of the head.
01:24:18Brenda Lewis.
01:24:20I'll need dental records to confirm.
01:24:23However, I do have a match with the man we found.
01:24:28It's Josiah Landersman.
01:24:29What went on here?
01:24:35Whatever it was this time, we'd get to the bottom of it.
01:24:40And division?
01:24:41Can't bury it twice.
01:24:47We'll have the truth.
01:24:52Whatever the cost.
01:24:53I thought we were done with all this.
01:25:03Jesus.
01:25:08You have to get him away from this.
01:25:11I had a run-in yesterday with the dregs from County.
01:25:14But if we find he is not going to be forgiven,
01:25:17stick him on secondment somewhere.
01:25:19You know, Jim, he's a good man.
01:25:21He won't go.
01:25:23I'll give him no choice.
01:25:25It's not just him you have to think about.
01:25:27Not anymore.
01:25:28What was it you said?
01:25:29They come at you through what you love.
01:25:31You have to keep them safe now.
01:25:33All of them.
01:25:53They come at you.
01:26:07It's me.
01:26:37I've gathered as much.
01:26:40I had a visitor.
01:26:42After you and Morse left.
01:26:44Looks like the two of you have been asking the wrong questions.
01:26:48Where are you, Ronnie?
01:26:50Gone.
01:26:52Come in.
01:26:54With your help, we can take this life.
01:26:57Whoever they are.
01:26:58Not these.
01:27:00This isn't Jago in the four winds.
01:27:08This is big time.
01:27:09You take this on.
01:27:11You won't come out of it.
01:27:13You nor Morse neither.
01:27:15Drop it.
01:27:17I can't.
01:27:19Then I'm talking to a dead man.
01:27:24I've got to go.
01:27:29Don't join the dots on this one.
01:27:32You won't like the picture.
01:27:47You're on the other side.
01:27:48Turn down.
01:27:49You're gonna....
01:27:50I don't want the stars to the sky.
01:27:51You're the one who is now Centaurus.
01:27:52I want you to come toanto.
01:27:53You're lying.
01:27:54You're lying.
01:27:55You're lying.
01:27:56You're lying.
01:27:57You're lying.
01:27:58You're lying.
01:27:59You're lying.
01:28:00You're lying.
01:28:02What's up?
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