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First broadcast 22nd February 1984.
When Arthur comes into the possession of pop star Zac Zolar's final recordings before his reported death, he thinks he is quids in, especially as Zolar is currently climbing the charts.
Dennis Waterman - Terry
George Cole - Arthur
Mel Smith - Cyril Ash
Primi Townsend - Sharon
Charles Kay - John Sutton
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Peter Childs - Rycott
Michael Troughton - Melish
Mike Holoway - Zac Zolar/Albert Trout/Alan Trent
Jackie Smith-Wood - Jessica Trent
Billy Hamon - Lindsay Browne
Michael Deeks - Billy Cronin
Pearl Hackney - Maude Trout
Michael Wynne - Freddy King
Tim Healy - George
Carrie Jones - Sarah
Antony Gilding - Winchester Club Patron
Cathy Munroe - Party Guest
Raul Newney - Winchester Club Patron
When Arthur comes into the possession of pop star Zac Zolar's final recordings before his reported death, he thinks he is quids in, especially as Zolar is currently climbing the charts.
Dennis Waterman - Terry
George Cole - Arthur
Mel Smith - Cyril Ash
Primi Townsend - Sharon
Charles Kay - John Sutton
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Peter Childs - Rycott
Michael Troughton - Melish
Mike Holoway - Zac Zolar/Albert Trout/Alan Trent
Jackie Smith-Wood - Jessica Trent
Billy Hamon - Lindsay Browne
Michael Deeks - Billy Cronin
Pearl Hackney - Maude Trout
Michael Wynne - Freddy King
Tim Healy - George
Carrie Jones - Sarah
Antony Gilding - Winchester Club Patron
Cathy Munroe - Party Guest
Raul Newney - Winchester Club Patron
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00:00Dug back in the alley, police car on the road
00:1416 years in prison, and now I'm on the run
00:25Now I'm in the city, gotta find a place to hide
00:39The red lights that I busted, never turned to green
00:51You're right, love?
01:02I'm more trout.
01:04Yeah, I know that. I mean are you up to making the identification?
01:07The what?
01:08Identification!
01:10Why are you shouting? There are people at rest in there!
01:21Poor dear. He doesn't look very well, does he?
01:26Mrs Trowell, is it your grandson?
01:29Well, he was never as pale as that, and he's lost a lot of weight too, poor soul.
01:34Oh, I am glad our Ethel isn't alive to see him like that.
01:39Look, love, is it your grandson, Albert Trout?
01:43Well, it must be, mustn't it? There can't be two like my Albert, can there?
01:48Lbega!
02:06How long have you been managing this place?
02:08Clary, yeah.
02:09Funny old job for a woman, innit?
02:11Is it?
02:13Well, I'm sorry, but you know...
02:15Yeah, I know.
02:16I used to work in the rat race, the music business.
02:19Record publishing.
02:20It's rampant male chauvinism wherever we ladies go to.
02:24I suppose a humble appeal to go out for a quiet drink after this place closes is out of the question.
02:29Everywhere will be shut.
02:32My flat isn't.
02:34You bastard.
02:43This is back in the charts, isn't it?
02:55It's in the thirties, and it's climbing fast.
02:58It's amazing what dying can do to a singer's future career, isn't it?
03:01Don't be so wicked.
03:03Actually, you know, it's rather a shame. With the right management, he could have made the big time.
03:08But he's rather good, don't you think?
03:12Yeah, that's all right, yeah.
03:14I'm more your Eric Clapton man, myself.
03:16Oi, you have to run alone, mate.
03:18Hold on, here we go.
03:19Mate, mate, taps.
03:20Come on, come on.
03:24I'd like to know where you keep copying these from, Arthur.
03:26Well, I'm likely to tell you, aren't I?
03:28Think I'll go direct and cut you out of your corner, do you?
03:31We would, wouldn't we?
03:33Blimey.
03:34This one must have been cut from an old 78.
03:36Yeah, well, no one listens to that crap anymore.
03:39Freddie, how could you?
03:42This man once had an audience with a Pope.
03:44About the only audience he ever got.
03:46Hey, that Kochel comes as a job lot, you know, the good with the bad.
03:48Yeah, I know.
03:49There's no point in up in stuff I don't want, is there?
03:52There's no point in.
03:53What the hell is there?
03:55No, that's not happening.
03:56How big is the Pope.
03:57The Pope.
03:58The Pope.
03:59The Pope.
04:01The Pope.
04:02We'll just leave the Pope.
04:03We'll just test them.
04:05Let them take care of.
04:06The Pope.
04:07The Pope.
04:08The Pope.
04:09The Pope.
04:10The Pope.
04:11The Pope.
04:12The Pope.
04:13The Pope.
04:14The Pope.
04:15The Pope.
04:16You all right?
04:22Yeah, I'm all right. Come here.
04:23All right.
04:27I have to tell you, this is not the sort of investigation I relish, Mellish.
04:30Nor me, Gav.
04:31Well, it's your bloody fault, isn't it?
04:33And if you hadn't told the governor yesterday that you weren't sure the old deer didn't seem too sure,
04:37I wouldn't have got lumbered with it, would I?
04:39And now to cap it, all the presser onto it.
04:41Well, the identification shouldn't be too difficult.
04:43All we've got to do is find a couple of people who knew the geezer well enough to confirm who he was.
04:49People don't like looking at dead bodies, Mellish.
04:52I don't like it.
04:53Disturbs my sense of immortality.
05:01Hey, Bill, what are these?
05:03That's a couple of old 24-track master tapes.
05:05What I use in the studio to make the records on.
05:08Yeah, a couple of no-op groups who've laid some tracks down and never seen the light of day.
05:11Bit of a waste of money, innit?
05:12Well, they don't think so when they do it.
05:15What happens to them?
05:16Nothing.
05:17Just gather dust till someone decides to sling them out.
05:20Oh, soddy.
05:21Look, the gear's over here.
05:23Yeah, I'll be on me bite now.
05:24Yeah, all right.
05:26Thanks a lot, mate.
05:27Yeah, sit down.
05:29Hello?
05:29You haven't seen the trades?
05:50Zach's jump from 34 to 17 in one week.
05:54Fiona in the press office is freaking out.
05:56She's been inundated with calls.
05:58Half of Europe wanted.
05:59We could go gold.
06:01That's nice, isn't it?
06:02It's not bad, is it?
06:04Record News want to do an article on Zach and the band.
06:06And we've had two offers from ages in the States.
06:09God, what a time for that neurotic to die.
06:13Oh, well, I only meant...
06:15If he hadn't, there wouldn't be any Zach's over the revival, would there?
06:19Yes?
06:25Cyril Ash is on his wing, sir.
06:26I tried to stop him, but...
06:28It's all right.
06:28They're here now.
06:29Just a thought.
06:31What if we try and find a Zach clone and produce a new video?
06:35We might be able to organise a kind of Buddy Holly thing all over again.
06:40Do you mind?
06:42We happen to be in conference here.
06:43Shut it, Ponce.
06:45Eh?
06:45All right, George.
06:47Sorry about the intrusion, John.
06:49You and I ought to have a private conversation.
06:51Yeah, afterwards, Sir Sutton and I have finished.
06:53If you don't mind.
06:55All right, Lindsay, I'll deal with this.
06:56We'll talk later, okay?
06:58What's your pajar on?
06:59Lindsay, please.
07:03If that's what you want.
07:12I don't know.
07:13Another know-nothing who's come up the river on a donut, eh, John?
07:17I don't know where you find them.
07:19What's your problem, Cyril?
07:21Oh, it's nothing that can't be sorted out, John.
07:23Nothing that can't be sorted out.
07:25You and I are going to have to come to a satisfactory agreement about my boy Zach's future legacy.
07:31Hey, what's this?
07:32What's this?
07:33What's what?
07:34What's what?
07:34They're all the same records.
07:36Eh?
07:36That little billy's turned me over.
07:40He hasn't.
07:40He's done you a right favour.
07:42Zach Zola and the asteroids.
07:43God, where did they dig these names up from?
07:45I mean, what's happened to your beans and your francs and your peris of yesteryear?
07:48Don't worry about it.
07:49You've got a right result, then.
07:51Result?
07:52Result?
07:53500 copies of some unknown gurgling degenerate?
07:56I laid out hard-earned for these and there's no way I'm going to unload them on Freddy.
08:00You'll have your hand off.
08:01That's the late, great Zach Zola.
08:03Late, great?
08:04Don't you read the papers?
08:06He's brown bread, isn't he?
08:08Died a heart attack or something.
08:09I'm not surprised the way these so-called singers, Oller and Hoot, probably perforated his pelvis.
08:13Bing never done that in 50 years of culture cruelly.
08:16Oh, God, Elvis.
08:16No, no, no.
08:17You do not go to that great concert in the sky singing White Christmas with a punctured tonsil.
08:21I mean, where's the dignity in that?
08:23Anyway, how come you know so much about Tacky Watson and his jelloids?
08:30Hold up.
08:31Something else in there?
08:32Something else?
08:33Yeah.
08:34What is it?
08:35It's a tape.
08:37Tape?
08:38Oh, dear, I wouldn't like to hump the cassette around that goes into.
08:40No, it's what they call a master tape.
08:42It's what they use in the studio when they're recording it all.
08:44That's going to look lovely in a jukebox, isn't it?
08:46You've got to have a word with that, Billy.
08:48Stop whinging, will you?
08:49You're on a better earner than normal with this lot.
08:51Oh, yeah.
08:52Sounds like a start, though, doesn't it, this one?
08:54Albert Trout.
08:56Look, let's get this absolutely clear.
08:59Zach was signed to me.
09:00I'm his manager.
09:01I own him, dead or alive.
09:02We have a contract that's still valid, Cyril.
09:05Those four unreleased titles we have of Zach were recorded under the terms of that contract.
09:10As soon as they're mixed down, I intend to release them.
09:12You're releasing nothing.
09:13There's no need to get unpleasant about this, Cyril.
09:17We can all still earn money.
09:19Unpleasant?
09:20I'll tell you what's unpleasant.
09:21Zach and a band are hitting me for a fortune.
09:23PA, truck, roadies, birds, hotels.
09:26You think 14 lousy points on an album's going to pay me back all that?
09:29Well, my information is that most of the bills for those items are never paid.
09:32Oh, don't get lemon, John.
09:33Don't suit you.
09:34Look, Cyril.
09:35Look, don't piss me about, John.
09:39I want those tapes.
09:41That'll be a little difficult, I'm afraid.
09:42Oh, yeah?
09:43They're not here.
09:44The producer I got to do the mix took them away.
09:46He's in Scotland for a week.
09:48Exactly where?
09:48I don't know.
09:49We'd better find out where and a bit lively.
09:54No hard feelings, John.
09:55Business is business.
09:56Oh, almost forgot to ask.
10:02How's Shirley?
10:03In good health, is she?
10:05Yeah.
10:07And the kids?
10:10Let's hope they stay that way.
10:23Very nice, Arthur.
10:24This one's getting a lot of play.
10:25One for every jukebox you've got, Freddie.
10:27Can't be bad, can it?
10:28Yeah.
10:29Tragedy, though.
10:30Rising young star like Jack and his adenoids.
10:32Broken by the pressures of success.
10:33Yeah, I know what you mean.
10:35This one's no good to me, though.
10:37What?
10:37Oh, no, leave that.
10:38I'll sling it later.
10:38Terry, give Freddie a hand out with his cotcher, will he?
10:41I'm hurrying up.
10:41We've got to get over to the motors.
10:43Yeah, all right.
10:45What do you mean you can't find it?
10:48Well, it's got to be here somewhere, Mr Sutton.
10:50Is Cyril Ash being down here?
10:52Cyril Ash?
10:52No.
10:53What would he want down here?
10:54Never mind.
10:55Just find that bloody tape and bring it to my office.
11:05Terry, stop all that fiddling and ballop.
11:08Come and help me get this roof down.
11:10I'm a minder, not a mechanic.
11:13Terry, the geezer will be able to pick it up shortly.
11:15He's not going to park with a necessary wedge if he can't get the lid on, is he?
11:18And turn that racket all.
11:19This racket's made you a nice few quid.
11:22What?
11:23That's it.
11:23The song, Zack Zola's single.
11:26Zack Zola's single what?
11:28It's record, you bird.
11:30Is it?
11:30Oh, you rubbish.
11:34Leave off.
11:35I'm beginning to like it.
11:37Oh!
11:38It is catchy, isn't it?
11:39That horrible little man.
11:44You must be joking.
11:46He can't get away with a thing like that.
11:47If you'd been in this business longer than you have, you'd realise that Cyril Ash has spent a lifetime in his own legend.
11:55And what Cyril Ash wants, he usually gets.
11:58One way or another.
12:01None of which is very pleasant.
12:04Yes.
12:07Oh, yes.
12:08What do they want?
12:11Happy motoring.
12:14There we are, Terrence.
12:15Another satisfied punter.
12:16I don't know how I do it.
12:17It's not hard to work out, is it?
12:19You lie.
12:20I'm going down for a shave and a shear.
12:21All that grafting's made me feel tacky.
12:23Oh, dear.
12:23If I wasn't rushed off my feet, I'd clean a few cars.
12:27Yeah, well, that's the difference between you and me, isn't it?
12:29You and I, Terrence.
12:30You and I.
12:31Oh, it's you.
12:52Don't tap me on the shoulder like that.
12:59It's disturbingly similar to the way the old bills sneak up on you.
13:03How do you know I was here, anyway?
13:04Terry.
13:05Oh.
13:06Arthur, I've got to talk to you about that last lot of records you had.
13:09Well, what about them?
13:10I gave you the wrong ones.
13:11Oh, don't worry, son.
13:12I've managed to unload them, anyway.
13:14Unload them?
13:15You mean you've already sold them?
13:16Yeah, they're gone.
13:17Probably playing in every jukebox in London by now.
13:20But what about the tape?
13:21Tape?
13:22What tape?
13:23There was a 24-track master tape in with the records.
13:26Was there?
13:27Oh, don't tell me you've unloaded that as well.
13:30Important, is it?
13:31Important.
13:35I'm not sure that I want to go to the mortuary to do that, Sergeant.
13:38Is that just squeamishness, sir?
13:40Or are you refusing to help the police?
13:42There's a young man who works for me who knew him much better than I did.
13:45He could identify him.
13:46The way it works is this.
13:48Each track carries a separate sound or instrument, but recorded flat, with little or no EQ.
13:52And then it's all mixed down to a quarter-inch stereo.
13:56That makes that a lot clearer, doesn't it?
13:57How do you know all this?
13:59I used to work in the business, remember?
14:03Did it have anything on the box it was in?
14:06Well, yeah, there was a load of writing and names and things.
14:08Oh, yeah, some geezer called Albert Trout.
14:10You're joking.
14:11You know who that is, don't you?
14:13Mrs Trout's little boy?
14:15That's Zach Zola's real name.
14:18God, that tape must be the unreleased tracks he recorded months ago.
14:21I read about it.
14:23I mean, it's worth a few, Bob.
14:25Was Zach heading for number one in the charts again?
14:27Are you kidding?
14:30Well, that's all very interesting, son, but I can't see what you expect me to do.
14:33Arthur, if I don't get that tape back, I'm likely to be arrested.
14:37Go to prison.
14:37I'll never get another job in the business.
14:40It's my future career.
14:41I want to be a producer.
14:43It'll be totally blown.
14:45Well, I'm sorry, son, but I don't recall seeing any tape.
14:49You know, I think it must have got slung out with the rest of the rubbish.
14:52It's probably gone up in smoke now in the council incinerator.
14:55Oh, no.
14:56Can I drop you somewhere?
14:58Sure.
14:59The river.
15:00Ha, ha, ha.
15:00The river.
15:01Ha, ha, ha.
15:02River.
15:18Well, sir?
15:20It certainly looks quite like him.
15:24You've made a record with the man, sir.
15:26Surely you must know whether it is him or not.
15:28Yes, I suppose I should, really, but, um, when a person is, um, in any case, with all the publicity that's surrounded his demise, if it isn't him, surely the live's up would have shown up, I know, wouldn't he?
15:43This little bloke that works for you, sir, the minute he shows up, ask him to contact me immediately, would you, please?
15:49This little bloke that works for me.
16:19It's no good, Terry.
16:34As soon as Billy gave me the SP, I looked everywhere.
16:36It's gone.
16:37A star is gone.
16:39Listen, Sharon reckons that tape could be worth thousands.
16:41Yeah, I know.
16:42Billy told me the same.
16:43I must have slung it out when I was cleaning up the place.
16:45Cleaning up?
16:46You?
16:46It's a laugh, isn't it?
16:47It's always Muggins who does that.
16:48Yeah, yeah, come on, come on.
16:49Dave's waiting for us.
16:51Come on.
16:57Taking this a bit calmly, aren't you?
16:59This is not calmness you're witnessing, Terry.
17:01This is stoicism.
17:03Stoic what?
17:04Composure in the face of great personal stress.
17:06I mean, can I help if strength of character is one of my weaknesses?
17:10Rubbish.
17:11Listen, the reward for the return of that tape must come to enough.
17:14It's just not like you.
17:16Look, Terry, the tape was gone.
17:17What can I do?
17:18Even if it hadn't, what could I do?
17:19Take it back, say, I'm terribly sorry.
17:21This got mixed up with some of your stock deficiencies.
17:23Ended up in my warehouse.
17:24I've claimed first prize.
17:25Yeah.
17:25Here you drive.
17:27But you'd think of something, wouldn't you?
17:28Terry, we're not talking about proper people.
17:31Plot could be called in.
17:34Personally distressing inquiries could be made.
17:38Arthur?
17:39Terence?
17:42Nothing.
17:42Hey, Billy.
18:03Oh, hello, Mr. Ash.
18:05How are you, son?
18:07Okay.
18:08Not me.
18:09Matter of fact, I'm glad I bumped into you.
18:11I wanted to have a little chat.
18:11Why don't you get in the motor?
18:13A bit more private, comfortable, you know what I mean?
18:16Um, well, I've...
18:17Now, come on, what's the matter?
18:19I've just got a little problem, that's all.
18:20I want a bit of advice.
18:22Oh, okay, then.
18:30That's the lot.
18:30Well, put that last one in the bar, would you tell?
18:32Yeah, all right.
18:33Dave, as I was saying, I'd be very grateful if you didn't mention this to anybody.
18:38Um, especially Terry.
18:40What's the secret?
18:41Well, let us just say I have to conduct some very delicate negotiations, which, if successful,
18:46could put us all on an earner.
18:47Trust me.
18:48All right, I don't mind giving that tape tucked away for you, Arthur.
18:51I don't expect me to believe in miracles.
18:53Well, I've done it.
18:54See you, Terry.
18:55Aren't we going to have one, then?
18:56No, no, no type of self-indulgence, my son.
18:58I've got business to sort.
18:59See you later.
19:00Yeah, but how am I going to get 27 bus, end of the road?
19:05That little so-and-so's up to something, innit?
19:06What, Arthur?
19:07What did you say?
19:11Mr. Arthur Daly.
19:13He says...
19:13Excuse me, what was it you said?
19:16Tell Mr. Sutton it's about Pachypola and the asteroids, and it concerns a certain 24 tape figure.
19:23You wouldn't be telling me porkies, would you, son?
19:27I told you what happened.
19:29It's the truth, honest.
19:31You know him?
19:32Never heard the geezer.
19:34All right, where do I find this Arthur Daly, then?
19:37No, the Winchester Club.
19:39Yeah, he's always in and out there.
19:41Yeah, I know it, yeah.
19:44All right, Ben.
19:45Thanks a lot, sir.
19:45Man along.
19:46Well, what do you think?
19:54Don't know.
19:56He used to be right pals with Zach, didn't he?
19:58It was his roadie before things went reals.
20:00So?
20:02Something's not right.
20:05Tell you what, you hang around here, I'll go and sort this Daly geezer.
20:10I presume this is some kind of a practical joke, Mr. Daly?
20:14No, no, no, Mr. Brown.
20:15I am a proper person, and my credentials are unaccountable.
20:19I never indulge in frivolity or jest in matters of business.
20:24Well, in that case, I think it's a matter for the police.
20:27No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
20:28That won't be necessary.
20:30I'm sure Mr. Sutton here understands my position.
20:34I am a humble functionary, a mere spokesperson engaged by my client
20:38to negotiate an equitable and satisfactory arrangement.
20:43In other words, cop and earner.
20:44I mean, that is, seek an agreeable conclusion for the safe return of said item.
20:50My God.
20:51Leave this to me, Lindsay, if you would, please.
20:53Let's just simplify this, Mr. Daly.
20:56Your client has our master tape, which will be returned to us
21:01if we agree to give him an as yet unspecified amount of money, yes?
21:07In a nutshell, Mr. Sutton, in a nutshell.
21:09What figure does this client of yours have in mind?
21:12Well, as I understand it, in round figures, so to speak,
21:15I mean, strictly speaking,
21:16the number of readies I was meant to convey was, um, 20 grand.
21:2020,000?
21:22This is ludicrous.
21:23As a starting point for negotiations, naturally.
21:27This client of yours,
21:29his name doesn't happen to be Cyril Ash by any chance.
21:32Cyril Ash?
21:33No.
21:35But you weren't sure, Mrs. Trout, were you?
21:38I mean, you weren't positive.
21:40Is there something you're not telling me, young man?
21:43Pardon?
21:44Because you're behaving just like a policeman.
21:48Mrs. Trout, I am a policeman.
21:51I thought so.
21:54Look, let me ask you this.
21:56Was your grandson in the habit of going around
21:59without any means of identification on his person?
22:02Well, he was very fond of red underwear, my Albert.
22:06Always worried he did.
22:08Red?
22:10Do we know what colour underwear the deceased was wearing
22:12when first examined, Mellish?
22:17What about distinguishing marks?
22:19Oh, well, Albert was a bit too young to be,
22:21what you might call, distinguished.
22:24He was always a well-mannered boy, though.
22:27He respected his elders.
22:28Um, actually, what I had in mind, Mrs. Trout,
22:31was distinguishing marks on his body,
22:33on his person, scars, moles, that sort of thing.
22:37He was without a blemish, my Albert,
22:39and I won't have anyone saying anything else.
22:41Blue, Gav.
22:43Blue what?
22:44With red trim.
22:48You tell this client of yours
22:50that I'm prepared to pay a maximum of £500
22:52for the tape, Mr. Daly.
22:53That's all it's worth.
22:55£500?
22:56But, um...
22:57Yes, Mr. Daly.
23:00Oh, yeah, yeah, well, I'll pass the message on forthwith.
23:03But, um, I think I should warn you,
23:05my client is not a man who's likely to be impressed
23:07with a mere monkey for his considerable endeavours
23:09in recovering.
23:11He, uh, said particular.
23:13Recovering?
23:13That's an odd word for theft, Mr. Daly.
23:15Well, I'll be off then.
23:17I'm doubtless I'll be back to, uh, resume negotiations.
23:21£500, Mr. Daly, that's it.
23:24Who is that, Clare?
23:26I have no idea.
23:27But at least we know this tape isn't with civil ash,
23:29which gives us a little breathing space.
23:30One of the things you need to know about old ladies
23:35when you're interviewing them is that they'll do...
23:38Ah, can't be possible.
23:45How's that go?
23:47Yeah, but hold on.
23:48Arthur claims he hasn't got the tape.
23:50Yeah, I know, but that won't stop Cyril Ash going to see him,
23:52if you see what I mean.
23:53Man's a right lunatic.
23:55Yeah, well, don't worry about him, mate.
23:57Yeah.
23:59Uh, look, Tel, I've got to go now.
24:01Can I come and talk to you later?
24:03Oh, yeah, if you have to.
24:04Yeah, all right, yeah.
24:06Yeah, I'll see you then.
24:07Cheers.
24:11Yeah, Dave, has Arthur been back?
24:13No, there was a geezer in here looking for him, though.
24:16Just before you come in, as a matter of fact.
24:17Did he say who he was?
24:20Cyril, Cyril something or other.
24:22He seemed proper enough.
24:23I think he won't have put a bit of business Arthur's way.
24:25I told him to try to lock her.
24:28Listen, I think we'd better go.
24:29I thought you'd want me out for a drink.
24:30Yeah, maybe later, all right?
24:33I think Arthur's in a bit of bother.
24:34Well, mine isn't offering a bit of bother.
24:37Well, it's, uh, all a great mystery to me, Mr, um, um, what, uh, what did you say your
24:41name was?
24:42Cyril Ash.
24:43You call me Cyril.
24:44Uh, Cyril, yes.
24:45Um, look, supposing I did have this item that you mentioned, I'm not saying that I have,
24:50mind you, but if I did have, what, um, what sort of business arrangement had you got
24:55in mind?
24:57Well, quite a simple one.
24:58Mm-hmm.
24:59You give me the tape, or I'll smash your kneecaps.
25:02Well, very reasonable.
25:04Very reasonable and did.
25:12I let you talk me into going out with you, and I end up on some errand of mercy.
25:16Would you mind telling me what is going on?
25:18I'm not sure myself.
25:20You stay here till I tell you otherwise, all right?
25:21Oh, wonderful.
25:22I'm into a conspiracy with macho man.
25:30Oh, I'm emotionally attached to my kneecaps.
25:32Why should I lie?
25:33If it's not here, where is it?
25:34Oh.
25:35Yeah, where is it, Arthur?
25:38You must be Cyril Ash.
25:40What's it of you, Sonny?
25:42I just don't want to hit the wrong person, that's all.
25:44He's ruined that tie, you know.
26:04You two have given yourself a very serious problem.
26:07Nothing me and my boy can't handle.
26:09Right, Terry?
26:10That's right, Arthur.
26:12I'll be back.
26:14You watch too much telly, Cyril.
26:19Now, what have you been up to, Arthur?
26:21Me?
26:23Still got that tape, haven't you?
26:24Tape?
26:25Yeah.
26:26Listen, I'm going to hit you if you start all that nonsense.
26:30What's she doing here?
26:31Never mind about that.
26:32What's this all about?
26:33Well, can't we go and talk about it over a drink?
26:35I'll vote for that.
26:37Oh, seems like a nice girl.
26:44I'll do it over a night and see you.
27:03and that is a full sp on my eyesight you've got to be absolutely crackers to think they'd stand for
27:18that but they did didn't they the man offered me a monkey they're trying to steal it off you arthur
27:23it's potentially 1 000 hold on hold on he stole it off them in the first place quiet quiet i'm
27:28simply asking for a just reward for having located same now you should have copped what they offered
27:32while you had the chance look when it comes to negotiating business terry i think i am a better
27:36judge you're gonna think that aren't you when this ash geezer turns up with a little firm
27:40yeah look cyril ash is infamous in the business for his ruthlessness believe me i know well if
27:47he gets physical share on i can always rely on terry he's wonderful i think if arthur insists on
27:54pursuing this perhaps i could offer him some professional advice helping to screw cyril
28:00ash would give me a great deal of pleasure
28:04would you like to rephrase that
28:22cyril's never gonna believe this how's that go nothing just get me to the newest telephone box
28:28what about the girlfriend scuff well what about them well i mean the man was a pop star well sort
28:38of anyway and they like to put it about a bit with the ladies don't they must be one or two birds
28:43around who've had a real close look at him know what i mean it's a point it's disgusting but it is a
28:48point do you know i'm sure that was arthur daly i thought so how did you find out cyril does it matter
29:02hey boy you look terrific why didn't you tell me tell you you're one of the reasons i wanted to
29:08disappear for christ's sakes me you must be mental i am the man who took you to number one son
29:18who's the lovely lady now if you want economical my dear this is positively frugal
29:24i think you should just drop it no no no a moped uses more juice than this now i'm talking about the
29:30lark with the tape drop it drop it you've got brain damage or something sharon reckons it's got to be
29:36worth thousands to them don't you dear well potentially yeah see i reckon they've got to
29:40go to at least five big ones yeah well they've offered you five small ones why don't you just
29:44take the money and run we'll see
29:50blimey tell i'm glad you're here what what's up well i don't know how to tell you but the thing is
29:56zach ain't dead what were you talking about he's in trouble and needs a bit of help and i was hoping
30:02that you might wait leave it out i'm not getting involved in any reincarnated rock and roller this
30:07is getting positively bizarre will this make any difference to the value of the tapu look please
30:12tell sir elash has found out and zach's gone off with him kidnapped jessica called it hold on who's
30:17jessica oh that's zach's girl she's really worried well if he's not dead and he's been kidnapped she'll
30:23phone the old bill uh terry in the circumstances i think not look if zach's still alive you can't let
30:30sir elash get hold of him again well that's the bastard who screwed him up in the first place she's
30:34right so they got a point there terry for our own protection yours as well as mine we ought to get the
30:38full sp on this i don't know why i stand for it i must be bleeding mental yeah what no no no i don't
30:48understand you zach it's alan now sir alan trent oh don't be silly am i going to promote a name like
30:54alan trent i don't want to promote it it's me you're zach zola you're a star the star that i
31:02your friend and manager made now did i do all that for you because i want to be your enemy
31:06right all i want to do is help is that why you forced me to come here forced what did i uh twist
31:14your arm break your leg no but you would have done if i hadn't all you want to help is yourself
31:20we help each other zach that's what it's all about now look i've got a new contract oh don't bother
31:26cyril all your contracts are the same i had one remember no thanks you used to pour it down by the
31:34bottle yeah well not anymore well you got religion or something have you got any idea how well the new
31:40singles doing i know so if that little bit of nonsense you pulled ever comes to light you could
31:47be in very serious trouble my son so when we saw in the paper that they thought that poor young man
31:53might be alan it just seemed hello that's that oh yes well it simply seems like a golden opportunity
32:00to get rid of this zach zola thing finally and forever and to disappear zach had been wanting to
32:06get out of the pot business for some time so he decided to take on a new identity alan trent and
32:12we came to live here excuse me asking my dear and this is your darkest hour so to speak but does one
32:18it record buy all this it could i suppose but it didn't cyril ash took or perhaps i should say stole
32:27most of alan's earnings during his short nightmare in show business yeah but i mean
32:31uh you know i inherited it from my father and zach shares my love of horses well it all looked like
32:41working marvelously until now listen you little ingrate you could stay dead you know but you'd never
32:50get away with it how am i gonna get done for topping someone who's already officially dead hey but what
32:55about the lady i live with well she knows about you and everything and me gran billy also knows i'm
33:01not dead well it's their word against mine isn't it and even if anyone believed them well there's the
33:06proof but what would be the point i don't know buddy holly jim reeves hold on look what you've done
33:19doesn't sound so terrible to me i mean it probably only come to a fine if it went to court wouldn't it
33:23so if you think that cyril ash has kidnapped or abducted zach why don't you just go to the old
33:29bill and let them sort it out i think alan may be well not totally convinced that this is what he wants
33:37ah i think he needs more time in his new identity as alan trent to be sure the excitement he got from
33:46being zach zola the pop star went pretty deep she's right tell i've heard him go on about it and if the
33:53police get to know the truth well all the result in publicity photos in the papers you know he may
33:59not be able to resist it well why should he resist it he has talent why should he deny it and go back
34:05to all that heavy boozing and grief if things don't work out again well now he knows the pitfalls he'll
34:10be able to handle it won't he i'd just like him back here and safe mr daly i'll be in the car right yeah
34:17okay naturally i wouldn't expect you to help without a fee of some sort oh well since you uh
34:22mentioned it my dear there will be um certain expenses incurred of course and and we must treat
34:27it with the utmost delicacy because i understand from billy that the police have started sniffing
34:31around already hmm you just get alan safely back here and i'll handle sergeant ricott when the time
34:36comes sergeant right right ronnie riker out of fulham yes i believe so oh my good god terry
34:46this is the third time i've called here sir i thought you told me that this william crony known
34:50as billy was an employee of yours yes well he is i'm sorry he isn't here at the moment but he does
34:54spend a lot of his time outside the building delivering product messages that sort of thing
34:59hmm and you can't help me with that other point well i knew very little about zach's private life
35:07let alone the women that were involved in it i see there is just one other little matter sir
35:13do you know a man called arthur daly why do you ask oh it's just that uh the last time i was here
35:19i felt sure i saw him leaving the building well i have been discussing a business proposition with
35:26a mr daly but it has nothing to do with your investigation of the moment really you wouldn't
35:34care to tell me what is the nature of the business proposition would you sir with the greatest respect
35:40sergeant it has nothing to do with the police anything that arthur daly gets up to sir is always
35:46of interest to us oh you will insist to william cronin that he gets in touch with me as soon as he
35:55can won't you sir yes of course keep an eye until i get back yeah how long is that gonna be then
36:10as long as it takes to get all of this tape it means i've got another word with this daily geezer
36:14on his own this time
36:27jump back in the alley police car on the road
36:56uh thank you clarence uh leave your details at the reception we'll call you
37:09sarah you can send the next artist down to the studio
37:12no business night show business eh demented dave you can go through to the studio now
37:26you and your colleagues as well mr daly about time too
37:43looking for someone or something are we sir what's it to you
37:59so i think we can safely interpret your behavior as acting suspiciously on enclosed premises sir
38:10looking for me old mate arthur daly happen to have any identification on you
38:20cyril ash management and enterprises
38:21what management and enterprises might that be i wonder rock and roll manage a couple of bands do a
38:29few promotions you know cyril ash you managed zach zola didn't you yeah i do did i should say
38:38in that case you might be able to help us with our inquiries sir
38:41but that's preposterous how could it happen case of mistaken identity
38:48john john this is getting ridiculous i really think we ought to call the police in on this
38:53well perhaps we should listen to mr daly's proposal before we act too hastily
38:58uh excuse me there's someone trying he's perfectly straightforward we reclaim sack
39:03zach zach from the evil clutches of cyril ash and then keep him in protective custody as it were
39:09until he's fit and well enough to make a decision oh yeah like uh like agreeing for you to be his new
39:14manager exactly what would you want should this uh somewhat unorthodox scheme of yours work yeah my
39:21personal assistant has the details if you would my dear we want 15 points on first release but if we
39:27chart we'll want the option to negotiate a higher percentage plus what should we say 50 000 against
39:32royalties 50 000 he's still there
39:38but at least let me phone her to say i'm all right i don't think sue would approve of that son
39:42then he's stupid the longer i don't contact her the more the likelihood is she'll phone the police
39:50okay just you remember i'll be listening all right
39:57hello can i take it we have a trade then john i think we may have
40:09arthur given certain provisors name them john name them can we get on with it nothing is finalized
40:14that includes any advance monies until zach is reclaimed and under your safe management and the
40:19master tape is returned to this company forthwith i told you darling i'm perfectly okay but don't
40:26worry and when this is all over you and me and billy will all have a nice meal at garrett's okay okay
40:33zach time's up well what is it what did he say he said when all this is over the three of us will
40:42have a meal at garrett's i don't know any restaurants of that name do you no but i know what he means
40:49it's a terrible thing to ask me to do sergeant seeing my boy in a state like that terrible i want some
40:54doubt about the identity sir we did need to be certain you'll be missed i'm telling you look
41:00made me feel a bit failed do you mind if i uh slip away my head you know yeah i'll be all right sir
41:07if there is anything elsewhere we'll be in touch
41:11well what else could there be well you do business with arthur daly could be anything couldn't it
41:17of course first you've got to find out where ash is confining zach how do you first do that
41:21well mr daly deals with the miracle side of our activities don't you arthur no problem john no
41:25problem i know faces that no places but no faces know what i mean not really excuse me is there a
41:32mr mccann yeah there's a call for you from a miss jessica trent she says it's urgent hello
41:42whose address is it sir alash's associate just where to keep you in zach
41:45how'd you find out well the bloke's name is george but zach and billy have got a nickname for him see
41:50and somehow zach got a call to jess well it doesn't really matter does it come on what what now
41:54yeah element of surprise offer element of surprise come on
42:12that's on
42:24see element of surprise always does it what the hell is this don't worry jessica sent us to get
42:32you out of this is ash here what um no he's not a lively terry lively my legs begin in the lake come
42:39look who are you guys don't worry about it arthur daly showbiz entrepreneur and personal manager that
42:46is the nature of my endeavors zach you are now in safe and reliable hands my boy well where are you taking
42:51me i don't want to stay in the hotel i just want to go home out of the question my son until we can
42:57find a way of stopping cyril ash giving you aggravation look i think you ought to know i'm not at all sure
43:01i want to get into all that pop scene again how can you say that zach think of your public turn it in
43:06will you let him make up his own mind well things are a bit different for you this time i mean you might
43:11really hit the big time she's right your place is up there with the immortals like big richard and
43:15little bopper this is getting ridiculous you know that don't you i have to find jessica yeah all
43:19right all right hey hey aren't you coming in no no no i'm gonna get the tape and wrap all this up shut that
43:25door
43:55mr ash what a coincidence just the man i was looking for well you just found me no i i know
44:12what you're thinking but you're wrong wait where is it i'm getting it for you this evening that that's
44:18what i was looking to tell you tell me more well it he got mixed up with a cotter of gear i sold a man
44:24and when he found it he gave me a ring and he's bringing it round um this evening first thing what
44:30time six o'clock first thing this evening i don't have to come looking for you again daily
44:43well in the long run it's your decision i'm just telling you what i think that's all yeah i know
44:47anyway whatever thanks terry i appreciate what you've done and what you're trying to say
44:51look don't decide too quickly zach i mean the business isn't all bad there you go in much
44:57appreciated dave much appreciated you're all right off now well let's say i'm coping i must go dave
45:02listen if cyril ash comes in tell him i'm going to china china well tibet
45:07i told you he's gone gone where west wickham terry how could you do this to me what if i didn't do
45:23anything look he wanted to leave us his decision in it what you want me to do tie him up so we all
45:27get done for a dutcher you might have waited till he signed on the dotted this could have been a big
45:31one i could have been a brian einstein of west one and you give me west wickham you can still claim
45:37your monkey for the tape
45:45i don't believe it the bloody thing's been demagnetized what's that mean what does it mean
46:04what does it mean it means some bloody idiot has left it close to a strong electromagnetic field
46:09causing massive dropout and for all intents and purposes wipe the bloody thing wiped it what do you
46:14mean with a cloth or something no no it must have been when you stashed it amongst all those magnetic
46:18toys oh yeah yeah you daft bloody hold on hold on that's not going to get anyone anywhere is it he
46:25has a point lindsay yes all right where's zach where's my tape i think you'd better play it again sam
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