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First broadcast 9th May 2010.
An Oxford professor, also an amateur astronomer and recently renewed churchgoer, is found dead in the school observatory under suspicious circumstances.
Warren Clarke - Roger Temple
Deborah Cornelius - Dr Ella Ransome
Christopher Bowen - Professor Andrew Crompton
Sophie Ward - Isobel Crompton
Clare Holman - Dr. Laura Hobson
Robert Hardy - Sir Arnold Raeburn
Ruby Thomas - Kate Cameron
Diana Quick - Gwen Raeburn
Anthony Calf - Malcolm Finniston
Jonathan Cullen - Father Francis
Annabelle Apsion - Babs Temple
Andrew Hawley - Jez Haydock (as Andrew Hawyley)
Kevin Whately - DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox - DS James Hathaway
Bernard Lloyd - Ted Temple
Liz Crowther - Mrs Leeming
Ben Addis - Junior Porter
Nicholas Howe - Undergraduate
Rebecca Front - Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
Robin Kermode - Interviewer
Colin Dexter - Diner
Chris Wilson - Police Firearms Tech
An Oxford professor, also an amateur astronomer and recently renewed churchgoer, is found dead in the school observatory under suspicious circumstances.
Warren Clarke - Roger Temple
Deborah Cornelius - Dr Ella Ransome
Christopher Bowen - Professor Andrew Crompton
Sophie Ward - Isobel Crompton
Clare Holman - Dr. Laura Hobson
Robert Hardy - Sir Arnold Raeburn
Ruby Thomas - Kate Cameron
Diana Quick - Gwen Raeburn
Anthony Calf - Malcolm Finniston
Jonathan Cullen - Father Francis
Annabelle Apsion - Babs Temple
Andrew Hawley - Jez Haydock (as Andrew Hawyley)
Kevin Whately - DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox - DS James Hathaway
Bernard Lloyd - Ted Temple
Liz Crowther - Mrs Leeming
Ben Addis - Junior Porter
Nicholas Howe - Undergraduate
Rebecca Front - Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
Robin Kermode - Interviewer
Colin Dexter - Diner
Chris Wilson - Police Firearms Tech
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00:00:00You
00:02:37Whoa.
00:02:42Name, please.
00:02:43Hobson.
00:02:45First name?
00:02:47Laura.
00:02:49That's correct.
00:02:52Clarinet.
00:02:53Sagittarius.
00:02:56Favorite color blue.
00:02:57I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:02:58Well, you know where they are.
00:02:59I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:03:00I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:03:01Well, you know where they are.
00:03:05I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:03:06I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:03:07Well, you know where they are.
00:03:08Are they, Sir Arnold?
00:03:10Oh, you're too kind to an old man.
00:03:11Sir?
00:03:12Oh, you're too kind to an old man.
00:03:13Sir?
00:03:14Uh, it's, uh, Malcolm.
00:03:15Finiston for the rehearsal.
00:03:16Your, uh...
00:03:17You're, uh...
00:03:18You're not on my list, Mr. Finiston.
00:03:19I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:03:20I do want everything right for Malcolm.
00:03:21Well, you know where they are.
00:03:22Are they, Sir Arnold?
00:03:23Oh, you're too kind to an old man.
00:03:25Sir?
00:03:26Uh, it's, uh, Malcolm Finiston for the rehearsal.
00:03:27You're, uh...
00:03:28You're not on my list, Mr. Finiston.
00:03:29Temple.
00:03:30Well, there was a porter in my day called Temple.
00:03:31Um...
00:03:32Ted Temple.
00:03:33My father's.
00:03:34Yes.
00:03:35Yes.
00:03:36Yes.
00:03:37Yes.
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00:03:52Yes.
00:03:53Yes.
00:03:54Yes.
00:03:55Yes.
00:03:56Sir.
00:03:57How is old Ted?
00:03:58He's not what he was.
00:04:00Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
00:04:02Sir!
00:04:19Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
00:04:22How long since your last confession?
00:04:25Help me.
00:04:26I don't bite.
00:04:27Unless I have to.
00:04:28Right.
00:04:29Let's see what you're made of.
00:04:30I don't bite.
00:04:31Not unless I have to.
00:04:32Right.
00:04:33Let's see what you're made of.
00:04:34I don't bite.
00:04:35Not unless I have to.
00:04:36Right.
00:04:37Let's see what you're made of.
00:04:38Not unless I have to.
00:04:39Not unless I have to.
00:04:41Right.
00:04:42Let's see what you're made of.
00:04:43Oh,
00:04:51I couldn't do.
00:04:52Oh,
00:04:53I have to.
00:04:54Okay.
00:04:55It's a terrible thing to do.
00:05:18The sooner the better.
00:05:21Tonight, then.
00:05:22So I'll be all clear for Friday.
00:05:27Friday, 3.15.
00:05:33When I'll have an excess of chocolate.
00:05:52I'll be right back.
00:06:22I'll be right back.
00:06:52Give yourselves a bravo.
00:07:08Bravissimo, Malcolm Scholle.
00:07:11Bravissimo.
00:07:12Thank you all.
00:07:13And just watch the penultimate marking.
00:07:15It's a cellaranda, not poco pumasso, Lady Raven.
00:07:19It's still going to you.
00:07:23Right.
00:07:23Until tomorrow.
00:07:24Temple?
00:07:25Temple.
00:07:26Temple.
00:07:27Have you seen the master?
00:07:31He hasn't been home yet.
00:07:33He hasn't been home yet.
00:07:34All right, ma'am, sir.
00:07:35Morning, sir.
00:07:36Morning.
00:07:37Morning.
00:07:38Morning.
00:07:39Temple.
00:07:40Temple.
00:07:41Temple.
00:07:42Temple.
00:07:43Temple.
00:07:44Have you seen the master?
00:07:45He hasn't been home yet.
00:07:46All right, ma'am, sir.
00:07:47Morning, sir.
00:07:48Morning.
00:07:49Morning, sir.
00:07:50Morning.
00:07:51Morning.
00:07:53All right, ma'am, sir.
00:07:54Morning, sir.
00:07:55Morning.
00:08:09Oops.
00:08:10I'll come back later.
00:08:11Try knocking next time.
00:08:12I did, as it happens.
00:08:14Not loud enough, clearly.
00:08:16Sorry, Babs.
00:08:21Don't talk to her like that.
00:08:23Why not?
00:08:24It's not a mortal thing, is it?
00:08:28I am seriously late.
00:08:40Professor Andrew Crompton, master of Gresham College,
00:08:43took a tumble and hit his head.
00:08:44Suspicious?
00:08:45Signs of a struggle and his face is scratched.
00:08:48He fell backwards down the stairs by the look of it
00:08:52and bumped his way down.
00:08:54But the fatal impact was probably the wound to his right
00:08:57temple.
00:08:58When he hit the floor?
00:08:59Yes.
00:09:00I was at Gresham College yesterday.
00:09:03Practising for your concert?
00:09:05Rehearsing, yes.
00:09:06Is there a difference?
00:09:07What about these scratches?
00:09:09Someone's clawed at him.
00:09:11I practise alone.
00:09:12Together we rehearse.
00:09:13Attack, defence.
00:09:15Not Mystic Meg.
00:09:17More like Act of Belk.
00:09:19Who?
00:09:20He played the clarinet too.
00:09:22Back in the olden times.
00:09:24Well there certainly was a fight.
00:09:25What about access?
00:09:26It's a swipe card system at street level.
00:09:27I've asked for the records for the last 24 hours.
00:09:28And an entry phone.
00:09:29What was he doing here?
00:09:30Sir.
00:09:31This was on the floor there.
00:09:32Sir.
00:09:33This was on the floor there.
00:09:34downstairs.
00:09:35This was on the floor downstairs.
00:09:36And an entry phone.
00:09:37What was he doing here?
00:09:38Sir.
00:09:39This was on the floor downstairs.
00:09:40Angular separation.
00:09:41Well, there certainly was a fight.
00:09:44What about access?
00:09:46There's a swipe card system at street level.
00:09:48I've asked for the records for the last 24 hours.
00:09:52And an entry phone.
00:09:55What was he doing here?
00:09:58Sir, this was on the floor downstairs.
00:10:06Angular separation, is it?
00:10:11Luminosity is, um, astrophysics.
00:10:16Stargating.
00:10:25Next, the thing you've all been waiting for.
00:10:28Dark matter and black holes.
00:10:32Oh, glad you could join us, Jess.
00:10:35Yes, sorry.
00:10:41So we'll lend us some paper.
00:10:43Police will call to the observatory early this morning
00:10:46when the body was discovered by a cleaner.
00:10:49It is understood the death of Professor Andrew Crumpton
00:10:52is being treated as suspicious.
00:10:54Mr. Temple.
00:10:55The observatory will remain closed for the rest of the day,
00:10:57according to university authority.
00:10:59to ransom.
00:11:00And staff and students affected by the closure
00:11:02Who's this?
00:11:03Are asked to await further announcements.
00:11:05Hello, Ted.
00:11:09He's a naughty, wicked man.
00:11:11I know all about it.
00:11:13He's gone to Gresham College since 1997.
00:11:16He was 56.
00:11:36Nice one.
00:11:38Have you heard about Crumpton?
00:11:41What?
00:11:42He's dead.
00:11:46When?
00:11:47How?
00:11:49He fell down the observatory stairs yesterday
00:11:51and smashed his head.
00:11:55Thanks.
00:11:59You liked him, didn't you?
00:12:01Yeah.
00:12:02They like me.
00:12:06God, that's sad.
00:12:25I can come back any time, Mrs. Crumpton.
00:12:29Thank you, Mrs. Temple.
00:12:32Let's keep things as normal as possible, shall we?
00:12:41Are you all packed for your move?
00:12:44Nearly.
00:12:46Roger's very organized.
00:12:48I imagine he is.
00:13:01Hello?
00:13:05Oh, thank you, Mr. Temple.
00:13:07Send them over, would you?
00:13:11It's the police.
00:13:16Anything you need, you just ask, all right?
00:13:19Are we right for the master's house?
00:13:29Through the quad.
00:13:30Right.
00:13:35Was he murdered?
00:13:37Why'd you say that?
00:13:38I doubt the police would send a senior detective and a sergeant for tea and sympathy after an accident.
00:13:44And he had no reason to take his own life.
00:13:47So, I'm assuming the involvement of a third party.
00:13:51It's a possibility we have to consider.
00:13:54Someone killed Andrew.
00:13:57When did you last see him?
00:14:00Late afternoon, briefly.
00:14:02I spent the evening here alone and I went to bed early.
00:14:07When I woke up, he hadn't come home.
00:14:09What would he have been doing at the observatory?
00:14:11He was a keen amateur astronomer.
00:14:14The department kindly let him use the telescope.
00:14:17Did he let you know that's where he'd be last night?
00:14:19No.
00:14:21That wasn't unusual.
00:14:22We weren't joined at the hip.
00:14:24Can you think of anyone he might have been meeting?
00:14:26He preferred his heavenly contemplations to be solitary.
00:14:29Do you know anyone who might have wanted to hurt him?
00:14:31No.
00:14:36Might this be his?
00:14:42It's not his writing.
00:14:45You'd better ask Gwen Rayburn.
00:14:48Senior lecturer in astrophysics.
00:14:50That's her.
00:14:54We spent the occasional weekends on our narrow butt with the Rayburns.
00:14:58Cramped. Cozy.
00:15:00Is that Arnold Rayburn then?
00:15:02It is.
00:15:05The composer.
00:15:07Oh, Rayburn. Right.
00:15:08We'll keep you informed, Mrs. Crombin.
00:15:20Arnold Rayburn is the grand old man of English music.
00:15:24National treasure if it wasn't for the stubborn atenality of his later compositions.
00:15:28Fancy.
00:15:39Luella.
00:15:41Luella.
00:15:51Explain something, Lady Rayburn.
00:15:54Gwen Rayburn.
00:15:56Yes?
00:15:57We're police officers looking into Professor Crompton's death.
00:16:00Inspector Lewis.
00:16:02Sergeant Hathaway, Lady Rayburn.
00:16:04It's unbelievable.
00:16:06Andrew was...
00:16:08Some people are irreplaceable, aren't they?
00:16:11We found this in the observatory and wondered if you recognize it.
00:16:18It's Jess Haydox.
00:16:20He's one of my students.
00:16:22He was missing it earlier.
00:16:24Do you know where we might find him?
00:16:26I saw him going out.
00:16:27Would you like me to give him that back, will you?
00:16:30Temple, sir. Head porter.
00:16:32You're all right, Mr. Temple.
00:16:33If you do see him, would you give us a call?
00:16:35Pleased to oblige.
00:16:37Mr. Haydox, an exemplary young man, if you want my opinion.
00:16:40Not sure that we do, Mr. Temple.
00:16:42No, of course not. Um, excuse me.
00:16:46Any idea what caused him to fall?
00:16:48Not yet, no.
00:16:49Well.
00:16:51Goodbye.
00:16:53Oh.
00:16:55Sorry.
00:17:00You might have told me she was Lady Rayburn.
00:17:03Didn't seem important.
00:17:04No, it wouldn't to you.
00:17:10But, um, I can give you a clearer idea when I call.
00:17:14Fine, Mrs. Sleepy.
00:17:16Fine.
00:17:17What?
00:17:36Hello, hello, hello?
00:17:47Isabel.
00:17:58Isabel.
00:18:07And goodness for you, too.
00:18:09We'll postpone the concert, of course.
00:18:14Certainly not.
00:18:16Planets.
00:18:18Appropriate.
00:18:20You could give the performance in his memory.
00:18:23Oh.
00:18:25Good girl.
00:18:27Do you know anything about astronomy, sir?
00:18:30I bet you do.
00:18:32Don't, as it happens.
00:18:34Wonders will never see.
00:18:36Other than a few obvious snippets, Copernicus say, or the revival of heliocentrism.
00:18:41It's not all astronomy in here, anyway.
00:18:45Listen.
00:18:46The splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.
00:18:51Perhaps Jez is an aspiring writer.
00:18:54I wonder if that's what Lady Rayburn was so interested in when we showed her it.
00:18:58You mean Gwen?
00:18:59You've got it.
00:19:04Yeah, that's it.
00:19:06Yeah, that's it.
00:19:08Yeah, that's it.
00:19:22Be honest.
00:19:24You'll never get round and sorted this like that yourself, will you?
00:19:28Not now.
00:19:30You're costing us more from next month, you old sod.
00:19:41Say something, Dad.
00:19:43Where's my son?
00:19:50Halley's Comet, of course.
00:19:53Edmund Halley.
00:19:54He lived in Oxford, New College Lane.
00:19:56No, I didn't know.
00:19:57It's an obvious snippet.
00:20:01Yeah, Lewis.
00:20:05Did he?
00:20:08Aye, thanks.
00:20:10We've got a witness as he saw Crompton less than two hours before we think he died.
00:20:15One of your lot.
00:20:27Uh, I am running late.
00:20:34Do you want me to hear your confession?
00:20:36Not when I'm on duty, thanks.
00:20:39He started coming to Mass three months ago.
00:20:41Uh, I noticed him, but I had no idea who he was till I saw this.
00:20:46Yesterday was his first confession?
00:20:47Yes.
00:20:49What time was that?
00:20:51Say eight when he arrived.
00:20:54Uh, there were quite a few waiting, so by the time he left it would have been around nine.
00:21:00Did he have much to confess?
00:21:03A considerable amount.
00:21:05Yes.
00:21:07Which, of course, I am unable to share with you.
00:21:10No, I understand that.
00:21:14Not sure my inspector will.
00:21:16You must explain to him, then, the difference between the confessions I hear and those he does.
00:21:21Mine are voluntary.
00:21:25And privileged.
00:21:27Did Professor Compton say anything outside of the confessional?
00:21:31He did say something as he went.
00:21:34About an excess of joy on Friday.
00:21:38On Friday at 3.15, I'll have an excess of joy.
00:21:56Head Ron Halls just to make a call for a second.
00:21:59Do you think the first morning is really quick?
00:22:00By the way, he's reading a message.
00:22:02The message is a river.
00:22:04Yes, you are a river.
00:22:06Yes.
00:22:08Yes.
00:22:09Yes, I see.
00:22:13No further.
00:22:15Yes, that's it.
00:22:16Yes, it's a river.
00:22:17Yes, it's a river.
00:22:19Yes, I've heard another river.
00:22:21Yes, I've heard another river.
00:22:22Yes, I've heard a river.
00:22:24Well, here's a river, very nice river.
00:22:25Let's take a river.
00:22:26the matter? An excess of joy. What the hell does that mean? What was he planning on Friday
00:22:33that was going to make him so joyful? That's all he said. I'm running a check on this Jez
00:22:40Haydock before we speak to him. Anything? Jeremy Michael Haydock cautioned for cannabis
00:22:47possession last year. Half a joint's worth. Nothing else. Prompton must have said more
00:22:55than that, surely. Only under the sanctity of the confessional. Oh, for crying out loud. No, these things matter, sir. He's completely within his rights. This is the 21st century. We're investigating a possible murder. And he's constrained by his priestly conscience. His priestly conscience obstructs my investigation on crucifying.
00:23:11You said Jez Haydock's back? I'll take you over, sir. Are there developments?
00:23:37Mr. Finiston? Sir Arnold and Lady Rayburn are expecting you. Lunch and a Thai table.
00:23:45Yeah, yeah, I know. And there's posts for you.
00:23:47Here? I'm staying at the old parsonage.
00:23:49By hand. I didn't see who left it.
00:23:59Right.
00:24:01Oh, excuse me.
00:24:04Roger Temple.
00:24:05Well, Mrs. Leeming, why, it's not the best time.
00:24:15Well, what's that in round figures?
00:24:20How much?
00:24:35Uh, how was Mrs. Crompton when you saw her, doctor?
00:24:42Dr. Ransom, inspector.
00:24:44Is Mrs. Crompton okay?
00:24:46She's not ill. I am her GP, but a friend more. Ella Ransom.
00:24:50Inspector Lewis, Oxfordshire Police, and Sergeant Hathaway.
00:24:53Doctor.
00:24:53Isabel said, uh, she said that you think Andrew was murdered.
00:25:02Would that surprise you?
00:25:04Yes. Well, yes, of course it would.
00:25:07If I can help in any way.
00:25:10Thanks.
00:25:11Oh, Mr. Temple, I wanted to drop by later and have a word with you about your father.
00:25:16Will you both be in?
00:25:17Any time after seven, doctor.
00:25:19This way, gentlemen.
00:25:19This way, gentlemen.
00:25:47Malcolm finished to Monsieur in the 1970s, and Sir Arnold was his tutor.
00:26:06Hello.
00:26:07And now he wants to be top feather of some big American orchestra.
00:26:11Yeah, he's in the running for music director for the Pacific Symphonia.
00:26:15Sir Arnold's on the board.
00:26:16How's the booking going?
00:26:17Well, very nearly sold out.
00:26:19Good.
00:26:20Well, I should hope so.
00:26:21Don't be so vain.
00:26:23The Oxford Concert Ensemble has a very loyal following.
00:26:26I think you'll have to concede, my darling, that Malcolm is responsible at least for some of the box office boom.
00:26:33All right.
00:26:34Some.
00:26:35Jupiter was on the stodgy side last night.
00:26:38It was only our first rehearsal with the maestro.
00:26:41Well, I'll soon G you up.
00:26:43The bassoonist wasn't bad.
00:26:44Is that her boyfriend?
00:26:48Yes.
00:26:48He's one of my astrophysics lot.
00:26:51Interesting boy.
00:26:52It's about Catholic, but, um, it's uncomfortable and awesome.
00:26:56Please stand.
00:26:57Is it today's special?
00:27:08Peace, salubrita, nutriti, tibi, debitum, obsequium, pristare, valiamus.
00:27:13Tied in the hole.
00:27:14For Christum, dominum, nostrum.
00:27:17Amen.
00:27:18Amen.
00:27:18Amen.
00:27:18Amen.
00:27:19I'll fetch Mr. Haydok for you.
00:27:26More discreet.
00:27:31It's all you glorified canteen, for God's sake.
00:27:34Ta, you only realized this morning.
00:27:50You know about the master?
00:27:53Bad, yeah.
00:27:55You never said where you found this.
00:27:57You never said where you lost it.
00:27:58The observatory?
00:28:02I was there yesterday.
00:28:04When?
00:28:06Dinner time, latest.
00:28:08Round half twelve.
00:28:09About last night, where were you then?
00:28:11Here, studging.
00:28:12You sure?
00:28:13He called me from here, if you must know.
00:28:16And you are?
00:28:17Kate Cameron.
00:28:18I'm reading law, and my father's a judge.
00:28:20Probably for him.
00:28:21So, I know a little about how the police are meant to behave.
00:28:24What?
00:28:25And how was that?
00:28:26You told them once where you were.
00:28:28It's asking a second time tends towards oppressive questioning.
00:28:32Could we have a word, Miss Cameron?
00:28:36Yes.
00:28:37Haydok.
00:28:39What time was that?
00:28:43No, no, that's very useful.
00:28:47What'd you say to her?
00:28:48She wasn't doing you any favours with her impression of Lady Muck.
00:28:53You never.
00:28:54Well, not when there was words, but she got the message.
00:28:56You're not doing yourself any favours, either.
00:28:58Your swipe card was used at the observatory last night.
00:29:0110.29, sir.
00:29:03Which fits the estimated time of our suspicious death, Jez.
00:29:07When you and Kate told us you were here.
00:29:11I lied.
00:29:12It's what you do when the business asks you a question where I'm from.
00:29:16Kate doesn't know.
00:29:17Well, what were you doing at the observatory?
00:29:20Chatting with Prof Crompton.
00:29:22I went to fetch a book.
00:29:23What were you talking about?
00:29:25A transit to Venus.
00:29:27I mean, you can see the planet Venus crossing in front of the sun.
00:29:31Anything more down to earth?
00:29:33Did he mention something that was happening on Friday afternoon?
00:29:36No.
00:29:38And it was just you and him there?
00:29:40Just us, honest.
00:29:41All right, that's all for now.
00:29:44Next time we ask you a question, which we will, take a tip.
00:29:48Don't lie.
00:29:50Nice T-shirt.
00:29:53Ta.
00:29:53Kate, can we speak, please?
00:30:03There's nothing to say.
00:30:04Listen to me.
00:30:06If he loves you, he'll understand.
00:30:09Well, there's the charity shop stuff ready to take in the morning.
00:30:18Oh, God.
00:30:19Can the home do that?
00:30:21Just put up Ted's care fees, just like that?
00:30:24We'll manage.
00:30:25He's not having taken best.
00:30:27That'll be the doctor.
00:30:34Hello, doctor.
00:30:35How's my dad?
00:30:37He's not doing too well, I'm afraid.
00:30:41Hi, doctor.
00:30:43Dad's getting worse.
00:30:44It's what happens, I'm afraid.
00:30:47Look, you may find Ted saying unpleasant things.
00:30:51Don't be hurt by them, will you?
00:30:53How do you mean?
00:30:55This morning he was insisting that you and Mrs. Temple
00:30:59had a long-standing sexual relationship with a master.
00:31:03What on earth?
00:31:04Put that idea into his head.
00:31:06The wires get crossed is the best way of explaining it.
00:31:09Thanks, doctor.
00:31:11Thank you for telling us.
00:31:13We must get on.
00:31:16Yeah.
00:31:20Goodbye.
00:31:24Oh, don't.
00:31:30It's horrible.
00:31:32Don't.
00:31:33Dad's right.
00:31:35Crockton was having a bit of naughty on the side,
00:31:37but not with you, dear.
00:31:38I know it wasn't.
00:31:41Well, isn't she lucky Dad's confused?
00:31:44What?
00:31:45The master and Dr. Ansem?
00:31:48I see them at it.
00:31:50Sort of.
00:31:50I should tell the police.
00:31:55Well, why do you always have to get involved with everything?
00:31:58Do you think?
00:31:59Shame of.
00:32:02I'll pop that stuff along to the charity shop now,
00:32:04leave it on the doorstep.
00:32:06Save time in the morning.
00:32:07Oh, hi, Dad.
00:32:16Hello, everyone.
00:32:18Thanks for joining us.
00:32:20I can't play with us.
00:32:22We appreciate all the opportunity to wish…
00:32:24to see, personally.
00:32:27questi people are the one who met
00:32:29in theskaglis
00:32:30to experience with what made us
00:32:31about his family.
00:32:32Well, don't you believe that
00:32:33he has expected an goes on or not?
00:32:34I return posterity shall witness
00:32:56Years must roll away
00:32:59Then at length
00:33:04The splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes
00:33:16What makes someone turn to religion?
00:33:19Imminent death?
00:33:21Or is that?
00:33:22But Professor Crompton didn't know he'd be pushed down those stairs
00:33:25Did his wife know he'd started attending St Anne's?
00:33:28We'll be asking her
00:33:30And talking to some close friends of theirs too, the Rayburns
00:33:34So, he used his swipe card to enter the observatory at 9.30
00:33:38Jez Haydock uses his, round about an hour later
00:33:42There are no other card holders between Professor Crompton arriving and his body being discovered
00:33:46No, but there was also an entry phone, so either one of them could have buzzed someone up
00:33:50Any useful DNA or prints?
00:33:52No matches on either
00:33:54There's a Gwen Rayburn here with a swipe card, is she one of the friends?
00:33:58A senior lecturer on Jez's course
00:34:00And what do we make of Jez?
00:34:02Well, I reckon he's just a nice lad, trying his best, probably
00:34:10Certainly would be better
00:34:12Mum
00:34:14Try to understand, please
00:34:18Just go, yeah?
00:34:20Who told you?
00:34:22Can't I just explain?
00:34:24Don't waste your breath
00:34:26Go on
00:34:28Go
00:34:32If you won't
00:34:34Jez!
00:34:36Good for him.
00:34:37Narrow escape
00:34:38What?
00:34:39Oh, it's just a pair of type, you know?
00:34:41Well, Mr. Temple today, hasn't turned out.
00:34:42I don't know where he's got to
00:34:43It's a shame we're really going to miss him
00:34:44Sure
00:34:45Sir
00:34:46I don't know where he's got to
00:34:47It's a shame we're really going to miss him
00:34:48Sir
00:35:15Oh, how dreadful, Mrs. Temple
00:35:36Yes, I quite understand
00:35:39Yes, goodbye
00:35:42Our head porter was mugged last night
00:35:45Well, we didn't hear anything about that
00:35:47Well, he was badly hurt
00:35:49So he got himself home and didn't bother to report it
00:35:54Have you news?
00:35:55Just small questions, I'm afraid
00:35:58Fire away?
00:36:00Did you know your husband had been attending St. Anne's Church?
00:36:04Church?
00:36:06Andrew?
00:36:07I think not
00:36:09He was most definitely lapsed
00:36:11Well, according to the priest, he'd been going there regularly for the last three months
00:36:14Oh
00:36:17So that's where he disappeared to
00:36:22Dear me
00:36:26I'd started to think he was having an affair
00:36:29But that's where he was
00:36:31Why, though?
00:36:34I was hoping you might know
00:36:36I can't help you
00:36:38It...
00:36:39It's a complete surprise
00:36:41Had he mentioned anything about this Friday afternoon?
00:36:45An appointment specifically at 3.15?
00:36:48No
00:36:51I'm going to miss him like hell
00:36:53I'm going to miss him like hell
00:37:14Thank you for waiting
00:37:15It was easy, sir
00:37:16It was a favourite piece of Andrew's we'll be playing at his memorial
00:37:22Although, er, we're a little bit rusty performing together
00:37:26I understand you and the master were very close, and Mrs. Crompton too
00:37:31Oh, Lord, we all go back a frighteningly long way
00:37:35Arnold and I met and married when I was a very junior lecturer
00:37:40In fact, it was the master who introduced us
00:37:42Andrew was the most marvellous man, you know?
00:37:47He was so good with all the undergraduates
00:37:50And, of course, his passion for astronomy endeared him to me
00:37:54Would you say it was a happy marriage?
00:37:58Why?
00:38:00I understand that you're friends, but it's something we have to ask
00:38:04Rock solid
00:38:06Boringly so
00:38:07Like us
00:38:09And just for the record, Tuesday night, you were where?
00:38:12You mean you want our alibis?
00:38:15At home together, after rehearsals
00:38:18TV and takeaway
00:38:20Tie
00:38:21He's mad for his sticky rice
00:38:25Incidentally, did you ever reunite Jess and his notebook?
00:38:29Sorry, but Arnold were awaited by a media frenzy
00:38:33Oh, Lord, yes
00:38:34Um, local TV are doing us live, so there's no way out of it
00:38:39Gwynny, darling, come along
00:38:44We did, yeah
00:38:46Did what?
00:38:47Returned Jess's book to him
00:38:49Oh, good
00:38:55Lucky getting Malcolm Finiston for your concert
00:38:59Arnold nurtured his talent as a student
00:39:01Malcolm's simply returning the favor
00:39:11Oh, nice surprise
00:39:13Is Roger here?
00:39:14Won't be long
00:39:16Coming in
00:39:18Ta
00:39:19What is it?
00:39:20Onsen home cooking?
00:39:21And, uh, Isabel Crumpton has insisted that we go ahead with the concert in memory of her late husband
00:39:33The master you know was a very special man to all of us
00:39:39Indeed
00:39:40Now, Sir Arnold, both you and Lady Rayburn knew Mr. Finiston more than a quarter of a century ago
00:39:46A quarter of a century?
00:39:48Twenty-five years, sounds kinder?
00:39:52Much kinder
00:39:53And you're off soon to Seattle to take over the baton, so to speak, of the Pacific Symphonia
00:39:58Well, that's yet to be confirmed, so for now I'm...
00:40:01Thieves, robbers, burglars
00:40:03Burglars
00:40:04Robbers, thieves
00:40:05Robbers
00:40:06Burglars
00:40:07Naughty
00:40:08Wicked
00:40:09I know all about it
00:40:10Tom!
00:40:11Tom!
00:40:12Police!
00:40:13How much do you think Mrs. Crumpton was about the master having an affair?
00:40:17I'm not sure
00:40:20You were wondering if Gwen Rayburn's tears were for more than just an old friend?
00:40:25Uh-huh
00:40:26There's definitely something in that notebook. She asked me whether we'd returned it to Jess
00:40:31I should have thought
00:40:32Well, don't worry, sir. I did. I ran off a copy
00:40:36You're not so green as you're cabbage-looking, are you?
00:40:41What?
00:40:43Tell me if you think this is a really, really bad idea
00:40:52What are you taking for? Undercover clarinet?
00:40:55Too busy getting the notes in the right order to spy for you
00:40:58Not spy, Laura. Just keep your eyes open. And your ears
00:41:02Oh, ears too now, is it?
00:41:06You got your tickets yet?
00:41:08For the performance?
00:41:11It's in a good cause
00:41:16So that's, um, two each?
00:41:20Top price?
00:41:22Done
00:41:26Right
00:41:27It's stolen, Mrs. Leaming. What does he think he's missing?
00:41:36Can I get back to you?
00:41:39All in order?
00:41:40Yep
00:41:42That eye looks tasty. I heard he got in a spot of bother last night
00:41:45Uh, a couple of kids. They wanted my phone, so I told her to pee off
00:41:50And one of them threw a lucky punch
00:41:53But they didn't take it?
00:41:54Hey
00:41:55You're from?
00:41:56Oh, they sort of melted off into the dark after they walked me
00:42:01Do you not want to report it?
00:42:03No. Something and nothing
00:42:05Do you?
00:42:08Bye, gentlemen
00:42:13Tell me what would dial 999 if he saw a kid riding a bike on the pavement
00:42:17I think he was embarrassed
00:42:20Here's a lookout
00:42:47Malcolm, do you have a second?
00:42:53Um
00:42:55Yeah, yeah
00:42:58How do you feel about the beginning of it?
00:43:02Roger's ever so grateful to the master for nudging us up the waiting list for the flat
00:43:06Andrew was very fond of your husband
00:43:10And I'll save on fares so close to college
00:43:14And every penny counts now, with Ted
00:43:17Oh, poor old Ted
00:43:20Must be difficult
00:43:22It's not him anymore
00:43:24He looks the same
00:43:26But it's not him
00:43:31Has the police come up with anything?
00:43:34Only questions
00:43:37No answers
00:43:42Dr. Ransom's coming over
00:43:45Well, you need friends at a time like this
00:43:48Yes
00:43:50And the thing with Ella is
00:43:53Selfishly
00:43:55She's my friend, not Andrew's and mine
00:43:58They scarcely knew each other
00:44:02Which means her grief is for me
00:44:04Not him
00:44:05Not him
00:44:07If that makes sense
00:44:09I expect so
00:44:10I expect so
00:44:11That I can't
00:44:12draw a moment of the
00:44:13Let's go
00:44:15You're right
00:44:17And
00:44:18What do you think?
00:44:19What do you think?
00:44:20Now, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
00:44:41Will you play it?
00:44:42Don't scratch it.
00:44:44It all sounded splendid to me, Malcolm.
00:44:46Well, with respect, Arnold, you're there, and I'm here.
00:44:49Right, the Anacrosis, please, eight bars after Andante Maestoso, and this is Jupiter, the
00:44:55bringer of jollity, so joll yourselves up, please, for God's sake, all of you.
00:45:19Apologies, Arnold.
00:45:23Apology accepted.
00:45:25And Gwen?
00:45:26I did call you, by the way, to see about dinner.
00:45:29Oh, yes, sorry about that.
00:45:31I turned my phone off.
00:45:32I didn't realize till late.
00:45:33Apologies, Arnold.
00:45:36Apology accepted.
00:45:38Gwen?
00:45:40I did call you, by the way, to see about dinner.
00:45:42Oh, yeah, sorry about that.
00:45:43I turned my phone off.
00:45:44I didn't realize till later.
00:45:46I also called your room.
00:45:47Reception said you weren't answering.
00:45:49Well, I was there.
00:45:52Gwen?
00:45:56You OK, Kate?
00:45:58No.
00:45:59OK.
00:46:02What is this?
00:46:04Oh, look.
00:46:10It's a bluff, isn't it?
00:46:11Well, how do I know?
00:46:13Do something.
00:46:14Michael?
00:46:17Hi.
00:46:18Hi, Gwen.
00:46:19Hi.
00:46:20Hi.
00:46:21Hi.
00:46:22Hi.
00:46:23Hi.
00:46:24Hi.
00:46:29I'm back.
00:46:32Darling?
00:46:38Darling?
00:47:19Ambulance, call an ambulance.
00:47:45According to my watch, life was extinct at 3.48.
00:47:49But you didn't see anyone?
00:47:51No, only the master's wife.
00:47:53Whoever did it must have run back through
00:47:55and left the other way as I went in.
00:47:57It was a door, isn't it?
00:47:59The room's unoccupied.
00:48:01We think they must have hid there and waited.
00:48:04Here, I'll get your lift off.
00:48:06Fine.
00:48:07I'm not arguing.
00:48:09Can you take Dr Hobson home, John?
00:48:13Any sign of a weapon?
00:48:15Well, we know what it was.
00:48:16Two spent cartridges, .22 caliber.
00:48:18Small, Paul.
00:48:20There's a gun club in the basement.
00:48:22A what?
00:48:23It's not exactly Fort Knox.
00:48:29Sir?
00:48:30Everything's still in place.
00:48:32So it was one of those fired the shot,
00:48:35and then the killer put it back?
00:48:37So it was seen.
00:48:38I've alerted ballistics.
00:48:40Hmm.
00:48:41OK, lads.
00:48:42What about access to the gun store?
00:48:45This lock's not being forced.
00:48:46Well, officially, keys are kept by designated gun club officers
00:48:50and then signed out to members who want to use the rank.
00:48:52And none officially?
00:48:54Membership's short-term saying students come and go.
00:48:57Keys are lost, forgotten, and replaced.
00:48:59So there could be several of them floating about from over the years.
00:49:03Is there an official spare set?
00:49:05Porter's Lodge.
00:49:06It's fine.
00:49:07If getting hold of the weapon was easy,
00:49:10the killer still had to come down a corridor,
00:49:12or across a quad past windows,
00:49:15in broad daylight carrying a rifle without being noticed.
00:49:18I mean, how the hell would you do that?
00:49:21Here comes our little helper.
00:49:23Inspector!
00:49:24Mr. Temple?
00:49:26I, uh, I could have some information for you, sir.
00:49:33Uh, Terence, uh, would you give us a few moments, please?
00:49:36Of course.
00:49:44Dr. Ransom had a secret, and so did the master.
00:49:49Their secret was each other.
00:49:51What?
00:49:52They were having an affair?
00:49:53I found out by accident.
00:49:55Three months back, the master asked me to call him a taxi for the station.
00:49:59This was in front of Mrs. Crompton.
00:50:02But I knew the driver, and he told me that, actually,
00:50:05the master went to Dr. Ransom's flat.
00:50:08Hardly proof of an affair, Mr. Temple.
00:50:11She picked him up in her car once when he told Mrs. Crompton
00:50:14he'd be lecturing.
00:50:16And Tuesday afternoon,
00:50:18I saw them coming out of his boat together.
00:50:21Tuesday.
00:50:23That night.
00:50:24Dead.
00:50:25And now so is Dr. Ransom.
00:50:30I got you a cheese and pickle, Rog.
00:50:33What with all this going on?
00:50:35Thanks, dear.
00:50:36Uh, my wife Babs, she scouts here.
00:50:39We saw you yesterday when we wanted Mrs. Crompton.
00:50:42That's it.
00:50:43Did you see your hearing thing when Dr. Ransom was shot?
00:50:46Well, I heard the kerfuffle.
00:50:49I was cleaning my nephew's room.
00:50:51Oh, sorry.
00:50:53Just slipped out.
00:50:54Your nephew?
00:50:55Jeremy Haydock.
00:50:56Hey, Doc.
00:50:57Jessie's mum's Babs' sister, but we don't say.
00:50:59Why not?
00:51:00I don't think it matters, but, Rog.
00:51:03You know what they're like.
00:51:04Well, some of them.
00:51:05He'd never hear the end of it if,
00:51:07if they knew his auntie and uncle were college servants.
00:51:10We like Dr. Ransom.
00:51:12She was very good with Ted.
00:51:14My dear old dad.
00:51:15He was head porter here before me.
00:51:17Dr. Ransom was the GP at his care home.
00:51:21Is there anything else?
00:51:23No.
00:51:24Thanks.
00:51:25You must sign that tenancy today.
00:51:28I will.
00:51:29Panic ye not.
00:51:33We're moving into a college flat next week.
00:51:36Going up in the world.
00:51:38The master fixed it for us.
00:51:40About the spare set of keys for the rifle range.
00:51:43I thought you'd ask that.
00:51:46I keep them locked up.
00:51:52Spare key to the door.
00:51:54And to the gun store.
00:51:58Are the two killings linked?
00:51:59Or is this head porter letting his imagination run away with him?
00:52:02Well, it might.
00:52:03Grits.
00:52:04Head porters don't need imagination.
00:52:05They've got a nose for unfortunate secrets.
00:52:07Huh?
00:52:08What did they catch you out there?
00:52:09Nothing.
00:52:10He must have been a very well-behaved student, James.
00:52:12Oh, very lucky.
00:52:14Just careful.
00:52:16Rifle Club membership list.
00:52:18Anyone of interest?
00:52:19Kate Cameron.
00:52:20That's Jos Haydock's girlfriend?
00:52:22Yeah.
00:52:23Isabel Crompton.
00:52:24Oh.
00:52:25So if Temple's right, that puts her in the frame for both murders.
00:52:29As the betrayed and vengeful wife.
00:52:31Well, I suppose it's possible that she could have fired off the shot and then rushed back to make it look like she'd just come out of her house.
00:52:37But the timing had been tight.
00:52:39Plus, she'd have to return the rifle.
00:52:40Now, that's what I don't get.
00:52:42No one noticed.
00:52:43Could Mrs. Crompton have been at the observatory on Tuesday night?
00:52:46She doesn't have an alibi, but the only person we can definitely place at the scene is Jez, and he did lie to us.
00:52:51People obstruct the police for all sorts of reasons. Like your priest, for example.
00:52:56My priest?
00:52:57Yeah, if he'd tell us what was going on in Crompton's mind, we might be getting somewhere.
00:53:01Now, boys.
00:53:03I never knew Dr. Ransom.
00:53:04She was a college doctor.
00:53:06Yeah, and I'm dead healthy.
00:53:08Look, you can see where we're coming from, can't you, Jez?
00:53:11You lied to us about being at the observatory.
00:53:14I explained that.
00:53:15You didn't tell us you were related to Mr. and Mrs. Temple.
00:53:19You didn't ask?
00:53:20You still kept it a secret.
00:53:22Only because Rog wanted me to.
00:53:25Is there anything else you're not telling us?
00:53:29Where were you when Dr. Ransom was killed?
00:53:32Just walking, thinking.
00:53:36Well, that's hardly an alibi.
00:53:38Why do I need an alibi when I haven't even got a motive?
00:53:43What really happened to the master, Jez?
00:53:47Maybe you just fell.
00:54:02How long had you known Dr. Ransom?
00:54:04Ten years.
00:54:05Since she became my GP and then my friend.
00:54:08And your husband?
00:54:09Well, he'd met her a few times through me, but she wasn't his doctor. Why?
00:54:13When I said he'd been visiting St. Anne's Church, you said you wondered whether he'd been having an affair.
00:54:19He wasn't being serious.
00:54:21In any case, he hardly knew Ella Ransom.
00:54:25And she wasn't the sort.
00:54:28Now, if you'd said Gwen Rayburn, it might have been a different matter.
00:54:33Might have.
00:54:34Well, she had quite a reputation in the old days.
00:54:37But Andrew wasn't having an affair, was he?
00:54:41Unless you count Mother Church as the other woman.
00:54:44Um, since you're here, perhaps I should report something.
00:54:50I'm sure someone's been in.
00:54:53May I?
00:54:54Of course.
00:54:56Uh, Andrew's books have been disturbed.
00:55:00Nothing's missing, as far as I can tell.
00:55:03So that writing Jez's notebook is from a poem.
00:55:07By return, posterity shall witness.
00:55:10Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.
00:55:16Jeremiah Horrocks on the transit of Venus.
00:55:24Can we borrow this?
00:55:26Bedtime reading.
00:55:28It's time full of astronomical snippets.
00:55:35What is it you're performing again?
00:55:36The planet?
00:55:37That's right.
00:55:38One of them's not Venus, by any chance, is it?
00:55:41Second movement.
00:55:42Venus, the bringer of peace.
00:55:44Why?
00:55:45I wish I knew.
00:55:47Thanks.
00:55:48Kate Cameron, apparently, was very angry just before the shooting.
00:55:52Angry or desperate.
00:55:54When I asked her what was wrong, she just walked out.
00:55:56Oh, she just had a bust up with Jez.
00:55:58We saw that.
00:55:59And what about Lady Rayburn?
00:56:01I mean, Gwen, she's very down to earth.
00:56:04Hates people using her title.
00:56:06Good for her.
00:56:07Well, she left rehearsal in a bit of a state, too, just before Kate.
00:56:11But I sort of know what that was about.
00:56:13Texts that Finiston received.
00:56:15Seemed to upset both of them.
00:56:17Well, Finiston goes way back with the Cromptons and the Rayburns.
00:56:20I don't suppose you...
00:56:22How on earth would I know what the text was about?
00:56:26Unless I managed to snuffle Finiston's phone for a second when he left it lying around,
00:56:30scrolled through to the message,
00:56:32made a note of it,
00:56:34and the number it came from.
00:56:36Dean, yes.
00:56:37Seconded.
00:56:43Revenge is sweet.
00:56:46077-900-458.
00:56:51Oh, it's yours, Temple.
00:56:52Night, Mrs. Crompton.
00:56:53Roger Temple.
00:56:54Hello.
00:56:55Hello?
00:56:56Hello?
00:56:57Hello?
00:56:58Hello?
00:56:59Oh, it's yours, Temple.
00:57:00Night, Mrs. Crompton.
00:57:01Roger Temple.
00:57:02Hello?
00:57:03Hello?
00:57:04Hello?
00:57:05Hello?
00:57:06Roger Temple.
00:57:07Roger Temple.
00:57:08Hello?
00:57:09Hello?
00:57:21I'm ready for tonight.
00:57:23Well, just one final rehearsal to iron out any remaining nasties,
00:57:29don't you think, darling?
00:57:31Yes.
00:57:32Finished, sir?
00:57:33Not quite, I hope.
00:57:35Do I detect an atmosphere?
00:57:38Yesterday's tragic shooting, following so swiftly after Andrew Crompton's death,
00:57:49has threatened to knock us all for six.
00:57:53However, I know that you will all rise to the occasion
00:57:58and make this evening's performance something really to be remembered.
00:58:04Now, uh, Malcolm would like a word with you, wouldn't you, Malcolm?
00:58:12Um, for personal reasons and at short notice, I am to be denied the pleasure of conducting
00:58:17this fine orchestra.
00:58:19Events sometimes overtake one.
00:58:22However, I'm sure you will rise to the occasion under the baton of the grand old man of English
00:58:29music.
00:58:30Not so much of the old, Malcolm.
00:58:32Welcome.
00:58:33All right.
00:58:34Now.
00:58:35Good morning, sir.
00:58:36Good read.
00:58:37Constructive.
00:58:38The transit of Venus was first predicted and observed by this Jeremiah Horrocks in 1639,
00:58:53which is a tiny coincidence if nothing else.
00:58:54Is it?
00:58:55The name is Jeremiah Horrocks, Jeremy Haydock.
00:58:56Well, stretching a pint.
00:58:57Oh, and Horrocks was a chippy, working-class student astronomer from Liverpool.
00:58:58Was he?
00:58:59Studied at Cambridge though, not Oxford.
00:59:00Nobody's perfect.
00:59:01What did Cromptons say in the church?
00:59:03Friday at 3.15, I shall have an excess of joy.
00:59:04Look at this.
00:59:05That he's marked.
00:59:06It's, uh...
00:59:07enas of seniors.
00:59:09What was he?
00:59:10It was a explosion, Margaret, was first predicted and observed by this Jeremiah Horrocks in 1639,
00:59:12which is a tiny coincidence if nothing else.
00:59:13Is it?
00:59:14The name is Jeremiah Horrocks, Jeremy Haydock.
00:59:15Well, stretching a pint.
00:59:16Oh, and Horrocks was a chippy, working-class student astronomer from Liverpool.
00:59:18Was he?
00:59:19Studied at Cambridge though, not Oxford.
00:59:22Nobody's perfect.
00:59:23What did Cromptons say in the church?
00:59:26Friday at 3.15, I shall have an excess of joy.
00:59:30Look at this that he's marked.
00:59:31It's Oryx's description of a friend of his
00:59:33watching Venus cross the sun.
00:59:37He stood for some time motionless,
00:59:39scarcely trusting his own senses through excess of joy.
00:59:45With the head porter looming large on your radar,
00:59:49I wondered if this might be of interest.
00:59:50The call logged yesterday about a theft
00:59:52at Branksville Sheltered Accommodation.
00:59:54A complainant's at Ted's Temple.
00:59:56Oh, that's Roger Temple's dear old dad.
00:59:59Have we attended, ma'am?
01:00:00Two priority points out of ten.
01:00:02What do you think?
01:00:03I think we should top up the points.
01:00:05Thanks, ma'am.
01:00:07You remember some photos?
01:00:11No, doctor.
01:00:13No, I'm not a doctor.
01:00:15I said before.
01:00:18Dr. Ransom's not here.
01:00:22No, Dr. Ransom...
01:00:24She can't come today.
01:00:29Should I tell the master's wife?
01:00:34Tell her what, Ted?
01:00:36About Marilyn Monroe.
01:00:40Look...
01:00:41Yeah.
01:00:44Bye, Ted.
01:00:46Thanks.
01:00:46Because Ted said the photos were stolen, they had to call us.
01:00:57Then they found out it was just Roger Temple having a clear out of a cupboard.
01:01:01Family snaps or what?
01:01:02It's Hobson.
01:01:04Hello?
01:01:04Hello?
01:01:07What did he say?
01:01:08Why?
01:01:08Okay, thanks.
01:01:13Arnold Rayburn's just given Malcolm Finiston the heave-ho from the podium.
01:01:16Bad feeling all round.
01:01:20You said headquarters have a nose for unfortunate secrets.
01:01:25Like father, like son.
01:01:26There you are, sir.
01:01:33Who's your date for tonight?
01:01:35My date?
01:01:36Chief Super.
01:01:37Yours?
01:01:38No takers.
01:01:40We know how to live, don't we?
01:01:42Mr. Finiston?
01:01:45Isn't it a bit late in the day to be changing conductors?
01:01:49Well, that's showbiz.
01:01:51As I've been explaining to Mrs. Crompson.
01:01:53Although I think she's secretly rather pleased that Arnold's taken over.
01:01:57Do you remember the head porter here when you were an undergraduate?
01:02:00Ted Temple?
01:02:02His son's the head porter now.
01:02:05Yes.
01:02:07I never went to university, but my sergeant here tells me that head porters pick up all sorts of tittle-tattle.
01:02:12I had, um, a one-night thing with a newly-married lecturer.
01:02:22Gwen Rayburn.
01:02:24And we took some rather explicit souvenir photos that went missing from my room.
01:02:29Did Ted Temple steal them by any chance?
01:02:31That's what I suspected.
01:02:33But it was the last day of finals.
01:02:34Too late to do anything about.
01:02:36Too soon to be worth Ted's while to blackmail me.
01:02:38Until his son got his hands on them.
01:02:40Yes.
01:02:40The night before last, I gave him a black eye instead of the money he wanted and took the photos back.
01:02:46Unfortunately, he'd held on to a couple and passed them to Arnold in revenge.
01:02:51Well, that's why he's conducting tonight.
01:02:53Hmm.
01:02:54And won't be endorsing my appointment as music director of the Pacific Symphonia.
01:02:58Well, it's 30 years ago.
01:03:00Hold on, please, Mr. Temple.
01:03:03Perks of the job.
01:03:05Do you know how much college servants get paid?
01:03:08Babs is near enough on the minimum wage.
01:03:10Yeah, you're on a better whack.
01:03:12Just.
01:03:13In Dad's time, there wasn't even such a thing as a minimum wage.
01:03:17You had to come to a beneficial arrangement with the undergrads and turn a blind eye to their naughties.
01:03:22Well, you'd never make a decent living.
01:03:24Well, that depends on your definition of decent.
01:03:27Why did the master fix it for you to get a college flat?
01:03:29They'll act gold dust, those tenancies.
01:03:32He valued my loyal service.
01:03:34And did he value your beneficial arrangement, keeping quiet about seeing him without a ransom?
01:03:40It's too late to prove that now.
01:03:42What happened at that observatory?
01:03:44Did you ask him for money as well as the flat?
01:03:46Did he get angry with you?
01:03:47No.
01:03:48I didn't kill him.
01:03:51I was on duty all evening.
01:03:53You can check.
01:03:54We know we can.
01:03:56Is Finiston pressing charges?
01:03:58Probably not.
01:03:59It's a pity, though.
01:04:04Can I go?
01:04:05Do we wait for him?
01:04:27No, we find him.
01:04:29Friday, 3.15.
01:04:30Whatever Crompton expected to happen in half an hour's time, I'll take an educated guess
01:04:37it was happening at the observatory.
01:05:04Dad.
01:05:05It's broken down a lorry.
01:05:16Can't get a walk.
01:05:18No, let's stay put.
01:05:19I think it's clearing.
01:05:35Hello?
01:05:42Good call, James.
01:05:47When was there?
01:05:48Ten past three.
01:06:05What's going on?
01:06:08We're waiting for Venus to cross the sun in the shape of a little black dot that will appear on that card.
01:06:15Well, it's 3.15.
01:06:16Jeremiah Horrocks established the transit of Venus occurs twice in eight years every 122 years.
01:06:24The next transit of Venus isn't due for a good two years.
01:06:29Why are you here, then?
01:06:30Andrew developed an eccentric theory that Horrocks' predictions were flawed.
01:06:39It's like a debt of honor to the master, because we love the guy.
01:06:45Come on.
01:06:47Come on.
01:06:53It's not going to happen, you know?
01:06:56No.
01:06:57It never could, Jez.
01:06:58You know the science.
01:06:59So that's what you were looking for on the narrowboat?
01:07:02Andrew Crompton's theory?
01:07:04Yes.
01:07:06Because you'd already spotted something in Jez's notebook.
01:07:09Me and him had done some calculations.
01:07:12Kept it private.
01:07:13I didn't want people laughing at him.
01:07:15It was only me he trusted.
01:07:18He thought I would...
01:07:20He sort of thought I...
01:07:22Jeremiah Horrocks all over again.
01:07:24Kind of.
01:07:25The reincarnation of a 17th century astronomer.
01:07:28Yeah.
01:07:28They're crazy, I know.
01:07:29He was losing his mind.
01:07:31No.
01:07:31Yes.
01:07:32So sad.
01:07:33So sad.
01:07:34I didn't want to believe it at first, but there's no other way to explain it.
01:07:40Come on, Jez.
01:07:41Crompton's wires were crossed, like Ted Temple's.
01:07:54That's why he was seeing Dr. Ransom in secret.
01:07:56Not because they were lovers, but because he realized he was losing his mind.
01:08:00Get on to Dr. Ransom's health center.
01:08:02See what they knew.
01:08:03Okay, thanks.
01:08:04Dr. Magnani, neurologist at the Radcliffe, Crocton's consultant.
01:08:11He's free now.
01:08:12Come on.
01:08:13You know, walk it.
01:08:16I hope you remember where you left the car.
01:08:22Do you ever think in Disneyland here, like it's not real?
01:08:27On a good day.
01:08:30Have you always been into planets and stars and that?
01:08:34Since I was a kid.
01:08:35Dad said, look at the man in the moon.
01:08:38And I said, that's not a man, that's mountains.
01:08:41He must be proud.
01:08:43He helped it when I was six.
01:08:46Ironic, ma'am, says, he had a steady sister, man is a chancer.
01:08:51Wild child Babs ends up with boring old Rog.
01:08:55I thought Rog was mad when he said not to let on I was family, but after a week I saw I was
01:09:00better off keeping me mouth shut.
01:09:02It's still a bit snobby, Oxford, but it's getting better.
01:09:06No, that's okay.
01:09:07It's just Rog is a prat.
01:09:08I don't need the association, know what I mean?
01:09:12Babs is different.
01:09:15What about Kate?
01:09:19The creature from Planet Boss.
01:09:22Had a bust up yesterday.
01:09:25The big one.
01:09:27Why?
01:09:30Oh, God.
01:09:31Why, Jez?
01:09:33Eh?
01:09:34Because she's a killer.
01:09:50This delusion about Jez and the transit of Venus.
01:09:54Not just a harmless eccentricity.
01:09:57He had a brain tumour, it was that.
01:09:59Test results came in on the Monday, and we think Dr. Ransom told him the following day.
01:10:05Perhaps that's what she wanted to see me about when she was shot.
01:10:09Did she say she was coming for something in particular?
01:10:12No.
01:10:14Just to see me, but...
01:10:15But thinking back, she did ask me if there was going to be anyone else around.
01:10:20As if she wanted to tell me something.
01:10:24It explains the church, too.
01:10:28This priest...
01:10:29What's his name?
01:10:30Father Francis.
01:10:31What's he like?
01:10:33I only met him once.
01:10:36I hope he's kind.
01:10:41Here are the details of Dr. Magnani.
01:10:43He's more than happy if you'd go and speak with him.
01:10:46Did he say what would have happened to Andrew if he hadn't been killed?
01:10:49The tumour was aggressive and advanced.
01:10:53Inoperable.
01:10:55In a very strange way.
01:10:58That's a comfort.
01:11:01I'm...
01:11:02so sorry, Mrs. Crumpton.
01:11:08Embarrassing for you, sir.
01:11:09Rather embarrassing.
01:11:11That's like saying Mozart was rather promising.
01:11:14To be...
01:11:15cuckolded.
01:11:20Three months into one's marriage,
01:11:23by one's protégé,
01:11:24and only finding out about it
01:11:26thirty years later,
01:11:28when I am sent
01:11:29the gruesome details
01:11:31by a failed blackmailer.
01:11:35Still,
01:11:37I...
01:11:37I've, uh,
01:11:40made my peace with Gwen.
01:11:43Mr. Finison says
01:11:44you've blocked his new post.
01:11:47I'll let him think so
01:11:49for a while.
01:11:51But I can't really
01:11:52without
01:11:53the other members of the board
01:11:55asking awkward questions.
01:11:59But
01:11:59I'm here
01:12:00because of
01:12:02the shooting
01:12:03yesterday.
01:12:05When I filled in
01:12:07the, um,
01:12:08witness questionnaire,
01:12:10I was so upset
01:12:12that I neglected
01:12:14to say something
01:12:16which
01:12:16may be of
01:12:17importance.
01:12:19What's that?
01:12:21Just before
01:12:22Dr. Ransom
01:12:22was killed,
01:12:24I saw her
01:12:25arguing
01:12:26with someone
01:12:27in the orchestra.
01:12:28Who?
01:12:29The bassoon.
01:12:30The name.
01:12:31Um,
01:12:32Kate Cameron.
01:12:34She's an undergraduate.
01:12:35We know Miss Cameron.
01:12:37She was already angry
01:12:38before she left
01:12:39the rehearsal
01:12:39of calling it
01:12:40to Dr. Hodgson.
01:12:41Do you think
01:12:41Jez is serious
01:12:42about her being a killer?
01:12:43He wasn't joking.
01:12:45Here we are,
01:12:45Kate Cameron.
01:12:47Left rehearsal
01:12:47and went straight
01:12:48to my room.
01:12:48I did not see
01:12:49Dr. Ransom
01:12:50or anyone else.
01:13:04Full house,
01:13:05apparently.
01:13:05Excellent.
01:13:07I managed to sell
01:13:08four.
01:13:08Top price.
01:13:09Good girl.
01:13:11Oh, excuse me.
01:13:14Do you know
01:13:15where Kate is?
01:13:17Uh,
01:13:17she hasn't
01:13:18arrived yet.
01:13:20Or break a leg,
01:13:21if that's what
01:13:22they say.
01:13:23I don't think
01:13:24they do.
01:13:41I'll wait outside.
01:13:45I didn't know
01:13:54you came here.
01:13:56I don't.
01:13:58Under normal
01:13:59circumstances.
01:14:04I feel so empty,
01:14:06Mrs. Temple.
01:14:10I don't know
01:14:11what I'll do.
01:14:11I was pleased
01:14:25that your husband
01:14:26had decided
01:14:27to return
01:14:28to the church.
01:14:29Don't take this
01:14:30the wrong way,
01:14:31Father,
01:14:31but it wasn't
01:14:33in his right mind.
01:14:36He had a brain tumor.
01:14:37You knew.
01:14:44What else
01:14:45did he tell you
01:14:45that he didn't
01:14:46tell me?
01:14:48I'm afraid
01:14:49I'm not at liberty
01:14:50to reveal
01:14:50what the penitent
01:14:51may confess.
01:14:53The penitent?
01:14:56He was my husband.
01:15:01I'm sorry.
01:15:02I'm sorry.
01:15:07Look, there she is.
01:15:09Kate!
01:15:11Sorry.
01:15:13What?
01:15:14You filled in her
01:15:14witness questionnaire
01:15:15after Dr. Ransom
01:15:16was shot.
01:15:17Yes.
01:15:18In which she said
01:15:18you went straight
01:15:19back to your room
01:15:19after a rehearsal
01:15:20and didn't speak
01:15:21to anybody.
01:15:22So?
01:15:23You were seen
01:15:24arguing with Dr. Ransom.
01:15:27Who saw me?
01:15:28Why did you lie?
01:15:31I was upset.
01:15:32About splitting up
01:15:33with Jez?
01:15:34Yeah.
01:15:36What's that got
01:15:36to do with Dr. Ransom?
01:15:40Can we go somewhere?
01:15:48Father Francis
01:15:49for your mum.
01:16:01Just before
01:16:02term started
01:16:03I had an abortion.
01:16:06Well, Jez
01:16:07wouldn't have liked that.
01:16:08Is that why
01:16:09he finished with you?
01:16:11He said
01:16:12I killed
01:16:12his unborn child.
01:16:15Wonderful,
01:16:16isn't it?
01:16:16How people
01:16:16pick and mix
01:16:17morality
01:16:17to suit themselves.
01:16:20I mean,
01:16:20sex outside marriage
01:16:21whoopee.
01:16:24But when it comes
01:16:25to dealing
01:16:26with the consequences.
01:16:28Yeah.
01:16:31Yeah, Kate.
01:16:32Did Dr. Ransom
01:16:36arrange this termination?
01:16:39Yeah.
01:16:41She said I should
01:16:42tell Jez
01:16:43that it was
01:16:44the right thing
01:16:45to do.
01:16:47But I didn't want to.
01:16:49I knew how he'd be.
01:16:51So,
01:16:51how did he find out?
01:16:54He wouldn't say.
01:16:56I thought Dr. Ransom
01:16:57had gone ahead
01:16:57and told him
01:16:58without asking me
01:16:59and that's why
01:17:00I was angry
01:17:01but she denied it.
01:17:05I was so horrible to her.
01:17:08Then she was killed
01:17:10and then I realised
01:17:12I was wrong
01:17:13and she didn't tell Jez.
01:17:15How do you know?
01:17:17There was a letter
01:17:18from her
01:17:18with the appointment.
01:17:19I tucked in a book
01:17:21and forgotten it.
01:17:22But
01:17:22today I noticed
01:17:25it somewhere else.
01:17:28Jez must have found it.
01:17:31Who cleans your room, Kate?
01:17:35What?
01:17:36Who's your scout?
01:17:37Is it Mrs. Temple?
01:17:39Yeah.
01:17:41Kate, time to go.
01:17:42I'm coming.
01:17:44Yeah, go on.
01:17:48I'll have that back.
01:17:50Go on.
01:17:51Do you think Mrs. Temple
01:17:58found the letter
01:17:58and told Jez?
01:18:00I reckon.
01:18:01Why not Jez himself?
01:18:03Why wouldn't he say?
01:18:05If he was angry
01:18:06in finishing
01:18:06the relationship anyway
01:18:07he'd hardly be worried
01:18:09about admitting
01:18:10they'd been snooping.
01:18:13Point is
01:18:13was he angry enough
01:18:16to shoot an abortionist?
01:18:18And this is Oxford, England
01:18:19not Oxford, Mississippi.
01:18:21Yes, ma'am.
01:18:31Okay, we'll meet you
01:18:32by the porter's lodge.
01:18:34Here will we sit
01:18:35and let the sounds of music
01:18:37creep in our ears.
01:18:39Soft stillness
01:18:40and the night
01:18:41become the touches
01:18:43of sweet harmony.
01:18:45We'll see you next time.
01:18:59I don't know.
01:19:29Oh, this is Inspector Lewis.
01:19:33You decided to cooperate at last, sir.
01:19:35Well done.
01:19:36Inspector.
01:19:38Thank you for coming, Father.
01:19:39Are you going to tell me what Andrew Crompton said or not?
01:19:41No, but what I can tell you is that Jez Haydock
01:19:44came to see me for advice.
01:19:48Jez.
01:19:49He overheard an argument that night in the observatory.
01:19:52I told him to follow his conscience.
01:19:59Jez must be here somewhere.
01:20:06You disgusting waste of space!
01:20:11Get out!
01:20:12He's the one!
01:20:14You, Mr. Finister, make yourself scarce.
01:20:18Ah!
01:20:19You, Mr. Finister, make yourself scarce.
01:20:23Sir.
01:20:24Jez, tell them what you told me about the Master and your aunt.
01:20:47you told me about the master and your aunt.
01:21:17Yeah, see what I mean?
01:21:30It would have been the next best thing to Invisible.
01:21:33Stand the rifle up in there, maybe chuck a cloth over it,
01:21:37I wouldn't get a second glance.
01:21:40Neither would she.
01:21:42Mrs Temple?
01:21:44Just a sec, if it's all the same.
01:21:50Gun club.
01:21:51Luckily, with no guns.
01:21:52Ah.
01:21:53Ma?
01:21:54Forensics are done, so I authorize their return.
01:21:57I'll get back up.
01:22:09Oh, no, I'm not.
01:22:11No, Mrs Temple, not that.
01:22:14I've had enough.
01:22:17Jez can explain.
01:22:19He can't tell us everything.
01:22:23I can try and work it out, but I don't want to get it wrong.
01:22:27That wouldn't be fair to Mrs Crompton.
01:22:30Thanks.
01:22:31Okay, okay.
01:22:32Did you find a spare key to the gun store?
01:22:45Yeah.
01:22:47You and the master.
01:22:48Years.
01:22:49Since right back when Ted Temple was the head port.
01:23:02I never knew old Ted knew.
01:23:06He must have seen Andy and me together.
01:23:11Andy thought I was lovely.
01:23:15And exciting.
01:23:19He knew about this to you, ma'am.
01:23:21When he touched me, it was getting harder to feel me.
01:23:30That's how he put it.
01:23:32And then these odd ideas he kept having, he knew they were daft.
01:23:36Tuesday afternoon, Dr Ransom told him that there was nothing more that the hospital could do for him.
01:23:49Al, please.
01:23:50No.
01:23:51He can stay.
01:24:02Father Francis told Andy that he should clear the slate, so...
01:24:09He said that he was going to tell his wife everything.
01:24:13And just be with her.
01:24:16And not with me.
01:24:17I couldn't take him.
01:24:22So what happened?
01:24:25I hung on to him.
01:24:29And he tried to get me off him and then he was just falling down the stairs and...
01:24:34Did you tell them that you came to the observatory to get a book and you heard us arguing?
01:24:38Yeah.
01:24:40I should have let you own up like you wanted, but...
01:24:42But I said don't because she didn't mean to kill him, so it's not murder right.
01:24:48Did she tell you she killed Dr Ransom?
01:24:52What?
01:24:55Why?
01:24:57Well...
01:24:58Rog said that it was his duty to tell the police about her and Andrew.
01:25:06And you would question her. She'd deny it. She might put two and two together.
01:25:11Especially after what Ted told her about Andy and me.
01:25:16So I phoned her up to see what she knew and...
01:25:19And out it all came.
01:25:22And she said that she was going to have to tell you and...
01:25:26And Mrs Crompton.
01:25:27So...
01:25:31You stopped her?
01:25:37Andy thought you were ever such a clever boy with all your stars and planets.
01:25:47Come on.
01:25:49Time to go away.
01:25:50Time to go away.
01:25:53Yeah.
01:25:55I've had enough.
01:25:57Tell your mum...
01:25:58Sorry.
01:26:00No!
01:26:02Come on!
01:26:05Come on!
01:26:07Come on!
01:26:09Come on!
01:26:11Come on!
01:26:13Come on!
01:26:15Come on!
01:26:16Going to go away!
01:26:17Come on!
01:26:21Okay.
01:26:44Well, she'll live.
01:26:51Thanks to Hathaway.
01:26:55James.
01:27:00Robbie's sorting out.
01:27:06Ready to go?
01:27:07Yeah, we're fine.
01:27:14I was looking forward to that concert.
01:27:26Do you think we'll be able to get our money back?
01:27:30Worth a try.
01:27:35Ah, though, actually, I'm more of a Wagner man myself,
01:27:40especially if the conductor's knop its push.
01:27:42Bless you.
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