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First broadcast 16th May 2012.
A scholar obsessed with Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is found buried in the botanical gardens frequented by the author during his life.
Daisy May - Mia Wallace
Oliver Johnstone - Vincent Vega
Annabel Mullion - Thea Falconer
James Fleet - Dr. Alex Falconer
Nadine Lewington - Liv Nash
Clare Holman - Dr. Laura Hobson
Kevin Whately - DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox - DS James Hathaway
Rebecca Front - Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
Alex Jennings - Rev Conor Hawes
Barry Aird - Security Man
Matilda Ziegler - Helena Wright
Richard Durden - John Gracey
Celia Imrie - Michelle Marber
Lotte Rice - Kirsty
Paul Jerricho - Mr. Atkins
Carol Cummings - Academic
Colin Dexter - Academic
Martyn Mayger - Gardener
A scholar obsessed with Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark" is found buried in the botanical gardens frequented by the author during his life.
Daisy May - Mia Wallace
Oliver Johnstone - Vincent Vega
Annabel Mullion - Thea Falconer
James Fleet - Dr. Alex Falconer
Nadine Lewington - Liv Nash
Clare Holman - Dr. Laura Hobson
Kevin Whately - DI Robert Lewis
Laurence Fox - DS James Hathaway
Rebecca Front - Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent
Alex Jennings - Rev Conor Hawes
Barry Aird - Security Man
Matilda Ziegler - Helena Wright
Richard Durden - John Gracey
Celia Imrie - Michelle Marber
Lotte Rice - Kirsty
Paul Jerricho - Mr. Atkins
Carol Cummings - Academic
Colin Dexter - Academic
Martyn Mayger - Gardener
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00:00:00Satsang with Mooji
00:01:30Thank you, Susan. I'll take it out to her.
00:02:00Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming here to Rogue Woods.
00:02:25Hi, Liv.
00:02:26It's a simple job today. We're looking to dig up this little beggar.
00:02:30Rhododendron ponticum, highly invasive. We need to eradicate it at the roots.
00:02:34So we may have a lot of hard digging to do, I'm afraid.
00:02:37But it'll all be worth it in the end.
00:02:38Thanks, everyone. Let's go.
00:02:41Mr. Atkins.
00:03:05It's it. It's him.
00:03:41Let's go.
00:04:11Liv!
00:04:41Male, adult, must have been in there
00:05:11a couple of weeks, first inspection reveals blow to the front right side of the skull
00:05:15above the temple, probable cause of death, all pretty straightforward, really.
00:05:22It's my day off. I had plans, I was trying to have a life, instead of which, as usual,
00:05:26I'm up to my knees in body parts. Sorry. I don't think there'll be any surprises in the
00:05:32post-mortem, but the grave's pretty interesting. Body was wrapped in a fine cloth, very fine,
00:05:38and this was laid on the chest.
00:05:41He was buried with some ceremony, then.
00:05:44And care.
00:05:46There's a description on the back.
00:05:54Nulli secundus.
00:05:58Second to none.
00:06:00Who found him?
00:06:02Liv Nash. She's a botanist, based at the Botanic Gardens.
00:06:06And what brought her all the way out here?
00:06:08Yeah. So we're doing some conservation work.
00:06:17You Liv Nash?
00:06:20I'm Detective Sergeant Hathaway.
00:06:24I'm sorry.
00:06:25Yeah. I keep thinking that I must have hurt him while I was digging. Isn't that mad?
00:06:35I know I couldn't possibly have hurt him. He's dead.
00:06:38I'm sorry.
00:06:39I'm sorry.
00:06:41Look, it's a very traumatic thing to find a body.
00:06:50Got a, um, a number here if you need to talk to someone.
00:06:54Thanks.
00:06:55Thanks.
00:06:58Thanks, I will...
00:06:59I will call them.
00:07:03You don't have a tissue, do you?
00:07:06You're covered in snot.
00:07:07Standard issue.
00:07:21You must see stuff like this all the time.
00:07:23Yeah.
00:07:26So who do you call?
00:07:27Good question.
00:07:29Good question.
00:07:32The dead man found in Roque Woods was a Professor Murray Hawes.
00:07:36I thought he was missing a couple of weeks ago.
00:07:38Oh, and one other thing, he was ritually buried, shrouded across the twigs on the body.
00:07:43We're just waiting for the post-mortem.
00:07:45Next of kin been notified?
00:07:47Yeah, his brother, Reverend Dr. Connor Hawes.
00:07:50He's the chaplain at Carlisle College.
00:07:52Chaplain?
00:07:53Must know a thing or two about burials and rituals.
00:07:55Just a thought.
00:07:57Dr. Hawes, I'm sorry to disturb you, D.I. Lewis, D.S. Hathaway.
00:08:24I'm afraid we have something for you.
00:08:34Um, my father gave him this watch when my brother first came up to Oxford.
00:08:49He was only 15, you see, and something of a prodigy.
00:08:54Can you think of anybody who might have wanted to hurt your brother?
00:08:59Was he in dispute with anyone?
00:09:02No, not to my knowledge.
00:09:03But I, uh, uh, I hadn't seen him for some time.
00:09:09When did you last see your brother, Dr. Hawes?
00:09:12Oh, I don't know.
00:09:13Um, six months, a year.
00:09:17We kept away from each other.
00:09:20Your brother was found with a cross made of twigs laid on his chest.
00:09:24What do you make of that as a man of the cloth?
00:09:25That the killer had a conscience.
00:09:31All right.
00:09:32Thank you, Dr. Hawes.
00:09:34If you do think of anything significant,
00:09:37would you ring us at the station?
00:09:39Oh, yes.
00:09:39Yes.
00:09:40Of course.
00:09:40As expected, no surprises.
00:10:06Calls of death blow to the head.
00:10:08There's some bruising and abrasions to the face,
00:10:13which suggest a struggle.
00:10:15Blood tox?
00:10:16Nothing fatal, but not a happy picture.
00:10:20Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, amphetamines.
00:10:25Cigarettes and coffee for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
00:10:27He didn't do things by halves, did he?
00:10:29That speaks the voice of experience.
00:10:30Whatever gets you through.
00:10:32Not a happy man.
00:10:34He's got a spot in for a professor.
00:10:48Hmm.
00:10:48Formal hard times?
00:10:50Mr. Murray Hawes?
00:11:01I take it that's not from Amazon.
00:11:05Gracie Books.
00:11:07Lot 92.
00:11:09The hunting of the snark and agony in eight fits.
00:11:12Original working manuscript, annotated by Lewis Carroll.
00:11:18Dated January 1876.
00:11:24Annotated by Lewis Carroll.
00:11:26I studied this.
00:11:27This is incredible.
00:11:28You studied it?
00:11:29I thought it was a poem.
00:11:30Isn't it?
00:11:31It's a profoundly theological piece.
00:11:34It's theological and philosophical.
00:11:36It's a ten-man crew in search of a snark.
00:11:40And what's a snark?
00:11:41That's precisely the question.
00:11:42Nobody knows.
00:11:43Nobody knows what they're looking for.
00:11:45Sounds familiar.
00:11:46Nobody knows what they're looking for,
00:11:48but the danger is in finding it,
00:11:49for when they do,
00:11:50they will softly and suddenly vanish away.
00:11:54It's about the search for meaning,
00:11:57being in nothingness,
00:11:58the unanswerable questions of existence.
00:12:00It's an impossible quest.
00:12:04He's got ten copies of it here.
00:12:30Quite an obsession.
00:12:56The hunting of the snark is a poem
00:13:02over which a sensitive soul
00:13:03might well go mad.
00:13:08A map?
00:13:11The Oxford Botanic Gardens.
00:13:14This place was a favourite haunt of Lewis Carroll's.
00:13:23He used to come here for picnics.
00:13:29He's starting!
00:13:32Looking for the head of the gardens.
00:13:34Professor Wright?
00:13:36I think she's in the lodge.
00:13:37Bye.
00:13:45So how are you?
00:13:46How are you feeling?
00:13:47Much better, thanks.
00:13:49I called that number you gave me.
00:13:52It really helped.
00:13:53Glad.
00:13:58So what are you doing here?
00:14:00Well, by a curious coincidence,
00:14:03our man in the woods
00:14:04used to come here.
00:14:07Murray.
00:14:09He was nice.
00:14:12Accentric.
00:14:14He forgot his shoes here once.
00:14:17Came back from the next day.
00:14:19So he was our man in the woods.
00:14:23How did he end up all the way out there?
00:14:24Professor Wright?
00:14:33D.R. Lewis.
00:14:34Yes?
00:14:35We're investigating the murder
00:14:37of this man,
00:14:38Murray Hawes.
00:14:40I believe he has a connection
00:14:42with the garden.
00:14:43Yes, he used to come here often.
00:14:44He was a Lewis Carroll fan,
00:14:46wasn't he?
00:14:46We get it all the time.
00:14:47There's a place of pilgrimage
00:14:48for them.
00:14:50Did you know him to talk to?
00:14:53Inspector, I'm the director
00:14:53of the gardens.
00:14:54We have 7,000 plants here.
00:14:57We are one of the preeminent
00:14:58botanical research centres
00:15:00in the world.
00:15:01I spend my life chasing funding,
00:15:03worrying over visitor numbers.
00:15:05I have neither the time
00:15:06nor the inclination
00:15:07to talk to crackpots.
00:15:11What about the police?
00:15:13Do you have the time
00:15:14or inclination to talk to us?
00:15:16Yes.
00:15:18Yes, of course.
00:15:19I'm sorry.
00:15:19It's a difficult time
00:15:21at the moment.
00:15:22I'm not sleeping very well.
00:15:26Why is that?
00:15:28It's personal.
00:15:32So did you know Murray well?
00:15:34You spoke to him?
00:15:35Oh, yeah.
00:15:37He liked to talk.
00:15:38Used to monologue a bit.
00:15:39What about?
00:15:41He was trying to solve something.
00:15:43I don't know.
00:15:44A calculation.
00:15:45He was always taking measurements
00:15:47and pacing distances out.
00:15:49There was someone
00:15:49he wanted to beat.
00:15:51That's right.
00:15:52He was always talking about
00:15:53winning,
00:15:55my triumph,
00:15:55my victory,
00:15:56stuff like that.
00:15:57You make sure
00:15:57anyone in particular?
00:15:59Thing is,
00:15:59to be perfectly honest,
00:16:01I used to zone out a bit.
00:16:03Yeah,
00:16:04I'd actually grind,
00:16:04that's for sure.
00:16:05What are you planting here?
00:16:08Plants and their uses?
00:16:09It's Helena's thing.
00:16:11Botanical history.
00:16:13Textiles,
00:16:14dyes,
00:16:14medicines.
00:16:15This is our
00:16:16Doctrine of Signatures
00:16:17flower bed.
00:16:18The Doctrine of Signatures
00:16:20was the...
00:16:21Great herbalist
00:16:21con of the 17th century.
00:16:24You know about
00:16:24the Doctrine of Signatures?
00:16:27No one knows
00:16:28about the Doctrine of Signatures.
00:16:30God has signed
00:16:31his intention
00:16:31in the look of things
00:16:32that man may know
00:16:33their purpose.
00:16:33healing properties
00:16:35of plants,
00:16:36most of which
00:16:36have no healing properties
00:16:37whatsoever.
00:16:38Signatura rerum.
00:16:41And he speaks Latin.
00:16:44I should, um...
00:16:49Yes.
00:16:51See you then.
00:16:52See you.
00:16:58I hope you remembered
00:16:59to ask her some questions.
00:17:01Yes, sir, I did.
00:17:02I hope you.
00:17:03In fact, she was very helpful.
00:17:04Murray Hall, as it would seem,
00:17:06had a rival.
00:17:32Mr. Gracie, I'll have to put something down.
00:17:38I'll have to put something down.
00:17:53Oxford, please.
00:17:58Oh, yes.
00:17:59Well, it was a bidding war.
00:18:03There were four parties,
00:18:04an American university,
00:18:06Murray Halls,
00:18:06a Swiss bank,
00:18:08and one was anonymous.
00:18:09I mean,
00:18:11itemized billing for Gracie's books.
00:18:13What clustered for Murray Halls
00:18:14was that he paid in cash.
00:18:16The seller was looking
00:18:17to make a quick sale.
00:18:19He paid cash?
00:18:20How much?
00:18:21200,000.
00:18:24When was this?
00:18:25Do you know the date of the sale?
00:18:27He paid on the night
00:18:28that plays a business,
00:18:29six o'clock,
00:18:31and he was supposed to come again
00:18:32in the morning at nine
00:18:33to take possession of the manuscript.
00:18:36We had to get it out
00:18:37of secure store overnight,
00:18:38but he never showed up.
00:18:41So, in the end,
00:18:42we sent it high security.
00:18:44How did he seem that evening?
00:18:45Oh, he was ebullient,
00:18:47overjoyed, triumphant.
00:18:49He was going to solve the riddle,
00:18:51wasn't he?
00:18:52The riddle?
00:18:54The riddle of the snark.
00:18:56Carol was a great one
00:18:59for acrostics,
00:19:00poems that are also riddles.
00:19:03There are those who believe
00:19:05that there's a code
00:19:06to be cracked in the snark,
00:19:08a puzzle to be solved.
00:19:12Look, is that all?
00:19:14And, you know,
00:19:15I've been through this once already,
00:19:16and I do have to get on.
00:19:18You've already been through it once.
00:19:20How do you mean?
00:19:21Well, one of your lot
00:19:21was in earlier,
00:19:22asking questions of a woman officer.
00:19:25A woman?
00:19:27Innocent?
00:19:27Chief Superintendent Innocent?
00:19:29No, that wasn't her name.
00:19:31Marland.
00:19:32D.I.
00:19:35Marber.
00:19:35Yeah, that's it.
00:19:37D.I. Marber.
00:19:38D.I. Marber?
00:19:39Strange old bird.
00:19:40Who the hell is D.I. Marber?
00:19:44How did Murray Horse
00:19:46get his hands on 200 grand
00:19:48in cash?
00:19:49Heads up, gents.
00:19:50Nutcase alert.
00:19:50Inspector, there's a lady
00:19:51with bags waiting for you.
00:19:52Says she has information.
00:19:54Interview one.
00:20:00Good afternoon, Inspector.
00:20:02Sergeant,
00:20:02I hope you will forgive
00:20:03the impertinence,
00:20:04but I have some thoughts
00:20:05I'd like to share with you.
00:20:06A dead man,
00:20:07Professor Murray Hawes,
00:20:08was a Lewis Carroll enthusiast.
00:20:10In fact,
00:20:10he had a particular interest
00:20:12in Carol's epic nonsense poem
00:20:14The Hunting of the Snark.
00:20:15Yeah.
00:20:15No, no, no, Inspector,
00:20:16if you don't mind,
00:20:17I'd like to carry on.
00:20:18I don't want to stop the flow.
00:20:19You may have heard
00:20:20of the riddle of the snark.
00:20:21You may even have discovered
00:20:22that Mr. Hawes
00:20:23was trying to solve
00:20:24the riddle of the snark.
00:20:25However,
00:20:25if you are laboring
00:20:26under the assumption
00:20:27that Mr. Hawes died
00:20:28because of the snark,
00:20:29I'm afraid you're greatly mistaken.
00:20:31Who are you?
00:20:31There is only one line
00:20:32of inquiry
00:20:33you should be following,
00:20:34gentlemen,
00:20:35and that line
00:20:35relates to this man,
00:20:37Dr. Alex Faulkner,
00:20:38of the Davy Institute
00:20:39of Clinical Medicine,
00:20:40where Murray was a,
00:20:42frequent participant
00:20:43in clinical drug trials.
00:20:44It's not illegal
00:20:45to run a clinical drugs trial,
00:20:46Mrs. Marber.
00:20:48Michelle Marber.
00:20:48No, but he often did go there.
00:20:49Mrs. Marber,
00:20:50have you been making
00:20:51your own inquiries
00:20:52into this case?
00:20:54You have to understand
00:20:55that impersonating
00:20:55a police officer
00:20:56is a serious offence.
00:20:58No, no, Inspector,
00:20:59forgive me,
00:20:59I should have explained.
00:21:00I'm conducting
00:21:01a wider investigation
00:21:02into Dr. Faulkner.
00:21:03So you're
00:21:03a private investigator?
00:21:05Not as such.
00:21:06All right.
00:21:07That's enough.
00:21:08But I haven't finished.
00:21:09Yes, you have.
00:21:12Myce Bank statements.
00:21:23Not much coming in.
00:21:25Oh, there's
00:21:25a payment here
00:21:26from Davy Clinical Medicine
00:21:27for £2,000.
00:21:29Yeah, I'm one for
00:21:30£1,500
00:21:31and another
00:21:34the month before.
00:21:35She was right
00:21:36about the drug trials.
00:21:37Alex Faulkner's advertising for new guinea pigs.
00:21:46Yes, Murray.
00:21:48Murray was a regular of ours for the last three or four years.
00:21:53What's the most anyone could get paid for taking part in one of these trials?
00:21:57Oh, it's highly regulated.
00:21:59There's a cap on what we can pay.
00:22:02A couple of thousand.
00:22:03When was his last trial? Can you remember?
00:22:06It's a few months ago.
00:22:07The last one he came in for, we couldn't put him on.
00:22:10He didn't pass the medical.
00:22:11Too much rubbish in his blood.
00:22:13That fit. When was that?
00:22:17It was six weeks ago.
00:22:19You must have got to know him quite well over the years.
00:22:22Yeah, I don't know how well.
00:22:24He was an obsessive.
00:22:26He only had one topic of conversation.
00:22:28The hunting of the snark.
00:22:30Yes.
00:22:31We think he might have had a rivalry going with someone.
00:22:34Did you mention that?
00:22:35Yeah.
00:22:36Yes, it was bitter.
00:22:38It was what drove the obsession.
00:22:40It was a sibling rivalry.
00:22:42His rival was his brother, Dr. Connor Horne.
00:22:46Dr. Forkler?
00:22:48There's a phone call for you.
00:22:50Would you excuse me, Inspector?
00:22:51Yeah, of course.
00:22:52Thanks for your time.
00:23:03I'm absolutely fine.
00:23:05Everyone's making such a fuss.
00:23:06I'll be perfectly all right.
00:23:09I won't go back to work this week.
00:23:11I'll take some time off so I can be here to look after you.
00:23:13All I really need is a cup of tea.
00:23:19I'll make you some.
00:23:20Well, then, it hardly seems worth it with only three of you here.
00:23:30But let's try and make a seminar of it, shall we?
00:23:33So, is the truth always the highest good?
00:23:38Kirstie, you always pitch in first.
00:23:42Give us the benefit of your perspicacity.
00:23:45The truth has to be the highest good.
00:23:47It's not an ethical question.
00:23:49It's a moral choice.
00:23:50What is the truth, anyway?
00:23:54This isn't A-level philosophy.
00:23:56No, and you aren't Socrates.
00:23:58Go on, Mr. Vega.
00:23:59Dazzle us.
00:24:04Did some extra digging last night.
00:24:07Late last night, was it?
00:24:09Honestly, man, give yourself a break every now and then.
00:24:12Yes, ma'am.
00:24:13No, I mean it.
00:24:15Less work, more sleep.
00:24:17I need your brain, all ten tons of it, in full working order.
00:24:21As I said, I did a little extra digging last night.
00:24:25The finding of the snart by the Reverend Dr. Connahors.
00:24:29Published last year, he claims to have solved the riddle, and that's not all.
00:24:33A phone trace on the anonymous bidder for the annotated snart manuscript
00:24:37brought up the main exchange for Carlisle College.
00:24:44Bravo, Vincent.
00:24:46A stout defence.
00:24:48And everyone give the lad a round of applause.
00:24:50It's the Feds.
00:24:57It's a bust.
00:24:59We need to speak to you about your brother, sir.
00:25:03Leave.
00:25:03You told us you and your brother weren't close.
00:25:18No, we weren't.
00:25:19We had nothing in common.
00:25:21Not even the hunting of the snark.
00:25:22You didn't share your brother's passion for it.
00:25:27My brother's passion for it bordered on the deranged.
00:25:30He conceived the notion that there was some kind of arithmetical calculation encoded in the text.
00:25:36It was just ludicrous and tedious and wrong.
00:25:40Whereas you'd written that you'd found the snark.
00:25:43Oh, that.
00:25:45Well, I wrote that just to wind him up.
00:25:49Do you have brothers, either of you?
00:25:52Did you never give your brother a Chinese burn or hide his glasses?
00:25:55No.
00:25:56Well, I always liked my brother.
00:25:58Used to beat me at Subutio, mine.
00:26:02Before he died, your brother placed a bid on a rare manuscript of the snark.
00:26:06Well, all right, yes, I admit it.
00:26:11I also placed a bid for the snark.
00:26:17I had a long-running rivalry with my brother.
00:26:22It began when I beat him at chess for the first time.
00:26:26He couldn't bear it.
00:26:27He screamed.
00:26:28He wept.
00:26:30He began to keep score.
00:26:32He kept score for the next 40 years.
00:26:33And the snark, of course, is the ultimate puzzle.
00:26:38Well, for myself, I had no interest in it.
00:26:40But I couldn't just let Murray win.
00:26:45Not after a lifetime of it.
00:26:50Oh, for God's sake, you don't seriously think I would kill my own brother for the sake of a puzzle?
00:26:57Murray disappeared on the night of the 9th, sometime between 6 p.m. and 9 the following morning.
00:27:03Where were you that night, Dr. Hawes?
00:27:06The 9th.
00:27:17Oh, that was the night of my cocktails and ethics party.
00:27:21I throw one once a month.
00:27:23It's the only way I can get the students in.
00:27:25They'll only discuss Cyrenaic Hedonism if they can also practice it.
00:27:29Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
00:27:31Aristippus of Cyrene.
00:27:37What was your name?
00:27:38Detective Sergeant Hathaway.
00:27:43Dr. Hawes?
00:27:44The party?
00:27:45Well, they were at it until the early hours.
00:27:49Pretty much all night.
00:27:51I couldn't get rid of them.
00:28:02Violation.
00:28:03Poison.
00:28:05The dagger and the flame.
00:28:06If these have not wrought their pleasing patterns upon the banal canvas of our pitiful destinies,
00:28:17it is because the soul, alas, is not sufficiently bold.
00:28:27I am bold.
00:28:28Are they still there?
00:28:36Yes.
00:28:38They're talking.
00:28:44Close the curtains.
00:28:50Close the curtains.
00:28:52The curtains.
00:28:58Thanks.
00:29:03Forensics.
00:29:05Arid soil.
00:29:05Traces of it all over the front of Murray's body.
00:29:08Arid soil?
00:29:09You're telling me Murray Hawes died in the desert?
00:29:12No.
00:29:12He died in Oxford.
00:29:13There's only one place in Oxford with arid soil.
00:29:16The botanic gardens.
00:29:17The arid house, to be precise.
00:29:28How long will all this take?
00:29:40I don't like closing the gardens.
00:29:42The man's been murdered, Professor Wright.
00:29:44Well, of course.
00:29:45I'm sorry.
00:29:46Where were you on the night of the 9th?
00:29:48I was here.
00:29:49At home.
00:29:49At the lodge.
00:29:50Did you see her hearing me?
00:29:52No.
00:29:53I find that difficult to believe, Professor.
00:29:55You are right on the spot.
00:29:58I was drunk.
00:30:01I drink every night these days.
00:30:06Who has access to the gardens after hours?
00:30:09Only the staff have keys, but it's not difficult to get in.
00:30:12Students are always climbing over the railings.
00:30:14It's, um, I'm used to hearing people in the gardens at night.
00:30:17I don't notice it anymore.
00:30:25That's one way in and out.
00:30:26They're saying he died here, and not in the woods.
00:30:44It's so awful.
00:30:47And weird.
00:30:49He died here, where I work.
00:30:50And I'm the one that found him.
00:30:54I'm going to have to ask you where you were on the night of the 9th.
00:30:57Of course.
00:30:58Yes.
00:31:00Er, the 9th.
00:31:05It was a friend's birthday.
00:31:08I'm afraid I got rather drunk and had to stay over.
00:31:10Can I get a name?
00:31:12Johnny Reeve.
00:31:13Johnny, J, O, H.
00:31:16Er, he's an old friend.
00:31:17I've known him for years.
00:31:19Since we were kids.
00:31:20A friend of my brother's, really, but...
00:31:23Have I made it clear enough that he's not my boyfriend?
00:31:28Just, just make a note of that now.
00:31:29Have you ever seen this man at the gardens?
00:31:46I don't think so.
00:31:47I don't recognize him.
00:31:48Er, okay, well, um, if anything comes back to you, or, um, you don't think of any, anything,
00:31:59um, then, um, give me a call.
00:32:05Anytime.
00:32:05Anytime.
00:32:05Did you just bow to her?
00:32:25Yeah, I think I did.
00:32:32Oh, God, Miss Bloody Marple.
00:32:34Well, Mrs Marber, I sincerely hope you're not pursuing your inquiries.
00:32:38No, no, no, Inspector, I've been trying to find you.
00:32:39You didn't let me finish.
00:32:41You didn't hear the whole story.
00:32:42And I'm not going to hear it now.
00:32:43A couple of witnesses have come forward.
00:32:45They're at the station.
00:32:46But, Inspector, I...
00:32:46Go home, Mrs Marber.
00:32:48Go home and stay home.
00:32:50Oh.
00:33:04Vincent Vega, Mia Wallis.
00:33:08Vincent Vega.
00:33:10My, uh, my dad's Spanish.
00:33:17So, you were in the woods when you saw two men behaving suspiciously.
00:33:22What were you doing in the woods?
00:33:23Oh, we were there for romantic reasons.
00:33:26We spent the night there.
00:33:30We joked about what they must be up to, you know, burying a body or something.
00:33:34And then we read about Murray Hawes, um, and we know his brother.
00:33:38Connor Hawes.
00:33:39We're both at Carlisle.
00:33:41We had to come forward.
00:33:42Could you describe them to us?
00:33:44Oh, I've got photographic memory.
00:33:46So, you could describe them for the police artists?
00:33:49I could draw them myself.
00:33:51I'm a proper artist.
00:34:04There's something not right about these two.
00:34:07They blinked too much.
00:34:10Come on, let's take a stroll over to Carlisle College.
00:34:16I shouldn't really do this.
00:34:19I'd never like a little toke.
00:34:23Why is that?
00:34:25Well, in my opinion, sir, he doesn't show enough respect for the university.
00:34:30He never goes to lectures.
00:34:32Spends all his time in the river messing around in pants.
00:34:35Does he now?
00:34:37Thanks, Miss Rackett.
00:34:43Vincent Vega, Mia Wallis.
00:34:45A bit slow for you, that.
00:34:48I hope you've got a warrant.
00:34:50Then again, it's Vincent's room, so on second thoughts, I don't care.
00:34:55Nobody seems to like Vincent Vega.
00:34:58Vincent Vega.
00:35:00Simon Dawkins.
00:35:02Mia's real name is Isabel Strong.
00:35:05Changed their names by deed poll.
00:35:08Why?
00:35:10As this kind of person at Oxford,
00:35:11they've been told their whole lives that they're one in a million.
00:35:15Oxbridge material.
00:35:16Then they get here and find they're one of a million,
00:35:20because everyone here is just like them.
00:35:22You've been noticed.
00:35:24What are these, do you know?
00:35:26Must be Wednesday Club stuff.
00:35:27Looks like it.
00:35:28Wednesday Club?
00:35:30You're sure the Wednesday Club exists?
00:35:34It's this legendary club for geniuses,
00:35:36only the most extraordinary need apply.
00:35:38I've heard stories about it.
00:35:39Everyone's heard stories about it.
00:35:41Things that people would do to get in.
00:35:44I thought they were apocryphal.
00:35:45I thought it was no myth.
00:35:46No, no.
00:35:48It exists.
00:35:49Club for geniuses.
00:35:51Club for narcissists.
00:35:54How it works exactly, I don't know,
00:35:55but they talk about it all the time, Simon and Isabel.
00:35:58They're fixated on getting in.
00:36:00Maybe messing with the police is their idea of clever.
00:36:12Where have you been?
00:36:13We've been waiting.
00:36:14We're star witnesses.
00:36:16We're not just anyone.
00:36:17Very funny.
00:36:20Wasting police time is a criminal offence, Simon, Isabel.
00:36:23Those aren't our names.
00:36:24Allow me to escort you off the premises.
00:36:26So that's it?
00:36:28You're not going to charge us?
00:36:29The thing is, you want us to,
00:36:30so no, we're not going to charge you.
00:36:32You're not worth the paperwork.
00:36:44Inspector, Inspector, please don't dismiss me.
00:36:49Just hear me out.
00:36:51Give me strength.
00:36:52All right, let's have it.
00:36:54There was a visitor last night to the Botanic Gardens.
00:36:57He let himself in with his key at 12.41 a.m.
00:37:01and didn't leave until dawn.
00:37:02Dr. Alex Faulkner.
00:37:05And you just happened to be passing?
00:37:08Were you following Dr. Faulkner?
00:37:10He's a regular visitor at the Botanic Gardens.
00:37:12I've seen him there on more than one occasion,
00:37:14always after hours.
00:37:15All right, we'll look into it,
00:37:17but Mrs. Marbury, you have to listen to me.
00:37:19You must leave the detective work to us.
00:37:22You corrupt one piece of the evidence.
00:37:24This whole case could go down.
00:37:25Do you understand me?
00:37:27Yes.
00:37:52You must leave the detective work to us.
00:38:22I've seen you.
00:38:35Gold Chain Hall.
00:38:36See to the Faulkner family since 1465.
00:38:39Winner of Best New Attraction 2008,
00:38:41and Best Garden 2010 and 11.
00:38:43And yet he's hanging around the Botanic Gardens all night.
00:38:47According to Michelle Marber.
00:38:48Oh, quite a place for a scientist to live, isn't it?
00:38:52It says here that Alex Faulkner comes from a long line of gentlemen scientists.
00:38:56His great-great-grandfather worked with Lord Kelvin on the discovery of Absolute Zero.
00:39:01We'd like to speak to Alex Faulkner.
00:39:03Alex?
00:39:04Whatever form.
00:39:06I'm Thea Faulkner.
00:39:07I'm his wife.
00:39:08Where is your husband, Mrs. Faulkner?
00:39:11He's in the garden, but I'll take you through the house.
00:39:14It'll be quicker.
00:39:17I remember this place when I was a kid.
00:39:19It's always locked up.
00:39:20Yes, Alex was away a lot when he was younger.
00:39:23He was a great explorer.
00:39:24South America, Africa, Indonesia.
00:39:28He always hated the hall.
00:39:30He was often left alone here as a child.
00:39:33All alone in a great house like this, can you imagine?
00:39:39You can't tell me what this is about, Inspector.
00:39:42We're investigating the murder of this man.
00:39:46Murray Hawes.
00:39:48I don't know him, I'm afraid.
00:39:50You've never met him.
00:39:51He hasn't come to the hall.
00:39:53No?
00:39:54Why would he?
00:39:55He knew your husband.
00:39:56This one, Mum, is it?
00:39:59Oh, yes, Sam.
00:40:01You will be especially careful with this one, won't you?
00:40:03Are you selling your collections, Mrs. Faulkner?
00:40:06Yes, Alex did sell a couple to help finance the work on the gardens.
00:40:10It's been worth it.
00:40:11Numbers are up.
00:40:12We're even managing to make money.
00:40:16This one's been taken for some restoration work.
00:40:19It's the house and grounds as they were in the 16th century.
00:40:23The heyday of the gardens.
00:40:24It was my idea to restore them to their former glory.
00:40:33Hello, Inspector.
00:40:34Dr. Faulkner, we have information that links you with the place where Murray Hawes died.
00:40:40Botanic Gardens.
00:40:41Perhaps you could shed some light on that for us.
00:40:48I am, um...
00:40:49What's that awful word?
00:40:52I am involved with Helena Wright, the head of the gardens.
00:41:00Are you having an affair?
00:41:03Yeah.
00:41:04I take it your wife doesn't know about this.
00:41:07God, no, no.
00:41:08She doesn't know anything.
00:41:11Where were you on the night of the 9th?
00:41:12Oh, it's here.
00:41:15You seem very sure.
00:41:17Most people need to check with dates.
00:41:19No, I remember.
00:41:20Uh, we had a fight.
00:41:22Helena and I.
00:41:24She wanted me to spend the night with her.
00:41:26I wanted to stay with Thea.
00:41:28I don't know much about affairs, personally, but isn't it usually the other way around?
00:41:31My marriage is, uh, it's very difficult at times.
00:41:40Helena offers me comfort, and I'm weak, and I take it.
00:41:45But I love my wife.
00:41:48Wouldn't you do anything to keep the truth from her?
00:41:51Are you selling your collection?
00:41:52My collection?
00:41:54My collection?
00:41:55What?
00:41:56I've only sold two pictures.
00:41:57It's for the gardens.
00:41:59Not to pay off Murray Halls.
00:42:01Did he find out about you and Helena?
00:42:04He needed money to buy his snark manuscript.
00:42:06What, blackmail?
00:42:07No, Murray Halls wasn't blackmailing me.
00:42:10Murray Halls wasn't my problem.
00:42:15Helena, she is my problem.
00:42:22She is my problem.
00:42:52Helena.
00:42:53What is it? What do you want?
00:42:54I've got to go.
00:42:55I found this.
00:42:56It's Murray's.
00:42:57I don't know what to make of it.
00:43:00Yeah, he left it behind.
00:43:01I was meant to put it in the lost and found.
00:43:03I remember he asked for it, but I couldn't find it.
00:43:07He was always losing things.
00:43:09Give it to me, and I'll give it to the police.
00:43:16Have you finished the orchid house?
00:43:21Yes.
00:43:22I have to be sure, because you wrongly labeled
00:43:23three specimens last week.
00:43:25I had to correct your work.
00:43:26It's not good enough, Liv.
00:43:27But I double-checked, and now you're correcting me.
00:43:35Look, I've got to go out, but I'll be back in a couple of hours
00:43:38when I expect to find the gardens pristine.
00:43:52You'll find him downstairs.
00:43:53You'll find him downstairs.
00:43:54You'll find him downstairs.
00:44:11downstairs.
00:44:41I'm here.
00:44:43I'm here now.
00:44:54Poor old Alex Forkman.
00:44:56The reluctant Lothario.
00:45:00Which of these would you trust the least?
00:45:03Too close to call.
00:45:05Michelle Marber, the lady with bags.
00:45:08Don't tell me.
00:45:09I've got two complaints against her here.
00:45:11One from Gold Chain Hall, the other from the porter at Carlisle.
00:45:14Apparently she's been harassing people there on a daily basis.
00:45:17I did warn her.
00:45:18We ran a check.
00:45:19Turns out she's a serial cop botherer.
00:45:21She's got injunctions against her from the Met and Edinburgh.
00:45:24God only knows what damage she's doing to the investigation.
00:45:27Get it sorted, Robbie. Now.
00:45:39Go on.
00:45:40See you now.
00:45:41Go on.
00:45:42Go on.
00:45:43Hey!
00:46:14It's an incident room.
00:46:27I like to lie on the floor sometimes, look at the whole picture.
00:46:31I think if I can see it all in one glance, I might understand it better.
00:46:37But I never quite seem to.
00:46:39Mrs. Marber, we hear you've been out and about with your little notebook again.
00:46:43Check the rest of the house.
00:46:45Mrs. Marber?
00:46:47Oh, Inspector, yes, sorry.
00:46:49How can I help you?
00:46:51Would you like a cup of tea?
00:46:53I don't know whether I've got any tea.
00:46:55We warned you that impersonating a police officer was a criminal offence.
00:47:00As is harassment.
00:47:02You'd be making trouble again.
00:47:04Sir?
00:47:05Mrs. Marber?
00:47:06Sir?
00:47:07What?
00:47:08We've got to come and look at this.
00:47:10Oh, for God's sake.
00:47:12You're gonna be right.
00:47:14You're gonna be right now.
00:47:15Help me in the background.
00:47:17You're here.
00:47:18Bye!
00:47:19Oh, no, no, no!
00:47:20Oh, no.
00:47:21I am.
00:47:22I am.
00:47:23Oh, I am.
00:47:25Stevie, my son.
00:47:55He was found dead in his room.
00:47:58He was doing his post-grad at Carlisle College.
00:48:02The coroner returned to death by misadventure and overdose.
00:48:06But she was wrong.
00:48:08Stevie would never have been so stupid.
00:48:10It's an overused word these days, but he was.
00:48:15He was a genius.
00:48:20My miraculous boy.
00:48:23My little pal.
00:48:27Michelle, why didn't you tell us?
00:48:30Oh, I've learned.
00:48:31It's the surest way to be dismissed.
00:48:33We give you a little card with a number on it.
00:48:35A helpline.
00:48:37At least, as Miss Marple, I got a few extra days.
00:48:41Got a little bit closer.
00:48:44I started by going backwards.
00:48:48Trying to piece together the last days.
00:48:51Too confusing.
00:48:52So, I started at the beginning.
00:48:56I must have visited every day of his life since he left me.
00:48:59But I still don't know why he died.
00:49:02That was his first day at Davie Institute.
00:49:06His first day as Alex Faulkner's research assistant.
00:49:10All that promise.
00:49:14All that excitement.
00:49:16And no idea what was to come.
00:49:20Well, what happened?
00:49:22Alex Faulkner.
00:49:24Never satisfied.
00:49:26Nothing Stevie did was good enough.
00:49:28He didn't work hard enough.
00:49:29He wasn't rigorous.
00:49:30Stevie had his own way of working.
00:49:32But Alex Faulkner is such a narrow.
00:49:36He sacked Stevie.
00:49:39And then he came to the inquest.
00:49:41And he stood up there in front of me
00:49:43and told me that my son was a drug addict.
00:49:46My son did not die of an overdose.
00:49:49My son would never have been so stupid.
00:49:51How do you think you die, Michelle?
00:49:54But you blame Alex Faulkner for his death.
00:50:04I don't know what he did.
00:50:05I don't know how it happened.
00:50:06You actually think he killed him?
00:50:08Yes.
00:50:09Yes, I do.
00:50:10With every fibre of my being.
00:50:11But why, why would he kill your son?
00:50:14Perhaps Stevie found something out.
00:50:16Something about Alex.
00:50:17Like what?
00:50:18I don't know.
00:50:20I don't know.
00:50:24All right, I'll put a brew on.
00:50:36They're rather nice, you two.
00:50:39Michelle, you've got nothing in!
00:50:41Oh, I can't be bothered to eat.
00:50:44I just need to sleep.
00:50:50You better get her a bit of shopping in, will you?
00:50:53Simple stuff.
00:50:54Tea bag and milk.
00:51:08Hello again.
00:51:09Oh, hi.
00:51:12You all right?
00:51:13Yes.
00:51:14Yes, sorry.
00:51:15I'm a bit...
00:51:16I'm in a bit of a rush, actually.
00:51:18I can't really stop.
00:51:19No, of course.
00:51:20You sure you're all right?
00:51:21Yeah.
00:51:22Yeah, I just had a bit of a day.
00:51:23Lost from hell.
00:51:24Look, I've got to go.
00:51:25I'll see you around, OK?
00:51:26I'll see you around, OK?
00:51:27I'll see you around, OK?
00:51:28Coroner's report on Stevie's death.
00:51:29Blood tox, amphetamine and cocaine.
00:51:30Drug-related paraphernalia.
00:51:31Drug-related paraphernalia.
00:51:32Drug-related paraphernalia.
00:51:33I'll see you around, OK?
00:51:34And all these fellow Stevens were...
00:51:37The coroner's report on Stevie's death, blood tox, amphetamine and cocaine, drug-related
00:52:00paraphernalia in Stevie's rooms and all his fellow Stevens, well they testified that he
00:52:05was well known for his drug use. Two-day inquest, open and shut case. He had eclectic tastes.
00:52:13Kurt Cobain, Da Vinci notebooks, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Science does not know its debt to imagination.
00:52:27Love, love, love. That is the soul of genius. Mozart.
00:52:34You have been noticed, Wednesday Club.
00:52:44You are under consideration. You have been chosen.
00:52:56Sorry to wake you. Michelle, is Stevie a member of the Wednesday Club? They were very keen
00:53:06on Stevie, of course. But Stevie wasn't interested. A club for geniuses. He knew what he was. He
00:53:13didn't need to be in a club to prove it. One of the tutors at Carlisle College wanted him to join. I think he was
00:53:21involved in some way. He hounded him, in fact. But Stevie couldn't have given a damn.
00:53:27One of the tutors. Which tutor? Connor Hawes. The Reverend Doctor.
00:53:35Well, Stevie was an exceptional talent, but arrogant. Arrogance is, in my opinion, the grossest of all stupidities. In
00:53:43rejecting the Wednesday Club, in thinking himself too good for it. He proved himself unworthy of it.
00:53:50And yet you hounded him. That's what we're told.
00:53:53And Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace. They were down at our station yesterday, hell-bent on wasting police time.
00:54:00Oh, were they? Well, yes, that doesn't surprise me. Ah, Vincent and Mia are a couple of self-styled postmodernists.
00:54:09They're attempting to perpetrate an act of living postmodernism. An act of living postmodernism.
00:54:16They're seeking to challenge the authority of the establishment. In this instance, the police.
00:54:22But I'm afraid they won't get in. There's no real depth to their thinking. It's fancy-dress intellectualism.
00:54:29They're simply not interesting enough. And yet they're under consideration. They must have done something right.
00:54:35What are you suggesting? You placed a bid for the Snark manuscript to goad your brother.
00:54:40You hounded Stevie Marber. You've got these kids waiting and hoping.
00:54:45What I'm beginning to sense from you, Dr Hawes, is a taste for manipulating people.
00:54:51You have a morbid horror of talent, don't you? I see you're wearing your brother's watch.
00:54:57Second to none. That's you now, is it? Now that Murray's dead.
00:55:06Don't leave Oxford, sir. We haven't finished with you yet.
00:55:09Living postmodernism. I know they're such a load of old cobblers.
00:55:20That's not what they're up to. That's not how they were going to get in.
00:55:23Let's just suppose that Murray was getting close to a solution to the Snark.
00:55:28And-and Connor has to try and block it.
00:55:30And then Murray gets his hands on this manuscript, this manuscript that holds the key.
00:55:34Connor can't let his brother win. He'd rather let his brother die.
00:55:37Yeah, and he's got these two kids who are desperate to get into this club.
00:55:41So he can get them to do anything just on the promise of it.
00:55:44It's a story.
00:55:46Yeah, but do people really plot and scheme and kill her with some daft puzzle?
00:55:51Misguided person, Mike? No one rid me of this turbulent priest.
00:55:56Murder by mistake? Murder by misinterpretation?
00:55:59Whichever way you look at it, it's murder by proxy.
00:56:04No one rid me of that bunny.
00:56:05No one rid me of it.
00:56:06And no one rid me of it.
00:56:07No Harrison.
00:56:08No one rid me of it.
00:56:19Hello, what do you think of it?
00:56:21Jesus who doesn'tiendo a wolf with his daddy and on gets Calm down at which one's terrible nauseousittle Inhale
00:56:23for her.
00:56:28Well, let's check this out.
00:56:31tell us about the wednesday club legendary isn't it this club for geniuses for the extraordinary
00:56:50maybe it's just a club for people who want to be extraordinary it is an elite
00:56:54for the truly gifted oh you really want to get into it don't you except that you're only under
00:57:02consideration at the moment isn't that right not quite gifted enough i suppose or maybe there are
00:57:08other ways into it maybe it's not about being gifted maybe it's about being useful but the
00:57:13snark is a strange creature and will not be caught in a commonplace way a peculiar creature the snark
00:57:18is a peculiar you know the hunting of the snark quite a little crew we're building up marie
00:57:27hawes connor hawes vincent vega look i'm studying it for my dissertation not for connor hawes who
00:57:35by the way doesn't think you'll get into the wednesday club simply not interesting enough
00:57:40was that how he put it don't protect him if he's manipulated you made you promises
00:57:52you know in our incident room we have a white board and right at this moment all the arrows
00:58:02are pointing at you then charge us
00:58:04if you really had a case you'd have charged us already
00:58:10i already know the answer to this but do they ever find the snark
00:58:18baker finds him and then softly and suddenly vanishes away
00:58:22i'll tell you what i'm getting sick of nonsense poems or otherwise
00:58:27i'm sick of time wastes i'm sick of speculating i want facts i want evidence
00:58:33there must be something we're missing about murray
00:58:35yeah and i want to do a fingertip search of his house just you and me not uniform not soko just us
00:58:41you know what we're looking for
00:58:43and we will when we see it
00:58:46there's something about this house isn't there
00:58:56gets into your soul doesn't it
00:58:59any luck
00:59:13fun as yet
00:59:15lab h lab h
00:59:30lab h
00:59:30is that a clue
00:59:33i forgot what clues look like
00:59:35yeah hi i'm trying to locate a particular laboratory
00:59:39lab h how do you number your labs
00:59:45weird numbers
00:59:46right thanks
00:59:47no lab h to the department of pharmacology
00:59:49no lab h to the department of chemistry
00:59:52there is no lab h not the department of clinical medicine chemistry biochemistry or pharmacology
00:59:56it's looking more and more like a clue by the minute
01:00:00a clue we can't solve
01:00:01the impossible quest
01:00:08i can feel myself disappearing
01:00:12are you all right
01:00:17my clothes smell of dry rot
01:00:21murray's house
01:00:22all these lonely people pouring their lives into puzzles that can't be solved
01:00:29now ignore me
01:00:33i've got a touch of existential flu
01:00:36what
01:00:41i'm gonna say it just this once
01:00:45for your sake
01:00:48you need a partner james
01:00:50you need someone in your life
01:00:54let's call it a day
01:00:59i want to check on michelle
01:01:03i'm just gonna look in make sure she's okay
01:01:07michelle
01:01:23you must remember to lock your door
01:01:31and please stop leaving lighted ciggies all over the place
01:01:41it's like a walking public safety warning woman
01:01:44oh no
01:01:45i know
01:01:46i've just got too much to think about
01:01:48have you got some news for me
01:01:51no
01:01:52no
01:01:53on second thoughts don't tell me
01:01:55what do you mean
01:01:57stevie dies a hundred times a day in my head
01:02:03i see it
01:02:05his last breath
01:02:07it plays on a loop
01:02:09and then
01:02:10i fall asleep
01:02:12and i dream
01:02:13i dream
01:02:15i can't get through the door
01:02:18if i could get through the door i could save him
01:02:22if i knew how he died at least i could stop imagining it
01:02:29but then if i knew
01:02:32would i not just imagine that
01:02:34and what if it's worse
01:02:36if you knew
01:02:38you could think less about his death
01:02:41more about his life
01:02:43this investigation i'm not finding anything out
01:02:49all i'm doing really is retracing his steps
01:02:56i go to a coffee bar
01:02:59and i sit in a chair and i think maybe this is the chair he sat in
01:03:04and i can almost feel his presence
01:03:07but as soon as i feel it
01:03:10it's gone
01:03:12it slips away from me like mist under the sun
01:03:16softly
01:03:19and suddenly vanishes away
01:03:23my wife
01:03:27i think about her everyday
01:03:30i hate about the accident
01:03:34only every other day now
01:03:37i think about her as she was
01:03:43a laugh
01:03:45a smile
01:03:46i miss her
01:03:49i talk to her all the time
01:03:52around the house
01:03:53don't tell my sergeant
01:03:55but i don't relive it
01:04:00not anymore
01:04:02anyway not as often
01:04:05how did you get there
01:04:11i don't know how to get there
01:04:13i think it was when i accepted it
01:04:17when i stopped fighting it
01:04:20how it happened
01:04:27i couldn't tell you
01:04:30what i said about not wanting to know i do
01:04:37i do want to know
01:04:39please don't keep anything from me
01:04:41michelle
01:04:44we're not investigating stevie
01:04:47we're investigating murray
01:04:49chances are i won't have anything to tell you
01:04:52yes
01:04:53yes of course
01:04:54you must do your job
01:04:56is my hair right
01:05:15you look perfect
01:05:17ready
01:05:19ready
01:05:30um
01:05:31hello my little jailbirds
01:05:40but where are
01:05:42where is the wednesday club
01:05:43what did you expect
01:05:44men in hoods
01:05:47and high hats
01:05:48pomp
01:05:49and ceremony
01:05:50a gathering of bishops
01:05:51and grand high wizards
01:05:53this is it
01:05:55it's just you
01:05:59just me
01:06:00just
01:06:01that's not a very pretty word
01:06:04you decide on a whim
01:06:05who's in
01:06:06it's meaningless
01:06:07it's all completely meaningless
01:06:09yes my dear
01:06:10i'm afraid you're nothing special
01:06:12you're just another precocious child
01:06:15mistaken for something more
01:06:17or you think you're special
01:06:19oh my god you don't even touch the sides
01:06:23my brother
01:06:25my brother the prodigy
01:06:27the beloved of god
01:06:29look upon his genius
01:06:32and weep
01:06:33he has turned death itself
01:06:36into a marvel
01:06:37his own death
01:06:39the puzzle of puzzles
01:06:40and the answer
01:06:42is me
01:06:43he has made me
01:06:45the answer
01:06:46but i'm not going to be
01:06:49the answer
01:06:50i'm not going to lose this one
01:06:53i'm not going to be the one who takes the blame
01:06:57for once
01:06:58it's going to be the spoilt brat
01:07:01who gets it
01:07:02don't talk to her like that
01:07:03no one talks to me like that
01:07:05no one talks to me like that
01:07:33no one talks to me like that
01:07:35no one talks to me like that
01:07:36okay
01:07:37but i'm not going to tell her
01:07:38that's all
01:07:39what's a popular journey
01:07:40that's just what it is
01:07:41i never felt like that
01:07:42in the end
01:07:44that's all
01:07:46i don't think so
01:07:47but i'm not going
01:07:48that's a positive way
01:07:49but i don't think so
01:07:50that's it
01:07:51it's a way
01:07:52because he's just
01:07:53that's kind of
01:07:54a wonderful thing
01:07:55and i've seen
01:07:56that move
01:07:57and I'm not even
01:07:58i have a way
01:07:59i don't think so
01:08:00You can go down without a fight, Pete.
01:08:19If I'm not mistaken, this little box is the Wednesday Club.
01:08:25It's the Wizard of Oz, isn't it?
01:08:27Just a little man behind a green curtain.
01:08:30It's looking to me like this Wednesday Club is just a sorry exercise in mass bullying.
01:08:46Sir, you have been summoned, V and M.
01:08:52Oh, no.
01:08:57We had more than one caller last night.
01:09:02Michelle.
01:09:04We're going to talk to her.
01:09:06With respect, sir, I think it should be me.
01:09:09You're too close.
01:09:14All right.
01:09:15Yeah.
01:09:15We found this this morning in Connor Halls' rooms.
01:09:25Yes.
01:09:26I went to see him last night.
01:09:28I went to ask him for his help.
01:09:29You'd given up on me.
01:09:31And he refused you.
01:09:31He refused to help.
01:09:33What?
01:09:35Connor's dead, Michelle.
01:09:36Alex Faulkner killed him.
01:09:42Connor was going to go and confront him.
01:09:45Alex Faulkner killed my boy.
01:09:46And Alex Faulkner killed Murray yours.
01:09:50And still you don't believe me!
01:09:52Alex Faulkner has no motive.
01:09:53No reason to kill your son.
01:09:55No reason to kill Murray.
01:09:57And no reason to kill Connor.
01:09:58None that you know of.
01:09:59Michelle, enough.
01:10:00You have more reason to kill.
01:10:01To frame Alex Faulkner.
01:10:03I've lived with death for the past six years!
01:10:05I'm sick of it!
01:10:07I'm ill with it!
01:10:09Do you really think I'd want more?
01:10:13Where's Stevie's jumper?
01:10:23I'll get it.
01:10:30V and M.
01:10:42Vincent and Mia?
01:10:44No.
01:10:45We don't want to be called that anymore.
01:10:47This is you, though.
01:10:50We found it in Connor Hall's rooms.
01:10:54He summoned you last night.
01:10:56Why?
01:10:57What did he want?
01:10:58To humiliate us.
01:11:00To hurt us.
01:11:03To make us take the blame.
01:11:06And now Connor Hall's is dead.
01:11:21What's Lab H?
01:11:23It's one of the labs Stevie used.
01:11:25I've never been able to find it.
01:11:27Looks like something, but it's really a dead end.
01:11:30No, it's something.
01:11:40Michelle, we're going to need to analyse that blood.
01:11:43You don't need to take it.
01:11:45I can tell you it's Connor's blood.
01:11:47He'd been in a fight.
01:11:48He was bleeding, and he bled on Stevie's top.
01:11:54I tried to wash it out.
01:12:00I'll return it to you.
01:12:02I promise.
01:12:02I promise.
01:12:02How did you get those bruises?
01:12:22Connor.
01:12:23Connor.
01:12:24We had a fight.
01:12:25Two against one.
01:12:26But he won't.
01:12:27No, he didn't.
01:12:31Yeah.
01:12:35Yeah.
01:12:37Right.
01:12:40Fox Morton's in.
01:12:42So now we'll see you, won't we?
01:12:48Yeah, we missed it a little more tonight.
01:12:49Connor's blood.
01:12:51She said he'd been in a fight.
01:12:52Could you get this to forensics for me?
01:12:53You always give me the nicest presents.
01:13:00Sorry.
01:13:01Not just any old case, this one?
01:13:06No.
01:13:07Go on, Laura.
01:13:09Right.
01:13:10Cause of death, single blow to the back of the skull.
01:13:12There are some bruises.
01:13:13So there must have been a fight.
01:13:15Vincent and Mia are covered with bruises.
01:13:17Then the body fell into the river.
01:13:19Fell in?
01:13:20So he was killed beside the river?
01:13:22Yes.
01:13:23There's fresh mud from the riverbank,
01:13:25compacted into the treads of the shoes.
01:13:27Then the body drifted some way downstream,
01:13:29by the look of it.
01:13:31Lots of wear and tear after death,
01:13:33and silt in the pockets and folds of his clothes.
01:13:42Connor was found there.
01:13:44Square one.
01:13:53Square one.
01:14:11Inspector?
01:14:11Can I speak to you?
01:14:18Go on.
01:14:20I found a notebook.
01:14:23Here, in one of the tool stacks.
01:14:26It was Murray's.
01:14:28I didn't know what to make of it.
01:14:29He was always losing things.
01:14:32And Helena explained it away.
01:14:33Said she'd give it to you.
01:14:39I suppose I knew in my bones something was wrong.
01:14:42Now this.
01:14:45I'm sorry.
01:14:46Where's Helena now?
01:14:48She's in the lodge.
01:14:49She hasn't got up yet.
01:14:50I'm not a dishonest person.
01:14:57I didn't know what to do.
01:15:01Helena, she's...
01:15:03She's fragile.
01:15:06She hurts herself.
01:15:08I just didn't know what to do.
01:15:10Missing pieces of the puzzle are sort of our stock in trade.
01:15:20Half the time, we can't even see what's right in front of us.
01:15:24Where were you last night?
01:15:26I was here.
01:15:27I was in bed.
01:15:27I was alone.
01:15:30You were stood up?
01:15:34Yes.
01:15:36By Alex Faulkner?
01:15:39Have you spoken to him?
01:15:42Do you know where he was last night?
01:15:45Oh, come on, Helena.
01:15:47Look, I don't know where he was.
01:15:49I don't know anything.
01:15:50Not good enough.
01:15:51Look, I have two murders linked to these gardens.
01:15:55I have Murray Hall's notebook hidden here.
01:15:57And you want me to believe that you knew nothing at all about any of it?
01:16:05All right, let's see if a trip down the station gets you talking.
01:16:13What are these?
01:16:15These are the seed pods of the laburnum tree.
01:16:18I have to pick them up before the kids do.
01:16:20They're full of cytosine.
01:16:21It's highly toxic.
01:16:26Laburnum anagroides.
01:16:27Every single bit of this tree is poisonous.
01:16:32But it's glorious when it's in bloom.
01:16:36The flowers are bright yellow.
01:16:39Beautiful.
01:16:40I think they're laburnum trees in the picture at Gold Chain Hall.
01:16:44There's this hall in the long line of golden trees.
01:16:47I'm sure they're laburnums.
01:16:48Well, the hall was probably named after them.
01:16:52Well, when the tree was first introduced to Britain, it was known as the Golden Chain Tree.
01:16:56Because the flowers hang in golden chains.
01:16:58So another name for Gold Chain Hall would be...
01:17:01So another name for Gold Chain Hall would be...
01:17:03Laburnum Hall?
01:17:05Lab H.
01:17:06It's not Lab H.
01:17:11It's Laburnum Hall.
01:17:13Laburnum Hall?
01:17:14Laburnum Hall is another name for Gold Chain Hall.
01:17:16Lab H is Gold Chain Hall.
01:17:17Check upstairs.
01:17:25You, Professor, are going to show me what this is all about.
01:17:28I'm going to show you what this is all about.
01:17:58Alex?
01:18:07You told us you'd sold one or two paintings.
01:18:15It looks like you flogged a lot.
01:18:17We have sold a number of pieces, yes.
01:18:20And how much have you raised so far from the sales?
01:18:25Somewhere in the region of two million pounds.
01:18:28I believe.
01:18:29You're not spending all that in the garden, are you?
01:18:48What are you using this for, Dr. Fulman?
01:18:50Alex, don't speak to him.
01:18:52Don't say a word.
01:18:52I'll get a lawyer.
01:18:54No, no, Helena.
01:18:55There's no point.
01:18:58The jig is up.
01:18:59The jig is up.
01:19:00No, Alex.
01:19:02It'll be all right.
01:19:02Please don't let them take you away.
01:19:04Don't let them take you away from me.
01:19:06Please, please, Alex.
01:19:07What kind of work are you doing here?
01:19:16The Signature of All Things by Jacob Burma.
01:19:19This is the doctrine of signatures, the healing qualities of plants.
01:19:22Where did these come from, Dr. Fulconer?
01:19:30The laburnum tree.
01:19:32Laburnum seeds.
01:19:34Full of cytosine.
01:19:37Highly toxic.
01:19:38Murray Hall's is toxic to report.
01:19:39Caffeine, alcohol, nicotine.
01:19:42Michelle's house.
01:19:43What do you always notice about Michelle's house, aside from the obvious?
01:19:45She's a smoker.
01:19:46Always smells of smoke.
01:19:48Murray Hall's house smells of dry rot.
01:19:51Not cigarettes.
01:19:52Murray Hall's was not a smoker.
01:19:55So why was there nicotine in his blood tox?
01:20:00Laura, I need you to check on the blood tox of Murray Hall's.
01:20:06It's the nicotine reading.
01:20:10Yeah, can you do it now?
01:20:12Just, I think the lab might have made a mistake.
01:20:15I can tell you.
01:20:16It is.
01:20:17It's cytosine.
01:20:18Yeah, I'll hear it from my pathologist.
01:20:23Yeah, I'm still here.
01:20:25You're right.
01:20:25There is a mistake.
01:20:27It's a tiny molecular difference.
01:20:29It's not nicotine.
01:20:30It's cytosine.
01:20:32But it's not its usual state.
01:20:34It's been engineered.
01:20:35Thanks, Laura.
01:20:37Engineered cytosine, Dr. Faulkner.
01:20:43He's trying to find the cure.
01:20:46The cure for cancer.
01:20:49Lucrative.
01:20:50Or is it the Nobel Prize you're after, Doctor?
01:20:53No, it's nothing like that.
01:20:56It's for me.
01:20:58He's trying to find a cure for me.
01:21:00Skin cancer.
01:21:01He can't accept that there's no hope.
01:21:12I thought I was the only one taking it.
01:21:18She didn't know.
01:21:20Thea didn't know about Murray.
01:21:21Oh, God, Alex.
01:21:24What have you done?
01:21:27What have you done?
01:21:31Cytosine is a vasoconstrictor.
01:21:33There's been some good work done on vasoconstriction as a means of shrinking tumours.
01:21:40And laburnum flowers are yellow.
01:21:43It's a yellow plant full of flavonoids.
01:21:45Nature's sunscreen.
01:21:46Look, yellow.
01:21:47The signature of the plant's purpose.
01:21:49I know it sounds mad.
01:21:51It's crazy, I know.
01:21:53I'm crazed.
01:21:58I can't lose you.
01:22:02I won't be able to live.
01:22:05You'll have me.
01:22:13Dr. Faulkner.
01:22:15Murray Hawes.
01:22:16He needed cash.
01:22:21And I needed a guinea pig.
01:22:24We agreed three doses.
01:22:27100,000 per dose.
01:22:31He was going to come here, but I took him to the Botanic Gardens.
01:22:35I didn't want Thea asking questions.
01:22:36I didn't want to lie to her.
01:22:40And you, Professor Wright, what part did you play?
01:22:43None.
01:22:43None.
01:22:44No, I acted at all times.
01:22:47I acted alone.
01:22:50So you gave Murray the third dose at the Arid House?
01:22:53The first two doses went well.
01:22:59I got overconfident.
01:23:04I raised the third dose.
01:23:07He began fitting almost immediately.
01:23:10He hit his head as he fell.
01:23:12So you took the body out of the gardens.
01:23:15You buried it in the woods.
01:23:17You came back to the gardens and cleared up the Arid House.
01:23:21While the professor, your lover, who lives in the gardens, saw absolutely nothing.
01:23:27That's right.
01:23:28She knew nothing about it.
01:23:30I feel like I never meant to hurt him.
01:23:35I was trying to save my wife.
01:23:38You didn't mean to kill Murray, but you killed Connor.
01:23:41He came to see you, didn't he?
01:23:43He came to confront you.
01:23:45So what happened?
01:23:47He came to the gardens.
01:23:49He wanted answers.
01:23:52He said he was the prime suspect.
01:23:54He said he wouldn't leave until he found out the truth.
01:23:56He was angry, desperate, violent.
01:23:59And so you killed him.
01:24:01You killed Connor.
01:24:02And you chucked his body into the river like some piece of old junk.
01:24:11Yes.
01:24:13Don't touch her.
01:24:14Please, darling, no.
01:24:16I didn't.
01:24:16I didn't kill Connor.
01:24:18No, look at me.
01:24:19You know I didn't.
01:24:20I didn't kill Connor, you know me.
01:24:23You know I didn't.
01:24:23I couldn't have.
01:24:28He couldn't have done any of it without me.
01:24:31He couldn't have managed any of it on his own.
01:24:34He needed me.
01:24:35You needed me for once.
01:24:37You needed me more than I needed you.
01:24:41I killed Connor.
01:24:43One blow was all it took.
01:24:44One blow.
01:24:45It was easy.
01:24:49I did it for Alex.
01:24:53All for Alex.
01:24:59Still.
01:25:00Still.
01:25:01He doesn't love me.
01:25:09Stevie Marber.
01:25:11I see another person you didn't mean to kill.
01:25:14I found out about your experiments.
01:25:17Stevie, no.
01:25:19No.
01:25:20He was helping me.
01:25:21He was working with me.
01:25:24It was the worst day of my life when Stevie died.
01:25:28He would have got there.
01:25:29You see, he was, uh, he was that brilliant.
01:25:33If I'd got him working, got him clean,
01:25:35and he would have made the breakthrough.
01:25:39He would have succeeded.
01:25:41Or I have failed.
01:25:43You have not failed.
01:25:45I thought you'd leave him to me.
01:25:58I was waiting for you to leave him to me.
01:26:04Helena, it was a comfort to me.
01:26:07I don't want him to be alone.
01:26:08I never saw this possibility.
01:26:29That I'd be the one left behind.
01:26:32He won't be able to bear it if he can't be with me.
01:26:37He won't be able to bear it.
01:26:38I'm very sorry.
01:27:08I read the snark last night.
01:27:16I didn't understand a word of it.
01:27:21I've come to think that that might be the point.
01:27:24Aye.
01:27:27Apparently, a girl once wrote to Lewis Carroll.
01:27:31I asked him, why don't you just explain the snark?
01:27:33He replied, are you able to explain things you can't yourself understand?
01:27:40I don't know.
01:27:41I don't know.
01:27:48What do I say to her?
01:27:49How do I tell her the truth?
01:27:53Tell her the kindness.
01:27:57You're good at that.
01:27:58I don't know.
01:28:18You
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