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First broadcast 27th December 1980.
Colonel Sangster and his gang are smuggling art treasures and industrial secrets out of the country and selling them on to foreign powers.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Moray Watson - Jeremy Sangster
Jonathan Newth - James Tibbs
Prunella Gee - Sarah Gresham
Neil McCarthy - Sam Armitage
Anthony May - Snapper Ullmann
Antony Carrick - Ralston
Dennis Burgess - Galbraith
Jo Rowbottom - Betty Marlow
William Moore - Gillespie
Andrew Hilton - Ebert
Peter Rutherford - Perce Wilmot
James House - Works Manager
Roger Martin - George Gorton
Charmian May - Miss Piper
Stephen Churchett - Supervisor
Hugh Morton - Smithson
Noreen Leighton - Receptionist
John Cannon - Huey
Victor Gallucci - Man in Van
Colonel Sangster and his gang are smuggling art treasures and industrial secrets out of the country and selling them on to foreign powers.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Moray Watson - Jeremy Sangster
Jonathan Newth - James Tibbs
Prunella Gee - Sarah Gresham
Neil McCarthy - Sam Armitage
Anthony May - Snapper Ullmann
Antony Carrick - Ralston
Dennis Burgess - Galbraith
Jo Rowbottom - Betty Marlow
William Moore - Gillespie
Andrew Hilton - Ebert
Peter Rutherford - Perce Wilmot
James House - Works Manager
Roger Martin - George Gorton
Charmian May - Miss Piper
Stephen Churchett - Supervisor
Hugh Morton - Smithson
Noreen Leighton - Receptionist
John Cannon - Huey
Victor Gallucci - Man in Van
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00:04Hurry it up, Ullman.
00:18Our customers are particular about what they're buying.
00:22They like to see where it comes from.
00:25Get them right, snapper.
00:46When did Cowley become an art lover?
00:49When he saw his first pound note.
00:53And why send us here?
00:56Improve our minds, he said.
00:58Well, with yours, he's got plenty of room to manoeuvre.
01:01Beautiful women and free champagne, eh, Gypsy?
01:03The only game in town.
01:05Blame it on a liberal education.
01:07Can't believe these prices, you know.
01:11We're in the wrong business, Dor.
01:13Yeah, I know.
01:14Should have been artistic.
01:16Could have copped for some of the loose living as well.
01:20I hope your new process is as good as you say.
01:22It costs enough money to develop it.
01:24I just hope we can keep it away from our competitors.
01:27Double the security patrols and free.
01:29No.
01:44And we're only going to run out of here.
01:46It's also set up.
01:48Yes, sir.
01:49No, sir.
01:50No, sir.
01:51No, sir.
01:53No.
01:57No, sir.
01:58No, sir.
02:14why stretch him this is only some fourpenny steel design firm we want to look at their
02:21etchings rather badly
02:44now just do your job little man take the photographs earn your ten grand
02:59the
03:05the
03:06the
04:37Last year's Derby winner.
04:38I hardly think so, Bodie.
04:40The bookies, maybe.
04:43Cowley here.
04:44Tell the gentleman from the Ministry I'll be with him directly at the tech laboratory.
04:47Over and out.
04:49I hope you don't suffer from hay fever or anything of that sort.
04:52A lot of the lab staff bring their sandwiches in here for relaxation.
04:56The flowers, you know.
04:57It's a change from looking at rock samples and oil under microscopes.
05:01The minister wanted me to have a full and frank exchange of views.
05:04Which means telling each other half the truth.
05:07With a sincere smile, naturally.
05:09He sent the right man.
05:11He did ask me for a thorough and urgent report.
05:15As soon as available.
05:17You've read the file.
05:18Avidly.
05:19And?
05:21They're operative.
05:22Bodie and oil.
05:23Now, you know the sort of work we do here.
05:25They'd better be very good.
05:27I don't count your paperclips, Henry.
05:29Don't start counting mine.
05:30You have read the reports from six specialist law enforcement agencies?
05:34All the various squads.
05:36All from the men at the top.
05:37All helpless.
05:39Against some very clever gentlemen specialising in art treasures and new industrial processes.
05:44Last week, the Orkhamhurst Chalice.
05:46Last night, the Billings Argensmeltier.
05:50And this week, it could be here.
05:52Straight and four.
05:53This department.
05:54And you're nervous.
05:56So am I.
06:09The usual Mickey Mouse flight plan, tipsy.
06:11Straight drop and back.
06:12And the cargo manifest shows you one crate over.
06:14So I make the usual fast and have to bring it back.
06:16But not until they've looked at it.
06:18Well, it's easier to annoy customs with inefficiency rather than bribe them.
06:22All we need is an examined case with seals on it.
06:25And Sarah can juggle the paperwork for the next trip.
06:26With the chalice.
06:27Work a switch.
06:28The Belgians don't like opening cases twice.
06:31So they won't bother.
06:33The whole world runs on routine, tipsy.
06:35Thank God.
06:36What about the steel process papers?
06:38The customers play rough.
06:40I've organised a special delivery arrangement for those on my side of the fence.
07:07Police check security.
07:09Somebody from some bloody ministry checked it.
07:12They still got through an alarm fence, laid two guards out, killed Higgins, and got at the droid.
07:16Any guesses?
07:18These Germans are working on the process like ours.
07:20Oh, they don't like competition unless they've voted for it, eh?
07:22Yeah, I'll use the blunt instrument.
07:24One of the guards heard them.
07:26This slot were English.
07:27One yokel, he said.
07:29Yeah.
07:30Some yokel.
07:31Thanks.
07:33These Germans.
07:34Well, there goes another urgent consignment for the diplomatic pouch.
07:38Yeah, with security waving and saying, have a nice trip.
07:45The minister calls it Operation Colander.
07:47Why?
07:48Because goodies are leaking from every hole.
07:51Oh, very witty.
07:53He's not pleased.
07:54Nor am I.
07:55Nor are the bosses of the special squads involved.
07:58Somebody set up a supermarket to get rid of the cream of thieving to order.
08:03Art and industry, small and selective.
08:06The cream's thick enough to make murder incidental.
08:09Look at the figures.
08:10The Alcon Nurse Chalice.
08:11What was that?
08:12200,000?
08:13More on the private market.
08:14Had to be to get through laser alarms.
08:16I can't get worked up about some sex and pot.
08:19But it's a smelting prototype really worth half a million.
08:23That's the taxpayers' research money that went into it.
08:27And a guard was killed to lift the details.
08:31A word from you about Undermannington Police, Secretary Colonel.
08:34And perhaps in the Chief Constable's ear.
08:36Both easily done.
08:37I've been more than glad to.
08:38God knows I don't mind gypsies living off the land.
08:41But they've damn near stripped my bottom orchard.
08:43And I don't get much chance for a decent partridge season this year.
08:46Yes, what we're doing our best.
08:47It's all right, all right.
08:48I know you've got all patrols on overtime.
08:50The gyps can smell a panda curl three valley fields away.
08:52Oh, well.
08:53At least I've got armadies in that dog of his.
08:55Nothing deterrent I'd like to face.
08:57It's still a bit much, though.
08:58The whole country's riddled with petty dishonesty and drunkards on the dole.
09:03All right.
09:03I'll write those letters this afternoon.
09:07I'd better go and pacify the civil servants.
09:09And us?
09:10You caught two small-timers the other day with rolls of classified electronics under their arms.
09:15They said they've been told what to steal.
09:17Half hundred weight of paper.
09:18With the usual deposit from a man in a pub who gave them time, place, master keys.
09:23Here it is.
09:23They tried to do it in the cheap, without a photographer, to reduce the drawings to a manageable size.
09:28Not like a seal works.
09:30We might not be as lucky next time, or as well informed.
09:34Time to close the unfriendly neighbourhood supermarket.
09:39So, we're looking for a photographer first, aren't we?
09:42Right.
09:46Let's check the pornopicture list, eh?
09:48See who's gone up in the world.
09:50See who's swapping skinflicks for steel.
09:53See who's gone up in the jail.
10:22See you!
10:23want this dummy manifest for the Alkenhurst chalice dated. tomorrow the
10:27sooner the better while Tibbsy is still supposed to be indignant about our
10:30paperwork. yes I could swing across to Geneva and bank last month's takings at
10:34the same time. never confuse movement with action Tibbsy.
10:37Hemingway should have taught you that at Sandhurst. one objective at a time. oh and
10:42Armitage. I think we'd be better off with a new photographer. go and look up the
10:46old one and itemize him. ask him for his resignation as you were. yes permanently.
11:16what a turn off. it's your idea you can put exotic dancers on your
11:21experiences. I'll put it down as technical research.
11:33I suspect there's not a meeting made in sight see. they're all in the betting shops.
11:44I told you didn't I. please come to my place tonight. look charlie ci5 have done the vice squad plenty
11:52of favours all clean ones. now you keep trying for us eh. who? snapper allman used to work for the
11:58orinoco club. yeah I got you. thanks. there's depravity everywhere. charles I know the minister's agitated. he's been rattling the
12:05telephone in my ear.
12:07now please don't quote tired facts at me. I've just been quoting them at cowley. process is worth millions. all
12:14stolen.
12:14yes I've read your probability study.
12:18yes the next most feasible and vulnerable area for these thieves is oil technology.
12:23my department.
12:24it's my responsibility.
12:27especially straightened for.
12:29and charles.
12:31the next time you have a happy thought.
12:32don't pass it on.
12:37bar parlour pewter.
12:39and.
12:40now.
12:42it is a unique.
12:43anglo-saxon relic.
12:45i wonder why the client should want to pay nearly a quarter of a million pounds for that.
12:50even once he'd seen the photographs of origin.
12:52so that he can gloat over it in private.
12:54in geneva.
12:55in a bank vault.
12:57haven't you ever gloated in private darling?
12:59not in a bank vault.
13:00you could do though.
13:02if somebody left you in oil well.
13:04we've never really looked at oil have we?
13:10good afternoon.
13:18ah they've all got clothes on.
13:20never mind.
13:20wait till you see the private collection.
13:22you know.
13:23if someone had told me i'd have got tired of the female anatomy i'd have laughed.
13:26yeah.
13:27you know that last one.
13:28back there.
13:28yeah.
13:28you had the original sister in port side.
13:31i hope we get lucky this time.
13:33i'm losing my appetite.
13:34yeah.
13:34new job suiting you mr armand.
13:36well it's a bit dodgy sometimes.
13:38it's the geezers i'm working with mainly.
13:40they're very regulation.
13:42almost military you could say.
13:43not like the crowd down the orinoco club.
13:45hello snapper.
13:46seen any good indecent exposures lately.
13:49we have.
13:50who are you?
13:51complaint from the passport office.
13:53get lost.
13:56oh it's the old wembley two step.
13:59yeah.
13:59corrugate your shims will you.
14:01call him off snapper or i'll be wearing that tripod round his neck.
14:04wait a minute bus.
14:05down in burlington street they're getting very beady about vice.
14:09reckon you've gone industrial.
14:10yeah you know um engineers drawings.
14:13steel works.
14:15it's all right purse.
14:16you sure?
14:17yeah.
14:26what do you want?
14:27hmm?
14:28oh yeah.
14:29it's uh.
14:30it's about my niece's wedding group.
14:32you made uncle albert look bald.
14:34who are you?
14:36you the buns?
14:37i'll be fair snapper.
14:39hey do we look like members of her majesty's constabulary?
14:42no.
14:43well there you are then.
14:45you must have a guilty conscience.
14:46do you want a drink?
14:47please mary.
14:48do you fancy being an accessory snapper?
15:10five two.
15:14that was convincing darling.
15:15thank you.
15:16this is herr dr ebert.
15:18delighted to meet you herr doctor.
15:20the document should have been delivered to germany colonel.
15:23by you.
15:24not risk to a diplomatic pouch.
15:26at my culpability and inconvenience.
15:28last time i delivered i didn't like my reception much.
15:31machine pistols flying and arguments about money.
15:33i was cheated.
15:35elementary strategy.
15:36never take the same risk twice.
15:39so i picked home ground.
15:42among friends.
15:44money all right sarah?
15:46yes.
15:47in the currencies you requested.
15:48claim before it?
15:50no.
15:51thought not.
15:52drawings all right?
15:53as per order and specification.
15:55good.
15:56i go back to my game then.
15:58i would like to say it's been a pleasure doing business with you colonel.
16:01but i prefer not to be hypocritical.
16:04i'm in it for the money herr doctor.
16:06not for the sunshine of your smile.
16:09i'll start searching diplomatic pouches.
16:12particularly east german ones on the works managers advice.
16:14that would be diplomatically most embarrassing.
16:17or an incident resulting only in strongly worded letters.
16:20which would you rather have?
16:21a red face and writer's cramp?
16:23or details of the smelting process back?
16:25that's for the politicians to decide.
16:26it always is henry.
16:27it always is.
16:28i'll make a telephone call.
16:29i hope the exertion doesn't tell of you.
16:31what's your department doing county?
16:33what it can henry.
16:35don't give us any ancient moody about some samaritan you man in a pub.
16:40yeah just give us a for instance we've.
16:41why should i tell you anything?
16:43you know why snapper.
16:43they could be the next people to walk through that door.
16:45and if you saw them do it they will be.
16:49one of them made a phone call to his boss once.
16:52from this place we were turning over.
16:54i only managed to get the first five figures.
16:56uh nope five.
16:58just ride it on the back of that will you?
17:00big clear hand.
17:31leave that alone.
17:32that's 600 quid worth.
17:35you won't be needing that.
17:38carol said to ask for your resignation?
17:46that's interesting photograph some memories forever.
17:52I hope you've got plenty of snaps of yourself
18:16You must have the wrong number
18:20Look, I would recommend that you try one of the large department stores
18:24Hello? Yes?
18:27You know what?
18:30Here is my authority to inquire
18:32It should come through messenger channels
18:34Channels are for hovercraft
18:36Listen, what are the numbers? 0-5-7-3-6 mean to you?
18:43Easy. The Felby area. One digit missing
18:46Great. Thanks.
18:47By the way, Mr. Cowley already has a full computer printout
18:50of the possible permutations of that number and its subscribers
18:54He's in the computer room now
18:55Wants to see you
18:57Yes, he would
18:57Yes, Minister, I'm aware that the whole matter is very sensitive
19:02Yes, Minister, it will be treated accordingly
19:07Very good, sir
19:10Tiptoe through those customary tulips
19:13Ah, gentlemen
19:15Are you still serious about becoming office boys?
19:18We're only trying to help
19:19Yeah, the switchboard, flashing lights
19:21Yeah, it's easier to delegate
19:23The Felby number you were given
19:25Works out at a list of ten subscribers
19:29Including an establishment for cream tea
19:31As that sort of town
19:32You will check all the numbers
19:34I don't think we have to look any further than this Colonel Sangster, do we?
19:37He's tailor-made for it
19:38I agree
19:40Import-export agency, legitimate airplane
19:42A very high telephone bill for chats to Leningrad, Geneva and so on
19:46Mainly about antiques
19:47Why don't we just lift him then?
19:49A small item called proof, Bodie
19:51Hard to find against a man with considerable standing in the area
19:54Bridge with the Lord Lieutenant
19:56Golf with the Chief Constable
19:58Here
20:00Look at his war record
20:05Bloodthirsty, isn't he?
20:06He was in military intelligence
20:08Possibly still is on the private grapevine
20:10Yeah, the Minister won't be too pleased with that
20:13Ah, well we could wear our clean shirts if you thought he was sensitive
20:17Certainly not your usual brass knuckles
20:20Here, look at Sangster's record again if you please
20:22You're outclassed
20:23He was hijacking and stealing and killing
20:26For highly patriotic reasons of course
20:27When you were in your cradles
20:29All the jobs in recent files show that he hasn't slipped in any way
20:33No wonder the special squads can't catch him
20:36Gentlemen
20:38We're up against a fellow professional
20:43Oh, when you've checked through this stuff
20:45I'll see you at my club
20:46At lunchtime
20:49The club?
21:08Pull
21:09Pull
21:11Pull
21:13Pull
21:13Pull
21:28you're looking pleased with yourself? first post was a cryptic confirmation of
21:33the Alkenhurst chalice payments. I always enjoy the results of putting sound
21:37theory into practice, choose and restrict operations, reconnoiter them, worship
21:41simplicity and remote control. leave as few traces as possible. on that where the
21:46hills armitage. shouldn't take him this long to itemize one photographer. you know
21:51when I first met you I thought you were one of the usual weekend wonders. good for
21:56a magnum at the bedside and possibly shopping spree in the south of France and
22:00then goodbye. and now you're independently wealthy. hmm seems rather immoral really.
22:06oh Sarah my love the moment you even start thinking about morality you're lost.
22:09copy politicians. they sign papers, gather millions and men die. emulate them.
22:16I thought we were doing. so we are. in our way.
22:28excuse me gentlemen. are you members? it's all right smithson. they are with me. very good major county.
22:35the minister has asked me to observe evesham asparagus and fresh seed trout. i trust that will be in order.
22:41for two. very much so. for two. we'll grab a sausage sandwich at nelly's cap. thank you.
22:46if you've got time. home work done gentlemen? yes.
22:49yes. what do you think sir?
22:55set you down.
22:58so what do local police think about this colonel sangster?
23:02respectful. he's clean and shining and influential. i think that'll be a bit frightened of him.
23:09you know how these small communities are.
23:11not much help then.
23:12unless it's from the inside.
23:14you were in the police weren't you door?
23:16yeah a long time. a lot of footsaw pavements ago.
23:20you've just rejoined.
23:21what?
23:22but the sign of the old blue lantern can't wait.
23:25oh no.
23:26on the inside at philby.
23:28your rank is detective sergeant. you're seconded to philby.
23:32oh jack. what a thrill you'll be able to arrest all those nasty motorists.
23:35shut up you.
23:36listen sir. i'm well out of practice with police work.
23:39you'll remember.
23:40you'll report to chief superintendent david gillespie.
23:44close to retirement but a hard man all the same.
23:46also a close friend of the colonel.
23:49i've had this report when you sent to him.
23:51you used to be with b division.
23:55detective sergeant doyle is sloppy careless of routine.
23:58insubordinate and should work under close supervision at all times.
24:01thanks very much.
24:02a report like that i should be scrubbing the ablution floor.
24:05and worse.
24:06doyle you're going to philby to pick brains.
24:08shuffle files.
24:09find out what's been missed or covered up.
24:11what's the point of you going down there as dick daring.
24:13the brightest star of scotland yard.
24:15i want you kept off the real work.
24:17yes sir.
24:18at no time will you get in touch with this office.
24:20all contact will be through bodie.
24:24ostensibly he'll be in sugarpeat machinery.
24:28thank you sir.
24:29oh i hope you feel well trapped.
24:31incidentally your squeaky photographer is dead.
24:34so that's one witness we won't be able to put on the stand.
24:37even under the official secrets act.
24:40i'd better take your gun back to armory doyle.
24:46there's one up the spot.
24:48thank you.
24:50you're a respectable policeman though.
24:55good morning constable.
24:57good morning constable.
25:22i'm glad you're looking for the case in the results.
25:23we're 20 percent under manned and they send us ragtime cowboy joe.
25:26detective sergeant doyle.
25:29give him the chance harry.
25:30that's right chief.
25:32sloppy.
25:33and careless of routine.
25:35i'll keep one foot on his neck me old not far from his backside.
25:39chief what use will he be when the itinerant laborers come in and start smashing up the pub gardens.
25:43he'll probably give them a hand.
25:44it is only for six weeks inspector.
25:47to broaden his experience.
25:48i'll broaden it for him.
25:49he'll go to sleep dreaming of city lights and wake up wishing he was back.
25:54detective sergeant doyle reporting for duty among the hayseeds.
26:07to become a foreigner in the air.
26:28this
26:29is the entire Preston. this
26:29is a good place. you.
26:29you.
26:30you.
26:31you.
26:31you.
26:31you.
26:34You.
26:43you're the new city copper then come down to teach us country one's had to do it not late sir
26:50i'll soon have a fast kip in the back of the car the name's gorton
26:56you look as if you need a bat oh you've got bats down here have you i thought you just
27:02might do
27:02the quick sleuths and the duck bun all the same aren't you walk the dirty streets and think
27:09everyone's dirty i lived in a city once like a zoo must be why any keepers like me i'd rather
27:19say
27:19good morning to people not poke a stick at me yeah well i find that civility doesn't work too well
27:24when somebody's shoving a bottle in your face i wouldn't say you knew too much about civility
27:30you want to teach me i might have to if i'm going to work with you start now anytime you
27:35can have
27:35that slum manners you came down here with or you can have an argument started arguing already have you
27:40done that's the way i couldn't argue with a black pudding
27:56first one's always on the house oh cheers thanks very much i hope you'll be comfortable here
28:00yeah i may come here often they had time for your job isn't it hey you know what farmers are
28:06like
28:06every year's the worst and this year's worse than ever yeah well i'm just up here doing a bit of
28:11surveying skiving really very strange name for a pub isn't it sangsters that's after the colonel
28:17there or rather his family lords of the manor have been for generations yeah he looks like a customer
28:23he'd stay the right side of you do if you've got any sense not that there's much choice not in
28:29here
28:29sam armitage not with that dog you've been told
28:46you mustn't worry about baron he's only playing he always takes this
28:54he leaves him alone mind once they bought a drink
29:00perhaps your little doggy like to chew this fire or maybe you just leave like the lady says
29:09i remember your face i'll try and forget yours
29:18nice sense of tactics you have friend where'd you learn it same place as you adjutant chilling a day
29:31well the laundry didn't leave out the start when they sent the old man in this morning did they
29:35speak superintendent gillespie to you yes sir of course he doesn't like time wasters not when they
29:41keep poking around files nor ten-page reports nobody does even the people who write them i was working
29:49from your notes remember he doesn't like sergeants who can't manage a decent shave either yes well you
29:56see the razor gets a bit shaky when you've been up all night keeping both eyes open on turkey pens
30:02get
30:02off my back ralston inspector ralston to you yes inspector have a puncture on me inspector
30:10sonny if i do you'll mend it
30:21the troops are getting a little restless not their job you included
30:25tipsy's had two legitimate flights in that little airplane of his
30:29and armitage has slaughtered his normal quota of helpless animals
30:33no josh crane there's the only happy one more beer money than he's ever seen even at harvest
30:39i can explain tipsy's trouble some insolent salesman staying down the village
30:44tibsey wants to give him a fat lip it's a phrase they use in the moving pictures
30:50colonel darling jeremy you are dodging the entire issue what they want is the risk and the excitement
30:59and the loot and so do you
31:04so you're the new sergeant then yeah i used to be in the mountains but my horse was retired
31:09sad hmm they're keeping you busy why hadn't you heard it's a big crime wave on people drunk in
31:15charge of lawn mowers one of them was a member of the parish council just goes to show the most
31:21respectable ones are the worst mind you we reported him to colonel sangster he was given seven days
31:27in the greenhouse what do i mean glass house both i bet you miss london don't you you know only
31:32the gang fights and the diesel fumes but inspector rolandson is going to teach me old
31:36time dancing there's another stranger over there you can compare notes hello
31:47hello fancy a drink oh yes please like the usual same again
31:57cheers how's business oh uh machinery's a bit off at the moment yeah i know how you feel
32:04yeah cutting beet isn't quite what it used to be i don't know this cow leaf it doesn't make
32:08something happen soon i'm going to turn into a giant marrow thank you betty how much is that yeah
32:12enjoy your rest while you can anyway
32:16so
32:25so
32:26so
32:26so
33:00Good, sir? Not too bad, yes.
33:09The message was that you have an operative structure and a fourth suspect, and a very important
33:14to the crazy minister. Talk in the car, it's garthy here.
33:20Henry, one of the most perfect forms known to man is the triangle. I have two corners
33:26of it, operative and suspect. I need the third. Bait. If you know somebody's going to steal
33:36something, it's much easier to catch the thief. You can't have straight and four. It's too
33:42far ahead. You just can't have it, even with the minister's permission. I've got to have
33:47straight and four. Genuine bait. Just a beautiful golden picture in a beautiful golden frame.
34:08I thought you were in good voice in church this morning, Jeremy?
34:11I always enjoy reading the lesson. Traditional.
34:13Oh, especially the bit about, uh, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
34:19Yes, you could see half the congregation reaching in one another's pockets.
34:24Business sections first, my love. The egghead back scratching can wait. Who reads books?
34:31The usual look around the marketplace, see what's on offer.
34:35It's how we found the chalice. Have you got this in the times, Jeremy?
34:40Yes, I have. I must say a prayer for informative publicity next week.
34:45What is it?
34:46Well, it starts off with the usual mawkish come on about Britain leading the world.
34:49To the bloody pawn shop.
34:51In this case, oil. It tells of an interesting new device called Straten 4.
34:55A new deep sea pressure gauge for sticking at the end of drills to calculate strata strength
35:00and radius. Silicon chip seismography. Sounds expensive.
35:05It is. About a million pounds worth. More to our sort of customers.
35:11How big?
35:12Fits into a small tea chest. Every bathroom should have one. For the bath oil, of course.
35:18Unfunny, Sarah. On Wednesday, it leaves the refinery for evaluation at the NPL.
35:24Well. Well, well, Tibsy. I think you'd better polish up your ergs and hydrocarbons,
35:29or whatever they call them, and head there, with all ears flapping.
35:33Initial there.
35:36And there.
35:39And sign at the bottom.
35:47I now have to ask you, Mr. Cowley, if you realise that your department, C.I. 5,
35:53has just accepted full responsibility for Straten 4, a piece of apparatus worth close on a million pounds.
35:59I realise. We'll do our best not to mislay it.
36:15You'll be taken straight into NPL tomorrow, Hughie.
36:18What for this time?
36:20Orders.
36:23You may or may not be the police officer you say you are.
36:25In any event, my bailiff has orders to evict or shoot any poachers or intruders.
36:30You've questioned the law a bit, aren't you, Colonel?
36:31Or protecting my own property.
36:33I'm prepared to argue it in a court of law.
36:35You might have to.
36:36Because if your bailiff doesn't put that gun down,
36:38I'm going to put wheel marks right across his navel.
36:47I just like credits, especially insolent official ones.
36:51Get me Chief Superintendent Gillespie, will you?
36:54Colonel Sangster is Chairman of the Board of Magistrates.
36:57He is not the bloody Mafia.
36:58So leave him alone.
36:59He's still an ordinary citizen, and it was still a routine patrol.
37:03The city of the town would take a dim view,
37:05having shotguns waved at his coppers.
37:07And with your type of lip, you probably deserved it.
37:10And Colonel Sangster is not an ordinary citizen.
37:13Oh, the class system rules.
37:17Okay.
37:17What was that?
37:18Just a sec.
37:25Bodhi, the name of the place we're living in is nowhere.
37:28I don't know.
37:29I've got my share of cream teas here.
37:32Any crumbs of comfort?
37:34Yeah, a couple.
37:35The bouncer at the Orinoco saw a man coming out of Allman's just after his neck was broken.
37:40A man had a dog.
37:42Sam Armitage.
37:43What's he whistling?
37:45I don't know.
37:45It's not on the report.
37:47At the aforementioned Armitage, I just sold my landlady a very pricey camera for about 50 quid.
37:52Oh, yes, yes.
37:54There's bargains everywhere, mate.
37:55You know where to look for them.
37:56But it's still circumstance, I'm circumstance, I'm accident.
37:59Got no proof, haven't we?
38:02Cowley wants to see me this afternoon.
38:04Oh, I'm on duty.
38:05Get off it.
38:05Get off it.
38:32How'd you go, Jimsy?
38:33Easy.
38:34One side lubricated the right foreman and got the hang of the axe.
38:38They're moving this straight and forth thing tomorrow.
38:41Very low key.
38:42No special security laid on.
38:44Just a couple of plate layer types and a works van.
39:11I don't know.
39:13I don't know.
39:17I can't do that.
39:32I don't know.
39:33its whereabouts why because we're almost sure that sangster's going to steal it and we stop him right
39:39you'd better now sign for the apparatus look at the scene of the object drop a hand on the
39:44colonel's collar and say hey you no no you'll stay where you are oh not more cream teas you
39:50and doyle around the clock doyle said he'd be on duty he'll be right
39:58i want sangster lifted as he's trying to get the apparatus out of the country
40:02i want to find out how it's done also no matter how half-hearted
40:08i want a treason charge to lay on him as well as the theft
40:14oi
40:15good morning
40:18i thought it was ralston i thought it was a haystack on fire
40:23not a haystack you doyle we've just drawn 24-hour eyeballs on the sangster export business so you
40:28better apply for leave or whatever procedural corridors you creep down in the modern fuzz
40:35well the best way is via the police doctor
40:39fees not to blood shop from breathalysers to fill in fords and triplicate
40:44yeah i'm sure you could fake sleeping sickness couldn't you you're a natural
40:47yeah
40:47they just mistake me for the police sergeant
40:50oh come on mate
40:52it's all right
40:53there are other ways
40:56provided you're not too worried about your pension
40:59i'll see you
41:00thank you sarah
41:02yes of course i'm pleased
41:04it's a firm offer
41:05you know i don't like speculation
41:08there's an affray at the sangster arms
41:10officers in need of assistance
41:11you're supposed to be the hot shot action man
41:14what are you hanging about for
41:15wednesday
41:16i only attend the frays on wednesday
41:19where the hell do you think you're going
41:22oh dentist appointment
41:23stop being funny and come on
41:46no motorbike escort this time you did ask but they said no
41:50i'll probably say you'd catch it
41:53no that's all
41:54all right
41:55see you
41:55no that's all
42:21oh
42:21oh
42:30You two gentlemen can choose between a little buckshot and a tap on the head.
42:34Think about it.
42:57Get him in the back.
43:17I love your office, Bodie.
43:19All the samples say that.
43:21It's the mark of a great salesman.
43:23We've got 20 minutes.
43:25Do your leg exercises, though.
43:48You cut that a bit fine, Tibbsy.
43:49Sorry about that, sir.
43:51Had to eliminate with extreme prejudice.
43:53Come out, right?
43:53I'm going to leave you alone today.
43:55Go.
44:01Go on.
44:26I can hear you, darling.
44:28The customs free case is ready and the plane's warming up.
44:30Over.
44:31And the flight plan, over?
44:33Yes, all filled in.
44:44If Carly wants to know how they do it, we can tell him.
44:46They just switched sails.
44:48It's a good way of making money out of a conjuring trick.
44:50Wow.
44:59Thank you, Miss Piper.
45:20I think we'd better call for reinforcements, mate.
45:22Not on that thing.
45:23They've got a full frequency radio in there.
45:25I'd still like to attract someone's attention or we might both end up on the police force.
45:39You made good time?
45:41It was worked out, my dear.
45:45There, boy.
45:48Well done.
45:49Well done.
45:49Right, tips it.
45:50OK.
45:51I've got it.
45:53Get it.
45:57Never did like dogs.
45:58Even greyhounds lose for me.
46:01Listen, Spike, that bloody aircraft, all right?
46:13Let's go.
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48:03Get to the plane.
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