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00:00Hi, welcome.
00:33Ladies and gentlemen of the Tempest Company, this is your 15-minute call.
00:3615 minutes.
00:37Nate, sweetie, I just wanted to give you a little thank you, Prezi, for everything you've
00:41done for us.
00:44I can't believe it's our last show.
00:48I'm going to miss you so much, my lovely.
00:51Yeah, me too.
00:57Nate, hon, is everything all right?
01:02Spirits hear me.
01:04It's our needs must curse, but they'll know a pinch.
01:08No, it sounds brilliant.
01:10And it's the lead, is it?
01:11Oh, great.
01:12OK, yeah.
01:13No, I can get a tape out of it to you.
01:15When's the deadline?
01:17I'll find someone.
01:18OK, my darling, let's do lunch when I'm back, OK?
01:21And I'm paying this time, you cheeky monkey.
01:24All right, you can pay.
01:25OK, lots of love.
01:26Bye.
01:28Another self-tape.
01:29So annoying.
01:31I'll tell you what it was, but I've just got to sign an NDA, you know, so...
01:34That's cool, Mum.
01:36Pleased for you.
01:37Guys, guys, we've got a situation.
01:38Like, a bad one.
01:40Rich is a no-show.
01:41His phone's going straight to voicemail.
01:42I think we all know where Prospero's total laughter.
01:50I think we all know where Prospero's total laughter.
01:51No, no, never.
01:54No, no, never.
01:56That is.
01:57I guess our last night was always going to be a mad one.
02:00After the way this tour's gone.
02:04But we both made it to the end.
02:08No, no, never, no more will I pay.
02:16No, never, no more.
02:20Rich.
02:21Rich, come on.
02:24Rich, we've got to go.
02:26Skedaddle, youth.
02:27Rich, come on.
02:28There's an audience.
02:28They've paid to see us.
02:29To see you.
02:32Come on, you're not going to let them down, are you?
02:38All right, come on.
02:40Hey, hey.
02:45All right.
02:46All right, all right.
02:50All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right.
02:52Oh, sweet Lord.
02:55Mr Dempster, you doing okay?
02:58Of course I am.
02:59Why wouldn't I be?
02:59Just a little dry around the mouth, that's all.
03:01Final call for Miranda.
03:02Act one, scene two.
03:03Final call, Miranda.
03:06Oh, no, no, no, no, no, that's a pop.
03:11Oh, much advice.
03:22Then to sea boys and go hang.
03:30This is a scurvy tune.
03:34Oh, but here's my comfort.
03:37Do not torment me.
03:39Oh.
03:39Whoa.
03:40What's the matter?
03:41Have we devils here?
03:43If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague.
03:53Ah, that's a brave god.
03:55And bear celestial liquor.
03:57Come, amen.
03:58I will pour some in thy other mouth.
04:06Stavano!
04:07Stavano!
04:07Lost thy other mouth caught me.
04:10Why, this is a devil and no monster.
04:12Stavano, I am Trinculo.
04:14Be not afeard.
04:16Thy good friend, Trinculo.
04:18Very Trinculo, indeed.
04:20I swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject.
04:24I'll show thee every fertile inch of the island.
04:30I see.
04:31I see.
04:34I prithee.
04:37Let me show thee where crabs grow.
04:41And with my long nails, I'll dig thee pig...
04:47Pig nuts.
04:51Oh, my God, Michael.
04:55Nathan, we need our first aid here.
04:58Michael, look to me.
05:01Oh, my God, he's not breathing.
05:03Someone call an ambulance.
05:05No!
05:06Quick!
05:07Somebody call an ambulance!
05:28Oh, my God, horseback to you.
05:29I've got nothing to say, there's no one忙.
05:33I know, my God, I know.
05:35The way, God.
05:47Yes, Thomas, what's up?
05:48Are you at the shot, sir?
05:50That I am, practising my darts.
05:52Oh, can't say you don't need it.
05:55Since I've got myself a decent set of arrows, my form has improved.
06:00Get in!
06:02I'm presuming this isn't a social call. You've got a case.
06:05A suspected poisoning occurred during a theatre performance.
06:09The victim collapsed on stage.
06:10What? You sure it wasn't an accident?
06:12According to paramedics, the symptoms suggest it's cyanide poisoning.
06:16Interesting.
06:17No!
06:18Is everything all right?
06:22I think I might have just nearly killed Harry.
06:25What are you doing, man?
06:27You can't play on here. It's not safe.
06:29Oh, God.
06:33Michael Farrar, 32 years old, suddenly collapsed halfway through the second act of the performance.
06:39The tempest, the poster said.
06:41Yeah.
06:42Last ten months they've been touring beaches all over the world with it.
06:45This was their final performance.
06:47Sergeant Fletcher's taken all the necessary statements.
06:50Caliban, I'll take it.
06:51One sec, let me check.
06:54Yes. Yes, it was.
06:56I mean, two points for you, Inspector.
06:59How did you work that out?
07:00Well, he looks monster-y, you know.
07:03Not human.
07:05I assume the smell of almonds got the paramedics thinking it was cyanide.
07:08Which is fast-acting, so do we know what he consumed before he died?
07:12Well, apparently, he drank from this moments before it happened.
07:18It's a fiasco.
07:18I mean, I'm trying my best here, sir. I haven't been here for long. I just got here.
07:22No. This is a fiasco.
07:24Oh.
07:24It's a traditional Italian wine bottle.
07:26He'll have drank from this in Act Two, Scene Two, the famous drinking scene.
07:30Let me check for you again.
07:32Boom shakalaka.
07:33Two more points for you again, Inspector.
07:35It was indeed Act Two, Scene Two.
07:38Oh, the man knows it's Shakespeare.
07:40He does?
07:42Who knew?
07:42Cherry juice. That'll be for the red wine.
07:45So chances are we're looking at our murder weapon.
07:48That's what you think, right?
07:50But it can't be, because two others drank from the same bottle during the performance.
07:55Stefano and Trinculo.
07:56That one I don't know, sir.
07:58But based on your previous form, two pints again.
08:01So what happened to the other two actors who drank from this?
08:03Not a thing.
08:04The paramedics checked them out and they seemed fine.
08:07And they recorded the show, seeing as it was the last performance,
08:11so I will watch it back and check to see what happened.
08:15But if they did drink from the same bottle, then...
08:19He must have ingested the poison some other way.
08:26Let's see what the rest of the company have to say.
08:31These are the two that drank from the same bottle as the victim.
08:33Mm-hmm.
08:34Just Gorman and Anya Chambers.
08:36She and the victim were in a relationship together and she's taking it pretty badly.
08:42Who are the others?
08:43So this is Richard Dempster.
08:45He directed this production and he also plays...
08:47Uh, Prospero.
08:49There comes a moment in every actor's life,
08:53a certain character's call to you.
08:56I had no choice.
08:58I had to submit.
09:00OK.
09:01And this is Nathan Burns.
09:03He's the company's stage manager.
09:04I swear, if there was poison in that bottle,
09:07it wasn't me that put it in there.
09:09Actually, Mr Burns, we're working on the basis
09:11that the poison was administered another way.
09:13Really?
09:13Oh, thank God.
09:14Yeah, the cyanide's fast-acting,
09:16so if it was in your system, we'd pretty much know by now.
09:20We'd like to know what else Mr Farah consumed
09:22in the 20 minutes or so before he died.
09:26Mikey never ate before a show.
09:28Not for two or three hours.
09:29Did he drink anything?
09:31I just sip water.
09:33What did he drink from?
09:34Uh, one of those water flask thingies.
09:38Oh, there it is.
09:43OK, so take me through exactly what happened this afternoon.
09:48Anything out of the ordinary?
09:49We went up a bit late by about 15 minutes.
09:53How come?
09:56Um...
09:57Just, um, technical hitch.
10:00And once the show had started?
10:02Oh, um, Michael was on stage in scene one.
10:06He doubles as the bosun.
10:08Take in the top sail.
10:09Ten to the master's whistle!
10:12Then a very, very swift makeup costume change
10:17reappear as Caliban in act one scene two.
10:20Anya helps, uh...
10:22Well, helped with that.
10:24And how did he seem, then?
10:27Fine.
10:28And what about before he went on stage and collapsed?
10:31A bit nervous.
10:33Pacing, buying his nails.
10:35He always was.
10:36Before that scene, there were a couple of tricky speeches in it.
10:39But he wasn't looking ill.
10:43Can any of you think why someone might want to do this to Mr. Farrah?
10:48No.
10:50Mikey was loved by the whole company.
10:52Very talented boy.
10:54He had the whole world at his feet.
11:07If we're working on the basis that the killer got the poison into Michael's system
11:1215, 20 minutes prior to him dying on stage,
11:15and it must be one of the cast or a stage crew that...
11:19Sir?
11:21Why kill someone like that?
11:25In front of an audience?
11:27And on the very last show of the tour?
11:30I mean, after today, they could all go home, right?
11:32They'd never have to see each other again.
11:34So why did he have to die on that stage today?
11:40This is a public beach, right?
11:42Well, we're going to need some security to keep an eye on the crime scene.
11:46And get Sergeant Fletcher and Officer Rose to do a sweep of the place.
11:48On it.
11:58You all right, Mr. Dempster?
12:00Oh, only ten months on tour will do this to you.
12:07Come on, Richard.
12:08It's time to go.
12:13Come on.
12:14Come on.
12:22Well, I recognise you from somewhere.
12:25Oh, yeah.
12:26It's a whole community police scheme thing we're doing.
12:30Sounds thrilling.
12:32I didn't catch your name in the frenzy of it all.
12:35Sergeant Matty Fletcher.
12:36Sergeant Matty Fletcher.
12:38Would you like to go for a drink with me while I'm on the island?
12:42No.
12:43That's inappropriate, Mr. Gorman.
12:46You know, with me being a police officer and you a possible suspect in a murder case.
12:51Right, yeah.
12:51Well, that makes sense.
12:53Um, I hope that wasn't too embarrassing.
12:55Not for me, it wasn't.
12:56Good, good.
12:57Um, I guess as an actor I lost all sense of shame a while ago.
13:01Mm-hmm.
13:04Did he just ask you on a date?
13:05During a murder investigation.
13:07That's a red flag right there.
13:09Maybe he's the killer.
13:10Maybe he's trying to get close to the police to keep an eye on the investigation.
13:13Or maybe he's just a bozo.
13:15That's also a possibility.
13:17Mm-hmm.
13:18Crazy, man.
13:31Take a bow, Mikey.
13:33Because it's all over now.
13:35I told you.
13:37It was always going to end this way.
13:50Oh, that's great, man.
13:51I'll get the beers, yeah?
13:53Yeah.
13:53And some snacks.
13:54Nice.
13:55What time should we say?
13:56Around seven-ish?
13:57Yeah, cool, man.
13:58All right, nice one.
13:59See you then.
14:01I just arranged a dance night with Daryl.
14:03Tonight, he's going to get his mates around.
14:06It's going to be a bit like being back home, you know?
14:08Lads standing around the dartboard, beers, banter.
14:12The only thing that's missing is a sticky pub carpet and some pork scratchings.
14:16Pork scratchings?
14:17Yeah.
14:18They are the quintessential English pub snack.
14:21It's fried pigskin.
14:23I'll get some sent over for you.
14:25Oh.
14:27No rush.
14:29Ah.
14:30Lab results?
14:30Ah, yes.
14:31And they confirmed the victim died from potassium cyanide poisoning.
14:36No surprise there.
14:37They checked Michael's own water bottle and found no traces of the poison in it whatsoever.
14:42Nothing in his water bottle.
14:45As for the fiasco, cherry juice.
14:50Fairly high glucose levels, they noticed.
14:53But, most importantly, a lethal dose of potassium cyanide.
15:00That is surprising.
15:02Poison was in the bottle that our victim and the other two actors drank from on stage.
15:06Mm-hmm.
15:07So how can three people drink from the same poison bottle and only one of them die?
15:12It doesn't make any sense.
15:30Well, we can rule out the pretending to drink theory.
15:33I mean, these guys are drinking from the bottle for real.
15:35No question.
15:36So what if one of the other two actors slipped the poison in on stage just before Michael drank from
15:41it?
15:42Yeah, rewind it a bit.
15:45Okay, play.
15:47Could it be Jez?
15:49Now, the bottle is in view the whole time.
15:51And he's not adding anything to it.
15:53Also, Michael's not the last person to drink from that bottle.
15:56Seb's right.
15:57Anya drinks after Michael's, so even if something had been added by Jez,
16:02Anya would have consumed it as well.
16:05How?
16:07How do they all drink the same liquid with poison in it,
16:12but only Michael Farrah dies?
16:17Who's Sergeant Fletcher on the phone to?
16:19Oh, an actor's agent back in the UK.
16:22Yeah, when we spoke with the rest of the cast this morning,
16:24a, um, Casey Briscoe, who plays Miranda,
16:28she said she saw Nathan Burns accosting the victim
16:32just moments before the show even started.
16:34I'm telling you, this is all going to come back on you,
16:36and sooner than you think of it.
16:37And there's rumours going around that there's history between them.
16:39So Casey slash Miranda said we should speak to this agent.
16:43Did you get anything from the search?
16:46Nothing interesting.
16:48I was suspicious.
16:50You know, he's been home in this little tune.
16:54I've never seen him do this before.
16:56Me neither.
16:58Inspector, what's this funky tune you've been home in?
17:02God, I don't know.
17:03It's been in my head since yesterday.
17:05I can't shake it.
17:06I can't place it.
17:10Wait a minute.
17:13Wait a minute.
17:23Bingo!
17:25It was an advert.
17:26It was on the telly about five years ago.
17:28They kept playing it.
17:34See, that's what I was humming.
17:37And why is this relevant?
17:40Wait.
17:41As a plumber, I've seen my fair share of what brains and six...
17:44That's why.
17:45And I know they can leave a pretty nasty pong.
17:48But now I found Whistwester, I can leave my...
17:50That's Nathan Burns, the stage manager.
17:52Man, he's like a better actor than all of the others put together.
17:56Nathan Burns was an actor.
17:58And he has history with our victim.
18:00I just spoke to an agent in London who used to represent Nathan.
18:05She remembers him as being super ambitious.
18:08The Whistbuster ad wasn't the end of his rainbow, then?
18:11The agent said about eight years ago,
18:13Nathan had a really important audition for the production of Macbeth
18:17at the National Theatre in London.
18:19And he didn't get it.
18:21But guess who did?
18:23Michael Farah.
18:24And more than that,
18:26Nathan went to the police at the time.
18:28He was adamant that he was spiked before the audition.
18:36By Michael?
18:37By Michael.
18:46So I get this big audition.
18:48And I go down to London and stay in a cheap hotel near the theatre.
18:53Michael's staying in the same place.
18:56Me and him get chatting in the bar the night before.
18:58What were you drinking?
18:59Just softs.
19:00But Michael insists on getting the last round.
19:03I go to bed at ten.
19:05Next thing, it's midday, and I've missed the audition.
19:08You think he drugged you?
19:09He was taking out the competition.
19:11And you went to the police?
19:12They said there wasn't enough evidence.
19:14Whatever he'd given me was already out of my system.
19:17What happened after that?
19:19I never got another break like it.
19:21Did a bit of theatre and education, a couple of TV ads.
19:25With Buster?
19:27Yeah, with Buster.
19:31Then I quit.
19:33So you tour with this guy for ten months, and it never comes up?
19:41Mr Burns, just before the last show, you were seen arguing with Michael, saying,
19:46it's all going to come back on you, and sooner than you think, mate.
19:52You're referring to him sabotaging your audition?
19:56That's some revenge.
19:58Spiking his drink like he spiked yours.
20:00I didn't kill Michael because of what he did to me eight years ago.
20:03Still must have bothered you, though, right?
20:04Otherwise, why bring it up?
20:05Well, I just, I couldn't stop myself.
20:08I was never going to see him again.
20:16We'll be in touch.
20:24There is definitely something he's not telling us.
20:27You think?
20:29You think?
20:42Rich, the police have been asking questions.
20:46I didn't tell them what he did to you.
20:49But if there's heat on me again, I don't think I can stay quiet any longer.
20:57To my own self be true, eh?
21:03Oh, Delroy, same again, if you would.
21:07Okay, no problem.
21:16Sir, how come you know so much about Shakespeare?
21:19Seems unlikely.
21:21You know, with you being a day of the match, a match of the day kind of guy.
21:26No disrespect.
21:28When I was a kid, I used to hang around outside the stage doors of West End theatres, yeah?
21:34In case I saw someone famous.
21:35Yeah, they meet Vin Diesel.
21:37No, I don't think Vin Diesel ever trod the boards of London.
21:42Anyway, I got to know some of the staff and they would let me sneak in and watch whatever was
21:46on at the time.
21:47So, yeah, I have seen my fair share of the bards' works.
21:54Also, I got talking to the actor sometimes and they would say how hard a gig it was.
22:00You know, the failed auditions, the unemployment, doing rubbish jobs just to make ends meet.
22:05It was tough, competitive.
22:07As our first suspect found out.
22:09Well, could it be that that pushed Michael to do what he did to Nathan?
22:12But it also shows there's a dark side to our victim.
22:16Spiking someone's drink just so he can get the role he wanted.
22:19That's ruthless.
22:20Well, whatever it was that led someone to poison Michael Farah,
22:23well, we still haven't got a scooby how we pulled it off.
22:26I mean, the man died on stage, right? In the middle of a performance.
22:29Drinking from the same bottle as these two.
22:32But they didn't die.
22:34He did.
22:38Did I Wilson speak in?
22:41Yeah, I can talk now.
22:45Okay.
22:48Yeah, yeah, I understand.
22:51Have you spoken to my brother about this?
22:54He has.
22:56Right.
22:58Okay, well, um, thanks for letting me know.
23:06Sir, is everything all right?
23:14I knew Mum would leave everything to Solomon.
23:18I just didn't think he'd put the house up for sale as soon as it was his.
23:24I thought we'd at least chat about it first.
23:28And what about your mother's things?
23:31According to the solicitor, he's arranged for a house clearance company to take everything and auction it all off.
23:38It all seems so rushed to me.
23:40Of course it's going to feel rushed.
23:42I would have liked at least a last look around the place.
23:47Maybe keep something of hers to remember her by.
23:56Then call your brother and tell him that's what you'd like to help him.
24:01He's got to understand, right?
24:16Hey!
24:18You?
24:19Yes!
24:21Uh, how can I help?
24:23Oh, well, actually, I thought I could help you, you know, wind down after a hard day's policing the streets.
24:30I've got some beers, picnic blanket, and, um, yeah, I thought we could find a quiet beach and get to
24:38know each other.
24:39Hmm.
24:39Mr Gorman?
24:40Yes?
24:41Did we not already have this conversation?
24:43We did, yes, but I felt what was happening was, you know, you were on duty.
24:48You had your colleagues around you, and I think you were saying what you felt you had to say.
24:53Mm, no.
24:55Come on, I'm not on this island for very long.
24:57How often do you get to do this with someone like me?
25:00Let's just have some fun.
25:03Here we go, here we go.
25:04Hmm.
25:06Hmm.
25:07Yes.
25:08Yes.
25:09There you go.
25:13Cheers.
25:15Actually, now that I think about it, I did say that I was going to meet my friend.
25:19What's the time now?
25:20Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're spilling it, you're spilling it.
25:22Oh, what a shame.
25:24I do have somewhere to be right now, though.
25:29Do not bother me again unless it's related to the case, Mr Gorman.
25:36You understand now?
25:38Good.
25:39You enjoyed the rest of your evening.
25:58Sergeant Fletcher, good morning.
25:59What have you got?
26:00So, I've been doing background checks on the other cast members,
26:03and I noticed Anya Chambers and Jez Gorman were in the same play back in 2021,
26:09and they ended up getting together, and, wait for it, they only got married a year later.
26:16Hang on, I thought Anya was with Michael.
26:18She was.
26:19She left Jez for him during the tour they'd been on.
26:23Why did this not show up sooner?
26:25Because it wasn't officially registered yet.
26:28They had a vow ceremony in the forest somewhere.
26:30There was a whole Midsummer Night's Dream theme going on.
26:34Yeah.
26:34Yeah, you should have seen some of the photos they posted on social media.
26:38That was some dress she wore.
26:39Respectfully, of course.
26:41So, how did Jez feel about being replaced by Michael?
26:44Hmm.
26:44Well, according to the other cast members, really not so good seems to be the answer.
26:49Mm-hmm.
26:55Look, I don't know who said that, but it's nonsense.
26:56So, when Anya told you she was leaving you for Michael, you weren't upset.
27:01Sorry, why is she here?
27:02Is that normal procedure, to bring a uniformed sergeant along?
27:05It is.
27:06Yep.
27:07Yes, it is.
27:08OK.
27:09Fine.
27:10So, it's nonsense, is it, that you were upset about Anya?
27:13Yes.
27:14I mean, Anya's the one who's losing out, not me.
27:17All our mutual friends are siding with me.
27:19She's the one who's going to have to move in with her parents when she gets back home, not me.
27:23I mean, it hurts.
27:24Yeah.
27:25Of course it hurts, it really hurts.
27:27But I didn't kill Michael because of it.
27:29I wasn't looking for revenge.
27:33Ah, this is my agent, so I should probably take...
27:35No.
27:37You shouldn't.
27:38OK, she'll leave a voicemail.
27:40This is a murder investigation, Mr Gorman.
27:43And your wife fell in love with the victim.
27:45That's a very strong motive.
27:47Well, that's where you're wrong, actually.
27:48They didn't fall in love.
27:50I mean, maybe she did, I don't know, but it wasn't reciprocated.
27:54What makes you say that?
27:58Because he told me so.
28:02A few nights before our final performance, we all had a bit of a sesh at the hotel bar.
28:08Some of us went for a dip in the sea.
28:10Michael comes up to me and he says he's going to end it with Anya because he's got some off
28:16-Broadway play and she's not what he needs right now.
28:20And did he end it with her?
28:22Yeah.
28:24Five minutes before the beginning of our final show.
28:28Talk about timing, eh?
28:40Anya's in room 352.
28:42That was Seb.
28:44The security team at the crime scene say somebody tried to break into the dressing room area last night.
28:49Guess her description?
28:51Is that something that we could have missed?
28:53Right, you and Officer Rose get down to the crime scene.
28:56Let's go and talk to Anya.
28:59Yeah, well, when's the deadline?
29:00Yes, Seb?
29:02Yeah, I'm sure I can get something to put me on tape.
29:06Mikey and I had gone to collect rich from this bar he drinks in.
29:11That was why we went up late.
29:14So that was the technical rich.
29:16We literally had five minutes before the performance was about to start.
29:19Mr. Dempster, come on, let's get you dressed.
29:22Fight! Fight!
29:24Michael just blurts it out.
29:27I can't do this anymore.
29:29I'm going to New York.
29:32I'm going alone.
29:34You gave up your marriage for Michael.
29:36You risked everything.
29:40It must have hurt then, when he told you it was over between you two.
29:45I don't know.
29:49What was it that drew you to Michael?
29:52It felt like...
29:54A kindred spirit.
29:57It was something I'd never had with Jess.
30:00In what way?
30:02Mikey cared so much about his work, but it terrified him.
30:07He was just striving to be as good as he could.
30:10And knowing it could all be torn down by a critic or the audience.
30:14And that vulnerability drew me to him.
30:17Because I feel it too, in everything.
30:22Okay, so in that moment, when he told you he'd finished with you, you must have felt...
30:27Betrayed.
30:29Angry.
30:29Angry.
30:29And within the hour, he was dead.
30:32What?
30:32What?
30:33You think I did it?
30:36Because of...
30:37I mean, but...
30:38How, even?
30:43You think I'd carry around a bottle of cyanide with me, just in case I get dumped?
30:49And if you'd forgotten, I drank from the same bottle as him.
30:53Why would I do that if I knew there was poison in it?
30:56Yeah.
31:01You know, my mum's church has this dirty thing going on.
31:06And sometimes, I think about doing a bit of act to myself, you know?
31:10It's just the words sometimes.
31:13I really struggle with words.
31:16Like, um...
31:22The winds did sing it to me.
31:24And the thunder, that deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced the name of Prosper.
31:31It did bass me trespass.
31:32Bass me trespass?
31:34I mean, what does that even mean, like, bass me trespass?
31:38Like a boombox type of bass?
31:39Less of the bass, more of the searching.
31:42Sergeant Fletcher.
31:43Commissioner, afternoon.
31:44Afternoon, sir.
31:46Might I have a word?
31:53How is the investigation going?
31:55We're making progress, sir.
31:57We've already got a few suspects in mind.
32:00Is everything all right, sir?
32:03A complaint has been made, accusing you of unprofessional conduct.
32:10By who?
32:11Jess Gorman claims you tried to initiate a romantic relationship with him.
32:16He said what?
32:17And when he turned you down, twice, you pursued him as a suspect in the case.
32:25That is just not true.
32:27We interviewed him because there was evidence to suggest he had a motive.
32:33And it was Mr. Gorman who asked me out twice.
32:36I swear to you, sir.
32:38He is making this all up.
32:40I mean, I would never do something like that, sir.
32:43You believe me, right?
32:46Look, sir.
32:47Ask Officer Rose.
32:49He was there the first time Mr. Gorman asked me out.
32:52He will tell you.
32:54Very well.
32:57Leave it with me.
33:06Exactly what am I looking for?
33:09Yes.
33:11Though, cannot find a thing?
33:13Hey.
33:14Ah.
33:18Hmm.
33:28Sarge!
33:29I think I found something.
33:32What is it?
33:37It's a beach like a key.
33:40There's a few of them two minutes of the road.
33:45Oh.
33:55Oh.
33:59Syringe.
34:04Well, I'm assuming that's the cyanide.
34:06Mm-hmm.
34:12It's in the throat, lozenges.
34:14You all right there, Mr. Dempster?
34:23Right, Mr. Dempster.
34:26This lot has got your fingerprints all over it.
34:30No one else's.
34:31You care to explain?
34:34It's thanks to Michael Farah that I fell off the wagon.
34:37Sorry?
34:38Before this tour, I've been sober 20 years.
34:41What happened?
34:43Michael was offered this, this off-Broadway show.
34:46It's going to get him some good publicity in the States.
34:49Well, at the same time, we had the chance of extending our tour by three months to South America.
34:55And you didn't want to lose your caliber?
34:56No.
34:57And, I mean, Michael was contractually obliged to stay if further dates were added.
35:01I refused to release him.
35:03Well, we know Michael was very ambitious, so I assume he wasn't happy about that.
35:08It's our first day off in the Caribbean.
35:11Trinidad.
35:12Trinidad.
35:13We all spent the day by the pool.
35:15Cheers.
35:19I didn't realize until it was too late.
35:21Oh, dear boy.
35:23Putting shots of vodka in my soft drink all day.
35:27Once I got the taste for it, well.
35:29Double, um, double whiskey, please.
35:33Twenty years without so much as a sip.
35:36It all came crashing down.
35:38Nathan and dear Anya, they were first to realize I was back on the source.
35:42Took it in turns, bless them.
35:45Putting me to bed.
35:46Did you tell them what Michael did?
35:48Yes.
35:48I don't think Anya believed me, but Nathan did.
35:52Nathan?
35:53Yeah.
35:53There is definitely something he's not telling us.
35:56He said that Michael had done something not dissimilar to him once, despite his drink.
36:03So that's what Nathan was holding back.
36:06When he confronted Michael before the final show, it wasn't just about his experience eight years ago.
36:13I'm telling you, this is all going to come back on you, and sooner than you think, mate.
36:16It was also about what he'd been doing to you.
36:19The irony of it is that funding fell through, and the end tour was never extended.
36:24Michael got exactly what he wanted.
36:26No, I had a sense he usually did.
36:29Which brings us back to this little collection.
36:32I think he poisoned one of these lozenges.
36:35Gave it to Michael backstage, then added poison to that wine bottle onstage after he died.
36:40To misdirect us.
36:42Make us think that's what killed him.
36:45I'm afraid my little plan wasn't quite so smart.
36:48Well, and not so deadly.
36:50The bottle doesn't contain cyanide.
36:53It contains lysergic acid diathlamine.
37:00LSD.
37:02The hallucinogen.
37:04I'm joking one of the lozenges.
37:06But not with cyanide.
37:08I don't want to kill him.
37:09I just wanted him to feel how he made me feel.
37:14All powerless.
37:17I wanted everyone to see it.
37:21I would go with that I am.
37:23I didn't go through with it.
37:27And when Michael collapsed onstage, and we were called...
37:31I panicked.
37:33All your frenzy.
37:34I ran to the beach lockers, hit the evidence, and...
37:38So it was you, our security saw, trying to get into the dressing room.
37:41To get that key.
37:43Did you tell anyone else about your plan?
37:45I was so smashed half the time.
37:47I might have left it lying around.
37:50God, I don't know.
37:52Inspector.
37:56Just a moment.
38:03I think he might be telling the truth.
38:06We've re-watched the video, and after Michael collapses, no one goes near the bottle he drank from.
38:12And look, Jez Garman puts down the bottle here, and no one touches it again until I do.
38:20There.
38:21So the poison was in the bottle all along?
38:24Nothing was added afterwards?
38:26No, sir.
38:28So how come the other two that drank from the bottle didn't die, and he did?
38:42You've reached Solomon.
38:44Leave a message, I'll get back to you.
38:47Sol, it's me again.
38:50Can you call me back?
38:51Please.
38:56So I just heard back from a few of Jez and Anya's friends in the UK, trying to get a
39:01handle on their marriage breaking up.
39:04Right.
39:06No one was shocked.
39:07It seems Jez wasn't the most faithful of husbands.
39:10He saw it as a kind of open marriage.
39:14Right, and what happens on tour stays on tour, then?
39:17And after three years of marriage, Anya felt betrayed and humiliated, just basically took her for granted, but obviously never
39:24expected her to actually leave.
39:26So when Anya hooked up with Michael, that must have really thrown him.
39:34Still haven't heard from your brother.
39:37You know what?
39:38I think he's actually ignoring my calls.
39:41I keep thinking about how things were between us, you know, when we last saw each other.
39:44They weren't great.
39:46In fact, if I'm honest, I kind of think it's because of me that we're going our separate ways.
39:50Then maybe you should go visit him in Antigua.
39:53You think?
39:54Yeah.
39:54Just go talk to him.
39:57I'm heading to the lab.
39:59You want me to drop you off at the shack?
40:01Er, no.
40:02Take me to the high street, please.
40:04I need to get a bucket and spade.
40:07As in a...
40:09As in a kiddie's bucket and spade for, like, the beach?
40:12What other kind of bucket and spade is there?
40:15Sir, um, is this for the case?
40:19Or...
40:21Are you having a break now?
40:23Probably both.
40:29Right.
40:30Well, that's me done.
40:38Sarge, you don't need to stress yourself over this Jez Garman complaint.
40:43Like you said, the man's a total bozo.
40:45And the commissioner will definitely see that.
40:47Car, he can see through the lies.
40:51You're not too sure about it.
40:56There's something that you don't know about me from before I, uh, I came back to St. Marie.
41:05In Jamaica, I...
41:08I messed up on the case.
41:11Big time.
41:13And...
41:14And some of my file and the commissioner knows about it.
41:19So...
41:19No.
41:21No.
41:22No, I'm not sure he's going to have my back on this.
41:25That's why you're transferred.
41:32Well, I mean, look...
41:35I wouldn't be so sure about that, Sarge.
41:39Because one thing I know for a fact is that the commissioner wants to give everyone a chance.
41:45Because, I mean, he did with me.
41:50Best decision he ever made.
42:13Morning, Sarge.
42:15Officer Rose.
42:15Oh, I see.
42:16Yes, Thomas.
42:17Sarge.
42:18Somebody's giving the inspector some hair.
42:22I never thought I'd see the day the man could have an afro.
42:25Whoever did this, making a bold statement.
42:38Morning, inspector.
42:41Have you seen the poster?
42:43Someone's giving you a glow-up.
42:44Yeah, I've seen it.
42:46Yeah, that really brings out your cheekbones, inspector.
42:48Kind of suits you.
42:49Oh, and he's got his little kiddies' buckets.
42:52And spades.
42:54Four of them, in fact.
42:56One bottle.
42:58One bottle.
42:59One dose of poison.
43:04Three people drink the same liquid from the same bottle.
43:10Now, how come only one of them ingest the poison and the other two don't?
43:14Well, that's not possible.
43:16That's not possible.
43:16Why not?
43:17They're sand in all of them.
43:19Or poison, so how?
43:21How indeed, Sergeant Fletcher.
43:26Is that from the lab?
43:27Yes.
43:28Oh.
43:32Confirms the liquid in the bottle we found in Mr. Dempster's cigar box was LSD.
43:40Not legal, but definitely not murder.
43:43Oh, sir, your buckets.
43:45Oh.
43:57The sea's washed all the sand away.
44:02It's like I was never there.
44:08Hang on.
44:13The water made the sand disappear.
44:17Or did it actually disappear?
44:20I mean, what if it was there all along?
44:23I think you poisoned one of these lozenges and added poison to that wine bottle on stage after he died.
44:28No one goes near the bottle you drank from.
44:31As for the fiasco, fairly high glucose levels.
44:35And if that explains the bottle, then where did the poison come from?
44:41No, no.
44:42A very, very swift makeup costume change reappear as Caliban in Act One, Scene Two.
44:48And with my long nails, I'll defeat you.
44:52Eat those.
44:56You know who did it.
44:59And I think I know why.
45:01But what about the hole, Inspector?
45:03I mean, that's what the hole big is about, right?
45:05I'm pretty sure I know the how as well.
45:07But, Officer Rose, I need you to run another tox report on Mr. Farah, but I need a glass of
45:11water first.
45:12You're dehydrated.
45:13No, it's not a drink.
45:14It's just a little experiment that will finally prove what really happened on stage three days ago.
45:20One glass of water coming right up.
45:30Now, I don't want to talk ill of the dead.
45:34However, I think it's fair to say that Michael Farah was a selfish and self-interested individual who only cared
45:42about what he wanted in life and how he was going to get it.
45:45But, did the malicious and hurtful things he did to each of you really mean he had to die?
45:55Anya, you obviously thought he did.
45:59Because it was you that poisoned him.
46:02No, I absolutely did not.
46:07The mystery we've been trying to solve throughout this case is how three people could drink from the same poisoned
46:17bottle, yet only one of them dies.
46:21We didn't know it, but the answer has been right in front of us from the start.
46:26And in a way, Mr. Farah gave it to us in his dying breath.
46:32And with my long nails, I'll dig thee pig...
46:35And I, with my long nails, will dig thee pig nuts.
46:40Because that's the thing about Caliban.
46:42He was a monster, right?
46:44And as part of Michael's make-up, to help make him look more...monstery, his nails were painted.
46:52And that's how he was poisoned.
46:55We need to get this to the lab.
46:56But we've already had Michael's fingernails tested, and it was confirmed there were traces of cyanide in the dried varnish.
47:05It was administered, Anya, by you.
47:08During his wardrobe change from the bosun into his Caliban costume, make-up, and painted fingernails.
47:17Nathan, you said Michael would get particularly nervous while waiting to go on stage for Act 2, Scene 2, yeah?
47:24A bit nervous.
47:25He would pace and bite his nails.
47:28Which, after touring for 12 months together, and having become intimate with him, you also knew Anya.
47:36But I told you, Michael only ended things with me half an hour before he died.
47:42How could I plan his murder in that time?
47:44You're right.
47:46Michael's murder was planned in advance.
47:49But now we know the killer had to be you, then it follows that you'd already found out Michael was
47:54planning to end his relationship with you.
47:57You getting in?
47:59Yeah, maybe.
48:00And with Michael telling Jez as much...
48:02Look, I'm gonna end things with Anya.
48:05I think you overheard that conversation.
48:07After everything, I thought you should know.
48:09And we believe that's when you decided to kill him.
48:13Then, if Michael's fingernails were poisoned...
48:16Well, why was there poison in the bottle?
48:19That was to misdirect us, right?
48:22To confuse us with the seeming impossibility that three people could drink from it, but only one die.
48:28Why? Why weren't they all killed?
48:31I'm glad you asked me that, Mr. Dempster.
48:33Because to answer that, we need to look to your own plan to get back at Michael Farrow.
48:37We know Miss Chambers helped to put you to bed a number of times when you've overindulged.
48:44Nathan and De'Arania, they took it in turns, but some really need a bed.
48:49And you admitted yourself you left the cigar box containing the syringe, the lozenges...
48:55I might have left it lying around.
48:56...and this little bottle lying around the place.
48:59We believe you came across this box, Miss Chambers.
49:04OK, Rich.
49:05A sip of water.
49:08Mmm.
49:09And that's when your plan started to take shape.
49:14But instead of using LSD, you used a fatal poison.
49:22Now, I have to admit, it didn't register with me at first, the significance.
49:27But when our lab tested the liquid in that poison bottle, the cherry juice...
49:33As for the fiasco...
49:35They found the level of glucose in it...
49:37Glucose levels.
49:38...higher than normal.
49:39That's where this comes in.
49:43Just over an hour ago, I dropped one of Mr. Dempster's throat lozenges in this glass of water.
49:49And now look.
49:52It's gone.
49:55Dissolved.
49:57And that's exactly what you did, Anya, with that wine bottle.
50:01Just before yourself, Jez and Michael went on that stage for Act 2, Scene 2.
50:06You see...
50:06No!
50:07...as long as the lozenge was whole and hadn't dissolved...
50:11Jez!
50:12...it was safe to drink from.
50:15Which you all did.
50:18But by the time we arrived at the crime scene and sent the bottle to the lab to be tested...
50:24...the lozenge had already melted away, releasing the poison, making it seem like it had been there all along.
50:34But why?
50:36Why did you kill him?
50:39Anya, when you and Michael got together, you were still feeling hurt and embarrassed...
50:47...by your husband's ongoing infidelities, him taking you for granted.
50:54So for Michael, the kindred spirit that you'd risked everything for...
51:00...to humiliate you even further by finishing with you, only a few months after getting together...
51:06...well, a bit more than hurt.
51:08And that's when you realised that perhaps the rumours you've heard about Michael, which you previously dismissed...
51:18...were actually true.
51:20That Mr Dempster's claim that Michael spiked him...
51:24...actually happened.
51:27Did you tell them what Michael did?
51:28Yes, I don't think Anya believed me, but...
51:31And that Nathan Burns' own past run-in with Mr Farrell was more than mere gossip.
51:36There's been gossip amongst the cast ideas, history between them.
51:39So you decided to do something that was long overdue.
51:43And on behalf of yourself, and everyone else here whose life he'd ruined...
51:48...you would give Michael something he deserved.
51:52To make him the one to finally suffer.
51:56His own downfall, his own humiliation.
52:00Right there on that stage, for all the world to see.
52:05And that, Miss Chambers...
52:07...is why you killed him.
52:17Anya Chambers...
52:18...I'm arresting you for the murder of Michael Farrell.
52:22You do not have to say anything.
52:24But it may harm your defence...
52:26...if you do not mention when questioned.
52:30Something which you later rely on in court.
52:45You not see enough of yourself already?
52:47It's never enough.
52:50Return of the bozo.
52:51So, could we have a quick chat, please?
52:59I just want to let you know that I officially dropped my complaint this morning and I wanted to say
53:05I'm sorry.
53:07You know you could have lost me, my job?
53:10Just because I wouldn't have a drink with you.
53:13What kind of sick little messed up brain you have?
53:16Yeah, that's pretty much what your commissioner said.
53:18Wait, the commissioner?
53:19Yeah, he was the one who insisted I apologise and said he was going to charge me with wasting police
53:24time.
53:25He caught my agent.
53:26He's a pretty terrifying guy, actually.
53:29Oh, and there he is.
53:31OK, well, look, I'd rather not have to deal with him again, so I'm really sorry.
53:46Sir?
53:49He apologised.
53:51He did?
53:52Thank you, sir.
53:54I'm sorry I couldn't get him to drop his complaint sooner.
53:57The man was clearly making it all up.
54:03So you knew he was lying all along?
54:06Of course.
54:07But one has to follow procedure in situations like this.
54:13It's...
54:15I just...
54:17I just thought you didn't believe me, sir.
54:20You know, after everything that happened before.
54:24You made a promise to me that there were going to be no more mistakes.
54:32And I tend to take people at their word.
54:35You're a good sergeant.
54:36I can see that.
54:37So, keep it up.
55:01OK, if I get a bullseye on this next throw, I'll book a ticket to Antigua.
55:08And I'll go and see Seoul.
55:24Um...
55:26Maybe make it best to three.
55:28Yeah.
55:30Another bullseye, and I'm definitely going to Antigua.
55:48I don't believe it.
55:54Well, that's that, then.
55:55I guess it's really happening.
56:02Yes, Thomas.
56:04I'm just letting you know I won't be coming in tomorrow.
56:08I'm actually taking your advice, as it goes.
56:10I'm going to see Seoul.
56:13Yeah?
56:14Well, I mean, I don't even know if he wants to see me, but...
56:19Hey, what's the worst that can happen?
56:34More water, please.
56:35I think it rather suits him.
56:38Yeah?
56:38That's the same thing I said, sir.
56:40Looks like I wanted a Jackson 5.
56:42And it is rather amusing, isn't it?
56:52Sir?
56:52Yes, Thomas?
56:53What is it?
56:54I think something has happened to the inspector.
57:16What the hell's going on?
57:23You.
57:26You.
57:40You.
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