Thriller. 18. Who Killed Lamb?

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First broadcast 16th August 1974.  A popular member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why.  Stanley Baker - Detective Inspector Jamieson Denis Lill - Sgt. Beck David Swift - Insp. Havelock Derek Francis - Octavius Lamb Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Madeleine Simon Fisher-Turner - Steven (as Simon Turner) Peter Sallis - Lloyd Artro Morris - Mr. Humber Gillian Raine - Miss Bennett Michael Hawkins - Bardon Ingrid Hafner - Mary Bruce Boa - Professor Friedland Cyril Shaps - Mr. Lavender Shelagh Wilcocks - Mrs. Lavender Honora Burke - Mrs. Bute John Challis - Casson Anthony Roye - Doctor Robson Ève Karpf - Miss Compton Anthony Bailey - Sgt Latimer Miles Anderson - P.C. Hanworth Dennis Blanch - P.C. York Cheryl Hall - Amy Colin Edwynn - Michael Mona Hammond - Nurse Melinda Sheridan - Receptionist

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00:02:17it's good to be working with you again chief what's it look like definitely murder where

00:02:24locker flats last night here in oxford quite a swanky place who man apartment six

00:02:34name lamb octavius lamb married one son

00:02:41ah shot all right let's get there shall i use the siren sir you won't run away don't call me

00:02:52sir

00:03:16so

00:03:41Shall we go upstairs?

00:03:43Yeah.

00:03:45We'll need an incident room on the spot.

00:03:47There's an empty room in there.

00:04:13We've had worse than the post office promises telephones by eight o'clock.

00:04:18Let's go up and take a look at Octavius.

00:04:21I like a nice corpse before breakfast.

00:04:30Couldn't you shut the eyes?

00:04:32The doctor put him back as he was, sir.

00:04:34Inspector Havelock, Oxford Central.

00:04:41Detective Chief Superintendent Jameson, C1 New Scotland Yard.

00:04:45What's the estimated time of death?

00:04:47Oh yes.

00:04:53The doctor got to the flat at 11.55.

00:04:55He said death was an hour and a half earlier, assuming he wasn't moved.

00:04:58Take a crane to move him.

00:05:01So estimated time of death was 10.30 last night, sir.

00:05:04Don't call me, sir.

00:05:06Where's the family?

00:05:07The wife and son were out for the evening.

00:05:09There was this note.

00:05:16Er...

00:05:20Having a meal at LF's.

00:05:23Won't be late.

00:05:24Yours is on a tray in the kitchen.

00:05:27M.

00:05:28She likes initials.

00:05:29Who's LF?

00:05:30Working on it, sir.

00:05:31She and the son found him when they got back last night.

00:05:33I packed them off to a hotel.

00:05:35Well, you might as well get him boxed up and out of here.

00:05:40It's half past six on BBC Radio Oxford on 95.2 VHF and 202 metres...

00:05:46What time does Radio Oxford go off the air?

00:05:48Harriet.

00:05:49Last news, 11.15, about 11.30, Chief.

00:05:52Taking plenty of pictures?

00:05:53They should be back any time now, sir.

00:05:54Don't call me, sir.

00:05:58I'm Tony, sir.

00:06:03Dad!

00:06:05Just calling me, sir.

00:06:40Here.

00:06:57the janitor's outside go I want to see the doctor he's not here ah well the

00:07:05janitor then the doctor then the widow and some now the janitor's name is Lloyd

00:07:15Fred Lloyd come in please Mr Lloyd I don't know anything you're not gonna be the judge of that

00:07:38don't mind if I use this thing there won't be evidence my sergeant making notes his writing

00:07:43is lousy right you're Fred Lloyd janitor these flats you live in the building in the basement

00:07:56tell me about the tenant in flat number six Mr Lamb what happened last night well nothing happened to

00:08:02me not till Stephen rang down Stephen Mr Lamb's son well was it an ordinary night what time did

00:08:08you finish work about eight I watched TV did some washing then the phone went and it was young

00:08:15Stephen what time was that I was late 11 30 something like that can you remember what the

00:08:22boy said when he just got home him and his mother they just got home and Mr Lamb was dead

00:08:28so he went up

00:08:36mrs lamb are you sure is he really in here mr. Lloyd are you all right mrs. lamb

00:08:54I phoned the police I touched the telephone I mean there'll be fingerprints I didn't think are you sure oh

00:09:08god we came in and there he was

00:09:12was the front door shut yes I used my key we came in the front door and in here and

00:09:20my mother can't sleep here tonight we must wait for the police don't leave me

00:09:25could it have been burglars there's anything missing take a look

00:09:38mrs. lamb you shouldn't be here the bedrooms look all right

00:10:03oh

00:10:05can't you look inside only father knows how you have sorry about this madam I'm detective inspector

00:10:12Havelock and this is sergeant Latimer I'm the janitor this is Stephen the son you're okay lad

00:10:20yes I think take your mother out and look after her see where they can stay sergeant all right so

00:10:23what about this yes some relatives or in hotel or something like that the car downstairs madam

00:10:34where is he oh it is in this room

00:10:49here

00:10:49shut looks like it could it be suicide in the back no I don't mind a bit

00:11:00you're American Mrs. Lamb a long time ago I came over here after college to continue my studies

00:11:07what was your subject the Icelandic sagas and you met and married Mr. Lamb here yes was he to do

00:11:16with

00:11:16the university Octavius oh no Octavius it's an unusual name oh he was the eighth child and his parents

00:11:29were no he was nothing to do with the university he was in business and Stephen how old is Stephen

00:11:34nearly 16

00:11:35sir where do you go to school Radcliffe Road grammar sir as far as you know your father didn't leave

00:11:40the

00:11:40apartment yesterday evening he wouldn't have he hardly ever went out in the evenings and you two

00:11:45went I went to the cinema what did you see a French film sir both of you no mother went

00:11:51to

00:11:51professor Friedland professor Friedland they talk Vikings and sagas it would bore father and yet you

00:11:58arrived home at the same time at 11 30 I still can't believe it it's it's it's all right mother

00:12:08I called for her after the cinema and we walked home together did you see anyone outside I don't think

00:12:14sir or in the hall no it was late for a young lad like you to be on he was

00:12:20with me who could have

00:12:22done it do either of you know if Mr. Lamb had any enemies Octavius oh no that's the terrible thing

00:12:32why do that to him there are there are enough wicked people in the world people no one would miss

00:12:37why kill him mother yes well thank you for coming in you'll be at the hotel if I still need

00:12:48you

00:12:56I'd like to go up to the apartment to my home to his home well we're working up there Mrs.

00:13:02Lamb if

00:13:04you need anything ask my sergeant make sure they go back to the hotel sure

00:13:14for a second yeah sure two bullets one in the arm of the chair one of the wall now the

00:13:21third still

00:13:21in his body an automatic that's for sure mmm I'll have a look dear lamb services uh sort of his

00:13:31business uh temporary typist secretaries office cleaners that sort of thing any profit yeah I'd say

00:13:38so found any enemies yet not even sure I expect you to all accounts Octavius Lamb was a saint

00:13:51I'm afraid Mr. Lamb's not in yet has he got a secretary yes Miss Bennet all right I'll see that

00:13:58can I help you

00:14:08oh it's about Mr. Lamb I haven't taken it in yet do you mind telling me how you heard

00:14:14Stephen telephoned me Mr. Lamb's son the girl outside doesn't know no I haven't told anyone yet

00:14:21except Mr. Humber I don't know how to Mr. Humber the general manager how long have you been with Mr.

00:14:30Lamb

00:14:3110 years 10 wonderful years that's his desk I can't believe it who could have done such a thing you

00:14:44liked him I respected him we all did did you ever meet him socially away from the office no did

00:14:53you ever go to his flat there was no reason

00:14:57do you know Mr. Lamb had any enemies oh no and if you knew him tell me tell you what

00:15:06he was like if you could manage to type those up and get them in the post by lunchtime I'd

00:15:09be very happy

00:15:10oh would you like to buy your personal paper Mr. Lamb yes please thank you good morning good morning Miss

00:15:15Bennet good morning Mr. Lamb

00:15:18now usual stuff again I'm afraid Miss Bennet my goodness you are looking smart today

00:15:23do you want to dictate Mr. Lamb oh you do that so much better than I do I don't really

00:15:28know why I bother to come in

00:15:30now uh they want a secretary for the advertising manager at Bruce's who've we got who's good

00:15:35uh Miss Renshaw no no I was thinking something a little bit more um what's the word I want uh

00:15:42Dolly

00:15:43oh I see well not too Dolly of course so what about Miss O'Connor oh yes but she's a

00:15:50chatterbox well

00:15:51just right for an advertising manager then oh and uh somebody at New College wants a thesis type somebody

00:15:56bright I'll sort someone out Mr. Lamb perhaps a young man for change oh yes that'd be a nice idea

00:16:03how's your mother Miss Bennet oh much better thank you good that's what I like to hear oh by the

00:16:09way I've got

00:16:10uh two tickets for the theatre next week now I can't use them I thought perhaps uh you might take

00:16:15your

00:16:15mother if she's well enough oh Mr. Lamb how kind

00:16:26I don't like to use them now he took an interest in who worked where who did what jobs well

00:16:32that's

00:16:33what made us so successful he talked to everyone secretaries and cleaners he wasn't a proud man

00:16:41he'd chat to them endlessly to tell you the truth he was a bit of a gossip but I mean

00:16:48that in a nice way

00:16:51oh Mr. Humber this is chief uh policeman Mr. Humber general manager

00:16:59yes yes Mr. Humber runs the place Mr. Lamb always said he could never get along without him

00:17:03how did you get along with Mr. Lamb oh everyone got along with him excuse me

00:17:11did you ever go to his flat I have for him when was the last time

00:17:19last night

00:17:22is that a fact I wanted some papers last night yes what time oh quite early he'd taken the draft

00:17:31accounts and I wanted them urgently now there we are Humber I think that's everything you want there

00:17:38um I've written my comments on the summary page of the accounts oh thank you sir you never seem to

00:17:44smile Humber do I work you too hard oh well it's been a long day and I do have to

00:17:49work hard you know

00:17:50that how lucky I am now I'll be getting along I'll finish these this evening

00:17:58uh hang on a minute there's a note here for my wife she's gone out my son's out why not

00:18:04stay and have

00:18:04a meal with me keep me company no thank you these are urgent good night Mr. Lamb and that was

00:18:12earlier

00:18:12you say about eight I was only there a minute and saw no one else no he was alone or

00:18:20outside I didn't

00:18:22see anything I just went and caught my bus and he was alive and well when you left oh alive

00:18:28and well

00:18:30excuse me I have to did you kill him Mr. Humber oh no I didn't what reason would I have

00:18:37you on a gun no

00:18:39you have access to a gun no or to anyone that has no well I'll be off it's you having

00:18:49so much urgent

00:18:49work to do good day Mr. Bennett uh good day

00:19:09kinky revolting there's not a dab anyway sir not a prince shouldn't be here only the dead man

00:19:14the wife the son oh and the janitor oh go on looking all right sir

00:19:23gruesome for a kid old kids are gruesome

00:19:31Mr. Lloyd says he's remembered something chief I wish I hadn't mentioned it now it can't mean anything

00:19:37try me

00:19:44I heard a motorbike when last night where were you down in my room and the motorbike went by in

00:19:50the street

00:19:50oh no no it was outside my window I saw it but you didn't think to tell us well what

00:19:55time was this

00:19:56Mr. Lloyd well I know that because news at 10 had finished I botched that then there was this round

00:20:17you didn't get the number number no of course did you get it Abba yes chief good

00:20:47I thought accommodation locks were not with James Cagney movies the manufacturers wouldn't give it me over the phone I

00:20:52had to send a uniformed man round

00:20:55what's the number uh 1 2 1 1 1 3 2

00:21:02you could have guessed it why

00:21:0512 1 13 2

00:21:08letters of the alphabet l a m b his name that's why you're a chief superintendent and i never will

00:21:13be

00:21:13you know you've got half a vanity even among saints

00:21:19car lock book insurance policies

00:21:25will

00:21:28i'm not here

00:21:37what should expect all to his wife

00:21:42now what's this a number 607 2 192

00:21:49another bank account somewhere a london telephone somewhere try it

00:22:06i'm sorry to trouble you but i need some more papers

00:22:14excuse me i wonder

00:22:17he didn't give me them all last night

00:22:18do you have something else mr lloyd oh well it's this mail for the lambs all right give it a

00:22:22mate all right all right all right off you go to your coffee party

00:22:29can i go up and look for them there are no business papers up there mr humber i'm sure if

00:22:33i went up

00:22:35electricity bill i haven't paid that either should you be lucky report me to the police come in

00:22:51so if i can just not today mr humber but the accountants are screaming so let them scream

00:22:55or talk to mrs lamb thank you

00:23:04bullets are nine millimeter ballistics guess and they stress guess they came from a browning

00:23:08no sign of it big search going on those guns away two or not to come by

00:23:14any news on the motorbike none of the beat constables or cars noticed one

00:23:20surely somewhere that time of night

00:23:56they came in late last night smashed the bike on the bypass scared i guess a truck driver found him

00:24:03and brought

00:24:03him here what's wrong with him legs arms back skull you name it man are you drunk no we ran

00:24:10a blood test for the transfusion what about the motorbike scrap metal i got the number oh we

00:24:15already checked that to let the relatives know it's still registered in the name of the previous owner

00:24:20he sold it a year ago and moved away no one knows where call for you sergeant thanks

00:24:27did you have a gun on him no what about his clothes oh we had to cut them off him

00:24:33they were leather black

00:24:35leather on the motorbike what else even priests wear black leather these days including the underwear

00:24:43we need a photograph of him without the bandages sergeant beck will arrange it the doctor won't like it

00:24:49so don't tell him as inspector havelock chief you're not going to believe this but they've found the gun

00:25:03amy hobson and michael singleton chief i have the addresses where'd you find it

00:25:09go on was there some kind of a secret

00:25:14no what was under the bridge you're a skin diver no no i'm a milkman

00:25:21so you meet there every day yeah no every dinner time no doubt you have your reasons

00:25:27i tried on it well it's quite dark down to the bridge and i didn't know what it was so

00:25:31i picked

00:25:32it up i thought it was a toy i was too heavy for a toy so you decided to tell

00:25:36the police after an

00:25:38argument well michael was married just shut up no there won't be any dabs in it no but you might

00:25:43well go through the routine we'll need your fingerprints already done chief yeah and i don't

00:25:48like it you'll be destroyed this isn't russia yet tell me about your secret meeting place hey now

00:25:55you watch it of course it's our secret meeting place the bridge over is it a road bridge yeah it's

00:26:01a hythe bridge chief here yeah could someone on a motorbike say going over that bridge throw a gun

00:26:09thinking would go in the water yeah yeah i suppose so if they didn't stop to make sure okay well

00:26:15thank

00:26:15thank you you've been very helpful and good luck

00:26:25don't tell him it was merry it is a browning nine millimeter ballistics were right ballistics are

00:26:31always right it's easy to be right when you're dealing with simple facts ballistics should try working

00:26:36with people sometimes now the apartment here the bridge here and where the bike crashed

00:26:45there on the line east to west across the city no number on that gun filed off years ago from

00:26:51look

00:26:55so imagine he was going home kill lamb drove off so the gun crashed he lives here the west of

00:27:05the

00:27:05city he's not hot over there no cheer me up there'll be photographs of him soon though they'll look like

00:27:10a wax work and sergeant beck is having his fingerprints checked at the yard no he won't be known

00:27:16amateur okay professional wouldn't throw the gun away or crash the motorbike unless he was drunk

00:27:21he wasn't he was young he was excited he just killed a man oh yeah the running copies now it's

00:27:27still wet

00:27:30looks like i feel the morning after well get it around everybody hotels boarding houses filling

00:27:35stations now what am i identified right anyone up in the apartment right now they're finished and

00:27:41came up with damn all keys well not having another thought in my head i shall revisit the

00:27:50scene of the crime sound like sherlock holmes i don't play the fiddle he uh he strikes me as a

00:27:58bit about connor the chief he's one of the best one of the best what sergeant one of the best

00:28:06sir

00:28:39is there anyone here

00:29:00is your business as urgent as all that mr humber

00:29:10what did you get in i found spare keys in his desk at the office

00:29:16i told you it it's the accounts i need the summary sheet urgently i've been looking for it you've been

00:29:22breaking and entering break but how could i be mr lamb was my boss and we can't have his death

00:29:29however sad upsetting the business you didn't like him i didn't kill him i know that you wouldn't have

00:29:36the guts well let's go and look for your accounts together shall we mr humber let's try the den

00:29:53do you try the safe of course i tried it it's locked so you thought that whatever you're looking

00:29:59for would be hidden among sir walter scott and jane austen i don't know do i it's somewhere what what

00:30:05what is it you're looking for mr humber the summary page of the accounts with mr lamb's comments

00:30:23are these what you're looking for mr humber what are they don't you know why should i i've never seen

00:30:33them before except that i can see their filth they're not a special brand of cowboys and indians i'll grant

00:30:43you that this one will fetch 20 pounds in the black market and even saints have private lives

00:30:50you think mrs lamb knows he that sort of thing wives always know husbands always think they don't

00:31:00hello mr humber you go back to your office for now wait for me

00:31:13you've got it haven't you you found it it was in the safe what was in the safe mr humber

00:31:42carlton cinema turns out at 10 15 this week oxford city of culture and learning humber was up there

00:31:49snooping around for what holy cow yeah hundreds of them anything to do with it no i don't think

00:31:59people get murdered for liking dirty books for collecting butterflies awful what does the mother

00:32:05do have dinner with lf oh yes um lewis friedland professor at merton college professor what scandinavian

00:32:13studies well i guess that was her subject look take this up to the safe steven lamb couldn't i just

00:32:22give

00:32:23it to you no even the dead get bills it's a wicked world

00:32:34didn't you get anyone oh if you like no don't bother about humber snooping

00:32:39what do you think it's the motive something in the flat someone killed for it humber was snooping

00:32:44for it perhaps some motorbike got it any idea what a fair idea a saintly mr octavius lamb

00:32:52that whole thing stinks to high heaven of blackmail yes and you got what blackmail is deserved

00:33:00john beck yeah thank you it's our motorbike friend he's conscious

00:33:07all right let's get there you stay here and finish your lunch

00:33:16it's not gonna happen is it false alarm hell he came around for a moment delirious but speaking

00:33:23it seemed right to call you sir it was right don't call me sir

00:33:27what did he say he was talking about a woman if it's his mother i'll scream talking to a woman

00:33:34he said she shouldn't be here go away whoever you are this is no place for a woman a woman

00:33:39do you

00:33:39think no name nothing to tell us who she is afraid not i could have been something from years ago

00:33:44he

00:33:44didn't know her did he go away whoever you are excuse me well if it was last night he was

00:33:55up in the

00:33:56flat looking for something saw a woman there maybe kill lamb oh she did him humber the woman all

00:34:02snooping don't leave him for a second nice where are we going the break humber he's all we've got left

00:34:37on the floor

00:34:38Ms Bennett

00:34:40i keep thinking it's still here i have my pen and pen where's mr humber mr humber i'll take you

00:34:50mr humber in his office he's in the washroom miss Bennett oh if you'll wait scuttled in there like a

00:34:57white

00:34:57I was drabbed ages ago.

00:35:05Mr Humber?

00:35:07Mr Humber?

00:35:08Ian?

00:35:10Stop it! Stop it!

00:35:12Stop it!

00:35:21Foxtrot calling. Red Badge 3.

00:35:23Foxtrot calling. Red Badge 3.

00:35:27Hello, Foxtrot. This is Red Badge 3.

00:35:29Message for Chief Superintendent Jameson.

00:35:32Hang on, Foxtrot. I'll get him.

00:35:38I have to see him. Not again!

00:35:40Please, not again!

00:35:43Ian, take this, will you?

00:35:45Right.

00:35:47He went out earlier.

00:35:49He said he had something to do.

00:35:51Yes, I know about that, Miss Bennet.

00:35:54He asked me if I knew how to open the safe in Mr Lamb's flat.

00:35:57And did you?

00:35:58No! I've never been there.

00:36:00Can one of you make Miss Bennet a cup of tea?

00:36:02The Roman way of dying.

00:36:04The least painful way.

00:36:06Our motorbike friend has died.

00:36:08Didn't speak again, but we do know who he is.

00:36:10His landlady recognised his picture.

00:36:13Well, we'll go and see the landlady.

00:36:14You stay here. You drive here.

00:36:16Chief, my car.

00:36:18He's not that bad a driver.

00:36:42Let him in, Constable.

00:36:44Mrs Beauty, I recognised you, sir.

00:36:45Well, of course I recognised it.

00:36:47I knew it was right away.

00:36:49What I don't know is what you people are doing here.

00:36:51This is a respectable house.

00:36:53We've never had the police here before.

00:36:55What's it all about?

00:36:56He's a quiet gentleman, my Mr Casson.

00:36:58He's never given me a minute's father.

00:37:00And won't in the future.

00:37:01Here, just a minute. What do you think you're doing?

00:37:06Don't look so scared, Constable.

00:37:08He's somewhere else.

00:37:10Yes.

00:37:10Yes what?

00:37:11Yes, sir.

00:37:14Does she know what he does for a living?

00:37:17Yes, Chief Superintendent.

00:37:18He was an assistant manager in a bank.

00:37:21Well, that's respectable.

00:37:23Little suit, grey suit, Harris tweed.

00:37:25And...

00:37:29More casual gear.

00:37:34Empty.

00:37:38Cricket bag, golf club.

00:37:40I don't know.

00:37:51Money?

00:37:54No, sir.

00:37:55He likes having his photograph taken.

00:37:59Of course.

00:38:02Ever seen anything like this before, Constable?

00:38:04No, sir.

00:38:06Square to be ordinary these days.

00:38:10We'd better take these with us.

00:38:11The landlady would have a heart attack.

00:38:14They had to be processed somewhere.

00:38:15Any chance of finding out where?

00:38:17Er...

00:38:17Oh, no, I doubt it.

00:38:18Can't identify the others, can we?

00:38:20Who do you think you are?

00:38:22Put me in.

00:38:23This is my house and I've got a right to know what's going on.

00:38:25Do you recognise that man, Mrs Bute?

00:38:28Why...

00:38:28It's Mr Lamb.

00:38:35Come here.

00:38:38What do you want?

00:38:39Can I go upstairs?

00:38:40Mother wants some things.

00:38:42What things?

00:38:42Change of clothes and her night dress.

00:38:44Okay.

00:38:45Naughty House.

00:38:46Er, yes.

00:38:47I want to speak to Detective Inspector Jessel, please.

00:38:50Give me a help.

00:38:52Well, go on.

00:38:53Off you go.

00:38:53Have you found who did it yet?

00:38:55Oh, there's some mail.

00:38:57Oh, for me.

00:38:58Give it to your mother.

00:39:00It's only a bill.

00:39:00I'll leave it upstairs.

00:39:01Hello, Peter.

00:39:02Yeah.

00:39:03Hold on a second.

00:39:03Are you expecting a butterfly?

00:39:05Yes.

00:39:06An Apertura Iris.

00:39:07The Purple Emperor.

00:39:09How do you know?

00:39:10I'll put it in the safe upstairs.

00:39:12Thanks a lot.

00:39:17Peter.

00:39:18Yes.

00:39:19Yeah.

00:39:20Listen, I'm down in Oxford playing a hunch.

00:39:23Our number.

00:39:25Er, 607-2192.

00:39:28Yeah.

00:39:29No, no, no, no.

00:39:29It's not a telephone number.

00:39:30We tried it.

00:39:33Yeah.

00:39:35Yes, it could be.

00:39:37Would you?

00:39:38Okay, thanks, Peter.

00:39:39Listen, C1 know where I am.

00:39:41Yep, thanks a lot.

00:39:41Bye-bye.

00:39:48The boy said everything seemed to be there.

00:39:51And he was by the safe.

00:39:53And I said,

00:39:55Can't you look inside?

00:39:57And he said,

00:39:58Only his dad knew how to open it.

00:40:05He said,

00:40:07Yes I had no idea.

00:40:07There's no idea.

00:40:10Not that he was going to work out.

00:40:11He said,

00:40:15He said,

00:40:16That he was able to make an eye out.

00:40:19He said,

00:40:19No one was to break.

00:40:19He said,

00:40:20He said,

00:40:20He gave him the color.

00:40:21I wanted to open it to the party.

00:40:23He said,

00:40:29He said,

00:41:30Peter?

00:41:32Yep.

00:41:34Yeah.

00:41:36Are you sure?

00:41:38Not sure, but half sure.

00:41:40That sounds like the fraud squad.

00:41:44No, thanks a lot, Peter.

00:41:46Yeah.

00:41:47Go on.

00:41:49607-2192.

00:41:50Number in the safe.

00:41:51It's probably the number of a bank account.

00:41:53Great.

00:41:53All we do is...

00:41:54Bank account in Switzerland.

00:41:56Oh.

00:41:59I don't know any Swiss police.

00:42:00They know they needed any.

00:42:02I might have somebody who does.

00:42:04Yeah, if I'm...

00:42:05You do it.

00:42:06You find out who that bank account belongs to, where it is, and I'll buy you a cheap dinner.

00:42:11Which reminds me I'm hungry.

00:42:15Oh, Chief.

00:42:19Lavender News.

00:42:21Agent tobacconist.

00:42:22Account for the month.

00:42:23Six past 25, so?

00:42:24Well, the address.

00:42:25It's in Great Tew.

00:42:27It's a village about all 12 miles from here.

00:42:29Now, who buys their newspapers from a shop 12 miles away?

00:42:34You are a clever boy.

00:42:36You are a clever boy.

00:42:42Finished yet, Chief.

00:42:49Yeah, just about.

00:42:56Okay.

00:42:57Let's make an entrance.

00:43:27Someone's in a hobby, Mr. Lavender.

00:43:29They'll have an accident driving like that.

00:43:32You are a clever boy?

00:43:32right, Mrs. Lavender.

00:43:54Post office is shut. I'm sorry but the law's the law. I'm the law. Oh. What do you

00:44:01want then? Information. It's a terrible photo. Is this? What? Oh no, that's ever so good. Look, Mr. Lavender, it's

00:44:12Mr. Battersby. That's right, Mr. Battersby. Mr. Battersby buys his newspapers here? Magazines and cigars sometimes. Once a week, regular

00:44:23as clockwork. I think he's a travelling man. If he wasn't a travelling man, he'd have a home of his

00:44:28own now, wouldn't he? Wouldn't need us for his

00:44:30letters? This man has his letters addressed here? They're what he calls for, really. How many? Oh, about the same

00:44:36every week. Twenty or so. All through the mail? No one ever calls personally? No, never. Never

00:44:42called themselves. There's a letter for him now. It came this morning. I want it. Oh no. Our service is

00:44:48confidential. Quite confidential. We never betray a trust. I'll betray your bloody post office

00:44:53for his licence. Now get it. How long has he been coming here, this Mr. Battersby? Years and years. One

00:45:04of our most

00:45:05regular customers. And he gets 20 letters every week? Give or take a few. Here. You can't do that. It's

00:45:15against the law. It's criminal. It's scandalous. It's...

00:45:21money, Mrs. Lavender. B-E-R. Yep. Yes. Uh-huh. You're beautiful. Sorry, sir. Sorry. Rough? Pretty rough. If we

00:45:42ever reveal the information, we'll be shot. And if the Swiss find out how we got it, they'll declare war.

00:45:46So tell me.

00:45:48Well, the bank is the bank Huber. The address is Zurich. The account is in the name of Agneau, Monsieur

00:45:53Agneau. That's French for land.

00:45:58Any chance of finding out how much is in the account? No, wait. The Pope couldn't find out. No. Well,

00:46:04there's some more for it. All grubby and untraceable.

00:46:08Definitely blackmail. Twenty or more people regularly every week. And one of them killed him.

00:46:13Yeah, it happens. Look, this isn't a regular stamp. It's Frank. Get on. No, you get on to the post

00:46:19office.

00:46:20Yes, come in.

00:46:22What do you want? I asked them to check the crime books for last night.

00:46:25Oh?

00:46:25Well, people getting killed. Motorbikes crashing. Guns.

00:46:28The Pope's office.

00:46:29Have a look. CID here.

00:46:30So what else?

00:46:30Someone broke into a television store and got away with four color sets. Drunk and disorderly outside a dog and

00:46:36duck.

00:46:36Someone broke into a school and a woman complained a man attacked her but ran away before anything happened.

00:46:41Probably got a good look at her.

00:46:42Yes.

00:46:44Right. Thank you very much.

00:46:46This envelope belongs to a firm called Harness and Barden Lawyers.

00:46:51That will go there.

00:46:52Which school?

00:46:53I beg pardon, sir?

00:46:55Which school was broken into last night?

00:46:57Well, nothing seemed to be missing, sir.

00:47:00It was, uh, Radcliffe Road Grammar.

00:47:05We're here after college to continue my studies.

00:47:09What was your subject?

00:47:13And Stephen, how old is Stephen?

00:47:15Nearly 16, sir.

00:47:17Where do you go to school?

00:47:18Radcliffe Road Grammar, sir.

00:47:21As far as you know.

00:47:22You go to that school.

00:47:24You stay here. Take care of this.

00:47:26We don't want too many big feet clumping out of a lawyer's office.

00:47:29You might see us.

00:47:36I'm sorry.

00:47:37You're good to see us. Thank you very much.

00:47:39What the hell do you think you're doing?

00:47:40Police, Mr. Barden.

00:47:41You have confirmation.

00:47:46Your secretary is a better typist than you are.

00:47:49You realize anything concerning my clients...

00:47:50You're a lawyer, not a priest.

00:47:52Concerns you, Mr. Barden.

00:47:55You type this envelope.

00:47:56Put 50 pounds in it and mailed it.

00:47:58The same as you've been doing every week or every month.

00:48:01He was blackmailing you.

00:48:03Lamb.

00:48:05Battersby.

00:48:06For how long?

00:48:08I don't have to say anything which might incriminate me.

00:48:10All right, get him down to the station.

00:48:11Lamb's dead. Battersby, as you know him, he's dead.

00:48:13You weren't the only one. There were dozens of you.

00:48:14One of you killed him last night.

00:48:15We don't even think it was you, but help yourself.

00:48:17Is that true? Battersby's dead.

00:48:21You're off his hook.

00:48:22Now get off ours.

00:48:25Help you with your inquiries.

00:48:27That's all right.

00:48:30How long has he been blackmailing you?

00:48:36Six years.

00:48:37How much?

00:48:37Do you know?

00:48:38Fifty pounds a month.

00:48:40Six years, that's...

00:48:42Three thousand six hundred.

00:48:45What did you do that's worth so much?

00:48:47I had an affair.

00:48:49With a woman?

00:48:49Of course it was with a woman.

00:48:51What the hell do you think?

00:48:52How did you find out Battersby Lamb?

00:48:56I don't know.

00:48:58He wrote...

00:49:00Sent me copies of letters I've written to Mary and...

00:49:03It was six years ago.

00:49:05It hasn't happened since.

00:49:06I never see her.

00:49:08You didn't want your wife to find out.

00:49:09I'm not married.

00:49:11Her husband.

00:49:11Was he big?

00:49:12Would he have duffed you up?

00:49:14That wouldn't worry me.

00:49:15What did?

00:49:15What does?

00:49:16Who is this Mary you had an affair with six years ago?

00:49:19She's married to my brother.

00:49:24Did you kill Octavius Lamb?

00:49:27No.

00:49:30But whoever did...

00:49:33Well, go on.

00:49:35They've got themselves a free lawyer.

00:49:49Bardon.

00:49:51Humber, the manager.

00:49:54What's his name on the motorbike?

00:49:55all pain all unknown to each other and the woman who lives upstairs whatever

00:50:02her name is suddenly they all know who lamb is and where he lives

00:50:08oh

00:50:20no i don't

00:50:27good evenings superintendent my name is mary barden

00:50:36i heard it on the radio some evenings my husband gets home late if the traffic's bad the local radio

00:50:43tells you so i listen at tea time they said that mr lamb of oakhurst court was dead so i

00:50:50thought i'd

00:50:50better come how long have you known him by that name his real name since yesterday and you came to

00:50:58his apartment last night yes did you met him before until yesterday i had no idea who he was

00:51:04or where he lived how did you suddenly discover that he lived here this arrived yesterday

00:51:22to mrs barden this is to help you the man who troubles you so much is octavius lamb

00:51:28and lives at six oakhurst court oxford burn this letter don't reveal it a well-wisher

00:51:37what did you think of it i thought it was his weird way of saying he wanted to meet me

00:51:43at last

00:51:44so you came here yeah what time i left it till late i didn't particularly want to be seen

00:51:52about ten about ten i rang the bell mr lamb yes the man who blackmails me what is this i

00:52:08thought you'd ask me in

00:52:16who is she is she in this with you i have no idea who either of you are well get

00:52:22her out of here

00:52:23get rid of her you shouldn't be here go away whoever you are this is no place for a woman

00:52:29what do you want

00:52:30i had a letter the same as is from a well-wisher look i want those photographs and i want

00:52:37them now oh

00:52:40and um what do you want don't you know you know you should be poised like her

00:52:50photographs you no i think not uh a letter did you send this well of course i didn't

00:52:56i mean he's playing a practical joke do i look like a blackmailer yes and i'm here to get my

00:53:00photographs i don't give a damn what you're here to get save you can both get out now i've had

00:53:06enough

00:53:06of you mr battersby over the years i've had more than enough of you you haven't had anything of me

00:53:13i have never seen you in my life before i have never seen either of you never heard of you

00:53:19heaven's sake put that pop gun away look it says here that you're the man has been blackmailing me

00:53:23for six years he is and me for four years blackmail i'm a businessman some business look if it was

00:53:31a joke who'd want to play it who can possibly know about me about either of us i've no idea

00:53:47go on i stopped being poised he started to phone for the police stop that put it down my home

00:53:56invaded by a pair of raving lunatic i'm warning you battersby don't make me do it he shot him blackmail

00:54:07castle no there was a fight well scuffle i had furniture going in but he was alive and well when

00:54:17you both left yes and if i say it's a pack of lies that one of you killed him look

00:54:23when i've come

00:54:23here listen the whole thing's a bore the blackmail's a bore it's all because i didn't want my husband

00:54:31to find out and i don't even care i was stupid the adultery

00:54:40paying him in the first place have you ever employed anyone from lamb's services lamb services

00:54:51yes years ago i got a cleaner from when my own was sick is that how you discovered did you

00:54:57ever see

00:54:57casson again well not really i saw a motorbike tearing off i assumed that was him

00:55:06i felt weak but i had to move there was this person watching person out there in the darkness

00:55:15scared me funny after what had happened did you recognize this person i didn't look

00:55:25do i have your address mrs barton i have it chief well you might well go home

00:55:41do

00:55:48do

00:55:52do

00:56:02do

00:56:03do

00:56:12Yes? Professor Friedland, Lewis Friedland. Yes. We're police officers, sir. We'd like to have a word with you about Mrs.

00:56:18Madeline Lamb.

00:56:22Maddie? What about her? Do you think we might come in, sir?

00:56:37Please be seated, gentlemen. Well, it's about, uh, Maggie, you say? She dined with you last night, Professor Friedland. That's

00:56:46right, uh-huh. What time did she leave? Oh, we talked about old times. I showed her an essay I

00:56:53have in the Havemore. We had some dinner. We... She left about ten. Hell no more like eleven-thirty.

00:57:00Did she ask you to say that? What? Oh, you're both American. Roughly the same age. We've known each other

00:57:07a long time. We're in the same class in school. In America? Uh-huh. You were friends?

00:57:11Well, we dated. We were doing the same studies after college. She came to Europe. And married. Look, I got

00:57:21this appointment a year ago. We've exchanged Christmas cards over the years, that's all. Until you met here.

00:57:28Are you in love with Mrs. Lamb? She's a married woman. Are you in love with her? Yes.

00:57:38And she with you? She was going to ask her husband for a divorce. I can imagine that.

00:57:49Mrs. Lamb, please.

00:57:53She didn't want to see anyone. She's upset after what happened.

00:58:02It's you or your son, Mrs. Lamb. We know that.

00:58:08Me?

00:58:10Are you absolutely certain about that?

00:58:16Mrs. Madeline Lamb, I have to charge you with the murder of your husband, Octavius Lamb, at number six, Oakhurst

00:58:21Court, in Oxford, and whatever you have.

00:58:23What the hell is this?

00:58:24I must warn you that you needn't say anything. But if you do, we're taken down and may be used

00:58:28in evidence.

00:58:29Maddie, don't you worry about it. Think this is all nonsense. I'm calling my...

00:58:31No, Lewis. He knows nothing.

00:58:34He lied to me.

00:58:35Well, for my sake, he has no idea why. He... He wouldn't divorce me, Lewis. He wouldn't let me divorce

00:58:42him. I didn't even ask.

00:58:44So you killed him.

00:58:45But that wasn't why.

00:58:47Do you know about his business?

00:58:49The agency? Of course I do.

00:58:50No, his other business.

00:58:52What other business?

00:58:53Your son knew.

00:58:55Stephen knew?

00:58:56He went alone to the cinema last night. It got out at 10.15.

00:58:59You said you both got back at 11.30.

00:59:03It was nearer 10 o'clock.

00:59:07Stephen got home first, and he didn't go to the movies.

00:59:11He told me later there'd been two people at the apartment, a man and a woman.

00:59:16They were there because he wrote to them.

00:59:18Well, he didn't tell me that.

00:59:20He waited outside until they left, and then he went in.

00:59:32He waited for a bus, and they went outside while they left, and they left the bus.

00:59:33Come on!

00:59:34I'm coming out, my young chimp.

00:59:35Count yourself for the breakfast of a night.

00:59:38I'm a man!

00:59:40I'm a man!

00:59:42I'm a man!

00:59:44I'm a man!

00:59:59I'm a man!

01:00:24Stephen, come in here, I want to work with you.

01:00:39Stephen!

01:00:42Father!

01:00:43Oh, well-wisher.

01:00:45You've been snooping.

01:00:46You're going to kill me.

01:00:48You don't know how weak people are.

01:00:51But not me.

01:00:52I'm not weak!

01:00:54And your mother, I suppose you told her?

01:00:57No, Father, please, it's for her.

01:00:58What does that mean?

01:00:59What does that mean?

01:01:00She wants to go away.

01:01:02Tell me!

01:01:03Professor Friedland, they want to...

01:01:08Get in there!

01:01:15Little boys must learn to mind their own business.

01:01:20Little boys must not meddle in other people's affairs!

01:01:27Archie!

01:01:29Ah, little treasure's been up to his tricks again, my dear.

01:01:33Ah, little treasure!

01:01:34No, please!

01:01:36Archie!

01:01:37Archie, stop it!

01:01:38Stop it at once!

01:01:40Ow!

01:01:40Do you hear me?

01:01:40Leave the boy alone!

01:01:41Oh, don't you worry!

01:01:43It's heavy!

01:01:43It's your turn, next!

01:01:45Ah!

01:01:45What's mine?

01:01:46Ow!

01:01:47Mine to do as I please will!

01:01:51Stop it!

01:01:52Understand it!

01:01:53Once and for all!

01:01:57Ah!

01:01:58Ah!

01:02:03Ah!

01:02:04Ah!

01:02:05Ah!

01:02:20Steve!

01:02:22Go downstairs, Mum.

01:02:24We can.

01:02:25Down the stairs and wait for me!

01:02:27Try not to let anyone see you!

01:02:29I didn't mean to come in!

01:02:30Mother, I must empty the safe!

01:02:34Steve!

01:02:39Mother!

01:02:40Look!

01:02:41There are things the police mustn't find, Mother!

01:02:44Go, Mother!

01:02:45I'll only be a little while and then I'll be all right!

01:02:49They killed him!

01:02:51The people who were here!

01:03:00I waited down by the back door!

01:03:03And when he came back?

01:03:04We went in the front way up to the apartment.

01:03:09You know the rest.

01:03:12I'll talk to the boy.

01:03:14Is that necessary?

01:03:16Of course it is.

01:03:18I've charged you, Mrs. Lamb.

01:03:20It's a custody charge, I'm afraid.

01:03:23You'll have to come to the police station.

01:03:43From Detective Chief Superintendent Jameson, C1 New Scotland Yard.

01:03:48Today's, tonight's date.

01:03:52Copies to the Chief Constable, the Coroner, the Director of Public Prosecutions.

01:03:59Paragraph one.

01:04:02Octavius Lamb was shot dead.

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