- 7 weeks ago
First broadcast 6th July 1974.
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount of evidence contradicting his story.
Dinsdale Landen - Matthew Earp
Richard Todd - George Tulliver
Suzanne Neve - Blonde
Edward Hardwicke - Gifford
Derek Bond - Maycroft
Christopher George - Bernard Peel
Hans Meyer - Karl Vorster
Frank Wylie - Hendry
Andrew Mann - Garfield
Marian Diamond - Jennifer Peel
Belinda Mayne - Boutique Assistant
Simon Merrick - Doctor
Jill Goldston - Waitress
The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount of evidence contradicting his story.
Dinsdale Landen - Matthew Earp
Richard Todd - George Tulliver
Suzanne Neve - Blonde
Edward Hardwicke - Gifford
Derek Bond - Maycroft
Christopher George - Bernard Peel
Hans Meyer - Karl Vorster
Frank Wylie - Hendry
Andrew Mann - Garfield
Marian Diamond - Jennifer Peel
Belinda Mayne - Boutique Assistant
Simon Merrick - Doctor
Jill Goldston - Waitress
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00:01:17Hello?
00:01:18Mrs. Beal.
00:01:20Bernard? Is that you?
00:01:22No, Mrs. Beal. I'm not your husband.
00:01:24I'm just a friend, a good friend.
00:01:27Sorry, I didn't...
00:01:28And I'm worried about you.
00:01:30About your marriage.
00:01:32What?
00:01:33Visiting your mother, aren't you, Mrs. Beal?
00:01:36Yes.
00:01:37How did you...
00:01:39Who is this?
00:01:40I told you, a friend.
00:01:43I wouldn't stay there long, Mrs. Beal.
00:01:46I'd go home right away.
00:01:49You'll find your husband is cheating on you.
00:01:52What?
00:01:54What do you mean?
00:02:02That's a bunch of men in the morning, the lady of my mother.
00:02:03It is.
00:02:06I had to go home...
00:02:22I don't know...
00:02:22You're going to go home.
00:02:23I'm going home.
00:02:27You're going home.
00:02:28I'm home.
00:02:36Oh, my God.
00:03:05Oh, my God.
00:03:34Oh, my God.
00:03:58Oh, my God.
00:04:01Oh, my God.
00:04:07Bernard?
00:04:21Bernard?
00:04:23Bernard?
00:04:42Bernard?
00:04:44Thanks.
00:04:45Let's go and see the jet.
00:04:49Excuse me.
00:04:53Hello.
00:04:56Hello.
00:04:58Hello.
00:05:00Hello.
00:05:08Thank you very much.
00:05:21Well, you finally persuaded me, Tulliver.
00:05:23Two years and an awful lot of whiskey.
00:05:26But you won't regret it, Maycroft.
00:05:28That I promise you.
00:05:28Well, I suppose it was about time.
00:05:30Business was getting too big.
00:05:31Too much for one company to handle.
00:05:32Now there's us.
00:05:33My company.
00:05:34With you handling Europe and us with Southeast Asia, the sky's the limit, Maycroft.
00:05:38I hope so.
00:05:39Now there's one man who might not agree with you.
00:05:42Bernard?
00:05:48Tulliver, I'd like you to meet Bernard Peel, who looks after our overseas investments.
00:05:52Bernard?
00:05:53Tulliver?
00:05:53And very efficiently, too.
00:05:55We were just talking about the merits of this merger, Bernard.
00:05:58I'd rather not comment.
00:05:59Cautious, huh?
00:06:00Ill-informed.
00:06:01I haven't seen the files yet.
00:06:03I'm still working on that Munich business.
00:06:05Well, so you're that Bernard Peel, the American whiskey.
00:06:09I've been pretty well anglicized by now.
00:06:11He's been with us some time now.
00:06:13I'm certainly glad you're on our side.
00:06:15You really blew the lid off that little scandal.
00:06:18It wasn't very little, Mr. Tulliver.
00:06:20Cauter cost us 20 million pounds, plus our reputation.
00:06:23But Bernard got in first, hmm?
00:06:25With a little expert help.
00:06:28My wife.
00:06:29Yes, and where is the lovely Jennifer?
00:06:30She couldn't make it.
00:06:31It's her mother, you know, she hasn't been feeling well.
00:06:33But she sends her apologies to you both.
00:06:35I'll give her my regards, will you?
00:06:37I'm looking forward to meeting her very soon.
00:06:39Oh, by the way, Tulliver, Bernard, you haven't met the man who looks after all our security arrangements.
00:06:43Back you up.
00:06:46Oh, uh, Mr. Herb.
00:06:47Very nice meeting you.
00:06:49They're not there.
00:06:50Mr. P.
00:06:51Here.
00:06:55I'm sorry.
00:06:56I thought you were sure that...
00:06:57Yes, almost everyone does.
00:06:59What's the name?
00:07:00Herb.
00:07:00Everyone expects.
00:07:02Well, they don't expect me.
00:07:03I've heard great things about you, Mr. Herb.
00:07:05Tulliver.
00:07:06George Tulliver.
00:07:07Mr. Maycroft tells me you're one of the best in the business.
00:07:10Brother, Mr. Maycroft is an unmitigated liar.
00:07:12One of the best.
00:07:13I am the best.
00:07:14I think I can modestly say that in my chosen craft of detective, I am the very best.
00:07:20I also grow a pretty mean rose.
00:07:24I heard you mention your wife just now.
00:07:26Peel, not Jennifer Peel.
00:07:28Well, yes, do you know her?
00:07:29Good Lord, yes.
00:07:30We're sworn enemies.
00:07:32We've faced each other across the courts many times, and she keeps on winning, Blaster.
00:07:36Mr. Peel happens to be married to one of the best female lawyers in the country.
00:07:40Don't tell me you're married to a blue stocking.
00:07:42Well, hardly.
00:07:43She's one of the best lawyers, and certainly one of the prettiest.
00:07:46Eh, Mr. Peel?
00:07:47I must agree.
00:07:49Oh, no, not another storm.
00:07:51Yes, it was raining when I arrived.
00:07:52Forkast.
00:07:54Gale and rain.
00:08:21Forkast.
00:08:24And you, Mr. App?
00:08:25Oh.
00:08:26Never say no to a glass full of French bubbles.
00:08:30Or a pretty girl.
00:08:31Bernard?
00:08:33No, thank you.
00:08:34Driving.
00:08:35Very puritanical.
00:08:37But then that is your reputation, eh, Mr. Peel?
00:08:41Clear-headed.
00:08:42Incisive.
00:08:43Forster.
00:08:44I didn't know you were turning up.
00:08:45I was invited.
00:08:46That is what you mean.
00:08:48I'd like you to meet George Tulliver.
00:08:51Carl Forster.
00:08:53Carl looks after our German interests.
00:08:55When I'm allowed to, without interference.
00:08:58Carl, that's not fair.
00:08:59You know the company rule.
00:09:00Anything wrong, we have to get an outsider to investigate.
00:09:03I only complain when the investigation includes me.
00:09:05In your own interests, Carl, we have to clear you.
00:09:09And we will.
00:09:11I hope.
00:09:13I haven't finished my audit yet.
00:09:17Gentlemen, you really ought to sample this vintage.
00:09:20The actual taste of sunshine is a reality.
00:09:24Well, I'm sorry, but I have to be leaving.
00:09:27Jennifer's calling me a little later.
00:09:28Mr. Tulliver.
00:09:30Mr. Herb.
00:09:38He's a good man.
00:09:40Yes.
00:09:41Interesting chap.
00:09:45Well, good night again.
00:09:47Darling.
00:09:50I'll see you later.
00:09:54I don't even know her.
00:09:56Well, then your luck is changing.
00:10:04Well, the faithful Mr. Peel is not quite so faithful.
00:10:07NOON.
00:10:08NoON!
00:10:08They're soΕamort.
00:10:23I didn't know her name, but then, shall I have.
00:10:23I don't know her name, not my mother.
00:10:24But there's nothing sort of Ωizado.
00:10:32There's nothing outside of my world.
00:15:51Your wife's mother is on the phone.
00:15:53Yes, yes.
00:15:55The number's on the pad.
00:16:27And then it all got very, very nasty.
00:16:30Why are you here?
00:16:31because we received a phone call anonymous someone who said you killed
00:16:35your wife. oh yes I see you. thank you madam. no no need to be alarmed. goodbye.
00:16:55mrs. peel your wife sir left her mother's home yesterday about 4 30 she
00:17:01was returning straight here. yesterday but I expected her home this
00:17:06evening. she had a reason for returning earlier sir. a good reason. she was told
00:17:10she would find you here with another woman. what? well she wouldn't believe. now what
00:17:16militia. take a look around. I'll do the looking.
00:17:39you're wasting your time. if Jenny left yesterday and she isn't here now then something's happened
00:17:45to her. she's either had an accident. certainly looks that way sir. well then why are you standing
00:17:49here? why don't you? I found whiskey by your bed. do you always have a drink before you go to
00:17:55sleep
00:17:55or only when you want to steady your nerves? Jennifer and I thought it was criminal to drink and drive
00:18:01so
00:18:01if one of us went out the other one would. why aren't you out looking for her?
00:18:08I am. you you don't believe that that call from whoever it was.
00:18:14I convinced me. obviously convinced your wife too. what? anonymous call brought her back here.
00:18:22give me a complete rundown on everything you did yesterday from say 4 30 onwards.
00:18:28well about 4 30 I was here and I uh I left about 6 30 for town. about 6 30.
00:18:34yes. so you could have
00:18:35been here when your wife got back. she didn't get back. then you went to town. yes and I had
00:18:40a meal.
00:18:41alone? yes then I I went to the party. I told you about the office party. I got there about
00:18:47uh
00:18:48what little after nine. only stayed about a quarter of an hour and then you came back here. yes. no
00:18:55one saw you.
00:19:00no.
00:19:05wait a minute. wait a minute. yes. the man I switched cars with. that car outside. it's not mine.
00:19:22tell me about it. well there's uh nothing to tell.
00:19:29it was a filthy night out last night.
00:19:33i uh turned down the lane. there was a tree across it.
00:19:48i didn't relish the 20 mile detour when i noticed a car that was blocked on the other side of
00:19:51the tree and
00:19:52the driver was coming over to talk to me. it was he who made the obvious suggestion that we switch
00:19:57cars.
00:19:59well he was on the side i wanted to go and i was on the side he wanted to go.
00:20:03and neither one of us
00:20:04relished the long detour. and by a crazy coincidence it really didn't make any difference because
00:20:08we were driving the same type of car. same model. was even the same color. so we switched cars.
00:20:14i drove back here and had a drink and went to bed. a tree across the road. well yes. well
00:20:21you
00:20:21they must have moved it or you would have seen it. it was right across the road uh right beside
00:20:26that
00:20:26signpost. this man what was his name? i didn't even get his name. i i gave my card and he
00:20:31promised he'd
00:20:32call me back and we'd have arranged to switch the cars back again. you gave your car to a complete
00:20:36stranger. i lent it to him. and since they were absolutely identical.
00:20:44well i can't identify him. he was about uh six feet tall uh about 30 years
00:20:52he was wearing a dark overcoat. i'd uh i'd like to look at the car.
00:21:28i'd like to look at the car.
00:21:43Jennifer.
00:21:52But it's not my car.
00:21:56I can prove it.
00:21:58The number of my car.
00:22:01N-M-K-1-1.
00:22:43No, we're releasing nothing to the press at the moment.
00:22:45Mr. Peel is helping us with our inquiries, that's all.
00:22:49And of course Mrs. Peel is definitely dead.
00:22:52Of course.
00:22:54We don't know yet.
00:22:56Strangled.
00:22:57A scarf or a stocking.
00:22:58No bruises to the throat.
00:23:00That's an off-the-cup assessment of course, but the autopsy will confirm it, I'm sure.
00:23:06You're allowed one phone call.
00:23:08If I were you, I'd make it a lawyer.
00:23:11Lawyer.
00:23:12And with your wife's contacts, you should know plenty.
00:23:15Of course, they might be a bit reluctant to take you on, considering the circumstances.
00:23:20The lawyer.
00:23:22Whoever you say.
00:23:25I don't want a lawyer.
00:23:28I want a Mr. Matthew Earp.
00:23:31It is indeed a very crazy story.
00:23:33Yes, but that car was his.
00:23:35You checked, of course, that it wasn't just a switch of registration plates.
00:23:39Even the engine and chassis numbers tied up.
00:23:41That car is his.
00:23:42Registered to him 18 months ago.
00:23:45I'll tell you what I think happened.
00:23:48Hmm?
00:23:48He killed her.
00:23:53Then guilt cracked his mind.
00:23:57He had to find someone else to hang it on, so he invented this car story.
00:24:03Invented the stranger.
00:24:05And now, even he believes it.
00:24:08And that's what you think happened?
00:24:10Yes.
00:24:11And the tree across the road?
00:24:12Not a sign of it.
00:24:15Not a sign of it ever having been there.
00:24:17I've told him.
00:24:18He should have a lawyer.
00:24:20You don't approve of me?
00:24:22I don't approve of any private detective.
00:24:26Private, it's you against the full resources of the police.
00:24:28Now, where's the mileage in that?
00:24:29Well, I may start out with one advantage.
00:24:31I could believe his story.
00:24:35That is all for the moment.
00:24:37I don't even want to see him.
00:24:38He's just lost his wife.
00:24:40I doubt it would be making much sense for a while.
00:24:44You charge him a high fee.
00:24:47Well, as a matter of fact, Maycroft's a meeting by Bill, the company he works for.
00:24:51That'll push it up even higher.
00:24:53Probably more than I earn in a year.
00:24:55I beg your pardon?
00:24:57I said probably more than I earn in a year.
00:24:59Oh, yeah.
00:25:01Do you get it?
00:25:01Oh, my God.
00:25:56Oh, my God.
00:26:27Oh, my God.
00:26:31This is, uh, Mr. Vorster.
00:26:33Yes.
00:26:34We've met.
00:26:36He's got some interesting information about Peel and that, uh, office party.
00:26:39Seems there was a girl.
00:26:41He was there.
00:26:42He saw it, too.
00:26:44Peel was seen kissing this girl.
00:26:46I rather thought she was kissing him.
00:26:48Well, then, you did see it.
00:26:49You didn't mention it before.
00:26:50Slip your mind, Mr. Herb.
00:26:51Nothing ever slips my mind, Mr. Gifford.
00:26:54And I'd like to know why you didn't...
00:26:55We'll talk about that later.
00:26:57I've, um, found the tree.
00:26:59The tree across the road.
00:27:02Come on, I'll drive you there.
00:27:10Fifty yards up the lane.
00:27:12They couldn't have moved enough without lifting tackles.
00:27:15I checked that area for drag marks within...
00:27:18No, no, no, no.
00:27:18They didn't move the tree.
00:27:20Just the signpost.
00:27:22Well, that was Peel's term of reference, wasn't it?
00:27:25The tree was by the signpost.
00:27:27Well, it was.
00:27:28Except that the signpost would be moved away from where it should have been.
00:27:31And later put back.
00:27:32Peel drives up that lane every day.
00:27:34A lane is not a lane at length, you know.
00:27:36They all look alike.
00:27:38You see, nobody would ever notice a tiny detail like that.
00:27:41Except, uh, possibly you.
00:27:44This is very true.
00:28:09Just there.
00:28:10The whole way to put the signpost in.
00:28:12And the tree's just beyond.
00:28:55And the tree's just beyond.
00:29:04Yes?
00:29:05I checked on you.
00:29:06You get paid by results.
00:29:08A bonus if you prove Peel innocent.
00:29:10I can't believe it, Bernard.
00:29:13I just can't.
00:29:14I mean, I've known him and Jennifer for about...
00:29:17You can know someone all your life.
00:29:19But you'd never know them.
00:29:20But why?
00:29:21Why should he want to murder his wife?
00:29:23Because he was being unfaithful.
00:29:25Because he was cheating on her.
00:29:28Cheating!
00:29:31Listen, I loved Jennifer.
00:29:32I loved her and I...
00:29:33And the blonde?
00:29:35What blonde?
00:29:36At the office party.
00:29:37The one who kissed you.
00:29:38I don't know.
00:29:40She's a stranger.
00:29:41I've never seen her before.
00:29:42Your story is full of strangers, Mr. Peel.
00:29:44But it's the truth.
00:29:46Now, the police said you were nursing a hangover.
00:29:48When you arrived the next morning, you hadn't even taken off your clothes.
00:29:52No, I don't understand.
00:29:53Neither do I.
00:29:54I saw you at the office party.
00:29:55You had one glass of champagne.
00:29:57And when I got home, I had a glass of scythe.
00:29:59Jenny had set out for me.
00:30:01Now, what about this man that you swapped cars with?
00:30:03I've given his description.
00:30:05Yes, I read it.
00:30:06Very average.
00:30:11It doesn't look good, does it?
00:30:13Well, let's put it this way, Mr. Peel.
00:30:15I'd hate to be making a book on you at the moment.
00:30:17But don't worry.
00:30:18I can assure you, if you didn't kill your wife, I'll find out.
00:30:23But if you did, I'll find that out, too.
00:30:29I love Jennifer.
00:30:30You profit from her death.
00:30:31I didn't realize she was such a rich woman.
00:30:35It all comes to you, not?
00:30:37I loved her.
00:30:39And I found a tree that disappeared.
00:30:46It's here.
00:30:52She's walking towards a car.
00:30:56It ramped on the side window.
00:31:00And I'm just saying he wore a ring.
00:31:03A big, gaudy ring.
00:31:08With a red stone in it.
00:31:11What?
00:31:12Does that help?
00:31:14Everything helps.
00:31:16But it doesn't.
00:31:29What do you think?
00:31:30I think he was framed.
00:31:32In gilt and gold and hung neatly on the wall.
00:31:35Why?
00:31:36Why?
00:31:37Well, perhaps the answer to that one lies here.
00:31:40Well, it must have been very important.
00:31:42Someone wants Peel discredited and out of the way for good.
00:31:45And they want it so badly, they were prepared to kill his wife to achieve it.
00:31:48Now, that is very important, gentlemen.
00:31:50It usually means money.
00:31:52Oh, Bernard doesn't earn all that much.
00:31:54A comfortable salary, yes.
00:31:55Well, you saved the company big money.
00:31:57Like this recent German swindle.
00:31:58I thought that was all sewn up.
00:32:00But Bernard blew the whistle on it.
00:32:01That's true.
00:32:03Must have made him a few enemies.
00:32:04That's true, too.
00:32:05But all the men involved are inside.
00:32:06All of them?
00:32:07We don't know that for sure, do we?
00:32:09There might be still one undiscovered.
00:32:11Sweating it out.
00:32:13Exactly, Mr. Tulliver.
00:32:14Sweating it out.
00:32:15And sweat means fear.
00:32:16And fear makes men do desperate things.
00:32:19Yes, but who?
00:32:20Which man?
00:32:20Well, Forster doesn't like Peel.
00:32:23Carl?
00:32:24That's crazy.
00:32:25So is murder.
00:32:27Craziest thing in the world.
00:32:28Especially tricky ones like this.
00:32:31Oh, a good old blunt instrument in some dark street.
00:32:34Now, that could be tough to solve.
00:32:35But once they start getting tricky, getting clever,
00:32:38then it's just a question of time
00:32:40before someone more clever comes along.
00:32:44Someone with a touch of brilliance.
00:32:47And then it all...
00:32:49Yes.
00:32:50What's wrong?
00:32:51Do you know, even the most brilliant could overlook things.
00:32:54And I very nearly did.
00:32:57Nearly.
00:32:59Excuse me, gentlemen.
00:33:06I love you, darling.
00:33:07Agh.
00:33:11You may not stay the same type of thing.
00:33:12I love you, dear.
00:33:12All right.
00:33:15I know.
00:33:15I love you, Lord.
00:33:15I love you, John.
00:33:16I love you, John.
00:33:16Thank you, John.
00:33:16Sure you, John.
00:33:16You and her.
00:33:22You don't like me to love you.
00:33:23You're my Barton.
00:33:23You're pretty much, John.
00:33:23I love you.
00:33:25I love you.
00:34:26Oh!
00:34:46Finished.
00:34:49I'd you like to see a job completed neatly.
00:35:16Did someone work you over?
00:35:19I was not worked over. I was bought very hard and very precisely but that is not
00:35:25the point. The point is that I had that whiskey decanter which you neglected to
00:35:29check. It smelt and tasted very odd. But don't you see it was drugged. Peale did
00:35:36have only one drink and then passed out as he was meant to do and whoever it was
00:35:40moved in and arranged the frame. You don't give up do you? I'm sorry. Trying to earn
00:35:46that fee. What a very ordinary man you are. Are you suggesting that I... I'm suggesting you're
00:35:51ambitious Mr. Earp. I'm suggesting you're greedy and desperate to prove Peale
00:35:55innocent. Desperate to the point of trying to persuade me by any means. The
00:36:00decanter was there. It smelt and tasted very very odd. And now it's broken and
00:36:07you got hit by some unknown assailant. I do think I'm fool enough to attempt some
00:36:12illegal means. How did you get into that house hmm? We have the key. The door was
00:36:21open. Remarkably careless of someone. I know how you got in and if I could prove it
00:36:24I'd sling you in the next cell to Peale for illegal entry.
00:36:36Yeah. Yes all right.
00:36:40Your client. He wants to see you.
00:36:50I'd rather him than me. You know I was framed? I know every fact was artificially contrived,
00:36:59yes. Every fact. Then I was right in calling you. I've been thinking about that evening and I remember
00:37:13one thing. That girl had to be part of it. The girl, the blonde who threw arms around me at
00:37:20the party,
00:37:20she had to be part of the setup I'm sure of it. Yes indeed it is. Very possible.
00:37:25Well I've been trying to remember every detail. I remember one thing. She had a bag slung over her shoulder.
00:37:35One of those canvas things you get in a boutique with one name on it.
00:37:43Well you must have seen it. It just had one word stenciled onto it.
00:37:48Uncles. Well that's right but what does it mean?
00:37:51It's the name of a boutique in time that's very in at the moment.
00:37:54Well that's something. That's some kind of lead.
00:38:01I know it's not much but would you follow it up? Would you go there and check it out?
00:38:23I'm looking for a bag. A canvas. Stenciled with the name of this rather interesting shop upon it.
00:38:30Sold out. Oh congratulations. Much must be due to her own personal charm, business acumen and driving sales attack.
00:38:37You're some kind of freak. Yes possibly. According to Lang you know we're all mad in varying degrees.
00:38:44I don't suppose you keep a list of customers do you? That sort of thing?
00:38:48Of course not too busy. Yes yes I feared not. Nevertheless perhaps someone ordered a bag by mail. Do you
00:38:53see?
00:38:53No. No? Well if they had they you'd have an address almost. No. Can I help you?
00:39:00The girl from Uncle. What? We've met before. Oh come on now.
00:39:06Oh yes we have. The other day at Maycroft's. The Maycroft office party. Oh you were there?
00:39:13Oh yes you were. I never ever forget her face. I suppose I was there.
00:39:19You were there. And you were being very provocative and very amorous. In fact you kissed Bernard Peale.
00:39:25Peale. Oh you mean the timid man. Well perhaps you intimidated him.
00:39:32Well it was just a joke. Didn't it work? Oh yes. Perfectly I think. Oh may I?
00:39:43Mr Peale is now under arrest for murder. Are you having me on?
00:39:52Look I mean I don't know anything about it. Look look I'm busy. I want to know about this joke.
00:40:00I've told you I don't know anything about it. You've already told me you did.
00:40:05Are you the police? A glance at my feet will tell you no. The joke.
00:40:12Can I trust you? Alone in my flat at 2.30am? No. But right now yes you can trust me.
00:40:22Look I don't know anything about it. You're beginning to bore me with that remark. The joke.
00:40:28Well just a chap came in here and said I looked like his friend's girl and he wanted to play
00:40:33a joke on him.
00:40:35Why? He didn't say why. Just that I was to go to this party, hide myself away and then at
00:40:43the last moment I was to go up and kiss him.
00:40:48Well he paid me 50 pounds. Expensive joke. Look I don't want to get involved.
00:40:53What did he look like, this man who paid you the 50? He was about 30, tall, dark. Well nothing
00:41:00special.
00:41:00Nothing special at all. A quirk of dress, style, personal jewelry. Yes that's right. He, he wore a ring.
00:41:08A big gaudy ring with a red stone. Oh yes.
00:41:24Have you found the girl burners in the clear? She was bought for 50 pounds, Mr. Maycroft.
00:41:30Well? Well please, that is to say Gifford will say that I bought over a hundred. They don't trust me.
00:41:36When I saw the girl I could testify. Now go on, describe her.
00:41:41Well she was, she was blonde, pretty. Yes.
00:41:45Tulliver, you saw the girl who kissed Bernard Peele. What? At the party. Oh yes.
00:41:51You'd know her again? I don't know about that. You remembered her.
00:41:55Ah, but my business is remembering things. Salient things, odd things, unconnected things.
00:42:01Seems iniquitous. Poor Bernard in jail. Framed for a crime. No, he wasn't framed.
00:42:08Well, he was and he wasn't. You're not making sense.
00:42:12No, what I mean is that the frame was incidental. A smokescreen to draw us away from what it was
00:42:18really all about.
00:42:18Now, gentlemen, I have checked and rechecked Bernard Peele's background and I can find no possible motive for putting him
00:42:24in this fix.
00:42:24And indeed if there were a motive, why murder her? Why not just go straight to the root of the
00:42:29problem and murder him?
00:42:31Jennifer. Was the real target. Why?
00:42:35But if I knew that, Mr. Tulliver, I should know who did it.
00:42:39Excuse me, Mr. Tulliver.
00:42:43Is it all right if I drive Mr. Foster home? My own driver is ill.
00:42:47Yeah, sure. Go ahead. And go on home yourself after. I won't be needing you again today, Garfield.
00:42:51Thank you, sir.
00:42:52Erp, if your theory's correct... Who is there?
00:42:56Garfield. Well, he's just a general aide. I brought him over with me. He's not very bright, but he's willing.
00:43:02Deals with all the chores that you can't be bothered with. Is that it?
00:43:06Yes, that's right.
00:43:08Where does he live? In the butler's quarters?
00:43:10No, as a matter of fact, he's got his own apartment across the street from mine.
00:43:31No, it's not very
00:43:49It's
00:44:00It's
00:52:11Well this looks likely.
00:52:28It was her hunchλ€.
00:52:30a watching brief on businessmen against whom nothing could be proved but who might merit
00:52:35closer attention. Tulliver. Well, the timing was right. Just merging with Maycrofts. A whisper of
00:52:40scandal. Could squash the whole deal. It's just a question of brain cells, you see. A few of us
00:52:47are more endowed than others. Tulliver. Yes, Garfield was his man. Garfield? Yes, Garfield
00:52:53was murdered a short time ago. Do you not quite slip my mind to tell you? Still, in the life
00:52:59of
00:52:59the discovery I just led you to, I'm sure you'll overlook a tiny slip of memory. Let's get
00:53:08Tulliver. But this is ridiculous. Unbelievable. Are you sure of your facts? Sure enough to
00:53:15get a warrant against Mr. Tulliver. Why would I kill a woman I've never even met? Well, that
00:53:20is the one thing that we haven't worked out yet. We're hoping you'll be able to help us
00:53:24with that, sir. Down at the station. Sir? He earned his fee. What happened? Tulliver's
00:53:48been arrested. Suspected of murdering Jennifer Peel. Arrested. Carl, we have to prepare some
00:53:54kind of press handout. Prepare our shareholders for the fact that the merger will not now take
00:53:58place. One can hardly merge with a suspected murderer, Mr. Forster. Yes, yes, of course.
00:54:03So Bernard will now go free. I'm happy to say so, yes. Then it was all for nothing. Two days
00:54:08I've studied the file on Tulliver and his company. Wasted effort. I doubt if Peel would think
00:54:13so. Wasted effort. I suppose I ought to thank you, mister. You've done your best by Bernard,
00:54:20of course, and I'm delighted, but... But taking away your new partner is hardly a fair exchange,
00:54:24is that it? He's crooked. He must be to be on Jennifer's list. Excuse me. What's the matter?
00:54:38Nothing. I'll set my bill in due course, Mr. Maycroft. You understand, I'm sure. Yes,
00:54:50you were just doing your job. And fortunately, Mr. Earp was doing his. You know, you're better
00:55:06than Wyatt Earp. Well, I have a distinct advantage over Wyatt. He has been dead an awfully long
00:55:11time. I want to thank you again. I owe you a drink or something. And a lot, lot more.
00:55:33When we first met, I said a lot of hard things against you. I hope you understand that I was
00:55:39good. I'd like to see Tulliver. Can you arrange that? Thank you. You? You come to gloat or offer your
00:56:05condolences. My services? I came to offer my services. You are in a bad fix, Mr. Tulliver,
00:56:12very bad. In fact, only someone superbly brilliant can help you. Of course, the cost of hiring me will
00:56:18not be cheap, but I'm sure we can come to some amicable arrangement. And once I'm working for you,
00:56:23Mr. Tulliver, I think I can guarantee to have you out of here in the next 24 hours. Oh, excuse
00:56:36me.
00:56:39Ah, thank you. Come in. See anything significant there? Only that you and Bernard saw it first,
00:57:01me third. That just about sums up the hierarchy around here, doesn't it? Why? Erp looked at it and
00:57:07then hurried off. Didn't say where or why, but I got the impression. You got the impression?
00:57:14that he isn't finished yet.
00:57:57I, er, wonder if you would oblige me. It's been a long, long time. You'll, er, have to go easy
00:58:06with me.
00:58:18We're good.
00:58:19Okay.
00:58:20I'm done.
00:58:23Okay, thank you.
00:58:26Okay, thank you for joining us.
00:58:26And for tonight, I've had a moment.
00:58:38I'm sorry. I should have warned you. I never attempt anything unless I can be superlative at it.
00:58:49Oh, but don't worry. You're very good, too.
00:58:53Although I imagine, er, karate is really your sport.
00:58:59Oh, yes. You'd have to be an expert to kill Garfield the way you did.
00:59:04Just one quick blow in the right place, just as he was stepping aside to let a gentle old lady
00:59:11go by and bop.
00:59:12Oh, yes. And you bopped me, too.
00:59:15I don't know what you're talking about.
00:59:17No? And you don't want to be involved, either, but you are.
00:59:21I suppose you had a hand in killing Jennifer Peel, too. Or did you just train him to do it?
00:59:26Yes, of course. I suppose that's where you first met, here.
00:59:30You wrestled on the mat, found true love and a mutual spirit of avarice and ruthlessness,
00:59:35and you cooked up this tricky little scheme.
00:59:38It's far, far too tricky, you know. I always said so.
00:59:49Lock the door.
00:59:54Lock the door.
01:00:15Lock the door.
01:00:18Sorry, but one bop is enough.
01:00:24It's a nasty business hitting a lady.
01:00:28It is all better than killing one, eh?
01:00:31Better than killing your wife.
01:00:33Could she have all the money, didn't she?
01:00:37And if she divorced you, you would have none.
01:00:40So frame yourself.
01:00:42Just enough to get yourself arrested, but not quite enough to make it stick.
01:00:45Then throw Tulliver into the arena.
01:00:48Let all dykes and suspicions move under him.
01:00:53And nobody would point the finger at you again.
01:00:56After all, you were the poor fellow who was framed.
01:01:06You always bothered me, you know.
01:01:08The way you kept leading me from clue to clue.
01:01:11But the real clincher was your own careless mouth.
01:01:19And my flawless memory.
01:01:24You were the party, hmm?
01:01:26You said you'd rather not comment on Tulliver.
01:01:31I haven't even seen the files yet, but those files were booked out to you weeks ago.
01:01:35You held them for days.
01:01:37You knew all about Tulliver and Garfield.
01:01:40In fact, you picked on Garfield as the man you would pretend to swap cars with.
01:01:47Oh, yes.
01:01:47And you keep rapiers in the hall.
01:01:52Those and a little poster that Uncle's led me here.
01:01:57I warned you.
01:02:00That if you didn't kill your wife, I'd find out.
01:02:04Or, if you did.
01:02:06I liked Jennifer.
01:02:12Hey!
01:02:16Hey!
01:02:20Hey!
01:02:25Oh!
01:02:25Ah!
01:02:26Get on!
01:02:26get on!
01:02:41I prefer fishing.
01:03:08it's unfortunate business mr. Tulliver. very. still it all ended happily in the
01:03:14end eh? except for you. I'd better buy you dinner down your sorrows. well Maycrofts
01:03:22aren't gonna pay your fee now are they? you'll be out of pocket.
01:03:26I'll be delighted to let you buy me dinner. I insist that you let me choose
01:03:31the wine. well as you know gentlemen I'm not given to doasting but that's one
01:03:38thing that I do know about.
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01:08:28and I'm
01:08:29and I'm worried about you
01:08:30about your marriage
01:08:32what?
01:08:33Miss thee and your mother aren't you Mrs. Beale?
01:08:36yes
01:08:37how did you
01:08:39who is this?
01:08:40told you
01:08:41a friend
01:08:43I wouldn't stay there long Mrs. Beale
01:08:46I'd go home right away
01:08:49you'll find your husband is cheating on you
01:08:52what?
01:08:54what do you mean?
01:09:20don't worry
01:09:21don't worry
01:09:37that's one thing that I do
01:09:39Nervite
01:09:40what do you think?
01:10:09what do you mean?
01:10:10I'll do
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