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First broadcast 16th January 1979.
For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.
Richard Pasco - Alan Berry
Suzan Farmer - Fay Cooper
Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Marjorie Berry
David King - Supt. Richards
Jon Laurimore - Mike Hargreaves
Norman Wooland - Tim Featherstone
Brian Peck - Harry Drury
Sara Clee - Emma Berry
Graham Weston - Inspector Wood
Jeffrey Segal - Freddy Ware
Geoff Hannan - Sergeant Kealing
For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.
Richard Pasco - Alan Berry
Suzan Farmer - Fay Cooper
Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Marjorie Berry
David King - Supt. Richards
Jon Laurimore - Mike Hargreaves
Norman Wooland - Tim Featherstone
Brian Peck - Harry Drury
Sara Clee - Emma Berry
Graham Weston - Inspector Wood
Jeffrey Segal - Freddy Ware
Geoff Hannan - Sergeant Kealing
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00:13:42Harry, have you started your rounds already?
00:13:45No, I...
00:13:45You look like I feel.
00:13:47Hey, do you want a nap?
00:13:48I've got a flask in the car.
00:13:49Harry, Marjorie's dead.
00:13:51Someone murdered her last night.
00:13:54Christ.
00:13:55Whoever it was must have broken in and attacked her.
00:13:58God almighty, that's incredible.
00:14:01Absolutely.
00:14:04Have they met the bugger?
00:14:05If I had, I'm not saying.
00:14:08You better have a nap.
00:14:21Poor old Marjorie.
00:14:23Jeez.
00:14:24Listen, Harry, I was with Fay all night.
00:14:29Harry?
00:14:30Harry, do you understand?
00:14:32Oh, yeah.
00:14:34Yeah.
00:14:36Will you phone Mike Hargreaves and tell him?
00:14:38Do you want me to?
00:14:39As soon as you can.
00:14:40Oh, he wanted a word with you about the Tupcross remote.
00:14:43Well, tell him I'll fix the Tupcross remote.
00:14:45I'll do it my own way.
00:14:46He doesn't bloody own me.
00:14:48But tell him I was with Fay.
00:14:52Well, I'm fast.
00:14:55I don't know what to say.
00:14:58Thanks, Harry.
00:15:00Do you know how they got in?
00:15:04I don't know anything.
00:15:35What are your ambitions, Alan?
00:15:37What are you going to do?
00:15:38Stay here, I suppose.
00:15:40I'm pretty parochial.
00:15:41You could grow with your ability.
00:15:44You're a practical bloke with vision.
00:15:46I like that.
00:15:46You should keep in touch.
00:15:48With what?
00:15:49The world, old love.
00:15:50The professional world.
00:15:51Mummy?
00:15:51Mum?
00:15:52Shoe.
00:15:53Oh.
00:15:54Sorry.
00:15:57Mum?
00:15:58I read the journals.
00:16:01That's not enough.
00:16:04What had you in mind, specifically?
00:16:06Specifically?
00:16:09Well, for instance, there's the European Transport Conference in Amsterdam next month.
00:16:13Amsterdam 70.
00:16:14I shall be going.
00:16:15Yes, I know.
00:16:16Well, that's where you should be.
00:16:18Giving, taking ideas.
00:16:19I can't see the council funding that.
00:16:21They don't have to.
00:16:22Come with me.
00:16:23Is that an invite?
00:16:25Why not?
00:16:26I don't think I should go as a guest of Brenton's.
00:16:28Well, you don't have to.
00:16:29On paper.
00:16:30Say you're going privately.
00:16:32I'll pay.
00:16:32I can lose it.
00:16:34It's very nice of you, Mike.
00:16:35Not nice.
00:16:36I need the company.
00:16:37I'll think about it.
00:16:39Marjorie want to come?
00:16:41Not her scene.
00:16:43Good.
00:16:47Is this her scene?
00:16:49Mainly.
00:16:49I was quite happy where we lived before.
00:16:52Must have cost you a lot.
00:16:53Marjorie had a rich uncle.
00:16:55This was the last of his money.
00:16:56The upkeep's fairly ferocious, but we get by.
00:17:00Marjorie likes position, Mike, which I don't have.
00:17:03How much does the council pay you?
00:17:06Five and a half.
00:17:09It's not good enough, old lad.
00:17:11You could do better.
00:17:13Are you offering me a job?
00:17:16No.
00:17:17Not a job.
00:17:20No.
00:17:20Opportunities?
00:17:21But talk about it in Amsterdam.
00:17:27I only hope I did right, Alan.
00:17:28calling you on phase number.
00:17:31A bit of a presumption.
00:17:33Utterly right, Tim.
00:17:34I'm very grateful to you.
00:17:36Well, I don't think it's generally known, mind you.
00:17:39Oh, it is.
00:17:40Well, we have few secrets.
00:17:43That's right.
00:17:45She was a fine woman, Marjorie.
00:17:47I admired her from a distance.
00:17:50Not so easy.
00:17:52No.
00:17:54I can't get her out of my mind, Tim.
00:17:56Oh, you will, laddie.
00:17:58When my wife passed away,
00:18:00I remember feeling for a long time
00:18:02that all the warmth and light
00:18:05have been drained out of the world.
00:18:07And that wasn't sudden, you know.
00:18:08That was long expected.
00:18:10You see, I should have been there.
00:18:13Well, there's no need for you to come in today.
00:18:15Well, I'd as soon work.
00:18:16The appropriations meeting's on Friday week.
00:18:18Well, we can put that off.
00:18:20Everyone will understand.
00:18:21I'd rather not.
00:18:22There'll be the Top Cross Ring Road tenders to consider.
00:18:25Well, let them wait.
00:18:26There's no need.
00:18:28You'll be recommending Brenton's again?
00:18:30They've always done us well, haven't they?
00:18:32Oh, well.
00:18:33I'll leave it to you, laddie.
00:18:35I must go and get something done.
00:18:41Don't drive yourself too hard, that's all.
00:18:44Someone wrote or said,
00:18:46there is no armor against fate.
00:18:50I know that.
00:18:51I know that.
00:18:54Look.
00:18:56If it was all right,
00:18:58why didn't Faye say straight out that you were with her?
00:19:03She was trying to be discreet.
00:19:07Of course.
00:19:45What's that, Dad?
00:19:47Well, that's a new housing estate.
00:19:48The road will follow the valley,
00:19:50and the new buildings will be on the slopes above it.
00:19:54What about those?
00:19:55Oh, that's St Anne's District.
00:19:56Those streets are due for demolition and slum clearance.
00:19:59Have they started yet?
00:20:01No.
00:20:01When will they?
00:20:02When about 50 committees have had about 50 meetings.
00:20:06What happens if the people in St Anne's don't want to move?
00:20:08Well, they won't be consulted,
00:20:09but they'll be better off.
00:20:11Well, I don't think much of that.
00:20:13Well, they can vote in the municipal elections
00:20:14and tell their councillors what to do,
00:20:15and they tell me what to do.
00:20:17Is that how it works?
00:20:18No.
00:20:19I decide what to do and sell it to the councillors,
00:20:21and they sell it to the voters.
00:20:22That's much better.
00:20:23That's democracy, Mr. President.
00:20:24Alan, I want to talk to you.
00:20:26Emma, what are you doing in here?
00:20:28I thought you were getting on with your homework.
00:20:29I am.
00:20:31Well, turn that melancholy man down.
00:20:33I don't know how you can concentrate.
00:20:35Why don't you go somewhere quiet?
00:20:36She's not disturbing me.
00:20:39Well...
00:20:40You're only fiddling about.
00:20:42It's like a nursery in here.
00:20:45Go on then, back to solitary.
00:20:46Dad.
00:20:47Go on.
00:20:51Well, what did you want to talk about?
00:20:57Have you sent off the subscription form?
00:20:59What subscription form?
00:21:00For the Gordon Charity Project.
00:21:02Oh, you don't give a damn about the Gordon Charity Project.
00:21:05Of course I do, dear.
00:21:06I'm a member of the Trust.
00:21:07I thought it was a dinner.
00:21:09We're going to the dinner.
00:21:10Oh, good.
00:21:11As members of the ruling class of this parish,
00:21:13we are deeply concerned with the welfare of the lower orders,
00:21:16to such an extent that we constantly devise entertainments
00:21:19which we, the elite, can enjoy.
00:21:21What more do they want?
00:21:23Money.
00:21:25How much?
00:21:27Well, as I'm a member of the Trust Council,
00:21:29I don't see how we can possibly give less than fifty pounds.
00:21:32Fifty pounds?
00:21:34We don't have fifty pounds.
00:21:36Of course we have fifty pounds.
00:21:39We have to help set the ball rolling.
00:21:41The Petersons will give at least that.
00:21:42Ah, the Petersons.
00:21:45Have you got fifty pounds?
00:21:47No, I don't.
00:21:48Neither have I at the moment.
00:21:51You always have plenty for yourself.
00:21:53I don't, Marge.
00:21:54It all goes on overheads.
00:21:55Have a look at my bank statements, if you like.
00:21:59Well, if I don't pay the garage,
00:22:00I'd probably chip in about ten.
00:22:02We can't give ten.
00:22:04We'd look absurd.
00:22:04Then we won't go to the dinner.
00:22:06Of course I must go to the dinner.
00:22:09I should hate you to look absurd.
00:22:12I'll see what we can spare at the beginning of the month.
00:22:14They won't need it before then.
00:22:16Thirty, perhaps.
00:22:17If you write it badly, it'll look like fifty.
00:22:19Oh, really?
00:22:20You think I'm a child like Emma?
00:22:21Oh, all right.
00:22:22I'm sorry.
00:22:23Fifty, if we can.
00:22:25The form's probably up there.
00:22:31And Margie,
00:22:33I wish you wouldn't snub Emma.
00:22:35I don't snub her.
00:22:36Well, you do, rather.
00:22:38And me too, sometimes in front of her.
00:22:39You make me feel excluded.
00:22:42We don't mean to.
00:22:43You exclude yourself.
00:22:59Here's your stuff.
00:23:01Thanks.
00:23:05I wonder if you could tell me little about your daughter, Emma.
00:23:08What sort of thing?
00:23:09She's married, I gather.
00:23:10To a doctor?
00:23:12African.
00:23:12Whom she met at college.
00:23:13Sit down, please.
00:23:17Does she often come home?
00:23:19Very soon.
00:23:20When did you see her last?
00:23:23Oh, last Christmas.
00:23:28Was she on good terms with you both?
00:23:31With me?
00:23:32Love with her mother?
00:23:33No.
00:23:34Any particular reason?
00:23:36Oh, God, Charlie.
00:23:36Do you think it was easy being Margie's daughter?
00:23:39They were very different temperaments.
00:23:42Emma's more like me.
00:23:44Four years ago, she was twenty.
00:23:47She fell in love with this guy.
00:23:49He was all right.
00:23:50He was rather nice.
00:23:52But, of course, the wrong color.
00:23:54Margie wanted her daughter and son-in-law presentable here in Illingham.
00:23:58He got a partnership and a practice in Newcastle.
00:24:01So she keeps away?
00:24:03Yes.
00:24:04And she's tied.
00:24:06They have two small children.
00:24:08My grandchildren.
00:24:10I miss her very much.
00:24:13We haven't been a family since.
00:24:15My fault, I suppose.
00:24:16Your association with Miss Cooper, that started soon after.
00:24:22Charlie, it's the only solid thing left.
00:24:30Hi.
00:24:31Hi.
00:24:42I moved in.
00:24:44I saw.
00:24:46I may be able to get back to the house after the post-mortem.
00:24:50Is that what you want?
00:24:51Well, I shall have to do something with it.
00:24:55Thanks.
00:24:58I've been to the office.
00:24:59Seen Featherstone.
00:25:02Phoned Emma.
00:25:04Been to the police station twice.
00:25:06Is Emma coming down?
00:25:07For the funeral.
00:25:07She has to get the kids sorted out.
00:25:09What do the police say?
00:25:10Very little.
00:25:13Charlie Richard seems to be in charge of the case.
00:25:15What could he tell you?
00:25:16I don't know what he could tell me.
00:25:17He did tell me next to nothing.
00:25:22I still don't even know, Faye, how Margie died.
00:25:25I can't visualize it.
00:25:32I never imagined it happening like this.
00:25:39I don't know what I'd do without you.
00:25:51There's an evening paper here if you want to see it.
00:25:54Oh, thanks.
00:26:01It's not.
00:26:03An unknown killer who attacked and brutally murdered Mrs Marjorie Berry in the early hours.
00:26:09Well, that's more than they told me.
00:26:10Do you want a drink?
00:26:11A small one.
00:26:13sherry anything the police have been to see me here at the library what did you
00:26:23say that you were here all night details as you said I hope I got it right they
00:26:31seemed happy not scrutable very polite I felt awful what was Richard's attitude
00:26:39inscrutable to as though it was no concern of mine I got rather angry oh well it's all
00:26:46role-playing he has to play at being a CID man because that's his public projection of himself
00:26:51we all do it according to Jean-Paul Sartre in order to avoid the difficult business of acting
00:26:57as free individuals revealing our true personality policeman is a policeman first and a man second
00:27:05it's a way of evading reality according to Sartre all I can remember of Sartre is he used
00:27:10to enjoy wearing out his bicycle tires to deny other people the power of using them sounded
00:27:15pretty batty what do you want to do darling I don't know I went up to Holton Park before I
00:27:26came back just sat in the car trying to sort it out I don't know did you ever love Marjorie
00:27:34oh yes at
00:27:36one time lately she must have been very lonely she had lots of friends no acquaintances and I was
00:27:44often away why didn't you tell the police the truth about London yes I told you I had a business
00:27:52meeting to do with your job not entirely it's a sort of consultancy oh I didn't realize how long
00:27:58have you been freelancing about seven or eight years I keep very quiet about it did Marjorie know
00:28:06no but she knew about you I don't understand you think one can discipline large just trying to
00:28:14assure Chris people are vulnerable when they're unsupported you mean I don't support you I'm making
00:28:21no criticism we could criticize each other all night endlessly if we wanted to I'm in love in a way
00:28:30that we haven't been for a very long time and I see no point in pretending otherwise you did till
00:28:35I
00:28:36found out you wanted to know and I told you I don't want to hurt you and it hasn't happened
00:28:41before
00:28:41you known her for long enough not in the same way she was your friend she's a very ordinary girl
00:28:51probably but I get gentleness tenderness often delight you are criticizing I'm only telling the
00:29:01truth I don't delight you we live together by convention there's nothing else in this house now
00:29:08you don't have Emma we don't have Emma I've never had her now she's gone you have to have someone
00:29:15else to admire the relationship's obviously different anyhow you drove Emma and Rau go away
00:29:20that's not true I wanted her to live near us but to make us look like a happy family on
00:29:25your terms
00:29:25I've always had the hard things to do well no one's ever asked you to anyway it's not just Emma
00:29:32you lead your life and I'm not part of it you discount me I can't argue with you Alan
00:29:40what it comes to is you want to leave me if you want a divorce what why should I why
00:29:54should I have
00:29:56my marriage taken away from me you mean you'd rather we went on as if nothing was happening
00:30:08yes
00:30:12yes please
00:30:41what is it still parked outside they're only doing their job what does it matter to them whether
00:30:46arrives on the train or not why not tell them they're treated as confidential it's not as easy as
00:30:57that you look exhausted darling mm-hmm I don't want you to feel committed to me in any way you're
00:31:16all I've
00:31:16got except Emma except am I know but just because you're free you don't have to think I haven't
00:31:24thought about it good well don't will you stay with me of course
00:31:50where did they find her in the drawing room she probably had a noise and came down she'd stayed in
00:31:58her room she'd still be alive now look if you'd rather not come in I don't expect wailing ghosts
00:32:08anyway I'd rather get used to it what are you going to do with the house sell it unless you
00:32:22and
00:32:22would like it no thanks dad that's new from upstairs covering the oh
00:33:01things have been moved around little stuff box is missing yes one or two things were taken the police
00:33:09the police know about them and the sugar caster the what mum's big silver caster good god so it is
00:33:20I'll let the police know
00:33:26have you no idea at all who did it the inquest verdict was murder by personal persons unknown the police
00:33:34don't seem to know either I should have been here M
00:33:39I was with a girl you told me hey I've been living with her since
00:33:46I don't blame you dad
00:33:50what I don't understand oh come in it's more cheerful drink
00:33:53now what I don't understand is why you went on living together
00:34:04have it and she didn't want me to leave where will you go now somewhere with Faye if she'll have
00:34:12me
00:34:12leave Illingham oh no my pastor's here it's the only one I've got you may not like it but you
00:34:19get
00:34:19more of it as you get older and you have to live with it all our yesterdays are lighted fools
00:34:27oh you've got that ghastly photograph yes I'm fond of it
00:34:33I'm sorry I shall have to go straight back after the funeral
00:34:36I can't leave Raggo alone with the children any longer
00:34:39it's all right I'm the chief mourner
00:34:43we used to have high hopes your mother and I
00:34:47I enjoyed your teens though I probably loused it all up by going no you did the best thing him
00:34:55dad I must admit hmm
00:34:59when I first heard I had this awful sneaking feeling perhaps you've done it
00:35:05I wouldn't have had the guts even if I wanted to I know I felt sorry for it
00:35:11I felt stricken seems illogical doesn't it not just for not being here for what do I mean
00:35:19well deserting the center of her life leaving it empty we both did that
00:35:24oh you're young em I'd like to go back 10 years and live simply and honestly again
00:35:32it wasn't your fault dad
00:35:35I'm not here
00:35:40yes
00:35:42oh hold on please
00:35:44the police
00:35:49Barry
00:35:52yes that's right
00:35:55I suppose so
00:35:57or time
00:36:00whatever you say
00:36:03in the morning
00:36:06who shall I ask for
00:36:10just that
00:36:12well by the way I want to report something else is missing
00:36:17in the morning
00:36:20thank you
00:36:33Emma
00:36:36suppose you heard I was someone you couldn't possibly approve of
00:36:41when am I likely to hear that
00:36:47never I hope
00:36:51Councillor Featherston telephoned Miss Cooper's flat at 8.15am
00:36:54is that when it was
00:36:55that's what he says
00:36:57yet you didn't phone us till nine o'clock
00:36:59how about that
00:36:59well it's logged as that Mr. Betty from Miss Cooper's flat
00:37:04that seems a very long time you wish to react to the news that your wife was murdered
00:37:09did anything else occur
00:37:11I was asleep when Featherston phoned Miss Cooper took the call and obviously it upset her
00:37:15she didn't wake me for a bit she was wondering how to break it to me
00:37:18she told you that
00:37:19yes
00:37:19yes
00:37:21so you got up and you shaved and you dressed
00:37:23I didn't shave
00:37:24oh no sir nor you did
00:37:26then you telephoned us
00:37:28yes
00:37:28yes well did you telephone Councillor Featherston or anyone in the meantime to find out what had happened
00:37:32no I didn't think of it
00:37:33and you remember nothing in that three quarters of an hour except waking up and getting dressed
00:37:38no
00:37:38I was pretty thick headed
00:37:40I'd had rather a lot to drink the night before
00:37:42in the flat
00:37:43yes
00:37:44and then it was a very great shock
00:37:46I wasn't much aware of time
00:37:51well thank you Mr. Berry I think that's all
00:37:55oh by the way
00:37:56there is something
00:37:57what's that
00:37:58an object in the room where the murder was is missing
00:38:00oh
00:38:01an antique silver sugar caster
00:38:04I have a photograph of it here and a note of the hallmarks for the insurance
00:38:07you didn't mention before that it was missing
00:38:09no my daughter only noticed it was missing yesterday
00:38:10I tried to tell you on the telephone
00:38:15tell me am I
00:38:17helping the police with their inquiries
00:38:20I trust so sir
00:38:26hello Emma
00:38:27can I have a word
00:38:29yes
00:38:30come in
00:38:31thank you
00:38:37dad's at the police station
00:38:39didn't you know
00:38:40yes
00:38:41I want to talk to you
00:38:43about your mother
00:38:45about my mother
00:38:46I only wondered what sort of terms you were on with her
00:38:50we were on friendly terms
00:38:53I didn't creep down and kill her if that's in your mind
00:38:59we weren't very close
00:39:02since I left home I suppose I'd rather lost touch with my parents
00:39:05both of them
00:39:05yes
00:39:07we spoke on the phone occasionally
00:39:10I don't write much
00:39:11well I've my own little lot to think about
00:39:13my husband's practice
00:39:14when did you last speak
00:39:16I've told them
00:39:17three or four weeks ago
00:39:19to them both
00:39:19to dad
00:39:20it's usually dad who phones
00:39:23did he say anything
00:39:24he said nothing unusual
00:39:25Emma
00:39:28how did your parents get on
00:39:33mother was a neurotic
00:39:36dad was endlessly patient
00:39:39I've very little idea what he really thought of her
00:39:52take care
00:39:54bye
00:39:54bye-bye
00:40:14I'm sorry I can't stay
00:40:16it's okay
00:40:17everyone understands
00:40:18there simply isn't a later train
00:40:20yes I know
00:40:22anyhow it's all over
00:40:23thank God
00:40:26Margie would have been pleased
00:40:27a lot of people came
00:40:32who have you seen
00:40:35that's a C.I.D. man
00:40:38watching us
00:40:39presumably
00:40:44they're a creepy lot
00:41:22and I hope they're seeing
00:41:22you
00:41:22alright
00:41:22we're having you
00:41:23I see
00:41:23we're going
00:41:23I'm sorry
00:41:23I'm sorry
00:41:23we're going
00:41:23vamos
00:41:23we're going
00:41:23we're going
00:41:23we're going
00:41:25bye
00:42:38Excuse me, Mr. Berry.
00:42:41Yes?
00:42:42Superintendent Richards would like to see you.
00:42:45Now?
00:42:46Yes, please, sir.
00:43:02I've just been burying my wife.
00:43:03Yes, I know.
00:43:04Then this isn't the best time.
00:43:05I'm sorry, but something rather disturbing has come up.
00:43:07Would you sit down, please?
00:43:11What?
00:43:12About your movements between 8.15 and 9 on the morning of the 15th.
00:43:17I've been over those twice.
00:43:18One of your neighbours says that he saw you leave St. Paul's railway station at about half past eight.
00:43:23The idea of St. Paul having a railway station.
00:43:26There were a number of passengers leaving the station from the 8.27 a.m. train from London.
00:43:30The Damascus line, no doubt.
00:43:31Our informant says you were one of them.
00:43:34Does he know me?
00:43:34He's a neighbour of yours.
00:43:38His attention was first drawn to the young lady who was meeting you because she was wearing a bright red
00:43:43coat.
00:43:44Are you suggesting I came off the London train?
00:43:47Not necessarily.
00:43:48There are alternative interpretations.
00:43:50Such as?
00:43:51The fact that you were in the station doesn't necessarily mean that you were on a train.
00:43:56I could have been driven there by my mistress after we jointly disposed of my wife.
00:44:00Miss Cooper wearing the kind of coat that would be most conspicuous in order to prove that I was somewhere
00:44:04else.
00:44:04Whereas, in fact, we were both at 14 Devonshire Court, as Tim Ferrister knows, because he phoned me there.
00:44:09At 8.15 and spoke only to Miss Cooper.
00:44:14My goodness, you have got it all off pad.
00:44:17Are you making an accusation?
00:44:19Of course not.
00:44:20So what is all this nonsense about?
00:44:23If, with Miss Cooper's help, I've been to these pains to establish an alibi that I'd come off the train
00:44:27from London,
00:44:27why did we both quite independently say I've been here in Illingham?
00:44:31Um, I was hoping that you would tell me.
00:44:36I think I'd like to talk to my solicitor first.
00:44:46Thanks.
00:44:54Well?
00:44:55It's a pretty prurient little story.
00:44:58Yes.
00:44:59You brought it on yourself.
00:45:02I know.
00:45:04What would you advise me to do?
00:45:06Go to the police.
00:45:07Tell them.
00:45:09Or?
00:45:10Get a good solicitor.
00:45:13You, I hope.
00:45:16Sorry.
00:45:18Oh, I'll find you someone.
00:45:20No reputation to lose round here.
00:45:23Or you could try your friends in London.
00:45:32Who are one's friends, Freddie?
00:45:35Look, I've got to see Mike.
00:45:37Can you take me out to London?
00:45:39As soon as possible.
00:45:42Tomorrow.
00:45:44Well, phone him and tell him I must see him.
00:45:47No, Harry.
00:45:48You must phone him and tell him it's very important and he must see me.
00:45:53You'll, I'll explain on the way up.
00:45:56Good man.
00:45:57Thanks.
00:46:01But why should the police be spying on you?
00:46:04The husband is always the first suspect.
00:46:07One of the world's great clichés.
00:46:08Is that true?
00:46:09Even Emma had wondered.
00:46:12We were known to have been on bad terms.
00:46:14Our marriage was virtually over.
00:46:16There was her money.
00:46:18I thought it was your money.
00:46:19Well, people assumed it was hers.
00:46:21Something I encouraged.
00:46:22Why?
00:46:24Well, you don't think the salary I earn would pay for that house and everything, do you?
00:46:29Then what does?
00:46:30Well, does it matter?
00:46:32Why do you want to know?
00:46:34You keep asking questions.
00:46:35You're as bad as the police.
00:46:37I'm only trying to help.
00:46:40Anyway, there was you.
00:46:42Marjorie wouldn't give me a divorce and obviously I...
00:46:45Well, men have murdered their wives for less.
00:46:48The man called Wainwright poisoned his just because he had thick ankles.
00:46:52But you were on the train.
00:46:53I met you.
00:46:55How do you know I was?
00:46:58Haven't you thought about what Richards calls the alternative?
00:47:01And what's that?
00:47:03And I killed Marjorie.
00:47:05Then crept out of the house and made my way to the station.
00:47:09Empty streets, dark, and plenty of time.
00:47:14An hour or so to wait before the early train.
00:47:17Hiding in the gents or somewhere.
00:47:19How was I to know the body would be found so soon and Tim Featherstone would phone you?
00:47:23Well, don't you see?
00:47:24It was because you met me that I decided to use you as an alibi.
00:47:27How could I produce one from London if I hadn't been there?
00:47:32You'd have thought of that before.
00:47:33Not if the murder was unpremeditated.
00:47:36I think that's the phrase.
00:47:37I don't believe you.
00:47:39You don't think it possible?
00:47:41Only because you're trying to make me.
00:47:44Anyway, you were in a dreadful state that morning.
00:47:47Wouldn't I have been?
00:47:48Alan, don't.
00:47:50It's not true, is it?
00:47:51That I brutally murdered Marjorie.
00:47:53Did you?
00:47:56What sort of monster do you think I am?
00:47:58I don't know what you're trying to say.
00:48:01She was irritating, demanding, and sometimes pathetic.
00:48:06She didn't deserve even the harm I did her.
00:48:09No, of course I didn't kill her.
00:48:10That's what the police suspect.
00:48:12Then you must tell them.
00:48:14I can tell them.
00:48:15I can tell them I met you at the station.
00:48:16They know you met me.
00:48:17One of my neighbours saw us.
00:48:19Who?
00:48:19I don't know.
00:48:20Anyway, they think you were trying to cover our tracks and that you were in it.
00:48:23They must think that anyway.
00:48:25Yes.
00:48:26Oh, shit.
00:48:32But they won't if you can prove you were in London.
00:48:36I can't.
00:48:39Why not, for heaven's sake?
00:48:42What happened in London?
00:48:43Why can't you tell me?
00:48:44Because I can't.
00:48:46Or rather, I don't want to.
00:48:47Why?
00:48:48You're on the piss with some business friends.
00:48:50So what?
00:48:50I can bear that.
00:48:51No, there's more to it than that.
00:48:52Then tell me.
00:48:53No, Faye.
00:48:54Well, for God's sake, heaven.
00:48:56You make use of me in this.
00:48:58You involve me.
00:49:00You say, my God, what would you do without me?
00:49:03You ask me to live with you.
00:49:05You say you love me.
00:49:06You stay here with me.
00:49:07You make love to me.
00:49:09What sort of love is that?
00:49:11What sort of man do I think I've got if you won't even tell me what concerns you?
00:49:17I suppose I'm afraid of you despising me.
00:49:20All right, then.
00:49:20Then I'll despise you.
00:49:22But at least I'll know.
00:49:26I'd better know, darling.
00:49:31Well, it all started a long time ago.
00:49:34Things were jogging along quite well when I was approached by a firm.
00:49:38You mean for a job?
00:49:39No, first it was an invitation to a professional conference in Europe.
00:49:43Then later they wanted my help in landing a contract.
00:49:46It didn't involve much.
00:49:48A lunch, a small present.
00:49:50A recommendation, which I'd have given them anyway.
00:49:53I didn't much like it, but once they got their hands on me, it was difficult to pull out.
00:49:58Besides, I needed the money.
00:50:00And as the deals got bigger, so did the rewards.
00:50:03My car, for instance.
00:50:06You idiot.
00:50:08Don't Featherstone and the rest of the council suspect?
00:50:10No one suspects, so far as I know.
00:50:13Corruption in local government is like an iceberg.
00:50:16The public only occasionally sees the tip of it.
00:50:18But there's a law against the bribery of public servants, which have put me in the dock, along with the
00:50:22Brenton Roadworks people.
00:50:23For instance?
00:50:24Yes, they do a lot of it.
00:50:25Not just with me.
00:50:27It'd be another of those miserable, drawn-out chain reaction cases the media love.
00:50:32And keep the courts busy for months.
00:50:34At the end of it, no job, no prospects, no reputation, nothing.
00:50:38I'd get a slightly shorter sentence than I would on a murder charge.
00:50:44What else do you get in return?
00:50:47Trips to Paris, Dublin, Copenhagen.
00:50:51Long weekends, mostly.
00:50:52Anything I wanted.
00:50:54Girls?
00:50:56Oh, yes.
00:50:58And a little account with another bank.
00:51:00On the whole, it doesn't owe him any harm.
00:51:03I enjoyed the risk.
00:51:05I enjoyed the pleasure, I'm afraid.
00:51:08God knows there wasn't much joy at home.
00:51:10Certainly after Emma left.
00:51:14I'm not proud of it.
00:51:16And it happens to be illegal.
00:51:18And the night Marjorie was murdered?
00:51:20Typical thrash on the town at their expense.
00:51:22Booze, gambling, women.
00:51:25Did that happen often?
00:51:26Quite often.
00:51:29Please, Faye, don't be upset.
00:51:32And this has been going on all the time.
00:51:35All what time?
00:51:37All the time we've been lovers.
00:51:39But that has nothing to do with it.
00:51:40Another file.
00:51:42Please, darling, you wanted to know and I told you.
00:51:46You're the first man I've really been in love with.
00:51:50I don't mean the first man I've had.
00:51:52I mean the first I've properly loved.
00:51:56I wasn't daddy's girl like your daughter.
00:51:59I admired you.
00:52:04I expect it happens everywhere.
00:52:07And nothing gets hurt that's of any importance.
00:52:11Except that sort of love.
00:52:15Oh, don't.
00:52:18I couldn't bear you to touch me.
00:52:23I'm sorry.
00:52:26What do you want me to do?
00:52:28What do you like?
00:52:30I don't care.
00:52:32But if you try to touch me,
00:52:33I shall scream and scream
00:52:35until that policeman comes for you.
00:52:54I'll scream.
00:52:54You are an idiot, Alan.
00:52:56That's what everyone tells me.
00:52:57Everyone?
00:52:58Well, poor Sud can't help it
00:52:59if his wife gets bumped off.
00:53:01There's a terrible thing to happen.
00:53:03Shocking.
00:53:04Yeah, I know about that.
00:53:06Very sorry and so on,
00:53:07but I don't think there was much love lost.
00:53:11But, Alan...
00:53:12Oh, mate, why bring it to me?
00:53:15I've been very quiet about it
00:53:16since Harry told me.
00:53:17I may need to say I was with you.
00:53:19No.
00:53:20Listen.
00:53:21Go on.
00:53:21Go ahead.
00:53:22We don't need to say where we were
00:53:23or what we did.
00:53:24Only that we've been talking business.
00:53:26We could have been here.
00:53:28I don't want to be involved, Alan.
00:53:31Rather, you weren't here now, frankly.
00:53:32I'm here to discuss a contract.
00:53:34My chairman of committee knows that.
00:53:37What contract?
00:53:38Your bloody Tupcross Ring Road.
00:53:39It'll be through Highways Committee
00:53:41by the end of this week
00:53:41and then nodded through resources.
00:53:43I've done my bit.
00:53:44It's still dodgy, Alan.
00:53:46You bring me in,
00:53:48it's open to another interpretation.
00:53:49You only have to say we were here,
00:53:51the three of us.
00:53:52I know.
00:53:53Unless you want me removed
00:53:54from the scene on a murder charge.
00:53:56Then who looks after us?
00:53:58He's right, mate.
00:53:59The man does have a point.
00:54:01Well, I don't like it, old love.
00:54:05Maybe you should think of something else.
00:54:08You bring the roses in, boy.
00:54:11Who knows what they'll open up.
00:54:14Not just your thing.
00:54:15Well, that's it.
00:54:17Well, what do you know about it?
00:54:18Actually, there's nothing to stop me from saying.
00:54:21Don't you try that or you'll lose everything.
00:54:23I shall, anyway.
00:54:25Mike, can't we find some way to help him?
00:54:29It's not just for you, Alan.
00:54:31Suggest something, then.
00:54:33I have.
00:54:35That we were here
00:54:36half the evening, most of the night.
00:54:38Oh, well, um...
00:54:41Now, that could be a bit awkward.
00:54:43You see,
00:54:44the police did interview me.
00:54:46What the hell for?
00:54:47What did they ask?
00:54:48What did you say?
00:54:49I said I didn't know anything about it.
00:54:51Like you said.
00:54:53I said I didn't know where you were that evening.
00:54:55Did they ask where I was?
00:54:56Absolutely.
00:54:57I said I'd no idea.
00:55:00Well, that was all right, wasn't it?
00:55:06Okay, so it's just you and me, Mike.
00:55:08Harry knew nothing about it.
00:55:09Ah, yeah, well...
00:55:11Yeah, there's, uh...
00:55:13one snag.
00:55:15A spanner in that work.
00:55:17What?
00:55:19Well, I said I was here in London with Mike.
00:55:22I tell the truth, why not?
00:55:24Doing what?
00:55:25Out, and that's where I was a bit crafty.
00:55:27I didn't say anything about work.
00:55:29I just said that we were out on a bit of a bender.
00:55:32Where?
00:55:33The places we went to.
00:55:34Those I can remember.
00:55:36I mean, why tell lies when you don't have to?
00:55:38Then you don't get caught out.
00:55:40Jesus Christ almighty, you stupid, bloody nitter!
00:55:43You didn't say a word about Alan.
00:55:45Go and piss in your ear, you stupid, bloody cowboy!
00:55:48If they check, they'll know Alan was with us!
00:55:52Nothing.
00:55:53I don't know you.
00:55:55We will be with somebody else.
00:55:58I haven't seen you for years, until today.
00:56:00I know nothing!
00:56:02After all I know, you dick killer.
00:56:04Very reasonable, Mike.
00:56:07He had time, didn't he?
00:56:09What time did you creep out of that hotel?
00:56:11When I was asleep.
00:56:23I didn't mean that.
00:56:25If it all clears, we'll pick it up again.
00:56:30If you're not in a murder cell.
00:56:34We didn't know you were going to London today, Mr. Berry.
00:56:36Do I have to account for my movements?
00:56:37It's useful to know where you are.
00:56:39Why?
00:56:40Things crop up.
00:56:41I would have thought you'd have better things to do than have me follow to survive as a criminal.
00:56:44It's like the Inquisition, for God's sake.
00:56:46The Inquisition was for God's sake, sir, so I'm given to understand.
00:56:51What more do you want me to say?
00:56:52I would like you to tell us the truth.
00:56:55How did you know I'd be here, not at Miss Cooper's?
00:56:57Miss Cooper left Dillingham this morning, sir.
00:57:00You didn't know?
00:57:01She was thoughtful enough to tell us she was going away on holiday.
00:57:05So you gave her an exit permit.
00:57:07She said she had, in fact, collected you from St. Paul's Station, thus corroborating what we'd already heard.
00:57:12Why should she say that?
00:57:13Because it's what took place, I imagine.
00:57:15Let's assume for the moment that you were on the early train.
00:57:19That wasn't your assumption last time.
00:57:20It was one of them.
00:57:22All I'm saying, Mr. Berry, is that you might like this opportunity to make a new statement.
00:57:26No.
00:57:27If you were inclined to make a new statement to that effect, we would be bound to look for corroborative
00:57:33evidence.
00:57:34I'm not inclined.
00:57:35Then you deny it.
00:57:35Look, I told you both before, I did not kill my wife.
00:57:38The fact that I'm not particularly proud of my private life, and prefer to keep it private, has nothing to
00:57:42do with it.
00:57:45The pleasures of middle age tend to be rather squalid.
00:57:49I've lost my wife.
00:57:50I've lost Miss Cooper.
00:57:52I'd like to keep what's left of my self-respect.
00:57:57If I was to say that I was in London, and was on the London train, and you have two
00:58:01independent witnesses to my arrival, would that be sufficient for you?
00:58:04No.
00:58:05We would need more than that.
00:58:10Look, Charlie, you know the sort of man I am.
00:58:15You know perfectly well that I'm constitutionally incapable of murdering Marjorie or anyone else.
00:58:20If I give you my assurance...
00:58:21Sorry, you've told us a lot of lies already.
00:58:26However, if you do change your mind, I think about it.
00:58:31I have thought about it.
00:58:33I will make a statement.
00:58:35But in my own way, and in my own time.
00:58:46Good-bye.
00:58:48Good-bye.
00:58:56On the night my wife was murdered, I was in London with Michael Hargreaves, the managing director of Brenton Road
00:59:04Works Limited, and his regional manager, Harry Drury.
00:59:10Hey, come on, Alan, drink up.
00:59:13No, it's all right.
00:59:14Here we are.
00:59:16Some little scotch, some scotch.
00:59:17No, no.
00:59:18Oh, God, what do you mean to see?
00:59:21Come on.
00:59:26Come on.
00:59:27Mmm.
00:59:32Mmm.
00:59:33Mmm.
00:59:34Mmm.
00:59:35Mmm.
00:59:36Mmm.
00:59:36Mmm.
00:59:36Mmm.
00:59:37Mmm.
00:59:37Mmm.
00:59:37Mmm.
00:59:45Mmm.
00:59:46Hey, darling.
00:59:47Come here.
00:59:49Come here.
00:59:49Hey, carry on.
00:59:50Where's your new girl?
00:59:55Go and chew him up, will ya?
00:59:56Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:59:59Mmm.
01:00:02Mmm.
01:00:03Mmm.
01:00:07Mmm.
01:00:07Mmm.
01:00:10Oh, thats, ha, ha, ha.
01:00:17I woke up,
01:00:18Oh, that's,把s, ha, ha. up.
01:00:20Of, cum.
01:00:24If, if, if you're, Ah, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! ha, ha. ha. ha,
01:00:36ha.有, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha. ha. ha, ha. ha, ha, ha, ha. ha. ha,
01:00:36ha, ha. olduğunu Helilি.
01:00:45I ordered a taxi from reception they may remember the suite was booked in Hargreaves
01:00:53name this is room 5043 if you should you get me a taxi please as quickly as you can five
01:01:11minutes thank you
01:01:43when I left the others were still dead to the world
01:01:57I was in time to catch the 618 I don't remember much except it's slowly getting light when I got
01:02:07to
01:02:07Illingham there was Fay Cooper the rest is as she says
01:02:21I don't know what you're going to make of this history
01:02:24you may even know some of it by now but that's up to you I shall have no more part
01:02:29of it
01:02:32I shall make what happens look like a road accident
01:02:36seems appropriate isn't it so your options are open
01:02:41either you'll feel it your duty to go ahead and expose a public scandal
01:02:48or let it be buried with me for the sake of the good name of the town and the people
01:02:52we live among
01:02:55I would do the latter but it's your decision and your responsibility
01:03:10if I may pass on a small word of wisdom
01:03:15we have no right not to be what we seem
01:03:19because if we aren't what we seem
01:03:23we may destroy other people
01:03:27and in the end
01:03:29we destroy ourselves
01:04:00close
01:04:013, left over 2, 4, 1, and just so you can have the same or the other one.
01:04:11I need to do quid with the small size for the first time.
01:04:14I should put it in the spot that's a little bit easier.
01:04:17There's a lot of lyrical Mmmm
01:04:39Yes?
01:04:48I see.
01:04:54Of course.
01:05:00Yes, I will.
01:05:08A leopard crowned, a lion passant gardened, maker's mark and the letter N. Is that right?
01:05:15Yes, this is it.
01:05:17Where did you find it?
01:05:18Fella, we were pulling in on another charge, actually.
01:05:21Got a habit of dropping into place to see if he could pick up this.
01:05:23He was obviously scared to get rid of.
01:05:25We have charged him.
01:05:27With murder?
01:05:28Yes.
01:05:30And you'll want me?
01:05:32Simply as a witness in the normal way.
01:05:34I've got a very full statement from this chummy.
01:05:37A confession?
01:05:38That's what they like to call it.
01:05:40We can both relax, Alan.
01:05:43Sorry I've been a bit rough with you, but you'd rather ask for it.
01:05:47And whether I was in London or with Miss Cooper?
01:05:50The murder is irrelevant.
01:06:02Oh, thank you, Mrs. Shears.
01:06:06Hello, Mike.
01:06:08It's Alan.
01:06:10Yes.
01:06:12I'm in the clear.
01:06:14They've found Marjorie's murderer.
01:06:20I knew you'd be pleased.
01:06:24Hello, Tim.
01:06:25I was just writing you a memo, changing the Top Cross Ring Road recommendation.
01:06:29There's a bid from a little firm come in, which is pretty good.
01:06:31Local.
01:06:32I think we should give them a chance.
01:06:34Oh, you haven't heard.
01:06:36The police have picked up the man who killed Marjorie.
01:06:39Oh, good.
01:06:40Not that it brings her back,
01:06:42but it's a relief from uncertainty.
01:06:45Yes.
01:06:50Alan.
01:06:51Yes, Tim.
01:06:52There are two police officers in my room.
01:06:55From the commercial section.
01:06:57The what?
01:06:59The fraud squad.
01:07:01They want to talk to you about your relations with Brenton Road Works.
01:07:07What's been going on, Alan?
01:07:09I don't understand.
01:07:12There must be some explanation.
01:07:17No.
01:07:24No.
01:07:27My dearest Emma,
01:07:30there is something I must tell you.
01:07:55where it wants to see the man who is in~!
01:07:55Well, he strongly heard the man.
01:07:57Give us theCPV에는 $20,000 or $80,000.
01:07:58You can justencies his phone кам beer.
01:07:58You will, too.
01:07:59You can just check it out.
01:07:59One or two hill.
01:08:00You can take it,
01:08:01By the way.
01:08:01You can see him.
01:08:01I saw occur.
01:08:03I was stunned.
01:08:03You are écrit at how much Troy нет.
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