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00:09I'm Book and I run a bookshop. You must be here about the job.
00:12You know where I've come from, don't you?
00:13I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and
00:18more.
00:18Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you? Now that you've got the job.
00:21What exactly is it you do? I sell books.
00:24Yeah, but that's not all, is it? Yesterday, out there at a bomb site.
00:28So you don't think they died in an air raid?
00:30Inkerman Street was already empty, wasn't it, Mr. Basar?
00:33Scheduled for demolition.
00:35It's a chaotic world, Jack. I have a system.
00:39Do you think it was suicide?
00:41Why would a chemist kill himself with something as horrible as prussig acid?
00:45It's murder.
00:46There's a daughter, isn't there?
00:48All right, money-grabbing little cow.
00:50And then she has the gall to run off with him.
00:54My dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving.
00:55Got the chemist's wheel through, sir.
00:57Daughter doesn't get a bean.
01:01This is a sacred charge, you understand that?
01:04I wouldn't ask this of you if I didn't think you were ready more than that.
01:08That you were the one creature on this earth to whom I could entrust this.
01:12This message must go to Trotty and to no one else.
01:16Is that clear?
01:18Is that clear?
01:24Good boy. Off you go.
01:35Morning.
01:36Morning.
01:36Uh, Doc, stay.
01:39Can I help you?
01:41Oh.
01:42Yes.
01:44With wallpaper, that is.
01:45It's a little early for that.
01:47For what?
01:48Never mind.
01:50I'm looking for a Mrs. Book.
01:52You found her?
01:54Wow, that's a crying shame.
01:56What is?
01:57You're married, that is.
02:01Can I help you?
02:02Yeah, yeah.
02:03You got a message from your husband.
02:06Said you were having problems with your alternator.
02:08Why?
02:08In the car.
02:09It's what I do, see? Cars.
02:12I see. I missed a book sent for you, did he?
02:14Yeah.
02:15Yeah.
02:16I mean, no idea why he didn't go with someone more local, but...
02:18I'll not say no.
02:20Can't go where the work is, right?
02:22Quite.
02:24Oh.
02:25Got a light?
02:27Yeah.
02:28Yeah, yeah.
02:29Somewhere, eh?
02:30One minute.
02:41Ah.
02:48Here we are.
02:56Sir.
02:57So you are a mechanic, Mr...
03:01Mickey.
03:03Mickey Hall.
03:04And, er, yeah.
03:05Yeah, I've got a garage.
03:06Mile end.
03:08All yours?
03:09Well, no, me and the, um...
03:12Oh, yeah.
03:13Yeah, all mine.
03:15I see.
03:18Um...
03:18If you'll excuse me a moment.
03:21I need to lay my hands on a...
03:23Well...
03:24Find my car.
03:25Right-o. Yeah.
03:27Well, I...
03:27I ain't going anywhere, so I'm...
03:43The very man!
03:44Oh, good morning, Mrs Buck.
03:45Ah!
03:46Morning, Eric.
03:47I wonder if you'd be an absolute darling for me, Eric.
03:49Any big for a lady?
03:50As I recall, Sheila's a proud owner of a rather splendid Daimler.
03:54Yeah, she's got a car on you.
03:55Yeah, is she in?
03:56Can I just pop in to ask to borrow the car?
03:58No need by that.
03:58I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
04:00It's just parked round the back.
04:01I'll get the keys for you.
04:14Hello.
04:16Hello.
04:17What's up?
04:18Ah.
04:19Puncture, I think.
04:20As bald as daddy.
04:22I told him, these wheels won't get me to Cambridge.
04:26I don't suppose you could help me out.
04:28It's not really my department.
04:30I'm just looking after the place.
04:32I'd be most awfully grateful.
04:35Oh.
04:36Yeah, alright.
04:37I'll see what Mickey's got.
04:39Thanks, Elviso.
04:41There must be a repair kit back here somewhere.
04:44I really appreciate this.
04:46Mickey puts things in those random places.
04:50This is what I'm taking over the world.
04:51And it's looking for your glasses.
04:53It's looking for your glasses.
04:56Some of these glasses.
04:58The glasses.
04:59This is what we're taking over the world.
05:01It's looking for you.
05:03I have two glasses.
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13:16The morning수가 were going to wrap itself.
13:19Yeah.
13:22She's new.
13:28Out of the way you.
13:30We are a bit of a bleeding day.
13:33What?
13:34You watching.
13:36Over, over.
13:37Under, under.
13:39Bye.
13:40There we go, lovely.
13:41Okay, bye.
13:44All right, come in, let's be having you.
13:48Don't have to turn you vegetarian.
13:51Our cat brought home a pigeon the other night.
13:55And?
13:57Well, Mrs Bliss was sorely tempted.
13:59We had plenty of pigeons in the war.
14:01I think run with a bit of pigeon.
14:03Yeah, yeah, I know, but now it's all over.
14:06I mean, we want to weigh him a bit higher, don't we?
14:09We are all of us in the gutter,
14:10but some of us are looking at the Starlings.
14:15Right, bugger this.
14:17All right.
14:18Excuse me.
14:19Police business, coming through, coming through.
14:21Police business, police business, thank you, thank you.
14:23Sorry, sorry, madam, police business, thank you very much.
14:25Oi!
14:26But you're bloody tired like the rest of us.
14:28I'm so sorry, my name is urgent police business.
14:30One minute.
14:30Oh, madam, sorry, I could just ask you to take a few steps outside.
14:34It's urgent police business.
14:39Afternoon, Alex.
14:40Afternoon, sir.
14:42Now, stewing steak.
14:44I've kept it aside, sir.
14:45You are a prince amongst men.
14:48Oh.
14:49You've got something just there.
14:51Eh?
14:52Oh, excuse me.
14:54Powdered egg.
14:55Bit of a rush breakfast.
14:58How's Sheila?
14:59Well, sir.
15:00Well.
15:00She's driven up to Sheffield.
15:02A nice family.
15:04Yes.
15:06Terrible about George, Arkham.
15:09Sadly is.
15:10I knew I.
15:11I'll wager old Basart won't shed any tears.
15:15Huh?
15:15I never got on.
15:17Many are running during the Blitz.
15:20Arkham was a stickler for the rules.
15:22Always on at Mr. Basart for being too slack.
15:25Blackout curtain, showing light, that sort of thing.
15:29Rub your tick.
15:32Right, then.
15:33Where are we up to with the murders?
15:35Murder?
15:36There's only one, as far as I know.
15:38Uh, yes.
15:40Well, Mrs. Dredge says she saw the chemist at approximately 6pm.
15:44We have only her word for that.
15:46Yes.
15:47Hey, dude!
15:48But Mickey Hall did say he saw her leaving the shop around that time with something in her coat she
15:53wanted to keep hidden.
15:54And she has a strong motive now we know she inherits the heart.
15:58So, Harkham appears to have died somewhere between 6 and 10, according to Dr. Calder.
16:04An awful lot could have happened in those four hours.
16:06Indeed.
16:07Now, we're presuming the killer called round.
16:10No sign of forced entry.
16:12So, Harkham knew them?
16:14Probably.
16:15I've told you this before.
16:16Hear me out, Mr. Arkham, please.
16:18It's about Marona.
16:20I suppose you'd better come through.
16:23So, he let them in.
16:26There was some sort of chat.
16:31The killer proceeds to pour prussic acid down his throat.
16:39Harkham croaks.
16:40Literally, I should imagine.
16:43But why did he take just the one piece?
16:46Why would I grab the love?
16:49Then it would look like burglary.
16:51Whereas he wanted to make it look like suicide.
16:54There we are, sir.
16:55Oh, bless you, Eric.
16:56Oh, um, anything for dog?
16:58I'll spoil you.
16:59You do.
17:00Would you like it, Rat?
17:02No, no, no.
17:02You won't mind.
17:04Toodle-pip.
17:05Enjoy your day, gentlemen.
17:06See you now.
17:11Hello.
17:12Oh, Beryl.
17:14Hello.
17:15Mrs. Dredge has motive and opportunity.
17:18Mickey Hall, motive and opportunity.
17:20What about Marula?
17:22Mickey says the bundled-up stranger is a man.
17:24Yeah, then he would.
17:25If they were in it together.
17:29Did they know that Harcup was going to disinherit them?
17:34Hello, Jack.
17:35Sir?
17:38Not for you.
17:47What have you done?
17:49Oh, tidied up.
17:52Tidied up.
17:53Oh, dear.
17:55Well, you said you wanted things cataloguing.
17:57So, I need to just put it in a proper order.
18:00You've only done these shelves so far.
18:03Yeah, sorry.
18:03It takes time, you know.
18:05Thank God.
18:06Put it all back.
18:07Eh?
18:08Put it all back just as it was.
18:10I told you I have a system.
18:11You said that-
18:12Catalogue it, I said.
18:13Not desecrate it.
18:15Christ.
18:17Bulk.
18:21I'm sorry.
18:23He said soon as men did it, eh?
18:31Well, I think I might have done something right.
18:35You found something?
18:36Yeah.
18:37I have.
18:39It's been cleaned recently.
18:42The residue you can see.
18:45This remains a silver polish.
18:47Meaning?
18:48Meaning that it got into the ground recently.
18:51Probably dropped.
18:54Or something far more sinister.
18:57What are you getting at?
19:001665.
19:00Year of the plague.
19:01Yeah.
19:02Very specifically the year of the plague.
19:04Not a year or two before.
19:05Capital.
19:08Too convenient.
19:09Horribly.
19:11Where better to hide a tree than in a forest.
19:14Eleven skeletons in the plague pit from the 17th century.
19:17And the 12th from 1946.
19:20Oh, bloody hell.
19:23You said earlier.
19:24Murders.
19:25Plural.
19:26Yes.
19:27Linked?
19:28Oh, I should think so.
19:30Top of the class, Jack.
19:31Really, I should give you the afternoon off to go to the pub.
19:34So I will.
19:35More specifically, the bull.
19:37Where the late Mr. Harcup used to play dominoes.
19:39Take Nora.
19:40Nora?
19:41I believe you've met.
19:42She's good at this sort of thing.
19:45You could learn a lot.
19:52Ah.
19:55Something.
19:56Very much something.
20:01What's this?
20:02A list of addresses and a very particular question.
20:05I'd be ever so grateful if you'd go on a little field trip for me.
20:08Alright.
20:09If you cook tonight.
20:11I am.
20:11Casserole.
20:12Oh, casserole.
20:38I don't know.
20:40Yeah.
20:44No.
20:45No.
20:46No.
20:46No.
20:47No.
20:48No!
21:02Oh, my God.
21:20Very irregular, this. Kiddies on the premises.
21:24I'm not a kid.
21:25You look like one.
21:27Appearances can be very deceptive.
21:30I'll have a drink if that's what you're worried about.
21:32That would make it worse.
21:34She'll have a lemonade.
21:35Oh, what?
21:38And I'll have a bottle of mild, please.
21:40All right?
21:42Thanks.
21:45You'll have to get these.
21:46What? I haven't got any money.
21:48I know.
21:49Ask Mr Book. We'll advance you your wages.
21:58There you are.
22:00Thanks. Take the change.
22:05You were saying, Mr Harker?
22:08That's right, son.
22:09Every Monday and Thursday.
22:11Sit just over there.
22:14Mr Well-Beloved the Butcher.
22:15Mr Bass Hartley RP Warden.
22:18Mrs Akers from the junk shop.
22:20Mr Quillen the Taylor.
22:22It's like Happy Families.
22:25Mr Toovey from the Cobblers.
22:26Mr Harcup.
22:27Oh, God rest his soul.
22:29Yeah.
22:32Are you with the coppers then?
22:39In a manner of speaking.
22:41I mean, I don't mind.
22:43I was in the force myself back in the day.
22:47Ah, poor old Harcup.
22:49Didn't seem the type.
22:51You know, to do himself in.
22:53But then, do they ever?
22:55I know.
22:56We had a teacher.
22:58Life and soul.
22:59Drowned herself in a weary old young man.
23:01When you last saw him?
23:03Well, that's the thing, you see.
23:05I saw Mr Harcup just the day before.
23:08Oh.
23:08Yeah.
23:09Very out of character it was.
23:11Yeah, he marched in here in the middle of the day.
23:14He was a man of very regular habits.
23:17So, it did seem a bit queer.
23:20Yeah, seemed like he had a lot on his mind.
23:23Said he was sitting on a secret.
23:26Obviously, eating him up a bit.
23:27Did you get it out of him?
23:29The secret?
23:31Ah, not at first.
23:32No.
23:32More than my life's worth, he said.
23:35He said that?
23:36It's very worth, son.
23:38And the next day?
23:40Dead.
23:44Did he, um, elaborate?
23:47Yes, son.
23:49Eventually, he did.
23:52Now, Mr Harcup was a very upright citizen.
23:56You see, he suspected one of his pals was cheating at Spotty's.
24:04Spotty's?
24:06Spotty's.
24:09Dominos.
24:11Oh.
24:24That was smashing.
24:27Well, Kaz's uses.
24:29Better than what you're used to.
24:31Oh, yeah.
24:33So, uh, you were saying, uh, Scarlet Fever?
24:38Well, that's what brought us together, yes.
24:41We met on the Scarlet Fever ward when we were, what, both 12?
24:47And so, what?
24:49You fell for each other right from the off?
24:52Uh, it wasn't quite like that, no.
24:59Profitable day.
25:01I'm not sure.
25:03I put my foot right in it.
25:05Oh.
25:06I tried to tidy Mr Book's bookshelves.
25:08Oh.
25:10I mean, I don't think I did too much damage, but...
25:13And then I was out and about with Nora, detecting.
25:17Well, it certainly put some colour in your cheeks.
25:21So, go on, then.
25:23Well, if you didn't fall for each other straight away,
25:26when did you know?
25:30You'll forgive me, my dear,
25:31but we'll have to know each other rather better
25:33before such confidences are exchanged.
25:36Oh, I'm sorry.
25:37I'm so sorry.
25:37No, not...
25:38I didn't mean to overstep, but...
25:39Not at all.
25:39You haven't.
25:42I do hope we'll become fast friends, Jack.
25:46It's complicated.
25:48That's all.
25:52Book and I were inseparable for years.
25:56And then...
25:58Life got in the way.
26:05Love is where it falls, isn't that what they say?
26:15Couldn't trouble you for a lie, could I?
26:17Sorry, I...
26:19I don't smoke.
26:24Sure.
26:25Sure.
26:27Before you...
26:28I didn't do...
26:28I don't care....
26:41Don't
26:41problem you for a lie at home. I don't
26:41know. It's hard
26:41to know if you were to... I don't
26:41have anymore. But... I
26:45don't
26:45know. Give me aì œ.
26:46You an example. How
26:46name the man's name. And you think that you are. You
26:46know that? You mean I don't
26:47know. I can
26:47one. And you know when
27:00And were things more than formal between you and your employer?
27:04I resent that question, Inspector.
27:06Nevertheless.
27:08Well, I won't deny there was a degree of affection between Mr Harcourt and myself.
27:16If you've been doing for someone all those years...
27:19Well, that's my point, Mrs Dredge. Is that all you were doing?
27:22What my friend is trying to suggest...
27:23So, no full well what he's trying to suggest.
27:25What he's trying to elucidate, then, is whether this affection took any more tangible form.
27:31Well, what's it got to do with you?
27:33Well, the fact is, Mrs Dredge, certain new facts have come to light.
27:36Mr Harcourt gave the lot to you, love.
27:40The sharp-beckenwell's whole estate is all yours.
27:45Never.
27:47I didn't see that coming.
27:50Everything.
27:51Everything.
27:53Is your son at home, Mrs Dredge?
27:55Oh, he's upstairs, in bed.
27:59A late riser.
28:01A war hero.
28:02His Wellington came down over Holland, 44.
28:05Oh, I know.
28:06I'm sorry.
28:07Nothing to be sorry for.
28:08He survived, didn't he?
28:10Given that we don't believe Mr Harcourt took his own life, you can see why that leaves you in a
28:15rather difficult position.
28:18Do you never think I topped him?
28:20The fact remains, you're in a rather sticky position, Mrs Dredge.
28:23The new will was properly signed and witnessed.
28:26Well, I don't know anything about that.
28:28But you could have done.
28:29You could have found a draft when you were cleaning and decided to, you know, speed things up a bit.
28:34What, by knocking off Mr H?
28:36Yes.
28:38Barmy.
28:39No, it's her you should be talking to.
28:41Marula.
28:41And him.
28:42Mickey Hall.
28:42Have you nabbed him?
28:43He is assisting us with our inquiries.
28:46Oh, well, good.
28:47That's something, then.
28:48In fact, Mr Hall's been most helpful.
28:51He has?
28:52Yes.
28:53Yeah, most helpful.
28:54In fact, he told us that he saw you leaving the chemist shop the night of the murder.
28:59There's no mystery there.
29:00I told you.
29:00I saw him.
29:01Leaving and trying your very best to conceal something.
29:05Bandages.
29:06I told you, for elf.
29:07I wasn't trying to hide.
29:10He lost a leg, didn't he, your son?
29:14How?
29:15One of them worn and creased.
29:17The other almost completely smooth.
29:19His prosthesis must need constant attention.
29:23And painful, I should imagine.
29:25Very, very painful.
29:27Of course.
29:29Painful enough for morphine.
29:34Why didn't you just ask Mr Harker to help?
29:40I couldn't.
29:44Alf needs more than he's ever given by the doctor.
29:48So, I need some extra.
29:51I didn't think Mr Harker would notice, but he did.
29:53And he assumed Mickey Hall must have done it.
29:56I couldn't tell him it was me.
29:58He was such a stickler, you see, for the rules.
30:01Well, how could I tell him I'd had a way with drugs from his own shop?
30:07You've no idea what it's like, the pain.
30:11My poor elf.
30:13So you dropped in on the pretext of getting bandages and instead stole more morphine.
30:19And Mr Harker was alive when you left him?
30:23I swear on my son's life.
30:30If you'll excuse me.
30:32Yes, of course.
30:35Oh, and, uh, when do I get it then?
30:40Beg pardon?
30:42The money.
30:50Not her, then.
30:51No, life is hardened, Mrs Dredge, but not a killer.
30:54No.
30:54Then who did it?
30:55Them.
30:56Two murders, remember?
30:57Them, them.
30:59Oh, look, I suppose it would be too straightforward for you to just, you know, just tell me.
31:02It would be my, well, no, not my pleasure.
31:08You're going to need backup, Inspector.
31:12What, what?
31:21Oh, no, no, sorry, uh, we're just...
31:27Oh, good evening, sir.
31:29Eric.
31:30Oh, we're just closing, I'm afraid.
31:32That's all right.
31:34Her's Sheila.
31:36Well, you asked me that, Mr Book.
31:38Oh, yes.
31:39She's in Sheffield.
31:42What day did she drive up there?
31:45Oh, it was, um, Thursday.
31:47Yes, Thursday.
31:50I see.
31:51Well, if there's anything special I can help you with, sir, you know, I've got a lot on.
31:55But she couldn't have done that, could she, Eric?
31:59When Trotty borrowed her car on Friday.
32:16Come on!
32:17Come on!
32:18Come on, Aide!
32:19Come on!
32:21Come on!
32:22Come on!
32:23Come on!
32:24Come on!
32:32Come on!
32:43Come on!
33:00Now that Mr. Well-Beloved, I didn't mean to do her in.
33:05Go on.
33:06Things hadn't been right for some time.
33:09Always raring we were.
33:10And then, I met her in it.
33:18Ah, an old fool and a young beauty.
33:21It's a very old tale.
33:23When did you know, Mr. Book, if you don't mind me asking?
33:27I suspected right away that something was off.
33:30And that was confirmed when I discovered that some of the bones in the plague pit were newer,
33:34though you'd made an effort to age them.
33:37Gravy browning.
33:38And, you know, Sheila uses it on her legs.
33:43Couldn't afford to get annoyed, huh?
33:44Plus the knife marks on them are very distinctive.
33:47I checked your handiwork.
33:48That bone you gave me for dog.
33:52So, for the sake of a future with Miss Enid Clegg,
33:56you sent your wife to meet her maker.
34:02You then found yourself confronting the murderer's oldest dilemma.
34:07Getting rid of the corpse.
34:11Should have been simple for you, not being a stranger to the notion of chopping things up.
34:17Unfortunately, Inspector, people can tell the difference between the bones of hogs and homo sapiens.
34:22So, I think that after removing the flesh from your unfortunate wife,
34:28flensing her,
34:30you still needed to dispose of her skeleton.
34:33Which is where the caustic soda comes in.
34:36Precisely. Freely available to any chemist.
34:39Getting rid of her body, are you?
34:46Oh, yeah.
34:48Drains.
34:50It's for the drains, George.
34:52Terrible pulp.
34:58Alkaline hydrolysis.
34:59Is that what you were going for?
35:04I'd read about it, see.
35:08Funny the things you pick up in this trade.
35:12Caustic soda.
35:15Dissolves flesh.
35:16I'd used it before to get rid of carcasses, you know.
35:20It didn't work properly.
35:22You know, lots of...
35:26Lots of bones left.
35:29I didn't know what to do, and then...
35:32And then...
35:33And then...
35:33Baseheart mentioned the skeletons that he'd found.
35:36Strange to think that if it wasn't for the Luftwaffe,
35:39we'd never have known those poor devils were under our feet all these years.
35:43You told the cop is?
35:46Not just yet.
35:47Well, no rush, I suppose, out of 300 years.
35:50I've put a tarp over the crater.
35:53Yes?
35:54Well, you know what kids are like.
35:56They probably run off with the bones and give them to a dog.
36:01Anyway, cheerio.
36:02Oh, no.
36:02It's not even in欲望.
36:02I'm sorry, man.
36:06It's not even in欲望.
36:19You know what to do?
36:21It's 21.
36:26I'll be right back to you.
36:26Oh, no.
36:32I thought I'd rather have to sew his way.
36:32I was going to get rid of it.
36:32It's not even in欲望.
36:32I'm not even in欲望.
36:36As I said, where better to hide a tree than in a forest?
36:41Who would notice?
36:43Oh, you.
36:46Men, there was this, of course.
36:51Eric here, though exhibiting a lively skill at improvisation, is not an imaginative man.
36:58No offense.
36:59I'd go for it.
37:00My game.
37:01Mate is mate.
37:03He rather overdid it by planting the coin in the plague pit.
37:06That rang an alarm bell straight away.
37:10So armed with a description of our suspect, my wife made a short, but instructive tour of the local curio
37:15shops.
37:16Oh, how do you know he hadn't gone further afield to get the coin?
37:20Unimaginative, remember?
37:22Anyone conceiving so clumsy a clue would never stray far from their own neighborhood.
37:27Eric was very much in the frame when I noticed the clincher.
37:30In the queue at the butcher's.
37:35At the butcher's.
37:36Notice what?
37:39Powdered egg.
38:08Oh, you've, uh, you've got something just there.
38:10You've got the hair of her, of course.
38:12So, it all looked rosy.
38:15And then?
38:17I've got the note.
38:19I suspected something of a kind, some sort of vague threat.
38:24Urgent that we talk.
38:27I don't want to have to take this to the authorities.
38:34I hope we can sort this matter between ourselves.
38:42George, look.
38:44And you assumed it was about the murder?
38:47Of course.
38:49What?
38:50And it wasn't?
38:51No.
38:53What?
38:54And what was it about?
38:58Domino's.
38:59What?
39:01Mr. Harcup was a stickler for the rules, as we know.
39:04He suspected you of cheating at his favorite pastime.
39:08That's all it was.
39:09No, no, no, no, no.
39:11No, it had to be a threat.
39:13About Sheila, what else could it be?
39:19So, what happened next?
39:25I had no idea I could buy him off.
39:28With cash?
39:30With beef.
39:39So you went round?
39:42I was scared.
39:45You know, scared of what he might say.
39:48What if he wouldn't listen to reason?
39:52You know, there was poison everywhere, all round.
39:54And so I kept him talking.
39:58I just need you to tell the truth.
40:00George, just take...
40:01Tell the truth, Eric.
40:03And then I took my chance.
40:05I got hold of him.
40:06And then I poured the poison down his throat.
40:09Right.
40:10You poisoned him, did you?
40:12Oh, yes.
40:12Yeah, it's horrible.
40:14Nothing else?
40:16Aye.
40:18You see, that's very interesting, Eric.
40:20Because before he was poisoned,
40:22George Harcup was struck over the head.
40:25And the weapon left a bloody residue in his hair.
40:28You remember there was blood, but no wound, Inspector?
40:30Yes.
40:31Dr. Calder analyzed it for me.
40:34Cow's blood.
40:36Ah.
40:37And you would have known that, Eric, if you'd been the one who'd hit him with a joint of beef.
40:42No.
40:43Yes.
40:43No, no, no, no.
40:44I remember now.
40:45No, I did hit him.
40:46I don't think so.
40:48So who did?
41:02Enid.
41:03Enid.
41:03Obviously neglected to mention the part where she clobbered Mr. Harcup.
41:07Was it her idea?
41:09From the start?
41:10No!
41:10She was...
41:13She was...
41:24Enid found me.
41:25After I'd strangled.
41:29After Sheila died.
41:35She just took charge.
41:38Didn't know what to do.
41:41Enid was so...
41:44Calm.
41:46Methodical.
41:48And...
41:48We...
41:49We reckoned we was going to be okay until...
41:54What the hell can we do now?
41:58Leave this to me.
42:06Bye.
42:07Bye.
42:17Bye.
42:23Bye.
42:27Bye.
42:29Bye.
42:32Bye.
42:34Bye.
42:35Bye.
42:36Bye.
42:37Bye.
42:37Bye.
42:38And to finish the job, you make it look like suicide.
42:45You should pour the prussic acid down poor Mr. Harcum's gullet.
42:56Can't we just say that I did it?
43:00Please.
43:01I mean, I'll swing, won't I, but ain't it.
43:06The law must take its course.
43:10I'm sorry, Eric, I truly am.
43:13But I'm even more sorry for George Harcum.
43:17Poor Sheila.
43:21Oh.
43:25Right, formal charge done. Sign out.
43:28If you take him to a home, you say.
43:30Very good of you.
43:33Thank you, Mrs. Book.
43:35She said you might be a while.
43:37Quite a tale.
43:39Wish I could have sat in on it.
43:41I'm pushing my luck as it is.
43:46What exactly did you do in the war?
43:50It must have been pretty big for you to get that letter from Churchill.
43:54with the inspectors to let you have run of the shop like this.
43:56Now, now, Jack, don't be nosy.
43:59Where would the fun be if everyone knew everything, eh?
44:04Besides, I hardly had the run of the place not with laughing boy there hovering the whole time.
44:08He's just waiting for his chance to collar me.
44:12Slightest malfeasance.
44:17Surely you're a model of respectability, Mr. Book.
44:21You'd be surprised.
44:23They got Ivan Avello for his petrol coupons.
44:38All right, we're out.
44:42There you go.
44:45Eric?
44:49Eric!
44:51Hey, no, no.
44:53No contact.
44:54Enough of that.
44:57That's enough of that.
44:59Run for Eric!
45:00Love you!
45:01Eric, give me a pull, mate!
45:03After him!
45:06Hells for hells.
45:09Eric!
45:11Eric!
45:13It's right!
45:15He's going down here!
45:21Eric!
45:22Come out, man!
45:24Don't be a fool!
45:29I think I see it!
45:30Eric!
45:47You two.
45:48That way!
45:50Come on!
46:24Where did he go?
46:29There.
46:42A crater.
46:45This is...
46:47was Inkerman Street.
46:48Which means?
46:50Mr. Baseheart's fastidiousness has come good at last.
46:54If the ruddy thing's still working.
47:14All right, well-beloved.
47:16Come quietly.
47:22I see him.
47:26There.
47:30Eric, stop.
47:32Don't lose him.
47:33I'm trying.
47:34I'm going in.
47:36Let me talk to him.
47:59Where are you going to run to, eh?
48:03There's nothing to be done.
48:05Where will you go?
48:10Ellie!
48:12There!
48:28Oh, no.
48:30Oh, no.
48:34By...
48:44you can give up today or tomorrow eric it's inevitable the law must take its course
48:51that's what you said you're not stringing me up
48:59eric no no you shouldn't do that to me i've seen beasts go it's not always kind
49:10eric stop what about enid hmm you better leave her to face the rope alone
49:19you're right she did all this for me yes all for me
49:32i can't leave her to face the music can i
49:38if we're gonna go
49:41we go together
50:01for him the hemlock shall distill
50:06for him the axe be bared
50:10for him the gibbet shall be built
50:14for him the stake prepared
50:19i see him up there with mr book
50:22and then
50:26wallop he just fell dropped like stone i mean he must have broke his neck
50:31what's that business
50:34very sad
50:37well this is a treat
50:39pineapple chunks
50:40haven't had these before the war
50:46so what now what do you mean
50:49we just go back to selling books
50:52well that's the job jack just jack
50:54yeah but that was
50:55yeah
50:58but it was so bloody exciting
51:00can't be like this all the time young man
51:02and anyway
51:04who are you you haven't really said
51:13uh jack blunt
51:17i was brought up in an orphanage
51:19like i told you
51:21made acquaintances with the wrong sort
51:24i did time for it
51:25oh
51:26yeah oh
51:30i was the driver
51:32for a smash and grab
51:33up mayfair way
51:35they got away
51:36with a load of mint coats
51:39i got away for two years
51:41i missed the war
51:43some of it anyway
51:45and then
51:47i'll get a letter
51:49from the prison reform society
51:51an address
51:52for a job
51:54this address
51:55well there we are then
51:56no need to mention it again
51:57yeah but why me
52:00why'd you pick me
52:02altruism
52:03what
52:03giving a second chance to someone
52:05felt like the right thing to do
52:07yeah but you don't know me from adam
52:08oh he was hopeless wasn't he trotty
52:10always wandering around the shop in the altogether
52:12getting his fig leaf trapped in the till
52:14i'm serious
52:16i mean bloody hell
52:17i am grateful and all that but
52:21it's nice here
52:24it's really nice but
52:25books is a raft on the great turbulency of life
52:29then you mean books are a raft
52:31no no books this place my shop
52:36don't dwell on it jack
52:37just accept it
52:38it's a second chance
52:39but why
52:40me
52:41why not
52:44you only live once
52:45but if you do it right
52:46once is enough
52:50shakespeare
52:51may west
52:57you
53:06you
53:10you
53:14you
53:15you
53:16you
53:17you
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