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00:00I've just got to sign an NDA, you know, so...
00:01That's cool, Mum.
00:03Pleased for you.
00:04Guys, guys, we've got a situation.
00:06Like, a bad one.
00:07Rich is a no-show.
00:08His phone's going straight to voicemail.
00:09I think we all know where Prospero's total lofty all.
00:17And it's no, no, never.
00:22No, no, never.
00:23It is.
00:25I guess our last night was always going to be a mad one.
00:28After the way this tour's gone.
00:31But we both made it to the end.
00:36No, no, never, no more.
00:38When I play...
00:43No, never, no more.
00:47Rich.
00:49Rich, come on.
00:51Rich, we've got to go.
00:53Skedaddle, youth.
00:54Rich, come on, there's an audience.
00:55They've paid to see us.
00:57To see you.
00:59Come on, you're not going to let them down, are you?
01:05It's all right, come on.
01:19Oh, sweet Lord.
01:22Mr Dempster, you doing okay?
01:25Of course I am.
01:26Why wouldn't I be?
01:27Just a little dry around the mouth, that's all.
01:29Final call for Miranda.
01:29Act one, scene two.
01:30Final call, Miranda.
01:34Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's a prop.
01:38Oh, not a place.
01:49Then to sea boys and go hang.
01:57This is a scurvy tune.
02:01Oh, but here's my comfort.
02:04Do not torment me.
02:06Oh.
02:06Whoa.
02:07What's the matter?
02:09Have we devils here?
02:10If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague.
02:20That's a brave God.
02:22And bear celestial liquor.
02:24Come, our men.
02:25I will pour some in thy other mouth.
02:33Stefano.
02:35Lost thy other mouth call me?
02:37Why, this is a devil and no monster.
02:40Stefano, I am Trinculo.
02:41Be not afeard.
02:43Thy good friend, Trinculo.
02:47I swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject.
02:51I'll show thee every fertile in show the island.
02:57Ike.
02:58Ike.
03:01I prithee.
03:04Let me show thee where crabs grow.
03:08And with my long nails, I'll dig thee pig...
03:14Pig nuts.
03:17Whoa.
03:19Oh, my God, Michael.
03:22Nathan, we need our first aid here.
03:25Michael, put it to me.
03:28Oh, my God, he's not breathing.
03:30Someone call an ambulance.
03:33No.
03:33Wait.
03:34Somebody call an ambulance.
03:42Oh, my God.
03:55Oh, my God.
03:57Oh, my God.
03:59Oh, my God.
04:14Yes, Thomas, what's up?
04:16Are you at the shot, sir?
04:17Is that how I am? Practicing my darts?
04:19Oh, can't say you don't need it.
04:22Since I've got myself a decent set of arrows, my form has improved.
04:27Get in!
04:30I'm presuming this isn't a social call. You've got a case.
04:32A suspected poisoning occurred during a theatre performance.
04:36The victim collapsed on stage.
04:37What? You sure it wasn't an accident?
04:39According to paramedics, the symptoms suggest it's cyanide poisoning.
04:43Interesting.
04:44No!
04:45Is everything all right?
04:49I think I might have just nearly killed Harry.
04:52What are you doing, man?
04:54You can't play on here. It's not safe.
04:56Oh, God.
05:00Michael Farrar, 32 years old, suddenly collapsed halfway through the second act of the performance.
05:06The tempest, the poster said.
05:09Yeah.
05:09Last ten months they've been touring beaches all over the world with it.
05:12This was their final performance.
05:14Sergeant Fletch has taken all the necessary statements.
05:17Caliban, I'll take it.
05:18One sec, let me check.
05:21Yes. Yes, it was.
05:23I mean, two points for you, Inspector.
05:26How did you work that out?
05:27Well, he looks monster-y, you know.
05:30Not a human.
05:32I assume the smell of almonds got the paramedics thinking it was cyanide.
05:36Which is fast acting, so do we know what he consumed before he died?
05:39Well, apparently, he drank from this moments before it happened.
05:44It's a fiasco.
05:46I mean, I'm trying my best here, sir. I haven't been here for long. I just got here.
05:49No.
05:49This is a fiasco.
05:51It's a traditional Italian wine bottle.
05:53He'll have drank from this in Act 2, Scene 2, the famous drinking scene.
05:57Let me check for you again.
05:59Boom shakalaka.
06:00Two more points for you again, Inspector.
06:02It was indeed Act 2, Scene 2.
06:05Now the man knows this Shakespeare.
06:07He does?
06:09Who knew?
06:09Cherry juice. That'll be for the red wine.
06:12So chances are we're looking at our murder weapon.
06:15That's what you think, right?
06:17But it can't be, because two others drank from the same bottle during the performance.
06:22Stefano and Trinculo.
06:23That one I don't know, sir.
06:25But based on your previous form, two points again.
06:28So what happened to the other two actors who drank from this?
06:30Not a thing.
06:31The paramedics checked them out, and they seemed fine.
06:35And they recorded the show, seeing as it was the last performance.
06:38So I would watch it back and check to see what happened.
06:42But if they did drink from the same bottle, then...
06:46He must have ingested the poison some other way.
06:53Let's see what the rest of the company have to say.
06:58These are two that drank from the same bottle as the victim.
07:01Mm-hmm.
07:01Just Gorman and Anya Chambers.
07:03She and the victim were in a relationship together, and she's taking it pretty badly.
07:09Who are the others?
07:10So this is Richard Dempster.
07:12He directed this production, and he also plays...
07:14Uh, Prospero.
07:15There comes a moment in every actor's life, a certain character's call to you.
07:23I had no choice.
07:25I had to submit.
07:27Okay.
07:28And this is Nathan Burns.
07:30He's the company's stage manager.
07:32I swear, if there was poison in that bottle, it wasn't me that put it in there.
07:36Actually, Mr Burns, we're working on the basis that the poison was administered another way.
07:40Really?
07:40Oh, thank God.
07:42Yeah, the cyanide's fast-acting, so...
07:44If it was in your system, we'd pretty much know by now.
07:47We'd like to know what else Mr Farr consumed in the 20 minutes or so before he died.
07:53Mikey never ate before a show.
07:55Not for two or three hours.
07:57Did he drink anything?
07:58I just sip water.
08:00What did he drink from?
08:01Uh, one of those water flask thingies, um...
08:05Oh, there it is.
08:10Okay, so take me through exactly what happened this afternoon.
08:15Anything out of the ordinary?
08:17We went up a bit late by about 15 minutes.
08:20How come?
08:23Um...
08:24Just, um, technical hitch.
08:27And once the show had started?
08:29Oh, um, Michael was, um, on stage in scene one.
08:33He doubles as the bosun.
08:35Take in the top sail.
08:36Ten to the master's whistle!
08:40Then a very, very swift makeup costume change reappear as Caliban in act one, scene two.
08:47Anya helps, um...
08:49Well, helped with that.
08:52And how did he seem, then?
08:54Fine.
08:55And what about before he went on stage and collapsed?
08:58A bit nervous.
09:00Pacing, biting his nails.
09:02He always was.
09:04Before that scene, there were a couple of tricky speeches in it.
09:06But he wasn't looking ill.
09:10Can any of you think why someone might want to do this to Mr. Farrah?
09:15No.
09:17Mikey was loved by the whole company.
09:20Very talented boy.
09:22He had the whole world at his feet.
09:34If we're working on the basis that the killer got the poison into Michael's system 15, 20 minutes prior to
09:41him dying on stage,
09:42and it must be one of the cast or stage crew that...
09:47Sir?
09:48Why kill someone like that in front of an audience and on the very last show of the tour?
09:56I mean, after today, they could all go home, right?
10:00They'd never have to see each other again.
10:02So why did he have to die on that stage today?
10:07This is a public beach, right?
10:09Well, we're going to need some security to keep an eye on the crime scene.
10:13I get Sergeant Fletcher and Officer Rose to do a sweep of the place.
10:16I need it.
10:25You all right, Mr. Dempster?
10:27Oh, only ten months on tour will do this to you.
10:34Come on, Richard.
10:35It's time to go.
10:49Well, I recognise you from somewhere.
10:52Oh, yeah.
10:54It's a whole community police scheme thing we're doing.
10:57Sounds thrilling.
10:59I didn't catch your name in the frenzy of it all.
11:02Sergeant Matty Fletcher.
11:03Sergeant Matty Fletcher.
11:05Would you like to go for a drink with me while I'm on the island?
11:09No.
11:10That's inappropriate, Mr. Gorman.
11:13You know, with me being a police officer and you a possible suspect in a murder case.
11:18Right, yeah.
11:18Well, that makes sense.
11:21I hope that wasn't too embarrassing.
11:22Not for me, it wasn't.
11:24Good, good.
11:25I guess as an actor, I lost all sense of shame a while ago.
11:31Did he just ask you on a date?
11:32During a murder investigation.
11:34That's a red flag right there.
11:36Maybe he's the killer.
11:37Maybe he's trying to get close to the police to keep an eye on the investigation.
11:41Or maybe he's just a bozo.
11:42That's how I saw a possibility.
11:43Mm-hmm.
11:45Crazy, man.
11:46Oh, yeah.
11:58Take a bow, Mikey.
12:00Because it's all over now.
12:02I told you.
12:04It was always going to end this way.
12:17Oh, that's great, man.
12:19I'll get the beers, yeah?
12:20Yeah.
12:20And some snacks.
12:21Nice.
12:22What time should we say, around seven-ish?
12:24Yeah, cool, man.
12:25All right, nice one.
12:26See you then.
12:28I just arranged a dance night with Daryl.
12:31Tonight, he's going to get his mates around.
12:33It's going to be a bit like being back home, you know?
12:35Lads standing around the dartboard, beers, banter.
12:38The only thing that's missing is a sticky pub carpet and some pork scratchings.
12:43Pork scratchings?
12:44Yeah.
12:45They are the quintessential English pub snack.
12:48It's fried pigskin.
12:50I'll get some sent over for you.
12:52Oh.
12:54No rush.
12:55Ah.
12:57Lab results?
12:58Ah, yes.
12:59And they confirmed the victim died from potassium cyanide poisoning.
13:03No surprise there.
13:04They checked Michael's own water bottle and found no traces of the poison in it whatsoever.
13:10Nothing in his water bottle.
13:12As for the fiasco, cherry juice.
13:17Fairly high glucose levels, they noticed.
13:20But, most importantly, a lethal dose of potassium cyanide.
13:27That is surprising.
13:29Poison was in the bottle that our victim and the other two actors drank from on stage.
13:33Mm-hmm.
13:34So how can three people drink from the same poison bottle and only one of them die?
13:39It doesn't make any sense.
13:57Well, we can rule out the pretending to drink theory.
14:00I mean, these guys are drinking from the bottle for real.
14:02No question.
14:03So what if one of the other two actors slipped the poison in on stage just before Michael drank
14:08from it?
14:10Yeah, rewind it a bit.
14:12Okay, play.
14:14Could it be Jez?
14:16Now, the bottle is in view the whole time.
14:18And he's not adding anything to it.
14:20Also, Michael's not the last person to drink from that bottle.
14:23Seb's right.
14:25Anya drinks after Michael.
14:26So even if something had been added by Jez, I know it would have consumed it as well.
14:32How?
14:34How do they all drink the same liquid with poison in it, but only Michael Farah dies?
14:44Is Sergeant Fletcher on the phone too?
14:46Oh, an actor's agent back in the UK.
14:49Yeah, when we spoke with the rest of the cast this morning, a, um, Casey Briscoe, who plays
14:55Miranda, she said she saw Nathan Burns accosting the victim just moments before the show even
15:00started.
15:01I'm telling you, this is all going to come back on you and sooner than you think.
15:04And there's rumors going around that there's history between them.
15:07So Casey slash Miranda said we should speak to this agent.
15:10Did you get anything from the search?
15:13Nothing interesting.
15:15I was suspicious.
15:17You know, he's been home in this little chun.
15:21I've never seen him do this before.
15:23He neither.
15:25Inspector, what's this funky chun you've been home in?
15:29I don't know.
15:31It's been in my head since yesterday.
15:32I can't shake it.
15:33I can't place it.
15:38Wait a minute.
15:50Bingo!
15:52It was an advert.
15:53It was on the telly about five years ago.
15:55They kept playing it.
15:57Wow.
16:01See, that's what I was humming.
16:03Yeah.
16:04And why is this relevant?
16:07Wait.
16:08As a plumber, I've seen my fair share of what brains and six...
16:11That's why.
16:12And I know they can leave a pretty nasty pong.
16:15But now I found Whistler, I can leave my...
16:17That's Nathan Burns, the stage manager.
16:19Man, he's like a better actor than all of the others put together.
16:23Nathan Burns was an actor.
16:25And he has history with our victim.
16:28I just spoke to an agent in London who used to represent Nathan.
16:32She remembers him as being super ambitious.
16:36The Whiffbuster ad wasn't the end of his rainbow then?
16:38The agent said about eight years ago,
16:40Nathan had a really important audition for the production of Macbeth
16:44at the National Theatre in London.
16:46And he didn't get it.
16:48But guess who did?
16:50Michael Farah.
16:51And more than that, Nathan went to the police at the time.
16:56He was adamant that he was spiked before the audition.
17:03By Michael?
17:04By Michael.
17:14So I get this big audition.
17:16And I go down to London and stay in a cheap hotel near the theatre.
17:21Michael's staying in the same place.
17:23Me and him get chatting in the bar the night before.
17:25What were you drinking?
17:26Just softs.
17:27But Michael insists on getting the last round.
17:30I go to bed at ten.
17:32Next thing, it's midday and I've missed the audition.
17:35You think he drugged you?
17:36He was taking out the competition.
17:38And you went to the police?
17:39They said there wasn't enough evidence.
17:41Whatever he'd given me was already out of my system.
17:44What happened after that?
17:46I never got another break like it.
17:48Did a bit of theatre and education, a couple of TV ads.
17:52With Buster?
17:54Yeah, with Buster.
17:58And then I quit.
17:59So you tour with this guy for ten months and it never comes up?
18:08Mr Burns, just before the last show, you were seen arguing with Michael, saying,
18:14it's all going to come back on you.
18:16And sooner than you think, mate.
18:19You're referring to him sabotaging your audition?
18:23That's some revenge.
18:25Spiking his drink like he spiked yours.
18:27I didn't kill Michael because of what he did to me eight years ago.
18:30Still must have bothered you though, right?
18:31Otherwise, why bring it up?
18:32I just...
18:33I couldn't stop myself.
18:35I was never going to see him again.
18:43We'll be in touch.
18:51There is definitely something he's not telling us.
18:55You think?
19:07Rich.
19:10The police have been asking questions.
19:13I didn't tell them what he did to you.
19:16But if there's heat on me again, I don't think I can stay quiet any longer.
19:24To my own self be true, eh?
19:30Oh, Delroy.
19:33Say it again, if you would.
19:34Sure thing.
19:35No problem.
19:43Sir, how come you know so much about Shakespeare?
19:46Seems unlikely.
19:48You know, with you being a day of the match, a match of the day kind of guy.
19:53No disrespect.
19:55When I was a kid, I used to hang around outside the stage doors of West End theatres, yeah?
20:01In case I saw someone famous.
20:02Did you ever meet Vin Diesel?
20:04No, I don't think Vin Diesel ever trod the boards of London.
20:09Anyway, I got to know some of the staff, and they would let me sneak in and watch whatever
20:13was on at the time.
20:14So, yeah, I have seen my fair share of the Bard's works.
20:21Also, I got talking to the actor sometimes, and they would say how hard a gig it was.
20:26You know, the failed auditions, the unemployment, doing rubbish jobs just to make ends meet.
20:32It was tough, competitive.
20:34As our first suspect found out.
20:36Well, could it be that that pushed Michael to do what he did to Nathan?
20:40But it also shows there's a dark side to our victim.
20:43Spiking someone's drink just so he can get the role he wanted.
20:46That's ruthless.
20:47Well, whatever it was that led someone to poison Michael Farah, well, we still haven't got
20:52a scooby how we pulled it off.
20:53I mean, the man died on stage, right?
20:55In the middle of a performance.
20:57Drinking from the same bottle as these two.
20:59But they didn't die.
21:01He did.
21:05Did I Wilson speak in?
21:08Yeah, I can talk now.
21:12Okay.
21:15Yeah, yeah, I understand.
21:18Have you spoken to my brother about this?
21:21He has.
21:23Right.
21:25Okay, well, thanks for letting me know.
21:33Sir, is everything all right?
21:41I knew Mum would leave everything to Sola.
21:45I just didn't think he'd put the house up for sale as soon as it was his.
21:51I thought we'd at least chat about it first.
21:55And what about your mother's things?
21:58According to the solicitor, he's arranged for a house clearance company to take everything
22:02and auction it all off.
22:05It all seems so rushed to me.
22:07Of course it's going to feel rushed.
22:09I would have liked at least a last look around the place.
22:14Maybe keep something of hers to remember her by.
22:23Then call your brother and tell him that's what you'd like to help him.
22:28He's got to understand, right?
22:43Hey!
22:46You?
22:46Yes!
22:49How can I help?
22:50Oh, well, actually, I thought I could help you, you know, wind down after a hard day's police in the
22:55streets.
22:57I've got some beers, picnic blanket, and, yeah, I thought we could find a quiet beach and get to know
23:05each other.
23:05Hmm.
23:06Mr Gorman?
23:07Yes?
23:08Did we not already have this conversation?
23:10We did, yes, but I felt what was happening was, you know, you were on duty, you had your colleagues
23:16around you,
23:17and I think you were saying what you felt you had to say.
23:20Hmm.
23:21No.
23:22Come on, I'm not on this island for very long.
23:24How often do you get to do this with someone like me?
23:27Let's just have some fun.
23:30Here we go, here we go.
23:31Hmm.
23:34Hmm.
23:34Yes.
23:35Yes.
23:36There you go.
23:40Cheers.
23:42Actually, now that I think about it, I did say that I was going to meet my friend.
23:46What's the time now?
23:47Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're spilling it, you're spilling it.
23:49Oh, what a shame.
23:51I do have somewhere to be right now, though.
23:56Do not bother me again.
23:59Unless it's related to the case, Mr. Gorman.
24:03You understand?
24:05Good.
24:06You enjoyed the rest of your evening?
24:25Sergeant Fletcher, good morning.
24:26What have you got?
24:27So I've been doing background checks on the other cast members, and I noticed Anya Chambers
24:33and Jez Gorman were in the same play back in 2021, and they ended up getting together.
24:40And, wait for it, they only got married a year later.
24:44Hang on, I thought Anya was with Michael.
24:45She was.
24:46She left Jez for him during the tour they'd been on.
24:50Why did this not show up sooner?
24:52Because it wasn't officially registered yet.
24:55They had a vow ceremony in the forest somewhere.
24:57There was a whole Midsummer Night's Dream thing going on.
25:01Yeah.
25:01Yeah, you should have seen some of the photos they posted on social media.
25:05That was some dress she wore.
25:07Respectfully, of course.
25:08So, how did Jez feel about being replaced by Michael?
25:11Hmm.
25:11Well, according to the other cast members, really not so good seems to be the answer.
25:16Mm-hmm.
25:22Look, I don't know who said that, but it's nonsense.
25:24So, when Anya told you she was leaving you for Michael, you weren't upset?
25:28Sorry, why is she here?
25:30Is that normal procedure, to bring a uniformed sergeant along?
25:33It is.
25:33Yep.
25:34Yes, it is.
25:35OK.
25:36Fine.
25:37So, it's nonsense, is it, that you were upset about Anya?
25:41Yes.
25:41I mean, Anya's the one who's losing out, not me.
25:44All our mutual friends are siding with me.
25:46She's the one who's going to have to move in with her parents when she gets back home,
25:49not me.
25:50I mean, it hurts.
25:51Yeah.
25:52Of course it hurt, really hurt.
25:54But I didn't kill Michael because of it.
25:56I wasn't looking for revenge.
26:00Ah, this is my agent, so I should probably take...
26:02No.
26:04You shouldn't.
26:05OK, she'll leave a voicemail.
26:07This is a murder investigation, Mr Gorman.
26:10And your wife fell in love with the victim.
26:12That's a very strong motive.
26:14Well, that's where you're wrong, actually.
26:16They didn't fall in love.
26:18I mean, maybe she did, I don't know, but it wasn't reciprocated.
26:21What makes you say that?
26:25Because he told me so.
26:29A few nights before our final performance, we all had a bit of a sesh at the hotel bar.
26:35Some of us went for a dip in the sea.
26:37Michael comes up to me and says he's going to end it with Anya because he's got some off-Broadway
26:43play and she's not what he needs right now.
26:47And did he end it with her?
26:49Yeah.
26:51Five minutes before the beginning of our final show.
26:55Talk about timing, eh?
27:07Anya's in room 352.
27:10That was Seb.
27:11The security team at the crime scene say somebody tried to break into the dressing room area last night.
27:16Guess her description?
27:18Is that something that we could have missed?
27:21Right, you and Officer Rose get down to the crime scene.
27:23Let's go and talk to Anya.
27:26Yeah, when's the deadline?
27:27Yes, Seb?
27:29Yeah, I'm sure I can get some.
27:30It'll be on time.
27:33Mikey and I had gone to collect rich from this bar.
27:36He drinks it.
27:38That was why we went up late.
27:41So that was the technical pitch.
27:43We literally had five minutes before the performance was about to start.
27:47Mr. Dempster, come on, let's get you dressed.
27:49Fight! Fight!
27:50You son of a madman!
27:52Michael just blurts it out.
27:54I can't do this anymore.
27:57I'm going to New York.
27:59I'm going alone.
28:01You gave up your marriage for Michael.
28:03You risked everything.
28:07It must have hurt them when he told you it was over between you two.
28:12So, no.
28:16What was it that drew you to Michael?
28:19He felt like a kindred spirit.
28:24It was something I'd never had with Jez.
28:27In what way?
28:29Mikey cared so much about his work, but it terrified him.
28:34He was striving to be as good as he could.
28:37Knowing it could all be torn down by a critic or the audience.
28:41And that bummobility drew me to him.
28:44Because I feel it too in everything.
28:49Okay, so in that moment when he told you he'd finished with you, you must have felt...
28:54Betrayed.
28:55But...
28:56Angry.
28:57And within the hour he was dead.
28:59What?
28:59What?
29:00You think I did it?
29:04Because of...
29:05I mean, but how, even?
29:10You think I'd carry around a bottle of cyanide with me just in case I get dumped?
29:15I mean, and if you've forgotten, I drank from the same bottle as him.
29:20Why would I do that if I knew there was poison in it?
29:28You know, my mum's church has this dirty thing going on.
29:33And sometimes, I think about doing a bit hard to myself, you know?
29:38It's just the words sometimes.
29:40I really struggle with words.
29:44Like, um...
29:45Cool.
29:49The winds did sing it to me.
29:51And the thunder, that deep and dreadful argon pipe,
29:56Pronouns the name of Prosper.
29:58It did base me trespass.
30:00Base me trespass?
30:01I mean, what does that even mean, like, base me trespass?
30:05Like a boombox type of base?
30:07Less of the base, more of the searching.
30:09Sergeant Fletcher.
30:10Commissioner, afternoon.
30:11Afternoon, sir.
30:13Might I have a word?
30:20How is the investigation going?
30:23We're making progress, sir.
30:24We've already got a few suspects in mind.
30:27Is everything all right, sir?
30:30A complaint has been made
30:33accusing you of unprofessional conduct.
30:36By who?
30:38Jess Gorman claims you tried to initiate a romantic relationship with him.
30:43He said what?
30:45And when he turned you down twice,
30:48you pursued him as a suspect in the case.
30:52That is just not true.
30:54We interviewed him
30:56because there was evidence to suggest he had a motive.
31:00And it was Mr Gorman who asked me out twice.
31:03I swear to you, sir.
31:05He is making this all up.
31:07I mean, I would never do something like that, sir.
31:10You believe me, right?
31:13Look, sir, ask Officer Rose.
31:16He was there the first time Mr Gorman asked me out.
31:19He will tell you.
31:21Very well.
31:24Leave it with me.
31:34Exactly what am I looking for?
31:36Yes.
31:38Though, cannot find a thing.
31:40Hey.
31:55Sarge!
31:56I think I found something.
31:59What is it?
32:04It's a beach like a key.
32:08There's a few of them two minutes off the road.
32:13Oh.
32:22Oh.
32:27Syringe.
32:31Well, I'm assuming that's the cyanide.
32:39A tin of throat lozenges.
32:41You all right there, Mr Dempster?
32:50Right, Mr Dempster, this lot has got your fingerprints all over it.
32:57No-one else's.
32:58You care to explain?
33:01It's thanks to Michael Farah that I fell off the wagon.
33:04Sorry?
33:05Before this tour, I've been sober for 20 years.
33:08What happened?
33:10Michael's offered this off-Broadway show.
33:14It's going to get him some good publicity in the States.
33:16Well, at the same time, we had the chance of extending our tour by three months to South America.
33:22And you didn't want to lose your caliber?
33:23No.
33:24And, I mean, Michael was contractually obliged to stay if further dates were added.
33:29I'll refuse to release him.
33:30Well, we know Michael was very ambitious, so I assume he wasn't happy about that.
33:36It's our first day off in the Caribbean, Trinidad.
33:40We all spent the day by the pool.
33:42Cheers.
33:46I didn't realize until it was too late.
33:48Oh, dear boy.
33:50Putting shots of vodka in my soft drink all day.
33:54Once I got the taste for it well.
33:57Double whiskey, please.
34:0020 years without so much as a sip.
34:02It all came crashing down.
34:05Nathan and dear Anya, they were first to realize I was back on the source.
34:09Took it in turns, bless him.
34:12Bring me to bed.
34:13Did you tell them what Michael did?
34:15Yes.
34:15I don't think Anya believed me, but Nathan did.
34:19Nathan?
34:20Yeah.
34:21There is definitely something he's not telling us.
34:23He said that Michael had done something not dissimilar to him once, despite his drink.
34:30So that's what Nathan was holding back.
34:33When he confronted Michael before the final show, it wasn't just about his experience eight years ago.
34:39I'm telling you, this is all going to come back on you, and sooner than you think, mate.
34:43It was also about what he'd been doing to you.
34:46The irony of it is that the funding fell through and the end tour was never extended.
34:51Michael got exactly what he wanted.
34:53No, I had the sense he usually did.
34:56Which brings us back to this little collection.
34:59I think he poisoned one of these lozenges, gave it to Michael backstage, then added poison to that wine bottle
35:06onstage after he died, to misdirect us.
35:09Make us think that's what killed him.
35:12I'm afraid my little plan wasn't quite so smart.
35:15Well, and not so deadly.
35:17The bottle doesn't contain cyanide.
35:20It contains lysergic acid diathlamine.
35:27LSD.
35:30The hallucinogen.
35:31I injected one of the lozenges.
35:33Not with cyanide.
35:35I didn't want to kill him.
35:37I just wanted him to feel how he made me feel.
35:41All powerless.
35:44I wanted everyone to see it.
35:49With COVID that I am, I didn't go through with it.
35:54And then Michael collapsed onstage, and we were called.
35:58What was I panicked?
36:00What was your frenzy?
36:01I ran to the beach lockers, hit the evidence.
36:05So it was you, our security sword, trying to get into the dressing room to get that key?
36:10Did you tell anyone else about your plan?
36:12I was so smashed half the time, I might have left it lying around.
36:18I don't know.
36:19Inspector.
36:23Just a moment.
36:31I think he might be telling the truth.
36:34We've re-watched the video, and after Michael collapses, no one goes near the bottle he drank from.
36:39And look, Jez Garman puts down the bottle here, and no one touches it again until...
36:46I do.
36:47There.
36:48So the poison was in the bottle all along?
36:51Nothing was added afterwards?
36:52No, sir.
36:55So how come the other two that drank from the bottle didn't die, and he did?
37:09You've reached Solomon.
37:11Leave a message, I'll get back to you.
37:14Sol, it's me again.
37:17Can you call me back?
37:18Please.
37:23So I just heard back from a few of Jez and Anya's friends in the UK, trying to get a
37:28handle on their marriage breaking up.
37:31Right.
37:33No one was shocked.
37:34It seems Jez wasn't the most faithful of husbands.
37:38He saw it as a kind of open marriage.
37:41Right, and what happens on tour stays on tour, like that.
37:44And after three years of marriage, Anya felt betrayed and humiliated, just basically took her for granted, but obviously never
37:51expected her to actually leave.
37:53So when Anya hooked up with Michael, that must have really thrown him.
38:01Still haven't heard from your brother.
38:04You know what?
38:05I think he's actually ignoring my calls.
38:08I keep thinking about how things were between us, you know, when we last saw each other.
38:12They weren't great.
38:13In fact, if I'm honest, I kind of think it's because of me that we're going our separate ways.
38:17Then maybe you should go visit him in Antigua.
38:20You think?
38:21Yeah.
38:22Just go talk to him.
38:24I'm heading to the lab.
38:26You want me to drop you off at the shack?
38:28Er, no.
38:29Take me to the high street, please.
38:31I need to get a bucket and spade.
38:34As in a...
38:36As in a kiddie's bucket and spade for, like, the beach?
38:40What other kind of bucket and spade is there?
38:42Sir, um, is this for the case?
38:46Or...
38:48Are you having a break now?
38:50Probably both.
38:56Right.
38:58Well, that's me done.
39:05Sarge, you don't need to stress yourself over this Jez Garman complaint.
39:10Like you said, the man's a total bozo.
39:12And the commissioner will definitely see that.
39:14Car, he can see through the lies.
39:18You're not too sure about it.
39:23There's something that you don't know about me from before I, uh, I came back to St. Marie.
39:32In Jamaica, I, I messed up on a case big time.
39:39And, and, and some of my file and the commissioner knows about it.
39:45So, no.
39:48No, I'm not sure he's going to have my back on this.
39:52That's why you transferred.
39:59Well, I mean, look.
40:02I wouldn't be so sure about that, Sarge.
40:06Because one thing I know for a fact is that the commissioner wants to give everyone a chance.
40:13Because, I mean, he did with me.
40:17Best decision he ever made.
40:40Good morning, Sarge.
40:42Officer Rawls.
40:43Oh, yes.
40:43Yes, Thomas.
40:44Sarge.
40:46Somebody's giving the inspector some hair.
40:48Hey, hey.
40:49Hey.
40:49Hey.
40:49I never thought I'd see the day the man can have an afro.
40:52I mean, whoever did this is making a bold statement.
41:06Morning, inspector.
41:08Have you seen the poster?
41:10Someone's giving you a glow up.
41:12Yeah, I've seen it.
41:13Yeah, that really brings out your cheekbones, inspector.
41:15Kinda suits you.
41:16Oh, and he's got his little kiddies' buckets.
41:19And spades.
41:21Four of them, in fact.
41:24One bottle.
41:25One dose of poison.
41:31Three people drink the same liquid from the same bottle.
41:37Now, how come only one of them ingest the poison and the other two don't?
41:41Well, that's not possible.
41:43Why not?
41:44They're sand in all of them.
41:46Or poison.
41:47So how?
41:49How indeed, Sergeant Fletcher.
41:53Is that from the lab?
41:54Yes.
41:55Oh.
41:59Confirms the liquid in the bottle we found in Mr. Dempster's cigar box was LSD.
42:07Not legal, but definitely not murder.
42:10Oh, sir, your buckets.
42:12Oh.
42:24The sea's washed all the sand away.
42:29It's like I was never there.
42:35Hang on.
42:40The water made the sand disappear.
42:44Or did it actually disappear?
42:47I mean, what if it was there all along?
42:50I think you poisoned one of these lozenges and added poison to that wine bottle on stage after
42:55he died.
42:56No one goes near the bottle you drank from.
42:58As for the fiasco, fairly high glucose levels.
43:02And if that explains the bottle, then where did the poison come from?
43:08And a very, very swift makeup costume change reappear as Caliban in Act 1 scene 2.
43:14And with my long nails, I'll dig deep.
43:19Deep nose.
43:23You know who did it.
43:26And I think I know why.
43:28But what about the how, Inspector?
43:30I mean, that's what the whole biggie is about, right?
43:32I'm pretty sure I know the how as well.
43:34But, Officer Rose, I need you to run another tox report on Mr. Farah, but I need a glass of
43:38water first.
43:39You're dehydrated.
43:40No, it's not to drink.
43:41It's just a little experiment that will finally prove what really happened on stage three days ago.
43:47One glass of water coming right up.
43:57Now, I don't want to talk ill of the dead.
44:01However, I think it's fair to say that Michael Farah was a selfish and self-interested individual
44:08who only cared about what he wanted in life and how he was going to get it.
44:14But, did the malicious and hurtful things he did to each of you really mean he had to die?
44:23Anya, you obviously thought he did.
44:26Because it was you that poisoned him.
44:28What? No.
44:30No.
44:31I absolutely did not.
44:34The mystery we've been trying to solve throughout this case is how three people could drink from the same poisoned
44:44bottle, yet only one of them dies.
44:48We didn't know it.
44:50But the answer has been right in front of us from the start.
44:53And in a way, Mr. Farah gave it to us in his dying breath.
44:59And with my long nails, I'll dig thee pig...
45:02And I, with my long nails, will dig thee pig nuts.
45:07Because that's the thing about Caliban.
45:09He was a monster, right?
45:11And as part of Michael's makeup to help make him look more...
45:15...monstery...
45:16...his nails are painted.
45:19And that's how he was poisoned.
45:21We need to get this to the lab.
45:24But we've already had Michael's fingernails tested, and it was confirmed there were traces of cyanide in the dried varnish.
45:32It was administered, Anya, by you.
45:36During his wardrobe change from the bosun into his Caliban costume, makeup, and painted fingernails.
45:45Nathan, you said Michael would get particularly nervous while waiting to go on stage for Act 2, Scene 2, yeah?
45:52A bit nervous.
45:52He would pace and bite his nails.
45:56Which, after touring for 12 months together, and having become intimate with him, you also knew Anya.
46:03But I told you, Michael only ended things with me half an hour before he died.
46:09How could I plan his murder in that time?
46:11You're right.
46:13Michael's murder was planned in advance.
46:16But now we know the killer had to be you, then it follows that you'd already found out Michael was
46:22planning to end his relationship with you.
46:24You getting in?
46:26Yeah, maybe.
46:27And with Michael telling Jez as much...
46:29Look, I'm gonna end things with Anya.
46:32I think you overheard that conversation.
46:34After everything, I thought you should know.
46:36And we believe that's when you decided to kill him.
46:40Then, if Michael's fingernails were poisoned...
46:44Well, why was there poison in the bottle?
46:46That was to misdirect us, right?
46:49To confuse us with the seeming impossibility that three people could drink from it, but only one die.
46:56Why?
46:56Why weren't they all killed?
46:58I'm glad you asked me that, Mr. Dempster.
47:00Because to answer that, we need to look to your own plan to get back at Michael Farrow.
47:05We know Miss Chambers helped to put you to bed a number of times when you've overindulged.
47:11Nathan, your annual, they took it in turns, bless him.
47:14Put him into bed.
47:15And you admitted yourself, you left the cigar box containing the syringe, the lozenges...
47:22I might have left it lying around.
47:23And this little bottle lying around the place.
47:27We believe you came across this box, Miss Chambers.
47:31Hey, Rich. A sip of water.
47:35Mmm.
47:36And that's when your plans started to take shape.
47:41But instead of using LSD, you used a fatal poison.
47:49Now, I have to admit, it didn't register with me at first, the significance.
47:54But when our lab tested the liquid in that poison bottle, the cherry juice...
48:00As for the fiasco...
48:02They found the level of glucose in it...
48:05...higher than normal.
48:07That's where this comes in.
48:10Just over an hour ago, I dropped one of Mr. Dempster's throat lozenges in this glass of water.
48:16And now, look.
48:19It's gone.
48:22Dissolved.
48:24And that's exactly what you did, Anya.
48:26With that wine bottle.
48:28Just before yourself, Jez and Michael went on that stage for Act 2, Scene 2.
48:33You see...
48:34As long as the lozenge was whole and hadn't dissolved...
48:38Jez!
48:39It was safe to drink from.
48:42Which you all did.
48:45But by the time we arrived at the crime scene and sent the bottle to the lab to be tested...
48:51The lozenge had already melted away, releasing the poison, making it seem like it had been there all along.
49:01But why? Why did you kill him?
49:06Anya, when you and Michael got together, you were still feeling hurt and embarrassed by your husband's ongoing infidelities.
49:19Him taking you for granted.
49:21So for Michael, the kindred spirit that you'd risked everything for, to humiliate you even further by finishing with you,
49:31only a few months after getting together...
49:33Well, a bit more than hurt.
49:36And that's when you realised that perhaps the rumours you've heard about Michael, which you previously dismissed, were actually true.
49:48That Mr Dempster's claim that Michael spiked him actually happened.
49:54Did you tell them what Michael did?
49:56Yes. I don't think Anya believed me, but...
49:58And that Nathan Burns' own past run-in with Mr Farrell was more than mere gossip.
50:03There's been gossip amongst the cast that there's history between them.
50:06So you decided to do something that was long overdue.
50:10And on behalf of yourself, and everyone else here whose life he'd ruin, you would give Michael something he deserved.
50:19To make him the one to finally suffer.
50:23His own downfall.
50:25His own humiliation.
50:27Right there on that stage, for all the world to see.
50:32And that, Miss Chambers, is why you killed him.
50:44Anya Chambers, I'm arresting you for the murder of Michael Farrah.
50:49You do not have to say anything.
50:51But it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you lay to rely on
50:59in court.
51:12You're nasty enough of yourself already?
51:14It's never enough.
51:17Ah, returner de bozo.
51:20Could we have a quick chat, please?
51:26I just want to let you know that I officially dropped my complaint this morning, and I wanted to say
51:32I'm sorry.
51:34You know you could have lost me my job?
51:37Just because I wouldn't have a drink with you?
51:40What kind of sick little messed up brain you have?
51:43Yeah, that's pretty much what your commissioner said.
51:45Wait, the commissioner?
51:46Yeah, he was the one who insisted I apologise and said he was going to charge me with wasting police
51:51time.
51:52He caught my agent.
51:53He's a pretty terrifying guy, actually.
51:56Oh, and there he is.
51:58Okay.
51:59Well, look, I'd rather not have to deal with him again, so I'm really sorry.
52:14Sir?
52:16He apologised.
52:18He did?
52:20Thank you, sir.
52:21I'm sorry I couldn't get him to drop his complaint sooner.
52:25The man was clearly making it all up.
52:30So you knew he was lying all along?
52:33Of course.
52:34But one has to follow procedure in situations like this.
52:40It's...
52:42I just...
52:44I just thought you didn't believe me, sir.
52:47You know, after everything that happened before.
52:52You made a promise to me that there were going to be no more mistakes.
52:59And...
52:59I tend to take people at their word.
53:02You're a good sergeant.
53:03I can see that.
53:05So, keep it up.
53:29Okay.
53:30If I get a bullseye on this next throw, I'll book a ticket to Antigua.
53:35And I'll go and see Seoul.
53:51Um...
53:53Maybe make it best of three?
53:54Yeah.
53:58Another bullseye and I'm definitely going to Antigua.
54:15I don't believe it.
54:21Well, that's that then.
54:23I guess it's really happening.
54:29Yes, Thomas, I'm just letting you know I won't be coming in tomorrow.
54:35I'm actually taking your advice as it goes.
54:37I'm going to see Seoul.
54:40Yeah?
54:41Well, I mean, I don't even know if he wants to see me, but...
54:45Hey, what's the worst that can happen?
55:01More water, please.
55:02I think it rather suits him.
55:05Yeah?
55:05That's the same thing I said, sir.
55:07Looks like one of the Jackson 5.
55:09And it is rather amusing, isn't it?
55:19Sir?
55:19Yes, Thomas?
55:20What is it?
55:22I think something has happened to the inspector.
55:44What the hell's going on?
55:51You.
55:51You.
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