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First broadcast 3rd March 1994.
Arthur is one of several people being targeted by violent criminal Charlie Knowles.
George Cole - Arthur
Gary Webster - Ray
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Stratford Johns - Knowles
Kenneth Cope - Phelan
James Warrior - Rogerson
Phyllida Law - Magistrate
Jack Watson - Hammer
Alan Ford - Bennett
David Battley - Potter
Desmond McNamara - Gossip
Tyler Butterworth - Rawle
David Cardy - Harding
Jeff Nuttall - Rossitor
Tim Munro - Doctor
Richard Braine - Armitage
Tim Potter - Lionel
Patrick Pasi - Atkinson
Tat Whalley - Willy
Sean Harris - Dean
Jonathan Stratt - Cabbie
Gilly Gilchrist - Policeman
Stephen Tate - Fitzgibbon
Douglas McFerran - Prison Officer
Sebastian Abineri - Prison Officer
Arthur is one of several people being targeted by violent criminal Charlie Knowles.
George Cole - Arthur
Gary Webster - Ray
Glynn Edwards - Dave
Stratford Johns - Knowles
Kenneth Cope - Phelan
James Warrior - Rogerson
Phyllida Law - Magistrate
Jack Watson - Hammer
Alan Ford - Bennett
David Battley - Potter
Desmond McNamara - Gossip
Tyler Butterworth - Rawle
David Cardy - Harding
Jeff Nuttall - Rossitor
Tim Munro - Doctor
Richard Braine - Armitage
Tim Potter - Lionel
Patrick Pasi - Atkinson
Tat Whalley - Willy
Sean Harris - Dean
Jonathan Stratt - Cabbie
Gilly Gilchrist - Policeman
Stephen Tate - Fitzgibbon
Douglas McFerran - Prison Officer
Sebastian Abineri - Prison Officer
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00:00I hope you know I am sticking my neck out here.
00:04What do you mean, George?
00:05We are talking bulk, Arthur.
00:07Have no fear.
00:08I have located a rich seam of the goods you require.
00:11But the country we're dealing with is outside the EEC,
00:15recovering from a bureaucratic nightmare.
00:18Getting in and out involves a lot of red tape.
00:20The more that can be shifted in one go, the better.
00:23Arthur Daly, can you fill one of these?
00:27How much do they hold?
00:32I've got five of them. He's going out Thursday.
00:35They'll be chocker.
00:37I should need a little advance capital.
00:39Beforehand, up front.
00:41No can do.
00:42Oh, come on, George. I thought you said this was a humanitarian mission.
00:45Yeah, for them, not for you.
00:46Yeah, but I've got overheads.
00:48Labour costs, logistics, transport.
00:50I must have a button.
00:52Arthur, I am not a hole in the wall.
00:54If you need money, go to a bank.
01:01Drive a building.
01:03We'll have to go.
01:04Leave me to.
01:18This is for you.
01:20First, please.
01:20You can stand withdraw.
01:21Then you can turnندs be lost.
01:22OK, yeah.
01:24Always.
01:27All right.
01:29I like him.
01:29Many of us were up off into it.
01:38I don't feel it.
01:43You got my letter?
01:45Yeah. What, the old black felt tip left of it?
01:48How's Hammer Callaghan?
01:49He's still gutted about his 18 months.
01:52He'll get over it.
01:55I've got someone else for you.
01:57There's no one left, Charlie.
02:00Charlie, they've all been sorted.
02:04Not quite all.
02:06Just one moment.
02:10Well, I'm going to need all my wits about me here.
02:13Trying to get money out of old Grantham's like trying to prize a bit of black pudding off a vampire.
02:17Hard, is he?
02:17Like granite.
02:19Yeah.
02:19Mr Daly, he'll see you now.
02:22OK.
02:31Good morning, my son.
02:32Nip and tell Mr Grantham I'm here, will you?
02:34Mr Grantham is no longer with us.
02:37He's moved on.
02:38Moved on?
02:39Well, who's taken over the overdrafts?
02:40You mean our business advancement loans?
02:43That's the lads.
02:43I'm the new business affairs manager, London North West.
02:47Are you really?
02:49Oh, pleased to meet you.
02:50The name's Daly.
02:51Arthur Daly.
02:53Very well-appointed office you have here.
02:56And if I was to say to you that I have got in on the ground floor of a cast
03:01-iron, copper-bottomed scheme with unlimited growth potential in a commodities market,
03:06with an in-built transport infrastructure, what would your reaction be?
03:11I'd say jolly well done.
03:14Would you?
03:16Pull up a chair.
03:19Expect a good day, Arthur.
03:20We've just had a delivery this morning.
03:22Oh, gratifying news, Oily.
03:24Wheels are in motion.
03:26Yeah, are you going to tell me now?
03:27Ray, if you had kept abreast of current affairs instead of shaking your foot down a disco,
03:32you would realise we are living in historical times.
03:34From the Rhine to the Baltic, Eastern Europe is undergoing major reconstruction at a rate of knots.
03:40Yeah, I had heard rumours.
03:41So, what is the first thing you need in the reconstruction game?
03:44Cement.
03:45After the cement.
03:46Bricks.
03:52Scaffolding.
03:53We're going to make Eastern Europe a safer place to whack up a semi.
03:57Take one of these after dinner tonight.
04:00You should cut out the nicotine.
04:02That's what's causing the breathlessness.
04:04There's not a lot else to do here.
04:06Well, try to cut down.
04:09Get yourself a hobby or something.
04:10Like the Birdman of Alcatraz.
04:12You can't have a friend.
04:13Study on the holes.
04:17Come along, Charlie.
04:18You've only got another couple of months.
04:20Don't want to blow it now.
04:22The young lad came over dizzy.
04:25Hello, George.
04:27The goods are being loaded as we speak.
04:30Yeah, I knew you'd be pleased.
04:33Yeah, they're at the lock-up awaiting your collection.
04:37So, er, I shall await your brown envelope, shall I?
04:42Yeah, yeah.
04:44Yeah, my pleasure.
04:45Take care.
04:46Ta-ra.
04:51Ta-ra.
05:17Sorry, mate, I didn't see you.
05:18You're a menace. Why didn't you signal?
05:20Look what you've done to my motor.
05:21I'm sorry, simple accident down to me, all right?
05:23I could have you struck off.
05:24There's no need to be like that.
05:25Look, come on, let's exchange details.
05:26I've got to get a heat phone.
05:27You've got to stack your hand out or something.
05:29Didn't see you, I told you.
05:30Yeah, of course.
05:33Here's my name.
05:36Hello, Lottie.
05:37Yeah.
05:48All right, boys.
05:52Here, Oily, I think you just had another delivery.
05:55Oh, yeah, Gil.
05:57What's Arthur planning now, then?
05:58Another canary wolf or something?
06:00Yeah, where'd they get all this gear from then?
06:02Pick it up here and there.
06:04Oh, yeah.
06:07Come on in, Fagin.
06:08Let's get this lot shifted.
06:30All right.
06:31All right, Dave.
06:33Arthur, it's all done and dusted.
06:34Truck's gone back to the rental.
06:35You'll have to go and get the van.
06:37I've had a shunt with a motor.
06:38Oh, no, you're joking.
06:39Was there much damage?
06:40No, wonky wing, bit of a dent in a cab.
06:42He put his hands up.
06:54You'll have to give me a lift tomorrow.
06:56George is collecting his scaffolding.
06:57Yeah, and that's another thing.
06:59Where do you think Oily Rosset is getting all his gear from?
07:02Surprise me.
07:03He's got an army of kids out there on the nick.
07:05Armped of the teeth with wire cutters.
07:06Don't be so scurrilous.
07:08Here I am on the brink of a major killing
07:10and you're coming a cherub.
07:34All I'm saying is we want to get the stuff off our hands quickly.
07:37All right.
07:38All right.
07:39If I've got an early start, I'm going to shoot.
07:40Catch you later.
07:41Yeah.
07:44I don't know why he worries so much.
07:46Well, he's just careful, Arthur.
07:47Faint art never one fairer, no, Dave.
07:50No, he concerns me.
07:51I mean, one of these days I'm going to be hanging up my crombie.
07:53Where's he going to be then?
07:54Cast a drift on wild world without a mature man's hand to guide him.
07:58He'll never get anywhere if he frets over every little thing.
08:00You're not thinking of retiring, are you?
08:02Far from it, Dave.
08:03I'm on a roll here.
08:05No, no.
08:05I just was hoping a little bit of my charisma would have brushed off on him, that's all.
08:09Yeah, let's have another one, Dave.
08:19Oh, God.
08:20What now?
08:25Can I help you?
08:27Is this your car, is it, sir?
08:28Yeah.
08:29You're involved in an accident, have we?
08:31No, no.
08:32I'm a stock car racer.
08:33What does it look like?
08:34Did you report this?
08:36No, I didn't.
08:37It's a minor collision.
08:38We exchange details quite amicably.
08:41There you go.
08:45We don't have to report our every move, do we?
08:47I mean, it's not a police state yet.
08:49I would have thought you had more important things on your mind.
08:52Where were you in the early hours of this morning, Mr Daly?
08:55In bed.
08:56Where any self-respecting citizen would be.
08:59Failure to stop and report an accident is a very serious offence.
09:02Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
09:03I did stop.
09:04You've got the details there.
09:05A cab driver, in his cab, in Church Road.
09:09Yeah.
09:10No such insurance company, no such cabbie, no such number.
09:14Don't.
09:15Tall bloke.
09:16Dark, surly manner.
09:18I'm not interested in your phantom cabbie.
09:21I'm more interested in five cars being written off in the early hours of this morning
09:25by your Jaguar.
09:26No, no, no.
09:27You're barking up the wrong'un.
09:29I'm afraid not.
09:30Your car, your number plate, and it's all on video.
09:39Will you sit down?
09:41This whole proceeding is a travesty.
09:43I want my just desserts.
09:45Please sit down, Mr Daly.
09:46I will not be pilloried.
09:48An Englishman has his rights, one of which is not to have his collar felt for something
09:51he hasn't done.
09:52Nobody is being pilloried.
09:54We are trying to establish the facts.
09:58Now, the accident in question...
10:01It has nothing to do with me.
10:02So you keep saying.
10:04And I will continue to do so until the truth is heard.
10:06Are you suggesting that your car travelled to Halston all on its own?
10:10No, I'm suggesting my car was outside the Winchester Club all night.
10:14The video evidence suggests otherwise.
10:16Well, the video evidence is an ass.
10:21It says here you pleaded guilty anyway.
10:23That is correct.
10:25Well, which is it?
10:26Guilty or innocent?
10:27Guilty of having a shunt.
10:29Innocent of the carnage in Halston.
10:32I think we'd better discuss this one.
10:34All stand.
10:41800 quid fine and 50 extra for wasting the court's time.
10:44And they call that justice.
10:45All right, you best put it behind you now, Arthur.
10:47Put it behind me?
10:48With my motor cropping up all over London without me?
10:51It's not natural.
10:53Could it be some kind of prank?
10:55Prank?
10:55Prank?
10:56Ringing a bell and running away is a prank.
10:58Bucket of water on the top of the door, that's a prank.
11:01This is a calculated malicious act by a disturbed personality.
11:04A carefully planned and highly dangerous piece of chicanery
11:08that could have ended in bodily injury.
11:10It has all the ore marks of mental instability.
11:16Reggie?
11:17Arthur.
11:19Good morning to you two.
11:21Good, good.
11:22How's your dear lady wife?
11:23Oh, good, good.
11:25You don't think she could use her microwave, do you?
11:28Only I'm doing a line at the moment at a remarkably reasonable price.
11:33Well, it's pretty much the same as other microwaves.
11:35It's wide, it's got a little door,
11:37a thing that goes ping when the food's ready.
11:39But over and above that, it's got this built-in...
11:42Oh, hold on, hold on.
11:44I'll get back to you.
11:46Excuse me.
11:47Can I help you?
11:49No, just looking round.
11:50Ah, no, no, you've got the wrong idea.
11:52It's not a cash-and-carry, it's a private warehouse.
11:55Nice carpet.
11:59Yeah.
12:00Yeah, it is, isn't it?
12:01What would that be, then, a Wilton?
12:05Axminster.
12:06It's very striking.
12:08I can't beat an Axminster.
12:09How big is it?
12:11Oh, lounge size, I'd say.
12:13Is it for sale?
12:14Oh, if the price is right, yes.
12:16How much would that be, then?
12:17Oh, carpet like this, fast colour,
12:19fully underlaid, guaranteed pile.
12:21Oh, you're looking at, um, 400?
12:25Oh, I see.
12:27Well, of course, if you're prepared to pay cash,
12:28we could come to some...
12:29I am Detective Constable Fitzgibbon.
12:31I'm arresting you for receiving
12:32and attempting to sell stolen goods.
12:35Anything you say may be taken down
12:36and presented in evidence against you.
12:41The carpet was part of a large consignment
12:43which was stolen from the Delroy Carpet Company
12:47at the end of January.
12:48The whereabouts of the remaining goods
12:50is still under investigation.
12:51Thank you, officer.
12:52You missed it, Don.
12:56Quite extraordinary.
12:58You claim you had no knowledge
13:01of the carpet on your premises.
13:03May I be struck down where I stand?
13:05I had never clapped eyes on the aforementioned item
13:07until the officer drew my attention to it.
13:09But the officer claims you tried to sell him
13:12the stolen goods at a knock-down price.
13:14This is a rare...
13:16That was just an unfortunate crossing of wires.
13:18I thought he was talking about something else.
13:20What, exactly?
13:22Well, my memory's a bit hazy,
13:24but I know it was a simple misunderstanding
13:27because I had never seen that carpet before in my life.
13:30And you'd never been to the Delroy Carpet Company in Brentford?
13:34No, Your Worship.
13:36I see.
13:37Anything more to add?
13:39No, miss.
13:41Not even in the interests of variety?
13:45Well, Mr. Daly,
13:47this is not the first time you've appeared before me, is it?
13:50To be wrongfully arrested once could be considered unfortunate,
13:54but twice in one week's max of carelessness.
13:57Sentence deferred, pending a pre-sentence report.
14:00Thank you, officer.
14:04I'd like you to call me Frank.
14:07No, thank you.
14:08I prefer formality.
14:09I may have been all before the courts,
14:11but I have my standards.
14:13As you wish.
14:14Now, it's my duty to report to the magistrates
14:17in reference to your sentencing.
14:19You mean you can get me off, Frank?
14:21Oh, no.
14:21I'm afraid you've already been found guilty.
14:24But let's start with some questions.
14:26How do you feel?
14:27Fine.
14:29About the theft?
14:30Stitched up.
14:31Oh, now, let's not be too harsh on ourselves.
14:33What do you mean?
14:34I didn't do it.
14:35I never nicked the flaming carpet.
14:37Well, how did it end up in your warehouse?
14:39It was planted there.
14:41It was a fit-up.
14:42Oh, I see.
14:42So, er, it was a fitted carpet.
14:46I pay 25 pence in the pound towards your wages.
14:50If I want comedy, I'll go down the pier.
14:54Do you often feel people are getting at you?
14:58All stand.
15:06Please stand, Mr. Daly.
15:09You have been found guilty of a very serious offence.
15:13It is now my duty to pass sentence on you.
15:17100 hours community service.
15:20That's better than getting sent down.
15:22You're missing a point, Dave.
15:23I'm innocent.
15:24This is the second time I've been dragged through the British legal system
15:27for something I didn't do.
15:28There's no doubt about it.
15:30There is somebody out there lurking, waiting to strike again.
15:33Yeah, but who?
15:34I don't know.
15:35Could be anybody.
15:36Somebody he knows, even.
15:38Harbouring some secret malice.
15:40Yeah, we could make a list of all the people Arthur's crossed in some way over the years.
15:44We don't have that sort of time, Ray.
15:46Dave, Ray, please.
15:48Look, I am not a man who jumps at shadows.
15:51I pride myself that I steer a pretty steady boat, but I'm going here.
15:56I feel like the fox with the hot breath of the hounds on the back of me neck.
15:59If I go up before that beak once more, I'll be sewing mailbags, wearing the same pair of socks all
16:04week,
16:04and begging snout from ardent convicts staring at me across the mints.
16:08Yeah, if only you hadn't tried to sell him the carpet.
16:10Oh, that's right.
16:11Blame me.
16:12It's all my fault.
16:13Can I remind you, I am the victim here.
16:15A dark, shadowy hand has entered my affairs.
16:19Yeah, but Arthur, why did you try and sell him the carpet?
16:21Because it was there.
16:23It was all a blur.
16:24All I could think was $400 for a carpet I'd never even seen before.
16:28Yeah, but he was obviously a cop, but you could tell by his boots.
16:30Yeah, but look, when are you going to start to see a community lark?
16:34I don't know.
16:35I have my interview in the morning.
16:37I am your community service officer, so any problems you bring to me.
16:42Now, when are you available for work?
16:44Well, I thought I'd take a gentle run-up to it.
16:46We expect two days a week minimum, nine to four.
16:49If you're so much as 15 minutes late, you'll be marked down as a miss.
16:53Three misses will be regarded as a breach of your service order,
16:56and you may be reported back to the court for additional sentence.
17:00Clear?
17:01Crystal.
17:02Right, now, have you any particular skills or training
17:05which we could bear in mind when allocating your field of work?
17:08Skills?
17:09Oh, such as carpentry, electrical training.
17:12No.
17:12Decorating?
17:13No, we always get someone in.
17:14Building skills, sitting guilds, or in-situ experience in a workplace?
17:19No, you're talking blue-collar. I'm white-collar.
17:21What is your occupation?
17:23Auto dealer.
17:25Old-sell retail.
17:26Forty years' management experience.
17:27Currently engaged as infrastructure consultant
17:30in a major East European development project.
17:33I'll put you down for gardening.
17:38Atkinson.
17:39Yeah.
17:40Peters.
17:41Yeah.
17:41Cropper.
17:42Yeah.
17:44Daly.
17:45Daly.
17:46Arthur Daly here.
17:49Arthur Daly.
17:56Arthur Daly.
17:57You're late.
17:59Another couple of minutes and I've had you down as a miss.
18:01Don't tell me.
18:02It's appalling.
18:03Anger Lane's chocker.
18:05We're in here, are we?
18:07I should avoid the A-40 if I were you.
18:25Nobody said anything about parks.
18:27I specifically requested indoor work.
18:29It's not a holiday, you know.
18:34You're one of them city financial advisors, aren't you?
18:36Yeah.
18:37I know your sort.
18:42What's this?
18:43Put holes in the topsoil.
18:45Aerate it.
18:45I'm not dressed for aerating.
18:47You know better next time, won't you?
18:56It's not there.
19:07Makes me see.
19:09One law for the rich and another for the poor.
19:12Your pinstripe suits up the city ripping off millions.
19:15I keep telling you I don't work in the city.
19:17Stuffing your shareholders, was it?
19:19Eh?
19:20I nick a few cassettes and we get the same sentence.
19:24Nah, that ain't right.
19:25I haven't got any shareholders.
19:27What are you doing here, then?
19:29If you must know, I was accused of stealing a carpet.
19:32Oh, that's nice.
19:33A domestic, was it?
19:35Having it away with some little old lady's rug.
19:37What they should do with these financial advisors
19:40is chop off their heads and put them on spikes up Tower Bridge.
19:45Just as a deterrent to the others.
19:48That's what they did in the old days.
19:49They didn't have financial advisors in the old days.
19:53Excuse me.
19:55Any chance of me getting off by two?
19:59I've got you down here for seven hours.
20:01Well, there's no point in sitting there all day in the rain, is there?
20:03It's not a picnic, you know.
20:09Community bloody service.
20:11A hundred hours.
20:12I suppose I've been put away.
20:14I've sat on bloody day trips.
20:16Community service.
20:17What do you think if schoolboys are caught making swings?
20:20What can I say?
20:21He had a clean record.
20:23You're losing it, Philly.
20:26What's happening in this country?
20:29When I started, you got caught blagging.
20:32You got put away.
20:33End of story.
20:35The yob's running right.
20:37The streets now.
20:37They end up doing day trips, painting nurseries.
20:41Keep it down, Norse.
20:44I'll hit him again, Charlie.
20:46You do?
20:47And don't piss about.
20:49The filth obviously on him.
20:50Served up on a platter.
20:55Ray?
20:56Yeah.
20:57Hey, listen.
20:57Dig out one of them microwaves, will you?
21:00They're behind the bird bars.
21:02You know, by the foot spars.
21:04Do you want a 650 watt or a 500?
21:06Oh, let me see.
21:07Yeah, better make it a 650.
21:09I'll charge you the same as I would for a 500.
21:11What were you?
21:12A mountain bike.
21:13Dig out a 10-speed, will you?
21:14Yeah, all right, all right.
21:15Listen, Ray, what video games we got left?
21:19Moonfighter 3?
21:20No, he don't want that.
21:22Bernie the Bumblebee.
21:23Oh, yeah, he likes that.
21:25All right, Ray?
21:25Yeah, I'll get on it.
21:50varieties of merci.
21:51Uh-oh.
21:53Uh-oh.
21:58Yeah.
22:10No, it's so kids.
22:26Well, well, well.
22:28It's a friendly neighbour at Bobby's.
22:29We'd like to have a look around your uncle's premises.
22:31Yeah, I bet you would.
22:33Well, come in.
22:50You won't find anything.
22:52Oh, I don't doubt it.
22:54I've known Daley longer than I care to remember,
22:56and he was never anything other than careful.
22:58So what's happening here?
22:59You tell me.
23:01I don't follow.
23:01Arthur is a lot of things to a lot of people,
23:04but one thing he's not is a hit-and-run driver.
23:07Which is exactly what he told you, I believe.
23:11Better men than me have made it their life's work
23:15to nail Arthur Daley,
23:16and they've all ended up frustrated, broken, bitter men.
23:21Now, all of a sudden, I can't finish a cup of coffee
23:24without some concerned citizen telling me
23:27they've got new information
23:29about Arthur's latest piece of flighty footwork.
23:32Who's got it in for him, Ray?
23:36Over the last tonic scarlet stream,
23:38big press partner by Adelscrop,
23:40Adelscrop finishing very strongly,
23:42but act the line in scarlet stream.
23:47Stitched up.
23:48Tight as a kipper.
23:50And you've been hit three times, you say?
23:51Once in the car and twice in the lock-up.
23:53And the old bilber on them all like a shot?
23:55Yeah.
23:57Lateral thinking.
23:58That's the secret in these cases, you know?
24:00You have to come at it from a different angle.
24:02Have you got an idea?
24:03Don't rush him.
24:04He's piecing it together.
24:07There's been nothing on the street about you.
24:10But...
24:10But what?
24:12There's a snip in the next race.
24:13Teriyaki.
24:14Six for one.
24:25Arthur, this is a complete waste of time.
24:27He's an old con on the flag.
24:28How little you know, Ray.
24:30Gossip may look like a turnip,
24:32but he's got a brain like a giant computer.
24:34I once heard him recite
24:35every bus route, stop by stop,
24:37terminus to terminus,
24:38in Greater London and parts of Luton.
24:40Well, that's Andy.
24:42The more I think about it,
24:44the more I recognise the handwriting.
24:46Plus, me and mine have a right nasty
24:48that happened to a face by the name of Emma Callaghan.
24:51What sort of nasty?
24:52Well, his motor was written off by a minicab.
24:55He ended up in hospital with a police at his bedside.
24:58Had this old old full of nanny gear
25:00that they found in his boot.
25:02Didn't stack up.
25:04Well, go on.
25:05Well, the gear in the old old was checkbooks,
25:07credit cards.
25:09Emma don't read all right.
25:11He still went down.
25:13Where can we find this, Emma Callaghan?
25:15There's one there and it's teriyaki, teriyaki is gone.
25:18And it's still some...
25:20They'd certain a 3.30, eh, though?
25:23I'm not sure this is a good idea,
25:26asking an old lag to talk about his nefarious past.
25:29We could turn ugly.
25:32He wasn't known as the hammer for nothing.
25:37Are you Hammer Callaghan?
25:39Who wants to know?
25:40We're interested in your accident.
25:46Someone got it into their heads
25:47that I'd done the dirty on them.
25:49Who?
25:49Hammer.
25:51You remember the Wilson sorting office job?
25:53What, the great mailbag blag.
25:55The what?
25:56Before your time, son.
25:57Course.
25:59Hammer Callaghan.
26:00You were in on that, weren't you?
26:01You nearly got away with a quarter of a million.
26:04That was in all the papers.
26:04He was a minor celebrity.
26:06Well, it was a complete fiasco from beginning to end.
26:08One of the clerks got badly done, and we was all put away.
26:13Charlie Knowles got life for tapping the postie,
26:16and the rest of us got three to seven.
26:18So why'd I fit up with the checkbooks, then?
26:20Well, after we'd done our time for the Wilson job,
26:24Charlie still had a lot of bird to do.
26:28Rumour has it he'd gone sour,
26:30felt he was doing other people's time.
26:32So he put out a few buns,
26:34and the old firm started going down again.
26:37Who's ringing bells, Arthur?
26:39Not a tinkle.
26:40Yeah, Hammer, you mentioned others.
26:43Larry the lookout.
26:44He was fitted up with a burglary.
26:46He's still inside for five.
26:48Bennett the driver.
26:49He collected a couple in Pentonville for fake M.O.T.'s.
26:53Well, do you reckon we could talk to him?
26:56Well, let's hope he's more help than Hammer was.
26:58He'd better be.
27:00Oh, this restaurant looks a bit lumpy.
27:03I do hope you ladies enjoyed your meal.
27:06Now, do call again.
27:08We have a special on the Ville Venetia next week.
27:10Now, that's the dish that won the Golden Ladle.
27:15Now, look, Nafel, I'm legal now.
27:18I don't need the likes of you coming round here,
27:20upsetting my customers,
27:21banging on about armed blags.
27:23But, look, I need your help.
27:24If you need my help choosing a suitable Chianti
27:26to complement your cheese, Nocci,
27:28then I'm your man.
27:29If you want to rake up the dead past
27:31and delve into things that's best left alone,
27:33you can sod off.
27:34Now, shift,
27:34or I'll set the waiters on you.
27:36Come on, Arthur.
27:37We're embarrassing the man.
27:38Can't be easy when you're fouled up
27:39as badly as he did on the Wilson job.
27:42Fouled up?
27:43What are you talking about?
27:44It was the perfect crime.
27:47The office was being refurbished.
27:48Road works outside.
27:50England were in the World Cup.
27:51The first time they faced Germany since 66.
27:54So the streets were deserted.
27:55That ain't a pitcher hammer painted, was it?
27:57What would that cauliflower know?
27:59It was all going sweet
28:00till Charlie Knowles decides to come the hard man.
28:03We're meant to be straight in and out.
28:05But, no,
28:05Charlie don't like the way some kid's looking at him,
28:07so he starts laying into him with an iron bar.
28:09Excuse me.
28:11Thank you, madam.
28:12Thank you, sir.
28:14So, it was down at the fisticuffs that you got caught?
28:16No.
28:17Still could have cracked it.
28:18We're flying down the A4,
28:19halfway to the safe house,
28:21no sign of old Bill.
28:22Suddenly, there's smoke everywhere.
28:25The getaway car swallowed a valve doing 90.
28:27We end up in a ditch.
28:28We got 200 grand in the boots,
28:30and we ain't got an AA card between us.
28:32The police couldn't keep a straight face.
28:34So how was the car?
28:38And where did you get this car?
28:40I don't know.
28:41You have to ask the quartermaster.
28:42And who was that?
28:45Geyser named Phelan.
28:48Here, Arthur.
28:49What exactly is a quartermaster, anyway?
28:52Oh, he's like the buyer.
28:53He gets all the equipment.
28:55You know, the coshes and the stocking masks,
28:57that sort of thing.
28:58Right.
29:05Well.
29:07What a state.
29:08I haven't been up here for ages.
29:10He's creepy, isn't he?
29:11Don't worry, Arthur.
29:12I'll hold your hand.
29:14Right.
29:15Where do we start?
29:30Where do we start?
29:37Here, who's Vera?
29:39Friend of Dave's.
29:46Ah, here we are.
29:48Never chuck anything away.
29:49You never know.
29:50What year are we looking for?
29:511970.
29:53Got it.
29:54Right on.
29:54Right.
29:55Yep.
29:55Got it.
30:05There you are.
30:061969.
30:09Good year, was it?
30:12Bingo.
30:131970.
30:14Yeah.
30:15You have a look through now.
30:16I'll take the rest.
30:20Right.
30:21Cure it.
30:23Feels so simple.
30:25Love it.
30:26Oh, here's a good one.
30:28Harry from the carp.
30:29One Ilman hunter.
30:29Good goer.
30:30Arthur, call this a business receipt.
30:35Ray.
30:36Ray.
30:36Arthur, why'd you keep hold of all this stuff, eh?
30:37Ray.
30:38What?
30:3917th of June.
30:40G Reg Rover.
30:413.5 litre.
30:42Maroon coupe.
30:441125 pounds.
30:4617 and 6.
30:47Mr S. Phelan.
30:50The quartermaster.
30:51Arthur, you only sold him a motor for heaven's sake.
30:54A motor that didn't work.
30:55A banger.
30:56A crate that landed him in Chokey for 20 years.
30:58What landed Knowles in the nick was the liberal use of an iron bar
31:01and an unprotected head.
31:02You know that and I know that.
31:04But up there in the scrub, stretched out on his bunk,
31:06is an evil, vindictive thug who doesn't see it that way.
31:10Yeah.
31:10And what are we going to do about it?
31:12We're going to go and see him.
31:14See who?
31:15Knowles, of course.
31:16We're going to go down to Nick and have a word with him.
31:18Have a word with him?
31:19Are you mad?
31:21Have you listened to anything I've been saying?
31:23Like evil, thug, vindictive?
31:25Yeah.
31:26Ray, clinically speaking, Knowles is a fruitcake.
31:29He's had his sentence increased four times
31:31for thumping fellow inmates and warders.
31:33Exactly.
31:34We can't be doing this aggravation.
31:36We've got to have it out with him.
31:38What an inspired idea.
31:40Let's have it out with him.
31:42All right, all right.
31:43So what do you suggest?
31:44Vigilance.
31:45What?
31:46We put a ring of steel round the lock-up.
31:48Round-o-clock surveillance.
31:50Whoever he's using to fit me up is going to try again.
31:53And when he does, we'll have him.
31:56Well, Ray will.
32:04Right, two-hour shifts.
32:05Ray first, then you, then me.
32:07Ray again, then you.
32:09Hang about, Arthur.
32:10That means we get two and you only gets one.
32:12So?
32:13Who's got 93 hours community service facing him?
32:16There's no picnic, you know.
32:17I should be up my knees in seedlings again tomorrow.
32:20Yeah, I thought we could do with ease.
32:21Oh, good idea.
32:23Right, now no slacking on the job.
32:24Keep your eyes peeled and your ears to the ground.
32:27Good luck.
32:27I'm going to turn in.
32:28You better too, Dave.
32:30I want you nice and sharp for your watch.
32:32Aye, aye, Kevin.
32:35Right.
32:35I'll take first hand, shall I?
32:51You get your head down, Ray.
32:53I'll take over.
32:54Cheers, Dave.
32:57You know, I can't put up with all this.
32:59What else can we do?
33:01It's all ours on deck when Arthur's got grief.
33:04I'm not having him sent down.
33:07Yeah.
33:08You're right.
33:13Now, it's too small for me, Arthur.
33:15Well, raise the saddle.
33:17I tried that.
33:18My legs keep hitting the handlebars on the upstroke.
33:21Well, I'm sorry, Willie.
33:22Unless it's damaged, you've got no comeback.
33:24I don't even need a bicycle.
33:26Never.
33:27Never underestimate the bicycle.
33:29Did you know Singapore fell because of them?
33:32There we were with all our guns pointing out to sea,
33:34convinced the Japs couldn't get their tanks through the jungle.
33:37What did they do?
33:38Got on their bikes and legged it through the footpaths.
33:40One of the great shocks of the war, that was.
33:43The entire Imperial Army hurtling out the shrubbery,
33:46chucking grenades out of the little baskets on the front of their bikes.
33:49Mr Daly?
33:50What?
33:51Oh, Mr Armitage, what are you doing here?
33:54Oh, I often have lunch in the park.
33:56I'm glad I bumped into you.
33:58It's about your credit facility.
34:01Er, could we discuss it some other time?
34:03It's a bit, um, a bit difficult at the moment.
34:07I hope you don't mind me asking you this,
34:09but I thought you told me you were a construction consultant.
34:13Ah, you're wondering why I'm planting a tree.
34:17A bit?
34:17Charity.
34:19You can't take all the time.
34:21Well, banks can, but...
34:23No, you've got to give something back.
34:24It's for the Rotarians.
34:26A fellow Rotarian?
34:28Er, no, this is Willie, a local scout.
34:32The bike?
34:33Sorted.
34:34Yeah, that's me.
34:35Dip, dip, dip.
34:40Yeah, I thought you could do with a stiffener.
34:43Thanks, Ray.
34:48Look, Arthur, if we don't do something, you know what's going to happen.
34:52Yeah, he's going to get you.
34:54Might not be tonight or tomorrow, but it's going to be sometime.
34:56And when he does, well, that's it, Arthur.
34:59No one can help you.
35:02We're going to have to see, Knowles, aren't we?
35:05I think we are.
35:07But let me do the talking.
35:10Let me look at you.
35:12Let me see the man who blagged his way in here claiming to be my long-lost cousin.
35:18Well, we had to say something to get him to see you.
35:21At the moment, they think I'm telling you your sister's had an accident.
35:25You've got some front.
35:28Who the hell are you, anyway?
35:30Arthur Daly.
35:34You've got the nerve to show your face.
35:36There's a few things we need to clear up.
35:39Beginning to squirm, are you?
35:41I was appalled.
35:42That is the only word for it, appalled.
35:45That a certain vehicle that I sold you in all good faith
35:48didn't come up to scratch when it was most needed.
35:51I was shocked.
35:53I was obviously not as shocked as you were, Charlie.
35:55But I come here in all humbleness to offer you full restitution.
36:00Restitution?
36:01Refund.
36:02In full.
36:03In mitigation of any inconvenience it may have caused you
36:07by packing up mid-getaway.
36:11Did you say inconvenience?
36:15It's all a misunderstanding,
36:16for which I have wholehearted regrets.
36:19So what do you say?
36:21Let bygones be bygones.
36:23I'll tell you what I say.
36:25You can stuff your 2,000, Nick.
36:27This is just the start.
36:28By the time I finish with you,
36:30you'll be begging for community service.
36:31You're a little rat, Daly.
36:33A little man who needs learned respect.
36:36I'll tell you what I say.
36:37I've got more respect for something
36:39I'd scrape off the bottom of my shoe.
36:40Ray.
36:41Sit down, Knowles.
36:43It's all right, officer.
36:44I've just given him the bad news.
36:46Yeah, and here's some more bad news.
36:47Unless you call off whoever's fitting up Arthur,
36:49you're going to have me to deal with.
36:50Yeah, don't mind him, Charlie.
36:52Yeah, you're going to get out of here soon, Charlie, aren't you?
36:54And when you do, I'm going to be waiting.
36:56You're going to be that much older and that much slower.
36:58And then, pal, I'm going to show you
37:00what a vendetta really means.
37:0329 years I've spent a place like this
37:05and all because of him.
37:0620 years!
37:0720 bloody years!
37:09How old are you, son?
37:11Him and his sister were very close.
37:15You threatened him.
37:16Well, he was never going to listen, was he?
37:18Look, when you're facing a tiger
37:19who's been cooped up for years,
37:20dying to get his claws in with you,
37:21the last thing you want to do is rattle his cage.
37:23Arthur, I had to say something, didn't I?
37:25He's probably arranging for one of his cronies
37:27to come after me with a chainsaw.
37:29There was I looking at a short stretch in prison
37:30and now here I am looking at a long time in the cemetery.
37:33Next time you have a good idea, don't.
37:56Dave, are you asleep?
37:59Yes, thank you, Arthur.
38:01It's a game, all this, isn't it?
38:04Arthur, you have only done five minutes.
38:07No, no, I mean all of it.
38:09You know, you plod along doing your best,
38:13rowing against the current, being pushed downstream.
38:16It's like driving a car.
38:18You potter along at 30 miles an hour,
38:21perfectly happy,
38:23and suddenly, whoosh, you're overtaken
38:24by some nameless terror at 90 miles an hour.
38:27What are you burbling on about, Arthur?
38:30Look, it's five o'clock in the morning.
38:33I'm scared, Dave.
38:35I couldn't take prison.
38:37I know some can handle it,
38:39but it would carry me off.
38:41Don't talk like that, Arthur.
38:43Well, you've got to face up to things.
38:44It's no good being unrealistic.
38:46It won't come to that.
38:48It's too awful to contemplate.
38:51It's banged up for 23 hours a day.
38:54A life of slamming doors and turning keys,
38:57ever under the watchful eye,
39:00and the dread of being buried alive
39:02before you got to sleep.
39:05Oh, it doesn't bear imagining.
39:08The only thing to look forward to,
39:11that crocodile march around the exercise yard,
39:15cast into the pit of human misery.
39:18Never again to experience a decent cigar,
39:23soothing VAT,
39:25company of friends,
39:28and a wind in your face.
39:31Dave?
39:31Dave.
40:03I'll leave.
40:46I'll stop out in a minute, obviously.
40:48It's all right, Arthur. It's me, Ray.
40:49Oh.
40:50Look, there's no point to this, Arthur, if you're going to go to sleep.
40:52I wasn't asleep. I was thinking...
40:55You were sparked out.
40:56No, I was resting my eyes.
40:58We can't go on. Our nerves are getting shot.
41:00I know. I can't face another night playing silly buggers.
41:05Arthur!
41:05I will.
41:16I want to make one thing clear, Ray.
41:18We're not having this meeting, right? It never happened.
41:21What meeting?
41:23Now, listen. You ever heard of the Wilston Sorting Office, Ray?
41:26Back in the 70s?
41:28Charlie Knowles?
41:30The very man.
41:45Come on, Arthur. You'll have me shot.
41:47Oh.
41:49Oh.
41:50Just another half hour, Lionel.
41:53We'll call it another tenner off the microwave.
41:56All right.
41:58So you think it's Knowles who's got it in for Arthur?
42:01I don't think it.
42:03I know it.
42:03Well, what do you want me to do?
42:05Listen, you owe Arthur a favour.
42:07I thought he might be able to warn those off.
42:09Threaten him with a longer sentence or something.
42:11Oh, come off it, Ray.
42:12And him with a watertight alibi.
42:14There's no evidence that he's even involved.
42:17What you need is to find his outside man.
42:20Yeah, but it seems like everyone he knows has been fitted up just like Arthur.
42:23Well, all the ones we could find, that is.
42:25And the only one you couldn't was a bloke called Phelan.
42:29Now, how did you know that?
42:31Because Phelan is a very hard man to find.
42:34You are.
42:38When he was in prison, Phelan was what you might call cooperative.
42:42He told us a lot of things that we wanted to know.
42:45It helped our clear up right now end.
42:48In fact, there was a couple of coppers who even got promotion on account of Phelan's info.
42:51So?
42:53So, when he came out, we helped him keep a low profile.
42:56And you reckon he might be the one giving us all the aggro?
42:59He could be.
43:01I don't suppose Charlie Knowles even knows he's started to grass.
43:04And I'm not about to tell him.
43:26Oh, Mr. Daly. How can I help you?
43:28Look, I really need to see my Uncle Charlie.
43:30Your uncle?
43:31That isn't true, is it, sir?
43:34No.
43:35No.
43:35I'm a friend.
43:36That's not how it seemed last time.
43:38It's important that I see him.
43:40I'm afraid that's not going to be possible.
43:43He's no longer with us.
43:46Hello.
43:48Arthur, get in a bag.
43:49What are you talking about?
43:50I can't.
43:51Arthur, get in a bag.
43:53I can't breach my order.
43:54Forget about the order, I've got things to tell you.
43:56Come on.
43:57What?
44:00Yep.
44:04What's all this about then?
44:08Now listen, how much did Phelan pay you for that motor?
44:29Yeah, I want to speak to DS Rogerson, please.
44:34I'm sure he'll be in.
44:36He'll be in.
44:37He'll be in.
44:38He'll be in.
44:56He'll be in.
45:08Mr. Phelan?
45:10Who are you?
45:11My uncle would like a word with you.
45:14Well, he'll have to wait.
45:16It's about Wilson's sorting office.
45:18I sold you a car once.
45:25I recognize your face now.
45:281970.
45:29The car auctions.
45:32Acton Lane.
45:33That was a clever little accident you arranged between my car and the taxi.
45:37What are you talking about?
45:38And the carpet.
45:39And the watches.
45:41You're mad.
45:42Far from it.
45:43But I know a man who is.
45:45Our friend Charlie Knowles.
45:47Never heard of him.
45:48Really?
45:49So you weren't Charlie's quartermaster.
45:52So he didn't give you 2,000 pounds to buy the car.
45:55And you didn't buy a cheaper version from me and pocket to change.
45:58A few hundred quid.
46:05Fortunately, my experience of Charlie is fairly limited.
46:08But I reckon if he found out that his old mate, his old mucker,
46:13who he was using to fit up the rest of the gang,
46:16then,
46:16if he found out it was good old Feely all the time,
46:19that he was responsible for the noise up on the A40,
46:22because he couldn't keep his hands off the cash,
46:24and that he was the only one who'd come out with a profit,
46:28I dread to think what he might do.
46:33There is an alternative.
46:38I'm listening.
46:39You can tell Charlie boy you've done the job.
46:42That Arthur's nicely tapped up doing a two-year stretch.
46:44Yeah, I could make him believe that.
46:46First you've got to tell the old bill how you've fitted up, Arthur.
46:49You can tell them Noel's put the squeeze on you,
46:51forced you into doing it.
46:53But don't worry about it.
46:55You'll probably get another light sentence.
46:56They look after their own, don't they?
46:58Yeah.
46:59I've got a lot of friends in the old bill.
47:01We know you have.
47:03How do you think we've found you?
47:07I think I should warn you I should consider suing for wrongful arrest.
47:10There's far too much of this running in and out with the police and their informants.
47:14The citizen can't sleep safely in his bed.
47:16Oh, and I should want my fine back for a start.
47:19That's a matter for the CPS, sir.
47:21I have to say this, Phelan.
47:22My old dad will be really impressed me nicking you.
47:25He was on the original Wilsdon sorting office case.
47:29You're a piece of living history, you are. Do you know that?
47:31Which is more than can be said for your old friend, Charlie Knowles.
47:35What do you mean?
47:35Haven't you heard?
47:36His jam tar packed up when he was legging it from two prison officers.
47:40You what?
47:41Yeah.
47:42He died in Hammersmith Hospital two days ago.
47:51You said you went to see Charlie Knowles today.
47:54He's dead.
47:56Must have slipped me mind.
48:02That's my boy.
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