Thriller. 43. A Midsummer Nightmare.

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First broadcast 15th May 1976.  A young woman's knowledge of Shakespeare helps her solve a five-year-old mystery.  Joanna Pettet - Jody Baxter Brian Blessed - Det Sgt George Briggs Freddie Jones - Arnold Tully Norman Rodway - Peter Ingram Anthony Pedley - Charley Spencer Elsie Randolph - Mrs. Fitch Tony Anholt - Johnny Baxter John Ruddock - Williams Alison Glennie - Annabella Tully Thom Delaney - Detective

Transcript

00:00:00.

00:03:18Don't shoot.

00:03:19It's me.

00:03:20Jodie.

00:03:22Hi.

00:03:23I was just passing by.

00:03:25I thought I'd buy you some lunch.

00:03:26Oh, no chance.

00:03:28I'm off to Rome.

00:03:30Oh, lucky you.

00:03:32Unlucky Rome.

00:03:34Oh, it's a nice one.

00:03:36Straightforward surveillance, no problems, lots of loot.

00:03:38Shouldn't take long.

00:03:39Well, you should stay on a few days.

00:03:41Maybe.

00:03:42Do you know any girls in Rome?

00:03:43I've got some dynamite numbers.

00:03:46Jodie, I wish you wouldn't do that.

00:03:47Do what?

00:03:48That kid around like that.

00:03:50Oh, I'm not kidding.

00:03:52I know a lot of girls in Rome who'd be very...

00:03:54Jodie, you're my wife.

00:03:56Well, I've got a big heart.

00:03:58Anyway, if you happen to be in Rome alone...

00:04:00We are married.

00:04:01Separated?

00:04:02By mutual agreement.

00:04:03Yes, but still separated.

00:04:04And still married.

00:04:06Okay.

00:04:07Okay, go to Rome.

00:04:08Have a lousy time.

00:04:09I really don't care.

00:04:10Who said I was going to have a lousy time?

00:04:12I know lots of people in Rome.

00:04:13Some of them girls.

00:04:14Who?

00:04:17But does it matter?

00:04:19No.

00:04:21No.

00:04:22Of course it doesn't matter.

00:04:24We agreed.

00:04:25A trial separation.

00:04:26You go your way.

00:04:26I'll go mine.

00:04:27Right.

00:04:30What have you been doing?

00:04:31Oh, this and that.

00:04:33Actually, I've been pretty busy.

00:04:34Not so busy, you couldn't drop by to ask me out to lunch?

00:04:37I was just passing by, I told you.

00:04:39But apart from that, you've been having lots of fun?

00:04:42Yes, I have.

00:04:43Last night, for instance.

00:04:44Having lots of fun, then?

00:04:45Um, yes.

00:04:47Another party, I suppose.

00:04:48Out all night?

00:04:49Oh, dear.

00:04:50Alone.

00:04:51You were home by 7.30.

00:04:52No callers.

00:04:53Your bedroom night was out by 10.

00:04:54Johnny, were you spying on me?

00:04:55No, no, no.

00:04:56No, I just happened to be passing by.

00:04:59That's a mess.

00:05:01Come on, let me do it.

00:05:02I do it better.

00:05:06Oh, it's crazy.

00:05:09Jody, you're crazy.

00:05:10You hated the thought of sitting around at home cooking for me, and now you just sit around

00:05:14and cook for yourself.

00:05:14Where's the sense in that?

00:05:19Jody, I still love you.

00:05:20You still love me.

00:05:21Now, I know you still love me, so why don't we stop as much?

00:05:23Good idea.

00:05:24Girls love to be read, too.

00:05:26Now, Jody, listen.

00:05:28There aren't any other girls.

00:05:29There never will be any other girls.

00:05:31You know that.

00:05:32Now, come with me.

00:05:33Come to Rome.

00:05:34Oh, Johnny, don't.

00:05:35It'll be hot, fun, romantic.

00:05:37You'll be working.

00:05:38Only for the first couple of days or so.

00:05:39After that, we can do what you like.

00:05:40Oh, I'm telling you about those first couple of days.

00:05:43What do I do?

00:05:43I don't want to wander around Rome alone, getting my bottom pinched.

00:05:47Well, you wouldn't have to.

00:05:48Listen, you could be useful.

00:05:49There are notes to be taken, reports to be typed up.

00:05:51Notes to be taken.

00:05:53Johnny, that's what it's all about.

00:05:55Oh, Jody, please.

00:05:56I want to be my own person.

00:05:58I want to be somebody.

00:05:59I can't help it.

00:06:00You're my wife.

00:06:03Well, I guess that's not enough.

00:06:06Oh, Johnny.

00:06:08Johnny, I love you.

00:06:09I really do.

00:06:11But there's got to be more than that.

00:06:13Jody, look, I can't miss that plane.

00:06:19Okay.

00:06:20Have a safe trip.

00:06:22Yeah.

00:06:23Oh, come on.

00:06:24Oh, wait.

00:06:27Hey, I could, uh, always mind the store for you while you're gone.

00:06:31Solve a few cases.

00:06:32Nail a few killers.

00:06:33Jody, will you come on?

00:06:37Oh, dear.

00:06:38Well, you're just not ready for me yet, that's all.

00:06:40What?

00:06:41Well, I was only kidding about minding the store, but...

00:06:44But?

00:06:45Well, if you'd said yes.

00:06:46Oh, come on, Jody.

00:06:47This is a detective agency for crying out loud.

00:06:49It's man's work.

00:06:51Johnny, if you'd said yes, you might find a...

00:06:52Look, if this is going to develop into a women's lib tirade another row,

00:06:55I'm going to have to take a rain check on it.

00:06:56Look, my plane leaves...

00:06:58I'm only just going to make it.

00:07:03Jody, look, I do love you.

00:07:05I just...

00:07:06I just don't have the time.

00:07:11If you change your mind, I'll be staying at the Royale.

00:07:19Why didn't you say yes?

00:07:48Excuse me, may I help you?

00:07:53Baxter, Confidential Enquiries.

00:07:55Recommended.

00:07:57Jay Baxter, thank you.

00:07:59Yes.

00:08:00Yes, that's right.

00:08:02You?

00:08:03Jay Baxter.

00:08:04Jody Baxter.

00:08:06Oh.

00:08:07Recommended.

00:08:08I highly recommend it.

00:08:11A woman.

00:08:13I hadn't expected.

00:08:16Why not, eh?

00:08:18Everything's changing.

00:08:19The whole world is changing.

00:08:23Forgive me.

00:08:24My name is Tully.

00:08:25Arnold Tully.

00:08:26Oh, how do you do, Mr. Tully?

00:08:27How do you do?

00:08:31Shouldn't we go in?

00:08:33Wait.

00:08:34Uh...

00:08:34Oh, no.

00:08:35Actually, you see, I was just on my way out to lunch.

00:08:37But, uh...

00:08:37Well, if it's important, you could join me.

00:08:39If it's not, you...

00:08:40Oh, it's important.

00:08:41Yes.

00:08:41My niece, Annabella, murdered.

00:08:47Murdered?

00:08:48Hmm.

00:08:49Oh, well, that's for the police.

00:08:51No, no.

00:08:52You don't understand.

00:08:53She was murdered five years ago.

00:08:55Since then, the police have, well, they've made no progress at all.

00:08:58Five years?

00:09:00Impotent, uh...

00:09:01Aborted years.

00:09:03And nothing.

00:09:04Nothing.

00:09:05That's why I decided, uh, finally, um, private detective.

00:09:11Five years?

00:09:12And you want me to find the killer?

00:09:14No, no.

00:09:15No, I, uh...

00:09:16I know who the killer is.

00:09:19I want you to prove it.

00:09:26Yeah.

00:09:29It was somewhere here.

00:09:33Somewhere.

00:09:37Somewhere.

00:09:40It's hard to be exactly sure.

00:09:45Five years, almost, of the day.

00:09:50So many things have changed.

00:09:55It's a long time.

00:09:59It seems like yesterday.

00:10:01It will always seem like yesterday.

00:10:06They say that when one falls in love, time stands still.

00:10:13Perhaps that's true.

00:10:16But it stands still for tragedy.

00:10:19As well as for love.

00:10:22It stands still when one loses such a precious thing.

00:10:34I never married.

00:10:36They dubbed me the misogynist of the family.

00:10:39The woman-hater.

00:10:41The truth is, women always scared me a bit.

00:10:45And then, suddenly, my brother and his wife were both killed, and I became a parent.

00:10:52With a woman of my own to care for.

00:10:55A child woman.

00:10:56Someone, not someone to be scared of, someone to mold, to watch grow and blossom.

00:11:08Someone to love, at last.

00:11:18I want him behind bars.

00:11:23I want him to pay for what he did.

00:11:25Who, Mr. Dully?

00:11:27Who?

00:11:29Peter Ingram.

00:11:42You see, they all know.

00:11:45There isn't a dozen people in the whole town who'll talk to him.

00:11:49Some of the young men tried to beat him up.

00:11:53But he's a powerful man.

00:11:56Why doesn't he leave?

00:11:58Gravado.

00:12:01A killer.

00:12:02A brutal killer.

00:12:04Walking the streets.

00:12:07What did the police say about it?

00:12:09Yeah, well, Tully's right.

00:12:11It was Ingram, definitely.

00:12:14No doubt about it.

00:12:16Well, if you know that, then why didn't you...

00:12:18Ah, knowing's one thing, proving's another.

00:12:21Isn't that right, Charlie?

00:12:23Oh, we pulled him in soon after the murder.

00:12:25Held him.

00:12:26How long was it, Charlie?

00:12:27About, uh, three days.

00:12:29Four.

00:12:29Yeah, and then we had to let him go.

00:12:31I mean, we knew he did it, but we had to let him go.

00:12:34Oh, how do you know he did it?

00:12:36Oh, you know, a lot of circumstantial stuff.

00:12:39Timings, opportunity.

00:12:40Oh, and he, uh, he fancied her.

00:12:43Yeah, they'd worked together on some amount of theatrical thing, and he fancied her.

00:12:47Besides, I mean, he was the only possible suspect.

00:12:50No, yeah, it was definitely him.

00:12:52Yeah, we had enough evidence to bring him to trial.

00:12:55You did?

00:12:55Yeah, but not enough to guarantee a conviction.

00:12:58You bring him under trial, and they find him not guilty, and you can never touch him again.

00:13:03It's been five years.

00:13:05It seems to me you haven't touched him at all.

00:13:06No, we couldn't take the chance.

00:13:08But one day, one day, some vital little factor may pop up, and, uh...

00:13:15Like what?

00:13:16Like him doing it again?

00:13:17Mm-hmm.

00:13:19That's possible.

00:13:21I mean, that's so cold-blooded.

00:13:24That's immoral.

00:13:25That's fact.

00:13:26It's one of the facts of law.

00:13:28You think I like seeing a murderer walk free?

00:13:32Still, Tully's brought in private help, so, uh, maybe you'll show us all the way, eh?

00:13:37Well, maybe I will.

00:13:38Look, Miss Baxter, I'm not fool enough to turn down any kind of help from wherever, even from a woman.

00:13:43I'll tell you what I'll do.

00:13:45I'll give you all the cooperation you need.

00:13:46Now, these files are supposed to be confidential, but, uh, if you want to browse through them, please yourself, okay?

00:13:52Well, thank you.

00:13:55And, uh, anything that's not in there, ask me.

00:13:58How's on the case?

00:13:59Oh.

00:14:17How's on the case?

00:14:21How's on the case?

00:14:22How's on the case?

00:14:26How's on the case?

00:14:31How's on the case?

00:14:32How's on the case?

00:14:34How's on the case?

00:14:36How's on the case?

00:14:37How's on the case?

00:14:38How's on the case?

00:14:39How's on the case?

00:14:40How's on the case?

00:14:41How's on the case?

00:14:44How's on the case?

00:14:46How's on the case?

00:15:43What do you think, Charlie?

00:15:44Hi.

00:15:46Our girl detective.

00:15:48She might turn up something.

00:15:49A fresh eye.

00:15:50I didn't mean that.

00:15:51There's nothing to turn up, is there?

00:15:52No, I meant her.

00:15:53That figure.

00:15:55Your eyes practically fell out your cheeks.

00:15:57You sexy devil.

00:16:01Yeah, we could do with a few detectives like that around here.

00:16:04It'll be a big improvement on you.

00:16:06George.

00:16:07Go home, George.

00:16:08Go home, George.

00:16:09You're always saying that.

00:16:10Give my regards to your wife.

00:16:11Oh, shh.

00:16:12That's below the belt, Charlie.

00:16:14You're just jealous.

00:16:16Just because you're not married.

00:16:18Because you haven't found Miss Wright yet.

00:16:20Or maybe you have.

00:16:22You're not telling me, eh?

00:16:23Goodbye, George.

00:16:25See you.

00:16:26George.

00:16:26Hmm?

00:16:27You told her wrong.

00:16:29The only possible suspect?

00:16:32What about that uncle of hers?

00:16:34Tully.

00:16:35Okay.

00:16:36Now, there was an unhealthy relationship.

00:16:52I'll get it for you.

00:16:54Thanks.

00:16:58This one?

00:17:00Fine.

00:17:18I teach back home in America.

00:17:21The flora and fauna of a foreign country.

00:17:23I would have thought they had birch trees in America.

00:17:26Oh, yes, they do.

00:17:28Yes, but actually, you know, uh, English birch...

00:17:32Did you know they import genuine London fog in cans?

00:17:36And Scottish water.

00:17:39Anyway, the kids will love it.

00:17:41I wish I'd had a teacher who looked like you.

00:17:45Yes.

00:17:48Is that all?

00:17:51Yes.

00:17:51Then how about some genuine English tea?

00:17:54I live just on the edge of the wood.

00:17:55No, well, actually, I left my car just...

00:17:57It's quite safe.

00:17:58Hardly anyone comes this way anymore.

00:18:01Besides, it's only a few minutes.

00:18:04Okay.

00:18:06Yes, I'd love to.

00:18:08Good.

00:18:09After you.

00:18:10Good.

00:18:18Dear I compare thee to a summer's day

00:18:22Thou art more lovely and more temperate

00:18:27Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

00:18:31and summer's lease hath all too short a date sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

00:18:42and often is his gold complexion dimmed and every fair from fair sometime declines

00:18:53by chance or nature's changing course untrimmed but thy eternal summer shall not

00:19:08are you an actor there was once upon a time ten years of it then i came to the conclusion

00:19:20that

00:19:20lawrence olivier i was not so i packed it in and uh what do you do now i write oh

00:19:30what kind of writing oh this and that bit for the newspapers some drama criticism

00:19:37i'm an authority on lousy actors having been one myself yes i used to do a regular column until

00:19:43uh until they find someone better milk and sugar uh no sugar

00:20:20don't you find it a little uh

00:20:21spooky living here all alone i find it private

00:20:27well do sit down

00:20:32so you don't do any acting now at all then no but not even local armature things

00:20:38well i've helped old williams out a couple of times williams he owns the local bookshop and

00:20:43runs the amateur dramatic society i've done the old thing for him once in a while

00:20:48well i suppose that's not a bad way of getting to meet people

00:20:51well girls anyway oh well there have been one or two occasions when it is

00:20:56leave it but somebody leave it

00:21:03they'll have run away by now they always run away

00:21:09does this happen often not as often as it did

00:21:20small towns are funny things they're close like a family well i uh i had a bit of a problem

00:21:28with this

00:21:28town a few years ago and they won't let me forget it i think after all this time they get

00:21:34tired

00:21:34i think they'd forget sometime why don't you call the police

00:21:39the police

00:21:59whoever it was they've long gone by now thank you

00:22:07you said you had a problem before what did you do well it's what they think i did look

00:22:10do you mind if we drop it

00:22:13no

00:22:18are you going to be around here long

00:22:20no just a few days

00:22:21well i'd like to buy you dinner

00:22:23there are a couple of places where they'll still serve me

00:22:26well no actually i'm going to be pretty busy

00:22:29i see

00:22:34thank you for the tea

00:22:35you're welcome

00:22:38i really ought to be going now

00:22:41i'll walk you to your car

00:22:42oh no that's all right please i know where it is

00:22:44that's right and you know where i am

00:22:46if you should change your mind

00:22:58hey

00:23:08thank you

00:23:13happy seeing you

00:23:35thank you

00:23:38thank you

00:23:47I don't know.

00:24:18I don't know.

00:24:49You're a bit jumpy for a detective.

00:24:52Someone was chasing me.

00:24:53I was chasing you.

00:24:56You?

00:24:57I lost you back there.

00:24:59I cut across here to meet you.

00:25:01Why didn't you call out?

00:25:02Because he might have heard me.

00:25:04Ingram.

00:25:05If you had something in mind, I didn't want to put him off.

00:25:09Well, thanks.

00:25:10Thanks a lot.

00:25:11That's why I'm here.

00:25:11I knew the first place you had for it would be here, and then Ingram's.

00:25:14I mean, you didn't think I'd let you walk into a killer's house without...

00:25:18without police protection, did you?

00:25:22I left my car down the road a bit.

00:25:25You don't mind, do you?

00:25:29No, I don't mind.

00:25:38How long have you been here?

00:25:40A while.

00:25:42Then you must have seen who did it.

00:25:44I did what?

00:25:45Well, somebody threw a rock through Ingram's window.

00:25:49Did they now?

00:25:50Well, was it you?

00:25:53No, it damn well wasn't.

00:25:55And if I had seen who did it, I'd have looked the other way.

00:25:58Anything that rubs Ingram's nerves raw is okay with me.

00:26:00Anything.

00:26:01It'll make him break and give himself away.

00:26:04Yes, well, that only works if you're sure of one thing.

00:26:07What's that?

00:26:09That he's the man you want.

00:26:15She really was pretty.

00:26:17She was beautiful.

00:26:21You know, it's very odd.

00:26:23The police reports are so full of Ingram and his behavior.

00:26:27There's very little about her, her state of mind.

00:26:31Where was she going that day?

00:26:32She merely went for a walk.

00:26:34No.

00:26:36You found something?

00:26:38No, it's just that she was a woman and so am I.

00:26:42See, she wouldn't have been just going for a walk because it had been raining.

00:26:46But she did go for a walk.

00:26:48A long walk down a muddy path that doesn't go anywhere.

00:26:52Except to Ingram's cottage.

00:26:54It's a mile further on.

00:26:57Yes, I know that.

00:26:59I met him today.

00:27:00Yeah.

00:27:03Well, I don't know.

00:27:06You see, a woman usually takes a walk like that.

00:27:08If she has something on her mind or if she's going to meet her lover or if she...

00:27:12Well, she was a child.

00:27:14Well, she was 17 years old.

00:27:21I...

00:27:25I would have known.

00:27:26She would have told me.

00:27:28Would she?

00:27:30How would you have reacted?

00:27:31Angry?

00:27:32Protective?

00:27:33Jealous?

00:27:34I was responsible for her.

00:27:37Well, Mr. Tully, that would have been a perfectly normal reaction.

00:27:40A father's reaction.

00:27:49You've kept her room exactly as it was, haven't you?

00:27:52May I see it?

00:27:53May.

00:27:54Please went over it with a fine tooth comb.

00:27:57Oh, yes, I know that.

00:27:58Not with a woman's eye.

00:28:00May I?

00:28:01Please?

00:28:23I'll leave you to it, then.

00:28:28Please be kind and leave everything as you find it.

00:28:34Oh, yes, of course I will.

00:28:59Oh, sorry.

00:29:03I'll come back and do that later.

00:29:05Oh, no, please.

00:29:05That's all right.

00:29:06You sure?

00:29:06Yeah, stay.

00:29:07Mr Tully likes it kept clean.

00:29:10Insists.

00:29:10Clean and just as it always was.

00:29:13I hope you catch him.

00:29:15Who?

00:29:16Ingram.

00:29:16That's what you're here for, isn't it?

00:29:18Ah, yes.

00:29:19Yes, I hope you catch him.

00:29:21She was lovely, Miss Annabella.

00:29:23Lovely.

00:29:24You know her well, then?

00:29:25Oh, since she was that eye, I was the last person to see her alive.

00:29:30Last but one, that is.

00:29:33She came into the kitchen, she did, to borrow a bag.

00:29:36A bag?

00:29:37What kind of bag?

00:29:38Oh, a plastic thing.

00:29:40Aren't you using the deep freeze?

00:29:43And she tripped out again.

00:29:44Oh, it's a lovely morning, Aunty Fitch, she said.

00:29:48Aunty Fitch.

00:29:49Her last words.

00:29:51That's my name, see?

00:29:52I'm Mrs Fitch, but she always called me Aunty.

00:29:55A lovely day?

00:29:56Uh-huh.

00:29:56But hadn't it been raining?

00:29:58Well, it had just stopped, but it was a lovely day to her.

00:30:01Poor little thing.

00:30:03She didn't know she was going to have a knife plunged into her ribs, did she?

00:30:06So she was really, uh, especially happy that day, then?

00:30:09Uh-huh.

00:30:09Why?

00:30:10I don't know.

00:30:12It had something to do with that book, though.

00:30:14What book?

00:30:15Well, the one she had with her.

00:30:17Cuddling it, she was like it was something special.

00:30:20Hanging would be too good for that man.

00:30:23They don't even do that now.

00:30:25So she left taking a book with her.

00:30:27I told you.

00:30:29Oh, yes, I know.

00:30:30I was just thinking aloud.

00:30:31Uh, what kind of book was it?

00:30:34Oh, a-a Shakespeare thing.

00:30:37Like that one.

00:30:39Yes, exactly like that one.

00:30:43But, Mrs Fitch, there wasn't any book found on the body.

00:30:46Did you tell the police about this?

00:30:48Oh, I told them.

00:30:49Fat lot of attention they paid me.

00:30:51Not important, they said.

00:30:53Well, neither it was.

00:30:54The important thing is for you to get that Ingram behind bars.

00:31:12Oh, I don't believe.

00:31:15Oh, I would like that one.

00:31:32Stuck to him for years.

00:31:34Ah, yes, here we are.

00:31:37It's what I call one of my perennials.

00:31:39Student passes exam, Christmas, a birthday.

00:31:43It's an always welcome gift.

00:31:45Do you keep a record of all your sales?

00:31:47You mean copies sold at a particular period?

00:31:49Well, yes, so that we can restock.

00:31:51And, um, how far back do your records go?

00:31:54Five years, maybe?

00:31:56Yes, she did.

00:31:58She loved the theatre.

00:32:01Got that from me, I suppose.

00:32:04Were you an actor, too?

00:32:05No.

00:32:07No, it's just that I always found the fantasy world of the theatre

00:32:11infinitely preferable to the realities that life has to offer.

00:32:16So she only acted in amateur groups, then?

00:32:19Yes, but she was good.

00:32:22Very good.

00:32:27We talked of sending her to a drama school.

00:32:31Was her Rosalind good?

00:32:35Rosalind in As You Like It.

00:32:37She did play that, didn't she?

00:32:39Superbly.

00:32:39She did play that, didn't she?

00:32:42I'm prejudiced, of course, but I thought it was...

00:32:46The most beautiful Rosalind you'd ever seen.

00:32:58For the most beautiful Rosalind I've ever seen.

00:33:02From the worst Oberon ever.

00:33:04Did you give her that book?

00:33:09Well, somebody did.

00:33:12And you know what I found out?

00:33:14The day before she died, the bookshop sold a book just like that of Midsummer Night's Dream.

00:33:20Now, I think that Annabella bought that book to give to someone.

00:33:23To Oberon.

00:33:25The worst Oberon ever.

00:33:28Mr. Tully, I think that Oberon murdered your niece.

00:33:45Ingram was an actor.

00:33:47Mr. Ingram?

00:33:49Jodie Baxter.

00:33:51Yes, is that dinner invitation still open?

00:33:59Mr. Ingram?

00:34:04Mr. Ingram?

00:34:07Oh, I...

00:34:09A detective.

00:34:11A detective!

00:34:13A dirty detective!

00:34:16A professional snipe!

00:34:29Who told you?

00:34:32I still have some friends left.

00:34:35William's called.

00:34:36He told me you'd been snooping around the bookshop.

00:34:40Oh...

00:34:40I am going to bleed to death.

00:34:46Hold it there.

00:34:52Here, give me that.

00:34:56Ah!

00:34:57What?

00:34:58Don't waste any more of it.

00:35:00Glass!

00:35:12Why did you come here tonight?

00:35:14What else can I tell?

00:35:18Did you ever play the classics?

00:35:22The classics?

00:35:23The classics, Shakespeare.

00:35:25Well, yes, of course.

00:35:27Every actor, sooner or later...

00:35:28It's a man's dream?

00:35:30What?

00:35:32The dream.

00:35:33Did you ever play that?

00:35:34Yes.

00:35:35Oberon?

00:35:36Oberon?

00:35:37No.

00:35:39Yes.

00:35:41A couple of times, I suppose.

00:35:43How were you?

00:35:45What?

00:35:46How were you?

00:35:47Were you good?

00:35:48Bad?

00:35:49It was okay.

00:35:51But you weren't the worst Oberon ever.

00:35:55Well, somebody may remember.

00:36:01For just a minute.

00:36:06The worst Oberon ever.

00:36:13Witch Hazel.

00:36:15I hope keep down the bruising.

00:36:19That really was dumb of me to go blundering around those woods after dark.

00:36:26hmm you left here to meet ingram

00:36:31you did meet him no i did not i never got there mr briggs sir good evening good evening

00:36:39all right what happened thank you mrs fitch that's gonna be a nasty bruise

00:36:47how did you find out about it news travels fast in a town like this

00:36:51especially bad news now tell me about it i just went walking and tripped and fell that's

00:36:58all those marks around your neck too please now he had a go at you

00:37:06well i've got him this time i'll pull him in what grounds i'm not making any complaints

00:37:12well i'm not i'm not accusing anyone a complaint this is all i've been waiting for

00:37:18who's side are you on anyway what the hell do you want i want to find the man who killed

00:37:22annabella

00:37:24that's what i want

00:37:34that's what i want to do

00:38:12Miss Baxter found something mm-hmm look

00:38:27what do you think this is makes a change from the usual heart and arrow and this the

00:38:34cranny is right and sinister I'm sorry I'm talking about Shakespeare played it

00:38:41once when I was a kid at school hmm still looking for a vital clue no chance we

00:38:52had the best forensics men in the country oh why are you here I thought I'd take a

00:38:59country walk no I don't think so you're right now I thought I'd wander and

00:39:06recreate you never know what happened to your face ciao

00:39:49hmm

00:39:53I don't know.

00:40:30I don't know.

00:40:50Oh, right.

00:40:54Johnny?

00:40:56Jody?

00:40:56Hi, how are you?

00:40:58I'm fine. How are you?

00:41:00Well, I'm in a bit of a mess.

00:41:02I'm sorry, what was that? This is a hell of a bad line.

00:41:05I said I'm in a mess.

00:41:07No, I still didn't get that.

00:41:09A mess, Johnny. I'm in a mess.

00:41:12Miss me?

00:41:13Well, I miss you too.

00:41:15Oh, no, you don't understand.

00:41:18I think I realize how lonely your job is.

00:41:21Well, that's marvelous.

00:41:23What?

00:41:23That's the best news I've had all week.

00:41:26What is?

00:41:27That you're lonely.

00:41:29Look, Jody, I should be back in a few days.

00:41:32Oh, Johnny, well, that's terrific.

00:41:34Listen, I need some advice.

00:41:36I need you too.

00:41:38Look, I'll try and cut this short.

00:41:40Get back as soon as I can.

00:41:42Oh, Johnny, it's no use.

00:41:44It's okay. I'll work it out for myself.

00:41:46I'm sure we can work it out, my love.

00:41:48Never had any doubts about it.

00:41:50Well, I wish I were as sure.

00:41:52What was that?

00:41:53I said I...

00:41:55I love you, Johnny.

00:41:58What?

00:42:00Jody, are you there?

00:42:04Oh, shut up!

00:42:27Well, it's about time.

00:42:29Sorry.

00:42:32Anything up?

00:42:33No, you know it's my birthday.

00:42:35The wife's expecting to be taken out for dinner.

00:42:37What kept you, anyway?

00:42:39What, you...

00:42:40You've been chasing a bird across the muddy fields, have you?

00:42:43George.

00:42:44Go home, George.

00:42:45Go home, George.

00:42:48Chasing a bird across the muddy fields at your age.

00:43:08Good enough.

00:43:34toolkit poster.

00:43:35Go home, George.

00:43:37Mr. Telly, I've taken a retainer from you.

00:43:40I want to give it back.

00:43:44For a lot of reasons, but...

00:43:47mainly because I'm a fraud.

00:43:51You see, you hired the wrong Jay Baxter.

00:43:55It's my husband who's the detective, not me.

00:44:01Mr. Telly?

00:44:02Hmm.

00:44:08Oh, I know.

00:44:12You know?

00:44:13Hmm.

00:44:16I told you, uh,

00:44:18Jay Baxter was highly recommended to me.

00:44:20When it turned out to be you, I naturally checked back.

00:44:24I'm sorry.

00:44:27Why?

00:44:28I am satisfied.

00:44:30I want you on the case.

00:44:33Oh, I'm so sorry.

00:44:40You've done well so far.

00:44:43Nothing concrete, of course, but...

00:44:51Looking at it with a woman's eye, I believe you said.

00:44:56Perhaps that's what was always wondered.

00:45:02There has to be one thing.

00:45:06He must have made one mistake.

00:45:10Perhaps it needs a woman's eye to discover it.

00:45:24You're tired.

00:45:27You're tired.

00:45:28You can't possibly drive back to your hotel.

00:45:30Stay here.

00:45:34You...

00:45:40You can have Annabella's room.

00:45:55I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,

00:45:59where rock slips and the nodding violet grows,

00:46:02quite over-canopied with luscious bine,

00:46:06with sweet musk roses and with eglantine.

00:46:11There sleeps Titania.

00:46:36There sleeps Titania.

00:46:39君 and luscious bine.

00:47:19Shh, go to sleep.

00:47:53Where's Charlie?

00:47:54Spencer?

00:47:56He's not due until two, is he?

00:47:57Do you need something?

00:47:59No, no, no.

00:48:13On her birthday.

00:48:14Good morning.

00:48:15Good morning.

00:48:16It suits you.

00:48:17There's coffee.

00:48:17The brews.

00:48:18I like my women with a little imperfection.

00:48:21Perhaps I should send them all over to meet Ingram.

00:48:25You're still not bringing charges then?

00:48:27No?

00:48:29Well, maybe there's one or two I might like to bring against you.

00:48:33Here.

00:48:35You're holding evidence.

00:48:36Oh, please.

00:48:37That book was up there for anyone to see.

00:48:39Your men obviously overlooked it.

00:48:41Anyway, it's not evidence of anything.

00:48:43Isn't it?

00:48:43Ingram's an actor.

00:48:45Well, he's not necessarily a bad one.

00:48:47The worst Oberon ever.

00:48:49All right.

00:48:50Well, how about fraud then?

00:48:52You led Mr. Tully here into thinking you were to detect?

00:48:54No, I already told Mr. Tully the truth.

00:48:57I offered to give him his retainer back.

00:48:59Ask him.

00:49:00It's true.

00:49:03I see.

00:49:05You know, young lady, you're playing with fire.

00:49:08Now, you play with fire, you end up burnt to a crisp.

00:49:11Good morning, Mr. Tully.

00:49:13Good morning.

00:49:18I'm sorry.

00:49:20He arrived, started talking.

00:49:22Perhaps I told him too much.

00:49:24Oh, it's not your fault.

00:49:25Oh, that man.

00:49:27Yes.

00:49:28Phone call, sir.

00:49:28For me?

00:49:29For Miss Baxter.

00:49:31Oh.

00:49:32It's from him.

00:49:33From that man, Ingram.

00:49:40Yes, I want to thank you.

00:49:43Well, obviously, you didn't say anything about what happened the other night.

00:49:50Well, nobody's been here.

00:49:53I want to thank you, that's all.

00:49:56No, don't hang up.

00:49:58Listen, what you said that night.

00:50:01The worst Oberon ever.

00:50:04Was that important?

00:50:07Well, just because I've heard that expression before, and I've remembered where?

00:50:11Williams.

00:50:13At the bookshop.

00:50:14He runs the Amateur Society.

00:50:16Has done for years.

00:50:18He must have seen some of the worst...

00:50:20Well, you can't today.

00:50:22It's Sunday.

00:50:24Hello?

00:50:26Hello?

00:50:27Well, even just that night.

00:50:57Once a night.

00:51:08Mr. Williams?

00:51:16Mr. Williams?

00:51:30Mr. Williams?

00:51:41Well, that's very much.

00:51:48Well?

00:51:49You seem to attract violence.

00:51:51The doc says injuries are consistent with the fall down the stairs.

00:51:55Or a chop on the neck.

00:51:56An expert in karate, too.

00:51:58You weren't being very expert when you got that bruise on your face, were you?

00:52:02So it's an accident.

00:52:03Well, that's the first opinion. The doc seemed pretty sure.

00:52:06Well, what a convenient accident.

00:52:09Why?

00:52:11Because you didn't have time to talk to him first?

00:52:13What about, anyway?

00:52:17Oberon.

00:52:17Well, that's stuff in the book.

00:52:19Yes, why not?

00:52:21Williams had an amateur theatre group for years.

00:52:24He probably would have remembered the worst Oberon ever.

00:52:26How did you know that?

00:52:30I prefer not to say.

00:52:32Ingram?

00:52:33He told you that?

00:52:35Hey.

00:52:36Then maybe Williams didn't fall down the stairs.

00:52:40Morning.

00:52:41What's going on?

00:52:42A sudden death.

00:52:44Accidental.

00:52:45Williams?

00:52:46Yeah.

00:52:46Little Miss Sherlock Holmes here found him.

00:52:49And what the hell are you doing here, anyway?

00:52:51I was just passing by.

00:52:53I saw the car.

00:52:54What happened?

00:52:55Treb fell.

00:52:56Broke his neck.

00:52:58According to the doctor.

00:53:00Poor old Williams.

00:53:01Poor old Williams.

00:53:02Come on.

00:53:03You fell the back of his hand a few times.

00:53:05So did you.

00:53:05Yeah, but he's single job particularly, didn't he?

00:53:07He always gave you the lowest marks for everything.

00:53:11Well, Williams taught school here till he retired and took this place.

00:53:14He was miserable and he was vicious.

00:53:16He made sense that he was one of the few who still talked to Ingram.

00:53:19Two of a kind.

00:53:23Well, Miss Baxter, there's no need for you to hang around.

00:53:27I'll be in touch with you later.

00:53:37Well, now you're here, Charlie, you can give me a hand.

00:53:40I want to take a look upstairs.

00:53:43Mr. Tully.

00:53:43I know about Williams.

00:53:46I can't say I ever liked him.

00:53:48He was too close to Ingram for that, but...

00:53:51I am sorry.

00:53:53It was an awful accident.

00:53:54If it was an accident.

00:53:58You mean the police have found something to suggest it wasn't?

00:54:01No.

00:54:03Hmm.

00:54:08I have been full of thoughts of vengeance.

00:54:14I have incubated hate for so long.

00:54:17That's why I came to you.

00:54:20But this last few days I've...

00:54:24I've come to realize that eventually one must forget.

00:54:29Keep picking at an old wound and it never heals.

00:54:32It just goes on hurting.

00:54:39I don't want you to think I'm ungrateful.

00:54:41I'm very grateful...

00:54:42Mr. Tully, do you want me to leave?

00:54:45Yes.

00:54:46Yes.

00:54:52All right.

00:55:01Tomorrow.

00:55:02I'll leave tomorrow.

00:55:03I'll leave tomorrow.

00:55:08I'll leave tomorrow.

00:55:21I'll have a clue that I'm gonna leave you alone.

00:55:22I'll leave tomorrow.

00:55:23Wait a minute.

00:55:24I'll leave tomorrow.

00:55:25I love you.

00:55:33I'm going to leave right now.

00:55:48I'm sorry I misjudged you didn't I you're open to trap him Ingram that's why

00:55:56you talk to him yes you'd have to speak to him lead him astray wait for the

00:56:03moment when he makes that fatal slip and mind you I told him when he first brought

00:56:13her here mere child told him the heartache at the end of it not right for a

00:56:20bachelor to be bringing up a young girl no not right at all now if he'd married

00:56:29it found himself a good wholesome woman someone nearer his own age I told him

00:57:08see if you could prove Ingram did it that would set Mr. Tunney's mind at rest then perhaps he'd start

00:57:16looking and seeing his way clear

00:57:19to

00:57:20you

00:57:32you

00:57:34you

00:57:35you

00:57:48you

00:57:59you

00:58:00you

00:58:01you

00:58:02you

00:58:04why should Titania cross her Oberon I do but beg a little changeling boy to be my

00:58:14my henchman

00:58:20why should Titania cross her Oberon

00:58:25you

00:58:26you

00:58:43you

00:58:45you

00:58:46you

00:58:52you

00:58:53you

00:58:55you

00:58:55I know that one backwards.

00:58:58What do you want to know?

00:58:59Well, wasn't there something about dirt or earth being found under her fingernails?

00:59:04Yes, earth was found under the nails of both hands.

00:59:08Why?

00:59:09But it was established she was attacked from a standing position and then fell onto her back, right?

00:59:15Yes, but...

00:59:16Oh, I'm just following a hunch.

00:59:18One more question.

00:59:22Well, that was yesterday, but why...

00:59:25Hello?

00:59:28And what's she on about now?

00:59:31Don't know.

00:59:33Didn't make sense.

00:59:36Nothing.

00:59:41See you later.

01:00:00Mr. Tully, I think I'm about to earn that fee.

01:00:07And all because of a plastic bag.

01:00:10Bag?

01:00:11Yes, you see, Annabella bought a book to give to someone, right?

01:00:16And then she put it in a plastic bag.

01:00:20Now, why not paper and a ribbon?

01:00:24Because she was going to hide it.

01:00:27Bury it.

01:00:30Mr. Tully, out in the woods, in a place that only she and Oberon would know about.

01:00:38Believe me, Mr. Tully, a young girl in love would do that kind of thing.

01:00:43Now, I bet you that book is still there, with her inscription on the flyleaf and his name.

01:00:51The killer's name, Mr. Tully.

01:00:53I'm going to find out.

01:00:55That wood is two miles wide.

01:00:57It could be anywhere.

01:00:58No, there's only one place that it could be.

01:01:01This loam, this rough cast, and this stone doth show.

01:01:09Oh, Mr. Tully, for a theater buff, you don't know too much about Shakespeare.

01:01:15The wall.

01:01:17I'm talking about the wall, Mr. Tully.

01:01:21Through which the lovers did whisper often and very secretly.

01:01:59I'm talking about the wall, Mr. Tully.

01:02:00The wall.

01:02:05The wall.

01:02:45I'm talking about the wall.

01:02:46Anyway, there's another wall, Mr. Tully.

01:02:46Let's just stand to it.

01:02:46I better focus on the wall.

01:02:46I give it to you, Mr. Tully.

01:02:57The wall isujahide.

01:02:59There's so much could be iPhone to breed.

01:03:00It's got to be iron car.

01:03:00It's sissress.

01:03:00You just tugged.

01:03:06You're clever.

01:03:08Very clever.

01:03:12I often wondered about that dirt under her fingernails.

01:03:30You, the worst Oberon.

01:03:33Yes, but don't forget the effort.

01:03:37Williams never did.

01:03:38Just ten years old I was, and he leaned on me.

01:03:42Shouldn't have told her.

01:03:45Shouldn't have...

01:03:48I had a wife and kids. She knew that.

01:03:51If it had come out, it'd kill my chances of promotion.

01:03:54She knew that too. Precocious little.

01:04:01I'm sorry.

01:04:07George.

01:04:15You're big, George.

01:04:17Bigger than me.

01:04:19But remember at school.

01:04:21Big as you were, I always took you apart.

01:04:25You never won.

01:04:35George.

01:04:39Sit down, George.

01:04:40Sit down, George.

01:04:50You can't ask a question like that.

01:04:53When was his birthday?

01:04:55And do not expect to arouse my curiosity.

01:04:59I've been following him since.

01:05:02Why did you ask it?

01:05:05Women's intuition.

01:05:08Was that his birthday present?

01:05:27It's crazy.

01:05:29It is ridiculous.

01:05:32Jodie, it's unethical.

01:05:35Okay.

01:05:37Oh, come on, Johnny.

01:05:38It's money.

01:05:39It's a signed check.

01:05:40I did a good job.

01:05:41Oh, what am I gonna do?

01:05:43Cash it.

01:05:44I'm cashing on me.

01:05:45I'm useful.

01:05:46Very.

01:05:47Oh, come on, Johnny.

01:05:49Cut me in as an equal partner.

01:05:51Huh?

01:05:51We'll work together.

01:05:56You mean, you and me, here?

01:06:01Oh, yes.

01:06:06Okay.

01:06:08Oh, Johnny.

01:06:11Partners, again.

01:06:13Uh-huh.

01:06:16Backstair and Backstair.

01:12:28It's crazy.

01:12:30It is ridiculous.

01:12:32Jody, it's unethical.

01:12:34Okay.

01:12:37Oh, come on, Johnny.

01:12:38It's money.

01:12:39It's a signed check.

01:12:40I did a good job.

01:12:41Oh, what am I going to do?

01:12:43Cash it.

01:12:44I'm cashing on me.

01:12:45I'm useful.

01:12:46Very.

01:12:46I'm sorry.

01:12:47I'm sorry.

01:12:47Oh, come on, Johnny.

01:12:49Come in as an equal partner.

01:12:51We'll work together.

01:12:54Work together?

01:12:56Work together?

01:12:57You mean you and me here?

01:13:01Yes.

01:13:06Okay.

01:13:08Oh, Johnny.

01:13:09Yeah.

01:13:10Yeah.

01:13:13Okay.

01:13:15Yeah.

01:13:17There we go.

01:13:21Oh, my God.

01:13:53Oh, my God.

01:14:28Oh, my God.

01:14:51Oh, my God.

01:15:21Oh, my God.

01:15:55Oh, my God.

01:15:58Oh, my God.

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