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00:26To be continued...
00:42To be continued...
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02:14To be continued...
02:51To be continued...
02:58Right. God rest you merry gentlemen.
03:01Instrumentalists first.
03:04One, two.
03:14There's no way to treat a robin.
03:16What's that?
03:17I say, it's no way to treat a robin.
03:20Pushing him aside to grab the police axe.
03:22Where the devil have you been?
03:24Can't you tell, Sarge?
03:27How about giving us a demonstration of your powers of deduction?
03:33Cry, detective Sergeant Crimm.
03:37What do you infer from this tit far?
03:41I'll be in on the whiskey.
03:43That's pretty clever.
03:45Your breath reeks of it.
03:48Well, as a matter of fact, the legs in him division did ask me rab for a seasonal drink.
03:55More cards?
03:57More cards?
03:57Uh-huh.
03:58Oh.
04:01Another robin.
04:04There's nothing so nice as Christmas.
04:08I'll be spending the day with my sister Betty in Bermondsey.
04:13Roast goose, plum pudding, mince pies.
04:17Belly egg.
04:18Parlour games with the young'uns.
04:20Betty's got seven.
04:22And Christmas cake for tea.
04:26You'll never guess what I get up to after that.
04:29I'd rather not know, Thackeray.
04:31Well, I pick them home when everyone's busy.
04:35And then I creep up to one of the bedrooms.
04:38And I take off my jacket and trousers.
04:40And put on a pair of Wellington boots.
04:43And Betty's old red dressing gown.
04:46And then I find some face powder.
04:49And I...
04:50Come on, Thackeray.
04:51Oh, no.
04:53Is this a personal experience you're describing?
04:56Eh, well, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, to be honest, eh, yes.
05:04The quick change, sir.
05:05He's a master of disguise.
05:06Really?
05:06I had no idea.
05:08He can also do a very good drunk as well.
05:11Were you wanting something, sir?
05:12Ah, yes, yes, I was.
05:13I want you to go to Gloucestershire crib.
05:15This week, sir?
05:16Come into the office and meet my visitor, Mr Strange.
05:21He's a solicitor.
05:23Archer, better be getting off on duty.
05:26Your duty's here, manning this office until I get out.
05:29You can start by putting the Robins back on their feet.
05:56Colonel Dawson was found dead a week ago at the foot of a disused quarry in Ravenscombe Wood.
06:01He'd lived in the village over 20 years since retiring from the regiment.
06:04He was a pillar of the local community, owner of the manor house, and a member of the choir.
06:09Locally, they're convinced he committed suicide.
06:12Any indication as to why he would have done that, sir?
06:14Well, some two weeks previously, he'd been informed of the death of his only son, Harry, from cholera.
06:19Harry was serving with the regiment in India.
06:21It was a terrible shock to the colonel.
06:23There's no mystery about that.
06:24But the will, Mr Strange. Tell Sergeant Cribb about the will.
06:28I was about to, Chief Inspector.
06:30Two days before his death, Colonel Dawson instructed me to draw up a new will.
06:35He died without putting his signature to it.
06:37Sir, I refuse to believe the colonel took his own life.
06:40That sounds unlikely.
06:42Would it be unprofessional to reveal the contents of the two wills, sir?
06:45Really, Cribb?
06:46If I'd felt constrained to say nothing, I would not have raised the matter.
06:49In the first will, the entire estate was left to his son, Harry.
06:53The young man who died in India.
06:55I now go through the customary process of trying to establish the next of kin.
06:58The provisions of the second will are, of course, invalid.
07:01But you can tell us what they were.
07:04In a nutshell, he would have left a thousand pounds to the regiment.
07:08The residue, upwards of twenty thousand pounds, I'd estimate,
07:11to the Society of O-ologists.
07:13What the deuce is that? Sounds positively vile to me.
07:17Colonel Dawson was a collector of bird's eggs.
07:20Ah, yes, I tried that myself when I was a boy.
07:23Capital pastime.
07:25You considered the possibility of an accident, sir?
07:27By George, yes.
07:28Out birds nesting on his own.
07:31Trips over the edge.
07:32Not on a dark night in December.
07:35Birds lay their eggs in the spring.
07:37Ah, yes, so they do.
07:41So they do.
07:41Very well, Sergeant Cribb.
07:43I'll inform the Chief Constable that you're on your way.
07:46Do your stuff.
07:46Put up at the local inn.
07:48Get to know the regulars.
07:49A little, uh, seasonal good cheer might elicit something interesting.
07:53What?
07:53If you say so, sir.
07:55Oh, I do have one request.
07:56Yeah, what's that?
08:05Pack your bags, Constable.
08:07Yeah.
08:21A sheer drop.
08:22Didn't have a chance, poor fella.
08:24Must have known these woods every last week.
08:26He was often out looking for nests.
08:28Not at night.
08:29How do we know this happened at night?
08:31Because earlier the same evening, he was out of the choir singing carols.
08:35Was he now?
08:35I'm not from this village myself, but I gather it's traditional for the choir to visit four
08:40or five points in the locality two weeks before Christmas and sing a carol at each.
08:44They get a glass or two of homemade wine and a mince pie from the houses they entertain.
08:50Colonel Dawson was definitely with them.
08:51Till the end of the evening.
08:52He then set off to walk home.
08:54The next morning, his body was found.
08:57Oh.
08:57Perhaps he had a glass too many and lost his way.
09:00No, the colonel wouldn't touch wine.
09:01He was a whiskey drinker.
09:02And village people don't have whiskey to offer visitors.
09:04What about this?
09:06What?
09:07Ollie.
09:08What of it?
09:10Makes you think of Christmas.
09:14Do you see the colonel Dawson's house now, sir?
09:25I saw Mr. Strange and they took detectives this afternoon.
09:29They was meant for the quarry.
09:37How can it be any oranges this year, then, Albert?
09:41I ordered a box.
09:45I don't know what they expect to find down there.
09:48But it ain't arrived yet.
09:51Well, there's likes an orange Christmas for the young'uns.
09:57Poor village store doesn't have any.
10:00Reckon they don't know what to do with themselves.
10:02No music halls and ravens good.
10:06No fancy women, neither.
10:10Not so as you'd notice.
10:13Not so much as an orange.
10:16It is a pity.
10:18I ordered a box all weeks last Friday.
10:23Ought to be here by now.
10:25Better get they two detectives onto it, Albert.
10:30We do have a vacancy in the choir.
10:57Is the house empty?
10:58Apart from the housekeeper, Mrs. Gurney.
11:01She served the Colonel for years and I'm sure she'll answer all your questions.
11:11I'm meeting the station fly at the Green Man.
11:14I'll tell the landlord to expect you.
11:15Thank you, sir.
11:16And the report on the post-mortem.
11:18I'll see that it's sent.
11:19Ah, Mrs. Gurney.
11:20Here to trouble you again.
11:41Colonel, study.
11:45Just need a little time in here, Mrs. Gurney.
11:47No reason for you to stay.
11:57Um, a bit chilly in here, Sarge.
12:00Huh?
12:01Oh.
12:03Ah, yes.
12:04Any chance of a fire, ma'am?
12:06No fires in the Colonel's room.
12:08Mr. Strange's orders.
12:10A prudent instruction.
12:13Wouldn't want this lot going up in flames.
12:22Seeing as you're here, ma'am.
12:24Could you tell us if anything would disturb the Colonel of late?
12:28Apart from the loss of his son?
12:30Losing a son is disturbance enough for any, ma'am.
12:34Quite.
12:36But was there anything else?
12:38He didn't say.
12:40No unexpected visitors?
12:43Letter, perhaps.
12:49When did he hear that young Harry was dead?
12:51Two weeks before he took his own life.
12:54And how exactly did he receive the news?
12:57Badly.
12:57It was right off his food.
12:59I mean, was it conveyed in the form of a letter?
13:02Young officer came out here.
13:04How did you get his name?
13:08Captain Albright.
13:09Said he were an adjutant.
13:13You know young Harry?
13:15Madam Boy.
13:17And was he well liked in the village?
13:21Mr. Wood serves up sharp at half past six.
13:25Who's Mr. Wood?
13:26Landlord, the green man.
13:28You want to eat tonight?
13:31Do you fancy an omelette, Sarge?
13:36Everyone's empty inside.
13:37The colonel had them.
13:39What do you mean?
13:39He blew them.
13:40Sucked them.
13:42There was never no mess.
13:51So the colonel left the house at seven o'clock to meet the choir.
13:54I beg your pardon, ma'am.
13:57Bernice.
13:58Do you know you are visitors?
14:00You best believe it.
14:02Don't go on our account, ma'am.
14:03We're just looking around.
14:04My name is Cribb.
14:05And I'm Thackeray.
14:07Detectives.
14:07Sent from London.
14:09And your name, ma'am?
14:10Hello.
14:10Bernice.
14:12My daughter.
14:13She's at a bereavement.
14:15I must go.
14:16The baby needs...
14:17Needs a breath of fresh air, of course, Mrs. Sir.
14:20Didn't catch her full name.
14:22She's my daughter.
14:23I see.
14:29Oh, not much help there.
14:31On the contrary, we learned quite a lot.
14:33Oh, blowed if I did.
14:34God, man, what's happened to that penetrating brain of yours?
14:36Frozen solid.
14:38It might be better for something to eat or drink.
14:54Seasonal greetings, gentlemen.
14:57Understand you serve a piping hot meal, landlord.
14:59We're starved.
15:01Hot food's up by six.
15:04You're too late.
15:05What is it now, then?
15:08Good Lord.
15:09As late as that.
15:11Watch must be wrong.
15:13Mine says 31 minutes past six.
15:15What about yours, Thackeray?
15:16Uh, 6.32.
15:18Is this a joke?
15:20Ten past seven.
15:22I'm not serving a meal at this time.
15:23Ten past seven.
15:25How do you set your watchers?
15:26By that clock?
15:27You trust a clock in a public taproom?
15:30It's correct.
15:31By the church clock.
15:32Lord's time.
15:33Lord's time for ravenscum, yes.
15:35We set ours in London this morning.
15:37By the clock on the Houses of Parliament.
15:38Big Ben.
15:39Well, it's easy to see how it happens.
15:41Church clock a few seconds fast.
15:42In a year, it's half an hour out.
15:43Queen sets her watch by Big Ben.
15:45And we set ours by the old church clock.
15:48What you gonna make of that?
15:50What are you gonna make of it?
15:52If you corrected your watches,
15:53you'd gain 40 minutes drinking time.
15:58If you wants to know the time,
16:01ask a policeman.
16:02Come on.
16:07Molly.
16:13Fine voice of yours.
16:15You were glad enough to hear it any room.
16:17Henry sings bass in the choir.
16:19We've got practice later.
16:22Ah, eight o'clock.
16:23Joshua Pugh.
16:25Halto.
16:25Halba Darius.
16:26Halto.
16:27Wally Crid, voice like an old moak.
16:28This is Edward Thackeray.
16:30Tenor.
16:31Aye.
16:39Now to the lark sing praise.
16:43It's all been within this place.
16:46And in true love and brotherhood,
16:50all others do embrace.
16:52This holy tide of Christmas for others don't deface
16:59Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
17:05Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
17:14Trebles only for the next one, I think.
17:24Put the mouse away, Paul. You do sit down.
17:28Don't go far with the rest of you. I'll need you for a good King Wenceslas.
17:31Oh, that's one of my favourites. It was one of mine.
17:48Did you know Harry Dawson, the Colonel's son?
17:52Rest his soul, poor young gentleman.
17:57Once in royal David's city
18:03Stood alone
18:08Must have broke his heart, losing young Harry like that.
18:12He came down to earth from heaven
18:13Now you're singing down. One, two, two.
18:17He came down to earth from heaven
18:22Who is God and Lord of all
18:29And his shelter was a stable
18:35And his praise was a stone
18:57Who is it?
18:58Tell you me, Sarge.
18:59Not convenient.
19:00Special delivery.
19:01Not able to limit my ablutions to a clip of the panel, Thackeray.
19:07Came on the police dispatch cart all the way from Cheltenham.
19:12Shall I open it?
19:13I'll be obliged.
19:15Spare clothes?
19:16We're not going to be stuck here all over Christmas, are we?
19:20They think Colonel Dawson was waiting when he fell to his death.
19:23Oh. This is the report on the post-mortem.
19:39Boots. Scratched and muddy. That's to be expected.
19:45Trousers rather frayed for a military man.
19:50Piece of briar.
19:52Must have got stuck in his clothes when he fell.
19:54There's a sheer drop. There's no briar where he fell.
20:03There's some more here.
20:06Better take another look at that quarry from the top.
20:09Hand me that shirt, will you?
20:12No.
20:23Is this yours, Sarge?
20:25Don't know whose it is.
20:26Beat it up last night in the crib.
20:29Queer place for an army badge.
20:30The crib's blessed by the vicar.
20:31I've heard of people putting things there to be consecrated.
20:34Somebody might be sentimentally attached to it.
20:36When I went into plain clothes, I dropped my helmet and badge over Blackfriars Bridge.
20:40Did you?
20:41Sold mine to a music altar for half a crown.
20:52What would you say to vegetable soup?
20:55Partridge pie with carrots, cabbage and roast potatoes.
20:58Apple fritters.
21:00Followed by Stilton biscuits and coffee.
21:03Oh, I only just had my breakfast, Sarge.
21:05But I could manage it tonight, though.
21:07I was telling you the contents of the late Colonel's stomach.
21:10Oh, Struth.
21:12Mrs. Gurney advised us he was right off his food.
21:14Yeah, so am I.
21:16What?
21:17I said she told a lie.
21:19Oh, careful.
21:23How the devil did he get pieces of briar on his clothes?
21:27Oh, must have come through there.
21:38What does it prove, Sarge?
21:40If you were going to commit suicide by leaping into the quarry,
21:43you wouldn't blunder through the wood at night to get there.
21:46Would you?
21:47Certainly not.
21:48He'd use the card track is the obvious way.
21:52He wasn't dressed for running about in the woods.
21:54They ruined a fine pair of shoes, not to mention his trousers.
21:57A man with suicide on his mind might not be too particular about his clothes.
22:00Oh, no.
22:01But this doesn't look like suicide.
22:03Or an accident.
22:05Colonel was sober.
22:07Wouldn't have lost his way even at night.
22:08Knew these woods.
22:09He was a bird's nester.
22:11What was he doing here anyway?
22:12A mile out of his way on a cold December night.
22:16Well, we'd better start looking for footprints, Sarge.
22:19The Colonel's and someone else's.
22:22You're not going to get you anywhere.
22:33Oh, you'll never get home by Christmas.
22:40You'll never get home by January at this rate.
22:45It's a job for an Indian scout.
22:48Footprints.
22:48Oh, blimey.
22:50Oh.
22:51I've had enough of this.
22:52Yeah, too many leaves and things.
22:54Ground's too hard at this time of year anyway.
22:56Yeah, so what else can we do then?
22:58Take statements from everyone in the village.
23:00I want to know their movements on the night the Colonel died.
23:02Start with the choir.
23:03Find out where they went, what carols they sang,
23:05and what they were given to eat.
23:06How long's that supposed to take us?
23:08Us?
23:09That's a job for you.
23:11What are you going to do then?
23:12Buff up my badge and visit the regimental headquarters.
23:38Let's see.
23:39We met outside the Green Man,
23:42and we walked out to Laburnham Cottage on the Cheltenham Road.
23:47Sang Silent Night.
23:49We started Laburnham Cottage with Hark the Herald Angels.
23:55Are you absolutely sure?
23:57Perhaps we sang that at Johnson's?
23:58Then at Johnson's farmhouse,
24:01it was Hark the Herald Angels.
24:05Down at Mrs Shockley's,
24:08it was while humble shepherds watched their flocks and...
24:12No, I'm sure.
24:14To where the Ollie and the Ivy at Mrs Shockley's.
24:17Ah, glory hallelujah.
24:20No, it definitely weren't that.
24:23And the Colonel was with you all the time?
24:26Till the last carol was sang.
24:29Then he just said goodnight,
24:33and walked off into the darkness.
24:41Or it could have been Mrs Shockley's.
24:43Oh, I'm sure.
24:45The Ollie and the Ivy.
24:46Then we were back at the rectory for...
24:49Come on, sir.
24:50And walked out of Christmas,
24:53all mothers must be waiting for...
24:57Punishment?
24:59Six of the best, Sergeant.
25:01March off.
25:03Heads on!
25:04We'll move to the right!
25:07To the right!
25:08Heads on!
25:09We'll salute!
25:14Left 10!
25:17By your left!
25:19Quick!
25:20March!
25:21Left-right!
25:22Left-right!
25:22Left-right!
25:23Left-right!
25:24Left-right!
25:24Left-right!
25:29Next!
25:29Next for what?
25:31Who the blazes are you?
25:32An officer.
25:33And I like to think a gentleman.
25:35Oh.
25:36Didn't realize seeing a man in Mufti.
25:39Do sit down.
25:42Cigar?
25:43I understand your name is Captain Albright.
25:45Yes.
25:46Adjutant to the 1st Battalion.
25:48I'm afraid you have the advantage of me.
25:50Yes, I do.
25:52Cribb's the name.
25:53Rank is of no consequence here, but in London.
25:56Oh.
25:57The War Office didn't advise us you were coming, sir.
25:59No.
26:00Well, they wouldn't, would they?
26:01But I am entirely at your disposal.
26:03Does this belong to a soldier of this regiment?
26:07No, sir.
26:09Solder, no.
26:10Officer?
26:11Yes.
26:12Colonel?
26:12I was thinking of the late Colonel Dawson.
26:15Oh, yes.
26:15Terrible thing.
26:16But that isn't his badge, sir.
26:18These were not issued until, er, four years ago when the regiments of the line were reformed.
26:22He was in the 61st Foot.
26:24The old South Gloucester.
26:26You know the Colonel.
26:28I met him.
26:30Never had the privilege of serving with him.
26:33Fishy business, what, sir?
26:36Suicide?
26:36My aunt.
26:37Oh?
26:38Why do you say that?
26:39The Colonel chucking himself into a quarry.
26:42I don't believe it.
26:43You think it was an accident?
26:45Couldn't say.
26:47But if he'd wanted to put an end to himself, he'd have done it like a gentleman.
26:50Settled his affairs and blown his brains out.
26:52Well, that goes without saying.
26:54Fine man.
26:56Served right through the mutiny.
26:58Decorated for gallantry.
26:59Do you know his son, Lieutenant Dawson?
27:02Young Harry.
27:04Dead poor fellow.
27:06Between ourselves, sir, he was a bit of a milksop.
27:09Colonel Dawson got him permission to make a man of him.
27:12Devil if it is, the regiment hasn't seen any action for 25 years.
27:15He was posted to India and cholera got him.
27:19His trunk came back only this week.
27:21We sent it to his wife.
27:23Harry was married?
27:24Certainly.
27:25To a local girl.
27:28Never met her.
27:29But, by all accounts, a mess dinner would have set her some problems in handling a knife and fork, don't
27:35you know?
27:36I see that.
27:41Married two weeks before he was commissioned.
27:43At Cheltenham.
27:46Drafted to India almost immediately.
27:48His wife stayed behind to have the child in England.
27:51Harry died in November.
27:53He got the news about two weeks ago.
27:56Communications are barely awful, sir.
27:58To inform his wife as next of kin.
28:00And the Colonel, out of courtesy.
28:02I went to see him myself.
28:04Colonel left everything to his son.
28:06Ah.
28:07So the wife and child are well provided for.
28:10Yes, except for the fact that the Colonel fell to his death before he could change his will.
28:14Oh.
28:16If I might be so bold, sir, this sounds like a matter for the police.
28:20Police?
28:21No, no, no, no.
28:23Don't know where you are with them.
28:25They recruit all kinds of riff-raff and call them officers.
28:29Afternoon, Captain.
28:40There.
28:43The first Lowell Laburnum cottage.
28:48Art Wieralds.
28:49Art Wieralds.
28:50Johnson's Farmhouse.
28:53Oh, no.
28:54That can't be right.
28:56Art Wieralds.
28:57Mrs. Shockley's.
28:59Oh, no.
29:02Where did the Ollie and the Ivy come in?
29:09How about another, Mr. Thackeray?
29:11Oh, no.
29:15I think I'd better get a breath of flesh here.
29:17Oh.
29:19Oh.
29:25Oh.
29:26Oh.
29:28Oh.
29:28Oh.
29:29Oh.
29:30Oh.
29:31Oh.
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30:01Oh.
30:01Oh.
30:01Oh.
30:25Evening, officer.
30:29I haven't seen you all day. Been to town, have you? My assistant around?
30:33Mr. Thackeray. Well, he is. And he isn't, so to speak.
30:40What does that mean?
30:52That scrumpey's a wicked old drink when you're not accustomed to it.
30:56Two pints. You wouldn't know you'd had any. Another half.
31:01We patched him up as best we could.
31:05I could give him a mustard-o-metic. That's usually worse.
31:09So does this.
31:20I swear I don't remember another thing until I woke up in that chair.
31:27Poor Ed.
31:30I'd like to have a few minutes with the blighter that bashed it.
31:33You will. Are you positive it was Albert you saw driving that cart?
31:36Yes. Oh, but he couldn't possibly have hit me.
31:40I'll have him on toast.
31:42Oh, no. He's the only one who couldn't possibly have done it.
31:45Albert's gonna get a singing lesson from me.
31:47Oh.
31:48Have you got your notebook?
31:49There.
31:51Oh, it's gone.
31:53Oh, blimey.
31:54All them statements.
31:56Fabrications.
31:57I'll show you how to get the truth out of a man.
31:59Oh, no.
32:05I'll lay a pound to a pint that they leave in the morning.
32:09They'll want to be home for Christmas.
32:10Well, they won't be getting goose and plum pie from me.
32:14They're coming back.
32:15Right, gentlemen.
32:16An even tempo and a nice low key.
32:24Right. Point him out.
32:26Mr. Albert Harris.
32:27Did oblige us if you'd answer a few questions relating to the death of Colonel Dawson.
32:31Wait.
32:33Why?
32:34Albert's done nothing wrong.
32:35We'll talk upstairs in my room.
32:37It wasn't a blessed thing I could tally, sir.
32:39Give you three seconds, my friend.
32:44Zachary.
32:46All right.
32:47No violence.
32:54Oh, gosh.
32:55Well, we got it.
32:56We can't.
32:56Stay downstairs, the rest of you.
33:02Nothing Albert can tell him.
33:06Mr.
33:09You don't deny that you conveyed a trunk containing Lieutenant Harry Dawson's personal effects to the Colonel's house this afternoon.
33:16Well, that's no crime, is it?
33:17Where did you collect that trunk?
33:21Cheltenham?
33:23Gloucester.
33:25Or somewhere near a home.
33:28Come on, Albert.
33:29Who are you working for?
33:30Who are you shielding?
33:42No crime.
33:59We don't want to try once again.
34:01Who asked you to convey that trunk?
34:03We've done nothing wrong.
34:04For God.
34:06We've done nothing wrong.
34:08I've done nothing wrong.
34:09Mrs. Gurney, her daughter.
34:12Can I have a drink of water?
34:20Albert's all right.
34:22Something must be going on.
34:24Shh, oh.
34:28Ew, they're leaving.
34:32They're giving up.
34:34They're leaving for London by the night train.
34:36Albert will converse to Cheltenham Station.
34:37What do we owe you?
34:41An investigation complete, gentlemen.
34:47Case closed.
34:52My report is confidential.
34:56Compliments of the season to one and all.
34:59And God bless you, everyone.
35:01You've given up!
35:02Bloody marvellous!
35:03Gentlemen, Mr. Wood, drinks all right.
35:05On the house, gentlemen.
35:06Just a moment.
35:07Look at old Albert, he kept his mouth shut.
35:09I wouldn't bet on it.
35:10What's the matter, Henry?
35:11It's going to go in the Chilton direction.
35:13It's going to go in the lane towards the colonel's house.
35:17If he's told him anything, he'll pay for it.
35:26I'm sure I don't know what you want.
35:34This, ma'am, believe it came this afternoon.
35:39That's correct.
35:40This man brought it in his cart?
35:41He did.
35:43Where from, ma'am?
35:45Well, he delivered it.
35:46Ask him.
35:47Giving you the chance to answer, ma'am.
35:50It's obvious he must have brought it from the station.
35:53Must have?
35:54Well, I don't know for certain, do I?
35:56I mean, I wasn't with him.
35:59What's all this about?
36:00This trunk belonged to the colonel's son.
36:02When he died in India, it was shipped back to England.
36:04Open it up, constable.
36:06Contains his personal effects.
36:07That's right.
36:08And now it's back in his father's house.
36:11As you would expect.
36:12Exactly.
36:13As we would expect.
36:15As we would expect if we assumed the colonel was Harry's next of kin.
36:19But you and I know that he wasn't.
36:22Harry had a wife.
36:23I've seen the army records.
36:25That trunk was delivered to his wife some days ago.
36:27And I'll show you how I know.
36:29A cap.
36:33Without a badge.
36:36Now we can return the badge to its rightful owner.
36:40Albert.
36:41Open the door a little wider and ask Mrs. Harry Dawson to step in.
36:45You were speaking to me.
36:46I had a right to listen.
36:47Every right.
36:48You were married to Lieutenant Dawson in September in Cheltenham last year.
36:52Two weeks before he was commissioned.
36:54By special license.
36:55A secret marriage.
36:56A secret?
36:57Everyone in Ravenscum knew of it.
36:59Not quite everyone.
37:00The colonel didn't know.
37:02Until the adjutant told him that his son was dead.
37:04And the personal effects were being sent to the widow.
37:06How do you know this?
37:08The colonel's will left everything to his son.
37:10And would have gone to your daughter by the laws of inheritance.
37:12So he changed it.
37:14The second will divided his estate between the regiment and a society devoted to the study of birds' eggs.
37:19That will was never saved.
37:21Quite right.
37:23So you, ma'am, inherit some 20,000 pounds.
37:27Owing to the colonel's timely or untimely tumble into a quarry.
37:31It wasn't like that.
37:32You make it sound like cold-blooded murder.
37:33Careful what you say, ma'am.
37:35Mrs. Harry Dawson,
37:38I'm a police officer.
37:39No.
37:40No, you can't take her.
37:42You can.
37:43Oh, you devils.
37:44You don't know what she's suffered.
37:46Please, ma'am.
37:49Albert, I want you to convey us to Cheltenham Police Station.
39:31No.
39:34The only music that for you is the other sort.
39:38Rough music.
39:47No.
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43:34No.
43:35this I was asked to examine all the circumstances and present a report
43:40whatever action may be taken is up to my superior chief inspector Jowett
43:52murder well it's a possibility you ought to consider sir murder by a church choir
43:57well how many a 12 sir if you include the choir boys and the instrumentalists
44:03oh my word that's as big as a blasted jury sergeant crib I find this most disconcerting
44:09an entire church choir on trial for murder I mean hang it all I suppose you could sir
44:15damn it I wasn't speaking literally on the other hand yes well it's still uncertain as to whether
44:21the colonel was pushed or was chased and simply manslaughter that's a point if there was no malice
44:28a forethought oh I'm afraid there was plenty of that sir as I was saying sir it's dangerous in
44:33those woods a man out alone after dark could easily lose his way and startle by noises fall over the
44:39edge an accident that is an engaging theory yes that has a lot to commend it
45:12and left their flocks of feeding in tempest storm and wine and went to Bethlehem state when the
45:23right
45:23and went home oh blessed Bay to fire
45:24II
45:25I
45:26I
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45:33I
45:33Of comfort and joy
45:37Now to the Lord sing praises
45:41For you within this place
45:43And with true love and brotherhood
45:47Each other now embrace
45:49This holy tide of Christmas
45:53The mother's lucky face
45:56Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
46:00Comfort and joy
46:02Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
46:44Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
46:46Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
47:20Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
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