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00:12Hello.
00:13Oh.
00:16Hello.
00:17Hi, I'm here to take the test.
00:19You want to take the men's test?
00:20Yes.
00:21You.
00:23Me, yes.
00:24Anyone can, can't they?
00:26£40, please.
00:29To be accepted into Mensa,
00:31you have to qualify in the top two percentile of IQ in the country.
00:35Starts in five minutes.
00:37Fill in this form, then head over there.
00:45Eh-eh.
00:59After the Majors' performance that second night,
01:02you told police you heard the Ingrams arguing.
01:05Yes.
01:05I remember it very clearly.
01:07After all, it was so, like, odd.
01:10I mean, you'd be happy, wouldn't you?
01:12If you'd just become millionaires.
01:15No, I'm sorry, but it was so obvious.
01:17Just a signal.
01:18We'll talk later.
01:19Well, that's what I heard.
01:21I reckon, I know you haven't asked,
01:23but I reckon the plan was for him to stop a few questions earlier,
01:28so there wouldn't be so much, um, attention.
01:31But he couldn't help himself.
01:33And she might have been annoyed at him,
01:35because, well, look where we are.
01:40The memory's a funny thing, isn't it?
01:44Incredible feat of engineering.
01:46It sits inside the medial temporal lobe,
01:49and its most impressive function is its filing system.
01:53It's better than anything a supercomputer could do.
01:56Another of my favourite facts,
01:58given that that's what this trial is all about,
02:00right answers, wrong answers,
02:04knowledge, truth,
02:07is that when we're remembering something,
02:11we're not actually recalling the original event.
02:15What we're doing is we're remembering
02:18the last time we remembered it.
02:20There, there.
02:21So we are constantly wiping our pasts
02:25and editing together a new one,
02:27one that makes sense to us now,
02:30in the present.
02:32All memories are therefore, by definition,
02:38a lie.
02:39They change.
02:41We change them,
02:42which isn't a crime, a conspiracy,
02:45just human nature.
02:48We can project guilt, say,
02:52back onto an event that was, in fact,
02:54perfectly innocent.
02:56Oh, I'm sorry, but it's really bad.
02:58The signals...
02:59We will talk later.
03:00I'm asking you all to try and resist
03:03a more entertaining falsehood
03:06in favour of a less extraordinary truth
03:10that Major Ingram simply knew the answers to those questions.
03:17And that's why he got them right.
03:25OK, let's go.
03:28Dad?
03:38We should tell you we have taken in
03:39two other parties for questioning.
03:41Your brother, Mrs Ingram,
03:42and another contestant in the studio.
03:44Another contestant? Why? Who?
03:46Here's a transcript of your appearance,
03:49invited by Cellador.
03:50It shows, quite clearly,
03:52moments where a cough can be heard,
03:53and then you, Charles,
03:55choosing a different answer.
03:56Why did you change your mind so often?
03:59I'm sorry.
04:00I'm sorry.
04:01I'm just...
04:02I'm just sort of hovering above all this,
04:04looking down,
04:05seeing how...
04:07absurd it all is.
04:08It's a game show.
04:08This isn't a laughing matter, Major Ingram.
04:10It's a million pounds.
04:12Your change of answer...
04:13Have you ever seen the show?
04:13That's what makes the show.
04:14That's what the audience want to watch.
04:16That's what the producers want.
04:18It's the, the, um...
04:19The, the, the, the, the...
04:20Tension.
04:21The drama.
04:21The tension.
04:22Exactly.
04:23Mrs Ingram,
04:24the book you're writing with Adrian
04:26details ways of,
04:27at the very least,
04:28bending the rules,
04:29or in some cases,
04:31circumventing...
04:31Improving your chances,
04:32that's all.
04:33I have to say,
04:34and please don't take offence,
04:35it wasn't the most gripping read of my life.
04:38Oh, it's not for people who...
04:40Do you know,
04:41I do take some offence, actually.
04:44Presumably you've benefited
04:45from this manual, Charles.
04:47I haven't, I haven't read,
04:49I haven't actually
04:49got through it yet.
04:51Oh.
04:56Do you know who Tecman Whittaker is?
04:59No.
05:00You have no idea
05:01your wife telephoned this man
05:02on several occasions,
05:03including the night before
05:04and the morning
05:05of your second appearance
05:06on the show,
05:06at which he was also present.
05:08He's just a man,
05:10a fan of the show.
05:11Who just happened to be
05:12a Fastest Finger First contestant
05:13on the same show.
05:15A show where coughing was heard
05:16on occasions that correlate
05:18with moments that you, Charles,
05:19changed your mind.
05:22How long has this relationship
05:24with Mr Whittaker existed?
05:25It's not a relationship.
05:26It was...
05:28contact with someone
05:29who...
05:31who was just a fan
05:32of the show.
05:34And I know you might think
05:35that's stupid or boring or silly,
05:37but I don't care.
05:38It's not bloody illegal, is it?
05:40We just...
05:41We just liked something
05:43a lot for a bit.
05:45That's all.
05:55Oh, my God.
06:00Can you park as close
06:02as you can, please?
06:03All right.
06:08Diana.
06:14Can you step away
06:15from the house, please?
06:16I'm not sure where the law
06:17is on this,
06:18but I don't know.
06:19Are you a cheat?
06:19Are you a cheat?
06:20Are you a cheat?
06:20Are you a cheat?
06:21You're away from the house, please.
06:22Get away from the house.
06:23Get away from the house.
06:30Harry, you...
06:31you got here.
06:32I mean, who told them?
06:33It's a nightmare.
06:34It's a nightmare, isn't it?
06:35I mean, they actually think
06:36we did it, don't they?
06:38They're looking at all the pieces
06:40and putting them together
06:40like a...
06:42you know, like that man
06:43that you...
06:44you called, right,
06:46on your phone.
06:47Oh, my God,
06:47on the night of the show.
06:48I mean, they have that
06:49on record, right?
06:50I don't know him,
06:51know him, Charles.
06:52What they were suggesting,
06:53implying,
06:54I've never spent
06:55any actual time with him.
06:56Adrian did.
06:57Oh!
06:57Of course it's Adrian.
06:59Always.
06:59You follow the smoke
07:00and you follow
07:01the sound of screams
07:02and there he is
07:03and there you are
07:03in your little, little...
07:04What? What?
07:05...family thing.
07:06And I didn't even want
07:07to go on the bloody show.
07:08I just got sucked into it.
07:10Why didn't you tell me
07:11you were...
07:13having conversations with him?
07:14I thought you were
07:14chatting with him.
07:15I thought it was just...
07:16It was just a phone call.
07:18They didn't know
07:18what we were talking about.
07:19We couldn't talk about anything.
07:20All right, let's try this, okay?
07:22I'm the prosecuting lawyer, right?
07:24And I'm asking you,
07:26Mrs. Ingram,
07:26this man,
07:28who your husband
07:28had barely any idea
07:30of the extent of the contact
07:31you had with him,
07:32what did you speak about
07:33that night?
07:33I'd just say that
07:34we were both in groups of fans
07:36and he was on the show
07:37the next day,
07:38so why wouldn't I call him?
07:39Because it's about perception,
07:41Diana.
07:42It's about how it looks.
07:43And how does it look?
07:44What are you saying
07:45and why are you saying it like that?
07:46Because I'm angry.
07:47I'm angry.
07:49And I'm not saying it.
07:50It's the bloody policeman
07:51who's saying it.
07:53He's saying it right...
07:55He's saying it right in front of me.
07:59And in front of the other...
08:02In front of the other policeman.
08:04My...
08:05My wife.
08:09I mean, have you...
08:11Any idea how that feels?
08:13What they were implying
08:15and suggesting?
08:16Are you asking me
08:17if I...
08:18Yeah, why not?
08:19I mean, you love questions.
08:23Well, there is something.
08:26There are some questions
08:27you should just know the answer to.
08:33Major Ingram.
08:34Mrs. Ingram.
08:35Oh, how did you guess?
08:36Oh, I didn't need to guess.
08:38Your faces are in all the papers.
08:40Come in, come in.
08:42Now, do you want a tea?
08:43Coffee?
08:45Vodka?
08:47Just kidding.
08:49Unless, of course, you do.
08:50In which case, I wouldn't judge.
08:53Um,
08:54you were recommended to us
08:56by Philip Jones in Reading.
08:58But we never thought
08:59that a high-profile barrister
09:00would touch our case
09:01with a barge pole
09:02because, you know,
09:03well, given that...
09:04Oh, given that your trial
09:05has already begun
09:05in the papers.
09:06Yeah.
09:07In the press.
09:09Yes, well,
09:10if I represent you,
09:11we're going to have to fight
09:12this sort of thing
09:13every step of the way.
09:14It's a new state of play.
09:16What's the new state of play?
09:18Justice's entertainment.
09:20How the police communicate
09:21with the press.
09:23How the press communicate
09:24with the police.
09:25I don't suppose you think
09:27it was a coincidence
09:28that reporters were there
09:29only minutes after
09:30you were charged,
09:32following your, uh...
09:33Did I get this right?
09:34The dawn raid
09:36on your property.
09:37It's a form of arrest
09:39that's normally associated
09:40with murderers
09:41and paedophiles.
09:43The narrative of your guilt
09:44is already being written
09:45by forces far beyond
09:47your control.
09:47Now, I would be happy
09:48to represent you
09:49if you want
09:50because, and forgive
09:52the presumption,
09:53I have already started
09:55looking into your case
09:56in some detail,
09:57and...
09:59Major Ingram,
10:01Mrs. Ingram,
10:02I think something here
10:04really stinks.
10:14Secrets to help you win
10:15at Millionaire
10:17by Diana Ingram.
10:20The things we've missed.
10:22We pull on this
10:22one tiny thread
10:23and what unravels
10:24is a whole bloody world
10:26and...
10:27God, we were stupid.
10:28Not stupid.
10:29Trusting.
10:31Lidderman says
10:31he never wants to see
10:32another effing middle-class
10:34wanker on the show
10:35ever again.
10:36What are they doing?
10:38Parents versus kids
10:39at physical
10:41and mental
10:42agility games.
10:43That's the worst idea
10:44I've ever heard.
10:45It's new ideas.
10:46A millionaire won't last forever.
10:48We're on the front page
10:49of every newspaper
10:50in the world, mate.
10:52An army major,
10:53his wife,
10:53and a college lecturer
10:54have gone on trial
10:55and...
10:55There was laughter
10:56in court today
10:57at the start of the trial
10:57and a major major
10:58who's trying to cheat
10:59on who wants to be a millionaire.
11:01The production staff
11:02became suspicious
11:03after they noticed
11:04that his answers
11:05appeared to find
11:06a position
11:06of the test.
11:19Oh, hello.
11:20I believe we're charged
11:21with co-conspiracy.
11:24It's nice to meet you both.
11:26At last.
11:33Snacks, really?
11:34Yeah, why not?
11:36God, I love a good
11:37ITV courtroom drama.
11:39Where's Paul?
11:41So, 19 cops
11:43that coincide with the major
11:44changing his mind
11:46or deciding to answer
11:47or picked up by your mics
11:49and coming from where?
11:51Uh, they were coming
11:52from the fastest finger seats.
11:54Where Mr. Whittaker sat,
11:56the man with whom
11:57Diana Ingram spoke to
11:58the previous evening.
11:59Paying particular attention now
12:00to cough number 14, then.
12:03Who had a hit UK album
12:04with Born to Do It
12:05released in 2000, Coldplay?
12:08Top loader.
12:08A1, Craig David.
12:10In case you don't know,
12:11I certainly didn't.
12:12The answer's Craig David.
12:14Ingram.
12:15I think it's A1.
12:17But it could be top loader,
12:18which is also something to do
12:20with a barrel on a rifle.
12:23I've never heard
12:25of Craig David.
12:27And take us through
12:29what we can see here.
12:31Yeah, she appears
12:32to be looking over
12:33to the fastest finger first seat
12:35where Mr. Whittaker is.
12:37Diana Ingram,
12:40here,
12:40looking over at
12:41Tequin Whittaker,
12:42here.
12:45Any coughing
12:46at this point?
12:48No, that's part
12:50of the problem.
12:51See, Mr. Whittaker,
12:52or whoever
12:53has been coughing,
12:55isn't coughing
12:55at this point.
12:56Perhaps,
12:57given pop culture
12:58tends not to be
12:59as strongest of category
13:00for these kinds
13:02of people,
13:04maybe he doesn't
13:05know the answer.
13:06Meanwhile,
13:07Ingram is all set
13:08to plump
13:09for the wrong answer.
13:10I think I'm going
13:11to go with A1.
13:13And pause.
13:14Mrs. Ingram
13:15looks up
13:16in that direction
13:17several times
13:18at this point.
13:19What's up there?
13:20So we have
13:21these monitors
13:22facing the audience
13:23so they can watch
13:24what the camera
13:25is recording.
13:25Which means,
13:26presumably,
13:27those monitors
13:28occasionally display
13:29Mrs. Ingram
13:30being filmed.
13:31She can see
13:32when she herself
13:32is on camera.
13:33Yes,
13:34although that's
13:35only when the mixer
13:35cuts to her
13:36for the monitors.
13:37She's always being filmed.
13:39Hence why we have
13:40this footage of her.
13:41Ah,
13:41so,
13:42would someone
13:42not owe favour
13:43with the inner workings
13:44of television editing
13:45perhaps assume
13:46that when they are
13:47not on the monitors
13:48above them
13:49they're not being filmed?
13:50After all,
13:51here we have
13:51Diana Ingram,
13:52her husband hovering
13:53over the wrong answer,
13:54looking over at
13:55Tequin Whittock,
13:56who isn't coughing
13:57on the correct answer,
13:58checking the monitors
14:00to see if she is being filmed
14:01before this happens.
14:07Now,
14:08is this the first
14:09and only time
14:10that Diana Ingram coughed?
14:12Yes.
14:12At a moment
14:13when the phantom
14:14coffer is no longer
14:15helping.
14:16Regardless,
14:17moments later,
14:18the major
14:19reverses his position.
14:21You know,
14:22when I'm at home
14:23and I'm practising,
14:24you know,
14:25I guess,
14:25I guess,
14:26I guess wrong
14:2780% of the time.
14:29So,
14:31I think I'm going
14:32to go with Craig David.
14:35And if that wasn't
14:36exactly subtle,
14:37watch this.
14:38the piece de resistance
14:39for £500,000,
14:43Baron Haussmann
14:44is best known
14:45for his planning
14:45of which city?
14:48I think it's Berlin.
14:50Oh!
14:51Oh!
14:53Your interpretation
14:54of that,
14:55Mr Duff?
14:56There is no interpretation.
14:58Someone says no
14:59on the wrong answer.
15:01Mrs Woodley
15:02will now ask you
15:03some questions
15:04for the defence.
15:04Hello, Kevin.
15:06Hi.
15:07That tape
15:08we were watching,
15:09it was given
15:10the name
15:11Tape G.
15:13So, presumably,
15:14there were
15:14other tapes,
15:15earlier tapes.
15:17A,
15:17B,
15:18C,
15:19D,
15:20E,
15:20F.
15:21Er, yeah,
15:22sure,
15:22as we kept finding
15:23new evidence
15:24with the police.
15:25So, help us understand
15:26what we were watching.
15:30That
15:31was edited together
15:32by yourself,
15:33the plaintiffs,
15:35sell it all.
15:36Not the police.
15:37Not an independent body.
15:40Well,
15:41we've had to find a way
15:42to show the police
15:43and then you
15:44what,
15:45you know,
15:46what happened.
15:47Thank you,
15:48Mr Duff.
15:50Mr Whitehurst,
15:51you were a
15:52fastest-finger-first
15:53contestant
15:53on the major show,
15:55and yet,
15:55you were the only one
15:56who didn't stand
15:56to applaud
15:57when he won.
15:58Why?
15:59I'd spotted
16:00what was going on.
16:01I knew
16:02all of the answers,
16:03you see.
16:04And on the millionaire
16:06question,
16:06and as soon as
16:07Ingram said
16:08Google,
16:09I knew it was
16:10Google.
16:11I had Wittock
16:11in my eye
16:12and I said,
16:13don't you dare.
16:14And he did.
16:16He coughed.
16:18Plain as day.
16:19No question.
16:22Mr Whitehurst,
16:23you didn't formally
16:25raise your suspicions
16:26until after
16:27you'd read the story
16:28in the press.
16:29And then,
16:29when you wrote
16:30to the producers
16:30but you received
16:31no reply,
16:32you went to the press
16:33yourself.
16:33I thought it
16:35important
16:36if I was the only one
16:37who'd spotted
16:38Mr Witter coughing.
16:39You said it was
16:40as plain as day,
16:41no question,
16:43but in your
16:44original statement
16:45you said,
16:46it is possible
16:47that what I saw
16:48was just an amazing
16:49set of coincidences
16:50and that the possibility
16:51remains that I witnessed
16:53no criminal behaviour.
16:55What changed since then
16:57to make you so
16:58absolutely certain
16:59here today?
17:00Watch the tape.
17:01I'm sat,
17:02not clapping.
17:03Why,
17:04if I didn't know?
17:05Because Fastest Fingers
17:06First contestants
17:07share a grievance,
17:09don't they?
17:09Quite often in the bar
17:10after the show
17:11about the behaviour
17:12of a certain kind
17:13of contestant
17:14in the chair?
17:14What do you mean,
17:15sorry?
17:16Talkers.
17:17People who take
17:17forever to answer
17:19a question,
17:20thereby denying you
17:21the chance of getting
17:22into the seat yourself.
17:23Might that not have
17:24created a certain
17:25kind of arms-folded
17:26annoyance?
17:27I object to that,
17:28Your Honour.
17:28Okey-dokey,
17:29withdrawn.
17:30No further questions.
17:31In the days leading
17:32up to the show,
17:33Mrs Ingram engaged
17:34in a peculiar pattern
17:35of phone calls
17:35to four particular
17:36numbers in rotation.
17:38It turns out
17:39these were phone pages.
17:41We consider this
17:42to be the way
17:42they may have tried
17:43to cheat on that
17:44first night.
17:45The pages could have
17:45been strapped to
17:46parts of the major's
17:47body.
17:48Buzz the left leg
17:49for A, the right leg
17:50for B, and so on.
17:51But Mrs Ingram
17:52couldn't be calling
17:52pages on the night.
17:53She was on camera
17:54in the audience.
17:55No, but there was
17:56someone else in the
17:57studio that night.
17:58So that...
17:59Excuse me.
18:01So what you're saying
18:02is that plan failed
18:04because Mr Pollock
18:06was unable to call
18:06on his phone
18:08explaining perhaps
18:09why the major
18:10didn't do well
18:10on night one
18:11and yet on night two
18:13he came back
18:13a genius
18:15the night Mr Whittock
18:16was there
18:17with his tickly cough.
18:21What's the normal
18:22procedure when
18:23investigating a more
18:24I suppose
18:26self-evident crime?
18:28Say where there's
18:29a body at the scene
18:30and a murder weapon
18:31present.
18:32Well, you establish
18:32the cause of death,
18:33bag up the weapon
18:34as evidence
18:34to test for fingerprints.
18:36So at what point
18:37here did you bag up
18:38the evidence?
18:39In this case
18:40a tape recording.
18:41Did you seize it
18:42straight away?
18:43Well, no.
18:44The show kept the tape
18:46because, well,
18:47to use your metaphor
18:48they needed to add
18:50the fingerprints to it.
18:51Not add them.
18:52I mean find them.
18:54The coughs.
18:54So you allowed
18:55the murder weapon
18:56to stay with those
18:57making the accusation
18:58of murder?
18:59I object.
18:59What is being suggested
19:00here?
19:01Some kind of conspiracy?
19:02No, not conspiracy.
19:03Merely that the
19:05sequence in which
19:06the evidence was
19:07gathered in this
19:07unusual case
19:08was not normal.
19:10Normally,
19:11when a crime
19:12is committed
19:12the evidence
19:13is gathered
19:14from the scene
19:14and the police
19:15investigate
19:16to find the culprits.
19:18But in this instance
19:19you began
19:19with the alleged culprits
19:21who everyone
19:22told you
19:23were oddballs
19:24based on a feeling
19:26and then worked
19:27backwards
19:28I must call
19:29In order to construct.
19:30Everyone who has a cough
19:32please go outside.
19:34DS Ferguson
19:35is that...
19:36Members of the jury
19:37please.
19:38If I may be allowed
19:40to finish.
19:43Order.
19:44Order.
19:45Or I shall...
19:48I shall have to
19:49suspend the session.
19:54Oh, I'm sorry.
19:55It's just the pantomime
19:57of it all.
19:58I'm embarrassed
19:59sometimes.
20:00I really am.
20:03Ignore it.
20:04We do.
20:06It's not going
20:07that well,
20:08is it?
20:09No, it's alright.
20:11Game of two halves.
20:12Wait till we get
20:13a chance to fight back.
20:14People are laughing at us.
20:15I really don't know
20:16what's worse
20:16than people thinking
20:17whether we're criminals
20:17or idiots.
20:18There are worse things
20:19to be accused of.
20:22Well, let me ask you
20:22this then.
20:24Why haven't you
20:24mentioned that?
20:25Hmm?
20:27Your sodding badge.
20:28I think I haven't
20:29noticed.
20:30We've got the press
20:31screaming questions
20:32at you day in,
20:33day out,
20:33which our opponents
20:34are happily answering
20:36to guide the...
20:37I don't want to
20:38post about it, do I?
20:39I don't...
20:39It's there for all to see.
20:40I did it for my...
20:41for myself.
20:42As much as anything else.
20:45Yes, alright.
20:47Hilarious.
20:48Coughing.
20:49You get the Nobel Prize
20:51for comedy.
20:54I don't actually think
20:55there is a Nobel Prize
20:56for comedy.
20:57Yes, thank you.
20:59Alright.
21:06Mummy and Daddy
21:07finished early today,
21:09so we decided
21:10we'd pick you up
21:11instead of Grandad.
21:11That's nice, isn't it?
21:18We thought maybe
21:19we'd have pizzas
21:20tonight.
21:21Yum!
21:22Ah!
21:25Who are they?
21:26Are they friends of yours?
21:27Not anymore.
21:32It's going to be alright.
21:34I promise.
21:36Some silly people
21:38just think Mummy and Daddy
21:39did that silly thing,
21:40that's all.
21:41Well, did you?
21:49We might need to consider
21:51taking them out of school
21:52for a bit, maybe.
21:53I don't know.
21:56Then again,
21:57if the worst happens,
22:00we might need to make plans
22:04for prison
22:04when we need to think.
22:09Adrian.
22:10Oh, leave it.
22:10Please.
22:13Hello?
22:14Hey, hi.
22:15You okay?
22:16I just wanted to say
22:17hello, really.
22:18I'm fine.
22:19Can I call you?
22:20Just a quick thing,
22:21really,
22:22because the publishers
22:23have been on me,
22:23you know,
22:24again.
22:25And, look,
22:27if you do get off,
22:28and you never know,
22:29then...
22:29I'm in court
22:30every day, Adrian.
22:31I can't think about the book.
22:33Okay, okay, okay.
22:34I know.
22:34I'm sorry.
22:35I'm sorry.
22:35I know.
22:36Let's just talk tomorrow.
22:37No, just stop.
22:39Just stop.
22:40I just need some space,
22:41please.
22:42Enough.
22:49Um, can I...
22:50Can I bring you
22:51a cup of tea?
22:55I'm sorry.
22:58I'm so sorry, Charles.
22:59No.
23:00No, no, no.
23:02No, don't do that.
23:03Don't do that.
23:04Thanks, but no.
23:06It's all right.
23:08It's both of us
23:09in this together.
23:10Oh, that stupid show.
23:17Are we going to go to jail?
23:19No.
23:20I don't know.
23:23But I know
23:24that I love you.
23:26No, no asking
23:27the audience
23:27or planning a friend.
23:29I love you.
23:30I love you.
23:32I love you.
23:45Sarah!
23:46Sarah!
23:47Sarah!
23:55I swear by almighty God
23:57that the evidence
23:58I shall give
23:58shall be the truth,
23:59the whole truth
24:00and nothing but the truth.
24:03Mr. Tarrant,
24:04a pleasure
24:05to have you here today.
24:06Well, it's a pleasure.
24:07Well, it's not a pleasure.
24:09How would you rate
24:10the Majors' performance
24:11on that first night?
24:12Has anyone done worse?
24:14Has anyone, say,
24:15got the first question wrong?
24:16Er, no, not here.
24:18I think someone did once
24:19in America.
24:22And when you saw
24:23the tapes yourself,
24:24you began to think
24:25that something was amiss?
24:27If pushed, sure.
24:29Is that your final answer?
24:36Mr. Tarrant,
24:38what informational
24:39guidance do you get
24:40when you're in the chair?
24:41Do you wear an earpiece?
24:44Are you hooked up
24:45to the show relay?
24:46Er, no, no.
24:47No earpiece.
24:47I find them really annoying.
24:49Er, so I'm out there
24:50completely alone.
24:51Er, just me
24:52and the contestant.
24:53And I don't know
24:54the questions in advance.
24:55No one does.
24:56They're selected
24:57by a computer
24:58which is secured
24:58in a sealed room
24:59where only two senior producers
25:01are allowed access
25:02at any one time.
25:03For each contestant,
25:04it generates a random stack
25:05of 15 questions
25:07that can then be locked.
25:08They're not written on cards
25:09that can be lost or stolen.
25:11And, er,
25:12I don't know the answers
25:13till the contestant says
25:15final answer
25:15and my screen locks
25:17so I can't give away
25:18any hints
25:19or accidental signs.
25:21Right, so just for the record,
25:23on the night,
25:25did you hear any suspicious
25:26coughing behind Mr. Ingram?
25:31No.
25:32I didn't.
25:33Did you notice
25:34anything suspicious at all?
25:37No.
25:39Thank you, Mr. Tarrant.
25:46Tarrant was unaware
25:47of strategic coughing
25:48and quiz.
25:50Well, that's not very helpful,
25:51is it?
25:52Well, it's Chris.
25:52He'll see what he likes.
25:54Well, what would you know, anyway?
25:55You've not even been at the trial.
25:56I don't know why.
25:57Your mind is always there.
25:59Well, to be honest,
26:00the whole thing
26:01is one long,
26:02pretty bloody stressful
26:03pain in the arse.
26:04I just want it done.
26:06What do you think
26:06about a documentary
26:07once the trial is over?
26:09Oh, Jesus.
26:12Looks like I don't have a choice.
26:17Okay, and so, um,
26:20we've got a new school
26:21for a bit.
26:23Might need to take
26:24the pressure off.
26:25Oh, what's that?
26:28Okay, girls,
26:29upstairs now.
26:42Buffy.
26:42Oh, my God.
26:45You'll be okay.
26:47What happened?
26:48I think somebody here
26:49accidentally
26:51caught him
26:52at the front of the house
26:52with a pellet gun
26:53or an air rifle
26:54accidentally.
27:17I'm not coughing.
27:18I'm a millionaire.
27:19I think he's coughing.
27:22Oh, yeah, very good.
27:23Very funny.
27:24Very funny.
27:25All right.
27:25All right, all right.
27:26Oi!
27:28Oi!
27:30Yeah!
27:31Oh, damn!
27:31Hey, hold on.
27:32Make a habit of spitting on people.
27:33Back off as well.
27:34Oi!
27:35You just spout in my face!
27:36Hey, man!
27:38Seen it before.
27:40They go after military men.
27:42It's good sport.
27:43Even when we're engaged
27:44in the most heavens,
27:47difficult operations
27:48in a generation.
27:49than this chap.
27:51Information Minister of Iraq
27:53becoming an actual TV star,
27:56making the most outrageous
27:57assertions about
27:58there being no Allied tanks
28:00outside Baghdad at all.
28:02Say something loud enough,
28:04long enough,
28:05maybe it becomes
28:06de facto true.
28:08Yeah, weapons of mass destruction.
28:10Hidden in the desert.
28:11Yes, all right, Charles.
28:12Come along.
28:13The thinking is,
28:14maybe take some time off.
28:17Try to keep your head down,
28:18you know?
28:19Yes?
28:20Yes.
28:21Yeah.
28:23Yes, of course.
28:24Yeah.
28:24Very, um,
28:26very sensible.
28:35Sorry.
28:35It's, uh, sorry.
28:36No, no, no, no, it's all right.
28:38You're,
28:39you're all right.
28:44Never fear.
28:45It's our turn now.
28:48Come on.
28:48It's time to turn this thing around.
28:54Professor Alan Maurice,
28:56specialist in respiratory medicine.
28:58An expert on coughing, then.
29:00You've examined Mr. Whitter?
29:01Yes.
29:02He suffers from free conditions
29:04that cause chronic coughing.
29:06He tested positive
29:07for perennial rhinitis,
29:09hay fever,
29:10and cough variant asthma.
29:12So, for the avoidance of doubt,
29:14Mr. Whittock has a cough.
29:15Yes, and one
29:16that would be hard to hide
29:18in a hot and dry studio.
29:20So, hang on.
29:22Mr. Whittock is basically
29:23unable to control his cough.
29:25I mean, that's sort of
29:26extraordinary, isn't it?
29:27That the Ingrams
29:28should choose
29:28as a candidate
29:29to implement
29:30an intricate plan
29:31of coughing discreetly
29:33but precisely
29:33at specific times
29:35and places
29:35a man with
29:37an uncontrollable cough?
29:38Yes, I suppose
29:39it's not ideal.
29:40Thank you,
29:41Professor Maurice.
29:42No questions,
29:43Your Honour.
29:44Mr. Whittock,
29:45Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
29:47Wasn't the first show
29:48you appeared on,
29:48was it?
29:49Um, no.
29:50I, I've been on,
29:51let me see,
29:5215 to 1
29:53Sale of the Century.
29:54And is it fair to say
29:56you've never done
29:56astronomically well?
29:58I do, okay.
29:59What's the most
30:00you've ever won?
30:01Oh, I did win a doggy bed
30:02made of silk
30:03on Brain of Britain.
30:05And on who
30:05wants to be a millionaire?
30:08One thousand.
30:09Were you part of
30:10what might be loosely
30:11termed this quiz community?
30:14I enjoyed
30:15having a connection
30:16to people of a
30:17shared interest,
30:18yes.
30:20Now, you didn't have
30:21the easiest of upbringings,
30:23did you?
30:24You were born,
30:25in a psychiatric hospital
30:27where your mother
30:29was a patient,
30:30raised in foster homes,
30:32and yet despite
30:33all that,
30:34you became a teacher.
30:36And you have a family
30:37of your own now, too.
30:38Yes, yes.
30:40Would you risk
30:41all that?
30:42Are you the third
30:43mastermind in a conspiracy
30:45to steal a million pounds,
30:47Mr. Whittock?
30:48I would never do
30:48anything like that.
30:50I would never cheat.
30:52I would never cheat.
30:55I would never cheat.
30:56I would never cheat.
30:56All right.
31:29It's you.
31:34You tricked me.
31:35No. It's not what you think.
31:38I just wanted to meet, all right?
31:40It's not illegal, what we do.
31:41I know.
31:41Those were your weaknesses, your vulnerabilities.
31:44I know.
31:44That you left in your own system.
31:46I'm not trying to trap you.
31:50Please come and have a drink.
31:51I tip my heart to you, you beaters.
31:54I just, I want to know how far you got.
31:58Well, if there's any consolation,
32:00we've started to move on to other shows,
32:02other prizes now,
32:03and I'm thinking of retiring.
32:07You know, putting a time limit on answering the callbacks.
32:11That was...
32:13well done.
32:14That really knocked us for six.
32:17Fair play.
32:18We realised you were pulling in new Closest 2 questions
32:20from the National Statistics Database,
32:22so we did too.
32:23Populations, travel, economic forecasts,
32:26births, deaths and marriages.
32:27And if I only had seven seconds now
32:29to find the answer for my client,
32:31then, well, I just had to train.
32:35Two months of my life, I didn't leave the house.
32:38And from now on,
32:39if a client would get a call back at home,
32:41they'd just hold up the mobile so I could hear.
32:46And we did it.
32:48I got there.
32:50Seven seconds,
32:50and I could find the right fact
32:52in the right place
32:53and relay it back to them over the phone.
32:58how many people did you get into my chair?
33:02How many people did you get into my chair?
33:02I'd say...
33:03I'd say...
33:04Hundreds.
33:10Hundreds.
33:11Hundreds.
33:20If you really want to know
33:21how well we penetrated your fortress,
33:24I worked out how much prize money
33:26you'd given away throughout the run of the show
33:27and how much of that was won by our organisation.
33:32It's at least ten percent.
33:43One pound in every ten.
33:46Was it you?
33:47Sorry.
33:49Why are you retiring?
33:51Well, in truth, it's an expensive outfit to run.
33:53And it only returns value if you've got the clients.
33:55And those clients are drying up.
33:59People who devote themselves to the acquirement of knowledge.
34:02In order to cheat for money.
34:05You might think me a chancer, Mr. Smith.
34:08But I see which way the wind blows.
34:11Google.
34:14For the quizzing fraternity,
34:16we're the artisan weavers and Googles the power loom.
34:21Yeah, the bottom's falling out of the truth market, Mr. Smith.
34:25So I'm cashing in my shares and getting out.
34:29You might want to consider doing the same.
34:33Maybe I will,
34:34once these two particular clients of yours are in jail.
34:37Well, those two?
34:39They weren't clients.
34:41But, yes, there were hundreds of us, Paul.
34:44Everywhere, without you realising it.
34:46But Charles and Diana Ingram were never one of ours.
34:50No, they were never ours.
35:04Mrs. Ingram.
35:09What is it about quizzes that so captivated you?
35:13Captivates you still?
35:14I don't know.
35:17I suppose I like the idea, in a world of uncertainties,
35:20that something can be known.
35:25Calling the four pages over and over.
35:29Your explanation for that?
35:31Adrian, my brother.
35:33It was just our way of keeping in touch after he left,
35:35and I never knew which one had batteries,
35:37so I'd always call all four.
35:39I wanted to let him know that Charles had got onto the show.
35:42And presumably that's why he turned up at the studio later that night.
35:45He was as big a fan as you.
35:47Bigger.
35:50The calls you tried to make outside on the first night?
35:53To our father.
35:54He's a bigger quiz fan than any of us,
35:56and he regretted so badly that he was too weak to come.
36:00Now, the quizzing community have their own theory about the show,
36:03haven't they?
36:03Oh, yes. Well, we think, thought,
36:06the producers were trying to keep people like us off the show,
36:09not entertaining enough.
36:11So we called it being chair-wise,
36:14performing for the camera so you might get easier questions,
36:17and they'd keep you there longer.
36:19I object to that, Your Honour.
36:21As Chris Tarrant himself explained,
36:23the questions are locked from the very beginning by computer.
36:26The point is, Your Honour,
36:28it doesn't matter if the theory is nonsense or not.
36:31My client thought it was true.
36:36Now, the prosecution have made a lot of your suspicious behaviour.
36:41Weren't you looking at the monitors to check if you were being watched?
36:44No.
36:45They deliberately seat you so you're facing the back of your partner,
36:48and so the monitor is the only way to see them.
36:51Oh, you wanted to look at the face of the man you love?
36:56Well, you helped him prepare, didn't you?
37:01Right, you need to trust me, okay?
37:03Yes, ma'am.
37:04You need to learn to be more entertaining.
37:07The question's becoming more populist, popular culture.
37:10Adrian says it's a form of censorship to get people like you off quicker,
37:13which means we'll need to bone up on that too,
37:15your weakest areas, sports, soaps...
37:17Oh, hell spells.
37:18No, it's just training manoeuvres, getting fit.
37:21I believe in you.
37:23Miss Steps.
37:25No, it's Sugar Babes.
37:28No, no, no, it's Steps.
37:30Steps.
37:34Sugar Babes.
37:35Sugar Babes.
37:40Okay, so who's that?
37:41Mr Blobby.
37:44No, it's Charles.
37:44I don't know, I don't know.
37:46How am I supposed to know that?
37:47In Emmerdale, how did the following characters die?
37:51Alex Oakwell.
37:52I fell off a roof.
37:53Butch Dingle.
37:54I hit my bus.
37:55Rachel Hughes.
37:56She was pushed off a cliff.
37:58Elizabeth Pollard.
37:59A plane landed on top of her.
38:00Yes.
38:01I know who you are, the next time I'll see her.
38:04I'm going to turn your backside.
38:06Don't tell me, don't tell me.
38:09Um...
38:10In song, Seven Days, what did Craig David do on Tuesday?
38:15He took her for a drink.
38:16And on Wednesday?
38:17I believe they're making love by then, and they continue to do so throughout Thursday and Friday as well.
38:23And then on Sunday?
38:24They just chilled.
38:26Right.
38:33There may be trouble ahead, but while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance...
38:43Let's face the music and dance!
38:51I don't care.
38:52Who wants to be a millionaire?
38:54I don't.
38:56With lashes and funkies everywhere?
38:59I don't.
39:00Who wants the bother of a country estate?
39:04A country estate is something I hate.
39:09Who wants to wallow in champagne?
39:14Who wants a supersonic plane?
39:18Who wants a Marvel swimming pool, too?
39:22And I don't, cause all I want is you.
39:29If that's true, all this training, why didn't it work?
39:35You forgot who Craig David was.
39:40I guess it just wouldn't go in.
39:44Everyone always said, why did you struggle on the easy questions
39:48and sail through the hard ones?
39:50Well, the easy ones were hard to me,
39:54and the hard ones, well, they just got easier.
39:58But on Craig David, why?
40:03Why did you change your answer from A1?
40:05Well, you can hear it. Listen. You can hear the gasp.
40:09I think I'm gonna go with A1.
40:12One of Diana's best tips. Always listen to the audience.
40:17If you're found guilty, you'll be decommissioned from the army.
40:21Face certain bankruptcy, possible prison sentence.
40:25People have attacked your house, slashed your tires, shot your dog,
40:31and cough, cough, cough everywhere you go.
40:34Why did you put yourself through all of that for a game?
40:38I didn't. Because I didn't cheat.
40:47So what did you do?
40:50I just tried to be entertaining.
40:57And to get the questions right.
40:59And to do my wife proud.
41:21Take the book in your left hand and read it out from the car, please.
41:24I swear by almighty God.
41:27Mr. Smith, thank you for joining us today.
41:32Is it fair to say you took a while to be convinced yourself about this coughing theory?
41:37Yes, I wanted to give the Major the benefit of the doubt.
41:41But as soon as you begin watching and listening...
41:44Yeah, well, once you're told there are coughs, it's hard to unhear them.
41:47So these are 19 coughs that you isolated that occurred on the correct answers.
41:52Do you know how many there were in total that night?
41:58A hundred and ninety-two.
42:00There were 192 coughs picked up on that recording from all over the place.
42:07Only they didn't fit the narrative, so they were left out.
42:12You left them out of the famous Tape G.
42:16It's just edited and re-edited like a memory. It's constantly changing.
42:22We have to present to you what happened somehow in some form.
42:26Yes, but this is your version of what happened.
42:29The jury are looking where you want them to look.
42:32The moment, for instance, when...
42:35Mrs. Ingram's coughing.
42:37Now, that's not an accident that that's picked up on the master tape.
42:41That is a choice.
42:42It is a creative choice made by those who are editing it.
42:47The volume of the 19 is raised, as you've acknowledged.
42:51But if I wanted the jury to hear them at their original volume,
42:55well, I couldn't, could I?
42:58Because your version is now the only version of events.
43:01Well, they had to be isolated in the way that the Major would have heard them
43:05if he was listening out for them to replicate the experience.
43:08Well, why don't you suspect Judith Keppel, the first millionaire of cheating?
43:12Why would I?
43:13Good question.
43:16I will now play the Judith Keppel tape.
43:22If you wouldn't mind turning to the television.
43:26For £2,000, between Keppel choosing the right answers
43:30and committing to the final answer...
43:33His chaps or his legs.
43:34I want to put his chaps on his legs.
43:35To stop his legs getting rubbed by the horse.
43:38A cough.
43:40Similarly on the £4,000 question.
43:42I think it's Aquarius.
43:45What are you? What's your star sign?
43:46Cough.
43:47Again, a cough on the £8,000 question and the £64,000 question
43:52and on the £500,000 and on the million.
43:55Now, I don't think she cheated, you don't.
43:57Why do you think the Major cheated?
43:58I know this game.
44:01And I know how normal people play it.
44:04And the Major did not play it normally.
44:07I could tell immediately.
44:09Oh, really?
44:10What time did you arrive at the studio that night?
44:13It was, um...
44:16Well, OK, it was at the very end.
44:18I didn't actually see him play live.
44:19Oh, so you arrived late at the studio.
44:21You were told that something was wrong
44:23and you have pursued this doggedly ever since.
44:25That's unfair.
44:28Suspicions were raised.
44:29I called the police and handed it over to them.
44:31They investigated and they decided to charge them.
44:35The jury will find them innocent or guilty.
44:38That's up to them.
44:39It's not personal.
44:40Well, of course.
44:42Of course.
44:43It's personal.
44:45This was my show.
44:48It was my life.
44:50And believe it or not, it mattered to me.
44:53The people who enjoyed it.
44:57And the people trying to ruin it.
44:59I see.
45:01Could you explain, then, the one gaping hole in this whole theory?
45:06Could you explain the 18 minutes between the Craig David question
45:10and the Baron Housman question when there are no significant coughs?
45:15Well, because Mr. Whittock didn't need to cough on those other questions.
45:18Why not?
45:21Well, because the Major knew the answer to those questions.
45:24Oh, I see.
45:26Oh, well, then my final, final question, and this is just a tiny little thing.
45:29How did Tequin Whittock know that Charles Ingram, a man he'd never met,
45:34never communicated with, so how did he know that Charles knew the answers
45:38and that he didn't need to cough?
45:42I don't know.
45:50But I know that he cheated.
45:54And I'm sorry for everything they've gone through.
45:56Nobody wanted that.
45:58But whether it's coughing or blinking or pagers, I know it.
46:03I know it.
46:05He came on my show and he cheated.
46:10Have you ever heard of this little thing called confirmation bias?
46:15When an assumption sinks into the brain,
46:17it rearranges and reorganises all facts to support the assumption.
46:25Like on the show relay,
46:27people suspicious of a man from a strange family talking together.
46:32Something's weird.
46:33On a loop.
46:35He's a real dodgy one.
46:36Yeah, I think this guy's cheating as well.
46:38Now, might that not have created a shared fiction,
46:42which then everyone in the studio subconsciously began to distort reality
46:48to match?
46:51Isn't it strange that the only person not hooked up onto the loop,
46:56Chris Tarrant, is the only person not to have suspected a thing?
47:02We're all guilty of it.
47:04We do it every day of our lives.
47:06We adjust the world and all the information in order to navigate our way through.
47:13Take Mr. Wittock's alleged cough.
47:16No, for example.
47:18Which, incidentally, could have come from any one of those contestants,
47:21any one of those microphones.
47:23It's just someone on hearing the major hovering over a wrong answer,
47:29muttering quite naturally to themselves.
47:32No.
47:33Raised to such a volume on the master tape,
47:37it made you all guffaw at how obvious it was.
47:40Yet, on the night,
47:42the two people who sat either side of Mr. Wittock,
47:46they didn't hear him say it.
47:48The man who sat opposite the major, Chris Tarrant,
47:51he didn't hear him say it.
47:53The 250 people in the studio audience,
47:58none of them, none of them, when asked, heard him say it.
48:01Yet, miraculously, the major did.
48:04A man who couldn't possibly know the answers to those questions, right?
48:07Not a man with a degree in engineering who knows what a mega and a nano is.
48:11A man who is accepted into Mensa amongst the cleverest people in the country.
48:17Only is too modest to mention it to anyone,
48:20so pinned a badge on his lapel and hoped some of you might notice.
48:24We are told he is a man who got carried away by a game.
48:28Not a level-headed UN peacekeeper who rescued men from the battlefields of Bosnia.
48:33No, you're being asked to believe that he and his wife cooked up a conspiracy
48:38on a phone call which lasted eight minutes
48:40with a stranger they'd never met to cough their way to a million
48:43with an accomplice with a diagnosed cough.
48:47The fact is,
48:49it will be entirely impossible to categorically prove
48:52that Charles Ingram did not know the answers to those questions,
48:57because we cannot get inside here.
49:01his head.
49:03We just can't know.
49:06And therefore you cannot find him guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
49:47on the charge of procuring the execution of a valuable security by deception,
49:53do you find the defendant, Tequen Wittock, guilty or not guilty?
49:58ORIEN W TANNY
49:58Guilty.
50:00On the same charge, do you find the defendant, Diana Ingram, guilty or not guilty?
50:11Guilty.
50:13On the same charge, do you find the defendant, Charles Ingram, guilty or not guilty?
50:21Guilty.
50:23Guilty.
50:26This has been a most unusual and exceptional case.
50:29Frankly, one is hard-pressed to find anything about the circumstances of this case that is not exceptional.
50:35A crime of this nature normally carries with it the sentence of a significant number of years in prison.
50:42I sentence you to 18 months in prison, suspended for two years.
50:49So, that's it?
50:51We're free to go.
50:51If we're guilty, why don't we go to jail?
50:55Well, maybe these days justice just has to be seen to be done more than it actually has to be.
51:02Don't question it.
51:05Go and live your lives.
51:13I'll have to resign my commission.
51:15That's all right. It doesn't matter.
51:17It does matter. It matters to me. It's who I am.
51:19What did Chris Tarrant say at the end of the show?
51:23What a man.
51:25Quite an amazing man.
51:30You ready?
51:47You ready?
51:51I have nothing to say.
52:01And my newspaper is prepared to pay £675,000 for you to confess to us exclusively.
52:13I think, uh, just the photo. Thanks.
52:16Thanks, Mark.
52:19A Martin Bashir documentary on the coughing major
52:22received a record-breaking audience for ITV,
52:25the highest-rated factual program
52:27since the funeral of Princess Diana.
52:37Tony Blair is blaming...
52:38Come on. Time for bed.
52:44Yep. Up in a sec.
52:57So, come on, then.
52:59What's the answer?
53:02After all that,
53:05tell us
53:06it's killing me.
53:19The End
53:19The End
53:52It's the ITV News at 10.