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First broadcast 20th February 1978.
Hazell's previous life as a policeman comes back to haunt him when he is accused of taking bribes whilst still on the force.
Nicholas Ball - James Hazell
Roddy McMillan - 'Choc' Minty
James Faulkner - Gordon Gregory
Barbara Young - Dot Wilmington
Maggie Riley - Maureen
John Phillips - Det. Supt. Bull
Betty Hardy - Gladys Hazell
David Daker - Dave Ryman
Patricia Franklin - Bett Ryman
Suzan Farmer - Jackie
Belinda Sinclair - Judith
Colin Burns - Det. Sgt. Fenner
Rusty Goffe
Hazell's previous life as a policeman comes back to haunt him when he is accused of taking bribes whilst still on the force.
Nicholas Ball - James Hazell
Roddy McMillan - 'Choc' Minty
James Faulkner - Gordon Gregory
Barbara Young - Dot Wilmington
Maggie Riley - Maureen
John Phillips - Det. Supt. Bull
Betty Hardy - Gladys Hazell
David Daker - Dave Ryman
Patricia Franklin - Bett Ryman
Suzan Farmer - Jackie
Belinda Sinclair - Judith
Colin Burns - Det. Sgt. Fenner
Rusty Goffe
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00:12Piano music
00:40Nothing pleasures my old lady so much as a good funeral.
00:44It gives her the same warm glow that other people get
00:47putting their feet up around a big log fire
00:48and taking her first dip into a two-pound box of black magic.
00:52She was a good old soul.
00:54Old flurry.
00:55She was.
00:57Mind you, she had some funny habits.
01:00She did. She did.
01:02I wish you'd seen the wreath.
01:05They've done it lovely, I must say.
01:07Drift.
01:07£5.60.
01:09I'm in the wrong game.
01:10I hope you don't start pinching pennies when I go.
01:14Oh, Mum, don't start all that again, please.
01:16You've got years to go. You know you're effing.
01:18Don't you be too sure, my son.
01:21It's becoming an obsession.
01:23Her and her send-off.
01:25Let's be honest.
01:27The thought of immortality would kill her.
01:46You're all some talk of a chance, Plunk, as nature knows best, I always say.
01:51Is ever so good of you to drive me up here, son?
01:54They won't mind you taking time off, will they?
01:57Mum, look, I'll work for myself.
01:59All right?
02:01Here it comes.
02:02Here, turn that thing off.
02:05Show some respect to me if you don't feel it.
02:32Don't know why, but every time I see a coffin, I'll think of cigars.
02:35It's strange, isn't it?
02:37I always get the feeling that they should have a little sticker on the side.
02:40Warning by Our Majesty's government.
02:42Dying can damage your health.
02:44Are you sure?
02:45Yeah, sure, Mum.
02:47I'd rather wait outside.
02:49Funerals don't exactly do much for me.
02:54You're a funny boy, Jimmy.
02:57Yeah, Mum.
02:58A real funny boy.
03:00With real funny thoughts that sometimes wake me up with a sweat running.
03:04Thoughts like Keith O'Rourke being sprinkled under some tree in a place like this.
03:10And I'll...
03:11If I hadn't been just that little bit faster, it could have been me.
03:20Well, well.
03:22The galloping gawble.
03:24What you doing here, then?
03:25That, don't tell me.
03:27It's your wedding anniversary.
03:28So you just popped out and nick a few flowers.
03:30Looking for you, sonny Jim.
03:33You know, you surprise me, Choccy.
03:35You really do.
03:37Two nights ago, someone turned over a Chinese takeaway on your old manor.
03:41You might have read about it.
03:43I know.
03:45Fascinating, isn't it?
03:46That's a Chinese takeaway, pornographic bookshop, and an all-night laundrette, all in the same week.
03:51Now, someone, somewhere, is striking at the very roots of our society.
03:55And all you can do is to bother decent, upstanding tax evaders like me.
03:59Well, I'll tell you, I'm not in the mood.
04:03I'm trying to do you a favour.
04:04Don't make it hard for me.
04:06Oh, yeah?
04:07Yeah.
04:09Maybe I'm getting soft.
04:10Yeah, terrific.
04:14Where'd you know I was here?
04:16Have you been keeping tabs on me?
04:19Have you?
04:21You're in trouble, Hizzle.
04:23You reckon?
04:24I know it.
04:25Sonny Jim.
04:26So why aren't you rubbing your little pink hands together?
04:28What is it with you and me?
04:29Eh, big mouth?
04:30That's more like it.
04:31Now we're having a conversation.
04:33I'll tell you again.
04:35I'm trying to do you a favour.
04:38Not because it gives me any pleasure, but because there are certain parties I like even less than I like
04:43you.
04:44Do you understand me?
04:48Will he be here this afternoon?
04:51Depends on the pondus.
04:53I'll be in touch.
04:54Why?
04:57Well, if you'd kept your mouth shut, you'd have found out, wouldn't you, Sonny Jim?
05:02Well, now, you'll have to wait.
05:13Maybe old Uncle Chalk was just winding me up.
05:15On the other hand, there was something about him.
05:20Something about his attitude.
05:23Except these little bells ringing.
05:26This nasty feeling that maybe he was trying to do me a favour.
05:30And somehow, I played it all wrong.
05:41Oh, you're back.
05:43For one wonderful moment, I thought they were going to keep you.
05:46You should have come.
05:47A crematorium can be very educational.
05:49How about a practical demonstration?
06:03Extension 2339, please, with that.
06:07Yeah.
06:09Is Minty there?
06:10Tell him, Hazel.
06:15Hazel.
06:17James W. Hazel.
06:22Well, when do you expect him in?
06:27Cheers.
06:35I spent the afternoon doing a spot of debt collecting for one of Gregory's public school mafiosos.
06:40But that phone call kept coming back like a pickled walnut.
06:45Cop was a ferret and twice as nosy.
06:47You phone your man and he's not there.
06:50And the least you get is,
06:51Can I help you, sir?
06:52Would you like to leave a message?
06:54What you don't get is,
06:56He's not in.
06:57And we're not sure when he's coming in.
07:01And Minty was there.
07:03And knew it.
07:06So what's his game all of a sudden?
07:28Must be quite a strain.
07:30Cleaning up the underworld and doing the housework.
07:32It's confusing more than anything.
07:34Went and slapped a writ on a fellow the other day.
07:36Slapped a floor cloth on him instead.
07:38Yeah, that's it.
07:39Go on, sit yourself down.
07:40Give your piles a break.
07:41You don't mind if I get on with the ironing, do you?
07:44You should get yourself a wee treasure.
07:46I had one.
07:47Now she's got the wee house and I've got the wee ironing board.
07:51So, what's it all about?
07:53A couple of weeks ago, I met Kenny Buns.
07:56Oh, by that time.
07:57What was he up to?
07:58City bank.
07:59Bank the rights.
08:00Conspiracy.
08:02Will he make it stick?
08:03We're better.
08:04Bound a penny, he'll say you've fitted him up.
08:06Oh, he'll try.
08:08Who's his brief?
08:09Still Roberts?
08:09Yeah, still Roberts.
08:11Word on, I wish you luck, Chucky.
08:13Yeah, friend Kenny's been at it for too long.
08:15He should have been way long ago.
08:16That's why I'm here, Hazel.
08:17You're right.
08:19Don't get you.
08:21They tried to buy me...
08:23Well...
08:23When, don't they?
08:24Five grand.
08:26Laid out your spat in his eye.
08:27I've never taken a penny and you know it.
08:29Oh, I know it.
08:30He didn't.
08:35Unfortunately, that's not where it stopped.
08:40What he's saying is that this is not the first time he's offered.
08:45So?
08:45So.
08:46Last time the offer was taken.
08:49Will I make myself clear?
08:52Twist me another.
08:53What he's saying is six grand split two ways.
08:57And another.
08:58You and your old pal Dave Ryman.
09:01D.C. Ryman as was.
09:02Detective Sergeant Ryman as he now is.
09:05And you believed him?
09:07Find is, he's making a lot of noise.
09:09They all make a lot of noise.
09:10I mean, he can't fix you.
09:11He's going to put some other mug through the hoop.
09:14Come on, Chucky.
09:15There isn't a cop in the Met that hasn't got a file on allegations that thick.
09:21It's official.
09:22It's being investigated.
09:25Rubber Hill Brigade.
09:27Last week.
09:30When are we supposed to have taken this money?
09:32Three months before you left the force.
09:34Well, and 18 months later he decides to complain about it?
09:36Why should he complain before?
09:39Yeah.
09:42I guess we're talking about the bank job.
09:44It wasn't.
09:45Dave and I had him on target, but the job went cold.
09:47It never got done.
09:50I suppose he's saying that we chipped him off and for that we got the money.
09:53That's about the size of it.
09:55Well, thanks, Jock.
09:57See now why it wasn't exactly easy for you.
09:59But you know what it's like once A-10 starts digging.
10:02Who's the investigating officer?
10:04Detective Superintendent Bull.
10:05Ted Bull?
10:07Used to be my governor.
10:08Now he's trying to nick me.
10:10You phoned me this afternoon.
10:12Yeah.
10:12No more phone calls.
10:15When I haven't spoken to you.
10:17Does Dave know they're at it?
10:19Not yet.
10:20Not officially.
10:21But he knows.
10:23Thanks, Jock.
10:24Just don't know what to expect when they come and knock him.
10:26Look, I want him.
10:27I want Burns.
10:29It's got to be tight.
10:31No mistakes.
10:32Not this time.
10:35There was me thinking it was the old pal's act.
10:38Don't make waves.
10:40Just sit tight.
10:47Sit tight.
10:49Yeah.
10:53Terrific.
10:56What will you do?
10:59I don't know.
11:01Well, surely if this Burke's lying.
11:02You know, I'm not so much worried, Doc.
11:04It's sick.
11:05You know what I mean?
11:06Thought of those bloody hands.
11:07Digging away at what I'm supposed to have done.
11:09While I sit here like a banana.
11:13I didn't mean to involve you.
11:14It's just that...
11:15Well, it might have repercussions.
11:17You know, the flat foot on the stairs, etc, etc.
11:20You say you know the character in charge of the investigation?
11:23Yeah.
11:24Ted Bull.
11:25He's a good copper.
11:26Well, if he knows you.
11:28That won't cut any ice.
11:29He's got a job to do.
11:30Believe me, he's going to do it.
11:32Well.
11:34If there's anything I can do.
11:37Thanks, Dad.
11:47Never was any good at sitting still.
11:50Nothing else for it, but...
11:51Take the bull by the horns.
12:00Hello, Mr Bull.
12:03Good old.
12:05Feelin' empire.
12:06Must be Thursday.
12:07But no potatoes.
12:09You'll notice.
12:11On your own, are you, Jimmy?
12:13Yeah.
12:14I, uh...
12:14I just happen to be...
12:15Sit yourself down.
12:20Let me get you a drink.
12:21Uh...
12:22What was it?
12:22No.
12:23Not for me, thanks.
12:24Nothing at all?
12:25Nothing at all.
12:27Quite sure?
12:27Positive.
12:28Oh.
12:29You used to enjoy your drink, as I remember.
12:31Yeah, well, with, uh...
12:32Some people, it's potatoes.
12:33With others, it's the big A.
12:35You don't mind if I...
12:36Oh, please, please.
12:37Hmm.
12:39They, uh...
12:40Keeping you busy, aren't they?
12:42Ah.
12:42Rented myself an allotment last year.
12:45Haven't seen it for six months.
12:47You know the job, Jimmy.
12:50Doesn't change.
12:52Them and us, and good old Joe Public, trying to make up his mind which is which.
12:57Wouldn't you say to me?
12:59I don't know, Mr. Bull.
13:00I'm not in the job anymore.
13:02You read the papers.
13:04Only the Tory press.
13:05Once a copper, always a copper.
13:07And what does the Tory press say?
13:08What it always says.
13:09God's in his heaven.
13:10All's well at the yard.
13:12Getting better, Jimmy.
13:14Getting better.
13:16You, uh, not feeling collars anymore?
13:18Not if I can avoid it.
13:20How'd you like it?
13:22Glorified, Clark.
13:23About the boot allowance.
13:25Not with you, Jimmy.
13:27I mean, do you get extra for the rubber eels?
13:32Which rather brings us to the matter in hand, wouldn't you say?
13:36Would I?
13:37Maybe not.
13:38So I'll say it for you.
13:40Don't say anything you'd regret.
13:41There's a good fella.
13:43Word has it that you want to see me, Mr. Bull, Governor.
13:46Well, here I am.
13:47So say what you've got to say to me.
13:49We can all have a good laugh and forget about it.
13:52You always wear one for jumping the gun, Jimmy.
13:56I'll talk to you when I'm ready to talk to you.
13:59When I'm ready.
14:23The one geezer I had to talk to was Dave Ryman.
14:26Detective Constable Ryman as was.
14:28Detective Sergeant Ryman and still climbing as he is now.
14:33How anyone could accuse Dave Ryman of taking a bribe is almost laughable.
14:37He loves a job so much he has trouble taking a wage.
14:40A couple of discreet phone calls and I found out where he was now living.
14:44It didn't need a discreet anything to tell me there wouldn't be no welcome on the Met.
15:04How long you been here, then?
15:05Not long.
15:06A couple of months, maybe.
15:08Nice.
15:08I will be.
15:10Still a lot to do, of course.
15:12Curtains and so on.
15:14Bet's out now, as a matter of fact, choosing some curtain material.
15:17Still dash around with a tin of polish, does she?
15:20It's an aerosol nowadays.
15:23So then, Davey, my son.
15:25Looks like we've got some aggravation.
15:26You shouldn't have come here, Jim.
15:27I was hoping you would have contacted me.
15:29Don't be a mug. You know the score.
15:31Well, that's just it, Davey. I don't. Do you?
15:33All I've heard is the rumble. Nothing official.
15:36You know it's Ted Ball, don't you?
15:38How did you know?
15:39Oh, I've still got a few friends left, Dave.
15:40Not many, but a few.
15:47Listen, Jim, there's no point in us arguing.
15:50Who's arguing?
15:50They've got to go through the motions.
15:52You know that, and I know it.
15:54The whole thing's just a bag of wind puffed up by a smart villain with a greasy brief, right?
15:58Right.
15:58We're clean. All we've got to do is sit tight.
16:03Sitting tight ain't exactly my idea.
16:05Listen, you're out of the job, and I'm still in it.
16:08I've got a good career ahead of me, and I don't need the likes of you fouling it up, okay?
16:12No, that's more like it, Davey. You're beginning to get personal.
16:15You know, I was thinking I was talking with the wrong fella.
16:17All the time we were working together, you never stopped taking the mickey out of me, did you, Jim, eh?
16:22Strictly by the book, Ryman.
16:24The civil servant with the truncheon.
16:26You go to Bobo's, Davey boy, while Uncle Jim sorts out the nasty villains.
16:30Is that right?
16:31Yeah, that's right.
16:32And all the time I had to take that crap because you were the governor.
16:35Well, I've got news for you.
16:36Times have changed.
16:38Times, yeah.
16:39You, no.
16:40You're a ball number two, Davey boy.
16:48I don't think we've got any more to say, do you?
16:50No, I don't think so.
16:52Friend.
16:53That friend of yours, Jimmy, never was.
16:56Never want to be.
17:06Hazel, do you?
17:07No.
17:08Yeah, but it was on the doorstep.
17:09I couldn't give a hang of that.
17:10You should have shut the bloody stress.
17:14Right, Will.
17:17You must want your brains examined.
17:20Hello, Bette.
17:22They're coming here.
17:23It's all right, Bette.
17:25Do you think it's smart, do you?
17:26Do you think it's clever?
17:27I thought we should have a talk, Bette's all right.
17:29Oh, talk?
17:29Is that what you call it?
17:30I've made my position quite...
17:31Collusion, that's what they'll call it, won't they?
17:33Won't they?
17:34Look, if anything's said, I'll make it very clear.
17:35It was me who...
17:36You won't have to, mister.
17:37We'll make it more than clear, believe me.
17:39Now, you get on that phone and you tell them that he's been...
17:42You get on that phone!
17:43Leave it alone!
17:44Just...
17:44Just let me handle it my way.
17:46That's all I'm saying.
17:50Look, I didn't come here to cause trouble.
17:51I thought that maybe we'd...
17:56Anyway.
17:57I'm sorry.
17:59You know what they're saying, don't you?
18:02They're saying that David took a bribe of £3,000.
18:05Me too, Bette, remember?
18:07Oh, but there's a difference.
18:08You're not in the job anymore.
18:09So everyone keeps telling me.
18:10It goes down on his record.
18:11Yeah, but it's all part of the game.
18:12He knows it.
18:13Still, what do you care?
18:15What's an allegation of bribery to a man like you?
18:18You're the man who shot someone dead and managed to get away with it.
18:21This is nothing to you, is it?
18:23That's right, Bette.
18:25Life's just one big bowl of sodding cherries.
18:28You see, you've thrown it all away, haven't you?
18:31Job, marriage, the lot.
18:32Well, we haven't.
18:34We've worked at it.
18:35Something which you no doubt will find very funny.
18:38Well, as far as I'm concerned, you can go and smear yourself into oblivion.
18:42And when you've done it, they'll be queuing up to shout good riddance.
18:45Believe me!
18:53Dot tells me you may have a spot of trouble.
18:56As it happens, I seem to be public enemy number one.
19:00I just wanted to say that if you need my help, if there's anything I can do professionally, just, you
19:07know, let's give me a ring.
19:11Thanks, Gordon.
19:12I appreciate that.
19:15How worried are you?
19:18You minding your own business?
19:20And suddenly, out of the blue, you get accused of something that's supposed to have happened nearly two years ago.
19:25You don't know what they've got, you don't know anything.
19:27You just know that wheels are turning.
19:29Not a very pleasant feeling, Gordon, believe me.
19:32So, you start punting around, trying to find some answers.
19:35So far, it hasn't been a very pleasant experience.
19:38Hmm.
19:39They can be very thorough, these A-10 people.
19:42No stone unturned.
19:44Even the wife that you haven't lived with for over a year is likely to get a knock on the
19:47door.
19:48And I don't want.
19:51Well, as I said, if there's anything I can do.
19:54Thanks. I'll remember.
19:56There's nothing in this allegation, is there, James?
19:58I mean, nothing they can make a case of.
20:00Or not that I...
20:01No. Of course you don't.
20:30Hello, love.
20:43We won't exactly make his fortune, will we?
20:46Sorry.
20:48Oh.
20:50When's the baby, uh...
20:52Four months.
20:54Will you, uh, go on working?
20:57I'm not sure.
20:58Depends, really.
21:00Yeah.
21:01Still on police for you.
21:02I really am.
21:05It was, uh, good of you to...
21:07You know, I would have fought, but I very nearly did, actually.
21:11What is it, Jimmy?
21:12What's happened?
21:13Oh, it's, uh, nothing for you to worry about.
21:16Then why are you here?
21:18Well, I got a spot of aggravation from the old job.
21:19What sort of aggravation?
21:21Oh, it's a big bank of nothing, believe me.
21:23I mean, they're investigating something I was involved in two, three months before I...
21:27How do you mean, involved in?
21:29Some joker saying I took a bribe.
21:33Oh, my God.
21:35No, it's nothing, believe me.
21:36I mean, you remember how it was.
21:38Some villain gets pulled.
21:39It looks like it's going down for five years.
21:40What's he got to do with me?
21:42Well, I know these geezers.
21:44They tend.
21:44They're the ones who investigate this kind of crap.
21:46What about them?
21:47They investigate everything.
21:50Any jets we might have had, bank accounts, expensive holidays.
21:55Well, they might.
21:56Just might want to get on to you about it.
21:58And I thought that you ought to know.
21:59That's all.
22:00But we're not married, any more.
22:03No, but we were then.
22:04Were we?
22:09Yeah, well, if they do get on to you, then you can just tell them to go take a running
22:14jump.
22:14And if they push it, well...
22:18Well, it's up to you.
22:20I'm sorry, love.
22:21Truly, I am.
22:25It's all right.
22:27Thanks for telling me.
22:32Will you, uh, tell your husband that I've spoken to you?
22:35No.
22:37Yes, I do now.
22:38I'm not sure.
22:40He's away working, actually, otherwise I wouldn't come for him.
22:42Yeah, yeah, sure.
22:44Well, as I say, there's an even chance that he won't bother you anyway.
22:50And you're all right, are you?
22:53Fine.
22:54Baby, you know what I mean?
22:55I'm very happy.
23:00How are you?
23:02Oh, you know me.
23:03Laughing as well, kicking the teeth if you're not careful.
23:05I'm glad about the, uh...
23:08Yeah, well, everything's under control, ma'am.
23:10A little too late, but under control.
23:14Where are you living now?
23:16All right, let's flatten, pardon me.
23:19On my own.
23:20You can't stand being on your own.
23:22I can't find anyone who'll help me, can I?
23:26He's all right, isn't he?
23:27Your, your fellow?
23:29I think so.
23:32Yeah, well, I'm glad.
23:34I'm, I'm, I'm pleased for you.
23:35I really am.
23:36I wish you'd stop saying that.
23:38I'm beginning to feel like an invalid or something.
23:40I mean, what I mean is that I didn't exactly make it a bundle of fun the last couple of
23:43years.
23:44No, let me say it.
23:45I mean, cut down.
23:45I wanted to say it.
23:46Look, whatever happened, it was my fault.
23:48It's happened.
23:49It's done with it.
23:49It's finished.
23:50Yeah, I know, but I...
23:51It wasn't just you.
23:52There were two of us.
23:53No, no.
23:53There's no point in trying to allocate blame.
23:55It's happened.
23:57I'm sorry.
23:59But it's finished, isn't it?
24:01All I've...
24:02Isn't it?
24:08Yeah.
24:12Well, you didn't, uh, exactly waste much time finding a replacement.
24:17I mean, not that I'm exactly the...
24:20I must go.
24:23I'll give you a lift.
24:24No.
24:25Thanks, but you never.
24:27You're missing a treat.
24:28Got this rather smart new motor.
24:29As long as you got something.
24:32Hey, Jimmy.
24:40Yeah.
24:44When did you last see him?
24:46Oh, not since the divorce.
24:47Before that even.
24:49Are you, uh, sure I can't do anything?
24:51Positive.
24:52You know, you're not such a bad sort, Dot.
24:54For God's sake, don't start getting grateful.
24:56I don't think I could stand it.
24:58As a matter of fact, I'm beginning to think I love you.
25:01Where do you keep a sort?
25:02Uh, top lift.
25:05Yeah.
25:06She's a good girl, Jackie.
25:08He's a lucky fella.
25:09Peas or beans or both?
25:11Surprise me.
25:13You know there's nothing in this allegation.
25:15Why do you keep going around everywhere, sticking your nose in where it's not wanted?
25:19Look, I've said...
25:20You don't like sitting around like a bongar?
25:22No.
25:23Yes.
25:23I know you've said.
25:24The trouble with you, Dumbo, is it's the full frontal confrontation, or forget it.
25:28That's about the size of it.
25:30Why don't you stop kidding yourself?
25:32Don't suppose you've got any herbs, have you?
25:34I don't know.
25:35Killing myself about what?
25:37That hair shirt you're wearing, under that 100% lambswool.
25:40Oh, yeah.
25:41Hmm.
25:42You'll cling on to guilt like it was a teddy bear.
25:45You reckon?
25:46I reckon.
25:47This whole thing's just an excuse for you to go wandering off down memory lane.
25:52Well, that's fine.
25:54That's wonderful.
25:55That's what you want?
25:57You do that.
25:59But you make sure.
26:01You'd better make very sure, my little Dumbo, that you could afford the fare.
26:25Let's go.
26:28Superintendent.
26:29This is Detective Sergeant Fenner.
26:32Mr. Gregory.
26:32Oh.
26:33Well, then, gentlemen.
26:44James.
26:52Sir.
26:54An allegation has been made that, on about January the 6th of last year,
26:58you and another officer, Detective Sergeant David Ryman,
27:02received jointly the sum of £6,000.
27:04This money being given to you corruptly by Mr Kenneth Burns
27:07has an inducement for you not to charge him with conspiracy to rob the Moorgate branch
27:11of the Western Provincial Bank.
27:13The allegation being made by Mr Burns himself?
27:16Yes, sir.
27:16Mr Burns at present being detained and awaiting trial on a similar charge of conspiracy to rob.
27:21Indeed.
27:22I see.
27:23You're not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so,
27:25but anything you do say may be taken down in writing and given in evidence.
27:29Do you fully understand the allegation made against you?
27:34James.
27:37Understood, dear.
27:40I shall now ask you a number of questions.
27:42Both the questions and the answers will be written down by Sergeant Fenner.
27:48Is this your notebook?
27:52Yes, it is.
27:57This is a copy of a report submitted by you to Detective Chief Superintendent Archer on the 8th of December.
28:05Yes.
28:06In this report, you give details of surveillance carried out by yourself and Sergeant Ryman on the man Burns.
28:13No recommendation that as a result of that surveillance, no further action should be taken.
28:18That's what it says.
28:19That's how it was.
28:20Perhaps you'd care to tell us the circumstances.
28:23You know the circumstances.
28:24Yes, of course.
28:26However, I do feel...
28:29Information was received that friend Kenny was tooling up to do a job.
28:32A big one.
28:33Ryman and myself were assigned to surveillance.
28:36We surveyed him.
28:37Something like two and a half, three months.
28:39He was very crazy, very difficult, but nevertheless it looked promising.
28:43He was going to do the Moorgate bank job.
28:45We were sure of it.
28:46But then all of a sudden we had a complete blowout.
28:48A nil event.
28:49Not only did the job go cold, but friend Kenny wasn't around anymore.
28:54And if he says that Ryman and myself tipped him off and got paid for it accordingly, then he's a
28:59damn liar.
29:00And what's more, Mr. Bull, you know it.
29:02I, uh, I think my client has made his feelings quite clear.
29:06Don't wrap it up, Gordon.
29:07He knows the score.
29:09You say that for a long time he was sure the job was on.
29:12That sooner or later he'd do the bank.
29:14That's right.
29:15Then he was tooling up accordingly.
29:16That's it.
29:17I wonder then why he didn't try to do him for conspiracy.
29:21Listen, you know as well as I do what happens on a conspiracy.
29:23We fitted him up.
29:24We did this.
29:25We did that.
29:26Nevertheless, he's on a conspiracy charge now.
29:28Yeah, and look what's happening.
29:32So, you let the whole thing drop.
29:34He'd gone.
29:35Left the scene.
29:36Disappeared.
29:37Didn't you try to find out why?
29:38Where?
29:40You've got my notes.
29:41Check them again.
29:42I was handling maybe 20, 30 jobs at the time.
29:44One blows out, 10 more come into focus.
29:46There isn't time for a working jack to sit and wonder why.
29:49And what's more, Mr. Bull, you know that.
29:52Am I right in saying you had met the man socially?
29:56What do you mean, socially?
29:57I mean you're not to drink with him at certain clubs.
30:01Yeah, I've had a drink with him.
30:02I've had a drink with dozens of them.
30:04How many times have you lifted your elbow with a working villain?
30:07How else do you get your information?
30:09I'm sure you'll appreciate that questions like these must be asked, James.
30:13After all, the superintendent doesn't ask them.
30:15Someone else will.
30:17Yeah, yeah.
30:18Okay.
30:19Yes, I've had a drink with him.
30:21Yes, I showed me face.
30:23But not, not while this little caper was afoot.
30:26An notice you'd had, uh, what is it?
30:32Eleven complaints made against you when you were a serving officer.
30:35Three for theft, two for brutality.
30:37Two for perjury, one for ill manners, one for drunkenness, and two for corruption.
30:42I'd say that wasn't bad for 10 years service.
30:44You'll also find 15 commissioner's commendations.
30:47But when you were dealing with the kind of people I was dealing with, you are bound to get complaints.
31:20How many have you got, superintendent?
31:28These are copies of your bank statements for the period in question.
31:33You do work hard, Mr. Bull.
31:35I'll give you that.
31:36In February and March of that year, you deposited two sons.
31:39One of 650 pounds, the other of 520.
31:44Perhaps you'd care to, uh...
31:47The GG's, Mr. Bull.
31:49Heh, I know.
31:50The oldest excuse in the world.
31:52But it's a fact.
31:53I won it on the horses.
31:54I see.
31:55I used to be a gambling man.
31:57You could ask my ex-colleagues.
31:59I already have.
32:01Now, if I may, I'd like to move on to the question of your diary.
32:05Diary?
32:06Which diary is this?
32:07The diaries are kept by all CID officers as a day-to-day record of their activities.
32:12Ah, yes.
32:12Understood.
32:15Is that your diary?
32:18Yes, it is.
32:20There'd appear to be certain discrepancies between your diary and the diary kept by Sergeant Ryman.
32:26What sort of discrepancies?
32:28We've been through them very thoroughly.
32:30Surprise, surprise.
32:31And certain entries would appear not to tally.
32:34For example, on January 2nd, your diary lists surveillance with Sergeant Ryman on the man Burns.
32:40The Sergeant Ryman's diary lists inquiries in the Notting Hill area regarding a man wanted for receiving.
32:46Then again, on the 14th...
32:48I get the picture.
32:50Perhaps you'd care to comment.
32:52Look, you know the score as well as I do.
32:54Sometimes those diaries aren't written up until a week after they should have been.
32:57I mean, we're not talking about a notebook which is given in evidence.
33:00We're talking about a diary which is more than anything used to check your expenses.
33:03Are you saying that mistakes are made?
33:06The only time those diaries are ever checked is when something like this happens.
33:10As you all know, what's common practice when you're overworked or overtired or just plain careless suddenly looks very dodgy.
33:16An officer careless in one direction might conceivably be careless in another.
33:20I suggest we take the entries one at a time.
33:23Now, January 2nd...
33:24What do I tell him?
33:25The truth?
33:27That every now and again Dave Ryman covered for me when I went off to lose myself in a bottle
33:31of whiskey?
33:32Yes.
33:33That I had a marriage that was going bust?
33:35Nothing on the edge.
33:35Job that was setting me nerves on edge?
33:37No.
33:39Way of life I didn't want to know about anymore.
33:41Well, thank you once again, gentlemen.
33:43I must be very honest and say that I'm not entirely happy about the way some of my questions have
33:47been answered.
33:48But no doubt we shall come to a satisfactory conclusion in due course.
33:53If at any time there is anything else you want to tell me, Jimmy, you'll know how to find me.
33:58Sure.
33:59Good day, gentlemen.
34:10Well.
34:13I don't think we've got too much to worry about.
34:16You're all rather perfunctory, I thought.
34:18Did you now?
34:19Oh, yes.
34:21How did it go?
34:26I, um...
34:27I was going to make some coffee.
34:29Not to me, thanks.
34:37I suppose more than anything, it's finding out why this man Burns suddenly, uh, went cold, as he put it.
34:43Could he have been warned of?
34:46Now that, my old chum, it's a 6,000 pound question.
34:49Isn't it?
34:51I'll send you my bill.
34:52I'll send you my bill.
35:03I wonder then why you didn't do him for a conspiracy.
35:06Listen, you know as well as I do what happens on a conspiracy.
35:09We fitted him up.
35:10We did this.
35:11We did that.
35:13So, you let the whole thing drop?
35:15He'd gone.
35:16Left the scene.
35:18Disappeared.
35:18Didn't you try to find out why?
35:21Where?
35:34Judith.
35:37That's the third time this week.
35:39Yeah, well, bung it in the book.
35:411,600 hours.
35:43Suspect visits masseurs.
35:44Massurs.
35:46Huh.
35:46Now, now.
35:47She's a class bird, our dude.
35:49She's a whore.
35:51Masseurs and beauty consultant.
35:58But you could tell a tale or two, eh, China?
36:01They don't talk.
36:02Just as well, eh?
36:03Your line of business?
36:06Still making a fortune, Jude?
36:08Less expenses?
36:10What expenses?
36:11A bottle of baby, all in a clean towel.
36:14Still with the same fella?
36:15Which one?
36:16One with a Mercedes.
36:17Haven't seen him for months.
36:19Well, I thought you two were going strong.
36:20We were, until I discovered both the Mercedes and he belonged to his mother.
36:25Sad.
36:26I'm with a new guy now.
36:28Uh-huh.
36:29What's his line?
36:30Antiques.
36:3118th century paintings, mostly.
36:33He's a really nice guy.
36:34I like him.
36:39Hello?
36:40Hi.
36:45Well, that sounds great.
36:47So, when are you coming to see me?
36:51Um, it'd have to be after four o'clock.
36:55Half four.
36:57That's nice.
36:58Yes.
36:59I look forward to seeing you.
37:01I really do.
37:03Bye.
37:19I don't know how you do it.
37:21Do what?
37:22Switch it.
37:22On and off.
37:23Click.
37:24Click.
37:24Six hours a day belongs to the clients and the rest belongs to me.
37:28You should try it.
37:29Yeah, but nice girl like you.
37:31Don't preach.
37:34Just, uh, trying to save your soul.
37:37It's well on the way to being saved.
37:39I've got a Swiss account number to prove it.
37:42You wanted to talk to me?
37:44Yeah.
37:45What about?
37:46One of the, uh, aforementioned clients.
37:48Uh-uh.
37:49No, no, no, it's important, Jude, to me, personally.
37:51You won't be involved.
37:52No questions.
37:53Who?
37:55Kenny.
37:56Kenny Burns.
37:57I don't see him anymore.
37:58No, I'm talking about 18 months, two years ago.
38:00Oh, come on.
38:01No, hang about you.
38:02Now, he's one of your regulars, right?
38:04I mean, he used to come here once, twice, maybe three times a week.
38:07Did he?
38:07Yeah, regular as clockwork for three months, to my knowledge.
38:11Now, then he stops coming, right?
38:14Right.
38:15Right.
38:15So what I want to know is, why?
38:18Was there any particular reason?
38:21Actually, it was rather funny.
38:23What was?
38:24Hmm?
38:25Well, there was always something wrong with him.
38:27If it wasn't cancer of the brain, it was athlete's foot.
38:29Complete hypochondriac.
38:31He used to phone me up at the most awkward times just to tell me his legs were going,
38:34or he couldn't lift his arms, or what does it mean when your fingers go all numb?
38:37Not that he ever consulted a doctor, of course.
38:39Well, I will.
38:40Live and learn, eh, Jude?
38:48The time you're talking about, he phoned me up one night and said I had to do something.
38:53He couldn't move.
38:54I was into a very heavy argument with my ex at the time and told him to piss off.
38:59Three months later, he phones me again to say that not only he, but God would never forgive me.
39:04He'd slipped a disc.
39:05Something had actually happened to him.
39:07He was flat on his back in hospital for nearly a month, I think it was.
39:10So that's where he went.
39:13Which hospital, do you know?
39:14Can you pull that a bit off?
39:15Yeah, which hospital, love?
39:16Somewhere near Luton, I think.
39:18That's how it happened.
39:18He went up to see his sister and he did his back in trying to get her car started.
39:22I'm afraid I laughed at the time, which is presumably why he stopped using my services.
39:26Yeah.
39:27Well, thanks, Jude.
39:29Charming.
39:29That's it, is it?
39:30That's it.
39:31Good, I've got someone coming.
39:34Click, click.
39:42Do I preach at you, Jude?
39:44I quite enjoy it, when I'm in the right mood.
39:48Besides which, you can't help yourself.
39:50Can't I?
39:51Face up to it.
39:52Underneath all that six and a half p multi-purpose insolence, you're a born vicar.
39:58You reckon?
40:01I know.
40:06Out.
40:14A slipped disc.
40:16Yeah.
40:16Terrific, innit?
40:18Wonderful.
40:20I wonder if you went National Health.
40:21Do the criminal classes, go National Health.
40:23Now, don't get excited, Doc.
40:24I haven't confirmed it yet.
40:26Luton, you say?
40:28I think I'll get Maureen to ring round with her social security routine.
40:33Thank you, Doc.
40:34Don't mention it.
40:36I'm sorry, Doc.
40:37Yeah, thanks.
40:39Will you tell your friend Ryman?
40:41Oh, yeah.
40:42I'll tell him.
40:51It's all there.
40:52Hospital, dates, consultant, surgeon, the lot.
40:59You give it to him, Dave.
41:00You're still a serving officer.
41:01Do yourself a bit of good.
41:03Well, I'd already started putting out a few feelers of my own, as a matter of fact.
41:06Yeah, I'm sure.
41:08Oh, it just about puts an end to friend Kenny's little game, wouldn't you say?
41:11Yep.
41:12I'd say so.
41:14Not that there was ever any danger of us.
41:16Tell you what does bother me, though, still, Dave.
41:19What's that?
41:22Your diary.
41:23Oh, yeah.
41:24They made a bit of a song and dance with me about that, too.
41:26I was going to speak to you about it, as a matter of fact.
41:28Oh, is that right?
41:30Yeah, well, the thing is, I mean, we both know that I was covering for you.
41:34Not that they'll ever need to find out why, of course.
41:36But what I'm getting at, Jim, is, as you keep pointing out, I am still in the force.
41:43They could still have me on a disciplinary.
41:45Unless I say it was me that was lying and your diary was accurate.
41:48Yeah.
41:50Yeah, well, I mean, let's face it.
41:52No, I'm going to your side of it anymore.
41:54Not now.
41:56What do you think?
41:57Eh?
41:58All right.
41:58Why not?
42:01Yeah.
42:02So, that's it, then.
42:04I'll give it to him straight.
42:06I was out getting drunk.
42:07Good old Dave was holding a fort.
42:08Did you say you got your dates mixed?
42:10Didn't check back?
42:12Yeah.
42:13Sure.
42:18Yeah, well, er...
42:19What, er, I don't understand, though, Dave, is, er, why you didn't put down what we agreed in your diary.
42:27Did what?
42:30Surveillance on suspect Burns.
42:32We agreed.
42:33That's what we both put down.
42:34Only you didn't do that.
42:35You did something else.
42:38Oh, come on, Jimmy.
42:40I mean, you know how it is.
42:42No, I don't, Dave.
42:43You tell me.
42:45Well, listen.
42:46I put down we're watching Burns, and we're not.
42:50Now, suppose something happens, something we're supposed to take care of.
42:53Only how can we when we're not there?
42:55So, it's better I put down something vague.
42:59Something they can't pin us down on.
43:01So, why didn't you tell me, so I could put the same?
43:03Well, all right.
43:05Maybe I didn't think at the time, but maybe I did think maybe I forgot to tell you.
43:08Oh, in bloody hell, Jim, we're talking about two or three times at the most.
43:11Oh, spin them a yarn, they'll forget all about it.
43:14But you were there.
43:18What are you talking about?
43:20You were tailing Burns.
43:21We both were.
43:23Only, uh, I left, so why put something else in the diary?
43:27Well, I've just said.
43:28I mean, why put something that they couldn't pin you down on?
43:30You were there.
43:31I wasn't.
43:32Any comeback, it's me who was on the carpet, not you.
43:35Listen.
43:36No, you listen.
43:37Now, if I had a nasty mind, I might think something like this.
43:41I'm out of the way, you're there on your own.
43:43So, maybe you did see Burns.
43:46Maybe you had a meet with him, which is why you're only too happy to play ball with me.
43:50Maybe money did change hands, which is why you fiddled your diary.
43:54Maybe the job was off before lovable Kenny did his back in.
43:57Bullshit.
43:58Where were you?
43:59I've said.
44:00I know where I was.
44:01Where were you?
44:03I don't push it, Jimmy.
44:05You were lying.
44:05I want to know why.
44:07I'm warning you, just don't push it.
44:08Warning me?
44:09Just do yourself a favour.
44:10Warning me what?
44:12All right, big mouth.
44:13Why don't you ask your wife?
44:16Jagie.
44:16She'll tell you where I was.
44:18She'll tell you where we both were.
44:19All right?
44:20Satisfied?
44:34Yeah, well, these things happened, don't they?
44:36I mean, what do you want me to say?
44:37I tried to...
44:38How long was it going on?
44:39Oh, I don't know.
44:39A month, six weeks.
44:40I saw her three, four times, that's all.
44:42She phoned in one day, wanted to talk to me about you.
44:46I suppose, I don't know, I suppose she wanted to show her the client.
44:49Yeah, I know.
44:51As for the rest, well, no excuses.
44:54It happened, it was wrong.
44:56But that's the way the cookie crumbles, marriage-wise.
44:59Eh, Dave?
45:01Your marriage was finished long before that.
45:04That's right.
45:05But yours wasn't.
45:06You worked at it.
45:09I'm not particularly proud of it, Jimmy.
45:11And I know bloody well she isn't.
45:14Now, if you want to take it out on somebody, take it out on me.
45:18You'd better go.
45:21Bet might need a hand with the curtains.
45:30Look.
45:32About those diaries...
45:34Don't worry.
45:35I'll look after you.
45:36Officer.
45:38Officer.
45:42Charlie Galen.
45:43Oh, my God.
45:59You won't do anything.
46:01Everybody...
46:06We'll do anything.
46:07Oh, my God.
46:09That can be cute.
46:09His solicitor denied all knowledge, of course.
46:12And from the look on his face, I believed him.
46:14For a moment, I thought we had a stiff on our hands.
46:17A slip disc, he said.
46:19Oh, yes, sir, I said.
46:20Are you sure?
46:22Oh, yes, quite sure.
46:23And much easier to prove than a £6,000 bribe, wouldn't you say?
46:30This is awful.
46:32Bloody awful.
46:35Anyway, Jimmy, we shan't be bothering you again, that's for sure.
46:38No bother, Mr Bull.
46:40I quite enjoyed the company.
46:44One way and another.
46:46Are for you?
46:47Yeah.
46:49Things to do, you know.
46:50Oh, nice seeing you again, Jimmy.
46:52Yeah.
46:53Terrific.
46:55We should do it again sometime.
46:56Oh, I hope not, Jimmy.
46:58I hope not.
47:03Inspection of the premises was carried out on the whatever it was.
47:07And the following morning...
47:09Not only do I deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
47:14Oh, God, he's gone all jolly again.
47:16I prefer you when you're depressed.
47:18Go and find yourself another crisis.
47:20That reminds me.
47:21I owe you both a dinner.
47:22Which I can't afford.
47:24So I bought you a sticky bun.
47:31Yeah.
47:32Could I speak to Mrs...
47:34Sorry.
47:37Wrong number.
47:44Jackie.
48:01Oh, hello, Mum.
48:06No, no, no.
48:06It's just that I was...
48:08Well, I was sort of expecting someone else, you see.
48:11Oh, yeah.
48:12Well, I meant to come around, but...
48:13Well, something cropped up, you see.
48:16No, no.
48:17Nothing serious.
48:18Nothing for you to worry about.
48:18It was...
48:20Yeah, I am looking after meself, Mum.
48:23Mum, I am eating.
48:25But here.
48:28Yes, Mum.
48:31Yeah.
48:32Yeah.
48:34Yes, Mum.
48:37Yes, Mum.
48:42You were born one morning.
48:45Walk out where the ceiling fell.
48:50Born one morning.
48:53Walk out where the ceiling fell.
48:57You learned everything you know at six days.
49:01On the seventh day, you knew it very well.
49:06You trusted pretty women.
49:08A pretty woman had you tied and bound.
49:14You trusted in the bottle.
49:16But in the end, that bottle got you down.
49:21You've tried everything that's going.
49:23That'll leave it all to faith this time around.
49:29It'd be down so long, it looks like her.
49:34Ain't that a shame?
49:37Ain't that a shame?
49:37A gal so long, it looks like her.
49:41Ain't that a shame?
49:44You know your life might change tomorrow.
49:46And then again, it might stay just about the same.
49:52There a temps in the bottle.
49:53Ain't that a shame?
49:53I've picked all the Torah lot better.
49:53Ain't that a scary?
49:54Ain't that a sin?
49:57It.
49:58I love you.
50:02I love you.
50:02It.
50:02I love you.
50:03I love you.
50:04My love you.
50:04You
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