A Story to Frighten the Children. (1976 TV play)

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First broadcast 3rd February 1976.  Carol McLain hurries home late one night, and encounters trouble. No one on the nearby estate claims to have seen or heard anything.  Jon Laurimore - Detective Superintendent Langton Geoffrey Palmer - Detetective Chief Inspector Harris Myles Hoyle - Detective Sergeant Jannings John Lyons - Detective Sergeant Farmer Peter Boyes - Detective Sergeant Garrett Nicholas Ball - Police Constable Wilding John Malcolm - Doctor Canning Dale Jackley - Police Woman Susan Littler - Carol McLain Geoffrey Hinsliff - Barry Raskin Kate Lansbury - Jessica Raskin Jane Hylton - Madelaine McLain Allan Surtees - Mr. Newman Stella Tanner - Mrs. Newman Nadia Cattouse - Mrs. Allen Andy Bradford - Larry Summers (as Andrew Bradford) Graham Ashley - Mr. Hutton Eve Pearce - Mrs. Hutton John Nettleton - Mr. Clark Ronald Lacey - Mr. Lang Barbara Young - Typing Pool Supervisor Peter Mackriel - Tom Meredith Michael Tarn - Charlie Jackson Patricia Franklin - Pamela Mercer Lisa Wood - Young Mother Mario Renzullo - Teenager Maggie Dickie Julian Holloway - Dennis Saunders Elizabeth Bell - Janice Butler John Sterland - Mr. Williams Barrie Gosney - Programme Presenter Robert Russell - News Film Editor Peter Hall - News Film Crew John Murphy - News Film Crew

Transcript

00:00:28The

00:00:32Don't have you two are moving off.

00:00:48Fine.

00:00:50Listen, why don't you stop and have a cup of tea?

00:01:01We'll get back tonight.

00:01:04Bye bye.

00:01:05Bye bye.

00:08:06Please, please.

00:08:06HURT!

00:09:06Let's go.

00:11:54Evening, sir.

00:12:03Mr. Lankan.

00:12:05David.

00:12:08What have we got here?

00:12:13Doctor?

00:12:15Superintendent?

00:12:52in quietly, sir. I don't think they heard us, but there were plenty of lights on. Jerry,

00:12:58get some men together, go around and talk to these people. Yes, sir. They can't all live in soundproof

00:13:01boxes. Someone heard something. Where'd you get that? By the walkthrough to the garages.

00:13:06Let's get some light in here. Towards Seabury.

00:13:40Cameron McLean, 37, Fisher, Ole Miss State. Byron, find Sergeant Farmer. Tell him to stay away

00:13:46from 37. Yes, sir.

00:13:53I've got a map of this place. Yes, sir. Don't worry, yeah. Let's all have a look at it.

00:14:01Fisher?

00:14:04Seabury?

00:14:05How many people live on this estate?

00:14:07Oh, it's difficult to say. You'd have thought someone would have gone to help her.

00:14:11Yeah. I know a fella went to help a girl when she was being attacked. Pushed the other fella

00:14:16off, all right. Stayed on, raped the girl himself.

00:14:50Oh, yes. I know it's late, sir. I'm sorry.

00:14:52Well, what's so desperate? It can't wait until the morning.

00:14:55Well, if you can just tell me what you were doing, Mr. Hutton,

00:14:56between 11 and 11.30 tonight, can you remember?

00:15:00We were in bed. We went to bed, didn't we?

00:15:02Yes.

00:15:03And what time was that?

00:15:05Right after the play.

00:15:06You were watching television?

00:15:08That's right.

00:15:09Uh-huh.

00:15:10Well, what time did the programme finish?

00:15:13Half past 11.

00:15:15And you never heard anything between 11 and 11.30?

00:15:19No, I didn't.

00:15:20Mrs. Hutton?

00:15:22Look, if she'd have heard anything, I would have heard it.

00:15:25What, after you went to bed?

00:15:26Look, what's happening?

00:15:28What's going on out there?

00:15:29Perhaps if you were to tell me, I could...

00:15:30Well, anything strange, sir.

00:15:32Out of the ordinary.

00:15:33Nothing.

00:15:37And what are you writing?

00:15:39Well, you never heard anything.

00:15:41No, I didn't.

00:15:43You don't have to write that down.

00:15:46Why are you writing that down?

00:15:48Well, if I don't write things down, Mr. Hutton, I forget them.

00:15:51Oh, the kids have been giving me hell all bloody night.

00:15:54I wouldn't have heard God if he rung the doorbell.

00:15:57On your own, are you?

00:15:58Yes.

00:16:00Where's your husband?

00:16:01Not here.

00:16:03Do you mind telling me where I can...

00:16:04Go to sleep!

00:16:06I'm sorry.

00:16:07Your husband?

00:16:09What about him?

00:16:10Well, where is he?

00:16:12I don't know.

00:16:16He's gone off.

00:16:18He's left.

00:16:19Oh, damn him.

00:16:22God!

00:16:24Get into bed.

00:16:26I'll be there in a minute.

00:16:28You know you'll get sick if you don't go to sleep.

00:16:34The day before yesterday, he left.

00:16:37In the morning, we had a quarrel about the kids.

00:16:42And me, I suppose.

00:16:45Just a lot of shouting.

00:16:47Not much sense.

00:16:49He walked out.

00:16:50I don't expect him back.

00:16:53Weight in his charts, most like.

00:16:55He couldn't stand the kids.

00:16:57What's going on about?

00:16:59The day before yesterday.

00:17:01In the morning.

00:17:03You haven't seen him since?

00:17:05You don't know where he's gone.

00:17:07I don't know.

00:17:08Was there any friends, relatives?

00:17:13There's his sister.

00:17:15Let me have her address, please.

00:17:19It's all right.

00:17:20I'll come back tomorrow.

00:17:21I've got the address.

00:17:22She lives in Bristol.

00:17:25We don't see her that often.

00:17:29It is 12 Clifton Drive.

00:17:33What are you doing at your bed?

00:17:35Get back in there.

00:17:44When Carol didn't come home as usual,

00:17:47I knew there was something wrong.

00:17:49I didn't say anything, but I knew.

00:17:51How did you know, Mrs. Janet?

00:17:52Carol's never late.

00:17:54She knows our poor mother worries.

00:17:57Most nights I sit with Madeline,

00:17:58keep her company.

00:18:00You know, my husband works nights

00:18:02and the evenings, they always drag.

00:18:04Mrs. McClane came straight home.

00:18:06Where'd she finish work?

00:18:07Five minutes.

00:18:08One way or the other, never more.

00:18:10What time do you expect her?

00:18:12Quarter past 11.

00:18:14They close the shop at 11

00:18:16and Carol leaves right away.

00:18:17I mean, they do all the clearing up there.

00:18:19They know she likes to get back home.

00:18:22Well, she didn't come home.

00:18:23What happened?

00:18:24What did you do?

00:18:25I stayed on here as usual.

00:18:27I mean, I didn't like to stay long.

00:18:29I knew Madeline was worried

00:18:30and I didn't want her to think

00:18:32I was worried too.

00:18:33So you went home?

00:18:34Yes, I live just down, down the landing there.

00:18:39You were worried?

00:18:41You see, Carol, Carol is a quiet girl.

00:18:45I mean, she has boyfriends.

00:18:47Well, one.

00:18:50Nothing serious, you understand,

00:18:51but all it's saying.

00:18:52What's his name?

00:18:54Larry Summers.

00:18:55You know where he lives?

00:18:56I don't know.

00:18:57I've only seen him once, maybe twice.

00:18:59You would recognize him.

00:19:01What do you mean?

00:19:02You don't know where he lives.

00:19:03He works at the library.

00:19:05You can ask them.

00:19:10When can I see Carol?

00:19:12In the morning, Mrs.

00:19:13Claim whenever it's convenient.

00:19:15At the hospital?

00:19:16What time in the morning?

00:19:17I'll send a car.

00:19:20Will Madeline have to identify?

00:19:23Will you come with me?

00:19:24You know I'll come.

00:19:25If you take Mrs. McLean back to your flat, Mrs. Allen,

00:19:28you will let us know

00:19:29so we know where to find her in the morning.

00:19:31Best if we stay here when my husband comes.

00:19:33Must stay here.

00:19:35I must stay here.

00:19:40Mr. Newman,

00:19:42I know it's difficult.

00:19:44Just the same,

00:19:45as soon as there's no misunderstanding, eh?

00:19:48Yeah.

00:19:49Well, did Mrs. McLean say anything to you?

00:19:51Either of you?

00:19:53No.

00:19:54She went home like she always did.

00:19:57I was cleaning up.

00:19:59Sometimes there was a young man waiting for her.

00:20:02He walked home with Carol.

00:20:04Not often.

00:20:05Who was that?

00:20:07Well, she said...

00:20:09Carol.

00:20:11She said his name was Larry, I think.

00:20:14Did she talk to you about him?

00:20:16No.

00:20:18Sometimes he was waiting.

00:20:20He seemed very shy.

00:20:23But he was quiet.

00:20:25They made a nice pair, really.

00:20:28Neither of them have him much to say.

00:20:29You didn't see him tonight.

00:20:34It's not true.

00:20:38I can't believe.

00:20:49What time did Mrs. McLean leave yet?

00:20:52Usual time.

00:20:53Soon after 11.

00:20:54How soon?

00:20:56Five past.

00:20:57Do you know Larry's other name?

00:20:58Where he lives?

00:21:00He only came once or twice.

00:21:03I'd know him again if I saw him.

00:21:06Why?

00:21:09I'm sorry we got you out of bed.

00:21:13She was here when she lost her shoes.

00:21:15But what was she doing here?

00:21:17When taking her most sensible route,

00:21:18she'd come straight down the road here,

00:21:22round here and across to Fisher.

00:21:24Yeah, that's not the quickest route.

00:21:26It's the way she'd most likely go.

00:21:28What people tell us.

00:21:29You know, that sort of go.

00:21:31It was to save herself a decent walk

00:21:32if she'd cut through the garages.

00:21:33It's where she was meeting someone.

00:21:36It's a good place.

00:21:37Out of the way, and it's dark.

00:21:42What's it like on that estate?

00:21:43Do people walk about at night?

00:21:44Do they feel safe?

00:21:46There's not much going on.

00:21:47Kids do a bit of damage.

00:21:48Breaking windows, writing on the walls,

00:21:49spray cans of paint, nothing serious.

00:21:51You should be scared getting off the path,

00:21:53out of the light.

00:21:54No, not really.

00:21:56No one's ever been attacked.

00:21:57It's not that sort of place.

00:21:59What do you got for me?

00:22:01Oh, nothing, sir.

00:22:02You know what I think?

00:22:04Oh, bloody death.

00:22:05Stone blind.

00:22:06Nobody heard anything.

00:22:07Nobody saw anything.

00:22:09They don't even know what I'm on about.

00:22:11Fair enough.

00:22:14She must have known once he got hold of her.

00:22:17Why didn't she scream?

00:22:21She didn't think she was in any danger.

00:22:23She lost her shoes.

00:22:26Maybe she took them off.

00:22:27Signs of a struggle.

00:22:29A quick one.

00:22:30Back at the garages.

00:22:31And home to mother.

00:22:32Bloody hell.

00:22:34We found the handbag on a direct line

00:22:36to the garages from the Fisherville.

00:22:38She changed her mind.

00:22:40She tried to get away.

00:22:41A feed about the cutabout.

00:22:42Is that the doctor?

00:22:43He's just finishing off his report.

00:22:45There's a few new points in this moment.

00:22:46No.

00:22:55So why didn't she shout for help?

00:22:57She didn't want anyone to know

00:22:59just what was going on.

00:23:00She was willing.

00:23:02Agreed to meet him.

00:23:04Then when things got out of hand...

00:23:06They said we're disturbed.

00:23:08She ran off.

00:23:10And he caught up with her

00:23:11before she could get out.

00:23:12Well, I've found no one

00:23:14who's prepared to say they're

00:23:15anywhere but safe at home.

00:23:16From ten o'clock last night

00:23:17till they left for work this morning.

00:23:20What about the boyfriend?

00:23:21Do we know where he lives?

00:23:22Yes, sir.

00:23:23Let's talk to him.

00:23:24And that island woman,

00:23:25the mother's friend,

00:23:26the husband works nights.

00:23:27See to that, Jerry.

00:23:29Find out what time did he get back.

00:23:30When he went home.

00:23:31Whether he was there all night.

00:23:33And the office where the girl worked.

00:23:36Put to the people there.

00:23:39Give me a room at the manor house.

00:23:40Tell him I'll book in about lunchtime.

00:23:42Yes, sir.

00:23:43Would you stay with us?

00:23:44There's plenty of room.

00:23:44I talked to Kate.

00:23:45She'd be delighted.

00:23:46That's us.

00:23:47I can't say, David.

00:23:47No offence.

00:23:48I will stay at the hotel.

00:23:50No offence.

00:23:52I'm getting more difficult

00:23:53as I get older.

00:23:54You're coming over me, are you?

00:23:55Yeah.

00:23:57Look forward to it.

00:24:02What about that Bristol address?

00:24:04Local walkout and his wife.

00:24:06Oh, not turned up so far, sir.

00:24:07They let us know.

00:24:09We've got most of her clothes now.

00:24:11Short a pair of pants.

00:24:13Assuming she was wearing pants.

00:24:15After she was dead.

00:24:16A forced entry, that's quite clear.

00:24:19And equally, she didn't resist.

00:24:21There's every indication

00:24:22of quite a ferocious struggle.

00:24:25Until he killed her.

00:24:27Had to kill her, I surmised,

00:24:28to keep her quiet.

00:24:30Yeah, he did that all right.

00:24:32I used to meet Carol

00:24:33after she'd finished work.

00:24:35I used to walk home with her.

00:24:39I haven't seen her now

00:24:40for several weeks.

00:24:42Why is that?

00:24:44She didn't want to see me.

00:24:47Did you quarrel?

00:24:48No.

00:24:52Yes, I suppose.

00:24:55What is it?

00:24:56Yes, you did.

00:24:56No, you didn't.

00:24:57You don't know.

00:24:59We did quarrel.

00:25:01Did you try it on?

00:25:02And she wouldn't have it?

00:25:04No.

00:25:06Teasing, do you reckon?

00:25:07Getting you all hot

00:25:08and then pushing you off.

00:25:11We made love.

00:25:13After you quarrelled?

00:25:15What?

00:25:16Did you make love to her

00:25:17after you quarrelled?

00:25:19Well, no.

00:25:20How could I?

00:25:23Do you have another girl?

00:25:27No.

00:25:28More difficult,

00:25:29once you've had a taste,

00:25:31doing without,

00:25:32when you know what you're missing?

00:25:34I don't find it difficult.

00:25:36Did you try to see her?

00:25:39She came to the library

00:25:40and we talked.

00:25:41Why did you quarrel?

00:25:42She's wasting her life.

00:25:44What?

00:25:45Wasted.

00:25:47She wasted.

00:25:48How do you mean?

00:25:50We're living with her mother.

00:25:52Working like a slave all day.

00:25:55She's a typist.

00:25:57Then she gets home

00:25:58and makes tea for her mother

00:25:59and goes out right after

00:26:00to that bloody fish and chip shop.

00:26:03Spends the whole night,

00:26:04every night.

00:26:07Sunday,

00:26:08when she's got a bit of time

00:26:09for herself,

00:26:09she stays in

00:26:10and watches television

00:26:10with her mother.

00:26:12She takes no time for herself.

00:26:15One day,

00:26:16maybe in a month.

00:26:18One day,

00:26:19she goes out on her own.

00:26:20She goes out with you?

00:26:23She went out with me.

00:26:25Until you quarrelled.

00:26:28I told her to get away

00:26:29and get out

00:26:29and make her own life.

00:26:30Oh, she didn't agree with you?

00:26:32Yes, she did.

00:26:33Oh, yeah.

00:26:35It made her too unhappy

00:26:37talking to me,

00:26:38knowing I was right.

00:26:41She was doing nothing.

00:26:44Going to do nothing.

00:26:48That's why we quarrelled.

00:26:49That's why she won't see me anymore.

00:26:53Wouldn't.

00:27:01We went to bed together.

00:27:04Every chance we had,

00:27:05I didn't have to ask her.

00:27:06She liked going to bed.

00:27:08She wanted me.

00:27:09It was something that made her happy.

00:27:11There were other boyfriends.

00:27:13Did she go to bed with them?

00:27:16No, you don't think she did.

00:27:20Did she talk to you about them?

00:27:21Do you know them?

00:27:25Walking home with Miss McLean,

00:27:26did you always go the same way?

00:27:29Last night, Summer,

00:27:30she took a shortcut

00:27:31through the garages

00:27:32behind Seabree.

00:27:33Did she often do that?

00:27:38Sometimes, yes, she did.

00:27:39She wasn't scared.

00:27:41She wanted to get home.

00:27:44And walking home with you,

00:27:46you didn't take the opportunity.

00:27:50I mean, it's easy enough.

00:27:51Once you're away from the lights,

00:27:53it's dark enough.

00:27:55She was always in a hurry

00:27:57to get home.

00:27:58She wouldn't hang about.

00:27:59Did you try to make her?

00:28:00If we wanted to make love,

00:28:01she came round to my place.

00:28:03What, after she finished work?

00:28:05No.

00:28:06Never once or twice

00:28:07on a Sunday afternoon

00:28:09when she wasn't watching

00:28:10telly with her mother.

00:28:11How often did the two of you

00:28:12make love?

00:28:15Not often.

00:28:16Not often enough?

00:28:17Did you see her last night?

00:28:18No.

00:28:19Did you walk home with her?

00:28:20No, I didn't.

00:28:22Were you waiting for her?

00:28:25I was at home all night.

00:28:26I was studying.

00:28:27Yes, you told us.

00:28:28You know the way she walks home.

00:28:30You knew she'd be on her own.

00:28:31She wouldn't be too surprised

00:28:32seeing you.

00:28:33She wouldn't try to get away.

00:28:34She might not even cry out

00:28:36when you got hold of her.

00:28:37She didn't cry out.

00:28:39I didn't care.

00:28:40I love Carol.

00:29:00Yeah, that sort of fight

00:29:01he must be in a pretty bad

00:29:02state of repair himself.

00:29:04No question.

00:29:05More than he could easily

00:29:07explain away.

00:29:08Well, he wouldn't have

00:29:09to go to hospital.

00:29:10Might not even have

00:29:11to see a doctor.

00:29:13But he lived with anybody.

00:29:15If there was any sort

00:29:16of intimacy between them,

00:29:18they'd know it was

00:29:19more than ordinary.

00:29:25Canning?

00:29:26Yes.

00:29:28Hello.

00:29:30I don't think you started out to kill her.

00:29:34You waited to see her.

00:29:35You wanted to talk to you.

00:29:36You wanted her to go away with you.

00:29:38She was an hour in.

00:29:39She wouldn't have stopped to listen.

00:29:40You lost your temper

00:29:41and got hold of her.

00:29:42She hid out,

00:29:43and the next thing you...

00:29:45What started her fight

00:29:47then, Summers?

00:29:48And her clothes

00:29:49are all torn out.

00:29:49Her face is black and blue.

00:29:52Do you want to see her?

00:29:52She's a bloody mess.

00:29:57Yeah, I can understand that.

00:30:07I did ask her to go away with me.

00:30:09What does she say?

00:30:10I wanted both of us to get away,

00:30:12go somewhere on the road.

00:30:14She turned you down?

00:30:19She wouldn't leave her mother.

00:30:21You got angry.

00:30:22Yes, so did she.

00:30:24We shall teach her.

00:30:28She said I was selfish,

00:30:30only thinking of myself.

00:30:32I called her childish.

00:30:35Pretending it was all nobility.

00:30:38Self-sacrifice.

00:30:42She couldn't face the thought

00:30:43of taking on responsibility

00:30:44for her own self.

00:30:46She wanted to stay home

00:30:47and look after her mother.

00:30:49Live with you, mother, I said.

00:30:52You won't have to recognize the reasons

00:30:53you don't want to see me anymore.

00:30:54You're frightened of me.

00:30:55The demands I make,

00:30:57the love I want to give.

00:30:59The life we could have together,

00:31:00sharing.

00:31:04Not one of us depending on the other.

00:31:10I'm not your father, Carol.

00:31:11I said just because he's dead.

00:31:13I'll have a sergeant take a statement

00:31:14and you'll be saying.

00:31:15I was angry.

00:31:16For a time I hated it,

00:31:17but even in the library

00:31:18when I saw her I wouldn't talk,

00:31:20and...

00:31:21I don't know, I can't tell her.

00:31:25Honestly, I'm jealous.

00:31:27I can't bear the fact

00:31:29she'd rather spend time

00:31:29with her mother when I'm there.

00:31:31I've got nowhere, no one.

00:31:33Only Carol.

00:31:35She's always running home.

00:31:37We may want to talk to you again.

00:31:57We may want to talk to you again.

00:31:58We may want to talk to you again.

00:31:59We may want to talk to you again.

00:32:04We may want to talk to you again.

00:32:37I'll see you next time.

00:32:51Oi.

00:32:53Keep in mind.

00:32:54Saunders, Dennis Saunders, local news.

00:32:56This is my cameraman.

00:32:57Yeah.

00:32:57Well, could you get behind the tank, please?

00:32:58Yeah, but we want to come in here and shoot a little film, you know, get some background,

00:33:01some material.

00:33:01Well, I'm afraid you can't come in this area, all right?

00:33:02Well, who's investigating this case?

00:33:04Detective Superintendent Langton.

00:33:05Langton, where is he?

00:33:06He's not around at the moment, all right?

00:33:08Thanks very much.

00:33:23Sorry.

00:33:24Where the hell have you been?

00:33:25I thought we might have finished by now.

00:33:27I haven't even got started.

00:33:28Why not?

00:33:28Well, we met some young sergeant in search and promotion, right, Pete?

00:33:31All right.

00:33:32Terrific.

00:33:48There you go.

00:34:00As I've seen you before, I haven't told you on television.

00:34:04Yeah, yes, that's right.

00:34:05I saw the van.

00:34:07Did you?

00:34:08You'll be asking questions about that business, not about that girl.

00:34:14Yes, it seems a bit of a mystery, nobody hearing anything.

00:34:16Oh, well.

00:34:17Police had us all out of our bed, did you know?

00:34:19That's not right after it, haven't you?

00:34:21Yeah, well, they didn't get much.

00:34:22No.

00:34:23Well, people don't like talking to the police.

00:34:26Are you doing a programme, Barry?

00:34:28Hmm.

00:34:29Item for the news.

00:34:30Interviews.

00:34:31That's right.

00:34:32Oh.

00:34:37Well, up to the drinks, then.

00:34:38Oh, I'm sorry, Janet.

00:34:39Here, here.

00:34:41And that's Pete.

00:34:43It won't be a minute.

00:34:48She do?

00:34:50She's my assistant.

00:34:51Oh, yeah.

00:34:53Look, would you like to talk about it on television?

00:34:58I've done that sort of thing before.

00:35:03I don't like pointing a finger.

00:35:05Look, if you know something, it's no more than your duty.

00:35:12People get paid.

00:35:15They go on television answering questions.

00:35:18See, some people don't find it very easy.

00:35:20They freeze up.

00:35:22I can't talk.

00:35:23Point the camera.

00:35:24What happens ever during the acting?

00:35:26Look, if you ask me, sorry, what's your name?

00:35:28Tom.

00:35:29Tom.

00:35:29Tom Merritt.

00:35:30If you ask me Tom, you're a natural.

00:35:33You've got an easy man.

00:35:34I can tell.

00:35:36Why don't you give it a whirl?

00:35:38Me?

00:35:40Yeah, all right.

00:35:41Come on.

00:35:42Oh, all right.

00:35:43Jan, get Pete.

00:35:45Please, I'll do that.

00:35:46Please, I'll do that.

00:35:47Please, I'll do that.

00:35:48Please, I'll do that.

00:35:51Please, I'll do that.

00:36:00Please, I'll do that.

00:36:01Yeah.

00:36:02I'll thank you.

00:36:09Oh.

00:36:31A hungry family and a shrinking purse.

00:36:35But first, a shocking reminder of the violence that seems so often to lurk beneath the façade

00:36:40of civilized life in our cities today.

00:36:43It talks to witnesses of a brutal murder, a report to Dennis Darlene.

00:36:48This is the official building on the homeless state where Carol McClain lived with her mother,

00:36:54and where, in the early hours of this morning, the police discovered her, the victim of a

00:36:59savage attack.

00:37:01Carol was on her way home to the fact that she shared with her widowed mother a journey

00:37:07that she had made every night after leaving her evening job in the local fish restaurant.

00:37:12There were signs of a struggle, but the young girl was soon overpowered, raped, and murked,

00:37:19and all within a few yards of the comparative safety of the tower block.

00:37:26The police have been here all night, and have spoken to most of the people in the Fisher

00:37:30building.

00:37:31Earlier today, I talked to some...

00:37:34Inspector Harris, please.

00:37:35Now, David?

00:37:35I've been here something, yes.

00:37:36You're watching the local news?

00:37:37I didn't know really what it was.

00:37:39Well, switch it on, watch it, bring me back, to see what was happening.

00:37:42No, I didn't.

00:37:43Oh, you don't expect, you know, you can't imagine something like this, something happening,

00:37:48can you?

00:37:49Now, what floor do you live on, Mr. Clark?

00:37:51I live on the 10th floor.

00:37:54One thing was, it didn't sound human.

00:37:56Not human?

00:37:57Well, it could have been anything.

00:37:59I mean, it could have been a dog run over.

00:38:01I mean, if I'd known what was happening, I might have gone down.

00:38:05Yes, I see.

00:38:07Did you know Carol McClane?

00:38:09No, I didn't.

00:38:10We don't know anybody, really.

00:38:13We haven't moved in long.

00:38:15Well, it's difficult making friends.

00:38:16I don't suppose we can have spoken to more than half a dozen people since we've been living here.

00:38:20I would have gone down if I had any idea, but, well, you have to understand the sort

00:38:25of noise I heard.

00:38:25It was, well, more shouting, not exactly screaming.

00:38:30Yes.

00:38:30So you didn't go down?

00:38:31Oh, it's more than your life's worth.

00:38:33I mean, my wife won't go in the lift.

00:38:36We live on the 7th floor, she won't go in the lift.

00:38:39Oh, she'd sooner walk up all those flights of stairs.

00:38:42Why is that done?

00:38:43Well, anything can happen to you in the lift.

00:38:46I mean, you get in the ground floor, it's empty.

00:38:49Next stop, anybody can get in.

00:38:51You're at their mercy.

00:38:53Did you know Carol McClane?

00:38:56Now, it's not a question of knowing the poor girl.

00:38:59I mean, if I'd known what was happening, I'd have gone down.

00:39:01We're not animals.

00:39:04As yet, the police have made no statement about the possibility of an early arrest,

00:39:08but the forensic scientists are out in force and the investigation continues.

00:39:13Dennis Saunders on the home estate.

00:39:17Well, after that grim report, it's good to be reminded that life has its pleasant...

00:39:21Hello.

00:39:21Yeah.

00:39:22Yeah, have a car here in 10 minutes.

00:39:24Sure.

00:39:25Get on the television, people.

00:39:26I want to speak to Mr. Dennis Saunders.

00:39:29Children who never go to school...

00:39:31I don't care what sort of bloody car it is, just have the car here waiting for me.

00:39:34...what Mike was like as a servant in a great country house before the war.

00:39:38Mike.

00:39:39Who said the bloody man could talk to all those people?

00:39:43Who gave him permission?

00:39:48Jennings, did he talk to you?

00:39:50He wanted to talk to Mr. Langton.

00:39:52He wasn't interested in talking to me.

00:39:54What did you tell him?

00:39:54He'd gone on holiday.

00:39:56Bloody hell, man, what were you doing?

00:39:57Letting him wander around with his cameras, talking to anyone who took his fancy.

00:40:00I thought it might prove useful, sir.

00:40:03Let the public know what happened there last night.

00:40:08I presume that young man had permission before he started filming?

00:40:12Yes, sir.

00:40:12He talked to you.

00:40:14I didn't see what army could do, sir.

00:40:16I thought it might prove useful.

00:40:18In the event, yes.

00:40:20As general rule, next time, I'd like to be consulted.

00:40:22Yes, sir.

00:40:25Who spoke to that Hartman fella?

00:40:28Well, somebody did talk to him.

00:40:30Yes, sir, I did.

00:40:31He told me he heard absolutely nothing.

00:40:32Well, you can talk to him again.

00:40:34Thank you, sir.

00:40:35Who spoke to Mr. Clark?

00:40:36I did, sir.

00:40:37Can I have another chat with him?

00:40:39They can suddenly remember hearing something.

00:40:41Perhaps I'll suddenly remember seeing something as well.

00:40:44I talked to the Alan woman.

00:40:46David, you have another chat with her?

00:40:48I'll take Jennings with me.

00:40:56The television people would expect you, sir.

00:41:00I'll try not to disappoint them.

00:41:02I won't give them a bloody interview.

00:41:04You can be sure of that.

00:41:05Now, get in amongst these people.

00:41:08For some reason, they'll talk to a television camera

00:41:10when they won't talk to us.

00:41:12Let them know they'll get damn all help from a camera

00:41:14next time somebody's got them up against a wall,

00:41:16wants to rob, rape, murder.

00:41:20What was he hadn't said about those lifts?

00:41:21You told me there wasn't much violence.

00:41:23Yes, sir, I know.

00:41:24There isn't.

00:41:24I don't know what he's talking about.

00:41:25I'll ask him, sir, sir.

00:41:26No, you'd do that.

00:41:28Ask him what he heard last night and what he saw.

00:41:30Yes, sir.

00:41:31It's because they make us feel like idiots.

00:41:33There's no reason to get tough with them.

00:41:36I don't care what they think,

00:41:37so long as we find this bloody man.

00:41:40Let them call us what they like.

00:41:42Flatfoot, Bobby, Pig.

00:41:46Make-believe you couldn't find your own left foot

00:41:47in a bowl of sago pudding.

00:42:03Superintendent Langton?

00:42:04Yes?

00:42:04I'm the Honest Butler.

00:42:05Mr Williams asked me to come down and meet you.

00:42:07Mr Williams?

00:42:08He's in his office.

00:42:11Yes, well, if you're lucky,

00:42:12and with time off for good behaviour,

00:42:14I don't suppose you'll do more than six months.

00:42:15Yeah, but why does he want to see me?

00:42:17If you don't know, don't ask me.

00:42:22Superintendent Langton?

00:42:23I'm Tom Williams, the news editor.

00:42:25Mr Williams?

00:42:26Sergeant Jennings?

00:42:28This is Mr Stern of our legal department.

00:42:30How do you do?

00:42:32I was told that you wanted to speak to our superintendent.

00:42:34I want to speak to Dennis Saunders.

00:42:37You Saunders?

00:42:38Yes, I am.

00:42:38You denied him on the news about a murder on the home estate

00:42:41in which you interviewed people claiming to be witnesses.

00:42:43That's right.

00:42:44I talked to him about it.

00:42:44Yes.

00:42:45I'm not worried who you talked to.

00:42:47I want to know about those witnesses.

00:42:48Well, what more can I tell you, superintendent?

00:42:50Your men talked to them.

00:42:51May interest you to know that when we talked to them,

00:42:53there wasn't one person in that building,

00:42:55on the whole estate as far as I know,

00:42:56ready to say they heard anything.

00:42:58Now, you come along with your television cameras

00:43:00and suddenly they remember things they heard,

00:43:02very likely even saw.

00:43:03Nobody said they saw anything.

00:43:05I want to know exactly what they did say.

00:43:06I can have a transcript of the story in your office.

00:43:09I want to see the film.

00:43:10All the film, everything you've got.

00:43:12You didn't show everything?

00:43:13No.

00:43:14Well, there was a limited time available for the story.

00:43:16They didn't show half on what they did show.

00:43:18The superintendent isn't interested in our editorial arguments.

00:43:20To start, you made that woman look like a bloody saint.

00:43:22How soon can I see it?

00:43:23Sit down, superintendent.

00:43:24Sit down.

00:43:25It's not quite as simple as that.

00:43:27You see, I shall have to get a clearance on this.

00:43:30Maybe by tomorrow.

00:43:31Tonight.

00:43:32That's not possible.

00:43:34You can put it all together in one piece.

00:43:35Let me see.

00:43:36It shouldn't take long.

00:43:38Mr. Saunders, how long will that take?

00:43:39Mr. Saunders doesn't have the authority.

00:43:41Well, it's his film.

00:43:42It's the property of the company.

00:43:43He's an employee of ours.

00:43:45The copyright belongs to the company.

00:43:47Who can I talk to?

00:43:48Who's your boss?

00:43:50Can I use the phone?

00:43:50You can talk to me.

00:43:51Well, obviously, if I want to see that film...

00:43:53As a matter of policy, I'm not convinced that we should let you.

00:43:56If I have to get a warrant, if I have to bring charges for withholding evidence, obstructing

00:44:00the police, believe me, Williams...

00:44:02I can talk to my program controller and I can talk to the authority.

00:44:05They have a representative here.

00:44:07How long will that take?

00:44:09Well, there are no rules for a situation like this.

00:44:12There's no predefined routine.

00:44:14There is someone in charge of this whole bloody operation, I suppose.

00:44:17Can't you talk to him?

00:44:18He'll refer the matter back.

00:44:20Look, it's my experience.

00:44:22When a man breaks through the barriers which prevent him committing this sort of crime,

00:44:26he goes on much more easily to the next.

00:44:28Now, he beat her senseless, strangled, then raped her after she was dead.

00:44:35Now, don't mean to hurt your feelings.

00:44:36I can be tactful if I've got time on my side.

00:44:39I can play that bloody game.

00:44:41In the event I don't have time...

00:44:43You don't have the right to condescend.

00:44:45I'm aware of the horrific circumstances.

00:44:47This man has cuts on his face.

00:44:50On his hands.

00:44:51Cuts and bruises he caught when he was fighting Miss McLean.

00:44:54Now, I have to find him before those cuts and bruises heal.

00:44:57If there's someone prepared to hide him, it's going to be difficult enough.

00:45:00It may be impossible.

00:45:01But I will not give up any opportunity.

00:45:03Before I show any film that we've taken to the police,

00:45:07film which you may want to use as evidence against the people in the film,

00:45:11I have to take advice.

00:45:13I can't make that decision on my own responsibility.

00:45:16I don't mean to obstruct your investigation,

00:45:18but it's more than the death of this unfortunate woman.

00:45:21As a matter of principle...

00:45:22Use your phone.

00:45:29Oh, it's Langton here, sir.

00:45:38I've got a problem.

00:45:38I need your help.

00:45:43Yes, I saw the program.

00:45:44That's a problem.

00:45:45There's more film.

00:45:46They won't let me see it.

00:45:47I can't waste time talking to them.

00:45:53You're right, sir.

00:45:55Yeah, I'm at their offices now.

00:45:56It's...

00:45:567-9-2-8-1.

00:45:587-9-2-8-1.

00:46:02Extension...

00:46:034-3-7-or-8.

00:46:054-3-7-or-8.

00:46:11Right, sir.

00:46:28Do you mind if I stay here?

00:46:30Make yourself at home.

00:46:34Janice, get the program controller.

00:46:36At home, if necessary.

00:46:38We'll use the phone in the outer office.

00:46:46What shall I do?

00:46:48Nothing.

00:46:49I don't know.

00:46:50Wait and see what happens.

00:47:02If you want me, I'll be in the bar.

00:47:04You won't speak to anyone?

00:47:06Is that an order?

00:47:08Rather you didn't.

00:47:10Okay.

00:47:18I would have gone down.

00:47:19I wouldn't let him.

00:47:21What did you hear?

00:47:21I wanted to go and help her.

00:47:23Why should you?

00:47:23Look, Mr Hutton, I don't care if you went down.

00:47:26If you didn't, why you didn't?

00:47:27That's your business.

00:47:27You can't go rushing into these things.

00:47:29What did you hear?

00:47:32Someone shouting.

00:47:33I don't know what she said exactly.

00:47:35What time is this?

00:47:3711.35.

00:47:38Precisely.

00:47:39I looked at my watch.

00:47:41I heard someone shouting.

00:47:42I looked to see what time it was.

00:47:43Did you see anything?

00:47:44There was a car.

00:47:47The car went to the window.

00:47:49I couldn't see much.

00:47:54And where was the car, sir?

00:47:56By the garages.

00:47:58Outside Seabree.

00:48:00He drove into the garages.

00:48:02I saw the headlights.

00:48:03Before you heard the woman shouting?

00:48:05Just after.

00:48:0611.40.

00:48:08Thereabouts.

00:48:11I suppose it was a fight and he went down and got himself beaten up.

00:48:14Does it sound like a fight?

00:48:15Leave him alone.

00:48:17And that is all you saw?

00:48:18I went to bed.

00:48:20It's not up to him.

00:48:21And you never heard anything else?

00:48:23I was in the bathroom.

00:48:24No, I didn't.

00:48:26By the time I went to bed, it was quiet.

00:48:29Not his responsibility.

00:48:30And you never heard anything?

00:48:31No, I didn't.

00:48:33I should have gone down, I know that.

00:48:36What sort of girl was she anyway?

00:48:42What will I do?

00:48:44I can't manage.

00:48:46Not on me own.

00:48:47I'm not on your own.

00:48:49I am here.

00:48:50How long will you stay?

00:48:52I've already told Leslie, as long as you need me.

00:48:57And Nate Carroll.

00:49:00Try not to upset yourself.

00:49:02Or you won't sleep again tonight.

00:49:05You won't stay.

00:49:07Well, I thought I could sleep here tonight.

00:49:10You can sleep in Carol's room.

00:49:11Well, I'll be quite comfortable.

00:49:13She don't need it now.

00:49:16It don't seem right.

00:49:18They'll push me out of here, you know.

00:49:21As soon as they know I can't pay the rent, they won't let me stay.

00:49:25I was afraid.

00:49:27I heard the woman screaming on you what I ought to do.

00:49:30I was frightened.

00:49:33I didn't go down.

00:49:35When I spoke to you last night, you told me you didn't hear anything.

00:49:38I was ashamed I couldn't tell you.

00:49:40I don't know why I told that young man from the TV.

00:49:42It made it so much worse telling him.

00:49:45If I just told you, he's the only people who know him.

00:49:48What a coward.

00:49:50A pitiful coward.

00:49:51When did you hear her scream?

00:49:53I'm sorry, I didn't mean to...

00:49:55Can you remember?

00:49:57It was half past eleven the first time.

00:50:00And again at quarter to twelve.

00:50:04Did you see anything?

00:50:07You didn't look out of the window?

00:50:08No, no.

00:50:10What did you do?

00:50:12I phoned the police.

00:50:14I didn't give my name.

00:50:16I didn't want to get, what they say, involved.

00:50:21It's a good thing somebody called us.

00:50:23I didn't the first time.

00:50:25I thought someone will.

00:50:26I don't have to, so I didn't.

00:50:29While I'm here, I'd like to talk to Mrs Clark.

00:50:32She's not here.

00:50:34But she was here last night.

00:50:36Is she staying with her sister?

00:50:39Yes, she was here.

00:50:41Can you let me have her sister?

00:50:42She didn't hear anything.

00:50:43I have to talk to her.

00:50:45I wish you wouldn't.

00:50:46She's very upset.

00:50:49She only heard what I heard.

00:50:51I promise you.

00:50:51Can't you take my word for it?

00:50:52It's not a question of taking your word, Mr Clark.

00:50:55It's a question...

00:50:55She wanted me to go down.

00:50:58She knew it was a woman.

00:51:00What was happening.

00:51:03I couldn't go down.

00:51:07Your wife knew?

00:51:08Oh, she didn't know, but...

00:51:11She's a very sensitive woman.

00:51:14She won't come back here.

00:51:16She says she won't.

00:51:19She's left me for the moment.

00:51:22I don't know how to make her come back.

00:51:24What was it frightened you so much?

00:51:28Just the thought I might get hurt.

00:51:31Someone waiting.

00:51:32There was someone.

00:51:34If I went down...

00:51:37I would hear such dreadful things.

00:51:40They might hurt me.

00:51:43Nothing like that has happened around here before.

00:51:46I listened to myself telling that young man this afternoon.

00:51:50I heard her call for help and I did nothing.

00:51:54Why did I tell him that?

00:51:56Now, Mr Clark, tell me what happened.

00:51:59I did hear something, yes.

00:52:01I didn't know really what it was.

00:52:04Did you go down and look?

00:52:05To see what was happening?

00:52:06No, I didn't.

00:52:08Excuse me, madam.

00:52:09I wonder if I could trouble you for a moment.

00:52:10Just ask you a couple of questions.

00:52:12No, madam.

00:52:13It's just literally to ask you a couple of questions about whether you knew Carol McLean.

00:52:16Did you know her?

00:52:18Madam?

00:52:19Excuse me, sir.

00:52:19Did you know the dead girl?

00:52:22Excuse me, young man.

00:52:23Could I have a word with you, please?

00:52:25Did you know Carol McLean?

00:52:26Yeah, I knew Carol.

00:52:27Shut up.

00:52:28Would you like to tell me about her?

00:52:30Well, she was sort of average, you know.

00:52:32You wouldn't notice that.

00:52:33Nothing special.

00:52:34Now, fellas, can you give me a break, please?

00:52:37Excuse me.

00:52:38Would you mind?

00:52:38You know, the viewers actually want to hear about this.

00:52:41Now, tell me anything special you noticed about Carol.

00:52:43Nothing.

00:52:44I mean, you couldn't talk to her type of thing.

00:52:46I mean, she weren't chatty.

00:52:47She was just, you know.

00:52:48She was, she was.

00:52:49She weren't chatty.

00:52:50I'm sorry.

00:52:51Yeah, okay.

00:52:52She was.

00:52:53Well, thank you very much.

00:52:55Where are we?

00:52:56G1.

00:52:58What an end.

00:52:59Okay.

00:53:02Madam, could I have a few words with you just to talk and have your comment on this terrible disaster?

00:53:07Well, it's the first thing I've heard about it.

00:53:09It's terrible.

00:53:10Yes, well, did you know, Carol McLean?

00:53:11No, I don't live on this estate.

00:53:13But it could happen anywhere, couldn't it?

00:53:15But anyway, what was she doing out so late and all on her own?

00:53:19Yes, well, thank you very much.

00:53:20Okay, Bourne, Bourne.

00:53:21How do you find them?

00:53:22That's not the problem.

00:53:25See, take one.

00:53:26Action.

00:53:29Tell me, Mr. Hutton, in your own words, exactly what you heard and what you did.

00:53:34Yeah, well, I would have gone down if I had any idea, but, er, well, you have to understand the

00:53:39sort of noise I heard. It was, er, well, more shouting, not exactly screaming.

00:53:44Did Hutton volunteer?

00:53:46So you didn't go down?

00:53:46I didn't twist his arm.

00:53:48How did you get him to admit he heard the girl?

00:53:51I asked him if he did and he said yes.

00:53:54We should have this lad on the strength.

00:53:57Why is that, Mr. Hutton?

00:53:58Well, anything can happen to you in the lift.

00:54:01I mean, you get in the ground floor, it's empty.

00:54:04Next stop, anybody can get in.

00:54:06You're at their mercy.

00:54:08Did you know, Carol McLean?

00:54:11No, it's not a question of knowing the poor girl.

00:54:13I mean, if I'd known what was happening, I'd have gone down.

00:54:16We're not animals.

00:54:18I just didn't know, that's all.

00:54:20One other thing.

00:54:21I hope the police show rather more initiative finding this man than they usually do in cases like this.

00:54:26Cheeky beggar.

00:54:28I mean, they spent the whole night asking ridiculous questions,

00:54:33keeping decent people out of their beds,

00:54:35when they ought to have been out searching for the sort of person who commits this kind of...

00:54:38And what sort of man is that?

00:54:40Thank you very much.

00:54:40Sorry, sir.

00:54:42Not sitting in the bloody cinema.

00:54:44No, sir.

00:54:46Okay, Tom, then, we're ready in your own time.

00:54:50Well, I just wanted to say...

00:54:53Yes?

00:54:55It's no more than my opinion, of course, but I think the police should talk to Charlie Jackson.

00:55:01Now, why do you think that?

00:55:03It's certainly my opinion.

00:55:05It's all right, Tom.

00:55:06Relax.

00:55:07Now, just say what you said to me.

00:55:09Don't be afraid.

00:55:10Ask my wife.

00:55:12You ask her, she's told me more times than my youngest.

00:55:15He's talked to her coming out from school and she's now more than a kid.

00:55:17Listen, what did he say?

00:55:18Phil from...

00:55:19We talked to this fellow, Jackson.

00:55:21I haven't seen him, sir.

00:55:22Does Meredith know you're showing this to the police?

00:55:24Well, she's been very carefully.

00:55:25Yes, I'm sure.

00:55:26No, but you have no specific reason to think that he might be involved.

00:55:29I just know him.

00:55:30That's all.

00:55:30I know what he's like.

00:55:31You haven't, say, seen him tampering?

00:55:34Well, he's just that type.

00:55:37Oh, well, I'm not going to say any more.

00:55:39I mean, you wanted an opinion.

00:55:41Yes, fine, Tom.

00:55:41Fine.

00:55:43Really?

00:55:44All right.

00:55:44I'll tell you why.

00:55:46He's been in prison.

00:55:47That's why.

00:55:49Everybody knows.

00:55:50I mean, he's found him.

00:55:50True.

00:55:51He hasn't been.

00:55:52No idea, sir.

00:55:53The police might want to talk to him.

00:55:54I'll tell you.

00:55:55If they're doing their job, they are.

00:55:56Bet you mean?

00:55:56Yes.

00:55:57I mean, if they are.

00:55:57Now.

00:55:58Doing their job properly, they will.

00:56:00Now, Tom, if we can move on.

00:56:02I understand that you yourself were one of the very first tenants to move into the home

00:56:06estate when it was...

00:56:07Have you talked to Meredith?

00:56:08No, I haven't.

00:56:09Well, I think you'd better.

00:56:10I'll talk to him later.

00:56:11Later?

00:56:11It's too late.

00:56:12Perhaps we'd better stop for a moment.

00:56:13I'm sorry about all this.

00:56:15Don't apologize for me.

00:56:16No, don't worry.

00:56:16I won't.

00:56:17As yet, the police have made mistakes.

00:56:20I'm going to appreciate your anxiety, Miss Butler.

00:56:22I don't intend to use any of this film as evidence.

00:56:24It's just so we can find some more people who might have been witnesses.

00:56:29Do your own dirty work.

00:56:30Leave it out, love.

00:56:32Informers in the normal way.

00:56:33It's their choice.

00:56:34They come to you.

00:56:35Well, they need some persuasion more often than not.

00:56:37You don't have the right.

00:56:39Well, I can get a warrant.

00:56:40Well, why don't you?

00:56:41Well, it saves time if we all agree.

00:56:42Special privileges.

00:56:43And I don't want to waste time, Janice.

00:56:46Why should we cooperate?

00:56:47A woman was murdered last night.

00:56:49Until we find the man responsible, it's quite possible he'll find another unsuspecting victim.

00:56:53What have all these people got to do with that?

00:56:55Look, what are you going on about?

00:56:56There's no moral issues here.

00:56:58I'm not asking anyone to betray her confidence.

00:57:00I see what all the fuzz is about.

00:57:01Dennis, what are you doing?

00:57:02Sticking up for them?

00:57:04These people knew they were being filmed when they talked to Mr. Saunders.

00:57:07I don't know what the argument's about.

00:57:09It wasn't all made public.

00:57:10I shall hope not.

00:57:11What about Charlie Jackson?

00:57:12He doesn't know what's being said.

00:57:14You didn't talk to him.

00:57:15You haven't given him a chance.

00:57:16Is it likely if...

00:57:17They're going after the poor bloody man.

00:57:19And what's he done?

00:57:20Apart from get on the wrong side of that stupid twit.

00:57:22Come on, Janice.

00:57:23Let's get out of here.

00:57:23No, I bloody won't.

00:57:25We have to find this man.

00:57:26You don't disagree with that.

00:57:28I disagree with the dirty means you're using to do it.

00:57:31These people do have some rights.

00:57:33When personal liberty includes the right to rape and murder,

00:57:36I think it's time to have another look at the basic principles.

00:57:38Come on, Dennis.

00:57:39Are you getting all this down?

00:57:40Lodge of formal protest.

00:57:42I'd like to get on.

00:57:43In the morning?

00:57:44Whenever.

00:57:45After you've seen the film and made your joke.

00:57:47Right now, if you can find the necessary people.

00:57:49How many of them work the hours we do?

00:57:51You're breaking my heart.

00:57:52Whatever you're going to do, Miss Butler,

00:57:54please go and do it.

00:57:56We have important business.

00:57:58I'm right about this.

00:58:00The question's too complicated to discuss under these circumstances.

00:58:03And it doesn't really interest you.

00:58:05Later, perhaps.

00:58:06Oh, yeah.

00:58:08In the meantime.

00:58:10Okay, Freddie, let's get on with it.

00:58:13The police have made no statement about an early arrest.

00:58:38What you been doing?

00:58:41Been a while.

00:58:42How long is it?

00:58:43Hey, Jackson.

00:58:46Well, three or four years.

00:58:48Longer.

00:58:49Must be...

00:58:49What?

00:58:50You were...

00:58:52What?

00:58:52Sixteen.

00:58:53What have you been doing?

00:58:56Not much.

00:58:58Odd jobs.

00:59:00You know why we want to see you.

00:59:03Mr. Langton's been hearing things.

00:59:04You know, Mr. Langton?

00:59:07He's a superintendent.

00:59:08He's in charge of this murder inquiry.

00:59:10You know there's been a murder.

00:59:14What do you know?

00:59:17On the telly.

00:59:18This bloke.

00:59:19He was talking about it.

00:59:22You live on a home estate.

00:59:24Did you know the girl?

00:59:25No, I don't know her.

00:59:27I've never seen her.

00:59:29No.

00:59:30What's the matter?

00:59:31I don't know her.

00:59:34Oh.

00:59:37Did you hear anything last night?

00:59:41Well, you must have heard some things.

00:59:42Quiet around here.

00:59:43It's not the bloody grave.

00:59:44I wasn't home last night.

00:59:46Where were you?

00:59:46Birmingham.

00:59:48What were you doing in Birmingham?

00:59:49I went up to see my brother.

00:59:51I'm gonna work for him.

00:59:52He's got a job for me.

00:59:55Well, there's nothing doing for me around here.

00:59:58I don't like it around here with people talking about me.

01:00:01Do they talk?

01:00:02Some of the kids.

01:00:04What do they say?

01:00:06They found out I was done for thieving.

01:00:08They get on to me about it.

01:00:11I'll have to talk to your brother.

01:00:13Why?

01:00:15You don't have to see him.

01:00:17I haven't done anything.

01:00:18It was half past one before I got back home.

01:00:20Now you don't have to talk to him.

01:00:23He's gonna think that...

01:00:25Well, what's he gonna think if the police get on to him?

01:00:29I've gotta talk to him.

01:00:31But he's only doing it because our mother...

01:00:33You're on the phone.

01:00:33He's got his number.

01:00:40What's he gonna think?

01:00:42Yes, yes.

01:00:43I always take Toby for a walk last thing.

01:00:45Last night?

01:00:46Yes, yes.

01:00:47At this same time?

01:00:48What is the time?

01:00:49You see, Toby always tells me when it's time for his...

01:00:5125th 11th.

01:00:51Last night.

01:00:52Did you see a young woman?

01:00:53No, no.

01:00:54You don't see many people about this time of night.

01:00:55In fact, I was quite startled seeing you.

01:00:57Uh-huh.

01:00:58Wait a bit.

01:00:59Wait a bit.

01:01:00Yes, there is her.

01:01:01There is a young woman, a girl.

01:01:02I see her most nights.

01:01:03Walking home, I suppose.

01:01:05Walking alone?

01:01:06Yes, yes.

01:01:07Did you see which way she went?

01:01:08She goes towards Seabree through those garages.

01:01:10Then I lose sight of her.

01:01:11You didn't follow her?

01:01:12No, no.

01:01:13I'm going in the opposite direction.

01:01:16What do you mean, follow her?

01:01:18What's all this about?

01:01:20We're trying to establish this young woman's movements last night,

01:01:22between 11.30 and midnight.

01:01:25I'm not sure I should be talking to you.

01:01:27If there's something serious, then I...

01:01:29Is there any reason why you shouldn't want to talk to me?

01:01:33Perhaps you'll come down to the station with me, sir.

01:01:35Oh, no.

01:01:35It might be better.

01:01:36We can get this sorted out quite quickly.

01:01:37No, I'm not coming with you.

01:01:39If there's no reason to refuse.

01:01:41If you've got nothing to hide.

01:01:43What is your name?

01:01:45Wilding.

01:01:46Constable Wilding.

01:01:47Before I answer any more questions, Constable Wilding,

01:01:49I want to know what all this is about.

01:01:52A young woman was murdered on this estate last night.

01:01:56You must have heard about it.

01:01:58No.

01:01:59Am I to understand, and would you make this quite clear,

01:02:02that you think I might have had something to do with the death of this woman?

01:02:04No, sir.

01:02:05Then why are you questioning me?

01:02:07I thought I saw you last night, with your dog.

01:02:09And I thought you might have seen her.

01:02:11I did.

01:02:11I told you I did.

01:02:13I saw a woman.

01:02:17Is that the...

01:02:18Is that the extent of your interest in me?

01:02:20Yes, sir.

01:02:22Good night.

01:02:23Come on, Toby.

01:02:24Come on.

01:02:26Mr. Lang.

01:02:26Excuse me.

01:02:28Will you tell me where you live?

01:02:31Mallory.

01:02:31Flat 28.

01:02:33Thank you, sir.

01:02:34I suppose I should have to expect a visit from some of your more experienced colleagues, eh?

01:02:38I can't say so.

01:02:40Come on, Toby.

01:02:46Why did you talk to him in the first place?

01:02:48I wanted to ask him, did he see her?

01:02:51You have to tread carefully, you realise that.

01:02:54Yes, sir.

01:02:55Because if he takes off, I'm not saying he will, but if he does...

01:02:58I know.

01:03:00Is it quiet out there?

01:03:02It's quiet enough.

01:03:04All right.

01:03:06I want you, without drawing attention to yourself, to stay close to...

01:03:10What was it?

01:03:10Mallory?

01:03:11Flat 28.

01:03:12But you don't go near him.

01:03:14Right?

01:03:15Interested enough?

01:03:16Didn't tell us much?

01:03:17A few more people we can talk to.

01:03:20What are you doing here?

01:03:22Wilding talked to a man, sir, who might have seen the woman.

01:03:25Seen her?

01:03:26Walking home.

01:03:27What was he doing?

01:03:29He was taking his daughter for a walk.

01:03:31You talked to him?

01:03:32I asked him if he'd seen the woman, sir.

01:03:35He said yes.

01:03:36He often saw her.

01:03:37Almost every night.

01:03:38Where was she?

01:03:39Close to Seabury.

01:03:40Show me.

01:03:41Was she on her own?

01:03:43Yes.

01:03:44When he saw her, she was on her own.

01:03:46There.

01:03:47What's his name?

01:03:49Lang.

01:03:50Lives in Mallory.

01:03:51Flat 28.

01:03:52Sergeant Jennings doesn't approve of uniform doing plain clothes work.

01:03:55Yes.

01:03:56I thought I was doing the right thing, sir.

01:03:58If he's the fellow we want, the lad, you should have brought him in.

01:04:01I asked him to come with me, sir, but he refused.

01:04:04Are you keeping an eye on this fellow, Lang?

01:04:07Wilding's only just told me, sir.

01:04:08I think it'd be a good idea.

01:04:09Yes, sir.

01:04:10I asked one of the panda cars to stay in the area, sir, until I got back.

01:04:14You did well, lad.

01:04:16I saw his face.

01:04:17Did he look as if he'd been in a fight?

01:04:19No, sir.

01:04:19Did he scratch his cuts?

01:04:20Bruises?

01:04:21Nothing.

01:04:22You'll see clearly.

01:04:23Did you scare him off?

01:04:24He didn't seem scared, sir.

01:04:26He asked if he might expect a visit from some more experienced colleagues.

01:04:30Sergeant Garrett with you.

01:04:32Show him where this fellow lives.

01:04:33Sir.

01:04:42There's a man living in Seabury, sir.

01:04:44He could have been right next to them.

01:04:46Hutton saw his car drive in and park after he heard the woman scream.

01:04:50Assuming he didn't hear the scream.

01:04:53Of course he had his engine running.

01:04:55What's he gonna tell us?

01:04:56Well, he could have seen the woman and the man.

01:04:58He could have just walked away.

01:05:00No one's gonna do that.

01:05:01Well, half a dozen people bloody heard her.

01:05:03What do they do?

01:05:05Lang sounds the sort of man we're looking for.

01:05:11Would make it easier.

01:05:12He sees a walking home each night.

01:05:15Last night he decided to follow her.

01:05:18He talks to her.

01:05:18She tries to get away.

01:05:19Things start going wrong and he panics.

01:05:23Didn't mean to kill her.

01:05:25Well, the alternative is a maniac.

01:05:27We've no more sense than we can understand.

01:05:30No chance of getting hold of him unless we catch him bang at it.

01:05:34Next time around.

01:05:35He's a nutter.

01:05:37Not necessarily.

01:05:39You may like to beat up women.

01:05:41Rape, murder.

01:05:43Some of my best friends.

01:05:46Cheers.

01:05:51He's crazy, all right.

01:05:53It's a question of degree.

01:05:56If he knows what happened.

01:05:58If he feels remorse.

01:05:59Then we're in with a chance.

01:06:02Last night's a blank.

01:06:04What happened to me?

01:06:05How did I get these scratches on my face?

01:06:08Is someone prepared to hide him?

01:06:15Well, we can bang on every door, look in every bloody room.

01:06:21Still and all, we're going to need help.

01:06:22We're not supermen.

01:06:25We've got to keep stirring up the mud.

01:06:28What happened to those television people?

01:06:30As yesterday's headlines, as far as they're concerned, they won't be back.

01:06:34Yes, they will.

01:06:34Well, we'll bring them back.

01:06:37Keep bringing the mud to the surface.

01:06:43Hello.

01:06:46Has your husband turned up?

01:06:48He phoned.

01:06:49He didn't say where from.

01:06:51He's not coming back, I know.

01:06:54I know.

01:07:09I've talked to you.

01:07:15I've remembered.

01:07:17Night Carol set out.

01:07:20Just before there was a bunch of kids out here.

01:07:23Waiting for her, were they?

01:07:25Joking about.

01:07:26Some of them came in and bought chips.

01:07:28They talked to her?

01:07:30Might have.

01:07:31I was busy.

01:07:33Did she know them?

01:07:35Huh?

01:07:35Did you know them?

01:07:36I've got a lot of kids coming in.

01:07:38I'd know them if I saw them again.

01:07:41When you do, Mr Newman, you let us know.

01:07:43We'll talk to them.

01:07:44You should.

01:07:46That's a trouble.

01:07:47What?

01:07:49Kids.

01:07:50All these kids.

01:07:52Come in here, talking like I'm not there.

01:07:56You should listen to them sometimes, I can tell you.

01:07:58Oh, then that's a bad.

01:07:59Why don't you have them at the shop again?

01:08:01I'm not open.

01:08:01I've got a few chips.

01:08:02Look, I don't have to open if I don't want to.

01:08:04Nobody says you that.

01:08:05Look, they talk sex.

01:08:07All the time.

01:08:09Decent people couldn't hear them.

01:08:11All the filth.

01:08:14No self-control.

01:08:15Oh.

01:08:15As long as it's just talk.

01:08:17Oh, there's more than just talking goes on.

01:08:19Mr Newman.

01:08:20If you're saying these kids waited for Miss McLean and then followed them.

01:08:24No, no, I didn't say that.

01:08:25But they got hold of her and did her in.

01:08:26Come on, Sandy.

01:08:27He's waiting for us.

01:08:28Right, we're all ready.

01:08:29Then you should have some evidence to support it.

01:08:32Other than your narrow-minded and malicious spy bubbles.

01:08:34Come on, Sandy.

01:08:35Come on.

01:08:38Take your position, please, love.

01:08:42Turn it.

01:08:44Right, and turn over.

01:08:47Speed, mark it.

01:08:48Ten, take one.

01:08:51And action.

01:08:57Move along, ma'am.

01:08:59Move along, ma'am.

01:09:01Keep back, please.

01:09:19Move along, ma'am.

01:09:25New food.

01:09:26Just wanna move along.

01:09:36New food.

01:09:39CTA College inhale.

01:09:41Customer身.沒

01:09:45order. Just

01:09:45as far as on, Ruben

01:09:45up. Your Fuel's

01:09:46daughter's head.

01:09:54This is my favorite dish.

01:09:55I'm going to make the dish.

01:10:05It's not the dish.

01:10:07I'm going to make it.

01:10:08It's a dish.

01:10:09I'm going to make it.

01:10:17I'm going to make the dish.

01:10:46All right, sir?

01:10:47Okay.

01:10:49On you come, Dale.

01:11:02Carol came to us...

01:11:06Well...

01:11:07Well, I can tell you exactly. Let's see.

01:11:11She came to us in 72...

01:11:16Yes, three years ago.

01:11:18She was quite reliable.

01:11:20A shade reluctant to assume responsibility.

01:11:22Uh, did she make any friends?

01:11:24No, not easily.

01:11:26But did she make friends with any of the men who work here?

01:11:29Well, I think she spoke to them, you know, sometimes in the canteen.

01:11:34No, I don't think she made friends.

01:11:36I don't think she made friends of anyone here, really.

01:11:40I don't think she saw people in the office, out of office hours.

01:11:45She had a mother.

01:11:46She looked after, didn't she?

01:11:47Yes.

01:11:48Yes, she never seemed to have very much time to herself.

01:11:53No, I'm sorry.

01:11:54I cannot have any more interruption.

01:11:55I'm sorry.

01:11:56Sorry, Mr.

01:11:59Well, she did have another job.

01:12:02Um, how do you mean?

01:12:03In the evenings.

01:12:05Yes?

01:12:06No, you didn't know.

01:12:09Well, I mean, there was nothing to say that she couldn't.

01:12:12We, uh, we don't interfere with our girls.

01:12:14What they do when they leave work is their own affair.

01:12:17We don't pry.

01:12:19What sort of job?

01:12:20Oh, well, I'm sorry I shouldn't have asked.

01:12:24No, she worked in a fishing trip, John.

01:12:29Short of money.

01:12:33I mean, Carol could have had such a good job.

01:12:36I told her often enough.

01:12:45I suppose that, um,

01:12:48the reason Carol was walking home so late

01:12:51was because she was coming home for work.

01:12:54Yes.

01:12:54Yeah.

01:12:55Yes, I did wonder.

01:12:57When I read about the time, you know,

01:13:01Carol walking home alone.

01:13:04Well, it, um, just didn't seem like her.

01:13:17Well, this is the path that Carol...

01:13:19Well, we've made a big time tonight.

01:13:22First the local news.

01:13:23Now this.

01:13:25Fingerprint.

01:13:26Your chance to help the law.

01:13:27Neighbours behaving strangely.

01:13:29Don't knock.

01:13:30After following that path.

01:13:32And we see her now

01:13:35turning into the entrance

01:13:36of the fish of luck where she lived.

01:13:43The last minutes of Carol McLean's life.

01:13:47Now once again,

01:13:49did anything in that film jog your memory?

01:13:52Remember the murder was committed late at night.

01:13:55The reconstruction was filmed in daylight

01:13:58only for purposes of clarity.

01:14:00So try and remember.

01:14:02Late at night.

01:14:04The Fisher Building.

01:14:05Anything that can help the police

01:14:07to know more about this final fatal walk

01:14:09will be of great value.

01:14:10And the number to ring...

01:14:11Maybe if we offer prizes

01:14:13then we can get them really interested.

01:14:15Free trips to the Bahamas.

01:14:16All expenses paid.

01:14:18Holiday for two at the Honeymoon Hotel.

01:14:20Not a bad idea.

01:14:21Maybe the chief comes for one, Helen.

01:14:23All right lads, back you go.

01:14:24Pretty good asking.

01:14:25He might fancy himself doing a Huey Green

01:14:27getting on the telly.

01:14:28The winner of our grand priors

01:14:30for laying information

01:14:31which led to the arrest

01:14:32and the subsequent conviction.

01:14:33What about Chummy with the dog?

01:14:35No, there's nothing left.

01:14:36No, his dog gives him an alibi.

01:14:38Says he was with him all the time.

01:14:39He never had the opportunity.

01:14:40Back home at 11.30.

01:14:42Three people saw him coming in.

01:14:44They all went up in the lift together.

01:14:45What about the bloke with the car?

01:14:47Nah, you could do him for drunken driving

01:14:49if you wanted to.

01:14:49If you could catch him at it.

01:14:51He got home round about 11.25, his wife says.

01:14:53Went straight to bed,

01:14:54falling down drunk.

01:14:55Never said a word.

01:14:56Can you believe the wife?

01:14:57Well, I can believe the neighbours.

01:14:59They were out in force.

01:15:01Outage wives and mothers

01:15:02discussing the problem of the heavy drink

01:15:04or all their husbands.

01:15:04I can see why.

01:15:06When's this residence meeting called for?

01:15:08About now, I think.

01:15:09Jennings there?

01:15:10The eyes and ears of the world.

01:15:12And this evening,

01:15:14following the television reconstruction of the crime,

01:15:16I spoke to Detective Chief Inspector Harris.

01:15:21I told him about this meeting

01:15:23and I asked him to be here

01:15:25or to send a representative.

01:15:29Understandably, with the demands of the investigation,

01:15:32he's not able to attend.

01:15:35Sergeant Jennings is here to speak on his behalf.

01:15:39And I can't think of a more creative way to begin this discussion

01:15:43than by asking Sergeant Jennings to address us.

01:15:48I'm here as an observer, Mr Hutton, not a participant.

01:15:53We, the police,

01:15:57consider the formation of vigilante groups

01:15:59to be both unnecessary and quite possibly dangerous.

01:16:04I can't advise you to continue with this meeting.

01:16:07You don't have the authority to stop us.

01:16:09In my opinion, Mr Hutton,

01:16:10it'll only lead to violence.

01:16:12Quite probably against innocent people.

01:16:14Sergeant Jennings,

01:16:15you don't deny the police force is undermanned.

01:16:18It's our job to protect you and your families.

01:16:20It's not a job for the general public.

01:16:22We don't see many policemen on the estate.

01:16:25This area doesn't require intensive policing.

01:16:28There are regular patrols.

01:16:29Not regular enough.

01:16:31Carol McLean might still be alive.

01:16:32I'd like to point out that it's quite possible

01:16:34Carol McLean died because her neighbors

01:16:35didn't have the concern to go and help her.

01:16:38Well, have you seen the information sheet?

01:16:41We've had a bunch of people ringing in already.

01:16:44All comes from stirring the mud.

01:16:46No, we'll talk to him in the morning.

01:16:51It's too late. I'm going home.

01:16:54I saw the bloke Newman

01:16:55who runs the fish and chip shop where she worked.

01:16:58He was going on about some kids.

01:16:59Yeah, I talked to him.

01:17:00Lucky thing, he's got a decent story.

01:17:01The way he felt about the girl.

01:17:03He'd be down here helping us, et cetera, et cetera.

01:17:05There's something going on?

01:17:06If it wasn't, it's not his fault.

01:17:08Not for one of trying.

01:17:10What did he say about the kids?

01:17:11We didn't take it seriously.

01:17:13They were just hanging about.

01:17:14I'll decide what we take seriously.

01:17:16Yes, sir.

01:17:18The pain is to advertise.

01:17:20Yes, sir.

01:17:22Newman says there was a bunch of kids hanging around

01:17:25just before he closed and she went home.

01:17:28Yep.

01:17:28And they went after?

01:17:30The implication, yes, sir.

01:17:31They followed her onto the estate.

01:17:32Never.

01:17:33No, sir.

01:17:34It doesn't seem likely.

01:17:35We'll see if you can find out who they were.

01:17:36It won't hurt talking to them.

01:17:37I'll see you in the morning.

01:17:55I don't know if it means anything, but I've noticed something very strange about the family living next door to

01:18:02me.

01:18:02Oh, yes?

01:18:03What's that?

01:18:04The husband hasn't been to work these last three days.

01:18:07Hardly gone out of the flat.

01:18:09But is he sick?

01:18:10The doctor hasn't been.

01:18:12You're sure of that?

01:18:14Well, not absolutely certain, but I saw him this afternoon when his wife came back with the children.

01:18:20He opened the door.

01:18:21Doesn't look sick.

01:18:23Well, if you give me his name.

01:18:26Barry Raskin.

01:18:27Yes, and her name's Jessica.

01:18:30He's got these nasty scratches on his face.

01:19:10He's got these vules Sue, so I can get them out and do something.

01:19:12My name is Melody.

01:19:12He helped me now, but is that Mazda's what I'm supposed to love with?

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01:19:22Jesus. She can only

01:19:23leave him with opening up. After all.

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01:19:29I'll spend

01:19:45who is it mr. Ruskin yes detective superintendent Langton I see your

01:19:53husband he's not here I told you when will he be back I don't know I'm not expecting him back

01:20:06you open the door you can't come in I'm not dressed

01:20:19yes uh woman said she saw him sir so my way out no sir you can jump out the window

01:21:00asking detective superintendent Langton yeah I heard you I know

01:21:07oh look we shouldn't make a lot of noise the uh the kids are being difficult Jessica can't get

01:21:12down myself go to the station and we won't upset anyone they seem to know kids you noticed I don't

01:21:23have children they seem to know how do you get those scratches on your face Jessica didn't want

01:21:33to let me see you don't need to discuss your wife mr. Ruskin any involvement she thought

01:21:37she was gonna lose the baby when she when I came home when she saw me when was that

01:21:49I'll go with you to the station I just want to say goodbye to Jessica

01:21:58is there anyone who can help her with the children no the baby's doing four weeks she's going to the

01:22:06hospital she always has a bad time you see we can see she's taken care of she'll manage she always

01:22:29looks after herself

01:22:30I don't know they rang the doorbell yeah you'd be better off without me on your own with the kids

01:22:39you

01:22:40do you want to think so I want to go with them you don't have to they can't make you

01:22:48why did she find me I didn't want to hurt her it doesn't have to be painful she made it

01:22:55worse by

01:22:55fighting I mean why did she let him touch her body when he wants to make love to her what

01:23:02does he have to do

01:23:02anyway what does she make him do other people someone else me you have to blame don't you

01:23:08she knew what I wanted if she saw him what should she do in there walking there the darkest place

01:23:15she could find what was she looking for why does she scream well I didn't want her to give her

01:23:22one

01:23:22why shouldn't she decide what she wants for her own body she has some rights to decency and self-respect

01:23:32I'd better go with them yeah you can go with them

01:23:48somebody should have should have stopped me I mean they must have heard her screaming

01:23:55well I'll run away they should have stopped me

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