- 17 hours ago
First broadcast 18th April 1989.
Teddy Rose is a committed and successful salesman, allaying suburban insecurity with domestic alarm systems. But one evening violence confronts him face to face.
Kenneth Cranham - Teddy
Kenneth Colley - Det. Insp. Tennyson
Carol Drinkwater - Maggie
John Duttine - Tim
David Bradley - Harry
Lennox Greaves - Billy
Noel Collins - Ray
Sean Chapman - Danny
Elaine Donnelly - Christine
Lloyd McGuire - Jack
Peter Hughes - Mortimer
Simon James - Det Sgt Day
John Cunningham - Oswald
Richenda Carey - Ann (The Witness)
Peter Yapp - Peter (The Witness)
Alison Gorton - Teddy's Secretary
Matthew Hutchings - Teddy's Child - Thomas
Lydia Hutchings - Teddy's Child - Tamsin
Teddy Rose is a committed and successful salesman, allaying suburban insecurity with domestic alarm systems. But one evening violence confronts him face to face.
Kenneth Cranham - Teddy
Kenneth Colley - Det. Insp. Tennyson
Carol Drinkwater - Maggie
John Duttine - Tim
David Bradley - Harry
Lennox Greaves - Billy
Noel Collins - Ray
Sean Chapman - Danny
Elaine Donnelly - Christine
Lloyd McGuire - Jack
Peter Hughes - Mortimer
Simon James - Det Sgt Day
John Cunningham - Oswald
Richenda Carey - Ann (The Witness)
Peter Yapp - Peter (The Witness)
Alison Gorton - Teddy's Secretary
Matthew Hutchings - Teddy's Child - Thomas
Lydia Hutchings - Teddy's Child - Tamsin
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00:00:13BELL RINGS
00:00:17See them security systems.
00:00:19It's Teddy.
00:00:20Can you phone home after four, tell Maggie I'll be having my Friday drink at the club?
00:00:25I'll be home at the usual time.
00:00:30I preach the gospel of security.
00:00:34Right.
00:00:35See?
00:00:35Yeah.
00:00:36I leave home in the morning, I kiss my beautiful wife, I kiss my beautiful children, I've got, say, two
00:00:41nights on the road.
00:00:42What am I thinking?
00:00:43What are you thinking?
00:00:44What am I thinking?
00:00:45I don't know.
00:00:45A salesman always knows it's a state of mind.
00:00:48Yeah, but how am I supposed to know what you're thinking?
00:00:51Then you listen. A salesman always listens.
00:00:53Freedom.
00:00:55What?
00:00:56I'm free.
00:00:57What are you talking about?
00:00:58That's what are you thinking?
00:01:00Free?
00:01:01Two nights on the road.
00:01:03No, no, no.
00:01:03You're not listening.
00:01:04That's what I'd be thinking.
00:01:07No, you don't understand.
00:01:08Listen, I'm a happy man.
00:01:10Look.
00:01:11No, how can you understand?
00:01:14I'm sitting, I don't know, somewhere up north, Doncaster, say.
00:01:17I'm chasing a prospect.
00:01:18This man has got 23 rooms.
00:01:20I spent the evening working him out.
00:01:21Now it's midnight.
00:01:22I'm between one long day and another.
00:01:24I need to relax.
00:01:25So, take a shower, come down at the bar to be amongst my colleagues and friends, right?
00:01:29I can do that without fear.
00:01:31Nothing is hammering at the back of my brain.
00:01:33So, how do I do it?
00:01:34Harry.
00:01:36I don't know.
00:01:37Come on, Harry.
00:01:38No, I'm sorry.
00:01:39Can't think.
00:01:40He knows, right?
00:01:41He knows what I'm talking about.
00:01:42I can sit there without fear because I know that my beautiful wife and my beautiful children
00:01:47are safe.
00:01:48I'm not Mr Macduff, hmm?
00:01:50He knows what I'm talking about.
00:01:52No one's going to walk in there and give me a story of slaughter.
00:01:56Tell them the story of Mr Macduff, Billy.
00:01:58Mr Macduff?
00:01:59Shakespeare, Billy.
00:02:00Macbeth.
00:02:01What do you know about Macbeth?
00:02:02He didn't sell security.
00:02:04I'm safe because I have built a castle and around my castle is a moat.
00:02:09He knows.
00:02:10Billy knows.
00:02:10I've got magnetic switches to door and window, personal attack buttons, front and rear,
00:02:15pressure mats, vibration detectors, volumetrics, ultrasonic and PIR.
00:02:20I've got perimeter alarms and space alarms, right?
00:02:23Yeah, that's right.
00:02:24He knows.
00:02:25I have built a castle and around my castle is a moat.
00:02:30That's why I have no fear.
00:02:32You have fear, young man.
00:02:33Oh, yes, I can see that.
00:02:34And you, you have fear.
00:02:36What do I fear?
00:02:38Living.
00:02:38That's what you fear.
00:02:39And what is the price for this freedom from fear, this peace of mind?
00:02:42I'll tell you what it is.
00:02:43One-sixth of a family saloon.
00:02:45That's all it is.
00:02:46I can give peace of mind to a seven-room prospect for one-sixth of a family saloon.
00:02:51And that is my gospel of security.
00:02:54You sound like a Godfrey.
00:02:56Oh, sure.
00:02:56Why not?
00:02:57He's in the marketplace just the same as the rest of us.
00:03:00We're all after him, Mr John.
00:03:02Oh, yeah, you can laugh, my friend, but I'll tell you this.
00:03:04You can't sell if you're not sincere.
00:03:05You have to believe in what you sell.
00:03:07Just as the man selling Jesus has to believe.
00:03:11Now, my prospect is an anxious man.
00:03:14This thing we call the crime wave is making him ill with worry.
00:03:18What I'm gonna do is make him feel worse.
00:03:20Just for a while.
00:03:21I will walk into his house like a man who has Buddha.
00:03:25And I will tell him of this crime wave with figures that will make him shake.
00:03:29And yet he will see that I'm completely relaxed.
00:03:32A man who is in balance.
00:03:33He will look at me and he will not rest.
00:03:36Till he has what I have.
00:03:38This man is now on my string.
00:03:41Oh!
00:03:42Oh, God!
00:03:44Oh!
00:03:45Oh!
00:03:49What was all that about?
00:03:51His selling's gone to pieces.
00:03:53Harry?
00:03:53He's in the wrong game.
00:03:55What do you know?
00:03:55You've just got to look at him.
00:03:57He's been selling bathrooms for 20 years.
00:03:59Well, maybe it's the wrong product.
00:04:00No.
00:04:01A good salesman can sell anything for anybody.
00:04:04He's worn out.
00:04:06He's got in the wrong groove, that's all.
00:04:07He's too old.
00:04:08He's not 50.
00:04:09Yeah, but he's over 40.
00:04:11Nah, he's half bald.
00:04:12He's not bald.
00:04:13Half bald?
00:04:14So what if he is?
00:04:15Billy's half bald.
00:04:16He is, but he sells caravans.
00:04:17So?
00:04:18So he doesn't sell bathrooms.
00:04:20At 45, you have the right to be half bald.
00:04:22If he was a real knobhead, he might have a chance of turning on the women.
00:04:26But a scuff head shouldn't be selling bathrooms.
00:04:29You have to be right for what you sell.
00:04:30And what do you sell?
00:04:32Poison.
00:04:33What kind of poison?
00:04:35A kill vermin.
00:04:36I think he's got trouble at home.
00:04:39Oh, that's no good.
00:04:40That's no good at all.
00:04:41You have the backup, the family at home.
00:04:43It's like a battery recharge.
00:04:46You're not still at it?
00:04:48Yeah.
00:04:49Can't seem to stop.
00:04:52As soon as we get this finished, we can get on with the painting.
00:04:55This evening?
00:04:56No, I can't this evening, but certainly tomorrow and Sunday.
00:05:01Hi.
00:05:02I've just made some tea.
00:05:04Oh, would you like your dinner now?
00:05:05You eating with us?
00:05:06He's got a date.
00:05:07You have?
00:05:08Who with?
00:05:09Judy.
00:05:09Judy again?
00:05:11Yeah.
00:05:11I'm looking forward to meeting this Judy.
00:05:13Well, I have to be careful.
00:05:15She might fall in love with you.
00:05:17She'd better not.
00:05:19Dinner will be ready in five minutes.
00:05:20Okay.
00:05:20Where are the children?
00:05:21Lucy's.
00:05:22They'll be back at eight.
00:05:24Look at these.
00:05:26Aren't they beautiful?
00:05:28Oh, they're sweet.
00:05:29They've got Thomas and Thampton.
00:05:31I couldn't resist them.
00:05:33My wife is having an affair.
00:05:37Can you believe that?
00:05:40I found the letter.
00:05:41It was in her lingerie.
00:05:45A love letter?
00:05:47A kind of...
00:05:49Valentine.
00:05:51Was it signed?
00:05:53DD.
00:05:55DD?
00:05:56Ah, it's his pet name.
00:05:58David Donald Marsh.
00:06:01I know it's him.
00:06:03I matched his handwriting to a postcard he sent us from a cruise on the Rhine.
00:06:08He lives across the close.
00:06:10Our bedrooms.
00:06:13Face each other.
00:06:14This animal is my neighbour for Christ's sake.
00:06:16Harry, that's terrible.
00:06:18It's been going on for months.
00:06:20Maybe years for all I know.
00:06:24And all this time I've been living in the middle of...
00:06:28lies.
00:06:31Of course, as soon as I found the valentine I understood it all.
00:06:33All the gestures, the glances, the...
00:06:38cooing going on in front of my eyes in my own home.
00:06:40That's terrible.
00:06:42I mean...
00:06:44I have grown up children and this is going on.
00:06:47It's unforgivable, Harry.
00:06:49See, I think I'm a decent man.
00:06:52You are a decent man.
00:06:54I mean...
00:06:54No-one's perfect.
00:06:56Harry, you are one of the best.
00:07:00Well, I've dedicated my life to providing a home...
00:07:03for my family.
00:07:05I've driven 30,000 miles a year...
00:07:07for 20 years...
00:07:09to give them something to be proud of.
00:07:11You know that, Harry. I know you have.
00:07:13I don't understand it.
00:07:14After all these years...
00:07:17What have you said to your wife?
00:07:19I don't know what to do.
00:07:21Can't think any more.
00:07:22Your wife, Harry. What have you told her?
00:07:25Nothing.
00:07:26You haven't said anything.
00:07:28I'm frightened of losing her.
00:07:29You are losing her.
00:07:31I don't want to be on my own.
00:07:33I'm not a young man.
00:07:34If this was happening to me, I would take this man on.
00:07:36I would go to his home. I would knock on his door.
00:07:39Listen to me, Harry.
00:07:40And I would threaten him with his life.
00:07:42I mean, I would murder him. Do you understand?
00:07:44He has broken the rules.
00:07:46Your home is a sacred place.
00:07:48Listen to me.
00:07:48He has to understand that intruders will be attacked.
00:07:54Sometimes I think the world is crumbling.
00:07:58No, no, no.
00:08:00Listen.
00:08:0225 years ago,
00:08:03I was sitting in a bar in the small hours of the morning.
00:08:07There were four or five men, salesmen,
00:08:10swapping stories, vying for the spotlight.
00:08:12But there was this one dapper little man in the middle.
00:08:16A Leicester man he was.
00:08:17He wore the most fantastic shoes.
00:08:19He was holding the light and he was not giving way to anyone.
00:08:22I will tell you the secret of life.
00:08:25There are two kinds of people, he said.
00:08:29Marionettes.
00:08:30And their masters.
00:08:32I am a master of the marionettes.
00:08:34You have control of your destiny, but you have to hold the strings.
00:08:41Harry.
00:08:44I've never forgotten that.
00:08:48You should fight him.
00:08:50Fight him?
00:08:51Fight him.
00:08:53Well, how do you mean?
00:08:55Go out and go for him.
00:08:57With what?
00:08:59Whatever he likes.
00:09:00An axe?
00:09:03That's what he likes.
00:09:05Is that what you told him?
00:09:06I certainly did.
00:09:10You told Harry to go round to this man with an axe?
00:09:13Well, why not?
00:09:14He's taken Harry's wife for himself.
00:09:16And what about Harry's wife?
00:09:17What happens to her?
00:09:18If she wants to keep her marriage and her home,
00:09:20she has to repent so he can forgive.
00:09:24Maybe it's not quite as simple as that.
00:09:26What?
00:09:27Maybe Harry has slanted the truth to get your sympathy.
00:09:30I'd like to hear her story.
00:09:31Her story is very simple.
00:09:33She's having sex with Harry's friend and neighbour.
00:09:35Maybe she was driven to it.
00:09:37Driven to having sex with her neighbour?
00:09:39That's beside the point.
00:09:41What?
00:09:41But he's a neighbour.
00:09:43I don't understand.
00:09:44Well, it doesn't make any difference where he lives.
00:09:46I don't understand that.
00:09:47This is going on in a cul-de-sac.
00:09:49She may love him.
00:09:50May love who?
00:09:51Harry's wife may love her neighbour.
00:09:54She can't.
00:09:55Well, maybe she can't help it.
00:09:57What?
00:09:58Maybe Harry is boring.
00:10:00What are you saying?
00:10:02Maybe Harry has been boring for twenty years
00:10:04and this neighbour is a wonderful man.
00:10:06Are you saying it's Harry's fault?
00:10:08It could be.
00:10:09Out all hours working himself into the grave
00:10:11and his wife is having afternoon sex on his living room floor
00:10:13with his neighbour and it's his fault?
00:10:16If I was Harry, I would kill him.
00:10:19I need some red for the chilli.
00:10:21I don't have any red.
00:10:22Well, I can't make chilli without wine.
00:10:24I'll get some from the hat.
00:10:27And can you take the empties from the garage?
00:10:30Right.
00:10:35And if you're taking the car...
00:10:36No, I'll walk.
00:10:37It's nice though.
00:11:06I'll walk.
00:11:22Let's go.
00:11:25Let's go.
00:11:29I don't know.
00:12:16I don't know.
00:12:31I don't know.
00:12:37Quick, get me a doctor, a nurse, someone, anyone who knows what to do.
00:12:48It's over.
00:12:50You're going to be okay.
00:12:53It's going to be all right.
00:12:54Just hang on.
00:12:56Oh my God.
00:12:57Give me some help here.
00:12:58How did it happen?
00:12:59What do I do?
00:13:00Did you see?
00:13:01I don't know what to do.
00:13:02Was it a car?
00:13:03You...
00:13:04You're going to be okay.
00:13:05Okay.
00:13:06Just a few moments.
00:13:08It must have been a car or something.
00:13:10I have to stop this blood.
00:13:12I've never seen so much.
00:13:13Dear God.
00:13:15It's not stopping.
00:13:16It isn't stopping.
00:13:17It must have been a car.
00:13:18Go away.
00:13:20Will you go away?
00:13:20Some bandages.
00:13:22I need some bandages.
00:13:23Will he die, do you think?
00:13:25Jesus Christ.
00:13:26Poor man.
00:13:27Just a few moments.
00:13:29Just...
00:13:30Hang on.
00:13:30Hang on.
00:13:32Do you think he'll die?
00:13:33You stupid woman.
00:13:34Get out of it, will you?
00:13:48Mr. Rose.
00:13:51Congratulations.
00:13:52Detective Inspector Tennyson.
00:13:53Pleased to meet you.
00:13:54How is he?
00:13:55Do you know?
00:13:55He has lost a lot of blood
00:13:57and some internal bleeding is giving cause for concern,
00:13:59but I believe they're expecting him to pull through.
00:14:01Thank God for that.
00:14:03When will they know for certain?
00:14:04I would think tomorrow.
00:14:06I will call the first thing.
00:14:09I couldn't get the children to sleep.
00:14:11I had to tell them the whole story five times.
00:14:14They're very proud of him.
00:14:15Of course they are.
00:14:16Care for a drink?
00:14:17Not for me, thank you.
00:14:21Mr. Rose, I read the statement that you gave this afternoon.
00:14:25I'm awfully grateful, but I wonder if you'd mind recalling the events again.
00:14:30No, not at all.
00:14:31It's just to clear my mind.
00:14:33Yes, of course.
00:14:37Well, I left here to get a bottle of wine from the top hat.
00:14:41I cut through Windsor Avenue.
00:14:45I heard a cry.
00:14:47I couldn't quite place it at first, but I was alarmed enough to start running.
00:14:52When I turned into Windsor Avenue, I saw him lying there.
00:14:59Well, the first thing I did was take the chisel out of his stomach.
00:15:03I shouldn't have done that, should I?
00:15:04Why not?
00:15:06Because of the blood.
00:15:22Because of the blood.
00:15:23I couldn't stop the blood.
00:15:34I couldn't stop the ambulance.
00:15:35I sent another man off to...
00:15:39I can't remember.
00:15:41I asked for some first aid from this woman.
00:15:44So you were sending people away?
00:15:45I'm sorry?
00:15:46They were coming to help and you were sending them away to get a bandage, to get an ambulance,
00:15:50to get a doctor.
00:15:51Yeah, that's right.
00:15:52Soon enough, there was a whole bunch of us around him.
00:15:54Was there anything suspicious about anybody's behaviour?
00:15:57The people that were helping?
00:15:59Yes.
00:16:02Um...
00:16:03What kind of thing?
00:16:04I don't know.
00:16:05Anything unusual?
00:16:08I don't think so.
00:16:09Can you picture it in your mind?
00:16:13No, I've...
00:16:14There's a phone ringing.
00:16:15Yeah, I remember that now.
00:16:17Bloody phone ringing.
00:16:19I've never seen it stop.
00:16:21It must have been in Tim's house.
00:16:22A friend of ours.
00:16:24The assault happened outside his house.
00:16:26No.
00:16:26No.
00:16:26I was thinking of unusual behaviour in anyone who was helping.
00:16:31You see, the man who committed the assault could have been someone who later came to help.
00:16:35Oh.
00:16:37I hadn't thought of that.
00:16:39No.
00:16:40No, I can't recall anyone behaving in that kind of way.
00:16:43Well, don't you have any description of the man?
00:16:45No, I hadn't saw anybody, as far as we know at this stage.
00:16:49Well, surely the man we saved would be able to tell you something.
00:16:53Well, we hope so.
00:16:56Do let me know if anything else comes to mind, however trivial you may think it to be.
00:17:00Yes, of course.
00:17:01Goodbye, Mrs Rose.
00:17:05Oh, did I see a boat?
00:17:06Uh, in the garage.
00:17:08Yeah, I'm building it for the kids.
00:17:12You mean, this man was stabbed 17 times and lived?
00:17:16That's right.
00:17:17They're pulling him round right now.
00:17:18Oh, you don't stab a man 17 times and not hit something.
00:17:21Oh, he hit something.
00:17:23I've never seen so much blood.
00:17:25They told me he was a minute, two minutes from death.
00:17:28Who'd do something like that?
00:17:29Do they know who he is?
00:17:30No, don't have a description.
00:17:32I mean the man you saved.
00:17:33Question is, was he worth saving?
00:17:36What if you've just gone and saved a monster?
00:17:37His name's Oswald Jones, he's a librarian from Durham, came down for the weekend to visit his sister and he
00:17:42has no other connections here.
00:17:44It was a completely motiveless attack.
00:17:46How can an attack be motiveless? What you mean is they're looking for a motive.
00:17:50What make of chisel was it?
00:17:51What do you mean what make of chisel?
00:17:53What do you expect me to do?
00:17:54Look at the name plate when I was taking it out of his stomach.
00:17:56I think it's important.
00:17:57I wouldn't want to buy a chisel that can't kill a man after 17 goes.
00:18:00He was dying in my arms in the street.
00:18:02I could see the life draining from him.
00:18:05I could see that in his eyes.
00:18:07I shall never forget the way he was looking at me.
00:18:09He was a man without any hope of anything.
00:18:13I shall never forget that.
00:18:16I have a friend who hasn't sold a bathroom suite in six weeks because he's lost his pride in who
00:18:21he is and what he does.
00:18:22So I sat him down and I told him.
00:18:25It's the salesman who turned the wheels of the world.
00:18:27Think about it.
00:18:28Everything that's ever been known is in our keeping and we sow the world with that knowledge.
00:18:34You have to know your value.
00:18:35When you know your value then you can sell.
00:18:38Good publicity. Congratulations.
00:18:41Streets of fear and a home security salesman saves a man's life.
00:18:45Well done.
00:18:56I won't keep you more than a few moments.
00:18:59No, that's all right.
00:19:02Would you like some coffee?
00:19:03Only if it's no trouble.
00:19:05No.
00:19:07Excuse me, I ask you, Mrs Rose.
00:19:09The detective inspector here was telling me your husband's building a boat in the garage.
00:19:13Oh, yes?
00:19:13Well, I wondered if I might have a look at it.
00:19:17It's just that I'm thinking of building one myself, you know, something small for the kids.
00:19:21Yes, of course you can.
00:19:23I'll have to open up for you.
00:19:25You know, one of my things.
00:19:33Yes, I've had a look.
00:19:33Yes, I feel right.
00:19:38You must go in there.
00:19:39Yes, sir.
00:19:39We did this, Wood.
00:19:40Youeres?
00:19:41We did that, originally?
00:19:42No, no.
00:19:43We did it.
00:19:44Yes, sir.
00:19:47Any that sign number one.
00:19:50Who were forced acquitted.
00:19:51As you didn't know, what problem is our house?
00:19:52Ah, have to go to us and try and hide the Green Book of Shownpurt.
00:20:01I don't know.
00:20:35everything has a lock and an alarm. I spend all morning unlocking and
00:20:40switching off. your husband seems to enjoy his work. he never stops. he works and
00:20:46works. that must create a lot of pressure. oh he likes it. he likes winning and
00:20:52targets and prizes and going up. he likes all that. well I'd have to be careful. what
00:20:57about? well it has to make room for his family. yes he does.
00:21:11are you saying he does? yes I am.
00:21:21nice looking children you have. thank you. happy? I'm sorry. you look happy. yes we are.
00:21:31I don't often meet people still smiling at each other after 10 years. milk? thank you.
00:21:49were you here when your husband went out to buy the wine? yes I was cooking chili. I
00:21:54wanted the wine for the chili. so it was red wine you wanted? yes.
00:22:02was that all he went down for? he took the empties from the garage.
00:22:11it was a tense atmosphere when he left. where? here. no why? I understood there was. who from?
00:22:20wasn't it from you? no. last time I was here? I don't recall that. perhaps he was tense. I don't
00:22:26think so. he seems like a tense man. does he? isn't he? maybe. sometimes. but not the kind of
00:22:35man to show it. he needs to learn to relax. that's what we all need to learn today. do you
00:22:41have any
00:22:41ideas? yeah very impressed. he's been working at it a long time. oh well. 18 months. it's been a
00:22:48labour of love. it's a lot of work for one man. I'll get your coffee. oh he's not got time
00:22:52for coffee.
00:22:53oh we have to be moving on. oh I'm sorry. my fault. thank you for your time Mrs. Rose.
00:23:04what do you mean you don't know what he wanted? he wouldn't have come here just for a coffee.
00:23:07that's what he did. there must have been a reason. if I could tell you a reason I'd tell you.
00:23:12they're looking for a man who almost have someone to death. there were two of them. one was Tennyson.
00:23:18he had the coffee and the other whose name I can't remember. he went into the
00:23:22garage to look at the boat. because he said he was building one for the kids.
00:23:26now I understand. why didn't you say that before? I'd invited him round via Tennyson to look at it.
00:23:33now it makes sense.
00:23:36one. you can't sell unless you feel on top of the world. keep fit. eat light sleep deep.
00:23:44two. believe in what you sell. i love my wife and children passionately. i want them to feel and be
00:23:50secure. and that's what i want for every family. that's why i sell home security. it's a mission.
00:23:57three. be in control. mr Tennyson on the phone for you. thank you.
00:24:02good morning. hello.
00:24:04mr john you'll be pleased to hear. he's well enough to receive visitors. marvellous. and he has expressed
00:24:10his desire to thank you in person. really? would you mind coming to the hospital? i'd be delighted.
00:24:15of course i would when. why don't i meet you there at seven this evening?
00:24:21no. he has no memory of it at all. isn't that extraordinary? hmm. it's as if some evil force
00:24:27has projected itself onto him. i mean to be suddenly struck down like that with no one seeing or hearing
00:24:33anyone. it's as if his attacker had literally materialized and vanished. you mean he was stabbed
00:24:39by an imp. i'm not serious of course. i've got to look a right chump if you put that in
00:24:46your report.
00:24:49at least another five weeks. really? and then another ten weeks at home.
00:24:57oh you'll be able to catch up on all those books you've been meaning to read.
00:25:03there you are. thank you. they seem to be looking after you well enough.
00:25:11some pretty nurses too. i promised the doctor no more than two minutes.
00:25:17well i'm afraid we must leave you. i don't know where to put the flowers. leave them on the bed.
00:25:22i'll ask
00:25:23a nurse to put them in a vase. okay. thank you for coming. my pleasure. and thank you. i was
00:25:35proud to help.
00:25:45oh i've forgotten to give him my card. it's been in my pocket all day. excuse me a moment.
00:26:04good.
00:26:09now i was interested in what you were saying about an evil force. when i spoke to mr jones this
00:26:16afternoon
00:26:16he said the man who stabbed him seemed to be gripped by an evil force. it was as if he
00:26:21was possessed.
00:26:22as if the devil were in him. those were his words. i find that fascinating. yes.
00:26:57i was interested in what you thought. i was interested in who was its own voice.
00:26:58if i was not alone. that's kind of a friend. i said that's a friend. i was a kid. i
00:26:58didn't know this.
00:27:24Yes, I got your message, thank you.
00:27:27And a couple of witnesses statements I'd like you to corroborate.
00:27:31But is it convenient?
00:27:33This evening?
00:27:35Oh, that's fine. Would you mind coming to us?
00:27:39No, not at all. I'll be with a client in Lincoln this afternoon,
00:27:43so I'll be home until about eight.
00:27:53Sorry about this.
00:27:55It's all right. Anything I can do to help?
00:27:58Oh, please sit down.
00:27:58Thank you, sir.
00:28:26Because it's a save-and.
00:28:29Me?
00:28:30What do you say to that?
00:28:34That's impossible.
00:28:35That's what he says.
00:28:38But I helped him.
00:28:39He says you stabbed him.
00:28:42you know i didn't yes what he says
00:28:46i don't believe it i decided to take a walk down windsor avenue as it was a pleasant afternoon
00:28:54a man whom i have since identified as edward rose appeared as if from nowhere and stabbed me with
00:29:02what i have since learned to be a chisel i've never met him before in my life
00:29:10why would i want to harm him i have no idea why edward rose would want to harm me
00:29:17i've never met him before or heard of him before there must be something wrong with him
00:29:24some block in his memory he's confusing me with someone else well he says he remembers your eyes
00:29:35what yeah i was leaning over him um helping him willing him to live
00:29:42full of hate i was comforting him so much anger
00:29:48i was angry with a woman standing there doing nothing says he saw you holding the chisel
00:29:55yeah i was i was taking it out of his stomach mr rose i'm just putting to you what he
00:29:59has put to me
00:30:00of course he's been through a terribly traumatic experience his memory is bound to be blurred
00:30:08yes did you stab oswald jones no of course i didn't i saved his life
00:30:15i'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this
00:30:20there's not one door you can't walk through
00:30:23wembley right cup final i was 11 years old money i had in my pocket wouldn't even buy a hot
00:30:28dog
00:30:29so i hung around a gate at the stadium looking for a way in and then i saw this fella
00:30:34he was on his own checking his ticket so i whipped it out of his hand
00:30:37well he snatched it back so i said hey he stole my ticket
00:30:40well before the guy could say anything he was pounced on 10 15 men wham
00:30:44one of them gets the ticket gives it to me
00:30:48pats me on the head and i'm in
00:30:51you see you can get in anywhere there's always a way
00:30:55night all
00:30:58so time you call this
00:31:00i've got an early start
00:31:16will you phone anderson tell him i can't make it tonight
00:31:19that won't please him
00:31:20i can't help that
00:31:21it's an account to win teddy
00:31:23i'll win it tomorrow
00:31:24where are you going
00:31:25got another appointment
00:31:26with whom
00:31:27mr tennyson
00:31:29do i know him
00:31:30no i don't think so
00:31:31it's not tennyson of newfield homes is it
00:31:33no that's berryman
00:31:36would you say you're an honest man
00:31:41yes i would like to think so
00:31:44telling the truth is important to you
00:31:47yes certainly
00:31:49but even for an honest man the fear of ostracism and punishment has to be contended with wouldn't you say
00:31:59yes but i believe there has to be justice
00:32:02a man must face the consequences of his actions
00:32:06yes in the civilized world
00:32:10even if it means social and professional suicide for him
00:32:15yes
00:32:17law and order must be maintained
00:32:19not just for other people
00:32:20no but i would expect an honest man to hang on to a lie if his life depended upon it
00:32:26wouldn't you
00:32:29you might not
00:32:29oh i would think so
00:32:31in my experience i would say so
00:32:34would you
00:32:37what
00:32:37tell a lie if your life depended upon it i would
00:32:41i wouldn't know
00:32:43you've not been telling me the truth mr rose
00:32:45when tell me when
00:32:47when you left your house on that afternoon did you leave by the back door or by the front door
00:32:51the back why the back my wife asked me to return the empties
00:32:55and where were the empties in the garage
00:32:57so you went into the garage to pick up the empties
00:32:59yes and you picked up the empties
00:33:01no why not
00:33:04i didn't fancy it
00:33:05fancy what
00:33:07carrying the bottles
00:33:08a few empties in a plastic bag
00:33:11i wanted to be free free free for what free to stroll
00:33:16and you can't stroll with a plastic bag
00:33:18not with the bottles clunking at the bottom of it no
00:33:22then why did you go into the garage
00:33:23to get the bottles but
00:33:25i changed my mind when i was there
00:33:30have you got a son mr rose
00:33:33yes
00:33:34yeah i got a son
00:33:37and when he's not telling me the truth he sounds a little bit like you
00:33:40i'm telling the truth
00:33:41what was the wine you went for at the off license french or italian
00:33:44i didn't buy any
00:33:45why not
00:33:47because i found mr jones on my way there not on my way back
00:33:52so there was no wine for the chili
00:33:54no
00:33:55that is not the truth
00:33:57mr rose criminal investigations hang upon a fragment of cloth
00:34:01speck of dust
00:34:04a drop of oil a sliver of glass the smallest lie
00:34:07these are the vital clues these are the keys that open the door
00:34:11you had wine at home didn't you
00:34:13yes
00:34:14so why did you go out to buy a bottle of wine if you already had a bottle of wine
00:34:20sounds stupid
00:34:21tell me
00:34:24didn't want my wine tipped into a cooking pot
00:34:31but the wine you would have bought would also have been your wine once you'd bought it
00:34:36yes
00:34:37well how would you have got around that one
00:34:40well
00:34:42i know it doesn't make sense i know that
00:34:44well perhaps the wine at home was too classy for the cooking pot is that it
00:34:48yes
00:34:48but you had wine at home as cheap as anything you can buy at the top
00:34:51i didn't want to use that
00:34:52why not was it not classy enough
00:35:01i've got a full rack of bottles
00:35:03i didn't want one missing i like to see it fall it makes me feel
00:35:11it makes me feel i'm doing all right
00:35:16that's what i'm like
00:35:19well it makes sense to me that i don't understand what you're getting at
00:35:23you've no reason to go to the top hat did you
00:35:25i fancied a walk that's all
00:35:26it wasn't an important decision it's just something i felt like doing
00:35:30is there a better reason
00:35:32all right i'll tell you what i'm getting at
00:35:37i am suggesting to you that going to the top hat was not your reason for going out it was
00:35:41your
00:35:41excuse for going out i don't understand i have irrefutable evidence that mr jones was stabbed with a chisel
00:35:48from your garage
00:35:52your chisel mr rose your chisel
00:35:57is this your chisel mr rose
00:36:01looks like one of mine
00:36:02it is one of yours
00:36:04can't be
00:36:04i have irrefutable evidence
00:36:08it's impossible
00:36:09you're not telling me the truth
00:36:10how can it be
00:36:12i would scarcely credit it myself if it were not for the evidence
00:36:16of the victim itself
00:36:17and the witnesses
00:36:19what witnesses
00:36:21do you remember mr andrews
00:36:23he shouted at me to call an ambulance
00:36:26oh yes
00:36:26the chisel was in his right hand
00:36:30and he was holding it as if he was about to plunge it into mr jones's body
00:36:34i was taking it out of his body
00:36:37it certainly didn't look like he was taking the chisel out of the body
00:36:40i swear to god i was
00:36:42he says certainly not
00:36:44i know what happened
00:36:45but you see so does he
00:36:46did he see me stabbing him did he
00:36:48i did not see edward rose stabbing mr oswald jones because he was just at the point of stabbing him
00:36:53when he looked up and saw me
00:36:54so what he is saying is you were about to stab mr jones yet again but on catching sight of
00:37:00mr
00:37:00andrews
00:37:00you adopted another role that of a samaritan intent not on killing mr jones but on saving him
00:37:06how can he say that
00:37:08another witness
00:37:09oh no not there
00:37:10you remember mrs lewis
00:37:12that woman is an idiot
00:37:15i heard a man calling for help
00:37:18so i ran out into the road to see what was going on
00:37:21not to help anything like that just to see what's going on
00:37:24when i arrived a man who i later identified as edward rose
00:37:30was in a state of panic
00:37:32yes i was
00:37:33he did not seem to know what to do
00:37:35no no i didn't but at least i did something that woman
00:37:37his behavior towards me was extremely aggressive
00:37:41was that true
00:37:42yes it is asked to get a doctor to do something anything
00:37:45he's just stood there asking the stupidest question
00:37:48then it occurred to me that edward rose had stabbed mr jones
00:37:53and that because i was there he was unable to make his escape
00:37:59so i stayed because i was suspicious of that to be in the situation
00:38:04and that is what i believe was at the root of edward rose's anger towards me
00:38:09what she is suggesting mr rose is that
00:38:12your behavior was akin to that of a trapped animal
00:38:16in the light of knowledge i have already received i find this lady's reading of the
00:38:20situation extraordinarily perceptive
00:38:27i have a wife and family that i love i've got a good home and a good job
00:38:38i'm doing well i work hard
00:38:44i'm a good man why would i do something like that
00:38:50i don't know
00:39:14good morning
00:39:17what are you doing i need to speak to you
00:39:21What about?
00:39:30I can't say here.
00:39:33You'd better come in.
00:39:42What will I do?
00:39:43Get a solicitor.
00:39:46Well, it sounds as though they're stuck for knowing who did it, so they're trying it on you.
00:39:50A good solicitor will stop any of these games.
00:39:52I think you're right.
00:39:53I know I'm right.
00:39:54You won't mention any of this to Maggie, will you?
00:39:58Well, of course not.
00:40:00I don't want to worry.
00:40:03Look, if they thought you'd really done it, they'd have charged you by now, wouldn't they?
00:40:12Relax.
00:40:26Why did they keep you so late last night?
00:40:30I was looking through files.
00:40:33What files?
00:40:35Photographs.
00:40:37Of what?
00:40:39People they know. Criminals.
00:40:42Why were you looking through those?
00:40:44They were hoping I might recognise somebody.
00:40:47But you didn't see anybody.
00:40:49No.
00:40:52So...
00:40:53What are you saying?
00:40:56I don't understand what you're saying.
00:40:57I may have recognised somebody!
00:41:03Don't keep asking the questions.
00:41:07Phone Anderson.
00:41:08Tell him I can't make it today.
00:41:09I'll call him tomorrow.
00:41:10You won't like that.
00:41:11That's too bad.
00:41:13He's left the way.
00:41:21It's fine.
00:41:31Phone starts.
00:41:32You won't like it.
00:41:34Phone rings.
00:41:35I'm sorry.
00:41:38Phone rings.
00:41:39Phone rings.
00:41:41Phone rings.
00:41:41Phone rings.
00:41:42Phone rings.
00:41:43Phone rings.
00:42:07Why was Tennyson here today?
00:42:12How do you know he was here?
00:42:16So he was here.
00:42:19What are you playing at?
00:42:22What did he want?
00:42:25I can't make him out.
00:42:27Just the same old questions.
00:42:30What questions?
00:42:32Just the same.
00:42:33You know what he's like.
00:42:34Yes.
00:42:40You haven't seen Tim today, have you?
00:42:45No.
00:42:56I'd better give him a call.
00:42:58He said he'd be round.
00:43:03Someone must have seen something.
00:43:05You would have thought so.
00:43:06I find it very strange.
00:43:08What about the bloke that got stabbed?
00:43:10He couldn't remember a thing.
00:43:11Nothing at all.
00:43:12That's what they told me.
00:43:14I had a visit this afternoon.
00:43:16A dick asking me questions.
00:43:18What about?
00:43:19He wanted to know all about my wife's affair.
00:43:22I said, what the hell's it got to do with you?
00:43:24First the whole neighbourhood knows about it, now the whole town.
00:43:27I had all kinds of personal questions thrown at me.
00:43:29Then he asked me, how did I find my wife's lover's valentine in her laundry, for Christ's sake?
00:43:36Then he asked me about my conversations with you.
00:43:38What did I say?
00:43:39What did you say?
00:43:40What did I say?
00:43:41Jesus.
00:43:43Then it occurred to me, how the hell did he know about this anyway?
00:43:46So I asked him.
00:43:47Teddy.
00:43:47Come on.
00:43:49He said your wife told him about it.
00:43:56His wife, what about that?
00:43:58I mean, is everybody in this town talking about my personal problems?
00:44:06Hello.
00:44:06Mr. Oros, I'm sorry to have to pull you away.
00:44:10And after I'd given him all the intimate details of my screwed up life, I said, excuse me, one
00:44:15question.
00:44:16Why do you need this information?
00:44:17And he said, that's none of your business.
00:44:18Can you believe that?
00:44:20Gotta go.
00:44:22Dinner's on the table.
00:44:23Who's in the doghouse then?
00:44:29They've been asking me questions too.
00:44:32What about?
00:44:34Teddy.
00:44:35Me too.
00:44:36And me.
00:44:40I've always thought that when a man kills a prostitute, he's killing his mother.
00:44:44What do you think?
00:44:46I wouldn't know.
00:44:48An act of transference.
00:44:50So when I'm confronted by a crime with no apparent motive, I think about the mother
00:44:55and the prostitute.
00:44:57Now, you stabbed Mr. Jones.
00:45:00But who is he you wanted to stab?
00:45:03I've been looking through your history.
00:45:04I see you've got a criminal record.
00:45:06I don't.
00:45:07Are you denying it?
00:45:09I'm an honest man.
00:45:10That may be your aspiration, but it's not who you are for a start, Mr. Rose. Your name's
00:45:14Roberts.
00:45:17Eddie Roberts.
00:45:19You became a Rose.
00:45:21Why?
00:45:23Well, I don't wish to discuss it.
00:45:25Because Roberts is the criminal and Rose isn't.
00:45:29I've had the reasons.
00:45:30What?
00:45:32They're personal.
00:45:33Of course they are.
00:45:35His father was an accountant and his mother a teacher.
00:45:39They were a very loving and devoted family.
00:45:43They died in a car accident when Teddy was seven.
00:45:47After the accident, he went to live with his grandmother.
00:45:49But she died when he was 18, so then he went into lodgings.
00:45:54Who are they?
00:45:57Your wife thinks they're your parents.
00:46:04Did you pick this up in some junk shop, this Mr. and Mrs. Rose?
00:46:08This little fairy tale?
00:46:12He was a very nasty man, your father, Mr. Roberts, wasn't he?
00:46:20He hit your mother with a steam iron.
00:46:24Burnt her breasts.
00:46:27Broke her jaw.
00:46:31And then he ran away.
00:46:34Is that why you changed her name?
00:46:35I didn't want any of that man still around me.
00:46:42And a year later, your mother died when you were seven.
00:46:47How did it happen, Teddy?
00:46:51She was sitting in an armchair.
00:46:56She looked very comfortable.
00:47:00I thought she was asleep.
00:47:03So I went to bed.
00:47:07She was still there in the morning.
00:47:10I won't eat.
00:47:12I won't eat.
00:47:13I won't eat.
00:47:16I won't eat.
00:47:17Oh, dear God.
00:47:21And then you went to live with your mother.
00:47:26I'll call for some tea and toast.
00:47:31Did you stab Oswald Jones?
00:47:34I just went to help him.
00:47:39So let's get back to this criminal record of yours.
00:47:42March 62, theft.
00:47:44October 62, theft.
00:47:46January 63, criminal damage.
00:47:49This is the story of a juvenile delinquent.
00:47:51That was over 25 years ago.
00:47:53May 62, married.
00:47:55Wendy Marshall.
00:47:57February 64, separated.
00:48:01Unhammed.
00:48:03I was 17.
00:48:05You married to escape your grandmother?
00:48:07Yeah.
00:48:08And the girl was not your style?
00:48:10We hardly knew each other.
00:48:12And your wife, your present wife, doesn't even know of her.
00:48:17What have you told her?
00:48:19You see, what interests me most is the lengths that you will go to to maintain a lie.
00:48:25Your ability to deceive those closest to you, even your wife.
00:48:29What have you told her?
00:48:30You're terrified of losing her, aren't you?
00:48:32An insanely jealous man always are.
00:48:35August 63, you attacked a man outside a pub in Dorking.
00:48:39The report says you went totally berserk.
00:48:42The man you attacked was having sex with your wife, Wendy.
00:48:45And Wendy says you went into an insanely jealous rage.
00:48:50That was another world.
00:48:56That's not me anymore.
00:48:59I'm not that person.
00:49:01You were an insanely jealous man then, but you're not an insanely jealous man now.
00:49:05I have no reason to be jealous now.
00:49:07Yes.
00:49:09Precisely.
00:49:09It is the circumstances that maketh the man.
00:49:12You are not insanely jealous now because you have no cause to be.
00:49:16Because, you see, you do have a propensity for emotional extremes, don't you?
00:49:20It's the legacy of your childhood.
00:49:22That person that he told you about.
00:49:27That's not me.
00:49:29No.
00:49:29For now, you were a ruse.
00:49:32I went to college.
00:49:34I passed exams.
00:49:36I put on a suit and tie and I worked.
00:49:39I worked day and night.
00:49:46I'm a family man.
00:49:48My children and my life.
00:49:50You were a reformed character?
00:49:52Yes.
00:49:53Yes.
00:49:55I am.
00:49:57I don't believe in reformed characters, Mr. Roberts.
00:50:00Men cannot just dissolve and reform.
00:50:03Or, you'll carry your childhood into your grave.
00:50:09Five years ago, my wife walked out on me.
00:50:14She went off with a farmer.
00:50:17He's fat.
00:50:19He's not rich.
00:50:21He's got a terrible temper.
00:50:22And when he comes in after a day's work, he stinks.
00:50:27As you can imagine, this was a cruel blow to me.
00:50:31Oh, I started to drink.
00:50:33My work fell off.
00:50:34I missed promotion.
00:50:36I lost my wife in my home.
00:50:40Then, one day, I stole a crystal rabbit from a department store.
00:50:46Now, for a policeman, that is not a wise thing to do.
00:50:50I just picked it up, put it in my pocket.
00:50:53I made a display of it.
00:50:56I wanted to destroy my career.
00:50:58I wanted my world to end.
00:51:01An act of self-destruction in broad daylight, during a period of personal crisis.
00:51:07Exactly the circumstances in which you stabbed Mr. Jones.
00:51:11I don't have any personal crisis.
00:51:13I'm talking about the crisis in your marriage.
00:51:23That was 25 years ago, huh?
00:51:27I don't even know where she lives.
00:51:29Your marriage now.
00:51:32Your wife's affair.
00:51:36Maggie.
00:51:39What affair?
00:51:41I know what it feels like.
00:51:43Well, my wife wouldn't have an affair, what are you saying?
00:51:47I've been there myself.
00:51:49I feared the truth too much to face up to it, so I shut it out of my mind.
00:51:53I walked around in a kind of hallucinatory world.
00:51:56But you have to let the truth in.
00:51:59My wife wouldn't do that.
00:52:00That was exactly my word.
00:52:02No, she wouldn't.
00:52:03I can hear myself saying it.
00:52:05It's not true.
00:52:06Come on, you know it is.
00:52:07My wife loves me.
00:52:08Well, admit it.
00:52:11We are a family.
00:52:13Admit it.
00:52:14You're setting me up.
00:52:16I hate men who take other men's wives.
00:52:18They're the pits.
00:52:19They're the slime and the scum of the sewer.
00:52:22I'd take their heads off, wouldn't you?
00:52:23What are you saying?
00:52:24You walked into your garage, you picked up your chisel,
00:52:28and you went looking for Timothy Greenwood, didn't you?
00:52:32What?
00:52:34You have a remarkable capacity for self-deception.
00:52:37You walked into your garage, you picked up the chisel,
00:52:40and you went looking for Timothy Greenwood, didn't you?
00:52:45Tim?
00:52:46What for?
00:52:48It's been going on now for about two years.
00:52:50That's what he told me.
00:52:55It's impossible.
00:52:56Don't deny it.
00:52:58No, not Maggie and Tim.
00:53:00Oh, come on.
00:53:02He's a good friend.
00:53:04We met at a party at a friend's house.
00:53:06But it wasn't until the following summer
00:53:08that things started getting romantic between us.
00:53:11Was it?
00:53:14We're building a boat together, for the children.
00:53:16Whose idea was that?
00:53:18It seemed the best way to work it.
00:53:20Well, that's right.
00:53:22There'd always be a reason for Tim to be here.
00:53:26How long have you been building that boat?
00:53:31Eighteen months.
00:53:32Not a bad idea, was it?
00:53:35I'm pretty sure he never cottoned on.
00:53:39We've been very careful.
00:53:41Now listen to this. This is crucial.
00:53:44After Teddy told me about his friend finding the lover's valentine,
00:53:47I thought I'd better check up on my locket.
00:53:50And I couldn't find it.
00:53:52What locket?
00:53:54The first time we made love,
00:53:57it was in a field down by the meadow.
00:54:01I picked a buttercup right where we were lying.
00:54:04And I brought it home.
00:54:06And I bought a little girl locket.
00:54:11He put the buttercup in the locket,
00:54:13and then he gave it to me.
00:54:15And you found it, didn't you?
00:54:16I know nothing about it.
00:54:18After listening to Harry,
00:54:20you went home to talk to your wife and check up,
00:54:22and you found the locket, didn't you?
00:54:23I can't deny it. I've got the evidence.
00:54:26She wouldn't do that. I don't believe it.
00:54:28It's in her own words.
00:54:29She doesn't mean it.
00:54:30The bitches is lying to you. The bitches lie.
00:54:32Don't say that.
00:54:33Your children are at school.
00:54:35There you are, sweating to provide.
00:54:36And there she is, screwing your neighbour and your friend,
00:54:38your chum in your own home.
00:54:40That's not true.
00:54:40The bitch and her bastard laughing at you.
00:54:42They're lying to you. They're getting off in your own home.
00:54:44No.
00:54:44For two years.
00:54:45They can't do that to me.
00:54:46Entering your wife.
00:54:47No.
00:54:48I'd kill him, wouldn't you?
00:54:56See what I mean?
00:54:58Not an act of transference.
00:55:05Go on.
00:55:07Sit down.
00:55:11Sit down.
00:55:21I was merely asking you a question you have already answered.
00:55:25He said that I should go to my neighbour's house and threaten him with his life.
00:55:32And he said if it should ever happen to him, he would murder the man.
00:55:38Teddy.
00:55:40We all carry a festering organism inside us that feeds on our anxieties or insecurities.
00:55:47An alien in our minds.
00:55:52Now you took a wife and she gave you children and you built a castle and around that castle was
00:55:58a moat.
00:56:00And inside that castle you were secure.
00:56:04But what happens when you discover your castle's just a flimsy house of cards?
00:56:09The alien grows.
00:56:12That's what happened to you that afternoon.
00:56:15You left your house in a rage.
00:56:17I was not in a rage.
00:56:18You went into the garage.
00:56:20You picked up the chisel and you went looking for your wife's lover.
00:56:23No.
00:56:23But he wasn't in.
00:56:24So there you are, outside his house, with a rage, a fury, an alien you just have to get rid
00:56:30of.
00:56:31And around the corner comes Oswald Jones.
00:56:40One afternoon, I helped a man.
00:56:45I saw a dying in the road.
00:56:49That's all.
00:56:52That's all.
00:56:53That's all I did.
00:57:15Good news.
00:57:17We've got bail.
00:57:18You're free to go home.
00:57:28I'm going to live with him.
00:57:32I'm sorry.
00:57:38Once you've let go you'll feel better.
00:57:42It's the letting go that's difficult.
00:57:44You're free to get killed.
00:57:44I'll get you out.
00:57:49Right?
00:58:18Don't you think you should have gone to work?
00:58:20I've said I'm ill.
00:58:28I woke up and I made a decision and I told my wife, either you go or I go.
00:58:34And you went.
00:58:35That's right.
00:58:36And now I'm free.
00:58:40Now I can go down to the pub any night I want.
00:58:43I can drink as much as I want.
00:58:46I can come back home, perhaps with a mate or two, open a can of beer, watch the football,
00:58:56put some sex on the video, watch TV any time I like.
00:59:03Yes, I found a nice room today.
00:59:06I can use the bathroom opposite and the kitchen upstairs.
00:59:09I'll tell you this, that bitch wife can do what the hell she likes.
00:59:13I've wiped her off my memory.
00:59:14I never want to see a bitch face again.
00:59:19I mean, scotch.
00:59:22Large scotch.
00:59:23Thanks.
00:59:24I've only met two kinds of families.
00:59:26Those that bust up and go two ways.
00:59:29And those that bust up and stay in the same place.
00:59:31You're always better off going two ways.
00:59:34Exactly.
00:59:35Anyway, weekend kids are the best deal you can get.
00:59:38The mother gets all the grey hairs.
00:59:41You get all the going out.
00:59:43I would have been better off away from my kids.
00:59:46And maybe they would have liked me more.
00:59:52Am I not good enough in bed?
00:59:55Tell me, I don't know.
00:59:56Is that it, do you think?
00:59:59I've been working too hard.
01:00:01Too many hours.
01:00:03It swallows a man up work and work.
01:00:06We forget who we are.
01:00:08I've got it all wrong, haven't I?
01:00:11I could book us a holiday somewhere.
01:00:14Something romantic.
01:00:16I could do that, couldn't I?
01:00:23Are you crazy?
01:00:25It's what we need.
01:00:26I don't want Christmas in the Alps.
01:00:28It's the last thing I need.
01:00:30We could make a new beginning.
01:00:31I love another man.
01:00:37I don't want to hear me anywhere near my children.
01:00:39He's not bathing them, or reading them stories, or putting out the light, or mending their toys, or giving them
01:00:45rides.
01:00:46Oh, Jesus!
01:00:52Sometimes, I wonder, I just wonder, is it possible that a man can black out for maybe 15 or 20
01:01:04seconds, and not know what he did in that time?
01:01:08Not know then, and not know after.
01:01:13Is that possible?
01:01:16I've never heard of it.
01:01:21Oh, I want to kill him.
01:01:25I find it quite appalling.
01:01:27How could anyone believe you'd do such a thing?
01:01:29It's completely beyond my comprehension.
01:01:32If there's anything I can do, anything to help, you will let me know.
01:01:35Yes, thank you.
01:01:37I should be giving you an excellent character reference, and of course, a cash sum, which obviously I'll have to
01:01:42quantify with Michael.
01:01:46Are you dismissing me?
01:01:48Teddy, I can't have a salesman with the charge of GBH pending.
01:01:51But you know I'm innocent.
01:01:52I know that, but does the buyer?
01:01:55They wouldn't arrest you for stabbing a man if they hadn't got good reason.
01:01:58No, I don't think that, but I can't have a criminal selling security.
01:02:02But I'm not a criminal.
01:02:04Teddy, I'm talking about the buyer.
01:02:05I've been shouting your name from the rooftop of every town in this country for the last 12 years.
01:02:11I completely understand what you're saying.
01:02:12You can't tear me out now.
01:02:28I want you to leave.
01:02:33The children are getting a rough time at school and in the road.
01:02:38Teddy, did you hear what I said?
01:02:42Well, I have a vacancy if you boys are interested.
01:02:45You won't find a better, easier product to sell than C&M Home Security Systems.
01:02:49That's a promise.
01:02:51That's a promise.
01:02:51We're living in an age of fear.
01:02:53Well, I'll go for it.
01:02:55Sure I will.
01:02:56Teddy was doing okay.
01:02:58What kind of car do I get?
01:03:01Now, I had a very long look at this case and I've come to certain conclusions concerning the conduct of
01:03:07your defence.
01:03:09I think we have to rule out self-defence and provocation.
01:03:13We can't claim that you were provoked into an attack.
01:03:17No, of course not.
01:03:18I didn't attack him.
01:03:19Well, yes.
01:03:19There is that, of course.
01:03:20Mistaken identity.
01:03:22And in some cases, that is an ideal defence.
01:03:24But it is my defence.
01:03:26Yes.
01:03:27But we can't use it.
01:03:29Why not?
01:03:30The circumstances aren't favourable for mistaken identity.
01:03:35But that's what it is.
01:03:36You see, in mistaken identity, you are challenging witness identification.
01:03:41However, in your case, we have the problem of the chisel.
01:03:46But that was an extraordinary coincidence.
01:03:51Mr Rose, you will never convince a jury that your chisel was carried to the scene of the crime by
01:03:56another person.
01:03:58The cruel hand of fate cannot open a courtroom door.
01:04:01Do you understand?
01:04:03A jury is asked to be reasonable and what has happened to you is not reasonable.
01:04:09And that's a fact we just have to live with.
01:04:12You don't believe me.
01:04:15Mr Rose, you have asked me to represent you and I have a duty to do the best I can
01:04:18for you.
01:04:19If I were to say you didn't do it, I would be letting you down.
01:04:23But that is the truth.
01:04:24The truth is too weak.
01:04:26Well, I can't confess to something I didn't do.
01:04:31If I let you plead not guilty, the judge would give you no mercy.
01:04:35Why?
01:04:36Because of the way you behaved after you stabbed him.
01:04:40Your actions would be seen as those of a man pretending to be a good Samaritan.
01:04:45But to a judge, that is a heinous act.
01:04:48The devil in saint's clothing.
01:05:05It's always
01:05:06Let's go.
01:05:38I'm just taking my things home.
01:05:43Then I'll be right out.
01:05:46I'm very sorry for the way things have happened.
01:05:55I want you to know that the last couple of years have been very difficult for Maggie.
01:06:00I know that she still loves you.
01:06:03And the last thing she wants is this kind of upset that you're going through.
01:06:10I also think you should know that we've broken off our relationship twice in the last year.
01:06:17Because she wanted to keep her life with you.
01:06:20Your life together as a family.
01:06:25She's felt a lot of confusion and tension that she hasn't been able to explain to you.
01:06:42I don't expect you to be tolerant of any of all this.
01:06:48Well, I understand what you're going through.
01:06:52We do have a genuine friendship, Teddy.
01:06:55You know that.
01:06:56Don't tell me what I know.
01:06:59Things will get better.
01:07:00That's a joke.
01:07:02I know it's an easy thing to say.
01:07:04It's a joke.
01:07:07Thanks for the boat.
01:07:13Maggie and the kids will be staying at my house tonight.
01:07:16And for a while.
01:07:18And if you want to see them, or talk, or whatever, you're welcome.
01:07:32Will you let me out of here, please?
01:07:40Teddy?
01:07:44Come on.
01:07:54Thanks.
01:07:58Thanks.
01:08:35A 38-year-old man called George Thompson has this morning been arrested for stabbing
01:08:44a woman to her death in the garden of her home in Marlborough Road.
01:08:49He was pursued in court, leaving the scene of the crime.
01:08:53He has no criminal or psychiatric record.
01:08:57He lives with his mother and works as a clerk for the council.
01:09:04The weapon used in the murder was a screwdriver, which he had appropriated from the garage of another
01:09:13house in Marlborough Road.
01:09:17Subsequent to his arrest and during his questioning, he admitted to a previous assault in Windsor Avenue, appropriating a chisel
01:09:29used in that assault from a garage in Weaver's Way.
01:09:35Your chisel, your chisel, and your garage, your appearance at the scene of that assault was an extraordinary coincidence that
01:09:46no policeman could possibly take into account in a criminal investigation.
01:09:51Consequently, I and my team were thrown onto the wrong track.
01:09:59You have been the victim of an unfortunate occurrence, for which you have my sincerest apologies.
01:10:09The charge against you has been dropped.
01:10:13You're free to go.
01:10:17Mr. Jones identified this other man?
01:10:24No, but he has withdrawn his identification of you.
01:10:30It was a most unfortunate error of judgment.
01:10:35His memory of the event was very hazy.
01:10:39I've never heard that before.
01:10:44Are you saying he was never sure it was me?
01:10:48He's certainly the man who helped me.
01:10:51I first saw him bending over me, holding the chisel.
01:10:57It was his chisel.
01:11:05I see.
01:11:06He...
01:11:08He thought he was sure at the time.
01:11:10Thought?
01:11:13He had had a very traumatic experience.
01:11:17What about the others?
01:11:19Are they all so?
01:11:21You know what I'm saying?
01:11:21It wasn't me.
01:11:23Who?
01:11:23The man who sadly saw me about to stab Mr. Jones.
01:11:29An error of perception.
01:11:32Ah, that's it.
01:11:34That simple.
01:11:36And has my wife now found her locket?
01:11:40Mr. Rose, presumptions were made that should not have been made.
01:11:44From the moment we knew the chisel belonged to you,
01:11:47your guilt was never in doubt.
01:11:49I've lost everything.
01:11:51You have my sincerest apologies.
01:11:53My wife, my children, my home, my job.
01:11:58Everything I had has gone.
01:12:03What do you say to that?
01:12:06I believed I was right.
01:12:10There was no question I could have been wrong.
01:12:14I had no sense of doubt.
01:12:17It was a mistake.
01:12:20Understandable or unforgivable that I should not have made.
01:12:25And for that you had my sincerest apologies.
01:12:30When I was about 20 I was sitting in a bar
01:12:35and there were these salesmen,
01:12:36drinking, laughing, swapping stories,
01:12:41vying for the spotlight.
01:12:44But in the middle of them there was this one man
01:12:45who was holding the light
01:12:47and he was not giving way to any of them.
01:12:51And he was saying something which I've never forgotten.
01:12:52He said,
01:12:54there are two kinds of people.
01:12:57marionettes
01:12:58and the masters of the marionettes.
01:13:01You have to hold the strings.
01:13:05Never forgotten that.
01:13:07Because that's not just a salesman's creed.
01:13:10That's a creed for life.
01:13:41He said,
01:13:42He says that the
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