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Part 1. Unabridged, brightened HD copy. Ruth Rendell Mysteries / Inspector Wexford.
When Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered, DCI Wexford has to sort his way through quite a number of suspects - from the gardener to the household staff, to a Dutch house guest, to the husband Quentin and the victim's brother and his wife. While trying to figure out what really happened on that fateful night that cost Elizabeth's life, Reg Wexford uncovers that the Nightingales' marriage was not as happy as it seemed and that there are secrets to be revealed. Starring George Baker, Michael Jayston, Christopher Ravenscroft, Catherine Neilson, Nigel Terry, Karen Meagher, Ellis Van Maarseveen, Louie Ramsay.
When Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered, DCI Wexford has to sort his way through quite a number of suspects - from the gardener to the household staff, to a Dutch house guest, to the husband Quentin and the victim's brother and his wife. While trying to figure out what really happened on that fateful night that cost Elizabeth's life, Reg Wexford uncovers that the Nightingales' marriage was not as happy as it seemed and that there are secrets to be revealed. Starring George Baker, Michael Jayston, Christopher Ravenscroft, Catherine Neilson, Nigel Terry, Karen Meagher, Ellis Van Maarseveen, Louie Ramsay.
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00:02:16You've had your tea catcher.
00:02:18Would you help me out and take Mr. Villers over to him?
00:02:21Yep.
00:02:22And Will, on your way home, you go and see Alf Tawny for me.
00:02:25If you like.
00:02:26I do like.
00:02:27Tell him I want a nice chicken for Madam's dinner tomorrow.
00:02:31Why is Mr. Villers not working in his own home?
00:02:33He has a wife too.
00:02:35I think it's funny.
00:02:37It's quiet there for his work.
00:02:39And I reckon Mr. Nightingale likes the idea of having a writer in the family.
00:02:44Books.
00:02:45He's proud like.
00:02:46Well, Mrs. Nightingale's not proud.
00:02:48She don't like her brother at all, I think.
00:02:51Don't you go saying things like that, young catcher.
00:02:55Madam.
00:02:56Good afternoon.
00:02:57Any tea left?
00:02:58I'll just add some hot water to it, Madam.
00:03:02Oh, Katia, were you going down to the village tonight?
00:03:04Not the village.
00:03:05I meet a friend in Kingsmarkham.
00:03:07Oh, that's all right.
00:03:08There's a parcel in the hall you could post for me, if you would.
00:03:12Can I lend the car?
00:03:13Of course.
00:03:15Here comes Mr. Pop music.
00:03:17Just sit down and have your tea, Sean.
00:03:20Afternoon, all.
00:03:21Sean, for pity's sake, take those things out of your ears.
00:03:24What?
00:03:25Oh, turn it off.
00:03:27That's if we can't all hear that buzzing noise.
00:03:30I could be in a bottle, it is.
00:03:32Madam doesn't want to have to listen to that racket.
00:03:35Oh, I like your music.
00:03:37There you are, see?
00:03:38She's not a square.
00:03:39That's no way to talk about Mrs. Nightingale.
00:03:42You're all the same, you wrinklies.
00:03:44Stuck in a groove.
00:03:45Your groove's gardening, Sean Lovell, and don't you forget it.
00:03:49I take Mr. Villis tea to him now, I think.
00:03:53He's perfectly capable of getting his own tea.
00:03:56He wants tea.
00:03:57It's no trouble.
00:03:58Yeah, Sean.
00:03:59Lost one of your earrings, have you?
00:04:02Leave it out, Will.
00:04:03Now then, now then.
00:04:05Will, you shouldn't tease him.
00:04:13He mustn't take any notice of what they say, you know.
00:04:16Just pig ignorant.
00:04:18That's all they are.
00:04:20What do I care about?
00:04:23I've got to get going.
00:04:25I'll be 23 in October.
00:04:27Look at George Michael.
00:04:2919, he was a star.
00:04:32You know what I promise, Sean.
00:04:35I won't forget.
00:04:41Want to lift home, Mrs. Cantrip?
00:04:51That's very kind of you, dear.
00:05:05I'm sorry if I was sharp with you earlier, Catcher.
00:05:09Sharp?
00:05:11When you was talking about Mrs. Nightingale and her brother,
00:05:15I didn't want no talk in front of Will Palmer.
00:05:18He's like an old woman, the way he gossips.
00:05:20But you wasn't sharp, Mrs. Cantrip.
00:05:23My mother, she will teach you what sharp is.
00:05:26As long as you didn't take it amiss, dear.
00:05:35You know, every day in the holidays,
00:05:39Mr. Villers is working up there.
00:05:41And never, not once,
00:05:45Mrs. Nightingale is going up to see him.
00:05:48I think it's funny not to like your own brother.
00:05:52Well, maybe he's not easy to like.
00:05:54You can depend on it.
00:05:56If there's a quarrel,
00:05:57and I'm not saying there is mine,
00:05:59it's not madam's fault.
00:06:01He's got a very funny manner with him as Mr. Villers.
00:06:05Nasty temper.
00:06:07Sarcastic-like.
00:06:08Between you and me, Catcher,
00:06:10I wouldn't be too happy
00:06:12if I had a boy at that school where he teaches.
00:06:20Dennis, how nice to see you.
00:06:22Hello, Quentin.
00:06:23Oh, dear.
00:06:25Rather glum.
00:06:26Well, term starts in two days' time.
00:06:28Oh, yes, of course.
00:06:30So, no more proper work until Easter.
00:06:32That would remind me.
00:06:39An advance copy.
00:06:41I thought you might like it.
00:06:42Dennis, thank you.
00:06:44Wordsworth in Love by Dennis Villers.
00:06:46Read the dedication.
00:06:51For my brother-in-law, Quentin Nightingale,
00:06:53a true friend and patron.
00:06:57Makes me feel like the Earl of Southampton.
00:06:59The only begetter of these ensuing essays, Mr. Q. N.
00:07:03Well, as long as you like it.
00:07:05Have you seen Elizabeth today?
00:07:07No, should I have?
00:07:07No, I just wondered.
00:07:09No, I haven't seen anybody.
00:07:11Well, I can't wait to get started on the book.
00:07:25How's my beautiful wife?
00:07:28Hello, Quentin.
00:07:30I've missed you.
00:07:32Had a good day.
00:07:34Not so bad.
00:07:35London's a madhouse.
00:07:37Drink?
00:07:39Just a tomato juice for me.
00:07:44Kurchia, not about.
00:07:46She took the car into King's Markham.
00:07:49All on our own, then, are we?
00:07:52Hmm.
00:07:54All on our own.
00:08:06It's quite a mild here today.
00:08:08It hasn't been a bad winter, on the whole.
00:08:11More wine, darling.
00:08:13Not for me, darling.
00:08:19The evenings will be getting lighter soon.
00:08:22Yes.
00:08:24Yes, I suppose they will.
00:08:38I wonder if Dennis and Georgina will look it.
00:08:41I shouldn't think so.
00:08:43Maybe I'll give them a ring.
00:08:45See if they'll come over for a hand of bridge.
00:08:47What do you think?
00:08:48It's up to you, darling.
00:08:51Would you like to?
00:08:53Well, you decide.
00:08:55I really don't mind one way or the other.
00:08:58I'll just give them a ring, then.
00:09:02Of course, they may not want to come.
00:09:04Why in God's name did you double two no trumps?
00:09:06You've given them the game and the rubber.
00:09:08Well, I thought that if I was still...
00:09:10No, that's not possible.
00:09:12One more.
00:09:13No, I've got a couple of hours work
00:09:15to put in at the school library before I go to bed.
00:09:17What? Again?
00:09:18I told you earlier, I've got a reference to look up.
00:09:21Dennis is dedicated to his work.
00:09:23What else is there?
00:09:26Oh, Georgina, there's something I've been meaning to give you.
00:09:31I'm sure you're going to love it.
00:09:33Talking of dedication,
00:09:34would you write in the book for me?
00:09:36Yes, of course.
00:09:54The thought of our past years in me
00:09:56doth breed perpetual benediction.
00:10:00Your brother, Dennis Villers,
00:10:02that's not like you.
00:10:02What is it?
00:10:03To be inaccurate should be brother-in-law.
00:10:05Well, there's no need for too much bloody accuracy.
00:10:08It's really lovely, Elizabeth, thank you.
00:10:10You're more than welcome, my dear.
00:10:12I'll never use it again.
00:10:13When you're finished billing and cooing...
00:10:40Well, that was very pleasant.
00:10:45I think I'll go straight to bed, darling.
00:10:53You're going to stay up for a bit, are you?
00:10:56I may have a walk in the garden before I go to bed.
00:10:58That's quite chilly out there.
00:11:00I'll put your coat on.
00:11:01Mind you do.
00:11:03Good night, then.
00:11:06Good night, darling.
00:11:09Sleep well.
00:11:12Good night.
00:11:26I don't know.
00:11:59I don't know.
00:12:30I don't know.
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00:21:28You went to King's Markham yesterday.
00:21:30I went to post a parcel for Mrs. Nightingale.
00:21:34And then I see a friend.
00:21:36When you came back here last night, did you see anybody?
00:21:40Well, I went to the cinema with my friend who is very rich and quite boring.
00:21:45And afterwards, he wanted to take me to his house.
00:21:48But I would not go because he always wants me in his bedroom and his mother doesn't like it.
00:21:54And so he sulks.
00:21:55And we go to the olive and dove and drink vodka.
00:21:58And what time did you come back home?
00:22:02Well, my friend has to get up very early in the morning for the hunting.
00:22:06So he went to his house and I came home.
00:22:09It's 11 o'clock, I think.
00:22:11And did you see anything when you got here?
00:22:13Yes.
00:22:14I see Mrs. Nightingale.
00:22:16As I drive past, I see her hiding in the doorway in the wall.
00:22:20Very funny, I think.
00:22:22I see her cross the road and go into the wood.
00:22:26And then I know what she's doing.
00:22:28She's looking to see that no one is following to spy on her.
00:22:33You see, some people...
00:22:34Yes, yes, we understand all that.
00:22:38Well, you've been very frank, Miss Doran.
00:22:40Yes, I think I've been good.
00:22:44Well, now I'm going to make you a good cup of coffee.
00:22:47Tell you all about myself.
00:22:48While this old police chef talks to poor Mr. Nightingale.
00:22:51Oh, well, that's very...
00:22:53I don't drink it, as a matter of fact.
00:22:55I've had some already, anyway.
00:22:57Some other time, perhaps.
00:22:58We'll have to talk to you again, Miss Doran.
00:23:01Yes, I think so, too.
00:23:02Come along, Inspector.
00:23:13Hey, Mike.
00:23:16I thought you'd have gone to spontaneously combust in there for a moment.
00:23:19Like that chap in Blue Coast.
00:23:22Just entirely melted away.
00:23:32Mr. Nightingale.
00:23:35Mr. Nightingale.
00:23:40Mr. Nightingale, sir.
00:23:42He's locked himself in his room.
00:23:46No answer, sir.
00:23:48I don't blame him.
00:23:51Mr. Nightingale.
00:23:54Mr. Nightingale.
00:23:55Is there any other way in this room?
00:23:57No, just a window.
00:24:00Mr. Nightingale.
00:24:04Mr. Nightingale.
00:24:19Mr. Nightingale.
00:24:23King's Markham's the idea.
00:24:26We have to question you, Mr. Nightingale.
00:24:32We have to question everybody in a case like this.
00:24:35I realise that.
00:24:38It was childish of me to lock myself in here.
00:24:42What do you want to ask me?
00:24:44First, yesterday evening.
00:24:46Did you spend it alone?
00:24:49No.
00:24:50My brother-in-law and his wife came up to play bridge.
00:24:55He's Dennis Villiers.
00:24:56He's a rather distinguished author.
00:24:58Writes books about Wordsworth.
00:25:00Really?
00:25:02How long were they here?
00:25:04They came at about half past eight and left at 10.30.
00:25:09I see.
00:25:13How did your wife seem last night?
00:25:19Absolutely the same as always.
00:25:23She was a terribly generous woman.
00:25:25She always had some little present for my sister-in-law.
00:25:28Last night was just the same.
00:25:31Gave her some little gift.
00:25:33What was the present?
00:25:35I don't know.
00:25:36I only heard Georgina thank her for it.
00:25:38She seemed delighted.
00:25:43Why did your wife go into the forest last night, Mr. Nightingale?
00:25:46I don't know that either.
00:25:49My God, I wish I did.
00:25:51Was it something she often did?
00:25:53No.
00:25:54She often went for a walk in the grounds.
00:25:57Late in the evening, I mean.
00:25:59I never dreamt she'd go into the forest.
00:26:03Were you a happily married couple, would you say, sir?
00:26:06Of course we were happily married.
00:26:09Ask any of our friends.
00:26:11Ask them!
00:26:15I'm sorry, but would I be like this, though I am,
00:26:19if we hadn't been happy?
00:26:22Don't distress yourself, Mr. Nightingale.
00:26:26Mr. Palmer came into your bedroom at...
00:26:30just after six o'clock this morning.
00:26:31He couldn't find you.
00:26:34Do you mind telling me where you were?
00:26:37I was in the bath.
00:26:39Curious time to have a bath?
00:26:41We all do curious things occasionally.
00:26:44I woke up early.
00:26:45The wind woke me.
00:26:46Did you hear the wind last night?
00:26:48It was very strong, I believe.
00:26:50I couldn't go back to sleep again, so I had a bath.
00:26:54Well.
00:26:57Thank you, Mr. Nightingale.
00:27:04I don't know why.
00:27:05I'm not afraid to see you, Mr. Nightingale.
00:27:14I don't know why.
00:27:14Thank you, Mr. Nightingale.
00:27:19Mr. Nightingale.
00:27:20There's nothing much here.
00:27:21No diary.
00:27:22It's a bit surprising, isn't it?
00:27:25A few receipted bills.
00:27:28Dressmakers mostly.
00:27:30ten-year tie Bruton Street 158 pounds 200 pounds one she hasn't paid yet 90
00:27:38pounds really hmm I don't think she was killed by a dressmaker Mike
00:27:50I'd be in church isn't it
00:27:55not exactly a council mazenate is it nothing out of place everything polished makes you want a whisper
00:28:08that's odd what is come and have a look
00:28:16the towel's too wet but it's on a hot rail wouldn't take seven hours to drive would it
00:28:21well either he's had two bars or just one between nine and ten this morning so the
00:28:27first one could have been a cleaning-up operation blood on the towel or
00:28:32somewhere it doesn't seem to be
00:28:52made from the digestive juices of a cow or so I'm told
00:29:00why such high cost having so short a lease does thou upon thy fading mansion spend
00:29:08pardon just a line of a sonnet that came into my head
00:29:13personally I was thinking what a waste of money when you've got to get old anyway
00:29:19I think there was another man Reg I can't believe she went to all this trouble just for
00:29:23her husband well some women do Mike but yes I think there was another man the man she went into
00:29:30the forest to me presumably what's your theory the nightingale suspected followed her into the
00:29:35forest and killed her I don't have a theory but there's a candidate for the third side of our
00:29:40triangle the gardeners boy can't be more than 20. I want to know about your movements last night
00:29:47what time did you knock off here about five where'd you go I went home had my tea watched
00:29:54telly and went to bed do you live on your own no with me old lady my mother and your
00:30:02mother
00:30:02watched television with you of course haven't you got a girlfriend you've seen the curls around here
00:30:09so you and your mother watched television until you went to bed sure what programs did you see
00:30:16well there was coronation street then that sitcom about a couple of women working in a bank
00:30:21then minder and the news so what time did you get to bed i don't know
00:30:27oh yeah after the news we watched that australian film about the war it was good
00:30:39i was going to watch that australian film that lovell was on about oh they cancelled it put on a
00:30:45musical instead
00:30:51and who were her friends mrs cantrip who called on her well sir there was the lady she saw on
00:30:58business like
00:30:59arranging bazaars and jim canners if you know what i mean and then there was their friends that came
00:31:04here to dine sir george and lady larkin smith mr. and mrs premier oh all the county folk what about
00:31:11men friends men friends sir well the lady could have uh men friends these days without there being
00:31:17anything improper oh no sir her friends was their friends sir fair enough uh just one other thing mrs
00:31:24country did you remove a damp towel from mr nightingale's bathroom this morning no sir
00:31:30definitely not i wasn't looking for work this morning i can assure you now i changed the sheets
00:31:35monday mornings and the towels tuesday and friday supposing somebody else were to have done it no
00:31:41they couldn't have sir the soil linens kept in the bin in the back kitchen no one's been near it
00:31:46today i can vouch for that well i don't doubt your word mrs cantrip but just to set my mind
00:31:51at rest
00:31:51mr burton will you have a look i gotta go and see mr villas uh where will i find it
00:31:57around the
00:31:58other side of the stable block mr villas lives here in this house no not lives sir he comes up
00:32:04every day
00:32:05to do his writing like you can't miss it take the little path around the side of the stable the
00:32:10old
00:32:11house it's called thank you
00:32:16so
00:32:26so
00:32:27so
00:32:30Let's go.
00:33:01Oh, uh, I'm Chief Inspector Waxford.
00:33:04Good morning, Chief Inspector. What can I do for you?
00:33:07Just a few questions, sir.
00:33:08Certainly. Sit down, would you?
00:33:10I realise this must have been a shock for you.
00:33:14Well, to tell you the truth, it makes very little difference.
00:33:16My sister and I weren't particularly attached to each other.
00:33:21Oh? May I know why not?
00:33:23We had nothing in common.
00:33:25She was an empty-headed, frivolous woman,
00:33:28and, uh, well, I'm not a frivolous man.
00:33:32I believe you and your wife spent the evening in the manor.
00:33:36Yes, we, uh, played bridge. We left at 10.30.
00:33:40We live near Clusterwell. It takes, well, ten minutes to drive there from the manor.
00:33:44My wife and I went straight to bed.
00:33:46And how did your sister seem?
00:33:49Normal?
00:33:51She...
00:33:53She seemed
00:33:55exactly the same as always.
00:33:57A gracious lady of the manor whom everyone loved.
00:34:01Her bridge was appalling, but then
00:34:04it was neither more
00:34:05nor less appalling than usual.
00:34:07Did you know that she took
00:34:08nocturnal walks in the forest?
00:34:11I knew that she took
00:34:13nocturnal walks in the grounds.
00:34:15Presumably it was because
00:34:16she was foolish enough to venture further
00:34:18that she meant the end she did.
00:34:21I wonder, sir,
00:34:23were you surprised by her death?
00:34:26Of course I was surprised.
00:34:27I was shocked.
00:34:29But women alone in lonely places
00:34:31do get murdered, or so I'm told.
00:34:33I mean, I don't read the newspapers.
00:34:35Matters of that sort don't interest me.
00:34:53Well, you've, uh,
00:34:55made it quite clear
00:34:56that you disliked your sister.
00:35:02Strange that you so willingly
00:35:04accepted her generosity.
00:35:08I accepted my brother-in-law's
00:35:10generosity, Chief Inspector.
00:35:13And now, if you'll excuse me,
00:35:15I have rather a lot of work to do.
00:35:17How dare you?
00:35:19Get out of my room.
00:35:23Well, we'll speak again later, sir.
00:35:26When you're more under control.
00:35:35What a shabby-looking dumb.
00:35:37I think a teacher
00:35:38would keep his house in trim.
00:35:40Schoolteacher and successful author.
00:35:43That car's been washed this morning.
00:35:46Funny thing to do
00:35:47the morning you hear
00:35:48that your sister's been murdered.
00:35:50It isn't his car.
00:35:51He drives an Allegro.
00:35:52Must be his wife's.
00:35:54I wouldn't have said
00:35:55it was muddy in the forest last night,
00:35:57would you?
00:35:58Tacky.
00:35:58We had rain last weekend, remember?
00:36:01Right.
00:36:03Drive on, Bryant.
00:36:04Yes, sir.
00:36:05We'll leave the village for now.
00:36:09I'd like the answer
00:36:10to three main questions
00:36:11at the moment.
00:36:12Why was Nightingale
00:36:13taking a bath
00:36:13at five in the morning?
00:36:15Right.
00:36:16Or why was he pretending to?
00:36:18Why did Sean Lovell
00:36:19tell me that he'd been
00:36:20watching a television
00:36:21programme last night
00:36:22which in fact
00:36:23had been cancelled
00:36:24at the last moment?
00:36:26What's the other one?
00:36:27Why was Elizabeth Nightingale
00:36:29friendly with everyone
00:36:31except her only brother?
00:37:00Oh, it's Mr. Burden.
00:37:03Oh, this is nice.
00:37:05I think you're following me.
00:37:07Good afternoon, Miss Doran.
00:37:09No, he's not following you,
00:37:11I'm afraid.
00:37:12I'm taking him off
00:37:13to see Mrs. Lovell.
00:37:14Oh, that is not very nice.
00:37:16She's a very dirty woman
00:37:18or fat.
00:37:18Oh, well, we'll see.
00:37:21Let's hope she's at home.
00:37:22It's not a home.
00:37:24It's a house full of pigs.
00:37:25And I don't know
00:37:26what these pig people do.
00:37:27Well, don't catch anything
00:37:29nasty in that dirty place.
00:37:33Odds, my little life,
00:37:34I think she means
00:37:34to tangle your eyes too.
00:37:37Frightful girl.
00:37:37I think she's charming.
00:37:39Good heavens,
00:37:40if I thought my daughter
00:37:41would ever behave in that kind of way...
00:37:42Oh, good God, Mike.
00:37:43I'm a married man
00:37:45and a faithful husband.
00:37:47But, uh,
00:37:48I reckon I'd have been in
00:37:49with a chance
00:37:4930 years ago.
00:37:52Oh, you are a cold fish.
00:37:53Ha, ha, ha.
00:38:25Mrs. Lovell.
00:38:27What do you want?
00:38:29Mrs. Lovell.
00:38:30That's right.
00:38:31What do you want?
00:38:32A word with you, please.
00:38:34We're, uh, police officers.
00:38:37Better come in.
00:38:45About her,
00:38:46over at the house, is it?
00:38:48His lordship said
00:38:49there was police about.
00:38:51Lordship?
00:38:52My boy, Saul.
00:38:54We were just making
00:38:55a routine inquiry,
00:38:56Mrs. Lovell.
00:38:57Would you mind telling me
00:38:58how your son spent last evening?
00:39:01You can sit down if you like.
00:39:03His juggler,
00:39:04Tony Anthony,
00:39:04he's hoping to entertain
00:39:05our crowd
00:39:06into giving him
00:39:07more than the
00:39:07£15.30
00:39:08earned by our champion
00:39:10busker so far,
00:39:11magician John Lennon.
00:39:13At his tea,
00:39:14then he sat about
00:39:15watching the TV.
00:39:17Why not?
00:39:18He pays the license,
00:39:18don't he?
00:39:20Oh, I'm sure he does.
00:39:21He didn't watch it
00:39:22after 9.30,
00:39:23though, did he?
00:39:28He went out.
00:39:30Where'd he go?
00:39:31I never asked.
00:39:33I don't interfere
00:39:34with his ways
00:39:34and he don't interfere
00:39:35with mine.
00:39:37maybe he went down
00:39:38the shed.
00:39:40Spends a lot of time
00:39:41down the shed,
00:39:41he does.
00:39:43Got his records
00:39:44down there.
00:39:45Can't he place records
00:39:46in the house?
00:39:47He can if he wants.
00:39:49Don't matter to me
00:39:50one way or the other.
00:39:51I don't interfere with him
00:39:52and he don't with me.
00:39:54What time did he get back in?
00:39:56I never heard him.
00:39:59My gentleman friend
00:40:00came round about 7.
00:40:03Sean and him
00:40:04donated off
00:40:05all that grand.
00:40:06Reckon that's why
00:40:07his lordship
00:40:08took himself off.
00:40:12He hadn't come in
00:40:13when my friend went.
00:40:15After 10,
00:40:15that'd be.
00:40:17But there,
00:40:17like I say,
00:40:18I don't interfere
00:40:19with him
00:40:19and he don't with me.
00:40:20Yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:40:22Sean was, uh,
00:40:24very fond
00:40:25of Mrs. Nightingale,
00:40:26I believe.
00:40:29You can believe
00:40:30what you like.
00:40:33Live and let live.
00:40:34That's my motto.
00:40:37Her,
00:40:38up at the house.
00:40:40She believed
00:40:41in interfering
00:40:41with folks,
00:40:42making them
00:40:43better at themselves.
00:40:45Gave his lordship
00:40:46some funny ideas.
00:40:48What sort of ideas?
00:40:50Oh,
00:40:51getting into
00:40:51show business,
00:40:52singing,
00:40:53all that.
00:40:54I never took
00:40:55that much notice.
00:41:00Maybe.
00:41:01She fancied him.
00:41:03Kind of brass.
00:41:05Well,
00:41:06thank you very much,
00:41:07Mrs. Lowe.
00:41:09You'd, uh,
00:41:09have no objection
00:41:10to searching the house.
00:41:14Search all you like.
00:41:16Rather you than me.
00:41:57call on your otheros.
00:42:00Three more avenues.
00:42:01Upра.
00:42:02Upra.
00:42:02Up.
00:42:05Upra!
00:42:06Upra!�
00:42:08aquesta! Upra!
00:42:11Upra!
00:42:12Upra!
00:42:15Upra!
00:42:23Never in all my years of CID work.
00:42:25A bit depressing, eh? Disgusting.
00:42:28Well, your lady friend did warn you.
00:42:30There was a rotting pigeon underneath the bed.
00:42:33Yeah, and what about the kitchen?
00:42:35Well, take a look at this.
00:42:43Quite a contrast, eh?
00:42:47Good old must be a love-nast.
00:42:50I'm sorry no one's ever going to persuade me that a lady like Mrs. Nightingale
00:42:54would have assignations with Sean Lovell in a place like this.
00:42:57Oh, you're probably right.
00:43:04Easy access to the forest, though.
00:43:06So what was he doing last night?
00:43:08Well, he wasn't in the pub, sir. I checked there.
00:43:12The last bus from my fleet leaves at 9.30. He wasn't on that.
00:43:16No, sir.
00:43:16Maybe he was playing his records in the shed.
00:43:21Well, then, why did he lie about it?
00:43:39Don't go too far away, Brian. We shan't be too long.
00:43:41All right, sir.
00:43:59Mrs. Villers?
00:44:00Yes?
00:44:01We're police officers.
00:44:02Oh, morning.
00:44:03Oh, afternoon.
00:44:04Afternoon, rather.
00:44:05Um, my husband's not here.
00:44:07He won't be long.
00:44:07He's gone back to the manor.
00:44:09It's, er, you we'd like to talk to, Mrs. Phillips.
00:44:12Oh, would you?
00:44:14Oh, right.
00:44:15You've got to come in.
00:44:23Please, sit down.
00:44:24Oh.
00:44:31Right.
00:44:31Well, what would you like to ask me?
00:44:34Just a couple of routine questions, Mrs. Villers.
00:44:38First of all, did you and your husband come straight back here
00:44:40after your visit to the manor last night?
00:44:42Yes.
00:44:43And what did you do when you got back here?
00:44:45We went to bed, straight to bed.
00:44:47Did you drive up in that car outside?
00:44:50No, we went in Dennis's car.
00:44:52We've got two cars, you see.
00:44:53When we got married last year, I had a car, Dennis had a car.
00:44:56Only old cars.
00:44:57We decided to keep them both.
00:44:58They're not worth much, you see.
00:45:00Dennis is out in his car at the moment.
00:45:03His car's newer than my car, of course.
00:45:04But your car outside has just been cleaned.
00:45:08Won't you sit down, Mrs. Villers?
00:45:13Do you always clean your car on a Thursday?
00:45:17I expect you're like my wife.
00:45:20A special time of the week for every little job,
00:45:22and then nothing gets left out.
00:45:25No, I'm afraid not.
00:45:26I'm not methodical.
00:45:27I know I ought to be.
00:45:28I know Dennis would like it if I was.
00:45:31But why do you ask?
00:45:33Well, I'll tell you.
00:45:34If you were methodical,
00:45:37you'd work to a routine and be conditioned by it.
00:45:41But as you're not,
00:45:43and you only clean your car when you feel like it
00:45:45or when it's dirty,
00:45:48why did you choose today of all days?
00:45:51Oh, I'm sorry.
00:45:53I don't understand.
00:45:55I suppose you've took the very sensible attitude
00:45:57that if you're unhappy or worried,
00:46:03one works to take one's mind off one's troubles.
00:46:07Yes.
00:46:08Yes, that was it.
00:46:11You see, I mean, I wasn't very upset.
00:46:14She wasn't my sister.
00:46:16Well, true.
00:46:17She was your husband's sister.
00:46:18Your sister-in-law.
00:46:20They didn't like each other, did they?
00:46:22No, they didn't.
00:46:24They didn't get on at all.
00:46:25If you must know, Dennis couldn't stand her.
00:46:28Strange.
00:46:29Elizabeth Notingale seemed to get on with everybody else.
00:46:32Did she?
00:46:33Oh, the county people, you mean?
00:46:35Yes, well, Elizabeth didn't have any real friends.
00:46:38My husband, Dennis,
00:46:40he thinks she was killed by a maniac.
00:46:42One of those men that goes around attacking women.
00:46:44And I expect that's what it was.
00:46:47I mean, she must have been mad
00:46:48to go to the forest at night.
00:46:49Really, she was asking for it.
00:46:51Perhaps.
00:46:53Why didn't your husband get on with his sister?
00:46:58They hadn't anything in common.
00:47:00I expect he thought her rather silly and extravagant.
00:47:03Was she?
00:47:04Well, she and Gwen,
00:47:06they weren't the sort of people I'd been used to.
00:47:07I'd never associated with people like that
00:47:09before I was married.
00:47:11I used to teach,
00:47:12but I gave it up for good when I got married last year
00:47:14because, well, I think that a woman's place
00:47:17is in the home looking after her husband, don't you?
00:47:20I mean,
00:47:21I think that's best for people like us
00:47:23to have a real home,
00:47:25family,
00:47:26not too many of these outside interests.
00:47:31What does he do with his money, Mike?
00:47:35It's not spent on here.
00:47:37I mean, I know you don't make a fortune
00:47:39writing books about William Wordsworth,
00:47:41but he's got a good teaching job.
00:47:44She's a bit jumpy, isn't she?
00:47:46A bit thick, if you ask me.
00:47:48She's probably just nervous
00:47:50about being interviewed by policemen.
00:47:51I'd say she's fine in the ordinary way.
00:47:54There's nothing here.
00:47:57No traces of blood.
00:48:01Nothing that can conceivably
00:48:02be used as a murder weapon.
00:48:12This is blazing away, Merrily.
00:48:14They could have burned anything in here.
00:48:17And she's had hours to do it.
00:48:21Well, Mrs. Willers.
00:48:22I can't think why my husband's so long.
00:48:24I mean, you'd think that today
00:48:25he'd want to be here with me.
00:48:26You'd think that it's him now.
00:48:27Excuse me.
00:48:31Is she this jumpy, isn't she?
00:48:33Shh.
00:48:35Mr. Willers?
00:48:40Get the ambulance, Mike.
00:48:41Quick!
00:48:56Excuse me.
00:48:58Mr. Willers.
00:48:59Well, Will.
00:49:00Came in yesterday with a stroke.
00:49:02I only came in this morning.
00:49:04Oh, thank you.
00:49:06Come on!
00:49:07John, leave her alone.
00:49:09If you make me late, I'll kill you.
00:49:11Leave me alone.
00:49:14I told you to leave her alone.
00:49:16She's gonna make me late!
00:49:19Is she well enough to go to school, Mike?
00:49:22You know she is.
00:49:23It's always the same at the beginning of the term.
00:49:25She spends an hour being sick in the bathroom,
00:49:27and then as soon as she gets to school, she's fine.
00:49:29She's too sensitive.
00:49:30That's the trouble.
00:49:32I'm not sensitive.
00:49:33If I ever have kids and they go on like her,
00:49:35I'll give them a right walloping.
00:49:39Mike, over there.
00:49:40What happened to Mr. Willers?
00:49:42He was admitted yesterday afternoon, suspected stroke.
00:49:45Well, no, he went home last night.
00:49:48Oh.
00:49:49Yes.
00:49:50OK.
00:49:51You can't.
00:50:03There you are.
00:50:04You see, John isn't a bit worried.
00:50:06You know you were getting terribly bored being at home all the time.
00:50:19You know how Phillips has discharged himself from hospital?
00:50:23There's nothing wrong with him.
00:50:24Good morning, Reg.
00:50:26Morning.
00:50:27He was dying yesterday.
00:50:29Rubbish.
00:50:30They went over him with a microscope at the infirmary.
00:50:33He's as fit as you are, Reg.
00:50:35Fitter.
00:50:35All right, all right.
00:50:38Doesn't seem to me to be fit at the best of times.
00:50:41He works too hard, that's all.
00:50:42I ought to know.
00:50:43He's a patient of mine.
00:50:44And I suppose, being a true priest of the medical profession,
00:50:48you're going to keep whatever's wrong with him
00:50:50locked in your Hippocratic bosom.
00:50:52I would if there was anything to lock.
00:50:54There's nothing wrong with him.
00:50:56You know who I've just seen?
00:50:57Who?
00:50:58Dennis Fillers.
00:50:59Largest life on his way to work.
00:51:01Oh, there's nothing wrong with him, apparently.
00:51:03What about the fitiate yesterday?
00:51:04Who knows?
00:51:06The trendy young registrar at the hospital
00:51:08plumps for an allergic reaction.
00:51:10And you?
00:51:11Psychosomatic.
00:51:13Psychosomatic.
00:51:15Let's go to my office.
00:51:16This place is like a morgue.
00:51:20Yeah, ones are the best ones.
00:51:22Could it have been guilt?
00:51:23My sister's just been murdered, remember?
00:51:25You'd expect some sort of reaction.
00:51:28Oh, yeah, don't go.
00:51:36What are you going to tell us about Elizabeth Nightingale?
00:51:39Ah, Elizabeth Nightingale.
00:51:41Let me take your condo.
00:51:42Oh, thanks, Rich.
00:51:45Yes, Elizabeth Frances Nightingale
00:51:51was a well-nourished
00:51:52and well-preserved woman
00:51:54of about 40.
00:51:5541.
00:51:56Hmm.
00:51:58Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:02Ah, yes.
00:52:03Death resulted
00:52:04from a fractured skull
00:52:07and multiple injuries
00:52:08to the brain.
00:52:09At least a dozen
00:52:10blades were struck
00:52:11with a
00:52:12not very blunt
00:52:13metal instrument.
00:52:14I don't mean a knife
00:52:15or an axe.
00:52:16I mean something
00:52:17with sharper edges
00:52:18to it than, say,
00:52:19a piece of lead pipe
00:52:20or a poker.
00:52:22What do you think
00:52:22it might have been?
00:52:23Oh, it's a tricky one,
00:52:24isn't it?
00:52:25Don't think I'd care
00:52:26to hazard a guess.
00:52:27Anyway, it's all in there.
00:52:29Come in.
00:52:30Just to give us an idea
00:52:31of what we're looking for.
00:52:32Well?
00:52:33Put it down here, Molly.
00:52:35Could be
00:52:35a, oh,
00:52:38metal vase
00:52:39or even a cooking utensil.
00:52:41Oh, I see.
00:52:43Coffee?
00:52:44Oh, yes.
00:52:46One sugar, please.
00:52:48Coffee.
00:52:49So some bloke
00:52:50goes into the woods
00:52:51and sees his wife
00:52:51carrying on
00:52:52with another man
00:52:52so he whips out
00:52:54an egg whisk
00:52:54and lays about him.
00:52:57Do you don't mean
00:52:58to say you've got
00:52:59Quentin Nightingale
00:53:00lined up for this job?
00:53:02Well, he's human,
00:53:02isn't he?
00:53:03He's got passions.
00:53:04The weapon
00:53:05we're looking for
00:53:05depends to some extent
00:53:06on whether the murder
00:53:07was premeditated or not.
00:53:09Go on.
00:53:10Well, did our man
00:53:11go into the woods
00:53:11knowing he was going
00:53:12to commit a murder
00:53:13and take a weapon
00:53:13with him
00:53:14or was he just out
00:53:15for a walk
00:53:16in which case
00:53:17the murder would have
00:53:17had to be committed
00:53:18by whatever came to hand?
00:53:19All right, well,
00:53:20let's suppose for a moment
00:53:20that he was unpremeditated.
00:53:22What would he be carrying?
00:53:24I mean,
00:53:24what do people
00:53:25take out into the woods
00:53:26at night?
00:53:27A walking stick?
00:53:28Too thin.
00:53:29Shooting stick, possibly.
00:53:31It might seem
00:53:32a bit far-fetched,
00:53:33but golf club?
00:53:35For a few
00:53:36practice drives
00:53:37through the trees?
00:53:39How about
00:53:40the metal heel
00:53:40of a shoe?
00:53:41Any dirt in the wound?
00:53:42Oh, good God,
00:53:43we've seen the obvious.
00:53:45You asked the question
00:53:45yourself, Reg.
00:53:46What do people carry
00:53:48when they're going
00:53:48out into a wood
00:53:49at night?
00:53:49A torch.
00:53:51We've got a couple.
00:53:52We keep them
00:53:53in the garden room.
00:53:54I'll show you.
00:54:03Are you at home
00:54:03to visit us, sir?
00:54:05For two pins,
00:54:05I'd send them away
00:54:06with a flea in their ear.
00:54:08You'd better see
00:54:08who it is.
00:54:13Oh, hello,
00:54:13Mrs. Cantrip.
00:54:14It's, uh,
00:54:15Gwen.
00:54:18How are you?
00:54:18Thought I'd come
00:54:19and see how you were
00:54:19bearing up.
00:54:20It's all been so dreadful
00:54:21for you.
00:54:22It's nice to see you,
00:54:23Georgina.
00:54:23Anyway,
00:54:24I brought my own lunch
00:54:25so that Mrs. Cantrip
00:54:25won't have to be cooking
00:54:26for me.
00:54:28You look bad, Gwen.
00:54:30Still, I know
00:54:30it's been a bit
00:54:31of a strain and everything
00:54:31and I,
00:54:33oh,
00:54:34perhaps I shouldn't
00:54:34have come.
00:54:35No, no,
00:54:36it's good of you
00:54:36to travel.
00:54:37Come into the drawing room.
00:54:39Perhaps Mrs. Cantrip
00:54:40could take you
00:54:40to where the torches
00:54:41are kept.
00:54:42Of course.
00:54:42Mrs. Cantrip.
00:54:43Yes, sir?
00:54:44Could you take
00:54:45Inspector Burton
00:54:45to the garden room?
00:54:50As if I wouldn't
00:54:51have given her
00:54:51a nice lunch.
00:54:52She only had to ask
00:54:53like a lady
00:54:55if you don't mind
00:54:56me saying so, sir.
00:54:58Mind the step, sir.
00:55:01It was quite a nasty
00:55:02accident here
00:55:03five or six years back
00:55:04and that Mr. Toohey
00:55:06fell down the stairs
00:55:07thought he'd broken
00:55:08his leg.
00:55:11A bit too free
00:55:12with Mr. Nightingale's
00:55:13whiskey bottle
00:55:13if you ask me.
00:55:14Who is Mr. Toohey?
00:55:15Friend of the family?
00:55:17Oh, no, sir.
00:55:18Just a servant.
00:55:19Him and his wife
00:55:20used to work here
00:55:21if you can call it work.
00:55:23They didn't lighten
00:55:24my load much,
00:55:25I can tell you.
00:55:26I was never so relieved
00:55:28in all my life
00:55:28as when Mr. Nightingale
00:55:29sacked them.
00:55:38Oh, do you know
00:55:39where Mr. Nightingale is,
00:55:40really?
00:55:41Oh, thank you.
00:55:42Oh, thank you.
00:56:17Oh, dear boy,
00:56:22what a lovely surprise.
00:56:23How are you, Lionel?
00:56:25Very much better
00:56:25indeed for seeing you, Reg.
00:56:27I was saying to Hypatia
00:56:28only yesterday
00:56:29how miserable I was
00:56:30because you'd utterly
00:56:31deserted me
00:56:31and here you are.
00:56:33Well, have you just
00:56:34come to renew acquaintance
00:56:35with scenes
00:56:36of your former glory?
00:56:37Scarcely.
00:56:38You've got a couple
00:56:38of seconds.
00:56:39I've got a whole
00:56:39free period.
00:56:43You've, uh,
00:56:45heard about
00:56:46Elizabeth Nightingale?
00:56:48What a
00:56:49ghastly thing.
00:56:50You were very thick
00:56:51with them.
00:56:53I want to know
00:56:54about the nightingales,
00:56:55Lionel.
00:56:56I want to know
00:56:57anything you can tell me.
00:56:58I know you won't
00:56:59let yourself be
00:57:00inhibited by
00:57:02any foolish scruples
00:57:03like good taste
00:57:04or speaking ill
00:57:05of the dead.
00:57:06I don't know
00:57:06what you mean.
00:57:07I was very fond of
00:57:08Elizabeth.
00:57:09We've known each other
00:57:10all our lives.
00:57:12Infants together
00:57:13in a manner of speaking.
00:57:14In a manner of speaking.
00:57:17She could give you
00:57:1715 years.
00:57:19Don't you kid yourself.
00:57:20It's easy to see
00:57:21someone's got out of bed
00:57:22the wrong side this morning.
00:57:23Oh, I don't know
00:57:24about the wrong side.
00:57:25I got out of bed
00:57:25too early.
00:57:27Where was she born?
00:57:28Here.
00:57:28Of course.
00:57:30Didn't you know?
00:57:31She and Dennis
00:57:32were born here.
00:57:33I know hardly anything
00:57:34about them.
00:57:34That's what I liked.
00:57:35Total ignorance.
00:57:36As I say to the
00:57:37spotty devils here,
00:57:38blessed are they
00:57:38who hunger and thirst
00:57:39for enlightenment
00:57:40for they shall be filled
00:57:41even if I have to
00:57:41knock it into them
00:57:42with a slipper.
00:57:43Can we get on?
00:57:44Hmm?
00:57:44Can we get on?
00:57:46Oh, very well.
00:57:47Um, well,
00:57:49they were born here,
00:57:50all right?
00:57:51In a nasty little
00:57:52damp house
00:57:53down by Kingsbrook Lock.
00:57:54Their mother
00:57:55came from London.
00:57:56Quite a good family.
00:57:57But their father
00:57:58was Kingsmarkham
00:57:58born and bred.
00:57:59He was a clerk
00:58:00in the council offices.
00:58:02Not well after.
00:58:03Poor as church mice,
00:58:05my dear.
00:58:06Both Elizabeth
00:58:07and Dennis
00:58:07went to the council
00:58:08school,
00:58:08as it then was,
00:58:09and,
00:58:10no doubt
00:58:10he would have
00:58:10gone on
00:58:11wasting his
00:58:11sweetness
00:58:12on the desert
00:58:12air.
00:58:14But for the crash.
00:58:16Crash?
00:58:17What crash?
00:58:17You remember?
00:58:18The train crash.
00:58:19The Cheriton Holt.
00:58:21Oh, yes.
00:58:22In the 50s.
00:58:23London train
00:58:24went into the
00:58:24back of a goods train.
00:58:25That's right.
00:58:261956,
00:58:27five people killed.
00:58:28Two of them
00:58:28were Villa's
00:58:29Pair and Mare
00:58:30on their way back
00:58:31from their Christmas
00:58:32shopping spree
00:58:32at Gamages.
00:58:34Good God.
00:58:35What happened
00:58:36to the children?
00:58:37Well,
00:58:37a rather peculiar
00:58:38and most unfair
00:58:39arrangement was made
00:58:40for them.
00:58:40Dennis,
00:58:41he was about five
00:58:41then,
00:58:42was sent to his
00:58:44mother's brother
00:58:44and did very well
00:58:46for himself.
00:58:46This uncle
00:58:47was a barrister
00:58:48in a good way
00:58:49of doing
00:58:49and he sent
00:58:50Dennis to some
00:58:51public school
00:58:51and then to
00:58:52Oxford.
00:58:52And Elizabeth.
00:58:54Oh, poor Elizabeth.
00:58:55She was left behind
00:58:56with her father's
00:58:57sister who took
00:58:57her away from
00:58:58the high school
00:58:58when she was 15
00:58:59and, uh,
00:59:01sent her to work
00:59:02at Moran's.
00:59:04Mrs. Nightingale
00:59:06and drape
00:59:06as a sister.
00:59:07I thought
00:59:08that would shake
00:59:08you.
00:59:09Yes,
00:59:10that old bitch
00:59:10Priscilla Larkin-Smith
00:59:12still goes around
00:59:13telling her mates
00:59:14about the time
00:59:14she was fitted
00:59:15for corsets
00:59:16by Elizabeth Nightingale.
00:59:18How did she come
00:59:19to meet Nightingale?
00:59:21She wasn't at
00:59:22Moran's for long.
00:59:23She, uh,
00:59:24ran away to London,
00:59:25got a job,
00:59:26clever little thing,
00:59:27and, uh,
00:59:30out, spotty devil!
00:59:31Oh, go on!
00:59:35Where was I?
00:59:37Elizabeth Nightingale
00:59:38was in London.
00:59:39Oh, yeah.
00:59:40Did, uh,
00:59:40she and her brother
00:59:41meet there again?
00:59:42Uh,
00:59:44that I wouldn't know.
00:59:47I didn't see
00:59:47either of them again
00:59:48until I heard
00:59:49that, uh,
00:59:50Quentin had bought
00:59:51the manor.
00:59:52You can imagine
00:59:53my joy when I heard
00:59:53who this Mrs. Nightingale
00:59:54was.
00:59:55Uh, not really.
00:59:56Uh.
00:59:56Since she was
00:59:57a kid of 15
00:59:58and you were nearly
00:59:5930 when you last met.
01:00:00Oh, Reg.
01:00:02You do pour cold water
01:00:03on one's impulsive
01:00:04little expressions.
01:00:05No, I mean,
01:00:05it was lovely to see
01:00:06someone I,
01:00:06I used to know.
01:00:07It was always a,
01:00:08a joy to be with Elizabeth.
01:00:10I adore those
01:00:12classic English blondes.
01:00:14Lionel,
01:00:15it's time you got married again.
01:00:17Oh, no, no, Reg.
01:00:18A man who marries again
01:00:19doesn't deserve
01:00:20to lose his first wife.
01:00:22Just one last question.
01:00:24Were they, uh,
01:00:25a happy couple?
01:00:27They were the perfect
01:00:28happy couple.
01:00:30Listen, Reg.
01:00:31If you and your wife
01:00:32never discuss anything
01:00:33but the weather,
01:00:34are childless,
01:00:36weighted on hand
01:00:37and foot,
01:00:38and both equally cold
01:00:39sexually,
01:00:40what is there
01:00:41to quarrel about?
01:00:43When the chief inspector
01:00:44calls in,
01:00:44tell him I'm at my fleet
01:00:45manor,
01:00:46and I'd like him to make me
01:00:47here as soon as possible.
01:00:48Tell him it's urgent,
01:00:49will he?
01:00:50You have to make
01:00:51allowances for Dennis.
01:00:52Oh, indeed.
01:00:53Why?
01:00:53Well, poets are
01:00:55curious creatures.
01:00:56Poets?
01:00:57I didn't know he was a poet.
01:00:58Oh, dear me, yes.
01:00:59By the time he reappeared
01:01:00in Kings Markham,
01:01:01several very charming
01:01:02little verses of his
01:01:03had appeared in the New Statesman.
01:01:05So, as I say,
01:01:06I made alliances.
01:01:07Oh, so he came back
01:01:07to Kings Markham?
01:01:08Yes, I said,
01:01:09perhaps you're relying
01:01:09on your sister
01:01:10to give you the entree.
01:01:11I said,
01:01:11don't forget,
01:01:12she's new here herself.
01:01:13He went quite white.
01:01:15My sister here,
01:01:16he said.
01:01:17You don't mean to say
01:01:17you didn't know,
01:01:18I said.
01:01:18Christ, he said.
01:01:19I thought this was
01:01:20the last place
01:01:20she'd want to show her face in.
01:01:22Well, what was he so upset about?
01:01:23I asked myself
01:01:24the same thing at the time.
01:01:26Right from the start,
01:01:27Elizabeth acted towards him
01:01:29as if he's done her
01:01:29some injury,
01:01:30and as for him,
01:01:31well,
01:01:32the man's rudeness to her
01:01:33was beyond belief.
01:01:35But, of course,
01:01:35you can't lay too much stress
01:01:36on that because,
01:01:37well,
01:01:37Dennis is fine.
01:01:38I'll to everyone
01:01:38except Quentin,
01:01:39and, of course,
01:01:40Quentin adores him.
01:01:41Elizabeth and Dennis
01:01:42were enemies
01:01:43right from the start.
01:01:44But if you want to know why,
01:01:46I can't help you.
01:01:48And she never spoke about it?
01:01:50Never.
01:02:08What is it, Mike?
01:02:09Come and have a look.
01:02:19A torch with a big head.
01:02:22A big head and a long,
01:02:23thick metal tube thing
01:02:25to hold it with.
01:02:26About nine or ten inches long.
01:02:28And when did you last see it,
01:02:29then, here?
01:02:30Oh, two or three weeks back.
01:02:34You don't really clean a room
01:02:35like this, sir,
01:02:36if you take my meaning.
01:02:38Young Sean gives it a sweep out
01:02:39every so often.
01:02:41Does he?
01:02:43Well,
01:02:44now we know the weapon
01:02:45we're looking for.
01:02:47The same number of men
01:02:48as we had yesterday.
01:02:50Yeah.
01:02:52Straight away, please.
01:03:13Oh,
01:03:14Mrs. Country.
01:03:15Do you know where
01:03:16Mr. Lady Gail is?
01:03:17He's just gone to his study, sir.
01:03:30There's a torch
01:03:31missing from the garden room.
01:03:33I beg your pardon?
01:03:35A torch.
01:03:35A big one.
01:03:36Ten, twelve inches long.
01:03:38Brass coloured.
01:03:39You seen it lately?
01:03:41It was there on Sunday.
01:03:43I went in to get my golf clubs.
01:03:44I saw it then.
01:03:45It isn't there now.
01:03:47That torch killed your wife,
01:03:49Mr. Lady Gail.
01:03:52I don't honestly think
01:03:53I could take any more.
01:03:55Yesterday was the worst day
01:03:56of my life.
01:03:58Well, I can't promise you
01:03:59that today or tomorrow
01:03:59will be any improvement.
01:04:01I think I'm going mad.
01:04:02I must have been mad
01:04:03to do what I did.
01:04:05I'd give everything I've got
01:04:06to go back to Wednesday evening
01:04:07and start again.
01:04:09Making some sort of a confession.
01:04:12Not that sort of confession.
01:04:14Of what sort?
01:04:15It doesn't matter.
01:04:17Mr. Nightingale,
01:04:17this is a very serious business.
01:04:20Oh, my God.
01:04:22What sort of a confession?
01:04:27Would you get me a drink, please?
01:04:30Mr. Burden.
01:04:32Whiskey.
01:04:47Could the inspector believe us?
01:04:50I'm sorry.
01:04:52Would you mind waiting outside,
01:04:54Inspector Burden?
01:05:03I don't know where to begin.
01:05:06I could just tell you boldly
01:05:09if I need to justify myself.
01:05:13You said that nobody involved
01:05:14in a murder case
01:05:15has any right to a private life.
01:05:18I can see that now.
01:05:20I've got to tell you
01:05:21about my private life
01:05:22so that you'll understand.
01:05:26I used to go to her room
01:05:28once a fortnight.
01:05:31Always on a Saturday night.
01:05:33She'd push back
01:05:34the bed covers
01:05:35and say,
01:05:35this is nice, darling.
01:05:38Always the same.
01:05:40And
01:05:42afterwards,
01:05:43when I left her
01:05:43to go to my room,
01:05:44she'd say,
01:05:46that was lovely, darling.
01:05:49She never called me by my name.
01:05:52Sometimes I think
01:05:53she forgot what it was.
01:05:56It was disgusting, really.
01:05:59Sometimes I used to feel
01:06:00I was married to a sort of doll
01:06:02that smiled
01:06:03and wore pretty clothes
01:06:06and had a vocabulary
01:06:07of a certain limited kind.
01:06:10And yet,
01:06:12you say you were happy.
01:06:15Did I say that?
01:06:17Everyone else said I was.
01:06:19I grew used to telling myself
01:06:20I must be.
01:06:38I was attracted to Katia from the start,
01:06:46but I didn't do anything about it then.
01:06:50She was a young girl
01:06:51and I was, well,
01:06:53in loco parentis.
01:06:56I told myself I thought of her as a daughter.
01:06:59We do manage to delude ourselves, don't we?
01:07:03You slept with her?
01:07:06Late before last?
01:07:08Yes.
01:07:10It wasn't the first time.
01:07:12That was five weeks ago.
01:07:15But it really started eight months ago
01:07:17when Katia first came.
01:07:19For the first time,
01:07:20I saw a woman who was close to me,
01:07:22a woman living under my roof,
01:07:24behaving like a woman.
01:07:27Well, perhaps not as a woman should behave.
01:07:30I don't know.
01:07:33She had boyfriends all over the place.
01:07:36She used to tell me about them.
01:07:38Sometimes in the evening,
01:07:39Elizabeth would be out
01:07:40and Katia would come in from some date
01:07:42and tell me about it,
01:07:44giggling and laughing.
01:07:47One night,
01:07:47after one of these talks with Katia,
01:07:50I was lying in bed.
01:07:52Elizabeth was walking in the garden.
01:07:55I lay there,
01:07:57listening to Katia moving about upstairs.
01:08:01I thought I'd give everything I possessed.
01:08:03I mean, literally everything.
01:08:05If she'd come into my room
01:08:06and sit on the bed and talk to me.
01:08:10I put on my dressing gown and went upstairs.
01:08:12I knocked on her door.
01:08:14She was sitting up in bed reading a magazine.
01:08:19I didn't have to say anything.
01:08:22I don't know what I'd have said anyway.
01:08:26She smiled at me and put out her arms.
01:08:31Oh, God, this is...
01:08:34There were other times, not many.
01:08:37There was the night before last.
01:08:41I went up to Katia about quarter past eleven.
01:08:44I didn't know whether Elizabeth had come in.
01:08:47I wasn't thinking about Elizabeth.
01:08:50Katia and I...
01:08:53I stayed with her all night.
01:08:56It was only Palmer walking on the floor below that woke me.
01:09:00I sensed something was wrong.
01:09:02I got up and dressed.
01:09:06Pity you didn't tell us all this before, sir.
01:09:09Put yourself in my place.
01:09:11Would you have?
01:09:14Well, that's beside the point.
01:09:18All this will have to be corroborated, Mr. Nightigale.
01:09:23Yes.
01:09:30I'm not the other side.
01:09:32I'm not the other side.
01:09:32I'm not the other side.
01:09:35I'm not the other side.
01:09:36I'm not the other side.
01:09:36I'm not the other side.
01:09:39I'm not the other side.
01:09:40I'm not the other side.
01:09:42I'm not the other side.
01:09:43I'm not the other side.
01:09:43I'm not the other side.
01:09:44I'm not the other side.
01:09:44I'm not the other side.
01:09:46I'm not the other side.
01:09:46I'm not the other side.
01:09:47I'm not the other side.
01:09:48I'm not the other side.
01:09:48I'm not the other side.
01:09:49I'm not the other side.
01:10:00Miss Dorn?
01:10:02Miss Dorn?
01:10:04Where's Dad?
01:10:05Chief Inspector Waxford.
01:10:07Oh, good. I won't be out in a moment.
01:10:15May I talk to you for a moment?
01:10:21I won't keep you long, Miss Dorn. Will you sit down?
01:10:30Do you mind switching off the radio for a moment?
01:10:35You're very serious today.
01:10:38I'd like to ask you about your relation with Mr Nightingale.
01:10:42What terms were you on with him?
01:10:45Terms?
01:10:46You know perfectly well what I mean, Miss Dorn.
01:10:51He's an old friend of my father.
01:10:54He's very nice and kind.
01:10:56I like him very much.
01:11:00He's your lover, isn't he?
01:11:03Has he said this?
01:11:04Yes.
01:11:08Would you mind telling me all about it?
01:11:10No. Quentin says I must not.
01:11:13Come, Miss Dorn. He told me himself.
01:11:16Do you want Mr Nightingale to go to prison?
01:11:19No.
01:11:20This is true?
01:11:21In England you can go to prison because you make love?
01:11:23No, no, no, of course not.
01:11:26Look, Miss Dorn.
01:11:27Just tell me the truth and Mr Nightingale won't go to prison.
01:11:32Just tell me everything that happened between you.
01:11:35No, not everything.
01:11:39Just how it began and so on.
01:11:41All right.
01:11:44It's four or five weeks ago.
01:11:47I am in my bed and there's a knock and it's Quentin.
01:11:53Perhaps he's going to say the radio's too loud or I've parked my car wrong.
01:11:59But he doesn't have to say something because at once I know he wants to make love.
01:12:03I can see this in his face.
01:12:06And so I think, why not?
01:12:09I think how he's nice with kind manners and a thin, straight body.
01:12:17And I forget that he's older than my father in Holland.
01:12:22Also, I know he's a lonely man, married to a frigide, cold woman.
01:12:29So we made love.
01:12:32And when he's in my bed, he's not old anymore.
01:12:35Yes, yes.
01:12:37I can imagine that.
01:12:40And there were other occasions?
01:12:43Please.
01:12:45Mr Nightingale made love to you at other times.
01:12:49Of course.
01:12:51He likes me and I like him.
01:12:53The next week and the next week and then the night before last.
01:12:58How long did he stay with you?