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Part 2. 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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00:00:00the night before last all the night but he went away early in the morning because
00:00:06he heard the gardener man walk about so i lie in my bed thinking maybe i shall not see my
00:00:12other friend anymore and go only with quentin and then i got up too to see why the gardener
00:00:20man was in the house well there now i've told it all are you angry with me no
00:00:30no i'm not angry mr i wish you would call me katya please oh
00:00:36katya because you're like my old uncle who's sometimes kind and sometimes cross like you
00:00:43yes
00:00:48well i'm sorry but i don't see that this story of theirs lets them out of it at all
00:00:52on the contrary they could have been in it together
00:00:56i've only got her word for it that she joined him at 11 15. could have been later
00:01:01of course she'd back him up why would she what would she gain from being an accessory to
00:01:07the murderer of her employer's wife marriage to nightingale of course oh do
00:01:12stop saying of course it's far from of course you really are dead old-fashioned first i want
00:01:20you to know that i believe nightingale i believe his story because there's some instinct in me that
00:01:25makes me recognize the truth when i hear it and secondly what makes you suppose a captain
00:01:30donald wants to marry him he's an old man to her she said as much yes that's all very well
00:01:35she's not
00:01:35some sort of a lady macbeth for all her immorality which is doubtless how you'd put it
00:01:41she's a nice normal girl who'd recoil in horror at the thought of taking a man into her bed fresh
00:01:46from the murder of his wife mike we're gonna have to rethink the whole pattern of these
00:01:52domestic murder cases times have changed yes i know times have changed but they haven't changed
00:01:58that much you don't change human nature there are two lines to pursue who was mrs nightingale's lover
00:02:07who had access to the torch well who did have access to him nightingale himself mrs cantrip will
00:02:15palmer sean lovell georgiana villars dennis villars cut to your dawn what about sean lovell he's confessed
00:02:26his admiration for mrs nightingale he's young hot-headed therefore jealous it might not have been
00:02:33him that she went out to meet but he might have seen her with another person he had access to
00:02:39the torch
00:02:41his alibi is hopeless and his garden gives out under the forest
00:02:44she was old enough to be his mother oh my god mike you don't know anything about life do you
00:02:53didn't you ever fancy any of your mother's friends certainly not
00:02:56my mother's friends were like aunts to me i called them auntie i still do come to that
00:03:04what's so funny you are if i didn't laugh i'd go around and twist
00:03:14i couldn't understand it sir i just came in and there it was someone's put it back
00:03:18whilst we were here someone's put it back
00:03:23it was washed but traces of blood were found under the base screw the lamp screw and under the switch
00:03:31same group was mrs nightingale's there's not much doubt that it was the weapon
00:03:35what about phyllis what about him could he have done it well why would he want to kill his sister
00:03:40he hated her enough it seems you still having trouble at home with pat and john no no it isn't
00:03:46that
00:03:46well a brother can dislike his sister and not enough to indulge in murder surely
00:03:53sometimes wonder
00:03:58unless of course there's another reason
00:04:01nothing that i can think of
00:04:02what about him
00:04:05leçon 2
00:04:08qui suis
00:04:09qui suis
00:04:10vous ĂȘtes monsieur le grand
00:04:12monsieur le grand
00:04:13comment s'appelle mon fils
00:04:15votre fils s'appelle pierre
00:04:17mon fils s'appelle pierre
00:04:19comment s'appelle ma fille
00:04:21votre fils s'appelle marie
00:04:23ma fille s'appelle marie
00:04:24comment vous appelez-vous
00:04:26je m'appelle roger maréchal
00:04:28je m'appelle roger maréchal
00:04:31je m'appelle roger marie
00:04:51hello
00:04:54where's your son
00:04:55i ain't got one not that i know of
00:04:58fancy yourself as a comedian do you
00:05:01he's not here
00:05:03where is he then
00:05:04how should i know
00:05:05i don't interfere with him
00:05:07all right just tell him i want to talk to him
00:05:09if i see him
00:05:12you don't want to miss that
00:05:17friendly bugger that one
00:05:37he hanked out for you
00:05:49my dear reg
00:05:50Am I too early for you?
00:05:52How could it be too early?
00:05:53I was only saying a moment ago how wonderful it would be
00:05:55if dear old Reg Wexford dropped in.
00:05:58Come in, come in.
00:05:59Just in the middle of breakfast to join us, won't you, Reg?
00:06:02Oh, of course you would.
00:06:05Reg, this is Hypatia, my amanuensis.
00:06:08You have no idea the funny looks I get when I introduce her like that,
00:06:11but then people are so illiterate, aren't they?
00:06:14Hypatia, my love, this is Chief Inspector Wexford, the guardian of our peace.
00:06:18Hypatia Hancock.
00:06:19How do you do?
00:06:20How do you do?
00:06:21Hypatia made an ill-judged marriage when she was even younger and more hot-headed.
00:06:27I'll get you a glass, Chief Inspector.
00:06:29Oh, no, it's too early for you.
00:06:30Nonsense, dear boy. Do sit down. It's Saturday.
00:06:34I'm free of the spotty devils until Monday.
00:06:37Only for you, I'm still on duty.
00:06:38Oh?
00:06:39Well, this isn't a social call. I'm desolate.
00:06:43I couldn't understand some of the things you told me at the school yesterday.
00:06:46The spotty devils say the same to me every day.
00:06:48I couldn't understand this.
00:06:51You said that Villers and his sister couldn't stand each other.
00:06:54Yet he seemed to spend every waking moment up at Mayfreet Manor.
00:06:58Well, you see, he and Quen got on like a house on fire. Thank you, darling.
00:07:03Quen was thrilled to bits to find he had an up-and-coming writer as a brother-in-law.
00:07:08I suppose he saw himself in the light of Dennis' patron.
00:07:11No, no, no. Don't be a baby, Reg. Orange juice won't hurt you.
00:07:14And this stuff, well, it's just to kill off all that nasty vitamin C.
00:07:18Of course, the worst thing was, a couple of years ago,
00:07:22Quen and Elizabeth had arranged to go to Yugoslavia on holiday.
00:07:25And the last moment, Quen got measles.
00:07:28Oh.
00:07:29And then Quentin came up with a bright idea that Dennis go instead of him. Cheers.
00:07:35Cheers. What happened?
00:07:37Well, Elizabeth told me she absolutely dreaded being stuck with Dennis in Dubrovnik.
00:07:41But Quentin said that he'd never forgive either of them if he stayed at home on his account.
00:07:46So they had to put up with it.
00:07:49Did he go?
00:07:50Well, they must have rowed the whole time.
00:07:54They looked absolutely rotten when they got back.
00:07:56And there was a distinct coolness between Dennis and Quen all the following winter.
00:08:00Dennis even stopped going up to the manor.
00:08:03And then one day in June, the summer before last, I was up there and in walks Dennis.
00:08:10You're a stranger, Quen says, but I could tell he was overjoyed.
00:08:14Why did he suddenly appear again?
00:08:16Well, all he said was, I only came to tell you I can't go to Rome with you next month.
00:08:21So they made some arrangements?
00:08:23Apparently.
00:08:24Oh, so they weren't on non-speaking terms then?
00:08:26Oh, no, no, no.
00:08:27It was just that he didn't spend all his evenings and weekends up there anymore.
00:08:32Why do you think he didn't go to Rome?
00:08:34Well, that's the funny part.
00:08:38He said, I've come to tell you I can't go to Rome with you next month.
00:08:42I promised the head I'd be one of the escorts to the school party.
00:08:47I almost fainted dead away.
00:08:50You must be out of your mind, I said.
00:08:53I can't tell you the lengths Lionel will go to to get out of it.
00:08:56And always successfully, darling.
00:08:58So I said, what you'll pass up Rome with a lousy Costa Brava.
00:09:02He said, I'm going.
00:09:03It's all fixed.
00:09:04He was adamant.
00:09:05I think Elizabeth was absolutely delighted not to be stuck with old misery face.
00:09:10In fact, she told me as much when I went up there to witness her will.
00:09:15And her will.
00:09:33You on, Selick.
00:09:46Is this where you used to meet Mrs Nightingale?
00:09:50Don't make me laugh.
00:09:51I haven't set foot in here since December on account of him being in there.
00:09:55You know, Pam, we've got strict orders not to come in here in case we disturb him, see?
00:10:00You go into the garden room now, don't you?
00:10:02You go in to sweep it out.
00:10:05Ever borrow a torch, Lovell, to latch your way when you went to meet Mrs Nightingale in the forest?
00:10:12Are you off your nut?
00:10:14You trying to make out I was carrying on Mrs Nightingale?
00:10:18You're just a dirty-minded old prat, you-
00:10:20All right, that'll do.
00:10:21You were on extremely friendly terms with her. We know that.
00:10:25So? She was helping me, that's all.
00:10:28Helping you do what?
00:10:29What, my career?
00:10:30Oh, I see. Helping you do the gardening.
00:10:32Gardening. That's not my career.
00:10:35Oh? What is, then?
00:10:36Doesn't matter.
00:10:44Tommy, what is your career, then?
00:10:50You were like the rest of them.
00:10:52No, seriously. Come on, tell me.
00:10:58I know it all, see?
00:11:00I know it backwards, like it was written inside my head.
00:11:04I could tell you the way all the charts were right back for years.
00:11:06I could pass exams.
00:11:08There's not one of those so-called DJs knows half what I do.
00:11:14Oh, yeah.
00:11:17You're just ignorant, you are.
00:11:21You're all the same.
00:11:22Like my old lady, with her men and her booze and her plain pig ignorance.
00:11:29You think I'm gonna spend 40 years doing this, end up like Will Palmer, brain dead.
00:11:35You think that's all I'm fit for?
00:11:37I'll show you.
00:11:40Mrs Nightingale was the only one who understood.
00:11:43And she's dead.
00:11:44And what was Mrs Nightingale gonna do for you, then?
00:11:48There was this bloke in the BBC she knew.
00:11:50She was gonna mention my name.
00:11:53Maybe for singing.
00:11:54Maybe for a DJ.
00:11:57All I gotta do is be there.
00:11:59They can't ignore me if I'm there.
00:12:01What's wrong with gardening?
00:12:03These fancy ideas never get you anywhere.
00:12:04Oh, yeah.
00:12:06Grow up.
00:12:07Settle down.
00:12:08Kill your brain.
00:12:09Why did you tell the Chief Inspector you were watching a television programme?
00:12:12When that television programme wasn't even shown?
00:12:14I had been watching the telly.
00:12:16I got fed up.
00:12:18My old lady at her bloke in for the evening.
00:12:20That Alf Tawney.
00:12:22Sat there grinning at me like a couple of Toby jokes.
00:12:25He's very witty as Alf Tawney.
00:12:27One fell after another my mother's had ever since I was a child.
00:12:30And all they've ever wanted is me out of the way.
00:12:33When I was about ten I saw my mum at one of them.
00:12:36Kissing and pawing each other.
00:12:38And I picked up a carving knife and went for her.
00:12:41I'd have killed her.
00:12:42I would.
00:12:42Only the bloke got the knife away and hit me.
00:12:44I see.
00:12:45Inclined to let your feelings run away with you, were you?
00:12:47I was ten, for Christ's sake.
00:12:49Not like that now.
00:12:51She can do what she likes.
00:12:52Your mother, this is?
00:12:53Yes.
00:12:54My mother.
00:12:56When you got fed up with your mother and Alf Tawney, where did you go?
00:13:00Down to my shed.
00:13:01What do you mean, down to your shed?
00:13:03What were you doing down there?
00:13:05I was sitting there.
00:13:07That's all.
00:13:08Just sitting.
00:13:09Why didn't you tell me that your wife had made a will, Mr Lady Gale?
00:13:14Good God.
00:13:15Is that your complete answer?
00:13:17Frankly, Chief Inspector, I didn't tell you my wife had made a will for the very good reason that I'd
00:13:21forgotten all about it.
00:13:23I don't for a moment imagine it's even legal.
00:13:26It was just a piece of nonsense my wife took into her head.
00:13:29You know.
00:13:30No, I don't.
00:13:31I always thought the people in your position had a solicitor to make their wills for them.
00:13:35Who is your solicitor, Mr Maguire?
00:13:37But no solicitor was involved. I told you it was just a piece of nonsense.
00:13:40I can't imagine how you came to hear about it.
00:13:43Oh, sorry, I'm in your way.
00:13:46It was last summer.
00:13:48My wife and I decided to go to Rome for our holiday.
00:13:52And we intended to fly.
00:13:54My wife didn't like flying.
00:13:56Usually went on holiday by sea and car.
00:13:57She was afraid to fly.
00:14:00Well, afraid is putting it too strongly.
00:14:02Well, if she made a will, I suppose she thought she might die.
00:14:06Afraid is not too strong a word to use in the anticipation of death.
00:14:09You're looking at it much too dramatically.
00:14:11She was a little anxious but she was quite prepared to joke about it.
00:14:14This will was a sort of joke.
00:14:16I told you I never took it seriously.
00:14:18But she did, Mr Nightingale.
00:14:19No, no.
00:14:21It was just that one day I noticed my wife scribbling something on a sheet of paper.
00:14:25I asked her what she was doing and she said she was making a will.
00:14:29I didn't... I'm afraid I didn't even look at it.
00:14:31You weren't very interested.
00:14:33I took it for one of those romantic fads very feminine women go in for.
00:14:38I doubt it was witnessed or anything legal like that.
00:14:42Well, it was witnessed by at least one person.
00:14:45Really? Who?
00:14:47Lionel Marriott.
00:14:49Really?
00:14:50Now come along, Mr Nightingale.
00:14:52I can't let this pass.
00:14:53What became of that piece of paper that your wife was scribbling on?
00:14:58She gave it to me and asked me to put it in my safe.
00:15:03I suppose it's still here.
00:15:05I'd forgotten about it.
00:15:07I presume Elizabeth had too.
00:15:15There it is.
00:15:18There it is.
00:15:18There it is.
00:15:29There it is, sir.
00:15:30This will is perfectly legal, sir.
00:15:34It's witnessed by Myrtle Annie Cantrip
00:15:37and Lionel Hepburn Marriott.
00:15:39And correctly signed by your wife.
00:15:42You'd have a great deal of difficulty contesting this, sir.
00:15:46But I don't want to contest it.
00:15:49Don't you want to know what it contains before you commit yourself?
00:15:52Well, what does he say?
00:15:54This is the last will and testament of me,
00:15:56Elizabeth Francis Nightingale-born Villers, being of sound mind.
00:16:00I leave all my money, including the money my husband invested for me,
00:16:04to Sean Lovell of Two Church Cottages, my fleet,
00:16:07in the hope that he will use it in the furtherance of his ambition.
00:16:12Good heavens.
00:16:14And all personal jewellery I possess to my sister-in-law, Georgina Villers,
00:16:18of 55 Kingsmarkham Road Clusterwell,
00:16:21so that she may indulge her love of adornment,
00:16:24although, as a virtuous woman, her price is above rubies.
00:16:30Elizabeth wrote that?
00:16:32Yes.
00:16:34Is that all?
00:16:35That's all.
00:16:38How much money did your wife leave, sir?
00:16:42Oh, nothing to speak of.
00:16:45She was overdrawn, as a matter of fact, on her private account.
00:16:48It was about eight or nine hundred pounds I invested for her years ago.
00:16:54Something troubling you, sir?
00:16:56No, no.
00:16:59Oh, Mrs. Villers seems to be a lady who's fond of jewellery.
00:17:02Let's hope there are a few nice pieces for her.
00:17:07A few nice pieces.
00:17:18A few nice pieces.
00:17:26A few nice pieces.
00:17:33I don't understand any of this.
00:17:36How do I, sir?
00:17:37How do I?
00:17:39Not yet I don't.
00:17:52You startled me, sir.
00:17:55Do you have a cup of tea?
00:17:57I'm glad for that, I think.
00:17:59Don't be locked up, anyway.
00:18:01Supposed to be at four o'clock, sir.
00:18:03They're all at sixes and sevens these days, and that's a fact.
00:18:07Oh, come on, sir. Do you good.
00:18:10And there's Will Palmer in there waiting to have a word with you.
00:18:12Oh? What's he want to talk to me about?
00:18:14Wouldn't say, sir.
00:18:15Something about a scarf, is all he'd say.
00:18:18All right.
00:18:23I've got something to show you, Governor.
00:18:25Yes.
00:18:39Where did you find this?
00:18:40In a hole in the oak, way down Cleaver's Vale.
00:18:43And where might Cleaver's Vale be?
00:18:45Cleaver's Vale?
00:18:47He don't know where Cleaver's Vale is.
00:18:49Why should he know?
00:18:50It's part of the estate, sir.
00:18:52It's the bit you come to first when you're coming from Kings Markham.
00:18:55I was by way of clearing that old fungus from the oak.
00:18:58And I come on this hole, see?
00:19:00Likely an owl made it.
00:19:02Squirrel.
00:19:03Or a squirrel.
00:19:04As I was going to say, I'll...
00:19:05Spare me the natural history.
00:19:07The hole would be about six foot up, I reckon.
00:19:10Level where the top of my head it was.
00:19:12This old fungus wore round a hole, see?
00:19:14What we call a poor man's oyster, sir.
00:19:17On account of his cap, looks like an oyster, see?
00:19:19A mighty good fried he is, I can tell you.
00:19:21Stewed.
00:19:23Or a stewed.
00:19:24Can we get on with it?
00:19:25I was just about to, sir.
00:19:31To cut a long story short, sir, I sticks my hand down the hole,
00:19:34and that's what I found.
00:19:36Was it in the bag, or did you put it in?
00:19:37There were only no bag of no, just rolled up and stuffed down a hole.
00:19:41Have you ever seen it before?
00:19:42I have, sir.
00:19:44It belonged to poor Mrs. Nightingale.
00:19:48Would that be her blood, sir?
00:19:50I'm afraid, sir.
00:19:52You're gonna be sick.
00:19:54Not in my kitchen, you're not.
00:19:59Oh, start a complaint.
00:20:01No guts.
00:20:02Yes.
00:20:04Wants to be a bleeding pop singer.
00:20:07Mantle, I reckon.
00:20:17That young Sean Lovell recovered yet, Mrs. Cantrip?
00:20:20Oh, he was just shot, sir.
00:20:22For the minute he was.
00:20:24Well, it is a shock, you must admit, seeing madam's blood all over that beautiful scarf of hers.
00:20:35What do you know about Alf Tawney?
00:20:38Oh, he's nobody, sir.
00:20:40It is the fellow we get our veg and chicken and such from.
00:20:42Lives in a caravan on his ground at Clusterwell.
00:20:45You wouldn't be interested in Alf.
00:20:47Oh, I don't know.
00:20:48Anyone who was associated with Mrs. Nightingale interests us.
00:20:52Even if he only supplied her vegetables.
00:20:54Mrs. Nightingale never associated with him, sir.
00:20:57If you'd ever heard of him, it was only through that Sean.
00:21:01You may as well know, sir, seeing this is common gossip.
00:21:06Alf's carrying on with Sean's mother.
00:21:08Oh, dear me.
00:21:10That is bad.
00:21:11Well, the Summers don't blame Alf.
00:21:12Him being a widow man, no one to cook his meals or see to his things for him.
00:21:17It's her I blame.
00:21:20Like the Bible says, sir,
00:21:22woman is a temptation to man and no two ways about it.
00:21:26True, Mrs. Cantrip.
00:21:29Very true.
00:21:32I can't say if I cared for that Sean myself, sir.
00:21:35But no one can deny Mrs. Lovell's neglected him shameful.
00:21:39You might say he never had no proper mother.
00:21:41Well, Mrs. Nightingale never had a son.
00:21:44Oh, Sean wouldn't have dared think of madam in that way.
00:21:47There are limits.
00:21:48Well, he's a very handsome young man.
00:21:50I can't see it myself, sir, but tastes differ.
00:21:54Well, thank you very much for the ride, sir.
00:21:57You and the young gentleman.
00:21:58Thank you, Mrs. Cantrip.
00:22:06The poor neglected Sean Lovell inherits under Mrs. Nightingale's will.
00:22:14Do you think he knew?
00:22:16And killed her for it.
00:22:19You inherit a great deal in Mrs. Nightingale's will.
00:22:22Really?
00:22:23It's a surprise.
00:22:24I had no idea.
00:22:25Well, you didn't know that she'd made a will or you didn't know what she'd left you?
00:22:28No.
00:22:29You inherited all of Mrs. Nightingale's jewellery.
00:22:32Really?
00:22:33Well, when you said the will was in my favour I thought it might be something like that.
00:22:37Elizabeth didn't have any money of her own.
00:22:39She always got through her allowance long before the next was due.
00:22:41She was awfully extravagant.
00:22:43Mrs. Villers.
00:22:44Mrs. Villers.
00:22:45You must see
00:22:47that this puts a very different complexion on the circumstance of your sister-in-law's death.
00:22:57Dennis, there you are.
00:22:58Do you know what Elizabeth's made of will and left me all those rings and necklaces of hers?
00:23:07Dennis, don't!
00:23:09Dennis, stop it!
00:23:11May we share the joke, sir?
00:23:14Just a little irony.
00:23:19I'll have to speak to you again, Mrs. Villers.
00:23:22About the events of last Wednesday night.
00:23:24But why?
00:23:25I thought it was all over.
00:23:26I was just beginning to stop thinking about it.
00:23:28Oh, God!
00:23:42I can see that I'm gonna have to read that book of yours, sir.
00:23:46You could have this if it interests you.
00:23:50It will interest me.
00:23:53I'm always willing to be enlightened.
00:23:57For one thing I'm curious to know why you've made yourself an authority on Wordsworth.
00:24:02A matter of taste, Mr. Wexford.
00:24:05There's always something to account for taste, sir.
00:24:10Well, you've brought us the news and you've had your little bit of literary chit-chat.
00:24:17Is there anything else?
00:24:19Yes, Mr. Villers.
00:24:22I'm investigating a murder.
00:24:23But not very fruitfully, if I may say so.
00:24:27What's that point, anyway?
00:24:29Elizabeth's dead.
00:24:32She can't be resurrected.
00:24:34You find who killed her, put him in prison for 20 or 30 years, who benefits?
00:24:38Who's the happier for it?
00:24:41Perhaps you approve of capital punishment, sir.
00:24:43Capital punishment?
00:24:44No, I'm not in favour of it.
00:24:45I don't care much.
00:24:46I don't care about people being kept in prison, either.
00:24:49Except if my taxes pay for their board.
00:24:52It seems to me, sir, you don't care for anything very much.
00:24:55That's right.
00:24:56I don't like people.
00:24:57People don't like me.
00:24:59They're mostly fools and I don't suffer fools gladly.
00:25:03Progress bores me and so does noise.
00:25:06I want to be left in peace.
00:25:08To live in the past.
00:25:13Let's talk about the past, sir.
00:25:15The recent past.
00:25:29I told you about Wednesday night last time you were here.
00:25:31If you've got a bad memory, you ought to have written it there on.
00:25:33Never mind my memory, Mrs. Villers.
00:25:35You just tell me again.
00:25:40You left the manor at 10.30 in your husband's car.
00:25:43Who was driving?
00:25:44My husband was driving.
00:25:45He always drives when we're out together because I think the man should drive, don't you?
00:25:48I think the man should always be the dominant partner in a marriage, give his wife something to look up
00:25:52to.
00:25:52We're very happily married.
00:25:53Good.
00:25:55What time did you reach home?
00:25:57I told you.
00:25:58About 20 to 11.
00:26:00We came in.
00:26:01We went straight to bed.
00:26:02That's all.
00:26:03No, it isn't, Mrs. Villers.
00:26:04Nobody comes home from an evening out and goes straight to bed.
00:26:07Somebody must have parked the car.
00:26:09Somebody must have locked up.
00:26:10If that's what you want to know.
00:26:12My husband left the car in the drive.
00:26:14Did you go into the house together?
00:26:15Of course.
00:26:16Side by side, squeezing through the door at the same time.
00:26:19Don't be silly.
00:26:22I went in first.
00:26:23My husband followed a minute later.
00:26:24He locked the car because it was going to be left in the drive all night.
00:26:28Who made sure that the windows were closed and the back door locked?
00:26:33My husband always does that.
00:26:35I went to bed first.
00:26:37How long did it take you to get to bed?
00:26:40Ten minutes, quarter of an hour.
00:26:42You didn't go to bed unwashed and in all your clothes.
00:26:44Of course not.
00:26:45Well, that's the sort of detail I want, Mrs. Villers.
00:26:47All right.
00:26:49I put the bedroom light on.
00:26:50I undressed.
00:26:51I went to the bathroom.
00:26:53Then I went to bed.
00:26:55My husband followed about ten minutes later.
00:26:58He always reads for about half an hour before we go to sleep.
00:27:01Double bed, Mrs. Villers?
00:27:02No, we have twin beds.
00:27:03But you needn't read anything into that.
00:27:05We're very happily married.
00:27:06Good.
00:27:08Now, what time did you go to the manor?
00:27:11We arrived about half past eight.
00:27:14I understand.
00:27:14You often used to play preach there.
00:27:16How long did you usually stay?
00:27:17Sometimes till midnight during the holidays.
00:27:20Wednesday night was still harder days.
00:27:21Why did you lose so early?
00:27:22Well, because my husband had some research to do, don't?
00:27:25And, er...
00:27:27Well, when we went home...
00:27:28Yes.
00:27:29You told me you came to bed ten minutes after you.
00:27:31Look, why don't you leave us alone?
00:27:34We could be very happy if everyone would just leave us alone.
00:27:38Did you lock up?
00:27:39No.
00:27:39That's my wife's province.
00:27:41I went straight to bed and straight to sleep.
00:27:45Excuse me, sir. May I?
00:27:46Of course.
00:27:50What about this research you were gonna do down at the school?
00:27:53The essential research that made you leave the manor at 10.30?
00:27:58Don't you ever make excuses to get away from a boring host and hostess, Inspector?
00:28:02So this was just an empty excuse.
00:28:04A deliberate lie.
00:28:05Sometimes I do tell lies. I'm a good liar.
00:28:08Strange that you should bother, sir.
00:28:10A man who declares himself indifferent to the opinion of others.
00:28:15So much he soared beyond, or sunk beneath, the men with whom he felt condemned to breathe.
00:28:28What do you want, Mr. Verlusa?
00:28:31Why do you set yourself above everyone else?
00:28:33Oh, beneath them.
00:28:34Oh, sunk beneath them, Mr. Wexford.
00:28:38As to what I want, that's simple.
00:28:40I want to die.
00:28:56I want to die.
00:28:56You're coming, Reg.
00:28:57Yeah, I'm coming.
00:29:01What made him jump like that when I quoted those lines?
00:29:04I don't know. It was extraordinary, wasn't it?
00:29:06Where did they come from? Wordsworth?
00:29:08No.
00:29:09I don't know where they come from. They're just floating about in my mind.
00:29:13So they won't be too easy to trace.
00:29:19Are we going to be able to find a witness to corroborate whether or not he went out again last
00:29:23night?
00:29:23Or that she did.
00:29:24Or that she did.
00:29:26All we need is somebody who passed the house and happened to notice whether the car was there or not.
00:29:32Which of those two have you got in mind, anyway?
00:29:35Well, you'll probably think I'm jumping to conclusions, Mike.
00:29:38But I'm as near as damn it certain that she did it.
00:29:42Well, she's healthy, strong, used to be a P.E. teacher.
00:29:46She's quite capable of felling a woman with a torch.
00:29:49And she stands to inherit. Not her husband.
00:29:53She was there when the torch was replaced. I saw her myself.
00:29:56But why would she deliberately choose a torch, of all things, for her weapon?
00:30:00Yeah, that bears some thinking about.
00:30:03Young Lionel Marriott. Lionel?
00:30:06Oh, hello, Reg.
00:30:08I need to talk to him.
00:30:10Get that scarf over to the labs, will you?
00:30:11And then you can get off home.
00:30:13All right.
00:30:14Well, well, well, the assembled might of the King's Markham Law Enforcement Agency.
00:30:18I'm just leaving, Mr. Marriott.
00:30:20Oh!
00:30:20Not on my gun, dear boy, I trust you.
00:30:22No, no.
00:30:23Good night, sir.
00:30:24Good night, Mike.
00:30:25Good night, Mr. Marriott.
00:30:25Good night.
00:30:27Sit down a minute, Lionel.
00:30:29Oh, dear.
00:30:30Is he happy in his work, do you think?
00:30:31He always looks so miserable, poor dear.
00:30:35Inspector Burden is a Puritan of the old school.
00:30:38Oh, dear.
00:30:40Tell me about the holiday that Villers took at the Costa Brava.
00:30:44Yeah, the one you volunteered for.
00:30:45A holiday?
00:30:46Oh, imagine two weeks cooped up with the spotty devils in a torrid slum.
00:30:51They're all in an advanced state of psoriasis at the best of times.
00:30:54But once you get them in the sun, well...
00:30:57I can imagine.
00:30:59But he met Georgina there, didn't he?
00:31:00Yeah, yeah.
00:31:01She was there with her own party of teenage nymphomaniacs.
00:31:05Hello, my dear.
00:31:08Not that I heard any...
00:31:09Not that I heard any of this from Dennis.
00:31:11No.
00:31:12The first hint I got was just before he was due back.
00:31:15Quen and Elizabeth dropped in one evening.
00:31:17We've got some good news, Quen says.
00:31:19Dennis has met a girl and they're gonna be married.
00:31:22Fast worker, I said.
00:31:24And then, of course, I had to say how pleased I was and all that rubbish.
00:31:27When did you first meet her?
00:31:29The Nightingales gave a dinner party for the bride.
00:31:34Everybody who was anybody who was there.
00:31:38Georgina was the last to arrive.
00:31:40How I thought making an entrance was a clever little thing.
00:31:44None of us had seen it before, so we all sat there with bated breath.
00:31:47The women were done up to the nines.
00:31:49Elizabeth looked wonderful.
00:31:50Believe it or not, I even saw Dennis looking at her with a sort of grudging admiration.
00:31:55And then, just as we can contain our impatience no longer,
00:31:59in walks, Georgina.
00:32:02In Woolworth's pearls.
00:32:04And, well, we used to call them tub frogs.
00:32:07And this one had been in the tub a good many times, I can tell you.
00:32:11Did those women stare?
00:32:15Georgina wasn't a bit shy.
00:32:17In fact, she dominated the conversation at the table.
00:32:19We heard all about her little housewifely plans
00:32:22and how she was going to make a real home for Dennis
00:32:24and how they were going to have six children.
00:32:27I must say, Elizabeth was absolutely charming to her.
00:32:31She even complimented her on her dress
00:32:33and she really tried to keep her the centre of attention.
00:32:38Elizabeth was bubbling over with gaiety.
00:32:42She didn't look a day over 25.
00:32:49Oh, my dear Reg!
00:32:52Look at the time!
00:32:53You do run on, dear boy.
00:32:55Hypatia is an impatient cook.
00:32:57Ha, ha, ha!
00:33:01I'll walk you to the Brit line.
00:33:02Mm-hmm.
00:33:05Thank you, Reg.
00:33:08Where's, uh, Georgina?
00:33:10Yes?
00:33:11Of the mise-en-scene?
00:33:12Well, if denigrating everything around one
00:33:15and trying to assume ascendancy on the grounds
00:33:17of one's middle-class beliefs is only a mask for envy,
00:33:21yes, I suppose she was.
00:33:22But it wasn't only envy.
00:33:24I've seen her dozens of times since
00:33:26and all she ever does is drone on about
00:33:27what a marvellous marriage she and Dennis have
00:33:29and how they're all in all to each other.
00:33:31And are they?
00:33:32There's only one thing that interests Dennis Villers,
00:33:35and that's his work.
00:33:37Once they were settled in that unspeakable little bungalow,
00:33:40he was buzzing around the manor again,
00:33:41just like the old days.
00:33:42But what about her?
00:33:43Ha.
00:33:44Well, he's everything she wants.
00:33:46Although we don't see any sign of these six children,
00:33:49do we, Reg?
00:33:50Hm.
00:33:51I wonder why that can be.
00:34:02Ah, morning, Reg.
00:34:04Ah.
00:34:05No chance to look at that scarf yet?
00:34:07Yes, I have, as a matter of fact.
00:34:10If you think Elizabeth Nightingale was wearing it
00:34:12at the time the deed was done,
00:34:14you'd better think again.
00:34:15All right.
00:34:17Come in.
00:34:23Hey, Brian.
00:34:24Inspector Burton in yet?
00:34:25No, sir.
00:34:26Em and Sergeant Martin went over to my fleet,
00:34:28doing a house-to-house.
00:34:29Right.
00:34:29It would have been saturated with blood
00:34:31as she'd been wearing it.
00:34:32Perhaps it was around her neck.
00:34:33Or she could have been holding it in her hand.
00:34:36Oh, I see.
00:34:37So, ah, after she was dead,
00:34:39she took it off and wiped her head with it.
00:34:42Because that's what it almost certainly was useful,
00:34:44to wipe blood off someone or something.
00:34:47Was it?
00:34:49You said you were delivering a baby on Tuesday night.
00:34:51Yes, why?
00:34:52Well, did your route to my fleet take you via Clusterwell?
00:34:56Yes, it did.
00:34:57Did you happen to notice the villa's bungalow?
00:34:59Were there any lights on or any cars on the drive?
00:35:02Ah, I didn't notice.
00:35:03I was thinking about my patient.
00:35:05Heh.
00:35:05If only I'd known.
00:35:06That's what they all say.
00:35:08Alf Tooney.
00:35:09He's the chap you want to ask.
00:35:11His caravan's just near the villa's place.
00:35:13And he's always up and about at odd hours.
00:35:16Are there any caravan's just near the villa's?
00:35:16Halt, halt, halt, halt, halt, halt, halt, halt, halt, halt, halt.
00:35:22All right, boy.
00:35:24All right.
00:35:24All right.
00:35:25All right.
00:35:26Yeah, yeah.
00:35:27Yeah.
00:35:44Is Laura Chip going up to something?
00:35:48No, it's nothing to do with Sean.
00:35:50It's just that I wanted the pleasure of a little talk with Mr. Tawney here.
00:35:54With health? What do you want with health?
00:35:57Do you fancy a cream horn, Alf?
00:36:04Don't matter to Alf. Breakfast, dinner, or tea.
00:36:07He loves a cream horn.
00:36:10Wasting away he was.
00:36:12Till I got him coming up here for his meals.
00:36:17What time do you reckon to get away from here if you come up here for your tea, Mr. Tawney?
00:36:22Well, Alf has to be up at times.
00:36:24So he's always gone from here by quarter to eleven.
00:36:28You want to know if he saw anything the night her up at the manor got killed?
00:36:32Yes, I do.
00:36:33I just wonder if he took a look at the Villers bungalow.
00:36:36You know what I mean, on the Clusterwell Road.
00:36:38Don't know about luck.
00:36:40Alf tried to knock them up, didn't you, Alf?
00:36:43They were no good.
00:36:45They was out.
00:36:47He had some rabbits to deliver to Mrs. Villers.
00:36:50He'd been trying all day, but they was out.
00:36:53Well, he didn't want to leave without the money.
00:36:56Alf banged and banged, but no one come, did they, Alf?
00:37:00Well...
00:37:00What time was that?
00:37:02Well, Alf left here at half past ten.
00:37:05And he'd been knocking a long time when the clock struck eleven.
00:37:08Clusterwell church clock.
00:37:11Go on, Alf.
00:37:12You tell him you was there.
00:37:16I banged, no one come, the lights was off.
00:37:25He's out and she's out, I said to myself.
00:37:28There.
00:37:29I might have known their cars was gone, both on them.
00:37:35Both cars?
00:37:37Are you sure?
00:37:38Oh, he's sure.
00:37:40Alf don't say much, but when he do, it's a genuine article.
00:37:45This house was empty and in darkness at eleven o'clock.
00:37:48Why didn't you tell me that you'd gone out again?
00:37:51I forgot.
00:37:54You forgot that you'd gone out?
00:37:57Have you also forgotten where you went?
00:38:01I went when I said I was going to the school library to look up a reference.
00:38:06What reference?
00:38:08Would it mean anything to you if I told you?
00:38:11All right.
00:38:13I was looking up the precise relationship between George Gordon Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.
00:38:20I see.
00:38:23Mrs. Willis.
00:38:30Did you accompany your husband to the school library?
00:38:34No.
00:38:35No?
00:38:36Well, you would hardly have used two cars.
00:38:38But you did go out.
00:38:41Where?
00:38:42I went out.
00:38:44Um, I drove.
00:38:45I drove around the lanes.
00:38:48Why?
00:38:48My wife was annoyed with me for going out.
00:38:51So she did what she often does on these occasions.
00:38:54She took her own car and went for a country drive to cool her temper.
00:39:01I'm not convinced, Mrs. Willis.
00:39:04Plus, we'd talk more frankly down at the police station.
00:39:07No, Dennis, please.
00:39:08Dennis, please.
00:39:11Tell me what, Mr. Willis?
00:39:14What my wife wants me to tell you is that you've been a complete bloody fool.
00:39:19My sister's jewellery is fake.
00:39:21It's not worth 50 pounds.
00:39:25Did you buy this jewellery for your wife, Mr. Nightingale?
00:39:29Yes, I did.
00:39:30Every piece.
00:39:31I've still got the receipts for most of it, if you'd care to see them.
00:39:35Oh, later, if I may.
00:39:38Is there any particular piece that you know very well?
00:39:39Oh, yes, her engagement ring, certainly.
00:39:44Would you mind looking closely, I did?
00:39:53This is a fake.
00:39:55How do you know?
00:39:57When I bought it for her, I had some words engraved inside.
00:40:01There's nothing inside this one.
00:40:04It's a fake.
00:40:09The death.
00:40:39There's nothing inside.
00:41:12Oh, hello, Chief Inspector.
00:41:14Hello, Katja.
00:41:15Is Mr. Nightingale at home?
00:41:17You'd better come in.
00:41:19I don't know where Mrs. Scandruff can be.
00:41:22Quentin is in the drawing room.
00:41:26It's the Chief Inspector, darling.
00:41:28Katja.
00:41:29Don't be so stuffy, darling.
00:41:31We can't keep it a secret forever.
00:41:34Secret?
00:41:36I'd like it kept a secret for the time being.
00:41:39Katja and I are going to be married.
00:41:40Ah, indeed, sir.
00:41:43Then let me congratulate you.
00:41:45Naturally, we shall wait six months.
00:41:47A year might be more...
00:41:48Oh, no, Quentin.
00:41:49It's not fair you make me wait a whole year for my new sports car.
00:41:53Well, we'll see.
00:41:54If you've got a moment, sir,
00:41:56I'd like to have a word with you alone.
00:41:58Yes, of course.
00:42:00If you wouldn't mind, Katja.
00:42:01Of course not.
00:42:03We must get something special for dinner tonight, eh?
00:42:06Oh, yes.
00:42:07A celebration.
00:42:08I'll go and get Mrs. Scandruff organized.
00:42:11You know,
00:42:12I think this room would look really nice in a very pale pink.
00:42:22I was going to wait,
00:42:24but what you told me yesterday made me so angry.
00:42:27She'll go home to her parents until the wedding.
00:42:29I want everything to be right.
00:42:32I'm afraid I, um,
00:42:34have to confirm that these
00:42:36are all fake, sir.
00:42:38She obviously sold everything that you bought her
00:42:41and had exact copies, mate.
00:42:43Why?
00:42:44I gave her all the money she can possibly have needed.
00:42:46If she wanted more, she had only to ask.
00:42:48She knew that.
00:42:49Would you have given her ÂŁ600,000, sir?
00:42:52I'm not that rich, Mr. Wexford,
00:42:54but it was her jewelry to do what she liked with.
00:42:57She chose to sell it.
00:42:59Perhaps it doesn't matter why.
00:43:01I'd like to forget the whole thing.
00:43:03Your wife sold her jewelry because she needed money.
00:43:07Why did she need money, Mr. Nightingale?
00:43:09What did she do with it?
00:43:11Well, perhaps she gave it to charity.
00:43:13ÂŁ600,000?
00:43:16And why did she keep it a secret from you?
00:43:18No, sir.
00:43:20I think that your wife was being blackmailed.
00:43:22No, that's impossible.
00:43:24People are only blackmailed
00:43:26when they've done something against the law.
00:43:28It isn't only an offense against the law.
00:43:32An offense against morality
00:43:33is equally open to blackmail.
00:43:36You mean she might have been unfaithful to me
00:43:38and someone found out?
00:43:40Something like that.
00:43:41No, Mr. Wexford, you're on the wrong track.
00:43:44I'm sorry.
00:43:45Whatever my wife had done,
00:43:46I would have forgiven her, and she knew it.
00:43:48Some things can't be forgiven.
00:43:51You're a broad-minded man,
00:43:54intelligent,
00:43:55but you are conventional.
00:43:58Do you really know yourself?
00:44:00You know what pleases you,
00:44:03but do you know what would disgust you?
00:44:05Nothing Elizabeth would have done.
00:44:06Perhaps not.
00:44:08But she believed it would disgust you.
00:44:11Believed it so firmly
00:44:12that she was prepared to pay
00:44:14ÂŁ600,000 to keep it from you.
00:44:17Who could she have ever known
00:44:18who would extort money from her?
00:44:20Well, that's what I was hoping you'd tell me, sir.
00:44:24A servant?
00:44:26Mrs. Cantrip.
00:44:28Will Palmer.
00:44:29Sean.
00:44:31You used to have a married couple working here, sir.
00:44:34What was their name?
00:44:36Tui.
00:44:38Mr. Nightingale has missed him for insolence.
00:44:42He never showed no proper respect,
00:44:44not from the start.
00:44:47And he never did a fair day's work.
00:44:50Not as far as I could see.
00:44:54Always hanging around...
00:44:56Oh, let me.
00:44:56Oh, thank you, sir.
00:44:58Hanging around where he wasn't wanted,
00:45:00snooping and listening,
00:45:01if you know what I mean.
00:45:04Well, things came to a head, sir,
00:45:06and that's a fact.
00:45:08About a couple of weeks before he was sacked,
00:45:10he grew so disrespectful to madam,
00:45:12it was past bearing.
00:45:14And madam's so gentle
00:45:15and never standing up for herself.
00:45:18She caught him helping himself
00:45:19to Mr. Nightingale's whiskey.
00:45:21And when she spoke to him about it,
00:45:22he said,
00:45:23there's plenty more where that came from,
00:45:25if you've ever heard the like.
00:45:27What about his wife?
00:45:28Oh, she wasn't so bad, sir.
00:45:31Under his thumb, if the truth were known.
00:45:33She took quite a fancy to me.
00:45:35Sent me a Christmas card, two years running.
00:45:38So you've got their address?
00:45:39I never wrote back, sir.
00:45:41They weren't the kind of folks
00:45:42as I'd care to associate with.
00:45:45But I did notice the first one
00:45:47had a Newcastle postmark.
00:45:49What did they do when they left?
00:45:51Did they go back into service?
00:45:53Oh, that I couldn't say, sir.
00:45:56Too, he was always bragging and boasting,
00:45:58and he did say he was sick of the life.
00:46:00Wanted to set himself up in a hardware business.
00:46:04Where would they get the capital, sir?
00:46:07They hadn't a penny to bless themselves with,
00:46:09and that's a fact.
00:46:25What is wrong?
00:46:27You were right about practically everything,
00:46:29it seems, Mike.
00:46:30Only about the Dutch girl.
00:46:31That wasn't everything.
00:46:33I still can't believe it.
00:46:37Strikes me things don't really change, Reg.
00:46:39Not human nature, anyway.
00:46:41The trouble is we can't find anybody
00:46:42with the remotest motive
00:46:43for wanting to kill Elizabeth Nightingale.
00:46:47Nightingale isn't a homosexual, is he?
00:46:50Well, how would it help us if he was?
00:46:52Well, he and Villa's killer, so that...
00:46:54No!
00:46:55I'm just making some tea, Reg.
00:46:56Do you want a cup?
00:46:57Oh, yes, please.
00:46:58No sugar.
00:46:58No sugar.
00:47:02What about this blackmail language?
00:47:04Oh, that brings us back to the same question.
00:47:07The motive for murder.
00:47:09Blackmail for what?
00:47:12Suppose this Toohey
00:47:14found out the secret of
00:47:16Villers and Mrs. Nightingale's
00:47:18intense dislike for each other.
00:47:20I don't see how that gives us a motive for blackmail.
00:47:23Well, Nightingale's very attached to Villers,
00:47:25we know that.
00:47:26But if he found that his wife
00:47:28had done Villers some dreadful injury...
00:47:30Well, that doesn't make any sense.
00:47:32Why does it have to be some dreadful injury, anyway?
00:47:35It's much more likely that Villers
00:47:36and Mrs. Nightingale were just incompatible.
00:47:38I mean, look at my two.
00:47:39They really seem to hate each other,
00:47:41but there's no reason for it, as far as I can see.
00:47:43Here we are.
00:47:44No sugar.
00:47:46They've been like cat and dog
00:47:48ever since Pat was a toddler
00:47:49and John was in his pram.
00:47:51Oh, it'll be different when they've grown up.
00:47:52But will it?
00:47:54Apparently you do get these cases
00:47:55where brother and sister are just incompatible.
00:47:58I don't know.
00:47:59I sometimes think of sending one of them away
00:48:00to boarding school.
00:48:01And he knows what I think about that, Reg.
00:48:07Is it possible that Tui killed her himself?
00:48:10But he was blackmailing her.
00:48:12And he killed her when she told him
00:48:13that the money had run out.
00:48:14But how would he get hold of the torch?
00:48:16He's the last person
00:48:17they let have access to the garden room.
00:48:19True.
00:48:20And our case against Georgina falls down
00:48:22because we now know she had no motive.
00:48:25John!
00:48:27Sean could have killed her
00:48:28when he saw her with another man.
00:48:29No, no.
00:48:29The murder was premeditated.
00:48:31Yeah?
00:48:32Now give me the big saw from the garage, will you?
00:48:35I can't, Dad.
00:48:35It's dark in there.
00:48:37The bulb's gone.
00:48:38Well, take a torch.
00:48:39Don't be so feeble.
00:48:45Well, we are idiots, aren't we?
00:48:47If you're going into a dark place,
00:48:48you take a torch.
00:48:50She took her own torch into the forest.
00:48:52Nobody planned this murder.
00:48:54They were just overcome by a sudden impulse
00:48:57and hit Elizabeth Nightingale
00:48:58with her own torch.
00:48:59I agree.
00:49:00She took her own torch into the forest,
00:49:01but someone else brought it back.
00:49:03Someone who knew where it was kept.
00:49:05Exactly.
00:49:10I'm going to see Sean Lovell on the way back.
00:49:14Get cracking on finding Tui
00:49:15first thing in the morning, will you?
00:49:17Right.
00:49:18It feels like that, Joey.
00:49:20It was fake.
00:49:22Good luck, Mike.
00:49:23I'm using it.
00:49:24No, I'm using it.
00:49:26You're using it.
00:49:42And that is going to be a massive, massive hit, my children.
00:49:46Who says so?
00:49:47Lovell the shovel says so.
00:49:49One day he'll tell you all about his days
00:49:51in the dung heap of horticulture.
00:49:53Oh, tell us about it.
00:49:55Then Jericho coming up after the news
00:49:57and the new ABC album.
00:49:59This is your idol, Sean Lovell,
00:50:02bringing you all the music you want to hear
00:50:03when you want to hear it.
00:50:05And now, this.
00:50:07Very fine business from yours truly
00:50:09with my latest single,
00:50:12Open Your Eyes.
00:50:21Open Your Eyes.
00:50:31So what?
00:50:59What time is it?
00:51:01It's all right, love.
00:51:02I'll go to sleep.
00:51:31Good God.
00:51:33What's the matter?
00:51:35I've got to get dressed.
00:51:38I wonder if it's too early to ring, can't you?
00:51:40Who?
00:51:43I wonder if it's too early.
00:52:32I wonder if it's too early.
00:53:47Miss Doran?
00:53:49Chief Inspector Waxford.
00:53:51Yes.
00:53:52Yes, I'm sorry.
00:53:53It's 7.30.
00:53:56It is important.
00:53:58You posted a package for Mrs. Nightingale last Wednesday.
00:54:03Yes.
00:54:04What space was it?
00:54:07Was it?
00:54:08Was it?
00:54:10You don't happen to remember the address, do you?
00:54:13You do?
00:54:14Oh, could you give it me?
00:54:17Yeah.
00:54:29If anybody wants me, I'm in London.
00:54:48I've returned to Victoria.
00:54:49It's ÂŁ12, Lisa.
00:54:52That's right.
00:54:55Excellent.
00:55:00Excellent.
00:55:01I'm so sorry for that.
00:55:32I'll go.
00:55:39He was born in Dublin about 50 years ago.
00:55:42Average height, dark, Irish-looking, whatever that means.
00:55:47Small eyes, and he's got a cyst in the left corner of his mouth.
00:55:51Unless he's had it removed, that is.
00:55:55No, he's only had one conviction.
00:55:56That was for fraudulent conversion
00:55:58while he was a hotel manager in Manchester in 1974.
00:56:02Yeah, but it could be your Newcastle or Newcastle-under-Lyme.
00:56:08Good, thank you. Keep in touch.
00:56:12There's a couple of local Toohey's, Mr. Burton.
00:56:16One lives in Brighton and the other one in Forgot.
00:56:18All right, let's have a look then.
00:56:21What are you doing in Brighton?
00:56:24Yeah. Well, I've got Toohey.
00:56:26In London.
00:56:28Look, Brian.
00:56:30I'm catching the 5 past 12 from Victoria.
00:56:32I want you and WPC Davis to meet me with a car.
00:56:52Oh, that's fine.
00:56:55What's that?
00:56:57Oh, that's fine.
00:57:02Oh, look.
00:57:03You can go.
00:57:03I'll break it off.
00:57:05Do you know what's going on?
00:57:05No.
00:57:06No.
00:57:06No.
00:57:18Just a bit of that, no.
00:57:21I'll break it off.
00:57:22You come in front of a car.
00:57:22Go away.
00:57:25Oh, yes.Ă©p
00:57:30away.
00:57:30Right, sir.
00:57:32Follow you, stay with me.
00:57:35We've got Tui then.
00:57:36Yes, we've got Tui.
00:57:41I took the day off work.
00:57:43Not well.
00:57:46Then you won't be surprised by the purpose of our call.
00:57:49No.
00:57:57When you quoted Byron at me, I was sure that you knew why.
00:58:04Even if you didn't know how.
00:58:05The truth is, I couldn't remember the author.
00:58:09Oh.
00:58:10I thought I'd betrayed myself.
00:58:13I certainly did when I gave you my book to read.
00:58:16And I thought you were too ignorant to equate a short passage in my book with my own life.
00:58:23Too dull and plodding.
00:58:25I apologize for thinking that.
00:58:28Your camouflage is effective.
00:58:32But you can see what attracted me to Wordsworth.
00:58:35A man who also loved his sister.
00:58:39Of course, Dorothy appears in my book as the merest interlude.
00:58:43But when I was a young man looking for a subject, you can imagine what drew me to Wordsworth.
00:58:51You could have chosen Byron.
00:58:53Byron.
00:58:54Because he's better known for his incest than for his verse affects me strangely.
00:59:00Just the mention of his name, the quotation of his lines sets my nerves on edge.
00:59:07How did you meet your sister again after your childhood separation?
00:59:15It was at the 21st birthday party of a friend of mine.
00:59:21This fellow's father brought his secretary with him.
00:59:24A girl called Elizabeth Langham.
00:59:28I don't know.
00:59:29We...
00:59:30We went out together.
00:59:33I really had no idea who she was.
00:59:36As far as I knew, I'd never seen her before the night of the party.
00:59:41Sixteen years had passed.
00:59:43But she must have known.
00:59:46Yes.
00:59:48I asked her to marry me and then she told me.
00:59:52For two months I'd been my own sister's lover.
00:59:59The arrangements made for us when we were children had been very unfair.
01:00:04She'd run away from Kingsmarkham altogether with a man called Langham.
01:00:08She lived with him for a while.
01:00:10Took his name even.
01:00:12While she was with him, she did a secretarial course.
01:00:14And eventually got a job with my friend's father.
01:00:18When she found out that his son and I were at Oxford together,
01:00:20she was curious to see me.
01:00:23That's why she'd come to the party.
01:00:25It wasn't chance.
01:00:27I don't know.
01:00:29Then when she went out with me,
01:00:31it was with some unformed plan of revenge in her mind.
01:00:36But it got out of control.
01:00:39In spite of what she knew, she'd fallen in love with me.
01:00:42They didn't trouble her?
01:00:45I don't think so.
01:00:48We parted then.
01:00:49We had to part.
01:00:51She went to work in America and I went back to Oxford.
01:00:56I don't know how I survived that last year,
01:00:58or how I managed to get a degree.
01:01:02What did you do when you came down from Oxford?
01:01:07I knew I'd never earn a living from writing poetry,
01:01:10or from writing about it,
01:01:11so I applied for a teaching job at the school here.
01:01:16I thought it was the one town in the world
01:01:18my sister would be sure to avoid.
01:01:21Then Lionel Marriott told you Elizabeth was here?
01:01:23Yes.
01:01:25You could have left?
01:01:27Yes, I could have.
01:01:29I dreaded seeing her.
01:01:31I longed to see her.
01:01:33We met.
01:01:35She introduced me to her husband.
01:01:38He bought the manor as a surprise for her,
01:01:42presuming she'd like to live near her childhood home.
01:01:45We made small talk,
01:01:47and when the chance came, we saw each other alone.
01:01:50That was the second beginning.
01:01:53Fortunately, or rather, unfortunately, Quentin liked me.
01:01:58Otherwise, it would have been impossible.
01:02:01Elizabeth worked on him in subtle and devious ways.
01:02:05Women are tougher than we are.
01:02:08Less scrupulous, less a prey to guilt.
01:02:12I suppose she had been in love with him when she married him,
01:02:15and meant to be an honest, faithful wife,
01:02:17but as soon as I re-entered her life, she put all that behind her.
01:02:21Mr. Phillips,
01:02:23why did you and your sister behave in public
01:02:26as though you hated each other?
01:02:29Elizabeth's aim was to have me as her lover,
01:02:31and at the same time to keep her position, her money, her reputation.
01:02:36She said that if we showed even normal fraternal affection in public,
01:02:39we would soon slip into showing a deeper love.
01:02:43Perhaps she was right, but...
01:02:45I always felt that part of it was a love of intrigue for its own sake.
01:02:49And that's when Toohey found out and started to blackmail you.
01:02:53Yes, when he had bled me white,
01:02:55Elizabeth began selling her jewellery and having copies made.
01:02:59You haven't found Toohey yet, have you?
01:03:01Yeah. We've got him.
01:03:03Good.
01:03:05Because apart from saving Georgina as much suffering as I can,
01:03:08I've only one wish left,
01:03:09and that's to see Toohey as wretched as he made Elizabeth.
01:03:14Did you always feel the same way about your sister?
01:03:18You disapprove of me, Inspector, don't you?
01:03:20My feelings don't come into it.
01:03:23I didn't love my sister when we were children.
01:03:25We were always quarrelling. I didn't give a damn when we were separated.
01:03:28We were glad to get short of each other.
01:03:31You and your sister went on holiday together two years ago.
01:03:34Yes. Quentin had measles.
01:03:37He insisted I went with her.
01:03:39People say you look ill when you returned.
01:03:42Lionel Marriott says.
01:03:45What happened?
01:03:46Had you quarrelled?
01:03:47No. We'd been happy.
01:03:50We'd at last had a taste of what our life together could have been like.
01:03:54I wanted her to leave Quentin and come away with me.
01:03:57She refused.
01:03:59If we'd set up house together years ago,
01:04:01no one would have suspected we were brother and sister.
01:04:03Now everyone would know and the scandal would be monumental.
01:04:06That's what she said.
01:04:08You disagreed?
01:04:10I'd come to the end.
01:04:12I was 36.
01:04:14I'd worked hard all my life
01:04:16and all I'd earned had gone to keep some Mayfair modest lover in luxury.
01:04:20I had no wife, no children, no friends.
01:04:23I lived in two dingy rooms.
01:04:26And Elizabeth?
01:04:27For how long, do you think?
01:04:29No. I decided there was nothing for it but to make a complete break.
01:04:33So I...
01:04:35stopped going up to the manor and I refused all Quentin's invitations.
01:04:39I thought I should be able to work.
01:04:41I lay evening after evening in my room, thinking, doing nothing, contemplating suicide.
01:04:48The strangest thing was, I no longer wanted Elizabeth.
01:04:52If I missed either of them, it was Quentin.
01:04:55He persuaded me to go to Rome with them
01:04:57and I finally went to the manor to tell them I wouldn't go.
01:05:01I looked at Elizabeth and I felt nothing.
01:05:05It was incomprehensible to me that I'd wasted my life loving her.
01:05:10I went to Spain and I went as the escort to a party of schoolboys.
01:05:16Georgina was staying in the same hotel.
01:05:19I'm no longer very attractive to the opposite sex, Mr. Wexford,
01:05:22but she fell in love with me.
01:05:24Poor thing.
01:05:26It was quite a joke in that horrible hotel.
01:05:28Georgina's love.
01:05:30I, who'd had everything and squandered it, and she, who'd never had anything.
01:05:34She was plain and shy and dull.
01:05:39When we were married, I brought her to the manor.
01:06:02Elizabeth was triumphant.
01:06:05I only had a look at her and I knew I'd done a dreadful thing.
01:06:08I was still in love with her.
01:06:11That was the third beginning and the last.
01:06:16I didn't listen to the stern daughter of God's voice
01:06:19or the voice of my wife clamoring for me to be a real husband to her.
01:06:24A compensation for her long loneliness.
01:06:27I listened to my sister.
01:06:35What happened on the day of Mrs. Nightingale's death?
01:06:39We'd spent the afternoon together, but that wasn't enough for us.
01:06:42We were sick for each other, so we arranged to be to the forest at 11.
01:06:47Quentin's invitation to...
01:06:53Hello, Mrs. Villers.
01:06:55Come in.
01:07:07Do I get it over with?
01:07:09Georgina Villers.
01:07:10You're charged with the murder of Elizabeth Frances Nightingale.
01:07:14You have the right to remain silent,
01:07:17but anything you say may be used in evidence.
01:07:22I don't care what you take down in writing.
01:07:27She had everything. It was disgusting.
01:07:29She had everything, and all I had was Dennis.
01:07:32So she had to have him too.
01:07:36If I'd known before, I would have killed her sooner.
01:07:37I killed her as soon as I knew.
01:07:40And she was so patronizing.
01:07:43Right up till the end, she patronized me.
01:07:47It was a scarf she gave you that night, wasn't it?
01:07:49Oh, yes. She gave me a lot of her cast-offs.
01:07:52She thought it was ever so amusing to see me dressed in her handed down finery.
01:07:59She liked Dennis to see me in things that she'd replaced by something better.
01:08:08I used the scarf to wipe her blood off the torch.
01:08:15Those were her last words to me. That scarf really suits you, dear.
01:08:21She bent over to pick up her torch. She didn't know I'd already picked it up.
01:08:28I'd seen her kissing Dennis.
01:08:30I'd seen her hands all over him.
01:08:34I'd get tired of him one day. She said, you can have him back.
01:08:41She didn't care what she said to me.
01:08:46I hadn't got anything.
01:08:57Poor woman.
01:08:58Yes.
01:09:00Him too.
01:09:01I mean, it wasn't really his fault, was it?
01:09:04Well, it wasn't anybody's fault.
01:09:07If it hadn't been for that train crash that killed their parents...
01:09:11That's it.
01:09:12Blame it on British Rail.
01:09:16What made you see the light, Rog?
01:09:19That book of Dennis Riller's.
01:09:21They couldn't sleep, so I read it.
01:09:24I should have read it when he gave it me.
01:09:26I can't remember things like I used to.
01:09:29I'd forgotten about Wordsworth and his sister.
01:09:32I'm an ignorant old copper.
01:09:35Sometimes I wonder if I'm past it.
01:09:36Oh, come on, Reg, that's nonsense.
01:09:38Yes, it bloody well is.
01:09:42But I don't read enough.
01:09:44And I don't use my intuition like I used to.
01:09:48Night-night, Mike.
01:09:49Good night, Reg.
01:09:59He knew he'd been for a while.
01:10:25I'm a bit closer teacher, like,
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