- 4/14/2025
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The foster mother of a runaway teenage mother and her infant son hires Hetty to locate the girl and find out if she's the serial arsonist who's been plaguing the area. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
The foster mother of a runaway teenage mother and her infant son hires Hetty to locate the girl and find out if she's the serial arsonist who's been plaguing the area. Starring: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield.
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00:00The last one is playing in the background...
00:03It's a very long time.
00:05I know you don't have time to do that.
00:08There is no way to play it.
00:12I also want to play it.
00:15I don't think I'll play it in the background.
00:18I don't want to play it.
00:20I don't want to play it.
00:22I don't want to play it.
00:24I don't want to play it.
00:26I don't want to play it!
02:27I'm three days a week collecting trolleys.
02:31The detective business doesn't pay, Hetty.
02:33We've been eating into my redundancy money.
02:35Something had to be done.
02:36You can give it up the moment we can afford it.
02:42I'm not having a husband of mine going out to work.
02:46Your job's here.
02:47It's in the back.
02:55It's in the back.
02:55Good boy.
02:57Yeah.
02:57Yeah.
02:57I've got it.
02:58All right.
02:59I'll be in the back.
03:02Yeah.
03:02I'll be back.
03:04Oh my God!
03:06Oh my God!
03:24Well then, let's get you home shall we?
03:35Mrs Bates?
03:36Label attached. She always writes a label.
03:38Oh right, yes.
03:39Thank you kindly, I'll take you home.
03:43Are you alright, yes?
04:04Yes. I'll be there. Rely on me.
04:18Chrissie Hedges, age 16, been in care since she was two and a half, five foster placements, six children's homes, four, maybe five suicide attempts.
04:35Real ones?
04:37Oh, you can tell the difference then, can you?
04:39Sometimes it's just what they call cutting. Watching the blood spurt out. So they know they're there. Proof of existence.
04:47It's the girls mostly. Boys have other ways.
04:50You know a lot about it.
04:52Kids from a children's home used to come to our school. It's depression you see and low self-esteem. They've been in care so long.
05:00Not so much a death wish, more a life wish.
05:06Wish for a different life, yeah.
05:09So she leaves her young baby, hidden among the crisp packets, at the railway station and legs it to God knows where.
05:16Stop.
05:17Whoa!
05:18What are you doing?
05:22What?
05:26What?
05:28What?
05:30What?
05:32What?
05:36What?
05:39What?
05:41Am I not coming with you, then?
06:00Not this one.
06:02Not today.
06:04You need me.
06:05It's our first job for...
06:07for a long time.
06:09And maybe we won't get it.
06:12But it's beyond Bolton.
06:14We can't afford your fare, Geoffrey.
06:17One of the few advantages of reaching my age is the bus pass.
06:21I'll hold the fort, then.
06:22You hold the fort.
06:24The phone may ring again.
06:28Oh, one small thing you could do for me,
06:31but only if you find you're bored,
06:33is peel a few potatoes ready for tonight.
06:36Come on.
06:47Good morning, Hetty Wainthrop, private investigator.
07:05Oh, no, you're not.
07:07Oh, yes, I am.
07:08Quick, inside.
07:10Oh!
07:12One evil eye from that window over there
07:14and you'll wither on the spot.
07:15We've got one of those where I live.
07:18A private detective.
07:19I don't believe it.
07:21I suppose I should have brought a recommendation
07:22from the chief constable in Lancashire.
07:25Fetch me the Magna Carta, signed by Barry Manilow,
07:28and you still couldn't detect a gas leak with a blowtorch.
07:32Then why did you phone me, wasting my time and money?
07:34You were the cheapest.
07:37We're doing a special rate at the moment.
07:40Course you are.
07:41You'd have to, wouldn't you?
07:44I've got a mad woman here.
07:46Why does a cow have thorn legs?
07:48Why, oh, why, oh, why?
07:52My hat!
07:54If you're a detective, tell me who I am.
07:57Alice Endersby.
07:58As was Alice Baines now.
08:00Oh, I might have known.
08:05You never could get the words right.
08:06Play.
08:09Why has a cow got four legs?
08:12I must find out somehow.
08:14You don't know, and I don't know.
08:17Another does the cow.
08:24What do the initials S&M mean to you?
08:27Sausage and mash.
08:28Why is the room service?
08:36Oh, ho, ho!
08:39Oh!
08:41Hetty Ponsonby,
08:43a.k.a.
08:43Little Miss Chuckles Chinchilla.
08:45All that wriggling about in fur and fishnet tights.
08:52And that squeaky voice you put on when you wrinkled your nose to giggle.
08:56Oh, I had the devil in me in those days.
08:59Still laugh by the look of it.
09:00I saw your picture in the local paper.
09:04They used the wrong profile.
09:07Super grand sleuth.
09:09Oh, aye.
09:09Something to do with an old woman dead on the stairs.
09:11I put it out and kept it.
09:13Then when I needed a blow down myself, I remembered Chuckles Chinchilla.
09:17It's nothing untoward, really, you know.
09:23It just adds to the excitement.
09:25It must be quite a challenge being a foster mother.
09:31When did you start?
09:32When we knew we couldn't have any of our own.
09:35After Jim died, I just kept on.
09:37Would you like to change him while I do his bottle?
09:40Well, it's like riding a bicycle you never forget.
09:44Now the social services seem to take a delight in sending me the difficult cases like Chrissie.
09:51Total cost of damage by age 13, £16,864.
09:57The precise way they'd tot it up.
10:00They must know it'll make the kids competitive.
10:04She reckons the best year of her life was the one she spent in the secure unit when she were nine.
10:08Knew who she was, what she was.
10:11Didn't have to think about it.
10:12The rest of her life has been spent either on the run or being returned.
10:17Was she pregnant when she came to you?
10:20Five months.
10:22We knitted and shopped and planned.
10:25First, I thought the baby would be the making of her.
10:28She was too ready to run before she had him.
10:30Too tired after.
10:32But now she knows perfectly well that you're besotted with him.
10:36As far as she's concerned, you've got two foster children.
10:40So she can come and go as she pleases.
10:44Right.
10:45You're not such a bad detective after all.
10:48He saves up his wee-wee till you start changing him.
10:50So watch his line of fire.
10:52You want me to find her?
10:57No.
10:58She always comes back.
11:00That's not the problem.
11:01Oh, my God.
11:10Yes.
11:11This is hitting me.
11:12Hurt me.
11:12Hurt me.
11:13Oh, yes.
11:14Yes.
11:14I wanted the Paul Newman film, but I set the damn thing wrong as usual and got the local news.
11:38That's the problem.
11:39That's your Chrissie.
11:43That's the fire at Preston last week.
11:46What's Chrissie doing there?
11:48Watching.
11:50Why?
11:51People do.
11:53That year she spent in the secure unit was for setting fire to a school.
11:57There have been two house fires in the north-west within two weeks.
12:09Both started deliberately.
12:11Nobody hurt.
12:12They were all away on holiday.
12:15And both times, Chrissie was doing one of her runners.
12:19What do you want me to do?
12:35Prove she didn't do it.
12:37You can't prove a negative.
12:39You can if you find the person who did do it.
12:42And if Chrissie did it?
12:44No.
12:44No.
12:49Alice.
12:50I can't shop her.
12:52I'm the only person she trusts.
12:55If I shop her, then she's nobody.
12:57If I find out she's setting fire to houses, I'll shop her.
13:01Next time there might be somebody home.
13:07That's your decision.
13:10You're taking a risk.
13:12There's a perfectly simple explanation to all of this, I assure you.
13:26Where are you going?
13:48Anywhere.
13:49I could try to find out where she goes
14:01and what she gets up to when she runs away
14:03Well, it's a start
14:05Her last children's home is ten minutes away
14:08She still has a few friends there
14:10I'll get you the address
14:19I hope you don't mind me asking
14:28I couldn't help noticing
14:31That purr's not your own, is it?
14:38So, cooking isn't thrown in a bit of this
14:41What do you think, baby?
14:42I'm told she won't let on who the father is
14:47No, she won't
14:49Is that because of this child's support, what's it?
14:53Making the father pay
14:54Or because she's slept around so much
14:57She doesn't know who he is herself
14:59She knows
15:00She just won't share
15:04And you want to share
15:13You won't tell me one, will you?
15:19She won't let anyone share, Fred
15:22But she keeps dumping him and running away
15:25Why?
15:27Well
15:27When they first put you into care
15:29You're nothing
15:30So you've no respect for anything, right?
15:34Maybe
15:35Which won't swallow up your whole food budget for the week
15:37You will now remember
15:39That there are alternatives to mince
15:41Thank you
15:43It's all yours, Mrs Winthropop
15:51Get me to write down cooking times and ingredients
15:54And have a guess at prices
15:55See ya
15:56See ya
15:57When you're free after years in a place like this
16:01It's a bit of a shock
16:02You get into everything
16:03Drink, drugs, shoplifting, quick fixes
16:06They take us into care because we've been deprived of love and money
16:11And then I wonder why we end up in the game
16:14News flash for all would-be Sherlock's
16:21Someone's setting the North West a light
16:24It's official
16:24Police are now convinced that house fires in Preston and Bolton were deliberate
16:29Though seemingly motiveless arson attacks almost certainly by the same person
16:33The insurance companies concerned have combined to offer a reward of £15,000 for information leading to an arrest
16:42A week?
16:45I hardly ever use it these days, but even so
16:49Alright, Geoff, a week
16:54And a full tank and a clean plug this time, please, when you bring it back
16:58Two helmets, I suppose, as usual
17:01One will do this time, thanks
17:03Put it on
17:05Let's have a look at you
17:06What now?
17:08Well, I'm not making an appointment of you
17:10Yes
17:16That should do nicely
17:19Minutes a time I've turned from 3C's blackboard
17:24To glimpse you ducking behind Deirdre Turner's hairdo
17:27And thought, one day that boy will have his moment centre stage
17:31If you'd be kind enough to stand in this hole
17:33With just your head protruding
17:35While I snap at you with my faithful instamatic
17:37I was going to get down there myself
17:40But you and that helmet
17:43Wearing your famous please help me
17:45Because I'm only small expression
17:46Is a much better idea for the record's funny photo competition
17:50This is to be my year for winning, Geoffrey
17:54I'm relying on you
17:57Does Chrissie know who her mother is?
18:09No
18:11She gets notions
18:13Someone out of her past has been kind to her
18:16No real reason
18:18But Chrissie will track her down
18:19Hang her back so she's been rejected
18:22Then give up and start her love with someone else
18:24Does her foster mother know?
18:28Mrs Baines?
18:30No
18:30I think she'd be cut up
18:34I mean, she's more than a usual foster mother
18:36Fred's special for her
18:37Chrissie don't talk about it
18:40Just runs off and comes back
18:41Now we turn bits of meat over
18:44But you know
18:46Yeah?
18:49What would she do if she found her mother?
18:53Ask questions and hope to believe the answers
18:55Stuck in pamphlets with vegetables
19:00And you swear on little Fred's dimples
19:04That you have no idea where Chrissie is right now
19:09Casserole cover on
19:12And into oven
19:13Better call it
19:16Wayne Thropp's Winter Warmer
19:18Since it was supposed to be your grandmother's secret recipe
19:21Total cost
19:24£1.50
19:27Not that you'd even bother to do it for one
19:31When you can always buy a bag of chips
19:32Well, I've certainly learned a lot today
19:37I'm not sure that amount of panic
19:49Is more humorous than a straight face, Deborah
19:51You haven't asked me why I'm here yet
20:02I could have the name of a mass murderer in me pocket
20:05If you'd shrunk the miscreant
20:07And given him a house room in your handbag
20:09I'd still find it hard to summon up surprise
20:11These fires
20:12This arson
20:14You want in the times they were reported
20:15And by whom
20:16Names of next-door neighbours
20:17Addresses of nearest relatives
20:19And any other information the police are prepared to give
20:21Let's just say I may bring a charge of wasting police time against Radio North West
20:27For all the DIY detectives they sent round here
20:29Asking questions that could easily have been answered by ten minutes
20:32With last week's local papers at the reference library
20:34It's closed
20:35It was open when local radio told the listening public about the reward
20:39And it dashed round here in a body
20:40So what kept you?
20:43I've come straight from a client
20:45Nobody told me about any rewards
20:47Straight from a client?
20:50And do you want to know about these fires?
20:55With no hope of a reward?
20:58I don't know what you're on about
21:00Then what is the connection, Mrs. Wainthrop
21:03Between your client and these fires?
21:07None, I hope
21:08But if my investigation is to be blocked by petty officialdom
21:11Peak and the fact that you're manhandling me
21:15Then we may never know
21:17And the name of this client?
21:19I said I wasn't after a reward
21:21Not that I'm about to throw in me job and fee
21:24You know darn well I'm not the sort of woman to sit on fires
21:29If what I find is a criminal offence
21:31Then you'll be told and quickly too
21:34What do you want?
21:35If there's another fire
21:36I want to know at once and where
21:39I want to be there
21:40I want to be sure that somebody in particular
21:43Isn't hanging about watching
21:44And if somebody is hanging about watching?
21:46Client confidentiality stops
21:50There's her phone number
22:08As soon as we know, she knows
22:09A member of the public
22:11She's an extraordinary woman
22:12Not exactly Miss Marple, but
22:15Mine like a steel trap
22:16More like a plate of pilchards
22:19You think you're finished with it
22:20But somehow it persists
22:43I do that
22:44It's only shirts
22:46I don't mean the ironing
22:48Oh, my need is greater
22:51You've taken over the laundries, you fancy
22:54There's a pair of bongjohns soaking in a bucket in the kitchen
22:57I've done the stairs as well
22:59Well, we've got the case
23:02Don't suppose it'll make us rich, though
23:05Have you been listening to local radio by any chance?
23:08On the bus
23:09These fires, there's a reward
23:12I know about the reward
23:15We're going to need that scooter
23:17Do you think your friend will let us have it for a few days?
23:20Well, funny you should say that, Mrs. Wainthrop
23:23Just by chance, I have actually borrowed it for the entire week
23:26While you were stuck here looking after the foam
23:29The only problem is
23:31There's only one helmet
23:33Are you telling me?
23:36You always said I should use my initiative
23:38Hells, bells and little fishes
23:42I've wanted to turn me back for ten minutes
23:45And Robert's at the two bunny
23:47And you've started taking on cases of your own
23:50It's probably doing him good
23:59Getting out and about
24:01And making new and exciting friendships
24:03Are the staff allowed discounts at that place, do you know?
24:12Wainthrop Detective Agency
24:36Huh? Who? Oh
24:38Right
24:40Police
24:41Stilettos, they were
24:47Well, I don't sleep
24:48So when I heard this
24:51Tippy-tap, tippy-tap
24:52Going up the front path next door
24:54And then
24:54A little rattle of the letterbox
24:56I thought
24:57I'd better go and have a look
24:58See
24:59Now, you can only see the front door
25:00Number 27
25:01From the spare room
25:02And I could hear them
25:04Stilettos again
25:05Tippy-tap, tippy-tap
25:06Down the path
25:07And into the street
25:08So
25:09I scurried to the spare
25:11I looked at the window
25:13And
25:14Whoosh!
25:15Up goes the front door
25:17In a sheet of flame
25:19What are we looking for?
25:22Not broken stiletto heels
25:24I can tell you that much
25:25Who in their right mind
25:27Would wear high heels
25:28To go start in fires?
25:30Well then
25:31I'm looking to see where I'm going
25:33I think I may have trodden or something
25:35Who walk their dogs on this estate
25:37You didn't see anyone like Chrissie Hedges back there
25:39Did you?
25:40No
25:40She wasn't there
25:42Thank goodness
25:44I can give you food if you're hungry
26:03I did those people an injustice
26:10It's not dogs
26:11It's plastic
26:12It's all shriveled up
26:14And there's something written on it
26:15Interesting
26:17I can feel the little grey cells
26:19Beginning to stir
26:21In what direction, Mrs. Wainthrop?
26:24How were those other two fires started?
26:25And probably this one
26:27Rag soaked in petrol
26:29And how would you carry
26:30Rag soaked in petrol
26:31To the scene of the crime?
26:33Plastic carrier bag
26:34But plastic doesn't burn at once
26:36It shrivels up first
26:37And bits of it could blow away
26:39And stick to somebody's shoe
26:41But that's forensic evidence, Mrs. Wainthrop
26:43If we've found anything
26:45The police should have it
26:46And so they shall
26:48But I've got my own job to do
26:49I've taken on a case in good faith
26:51And there's the little matter of the reward, Geoffrey
26:54See if you can make out that writing
26:57Use Robert Spex as a magnifying glass
27:00Family
27:03Burn
27:05We're dealing with a maniac here
27:07Family
27:09Butcher
27:11Burnley, I expect
27:14It's just a manner of speaking
27:16I don't think they ever do butcher families these days
27:19Not even in Burnley
27:21Ready for breakfast?
27:42Are you one of them amateur detectives?
27:49Just a few questions
27:50It's £50 for an interview
27:51£15 if you take photos inside the house
27:53And £10 for an Eccles cake and a mug of tea in the back garden
27:56No credit cards
27:57Can you tell me where they went on holiday?
27:58Five
27:58It's only a fire, Mr. Nightgate
28:02Not a mass murder
28:03If you've told the local press
28:04I can find out for the price of a newspaper
28:06One then
28:07£1 in me hand
28:08£50p
28:09Done
28:10Tenerife
28:11Excuse me
28:16I'm doing a survey on the habits of the Ribble Valley meat-eater
28:20I wonder if you can tell me roughly how many carrier bags you give away each week
28:24None
28:25They're five per each
28:27How many do you sell then?
28:28Well, not many folks don't like to pay for them, you see
28:31Are your bags ever stolen?
28:33Who'd steal a carrier bag when you get them from supermarket for free?
28:36I'll ask the questions, you concentrate on the answers
28:39Can you remember how many bags you sold yesterday as between men and women?
28:45No
28:45Well, there'd be more women, always are
28:48I'd like you to look at this picture
28:50No, don't get blood on it, I'll hold it for you
28:53Have you seen a young woman like that come in recently?
29:01No
29:02Thanks for your cooperation
29:04Now
29:06I'd like a bag, please
29:085p, you said
29:11I hope you don't mind me saying this
29:22But speaking as an expert in market research
29:25If you really want to sell those pork chops
29:28You'd do better with all that fat cut off
29:34What does she want?
29:39Taking down a peg in my opinion
29:40Met at Manchester Airport by a man from the insurance holding up a card with the names on
29:48I'm sorry to say you're underinsured, he said
29:51We can't pay out in full
29:53But we're a witterless, says Muriel
29:55Our house is all burned down
29:57We should be accommodated in a four-star hotel while they rebuild
30:00It's not in the policy, he says
30:02And the upshot was
30:04They've ended up on a trailer fight outside
30:06You're back early
30:31Um, got the sap
30:33What for?
30:36Oh, a bit of a misunderstanding with some trolleys
30:39Is there any tea in that pot?
30:42I've been all round Burnley
30:48Back streets, town centre
30:51I don't know what good it's done
30:54None
30:54You can't know that
30:57Yes I can
30:58Look
30:59Just take the supermarket
31:01There's recycling bins
31:03And litter bins all over town
31:05If I wanted a carrier bag to burn down someone's house
31:10I wouldn't use one of me own
31:12You're too logical sometimes
31:15It'll make you enemies
31:16That's as maybe
31:18But I've found a piece of your jigsaw
31:22You what?
31:24One of them couples whose house burnt down last week
31:27They're on a caravan site near Paddyham
31:30We'll finish our tea and have something to eat first
31:36You don't seem too upset at having your house burned down
31:50It's only possessions, isn't it?
31:52You've really no idea who might have a grudge against you
31:55Not a clue
31:56The Mitchells, you know
31:58They thought their fire might have something to do with this
32:01Well, they've got a loony nephew, you know
32:02But he's doing time
32:03Yeah, and the Saunders, one of it
32:04Theirs was political in any way
32:06Oh, well, he used to be on the local council
32:07Yeah
32:07Are you saying you know these other people whose houses have burned?
32:11There's some connection?
32:12Yeah
32:12Of course we know them
32:13We all live in the same apartment block in Tenerife
32:16Eureka!
32:19Er, excuse me, Mrs. Wainthrop
32:21Before the little grey cells settle into their stride
32:23Do the police know about this connection between the three fires?
32:27Oh, yes, we've told the police who are very interested
32:29I mean, three fires in different parts of Lancashire
32:31And all of us in the same apartment block
32:33Well, it's hardly a coincidence
32:35Luke, Fred
33:00Luke, what the police sent on?
33:02You've been away two nights
33:05Maurice County
33:05I am!
33:06You've been with someone
33:07If you like
33:08Did he use anything?
33:11Did he use a rubber?
33:12What for?
33:13To rub out a mistake?
33:14I can do you for child abuse these days, Mother Hubbard
33:26Did she feed you?
33:37Yeah
33:38It does seem quite clear, Mrs. Wainthrop
33:53Apart from that piece of plastic
33:55Everything we've managed to find out, the police already know
33:59That plastic won't run, Hetty
34:01I told you
34:02All three in the same apartment block in Tenerife
34:08We can't afford the airfare
34:10It's not two days since the Buster Bolton was a major stumbling block
34:15I have to say, Mrs. Wainthrop
34:17The agency went into this to prove
34:21Was employed to prove
34:23A negative
34:27And we've proved it
34:30If the answer's in Tenerife, then Chrissie can't have had anything to do with it
34:34It'd be...dishonest...to go on taking the client's money
34:47Very well
35:00I shall take this bit of plastic to the police station in the morning
35:07Then go to Alice Baines
35:09Tell her Chrissie has got to be in the clear
35:13And collect our fee
35:15Geoffrey will return the scooter
35:19Case closed
35:21He'll want to feed
35:31I'll give him his bottle
35:32There's no need
35:33I'm back now
35:34I've got milk
35:34Your milk stays where it is until some tests have been done
35:37There's hot bath for you upstairs
35:39More than your job's worth, eh?
35:42To let me feed forever
35:43You don't know what I might have caught
35:44That's right
35:45Well, me and Fred are not much of a job for someone with your talents
35:51Not for someone who doesn't like failure, no
35:53You know you're going to lose him, don't you?
36:03He's a child of the state, Mrs B
36:05A ward of court
36:07He's never really mine in the first place
36:11You found it at the scene of the fire and you took it away
36:26Trod on it
36:27I didn't find it till we got home
36:30And you kept it for 24 hours
36:31You did not keep it under sterile conditions
36:33What sterile conditions?
36:36It had been in all the muck in the street
36:38Who else has touched it?
36:41My assistant, Geoffrey
36:43He wanted me to hand the bit of plastic over to you
36:47I took the decision to keep it
36:50I may have acted rashly
36:51And consequently, you have forfeited all cooperation
36:55I'm asking you now, officially
36:58For the name of your client
37:00It's confidential
37:07And anyway, I'm now satisfied that my client had nothing to do with these fires
37:14Look, you know perfectly well the connections somewhere in Tenerife
37:19I know the fires weren't started in Tenerife
37:21Are you refusing to assist me with my inquiries, Mrs Waintrop?
37:27Very well
37:32Go now, please
37:34You and your potty little business exist on my sufferance
37:37Remember that
37:38It's me mother
38:02Look at this
38:29Look
38:30Did you ever see anything so ridiculous?
38:34Done roaming on a grave
38:35It's not at all funny
38:37And in extremely bad taste
38:39Can I just see the photograph on the front page?
38:42What?
38:48That's not a bit like Chrissie
38:50Is it even a her, I wonder?
38:55Remember Percy Higginbottom?
38:57With some reluctance
38:59We used to have to strike pauses at the back of the stage
39:02While he pretended to be Gladys Kaminick as a some such
39:05Doing that over-the-garden-wall patter he pinched off the radio
39:09He stood just like that
39:11You're right
39:12Those knees don't belong to a woman
39:15Too many knobbly bits
39:16Hello, Alice Bain speaking
39:25Yes, right
39:31Right, thank you
39:33She's been arrested
39:41Something to do with her credit card
39:44And for the fires
39:47You've made a mistake
39:50Using a stolen credit card to obtain goods for which she was not in a position to pay
39:54I don't deny that
39:56The girl who stole that credit card was wearing this wig and these clothes
39:59We have a positive identification
40:01She wasn't there
40:03Can you prove that?
40:05Look closer at that photo
40:07Look at those knees
40:09It's blurred
40:11Taken by an amateur at night
40:13You wouldn't know those knees were knees except for their situation
40:15Below the thighs and above the calves
40:17And you, a concert party comedian, used to stand the same way
40:21And you're suggesting he started the fires
40:24Come along, Mrs. Wainthrop
40:27What did I once try to teach you about cost-effectiveness in police work?
40:32You won't do what you can't afford unless you're forced
40:35Right
40:36The first principle of police detective work is
40:39Once you've settled on a suspect
40:41Don't waste time and money looking for reasons why that suspect should not have committed the crime
40:45All suspects are guilty until proved innocent
40:48Usually some years after they've been sent to prison
40:51Or in earlier times, hanged
40:54I never know when you're serious
40:57I don't always know myself, to tell you the truth
41:01They're trying to find a secure unit for me
41:06Well, you'll know where you are then
41:08Yeah
41:10Are you sure you don't want to see Fred?
41:24I've got to start trying to forget him, haven't I?
41:27Not sure that's possible, is it?
41:31You really are an old bat on a broomstick when you want to be
41:38She's not guilty and I intend to prove it
41:49We'll need the scooter
41:50I've took it back
41:51Then get it again
41:52The trouble is, Miss Hathaway, it's not very pleased with me
41:54I didn't look enough like a tunic when the chips were down
41:57Don't prevalicate
41:58Look, I'll show you
41:59It was the funny photos competition
42:01I wasn't funny enough, see?
42:03That was the one that won
42:04But it should have been me with me head poking out of the flower bed
42:06Miss Hathaway's very disappointed
42:08I've no time for funny photos
42:09We've a case still on the boil
42:11Done roaming?
42:13That's the name of a house
42:14That's the name of the house that burned down last week
42:16And the dovecot
42:21That's the other
42:23That's the other
42:23Seventy-four
42:28Seventy-four
42:32Arbutilon Avenue
42:33The third house
42:35Ethel, dearly beloved wife of Stanley
42:41I don't think we'll bother the police yet with this one
42:46I just need the final confirmation before we risk all and go public
42:59These racks may be triple wrapped but I can still smell petrol
43:17I hate to think what would happen if we pass a heavy smoker
43:20Nothing venture, nothing win
43:22The tape recorder's pushing me breasts out of place
43:25There was a woman south as at me on the bus looking at me, very strange
43:29Come across
43:31Now you want half a pound of skirt to be minced while you wait
43:37That'll give you time to chat him up while he's mincing
43:44And in case he looks like trying anything, I'll be right behind you
43:53Let us give thanks for small mercies
43:55Don't be cheeky
43:57One last word
43:59If you see you're penetrating his defences
44:02Don't hesitate to use your initiative
44:05Now, off you go
44:14Chrissie?
44:40You know it's not
44:44What have I got here, Stanley?
44:58Got a match?
45:01A bit of lighted paper?
45:04Cigarette lighter, perhaps?
45:05Say something to me, Stanley
45:10Even if it's goodbye
45:15No!
45:18No?
45:19Shall I do another?
45:20No
45:22It's alright
45:29They wouldn't strike
45:31I wet them
45:32Is it your heart?
45:39Do you want pills?
45:49Was it your wife, Stanley?
45:51Stanley
45:51Was it because of Ethel
45:58That you did the fires?
46:00She had emphysema
46:03They said the earth was dry in Tenerife
46:06We spent our savings to buy a place out there
46:10But we were cheated
46:12Those others live in our apartment now
46:16And Ethel
46:18Dead
46:23It wasn't ever their apartment
46:31The firm that was building the block went bankrupt
46:33And Newlock took over with no obligation to the people who put money down
46:37He lost his savings and had to take what job he could get
46:40Lucky to get any these days
46:41And Chrissie?
46:43There's no justice
46:44She won't be charged
46:45Even the stolen credit cards
46:47The man doesn't want the publicity
46:48All's well that ends well
46:51If you like
46:53Seems I owe you an apology
46:55You do?
46:59Well
46:59I'm offering it
47:01Well, I'm accepting it
47:05Thank you
47:09Thank you
47:09Thank you
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