- 31/05/2025
A series of violent murders shakes a quiet English village. A link emerges between the killings and something unseen that lives in the cellar of a cottage belonging to two kindly, elderly sisters.
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00:00:01Point for a group.
00:00:03Any time for a group?
00:12:29summer.
00:13:35We're right back.
00:14:23buckling enough.
00:14:25Some people have got nothing better to do than gossip about other people.
00:14:27It's disgraceful.
00:14:29If only people would mind their own ...
00:14:33Joyce.
00:14:34You're cruel.
00:14:36You've been making fun of me.
00:14:37Why are you always doing things like that?
00:14:39things like that it's mean especially when i've got something really important to tell you
00:14:44then tell me something really important well it happened last night up near the army camp
00:14:51though they didn't discover it till this morning it's terrible nobody knows who did it but joyce
00:14:56last night at littlemere there was a murder really yes really a vicious brutal slaying
00:15:04that's what mr trueblood said a vicious brutal slaying how terrible who was it who was what
00:15:12who was brutally and viciously slain a soldier that's who private thank goodness it was a private
00:15:19ellie what a thing to say thank goodness it was a private indeed they're human beings just like us
00:15:25you surprise me well i didn't mean it like that you know i didn't it's just that i hoped it wasn't
00:15:30a corporal otherwise it might have been might have been your precious alan is that what you were going
00:15:34to say yes yes it was wouldn't like alan to be slain and neither would you come to that you're just
00:15:41as fond of him as i am just that you don't like to admit it am i really you know you are he's been a
00:15:47godsend to us one way and another i'll go make the coffee good then we can sit down and have a nice long
00:15:56chat about the murder
00:16:11did they catch whoever did it
00:16:15i think we'll have snow a storm wish it would come but you hate storms you always have
00:16:21why you used to creep into my bed when there was a storm at night i hate storms that's only at night
00:16:28a nice storm in the daytime is something else again oh this heaviness clear got such a headache
00:16:37you are in a bad way what with your heart and your head
00:16:39i'm only human you know joyce i do have little ailments just like other people from time to time
00:16:49i'm sorry ellie i think the weather's getting on my nerves too
00:16:54the murder going on just up the road and the two of us here like this
00:16:58they haven't caught the murderer no not yet it's probably one of the soldiers who got drunk and had a
00:17:05fight with another one that's what mr true blood thinks you know what they're like the way they wake
00:17:09me up some nights coming home to the camp singing and shouting probably still poor boy he was very
00:17:17young 19 19 19 how do you know mr true blood never told me that you knew all the time you've been
00:17:25pretending i didn't want to upset you you were pretending not to know why joyce why i told you
00:17:33you were so full of the news i wanted you to have the pleasure of telling me yourself pleasure
00:17:38do you think it's a pleasure to know there's a murder at large prowling about in the garden at this
00:17:42very minute perhaps what sort of pleasure is that hush ellie stop getting in the state they've
00:17:48probably found him by now sure to have done what on earth's the matter with you ellie it's only
00:17:54the front doorbell go and answer it you go i'm not going i'm not staring out of this room
00:18:04i expect it's only the baker
00:18:08it's not his day
00:18:12oh we want a toe on earth it was and just thought i'd drop by see how you were
00:18:24oh we're fine aren't we joyce fine just in time for coffee i hoped i might be i haven't had time to
00:18:30stop all morning i suppose you've heard about the murder you mean yeah yes yes we've heard i just
00:18:40wanted you to know there's nothing to worry about they've caught the murderer no not yet but they
00:18:46will miss ballantyne don't you worry about it i've never seen so many police everywhere you look take
00:18:51my word for it they'll catch him oh thanks
00:18:57they know who it is do they do they know who it is alan well no you see i'm sort of right in on it i've got
00:19:05the job of driving the pathologist around pathologist sir bernard newsmith yes he came
00:19:09down from london by helicopter this morning helicopter fancy did you see the body yes
00:19:19was it brutally and viciously slain that's what mr trueblood said brutally and viciously slain
00:19:26well it it was really i overheard sir bernard talking to the detective's boss superintendent
00:19:32somebody he said it might not have been a human being at all what the body no whatever killed him
00:19:38he said it might be something else an animal of some sort you mean he might have been
00:19:42gorged by a bull in the dark no not a bull nothing like that you should have seen this detective's face
00:19:49an animal he said sir bernard said yeah a puma he said something like that no he said
00:19:54not a puma something bigger than that look at those marks made by talons well what then said
00:20:00this copper what sort of an animal a leopard a leopard i think maybe a leopard copper stares
00:20:07at him a leopard he says a leopard in lancashire he said he couldn't be sure yet for the detective
00:20:13not to hold him to it but he thought it could be something like that anyway something with claws or talons
00:20:19anyway i just thought i'd look in tell you not to worry they'll catch it soon enough whatever it is
00:20:24that was nice of you alan very thoughtful very you're hardly likely to have a leopard come
00:20:30knocking at the door well if you do don't answer it he'll go away soon enough see alan out ellie
00:20:35yes don't trouble miss ellie i know the way by now i'll look in again soon
00:20:40and you're not to worry either of you okay bye
00:20:48that was nice of him wasn't it very
00:20:53rinse the coffee cups ellie i'm going into the garden to see if i can find some odd tired celery
00:20:59there might just be a bit left in the vegetable patch
00:21:11uh
00:21:20uh
00:21:23uh
00:21:27uh
00:21:31Oh
00:22:01Oh, did you find an egg?
00:22:09Any what?
00:22:10Celery, of course. Celery.
00:22:12No.
00:22:13No, there wasn't any there. I couldn't see any.
00:22:16Shame.
00:22:18Hello, uh, did I...
00:22:19Ellie, please stop that singing. I've got a headache.
00:22:22Well, well, fancy a headache.
00:22:24You that never has anything wrong with you.
00:22:26Please, Ellie.
00:22:27I'm sorry.
00:22:28Shall I get you some of my aspirin to the glass of milk?
00:22:30No, thanks. Don't worry.
00:22:32I just want a bit of quiet.
00:22:34Joyce.
00:22:36What now?
00:22:37What's the matter? What's wrong?
00:22:39I told you, there's nothing the matter. I've just got a headache.
00:22:43Tell me, Joyce.
00:22:44It's not a headache. You never have headaches. You know you don't.
00:22:48We've only got each other.
00:22:50Just the two of us.
00:22:52We've got to help each other. If something's wrong, we've got to stick together.
00:22:56Just the two of us, Ellie.
00:23:00Just the two of us.
00:23:01That's all.
00:23:04It's not true, Ellie.
00:23:06Why lie to yourself?
00:23:08You know it's not true.
00:23:09But, Joyce!
00:23:11Ellie, it's no good.
00:23:13You must face facts.
00:23:14You can't just ignore things.
00:23:16You've always done that, ever since you were a looky girl.
00:23:19Pretending that father was all right.
00:23:21Always pretending.
00:23:23Pretending that the sun was shining when it was raining.
00:23:27It's no good doing that.
00:23:29Don't you see?
00:23:29We've got to be honest with one another.
00:23:33But he was all right.
00:23:35He was.
00:23:36He had his good days sometimes when he was just like before.
00:23:39You know he did.
00:23:40But they were very few and far between, just now and again.
00:23:45Then he used to go to the shed and do his carpentry.
00:23:49Do you remember, Joyce?
00:23:50Such lovely things.
00:23:52Your dressing table.
00:23:53You couldn't buy a thing like that.
00:23:56Beautiful.
00:23:58Craftsmanship.
00:23:59You don't find that too often.
00:24:01Ellie, you're doing it again.
00:24:03Everything's golden.
00:24:04Everything that happened in the past is like a...
00:24:06Like a rainbow.
00:24:07Well, it wasn't and it isn't.
00:24:09You just can't seem to accept that things weren't like that.
00:24:13Not like that at all.
00:24:14Not after the war.
00:24:16Joyce.
00:24:17Joyce.
00:24:19Leave me something.
00:24:22Don't you see?
00:24:23I may not always be here to stand between you and things as they really were.
00:24:29As they really are.
00:24:31I'd rather remember Daddy as he was.
00:24:34He was a marvellous man.
00:24:36Handsome and clever.
00:24:38People used to turn round on the street to look at him.
00:24:42Yes, Ellie, yes, I know.
00:24:46Brilliant and handsome.
00:24:48Before.
00:24:53I'm going to lie down for an hour.
00:24:58Yes, you lie down.
00:24:59I'll get the lunch.
00:25:00I'll call you in plenty of time.
00:25:02You were, Daddy.
00:25:18You were brilliant and handsome.
00:25:21People did turn round to look at you on the street.
00:25:24You didn't notice.
00:25:25You didn't notice.
00:25:27But I did.
00:25:28And I was so proud to be walking along beside you.
00:25:33You were the best looking man I ever saw.
00:25:39But I suppose Joyce is right.
00:25:41And I was so proud to be on the street.
00:25:45It was...
00:25:47A fool.
00:25:54A fool.
00:25:55Oh, my God.
00:26:26Gloria?
00:26:41What's the matter?
00:26:42I heard something.
00:26:44It's nothing.
00:26:46There's no one here.
00:26:46Oh, my God.
00:26:54Gloria?
00:26:55Roy, someone's watching us.
00:26:56How could there be?
00:26:57Right out here.
00:26:58I just feel...
00:26:58Oh, you don't feel.
00:27:00You get me all worked up and...
00:27:02Kiss me, Roy.
00:27:14I love you, Gloria.
00:27:15I love you.
00:27:46I love you.
00:27:47Oh, my God.
00:28:08Ah!
00:28:09Oh, there we are.
00:28:20How's the headache now?
00:28:22Better.
00:28:23Good.
00:28:24I've got a surprise for you.
00:28:25Celery.
00:28:26I found it in the garden.
00:28:27You must have missed it this morning.
00:28:29Oh, good.
00:28:30Oh, aren't you going to sit down?
00:28:32Oh, well, I'm going to sit down.
00:29:02I can tell you.
00:29:03I keep thinking of a wild animal roaming.
00:29:06What's the matter?
00:29:08Did I put too much oil in the salad dressing?
00:29:10I measured it the same as always.
00:29:11Just one egg cup full.
00:29:13Oh, the dressing's perfect.
00:29:14It's just that I'm not hungry.
00:29:17Shall I get Dr Spencer for you?
00:29:19It's all right, Ellie.
00:29:20I'm not ill.
00:29:22I don't know what I'd do if you were ill.
00:29:23I just couldn't manage.
00:29:25Don't worry.
00:29:26I won't be ill.
00:29:26I just feel tired of it.
00:29:32Ellie.
00:29:36Yes?
00:29:38I don't think we'd better have our walk this afternoon.
00:29:41Not have our walk?
00:29:42But we always have a walk in the afternoon.
00:29:44You know?
00:29:45Oh, you mean not till they've caught the animal?
00:29:48Oh, you're right, Joyce.
00:29:50Yes.
00:29:51I'll do my sewing and you can read your book.
00:29:54That's a much better idea.
00:29:55I'll do my sewing and you can read your book.
00:30:25Oh, you're back.
00:30:26Oh, you're back.
00:30:29Ah!
00:30:38Is the cocoa ready?
00:30:39Yes, yes, it's on the stove.
00:30:41I'll get it.
00:30:55We'll need some more of this from Dr Spencer soon.
00:30:58Last time he said he was worried about the amount you were taking.
00:31:01Suppose he starts to cut it down.
00:31:03He won't.
00:31:04I'll tell him it's my nerves again.
00:31:05He'll understand, especially with the murder.
00:31:08Take that down.
00:31:09Yes, Joyce.
00:31:25It was right, wasn't it, Father?
00:31:28You knew that.
00:31:30Joyce, Joyce, he's gone, he's gone.
00:31:36You are a gooselly.
00:31:54How on earth could he get out?
00:31:56Oh, he's all right.
00:31:58He wasn't.
00:31:59No, he wasn't.
00:32:00Take that light away.
00:32:01He doesn't like it.
00:32:05Oh, you poor, poor thing.
00:32:24Oh, Alan.
00:32:33I picked up your meat.
00:32:36Come in.
00:32:37Here you go.
00:32:39Alan's got the meat for us, Joyce.
00:32:43Thank you, Alan.
00:32:44Oh, it's OK.
00:32:45I'll say this for you, too.
00:32:47You've got good, healthy appetites.
00:32:53Any more news?
00:32:54Well, I shouldn't really tell you this.
00:32:56Nobody knows yet.
00:32:57But there's been another.
00:32:58Another?
00:32:59Another soldier's been killed.
00:33:01Oh, my God.
00:33:03How terrible.
00:33:05Did they get anyone, catch anyone?
00:33:07No, but someone saw the thing getting away.
00:33:09Thing?
00:33:10It was a girl saw it.
00:33:11She thought it was an animal of some kind,
00:33:13but she couldn't really tell.
00:33:14She's in hospital.
00:33:15Did it attack her as well?
00:33:17No, no, shock.
00:33:18She couldn't tell them much.
00:33:19They're waiting for her to recover.
00:33:21The camp, they're laying on special patrols,
00:33:23mostly for the married quarters.
00:33:24So I had a word with the adjutant.
00:33:26I asked him if he'd include your house in the patrols.
00:33:28So you've no need to worry.
00:33:30There'll be someone keeping an eye on the place
00:33:31at regular intervals.
00:33:33Very kind of you, Alan.
00:33:34Oh, it's nothing.
00:33:35Yes, very thoughtful.
00:33:37It makes us both feel a lot better, doesn't it, Ellie?
00:33:40Yes.
00:33:41Yes, indeed.
00:33:43Would you like a cup of tea, Alan?
00:33:45I'd love one, but I've got to go and pick up my doctor.
00:33:48So I'll drop by and see you tomorrow, OK?
00:33:50Bye.
00:33:51I'll see myself out.
00:33:54When did it happen, Alan, the second murder?
00:33:57Uh, lunchtime.
00:33:58Somewhere between 12 and 1.
00:34:00See you tomorrow.
00:34:02I knew he wasn't there when I first looked.
00:34:08It's him.
00:34:09He's found a way of getting out.
00:34:10I know he has.
00:34:11Hey, Ellie, don't be silly.
00:34:12How could he possibly get out?
00:34:13I don't know how.
00:34:14How should I know?
00:34:15But I know he has.
00:34:16He's doing these murders.
00:34:18I'm going to look.
00:34:18It's a dickhead, sir.
00:34:46He couldn't get out.
00:34:48He could.
00:34:49He could.
00:34:50He could.
00:34:51There must be a way.
00:34:52A tunnel or something.
00:34:57Look.
00:34:58That hole in the head, that wasn't there.
00:35:01Joyce.
00:35:02There's something.
00:35:05It's a bicycle, that's all.
00:35:13But whose choice?
00:35:14Whose?
00:35:15Whose?
00:35:16You see, Ellie, I told you it was just your imagination.
00:35:32I told you, Joyce, he can get out.
00:35:33There's the hole.
00:35:34There's the hole.
00:35:35It is him.
00:35:36I wonder how long he's been using it.
00:35:37That's hardly important now.
00:35:38We have to block it up somehow.
00:35:39We have to block it up somehow.
00:35:40We've put Father's bench over it.
00:35:41Come on, Ellie.
00:35:42You'll have to help me.
00:35:43You'll have to help me.
00:35:44Come on, Ellie, you'll have to help me.
00:35:45Come on, Ellie.
00:35:46You'll have to help me.
00:35:47SIREN RELANDS
00:35:48SCENES
00:35:49SCENES
00:35:50SCENES
00:35:51SCENES
00:35:52SCENES
00:35:53SCENES
00:35:54I told you, Joyce, he can get out.
00:35:56There's the hole.
00:35:57It is him.
00:36:00I wonder how long he's been using it.
00:36:02That's hardly important now.
00:36:04We'll have to block it up somehow.
00:36:06We'll put Father's bench over it.
00:36:08Come on, Ellie.
00:36:09You'll have to help me.
00:36:11Aaaaah.
00:36:13Help me with the bench, Ellie.
00:36:28Oh, Joyce, Joyce, are you all right?
00:36:31Oh, help me, Ellie.
00:36:33I think I've hurt myself.
00:36:34Help me.
00:36:35Don't move, Joyce.
00:36:36Stay there and get Dr Spencer.
00:36:38We can't, Ellie.
00:36:39We can't have the doctor here.
00:36:41You have to get me back to the house.
00:36:43Doesn't matter if the doctor comes in here.
00:36:45We've got to tell the police now anyway.
00:36:47Get me back to the house.
00:37:11Oh, I see you, Dad.
00:37:35I'll ring up and get the doctor.
00:37:53Hello, Doris.
00:38:04This is Ellie Ballantyne.
00:38:06Would you put me through to Dr Spencer?
00:38:10Don't think it's broken.
00:38:13But we can't be sure till we get you into hospital and have some x-rays done.
00:38:16Hospital?
00:38:18I'm not going into hospital.
00:38:19Of course you are.
00:38:21You'll be well taken care of.
00:38:22Don't worry.
00:38:23I'm not going into hospital.
00:38:24That's final.
00:38:25I can't leave Ellie here alone.
00:38:28No, I couldn't manage here by myself.
00:38:31I couldn't.
00:38:32Let Joyce stay here and I'll be able to look after her.
00:38:34I must stay here.
00:38:36All right, but you must go into hospital to have x-rays taken.
00:38:39And if necessary, a cast or strapping.
00:38:41Then we'll bring you back.
00:38:42Yes, I can go with you and then we can come back together.
00:38:47I'll have a nurse come in morning and evening.
00:38:50That won't be necessary, Doctor.
00:38:52I can manage.
00:38:54No, you can't.
00:38:56If Joyce is in class, so you'll never be able to manage her.
00:38:59We can't have both of you laid up, can we?
00:39:04Ellie.
00:39:04Ellie.
00:39:08Hello, Doris.
00:39:10Get me the little mere general, will you?
00:39:12No, nothing very serious.
00:39:15Ellie.
00:39:16Yes, Joyce.
00:39:18Ellie, I want you to promise me something.
00:39:22Promise you?
00:39:24Promise me that you won't.
00:39:26That you won't.
00:39:28What?
00:39:29Won't what?
00:39:31That you won't go to the police.
00:39:36But Joyce, we've got to.
00:39:40Promise me, Ellie.
00:39:42But what about...
00:39:43The hole's blocked up now.
00:39:46He can't get out again.
00:39:48But Joyce...
00:39:49There's a spade in the shed.
00:39:52Please, Ellie.
00:39:54Please, Ellie.
00:39:55Then when he's got to look at her for a new other place.
00:39:59I can't wear knitting.
00:40:01Let go.
00:40:01To this place, she got all the解除.
00:40:04To this place, I know.
00:40:04Will always take good to.
00:40:06daddy, I...
00:40:12I'll be sorry.
00:40:13Mom?
00:40:14I'll take it.
00:40:15I can't offer them.
00:40:16I can't offer them.
00:40:17I can't offer them to me, but it says that the per capita's in the shed is for me,
00:45:20Oh, it's me, Nurse Sutherland.
00:45:27I did knock, but no one answered.
00:45:30You're Miss Joyce Ballantyne?
00:45:31Yeah.
00:45:31Oh, I came in through the French windows.
00:45:34I came in through the French windows.
00:45:34They were wide open.
00:45:37You should keep them locked.
00:45:39Yes, Ellie, she's...
00:45:41Just find the bathroom.
00:45:44I'd like to rinse my hands.
00:45:45Yeah.
00:46:15It's alright Joyce, I've done it. I've done it, I've buried you. And who have you been
00:46:31burying in the middle of the night? I'm sorry, I startled you. I'm Nurse Sutherland, I let
00:46:37myself in. One of your little animals died. Animals? Yes, yes, one of our little animals
00:46:47and I buried him. I expect it's the cold. The cold, yes, that's what it would be, the
00:46:53cold. Can I get you something? A cup of tea perhaps? Oh yes, that would be nice. Yes, but
00:47:03it won't take a minute. Heavy sedation. Do you usually take stuff to help you sleep,
00:47:12Miss Ballantyne? Hello Miss Ellie, I came to see Miss Ballantyne, how is she? Oh, she's
00:47:25fine, much better. Come in. I brought some grapes. Oh, go on up, I'm just making a pot
00:47:30of tea. What's that? What? That gun, what's the gun for? They've issued all NCOs with
00:47:37small arms, just in case. There haven't been any more murders, have there? No, and now we're
00:47:43all armed, I don't suppose there will be. Oh, well I'll just make the tea then. Hello.
00:47:52Hello, who are you? Shouldn't I be saying that? Alan Marlow, I'm a friend of the old
00:47:56ladies, brought some fruit. How are you feeling, Miss Ballantyne? Ah, we're feeling much better
00:48:02now, aren't we? Yes, much better. How did you know about Joyce's fall, Alan? How does anyone
00:48:10know about anything? Had to make a call to Littlemere and Doris on the exchange, told
00:48:14me. Oh yes, Doris. Alan's bought you some lovely fruit, Joyce. Thank you, Alan. It is nice.
00:48:23Oh, it's nothing. Been in a little bit long? Just about a month now. Thought not. Why?
00:48:29Well, it's a small place, bound to have seen you around. Best cup of tea in Littlemere.
00:48:36Miss Ellie, may I have a glass of water, please? Wouldn't you prefer another cup of tea? No,
00:48:41it's for the patient. Some medicine the doctor prescribed for her. Oh, yes, I'll get it at
00:48:46once. I can drop you off home if you like. It's all right, I've got a bike outside.
00:48:53Well, I've got a Land Rover. We can put the bike in the back. It's a rotten night to face
00:48:57that long heel on a bike. I think if you ask Alan nicely, he'll run you back to Littlemere.
00:49:01It's all right, Miss Ellie. I've just asked nurse, er... Sutherland. Joanna Sutherland.
00:49:06I've just asked Joanna nicely if I can run her home. I knew you would.
00:49:14Comfortable now? Yes, thank you, nurse. I'll look in again in the morning.
00:49:18Please.
00:49:18Thanks again for the fruit, Alan. Oh, don't mention it. I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
00:49:39And you make sure you have a good night's rest, Miss Ellie. You've had a long day, too.
00:49:44Don't worry. Don't worry. I will.
00:49:47Good night.
00:49:49Good night.
00:50:11I'll be straight. I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a bloody thing, whatever it is.
00:50:35Yeah, well, you can have it, mate. I just want a nice, quiet patrol, get back, report
00:50:39and get some kip. Well, I thought it did to Roy. Well, I'd just as soon not give it a chance
00:50:44to have a go at me. Come on, I reckon you can see in the dark. Oh, hell. What's that?
00:50:51I've got no fags. I can't help you, mate. I don't smoke. I know that, don't I?
00:50:55Well, I take it, you see? Listen, the naff is still open. Why don't you scarve up and get
00:50:59some? I'll wait here for you. Are you sure you don't mind? No, it's a little difference
00:51:02to me. Look, I'll walk up there and I'll see you up there.
00:51:05Hey, what if that? What if what? Go on. I've got you got some fags, they'll be bloody
00:51:11miserable all night. Well, hang on with that then. Cheers, mate. Won't be long.
00:51:13Oh, honey.
00:51:31Bye-bye.
00:51:47I think I'll have a long day.
00:51:49No, no, wait a minute. Make it a brown.
00:51:51No, no, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll have half of it.
00:51:54Oh, and a brownie, please.
00:52:01A laundry.
00:52:02A woman who wears a hair in a kind of a girl
00:52:10She works in a woman's way
00:52:15Everything she likes to know that she can't get it
00:52:21She's only crazy fun to try
00:52:25Just don't wanna talk into her
00:52:28But if we're getting in
00:52:30She'll only catch you all the time
00:52:34Yes, she's smart
00:52:46Andy?
00:52:51Andy?
00:52:58Andy?
00:53:01Andy?
00:53:07Andy?
00:53:09Andy?
00:53:10Andy?
00:53:21Andy?
00:53:21Oh, good morning, Doctor.
00:53:51Hello, Ellie.
00:53:52Josh has had the most wonderful night's sleep.
00:53:55Not a murmur.
00:53:56She's still fast asleep now.
00:53:59I'll go and get some coffee for you.
00:54:01I thought I'd better call you, Doctor.
00:54:03She was like this when I arrived.
00:54:04I gave her the sedation you prescribed last night.
00:54:07Shouldn't have had this effect.
00:54:08She's been taking this desit for years.
00:54:12Odd.
00:54:13Should we try and wake her?
00:54:14No, it's probably the after-effects of the shock her fall yesterday gave her.
00:54:18I don't think we've much to worry about.
00:54:19Let her wake naturally.
00:54:28Well, Ellie, I couldn't wait for coffee.
00:54:30I've got a lot of calls for me.
00:54:31Shall I stay with her?
00:54:31Oh, no need.
00:54:32The rest can only do her good.
00:54:33I'll come back again on my way home at lunchtime.
00:54:36If you're sure.
00:54:36She'll be all right.
00:54:37Bye.
00:54:37Dr. Spencer had to leave, Miss Ellie.
00:54:45He said he had a lot of calls to make.
00:54:47Oh, everything's all right, isn't it?
00:54:49Oh, yes, fine.
00:54:50He'll look in again at lunchtime.
00:54:52Well, come along in, then.
00:54:55There we are.
00:54:56Milk and sugar?
00:55:02What do you think of Alan?
00:55:04He seems very nice.
00:55:07Oh, we'd be lost without him.
00:55:10We're miles from the shops here, and neither Joyce nor I drive.
00:55:15So Alan does lots of errands for us.
00:55:17He's very fond of you both.
00:55:21Perhaps you ought to think about moving into town, getting a smaller place.
00:55:26It might be easier for you to manage.
00:55:28We could never do that.
00:55:30We were both born here in this house.
00:55:32Now we can never leave it, never.
00:55:36No, I suppose not.
00:55:38It's just that it's a bit remote from anywhere.
00:55:42We like it here, Joyce and I.
00:55:45We're used to it, just the two of us and our animals.
00:55:53Well, I'd better get on.
00:55:56It's nasty out.
00:55:58Oh, I do hope they catch the murderer today.
00:56:01The murderer, yes.
00:56:02They think it's an animal or something, don't they?
00:56:04A leopard or something.
00:56:05No, not now.
00:56:07After the second one, they knew it was a human being,
00:56:09although it acts like an animal.
00:56:11They can make tests, you see.
00:56:13Jenny, who works at the hospital, said the third one was really horrible.
00:56:17The sooner they get him locked up, the better.
00:56:19Oh!
00:56:20Oh!
00:56:21I'm sorry, Miss Ellie.
00:56:22I'm terribly sorry, I thought...
00:56:24Third!
00:56:25There was another one last night.
00:56:28I'm terribly sorry to upset you.
00:56:30I didn't think.
00:56:32But there's no need to worry.
00:56:33He only attacks soldiers in uniform, and they're all armed now.
00:56:36Last night?
00:56:40I'll pour you another cup of coffee.
00:56:44I'd better stay.
00:56:46Would you like me to stay with you, Miss Ellie?
00:56:48No.
00:56:49It's all right.
00:56:50It's all right.
00:56:51It was just a shock.
00:56:52It was stupid and thoughtless of me.
00:56:55I'll stay.
00:56:56You'll feel better for some company.
00:56:58No.
00:56:59No.
00:56:59You have work to do.
00:57:01Off you go.
00:57:01You sure you'll be all right?
00:57:02Sure.
00:57:03I'm fine.
00:57:04I'm worried about leaving you.
00:57:05No, I'm all right.
00:57:06Well, the doctor will look in again at lunchtime.
00:57:09Yes.
00:57:09Oh, I am sorry, Miss Ellie.
00:57:11If I'd thought, I'd never have said.
00:57:14Don't worry.
00:57:15See you tonight, then.
00:57:33Sir, you have mostraitches.
00:57:33Oh, my God.
00:57:40Oh,'t
00:57:48I am sorry.
00:57:58Oh, my God.
00:57:58Oh, my God.
00:58:29Joyce, wake up. Wake up, Joyce. Wake up.
00:58:49Ellie.
00:58:50Joyce, wake up. He's got out. He's got out again.
00:58:55I had such a wonderful dream.
00:58:57Joyce, he's got out. He's gone.
00:59:01Out? Gone? Who's gone?
00:59:05Joyce, he's moved the bench away and climbed out.
00:59:10Do you remember that bench, Ellie?
00:59:14And Father working on it when he had a good day.
00:59:18Do you remember?
00:59:20Joyce, you must listen to me.
00:59:23Listen to me. He's escaped.
00:59:26Well, perhaps it's just as well.
00:59:30Poor thing cooped up there.
00:59:33It doesn't matter.
00:59:35But there's been another murder.
00:59:37Another soldier.
00:59:38We've got to tell the police now.
00:59:40We've got to tell them the whole thing.
00:59:42Why?
00:59:42Because he could kill somebody else.
00:59:44Another soldier.
00:59:45Suppose it was Alan next time.
00:59:47It could be.
00:59:48We've got to tell them now.
00:59:50You're very fond of your young corporal, aren't you, Ellie?
00:59:53Ellie, I suppose you think it makes up.
00:59:58Is that what you think, Ellie?
01:00:01Is it?
01:00:01I've never seen you like this before.
01:00:03What's wrong?
01:00:05Wrong?
01:00:07Nothing's wrong.
01:00:10I feel fine.
01:00:13Wonderful.
01:00:15I've always been able to rely on you before.
01:00:18What am I going to do, Joyce?
01:00:20Tell me. Tell me what to do.
01:00:21Oh, my God.
01:00:23Well, my God.
01:00:24Oh, my God.
01:00:25Por favor, I've never seen you before.
01:00:26You're sorry.
01:00:27Oh, my God.
01:00:28Oh, my God.
01:00:28Oh, my God.
01:00:32I go.
01:00:33Oh, my God.
01:00:34Oh, my God.
01:00:36Oh, my God.
01:00:37Oh, my God.
01:00:40Oh, my God.
01:00:45Oh, my God.
01:00:47Oh, my God.
01:00:51Hello? Doris?
01:01:21Okay, lads, bring around the back, please.
01:01:34Let them go now.
01:01:44Wait in the shed around the corner.
01:01:51Oh, come here.
01:01:57Oh, come here!
01:02:08Oh, come here!
01:02:13Oh, come here!
01:02:22Major Mortimer?
01:02:24Now, this is Chief Superintendent Paddock here.
01:02:27Yes, the dogs have gone off.
01:02:29Towards the moors.
01:02:31Well, all the men and vehicles you can spare.
01:02:34Oh, and l'm going to need three men for the house here.
01:02:36Armed.
01:02:37Two to be posted at the shed in the garden,
01:02:40and one man inside the house.
01:02:44Well, l don't think he'll come back here, but...
01:02:47Well, if we've got a storm, he might.
01:02:50Fine, thanks.
01:02:51Yes, l... l'll keep in touch.
01:02:53Right, goodbye.
01:02:54Goodbye.
01:02:58Miss Valentine!
01:03:02Miss Valentine!
01:03:06I've got to tell them now, Joyce.
01:03:09You do understand, don't you?
01:03:10I've... I've got to.
01:03:12If you think it's best, Ellie.
01:03:14Whatever you say.
01:03:15What do you say?
01:03:45Well, Miss Valentine, perhaps you'd tell us about it.
01:03:49Sergeant Young here will write it all down.
01:03:52Is that all right?
01:03:54Well, it was such a long time ago.
01:03:57There's so many things to explain.
01:03:59Just take your time, Miss Valentine.
01:04:00You just take your time.
01:04:01Tell us about it in your own words.
01:04:04Well, l was six when the war started.
01:04:07The Great War, that was, in 1914.
01:04:09And it was all to do with Daddy, er... Father.
01:04:19He was a wonderful man then.
01:04:22I can still remember him like that.
01:04:24Only just... vaguely.
01:04:27He was tall and handsome when he went away to the war.
01:04:31That was right at the very beginning,
01:04:34and there was just Mother and Joyce and me.
01:04:37I can remember that the house seemed so empty and sad without him.
01:04:44We all missed him so much.
01:04:47And when he came home on leave,
01:04:50he looked beautiful in his uniform,
01:04:53and the house was full of laughter,
01:04:55and it was sunny again, just like before he went away.
01:04:58He took Joyce and me to the fairground that time.
01:05:02We went on the roundabout and the helter-skelter.
01:05:05We had a fine time.
01:05:08He bought us some ice cream from the Italian man.
01:05:11Mother didn't want us to eat it, though.
01:05:13She didn't like us eating in the street.
01:05:15Things were so different in those days.
01:05:18And then...
01:05:20suddenly he was gone.
01:05:22We didn't go to the station to see him off.
01:05:26Just Mother.
01:05:27Just Mother.
01:05:28She cried a lot when she came home.
01:05:32She told us that Daddy had gone to France to fight in the war.
01:05:37We didn't understand much about it at the time, but we cried because she cried and...
01:05:43because we missed him so much.
01:05:48He came back once more on leave, but he looked older and more tired.
01:05:56He was still fun, mind you.
01:05:59It was winter that time.
01:06:02And the lake at Little Mere was frozen over solid.
01:06:05We skated.
01:06:07And Daddy made us a toboggan.
01:06:09That was his real hobby, carpentry.
01:06:12He loved it.
01:06:13He could make anything.
01:06:15And he pulled us right to the top of Deep Dean Hill on the toboggan.
01:06:18And then he let us go and we screamed and screamed.
01:06:23It was marvellous.
01:06:26Now Deep Dean Hill's gone too.
01:06:29That's where they built those new houses.
01:06:32Then Daddy went back to France and...
01:06:35We used to read the newspapers and...
01:06:37Mother used to read his letters to us.
01:06:39He always said,
01:06:41How's Muffet and Moppet?
01:06:43He called Joyce Little Miss Muffet, you see, when she was born.
01:06:45He called me Moppet because of my hair.
01:06:48He said it was just like a mop.
01:06:50And when I was little, he used to lift me up and turn me upside down and pretend to mop the floor with me.
01:06:57And I used to scream and pretend to be frightened.
01:07:00Of course I wasn't really.
01:07:02Then we read about the big push.
01:07:05That was an awful time.
01:07:07We kept thinking that Daddy was going to be killed because we knew he was right there.
01:07:12In the front line.
01:07:16I shall never forget the day that the telegram came.
01:07:20And Mother's face when she saw it.
01:07:23At first she didn't want to open it.
01:07:26But Joyce said she had to.
01:07:29And then she cried and laughed and then she cried again and she said that Daddy was coming home.
01:07:36The telegram wasn't from him.
01:07:39It was from a friend of his, a captain something or other.
01:07:43And it told us the time of the train and everything.
01:07:46And we all went to the station to meet him.
01:07:48And we all went to the station to meet him.
01:08:18Okay, okay.
01:08:21Okay, okay, let's go.
01:08:22Okay.
01:08:23Okay.
01:08:28Okay.
01:08:32Okay.
01:08:33the house was awful after that daddy was strange he had his good days now and again when he was
01:08:52more like his old self but mostly he was awful he used to scream and shout he had the most
01:09:01terrible nightmares and he was violent he used to hit mother sometimes and even us he was often ill
01:09:09and mother told us that it was because of what had happened to him in france that he was gassed and
01:09:15had shell shock and that we must try and understand and be patient and that eventually he would be
01:09:20better but it never was it was never the same man again yes then in 1921 mother told us she was
01:09:36expecting another baby i don't know why but we were rather shocked somehow father being like he was
01:09:43anyway mother had stephen he was a beautiful baby joyce and i adored him but father didn't take to
01:09:54him at all mother wasn't well after that and father got worse and worse all the time it wouldn't have
01:10:02stephen in the same room with him and then mother died she hadn't been well you see since stephen was
01:10:09born father hated him even more after that and one day he started to brick up the cellar he said he was
01:10:18going to put stephen in there let him rot he said but of course joyce and i stopped him
01:10:25and it turned out that stephen was
01:10:55strange in some way did it oh no not at all he was a very intelligent child very bright father was a
01:11:05bit better after he'd gone away to boarding school but he never spoke about him he steven wrote him
01:11:11letters he he never opened them he just threw them on the fire without a word of course we didn't tell
01:11:16stephen that and so he just kept on writing if he asked we said that father enjoyed his letters but
01:11:24that he never wrote back to anybody and then it must have been in 1933 daddy died well he'd been in bed
01:11:35for over a year so none of us missed him very much we were quite glad really because we'd realized long
01:11:44ago that he would never get any better so we thought this was probably the best thing
01:11:48how did stephen take it he was heartbroken as if he and father had been everything to each other
01:11:55joyce and i could never understand it that was in 1933
01:11:59yes we started reading the newspapers then about
01:12:04hitler and germany one crisis after another it seemed to us
01:12:08where was stephen then oh he was still at boarding school
01:12:13but joyce said that he should come home and go to day school
01:12:17she said we needed a man about the house
01:12:20there was only one big row
01:12:28stephen wanted to join the otc at school but joyce put her foot down firmly over that
01:12:34she wrote to the headmaster and said she wouldn't allow it under any circumstances
01:12:38stephen was furious but joyce was adamant
01:12:43you see stephen
01:12:45i just wanted to look after you make sure you were safe
01:12:49after all i brought you up since you were a baby i've been
01:12:54mother and father to you
01:12:56and all you wanted to do was get away from me
01:13:00go to the war
01:13:02you do understand i couldn't let you do that
01:13:07don't you
01:13:08you were all i had
01:13:11all i'd ever had
01:13:13i had to keep you
01:13:15you were everything to me
01:13:17ellie was there all the time but
01:13:21it was you i wanted stephen
01:13:24that was all
01:13:27you
01:13:42uh
01:13:44me
01:13:48me
01:13:50me
01:13:53me
01:13:54me
01:13:55he took a job that summer he said that if he earned some money he could help us to manage
01:14:12and that he could buy his own clothes when he went to university it was only a casual job mind you
01:14:18and what happened after the summer one day joyce said there was going to be another war
01:14:23i was sure she was right all the papers seemed to be full of it joyce said there would be conscription
01:14:30straight away this time everybody who was 18 would be called up and made to go and fight in france
01:14:36she kept on and on about it about stephen and what had happened to daddy and about how she'd never let
01:14:44it happen to stephen never never well stephen came across from blackpool one sunday afternoon
01:14:52she said she wanted him to go to canada about how much better the universities were there
01:14:58but stephen wouldn't go he was determined not to go he even said that if there was a war he
01:15:04he wouldn't wait to be conscripted he'd join up he said that if joyce had let him join the otc at
01:15:10school he'd have been able to be an officer straight away but that he didn't care he'd join
01:15:17up and try and get a commission afterwards when he'd gone back to blackpool joyce was out of her
01:15:22mind she she couldn't leave it alone she went on and on about what had happened to daddy and how we
01:15:29couldn't let the same thing happen to stephen she swore she wouldn't and she said that i should feel the
01:15:35same stephen only wanted to be an officer like his father exactly funny i'd never thought of it like
01:15:45that but that's what it amounted to then one day joyce told me that she had a plan she talked and
01:15:52talked about it all through the following week she said that it wouldn't be difficult that we could do
01:15:58it that it would be better for stephen eventually i had to agree
01:16:03joyce was always stronger about things than i was she went to the doctor and told him she couldn't sleep
01:16:12he said it was her nerves and gave her some tablets but she wrote to stephen and told him to come over on sunday
01:16:22said that she wanted to talk to him she made tea and not long afterwards stephen fell asleep in his chair
01:16:33she put four tablets in his tea the doctor said she must never have more than one i was terrified but she
01:16:43but she said everything would be all right and we we took him down to the cellar we had everything ready
01:16:54all the stuff was there because father had started on it ages ago when he was angry with stephen
01:17:04you ripped him up in the cellar yes we both thought it was best for him you you kept him there
01:17:12for how long well at first he used to shout and scream but if it was especially bad or we thought
01:17:20someone was going to call we just gave him some tablets in a drink or something he he had to drink
01:17:26you see well they had to be stronger and stronger as time went on but gradually stopped making any noise
01:17:34at all just whimper now and again it was very difficult during the war with only two rations for three
01:17:45people and you kept him there right through the war yes of course and when it was over that was the awful
01:17:55part we we couldn't let him out then he was too far gone he wasn't normal he's been in there nearly
01:18:01thirty years we thought it was best for him you see that's what we thought
01:18:19what do you think they'll do well that's not for me to decide miss bellentine i just have to report
01:18:24i don't think he'll come back here we're bound to catch him soon have a good night's rest all right good night
01:18:40choice choice what are you doing out of bed follow this uniform it's amazing with you take that coat off take it off
01:19:02it's mine it's mine it's mine
01:19:21hello joanna oh ellen i didn't expect you to be here they wanted someone in the house so i sort of
01:19:26volunteered seem better to have somebody they knew around where's miss ellie dr spencer gave her a light
01:19:37sedative sent her off to bed whoever would have believed it two dear sweet old ladies what on earth
01:19:44made them do it who knows what makes people do things what you suppose they'll do with them i don't
01:19:50know i don't think there's a lot they can do can't really lock up two old ladies like this don't think
01:19:55you can maybe put them in a home might just as well leave them here with their own things around
01:20:00them they must have suffered a lot over the years and him the brother what about him they'll have to
01:20:06lock him up when they catch him he can't be much more than an animal why soldiers why do you suppose
01:20:12he only attacks soldiers i don't know probably in what was left of his brain he thought the army had
01:20:17something to do with him being locked up i suppose over the years he got it all muddled up then he saw
01:20:22the uniform and that was enough there poor old things should i look in and see miss ellie do you
01:20:29think i think she's asleep perhaps it'd be better not wake her up maybe there's the storm starting
01:20:35just as well poor creature being out on a night like this they say they're hunting him with dogs
01:20:41yeah but if there's much rain the dogs won't be a lot of use it's gone off across the moor somewhere
01:20:44but they'll catch him soon damn rain i'll get soaked look i'll run into little me it won't take
01:20:51ten minutes well they're both asleep there's two more men patrolling the garden i'll only be gone
01:20:56ten minutes would be nice come on i'll just look in and see me then all right
01:21:10how is she do you think like a baby come on are you sure it'll be all right well you can't get back
01:21:16at night not in the daytime only at night
01:21:47don't worry it won't hurt you
01:21:52choice choice i heard something in the hole
01:22:01i did i did
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