T.R.R.M. A New Lease Of Death. (1991) Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 29th September/6th/13th October 1991.  Wexford's first ever successful murder case comes back to haunt him when a vicar starts to rake up the past.   George Baker - Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford Christopher Ravenscroft - Det. Insp. Mike Burden Peter Egan - Rev. Henry Archery Sharon Maughan - Imogen Ide Denis Lill - Roger Primero Suzanna Hamilton - Elizabeth Crilling Dorothy Tutin - Mrs. Crilling Louie Ramsay - Dora Wexford Diane Keen - Jenny Burden Maggie Jones - Alice Flower Jenny Quayle - Tessa Kershaw Robin McCallum - Charles Archery (as Robin Lermitte) Kristy Bruce - Young Elizabeth Crilling Amanda Waring - Mrs. Crilling (1959) Sarah Webb - Irene Painter (1959) Trevor Sellers - Herbert Painter Sean Scanlan - Prosecuting Counsel Graham Rowe - Justice Brompton Colin Campbell - Sgt Willoughby Ken Kitson - D. S. Martin Anna Cropper - Irene Kershaw Michael Turner - Mr. Kershaw Cissy Collins - Angela Primero Ruth Trouncer - Magistrate Kate Lansbury - Sister John Horsley - Colonel Plashet Eileen Davies - Waitress John Evitts - Priest Robert Oates - Pub Landlord Richard Cubison - Court Clerk Reuben Purchase - Estate Agent Dave Hill - DCC Freeborn Tina Marian - Isabel Primero Sarah Webb - Irene Painter

Transcript

00:01:00Check the front of the house.

00:01:17Sarge?

00:01:18There's a little girl that found her body.

00:01:39Five years old.

00:01:41The mother was right behind her, but...

00:01:44Her name's Krilling.

00:01:54This is Krilling.

00:01:56Detective Constable Peters and Detective Sergeant Wexford.

00:02:00Kingsmark and CID.

00:02:01This is Krilling.

00:02:31Excuse me, sir.

00:02:38Any chance of a signature on these before you go?

00:02:39No.

00:02:40Not at all.

00:02:42I'll be trying to get my lift out for now.

00:02:44Oh, go on, put it on my desk.

00:02:45I'll see if there's a room straight after.

00:02:57Oh, Rich!

00:02:58This is the man.

00:03:00I'd like you to have a look at that.

00:03:03It's from an old friend of mine.

00:03:05I haven't seen him in years, but we'll keep in touch.

00:03:07I'd just like you to give him all the help he can.

00:03:10It'll be a little trip down memory lane for you.

00:03:14Well, can't stop.

00:03:15I've got a lunch appointment.

00:03:15Okay.

00:03:16So,

00:03:29From Essex, the Reverend Henry Archery.

00:03:57And a very good friend of our Deputy Chief Constable.

00:04:00So, somehow or other, he's got influence in the old pals' network.

00:04:04I just like the clergy in general.

00:04:06And the vicars I've come across in particular have never been vicarious enough for me.

00:04:11They always want you to worship the god in them.

00:04:14Oh, dumplings.

00:04:16Had to order for you. They were closing up.

00:04:18You know me too well.

00:04:21I picked a case that this vicar wants to talk to you about.

00:04:23I'm sure I know the name.

00:04:24Well, you've got a very good memory if you do.

00:04:27It happened 30 years ago.

00:04:28Painter was an odd job man.

00:04:30He took an axe to his employer.

00:04:32A defenceless old woman of 90.

00:04:34Battered her to death and then stole 200 pounds.

00:04:37It happened in one of those big houses up the Stouton Road.

00:04:39An ugly, sinister place.

00:04:41That's it.

00:04:42I do know it.

00:04:43We used to cycle out there as kids and dare each other to go into the grounds.

00:04:46So, what on earth does a vicar want with a 30-year-old murder case?

00:04:53Oh, amateur crime writer, I imagine.

00:04:56Or his stipend isn't keeping up with inflation.

00:05:00You know, it's surprising how many of these clergy like to dabble on the dark side.

00:05:03The case itself, I mean, it's a big local sensation, but I don't remember it being remarkable in any other way.

00:05:08Well, it was remarkable for me.

00:05:10It was the first murder case I'd handled on my own.

00:05:14And it was remarkable for Herbert Arthur Painter.

00:05:16He was hung for it.

00:05:21The beast!

00:05:22Calm yourself down.

00:05:24Calm down, man.

00:05:25You'll sort it all out.

00:05:26Constable.

00:05:29Alice Flowers, your lady's maid.

00:05:32She's got back from church.

00:05:33Let me know when she calms down.

00:05:36The beast did this to her.

00:05:38The beast!

00:05:40Mom!

00:05:49That's the chopping block.

00:05:51It had blood all over it.

00:05:52Right.

00:05:53Mark it and keep looking.

00:06:01You seem certain about who did it, Sarge.

00:06:03The beast, whoever he is.

00:06:07Mrs. Painter?

00:06:08Yes.

00:06:10Is your husband in?

00:06:11No, he went out.

00:06:13Can we come in?

00:06:14Do you have to?

00:06:15I've got a young child asleep.

00:06:17Well, we're investigating the murder of your husband's employer.

00:06:20Mrs. Primero.

00:06:20Are you looking out for somebody, Mrs. Painter?

00:06:40No, I just don't like the thought of the neighbours knowing the police are crawling all over me house.

00:06:44That's a very pretty little girl.

00:07:00A fall recently, Mrs. Painter?

00:07:02No way.

00:07:04Very nasty bruise.

00:07:06Sarge!

00:07:07Down here!

00:07:08Bloodstains!

00:07:08You tell her where these bloodstains come from, Mrs. Painter?

00:07:37What's all this, then?

00:07:42Mr. Painter?

00:07:44Yes?

00:07:46Detective Sarge and Wexford.

00:07:47So?

00:07:49We're investigating the murder of Mrs. Primero.

00:07:51Can you tell me what you were doing between the hours of sex and something this evening, sir?

00:07:56Why are you asking me?

00:07:57Sarge!

00:08:00Found this under the mattress.

00:08:02Must be 200 pounder.

00:08:03Oi!

00:08:08Sir!

00:08:09Excuse me, sir.

00:08:09Yes, yes, yes.

00:08:10I'll get to it straight away.

00:08:11Now, look, I'm expecting an emissary from God.

00:08:13Show him in here when he gets to it, will you?

00:08:16I'm sorry if I'm a little early, Chief Inspector.

00:08:19Oh.

00:08:20No, not at all, Mr. Archery.

00:08:22I thought the Reverend would be better off in here, sir.

00:08:24Yes, thank you, Sergeant.

00:08:27Well, do take a seat.

00:08:31I must say, you're not quite what I expected.

00:08:35I've decided to dispense with the dog collar for a few days.

00:08:38I see.

00:08:39So, what is your interest in the Painter case, Mr. Archery?

00:08:44Chief Inspector, I want you to tell me that somewhere in your mind there is doubt.

00:08:49The faintest doubt of Painter's guilt.

00:08:53Can't be done.

00:08:54Painter did it.

00:08:55He's guilty beyond a shadow of doubt.

00:08:56And you can quote me on that in your book.

00:09:00Book?

00:09:02I'm not writing a book, Chief Inspector.

00:09:04Of course, I don't know any more about this sort of thing than the average layman,

00:09:08but I did manage to obtain a copy of the transcript of the trial,

00:09:12and it does seem to me that there are a good many gaps in the evidence.

00:09:17Why are you interested in defending a man who was hanged 30 years ago, Mr. Archery?

00:09:21My reasons are very personal, Chief Inspector,

00:09:23and I can assure you there's no possibility of my publishing anything you feel you can tell me.

00:09:29No mistress in this case.

00:09:31No cunning little red herrings.

00:09:33Herbert Painter killed his 90-year-old employer with an axe for 200 pounds.

00:09:38He was a brutal, savage moron.

00:09:42And if I may say so, he's a strange character for a parson to champion.

00:09:4530 years is a long time, Chief Inspector.

00:09:50Perhaps after you've refreshed your memory,

00:09:53we could discuss the matter in more detail.

00:09:57Herbert Arthur Painter.

00:10:00You stand charge in this indictment with capital murder.

00:10:04The particulars being that you, on the 27th day of March, 1959,

00:10:08murdered Rose Primero.

00:10:09How say you?

00:10:12Are you guilty or not guilty?

00:10:15Not guilty.

00:10:17I didn't do it, sir.

00:10:39Mike, can we go now?

00:11:07This must be the room.

00:11:10Country walk, you said?

00:11:12Spontaneity.

00:11:13Curiosity.

00:11:15Or the devious manipulation of a workaholic.

00:11:18Come on, have a look.

00:11:25Oh, that poor little girl.

00:11:28I mean, five years old, finding a body like that.

00:11:33Let's have a look round the back.

00:11:37Why is this vicar interested?

00:11:4330 years later.

00:11:45Anti-hanging love is my guess.

00:11:47God knows what he hopes to get out of the Painter case.

00:11:49Well, he certainly won't get any help from you, will he?

00:11:53No, he won't.

00:12:00Jenny, the man hacked an old woman to death

00:12:03for the sake of 200 pounds.

00:12:05To me, that justifies the death penalty.

00:12:09Mike, there are just some issues you and I are not going to agree on.

00:12:22Actually, you're in good company.

00:12:24Reg doesn't agree with me either.

00:12:25Oh, come on, Mike.

00:12:28I don't like this place.

00:12:31It's just a house?

00:12:33Hmm.

00:12:33Ah!

00:12:34Mike!

00:12:36Mike!

00:12:37Mike!

00:12:53Ah!

00:12:53Well, I didn't expect Chief Inspector Wexford to welcome me with open arms.

00:13:21Yes.

00:13:21Well, hopefully I can persuade him otherwise.

00:13:27Yes.

00:13:30I was thinking exactly the same thing myself at breakfast.

00:13:32It must be 20 years since we spent the night apart.

00:13:37Well, no, I slept like a log, actually.

00:13:39Where would you like to start, Mr. Archer?

00:13:41Uh, Painter admitted that he was on bad...

00:13:45Bad terms with his employer, Mrs. Primero, because she refused to give him a rise.

00:13:53He testified that on the day before the murder, she sent him up to her bedroom to get the 200 pounds.

00:13:59It was a sort of one-off payment instead of a rise.

00:14:01I didn't believe it.

00:14:02Mrs. Primero wasn't the sort of a woman that would allow her gardener to go rummaging about in her bedroom.

00:14:08If she hadn't got the money on her, she would have got a maid to get it for her.

00:14:11Well, reading between the lines, Mrs. Primero was a rather mean old woman.

00:14:15Perhaps she didn't want her maid to know her gardener was being given a bonus.

00:14:19There's no way that he could have got upstairs without the maid hearing him.

00:14:22Why not?

00:14:23Because he would have had to clump right past the kitchen where she was working.

00:14:28Then there's the question of the blood.

00:14:30The Painter's defence was that he was covered in blood because he'd cut himself chopping wood.

00:14:35Now, he was the same blood type as Mrs. Primero, so that doesn't link him with the crime.

00:14:39Well, methods were not quite as advanced as they are now.

00:14:43But the link for me was the amount of blood.

00:14:45There was just too much blood to come from a cut on the hand.

00:14:49And also there was his raincoat, which was stained with blood and hidden under some bushes.

00:14:53A raincoat that he kept at the old woman's house.

00:14:56A coat that could have been worn by anyone and then later hid.

00:14:59Mr. Archie...

00:15:00Which leads on to his repeated assertion that he saw a tramp in the grounds earlier that day.

00:15:05Well, he was clutching at straws, wasn't he?

00:15:09If Painter...

00:15:10Went up to the wardrobe and stole the money after murdering Mrs. Primero.

00:15:16Why wasn't there any blood on the inside of the wardrobe?

00:15:19Well, he wore gloves.

00:15:21We reckon that he stunned the old lady with the side of the axe.

00:15:25Went upstairs, got the money, and when he came back he finished her off in panic.

00:15:30Doesn't that strike you as rather odd?

00:15:34I mean, surely he must have realised he'd have been a suspect.

00:15:37He wouldn't have been that transparent.

00:15:38Oh, he's stupid.

00:15:40Some of them are.

00:15:42Plain stupid.

00:15:43Was he?

00:15:44Or is that your assumption of a man you really knew nothing about?

00:15:52The Painter had a daughter.

00:15:53Yes, I did, but she was a little girl, about five at the time.

00:15:56Tess.

00:15:57My only son, Charles, wants to marry her.

00:16:00He's at Oxford, taking his masters in modern grades.

00:16:03And you're worried about him marrying beneath him?

00:16:06On the contrary, Chief Inspector.

00:16:07The daughter of that stupid man, Painter, is my son's tutor.

00:16:12She's a fellow of Balliol.

00:16:15Are you sure she's Herbert Painter's daughter?

00:16:18Absolutely positive.

00:16:20She's a beautiful, intelligent, charming woman.

00:16:22When she told me about her background, she broke down and cried.

00:16:26A woman of her strength and maturity.

00:16:29You see, she knows her father was innocent.

00:16:33I married Irene a couple of years after it all happened, but I brought Tess up as if she were my own.

00:16:39She's climbed higher than even I expected.

00:16:41You've done a wonderful job.

00:16:43You really have.

00:16:45Mr. Archery, I know you haven't come down here for a cosy in-laws get-together.

00:16:52But I can't tell you anything that isn't public knowledge.

00:16:56Well, Tess told me that her mother knew something.

00:16:59Something that would prove Painter was innocent.

00:17:01So I believe.

00:17:03I've never asked her.

00:17:05Well, why not?

00:17:08The problems you have about stigma and hereditary traits are all a nonsense to me.

00:17:14I believe in taking life as it comes.

00:17:17You see, I don't care whether Painter were guilty or not.

00:17:21But I do.

00:17:23And so does your stepdaughter.

00:17:25I happen to know she's in a great deal of pain, but doesn't know how to tackle her mother about it.

00:17:30You see, there's a shadow hanging over my son's marriage.

00:17:35And it just shouldn't be there.

00:17:39That was Tess just after she was made a fellow of Balio.

00:17:43Now, which cake would you like, Mr. Archery?

00:17:47This is most kind of you, Mrs. Kershaw.

00:17:49I'd really like to talk to you about...

00:17:51We'll start you off with a dundee and see how you go from there, shall we?

00:17:54Do sit down.

00:17:55Mrs. Kershaw.

00:18:00This is so difficult.

00:18:02And the last thing I want to do is to cause you any distress.

00:18:05But Tess told me that you knew something that could clear her father's name.

00:18:11I know it's something you've never felt able to tell her.

00:18:14And, of course, it's highly presumptuous of me to ask.

00:18:17But I really need to know.

00:18:20Sugar?

00:18:21Sugar?

00:18:22No, thank you.

00:18:27I never talk of her, Mr. Archery.

00:18:31I prefer to let the past be the past.

00:18:33This is so painful.

00:18:39I promise you, if we can discuss it once, I'll never bring the subject up again.

00:18:47I've been over to King's Markham.

00:18:49Oh, I suppose it's been built up and spoiled since I was there.

00:18:54Such a long time ago.

00:18:56Please.

00:18:58Tell me about Tess's father.

00:18:59He was no murderer.

00:19:05You'll have to take my word for it.

00:19:07He was a good, kind man who would never have harmed a fly.

00:19:11But how do you know?

00:19:14How can you know?

00:19:16Did you hear something?

00:19:17See something?

00:19:20Oh, no.

00:19:21Look what I've done.

00:19:25I'm very keen on a white wedding.

00:19:27Get your wife to back me up, would you?

00:19:29Mr. Archery, what's past is past.

00:19:41Elizabeth!

00:19:43Elizabeth!

00:19:45Elizabeth Thrilling!

00:19:47You were told not to play with a painter girl.

00:19:50What would happen if you disobeyed me?

00:19:53What would happen?

00:19:55Tell me!

00:19:56Tell me!

00:19:57Tell me!

00:19:59Run!

00:20:12Run to Grey Roots!

00:20:44No, you're not.

00:20:47We are to you.

00:21:01I'll get you a taxi home.

00:21:04You play.

00:21:05I'm not going to go around now.

00:22:06You look as if you need an ashtray.

00:22:13Perhaps we could swap.

00:22:14You don't seem to have a flower.

00:22:17No, darling, not ringing for any reason.

00:22:31What does there have to be a reason?

00:22:35Tell me some parish gossip.

00:22:38Well, something must have happened.

00:22:40Well, tell Charles you'll have to wait.

00:22:46Look, I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:48I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:49I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:50I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:52I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:53I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:54I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:55I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:56I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:57I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:58I'm doing everything I can.

00:22:59I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:00I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:01I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:02I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:03I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:04I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:05I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:06I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:07I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:08I'm doing everything I can.

00:23:09what did you expect mr archery concrete evidence that had been overlooked

00:23:27and only by the only his wife could prove

00:23:29nevertheless i would still like to talk to the other people involved

00:23:34alice the maid the woman whose daughter found the body and mr primero's grandchildren

00:23:40i believe they all inherited a substantial amount of money because i can't stop you

00:23:46but i don't have to tell you to be very careful before you make a lot of unfounded accusations

00:23:51chief inspector i don't want to find someone else guilty i simply want to prove painter innocent

00:23:57i'm afraid you'll find the former consequent upon the latter

00:24:01it's not to interrupt you sir there's been a very serious accident on high street

00:24:06oh my god what's that got to do with me it's not you they won't sir

00:24:08almighty god with whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect after they are delivered

00:24:18from this their earthly prison we humbly commend the soul of this thy servant our dear brother

00:24:24into thy hands as into the hands of a faithful creator and most merciful savior

00:24:32humbly beseeching me that it may be precious in my sight

00:24:37i'm sorry sir but he was calling for a priest

00:24:56wrong denomination i know but i knew that you were nearby thank you

00:25:00i've seen death before of course but in the young it's always more tragic yes it's a harsh thing

00:25:09to witness i still remember my first time soon after i came back here young man about the same

00:25:17age as this one not so quiet he was screaming about a girl and a child he wanted a clergyman too

00:25:26well i hope he got one no no he didn't you died unsriven i think the word is never forget his name

00:25:33grace john grace

00:25:38god moves in a mysterious way he wonders to perform yes yes he does all right take it to the station

00:25:48you said you wanted to question mrs krilling whose daughter found the body

00:25:51if that's possible yes well that's the daughter in the back of the car there

00:25:57i'm about to charge her with manslaughter

00:26:07i want to wait

00:26:22krilling elizabeth krilling where is she what have you done with her my baby my daughter

00:26:27oh my baby she's just so

00:26:38for god's sake didn't she try to kiss you once when you were taking her to the funny farm at stoward

00:26:44yeah she insisted we were going on our honeymoon

00:26:50actually it's something i'd rather forget

00:26:57mrs krilling what was your relationship with the murdered woman mrs premier we were very good friends

00:27:06very good friends indeed

00:27:10we only lived across the way she looked on my daughter as one of her own

00:27:16we used to call her granny rose

00:27:20would you tell the court what happened on that sunday night

00:27:23yes i had been making my daughter a party frock we were going to show it off to granny rose

00:27:33her maid was at church and i just popped over to see if it was a good time to call

00:27:39i looked in through the window and i saw that she was asleep

00:27:44what time was this at about 25 past six

00:27:49when you looked in did you notice anything yes

00:27:56i noticed that the coal scuttle was empty which meant that painter

00:28:03had hadn't been in to fill it up

00:28:12then i went back at about

00:28:16seven with my daughter

00:28:17the back door was unlocked

00:28:23elizabeth ran ahead and

00:28:27she found the body

00:28:28thank you

00:28:33mrs krilling

00:28:37no questions my lord

00:28:40with the evidence against you and the seriousness of the offense

00:28:45i have no alternative but to commit you for trial at the crown court

00:28:50what are you going to do to her you can't send her to prison she can't go to prison

00:28:55that woman please no i won't let her be shut away i won't let her be shut away you've got

00:29:01a kind face help me please you could always apply to bail bail bail i demand bail this is a

00:29:07very dear old friend of mine he says i can have bail i want my rights for my baby i won't let

00:29:12you shut her away you stupid little cow do i understand you wish to ask for bail

00:29:21very well

00:29:27oh my dear

00:29:30to my dear friend from mrs krilling

00:29:33let my voice or tear it up she's a nutter

00:29:38she wants me to visit her at home she wants to thank me personally

00:29:41get that a mess of having you sir

00:29:58what do you want i saw your mother in court this morning she asked me to come and see her

00:30:05that was this morning well go on in then but i'd taken a rolled up newspaper if i was you

00:30:11oh

00:30:19mrs krilling

00:30:27mrs krilling

00:30:35mrs krilling

00:30:36you hadn't forgotten i was coming who are you we met this morning in court you sent me a note

00:30:49oh

00:30:57my cabbage

00:30:59that you might have no no on the mantelpiece

00:31:04and then you can

00:31:06get out i'm sorry if i've done anything to distress you where is my baby she went out we met as i came in

00:31:12water

00:31:29i know who you are

00:31:30you want to take my baby away i saw you with them i saw you coming out of the court with them

00:31:35no mrs krilling you're confused

00:31:38i'm the one who helped you i can't let them get her in there in prison

00:31:42they'll find it out in there find out what they'll find it all out

00:31:46but i'll kill her first do you hear me i'll kill her first

00:32:03you're right sir oh hello inspector burden isn't it yes that's right

00:32:23i just come from mrs krillings she is a very strange woman she didn't know me at first

00:32:29then she seemed to be in great pain and she forgot about it

00:32:34then there was this incredible outburst i should have taken your advice

00:32:40it's mostly in the mind with her sir next time you see her she'll probably be as nice as pie

00:32:45she's up one minute and down the next she

00:32:51here's a cup of tea

00:32:52thank you as far as i know the father died young up till then the krillings were a perfectly

00:33:02respectable middle-class family then there was the murder and the daughter grew up difficult

00:33:09she was in and out of schools to juvenile court when she was about 14

00:33:14and she's been on the edge of trouble ever since really

00:33:15i wonder how much finding the old woman's body might have affected her that's hard to say

00:33:24certainly would have helped if the mother had been more stable

00:33:27she's been in and out of mental hospitals more than a few times

00:33:29the daughter had to be taken into care when that happened

00:33:34i don't suppose i should be telling you this but um

00:33:38mrs krilling was very concerned that if her daughter her baby as she kept calling her was sent

00:33:43to prison i suppose it would be prison yes it might well be she was very concerned that she might

00:33:50blurt out some terrible secret

00:33:56i wonder if it's anything to do with the primero murder

00:33:59so much revolves around that raincoat and who wore it

00:34:02i don't see why mrs krilling couldn't have worn it and then hidden it afterwards you say she's always

00:34:07been unbalanced she had just as much opportunity as painter what would her motive have been

00:34:16mad people's motives are often very difficult for the same to understand

00:34:20yeah but she dotes on her daughter in her own funny way she wouldn't have taken a child with her

00:34:26at the trial mrs krilling said she first went to the house at 6 25

00:34:29but with only her word for it supposing she went to the house at 27 after painter had left

00:34:38there would have been time for her to commit the murder then she would have taken the child there

00:34:43afterwards because no one would ever believe that a mother would take her own daughter to find a body

00:34:50she knew she knew was already there

00:34:55it's a terrible thought isn't it you've missed your vocation sir you should have joined the force

00:35:01you'd be a superintendent by now

00:35:12excuse me

00:35:30so

00:35:38It's all right, Nobby.

00:35:58We're not doing a run or I'm just taking these two good folks to the station.

00:36:01Have my bill ready for me when I get back and see my wife get some more coffee, William.

00:36:04Certainly, sir.

00:36:05Thanks.

00:36:08Thank you, sir.

00:36:37We're now moving the table to the dancing.

00:36:41Thank you very much.

00:36:42I thought you might need an astray.

00:36:55It's a great night.

00:36:57Would you...

00:36:58Would you like to join us?

00:37:03Are you staying here long?

00:37:08Just for a few days.

00:37:12I only asked because we come here quite often.

00:37:16And I hadn't seen you here before today.

00:37:17I didn't know tonight was dance night.

00:37:25They have them once a month.

00:37:27We always come.

00:37:28It's me.

00:37:30I love to dance.

00:37:31Would you like to dance now?

00:37:45Would you like to dance now?

00:37:58What is it?

00:38:01I just keep feeling I've seen you somewhere before.

00:38:04No, I don't think so.

00:38:06I would remember.

00:38:07Unless you...

00:38:09Unless you...

00:38:10You don't read women's magazines.

00:38:12No.

00:38:13I read the Times.

00:38:15Well, I was in the Times once.

00:38:17Really?

00:38:18There was a High Court case, and someone mentioned my name.

00:38:23And the judge said,

00:38:25Who is Imogen Eyed?

00:38:29And who is Imogen Eyed?

00:38:32I was a model.

00:38:34Quite successful.

00:38:36The most photographed face in Britain of that year.

00:38:48The most photographed face in Britain of that year.

00:39:18What is that man with Imogen Eyed?

00:39:25That is the Reverend Henry Archie.

00:39:28Oh, it's at all the way you described him to me.

00:39:32You didn't tell me he was good looking.

00:39:35Well, it didn't look good.

00:39:38Come on, have a coffee.

00:39:41Hey, my husband, darling.

00:39:42Would you like to join us for the evening?

00:39:44You've nothing better to do.

00:39:45No, no, thank you.

00:39:47Can I get you a drink?

00:39:49I must make a phone call if you'll excuse me.

00:39:53Good night.

00:39:54Good night.

00:39:55All right.

00:39:55The Beast.

00:40:22The Beast.

00:40:23Not a very flattering angle.

00:40:28His widow, described him to archery, is a kind, gentle man who wouldn't harm a fly.

00:40:35Where did all this come from?

00:40:38Chronicle Archives.

00:40:41Mike, do you think Miss Vick is on to something?

00:40:44No, I don't.

00:40:47Then why the fascination?

00:40:50I don't know.

00:40:52Curiosity, really.

00:40:53History of the cakes.

00:40:54History of the man I work with.

00:40:56Hmm.

00:40:57Does Richie know you've got these?

00:41:00No, he doesn't.

00:41:04It's quite interesting, really.

00:41:05Before the trial, the Krillings were a respectable middle-class family, and you'd have expected

00:41:12their daughter, Elizabeth, to have made something of her life.

00:41:15Whereas the painters were poor, working class, and the daughter had to grow up with the stigma

00:41:20of having a murderer as a father.

00:41:22Well, she's the one who's achieved everything.

00:41:25It's called social mobility.

00:41:27There's so little of it in this country.

00:41:29Sticks out a mile.

00:41:30That's what it's called, is it?

00:41:31Would you have been so curious if Payne had just been sent to prison instead of being

00:41:37hung?

00:41:40No, I don't suppose I would be.

00:41:42But then, he would have been released years ago, free to hack down a string of old ladies.

00:41:46For heaven's sake.

00:42:01Terrence!

00:42:04I'm sorry to surprise you like this.

00:42:06Oh, come in.

00:42:07Come in.

00:42:14Mum told me where you were staying.

00:42:18Charles doesn't know I'm here.

00:42:24I just didn't want you to hear over the phone.

00:42:29I've called the wedding off.

00:42:31When I get married, I want it to be a celebration.

00:42:39I don't see how that can happen if my background is on trial.

00:42:42Look, Tess, I'm sorry.

00:42:43It's all right.

00:42:47I grew up an outcast.

00:42:51Because of what my father is supposed to have done.

00:42:54I understand your reasons.

00:42:57Your love for Charles.

00:42:59Even the kindness in trying to clear my name.

00:43:04Look, I haven't come up with anything concrete as yet.

00:43:07I just don't think it's as open and shut as they say.

00:43:10My mother has told me that despite what everyone thinks and says, that my father was a gentle, kind, loving man.

00:43:25Now, that's good enough for me.

00:43:28I have to believe it.

00:43:31I understand if it's not good enough for you.

00:43:36Have you spoken to Charles about this?

00:43:38I've talked to Charles about the wedding.

00:43:42He won't accept it.

00:43:45But then, that's Charles.

00:43:47Bill O's and replies,

00:43:55Chris.

00:43:57And now.

00:43:58We have to believe it.

00:44:01He won't accept it.

00:44:03Beрон, have to believe it.

00:44:04We've spoken to Charles.

00:44:04You've taken part of the wedding.

00:44:06You've spoken to Charles.

00:44:07Spanish, 5 am.

00:44:08Yeah, that's true.

00:44:10I can't believe it.

00:44:11But then, I have to believe it.

00:44:12You can't believe it.

00:44:13We've spoken to Charles with a cha where you sold my father.

00:44:13I'm listening to Charles.

00:44:14You'll listen to the laden.

00:44:16You'll listen to Charles.

00:44:16Yes.

00:44:42I've come to sign on.

00:44:44Sorry, madam?

00:44:44Well, it's a condition of madam's bail.

00:44:48Oh, yes, yes.

00:44:52Krilling, isn't it?

00:45:11Thank you, miss.

00:45:13See you again tomorrow.

00:45:45Look, um, I suppose there isn't anything in it.

00:45:50In what?

00:45:52That Liz Crillie has some deep secret that her mother doesn't want let out under third degree?

00:45:56There's just something about them.

00:45:58They make me feel uneasy.

00:46:00They're no different to our other customers.

00:46:02You look closely enough, everybody's got something that they want to hide.

00:46:05But perhaps this has got something to do with a printer case.

00:46:09Now that's enough, Mike!

00:46:12I'm not going to have any more of this.

00:46:15What are you trying to imply?

00:46:17That I made a mistake 30 years ago?

00:46:19No, of course not.

00:46:20You know I didn't mean that.

00:46:21I don't know.

00:46:22I don't know anything.

00:46:24All I know is that the printer case was an open and shut affair.

00:46:29Nobody's got a hope in hell of showing he didn't do it.

00:46:31Why don't you get your friend Archery to prise it out of the daughter?

00:46:41He's a fast worker, that one.

00:46:45Is he?

00:46:46What makes you say that?

00:46:48Never mind.

00:46:49Well, I've got work to do, even if you haven't.

00:47:01She can't move her hands, but her hearing's perfectly good.

00:47:05She can talk the fun leg up, I don't think.

00:47:08Oh, and she makes a good gossip.

00:47:09You're like a good gossip, don't you, Alice?

00:47:21Visitor for you.

00:47:22The Reverend Archery.

00:47:24Hello, Alice.

00:47:26Would it upset you to talk to me about Mrs. Primero?

00:47:29Of course it wouldn't.

00:47:29She loves it.

00:47:30This is rather a private matter, if you wouldn't mind.

00:47:33Private?

00:47:34It's a whole Ward's bedtime story.

00:47:37Nothing cheers him up like a good murder.

00:47:39Nevertheless, if you wouldn't mind.

00:47:48What exactly did you want to know, sir?

00:47:52I realise it's a long time ago, but...

00:47:54Anything you feel you can tell me about Mrs. Primero, her grandchildren,

00:47:58Mrs. Crilling...

00:48:00and, of course, Painter.

00:48:03I was scared of him.

00:48:05But I never let him know it.

00:48:08It was me that nicknamed him the Beast.

00:48:15Okay, Inspector.

00:48:17I'm sorry, Mr. Archery.

00:48:19You'll have to wait.

00:48:20I'm on a call.

00:48:21I won't detain you.

00:48:22I want to let you know I've just had a very interesting conversation with the maid,

00:48:26Alice Flower.

00:48:28Mr. Archery,

00:48:29I don't know how to put this politely, so I shan't bother.

00:48:31But I'm fed up to the back teeth with your ridiculous inquiries.

00:48:35I'm sorry about that, but you'll have to listen to me now.

00:48:39Alice Flower has given me information that may well prove

00:48:42Herbert Painter

00:48:43was innocent.

00:48:51Mr. Painter,

00:48:52do you recognise this axe?

00:48:55Yes.

00:48:56Please, tell the court where you have seen it before.

00:49:01In the place where I used to work.

00:49:03I used it for chopping up wood.

00:49:06Yes.

00:49:06Did you also use it to attack

00:49:08Mrs. Primero on that Sunday evening?

00:49:11No.

00:49:11Let us go back to the day before the murder.

00:49:21Now, you

00:49:21admitted to the court

00:49:23that you had an argument with Mrs. Primero

00:49:25about your wages.

00:49:27You threatened to leave

00:49:28unless she gave you a rise.

00:49:30You then told the court

00:49:31that she instructed you

00:49:32to get 200 pounds

00:49:34from her bedroom,

00:49:35but not to tell the maid,

00:49:37because she would want a raise as well.

00:49:39That's right.

00:49:40That's exactly what happened.

00:49:44Would you tell the court

00:49:45what you were wearing

00:49:46on your feet at the time?

00:49:49Carpet slippers, perhaps.

00:49:51No.

00:49:52Shoes.

00:49:53In fact, your shoes

00:49:53were rather large,

00:49:55heavy workman's boots,

00:49:56were they not?

00:49:56Yes.

00:49:57And to get to Mrs. Primero's bedroom,

00:49:59you would have had to walk past the kitchen,

00:50:01go up the stairs next to the kitchen,

00:50:03and then walk along a bare wooden corridor

00:50:05directly above the kitchen.

00:50:07Yes.

00:50:07But the maid, Alice Flower,

00:50:08who was in the kitchen at the time,

00:50:11and whom we have established

00:50:12as having had excellent hearing,

00:50:14didn't hear your great workman's boots

00:50:17clumping along up and over her.

00:50:20Well, she should have heard me,

00:50:22because that's exactly what happened.

00:50:23All she heard, Mr. Painter,

00:50:25was you and Mrs. Primero arguing.

00:50:27You're arguing.

00:50:29Your story is a tissue of lies,

00:50:32isn't it?

00:50:33No!

00:50:34It done well isn't!

00:50:39No, sir.

00:50:41It isn't.

00:50:42No, darling, I don't think it's a good idea

00:50:53for Charles to come over,

00:50:54because I'm getting on very well on my own,

00:50:55and the last thing I need right now

00:50:56is for Charles to come steaming in at full speed.

00:51:01I've spoken to the police.

00:51:03We'll just have to be patient.

00:51:05There's nothing more we can do.

00:51:07Look, I know.

00:51:10Look, if I can prove Tess's father was innocent,

00:51:14the wedding will be on again.

00:51:16Look, I really feel I'm getting somewhere.

00:51:18The maid's story is the first real breakthrough.

00:51:22Alice Flower.

00:51:25Well, tell Charles he'll just have to be patient.

00:51:29Do you think he's uncovered something?

00:51:32I doubt it.

00:51:34Since I've said I'll give him every assistance,

00:51:36I'll go and see the maid.

00:51:38You don't have any nagging doubts about it, do you?

00:51:42About pain to be in hand?

00:51:44No.

00:51:44You know my views about that.

00:51:46And that's for his guilt,

00:51:47I've got no doubt whatever.

00:51:49This damned, turbulent priest

00:51:51stirring up the past

00:51:53makes you relive it whether you want to or not.

00:51:56Not a number, please.

00:52:13The Ministry of Defence.

00:52:14Good morning.

00:52:33Good morning.

00:52:37Lovely flowers.

00:52:39Yes.

00:52:40Would you mind opening the car door for me, please?

00:52:42Of course.

00:52:45I'm taking them down to Forby Cemetery.

00:52:48My husband's family has a vault down there.

00:52:51Very few.

00:52:54There's a lovely church there.

00:52:56Have you seen much of the countryside around here yet?

00:52:59Very little, I'm afraid.

00:53:01I'm fascinated by fonts and florestries.

00:53:04It's my thing.

00:53:05I don't suppose I'd interest you at all.

00:53:09Quite the contrary, actually.

00:53:11I'll take a ride there this afternoon,

00:53:13if you think it's worth seeing.

00:53:14I'm going right now.

00:53:15Why don't I give you a lift?

00:53:17Well, thank you.

00:53:19I'd like that.

00:53:20You took the job,

00:53:29knowing that one of your duties was cold-fetched.

00:53:32Not at all bloody hours of the day and night.

00:53:34That's got to be worth extra.

00:53:35You're paid more than enough.

00:53:36I've got a wife and child.

00:53:38Who are well-taken peril.

00:53:40It's money that feeds them.

00:53:41I don't see why this vicar's making such a fuss

00:54:04about a broken dish and a spoiled bit of lamb.

00:54:07I know, Miss Flora,

00:54:08but we didn't discuss it at the time.

00:54:10And it is such a long time ago.

00:54:12Oh, there's nothing wrong with my memory, sir.

00:54:15I can see it as real as I can tell it.

00:54:19Do you suppose it would have been possible

00:54:20for Painter to go upstairs

00:54:22and into Mrs. Primero's bedroom

00:54:23while you were dealing with the mess,

00:54:26without you hearing him?

00:54:27Adam would never have let him go near her bedroom, sir.

00:54:31An animal like that.

00:54:34Anyway, she told me everything.

00:54:36She'd never give money to him or not to me.

00:54:40Never.

00:54:40Calm yourself.

00:54:41Why, oh, look first, sir.

00:54:43I told the vicar.

00:54:45We all know he murdered her.

00:54:47Who else would want to harm madam?

00:54:51Nurse!

00:54:52Nurse!

00:54:53He was as guilty as sin.

00:54:56Guilty!

00:54:57Steve!

00:54:58Steve!

00:54:59Steve!

00:55:00Steve!

00:55:01Steve!

00:55:02Steve!

00:55:03Steve!

00:55:04Steve!

00:55:05Steve!

00:55:06Steve!

00:55:07Steve!

00:55:08Steve!

00:55:09Steve!

00:55:10Steve!

00:55:11Steve!

00:55:12Steve!

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00:55:15Steve!

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00:55:17Steve!

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00:55:21Steve!

00:55:22Steve!

00:55:23Steve!

00:55:24Steve!

00:55:25Steve!

00:55:26THE END

00:55:56I don't remember inviting you in

00:56:00Do you mind putting something on?

00:56:15Here

00:56:16Where's your mother?

00:56:22I've no idea

00:56:23Gone out

00:56:25I'm not her keeper

00:56:26I'm I'm my mother's keeper

00:56:29That's good, don't you think?

00:56:33Which reminds me

00:56:34What's that clergyman doing here?

00:56:41A keeper, a job?

00:56:44I phoned my firm yesterday

00:56:46When I got back from that bloody court

00:56:47And they gave me the push

00:56:48Got you lot to thank for that

00:56:51What's on offer?

00:56:57What exactly are you here for?

00:57:00You lonely inspector

00:57:01Got a light?

00:57:05No, I haven't

00:57:06I haven't

00:57:12Got a light

00:57:13I haven't

00:57:13No, I haven't

00:57:14No, I haven't

00:57:16No, no, no

00:57:16No, no

00:57:17No

00:57:17I haven't

00:57:20Light it for me, will you?

00:57:50I've been ill, have you?

00:58:20I've been ill, have you?

00:58:50You've no right turning things over, that's searching, and for searching you need a warrant.

00:58:59Yeah, you're right.

00:59:00You never answered me about the clergyman.

00:59:08He's here because he knows Painter's daughter.

00:59:14Painter that killed the old woman?

00:59:15But that was years ago.

00:59:19I used to go up to the coach house to play with her.

00:59:25My mother never knew.

00:59:27She said Tess wasn't my class.

00:59:30I could never understand that.

00:59:31I thought, how can she have a class if she doesn't go to school?

00:59:36Mother was always with the old woman.

00:59:38Yak, yak, yak.

00:59:40There was nothing to do.

00:59:42No one to play with except Tessie.

00:59:44Why are you looking at me like that?

00:59:55Stirring things up.

00:59:56You've got no right.

00:59:58No right.

00:59:59Get out.

01:00:01Get out!

01:00:02Just call me if there's anything you want to talk to me about.

01:00:11Anything at all.

01:00:12Just call me if there's anything you want to talk to me about.

01:00:42Come on.

01:01:06Run to Granny Rose.

01:01:12Oh my God.

01:01:26Don't, don't, don't, don't.

01:01:27Don't, don't.

01:01:55This way.

01:01:56Oh.

01:01:57You must never go Widdishans round a church.

01:02:00You're meant to be unlucky.

01:02:03Would you like to see the leper hole?

01:02:07This is where they used to kneel.

01:02:11What it must have been like.

01:02:13Sentenced to be an outcast.

01:02:15Unclean.

01:02:16To be allowed once a week to watch the rest of the villagers singing in a prayer together.

01:02:23It's appalling, isn't it?

01:02:34I'm going to put these on the grave now.

01:02:37So, why don't you have a little walk around?

01:02:40I won't be long.

01:02:43I won't be long.

01:02:44Let's go.

01:02:50I won't be long.

01:02:55I won't be long.

01:02:57Reflecting on your own mortality?

01:03:20No, a strange coincidence.

01:03:22Someone was telling me the other day about this young man's death.

01:03:25He was killed in a car accident.

01:03:27He was a poet, apparently.

01:03:30Go, shepherd, to your rest.

01:03:32Your tale is told.

01:03:35The Lamb of God takes shepherds to his fold.

01:03:48Well, I... I must be getting back.

01:03:52I promised to find my son.

01:03:55I'll drive you back.

01:03:57Why don't you eat this? It's lovely.

01:04:09It's really.

01:04:10Come on.

01:04:11Try it.

01:04:12Come on, go ahead.

01:04:13Can we do anything?

01:04:18Oh.

01:04:19Oh, God.

01:04:20Oh, hello.

01:04:26Sorry, I didn't notice the time.

01:04:28Oh, no hurry.

01:04:29It's always nice to see a new man at work.

01:04:31I've just brought back some dry cleaning.

01:04:33There should be another one in the other room.

01:04:35So, was Alice Flower coherent?

01:04:40Very.

01:04:42She has total recall.

01:04:44I believe that's the expression.

01:04:46She, uh, began with a lengthy character assassination of Mrs. Crilling.

01:04:51According to Alice, Mrs. Crilling was never a real friend.

01:04:53She just wanted to worm her daughter into the old lady's affection so that she'd be remembered in her will.

01:04:58Well, but the old lady didn't make a will.

01:05:01No.

01:05:02She couldn't stand lawyers.

01:05:05So everything automatically went to her natural heirs.

01:05:09The grandchildren.

01:05:10Roger Premier owned his two little sisters.

01:05:12Then she spent an hour telling me what a wonderful grandson Roger was and how he dutifully visited her every Sunday afternoon.

01:05:20And, um, was Archery right about the smashed dish in the kitchen?

01:05:27She smashed a dish and dropped a roasting hot leg of lamb on the floor.

01:05:32So possibly, uh, Painter could have gone upstairs without her hearing.

01:05:36But if you're the solid case against him, I don't see that the jury's verdict would have been swayed by knowing about it.

01:05:46I think you ought to know.

01:05:48I went to see Elizabeth Crilling.

01:05:51Did you know?

01:05:52Yes.

01:05:54Now, it's only a gut feeling, but I really do think that she is hiding something.

01:06:00Something important.

01:06:01I would have thought that with your views on hanging, you'd be the last person that would want to prove me wrong.

01:06:08Reg, I am not trying to prove you wrong.

01:06:17Hello?

01:06:20Yes, sir.

01:06:21Here's just a moment.

01:06:24Yes?

01:06:25Yes, it is.

01:06:28I see.

01:06:30No.

01:06:31Not at all.

01:06:33Thank you for calling.

01:06:37That was a message from the hospital.

01:06:39Alice Flower died early this morning.

01:06:42She became ill when I was interrogating her.

01:06:45She was nearly 19.

01:06:46Could have been brought on by anything.

01:06:49It was a painful experience for her.

01:06:51As I expect it was for Elizabeth Crilling.

01:06:55Bye, Jenny.

01:06:56Bye.

01:06:57Dad, I am here because you don't seem to have got very far.

01:07:01I love Tess, and I want to marry her.

01:07:04If you hadn't been against her background, none of it would have happened.

01:07:06Charles, that is neither fair nor accurate.

01:07:08You both wanted to paint his name clear.

01:07:10Well, of course we did.

01:07:11This thing has plagued her all her life.

01:07:14But the difference between you and me is that, in the end, I don't give a damn.

01:07:17Whether her father ran amok and butchered an entire old people's home.

01:07:22You keep your voice down.

01:07:24I think you've been relying on police cooperation far too much.

01:07:28This character, Wexford, is never willingly going to investigate himself.

01:07:31Charles, you haven't even met the man.

01:07:34All right.

01:07:35Give him the benefit of the doubt.

01:07:36He didn't pervert the course of justice.

01:07:37He simply made an old-fashioned mistake.

01:07:40But you can't honestly expect him to put up his hand now and wave goodbye to career and pension.

01:07:44We've got to start boxing clever.

01:07:49Come on.

01:07:50Let's go.

01:07:52But Charles, I told you, Alice the maid talked at great length about how Roger Primero was the model grandson.

01:07:57But a few months before she died, he did ask the old lady for £10,000 so he could set himself up in business.

01:08:03Yes.

01:08:03As that was all the money the old lady had, she refused.

01:08:05The matter was closed.

01:08:07He never asked again.

01:08:08When she died, he was perfectly content with his third share, a sum far short of what he needed.

01:08:13Everything else I have to say suggests a kind, loving, and attentive relative.

01:08:16Exactly.

01:08:18What do you mean, exactly?

01:08:19Well, Roger Primero sounds too good to be true, so he's the one I'm going after.

01:08:22Well, you're going about it in a very dishonest way.

01:08:27What's the matter?

01:08:30This is where it happened.

01:08:32Where the young man was killed.

01:08:34The one I attended.

01:08:37It was about your age.

01:08:38Where are you going?

01:09:01Don't you remember?

01:09:02I told you.

01:09:03I had to exercise the pack this afternoon.

01:09:06Oh, yeah.

01:09:06I've got it.

01:09:15You all right, darling?

01:09:17Yes, I'm good.

01:09:18Is she a bit pissed?

01:09:20Oh.

01:09:21You just don't get excited about hunting like you do.

01:09:24No.

01:09:25No.

01:09:26No.

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