Going Wrong By Ruth Rendell

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Going Wrong Guy and Leonora were childhood sweethearts, and belonged to the same criminal gang. But as the wealthy Leonora grew older, they grew apart, and Guy's innocent love turned into a dangerous, psychopathic obsession. When Leonora announces her engagement , Guy knows there must be some mistake - and he is determined to right it, at any cost. As he becomes the victim of his own murderous madness, nobody is safe. Guy .... Peter Wingfield Leonora .... Oona Beeson Danny .... Tom Bevan Tessa .... Tessa Worsley Anthony .... Derek Waring Robin .... Richard Pearce Rachel .... Becky Hindley Celeste .... Michelle Joseph Susannah .... Natasha Pyne Magnus .... David Collings Con .... Gavin Muir Linus .... Gavin Muir Poppy .... Kristin Milward William .... Andrew Branch Det Sgt Lamb .... Robert East Janice .... …Iona Grant Maeve .... Annabel Mullion Dramatised by Robert East Director Matthew Walters First broadcast in March 1995 on BBC Radio 4    Do you enjoy the variety on Oldtuberadio? Like, Share and Subscribe to be notified of our new shows #radio #crime #thriller #drama To Support this channel please visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/oldtuberadio https://ko-fi.com/oldtuberadio98 https://www.patreon.com/oldtuberadio https://locals.com/Oldtuberadio

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00:00:00Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell

00:00:17I never asked to fall in love with her, it just happened.

00:00:23Just like being born.

00:00:25I looked up one day and there she was.

00:00:27My heart was crashing through my body like a busted lift.

00:00:31Well, she was all right.

00:00:33Nothing special, scarcely more than a kid.

00:00:36But she crawled inside my head and she never crawled out.

00:00:39She lived behind my eyes.

00:00:42She was the star of my dream video.

00:00:45Never off the screen.

00:00:47I'd watch her running barefoot along the shore.

00:00:50Pushing a pram through a park.

00:00:53Old and grey.

00:00:54Going upstairs carrying two mugs of Odaleteen.

00:00:59She was in my heart and in my soul.

00:01:03Oh, I was a couple of years older than she was.

00:01:06But I didn't stand a bloody chance.

00:01:08Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell

00:01:18Dramatised by Robert East

00:01:20With Peter Wingfield and Una Beeson

00:01:23Come on, Linus.

00:01:33Don't hog the spliff.

00:01:35Yeah, what are you looking at, girl?

00:01:37Hey?

00:01:38You fancy a drag?

00:01:40Yeah, don't be shy.

00:01:42Make you feel good.

00:01:42No, don't give it to her.

00:01:43She'll make it all wet.

00:01:44No, she won't, will you?

00:01:46It's not good if it's all wet.

00:01:47Yeah, go on.

00:01:49Hold it by the pin.

00:01:50Take it down deep and then let it out slow.

00:01:54That's it.

00:01:57Hang on, let's have it.

00:01:59Got a name, girl?

00:02:02Leonora.

00:02:04Leonora?

00:02:05That's a nice name.

00:02:07Hey, we've got nice names too.

00:02:08I'm Guy.

00:02:09This is Linus.

00:02:11You don't say much.

00:02:13And the ugly one is Danny.

00:02:15Danilo.

00:02:15Danilo, sorry.

00:02:17We've been formal today.

00:02:19Welcome to the dream traffic.

00:02:23Here we are.

00:02:24Park your bum, Danny.

00:02:26Do you mind if I call you Leo?

00:02:28Leonora's a bit of a mouthful.

00:02:30No.

00:02:31Leo's nice.

00:02:32Where did the other two go?

00:02:34Business.

00:02:35Do you like brandy?

00:02:37I don't know.

00:02:38I've never tried it.

00:02:39Here you go.

00:02:39Have a swig of that.

00:02:40Well, someone might see.

00:02:41So?

00:02:43I'm only 15.

00:02:44It's illegal.

00:02:45Well, isn't it 15?

00:02:51It's like medicine.

00:02:53Yeah, that's why they give it to you when you've had an accident.

00:02:55My father likes brandy.

00:02:57I hope he has a lot of accidents.

00:02:58Oh, perhaps.

00:03:00My mother throws things at him sometimes.

00:03:03Well, isn't brandy expensive?

00:03:04Linus got it.

00:03:05Fell off the back of a line.

00:03:07He was lucky it didn't smash.

00:03:09Well, he's a brilliant fielder.

00:03:11Jamaican.

00:03:12It's in the blood.

00:03:13I don't like his tooth.

00:03:15What, he's gone, what?

00:03:16It looks horrible.

00:03:17Well, it's an investment.

00:03:19It says he's putting his money where his mouth is.

00:03:21Did his tooth fall off the back of a lorry as well?

00:03:24That American tourist paid for it.

00:03:26She was shopping in Knightsbridge,

00:03:27but Linus got to her purse before Arads did.

00:03:29Here, have some more medicine.

00:03:32My mother'd have a fit.

00:03:34She won't let me have a can of Coke in the street.

00:03:36She says it's not ladylike.

00:03:37All the more for me, then.

00:03:39Who said I was a lady?

00:03:41I think you're a lady.

00:03:44I think you're my lady.

00:03:48Oh, do you?

00:03:49I don't know where you got that idea from.

00:03:53Can't think.

00:03:58Oh, no!

00:03:59Oh, God, oh, no!

00:04:00Oh, you're spilling the brandy!

00:04:01Hide it, hide it.

00:04:02Don't let her see it.

00:04:03Who?

00:04:03My mother.

00:04:04She's in the car by the lights.

00:04:06What?

00:04:07The Merc?

00:04:08It's all right.

00:04:08She's coming.

00:04:09What a fabulous car.

00:04:12It's all right.

00:04:13I don't think she saw you.

00:04:13Of course she saw me.

00:04:14Oh, God, she'll crucify me.

00:04:16No, she won't.

00:04:18She'll say,

00:04:19why don't you bring that good-looking boy I saw you with home?

00:04:21I'd love to meet you.

00:04:22Oh, she won't.

00:04:23Beth, that's what Claire Rayner says in the women's magazines.

00:04:27Never forbid your children to see their friends, lovey.

00:04:30Get them to bring them home, then weigh up the opposition.

00:04:33Oh, what do you know about women's magazines?

00:04:36I'll nick them from newsagents.

00:04:37My mum's always out on the piss.

00:04:38I've got to get my parental guidance from somewhere.

00:04:41What about your father?

00:04:42Do me a favour.

00:04:44Can't even remember what he looks like.

00:04:46Guy, I'm going to have to go.

00:04:49Well, if your mother lets you out, I'm down here most days, ducking and diving.

00:04:54I expect you'll have picked up another girl by then.

00:04:57Better not leave it too long, then, had you?

00:05:02Are you sure mineral water's all you want?

00:05:04Mm-hmm.

00:05:05It's a belt, that stuff.

00:05:06No, it's nothing.

00:05:08Let's have a look at your name.

00:05:09God, your ears are all red.

00:05:11So how would yours be if you just had them pierced?

00:05:13My mum did hers herself.

00:05:15With her darning needles stuck in a cork.

00:05:17Oh, that's really brave.

00:05:19I couldn't do that.

00:05:20Brave?

00:05:20She was so pissed she was lucky she didn't burst her eardrums.

00:05:23No.

00:05:24I can't wait till I can wear some proper earrings.

00:05:26What's wrong with those?

00:05:27No, they're just studs till the holes heal.

00:05:29Oh, look.

00:05:31I bought these yesterday.

00:05:34Telephones, see?

00:05:35Aren't they wicked?

00:05:36With their little receivers dangling down, my mother'll go bananas.

00:05:41Come here.

00:05:42Let's see if they'd suit you.

00:05:44Get off.

00:05:44Eries are for girls.

00:05:46And pirates.

00:05:47You're a bit of a pirate.

00:05:49I'll wear these for you on Sunday.

00:05:51All right.

00:05:51Be good for a laugh.

00:05:53Where shall we go, then?

00:05:54Nowhere.

00:05:55You're coming to my house for lunch.

00:05:58Am I?

00:05:59Claire Rayner can't be a complete idiot.

00:06:02Mummy said she wanted to meet the rough-looking boy she saw me kissing in the street.

00:06:06Rough.

00:06:09Some smoked salmon, Guy?

00:06:11Yeah, thanks.

00:06:13You're very lucky, Guy.

00:06:15Such an attractive name, I always think.

00:06:17Oh?

00:06:18I've got a cousin called Guy.

00:06:20When I was Leonora's age, I thought I was madly in love with him.

00:06:23Of course, he's fat and bald now, like the rest of them.

00:06:26What do you mean?

00:06:27I'm not bald?

00:06:28No, darling.

00:06:29I suppose I should be grateful for small mercies.

00:06:32Knowing Leonora's usual taste,

00:06:34I'd rather geared myself up for you to be a Kevin or a Barry.

00:06:37Mummy.

00:06:38Well, darling, there was that ghastly Terry.

00:06:40My gran called me Guy after Guy Fawkes.

00:06:42He was a big hero of hers.

00:06:44It wasn't your mother's choice, then?

00:06:45I wasn't my mother's choice, full stop.

00:06:48It's a splendid pate, Tessa.

00:06:49What is it?

00:06:50Bore.

00:06:51What?

00:06:52It's wild boar pate.

00:06:54Oh.

00:06:55Do try some, Guy.

00:06:56You're not a vegetarian, are you?

00:06:58No.

00:06:58Quite a lot of Leonora's friends are, aren't they, darling?

00:07:02No, they're not.

00:07:03Only Claudia.

00:07:04What about Charlotte?

00:07:05I thought she was.

00:07:06Last time she was here, she didn't touch a thing.

00:07:08That's because she's anorexic, not vegetarian.

00:07:11Hello.

00:07:11I'm Robin.

00:07:12You must be Nora's unsuitable beau.

00:07:14Excuse my brother, Guy.

00:07:15He's having trouble growing up.

00:07:17Oh, he smokes salmon smashing.

00:07:19Robin should be at Charterhouse,

00:07:21but he's got to go to hospital for tests tomorrow.

00:07:23I keep having blackouts,

00:07:24so the quacks are going to give my brain a service.

00:07:25If they can find it.

00:07:27Stop it, Nora.

00:07:29You'll be sorry if it's serious.

00:07:30A load of hard work, if you ask me.

00:07:33I don't think you told us where Guy actually lives,

00:07:35did you, darling?

00:07:36Not at Lee House.

00:07:38It's a tower block by the flyover.

00:07:39Really?

00:07:40You must have quite a view from there.

00:07:42Yeah, if someone cleaned the windows,

00:07:44we probably would have.

00:07:46And you go to the same school as Leonora?

00:07:49I used to, yeah.

00:07:50You didn't stay on for your A-levels, then?

00:07:52No, I gave them a miss.

00:07:53Leonora's hoping to go on to university,

00:07:55aren't you, darling?

00:07:56Yes, and me.

00:07:57Bristol seems to be top of the list at the moment,

00:07:59but we're hoping if she works hard,

00:08:01she might try for Merton.

00:08:02My husband went to Merton.

00:08:04Oh, yeah?

00:08:05I was down there the other day.

00:08:06I didn't know they had a university, didn't they?

00:08:08I'm sorry?

00:08:10Merton.

00:08:10University of South London, is it?

00:08:13Oh, shut up.

00:08:14Merton College, Oxford.

00:08:15But not a patch on the university of life, eh?

00:08:19So, what do you do for the living, Guy?

00:08:22I'm a dealer.

00:08:22Oh, who isn't these days?

00:08:24What's your line?

00:08:25Commodities.

00:08:25I quite fancy the city.

00:08:27Some chaps I know are in Coopers and Libran.

00:08:28Coopers and Libran wouldn't touch you with a barge pole.

00:08:31Oh.

00:08:32Of course, it's rather a debased word now, isn't it?

00:08:35It would be a job description, don't you think, Guy?

00:08:37Oh, what?

00:08:41The word dealer.

00:08:42I mean, you only have to think of car dealers or scrap dealers,

00:08:45and the next word you think of is dishonest.

00:08:48And then, of course, there's the worst dealer of all, isn't there?

00:08:51The drug dealer.

00:08:53I think those creatures who sell their fellow human beings a living death,

00:08:56well, I think hanging's too good for them.

00:08:58There's a difference between hard and soft drugs, though, isn't there?

00:09:01A drug is a drug.

00:09:02One thing leads to another.

00:09:04Nicotine's a drug.

00:09:04Alcohol's a drug.

00:09:05You and Daddy smoke and drink like fishes.

00:09:07Oh?

00:09:08If you had your way, you should both be hanged.

00:09:10It's not entirely fair, Nora.

00:09:12I don't think I smoke like a fish, you know.

00:09:15Why do you always have to be so trivial?

00:09:17I don't think pot's such a bad thing.

00:09:18Quite a lot of the chaps at school smoke, isn't there?

00:09:20Decent chaps.

00:09:21Aren't they?

00:09:21So I'm shelling out a small fortune for you to sit around stoned out of your head, am I?

00:09:25I expect you're the same, aren't you, Guy?

00:09:28Same as what?

00:09:28I expect you experiment with drugs, don't you?

00:09:31You and your friends.

00:09:32Oh, not me, Tessa.

00:09:33Tessa, I think all drug pushes should be hanged.

00:09:36I do.

00:09:38Actually, do you mind if you don't call me Tessa?

00:09:41I think I'd prefer to be Mrs. Chisholm.

00:09:44After all, it is very early days.

00:09:46Damn fine patasers.

00:09:48Very boring.

00:09:49What?

00:09:52More wine, Guy?

00:09:58Come on.

00:09:59Here you are.

00:10:00Oh, we can't.

00:10:01It's a cemetery.

00:10:02No, it's all right.

00:10:03No one's after us.

00:10:05We can settle on the tombs, get our breath back.

00:10:07Come on.

00:10:11Oh, God, look.

00:10:12There's a funeral.

00:10:14Don't worry.

00:10:15We can be mourners.

00:10:16You can't be a mourner in an Iron Maiden T-shirt.

00:10:20Anyway, we haven't got a wreath.

00:10:21No, we've got all this stuff, though.

00:10:23We could lay it down by the grave.

00:10:24Oh, you're mad.

00:10:26You know that, don't you?

00:10:27And you are a bloody sensational thief, Leo.

00:10:30This mourner I've nicked out of boots ever.

00:10:33One hair dryer, two electric razors,

00:10:36an electric toothbrush, and a set of Carmen rollers.

00:10:39Oh, God.

00:10:40Those mourners are looking at us.

00:10:42Oh, come on.

00:10:43If we go down in the end, they won't see us.

00:10:44Aye.

00:10:52Oh, it's wonderful in here.

00:10:54I had no idea.

00:10:55It's good, isn't it?

00:10:57You can't smell London in here.

00:10:59Oh, these flowers.

00:11:00It's like a big wild garden.

00:11:02Oh, I'm glad it's not all mown and neat.

00:11:05If I was dead,

00:11:06I wouldn't want to be mown and tidied all the time.

00:11:09Bad enough when you're alive.

00:11:10You know, if you wanted to hide a body somewhere,

00:11:12this would be the perfect place.

00:11:14The body?

00:11:15Yeah, in here.

00:11:16No one would know.

00:11:17Why would you want to hide a body?

00:11:19Well, no, I'm just saying.

00:11:21You're right.

00:11:22London can't get in here.

00:11:25How appropriate.

00:11:26I should be wearing black today.

00:11:28She said as she lay back across the marble tombstone.

00:11:32It's not marble.

00:11:33It's just cement.

00:11:35Ask me why I always wear black.

00:11:36You don't always wear black.

00:11:38Ask me why I always wear black.

00:11:41Is this a joke?

00:11:42Oh, come on.

00:11:43All right.

00:11:43Why do you always wear black?

00:11:45Because I'm in mourning for my life.

00:11:49It's from a play I'm reading.

00:11:50Theatre Studies A-Level.

00:11:52Oh, yeah?

00:11:52What?

00:11:53Unhappy.

00:11:54Oh, Guy.

00:11:55You're funny.

00:11:57I wear black because everyone else wears black.

00:12:00And it annoys the hell out of my mother.

00:12:03If you must know, you make me very happy.

00:12:09And you mean?

00:12:10I am you, Guy.

00:12:12What?

00:12:13Cathy was Heathcliff.

00:12:16And I am Guy.

00:12:18You're always...

00:12:19You're always in my mind.

00:12:22I love you, Guy.

00:12:27You can take my black dress off, if you like.

00:12:31No one can see.

00:12:35I won't hurt you, Liam.

00:12:36I promise.

00:12:37Oh, dear.

00:12:56Oh, dear.

00:12:57You forgot.

00:12:58I'm forgetting your own name next.

00:13:00Luckily, I popped in, innit?

00:13:01You see, Danny won't do what he's told unless I wave a wad of notes at him.

00:13:10Don't go kicking Mr Patel in the balls, Danny.

00:13:12How's he going to put it to Mrs Patel?

00:13:14As a pocky skin, by the way.

00:13:16I'll take a cheese grater too if I were you, smooth her up a bit.

00:13:21Now, I'll take you out the till this time.

00:13:23But next time, you have one of your nice brown paper bags ready, OK?

00:13:29And we won't have to have all this nonsense.

00:13:31I'll drop by when you're on your feet again.

00:13:35Give more regards to Mrs Patel, won't you?

00:13:37And all the little Patels.

00:13:44Where's the famous dream traffic these days?

00:13:46I never see the other two.

00:13:48I don't know.

00:13:49Linus just dropped out of the scene.

00:13:52Wherever he is, he'd be rolling a joint.

00:13:54And Danilo?

00:13:55Danny wants to clear 100 grand by the time he's 25.

00:13:58You're not a proper man if you can't make yourself rich.

00:14:00Rubbish.

00:14:01No, that's because you've got money.

00:14:03I haven't got any money.

00:14:04Yes, but Daddy has.

00:14:06He ain't never gone short.

00:14:08So where's Danny gone to make all this money then?

00:14:11I don't know.

00:14:13He ain't been in touch for a bit.

00:14:15He's been caught, hasn't he?

00:14:16You were like brothers.

00:14:18The police have got him, haven't they?

00:14:19He's on remand.

00:14:20But he never did it.

00:14:21They fitted him up.

00:14:22Are they going to fit you up too?

00:14:24What?

00:14:24Well, you haven't got a job.

00:14:26And you've always got money.

00:14:27I sell carmen rollers down at Portobello Road.

00:14:30Mummy says this cemetery is where the drug addicts come.

00:14:32She'd know, of course.

00:14:33It was such a beautiful place last year.

00:14:39Look at it now.

00:14:40Even the flowers are dying.

00:14:41Well, never mind.

00:14:43I'll buy you some blooms on the way home.

00:14:44Cellophane, ribbons, a lot.

00:14:47Danny's wrong, Guy.

00:14:48Money's not the answer.

00:14:49It hasn't made my parents happy.

00:14:52They're going to split up, you know.

00:14:54Daddy's met another woman.

00:14:55Surprised we lost her this long with your mother.

00:14:57She's called Susanna.

00:14:59She's got to get a divorce too.

00:15:01It's all a terrible mess.

00:15:03I wasn't looking forward to university,

00:15:05but now I can't wait for it to start.

00:15:08And to get away from me.

00:15:09It's only Bristol.

00:15:12You can drive down in your girlfriend's car.

00:15:15See a bit of stuff on the side.

00:15:16Isn't that what most men do?

00:15:17I've told you, it's not like that.

00:15:20Carol's just doing me a favour.

00:15:21Yes, I'm sure she is.

00:15:22Yeah, I've got a room in her flat.

00:15:23She lets me use her car.

00:15:24It's a business arrangement.

00:15:25Oh, I don't mind.

00:15:27I'll be surrounded by hordes of dishy men

00:15:29with testosterone pouring from every orifice.

00:15:31Don't, Leo.

00:15:32Don't even joke about it.

00:15:34I was joking.

00:15:37Oh, don't look like an old dog, Guy.

00:15:41I'll live for weekends.

00:15:44That's if you still want to come down.

00:15:46I'll be there, don't you worry.

00:15:49And I'll ring you every day.

00:15:51Well, we needn't go as far as that.

00:15:53So, how's Trix then, Danny?

00:15:57Still importing that Chinese jade?

00:15:59It's doing well.

00:16:01Yeah, ladies like a bit of jade, don't they?

00:16:02Goes with their little black numbers.

00:16:05As a matter of fact, I was speaking to my fiery supplier

00:16:07only the other day.

00:16:09He's having some transport problems.

00:16:11Said I'd have a word with you.

00:16:13I don't know what of your contacts are going to.

00:16:14Oh, don't touch your stuff, Guy.

00:16:16No, no, no, your name wouldn't come into it.

00:16:18You're jade, someone else's name.

00:16:20And the odd consignment every now and then for me.

00:16:23That's right.

00:16:24One Class A consignment and I could go down for 14 years.

00:16:27I'll handle all the paperwork.

00:16:29You won't be involved.

00:16:30You just pick up your money.

00:16:31The tax man pisses in the room.

00:16:33I don't like it.

00:16:35You'll like it.

00:16:36You're only half a man if you're not rich, eh?

00:16:38And you're twice the man if you're twice as rich.

00:16:42That's Tanya these days, eh?

00:16:43Keeping well, is she?

00:16:44Oh, I'm in the pink.

00:16:46She's up the bloody duff again.

00:16:47Ah, there you are, you see?

00:16:49Expensive things, families.

00:16:52Look, it'd have to be cash.

00:16:55Bright paper bag, Danny, you know me.

00:16:58I wouldn't do it for anyone else, you know.

00:17:07Yes?

00:17:08Yeah, I'm lucky for Leonora Chisholm.

00:17:10I was told she lives here.

00:17:11I'm Guy Curran.

00:17:12Are you?

00:17:12So you're nine o'clock, Guy.

00:17:14Sorry?

00:17:15Because you always ring at nine o'clock.

00:17:16You're more reliable than the news.

00:17:18I just happened to be in Bristol for the day.

00:17:20Only she didn't tell me she'd moved out of college.

00:17:22Didn't she?

00:17:23No.

00:17:24Well, I think she knew you'd turn up sooner or later.

00:17:27Excuse the bicycles.

00:17:28Just weave your way through.

00:17:30Tuh.

00:17:37Guy!

00:17:37How lovely.

00:17:40You didn't tell me you were coming.

00:17:41Well, I didn't know where you were, did I?

00:17:43Oh, I know.

00:17:43It's all been such a rush.

00:17:45We've only been here a week.

00:17:46Week's a long time, Leo.

00:17:48I had to get your address from the college.

00:17:49They shouldn't give out addresses.

00:17:50You could have been anybody.

00:17:52Yeah, but I'm not anybody.

00:17:54I was worried about you, Leo.

00:17:55I told you.

00:17:56I've been busy.

00:17:56She's hardly had time to sit down.

00:17:58She was sitting down when I came in.

00:18:00What is this?

00:18:01The Inquisition?

00:18:02I was writing an essay, if you must know.

00:18:04Well, come on, Guy.

00:18:05Don't be cross.

00:18:07This is Rachel.

00:18:08Rachel Lingard Guy Curran.

00:18:10Rachel's reading politics.

00:18:12You're going to be an MP, are you?

00:18:13I'm going to be a social worker, actually.

00:18:15Oh, yeah?

00:18:15Well, you'd be sure of a job, then.

00:18:18What do you want to move for, Leo?

00:18:19This place is worse than Attlee House.

00:18:21I know it's not brilliant,

00:18:22but it's ten pounds a week cheaper than college.

00:18:24Well, didn't you ask me?

00:18:25I'd have taken care of that.

00:18:26Oh, how very Victorian.

00:18:27Why didn't you, Norrie?

00:18:28You could have been a kept woman.

00:18:30And what's wrong with that?

00:18:31Oh, just about everything.

00:18:32Would you like some tea, Guy?

00:18:34Shall I be parlour-made?

00:18:35Got anything stronger?

00:18:36Only decaf and Horlicks.

00:18:37I'll have tea, then.

00:18:38Right.

00:18:39Tea for two.

00:18:43You didn't leave me your new phone number?

00:18:45No.

00:18:46Why not?

00:18:46Don't you want me to ring anymore?

00:18:48We haven't got a phone here yet.

00:18:49Don't be so paranoid.

00:18:50Well, how am I going to ring you, then?

00:18:52You could try writing.

00:18:54I'm no good at writing.

00:18:56I'll buy you a mobile.

00:18:57Don't be silly.

00:18:58You can't do that.

00:18:59Why not?

00:19:00Too Victorian?

00:19:02Didn't know they had mobiles.

00:19:04You can let Rachel use it, if you like.

00:19:05I bet she don't say no to that.

00:19:07Bet you she does.

00:19:08Come on, let's go out now and buy one.

00:19:10I can't now, Guy.

00:19:11I've got an essay to write.

00:19:12Due tomorrow?

00:19:13It's due in tomorrow.

00:19:15We can have a run out in my new toy.

00:19:17Here.

00:19:18Have a look.

00:19:18You can see it from the window.

00:19:21Not the Mercedes.

00:19:22Top of the range, just like your mum's.

00:19:25How is the old bat, anyway?

00:19:27Why?

00:19:28Actually, she's very happy.

00:19:30You remember Magnus?

00:19:32Magnus?

00:19:32Well, you did meet him once.

00:19:34Magnus Mandeville.

00:19:35He was the solicitor who handled my parents' divorce.

00:19:37What?

00:19:38Old skeleton face?

00:19:40He's really very nice.

00:19:41Anyway, Mummy must think so, because they're getting married next month.

00:19:45Bloody hell.

00:19:46She didn't look far, did she?

00:19:48And Daddy and Susanna have been invited to the wedding.

00:19:51I think it's all very civilised.

00:19:52Yeah, that's one word for it.

00:19:54Come on, let's go.

00:19:55Look, I can't.

00:19:57All right, you write your essay, I'll sit in a chair.

00:20:00Hey, now you're not in college, don't you stay the night?

00:20:03That's not a good idea, Guy.

00:20:05Why not?

00:20:06Because...

00:20:07Because what?

00:20:08Rachel wouldn't like it.

00:20:10Rachel's not getting it.

00:20:12Tell it to mind your own bleeding business.

00:20:13Here we are.

00:20:14I hope you like carrot cake.

00:20:17Leo and me are going out for a drive in a minute.

00:20:18I've told you, I can't.

00:20:20My part one exams are only five weeks away.

00:20:22Oh, dear.

00:20:23The lady's not for turning out me things.

00:20:25Pretty guy.

00:20:26Why so pale?

00:20:28Will, when looking well, can't move her.

00:20:30Looking ill prevail.

00:20:34What's this?

00:20:35This isn't tea.

00:20:36It's raspberry flavoured herbal tea.

00:20:38It's our favourite, isn't it, Nora?

00:20:44Put some tape over his eyes as well, Chuck.

00:20:46Blokes entitle a bit of privacy, I feel.

00:20:47Right, I'll love you and leave you then, sunshine.

00:20:53Don't forget to lock up when you're finished, Chuck.

00:20:56Right.

00:20:56Oh, thank God for that.

00:21:14I thought it was never going to end.

00:21:16Come on, I'm bursting for a pee.

00:21:19What's the better?

00:21:20You're not crying, are you?

00:21:24Honestly, Guy, you're worse than Barbara Cartland.

00:21:35Sure you won't have any wine?

00:21:37No, thanks.

00:21:38Are you going to drink the whole bottle?

00:21:40Looks like it.

00:21:42Are you going to be all right to drive back?

00:21:43I was hoping I wouldn't have to.

00:21:45Not that again, Guy.

00:21:46OK, I can wait.

00:21:49Tomorrow is another day.

00:21:52They don't make films like that anymore.

00:21:53Women like her make me so cross.

00:21:56She's just so stupid.

00:21:58I think she's like you.

00:21:59Oh, thanks very much.

00:22:01No, not Scarlet.

00:22:02Vivian Lee.

00:22:03Oh, don't be silly.

00:22:04She's miles prettier than me.

00:22:06Yeah, and the way she opens her eyes wide.

00:22:08That little gurgle when she laughs.

00:22:10The way she moves her shoulders.

00:22:11Little things.

00:22:13Little things mean a lot.

00:22:14You really are an old softie, aren't you?

00:22:17She's got the same smile as you.

00:22:20Like she's holding something back.

00:22:22Just like you.

00:22:24I'm not holding anything back.

00:22:26I don't have a sense of humour at the moment, that's all.

00:22:28I used to be able to crack your lips wide open.

00:22:31Guy, I've got my finals in three weeks.

00:22:34It's not a laughing matter.

00:22:36I shouldn't have come tonight.

00:22:38So when can I see you again?

00:22:39When the exams are over.

00:22:41Can I still phone?

00:22:42Would you mind if you don't?

00:22:45Your calls are rather tense-making.

00:22:49I'll be back in London soon.

00:22:50All right.

00:22:52Won't be long till Samos, anyway.

00:22:54Samos?

00:22:55Yeah, a holiday.

00:22:56The Greek island I told you about.

00:22:58Samos.

00:22:59You haven't booked it.

00:23:00Of course I have.

00:23:01But I can't afford it.

00:23:02It's all right.

00:23:03It's not expensive.

00:23:04I know you.

00:23:05You don't go anywhere that isn't expensive.

00:23:07I'm not coming if I can't pay for myself.

00:23:10You never let me pay for anything.

00:23:11I'd buy you the world if I could.

00:23:16I know you would.

00:23:18You're the sweetest man, Guy.

00:23:22The trouble is, I don't want the world.

00:23:25Right, now, the moment you've all been waiting for, put your sweaty pants together for the very lovely Roxanne!

00:23:44Shine a light in the dark for me, brother.

00:23:47You what?

00:23:47I can't see without some light, brother.

00:23:51You got any shit, man?

00:23:52I don't do shit.

00:23:53Anything.

00:23:54Anything to get me out of the darkness.

00:23:55Sod off.

00:23:56You were pointed out, brother.

00:23:59Oh, yeah?

00:23:59Who by?

00:24:00The seekers of wisdom and truth.

00:24:02No names.

00:24:03Brother X will see all right, they said.

00:24:05Just one hit, man.

00:24:06That's all I need.

00:24:07That was my day off.

00:24:08I'll come out without nothing on me.

00:24:09I need something.

00:24:11It's all black inside.

00:24:13I can't see, brother.

00:24:14All right, all right.

00:24:16Keep it down.

00:24:17Just give me a couple of hours, and I'll see you on Ungerford Bridge, in the middle.

00:24:21All right, brother?

00:24:22Now bugger off.

00:24:23I'm trying to watch a girl undress.

00:24:31My God, this is amazing, Guy.

00:24:34It must have cost a fortune, and all these lovely things.

00:24:38Yeah, well, I had a bit of help with the fixers and fittings.

00:24:40Friend of Danny's wife.

00:24:42Couldn't hang the wallpaper himself on account of a limp wrist.

00:24:45It's a long way from Attlee House.

00:24:47Yeah, I suppose so.

00:24:49You can still see the old place, though, from the top floor.

00:24:52Come on up.

00:24:52I'll show you.

00:24:53All right.

00:24:56There it is.

00:24:58Quite an incentive.

00:24:59Wouldn't want to go back there and hurry.

00:25:01Here, I've got a real lord next door, you know.

00:25:03Call me Alexander.

00:25:04He's about 107.

00:25:06Business must be booming.

00:25:08Yeah, I've branched out in the art world now, amongst other things.

00:25:10I've got eight art school graduates in Isleworth turn out paintings by the cartload.

00:25:15Not their own stuff, of course.

00:25:16Things they get up to, you can sell to a blind man.

00:25:19Now, I've got some contacts in the Far East,

00:25:20and they send me over these photographs, overexposed on the plasterboard.

00:25:24My people colour them over.

00:25:25That sounds like painting by numbers.

00:25:28Well, a bloody sight better than the crap you get in the Bayswater Road.

00:25:31They look like what they're supposed to look like.

00:25:33You know, children, dogs, oriental young ladies.

00:25:35Oh, yes.

00:25:38They're all very tasteful.

00:25:39Not a nipple in sight, they are.

00:25:42Where do you sell them?

00:25:43Auctions, motels, country clubs, places like that.

00:25:46Can't get rid of them fast enough.

00:25:47I hope you pay your artists well.

00:25:49They do all right.

00:25:50They get a lot more than they get teaching.

00:25:52Do they?

00:25:53That's funny.

00:25:54I'm going to do a year at a teacher training college.

00:25:57You're joking.

00:25:59You've only just finished university.

00:26:01You can't go away again.

00:26:02I'm not going away.

00:26:03I'm doing it in London.

00:26:05Thank God for that.

00:26:07You don't need to work, you know.

00:26:09I'd provide.

00:26:10I don't think so.

00:26:11All above board.

00:26:13We'd be married.

00:26:16Married?

00:26:17Yeah, we'll have to do it one day.

00:26:19Will we?

00:26:20Yeah, why not now?

00:26:21Come on, be my wife, Leo.

00:26:24It's all I've ever wanted.

00:26:26I can't, Guy.

00:26:27Why not?

00:26:28I don't...

00:26:29Because, well, I'm too young.

00:26:34Oh, that can't be.

00:26:37I mean, well, that's not a Kandinsky, is it?

00:26:39Kandinsky, yeah, that's the bloke.

00:26:41I thought you didn't like modern art.

00:26:43Yeah, I don't, but I was told it'd be a good investment.

00:26:45Makes your eyes go all funny, doesn't it?

00:26:47Oh, I think it's wonderful.

00:26:49Where are you going to live, then?

00:26:50Were your mother?

00:26:52No.

00:26:53She and Magnus are in Sanderstead.

00:26:55That's too far out.

00:26:56I'm at Daddy and Susanna's at the moment.

00:26:58Robin's still there?

00:26:59No.

00:27:00He's in a flat in Chelsea somewhere.

00:27:02But, er, we're all meeting up next week to celebrate my degree.

00:27:05Daddy's killing the fatted calf and Susanna's cooking it.

00:27:09I'd, er, I'd love you to come, Guy.

00:27:12If you can bear it.

00:27:13I can bear it.

00:27:14It's them you want to worry about.

00:27:17Actually, we've put an offer in for a flat in Fulham.

00:27:19We?

00:27:20Rachel and me.

00:27:21If we can get a mortgage sorted out.

00:27:23You'd rather live with Rachel than with me?

00:27:25Don't be silly.

00:27:26You've just had three years with a bloody woman.

00:27:29She'll be coming to Samos with us next.

00:27:30No, she won't.

00:27:31Thank Christ for that.

00:27:34I've been meaning to tell you.

00:27:36I can't afford a holiday, what with a flat and everything.

00:27:39It doesn't matter.

00:27:40It's all taken care of.

00:27:41No, Guy.

00:27:42I'm sorry.

00:27:43I said if I couldn't pay for myself, I wouldn't go.

00:27:46All right.

00:27:47What if I let you have the mortgage money?

00:27:48How much do you need?

00:27:4950k?

00:27:50Don't be silly.

00:27:52Don't keep saying don't be silly.

00:27:55Silly is the last thing I am.

00:27:59A gift or a loan.

00:28:01You take your pick.

00:28:03Oh, Guy.

00:28:05If only it was possible.

00:28:07It is possible.

00:28:08I don't understand why it isn't.

00:28:09Guy, you're worse than the Great Gatsby.

00:28:12Who?

00:28:13It's a book.

00:28:15Another bloody book?

00:28:16About a rich man who has everything in life except the one thing he wants.

00:28:20Yeah, and what's that?

00:28:21The usual.

00:28:22Some boring woman.

00:28:25You're the last of the romantics.

00:28:26You really are.

00:28:28Come on.

00:28:30You can do something practical.

00:28:32You can make me a cup of tea in your state-of-the-art kitchen.

00:28:35I don't have to be Indian.

00:28:36I haven't got any of that raspberry flavoured in the mug.

00:28:41What?

00:28:47You failed me in my need, brother.

00:28:50Hungerford Bridge.

00:28:51You didn't come.

00:28:52I waited and waited.

00:28:53Yeah, I couldn't make it.

00:28:54I need some light.

00:28:56I need to come inside, man.

00:28:57No, I don't think so.

00:28:58The drug squad will crucify me.

00:29:01They'll nail me to a tree.

00:29:03Don't make me betray you, brother.

00:29:05Christ's sake.

00:29:06Will you get in here and shut up?

00:29:08There's no need for that gun, brother.

00:29:13I come in peace.

00:29:14Don't you worry.

00:29:16Just a handheld burglar alarm.

00:29:18Any sort of hallucinogen.

00:29:20Masculine.

00:29:21Psilocybin.

00:29:22Anything, brother.

00:29:23Nah.

00:29:23I could do your best Colombian gold.

00:29:25No pot, brother.

00:29:26Grass doesn't scratch the surface.

00:29:29I've got to get into my inner space, man.

00:29:32We've got to let nature show us the way.

00:29:35Brother animal and brother bird, they can take us back to God.

00:29:38Saint Francis has told me he's taken possession of me.

00:29:41See my hands.

00:29:43See the living proof.

00:29:44Yeah, they could do with a wash.

00:29:45The stigmata, see?

00:29:47Oozing blood.

00:29:48I was the first to exhibit our Lord's wounds.

00:29:51The claims of Saint Paul and Saint Angelo can in no way be allowed.

00:29:54Look.

00:29:56The spear wound in the side, see?

00:29:58Look, I can do you some LSD.

00:29:59I said, man, that's what I need.

00:30:02I've got to find my own reality.

00:30:05Right on, brother.

00:30:07You make sure you have someone with you.

00:30:08Too much reality too quick can be nasty.

00:30:12Here you are.

00:30:13Bless you, brother.

00:30:15I have money.

00:30:16Is it enough?

00:30:17Put it in your pocket, Francis.

00:30:19On the strict understanding that I haven't got any more,

00:30:22and I'm not going to get any more,

00:30:23and I never want to see you or your bleeding hands again.

00:30:26Peace be with you, brother.

00:30:27Yeah, and with you, sunshine.

00:30:31Do sit down, guy.

00:30:33I'm afraid Nora's still in the bath.

00:30:35Anthony should be back any minute.

00:30:36I'm too early, aren't I?

00:30:37Not at all.

00:30:38Can I get you a drink?

00:30:40Campari and orange.

00:30:41Very kind of you, Mrs. Chisholm.

00:30:41Oh, Susanna, please.

00:30:43Susanna.

00:30:45First Mrs. Chisholm.

00:30:46Always like to be called Mrs. Chisholm.

00:30:47Did she?

00:30:49Well, I'm not Tessa, am I?

00:30:51Not many men I know drink Campari.

00:30:53Such a lovely colour.

00:30:54Like a sunset.

00:30:58You've known Nora a long time, I believe.

00:31:00Six years.

00:31:01That's nice.

00:31:02Most young people I know seem to swap their partners every other week.

00:31:06There's no fear of that.

00:31:07All those presents you've given her.

00:31:09I wish Anthony was as generous.

00:31:11Those jade earrings were lovely.

00:31:13I could get you some if you like.

00:31:15Oh, Guy.

00:31:16I didn't mean that.

00:31:17Did you think I was angling for some?

00:31:19How dreadful.

00:31:20Perhaps when we know each other better.

00:31:23I expect you'll know everyone tonight.

00:31:26Do you know the twins?

00:31:27What twins?

00:31:27Well, that's what we call them.

00:31:29You know Rachel, of course.

00:31:30Yeah, I know Rachel.

00:31:32Well, Nora's got a cousin called Janice,

00:31:34and she and Rachel are like two peas in a pod.

00:31:36Actually, Janice is off to Australia next week,

00:31:39so this evening's a sort of combined godspeed.

00:31:41And congrats to Nora.

00:31:43Now, I'm going to have to pop into the kitchen.

00:31:45There's an evening paper, if you like.

00:31:46Look, there's the most dreadful story

00:31:48about a man being stung to death by bees.

00:31:51Just put his head into a hive for no reason.

00:31:53Mind you, he had an Irish name,

00:31:55so I suppose he was drunk.

00:31:56Help yourself to another Campari.

00:32:02Oh, Janice, Robin told me to tell you

00:32:04he's sorted out your Australian dollars.

00:32:06Bliss, how much do I owe him?

00:32:08On the heart.

00:32:09Send him a postcard at the girls on Bondi Beach

00:32:11to cheer him up while he's in hospital.

00:32:13Poor thing.

00:32:15Is it the blackouts again?

00:32:16Giving him more tests.

00:32:18He says his bottom's like a pincushion.

00:32:20Poor love.

00:32:22Oh, he loves it.

00:32:23Any excuse to take his trousers down

00:32:25in front of the nurses.

00:32:27So, what's with you these days, Guy, career-wise?

00:32:30I gather you're employing artists

00:32:32to paint over photographs.

00:32:34One shall is to ask what sort of photographs.

00:32:37Bestseller at the moment's called Lady from Thailand.

00:32:39That sounds fun.

00:32:40Is she suitable for mixed company?

00:32:43She's very tasteful, Anthony.

00:32:44Oh, you could have her for 70 quid.

00:32:47Council has art, but council has prices.

00:32:50It's not art, it's prostitution.

00:32:51Oh, I know.

00:32:51No, it's not so different from the old masters,

00:32:53is it, darling?

00:32:54Their workshops were full of young painters

00:32:56filling in the body.

00:32:57Yeah, but it's titulus magnus.

00:32:58It's not the same thing at all.

00:33:00I can't see anything wrong with it

00:33:01if it's what people want.

00:33:02I know what I like.

00:33:03The argument of the philistine down the ages.

00:33:06Cows like eating calves' brains,

00:33:07but it makes them mad.

00:33:08Well, I don't think Guy's paintings

00:33:10actually make people mad, do they?

00:33:12Well, I seem to have made Tessa pretty wild.

00:33:15They're obviously absolute rubbish.

00:33:17Oh, well, there's no kind of a taste,

00:33:19is there, Tessa?

00:33:20How very true.

00:33:21Actually, Mummy,

00:33:22Guy's just done the sweetest thing.

00:33:24He's offered to lend me the money

00:33:26for the full-on fast.

00:33:27He did what?

00:33:28Don't you think that's sweet?

00:33:30Oh.

00:33:31I hope you told him it was out of the question.

00:33:32She's got to get along from somewhere.

00:33:35Why not me?

00:33:36Good God, man.

00:33:37You're not even a relation.

00:33:39Think of the obligations she'd be under.

00:33:40Of course I said no.

00:33:42But I wanted you all to know.

00:33:45How'd I put a girl in your power

00:33:46in one easy lesson?

00:33:48Well, that's going it's on.

00:33:49Even for a philistine.

00:33:53Why did you tell them about the loan?

00:33:55It's none of their business.

00:33:56I wanted them to know how kind you are.

00:34:00They didn't think it was kind.

00:34:01And they just thought I wanted to get you

00:34:02in my evil, grubby little hands.

00:34:04And don't you?

00:34:05I'm not doing anything I'm ashamed of.

00:34:08I just want you to have a wonderful life.

00:34:11I know you do.

00:34:12But you can't buy it, Guy.

00:34:14It doesn't work like that.

00:34:15How does it work, then?

00:34:17I love you, Leo.

00:34:19You're my life.

00:34:21Well, maybe that's not such a good thing.

00:34:24What do you mean?

00:34:25Maybe I'm making your life too narrow.

00:34:29Maybe you're becoming...

00:34:30obsessed with me.

00:34:32That's your mother talking, Leo.

00:34:34That's not you.

00:34:35It's her, isn't it?

00:34:37She's turned you against me, hasn't she?

00:34:38It's got nothing to do with Mummy.

00:34:40I just think we should give each other

00:34:43a little space for a while.

00:34:44You don't want to see me?

00:34:46Of course I want to see you.

00:34:48I'm seeing you for lunch on Saturday, aren't I?

00:34:50It tears a wound in my stomach

00:34:52to think that you might not want me, you know.

00:34:54Oh, don't, Guy.

00:34:55Don't.

00:34:55It's all right.

00:34:57You won't lose me.

00:34:58I'll always make time for us.

00:35:00I bleed inside at the thought of losing you.

00:35:03I know.

00:35:04Every Saturday.

00:35:05How about that?

00:35:06I'll always have lunch with you every Saturday.

00:35:08That's a promise.

00:35:09You're in my heart, you're in my soul

00:35:15You'll be my friend, should I grow

00:35:19You are my lover, you're my best friend

00:35:24You're in my soul

00:35:26Yep.

00:35:27I'm Poppy Vassari.

00:35:29I'm a friend of Con Malvaney.

00:35:31You're going to tell me you don't know who he is, aren't you?

00:35:34That's right.

00:35:35Who he was.

00:35:37Oh, you knew him, all right.

00:35:38You gave him a hallucinogenic drug, didn't you, brother X?

00:35:43I think you'd better come in.

00:35:54As a result of your criminal action, Con Malvaney's dead.

00:35:58Am I supposed to know what you're talking about?

00:36:00Didn't know his name, didn't know he was dead, you don't know much, do you?

00:36:04You killed him.

00:36:05You might as well have shot him with your gun.

00:36:06Oh yeah, what gun's that then?

00:36:08Oh, I know all about your gun, don't you worry.

00:36:12How did he die?

00:36:13It made all the papers.

00:36:15My con went out in style.

00:36:18He put his head in a beehive and the beast stung him to death.

00:36:22You must have read about it.

00:36:23I didn't know who it was.

00:36:25It was a shock, has it, brother X?

00:36:27I'm sorry.

00:36:28No, you're not.

00:36:30But you will be.

00:36:33Brother Guy Curran.

00:36:35I told him to take it under supervision.

00:36:37It did.

00:36:38I was with him when he died.

00:36:40You must have done a terrific job.

00:36:42Don't you dare say that, you filthy pig!

00:36:44He begged me for it.

00:36:45Every day in the rehabilitation centre, I see the misery you and your kind cause.

00:36:49Hey, I sell to people who want to buy, Mrs. Huff.

00:36:51I buy from people who want to sell.

00:36:53That is the way of the world.

00:36:54He was on another planet, poor simple sod, and you murdered him.

00:36:58I warned him he could have a bad trip.

00:37:00He didn't have a bad trip.

00:37:01He had a bloody marvellous trip.

00:37:03He sat in the garden crying with happiness.

00:37:05He could see daisies as big as dustbin lids.

00:37:07He was talking to the butterflies.

00:37:09He wanted to ride on their backs, and then he climbed over the fence.

00:37:13What for?

00:37:14To talk to the bloody bees.

00:37:17There was a beehive next door.

00:37:19He was a Francis, wasn't he, eh?

00:37:21Brother B and Sister Butterfly took the top off, and the bees came out.

00:37:24Hundreds of them, and in his head completely disappeared,

00:37:27and I couldn't hear his voice for the buzzing.

00:37:29There was just this one great ball of bees,

00:37:32and inside he must have been screaming, and I couldn't hear him.

00:37:36They came for me, too.

00:37:37I had bees in my hair, in my ears.

00:37:40I had their stings in me, and half their bodies, too.

00:37:43Yeah, but you didn't die, though.

00:37:45I'm not allergic, am I?

00:37:48They stung him in the throat.

00:37:50He swelled up and choked to death.

00:37:52Thirty-five minutes of bastard ambulance took to come,

00:37:55and when they picked the bees off him, he looked like the elephant man.

00:37:58Did the police come?

00:37:59That's all you care about, isn't it?

00:38:02Not gone.

00:38:04Not my poor little man.

00:38:07Oh, yeah, they came, and you bet I told them all about Brother X.

00:38:12Yes, yes, and I phoned them when I found out where you lived.

00:38:18Oh, Christ.

00:38:21Morning, sir.

00:38:22Detective Sergeant Lamb, CID.

00:38:24Mind if my colleague and I come inside?

00:38:25That's right.

00:38:26Tear the place apart.

00:38:27This is where he killed my friend, and he's got a gun.

00:38:29It's all right, madam.

00:38:30Everything's under control.

00:38:31Take her outside, will you, John?

00:38:32Go.

00:38:33If it shows up on that post-mortem, you'll do ten years, you bastard.

00:38:37Come along, madam.

00:38:38I'm going to tell everybody what you've done.

00:38:40Your punishment's just beginning, Curran.

00:38:43Take your hands off me.

00:38:44I'm going.

00:38:48Bad business.

00:38:49Yes, sir.

00:38:50She's got a lash out at someone.

00:38:51This man Mulvaney, did you know him, sir?

00:38:54Irish, was he?

00:38:54Yes, sir.

00:38:56Well, it was this mad Irishman come up to me in a pub.

00:38:58He had this bee in his bonnet about me getting him some drugs.

00:39:01Unfortunate turn of phrase, sir, in the circumstances.

00:39:03Oh, yeah.

00:39:05Anyway, I didn't know what he was on about.

00:39:07I suppose he could have been Mulvaney.

00:39:08You don't remember which pub, do you, sir?

00:39:11I think it was the windmill on Clapham Common.

00:39:14Good.

00:39:14Might be a bit tricky tracking it down, otherwise.

00:39:17Every pub's got its statutory mad Irishman these days.

00:39:20Yeah, except in Kilburn.

00:39:21Yeah, except in Kilburn, where they haven't got anything else.

00:39:24The lady mentioned you having a gun, sir.

00:39:26Would you like to confirm that?

00:39:27No, I'm afraid not.

00:39:28She must have been thinking of someone else.

00:39:30Right.

00:39:30Well, we'll be in touch, Mr Curran, after the post-mortem.

00:39:37Hello?

00:39:41Rachel?

00:39:42No, it's Maeve.

00:39:43Rachel, it's for you.

00:39:44No, no, it's Leo I wanted.

00:39:47Leonora?

00:39:47I'm afraid she's out at the minute.

00:39:49When should she be back?

00:39:50I'm afraid I don't know.

00:39:51But hold on, here's Rachel.

00:39:53No, it's all right.

00:39:54I'll ring back later.

00:39:55Hello?

00:39:56Hello, Rachel.

00:39:57Oh, surprise, surprise.

00:39:58Where's Leo?

00:39:59I don't know.

00:40:00I'm not my sister's keeper.

00:40:01Who was that girl?

00:40:02That girl is Maeve Kirkland.

00:40:04She's our new flatmate.

00:40:05Huh.

00:40:06There isn't room for another one.

00:40:07There is if you can't afford the mortgage.

00:40:10Well, Leo should have taken up my offer then, shouldn't she?

00:40:12What is the matter with you?

00:40:14Leave the poor girl alone.

00:40:15Can't you understand she doesn't want to see you anymore?

00:40:18If it was me, I'd have reported you to the police long ago.

00:40:20Do I make myself plain?

00:40:21There's no need to, love.

00:40:23Nature's already done that for you.

00:40:25Tell her I'll ring later.

00:40:26You can tell her yourself.

00:40:28She's just come in.

00:40:29Nora, it's your blackmailer again.

00:40:33Hello, Guy.

00:40:35That's a poisonous little bitch you're sharing with.

00:40:38I hope the other one's got better manners.

00:40:40I was wondering if you fancied the pictures.

00:40:42The pictures?

00:40:44Yeah, you remember.

00:40:45Big dark room, big widescreen.

00:40:47What about the new Kevin Costner?

00:40:50Don't you remember our arrangement?

00:40:52What arrangement?

00:40:53I said I'd have lunch with you on Saturdays.

00:40:56Just Saturdays.

00:40:57Just lunch.

00:40:58Yeah, but you weren't serious.

00:41:00Pick a restaurant.

00:41:00You choose.

00:41:02You won't keep it up.

00:41:03You'll have to see me more than once a week.

00:41:04You know you will.

00:41:05I don't mind a wine bar.

00:41:08All right.

00:41:08How about Clark's?

00:41:09Fine.

00:41:10I'll see you there at one.

00:41:11I must go.

00:41:12I'll phone you tomorrow.

00:41:13Yes.

00:41:14I know you will.

00:41:18Cheers.

00:41:19Cheers.

00:41:20Nice club.

00:41:21High class.

00:41:22You know, I didn't know people still fenced.

00:41:25Oh, yeah.

00:41:26I did for a bit of sabre.

00:41:28I'm better with a shooter these days.

00:41:30You don't look so good, you know.

00:41:32You've been overdoing it.

00:41:33I'm okay.

00:41:35Celeste's been draining your precious bodily fluids, has she?

00:41:39You're still seeing her, aren't you?

00:41:40She's still seeing me more like her.

00:41:42You should be so lucky.

00:41:44What a beautiful woman.

00:41:46Naomi Campbell better watch her back.

00:41:47It's not business, is it?

00:41:50Nah, everything's fine.

00:41:52Well, it must be little Miss Leo, then.

00:41:54She says she don't want to see me as much as she did.

00:41:56You've got Celeste.

00:41:57What's the problem?

00:41:58The problem is I love Leo.

00:42:00I always have.

00:42:04Now, you haven't changed, Leo.

00:42:06You say you have, but you haven't.

00:42:08You still feel the same towards me as you always have.

00:42:10I know you do.

00:42:11Someone's been getting at you, haven't they?

00:42:13Guy.

00:42:13It's Tessa, isn't it?

00:42:14You mustn't get involved with that revolting little slug, darling.

00:42:18He isn't one of us.

00:42:19I've told you, it's got nothing to do with Mummy.

00:42:20Well, that revolting little slug loves you, Leo, and he doesn't care who knows it.

00:42:24But it's not me.

00:42:27You love the memory of me, Guy.

00:42:30But we just...

00:42:31We don't have anything in common anymore.

00:42:33Well, I know you don't nick things out of boots anymore, but then neither do I.

00:42:38You're always better at it than me, anyway.

00:42:40Don't.

00:42:40It makes me ashamed.

00:42:41Everything is strictly legit these days, Leo.

00:42:47All I want is for you to be a part of it.

00:42:49Oh, Guy, you can't just wipe out the past by saying you don't do things any longer.

00:42:56Someone once said something about you, and I didn't believe them.

00:42:59Who?

00:43:00Someone said you once ran a protection racket.

00:43:03Who?

00:43:04Does it matter?

00:43:04Yes, I'd like to know.

00:43:06It was Magnus.

00:43:07He was acting for a client, some sort of criminal, and this man mentioned your name.

00:43:13Not very flatteringly.

00:43:14And Magnus told you?

00:43:15He said it couldn't possibly be the same Guy Curran.

00:43:18But Mummy said, of course it was.

00:43:20And you believed her?

00:43:21I know you'd never use violence, Guy.

00:43:23You're not that sort.

00:43:26We've grown apart.

00:43:28That's all.

00:43:28No, I don't think we have.

00:43:30You're saying that because you're surrounded by people who don't like me.

00:43:34This new Maeve.

00:43:35She's another one.

00:43:37She turned her back on me yesterday.

00:43:39Maeve?

00:43:39Yeah, she was with your brother.

00:43:41They seem pretty friendly.

00:43:43They are.

00:43:44They're an item.

00:43:46Guy, he doesn't waste his time, does he?

00:43:47Like a rat up a pipe.

00:43:50They were coming towards me near a certain time, and she looked right at me,

00:43:53and she whispered something to him, and they turned around and they walked away,

00:43:57and I could hear her laughing.

00:43:59What's he told her about me?

00:44:01Look, I don't think all this is very healthy, Guy.

00:44:04I know it hurts now, but there'll be someone else.

00:44:08Well, don't tell me you don't go out with other girls.

00:44:11Yeah, I go out with other girls.

00:44:13All right.

00:44:14You want to know?

00:44:15I'll tell you something.

00:44:17I'm dating a beautiful girl right now.

00:44:20Name was Celeste Seaton.

00:44:21Make a note of it.

00:44:22She's a model.

00:44:2323.

00:44:24She's going to be big time.

00:44:27Are you making this up?

00:44:29Yeah, you're upset, right?

00:44:31Well, you said you wanted to know.

00:44:34And I'm functioning normally, since you ask.

00:44:37She stayed at my place last night.

00:44:40I'm very happy for you.

00:44:43Have you told her about me?

00:44:45Yeah, sure, she knows.

00:44:46She's a tough lady.

00:44:48She says what's an hour and a half on a Saturday.

00:44:50If that's all the competition, she reckons she can take it.

00:44:54It's me who can't take it.

00:44:55Don't start, Guy.

00:44:56I must go.

00:44:58I'll see you next week.

00:45:00I'll ring you tomorrow.

00:45:06Guy!

00:45:08What a surprise.

00:45:09I thought you hated foreign films.

00:45:11It was Celeste's idea.

00:45:13Hello, Celeste.

00:45:15I'm Leonora, and this is William.

00:45:17Hi.

00:45:18Nice to meet you.

00:45:19Terrific film.

00:45:20Amazing.

00:45:21It was just beautiful.

00:45:23So sad.

00:45:23It wasn't as good as Gone with the Wind.

00:45:27Well, uh, different genre, isn't it?

00:45:30Oh, is it?

00:45:31Hang on, William.

00:45:31I'm just going to the ladies.

00:45:33Oh, me too.

00:45:33Won't be a minute, Guy.

00:45:39She will, of course.

00:45:41What?

00:45:42Be more than a minute.

00:45:43They always are.

00:45:46Cigarette?

00:45:47No, thanks.

00:45:47I don't smoke.

00:45:50Celeste and me are going to eat.

00:45:51Why don't you join us?

00:45:52We've already eaten, thanks.

00:45:54How about a drink?

00:45:55Why not?

00:45:56If Nora wants to.

00:45:58She probably won't.

00:45:59Not much of a drinker.

00:46:01Neither of us are.

00:46:03How about Celeste?

00:46:04Oh, she likes a drop, but she has to watch her figure.

00:46:07She's a model.

00:46:08Oh.

00:46:09Because everyone else is watching her figure, eh?

00:46:14Must be a strain.

00:46:15I'd have preferred seeing Schwarzenegger, but his veins give Celeste the creeps.

00:46:23Too many guns for me.

00:46:25You don't like guns.

00:46:26Not really.

00:46:28I'm more of a sword man.

00:46:29Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone.

00:46:31Cut them for us, do you know?

00:46:32Oh, yeah.

00:46:32Do a bit, do you?

00:46:33It has been known.

00:46:34Teddy Hall.

00:46:36I've got a couple of German dueling sabers at home.

00:46:38Nora can't stand them.

00:46:39Well, oh, Guy was just asking if we'd like to go for a drink, darling.

00:46:46Oh, I'd love to, but I've got 3C tomorrow and they'll tear me apart if I'm not prepared.

00:46:52Well, never mind.

00:46:53Another time.

00:46:54Nice meeting you.

00:46:55And you.

00:46:56Bye.

00:47:00Talk about me in the lab, did you?

00:47:02I can see why you like her.

00:47:04She's nice.

00:47:04Yeah, shame about that ginger dwarf.

00:47:06Well, I'd like a drink anyway.

00:47:09Oh, let's have a drink at home.

00:47:11I've got to be up at 6 for that L'Oreal job.

00:47:13Well, you'd better have a drink at your place then.

00:47:15I feel like the bright lights.

00:47:17Taxi!

00:47:20Bastard!

00:47:22Taxi!

00:47:25There you go.

00:47:27Oh, for Christ's sake, Celeste, you're not bloody crying, are you?

00:47:30What the hell is it to cry about?

00:47:32So, who is he now?

00:47:38Who?

00:47:39You know bloody well who.

00:47:42You've no right to ask.

00:47:44Oh, I have a right.

00:47:46For God's sake, don't you tell me I don't have a right.

00:47:49If you're going to shout, I'm going.

00:47:51All right, all right.

00:47:52I'll be very...

00:47:54What's that word your lot are always on about?

00:47:57What lot?

00:47:58Your tight-knit, tight-ass little group.

00:48:02Mummy and Daddy and Rachel and Robin, all the rest of them.

00:48:05I bet they're over the moon about little Ginger William.

00:48:09Civilised, that's the word.

00:48:11Is he all ginger under his trousers as well?

00:48:13Right, that's enough.

00:48:15Don't go.

00:48:16You're hurting my arm!

00:48:20How long have you known him?

00:48:23About a year.

00:48:25A year?

00:48:26No, you never said.

00:48:27I didn't think you'd be overjoyed.

00:48:29Is he your lover?

00:48:30What do you want me to say, Guy?

00:48:31Of course he is!

00:48:32But you still see me on Saturdays.

00:48:34He understands, like Celeste.

00:48:37Celeste doesn't mean anything.

00:48:39She thinks the world of you.

00:48:41He's not the first, is he?

00:48:43Please, Guy, don't.

00:48:44How many others haven't you told me about?

00:48:46This isn't helpful.

00:48:48No, no, it is, for me.

00:48:50It's educational.

00:48:51All right.

00:48:53There was a friend of Robin's, and a boy at university.

00:48:57And there was Robin's boss, if you must know.

00:49:00The archetypal older man.

00:49:03Archetypal?

00:49:04Actually, he turned out to be not very nice.

00:49:06I didn't know you'd slept around, Leo.

00:49:09Slept around?

00:49:10You should have seen some of the girls at Bristol.

00:49:13I love you, Leo.

00:49:14I've always loved you.

00:49:18Nobody else.

00:49:20I know you do.

00:49:22I wish you didn't.

00:49:23God, I wish you didn't.

00:49:26You don't make it easy, Guy, the way you go on.

00:49:29I'll never give you up, you know.

00:49:31You will one day.

00:49:33You must.

00:49:34You don't love this bloke.

00:49:35Why do you keep seeing me if you love him?

00:49:37Because...

00:49:38Because I don't want to hurt you.

00:49:41But you are hurting me.

00:49:43You're hurting yourself, Guy.

00:49:44Can't you see that?

00:49:46All right, all right.

00:49:47Remember Kensal Green Cemetery?

00:49:49You said you were me, remember?

00:49:52I am you, Guy, you said.

00:49:54I was a child.

00:49:56I was doing Wuthering Heights for O-Level.

00:49:59What's that got to do with it?

00:50:00It's how Cathy talks.

00:50:02I am Heathcliff, she says.

00:50:04She's just a girl in a book.

00:50:05What do you want to say things out of books for?

00:50:07Books aren't real.

00:50:09Sometimes they are.

00:50:11Oh, I wanted to stay friends.

00:50:14I've seen so many relationships go sour and end in hate.

00:50:17I could never hate you, Leo.

00:50:19Just as long as I can phone you and see you every Saturday.

00:50:25I'm going.

00:50:27For my lunch.

00:50:28Why do you do that?

00:50:30Why won't you ever let me pay for you?

00:50:33Because I won't.

00:50:35I'll bet you let that ginger dwarf pay.

00:50:37Is his money cleaner than mine?

00:50:40I'll call you tomorrow.

00:50:47Song again.

00:50:48You want to cut down on the booze, Guy.

00:50:50It's a wanker's game.

00:50:51Makes your hands shake.

00:50:52Not me.

00:50:53Look at that.

00:50:53Steady as a rock.

00:50:54Yeah.

00:50:55Still little Miss Leo, is it?

00:50:57I told her about Celeste.

00:50:59She said she was happy for me.

00:51:00Well, that's a start.

00:51:01She don't mean it, though.

00:51:03She can't show her feelings.

00:51:05How can she?

00:51:06She's scared of what a little crowd might say.

00:51:09You remember that Vasari woman?

00:51:10What, the one who paid you a visit?

00:51:12Poppy Vasari.

00:51:14She swore she'd put it about that I killed that nutter Mulvaney.

00:51:18She must have spun a yarn to someone close to Leo.

00:51:20Whoever it is is using it to keep Leo from me.

00:51:22You reckon?

00:51:23Oh, yeah.

00:51:24And I'd like to loosen that person's hold.

00:51:26Know what I mean?

00:51:28Make an example of them.

00:51:29What?

00:51:30Do some damage like the old days.

00:51:32Yeah.

00:51:32Some permanent bloody damage.

00:51:34Well, you've still got your gun, haven't you?

00:51:36Yeah, that's only for sure.

00:51:38I'm thinking about a professional job.

00:51:41Thinking?

00:51:42You better be bloody certain.

00:51:44You're talking seven to eight grand.

00:51:47Who do you think this Vasari told, then?

00:51:49The fiancé?

00:51:50Hey?

00:51:51The boyfriend?

00:51:52No, I started before we came on the scene.

00:51:54It's one of the family.

00:51:56Or one of her friends.

00:51:57What do you mean, fiancé?

00:52:01Nothing.

00:52:02No, it's none of my business.

00:52:04Tell me.

00:52:06Tanya saw it in some paper.

00:52:09Mr. and Mrs. Lavi-Darchism are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Leonora, blah, blah, blah.

00:52:15Oh, you never know.

00:52:18It could be another girl with the same name.

00:52:23If it had been left to us, we wouldn't have bothered to announce it at all.

00:52:27Why don't you just live together?

00:52:28I'm selling my share in the flat to Rachel.

00:52:30She's put you up to this, hasn't she?

00:52:32Nobody's put me up to it.

00:52:34We love each other.

00:52:35No, it won't last five bloody minutes.

00:52:37All we can do is try.

00:52:39Don't do it.

00:52:41Wait a year.

00:52:42You're both young.

00:52:43What's a year?

00:52:44Live with the bastard.

00:52:45I can bear that.

00:52:46You're hurting my arm again.

00:52:49Do it for me.

00:52:51It's not much to ask.

00:52:53I don't think you know what you're saying, Guy.

00:52:55I swear I'll stop you.

00:52:58I won't let you marry that piece of shit.

00:53:00I have a right to forbid you, and I will.

00:53:03I really think you should see someone about this.

00:53:06This?

00:53:06What's this?

00:53:07This problem you have with me.

00:53:09I don't have a problem with you, Leo.

00:53:12Who says I've got a problem?

00:53:13Tessa?

00:53:14She thinks I'm a head case, does she?

00:53:15She thinks the same as me.

00:53:17She thinks you need help.

00:53:18I bet she does.

00:53:20Look.

00:53:21William's got this friend.

00:53:23He's a psychotherapist.

00:53:24William says he's marvellous.

00:53:26Yeah, he goes to him, does he?

00:53:28He used to.

00:53:29And you're going to marry this fruitcake?

00:53:32What's he got that I haven't got, Leo?

00:53:35His dick strapped to his ankle, is it?

00:53:37He's got a mind.

00:53:39He thinks about things.

00:53:40And he stimulates me and makes me feel I've got something to contribute to.

00:53:46Oh, and I don't.

00:53:47You put me on a pedestal, Guy.

00:53:48It's not where I want to be.

00:53:50I'm still on that tombstone in Kensal Green Cemetery, as far as you're concerned.

00:53:55Those days are over.

00:53:58Oh, I still like you, Guy.

00:53:59I like you a lot, but...

00:54:02But a lot of you, I don't like.

00:54:06Such as?

00:54:07Well, you know, you're smoking, you're drinking, the way you spend your money.

00:54:11But you still do it.

00:54:13What's in it for me, Guy?

00:54:14You just go on and on.

00:54:17You wear me out.

00:54:18I don't know what else to do.

00:54:21Just be my friend, Guy.

00:54:24Ring me every now and then, not every day.

00:54:27Let's meet every now and then, not every Saturday.

00:54:31You want to stop?

00:54:34What's the point?

00:54:35It won't be for much longer, anyway.

00:54:37How much longer?

00:54:39Oh, we haven't fixed a day yet, but soon.

00:54:43And then?

00:54:44And then, I'll be an old married lady, and of no interest to anyone.

00:54:49Trippic party, Danny.

00:54:56It's all Tanya.

00:54:57She wanted to christen a new fountain.

00:54:59What do you think?

00:55:00Very pink.

00:55:00Very Tanya.

00:55:03Your son and his very lively tonight.

00:55:05All his miniskirts must be setting him off.

00:55:07Don't tell me you're complaining.

00:55:09With a girl like Celeste over there.

00:55:11Here.

00:55:12What's that little prick doing here?

00:55:14Who?

00:55:15Near Celeste.

00:55:16Robin Chisholm.

00:55:16Oh, he knows Tanya's sister.

00:55:18She lives next door to him in Clapham.

00:55:20Clapham?

00:55:21I thought you lived in Chelsea.

00:55:23No, no, definitely Clapham.

00:55:25Poppy Vasari lived in Clapham.

00:55:28Come on.

00:55:29You're not going to put a contract on Robin, are you?

00:55:31He's a useful boy if you need to move your money about.

00:55:34A babyface dealer with no scruples.

00:55:36Excuse me a minute.

00:55:45Hello, Robin.

00:55:46Maeve not here.

00:55:47Maeve?

00:55:48Maeve?

00:55:50No.

00:55:50No, she doesn't appear to be.

00:55:51Good God, I must have left her at home.

00:55:54Wise move, judging by the amount of crumpet on offer.

00:55:56By the way, who's that awfully pretty girl I saw you with?

00:55:59Which awfully pretty girl was that, then, Robin?

00:56:00You know, the tinted bint with the Rastafarian hair.

00:56:03What did you call her?

00:56:04Oh, my God.

00:56:05You're not going to be gallant, are you?

00:56:06You shouldn't try.

00:56:07It doesn't suit you.

00:56:08Your shining arm was a bit too tarnished to think...

00:56:10You pimping, stinking bastard.

00:56:13You said your sister would have filthy friends, will you?

00:56:16Your little shitbag will kill you.

00:56:18Shut it.

00:56:19Shut it, guy.

00:56:20Keep it shut.

00:56:21Celeste, take your friend up to the bathroom.

00:56:23There's a good girl.

00:56:24Dry him off and get him out of here.

00:56:26Murdering bloody psychopaths!

00:56:28Son off back to your slum!

00:56:29A little son scratched my face.

00:56:35There's nothing to what you did to him.

00:56:37What was it all about?

00:56:38Christ knows what bacteria that little shit is carrying.

00:56:41It was because of Leo, wasn't it?

00:56:43He used to try and get his friends to sleep with her.

00:56:46Anyone.

00:56:48He was a pimp.

00:56:49Oh, sweetheart, this is all in your head.

00:56:51And your head's a very strange place these days.

00:56:53Let me tell you.

00:56:54She told me.

00:56:56She bloody told me.

00:56:58Oh, it's all right, darling.

00:57:00It's going to be all right.

00:57:04I suppose you're angry with me.

00:57:06I expect it was six of one and half a dozen of the other.

00:57:09He's never liked me, has he?

00:57:10Patronising bastard.

00:57:13It's him, isn't it?

00:57:15He's the one who's pushing the poison.

00:57:17What?

00:57:18He's told you things about me, hasn't he?

00:57:20Things I'm supposed to have done.

00:57:22He doesn't know anything about what you've done.

00:57:24None of us do.

00:57:25I've told you.

00:57:26I'm clean.

00:57:26It's all above board.

00:57:28If you say so, Guy.

00:57:30Am I still on for lunch?

00:57:31Can't be many left now.

00:57:34Named the day, have you?

00:57:36Not yet.

00:57:37You're having second thoughts, aren't you?

00:57:38I knew you would.

00:57:39Look, why don't you come to the flat?

00:57:42Which flat?

00:57:43Mine.

00:57:44I'll cook lunch, if you can bear it.

00:57:46I don't fancy the cray-sister standing over me.

00:57:49Rachel and Maeve won't be there.

00:57:50It'll be just us.

00:57:51Well, okay, yeah.

00:57:56Oh, I'd like that.

00:57:57I'd like that a lot.

00:58:00Ah, forget it.

00:58:01These things happen in love and war.

00:58:03Tell Tonya I'll make it up to her.

00:58:05Oh, don't worry about it.

00:58:06She was in the fancy herself later on.

00:58:08It was like Ryslip Lido in there after you'd gone.

00:58:11Listen, Danny, it's him.

00:58:14Robin Chisholm.

00:58:15He's the one.

00:58:16I told you I'd tell you when I was certain.

00:58:18Robin Chisholm?

00:58:19I want you to take care of him for me, Danny.

00:58:22Oh, 42 stairs, Leo.

00:58:41I counted them.

00:58:42No wonder you're thin as a rake.

00:58:44I don't suppose it's made any difference to Rachel.

00:58:46Still as fat as ever, is she?

00:58:48Do you mind, Guy?

00:58:49This flat's a smokeless zone.

00:58:51Oh, just the one I'm gasping.

00:58:52Flat rules, I'm afraid.

00:58:54Right.

00:58:57Anything in your flat rules about drinking?

00:58:59Don't be silly.

00:59:01Might as well make a start on the champagne, then.

00:59:03You'll have a glass, won't you?

00:59:05No, I'll have a mineral water.

00:59:09This place don't get any bigger, does it?

00:59:11Not a lot of room once Rachel's been winched up the stairs.

00:59:15It's not clever to make fun of Rachel, Guy.

00:59:17She seems to think it's pretty clever to make fun of me.

00:59:21I haven't been here since I had to move in.

00:59:25That was that time Robin was telling you tales about me in Clapham, wasn't it?

00:59:28What tales about Clapham?

00:59:30Well, that's where you lived in.

00:59:32Always a great one for gossip, you're Robin.

00:59:35He'd have been full of the local whispers, wouldn't he?

00:59:37What I was supposed to have done to someone down the junction, that sort of thing.

00:59:40Because I never got an invite after that, did I?

00:59:44So it must have been him.

00:59:46Robin wasn't in Clapham, then.

00:59:49Of course he was.

00:59:49He had a flat there.

00:59:50No, he was in Chelsea, then.

00:59:52Anyway, he was in hospital when I moved here.

00:59:55Hospital?

00:59:55Well, he couldn't come to our flat warning.

00:59:57He was still having those blackouts.

00:59:59They found out it was an allergy to fish in the end.

01:00:02You must remember, he was on the danger list.

01:00:05Oh, Christ.

01:00:06He wouldn't have been in any state to tell me anything.

01:00:10Are you all right?

01:00:12Nora!

01:00:13Maeve!

01:00:14Whatever is it?

01:00:15It's Robin.

01:00:16There's been an accident.

01:00:19Just lie quietly, Maeve.

01:00:21You've had a terrible shock.

01:00:23We were coming out of Hyde Park.

01:00:25You know, into the Bayswater Road.

01:00:26I never know what it's called.

01:00:28Victoria Gate.

01:00:29Yeah.

01:00:30We were going to the Swan for a drink.

01:00:32And this car came tearing up from that row by the side of Hyde Park Gardens.

01:00:36Book Street.

01:00:36I got something in my shoe.

01:00:38But Robin set off across the road.

01:00:40And it just came straight for him.

01:00:41The driver didn't even stop.

01:00:43And he must have known he'd hit him.

01:00:44Did you get his number plate?

01:00:45Well, it all happened so quickly.

01:00:47Where is he now?

01:00:48St Thomas'.

01:00:49How bad is he?

01:00:50He's going to be all right, thank God.

01:00:51Great.

01:00:53I've got to make a phone call, Leo.

01:00:55The phone's in the hall.

01:00:56It's all right.

01:00:56I've got a mobile in the car.

01:00:58I'll give you both a lift to the hospital after, if you like.

01:01:01If you hadn't half-blinded him at that party, he might have seen the bloody car coming.

01:01:05Yeah, I know.

01:01:06I'd like to say I'm sorry.

01:01:09Oh, for Christ's sake, Guy.

01:01:11Look, I said I'm sorry, Danny.

01:01:13So what do I tell Chuck?

01:01:15Tell him the job's off.

01:01:17I'll buy in another grand, make it up to you.

01:01:19Oh, bloody hell.

01:01:20What can I say, Danny?

01:01:22I made a mistake.

01:01:33Surprised?

01:01:35It's quite brave of me to come here alone, isn't it?

01:01:38You may frighten my daughter, but you don't frighten me.

01:01:41Nice to see you, Tessa.

01:01:43Why don't we talk about this inside?

01:01:44Do you want to join me in a drink?

01:01:51Of course I don't want a drink.

01:01:53What do you want, then?

01:01:55You're not going to get away with this, you know.

01:01:57With what?

01:01:58Persecuting my daughter.

01:01:59Beating up my son.

01:02:01Trying to run him over.

01:02:02I was never near him.

01:02:03I was with Leon.

01:02:04They've said you knew where it happened.

01:02:05All the names of the roads.

01:02:06I think you're unhinged.

01:02:10And my husband will get a court order to stop you molesting my daughter if you don't leave her alone from this moment on.

01:02:16Leonore is getting married in three weeks' time.

01:02:19September the 16th.

01:02:21Kensington Registry Office.

01:02:23You didn't know that, did you?

01:02:24No, I didn't.

01:02:25No, because she hasn't dared tell you.

01:02:27But I'm here to give you a very serious warning not to try to do anything to stop it.

01:02:33She loves William and he adores her.

01:02:35And I will not have a verminous guttersnipe like you getting in the way.

01:02:39It's the same old song, isn't it, Tessa?

01:02:41Ever since you first saw me, you've balled it in Leo's ears so often she don't know whether she's coming or going.

01:02:48You're trying to get her to marry this ginger dwarf.

01:02:51Because you know it's me she loves and it gets right up your snot-filled nose.

01:02:55Love?

01:02:56What do you know about love?

01:02:59Someone who'd sell heroin to the mentally disabled.

01:03:01Careful, Tessa.

01:03:02I think a little friend's been telling Porky's about me.

01:03:07A very good friend, as a matter of fact.

01:03:09Who does love Nora and wants to see her happy.

01:03:13Something you, with all your money and your Kandinsky on the wall there, can never ever make her.

01:03:18You vicious, poisonous old cow.

01:03:22If you weren't Leo's mother, I'd give you such a crack across your over-made-up gob.

01:03:27Now, you get out of my house.

01:03:32Tell yourself that all you ever think that.

01:03:34Okay, okay, so I forgot your sister's birthday.

01:03:36Tell her I'll get seats for Sunset Boulevard.

01:03:39Just give me five minutes in here with Guy, will you?

01:03:41She's seen it!

01:03:43Women.

01:03:45Well, I don't have to tell you.

01:03:47I'm sore about missing you about, Danny.

01:03:48No, don't apologise to me.

01:03:50Apologise to Chuck.

01:03:51You nearly made a murderer out of him.

01:03:53Well, it wouldn't have been the first time.

01:03:54That's not the point.

01:03:55He's upset.

01:03:56He's got his professional pride.

01:03:58Tell him this, Tom.

01:03:59I'm grateful he didn't do a good job.

01:04:01And tell him I've got another name for him.

01:04:03Another one?

01:04:04What is this?

01:04:05Spot the ball?

01:04:06That's a friend of Leo's.

01:04:08She's a social worker in Clapham.

01:04:09That Vasari woman was a social worker in Clapham.

01:04:12It all adds up.

01:04:14Her name's Rachel Lingard.

01:04:17Here, take this card.

01:04:18I don't want it.

01:04:19I know where you live.

01:04:20I've written the address and her description on the back.

01:04:22Short, round-faced, fat, glasses, dark hair, scraped back, about 27.

01:04:31Not my type.

01:04:33She's not anyone's type.

01:04:35Give her card to Chuck.

01:04:37You're in my soul.

01:04:43You are my...

01:04:45Hello?

01:04:51Thank goodness I've caught you.

01:04:53Leo!

01:04:55This is wonderful.

01:04:56You never ring me.

01:04:57I thought you might have left.

01:04:58I don't want to be too early.

01:05:00Especially as you're always late.

01:05:02I can't make it, Guy.

01:05:03It's Susanna.

01:05:04Well, her mother.

01:05:05She's died.

01:05:07Susanna's in the state and Daddy's away.

01:05:09But it's Saturday.

01:05:10I'm so sorry, Guy.

01:05:13We've only got two left.

01:05:15She wants me to be with her.

01:05:17I've got to go.

01:05:18Bye.

01:05:19Are you from The Undertaker's?

01:05:27I'm Guy Curran.

01:05:29Oh, yes, so you are.

01:05:30We've met before.

01:05:32Have we?

01:05:33I'm Janice, Nora's cousin.

01:05:35We met at a dinner party.

01:05:36Oh, yeah, you were going to Australia.

01:05:38That's right.

01:05:39Now I'm back for the...

01:05:41Well, for a holiday, really.

01:05:43Do come in.

01:05:43Susanna's in the drawing room.

01:05:44It's Guy Curran, Susanna.

01:05:49Guy?

01:05:49Must be ages since we last met.

01:05:51I was very sorry to hear about your mother.

01:05:54How did you know?

01:05:55Leo told me.

01:05:57If there's anything I can do...

01:05:58That's very kind, but everything's under control.

01:06:01Actually, if you'll excuse me a moment, I must go and ring Jerry.

01:06:04Jerry is Janice's enormous Australian husband.

01:06:08God knows what size their children will be.

01:06:10Yes, Nora's gone to the crematorium to choose the casket.

01:06:16My mother was rather eccentric towards the end.

01:06:18She insisted her ashes should be scattered from the cob in lime weegis,

01:06:22so we need something suitable.

01:06:24Anthony and I are going down there next weekend.

01:06:26Snatch a break at the same time if we can.

01:06:28Life goes on, doesn't it?

01:06:29Yeah.

01:06:31Is Leo going to be long?

01:06:34I'd just like you to know I'm so sorry for you, Guy.

01:06:37You mustn't be bitter because she's chosen William.

01:06:39William, these things happen.

01:06:41She'll come back to me.

01:06:43I know she will.

01:06:44I hate to see you so unhappy.

01:06:47You're like a knight of old pining for his lady.

01:06:50Yeah.

01:06:51Oh, is that the wedding invitation on the mental piece?

01:06:54What?

01:06:55Oh, that!

01:06:56Oh, I must throw that away.

01:06:58It was last week, a friend of Janice's.

01:07:00That's why she and Jerry are over here.

01:07:02Oh, that must be Nora now.

01:07:05I'm throwing away your invitation, Janice.

01:07:07I hope you don't mind.

01:07:08What?

01:07:09Hello, Guy.

01:07:10Your invitation to Emma's wedding, Janice.

01:07:12Guy spotted it.

01:07:14You didn't want it, did you?

01:07:15No, of course not.

01:07:17You'll be staying on for Leo's wedding, I expect.

01:07:20What?

01:07:21I'd be ashamed to miss it.

01:07:22Only a fortnight away now.

01:07:24You'll have to twist Jerry's arm.

01:07:26Janice and Jerry are going to use my flat for the next few days, Guy.

01:07:29Be a bit of a squeeze, won't it?

01:07:31Oh, there's no one there now.

01:07:33May's with Robin and I'm with William.

01:07:35And Rachel's away.

01:07:37Away?

01:07:37Yes.

01:07:38She's writing a book.

01:07:39She's gone to Poland to do some research.

01:07:41She'll be back for the wedding, though.

01:07:43You know, Rachel.

01:07:44Work before pleasure.

01:07:47Look, why don't you come and have supper with us on Wednesday, to make up for today?

01:07:52Us?

01:07:53With William and me.

01:07:54Well, that sounds like an offer you can't refuse, Guy.

01:08:05Sweet Guy.

01:08:06What is it?

01:08:07Bad dream.

01:08:11Bad...

01:08:12Bad dream.

01:08:13Bad dream.

01:08:17I saw his man.

01:08:19This black man.

01:08:20He was just a pile of rags in a doorway.

01:08:23I went over and his head tipped back and his mouth opened and there was this gold tooth right in the middle.

01:08:30It was Linus.

01:08:32Linus Pinedo.

01:08:33And I had a knife in my hand.

01:08:38And I knew I had to kill him.

01:08:41And I felt good about it.

01:08:44And then there was this other figure in the shadows and it loomed up behind him.

01:08:49And it didn't have a head.

01:08:52It was just a mass of bees where his head should have been.

01:08:56And they weren't buzzing, they were screaming.

01:09:02Thousands of little human, high-pitched voices.

01:09:06My poor guy.

01:09:07Shh.

01:09:10I'd love her, Celeste.

01:09:13I can't help it.

01:09:14Shh.

01:09:17I'd love you if I could.

01:09:19You're everything I want.

01:09:20I know, but I'm not her.

01:09:22Don't leave me, Celeste.

01:09:24I want you.

01:09:26I need you.

01:09:28Gently, Guy.

01:09:29Gently.

01:09:30You're hurting me.

01:09:34More coffee, Guy?

01:09:36No, I'm fine, thanks.

01:09:38Didn't have to cook, Leo.

01:09:39We should have gone out.

01:09:40Oh, dear.

01:09:41I didn't think it was that bad.

01:09:42No, I'll make my school starting again.

01:09:44You must be tired.

01:09:46Didn't you tell him, Nora?

01:09:48What?

01:09:49Oh, she's given up teaching, didn't you know?

01:09:51I resigned as soon as...

01:09:54I resigned last term.

01:09:56As soon as what?

01:09:57As soon as she knew I was going to Manchester.

01:10:00Manchester?

01:10:01Hmm.

01:10:02Granada, in their wisdom, want me to produce a new series up there.

01:10:05You never told me, Leo.

01:10:06She probably didn't think it was any of your business.

01:10:09But she doesn't have to go.

01:10:10Oh, I think she does.

01:10:12That's what wives generally do, isn't it?

01:10:15Live with their husbands.

01:10:16Tell him you're not going to leave me, Leo.

01:10:18No, you're right.

01:10:18She's not going to leave you.

01:10:19You can't leave someone you weren't with in the first place.

01:10:23Tell him it's not true, Leo.

01:10:25Guy, you must stop this.

01:10:28I'm marrying William, and I'm going to Manchester.

01:10:32What about all this furniture?

01:10:34You taking that with you?

01:10:35I think so.

01:10:36Granada aren't paying me that much.

01:10:38What about these old swords?

01:10:41You taking those?

01:10:43Why?

01:10:44Are you putting in an offer?

01:10:46Yeah, I'll put in an offer.

01:10:48I'll need to test them out first, of course.

01:10:51See if they're any good.

01:10:53Don't be a bigger fool than you already are.

01:10:55Put them down, Guy.

01:10:57See how sharp they are?

01:10:59Here, catch.

01:11:02This is very childish, Guy.

01:11:04These aren't toys.

01:11:05Come on in, Errol Flynn.

01:11:07If you want her, you're going to have to take her.

01:11:09You don't put that sword down.

01:11:10I'm going to phone the police.

01:11:11There's no need to involve anyone else.

01:11:14This is just between me and this ginger dwarf.

01:11:18This sawn-off little runt.

01:11:21I'm going to cut these non-existent balls off.

01:11:24For God's sake, Guy, please.

01:11:25Get in the hall, Nora.

01:11:26I don't think this chap's quite in control of himself.

01:11:29You wipe that sodding grin off your face.

01:11:32Please, please stop.

01:11:34I'll get the neighbours.

01:11:35I swear I will.

01:11:37For God's sake, shut up.

01:11:39I love you, and I'm going to win you.

01:11:41Oh, God!

01:11:45Oh, God!

01:11:47Oh, God!

01:11:49Right, D'Artagnan.

01:11:51I'll take that.

01:11:52William, what have you done?

01:11:54It's all right.

01:11:55It'll be all right.

01:11:56Still want to buy the swords, dear?

01:11:58For God's sake, William, he's pouring blood.

01:12:00Well, I'm sorry.

01:12:02I'll drive him to the hospital.

01:12:04You aren't driving me anywhere.

01:12:06It's only my arm.

01:12:07You've got to have it seen to.

01:12:08He might have gone through an artery.

01:12:10William, get a towel.

01:12:12I don't want to lose you, Leo.

01:12:14I despair of you, Guy.

01:12:16I really am at my wit's end.

01:12:19Oh, come on.

01:12:21Let's get you to the car.

01:12:22Fourteen stitches.

01:12:27I can't believe you could be so stupid.

01:12:30Don't be angry with me.

01:12:31I'm angry with you both.

01:12:33I just wanted you to be friends.

01:12:34Is that so much to ask?

01:12:36I'm sick and tired of the whole thing.

01:12:39I know how you feel.

01:12:40No, you don't.

01:12:42That's the whole point.

01:12:43You don't know how I feel.

01:12:44Otherwise, you wouldn't behave like you do.

01:12:46Do you want me to phone Celeste?

01:12:50I want you to stay with me tonight.

01:12:54I'll come in and see you're okay.

01:12:57This is as close as I can park.

01:13:00Are you all right to walk?

01:13:01Leo, does the name Con Mulvaney mean anything to you?

01:13:06Mulvaney?

01:13:07Why?

01:13:08He died a few years ago.

01:13:10He was stung to death by bees.

01:13:13Bees?

01:13:14He does ring a bell.

01:13:16I gave him LSD.

01:13:19He begged me for it.

01:13:20I shouldn't have done it.

01:13:21He was a nutter.

01:13:23If he hadn't been a nutter, it would have been all right.

01:13:25I don't deal anymore, Leo.

01:13:27I'm clean.

01:13:30What you do doesn't make any difference to the way I think about you.

01:13:35Doesn't it?

01:13:39Kiss me, Leo.

01:13:40It's been such a long time.

01:13:54Yes, it has.

01:13:56Oh, I'm sorry.

01:13:58I love you.

01:13:59I'll love you till the day I die.

01:14:02I know you'll come back to me one day.

01:14:04Come on.

01:14:08Let's get you indoors.

01:14:13I'll make you a cup of tea.

01:14:14I've dreamed of you coming back here again.

01:14:17I can't remember where the kitchen is.

01:14:20Oh, no, no, not tea.

01:14:21I need a brandy.

01:14:22Medicine time.

01:14:24Brandy's what you drink when you've had an accident, remember?

01:14:27All right.

01:14:28I'll make it a large one.

01:14:29You said he rang a bell.

01:14:34Con Mulvaney.

01:14:36The bee sting man?

01:14:37Yeah, it was Rachel who told you about him, wasn't it?

01:14:40Rachel?

01:14:41Yeah, you'd just come down from university.

01:14:43Rachel was a social worker in Clapham.

01:14:45He lived in Clapham with a social worker.

01:14:48She must have told Rachel.

01:14:50Rachel worked in Greenwich.

01:14:51She didn't tell me.

01:14:53Here you are.

01:14:54You shouldn't really drink after that injection.

01:15:01No.

01:15:02It was Susanna who told me.

01:15:04Susanna?

01:15:06No, couldn't have been.

01:15:07A woman wrote to her.

01:15:08I don't know how she found the address.

01:15:10She must have thought Susanna was my mother.

01:15:12She had a peculiar name, I remember.

01:15:16Bobby Vasari.

01:15:17Vasari, that's it.

01:15:19She said you'd given drugs to her boyfriend and he died.

01:15:22And she says some wild things.

01:15:23And Susanna told you?

01:15:25Yes.

01:15:25And she told Magnus.

01:15:27Magnus?

01:15:28Because he's a solicitor.

01:15:29She wanted to know what to do.

01:15:31He said the best thing was to burn it.

01:15:34And he told Tessa and she told the world.

01:15:37So it was all Susanna's fault.

01:15:38Oh, no.

01:15:39No, she stuck up for you.

01:15:41She said if I really loved you, it didn't matter what you'd done.

01:15:45She really likes you, Guy.

01:15:47So what went wrong?

01:15:48Why did you turn against me?

01:15:50Don't keep worrying away at it.

01:15:52It was a long time ago.

01:15:55I know.

01:15:56So long since you've been inside my house.

01:15:59It's been so empty without you.

01:16:04Will you let me hold you?

01:16:08Mind your poor arm.

01:16:10You might open the wound.

01:16:12The wound's been open a long time, Leo.

01:16:14Could you do me a favour?

01:16:28Anything.

01:16:29Could we spend the afternoon together next Saturday?

01:16:33Or after lunch?

01:16:35We could go to the cinema or drive somewhere.

01:16:37And the evening, if you like.

01:16:43And the evening?

01:16:45You mean it?

01:16:47Rest now, Guy.

01:16:49I'll phone you in the morning.

01:16:50Hello?

01:17:02Guy?

01:17:03Are you all right?

01:17:05Fine.

01:17:06Slept like a log.

01:17:07You just woke me up.

01:17:08I was worried about you.

01:17:11Yeah.

01:17:12Did I dream it?

01:17:13Or did you say you'd spend all of Saturday with me?

01:17:15You didn't dream it.

01:17:16But having such strange dreams, I don't know what's real these days.

01:17:22Where shall we eat?

01:17:23Um, somewhere central.

01:17:26What about the Cathy Fish?

01:17:27All right.

01:17:28One o'clock?

01:17:30Actually, um, can you make it half past?

01:17:32Yeah, no problem.

01:17:34Shall I get tickets for a show?

01:17:36What do you fancy?

01:17:37You choose.

01:17:38Surprise me.

01:17:40Then afterwards, will you come back with me?

01:17:42I know you'll say no.

01:17:44Of course I will.

01:17:46What?

01:17:47You'll stay with me?

01:17:48I'll do whatever you want, Guy.

01:17:52Oh, God.

01:17:54I feel like the first time I saw you, my heart crashed through my body like a busted lift.

01:18:00You're in my heart and in my soul.

01:18:03Do you really mean it, Leo?

01:18:07Leo?

01:18:09Guy, forgive me.

01:18:12There's nothing to forgive.

01:18:15Just say you love me.

01:18:16I love you.

01:18:33I'm sorry, Danny.

01:18:35You want to tighten up, mate.

01:18:36I don't want the money back or nothing.

01:18:38You ain't getting the money back.

01:18:39You're all over the place.

01:18:41You know that.

01:18:41Just make sure you put a stop on Chuck.

01:18:44The girl's out of the country at the moment, so it shouldn't be a problem.

01:18:47I'm not promising anything.

01:18:49Chuck could have subcontracted the job for all I know.

01:18:52I can live without this, you know.

01:18:53Would you like to order now, sir?

01:19:00Yeah, get me another vodka.

01:19:01Certainly, sir.

01:19:02And to eat?

01:19:04I'll hang on a bit longer.

01:19:05You did book for half past one, sir.

01:19:08If I don't eat, you want me to leave.

01:19:09Is that it?

01:19:10We are very busy, sir.

01:19:13Here.

01:19:15Stick those up, you profit margin.

01:19:17Sorry we're not here.

01:19:26We'll get back to you as soon as we can.

01:19:27Just leave a message after this rather unpleasant noise.

01:19:35Rachel Lingard is not available to take your call at the moment.

01:19:38In emergency cases, please phone the social services helpline.

01:19:46Bad luck.

01:19:47I'm afraid you've got the dreaded machine.

01:19:49Please leave any messages for Maeve or Robin, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

01:19:55Sorry, we're not here at the moment.

01:19:57If you need to speak to Susanna or Anthony, just do so after the tone.

01:20:10Hello?

01:20:12Tessa?

01:20:14I know you're there, you bitch.

01:20:16I know you've got to.

01:20:19You can't do that.

01:20:20You can't keep a prisoner against a will.

01:20:22You don't think I'm going to lie down and let you walk all over me, do you?

01:20:25Where is she?

01:20:34My wife's in the sitting room.

01:20:35She's been expecting you.

01:20:36I don't want to see your stinking wife.

01:20:38Where's Leo?

01:20:39I think you'd better see my wife if you want to find out.

01:20:41You'd better come in.

01:20:42Ah, Curran.

01:20:46Do sit down.

01:20:48We thought you'd be running around like a headless chicken, so I volunteered to put you out of your misery.

01:20:54Where is she?

01:20:55At this moment, my daughter is 20,000 feet over northern France and radiantly happy because at one o'clock today, she and William were married and you were nowhere to be seen.

01:21:05No.

01:21:06They're honeymooning on Samos.

01:21:08I'm told it's fabulous there this time of year.

01:21:10The 16th?

01:21:11She told me the 16th?

01:21:13You told me the 16th?

01:21:15My daughter was seriously worried about the state of your mind.

01:21:19She thought, well, we all did, that if you knew the date of the wedding, you might do something dreadful.

01:21:24I think you got off lightly.

01:21:26I was over having a restraining order put on your...

01:21:28Whose idea was this?

01:21:30Leo didn't think it up, did she?

01:21:31I don't remember.

01:21:32It wasn't mine, I'm afraid.

01:21:34I wish it had been, but I can tell you Leonora absolutely jumped at it.

01:21:38But she's been afraid of you for years, living in a nightmare of terror about what you might do.

01:21:43She's not frightened of me, she loves me.

01:21:46Loves you?

01:21:47God, I wish I'd made a tape of the things she'd said about you.

01:21:51You made her life a misery.

01:21:53You were like a leech, you wouldn't let go.

01:21:56The more she tried to get away, the more you clung on.

01:21:59Don't you realise you drove her to hate you in the end?

01:22:02No, that's not true.

01:22:04Why would she see me every week if she hated me?

01:22:06For the sake of her peace of mind, so she could live a normal life for the rest of the week.

01:22:10No.

01:22:11You're lying.

01:22:13Put that out, I don't allow smoking in this house.

01:22:16You're going to make me?

01:22:17Or old skull face?

01:22:20Shouldn't make rules you can't enforce.

01:22:22I remember whose idea it was to set you up about the wedding.

01:22:24It was Mrs. Chisholm.

01:22:26Susanna.

01:22:27Called all the family together and outlined the whole thing.

01:22:30Leonora was a little apprehensive at first.

01:22:34Where is she?

01:22:35I told you.

01:22:36Samos.

01:22:37No, Susanna.

01:22:38It's no business of yours, but she's gone away with Antony for a little break.

01:22:43Now will you kindly get out of my house and out of our lives.

01:22:47Oh, my God.

01:23:02Oh, God, Guy, you frighten me.

01:23:05Why are you sitting in the dark?

01:23:08Guy, what's happened?

01:23:10What are you doing?

01:23:11Don't point that thing at me, please.

01:23:13It might go off.

01:23:14Yeah, I suppose it might.

01:23:20Sorry.

01:23:21I didn't know you had a gun.

01:23:23I've got to go out in a minute, Celeste.

01:23:25I've got to see someone.

01:23:27Can I come with you?

01:23:29You ever see a film called A French Lieutenant's Woman?

01:23:31Yeah.

01:23:32Meryl Streep.

01:23:33Leo loved that film.

01:23:35She said they filmed it in Lyme Regis.

01:23:37Did they?

01:23:38They call it the Cobb.

01:23:40The Harbour Wall.

01:23:42I'm going down there tonight.

01:23:44There's someone I need to see.

01:23:45You've been drinking, Guy.

01:23:46You'd better wait till morning.

01:23:47I thought she was my friend.

01:23:49Who?

01:23:50But it was the same old story all the time.

01:23:53The wicked stepmother was staring me in the face.

01:23:57The wedding invitation on the mantelpiece, the soft voice, the smiling.

01:24:02How blind can you be?

01:24:04You're not making sense, Guy.

01:24:06Let me put this gun away.

01:24:08Don't touch it!

01:24:11What day is it today?

01:24:13Saturday.

01:24:15And what do I always do on Saturdays?

01:24:17You always have lunch with Leo.

01:24:20Right.

01:24:231.30, she said.

01:24:26I sat there for bloody hours and she never came.

01:24:30She was getting married, wasn't she?

01:24:33It was all a con.

01:24:35It was a terrible thing to do.

01:24:37It was Susanna all along.

01:24:39She was the one who turned her against me.

01:24:41And the rest of them, grinning like monkeys.

01:24:43What she did, Guy.

01:24:45What Leo did, that was the terrible thing.

01:24:48No one made her do anything.

01:24:50She's not your little girl at school anymore.

01:24:52And what's more, I think she enjoyed it.

01:24:55She loved you making a goddess of her and not asking anything in return.

01:24:59How many times did you actually make love to her?

01:25:01How many times, Guy?

01:25:03It wasn't like that.

01:25:04Tell me.

01:25:06From that first time you told me about on the grave, how many times?

01:25:11I don't know.

01:25:14Five.

01:25:14It didn't matter.

01:25:17Oh, Guy.

01:25:18My sweet Guy.

01:25:19She had you on a string.

01:25:21What did it cost?

01:25:23Nothing.

01:25:24But I'm dead without her.

01:25:25And I'm dead without you.

01:25:27Sweet Guy, I love you.

01:25:31I want you to make love to me.

01:25:34I want to be free, Solis.

01:25:36But she's inside my head and I can't get her out.

01:25:39She'll go, darling.

01:25:40She'll fade away.

01:25:41No more phone calls.

01:25:43No more lunches.

01:25:44She'll be just another girl.

01:25:46I bought her a ring.

01:25:48Years ago.

01:25:48An engagement ring.

01:25:50Tonight, I threw it in the Thames.

01:25:53That's good.

01:25:55You see, and you're still here and I'm still here.

01:25:58Life goes on.

01:26:00We'll survive.

01:26:02Come here.

01:26:03Come here.

01:26:03Come to bed.

01:26:16We'll buy you a ring tomorrow.

01:26:20Come to bed.

01:26:21Don't answer it.

01:26:22I'll bet her.

01:26:23You never know.

01:26:25Go on.

01:26:25You go up.

01:26:26I want you, my sweet.

01:26:29Don't be long.

01:26:34Hello, Guy.

01:26:35It's been a long time.

01:26:37I don't believe it.

01:26:39I didn't think you'd recognise me.

01:26:41What, not that gold tooth anywhere?

01:26:43Linus, you old bastard.

01:26:45Where have you been?

01:26:46I thought you was dead.

01:26:47Dead?

01:26:47No, not me.

01:26:48Well, come on in.

01:26:49Bring your mate.

01:26:49I'm afraid this isn't a social call, Mr. Karen.

01:26:52What?

01:26:54The dream traffic's long gone, Guy.

01:26:55I'm on the other side now.

01:26:57My warrant card.

01:26:59Detective Sergeant Pinedo, CID.

01:27:01These gents are my colleagues.

01:27:04After you, Mr. Karen.

01:27:08That gun on the table, it wouldn't be loaded, would it, sir?

01:27:11Oh, yeah, I think it is.

01:27:12Have you got a firearm certificate for it?

01:27:14Yeah, somewhere.

01:27:15What the hell's this all about?

01:27:16We're making inquiries into the death of Mrs. Llewellyn Gerard, sir.

01:27:20I've never heard of her.

01:27:21Is that right?

01:27:22Mrs. Janice Llewellyn Gerard, Portland Road, West 11.

01:27:25Janice?

01:27:27Well, I do know people in Portland Road.

01:27:31Mrs. Llewellyn Gerard was murdered there early this evening.

01:27:33Murdered?

01:27:34Apparently she answered the door and she was shot at point-blank range.

01:27:37Christ.

01:27:38Luckily, the assailant was detained by her husband.

01:27:41An Australian rules footballer, as it happens.

01:27:44The man wasn't well enough to make a statement, but we found this card in his pocket.

01:27:48Do you recognise it, Mr. Karen?

01:27:51Yes, one of my business cards.

01:27:53If you turn the card over, sir, there's something written on the back.

01:27:56Can you make it out?

01:28:00Short, round-faced, fat, glasses, dark hair scraped back, about 27.

01:28:07What's going on, Guy?

01:28:10Who are these men?

01:28:12What's happening?

01:28:12You haven't got a specimen of your handwriting around, have you, sir?

01:28:15Just for elimination purposes.

01:28:17In Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell, dramatised by Robert East, Peter Wingfield played Guy,

01:28:33Una Beeson, Leonora, Tom Bevan, Danny, Tessa Worsley, Tessa, Derek Waring, Anthony, Becky Hindley, Rachel, Natasha Pine, Susanna, David Collings, Magnus, Michelle Joseph, Celeste, Kristen Millwood, Poppy, Andrew Branch, William, Richard Pearce, Robin, Gavin Muir, Con Mulvaney, and Linus.

01:29:01Iona Grant, Janice, Annabelle Mullion, Maeve, and Robert East, Sergeant Lamb.

01:29:09The play was directed by Matthew Walters.

01:29:11Palmer curtis.

01:29:21Iona Grant.

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