T.R.R.M. The Speaker of Mandarin. (1992) Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 27th September/4th/11th October 1992.  Having attended a police conference in China Wexford joins a group of British tourists in Hong Kong including former barrister Adam Knighton and his wife Adela, not the most loving of couples.  George Baker - Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford Christopher Ravenscroft - Det. Insp. Mike Burden Virginia McKenna - Milborough Lang Patrick Drury - Chief Supt. Howard Fortune Norman Rodway - Adam Knighton Denyse Alexander - Adela Knighton Annette Crosbie - Irene Bell Kay Tong Lim - Sung Lao Zhong Michael Carter - Lewis Fanning Marjorie Yates - Hilda Avery Maggie Steed - Janine Frances Cuka - Lois Knox Dominic Jephcott - Gordon Vinald Helena Michell - Pandora Vinald Fiona Walker - Margery Bauman Matthew Marsh - Angus Norris Olivia Williams - Jennifer Norris Stephen Jameson - CID officer David Conville - Burnett Christine Collins - Shop Assistant Ian East - Jack Hayward Arbel Jones - Mrs. Fanning Louie Ramsay - Dora Wexford Diane Keen - Jenny Burden Ken Kitson - Sgt Martin John Burgess - Dr. Len Crocker Alex Leppard - Kevin Smith Barry Lowe - Silver Perry Dave Atkins - Bingley Colin Campbell - Sgt Willoughby Annabelle Lanyon - Miss Elf Ian Barritt - Bank Manager Mary Jo Randle - Mrs. Thompson Frederick Treves - Dobson Flint

Transcript

00:00:00Oh, my God.

00:00:30I don't know.

00:01:00I don't know.

00:01:30I don't know.

00:02:00I don't know.

00:02:29I don't know.

00:03:01I don't know.

00:03:03I don't know.

00:03:05China.

00:03:06I'm going to China.

00:03:08When?

00:03:09As soon as it can be arranged.

00:03:12It's one of my dreams.

00:03:15Imperial palaces, Marco Polo bridge, the forbidden city, the yellow roof pavilions of Beijing.

00:03:23They want advice on crime detection and prevention.

00:03:27Actually, when it's all over, I'm joining Denise in Hong Kong for two or three weeks.

00:03:31How do you feel about coming along with us?

00:03:33Reg too.

00:03:34I'm afraid not.

00:03:35I'm afraid not.

00:03:36He'll be too busy.

00:03:37I shall need him in Beijing.

00:03:41Howard.

00:03:42Are you serious?

00:03:43Of course I'm serious.

00:03:45I've been given carte blanche to pick my own team and I'm picking you as just about the

00:03:50best detection expert I know.

00:03:52China.

00:03:54I'm giving you plenty of notice to get your own visa.

00:03:57These group visas are no good, particularly if you want to go wandering off on your own.

00:04:01Which I'm sure you will.

00:04:03I'm sure you will.

00:04:33Hello.

00:04:35Hello.

00:04:36Hello.

00:04:45Hello.

00:04:51Hello.

00:05:01Hello.

00:05:02good afternoon oh you speak english mr waxford from beijing you come from beijing yes that's

00:05:23right i've been there for a few weeks working but now i'm on holiday did you have a pleasant

00:05:27journey well it was a bit hot well the hotel is fully air-conditioned and we have natural hot spring

00:05:34bath i just arrived yes english yes sorry good there's too many damn americans nichols waxford

00:05:47it's bloody hot still the air conditioning's good here in fact it's bloody arctic when it works

00:05:52japanese here for long oh no not long no from beijing yeah i came down by train oh that's my

00:05:58idea of hell i'll bet you're ready for a shower and a stiff whiskey so perhaps we'll see you later

00:06:03for a drink there's quite a few of us down there we're usually in the bar in the evening nothing

00:06:08much else to do

00:06:08yes sir

00:06:16sir

00:06:22yes sir

00:06:29yes sir

00:06:33yes sir

00:06:37yes sir

00:06:43yes

00:06:45yes

00:07:49It tastes good.

00:07:51It tastes good.

00:07:52It tastes good.

00:07:54It tastes good.

00:07:59Don't shop them.

00:08:01Oh, it's fast.

00:08:03It tastes good.

00:08:05Sir, sir.

00:08:06Sir, sir.

00:08:08Well, it tastes good.

00:08:24Shot through the back of the head.

00:08:29Didn't mean to miss.

00:08:45Good morning.

00:08:47Good morning.

00:08:48Mr. Wexford?

00:08:49Yes.

00:08:50Who are you?

00:08:51Sum Lauzhan.

00:08:52Your guide.

00:08:52Oh.

00:08:53How'd you do?

00:08:55What do I call you?

00:08:56Sum.

00:08:58Sum.

00:09:04Where do we go?

00:09:06Porcelain fat.

00:09:08You will be taken to room to have tea with workmen.

00:09:12He will tell you about changes since revolution and give statistics.

00:09:18That is the word.

00:09:20You may ask questions, but be careful what you ask.

00:09:23Unanswered questions should not be perused beyond the bounds of courtesy.

00:09:29Good evening.

00:09:40Good evening.

00:09:41Good evening.

00:09:43Are you English?

00:09:45Yes.

00:09:46May I practice my English with you?

00:09:49Of course.

00:09:50Good.

00:09:51Good.

00:09:52My name is Li Qin Chao and I am a student.

00:09:56I am going to be a doctor.

00:09:59Oh.

00:10:00Would you like a drink?

00:10:01Yes.

00:10:02Yes.

00:10:02A glass of water, please.

00:10:04A chigae wu.

00:10:06eBay shuang.

00:10:08You speak Chinese.

00:10:09Just a few words.

00:10:12Yeah.

00:10:12Are you enjoy stay in China?

00:10:17Enjoying.

00:10:18Oh.

00:10:20Enjoying.

00:10:21Are you enjoying your stay in China?

00:10:24Very much.

00:10:25Um, the, the weather is hot.

00:10:30Oh.

00:10:31Yes, it is.

00:10:32I'm not used to it.

00:10:33I came down on the train from Beijing.

00:10:36Oh.

00:10:36Do you live in London?

00:10:38Close.

00:10:39Oh.

00:10:41One day I will go to London.

00:10:43And one day I will go to New York.

00:10:45I'm sure you will.

00:10:46Have you been to the theatre?

00:10:48I think you should go there and see the opera.

00:10:51Perhaps we can go together so I can practice my English with you and you can practice your

00:10:56Chinese with me.

00:10:57Hello there.

00:10:59Why don't you come and join us?

00:11:01Oh.

00:11:01Uh, I'm sorry.

00:11:03I'm a skull.

00:11:04I have an appointment.

00:11:05Thank you for your time and jai jian.

00:11:12Student?

00:11:13Yes.

00:11:15Going to be a doctor?

00:11:16That's right.

00:11:17Wanted to practice her English.

00:11:21Yes.

00:11:23Yes.

00:11:24Beer?

00:11:26Cheers.

00:11:44They call her the Marquise of Time.

00:11:472,000 years old.

00:11:49Was she strangled?

00:11:50Oh, not so.

00:11:52Oh, how did she die then?

00:11:53Very sick, you know.

00:11:54Bad heart, bad insight.

00:11:56She died from heart attack after eating 120 watermelon seed.

00:12:00You've been reading the brochure.

00:12:03Oh, let's go.

00:12:08Oh, I wish you wouldn't keep saying that.

00:12:11Either you should say, shall we go, or are you ready?

00:12:15Oh, thank you, thank you.

00:12:16Oh, thank you, thank you.

00:12:16I practice.

00:12:17Shall we go, are you ready?

00:12:20Good.

00:12:21I've got it.

00:12:22Come, let's go.

00:12:23Are you ready?

00:12:23Reply now, please.

00:12:25Go where?

00:12:27Teacher training college.

00:12:29Oh, no, we don't.

00:12:30Oh, no, we don't.

00:12:32We're going back to the hotel for a shower and a siesta.

00:12:36But there'll be no...

00:12:38There will be no other time for college.

00:12:42I can't help that.

00:12:43It is most necessary to see college attended by Chairman Mao.

00:12:46Not today.

00:12:47What about women weaving copies?

00:12:50Hotel.

00:12:51Be ready, please, by seven.

00:12:54What for?

00:12:55Open air showing a film about a history of the revolution.

00:12:59Oh, no, thank you.

00:13:01Two million mosquitoes.

00:13:03Well, then you come to Cinema and Hotel and see Shanghai Girl.

00:13:07Very good Chinese film about Chinese construction workers.

00:13:10I sit next to you so you don't miss a story.

00:13:40Good evening.

00:16:16Tolstoy!

00:16:22Tolstoy!

00:16:52Hello?

00:16:54Reg!

00:16:56Hello?

00:16:58Reg!

00:17:00Hello?

00:17:10Reg!

00:17:12Reg!

00:17:13I'm sorry.

00:17:14It's just that I...

00:17:16Are you all right?

00:17:18Dreams.

00:17:20Dreams.

00:17:21Dreams.

00:17:22Darling?

00:17:23I keep having the strangest dreams.

00:17:26Well...

00:17:28Not dreams, really.

00:17:30Thoughts.

00:17:32Thoughts.

00:17:33There's this woman.

00:17:34I never see her face.

00:17:38She's murdered.

00:17:42Is there a doctor?

00:17:44In the hotel?

00:17:46Well, among them...

00:17:48Sometimes a doctor.

00:17:50I'm sorry.

00:17:52I didn't mean to alarm you.

00:17:54It's...

00:17:56Just that it's...

00:17:57It's a bit hot.

00:17:58I'm tired.

00:17:59I'm tired.

00:18:00Bit lonely.

00:18:02How are you?

00:18:06Dora?

00:18:08Dora?

00:18:22That was the first thing that attracted me to you.

00:18:27Your stillness.

00:18:29Those years ago, I found it reassuring.

00:18:38I used to watch you.

00:18:42Just as I'm watching you now.

00:18:47You knew I was watching.

00:18:53I wanted to reach out and touch you.

00:18:59But I didn't.

00:19:03I don't know why.

00:19:10When was the last time you touched me?

00:19:12Do we have to?

00:19:14When?

00:19:15You're tired.

00:19:19You can't remember.

00:19:23What do you want from me?

00:19:25Well, what?

00:19:27What do you want?

00:19:29We hardly ever speak.

00:19:32This damned heater.

00:19:35There's terrible silence.

00:19:38It hurts.

00:19:42Physically hurts.

00:19:43Their conditioning's off again.

00:19:48If it hadn't been for the children,

00:19:50you'd have left me years ago, wouldn't you?

00:19:53I'm here.

00:19:54Are you?

00:19:58Not with her.

00:20:00Not with your actress.

00:20:04Is that what all this is about?

00:20:08Did you talk to her?

00:20:10You talked to her.

00:20:12Told her you loved her.

00:20:14That was 20 years ago.

00:20:15Years ago.

00:20:16It was yesterday.

00:20:18Can't you ever forget?

00:20:19No.

00:20:21No.

00:20:23I can't.

00:20:25I can't.

00:20:26I can't.

00:20:28See you.

00:20:30Did you want to see her?

00:20:32No.

00:20:34No.

00:20:36We're not good.

00:20:38We're not good.

00:20:40We're not good.

00:20:42What happened?

00:20:43Not with her.

00:20:44you know there's no drink here you know there's none here there was a bottle in my bag what have

00:21:00you done with it there was no bottle there was a bottle it's the heat why don't you take a shower

00:21:06I need a drink you know what you said to me you remember what you said just wondering that when

00:21:21you get like this one I was to ignore all the pleading just one little drink no please no you've

00:21:34hidden it haven't you it's been three weeks before three weeks of sobriety it's here somewhere

00:21:42that's why we came away I wish to God we hadn't

00:22:04I've seen you above our table Lewis family oh Reg Waxford are you expecting anyone no no may I join you

00:22:31please do drink oh no I've just got my beer beer I'm escaping escaping from my lot I reckon they'll

00:22:48make it sane to Canton yeah don't sound as if you're enjoying yourself it's sheer bloody murder some

00:22:53holiday dear God in heaven I'm not on holiday I'm working I'm the tour leader I brought this lot

00:23:00here by train where from Calais Calais 36 days I've been in train shepherding this lot across Europe

00:23:07and Asia I nearly lost one they uncoupled the carriage she got left jumped out yelling came running up the

00:23:14track which one what which one was she one with a cigarette holder the two with her never talk husband and

00:23:26wife never heard more than ten words between him I want him blues an alcoholic on the wagon woman with her

00:23:34never takes her eyes from her brings her down the bar every evening makes us sit down drinking lemonade

00:23:41the one in floral print she can't leave the men alone to my certain knowledge she's at four in various

00:23:55wagon Lee on route where you going next Hong Kong leaving the train tomorrow night shall I

00:24:04you know Tolstoy ran out when I opened the back door and I went to vacuum the old carpet found a broken vase

00:24:27right past the dining room didn't see didn't see her at first first time we've known him not be here as well as her

00:24:43went upstairs and looked I mean he might have been dead and laying up there too

00:24:51where have you been

00:25:20well I always have a walk before breakfast I needed to talk to you so talk

00:25:27you will not mind coming on bus with party what party we're leaving tonight last visit before

00:25:38leaving China oh why should I mind coming on the bus it is not economic to drive 50 kilometers for

00:25:44one man no I understand that this is very wasteful much better you come on bus with party nice English

00:25:52people right right right right right

00:25:57so

00:26:03so

00:26:05so

00:26:07so

00:26:09so

00:26:21What are the crops?

00:26:35Oh, peanut, aubergine, castor oil plant, cassava, taro,

00:26:42soya beans.

00:26:51I've never seen so much water.

00:27:02And the greenness.

00:27:05It takes something to beat the English countryside.

00:27:08Ah, English countryside.

00:27:11Well, that's different.

00:27:14The scale, the focus, the detail.

00:27:18Are you a country man?

00:27:20I wish I were.

00:27:22Oh, you say that with a kind of longing?

00:27:25Well, perhaps one day.

00:27:38I try to talk to him.

00:27:42I try very hard to talk to him.

00:27:47He's so remote.

00:27:50Why are you so closed?

00:27:52He doesn't talk to anyone.

00:27:55It isn't just you.

00:27:58It's as if he's growing weary of words.

00:28:02But not poetry.

00:28:03Never poetry.

00:28:06Strange the things you remember and take through your life with you.

00:28:14I saw an old woman in a black hooker hat.

00:28:24I think she had bound feet.

00:28:29In a country of such beauty, what a perverted sense of beauty.

00:28:35Well, thank God they don't do that anymore.

00:28:37Oh.

00:28:39I just looked at her for a moment, and I turned away, and took back a minute later, and she vanished.

00:28:50Well, this is China.

00:28:54No.

00:29:00Shoot not the wild geese from the south, let them northward lie.

00:29:09When you do shoot, shoot the pair of them, so that the two may not be put asunder.

00:29:15Ladies and gentlemen, today we go to birthplace of Mao Zedong, great spiritual leader.

00:29:27I tell you now about him before we get there.

00:29:31Mao Zedong came from a peasant family.

00:29:34He was born in Hunan province in village of Shaosham in 1893.

00:29:45Oh, getting lost again, Mr. Wexford.

00:30:06I was not lost this morning. I was merely in a different place.

00:30:09You share compartment with me. I make sure you not get lost.

00:30:15I don't know.

00:30:4510 degrees under a hundred.

00:30:53Restaurant car open at eight.

00:30:55Drinks will be served.

00:30:56Beer, red and white wine,

00:30:58mauturi, maybe Japanese whiskey.

00:31:00Oh, it's hot.

00:31:02Train get going.

00:31:03Open window, switch on fan.

00:31:15Excuse me.

00:31:22I wonder if I could possibly trouble you a moment.

00:31:25How can I, yeah?

00:31:25Well, I don't know how you find it,

00:31:27but it's so awful constantly trying to make oneself understood to the Chinese.

00:31:31Well, if you can go to that.

00:31:32And would you point out?

00:31:33Oh, yes, I'm sure they do.

00:31:36Oh, by the way, I'm Lois Knox,

00:31:38and this is Hilda Avery.

00:31:40How do you do?

00:31:41My name is...

00:31:42Wexford.

00:31:43I spied it on your luggage.

00:31:45Where's Waxford?

00:31:47And now, please, please, please,

00:31:51do think you're awfully sweet and make our fan work.

00:31:54Oh, I couldn't make mine work,

00:31:56and then the attendant showed me how.

00:31:58There's a switch under the title here.

00:32:00There you are.

00:32:01Oh, thank you.

00:32:05Oh, thank you.

00:32:05And since you're so clever,

00:32:08do think you'll be even more of an angel

00:32:10and find out how to turn this bloody radio off.

00:32:13We hate it, don't we, Lois?

00:32:15There should be a knob there, but it's broken, and it won't move.

00:32:19We won't get a wink of sleep.

00:32:20Well, I couldn't have any of her to pelt lives.

00:32:23Where's some?

00:32:25I haven't seen him for a while.

00:32:27You'll never hear when you want them.

00:32:29Oh, do have some tea, will you?

00:32:30Or some lessosia.

00:32:32If you haven't anything stronger, I'm afraid,

00:32:35Hilda's drying out.

00:32:37Aren't you, darling?

00:32:38And we don't think it's wise to have spirits

00:32:40about such an awful temptation.

00:32:42Oh, we should be found stark staring mad in the morning.

00:32:45Yes, well, I'll see what I can do for you.

00:32:48Yes, it's hard to eat, but it's also 40 minutes.

00:32:55I'll see you next time.

00:32:57Oh, a restaurant will be open at 8 o'clock.

00:33:00Why do you say that I eat and drink all day now?

00:33:03Pardon?

00:33:04Immediately you see me and tell me what time the restaurant will open.

00:33:06You're not hungry, thirsty?

00:33:08No.

00:33:09What then?

00:33:10I want a pair of pliers.

00:33:12Oh, you get plenty of cigarettes when restaurants are open.

00:33:14No, no, pliers.

00:33:17For pulling nails out of walls.

00:33:20Why you pull nails out of walls?

00:33:23I don't want to pull nails out of walls.

00:33:26Oh, you say that.

00:33:28Do you have any other things?

00:33:29No, I don't.

00:33:31Do you have any other things?

00:33:32Uh, I don't.

00:33:34Do you have any other things?

00:33:34Oh, okay.

00:33:35Will this do?

00:33:36No, no, those are tweezers.

00:33:38Tweezers?

00:33:40For, uh, plucking eyebrows.

00:33:42What is plucking?

00:33:44Please.

00:33:44Uh, taking hair from.

00:33:47Why you take hair from eyebrows?

00:33:50Women do it.

00:33:52What for?

00:33:53To make themselves look beautiful.

00:33:57Worst have we been very peculiar?

00:33:58Hi, uh, yes, sir.

00:34:01Uh, since, uh, I don't know.

00:34:08I don't know.

00:34:09I don't know.

00:34:10I don't know.

00:34:11I don't know.

00:34:12I don't know.

00:34:13I don't know.

00:34:14I don't know.

00:34:15I don't know.

00:34:16Communists make a lot of claims about how they've got rid of crime.

00:34:20Where do I get my watch, Pietro?

00:34:22And my Diners Club card, and all that currency.

00:34:25Well, not in Europe.

00:34:26Oh, no, no, no, no.

00:34:27The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

00:34:29Oh, you clever, clever man.

00:34:30You godson.

00:34:31From a sleeping angel.

00:34:32Oh, excuse me.

00:34:33I don't know what you're looking for.

00:34:34Oh, good.

00:34:35Oh, this is Mr. Nichols.

00:34:36Oh, yes, I know.

00:34:37Who, uh, who's that?

00:34:38I didn't expect to see you on a train, Tyler.

00:34:40Hong Kong seemed inviting.

00:34:41Oh.

00:34:42Company's more pleasant.

00:34:44Oh, you wonderful, wonderful man.

00:34:47Restaurant is open.

00:34:48Please to follow me.

00:34:49Oh.

00:34:50Oh.

00:34:51Oh.

00:34:52Oh.

00:34:53You wonderful, wonderful man.

00:34:54Restaurant is open.

00:34:55Please to follow me.

00:34:56Oh.

00:34:57Oh.

00:34:58Oh.

00:34:59Yes, sir.

00:35:00Lone your head when you get up.

00:35:01All right, Liz.

00:35:28Reg?

00:35:29Are you all right?

00:35:30What?

00:35:31Yes.

00:35:32Yes.

00:35:33You looked as though you'd seen a ghost.

00:35:34I'm all right.

00:35:35I thought we'd lost you.

00:35:36I thought we'd lost you.

00:35:37I think I could sleep a little if I tried now.

00:35:38Oh.

00:35:39Don't be laughed, though.

00:35:40Don't be laughed, Lois.

00:35:41You'll wake me up if you come.

00:35:42You'll wake me up if you come.

00:35:43Don't be laughed, Lois.

00:35:44You'll wake me up if you come.

00:35:45You'll wake me up if you come.

00:35:46Oh, no, no.

00:35:47You're all right.

00:35:48Are you all right?

00:35:49Are you all right?

00:35:50Yes.

00:35:51Yes.

00:35:52Yes.

00:35:53Oh, no.

00:36:05I think I could sleep a little if I tried now.

00:36:08Don't be laughed, Lois.

00:36:09You'll wake me up if you come bursting in at 12 o'clock.

00:36:12Darling, I never burst.

00:36:15Oh, don't be an angel and give her a hand.

00:36:18This awful tray does jerk so.

00:36:20Oh.

00:36:21Oh.

00:36:22Uh.

00:36:23Allow me.

00:36:24Oh.

00:36:25Oh.

00:36:37It was kinder of you.

00:36:39Oh, I was ready for the mash-up.

00:36:44Where do you think we are?

00:36:47Still somewhere in the Hunang province.

00:36:56Here we are.

00:36:58Good night.

00:36:59I'm not such an old soak as she makes out, you know.

00:37:04Good night.

00:37:05Good night.

00:37:06Good night.

00:37:07Good night.

00:37:09Your first train.

00:37:10Second.

00:37:12I came down to Beijing.

00:37:13Are you finishing your journey by train?

00:37:15Good God, No.

00:37:16Train out of China to Hong Kong and then I'm flying home first class.

00:37:18Function.

00:37:19Your first train?

00:37:20Second.

00:37:21I came down from Beijing.

00:37:23Are you finishing your journey by train?

00:37:25Good God, no.

00:37:27Train out of China to Hong Kong,

00:37:28and then I'm flying home first class.

00:37:31Didn't you enjoy your holiday?

00:37:33Oh, some weeks. Tremendously.

00:37:36Six weeks is really too long.

00:37:39But I'm needed at home. I'm beginning to feel guilty.

00:37:41Oh, why?

00:37:42I'm a GP.

00:37:43I haven't had a holiday in three years,

00:37:45so I got in a locum,

00:37:47and I've taken all the leave owing to me.

00:37:49Did you practice in London?

00:37:50No, Winchester.

00:37:51Oh, no. I'm very close in King's Mag.

00:37:54Good heavens.

00:37:56Oh, then the Knightons are even closer to you.

00:37:58They live in a place called Seinbury.

00:37:59The Knightons?

00:38:00The barrister and his wife.

00:38:03Oh, they hardly ever talk.

00:38:17I'm again.

00:38:20Oh, my God.

00:38:34Oh, my God.

00:38:40Oh, my God.

00:38:43this is songs address in case you come back to China I would have thought you

00:38:59would have been glad to see the back of me back front my friend I shall miss you

00:39:03come let's go

00:39:33Mr Wexford won't you join us oh thank you I don't think you've been properly introduced have you

00:39:43this is mr. and mrs. Knighton that I was telling you about Reg Wexford and mr. Gordon Bernal how'd you

00:39:49do hello mrs. Knighton hello and miss Irene Bell how'd you do I believe we're neighbors oh yes Kings

00:39:58Markham yes Gordon is an antique dealer he was just telling us about jade yes I was just saying

00:40:10jade is always cold to the touch and that's one of the very best ways for the amateur to tell if it's

00:40:16jade or not if it stays cold in a hot room or against the skin chances are that that will be

00:40:22jade I only deal in antiques and you you can't take jade in more than 120 years out of this country

00:40:29so there's not really antique enough for me I have bought a few small pieces

00:40:35I say look at that

00:40:52I had gone aboard and was minded to depart when I heard from the shore your song with step of foot

00:41:06the pool of peach blossom is a thousand feet deep but not so deep as the love in your farewell to me

00:41:17I don't know about you Irene but I'd like to go to my room good night everyone good night

00:41:27excuse me

00:41:47I suppose we must say goodbye safe journey

00:41:58mr. Wexford have a good journey home you too back to the surgery

00:42:05well bye-bye so help me good when I get home

00:42:10place abroad I'm going ever again will be the eye on a white

00:42:13Hai ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ein

00:42:20Let's go.

00:42:50Reg! Oh, I miss you. Seems like years.

00:43:12See, you will tell me if I'm becoming a bore, won't you?

00:43:16At least we spared the photographs.

00:43:20Reg!

00:43:30You all right?

00:43:33Sometimes we talk too easily about dying.

00:43:37Should I put the light on?

00:43:39Nope.

00:43:41Darkness has its uses.

00:43:44It's late.

00:43:46Maybe too late.

00:43:48For what?

00:44:02Do you believe in premonition?

00:44:05I don't know. Don't think so.

00:44:09There's a sinister elegance about murder.

00:44:12Murder?

00:44:14I saw a woman murdered.

00:44:17Over and over again.

00:44:21All the time I was in China.

00:44:24I was gonna say I dreamt it.

00:44:28But it wasn't a dream.

00:44:31It wasn't life betrayed by imagination.

00:44:33I think I saw the truth.

00:44:38A Chinese woman?

00:44:40No.

00:44:41English.

00:44:45Lives about ten miles from here.

00:44:48I watched her come out of her house this afternoon.

00:44:50It wasn't a dream.

00:44:53Have you said anything to anyone?

00:44:55You're the only one that knows.

00:44:59Must have been exhausting, China.

00:45:02Hot.

00:45:03Lack of sleep.

00:45:04Should I tell her?

00:45:09What should I tell her?

00:45:11What should I tell her?

00:45:15I'd sound absurd.

00:45:19Well, don't sit here in the dark.

00:45:21Come and have a drink.

00:45:27Do you know what the Chinese call dreams?

00:45:29What?

00:45:32The forgotten language of God.

00:45:35This dream woman of yours.

00:45:36Do you know her name?

00:45:38Yes, it's Knight.

00:45:40She and her husband live out near Soynbury.

00:45:59What?

00:46:00We can't find that.

00:46:01We can find a thing.

00:46:02I'll see you later.

00:46:03I want to thank you now.

00:46:04I want to thank you.

00:46:05Yes.

00:46:06I won't ask.

00:46:07I'll do that again.

00:46:09I can't talk to the three years ago.

00:46:11I want to thank you.

00:46:12I want to thank you.

00:46:14That's the only hand issue here.

00:46:16Why not?

00:46:18I want to thank you.

00:46:22How are you doing?

00:46:23I'm and I will tell you the same arm.

00:46:25Let's go.

00:46:55Oh, that cat.

00:47:25Tolstoy?

00:47:27Tolstoy?

00:47:31Tolstoy?

00:47:35Tolstoy?

00:47:59Tolstoy, where are you?

00:48:00Come on.

00:48:06Oh, wretched cat.

00:48:20Tolstoy?

00:48:21Tolstoy, where are you?

00:48:23Come on.

00:48:25Tolstoy?

00:48:27You can't go on like this.

00:48:48I'll be all right.

00:48:55Ever since you got back from China, I don't know how you can work with no sleep.

00:49:01I'll be all right.

00:49:14I'll be all right.

00:49:23I'll be all right.

00:49:25I'll be all right.

00:49:29Oh, hold on.

00:49:35Tolstoy!

00:50:00Tolstoy!

00:50:03Tolstoy!

00:50:33Tolstoy!

00:50:36Tolstoy!

00:50:40Tolstoy!

00:50:43Tolstoy!

00:50:45Tolstoy!

00:50:49Tolstoy!

00:50:53Tolstoy!

00:50:56Tolstoy!

00:50:58Tolstoy!

00:51:01Tolstoy!

00:51:03Tolstoy!

00:51:06Tolstoy!

00:51:10Tolstoy!

00:51:25Right, get your things on, Reg.

00:51:33Tell me, do you get these dreams every night?

00:51:35Not every night.

00:51:36Oh, well, nearly every night.

00:51:39Always the same dream?

00:51:40Exactly, in every detail.

00:51:43Can you describe it?

00:51:45Uh, murder, woman.

00:51:48Chinese?

00:51:49No.

00:51:50From here?

00:51:51Perhaps.

00:51:52But the dream started in China.

00:51:55Yes.

00:51:56How soon?

00:51:57Well, towards the end.

00:51:59And this woman that you see, is she, uh...

00:52:00Look, I find it difficult to talk about.

00:52:06Was it very hot?

00:52:08Yeah, sometimes it took your breath away.

00:52:09Ah, well, that could be it.

00:52:12Well, then why...

00:52:13Why here?

00:52:14Yeah.

00:52:14Well, your body's still in China.

00:52:16It hasn't readjusted yet.

00:52:18The heat, the food.

00:52:21What did you drink?

00:52:22Oh, some beer.

00:52:23Mostly tea.

00:52:24It was the only thing that kept you cool.

00:52:27Green tea?

00:52:28What?

00:52:28Green tea.

00:52:30Yes.

00:52:31How much did you drink?

00:52:32Well, I used to make it myself.

00:52:33How many times a day?

00:52:35Six.

00:52:36Seven.

00:52:36Oh.

00:52:38Green tea's lethal in those quantities.

00:52:41It can be an hallucinogenic.

00:52:43You're not still drinking it, are you?

00:52:45Well, I brought some alcohol.

00:52:46Well, get rid of it.

00:52:47Didn't anyone in China ever warn you?

00:52:49Tch.

00:52:52Right.

00:52:52I'd better give you something to settle it.

00:52:56Reg, you really are a bloody fool.

00:53:00Tch.

00:53:01Tch.

00:53:02Sir, there's a woman being found dead over in Sewingbury.

00:53:04She's been shot, sir.

00:53:06Right.

00:53:08Sewingbury?

00:53:08Yes, sir.

00:53:09Is Mr. Wexford in?

00:53:10No, sir.

00:53:10I don't know where he is.

00:53:12Murdoch and the team?

00:53:13They're on the way, sir.

00:53:14Yes, sir.

00:53:39I don't know where he is.

00:53:42Tolstoy.

00:53:43ran out when I opened the back door I come in here put the kettle on. and you

00:53:56hadn't seen anything before then? nothing. not a thing. until I went past take me

00:54:10from making the tea. I went to vacuum the old carpet. I found a broken vase. didn't think

00:54:22nothing of it. and I went past the dining room. didn't see her at first. and I saw her, screamed.

00:54:40where's Mr. Knighton? this is the first time I've known him not be here as well as her. I went

00:54:50upstairs and looked. I mean he might have been dead and laying up there too for all

00:54:56I knew. someone had been up there. made a right mess.

00:55:26good morning sir. governor. good morning. there's been a murder gov. or sounds like a murder. where?

00:55:43signbury. what night? and Mrs. Adella Knighton. she'd been shot. Mr. Wagsford. won't you join us?

00:55:52I don't think you've been properly introduced have you? this is Mr. and Mrs. Knighton that I was

00:55:58telling you about. where's Wagsford? hello. I believe we're neighbors. Kingsman? yes. you okay gov?

00:56:06hello. well you seem to be. oh is this Mr. Burnett now? yes he went straight away. right I'm on my way.

00:56:12what sort of valuables did they keep in the house? in a box. in the bedroom. do you know what was in it?

00:56:24pearls? she had pearls. yeah. pretty little locket. gold? yeah. diamond earrings.

00:56:54me? excuse me.

00:57:23Please.

00:57:31It's your murder.

00:57:33Your remission.

00:57:42Exactly.

00:57:44A shot in the back of the head.

00:57:53Where's the body?

00:58:00Through here.

00:58:08She must have been shot at close range.

00:58:11Some of the hair at the back is cinched.

00:58:14It looks like she heard a sound.

00:58:17There was a vase broken, came down to see what it was,

00:58:20and he crept up behind her and shot her.

00:58:23The bedroom's been turned upside down.

00:58:25A jewel box is missing.

00:58:27And the fuses have been pulled.

00:58:30The doctor?

00:58:31It's been a god.

00:58:45It's a burglary that went wrong.

00:58:47He came in through a cut pane.

00:58:49I'll show you.

00:58:51Here.

00:58:55Excuse me, sir.

00:59:07Looks like they threw them away, sir.

00:59:09Why kill for them and then throw them away?

00:59:11Panic?

00:59:13He shot her first,

00:59:14then went upstairs and searched the bedroom,

00:59:16found the box,

00:59:18and then panicked.

00:59:19Why didn't he panic when he shot her?

00:59:25Can I go home now?

00:59:26This is Mrs. Thompson.

00:59:28She found the body.

00:59:29This is Chief Inspector Wexford.

00:59:30Can I?

00:59:31Just a couple of questions.

00:59:32I don't know anything.

00:59:34Do you know where Mr. Knighton is?

00:59:37I told him now.

00:59:39Do they have children?

00:59:41Yes.

00:59:42Where do they live?

00:59:43The daughter in Sowingbury.

00:59:45That I do know.

00:59:47Don't ask me where you'll find the sons

00:59:49all off abroad somewhere.

00:59:51There might be numbers in that book.

00:59:53What's the daughter's married name?

00:59:55That I wouldn't know.

00:59:57Are you sure?

00:59:58I've no reason ever to be told, did I?

01:00:01Well, you might have heard.

01:00:03Jennifer...

01:00:06Mr. Knighton could tell you.

01:00:08Mr. Knighton isn't here.

01:00:09Can I go now?

01:00:11We do know where she lives, don't we?

01:00:12Yes, we do.

01:00:14It's been a terrible shock.

01:00:18Ah, Sergeant Martin.

01:00:19Sir?

01:00:20I want Knighton's daughter found.

01:00:22She lives in Sowingbury.

01:00:23And then I want house to house,

01:00:24from here to Sowingbury,

01:00:26and over the other side from Pateau Vale through to Ponsley.

01:00:28That's the daughter, sir.

01:00:30Anything else?

01:00:31Yes.

01:00:32I want Mr. Knighton found.

01:00:34Sir.

01:00:43What was she like?

01:00:45I didn't pay much attention to her.

01:00:47It was quiet.

01:00:49So was he.

01:00:51Well, they both were.

01:00:53They never spoke to each other.

01:00:56Fanning pointed that out to me.

01:00:58Fanning?

01:00:59Yes, he was the tour lead of a group of English tourists.

01:01:06Mrs. Thompson says it's the first time she can recall Knighton being away overnight.

01:01:10Well, it wasn't the burglar.

01:01:13She didn't get out of bed and come downstairs for a burglar.

01:01:16And the burglar didn't put his gun to her head and shoot her.

01:01:21It wasn't like that.

01:01:23Someone would like to have us think it was.

01:01:28I'd like to know where Mr. Knighton is.

01:01:30He reads a lot of poetry.

01:01:32Shoot not the wild geese from the south.

01:01:35Let them northward fly.

01:01:37When you do shoot, shoot the pair of them.

01:01:40So that the two may not be put aside.

01:01:43Towards the end.

01:01:45In the hotel in Hong Kong.

01:01:48The Lord in the bar.

01:01:51It was a beautiful Caucasian girl.

01:01:54Quite stunning.

01:01:56With an older woman.

01:01:58They picked up their drinks and...

01:02:04They went out towards the balcony.

01:02:08He saw them.

01:02:10I had gone aboard.

01:02:12And was minded to depart.

01:02:15When I heard from the shore.

01:02:18Your song.

01:02:20We step our foot.

01:02:23The pool of peach blossom is a thousand feet deep.

01:02:26Deep deep.

01:02:28But not so deep.

01:02:30As the love in your farewell to me.

01:02:33Was it the girl?

01:02:36She was quite beautiful.

01:02:39It was the girl?

01:02:41I don't think so.

01:02:46Perhaps Knighton murdered her.

01:02:49Perhaps.

01:02:52Murdered his wife.

01:02:54Ran off with a younger woman.

01:02:57Had a row with her.

01:02:59Shot her.

01:03:03Could be out of the country by now.

01:03:05Probably is.

01:03:09Just a plane to get away.

01:03:12That's what makes it so damned easy these days.

01:03:14Why did he shoot her in the back of the head?

01:03:17It's going to bother you quite a lot isn't it?

01:03:31Of course it does.

01:03:32I don't know.

01:03:33I don't know.

01:03:34I don't know.

01:03:35I don't know.

01:03:37I don't know.

01:03:41What on earth?

01:03:42Detective Chief Inspector Wexford sir and this is Inspector Burton.

01:03:46Has there been a robbery or something?

01:03:48Something very serious has taken place sir.

01:03:51What are you talking about?

01:03:52You have to prepare yourself sir.

01:03:55My wife.

01:03:56Mr Knighton.

01:03:57Where's my wife?

01:03:58It appears that somebody broke in here last night.

01:03:59I don't know.

01:04:00I don't know.

01:04:01Please sir.

01:04:02She's been shot.

01:04:04We don't yet know how it happened.

01:04:06Oh no.

01:04:07She's dead sir.

01:04:08I'm very sorry.

01:04:14She's dead sir.

01:04:15I'm very sorry.

01:04:24Can I sit down?

01:04:26Come in here sir.

01:04:32Sit down here.

01:04:37I'm afraid I have a few questions to ask you sir.

01:04:46China.

01:04:48I remember.

01:04:49Where were you last night?

01:04:50I remember you.

01:04:51Last night sir.

01:04:52Kings Markham.

01:04:53Please answer the question sir.

01:04:56Is she still here?

01:04:58Still in the house is she?

01:04:59If you would answer my question sir we would get through this painful business much faster.

01:05:02Answer your question so you would let me see her.

01:05:04You wouldn't want to sir.

01:05:07She was shot in the head.

01:05:09Oh my God.

01:05:12I know that this is painful sir.

01:05:14Seeing a friend in London.

01:05:16Why do you ask?

01:05:20Oh my God.

01:05:21I thought you said a burglar.

01:05:22What's the name of your friend sir?

01:05:24Henry Lacey.

01:05:26He was giving a dinner party at a club to which both he and I belong.

01:05:29Which club sir?

01:05:30The palimpsest in St James's.

01:05:34It was to celebrate his 50 years at the bar.

01:05:37I was invited on such occasion as I stay in London.

01:05:39Did you stay at the club?

01:05:40No.

01:05:42With a friend who has a flat in Hyde Park Square.

01:05:46Dobson Flint.

01:05:47Excuse me.

01:05:48I'll take the phone sir.

01:05:50Hello?

01:05:51Yes.

01:05:52Yes.

01:05:53He's just come in.

01:05:54I'll take the phone to him.

01:05:55Hang on.

01:05:56It's your daughter sir.

01:05:58Jennifer.

01:05:59Jennifer.

01:06:00The police have told you.

01:06:01Have you talked to Rod?

01:06:02No.

01:06:03No.

01:06:04No.

01:06:05No.

01:06:06No.

01:06:07No.

01:06:08No.

01:06:09No.

01:06:10No.

01:06:11No.

01:06:12No.

01:06:13No.

01:06:14No.

01:06:15No.

01:06:16No.

01:06:17No.

01:06:18No.

01:06:19No.

01:06:20No.

01:06:21No.

01:06:22No.

01:06:23No.

01:06:24No.

01:06:25No.

01:06:26No.

01:06:27No.

01:06:28No.

01:06:29Yes.

01:06:30No.

01:06:31Yes.

01:06:32Yes.

01:06:33yes.

01:06:34yes.

01:06:35I'm all right.

01:06:36Yes.

01:06:37to come.

01:06:43how many children do you have sir?

01:06:46a daughter and three sons.

01:06:49One son in America

01:06:51and one in Turkey.

01:06:55Oh, um, Sergeant Martin, King's Markham CID, sir.

01:07:19Oh, yeah.

01:07:20We've been making a few inquiries about last night, sir.

01:07:23Were you a plate?

01:07:25Me?

01:07:26No.

01:07:27No.

01:07:28I'm pushing on a bit now.

01:07:29I need me rest.

01:07:30What's happened?

01:07:31Are you the only one in the house, sir?

01:07:33It's me daughter.

01:07:34Is she?

01:07:35She didn't want to help me either.

01:07:37Could I have a word with you, sir?

01:07:43Mary?

01:07:44Mary?

01:07:49King's Markham CID, miss.

01:07:51Yeah.

01:07:52Were you out last night?

01:07:54Yeah.

01:07:56Late?

01:07:57No.

01:07:58How late?

01:08:00Ten.

01:08:01Did you see anyone?

01:08:02No.

01:08:03You didn't see anyone at all?

01:08:05No.

01:08:06Did you see anything out of the ordinary, a car parked where it shouldn't have been?

01:08:10No.

01:08:11And you were in all night, sir?

01:08:14An early night, you said, sir?

01:08:16I'm never out after nine.

01:08:18Quick drink at the pub.

01:08:20Back home.

01:08:21Bed.

01:08:22Right.

01:08:23Thank you, sir.

01:08:24Thank you, sir.

01:08:34You lying old bugger.

01:08:35You was out half the night.

01:08:37Go.

01:08:38Shut your door.

01:08:39It's so bad.

01:08:40No.

01:08:41No, no.

01:08:42No, no.

01:08:43No, no.

01:08:44No.

01:08:45No.

01:08:47It's so bad.

01:08:49No.

01:08:51No.

01:08:52No.

01:08:53No.

01:08:54No.

01:08:55No.

01:08:56No.

01:08:57No.

01:08:58No.

01:08:59No.

01:09:00No.

01:09:01No.

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