A Fatal Inversion. Part 1 of 3.

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First broadcast 10th May 1992.  A couple are shocked discover a mummified baby in the pet cemetery, at Wyvis Hall.    Douglas Hodge - Adam Jeremy Northam - Rufus Rachel Joyce - Anne Philip Bowen - Alec Chipstead Jane Wymark - Meg Chipstead Shirley Dixon - Mrs. Strawson Tim Wylton - Lewis Verne-Smith Philippa Gail - Beryl Verne-Smith Patricia Kerrigan - Marigold Simon Beresford - Julian Benson Nicholas Woodeson - Inspector Winder Michael Simkins - D.C. Stretton Clara Salaman - Mary Gage Ben Chaplin - Matthew Jeff Nuttall - Evan Peter Attard - Pearson James Aubrey - Dr. Swiftson Gordon Warnecke - Shiva Mandy Travis - Patient Saira Todd - Zosie Angharad Thomas - Abigail Lowri Thomas - Abigail

Transcript

00:00Satsang with Mooji

00:30Rufus, please help me.

00:50We were never here.

00:53We never knew each other.

00:55We never will know each other again.

01:00Rufus, don't leave me.

01:04Don't leave me!

01:30Rufus, don't leave me.

01:32Rufus, don't leave me.

01:33Rufus, don't leave me.

01:35Rufus, don't leave me.

01:44Rufus, don't leave me.

01:45It's okay, it's about a bad dream, that's all.

02:15It's okay, it's about a bad dream.

02:45It's about a bad dream.

03:14You don't think I'm being stupid, wanting to do it ourselves?

03:24It's just so right here.

03:56We'll have to put them in a box, rebury them.

04:08No.

04:10I'm afraid we can't do that.

04:12What's the matter?

04:13Look.

04:17That's not a dog's skull, is it?

04:20Or monkeys.

04:21Okay, let's just recap your history.

04:30Two children, no miscarriages, no terminations.

04:35Terminations?

04:36Oh, that's your language for abortions.

04:39No, I haven't, luckily.

04:41Any discharge at all.

04:44No impertinent itches of any description.

04:47No.

04:48I have a slip-on.

04:56Would you prefer that off too?

04:59Oh yes, more off the better.

05:07Ready?

05:07Right.

05:16And what about contraception?

05:18Do you mind telling me what you're using?

05:20That was a £50 an hour fee kind of question, Dr Fletcher.

05:25I can see why you've come this far.

05:28I don't know how you can be absolutely sure it's why this hall.

05:32Ah, look.

05:34There's that bit of flat roof.

05:35And the terrace statues.

05:37And it definitely says Suffolk.

05:39What more do you want?

05:41I'd have known that house would come back to haunt, Adam.

05:45Come on.

05:46Where are you going?

05:47Oh, the police station, of course.

05:50I want a statement.

05:54Yes, please.

06:15Colchester.

06:16Name?

06:18A. Chipstead.

06:20That's chips, then T for trauma, E for encyclopedia,

06:23A for Adam,

06:25A for Ataturk,

06:28D for diaphragm.

06:31I'm not sure he actually is near Colchester.

06:33Probably not.

06:33There's a Chipstead A listed as living at Wives Hall,

06:37Nunes, Colchester.

06:39Would that be the one?

06:40The number is 554879.

06:44Sir, would you like me to spell that for you?

06:47Ah, no thanks.

06:48It won't be necessary.

06:48Sorry.

06:49Come in.

06:58Dr. Fletcher, I'm sorry to bother you.

07:01Have you got time for a consult?

07:04Oh, absolutely.

07:05What do you want?

07:11It's Abigail's bedtime.

07:12Pleased to see us, as always.

07:14I've been to the police station.

07:16Oh, hello.

07:17Come on, then.

07:17Tell us why you've been to the police station.

07:19To confess to the great train robbery?

07:21The Aspreys raid, maybe.

07:23To make a statement.

07:25I'm sorry.

07:25Are we disturbing Abigail's bedtime?

07:27No, of course not.

07:28Abigail loves to see her grandparents.

07:31Don't we, darling?

07:32We possibly know what she thinks.

07:35I don't suppose you've seen this.

07:38Oh, yes.

07:39Well, that interests you.

07:41It's why this whole, right?

07:48Your father was in his element.

07:50Must be all those years of watching police programmes on television.

07:53He knew exactly what to do.

07:56He asked to see the statement typed.

07:58Signed it with his fountain pen.

08:00I still can't see why you had to make a statement.

08:02I mean, this murder, it can't have anything to do with us.

08:05Can it?

08:06Of course not.

08:07It's a bit premature, wasn't it?

08:09A bit previous, as my suppliers would say.

08:13The police wouldn't say exactly.

08:15But those remains were buried about ten years ago.

08:17About the time Adam owned the house and decided to take his summer off.

08:21I was in Greece.

08:22Oh, yes, so you were.

08:22But you did go down to Wyvis Hall at that time, didn't you?

08:25And you don't think I'd have noticed if someone was burying bodies up in the woods?

08:30Oh, we did not state you were in on your summer off, do we?

08:38Your great-uncle has obviously made a mistake.

08:41And what would a 19-year-old student do with Wyvis Hall?

08:44We may have to have him declared insane.

08:48But it was entirely logical, wasn't it?

08:50I mean, if you're a horrible old man.

08:52After all the years you spent sucking up to him.

08:55I mean, he knew how much you wanted to hold, so...

09:01The old bastard's gonna have left the entire family jewels to me.

09:05Shut up, Adam!

09:06How dare you speak about your great-uncle like that!

09:09Call it, Dad.

09:10Come on, it's too hot for that.

09:11You'd do yourself an injury.

09:12Anyway, I do know what I've got to do with Wyvis Hall.

09:15I'm going to sell up as soon as possible.

09:18I should get a good prize for it this summer, don't you think?

09:23I don't think Dad's seen the funny side of anything since.

09:26Still, it must have been very exciting, finding yourself with a mansion at that age.

09:31Yeah, it was.

09:32But it was the beginning of the end for me and him.

09:34I didn't realise how much your father wanted the war.

09:38So you think that your great-uncle giving it to you is what made him so...

09:42well.

09:43Bitter, cynical, bilious, jaundiced, the opposite of life-enhancing, you noticed.

09:55I didn't realise how much you resented me going to university and everything.

09:59I think great-uncle Hilbert's will sort of triggered it off.

10:04You know how some virulent illnesses are just activated one day suddenly and there's no stopping them.

10:13Not another one.

10:31The Unforgiven.

10:33You get through ten of these a week. How can you tell the difference?

10:36They're all different.

10:38And they're the same.

10:40That's the secret. That's why I like them.

10:42And Inspector Dillon always gets his man.

10:45Of course.

10:48Haven't they caught him yet?

10:50No, that's against the rules.

10:52This is where he gets it every time.

10:56That is, if he is a he.

11:01Would you forgive me?

11:06Forgive me anything?

11:09I'd forgive you anything.

11:10I don't.

11:12I don't.

11:14I don't.

11:15I don't.

11:16I don't.

11:16Yes.

11:23It's nothing.

11:25It doesn't matter.

11:28Come on, let's get to sleep.

11:29And the landed hero.

11:45That a new one?

11:52Are you going to tell me you actually like it?

11:55Yeah.

11:57Oh, sort of.

11:59Don't you?

12:01Yeah, I like it.

12:02That's why I've bought it.

12:03Just wondered what you thought.

12:07Yeah, the parents are off on holiday.

12:10Like all primitive forms of life, they react to stress and change by making a great deal of noise.

12:16Mine wear the same clothes for days on end.

12:18My old man writes obsessive letters for the milkman.

12:21Old man?

12:22Don't you wish.

12:22How old is he?

12:24Fifty?

12:25Be around to bug you for another thirty years yet?

12:27Tain in the arse at the moment.

12:29The house feels like he's going to explode with all his nervous energy.

12:34I can't wait to get away.

12:37When I go to Greece, I have my passport in my pocket and I just think I'll go now this instant.

12:43You know, just wake up and go.

12:44Okay, then.

12:48Let's do it.

12:50Let's cut a grease.

12:53I'm ready.

12:55Not today.

12:57I haven't actually got mine with me.

12:58I...

12:58Must be in my other jeans.

13:00Okay, then.

13:04Let's go see the inheritance.

13:06It's going to be an amazing summer.

13:34I can hardly touch this steering wheel.

13:41Come on, you're not doing much navigating.

13:44That will be difficult.

13:46As we're not on water.

13:48Well, it must be tiring in this heat being so bloody pedantic about words.

13:52The fireball seems like it's not on water.

13:54No matter what it's on the edge.

13:55It's not the same way.

13:56It's just a creek being so bloody scary.

13:57It's just a creek being so bloody by myself.

13:59It's just a little bit more of a water.

14:00It's just a river.

14:00The river I'm on water.

14:02Let's go.

14:03Let's go.

14:04Let's go.

14:05Let's go.

14:06Jesus.

14:26He never said it was so bloody big.

14:30Is it?

14:36I don't know.

15:06I don't know.

15:36I don't know.

16:06Well, it beats the 50 quid's worth of premium bonds my great uncle left me.

16:10I don't know.

16:14I don't know.

16:19I don't know.

16:23I don't know.

16:28I don't know.

16:32I don't know.

16:36I don't know.

16:41I don't know.

16:46Well, when do you go back up to Cambridge?

16:48October.

16:49Yeah?

16:49What about you?

16:50When does med school start?

16:52Same time.

16:53Which gives us the whole summer to play in.

16:56What's the matter?

16:57What's the matter?

16:59Don't you like Cambridge?

17:00Yeah, boring old farts.

17:02Hmm?

17:02Sort of old-fashioned.

17:04Everyone makes notes and underlines them in coloured felt tips.

17:07Wish I could be with you.

17:08And it's a bit difficult to read classics at med school.

17:14Don't you think you're really up to palpitating spleens?

17:19What about the women?

17:20I thought you all sat under trees and spouting Ovid and touching up girls in floaty dresses.

17:31Even you, Adam, must have noticed some members of the opposite site.

17:35Yeah.

17:36There's loads of women.

17:37Yeah?

17:39What about you?

17:41Huh.

17:44You don't get to touch the nurses because they're too terrifying.

17:47Midwives are a definite no-go area.

17:53But apart from that...

17:57You know, I think we'd miss all this.

18:05If we went to Greece.

18:10Ah!

18:11Oh, shit!

18:17Dad, I'm calling from Greece.

18:19Greece?

18:20That's right, I'm in Greece.

18:21You're what?

18:22Well, I'm at the airport now.

18:23Just landed.

18:25Rufus and I just decided to go, so we went.

18:27I mean, came.

18:28Bing-dong!

18:29But what about the hall?

18:31Sorry, Dad, can't hear anymore.

18:33I'd love to, Mum.

18:34See you in three months or so.

18:36Bye!

18:37Ha ha ha!

18:38Yeah!

18:39Woo-hoo!

18:40And now here's our reporter at the scene, Julian Benson.

18:44Here at Wyvis Hall, the police are announcing very few extra details,

18:48beyond the fact that the discovery of the human remains

18:50was made in a kind of family burial ground.

18:54The forensic research is taking a considerable time,

18:56giving rise to speculation that more than one body is involved,

19:00possibly those of a woman and a baby,

19:02and that they might have lain in their bizarre graves

19:05for at least a decade.

19:06This is Julian Benson, BBC News, Noons, Suffolk.

19:10Yeah, we've got it next.

19:11Oh, please, let me set in.

19:18Thanks.

19:19Oh, Inspector!

19:22Do you know how much longer you'll be?

19:24I'm sorry, sir.

19:25It's a pretty delicate forensic work.

19:27We won't inconvenience you much longer, I hope.

19:36Have a bit of sensitivity, Cooper.

19:51Hope we get someone up here who knows what he's talking about soon,

19:53or we'll find we're investigating the violent deaths

19:56of a whole bloody zoo before a lot.

19:58We have found something, sir.

20:01We think it may have been on the baby's finger.

20:03Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my, oh, my!

20:18Oh, my, oh, my!

20:22Oh!

20:25Ah, there you are.

20:26This is Mary.

20:28That's all right, isn't it?

20:31Yeah, yeah, no, of course.

20:32Adam's a marvellous host.

20:36He's even got the midges under control.

20:56Are you sure this is yours?

20:57No, Mary, we broke in, murdered the occupants

21:01and shoved them down in the cellar.

21:06It was a bit of a waste, isn't it?

21:08This lovely house.

21:10On you.

21:11And this is where we put the bodies.

21:20And what's the matter?

21:22Nothing.

21:24It's just rather a good bottle of wine, that's all.

21:27A good year.

21:29Adam knows about these things.

21:31It'll do for supper tonight, then, won't it?

21:33And this is the master bedroom.

21:39Guided tour stops here.

21:53Yeah, thank you, Adam.

21:55Don't expect us down for dinner.

21:56Well, I don't think much of your bird's learned, Smith.

22:23Not a decent shot on this stage.

22:24Yeah.

22:31Right, Sruvers, I told you not to pull the trigger.

22:38Don't be silly, Adam.

22:39What on earth could I hit?

22:45Hello, who's this?

22:46There.

22:51Oi!

22:52Who are you?

23:00Well.

23:03Adam's playing Lord of the Manor.

23:06Just sat the gardener.

23:09Well, I don't think he should have let him go.

23:11Adam, you have to keep this house up.

23:14Cherish it for your great-uncle's sake.

23:16Oh, yes, please.

23:17I would like to become a member of the Grown-Ups Club.

23:20Please rush me a subscription form and a prospectus for a musty afterlife.

23:24You should maintain it as your father would have done.

23:28Yes, but you see, Adam's worst fear is becoming like his father.

23:32I can see it happening day by day.

23:34You know, I think your hair's thinning a little bit already.

23:37I'm going to clean these, put them back in their proper place.

23:59It's really weird, that, isn't it?

24:00I've had too much caffeine, you've got to watch yourself.

24:04This is a very dodgy story.

24:06I mean, it's obvious what happened.

24:08It said on the telly it was a woman and her baby.

24:11A bloke did it.

24:13You sure about that, are you?

24:14Who else are going to bury themselves, could they?

24:16Have you finished the Sharps order yet?

24:18Nearly.

24:19Wildly exciting, as always.

24:21Annual shareholders' brochures.

24:23Pays the bills.

24:24There's another excellent story in here.

24:26Grandmother jailed for driving getaway car.

24:29Weren't the proofs due this afternoon?

24:35It's a bit like that case last year, you know.

24:37Funny smell in the garden.

24:39So they're calling the drains people who find bits of flesh

24:41bobbing up and down under the house.

24:44One thing's for sure, the police will get him really quickly.

24:46You've got a touching faith in the Suffolk Constabulary.

24:48Well, everybody knows everybody else's business in the country.

24:50You can't keep anything secret.

24:51They'll be interviewing witnesses this very moment.

25:06Careful.

25:07Just snag it on the ledge.

25:11Some of these are over a hundred years old.

25:18Hello.

25:20What have we here?

25:21Good morning.

25:26Mr. Burns-Smith?

25:27No.

25:28I mean, yes.

25:29I mean, my great-uncle died.

25:31I'm the new owner.

25:32I know, Mr. Burns-Smith.

25:34I heard about your uncle's sad death.

25:37I just dropped by on the off chance

25:38that you might need my services in the future, of course.

25:42George Evan Hadbury Antiques.

25:43It seems possible that you may want to clarify your late uncle's possessions.

25:49Yes.

25:50One day.

25:54Well, maybe.

25:55He was quite a collector, I believe.

25:58Perhaps you'd better come in.

25:59I know.

26:00I know.

26:01But I'm sure he's done.

26:01I know.

26:01Well, you're good.

26:02I know.

26:03But I don't know.

26:06I know.

26:07I know.

26:08But I know.

26:09I know that he's got me.

26:09He's gone.

26:39Ah, seems to be your day for visitors.

26:43Locals come to offer their services.

26:46Morning. Pearson's the name. Koypu Control.

26:50Would it be alright if I took a look around the lake?

26:53What control?

26:55Koypu. It's a sort of rat.

26:58South American in origin, I think you'll find.

27:01I do all the big houses around here.

27:04I come up once a year. This is the time you catch your little blighters.

27:07Oh, really? How do you catch them? Do you listen for their mating calls?

27:11Oh, no.

27:13No, they won't mate while it's this hot.

27:16So, if you'll just let me have a little look around the lake, sir.

27:22No, go ahead.

27:24Oh, thank you, sir.

27:34How could one have got into a Suffolk pond, Larry?

27:37How could he escape from a zoo?

27:39Do you think he charges by the hour or by how many catches?

27:43Well, you could shoot the Koypu yourself.

27:45Or you could wait till he's caught all the Koypu and then shoot him.

27:50Oh, no, this should be fun.

27:52It's alright, I miss. I'm just there.

27:54Just sit in your traps.

27:56Get out of here.

27:58You revolting little man.

28:02You slimy dwarf. I know what I'm doing.

28:05Koypu!

28:07They won't mate while it's hot.

28:10Just get out of here.

28:11Look.

28:12Just get out of here, you morp.

28:13Koypu!

28:14I'm out of here.

28:15I'm out of here.

28:16You murderer!

28:17You murderer!

28:19Murderer!

28:21What's the matter?

28:23Sorry, I don't know why I'm so jumpy.

28:29I just keep feeling we might be struck off.

28:34Still, there's no law against two gynaecologists being in bed together,

28:37not even if they're the same sex.

28:39There is something weird about the fact that we both know more about my innards

28:43than I do about yours.

28:46God.

28:47I never thought I'd go out with a gynaecologist.

28:50And somehow I get the feeling that I'm not your usual type.

28:56Well, as a matter of fact, you're not.

28:59You can't think what I see in you.

29:01I asked Judy.

29:03She gave me a comprehensive list of your conquests to date.

29:06Took the best part of three days.

29:08Come on, we'll be late.

29:11That was funny.

29:12You!

29:13You spent the whole time playing the casual Englishman.

29:16And yet you really mind being late for the Royal Society's annual batch.

29:21Well, one's got to be seen.

29:23I can see you.

29:28I do believe you can.

29:31At times.

29:32We have got to start thinking about getting to Greece.

29:47Greece is only a state of mind.

29:51After all, isolation, sunny days, lots of anaesthesia.

30:07That's what I was looking for.

30:10Amongst other things, of course.

30:12You've been following the Так Battle of the Royal Society now.

30:15That's what I can do.

30:16There's an lunar combining here.

30:18I have no idea!

30:19I don't know.

30:20I have no idea what the hell you want to do.

30:21It's a good idea.

30:22I don't know.

30:23I don't know anything about it.

30:24I have no idea what the hell you want to do.

30:25I've never met that one.

30:27I don't know what you want to do.

30:28Well, I don't know.

30:29But, you know what I've got.

30:30I don't know what the hell is.

30:31I should see.

30:32I've never met a wizard in the world.

30:34I've never met a wizard.

30:35You'll never met a wizard in the world.

30:37I can't think.

30:38You'll never get a wizard in the world.

30:39It's now called Ekalpimos, and it's our Greek holiday home.

30:44It's someplace backwards.

30:47I said it was an anagram.

30:49Oh, Adam will know some fancy word for it.

30:52An inversion. It's called an inversion when a word's spelled backwards.

30:55I'm still going to real Greece. I decided I would go last November.

30:59You don't want to go to Greece. You want to stay here.

31:04Rub oil into Adam.

31:07Does Adam need rubbing?

31:09I don't know, I suppose so.

31:13I am a bit burnt.

31:17Come on, Beatle.

31:18I don't want to go, Beatle.

31:19She lives in a room, and she's not a woman.

31:22I don't want to take her home.

31:23When a girl is drunk, she's not a man.

31:29I don't want to go.

31:30I don't want to get her to Joy.

31:32I don't want him to be.

31:34It's kinda like a woman.

31:35I don't want to get her to be here.

31:35I don't want to stop.

31:37I don't want to get her to be here.

31:38What are you up to, you bastard?

31:51Not everything's always there on a plate for you, you arrogant bastards.

31:58Just can't get the staff nowadays.

32:02I suppose I'll have to finish you up.

32:08Bursar! Bursar! Bursar! Bursar!

32:18Bursar!

32:25What is it?

32:26There was a bat! It flew right at me.

32:29Really? Where?

32:32So where are they?

32:34Who?

32:35The emergency services.

32:37Listen.

32:43We could be on the moon for all they care.

32:50We could murder Mary if we want.

32:53Let's drink to Mary's last supper.

32:55Oh, look at you. Think of the homeless.

32:58Don't give a toss about the homeless.

33:00It's a pity you can't stay.

33:03We've got all meanities here. Sun. Drugs. Drink.

33:08And sex, of course.

33:10But I expect we'll find a replacement for that in no time.

33:13That's just the sort of crude remark I'd expect from someone who's going to make a career out of putting his hand up women's arses.

33:19Oh, by the way, there's some heat coming down.

33:25What?

33:27I've invited these people to come and stay and as I won't be here, I hope you'll make them welcome.

33:33You didn't say...

33:34They need a place to stay.

33:35This place is big enough for four.

33:37Oh, dear.

33:39Oh, dear.

33:40He looks very boring.

33:42She looks all right, Adam.

33:44Good legs.

33:45Quite promising.

33:46Well, you'll have to phone them and tell them you're going.

33:48They haven't got a phone.

33:50They're less fortunate than you've been, Adam.

33:52Well, I can't afford to keep...

33:53Let them stay for a few days, at least.

33:55They might even pay you rent.

33:57Anyway, you can't stop them coming.

33:59Now, my last train's at ten.

34:02Who's going to drive me?

34:03Hello.

34:04Oh.

34:06Excuse me.

34:07Good morning.

34:17Good morning.

34:25Good God! Rufus Fletcher, you're slamming it a bit aren't you? Don't tell me one of those

34:48sleek animals you service has actually been human enough to have a baby and to

34:52risk having it in a national health service hospital. Stranger things actually

34:56she's had a whole team of specialist obstetricians at her back and call but

35:00she wants me to take a look at the offspring's spinal cord. Come to the life

35:03of me see what she's worrying about. It looks okay to me. There is of course a

35:09limit what we geniuses can see no matter how much we pretend. Let's see I'd say

35:15about 22 inches. How old is it? Now hang on let me guess I'd say between four and 12

35:21weeks but this of course will be a fat one so I'd say only about six weeks right?

35:26Right first time you should have been in forensics. I mean do you think could you

35:31I mean suppose you had to identify a baby's body could you tell the exact age?

35:39Not exactly they're all different sizes when they come out as even you should

35:43know. There's the fontanelles of course. If the anterior is still open would be under

35:4912 weeks and then of course there's the teeth but some are born with them. Little

35:53Draculas. You know this is something I've always wondered about. You know when

35:58you're thinking about the war and mass graves well I've always wondered how they

36:07identified the baby's bones and the mother's. That is who the mothers were.

36:14That is if you have a mother and a baby can you tell if they're related necessarily?

36:23Usually there'd be some other identification. Normally you'd assume. I don't think I know

36:29the scientific answer to that one. Do you often find yourself thinking about the war?

36:36No of course not. Well I've got to get back. You know. Time is money don't I just. That'll

36:44be 20 quid for the consult. Have you lost your sense of humour Rufus?

36:50But it hasn't got my name on. For the last time it's not my name. These are not my pills.

36:59He's trying to give me somebody else's pills. They're going to poison me. Listen. These.

37:04Why are you not even listening to me? Excuse me dear. Excuse me. Do you have my prescription

37:09there? He's just given me the wrong pills. I've poisoned myself for Christ's sake.

37:15Goodbye Mary and good riddance.

37:45What the hell were you doing in the middle of the road? You wouldn't have been able to

37:49see me if I stood anywhere else. And I wanted you to stop.

37:57Where do you want to go? Noons. I want to go to Noons.

38:04That's a remarkable coincidence. You got a cigarette? It's my last and I'm broke.

38:26It's my last man in the middle of the road.

38:39Thanks.

39:11There you are. That's noon straight ahead. What's the matter?

39:24I don't want to go there.

39:25Well, where do you want to go?

39:29Please, can I stay with you?

39:32Look, it's not my place, Rad. It's my friend, Adam's.

39:38Haven't you got any money?

39:40You aren't paying for it.

39:41Of course not. I just meant that. Haven't you got any family anywhere?

39:47No.

39:59That's all I've got.

40:00That's all I've got.

40:06This is...

40:25No, she hasn't got a name.

40:28Zosie.

40:29My name's Zosie.

40:31Zosie? What kind of name's that?

40:33My mother thought of it.

40:35It's after a character from a novel, a Russian one.

40:38Zosima.

40:38I think Dostoyevsky's Zosie was actually a man.

40:46In this book, she was the heroine.

40:49It's a lovely name.

40:50You're a lovely name.

41:04I think Dostoyevsky's Zosie.

41:07I was hungry all of a sudden.

41:34It's okay. Really. Need as much as you'd like.

41:50Well, this is yours, is it? He told me. It's a lovely house. Like a fairy story. Like

42:01a fairy story family lives here. There's a funny story about it. It's my great uncle Hilbert.

42:08Can I stay here? Will you let me stay?

42:14Of course you can. As long as you like. But, um, don't you want to let your family know

42:21who you are? Haven't got a family. I'm abandoned.

42:26No parents. No mother. Especially not a mother. I'm from the madhouse, you know. I escaped

42:36yesterday. Yeah. They'll be out looking for me now. The police. Helicopters even.

42:49Don't worry. There's plenty more where that came from. Look, it's worth a try. We're

43:02only short of cash. Now there seems to be three of us. It just seems a bit, you know, selling

43:07off uncle's things. He's a bit sacrilegious. Sacrilegious? Right. Sorry.

43:32What's the matter? Looks like you've been successful. Yeah, I know. He gave me 30 quid.

43:51I thought I had another tenner. Oh, I can't have lost it. I think that's your ten quid now.

43:58I'd have given you the money if you'd asked. I had to have my own clothes. There. That's

44:07my contribution. Oh, I see. You whipped something from there, then took it to the other antique

44:12shop up the road and sold it. Come on. Let's go and buy something for the house. She's weird,

44:20this one. Definitely weird.

44:25how to hold you up with.

44:26What are my things we need to expect?

44:40Is that another thing? If you could prepare for the house?

44:45There she goes.

44:57The Nymph of Nunes!

45:00What rustic beauty!

45:03It's the rates.

45:08Time to join the grown-ups.

45:10I've been thinking.

45:11Maybe we should turn a calpamos into a commune.

45:14A commune?

45:17It is a bit indulgent, having this house all to ourselves.

45:19Do you think those people Mary said were coming will actually appear?

45:21Oh, yeah. Mary's too rich to tell lies.

45:23They'll come, all right.

45:23Well, maybe they might be able to help us with the rates.

45:26If you keep this up, we'll make a wrap of you yet.

45:28Why do we have to have other people here?

45:31Because, my darling, despite your undoubted prowess of shoplifting,

45:35we cannot all live off your illegal earnings.

45:39I don't like them.

45:40We haven't even met them yet.

45:41Listen, if this Vivian and Shiva, or whatever his name is,

45:45if you don't like them, I'll send them away, okay?

45:49Yeah, you see?

45:50Adam will take care of us all.

45:52Hello.

46:01So, how'd it go?

46:02What?

46:03The clinic, the inoculations.

46:04Oh, that, all over.

46:05You remember who asked when she needed a booster?

46:07Oh, no, I forgot.

46:08Never mind, next time.

46:10She sounds a bit hoarse.

46:12Adam, Abigail's got the constitution of a Sherman tank.

46:16It's you I'm worried about.

46:21Is everything okay?

46:25Mmm.

46:29Oh.

46:32Oh.

46:33Hello, gorgeous.

46:36Who's that?

46:38You love me, don't you?

46:39Mr. Adam Burnsmith, you were expecting us, sir.

46:46Well, you did receive a phone call, sir.

46:48No, I did not.

46:49Oh, this is very bad.

46:53I'm Detective Inspector Winder.

46:55This is D.C. Stratton, Suffolk CID.

46:58We were told you had been informed we wished to interview you.

47:02Just want to ask you some questions concerning your ownership of Wyvie's Hall, sir.

47:07But, uh, well, we'll go and come back another day.

47:14Unless you wouldn't mind, sir.

47:15It is just a routine call.

47:20You better come in.

47:26This is my daughter, Abigail.

47:32Um, would you like a drink?

47:37I really can't see what you want with me.

47:41I thought my father had taken care of that business.

47:44Did you ever live

47:45at Wyvie's Hall, sir?

47:48No, no, no, not live.

47:50I stayed there for a few days

47:51just to check the place over.

47:53How long did you live there, Mr. Burnsmith?

47:57I stayed there for

47:58a week or two.

48:00I don't remember exactly.

48:01Are you all right, Mr. Burnsmith?

48:04You look a little pale.

48:06Yes, this, unfortunately, is my natural colour.

48:10You never went back to the hall?

48:12No, not to live.

48:14You never lived there in the first place, did you, sir?

48:16No.

48:17Now, you put Wyvie's Hall on the market

48:18at the end of the summer of 79, is that so?

48:21Yes.

48:23Well, it was mine to sell, sir.

48:26Why aren't you writing any of this down?

48:28Did you know there was an area of property

48:30where animals were buried?

48:33Excuse me.

48:34Um, I just remember something I had to do.

48:37As you weren't expecting.

48:38Oh, no!

49:01Oh!

49:02Oh!

49:03Oh!

49:04Oh!

49:05Oh!

49:06Oh!

49:07Oh!

49:08Oh, the little babies! Oh, God! Oh, the dead babies!

49:16What's wrong, Zosia? Come on, now!

49:20It's all right. It's all right. It's all right.

49:24There's nothing to harm you.

49:38I don't remember this place.

49:44The Children's Cemetery. How weird.

49:48Do you think it's some sort of strange sect?

49:51I don't know.

49:55Odd names for children, though, don't you think?

49:58Blaze.

50:01Pinto.

50:03I think there'll be a rover here somewhere.

50:08It's not funny.

50:12Don't love! Don't love!

50:14This is an animal's graveyard, you idiot!

50:25Sorry about that.

50:27Well, this would be you and your family on a holiday at Wyvers Hall.

50:31Yeah, I was seven at the time.

50:32You're surely not interested in my childhood summer holidays.

50:34Were you aware of the animal graveyard at Wyvers Hall, Mr Burnham Smith?

50:43I might have been told about it as a child. I really don't remember.

50:46But you are aware of what was found buried in the cemetery a couple of weeks ago.

50:50I think so.

50:51The skeletons of a young woman and a baby.

50:54Death occurred between 11 and 12 years ago.

50:58Would you agree?

50:58As I've neither seen the bodies, nor am I a forensic scientist, I don't see how I could agree here.

51:05A young woman met with a violent death.

51:08A child, too, probably.

51:11Suicide is a possibility in the woman's case.

51:14But she could hardly have killed herself and dug her own grave.

51:18Could she?

51:20No.

51:21When you were at the hall, you didn't happen to see a young girl around.

51:27Pushing a pram, maybe?

51:29You won't mind my asking.

51:33You never had a girl staying with you while you were there?

51:37Absolutely not.

51:39I've been thinking.

51:40I remember thinking there might have been squatters there.

51:45There were a lot of squatters about 12 years ago.

51:47We'll be off now, sir.

51:57Oh, is that all?

51:59Unless there's anything else you'd like to tell us?

52:04Well, thank you for your help, Mr. Byron Smith.

52:10If you wouldn't mind stepping down to your local station to make a statement.

52:14What?

52:14Well, just drop into your local CID and tell them what you told us.

52:18They'll be expecting you.

52:20Goodbye, sir.

52:22No, it's funny.

52:24What's funny?

52:25Well, it's funny how people think that because a crime was committed a long time ago,

52:29say, a dozen years ago,

52:31it's less important than if it had been committed yesterday.

52:34I'm sure that's not the way that we look at it.

52:36Nothing to do with me.

52:49So why do they want you to make a statement?

52:51I'm sure it's important.

53:13There was a lot of people saying,

53:14We'll never see each other again, will we?

53:26That would be a mistake.

53:30Forever and forever for the world.

53:44Rufus.

53:51Oh.

53:52This is Adam.

53:54Adam Verne-Smith.

53:55Rather thought you might call.

53:57We agreed never to speak again.

53:59The police have been here.

54:01Oh, Jesus.

54:03I haven't told them anything, but I have to make a statement.

54:05That means I'll have to lie in writing.

54:07Oh, where do you work?

54:08You might meet for a drink.

54:10Okay.

54:11Fine.

54:13Adam, have you been in touch with the others?

54:15No, of course not.

54:15You're the first.

54:17Right.

54:19Can I hear a baby?

54:21It's my daughter.

54:23You'd better go and see to her then.

54:26Adam.

54:27Yes?

54:28Panic and we'll all go down.

54:42What's the truth?

54:57It's my daughter.

55:00It's my daughter.

55:02It's my daughter.

55:03My daughter.

55:03Can I hear a baby?

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