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00:01Yeah?
00:04Yeah?
00:30Yeah?
01:00Yeah?
01:05Son, you're in the middle of his lane.
01:30I don't get any lighter.
02:00A bit lost, love.
02:29One, five, eight.
02:32Just there, sweetheart.
02:35Ta.
02:59Hold that, would you?
03:09What do you make of it?
03:18Looks old.
03:19It is.
03:20Fairly indifferent Jacobean poetry, calfskin binding, worth a couple of bob.
03:25What are these brown spots on the pages?
03:28You go straight to the heart of the matter, Mr.
03:31Jack.
03:32It's just Jack.
03:34That's called foxing.
03:36Jack, just Jack.
03:37It's what time does to books.
03:39To all of us.
03:41In the profession, we say it's slightly foxed.
03:43Interested?
03:46You know, there's a mistake.
03:48A mistake?
03:50Well, isn't there?
03:53Above the door, the sign.
03:54What about it?
03:56Well, it's wrong, isn't it?
03:58There's no apostrophe in books.
04:00There is.
04:01No, there isn't.
04:01There is.
04:02There isn't.
04:02There is.
04:03Your name is Book, and you own the shop, which it is, and I do.
04:06My name's Book.
04:07Books, books.
04:09Confusing, I know.
04:10Or is it handy?
04:11I can never decide.
04:12Anyway, I'm Book, and I run a bookshop.
04:14This one, obviously.
04:15You must be here about the job.
04:17Tea?
04:33Not quite there yet.
04:38I'm trying to make ginger snaps.
04:41Uh, how much?
04:43Where were you dragged up?
04:44One for each person, and one for the pot.
04:50Now, where have we got to?
04:54Jack, just Jack.
04:56This is dog, book, dog, job.
05:00I have a little hobby on the side, and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and
05:05more.
05:06So, I require assistance.
05:19Oh, God.
05:24Oh, that's better.
05:26I must have tea.
05:27Without tea, I am merely unreconstituted dust.
05:30Look, this isn't really my sort of gaff.
05:38I mean, I thought they'd maybe send me to a factory or something.
05:41They?
05:43Well, you know where I've come from, don't you?
05:47You know that I was...
05:48No need to mention it again.
05:50What are you hoping for now you've got the job, Jack?
05:52Just Jack.
05:53I just want to keep my head down, you know.
05:56Try and get back to norm...
05:57Wait, I've got the job.
05:58Normality is overrated.
06:01Yes, you've got the job.
06:03If you want it.
06:05Darling, you must come at once.
06:08Oh.
06:09Uh, Trotty, this is Jack.
06:10Just Jack.
06:11Jack, this is Trotty, my wife.
06:14Hello.
06:16Hello.
06:17Well, what is it?
06:18The bombsite.
06:19The man carrying the bombsite.
06:20You know where Inkeman Street used to be?
06:21Oh, yes, that one.
06:22What of it?
06:23Well, they found something.
06:25In suspicious circumstances.
06:29My favorite kind of circumstances.
06:31there.
06:31Hear a name?
06:31The bombsite.
06:32No.
06:33Hooray
06:35Just Batman.
06:40Houth!
06:42Let's do it.
06:43Go.
06:43Let's do it.
06:45Get for it.
06:47Go.
06:49Bye.
06:51Bye.
06:53Bye.
06:55Bye.
06:59Bye.
06:59Bye.
08:00I was wondering if we'd be seeing you.
08:04Like a bad penny, Sergeant.
08:05Yeah, well, you know my feelings.
08:07You've made them exquisitely plain.
08:08But as you know, I do have a special letter from Churchill.
08:12Yeah.
08:17All right.
08:17Oh, hello, Book.
08:21Mrs. Book, thought this might be up your street.
08:23Almost literally.
08:24Start at the beginning, Inspector, and leave nothing out, especially if it's salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous.
08:29Bit of a puzzle.
08:30Mr. Basehart here was starting to clear away the rubble from this old bombsite the other day.
08:34Winkerman Street caught it in 44, didn't it?
08:37Yes, sir.
08:38Terrible pounding.
08:39Do you remember that raid, sir?
08:41How could I forget?
08:42Trotty and I ended up cheek by jowl in the Anderson shelter with the man from the Prudential Insurance Company.
08:48He had lovely fingernails.
08:49Terrible halitosis.
08:51Those shelters weren't built for sharing.
08:53War's over, Mr. Basehart.
08:55Quite so, sir, but I still like to patrol my route.
08:59For old time's sake.
09:00And to keep an eye on old Brenda there.
09:03My trusty searchlight.
09:05Well, here he was, trying to clear away the rubble, when Lowe, what does he find?
09:09Lowe what?
09:10Ah.
09:19Heavens to Betsy.
09:21Tossed together like a skeletal salad.
09:24How many?
09:24It's hard to tell, because they're all jumbled up.
09:26Ten or twelve, I'd say.
09:28Quite why Mr. Basehart didn't tell the authorities about his discovery forthwith is another matter.
09:32He didn't?
09:33No.
09:34Some kiddies who were playing here let us know.
09:36As I was saying, I have a theory.
09:38Well, obviously they copped it in the raid, didn't they?
09:41What do you think, Jack?
09:44Me?
09:44You.
09:44Uh, yeah, that's what must have happened.
09:53Air raid killed them.
09:55Died two years ago, and now they're all rotted away.
09:59That would be a logical assumption, is this?
10:02So you don't think they died in an air raid?
10:05If you recall, Inkeman Street was already empty, wasn't it, Mr. Basehart?
10:08Scheduled for demolition.
10:10So nobody was living here, in which case...
10:13Who are they?
10:13Well, anybody, surely.
10:16Anybody could have taken shelter from the bombing in one of the empty houses.
10:19A dozen of them.
10:20What about clothes?
10:21Clothes?
10:22All flesh is grass.
10:24The raid was only two years ago.
10:26Even if the bodies had rotted away, their clothes would still be intact.
10:29I think Mr. Basehart and I are thinking along similar lines.
10:34Well, that would appear to be the clincher.
10:47What do you think?
10:51The unmistakable bonds of King Charles II.
10:54Oh, does it have a date on it, too?
10:561665.
10:581665.
11:01Plague pit, yeah?
11:03So it would seem...
11:04A what?
11:05Plague pit.
11:07The Great Plague.
11:08London's burial grounds were overflowing, so they dug these great big pits and dumped all the corpses in them.
11:15Oh, I... I'm a bit of an archaeologist.
11:19On the side, strictly amateur, you understand?
11:22So why didn't you tell us straight away when you found them?
11:25Well, I... I knew I'd never get a chance like this again.
11:29I just wanted a bit of time to excavate them.
11:33Fascinating stuff.
11:34I really am very sorry, Inspector.
11:40Yes, well, no harm done, I suppose.
11:42Not sure about that.
11:44These skeletons might still be lively.
11:46What? You mean, it's still catching?
11:48The jury, as they say, is out.
11:50But I think it's very unlikely.
11:52Do you mind if I hang on to this?
11:54You're welcome to it.
11:55Right, Mr. Book?
11:56Oh, hello, Nora.
11:58Why, I'm not surprised to see you here.
11:59Did you know that back then, they used to use great catapults to toss plaguey corpses into besieged cities to deliberately affect people?
12:09That's horrible, Nora.
12:11I know.
12:11And a split infinitive.
12:13Even more horrible.
12:17That'd be worth a bit, too.
12:21Sergeant, get this.
12:22It's not taken care of in a prompt area today.
12:25With care.
12:27Where to, sir?
12:28Uh, uh, morgue, I suppose.
12:30Get Dr. Golder to take a shifty.
12:32See if there's any chance they're still infectious.
12:34Yes, sir.
12:35Thank you, Book.
12:36Anytime, Inspector.
12:40Sergeant!
12:43Why can't you collect stamps like normal people?
12:54Oh, dear.
12:58Are you all right?
13:16Yeah.
13:17Um, it's all just a bit, uh, being coppers.
13:23I've, uh, been away, you see, and...
13:28Oh, yes, I have.
13:28I know.
13:30Can't have been very nice.
13:31You can tell me all about it when you're ready.
13:33Here, let me take this.
13:35Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you, now that you've got the job.
13:38I have the premises next door.
13:40Book has his books, I have my wallpaper, and there is a darling little attic room between the two.
13:45Why are you helping me like this?
13:47Why not?
13:47I'll get this.
13:50I know.
13:52What old Harkup?
13:55Suicide, I heard.
13:56Heard?
13:57Uh, from your colleague over there.
13:59Oh, love his ruddy guts for garters.
14:02This goes against all the rules of...
14:03All right, Sergeant, all right.
14:04Mr. Book's always welcome to give us the benefit of his wisdom, and as you know...
14:09Yes.
14:11Yes.
14:14Bad business, but very bad.
14:15Oh, sod.
14:18But, look, Morris has a point.
14:19This is a plain, ordinary suicide.
14:21I mean, I can be flexible, as you know.
14:23Weren't something a little bit more...
14:25Recherche, outré, anything with an acute accent?
14:29Unusual, comes along.
14:31Like our barbed friends, the skeleton.
14:32I mean, this is a meat and potatoes job.
14:35You know, the Sergeant and I are perfectly capable of...
14:37Who found him?
14:39Charwoman.
14:39Hader, dredge.
14:41Pretty shook up, she is.
14:43Dredge?
14:44That rings a little bell.
14:45Which she'd been doing for Harkup for donkeys.
14:49Ding dong.
14:51Was there a note?
14:52No, no, no.
14:53How did he do it?
14:55Prussic acid.
14:56It's not...
14:57Nasty.
14:59And intriguing, don't you think?
15:02Mr. Harkup.
15:08Great, sir.
15:09Looks like suicide.
15:10Oh, how dreadful.
15:13Well, I'd better get on.
15:14Too much excitement for one day.
15:17Jack, knit back to the shop, would you?
15:19There's a pile of newspapers,
15:21third stack on the right as you come in,
15:23Charing Cross Dispatch,
15:24underneath two volumes on Eleanor of Castile
15:26and the Wilting Espadistra.
15:27Fetch them for me, would you?
15:35Okay.
15:36Oh, and put the kettle on again.
15:38We're going to have company.
15:45Have a drink.
15:46Oh, well, see, this is from him.
15:57Yeah.
15:58Oh, I brought a coffee and walnut cake round for Mr. Harkup.
16:02You might as well have it.
16:04This is your usual char day.
16:07Yes, every week, regular as clockwork.
16:10But I only saw him yesterday.
16:11Pop round to get some bandages.
16:13Bandages?
16:14Oh, my son, he was injured in the war.
16:17He needs constant attention.
16:19The dressing.
16:20What time did you see Mr. Harkup?
16:23Six.
16:24Six-ish, I think.
16:26Oh, it doesn't seem possible.
16:28Him standing there all full of life and then...
16:31Finding him lying there like that.
16:34You're doing very well.
16:36And was he?
16:38Was he what?
16:39Full of life when you saw him.
16:41In good spirits, I mean.
16:43Well, to be honest, he seemed a little down.
16:48Although I'd want to go and do an horrible thing like that to himself.
16:51Any vices?
16:54Vices, sir?
16:54We must investigate all angles, alas, dear lady.
17:00Man of very regular habits he was.
17:02Church every Sunday.
17:04Kept his accounts in very neat order.
17:06I think that was the soldier in him.
17:09He did play dominoes.
17:11Dominoes?
17:12Every Monday and Thursday night.
17:13In the ball.
17:14With Mr. Baseheart and some others.
17:16Does that count as a vice?
17:18I hardly think so.
17:20Do you have any family?
17:24My mother always said if you can't see anything nice about someone, don't open your trap.
17:31So there was bad blood, then?
17:36There's a daughter, isn't there?
17:38Some estrangement.
17:40I wouldn't like to say.
17:42No.
17:43Don't seem right.
17:45What with Mr. H. not cold in his grave.
17:47Heavens, this cake.
17:49Yes.
17:50Oh, it's superb.
17:51Oh, too kind, sir.
17:53But then I'd expect nothing less.
17:55Oh, why'd you say that?
17:57From Miss Lyons' Corner House, 1921.
18:00Oh, I fancy you knowing that.
18:03It was 1922, though.
18:06My mistake.
18:07How the dickings?
18:08Oh, I store off a lot of little tidbits like that, mostly useless.
18:13Must have been a lovely experience.
18:15Oh, yes.
18:17Oh, I've never felt so glamorous.
18:19I got a new hat and the Lord Mayor winked at me.
18:24Winked.
18:25Fancy.
18:25Worked there for years, I did, at the Corner House.
18:29So I got very good with the baking.
18:31Mr. H. used to love my pineapple upside down.
18:35You know, it really would be most helpful to know why he and his daughter, Sarah,
18:40Marula, that's right.
18:44Why he and Marula no longer saw eye to eye.
18:48Well, seeing as you've been so kind, sir.
18:51Very good of you.
18:52She was a cow.
18:54A right horrible, money-grabbing little cow.
18:58I see.
18:59Apple of his eye, she was, after his wife passed on.
19:03But she knew how to twist him round her little finger.
19:07Nothing was too much for his little princess.
19:09And then she has the gall to run off with him.
19:14Him?
19:15Mickey.
19:17Mickey Hall.
19:18It's a right and there do well.
19:19Up to all sorts in the war spivvy stuff.
19:21You know, Black Market.
19:23He's a motor mechanic.
19:25They've got a garage out Mile Endway.
19:27Mile End.
19:28Charming.
19:29And now Marula will inherit the lot.
19:34Don't seem right, do it?
19:37No, it, um...
19:39Don't.
19:40Thanks for the cake.
19:45What the hell do you think you're doing?
19:47Just being neighbourly, Sergeant?
19:49Uh, your witness, I think.
20:04Hello again.
20:05Oh, hello, Book.
20:07I just wondered if I could have a little nosy round before I head out.
20:11See if I can help at all.
20:13Head out?
20:13Oh, Mrs. Book and I are often pleasure-bent.
20:16The new boys, babysitting.
20:18Oh, for the dog?
20:20Dog.
20:20There's no definite article.
20:22Off to the pictures?
20:24Rerunning a Sandra Dare at the Rialto.
20:26The opera.
20:27Fat ladies singing.
20:30Speaking of which, may I, um...
20:36There's a daughter, but Mrs. Dredge says they didn't get on.
20:42So I gather.
20:44Yeah, we're endeavouring to trace her.
20:45She has a garage at Mile End.
20:50Oh, right.
20:52Thanks.
21:11Funny, aren't they?
21:12Mrs. Bliss goes in for something similar.
21:16A little, a little make-macks.
21:18Not quite the same, I think.
21:20These are jade.
21:21Rather fine.
21:24And this one.
21:32Mr. Harcup was obviously a connoisseur.
21:42Do you think it was suicide?
21:55Do you have doubts?
21:57I do.
21:58What's your theory?
22:00Evening, gentlemen.
22:01Evening.
22:02Oh, Eric.
22:02Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
22:05Hey?
22:05That book for Sheila, it's arrived.
22:07Oh, smashing.
22:08She'll come over tomorrow for me.
22:10Right-o.
22:10Wait a whistle?
22:11Oh, no, thank you.
22:13I was never keen on him myself.
22:15Harcup.
22:17God forgive me.
22:19Bit of a little Hitler.
22:20Still, poor bugger.
22:22Stop it himself like that.
22:23Hmm.
22:24So, so, what's your theory?
22:27Patience, Inspector.
22:29Patience.
22:30The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
22:33Holstoy.
22:34Oh, I couldn't get into it.
22:35I tried that one, you know, where she chucks us up in front of a train.
22:39No?
22:39No.
22:41Well, Inspector.
22:51There you go.
22:52Too much?
23:18No, not at all.
23:23Uh, you look amazing.
23:26I meant the walls.
23:28Oh.
23:29Book says it's an affront to good taste, but I don't know, I think it has a certain something,
23:34don't you?
23:35I'm good at knocking things together.
23:37I, I always have been.
23:40Wardrobes, wireless sets, heads.
23:42I was in the land army.
23:44Gin?
23:45What?
23:47Oh, yeah, please.
23:50So you're going out then?
23:52My dear, we're always going out.
23:55Well, one has to live, doesn't one?
23:57Especially after the time we've all had.
23:59There's some chops in the larder, I think.
24:01Yours runs up at the top.
24:02I've aired the sheets.
24:08Your, I mean, thank you.
24:13Better go and unpack.
24:22Well?
24:24Well?
24:25I know that look.
24:42You're on to something.
24:44Nonsense.
24:45Really the happy look of a contented man.
24:47I have my lovely wife, my lovely shop, my lovely dog.
24:51What more could a man ask for?
24:53Broad.
24:54Three things, then.
24:56Mr. Harkup collected Chinese jade figures of exceptional quality.
25:00But dust is eloquent, as someone once said.
25:04Dust doesn't lie.
25:05One of the figures has been replaced with a bit of cheap trash, a chess piece.
25:10But the larger outline remains clear.
25:13Mrs. Dredge hasn't cleaned in a while, despite what she said.
25:16Secondly, Mr. Harkup has a small lump on the back of his head.
25:21Not caused by him falling, I don't think.
25:24Or probably a blow with a blunt instrument.
25:27A blunt instrument that didn't break the skin.
25:29And yet there is blood on the back of Mr. Harkup's scalp.
25:32Thirdly.
25:33Yes.
25:35Darkly I listen.
25:37For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death.
25:41Called him soft names in many amused rhyme.
25:46To take into the air my quiet breath.
25:50God.
25:51Why would a chemist, with every known gentle poison in the shop,
25:55choose to kill himself with something as horrible as prussic acid?
25:59Well, book.
26:05There you are then.
26:07Yes, Trotty.
26:08Here we are.
26:12It's murder.
26:13Book.
26:40Book?
26:42Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:12Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:42Shop.
27:47Ah! Good morning.
27:52How can I help?
27:53Oh, well, I'm...
27:54I'm after a book.
27:56You are very much in the right place.
27:58What do you think, young man?
28:00What would suit the lady best?
28:01Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James?
28:05Do you have the new Georgette Hayer?
28:08Oh.
28:09Well, I've read all her other ones.
28:11Me too.
28:11and what a smasher she is.
28:13But that would be a new book, Miss...
28:15Mrs. Goodwin.
28:16Mrs. Goodwin.
28:18Jean.
28:18Jean.
28:19We're not really going for those, do we?
28:23We should try foils.
28:25It's a bit of a trudge.
28:27My feet being what they are.
28:29I have the perfect alternative.
28:30One who was spinning romantic yarns
28:32when Miss Hay was still in the cradle.
28:34Probably.
28:35Oh, well, if you think that...
28:36Shh!
28:37I mean, if you'd recommend...
28:38Shh!
28:39Beg your pardon?
28:40I'm sure.
28:41Sorry, thinking.
28:42Ah!
28:53Ortsy.
28:54Never heard of him.
28:55Her. Baroness. Hungarian.
28:58The Scarlet Pimpernel.
28:59Oh, I've heard of that.
29:02French Revolution.
29:03It's a delight.
29:04You won't regret it.
29:06When you've finished,
29:07come back and I'll find you the sequel.
29:09Oh, that's very good of you.
29:11What do I owe you?
29:12Oh, let's call it a bob.
29:14Hang on.
29:15Feet.
29:16Feet, feet, feet.
29:18Ah.
29:20This
29:21is free.
29:22Oh, I couldn't possibly.
29:25Oh, there's nothing.
29:26But sending you off happily on the bus without further bunions is a price above rubies.
29:32Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
29:33Oh, thank you.
29:36Cheers.
29:37Bye.
29:38Come on, woman.
29:41I'll never make any money like that, will I?
29:43I'll never make any money like that.
29:47Hey-ho.
29:48Now then, Jack, excited to start the day?
29:51There's a whole world of learning in here.
29:54All human life and some inhuman.
29:57You've got that coin.
29:59What?
29:59Oh, uh, yeah.
30:01Yeah, of course.
30:02Good.
30:02i don't mean to pry mr book but um what exactly is it you do i would have thought that was obvious
30:13i sell books yeah but that's not all is it yesterday out there at a bomb site
30:19chat with a charlady yes well is that like your your hobby i mean the way you talk to those coppers
30:29where they let you roam around that pit are you like some sort of advisor to them or something i
30:34mean why should they listen to you they frequently don't more fool them i did the inspector a favor
30:41once during the war he hasn't forgotten also i have a special letter a letter from churchill yeah
30:48the copper said that a letter saying what
30:51it's a chaotic world jack i have a system sometimes people like me to give an opinion
31:00on things impose a little order that's all you can read all sorts of things as well as books
31:11this this is your system yes what's wrong with it well they're not in any kind of order
31:19uh cataracts of denial diseases of the eye and their treatment cataracts eye disease logical
31:32the guillotine a practical guide the life and death of alfred mutton's gent coins of the realm i mean
31:39there's no system there's no system at all it's all up here isn't it how best to explain
31:44alfred mutton's was a career criminal and a successful forger in his day which was queen
31:49victoria's day extraordinary chap in his field he was a coiner a forger of coins but his luck ran out
31:55of paris and they chopped off his head which is why all those books are clumped together you see
31:59yeah but that's i mean that's silly nevertheless
32:09well i shall leave you to uh hold the fort
32:29yeah
32:31slightly foxed
32:36slightly foxed
32:39says it all
32:59morning
33:09yeah uh can i help you i've come to collect an order
33:14uh right oh um what's the name sheila well beloved
33:17hello jack yeah i'm norah we've got lots to talk about
33:31you
33:45thank you miss uh again very sorry for you can i go now well if you wouldn't mind just answering a few
33:50questions um you would just just come with me please listen
33:56fascinating way better to hide a tree than in a forest
34:01and these markings indeed
34:06look oh hello just checking in on those skeletons with dr calder here oh yes any risk of infection
34:13quite safe on that count inspector however
34:16loose lips drop slips as they say in the knicker trade wouldn't want to spoil the surprise would
34:21we surprise
34:24anyway back to the case in hand this is miss marula harcup
34:28oh my dear child i'm so very sorry a few questions you said do you mind if i tag along
34:35well don't forget that blood test will you on its way
34:49sorry about that there you go black lamb and gray falcon sounds interesting
34:55time
35:04getting the hang of it slowly so who are you nora i live across the road in the turkish restaurant
35:12help out in the shop sometimes so um do you know him well then mr and mrs book yeah
35:19and do you know about his little hobby bloody hell yes it's all i think about
35:28isn't all that i mean
35:32isn't that unhealthy i should think so what do your mom and dad think don't have any
35:41what do you mean well it was the war wasn't it everyone lost someone
35:47i lost them sorry
35:54what happened so how are you getting on anyway with the books mr and mrs
36:04it's not quite what i expected what is his christian name by the way what do you think
36:11cookbook scrapbook mucky book
36:13uh gabriel ah like the angel archangel i think you'll find their dream both of them such sweethearts
36:26so what's the real story
36:39so what's the real story
36:43what's the real story you think i'm hard i'm not sniffling boohooing all over the shop
36:53i mean it's just not the way i'm made so there
36:57your father
36:59i'm sorry that he's dead
37:01of course i am he was my dad
37:04in spite of everything
37:08he didn't make it easy to um to love him though can you think of any reason why he'd want to take his
37:14own life none no he was nicely set up with a shop and well mum had left him a few bob when she died
37:23you don't think your estrangement no nothing to do with that he wasn't the type to get all emotional
37:29maybe that's where i get it from i mean he made it very clear that he didn't approve of um
37:39me and mickey but um he'd hardly have gone killed himself in a fit of the glums about it he just
37:44he weren't the type as i say tell us about mickey
37:47what's to say he's my fella
37:55how was his war
37:58why do you ask that well we know how much our father appreciated the armed forces always wore his
38:03metal ribbons with great pride yes well mickey wasn't lucky his eyes they're not they're not good
38:09i say that's why he ended up with me i mean he wouldn't have been much good against jerry with
38:17eyes like his dad didn't like that thought he was a shirker that was the start of it what was the finish
38:27well dad was convinced that mickey was thieving from him cash morphine
38:32mickey got up to some shady business during the war just stocking cigarettes small stuff
38:42dad had um just got it into his head that mickey was bad and he'd noticed morphine had gone missing
38:48yes wouldn't speak to us but you've had a bit of news haven't you
38:53i mean i thought a little one might be the thing that brings back together
39:04what's all this about why are you so interested in mickey if dad has gone and topped himself
39:16stories detective stories that's what i want to write
39:21i've got so many ideas it's such an exciting new world out there everything's all smashed up
39:30the whole world no one knows what to do anymore well i do the war turned everything upside down
39:37shook it up that's great there's no going back to how things used to be including murders including
39:43murders after soldiers in britain have come home with pistols they stole from dead nazis
39:49the country's a washroom so so we only seems to have lies in this country because we know aren't
39:58think of all that throbbing suburban passion husbands having affairs with secretaries ladies having
40:07affairs with their chauffeurs all those contested wheels and domestic rows people used to kill each
40:14other by boiling down arsenic from their wallpaper now they just have to reach for aluga
40:22pow pow pow
40:23what did happen to your parents you're supposed to be telling me your story
40:39i'm an orphan too i never knew my mum i've got a picture of my dad
40:45that's all i'm sorry
40:54it's all right
40:59i should um yeah it was nice to meet you it was an incendiary
41:03incendiary an incendiary set the roof on fire in the blitz
41:19mum got me out and went back for dad
41:22and then the roof fell in i just sat there in the garden looking at the house just
41:36felt sort of numb
41:42the arp warden found me then my uncle took me in so
41:48now i have to help him out with the restaurant
41:54but you'd rather be
41:58much more exciting over here isn't it
42:07i gave up pleasure for lent
42:31i gave up lent
42:32pleasure
42:42well
42:44what's your answer
42:46i told you before i'm just a bookseller
42:50i sell books again like i did before the war
42:53this would be
42:56for old time's sake
42:58and we did help you find him
43:04very kind of you
43:08how's all that working out
43:10it's complicated
43:13well yes i imagine it is
43:17delicate
43:17and we wouldn't want anything to go wrong
43:24now would we
43:32not
43:40but
43:41don't
43:42i
43:42i
43:43really
43:43i
43:44i
43:45i
43:46i
43:46i
43:47i
43:47i
43:47and
43:48i
43:48i
43:49i
43:49i
43:49Oh, my God.
44:19So, what do we make of him, hmm?
44:30Jack, put him in the attic room.
44:32Like Mrs. Rochester, only slightly more butch.
44:36Has it ever occurred to you that you are such a...
44:39Bibliophile?
44:40Because of your name?
44:42Nominative determinism, hmm.
44:44I mean, if you've been called butcher, you might be slicing up choice cuts of meat.
44:52Flenzing, that's the word.
44:54Removing fat from a carcass.
44:56Wonderfully descriptive word, flenzing.
44:59I shall endeavour to bring it back.
45:00Well, I wish you joy with that.
45:02Yes, you could be slipping your black market chops under the counter like Mr. Wellbeloved.
45:07Much more useful than books these days.
45:09I could have been an archer, or a baker, or a chandler.
45:15Speaking of which, farewell, my lovely.
45:18Oh, you're going out again.
45:19You're so sharp, you'll cut yourself.
45:21Crime fiction, American.
45:23Customer put in a request.
45:25I know it's here somewhere.
45:26I saw a lady in the lake recently.
45:28Anyway, Jack.
45:30Oh.
45:32Definitely a promise, definitely a promise.
45:34And he didn't try to flog that coin.
45:37So jail hasn't made him a wrong gun for life?
45:40Touch wood.
45:45And the, uh, other matter?
45:51It's too soon to tell him.
45:53What was so special about your dad's birthday?
46:11I guess it's too soon to tell him that he's been a little bit.
46:14It's too soon to tell him that he's a little bit.
46:17He's been a little bit.
46:17And he's been a little bit.
46:19He's been a little bit.
46:20He's been a little bit.
46:20He's been a little bit.
46:21What was so special about your book?
46:24Nothing really, it's just about some chaps at school playing cricket.
46:30And what do you think of Carol Darley?
46:32You've read Tim?
46:34Started it.
46:35When?
46:36After I saved it from the incinerator.
46:43Book.
46:44What's your name?
46:47Budge over.
46:47It's a funny name.
46:59Stratford Perry.
47:01But my friends call me Trotty.
47:04You're splendid.
47:06You owe me.
47:08I do.
47:10So when I get into trouble here, will you help me out?
47:14Let us make a solemn pact.
47:17Put your strong arms around me, Carol, and raise me a little.
47:33I can talk better so.
47:35Carol bowed his head without a word and kissed him.
47:43And thus, their friendship was sealed.
47:54Good night, Mrs. Book.
47:56Good night, Mr. Book.
47:57The daughter, the spiv, the char, the warden.
48:17Who gave Harkop the ruddy poison?
48:34Absent friends.
48:35Absent friends.
48:38Absent friends.
48:39Who came to help?
48:58I can't talk better.
48:58I can't talk better.
48:59Don't forget.
48:59Sir, you never believe it.
49:18It takes a lot to surprise me, mate.
49:21What? Why is it?
49:23We've got the chemist's wheel through, sir.
49:24Really?
49:25Daughter doesn't get a bean.
49:27No.
49:28No.
49:28No, no, no, no.
49:29Then it does.
49:37Oh, the charm.
49:40Mrs. Ada Dredge.
49:42Ah! Ah! Come! Come! Come! Come! Come!
50:12Oh!