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Bookish Season 1 Episode 1
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00:01Mia?
00:04Mia?
00:30Mia?
01:00Mia?
01:01Mia?
01:05Son, let's wait.
01:30I don't get any lighter!
02:00A bit lost, love?
02:04Uh...
02:05A bit lost, love?
02:07Uh...
02:08A bit lost, love?
02:09Uh...
02:10One five eight?
02:11Just there, sweetheart.
02:12Ta.
02:13A bit lost, love?
02:15Uh...
02:16One five eight?
02:17Just there, sweetheart.
02:19Ta.
02:20A bit lost, love?
02:21Uh...
02:22One five eight?
02:23Just there, sweetheart.
02:24Ta.
02:25A bit lost, love?
02:27Uh...
02:28One five eight?
02:29Just there, sweetheart.
02:30Ta.
02:31One five eight?
02:32One five eight?
02:33Just there, sweetheart.
02:34Ta.
02:35Ta.
02:44Talk to me.
02:45Koo!
02:46Let me get your face, huh?
02:47Koo!
02:48Koo!
02:49Koo!
02:50Koo!
02:52Koo!
02:53Koo!
02:54Koo!
02:55Koo!
02:56Koo!
02:58Koo!
02:59Koo!
03:00Koo!
03:01Koo!
03:02Koo!
03:03Hold that, would you?
03:15What do you make of it?
03:18Looks old.
03:19It is.
03:20Fairly indifferent Jacobean poetry,
03:22calfskin binding, worth a couple of bob.
03:25What are these brown spots on the pages?
03:28You can get straight to the heart of the matter, Mr.
03:31Jack.
03:32It's just Jack.
03:34That's called foxing, Jack, just Jack.
03:37It's what time does to books, to 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?
03:52Above the door, a 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.
04:03There isn't.
04:03But is it your name is Book and you own the shop,
04:05which 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?
04:17Not quite there yet.
04:38I'm trying to make ginger snaps.
04:40Uh, how much?
04:43Where were you dragged up?
04:44One for each person and one for the pot.
04:50Oh.
04:53Where have we got to, Jack?
04:54Just Jack.
04:56Uh, this 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.
05:08Oh, God.
05:24Oh, that's better.
05:26I must have tea.
05:27Without tea, I am merely unreconstituted dust.
05:36Look, 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.
05:59Normality 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 Incommon Street used to be?
06:21Oh, yes, that one.
06:22What of it?
06:23Well, they found something.
06:25In suspicious circumstances.
06:27My favorite kind of circumstances.
06:31What?
06:44What?
06:44What?
06:44What?
06:45I'm sorry.
06:45What?
07:46I was wondering if we'd be seeing you.
08:03Like 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.
08:14All 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,
08:28or 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.
08:34Inkerman 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.
08:58For old time's sake.
09:00And to keep an eye on old Brenda there.
09:02My trusty searchlight.
09:05Well, here he was, trying to clear away the rubble, when lo, what does he find?
09:09Lo, 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.
09:26And ten 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.
09:48Uh.
09:50Yeah, that's what must have happened.
09:53Air raid killed him.
09:55Died two years ago, and now they're all rotted away.
09:59That would be a logical assumption.
10:01Who's this?
10:02So you don't think they died in an air raid?
10:04If 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?
10:14Well, 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.
10:29But I think Mr. Basehart and I are thinking along similar lines.
10:34Well, that would appear to be the clincher.
10:47What do you think?
10:48The unmistakable bonds of King Charles II.
10:54Oh, does it have a date on it, too?
10:561665.
11:00Plague pit, yeah?
11:03So it seemed...
11:04A what?
11:05Plague pit.
11:07The Great Plague.
11:08London's burial grounds were overflowing,
11:11so they dug these great big pits and dumped all the corpses in them.
11:15I'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?
11:24Well, 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.
11:37I 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.
11:51But 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.
12:00Did you know that back then,
12:01they used to use great catapults
12:03to toss plaguey corpses into besieged cities
12:06to deliberately infect people?
12:09That's horrible, Nora.
12:11I know.
12:11And a split infinitive.
12:13Even more horrible.
12:15You ready?
12:17Might be worth a bit, too.
12:21Sergeant, get this lot taken care of in a prompt home,
12:25do you know?
12:25With care.
12:26Um, where to, sir?
12:28Um, um, 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.
12:36Any time, Inspector.
12:37What's that?
12:40Sergeant!
12:43Why can't you collect stamps like normal people?
12:54Oh, dear.
12:55Are you all right?
13:16Yeah.
13:17Um, um, 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.
13:30It can'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?
13:36Now that you've got the job.
13:38I have the premises next door.
13:40Book has his books, I have my wallpaper,
13:42and there is a darling little attic room between the two.
13:45Why are you helping me like this?
13:47Why not?
13:47I don't know.
13:49I'll get this for you, guys.
13:51What about Harcup?
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.
14:05Mr Book's always welcome to give us the benefit of his wisdom.
14:08As you know...
14:09Yes.
14:11Yes.
14:14Bad business, but very bad.
14:15Oh, sod.
14:16But, look, Morris has a point.
14:19This is a plain, ordinary suicide.
14:21I mean, I can be flexible, as you know.
14:23It went something a little bit more...
14:24Recherche, outré, anything with an acute accent.
14:29Unusual, comes along.
14:31Like our barb friends, the skeleton.
14:33This is a meat and potatoes job.
14:35You know, the Sergeant and I are perfectly capable...
14:37Who found him?
14:39Charwond.
14:39A hater, Dredge.
14:41Pretty shook up, she is.
14:43Dredge.
14:44That rings a little bell.
14:45Which she'd been doing for Harcup for donkeys.
14:49Ding dong.
14:51Was there a note?
14:52No, no, no.
14:53How did he do it?
14:54Prussic acid.
14:56It's not...
14:57Nasty.
14:59And intriguing, don't you think?
15:07Mr Harcup.
15:08Right, sir.
15:09Looks like suicide.
15:10Oh, how dreadful.
15:11Well, 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, third stack on the right as you come in.
15:23Charing Cross Dispatch, underneath two volumes on Eleanor of Castile and the Wilting Espadistra.
15:29Fetch them for me, would you?
15:34Okay.
15:36Oh, and put the kettle on again.
15:38We're going to have company.
15:39Oh, well, seeing as it's from him.
15:57Oh, I brought a coffee and walnut cake round for Mr Harcup.
16:02You might as well have it.
16:04This is your usual char day.
16:07Yes.
16:08Every 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 him, Mr Harcup?
16:23Six.
16:24Six-ish, I think.
16:26Oh, it doesn't seem possible.
16:28Him standing there all full of life and then...
16:32Finding him lying there like that.
16:34You were 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?
16:55We must investigate all angles, alas, dear lady.
16:58Oh, man 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?
17:20My mother always said if you can't see anything nice about someone, don't open your trap.
17:32So there was bad blood then?
17:36There's a daughter, isn't there?
17:38Some estrangement?
17:40I wouldn't like to say.
17:43Don't seem right.
17:45What with Mr H not cold in his grave.
17:47Heavens, this cake.
17:49Yes.
17:49Oh, 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.
18:04It was 1922, though?
18:06My mistake.
18:07How about Dickens?
18:08I saw 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.
18:18I've 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.
18:32Mr 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, Marula, that's right.
18:44Why he and Marula are no longer so 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.
19:09Oh, and then she has the gall to run off with him.
19:14Him?
19:15Mickey.
19:16Mickey Hall.
19:18It's a right and there do well.
19:19Up to all sorts in the war.
19:20Spivvy stuff, you know.
19:22Black 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, don't.
19:40Thanks for the cake.
19:45What the hell do you think you're doing?
19:47Just being neighbourly, Sergeant?
19:50Er, your witness, I think.
19:53Hello 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?
20:14Oh, Mrs. Book and I are often pleasure-bent.
20:16The new boy's babysitting.
20:18Up for the dog?
20:20Dog.
20:20There's no definite article.
20:21Off 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...
20:37There's a daughter.
20:38But Mrs. Dredge says they didn't get on.
20:42So I gather.
20:44Yeah, we're endeavouring to trace her.
20:46She has a garage at Mile End.
20:50Oh, right.
20:51Thanks.
21:11Funny, aren't they?
21:12Mrs. Bliss goes in for something similar.
21:16A little, a little mick-nacks.
21:18Not quite the same, I think.
21:20These are jade.
21:21Rather fine.
21:24And this one...
21:27Mr. Harcup was obviously a connoisseur.
21:34Do you think it was suicide?
21:55Do you have doubts?
21:56I do.
21:58What's your theory?
21:59Evening, gentlemen.
22:00Evening.
22:01Oh, Eric.
22:02Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
22:04What?
22:05That book for Sheila.
22:06It's arrived.
22:07Oh, it's matching.
22:08Er, she'll come over tomorrow for me.
22:10Righto.
22:10Wait a whistle.
22:11Oh, no, thank you.
22:12I was never keen on him myself, Harcup.
22:16God forgive me.
22:18Bit of a little Hitler.
22:20Still, poor bugger.
22:21Stop it himself like that.
22:23Mm.
22:24So, so...
22:25What's your theory?
22:27Patience, Inspector.
22:28Patience.
22:29The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
22:32Halstoy.
22:34Oh, I couldn't get into it.
22:35I tried that one, you know, where she chucks herself in front of a train.
22:38No?
22:39No.
22:40Well...
22:41Inspector.
22:55Too much?
23:18No, not at all.
23:22Er...
23:23You look amazing.
23:26I meant the walls.
23:27Oh.
23:28Book says it's an affront to good taste, but I don't know, I think it has a certain something,
23:33don't you?
23:34I'm good at knocking things together.
23:36I...
23:37I always have been.
23:38Wardrobes, wireless sets, heads.
23:41I was in the land army.
23:43Gin?
23:44What?
23:45Oh, yeah, please.
23:47So you're going out, then?
23:50I do.
23:51My dear, we're always going out.
23:54Well, 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.
24:04You're...
24:05I mean...
24:07Better go and unpack.
24:21Well?
24:22Well?
24:23I know that look.
24:28You're onto something.
24:31Nonsense.
24:32Merely the happy look of a contented man.
24:34I have my lovely wife.
24:35My lovely shop.
24:36My lovely dog.
24:37Or more could a man ask for.
24:38Broad.
24:39Three things, then.
24:40Mr. Harcup collected Chinese jade figures of exceptional quality.
24:42But dust is eloquent, as someone once said.
24:43Dust doesn't lie.
24:44One of the figures has been replaced with a bit of cheap trash.
24:46A chest piece.
24:47A chest piece.
24:48A chest piece.
24:49A chest piece.
24:50A chest piece.
24:51A chest piece.
24:52A chest piece.
24:53A chest piece.
24:54A chest piece.
24:55A chest piece.
24:56A chest piece.
24:57Or probably a blow.
24:58With a blunt instrument.
25:00A blunt instrument.
25:01A blunt instrument took a brick, especially if there's so hole that UK could be used
25:02to sum a host of crook.
25:04Everything but anything.
25:05A thing about the dog lij Ist.
25:06Yes.
25:07Let me put you what I said.
25:08Must go, after you.
25:09Nothing.
25:10It's done nadie.
25:11Wondered it.
25:12Mrs. Dredge hasn't cleaned in a while, despite what she said.
25:16Secondly, Mr. Harcup has a small lump on the back of his head.
25:20Not caused by him falling, I don't think.
25:23Or probably a blow with a blunt instrument.
25:26A blunt instrument that didn't break the skin.
25:29And yet there is blood on the back of Mr. Harcup's scalp.
25:32Thirdly...
25:33Yes?
25:34Darkly, I listen.
25:36For many a time, I have been half in love with easeful death.
25:40Called him soft names in many amused rhyme.
25:45To take into the air my quiet breath.
25:49Pardon?
25:50Why would a chemist, with every known gentle poison in the shop,
25:55choose to kill himself with something as horrible as prussic acid?
26:01Hm.
26:02Well, book.
26:04There you are, then.
26:06Yes, Trotty.
26:07There we are.
26:10It's murder.
26:12It's murder.
26:22It's death.
26:28I'm sorry.
26:29You're right.
26:31Book?
26:42Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:01Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:08Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:14Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:20She's got a Rubik's Sharpe-Sage,
27:24Mrs. Book!
27:39Mrs. Book, be careful.
27:41Schοp.
27:44にな τα πYA
27:47Good morning.
27:51How can I help?
27:52Oh, well, I'm...
27:54I'm off to a book.
27:56You are very much in the right place.
27:58What do you think, young man? What would suit the lady best?
28:01Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Henry James?
28:04Do you have the new Georgette Heyer?
28:07Ah.
28:08Well, I've read all her other ones.
28:10Me too, and what a smasher she is.
28:12But that would be a new book, Miss...
28:14Mrs. Goodwin.
28:16Mrs. Goodwin.
28:17Jean.
28:18Jean.
28:19We're not really going for those, do we?
28:22We should try foils.
28:25It's a bit of a trudge, with my feet being what they are.
28:28I have the perfect alternative.
28:30One who was spinning romantic yarns with Miss Hayer 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!
28:39I beg your pardon?
28:40I'm sure.
28:41Sorry, thinking.
28:42Ah!
28:46Oh, see.
28:47Never heard of him.
28:48Her, Baroness.
28:49Hungarian.
28:50The Scarlet Pimpernel.
28:51Oh, I've heard of that.
28:52French Revolution.
28:53It's a delight.
28:54You won't regret it.
28:55When you've finished, come back and I'll find you the sequel.
28:57Oh, that's very good of you.
28:58What do I hear of you?
28:59Oh, let's call it a bob.
29:00Hang on.
29:01Feet.
29:02Feet, feet, feet.
29:03Feet, feet, feet, feet.
29:04Ah.
29:05This is free.
29:06Oh, I couldn't possibly...
29:07Oh, there's nothing.
29:08But sending you off happily on the bus without further bunions is a price above rubies.
29:10Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
29:11No.
29:12It's a delight.
29:13It's a delight.
29:14You won't regret it.
29:15When you've finished, come back and I'll find you the sequel.
29:16Oh, that's very good of you.
29:17What do I hear of you?
29:18Oh, let's call it a bob.
29:19Hang on.
29:20Feet.
29:21Feet, feet, feet, feet.
29:22Ah.
29:23This is free.
29:24Oh, 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.
29:31Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
29:34Cheater-bye.
29:36Come on, woman.
29:39I'll never make any money like that, will I?
29:44Hey-ho.
29:47Now then, Jack.
29:49Excited to start the day?
29:50There's a whole world of learning in here.
29:53All human life.
29:55And some inhuman.
29:56Who got that coin?
29:58What?
29:59Oh, er...
30:00Yeah.
30:01Yeah, of course.
30:02Good.
30:03I don't mean to pry, Mr. Book.
30:07But, erm...
30:08What exactly is it you do?
30:11I would've thought that was obvious.
30:13I sell books.
30:14Yeah, but that's not all, is it?
30:17Yesterday.
30:18Out there, the bomb site.
30:20Chat with a charlady.
30:21Yes.
30:22Well, is that like your...
30:24Your hobby?
30:26I mean, the way you talk to those coppers.
30:29Where they let you roam around that pit.
30:31Are you like some sort of advisor to them or something?
30:33I mean, why should they listen to you?
30:35They frequently don't more fool them.
30:38I did the inspector a favour once during the war.
30:42He hasn't forgotten.
30:43Also, I have a special letter.
30:45A letter from Churchill.
30:46Yeah, the cop has said that.
30:48A...
30:49A letter saying what?
30:51It's a chaotic world, Jack.
30:55I have a system.
30:57Sometimes people like me to give an opinion on things.
31:00Impose a little order.
31:02That's all.
31:03You can read all sorts of things.
31:06As well as books.
31:08That's...
31:09This...
31:10This is your system?
31:12Yes.
31:13What's wrong with it?
31:16Well, they're not in any kind of order.
31:18I...
31:20Cataracts of denial.
31:23Diseases of the eye and their treatment.
31:27Cataracts?
31:28Eye disease?
31:29Logical.
31:30The guillotine.
31:32A practical guide.
31:33The life and death of Alfred Martin's gent.
31:36Coins of the realm.
31:38I mean, there's no system.
31:39There's no system at all.
31:40Well, it's all up here, isn't it?
31:42How best to explain.
31:44Alfred Mattings was a career criminal.
31:47Very successful forger in his day, which was Queen Victoria's day.
31:50Extraordinary chap in his field.
31:51He was a coiner.
31:52A forger of coins.
31:53But his luck ran out of Paris and they chopped off his head.
31:56Which is why all those books are clumped together, you see?
31:58Yeah, but that's...
31:59I mean, that's silly.
32:01Nevertheless.
32:02Well, I shall leave you to, er...
32:03Hold the fort.
32:04Slightly foxed.
32:05Slightly foxed.
32:06Slightly foxed.
32:07Slightly foxed.
32:08Slightly foxed.
32:09Slightly foxed.
32:10Slightly foxed.
32:11Slightly foxed.
32:12Says it all.
32:13Slightly foxed.
32:14Slightly foxed.
32:15Slightly foxed.
32:16Slightly foxed.
32:18Slightly foxed.
32:35Slightly foxed.
32:39Says it all.
32:40Good morning.
33:10Yeah, can I help you?
33:12I've come to collect an order.
33:14Right-o. What's her name?
33:17Sheila Well Beloved.
33:24Hello.
33:26Jack.
33:26Yeah?
33:27I'm Nora.
33:29We've got lots to talk about.
33:40Thank you, Miss. Again, very sorry for you.
33:48Can I go now?
33:48Well, if you wouldn't mind just answering a few questions.
33:52Um, would you just come with me, please, Miss?
33:56Fascinating.
33:58Way better to hide a tree?
33:59Than in a forest.
34:01And these markings.
34:04Indeed.
34:06Look.
34:07Oh, hello.
34:08Just checking in on those skeletons with Dr. Calder here.
34:11Ah, yes. Any risk of infection?
34:13Quite safe on that, Count Inspector. However...
34:16Ah, loose lips drop slips, as they say in the knicker trade. Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, would we?
34:22Surprise? Anyway, back to the case in hand. This is Miss Marula Harcup.
34:28Oh, my dear child, I'm so very sorry.
34:31A few questions, you said.
34:32Do you mind if I tag along?
34:40Oh, don't forget that blood test, will you?
34:43Well, let's wait.
34:49Sorry about that.
34:51There you go.
34:52Black lamb and grey falcon.
34:55Sounds interesting.
34:56Ta.
35:02Getting the hang of it.
35:05Slowly.
35:07So, who are you?
35:09Nora.
35:10I live across the road in the Turkish restaurant.
35:12Help out in the shop sometimes.
35:14So, um, do you know him well then, Mr and Mrs Bug?
35:19Yeah.
35:21And do you know about his little hobby?
35:24Bloody hell, yes.
35:25It's all I think about.
35:28Isn't all that, I mean...
35:30Isn't that...
35:32Unhealthy.
35:34I should think so.
35:36What do your mum and dad think?
35:38Don't have any.
35:40What do you mean?
35:42Well, it was the war, wasn't it?
35:46Everyone lost someone.
35:48I lost them.
35:51Sorry.
35:54What happened?
35:55So, how are you getting on anyway with the books?
35:59Mr and Mrs.
36:03It's not quite what I expected.
36:06What is his Christian name, by the way?
36:08What do you think?
36:11Cookbook.
36:12Scrapbook.
36:13Mucky book.
36:15Gabriel.
36:16Ah.
36:18Like the angel?
36:20Archangel, I think you'll find.
36:22They're a dream.
36:24Both of them.
36:25Such sweethearts.
36:26So, what's the real story?
36:45I'm hard.
36:48I'm not sniffling, boo-hooing all over the shop.
36:51I mean, it's just not the way I'm made.
36:55So, there.
36:57Your father.
36:59I'm sorry that he's dead.
37:01Of course I am.
37:02He was my dad.
37:04In spite of everything.
37:08He didn't make it easy to, um...
37:10To love him, though.
37:12Can you think of any reason why he'd want to take his own life?
37:15None.
37:16No, he was nicely set up with his shop and...
37:19Well, Mum had left him a few bob when she died.
37:23You don't think you're a strangeman?
37:25No.
37:26Nothing to do with that.
37:27He wasn't the type to get all emotional.
37:30Maybe that's where I get it from.
37:32I mean, he made it very clear that he didn't approve of, um...
37:39Me and Mickey.
37:40But, um, he'd hardly have gone and killed himself in a fit of the glums about it.
37:44He just...
37:44He weren't the type, as I say.
37:46Tell us about Mickey.
37:51What's to say?
37:52He's my fella.
37:55How was his war?
37:58Why do you ask that?
37:59Well, we know how much our father appreciated the armed forces.
38:02Always wore his meddled ribbons with great pride.
38:05Yes, well...
38:06Mickey wasn't lucky.
38:07His eyes, they're not...
38:08They're not good.
38:11I say that's why he ended up with me.
38:14I mean...
38:14He wouldn't have been much good against Jerry with eyes like his.
38:18Dad didn't like that.
38:20Thought he was a shirker.
38:22That was the start of it.
38:23What was the finish?
38:26Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving from him.
38:30Cash.
38:32Morphine.
38:35Mickey got up to some shady business during the war.
38:39Just stockings, cigarettes, small stuff.
38:42Dad had, um, just got it into his head that Mickey was bad.
38:45And he'd noticed morphine had gone missing.
38:48Yes.
38:49Wouldn't speak to us.
38:52You've had a bit of news, haven't you?
38:53I mean, I thought a little one might be the thing that brung us back together.
39:03What's all this about?
39:04Why are you so interested in Mickey?
39:06If Dad has gone and topped himself.
39:16Stories?
39:17Detective stories.
39:19That's what I want to write.
39:20I've got so many ideas.
39:23It's such an exciting new world out there.
39:28Everything's all smashed up.
39:30The whole world.
39:31No one knows what to do anymore.
39:33Well, I do.
39:35The war turned everything upside down.
39:37Shook it up.
39:39That's great.
39:40It's now going back to how things used to be.
39:42Including murders.
39:43Including murders.
39:44Half the soldiers in Britain have come home with pistols they stole from dead Nazis.
39:50The country's awash with them.
39:52So?
39:52So, we only seem to have lies in this country because we're not armed.
39:58Think of all that throbbing, suburban passion.
40:03Husbands having affairs with secretaries.
40:06Ladies having affairs with their chauffeurs.
40:09All those contested wheels and domestic rows.
40:13People used to kill each other by boiling down arsenic from their wallpaper.
40:18Now they just have to reach for Luger.
40:22Pow, pow, pow!
40:30What did happen to your parents?
40:33You're supposed to be telling me your story.
40:39I'm an orphan too.
40:42I never knew my mum.
40:44I've got a picture of my dad.
40:48That's all.
40:51I'm sorry.
40:52It's all right.
40:58Look, I should, um...
41:00Yeah.
41:01It was nice to meet you.
41:02It was an incendiary.
41:06What?
41:10An incendiary.
41:13Set the roof on fire.
41:15In the blitz.
41:16Mum got me out and went back for Dad.
41:25Then the roof fell in.
41:28I just sat there in the garden looking at the house.
41:33I just felt sort of numb.
41:42The ARP warden found me.
41:44Then my uncle took me in.
41:47So now I have to help him out with the restaurant.
41:52But you'd rather be.
41:58Much more exciting over here, isn't it?
42:00I gave up pleasure for Lent.
42:10I gave up pleasure for Lent.
42:14I gave up pleasure for Lent.
42:29I gave up Lent.
42:34Pleasure.
42:35Well...
42:42What's your answer?
42:46I told you before, I'm just a bookseller.
42:50I sell books again like I did before the war.
42:52This would be for old times' sake.
43:00And we did help you find him.
43:04Very kind of you.
43:07How's all that working out?
43:10It's complicated.
43:13Well, yes, I imagine it is.
43:17Delicate.
43:20And we wouldn't want anything to go wrong.
43:22Now would we?
43:25Now would we?
43:52Bye.
43:53Good...
43:57Welcome.
44:00Bye.
44:02Bye.
44:05Bye.
44:08Bye.
44:08Bye.
44:09Bye.
44:11Bye.
44:12so what do we make of him hmm jack put him in the attic room like mrs rochester only slightly
44:35more butch has it ever occurred to you that you are such a bibliophile because of your name
44:40nominative determinism i mean if you've been called butcher you might be slicing up choice
44:49cuts of meat flensing that's the word removing fat from a carcass wonderfully descriptive word
44:57flensing i should endeavor to bring it back well i wish you joy with that yes you could be slipping
45:03me black market chops under the counter like mr well beloved much more useful than books these
45:09days i could have been an archer or a baker or a chandler speaking of which farewell my lovely
45:17oh you're going out again you're so sharp you'll cut yourself crime fiction american customer put in a
45:24request i know it's here somewhere i saw a lady in the lake recently anyway jack
45:30oh definitely promise definitely promise and he didn't try to flog that coin so jail hasn't made
45:38him a wrong gun for life touch wood
45:41and the uh other matter
45:48it's too soon to tell him
46:01what was so special about your book nothing really it's just about some chaps at school playing cricket
46:17and what do you think of carol darley wait you've read tim started it when after i saved it from the incinerator
46:34when after i saved it from the incinerator
46:39book what's your name
46:45budge over
46:48it's a funny name
46:51thank you
46:55strotford perry
47:00but my friends call me strotty
47:03you're splendid
47:06you owe me
47:07i do
47:08so when i get into trouble here will you help me out
47:13let us make a solemn pact
47:17put your strong arms around me carol and raise me a little i can talk better so
47:35carol bowed his head without a word and kissed him and thus their friendship was sealed
47:45good night
47:54good night mrs book
47:55good night mr book
47:57the daughter the spiv the char the warden
48:17who gave her cup
48:21the ruddy poison
48:23absent friends
48:35absent friends
48:39absent friends
48:44absent friends
48:51Sir, you never believe it.
49:18It takes a lot to surprise me, Maura.
49:21What?
49:22Why is it?
49:23We just got the chemist's wheel through, sir.
49:24Yeah?
49:25Daughter doesn't get a bean.
49:26No?
49:27No.
49:28No, who does?
49:36Oh, the char.
49:38Mm.
49:39Mrs. Ada Dredge.
49:44Car!
49:45Car!
49:48Car!
49:49Car!
49:51Mont!
49:52Mart!
49:53No!
49:54Mont.
49:57No Maar!
50:02Cock!