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00:01Yeah?
00:04Yeah?
00:30Oh, God.
01:00Oh, my God.
01:30I don't get any lighter.
02:00Oh, my God.
02:29One, five, eight.
02:32Just there, sweetheart.
02:35Ta.
02:35All right, let's get him.
02:40Come and get your paper.
02:46Hold 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?
03:28It goes 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?
03:55Well, 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.
04:03There is if your 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?
04:17Tea?
04:17Not quite there yet.
04:38I'm trying to make ginger snaps.
04:41How much?
04:42Where were you dragged up?
04:44One for each person and one for the pot.
04:47Now, where have we got to, Jack?
04:54Just Jack.
04:56This is dog, book, dog, job.
05:01I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and more.
05:06So, I require assistance.
05:17Oh, 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?
05:44You know where I've come from, don't you?
05:47You know that I was...
05:48No need to mention it again.
05:49What are you hoping for now you've got the job, Jack?
05:52Just Jack.
05:53I just want to keep my head down.
05:55You know, try 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 Enkerman Street used to be?
06:21Oh, yes, that one.
06:22What of it?
06:23Well, they found something.
06:25In suspicious circumstances.
06:29My favourite kind of circumstances.
06:43Oh, yes, that one.
07:13Oh, yes, that's not ì—… album.
07:16Yeah, that one.
07:17Is there anything we could have done or do a new job?
07:18What will that be done?
07:19You know, no, no, no, no, no.
07:20Oh, yes, that's justazing.
07:28Oh, my God.
07:33Girl.
07:38Yeah.
07:38We will.
07:38See you next time.
07:39Yeah.
07:39See you next time.
07:42I 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.
08:11Oh, yeah.
08:14It's good to cover them up.
08:17All right.
08:19Oh, hello, Book.
08:21Mrs. Burke, thought this might be up your street.
08:23Almost literally.
08:24Start at the beginning, Inspector, and leave nothing out,
08:26especially if it's salacious, gory, or vaguely scandalous.
08:29Bit of a puzzle.
08:30Mr. Baysart here was starting to clear away the rubble
08:33from this old bombsite the other day.
08:34Incommon Street caught it in 44, didn't it?
08:37Yes, sir. Terrible 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
08:45with 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. Baysart.
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,
09:07when low, what does he find?
09:09Low, what?
09:10Ah.
09:19Heavens to Betsy.
09:22Tossed 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. Baysart didn't tell the authorities
09:29about 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.
10:01Is this?
10:02So you don't think they died in an air raid?
10:05If you recall, Inkeman Street was already empty,
10:07wasn't it, Mr. Baysart?
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
10:18in 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,
10:28their clothes would still be intact.
10:29I think Mr. Baysart 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.
10:591665.
11:01Plague 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
11:13and 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
11:24when you found them?
11:25Well, I...
11:26I 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 captured?
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
12:01they used to use great catapults
12:03to toss plaguey corpses into besieged cities
12:06to deliberately affect people?
12:09That's horrible, Nora.
12:11I know.
12:11And a split infinitive.
12:13Even more horrible.
12:17Might be worth a bit, too.
12:21Sergeant, get this long taken care of
12:24in a pronto, do you know, with care.
12:27Where to, sir?
12:28At the morgue, I suppose.
12:30Get Dr. Golder to take a shifty.
12:32See if there's any chance
12:33they're still infectious.
12:34Yes, sir.
12:35Thank you, Book.
12:36Anytime, Inspector.
12:40Sergeant!
12:43Why can't you collect stamps
12:44like normal people?
12:45Oh, dear.
12:55Oh, dear.
12:55Are you alright?
13:16Yeah
13:17It's all just a bit
13:20Being coppers
13:23I've been away, you see
13:27Oh yes, I know
13:29I find him very nice
13:31You can tell me all about it when you're ready
13:33Here, let me take this
13:34Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you?
13:36Now that you've got the job
13:37I have the premises next door
13:39Book 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'll get this
13:50I've got old Harcup
13:54Suicide, I heard
13:56Heard?
13:57From your colleague over there
13:59All of his ruddy guts for garters
14:01This goes against all the rules of...
14:03Alright, Sergeant
14:04Alright
14:04Mr Book's always welcome to give us the benefit of his wisdom
14:08As you know
14:09Yes
14:09Yes
14:11Bad 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
14:23When something a little bit more...
14:25Recherche, outré, anything with an acute accent?
14:29Unusual, comes along
14:31Like our barbed friends, the skeleton
14:32This is a meat and potatoes job
14:35You know, the sergeant and I are perfectly capable...
14:37Who found him?
14:39Charwin
14:39I hate her dredge
14:40Pretty shook up, she is
14:42Dredge?
14:44That rings a little bell
14:45Which she'd been doing for Harcup, for donkeys
14:47Ding dong
14:50Was there a note?
14:52No, no, no
14:52How did he do it?
14:54Prussic acid
14:55Nasty
14:58And intriguing
15:00Don't you think?
15:07Mr Harcup
15:08Right, sir
15:08Looks like suicide
15:10Oh, how dreadful
15:11Well, I'd better get on
15:14Too much excitement for one day
15:16Jack, 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
15:25On Eleanor of Castile
15:26And the Wilting Espadistra
15:28Fetch them for me, would you?
15:34Okay
15:35Oh, and put the kettle on again
15:37We're going to have company
15:39Have a drink, alright?
15:46Oh, 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
16:09But I only saw him yesterday
16:11Pop round to get some bandages
16:13Bandages?
16:14Oh, my son
16:15He was injured in the war
16:16He needs constant attention
16:18The dressing
16:20What time did you see Mr Harcup?
16:23Six
16:24Six-ish, I think
16:25Oh, it doesn't seem possible
16:27Him standing there all full of life
16:30And then
16:31Finding him lying there like that
16:34You're doing very well
16:35And was he?
16:38Was he what?
16:39Full of life
16:40When you saw him
16:41In good spirits, I mean
16:42Well, to be honest
16:44He seemed a little down
16:45Although I'd want to go
16:49And do an horrible thing
16:49Like that to himself
16:50Any vices?
16:54Vices, sir?
16:55We must investigate
16:56All angles, alas, dear lady
16:58Oh
16:59Man of very regular habits
17:02He was
17:02Church every Sunday
17:04Kept his accounts
17:05In very neat order
17:06I think that was the soldier in him
17:07He did play dominoes
17:10Dominoes?
17:12Every Monday and Thursday night
17:13In the ball
17:14With Mr Basehart
17:15And some others
17:16Does that count as a vice?
17:18I hardly think so
17:19Do you have any family?
17:27My mother always said
17:28If you can't see anything nice
17:29About someone
17:30Don't open your trap
17:31So there was
17:33Bad blood then?
17:34There's a daughter, isn't there?
17:38Some estrangement
17:40I wouldn't like to say
17:41No
17:42Don't seem right
17:44What with Mr H
17:46Not cold in his grave
17:47Heavens, this cake
17:48Yes?
17:50Superb
17:50Oh, too kind, sir
17:52But then I'd expect
17:54Nothing less
17:55Oh, why'd you say that?
17:57From Miss Lyons' Cornerhouse
17:581921
17:59Oh, I fancy you knowing that
18:03It was 1922, though?
18:06My mistake
18:06How the dickings?
18:08I saw off a lot of little tidbits like that
18:11Mostly useless
18:12Must have been a lovely experience
18:15Oh, yes
18:16Oh, I've never felt so glamorous
18:19I got a new hat
18:20And the Lord Mayor winked at me
18:23Winked
18:24Fancy
18:25Worked there for years, I did
18:27At the Cornerhouse
18:28So 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
18:37Why he and his daughter, Sarah
18:39Er, Lor, Lor Mary
18:42Marula
18:42Marula, that's right
18:43Why he and Marula no longer saw eye to eye
18:46Well, seeing as you've been so kind, sir
18:51Very good of you
18:52She was a cow
18:53A right horrible, money-grabbing little cow
18:58I see
18:59Apple of his eye, she was
19:01After his wife passed on
19:02But she knew how to twist him round her little finger
19:06Nothing was too much for his little princess
19:09And then she has the gall to run off with him
19:13Him?
19:15Mickey
19:16Mickey Hall
19:17It'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 End way
19:27Mile End
19:28Charming
19:30And now Marula will inherit the lot
19:35Don't seem right, do it?
19:37No, it, um, don't
19:39Thanks for the cake
19:41What the hell do you think you're doing?
19:47Just being neighbourly, Sergeant?
19:50Er, your witness, I think
19:53Hello again
20:05Oh, I like book
20:06I 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 boys babysitting
20:18Oh, for the dog?
20:20Dog?
20:20There's no definite article
20:22Er, off to the pictures?
20:24Er, er, rerunning a Sandra Dare at the Rialto
20:26The opera
20:26Fat ladies singing
20:29Speaking of which
20:31May I, um
20:32There's a daughter
20:38But Mrs. Dredge says they didn't get on
20:40So I gather
20:43Yeah, we're endeavouring to trace her
20:45She has a garage
20:47Mile End
20:49Oh, right
20:51Thanks
20:52Funny, aren't they?
21:14Mrs. Bliss goes in for something similar
21:16And they'll make knacks
21:18Not quite the same, I think
21:19These are jade
21:20Rather fine
21:22And this one
21:26Mr. Harcup was obviously a connoisseur
21:34Do you think it was suicide?
21:55Do you have doubts?
21:57I do
21:57What's your theory?
22:00Evening, gentlemen
22:00Evening
22:01Oh, Eric
22:02Black lamb and grey falcon
22:04Eh?
22:05That book for Sheila
22:06It's arrived
22:07Oh, smashing
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
22:15Harcup
22:16God forgive me
22:18Bit of a little Hitler
22:20Still, poor bugger
22:21Stop it himself like that
22:23Hmm
22:23So, so
22:25What's your theory?
22:27Patience, Inspector
22:28Patience
22:29The two most powerful warriors
22:31Are patience and time
22:32Polstoy
22:34Oh, I couldn't get into him
22:35I tried that one
22:36You know, where she chucks herself
22:37In front of a train
22:38No
22:39No
22:40No
22:40Oh
22:41Inspector
22:43There you go
22:52Too much?
23:18No, not at all
23:22You look amazing
23:25I meant the walls
23:27Oh
23:29Book says
23:30It's an affront to good taste
23:31But I don't know
23:32I think it has a certain something
23:34Don't you?
23:35I'm good at knocking things together
23:37I
23:37I always have been
23:39Wardrobes
23:40Wireless sets
23:41Heads
23:42I was in the land army
23:44Gin?
23:45What?
23:47Oh, yeah, please
23:48So you're going out then?
23:52My dear, we're always going out
23:54Well, one has to live
23:56Doesn't one?
23:57Especially after the time we've all had
23:59There's some chops in the larder, I think
24:01Your room's up at the top
24:02I've heard the sheets
24:03You're
24:08I mean
24:10Thank you
24:13Better go and unpack
24:22Well?
24:38Well
24:38I know that look
24:42You're onto something
24:44Nonsense
24:45Merely the happy look of a contented man
24:47I have my lovely wife
24:48My lovely shop
24:49My lovely dog
24:50What more could a man ask for?
24:53Broad
24:53Three things, then
24:55Mr. Harkup collected Chinese jade figures of exceptional quality
25:00But dust is eloquent, as someone once said
25:03Dust doesn't lie
25:05One of the figures has been replaced with a bit of cheap trash
25:08A chess piece
25:10But the larger outline remains clear
25:12Mrs. 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
25:20Not caused by him falling
25:22I don't think
25:23Or probably a blow
25:25With a blunt instrument
25:26A 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
25:36For many a time I have been half in love with easeful death
25:40Called him soft names
25:43In many amused rhyme
25:45To take into the air my quiet breath
25:48Pardon?
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?
25:59Well, book
26:03There you are then
26:06Yes, Trotty
26:07There we are
26:09It's murder
26:13Book?
26:25Mrs. Book?
26:28Book?
26:30Book?
26:42Mrs. Book.
26:44Be careful.
27:00Mrs. Book.
27:30Shop.
27:46Ah, 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, and 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?
28:21We 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 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!
28:39Beg your pardon?
28:40I'm sure.
28:41Sorry.
28:42Thinking.
28:42Ah!
28:53Otzi.
28:54Never heard of him.
28:55Her.
28:56Baroness.
28:56Hungarian.
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 is free.
29:23Oh, I couldn't possibly.
29:25Oh, it's nothing.
29:27But sending you off happily on the bus
29:29without further bunions
29:30is a price above rubies.
29:32Wouldn't you agree, Jean?
29:36Cheer, bye.
29:38Come on.
29:39Woman.
29:41I'll never make any money like that, will I?
29:47Hey-ho.
29:48Now then, Jack.
29:49Excited to start the day?
29:51There's a whole world of learning in here.
29:54All human life.
29:56And some inhuman.
29:57Have you got that coin?
29:59Well, oh, uh...
30:00Yeah.
30:01Yeah, of course.
30:02Good.
30:02I don't mean to pry, Mr Book, but, um...
30:08What exactly is it you do?
30:11I would have thought that was obvious.
30:13I sell books.
30:15Yeah, but that's not all, is it?
30:17Yesterday, out there, the bomb site.
30:20Chat with a charlady.
30:22Yes.
30:22Well, is that, like, your...
30:24Your hobby?
30:26I mean, the way you talk to those coppers,
30:30where they let you roam around that pit,
30:32are you, like, some sort of advisor to them or something?
30:34I mean, why should they listen to you?
30:36They frequently don't, more fool them.
30:39I did the inspector a favour once, during the war.
30:43He hasn't forgotten.
30:44Also, I have a special letter.
30:46A letter from Churchill.
30:47Yeah, the cop has said that.
30:50A letter saying what?
30:54It's a chaotic world, Jack.
30:56I have a system.
30:58Sometimes people like me to give an opinion on things,
31:01impose a little order, that's all.
31:03You can read all sorts of things,
31:06as well as books.
31:09This...
31:10This is your system?
31:13Yes.
31:15What's wrong with it?
31:17Well, they're not in any kind of order.
31:21Cataracts of denial.
31:25Diseases of the eye and their treatment.
31:28Cataracts, eye disease, logical.
31:30The guillotine, a practical guide,
31:34the life and death of Alfred Mutting's gent,
31:37coins of the realm.
31:38I mean, there's no system.
31:40There's no system at all.
31:41Well, it's all up here, isn't it?
31:43How best to explain.
31:45Alfred Mutting's was a career criminal,
31:48and a successful forger in his day,
31:49which was Queen Victoria's day.
31:51Extraordinary chap in his field.
31:52He was a coiner, a forger of coins,
31:54but his luck ran out of Paris,
31:55and they chopped off his head,
31:57which is why all those books are clumped together,
31:59you see?
31:59Yeah, but that's...
32:02I mean, that's silly.
32:06Nevertheless.
32:09Well, I shall leave you to, uh...
32:12hold the fort.
32:13Slightly foxed.
32:36Slightly foxed.
32:37Slightly foxed.
32:39Says it all.
32:43Slightly foxed.
33:09Morning.
33:10Yeah, uh...
33:11Can I help you?
33:12I've come to collect an order.
33:14Uh, right-o.
33:15Um, what's her name?
33:17Sheila Well Beloved.
33:22Hello.
33:26Jack.
33:26Yeah?
33:27I'm Nora.
33:29We've got lots to talk about.
33:30Thank you, miss.
33:46Uh, 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, just come with me, please?
33:55Miss Elizabeth.
33:56Fascinating.
33:58Way better to hide a tree?
34:00Than in a forest.
34:00And these markings.
34:01And these markings.
34:04Indeed.
34:05Oh, look.
34:07Oh, hello.
34:08Just checking in on those skeletons with Dr. Calder here.
34:11Oh, yes.
34:12Any risk of infection?
34:13Quite safe on that, Count Inspector.
34:15However...
34:16Ah.
34:17Loose lips drop slips, as they say in the knicker trade.
34:20Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise, would we?
34:22Surprise?
34:23Anyway, back to the case in hand.
34:26This is Miss Marula Harcup.
34:28Oh, my dear child, I'm so very sorry.
34:31A few questions, you said.
34:33Do you mind if I tag along?
34:40Oh, don't forget that blood test, will you?
34:43On its way.
34:49Sorry about that.
34:51There you go.
34:52Black lamb and grey falcon.
34:55Sounds interesting.
34:56Tough.
35:03Getting 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 Book?
35:19Yeah.
35:19And do you know about his little hobby?
35:24Bloody hell.
35:25Yes.
35:25It's all I think about.
35:28Isn't all that...
35:29I mean...
35:31Isn't that...
35:32Unhealthy?
35:34I should think so.
35:36What do your mum and dad think?
35:38Don't have any.
35:41What do you mean?
35:41Well, 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?
36:00Mr and Mrs?
36:01It's not quite what I expected.
36:06What is his Christian name, by the way?
36:09What 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.
36:53I mean, it's just not the way I'm made.
36:55So, there.
36:56Your father.
36:59I'm sorry that he's dead.
37:02Of 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 strangement?
37:25No.
37:25Nothing 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, me and Mickey.
37:40But, um, he'd hardly have gone and killed himself in a fit of the glums about it.
37:44He just, he weren't the type, as I say.
37:45Tell us about Mickey.
37:47Tell 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, always wore his metal ribbons with great pride.
38:05Yes, well, Mickey wasn't lucky.
38:06Mickey wasn't lucky.
38:07His eyes, they're not, they're not good.
38:11I say that's why he ended up with me.
38:14I mean, he wouldn't have been much good against Jerry with eyes like his.
38:17Dad didn't like that, thought 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.
38:52But you've had a bit of news, haven't you?
38:59I 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 if Dad has gone and topped himself?
39:16Stories.
39:18Detective 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.
39:34The war turned everything upside down.
39:37Shook it up.
39:38Shook it up.
39:39That's great.
39:40It's now going back to how things used to be.
39:42Including murders.
39:43Including murders.
39:44After soldiers in Britain have come home with pistols they stole from dead Nazis.
39:49The country's a washroom.
39:51The country's a washroom.
39:51The country's a washroom.
39:52So?
39:52So, we only seem civilized 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.
40:08All those contested wills and domestic rowels.
40:13People used to kill each other by boiling down arsenic from their wallpaper.
40:18Now they just have to reach for a Luger.
40:22Pow, pow, pow!
40:26What did happen to your parents?
40:32You're not 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.
40:54It's alright.
40:58Look, I should, um...
41:00Yeah.
41:00It was nice to meet you.
41:02It was an incendiary.
41:06What?
41:10An incendiary.
41:13Set the roof on fire in the Blitz.
41:18Mum got me out and went back for Dad.
41:25Then the roof fell in.
41:28I just sat there.
41:30In the garden, looking at the house.
41:33Just...
41:34felt...
41:37sort of numb.
41:42The ARP warden found me.
41:44Then...
41:45my uncle took me in.
41:47So...
41:48So...
41:48now I have to help him out.
41:51With the restaurant.
41:54But you'd rather be.
41:58Much more exciting over here, innit?
42:00I gave up pleasure for Lent.
42:14I gave up pleasure for Lent.
42:27I gave up Lent.
42:28Pleasure for Lent.
42:29I gave up Lent.
42:32Pleasure.
42:33Well...
42:34what's your answer?
42:35I told you before, I'm just a bookseller.
42:40I sell books again, like I did before the war.
42:53This would be...
42:54for old time's sake.
42:59And we did help you find...
43:02him.
43:04Very kind of you.
43:05How's all that working out?
43:10It's complicated.
43:13Well, yes.
43:14I imagine it is.
43:17Delicate.
43:20And we wouldn't want anything to go wrong.
43:24Now would we?
43:25No.
43:46Just do.
44:47You 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 me black market chops under the counter like Mr. Well-Beloved.
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.
45:30Definite promise.
45:33Definite promise.
45:35And he didn't try to flog that coin.
45:37So Jael hasn't made him a wrong gun for life.
45:40Touch wood.
45:41Shh.
45:42And the, uh, other matter.
45:51It's too soon to tell him.
45:53What was so special?
46:22About your book?
46:24Nothing really.
46:25It's just about some chaps at school playing cricket.
46:30And what do you think of Carol Darley?
46:32Wait.
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?
46:47Bajova.
46:50It's a funny name.
46:59Stratford Perry.
47:01But my friends call me Trotty.
47:05You're splendid.
47:06You owe me.
47:08I do.
47:11So when I get into trouble here, will you help me out?
47:13Let us make a solemn pact.
47:17Let 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, and thus their friendship was sealed.
47:45Good night, Mrs. Book.
47:55Good night, Mr. Book.
47:57The daughter, the spiv, the char, the warden.
48:17Who gave Harkup the ruddy poison?
48:34Absent friends.
48:35I don't know.
48:37내보� it, Mr.OObits.
48:38All right.
48:39I'm sorry about that.
48:39I don't think it's back, right?
48:44Yeah, thanks.
49:15Sir, you never believe it.
49:18It takes a lot to surprise me, Mark.
49:21What? Why is it?
49:23We've got the chemist's wheel through, sir.
49:24Yeah?
49:25Daughter doesn't get a bean.
49:27No.
49:28No.
49:29No, who does?
49:37Oh.
49:38The char.
49:39Mm.
49:40Mrs. Ada Dredge.
49:45No.
49:49Come.
49:51Move.
49:54No.
49:58Come.
50:00Come.