Bookish Season 1 Episode 1

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00:01Yeah?

00:04Yeah?

00:30Yeah?

00:32Yeah?

00:34Yeah?

00:36I know, but I've never seen him do the same thing.

00:40I'm sorry.

00:42I've never seen him do the same thing.

00:45It's a very good person.

00:48I want to feel that he's not sure about it.

00:51I'll be back to him.

00:54You'll be back.

00:56I'll be back again.

00:57Son, you're in the middle of his lane.

01:27I don't get any lighter.

01:57I don't get any lighter.

02:27Bit lost, Lot.

02:29One five eight.

02:32Just there, sweetheart.

02:35Ta.

02:35All right, 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.

03:20Barely 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, a 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 that 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?

04:19Tea?

04:34Not quite there yet.

04:38I'm trying to make ginger snaps.

04:41Uh, how much?

04:42Where were you dragged up?

04:44One for each person and one for the pot.

04:49Now, where 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 more.

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.

05:30Look, 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?

05:44Well, 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 normal...

05:57Wait, I've got the job.

05:58Well, mobility 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.

06:28My favorite kind of circumstances.

06:31My favorite kind of circumstances.

06:32dare to be?

06:32All right.

06:34My favorite kind of circumstances.

06:35Well, I won't to let him go.

06:36I won't go.

06:37I won't go.

06:38I won't go.

06:39My favorite kind of circumstances.

06:41I won't go.

06:42I won't go.

06:42No, no.

06:43No.

06:44I won't go.

06:45No, no, no.

06:50No, no, no.

07:52I 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.

08:11Yeah.

08:16All right.

08:17Oh, hello, Book.

08:21Mrs. Book, I 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 you?

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.

09:03My 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.

09:26Ten 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.

09:48Uh.

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?

10:01So 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?

10:14Well, 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.

10:23All 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.

10:46What do you think?

10:51The unmistakable bonds of King Charles II.

10:54Oh, does it have a date on it, too?

10:591665.

11:01Plague pit, yeah?

11:02So I would see him.

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

11:14all the corpses in them.

11:16I'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 knew I'd never get a chance like this again.

11:29I just wanted a bit of time to excavate them.

11:32Fascinating 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?

11:46You 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.

11:59Did you know that back then they used to use great catapults to toss plaguey corpses into

12:05besieged cities to 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 lot taken care of in the pronto area today.

12:25With 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 they're still infectious.

12:34Yes, sir.

12:34Thank you, Book.

12:36Anytime, Inspector.

12:40Sergeant.

12:43Why can't you collect stamps like normal people?

12:54Oh, dear.

12:55Are you all right?

13:16Yeah.

13:17It's all just a bit, uh, being coppers.

13:25I've, uh, been away, you see, and...

13:28Oh, yes, I have.

13:28I know.

13:30I find it being very nice.

13:31Tell 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.

13:41I 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?

13:53What old Harkup?

13:55Suicide, have 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.

14:04All right.

14:05Mr. Book's always welcome to give us the benefit of his wisdom.

14:08As you know...

14:09Yes.

14:11Yes.

14:11Bad business, not 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.

14:23When something a little bit more...

14:25Recherche, outré, anything with an acute accent.

14:29Unusual, comes along.

14:31Like our barbed friends, the skeleton.

14:33This is a meat and potatoes job.

14:35You know, the sergeant and I are perfectly capable...

14:37Who found him?

14:39Char one.

14:39I hate her 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.

14:49Din-dong.

14:51Was it a note?

14:52No, no, no.

14:53How did he do it?

14:55Prussic acid.

14:56It's not...

14:57Nasty.

14:58Nasty.

14:59And intriguing, don't you think?

15:01Mr. 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.

15:29Fetch them for me, would you?

15:31OK.

15:36Oh, and put the kettle on again.

15:38We're going to have company.

15:45Have a drink.

15:46All right?

15:55Oh, well, see, this is from him.

15:57Oh, I brought a coffee and walnut cake round for Mr. Harkup.

16:02You might as well have it.

16:05This 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 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.

16:45No way, he'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.

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?

17:11Every Monday and Thursday night, in the ball, with Mr. Baceheart and some others.

17:16Does that count as a vice?

17:18I hardly think so.

17:20Do you have any family?

17:27My 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? Some estrangement.

17:40Well, I wouldn't like to say, no, don'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, fancy you knowing that.

18:04It was 1922, though?

18:06My mistake.

18:07How about Dickens?

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'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.

18:28So 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,

18:39er, er, Lor, Lormeri?

18:42Marula.

18:42Marula, 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?

19:14Oh, Mickey.

19:17Mickey Hall.

19:18It's a right and there do well.

19:19Up to all sorts in the war spivvy stuff, you know.

19:22Black Market.

19:23He's a motor mechanic.

19:25They've got a garage out Marlen way.

19:27Marlen.

19:28Charming.

19:29And now Marula will inherit the lot.

19:34Don't seem right, do it?

19:37No, it, er, don't.

19:40Thanks for the cake.

19:44What the hell do you think you're doing?

19:47Just being neighbourly, Sergeant?

19:50Er, your witness, I think.

20:04Hello again.

20:05Oh, hello, book.

20:07I just wondered if I could have a little nosy around 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.

20:18Oh, 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, er...

20:34There'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.

20:52Thanks.

20:52Funny, aren't they?

21:12Mrs. Bliss goes in for something similar.

21:16A little, little make-nacks.

21:18Not quite the same, I think.

21:20These are jade.

21:21Rather fine.

21:24And this one...

21:28Mr. Harcup was obviously a connoisseur.

21:34Do you think it was suicide?

21:55Do you have doubts?

21:57I do.

21:58What's your theory?

22:00Evening, gentlemen.

22:01Evening.

22:01Oh, Eric.

22:03Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

22:05What?

22:05That book for Sheila.

22:06It's arrived.

22:07Oh, smashing.

22:08Do you come over tomorrow for me?

22:10Righto.

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...

22:26What's your theory?

22:27Patience, Inspector.

22:29Patience.

22:29The 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 herself in front of a train.

22:39No?

22:39No.

22:41Book.

22:42Inspector.

22:43Inspector.

22:50There you are.

22:52Too much?

23:18No, not at all.

23:23Er...

23:23I mean, 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...

23:37I always have been.

23:40Wardrobes, wireless sets, heads.

23:43I 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.

24:08You're...

24:09I mean...

24:13You're...

24:13Better go on unpack.

24:36Well?

24:38Well?

24:38i know that look you're onto something nonsense merely the happy look of a contented man i have

24:47my lovely wife my lovely shop my lovely dog or more could a man ask for broad three things then

24:55mr harkup collected chinese jade figures of exceptional quality but dust is eloquent

25:02as someone once said dust doesn't lie one of the figures has been replaced with a bit of cheap

25:08trash a chess piece but the larger outline remains clear mrs dredge hasn't cleaned in a while despite

25:15what she said secondly mr harkup has a small lump on the back of his head not caused by him falling

25:22i don't think or probably a blow with a blunt instrument a blunt instrument that didn't break

25:28the skin and yet there is blood on the back of mr harkup's scalp thirdly yes darkly night listen

25:36and for many a time i have been half in love with easeful death called him soft names in many

25:44amused rhyme to take into the air my quiet breath pardon why would a chemist with every known gentle

25:54poison in the shop choose to kill himself with something as horrible as prussic acid

25:59well book there you are then yes trotty there we are it's murder

26:13book

26:28Book?

26:42Mrs. Book.

26:44Be careful.

26:58Mrs. Book.

27:28Shop.

27:30Ah, good morning.

27:48How can I help?

27:53Oh, well, I'm...

27:55I'm after a book.

27:56You are very much in the right place.

27:58What do you think, young man?

27:59What would suit the lady best?

28:01Dickens?

28:02Wilkie Collins?

28:03Henry James?

28:05Do you have the new Georgette Heyer?

28:07Ah.

28:08Well, I've read all her other ones.

28:10Me too.

28:11And what a smasher she is.

28:13But that would be a new book, Miss...

28:15Mrs. Goodwin.

28:16Mrs. Goodwin.

28:17Jean.

28:18Jean.

28:19We're not really going for those, do we?

28:22We should try foils.

28:24It's a bit of a trudge.

28:26Well, my feet being what they are.

28:28I have the perfect alternative.

28:30One who was spinning romantic yarns when Miss Heyer was still in the cradle.

28:33Probably.

28:34Oh, 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.

28:43Ah!

28:53Otzi.

28:54Never heard of him.

28:55Her.

28:56Baroness.

28:57Hungarian.

28:58Scarlet Pimpernel.

28:59Oh, I've heard of that.

29:01French Revolution.

29:02It's a delight.

29:03You won't regret it.

29:05When you've finished, come 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.

29:13Hang on.

29:14Feet.

29:15Feet, feet, feet.

29:17Ah.

29:18This...

29:21is free.

29:23Oh, 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?

29:35Cheer to bye.

29:37Come on, woman.

29:40I'll never make any money like that, will I?

29:46Hee-ho.

29:47Now then, Jack.

29:49Excited to start the day?

29:51There's a whole world of learning in here.

29:53All human life.

29:55And some inhuman.

29:56Still got that coin.

29:58What?

29:59Oh, er...

30:00Yeah.

30:01Yeah, of course.

30:02Good.

30:04I don't mean to pry, Mr. Book.

30:07But, erm...

30:09What exactly is it you do?

30:11I would have thought that was obvious.

30:13I sell books.

30:14Yeah, but that's not all, is it?

30:16Yesterday.

30:17Out there at a bomb site.

30:19A chat with a charlady.

30:21Yes.

30:22Well, is that like your...

30:23your hobby?

30:25I mean, the way you talk to those coppers.

30:29Where they let you roam around that pit.

30:31Are you like some sort of adviser 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.

30:41He hasn't forgotten.

30:43Also, I have a special letter.

30:45A letter from Churchill.

30:46Yeah, the cop has said that.

30:48A 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 a...

31:10This...

31:11This is your system?

31:13Yes.

31:14What's wrong with it?

31:16Well, they're not in any kind of order.

31:19I...

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 Mutting'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 Mutting's was a career criminal.

31:47And a 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?

31:59Yeah, but that's...

32:02I mean, that's silly.

32:06Nevertheless.

32:09Well, I shall leave you to, er...

32:11hold the fort.

32:26Do you have any clue?

32:27Do you have any clue?

32:28Do you have any clue?

32:31Slightly foxed.

32:36Slightly foxed.

32:37Says it all.

32:39Says it all.

32:41Good morning.

33:09Yeah.

33:10Can I help you?

33:12I've come in to collect an order.

33:14Right-o.

33:15What's her name?

33:16Sheila Well Beloved.

33:24Hello.

33:25Jack.

33:26Yeah?

33:27I'm Nora.

33:28We've got lots to talk about.

33:40I'm sorry.

33:41I'm sorry.

33:42Can I go now?

33:43Well, if you wouldn't mind just answering a few questions.

33:46Just come with me please.

33:47Fascinating.

33:48Way better to hide a tree.

33:49Than in a forest.

33:50And these markings.

33:51Indeed.

33:52And these markings.

33:53Indeed.

33:54Oh look.

33:55Oh look.

33:56Oh look.

33:57Oh hello.

33:58Just checking in on those skeletons with Dr Coldy here.

33:59Oh yes.

34:00Any risk of infection.

34:01Quite safe on that count inspector.

34:02However.

34:03Ah, loose lips drop slips as they say in the knicker trade.

34:06Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise would we?

34:07Surprise?

34:08Anyway, back to the case in hand.

34:09This is Miss Marula Harcup.

34:10Oh, my dear child.

34:11I'm so very sorry.

34:12A few questions you said.

34:13Do you mind if I tag along?

34:14Yes.

34:15Yes.

34:16Yes.

34:17Yes.

34:18Yes.

34:19Yes.

34:20Yes.

34:21Yes.

34:22Yes.

34:23Yes.

34:24Yes.

34:25Yes.

34:26Yes.

34:27Yes.

34:28Yes.

34:29Yes.

34:30Yes.

34:31Yes.

34:32Yes.

34:33Yes.

34:34I can't see you.

34:35Well do you have it with someone if I...

34:36tagged along?

34:41Oh, don't forget that blood test.

34:42On its way.

34:48Sorry about that.

34:49There you go.

34:52Black Lambe and grey falcon.

34:54Sounds interesting.

34:56T'aw.

35:03Get in there.

35:04the 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.

35:21And do you know about his little hobby? Bloody hell, yes. It's all I think about.

35:26Isn't all that, I mean, isn't that? Unhealthy. I should think so. What do your mum and dad think?

35:38Don't have any. What do you mean? Well, it was the war, wasn't it?

35:46Everyone lost someone. I lost them. Sorry.

35:51What 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?

36:08What do you think? Cookbook? Scrapbook? Mucky book?

36:14Gabriel. Ah. Like the angel? Archangel. I think you'll find.

36:21They're a dream. Both of them. Such sweethearts.

36:28So, what's the real story?

36:31I think I'm hard. I'm not sniffling, boo-hooing all over the shop.

36:51I mean, it's just not the way I'm made. So, there. Your father.

36:59I'm sorry that he's dead. Of course I am. He was my dad. In spite of everything.

37:05He didn't make it easy to, um, to love him, though.

37:12Can you think of any reason why he'd want to take his own life? None.

37:16No, he was nicely set up with his shop and... Well, Mum had left him a few bob when she died.

37:22You don't think your estrangement... No. Nothing to do with that.

37:27He wasn't the type to get all emotional. Maybe 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 the fit of the glums about it.

37:44He just, he 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?

37:59Well, we know how much our father appreciated the armed forces. Always wore his metal ribbons with great pride.

38:04Yes, well, Mickey wasn't lucky. His eyes, they're not, they're not good.

38:11I'd say that's why he ended up with me.

38:13I mean, he wouldn't have been much good against Jerry with eyes like his.

38:18Dad didn't like that. Thought he was a shirker. That was the start of it.

38:23What was the finish?

38:26Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving from him.

38:29Dad?

38:30Morphine.

38:35Mickey got up to some shady business during the war. Just stockings, cigarettes, small stuff.

38:41Dad had, um, just got it into his head that Mickey was bad.

38:45And he'd noticed Morphine had gone missing.

38:47Yes. Wouldn't speak to us.

38:50But 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.

39:04What's all this about? Why are you so interested in Mickey if Dad has gone and topped himself?

39:11I don't know.

39:16Stories?

39:17Detective stories. That's what I want to write.

39:21I've got so many ideas. It's such an exciting new world out there.

39:28Everything's all smashed up. The whole world. No one knows what to do anymore.

39:33Well, what I do, the war turned everything upside down. Shook it up.

39:38That's great. It's now going back to how things used to be.

39:42Including murders.

39:44Half the soldiers in Britain have come home with pistols they stole from dead Nazis.

39:49The country's a washroom.

39:50So?

39:53So, we only seem civilised 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!

40:23What did happen to your parents?

40:34You'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.

40:54It's alright.

40:58Yeah, 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 in the Blitz.

41:18Mum got me out and went back for Dad.

41:23Then the roof fell in.

41:28I just sat there in the garden looking at the house.

41:33Just felt sort of numb.

41:39The 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?

42:00Well, I gave up pleasure for Lent.

42:10Well, I gave up pleasure for Lent.

42:15I gave up Lent.

42:16Well, I gave up pleasure for Lent.

42:28I gave up Lent.

42:30I gave up Lent.

42:32Pleasure.

42:35Well, what's your answer?

42:45I told you before, I'm just a bookseller.

42:50I sell books again like I did before the war.

42:53This would be for old time's sake.

42:58And we did help you find him.

43:03Very kind of you.

43:08How's all that working out?

43:09It's complicated.

43:11Well, yes, I imagine it is.

43:15Delicate.

43:17And we wouldn't want anything to go wrong.

43:24Now would we?

43:47No.

43:54Let's play.

43:55How old are you?

43:57What about you?

43:58I got a little out of the wall.

44:00I learned a little out of the wall.

44:02I want to go.

44:04Lu, I want to see my eyes.

44:06You never saw me.

44:07My face will never be.

44:07I was just a little out of the wall.

44:10She's a little out of the room.

44:12I saw it.

44:13I saw it.

44:15I saw it.

44:16I saw it.

44:17So, 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?

44:41Nominative 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.

44:56Wonderful 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. 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.

45:35And he didn't try to flog that coin.

45:36So, 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 life?

46:11It's too soon to tell you.

46:12What 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.

46:42Look, what's your name?

46:47Bajava.

46:50That'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.

47:08So 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.

47:34I can talk better so.

47:40Carol bowed his head without a word and kissed him.

47:43And thus their friendship was sealed.

47:45Good night, Mrs. Book.

47:56Good night, Mr. Book.

47:57Good night, Mr. Book.

47:57The daughter, the spiv, the char, the warden.

48:19Who gave Harcup the ruddy poison?

48:23Absent friends.

48:35Absent friends.

48:37Absent friends.

48:39Absent friends.

48:39I don't know.

48:55Yes.

48:59Hey.

49:03Hey.

49:03Sir, 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.

49:24Who?

49:25Daughter doesn't get a bean.

49:27No.

49:28No.

49:29Only does.

49:33Oh, the charm.

49:40Mrs. Ada Dredge.

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