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00:00I'm Book and I run a bookshop. You must be here about the job.
00:12You know where I've come from, don't you?
00:14I have a little hobby on the side and I find it's taking me away from the shop more and more.
00:18Well, you must stay with us, mustn't you? Now that you've got the job.
00:21What exactly is it you do? I sell books.
00:24Yeah, but that's not all, is it? Yesterday, out there at a bomb site.
00:28So you don't think they died in an air raid?
00:31Inkeman Street was already empty, wasn't it, Mr. Bessard?
00:34Scheduled for demolition. It's a chaotic world, Jack. I have a system.
00:39Do you think it was suicide?
00:41Why would a chemist kill himself with something as horrible as prussigacity?
00:45It's murder. There's a daughter, isn't there?
00:48A right money-grabbing little cow. And then she has the gall to run off with him.
00:54Well, Dad was convinced that Mickey was thieving.
00:56Got the chemist's will through, sir. Daughter doesn't get a beam.
01:02This is a sacred charge, you understand that?
01:05I wouldn't ask this of you if I didn't think you were ready more than that.
01:08That you were the one creature on this earth to whom I could entrust this.
01:12This message must go to Trotty and to no one else. Is that clear?
01:18Is that clear?
01:25Good boy. Off you go.
01:27Morning.
01:28Morning.
01:29Morning.
01:30Uh, Doc. Stay.
01:31Can I help you?
01:32Oh.
01:33Yes.
01:34With wallpaper, that is. It's a little early for that.
01:36For what?
01:37Never mind.
01:38I'm looking for a Mrs. Book.
01:39You found her.
01:40Wow, that's a crying shame.
01:41What is?
01:42You're married, that is.
01:43Can I help you?
01:44Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're, uh, got a message from your husband.
01:47Said you were having problems with your alternator.
01:48My?
01:49In the car.
01:50That's what I do, see. Cars.
01:51I, uh, got a message from your husband.
01:52Said you were having problems with your alternator.
01:53My?
01:54In the car.
01:55That's what I do, see. Cars.
01:56I see. I missed a book sent for you, did he?
01:57Yeah, yeah. I mean, no idea why he didn't go with someone more local, but I'll not say no.
02:03I'll go where the work is, right?
02:04Quite.
02:05Oh.
02:06Oh.
02:07Oh.
02:08Oh.
02:09Oh.
02:10Oh.
02:11Oh.
02:12Oh.
02:13Oh.
02:14Oh.
02:15Oh.
02:16Oh.
02:17Oh.
02:18Oh.
02:19Oh.
02:20Oh.
02:21Oh.
02:22Oh.
02:23Oh.
02:24Oh.
02:25Oh.
02:26Got a light?
02:27Yeah.
02:28Yeah.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Somewhere, eh?
02:31One minute.
02:32Um.
02:33Oh.
02:34Oh.
02:35Oh.
02:36Oh.
02:37Oh.
02:38Oh.
02:39Oh.
02:40Oh.
02:41Oh.
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02:55Oh.
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02:57Oh.
02:58Oh.
02:59Oh.
03:00Mr...
03:02Mickey. Mickey Hall.
03:04And, uh, yeah, yeah, I've got a garage. Mile end.
03:08All yours?
03:09Well, no, me and the, um...
03:12Oh, yeah. Yeah, all mine.
03:14You see?
03:16Um...
03:18If you'll excuse me a moment,
03:20I need to lay my hands on a...
03:23Well, find my car.
03:25Right-o, yeah.
03:27Well, I ain't going anywhere, so...
03:29The very man.
03:44Oh, good morning, Mrs. Buck.
03:46Ah, morning, Eric.
03:47I wonder if you'd be an absolute darling for me, Eric.
03:50Anything for a lady?
03:51As I recall, Sheila's a proud owner of a rather splendid Daimler.
03:54Yes, she's got a car on you. Yeah, is she in?
03:56Can I just pop in to ask to borrow the car?
03:58No need by that.
03:59I'm sure she wouldn't mind.
04:00It's just parked round the back. I'll get the keys for you.
04:03Hello.
04:04Hello.
04:05What's up?
04:06Ah.
04:07Puncture, I think.
04:08As bald as Daddy.
04:09I told him these wheels won't get me to Cambridge.
04:13I don't suppose you could help me out.
04:14It's not really my department. I'm just looking after the place.
04:16I'd be most awfully grateful.
04:18Oh, yeah, all right.
04:19Yeah, all right. I'll see what Mickey's got.
04:20Thanks, Elviso.
04:21There must be a repair kit back here somewhere.
04:22I really appreciate this.
04:23I feel like he puts things in those random places.
04:24Oh.
04:25Oh.
04:26Oh.
04:27Oh.
04:28I feel like he puts things in those random places.
04:29Oh.
04:30Oh.
04:31Oh.
04:32Oh.
04:33Oh.
04:34Oh.
04:35Oh.
04:36Oh, yeah, all right. I'll see what Mickey's got.
04:39Oh.
04:40Thanks, Elviso.
04:41There must be a repair kit back here somewhere.
04:44I really appreciate this.
04:46I really appreciate this.
04:47I like he puts things in those random places.
05:16One, two, three, two, one.
05:46Oh, my God.
06:16Oh, my God.
06:46Oh, my God.
07:16Oh, my God.
07:45Oh, my God.
08:15Oh, my God.
08:16Besides?
08:17Besides?
08:18I think perhaps your dance card may soon be a little full.
08:22Quick word, Mr. Hall.
08:27Well, isn't this nice?
08:39Who are you?
08:41We thought, Mr. Hall, that it was high time we had a little chat.
08:44Listen, I know my rights.
08:46Straight out of the block.
08:48Disappointing.
08:48Dear me, Mr. Hall, one point deducted already.
08:51Point?
08:51What are you talking about?
08:53Listen, you can't stick anything on me.
08:55There you go again.
08:56What?
08:57What?
08:58Textbook, quotidian, banal.
09:00What?
09:01Well, you see, the inspector and I have been through this routine a hundred times.
09:05A thousand.
09:05You have no idea how tedious it is having to listen to the same old stock responses from
09:11gnarly old lags like something from the musical.
09:14Hold your hand out, you naughty boy.
09:17Hold your hand.
09:17That's probably enough of that.
09:19So here's the question that you would ask, were it not for your fear of me dinging you,
09:25why would I want to kill poor Mr. Harcup?
09:28Well, why would I?
09:29I wouldn't hurt a fly.
09:30I never did it.
09:32But you meant to go into the shop.
09:42Yeah.
09:43Yes, all right.
09:44I went there to talk things through, to reason with him.
09:46Now me and Marula got a little one on the way.
09:49Oh, did you go with the express intention of filching the jade elephant and replacing it?
09:53That's a dirty lie.
09:54Oh, bravo.
09:55Haven't heard that one in a while.
09:57Should have put copper at the end, though.
09:58What?
09:59That's a dirty lie.
09:59Copper is much more effective.
10:01But you ain't a copper, is you?
10:03Oh, fair point.
10:04No, I ain't.
10:05Isn't.
10:06Aren't.
10:08But I do have a special letter from Churchill.
10:11So?
10:11Anyway, you can't prove I did that.
10:13No, but it's very probable you'll admit.
10:15What happened then?
10:17I waited outside the shop.
10:20I knew he'd be in.
10:21He never goes anywhere except Mondays and Thursdays.
10:23Play dominoes, down the ball.
10:25I waited too well after seven, but there was no sign of him.
10:27So you went into the flat?
10:29No sign of him.
10:31But first she come out.
10:32Who?
10:33The char.
10:35Mrs. Dredge.
10:37Coming out of chemist, acting all shifty.
10:39Yeah, well, you know all about her.
10:40She had something in her coat.
10:42Trying her best to keep it hidden.
10:46Didn't let her see me, obviously.
10:48When was this?
10:50About six.
10:51Now go on.
10:54Then someone else come.
10:55But it's like Piccadilly Circus on your name, look.
10:57Couldn't see him properly, what me eyes and that.
10:59Oh, yes, we've heard all about him.
11:01But it was a hymn.
11:04I do know the difference, mister.
11:06Your reputation precedes you.
11:10He was all bundled up.
11:13Scarf.
11:14Overcoat.
11:14After he left, I went to the flat.
11:21My door was shut, but I know my way around a lock, so...
11:24In I went, and...
11:26That's when I found him.
11:31Marula's dad, that is.
11:32Stone dead.
11:33So naturally, you thought you should call the police.
11:36Well, that wouldn't have been a very wise thing to do, would it?
11:39I almost dislegged it.
11:41And then I remembered about the ornaments.
11:44The jade figures.
11:47Months ago, he told me about how precious they was.
11:49I'm...
11:49I thought no one's gonna miss one of them, aren't they?
11:53Alas for you, that wasn't quite the case.
11:56And my little chess set with me.
12:03So I swapped one.
12:06Then I took off.
12:07Straight home, I swear.
12:09I never killed Arkaba.
12:11I never even touched him.
12:12He was dead when I got there.
12:13All right, son, maybe you're telling the truth.
12:15Maybe you're not.
12:16But let me assure you, if you are lying,
12:18do you think you can take Scotland Yard for a ride?
12:20I'll come down on you so hard,
12:22you won't be able to see straight till Christmas.
12:26I'll throw the bloody bock at you.
12:30Inspector.
12:30Do we believe him?
12:38Bent as dog's hind leg.
12:40Yeah, but is he a murderer, though?
12:45I need to think.
12:47Do you have time to queue?
12:50I'm planning a casserole.
12:52This your stopping moaning, love?
13:08Chance would be a fine thing.
13:10Come on, Enid, shut up now.
13:17It's not going to wrap itself.
13:20Here I am.
13:22She's new.
13:29Out of the way, you.
13:30We'll be all bleeding, day.
13:33Right.
13:34You're watching.
13:34Over, over, under, under.
13:40Here we go, lovely.
13:41Bye.
13:44All right, come on in.
13:45Let's be having you.
13:48Don't have to turn you vegetarian.
13:51Our cat brought home a pigeon the other night.
13:55And?
13:56Well, Mrs Bliss was sorely tempted.
13:59We had plenty of pigeons in the war.
14:01And then run with a bit of pigeon.
14:03Yeah.
14:04Yeah, I know, but now it's all over.
14:06I mean, we want to weigh him a bit higher, don't we?
14:09We are all of us in the gutter,
14:11but some of us are looking at the Starlings.
14:15Right, bugger this.
14:17All right.
14:18Excuse me.
14:19Police business, coming through, coming through.
14:21Police business, police business.
14:22Thank you, thank you.
14:23Sorry, sorry, madam.
14:24Police business, thank you very much.
14:25Oi!
14:26But you're bloody tired like the rest of us.
14:28I'm so sorry, my own surgeon, police business.
14:30One bit.
14:30Oh, madam.
14:31Sorry, I could just ask you to take a few steps.
14:33It's outside.
14:34It's because it's urgent police business.
14:39Afternoon, Alex.
14:40Afternoon, sir.
14:42Now, stewing steak.
14:44I've kept to the side, sir.
14:45You are a prince amongst men.
14:48Oh.
14:48You've got something just there.
14:51Eh?
14:53Oh, excuse me.
14:55Powdered egg.
14:55Bit of a rush breakfast.
14:58How's Sheila?
14:59Well, sir.
15:00Well.
15:01She's driven up to Sheffield.
15:02A nice family.
15:04Yes.
15:06Terrible about George Arkham.
15:09He certainly is.
15:10Mind you, I.
15:11I wager old base art won't shed any tears.
15:15Huh?
15:15I never got on.
15:17Many are running during the Blitz.
15:20Ark up was a stickler for the rules.
15:22Always on at Mr. Base Art for being too slack.
15:25Blackout curtain, showing light, that sort of thing.
15:29Rub your tick.
15:32Right then.
15:33Where are we up to with the murders?
15:35Murder?
15:36There's only one, as far as I know.
15:38Uh, yes.
15:40Well, Mrs. Dredge says she saw the chemist at approximately 6pm.
15:44We have only her word for that.
15:46Yes.
15:47Hang in!
15:48But Mickey Hall did say he saw her leaving the shop around that time with something in her coat she wanted to keep hidden.
15:54And she has a strong motive now we know she inherits the heart.
15:57Mm-hmm.
15:58So, Ark up appears to have died somewhere between 6 and 10, according to Dr. Calder.
16:04An awful lot could have happened in those four hours.
16:06Indeed.
16:07Now, we're presuming the killer called round.
16:10No sign of forced entry.
16:13So, Ark up knew them?
16:14Probably.
16:15I've told you this before.
16:16Hear me out, Mr. Ark up, please.
16:18It's about Marona.
16:20I suppose you'd better come through.
16:24So, he let them in.
16:26There was some sort of chat.
16:31The killer proceeds to pour prussic acid down his throat.
16:39Ark up, Crooks.
16:40Literally, I should imagine.
16:43But why did he take just the one piece?
16:46Why would I grab the nut?
16:49Then it would look like burglary.
16:51Whereas he wanted to make it look like suicide.
16:54There we are, sir.
16:55Oh, bless you, Eric.
16:56Oh, um, anything for dog?
16:58I'll spoil you.
16:59You do.
17:01Would you like it, rats?
17:02No, no, no.
17:02He won't mind.
17:04Toodle-pip.
17:05Enjoy your day, gentlemen.
17:06Cheerio.
17:13Oh, Beryl.
17:14Hello.
17:14Mr. Mrs. Dredge has motive and opportunity.
17:18Mickey Hall, motive and opportunity.
17:20What about Marula?
17:22Mickey says the bundled-up stranger is a man.
17:24Yeah, but then he would.
17:25If they were in it together.
17:29Did they know that Ark up was going to disinherit them?
17:34Hello, Jack.
17:36Sir?
17:37Ah, ah, ah.
17:38Not for you.
17:47What have you done?
17:49Oh, tidied up.
17:52Tidied up.
17:53Oh, dear.
17:55Well, you said you wanted things cataloguing.
17:57So, I need to put it in a proper order.
18:00You've only done these shelves so far.
18:03Yeah, sorry.
18:04Takes time, you know.
18:05Thank God.
18:06Put it all back.
18:08Hey?
18:08Put it all back just as it was.
18:10I told you I have a system.
18:11You said that...
18:12Catalogue it, I said.
18:13Not desecrate it.
18:15Christ.
18:17Book.
18:21I'm sorry.
18:24He said soon as men did, eh?
18:25Well, I think I might have done something right.
18:35You found something?
18:36Yeah, I have.
18:39It's been cleaned recently.
18:43The residue you can see.
18:45This remains a silver polish.
18:47Meaning?
18:48Meaning that it got into the ground recently.
18:51Probably dropped.
18:52Or something far more sinister.
18:57What are you getting at?
19:001665.
19:00Year of the Plague.
19:01Yeah.
19:02Very specifically the Year of the Plague.
19:04Not a year or two before.
19:05Capital.
19:08Too convenient.
19:09Horribly.
19:11Where better to hide a tree than in a forest?
19:14Eleven skeletons in the plague pit from the 17th century.
19:17And the 12th from 1946.
19:19Oh, bloody hell.
19:23You said earlier, murders, plural.
19:26Yes.
19:28Linked?
19:29Oh, I should think so.
19:30Top of the class, Jack.
19:31Really, I should give you the afternoon off to go to the pub.
19:34So I will.
19:35More specifically, the Bull, where the late Mr. Harkup used to play dominoes.
19:39Take Nora.
19:40Nora?
19:41I believe you've met.
19:43She's good at this sort of thing.
19:45You could learn a lot.
19:46Something.
19:56Very much something.
20:01What's this?
20:02A list of addresses and a very particular question.
20:05I'd be ever so grateful if you'd go on a little field trip for me.
20:08All right.
20:09If you cook tonight.
20:11I am.
20:12Casserole.
20:12Oh, casserole.
20:14Oh, my God.
20:44Oh, my God.
21:14Very irregular, this. Kiddies on the premises.
21:24I'm not a kid.
21:26You look like one.
21:27Appearances can be very deceptive.
21:30I'll have a drink if that's what you're worried about.
21:32That would make it worse.
21:34She'll have a lemonade.
21:35Oh, what?
21:37And I'll have a bottle of mild, please.
21:40All right.
21:42Thanks.
21:45You'll have to get these.
21:46What? I haven't got any money.
21:48I know.
21:50Ask Mr. Book.
21:51We'll advance you your wages.
21:52There you are.
22:00Thanks.
22:00Take the change.
22:05You were saying, Mr. Harcourt?
22:08That's right, son.
22:09Every Monday and Thursday.
22:11Sit just over there.
22:13Yeah, Mr. Well-Beloved the Butcher.
22:15Mr. Bass Hartley, RP Warden.
22:18Mrs. Akers from the junk shop.
22:20Mr. Quillen the tailor.
22:22It's like happy families.
22:25Mr. Toovey from the Cobblers.
22:26Mr. Harcourt.
22:27Oh, God rest his soul.
22:30Yeah.
22:30Are you with the Cobblers, then?
22:40In a manner of speaking.
22:42I mean, I don't mind.
22:43You know, I was in the force myself back in the day.
22:47Ah, poor old Harcourt.
22:49Didn't seem the type.
22:51You know, to do himself in.
22:53But then, do they ever?
22:55I know.
22:56We had a teacher.
22:58Life and soul drowned herself in a weary of...
23:00How was he when you last saw him?
23:03Well, that's the thing, you see.
23:05I saw Mr. Harcourt just the day before.
23:08Oh.
23:08Yeah.
23:09Very out of character, it was.
23:11Yeah, he marched in here in the middle of the day.
23:14He was a man of very regular habits.
23:17So it did seem a bit queer.
23:20Yeah, it seemed like he had a lot on his mind.
23:23Said he was sitting on a secret.
23:26Obviously eating him up a bit.
23:28Did you get it out of him?
23:29The secret.
23:31Ah, not at first.
23:32No.
23:33More than my life's worth, he said.
23:35He said that?
23:36It's very worth, son.
23:38And the next day?
23:40Dead.
23:44Did he, um...
23:46Elaborate?
23:47Yes, son.
23:48Eventually, he did.
23:52Now, Mr. Harcourt was a very upright citizen.
23:56You see, he suspected one of his pals was cheating at Spotty's.
24:04Spotty's?
24:06Spotty's.
24:10Domino's.
24:10Oh, that was smashing.
24:27Book has his uses.
24:29Better than what you're used to.
24:31Oh, yeah.
24:33So, uh, you were saying, uh, Scarlet Fever?
24:38Well, that's what brought us together, yes.
24:42We met on the Scarlet Fever ward when we were, what, both 12?
24:47And so, what?
24:49You fell for each other right from the off?
24:51Uh, it wasn't quite like that, no.
24:59Profitable day?
25:01I'm not sure.
25:03I put my foot right in it.
25:05Oh?
25:06I tried to tidy Mr. Book's bookshelves.
25:08Oh!
25:10I mean, I don't think I did too much damage, but...
25:13And then I was out and about with Nora, detecting.
25:17Well, it certainly put some colour in your cheeks.
25:21So, go on, then.
25:23Well, if you didn't fall for each other straight away,
25:26when did you know?
25:30You'll forgive me, my dear,
25:31but we'll have to know each other rather better
25:33before such confidences are exchanged.
25:36Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
25:37I didn't mean to overstep, but...
25:39No, not at all. You haven't.
25:42I do hope we'll become fast friends, Jack.
25:46It's complicated.
25:48That's all.
25:51Book and I were inseparable for years.
25:56And then...
25:57Life got in the way.
26:05Love is where it falls, isn't that what they say?
26:07Couldn't trouble you for a lie, could I?
26:17Sorry, I...
26:18I don't smoke.
26:24Sure?
26:24Mom I don't Demand Prae
26:41when you're tysikk
26:42I don't die.
26:43I don't know.
26:43You're going to have to ask a question.
26:44Bye-bye.
26:46Now what do you see me?
26:47Bye-bye.
26:50Love?
26:52Love you.
26:53And were things more than formal between you and your employer?
27:05I resent that question, Inspector.
27:07Nevertheless.
27:08Well, I won't deny there was a degree of affection between Mr Harcourt and myself.
27:16If you've been doing for someone all those years...
27:19Well, that's my point, Mrs Dredge. Is that all you were doing?
27:22What my friend is trying to suggest...
27:23Yes, I know full well what he's trying to suggest.
27:25What he's trying to elucidate, then, is whether this affection took any more tangible form.
27:32Well, what's it got to do with you?
27:34Well, the fact is, Mrs Dredge, certain new facts have come to light.
27:36Mr Harcourt gave the lot to you, love.
27:40The sharp-looking world is the whole estate. It's all yours.
27:45Never.
27:47I didn't see that coming.
27:50Everything?
27:51Everything.
27:51Is your son at home, Mrs Dredge?
27:56Oh, he's upstairs, in bed.
27:59A late riser.
28:01A war hero.
28:03His Wellington came down over Holland, 44.
28:05Oh, I know.
28:06I'm sorry.
28:07Nothing to be sorry for.
28:08He survived, didn't he?
28:09Given that we don't believe Mr Harcourt took his own life, you can see why that leaves you in a rather difficult position.
28:16Do you never think I topped him?
28:20The fact remains, you're in a rather sticky position, Mrs Dredge. The new will was properly signed and witnessed.
28:25Well, I don't know anything about that.
28:28But you could have done. You could have found a draft when you were cleaning and decided to, you know, speed things up a bit.
28:34What, by knocking off Mr H?
28:36Yes.
28:38Barmy.
28:39No, it's her you should be talking to. Marula. And him. Mickey Hall. Have you nabbed him?
28:43He is assisting us with our inquiries.
28:46Oh, well, good. That's something, then.
28:48In fact, Mr Hall's been most helpful.
28:51He has?
28:52Yes.
28:53Yeah, most helpful. In fact, he told us that he saw you leaving the chemist shop the night of the murder.
28:59There's no mystery there. I told you. I saw him.
29:01Leaving and trying your very best to conceal something.
29:05Bandages. I told you, for elf. I wasn't trying to hide.
29:10He lost a leg, didn't he, your son?
29:14How?
29:16One of them worn and creased. The other almost completely smooth.
29:19His prosthesis must need constant attention.
29:23And painful, I should imagine. Very, very painful.
29:28Of course.
29:29Painful enough for morphine.
29:35Why didn't you just ask Mr Harkham to help?
29:40I couldn't.
29:44Alf needs more than he's ever given by the doctor.
29:46So I need some extra.
29:51I didn't think Mr Harkham would notice, but he did.
29:54And he assumed Mickey Hall must have done it.
29:56I couldn't tell him it was me.
29:58He was such a stickler, you see, for the rules.
30:01Well, how could I tell him I'd had a way with drugs from his own shop?
30:07You've no idea what it's like, the pain.
30:10My poor elf.
30:13So you dropped in on the pretext of getting bandages and instead stole more morphine.
30:20Right.
30:20And Mr Harkham was alive when you left him?
30:23I swear on my son's life.
30:31If you'll excuse me.
30:33Yes, of course.
30:33Oh, and, uh, when do I get it then?
30:41Beg pardon?
30:42The money.
30:50Not her, then.
30:51No, life is hardened, Mrs Dredge, but not a killer.
30:54No.
30:54Then who did it?
30:56Them.
30:56Two murders, remember?
30:57Them, then.
30:59Oh, look, I suppose it would be too straightforward for you to just, you know, just tell me.
31:02It would be my, well, no, not my pleasure.
31:08You're going to need backup, Inspector.
31:12What?
31:12What?
31:13Oh, no, no, sorry, uh, we're just, good evening, sir.
31:29Eric.
31:29Oh, we're just closing, I'm afraid.
31:32That's all right.
31:34How's Sheila?
31:36Well, you asked me that, Mr Book.
31:38Oh, yes.
31:40She's in Sheffield.
31:42What day did she drive up there?
31:45Oh, it was, um, Thursday.
31:47Yes, Thursday.
31:50I see.
31:50Well, if there's anything special you aren't going to help you with, sir, you know, I've got a lot on.
31:55But she couldn't have done that, could she, Eric?
31:59When Trotty borrowed her car on Friday.
32:03Come on!
32:15Come on!
32:17Come on, Ian!
32:19Come on!
32:21Come on!
32:22Come on!
32:23Come on!
32:23I don't know.
32:53I don't know.
33:00Now then, Mr. Well-beloved.
33:02I didn't mean to do her in.
33:05Go on.
33:06Things hadn't been right for some time.
33:08Always raring we were.
33:10And then...
33:14I met her.
33:17In it.
33:18An old fool and a young beauty.
33:21It's a very old tale.
33:22When did you know, Mr. Book, if you don't mind me asking?
33:26I suspected right away that something was off.
33:29And that was confirmed when I discovered
33:31that some of the bones in the plague pit were newer,
33:33though you'd made an effort to age them.
33:36Gravy browning.
33:38Sheila uses it on her legs.
33:41And the fool did get annoyed, huh?
33:44Plus the knife marks on them were very distinctive.
33:46I checked your handiwork.
33:48That bone you gave me for dog.
33:50Yeah.
33:51So, for the sake of a future with Miss Enid Clegg,
33:55you sent your wife to meet her maker.
33:58You then found yourself confronting the murderer's oldest dilemma.
34:07Getting rid of the corpse.
34:11Should've been simple for you, not being a stranger to the notion of chopping things up.
34:15Unfortunately, Inspector, people can tell the difference between the bones of hogs and homo sapiens.
34:22So, I think that after removing the flesh from your unfortunate wife,
34:28flensing her,
34:30you still needed to dispose of her skeleton.
34:33Which is where the caustic soda comes in.
34:35Precisely. Freely available at any chemist.
34:39Getting rid of her body, are you?
34:46Oh, yeah.
34:48Drains.
34:50It's for the drains, George.
34:51Terrible pulp.
34:57Alkaline hydrolysis.
34:59Is that what you were going for?
35:04I'd read about it, see?
35:05Funny the things you pick up in this trade.
35:12Caustic soda.
35:14Dissolves flesh.
35:15I'd used it before to get rid of carcasses, you know.
35:19It didn't work properly.
35:21You know, lots of them.
35:26Lots of bones left.
35:29I didn't know what to do, and then...
35:31I...
35:32And then...
35:33Baseheart mentioned the skeletons that he'd found.
35:36Strange to think that if it wasn't for the Luftwaffe,
35:38we'd never have known those poor devils were under our feet all these years.
35:42You told the cop is?
35:45Not just yet.
35:46Well, no rush, I suppose, out of 300 years.
35:50I've put a tarp over the crater.
35:52Yeah.
35:53Well, you know what kids are like.
35:55They probably run off with the bones and give them to a dog.
35:59Anyway, cheerio.
36:01Oh, no.
36:02I've got to go.
36:03I can't see them.
36:04I can't see them.
36:05Ah, I can't see them.
36:06No.
36:07You know...
36:09You don't know.
36:10I can't see them.
36:11I can see them.
36:12All right.
36:14Come on.
36:16I can't see them.
36:17Come on.
36:19Who's coming from now?
36:21I can't see them.
36:22Come on.
36:24You can see them.
36:26I can't see them.
36:27I can see them.
36:28as i said where better to hide a tree than in a forest who would notice for you
36:47then there was this of course eric here though exhibiting a lively skill at improvisation
36:55is not an imaginative man no offense that called for it my game mate is me he rather overdid it by
37:04planting the coin in the plague pit that rang an alarm bell straight away so armed with a
37:11description of a suspect my wife made a short but instructive tour of the local curio shops
37:16oh how do you know he hadn't gone further afield to get the coin an imaginative remember anyone
37:22conceiving so clumsy a clue would never stray far from their own neighborhood eric was very much
37:28in the frame when i noticed the clincher in the queue at the butcher's notice what
37:39powdered egg oh you've uh you've got something just there
37:45excuse me powdered egg bit of a rush breakfast such an intimate thing to do with absolutely
37:52no acknowledgement from mr well-beloved uh-huh i thought
37:59uh-huh how's sheila well sir well she's driven up the sheffield a nice family i inquired with
38:07sheila's family in yorkshire they've seen neither hide nor hair of her of course
38:10so it all looked rosy and then i've got the note i suspected something of a kind
38:22some sort of vague threat urgent that we talk
38:28i don't want to have to take this to the authorities
38:30i hope we can sort this matter between ourselves
38:42jordan
38:44and you assumed it was about the murder of course
38:49what then it wasn't no
38:51what then what was it about dominoes
39:00what mr harcup was a stickler for the rules as we know he suspected you of cheating at his
39:06favorite past time that's all it was no no no no no no no it had to be a threat
39:12about sheila that what else could it be so what happened next
39:26i had no idea i could buy him off with cash with beef
39:31so he went round i was scared
39:45you know scared of what he might say
39:49what if he wouldn't listen to reason
39:52and there was poison everywhere all around and
39:55so i i i kept him talking i just need you to tell the truth
40:00george just tell the truth eric and then i took my chance
40:05i got hold of him and and then i poured the poison down his throat
40:09right you poisoned him did you oh yes you know it's horrible
40:14nothing else
40:16aye
40:18you see that's very interesting eric
40:20because before he was poisoned george harcup was struck over the head
40:25and the weapon left a bloody residue in his hair you remember there was blood
40:28but no wound inspector yes dr calder analyzed it for me cow's blood
40:37and you would have known that eric if you'd been the one who'd hit him with a joint of beef
40:42no yes no no no no i remember now no i did hit him i don't think so
40:46uh so who did
41:02emid obviously neglected to mention the part where she clobbered mr harcup
41:07was it her idea from the start no she was
41:16he had found me after i'd strangled
41:29after sheila died
41:35she just took charge
41:38i didn't know what to do
41:39he was so calm and methodical and we we reckoned we was going to be okay until
41:54what the hell can we do now
41:59leave this to me
42:09i had to finish the job
42:40you make it look like suicide
42:46she poured plastic acid to dump poor mr harcup's gut
42:56why don't we just say that i did it
43:00please i mean i'll swing won't i but ain't it
43:04i'm sorry eric i truly am but i'm even more sorry for george harcup
43:15oh poor sheila
43:16oh
43:25right four more charged up sign out
43:27we'll be taken to a home
43:28we'll be taken to a home
43:30very good of you
43:33thank mrs book
43:35she said you might be a while
43:37quite a tale
43:39wish i could have sat in on it
43:40i'm pushing my luck as it is
43:42what exactly did you do in the war
43:48it must have been pretty big for you to get that letter from churchill
43:53and for the inspector to let you have run of the shop like this
43:56no no jack don't be nosy
43:59where would the fun be
44:01if everyone knew everything
44:03eh
44:04besides i hardly have a run of the place not with laughing boy there hovering the whole time
44:08he's just waiting for his chance to collar me
44:11slightest malfeasance
44:18surely you're a model of respectability mr book
44:21you'd be surprised they got ivan novello for his petrol coupons
44:38all right where are you
44:42there you go
44:47eric
44:49eric
44:52hey no no no contact
44:54no
44:54can you
44:55enough of that
44:58that's enough
44:59run for eric
45:00love you
45:01run
45:01eric
45:02get your pullman
45:03eric
45:03after him
45:06hell's bells
45:08come on
45:09eric
45:11eric
45:14it's right
45:14go down here
45:21eric
45:22come out man
45:24don't be a fool
45:29make us see it
45:30eric
45:38no
45:39no
45:48that way
45:50come on
45:50come on
45:51come on
45:52mouth
45:53come on
46:04nope
46:04ng
46:05Where did he go?
46:29There.
46:35The crater.
46:46This is...
46:47Was Inkerman Street.
46:48Which means?
46:50Mr. Baseheart's fastidiousness has come good at last.
46:54If the ruddy thing's still working.
46:55All right, well-beloved.
47:17Come quietly.
47:22It's him.
47:23There.
47:30Eric, stop.
47:32Don't lose him.
47:33I'm trying.
47:35I'm going in.
47:36Let me talk to him.
47:37Where are you going to run to, eh?
48:00Eric, there's nothing to be done.
48:06Where will you go?
48:11Ellen!
48:11I'm going in.
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48:41you can give up today or tomorrow eric it's inevitable the law must take its cause that's
48:52what you said you're not stringing me up eric no no you sure do that to me i've seen beasts go it's
49:08not always kind eric stop what about enid hmm you better leave her to face the rope alone
49:16you're right
49:19she did all this for me yes all for me
49:26i can't leave her to face the music can i
49:35if we're gonna go we go together
49:42no no
49:50for him the hemlock shall distill
50:05for him the axe be bared for him the gibbet shall be built
50:12i see him up there with mr book and then
50:24wallop he just fell dropped like stone i mean he must have broke his neck
50:30what's that business
50:34very sad
50:37well this is a treat
50:39pineapple chunks
50:40haven't had these before the war
50:42so what now what do you mean we just go back to selling books that's the job jack just jack
50:54yeah but that was yeah
50:56it was so bloody exciting can't be like this all the time young man
51:02and anyway who are you you haven't really said
51:15jack blunt
51:17i was brought up in an orphanage like i told you made acquaintances with the wrong sort i did time for it
51:25oh yeah i was the driver for a smash and grab up mayfair way they got away with a load of mint coats
51:37i got away with two years i missed the war some of it anyway and then i'll get a letter
51:48from the prison reform society an address for a job
51:53this address
51:55well there we are then no need to mention it again
51:57yeah but why me
51:58why'd you pick me
52:01altruism
52:02what
52:04giving a second chance to someone felt like the right thing to do
52:07yeah but you don't know me from adam
52:08oh he was hopeless wasn't he trotty
52:10always wandering around the shop in the altogether
52:12getting his fig leaf trapped in the till
52:15i'm serious
52:15i mean bloody hell i am grateful and all that but
52:18it's nice here
52:22it's really nice but
52:26books is a raft on the great turbulency of life
52:28then you mean books are a raft
52:31no no books this place my shop
52:33don't dwell on it jack just accept it
52:38it's a second chance
52:39but why me
52:42why not
52:43you only live once
52:45but if you do it right
52:47once is enough
52:48shakespeare
52:51may west
52:53but if you do it right
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