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♪ According to thy word... ♪

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MAN: At the Round Table there was
one seat... kept always vacant...

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..reserved by Merlin, for the knight
destined to claim the Grail,

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and heal the Wounded Land.

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The seat was named
'the Siege Perilous'.

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For should any other dare sit
therein... it held only death.

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H, P, N, X, U, T,

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A, H, D, F, Z...

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(CHATTER)

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Hi, Dad.
Get inside, Tommy.

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(TYPING, PHONE RINGING)

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CHOIR: ♪ As it was in the beginning

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♪ Is now and ever shall be

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♪ As it was in the beginning...

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(POP MUSIC ON RADIO)

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All right, George?

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♪ ..and ever shall be

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♪ Is now

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♪ Is now, and ever shall be

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♪ World without end

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♪ Amen

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♪ Amen

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♪ Amen...

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Ahh...

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(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)

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As Chief Constable, I'd like to
express my appreciation to the
Council

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and, in particular, to Alderman
Wintergreen.

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And, for taking over sponsorship of
this worthy cause,

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we're also very grateful
to Mr Josiah Landesman.

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Thank you, Joe.

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(CHEERING) Thank you.

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I'm likewise grateful to
Chief Constable Standish
for those kind words.

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♪ ..amen

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♪ Amen

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♪ Amen

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♪ Aaaaaa-men

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♪ Amen ♪

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(APPLAUSE)

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♪ THE CHARLESTON

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(SOME CHEERS)

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(MUSIC ENDS, APPLAUSE)
MC: The Gracie Craig Dance Company!

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And now, without further ado, would
you please welcome Benny and Clyde!

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(CHEERING)

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(GRUNTS)

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(RINGING TONE)

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(POLICE CAR BELL RINGING)

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TV: Following the rejection last
night by leaders in Rhodesia
of a new working document,

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which was hoped might settle
the constitutional crisis,

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Mr Wilson announced in the House of
Commons

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that the Government will fulfil their
commitment

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to organising world opinion in the
United Nations

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for selective mandatory sanctions
against Rhodesia.

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To which end it is believed Mr George
Brown, the Foreign Secretary,

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will today fly to New York.

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New scarf?

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Hm?
The scarf.

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New?
Oh. Yes.

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Mm, where's that from, then?

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From Burridges, by the label.

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You're very literal.
It's a failing.

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You've never picked that.

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So... Who's the admirer?

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Don't tease, Joan.

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I think it's very nice if Morse has
found someone to take care of him.

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Step lively, then.

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Warmed the polish?
With a heated spoon, yeah.

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I'm only saying. If a job's worth
doing -I know. Look after your
shoes.

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And your shoes look after you.

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Much in?

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We've an 11-year-old, Tommy Cork,
done a bunk from home.

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Davey Cork's boy? Yep.

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Figures.

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And we've a request from County to be
on the lookout for a George Aldridge.

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Absconded from Farnleigh tea-time
Saturday.

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Here you go. Home safe.
Righto.

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Saturday? He'll be long gone.
That was my thinking.

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What?
New scarf?

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Nice.

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So what's he in for, this escapee?

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Oh, breaking and entering, receiving
stolen goods, car theft.

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Got three years, due out the second
week of January.

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January? This January? Why make
a break for it with so little of
yoursentence left to go?

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That was my thought.
What's behind it?

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Family troubles? Girlfriend?
No next of kin listed on his file.

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No letters or visitors, according to
the governor.

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Can't read, apparently. So... Well,
I can't see we'll come across him.

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Best look to the kiddie.
I was going to.

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Bloody place.

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It turns my guts.

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Bleach, sweat, boiled cabbage...
and everything on tick.

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Never Never Land.

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(CHILDREN SHOUTING)

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So what's behind this little jaunt?
Dave take his belt to him again?
Give him a leathering?

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What does he like doing? Football?

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Putting in windows and knock-down
ginger's more Tommy's line.

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He's keen on dogs, though, yeah?

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Dave's got his canaries, but it's
no pets with the Council.

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I'm not about to go to the housing
department, Mrs Cork, but that's not
canary moult.

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Brave new world, Thursday.
Sir?

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This Thames Valley business.

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I was talking to Chief Constable
Standish at the Widows And Orphans.

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Division have been very impressed
with my paper on the amalgamation.

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The one Morse wrote up, sir?

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Typed, I think you'll find,
from my prepared notes.

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Of course, sir. A figure of speech.

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At any event, I'm having lunch
this week with ACC Deare

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to go over one or two of the finer
points.

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But erm...'instrumental' is the word
bandied about quite freely.

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Merger's definitely going ahead,
then? Oh, yes. All systems go.

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Naturally, there'll be some
streamlining.

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Voluntary, for the most part.

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Yes... comes to us all, I suppose...

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..in the end.

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One way or another.

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Excuse me. I'm looking for
Tommy Cork.

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He's down by the canal.
Oh.

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Down that way.
Thank you.

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Hello? (KNOCKS)

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Anyone home?

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(WHIMPERING)

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He said he was gonna drown them.

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Is that how you got the shiner?

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(SIGHS)

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You can't stay here. You know that.

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Come on. Don't worry.

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I'll talk to the dog unit.

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Has he had anything?
Canteen's not open yet, sir.

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Here you go, then.

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Mum says I'm not to take anything
off strangers.

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We're not strangers. We're coppers.

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Go on, you're in for a treat.
It's Monday - cheese and pickle.

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Oi. What do you say?

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Ah, Thursday. Good heavens,
what's this? Waifs and strays?

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Tommy Cork, sir. Young lad who's
gone missing from home.

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He's a bit nervous of us, sir.
Indeed?

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There's no need for that.

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Hasn't anyone ever told you,
the policeman is your friend?

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That's not what my dad says.
No?

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No. He says you're all bastards.

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You wanted a word, sir?

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Yes. Get him back as soon as
possible, Morse. All right?

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This is a police station,
not a creche. Yes, sir.

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See you finish your crusts.

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(LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE)

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(COMEDIAN PERFORMING ON STAGE)

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(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)

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(AS CLYDE) He ain't coming.

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Don't say that.

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(AS CLYDE) I didn't say that.
You said it, you big dummy.

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He ain't coming.

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(BIRDSONG)

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Drunk, by the smell of him.

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Trying to take a short cut and the
fast's had him. Name of Patterson,
Eric.

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No address, but he has a railway
ticket dated Saturday from Bristol.
Return.

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Dead about 36 hours.

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No obvious signs of injury.

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A glancing blow to the skull
perhaps.

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Or... he fell from the train.

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He could have leant out of the
window, the door's come open...

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(INHALES SHARPLY)
..and good night, Irene.

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The FME has some concerns about
your blood pressure.

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Is that all? Army medics said the
same before they sent me up the
desert to meet Rommel.

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Runs in the family. He wants to see
you again in three months.

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Review the situation.

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The job takes its toll, Thursday.

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Only so many years of active service
in any of us.

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I'm good for a while yet.
Well, I hope so too.

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But one can't fight the natural way
of things.

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The old order changes.
Younger, fitter men come along.

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Wisdom and experience can be put
to best use in other ways.

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Training, you mean?
Mm-hm.

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Well, I'm sure it would suit some
and good luck to them,

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but... I don't want to play at it.

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Theory's no substitute for practice.
I'm a proper copper or I'm nothing,
sir.

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You don't waste much time.
What's the story?

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Ah... misadventure. Male.

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50s. Not local. Eric Patterson.

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Miss Frazil?

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'Who was he? A big noise in Fleet
Street after the war.'

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So what was he doing in Oxford?
I don't know.

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I ran into him Saturday covering the
Police Widows And Orphans at the
town hall.

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How did he seem?

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He asked to meet me for a drink
yesterday, only he never turned up.

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Eric was always... unreliable.

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But I thought he might show.
He said he wanted to pick my brains.

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Did he say what about?

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Landesman Construction. Building
your big new HQ out at Kidlington,
aren't they?

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If it goes through.

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When.

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I saw him bending Alderman
Wintergreen's ear for a good
ten minutes.

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Well, whatever it was, doesn't
matter much to Eric now.

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Won't have the results back on his
blood for a few days, but he went
with a gutful of Scotch.

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Which must have pleased his duodenal
ulcer no end.

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He wasn't in the best shape.

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Cirrhotic liver, TB scarring
to the lungs.

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The phlegm fatale.

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So what killed him? Our old friend
Mr Blunt Trauma To The Skull.

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Mr Blunt Trauma?

199
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I like to keep things simple...
when dealing with the police.

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So was he hit by the train?
A glancing blow if it was.

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Chipped a tooth.

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Found what was left of it
in his stomach.

203
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How much Scotch makes a gutful?

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Imperial or metric?

205
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20-odd fluid ounces. The
bottle's-worth give or take.

206
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So more than a half bottle, then?

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Oh, yes.

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He could have got a skinful down
the pub.I suppose.

209
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I just can't see where he thought he
might have been going if it was a
short cut.

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The state he was in, who knows?

211
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Anyway, I thought Dr DeBryn said he
might have jumped from the train.

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Yeah. Perhaps. But he wasn't going
home, if that was the case.

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He was found beside the up line,
not the down.

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Besides, his ticket hadn't been
punched.Well, it has now.
Anything from Bristol?

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No, nothing. Lived alone, flat in the
Clifton area, I think. No other
occupants listed.

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Not much more to be done, then.
I may have a word with Alderman
Wintergreen.

217
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Why? Miss Frazil saw Patterson
talking to him

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at the Widows And Orphans on
Saturday.

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Look, er...

220
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You run the car back. I might
stretch my legs.

221
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Are you sure?
Yeah.

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Bit of a walk.

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Do me good, a bit of exercise.

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And er... don't bother picking me up
in the morning. I'll find my own way
in.

225
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'Night.

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(CLICKING)

227
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(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

228
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(LAUGHS) What?

229
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Nothing.

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Happy?

231
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Are you?

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Tommy!

233
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Tommy, come here! Hey! Where you do
think you're going?

234
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Davey! Come here!

235
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No! Tommy!

236
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I'm looking for Alderman
Wintergreen's office.

237
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Detective Constable Morse,
City Police.

238
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Patterson? No, the name
doesn't ring a bell.

239
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It's just um... someone said they saw
you talking to him for about ten
minutes

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at the Widows And Orphans on
Saturday.

241
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Gerald must have spoken to a hundred
people on Saturday, didn't you,
darling?

242
00:16:40,517 --> 00:16:44,092
It's possible he expressed an
interest in Landesman Construction.

243
00:16:44,117 --> 00:16:45,964
Do you remember anyone approaching
you?

244
00:16:45,989 --> 00:16:49,564
Joe Landesman's a long-time
benefactor of the Widows And
Orphans.

245
00:16:49,589 --> 00:16:53,020
He was here, but I'm afraid I don't
remember your Mr...

246
00:16:53,045 --> 00:16:56,764
Eric Patterson.
What er... happened to him?

247
00:16:56,789 --> 00:16:59,932
He appears to have been hit by
a train late on Saturday evening.

248
00:16:59,957 --> 00:17:01,516
Oh, dear. Hm.

249
00:17:01,541 --> 00:17:05,404
Appears? I wouldn't have thought
there to be much doubt with
something like that.

250
00:17:05,429 --> 00:17:07,708
We like to be thorough.

251
00:17:07,733 --> 00:17:11,740
Well, good luck with your
investigation, but you'll have
to excuse me.

252
00:17:11,765 --> 00:17:15,052
I'm due in the chamber.
Of course. Of course.

253
00:17:15,077 --> 00:17:18,508
Mrs Wintergreen.
Not at all.

254
00:17:18,533 --> 00:17:20,533
(CHATTER AND LAUGHTER)

255
00:17:24,581 --> 00:17:27,148
(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)

256
00:17:27,173 --> 00:17:29,884
Oh, here he is, then. What's this,
Fred, missed the alarm?

257
00:17:29,909 --> 00:17:31,756
You'll find yourself
in the late book.

258
00:17:31,781 --> 00:17:34,060
Tea, sir? Anything for you,
Mr Chard?

259
00:17:34,085 --> 00:17:36,796
No. No, you're all right.

260
00:17:36,821 --> 00:17:39,964
Peter's a good sergeant.
You treat him right.

261
00:17:39,989 --> 00:17:44,284
What brings you above ground? Didn't
think night-watch could venture out
in daylight?

262
00:17:44,309 --> 00:17:47,884
Sworn to, Fred. Sworn to. It will
all come out in the wash, I'm sure.

263
00:17:47,909 --> 00:17:54,364
Well, well, if it ain't the cocky
sod that made me look a first-class
chump in the strangler case.

264
00:17:54,389 --> 00:17:58,972
Did you want anything in particular,
Hugh, or did you just drop by to
admire the furnishings?

265
00:17:58,997 --> 00:18:01,996
Last quarter's crime figures.
Request by Division.

266
00:18:02,021 --> 00:18:04,732
I put them in on the first of
the month, generally.

267
00:18:04,757 --> 00:18:08,188
He who pays the piper. They just
want me to cast an eye.

268
00:18:08,213 --> 00:18:12,940
Be this Thames Valley shake-up,
I expect. Winds of change.

269
00:18:12,965 --> 00:18:15,100
Who knows where the pieces will
land?

270
00:18:15,125 --> 00:18:17,980
Well, thanks for these.

271
00:18:18,005 --> 00:18:20,005
Be seeing you.

272
00:18:22,613 --> 00:18:24,892
First-class? Third-rate, more like.

273
00:18:24,917 --> 00:18:26,917
Whatever it is, you watch yourself.

274
00:18:26,933 --> 00:18:29,068
You'll be all right
as long as I'm here,

275
00:18:29,093 --> 00:18:32,956
but when it comes to vindictive,
DI Chard's in a league of his own.

276
00:18:32,981 --> 00:18:36,844
How'd you make out with the Council?
Wintergreen claims he's never met
Patterson.

277
00:18:36,869 --> 00:18:39,580
But I've someone else to see
so I'll have to cry off lunch.

278
00:18:39,605 --> 00:18:41,782
Oh. Well, all right. Needs must.

279
00:18:59,189 --> 00:19:01,189
Tuesday.

280
00:19:13,013 --> 00:19:16,732
Mr Landesman? Detective Constable
Morse, City Police.

281
00:19:16,757 --> 00:19:19,324
Your office said I might find you
here.

282
00:19:19,349 --> 00:19:22,780
I assume they told you
I'd gone to lunch.

283
00:19:22,805 --> 00:19:25,660
(CHUCKLES) Well, sit you down, man.
Sit you down.

284
00:19:25,685 --> 00:19:27,964
What can I get you?
Nothing, thank you.

285
00:19:27,989 --> 00:19:30,124
Thank you.
On duty, is it?

286
00:19:30,149 --> 00:19:32,572
Oh, well, I'm sure that's to be
admired.

287
00:19:32,597 --> 00:19:34,156
Let me ask you something.

288
00:19:34,181 --> 00:19:37,036
What do you think to motorway
service stations?

289
00:19:37,061 --> 00:19:39,340
That phone's going to ring in
a minute

290
00:19:39,365 --> 00:19:44,380
and I've got to decide whether to
put in for one on the M4 above
Port Talbot.

291
00:19:44,405 --> 00:19:46,828
I couldn't really claim to be
an expert -

292
00:19:46,853 --> 00:19:53,164
The smart young men I pay to know
such things tell me it's the future,
but I'm not so sure.

293
00:19:53,189 --> 00:19:55,189
Do you use them?

294
00:19:55,205 --> 00:19:57,772
I don't have a car.
Ah.

295
00:19:57,797 --> 00:19:59,797
But if you did?

296
00:20:00,965 --> 00:20:04,972
No matter. (CLEARS THROAT)
So... what can I do for you?

297
00:20:04,997 --> 00:20:08,572
I wanted to ask you about a
journalist called Eric Patterson.

298
00:20:08,597 --> 00:20:11,884
You may have met him at the Widows
And Orphans gala.

299
00:20:11,909 --> 00:20:17,644
Oh, I talk to a lot of journalists,
but I... don't recall one bending
my ear that day.

300
00:20:17,669 --> 00:20:19,669
(PHONE RINGS)

301
00:20:19,685 --> 00:20:23,404
Ah. Uh... if there's nothing else
I can help you with...

302
00:20:23,429 --> 00:20:26,286
I'll let you get back to work.
Thank you.

303
00:20:30,197 --> 00:20:32,620
Morse! Good heavens. What are you
doing here?

304
00:20:32,645 --> 00:20:34,492
I've been to see Mr Landesman, sir.

305
00:20:34,517 --> 00:20:38,524
May I introduce Detective Constable
Morse, sir? Assistant Chief
Constable Deare.

306
00:20:38,549 --> 00:20:40,684
Mr Bright and I have been discussing
his paper

307
00:20:40,709 --> 00:20:43,420
on the merger between County and
surrounding forces.

308
00:20:43,445 --> 00:20:46,156
Extraordinary piece of work.

309
00:20:46,181 --> 00:20:48,892
Thames Valley a new beginning.

310
00:20:48,917 --> 00:20:50,764
And an ending.
Quite so.

311
00:20:50,789 --> 00:20:55,084
But er... no progress without change.

312
00:20:55,109 --> 00:20:57,964
Well, don't let us keep you, Morse.

313
00:20:57,989 --> 00:20:59,989
Sir, thank you. Mr Deare.

314
00:21:03,317 --> 00:21:07,756
Sharp young man. Type we could do
with more of.

315
00:21:07,781 --> 00:21:11,068
Wouldn't you say, Reg?
Yes, sir.

316
00:21:11,093 --> 00:21:15,532
That fatal on the railway, you don't
remember seeing him talking to
Alderman Wintergreen

317
00:21:15,557 --> 00:21:17,557
at the Widows And Orphans, do you?

318
00:21:17,573 --> 00:21:19,573
No. Sorry, matey.

319
00:21:21,749 --> 00:21:28,060
All I managed to pick up on the bush
telegraph is that a certain DI is in
for a leg up the greasy.

320
00:21:28,085 --> 00:21:31,228
I wish. No, not Thursday.

321
00:21:31,253 --> 00:21:32,812
Chard.

322
00:21:32,837 --> 00:21:34,837
DCI, if Thames Valley goes through.

323
00:21:34,853 --> 00:21:37,708
In operational control of all plain
clothes.

324
00:21:37,733 --> 00:21:41,308
Oh, the old man won't like that,
answering to the likes of Chard.

325
00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:44,620
It will put his nose right out of...

326
00:21:44,645 --> 00:21:46,780
Loose lips, Constable.

327
00:21:46,805 --> 00:21:51,244
And less of the old, if you don't
mind. Sir.

328
00:21:51,269 --> 00:21:54,268
The kid's gone AWOL again.
Tommy Cork.

329
00:21:54,293 --> 00:21:59,463
From what his mother's saying,
his old man's given him a proper
larruping.

330
00:22:13,445 --> 00:22:15,445
Tommy?

331
00:23:17,879 --> 00:23:20,014
This absconder from Farnleigh?

332
00:23:20,039 --> 00:23:22,039
Looks to be, sir.

333
00:23:41,063 --> 00:23:43,918
Do you think the Cork boy took up
with Aldridge?

334
00:23:43,943 --> 00:23:45,646
Fish and chips for two.

335
00:23:45,671 --> 00:23:48,382
They weren't here yesterday.
Nor was the transistor.

336
00:23:48,407 --> 00:23:50,542
So where is he? Why did he run away?

337
00:23:50,567 --> 00:23:54,430
Maybe he saw something of what
happened to Aldridge. Let's hope
he's still alive.

338
00:23:54,455 --> 00:23:58,462
Better get down to Farnleigh,
see if there's anyone there
who can shed light.

339
00:23:58,487 --> 00:24:01,054
You're wasting your time.
It's already been looked at.

340
00:24:01,079 --> 00:24:03,358
What do you mean,
it's been looked at? By who?

341
00:24:03,383 --> 00:24:06,670
Police. I took 'em for County.
When was this?

342
00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:09,118
Earlier.

343
00:24:09,143 --> 00:24:11,143
What name did they give?

344
00:24:11,159 --> 00:24:15,598
I don't remember offhand.But it
would be in the logbook, presumably?

345
00:24:15,623 --> 00:24:17,623
Yes, presumably.

346
00:24:20,375 --> 00:24:22,375
On your feet, Parker.

347
00:24:25,127 --> 00:24:27,838
What's all this about, then?
Aldridge.

348
00:24:27,863 --> 00:24:29,904
Got himself drowned.
Drowned?

349
00:24:32,327 --> 00:24:34,327
Did he own a transistor, do you know?

350
00:24:34,343 --> 00:24:37,774
Yeah, yeah, he -You should be
in the laundry, shouldn't you?

351
00:24:37,799 --> 00:24:39,799
Get to it, then.

352
00:24:49,895 --> 00:24:52,030
So...

353
00:24:52,055 --> 00:24:55,342
Where are Aldridge's things?
I told you.

354
00:24:55,367 --> 00:24:57,070
Your mob took them.

355
00:24:57,095 --> 00:25:01,246
I'd be grateful if you could check
the entry log as to who that was,
exactly.

356
00:25:01,271 --> 00:25:03,788
I'll find you when I'm finished here.

357
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,976
(AS CLYDE) I told you...
he ain't coming.

358
00:25:41,735 --> 00:25:44,734
What kind of man was Aldridge?
Frightened.

359
00:25:44,759 --> 00:25:46,894
He woke up most nights screaming.

360
00:25:46,919 --> 00:25:49,630
Nervous type. Always fiddling with
his Roman beads.

361
00:25:49,655 --> 00:25:51,214
He was religious?

362
00:25:51,239 --> 00:25:54,238
He didn't go to chapel or bother
the Sky Pilot over much.

363
00:25:54,263 --> 00:25:56,830
It was just this thing
with his beads.

364
00:25:56,855 --> 00:25:59,422
Did he give you any indication he was
going to escape?

365
00:25:59,447 --> 00:26:03,598
(CELL DOOR SLAMS)
I had an idea, since Wednesday.

366
00:26:03,623 --> 00:26:07,630
How's that? He liked me to read him
out the personal columns from the
Oxford Mail.

367
00:26:07,655 --> 00:26:11,086
You know, 'Second-hand ironing
board, one careful owner.'

368
00:26:11,111 --> 00:26:13,822
'Tall, dark stranger would like
to meet similar.'

369
00:26:13,847 --> 00:26:17,134
Well, this one I read out,
George went white as a sheet.

370
00:26:17,159 --> 00:26:20,734
That night he had the terrors bad.
I mean, worse than I ever seen.

371
00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:22,759
Do you remember what it said?

372
00:26:22,775 --> 00:26:27,790
It was just a bunch of letters.
APA something. I don't know.

373
00:26:27,815 --> 00:26:32,110
Are you sure it was Wednesday?
Oh, positive.

374
00:26:32,135 --> 00:26:35,710
Pineapple chunks, see.
It's pineapple on a Wednesday.

375
00:26:35,735 --> 00:26:37,735
Parker!

376
00:26:37,751 --> 00:26:40,132
Running all the way, Mr Wainwright.

377
00:26:50,855 --> 00:26:55,870
My opposite number at County assures
me none of his officers have been
to Farnleigh.

378
00:26:55,895 --> 00:26:59,182
Somebody went in, sir, because
the place has been cleared.

379
00:26:59,207 --> 00:27:02,782
What makes you think they were
County men? Prison officer's
impression, sir.

380
00:27:02,807 --> 00:27:06,526
They'd have had to sign in, wouldn't
they? The signatures were illegible.

381
00:27:06,551 --> 00:27:11,278
Well I have to say Chief Constable
Standish is none too happy
with the perceived slur.

382
00:27:11,303 --> 00:27:13,303
(KNOCK AT DOOR)

383
00:27:13,319 --> 00:27:18,622
Oh, sorry, sir. Assistant Chief
Constable Deare, DS Jakes.

384
00:27:18,647 --> 00:27:22,654
Peter, I believe?
You wanted something?

385
00:27:22,679 --> 00:27:25,246
It's Tommy Cork, sir. We might have
had a sighting.

386
00:27:25,271 --> 00:27:27,550
Hanging around outside
the Empire Theatre.

387
00:27:27,575 --> 00:27:32,590
A runaway, sir. Ten years old.
He may have seen the murder of this
abscondee from Farnleigh.

388
00:27:32,615 --> 00:27:35,038
Oh, I see. The sighting was very
sketchy.

389
00:27:35,063 --> 00:27:38,056
Patrol's been dispatched.
Probably nothing.

390
00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:44,974
Drowned?
Yes.

391
00:27:44,999 --> 00:27:47,566
But that doesn't explain
the rest of it.

392
00:27:47,591 --> 00:27:52,174
Contusions are consistent with his
having taken a sustained beating.

393
00:27:52,199 --> 00:27:54,910
Within an hour or so of his death.

394
00:27:54,935 --> 00:27:59,806
Somebody worked him over.
Rather comprehensively.

395
00:27:59,831 --> 00:28:04,253
Fractured ribs, ruptured spleen,
all while his hands were bound.

396
00:28:06,455 --> 00:28:12,190
Can you put a time to it? An hour
or two either side of midnight.

397
00:28:12,215 --> 00:28:17,806
A41. The A41, presumably. Not that
it comes anywhere near Oxford.

398
00:28:17,831 --> 00:28:19,831
So where's he got the coat?

399
00:28:19,847 --> 00:28:23,710
His coat? What about it?
It's not standard prison issue.

400
00:28:23,735 --> 00:28:26,446
Stolen.
Thompson and Beard. Savile Row.

401
00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:30,190
They also had a branch in The Broad,
if memory serves.

402
00:28:30,215 --> 00:28:32,392
That closed when Adam was a boy.

403
00:28:34,823 --> 00:28:38,830
What's that? A laundry tag?
Dry-cleaning more likely.

404
00:28:38,855 --> 00:28:41,508
See if you can get a local match.
Sir.

405
00:28:43,751 --> 00:28:45,751
(PHONE RINGING)

406
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:58,279
Sir?

407
00:28:59,735 --> 00:29:04,293
What's this? The small ad in the
Mail that spooked George Aldridge.

408
00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:11,806
A41. That's the same as the tattoo
on Aldridge's arm.
Who placed the ad?

409
00:29:11,831 --> 00:29:14,974
The Mail are digging it out,
but, going through his record,

410
00:29:14,999 --> 00:29:17,134
Aldridge spent some time at
Blenheim Vale,

411
00:29:17,159 --> 00:29:19,159
a residential home for wayward boys.

412
00:29:19,175 --> 00:29:21,175
Closed in '55, when Boxgrove opened.

413
00:29:21,191 --> 00:29:24,190
The Blenheim Vale that's being
redeveloped as the new HQ?

414
00:29:24,215 --> 00:29:27,070
Miss Frazil said that journalist,
Eric Patterson,

415
00:29:27,095 --> 00:29:31,390
wanted to pick her brains about
Landesman Construction.

416
00:29:31,415 --> 00:29:35,134
Two men die within days of each other
in suspicious circumstances,

417
00:29:35,159 --> 00:29:37,948
each with a connection
to Blenheim Vale.

418
00:29:50,135 --> 00:29:52,135
(FOOTSTEPS ECHO)

419
00:30:41,687 --> 00:30:43,687
(RATTLING)

420
00:30:59,975 --> 00:31:01,534
Hello.

421
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:03,559
Get away from me.

422
00:31:03,575 --> 00:31:05,575
Don't be alarmed. I'm a policeman.

423
00:31:05,591 --> 00:31:10,318
I'm Detective Constable Morse,
City Police.

424
00:31:10,343 --> 00:31:15,790
What are you doing here?
I'm just having a look around. You?

425
00:31:15,815 --> 00:31:19,678
I live about a mile through
the woods. Am I in trouble?

426
00:31:19,703 --> 00:31:21,550
Not with me.

427
00:31:21,575 --> 00:31:23,575
I know it's trespass, I just...

428
00:31:23,591 --> 00:31:26,302
It just feels more like a walk
in the woods.

429
00:31:26,327 --> 00:31:28,327
I can go, then?

430
00:31:50,231 --> 00:31:52,231
What's the word on Tommy Cork?

431
00:31:52,247 --> 00:31:54,968
Uniform are scouring the street,
but...

432
00:31:57,431 --> 00:32:01,438
Someone cleared out George Aldridge's
cell, so if it wasn't County...

433
00:32:01,463 --> 00:32:03,463
Who knows?

434
00:32:03,479 --> 00:32:08,206
When I started, the good blokes
all wore blue.

435
00:32:08,231 --> 00:32:11,518
Maybe Mr Bright's right. Time to go.

436
00:32:11,543 --> 00:32:15,262
'Streamlining', he called it,
this merger.

437
00:32:15,287 --> 00:32:18,574
They'll be looking to make way
for a bit of new blood.

438
00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:21,598
A lump sum if you go voluntary.

439
00:32:21,623 --> 00:32:23,623
Retirement?

440
00:32:24,935 --> 00:32:27,214
New station? New force?

441
00:32:27,239 --> 00:32:30,572
I'm too set in my ways to start
over. Every dog.

442
00:32:34,727 --> 00:32:36,727
I'd see you were looked to.

443
00:32:36,743 --> 00:32:40,750
Find someone to take you on, rattle
you through your Sergeant's.

444
00:32:40,775 --> 00:32:44,350
McNutt maybe? McNutt's good.

445
00:32:44,375 --> 00:32:46,375
One for the road?

446
00:32:47,975 --> 00:32:51,104
I didn't stay in Oxford to work
under McNutt.

447
00:33:10,295 --> 00:33:13,582
WOMAN: 'They were together
in the armchair by this time

448
00:33:13,607 --> 00:33:18,190
and Wendy plied him with more
questions.'

449
00:33:18,215 --> 00:33:23,230
'If you don't live in Kensington
Gardens now...' 'Sometimes I do
still.'

450
00:33:23,255 --> 00:33:26,830
'But where do you live mostly now?'

451
00:33:26,855 --> 00:33:29,440
'With the Lost Boys.'
'Who are they?'

452
00:33:32,327 --> 00:33:36,334
'They are the children who fall out
of their perambulators

453
00:33:36,359 --> 00:33:40,798
when the nurse is looking
the other way.

454
00:33:40,823 --> 00:33:44,254
If they are not claimed
in seven days,

455
00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:48,574
they are sent far away to
the Never Land to defray expenses.'

456
00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:52,894
'I am Captain.'
'What fun it must be.'

457
00:33:52,919 --> 00:33:56,926
'Yes, ' said cunning Peter,
'but we are rather lonely.'

458
00:33:56,951 --> 00:34:01,102
'You see we have no female
companionship.'

459
00:34:01,127 --> 00:34:03,406
'Are none of the others girls?'

460
00:34:03,431 --> 00:34:10,462
'Oh, no. Girls, you know, are much
too clever to fall out of their
prams.'

461
00:34:10,487 --> 00:34:12,487
(TICKING)

462
00:34:20,567 --> 00:34:22,414
(KNOCKING)

463
00:34:22,439 --> 00:34:24,574
Good morning, sir.
Good morning, Angela.

464
00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:28,174
Could you check how busy my diary's
looking today? Of course.

465
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,630
I've the offer of nine holes with
Joe Landesman and another pair,

466
00:34:31,655 --> 00:34:34,376
and, well, I wanted to give him
a time.

467
00:34:37,415 --> 00:34:40,846
Give you a lift?
No. Thank you.

468
00:34:40,871 --> 00:34:42,871
Have a good day.

469
00:34:42,887 --> 00:34:47,470
What is it? You weren't yourself
last night. Has something happened?

470
00:34:47,495 --> 00:34:50,494
Well, it's a few things.

471
00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:55,822
Thursday, really. He's talking about
early retirement.

472
00:34:55,847 --> 00:34:57,847
It's got me thinking.

473
00:34:57,863 --> 00:35:01,438
What if I wasn't a policeman
any more?

474
00:35:01,463 --> 00:35:03,463
What would you do instead?

475
00:35:03,479 --> 00:35:05,479
I don't know. Teacher, maybe.

476
00:35:08,663 --> 00:35:11,806
We could go abroad.
We?

477
00:35:11,831 --> 00:35:13,831
Why not? People do.

478
00:35:15,287 --> 00:35:17,134
Couples.

479
00:35:17,159 --> 00:35:19,159
I'm gonna be late.

480
00:35:25,943 --> 00:35:28,942
'Sir, I would be grateful if you
would place this advertisement

481
00:35:28,967 --> 00:35:32,686
in the appropriate section of your
newspaper on Wednesday 30th November.

482
00:35:32,711 --> 00:35:36,574
Message as follows: A.P.A.D. A41.'

483
00:35:36,599 --> 00:35:40,606
Arrived Tuesday, second post.
Paid for in cash, I'm afraid.

484
00:35:40,631 --> 00:35:42,766
No signature.But it's been franked.

485
00:35:42,791 --> 00:35:46,942
Post office should be able to tell
you who holds the franking licence.

486
00:35:46,967 --> 00:35:50,110
Is there any news on Eric?
Or of the lad Tommy Cork?

487
00:35:50,135 --> 00:35:53,134
None as yet, I'm afraid.

488
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:55,726
Anything in the archive
on Blenheim Vale?

489
00:35:55,751 --> 00:36:00,046
Nothing that springs to mind.
It's been shut, what, ten years?11.

490
00:36:00,071 --> 00:36:05,230
There was a... What was it? Vague
recollection of a suicide a couple
of years after it closed.

491
00:36:05,255 --> 00:36:08,686
A young man hanged himself.
You wouldn't remember a name?

492
00:36:08,711 --> 00:36:10,990
I'll have a look,
send on what we've got.

493
00:36:11,015 --> 00:36:14,446
You'd probably be quicker getting on
to County. They looked at it.

494
00:36:14,471 --> 00:36:18,910
There was nothing there. I covered
the inquest. It was open and shut.
Toodle-oo.

495
00:36:18,935 --> 00:36:20,935
Thank you, Miss Frazil.

496
00:36:23,255 --> 00:36:26,254
I wonder if it's worth having another
go at Landesman.

497
00:36:26,279 --> 00:36:29,710
You already braced him over
Patterson.Yes, but not George
Aldridge.

498
00:36:29,735 --> 00:36:33,886
All right. I'm going to dig out DI
Church see if he can shed any light
on the County angle.

499
00:36:33,911 --> 00:36:39,070
Compare notes down the watering
hole. Yes, sir.

500
00:36:39,095 --> 00:36:44,110
Morse putting it about we cleared
Aldridge's cell has not won him
any friends at County.

501
00:36:44,135 --> 00:36:46,135
I can promise you.
Anything in it?

502
00:36:46,151 --> 00:36:48,151
Nothing that I've heard.

503
00:36:48,167 --> 00:36:51,742
What about Blenheim Vale?
What, the new HQ?

504
00:36:51,767 --> 00:36:56,062
Word is a few palms got nicely
greased up at the Council getting
that through.

505
00:36:56,087 --> 00:37:00,094
Like whose, for instance? Like
Wintergreen, for one.Wintergreen?

506
00:37:00,119 --> 00:37:04,126
Town Hall graft. Came in with
the Ark, didn't it?

507
00:37:04,151 --> 00:37:07,150
What about before that, when it was
a boys' school?

508
00:37:07,175 --> 00:37:11,470
It wasn't my patch then. I didn't
come across it till after it had
closed.

509
00:37:11,495 --> 00:37:16,078
I was told there was a lad hanged
himself eight or nine years back.

510
00:37:16,103 --> 00:37:18,103
Might have done.

511
00:37:18,119 --> 00:37:22,414
Couldn't have a dig around for us,
could you? Oh, I don't know, Fred.

512
00:37:22,439 --> 00:37:26,014
Some things in our game -
sleeping dogs.

513
00:37:26,039 --> 00:37:27,742
What's that mean?

514
00:37:27,767 --> 00:37:30,334
It means I'm taking a risk
even talking to you.

515
00:37:30,359 --> 00:37:32,206
Then why did you agree to meet?

516
00:37:32,231 --> 00:37:35,950
Cos there's nothing they can do
to me. I'm putting my papers in.

517
00:37:35,975 --> 00:37:39,262
This time next month, it will be
Inspector Church no longer.

518
00:37:39,287 --> 00:37:42,142
Plain old Mr Church.

519
00:37:42,167 --> 00:37:45,598
I've a feeling
I won't mind that one bit.

520
00:37:45,623 --> 00:37:47,936
It's all change, Fred. Time to go.

521
00:37:50,519 --> 00:37:54,382
If you do hear anything on
Aldridge... He's dead.

522
00:37:54,407 --> 00:37:56,542
Bury him. Forget him.

523
00:37:56,567 --> 00:37:58,567
For your own sake.

524
00:38:05,495 --> 00:38:08,494
Mr Landesman?
Detective Constable...

525
00:38:08,519 --> 00:38:10,222
Morse.

526
00:38:10,247 --> 00:38:15,550
You know Chief Constable Standish,
I take it? And Detective Inspector
Chard?

527
00:38:15,575 --> 00:38:18,430
Detective Constable,
what's this about?

528
00:38:18,455 --> 00:38:23,614
It's pursuant to an enquiry into
the murder of George Aldridge, sir.

529
00:38:23,639 --> 00:38:27,790
He's the escapee from Farnleigh
Open Prison.

530
00:38:27,815 --> 00:38:30,670
Did you know him, Mr Landesman?

531
00:38:30,695 --> 00:38:35,854
I'm afraid, as a rule, I don't seek
the society of habitual criminals.
Present company...

532
00:38:35,879 --> 00:38:37,879
(LAUGHTER)

533
00:38:38,615 --> 00:38:42,622
He was at Blenheim Vale in the late
'40s, early '50s.

534
00:38:42,647 --> 00:38:45,934
Constable, I buy, sell and develop
properties.

535
00:38:45,959 --> 00:38:50,254
Profit and loss. That's as far as
my interest extends.

536
00:38:50,279 --> 00:38:57,166
The history of a place, who lived
there, I'm afraid that's... that's
none of my business.

537
00:38:57,191 --> 00:39:00,334
Unless there was anything else
you wanted to ask, Constable?

538
00:39:00,359 --> 00:39:03,790
No, Chief Constable Standish,
DI Chard.

539
00:39:03,815 --> 00:39:05,950
That was all, sir.

540
00:39:05,975 --> 00:39:09,262
I'm sorry to have interrupted
your game.

541
00:39:09,287 --> 00:39:11,422
Do I detect a note of rebuke?

542
00:39:11,447 --> 00:39:13,582
You want to watch that, Rupe.

543
00:39:13,607 --> 00:39:16,396
Come on, Gerry.
He's only doing his job.

544
00:39:36,236 --> 00:39:39,091
He will be back before five.

545
00:39:39,116 --> 00:39:41,971
May I give him a message?

546
00:39:41,996 --> 00:39:43,996
Thank you.

547
00:39:44,732 --> 00:39:48,307
Do excuse me, sir. Nicholas Myers,
junior clerk.

548
00:39:48,332 --> 00:39:52,051
How may I be of service? Detective
Constable Morse. City Police.

549
00:39:52,076 --> 00:39:56,083
A letter was sent from this office,
a week ago last Monday,
to the Oxford Mail.

550
00:39:56,108 --> 00:39:58,108
An advert for the personal columns.

551
00:39:58,124 --> 00:40:00,979
I was wondering if you could shed
any light on that.

552
00:40:01,004 --> 00:40:03,427
In what regard, sir?

553
00:40:03,452 --> 00:40:07,603
Well, I'm... looking to find out
who wrote the letter.

554
00:40:07,628 --> 00:40:12,787
Ah. I see. Then I regret I am unable
to be of any assistance.

555
00:40:12,812 --> 00:40:15,667
I merely post and frank.

556
00:40:15,692 --> 00:40:20,131
Correspondence is taken care of
by the partners' secretaries.

557
00:40:20,156 --> 00:40:24,595
Of course, if it relates to a
client, it would be covered by legal
confidentiality.

558
00:40:24,620 --> 00:40:27,763
That doesn't seem to be the case.
This was a private matter.

559
00:40:27,788 --> 00:40:29,491
Oh, I see.

560
00:40:29,516 --> 00:40:34,531
Well, I can ask the partners,
of course, sir.

561
00:40:34,556 --> 00:40:36,115
Well...

562
00:40:36,140 --> 00:40:39,405
Thank you for your assistance.
Not at all, sir.

563
00:40:42,332 --> 00:40:45,475
You wouldn't happen to know
a George Aldridge?

564
00:40:45,500 --> 00:40:49,651
No. That's not a name with which
I'm familiar.

565
00:40:49,676 --> 00:40:51,676
Well... thank you.

566
00:40:55,004 --> 00:40:59,731
You see, Alderman, the way things
stand, we've got you rumoured to be
on a nice little earner

567
00:40:59,756 --> 00:41:02,611
for making sure things went
Landesman's way at Blenheim Vale.

568
00:41:02,636 --> 00:41:06,211
And now a journalist with an
interest in Landesman has turned up
dead,

569
00:41:06,236 --> 00:41:11,683
a journalist last seen talking to
you at the Widows And Orphans on
Saturday.

570
00:41:11,708 --> 00:41:15,139
Anything you'd like to tell me
about that?

571
00:41:15,164 --> 00:41:18,451
Well, that is one heck of a story,
I grant you.

572
00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:23,923
But, sadly, in politics, one
attracts that sort of tittle-tattle
as a matter of course.

573
00:41:23,948 --> 00:41:26,659
I'm still not exactly sure what is
being alleged.

574
00:41:26,684 --> 00:41:28,819
Well, you can see how it looks.

575
00:41:28,844 --> 00:41:33,571
In my book, a thing walks like
a duck and talks like a duck...

576
00:41:33,596 --> 00:41:36,019
You deny any impropriety?
Naturally.

577
00:41:36,044 --> 00:41:40,483
Where did you come across this
particular little gem, if you don't
mind me asking?

578
00:41:40,508 --> 00:41:42,643
I'm just off then, Mr Wintergreen.
Oh.

579
00:41:42,668 --> 00:41:44,845
Good night, Angela.
Good night.

580
00:41:49,292 --> 00:41:52,897
I am a man of considerable private
means, Inspector.

581
00:41:54,908 --> 00:42:00,643
But I'll tell you what I put a price
on far beyond rubies.

582
00:42:00,668 --> 00:42:02,515
My good name.

583
00:42:02,540 --> 00:42:05,251
Now, you say I would put this
at risk.

584
00:42:05,276 --> 00:42:06,979
For what?

585
00:42:07,004 --> 00:42:10,003
A pocketful of change?

586
00:42:10,028 --> 00:42:12,028
(CHUCKLES) Really.

587
00:42:20,396 --> 00:42:22,675
Sir. How did you make out with
Wintergreen?

588
00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:25,699
Oh, he's a slippery customer,
but that's hardly...

589
00:42:25,724 --> 00:42:29,011
What are you doing with those? Those
should be in the exhibits desk.

590
00:42:29,036 --> 00:42:32,179
With things going missing, I thought
they'd be safer in my pocket.

591
00:42:32,204 --> 00:42:34,204
Besides, I think I've got something.
What?

592
00:42:34,220 --> 00:42:36,931
Well, the beads. It's not just
a random arrangement.

593
00:42:36,956 --> 00:42:41,539
It's a code. Radioteletype,
to be specific. Morse?

594
00:42:41,564 --> 00:42:44,275
Black for dots. White for the dashes.

595
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:46,003
Red to mark the word breaks.

596
00:42:46,028 --> 00:42:48,451
Spells out, 'All for one,
and one for all.'

597
00:42:48,476 --> 00:42:51,619
The Three Musketeers.

598
00:42:51,644 --> 00:42:55,939
That's what the tattoo meant on
George Aldridge's arm.
A41. All for one.

599
00:42:55,964 --> 00:42:58,675
What about the rest of it?
A.P.A.D., wasn't it?

600
00:42:58,700 --> 00:43:01,987
Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and
D'Artagnan, presumably.

601
00:43:02,012 --> 00:43:04,291
So which one was George Aldridge?

602
00:43:04,316 --> 00:43:06,883
More to the point,
who are the other three?

603
00:43:06,908 --> 00:43:08,908
(RINGS)

604
00:43:10,220 --> 00:43:13,651
Hello.'Nick? It's Henry.
Meet me tonight?'

605
00:43:13,676 --> 00:43:15,676
Yes.
'See you then.'

606
00:43:26,204 --> 00:43:29,347
(AS CLYDE) Where are you going?

607
00:43:29,372 --> 00:43:31,372
You know where I'm going.

608
00:43:31,388 --> 00:43:33,388
(AS CLYDE) Can I come, too?

609
00:43:35,564 --> 00:43:37,564
No.

610
00:43:38,444 --> 00:43:41,437
(AS CLYDE) Don't do anything
I wouldn't do!

611
00:44:16,460 --> 00:44:19,453
Who found him? His secretary.
Mrs McGarrett.

612
00:44:21,500 --> 00:44:23,059
Dr DeBryn.

613
00:44:23,084 --> 00:44:26,227
Good God, it's true, then.

614
00:44:26,252 --> 00:44:28,819
We were at Division when we heard.
Time?

615
00:44:28,844 --> 00:44:32,707
Some time between ten last night
and one o'clock this morning.

616
00:44:32,732 --> 00:44:34,732
Oh, Jesus.

617
00:44:34,748 --> 00:44:38,035
You all right? Yes, sir.

618
00:44:38,060 --> 00:44:41,923
You don't look it.
Something I ate.

619
00:44:41,948 --> 00:44:45,811
Statements and particulars from
anyone who may have seen anything.

620
00:44:45,836 --> 00:44:49,411
Anyone working late. Councillors,
cleaners. Right, sir.Sir.

621
00:44:49,436 --> 00:44:51,715
'Had you worked long
for the Alderman?'

622
00:44:51,740 --> 00:44:55,027
Two years.What do you make
to his wife?

623
00:44:55,052 --> 00:44:58,771
She's always been perfectly charming
towards me.

624
00:44:58,796 --> 00:45:00,796
Are there any children?
No.

625
00:45:03,116 --> 00:45:05,251
When did you see him last?

626
00:45:05,276 --> 00:45:08,707
Yesterday evening, at 5:30,
when I finished work.

627
00:45:08,732 --> 00:45:11,443
How did he seem?

628
00:45:11,468 --> 00:45:13,891
His normal self. Busy.

629
00:45:13,916 --> 00:45:17,203
Never too busy for a quick word
and a cheerio.

630
00:45:17,228 --> 00:45:20,629
And, then, after work, you went
where? Um... Home.

631
00:45:23,708 --> 00:45:27,571
Your husband will confirm that?
My father.

632
00:45:27,596 --> 00:45:31,171
We share a house together.
I'm widowed these three years.

633
00:45:31,196 --> 00:45:33,196
Oh, I'm sorry.
Thank you.

634
00:45:35,084 --> 00:45:37,084
Thank you.

635
00:45:53,660 --> 00:45:55,660
Morse. A moment?

636
00:45:59,996 --> 00:46:03,283
This... This assertion of yours
that um...

637
00:46:03,308 --> 00:46:07,891
officers may have been in
to Farnleigh and cleared George
Aldridge's cell.

638
00:46:07,916 --> 00:46:10,339
I made some discreet enquiries
of my own.

639
00:46:10,364 --> 00:46:12,931
You think there's something untoward
at County?

640
00:46:12,956 --> 00:46:15,091
The rot goes deeper and wider
than that.

641
00:46:15,116 --> 00:46:17,116
Even to your own station.

642
00:46:17,132 --> 00:46:21,139
You've raised doubts this year
yourself, over evidence going
missing.

643
00:46:21,164 --> 00:46:23,011
Yes. I have, sir.

644
00:46:23,036 --> 00:46:26,467
There was a notebook pertaining
to the Frida Yelland case.

645
00:46:26,492 --> 00:46:30,787
And a ring, a Masonic ring, connected
to Blythe Mount, the school out at
Slepe.

646
00:46:30,812 --> 00:46:32,812
Dark forces, Morse.

647
00:46:32,828 --> 00:46:35,107
Which must be dragged into
the light.

648
00:46:35,132 --> 00:46:38,563
Torn out, root and branch.

649
00:46:38,588 --> 00:46:40,588
Bad apples?

650
00:46:42,764 --> 00:46:45,619
The Commissioner's asked me to get
to the bottom of it,

651
00:46:45,644 --> 00:46:48,355
but I need two men I can trust
to do the legwork.

652
00:46:48,380 --> 00:46:49,939
We've a chance here.

653
00:46:49,964 --> 00:46:52,819
A real chance. To clean the stables
once and for all.

654
00:46:52,844 --> 00:46:55,699
Make Thames Valley something worth
fighting for.

655
00:46:55,724 --> 00:46:59,299
Sir, do you think it's connected to
the death of Alderman Wintergreen

656
00:46:59,324 --> 00:47:01,459
or the disappearance of Tommy Cork?

657
00:47:01,484 --> 00:47:04,483
Can't say it chimes with my
intelligence, though it's possible.

658
00:47:04,508 --> 00:47:08,371
Whatever comes your way in the
Aldridge case, you report to me
and Division.

659
00:47:08,396 --> 00:47:10,396
Any time, night or day.

660
00:47:10,412 --> 00:47:12,793
We can break them. The three of us.

661
00:47:16,892 --> 00:47:18,892
(BIRDSONG)

662
00:47:24,236 --> 00:47:27,379
Did he have any enemies
that you can think of?

663
00:47:27,404 --> 00:47:29,539
Gerry was in local government.

664
00:47:29,564 --> 00:47:33,139
Rivalries, perhaps, but nothing
to warrant something like this.

665
00:47:33,164 --> 00:47:35,299
He had a very winning personality.

666
00:47:35,324 --> 00:47:39,187
But... with the public?
There was the odd crank, of course.

667
00:47:39,212 --> 00:47:42,211
'The Green Ink Brigade',
Gerald called them.

668
00:47:42,236 --> 00:47:45,667
Though, for the most part,
people adored him.

669
00:47:45,692 --> 00:47:47,692
He played the organ, you know.

670
00:47:47,708 --> 00:47:49,708
And the piano.

671
00:47:50,732 --> 00:47:52,732
People loved to hear him.

672
00:47:52,748 --> 00:47:54,748
This... Green Ink Brigade...

673
00:47:56,636 --> 00:47:59,923
..were there ever any threats made
against him?

674
00:47:59,948 --> 00:48:02,659
Neither more nor less than his
colleagues received.

675
00:48:02,684 --> 00:48:04,531
Nonsense most of it.

676
00:48:04,556 --> 00:48:08,851
People exercised about roads or
housing.

677
00:48:08,876 --> 00:48:12,019
Did he ever mention the name
George Aldridge to you?

678
00:48:12,044 --> 00:48:14,899
It's not a name with which
I'm familiar.

679
00:48:14,924 --> 00:48:20,083
All I can tell you is my husband's
life was one lived beyond reproach.

680
00:48:20,108 --> 00:48:22,108
Why anyone would...

681
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:25,420
It's past fathoming.

682
00:48:31,916 --> 00:48:35,059
What do you reckon to this business
with Deare?

683
00:48:35,084 --> 00:48:39,379
Well, something rotten's happening at
County. And the Town Hall, too.

684
00:48:39,404 --> 00:48:41,404
Look, I'd better report to Bright.

685
00:48:41,420 --> 00:48:44,563
See if you can get a statement off
Landesman and meet me here.

686
00:48:44,588 --> 00:48:46,867
Why? Do you think Landesman's
involved?

687
00:48:46,892 --> 00:48:50,467
If what Church says about
backhanders holds water, who knows?

688
00:48:50,492 --> 00:48:52,771
Maybe they had a falling out
over spoils.

689
00:48:52,796 --> 00:48:55,507
Both Wintergreen and Landesdown were
playing golf

690
00:48:55,532 --> 00:48:57,811
with DI Chard and Chief Constable
Standish.

691
00:48:57,836 --> 00:49:01,123
Deare said it went deeper and wider
than we knew.

692
00:49:01,148 --> 00:49:03,148
What if it goes higher, too?

693
00:49:03,164 --> 00:49:05,477
Then you'd better mind how you go.

694
00:49:09,932 --> 00:49:12,787
You're here about Gerry.
What happened to him?

695
00:49:12,812 --> 00:49:14,947
Beyond he was murdered, we can't say.

696
00:49:14,972 --> 00:49:16,819
You were close, I understand.

697
00:49:16,844 --> 00:49:19,987
Well, we'd certainly known
one another many years.

698
00:49:20,012 --> 00:49:22,291
Gerry was a man of exceptional
qualities.

699
00:49:22,316 --> 00:49:24,019
Such as?

700
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:27,619
He had... Well, it's... often
overused,

701
00:49:27,644 --> 00:49:29,779
but Gerry had it.

702
00:49:29,804 --> 00:49:33,379
You know, the um... popular touch.

703
00:49:33,404 --> 00:49:35,404
He really did.

704
00:49:35,420 --> 00:49:38,419
I can't tell you how many times
I've been with him,

705
00:49:38,444 --> 00:49:41,299
in the street or at some function
or other,

706
00:49:41,324 --> 00:49:44,899
everyone wanted to talk to Gerry.

707
00:49:44,924 --> 00:49:48,643
And he was very good with that,
very generous with his time.

708
00:49:48,668 --> 00:49:52,531
Money, too, of course.
What about enemies?

709
00:49:52,556 --> 00:49:54,979
None that come to mind.

710
00:49:55,004 --> 00:49:58,291
I'll need an account of your
whereabouts yesterday evening.

711
00:49:58,316 --> 00:50:01,315
I was working late at the office,
alone.

712
00:50:01,340 --> 00:50:03,763
Will anyone vouch for you?

713
00:50:03,788 --> 00:50:06,101
'Alone' would seem to suggest not.

714
00:50:19,340 --> 00:50:21,340
(TRAIN PASSING IN BACKGROUND)

715
00:50:54,764 --> 00:50:56,764
Sir.

716
00:50:57,788 --> 00:51:01,075
Sir. There's an account in this
punishment book of an attempted arson

717
00:51:01,100 --> 00:51:03,667
George Aldridge and five other boys
committed there.

718
00:51:03,692 --> 00:51:06,115
One of his co-accused was
Ben Topling.Who?

719
00:51:06,140 --> 00:51:07,411
Him.

720
00:51:07,436 --> 00:51:12,307
It's the same that was on the wall of
Aldridge's cell.

721
00:51:12,332 --> 00:51:15,043
Shan't keep you.

722
00:51:15,068 --> 00:51:18,067
There's no rush.

723
00:51:18,092 --> 00:51:21,811
Have to say, it's very impressive.

724
00:51:21,836 --> 00:51:25,123
How do you do it?
Practise till your throat bleeds.

725
00:51:25,148 --> 00:51:28,579
I had a speech impediment at school
and the man treating me...

726
00:51:28,604 --> 00:51:30,604
Don't touch him!

727
00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:34,483
He doesn't... Sorry. I don't mean
to be rude, but...

728
00:51:34,508 --> 00:51:36,508
the mechanism is delicate.

729
00:51:38,684 --> 00:51:40,861
Sorry. What did you want to ask?

730
00:51:44,876 --> 00:51:49,459
You attended Blenheim Vale for
several years in the early '50s.

731
00:51:49,484 --> 00:51:51,484
Is that right?

732
00:51:52,508 --> 00:51:54,931
You are Benjamin...

733
00:51:54,956 --> 00:51:57,677
Arnold Topling? Date of birth
23/06/38?

734
00:52:00,284 --> 00:52:03,571
You got the wrong man, copper!
You'll never take me alive! See?

735
00:52:03,596 --> 00:52:05,875
This is a serious investigation,
Mr Topling.

736
00:52:05,900 --> 00:52:08,755
It's no laughing matter.
No, of course. I um...

737
00:52:08,780 --> 00:52:11,347
Sorry. Nervous habit.

738
00:52:11,372 --> 00:52:16,099
You've got nothing to be nervous
about... unless you've done
something wrong.

739
00:52:16,124 --> 00:52:17,827
I haven't.
Liar!

740
00:52:17,852 --> 00:52:20,707
We can continue this down
the station, if you'd prefer.

741
00:52:20,732 --> 00:52:22,435
Just the three of us.
It's fine.

742
00:52:22,460 --> 00:52:25,603
Clyde, please... Please...

743
00:52:25,628 --> 00:52:28,771
All right, already.
Not another word.

744
00:52:28,796 --> 00:52:31,651
Please, um... ask me what you like.

745
00:52:31,676 --> 00:52:33,676
My lips are sealed.

746
00:52:35,564 --> 00:52:37,564
Quiet as the grave.

747
00:52:41,324 --> 00:52:45,619
Our records show that you were at
Blenheim Vale at the same time as
George Aldridge.

748
00:52:45,644 --> 00:52:47,644
Ah... not that I remember.

749
00:52:49,388 --> 00:52:52,531
He had a poster for the show
on his wall.

750
00:52:52,556 --> 00:52:54,979
Why might that be?
What's the matter, Benny Boy?

751
00:52:55,004 --> 00:52:57,139
Cat got your t-t-t-tongue?

752
00:52:57,164 --> 00:53:00,019
Uh... it's a popular... show.

753
00:53:00,044 --> 00:53:04,483
You think that's the only reason?
I can't say.That's not good enough.

754
00:53:04,508 --> 00:53:06,508
George Aldridge was murdered

755
00:53:06,524 --> 00:53:09,811
and we've a boy missing,
who may have seen something.

756
00:53:09,836 --> 00:53:12,835
A boy? Tommy Cork.
He's ten years old.

757
00:53:12,860 --> 00:53:15,859
If whoever did for Aldridge knows
the child was a witness,

758
00:53:15,884 --> 00:53:17,731
he could be in mortal danger.

759
00:53:17,756 --> 00:53:22,483
If you know anything at all...
I can't... say.

760
00:53:22,508 --> 00:53:24,508
Mr Topling?

761
00:53:26,108 --> 00:53:28,531
Mr Topling!
Leave him alone!

762
00:53:28,556 --> 00:53:30,403
He's telling the truth.

763
00:53:30,428 --> 00:53:33,427
He's scared for his life.
Can't you see that?

764
00:53:33,452 --> 00:53:36,883
Scared of what?
Not 'what', dummy. Who.

765
00:53:36,908 --> 00:53:41,779
There's things in that haunted maze
of a mind he can't admit.

766
00:53:41,804 --> 00:53:43,651
Not even to himself.

767
00:53:43,676 --> 00:53:46,963
When he says he can't say,
he means just that.

768
00:53:46,988 --> 00:53:48,988
He can't say.

769
00:53:52,316 --> 00:53:54,316
But I can.

770
00:53:56,060 --> 00:54:00,787
If you two are on the level and you
really wanna know about Blenheim
Vale,

771
00:54:00,812 --> 00:54:02,812
ask Doc Fairbridge.

772
00:54:27,750 --> 00:54:30,461
Detective Constable Morse.
Mrs McGarrett.

773
00:54:30,486 --> 00:54:32,621
I'm sorry, madam.
There must be some mistake.

774
00:54:32,646 --> 00:54:35,357
We're looking for Dr Fairbridge.

775
00:54:35,382 --> 00:54:38,307
That'll be Dad.
Would you like to come in?

776
00:54:41,142 --> 00:54:44,141
Blenheim Vale was only on my list
for a few years.

777
00:54:44,166 --> 00:54:46,166
From...'51 to about '55.

778
00:54:48,054 --> 00:54:49,901
When it closed?

779
00:54:49,926 --> 00:54:53,789
We lived off the Woodstock Road,
adjacent to the grounds.

780
00:54:53,814 --> 00:54:57,533
What do you think he meant by,
'Ask Doc Fairbridge'?

781
00:54:57,558 --> 00:54:59,261
I've no idea.

782
00:54:59,286 --> 00:55:03,581
Truly. There's nothing to tell.
It was just a run-of-the-mill
establishment.

783
00:55:03,606 --> 00:55:06,029
I looked to any medical concerns
the boys had.

784
00:55:06,054 --> 00:55:07,757
Vaccinations and so forth.

785
00:55:07,782 --> 00:55:10,061
Mumps, measles, whooping-cough.

786
00:55:10,086 --> 00:55:14,669
And, of course, all the usual cuts,
bumps and bruises.

787
00:55:14,694 --> 00:55:17,837
Do you remember a George Aldridge?

788
00:55:17,862 --> 00:55:19,709
I'm afraid not.

789
00:55:19,734 --> 00:55:23,741
Yes, you do, Dad. He used to come
over the fence and play with us,
sometimes.

790
00:55:23,766 --> 00:55:25,766
Did he?

791
00:55:26,358 --> 00:55:28,358
I'll have to take your word for it.

792
00:55:28,374 --> 00:55:30,797
But for the life of me,
I can't picture him.

793
00:55:30,822 --> 00:55:32,957
(PHONE RINGS)

794
00:55:32,982 --> 00:55:34,982
I'm on call. Excuse me.

795
00:55:37,878 --> 00:55:40,589
I'm sure we've a photograph of him
somewhere.

796
00:55:40,614 --> 00:55:42,893
I could dig it out,
if that'd be useful.

797
00:55:42,918 --> 00:55:45,053
If it wouldn't be too much trouble.

798
00:55:45,078 --> 00:55:47,078
I can't guarantee that.

799
00:55:47,094 --> 00:55:50,767
I'll certainly let you know as soon
as I've found it.

800
00:55:56,022 --> 00:55:58,403
Thank you very much, Mrs McGarrett.

801
00:56:18,630 --> 00:56:20,477
Did you mean it? Teaching?

802
00:56:20,502 --> 00:56:22,781
Packing it all in, going abroad?

803
00:56:22,806 --> 00:56:24,221
Yes.

804
00:56:24,246 --> 00:56:29,837
It's just... you say things, and some
times you sound like you mean them,
and others, like...

805
00:56:29,862 --> 00:56:34,157
Like when I've got two, maybe three,
murders and a missing child to think
about?

806
00:56:34,182 --> 00:56:37,901
I just don't want you to think
I'm making you do anything
you don't want to.

807
00:56:37,926 --> 00:56:40,781
I know. I don't.

808
00:56:40,806 --> 00:56:43,949
You really want to leave?
Yes.

809
00:56:43,974 --> 00:56:45,974
OK. Just not on my account.

810
00:56:48,006 --> 00:56:50,006
No, I'll put my papers in, I promise.

811
00:56:50,022 --> 00:56:53,491
As soon as it's over. When the
hurly-burly's done.

812
00:56:58,086 --> 00:57:01,085
Maybe we could talk about it
tonight.

813
00:57:01,110 --> 00:57:02,525
Again?

814
00:57:02,550 --> 00:57:04,253
What's to say?

815
00:57:04,278 --> 00:57:06,278
It's done.

816
00:57:07,014 --> 00:57:09,014
Will you lock up?

817
00:57:17,094 --> 00:57:21,101
Mrs Wintergreen's turned up a pile
of letters in her husband's old
briefcase.

818
00:57:21,126 --> 00:57:23,549
This Green Ink Brigade.
Did she say what's in them?

819
00:57:23,574 --> 00:57:26,861
Mostly complaining about the sale of
Blenheim Vale to Landesman.

820
00:57:26,886 --> 00:57:30,029
Wintergreen had the casting vote on
the Council when it went through.

821
00:57:30,054 --> 00:57:32,477
I said I'd take a run up there with
Jakes. Where are you?

822
00:57:32,502 --> 00:57:35,645
Meeting Angela McGarrett for her
photograph of George Aldridge.

823
00:57:35,670 --> 00:57:38,813
Pick up sticks after lunch, then.

824
00:57:38,838 --> 00:57:42,125
Dad didn't approve of me playing
with the boys from Blenheim Vale.

825
00:57:42,150 --> 00:57:45,725
We used to sneak away into the woods
when the grown-ups weren't looking.

826
00:57:45,750 --> 00:57:48,749
Did you keep in touch with any of
them after you moved away?

827
00:57:48,774 --> 00:57:50,909
No, I hadn't thought of it in years.

828
00:57:50,934 --> 00:57:53,645
And then I bumped into Henry
last summer in the High.

829
00:57:53,670 --> 00:57:55,670
Henry Portmore.

830
00:57:55,686 --> 00:57:58,685
He's some sort of academic
at Pelham now,

831
00:57:58,710 --> 00:58:00,710
married to Hilary Spencer.

832
00:58:00,726 --> 00:58:02,726
They've a little boy.

833
00:58:02,742 --> 00:58:04,742
So there's one happy ending.

834
00:58:07,062 --> 00:58:10,781
Hilary's brother Ed had a nervous
breakdown and hanged himself...

835
00:58:10,806 --> 00:58:12,806
from a tree at Blenheim Vale.

836
00:58:16,278 --> 00:58:20,285
Ed Spencer was the first boy
I ever kissed.

837
00:58:20,310 --> 00:58:22,445
It wasn't a grown-up kiss,
of course.

838
00:58:22,470 --> 00:58:24,470
We were too young to know about
that.

839
00:58:24,486 --> 00:58:26,486
Just a peck.

840
00:58:26,502 --> 00:58:29,933
One remembers it all the same.

841
00:58:29,958 --> 00:58:33,563
Why did you tell me you didn't know
George Aldridge?

842
00:58:42,054 --> 00:58:45,341
What happened at Blenheim Vale?

843
00:58:45,366 --> 00:58:47,366
There were five... six of us.

844
00:58:47,382 --> 00:58:49,382
And Petey... Petey Williams.

845
00:58:51,702 --> 00:58:53,981
We weren't bad lads, not really.

846
00:58:54,006 --> 00:58:56,006
Just kids.

847
00:58:56,022 --> 00:59:02,045
Orphans, some of us. Others just had
a knack of getting into trouble.

848
00:59:02,070 --> 00:59:04,205
Somehow we all ended up
at Blenheim Vale.

849
00:59:04,230 --> 00:59:07,971
It was me, George, Benny, Ed, Henry
and the two Petes.

850
00:59:10,278 --> 00:59:12,278
Big Pete and Little Pete.

851
00:59:15,174 --> 00:59:17,174
We were a gang, I suppose.

852
00:59:17,190 --> 00:59:21,773
Not so much Little Pete, he was
a bit younger, but we used
to let him tag along.

853
00:59:21,798 --> 00:59:23,798
Little Pete what?

854
00:59:23,814 --> 00:59:28,541
I don't remember. He wasn't there
for very long.

855
00:59:28,566 --> 00:59:32,285
See, kids came and went.
It was tough, you know.

856
00:59:32,310 --> 00:59:35,165
Cold water, cross-country...

857
00:59:35,190 --> 00:59:38,621
But you had each other and that is
how you got through.

858
00:59:38,646 --> 00:59:43,229
Big Pete was our leader,
for want of a better word.

859
00:59:43,254 --> 00:59:45,254
Then this new bloke turned up,

860
00:59:45,270 --> 00:59:48,125
a do-gooder, had all these
new ideas.

861
00:59:48,150 --> 00:59:52,301
Put a bit of money into the place,
sports equipment and so forth.

862
00:59:52,326 --> 00:59:54,461
Set a lot of store by physical
fitness,

863
00:59:54,486 --> 00:59:57,485
improving weekends.

864
00:59:57,510 --> 01:00:00,365
We had to meet him in the car down
the end of the lane.

865
01:00:00,390 --> 01:00:06,125
He drove us somewhere, a guest
house, a hotel, whatever it was.

866
01:00:06,150 --> 01:00:09,347
Things happened there,
awful, terrible things.

867
01:00:14,934 --> 01:00:17,645
We paid him back, though.

868
01:00:17,670 --> 01:00:19,517
Or we thought we had.

869
01:00:19,542 --> 01:00:22,253
Go on, Pete.

870
01:00:22,278 --> 01:00:24,278
Go on.

871
01:00:33,510 --> 01:00:36,077
(EXPLOSION)

872
01:00:36,102 --> 01:00:40,541
They had an idea who did it,
but they couldn't prove it.

873
01:00:40,566 --> 01:00:42,566
We all got stuck on half rations.

874
01:00:42,582 --> 01:00:47,165
Maybe somebody squealed,
but however it went...

875
01:00:47,190 --> 01:00:50,333
One weekend, Big Pete went off.

876
01:00:50,358 --> 01:00:53,213
We all knew where he'd gone,
only this time he...

877
01:00:53,238 --> 01:00:56,237
he never came back.

878
01:00:56,262 --> 01:00:58,397
They said he'd been transferred.

879
01:00:58,422 --> 01:01:02,285
You didn't try and find him?
Of course we did.

880
01:01:02,310 --> 01:01:06,173
After we left, we tried.
Nothing. No record.

881
01:01:06,198 --> 01:01:10,493
Did you go to the police?
Oh, yeah.

882
01:01:10,518 --> 01:01:12,518
We told him not to. George went.

883
01:01:12,534 --> 01:01:15,389
He spilled the whole story.
And what happened?

884
01:01:15,414 --> 01:01:17,523
They told him not to tell lies.

885
01:01:20,742 --> 01:01:25,181
Not so long after that, he started
getting into proper trouble
with the law.

886
01:01:25,206 --> 01:01:28,925
Before the last time
he was sent down...

887
01:01:28,950 --> 01:01:31,661
..the rest of us made a vow.

888
01:01:31,686 --> 01:01:35,405
If ever one of us was ever in
trouble...

889
01:01:35,430 --> 01:01:38,285
You'd put an ad in the personal
column of the Mail.

890
01:01:38,310 --> 01:01:39,869
Anyone that saw it,

891
01:01:39,894 --> 01:01:44,621
no matter where they were or what
they were doing, was honour-bound,
if they could,

892
01:01:44,646 --> 01:01:48,509
to attend a pow-wow
within the next seven days.

893
01:01:48,534 --> 01:01:51,821
So... why did you place the ad now?

894
01:01:51,846 --> 01:01:55,277
A couple of weeks back...

895
01:01:55,302 --> 01:01:58,013
..this journalist comes by,
out of the blue.

896
01:01:58,038 --> 01:02:01,613
A bloke called Patterson,
Eric Patterson.

897
01:02:01,638 --> 01:02:05,069
He'd heard rumours about what went
on out at Blenheim Vale.

898
01:02:05,094 --> 01:02:08,525
He said he'd been looking into it
for a while.

899
01:02:08,550 --> 01:02:10,685
What did you tell him?
Nothing.

900
01:02:10,710 --> 01:02:12,710
I told him I couldn't help him.

901
01:02:12,726 --> 01:02:16,877
I put it out of my mind or tried to.

902
01:02:16,902 --> 01:02:18,902
And then I got a visit.

903
01:02:18,918 --> 01:02:20,477
From whom?

904
01:02:20,502 --> 01:02:22,502
Your lot, asking after Patterson.

905
01:02:22,518 --> 01:02:25,517
So I denied any knowledge.

906
01:02:25,542 --> 01:02:30,413
And they said if he did come by,
I should let them know.

907
01:02:30,438 --> 01:02:32,438
I didn't know what to do.

908
01:02:32,454 --> 01:02:36,173
So you put an ad in the Mail?

909
01:02:36,198 --> 01:02:38,851
Who was he, this governor at
Blenheim?

910
01:02:41,094 --> 01:02:45,652
Gerry certainly was a governor at
Blenheim Vale, that's no secret.

911
01:02:47,862 --> 01:02:51,869
But the rest of this revolting
slander...

912
01:02:51,894 --> 01:02:59,213
My husband is murdered and you have
the gall to come into my home with
such filth?

913
01:02:59,238 --> 01:03:06,701
Gerry's life was dedicated to the
service of those less fortunate
than himself.

914
01:03:06,726 --> 01:03:12,749
In particular, the young, who
perhaps didn't enjoy the same kind
of advantages.

915
01:03:12,774 --> 01:03:16,720
I have to say, I'm surprised
you were so easily taken in.

916
01:03:22,710 --> 01:03:26,573
Dr Portmore? Detective Constable
Morse, City Police.

917
01:03:26,598 --> 01:03:31,037
My brother couldn't cope with what
happened to him at Blenheim Vale.

918
01:03:31,062 --> 01:03:34,061
A depression, the coroner ruled.

919
01:03:34,086 --> 01:03:37,949
The police looked into it,
of course, but...

920
01:03:37,974 --> 01:03:41,405
..no suspicious circumstances.

921
01:03:41,430 --> 01:03:46,733
It was all I could do not to laugh
in their faces.

922
01:03:46,758 --> 01:03:51,773
Just out of interest, where were you
both the night Alderman Wintergreen
was killed?

923
01:03:51,798 --> 01:03:55,949
We were with Nick and Ben,
at Nick's place.

924
01:03:55,974 --> 01:03:57,974
How is she, Angela?

925
01:03:57,990 --> 01:04:00,989
Henry last saw her in town,
not long after her divorce.

926
01:04:01,014 --> 01:04:03,149
She was in quite a bad way then.

927
01:04:03,174 --> 01:04:06,317
Divorce? She gave me to understand
that she'd been widowed.

928
01:04:06,342 --> 01:04:08,342
Perhaps that's easier to say.

929
01:04:08,358 --> 01:04:10,205
It wasn't a happy marriage.

930
01:04:10,230 --> 01:04:16,109
Poor girl. Growing up here, it's
a wonder she can function at all.

931
01:04:16,134 --> 01:04:18,269
This was Dr Fairbridge's house?

932
01:04:18,294 --> 01:04:20,429
'Sanctuary', we called it.

933
01:04:20,454 --> 01:04:24,173
He was the only adult that showed us
a little bit of kindness.

934
01:04:24,198 --> 01:04:26,045
Forgive me, but...

935
01:04:26,070 --> 01:04:29,645
given what happened to
your brother...

936
01:04:29,670 --> 01:04:34,432
..I'd have thought this would be
the last place you'd choose to live.

937
01:04:36,870 --> 01:04:40,013
I managed to convince the college
to finance a dig here,

938
01:04:40,038 --> 01:04:43,613
ostensibly to look for
a Neolithic barrow.

939
01:04:43,638 --> 01:04:46,637
But that's not what you were
looking for? No.

940
01:04:46,662 --> 01:04:48,365
What, then?

941
01:04:48,390 --> 01:04:51,533
I think you probably know.

942
01:04:51,558 --> 01:04:53,693
I'd been working here
about six weeks.

943
01:04:53,718 --> 01:04:58,157
Late one Friday afternoon, I get
a visit from the local bobby
asking what we're up to.

944
01:04:58,182 --> 01:05:01,469
Monday morning, I get a message in
my pigeon hole from the bursar.

945
01:05:01,494 --> 01:05:04,061
Funding's been withdrawn
and the dig shut down.

946
01:05:04,086 --> 01:05:06,941
Did they give a reason why?
None that satisfied.

947
01:05:06,966 --> 01:05:11,837
I've got an appeal in but it's not
expected to come to anything.

948
01:05:11,862 --> 01:05:14,285
Do you think Peter Williams is buried
here?

949
01:05:14,310 --> 01:05:16,445
He's here...

950
01:05:16,470 --> 01:05:18,470
somewhere, I...

951
01:05:18,486 --> 01:05:21,485
And I intend to find him.

952
01:05:21,510 --> 01:05:23,755
I owe him that. He was my friend.

953
01:05:27,126 --> 01:05:30,413
In regard of these sordid and
disgusting accusations,

954
01:05:30,438 --> 01:05:33,869
no further approaches will be made
to Mrs Wintergreen.

955
01:05:33,894 --> 01:05:37,181
Peter Williams, a young boy,
may have been murdered, sir.

956
01:05:37,206 --> 01:05:39,917
Oh, indeed? Who says so?

957
01:05:39,942 --> 01:05:45,533
My wife happens to sit on the Widows
And Orphans steering committee with
Hazel Wintergreen.

958
01:05:45,558 --> 01:05:47,558
Oh, well...
Yes, 'Oh, well'!

959
01:05:47,574 --> 01:05:49,709
I appreciate such hateful grubbiness

960
01:05:49,734 --> 01:05:52,877
may accord with your 'four legs
good' view of the world.

961
01:05:52,902 --> 01:05:54,605
But it does not make it so.

962
01:05:54,630 --> 01:05:57,485
It does not make it a fact.
It does not make it true.

963
01:05:57,510 --> 01:05:59,510
It is fishy, though, sir.

964
01:05:59,526 --> 01:06:04,685
Landesman acquires Blenheim Vale
and, the next thing, Dr Portman's
dig gets shut down.

965
01:06:04,710 --> 01:06:07,853
We've three men alleging Wintergreen
interfered with them, sir.

966
01:06:07,878 --> 01:06:11,021
There is nothing in that. Blenheim
Vale was looked at in the early
'50s.

967
01:06:11,046 --> 01:06:14,909
Looked at by whom? Assistant Chief
Constable Deare amongst others.

968
01:06:14,934 --> 01:06:17,789
The investigation concluded nothing
went on there

969
01:06:17,814 --> 01:06:21,245
that could not be found occurring in
any minor public school.

970
01:06:21,270 --> 01:06:28,301
Anything more is just the wild and
spiteful imaginings of a group of
former delinquents.

971
01:06:28,326 --> 01:06:30,173
They're not lying.

972
01:06:30,198 --> 01:06:33,773
Better run it past Deare, see if
it fits with anything he knows.

973
01:06:33,798 --> 01:06:35,798
Come by the house when you're done.

974
01:06:35,814 --> 01:06:37,814
Walls have ears.

975
01:06:40,134 --> 01:06:42,134
Chard?

976
01:06:44,022 --> 01:06:48,376
I wouldn't trust anyone in this nick
further than I could spit.

977
01:07:08,482 --> 01:07:11,815
All right, then, Tom,
where have you been, then?

978
01:07:24,754 --> 01:07:26,313
Tommy!

979
01:07:26,338 --> 01:07:28,338
Tom!

980
01:07:30,082 --> 01:07:35,097
These three friends of George
Aldridge. Where were they the night
Wintergreen died?

981
01:07:35,122 --> 01:07:37,545
Together - the three men and Hilary.

982
01:07:37,570 --> 01:07:39,849
Would they talk now, go on record?

983
01:07:39,874 --> 01:07:43,449
I'd like to speak with them,
rectify my mistake.

984
01:07:43,474 --> 01:07:47,769
With their testimony, we could
nail... who knows how many of
the bastards.

985
01:07:47,794 --> 01:07:50,073
I don't know. I could ask.

986
01:07:50,098 --> 01:07:52,098
If you could.

987
01:07:54,130 --> 01:07:55,977
Don't lose heart.

988
01:07:56,002 --> 01:07:58,002
We're close, Morse.

989
01:07:58,018 --> 01:08:00,331
We're close. The net's tightening.

990
01:08:21,490 --> 01:08:23,490
Whoa!
(TYRES SCREECH)

991
01:08:31,714 --> 01:08:34,137
So what's Deare's take?
Same as mine.

992
01:08:34,162 --> 01:08:37,305
It all starts with the journalist,
Patterson.

993
01:08:37,330 --> 01:08:39,897
Joan? Come away now.

994
01:08:39,922 --> 01:08:43,497
Somewhere on his travels,
in some pub or bar,

995
01:08:43,522 --> 01:08:48,393
he runs into a young man with a story
to tell, a victim of Wintergreen or
Landesman.

996
01:08:48,418 --> 01:08:53,577
Or both. Whichever it is, Blenheim
Vale gets mentioned, along with one
or two of the boys.

997
01:08:53,602 --> 01:08:57,177
Now, Patterson is a newspaperman
to his boots.

998
01:08:57,202 --> 01:09:00,057
So he approaches some of the boys.

999
01:09:00,082 --> 01:09:02,217
He comes to Oxford, but no-one wants
to talk.

1000
01:09:02,242 --> 01:09:07,977
But he's persistent to the point
where Nicholas Myers panics
and sends out the Twilight Bark,

1001
01:09:08,002 --> 01:09:13,716
the emergency SOS to his fellow
musketeers, calling them for
an emergency pow-wow.

1002
01:09:17,074 --> 01:09:19,785
But George Aldridge is still banged
up in Farnleigh.

1003
01:09:19,810 --> 01:09:22,377
And it takes him till Saturday to go
over the wall.

1004
01:09:22,402 --> 01:09:25,689
At which point, Patterson's already
decided to take a different tack.

1005
01:09:25,714 --> 01:09:29,577
He's this hard-bitten Fleet Street
hack, who's run with criminals and
gangsters.

1006
01:09:29,602 --> 01:09:34,185
Why be scared of some Council
placeman and the director of
a construction company?

1007
01:09:34,210 --> 01:09:39,369
He approaches Wintergreen and
Landesman.Only he reckoned without
their connections to the police.

1008
01:09:39,394 --> 01:09:41,241
And, unfortunately for him,

1009
01:09:41,266 --> 01:09:45,993
he chooses the same Saturday that
Aldridge decides to go on the run
from Farnleigh.

1010
01:09:46,018 --> 01:09:50,025
When Landesman and Wintergreen find
out that Aldridge has gone AWOL,

1011
01:09:50,050 --> 01:09:54,921
they assume that he escaped in order
to spill his guts to Patterson about
Blenheim Vale.

1012
01:09:54,946 --> 01:09:58,521
They were afraid that all of the
terrible things that they'd done

1013
01:09:58,546 --> 01:10:00,546
and had, no doubt, continued to do

1014
01:10:00,562 --> 01:10:02,985
were finally to be dragged into
the light.

1015
01:10:03,010 --> 01:10:05,010
So they took steps.

1016
01:10:06,322 --> 01:10:09,609
Drink it all up. That's a good boy.

1017
01:10:09,634 --> 01:10:12,777
Bad apples, Morse.
Every barrel's got 'em.

1018
01:10:12,802 --> 01:10:16,339
The same 'bad apples' that did for
George Aldridge.

1019
01:10:19,714 --> 01:10:25,449
And Tommy Cork saw them.
That's why they were after him.

1020
01:10:25,474 --> 01:10:27,177
But who's involved?

1021
01:10:27,202 --> 01:10:30,921
Which officers and from where?

1022
01:10:30,946 --> 01:10:35,241
The same as cleared out Aldridge's
cell, presumably. What was all that
about?

1023
01:10:35,266 --> 01:10:39,273
Anything which might point the finger
at Wintergreen and Landesman.

1024
01:10:39,298 --> 01:10:44,169
Hm. Only, they overlooked the
playbill on the wall which led us
to Benny Topling.

1025
01:10:44,194 --> 01:10:46,194
(DOORBELL)

1026
01:10:46,210 --> 01:10:50,073
I think Patterson had intended to see
Topling, he had a theatre ticket.

1027
01:10:50,098 --> 01:10:52,953
But obviously Landesman's goons got
to him first.

1028
01:10:52,978 --> 01:10:54,825
So who killed Wintergreen?

1029
01:10:54,850 --> 01:10:56,850
Constable Strange, Dad.
Oh.

1030
01:10:56,866 --> 01:10:58,866
Come through.

1031
01:10:58,882 --> 01:11:01,737
Evening, sir.
What's this, house calls?

1032
01:11:01,762 --> 01:11:03,609
Take the weight. I'll get a brew on.

1033
01:11:03,634 --> 01:11:06,057
Thank you, sir. Morse.

1034
01:11:06,082 --> 01:11:07,641
Hello, mate.

1035
01:11:07,666 --> 01:11:10,665
Couldn't get the kettle on, could
you, love? One of the lads.

1036
01:11:10,690 --> 01:11:13,257
I can see that. What happened to
the hallstand?

1037
01:11:13,282 --> 01:11:16,713
I thought that was where work
stopped.

1038
01:11:16,738 --> 01:11:20,889
I only caught half a glimpse,
but it was definitely Tommy Cork,
no question.

1039
01:11:20,914 --> 01:11:22,761
Registration?
That's just it.

1040
01:11:22,786 --> 01:11:24,345
Only the first part.

1041
01:11:24,370 --> 01:11:28,089
It matches a number of unmarked cars
used by County.

1042
01:11:28,114 --> 01:11:33,849
I rang through, but they're showing
no record of any of their units
having lifted him.

1043
01:11:33,874 --> 01:11:37,881
I just... I just thought
you should know.

1044
01:11:37,906 --> 01:11:40,617
You'd better talk to Deare.

1045
01:11:40,642 --> 01:11:42,642
Sir.

1046
01:11:46,258 --> 01:11:49,401
A telephone call for you, sir.

1047
01:11:49,426 --> 01:11:51,705
Would you excuse me, Reggie?
Yes, yes.

1048
01:11:51,730 --> 01:11:53,730
Of course.

1049
01:11:55,042 --> 01:11:57,042
Reginald.

1050
01:11:58,498 --> 01:12:00,539
This came for you.
Thank you.

1051
01:12:04,546 --> 01:12:05,817
'Hello?'

1052
01:12:05,842 --> 01:12:07,545
Hello, sir.

1053
01:12:07,570 --> 01:12:10,713
Morse, thank God. I've been trying
to reach you.'It's about the boy.'

1054
01:12:10,738 --> 01:12:12,585
Tommy Cork?
'Yes.'

1055
01:12:12,610 --> 01:12:14,457
Don't worry. We know where he is.

1056
01:12:14,482 --> 01:12:17,049
'But he'll only come across to you.'
Yes, sir.

1057
01:12:17,074 --> 01:12:20,217
I need you to meet me straightaway.

1058
01:12:20,242 --> 01:12:23,303
Where? When?
'Get a pen and take this down.'

1059
01:12:42,418 --> 01:12:44,418
(PHONE RINGS)

1060
01:12:46,594 --> 01:12:48,153
SAM: Hello?

1061
01:12:48,178 --> 01:12:50,178
Who's calling?

1062
01:12:51,202 --> 01:12:54,057
I'll just get him for you.

1063
01:12:54,082 --> 01:12:56,082
Dad, it's a Mr Deare for you.

1064
01:13:32,818 --> 01:13:35,385
(ENGINE REVS)

1065
01:13:35,410 --> 01:13:37,410
Urgh!

1066
01:13:51,970 --> 01:13:53,385
Yes.

1067
01:13:53,410 --> 01:13:55,410
Yes, I understand, but...

1068
01:13:55,426 --> 01:13:57,993
There has to be some other way.

1069
01:13:58,018 --> 01:14:00,585
I've done enough. I can't...

1070
01:14:00,610 --> 01:14:04,185
For the love of God, he's a child!

1071
01:14:04,210 --> 01:14:07,065
I'm a doctor!

1072
01:14:07,090 --> 01:14:09,090
All right, all right.

1073
01:14:09,106 --> 01:14:11,106
Where is he?

1074
01:14:11,122 --> 01:14:13,122
All right, I'll meet you there!

1075
01:14:13,138 --> 01:14:14,841
Meet who?

1076
01:14:14,866 --> 01:14:16,281
Where?

1077
01:14:16,306 --> 01:14:17,865
What child?

1078
01:14:17,890 --> 01:14:21,177
Angela...
It wasn't just a bad dream.

1079
01:14:21,202 --> 01:14:23,202
Was it?

1080
01:14:31,714 --> 01:14:33,561
All well, Clive?

1081
01:14:33,586 --> 01:14:36,297
Actually, sir, it's Detective
Constable Morse.

1082
01:14:36,322 --> 01:14:39,859
You better take a seat,
it's quite a story. Brandy?

1083
01:14:43,666 --> 01:14:45,225
Where's Thursday?

1084
01:14:45,250 --> 01:14:47,097
What do you mean, where is he?

1085
01:14:47,122 --> 01:14:52,569
He left a message with the duty log
saying he was meeting you at
Blenheim Vale.

1086
01:14:52,594 --> 01:14:56,889
I need you to get every man you can
trust over there now.

1087
01:14:56,914 --> 01:14:58,914
City boys only. Understand?

1088
01:14:58,930 --> 01:15:01,353
No can do, matey.

1089
01:15:01,378 --> 01:15:03,225
Orders.
Orders?

1090
01:15:03,250 --> 01:15:05,385
What orders, from where?

1091
01:15:05,410 --> 01:15:09,705
We've been told if anything comes
through from out that way,
we're not to respond.

1092
01:15:09,730 --> 01:15:12,585
Some County operation.
It's come from ACC Deare.

1093
01:15:12,610 --> 01:15:14,610
I see.

1094
01:15:21,682 --> 01:15:23,385
What's that?

1095
01:15:23,410 --> 01:15:27,273
If it all goes wrong, maybe
everything, Deare, Chard,
it's all in there.

1096
01:15:27,298 --> 01:15:29,433
I told you one day you'd have
to choose.

1097
01:15:29,458 --> 01:15:31,458
Today's that day.

1098
01:15:35,362 --> 01:15:40,260
If you do nothing else, find Bright
and tell him Thursday's in trouble.

1099
01:15:46,594 --> 01:15:49,017
I need your help.

1100
01:15:49,042 --> 01:15:52,617
Thursday's out at Blenheim Vale.
I've the car outside. Come on.

1101
01:15:52,642 --> 01:15:54,642
Blenheim Vale?

1102
01:15:55,810 --> 01:15:57,810
I can't.

1103
01:16:03,298 --> 01:16:05,298
Little Pete?

1104
01:16:06,466 --> 01:16:10,185
Myers couldn't remember
your last name.

1105
01:16:10,210 --> 01:16:12,489
Were you there?

1106
01:16:12,514 --> 01:16:15,945
To some of us bastards,
it's more than just a name.

1107
01:16:15,970 --> 01:16:20,409
You don't think about something
for long enough, you think you've
forgotten.

1108
01:16:20,434 --> 01:16:22,569
Then one day, somebody comes
along...

1109
01:16:22,594 --> 01:16:24,594
Deare?

1110
01:16:25,186 --> 01:16:27,753
There were four of them.

1111
01:16:27,778 --> 01:16:31,353
Deare, he was just a copper then.

1112
01:16:31,378 --> 01:16:34,089
Josiah Landesman...

1113
01:16:34,114 --> 01:16:37,833
..the new governor, Wintergreen...

1114
01:16:37,858 --> 01:16:40,569
..and Doc Fairbridge.

1115
01:16:40,594 --> 01:16:42,009
Dr Fairbridge?

1116
01:16:42,034 --> 01:16:44,457
He knew what was going on
and did nothing to stop it.

1117
01:16:44,482 --> 01:16:46,482
He covered up for them when they
went too far.

1118
01:16:46,498 --> 01:16:48,921
One name.

1119
01:16:48,946 --> 01:16:50,946
Last chance.

1120
01:16:50,962 --> 01:16:53,817
What about Standish? Was he involved?

1121
01:16:53,842 --> 01:16:55,113
No.

1122
01:16:55,138 --> 01:16:57,849
It was just the four of them.

1123
01:16:57,874 --> 01:17:00,527
I ran that dry-cleaning tag
to ground.

1124
01:17:03,058 --> 01:17:06,633
The coat belonged to the doc.

1125
01:17:06,658 --> 01:17:10,089
George Aldridge went to him and he
betrayed George Aldridge to his
death.

1126
01:17:10,114 --> 01:17:13,545
He always was a two-faced bastard.
The other lads couldn't see it.

1127
01:17:13,570 --> 01:17:16,281
Only me. Fairbridge was one of them
all right.

1128
01:17:16,306 --> 01:17:18,873
Did Angela have any idea
what was going on?

1129
01:17:18,898 --> 01:17:21,897
More than an idea, I think.

1130
01:17:21,922 --> 01:17:25,353
Some of them... it wasn't just
the lads.

1131
01:17:25,378 --> 01:17:28,089
You just had to be young.

1132
01:17:28,114 --> 01:17:30,114
See...

1133
01:17:31,138 --> 01:17:33,273
They wanted a name...

1134
01:17:33,298 --> 01:17:37,161
for whoever had burnt out
Wintergreen's car.

1135
01:17:37,186 --> 01:17:40,315
They knew who it was,
but they wanted a name.

1136
01:17:48,850 --> 01:17:50,850
(GROANS)

1137
01:17:52,306 --> 01:17:54,153
So I told 'em.

1138
01:17:54,178 --> 01:17:56,178
I tried not to.

1139
01:17:59,218 --> 01:18:02,619
Look, we have a chance to bury them.
All of them.

1140
01:18:04,390 --> 01:18:06,813
Come on.

1141
01:18:07,138 --> 01:18:10,471
(GLASS SMASHES)
I can't. I'm sorry, but I can't.

1142
01:18:47,015 --> 01:18:48,718
That could have been nasty.

1143
01:18:48,743 --> 01:18:52,174
Sir, it's a setup.
I figured as much.

1144
01:18:52,199 --> 01:18:54,478
I don't usually pack this
for a friendly chat.

1145
01:18:54,503 --> 01:18:56,503
But you came anyway?

1146
01:18:58,535 --> 01:19:01,246
It's always been about the boy.

1147
01:19:01,271 --> 01:19:04,702
If there was any chance to get him
back, however small...

1148
01:19:04,727 --> 01:19:07,870
You'd have done the same.

1149
01:19:07,895 --> 01:19:11,182
So who are we expecting?
It's Deare.

1150
01:19:11,207 --> 01:19:14,350
Just Deare? Deare arranged a small
reception just for me.

1151
01:19:14,375 --> 01:19:17,662
Said he had Tommy, but the kid would
only come across if I was there.

1152
01:19:17,687 --> 01:19:20,398
Chard tried to kill me.

1153
01:19:20,423 --> 01:19:24,142
Landesman? No. He's not the type
to get his hands dirty.

1154
01:19:24,167 --> 01:19:26,590
Why would he when he's got Deare
there?

1155
01:19:26,615 --> 01:19:30,046
The only thing I can't work out is
why they killed Wintergreen.

1156
01:19:30,071 --> 01:19:32,350
They didn't.

1157
01:19:32,375 --> 01:19:34,654
It was someone else.

1158
01:19:34,679 --> 01:19:41,422
Wintergreen's appetites extended
beyond just the boys of
Blenheim Vale.

1159
01:19:41,447 --> 01:19:43,726
The mind plays tricks, I suppose.

1160
01:19:43,751 --> 01:19:46,318
Does what it can to forget.

1161
01:19:46,343 --> 01:19:50,206
Perhaps Angela told herself that it
was all in her imagination.

1162
01:19:50,231 --> 01:19:53,564
Something I'm sure her father
encouraged in her.

1163
01:19:55,703 --> 01:20:01,077
In any event, something triggered
the recollection with... fatal
consequences.

1164
01:20:03,335 --> 01:20:05,852
Good night, Mr Stafford.
Good night.

1165
01:20:14,279 --> 01:20:16,279
(BELL TOLLING IN BACKGROUND)

1166
01:20:21,047 --> 01:20:22,462
Alderman...

1167
01:20:22,487 --> 01:20:24,487
Hello.

1168
01:20:24,503 --> 01:20:26,206
Oh! Ohh!

1169
01:20:26,231 --> 01:20:28,231
Argh!

1170
01:20:40,775 --> 01:20:42,775
Funny.

1171
01:20:43,943 --> 01:20:47,412
It'll be 28 years tomorrow
since I joined the job.

1172
01:20:50,135 --> 01:20:53,604
28 years to the day, excepting
the war, of course.

1173
01:20:57,335 --> 01:21:00,190
All this with the merger
put me out of sorts.

1174
01:21:00,215 --> 01:21:02,215
Got me thinking...

1175
01:21:03,527 --> 01:21:05,527
..less ahead than behind.

1176
01:21:08,135 --> 01:21:11,566
I forgot for a minute
it's not about me.

1177
01:21:11,591 --> 01:21:15,454
It's about them that turn to us
for help...

1178
01:21:15,479 --> 01:21:17,479
..in time of need.

1179
01:21:17,495 --> 01:21:19,536
Weak, defenceless. Old, young.

1180
01:21:22,103 --> 01:21:24,103
Especially the young.

1181
01:21:26,423 --> 01:21:28,804
Does that mean you've reconsidered?

1182
01:21:31,175 --> 01:21:35,182
Oh, Win would never put up with me
under her feet all day.

1183
01:21:35,207 --> 01:21:37,207
Nah...

1184
01:21:37,223 --> 01:21:39,223
I was born a copper.

1185
01:21:42,119 --> 01:21:44,119
And I'll die one, I expect.

1186
01:21:47,015 --> 01:21:50,590
Hm. 'Ensanguining the skies

1187
01:21:50,615 --> 01:21:52,615
How heavily it dies

1188
01:21:53,927 --> 01:21:55,927
Into the west away;

1189
01:21:57,527 --> 01:21:59,568
Past touch and sight and sound

1190
01:22:01,991 --> 01:22:03,991
Not further to be found,

1191
01:22:05,735 --> 01:22:07,735
How hopeless underground

1192
01:22:10,343 --> 01:22:12,343
Falls the remorseful day.'

1193
01:22:16,823 --> 01:22:20,110
You know there's no cavalry coming?

1194
01:22:20,135 --> 01:22:22,516
Still time. I won't think the less.

1195
01:22:30,647 --> 01:22:32,647
To the end, then.

1196
01:22:34,103 --> 01:22:36,382
To the end.

1197
01:22:36,407 --> 01:22:38,407
(CAR APPROACHING)

1198
01:22:41,015 --> 01:22:43,294
(GUNSHOT)

1199
01:22:43,319 --> 01:22:45,319
(GROANS)

1200
01:22:47,207 --> 01:22:49,860
Uh-uh! Nothing you can do
for him now.

1201
01:22:53,399 --> 01:22:55,102
The early bird, I'm afraid.

1202
01:22:55,127 --> 01:22:57,127
Sir! Sir!

1203
01:23:00,887 --> 01:23:03,598
You bastard! You bastard!

1204
01:23:03,623 --> 01:23:05,758
Names? (TUTS) Really.

1205
01:23:05,783 --> 01:23:08,980
No bon mots? No apposite Augustan
valedictory?

1206
01:23:11,399 --> 01:23:14,542
I expected better from a Greats man.

1207
01:23:14,567 --> 01:23:16,567
Oxford material? Nah.

1208
01:23:18,023 --> 01:23:21,166
Just a boy from the sticks
with a chip on his shoulder

1209
01:23:21,191 --> 01:23:23,758
and a library card.

1210
01:23:23,783 --> 01:23:27,358
Where be your jibes now?

1211
01:23:27,383 --> 01:23:29,383
You're mad.

1212
01:23:30,839 --> 01:23:33,262
You can't seriously think you'll get
away with this.

1213
01:23:33,287 --> 01:23:37,233
Actually... I think they'll pin
another medal on my chest.

1214
01:23:39,335 --> 01:23:41,182
History's written by the victor.

1215
01:23:41,207 --> 01:23:44,206
Bad apples? That's you two,
I'm afraid.

1216
01:23:44,231 --> 01:23:46,510
In my version of events, at least.

1217
01:23:46,535 --> 01:23:51,118
And since that's all they'll have,
it's rather all that counts.

1218
01:23:51,143 --> 01:23:56,734
You see, when Chard told me you'd
got away, I had to improvise.

1219
01:23:56,759 --> 01:24:00,977
Right now, every copper in the
county is out looking for you.

1220
01:24:04,535 --> 01:24:08,072
Pity you won't be around to
appreciate my solution.

1221
01:24:10,871 --> 01:24:15,022
There, I'm afraid...
endeth the lesson.

1222
01:24:15,047 --> 01:24:17,047
(GUNSHOT) Argh!

1223
01:24:38,375 --> 01:24:40,375
(SIREN)

1224
01:24:41,687 --> 01:24:43,822
Stay with me, sir.

1225
01:24:43,847 --> 01:24:46,126
Stay with me, sir. Sir?
(GRUNTS)

1226
01:24:46,151 --> 01:24:48,286
It's gonna be all right, sir.

1227
01:24:48,311 --> 01:24:50,878
Stay with me, sir! Stay with me!

1228
01:24:50,903 --> 01:24:53,828
ANGELA: It wasn't dreams.
It was memories.

1229
01:24:59,687 --> 01:25:01,687
My own father.

1230
01:25:02,711 --> 01:25:04,711
No more dreams.

1231
01:25:07,319 --> 01:25:09,319
My poor... lost boys.

1232
01:25:10,919 --> 01:25:12,919
No... No!
(GUNSHOT)

1233
01:25:47,063 --> 01:25:49,063
Come on, Tommy.

1234
01:25:51,671 --> 01:25:54,958
We uh... found the boy in one of
the top rooms, sir.

1235
01:25:54,983 --> 01:25:57,262
He's no recollection
how he got here.

1236
01:25:57,287 --> 01:26:00,286
Let's get this young man
back to his mother. Sir.

1237
01:26:00,311 --> 01:26:04,030
Come on, Tommy, let's go.
We'll make sure you're looked after.

1238
01:26:04,055 --> 01:26:06,766
(SIREN WAILS)

1239
01:26:06,791 --> 01:26:08,791
He's in the best of care.

1240
01:26:16,871 --> 01:26:18,871
DC Morse?
Yes.

1241
01:26:18,887 --> 01:26:22,030
My name is Detective Inspector
Gregson of Kidlington CID.

1242
01:26:22,055 --> 01:26:26,350
Endeavour Morse, I am arresting you
for the murder of Chief Constable
Rupert -

1243
01:26:26,375 --> 01:26:28,375
You're arresting me?
You do not have to say -

1244
01:26:28,391 --> 01:26:30,391
You're... You've made a mistake.

1245
01:26:30,407 --> 01:26:32,830
..can be used in evidence.
Some kind of a mistake.

1246
01:26:32,855 --> 01:26:34,990
Take him inside.
Get your hands off me!

1247
01:26:35,015 --> 01:26:37,015
You've made a mistake!

1248
01:26:37,031 --> 01:26:39,344
That's it.
Get your hands off me!

1249
01:26:43,799 --> 01:26:45,799
What is going on here?

1250
01:26:47,399 --> 01:26:49,399
(AMBULANCE BELL RINGS)

1251
01:27:16,199 --> 01:27:18,199
(CAR DOOR BANGS)

1252
01:28:54,551 --> 01:28:56,551
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1254
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