Tggrt. 13. Hostile Witness. Part 1 of 2.

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First broadcast 22nd February/1st/8th March 1990.  A seemingly disturbed young man keeps confessing to murders he clearly didn't commit driving Taggart to distraction as he has to deal with a husband who killed his prostitute wife and a hit-and-run.  Mark McManus - DCI Jim Taggart James MacPherson - DS Mike Jardine Neil McKinven - John Greeney James Carroll Jordan - Sam Paris Sandra Voe - Dr. Clyde Robert McIntosh - James Little Aline Mowat - Lesley Hay Joe Dunlop - George Hay Jan Carey - Joanna Gillan Ian McCulloch - Donald Gillan Robert Carlyle - Gordon Inglis Hugh Martin - Ron Clark Sean Simpson - Bobby Forbes Anna Welsh - Doris Lind Paul Higgins - David Crawford James Telfer - Kenneth Rose Campbell Morrison - Willie Jamieson John Carlin - Paul Cooper Harriet Buchan - Jean Taggart Iain Anders - Supt. Jack McVitie Robert Robertson - Dr. Stephen Andrews Eileen McCallum - Mary Walker Duncan Duff - Tom Porter Cal MacAninch - Heckler Joseph Greig - Bill Gemmell Kenneth Lindsay - Desk Sergeant Jim Landels - Derek Gibson Eric Lindsay - Mr. Collins Patrick Lewsley - Drunk Carol Holmes - Jeannette Little Andy Gray - Cameron Dixon Steven Brown - Callum John Toye - TV Journalist John Yule - Harvey Adams Janette Foggo - Joyce Shand Bill Denniston - Desk Sergeant Tom McShane - P.C. David Heller - Uniform Sergeant Ian Sexon - Jehova's Witness Anne Marie Timoney - Nurse Lea Ashton - Returning Officer Ronald Aitken - Hugh Kidson Sandy Neilson - Doctor

Transcript

00:00:00Pauline?

00:00:25Pauline?

00:00:27Ladies and gentlemen, violent crime is on the increase.

00:00:37Over 80% of the population want a return to capital punishment,

00:00:43yet our members of parliament consistently vote against it.

00:00:48This campaign was formed in response to, or should I say,

00:00:57because of the lack of response of our elected members of parliament.

00:01:02I'd like now to introduce you to someone who has had first-hand experience of murder.

00:01:15Our candidate, Mrs. Joanna Gillan.

00:01:24Breathe, Pauline.

00:01:27Please.

00:01:28Please, breathe.

00:01:29Breathe.

00:01:30Breathe.

00:01:33Breathe.

00:01:36Breathe.

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00:01:40Breathe.

00:01:42Breathe.

00:01:43She's going to work.

00:01:44She's going to work.

00:01:51You go to sleep now.

00:01:58Eight years ago,

00:02:01a police inspector called Frank Cassidy

00:02:03was murdered while out of uniform on a Glasgow street.

00:02:09He tried to stop a masked gunman

00:02:12making his escape from a building society he had just robbed.

00:02:16He was knocked unconscious with the butt of the gun

00:02:20and died three days later,

00:02:23never regaining his consciousness.

00:02:27Frank Cassidy was my husband.

00:02:31My sister and I were with him at the time.

00:02:38His murderer, Hugh Kidson,

00:02:42was given a life sentence.

00:02:45But in a few years,

00:02:47he will be eligible for parole to walk free.

00:02:50He can come back into society.

00:02:54My husband cannot come back.

00:02:56I'm a child.

00:02:58I'm a child.

00:02:59I'll be back.

00:03:00I'm a cat.

00:03:01I'm a cat.

00:03:04I'm a cat.

00:03:06I'm a cat.

00:03:06I don't know.

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00:05:44I have something to break today, John.

00:06:03I've been thinking about it for a while.

00:06:07Now that I'm on my own,

00:06:09I've decided to go back to Shetland, where my people are.

00:06:14What I'm saying is,

00:06:19you'll have to move.

00:06:21Find new lodgings.

00:06:25Something rang.

00:06:28It's been New Zealand.

00:06:32My brother's dead.

00:06:33I don't know.

00:06:36I don't know.

00:06:38I don't know.

00:07:08That's all we need.

00:07:13This is supposed to be Glasgow's year of culture.

00:07:17She died by strangulation.

00:07:22What about the Stabwins?

00:07:25They were done some four or five hours after death.

00:07:29You mean he hung about for all that time?

00:07:31Or went away and came back.

00:07:34Sir, that's your department.

00:07:38I wonder where her shoes are.

00:07:42Let's go.

00:07:44Let's go.

00:07:44tan

00:07:48So, let's go.

00:08:18That place is Balfour.

00:08:39I heard when he'd take a punter in there.

00:08:42You think she was one?

00:08:44Well, she wasn't dressed up for a garden party.

00:08:48Are you the detective?

00:08:50Aye.

00:08:52Are we back to the chute, Rosie?

00:08:57I hear you found a woman's body.

00:08:59Uh-huh.

00:09:00The cops are going round the doors.

00:09:02So?

00:09:03My wife didn't come home last night.

00:09:06What was your wife wearing?

00:09:08A short red leather skirt, red blouse.

00:09:12She's got curly blonde hair.

00:09:15When did you last see your wife, Mr. Crawford?

00:09:19When she went out to work.

00:09:22Work.

00:09:25What kind of work was that?

00:09:27Just work.

00:09:28Oh.

00:09:29Thanks.

00:09:30Mom.

00:09:35Oh, yeah.

00:09:43Hey, move on.

00:10:02I can't stop here.

00:10:03Move on.

00:10:13Oh, Joyce, what time did you call this, then, eh?

00:10:24Did you get run down by a fire engine?

00:10:25Did you get run down by a fire engine?

00:10:26Listen, son, you're late every morning, Bill.

00:10:28I'm late again and you're on your foot.

00:10:29I'm late every morning and you're on your foot.

00:10:30Don't get in there.

00:10:31Don't get in there.

00:10:32Don't get in there.

00:10:33Don't get in there.

00:10:34You might get run down by a fire engine, some excuse.

00:10:38There was a fire down the road this morning.

00:10:40I saw it myself.

00:10:41It's a wonder he didn't say he started it.

00:10:43Keep the wee lass here and there.

00:10:52I didn't want Pauline to do it.

00:10:54We needed the money.

00:10:56You let your wife be a prostitute?

00:10:57We needed the money.

00:10:59Pay the poll tax, buy food and clothes for Rosie Lee.

00:11:02How else are we supposed to get by?

00:11:04Social services.

00:11:05Around here, that means a money lender.

00:11:07What time did she go out last night?

00:11:10About half past seven.

00:11:11Where was she going?

00:11:13From the square.

00:11:14Was she in the habit of going out without wearing shoes?

00:11:17No.

00:11:19What colour shoes was she wearing?

00:11:22I can't remember.

00:11:24Did she have more than one pair of red shoes?

00:11:27Maybe.

00:11:28She had lots of shoes.

00:11:31It's just that we saw your wee girl playing with a pair that were identical to the clothes.

00:11:34Do you think it was a punter that did it to her?

00:11:36Two children died and a third was seriously burned this morning when a second floor flat

00:11:49in which they were sleeping caught fire.

00:11:51The blaze happened in Gallagate in Glasgow.

00:11:54The parents are currently being treated for shock.

00:11:56The cause of the fire is as yet unknown, but fire chiefs say that arson has been ruled out.

00:12:02In Glasgow today, a propane slender exploded, injuring two workers.

00:12:07I'll not be finished till 11.

00:12:08I'll see you tomorrow.

00:12:09Yes, sir?

00:12:10Can I speak to the detective in charge of the murder inquiry, please?

00:12:15Which murder inquiry is that, sir?

00:12:18The prostitute.

00:12:19Oh, aye.

00:12:20You see, I did it.

00:12:22Amazing what lividity stains can tell you.

00:12:29In this case, she was kept in an upside-down position for some time after death.

00:12:34Upside down?

00:12:35Yes.

00:12:36Head first with her legs probably folded in on top.

00:12:39Then, after four to five hours, she was taken out and mutilated.

00:12:46She must have been kept in something.

00:12:48Like a cupboard or a trunk.

00:12:50People don't keep bodies in trunks these days.

00:12:52That went out with arsenic.

00:12:54Does away with the punter theory.

00:12:56Aye.

00:12:58Yes, he's here.

00:12:59It demolishes it completely.

00:13:01Can you hang on a minute?

00:13:02It's for you.

00:13:09Tigard.

00:13:10Uh-huh.

00:13:11Do we know him?

00:13:12Right.

00:13:13Keep him in there.

00:13:14It's Jack the Ripper.

00:13:15He's confessed.

00:13:16Well, she wouldn't do what I wanted her to do, right?

00:13:17So...

00:13:18So I stabbed her.

00:13:19And I don't know what happened.

00:13:20I went...

00:13:21I lost control and I just stabbed her and kept on stabbing her.

00:13:22What was she wearing?

00:13:23Wearing?

00:13:24Uh-huh.

00:13:25Well, the usual, you know, short skirt.

00:13:26What colour?

00:13:27Blue, I think.

00:13:28You sure about that?

00:13:29No.

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00:13:54You sure about that?

00:13:55Couldn't have been green?

00:13:58Aye.

00:13:59Aye.

00:14:00You're right, it was.

00:14:01It was green.

00:14:02Now, you remember, son ...

00:14:03I know what she was wearing.

00:14:05I saw the body.

00:14:06It wasn't a pretty sight.

00:14:08But I'll tell you a worse sight.

00:14:09It's me!

00:14:12When I get people like you wasting my time,

00:14:15that's what I'm charging you with.

00:14:17Wasting my time!

00:14:18Oh, no, no.

00:14:19It's true.

00:14:20Evereston!

00:14:21How would I know her name if we could-

00:14:22But you can read.

00:14:23you can hardly charge me wasting very much please can't i it's a misnomer anyway the charge is

00:14:40giving false information thereby wrongly rendering oneself open to suspicion accusation and arrest

00:14:45do you want to get in there and be his lawyer anyway p.s officer reluctant to bring charges

00:14:50against these guys i'll get an arrangement the psychiatric hospital okay i'll make an arrangement

00:14:55with them i'll lock him up and then they can analyze them how's that here's the report from

00:15:01the girls on the square what's up oh nothing confesses one we know and human well you know

00:15:10the procedure better get him seen by a doctor well he's a bit of sympathy and understanding

00:15:15answer well perhaps you can understand that

00:15:22hello easy care take the way in bed in the room

00:15:47well david there are a few parts of your story you don't quite believe

00:16:07we were making inquiries in the square prostitutes are very helpful when it's one of their own that's

00:16:14been murdered they were telling us your wife liked she used to work in red red shoes red blouse red

00:16:21handbag why do you suppose she went out without her red shoes last night i told you she had lots of

00:16:28issues she did she never made the square

00:16:32seven thirty the time you said she left here that was the time she died according to the pathologist

00:16:41what are you saying what i'm saying is we think you know more about your wife's death than you're

00:16:48telling us i don't know anymore where did you drag her downstairs in we know she was upside down

00:16:55i don't know what you're talking about what we're saying is what did you take her downstairs in your

00:17:04wife the mother of your child you took her down in something before you ripped her apart

00:17:08and we've got somebody that saw you doing it drunk what drunk mr crawford you're going to be asked

00:17:20questions about the death of your wife pauline you're not bound to answer but if you do your answers

00:17:27will be noted and may be used in evidence do you understand what does he stop doing

00:17:35get anything out of it he's not just a time waster i'd say he's definitely in need of psychiatric

00:17:58treatment he's very anxious to tell me his life story reminds me of one of mine came in every week

00:18:05for years even if there wasn't a mother one thing confessing seems to have made him very happy

00:18:35so

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00:19:05are you from glasgow john

00:19:27well i was brought up in a children's home in helensboro my mother died when i was four

00:19:39i don't know who my father was

00:19:41they say he was a detective from the police

00:19:45do you remember your mother

00:19:47nah not really

00:19:49i think she had a big moon face but i mean that's about all i can remember

00:19:53and i had a brother in new zealand but he died a couple of weeks ago

00:19:57he was with me in st mungo's you know the children's home

00:20:01he was the lucky one

00:20:03he got adopted

00:20:05where do you live now

00:20:07well at the moment where mr gemmo that's my landlord but he's moving so i need to find somewhere else

00:20:11been there quite a while

00:20:13been there quite a while

00:20:15well since i was about 16.

00:20:17him and his wife they used to take in homeless boys

00:20:21i'm the only one left

00:20:25are you recording me dr clint

00:20:27yes

00:20:29do you mind

00:20:31it reminds me of inviting the police station

00:20:57you

00:21:21what

00:21:27Are you all right?

00:21:31It's my leg! You've broken my leg, you bastard!

00:21:34Break back, Maggie. The O'Wheel-Germiton.

00:21:38To prove the break-back capital punishment campaign.

00:21:45I'll take you to hospital.

00:21:47You've been drinking!

00:21:49Listen, do me a favour and say it was somebody else that hit you.

00:21:53I'll take you to hospital, but you have to say it was somebody else.

00:21:56Nobody will know.

00:21:58Look. Here.

00:22:02You can have this. It's over a hundred. Take it.

00:22:05I'm not going into a car with you, you bastard.

00:22:07Listen, I just got my licence back right. I was banned for two years.

00:22:10I could go to jail this time.

00:22:12If you just say it was somebody else that hit you, I'll make it five hundred.

00:22:16Keep your money and get me some help.

00:22:18No-one will know. No-one will ever know.

00:22:21It'll just be between you and...

00:22:23When I get out of here, I'll go to the police.

00:22:25Look. I'll help you. In any way I can.

00:22:30Just say it wasn't me.

00:22:42Help me! Somebody! Somebody help me!

00:22:46For God's sake, somebody help me!

00:22:48Let me give you some statistics.

00:22:51Last year in Great Britain, there were committed 386 murders.

00:22:57386 innocent lives taken away.

00:23:01Suppose it was your mother or father, your husband or wife, your child.

00:23:06What right do you have to commit judicial murder?

00:23:09I don't believe hanging is murder. It's a deterrent.

00:23:12And if it deters, it prevents murder.

00:23:14What do you mean hanging isn't murder?

00:23:16You can't bring somebody back once they're hanged.

00:23:18Isn't it the Bible that says, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?

00:23:24Don't quote that Bible at me. I've probably read it more than you have.

00:23:28Any more questions?

00:23:29I haven't finished yet. What about the Birmingham Six?

00:23:32All the innocent Irish and British people in jail?

00:23:35What about Timothy Evans?

00:23:37Everyone talks about Timothy Evans.

00:23:40Suppose a surgeon makes a mistake and the patient dies.

00:23:45Does that mean we stop doing operations?

00:23:48Of course it doesn't.

00:23:50You're talking a lot of shite, lady.

00:23:53Thank you for listening.

00:23:56Thank you very much.

00:23:59You people are all the same. I haven't a clue.

00:24:01Let her go. She's finished answering questions for today.

00:24:04She's the candidate. I want to ask her questions.

00:24:06And she's answered all of them. Now just leave her alone.

00:24:08You got a problem. You heard what the guy said. Now beat her.

00:24:11I don't like questions because you don't have any answers.

00:24:14Okay. Break her up.

00:24:16On your way. You lot are just as bad.

00:24:20Thanks. You get these cranks.

00:24:25You sure he's the crank?

00:24:26Oh, by the way, if you're going to quote the Bible,

00:24:29why not try it? Thou shalt not kill.

00:24:37You know that one, Ron?

00:24:39After my time.

00:24:46Another place we could hand them out is at subway stations.

00:24:49Well, only Hill Head and St Enix would be busy enough.

00:24:54Now we need places where people are going to stop and listen.

00:24:57You're not going to start that now.

00:24:59Well, when do I get the chance?

00:25:01You'd be much more useful helping with these.

00:25:04Helping lose your deposit, you mean?

00:25:06Ignore them, Jean.

00:25:07Ignore them, Jean.

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00:25:43Hmm. So how's your campaign going, Mr Hay? Much support?

00:25:47Oh, no, it's not my campaign. It's Mrs Gillan's.

00:25:50I'm just the agent in general factotum.

00:25:53Come along to our next meeting if you're interested.

00:25:56Next Friday.

00:25:59Aye.

00:26:01I may just do that.

00:26:02What made you take on that job?

00:26:04The order book's not exactly full, Mr Lytton.

00:26:06Is there a problem?

00:26:08I don't believe in hanging, that's all.

00:26:10I'm sorry, but I didn't think we could afford to turn down work.

00:26:13We can't.

00:26:14You cannot be a liberal in this business.

00:26:16Besides, everyone else here supports capital punishment.

00:26:19Everyone else here might.

00:26:29He's only a kid.

00:26:32I wonder where his bike is.

00:26:33Sir!

00:26:39Sir!

00:26:40Here we go.

00:26:47What a mess.

00:26:48Hit and run.

00:26:50The head injuries didn't look accidental.

00:26:53The frame might be coded.

00:26:56Hey.

00:26:57What is it?

00:26:59Button.

00:27:00And don't forget the projects on David Ritchfield

00:27:03and his relationship to Mary, Queen of Scots

00:27:06and how it would have been reported in today's tabloids.

00:27:11Thank you, Mrs Lee.

00:27:13Stop!

00:27:13I told you not to come up here.

00:27:27You know how children talk.

00:27:29They're not children.

00:27:30They're young adults.

00:27:32I had some time off.

00:27:33I thought you might want to take a trip on the boat.

00:27:34I've got marking.

00:27:38Well, I had.

00:27:40I had.

00:27:40Do you have to hurry back so fast?

00:27:53Nope.

00:27:54George has a party committee meeting.

00:27:56Probably won't be back till midnight.

00:27:58Ah.

00:27:59Another meeting of the hangers and floggers, huh?

00:28:01Mm-hmm.

00:28:06You know what I've never been able to understand?

00:28:10You saw your sister's husband murdered in the street.

00:28:12She's the candidate.

00:28:14Your husband's her agent.

00:28:17And yet you don't support the campaign.

00:28:19It was a long time ago.

00:28:21I want to know what happened.

00:28:24He was a masked gunman

00:28:25and he killed Joanna's husband.

00:28:29That's it.

00:28:30We identified him.

00:28:32Well, if he was wearing a mask,

00:28:33how did you identify him?

00:28:34It came off in the struggle.

00:28:35Look, I've spent years trying to blot out the memory

00:28:37and I don't want to relive it.

00:28:42You shouldn't try to suppress traumatic events.

00:28:46It's not healthy.

00:28:49I don't need Freud, thank you.

00:28:52I need you.

00:28:58Joanne!

00:29:01Just a wee minute.

00:29:02Bye, lad.

00:29:04As you know,

00:29:05things have not been easy here for a while.

00:29:08Overheads and...

00:29:09Look, I'm not talking about redundancies at the moment.

00:29:11I'm just letting you know it might come to that.

00:29:13I see.

00:29:14All I'm doing is just warning you

00:29:16so that you know.

00:29:18Now, I understand.

00:29:21Well, night then, Mr. Little.

00:29:24Good night.

00:29:24I'm 15.

00:29:34All of you.

00:29:34No.

00:29:34Oh, man.

00:29:35Oh, man.

00:29:36Oh, man.

00:29:37Oh, man.

00:29:38Oh, man.

00:29:39Oh, man.

00:29:40Police in Glasgow are still seeking the killer of 16-year-old Derek Gibson,

00:29:52whose body was found in the roadside grave this morning.

00:29:56This is incredible.

00:29:58James Stewart's skeleton hung on the gibbet for three years after he was hanged.

00:30:04When the bones fell apart, they wired them up again as a reminder.

00:30:08I hope you're not suggesting they do that.

00:30:16Good news about that button, sir.

00:30:18Thank you, Michael.

00:30:19Yeah.

00:30:20It comes off a blazer.

00:30:22It's from a line called the Palaccio Moderna.

00:30:25It's a very exclusive design.

00:30:26There's only about three shops in Glasgow that sell it.

00:30:28So there can't be many people wearing them.

00:30:32Where's Jim?

00:30:33In there, sir.

00:30:38Oh, what do you want now?

00:30:41Can't I have some peace?

00:30:42Friend of yours in the interview room, Jim?

00:30:45Nowhere sacred.

00:30:47Name a Greenie.

00:30:48John Greenie.

00:30:52Oh, God.

00:30:53That guy you found by the side of the road.

00:30:56It was me that killed him and put him there.

00:30:59How did it happen?

00:31:00I was just riding along on my bike.

00:31:03And he had a puncture, so I stopped and fixed it.

00:31:06He was asking for a shot on my motorbike, but he'd never driven one before, so I gave him a backie.

00:31:10Then when we're riding along, he starts putting his arms around me.

00:31:14Well, I'm no into that sort of thing, you know.

00:31:16Well, I just lost my temper, right?

00:31:18So, what did you do with his bike?

00:31:25Just left it by the side of the road.

00:31:27What did you use to strangle him with?

00:31:30My bare hands.

00:31:32Oh.

00:31:36You give me one reason why the PF won't charge these people.

00:31:41One good reason.

00:31:42It damages their therapy.

00:31:45Damage.

00:31:45All damage is therapy.

00:31:47I mean, what do psychiatrists do when they get a hold of these guys?

00:31:53They're sick, Jim.

00:31:56So am I, sir.

00:32:17Yes, gentlemen, can I help you?

00:32:35Police.

00:32:36We're interested in customers that have bought one of these blazers.

00:32:39Have you sold many?

00:32:40Yeah.

00:32:41Quite a few since they came in.

00:32:44It's a new line.

00:32:47What's it about?

00:32:49Some other inquiry.

00:32:50We found one of these buttons.

00:32:53Would you be able to trace any customers through credit card slips and that sort of thing?

00:32:59Just let me check in the office.

00:33:01Oh, by the way, have you got a stock of spare buttons?

00:33:06Yeah.

00:33:07I won't be a minute.

00:33:17Tim, we've got a couple of customers out there.

00:33:35Hi, guys.

00:33:35My humanity's first Immersion Mandalorian in the Mac한다 himself.

00:33:36We've got a car' there, and there's a car' there.

00:33:37I don't even know when that's tournaments.

00:33:37But since I don't know when I'm around.

00:33:40Even the most nostalgia developments.

00:33:40Oh, my God.

00:33:41Oh, my God.

00:33:42What if you say this Lobo?

00:33:42Oh, my God.

00:33:43Yeah, well, please.

00:33:44And that's what I'mク良 now.

00:33:45Oh, my God.

00:33:57My secretary thinks I've stopped smoking.

00:34:00He should.

00:34:02It can damage your health.

00:34:04We were talking about your brother.

00:34:07How do you feel about the fact that he was adopted as a new errant?

00:34:13Jealous.

00:34:13Rejected.

00:34:19Was that the same kind of rejection you felt when Mr Gemmell told you you had to leave?

00:34:25Well, I was a kid then. It was more difficult to cope with.

00:34:30Tell me about the children's home.

00:34:33It's in Mungo's, wasn't it?

00:34:35Could you pass me the sugar, please?

00:34:43For Labour, there are three other candidates in the running in this historic by-election here in Glasgow.

00:34:51Dick Williams for the Nuclear Free West of Scotland party.

00:34:55Joanna Gillan, the referendum for Capital Punishment party.

00:34:59And Jean Taggart for the better deal for the disabled.

00:35:03Well, I think that disabled people have had a very rough deal.

00:35:06And what I want to show is that they can do something about it.

00:35:11You tell them.

00:35:11Joanna Gillan, the referendum for Capital Punishment.

00:35:13Well, that's it for a couple of days.

00:35:33I can enjoy a drink tonight.

00:35:34I hope your anniversary goes okay.

00:35:37Yeah, like Will, if this damn election campaign isn't discussed.

00:35:41I've got to talk over wedding plans again.

00:35:45You take my advice.

00:35:46You run while you have the chance.

00:35:53Well, here's to another seven happy years, both of you.

00:35:56Thank you, George.

00:35:59And here's to the campaign.

00:36:00Did you see me interviewed the other night?

00:36:07No, I was out.

00:36:08Oh, that's a shame.

00:36:10Yes.

00:36:11Look, your sister can't stay in all night just on the off chance that you'll appear on television.

00:36:15They gave me the longest bit, other than the main candidates.

00:36:19It was very good, wasn't it, George?

00:36:21Mm-hmm.

00:36:21Yeah.

00:36:22They put across our whole case.

00:36:24Look, I thought we weren't going to talk about that tonight.

00:36:27So did I.

00:36:28There must be another subject other than hanging.

00:36:30Well, it's a bit difficult to avoid.

00:36:32What with nominations going in in three days.

00:36:35If everyone who supports capital punishment votes for me, I'll beat all the others.

00:36:41Shall we order?

00:36:44Okay, what's up?

00:36:48This campaign's important to me, Donald.

00:36:54He's been dead eight years.

00:36:56How can you be jealous of someone who's been dead eight years?

00:36:59That's just what this campaign's all about, isn't it?

00:37:03Avenging him.

00:37:05You know, ever since we got married, you've done nothing but go on about him and the murder.

00:37:11Thank God I can get away most of the time.

00:37:13Well, when I do come home, where are you?

00:37:17You're out with George.

00:37:20Spend more time with your sister's husband than you do with me.

00:37:23He's my agent.

00:37:25Oh, God.

00:37:26You're not jealous of him, too, are you?

00:37:27I couldn't stand it.

00:37:28Then why, for God's sake, did you spend most of our wedding anniversary talking with him?

00:37:32If you stop the car, I'll walk.

00:37:35Don't be laid back, Tim.

00:37:58I've got an appointment at one o'clock.

00:37:59We're getting nowhere, sir.

00:38:10All we know is that the colour of the car is red.

00:38:13It had twin-ply radial tyres.

00:38:17And there are thousands of them.

00:38:20That and a button off a fancy blazer.

00:38:22We checked all the names that were given to us by the three Glasgow shops.

00:38:27But there was one cash sale, which we obviously can't trace.

00:38:32No idea of a motive?

00:38:35The boy was a keen sportsman.

00:38:37No girlfriends.

00:38:38No drugs.

00:38:40No connection with crime.

00:38:44Tiger?

00:38:45Hello.

00:38:46This is Ken Rose.

00:38:48The Enigma boutique.

00:38:50You asked me to give you a ring if anyone came in asking for a spare button.

00:38:56I've just had someone in.

00:38:58Have you got a description?

00:39:00He was about, uh, five feet nine.

00:39:04Designer stubble, that kind.

00:39:06Had a small earring in the left ear.

00:39:11Oh, Andy spoke with an English accent.

00:39:14Have you seen him before?

00:39:16Yes.

00:39:17He was, in fact, the first person that I sold one of these, uh, jackets to.

00:39:21When was this?

00:39:22Only a couple of minutes ago.

00:39:27Yes.

00:39:28I'll be here.

00:39:29I'll be here.

00:39:44Uh, I've described him all I can to you.

00:39:55I really can't remember any more about him.

00:39:58You said an English accent.

00:40:00You couldn't be more specific about that.

00:40:02Cockney, North Country.

00:40:04Uh, I wouldn't know.

00:40:08Uh, Cockney, maybe.

00:40:11East End, like in the, uh, the programme.

00:40:15Two minutes before you rang.

00:40:19They'll be on that.

00:40:24Can we see the table?

00:40:25Uh, no, um, I mean, I haven't actually got a, uh, replay, um, facility.

00:40:32It, it's, it's broken.

00:40:35Oh, well.

00:40:37We'll just take a bike to the station.

00:40:41Yeah.

00:40:42Of course.

00:40:43Invisible man.

00:40:50Why would he lie?

00:40:52Do we have anything on Mr. Rose?

00:41:08Yeah.

00:41:13I'm off, Paul.

00:41:21I've got to pick up Joanna, get to the printers, and off to the meeting.

00:41:24George, that hand ratty book, is it sold?

00:41:27Uh, yes.

00:41:28I thought so.

00:41:29Not very solid.

00:41:31Hello.

00:41:32Come to see me or your uncle?

00:41:33These books nearly ended up in the bin.

00:41:35I take it they are valuable.

00:41:36She's come to see her uncle.

00:41:38Off you go to your meeting.

00:41:39See you tonight, dear.

00:41:40He's always rushing everywhere.

00:41:45Well, the campaign is important to him.

00:41:47Even more to your sister.

00:41:49With all the crime books he reads,

00:41:51I'm sure George would make a better murderer than the folks he wants to hang.

00:41:54No, I don't think so.

00:41:56The books he reads are a lesson in why not to commit murder.

00:41:59Well, his assistant said he had a red BMW.

00:42:20Appears to the front on the day after the murder.

00:42:23Just got his license back.

00:42:26Drink driving, eh?

00:42:27Yeah, he had a reputation for it, apparently.

00:42:30Not only did Rose own one of those blazers himself,

00:42:33he met some colleagues in the Wheat Sheaf Inn on Wednesday lunchtime.

00:42:35It's only a mile from the locust.

00:42:38If he hadn't made that phone call, we'd never have got him.

00:42:42I tried to be too clever.

00:42:44Michael, what have I told you?

00:42:46There are no clever murderers.

00:42:49John, this is Mr. Collins.

00:43:06He's considering buying the hoose.

00:43:08John is my lodger.

00:43:10He'll be going when I go.

00:43:12Windows are needing an awful lot of attention.

00:43:14They open and shut, all right?

00:43:16Can I see you up in the loft?

00:43:17That's why this campaign was formed.

00:43:38To tell our elected members of parliament who consistently vote against hanging

00:43:45that they're out of touch with the wishes of the majority of the British people.

00:43:49Without taking up any more of your time,

00:43:58I would like now to introduce you to someone who has had personal experience of murder.

00:44:07Our candidate, Mrs. Joanna Gillan.

00:44:11You sure you're all right?

00:44:29Yes, Gronk, I just had to go, that's all.

00:44:31I'm OK now.

00:44:33Certainly got the sympathy of the odds.

00:44:34She doesn't need to faint to do that.

00:44:35Get the door for her.

00:44:36I'll go straight to Bethanywana.

00:44:45She will.

00:44:46I'm driving her straight to her.

00:44:48Good night.

00:44:49Good night.

00:45:19Good night.

00:45:20Good night.

00:45:42Finally got here.

00:46:04Two shots to the head, each. Powder burn marks.

00:46:08I'm no firearms man, but they were shot at very close range.

00:46:12And before you ask, sometime around late last night or early this morning.

00:46:17A tidy job? Yeah.

00:46:21One of the election candidates.

00:46:25Aye.

00:46:27She was a policeman's widow.

00:46:34Sorry, sir, late night last night.

00:46:37Well, this'll wake you up. Joanna Gillan.

00:46:41Is that the one you had a brush with last week?

00:46:44Yeah. And him too.

00:46:47He was part of the team.

00:46:49I don't know his name. He was just involved in the campaign.

00:46:52Well, our agent's name is George Hay.

00:46:55Maybe that's him.

00:46:57A lot of couples come up here courting.

00:47:00Well, you'd know all about that.

00:47:09Anna Green Gables is her most famous, of course.

00:47:12Although I've always had a preference for Anna Windy Poffler myself.

00:47:15It's a collection of 22, all signed by the author.

00:47:19Various publishers, various dates.

00:47:21Mr Cooper. Yes?

00:47:23Please.

00:47:24Can we have a word, please?

00:47:26Oh, certainly.

00:47:27This is my niece, Leslie.

00:47:29My partner's wife.

00:47:30Uh-huh.

00:47:31Your partner?

00:47:32Did he have the van last night?

00:47:34Something's happened to him.

00:47:36What's happened?

00:47:37Could you tell us where he was last night?

00:47:39Who he was out with?

00:47:40He was at a campaign meeting with my sister.

00:47:42What's happened?

00:47:43Do you know where they went afterwards?

00:47:44What's happened?

00:47:45Why don't you tell us?

00:47:47Well...

00:47:49I'm afraid they were both murdered last night.

00:48:02Now, it's all right.

00:48:04Don't worry.

00:48:05I'll see to them and I'll be along in a minute.

00:48:07You take her to my office.

00:48:09I'm very sorry, but she's in no state to talk to you now.

00:48:12We're her husband and sister lovers, Mr Cooper.

00:48:19Lovers?

00:48:20It's a very simple question.

00:48:22Of course not.

00:48:24I take it Joanna remarried, huh?

00:48:27What does her husband do?

00:48:28He's an airline pilot.

00:48:30Joanna and George Hay.

00:48:33I don't believe it.

00:48:36Were you getting on all right together?

00:48:38Yes, fine.

00:48:40She was just taken up with this election.

00:48:43Weren't you worried when she didn't come home?

00:48:45Sometimes stayed over with George and Liz.

00:48:48Look, I don't want to hide anything.

00:48:51We...

00:48:52Yes, we did have a row about it the other night.

00:48:55Her first husband was a policeman who was murdered eight years ago.

00:48:59This damn election brought her all back as...

00:49:02as though she'd never got over it.

00:49:05She left at 6.30.

00:49:08What did you do then?

00:49:10Just watched the telly and went to bed about 10.

00:49:13Bit early, wasn't it?

00:49:14I'm a pilot.

00:49:16I need my sleep.

00:49:27Is that a new bike then, John?

00:49:29Aye.

00:49:304,000?

00:49:31Not be coming off your redundancy pair, innit?

00:49:34Oh, I'll get it.

00:49:35Oh, aye.

00:49:36Well, get me one while you're at it.

00:49:37Oh.

00:49:38Hello, Mrs Little.

00:49:39Oh.

00:49:40He's through in the office.

00:49:42Oh, thanks then, woman.

00:49:43Hey, how's Linda and the kids?

00:49:46Fine.

00:49:47Aye, aye, they're fine.

00:49:48Good, good.

00:49:49Well, don't let me stop you, gentlemen.

00:49:51He's caught you skiving.

00:49:52That'll go right back to the old man.

00:49:55You think neither of them knew about the affair?

00:49:58Could be jealousy, but there are other motives.

00:50:01I wouldn't think it's anything to do with the election, sir.

00:50:04Why?

00:50:08Anyway, I want all the candidates watched.

00:50:12There's seven of them so far, including your wife.

00:50:16Such is democracy.

00:50:24And if that doesn't get you to sleep, I've got some insom here.

00:50:27What's this now?

00:50:28It's an amino acid.

00:50:30What are you trying to do to me?

00:50:32It's perfectly natural.

00:50:34It's a chemical your body produces to tell your brain to go to sleep.

00:50:37Look at a horse.

00:50:38I have a print shop to run, not a stable.

00:50:42Good day at work, John?

00:50:49Aye.

00:50:51Well, I had to fill in.

00:50:53You know, there was someone off sick.

00:50:55You'll be getting promotion.

00:50:57I've sold the house to that Mr. Collins.

00:51:01It was a firm offer.

00:51:03Has you found somewhere else?

00:51:06I'm looking.

00:51:07There's a lady at the Kirk.

00:51:09She has a spare room going.

00:51:11I'll find somewhere, Mr. Gemmell.

00:51:16I propose Gordon as our new candidate.

00:51:18I'll second that.

00:51:20Are there any other suggestions?

00:51:22Move to the vote.

00:51:24Not until I've had other suggestions.

00:51:26The motion is move to the vote.

00:51:28Will somebody second that?

00:51:30I'll second that.

00:51:31I'll second that.

00:51:32All those for?

00:51:33Those against?

00:51:35Abstentions?

00:51:37I therefore declare that Gordon Ingalls our new candidate.

00:51:45What's your problem, Ron?

00:51:58Who you calling a grave problem?

00:52:00Just seems in bad taste, that's all.

00:52:02It's what they would have wanted.

00:52:04Think of the publicity.

00:52:05Publicity?

00:52:06Publicity?

00:52:07Mean capital out of their murders.

00:52:08Is that all you can think of?

00:52:09Oh, look, Ron.

00:52:10We all know you were a policeman for 30 years.

00:52:12You even put her husband's killer away.

00:52:14You should have stood yourself.

00:52:15I'm too old.

00:52:16Oh, well, there you are.

00:52:18All comes down to personalities, doesn't it?

00:52:21We've agreed that Gordon should stand.

00:52:24So can we leave it at that?

00:52:26We'll be needing an agent for the campaign.

00:52:29Nothing you should do, Doris.

00:52:31You work for an accountants.

00:52:33We need someone to keep control of the budget.

00:52:34I'll second that.

00:52:36Well, if that's the general feeling.

00:52:39But I don't promise miracles, though.

00:52:41But what about Gordon's nomination?

00:52:43We need the signatures of ten constituents.

00:52:45Twenty, to be sure.

00:52:47And move a day to do it.

00:52:49So we'll just have to go round the doors.

00:52:52Air on.

00:52:54They all say the same, sir.

00:53:12Not George.

00:53:13Not Joanna.

00:53:15I don't think our George is Glasgow's answer to Errol Flynn.

00:53:20In my experience, they're the buggers to watch.

00:53:23George.

00:53:24George's wife, Leslie, is having a mild fit of hysteria.

00:53:29Mind you.

00:53:31She didn't raise the alarm when he didn't come home.

00:53:34I mean, if Gene was out all night, I'd be ringing around everybody.

00:53:37Everyone's marriage is as happy as you, sir.

00:53:40The ballistic report's quite interesting.

00:53:437.63 caliber ammunition.

00:53:45Most unusual.

00:53:46Probably fired from a broom-handled Moser.

00:53:47That's an old world war gun.

00:53:48And the Boer War.

00:53:49Theories?

00:53:50Joanna and her sister were ID witnesses at the trial of her husband's killer.

00:53:51Hugh Kidson.

00:53:52Someone looking for revenge?

00:53:53Kidson's inside.

00:53:54No known associates.

00:53:55It looks like a cold-blooded killing, sir.

00:53:56Professional job?

00:53:57Well, it happens.

00:53:58Not just in America.

00:53:59I'd like to put Leslie here under surveillance.

00:54:00I've got a feeling about her, you know.

00:54:01She's almost too distressed.

00:54:02Anything else?

00:54:03We've appealed for all the hangers and floggers that were at the meeting to come forward.

00:54:04I wonder who they'll choose for her next week.

00:54:05I'm going to call her husband's killer.

00:54:06I need to call her husband's killer.

00:54:07Hugh Kidson.

00:54:08Someone looking for revenge?

00:54:09Kidson's inside.

00:54:10No known associates.

00:54:11It looks like a cold-blooded killing, sir.

00:54:12Professional job?

00:54:13Well, it happens.

00:54:14Not just in America.

00:54:16I'd like to put Leslie here under surveillance.

00:54:19I've got a feeling about her, you know.

00:54:23She's almost too distressed.

00:54:25Anything else?

00:54:26We've appealed for all the hangers and floggers that were at the meeting to come forward.

00:54:31I wonder who they'll choose for their next candidate.

00:54:34I expect they've thrown in the tunnel.

00:54:36Nah.

00:54:37Not their style, sir.

00:54:38Let's cover the road to the real drinky.

00:54:45Aye.

00:55:01What do you want?

00:55:02I'll have a large brandy, sir.

00:55:03Orange juice, please.

00:55:04I'll take a whiskey, please.

00:55:05Chief Inspector Taggart.

00:55:06Cameron Dixon.

00:55:07How about that Lover's Lane double murder?

00:55:08There's no one here.

00:55:09I just wondered with Mrs. Taggart standing in the same election.

00:55:10You keep your snout out of my personal life.

00:55:11Can I quote you in that?

00:55:12Yeah.

00:55:13Okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:55:14Sorry.

00:55:15Just doing my job.

00:55:16Guys.

00:55:17Good morning, sir.

00:55:28yeah yeah okay okay okay sorry

00:55:37just doing my job guys good morning sir my name is Gordon Ingalls and I'm

00:55:47seeking nominations for the referendum for capital punishment campaign party I

00:55:50was wondering

00:55:58yeah

00:56:05yeah

00:56:10yeah

00:56:13yeah

00:56:16yeah

00:56:19yeah

00:56:22yeah

00:56:28Yes?

00:56:48Detective Chief Inspector Taggart.

00:56:50Give me a couple of minutes of your time.

00:56:52I'm a bit busy, Inspector.

00:56:53Chief Inspector?

00:56:55Yeah, well, I've still got ten nominations to get before o'clock this afternoon.

00:56:59My investigation takes precedence over your campaign.

00:57:02Oh, that's where you're wrong.

00:57:03Nothing's more important than letting ordinary people walk the streets at night without fear.

00:57:07Don't give me a speech.

00:57:09I'll pick up the pieces.

00:57:11If you don't mind me saying, it's do-gooders like you that have got us into this state.

00:57:14Anne!

00:57:20Your name is Gibson.

00:57:22Edward Gibson.

00:57:22Are you getting dinner, mate?

00:57:25I'm not meant to.

00:57:25Calton State, number 24.

00:57:28Excuse me a minute.

00:57:35What's going on out there?

00:57:36The law and order brigade that we're having to meet.

00:57:38Coming in response.

00:57:39Listen, sir.

00:57:40Guess what I just found out from the new candidate?

00:57:43Ron Clark is on the committee of that hanging bunch.

00:57:45Who's Ron Clark?

00:57:46Retired Chief Inspector.

00:57:48He put kids in the way.

00:57:50Might be worth a visit, eh?

00:57:51Listen, sir.

00:57:52There's somebody waiting for you in the interview room.

00:57:55Who?

00:57:59Mr. Taggart.

00:58:01This time I did it.

00:58:04This time I really did.

00:58:05Oh.

00:58:05She said I was being unreasonable.

00:58:30Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:58:35I only wanted to let sleeping dogs lie.

00:58:40Bloody first husband of hers is always frank this, frank that.

00:58:47So what could I do?

00:58:49Nothing.

00:58:50Oh, no, no.

00:58:51That's not true.

00:58:53No, I should just have let her get the election over with.

00:58:56Oh, son of a bastard.

00:59:06And now the police think that I did it.

00:59:10Yeah, I hired some Chicago hitman to do in my own wife.

00:59:14Oh, and I made sure I was in Bahrain, not in Bear Stearn at the time.

00:59:22Three times they've been to see me.

00:59:24Three times.

00:59:25I'm not joking.

00:59:28I'm sorry, Don.

00:59:30I'm sorry.

00:59:32Well, who the hell are you looking at?

00:59:34Oh, no, I've got to face Leslie at the funeral.

00:59:52John, I'm a happy-go-lucky bloke.

00:59:57Anything for a quiet life.

00:59:59Feet up in the fire.

01:00:01A wee dram now and again.

01:00:02But there's one thing I can't stand.

01:00:06And that is people that tell me fibs.

01:00:08But I'm not.

01:00:08Shush, John.

01:00:11Shush, now.

01:00:14Twice you have told me fibs.

01:00:17Now you say you're telling the truth.

01:00:19Aye.

01:00:20Can you tell me in your own words why I should believe you now?

01:00:23Because I really did do it.

01:00:26I work at Littles, the printers.

01:00:28We did their election leaflets and Mr Hay asked me to the meeting.

01:00:32You were at that meeting?

01:00:33Aye.

01:00:35And after it, I stalled my bike in front of his car.

01:00:38He nearly knocked me over.

01:00:39Nearly did my bike in.

01:00:41Aye, me as well.

01:00:42Go on.

01:00:44Well, I followed them up to the castle on my bike.

01:00:47Crept up now.

01:00:48And I shot them.

01:00:49So you shot them because they nearly did your bike in?

01:00:56Aye.

01:00:59Where did you get the gun?

01:01:00Got it off a guy in a pub.

01:01:02Where is it?

01:01:04I threw it into the foundations of a motorway support.

01:01:11Before they poured the concrete in?

01:01:14Aye.

01:01:14Thanks very much.

01:01:17Cheerio.

01:01:22Do you know what he's telling me now?

01:01:25He works in the print shop where they produce their election pamphlets.

01:01:29He does, sir.

01:01:32He works at James Littles, the printers.

01:01:34It's on his file.

01:01:36You mean he's telling me the truth for once?

01:01:39Looks like it.

01:01:39I'll put the greenie.

01:01:46Put him in a motorway support.

01:01:49He's full of the flu.

01:01:51I'm all right.

01:01:52Well, at least come home early tonight, eh?

01:01:54He works all the hours, God's sense.

01:01:57Right.

01:01:58Well, I'll see you later.

01:02:00And remember to take that medicine and don't forget your lunch, right?

01:02:04I'll be very alone.

01:02:05I'll be very alone.

01:02:05Look at this.

01:02:11Squill extract.

01:02:13Cure seems worse than the disease.

01:02:16Do you recognise that?

01:02:18Of course.

01:02:19They were here on the night of the murder.

01:02:21Aye.

01:02:22What time was that?

01:02:24About quarter to seven on their way to their meeting.

01:02:28And were you alone?

01:02:29John was here.

01:02:31John Greeny.

01:02:32He's one of my printers.

01:02:33He's off today.

01:02:34He's ill.

01:02:35Mm-hmm.

01:02:37Did the behaviour seem, um, odd?

01:02:41Not at all.

01:02:42In fact, we had a bit of a laugh.

01:02:44Mrs Gillan said when she won, she'd put some work my way.

01:02:47They were hoping for a big turnout at their meeting.

01:02:51Did they ask you along?

01:02:53Me and John.

01:02:54I'm not really interested in politics.

01:02:57John went, though.

01:02:58He's a funny lad, John.

01:02:59I know that.

01:03:00I know that.

01:03:04Come, please, eh?

01:03:10I know that.

01:03:11I know that.

01:03:12I know that.

01:03:13I know that.

01:03:14It's a good lady.

01:03:15Some place, eh?

01:03:28Aye.

01:03:31Good for tomatoes.

01:03:32Ha-ha.

01:03:32Glasgow Greenhouse.

01:03:35So, George Hay and Joanna Gillan.

01:03:38Hellish, eh?

01:03:39Were you at the meeting?

01:03:41Yes, I left before the end, though.

01:03:42Didn't see them go.

01:03:44Any ideas?

01:03:45Not a clue.

01:03:49George is a gentleman.

01:03:51Joanna, well, I've kept in touch ever since.

01:03:54Did you know Frank Cassidy?

01:03:56No.

01:03:57He was from the south side.

01:03:59Aye, he was a good copper gentleman.

01:04:02Don't suppose there's any connection?

01:04:05Well, Kitchen's been in the funny farm for a year.

01:04:08And I'm certain he was in there in the night in question.

01:04:12Anyway.

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