- 2 months ago
First broadcast 21st February 1998.
Stanley Townsend - Det. Inspector Barrison
Jessica Lloyd - Clare Sallinger
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Jennifer Piercey - Kitty
Stephen Billington - Neville Bruce
Alistair Petrie - Duncan Proctor
Annabel Mullion - Felicity Vale
Calum MacPherson - Buster (as Calum Macpherson)
Akemi Otani - Kiko
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus
Andrew Barrow - Ben
Clarke Peters - Hewie Harper
Amanda Holden - Petra
Jefferson King - Stage Assistant to Adam Klaus
Stanley Townsend - Det. Inspector Barrison
Jessica Lloyd - Clare Sallinger
Alan Davies - Jonathan Creek
Caroline Quentin - Maddy Magellan
Jennifer Piercey - Kitty
Stephen Billington - Neville Bruce
Alistair Petrie - Duncan Proctor
Annabel Mullion - Felicity Vale
Calum MacPherson - Buster (as Calum Macpherson)
Akemi Otani - Kiko
Stuart Milligan - Adam Klaus
Andrew Barrow - Ben
Clarke Peters - Hewie Harper
Amanda Holden - Petra
Jefferson King - Stage Assistant to Adam Klaus
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00:01I'm sorry, were you praying?
00:04I heard the words, oh God, several times.
00:06Duncan, oh no, please.
00:08A chap could come to a very sticky end
00:10if he did something silly.
00:12Oh, Duncan!
00:14We all have to learn to deal with rejection.
00:17Bye, Fliss!
00:19No!
00:23Tell me you never loved me.
00:25You can't.
00:27Felicity,
00:29I never loved you.
00:34Never was happy, now he's with me,
00:36and that should make you happy too.
00:39You're insane!
00:43I think you forgot something.
00:45You didn't tell me you had a sister.
00:47Hello, Chester, how are you?
00:49Huey Harper,
00:51the legendary blind jazz musician.
00:54Right.
00:55Who?
00:56Oh!
00:57Isn't blind.
00:58It's me!
00:59Kitty!
01:00No!
01:01No!
01:02No!
01:03No!
01:04No!
01:05No!
01:09Are you coming or not?
01:10What have you found?
01:11What have you found?
01:23I got the killer's pocket, you reckon?
01:24In the struggle.
01:25Yes, please.
01:26A woman's been murdered.
01:2714, Gallows Gate.
01:28As God is my lord and judge, that's him.
01:29If you could just have a look and tell us his name, please.
01:31I'm sorry, Inspector.
01:32She's made a mistake, I'm afraid.
01:33That man couldn't possibly have murdered, I'm afraid.
01:34That man couldn't possibly have murdered Felicity.
01:35Oh.
01:36And what makes you so sure of that?
01:37Because that man's Duncan Proctor.
01:38He killed himself three weeks ago, jumping out of a window.
01:41He killed himself three weeks.
01:42That man's...
01:43It's...
01:44God is my lord and judge, that's him.
01:46If you could just have a look and tell us his name, please.
01:49I'm sorry, Inspector.
01:51She's made a mistake, I'm afraid.
01:54That man couldn't possibly have murdered Felicity.
01:57Oh.
01:58And what makes you so sure of that?
02:00Because that man's Duncan Proctor.
02:03He killed himself three weeks ago, jumping out of a window.
02:08I'm sorry.
02:37Miss Salinger, there are a lot of names here.
02:40I just need to separate them all in my head.
02:44Felicity Vale was in bed with this chap Neville...
02:48And when Duncan walked in and found them together...
02:51I mean, he was just gaga about Fliss.
02:54Gaga all told.
02:57God knows how much he'd drunk that night.
02:59He just opened a window and...
03:02Okay, we'll leave it there then for tonight.
03:06Obviously, I'll need more from both of you.
03:11For now, if we organise a couple of cars to run you home...
03:15You see to that right.
03:21You two haven't got to be anywhere special, have you?
03:25Yeah, look...
03:27We've already told you everything, we've...
03:30But I don't think we got a formal statement down, did we?
03:36If you'd just pop next door with WPC Hicks for a moment.
03:40When I get your version down in here.
03:52What do you mean, version?
03:54Inspector, I don't very much like the implication behind all...
03:57Madeleine Magellan.
04:00Where are we spelling that surname?
04:02Oh.
04:03Hang on.
04:04Of course.
04:06It'll be on here, won't it?
04:10Scales of Injustice.
04:13An expose of ten shamefully inept criminal prosecutions...
04:18Compiled by...
04:21One G, two L's.
04:29This is unreal.
04:32What am I, Joseph K?
04:38Do you realise this is totally and completely illegal...
04:40And I haven't been charged or anything?
04:47Look.
04:50I need to go to the toilet.
05:10But...
05:17You're not going to give him the key?
05:20You're not serious.
05:23You know what?
05:24This is bordering on date rape.
05:27Before you touch it, I demand to see your fingernails.
05:31So...
05:33Just to get my bearings again here.
05:36When we arrived...
05:38The front door was bolted on the inside.
05:41Wasn't it?
05:43Back door locked.
05:45Windows all locked.
05:47And the only people inside the house apart from the victim...
05:51Were you...
05:53And your friend Lassie in there.
05:56Always.
05:59We both strangled her between us.
06:01And then rang you up.
06:03So you'd come round and arrest us.
06:04No, you're not too fast.
06:06We both strangled her.
06:10Oh, very good.
06:13Why was it, do you suppose, you weren't nominated at the British Comedy Awards?
06:22Come on.
06:24Wakey-wakey.
06:29Hello?
06:34I'm not funny!
06:35Jonathan Creek.
06:37In any respect.
06:39Not funny, Jonathan Creek. In any respect. Oh, God. I was being strangled by a giant
07:01butcher. What time is it? It's actually time to get out of bed. We didn't get in till
07:09gone seven. Those bastards. You won't feel I get the chance to make them sweat. How come
07:16when I stay at your place, you get the bed and I get the sofa, and when you stay at my
07:20place, you still get the bed and I get the sofa? Because you're being terribly chivalrous
07:25and gentlemanly, and very solicitous of my welfare. Do I get anything to eat? So, logically,
07:34there are only two possibilities here, basically. Number one, is he got it wrong, and the man
07:41she saw wasn't this Duncan Proctor bloke, just someone who looked a bit like him. Or two,
07:47it was him, and he isn't really dead. Except he is. Because his chums were all there the
07:54night he threw himself out of that second-floor window. Is that what she said?
07:58That's what she said. Where do you keep your salt? See that cover just above you? Top shelf
08:05right at the back. There's a leaflet from the hospital explaining why it's bad for your arteries.
08:17All right. Evidence. I wish I'd made a list now. But no doubt you can remember it all,
08:24Mr Photographic Memory. That pipe under the wash basin. Duncan Proctor was a pipe smoker. I suppose
08:33you'd say it could have been put there deliberately. It was put there deliberately. Because? If it
08:38had fallen from someone's pocket, some of that loose ash would have spilled out when it hit the floor.
08:43Hang on a minute. This doesn't make sense, does it? Why are you going to frame a man who everyone
08:48knows is dead? The big question is, why did he take off her stockings after he'd killed her and throw
08:53them in that bin? How'd you work that out? You said three of them had just been washed. The other
08:58two, fairly obviously, she'd been wearing. Where'd you get obviously? Because her shoes were lying next to
09:05her on the floor. A pair of tight-fitting boots. There's no way they fell off. They were deliberately
09:11removed there in the bathroom. And would you wear a pair of boots like that on your bare feet?
09:17All right. But the word why springs to mind.
09:21It's got an echo of something I just can't access.
09:24A pair of boots. What the hell does that remind you of?
09:32I'll pop it when it's ready. So what are your plans for today?
09:36My plans? Our plans? What do you think? Going back to Gallows Gate? To find out how a young
09:42woman could be murdered by a ghost.
09:46Look, you've seen everything there is to see. I've had three journalists around here already
09:51today. My hairdryer's just exploded, so it's not exactly the best time in the world.
09:55No problem. Jonathan will fix that for you. He's brilliant with anything electrical, aren't you?
10:03So she was here first then. Felicity. You've been sharing with her how long? Coming up to two years?
10:11Ironically, I thought it'd be safer out here from crime.
10:15Burglaries. Well, you've just been on the receiving end. You know how bad it gets in London.
10:18Never dreamt there.
10:25What did she do then, exactly? Some sort of graphic designer?
10:29She was a cartoonist. Animation work. I don't know if you've seen that advert for soup with the
10:34mushrooms all jumping off a diving board into the pot. You're kidding.
10:39You're even an artist as well. Me? I can't draw a circle around a penny.
10:43Osteopathy is my line of work. I have a little practice in town, off the Charing Cross Road.
10:51Last night was a bit of a late one. If I'd got back half an hour earlier.
10:55Oh, now this is ridiculous!
11:17Problem? The tape's been taken out of this answer machine.
11:23Yes, I noticed that last night.
11:26No, I mean the second one. I put another tape in here, brand new, this morning, to replace
11:33the one that went missing. Now that's gone as well. How in the name of God did that?
11:39Oh, great. We're back in action.
11:41I did my best.
11:46Well, this party war went to at Duncan's house. Where did you say it was?
11:54Northumberland. The other end of the earth, it felt like.
11:57You lived there on a go?
11:59I have no family, as far as I know. We've been in the army a couple of years. Had some friends
12:05who were still serving. We never saw it as a career.
12:09And when he met Felicity, he just fell hopelessly in love.
12:16I don't think Duncan loved Fliss. She wasn't easy to love. She wasn't easy to understand
12:21at all. He was obsessed with her, which is quite another thing. And that's why he did
12:27it, I'm sure, when he found out about Neville. To punish her. Of course, a week later, Neville
12:32had already found someone else.
12:34Oriental lady. That's right. He told Fliss it was all over. She just couldn't deal with.
12:41I mean, it demolished her completely. So, how did he do it?
12:52Sorry?
12:53Duncan. How could he have jumped to his death from that parapet in full view of everyone,
12:58and then come back again three weeks later to commit a murder? How can he possibly still
13:03be alive?
13:04Well, he can't, can he?
13:06Yeah, he is.
13:08What do you mean?
13:10I thought that was why you both want...
13:13You mean you don't know?
13:15Know what?
13:17The police rang just before you arrived. Those boots Felicity was wearing,
13:22that she bought brand new only three days ago. Duncan's fingerprints were all over them.
13:32Oh. Oh. I don't know what to say.
13:38One word would do it.
13:41Yes.
13:45Evening.
13:46Neville Bruce, is it? We haven't met.
13:48Madeleine Magellan.
13:49I hope you don't mind. I rang your secretary at work. She was incredibly helpful.
13:53Nice telephone matter as well. I'd turn on to her if I were you.
13:57Tell me if I'm interrupting anything, by the way. I just need to have a brief word about Felicity Vale,
14:03who I understand you were quite heavily involved with before, um...
14:08You know, obviously, that she was found strangled to death last night at her cottage.
14:12I've told the police everything I know. Who are you?
14:16I'm a professional investigator, acting on behalf of the deceased life assurance company.
14:21Any information you can give us could help speed up the processing of her family's claim.
14:26I was wondering if you could tell me, for instance, when you last actually saw Miss Vale alive.
14:33It would have been a couple of days ago. She came round to my house. She was rather hysterical and...
14:39I had to be blunt with her about how things stood.
14:43I don't know if they told you, but there was a witness who actually saw the murder take place.
14:49In fact, she's identified the killer.
14:51As Duncan Proctor, which speaks volumes for the accuracy of her testimony.
14:55Well, she has now looked at a lot of photos of...
14:58Forgive me, but I was in the room when he jumped.
15:01I saw him on the ground. No human being on earth could walk away from that.
15:05The man is dead. I'm sorry, she's mistaken.
15:08She could be mistaken, Mr Bruce, but how do we explain the fingerprints?
15:12Fingerprints?
15:14Duncan Proctor's fingerprints were all over her shoes, in the door handles, everywhere.
15:19The whole thing's been checked and double-checked.
15:21I think I'll go for the roast salmon mousse and the artichoke cards.
15:24Thanks.
15:25So, any background you can give me, really, on this young lady.
15:31I'll try not to be too indelicate, but these things could impact upon the crime.
15:35During the period you were having sex together, did she ever talk in her sleep, can you remember?
15:41About other lovers. Or, at a critical moment in bed, for instance, accidentally scream out someone else's name.
15:53Oh, I don't know. It's like travelling back to the Stone Age coming here.
15:58I mean, look at this. This is the pits, Jonathan. It hasn't even got an S. Look at that. The S is completely snapped off.
16:05Well, try not to use it, then. Try not to use it. It's the most common letter in the English language.
16:11No, it's not. E's the most common. S is the eighth most common, after E, T, A, O, N, R and I.
16:20Oh, you'd have to know that, wouldn't you? A useless piece of information.
16:26Not useless at all if you're trying to crack a cipher.
16:29Well, funnily enough, Jonathan, I'm not trying to crack a cipher at this precise moment.
16:33I'm not actually cracking anything very much.
16:35I've got a murder here committed by a dead man in a house he couldn't have got out of,
16:40involving a girl found horribly strangled with her hoe and talking removed in the down-tear cloakroom.
16:46Oh, have you ever heard of silence?
16:50I'm trying to achieve a level of abstract thought here.
16:53I'm trying to prize this whatever it is out of my memory.
16:59What is it? Let me have a go.
17:02I told you I can't put it into words.
17:06It's purely intuitive. It's just a feeling.
17:09It won't come into focus till it's ready.
17:11I thought perhaps that image might have triggered it, but...
17:20I could put them on.
17:21Well, how's that going to help when the whole point is they've been taken off?
17:23PHONE RINGS
17:29Yes, this is the home of Pro Magnum, man. Can I help?
17:31Claire?
17:32Yeah.
17:34Are you kidding?
17:36Just had another tape stolen from the answer machine.
17:38What are you saying?
17:40You put a third one in, and when you got back that a bit...
17:42If someone was trying to get hold of a message that didn't know which tape it was on...
17:49Well, depends what you mean by progress.
17:52To be honest, we were both just saying, the only way we're ever going to solve this, basically, is to actually go up there.
18:00Won't we?
18:01Yes.
18:02I suppose...
18:05Up where?
18:08Northumberland!
18:09Have you any idea how long this is going to take?
18:12I've got the route all sorted. We'll be five hours, Max.
18:14Yeah, and the rest with your navigational skills.
18:17Look...
18:18Anyway, I wonder how the police are getting on back at the cottage.
18:21Don't envy them that job one little bit.
18:23What job?
18:26I gave Detective Inspector Barrison a quick reen this morning before we left.
18:29All that business about the telephone answer machine.
18:32Well, of course, there was something I'd completely forgotten to tell him.
18:36And I was there that night.
18:38I saw one of those tapes floating in the lavatory.
18:42And wouldn't you know it, I accidentally knocked the handle and flushed it away.
18:47Probably a vital piece of evidence.
18:54Yes, all right. Haven't you ever seen a cesspit before?
18:59Let's get searchin'.
19:00Is that definitely the turning? Yes, definitely.
19:01You definitely saw a sign for the 6342? Yes, definitely.
19:02As God is my judge.
19:03Which is presumably why we ended up in Gateshead.
19:04I was sure it said 6342.
19:05How can Hadrian's wall run north to south?
19:06What the Romans divided the country up lengthwise now, did they?
19:07Two and a half hours we lost because of that.
19:08Will you give over moaning?
19:09I've forgotten what we're looking for now.
19:10There's a Victorian phone box here somewhere on the corner.
19:11There it is.
19:12First left and we're there.
19:13First left and we're there.
19:14First left and we're there.
19:20This was completely open.
19:21This nearly went in.
19:22This was completely open.
19:48It's open. Listen till he went in.
19:54Name's not been added yet.
19:56What do you reckon? Get a shovel and see.
19:59Yes, thank you, Dr. Van Helsing.
20:02Perhaps I'll wheel it round first.
20:06Can you imagine anyone rattling around on their own in a place this size?
20:10It's immoral.
20:12You say he took it over when he came out of uniform.
20:15And his old army pals, whatever their names were, Ben and Buster,
20:20were both at this party.
20:22What do we know about them?
20:24I made a point of not knowing them.
20:26They're still serving.
20:27I suppose they'll be back overseas somewhere by...
20:30What's he doing?
20:33The breaststroke?
20:41When you came out that night and saw him on the ground,
20:45Can you show me how he was lying?
20:47Yes, it was just here.
20:50His head was over the edge and a bit more towards the...
20:52Yeah.
20:54Yeah.
20:55About like that, I'd say.
20:57Roughly.
20:58Still some of the blood here or he landed.
21:00You say?
21:02Something very wrong with that for a start, wouldn't you say?
21:05Would I?
21:07Didn't you ever watch Quincy?
21:15Don't you ever watch him?
21:16No.
21:17No.
21:18No.
21:20No.
21:21No.
21:23No.
21:24No.
21:25No.
21:26No.
21:27No.
21:29No.
21:38So...
21:39Let's go.
21:40No.
21:41Felicity's birthday present to Duncan.
21:52I don't think he was exactly overwhelmed.
21:55Oh!
21:57Oh!
21:58Look, you know what?
21:58You want to get that scene to by a qualified osteopath.
22:02What do you think?
22:03Give him a quick scene to him on the bed while I make a couple of calls.
22:05I'd like to have a look at it if you want.
22:06Yes.
22:07Thanks all the same.
22:08Anything that involves turning my skeleton inside out,
22:10I get kind of twitchy.
22:12Oh, just get your kit off.
22:18Right.
22:19You sure?
22:23Nothing.
22:24Okay.
22:25And that's for the whole night and the morning.
22:3021st into the 22nd.
22:32All right, that's great.
22:35Thanks for your help, then.
22:37Bye.
22:41Oh!
22:55Oh!
22:56Where is it, then?
22:58Where's what?
23:00Sorry, I thought I heard a baby up here screaming its head off.
23:04Okay.
23:06Three out of the four local funeral directors haven't heard of him.
23:10The other one I couldn't get hold of.
23:12Local rag.
23:13Nothing in the O-Bit columns.
23:15Most importantly, the hospital have no record of any Duncan Proctor.
23:19No admissions, no DOAs.
23:21No call-outs, even, to this address on the night in question.
23:24The ambulance came and took him away.
23:27We all saw it.
23:28And what you see isn't always what's happening.
23:30And what you all saw that night, I've got a horrible feeling, was a very brilliantly conceived hoax.
23:40Here we go.
23:41He's going to tell us how it was done.
23:43Oh, no, I'd have done it.
23:44And from what I've seen out there...
23:47Shh.
23:49What?
23:52You hear that?
23:53What?
23:54The front door just opened.
23:58There.
23:59Closed again.
24:01How can you hear that from all the way up here?
24:04Shh.
24:06Someone moving about now, in the hall.
24:10Better go and have a look then.
24:12Okay.
24:17Why me?
24:19Because you're the man.
24:24I'm sorry.
25:54I don't think you'll find any badgers in there, will you, Mr. Creek?
26:10What happens if they draw a blank?
26:18When they draw a blank, they'll fill it all in again.
26:22Duncan Proctor's body is no more at the bottom of that grave than that answer tip was in her sewage tank.
26:33Oh, my God, what are you telling me?
26:37The killer must have somehow realised and got there before you and fished it out.
26:42I don't think they'll be buying your next book, any of them.
26:47There's only so much crap a man can wade through.
26:53So, we know this lover's leap thing was set up.
26:59A dead man's not going to be suspected of murder.
27:02What we, in our flat-footed ignorance, are still trying to figure out is how the hell he faked it.
27:13Someone said you work for a magician.
27:20How uncannily appropriate.
27:22Well, I've had a sniff round, giving it a bit of thought.
27:31Go on.
27:32Three people saw him jump.
27:43Everyone saw him on the ground.
27:45But nobody saw him land.
27:48In between, there was a gap of maybe seven or eight seconds.
27:52Which is when they did the clever bit.
27:54They?
27:55Well, there's no way he could have done it on his own.
27:57He needed at least two accomplices.
27:59One up top and one below.
28:01Buster.
28:03And Ben.
28:05Whatever their names were.
28:07His two chums from the Lancers.
28:10Look who it stands up.
28:11Duncan's got this total mind-numbing crush on Felicity.
28:15He knows she's screwing Neville.
28:18He decides to teach them both a lesson.
28:21It's a sort of sick joke.
28:23You can imagine three drunken soldiers dreaming up between them.
28:26They just go for it.
28:27Like a military exercise.
28:30Leaping off a second floor balcony is no big deal.
28:33If there's something to catch you at the bottom.
28:37You've dug yourself a big hole.
28:40With a tightly sprung net inside.
28:43Rigged up a camouflage frame covered in turf.
28:46Which slides across in seconds so he can't see the joint.
28:49As per the plan, one of them rushes in as he's about to jump.
28:52So if the other two get to the balcony too quickly, he can hold them back for a minute.
29:01Tell them not to look or whatever.
29:02During which time, Duncan's out of the net and into position.
29:07The hole's disappeared and so is his friend.
29:12Making sure he's first on the scene to pronounce him dead.
29:17Wave everyone else away.
29:18Half an hour later, he's whisked off in an ambulance.
29:24Could have been a couple of locals who were in on it.
29:27Could have been pocket ambulance drivers who were paid to keep their mouth shut.
29:30The main thing is, his body's gone.
29:35And no one asks any questions.
29:39They put it all right again afterwards, obviously.
29:42Though you can still see a slight camber where the level's a bit off.
29:45And of course, there was the dummy blood on the patio.
29:51Carefully deposited just before he fell to look fresh.
29:55Problem is, you can see from the scalloped edges around the splash marks,
30:00they've been dropped from a height of several feet.
30:02And you don't normally start bleeding before you hit the ground.
30:06These two squatties are serving abroad somewhere, did I hear?
30:17But the house in Maida Vale...
30:18My God, I've just had a thought.
30:24Well, he's got to be hiding somewhere.
30:36What the hell do you want?
30:41You can't do this!
30:42You can't!
30:43What have I done?
30:45What have I done?
31:06It's all right.
31:25Uh, Inspector.
31:27So, that's it.
31:28You're finished with her.
31:29She's free to go.
31:29Back to Scotland.
31:31Mr. Klaus, we've barely started with her.
31:33As long as Proctor exercises his right to silence,
31:36She's the only case we've got.
31:38Fingerprints alone won't do it.
31:40Inspector, you can't know how deeply traumatized this experience has left my sister.
31:46Night after night now, she can't sleep.
31:48It's money a night. I can't sleep.
31:50No, no.
31:51You don't understand the full horror of the situation.
31:57She can't sleep.
31:59Alone.
32:00Alone.
32:10Three o'clock in the morning.
32:13Like something from the nightmare world of M.R. James.
32:17As the duvet is lifted up, and you feel it sliding in beside you.
32:23What a wake in the night to those eyes staring at you on the pillow.
32:27Oh. For mercy's sake, Inspector, I'm appealing to you for clemency.
32:35I'm sorry. We need her down here.
32:48Oh, now, I like the look of this one.
32:50It's got a Pentium processor, CD-ROM.
32:53Oh, and look at this. State-of-the-art stuff, Jonathan.
32:55And it's got an S.
32:56You can see them type words like floppy disk instead of floppy dick.
33:00Just browsing, thanks.
33:01So, this will be chapter four.
33:17What do you reckon?
33:18A bit of Perry Mason?
33:20With the time being, anyway.
33:21Now, intro.
33:25I wonder why he won't confess.
33:27Proctor?
33:28A bit of a stupid question, isn't it?
33:30Why?
33:31He was seen throttling her to death through the window.
33:35Save everyone a lot of time and money.
33:39It's all wrong still.
33:41There's too much stuff left over that doesn't fit.
33:43Those three tapes that were stolen from her answer machine.
33:49They found one of them, one of the blank ones, in that flat.
33:53But we still don't know what happened to the other two,
33:54and we still don't know why they were taken.
33:57What you said.
33:58There was a message he wanted to get back.
34:00Probably one he'd left himself that proved he was still alive.
34:04That would explain why I go back once, but why twice?
34:08It's come away with a blank tape.
34:10It's obvious the message has either been erased or removed.
34:15I wonder if the third tape was taken by someone else
34:18who was also trying to get hold of that message.
34:23Who didn't know Duncan Proctor had already been back, Fred?
34:34How long does it take for insurance to come through?
34:36I'm running out of showrooms.
34:38Then, of course, there's the other problem.
34:40Why did he take her stockings off her?
34:43Jonathan, you don't think perhaps you've got an unnatural fixation
34:46with this stockings thing?
34:48More than is healthy?
34:51Electric shock therapy could be the answer.
34:55Stick your fingers in this cigarette lighter
34:57and concentrate hard on a pair of sheer...
34:59What?
35:02What now?
35:03That's what it reminded me of.
35:05That's exactly it.
35:07Boot laces.
35:07I beg your pardon?
35:10Different choice of words, and it popped.
35:12He didn't take off her stockings.
35:13He took her stockings off her.
35:17Please, he'd never believe that in a million years.
35:19Obviously, that's why he's not saying anything.
35:21About what, Jonathan?
35:23Will he stop talking Martian?
35:25Come on.
35:26We're going to get back and go through this whole thing again
35:28from top to bottom.
35:29Every little detail, what everyone said to you.
35:31Why?
35:32So we can find out who it was
35:34that really murdered Felicity Vale.
35:35Sorry.
35:42Sorry.
35:43Sorry. Sorry. I keep doing this, don't I? Keep interrupting your love life.
36:06This is our senior claims investigator, by the way, Mr. Creak.
36:10Only, we've been right back to the beginning of this case now, with Miss Salinger here.
36:14And there's a couple of rather vital points that we need to clarify with yourself and Mr. Bruce.
36:19What the hell is your game? Can't you wait till tomorrow, for God's sake?
36:23It's a quarter past midnight.
36:25Is it? You'd better put some strong coffee on, then.
36:28And milk in mine, two sugars, thanks.
36:33Three tapes were stolen from the arson machine, one after the other.
36:40Why?
36:45Let's say there was a very important message on the original, which, for whatever reason, was removed from the machine on the night of the murder.
36:52Next day, Claire puts a new tape in, a blank one, which at some point during the day is also stolen.
37:00And again, the day after that, same thing happens.
37:02We know that Duncan Proctor had one of the blank tapes.
37:07It was found at the flat when the police brought him in.
37:10The other one had to have been taken by someone else.
37:13Who was just as desperate to get hold of that message.
37:22What?
37:25For God's sake.
37:26I mean, you...
37:28What?
37:29A young woman's lost her life, Mr. Bruce.
37:32A woman you loved, or claimed to love, even if it was only for five minutes.
37:36I think we're entitled to a bit more than splutters and a blank look.
37:40Oh, Neville.
37:40I just reached elastic limit.
37:48I'm sorry.
37:51When I saw what she'd done to Kiko with those scissors, picked up the phone the machine was on, I just tore into her.
37:58Held nothing back.
37:59Just poured it out.
38:00Two minutes of poison.
38:01And threats?
38:02Warnings, certainly.
38:04About what would happen if I ever saw her again.
38:06At any rate, it wasn't a tape you want lying around after she'd been found murdered.
38:12The following day, I found a way in.
38:15Grabbed the tape.
38:17Hoping the message would still be on it.
38:20Of course it wasn't.
38:22But then the pressure suddenly eased when you heard that Duncan Proctor had been seen committing the murder.
38:28Even if that message did ever turn up, no one was going to suspect you.
38:31Yes, but I...
38:32You're not suggest...
38:34She saw him do it.
38:38He's been found alive and arrested.
38:39What more proof do you need?
38:41Duncan strangled Felicity.
38:43Except he didn't, actually.
38:45Of course, neither did you, Mr Bruce.
38:48That's why you rang her up.
38:50Because you were nowhere near the cottage that night.
38:52But there was a third person in the house who witnessed the whole weird and wonderful event.
38:59And I think now might be the time to put your hand up, don't you?
39:02Claire?
39:03Claire?
39:04And tell us exactly how you murdered her.
39:12We've had quite an interesting afternoon, actually, with a police pathologist.
39:15Turns out those deep lesions in the victim's neck contained some skin cells that didn't belong to Felicity or to Duncan.
39:21But, funnily enough, matched up exactly to some still in Jonathan's shoulders.
39:26After your fingers had been digging into them yesterday afternoon.
39:30You'll testify to the power of her grip, I think.
39:32Rosal's will be waiting for you at home.
39:43I wouldn't bother going anywhere.
39:44Duncan was seen by a witness that night, violently strangling Felicity at the kitchen window.
40:03And yet, he did nothing of the kind.
40:07What Kitty saw, she didn't really see at all.
40:11Did she?
40:17Felicity was so obvious.
40:20She didn't even have to try.
40:21But men like it obvious, don't they?
40:26Men like Duncan.
40:28In the space of three weeks, I went the distance from idolizing him, grieving for him, to despising the pair of them.
40:44He didn't love women.
40:46He just wanted them to love him.
40:47And when I came back that night, I saw him there, alive.
41:02At first, I was too shocked to do anything.
41:07I heard him telling her what he'd done, how he'd gone to ground at Buster's,
41:12giving her all that phony contrition, while she just ranted and raved.
41:19She was already in a complete state about Neville.
41:23He'd only needed one more push to send her over.
41:27And of course, at that moment, it came.
41:38Okay, I've had it with you, Fliss.
41:40I've had it with this whole twisted, juvenile number of yours.
41:43I'd tell you to get a life, but I don't think you know what a real life is.
41:46I'm gonna say it one last time, Felicity.
41:48I don't love you.
41:50I loathe you.
41:51I despise you.
41:52Now, stay away!
42:02And you want to know the truth?
42:05I was willing her on.
42:07Oh, no.
42:07No, no.
42:08No, no.
42:09No, no.
42:09No, no.
42:09Give me that.
42:10No.
42:20I think she passed out for a while.
42:23But now he realised what he was dealing with.
42:25He was just gonna make her safe, then get the hell out.
42:28so he took her into the bathroom
42:40where she couldn't do any damage
42:43took the stockings off the radiator
42:45and the ones she was wearing
42:48he wasn't going to leave her any rope
42:51to hang herself with
42:52literally
42:54and they're left
43:24can you kill someone out of spite
43:39maybe
43:43because it was so ridiculously easy
43:48his fingerprints were all over the house
43:54I made sure they found his pipe
43:56all I had to do was sit tight
43:58and wait for them to prove he was still alive
44:00who was going to believe his story
44:03you took the tape out of the machine
44:06with Neville's message on it
44:08because you didn't want the police thinking
44:09he had anything to do with her death
44:11you wanted all the evidence to point to Duncan
44:14so
44:15why did Duncan want to get that tape back
44:18for God's sake
44:18to corroborate his account of what really happened
44:22that your message drove her to try and kill herself
44:25even then it was all going to sound pretty flimsy
44:29yes the wonderful bonus of Kitty
44:32seeing him with his hands around her throat
44:34he must have thought it was meant to be
44:37only problem was
44:39brought us onto the scene
44:40how do we know they weren't just
44:45larking about
44:47it's none of our business all this
44:49larking about
44:50oh it's the grave
44:53probably miles away by now
44:55but you never know
44:55you want to cover the front entrance
44:57while I check the back
44:58I thought once you'd found it all locked up
45:17you'd go away
45:18then when I heard the window
45:20there's one thing about this whole business
45:36I still don't quite understand
45:38hmm
45:39why you swallowed all that crap I gave you
45:42about skin cells in Jonathan's shoulders
45:44still
45:47I suppose it broke the ice
45:48so
45:53what made you think that
45:55I could
45:57one
45:58I finally remembered that routine
46:00of taking a prisoner's boot laces off him
46:02so he can't hang himself
46:04which put a completely different spin on the whole thing
46:07what Duncan was really doing
46:10with his hands around her throat
46:11and of course
46:14the other thing was the burglary
46:16and they took the tapes
46:18why?
46:19no Claire
46:19not your burglary
46:21my burglary
46:22you remember the morning after
46:24when you were showing me around the cottage?
46:26ironically I thought it'd be safer out here
46:28from crime
46:29well you've just been on the receiving end
46:31you know how bad it gets in London
46:34it never struck me
46:36till we went over it again this afternoon
46:38how the hell did you know
46:40about my house being burgled
46:42I certainly hadn't mentioned it
46:44but then I remembered
46:47I had
46:49and there was only one way
46:52you could have heard me
46:53how do you think that burglar got into my place
46:55the other day
46:56turned it over
46:57he didn't just give up
46:58didn't he the bastard
46:59he didn't just give up
47:29he the bastard
47:59Oh, it's me, Kitty.
48:23And God forbid you breathe a word of that to a living soul now.
48:30I was told in complete confidence.
48:33Ladies and gentlemen, the living legend that is Huey Hart.
48:42One, two, one, two, three, four.
48:49And keep your papers off my naked body in future, you pervert.
48:54All right, madam, come down off that piece, madam.
48:56Go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away, go away.
49:23One, two, three, four.
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