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First broadcast 18th November 1978.
The Temple-Blake building firm stands trial for corruption following dishonest awarding of contracts by local councillor Webb.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Maurice Denham - Sir James Temple
Bill Fraser - Col. Summerville
Robert Swann - Logan-Blake
Harold Innocent - Repton
Peter Woodthorpe - Councillor Webb
Tony Church - Minister
Lyndon Brook - Gillam
Derek Martin - Renshaw
Anthony Heaton - Singleton
David Hargreaves - Halloran
Linda Goddard - Jenny Burton
Andrew McCulloch - Bradford
Frank Jarvis - Musgrave
Donald Bisset - Judge
Brian Hall - Sam Burton
Duncan Preston - Karl Drake
Gerry Judge - Barman
The Temple-Blake building firm stands trial for corruption following dishonest awarding of contracts by local councillor Webb.
Gordon Jackson - George Cowley
Martin Shaw - Doyle
Lewis Collins - Bodie
Maurice Denham - Sir James Temple
Bill Fraser - Col. Summerville
Robert Swann - Logan-Blake
Harold Innocent - Repton
Peter Woodthorpe - Councillor Webb
Tony Church - Minister
Lyndon Brook - Gillam
Derek Martin - Renshaw
Anthony Heaton - Singleton
David Hargreaves - Halloran
Linda Goddard - Jenny Burton
Andrew McCulloch - Bradford
Frank Jarvis - Musgrave
Donald Bisset - Judge
Brian Hall - Sam Burton
Duncan Preston - Karl Drake
Gerry Judge - Barman
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00:00Repton.
00:12Minister.
00:13I don't often drop in as you know.
00:15You're always very welcome Minister.
00:17If only to admire your always tidy desk.
00:20Look about this file.
00:22I'm not happy about Temple Blake Limited being retained on our list of nominated contractors.
00:28They stand to make close on 50 million pounds in government work this year.
00:31As they did last year.
00:36Alright?
00:37You alright?
00:38You alright son?
00:40Get up.
00:43Nice.
00:44Not a mark.
00:45You never know our friend had a fall.
00:47Just a fortnight's bellyache, eh?
00:49I've got some nice medicine for that.
00:52A week's wages and a ticket back to where you came from.
00:56Mr Cowley is in reception.
00:58Would you ask him to come in please?
01:00There's no shoddy workmanship round here.
01:02Understand?
01:03No handouts to council members, no.
01:05Things like that don't happen on sites I manage, do they?
01:08Well you know that, don't you?
01:09Well get lost.
01:11And shut your mouth.
01:13I'm not quite with you Minister.
01:15As you know I'm not answerable to you or this department.
01:18Or Mr Repton here.
01:20Widely known as the Cardinal Woolsey of this nation's spending in the building industry.
01:24Not a very civil civil servant, are you?
01:27No.
01:28Mostly we don't have to be.
01:29So first, why us?
01:31Why not the fraud squad?
01:32Special branch.
01:33Reasons of policy, Mr Cowley?
01:35The usual phrase for two coats of political whitewash.
01:38Now to hold a watching brief,
01:40and the corruption case is due to take place against Temple Blake Limited.
01:45We bills for Britain.
01:47Here is my specific authority from your own minister to involve CI5 in this affair.
01:52I don't know what you mean by watching brief.
01:54Oh precisely that.
01:55To see that justice is done and blame a portion accordingly.
01:58If you mean that I'm to see that none of it gets shoveled anywhere near you or your department,
02:02you've picked the wrong labourer.
02:04Because the minute my department gets packed in any politician's do-it-yourself image kit,
02:08I get very angry indeed.
02:11And I know my way around the same corridors as you do.
02:19I can see the need for political insurance, Minister.
02:22But Cowley's hardly the insurance broker I'd have gone to.
02:38I can see the need for political insurance.
02:40I can see the need for political insurance.
02:41I can see the need for political insurance.
02:42I can see the need for political insurance.
02:43I can see the need for political insurance.
02:44I can see the need for political insurance.
02:45I can see the need for political insurance.
02:46I can see the need for political insurance.
02:47I can see the need for political insurance.
02:48I can see the need for political insurance.
02:49I can see the need for political insurance.
02:50I can see the need for political insurance.
02:51I can see the need for political insurance.
02:52I can see the need for political insurance.
02:53I can see the need for political insurance.
02:54I can see the need for political insurance.
02:55I can see the need for political insurance.
02:56I can see the need for political insurance.
02:57I can see the need for political insurance.
02:58I can see the need for political insurance.
02:59I know these opening ceremonies
03:27can be a bore Michael what's the use of having dukes for friends if you can't
03:31use them to impress the top table I think I can promise you a splendid night
03:35out afterwards and earplugs for the mayor's speech
03:40hello thank you yours Tony well I think that wraps that lot up darling and we
03:52should have enough luminaries to keep the tiny councillors happy wisdom round by
03:57hand will you the usual private and confidential blower on them
04:05evening Henry but that's your false beard and what is the grey eminence of
04:11British bureaucracy doing in the house of an unprincipled capitalist like me you
04:15know everything is help yourself and Monica keep on to Renshaw at the
04:20fairgate site you know where they're squawking about sticky fingers I've got
04:24lawyers going over in the morning and at about 50 quid a comma I don't want them
04:27kept waiting well Henry what can I do for you what can I do for you for a price as
04:37usual your Swiss bank was we having to build an extension or is it Lichtenstein
04:41no our normal arrangements are quite healthy I thought you might like to know
04:47you're well in line for the new health centers and I've already had some
04:51inquiries from oil money as to where they should look for builders and
04:54contractors they've been put your way and congratulations will be not yet your
05:01firm is in the middle of a corruption case petty cash new cars for councillors
05:05isn't everybody perhaps but you've been getting a little obtrusive about it and I
05:10have a slippery minister this time he's gone beyond the fraud squad in the special
05:16branch he's pulled in CI5 the others a good policeman but CI5 is special if you want
05:24Temple Blake limited to stay in the business you'd better make very very sure that this
05:28current piece of bribery and corruption has a not guilty verdict handed down a 250 unit
05:33council estate that's not Buckingham Palace no Tony but you know and I know that the tip
05:42of this lucrative iceberg has been floating nicely for some years now if anyone can sink it CI5 can
05:49to shape that'll do for today like dancing the tango with my granny I'm a disco man myself sir this is army
06:08training it's quite good with a bayonet and you run much better now the two of you read the briefing
06:13of this Temple Blake rubbish yeah watching brief whatever that means it means that you
06:18two get your best suits out of porn have them cleaned and pressed and if you don't own velvet
06:22gloves buy some watch listen and learn on Bodhi there are ways of asking people questions without
06:28removing their teeth for one thing it makes for clear addiction well I'll see you both up at
06:33Fairgate knowing the way you two drive you'll probably get there first but I find Cali's
06:37physiotherapist I'll tie his toes in a reef knot Cali's good admit it yeah Cali didn't get out of a
06:43strange bed at five in the morning with a hangover you want to play couldn't take you on with chopsticks
06:48fill you up cause we're on whiskey
06:56sir James good afternoon Robert sir James have you had a chance to read my memo Robert you're the
07:14firm's accountant so stick to that handle the figures let me worry about buying the legal brain
07:20so you didn't authorize the payments at Fairgate sir James I did well naturally you always do as
07:25as you're told which is why I'll be standing in the dock well I've wrenched over Bradford there with
07:31you site foreman the manager we're deceived express regret naturally plead pressure of work if I'm found
07:40guilty Tony I know enough to plead a lot more than that there's a conspiracy charge as well I'm not doing
07:45seven years in prison if we don't get you off you shoppers I didn't say that what you mean Robert we've
07:56been through a couple of these things before we've paid some fines a couple of minor employees have gone
08:01to prison we've looked after them when they got out the building has always been a grab bag where palms
08:07get greased you were unlucky to be involved in this one I've been involved in all of them
08:12Robert Robert one conscientious detective sergeant plodding away got through the outer defenses bad luck
08:20that's all have a few days off come on I'll get back in to drive you home you're too upset and shaky
08:26to drive that big jack of yours
08:28so
08:30so
08:32so
08:40so
08:46Ah, good.
09:01Oh, Robert has turned into a nervous old woman.
09:04Oh, he always has been.
09:06Started with the golf job.
09:08Half a million siphoned out of that one.
09:10The size frightened him.
09:12That's when he started to drink.
09:14He'll crack, you know.
09:15He wants to.
09:16You're the fool confessional.
09:17I know.
09:18And he's the one to worry about.
09:20He's kept count of all the private skeletons.
09:23If he goes down, we all go down.
09:27That would be a pity.
09:29I think it would.
09:31And so would friend Repton.
09:33He's getting used to the privileges of a tax-free fortune.
09:36We wove the web, cousin.
09:38And now we have CI5 as the spider in the middle.
09:43I don't think we can play the usual rules on this one.
09:46Do you, cousin?
09:48I expect you've already taken care of that.
09:50Temple Blake Limited should say prayers for the British taxpayer.
09:56He's done them proud over the years.
09:58And the same with other building firms.
10:00People forget it's the country's biggest industry.
10:02Who introduced this nominated contractor scheme?
10:05You?
10:05I wish I could take the credit.
10:07No, it evolved.
10:09Could I have a breakdown of Temple Blake's work here over the last five years?
10:12Certainly.
10:13You'd probably get a better picture from Tony Logan Blake if you want a complete breakdown.
10:18His would include all the private work.
10:19Past, present and future.
10:21Well, he'd probably be a bit cagey about the future.
10:25But if you kept it confidential, commercially I mean, I don't see why not.
10:29Shall I ring him?
10:30I'd appreciate that.
10:32Tomorrow?
10:32That'll be fine.
10:33Not quite as interesting as your usual line of work, I'm afraid.
10:37But every time a minister feels a draft, he thinks it's the political wind of change.
10:41And we're the ones who do the long hours.
10:44You look healthy enough on it.
10:46I was looking you up in personnel, by the way.
10:48You put in for retirement about five years ago, then change your mind.
10:53Why?
10:54Caution, I suppose.
10:55The pensions index linked, but I'd have felt the pinch.
10:59And then I suppose the divorce showed on the file.
11:02Yes, I wondered about that.
11:04Nothing to worry about.
11:06My wife decided on a second springtime, and I suppose I was a bit staid.
11:10We still talk to each other, I check.
11:12You've got this muse in Hampstead now.
11:15Quite a conversion.
11:17The original luxury bachelor pad, they tell me.
11:19They'll also have told you that Temple Blake Limited did the work.
11:23I might have got a bit of a discount for it, but only in terms of better work done.
11:27I paid the going rate for it.
11:28Yes, I checked that too.
11:30And the endowment policy that paid for it?
11:32Naturally.
11:32You've been most helpful, Mr. Repton.
11:34Well, if we functionaries can't stick together, nobody can.
11:49You've been most helpful, Mr. Repton.
12:19You've been most helpful, Mr. Repton.
17:01I enjoyed that.
18:20I haven't spread over years going to the top.
18:21What about the other one they talk to?
18:22The councillor, um...
18:23Where...
18:24All 50's, all right?
18:25Right, thank you.
18:26What about him?
18:27Thank you, Mike?
18:28Well, he's another one.
18:29Chairman of the local housing committee,
18:31who's caught with his hand in the till.
18:33They're all titillers like me, caught up in a big pool.
18:37A little bit of scratch my back under the old pal's act, and they're free.
18:41Nothing changes much, do they?
18:43Ex-copper?
18:44I tell.
18:44Expert.
18:45In graft.
18:47We have to excuse his manners. He hasn't got any.
18:50What I don't understand is how they blew the gaff on the whole thing.
18:52Well, how they got the big knobs?
18:54Right.
18:54I suppose somebody put the bite on.
18:58Asked to see the accounts.
18:59They went for Gillam, Templeview chief accountant.
19:01They thought he was a brick with them prized loot.
19:04You reckon this Gillam's worth seeing, then?
19:06Yeah, yeah, you are.
19:08I mean, get yourself a pair of wings and a harp.
19:11I mean, don't you read?
19:12They found him last night with his toes turned up.
19:17Had a good round, then?
19:18Not bad.
19:19Not very sociable today, are we, Harry?
19:21How about one with me?
19:23No, not now, George.
19:24Well, at least you could do.
19:25After all, you are my deputy chairman.
19:27Acting chairman now.
19:31Never credited, would you, Barney?
19:37A bit of trouble, and no one wants to know you.
19:40I used to be able to come in here any time, you know that.
19:42It would be, hello, George, what are you having, George?
19:45Half the council in here.
19:47Well, they were abrupt, I'll say that.
19:50Why don't you have one with me?
19:51Oh, no, no.
19:52Oh, no, come on.
19:52Gee, sir, a large mop for the gentleman.
19:54It's always the same, Barney, it takes a stranger to show some civility when your friends have turned their backs.
20:00I'm George Webb.
20:02I do.
20:02And I'm still chairman of the housing committee, never mind what that crawling Harry Braithwaite says.
20:07Responsible job.
20:08Oh, it is, it is.
20:09The biggest.
20:10Ensuring decent dwelling units for the citizens of this community.
20:14Linda!
20:17Linda!
20:19Oh, oh.
20:20Four years old and the roof leaks like a bloody colander.
20:23Bert, I know you're on night shift, but it's not easy for you can't get no sleep.
20:26Well, I just wish the butchers who put this hole up had to live in it.
20:29Would you live in it?
20:29I am living in it.
20:31Don't remind me.
20:32Responsibility.
20:33That's what the new fellas don't understand, the personal touch.
20:35Gets to know your contractor.
20:37Is that the trouble you mentioned?
20:39Look where it got me.
20:41Chairman of housing, been on the council 20 years,
20:43and there's this estate.
20:45And they reckon there's been some fixing, corruption, whatever they call it.
20:49Oh, I've yet to know public service, yet the appreciation it deserves, Mr. Webb.
20:52I remember when they lived in Whippet Kennels.
20:55They used to have trams on the high street.
20:57Lucky they had a price of a ticket to get on.
20:59I think they're grateful.
21:02I spend most of my free time at it, and I should know.
21:04Pennies, expenses, precious little thanks.
21:06Oh, you know what I have, Tobias?
21:08Prawn cocktail and the medium steak.
21:10I can recommend that.
21:12And they see me right here.
21:14Just tell the chef it's for Councillor Webb.
21:16He knows where I am.
21:18Very good, sir.
21:21Don't worry about it being after closing time.
21:23They're used to me.
21:24You know, a couple more brandies, you know.
21:26There you go.
21:26I was telling you about Jim Renshaw.
21:29Good site manager.
21:31He appreciated me taking an interest in the job.
21:34And if he's got a pal in the travel business, who can get me and my missus a couple of weeks in the sun, and I'm paying.
21:39Cut price, but I'm paying.
21:42And if he shows enough consideration for his workforce to have them do a few bits of jobs around my house, when they're idle, instead of laying them off, I don't see anything wrong with it.
21:51Nasty minds everywhere.
21:52Nasty enough to get me took to court.
21:55Some building inspector runs snivelling to some interfering detective sergeant just because I won't uphold his complaint about the state of Renshaw's job.
22:02Well, you meet a lot of them.
22:04If only people would mind their own business.
22:09Ah, good news, cousin, on the coroner's verdict.
22:13A fellow to say while the balance of his mind was disturbed.
22:17Henry Repton called.
22:20Reminding me that the full verdict, if not guilty, is still essential.
22:25And telling me that a man called Cowley might be around to ask some awkward questions.
22:29Ah, well, you're bald.
22:30You were always good at answering those, cousin.
22:32Come in, Mr. Webb.
22:38May I get you something?
22:39Oh, no, thank you very much.
22:40I'm about to take a whole day opposite it.
22:42Oh, I'm sure we can compensate you for that.
22:44Oh, I'm not worried about that.
22:46Nice view you've got here.
22:48And I don't mind helping.
22:50I should think you don't.
22:52You'll be on the dock.
22:53And I hope you'll be out front listening.
22:55Or if not you, one of your colleagues.
22:58The clerk of the courts, an old friend.
23:01And he knows it.
23:02And that's the only reason I was able to get a list of the jury members that will be allocated to our case.
23:08What are old friends for, if not to help each other?
23:11Twelve good men and true.
23:17With names and occupations and addresses.
23:21That's all we need.
23:35What is it?
23:36I've been called for jury service.
23:38Just when we need the wages.
23:39Does it say what case you're on?
23:41No, they're too cagey for that.
23:42In case you cop out with a doctor's certificate.
23:44This could drag on for weeks.
23:51I say, Carly, did you sign him in?
23:54Yes, Colonel.
23:54He works for me, if you use the term loosely.
23:57I can remember when this used to be a military club.
24:00He was military once.
24:02Oh, one of those rag bone regiments.
24:06Crawling about behind the enemy lines.
24:08He looks the type.
24:09I couldn't find a bowler hat to fit me.
24:11Colonel, I want to pick your brains.
24:14First, this Temple Blake case.
24:16That'll blow over.
24:18Storm in a concrete mixer.
24:19Well, they're always buying these fat little councillors
24:23or giving motor cars to the subcontractors.
24:25If a contract's worth a million or two,
24:28it's worth greasing a few pounds.
24:29What about Temple Blake itself?
24:31They've only done a couple of contracts
24:33with us at the Ministry of Defence.
24:34Both shoddy.
24:35I won't have them on parade anymore.
24:37Not that that stopped them doing well.
24:40A bloke called Logan Blake.
24:42He's the sharpie.
24:43Would you say they were crooked?
24:45Oh, yes.
24:46In a big way.
24:47Mind you, it's not all their fault.
24:49I mean, when people have got a lot of work to offer,
24:52they expect something in return.
24:53What do people offer you, Colonel?
24:56Courtesy and civility, young man.
24:58And that is all.
25:00I said, get the back of my hand if you offered me a farthing.
25:03My advice to you, Carly,
25:04is to find the figures and a good cost accountant.
25:07I think you'll find that the skimmed milk
25:09went into the contract
25:11and the cream went into Logan Blake's pocket.
25:15There's the list of the jury.
25:17And I want them all to sing in harmony.
25:19To the tune of not guilty.
25:22Any particular method?
25:23That's up to you.
25:25Everyone has their own pressure points.
25:27Greed, envy, resentment, fear.
25:32Don't tap all of the people.
25:34Pick two or three of the more persuasive ones
25:36and make the incentives high enough.
25:39Or low enough?
25:41Yes.
25:41There you are, sir.
25:44Thanks very much, indeed.
25:45Bye.
25:45Bye.
25:51What makes you so sure I'll be on that jury?
25:54Because it's all a political fix.
25:57People trying to get at George Webb and the others.
26:02Get their own back.
26:03I know something about that.
26:04I've just seen the report my manager put in on me.
26:07Oh, you know what I'm talking about, then.
26:10You'll be seeing innocent men in the dock.
26:12You take my word for it.
26:14I'll listen to the evidence, my friend.
26:17Justice is justice.
26:17I'm glad you call me friend,
26:20because we're great believers in friendship.
26:23But we know that nothing's for nothing.
26:26500 now
26:29and 500 after the verdict.
26:39It's not robbery with violence they're up for.
26:42Just helping people out.
26:45Is that a crime?
26:47Can I have a word, Mr Singleton?
26:52Who are you?
26:52Do you mind giving that back?
26:53I just heard the end of your lecture.
26:56Lovely piece of hot air balloon.
26:57More big words than a Sunday paper.
26:59With all that style,
27:00they're bound to make you jury foreman.
27:02Make sure they do,
27:04because you're going to be on the Temple Blake case.
27:05Are they?
27:06You can't possibly know that.
27:07Oh, but we do.
27:09It's what's called having friends at court.
27:11And we want a verdict of not guilty.
27:13That's ridiculous.
27:15And as soon as I get home,
27:16I shall phone the police
27:16and tell them about you
27:17and this conversation.
27:19I wouldn't do that, pal.
27:21First, I could walk you over the park
27:22and give you a 10 out of 10 thump
27:24in as easy as demonstrate a vacuum cleaner.
27:26And that would get you in even more trouble.
27:30No.
27:32Because even if I was picked up,
27:33we all know what fellas like you are after in parks.
27:36And besides,
27:37you're being selfish.
27:39You've got four kids.
27:40I know the roads they cross on their way to school
27:41and I know what they look like
27:42and I can be a very dangerous driver.
27:45I know the supermarket your wife shops at.
27:47So what I do is,
27:47I'll put a few things in her bag,
27:49I call the detective
27:50and she's down the road for shoplifting.
27:52You think about it.
27:53Perhaps we could arrange both.
27:54You do it.
27:58And you never know,
27:59you might get a few quid through your door one night
28:01and you can buy yourself a new suit.
28:12Well, I must say,
28:13I don't understand your interest, Mr. Cowley,
28:14but you're very welcome to take these away with you.
28:16Point of fact,
28:17we're quite proud of them.
28:18Not many firms in our business
28:18share the same growth rate.
28:20And the profits to match?
28:21In this day and age,
28:22my dear fellow.
28:23Profits aren't better down to the bone,
28:24they're down to its marrow.
28:26We've never cut margins so fine.
28:28You seem to get a fair share of government work.
28:30Ah, they're the hardest of all.
28:32In and out with the tooth comb,
28:32all of the time.
28:34Still, I've mixed it in with a few plump Arab jobs.
28:36I can't complain.
28:38Well, thank you for your time, Mr. Blake.
28:41I may see you again.
28:43What department did you say you were with?
28:45I didn't, but it's CI5.
28:48Sorry.
28:49I've never heard of it.
29:02Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
29:06have you reached your verdict?
29:09We have, Your Honor.
29:10And what is that verdict?
29:13Not guilty.
29:13Is that the verdict of you all?
29:17The verdict of the majority of us, Your Honor.
29:22First, ladies and gentlemen,
29:25may I thank you for the obvious time
29:29you have taken over your deliberations,
29:31which I consider commensurate
29:32for the case of corruption,
29:35which involves taxpayers' money.
29:36I must confess a little surprise
29:39at the verdict of not guilty,
29:42albeit on a majority decision.
29:45And I could wish that you had paid less attention
29:48to learned counsel's emphasis
29:50on the wholly hypothetical ringleader activities
29:55of the defendant who committed suicide.
29:58I must, however, bow to your decision
30:00and let the verdict be so entered.
30:04The defendants may step down.
30:06Would the court rise, please?
30:16Smells worse than his socks.
30:18When are we going to get back to some real work, sir?
30:20When I see, Baudy.
30:25You sent for me, Minister.
30:34I asked if you could spare a moment.
30:36There's a difference.
30:37Purely to thank you for your efforts
30:39on behalf of the department
30:40in the Temple Blake corruption case.
30:42I think the not guilty verdict settles it, don't you?
30:45No.
30:46Well, of course it does.
30:47Entirely satisfactory.
30:48No scandal, no fastening repercussions.
30:50And not a single scratch
30:52in your shiny armor, Minister.
30:53Well, thank you again
30:56and kindly convey my appreciation to your colleagues.
30:59When I'm assigned a case at CIFI,
31:01it gets closed only under my personal signature.
31:04I didn't want this assignment.
31:05I regarded it as a trivial matter of image protection.
31:09Since then, a man has died.
31:11The verdict was suicide.
31:13And in my opinion, a jury has now been suborned.
31:16It now takes on all the aspects of a case
31:17in which my department cannot relinquish interest.
31:20You can be forced to do so, Carlin.
31:22Not by you, Mr. Repton.
31:24Nor by your minister.
31:27I'm allowed a certain degree of latitude.
31:29And I've already put on record and I distaste
31:31that the department I run
31:32should be used for ministerial public relations protection
31:35rather than its proper work.
31:37We can now begin that work.
31:39This is it, Mr. Cowley.
31:56What are we doing here?
31:58Oh, you know, Cowley, this is where it all started.
32:00He likes to tickle his itch.
32:01So tickle his itch.
32:02Yeah.
32:03You want to build a house or two while we wait?
32:05Not in these shoes, thank you.
32:07I'll bet your mother's feet are cold.
32:12Hello, runt.
32:13Thought we'd seen the last of you.
32:15Did you, Mr. Renshaw?
32:17Who are you?
32:19Official call?
32:20Not really.
32:22Well, then this is not a public park.
32:23This is a private building site.
32:25All visitors got to have passes and state their business.
32:27Oh, they get beaten up, Mr. Renshaw.
32:29Is he still on about that little Joey there?
32:31He didn't get beaten up.
32:32He got drunk.
32:33Had to hold him down.
32:34You ask the foreman there.
32:36You ask any of the boys.
32:37Now, if you're not official,
32:39and you're certainly not here with my permission,
32:41we get a lot of pilfering.
32:42So we don't like strangers on the site, right?
32:45Really?
32:45We'll see that the local constabulary look into that.
32:48Make sure that your affairs are properly looked after in future.
32:50Isn't that so, Mr. Halloran?
32:52Now, we'd better let Mr. Renshaw get back to his drawing boards.
32:55Lucky it's not mailbags.
32:57Oh, I wouldn't be certain of anyone's luck.
33:00Would you?
33:00Well, what's he after?
33:09We got the verdict behind us?
33:11Councillor Webb?
33:14Bodie, Doyle, you will now mingle with the twelve good men and two of the Temple Blake jury.
33:18And you, sir?
33:19I'll remember the advice of my retired friend who wanted to blow up a bridge.
33:22A lot of material going into that site.
33:24A lot of material, a lot of paperwork.
33:26Some of it papering over the cracks.
33:27And one of these, very close to an accountant,
33:30supposedly deceased of a self-administered weed killer.
33:33Not a very typical way for an accountant to die.
33:36Or would you say so, Bodie?
33:37Henry is here.
33:44Ah.
33:45He says we have problems.
33:47Oh, well, they must be his as well.
33:49Nothing else would drag him out of the financial canyons into the country.
33:55Good morning, Henry.
33:56Good morning, Sir Jones.
33:57Glad you could come down.
33:58No, thank you.
33:59Perhaps you could join us for a few holes after that, sir.
34:02No, thank you, Sir James.
34:04Well, fresh air will do you good, Henry.
34:05Fresh air is something we might all be short of, Sir James, for a very long time.
34:10Unless you've swept up after the Temple Blake affair.
34:13As well as your gardeners have swept up here, carefully.
34:16Oh, indeed, isn't there so, Carl?
34:18Clear conscience is all around.
34:20The man in the wig said not guilty.
34:22He had to.
34:23Thanks to the jury.
34:25Carly doesn't believe him.
34:26He's taking it very personally.
34:28He thinks he was gulled.
34:30He was.
34:31That's very bright of him.
34:33Sorry you're not staying, Henry.
34:34Tony's heeled with a car.
34:41No!
34:42Oh, no, no, no, no, Harry, no.
34:44It's my shout.
34:44Large ones, Barney, wherever you are.
34:48Yes?
34:48Telephone call for you.
34:49Oh, feed him all around, Barney, with chasers.
34:52And put it on the bill and don't let it get cold now.
34:54See you later, fellas.
34:55See you later.
34:56Hey.
35:01Counsel Webb.
35:03Aye.
35:05Aye.
35:08Know the other day.
35:11Does Young Tony know?
35:13Logan Blake, does he know?
35:17Aye, you do that.
35:18you can find me at home later he can leave a message with my good lady
35:23good day to you councillor oh good day back up in our little town are we
35:32some unfinished business is that so will you better come and join us for a drink
35:36some unfinished business connected with you
35:38were you waiting for someone
35:43can i help
35:47mr singleton
35:52yes you can help or rather i can help you stop you going to jail aubrey i can call you aubrey
36:03can't i aubrey
36:04you having trouble there sir yeah these any good for whitewash
36:12yes sir snow jobs cover-ups
36:16turning the proverbial blind eye
36:19what do you mean how much did they pay you
36:21or did they put the frighteners on
36:23who are you
36:25averting the course of justice have you heard that expression yet well of course
36:28you've got a nice quiet office where we can talk
36:31i've been talking to your wife you know
36:34just after my york all right and a bit of a windfall
36:38or have you been going to the dogs yes well haven't we all
36:41of course i know the clerk and the superintendent a man's been on the council the best part of his
36:48lifetime is entitled to know a few people he has a few friends
36:50and a few of the biggins who know when to help
36:52uh do you mind really that's right love give us a bit of peace and quiet
36:56thank you sweet ass
36:58you come up here winding me up with your damn graces and bonhomies fill a little
37:03great just but you don't get me to say anything i shouldn't
37:05nothing incriminating because councillor webber's done nothing to incriminate
37:09himself i say hey
37:10a man's been tried and he's entitled to say that that is that
37:14you've had your little game
37:16but the better man has when you don't try a man twice
37:19i mean not in the democratic society where i come from
37:22how long have you been associated with tony logan blake
37:25tony oh
37:25another of your bloody double-barreled aristos
37:29you don't know him
37:30well of course i know him
37:31i didn't say you did
37:32now don't you start twisting things i say
37:34i know who he is and that's all
37:36his friends are on the other side of the council not mine
37:38oh and before you say anything else
37:40let me say something
37:42the judge said we could go
37:45that means that councillor webb is innocent
37:47and his friends out there who are buying him a drink they say so too
37:50so if you want to say anything more you'd better start thinking
37:52because i've got my lawyers too
37:54good
37:55perhaps you'd better bring them with you
37:57oh did no one tell you
37:58the director of public prosecutions
38:00is considering an inquiry into this question of suborning jurors
38:04a purely a formality in your case
38:06but i'm sure we'll find someone who's guilty
38:09you can tell vera she can lay the tables now
38:13right thank you garrett
38:17that was our friendly police super
38:20the one with the all too young and expensive wife
38:23he did sound a little wary
38:25enviable
38:26a word has come down the ci five are investigating the jury on the temple blake case
38:32headed by our human mole cowley
38:35so we are sure cousin
38:40very confident
38:41and if any of the jurors do talk what will they find
38:45a frightened school teacher
38:46a greedy store manager
38:48you know who they are
38:50no never heard of
38:52exactly
38:52and what's more important cuz
38:54they've never heard of you
38:56or me
38:57so we can say no loose ends
39:00you're confident
39:01do you remember how careful bobby gillam was
39:07not one but two spare pairs of shoelaces in his briefcase
39:12and an extra stiff collar
39:13i spent the entire day going through the executive offices
39:17but the private accounts
39:18but i told you where they were
39:20the boardroom's safe
39:21i checked them myself
39:22and you've been through gillam's papers
39:24yes
39:24and i wish i had his secretary
39:26mine does the filing like a combine harvester
39:29and you didn't find this
39:31a requisition for 300 sheets of photocopying paper
39:35oh i see it means nothing to you
39:38poor dear bobby
39:41a tiny mind
39:43meticulous to the last
39:44accounting for everything
39:45tips the cloakroom attendance
39:47and 300 sheets of photocopying paper
39:51private accounts
39:53he copied them before a cotton bellyache
39:56dear sweet cautious robert
39:59what point did you do with that
40:03you cards
40:05because you're the sharp one
40:06the one who we take out insurance against
40:09every private paper that's gone through that boardroom safe
40:13has been photocopied also by me
40:16and i'm not as bright as you or gillam was
40:19i simply have the same regard for insuring my own skin
40:23and my overseas bank accounts
40:25loose end
40:27i hope not
40:33hope is for the underprivileged
40:36and they're rather overcrowded
40:37why add us
40:38i'm sorry you've got to rush back to town
40:42they are
40:44you don't have to walk around it
40:47you can see where it's been skimped
40:48stands out like a rash on a baby's bum
40:51look i know the contract price
40:53and i know the money didn't go in the building
40:55but the other jury members didn't agree with you
40:57did you see them
40:58i don't think half of them know what a house like this looks like
41:00he was a school teacher the foreman
41:03frightened out of his life
41:04one bloke kept patting his inside pocket
41:07four of them didn't say anything
41:08just kept nodding like follow your leader
41:10did anyone try to get to you
41:11with a temple blake address
41:14they wouldn't have been that stupid
41:15you've played a very clear picture
41:17have you been to many juries
41:18no
41:18but i've been a works convener
41:21and i've been on enough committees
41:23where the votes got settled up front
41:24and favours got paid off
41:25somebody got into enough people on that jury
41:29to make them do something
41:30and they did it believe me
41:31and if we ever got near making a case of this
41:33would you talk
41:34i doubt it
41:36well i'm a council tenant
41:38it may not be much
41:41but it is my own
41:43sorry
41:45it may not be much
42:13where you got nothing except a pair of flannelette bloomers moving in a light southwesterly direction
42:32on a clothesline of course life and times of suburbia enjoy the view do you know what they'll
42:38be looking for yeah a colonel who was at the relief of mafeking told me vanish there's movement on mark
42:43recognize them yeah one and the others no powder puff soft as marshmallow
43:10papers papers don't go away might need you he did himself proud we do the laboring and they own the
43:36racehorses perhaps if we find them we might win ourselves a racehorsage we keep them till they
43:42hand over don't think about finding them friend you just worry about what's going on to you if we
43:48don't find them nothing these intellectual knobs everything in its place except what you're
44:06looking for do you know where he topped himself at that last one for the road where a man got to drink
44:14and die a careful man
44:17greenhouse on our way
44:29see it's about been hurt or wounded in rough country
44:41an instinct told you where to hold up animal refuge
44:49he'd want to keep his papers dry
44:55where'd we find the heating system in this funeral parlor
44:59is this what you're looking for doesn't look worth very much not even a racehorset
45:16oh
45:21oh
45:29oh
45:34I'm gonna find a plant soon.
46:00Your cousin stopped a fat lady in a thin alley.
46:02Yeah, I know.
46:03He's on his way.
46:04Come on, get him.
46:08Silly worries me.
46:10Wins nothing.
46:11Have to sell her.
46:21Visitors.
46:22Perhaps you could make your own discreet way out.
46:26I don't think you need receipts.
46:27Impressive.
46:41We're in the wrong trade.
46:42I'll take the parcel, Sir James.
46:48We have a warrant, do we?
46:50No, but we do know where that comes from and what it contains.
46:53Ashes to ashes and do what we must.
47:16Hang on, Dad.
47:34All right, Bodie, let it burn.
47:36The real parcel of the copier counts is already on his way to the fraud squad.
47:40We only had to prove who needed them, what lengths they'd go to to get them, and where they'd send them to.
47:45Ashes to ashes.
47:46Dust to dust.
47:48I look forward to meeting your lawyers and court, Sir James, and young Mr Logan Blake.
47:53We'll be glad to do battle with you, Mr Cowley.
47:56Just an old-fashioned pirate.
47:58If you want to take a romantic view of it.
48:09I've been instructed by my own minister to convey to you the contents of a report which he will lay before Cabinet.
48:14The fraud squad analysis has disclosed that one of your senior civil servants has been actively engaged in corruption for some years.
48:20He might wish to resign before going to court.
48:22The trivial case, which was the cause of our being brought into this affair, will be retried, and with it, a separate murder charge.
48:30Are you suggesting that I knew about this before I called you in?
48:34I'm saying only that you sought to use my department for personal and political ends, and I will not tolerate that.
48:40All the arrogance there is. Hound, judge, then jury.
48:44No, minister. Rule of law.
48:46I'm not here in this office of my own volition.
48:48I'm playing your rules of what passes for courtesy in the corridors of power.
48:52And what do you suggest I do?
48:54Resign.
48:55But we live in a world without much honour, where politicians hang on to offers like dirty glue, so I don't suppose you will blame us for others.
49:09Minister.
49:09Well, I hear you've been spending a lot of time talking to this fraud squad man, Reardon, is it?
49:21Yeah, he's good.
49:22Says the deadliest crossfires between two balance sheets.
49:24And the fingers on the pens are crooked.
49:27And the most efficient blunt instrument is a checkbook.
49:30Providing you've got money in the bank behind it.
49:32You two are really branching out, but don't try putting any of the drinks in your expenses, though.
49:36Why? It's work.
49:37Sounds more like education.
49:38And education is never free.
50:08Why?
50:08Why?
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